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Green Party Candidate Addresses Education Reform

Education reform was the major campaign issue that Stanley Aronowitz, the Green Party candidate for governor of New York State, spoke about to an audience of future educators at UB on Tuesday.According to David Vater, Jr., vice president of the Educational Leadership and Policy Graduate Student Association, the event was arranged in less than a week and attracted 19 graduate students in education programs.One of the goals of Aronowitz's campaign, and of the Green Party agenda, is to change the state of modern education by eliminating standardized testing for grade school students and increasing funding for public education by restructuring the tax system to prevent tax cuts for the rich.Aronowitz also spoke of assumptions made by people involved in the public education system that no longer have relevance, but still exist.

Real Life

As I make a right onto Northrup Place off of Main St., I immediately notice that something is wrong.

Prejudice Without Preachiness

Opening the season at the Alleyway Theatre downtown is Michael Bettencourt's two-hour drama "A Question Of Color." While the acting, direction, and design are superb, the script at times leaves the audience wondering."Color" is the tale of a white man and a black woman in North Carolina during the early part of the 20th century, when interracial marriage was a crime.

Two-Way Soccer Star Sets Sights on MAC Tournament

The UB women's soccer team is looking to post big wins this year as returning veterans and new faces fill the ranks.

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Mission: Impossible

Minnesota ranks eighth in the nation in total defense. Buffalo ranks second to last in the Mid-American Conference in total offense.Advantage: Minnesota.You could go on forever like this, and just about every comparison would go the way of the 3-0 Golden Gophers.That's what you can expect when you play a Big 10 opponent like the Bulls do this Saturday when they travel to the H.H.H.

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Journalistic Integrity

The local television news this week has been chock full of protestors, fistfights, posturing, yelling and more high-school-pep-rally-like behavior.

Sub-Board I Refutes Criticisms from GSA President

Early Thursday afternoon, the president of Sub-Board I, Inc. gave a formal response challenging a letter read by Graduate Student Association President Janine Santiago at the Sept.

College Health Trends Could Use Improvement

Think about what you ate today; now think about how many beers you drank and how many cigarettes you smoked last weekend.

Slavic Cataloger Speaks on Nazi Destruction of Libraries

The Nazi destruction of Polish and Jewish libraries during World War II in Cracow, Poland was the topic of a lecture given by Marek Sroka, a Slavic cataloger, last Sunday in Capen Hall.The lecture was the first in a series of lectures on humanities and library science sponsored by the George and Mary Bobinski Lecture Fund in conjunction with the Department of Library and Information Studies, the University Archives, the School of Informatics, the University Libraries Polish Collection, the Office of the Vice Provost for International Education, and the DLIS Student chapter of the A.L.A.Sroka, who is also an assistant professor of library administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the 2002 recipient of the Justin Winsor Prize, given by the American Library Association and the Library History Round Table, for his essay titled "The Destruction of Jewish Libraries and Archives in Cracow During World War II."According to LHRT Chairperson Lorna Peterson, professor of information and library science, Sroka was an ideal speaker because his essay was an appropriate topic to kick off the lecture series.

Bruised Egos Collide as Marshall Faces UCF

Pride and possibly No.1 contender status for the MAC East Division title will be on the line Friday night as two teams coming off of deflating drubbings will collide in one of only two nationally televised conference showdowns.Fresh off a nationally televised whooping courtesy of Virginia Tech that knocked them out of the top 25 polls, the Marshall Thundering Herd will square off against Central Florida tonight at 7 p.m.

Letter To the Editor

Before anyone gets on their soapbox, let me put my bias on the table: I am a conservative Christian Republican.

Great Performances for Wilde's Witty 'Windermere'

The Irish Classical Theatre Company (ICTC) has done it again with their excellent performance of Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan." This witty, satirical play opened for Curtain Up!, the Theater District's annual celebration of the stage, to a packed house Thursday evening.

Vocal Artists Lead Effort to Protect Environment

In an effort to counteract the negative environmental effects of the production of compact discs, several artists in the music industry have joined a campaign to neutralize the potentially harmful emission of carbon into the atmosphere.Headed by Future Forests, an environmental preservation agency, the collaboration seeks to regulate the levels of carbon, a byproduct of compact disc production, in the environment.Artists like Coldplay, The Pet Shop Boys, Gorillaz and Dido have pledged to plant the amount of trees necessary to counteract the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere by the mass production of their music in the form of compact discs."I think it's great that they are using their celebrity to better the environment," said Dan Leung, a fifth-year media studies major.

Freshman Speak Out on their College Experience

Freshman year is the time for students to assert their independence by staying out late, eating poorly, and attempting to manage their daily finances - until the Dining Dollars run out and they have to call home.Never again is "irresponsible responsibility" so easily accepted as in those precious few months of the first year in college.Easing into campus life and the habit of getting to classes, even those lectures that we love to convince ourselves are alright to miss on those really snowy days, can take a reasonable period of adjustment."Adjusting is easier if you come to orientation; it's a large campus and there's a lot of people," said freshman Jack Lee, a biological physics major.

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UBFootballSat: UConn 24, Buffalo 3Women

Buffalo Terrorism Cell

Buffalo is rarely at the center of a national news story. This past weekend, everyone's attention centered on an FBI investigation that turned up five possible al-Qaida members living in Lackawanna.

Bulls Report Card

Passing GameAwful. The offensive linemen couldn't keep the Huskies pass rush away from Randall Secky, 11 for 31 with 123 yards and one interception, who rushed quite a few of his throws.