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New business building opens to high expectations

The Alfiero Center, a new $7 million building devoted solely to the School of Management, opened for business with a formal dedication ceremony on Tuesday after three years of planning and construction.Every inch of the 23,000-square-foot facility next to Jacobs Hall has been designed and intended for student use.According to John Thomas, the dean of the School of Management, there is not one office or administrative section in the entire center, which features an Internet caf?

Fox rut

For years, people have complained about the lameness of newspaper comics. It is rare that a nationally syndicated comic has the ability to amuse on even a semi-regular basis."Marmaduke," "Blondie" and the consistently banal "Family Circus" hearken back to a joke style that has been dead for 40 years, since the days of Gomer Pyle and Andy Griffith.The 2005 FoxTrot collection, "Orlando Bloom Has Ruined Everything" is updated in terms of its pop-culture references and tech-jargon, but its sense of humor is not.People who apparently lead the most ordinary lives possible should not write comics.

Controversial novelist coming to UB Thursday

Acclaimed writer and intellectual Salman Rushdie, who redefined the modern novel while sparking controversy in the Islamic world, is set to speak at Alumni Arena Thursday night as the finale for this year's Distinguished Speaker Series."We're just very happy he's here," said Bill Regan, director of the Office of Special Events.

Sidelines

Barstad blistering for BullsSophie Barstad of the softball team has been named the Mid-American Conference East Division pitcher of the week.

It was all good just a week ago

Now that the judicial side of Wallace Hall's arrest seems to be crystallizing, we have to start considering the actions the team will take.

Barking up a strange tree

It opens with a siren wailing and it ends with the stampede of horses.Doesn't exactly fit under the traditional definition of music, huh?"Never Let Them Catch You Crying" is the new album from More Dogs.

Army intrudes into the bedroom

Most military laws regarding soldier behavior make sense. There are the obvious rules, like those against murder, kidnapping and theft.

Criticism lacked direction

I agree that affirmative action has its limitations (Letters, April 25), but at the moment there are no other conceivable solutions to this problem.

Plenty of sax appeal

Get ten saxophones together and it sounds like an accordion.Luckily, that was a good sound for many of the ragtime and jazz selections played by the UB Saxophone Ensemble Sunday afternoon in Lippes Concert Hall.

The triumphant return of the Spectrys

Well, we're wrapping up the semester here at UB, and like every year, all the sports - college and professional - seem to dull down just in time for finals.So to liven things up a bit, we here at The Spectrum bring to you the second annual Spectrys!These are the most prestigious awards given out by any UB publication.

Scoreboard

BaseballTuesday:Bonaventure5Buffalo2

Evaluations' effectiveness debated

If there's one sure sign students can count on every year to remind them the semester is coming to a close, it's teacher evaluations.Passed out in classes and arriving in e-mail inboxes, the surveys filled out to rate professors and classes tend to draw mixed opinions on whether they are effective.

"Less fighting, more punching"

When Tuesday's concert at the Buffalo Icon got a little ugly, Indianapolis, Ind.'s Haste the Day just stopped playing.After two kids in the mosh pit took their karate kicks and windmill punches a little too seriously, resulting in a flood of fists and shoving in front of the stage, Haste the Day lead vocalist Jimmy Ryan told his bandmates to stop playing."Aw, look what you did, that was going to be the most intense breakdown you have ever heard and you made me stop it," Ryan said to the crowd.

Men's tennis eyes title

With three Mid-American Conference match victories this season, the UB men's tennis team produced its best results since joining Division I competition.The team's outdoor season will come to an end at the MAC Championships this week, held in Kalamazoo, Mich.

Building healthy lifestyle habits

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An affair with the Milk Man

Instead of a small glass bottle outside your door, Milk Man leaves you with a barrage of sounds and noises.The California-based quartet recently released the album "Deerhoof" on the Kill Rock Stars record label.

"During Passover, a lack of kosher food on campus"

As the Jewish community celebrates Passover this week, some UB students are finding it difficult to follow dietary customs that come with the major holiday.To follow their traditions, some Jewish students have signed up for special lunches at Hillel, and many more have taken advantage of the Passover sections at Wegmans and Tops, but keeping kosher can still be hard on the UB campus.Passover, which lasts for eight days, commemorates the Jewish exodus from slavery in Egypt with several traditional symbols.

Ben Sargent Cartoon 4.26.05

Correction

The driver of the Public Transphere van is Orkan Telhan, not Arzu Ozkal Telhan, who came up with the idea ("Public Transphere connects city dwellers," April 25).Tuesday's baseball game was played at Dunn Tire Park, not Amherst Audubon Field ("Sidelines," April 25).

The good work ahead

Tell me what you think when you hear the phrase "Parking at UB."It's miserable? It sucks? It makes you hate the world?Well, what if I told you that when you come to campus tomorrow morning, you will neither "battle" for a spot nor "trek" from the lots to the buildings?No.