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Coffeehouse rock
By LINDSEY SCHUPPENHAUER | Sep. 2, 2005It's a chilly night and you decide that ten pounds of homework just isn't going to happen tonight.
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Search for new SUNY chief underway
By JESSICA PACKARD | Sep. 2, 2005Nearly three months after SUNY Chancellor Robert King resigned, a search committee is still working to find a suitable replacement.According to David Henahan, SUNY spokesman, the Board of Trustees held a two-day public retreat on July 14 and 15 to begin the process of searching for a permanent chancellor."There have been a number of presentations made to members of the board by outside experts including campus presidents and various other campus constituencies," Henahan said.At the end of the two days, the beginnings of the search committee - 14 members who are actively involved in the SUNY system - were formed and a timeline for completing the search was laid out.According to the SUNY Web site, it is anticipated that a new chancellor will be selected in time to take office either on or close to next July 2006.King's tenure, though largely successful, was marred by criticism regarding SUNY's large tuition increase as well as his ill-advised request for a sabbatical.The search for a new chancellor began in June, when King abruptly withdrew his sabbatical request and submitted his resignation after holding the position for six years.
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The changing face of UB
By JEREMY G. BURTON | Sep. 2, 2005She's sitting by South Lake on a cloudless spring day, the iconic UB pillars rising behind her. She's reading a book, her world right now is perfect, and she couldn't be prouder to be a UB student."Be unique," another poster says.
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Tenure Troubles
By GERALD FINNEGAN | Sep. 2, 2005This letter is regarding the article, "Popular Professor Denied Tenure." (Aug. 31) and the Provost's comments on the denial of tenure and the process of the decision, specifically when he said the process essentially involves, "looking at the record of the people and making decisions." ? Professors Lynne Kurdziel-Formato and Tressa Gorman Crehan were hired for extensive internal duties, entailing 50 to 60 hour weeks.
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Falling by the wayside
By KATHERINE BECZAK | Sep. 2, 2005Poverty in the United States is a complex issue, and should not be considered a simple problem with a simple solution.
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Down under gone asunder
By JENNIFER HEIN | Sep. 2, 2005Just when you thought you wouldn't be able to take yet another teen pop singer clogging up the radio, sweet-sounding Australian pop singer Missy Higgins hit the United States with her debut album "The Sound of White."The 21 year-old starlet from Melbourne broke through the Australian market in 2001 with her hit single "All for Believing." In 2005, this song and 11 others make the cut for her U.S.
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Corrigan Report a step in the right direction
By ANTHONY SYLOR | Sep. 2, 2005Last December, President Simpson publicly acknowledged what everyone in the UB community has known for a long time; our Athletic Department needs help.By hiring Gene Corrigan to assess our athletic program, Simpson took a pivotal step for UB Athletics.
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Signs point to Student Union change
By LINDSEY SCHUPPENHAUER | Sep. 2, 2005A new semester has not only brought new faces to UB, but also a new face to the Student Union. Renovations have given the building's focus point a new look and features that officials say should improve its ability to be a campus hub.
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Heights students stay on guard after knifepoint robberies
By SIOBHAN COUNIHAN | Sep. 2, 2005A pair of home-invasion-style robberies in the University Heights has left students on edge and police on guard as the search for the suspect continues.An unknown assailant robbed students living in two apartments at knifepoint in the past week, according to Buffalo Police.
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Homecoming for a star
By ANTHONY SYLOR | Sep. 2, 2005It always hurts when a top ranked athlete leaves your program for greener pastures. This summer the UB wrestling team felt the good and the bad of top high profile transfers as they lost junior Mark McKnight while gaining Burt's Ryan Needle from Ohio State University."There is a lot of reasons I transferred," said Needle.
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New talent poppin' up
By ASHLEY N. OWENS | Sep. 2, 2005Who would have ever imagined a small city of less than 15,000 inhabitants would launch one of Interscope Records' newest pop sensations?Kaci Brown, pop vocalist extraordinaire, began her career as a teenager in Sulphur Springs, Texas, 80 miles east of Dallas.
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Huskies maul Bulls
By ANTHONY SYLOR | Sep. 2, 2005Here we go again.UB football suffered another inauspicious opening Thursday night, losing 38-0 to the University of Connecticut Huskies in front of a sell-out crowd in Hartford.Much like the way the season ended when the two teams met last year, the Huskies put on a home field spectacle, thoroughly trouncing the Bulls both on offense and defense."We didn't create enough first downs in the drives and we weren't consistent in our running game," said head coach Jim Hofher.
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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.
