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SA Withdraws Funding for Linda Yalem Run

The Student Association has withdrawn $5,000 in funding for the Linda Yalem Safety Run, drawing harsh criticism from the UB administration.Every September, the Division of Student Affairs holds the race in memory of Linda Yalem, a UB student who was raped and murdered while jogging on the Ellicott bike path in September 1990.According to a prepared statement from SA, the only response the organization would provide, last year's SA Senate decided not to fund the 2003 race due to an alleged lack of support from the Yalem family.


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MLB Stock Report

With the regular season winding down, it's time to check in on Major League Baseball and see who is going to be left standing come October.American LeagueNew York Yankees - Even with all the changes made they still have one major weakness, the bullpen.


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Spitalfield Preview

Let it never be said that poppy bands don't take chances.Armed with their first release on Victory Records, "Remember Right Now," the Chicago-based four-piece Spitalfield is pulling out all the stops.


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Alternatives To Long Lines At the Bookstore

By the beginning of the third week of the semester, most students have had their fill of things associated with the early semester grind: getting familiar with classes, getting forced into closed classes, taking advantage of the drop/add period for those classes that turn out to be mistakes and the most annoying of all - the immeasurable lines at the bookstore.Students gather at the UB Bookstore to scrounge for textbooks and then wait hours on end to check out.


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Bulls Win Nail a Thriller at Fall Classic

UB scored twice as many goals on Friday as it had all season, and with that, the Bulls beat the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils 2-1 for their first win of the year in Buffalo's host tournament, the Fall Classic at RAC Field.Making his first collegiate start ever, UB goalie Daniel Bell made sure that it was a memorable one.


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Relief in Sight for Printer Gridlock

From the human traffic jam of Putnam's to the snaking procession at the University Bookstore, UB students are no strangers to long lines.However, administrators are developing plans to relieve one of the UB's most infamous delays -- the wait for printouts from public site printers -- within the next year.To limit the amount of pages a student could print for free, UB officials may begin to monitor each student's usage.


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Slean Sings 'Sweetly' at the Square

Cold beer, steamy hot dogs and the heated voice of 24-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah Slean, known for her hit "Sweet Ones," closed out another season of Buffalo's "Thursday at the Square" this past week.Clouds and gusty winds were the only uninvited guest at the event as one of two opening bands took the stage at rush hour.


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Be Afraid

President George W. Bush had all summer to address the nation on the out-of-control situation in Iraq.


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Manhandled In Iowa

IOWA CITY, IA - No one gave the Bulls (0-2) much of a chance heading into Saturday afternoon's game against the 23rd ranked Iowa Hawkeyes (2-0). And no one was rougher on UB than the press in Iowa.


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Pagan SA Aims to Dispel Myths

Although several of the group's flyers were consistently taken down, members of the Pagan SA held its first meeting Wednesday to lay out plans for the future.Seven students and a local community member discussed events such as workshops on herbology and runes, which are prophecy stones inscribed with Nordic letters.Members researched the dates of this year's various pagan holidays and the next full moon and began planning the second annual psychic fair.The group hit bulletin boards around campus with a series of fliers early in the semester, but the posters began to disappear almost immediately.According to Christie Syphrit, president of Pagan SA and junior computer science major, it is not the first time their flyers have been removed.


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"Jim Byrne's Long, Strange Trip ... to Iowa"

In an attempt to play off of God himself, ESPN.com Page 2's Bill Simmons, I recorded my own little diary of the events that took place this past weekend on the UB football trip to Iowa with my cohort, John Norman.Friday, 12 noon - The whole bunch of us, players, coaches, fans, cheerleaders, administration, trainers, and yes, even us lowly Spectrum editors too, get ready to hop aboard a plane bound for Iowa.


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