UBSPECTRUM.COM THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2017 VOLUME 66 NO. 45 Instructor A guide to Student The truth & food critic the best cooks behind discusses the Food Truck Uruguayan acai bowls art of food Tuesday meals in tasting experience his dorm STRUDLER PIERCE p. 4+5 p. 10+11 p. 13 p. 18 GRAPHIC BY GRAPHIC Stomach fl u Students discuss free tuition plan spreads around Students have mixed feelings about Gov. Cuomo’s Excelsior Scholarship campus e Nurse discusses symptoms and prevention of stomach fl u HANNAH STEIN they do not stay in New York State, the SENIOR NEWS EDITOR scholarship would be revoked and students HANNAH STEIN would be required to pay back the loan. SENIOR NEWS EDITOR Matt Rivera almost dropped out of UB UB has not yet released any offi cial state- ment regarding free tuition. after his freshman year because tuition was Kimberly Lam thought she had food poi- “I think it’s a really great idea and I’m glad too expensive. soning from campus food. She woke up Mon- we were fi nally able to pass something,” Rive- Rivera, Student Association president, has day vomiting and felt pain when she stood up. ra said. “I’m glad that students with families struggled with college tuition fees and is ex- “It hit me really fast,” Lam, a junior nurs- who have lower incomes can attend college cited amongst other students about the tu- ing major, said. “I was fi ne the night before, and don’t have to worry about tuition even ition-free legislation that Albany lawmak- I decided to go to sleep early, woke up the though there will be other fees. Tuition fee is a ers approved this past weekend. Governor next morning and realized I needed to vom- huge burden and it’s great they won’t have to Andrew Cuomo introduced the Excelsior it. And that’s when it all went downhill.” come out of school with those loans.” Scholarship in January that states students Campus Living sent an email on April 6 to who are enrolled at a four-year State of New Rivera said he would qualify for this notify students about the spread of the stom- York college and whose families earn no scholarship and would love to be a part of ach fl u and how to prevent it. The email said more than $100,000 a year may be eligible. the program. the illness is not suspected to be food poi- ANGELA BARCA, THE SPECTRUM Students must be full-time with 30 cred- Joseph Glickman, a freshman computer sci- soning because students ate different foods Matt Rivera (top) is excited about the free its per year, but the caveat is that students ence major, has a full tuition scholarship based at various locations. University food service tuition plan. Nolan Grieb (bottom) feels the on merit and is also excited about the program. plan is “too good to be true.” must work in New York State for as many workers are taking precaution by extra hand years as they received the scholarship. If CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 washing and staying home if sick. CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 UB students react to Spring Fest lineup of Wiz Three vehicles Khalfi a, Zara Larsson and Hippie Sabotage struck in car accident between Students voice frustration Augsburger and with lineup Flint Road MAX KALNITZ ASHLEY INKUMSAH SENIOR ARTS EDITOR SENIOR NEWS EDITOR Moments after Student Association an- University Police closed off the road nounced this year’s Spring Fest lineup, UB between Augsburger and Flint, after three students fl ocked to Twitter, expressing their vehicles were struck in a car accident on displeasure with this year’s artist selection. Wednesday evening. On Tuesday afternoon, SA announced The person driving the car that started Wiz Khalifa would headline this year’s the accident was having a “medical emer- Spring Fest scheduled for April 28 in Alum- gency,” according to UPD Deputy Chief ni Arena. Swedish singer Zara Larsson and of Police Josh Sticht. Passersby broke the EDM duo Hippie Sabotage – comprised of driver’s window open to get him out of brothers Kevin and Jeff Saurer – will ac- the car before UPD arrived. company Khalifa on stage. The accident occurred at approximate- All undergraduate students who pay the ly 5:01 p.m. and UPD closed off the road COURTESY OF FLICKR USER SIMON $104.75 mandatory student activity fee get for roughly 30 minutes. Wiz Khalifa performs at a past concert. Khalifa will headline this year’s Spring Fest alongside Sticht believes all of the people involved into the concert for free as long as they re- Zara Larsson and Hippie Sabotage. serve and pick up a ticket. in the accident were UB students. From tweets to grin-evoking memes and The student having the medical emer- ter his “Black and Yellow” release. Other and Yellow” and “We Dem Boyz” on tour. gifs, students didn’t hold back their feelings. gency was the only injured party and was students expressed more interest in seeing The rapper released “See You Again” in After interviewing 50 students, The Spec- transferred to a local hospital. Sticht said Larsson and Hippie Sabotage. 2015 for “Furious 7” and “Sucker for Pain” trum didn’t speak to anyone who was excit- his injuries were “non-life threatening.” Khalifa’s last substantial releases Roll- last year for DC’s “Suicide Squad,” but ed about this year’s headliner. The gener- Sticht could not disclose what medical ing Papers and Blacc Hollywood were released most students are unaware the rapper re- al consensus is that this lineup would have emergency the student had as per HIPPA. in 2011 and 2014, respectively. Khalifa is leased a new album Khalifa last year. been good in 2011 when Khalifa peaked af- known for performing old hits like “Black CONTINUED ON PAGE 16 email: [email protected] ubspectrum.com fb.com/ubspectrum @ubspectrum Thursday, April 13, 2015 2 THE SPECTRUM “We believe that those fi nancially contrib- uting to UB have a right to know the impact Faculty Senate unable to vote on UB that their money is creating,” Dwyer said. Jessica Landry, a senior political science Fossil Free’s divestment proposal major and member of UB Fossil Free who was present at the meeting, also felt disap- pointed. Students upset “You expect when you attend something like this, the people who are on the execu- with setback, say tive committee and the e-board will show administration is up. The simple fact that they didn’t show up delays our process hugely,” Landry said. ‘unhelpful’ Landry said Dwyer met with President Satish Tripathi yesterday and asked him to endorse the divestment proposal, but he “diverted the entire conversation.” MADDY FOWLER ASST. NEWS EDITOR Alexa Ringer, a freshman environmental de- sign major and UB Fossil Free member who attended the meeting, said both the meeting Vanessa Dwyer left Capen 567 crying and the general administrative response to the Wednesday afternoon after the Faculty Sen- divestment campaign are “infuriating.” She ate postponed the vote on UB Fossil Free’s believes the administration is “purposefully divestment proposal. keeping its thumb on students” Dwyer presented the 20-minute divest- “I mean, the entire campus was designed ment proposal and took questions from to dissuade protests,” Ringer said. “You the Senate. The Senate was preparing to would hope that in this very tumultuous era, vote until one senator realized there weren’t TROY WACHALA, THE SPECTRUM they would perhaps look back and say maybe enough Faculty Senate members present at Provost Charles Zukoski was one of several faculty members who attended Wednesday’s that wasn’t such a good idea …[but] they are the meeting to make the proceedings valid. Faculty Senate meeting. clearly very happy that it was built that way.” The vote is postponed until April 26. For Landry, divestment is more than just “I put so much work into this campaign and an environmental issue; it is also about to see these little technicalities hold it back … The proposal requests that UB does not “And if anyone in this room thinks that transparency within the university’s admin- is just really disheartening,” Dwyer said. invest any more into the fossil fuel industry, global warming is not real then we’re really istration and the UB Foundation. Dwyer and other members of UB Fos- and divests any current funds the universi- being deniers,” Glick said. “This is not just some silly tree-hugging sil Free present at the meeting said they are ty has invested. The proposal also requests By the time UB Fossil Free presented to issue… it is a movement not just for envi- concerned with how the UB Foundation – that UB reinvests those funds into “socially Faculty Senate, the proposal already had ronmental change, but for social change and a private entity independent from the uni- responsible” investments for clean energy. 1,600 signatures from the Student Associa- holding people accountable,” Ringer said. versity that controls $1 billion of UB dona- In addition, the proposal calls for the uni- tion and Graduate Student Association, and Landry feels the administration, and es- tions – handles its fi nances and discloses in- versity to release quarterly updates available is currently pending approval from the Pro- pecially Tripathi, have made it “extremely formation. to the public detailing the university’s prog- fessional Staff Senate. clear” that they do not want to talk about The proposal, crafted by UB Fossil Free, ress with these efforts. The exact number of endowments invest- the Foundation. calls for UB to withdraw funds from fos- “Rather than investing in an immoral and ed in the fossil fuel industry is unknown due Despite Wednesday’s setback, Ringer is sil fuel industries in an effort to hold these declining industry, we should be investing in to UB Foundation’s “lack of transparency,” not going to stop fi ghting for divestment.