Campus tours
I am planning on heading to my alma mater to take in Saturday's UB-Temple football game with some friends.
Nothing terribly out of the ordinary since I try to make it to at least one football and basketball game a year. And it is not as if UB Stadium, which was almost completely empty (even during games) during my time as a student, is going to tug at my heartstrings.
But I was thinking that I have not really set foot upon the college campus I spent plenty of years on. I have not peered into the academic buildings, strolled from one side of campus to the other as I did countless times or stopped by the Commons.
I will not be able to Saturday, but I was planning on participating in the Linda Yalem run later this month. Maybe after that I can spend some time on campus, reminiscing a bit. Is it a strange sentiment?
After all, I am a Southtowns native and now live in Buffalo -- only a few miles from UB and not a flight away as I am sure is the case for many. And though I think the north campus was pleasing to the eye, I don't think it would be confused with Princeton or Duke.
A friend of mine recently went with her boyfriend on a trip to his alma mater to do a similar type of thing. So it is not all that weird then, is it?
---Geoff Nason
