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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.

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.

'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.

Budd and Sherrell win MAC titles

Senior heavyweight Harold Sherrell and junior 133-pounder Mark Budd each entered the conference wrestling tournament ranked second in their weight classes.

Author returns home to speak on abortion

Growing up in Buffalo wasn't easy for Eyal Press. At the time, his father, Shalom, was one of only two doctors performing abortions in the city.Then, on Oct.

Ben Sargent Cartoon: 3.06.06

"'Showpocalypse' not the end, but the beginning"

Despite the misleading title, the opening reception for "Showpocalypse" commenced without the second coming of Christ.

Extreme focus for UB research

When people hear the phrase "extreme events," scenes of daring acts from a James Bond movie or perhaps the X-Games come to mind.

Get out the vote

With an election set to begin March 20, the lone student representative position on the high-profile UB Council is up for grabs, and our hope is whoever wins the job utilizes the office to advocate more vigorously on behalf of students.

Sidelines

First 2,000 students free to Monday night's gameThe men's basketball team has clinched a home playoff game that will commence Monday night at 7 p.m.

"At Fiesta, a flourish of culture"

Over 2,000 people "got culture" on Friday night when they packed into the Center for the Arts for the 2006 International Fiesta, an annual student cultural celebration and competition at which Japanese SA took this year's top prize.The competition was marked with an electric level of energy.

RedHawks snatch final game from Bulls

Falling to the ills that have plagued them all season, the Bulls played well in spurts but couldn't sustain momentum in Saturday afternoon's 74-65 loss to Miami (Ohio).Bad turnovers and poor shooting derailed the men's basketball team, and for the first time in three years, Buffalo finished the regular season under .500 in the Mid-American Conference."I think some fatigue set in on our guys," said Bulls head coach Reggie Witherspoon.

Photek spins full circle

Photek thinks drum and bass is boring. Over the past few years, he said, the scene, of which he is an integral member, has stagnated."I think it's boring.

Calendar

Mardi Gras celebration inappropriate for Ash Wednesday

I was offended by the Student Association's choice to host a Mardi Gras event on Wednesday, March 1.I am able to draw one of two conclusions regarding the planners of this event.

Early foul trouble means an early exit

In its first home playoff game in four seasons, women's basketball succumbed to foul trouble and was eliminated by the Toledo Rockets in the first round of the conference tournament on Saturday, 70-58.The game was close throughout, but in the end, the Bulls were unable to survive early foul trouble, as sophomore forward Heather Turner sat out most of the first half.For the Rockets (10-17, 5-12 Mid-American Conference), Turner's absence provided an opportunity for junior forward Savannah Werner to abuse the Bulls under the basket.When Turner collected her second foul, over 13 minutes remained in the first half, but it seemed like much more to Bulls head coach Linda Hill-MacDonald."Heather was sitting on the bench for I don't know how many minutes.

Swimmers finish last out of 5

Thursday morning, when the men's swimming and diving team embarked on its journey to Akron, Ohio, for the conference championships, there was little doubt that the meet to which it was headed would be a grueling three-day marathon."Doing well at the ECAC Championships took the anxiety out of going to the (Mid-American Conference) championships, and we were able to go in with a mental edge," said head coach Budd Termin.Emerging from the season's end, the Bulls finished fifth out of five behind perennial powerhouse Eastern Michigan, and rivals Miami (Ohio), Ball State, and Ohio.The team's opening day at the Ohio Aquatic Center was one with few bright spots for the Bulls.

Schedule

M. BasketballMonday: at Miami(Ohio), 7 P.M.

With senoritis comes senior regrets

With only two and a half months left in the semester and a week of classes before spring break, graduating seniors all over campus are beginning to get a little antsy.Completing a bachelor's degree in college is much more significant than graduating from high school, and because of that, the cases of senioritis that go along with any degrees are equally magnified.Whether it's worrying about studying for the test that's going to get them into graduate school or planning their post-university futures, many seniors are looking back on what they have done at UB in the past three or four years, with fond memories and a few regrets."I have pretty standard regrets," Erin Brennan, a senior political science major, said.

Movies robbed at Oscars

Current: Pulp Fiction (1994)Lost to "Forrest Gump"Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece stands as the greatest film of the 1990s and is a testament to fresh writing, brilliant directing, and a film that revived the careers of many of its stars.