With the significant increase in acceptances and acknowledgments of first-year students, the demand for first-year on-campus housing has exceeded our bed availability. In order to house the majority of first-year students on campus, we have assigned all out-of-area first-year students three students to a room. In addition, transfer students have been assigned to off-site housing at Canisius College because Tower 1 has been taken off-line for renovation during the upcoming year.

If you receive telephone calls from students or parents regarding the housing situation, please refer the caller to the Residence Life Office at (716) 878-3000. Further information is also available on the Residence Life website regarding the three-person-per-room and Canisius College housing assignments.

Spot Coffee will be open during the summer, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The Resident Dining Hall, located in the Campbell Student Union, will be open for breakfast from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. and lunch from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m Monday through Friday featuring an all-you-care-to-eat buffet.

For lunch today in the dining hall, enjoy chicken Marsala, tomato rice pilaf, green bean sauté, cheesy polenta, spicy peas and carrots, Caesar salad, and curried quinoa salad.

Tomorrow, August 6, for lunch in the dining hall, enjoy Asian beef or vegetable stir fry, brown fried rice, pot stickers, sesame noodle salad, and green salad.  

The door price is $6.69 for breakfast and $8.99 for lunch. Faculty and staff members, save 10 percent on every purchase when you use your Bengal Bucks. For information on how to sign up for a Bengal Bucks account or for a full list of summer hours of operation, please visit our website.

Are you teaching in the new Houston Gym this fall? The Houston Gym features brand-new presentation equipment in every classroom. To help you prepare for the first day of classes, the Instructional Resources Office will offer two training sessions on this new equipment during August. These training sessions will be available for every faculty and staff member who will need to operate the classroom presentation equipment.*

These training sessions will last approximately one hour. Both sessions will be held in Houston Gym 212. Important note: you must attend one of these training sessions to get an overview of how to use these rooms.

RSVP for one of the following training sessions in August by calling Classroom Support at ext. 6670:

• Tuesday, August 19, 10:00 a.m.
• Wednesday, August 20, 1:00 p.m.

If you cannot attend one of these two training sessions, you must call Classroom Support at ext. 6670 to schedule a one-on-one training session. Please note: one-on-one training sessions cannot be scheduled during the first week of classes (August 25–29). Classroom Support will require 24-hour advance notice of a training session appointment.

We look forward to helping you prepare to teach in our new state-of-the-art classrooms.

*This training will be focused on Houston Gym classrooms 212, 213, and 214. Training for the locker room presentation systems and other audio systems housed in the Houston Gym will be handled through the Athletics Department.

Rhianna Rogers, assistant professor of cultural studies at SUNY Empire State College, will present "What Are OERs: How to Connect Theory and Methods" in the first of a two-part online chat at noon Thursday, August 7. The live 20-minute lunchtime chat will be followed by a real-time online sharing session in which participants will be invited to ask questions, share resources, and share what they know on the topic. This event requires registration.

Please visit the Open SUNY COTE website for more information.

The Buffalo State Child Care Center will host a car wash and hot dog sale on Thursday, August 7, to help support its summer camp. The event will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Lot R-13 (formerly Lot F) in front of the Child Care Center playground. Donations are $5 for a car wash, $2 for a hot dog and lemonade. There will also be a baked goods sale.

Please call ext. 5335 with any questions.

Employees in the PBANYS and NYSCOPBA bargaining units are reminded that any vacation accrual balances that exceed 40 days on October 1, 2014, must be adjusted downward to stay within the maximum allowed by the NYS attendance rules and the agreements between the public employee unions and the State of New York.

If your vacation balance exceeds 320 hours, you may wish to request to use vacation time before October 1 to avoid losing leave accruals.

Spot Coffee will be open during the summer, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The Resident Dining Hall, located in the Campbell Student Union, will be open for breakfast from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. and lunch from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m Monday through Friday featuring an all-you-care-to-eat buffet.

For lunch today in the dining hall, enjoy chipotle barbecued chicken, garlic roasted potatoes, broccoli casserole, vegetable medley, green salad, and spinach salad with strawberries.

Tomorrow, August 5, for lunch in the dining hall, enjoy chicken Marsala, tomato rice pilaf, green bean sauté, cheesy polenta, spicy peas and carrots, Caesar salad, and curried quinoa salad. 

The door price is $6.69 for breakfast and $8.99 for lunch. Faculty and staff members, save 10 percent on every purchase when you use your Bengal Bucks. For information on how to sign up for a Bengal Bucks account or for a full list of summer hours of operation, please visit our website.

Spot Coffee will be open during the summer, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The Resident Dining Hall, located in the Campbell Student Union, will be open for breakfast from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. and lunch from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m Monday through Friday featuring an all-you-care-to-eat buffet.

For lunch today in the dining hall, enjoy oven-fried chicken breast, baked spinach casserole, baked sweet potatoes, fresh vegetable medley, and green and Caesar salad.

The door price is $6.69 for breakfast and $8.99 for lunch. Faculty and staff members, save 10 percent on every purchase when you use your Bengal Bucks. For information on how to sign up for a Bengal Bucks account or for a full list of summer hours of operation, please visit our website.

Spot Coffee will be open during the summer, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The Resident Dining Hall, located in the Campbell Student Union, will be open for breakfast from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. and lunch from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m Monday through Friday featuring an all-you-care-to-eat buffet.

For lunch today in the dining hall, enjoy General Tso's chicken, vegetable lo mein, white rice, Vietnamese tofu, sesame noodle salad, green salad, and pot stickers.

Tomorrow, August 1, for lunch in the dining hall, enjoy oven-fried chicken breast, baked spinach casserole, baked sweet potatoes, fresh vegetable medley, and green and Caesar salad. 

The door price is $6.69 for breakfast and $8.99 for lunch. Faculty and staff members, save 10 percent on every purchase when you use your Bengal Bucks. For information on how to sign up for a Bengal Bucks account or for a full list of summer hours of operation, please visit our website.

Please join graduate student Nicole Kondziela (Class of 2015) as she presents the works of Pulitzer Prize–winning editorial cartoonist Bruce Shanks on Monday, August 4, at 1:30 p.m. in Butler Library 208. Kondziela will discuss how Shanks's artwork gave accurate yet satirical portrayals of local, national, and international events that occurred throughout his lengthy career at the Buffalo Evening News (1951–1974) and its relevance to issues we are still facing today. We hope to see you there.