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"Forward, Defenseman Shine for Men's Soccer"

Muhammad Ali once said, "Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision."This depiction of a champion characterizes UB's men's soccer player Matt Stuczynski.


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Women's Cross Country Gets Top 30 VotesThe UB women's cross country team received 2 votes in the latest FinishLynx top 30 poll.


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"Mandatory Activity Fee Is Approved, Increase Accepted"

The student activity fee will remain mandatory for the next four years and will increase by $10 next semester after both referendums passed during an SA vote earlier this week.In the coinciding Student Association Senate elections, the Your UB Voice party nearly swept all 12 Senate seats, taking all six on-campus positions and all but one of the off-campus positions.Brittany Shapiro, an independent candidate, won the last Senate seat.When the polls closed Wednesday night, 2,839 undergraduate students had voted.


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Experienced Crew Team Ready for Fall Season

As cool fall breezes descend upon Buffalo, so does the fresh start of a new women's crew season for the Bulls.UB finished off this past spring with a respectful fifth place team finish at the Metro Cup in Worcester, MA.


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"Tommorrow Night, Trump"

Donald Trump, who UB students chose to headline the Distinguished Speakers Series, will speak Thursday night at Alumni Arena.The billionaire real-estate mogul recently gained fame with a younger audience from his popular reality television show "The Apprentice.""We have a very high expectation for Trump," said Student Association President Anthony Burgio.


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UB's Joyce Collection Ends Major Exhibit

A small room on the fourth floor of Capen Hall houses one of UB's best-kept secrets: a prestigious collection of James Joyce's letters and manuscripts that is the largest in the world.This summer, UB featured "The Centennial of Bloomsday," a James Joyce exhibit in the Poetry and Rare Book Collection Library, which was displayed from June 8 through September 22.For the centennial, UB displayed the full collection, which included Joyce family portraits, early writings before the author's celebrated "Ulysses," scraps of notes on which he would write ideas, and first editions of books such as "Portrait of the Artist," "Exiles," and "Dubliners.""We were very lucky to have the foresight to buy these (artifacts)," said Samuel Slote, the collection's curator.Slote added that the entire UB James Joyce collection is valued at $100 million.According to Slote, when the Joyce items were auctioned off between 1949 and 1950, UB was the only university to place a bid on any of them.Slote said after Joyce died, some of his belongings were recovered, but most were sold in Paris, and because no European universities joined in the bidding process, the Joyce collection easily made its way to UB.However, there is a bit of mystery within UB's Joyce collection.


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Wall Street Journal Praises Business School

For the fourth consecutive year, UB's School of Management has been ranked by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top business schools in the country, which officials said will help both draw more attention to the program and attract more students.Jacqueline Ghosen, director of communication for the School of Management, said the Wall Street Journal changed its rankings this year to categorize schools in a more useful way for students and college recruiters."In the past, all of the business schools were ranked as one group, leading to some apples-and-oranges comparisons," she said.UB fell into the publication's regional category because of the size of its MBA program and the reach of the recruiters, Goshen said.


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Feminism's Universality

It was great to see coverage of a Gender Week event in the article titled "A Mother Speaks Out Against Homophobia" which appeared in the Sept.


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Cops Crack Down In Heights

This is the first of two stories analyzing the effect of escalating police activity in the Heights.Police busted a rising number of parties in University Heights over the past few weeks, and UB officials say more is in store for students who don't keep their parties legal and quiet.Between Wednesday and Friday of last week alone, over 30 parties were broken up, said Dennis Black, vice president for student affairs.According to Black, police are crashing the parties because of three major issues.


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Singing to Help Save Lives

"Take Action! Volume 4" is the latest installment in Sub City Records' series of compilations to benefit the National Hopeline Network, an organization that helps those who struggle with suicidal thoughts.Volumes One through Three were heralded as great collections of rising and established artists contributing their songs towards a great cause.


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Ortman Ready to Ace MAC Foes

Kristen Ortman is a junior captain on the University at Buffalo's women's tennis team. She grew up only a few miles away from campus in Amherst and graduated from nearby Amherst High School.Her dad introduced her to the game of tennis when she was seven years old."I played almost every sport when I was younger and I started tennis because my dad wanted me to try it," Ortman said.Ortman went on a couple different recruiting trips for tennis, and it wasn't until the middle of her senior year of high school that she finally decided to play for coach Cathy Twist at UB.Though her freshman year wasn't the most statistically successful season the team has had, Ortman said that team's roster stands out in her mind more than any since."Freshman year the girls were awesome.



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