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Yahoo! Officially Launches
March 5, 1995 The Yahoo! search engine officially launches on the Internet. 13 months later, Yahoo! will hold its IPO at a price of $ 13 per share. Yahoo!’s stock will peak at $ 475 in January 2000, and fall to $ 8.02 in September 2001. This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by…
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WBB trounces Vermont on Senior Day
By Aaron Cheris Sports Editor sports.asp@gmail.com March 3, 2015 Imani Tate (12) scored 27 points on Sunday. Photo by Aaron Cheris In what might have been their final game at SEFCU Arena, University at Albany women’s basketball seniors Sarah Royals and Margarita Rosario wanted to go out with a bang. They did just…
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MBB knocks off Maine to open playoffs
By Seth Finkelstein Staff Writer sports.asp@gmail.com March 5, 2015 Photo from UAlbany Athletics.Coach Will Brown’s team beat Maine to advance to the semifinals on Sunday. Despite star player Sam Rowley converting only two field goals, the University at Albany men’s basketball team rolled through the University of Maine Wednesday night by a score of 83-68…
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Students have sex with cups
By Janie Frank Associate News Editor theaspnews@gmail.com March 3, 2015 “Let’s have sex,” Jasmine Tazi said to a classroom full of University at Albany students. Tazi, the public relations and outsourcing director for the group Service is Key (S.I.K.), did not mean that the students should literally have sex with each other right…
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First Cray Supercomputer Shipped
March 4, 1977 The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. This supercomputer, which costs nineteen million dollars, will be used to design sophisticated weapons systems. The system is a cylindrical tower seven feet tall, nine feet in diameter, and weighs about 5.5 tons. The machine produced so…
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UAlbany film studies helps produce “First Lady of the Confederacy”
By Nicole Wallack Web Editor artsent.asp@gmail.com March 3, 2015 The name Jefferson Davis conjures up images of the Civil War. The president of the Confederacy invokes images of years of terrible bloody battles where brothers fought brothers and the country was torn apart. The name Varina Howell Davis on the other hand, does not elicit…
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UAlbany film studies helps produce “First Lady of the Confederacy”
By Nicole Wallack Web Editor artsent.asp@gmail.com March 3, 2015 The name Jefferson Davis conjures up images of the Civil War. The president of the Confederacy invokes images of years of terrible bloody battles where brothers fought brothers and the country was torn apart. The name Varina Howell Davis on the other hand, does not elicit…
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UAlbany film studies helps produce “First Lady of the Confederacy”
By Nicole Wallack Web Editor artsent.asp@gmail.com March 3, 2015 The name Jefferson Davis conjures up images of the Civil War. The president of the Confederacy invokes images of years of terrible bloody battles where brothers fought brothers and the country was torn apart. The name Varina Howell Davis on the other hand, does not elicit…
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UAlbany film studies helps produce “First Lady of the Confederacy”
By Nicole Wallack Web Editor artsent.asp@gmail.com March 3, 2015 The name Jefferson Davis conjures up images of the Civil War. The president of the Confederacy invokes images of years of terrible bloody battles where brothers fought brothers and the country was torn apart. The name Varina Howell Davis on the other hand, does not elicit…
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Live Blog: UAlbany Men’s Lacrosse Road Trip
By Aaron Cheris Sports Editor sports.asp@gmail.com Coach Scott Marr’s new ride. Via twitter.com/ualbanylacrosse. On Saturday, the University at Albany men’s lacrosse team fell to in-state rival Cornell in Dallas, Tx. The loss was only the beginning of the problems for the Great Danes. On Sunday, the flight that was scheduled to take the Great Danes…