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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.


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Schedule

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


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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.


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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.


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Scoreboard

WrestlingSaturday:Eastern Michigan28Buffalo10M. BasketballSaturday:Buffalo80Northern Illinois74W.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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Belly dancing inspires creativity and confidence

For some, belly dancing has the connotation of scantily clad women moving their bodies in sexually suggestive ways.For Kathleen "Kassia" Boldt, however, it is a pure, artistic means of expression - one that has become a part of her daily life.Eleven years ago while living in Toronto, Kassia and a friend took a belly dancing class, curious to see what it would be like.


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Turnovers corral Bulls

It was a defensive smorgasbord for the Ball State women's basketball team this Saturday. During the Bulls showdown against their Mid-American Conference rivals, Buffalo managed to turn the ball over 23 times, eight of which coming from the first four possessions of each half.Head coach Linda Hill-MacDonald recognized the team's lack of ball security in its 59-55 loss.


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Slain rapper's family keeps pushing suit

Despite numerous setbacks, the family of slain rapper Biggie Smalls continues to pursue a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles based on a theory that a rogue LAPD detective helped orchestrate the murder.


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How the average Joe can become a big shot

With new technology, a good photograph doesn't necessarily have to come from a professional. Cameras the size of a mouse can produce images similar to those seen on the sides of buildings in New York City, and even cell phones can produce decent shots.Twenty years from now, we will be rifling through photo albums on facebook wondering who the heck that beautifully possessed red-eyed demon was standing next to us in a basement in University Heights.Junior history major Joshua Walther has already found those ruined images from freshman year on his personal computer."Photographs hold a dream-like quality that helps you reanimate a sequence of events in time which occurred when the picture was taken," he said.Now, blurry overexposed photos that look like a preview for the next Terminator movie, an epidemic of poor photography, can be held at bay for even the most amateur of photographers.Daniel Calleri, the instructional support technician for the Department of Visual Studies has shed some light on a few tips that could greatly improve your photography:Compose each shot.


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Sidelines

Clarke invited to MLS workoutFormer Buffalo men's soccer star Andrae Clarke has been invited to travel to Bradenton, Fla.


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What it means to be a man

Super Bowl Sunday is probably the manliest day of the year.Twenty-four hours straight of football pre-shows and post-shows well into the wee hours of the morning.


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