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UB Delegation Lobbies in State Capital

A delegation of UB's top administrators, along with Student Association president Christian Oliver, joined the weekly slew of lobbyists in Albany Tuesday, in hopes of influencing legislators on issues affecting UB.The delegation was composed of several UB officials, including President William R.


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Courts Have No Place in the Bedroom

A pending Supreme Court case brought about by two gay men in Texas is bringing attention to states that maintain their intrusive anti-sodomy laws and strict homophobic beliefs, and illustrates the ridiculousness of certain laws in the United States - "the land of the free." The two men were arrested in 1998 when a neighbor called the police, claiming that the gay men's apartment was being robbed.


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Upcoming Games

UBBaseballWed: @ Canisius (DH), 3M. TennisWed: vs. Canisius, 3Local Pro TeamsBuffalo BisonsWed: vs.


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Scoreboard

UBBaseballTues: @ Niagara, PPDSoftballTues: vs. St. Bonaventure (DH), PPDLocal Pro TeamsBuffalo BisonsMon: vs.


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Sidelines

Track and FieldThis weekend the men's and women's track teams each placed in the top three in the McDonald's Invitational held at Ohio University.


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Letter to the Editor

I'm writing this letter in protest of the sheer bias The Spectrum has recently shown in regards to the coverage and feedback space given to the issue of the ongoing war against Iraq.


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Quarterback Controversy Emerges for Bulls

It's only April, but football talk is already heating up around UB. The team is in the final weeks of spring practices, and a quarterback controversy is brewing inside UB stadium.Randall Secky's status as the starting quarterback is in jeopardy after an average season.


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Building From the Ground Up

Buffalo Bulls baseball may be a mystery to many of the students at the University at Buffalo, for many reasons.Living in the shadow of the two big sports at UB, football and basketball, is tough enough; Add to this the arctic "spring" of Buffalo, which forces the postponement of many games, and you're left with a baseball team nearly invisible to the eye of the average student.But that doesn't mean that the baseball team and particularly its head coach, Bill Breene, do not have an interesting story to tell.Actually, Breene's story is an intriguing one, as he was the man selected to build the Bulls baseball team, which had been out of commission for 20 years, from the ground up in an extremely tough Division-I environment.Breene was given that opportunity to build a Division-I baseball team four years ago and so far, given the obstacles in his way, he has been able to weather the storm and even finished with an overall record of 16-28 last year, which is not too shabby considering they started over fresh in a new conference only a year before that."Needless to say in our first few years of development, I think we would go on the field most of the time a little overmatched based on a lack of experience," said Breene.


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University at Buffalo Faculty and Staff for Peace

We the undersigned faculty and staff of the University at Buffalo strongly oppose another United States-led war on Iraq for the following reasons:Another war on Iraq, especially one begun with a barrage of missiles designed to avoid American casualties, will cause the death of numerous innocent Iraqi men, women, and children and will destroy what remains of the social fabric and physical infrastructure of that country.


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The Phantom Returns to Shea's

Buffalo is officially under invasion by the world's most famous phantom - the "Phantom of the Opera." Shea's Performing Arts Center presents Andrew Lloyd Webber's chandelier-smashing success now through April 19, the show's first return to the venue since its 1999 premiere.


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UB Officials Seek Tuition Hike for Some Graduate Programs

University officials traveled to Albany last week and sought legislative approval to charge higher tuition for certain graduate programs, a move they said will allow UB to improve the strength of the graduate school.Under the proposed plan, tuition for master's degrees in business administration as well as in public health would be raised an unspecified amount from the current level of $5,100 per year.UB Provost Elizabeth Capaldi said the programs are currently under priced, compared with similar degree programs at other public institutions.


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Stars in Alignment

Though not observable in the icy sky, UB's own brand of stars were visible last week. The professionals of Hollywood and New York's entertainment industries visited the classes of the department of media studies, discussing the business and the artistic creativity, hoping to give students an inspired push into the professional world.Co-sponsored by the departments of media studies, theatre and dance, English and communication, the second annual Celebrity Scholar Seminar Series hosted 10 industry professionals for student lectures, including Hollywood director James Foley and former Saturday Night Live writer Alan Zweibel.



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