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Published on September 12, 2003
Author: STEPHEN WATSON - News Staff Reporter
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The undergraduate student government at UB is refusing to talk to campus media, under a new policy that requires all communication be in writing.
The policy appears to be directed at the Spectrum, the student newspaper, which publishes a "sheer amount of inaccuracies," said George H. Pape Jr., Student Association president. Pape said the Student Association can't have the media reporting incorrect information about issues such as contracts with performers invited to campus. When asked for examples of such errors, he said he didn't have time at the moment to dig them up. Erin M. Shultz, editor in chief of the Spectrum, said the association's complaints often amount to questions of semantics. For example, the Spectrum reported that the association was "pulling out funding" from the Sub-Board One student services organization, Shultz said. Student officers insisted that was a mistake and preferred the term "reduced allocation." The association now requires the Spectrum to submit questions in writing and provides written answers. Pape said the policy also will apply to Generation, the student magazine, and the Reporter, the official UB newspaper. In an editorial, the Spectrum complained that the new policy is an attempt to control coverage of student government and isolates the officers from students. But Pape said that, if anything, he wants government to be more accessible. The Student Association is planning to place on its Web site the full version of all questions submitted to its officers and the answers provided. People who work at Dell, the computer giant, are seeing an unfamiliar face smiling at them from the walls of the company's Round Rock, Texas, headquarters. Unfamiliar to them, but not to folks at UB's Center for Computational Research. Russ Miller, the center's director, is starring in a poster created by Dell to highlight the company's partnership with UB. The posters feature a large photo of Miller and a photo of some of the more than 2,000 Dell PowerEdge computer servers installed at the center. The Dell servers helped make UB one of the most powerful academic supercomputing centers in the country. How does Miller feel about having his mug immortalized in the posters? "It's certainly embarrassing having my face up there," he said, but he added that the posters "bode well" for the partnership UB has crafted with Dell. e-mail: swatson@buffnews.com<
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