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Ben Sargent Cartoon: 11.21.05

Parenting over partisanship

If you thought a baby's shirt covered in regurgitated food was repulsive, just wait until you see one of these tees.

Protest at Starbucks

Picketers braved the cold weather Friday to send a message to Starbucks: the mistreatment of coffee bean farmers will not be tolerated.The student protesters, led by Eric Levinson, posted signs highlighting this alleged mistreatment as they stood outside of the coffee hub.

Becoming a doc ain't easy

For the average pre-professional student, life is not always a bowl of cherries filled with late night parties and an agenda of different social activities.In medical schools around the country, only one third of all applicants are accepted.

Weir accuses U.S. media of pro-Israeli bias

Updates on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East are an almost daily part of national print and television news, but there are some who believe there is a pro-Israeli bias in the mainstream media that causes the stories to never be completely covered.Freelance journalist Alison Weir, founder and executive director of "If Americans Knew," an organization dedicated to "providing Americans the disturbing facts we're not receiving from our news media," is one such doubter of American journalism.In a presentation Friday night to a near-capacity crowd of UB students, professors and community members at the Classics V Banquet Center in Amherst, Weir shared her point of view and personal experiences from traveling through Gaza and the West Bank.

Life lessons with Mitch Albom

A crowd of roughly 700 turned out at UB Center for the Arts Friday to hear sportswriter Mitch Albom speak about life, death and lessons learned of the two men who inspired him.Those men were his uncle Ed--who was the inspiration for the character Eddie in Albom's best-selling novel "The Five People You Meet In Heaven"--and Morrie Schwartz, from the popular memoir "Tuesdays With Morrie.""They weren't rich.

Letter to the editor

I am writing to you in response to your recent "Door-button laziness wastes money" article (Nov. 16).After reading the article I felt not satisfied, but distraught.

Basketball mania returns

The jewel in UB's athletic program began play Friday night with a win over Canisius College. Another men's hoops season is underway and if Friday's crowd is any indication, basketball fever has returned to UB in a big way.

Bulls impress in quad meet sweep

Dominating three teams on your home turf is one thing, but breaking a school record held by the opposing team's head coach - that's just the nail in the coffin.Kyle Cerminara broke the UB mark for career dual meet takedowns Saturday during an impressive Bulls wrestling sweep, shattering the record last set by John Stutzman, who was on the opposite side of the mat as the head coach of the Bloomsburg Huskies.UB went 3-0 at Alumni Arena in dual meets against Gardner-Webb (1-5), Bloomsburg (3-1) and Findlay (1-2). Recording 20 takedowns in the three matches, Cerminara set a new mark of 149 with the majority of the season still ahead.The previous record held by Stutzman was 135, but Cerminara passed that on Bloomsburg's Jesse Hasseman, just feet in front of Stutzman himself."It's a record I always wanted," said the 197-pound senior Cerminara.

Current: 'Requiem for a Dream' (2000)

Ellen Burstyn and Jared Leto star in this cult hit about four Coney Island residents whose lives spiral out of control under the influence of various drugs.

"McKenna finishes in top 15, leads Bulls in IC4A Championships"

There's not always a raucous crowd of thousands cheering him on, but junior Dan McKenna has quietly become one of UB's biggest athletic stars.McKenna finished 12th out of a field of 174 on Saturday at the IC4A/ECAC Cross Country Championships.

"Turkey or not, they're ready to trot"

For 110 years now, Buffalonians looking for a little exercise before the big Thanksgiving meal have hit the streets to run the Turley Trot, a quirky road race that has become a local tradition as much as the turkey itself on the table.Over a century old and still kickin', the starting gun for the annual Turkey Trot 8K race will fire at 9 a.m.

Students of mystery

"Are you a bachelorette?" said the cashier at Tops.I blinked twice and stared. I was caught off guard.

Perfect start

It's pitch black in Alumni Arena. Spotlights flare as the loudspeaker addresses the roaring crowd and last season's NIT banner is raised to the rafters."And now," it booms, "introducing your 2005 Buffalo Bulls."UB men's basketball opened its season in grand style Friday night, defeating a tenacious Canisius Griffins team 81-76 in front of a sellout crowd of 6,188 that was on edge with tip-off anticipation.The Bulls and Griffins traded the lead all the way to the wire.

Classic: 'The Man With the Golden Arm' (1955)

Otto Preminger brings heroin addiction to the mainstream with Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak. In one of his best performances, Sinatra plays a drummer and card dealer who struggles with old habits after returning home from doing time in jail.

"Sex, blood and broomsticks"

As lead female Hermione Granger puts it, "Everything's going to change." Fans loyal to the Harry Potter book and film series should prepare for sudden shocks and pleasant surprises in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." The fourth installment departs unexpectedly from the first three films in the series, and enjoys a good amount of interpretation from new director Mike Newell's ("Mona Lisa Smile").The film stays accurate to the book: Harry Potter, in his fourth year at Hogwarts, is mysteriously chosen by the Goblet of Fire to participate in a lethal competition against champion wizards from other schools.Alfonso Cuar??n was still in the process of directing the third film of the series, "Prisoner of Azkaban," when production started for "Goblet," so Newell took up the wand as the first British director the series has seen.Changes in directing style are immediately noticeable.

Sidelines

McKenna speeds his way to 12thDan McKenna finished 12th out of a field of 174 on Saturday at the IC4A/ECAC Cross Country Championships.

"New coach, same results for women's basketball in opening losses"

An unbelievable finish that saw three lead changes in the last minute of play made for quite a show Sunday in the weekend's doubleheader at Alumni Arena.Unfortunately for women's basketball, UB point guard Stephanie Bennett's heavily contested, last-second shot fell just short, giving the Syracuse Orange a 64-63 victory."I just got to make it," said Bennett, a sophomore.The team also lost on Friday to Canisius College, 77-61, which means the Bulls have opened their season 0-2 for the third year in a row.Despite the miss, Bennett had a great game Sunday, running new head coach Linda Hill-MacDonald's offense perfectly for six points, eight assists and three rebounds.While not getting much production off the bench, UB was able to ride its starters to a 36-33 lead at halftime.Sophomore forward Heather Turner was dominant, particularly in the first half, putting up 22 points and nine rebounds.

Scoreboard

M. BasketballFriday: Canisius76Buffalo81Sunday: Buffalo State61Buffalo96W. BasketballFriday: Canisius77Buffalo61Sunday:Syracuse64Buffalo63FootballSaturday:EMU38Buffalo14WrestlingSaturday: Gardner-Webb 3Buffalo40

Renting out a musical

Like some books adapted into films, Broadway's "Rent" was better left in its original form. Although the film version has its merits, transferring its onstage brilliance to the screen is almost an impossible endeavor.The motion picture "Rent," based on the rock and roll opera by Jonathan Larson, will premiere this Thanksgiving weekend in local movie theaters.The musical won various awards including four Tony's and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1996.