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Black Looks Towards Bright Future with Simpson

Dennis Black, UB's vice president for student affairs, praised the university's new president, John B.

Asian American Studies

I'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.

Quick Hitters

Eat 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.

Unnecessary and Unfair

Standardized tests are great at measuring students' ability - that is, their ability to buy a review book and attend a class.

Bowling for Cusack

Before reaching a certain age, opening the mailbox and finding a letter addressed to you is worth a thrill.

New Connections for Researchers and Students

A 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.

Upcoming Games

BuffaloNoneLocal Pro TeamsBuffalo SabresThursday: Buffalo at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. (Empire)

A Movie to Dwarf All Others

"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.

To Test or Not to Test?

Every 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.

Can't Buy me Love - or Education

After weeks of putting it off, I trudged to Barnes and Noble the other day to make the least exciting purchase of my life.

NBA Preview (Part I of II)

Poor, poor, pitiful me. That's what the Eastern Conference of the NBA says to itself every year, and rightfully so.

Train of Thought : 10.22.03

Sharpest Point

Disagree or agree with this week

Sidelines

Men's TennisBuffalo junior Nick Zieziula completed his spectacular run Monday afternoon at the Omni Hotels ITA Northeast Regional Tournament.

Penalizing Colleges for Raising Tuition

A bill was introduced in Congress last week to combat rising tuition costs - an admirable goal. Unfortunately, everything attached to the bill shows complete detachment from the problem.

Smoking Sander in Woodshop Sparks Fire In CFA

Smoke from a fire that was sparked in a malfunctioning sander billowed through the basement of the Center For the Arts Monday afternoon, temporarily disrupting classes and other activities.According to University Police Lieutenant Dave Frank, the fire in room B15 - a woodshop lab - was caused by sawdust caught in the blade of the sander.The sawdust created a considerable amount of smoldering and smoking that made it difficult to determine why the machine was spouting smoke, according to Frank."The biggest problem was that we didn't know where the fire was coming from," Frank said.According to Director of Public Safety John Grela, someone smelled smoke and pulled a fire alarm around 2 p.m."A student found the fire and alerted me about smoke coming out of the dust collection," said Chris Siano, sculpture technician.

Psedulous Steals the Show

With a strong ensemble performance, the cast of the department of theater and dance's fall musical production "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" proved that the department's rigorous program features a whole lot of promising talent.A two-and-a-half hour comical romp through the Roman ages, "Forum" requires many in the cast to play a handful of characters in a short period of time.

We Don't Need Another 'Ladybugs'

There are times in life when thoughts turn to the mundane, the needless, the absurd. These thoughts usually occur when you're trying to fall asleep at 2 a.m., or walking your dog, or washing your storm windows.

President Search Committee

In your editorial, "Californian Named 14th President" from the Oct. 20 issue, you claimed the Presidential Search committee was reclusive and closed to the public by stating that "it has been unfair to the community to bring in someone new without allowing any outside input."This, as you should be well aware of, is a false assertion as there were representatives of all relevant publics on the Presidential Search committee (see http://www.buffalo.edu/presidentialsearch/committee.shtml for a full list). The assertion is also somewhat contradictory as one of your editors did attend the undergraduate Student Association Assembly's first meeting, where Jennifer Tuttle, the undergraduate representative, was available for a question and answer session.I believe it is also worth noting that in regards to matters like this where the university administration is in charge, there is never the same kind of outreach effort that you will see preceding Student Association elections, for example.

The ARI: Twenty-Five Years in Good Faith

With articles ranging from recipes and advice columns to news reports and book reviews, one of UB's oldest publications is also one of its least circulated.