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Bulls Assistant Coach Makes Jump to NFL's Atlanta Falcons

By JOHN NORMAN | Mar. 24, 2003

This off-season, the UB football coaching staff underwent a few changes. The Bulls lost their defensive backfield coach but picked up a great replacement with the hiring of longtime pro and college coach Miles Aldridge.Even with the addition of Aldridge, however, the move that will most likely prove to have the biggest impact on the program is the loss of offensive coordinator Bill Lazor.

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Spectrum Fee Referendum

By Editorial | Mar. 24, 2003

If you've been reading The Spectrum, Generation or Visions at all in the past month, chances are you've heard that The Spectrum is trying to get a referendum passed to increase the Spectrum Student Subscription Fee from $1 a semester to $3 a semester.

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Baseball Season Preview

By JASON HAN | Mar. 24, 2003

Often times, in an effort to further hone skills or to humble any overconfidence that might exist in their players' mentality, coaches will schedule games against difficult opponents.

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Students Get a Jump Start into the Workplace

By CHRISTINA EASLEY | Mar. 24, 2003

Students seeking direction and advice about leadership skills need look no further than the Leadership Development Center at UB, which specializes in helping students gain leadership abilities that can help them attain success in today's competitive job market.Frank Ciccia, the director of the center, said many people benefit from the center who may not have thought they would."In some point in your life, you will have to be a leader and use leadership skills, whether it is at school, in the classroom, at work or even in your church or community," said Ciccia.Students that tend to be timid when it is time to take charge and assume a leadership position could benefit from the seminars at the Leadership Development Center, which seek to develop the communication skills students may be lacking."The classes helped my public speaking skills because they work with the students one-on-one, and they help you to take charge," said Lisa Kaplan, a junior medical technician major.

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Swan Song

By ADAM BROWN | Mar. 24, 2003

Thursday, two UB wrestlers, senior Gary Cooper and sophomore Labe Black, traveled to Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo.

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Political Propaganda Versus Legitimate Debate

By JOE GRAMLICH | Mar. 21, 2003

In 1940, the Three Stooges broke the mold and each other's faces with a spoof on Adolf Hitler and Nazi-Germany in a 17-minute short called "You Natzy Spy!"The short was the first Hollywood film to satirize Hitler, with the permanently enraged Moe playing a puppet dictator placed in power by three war hawks who find the wartime economy more lucrative than in peacetime.Though the short is a classic, based on its effective satire of Hitler as a buffoon capable only of shouting fits and causing concussions, it is also a piece of history.

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Declaring War on Iraq

By Editorial | Mar. 21, 2003

Wednesday night, President George W. Bush declared war on Iraq. With that announcement, the doctrine of war has been changed, and the power of the United Nations has been jeopardized.At the center of the issue is the reduction of the United Nations' clout as a peacekeeping force.

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Letter To The Editor

By SARAH GRODEN | Mar. 21, 2003

Student Association elections have become a joke, and not a very funny one. After reading this year's Spectrum endorsements, I am reminded of how familiar this year's campaign statements are and wonder where it was I heard them before.

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Up for Grabs

By MELISSA SCHAFER | Mar. 21, 2003

"It's always better to climb from the bottom up and surprise people," said UB softball head coach Marie Curran.Curran's team is doing just that.

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Sidelines

Mar. 21, 2003

SoftballFor the second week in a row, a University at Buffalo athlete has earned the title of Mid-American Conference Female Athlete of the Week.Ann Magur of the softball team had a field day in a doubleheader loss to the host Spartans at the San Jose State Invitational.

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Next-Big-Things Come to UB

By NICHOLAS MENDOLA | Mar. 21, 2003

To the most loyal and even sporadic readers of the College Music Journal, a tour handpicked by the magazine is an open invitation to rejoice in dyed-black hair ecstasy.

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Men's Tennis Notches First MAC Win in Team History

By MICHAEL SCOTT AND MICHAEL GOLDBERG | Mar. 21, 2003

The UB men's tennis team accomplished a milestone Thursday afternoon, leaving their head coach one victory away from a milestone of his own.It was not typical Mid-American Conference competition, nonetheless Buffalo did capture their first ever conference win by clobbering the conference's newest affiliate member Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne 7-0 at the Village Glenn Tennis Center.

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