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No Time to Panic

If the women's soccer team wants to build on their strong start to the season and make the Mid-American Conference tournament they will have to play better than they did on their road trip to Michigan this weekend.


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Senate Elections Kick Off

The Student Wide-Judiciary ruled in favor of four State University of New York Student Assembly delegates, thereby allowing them to run in the undergraduate Student Association Senate elections this week.At issue was whether the four SUNY SA delegates, Dennis Febo, Khristin Pietraszewski, Cheryl Rozario and May Wong, members of the Focus Party, were eligible to run for seats on the SA Senate, part of the legislative branch of SA, despite accusations their positions were part of the executive branch of SA.


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"Heaven, Hell and Elections"

Today marks the start of the SA Senate elections. And with that spicy opening line, already at least 50 people who otherwise might have read my column have just stopped reading and flipped to see if that crazy Jim Byrne character has anything funny to say today.


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Guster Review

With the magnetism of bongos, a couple of guitars and a few very cool guys, power-pop/folk band Guster might be the only force that could have kept students from staying in to watch the Buffalo Bills game last Sunday night.The lighthearted Boston-based trio, which has formed a faithful fan base of head-bobbing college students over the past 10 years, made a stop at Niagara University this past weekend.


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Senate Elections Stir Controversy

The upcoming Student Association Senate elections are becoming increasingly controversial, as one lawsuit challenges the legality of four candidacies, and one party is investigating a possible betrayal by one of its members.Duncan Stanley, who is running for Senate as a member of the Unity Party, filed a complaint with the Student-Wide Judiciary claiming the candidacies of four State University of New York Student Assembly delegates - Dennis Febo, Cheryl Rozario, Khristin Pietraszewski and May Wong - violate the separation of powers within SA because he feels they are a part of SA's executive branch.Meanwhile, the delegates have defended the charge, and say the suit was orchestrated by a member of their own party in an apparent act of political sabotage.Separation of PowersStanley's suit, which was filed last week and argued in front of three SWJ justices Sunday afternoon, claims the four SUNY SA delegates, who were elected by undergraduates in March, are members of the executive branch and thus unable to run for legislative positions."There are four people who are running for Senate who should not be," Stanley said at the hearing.


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Students Make a Bid for Disease Awareness at Annual Auction

The Student Union Theatre on the second floor of the SU was filled to capacity Saturday as students turned out for the Black Student Union's annual Sickle Cell Anemia Auction."Sickle cell is a disease that's not really broadcasted, though it affects minorities in a big way," said Abraham Robinson, a senior triple major in psychology, communication and social sciences.


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