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Poor weather produces solid results for rowers

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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Cookin' up a cure

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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November in April

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

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

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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Women's track and field finishes first in Ohio

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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'Clean snowmobile team' nabs first place nationally

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

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.


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The Best Weezer album of 2005

The High Speed Scene rocks harder, a lot harder, than Weezer. Maybe not as hard as Weezer ten years ago, but they blow the hell out of the new "Beverly Hills" song by Weezer that's on the radio these days.Fast, cleanly produced, and filled with hooks, the debut CD from San Francisco's The High Speed Scene is probably the best album that won't be heard or written about anywhere.Except here, of course.Pop-punk has become a curse word for both rock critics and fanatics.


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Softball splits series at Kent State

After a rain-soaked Sunday postponement in Kent, Ohio, the University at Buffalo softball team (7-21 overall, 3-4 Mid-American Conference) split a Monday make-up doubleheader against the Kent State Golden Flashes (15-13 overall, 3-2 MAC).The Bulls lost the first game in a 1-0 nail biter, but were able to rebound and win the second game by the score of 6-4, led by homeruns by two of UB's seniors, Ann Magur and Melissa Pace.


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Sidelines

Big FourPart one of the Big Four baseball rivalry will kick off this afternoon, as the UB baseball team will travel down Main Street to take on Canisius.


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Walking a mediocre course

The Kylesa press copy of "To Walk a Middle Course" is a crude item. It's a burned CD, your standard Sony CD-R with crudely scripted Sharpie letters denoting the name of the band and album.


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Kennedy secures MAC victory for men's tennis

After being soundly swept 7-0 in a Friday night bout against the Ball State Cardinals (15-6 overall, 2-0 Mid-American Conference), the UB men's tennis team (6-8 overall, 2-2 MAC) recovered and was able to defeat the Northern Illinois Huskies (9-7 overall, 0-1 MAC) on Saturday, scoring a close 4-3 victory at the Village Glen Tennis Center that came down to the No.


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Troll race enslaved

Don't be surprised if your dust-covered box of toys is missing an old childhood friend. No, that troll doll hasn't been chewed by your dog and digested onto your front lawn.



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