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Students Back in Super 8

By JENNIFER FUSCO | Sep. 3, 2004

With 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, 2004

Anticipating 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, 2004

With 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, 2004

An 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, 2004

This 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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Sidelines

Sep. 1, 2004

Basketball Schedules ReleasedBoth teams will open their seasons against Connecticut, whose mens' and womens' teams are the reigning national champions.

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Activists Hit Asphalt to Oust Bush

By RACHEL BELLAVIA | Sep. 1, 2004

The 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, 2004

Just 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, 2004

For 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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Saving the best for last

By NICHOLAS MENDOLA | Sep. 1, 2004

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This Land Is Your Land

By NICHOLAS MENDOLA | Sep. 1, 2004

Summer 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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Scoreboard

Sep. 1, 2004

BuffaloW. SoccerFri: St. Bonaventure4Buffalo0Sun: Syracuse1Buffalo0

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Tripathi Ready for His First Semester

By JEREMY G. BURTON | Sep. 1, 2004

When Satish K. Tripathi was told he had been selected as UB's next provost, he could hardly contain his excitement.

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Bulls Lose in Two-Overtime Thriller

By JACKIE O and JACKIE O | Sep. 1, 2004

With a minute and a half remaining in the second overtime, Syracuse University (2-0-0) scored the game-winning goal and handed the UB women's soccer team a 1-0 loss in its non-conference home opener on Sunday afternoon at RAC Field."I think playing Syracuse gave us an opportunity to look at our attack as well as our defense," said Head coach Jean Tassy.

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A Broad Spectrum

By AND GEORGE ZORNICK | Sep. 1, 2004

Whether you have been on campus for only a few days or you are a seasoned UB veteran, by reading this you are now familiar with UB's undergraduate newspaper, The Spectrum.Ten thousand copies of our paper are distributed around UB three times per week.

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A Legacy of Hope and Hard Work

By JEREMY G. BURTON | Sep. 1, 2004

Although the chair of UB's Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, William Barba, had seen his share of term papers, he had never experienced one like Kevin Pitra's.

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Inquiring minds want to know

By SAMANTHA MAZIARZ | Sep. 1, 2004

If Agent Scully from "The X-Files" were a real person, she would probably work here in Amherst at the Center for Inquiry.The center, which houses the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), has offices in almost every country around the globe but their world headquarters is right across the street on Sweet Home Road.CSICOP, founded in part by ground-breaking astronomer Carl Sagan and prolific science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov, aims to promote scientific literacy by objectively investigating all types of paranormal and fringe-science claims.

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While We Were Gone

By NICHOLAS MENDOLA | Sep. 1, 2004

Somewhere within the unquenchable, hellish inferno that encapsulated the new releases of this past summer was a little corner of heaven in which ten or so artists congregated to bring a little piece of heaven to an otherwise dismal season.Radio hip-hop had the finest summer, presenting us with long-awaited releases from the Roots and the Beastie Boys, "The Tipping Point" and "To The 5 Boroughs," respectively."The Tipping Point," the follow-up to 2002's "Phrenology," was a little bit of a departure for the Roots: more pop, less street, all good.

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"WOW, WHAT A DIFFERENCE"

By ALEXANDER CHENG AND MIKE FLATT | Sep. 1, 2004

Every summer comes complete with its load of heavily touted blockbusters, most which fizzle and fade like Pop Rocks.

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Bulls Plan to De-Claw Eagles in Season Opener

By CHRIS LIPPA | Sep. 1, 2004

This year, the first Thursday night of the semester means a whole lot more than just heading down to Chippewa Street for a night on the town.