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Students have more housing choices as deadlines loom

By KATHERINE BECZAK | Jan. 24, 2005

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.

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Marshall thunders over hapless Bulls

By DANIEL GVERTZ | Jan. 24, 2005

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.

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

By JENNIFER GILLAN | Jan. 24, 2005

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.

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Track and field teams take second at Cornell

By ANTHONY SYLOR | Jan. 24, 2005

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.

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Squeezing water from a dry sponge

By Editorial | Jan. 24, 2005

Spongebob Squarepants is perhaps the most overexposed cartoon character ever. The googly-eyed dope is a daily intruder into millions of living rooms and dorms in his television show.

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"Internet, power interruptions plague UB over weekend"

By GEORGE ZORNICK | Jan. 24, 2005

Along with blustering winds and deep snow, a spate of service problems from power outages to Internet service interruptions inconvenienced most of North Campus over the weekend.Late Saturday and early Sunday morning, 14 buildings on North Campus lost power.

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"For winter commuters, getting there is a daily battle"

By NICOLE COLEMAN | Jan. 24, 2005

Snow-covered cars spin their wheels and careen like billiard balls down unplowed roads. On campus, where the yellow lines are obscured, they are strewn casually around the lots.The snow starts falling.

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Rally to push for workers' rights

By JENNIFER FUSCO | Jan. 24, 2005

Students Against Sweatshops will continue to prod UB to join the Workers Rights Consortium this week with a rally and teach-in Thursday at Capen and Baldy Halls.The Workers Rights Consortium is an independent monitoring board that ensures that factories where clothing bearing the UB logo is produced are in compliance with labor standards.UB is considering whether to join the consortium or the Fair Labor Association, a monitoring group that some campus activists say is too weak to get the truth from companies about their labor standards."We want to educate people why the Workers Rights Consortium is a better choice than the Fair Labor Association," said Maura Pellettieri, freshman English major and member of Students Against Sweatshops.

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"A showy, selfish nation"

By DENA-KAY MARTIN | Jan. 24, 2005

When giant waves crashed into parts of Asia and Africa the day after Christmas, many Americans tuned in to daily news reports about the disaster and opened their hearts and wallets to those suffering.America's wealthiest entertainers donated substantial portions of their fortunes to relief funds, NBC gathered A-list entertainers for a television special in a major effort to raise money, and former presidents George H.

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Schedule

Jan. 24, 2005

M. BasketballTuesday: vs. NIU, 7 p.m.

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Scoreboard

Jan. 24, 2005

Track & FieldSaturday:Women at Cornell InviteSecond out of six teamsMen at Cornell InviteSecond out of six teamsW.

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Sidelines

Jan. 24, 2005

No bullThe Bulls' men's basketball team has not filed any official protest of last Wednesday night's game at Kent State.

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The Builders Put Down Their Hammers

By NICHOLAS MENDOLA | Jan. 24, 2005

Jon Salemi stands center stage at the Sphere Nite Club in downtown Buffalo, the house lights on and his two-year old son Evan clinging to his neck.

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Cleanup set for campus nuclear site

By RACHEL BELLAVIA | Jan. 21, 2005

Eleven years after UB's nuclear reactor shut down for good, New York State is investing millions of dollars to clean up hazardous materials at the site.The university has held a license to possess and secure the nuclear material at the South Campus facility since it closed down in 1994, according to David Vasbinder, director of the Buffalo Materials Research Center."There was not a great deal of on-campus use of the facility," Vasbinder said.

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Not one damn clue

By JEREMY G. BURTON | Jan. 21, 2005

On the day of President Bush's second inauguration, a cry rose up from angry Americans to spend "Not One Damn Dime" to protest the incompetence, consumerism, and ignorance of the Bush administration.

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Touching on their roots

By PAUL MEGNA | Jan. 21, 2005

While it is a fairly well known fact that rock and roll was spawned from a combination of country and blues, these two genres seem only distant relatives of modern rock for many of today's listeners.On their debut album, "Dark Snack," The Moaners do their best to reconcile rock and roll with its forgotten roots, creating a sound that is likely be greatly appreciated by fans from any generation.The Moaners, an all-female outfit based in North Carolina, consists of only two members, lead vocalist/guitarist Melissa Swingle and drummer/vocalist Laura King.

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Open-and-shut case

By MIKE FLATT | Jan. 21, 2005

When a band decides to end their run, the first question posed is, "Why?" Most times, the culprit is some sort of inner quarrel, whether musical or personal.

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Bulls fall at Kent despite second chance

By DANIEL GVERTZ | Jan. 21, 2005

When Turner Battle nailed a three-point shot with less than one second to play Wednesday night, tying rival Kent State, it looked like last-second heroics would save the Bulls again.But the Golden Flashes outplayed the Bulls in overtime, handing UB their first loss in a close game this season, 85-80 at Kent's Memorial Athletic Center.The loss dropped Buffalo (10-5, 3-4 Mid-American Conference) below the .500 mark in conference play.Undisciplined play hurt the Bulls all night.

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New Pell Grant rules threaten student aid

By JESSICA PACKARD | Jan. 21, 2005

Dancarlys Valdez wouldn't be in college if it weren't for the United States government. Like many students, she relies on federal aid to pay for college.

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Anxious Akron beats Bulls on road

By JACKIE O and JACKIE O | Jan. 21, 2005

Taking on winless Akron, the circumstances appeared to be favorable for the UB women's basketball team as the Bulls looked to bounce back from a Mid-American Conference loss to Ball State last Saturday.But Buffalo (3-12 overall, 1-3 MAC) squandered the opportunity to gain its second MAC win of the season, falling to the Zips (1-15, 1-4 MAC) on the road by a final score of 71-63.A flat start from the opening tip hindered the Bulls and proved to be a setback that UB could not overcome."We just didn't get out of the gate well.