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Veridian Expands Engineering Library Collection

By STEFANIE ALAIMO | Jan. 28, 2002

Veridian, an engineering research corporation, has donated several decades' worth of research materials - including technical reports, books and journals - to UB, as part of the university's $250 million fund-raising campaign."Overall, it's a major addition to the collection," said Nancy Schiller, associate librarian of the Science and Engineering Library, where the materials will be housed.

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"Advisor's Link to Enron No Cause for Concern, Deans Say"

By EMILY DALTON SMITH | Jan. 28, 2002

Top administrators in the UB School of Management have expressed confidence in a member of the SOM dean's advisory council and former Enron senior director of investor relations, Elizabeth N.

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Catholic HMOs

By Editorial | Jan. 28, 2002

Finding a health maintenance organization that meets one's needs should not be left to chance. But in some cases even these needs is not met, nor even mentioned.

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From Activist Jailbird to Associate English Professor

By BRENDAN MCGARRY | Jan. 28, 2002

Most students probably wouldn't guess that a UB English professor from a small Bavarian town in Germany who holds a doctorate degree from Yale and studies Dante in Italian was once arrested and spent time in the slammer.It was 1971 and college students were protesting against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War."We had cops on campus with tear gas and a K-9 squad, supposedly stopping students from rioting," said professor Max Wickert.

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Letter To The Editor

By JOE AGUILAR | Jan. 25, 2002

It's embarrassing. When I tell people I know I go to UB, of which fact I am very proud of, they immediately say to me, "Wow, Joe, you must be rich to go to that college where they pay their teachers $8,000 a week for teaching a class!"Then I have to tell them, "Oh, no.

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CSE Department Receives $1 Million Grant

By BRENDAN MCGARRY | Jan. 25, 2002

UB's department of computer science and engineering was recently awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to invest in a massive data storage system that will enable pioneering multidisciplinary research in bioinformatics, the use of supercomputers to analyze biological data, and geographical information sciences (GIS), among other research areas.The highly competitive five-year grant provides 25 terabytes - or 25,000 gigabytes - of state-of-the-art computer storage necessary to manage and analyze multidimensional data sets.

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Another Safe Year in the Suburbs

By SARA PAULSON | Jan. 25, 2002

For the third time in four years, Kansas-based Morgan Quitno Press has dubbed Amherst, N.Y. the safest city in America.

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We Are The Romans

By STEFANIE ALAIMO | Jan. 25, 2002

"A millennium ago, there existed a powerful empire, born from the ideals of liberty, scholarship and a free society, which grew to become one of the most awesome superpowers the world had ever seen."Its culture spread and assimilated others and drastic developments were made in technology, literature, arts and the democratic system.

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Professor Masiello

By Editorial | Jan. 25, 2002

Harvard has Henry Kissinger. Columbia had Al Gore. UB had Tony Masiello.While most students spent the winter intersession away from the classroom, 55 graduate students in the School of Management spent a week learning at the feet of recently re-elected Buffalo Mayor Tony Masiello.

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Sharing is Good

By DYLAN HALL | Jan. 25, 2002

Record Town was bustling with customers the last couple days before Christmas. Long lines, stressed-out employees and a maelstrom of people flipping through shelves of compact discs were the perfect cover for Dan to slip a Linkin Park CD into his puffy winter jacket.

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SA Assembly Speaker Iglesias Steps Aside

By STEFANIE ALAIMO | Jan. 25, 2002

Robinson Iglesias, speaker of the SA Assembly, notified the Student Association via e-mail Wednesday that he will resign from the position.

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AIDS Advisory Council

By Editorial | Jan. 25, 2002

President Bush is ready to name Dr. Tom Coburn, a former Oklahoma congressman, as the new co-director of the AIDS advisory council.

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Union Strikers and UB Students Face Off Against New Era

By ELIZABETH M. FOX-SOLOMON AND NICK FARNOLO | Jan. 25, 2002

The New Era Cap Company, the official manufacturer of Major League Baseball caps as well as UB Bulls apparel, has come under increased scrutiny in recent months by college activists, sweatshop foes and labor rights advocates who criticize the corporation's practices in the United States and abroad.Locally, the company has received press for a half-year-old strike at its Derby, N.Y.

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Inconsistency Plagues Women's Basketball Over Break

By TAI KHANDAKER | Jan. 25, 2002

While most UB students were enjoying a nice long semester break, the women's basketball team had a full course load, playing a total of 10 games in our absence, including seven conference games.The Bulls went from being as hot as a Hawaii heat wave - scoring a stunning 55-43 upset over Big East powerhouse Seton Hall - to being as cold as a Buffalo blizzard in a 76-29 debacle at then-23rd-ranked Tulane.

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Parking and Profanity Deliberated on WBFO

By SARA PAULSON | Jan. 25, 2002

Concern over UB services dominated Wednesday's "Talk of the University," WBFO's monthly radio show hosted by UB President William R.

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This Is Our House

By MICHAEL SCOTT | Jan. 25, 2002

One sits quietly at a long table making notes when suddenly the foundation begins to shake, a deafening noise fills the brain, and total chaos ensues.

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An Idea for Our University: A Pedagogic No. 2 Pencil

By HOWARD R. WOLF | Jan. 23, 2002

As our lives reflect the moment we enter history, the dominant generational style of our youth (the sound of its music, the look of its movies), so one's approach to education is a product largely of the decade of one's higher education.

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Restraining Order Violations

By Editorial | Jan. 23, 2002

Should battered women who violate court orders of protection be punished? An increasing number of judges around the nation, frustrated by women who ignore restraining orders granted to protect them, say yes.

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Records and Integrity Get Sacked

By MATT ALBERT | Jan. 23, 2002

With the Christmas season come and gone, Packers quarterback Brett Favre showed the type of generosity that is only paralleled by that fat jolly guy who has a propensity for bouncing little boys and girls on his knees.In fact, he gave Giants defensive end Michael Strahan something the 30-year old monster of a man had been wishing for his whole life, or at least since his football career began at Westbury High School in Texas at age 17.He gave him the dream of all behemoth's who are willing to line up against men who mirror themselves in appearance and subject themselves to getting their eyes gouged, their heads kicked, and their jewels stepped on; all for the chance to lay a clean shot on some prima donna quarterback who probably makes as much in endorsements as these guys make in their contracts.Favre gave Strahan the sack record.

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UB Ranks in Top Five For NYS Higher Ed. R&D Funding

By BRENDAN MCGARRY | Jan. 23, 2002

According to figures recently released by the state, UB ranked near the top of both public and private colleges and universities in New York state in academic research and development funding for the year 2000.UB led SUNY schools with expenditures of $187.7 million, and placed fourth in the state overall, trailing only top-spenders Cornell University, Columbia University and the University of Rochester, respectively.