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Ready, Set, TransferUB's wrestling team has barely started its current season, and the front office is already looking ahead to next year's squad.

Get Them the Good Gifts

'Tis the season to be jolly. So goes the famed saying that many have heard since birth. In many ways this illustrates how the holiday season is that special time of the year.People smile, the ground is perfectly covered with just the right amount of snow, and, of course, loved ones are brought closer together.However, all the smiles and affection can soon come to a screeching halt when it turns out that the person who was thought to love and care gives a gift that does not quite cut the mustard.

A Helpful and Moral Wage Hike

This year's incoming freshman class collectively read Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" in UB 101.

Popularity of Poker Game Explodes

It is taking over living rooms, dorm rooms, attics, basements, computers and television. Like an epidemic, the popularity of Texas Hold'em style poker has spread across the nation.ESPN's "World Series of Poker" is the biggest contributor to the outbreak of Texas Hold'em.

Baby It's Cold Outside: Date Ideas to Heat Up Winter Nights

Chilly Buffalo winters are good for much more than freezing your pipes and leaving salt streaks on your windshield.

Ben Sargent Cartoon: 12.10.04

Men's Team to Face MAC Foes Over Break

While most of the UB student body is away over winter break in some place warm, eating home-cooked meals and celebrating after final exams, the men's basketball team will be hard at work.The Bulls (4-2 overall, 0-1 Mid-American Conference) have five games scheduled against conference opponents, including a home game against the Toledo Rockets, the team that eliminated the Bulls from the Mid-American Conference playoffs last March.The game against Toledo is the Bulls' first opportunity to exact revenge on the team that ended UB's best season since joining the MAC.Bulls' head coach Reggie Witherspoon isn't thrilled about the Toledo game falling during break."I would much rather play them during the school year, when the Maniacs are here," Witherspoon said.

New Plan Bans Residents from Lots

The Student Association Assembly rejected Tuesday night a proposal from UB officials to ban freshmen from parking along the Academic Spine next semester.By a 17-2 vote, the Assembly called the plan unfair and used the rest of the meeting to draft a counter-proposal that was signed by Assembly Chair Hassan Shibly and SA Senate Chair Mazin Kased.The results of the meeting were reported incorrectly in Wednesday's issue of The Spectrum.The new Assembly proposal asks that all commuters have Spine parking privileges year-round, that on-campus residents be banned from those lots from 9 a.m.

Bulls Prepare for Purple Eagles

After bouncing back from a disappointing Mid-American Conference opener with an overtime victory against the Elon Phoenix, the UB men's basketball team will return to the friendly confines of Alumni Arena to take on local rival, the Niagara Purple Eagles, on Saturday at 7 p.m.The Bulls stayed over the .500 mark by battling Tuesday en route to their second overtime victory of the young season by defeating the Phoenix 70-63, thus improving their record to 4-2 overall on the season.Though the Bulls' record doesn't reflect a poor start to the season, UB head coach Reggie Witherspoon isn't thrilled with the play of the team in their most recent games."We're kind of fighting and struggling through a struggle period for us, but these are normal at this point in the year," Witherspoon said.

Corrections

The man in the picture that went with the story "Haiti Gets a Helping Hand from UB Minister" in Monday's issue is Joel Payton, not Rev.

"Viagra, Cialis, Levitra, Oh My!"

America is the only industrial and democratic nation that does not have universal health care. To top it off, while our gentle Northern neighbor enjoys the security of price-controlled medicines, we are left to swallow an increasingly bitter pill.

Colleges Rethink Best Way to Reach Troubled Students

Staring out a tenth floor window of Clemens Hall into the dark September night, David considered his options and decided exactly what he was going to do: smash the window with a fire extinguisher, slit his wrists with scissors, and jump.But after a long gaze at the sidewalk, David stepped away, walked back to the dorms, and never said a word about it.

Upcoming Games

M. BasketballSaturday: vs. Niagara, 7 p.m.W. BasketballSaturday: vs. Niagara, 5 p.m.WrestlingSaturday: at Edinboro, 1 p.m.

"For Filmmaker, Teaching Is a Long-Distance Affair"

Elliot Caplan, an award-winning filmmaker, has spent a dozen years visiting family in Buffalo without stepping foot onto UB property.

"At First Press Event, SA Praises Fall Progress"

With the semester coming to a close, the Student Association is preparing to allocate the extra funds it won in September and is heavily advertising its events for next semester, SA officials said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon.The press conference was taped and will be aired on SATV's Channel 46 during finals week.

"Over Break, Keeping Burglars at Bay"

As students make plans to return home, those living on campus don't have to worry about their dorm rooms or apartments being burglarized during the break.

Students Pay the Price to Get Home

Students feeling the heat of final exams are finding in the semester's closing weeks that getting home cheaply is easier said than done.For many students, the decision whether to fly, take the train, or catch the bus is based on cost more than comfort, even if it takes extra hours to get home.Adam Palmer, a senior geology and psychology major, said because he doesn't work during the semester, it leaves him with less money to find a way home."I live in Jamestown, so finding a way to get home that is inexpensive is difficult," he said.

Women's Team to Face Streaking Niagara

This Saturday, the UB women's basketball team will take on a local rival, the Niagara University Purple Eagles in non-league action at Alumni Arena this Saturday.Buffalo will have its work cut out for itself, as Niagara is coming off of a three-game winning streak after putting away Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference opponents St.

Exorcising a Bible Cyst

As Southern folklore goes, a group of young and angry carnies once decided to try their hand at Southern rebel blues.

A Sacrifice Dishonored

Seven months ago Spc. Pat Tillman was shot dead in a firefight on an Afghan ridge.The young Army Ranger was tough and brave, like so many other Americans who have given their lives in these past two wars.