News

---

Bulls begin season with hard losses

The regular season began for the women's swimming and diving team on a sour note over the weekend.

Spooky sightings

From the funny to the grotesque, the hallways and classrooms of UB played host to students in costumes of all kinds on Halloween.

"Bulls blow past IPFW, advance to conference semis"

With an emotional loss to Akron still lingering, the men's soccer team took out its frustration as it dominated fifth seeded Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne last night, 3-0.

Cross-country teams slip at MAC Championships

Both men's and women's cross-country teams were left disappointed after Saturday's Mid-American Conference championship race at Beaver Island State Park in Grand Island, N.Y.

Halloween Costume Ideas

Three simple rules for Halloween costume success:1. Simplicity and affordability.2. Originality (who wants 20 ghosts at one party?).3.

Heads held high

Heads held highSabres loss is a patch of rough ice soon to be smoothed overSloppy and outplayed would not have been used to describe the Sabres a week ago, but criticism hit home this weekend.

Four easy steps to a Halloween bash

Massive amounts of chocolate, snot-nosed trick-or-treaters and the chance for an extreme makeover - it may just be the Milky Way bars, but there's something about Oct.

Mediocrity muscles Randolph

With his new album, Robert Randolph resorts to ransacking the talent of supporting musicians under the guise of original music writing.

The week ahead: 10.31.06

Sidelines

Buffalo swimmers open seasonThe men and women's swimming teams both opened their seasons this weekend.

On-stage pot propaganda

Giant hookahs. Teenagers who escaped from home to lead a life of drug abuse. Grotesque phrases such as "Reefer Murders" and "Reefer Annihilates True Love" scrawled across oversized red panels that flash between scenes.

Run for the playoffs falls short

Last week marked a change of events for the Bulls as they witnessed their Mid-American Conference post-season ticket game turn into a season-ender.

Ending stem cell gridlock

The moral and ethical issue of embryonic stem cell research came to the forefront Thursday, making it an issue that may or may not affect voters at the polls on Nov.

"Lairs of scares, on and off campus"

Ghouls, ghosts and Halloween haunts. There's no better time of year to indulge in the mystic idea that lost spirits haunt their previous dwellings on earth.For those looking for a good "scare," Buffalo offers a variety of fun Halloween amusements that will leave you with the hair on the back of your neck standing up.One of Buffalo's best known haunted houses, and by far the largest, is the House of Horrors and the Haunted Catacombs on George Urban Boulevard in Depew.

Continuing terrifying traditions

The Student Union will be serving up free apple cider, doughnuts, caramel apples and hot chocolate this Monday and Tuesday for the 7th Annual Haunted Union, sponsored by Student Life and the Student Programming Board.Pumpkin carving and cookie decorating, along with a costume contest and trick-or-treating are also on the agenda.

Bulls drop two in final home stand

Unfortunately for the seniors on the volleyball team, their careers ended at home with two loses this past weekend.

Blown out in Bean Town

With torrential downpours and high wind gusts in Chestnut Hill, Mass. on Saturday, the torrid weather was a symmetrical prelude to the rough outcome of the Bulls' football game as they fell to Boston College, 41-0.Buffalo (1-7, Mid-American Conference 0-5) was outplayed the entire game against the nation's No.

Schedule

M. SoccerTuesday: vs. IPFW, 7 p.m.

Bulls fall in final regular season match

With momentum high and a chance to defeat the mighty Akron Zips, the men's soccer team traveled to Ohio on Saturday in an attempt to capture its first regular season Mid-American Conference Championship.

Scoreboard

W. SwimmingFriday:Ball State155Buffalo88M. SwimmingFriday:Buffalo137155106VolleyballFriday:Eastern Michigan3Buffalo1Saturday:Central Michigan3Buffalo1M.