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Sweatshop decision reached

For 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.

Girls under siege

I often find myself lamenting the position and expectations of women in the United States and the Caribbean.

"Cheap, used romantics"

In terms of art culture, Buffalo's neighbor, Niagara Falls, is like the shady and culturally deprived next-door-neighbor who never leaves his basement.

Moving mercury

It'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.

Everyone and their mother

"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.

Five grapplers headed for MACs

For 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.

Zornick's donkey logic

As 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.

Dangerous crossroads

For the thousands of people who enter campus each day from Sweet Home Road, the intersection at Rensch Entrance is an accident waiting to happen.Since January 2001, there have been 50 reported accidents at the intersection.Help is on the way, however, according to local officials; a state construction project is currently planned to redesign the intersection.Enzio Villalta, a captain in the Amherst Police Department, said there have already been four accidents at the intersection this year and 15 in both 2003 and 2004.Physics professor Richard Gonsalves, who lives near the intersection and often walks to work, has seen the problem firsthand."That intersection continues to be the scene of numerous accidents, the most recent a couple of weeks ago in the evening," Gonsalves said.

"Coulter, shocking truth"

The nerve, Mr. Zornick, you had to strike that nerve again ("Coulter shock," March 2).As Ann Coulter will testify, as a young, female conservative with unwavering and uncompromising points of view, nobody would publish her work for almost a decade until she began writing her books.

Schedule

M. SwimmingSaturday: vs. MAC Championships, all dayWrestlingSaturday: at MAC Championships, all dayTrack & FieldSaturday: vs.

Ben Sargent Cartoon: 3.4.04

What's up with fairy tales?

We're all familiar with classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes, those little songs and enchanted stories that we were more than willing to learn and repeat in our youth.

Sidelines

Awards for BattleTurner Battle of the men's basketball team was named a 2005 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American for the first time.The College Sports Information Directors of America named Battle to the second team Academic All-American team.Also receiving these honors are Erik Benzel of Denver, Craig Forth from Syracuse, Dan Grunfeld of Stanford and Neil Plankk of Illinois State.

Scoreboard

M. BasketballWednesday:Ohio90Buffalo77

Third research candidate visits

Strengthening ties between UB and the City of Buffalo will be one of Joseph Glorioso's chief objectives if he is chosen for UB's top research position, Glorioso said at an open forum on Thursday.Glorioso, chair of the department of molecular genetics and biochemistry at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Medicine, was the third of four candidates to visit UB for the position of vice president for research.

Spectacle of destruction

Eleven teams of robots armed with saws, catapults and other devices to wreck their opponents clashed in the Student Union on Monday in the final event for National Engineers Week.An annually popular event, Bot Wars' sparks and smoke had crowds of students around the student-built arena to watch the metal-to-metal combat."Today is about kill or be killed," said Chris McClellan, a sophomore aerospace engineering major and event participant.The competition ran as a double-elimination tournament with winning robots moving on and losing robots facing other losers.Although each robot had to meet certain weight, price and material requirements, each engineering club's machine took a different shape with an array of weapons for total annihilation.

Separation creates strength

The United States is the only country that has an explicit separation of church and state built into its Constitution.

Pharmacy school headed for South Campus

Months after shooting down funds to move the School of Pharmacy to Acheson Hall on South Campus, Gov.

Coulter counters liberal monolith

This is in response to George Zornick's predictable and tiresome article concerning the Ann Coulter visit ("Coulter shock," March 2). You demonstrated precisely why it is that Bush won the election and the people of your ilk lost.

Procrastinate? Why wait?

So of course it's 2 a.m. and I have a five-page paper due the next afternoon, and I haven't started writing it.