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Careers and Majors Night helps students plan for the future

The demise of sports

Prior to their World Series victory in 2004, the Boston Red Sox last won a championship title in 1918, thanks to the "Curse of the Bambino." For those who are too lazy to count, that's 86 years that the city of Boston was without a championship baseball team.

Running with the Bulls

In prior seasons, the Buffalo Bulls basketball team has primarily relied on its frontcourt depth to win games.

Back Door Blues

Fresh from a month and a half in their native Isle of Man, Back Door Slam (BDS) is continuing the second leg of their first US tour.

Sal's pizza satiates collegiate hunger

In the film Do The Right Thing, Giancarlo Esposito's character, Buggin' Out, asks Sal, the owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn, "Hey Sal, how come they ain't no brothas on the wall?" Referencing the wall of white celebrities, Buggin' Out served as inspiration to Walter Barista's own success, Sal's Pizzeria, one of University Heights' fondest traditions.

Men frequently victims

As an organization that examines the way sex discrimination affects men and boys, we want to sincerely thank The Spectrum for its fair and unbiased coverage of the Walk With Me Event in a way that included both male and female victims without downplaying either of them.

Martian wishes and Lucky Charms

If being a single parent isn't hard enough, imagine raising a child from another planet. This is the problem faced by science-fiction writer David Gordon (John Cusack, 1408) when he decides to adopt a six-year-old boy in the new film Martian Child.Soon after the death of his wife, David struggles with the idea of adopting a child and starting the family he always wanted.David's choice isn't made easy when he finds out his hopeful adoptee is little Dennis (Bobby Coleman, Must Love Dogs), a boy who says he's from Mars and spends most of his time in a cardboard box hiding from the sun.Together, David and Dennis start a relationship that really shines on screen and will make audiences across America fall in love.The story is an incredible blend of brilliance and originality that will tug at every heartstring.

Pedaling to promote bicycles on campus

Despite the cold weather during Bicycling at UB Awareness Day on Monday, many clubs and bike enthusiasts gathered to exercise their choice to use biking as an alternate form of transportation.

"Clowns, zombies and pirates, oh my!"

Zombies, pirates and clowns were just a few of the creepy characters waiting in the shadows of the haunted house in 145 Student Union on Tuesday as part of the early start to UB's Haunted Union.The two-day celebration, which will continue with the entire Haunted Union event on Halloween, is a spooktacular UB tradition."We've been doing the Haunted Union for eight years, and this our seventh year for the haunted house," said Jennifer Wantz, assistant director of student activities.According to Kate Schrum, a volunteer for the event, there have been a few additions to this year's haunted house."This year we have a Saw room, a circus carnival-themed room, a hallway with hanging limbs...this year we also have a mummy room," she said.

Bulls hope for title in Miami

Saturday could be a historic day for the Buffalo football program. The team has the opportunity to clinch the Mid-American Conference East Division with a win and a Bowling Green loss.

Two stops along Buffalo history resurrected: the Railroad and Vive

Though it was an ordinary bi-weekly meeting for the Urban Renewal Club, extraordinary people and parts of Buffalo history were the topic of the day as the group introduced community members to Buffalo's own Underground Railroad: Vive la Casa.A local non-profit organization devoted to helping refugees en route to Canada, Vive is more pit stop than destination.

Sidelines

Veith earns All-MAC Honors\tBulls junior cross country runner Mary Veith was named to the All-Mid-American Conference first team last weekend with her third place finish at Cross Country Championships in Mt.

Homeowners Take Aim

I am writing in response to an article in Monday's issue titled "Aiming at the Enemy," by Arts and Life Editor Dan Mecca:Last week a man shot and killed a home intruder in Dallas, Texas.

TROUBLE IN THE HEIGHTS

Editor's note: this is the first of a two-part series examining the concerns of residents and community members living in the University Heights area.

Are you afraid of the dark?

In reverence of the much loved holiday of horrors and the infamously great Nickelodeon show, here's a few ghastly great ghoul grinders that promise to entertain you while you wet your pants in the middle of some long, boring lecture.

Trick or Treat

As college students head out on the eerie night of Hallows Eve, it's important for college students to remember those safety measures from yesteryear.

"Big win over Ball State, while Hawks have Bulls seeing red"

After playing eight of their last ten games on the road, the women's soccer team played two home games over the weekend, which were two of their final three regular season Mid-American Conference (MAC) games.

The government makes me laugh

What the population of the world needs is something to take their minds off of the mundane chore of life itself.

Bump into this

Was that a noise ahead or a figment of a terrified imagination? Find out this Halloween and enjoy things that go bump in the night on Buffalo's competitive haunted house scene.The Haunted Catacombs and House of Horrors, located at 2090 George Urban Boulevard, are full of eccentric zombies and monsters waiting to stalk and pop out at guests.