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Short-films not short-sighted
By KARA BENNETT | Jan. 27, 2006Most viewers wouldn't consider popping popcorn before watching a one-minute and 10-second video, but the brevity of Elka Krajewska's "70 Seconds" doesn't make this screening any less enjoyable.Krajewska is just one of 40 artists being showcased in Hallwall's annual "Resolutions" festival.
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Scoreboard
Jan. 27, 2006W. BasketballWednesday:Toledo57Buffalo47M. BasketballThursday:Ohio70Buffalo51
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UB's rowdy fans characteristic of college ball
By JENNIFER GILLAN | Jan. 27, 2006Fans provoking players at basketball games is a tradition. Recently, the NBA has had issues with athletes going into the stands to either defend themselves or their loved ones, something that could happen at any venue with a riled-up crowd.Even at Alumni Arena there have been situations where fan behavior breeched the line of acceptability, and John Grela, director of Public Safety, said there is a process to handle those circumstances."We try to give the people a warning," Grela said.
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Letter urging minorities to leave U.S. was ignorant
By ANESSAH BROWN | Jan. 27, 2006I was disgusted to see the ignorant things written by Mike Quarantello ("Border profiling necessary," Jan.
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Professor hits home run by mixing music and baseball
By JUKURIAKOSE | Jan. 27, 2006Having grown up in a family of baseball fans in New Hampshire, professor Timothy Johnson has combined his interest as a baseball lover with his passion for music.
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Stifling defense stops Bulls
By DANIEL GVERTZ | Jan. 27, 2006Having built a strong reputation on the road this season, UB women's basketball started its home game Wednesday night with a surge of promise, opening a 7-1 lead in the first four minutes.
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Nod if you've heard this before
By MAXWELL BENTON | Jan. 25, 2006Tom Dinsdale and Simon Franks, the artists behind Audio Bullys, create an electronica sound bordering on dance and trip-hop that is at times interesting.
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Building hope
By THOMAS HALLECK | Jan. 25, 2006Four months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita thrashed New Orleans, images of the destruction seem to have trickled out of much of the American consciousness, or at least out of the daily news cycle.For Nathaniel Cornman, a junior architecture major at UB, the images that faded for some people became stark reality when he and other UB students went to Louisiana over their winter break."From the time you wake up until the time you go to bed, all you see is hurricane destruction," Cornman said.
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Does suffering disprove the existence of God?
By DANIEL O'HARE | Jan. 25, 2006With the recent occurrences of Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake in Pakistan, many of us are wrestling with a question that comes up time and time again: How can any good God allow such tragedies to occur?The Biblical and common view of God is that he is both all-powerful as well as good.
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Online housing registration a big success
By JESSICA PACKARD | Jan. 25, 2006When University Residence Halls & Apartments began accepting apartment applications online for the first time last spring, it was a change that officials promised would end long lines and mass paperwork.Now, a year later, it would appear the online system has proven to be both efficient and successful."It was so successful last year," said Michael J.
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Professors like what they see in photo class lists
By ROBERT PAPE | Jan. 25, 2006Walking into your new classes this semester, don't be surprised if the professor already recognizes who you are.
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"Music, arts cook in students' Kitchen"
By JU KURIAKOSE | Jan. 25, 2006A group of UB students are opening their own downtown kitchen this weekend, but don't expect to get full on food.
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Spying akin to witch hunt
By CHRISTOPHER M. WILLETT | Jan. 25, 2006A few days ago Fabio Albertin ("Spying program helps find our enemies," Jan. 23) wrote that "many liberals have become so extreme and have fallen so deeply in love with so-called extreme Muslim or communist ideologies that they have come very close to being enemies of America themselves." If Albertin is on a witch-hunt for signs of extremism, he should look in the mirror.
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Border profiling necessary
By MIKE QUARANTELLO | Jan. 25, 2006This is response to the many articles and responses from random university students who feel that being checked when crossing the United States/Canadian border is unjust.
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Students climb iPrint learning curve
By HAROLD DUMKE AND ROBERT PAPE | Jan. 25, 2006In the Cybrary on the second floor of Lockwood Library, students are learning how to use UB's new print allocation system while administrators work out the kinks in preparation for expanding it campus-wide in August.When the new iPrint program is completely installed in every computer lab and library on campus, it will limit each UB student, faculty and staff member to print 650 pages per semester.
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Proselytizing 'scare technique' is the problem
By AARON WATTERSON | Jan. 25, 2006This letter is regarding Ken Ilgunas' column "Religion can go to hell" (Dec. 7). First off let me say thank you for having the courage to write an article like that.
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SA Report Card II
By Editorial | Jan. 25, 2006This is the second installment of The Spectrum's mid-year evaluation of SA. Part one focused on finances, SUNY SA, and clubs.
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Teacher was an inspiration
By ANNE WOJTASZEK LEE | Jan. 25, 2006In response to "Mr. Sillick's swan song" (Jan. 23): My daughter, a freshman, called tonight to tell me of your remembrance of Mr. Sillick.
