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Explosions and Intrigue

****1/2 out of 5 starsFrench talent Luc Besson and Steven Chasman, producers who have brought audiences instant classics such as "La Femme Nikita" and "The Professional," bring you this fall's hottest explosive action picture, "The Transporter." Foreign actors Jason Statham ("Snatch"), Shu Qi ("Millennium Mambo") and Fran?


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GSA Election Derailed by Controversy

Last April's election was voided after allegations of voter fraud and improper conduct surfaced. One of this year's candidates, who requested his name be withheld, provided The Spectrum with the GSA Election Committee Chair's Report from Spring 2002, which outlines reasons behind the nullification and questionable campaign practices on the part of the candidates.The report states that vice presidential candidate Omar Qadeer was not actually a graduate student in the spring of 2002, making him ineligible to run for office and disqualifying his candidacy.In addition, Sanjeev Saha, last spring's nominee for treasurer, allegedly used another person's student number to vote on the student's behalf and was disqualified from the current election.While he admitted to using the student number to vote, he said, "I assumed that that person wouldn't mind."Allegations of the exchange of t-shirts for student numbers also surfaced, but Saha denied these claims.Last year's Progress Party, consisting of Chacon, vice presidential candidate Surabhi Sharma and treasurer candidate Marc Lograsso, was called in to question, as stated in the report, for allegedly using GSA equipment for campaigning, an act in violation of the GSA Constitution.


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Architecture Students Speak Out on Studio Life

Being an architecture major may entitle you to being a member of an elite student population but what one gains in prestige he lacks in social interaction."This is not the typical college experience," said Virginia Byers, a sophomore majoring in architecture.


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Ellicott Renovations Moving Forward

Continuing the university's effort to centralize services and student life in the Ellicott Complex, UB is moving forward with renovations to revamp the area formerly known as the Student Club.


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UB Apartments Rank No. 1 in Survey

The results of the Student Satisfaction Survey sponsored by the Association of College and University Housing Officers International last fall have been calculated, ranking UB's apartments No.


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The Importance of Family Ties

I have been thinking about this column for over a week now, trying to decide what I have an adamant opinion about, and whether the University at Buffalo population wants to read about it.


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Playing Life's Game

"Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway." ~ Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915).Some people take the above quotation too literally; some need to adhere to it more often.


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Around the MAC

The Wisconsin Badgers have not looked pretty to this point but have managed to stay perfect at 4-0 and maintain their No.


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MediaForce Cracks Down on Students' File-Sharing on UB Network

UB students who feel that illegally downloading copyrighted material from the Internet is a victimless crime may soon find themselves dealing with the companies who will treat them as criminals.Companies that own the rights to copyrighted materials - including record companies and movie studios - hire MediaForce Inc. to monitor the Internet for instances of file-sharing involving their products.According to Richard H.


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Nuts at the Kavinoky Theater

In Dale Wasserman's stage adaptation of Ken Kesey's powerful novel "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," now showing at the Kavinoky Theater through October 13th, the idea that our own mental and emotional state could be used against us is as chilling and resonant today as it was when introduced in 1962.Milos Forman's 1975 film starring Jack Nicholson as the headstrong Randle Patrick McMurphy went on to earn the top five Academy Awards (film, actor, actress, director and screenplay), and has been the standard of every institutional drama since.


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NYFD Captain Presents Ground Zero Flag to UB

The 26th Annual Newman Convocation and Liturgy of the Holy Spirit took place at St. Joseph's University Church on Sunday, honoring a faculty member as well as the UB alumni, family and members of the Catholic Church who perished on Sept.


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Incubus Plays Stellar Sunday Show

When you've seen a band before they were famous, the nagging thought of "this is going to be so different" is probably in your head just as the band hits the stage amidst their newfound popularity.While the crowd was different last Sunday at Darien Lakes Performing Arts Center, Incubus remained the same for the most part, and asserted itself as one of the best acts in rock today.Lead singer Brandon Boyd looked as if he walked straight out of his latest video, sporting a black button down shirt, striped tie, below knee-length shorts and black ankle socks.


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Sidelines

Women's SoccerThe Bulls opened up their MAC schedule with a split this past weekend. Buffalo kicked it off by eking out a win over Northern Illinois, 1-0.


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