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"So close, yet again"

History always has a way of repeating itself. Last year, the top-seeded Western Michigan Broncos swept the Buffalo Bulls 4-0 to take home the Mid-American Conference Women's Tennis Championship.


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A brilliant farewell

Slee Hall was filled with applause and cheers Friday night after the UB Symphony Orchestra performed its last piece under conductor Magnus Martensson.The Department of Music presented the UB Symphony's performance with Christian Baldini as a guest conductor, Richard English on piano and Charles Smith as the narrator for the finale act, "Peter and the Wolf."Baldini was notably energetic during the first part of the night's program, which began with "Carmen Suite no.


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Gore rallies for environmental consciousness

An electrified crowd of 3,500 high school students, 2,000 UB students and various other attendees sat in Alumni Arena this past Friday to hear award-winning environmentalist and former Vice President Al Gore.Gore visited UB as part of the annual Distinguished Speaker Series, in conjunction with the university's Greener Shade of Blue campaign.


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Giving back to the Buffalo community

Students who call Buffalo home during the summer months know that it can sometimes be as humdrum as finals week.For many, the next three months will entail working eight-hour days for minimum wage at lousy summer jobs and cans of relaxation in front of the tube at night.


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Refocusing attention

There is an unwritten standard in the United States that defines the media's role in our society: to disseminate information to the general public.In essence, the media governs themselves, and as such, they make the rules.Like any industry, newspapers, magazines, radio and television outlets are out to make money.


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Musicians strike a chord with UB Jam Club

As a freshman, Dave Soscia left behind his high school band in Albany with the mission to bring together all those students locked away in dormitory lounges fiddling on their guitars.His vision was a group of musicians on stage in the Student Union Theater jamming in perfect harmony to the tunes of '90s rock bands.


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Run for cover

On Wednesday, University Police received a call concerning a man in his 20's, wearing a baseball cap, suspected to have a rifle in tow wrapped under his coat in Hayes Hall on South Campus.


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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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