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Coulter's debt to feminism
By AMANDA FISCHER | Mar. 7, 2005I mostly brush off Ann Coulter as some bizarre sideshow - freaky and weird, but good at turning a profit.
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Mar. 7, 2005Classroom starsFive members of UB's men's and women's indoor track and field teams were named to the Academic All-MAC Team.Four female athletes and one male athlete represented the Bulls on the Academic All-MAC squads.Faith Thompson, who compiled a 3.97 GPA, won the weight throw at the MAC Championship, earned all-MAC honors.
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Students get a taste of the future at Career Fest
By LAUREN TRANKLE | Mar. 7, 2005UB's annual job fair in the Center for the Arts helped steer students towards opportunities for internships and jobs on Wednesday, with recruiters from more than 50 local, statewide and national employers.The companies that packed into the CFA ranged from Ferguson, the country's largest wholesale distributor, to Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, a provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses.Amajaraya Hunter, a freshman undecided major, attended the event for a class assignment but walked away with a better understanding of the opportunities out there, she said.
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The other kind of quickie
By NATHANIEL IHDE | Mar. 7, 2005What do a politically frustrated leprechaun, a sexually repressed telemarketer and God all have in common?They are all characters in a series of plays entitled "Buffalo Quickies," now playing at Alleyway Theatre in downtown Buffalo.
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Hand-me-downs
By MIKE FLATT | Mar. 7, 2005Redneck. Hilljack. Farm boy. Ignorant hick.There are a number of things I've been called as a result of my rural upbringing.Some are an affectionate reminder that I was raised in a geological and social environment that makes me a little different from people who grow up in more densely populated areas.Others, clearly, are not so affectionate; simply hand-me-down stereotypes like any other sort of insensitivity.But although these monikers can tell just as many negative things about the speaker as the subject, they function well to point out differences.I disregarded these statements for a long time, since where I come from - a small town named Truxton outside a slightly less small town named Tully where I went to high school, sort of near Syracuse - I'm not all that rural.I didn't grow up on a farm.
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Season of woe ends
By DANIEL GVERTZ | Mar. 7, 2005Saturday's 79-46 loss to the Eastern Michigan Eagles in the first round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament in Ypsilanti, Mich.
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Sweet send-off for UB seniors
By JACKIE O and JACKIE O | Mar. 7, 2005Four years ago, the UB men's basketball team brought in its most highly touted recruiting class in Bulls history, a quartet comprised of Jason Bird, Daniel Gilbert, Mark Bortz and Turner Battle.On Saturday night, a crowd of 6, 345 - the third-largest crowd in Alumni Arena history - was on hand to honor Buffalo's four seniors, as the Bulls ended their regular season with a gritty 72-56 Mid-American Conference victory over the visiting Akron Zips (18-9 overall, 11-7 MAC).With the win, the Bulls improved their record to 19-8 overall and 11-7 in the MAC, thereby securing the No.
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An evolving legacy
By BEN CADY | Mar. 7, 2005This is the final story in a three-part series that looks back on the events of the spring of 1970 at UB.City police, pushing iron gates, herded crowds of protesters into vans.
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Mar. 7, 2005M. BasketballSaturday:Buffalo72Akron56W. BasketballSaturday:Buffalo46EMU7M. SwimmingWeekend:At MAC Championships - fifth out of five schoolsWrestlingWeekend:At MAC Championships - sixth out of six schools
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"Coulter is a gadfly, not a fascist"
By FABIO ALBERTIN | Mar. 7, 2005Regarding George Zornick's column on Ann Coulter ("Coulter shock," March 2), I must admit that his opening statement did not lead me to expect much reason out of his opinion piece, as most "college liberals" are yet-to-fully-mature and sometimes hopeless and delusional parrots when it comes to politics.As it is probably safe to assume that a great number of readers agreed with Zornick, here are a few reasons as to why he and many others should be excited about having one of the most prominent conservatives in America on this campus next week.One important thing to remember above all is that much of Ann Coulter's most criticized statements are examples of her intellectual and dry sense of humor.
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Here's to six more years
By PAUL MEGNA | Mar. 7, 2005As the floor in Broadway Joe's became more and more packed with eager fans on Friday night for the sixth anniversary celebration of Baby Steps hip-hop, the general energy level continuously skyrocketed.The Queen City's underground hip-hop scene is one of its many thriving artistic cultures, unfortunately widely overlooked by UB students.
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Reggie: Big on the little things
By DANIEL GVERTZ | Mar. 7, 2005For a lesson in how to be humble and how to stay focused on your goals, spend a few minutes talking to Buffalo Bulls' head coach, Reggie Witherspoon.Witherspoon, who is nearing the end of his sixth year as a head coach here at UB, has brought the school to the national stage a few times, and has become something of a local celebrity.He wouldn't know the difference, though, because Witherspoon is far too focused on the job at hand."I guess I never really stop to think about that, I just come in here every day, try to work as hard as I can," he said.
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Sweatshop decision reached
By JEREMY G. BURTON | Mar. 7, 2005For two years, UB Students Against Sweatshops has rallied and protested while meeting with UB officials and pushing the university to join a labor rights organization.This week, they'll get their wish.Dennis Black, vice president for Student Affairs, said later this week President John Simpson will receive a finalized report recommending that UB affiliate with both the Worker Rights Consortium and the Fair Labor Association.The affiliation will go into effect next fall, Black said, but UB will start taking the steps right away to reflect a policy of affiliation.Before affiliating, UB needs "to form a new code of conduct for the campus, establish responsibility for affiliation, develop charge for committee and develop an appointment process for future members," Black stated in an e-mail.
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Girls under siege
By DENA-KAY MARTIN | Mar. 7, 2005I often find myself lamenting the position and expectations of women in the United States and the Caribbean.
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"Cheap, used romantics"
By KENNETH ILGUNAS | Mar. 4, 2005In terms of art culture, Buffalo's neighbor, Niagara Falls, is like the shady and culturally deprived next-door-neighbor who never leaves his basement.
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Moving mercury
By RACHEL BELLAVIA | Mar. 4, 2005It's winter days like these in Buffalo that one needs something a little livelier to keep going until the ground thaws.Enter Hot Hot Heat, an eclectic, quite dance-able rock act set to play Sunday at The Icon.Despite being signed to Warner Bros.
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Everyone and their mother
By JOSEPH SILVENT | Mar. 4, 2005"Be Cool" is the byproduct of the efforts of an all-star cast. With its pedigree and "prequel," be prepared for a roller coaster of different reactions.The film's roots lie in its predecessor, "Get Shorty." "Be Cool" follows along the lines of a sequel, to some extent.
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Five grapplers headed for MACs
By ANTHONY SYLOR | Mar. 4, 2005For wrestling head coach Jim Beichner, the 2004-2005 season has been all about the big picture.While fielding a roster that contains no seniors and only two juniors, Beichner's goal all season long has been to prepare his young Bulls for the Mid-American Conference Championships.
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Zornick's donkey logic
By STEVE VIGLIOTTI | Mar. 4, 2005As I read George Zornick's "Coulter Shock" article ("Coulter shock," March 2), one word just kept popping into my head to describe his writing: jackass-ness.
