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Cue the glass shattering

Guns don't kill people, Stone Cold Steve Austin kills people.In an attempt to stomp a Texas sized footprint into the competition, WWE Films has unleashed their latest bone breaking effort, "The Condemned." As if the non-stop promotion didn't beat the recycled plot to death, it's the "unique" story of 10 prisoners who have been sent to a remote island to fight to the death.


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Bulls drop two more to St. Bonaventure

It has been a long and frustrating season for the Buffalo softball team. It has been a year riddled with injuries, and its 37 losses prove that the team has been unable to overcome these challenges.


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Lessons from an old man

"If I knew then, what I know now..."How many times have you heard someone say that? The only problem is most of us never took the time to listen when someone told us what we needed to know.Now that my college career has come to an end I feel almost obligated to reiterate some of the lessons that I've learned over my first five years of freedom.Four year girlfriends/boyfriends are no good: It's a proven fact that people that date the same person the entirety of college end up the same ?


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Sidelines

Vance sweeps conference awardsSarah Vance of the track and field team was named the Mid-American Conference Scholar Athlete and the Field Athlete of the Week.


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Bible trippin?' and ?'The Breakfast Club?' from Hell

Director and senior theatre major Drew McCabe, the master of playhouse "craic," brings torture, hallucination and mighty acting to UB's experimental stage this weekend as the Department of Theatre and Dance Student Guild performs the wonderfully untamed double feature, "Locus/No Exit" at 190 Alumni Arena.


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A perfect score for Professor Boyd

He's the highest ranked professor on both the Student Association's teacher evaluations and ratemyprofessors.com, and each semester students fight to squeeze into a slot for his famously engaging World Civilization classes.Timothy Boyd, an associate professor in the Classics Department, knows how to turn a typically mundane course into a semester filled with fun, humor and excitement."History is a lot more important than I am," Boyd said, whose technique varies from other instructors because of his ability to relate to the undergraduate population.


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My big fat Lebanese family

I'm 14-years-old, in the pre-cell phone era, and a boy calls me for the first time. My ultra protective 16-year-old brother answers, scares him to death, and the boy never calls again.Welcome to life in a big family.When the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" was released, my cousins and I saw an eerie resemblance with the characters in the film and our family.


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Greeks raise awareness for two separate charities

Mu Sigma Upsiton Sorority and Alpha Phi Alpha have taken up residence in the Student Union this week, focusing their efforts on charitable causes by selling baked goods.The Mu Sigma Upsiton Sorority is raising money for a five-mile AIDS walk in New York City on May 20.


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When I was a Bull

Five years ago, Mama and Papa Doc dropped me off on the second floor of Wilkeson Quad and suddenly, I was a Buffalo Bull.Seriously, I had no choice.


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Scoreboard

BaseballTuesday:St. Bonaventure 14Buffalo7SoftballTuesday:St. Bonaventure 5Buffalo0Tuesday:St. Bonaventure 4Buffalo2BaseballWednesday:Buffalo8Niagara4


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Plenty of room here

A dark road lies in front of a puttering car. Contained within is a good-looking couple that is undeniably lost, and the only clich?


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Communications class organizes middle school dance

Hillery Park Middle School was decorated in "City Lights" Friday evening for a dance organized by After Class Productions, an endeavor of communications students in an Introduction to Business and Communications class.This is the second year that the COM317 class has held a dance at Hillery Park Middle School in Buffalo.



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