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Baseball Weekend Preview

If you listen to the squad itself, this season is supposed to be the one in which the UB baseball team turns things around and starts building a winning program.


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Jazz Grooves with Schleigho at Broadway Joe's

Instrumental jazz quartet Schleigho will be playing at Broadway Joe's tonight, continuing an almost 10-year-old tradition of performing in the Buffalo area.The quartet is made up of guitar, bass, keys and drums.


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War: What is it Good For?

While our military men and women are putting their all into the confrontation in Iraq, many of us at home are asking: What is this war good for?The answer?


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Brad Grey: A UB Success Story

University students who have ever doubted being able to find a decent job after graduation can look to Brad Grey, chairman of the Brillstein-Grey Entertainment production company, for inspiration.Grey, a producer whose Hollywood credits consist of popular television shows such as "The Sopranos," "My Big Fat Greek Life," "The Larry Sanders Show" and "Just Shoot Me," received an honorary degree in Humane Letters from UB on Thursday, March 27.According to Roy Roussel, chairman of the media studies department, Grey's "critical level of success justifies and demands an award."Roussel said Grey has an ability to generate good ideas for hit stories, and he also possesses a quality that is hard to find in the average person - he is able to market his product to the public."Artists have a vision, and they put their vision out there," Roussel said.


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A Note to Our Readers

Wednesday, March 26, The Spectrum debuted a new layout for the front page of the paper. We scrapped the old "Spectrum" logo (known as a flag, for those who care) and replaced it with a softer, more modern look, at the same time anchoring it to the left side of the paper and removing the Baird Point graphic.


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UB Athletes of the WeekSoftball's Stacey Evans has been named UB Female Athlete of the Week for her performance in two games against Marshall.Evans allowed only four hits in seven shutout innings against The Herd on Sunday.


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"Zoo Presses Charges Against Fraternity Life"" Pledges"

The Buffalo Zoo announced Wednesday it will be pressing charges against the three Sigma Chi Omega pledges featured on MTV's "Fraternity Life" after the latest episode showed them hopping the zoo's fence.Although officials from the zoo said the matter has been turned over to the Erie County District Attorney's office, the three have been neither charged nor arrested for the alleged incident.Earl Altheide, one of the three pledges involved in the incident, said he plans to issue a formal apology to the zoo."I'm writing a letter, and it's going to be on the desk of the lady in charge of the zoo by Monday," said Altheide.The Buffalo Zoo could not be reached for comment Thursday, but it did issue a formal statement regarding the matter."The illegal actions taken by these three young men could have seriously endangered not only the zoo's animals, but the individuals involved," stated Buffalo Zoo President Donna Fernandes.


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Acclaimed Producer Receives Honorary UB Doctorate

Brad Grey, chairman of Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, joined the likes of CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer and Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein when he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the university Thursday.Grey, a 1979 UB graduate, is a producer for The Sopranos, the highly-acclaimed HBO drama; films such as "In Memoriam," a documentary on Sept.


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MAC Gets a Taste of Bowl Competition

When you look at the upcoming non-conference Mid-American Conference schedule, featuring some high profile teams, you would not think the MAC was a mid-major conference.The MAC is still obviously a mid-major conference, but that is not stopping them from playing the nation's top football teams in 2003.There will be a league record of 10 Division I-A non-conference opponents in MAC stadiums come this fall.


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You Might Be A Greek If:

ItOs Greek Week at UB, and students are probably wondering how to tell sorority sisters and their male counterparts from the rest of the campus population. HereOs a checklist of ways to tell if youOve Omade the cut,O compiled by two reporters with firsthand experience of Greek Life.


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Baseball: Falcons Sweep MAC Opener From UB

UB senior pitchers Tyler Balentine turned in a very solid performance as he struck out a career high eight batters while allowing three runs against the Bowling Green Falcons on Saturday.Unfortunately for him and the rest of the Bulls (3-12, 0-2 MAC), he received no offensive support as the Bulls lost their MAC opener to Bowling Green 3-1.Buffalo left ten runners on base and could only manage one unearned run.Kyle Knoblauch turned a solid pitching performance of his own for Bowling Green.


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Softball: Bulls Go 1-2 Over the Weekend in Huntington

The softball team wanted to make a statement on Sunday on Marshall's home field.Behind the dominant pitching of Stacey Evans, they did just that.In a performance that garnered her Student Athlete of the Week honors from UB, Evans pitched a 3-0 shutout against Marshall to give the Bulls their earliest Mid-American Conference win in team history.


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When Classes Come to the Students

For students opposed to the trek to class through Buffalo's typically cold rain and snow, the Millard Fillmore College may offer a refreshing - and comfortable - alternative to traditional learning methods.The Distance Learning Program is a formal approach to learning where the instructor and student are separated by time and distance.





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