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Due to weather conditions, please note that the GSA open office walk-in hours on Wednesday, January 17th and Thursday, January 18th will be cancelled.  We apologize for any inconvenience.  Please email gsa-feedback@buffalo.edu with any questions.

Please note that the GSA will be closing for Winter Break from Tuesday, December 12^th until Tuesday, January 2^nd.  Because of this, all paperwork for payments that your club wishes to be processed before this shut down will be due by Wednesday, December 6^th.  Any payment documentation submitted after this date will not be processed until after we re-open, which means that checks will not be cut until mid to late January.

GSA open through Monday, December 11^th

GSA closed Tuesday, December 12^th until Tuesday, January 2^nd

GSA on Summer Hours Tuesday, January 2^nd – Tuesday, January 23^rd

• • • Open Monday – Thursday 8:30am – 4:00pm, closed on Fridays

GSA closed Monday, January 15^th for MLK Jr. Day observance (University Closed)

Regular Business Hours resume Wednesday, January 24^th with the start of the Spring semester

Check out some of the great events GSA has to offer!

Provided by your mandatory student activity fee.

GSA needs a volunteer to represent graduate student needs and concerns to the Faculty-Student Association! If you can attend meetings the first Monday of every month at 4:00 p.m. over Zoom, please contact gsa-president@buffalo.edu. For more information about the FSA, see here: https://www.buffalo.edu/news/key-issues/faculty-student-association0.html

UB Athletics is working to offer free tickets to Graduate Students for the 2023-2024 Basketball Season.  The first two games will be this week.  If any Graduate Student would like to attend the

11/14 UB Women vs. Niagara University game @ 6pm

Or the

11/15 UB Men vs. Roberts Wesleyan game @ 7pm

All they need to do is show their valid UB ID at either Student entrance in Alumni Arena beginning one hour prior to tip-off.

Check out some of the great events GSA has to offer!

Provided by your mandatory student activity fee.

https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/gsa/wp-content/uploads/sites/137/2023/10/November-Events.pdf

Note: GSA has been informed that Turning Point USA has moved this event to an undisclosed location off of campus. Accordingly, much of the statement we issued yesterday is no longer directly applicable to this event. Most importantly, it no longer makes sense for GSA to call on University Police to protect protestors’ rights to freely speak and assemble, since protests against this event will presumably happen off campus. Regardless of the location of the event, however, we would like to affirm our support for students who choose to exercise their right to protest. The statement below is the same statement that we issued yesterday, which will be left up on this website for the sake of transparency.

As many students are aware, the undergraduate club Turning Point USA at SUNY Buffalo has invited the conservative commentator Candace Owens to speak on UB’s campus. Some graduate students have expressed disappointment and frustration that Owens has been invited and will appear on campus. These emotions are understandable, especially considering that “reporters” from Turning Point have, just this month, injured and harassed an instructor at Arizona State University.

At its best, the university is a place where faculty members and students can argue and disagree in substantive, thoughtful, and nuanced ways about complex issues. We believe that appearances by provocateurs like Owens hinder this mission. We do not believe that Turning Point USA treats UB as a place for learning, discovery, and genuine intellectual engagement; for them, UB is a prop in a predictable melodrama designed to divide and antagonize.

GSA recognizes that, as a public university, UB believes that it does not have the legal right to ban speakers on campus, even if students find those speakers to be wrongheaded, distasteful, harmful, or even hateful. But students also have a Constitutional right to protest or speak against Owens’ event. We call on University Police to protect protesting students and to safeguard their right to free expression and assembly. And to those students who choose to exercise their right to free expression by protesting this event: we stand with you.

Isaac Kolding, President
Sarah MacDougall, Vice President
Melanie March, Treasurer

The GSA is currently hiring a Programming Coordinator to serve through the end of the current fiscal year (July 31, 2024).  The full description of the position is attached.  If you are interested in this posting, please email the required materials listed to the GSA Vice President, Sarah MacDougall, at gsa-vicepresident@buffalo.edu by Wednesday, October 25^th in order to be considered.  Applicants must be currently enrolled graduate students who have paid their mandatory student activity fee and must be able to serve for the full term of the position.