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The Spectrum's Top 5: What you missed this week
By LIVIA SLABODKIN | Oct. 5, 2014This week UB announced that plans to purchase McCarley Gardens, a low-income housing complex, have been ceased.
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Quick take: UB Bulls fall 36-35 in Bowling Green
By Tom Dinki | Oct. 4, 2014Bowling Green defeated Buffalo 36-35 Satuday. The Bulls drop to 1-1 in Mid-Amiercan Conference competition. Chad Cooper, The Spectrum The football team (3-3, 1-1 Mid-American Conference) lost 36-35 to Bowling Green (4-2, 2-0 MAC) at Doyt Perry Stadium Saturday. The Bulls led 35-30 and set up a 33-yard field goal attempt with a little over three minutes remaining in the game to expand their lead to eight points.
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Four Spectrum editors earn finalist spots in national journalism competitions
By AMANDA LOW | Oct. 2, 2014Aaron Mansfield, Brian Keschinger, Lisa Khoury and Chad Cooper
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UB student David Harary creates student-run think tank Center for Development and Strategy
By GISELLE LAM | Oct. 2, 2014David Harary, a senior economics, geography and international trade major, founded the Center for Development and Strategy to uplift and promote other students. Chad Cooper, The Spectrum David Harary is tired of seeing students? research papers ? his own included ? ?go to waste.?
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Manipulation of photography creates an aura of reality
By SAMAYA ABDUS-SALAAM | Oct. 2, 2014Brian Taylor, a professor from San Jose University, spoke at UB as a part of the Derpartment of Art's speaker series on Monday night and encouraged students welcome creativity. Derek Drocy, The Spectrum When photographer Oliver Gagliani proposed a road trip to explore and capture the American Southwest in the ?70s, Brian Taylor wasted no time saying ?yes.? Brian Taylor, a professor of art and art history at San Jose University, came to UB Monday night as a part of the Department of Art?s speaker series.
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Lost identity in the Sonora Desert
By Sharol Shamsor | Sep. 30, 2014On Thursday, the Buffalo Humanities Festival began the ?Migration Nation: Moving Stories? with ?Who is Dayani Cristal?,? a documentary looking at the journey immigrants make along the U.S.-Mexican border.
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McCarley Gardens residents 'at ease' for now in Buffalo
By AMANDA LOW | Sep. 30, 2014The people of McCarley Gardens are now excited after learning UB is no longer planning on buying the low-income housing complex.
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Police Blotter 9/23-9/26
Sep. 30, 20149/23 1:35 a.m. ? The burglar alarm went off in the Elli. Police were sent to the scene, but reported all the exits were secured and no one was in the Elli. 1:47 p.m.
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Spectrum 360: video newscast Sept. 29
Sep. 29, 2014This week in Spectrum 360, the team breaks down the dean of the law school's resignation, the passage of an increased student activity fee, Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood's visit to UB and the Bulls' victory against Miami Ohio.
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Pushing forward
By GISELLE LAM | Sep. 28, 2014Sade Cadle keeps her mom?s influences in mind and at heart as she takes on her position as SA treasurer to manage finances, assist clubs and help the people around her. Chad Cooper, The Spectrum Sade Cadle remembers the day her mother turned off all the lights in their New York City home. Cadle?s mother, Stephanie Cadle Osoba, was devising a surprise for the gaggle of children ? Cadle and her brothers and cousins ? who were about to return from a day of playing. White powder covered Stephanie?s face as she jumped out and screamed, teasingly terrorizing the kids.
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UB prepares for Domestic Violence Awareness Month
By Christine Valdez | Sep. 28, 2014October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and UB will be raising awareness by hosting events like ?Walk with Me? and ?These Hands Don?t Hurt? through Wellness Education Services. Courtesy of Walk With Me UB Students will be donning purple Wednesday to show their support and give a voice to victims of domestic violence. As October approaches, UB is making preparations to host multiple events for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, including Walk with Me, a charity walk, held in the Student Union lobby Wednesday, Oct.
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UB no longer buying McCarley Gardens
Sep. 28, 2014UB is no longer planning on purchasing McCarley Gardens, a low-income housing area located near Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. President Satish Tripathi told Common Council President Darius Pridgen Thursday that UB is not going to buy the property, according to The Buffalo News. Reverend Michael Chapman, pastor of St.
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Students to pay higher mandatory activity fee
By Samaya Abdus-Salaam and Giselle Lam | Sep. 28, 2014On Sept. 24-26, UB undergraduate students voted in the SU on whether they wanted to keep the mandatory student activity fee and whether they agreed to the $10 increase in fee.
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The Spectrum's Top 5: What you missed this week
By LIVIA SLABODKIN | Sep. 28, 2014This week, Law school Dean Makau Mutua resigned from his position, saying it was the ?right time? for him to leave because he?s accomplished what he set out to do as dean.
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A stench in the air
By EMMA JANICKI | Sep. 28, 2014Members of Citizen Science Community Resources, from left to right, Jackie James-Creedon, Nick Bassisi, Jon Rusch, Alex Rusch and Andrew Baumgartner, take soil samples at a lawn in the Tonawanda area after high levels of benzene were detected in the air in 2004 and 2005.
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'Voices for the voiceless'
By CHARLES W. SCHAAB | Sep. 26, 2014Reggie Littlejohn spoke at UB about what she calls "gendercide" and China's one-child policy Emily Li, The Spectrum Reggie Littlejohn has made it her mission to inform people about what she sees as the truth of China?s one-child policy. The activist came to speak at UB on Tuesday about the work of her non-profit organization, Women?s Rights Without Frontiers (WRWF). UB Students for Life hosted Littlejohn, founder and president of WRWF, who spoke about ?gendercide? ? the act of sex-selective abortions based on the gender of the unborn child ? forced sterilizations and forced abortions in China. Littlejohn said WRWF is a ?voice for the voiceless.? Before she created WRWF, Littlejohn was a litigation lawyer in San Jose, California for eight years.
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Pushing forward
By GISELLE LAM | Sep. 25, 2014Sade Cadle keeps her mom?s influences in mind and at heart as she takes on her position as SA treasurer to manage finances, assist clubs and help the people around her. Chad Cooper, The Spectrum Sade Cadle remembers the day her mother turned off all the lights in their New York City home. Cadle?s mother, Stephanie Cadle Osoba, was devising a surprise for the gaggle of children ? Cadle and her brothers and cousins ? who were about to return from a day of playing. White powder covered Stephanie?s face as she jumped out and screamed, teasingly terrorizing the kids.
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Buffalo Humanities Festival debuts in Buffalo
By CHARLES SCHAAB | Sep. 25, 2014The first annual Buffalo Humanities Festival will take place at Albright-Knox Art Gallery on Sept. 26-27.
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Law school Dean Makau Mutua resigns
By SARA DINATALE | Sep. 24, 2014Law school Dean Makau Mutua has resigned. The resignation comes amid allegations that he lied in federal court and in a state administrative proceeding.
