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Gay marriage

At the national level, the battle over gay marriage is raging as fierce as ever. In nine states, politicians are debating same-sex marriage amendments.


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"Straight, but so what?"

Freshman year, by definition, is a time for new experiences: life without parental supervision, sharing space with a roommate, fraternity parties, your first blunt, and then, in a category all on its own, drunken homoerotic encounters.And while many students might balk at the last item on that list, experimenting with members of the same sex is not so uncommon for college students, especially for those in their first year away from home.So why would seemingly heterosexual students start making out with members of the same sex?


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Chasing the NBA dream

The life of a player in the American Basketball Association lies far from the glitz and glamour of the NBA.When fans attend a Buffalo Rapids game, they are there to see the simpler world of sports, a world in which players are on the court for the love of the game.


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Softball splits series of weekend contests

While many students were trudging around in snow boots this past weekend on campus, the women's softball team were basking in the sun with their cleats in Plant City, Fla., last weekend.But this was no spring break leisure trip.


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Say 'Aloha' to a new sound

Today, most college-aged music lovers are either into hip-hop or rock. Aloha's mellow rock fused with '60s pop may be easily overlooked by the average music listener, but with a few more turns in the CD player, an appreciation develops for this Ohio-based group's strange combo of jazz and indie pop-rock.Lead vocalist Tony Cavallario calls Aloha, who formed in Bowling Green in 1997, a "pop band that uses the tools of progressive rock and jazz and other types of instrumental music."Aloha will be performing at Kitchen Distribution Wednesday.


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Trojan man

Greece Athena High School won the Section V boys basketball title Saturday night, and it's the biggest sports story of the year, or at least part of it.I'm not saying that because I'm a Greece Athena alumnus - the Trojans' victory is a fitting climax to the story of Jason McElwain, the hoops hero whose story has taken over everything from ESPN to Oprah.


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A midwinter exploration in the aesthetics of UB

While UB consistently may seem to be a cold, gray, detached environment this time of year, one means of distraction from the midwinter doldrums is looking past the weather and observing landmarks and structures students pass unconsciously everyday.Upon arrival at Lee Loop, it is hard to miss The Commons clock tower, which rises in greeting, standing guard between the green-roofed commons and the university bookstore.


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Bulls' jumper takes first

Roy Richards won the long jump on Saturday at the EC4A Championships held in Boston, Mass. The victory -- the junior's second first-place finish in as many weeks -- came in the first day of the two-day tournament for the Bulls indoor track team.Richards won the event in his sixth and final attempt of the day with a jump of 24 feet 5 1/2 inches.


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Scoreboard

BaseballFriday:Buffalo8Marshall7WrestlingMAC ChampionshipsSaturday:BuffaloThird of six teamsM. SwimmingMAC ChampionshipsSaturday:BuffaloFifth of five teamsBaseballGame OneSaturday:Marshall10Buffalo9Saturday:Marshall20Buffalo3SoftballSaturday:Buffalo9Boston4Saturday:Illinois State11Buffalo0W.


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Narrow field for this year's UB Council elections

The UB Council's lone student position might be the most direct interaction the student body has with administrative leadership, but this month's election for the high-profile advisory board has yielded a small group of three potential representatives.Vying for the student seat this year will be Todd Chard, Jenna Chrisphonte and Peter Rizzo.


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A Floydian trip

Pupils dilate, breathing quickens, rainbow colors and patterns flash before your eyes and mellow music pervades the senses.


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Raising hell with the rednecks

Kid Rock may be the most hated musician to have survived the 1990s. His infamy runs parallel to that of Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst.Unless you've been living in a hole, you know that Kid Rock has been glorifying the Middle America, blue-collar lifestyle with his undefined mix of white trash rock, country, metal and hip-hop for years.Kid Rock and his newly formed Twisted Brown Trucker Band released " 'Live' Trucker" this week with a surprising amount of raw entertainment.


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'Paycock' pays up

Unlike many unhappily married women, Juno knows where her unemployed alcoholic husband is."Struttin' about the town like a paycock with Joxer," she says.Currently playing at the Irish Classical Theatre, Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock" is a tragic play about the impoverished Boyle family and their struggle to survive in Dublin during the Irish Civil War of 1922.



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