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Living Up To The Absence of Hype
By OMAR BOBB-SEMPLE | Nov. 12, 2001It's never an easy task living up to hype. You can either roll with the punches or fall through the cracks.
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"Marshall Wins MAC East Championship, Again"
Nov. 12, 2001The results were the same as they have been the past five years, but it was not Marshall's usual formula for victory: Byron Leftwich was catching touchdowns instead of throwing them.It was the famed Michael Carey to Byron Leftwich combo that gave the Thundering Herd (8-1, 5-0 MAC) a 24-14 lead in the third quarter, en route to a 27-21 win over the Miami, Ohio RedHawks, (7-3, 4-1 MAC) to capture their fifth-consecutive MAC East Division title.
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Activism For Activism's Sake
By ELIZABETH M. FOX-SOLOMON | Nov. 12, 2001My education in activism began before I was able to read. As a child, I marched on Washington, attended peace vigils and participated in rallies involving nuclear proliferation, civil rights and world hunger, trailing wide-eyed after my father, my young mind attempting to make sense of the hoopla surrounding me.While other kids wore shirts featuring Mickey Mouse or Strawberry Shortcake or the Smurfs, my first-grade wardrobe included T's boasting "Build Homes, Not Bombs," "End Hunger Now," and one of my favorites, a shirt depicting rows of decimated trees juxtaposed with a lone mushroom-cloud emanating from a nuclear bomb.As I grew older, I began to learn about the issues that had brought my six-year-old self to the nation's capital, and longed to follow in the footsteps of my father, who was active in the civil-rights struggle of the 1960s and the Vietnam War protests in the following decade.The activism of those periods was synonymous in my mind with concrete political and social change - not simply long-haired, tie-dye-wearing, peace-sign-toting, free-loving, disgruntled hippies with too much time on their hands and too many chemicals in their bloodstreams.
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Bulls Report Card
By MICHAEL SCOTT | Nov. 12, 2001Passing OffenseUB's offensive attack was very balanced, so one could not say that either the passing game or the rushing game made the difference for the Bulls.
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War Information
By Editorial | Nov. 12, 2001As the war in Afghanistan enters its second month, the Bush administration is stepping up efforts to shape public opinion at home and abroad.
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Do UB's Dorms Measure Up?
By STEFANIE ALAIMO | Nov. 12, 2001Since UB was rated #1 for "dorms like dungeons" in the Princeton Review's ranking of America's "331 Best Colleges" earlier this fall, many students and faculty have questioned the study's validity, especially in light of the university's ongoing mission to create a large-scale community through increased on-campus housing.The Spectrum reviewed information and interviewed staff from UB's sister SUNYs, as well as several private institutions, to gauge UB's living environment and see how or if its residence halls measure up.
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School Drug Testing
By Editorial | Nov. 9, 2001Narcotic substance abuse is a concern of every parent raising a teenager. The consequences of drug abuse can be severe for people on the cusp of adulthood, preparing to enter "the real world." While fighting the drug problem is important to the health and safety of American students, the educational system must not circumvent constitutional safeguards or notions of common sense in its anti-drug efforts.A case accepted by the Supreme Court Thursday casts a light upon the drug-testing policies of an Oklahoma school district.
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Mindless Minions
By SARA PAULSON | Nov. 9, 2001Coffee: many hail it as nectar from the gods. Or God. Franchises like Starbucks are springing up every other block to feed the insatiable demand of caffeine-starved Americans everywhere."Mommy, can I have a coloring book?""Honey, you know I spent my last $3.20 buying a tall white chocolate mocha with extra whipped cream from Starbucks.
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Bulls Hope to Silence Army's Guns
By MICHAEL SCOTT | Nov. 9, 2001Michie Stadium, on the Army Military Academy campus in West Point, N.Y. was rated the third-"best place in the world to watch sports" in Sports Illustrated's 1999 "Top 20 Venues," falling behind only Yankee Stadium and Augusta National Golf Course."Game day at West Point begins three hours before kickoff with a cadet parade on The Plain," according to the article dated June 7, 1999.
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Students Voice Concerns Over Racial Profiling
By BRENDAN MCGARRY | Nov. 9, 2001Approximately 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, 2001In 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, 2001As 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, 2001Before "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, 2001Many 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, 2001Until 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, 2001State 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, 2001The 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, 2001The 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, 2001Following 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, 2001You 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.
