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Students Stayed Home From Polls
By Editorial | Sep. 15, 2004Yesterday students were given the opportunity to vote in several heavily contested primary elections.
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She's the Cheese and I'm the Macaroni
By NICHOLAS MENDOLA | Sep. 15, 2004This Monday, I went to see a preview of "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" at the Elmwood Regal.
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Alumni Arena Facelift Nearly Complete
By EVAN PIERCE | Sep. 15, 2004When visiting teams come to Alumni Arena to take on the Bulls this year, they will no longer enter some anonymous-looking indoor stadium.
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Men's Tennis Heads to Dartmouth
By DANIEL GVERTZ | Sep. 15, 2004After a strong showing in the Buffalo/Bonaventure classic, the UB's men's tennis team will be hitting the camping trail for the first time this year to participate in the Dartmouth Invitational.
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"New Places, Old Faces, Same Great Week One"
By CHRIS LIPPA | Sep. 15, 2004Sundays in Buffalo mean either one of two things to people: A) A day of rest and worship or B) Football in mass consumption.
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"Look for New England, Cleveland, Denver and Tennessee to take first place in the AFC's first four divisions"
By DANIEL GVERTZ | Sep. 15, 2004With week one in the books, it's time for The Spectrum to take a look and make some bold predictions about the upcoming season.AFC EastThe New England Patriots - It's always tough to pick the reigning Super Bowl champions and say that they should win their division, but a Bill Belichick-coached team has a great chance to stay at the top when they get there.
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New Contract Makes Pepsi the Next Generation at UB
By SIOBHAN COUNIHAN | Sep. 13, 2004UB has signed a five-year contract with Pepsico Inc., ending ten years of UB's status as a Coca-Cola campus.According to Faculty Student Association Executive Director Mitchell Green, over 400 vending machines, fountains and beverage distributors across both campuses have been replaced under the new deal.The process of changing over started last fall when the university's decade-long contract with Coca-Cola Co. neared its end, Green said.
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Old Stadium Rediscovers Youth
By EVAN PIERCE | Sep. 13, 2004With over 99,000 square feet of new artificial turf installed this summer, the old football stadium on Augspurger Road has been given a second lease on life.The old stadium, abandoned by UB football for the current UB Stadium in 1993, will now serve as a safe, all-weather field used primarily for sport clubs and intramurals."Weather has really hurt intramurals and sport club programming, forcing us to cancel a lot due to bad conditions," said Ed Michael, director of Recreation and Intramurals.
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"Under Clear Blue Skies, UB Remembers 9/11"
By RACHEL BELLAVIA | Sep. 13, 2004On a clear weekend under blue skies -- like those on September 11, 2001 -- UB was out and about, going about their daily work and finding ways to mark the events that occurred three years ago.
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Bulls' Game Plan Fails Against Orange
By DANIEL GVERTZ | Sep. 13, 2004The Bulls came out strong in their upset bid against Syracuse, but couldn't recover after Syracuse scored two quick touchdowns off special teams plays in the second quarter.
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Around the MAC: Search Continues for Conference Powerhouse
By CHRIS LIPPA | Sep. 13, 2004Many teams have said the best thing about the first few weeks of the football season is the opportunity to become stronger on a weekly basis.
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Koeppel Leads Women's Cross Country
By ANTHONY SYLOR | Sep. 13, 2004The UB Women's Cross Country team ran away with a first place finish in the Tommy Evans Invitational on Saturday in Akron, Ohio.
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Sep. 13, 2004McKnight takes gold at Junior Pan-AmsBuffalo wrestler Mark McKnight won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling and a bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Junior Pan-American Games held in Maracabio City, Venezuela on July 26.Coming off of a freshman season with a 34-8 record for the Bulls, McKnight went 4-0 in the 121-pound (55 kilos) weight bracket in the freestyle portion of the games, beating competitors from both Canada and Venezuela.In Greco-Roman wrestling, McKnight won his opening round match against his competitor from Argentina 10-0, but fell in the semi-finals to the eventual gold-medal winner Jaciel Rodriguez of Venezuela.
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Pieces of Rhesus
By EVAN PIERCE | Sep. 13, 2004French rock is more than a little alien to the U.S. mainstream, but Rhesus could change that.The trio from Grenoble earned the title of "Best Newcomer of 2004" (presumably best French newcomer) in the weekly French culture magazine, "Les Inrockuptibles" thanks to their latest EP, "Meanwhile at the Party."This turns out to be no puff of cigarette-holder smoke.On "Meanwhile at the Party," the laid-back rock begins with a track entitled "Shooting Star," which mellows for over six minutes.
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"I'm Super, Thanks for Asking"
Sep. 13, 2004There's nothing quite like the look in someone's face when I utter those horrifying words:"No, I'm not graduating this year.""WHHHAAAA...?" they ask, desperately hoping I hadn't actually just said what I had actually just said.
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Urban Hymns for Suburban Atheists
By CHRIS HUGHES | Sep. 13, 2004Melody has almost always taken a backseat to image in rock and roll and that's exactly what the Shore is: not as much a band as an image.The band's self-titled debut has 10 songs, each one blending into the next, essentially creating one long, slow-motion make-out scene.
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SBI Accounting Fee Hike Not Related to SA Action
By JOSEPH MURE AND PAUL SCIARRATTA | Sep. 13, 2004This is in response to the article "SA Reduces Allocation to Sub-Board by $70,000" in the Sept. 10 issue.
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Too Much Pork In Fee Increase
By Editorial | Sep. 13, 2004This semester full-time UB undergraduates have seen a $52.75 increase in the comprehensive fee. The fee is a consolidation of required fees that funds various university services.
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Men's Tennis Starts Strong
By NICK MALARA | Sep. 13, 2004The UB men's tennis team hosted the UB Classic tennis tournament last weekend and took advantage of playing on their home court.
