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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.

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.

This Weekend In Buffalo

Prescription drug abuse ?'an emerging issue?' on campus

For college students who need more than a cup of coffee to make it through finals, swallowing an Adderall or Ritalin may be the more appealing choice, according to studies indicating that prescription stimulant drug abuse is on the rise among college students.

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.

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.

"At Brodo, it's (almost) all about the soup"

"Brodo," the Italian word for broth, is a soup and wine bar on Elmwood Avenue that redefines the dining "night on the town" experience. The soup? Let's just say you need to try it for yourself.

Scoreboard

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

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?

Striving for an informed community: UB's Regional Institute

UB'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.

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.

Real World auditions at the Steer

vMTV's The Real World held open casting auditions on Main Street at the Steer from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

UB Professor aims to assist in the rebuilding of declining regions

Kathryn 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.

Beautifully haunting

And 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.

UB Music Instructor leads the life of an artist

In 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.

Rubin's magical mystery tour

It's never too early to think about life after graduation, especially knowing the fact that all of my friends are graduating this year.

Real campus politics

Working 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.

Scoreboard

M. TennisSunday:Toledo5Buffalo2BaseballSunday:Buffalo13Ohio10SoftballSunday:Western Michigan9Buffalo2

Sidelines

Oliveri and Varsity Eight named Athletes of the Week Junior Rick Oliveri of the baseball team was named Athlete of the Week along with the entire Varsity Eight women's rowing team,Oliveri had a strong series against the Ohio Bobcats this past week, batting .600 over the three game weekend set.

Daphne hearts perseverance

Some groups have the innate ability to create an infinite amount of superb albums, while other bands struggle to assemble just one, but, as they say, life isn't fair.