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The Spectrum picks freshman guard Lamonte Bearden as the breakout player for the men’s basketball team.Chad Cooper, The Spectrum
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The Spectrum season predictions: men's and women's basketball.

By Sports Desk | Nov. 13, 2014

As the men?s and women?s basketball teams prepare for their 2014-15 campaign, The Spectrum?s sports staff gives its prediction for each team?s record, breakout player and Mid-American Conference Tournament finish. The Spectrum picks freshman guard Lamonte Bearden as the breakout player for the men?s basketball team.Chad Cooper, The Spectrum Men?s basketball predictions Record: 15-16, 9-9 MAC It?s going to be hard for this year?s squad to match the success of last season?s MAC East regular season title and 19 wins.

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Find the light

By OWEN O'BRIEN | Nov. 13, 2014

Spectrum File Photo Championship or bust. Did you ever think these three words would describe a Buffalo women?s basketball season? I sure didn?t.

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Capital budget reveals proper priorities in Buffalo

By Editorial Board | Nov. 11, 2014

Art by Amber Sliter When Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown announced 2015?s capital budget, totaling $26 million, he demonstrated the city?s commitment to its parks, arts and neighborhoods ? essentially, its people. The budget, which is $3.1 million more than last year?s, focuses on renovations and rehabilitation projects, with only $2.5 million going toward demolitions. Parks funding was cut almost in half, falling from $1.2 million this year to $674,000.

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President Obama speaks out in support of net neutrality

By Editorial Board | Nov. 11, 2014

Months after the Federal Communications Commission revealed its proposal that would limit Internet equality, and almost a year after appointing a former lobbyist for cable companies as FCC Chair, President Obama is finally taking a stand in support of net neutrality. A critical principle behind the Internet as we know it, net neutrality allows every form of information and application to be supported equally by an information network ? that equality is now endangered. The Internet, as it stands now, is ?neutral,? in the sense that any website, whether it?s run by a corporation or an individual, has access to the same content delivery speeds managed by broadband companies. Back in April, the FCC proposed that Internet providers could offer ?fast lanes,? which would allow content to be delivered at faster speeds, for the companies that could afford to pay. Essentially, the Internet would no longer be equal and free ? instead, it would become yet another domain in which money equals power. The reaction to this proposal was swift and severe, with Internet users directing their criticism at the FCC with such fury that their outpouring of comments crashed the FCC?s website. Democrats were equally protective of net neutrality, fighting the bill and contributing to its failure in the House of Representatives. And yet, Obama stayed quiet. It would not be surprising if the president?s reticence resulted from what must have been regret over his choice of FCC Chair Tom Wheeler, whom Obama appointed in November of last year.

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Wear your letters Wednesday

By SHARON KAHN | Nov. 9, 2014

Spectrum File Photo On Wednesdays we wear letters. No, not just random letters of the alphabet ? Greek letters. We don?t wear them because we ?earned them.? We don?t wear them because we paid for them or ?paid for our friends.? We don?t wear them because we?re too lazy to pick something out to wear. We wear letters because we are representing an organization.

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Wear your letters Wednesday

By SHARON KAHN | Nov. 9, 2014

Spectrum File Photo On Wednesday?s we wear letters. No, not just random letters of the alphabet ? Greek letters. We don?t wear them because we ?earned them.? We don?t wear them because we paid for them or ?paid for our friends.? We don?t wear them because we?re too lazy to pick something out to wear. We wear letters because we are representing an organization.

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Don't Ask Anne: Pistachio's and final papers

By ANNE FORTMAN | Nov. 9, 2014

Spectrum File Photo Editor?s note: The following is satire and should be taken as such. Dear Anne: Over the next several weeks, I have to write four final papers and I somehow have to find time for this while also keeping up with the regular coursework, which is a full-time job to begin with.

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Get back to yourself

By EMMA JANICKI | Nov. 6, 2014

Spectrum File Photo When I think about it really hard, I think I?m pretty awesome. I hope you feel that way, too, sometimes. When I think about it really hard, I love all the quirky things that make me, me. I hope you present your individual interests, passions and experiences to the world in a style that shows off who you are. Personal style is crafted by recognizing and flaunting through appearance what exactly makes you an individual.

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Postal service should replace polling places

Nov. 6, 2014

Elections are always divisive but as the results of this year?s midterm pour in, there?s one issue no one?s debating. Low voter turnout is an unshakable and ? thus far ? irreconcilable issue. Only 36.6 percent of eligible voters made it to the polls this year, a number so low it rivals voter turnout from the 1940s, when many Americans failed to vote because they were overseas, fighting in World War II. There?s no simple, singular cause of voter apathy, and likewise, no easy solution. The midterm elections are especially emblematic of this problem.

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A second chance ' and a reality check

Nov. 6, 2014

?Lackluster? is probably too generous of a term to characterize Western New Yorkers? show of support for Governor Andrew Cuomo. Though he was re-elected Tuesday, winning 54 percent of the vote overall, compared to Republican candidate Rob Astorino?s 40.6 percent, that victory is diminished by a multitude of losses in Western counties. Cuomo lost seven of the eight counties that he failed to win over four years ago. The governor had focused his attention in the area, making campaign stops, touting the Buffalo Billion and selecting Kathy Hochul, who is from Buffalo, as his lieutenant. And in Erie County, Cuomo?s one WNY victory, the governor only eked out a win, getting 52 percent of the vote. As Cuomo enters his second term, he faces a more skeptical New York.

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Get back to yourself

By EMMA JANICKI | Nov. 4, 2014

When I think about it really hard, I think I?m pretty awesome. I hope you feel that way, too, sometimes. When I think about it really hard, I love all the quirky things that make me, me. I hope you present your individual interests, passions and experiences to the world in a style that shows off who you are. Personal style is crafted by recognizing and flaunting through appearance what exactly makes you an individual.

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Let Damon Janes make a difference

Nov. 4, 2014

Sixteen-year-old Damon Janes never regained consciousness after suffering a helmet-to-helmet hit and collapsing on the sidelines last September.

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An abundance of riches ' with nowhere to go

Nov. 4, 2014

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is home to an impressive collection of about 6,740 works of art, and yet, museum visitors only get to see 200 of those. The gallery?s vast and diverse assortment of art, featuring renowned works from artists ranging from Picasso to Renoir, to Warhol and Pollock, is stymied by A simple but stubborn problem ? the museum just isn?t big enough. Fortunately, the individuals running the show at the Knox agree.

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Impersonation of Associated Press by FBI violates public trust

By Editorial Board | Nov. 2, 2014

From pop-up ads to Trojan horses, there are already far too many annoyances and threats posed to innocent Internet surfers. Now, the FBI is joining the ranks of Internet predators. In 2007, the Federal Bureau of Investigation?s Seattle branch obtained a warrant to send a suspect a link to a false Associated Press story, which contained software to reveal the suspect?s location. The suspect in question was a 15-year-old who had been making repeated bomb threats to a high school near Olympia, Washington.

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