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Anthrax Letters
By Editorial | Oct. 17, 2001A letter disguised as Jennifer Lopez fan mail is sent to American Media, a Florida-based tabloid publisher.
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Volleyball Gets Swept Out of Alumni
By SUNG CHO | Oct. 17, 2001Last weekend, the University at Buffalo women's volleyball team faced two tough MAC opponents, failing to salvage a win in either contest and dropping their record to 4-13 for the season and 0-8 in conference play.Friday, the team was home in Alumni Arena hosting defending against MAC Tournament Champions the Western Michigan Broncos.
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UB Student and Companion Presumed Dead
Oct. 17, 2001UB student Eric Vinson and his companion, Terrial Streppa, are presumed dead after disappearing from a Lockport bar last Wednesday.Michelle McCartney, a friend of Streppa's family, said the two were last seen at the Ski Lodge bar around midnight.
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G. Love Brings Its Funky Soul Revival To UB
By KEVIN PURDY | Oct. 17, 2001Although Garrett Dutton comes across as a highly soulful man, he and his band, G. Love & Special Sauce, aren't trying to convert anybody not feeling their groove - at least not true Buffalonians."Chicken wings?
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UB Study Abroad Going Strong
By BRENDAN MCGARRY | Oct. 17, 2001Not wanting to draw attention to itself, an American school in Seville, Spain, took down all signs around campus bearing its name in response to the Sept.
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Panel Discusses Political Implications of Attacks
By NOA BRECHER | Oct. 17, 2001A diverse coalition of community and university organizations joined forces to sponsor an evening of intellectual exchange on the international situation in the wake of the events of Sept.
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"Women's Crew Starts Off Strong, Gains Valuable Experience"
By ADAM BROWN | Oct. 17, 2001The UB women's crew squad began their fall season with meets for the past two weekends.Their first meet was Oct.
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You've Got SA Mail
By NICK FARNOLO | Oct. 17, 2001The Student Association's quest to increase direct interaction with its constituents may soon take them into thousands of undergraduate in-boxes.SA e-board members approached university administrators at the beginning of the semester in hopes of creating an undergraduate listserv, which would allow them to inform students of major SA events, such as the re-scheduled Fallfest, through the students' university e-mail addresses.
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Men's Tennis Scores 6-1 Win Over Vermont
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG AND JIM BYRNE | Oct. 17, 2001Last Friday, the University at Buffalo's men's tennis team waged war against the University of Vermont and came out victorious with an outstanding 6-1 victory.
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SA Listserv
By Editorial | Oct. 17, 2001Bulletin boards riddled with staples and shreds of short-lived fliers are certainly not the most efficient means of communicating with the student population.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Speaker Announced
Oct. 17, 2001The Office of Special Events has selected Stephen L. Carter, a Yale professor and author, to be the ninth annual Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Letter To The Editor
By JOHN JENNINGS | Oct. 17, 2001In Monday's feedback, Fabio Albertin criticized The Spectrum for printing an opinion piece that he considered "biased and discriminating religious propaganda." I am glad that Albertin brought up the topic of discrimination, because the sort of censorship that he supports seems discriminatory on the grounds of both freedom of speech and freedom of religion.A student publication at a state school cannot and should not practice content-based viewpoint discrimination.
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Miami of Ohio Pulls Out Last-second Miracle
By NICHOLAS PEZZINO | Oct. 17, 2001Miami (OH) 30, Akron 27Miami quarterback Ben Roethlisberger hit receiver Eddie Tillitz with a 70-yard touchdown pass with no time remaining, scoring a last-second, come-from-behind-victory over the Akron Zips in front of a hometown crowd last weekend.Miami began the game looking like they would need no last-minute heroics leaping out to a 17-3 lead early in the second quarter on a 47-yard touchdown run by running back Steve Little.
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Anthrax On My Mind
By MELI TUTTLE | Oct. 17, 2001I would like to start by letting everybody know that I am just as sick of hearing about the World Trade Center attacks and anthrax threats as everybody else.
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News I Want to Use
By NOA BRECHER | Oct. 15, 2001There are those who think ignorance is bliss. It is better not to know. It is better to go about our days as zombies and let others deal with things.But I can defend this by arguing in times of war it is pertinent that the country is behind its leaders.
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James Entertains Alumni Crowd
By MARY MORGAN | Oct. 15, 2001Students, parents and comedy fans crowded Alumni Arena Saturday night for an evening of laughter with comedian Kevin James of the hit CBS Monday night sitcom, "King of Queens."The show began at 8 p.m.
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Letter To The Editor
By ROBERT BARNETT | Oct. 15, 2001I am outraged by the feedback provided by Liam Gallagher in the letter published in Friday's Spectrum.
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The Writing On the Wall
By JAMIE LYNN PERNA | Oct. 15, 2001"Peace is Passive"Walking from the bus to the Student Union to Clemens Hall, the statement struck me as the most ridiculous of last week's countless sidewalk scribblings.Others included "Bombs Don't Discriminate," "Nothing kills innocent people like war," and perhaps the most humorous, "Force George to read a book for every bomb."The "Peace is Passive" comment seems ridiculous to me because I have been wondering what exactly it means for days now.
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Nilsson Survives Thanks to Students
By SELENA HUGHES | Oct. 15, 2001Although the scoreboard didn't reflect it, UB did have a winner at Homecoming.Sophomore Dan Nilsson won the Division of Athletic's "Survivor" contest between the game's first and second quarters Saturday afternoon, and took home a $1,000 prize.
