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Loads of turnovers limit Bulls' success in loss

Despite Heather Turner's 24 points, the UB women's basketball team lost its sixth game in a row on Wednesday night on the road at Miami (Ohio), 68-50, failing to turn the page on a season that has been nothing short of a struggle.The Bulls' 21 turnovers, 14 in the first half, proved fatal for a UB team that had previously defeated the RedHawks in Buffalo just over a month ago.

Schedule

W. BasketballSaturday: vs. Northern Illinois, 2 p.m.M. SwimmingSaturday: at ECAC Championships, all dayW.

Shedding light on Buffalo's night

Arranged neatly in two rows at eye level are the black and white photographs of Ed Healy, a 2004 Exhibition Award winner.

Real-life campaign

For three years now, students taking COM 453 have been getting a hands-on experience few classes can offer.The 400-level communication class, taught by assistant professor Deborah Silverman, teaches students how to plan and conduct a public relations campaign throughout the course of the semester.According to Silverman, who has run the class since its inception, each new batch of students that takes the class is better than the last."The students always come up with great ideas," Silverman said.

A scary future

Everyone always says the children are the future leaders of America. This sounds like a good thing, especially given the current leaders of America.

How little people topple giants

It's tucked away just a bit north of I-290 on Niagara Falls Boulevard, hidden behind a thick layer of trees like it's trying to keep a secret, marked only with a single, plain sign.

Angular rock inside the 'circle'

It is uncommon for contemporary music to be considered "high art." Most popular musicians are constrained to the boundaries of thought provided by their respective genre.Two bands, Circle Takes the Square and Fear Before the March of Flames, performing at The Buffalo Icon on Saturday night, aim to change that.Both Circle Takes the Square and Fear Before the March of Flames deliver a brand of cutting-edge hardcore every bit as artful as it is gut-wrenchingly brutal.Circle Takes the Square is a thrash act formed in Savannah, Georgia.

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More love for BattleThe National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) released its Division I All-District teams, and Turner Battle has been named to the All-District 2 Second Team.Battle is one of just 150 college basketball players, from a total of 15 districts, who are now eligible for the NABC Division I All-American Team, which will be announced at the end of the college basketball season.This is the second time Battle has received the honors, as he was also given the same recognition last season.The Mid-American Conference received a fair amount of recognition by the selectors, as Battle was one of five players from the MAC to be selected.

Spectrum sports challenge: 'Fro finesse

For this installment of the Spectrum Sportswriters' challenge, Jackie O'Brien and her sidekick Daniel Gvertz were going to debate the reasonableness of the claims by Gary Bettman and Bob Goodenow and which one of them is to blame for the National Hockey League canceling the season for good.Then we realized, nearly 50 percent of this country does not care.

Shredding to Stravinsky

UB's Spring and Fall Fests customarily fill venues with both campus crowds and local youngsters. Recent efforts have shown that trying to satisfy both groups can result in lackluster concerts.

Ben Sargent Cartoon: 2.25.05

"In star wrestler's absence, UB's king cobra snakes his way to the top"

To be given a moniker by UB's wrestling announcer and former coach, Ed Michaels, is quite an honor.

Psychologists share secrets for test-taking success

With midterms and standardized exam dates rapidly approaching, some students are taking the time to brush up on helpful study techniques and test taking skills.According to experts, learning a few critical techniques for the preparation and execution of exams can reduce anxiety and increase performance.Andrea Greenwood and Amanda Tyson, both psychologists at the counseling center at UB, present a test anxiety workshop once a semester sponsored by the "food for thought" program at UB.The workshops' purpose is to help students reduce their anxiety and better prepare for everything from everyday quizzes to crucial standardized exams such as the LCAT, MCAT, or GRE.As discussed at the workshop, test anxiety can greatly diminish test performance, even for students who have good study habits and are well prepared for tests.Common characteristics of test anxiety are "blanking out," or not remembering what was studied, not being able to focus on the test, or that feeling of having done poorly because of nervousness or stress.Although popular among students, procrastination is not a good method, according to Greenwood."If you have a 9 a.m.

One for the road

It's been said that the hottest team, not the best team, is the best bet to win in a single-elimination tournament.

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CenterfoldTurner Battle has been named to the ESPN Magazine Academic All-District First Team for the second year in a row.

English Department chair to step down

Joseph Conte, chair of the English Department since 2001, will resign in May and remain on staff as a professor, according to department officials and professors.Although Conte's plans to step down were not unexpected, the department has been unable to find an in-house professor willing to step up to the chair's office.

Blood Brothers

The audience at the Fine Arts Auditorium at Niagara County Community College was finishing up one of its several standing ovations for Paul Rusesabagina, the Rwandan hotel manager and subject of the Academy Award-nominated "Hotel Rwanda" who saved over 1,200 Tutsi tribe members in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, and he looked emotionally drained.I guess that happens when you retell the story of an atrocity ignored by Western nations, an ignorance made even more heinous by the fact that you know that many of your almost murdered countrymen could've been saved by the lifting of a Washington or London telephone."We saw the whole world closing their eyes and their ears, turning their backs and abandoning us, like orphans in the jungle," Rusesabagina said when speaking of the United Nations troops pulling out of Rwanda after 10 Belgian soldiers were killed.It would be simple to talk about the fact that the world needs a film to alert it to active genocide, but there is a larger issue at stake here.

Bulls look for repeat win against RedHawks

Although the UB women's basketball team's record this season might not be something to brag about, its 80-61 victory over the Miami (Ohio) RedHawks earlier this season was quite a statement.Tonight, Buffalo (4-19 overall, 2-10 MAC) will take on Miami (13-11 overall, 7-6 MAC) in Ohio for round two of the season series.The Bulls are coming off a 66-46 loss at MAC East division leader Marshall on Saturday.

"Come on, get happy"

Not many family bands since the Partridge Family have earned the means to tour across the nation.

Sometimes techno doesn't rock

Chab's first worldwide original album, "Dubs, Edits and Whiskey-Coke," will be released on the little-known Saw Recordings label March 7.Until now, Chab, a.k.a.