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Disney animation's decline

By JESSICA STARKMAN | Nov. 4, 2005

If Pixar is the reigning king of animated film with box office hits like "Finding Nemo" and "The Incredibles," then Disney is the town idiot.When Disney and Pixar combine forces the outcome is often a beautiful and moving animated film.But when Disney puts the partnership on hold, the result is "Chicken Little."In a time when companies are fighting against each other to win the respect of viewers with animation, humor and storyline, Disney has produced a failure on every level."Chicken Little" is the story of a tiny chicken trying to prove himself to his community.

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Sidelines

Nov. 4, 2005

Starting the MAC run at homeThey made UB's name known on a national level by cracking the top 20 in ranking and now the Bulls of the men's soccer team will bring their talents and the Mid-American Conference soccer championships to UB Stadium.UB has earned the third seed in the tournament and will face off against Indiana Perdue Fort Wayne (IPFW) on Tuesday to kick off the first round.It is still unknown if UB's leading scorer, sophomore Lee Catchpole, will be participating in Tuesday night's game at UB Stadium.

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"Despite arrests for Heights parties, students' cases dismissed"

By HAROLD DUMKE | Nov. 4, 2005

During the weekend of Sept. 23, 11 UB students were arrested for incidents including a Heath Street party with more than 200 guests and a bar fight at The Steer.

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Correction 1

By Editorial | Nov. 2, 2005

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Drier than the dead parrot joke

By LINDSEY SCHUPPENHAUER | Nov. 2, 2005

It would be difficult to fit "Separate Lies" into a specific genre, considering its anticlimactic nature.The movie could be called a murder mystery, but the mystery was solved within the first half hour."Separate Lies" could be squeezed into the "thriller" category.

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Digging deep for a MAC win

By COREY GRIFFIN | Nov. 2, 2005

The Great Lake State served UB volleyball both a win and a loss last weekend as it went 1-1 in conference match-ups.The Bulls faced off against Eastern Michigan University on Friday and lost in three sets, but bounced back on Saturday and earned a Mid-American Conference victory in four sets over Central Michigan University.The Bulls (10-16 overall, 2-10 MAC) fell quickly to the MAC West Division-leading Eagles in three straight sets by scores of 30-24, 30-24 and 30-21.

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Correction 2

By Editorial | Nov. 2, 2005

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Rowers win big at Head of the Fish

By THOMAS DRUELINGER | Nov. 2, 2005

If finishing the season on a high note is a good thing, the UB rowing team topped off the fall season with its trumpets blaring in harmony.Of the ten boats that UB entered in the Head of the Fish Regatta held at Saratoga Springs, eight finished in the top five in their respective races.

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Racial but not racist

By JENNIFER GILLAN | Nov. 2, 2005

It's become a math equation: white coach plus comments about black athletes equals media backlash.Air Force Academy football head coach Fisher DeBerry, a white 67-year-old man, recently made the claim that "...Afro-American kids can run very, very well.

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Men's tennis leaves Cornell with few highlights

By DAVID JARKA | Nov. 2, 2005

Nikesh Singh Panthlia made it to the semi-finals in his B bracket and Mike Rockman advanced to the quarterfinals on the A side before both players bowed out to stiff competition last weekend in the Cornell Invitational.Competing in its final event of the fall, the UB men's tennis team made the trek out to Ithaca where Cornell, Hofstra, Fairfield, Colgate, Army, Boston University, and Marist faced off in eight different tournaments.Assistant Coach Nick Zieziula said the event was a good test for the Bulls."It was solid playing against Boston U, Marist, Army, Colgate and Cornell," Zieziula said.

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Government: the heathendom of freedom

By KENNETH ILGUNAS | Nov. 2, 2005

I do believe in the concept of government. However, I don't believe in this one.In this day and age, with soaring populations and groups of people conditionally antagonistic to one another, governments are necessary to organize like-minded and geographically distinct blocs of citizens in order to promote peace, justice and order.The idealistic, utopian society with Somalian tribesman and Dutch windmill farmers holding hands in a circle, singing "We Are the World" is no more than a hippy's wet dream.Marx was the first to splatter his bed sheets, and because of his "Manifesto," millions of Russian peasants starved to death.

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Simpson to faculty:

By HAROLD DUMKE | Nov. 2, 2005

UB President John Simpson's message at Tuesday's annual meeting of the voting faculty was that higher education is in trouble."Every state is getting out of the business of supporting their public higher education," Simpson said.After the address, the Faculty Senate Executive Committee debated UB's policies concerning academic dishonesty.Simpson said that per capita, New York is second or third in the country when it comes to how much it spends on its public education, from kindergarten to 12th grade.

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Bettens screams solo

By MEGHAN SHALVOY | Nov. 2, 2005

With only a small sampling of Sarah Bettens' mellow tunes and introspective lyrics, it's easy to see that the album's title "Scream" might just be an artistic statement.Perhaps she's referring to the inspiring and righteous lyrics.

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Solving Scientology's mysteries

By CHRISSY DRAKE | Nov. 2, 2005

All the Tom Cruise hype aside, Scientology isn't merely alive and well in Buffalo, it's growing. And the next stop on the ambitious church's expansion is none other than UB's North Campus.Theresa Reile, a Scientologist for 30 years and current president of the Church of Scientology of Buffalo, said the religion focuses the true self of one's spirit and she is eager for UB students to experience it for themselves.Though UB has no clubs or organizations based on Scientology, the Buffalo church, which is on Main Street, is putting the finishing touches on a new "life improvement center" that is planned to open this week.

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Nothing like the old ball and chain

By LINDSEY SCHUPPENHAUER | Nov. 2, 2005

Why do people get married? Why are so many people divorced? How does something that starts out promising inevitably turn sour?"Wedlock," running through Nov.

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Warmth in the unlikeliest of places

By SETH PECK | Nov. 2, 2005

The parameter of the room is outlined with lime green walls visible only where old photographs are not hung.

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Desperate skin displays

By MIKE FLATT | Nov. 2, 2005

I was walking from the Student Union to Knox this Halloween when I saw her coming. She was walking quickly, with long strides.

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Life on the third rail

By EVAN PIERCE | Nov. 2, 2005

According to the most recent Buffalo News polls, the race for Buffalo's mayor is already decided.

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Supreme division

By Editorial | Nov. 2, 2005

On Halloween, Bush frightened liberals of all persuasions.The White House picked the highly conservative federal appellate judge Samuel Alito Jr.

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Finals loss doesn't dull Novaceanu's strong finish

By ANTHONY SYLOR | Nov. 2, 2005

Led by the hot racket of sophomore Andreea Novaceanu, the UB women's tennis team played some of the best Division I competition in the country last weekend at a three-day tournament in Dartmouth.Novaceanu came into the tournament as the number-two seed in the flight A brackets and did not disappoint.