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Coldplay

By GENE PARK | Sep. 4, 2002

About two years ago, Coldplay released "Parachutes," the perfect, post-breakup album. The calm yet dejected tone of the music of the mopey British four-piece band was the perfect sedative for stressed, jilted and loveless young adults.Although Coldplay had higher standards and refused to license any of their music, it's still not hard to foresee a song like "Trouble" serving as the soundtrack for the scene in a Cameron Crowe movie where one of characters is driving alone, dumped and depressed in the rain.

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Better Loving Through Poetry

By GENE PARK | Sep. 4, 2002

At face value, "Possession" is the kind of film most undergraduates imagine only their English professors could love.

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GSA Threatens Withdrawal From Sub-Board I

By STEFANIE ALAIMO | Sep. 4, 2002

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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Volleyball Goes 2-1 in UB Hampton Inn-vitational

By RICK OWCZARZAK | Sep. 4, 2002

First year volleyball Head Coach Sally Kus may not have a legacy of winning at UB, but she does have a winning record.

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"Sleeping It Off, Not Football, Will Continue to be a Saturday Trend at UB"

By MICHAEL SCOTT | Sep. 4, 2002

My friend Jason woke up at 7 a.m. Saturday morning and began to apply blue and yellow paint to his upper torso.

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Deep Thinking

By GENE PARK | Sep. 4, 2002

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

By JAMIE LYNN PERNA | Sep. 4, 2002

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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Letter To The Editor

By HSIN-MING SAMUEL HUANG | Sep. 4, 2002

On Wednesday Aug. 28, The Spectrum reported the nullified GSA election last semester. At the same time, their editorial addressed student apathy.

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Moonlight Mile

By RACHEL LYNN BRODY | Sep. 4, 2002

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

By Editorial | Sep. 4, 2002

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

By Editorial | Sep. 4, 2002

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

By Editorial | Aug. 30, 2002

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

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The Student's Choice: a Hive or a Haven?

By AMANDA LOHISER | Aug. 30, 2002

When the college rankings last year from the Princeton Review labeled UB's dorms as dungeons, many students didn't object.

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Committee Overturns University Council Election

By ERIN SHULTZ | Aug. 30, 2002

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

By Editorial | Aug. 30, 2002

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...?

By RACHEL LYNN BRODY | Aug. 30, 2002

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

By Editorial | Aug. 30, 2002

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

By DAN STEIN | Aug. 30, 2002

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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MAC Nearly Scores Sweep On Opening Night

By MICHAEL SCOTT | Aug. 30, 2002

Deacons' Gamble Leads to Overtime Win For NIUEvery win helps when you're a conference that is struggling to gain respect on a national level.

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Letter To The Editor

By FABIO M. ALBERTIN | Aug. 30, 2002

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.