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UB Volleyball Falters out of the Gate

By DANIEL GVERTZ | Sep. 3, 2004

In their season opener at Syracuse, the University at Buffalo's volleyball team couldn't dig, set, and spike their way to victory, falling to the Orange in three games.At the beginning, it didn't seem as though the Bulls were going to be able to keep the match close, losing the first game by 12 points, and the second by 10, but the they came back, and lost by only a five point deficit in the final game of the match.Tammy Jul?

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Upcoming Games

Sep. 3, 2004

UBW. SoccerArizona TournamentFriday vs. Fairleigh Dickinson 5 p.m.Sunday vs. UC Irvine 11 a.m.M. SoccerSaturday vs.

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"Lee Road Over, But Housing Plan Still Needed"

By Editorial | Sep. 3, 2004

This week President Simpson put the Lee Road project on hold. Lee Road has been in the planning stages for nearly four years.

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Volleyball Hopes to Keep Building

By MELISSA PACE | Sep. 3, 2004

Take a little veteran leadership, add some freshman attitude, and you've got the UB volleyball team.The Bulls hope to build on their momentum from last year, when they won their first road match in the Mid-American Conference, and five MAC matches in total, a program record.Last year, the team surpassed their kill total from the previous season and also managed to commit fewer errors while simultaneously winning more MAC contests, as well as more overall contests, than they did in previous years.Not only did those statistics improve, but several players were also recognized with individual honors.

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Get Away from Buffalo

By DENA-KAY MARTIN | Sep. 3, 2004

With three-day weekend vacations, festive parades and holiday retail sales, it might be difficult to imagine why the "L" in Labor Day doesn't instead stand for "leisure." While some students might lament not celebrating in their hometown with family or - for New York City folks - gallivanting in Labor Day parades, kicking back in Western New York or her neighbor to the north, Canada, might be quite a consolation prize.Niagara-on-the-Lake, in Southern Ontario, is a trendy resort town on the banks of the scenic Niagara River.

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New Channels Debut

By JENNIFER FUSCO AND SIOBHAN COUNIHAN | Sep. 3, 2004

With 28 additional channels added to campus cable this semester, UB students have 28 more reasons this fall to sit back with the remote and live it up as couch potatoes.Falls Earth Station, UB's programming provider, installed additional channels over the summer.

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"'Baaaaa,' says Frank"

By RACHEL BELLAVIA | Sep. 3, 2004

Many of you will probably know what I'm talking about when I use the term "LJ-cut." In fact, more students would probably be able to identify Frank the Goat in a line of suspects than Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.But if you don't happen to know the goat of which I speak and his mystical ability to take the young-adult nation by storm, I'm referring to the Web site Livejournal.com, a modern subculture unto itself.An online blogging community, Livejournal provides its users with a personal journal where they can broadcast their private thoughts and feelings on the Web to whomever they please.Other websites, such as blogger.com and diaryland.com also provide online journals, and many websites (deadjournal.com, ujournal.org) are spawns of the LJ phenomenon, but Livejournal rings truest both for its setup and originality.One of the great things about Livejournal is the extent of creativity it allows each user to express.

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So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star

By NICHOLAS MENDOLA | Sep. 3, 2004

"It takes more than girls' jeans and a hip haircut to make music," Elliott Rothman said with a smirk.Sadly, this seems like the antithesis of a career musician's life.

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A Bit Better

By JACKIE O and JACKIE O | Sep. 3, 2004

A fourth quarter touchdown with 7:52 remaining in the game by Eastern Michigan's Chris Talley proved to be the deciding factor in the University at Buffalo's first MAC football game of the 2004 season, as EMU narrowly defeated UB 37-34 in what otherwise was a very even game between two comparable, though much improved football teams."This is a very disappointing result-not discouraging," said UB head coach Jim Hofher.

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Bjork Takes The Gold

By NICHOLAS MENDOLA | Sep. 3, 2004

Bjork's new album, "Medulla," is as ambitious and beautiful as the artist herself, that is to say its charm lies in its peculiarity.

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"Kerry, Edwards Have the Right Plan"

By JUSTIN MARTIN AND GRANT WOODARD | Sep. 3, 2004

Instead 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, 2004

The 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, 2004

Social 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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Scoreboard

Sep. 3, 2004

UBM. SoccerWednesday:Buffalo3Colgate0VolleyballWednesday:Syracuse3Buffalo0FootballThursday:Eastern Michigan37Buffalo34

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Football Home Opener to be Televised

Sep. 3, 2004

UB'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, 2004

Buffalo 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, 2004

The 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, 2004

Readers 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, 2004

This 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, 2004

Paul 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.