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Nerd ballin' for a cause
By CALEB LAYTON | Oct. 9, 2012There were over a dozen students in Knox 14 on Saturday, but all was silent aside from the hum of clicking mouses and keyboards.
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The Aroma of Buffalo's art scene
By ADRIEN D'ANGELO | Oct. 9, 2012Barista Cecilia Pershyn, 21, fires up the cappuccino machine and turns on the European-style lights hanging over the marble counter. With each slight action - warming up the grill, picking a playlist on the stereo - she slowly awakens the caf?(c). As she looks up through her rectangular frames, she knows it's 7:30 a.m. - not by the hands on the clock, but by the group of men standing outside.
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The best Bullies
By JACOB GLASER | Oct. 9, 2012After midnight or 1 a.m., when the kegs are empty and the party is over, everybody looks for a place to continue their drunken fun. In the Elmwood area, there's no question where you're heading.
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Nothing But Bull (Parody)
By LYZI WHITE | Oct. 9, 2012Watch out, New York City, with your delicious pizza, bright lights and endless opportunities. Step back, London, with your rich history.
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College Night banned from Chippewa
By RACHEL RAIMONDI | Oct. 9, 2012The Chippewa Entertainment District lost $20,000 last Thursday. The bar owners blame the local government and the local government blames the bar owners. As of Oct.
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Buffalo's best food blog: Buffalo Eats
By LISA KHOURY | Oct. 9, 2012When Donnie Burtless went to UB, he only dined at two restaurants: Burger King and Young Chow. He didn't eat eggs until he was 24 years old.
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Buffalo: the city of good nicknames
By Rebecca Bratek | Oct. 9, 2012The City of Buffalo is a historic one, and it dates back all the way back to the late 1700s. Did you know it was once the eighth-largest city in the United States?
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Learning to fish
Oct. 7, 2012There's that old saying that goes, "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime." On Friday, the Homeless Alliance of Western New York released "Opening Doors: Buffalo and Erie County Community Plan to End Homelessness," a planto eliminate chronic homelessness by 2017. The report claims the community could save as much as $8,893 per client providing immediate and permanent housing for chronically homeless persons (defined by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development as being without a home for one year or longer or four or more times in a three-year period). Money is the universal language, though.
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Four finalists for engineering dean speak at UB
By SAM FERNANDO | Oct. 7, 2012The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has narrowed its search for a new dean to four finalists. The search committee has chosen Liesl Folks, Hossein Haj-Hariri, Fotis Sotiropoulos and Joseph Hartman as the top candidates for the position. One of these four will replace Harvey G.
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A slow start to gender-neutral housing
By RACHEL RAIMONDI | Oct. 7, 2012UB expected 40 students to take advantage of gender-neutral housing (GNH). Twenty-three students are participating in the new housing option.
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"Despite opposition, Students for Life recreate tribute"
By AARON MANSFIELD | Oct. 7, 2012One year ago, the UB Students for Life set up 300 miniature wood crosses only to find them defaced differently five times.
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Playing by numbers
Oct. 7, 2012Mitt Romney's recent bump in the numbers has been replaced by a small bump in the road following Friday's September unemployment report. Despite plotting to basically take down the full staff of PBS, the nation's rate of unemployment unexpectedly fell to 7.8 percent in September, down from 8.1 percent last month and marking the lowest it's been since President Obama took office in Jan.
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UPDATE: Five students from 86 W. Northrup arrested
By LISA KHOURY | Oct. 7, 2012Five students were arrested on Tuesday when police seized three guns, cocaine, marijuana, pills, $800 in cash and other illegal drugs from their University Heights home. Exercise science majors Cameron Hom, John Marchant and Jared Eder; School of Management student Ethan Mirenberg; and undecided major Michael Daley were arrested from their 86 W.
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UB alum makes up the news
By SAMANTHA OLIVIA YUEN-MAK | Oct. 7, 2012Adam Gassman couldn't concentrate on studying for his law school final; he was too distracted and angered by the news media.
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Hail to the chief
By ERIN MAYNARD | Oct. 7, 2012Phillips Stevens Jr. is heading to Nigeria next month and is coming back to UB with a new title: chief. Stevens, an associate professor of anthropology, is going to Nigeria on Nov.
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How To: avoid getting sick
By RACHEL KRAMER | Oct. 4, 2012It's coming. The coughing, the sneezing, the watery eyes and the endless tissues. Your roommate has it: her boyfriend has it, your professor has it and that girl who sits behind you has it.
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Memorializing the soldier who never came home
By Brian Josephs | Oct. 4, 2012On Wednesday night, hundreds of students dressed in black and white congregated to Knox 20 to pay tribute to a soldier who was driven to commit suicide after enduring months of bullying and hazing from his superiors. As they filled the lecture hall, a white tri-fold board that said, "We Are Danny Chen," stood in front of the room and faced all in attendance.
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The debate continues on campus
By SARA DINATALE | Oct. 4, 2012Students charged with political excitement filed into the Union Wednesday night, gearing up to watch President Barak Obama and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney duke it out in the first presidential debate of the 2012 election. With provided popcorn in hand and laptops open, students live tweeted and followed fact checking online as Obama and Romney debated numerous polices, the economy, healthcare and tax plans.
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Two student houses on W. Northrup Place found with drugs
By LISA KHOURY | Oct. 4, 2012In the past two weeks, Buffalo Police has searched two houses on W. Northrup Place for drugs. On Thursday, University Police confirmed students were arrested from 86 W.
