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By COREY SHOOCK | Sep. 3, 2003I have a friend who occasionally laments over coffee that she "turns the men in her life into women." This got me thinking about modern gender roles in American society.
I have a friend who occasionally laments over coffee that she "turns the men in her life into women." This got me thinking about modern gender roles in American society.
In regards to the article "Professor Challenges UB Academic Schedule" in the Friday issue of The Spectrum, the statement "they lied to the faculty" is simply declarative and defamatory.
The basic tenets of a responsible modern government include open operations that both result in, and are facilitated by, a well-informed public.
The Buffalo Bulls played bad football on Saturday. Not to say they didn't try to play well; on the contrary, they showed a lot of heart.
For most UB students, there are a number of things that they can count on throughout their collegiate career.
UBFootballSat:Rutgers24Buffalo10W. SoccerFri:Minnesota4Buffalo2Sat:Buffalo1Creighton0M. SoccerFri:Duquesne4Buffalo0Sat:Temple3Buffalo1VolleyballFri:Buffalo3NC State1Fri:Buffalo3Siena1Sat:Boston College3Buffalo1Sat:Syracuse3Buffalo1
While the summer television season has increasingly become bombarded with ridiculous reality shows-"Who Wants To Marry My Father" and "Style Court" are two cute ideas-another trend has sprouted from TV land, sure to ruffle many a feather.Summertime now has a new form of relentless dating shows and makeover mayhem.
You know that thin line between winning and losing?Well, the UB women's soccer team flirted with that thin line and lost.
Officially, Adam Sherlip's tenure as speaker of the undergraduate Student Association Assembly will begin on Sept.
The Woldmon Theater at 112 Norton is strikingly large when it is empty.On Monday, it seemed particularly vacant, save for a dozen young men making the most of the acoustics in the 300-seat lecture hall.The Buffalo Chips enter their ninth year much in the same way as the previous eight, a mix of goof balls and serious musicians - often the same people playing both roles.Like most college guys they make fun of each other, tell jokes, the occasional handstand elicits some response from the group, but mostly the conversation returns to their upcoming auditions and the annual End of Summer show at 8 p.m.
In their latest closely watched but controversial "America's Best Colleges" issue, "U.S. News and World Report" ranked UB in the third tier among major national universities.A special report in the Sept.
The Aug. 25 edition of the Spectrum featured a headline that read "2003 Mid-Atlantic Conference Football Preview." The correct conference is the Mid-American.A caption in the article "UB Robotics Club 'Shoots' for First Place" identified the object propelled from an air cannon as paper.
UBFootballSat: @ Rutgers, 7M. Soccer@ Duquesne TournamentFri: vs. Duquesne, 7:30Sat: vs. Temple, 12W.
Two students were robbed at gunpoint early Wednesday morning at Main Circle at South Campus, according to University Police."Two students were approached on the roadway by the NFTA station by two individuals who displayed a silver handgun," said John Grela, director of public safety.Cash and jewelry were taken from the victims, and the suspects proceeded to flee away from campus down Niagara Falls Boulevard.
There is no denying that Jackie Chan is getting old. The elfish actor, best known for his comedic and death-defying martial arts stunts, has toned down his craft in recent films, such as "Rush Hour 2" and "Shanghai Knights," in order to compensate for his dissipating youth.Sadly, in his most recent film "The Medallion," Chan finally shows the audience that even though he can leap tall buildings in a single bound, he no longer has the traits necessary to be recognized as a superhero of the cinema.Chan plays Eddie Yang, a Hong Kong detective working with an international police agency, Interpol, to catch a mysterious criminal known as Snakehead (Julian Sands). After getting into a near-fatal accident while saving a young boy, Yang discovers a medallion that has given him immortality and superhuman powers.
UB beat the Rutgers Scarlet Knights last year, their only win. The Scarlet nights beat Army last year, which was their only win.