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Out of the Gallery and Into the Nightclub

From the standard oil on canvas and enamel on wood to a coffee table that doubles as a giant wooden spider, the opening reception of the Hus Var Fine Art Gallery included wide variety of contemporary art.Located at 268 Main St.


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Art Imitates Life: Art and the JFK Assassination

This Nov. 22 marked the 40th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and it seemed to pass by college-aged Americans with minimal hype.This generation's college students cannot recall where they were when they heard the news; they would not even be born for another 20 years.


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Teacher Evaluations: an Untapped Resource

It's that time of year again, when professors and TAs nervously hand out the mandatory student teacher evaluations, otherwise known as the UBCATS (University at Buffalo Course and Teacher Survey).UBCATS is a set of standard questions with space for additional comments on the back, which is used to evaluate over 1300 class sections.Each semester, over 32,000 responses are handed in.The results are then collected and posted online, and after the semester grades have been posted, the originals are either given back to the teachers personally, or filed for the teachers to look through on their own time.Although most students answer the questionnaire honestly, they do not always utilize the results, which for the past two years have been available online through MyUB and the Student Association Web site.Linda Bogdan, English undergraduate secretary and collector of the original UBCATS for the English department, said that few students come into the office to paw through a prospective teacher's past student evaluations."To think that all that information sits there, not that many students use it," said Bogdan.


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Convenience Store?

For many students who live on campus, CVS in the Commons is the only place to pick up medicine, household items and school supplies.Recently, some students have criticized the retailer -- the sole drugstore on campus -- for not accepting Campus Cash and for charging high prices for everyday items.


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Too Much 'Missing'

A resilient female doctor practices in the rugged fringes of the past. She struggles to raise her children in an inopportune environment and is faithfully protected by her lover.For all its faults, the resemblance of "The Missing" to "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" is only skin-deep.


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Upcoming Games

BuffaloM. BasketballWednesday: vs. Bowling Green, 7 p.m.W. BasketballWednesday: vs. Youngstown St., 11 a.m.M.


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Sidelines

Senior Send OffBulls' football safety Mark Graham will top his career at UB by being named to the second All-MAC team.


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ALL SHOOCK UP

It's now December, and I feel that it's a good time to think about conclusions. Every journey comes to a close just as every book has a last page.


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Top Ten Ways to Degrade an Art Form

This is a plea to the editors of pop-culture magazines touted as the "be all, end all" of musical and cinematic criticism: please, no more lists.While I am well aware of my colleague's choice last week to make known his favorite albums of the year, this publication is no Rolling Stone.


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