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Spring fashion
By ANDREA SION | Apr. 7, 2006Spring officially began over a week ago, and warmer weather will soon descend upon Buffalo for good.
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Baseball still looking for first MAC win
By JEFF DRAZEK | Apr. 7, 2006As the Bulls' baseball season approaches its midpoint, the team is still looking to overcome a few important obstacles.
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Schneider takes a swing at a younger audience
By DREW WEITZ | Apr. 7, 2006Rob Schneider delivers a more wholesome performance than we have seen from him in the past with his family comedy "The Benchwarmers." The movie manages to be funny, without being filled with the same offensive d*ck jokes that we are used to seeing from him.Let's just say it is more "50 First Dates" than it is "Deuce Bigalow.""The Benchwarmers" tells the story of three underachievers who have grown up resenting the fact that they never played organized baseball.
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Protesting the protestors
By KATHERINE BECZAK | Apr. 7, 2006There's a fine line between justified activism and glorified protesting, and students on the UB campus are dangerously close to crossing it.Early Tuesday afternoon, a rowdy, boisterous group of students congregated in front of the Student Union to support something they felt very strongly about.
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"For seniors, Gala marks the last big party"
By ELIZABETH PAGE | Apr. 7, 2006For graduating seniors, the UB Spring Gala is a little more bittersweet than it is for underclassmen enjoying just another night of fun, dinner and dancing.For them, Saturday marks the end of the road, the last big party before commencement."It's kind of sad because I'm a senior and I'll probably never go to a formal event like this again," Priyanka Giri, a senior finance and marketing major, said.While Gala may just seem like another formal function, in the end, it represents a lot more to students."Yeah, there will be Christmas parties and birthdays and weddings to go to, and you shake hands with a lot of people," Kate Crooks, a senior psychology major, said.
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Campus notice
Apr. 7, 2006Effective Monday, April 10, construction along Main Street will significantly impact entry to the primary South Campus gateway at Main Circle near the NFTA bus loop.
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Ground this flight
By ALEXANDER NASAREWSKY | Apr. 7, 2006With the planned release of "United 93" - a film recreating the experience of the fourth plane on 9/11, which eventually crashed in Pennsylvania after the passengers and crew overthrew the hijackers - a question has been posed to the movie-going public: is it too soon for a movie about 9/11?I can say "yes" with utmost confidence.The events that occurred on 9/11 were the most televised acts of terror in the history of the world.
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"To packed crowd, speaker discusses cyber security crisis"
By THOMAS HALLECK | Apr. 7, 2006America has long been in the age of the computer, and with companies' increased reliance on computers and the Internet comes an alarming increase in the rate of crimes perpetrated via the Internet.Professor Eugene H.
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Big plans after graduation for many senior athletes
By KELLI O' BRIEN | Apr. 7, 2006For underclassmen, the end of the season means a time to regroup, set higher goals, train harder, and wait for the next season.
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Return of DJ Series attracts big crowd
By REBECCA REEVES | Apr. 5, 2006Despite the fact that Saturday was April Fool's Day, there was no joking around when it came to the latest Student Association event hosted at Club Level.
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Towne film bites the 'Dust'
By JULIE LANG | Apr. 5, 2006Colin Farrell has made some interesting acting choices, to say the least, between "Alexander" and "Daredevil." His latest cinematic endeavor, "Ask the Dust," is no exception.Set in Los Angeles during the 1930s, director Robert Towne has adapted the John Fante novel of the same name.
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Caf?PI 59 sees a coffee cup half full
By LINDSEY SCHUPPENHAUER | Apr. 5, 2006Is studying at home a no-go, and has a long night at the library got you down? Strong addictive stimulants could be the answer.
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'Slither': hideously awful
By DREW WEITZ | Apr. 5, 2006"Slither" tries as hard as it can to frighten moviegoers with its gruesomely disgusting parasitic slug aliens.
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Naughty nurse stereotype hurts women
By SARAH BUCKLEY | Apr. 5, 2006I do understand that the April 3 issue of The Spectrum is an April Fool's issue and a joke. Naughty nurse images are rarely serious ("Medicine taken orally"). No one seriously thinks that nurses go to their jobs dressed in lingerie and have sex with their patients.
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Student falls four floors
By JESSICA PACKARD AND ROBERT PAPE AND SIOBHAN COUNIHAN | Apr. 5, 2006A resident of Porter Quad was in stable condition on Tuesday after falling out his fourth-floor dorm window during the weekend.In the early hours of April 1, the student plummeted about 40 feet from his Ellicott room to the grass below.
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Professor makes noise among hearing researchers
By LEAH BLOOM | Apr. 5, 2006February was an exciting time for a remarkable UB professor from the department of communicative disorders and sciences, one whose love for teaching equals his aptitude in the lab.Donald Henderson recently received the 2006 Outstanding Hearing Conservation Award from the National Hearing Conservation Association at its annual conference in Tampa, Fla.Although Henderson was initially interested in doing research as a graduate student at the University of Texas, he realized his desire to share information when he had the opportunity to teach a class in Physiological Psychology.
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"Going the distance, Koeppel returns for one last season"
By ALEX RUBIN | Apr. 5, 2006Normally, once a student-athlete turns in his or her uniform for a cap and gown, there is no turning back.
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Protest for labor rights presented nothing new
By HALLD? and HALLD? | Apr. 5, 2006You marched down the spine yelling like raging fanatics, interrupting my class. You screamed incessant rhetoric about the abuse of workers in sweatshops and the working class here in Buffalo.
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Tennis unable to match strong MAC teams
By ROB TUCKER | Apr. 5, 2006Heading into what men's tennis coach Russ Crispell called "the heart" of the Mid-American Conference schedule, the Bulls looked to strengthen their position within the MAC but lost both their matches last weekend.On Saturday, the Bulls men's tennis team headed to Muncie's Cardinal Creek Tennis Center to face a strong Ball State team that was able to easily dispose of the Bulls by winning a 7-0 decision."MAC tennis is on the upswing.
