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Athletes of the mind
By ANNE FORTMAN | Nov. 16, 2014After 20 years of dwindling membership due to a lack of chess enthusiasts at UB, the UB Chess Club made a comeback in 2010.
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A multicultural market
By SUSHMITA GELDA | Nov. 16, 2014The Fall World Bazaar was held on Nov. 13 in the student union, celebrating and educating students about the different cultures at UB.
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"Don't Ask Anne: Disguises, thick accents and too many tacos"
By ANNE FORTMAN | Nov. 16, 2014Spectrum File Photo The following article is satire and should be taken as such.
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A Netflix way of life
By ASHLEY INKUMSAH | Nov. 16, 2014Ten years ago, going out to see a movie with a group of friends on a weekend night was like a ritual. But that ritual seems to be changing and exchanged for nights huddled around laptop screens. Then, it wasn?t uncommon for moviegoers to stuff purses and pockets with candy from dollar stores or fight over how much butter and salt they poured over a massive bucket of popcorn.
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Athletes of the mind
By ANNE FORTMAN | Nov. 16, 2014Caption Jingpeng Xu?s father forced him to learn how to play chess and he hated it. But as the freshman chemistry major began to learn the game, he was captured by the allure of the complex strategies of chess. Xu is now a member of the UB Chess Club, a club that didn?t exist for about 20 years due to a shortage of chess enthusiasts. UB had a chess club in the 1990s, but when membership dwindled the club was terminated due to lack of interest.
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Spray painting the town red
By GABRIELA JULIA | Nov. 11, 2014Alana Barricks, senior political science major, doubles as president of UB College Republicans and as a graffiti artist.
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Remembering the souls 'flying away'
By AUSTIN STEINBACH | Nov. 6, 2014The Organization of Arab Students (OAS) hung up 2,000 paper white cranes in the Student Union on Monday as a part of their Syrian Awareness Week.
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The message in the music
By SUSHMITA GELDA | Nov. 6, 2014Tavaine Whyte remembers the sound of bullets whizzing past his window late at night. Whyte, a freshman African American studies major, grew up next to the housing projects in Brooklyn.
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Around Town: Something for everyone
By EMMA JANICKI | Nov. 6, 2014The Spectrum staff members made their choices for fun things to do in Buffalo this weekend ? what will you do? For the partier: Put on those furry boots, colorful tutus and sequin eye makeup because EDM DJ RL Grime is performing Saturday, Nov.
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Breathing your way to relaxation
By Aven Salih | Nov. 6, 2014Students in Ulrike Carlino-Macdonald?s Gentle Hatha Yoga class stretch, breathe and focus their way to relaxation and health every Wednesday at 5 p.m.
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'I am my hair'
By GABRIELA JULIA | Nov. 4, 2014As Lady Gaga so expertly puts it, ?I?m the spirit of my hair / it?s all the glory that I bare.? Hair plays a crucial part in many people?s individuality. These six UB students embody this belief with the some of the best hairstyles The Spectrum could find around campus. Angelica Chaudry, sophomore psychology major Chaudry spent six-and-a-half hours giving herself blue and black Marley twists. ?I knew everyone was going to do purple or red, and blue is my favorite color so I went with it,? she said. Jessica Calderon, sophomore communication major and Lisa Deabreu, junior art major Calderon and Deabrew both show the bigger the better when it comes to curly hair.
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Teaching with style
By Aven Salih | Nov. 4, 2014A professor with a strong sense of personal style doesn?t necessarily make a class better, but it also doesn?t hurt, according to some UB students.
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Standout student style
By EMMA JANICKI | Nov. 4, 2014Chevon Rutty sports a "dapper" look that helps him stand out on campus. Chad Cooper, The Spectrum Although Buffalo has finally forced dreary fall weather upon us, some students on campus are still displaying their personal style.
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"Hey Cletus, can we go thrift shopping?"
By Cletus Emokpae | Nov. 4, 2014Caption Cletus here, fashion connoisseur and thrift specialist from the blog Styled by Cletus. Last week, The Spectrum put out a call on Facebook for any UB students who wanted to nominate themselves or nominate a friend for a style makeover. Sunday, I had the pleasure of taking two lucky winners, selected from numerous responses, thrifting to makeover their wardrobe. We filmed the whole experience and you can check it out on ubspectrum.com. Caleb Vaughn, a senior business management major, and Krithika Rana, a graduate mechanical engineering major, were selected as the winners of The Spectrum?s style makeover contest.
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Going the distance
By ASHLEY INKUMSAH | Nov. 2, 2014Manuel Duran, a graduate comparative literature student, watched ?Breaking Bad? with his girlfriend when they lived near each other in Miami, Florida. Now, with his girlfriend still in Miami, and Duran in Buffalo, his girlfriend counts down from three, and they push the play button simultaneously to watch the series together on Skype and emulate the experience of a close-proximity relationship. To learn how to continue his long-distance relationship, Duran attended ?Long Distance Love: Relationships While Apart,? a panel discussion held by the Student Health and Wellness Center Oct.
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Around Town: Something for everyone
By EMMA JANICKI | Oct. 30, 2014You can catch a screening of Ghostbusters at North Park Theatre on Hertel Ave. in Buffalo on Saturday and Sunday at 11:30 a.m.
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? la Mode: Style Guide
By EMMA JANICKI | Oct. 30, 2014By layering with staple fall pieces, you can stay warm as chilly breezes whip through campus. Turtlenecks, tall socks and scarves will keep you as toasty as a pumpkin spice latte.
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Miss Congeniality
By GABRIELA JULIA | Oct. 30, 2014Anastasia Harisis, a junior biology major, with her mentor Miss New York 2013, Amanda Mason. Harisis has been competing in beauty pageants since high school and uses the pageants as an outlet to teach others about melanoma, which she was diagnosed with at age 18.
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Stress chest
By SHARON KAHN | Oct. 30, 2014Spectrum File Photo When I?m stressed I get, what my friends have dubbed, ?stress chest.? Some people get anxiety, some people get headaches and some people lash out at everyone around them. When I get stressed out my chest turns flaming red.
