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Ain't nuthin' but a P thang
By LISA KHOURY | Dec. 4, 2012To some, rapper MF Doom's lyrics are trivial: "The rest is empty with no brain but the clever nerd/The best emcee with no chain ya ever heard." To Alex Porco, they're poetry. The assistant professor of poetry and poetics at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) received his Ph.D.
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This we'll defend
Dec. 4, 2012The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and four servicewomen are suing the U.S. Defense Department to end the official ban on women from front-line units. Action is long overdue: it's time to end the military policy barring women from combat. Despite making up 14 percent of the nation's active military personnel, women have been officially excluded from most direct combat roles since 1994 when the Combat Exclusion Policy was passed.
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Possible UB alumnus arrested for selling drugs out of ice cream truck
Dec. 2, 2012A pharmacy technician, who appears to have attended UB, was arrested on Wednesday for selling drugs from an ice cream truck he drove through Cheektowaga last summer. Abraham I.
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UB's top 10 professors
By JAYNE O'CONNOR and RYAN HAUSER | Dec. 2, 2012Carole Emberton, history Emberton is a Civil War scholar and professor in the History department.
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On the rise
Dec. 2, 2012Saturday marked the 24th anniversary of World AIDS Day, and our nation is failing at creating the "AIDS-free generation" it so longs for as the high infection rates and low testing rates of the latest CDC report shows. New HIV numbers estimate of the approximately 50,000 people infected with the disease each year, over 1 in 4 (26 percent) are between 13 to 24 years old. HIV/AIDS has had a stigma for being just a "gay disease" since the first cases of the '80s.
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UB alum takes on medical challenges at ECMC
By BEN TARHAN | Nov. 29, 2012Earlier this week, a young woman with a 7-month-old child was in a car accident. She was rushed to Erie County Medical Center (ECMC), but her baby was taken elsewhere.
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Country star Jerrod Niemann discusses upcoming show with The Spectrum
By JOE KONZE JR | Nov. 27, 2012The Spectrum: Have you ever played at a venue like Shea's Performing Arts Center? Jerrod Niemann: Yeah, we actually do have venues that are set up like theaters.
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Police blotter 11/27
Nov. 27, 2012All information according to the University Police. 11/20 9:20 a.m. - A complainant reported a suspicious male roaming the halls of the Biomedical Research Building.
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Mixtape Monthly #8
By BRIAN JOSEPHS, ELVA AGUILAR and DUANE OWENS | Nov. 27, 2012Joe Budden - A Loose Quarter
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"Canisius stays undefeated, bests undermanned Bulls"
By AARON MANSFIELD | Nov. 21, 2012This year's Canisius team is not the same squad that lost 95-59 in Alumni Arena last year, and UB is certainly not the team that won that game. The Bulls started last season 4-1 and did not suffer their fifth loss until Jan.
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Former students plead guilty to March robbery
By LISA KHOURY | Nov. 20, 2012Two former UB students pleaded guilty on Monday in State Supreme Court for robbing two UB students at gunpoint of money and marijuana in the victims' University Heights home on March 28. Donovan Haigler, 25, and Lance Minton, Jr., 23 pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery in the first degree and class "B" violent felonies before State Supreme Court Justice Christopher Burns. Their charges are the highest counts they could have been convicted had they gone to trial.
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"Mycoskie discusses TOMS, the decision that changed his life"
By AARON MANSFIELD | Nov. 16, 2012When Blake Mycoskie's new company, TOMS, was featured in the Los Angeles Times, 2,200 pairs of his revolutionary shoes sold the day the story was published.
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Witness recounts one of weekend assaults in University Heights
By BEN TARHAN | Nov. 13, 2012Jennifer witnessed one of three assaults that took place late Saturday evening in the University Heights. She was walking with two of her male friends on Winspear Avenue when two men confronted the group and attacked her two friends. The assailants were confrontational and told her friends to empty their pockets before punching one in the face, knocking him out and knocking the other to the pavement with blows to the face and ribs. Three assaults occurred near South Campus on Saturday night.
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Students suffer injuries in two incidents Monday evening
By Brian Josephs | Nov. 13, 2012On Monday evening, two UB students suffered injuries that occurred within two minutes of each other. At approximately 6:55 p.m.
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"Late-game comeback falls short, Bulls remain winless on season"
By JON GAGNON | Nov. 13, 2012The women's basketball team fought back but couldn't overcome a double-digit deficit. The Bulls (0-2) hosted Youngstown St.
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Six attacked in separate incidents in the Heights
By LISA KHOURY | Nov. 11, 2012Two males were beaten and robbed, one was held at knifepoint and three females were assaulted in three separate incidents early Saturday morning in the University Heights.
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"UB School of Nursing receives $695,000 grant"
By RACHEL RAIMONDI | Nov. 11, 2012The Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, awarded UB's School of Nursing a $695,000 grant.
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Scarred
By SARA DINATALE | Nov. 11, 2012A member of the Hutu militia dragged Reverien Mfizi's unconscious body to the side of a dirt road. A wounded man's pained screams jolted Mfizi awake.
