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Scouting Report: Ohio Bobcats
By MICHAEL LESLIE | Oct. 24, 2003It has always been said that revenge is a dish best served cold.The Bulls (0-8, 0-4 MAC) will take the field Saturday, looking to avenge last year's heartbreaking loss to the Ohio University Bobcats.
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Regents Ponders Appeals System
By Editorial | Oct. 24, 2003The New York State Board of Regents has yet another idea to alter the high school Regents testing system.
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Learning About Life Through Workshops
By CHRISTA YU | Oct. 24, 2003Adjusting to university life can be a challenge for new students, and even seasoned upper-classmen may sometimes find themselves overwhelmed by schoolwork or personal problems.
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Provost Capaldi Bows Out with President Greiner
By COREY SHOOCK | Oct. 22, 2003Provost Elizabeth D. Capaldi will soon be leaving her position after three-and-a half years to take the job of State University of New York Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff at state university headquarters in Albany.Capaldi will, however, remain at UB as provost during the transition from outgoing President William R.
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Black Looks Towards Bright Future with Simpson
By ERIC O and ERIC O | Oct. 22, 2003Dennis Black, UB's vice president for student affairs, praised the university's new president, John B.
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Asian American Studies
By JEONGSUB NAM | Oct. 22, 2003I'm writing to correct two things Thomas Burkman, director of the Asian Studies program, mentioned in Andrew Hyzy's article in The Spectrum's Oct.
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Quick Hitters
By COREY GRISWOLD | Oct. 22, 2003Eat it Cubs and Red Sox fans.I'm not a Yankee fan, as I have not been paying close attention to baseball long enough to have a team affiliation.
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Unnecessary and Unfair
By GEORGE ZORNICK | Oct. 22, 2003Standardized tests are great at measuring students' ability - that is, their ability to buy a review book and attend a class.
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Bowling for Cusack
By BRIAN HERBERGER | Oct. 22, 2003Before reaching a certain age, opening the mailbox and finding a letter addressed to you is worth a thrill.
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New Connections for Researchers and Students
By EVAN PARKER PIERCE | Oct. 22, 2003A new fiber-optic line connecting UB's campuses and research facilities will dramatically improve Internet service for students and researchers alike, experts say.By the end of 2005, workers will lay 14 miles of fiber-optic cable connecting North Campus, South Campus and the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus near the center of the city.According to UB officials, the $800,000 project will form a critical link to the medical campus, home of UB's emerging Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics and the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute."In simplest terms, it's a big pipe that we can put a lot of information in," said Mark Deuell, director of operational support services for the Department of Computing Information and Techonology.
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Upcoming Games
Oct. 22, 2003BuffaloNoneLocal Pro TeamsBuffalo SabresThursday: Buffalo at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. (Empire)
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A Movie to Dwarf All Others
By PETER YU | Oct. 22, 2003"The Station Agent" stands out amongst the titanic amount of mainstream, commercialized movies in the cinemas today.After all, the lead actor is only four-and-a-half-feet tall."The Station Agent," which opens Friday, won three awards at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival: Audience Award, Best Screenplay and Best Performance by Patricia Clarkson.
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To Test or Not to Test?
By Editorial | Oct. 22, 2003Every student encounters at least one standardized test in his or her academic career - if not more - and these tests are often the bane of many students' existence.
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Can't Buy me Love - or Education
By ERIN SHULTZ | Oct. 22, 2003After weeks of putting it off, I trudged to Barnes and Noble the other day to make the least exciting purchase of my life.
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NBA Preview (Part I of II)
By PAUL FEUER AND JIM BYRNE | Oct. 22, 2003Poor, poor, pitiful me. That's what the Eastern Conference of the NBA says to itself every year, and rightfully so.
