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Spectrum Awards
Mar. 3, 2006In light of the Oscars being this weekend, we thought there'd be no better time to give our own movie awards.
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"Kill your government, not yourself"
By MELAINE BOCZARSKI | Mar. 3, 2006Though Suicide Machines are a bit morbid in name, they'd rather you play with the First Amendment than razors.Suicide Machines, a multifaceted punk/ska/reggae band, will be playing at The Icon on Sunday, March 5 at 7 p.m.
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Low post back at full strength
By JUSTIN HAAG | Mar. 3, 2006Sometimes one injury can affect an entire season. For the men's basketball team, that injury happened to junior Parnell Smith.After cruising to an 11-2 record earlier in the season, the men's basketball team hit a rough patch, dropping nine of its last 16 games.
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Saving money in a click
By MATT MILLER | Mar. 3, 2006For the past year, an increasing number of professors have utilized remotes to engage students in lecture halls with interactive questions, but different
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Finding fitness in the cold
By LISA ZAPPALA | Mar. 3, 2006The long, cold winters in Buffalo may not be ideal stimulation for staying in shape. Finishing class at the end of a lengthy day and digging the car out of three feet of snow is more of an incentive to curl up with hot chocolate than curling dumbbells.Though the dark days can be rough, some UB students and local fitness experts try to come up with creative ways to stay motivated regardless of their surroundings.Jean Jitomir, a registered dietician and second-year nutrition graduate student, said competing in female bodybuilding keeps her motivated through the blistery season."Sometimes it's hard to stay motivated to exercise in the winter because it's hard to find the motivation to do much of anything," Jitomir said.
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Think before you flush
By ELI GEORGE | Mar. 3, 2006In the Student Union, they constantly take out garbage and wipe off tables. In the dorms, they sanitize showers and scour stairwells.
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Zodiaque closes in on dance perfection
By ELIZABETH PAGE | Mar. 3, 2006Long hours, sore muscles, and countless bruises pay off later in a big way for dancers who devote their lives to perfecting their art.The fancy footwork of the highly talented individuals in the Zodiaque Dance Company at UB not only leaves an impact on audiences now, but the experience of student involvement with the company remains long after the final curtain call."Even though students are majors in the company and have a B.A.
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Seniors go out in winning fashion
By COREY GRIFFIN | Mar. 3, 2006On a senior night that celebrated three Buffalo athletes, it was Mario Jordan that put the men's basketball team on his shoulders.
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An organic experience
By KATHERINE BECZAK | Mar. 3, 2006Oh, soy milk. Sold warm on the shelf in a paper carton with an unappetizing tan color, it is a staple of vegans and other health food fanatics, and just one of many products sold in local supermarkets to reduce the risk of heart disease and lower our cholesterol.Although we all know the benefits of a healthy diet and workout regime, most of us are too busy, unmotivated, or simply apathetic to make a significant change in our lifestyles.When it comes to my health, every day is the day of my last cigarette or the first day of my healthy eating plan, yet somehow I always end up breaking down hours into my big turn around; eating that giant cookie from Starbucks or smoking a cigarette out at the bar.Recently, however, I had the fear of God instilled in me when, during a chat about eating healthy, a friend and health food advocate looked at me with wide eyes and told me quite menacingly, "trans fat kills!"Who knew?
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Raising hell with the rednecks
By JENNIFER HEIN | Mar. 3, 2006Kid 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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Not your grandpa's Hank
By MAX BENTON | Mar. 3, 2006Shelton Hank Williams III doesn't quite make country music. He makes country music performed under the influence of Satan.
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UB football misses academic mark
By Editorial | Mar. 3, 2006Loss of football scholarships should mark end of dark agesThe last shrapnel of Jim Hofher's era hit UB's football team Wednesday, when the NCAA took away three of its scholarships because of missed academic goals set forth during his reign.
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SWJ: no word from Pelkey
By JEREMY G. BURTON | Mar. 3, 2006Student Association Treasurer Mazin Kased had good reason to joke around last week. On Tuesday, several charges against him were dismissed because the student plaintiffs failed to file the basic paperwork for a trial.Matthew Pelkey, the lead plaintiff, said his party didn't receive notice until after the deadline."Only unless the postal service didn't want to send Matt Pelkey his mail," Kased said in jest.
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"UB, you have no (musical) taste"
By RACHEL BELLAVIA | Mar. 1, 2006Last week, my co-editor Ken Ilgunas took a critical look at the movies that dominate the interests of our school's population.
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Bulls earn fifth shutout of the season
By JAMES RAYMOND | Mar. 1, 2006The weather on campus has been frigid as of late, but the woman's tennis team has been bringing the heat.
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Flying to profitability
By Editorial | Mar. 1, 2006It looks like the NFTA's controversial decision to invest $23 million in improving the Niagara Falls International Airport's infrastructure was justified after all.
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Sorrow on the border
By MAX BENTON | Mar. 1, 2006Humiliation doesn't seem like it would be a good theme for a film. "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada," supports this theory.Tommy Lee Jones ("Men in Black") directs and stars as Pete Perkins, a rancher in Texas trying to fulfill his friend's wish of being buried in Mexico.
