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Students Voice Concerns Over Racial Profiling

By BRENDAN MCGARRY | Nov. 9, 2001

Approximately 100 students packed into room 145 of the Student Union Wednesday evening for a Black Student Union meeting called to air concerns over an October incident that some described as racial profiling.Student leaders, administrators and a Buffalo councilman attended the event, which quickly became an open forum for students to voice concerns about unfair treatment of minorities by University Police officers.The incident that sparked the meeting was the Oct.

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Letter To The Editor

By ERIK-LARS HANSEN | Nov. 9, 2001

In response to the "More Stress, Less Benefit" editorial in the Nov. 7 issue of The Spectrum, there are some issues that apparently need clarification regarding the relationship between Sub-Board I, Inc. and Generation magazine.

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Letter To The Editor

By DAVID B. BERMAN | Nov. 9, 2001

As everybody should know by now, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2001 was National Coming Out Day. Events at UB included a drag show and gay/lesbian pride messages scrawled in chalk across campus.

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"More Than Just Battle Bots"": UB Robotics"

By KEVIN PURDY | Nov. 9, 2001

Before "Battle Bots" was added to the long list of televised student distractions, three UB engineers were designing a 150-pound sumo robot, one designed to strategically out-muscle similar robots from some of the nation's top engineering schools.Interest in the trio's senior project brought together a growing number of their friends in UB's chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering three years ago, and the group soon formed UB Robotics, the Student Association's "New Club of the Year" last year.

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Mandatory Sentences

By Editorial | Nov. 9, 2001

Many murderers and child molesters in California are sentenced 25 years to life. And under the state's "three-strikes" law, which locks up defendants after their third felony conviction, so are pizza thieves and homeless crooks who swipe four cookies from a restaurant.

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Course Evaluations Online

By SELENA HUGHES | Nov. 9, 2001

Until this year, students who wanted to know more about a course before registering had only word of mouth or the departmental file cabinets that housed hard copies of course evaluations to rely on.

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Hoyt Weighs In On UB's Role

By SARA PAULSON | Nov. 9, 2001

State Assemblyman Sam Hoyt (D-Buffalo, Grand Island) came to UB Wednesday, speaking about the SUNY system, the state's financial woes, UB's relationship to Western New York and the lack of political participation on the part of students."I think too often this great institution is taken for granted in Western New York," he began.

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Miami Sends Bulls Soccer Home Early For Second Straight Season

Nov. 9, 2001

The Miami of Ohio RedHawks scored seven second-half goals to squash the Bulls' hopes of advancing in the MAC Championship Tournament Tuesday afternoon at Miami.

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Men's Rugby in National Spotlight

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG | Nov. 9, 2001

The UB men's rugby team, the Mad Turtles, saw their season of hard work pay off when they earned the right to compete in the Northeast Final Four, next week at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

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"Lee Road Construction Unfortunate, Says a Shocked"" Hoyt"

By SARA PAULSON | Nov. 9, 2001

Following his question-and-answer session at UB Wednesday, Assemblyman Sam Hoyt (D-Buffalo, Grand Island) and District Office Director S?

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And I With Thee Will Choose To Live

By KEVIN PURDY | Nov. 9, 2001

You know how some people say "Life would be over without my [significant other]," or "I've given up my old ways, I now devote myself to my [children, job, volunteer work]"? I feel the same way, but for coffee: my Arabic lover, my innocent little Colombian baby, that which I would give my all to have for only 12 ounces.When I was brought to coffee by a fate fair and true, I was only a freshman at a large research university in Western New York, adrift on a sea of opportunity in a vessel of boundless enthusiasm.

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Letter To The Editor

By WALTER SIMPSON | Nov. 7, 2001

As the bombs rain down on Afghanistan and our special forces hit the ground, I hope that bin Laden and his terrorist murderers are caught soon, that few innocent civilians are killed and this whole dreadful episode ends quickly without causing more hatred of the United States within the Muslim world and even more terrorist acts.

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Men's Tennis Wins Three Consolation Titles to Finish Fall Season

Nov. 7, 2001

The Bulls showed promise for a new beginning in the spring, with a strong finish to their fall season at the Cornell Invitational in Ithaca, N.Y., last weekend.Fery Kasiman showed what makes him integral to the team.

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Chronicling the State of Higher Education

By SARA PAULSON | Nov. 7, 2001

Offering a big-picture perspective of issues within the UB community, Chronicle of Higher Education Managing Editor Douglas Lederman addressed the Faculty Senate Tuesday afternoon in the Center for Tomorrow."I always welcome the opportunity to speak to the men and women of higher education," said Lederman, who was born in Buffalo.

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"Marshall, Miami (OH) Win Again to Set Up 'Championship Game'"

By NICHOLAS PEZZINO | Nov. 7, 2001

Following wins by both the Marshall Thundering Herd and the Miami (OH) RedHawks, the teams - who sit atop the MAC East with 4-0 records in divisional play - will face off in Oxford, Ohio this Saturday to determine the 2001 East champion.Kickoff is set for noon; the showdown will be televised locally on the Empire Sports Network.The East winner will travel to face the West champion in the MAC championship game, but will not be guaranteed a trip to a bowl game.

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Men's Swim Flounders to Ohio

Nov. 7, 2001

In their first meet of the 2001-02 season, the UB Bulls swim team suffered a 156-87 defeat by MAC rival Ohio Bobcats.

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Damn Them Yankees

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG | Nov. 7, 2001

Game seven, bases loaded, bottom of the ninth, one out, in ARIZONA and NOT in YANKEE COUNTRY! Luis Gonzalez steps to the plate and loops a shallow single to right field, which wins the series for the Diamondbacks!

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Halloween Prank Ends in Flames

Nov. 7, 2001

Last Monday, a group of UB students played a Halloween prank that resulted in a friend's car catching on fire and singeing other vehicles parked nearby.The group toilet papered the car, parked in the Fargo lot, and left the scene.

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Generation Software Struggle

By Editorial | Nov. 7, 2001

Sub-Board I, Inc. confiscated all of Generation magazine's computer keyboards and mice Monday when its editors failed to remove a pirated copy of Quark Xpress, a publishing program, from their computers.

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"Sweatshop Day of Action"" Culminates in Pistachio's"

By THANH BUI | Nov. 7, 2001

As part of a nationwide campaign against sweatshops worldwide and the unfair labor practices of U.S.