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Students Taking Stock In Their Future

With a faltering economy and an unstable post-Sept. 11-stock market, student investors are finding it difficult to part ways with their money to invest in stocks and mutual funds.With the added corporate scandal surrounding some of America's largest corporations such as Enron, ImClone, Tyco and Adelphia, many investors have been left searching for safe and reliable investments."Mutual Funds are probably the best way to go still," said Leslie Kessler, president of LJK Associates, an Investment Banking firm in Long Island, New York.


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UB Student Runs for State Senate

Running on a platform of better representation for students in the New York State Legislature, a UB student wants the chance to become the youngest New York state senator in history, if she is victorious in the Nov.


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2002 MAC Women's Soccer Standings

SchoolMAC Rec.Overall Rec.Miami8-1-011-2-1Ball State6-3-010-4-0Western Michigan4-2-16-5-1Ohio4-2-28-3-2Bowling Green5-3-17-6-2Central Michigan3-2-34-5-4Toledo3-4-16-5-1Eastern Michigan3-4-16-8-1Buffalo3-4-14-6-4Northern Illinois3-5-05-8-0Marshall2-4-15-6-1Kent State1-5-23-7-2Akron1-7-1\t4-8-1


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Letter To The Editor

In Jamie Lynn Perna's column "No Reason for Sniper to be on the Loose," she states that the sniper could possibly be trained by either the government or military.


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"A Knock-Down, Drag-Out Film"

"Knockaround Guys" starts with a bang and ends in a bang. This movie had more guns and violence than Vin Diesel's last movie "XXX," which can only equal fun for the masses.Barry Pepper, Diesel, Seth Green, John Malkovich, Andrew Davoli and Dennis Hopper star in the New Line Cinema drama "Knockaround Guys," written and directed by Brian Koppleman and David Levien.The movie starts with Teddy (Malkovich) and Benny (Hopper) playing two shady mob bosses in Brooklyn.


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Byrned To A Crisp

Is this a joke, or are the Cincinnati Bengals just that bad? How can one franchise suck so much? Just start Akili Smith, since the season is already over.


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Good Charlotte: Young and Not Hopeless

With the number one music video last week on MTV's Total Request Live, a new album debuting on the seventh slot of the Billboard charts and a sold-out show last night at the Showplace Theater, it's odd that Billy, the guitarist for Good Charlotte, is so concerned with getting respect.But it's one of his main sources of frustration in a career that, to say the least, has exceeded the band's expectations."It's definitely a challenge to be a respected band.


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Congressional Term Limits

"The dissonance between the people and their leaders on term limits is deafening," said Michael Kramer in 1995 before a Senate subcommittee on the Constitution.


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Sidelines

Athletes of the WeekPatrick Beckley of the men's soccer team has been named UB's Male Athlete of the Week for his performance in the Bulls 3-0 victory over the Western Michigan Broncos.


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Presidential Partiality

American culture is replete with examples of corporations sponsoring everything from sporting events to television programs to the local telethon.


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Ice Bulls Confident After Skating With the Big Dogs

Oftentimes college football and basketball teams will schedule some cupcake non-conference opponents to serve as a "warm-up" for their league schedule.The UB men's club hockey team seems to have gone with the opposite approach.The Ice Bulls went 0-3-1 on the road against some of the stiffest Division-I club hockey competition in the country the past two weeks.


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GSA Accepts Sub-Board I Contract

Questions about the Graduate Student Association's partnership with Sub-Board I, Inc. were answered last week when the new GSA executive board accepted the SBI accounting and services contracts for the 2002-03 school year.According to Vice President Shiju David, GSA's new executive board signed the accounting contract with SBI at the Oct.


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SA Assembly Elects Speaker

At Monday's Student Association Assembly meeting, Greg Wyffles beat incumbent Jennifer Tuttle for the position of speaker of the Assembly, after four rounds of elimination-style voting.According to the SA constitution, the candidate who receives a majority of the votes is proclaimed the winner of the election.


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Profile: Sally Kus

When referring to the women's volleyball team, the first thing that comes to mind in the eyes of many students, is the 46-game Mid-American Conference losing streak dating back to the 2000 campaign.


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