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Sphere under new ownership

By NICOLE COLEMAN | Apr. 6, 2005

The Sphere Entertainment Complex, which hosted the Student Association's DJ Series until a spate of violent shootings this year, will be under new ownership by the end of May, according to the new owners.Artie Kwitchoff, former manager of the Goo Goo Dolls, is in the final stages of purchasing the downtown venue.With financial help from a small group of partners, Kwitchoff said he plans to turn the Sphere into a concert club that will feature live music.Renovations are planned for the summer months and a grand re-opening, complete with a new name, is set for September."It's going to be less of a restaurant in the front, and more of an adult bar," Kwitchoff said.

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Schedule

Apr. 6, 2005

M. TennisWednesday: at Niagara, 3 p.m. BaseballNan Harvey FieldWednesday: at Canisius, 2 p.m. SoftballWednesday: vs.

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No tuition increase planned in state budget

By JEREMY G. BURTON | Apr. 6, 2005

The New York State Legislature agreed on a state budget last Thursday that does not include a tuition hike, but the price of a SUNY education could still increase next fall if Gov.

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Reggae with chutzpah

By ALEXANDER NASAREWSKY | Apr. 6, 2005

Slee Hall hosted an artist who could be the strangest and most amazing thing to happen to Judaism and reggae, well, ever.

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Humanizing Hitler

By KENNETH ILGUNAS | Apr. 6, 2005

In 1942, Traudl Junge, a 22-year-old secretary, is introduced to her new employer at a military headquarters in East Prussia.

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Holding up a standoff

By Editorial | Apr. 6, 2005

April has arrived and most students have submitted their FAFSA forms and are trying to figure out how much money they need to have saved for next year.

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30th Annual Carifest to be held Friday

By JENNIFER BUONO | Apr. 6, 2005

Several thousand people are expected to attend the Caribbean Student Association's 30th annual Carifest, entitled "Diamonds in the Sand," Friday at 6 p.m.

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Interim med school dean sets sights high

By JESSIE BRACE | Apr. 6, 2005

Longtime UB professor Frederick Morin has stepped into a dual role as interim vice president for health affairs and interim dean of the medical school as UB searches for permanent replacements for both jobs.Morin was appointed to the two jobs last week, as Margaret Paroski, who has the same dual responsibilities, is leaving UB on April 18 to take a position with Kaleida Health Services.Morin said he will focus on implementing programs that allow medical students to work on their residencies within the medical community of Western New York.

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Poor weather produces solid results for rowers

By JENNIFER GILLAN | Apr. 6, 2005

A weekend of races on the Charles River in Boston started out rough but ended with success for the women's crew team, which left Beantown with a handful of first-place finishes.As the team began competition on Saturday, Mother Nature was relentless, providing strong winds, heavy rain, and a temperature of 40 degrees.

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Emergency contraception important

By KETURAH ERHARDT | Apr. 6, 2005

No form of contraceptive available provides 100 percent protection. Mistakes happen. Condoms break.

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Cookin' up a cure

By PAUL MEGNA | Apr. 6, 2005

A throbbing headache, excruciating bodily pain, a relentless feeling of self-deprecating guilt: for anyone who has suffered these, or any of the crippling symptoms of the hangover, there is finally a beacon of hope and it lies, shockingly, within a book."The Wrath of Grapes," Patrick Meanor's literary attempt to cure this all-too-common collegiate malady, is subtitled: "A Complete Hangover Cookbook and Guide to the Art of Creative Suffering." It's just that - an amalgam of cures for what he calls "the 'physical' and 'metaphysical' hangover."Meanor, an English professor at SUNY-Oswego, hasn't drunk in 27 years, but he possesses a wealth of knowledge on the hangover and its potential cures."The Wrath of Grapes," obviously a spoof on the Steinbeck novel, combines countless literary allusions to the hangover, with Meanor's philosophical musings and scientifically based physical cures.

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Sin City' worth going to Hell for

By MIKE FLATT | Apr. 6, 2005

It is about time that the twisted minds at work behind more adult-geared comics were exploited for the sake of cinema.

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November in April

By GEORGE ZORNICK | Apr. 6, 2005

A very smart professor once told me that anyone who has lived through a late-November day in Buffalo knows they are going to die someday.

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Scoreboard

Apr. 6, 2005

Track & FieldOhio InvitationalSaturday:Men: fourth out of nine teams, Women: first out of 11BuffaloSoftballGame oneMonday:Kent State1Buffalo0Monday:Buffalo6Kent State4W.

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HSA presents Haitian Awareness Week and prepares for RaRa Ayiti

By DENA-KAY MARTIN AND GAITRIE RAMNARINE | Apr. 6, 2005

The mellow sounds of Carimi, a popular Haitian band, flowed from the Flag Room in the Student Union on Tuesday afternoon as some members of the Haitian Student Association took part in the organization's dancing workshop.According to Witzard Joseph, HSA's president, the workshop on Tuesday was a part of HSA's annual Haitian Awareness Week.The week began with a Creole workshop on Monday and the dancing workshop on Tuesday.

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Cultural celebrations liven weekend at UB

By LINDSEY SCHUPPENHAUER AND LAUREN TRANKLE | Apr. 6, 2005

The Center for the Arts played host to two major campus cultural events this weekend -- Arab Night on Saturday and China Nite on Sunday.With every new act at Arab Night, the audience went wild with cheers and applause.

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Women's track and field finishes first in Ohio

By KATRIN FISCHER | Apr. 6, 2005

The words of UB's head track and field coach, Vicki Mitchell, resonated with Buffalo's athletes as they faced tough Mid-American Conference competition and both the men's and the women's teams came out in the top five."We are from Buffalo and we are made for tough conditions!" Mitchell proclaimed.The University at Buffalo women's track and field team battled to their second win of the outdoor season at the Ohio Invitational in Athens on Saturday.Meanwhile, the men's team had to face tougher competition, including several MAC schools, but the Bulls raced hard and finished in fourth place."The men had a very strong meet across the board.

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"Renowned poet, beloved friend"

By BEN CADY | Apr. 6, 2005

This is the first story in a two-part series on the late Robert Creeley, an eminent poet who taught at UB from 1964 to 2002.

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'Clean snowmobile team' nabs first place nationally

By ERIN KENNY | Apr. 6, 2005

The members of UB's Society of Automotive Engineers' clean snowmobile team don't have a tan to show for their spring break.But they do have seven first-place trophies.Led by captain Brian Belmont, a junior mechanical engineering major, the team took first place for performance, fuel economy, noise reduction and design practicality to put them in first place at a national competition in Houghton, Mich.The team faced stiff competition from 13 schools in over 10 categories ranging from an oral presentation to a 100-mile endurance trial.

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Stepping out over the line

By NICHOLAS MENDOLA | Apr. 6, 2005

James Howard Kunstler is scaring the crap out of me.The author of "The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century," a novel about what he sees as an impending oil crisis, allowed an adaptation of his book to be included in this week's Rolling Stone.