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Rosh Hashana Gives Israelis Cause to Hope
By PETER HERMANN | Sep. 6, 2002JERUSALEM--Cheryl Matthews is deeply committed to her faith. But in the weeks leading up to Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, which begins Friday at sundown, she began a prayer group to make her feel even closer to God.Yisrael Stefansky is giving more thought and more time to reading the psalms of the Hebrew Bible.
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"There Will be No Meltdown This Time, Says Testaverde"
By KEN BERGER | Sep. 6, 2002HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - New York Jets quarterback Vinny Testaverde has watched the film several times, replaying it like a bad dream.
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UB Maps Out South Campus Renovations
By ERIN SHULTZ | Sep. 6, 2002As part of an "effort to improve culture and recruit students and retain students," Dennis Black, vice president for student affairs, and Michael Dupre, associate vice president for University Facilities, unveiled a "master plan" to create new residence halls and student apartments on South Campus during an Amherst Town Planning meeting Wednesday night.A major focus of the plan, Black and Dupre said, is to provide a sense of community, both on campus and off.Renovations to South Campus will include a revamping of Clement Hall, the transformation of Goodyear Hall into high-rise apartments, the construction of village-style apartments in place of McDonald, Pritchard and Schoellkopf Halls, and the transformation of Harriman Hall into the central hub of the South Campus community.University Facilities has already renovated several classrooms in Hayes Hall as well as masonry on the stone facades of many of the academic halls, and torn down two of the aluminum buildings that once stood in the center of the South Campus courtyard, Dupre said.He added that renovations to the academic buildings on South Campus often go unnoticed, though they are equally important to housing projects.
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Medical School for Dummies
By ALISON FARRELL | Sep. 6, 2002In the minds of students, medical school represents many things: a great accomplishment, an exhausting financial endeavor, a lifelong goal, or that which is unattainable because you simply cannot understand algebra.As college students, many remain curious about the steps it takes to get into medical school.
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Sep. 6, 2002UBVolleyballTue: Cleveland St. 3, Buffalo 0Local Pro TeamsBuffalo BisonsWed: Buffalo 12, Scranton/WB 4Thurs: Buffalo 6, Scranton/WB 5 (10 innings)
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Verizon Won't Identify Music-Sharing Customer
By JONATHAN KRIM | Sep. 6, 2002The recording industry and the nation's largest telephone company are crossing legal swords in what could be a test case of how far big record labels can go to track down computer users who swap music online.
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UB Unveils Program to Bring News to Students
By ERIN SHULTZ | Sep. 4, 2002This semester, through a partnership with USA Today and the New York Times, UB unveiled its Collegiate Readership Program.
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Dell Officially Joins Bioinformatics Project
By KEVIN PURDY | Sep. 4, 2002UB officially brought Michael Dell and more than 2,000 of his company's computers into its high-tech bioinformatics project Tuesday, creating a $13 million supercomputer that is likely the third most powerful in the world.The interconnected Dell PowerEdge servers are the latest addition to the university's Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and the Center for Computational Research, which has secured $61 million in funding in this year's state budget and has attracted approximately $290 million from government and commercial partners over the last two years.More than 80,000 pounds of hardware have been installed in a former food services space in Norton Hall, just 90 days after signing a purchase contract with Dell Computer Corporation.
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UB Students and NASA Collaborate
By JAMIE LYNN PERNA | Sep. 4, 2002An accepted proposal to conduct research on the effect of a micro-gravity environment on blood flow landed members of UB's chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, at NASA's mission control last summer, where the team hopes to return later this year."Seeing the building, seeing mission control - it was really exciting to see the people I could actually be working with," said team member Nicole Kulpit, a sophomore aerospace engineering major.
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Men's Soccer Preview: Bulls Look to Reload in 2002
By ADAM BROWN | Sep. 4, 2002A new season brings new hope for the University at Buffalo's men's soccer team and they have something to prove.
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Jimmy Fallon
By ERIN SHULTZ | Sep. 4, 2002If you were among the many to see Jimmy Fallon last semester at the Center for the Arts, there will be no need to rush out and purchase his debut CD, "The Bathroom Wall." If you didn't catch the show, put the disc on your shopping list.Fallon, brought to fame by Saturday Night Live, pumps out 37 minutes of comedy and music on the album, taken from the tour that hit UB last Spring.The musical selections from the disc include "Idiot Boyfriend," in which Fallon sings in a falsetto voice to a groovy bass line about the worst boyfriend imaginable.
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UB Gets Additional Delegate
By SARA PAULSON | Sep. 4, 2002Thanks to the increase in the size of UB's undergraduate population, the Student Association has been granted an additional seat on the State University of New York Student Association.Last spring, the undergraduate student body elected three representatives to serve as UB delegates: Anthony Burgio, Yesenia Diaz and Kathryn Walsh.
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"Lights, Camera, Action ... News!"
By GENE PARK | Sep. 4, 2002Jason Aupperle plays Jason Stark: a hard-nosed, womanizing reporter, whose activities consist of sleeping with a colleague's wife and throwing pencils at Ron the Camera Guy.
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Coldplay
By GENE PARK | Sep. 4, 2002About 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, 2002At 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, 2002At 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, 2002First 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, 2002My friend Jason woke up at 7 a.m. Saturday morning and began to apply blue and yellow paint to his upper torso.
