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Graduate Students Elect Liu President

The Graduate Student Association elected a new president in a landslide vote this week, along with a new vice president and treasurer.

Islamic Scholar Lectures at UB

The Muslim Student Association invited a prominent Islamic scholar to UB Tuesday to explore the faith of Islam - an event Muslim SA members hoped would educate students on their religion.Ibrahim Memon, a Quran scholar and principal of Darul-Uloom Al-Madania Inc., an Institution of Higher Islamic Education, lectured to a crowd of 30 students.Muslim SA members said the lecture series is important because misconceptions about the faith of Islam are currently widespread.

Sidelines

UB FootballThe University at Buffalo's annual Blue-White football scrimmage has been cancelled due to the poor weather that has been plaguing Buffalo as of late.The game was originally scheduled to take place at 1 p.m.

Chappelle Smokes Up UB

When comedian Dave Chappelle ambled his way on the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on Wednesday night, it was difficult to determine whether he was high.

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Building From the Ground Up

Buffalo Bulls baseball may be a mystery to many of the students at the University at Buffalo, for many reasons.Living in the shadow of the two big sports at UB, football and basketball, is tough enough; Add to this the arctic "spring" of Buffalo, which forces the postponement of many games, and you're left with a baseball team nearly invisible to the eye of the average student.But that doesn't mean that the baseball team and particularly its head coach, Bill Breene, do not have an interesting story to tell.Actually, Breene's story is an intriguing one, as he was the man selected to build the Bulls baseball team, which had been out of commission for 20 years, from the ground up in an extremely tough Division-I environment.Breene was given that opportunity to build a Division-I baseball team four years ago and so far, given the obstacles in his way, he has been able to weather the storm and even finished with an overall record of 16-28 last year, which is not too shabby considering they started over fresh in a new conference only a year before that."Needless to say in our first few years of development, I think we would go on the field most of the time a little overmatched based on a lack of experience," said Breene.

University at Buffalo Faculty and Staff for Peace

We the undersigned faculty and staff of the University at Buffalo strongly oppose another United States-led war on Iraq for the following reasons:Another war on Iraq, especially one begun with a barrage of missiles designed to avoid American casualties, will cause the death of numerous innocent Iraqi men, women, and children and will destroy what remains of the social fabric and physical infrastructure of that country.

The Phantom Returns to Shea's

Buffalo is officially under invasion by the world's most famous phantom - the "Phantom of the Opera." Shea's Performing Arts Center presents Andrew Lloyd Webber's chandelier-smashing success now through April 19, the show's first return to the venue since its 1999 premiere.

Better Than Stick Figures: 4.9.03

UB Officials Seek Tuition Hike for Some Graduate Programs

University officials traveled to Albany last week and sought legislative approval to charge higher tuition for certain graduate programs, a move they said will allow UB to improve the strength of the graduate school.Under the proposed plan, tuition for master's degrees in business administration as well as in public health would be raised an unspecified amount from the current level of $5,100 per year.UB Provost Elizabeth Capaldi said the programs are currently under priced, compared with similar degree programs at other public institutions.

Stars in Alignment

Though not observable in the icy sky, UB's own brand of stars were visible last week. The professionals of Hollywood and New York's entertainment industries visited the classes of the department of media studies, discussing the business and the artistic creativity, hoping to give students an inspired push into the professional world.Co-sponsored by the departments of media studies, theatre and dance, English and communication, the second annual Celebrity Scholar Seminar Series hosted 10 industry professionals for student lectures, including Hollywood director James Foley and former Saturday Night Live writer Alan Zweibel.

An Open Letter To Our Readers

Today's issue marks the beginning of The Spectrum's Trial Week, in which the 2003-04 Editorial Board takes over the newspaper for a week.

UB's Miller Makes HPCwire's Watch List

Russ Miller, director of the Center for Computational Research at UB, was recently listed on HPCwire magazine's "2003 Watch List for HPC" - the computing magazine's list of the most interesting and influential people in the field of supercomputing.HPCwire, which stands for High Powered Computing Wire, compiled the list based on the criteria of people whom they believed were the "most interesting and colorful people ... in (high powered computing) to keep an eye on," according to the HPCwire Web site.

Organization Hires Students For PR Work

Over the next few weeks, students in a UB public relations class will apply their knowledge and carry out a public relations campaign for a professional organization.The New York Alliance for Donations, an organization that aims to promote organ and tissue donation, hired students in Professor Deborah Silverman's advanced public relations class to promote awareness for such donations on campus.The class will set up information tables and hand out pamphlets, surveys, and free water bottles at locations in the Student Union and the SU theatre before the Jay Leno comedic performance to create awareness about the necessity of organ and tissue donation.Provost Elizabeth Capaldi will speak at the group's first promotional event April 14 in the Student Union.

Varying Tuitions for Graduate Schools

Last week, officials from UB traveled to Albany to lobby for academic independence from the SUNY bureaucracy.

Clarifying Misconceptions About Affirmative Action

The issue of affirmative action has been debated for over 25 years and now it has again come to the forefront of America's agenda.

Quarterback Controversy Emerges for Bulls

It's only April, but football talk is already heating up around UB. The team is in the final weeks of spring practices, and a quarterback controversy is brewing inside UB stadium.Randall Secky's status as the starting quarterback is in jeopardy after an average season.

UB Delegation Lobbies in State Capital

A delegation of UB's top administrators, along with Student Association president Christian Oliver, joined the weekly slew of lobbyists in Albany Tuesday, in hopes of influencing legislators on issues affecting UB.The delegation was composed of several UB officials, including President William R.

Courts Have No Place in the Bedroom

A pending Supreme Court case brought about by two gay men in Texas is bringing attention to states that maintain their intrusive anti-sodomy laws and strict homophobic beliefs, and illustrates the ridiculousness of certain laws in the United States - "the land of the free." The two men were arrested in 1998 when a neighbor called the police, claiming that the gay men's apartment was being robbed.