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W. BasketballWednesday: at Toledo, 7 p.m.M. BasketballThusday: vs. Marshall, 7 p.m.M. TennisThusday: at Army Invitational, all weekend

Campus residents should take the bus

I would like to commend The Spectrum on bringing to light the complexities encountered daily by commuter students ("For winter commuters, getting there is a daily battle," Jan.

Women's basketball hopes to surprise Toledo

The UB women's basketball team will take on the Toledo Rockets Wednesday night, looking for their first road win of the 2004-2005 season.

A cure for common noise

M83, the creation of Anthony Gonzalez, a resident of France, creates a lush sonic landscape reminiscent of such shoegazer acts as My Bloody Valentine or Slowdive.

Burgio to unveil new platform at press conference

For the staff members, senators and assemblypersons of the Student Association, the spring semester ball officially starts rolling Monday when SA President Anthony Burgio will unveil a new "platform" at a press conference in the Student Union.The new proposals won't exactly knock anyone's socks off, but they should lead to a stronger SA for the long-term, Burgio said."What I asked each department to do is to set a few goals.

Crossing Austin's city limits

If 2002's "Source Tags and Codes" made ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead reason No. 3,016,743 to love Austin, Texas, then the trio's Tuesday release of "Worlds Apart" is 3,016,743 A.While "Worlds Apart" retains enough of the style for which the band won favor with "Source Tags and Codes," especially in the remarkable "Will You Smile Again?," it is far and away a more accessible record.

Health services now has students' backs

The start of the new semester can be demanding for students. This, coupled with bad weather and the additional stress of spending a month's worth of food money on textbooks, can be a real pain in the neck - and back and shoulders.Health Services is now prepared to help students take care of these pains.Since Monday, UB's Student Health Office began offering students the chance to receive chiropractic care on campus.

Chancellor rejects offer to leave SUNY

SUNY Chancellor Robert King will remain in his position after rejecting an exit package, The New York Times reported.While he will not be leaving immediately, King has made plans to leave SUNY in the next six months, anonymous sources in the Times said.A plan was in place for King to take a sabbatical from the role of chancellor and accept a $170,000 leave of absence.

"Hide, but don't seek"

What happened to the good old days when horror movies consisted of supernatural homicidal maniacs mercilessly killing a group of teenage campers or a couple having sex?

"Relief fund nets $1,000 for tsunami victims"

UB raised over $1,000 from students during a three-day fundraiser that ended Monday and will go towards aiding the children who were victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami, according to UB officials.Mary Clare Fahey, who helped organize the fundraiser, said she is happy with its results.

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M. BasketballTuesday:Buffalo86NIU80

Baby's got a baby

Students with ties to region shaken

When Sriram Vilayanoor woke up the morning of Dec. 26 and checked the online version of India's national newspaper, The Hindu, the news splashed across the Web site was nothing Vilayanoor could have prepared himself to see.At that point the reports coming out of India said an earthquake had rocked the region, leaving 1,000 people dead and many more homeless.But as the day went on and the death toll steadily increased, Vilayanoor and the rest of the world learned India, along with over a dozen other countries, had also been struck by a deadly tsunami that would claim almost 300,000 lives.

More Cream of More Crap

2004 was not a great year for film. Most of the year was spent anticipating an exemplary film to emerge from the pack.

The science behind the tsunami

For over a month now, newspapers and news channels have been dominated by tragic stories from South Asia, where the most devastating tsunami in recorded history affected countless lives.Tracy Gregg, an associate professor in UB's geology department, watched in awe that day in December.

Bulls need win against sharp-shooting Huskies

Fans of the men's basketball team are checking their calendars, as March is drawing near, and asking when the team is going to start winning.The heavily hyped Bulls have struggled in conference play lately, falling below .500 in the MAC with a close loss to Kent State last week.Tuesday night at home against Northern Illinois, the team hopes to regroup.The Bulls (10-5 overall, 3-4 Mid-American Conference) defeated the Huskies (6-9 overall, 2-5 MAC) in the first round of the MAC playoffs last year at Alumni Arena.

Students have more housing choices as deadlines loom

Apartment applications are due in one week, and many students are now facing one of the biggest questions of the spring semester: where to live next year?When it comes to deciding where to lay their heads, many students weigh the obvious pros and cons of each available living situation and come up with a draw.Bobby Bedi, a senior anthropology major who lived in the dorms and worked as a resident advisor before living in an apartment in Flint Village, said the apartments are better than the dorms, but they're not perfect."The walls are too thin," he said.

Marshall thunders over hapless Bulls

A lackluster effort on the boards doomed the women's basketball team to a 72-51 loss to Marshall Saturday afternoon at Alumni Arena.The team's third straight loss frustrated coach Cheryl Dozier, who has seen the young team show streaks of promise this season."I'm not pleased," Bulls' head coach Cheryl Dozier said after the game.Buffalo (3-13 overall, 1-4 Mid-American Conference) gave up 19 offensive rebounds to Marshall (9-7 overall, 3-2 MAC), and that was the story of the game from start to finish."We have to get more production out of somebody on our bench, and we have to be able to rebound the basketball," said Dozier.UB scored the first basket of the game, a lay-up by freshman forward Heather Turner, and never saw the lead again.Marshall's head coach, Royce Chadwick, understands the problems faced by the Bulls."When you play girls that do not have experience you have good halves and bad halves and up nights and down nights," he said.In addition to its edge over Buffalo in experience, Marshall's head coach attributes the win to the amount of minutes he was able to get from his bench players, with nearly every person who played reaching double digits in minutes."We played a lot of people, we got almost everybody who traveled double-digit minutes," said Chadwick.

"In his last season, Bortz remains fueled by intensity"

Mark Bortz uses the words intense and hardworking to describe himself.If you were to ask UB head coach Reggie Witherspoon, he would add the terms assertive and aggressive.

Track and field teams take second at Cornell

The UB men's and women's track and field teams left the Cornell Upstate Challenge Saturday night with strong second-place finishes in a six-team field.The UB men finished with 128 points, beaten out by Cornell's 240-point first place finish.