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A Basketball Renaissance
By MICHAEL SCOTT | Jan. 28, 2002Saturday night I waited in line to use the men's room at Alumni Arena. I waited in traffic after the game for about 10 minutes.
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"Bulls' Win Ugly, But Still a Win"
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG | Jan. 28, 2002If basketball were a sport that awarded points based on elegance, the women of UB would have had some major problems racking up style points in Saturday night's game against Akron.
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"In Literature as in Life, Ride to Adulthood is Funny Despite the Bumps"
By NICK FARNOLO | Jan. 28, 2002The key to Mike Magnuson's Lummox: The Evolution of a Man is its desire to be greater than itself.
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Campbell's Effort Not Enough as Bulls Fall Short to Northwestern
By MATT ALBERT | Jan. 28, 2002When opportunity comes knocking, you'd better be there to answer it. Saturday night, at home against the Big Ten's Northwestern Wildcats, the Bulls held up a "Do Not Disturb" sign every time opportunity approached.In the last 10 minutes of the men's game, the Bulls had 13 chances to either tie or take the lead against the Wildcats.
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Cell Splicing for Infertility
By Editorial | Jan. 28, 2002Here, at the dawn of the 21st century, humanity inarguably stands at the pinnacle of medical achievement thus far.
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Veridian Expands Engineering Library Collection
By STEFANIE ALAIMO | Jan. 28, 2002Veridian, 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, 2002Top 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, 2002Finding 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, 2002Most 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, 2002It'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, 2002UB'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, 2002For 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, 2002Harvard 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, 2002Record 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, 2002Robinson 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, 2002President 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, 2002The 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, 2002While 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, 2002Concern over UB services dominated Wednesday's "Talk of the University," WBFO's monthly radio show hosted by UB President William R.
