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UB does not need Turnitin

As plagiarism becomes easier with endless resources available online, professors began to use Turnitin, a web-based plagiarism program that references millions of journals and student work to find plagiarizers in the classroom.


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Sidelines

Basketball open practice to be heldOn Saturday, Oct. 14 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. both the Buffalo men's and women's basketball teams will hold an open practice at Alumni Arena.Fans will be welcome to come by after the football game and watch both teams begin to practice for their upcoming seasons.Cold Stone donations to go to UB AthleticsDonation proceeds will go to the University at Buffalo Athletics from the ice cream sales at the opening of the new Cold Stone Creamery on Maple Road next to Sweet Home Middle School.The grand opening is on Saturday, Oct.


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Terms of engagement

A year ago when my then-boyfriend asked me if I would marry him, I readily accepted, naive of the floodgates we'd just let open.


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Schedule

VolleyballFriday: at Ohio, 7 PMM. SoccerFriday: vs. Western Michigan, 5 PMW. SoccerFriday: vs. Toledo, 5 PMFootballSaturday: vs.


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He will be missed

Baseball lost one of its greatest men this past week and most people have probably never heard of him.Buck O'Neil (1911-2006) played for and managed professional ball clubs over the course of four decades.


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Life Focus: Around Buffalo

Although the Buffalo Bills may lose more games than they win, their fans are anything but benchwarmers - they bring the great American tradition of tailgating to a new level.Love them or hate the team, Buffalo has one of the best football fan bases on the eastern coast."I grew up with the Bills," said Jason Strollo, a junior accounting major.


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"Bulls ground Falcons, fall to Nittany Lions"

Traveling to Bowling Green and Penn State this weekend, the Buffalo men's soccer team went 1-1. The Bulls picked up another Mid-American Conference win Friday night against Bowling Green, but then fell to a tough Penn State team Sunday afternoon.Buffalo fell behind early 1-0 to the Falcons in Friday night's match, but the Bulls rallied back to score two goals to top Bowling Green by a final score of 2-1.


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Scoreboard

M. SoccerSunday:Penn State3Buffalo0W. SoccerSunday:Buffalo2Northern Illinois1CrewSunday:At Head of the GeneseeBuffaloNorthern Illinois


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Nutini travels far on the streets

Paolo Nutini's soulful voice and thoughtful lyrics can easily give the false impression of veteran status and a life of experience, but he's actually just warming up.This newcomer's new album, "Live Sessions," is a compilation of four select songs from the release "These Streets," that has been released on Atlantic Records to introduce the U.S to this talented Scotsman.


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Size doesn't matter

With Saddam Hussein stripped from his position and thrown into a courtroom, President Bush has captured a man he feels is the "most dangerous dictator" in the world.


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Basking in pop royalty

Fergie's future looks auspicious so long as she uproots herself from the Black Eyed Peas. Her first solo album, "The Dutchess," is a royal blend of R&B, pop, reggae and jazz, pumping out tracks that could easily go VIP in a club environment.


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Students taste liberated snickerdoodle

Two eggs, a cup of sugar and a pinch of irony.Students with a sweet tooth experienced liberation through baked goods this Monday at a Liberation Bake-off, part of a series of events for Gender Week on campus.Hosted by UB's Gender Institute in the Student Union, the event was part of the fifth annual Gender Week's kickoff.


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Yankees asleep at the wheel

"Big Pappa" Steinbrenner is at it again. In what has become an annual tradition, the Yankee owner wanted to fire his long-time manager Joe Torre, yet has once again been talked out of doing so.



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