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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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Shaken Khan-fidence

Brazen and bearded Sikander Khan once proclaimed to the SA Senate: "I am not afraid of anything." He once told Spectrum reporters he has "the balls of an elephant."


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Daniel Ovadia Wins Spot on UB Council

Daniel Ovadia is the new University Council Student Representative for the 2012-13 school year, according to unofficial results released Friday morning. The results will be official as of Monday morning, according to an email from TC Scott, chair of the University Council Representative Committee. Ovadia received 341 votes to win the election, while incumbent Mia Jorgensen received 185 votes.


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UB Late Night Gets a Dirty Mouth

To compensate for Saturday's gloomy weather, UB Late Night held a stand-up event accompanied with complimentary bananas and pancakes to lift spirits and steer away from seasonal affective disorder. Eric O'Shea was given the task of making students laugh.


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No Small 'Environmental' Affair

Last Monday, April, 16, Environmental Affairs Director Paul Stephan posted a YouTube video entitled: "60 Seconds to Save SA Environmental Affairs." The video received hundreds of views, and a mass amount of students commented on the SA's Facebook page.


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SA Treasurer Resigns

As of 1:50 p.m. on Friday afternoon, Sikander M. Khan has resigned from his position as SA Treasurer, effective immediately, following the $300,000 Virtual Academix scandal and police investigation. Khan declined comment for the time being. The decision comes five days after the Senate began a petition to initiate Khan's recall.


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Bulls Keep on Streaking

There were two outs, runners on first and second base, and the count in the pitcher's favor. When all seemed lost, a rookie player on the softball team connected on a moonshot into deep left-center field.


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One fan's journey through a foreign sport

I'm Nathaniel Smith. I'm a 23-year-old African American from the Big Apple. I love basketball, I love baseball, and I love football. But there is a special spot in my heart for hockey. I know, a black guy, loving hockey?


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Khan Emails Budget Instead of Attending Senate

Student Association Treasurer Sikander Khan sent out the 2012-13 proposed budget on Monday after not attending Sunday's Senate meeting. At that meeting, Senate started a petition to recall Khan and suspended his pay. Engineering Coordinator Dan Pastuf made a budget because Khan failed to make his own budget by the April 14 deadline.


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Doctor of Da Drums

Allen Aucoin's alias, Dr. Fameus, suggests he's used to life in the limelight. Aucoin, "a born again DJ," has been famous for years - he's the drummer for the electronica band, The Disco Biscuits. But he decided to voyage into a new frontier while the band is on a break from touring.


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To Play or Not to Play?

With a week left in the NBA regular season, there are a number of Finals contenders that have question marks written all over their injury-rattled rosters.


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Dear SA Treasurer Sikander Khan...

"I would say to Sikander that I am disappointed that he did not attend the Senate meeting on Sunday to answer the senators' questions. We all have concerns about this whole situation and how this all happened. I would also ask why the two senators, myself and Sarah McCreary, who voted against moving the $300,000 from the Cash and Investments line in to the Projects line, were left off the list of senators who were presented to and asked to sign a proposal about Virtual Academix."


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"The Influence of ""Trash"" In Literary Form"

For centuries literary critics, theorists, and analysts have traced the roots of popular themes and aesthetics back to surprising historical periods and works of literature. Last Friday, at Scholars at Hallwalls, Ramon Soto-Crespo, associate professor of American Studies and author of Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico, gave a lecture on his experience in this realm of literary exploration and how it will impact the last chapter of his upcoming book, Biotropics. "In my research for that project I became captivated by the emergence of 'white trash' subjectivity as a byproduct of slave emancipation in the Caribbean," Soto-Crespo said. This discovery inspired Soto-Crespo to start reading long-forgotten pulp fiction - cheap writings focused on sensationalist topics.


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