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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.

Scoreboard

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.

"Dennis Miller Rants on College Life, Politics"

One of Dennis Miller's weekly rants previously featured on his now defunct HBO show made several remarks about his college experience.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Bulls Offense Derails in the Teeth of Huskie Defense

Anemic. If there was one word to describe the offense of the Buffalo Bulls football team on Saturday night that would be it.

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.