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A Golden Opportunity

Kent State University is to the Mid-American Conference what Duke is to the ACC, what Kansas is to the BIG 12, and what Kentucky has been to the SEC.In essence, the Golden Flashes are to MAC basketball what Marshall had been to MAC football, the big fish in the mid-major pond.On Saturday, as part of the ESPN Bracket Buster, the Golden Flashes (20-3, 13-1 MAC) defeated previously top-25 ranked Creighton University in convincing fashion, 70-55, capturing their MAC-record sixth 20-win season and bringing their overall record since 1998-99 to 142-43.UB (12-11, 7-7 MAC), is coming off of their own impressive win in the Bracket Buster against Indiana State and will host KSU tonight at 7 p.m.

Scratching and Clawing

The Buffalo Bulls women's basketball plays in Kent, Ohio, tonight looking for vengeance against the Kent State Golden Flashes after the 85-66 whooping they served up for the Bulls two weeks ago.

A Meeting of the Minds on Buffalo Bulls Basketball

With only hours remaining before tonight's 7 p.m. tip off against Kent State, excitement is finally building in Alumni Arena.Whether that excitement can continue to course through the halls of UB and the veins of its students remains to be seen.In honor of the Buffalo Bulls men's basketball team's first winning mark at this point in the season since its inception in the Mid-American Conference, The Spectrum decided to chat it up with some figures involved in the situation.Point guard Turner Battle, fan favorite Mark Bortz, head coach Reggie Witherspoon, Director of Student Relations Rob Suglia and senior "Mighty Maniac" Anthony Brozier were asked a series of questions regarding the state in which Buffalo basketball is in.DR: Is this really a 12-11 (7-7 MAC) team?

Better Than Stick Figures 2.25.04

'Fall Back Open' is Worth Overhearing

If there were such a thing as an "it-boy," "it-girl" or "it-people" all-star team, Now It's Overhead's new release, "Fall Back Open," would occupy multiple slots in the starting line-up."Fall Back Open," the band's second release on the vaunted Saddle Creek label, finds studio magician Andy Lemaster weaving all kinds of spells.

Don't Be That Guy

If you're as secretly guarded about your TV-watching habits as I am, then you no doubt are a fan of VH1's latest guilty pleasure: "The Best Week Ever." It's "Entertainment Tonight" meets "I Love the '80s" meets "The Week in Rock" meets pure, heavenly goodness.

Residents Allege Cold Shoulder From URH&A

After three weeks without hot water, residents of three buildings in Richmond Quad have a bone to pick with UB officials.It's not even about the bone-chillingly cold showers, the students say.

Correction

In the Feb. 23 article "Hands Up, Thumbs Down," reporter Tracy Calabrese's review of Studio Arena Theatre's "Pouring the Sun" incorrectly received a grade of "C-." The correct grade is "C+." The play runs through March 13.

SA Sets Spring Fest

The face of UB's Spring and Fall Fests may be about to change, according to SA officials, but this year's Spring Fest will go on as usual now that SA has booked acts for the show."The talent has been confirmed, and the show is set for Friday, April 23," said Maggie Hausbeck, director of SA Entertainment, the branch of SA that coordinates the Spring Fest and Fall Fest events.Though Hausbeck and SA Treasurer Anthony Burgio declined to confirm the acts, according to www.pollstar.com, MTV's Campus Invasion will be hitting UB the same evening Spring Fest is scheduled for, with artists Hoobastank, Ima Robot and Lostprophets.Burgio said there are plans in the works to make the event more inclusive for a wide range of students than past Spring Fests and Fall Fests have been.

Peace by Peace

I am a Zionist and simultaneously a supporter of the Palestinian people. I am also a humanist, liberal and realist.

The Jew and the Gentile

The Spectrum was allotted the opportunity to view a screening of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," which opens in theaters nationwide today.

Elementary School Engineers in Training at the Science Museum

Scattered among ancient dinosaur bones, Saturn's gaseous rings and the amateur's guide to windsurfing, were 11 information-filled exhibits from the UB Department of Engineering at the Buffalo Museum of Science Sunday afternoon.The event kicked off the 2004 National Engineers Week, a week designed to celebrate all the different disciplines engineering has to offer."We started preliminary planning around September, and then in January was when we actually got most of the events coordinated," said Malati Patil, the engineering clubs' coordinator for the week's events.According to Patil, the display was a great way for the various clubs within the department to come out and do some community service and showcase projects they've been working on throughout the year.

Endowment to Aid Nursing School Shortage

Despite a reputation for providing a strong undergraduate education, the School of Nursing has faced a shrinking student enrollment in recent years.

Train of Thought 2.25.04

The Last Hours of Christ

Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ" is an uneven, but engrossing film. As Gibson has stated in numerous interviews, his intention was to accurately depict the last 12 hours of the life of Jesus of Nazereth, based on the four Gospels combined with historical research.In this sense, Gibson was successful.

Editorial Cartoon

Main Street Reconstruction

Even the bravest Buffalo drivers fear the section of Main Street near UB's South Campus, starting at Bailey Avenue and going south.

Bart Meets the Bard: MacHomer Unites Two Famously Dysfunctional Families

Few people may think William Shakespeare and Homer Simpson have anything in common.Enter Rick Miller.In 1994, Miller, a stage actor, was playing the part of 'Murderer No.

"Farewell, Potholes"

With the help of state and federal funding, the City of Buffalo will embark on a major reconstruction of Main Street near South Campus at the end of March.Of particular interest to students, the $16.1 million project will reconfigure the intersections at Kenmore Avenue and Bailey Avenue - areas that currently confound drivers and pedestrians.Ultimately, Main Street's utility lines will be rebuilt and its pavement will be replaced from Bailey Avenue to Hertel Avenue, through the University Heights strip.

Students React to 'The Passion of the Christ'

Emotions varied among UB students Tuesday night following a screening of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" at the Regal Cinema on Transit Road, as students got a first look at the highly anticipated and controversial movie, which opens nationwide today.Kapil Merchant, a first-year graduate student in architecture, summed up the movie in one word: "powerful.""In other movies you don't feel that suffering," he said.