The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB supports salary increases and improvements to the educational and working conditions for its medical residents.
Brian Hamluk, UB's vice president for student life, said: "We are proud of the way our campus exhibited the values we hold as a university, exercising its right to peacefully express their views."
Questions of free speech come up all the time at a large university like UB, maybe now as much as ever with issues such as race, gender and religion continuing to polarize the nation.