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It's time to Quinn
By NATHANIEL SMITH | Sep. 30, 2012Coaching legend Bill Parcells once said after a frustrating loss: "You are what your record says you are."
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The opposite of haste
By AARON MANSFIELD | Sep. 30, 2012Our almost limitless language has few inadequacies. Words can change lives and alter the course of history.
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Fantasy etiquette
By TROY FAZIO | Sep. 27, 2012So maybe this is your first time. Maybe you've never done it before. You've always wanted to try it but had no one to do it with. You've tried doing it yourself, but then finally a couple of your friends invited you to do it with them. They've been doing it for years, and you're afraid you won't be able to keep up with them, because they just have so much more experience.
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The house Warde built
By MEG LEACH | Sep. 27, 2012As the Bulls move to take on the Big East's University of Connecticut this weekend, I find my mind does not focus on the familiar thrill of game day or the dread of playing an elite school.
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The highest of fives for the return of a classic show
By Rebecca Bratek | Sep. 23, 2012It's going to be legen - wait for it - dary. How I Met Your Mother returns for season eight tonight, and I couldn't be more excited. Some may say it's sad that I've based a lot of my life around this show - all some of my friends and I do is talk in quotes and obscure references from the show - but I argue HIMYM has taught me some of life's best lessons. Ted and his crew have taught me more about love (and the lack thereof) and what true friends mean than anything else.
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Comforts of home
Sep. 23, 2012Every student has experienced or has heard some kind of horror story about random roommate selection: thefts, lack of personal space and frequent "sexiles." The college housing experience can be miserable if you haven't found somebody of the same sex you want to share your living space with. UB provided a solution this fall: gender-neutral housing. Starting this semester, two floors in the Ellicott Complex and several apartments in the Hadley and Creekside Villages, have been set aside for gender-neutral housing. Not only should the university have begun this sooner, they should further expand it and other schools should follow suit. The decision allows college students who are closer with friends of the opposite sex, or students who don't like the option of being thrown together with a random stranger, to live with someone they're actually comfortable with - despite that person's gender.
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Don't bench Zordich yet
By JON GAGNON | Sep. 23, 2012His father starred at Penn St. and with the Philadelphia Eagles and his brother currently plays at Penn St.
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Money for nothing
Sep. 23, 2012Money will always be a cause for complaint, and this time of the year, students have every right to do so. Last fall, UB's Office of Financial Aid implemented a new financial aid process where students saw their financial aid credited after the drop/add period concluded.
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It's time for Licata
By JOE KONZE JR | Sep. 23, 2012Kent State versus Buffalo, lights on, cameras surrounding the stadium, countless Twitter feeds hashtagging #SeaOfBlueOnESPNU.
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On thin ice
Sep. 21, 2012This week brought disappointing news for hockey fans when Commissioner Gary Bettman announced the NHL Players' Association and the NHL had failed to reach a collective bargaining agreement, sending the league into a lockout. With that news came bitter feelings, and for longtime fans, it's
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Walk the Line: Week 3
By JON GAGNON | Sep. 20, 2012After week two of the NFL season, there are two things I took away from the weekend: First, the 49ers are really good, and second, I'm never picking the line on a Bills game the rest of the season. In week one, the Bills got torched for 48 points against an offense that failed to score a touchdown all preseason.
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All's well that ends well
By RACHEL KRAMER | Sep. 20, 2012Relationships end for a reason - people drift apart and the romance fizzles out. Each party goes its separate ways with hurt feelings and no real desire to ever see the other again. In many cases, though, a problem seems to arise: your ex is a part of your group of friends. So you have to be civil with each other.
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Letter to the Editor
By BRIAN BEYER | Sep. 20, 2012In "An Assault on Humanity" (The Spectrum, Feb. 12, 2012), the editorial board called for the U.S. to apply its "great model" from Libya in Syria. A full-scale invasion is too much, however.
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Grizzly Bear pulls another ace
By Brian Josephs | Sep. 20, 2012Album: Shields Artist: Grizzly Bear Label: Warp Release Date: Sept. 18 Grade: A
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UB's 'O' won't work without Bo
By AARON MANSFIELD | Sep. 20, 2012You could feel the air shift. UB Stadium paused for a moment. All went silent. It was as if Buffalo's biggest offensive lineman had wound up and clobbered everyone in attendance, all 14,373, square in the stomach. Oomf. The moment?
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Cultural ambiguity and the American corporate identity
By ADRIEN D'ANGELO | Sep. 20, 2012According to Paul Auster's novel The Locked Room: "We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we become more and more opaque to ourselves, more and more aware of our own incoherence." Democracy, freedom, cultural diffusion and thousands of quasi-American ideals saturate and dissolve into no solution that is indicative of its ingredients.
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"Bo O., this offense is magic, you know"
By AARON MANSFIELD | Sep. 9, 2012Just a home win over an FCS school, a team you're supposed to beat handily. We're talking about the second week of the season, anyway.
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Herding the Bulls
Sep. 9, 2012It seems some Bulls football fans went home at the end of this weekend's game bluer than they came in - that is, if they even made it to the end.
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You have the right to remain dance-less
By LISA EPSTEIN | Sep. 9, 2012I consider myself a true and proud Buffalonian. I eat wings any chance I can get, lake effect snow doesn't scare me, and I still have a glimmer of hope every fall that this will be the season the Bills make it to the Super Bowl. Yet I'm a little embarrassed by how out of touch the City of Good Neighbors has seemed within the last few weeks.
