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?' la Mode: ?'dition Sp?PIcial

Style is an indefinable and intangible expression of who you are - it's how you walk and talk, what you read, what music you listen to, what you eat and what you love. There's a special moment when you pull on your favorite outfit and you just feel like you.


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I am the Cosmos'

With her crystal rings, sparkling laugh and starry eyes, her parents have always said, "all that glitters is Lexi." Alexis Katz, a junior English major, has been drawn to all things shiny and positive since she was a little girl.


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A postmodern city

As the nine-piece group went silent for a moment, uncertain whether the performance of Steve McCaffery's poem "Carnival" had finished, a chuckle rose through the audience and was echoed by the performers on stage.


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Glee in times of pain

Approximately 400 Relay for Life attendees watched UB Glee perform and clapped along because they felt like a "room without a roof." They clapped along because they felt like "happiness is the truth." On Friday, 1,475 participants joined together in UB's Alumni Arena to fight against cancer.


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Finding faith in prison

From singing "Amazing Grace" to saying the 'Our Father' prayer in front of chain fences and razor wires, Newman Center students offered religious and emotional support to local prisoners this weekend. Saturday night, students visited the Collins Correctional Facility, a prison located in Collins, N.Y.


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B-Boys meet world

When skilled break-dancers perform, it's hard to determine what's most impressive: their quick legs, their uncanny sense of balance or the look of pure confidence sprawled across their faces as they playfully provoke the opposing team. UB hosted "Buffalo Breakdown" on Saturday, at which break-dancing crews from all over New York came to demonstrate their skills and catch up with other crews.


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Around Town

If you're looking for something new to read, then this is the perfect weekend to bee-bop into the City of Buffalo and check out local authors and bookstores. The Small Press Book Fair, held at Karpeles Manuscript Library Porter Hall on Porter Ave.


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We all scream for ... fro-yo?

Even as temperatures remain cool in Buffalo, some students can't get enough of the cold, as frozen yogurt vendors are opening around the area. Recently, Yotality opened at The Exchange, an apartment complex across from North Campus.


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Seasonal shifts can get some down and depressed

Aniruh Ojha says wintertime blues plague him. An international business student from New Delhi, India, he has struggled through Buffalo's long snowy season, and the cold weather has negatively impacted his mood. Buffalo's long winters can bring a host of seasonal problems.


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Zooming in on a wide field

What do guidance counselors, behavioral scientists, health insurance specialists, sociologists and consumer safety officers have in common? Health and Human Services. There are currently 500 students enrolled in the Health and Human Services major, according to Susan Pearles, assistant director of the program.


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"UB's Society of Feminists discusses sexuality, sensuality of breasts"

What began as a conversation about "top freedom" and the stigma of not wearing bras morphed into discussions of breastfeeding, nude dancing and prostitution, as students attending a discussion hosted by UB's Society of Feminists grappled with their opinions on society's treatment of breasts. Claire Modica, the president of UB's Society of Feminists and a neuroscience graduate student, moderated the dialogue, which took place Wednesday in the Student Union. "When I see a woman standing nude, there's almost no sexual nature at all," Modica said.


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A feel-good home

Living in the University Heights could mean inhabiting homes with broken front doors, cracks in the walls, creaking floors and an overall disheveled feel. But that's not to say that a bit of feng shui and decorating can't make some of the most unkempt houses more "homey." Some UB students have figured out how make their South Campus homes feel less like broken-down sheds and more like home. When Carly Schreiber, a senior communication major, first saw the Tyler Street home she'd be living in during her sophomore and junior year, there were holes punched through the living room walls, a broken ceiling light fixture hanging in the middle of her soon-to-be kitchen and dirt covering the floors and walls. Toilets were broken and the house seemed unlivable, she said.


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There's no place like the dorms

A green Starbucks apron, a bright red bow, game tickets and photographs of smiling people - these can transform a barren dorm room into a home. The Ellicott Complex on North Campus - which many students affectionately refer to as "lego-land" - contains six quadrangles: Richmond, Fargo, Porter, Red Jacket, Wilkeson and Spaulding.


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