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Coldplay at Darien Lake
By KENNETH ILGUNAS | Sep. 2, 2005Coldplay is almost too good to be true. In just 5 years they've climbed to the top of the rock world with overwhelming success.
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Student fees pay off
By KATHERINE BECZAK | Sep. 2, 2005The tuition. The meal plan. The books.After paying for the normal college necessities, mandatory student fees seem like a real rip-off.What may seem like just another fee to add on the tuition bill actually provides a wealth of free events and services that many students don't realize.Besides funding recreational activities such as intramurals and athletics, UB clubs and organizations, and other events on campus, the fee provides a variety of health and wellness services for students to utilize.The Wellness and Health Services, as well as the Counseling services offer free appointments, workshops and events to improve physical and emotional health as well as wellness in a college atmosphere.Sherri Darrow, director of Wellness Services, spoke about the mission of her program as well as some its upcoming events."As people become more workers and less students and as they leave the university, it is important to think about how to carry principles of health and wellness into the workplace," she said.
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Helping in Honduras
By NICOLE COLEMAN | Sep. 2, 2005Sharey Edholm and Marley Becker stepped off the bus outside Our Little Roses orphanage home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
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Making up lost time
By ALEX RUBIN | Sep. 2, 2005This weekend kicks off another season for the men's soccer team as they host their annual Bulls Classic.
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A winning perspective
By WILL ARONIN | Sep. 2, 2005A year after winning the ACC championship as an assistant for the North Carolina Tarheels, new head coach Jim Lodes plans to make UB women's volleyball a Mid-American Conference powerhouse.Coach Lodes used a not-so-novel perspective on coaching to help his UNC squad break school records in both winning percentage (.889) and wins (32-4) last year."Work hard, recruit good kids, train well," he said.
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Job Fair Offers Opportunities for Students
By JU KURIAKOSE | Aug. 31, 2005After students have managed to spend their summer earnings, maxed out their credit cards on textbooks and other school supplies, the average college student's bank account has seen better days.
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"Size matters: Simpson calls for hike in UB enrollment, faculty"
By JEREMY G. BURTON | Aug. 31, 2005To compete with peer institutions and become a top-flight university, UB needs to increase both its enrollment and faculty by significant numbers in the coming decade, according to President John Simpson.Simpson's call to hike the student population by at least 5,000 and faculty by 250 has received both positive feedback and skepticism over whether such expansion can be done properly.Simpson addressed the subject this summer in an issue of the Reporter, where he compared UB to the universities of Washington and Ohio State, which enroll about twice as many students but have a similar range of academic programs.
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Sidelines
Aug. 31, 2005From Buffalo to EuropeAfter spending four seasons as a part of the UB men's basketball team, 2005 graduates Turner Battle, Mark Bortz and Daniel Gilbert have signed contracts to play professionally overseas.Battle, 2005 Mid-American Conference Player of the Year, has signed with BC Kalev in Estonia.
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"New season, new start"
By JENNIFER GILLAN | Aug. 31, 2005Monday marked a new semester for students, a semester to have a clean slate and start fresh, hopeful of making improvements on the past.Thursday holds the same significance for the University at Buffalo football team.After a dismal 2-9 season last year, capped off by a 29-0 loss to the University of Connecticut, the Bulls return to UConn's Rentschler Field to redeem themselves."We couldn't be more energized and enthused about heading into a season as I believe our team is right now," said Bulls' head coach Jim Hofher.
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"Your connection, your voice"
By JEREMY G. BURTON | Aug. 31, 2005These days, I don't know which it's more exciting to be: a newspaper writer or a newspaper reader.
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The next round is on me
By MIKE FLATT | Aug. 31, 2005This Friday, I turn 21. I've been waiting about 18 years for this, ever since I was first told, "You can have more when you're older."I had yet to understand the allure of the drink, but I already felt excluded.
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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.
