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Paradise lost in 'Promise Land'

David Schirm's "Welcome to the Promise Land" conveys a mastery of subtlety. Lavish arrays of color seep through to construe an unordinary world.Schirm's work is displayed on the CFA's second-floor gallery through May 20.


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BaseballWednesday:Buffalo27Niagra12SoftballGame 1Buffalo3St. Bonaventure1SoftballGame 2Buffalo4St.


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Delegates score big at SUNY conference

The Student Association secured the most high-level positions out of any school in the SUNY Student Assembly last weekend, winning three e-board spots at the organization's spring conference.New SUNY SA delegates Christopher Mendoza, Melody Mercedes and Eliot Sherman each won positions at the Saratoga Springs meeting, which was their first conference and SUNY experience."We're the only school that got three members elected," Mercedes said.


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Working out the kinks

Drop the book bag, kick off those shoes and socks, grab a mat, and get ready to stretch your horizons at one of UB's yoga classes.It is instructor Jacqueline Bogdan's hope that after 45 minutes of stretching, twisting, balancing, and synchronizing every move with their breaths, students will have worked out some of the kinks of everyday life."Sometimes I fall asleep at the end," Kelly Vo, a senior social sciences major, said.Vo, who goes to the gym on alternate days, uses the Tuesday and Thursday yoga classes to stretch and relax."It is really relaxing," Vo said.


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Ortman's big weekAfter going 3-0 last week, Bulls senior Kristen Ortman was named Mid- American Conference women's tennis co-player of the week.


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Clarification

Re: "Helping kids rise above autism" (April 26), the local number to get involved with the Son-Rise program is (716) 639-7395.


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Record-breaking day for Bulls in win at Big 4 Classic

As gusty winds carried the ball all over the place at Amherst Audubon Field during the consolation game of the Big 4 Classic, it was the Bulls baseball team that blew the record books wide open.Buffalo broke or tied several school records on the way to a 27-12 blowout win to clinch a third-place finish in the tourney.


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"Slip of tongue, slippery slope"

The racial insensitivity Viqar Hussain displayed during his speech at the Student Association Club Awards and e-board Induction Dinner Wednesday night is mind-boggling.


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Bubbly Ortman leads on and off the courts

It's been a rollercoaster year for Kristen Ortman. The senior captain of the women's tennis team has had outstanding play on the courts, but to say she has had a rough year in her personal life would be an understatement.Ortman stands a little over five-feet-tall but her play during her four years with the Bulls has been big, including her serve, which has been clocked as high as 97 miles per hour.Ortman, who hails from Amherst and can see South Campus from her bedroom, has been playing tennis since the age of 7 in Buffalo.


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Racial remarks land Hussain in hot water

Student Association President-elect Viqar Hussain learned a lesson about public speaking the hard way last week, making two racially insensitive remarks at an SA dinner that have strained his relationship with club members and colleagues.No one alleges that the comments were intentionally malicious, but those who were offended said the off-color jokes were flat-out shocking and call into question Hussain's leadership and social wherewithal."For the rest of his presidency, it's uphill from here, especially with the minority clubs," said Keri-Anne Marshall, coordinator for the People of Color club council.SA President Dela Yador said Hussain made a tremendous mistake that will put him in a hole before he even takes office, but he stands by the next president's character.Yador himself was at the center of Hussain's initial remark.


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Mad skillz

I was watching Sportscenter with a couple of my friends last semester when a football highlight came on and one of them said, "Man, I don't know how so many people like football, it requires no skill at all."Naturally, as an avid football enthusiast, I got offended and promptly responded "Yeah?


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"Mature sound, still the same Goo"

It's been four long years since the release of "Gutterflower," but the Goo Goo Dolls are back and sharing the love with all the fans on "Let Love In."The new album "Let Love In," which has spawned radio hits "Better Days" and "Give A Little Bit," is a relatively calm and soft album compared to their days of heavy guitars, such as the 1995s "A Boy Named Goo."After what seems like forever since The Edge religiously played "Long Way Down," the Goo Goo Dolls have grown up collectively over the past decade and it is apparent on the new record.


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