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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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Formal Inauguration for Simpson Planned

UB will officially inaugurate President John Simpson in an investiture ceremony on Oct. 15, 10 months after he took office as UB's 14th president.To celebrate Simpson's investiture, the month of October will feature more than 60 events for faculty, students and community members.Events will include forums, speakers, concerts, sports, and a costume ball.James Willis, special assistant to the president, said the investiture will "highlight President Simpson's message of centrality" and bring the UB community together."This community is steeped in tradition and we hope to exploit that," Willis said.Willis said the administration expects well over 1,000 people to attend the investiture ceremony, which will take place at the Center for the Arts.


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Novaceanu Leads Women's Tennis

Freshman Andreea Novaceanu claimed a singles titile and added a doubles title to lead the UB women's tennis team at the Bowling Green Invitational last weekend.Novaceanu beat Bowling Green's Susie Schoenberger in three sets, 6-4, 5-7, 6-2.


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A Painful Experience

"I dig my heels into the dirt cause this one's gonna hurt," Charlotte Martin cries on the title track of her second album, "On Your Shore."Somehow Martin has the insight to know exactly how her listener is going to feel while listening to her music.


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Meet the Bulls: Katie Fage

Sometimes change is a good thing when trying to achieve success. Other times success is found without much change at all.Freshman women's soccer player Katie Fage decided she didn't want to change some aspects of her life when she decided to attend the University at Buffalo to continue her soccer career.While many times students have problems adjusting to the sheer size of UB, Fage has taken the move in stride."I came from a big high school, and I knew I always wanted to go to a really big university," said Fage.


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Simpson Presents His Fall Semester Progress to UB Council

UB will soon feel a ripple effect from the fifth floor of Capen Hall as President Simpson moves forward with several nationwide searches and develops a comprehensive plan.Simpson said during Monday's UB Council Meeting that the university "needs to make some critical decisions about what it is and what it wants to be, and act on that."Nearly every speaker at the meeting brought up either an academic or financial committee, a comprehensive plan, or series of administrative and faculty searches, all of which will impact the direction Simpson decides to take UB in the near future."I'm getting a picture now of the university that you don't get from looking at numbers on a page," Simpson said.Council Chair Jeremy Jacobs expressed concern that Simpson was biting off a bit more than he can chew, especially with national and in-house administrative position searches underway in both the president's and provost's offices.


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