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Student-SA communication should be priority

As a curious and oftentimes concerned member of the student body, I find myself constantly solicited from every direction by abstract notions, like voting for faceless candidates, platforms without even clear plans of realization of their goals, as well as concerns addressed with only appeasing targeted solutions.

Our Lady Peace unconfirmed for Spring Fest

The Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace will be headlining Spring Fest on April 21, according to a report on Buffalo's WEDG 103.3 The Edge.Student Association officials would not confirm the band's performance, but SA President Dela Yador said he hopes to make a formal announcement sometime this week.Yador did confirm the concert's Friday date at Alumni Arena."It was real tough, as usual, getting bands locked down," Yador said, "so we had to lock it for the 21st."Yador declined to comment on the WEDG report, made by a disc jockey last week, and said the entire line-up would be announced, as usual, only after all contractual loose ends are tied up.If confirmed, Our Lady Peace will have some competition that night -- pop-punk bands Fall Out Boy and All-American Rejects are scheduled to play at HSBC Arena.

Softball puts doughnuts on the scoreboard

A string of defeats for Buffalo softball grew in bleak fashion over the weekend. On Friday and Saturday, the team was shut out in four games at the East Carolina State Farm Pirate Classic, including a loss to the California Golden Bears, who are ranked No.

Lecture commemorates East-West meeting

Joseph M. Henning, associate professor of history at the Rochester Institute of Technology, lectured on "Commemorating the Perry Expedition: From Gunboat Diplomacy to the Cold War," on Friday as a part of the Asia at Noon lecture series.Henning spoke about Matthew C.

Longtime face of Disability Services to retire

Twenty-nine years of irreplaceable dedication to helping students who need the most has made Toni Schunke an unforgettable individual in the UB community.Schunke, who has worked at UB since she was 18 years old, the senior administrative assistant in the Office of Disability Services (ODS), is retiring on March 31, ending a 29-year career marked with generosity and love for her job.

Bulls continue skid in MAC play

After compiling an 8-1 dual meet record since October, including winning five straight since the start of February, the women's tennis team opened its Mid-American Conference schedule with two losses.Friday afternoon the Bulls began their conference play with a 6-0 loss to Western Michigan before dropping a second match on Saturday to Bowling Green, 5-2.The Broncos, ranked 67th in the latest poll by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, beat Buffalo in seven of nine match-ups.The Broncos began the doubles matches with an 8-2 victory.

The week ahead: 3.27.06

Take a breather with Needtobreathe

If you frantically start ripping out your hair while listening to the same 10 songs on Kiss 98.5 and Wild 101, you're not alone.

Putting the ire in 'vampire'

Because American film studios produce an ample number of sci-fi and fantasy films, there isn't much reason to begin importing more of the genre from overseas.

Arts Clips

UB art in TonawandaTwo art exhibitions, "I'm in the wrong film" by Hans Gindlesberger and "Memory of November" by Soyeon Jung, premiered this Saturday at the Carnegie Arts Center.

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Making ghosts of mysteries

Just as its name proclaims, the Center for Inquiry is a place for rationality and critical questions.

Activists unite to find common ground

Various student groups actively campaigning for causes across campus put their efforts together Saturday at the first Progressive Student Conference, an event designed to increase awareness and help train student leadership.With presentations from members of Muslim SA, the UN Student Alliance, UB Students Against Sweatshops and others, the all-day event offered lectures and discussions to highlight the causes different on-campus groups fight for.The conference was run under the banner of Students United for Progress, a new coalition of UB groups looking to initiate change on campus for a variety of issues."I really liked Mike Niman from ArtVoice," said Jenn Testa, vice president of the Vegetarian Collective.When she wasn't helping with her own group's presentation, Testa was one of about 50 people who attended the sessions, which ranged from a panel on Hurricane Katrina to a talk about the profiling of Muslims.The conference also touched the subjects of pesticides on campus, civil rights, police brutality, the women's students department cutting its adjunct professors, and the salary situation facing UB's janitors.Niman, a Buffalo State College professor and partner of the Niagara Independent Media, focused on the use of the media as a resource for Buffalo activists.Creighton Randall, a member of UB's Engineers for a Sustainable World, said that he was impressed with Niman and with the Niagara radio station he works with, AM 1270."He talked about essentially how a group of the Buffalo community can get together (to form a) community radio station," Randall said.

Spring break leaves students tired and broke

After the beer, the sun block and - for some - the 8-hour shifts at jobs back home, readjusting to busy school schedules have left some students still in a daze, even after a week back in class.Many are finding themselves either still exhausted from their expeditions, broke or in debt from hotel and dinner expenses and far behind on their mountains of schoolwork.Sophomore David Orenstein, a business and psychology major, said he goes on break to get away from school, so even though he didn't do much partying over the weeklong vacation, Orenstein didn't do much schoolwork either."I did bring home books thinking I would do something with them," he said.

One cartoon may be worth a thousand syllogisms

In an editorial, "Too Late to the Party," (March 10), Free Inquiry magazine is castigated for publishing controversial Muhammad cartoons.

Off-campus study spots swap silence for sweets

Spring may have officially arrived this week, but for students who still have a month and a half of class left and chilly weather to put up with, it doesn't mean much.

Ben Sargent Cartoon: 3.24.06

Stan stays undefeated in Florida

Every once in a while, even Goliath falls.Women's tennis lost over the break for the second time this year, bowing in a marathon five-hour match to Central Florida, but not before thrashing Manhattan College and Hillsborough Community College to raise its record to 8-2.Highlighting the week was the play of Smaranda Stan who, after claiming three victories during the road trip, is now 5-0.

Brakeless beats

E-40 needs to see a brake specialist. His "slanguage" may be cute, but his beats are unrelenting.