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"Kerry, Edwards Have the Right Plan"
By JUSTIN MARTIN AND GRANT WOODARD | Sep. 3, 2004Instead of a convention, this week in New York George Bush is having a masquerade ball -- a fa?
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Lee Road Plans Put On Hold
By JENNIFER FUSCO | Sep. 3, 2004The heavily debated plans for development along Lee Road on North Campus have been put on hold, according to UB officials.President John Simpson was quick to say he has not entirely canceled the Lee Road project.
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Dodgeball: Friendster for Your Cell Phone
By SAMANTHA MAZIARZ | Sep. 3, 2004Social software has left the bounds of the World Wide Web and is headed for your cell phone.A company called Dodgeball has created a social networking program for mobile phones designed to help friends, and friends of friends, get together."When all of the dot-coms were failing, all of my friends were getting laid off and moving and we weren't hanging out as much as we used to," said Dennis Crowley, 28, a New York University graduate, one of Dodgeball's founders.They were using things like Citysearch, a basic city guide to coordinate their social gatherings, but weren't having much success."Citysearch was just a really lousy product, it still is a lousy product," he said.
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Sep. 3, 2004UBM. SoccerWednesday:Buffalo3Colgate0VolleyballWednesday:Syracuse3Buffalo0FootballThursday:Eastern Michigan37Buffalo34
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Football Home Opener to be Televised
Sep. 3, 2004UB's home opener against Syracuse on Sat., Sept. 11, is going to be televised on WNLO-TV in Buffalo.
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Suspects Charged in South Campus Robberies
By JEREMY G. BURTON | Sep. 3, 2004Buffalo residents Angorit I. Garner and Walter J. Terrell were arrested early Monday morning and charged on Tuesday for the Sunday robberies of four UB students near Parker and Hayes Halls on South Campus, according to Director of Public Safety John Grela.Garner and Terrell, both 20, are unaffiliated with UB.
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Comprehensive Fees Hiked Seven Percent
By JEREMY G. BURTON | Sep. 3, 2004The undergraduate comprehensive fee -- which goes towards technology, transportation, athletics, campus life, and health services -- has been increased by $52.75, bringing the total comprehensive fee to $738.25 per semester.This year's increase is close to an eight-percent jump in the comprehensive fee.
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"Fact, Fiction and the Grace of Hopelessness"
By MIKE FLATT | Sep. 3, 2004Readers may absorb their environment a bit differently after reading Chuck Palahniuk's work. What was once beautiful may become a discomfort.
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Spectrum Wins Back Funding
By JENNIFER ROSE | Sep. 3, 2004This past summer was a chance for most students to hang out with friends, work at boring summer jobs, and vaguely think of the coming semester.
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Beautiful People Doing Ugly Things
By MIKE FLATT | Sep. 3, 2004Paul McGuigan tried to make an intelligent remake of the French film "L'Appartement." He had color themes, mixed timelines, big stars and a popular screenplay from which to draw.
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Students Back in Super 8
By JENNIFER FUSCO | Sep. 3, 2004With dry erase boards on the doors and posters up in the hallways, the Super 8 Motel on Flint Road welcomed a new group of students this week due to a lack of space in on-campus housing.Last year, after accepting a record freshman class, the administration housed 155 students in two local motels and a South Campus office building until space was found in the residence halls.This semester, the hotel-housing plan is back, but only one hotel is being used.
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UB Football is a Hot Ticket this Fall
By JACKIE O and JACKIE O | Sep. 3, 2004Anticipating the first-ever sellout in the history of UB's 31,000 seat stadium, the Division of Athletics has set aside 7,500 student-only tickets for the highly touted UB football home opener on Sat., Sept.
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Simpson Shakes Up Hierarchy
By JENNIFER FUSCO | Sep. 1, 2004With six months under his belt as the university's president, John Simpson has decided to take UB in a new direction by re-organizing the structure of the administration.Simpson said he decided to shake things up in the administration after several months of talking to his colleagues."I spent six months listening to people and their difficulties and aspirations and thought about them and how to accomplish them," Simpson said.
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Peaceful Protests in New York City
By Editorial | Sep. 1, 2004An important tenet our society was founded upon is the right to free speech. It is essential to our democracy.
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"Moving In, Getting Settled"
By KATHY LALLY | Sep. 1, 2004This is the time of the great annual American migration, when millions of restless young people range across the country, bearing great dreams for the future--and way too much stuff.
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Activists Hit Asphalt to Oust Bush
By RACHEL BELLAVIA | Sep. 1, 2004The clock at a small gas stop in Brockport ticked past 3 a.m. Most of America was asleep. But passions were running high on the protesters' bus."All I have to stand by is my word.
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Finding Unity in the Open Field
By DANIEL GVERTZ | Sep. 1, 2004Just a few months after ten of their starters graduated, the UB women's soccer team is trying to find a new chemistry.The team has started the season with two shutout losses.
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Up from Rock Bottom
By CHRIS LIPPA | Sep. 1, 2004For the past two seasons, the Mid-American Conference has been on the rise, receiving recognition for upsetting juggernaut football programs and getting ranked in the Top 25.Led by Heisman hopeful Byron Leftwitch, the Marshall Thundering Herd stunned the NCAA in 2002 by finishing in the Top 25.
