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Women's team prepares for Golden Flash

You don't need a statistician to tell you that so far this season, the combination of Wednesday night games and the UB women's basketball team have mixed like oil and water.The Bulls are 1-5 when they play on Wednesdays this season, a trend Buffalo hopes to reverse tonight when the Bulls host Kent State."I'm not concerned about what days of the week we're playing," said UB head coach Cheryl Dozier.

Lighting up the Flash

It was a tale of two halves on Tuesday night in Alumni Arena, as the UB men's basketball team overcame a slow and sloppy start to score a convincing 77-66 victory over the visiting Kent State Golden Flashes in an important Mid-American Conference match-up."This was a hard fought Mid-American Conference game against a great nationally respected opponent," said head coach Reggie Witherspoon.

Not a done deal

This is part two of a two-part series that looks at the medical school's tuition hike plan.Although a proposal to single out medical students for a tuition increase has many UB students in an uproar, both UB and New York State officials say students shouldn't worry so much over a bill that might not even be passed.Ryan McPherson, the assistant vice president for government affairs at UB, said he stresses the importance of the wording in the budget article.The article itself says the SUNY trustees "may establish differing rates of tuition" in different academic programs where the current market or the program costs "support a higher rate of tuition in accordance with guidelines established by the chancellor."The key word in the article is "may," McPherson said.

Good performances wasted in swim team loss

Winning five out of the 16 events in last week's meet at Cornell was not enough for the women's swimming and diving team.

From coach to cage fighter

Reality show fever has once again swept UB, but this time around there won't be any sorority drama or fraternity panty raids.

On the front lines

At 20 years of age, Jimmy Inthanongsak found himself in the position of having to write out a will.A short while later, he was living on a tank fighting hostile Iraqi forces, thousands of miles away from a college life of classes, parties and exams.

Schedule

W. BasketballWednesday: vs. Kent State, 7 p.m.W. TennisWednesday: at Rochester, 4 p.m.WrestlingThusday: vs.

Faculty provost hired; major VP searches move forward

Two major searches for key vice presidential positions are underway and the vice provost position for faculty affairs has been filled, according to UB officials.

'Morrie' story adapts well

Local artists grace the stage at Studio Arena Theater in Mitch Albom's "Tuesdays With Morrie." This touching, heart warming play is cast exclusively from Buffalo's talent.Manny Fried, who plays Morrie Schwartz, has been a prominent presence on local stages for several years.

Corrections

Farah Agah was not identified in last Wednesday's story about the detention of Muslim-Americans. She is Helmi Agha's sister.

Sweatshop monitoring decision overdue

Although you couldn't tell by looking around, this campus has been engaged in a debate for two years now about the future of its involvement in world affairs.

Ben Sargent Cartoon: 2.16.05

Sidelines

Two starsThe University at Buffalo's male and female athletes of the week are Jake Blowers and Jenny Koeppel.Koeppel, of the women's indoor track and field team, made the NCAA provisional mark in the 3,000-meter race at the Penn State Sykes-Sabock Challenge over the weekend.

All 'shook' up

Students passing through the Student Union got a unique taste of the Middle East on Monday as UB's Hillel kicked off Israel Week with an Israeli market called a "shook."Organizers of the weeklong celebration said they hope to bring to campus a greater awareness about Israel through an array of different events.

Tied to the tracks

A popular and cheap way for many UB students to get to and from home is in jeopardy as the ramifications of President Bush's 2006 budget become clear.

"Onyenucheya, I'm fired up!"

This was going to be the week that I resign myself to the fact that I'm the senior arts and life editor who happens to love basketball, and write some sort of bullcrap article about what the cast of Boy Meets World is up to these days.Not today, Corey Matthews.

Today's corrections

In the Friday, Feb. 11 issue of The Spectrum, the opposing team in the basketball photo was incorrectly misidentified as UConn.

Dean's strong hand takes the Democratic wheel

About the only thing the average voter, both red and blue alike, seems to know about Howard Dean is the looped image of his red-faced scream in Iowa during the Democratic primaries.

Chamber music just got a makeover

In a time when the music world is full of artists trying to be completely different, the members of the Genkin Philharmonic West succeed.

Bulls bounce Ball State on national TV

Tenacious offensive production from the bench and a dominating advantage in rebounding capped off a nationally televised victory for the University at Buffalo men's basketball team Saturday afternoon.Entertaining the sixth-largest crowd in the history of Alumni Arena, the Bulls (15-7, 8-6 MAC) legitimized their pursuit for a Mid-American Conference title as they bounced Ball State (12-9, 7-6 MAC) 67-58 in front of 5,989 vivacious fans in UB's first-ever nationally televised game, aired on ESPN2."The crowd was great, they gave us a boost when we were down," said the Bulls' senior point guard, Turner Battle.