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Mentors: Helping Others Find Their Way
By AMY LINGENFELTER | Feb. 2, 2004After a brief stint in a pop/rock band in London and earning a psychology degree from Hunter College, Christopher Blake, a graduate student at UB, was still stumped in his search for a career.
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The Inevitability of Large Classes
By ERIC O and ERIC O | Feb. 2, 2004This is part 1 of a two-part series exploring the expanding size of the UB classroom. The second part can be found here.Sharing a university with almost 18,000 other undergraduate students can make some students feel insignificant, and even lost, while at the same time it can make others feel comfortably camouflaged.
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History in Song
By DENA-KAY MARTIN | Feb. 2, 2004When Sam Cooke sings to me, he has me "feeling like black is the thing to be," much like how Tupac says the lyrics of Marvin Gaye ignite cultural pride in his 1993 single, "Keep Ya Head Up."Many a friend has walked into my room, enveloped by the smooth, mellow voice of Sam Cooke and snickered at my "old woman music." The club hits are what everyone my age downloads, and though I have my share of those, nothing gets to me more than listening to the voices of men and women who lived in an era where strength of character was tested every second.Each time I hear the opening chords of "A Change is Gonna Come," Sam Cooke's 1964 social commentary, I feel like I was born in the wrong time period.
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The Spectrum Opinion Is Contradictory
By JIM YOUNGS | Feb. 2, 2004The Spectrum's editorial "Union Dispute Unfair to Workers" in the Jan. 28 issue regarding the university cleaning staff's "union dispute" is confusing.
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Meet the Bulls
By PATRICK FINCH | Feb. 2, 2004At 197 pounds, junior Kyle Cerminara is that guy in the weight room people try to emulate.As UB's most dominant wrestler, it is Cerminara's work ethic off the mat that truly sets him apart.
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University Decision Is Clearly Union Busting
By Editorial | Feb. 2, 2004The Jan. 28 article "For UB Custodians, Union Presence Fading" shows a disturbing trend in University at Buffalo and SUNY policy.
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"International Students Share Stories, Song and Faith"
By MICHAEL BASSETTE | Feb. 2, 2004The International Students, Inc. welcomed students to its Chinese Cultural Night Friday to discuss Christianity and share elements of Chinese culture.The International Students Inc, or ISI, is a Christian missionary company that works with foreign exchange students at UB and other university at the college level.
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UB Custodians Are Under Appreciated
By GERALD BOVE | Feb. 2, 2004I am writing in response to the article "For UB Custodians, Union Presence Fades" in the Jan. 28 issue.
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Close Encounters of the Heavy Kind
By MICHAEL LESLIE | Feb. 2, 2004In a battle of Mid-American Conference heavyweights, the Buffalo Bulls and Ohio Bobcats found themselves involved in a closely contested encounter as they entered the final match on Sunday afternoon in Alumni Arena.In fitting fashion, it came down to the heavyweights themselves, UB's Greg Thomas and Ohio's Jeremiah Beltran, to determine the winner of the MAC showdown.With the Bulls up 16-14 over OU, Thomas and Beltran took to the mat for the match that would decide the afternoon's outcome.Thomas and the Bulls would finally go down in overtime, and Ohio snared a close fought 17-16 victory from UB.
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"Professor, 2 Students Arrested In Cayman Islands"
By BEN R. CADY | Feb. 2, 2004Popular communication professor Gerald M. Goldhaber and two students were arrested in a Cayman Islands condo, according to local news reports.Goldhaber was taken into custody Jan.
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Scoreboard
Feb. 2, 2004BuffaloW. BasketballSaturday: Bowling Green64Buffalo63M. BasketballSunday: Buffalo84Ball State75WrestlingSunday: Ohio17Buffalo16W.
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Music To Zox Your Socks Off
By TRACY CALABRESE | Feb. 2, 2004ZOX's lead singer Eli Miller put it simply when he described his band's effect on audiences."A lot of booty shakin'," said Miller, whose four-man Providence, R.I.
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Hate Speeches Becoming More Prevalent
By DENIS MURADOV | Feb. 2, 2004In the Jan. 28 feedback section of The Spectrum, the supposed "let's not hate" letter by Adam Fosbury only sidesteps the issues and makes it sound like the situation in Israel and Palestine is going to improve if we simply pray for peace.
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Safety Requires More Than A Security Fence
By AILEEN GREENMAN | Feb. 2, 2004I understand how frustrating border patrol in Israel sounds, and I understand there will be cases of harassment.
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Incomplete Comeback
By DANIEL GVERTZ | Feb. 2, 2004Having all the momentum in the world generally spells victory for the team in possession of it come the end of a basketball game.Saturday afternoon in Bowling Green, the UB women's basketball had that impetus as they were able to overcome a 15-point deficit and take a four-point lead in the waning stages of the game with the Falcons going 0-12 from the field in the final 10 minutes of play.But once again, UB's inability to keep their opponents off of the offensive glass hindered them and cost them what would have been a hard-fought victory.Bowling Green's Ali Mann hit two free throws to lift the Falcons (12-6, 5-2 Mid-American Conference) over the Bulls (4-13, 2-5 MAC) with only 23 seconds remaining giving the Falcons the 64-63 victory."I thought it was a well-fought game by both teams," said Buffalo head coach Cheryl Dozier.
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The Streak Is On
By PAUL FEUER | Feb. 2, 2004A super sized rally with a side of 3-bombs rocketed the UB men's basketball team to victory on Sunday afternoon against the Ball State Cardinals.Jason Bird and Turner Battle helped turn things around for the Bulls (8-9, 4-5 Mid-American Conference), who trailed by double digits not once, but twice during the first half.Sunday's 84-73 win marked the first victory in 24 years for Buffalo over the Cardinals, as well as their first three-game conference winning streak since joining the MAC six years ago."To win against a program like that is a good feeling," said UB head coach Reggie Witherspoon.
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"Aging Gracefully, Baryshnikov Sells Out UB"
By HANAN HARB AND BENJAMIN SIEGEL | Feb. 2, 2004Women wore their finest minks, and students wore their Sunday best. The patrons at the Center for the Arts Friday and Saturday nights were dressed to the nines for two rare appearances by dance legend Mikhail Baryshnikov.The CFA presented two sold-out performances of "Solos with Piano or not ... An Evening of Music and Dance." Pianist Pedja Muzijevic accompanied Baryshnikov for the first act of the evening.The entire program consisted of entirely new choreography, including Eliot Feld's "Yazoo," which premiered two nights before Baryshnikov's Friday performance in Holyoke, Mass.In Baryshnikov's first piece, Cesc Gelabert's "In a Landscape," Baryshnikov utilized unusual movements with his arms and legs, outstretching his limbs to emphasize John Cage's melancholic music.
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Hubble Trouble
By Editorial | Feb. 2, 2004The Hubble telescope is scheduled to end operations when a new telescope will be shuttled into space in 2010, but unless it receives servicing, it will stop working around 2006.
