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SA Should Adopt PR Campaign About Finances

As a senior year student at UB, I have been able to observe student politics for a few years now and have noticed that ever since former Student Association President Christian Oliver took office in 2001, issues like the alleged wasteful spending have constantly been brought to light.


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"University Remembers Classmate, Friend"

Members of the university are remembering a student, classmate and friend lost a week ago in a fatal car accident.Friends of Bryan Argo, who was a senior history and Latin major, speak of a warm, caring and slightly reserved young man always willing to help a friend."He always had a smile on his face," said Sonya Kokil, a junior pharmacy major who had known Argo since they both attended Niagara-Wheatfield High School.


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Upcoming Games

BuffaloFootballSat: @ Central Florida, 6W. SoccerFri: @ Marshall, 7Sun: @ Ohio, 1M. SoccerFri: vs.


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Bulls Feel Heat to End Streak In Florida

Riding the nation's longest losing streak after dropping 15 straight games, the UB Bulls (0-5, 0-1) travel to sunny Orlando to challenge the University of Central Florida Golden Knights (1-3, 0-1) in Mid-American Conference football action at the Florida Citrus Bowl.Saturday's game will be the fifth time that the schools have met, with UCF owning a perfect 4-0 record against UB, while averaging 49.5 points per game.Last week, the state of Ohio owned both teams, with UB dropping a 38-21 decision at home to Akron while UCF committed eight turnovers in a 36-16 loss at Kent State.Despite the struggles endured by the Golden Knights this season, Bulls' head coach Jim Hofher said UCF's record might be deceptive.


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From Filming to Feature in 48 Hours

Tony Conrad sat in a well-lit corner of Buffalo State College's Burchfield-Penney Art Center, cursing at a sewing machine for two straight hours Wednesday night.In front of a rolling camera, Conrad, director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Media Study at UB, fed projector film through the sewing machine before the image was projected onto a screen.


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Sidelines

VolleyballThe Bulls lost a close match to cross-town rivals Canisius, 3-2. Buffalo won the first and third matches by a score of 27-30, but were unable to put the Griffins away.


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Modernly Magnificent

It's the toast of Broadway; a "classic" musical that succeeds in today's trendy world of modern rock operas and script-less concept revues."Thoroughly Modern Millie," winner of the 2002 Tony Award for Best Musical, brings back a style of storytelling that many thought was long gone.


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"On Politics, On Journalism, On Blitzer"

Broadcast journalist Wolf Blitzer touched upon his roots at UB and major world issues at his Distinguished Speakers Series lecture Thursday evening in Alumni Arena.As an anchor for CNN, Blitzer has broadcast many of the major news stories of the past decade, from locations as far as Bosnia and Iraq.


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RU486: Abortion Drug Not Aspirin

Last month, an 18-year-old girl died of complications from taking the abortion pill RU486, marking the fifth death worldwide resulting from the use of the pill.The victim, Holly Marie Patterson, received the pill from her local Planned Parenthood Clinic.


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Meet the Bulls

Buffalo and Western Africa don't exactly have much in common, and no one knows that better than UB soccer star Cheick Diarra.Diarra has called both of these places home during his life, which has taken him all over the world.There is no disguising the fact that Buffalo's weather is anything but tropical, so it does seem a little odd that Diarra would come to UB."It was funny, I was playing at the Empire Games and I met a friend that played for UB and he kind of recruited me," said Diarra.


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Around the MAC

Standing out in Division I-A football and proving that your team deserves to be mentioned along with BCS schools is a tough feat.


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Correction

The Spectrum will be republishing a letter that ran on Sept. 26, entitled


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UB Student Works Towards Helping Graduate Students at a National Level

Graduate student Nagarajan Kannan stands on the top of a very large heap -- two million graduate students studying in the United States.Kannan, 32, a doctoral student in the civil engineering department, has recently been elected president of the northeastern region of the National Association of Graduate Professional Students.


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