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Spectrum Cartoon 02.07.2007

Bulls avenge last year's loss with a sweep

Getting revenge feels sweet. The men's tennis team got that feeling on Sunday versus a Colgate team that beat them soundly last year."It's great," said senior Mike Rockman.

"All talk, no action"

I grew up on action movies. For me, there was nothing more satisfying than seeing one man take on the world single handedly, using every weapon imaginable to inflict over the top, non-stop brutality.These days, you just don't see these kinds of movies.

Archaic Impossibilities

Disregarding the Velvet Underground, the Beatles, Pink Floyd and a few eccentric tracks by Led Zeppelin, this is the music your parents never thought possible.

Literature for short attention spans

As the saying goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words." If this were true, then flash fiction would be the equivalent of one picture.

Schedule

"There is nothing to report"

A lesson in blues

In the realm of the art, few styles of music reach deeper into the slimy soul of America than the blues.

Five meals a day is more than a fad

Diets are everywhere, each promising men and women alike that for ten dollars a week plus the cost of food they too can lose 20 lbs in two weeks.

UB law students to provide free tax preparation for low-income residents

During upcoming "crunch" months, UB Law and Management students will be assisting the Economic Self Sufficiency Coalition (ESSC) with tax preparations for low-income residents of Buffalo and the Erie County region.R.

Pilates and yoga on campus

Thin yoga mats decorated the floor in hues of purples and pinks.Students from all majors, years and backgrounds came early, came late, came with friends, came alone.

Truck drivers aren't funny at all

Wednesday night is the infamous halfway point of the week, so close to over the hump that you can nearly taste Friday.

Schedule

M. BasketballWednesday: at Kent State, 7 PMW. BasketballWednesday: vs. Ohio, 7 PMW. SwimmingThursday: at Mid-American Conference Championships, NA

A lesson in blues

In the realm of the art, few styles of music reach deeper into the slimy soul of America than the blues.

Dream Job woke me up

I was 18, I'd just graduated high school and I had the best summer of my life coming up. Basically I was on top of the world.

Hot Topics

The following contributed: Robert Pape, editor in chief; Christopher Caporlingua, creative director; Silas Rader, senior managing editor; Peter Rizzo, editorial editor; Thomas Halleck, senior news editor and James Raymond, news editor.Wisconsin police chief tickets himself $235"And yet my inspection has been up for five months... still no ticket." (JR)"...and makes quota for the month." (CC)"It would have been higher, but he flirted with himself first." (RP)Fake employer steals women's urine samples"He probably has a real desk job with a lot of coffee to spike." (SR)"Wonder what his fake name was?" (JR)"That's 'Store Manager' I.P.

This Week In Buffalo

Scoreboard

WrestlingSaturday:Eastern Michigan28Buffalo10M. BasketballSaturday:Buffalo80Northern Illinois74W.

BSU leadership conference covers culture

In an effort to increase awareness and understanding about African American history and culture, the Black Student Union held their second annual Student Leadership Conference this weekend.

The man behind the muzzle

Author Thomas Harris's latest installment of the wildly popular Hannibal Lechter series answers the questions that fans have been waiting for since the notorious cannibal first appeared over 25 years ago.In "Hannibal Rising," as in so many other prequels, we are finally introduced to the man (or in this case, the child) behind the monster.

Wangari Maathai represents the environment

Environmental "responsibility and accountability" was the core message of Dr. Wangari Maathai's speech to students and community members Friday night at the Center for the Arts.Winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, an organization geared toward preserving the environment through planting trees, Maathai's address was presented as part of the 20th Annual Distinguished Speaker Series."It's a challenge to begin to think that in order to live with each other we need to manage the world's resources with more responsibility and accountability," Maathai said.