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Drier than the dead parrot joke
By LINDSEY SCHUPPENHAUER | Nov. 2, 2005It 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, 2005The 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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Rowers win big at Head of the Fish
By THOMAS DRUELINGER | Nov. 2, 2005If 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, 2005It'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, 2005Nikesh 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, 2005I 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, 2005UB 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, 2005With 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, 2005All 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, 2005Why 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, 2005The 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, 2005I 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, 2005According 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, 2005On 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, 2005Led 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.
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Underground is hip-hop too
By RICHARD MATHEWS | Nov. 2, 2005Now I won't claim to be an expert in the hip-hop world either, but the "Hip-hop anonymous" (Oct. 31) article doesn't quiet touch on the full spectrum of the hip-hop world.
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This Week's Theme: Animals
By RACHEL BELLAVIA | Nov. 2, 2005Animals are magnificent. They make wonderful companions, know the secrets of the universe, and are sometimes rather tasty.
