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Students Must Educate Selves About Gulf War: Part Deux
By RACHEL LYNN BRODY | Mar. 21, 2003Wednesday morning, media studies professor Tony Conrad put my video analysis class through an exercise.
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Next-Big-Things Come to UB
By NICHOLAS MENDOLA | Mar. 21, 2003To the most loyal and even sporadic readers of the College Music Journal, a tour handpicked by the magazine is an open invitation to rejoice in dyed-black hair ecstasy.
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Slick Sounds 'Slip' Into Buffalo
By CHRIS CLARK | Mar. 21, 2003Hailing from the bustling music metropolis of Boston, Mass., The Slip is one of the nation's top jam band touring acts.
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Men's Tennis Notches First MAC Win in Team History
By MICHAEL SCOTT AND MICHAEL GOLDBERG | Mar. 21, 2003The UB men's tennis team accomplished a milestone Thursday afternoon, leaving their head coach one victory away from a milestone of his own.It was not typical Mid-American Conference competition, nonetheless Buffalo did capture their first ever conference win by clobbering the conference's newest affiliate member Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne 7-0 at the Village Glenn Tennis Center.
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Slovenly Students Upset Custodial Staff
By BRIAN AMELL | Mar. 21, 2003A stroll through the halls in the Ellicott complex or a glance at a lecture hall in Knox is proof that students are often careless about where their garbage is thrown.
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Hundreds Gather to Protest Start of War with Iraq
By BEN CADY AND DANIEL BRITT | Mar. 21, 2003As artillery exploded in the streets of Baghdad on the first day of war with Iraq, several hundred protesters gathered on Bidwell Parkway in Buffalo to voice their opposition.Standing on a wooden platform, more than a dozen speakers addressed a spirited, rain-soaked audience of activists, community members and local college students."We are here to kick off a resistance that has never been seen before," said protester Beverly Hiestand of the group International Act Now to Stop War and Eradicate Racism.
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'Fraternity Life' Fraternity Suspended on Charges of Hazing
By ERIN SHULTZ | Mar. 19, 2003UB's chapter of Sigma Chi Omega, the fraternity featured on the MTV reality series "Fraternity Life," has been suspended from the university on allegations of hazing.According to Dennis Black, vice president of Student Affairs, shortly after the airing of the show, letters and e-mails flooded the university, prompting the administration to look into the initiation rituals of the fraternity."The campus approach has always been whenever there's an allegation or concern about possible hazing, they call a timeout in the group's activities," said Black.According to Black, Sigma Chi Omega will be suspended until an investigation into the alleged hazing is conducted.
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Men's Basketball Season Review
By JIM BYRNE | Mar. 19, 2003Let's do a little basketball math experiment, shall we?What happens when freshmen and sophomores average 32.2 minutes of action per basketball game, and then take away the team's two captains who are also the only two returning starters?Even Mr. Wizard would not be able to whip something up to get himself out of that mess of trouble.Head coach Reggie Witherspoon's Buffalo Bulls weren't expected to do much this season.
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"Movie Review: The Hunted"" (***)"
By MICHAEL FLATT | Mar. 19, 2003"If you cross this line, you'd better be willing to kill me," says elite forces operative Aaron Hallam to his trainer L.T.
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Tori Amos at Shea's Performing Arts Center
By RACHEL LYNN BRODY | Mar. 19, 2003There are multiple levels of security in place at an interview with Tori Amos; her "handlers" rove the halls of Shea's as she concludes her sound-check.
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Shortage of Candidates Cripples Democracy
By Editorial | Mar. 19, 2003The student body has failed once more to play an active role in student government at UB, as this year's elections will offer students a choice of only nine candidates for a total of seven positions.Particularly troubling is that students were in an uproar only a month ago after The Spectrum disclosed that the tuitions of the e-board were to be paid with money from the Mandatory Student Activity Fee as per legislation passed by last year's SA Senate.
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Correction
By Editorial | Mar. 19, 2003In the article "Books, Not Bombs," which ran on March 7, The Spectrum incorrectly spelled the name of a member of UB for Peace and rally organizer.
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Play Review: 'My Sister in This House'
By TRACY CALABRESE | Mar. 19, 2003"A sister sticks by you, even when you're in trouble, isn't that true?"Spoken by a photographer in the play, "My Sister in This House," this line sums up the entire basis of the subversive plot.
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"UB, WNY Collaboration Aims to Ease Exchange of Health Data"
By DANIEL BRITT | Mar. 19, 2003In an effort to provide local health officials with an overview of regional health trends and to enable diagnosis of a possible bioterrorism attack on Western New York, UB is collaborating with the Erie County Department of Health to form the Western New York Population Health Observatory.According to Maurizio Trevisan, dean of the School of Public Health and initiator of the collaboration, the plan is to establish a network for the centralization, analysis and exchange of local health data."Much of what PHO will try to accomplish is drawing correlations between certain local regions and illnesses to see if we pinpoint some kind of causal relationship," said Christopher Sempos, director of the Population Health Observatory.
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Broncos Prevail in Thriller with Ball State
By RICK OWCZARZAK | Mar. 19, 2003CLEVELAND, OH - With 1:10 left in the season, Western Michigan senior Curleta Harris drove down the right side of the lane and came to a jump stop when Ball State's Jessica Reiter came over to double team her."I saw the lane and I penetrated and my shot had been going so I figured, 'Hey, go in there and penetrate and just pull up,'" explained Harris, who finished with 17 points and two assists.
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Letter To The Editor
By SARAH GORDON | Mar. 19, 2003I am responding to the article "Books not Bombs" written in The Spectrum on Friday, March 7, about the protests against the pending war in Iraq.
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Scoreboard
Mar. 19, 2003UBW. BasketballMAC Tournament First RoundMar. 8: UB 72, Central Michigan 53MAC Tournament QuarterfinalsMar.
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St. Patrick's Parade
By BRIAN SCHLATTERER | Mar. 19, 2003This year's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade was held on Sunday, March 16, in downtown Buffalo, with participants gathering around City Hall and marching down Delaware Avenue.
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Q-and-A: The Spectrum Fee Increase
By SARA PAULSON | Mar. 19, 2003By this time, you've probably heard about or seen The Spectrum petitioning the undergraduate students to get a referendum put on this year's 2003 Student Association electoral ballot to increase our student subscription fee by $2 per semester.
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Filling Up Space With Student Theater Design
By BEN SIEGEL | Mar. 19, 2003Theater design can make one production of a play drastically different from the next, rendering the work of a theater designer, who works with costumes, sets, props and lighting, extremely important.In the exhibit "Empty Space 2003: Students Design for Theatre," which is running until Friday, April 27 in the CFA Art Department Gallery, students in the Department of Theatre and Dance will display the various environments they have created for productions throughout the school year.This is the second time the department has held such an exhibit, the first of which was held three years ago.
