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What's spinning in Buffalo

When you're looking for some new grooves to throw into iTunes, or for the more sophisticated listener, a vinyl record player, you may be tempted to scour the Internet for a cheap download.


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SEDs wins SA Club of the Year

The Undergraduate Student Association is home to over 150 clubs. Beginning last year, the club council coordinators set a new precedent: each year, a club will be awarded Club of the Year.


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#DeepThoughtsByKeren

You just graduated from high school. You're probably still raving about your prom dress and being tagged in pictures in the "best prom limo


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UB: A year in review

To help you avoid potential embarrassment in conversation with upperclassmen, The Spectrum has compiled a list of the 2011-12 stories that had the UB campus talking. Take a few minutes to catch yourself up on everything from a $300,000 scandal to an infamous Fall Fest flop.


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Rachel Kramer

Since I was four years old, I have memories of my mom coming into my room and yelling at me to go to sleep, turn off the flashlight and stop reading because it was past my bedtime. Reading had been my passion until I realized there was another side to the activity I loved and it was writing.


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Sara DiNatale

I'm a sophomore English major, an admitted chai tea junkie, and I hail from one of Buffalo's many quaint suburbs.


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Dear UB

It's been fun. Occasionally, it's also been rough. Psychology was not very friendly to me. Neither were those late nights studying or that World Civilizations final sophomore year.


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UB Law Dean Mutua Faces ICC Allegations

In addition to being sued by an ex-UB professor, UB Law School Dean Makau Mutua is facing allegations of witness tampering in an International Criminal Court (ICC) case, according to news reports from his native Kenya.


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Blood from a Stone

During the final drive at the end of the year, lots of stories need to get artificially wrapped up.


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"Future Events, Such as These"

Welcome to the end, folks. We hope you have enjoyed the show that is the University at Buffalo. The past year has been a wild ride for us, and we wish it were the same for you.


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