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Bearcats down Bulls in season finale

Although the men's tennis regular season did not end on a high note, the Bulls and their coaches remain unfazed.

"Dennis Black, the 'straight man'"

In a comedy team, the 'straight man' keeps things moving and feeds lines to his partner to play off of.

Enjoying the view from No. 2

It's been an emotional season both on and off the court for the women's tennis team, but the Bulls put all of that behind them last weekend and ended the regular season near the top of the Mid-American Conference as they sealed a second-place conference finish with two wins.

UB's excellence on full display

It's often hard to sum up an entire university's goals in a single word, but if UB has had an unofficial catchphrase since President John B.

Watchlist

Current: "Hustle & Flow" (2005)As Djay, a pimp from Memphis, Terrence Howard turned in a performance not nearly as explosive as critics claimed, but one definitely worth seeing.

"Silent, but not deadly"

Are they zombies? Are they vampires? What the hell are they? The adaptation of the survival horror videogame "Silent Hill" fails to answer these questions despite its tragic 40-minute segment that tries to explain the back-story.

Clearing up a misty myth

The mist plume emanating from the Niagara Falls is one of the tourist attraction's best-known traits - the nearly constant cloud gave rise to the Maid of the Mist, both the ghost story and ubiquitous boat tour.But in recent years, that mist plume has increased to the point of obscuring the falls themselves, leaving millions of tourists with a misty impression of one of the world's most famous natural wonders.The increase in mist used to be attributed to the recent glut of high-rise hotels on the Canadian side of the falls.

The American way

It seems the Seneca Nation's casino building ventures have officially sunk into a familiar business tactic: the front.

Spectrum Cartoon: 4.24.06

Girls gone wild for Fall Out Boy

Mothers and fathers escorted young fans, decked out in their Chuck Taylor kicks and emo ensembles through the doors of the HSBC Arena Friday night.

Scoreboard

SoftballGame 1Friday:Western Michigan 1Buffalo0Friday:Buffalo6Western Michigan 0W. TennisFriday:Miami (Ohio)4Buffalo3BaseballFriday:Buffalo4Ohio3M.

Cutting weight without the knife

When taking a glance down Niagara Falls Boulevard, with the array of fast food joints, gourmet coffeehouses and big beefy steakhouses lining its curbs, it's not hard to understand why obesity is on the rise.

Ben Sargent: 4.21.06

'Phat Girlz' is food for thought

Below the radar of Spring Fest and Conan O'Brien this weekend, there's a pleasantly plump play in which students will tackle some serious issues, while also raising awareness and money."Phat Girlz," a student production organized in just three months, is directed by junior Molly Dubansky, who came across the idea for the show when she was assigned to read "Best Playwrights of 2003" for one of her classes.The play not only grabbed Dubansky's attention for its literary merits, but also, as a show about eating disorders, the subject hit home.

Wrong music that sounds right

Decent bands often include only one or two good songs on an album. When B-sides end up being the bulk of a full-length album and the two best songs are placed far apart, the listener is left skipping through the junk.Russian Circles managed to dodge all of these pitfalls on their new album "Enter." This strong and short post-rock instrumental extravaganza refuses any sort of standstill.

"Goodbye, kinda"

It's incredible how fast four years can fly by.This is the last column I will ever write for The Spectrum and I have the freedom to write about pretty much anything that strikes my fancy.

Book List:

Current: "The Areas of My Expertise" by John Hodgman (2005)Hodgman audaciously parodies the almanac, but instead of publishing stoic summations and extrapolations, he litters his text with lies.

Here comes Conan

OK, so there probably won't be a masturbating bear or an insulting cigar-wielding puppet, but that won't stop the UB community from coming in droves this weekend to see Conan O'Brien, the last speaker in this year's Distinguished Speaker Series.O'Brien, the host of NBC's "Late Night" show, will take the stage at Alumni Arena as a comedian in his prime and still on the rise.

"The fall of a vending machine, the rise of a star"

Have you ever tried to buy something from the vending machine, only to scream in frustration when it gets stuck on the way down?

Keeping UB clean

Earth Day is a strange holiday. Instead of taking a day off, it inspires manual labor.This Saturday, students in collaboration with UB Green will have the opportunity to clean up the campus environment in celebration of Earth Day.