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Tom Occhino has tagged you in a post
By BEN TARHAN | Oct. 4, 2012"If you had a million dollars and you didn't have to work, what would you do?" It is an admittedly
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Ski team faces monetary trials
By JACOB GLASER | Oct. 4, 2012Last year, the UB's Alpine Ski Team sent five varsity men and five varsity women to the conference regional qualifiers at Bristol Mountain Winter Resort in Bristol, N.Y.
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Happy birthday to me
By JAKE KNOTT | Oct. 3, 2012Oct. 3, 1992 is my documented birthday. But I don't consider it the day I was born. The revamped Jake Knott was propelled into existence sometime around sixth or seventh grade, when my dad opened life's curtains and exposed my mind to true cinema.
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Dine on a dime
By RACHEL RAIMONDI | Oct. 2, 2012I hate UB meal plans. I really do. It's time for some real food. But unless you buy ingredients from the Elli or CVS with Campus Cash, you need to spend real money.
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Bulls capture first victory of the season
By ZHENNI LI | Oct. 2, 2012After a below-average performance in the Cornell Invitational, the women's tennis team stepped up and crushed Big Four rival Niagara - securing its first win in its first contest of the year. The Bulls (1-0) came away with a dominant 7-0 victory when they hosted the Purple Eagles (0-1) this Saturday at the University Tennis Center. "I think we played well against Niagara," said junior Tanvi Shah.
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Fracking discussion continues
By REBECCA BRATEK and SARA DINATALE | Oct. 2, 2012Protesters holding hot pink signs stood outside UB's Faculty Senate meeting on Tuesday at the Center for Tomorrow at 3 p.m. Members of UB's Coalition for Leading Ethically in Academic Research (UBCLEAR) handed out materials to the incoming faculty senators, calling for "academic integrity and transparency." UBCLEAR has been requesting the university fully disclose the founding, funding and governance of UB's controversial Shale Institute since August, when UBCLEAR wrote a letter against the institute endorsed by 83 faculty members.
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"UB Paintball: low finances, high national recognition"
By CALEB LAYTON | Oct. 2, 2012They stand tall and ready to accept their first-place trophy, proud as their uniforms are covered in multi-colored splatters of paint.
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A paintball champ
By ADAM LEIDIG | Oct. 2, 2012Joe Barrett, dripping with sweat in the extreme heat of Thailand, armed with his gun, pods and team threads, sprinted into battle.
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Happy birthday to me
By JAKE KNOTT | Oct. 2, 2012Oct. 3, 1992 is my documented birthday. But I don't consider it the day I was born. The revamped Jake Knott was propelled into existence sometime around sixth or seventh grade, when my dad opened life's curtains and exposed my mind to true cinema.
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Look at the body
Oct. 2, 2012Here's the situation: you're at a bar and you're talking to a girl who you'd really like to see naked.
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New York is lookin' good
By AMI DIALLO | Oct. 2, 2012After his third semester as an aerospace engineering major at UB, Yaron Bernstein had an epiphany: he was not following his dream.
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Memorializing Danny Chen
By LISA EPSTEIN | Oct. 2, 2012Danny Chen was dragged from his top bunk in the middle of the night, his head hitting the floor first, knocking him unconscious.
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"The birds, the bees and the STDS"
Oct. 2, 2012Abstinence-only sex education doesn't work, and Buffalo Public School students have quickly proven it. A report by The New York Civil Liberties Union analyzed sex education curricula taught at 82 school districts and found disturbing errors: medical inaccuracies, incomplete information, ineffective abstinence-only instruction and gender biases. Even more disturbing and closer to home came the statistics from the Buffalo Public Schools 2011 Youth Risk Behaviors Survey.
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In loving memory
By JACOB GLASER | Sep. 30, 2012On May 17, 2011, Michael David Israel attempted to commit suicide. His attempt was unsuccessful. Michael was taken to a facility, which by mandate of law is supposed to monitor its patients and take care of them following their attempted suicide. Michael, the then 20-year-old undergraduate architecture major, was released after one day.
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Tokyo String Quartet bids farewell
By SHU YEE RACHEL LIM | Sep. 30, 2012The stage was bare except for four suited men, seated in an arc facing the audience. The only other item permitted with them on stage was a tall microphone placed before their arc.
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"Buongiorno, UB Bulls"
By MAX CRINNIN | Sep. 30, 2012Leave the books. Take the cannoli. It's time to go to Italy. For the third year in a row, UB's classics department is offering a trip to the Mediterranean as a winter study abroad program.
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Looper doesn't waste time
By JAKE KNOTT | Sep. 30, 2012Film: Looper ReleaseDate: Sept. 28 Studio: TriStar Pictures Grade: A-
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Some restrictions may apply
Sep. 27, 2012There's a little over a month to go until Election Day, and voters will spend the weeks leading up to it making their final decision for the ballot. For 21 million people, that decision won't matter. According to a recent study from New York University's Brennan Center, 11 percent of voting-age citizens lack necessary photo ID, and for voters in states that enforce voter ID laws, it's either flash that photo or get out of the voting booth. If states are going to decide to enforce these restrictions, then there need to be programs to counteract them and help people get the necessary qualifications.
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#DeepThoughtsByKeren
By KEREN BARUCH | Sep. 27, 2012The lights are off, the sex playlist is on, and - BAM - you're ready for him to enter you and thrust so hard your bed frame chips the paint off your wall.
