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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.
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This Land Is Your Land
By NICHOLAS MENDOLA | Sep. 1, 2004Summer seemed a little longer than usual this year. I wish I could say it was because I was having a ridiculously good time-which isn't all that false-but it simply is God's way of punishing me with anticipation.For what?Danza, Danza, Danza!Now, I'm not a big television fan to start with, but "The Tony Danza Show," premiering September 13 in national syndication, may very well be the reason I didn't hyperventilate last Friday after the final episode of "The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn" (more on that later). Craiggers, I'm going to miss the crap out of you, but let's face facts: Tony Miceli plus daytime television equals television gold.
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Tripathi Ready for His First Semester
By JEREMY G. BURTON | Sep. 1, 2004When Satish K. Tripathi was told he had been selected as UB's next provost, he could hardly contain his excitement.
