GSA Officer Elections and Referendum Vote- April 6th-9th

A “Mandatory” vote will maintain all GSA funding and services for graduate students.
A “Voluntary” vote will end all funding and services- GSA will no longer exist!

Have you ever applied for GSA conference funding? Has your student or department club held an event you enjoyed? Have you received free help from the Editorial Assistance program? Been to SBI Legal Assistance or the Student Medical Insurance office? Then you have benefited from the Graduate Mandatory Student Activity Fee! This fee funds GSA and Sub Board I services.

The State University of New York (SUNY) Board of Trustees Guidelines requires all student governments to hold a referendum bi-annually for students to decide whether to continue the Mandatory Student Activity Fee, or to switch to a voluntary fee. A voluntary fee will mean that there isn’t enough money to fund these essential student services.

On April 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th graduate students can vote “mandatory” to keep these services alive. The mandatory student activity fee is collected from graduate students and then distributed to graduate students in the form of club funding, academic support, social events and other services. The GSA is currently funding more than 60 Departmental clubs, 10 International clubs and 15 Special Interest clubs. The current fee will not be raised as done in the past.

Please, help us to keep a well inter-connected graduate student community at UB by ensuring our future with your “MANDATORY” vote.

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Voting will take place online via a link on the GSA website from 12:00am on Monday, April 6th through 11:59pm on Thursday, April 9th. You will just need your UB-IT name and password in order to log-in. Please cast your vote!

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After America: Wasteland 2015

AFTER AMERICA: WASTELAND 2015
World Premiere Production of a play by Jon Elston (UB Theatre & Performance MA ’15)
Playing through 4/4/2015
At the Road Less Traveled Theater (Buffalo, NY)
Thursdays through Saturdays @ 7:30 PM / Sunday 3/29 @ 2 PM
Students pay only $5 on Thursday nights (w/ ID)
For tix & info: http://roadlesstraveledproductions.org/
45 second video promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob9z7lJKXkM
AFTER AMERICA: WASTELAND 2015
by Jon Elston (UB Theatre and Performance MA Candidate)
Directed By Scott Behrend & Katie Mallinson
03/13/2015 until 04/04/2015

Starring Lisa Vitrano, Peter Palmisano, Danica Riddick, Steve Brachmann, Monish Bhattacharyya, and Kelsey Mogensen.
Who Will Save The New World? Join Tommi – former waitress and newly appointed savior of the entire human race – as she leads you on a thrilling tour of America after the Apocalypse!

It’s 2015, and a skeletal United States government has spent two years struggling to restore some semblance of order. Only 919 confirmed American survivors remain, all of them housed at Camp Evangola (South of Buffalo, NY), where they receive training in the skills necessary to rebuild civilization. (That’s right – the country’s erstwhile Military Industrial Complex has been replaced by the Department of Education!) Now, one small group receives their final assignment: to venture deep into the heart of the dangerous American wasteland and prevent a devastating atomic threat.
This suicide mission unites Tommi with two other freshly redundant survivors – a Blogger and a Graduate Student – neither of who feel that their work experience qualifies them to save the world. The final member of the team is Justin Foch, pampered Libertarian industrialist and former Fourth Richest Man In America, who doesn’t even feel motivated to save a world that no longer acknowledges his wealth and status. Somehow, this ragtag squad of desperate Americans must overcome their differences and deficiencies; they must survive the myriad hazards of the Wasteland (particularly the zombies and the survivalist cannibals!); and they must protect the fragile remnants of humankind. Yet fractious political animosities continue to simmer to a boil — even deep inside an underground nuclear silo.

Before the Apocalypse, Tommi felt she had no control over her life (or anything else). Now, she’s equipped with an education and a fully automatic assault rifle, and the future of Western Civilization rests in her hands. RLTP’s original resident actress Lisa Vitrano plays Tommi, joining forces with playwright Jon Elston (author of 2012: End Of The Road)and a high-octane ensemble to present After America: Wasteland 2015… an action-packed alternate history and a fantastic fable of female empowerment.