Throughout his last two seasons playing for the UB baseball team, James Kingsley has been crowned as one of the most dominant players featured in the Bulls' lineup.This season, the first baseman is batting .297 with seven home runs and 28 RBIs.
There are lots of good things based in Milwaukee: "Laverne and Shirley," the Polish nation, and now the eccentric, aptly named rock band, Temper Temper.With a keyboard-infused blend of pop, punk and dance rock, the band's self-titled first album manages to hold the listener's interest with a potpourri of electric melodies.Still, one reason for the success of the album depends on the heavy influence of Duran Duran and The Cure.
Although many students might feel they do enough to support UB by paying tuition, there are some who go the extra mile to help fund their school.
Recently elected SUNY SA delegate Peter Rizzo was voted onto the SUNY-wide executive board this past weekend at a SUNY SA conference in Rochester.Rizzo, a sophomore English and history major, won one of the executive spots reserved for students from university centers like UB.
In Europe, and especially in their native England, Muse is used to playing huge arenas in front of huge sold-out crowds of die-hard fans.
Birthdays in the UB Office of Equity, Diversity, and Affirmative Action Administration, without Loyce Stewart, will never be the same.Stewart, who died last Monday at the age of 60, served as director of the office since 1999, defending social justice on campus while enforcing laws against various types of discrimination.According to co-workers, Stewart took a special joy in celebrating every aspect of the lives of those close to her, with a special emphasis on birthdays."Loyce loved to celebrate birthdays," said Barbara Burke, assistant director of the office.
It's about that time again, and so for the championship round of The Spectrum's Sharpest Point competition, our writers will decide, for the football general managers, who the number one pick should be.This debate, between Jennie "From the ROC" Gillan and Jackie "Sprinkles" O'Brien is for the Sharpest Point championship.San Fran Should Select SmithJennifer GillanWhy would any player want to join a team that posted a record of 2-14 in their last season?
Gary Lynch and Jay Warrick said they didn't think twice.While the war in Iraq raged, both UB students left the friendly blue bubble of campus last year to join the military.As a result, they have both earned the National Defense Medal, a yellow and red striped cloth attached to a bronze medal, reserved for American men and women who join during a time of war.Gary Lynch, a sophomore from Ridge, N.Y., left UB for six years of active duty after joining the Navy on Aug.
A freshman guard on UB's basketball team was arrested in the Ellicott Complex Thursday and charged with the sale and possession of marijuana.Wallace Hall, a freshman from Detroit who began to earn playing time during the Bulls' drive toward the MAC title game, has been suspended from the team for now, according to Bulls coach Reggie Witherspoon."At the conclusion of the university and judicial review of this matter, Wally's status in our basketball program will be reevaluated," stated Witherspoon in a press release.Student-athlete rules at UB require that Hall meet with Witherspoon, a drug counselor, and university officials.Team officials would not comment further on the incident nor how it would affect Hall's career with the Bulls.
This ship may actually sail.Key word: may.Next week, after I finish my final column - and stay tuned for that friends, cause it's going to be the gravy on top of five years of hot, delicious column potatoes - I am going to be putting on a bathing suit, wetting down that slip and slide, and going headfirst into reality.As I start pedaling on my ride to be the next amazing cyclist, I'd like to clue you in on some objectives I did not complete following the day I waltzed into SUNY Buffalo in my maroon Phish shirt and board shorts (Yes, I just admitted that I spent a good year in hippie jail.
President John Simpson announced Monday that UB will finally start the search for a permanent athletic director in May, once he receives a report from consultant Gene Corrigan, who was hired to evaluate the entire athletics program.William Maher, who has served as interim athletic director since June 2003, told The Spectrum on Tuesday he would like to be considered for the permanent position.Maher called the evaluation process positive and said he anticipates it will yield several suggestions to help UB compete on the highest level and win championships."It's been a process that's gone as we've expected it to," Maher said.
Hoping to build on the successes of the past year, the Student Association Assembly re-elected Hassan Shibly as chair on Monday.Shibly, a freshman psychology major, defeated fellow Assembly member Matt Miller in a secret ballot election for the position.After his victory, Shibly said he is looking forward to working hard next year to increase student involvement and tackle student issues."I encourage all students to get involved next year," Shibly said.
The longing is unbearable.Before your eyes is the new EA Sports Madden NFL Xbox game. Your willpower is shot, and you grab it before the little kid down the aisle can get his chubby fingers on it.But when you open your wallet, you remember it is empty - the entirety of last week's paycheck spent on groceries, rent and last night's adventures.This definitely counts as an emergency, right?
The self-titled album from Giles, the new project from former Prayer For Cleansing and current Between the Buried and Me vocalist Tommy Rogers, is a nine-song play list comprised of short bursts of Nintendo 64-like beats with breathy, whiny lyrics.For example, "Desk Seeking Spades" sounds like Giles allowed the dancing, backwards-talking midget from "Twin Peaks" to sing his broken, nearly undecipherable words with a New Age electronica beat.Few songs crest the two-and-a-half minute mark, a delightful and reassuring surprise.This album might be appropriate for an alternative techno club if the proprietor were into taking risks and the clubbers were under the influence of at least four alcoholic beverages.Refreshingly, "Replay" contains intriguing lyrics such as "Happy apple come a little closer." The beat is slower and less erratic, as Rogers's voice fades with a hypnotic ebb and flow.
Theater performances have fallen into the background amongst movies, concerts and other types of entertainment.For Scott Behrend, artistic director of RoadLessTraveled Productions and graduate from Syracuse University, this is unacceptable."The whole goal and why it is important has to do with what is lacking across the country in the theatrical context in the 18 to 20 age range.
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Classic, ordinary and standard are a few words that would never, ever be used to describe these works.In fact, there is nothing the least bit conventional about the art currently on display at the Carnegie Art Center, 240 Goundry St., North Tonawanda.The exhibit, entitled "Beyond/In Western New York," features the work of three local artists: John Knecht, Tammy Renee Brackett and Patrick Robideau.While the name alludes to the inclusion of Western New York and its surrounding regions, these three artists bring a different meaning to the name of the exhibit, going above and beyond with their creative projects.
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