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"Craven, stick to your guns"
By MIKE FLATT | Aug. 31, 2005Wes Craven's "Red Eye" has the same problem that many potentially good action movies have these days.
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The Madden monopoly
By KENNETH ILGUNAS | Aug. 31, 2005When looking back upon childhood, it's strange to think of all the stuff that got old so quickly.
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Letter To The Editor
By JOHN W. O and JOHN W. O | Aug. 31, 2005I favor a united Ireland negotiated by the British and Irish governments as well as the elected representatives of the Nationalists and Unionists of Northern Ireland.
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T B-U-F-F-A-L-O
By JENNIFER GILLAN | Aug. 31, 2005Why is it so hard for people to respect UB as a Division I school?Just because the university hasn't received a hunk of molded bronze or fancily cut glass within the past five years, give or take, doesn't mean it is any less deserving of Division I status than any other team.If championships are the only way a team can be recognized as a legitimate organization, many would have to say buh-bye to their favorite teams.
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Popular teacher denied tenure
By JESSICA PACKARD | Aug. 31, 2005Allegations of sexism have been fired at the UB administration after Lynne Kurdziel-Formato, a popular and well-respected UB teacher of over twenty years, was denied tenure this past year.Kurdziel-Formato, an assistant professor for the department of theater and dance, was denied tenure in November and then forced to leave UB, despite pleas and demonstrations from students.
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Spring Fest performer turns self in for murder
By SIOBHAN COUNIHAN | Aug. 31, 2005Nearly two months after performing at this year's Spring Fest, rapper Cassidy turned himself in to Philadelphia police on charges of murder, attempted murder, reckless endangerment, aggravated assault, conspiracy and weapons possession, according to MTV News.The incident took place on April 15, just two weeks before Cassidy, whose real name is Barry Reese, came to UB and performed with Elephant Man and Snoop Dogg at Alumni Arena.
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The new bull on campus
By ANTHONY SYLOR | Aug. 31, 2005Just eight weeks after college sports guru Gene Corrigan released his analysis of the UB athletics program, the school solved one of its most pressing issues this summer, hiring Warde Manuel as its new athletic director."We have selected a director of athletics who is thoroughly steeped in the world of intercollegiate sports at the highest level, and one who knows the critical importance of balancing athletic and academic excellence," said President John Simpson at a July press conference where UB announced Manuel's appointment.Manuel has spent the last nine years at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where he had been one of the school's seven assistant athletic directors since 1998."Basically I've been in Michigan for nine years, seven of that full time," said Manuel, who came to campus for the football team's media day earlier this month, but arrived for good on Monday.
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The storyline grim
By RACHEL BELLAVIA | Aug. 31, 2005They say that you should never mix your drinks.In the case of the new Terry Gilliam flick "The Brothers Grimm," the same warning should be applied to mixing genres.
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Former student is helping fight AIDS and HIV in Africa
By NICOLE COLEMAN | Aug. 31, 2005Former UB student Gregory Pachmayr steps out of his one-room hut, constructed of cinderblock and a thatched roof, and takes a look around.There is no electricity or running water, so he strolls over to the nearby bore hole on his compound to fill a bucket.
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Scoreboard
Aug. 31, 2005VolleyballSaturday:Buffalo3Marist0Sunday:Albany3Buffalo1W. SoccerFriday:Lehigh2Buffalo0Sunday:Buffalo3Army2
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Professor Breaks the Maya Code
By NICOLE COLEMAN | Aug. 31, 2005Since the publication of her book, "The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine," life for Barbara Tedlock, a distinguished teaching professor at UB, has been one wild ride.Her book, which is in the process of being translated into Danish, German, French, Spanish and Turkish, has garnered worldwide attention as a text on the practice of Shamanism, the world's oldest form of religion and medicine that is still widely used today.Tedlock spent part of the summer months traveling back to Guatemala, where she filmed additional footage for a six-hour documentary titled "Breaking the Maya Code," that will air on PBS in November.Night Fire Film, a small production company based in LA, approached Tedlock seven years ago at the inception of the project.
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"Corrigan completes report, finds lack of focus and finances"
By JENNIFER GILLAN | Aug. 31, 2005Focus and funding were the main points of former NCAA president Gene Corrigan's extensive report on the University at Buffalo Athletics Department, released June 1.Corrigan, who was hired in December by UB President John Simpson, stated in his report, "If UB, as an institution at the highest levels in higher education, wants to play at the highest grade of athletic competition, the Mid-American Conference is the right place to be."However, Corrigan questioned the path on which the program is going."Staying on the present course will not lead to any real improvement in the program," said the report.In Simpson's eyes, there is no doubt where Buffalo belongs."I want to state very clearly: UB is firmly committed to Division I-A football, and we are equally committed to building a winning program in the Mid-American Conference," said Simpson in a press release.
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Fighting the Flight
By BRIAN HIGGINS | Aug. 31, 2005I often meet with college students, and the one thing that inevitably comes up during conversation is: what am I going to do after I graduate?With the shift in industry from manufacturing to technology in the past two decades, Western New York has undergone a dramatic rearrangement from manufacturing to technology.
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Campus Pizza
By JESSICA PACKARD | Aug. 31, 2005Students looking to get their pizza fix in The Commons this semester will still be able to do so, but not with Campus Pizza, a popular eatery that failed to renew its lease with First Amherst Development.Instead, a Sbarro pizzeria, Dairy Queen and Orange Julius are scheduled to open in its place.Michael Lewkowicz, president of Sub Ventures, LLC, signed the lease for the building and owns several Subway sandwich franchises in the area, including the one in The Commons.
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Fresh faces shine for women's soccer
By ANTHONY SYLOR | Aug. 31, 2005After losing 2-0 to Lehigh University (2-0) in the first round of the BAE Systems Classic held at West Point, freshmen Janessa Banwell and Brooke McCalla stepped up the offense and led the UB women's soccer team to a 3-2 victory over Army."That was the start of the regular season and we have a lot of freshmen, we came out shaky in the first half," said head coach Jean A.
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"Lots of politics, but no decision on SA bribery charges"
By JEREMY G. BURTON | Aug. 31, 2005Student Association officials have still not made a ruling regarding charges of bribery and slander brought six months ago against Mazin Kased, now the SA treasurer.All the charges revolve around last spring's SA election and a taped conversation in which Elevation '05 candidate Kased offered Francisco Baiocchi a job with SA if he were to drop from the election and turn on his fellow party members.Baiocchi was then running for SUNY SA delegate with the Reform Our Campus party.
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Sifting for gold in the 'Gutter'
By MIKE FLATT | Aug. 31, 2005Every Time I Die's third album "Gutter Phenomenon" is a beer-swilling rock and roll album as much in the vein of The Black Crows and ZZ Top as metalcore acts Norma Jean and Fear Before the March of Flames.
