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Parking rules in place for Dalai Lama lecture
With 30,000 people expected to attend the Sept. 19 Distinguished Speakers Series lecture by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, UB has developed a transportation plan to handle the unprecedented number of visitors to the North Campus that day.
Only passenger vehicles with UB faculty/staff/student hangtags and special Dalai Lama hangtags purchased by DSS ticketholders will be allowed on the North Campus on Sept. 19. Vehicles without these hangtags will be turned away from campus by University Police and Amherst officers stationed at the main entrances to campus.
Metro buses will be allowed on campus, and faculty, staff and students also may ride the UB Stampede buses.
Shuttle buses will run to the North Campus from several satellite parking sites, among them the Pepsi Center and the Boulevard Mall.
Members of the UB community who will drive to campus that day are advised to arrive early. The parking lots surrounding UB Stadium—Lake LaSalle, Arena, Alumni, Stadium, Slee, Baird and Special Events—will be closed to faculty, staff and students. Most individuals should be able to park near their normal work sites until 9:30 a.m. After that time, cars arriving on campus, including faculty and staff and those with Dalai Lama hangtags, will be directed to parking lots, moving east to west from the Slee lots.
Employees are encouraged to make alternate arrangements for transportation that day to free up space in the campus parking lots. Departments also are urged to be flexible with work hours and consider providing flex-time—an earlier start and end time—where appropriate.
Employees also are urged not to schedule appointments with vendors, job applicants or others who would have to travel to North Campus.
Vouchers to purchase interfaith service tickets available on Monday
Vouchers to purchase tickets for the interfaith service being organized by the Campus Ministries Association (CMA) in conjunction with the visit to UB by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will be available to students, faculty and staff beginning at 9 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 28, in the CMA office, 227 Student Union, North Campus.
Each voucher will enable the bearer to purchase up to four tickets to the service, while supplies last, at a cost of $15 each. Tickets will go on sale at 9 a.m. Sept. 1 in the Alumni Arena box office, with box office hours extended to 7 p.m. that day. After Sept. 1, the Alumni Arena box office will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Purchasers must present a valid UB ID card in order to buy tickets.
The interfaith service will be held at 4 p.m. Sept. 18 in Alumni Arena. Entrance to the service is by ticket only.
Vouchers to purchase tickets will be available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 28, Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, and from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 29, and Aug. 30.
For further information, contact the Office of Special Events at 645-6147.
Ernst & Young matches alumni contributions
The worldwide public accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP and its staff members contributed $25,950 to UB in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006.
Included in the total amount was a gift of $11,350 from the Ernst & Young Matching Gifts Program to the School of Management for use by the school's Department of Accounting and Law.
Michael J. Murray, partner in the firm's Buffalo office who helped coordinate the fund-raising effort, recently presented the gift to the School of Management.
The Ernst & Young Matching Gifts Program is just one element of the firm's broad support for higher education. It also provides grants to doctoral candidates concentrating in accounting, sponsors professorships and faculty fellowships, and employs accounting student interns.
"We are most grateful to Ernst & Young contributors and the E&Y matching gifts program for their generosity to us," said Susan Hamlen, chair of the Department of Accounting and Law. "Contributions received directly fund our academic programs, facilities and the activities of our student organizations, and greatly enhance the value of the accounting major, allowing us to maintain our excellent reputation for producing graduates who go on to very successful careers in the accounting profession."
The UB accounting program has been accredited since 1985 by AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The program is one of only 168 programs in the world to achieve this level of recognition.