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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.

Arrested at Hayes

The legacy of the spring 1970 unrest at UB lives on in many ways, in myth and fact.Every freshman who moves into the Ellicott Complex hears the rumor, in the first few weeks, that the maze-like North Campus complex was built to prevent mass student protests - an architectural response to the clashes with police that made national headlines in 1970.Myth or fact?

Bobcats burst Bulls' bubble

If college basketball games were 20 minutes long, UB would be sitting pretty in the Mid-American Conference East Division.The Bulls would also likely have their sights set on a first round bye to Cleveland, as well as the possibility of earning additional national attention with regards to an NCAA Tournament berth.However, the Bulls faced the Ohio Bobcats for 40 minutes last night, and the final score read 90-77, Ohio.

Forum focuses on issue of justice at border

A Muslim UB student detained multiple times by the U.S. government and an immigration lawyer shared their experiences Thursday night at a lecture in the Student Union Theater.The event, sponsored by the Muslim Student Association and the Organization of Arab Students, was meant to raise awareness about civil rights issues facing Muslim Americans today.The forum, titled "Is it Justice, or is it Just Us?" focused on the unsettled immigration affairs of Helmi Agha, a first year non-matriculated business major.

Competition heats up International Fiesta

The International Fiesta, a Student Association-hosted program that takes place every spring, is getting a makeover for 2005.For the past 35 years, the International Fiesta has been a multi-cultural program, featuring a dinner with many cultural dishes and followed by a free talent show in the Student Union.Last year, International Fiesta brought in around 1,200 spectators who crowded around the small stage, entranced in the atmosphere of ornate costumes, intricate choreography and traditional music performed.However, due to increased interest in the International Fiesta, the Student Union is no longer accommodating the many who wish to attend.

Tennis players adjust to life in the States

This is part two in a two-part series on international tennis players at UB.Many people can't imagine how difficult it is to move to a foreign country - a place away from close family, friends, and other loved ones.However Buffalo, known affectionately by many as the "Ruff Buff," has proven to be the opposite.

Young Americans deserve more credit

In last Friday's edition of The Spectrum, Sports Editor Daniel Gvertz penned a piece bemoaning the results of a recent survey conducted among approximately 120,000 high school students in the United States.

Proposals advanced for allocating fee increase money to clubs

Student Association clubs will see a 10 percent funding increase each year for the next three to four years, if the SA Senate and financial committee approve a plan offered by SA President Anthony Burgio.Burgio proposed a 35 percent increase in club budgets when he was pushing for a mandatory fee increase last fall.