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"Carnival, competitions and food highlight homecoming weekend"

Festivities in and around the Student Union welcomed home students and alumni over the weekend as part of the campus-wide week of blue-and-white pride leading up to the Bulls game against Ball State.The Student Association's annual Spirit Week Carnival featured free food, games and amusement park rides while the Alumni Association held their first annual "Dodge Bull" tournament.Patty Starr, assistant director of alumni relations, watched as teams of UB students bounced, bashed and bruised each other with only the best of intentions.

Life Desk's Weekly Workout

Focus: This week, make time for the most important meal of the day - breakfast."Eating a healthy breakfast has been linked to better learning ability and memory functions,"Jessica Nyrop, assistant director for aerobics and cycling at UB.Nyrop recommends buying easy foods for breakfast like fruit, low-fat yogurt, whole grain breakfast bars or granola bars.

Newfound inspiration

A jam-packed Club Infinity welcomed pop-punk favorites New Found Glory back to the Buffalo area for the first time in over a year last Friday night.

Wanna buy a date?

Money may not be able to buy love, but it did buy dates Friday night in the Student Union as a charity event came close to being a strip show.As part of the festivities surrounding Spirit Week, the Community Action Corps (CAC), a student volunteer and community service organization on campus, held a date auction Friday evening in the Student Union.All of the proceeds went to benefit Friends of Night People, a soup kitchen and homeless shelter in Buffalo, and will be used for facility renovations, food and overall advancement to help those in need of the group's services."The donations will be added to money raised at the last CAC event held Friday September 29th, which was the Night Out," said CAC treasurer Joshua Feuerstein.Students filled out a brief survey and submitted it to become a contestant and about 15 students were auctioned off in total.

Bulls get bucked at homecoming

The weather on the field at UB Stadium on Saturday was sunny and chilly, perfect for a hard nosed football game.

Golisano gets serious

As many local officials and Buffalonians are hopeful that pending lawsuits will prevent the construction of the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino, Rochester entrepreneur B.

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This Week In Buffalo

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UB to help promote girls' sports programsThe City of Buffalo Public Schools and area universities, including the University at Buffalo, will be collaborating with the Buffalo Bills and the Girl Scout Council of Buffalo & Erie County to form the WNY Girls in Sports - "Girls Got Game" program.

Bulls get shutout in Ohio

The Bulls traveled to Ohio this past weekend in search of two conference victories. However, they were not warmly welcomed by the Buckeyes.

"Gore, Cooper headline UB Speakers Series"

Now announced after the visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, journalist Anderson Cooper and environmentalist and former Vice President Al Gore headline the rest of the 2006-2007 UB Distinguished Speakers Series.Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai, ocean explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau and screenwriter Nora Ephron round out the lineup of investigators and intellectuals.Guests invited to speak this year are recognized nationally and internationally due to a "strong activism and passion around people, the environment, peace, and having people think of themselves as part of a global community rather than some part of it removed from the rest," according to Bill Regan, director of special events.CNN correspondent Anderson Cooper will be featured as the next installment for the speaker series, taking the stage at the Alumni Arena on Nov.

Borrowing from the Beatles

The Jet that everyone knows and loves has tucked away their powerful pop-explosion of guitars and drums in exchange for tamer noise.

Life Focus: Health

For some students, hiking to class from a parking spot at the outer rim of campus counts as a hard workout, but for others it takes a little more to get the heart pumping and the muscles burning.

Bulls sweep St. Francis

In its first dual match of the year, the women's tennis team found itself picking up where they left off last season as a Mid-American Conference finals caliber team.The Bulls (1-0) dominated their match this weekend versus the St.

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Opening night revenge

Just five months after the Buffalo Sabres lost in game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals to the Carolina Hurricanes, the two teams were at it again.

Around the MAC

Bowling Green at Ohio StateThe Falcons (3-2, 2-1 MAC) will be the second Mid-American Conference team to travel to Ohio Stadium to take on The Associated Press' No.

Employee' a no call - no show

Dane Cook's career in stand-up comedy may be building momentum, but his new film sputters and coughs like a worn-out '79 Mercury Monarch."Employee of the Month," directed by Greg Coolidge ("Sorority Boys"), is a comedy about the daily grind at a bulk-bargain store called Super Club (think Sam's Club or BJ's). The storyline follows the same, trite comedy format audiences have been subjected to for decades - an uninitiated yet somewhat charismatic loser decides to surmount obstacles for the sake of a girl while a menacing-yet-bumbling adversary throws extra hurdles his way.

Book signings at Talking Leaves aim to promote city's growth

The Talking Leaves bookstore on Main Street sits quietly in the dirt and chaos of the city streets, somewhat undiscovered by the citizens of Buffalo.

The wind beneath our (chicken) wings

M.C. Greg Bacorn, a senior history major, congratulates 2nd place contestant Ryan Myles, a sophomore exercise science major.