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Letter To The Editor
By BIANCA FIORE | Feb. 27, 2002To The Editor:I am writing this letter partially in response to Matt Albert's opinion piece "Blame the Greeks" (The Spectrum, Feb.
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Comprehensive Fee Hike Increases Cost of Attending UB
By STEFANIE ALAIMO | Feb. 27, 2002Once again, UB students will be mailed a heftier bill. Next fall, an additional $30 will be added to the comprehensive fee, which supplements UB tuition, hiking the fee up to $655 for undergraduates and $487.50 for graduate students per semester.
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Unwritten Law's MTV dreams
By ELENA BARLOW | Feb. 27, 2002Twelve years of dedication, dreaming and rocky member-relations are finally bringing due success to five Southern California rockers.
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Even a Great Queen Can't Save Damned Movie
By GENE PARK | Feb. 27, 2002"Queen of the Damned" is the last film that will ever feature the late R&B singer Aaliyah. It is unfortunate that her final credits have to be associated with such a lousy movie.Not surprisingly, this adaptation of Anne Rice's third novel from her Vampire Chronicles series made the most money at the box office last weekend, but the majority of its audience probably walked out disappointed.
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MAC Men's Basketball Standings
Feb. 27, 2002East DivisionMACOverall.WLWLKent State - x161235Bowling Green115216Ohio106169Miami (Ohio) 981216Buffalo7101216Marshall6101214Akron512919West DivisionMACOverall.WLWLBall State - y115189Toledo971213Western Michigan8\t81512Northern Illinois\t791114Central Michigan\t511816Eastern Michigan\t214621x - clinched MAC regular-season title and No.
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Women Ousted In Home Finale
By NICHOLAS PEZZINO | Feb. 27, 2002Sometimes, the better team just wins.Never was that more evident than on Tuesday night, when the UB women's basketball team ended their regular season by dropping an 80-65 decision to the Miami (Ohio) RedHawks at Alumni Arena.The Bulls (9-18, 4-12 MAC), who have now dropped eight straight decisions, simply couldn't stay with a Miami team that has found itself victorious in its last five contests.Trailing 35-33 at halftime, thanks in part to 13 first-half points from Bulls' guard Kate McMeeken-Ruscoe, the RedHawks (17-10, 11-5 MAC) looked to their most dangerous weapon for help.Junior Heather Cusick drilled two straight three-pointers as part of a 12-2 run that established a nine-point lead with 10 minutes remaining in the second half.
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2002 UB Baseball Roster
Feb. 27, 2002PitchersNo.NameThrowsClass11Nick BellacoseRSo.12Tyler BalentineRJr.16John NelsonRFr.20Anthony PucciaRSr.23Brian CloningerLFr.26Matt FranklinLJr.27Mark GarrardRJr.32Brendan DunfordRSr.33Mark McMahonLJr.34Kyle SwiatochaRJr.35Mike LeslieRSo.36John SullivanRJr.Position PlayersNo.NamePositionClass1Bryan SanchezINFJr.2Tim SovaOFSr.6Jordan AlcottOF/INFFr.7Joe TodoroINFSo.8Joe MihalicsOF/INFFr.9John BoomOFFr.13Andrew WengertINFFr.14Adrian DanielsINFJr.15David AmaroCFr.17Eric HuberOFSr.18Phil VanhorneINFFr.19James KingsleyOF/INFFr.21Corey BlairC/INFSr.22Brandon DiCesareC/OFJr.25Kevin NesterukINFJr.28Brian ZelaskoOFJr.29Fran CoudrietCSo.31Aaron OttoUTLFr.
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Political Scientists Call Campaign Finance Reform Bill Ineffective
By ELIZABETH M. FOX-SOLOMON AND BRENT ANDERSON | Feb. 25, 2002The issue of campaign finance reform has dominated legislative attention in recent weeks, as the hotly-debated Shays-Meehan bill passed the House of Representatives Feb.
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Jewish Community Thrives On Campus
By AMANDA LOHISER | Feb. 25, 2002There are three organizations for Jewish students at UB: the Chabad House, Hillel of Buffalo and the Jewish Student Union.
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Bulls Slay Thundering Herd 87-62
By MATT ALBERT | Feb. 25, 2002One could easily expect the game would mean something special to the members of the Bulls' senior class.
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"Fiscal Prudence Gives $10,000 Club Budget Surplus"
By PHILIP MATHEW | Feb. 25, 2002The Student Association's clubs and organizations were given an unexpected fiscal boost when SA Treasurer Naazli Ahmed announced a $10,000 surplus in the club budget at the SA Senate meeting Monday, Feb.
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Uprooting the Money Tree
By ELIZABETH M. FOX-SOLOMON | Feb. 25, 2002Politicians - and their loyal brigade of lawyers, consultants, advisors and spin doctors - are experts at locating loopholes in even the most tightly-constructed regulations, particularly when the stakes are high.Campaign finance legislation, where the stakes are hundreds of millions of dollars and those sitting in Congress have the most to gain from maintaining the status quo of complex and ineffective stipulations, is certainly no exception.In such a climate, the passage of the Shays-Meehan bill by the U.S.
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Global Impact of Kashmir Dispute
By STEFANIE ALAIMO | Feb. 25, 2002Last Thursday, professor Saleem Kidwai, Ph.D. and visiting Fulbright scholar, addressed "The Kashmir Issue in International Politics" as part of a university-sponsored lecture series examining the aftermath of Sept.
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Canada Grabs Hockey Gold
By JASON LA CANFORA | Feb. 25, 2002WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah - As the Canadian fans broke into a roaring, impromptu rendition of their national anthem with one minute remaining in the gold medal Olympic hockey game Sunday, 50 years of agony and heartache began washing away.
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On-Campus Apartment Rents Hiked for 2002-03
By TAMIKA MALLORY | Feb. 25, 2002Hadley, South Lake and Flint villages give upperclassmen the chance to experience apartment-style living without crossing campus boundaries.
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Help Keeps Coming to Laundry Theft Victim
By JAMIE LYNN PERNA | Feb. 25, 2002Fundraising efforts to assist Tammy Milillo, a UB senior with cerebral palsy, replace $400 worth of her clothing stolen on Feb.
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Scoreboard Watching
Feb. 22, 2002It's the time of year when players have one eye on the ball - and one eye on the scoreboard. With three teams locked in the eighth position, the Buffalo men's basketball team appears to have the inside track for a home playoff game.
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Pape to be Confirmed as SUNY Trustee
By BRENDAN MCGARRY | Feb. 22, 2002UB student George Pape will be ceremonially confirmed as the newest member to the State University of New York Board of Trustees next Thursday, Feb.
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Principal Horton
By Editorial | Feb. 22, 2002There are two ways to fix a failing school system. One is from the top down. National and state lawmakers have used a variety of techniques to boost academic achievement.
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Golden Flashes Trounce UB
Feb. 22, 2002What a difference three weeks make. Three weeks ago, the UB women's basketball team went toe-to-toe with the best the MAC has to offer, staying with Kent State for the full 40 minutes before falling 72-71 when they were unable to get off a shot at the buzzer.Last Wednesday, before 1,015 fans at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center in Kent, Ohio, the Bulls (9-17, 4-11 MAC) were out of the game before the fashionably late crowd had filed in.
