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Correction

The photo of the University Village site in Wednesday's issue was improperly credited. The photo was taken by Chris Gasz.


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"Apples, Honey, and Rosh Hashana"

Jewish students, faculty, and community members turned out across campus Wednesday and Thursday to celebrate Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.A day that is both solemn and celebratory, Rosh Hashana is traditionally regarded as the birthday of the world and runs from sundown Wednesday to sundown Friday.


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A Clean Sweep

The University at Buffalo women's volleyball team pulled out the brooms Wednesday night with a 3-0 sweep over cross-town rival Niagara.


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Sidelines

FootballThis weekend's trip to Reno, Nev. will be the longest distance traveled in the history of Bulls football.


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Women's Tennis Strives to Keep Improving

The UB women's tennis team will rely on a combination of youthful talent and experienced veterans to improve on the 8-11 record they compiled last season and take them to the top of the Mid-American Conference this year.Last season ended with a first round loss in the MAC Tournament to Toledo, but this year the team hopes to learn from that experience and use it as a building block for this season.Head Coach Kathy Twist feels that the team has the players and experience it needs to succeed.


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Living Safely Off-Campus

As is the case every fall, many UB students move into new homes and apartments off campus, especially in the communities near our North and South Campuses.


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Kickin' back with Mike Baker

Very few people will ever forget it.It made nearly every kid in Buffalo cry, and we were not even ashamed to tell our friends the next day.The words still echo through Buffalo - WIDE RIGHT!Scott Norwood's kick not only lost a Super Bowl, it doomed the Buffalo Bills to three more losses in the NFL's title game.


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MyRichUncle Helps Foot Tuition Bills

While university students continuously reach new heights of creativity when it comes to earning money or surviving on very limited means, taking care of tuition payment is one area of university costs where students usually prefer to not take chances.But even those who take care to fill out FASFA forms on time and visit with financial aid advisors religiously still sometimes find themselves in need of some serious monetary contributions.These students might get a helping hand from a new organization called MyRichUncle (MRU) Holdings, formerly known as Iempower."We are an education provider and we want to help students that are looking to attend undergraduate or graduate school but do not have the monetary resources to do so," said Jeremy Weiner, director of Marketing at www.MyRichUncle.com.MyRichUncle is a publicly held company issuing private loans, which began in 1999 and was founded by Vishal Garg and Raza Khan.


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"Finding Simpson: Presidential Search Cost $220,000"

UB's national search for a new president last year -- which ended with the selection of John B. Simpson -- cost almost $220,000, according to search committee records released from the president's office this summer.The cost of the search was slightly higher than that of other universities that recently conducted presidential searches, but is still in the ballpark of what a school like UB would spend, according to Robert Wagner, senior counselor to the president.Seventy-three percent of the cost -- nearly $161,000 -- went towards the private search firm EMN/Witt/Kieffer, while the other $60,000 was spent on travel, food, advertising, phone services, hotel rooms and other reimbursable costs.According to a February article in the Daily Iowan, the University of Iowa's recent five-month search cost $177,204.


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Road Work Ties Up Main Street

With the new school year in full swing, students traveling between North and South Campus are experiencing more than the usual delays thanks to heavy construction on Main Street.The current construction on Main Street is the first in eight phases of a $15.3 million locally-administered federal aid project that began last May, according to Ron Mandell, resident engineer for Erdman, Anthony and Associates, the company working with the City of Buffalo to complete the project.The intersection at Main Street and Bailey Avenue is undergoing what is known as "total reconstruction," Mandell said."Basically, we're building a totally new street from the foundation up.


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Wimbledon Scores Love

For those who enjoy the two or three romantic comedies a year that star Hugh Grant and his oh-so-charming British accent but think that there's something missing, fret not.


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