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Council Seeks to Reschedule Election

Due to lack of advertising and a late drafting of University Council Election Rules and Regulations, Student Association President Christian Oliver has requested that the University Council student representative election be postponed.


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Band Preview: Kittie

Though they describe themselves as happy, jovial people, the heavy metal trio Kittie plays their music hard enough, loud enough and mean enough to be compared to a bunch of men playing with power saws.The heavy metal trio roars into Buffalo tonight to play at the Showplace Theater.


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Safety Report

3/22 An unknown person pulled a fire alarm in the Millard Fillmore Academic Complex.3/22 A person was taken to Children's Hospital from Butler Annex A for treatment of a seizure.3/23 A student was referred to the Student Wide Judiciary for possession of a pellet gun in MacDonald Hall.3/23 A student was referred to the Student Wide Judiciary for possession of stolen road signs in Fargo Quad.3/24 A runaway juvenile was found in Clement Hall.3/26 An unknown person broke the glass on a vending in Goodyear Hall.3/30 An unknown person stole a suitcase from the Student Union.4/1 A student in Roosevelt Hall received a death threat over the phone.4/2 A female student was referred to the Student Wide Judiciary for bothering her ex-boyfriend in Schoellkopf Hall.4/2 An unknown person stole a UB card from the Natural Sciences Complex.4/2 A student was referred to the Student Wide Judiciary for theft of services from the Richmond Caf?


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Letter To The Editor

As Bill Clinton embarks on the UB campus this Wednesday, students are quick to remember the sitcom-like scandals that surrounded his tenure in office and the economic "prosperity" that came along with it.


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FSA Receives Violations for Krispy Kreme Conditions

A former Faculty Student Association employee is claiming the Krispy Kreme doughnuts available at the Student Union Candy Counter are being sold under unsanitary conditions that resulted in several violations from the Department of Agricultural Markets."The doughnut case has never been cleaned and as of [Monday] night, the container they keep the doughnuts in is full of fruit flies," said Jason, who worked at the Candy Counter until resigning last Monday and asked that his last name be withheld.Jeff Mott, general manager of the FSA, denied there is a fruit fly problem."Doughnuts wouldn't draw fruit flies and anything else sold there is pre-packaged,' said Mott.


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Letter To The Editor

This is in response to Benjamin Siegel's op-ed about the "customer always being right" ("Can I Help You?" April 5).He is absolutely right so far as an unruly and uncooperative customer is concerned.


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Editor's Picks

Wednesday, April 10 "Arms and the Man", Irish Classical Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $ 10 for students. Thru May 19.Kittie, Flaw, Skinlab, My Run, and 3rd Strike, Showplace Theatre, 7 p.m.Miranda July, media performer and video artist, Hallwalls, 8 p.m., $5 for students.Thursday, April 11"Shadow Serenade", Alleyway Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $ 10 for students.


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Music and Her Message: DiFranco at Shea's

With a guitar that looked three times too big for her body, and yet half the size of her voice, the tiny singer with the dreadlocks should have looked small, all alone on that stage.Yet Ani DiFranco's presence, energy, and passion seemed too big to be contained at Shea's Performing Arts Center Monday night, as she performed a solo show and donated her proceeds to help aide the under-funded Buffalo Public School system.DiFranco, a native of Buffalo, joined forces with Aiding Buffalo's Children (ABC), a group of parents and teachers.


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Feet First

"I am Clin-ton. As overlord, all will kneel trembling before me and obey my brutal commands."- Clinton-Kodos, "The Simpsons"Last December, the New York Times reported former President William ("Bill" on his trading card) Clinton gathered a number of his former White House cohorts at his Harlem office to map an effective strategy to combat the latest crisis.It wasn't recovery from the terrorist attacks or the on-going war effort against al Qaeda.


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Scoreboard

UBBaseball4/4 Buffalo 15, Niagara 44/5 Kent State at Buffalo - PPD4/6 Kent State at Buffalo - PPD4/7 (DH) Buffalo 5-2, Kent State 7-13Softball4/5 St.


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Provost in Demand

Depending on how things go in the great commonwealth of Massachusetts, UB may need to begin searching for a new No.


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Capaldi Looks to UMass

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst has selected UB Provost Elizabeth Capaldi as one of three finalists for the position of university chancellor.Capaldi, who could not be reached for comment, went to visit the campus this past weekend and will learn at the end of April whether she has been offered the position."I wish her well, I hope she doesn't go," said UB President William R.


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Letter To The Editor

With the Election of 2000, former President Bill Clinton was evicted from office by his boss, the people of the United States of America.


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April 9 to April 13

4/9The Graduate Student Association will show "Amores Porres" at 7 p.m. in the Student Union Theater.


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Sidelines

BaseballUB defeated Niagara University in the bitter cold Thursday afternoon 15-4 at Niagara's Bobo Field.


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