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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
VOLUME 65 NO. 5
UB student Jonah Snyder dies in medical emergency HANNAH STEIN SENIOR NEWS EDITOR
Jonah Snyder, a 20-year-old junior communication major, died suddenly in Moline, Illinois last Wednesday after a medical emergency at a pro wrestling gym.
Snyder started to “feel ill” while training, according to WKBW. Instructors told Snyder to sit and called 911 for assistance. Snyder went into cardiac arrest and was later pronounced dead. Snyder took a semester off from UB and was attending the Black and Brave Wrestling Academy this semester, according to his
close friend Jack Jerabek, a junior at SUNY Geneseo. Jerabek said he has no information on what exactly happened during the medical emergency but said an autopsy is being done. UB has yet to release a statement or information on Snyder’s death. “It was his first day of really working out and really going to classes and things like
that for his program,” Jerabek said. Snyder’s family and friends have started a GoFundMe and other community fundraisers to raise money to bring Snyder’s body back to West Seneca from Illinois. email: hannah.stein@ubspectrum.com Twitter: @HannahJStein
Freshmen anatomy: A breakdown of UB’s Class of 2020
CLASS OF 2020
UB Class of 2020 is now bigger and more diverse than ever with 400 more international students and 10 percent more minority students. This year’s freshmen class of 3,995 students is possibly the largest class in history, according to Lee Melvin, vice provost for Enrollment. Freshmen applications have increased by 10 percent. The university received 25,657 applications this year while last year it received 23,321. Melvin said 59 percent of the students who applied were accepted to the university. The official enrollment total for freshmen students will be counted in the next few weeks, according to UB Spokesperson John Della Contrada. Forty-five percent of freshmen are from the Metropolitan area of New York. Seventeen percent are from the Western New York area, 12 percent are international, 6 percent are from out-of-state areas and 20 percent are from the remainder of cities in New York, according to the Office of Admissions. The average high school GPA for the Class of 2020 is 91.4, according to Della Contrada. Freshmen scored between 24-30 on their ACT exams and the average SAT score is 1168, according to the Office of Admissions. The university also hired more adjunct and full-time professors and faculty in order to accommodate the high number freshmen students, according to Melvin. “We continue to work with our colleges and all of the academic units,” Melvin said. “We kept them informed as to what the students need and worked with them over the summer to tell them the size of each class.” The Honors College admitted 434 students, an increase from the 395 last fall. Melvin said freshmen students admitted into the Honors College were placed in the top 10 percent of their high school classes. Ten percent more minority freshmen students were admitted to the university this fall, according to Della Contrada. As of Aug. 24, 0.2 percent of freshmen are American Indian, 7 percent are black, 9 percent are Hispanics or Latino, 0.2 percent are Pacific Islanders or Hawaiian, 17 percent are Asian American, 53 percent are White, 10 percent are international and 2 percent are two or more races, according to Melvin. There was an 11 percent increase in minority enrollment this fall. Melvin said the Office of Admissions has a recruitment team specifically responsible for attracting minority students to the university. The team focuses on leading minority ef-
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UB Class of 2020 possibly the largest class in history
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UB enrolled 3,995 freshmen students this fall. This is possibly the largest freshmen class in UB’s history.
forts and initiatives aimed at Hispanics and Latinos, African Americans and other minority groups. They work with the entire Office of Admissions to “convey diverse messages
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and market to minority students,” according to Melvin. Visiting high schools, communitybased organizations and housing programs to share minority students’ experiences out-
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