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Bracket busted
By COREY GRIFFIN | Feb. 20, 2006With their ship heading dangerously off course, the Bulls stepped out of the Mid-American Conference with the hopes of redirecting their season.
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Track team tunes up in Akron for upcoming MAC finals
By NICHOLAS TIEDEMAN | Feb. 20, 2006When junior Dan McKenna broke away from the pack in the 3,000-meter event at the Akron Invite Friday he also broke a school record.McKenna crossed the line at 8:29.65 to break the record of 8:32.17 set in 2004 by Todd Ludden.
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Busting heads at the Icon
By MATT R. MANERA | Feb. 20, 2006"Here's how it's gonna go," lectured Daryl Palumbo, the untamed frontman of Head Automatica. "You wanna crowd surf?
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Scoreboard
Feb. 20, 2006Track & FieldFriday:No Team ScoringM. BasketballSaturday:Iona93Buffalo75W. BasketballSaturday:Bowling Green65Buffalo51M.
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Don't drink and dance
By SILAS RADER | Feb. 20, 2006Saturday night may have been the most fun I've ever had in my life. At midnight, I turned 21.The pumpkins turned into top-shelf liquor and the mice turned into club buddies, and I made the conscious decision to drink.
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Skewed aim
By Editorial | Feb. 20, 2006When Vice President Dick Cheney peppered his buddy Harry Whittington with birdshot last week, the news cycle surrounding the White House at the time wasn't flattering.
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UB Now
By JEREMY G. BURTON | Feb. 20, 2006In the two years since UB President John B. Simpson took office, it's been hard to notice significant change at UB from the student perspective.
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Culture struggle for Asian universities the focus of UB series
By CHRISTINE SETLOCK | Feb. 20, 2006Though some students here at UB might want better classes and more of them, few actually protest the issue, let alone riot.
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Muhammad cartoon riots cannot be justified
By GABRIELLE SHEINBERG | Feb. 20, 2006In response to, "Muslim cartoon controversy opinions vary across campus," Feb. 17: As a sporadic, aspiring comic artist I've been following the Mohammed cartoon controversy, well, religiously.
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Mullally: crooner and comic at CFA performance
By JOYCE WANG | Feb. 20, 2006If Mullally sang like her "Will & Grace" character Karen, every lens in the Center for the Arts would have been shattered and every eardrum tortured.But behind a lurking rhythm of snappy, pulsating piano, Megan Mullally sang "St.
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Big results for a long-standing small department
By CHRISTINE SETLOCK | Feb. 20, 2006February commemorates Black History Month, but that rich heritage is something the UB African American studies department celebrates every day.African American studies sprung out of the civil rights movement in universities across the United States.
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Watchlist
By KENNETH ILGUNAS | Feb. 20, 2006Current: "The Sweet Hereafter" (1997)Canadian director Atom Egoyan, paints a tragic portrait of a town overcome with grief when a school bus falls through the ice, killing nearly all of a small town's children.
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Student service helps the tax-filing challenged
By MELANIE BACON | Feb. 20, 2006As students deal with test deadlines and paper due dates, one dreaded deadline approaches that any student who works winces in anticipation: April 15, the income tax filing deadline.The idea of tabulating refunds, claims and deductions is daunting for every major, from English to physics.
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Movie Chart: Smoke Signals
Feb. 17, 2006After a healthy helping of high quality cinema for the holiday movie season, film companies have since dished out unappetizing leftovers in the form of bad horror films like "Final Destination 3" and "When a Stranger Calls" and substandard genre-fillers like "The Pink Panther" and "Firewall."
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A spoonful of sugar makes the wrestling go down
By DAVID JARKA | Feb. 17, 2006Most of the time, 184-pound wrestler Garrett Hicks is a precursor for Buffalo's All-American Kyle Cerminara.
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UB admission crowding
By Editorial | Feb. 17, 2006For many years, potential pharmacy, architecture and nursing students have received acceptance letters to UB based on intended majors, yet were never sure if they would actually ever get those degrees.
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Date Disaster
By CUNNINGHAM LORA | Feb. 17, 2006Watching the fat get sucked out of an character's butt and pumped into a container marked "mayo" doesn't exactly make for a romantic movie.The filmmakers of "Date Movie," Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, attempted to make a movie on which couples could compromise by combining raunchy with romance.In addition to cutting and pasting scenes from classic chick flicks, it also contains over 20 different movie references from contemporary cinema.
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Officials discuss admissions reforms to improve classes for enrolled students
By MATT MILLER | Feb. 17, 2006For students applying to UB for a selective program like architecture, nursing or pharmacy, reforms under discussion in the admissions process may better ensure that those accepted to the university end up in their desired fields.In the past, large numbers of students have been accepted into programs based on admissions rates rather than a set quota.
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"With Folli at short, Bulls baseball aims for playoffs"
By ALEX RUBIN | Feb. 17, 2006It might still be winter in Western New York, but Buffalo's boys of summer are ready to start their season.
