This is the second story in a two-part series that analyzes how the decision to build UB in Amherst, rather than Buffalo's waterfront, has shaped Buffalo's history and the student-community relationship.
There are two things you have to remember when you predict how the baseball season is going to end: Offense wins divisions, and pitching wins championships.The Marlins fireballers proved that when they beat the Yankees in last season's World Series.
The downfall for most bands with a remarkably talented singer is letting an album focus far too much on said talent.
"Sorry, we're not hiring Muslims right now." - I was saddened and outraged to hear this was the reply a Muslim woman received from a number of companies where she applied for a job.
Like many other UB students, the women's tennis team traveled to Florida over spring break, but they were there for three non-conference matches, rather than the sun and partying like most of their fellow students.The women were able to dominate their non-conference competition in a three-game sweep of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Tampa and Dayton to improve their record to 7-4 (0-2 Mid-American Conference) over the break.But now the break is over, and the Bulls must resume their conference schedule this weekend with trips to Northern Illinois and Western Michigan.Buffalo has been woeful in MAC competition, losing every match since an April 6, 2001 defeat of the Akron Zips.
In the March 24 issue of The Spectrum, Justin Martin, President of the UB College Democrats, was quoted in the article "Bake Sale Incites Protest," saying the College Republicans had "made a fool" of themselves by holding what many thought to be a "racist" bake sale under the guise of an anti-affirmative action demonstration.What Justin Martin failed to mention was that the College Republicans were scheduled to debate the College Democrats on the issue of affirmative action on Wednesday at 10 a.m.
Fire sirens blared in the area behind Demske Complex, but they might have been going to the wrong place.UB swept both games of a doubleheader with the Golden Griffins and torched their cross-town rivals all day long on Wednesday afternoon.The high powered offensive was courtesy of the entire team.
It has to be every mother's worst nightmare: a hardcore music supergroup.That's probably the way Some Girls prefer it.Featuring members of heavy all-stars the Locust, Give Up The Ghost (formerly American Nightmare), Unbroken and Tristeza, "All My Friends Are Going Death" is a collection of two EPs and new material.The leadoff and title track is a 56-second rip through typical mosh hardcore, as are many of the songs on the record.
Plagiarism is an issue every journalist, poet and author always keeps in the back of his or her mind.
FootballThe Buffalo Bulls' football team has announced their 2004 schedule which is highlighted by the home opener against the Syracuse Orangemen on September 11.UB opens its schedule on the road in a rare early Mid-American Conference game against the Eastern Michigan Eagles.
This is the first story in a two-part series that will analyze how the decision to build UB in Amherst, rather than Buffalo's waterfront, has shaped Buffalo's history and the student-community relationship.
Dela Yador's message of reducing the exclusivity of the Student Association was a refreshing voice in the race for Student Association vice-president.
Two prominent black political leaders with starkly different ideologies will hold court at Alumni Arena tonight in this year's fifth Distinguished Speakers Series event.UB will welcome National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President Kweisi Mfume and former Congressman J.C.
A UB graduate with a business plan for an internet-based surveillance company won the 2004 Panasci Entreprenurial Competition awards and walked away with $25,000 in startup capital.The annual Panasci awards, now in their fourth year, provide $25,000 in seed funding to the UB student or alumnus who presents the best plan for a new business in Western New York.
It was a weekend of beginnings and ends, basketball and inebriation, zubaz shorts and potato croquettes, but ultimately, it was a weekend in Cleveland, Ohio for the Mid-American Conference Championships.Good golly, miss Molly!Along with my compatriots, Nick Mendola, Darren Riethmiller and Mike Scott, we ventured to the city that rocks for a weekend that will go down in history as one of the best ever.The UB GameWhat was being played out on the court was surely exciting with the Bulls dueling the Toledo Rockets, but there was a sub plot arising in the Gund Arena with the busloads of "Mighty Maniacs" basically foaming at the mouth throughout the evening.UB's fans dominated the arena, out-chanting the Rocket fans and showing what kind of passion you should expect from fans from the New York State.There was a little controversy surrounding a chant that went something like "F*** You Rockets," and some said that former President William Greiner was genuinely embarrassed.
There were many attractive candidates for Student Association president this year. After careful consideration, The Spectrum endorses Timothy Kelly of the Ascension Party.Elevation Party candidate and current SA Treasurer Anthony Burgio clearly has the most experience relevant to serving as president, and his responses to questions during endorsement interviews with The Spectrum clearly demonstrated his grasp of the issues facing the incoming SA president.
The recently remodeled Career Resource Library in 259 Capen Hall was filled to capacity Tuesday afternoon as the Office of Career Services dedicated the new facility in memory of Brent D.
The UB baseball team (3-13, 0-0 MAC) will look to right themselves today against the Canisius Golden Griffins (0-8) in an all-Buffalo doubleheader at Canisius' Demske Sports Complex.The Bulls will look to best the Golden Griffins, a team against which Buffalo has won five of their last seven meetings, dating back to the 2001 season."If we can win a couple of games we will have a ton of confidence going into our conference opener against Akron," said UB's head coach Bill Breene.UB's second baseman Joe Mihalics, who is currently tops in runs batted in and second on the team with a .417 batting average, is off to a quick start this season, riding an 11-game hitting streak in which he has hit at a .447 clip.Buffalo will also look to their other main source of power for offense in first baseman James Kingsley.
The 2003-2004 UB men's basketball season may have marked the turnaround in Buffalo's history from cellar-dweller to hopeful perennial powerhouse.Buffalo was streaky, to say the least, in the first half of the year, losing its first three games, then winning its next five, and following that with six-straight losses.The Bulls' turnaround, however, was dramatic.
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