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GSA Threatens Withdrawal From Sub-Board I

At Tuesday's meeting of Sub-Board I's Board of Directors, Janine Santiago, president of the Graduate Student Association, submitted a letter threatening that the student government would withdraw from the corporation unless issues concerning representation on the board and monetary contributions were addressed.In her letter, Santiago stated that the election of three undergraduate students to executive board positions "in addition to four pre-existing Board member positions" gives the undergraduate constituency "an overwhelming influence on the policies and governance of the corporation."Currently, the Sub-Board I Board of Directors consists of 14 members-six from SA, three from GSA, and one each from Millard Fillmore College, the Medical Polity, Dental Student Association, Student Bar and Graduate Management Association.In addition, Santiago stated that "many of the services provided by Sub-Board have little use or appeal to graduate students, including Generation Magazine, WRUB and the Ticket Office" and that "most graduate students are unaware these services are available to them."After reading her letter, Santiago left the meeting, saying she would discuss her concerns after the board produced a response in writing.


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Deep Thinking

Hey everybody up front! Get up off your seats and bring your drinks up here! That's what you paid three bucks for!"Angel Acevedo is trying to convince the local denizens of Sanita's to leave their barstools and check out "Rhyme and Rotation," the hip hop show he's hosting in the back of the Italian-themed bar on Lovejoy Street in Buffalo on a Saturday night.


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When Medicine Goes Too Far

Scientists at the National Institute of Aging in Washington have found introductory evidence that suggests they might be able to develop a pharmaceutical that will increase the human life span, according to an Aug.


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Moonlight Mile

Along with bereaved parents JoJo and Ben Floss (played by Susan Sarandon and Dustin Hoffman, respectively), Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal) is trying to cope with the death of Diana (Careena Melia)-their daughter, his fianc?


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Child Abductions

Each year, 725,000 children are reported missing to police, according to the Associated Press. That number breaks down to nearly 2,000 each day.


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Business and the Economy

In this modern era of big business, it is no longer front-page news when a major company cuts 10,000 jobs and declares bankruptcy.


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No Smoking at UB

In 1994, UB implemented a policy prohibiting smoking in university-owned and operated facilities.


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Committee Overturns University Council Election

After a summer of deliberation, the University Council Representative Elections Committee has overturned April's election for the post of the student representative, due to complaint over the online election format and the election date.


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Correction

An article in the Aug. 28 edition of The Spectrum incorrectly stated that the American Political Science Association convention took place last weekend.


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SWF Seeks...?

I amazed my dad the other day by commenting that I wasn't going to start saving for my children's college educations at the behest of a mailed solicitation from Key Bank.


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Major League Baseball

In the realm of bad ideas, there are some benchmarks: the Ugandan Space Project, the US Metric Campaign, Crystal Pepsi, "Waterworld" and, of course, Quayle 2000.


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Welcome

Welcome back to school, everybody. More importantly, welcome back to page five of The Spectrum. I know what you were looking for-that tall blond guy with a witty SNL take-off or a twisting detective novel that ended in the mysterious confines of the chilled water factory.


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Letter To The Editor

I would like to comment on the issues surrounding UB's revised smoking policy which was discussed in the article "UB Tells Students To Butt Out" in the 8/28 issue.


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Animal Incineration Goes Awry in Hochstetter

Students walking past Cooke and Hochstetter halls were surprised Thursday morning by thick clouds of black smoke billowing out of the Hochstetter chimneys.Trucks from the local Getzville Fire Department arrived on the scene within minutes after noticing the smoke while at a nearby automobile accident.Al Swavy, assistant director of Occupational and Environmental Safety Services, believes the problems arose because the furnace did not reach the proper temperature required to change the incinerator's products into regular vapor.The furnace in question is used to incinerate lab animals and lab paraphernalia after testing is complete."We're not sure just yet if we had a burner malfunction or not," said Swavy.


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