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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.
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Weekend in Buffalo
Sep. 27, 2012The weather in Queen City is steadily getting colder and students are beginning to hibernate, but Buffalo still has more in store for them.
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"Re-run, re-energized"
By SAMANTHA OLIVIA YUEN-MAK | Sep. 27, 2012For years, parents have told their kids to get off the couch because watching too much TV will rot their brains. Dr. Jaye Derrick, a research scientist from UB's Research Institute on Addictions, has just proved those parents wrong.
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Nothing But Bull
By LYZI WHITE | Sep. 27, 2012This past weekend, the streets of the University Heights were filled with kids getting drunk, kids acting out scenes from Reefer Madness, kids throwing sucker punches at unsuspecting students and cops patrolling the streets throwing tickets in the air, making it rain. Basically, it was the same things that happen every weekend.
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Breaking Buffalo
Sep. 27, 2012When a drug bust occurs, there are two ways the community reacts: 1.
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A UB dance reunion
By SHU YEE RACHEL LIM | Sep. 23, 2012The stage last saw them as eager young students. They returned as dance professionals and brought the experience that led them to success. At last Saturday's Back to Buffalo 4, An Alumni Dance Concert, eight former UB graduates returned to their alma mater to showcase their professional talents on Center for the Arts' stage. The most thrilling dance of the night belonged to Sarah Jean Kaye in "Bouchee." Her number began and ended while a hoopsuspended her approximately 3 feet above the stage floor.
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Breaking (more than) Bad
By SARA DINATALE | Sep. 23, 2012I've got it bad. Real bad. I'm completely infatuated with a cancer-ridden, 51-year-old high school chemistry teacher.
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Student-run website aims to change presentations
By LISA EPSTEIN | Sep. 23, 2012Six UB students are trying to change the way faculty and students present PowerPoint presentations through a new website. Presvo, a new presentation tool designed by second-year graduate students Manoj Chandrasekran, Dinesh Ravi, Micheal Benedict, Sean Zawicki, Magizharasu Thirunavukkarasu and Vishwa Srikanth.
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"Brooks advises Spectrum staff to ""Bring something to the table"""
By LISA KHOURY | Sep. 21, 2012New York Times political columnist David Brooks came to UB on Sept. 20 to start off the 26th-annual Distinguished Speakers Series.
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Fracking update: UB continues to deny industry funding claims
By SARA DINATALE | Sep. 21, 2012SUNY Trustee Joseph Belluck thinks UB's controversial fracking institute should be shut down. In a meeting in New York City on Sept.
