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Spring Fest performer turns self in for murder

By SIOBHAN COUNIHAN | Aug. 31, 2005

Nearly 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, 2005

Just 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, 2005

They 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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Scoreboard

Aug. 31, 2005

VolleyballSaturday:Buffalo3Marist0Sunday:Albany3Buffalo1W. SoccerFriday:Lehigh2Buffalo0Sunday:Buffalo3Army2

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Professor Breaks the Maya Code

By NICOLE COLEMAN | Aug. 31, 2005

Since 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, 2005

Focus 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, 2005

I 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, 2005

Students 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, 2005

After 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, 2005

Student 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, 2005

Every 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.

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Bull Market for Athletics

By Editorial | Aug. 31, 2005

The hiring of former Michigan University associate athletic director Warde J. Manuel as the University of Buffalo's fulltime athletic director is a positive step towards the improvement of the University's struggling sports programs.

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Why paint by numbers?

By MEGHAN GROTH | Aug. 31, 2005

While the Albright Knox Art Gallery has always been at the forefront when it comes to displaying and discovering abstract art, they've set a new precedent this summer."Extreme Abstraction," the Gallery's latest exhibition, premiered on July 15 and runs through Oct.

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Students swarm upscale Sweethome

By SILAS RADER | Aug. 31, 2005

Saturday was move-in day for the over 820 residents who dropped their bags in the new apartment complex on Sweet Home Road.Located across from Sweet Home High School, the opening of The University Village at Sweethome has been long anticipated by students who last semester registered and paid to live at the complex, which includes a pool, tanning beds, and a number of other upscale amenities like a full-scale workout center.Nearly all of the new residents are UB students, and many said they are impressed with their new pads."I am really excited about the Sweethome apartments," said Suzanne Feinstein, a junior communication and theater major.

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A Nation Un-Guarded

By Editorial | Aug. 31, 2005

As the Gulf Coast begins to clean up from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, the federal government is mobilizing all the resources it can gather to help out the citizens of that grief-stricken region.

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The Road Trip

By KENNETH ILGUNAS | Aug. 31, 2005

Ever since I got my driver's license, I've had this crazy dream to drive north to Alaska. Every summer I've found an excuse not to go.Every summer, that is, until this one.I'm not sure how the dream originated.

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