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You will always remember
By JON SHAM | Apr. 25, 2007I suppose I could say that it all started with "Guitar Hero." If you don't know the game you're either too sheltered or just plain deprived.
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Life as a house: the fa?iade of Downtown Buffalo
By JOSEPH GLENN | Apr. 25, 2007Under the direction of Associate Architecture Professor Frank Fantauzzi, 14 graduate students and 16 senior studio students have been working to turn a dilapidated house into a creative and up-to-code home."I looked at several vacant buildings in the city of Buffalo that we had the possibility of working with," Fantuazzi said.
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"Bulls cloud over, continue to hope for bright forecast"
By ERIC LOONAN | Apr. 25, 2007The Bulls softball team took full advantage of sunny skies and warm temperatures over the beautiful days of this past weekend, fitting in games against two Mid-American Conference rivals Northern Illinois and Western Michigan.
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Baseball turning the corner
By CHRIS RYNDAK | Apr. 25, 2007After starting the season 3-23, the Buffalo baseball team seems to finally be hitting its stride.
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"SUNY Assembly holds elections, debates GPA standards for office"
By FIONNA AGOMUOH | Apr. 25, 2007Elections and heated debates were the focus of the last SUNY Assembly conference for the school year, held from April 13 to April 16 at the Marx Hotel in Syracuse.Two hundred and fifty students were in attendance, representing 53 out of the 64 schools in the SUNY system, including UB's SUNY executive committee members and delegates Elliot Sherman, Christopher Mendoza, Melody Mercedes and Student Association President Viqar Hussain, as well as Rohan Desusa and Latreece Seneca, who will be delegates for the upcoming school year.One of the main topics of discussion included the possibility for a vote made by the executive committee supporting the raising of GPA requirements to run for SUNY Assembly positions.
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Buffalo drops final match of the year to Toledo
By JOE COLANGELO | Apr. 25, 2007The men's tennis team expected a five-hour drive to Toledo to face the Rockets on Sunday. What they didn't expect was the five-hour marathon match that happened once they arrived.The Bulls (8-12, 2-3 Mid-American Conference) finished out their season against the Rockets (13-12, 3-2 MAC) with a 5-2 loss in a match being played for the third-seed in the MAC Championships at Toledo's Varsity Courts.The Bulls fell short of the victory as junior Nikesh Singh Panthlia and sophomore Octavian Stane scored the only wins for the team in the contest."It's not the way we would have liked to end the season," said men's tennis head coach Sherif Zaher.
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Scoreboard
Apr. 25, 2007M. TennisSunday:Toledo5Buffalo2BaseballSunday:Buffalo13Ohio10SoftballSunday:Western Michigan9Buffalo2
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Real campus politics
By SARAH EID | Apr. 25, 2007Working on Capital Hill in the middle of Washington D.C. among fancy business suits and briefcases is where students like Kristy Wind, a senior political science major, aspire to end up someday.Thanks to the Washington Internship Program, it happened a lot sooner for Wind than she ever thought it would."I do a lot of the court preparation, like subpoenas and things," Wind said.The program is run through SUNY Brockport but is open to all SUNY students every fall and spring semester.The internship counts as an entire semester of classes at 15 credits.
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Rubin's magical mystery tour
By ALEX RUBIN | Apr. 25, 2007It's never too early to think about life after graduation, especially knowing the fact that all of my friends are graduating this year.
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UB Music Instructor leads the life of an artist
By MATT ZAJAC | Apr. 25, 2007In a time where high school guidance counselors would sooner hand in their resignation papers than advise students to pursue careers in the arts, Otto Muller, an adjunct instructor in the music department, is known for breathing the notion of an artistic lifestyle into the minds of his students.His affinity for the arts transcends Baird Hall to the surrounding Buffalo area where the tabooed life of an artist is far from dead."If your desire is to create art and your conviction is that art is a worthwhile endeavor, then you'll continue to make work regardless of what the societal stigma says," Muller said, who graduated from UB in 2003.Muller captivates his student audience every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, no small feat for a graduate student pursuing his Ph.D.
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Beautifully haunting
By John Ranic | Apr. 25, 2007And with the toss of a t-shirt, Trent Reznor has audaciously signaled the beginning of the end.The hidden message on the back of one of Nine Inch Nail's tour t-shirts ignited an intricate maze of cryptic Web sites and USB drives, that will bring us to Reznor's conceptualized end - life in the "year zero."The artist's recently released "Year Zero" is a self-described concept album, dealing with everything from political corruption, to mind control, to religion.
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UB Professor aims to assist in the rebuilding of declining regions
By NICK MAGESIS | Apr. 25, 2007Kathryn A. Foster, director of the UB Regional Institute, has recently received approximately $200,000 from the Macarthur Foundation to conduct a national analysis concerning how regions respond to national demographic, economic and social challenges.Foster, a co-investigator for the Network on Building Resilient Regions, said that the analysis has been years in the making."The process that we have undergone in obtaining this grant has been underway since mid-2004," Foster said.
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Real World auditions at the Steer
By ERICA MAZZARA | Apr. 25, 2007vMTV's The Real World held open casting auditions on Main Street at the Steer from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Communications class organizes middle school dance
By NANCY NGUYEN | Apr. 25, 2007Hillery 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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Striving for an informed community: UB's Regional Institute
By SARAH EID | Apr. 25, 2007UB's Regional Institute operates around the idea that an uninformed voter is worse than no vote at all.The resource center, open to students and the community, aims to enhance policy decision making.
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Plenty of room here
By AIDAN KEAVENEY | Apr. 25, 2007A 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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Woman sexually assaulted at Sweet home raises red flags on campus
By JOSHUA BOSTON | Apr. 25, 2007The issue of sexual assault took precedence at local police agencies this week after UB released e-mails warning all students of two criminal incidences that have taken place off campus.
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The real spidey unmasked
By RACHEL HOWELL | Apr. 23, 2007Whether it's slipping into the spandex Spidey suit or putting on the fangs in Joss Whedon's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" television series, Chris Daniels' stunt career has been nothing short of action packed.Daniels offered anecdotes and advice to "Spiderman" fanatics, stuntman-hopefuls, and curious patrons Friday night in the Center for the Arts.
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Scoreboard
Apr. 23, 2007BaseballFriday:Ohio7Buffalo4SoftballFriday:Northern Illinois9Buffalo4Friday:Northern Illinois10Buffalo1BaseballSaturday:Buffalo7Ohio4SoftballSaturday:Western Michigan9Buffalo4
