Last weekend, the University at Buffalo women's volleyball team opened the Mid-American Conference portion of its 2001 season against two formidable opponents.
At the height of their performance, Sonic Youth lead singer Thurston Moore and guitarist Jim O'Rourke mesmerized the audience in Buffalo State College's Rockwell Hall with a mind-blowing cacophony of psychedelic tones, plucks, piercings, screeches, and other inexplicable sounds along with their poetry last Thursday.Sonic Youth's signature is their composition of songs that gracefully blend soft melody and synthetic, spacey violence.Wires, switches, petals, knobs and buttons weaved across the stage floor.
For some students, the fourth hour of dungeon exploring and bomb defusing comes all too quickly.Students in campus residences, with high-speed Internet connections and easily available software, often fall victim to the latest crop of hot computer games, such as this year's "Diablo II" and the "Half-Life" add-on "Counter Strike." Along with other top selling games such as "Black & White" and "The Sims," students have a wide variety of choices when it comes to avoiding school.Although the games range in price from $19.99 at K-Mart for Counter Strike to $34.86 for Diablo II at Wal-Mart, some addicts have found a way to justify their cost and even profit from the numerous hours mastering the games demands.Cosmin Banciu, a sophomore computer science major and avid Diablo II player, has made $120 by auctioning four 'items' used in the game, such as swords and weapons necessary to advance to the higher levels.
Three times a week for the past 50 years, worn, read Spectrums have papered the university's lecture halls after giving students something to read during Dr. Boring's painful lecture.
"Perhaps the thorniest problem facing any young man is finding a woman in the first place. It turns out to be nearly impossible."- Crow T.
Professional football may have brought smiles back to the faces of many around the league this weekend.
Each year, UB offers students and their families the chance to discover the university together through a weeklong celebration of school spirit culminating in Family and Homecoming Weekend.
The article "Sikh Religion and Culture" by Nirmal K. Singh, was much awaited in view of the recent cases of mistaken identity and hence hate crimes against Sikhs in America.
UB quarterback Joe Freedy has 25 consecutive starts for the Bulls, and is about to make it 26 against Central Michigan this Saturday.
One week after classes began, residents in 102-D Hadley Village were forced to evacuate when the building's sprinklers were activated, drenching the building's interior.At around 5:30 p.m.
As part of the experimental, "No-Wave" music scene, they played an integral role in the formation of a new music genre.
After two weeks of inactivity, the University at Buffalo's cross country squad headed north of the border to take part in the 27th Annual Western International meet, hosted by Western Ontario University.
Toledo 52, Central Michigan 28Toledo Rockets running back Chester Taylor broke a school record, scoring five touchdowns against the Central Michigan Chippewas in Toledo's 52-28 victory Saturday.
Emily Dalton Smith column in Monday's issue of the Spectrum notes that she could do without "nasty e-mails and snide comments zinged by lazy armchair quarterbacks to bolster their fragile egos." First and foremost, it is stereotypical and irresponsible to suggest that everyone who writes an e-mail to her paper is lazy.
The UB women's tennis team began their fall 2001 campaign Saturday with an impressive 5-2 victory over St.
Carolee Schneeman, world-renowned visual artist, writer, and Renaissance woman, screened some of her analytical, segmenting films this past Monday in UB's Student Union as part of the art department's speaker series.Schneeman opened the discussion with a reminiscence of the last time she had been in Buffalo.
Are you excited about performing at Fall Fest?Yeah, it's going to be a load of fun. I love Buffalo.
UB will resume groundwork today on the Skinnersville Road apartment complex after a State Supreme Court justice Tuesday lifted his temporary restraining order, which had halted construction.
While Americans everywhere lament the terrible loss created by the recent terrorist acts upon the World Trade Center, there is a greatly pervasive and insidious sentiment that has struck fear and terror to Arab and Muslim Americans.
Charles Atkinson Haynie, a retired UB lecturer, coordinator for UB's Leo Tolstoy College, and former "Out of the Chaos" columnist for the Spectrum, died Jul.
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