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Potential SA candidates announced

The Student Association Elections and Credentials Committee announced the potential candidates for this semester's SA executive board and SUNY delegate elections on Friday.?


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International Fiesta judging questioned

The Latin American Student Association (LASA), which took home third place in this year's International Fiesta, has returned its trophy and prize money in protest of what its members believe to be unfair judging practices.


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More than a little bit special

Picture Gordon Lightfoot singing a song about menstrual love to a crowd of college students. Swap the half-unbuttoned dress shirt with a snug T-shirt, the '70s era John Holmes curls and meat-stache for mid-length fuzz, and the sweet historical retellings for demented tales on man-on-gerbil sex and trannies and voila: you have Stephen Lynch, a vocal and musical virtuoso with a mind that's perennially in the gutter and a back catalogue of music that's as hilarious as it is wildly inappropriate.


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Happiness is a warm gun

It would be misleading to call George Iknadosian a gunrunner, per se. The Arizona man didn't actually run the guns; he just sold them to ghost-buyers for Mexican drug cartels - in large quantities, with fraudulent documentation and for an unknown-but-likely long period of time.


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The next best thing to acid

Stepping out of the cold and into Allen Hall Wednesday night, concertgoers found themselves in an hour and a half long psychedelic mind trip that only a '60s inspired band could deliver.


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No home for haters

On Sunday, Feb. 22, with frozen toes and high spirits, the good people of Buffalo watched as three intolerant bigots of the Westboro Baptist Church walked away from another pathetic protest attempt with their tails between their legs.


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Fee requires feedback

UB administrators recently proposed an increase to the Comprehensive Fee to continue offering necessary programs and services to students.


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'Overpaid individuals doing virtually nothing to give back'

To the Editor: This response deals with the article that ran in the issue printed Wednesday, Feb 4 titled "More for Less." After reading about certain faculty members and/or former administrative executives and what they get paid relative to their job requirements, I wish I could say I couldn't believe it, but the grim truth is I can.



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