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Monday, February 4, 2013

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Professor Teresa Miller visits prisons to intimately understand the inmates and culture. She has taken her law school students to prisons including Attica Correctional Facility.

Lessons from behind the bars UB professor brings students beyond the classroom, into infamous prison TONG MENG Staff Writer Teresa Miller has been taking students to prisons for more than a decade. She isn’t a police officer putting them away into cells – she is a SUNY Buffalo Law School professor.

She doesn’t just lecture about the prison system. She makes it reality for her students.

Miller reaches for a deeper understanding of prison culture. She connects with inmates. She learns their pasts, understands how they’ve changed and recognizes they could have been valuable members of society.

Miller brings her to students to see those who have been convicted in the flesh.

She said bringing students to prisons helps them understand the law.

“We can study law in a vacuum,” Miller said. “But until you’re there and you see the context to which the laws apply, you don’t understand.”

Miller brings her students to the source so they can grasp that deeper understanding through the field trips.

Prisons are not school laboratories – they are heavily secured institutions with strict protocol. The Attica Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison and the epicenter of what is known as America’s deadliest prison riot is the focus Miller’s work.

Thirty-nine people died in the 1971 Attica Prison riot.

Vanessa Glushefski, a second-year law student, took Prisoner Law in the fall with Miller and visited Attica Correctional Facility, Wende Correctional Facility and Albion Correctional Facility. The first two are maximum-security men’s prisons; the latter is a women’s medium-security prison.

“I think it helps people to really examine their own perceptions and prejudices and to really kind of rationalize what is reasonable or not,” Glushefski said.

“While at Attica, I saw a prisoner – an elderly man who looked about 60 or 70 – running around in one of the outdoor cages reserved for prisoners under keep-lock,” Glushefski explained, as she reflected on her prison visit experience in an email. “These cages look to be about the size of a small Continued on page 6

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In this Wednesday, Jan. 23, photo, Yair Lapid gestures as he delivers a speech at his “Yesh Atid” party in Tel-Aviv. The party, formed just over a year ago, outdid forecasts by far and captured 19 seats, becoming parliament’s second-largest party, after Netanyahu’s Likud-Beiteinu bloc, which won 31.

Students, professors reflect on Israeli legislative election ERIC CORTELLESSA Staff Writer Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party narrowly won the legislative majority late last month. Kenneth Dauber, an English and Jewish studies professor, believes the unexpected outcome reflects a change in attitude for Israelis and the country’s politics.

Benjamin Balderman, a freshman biology major who has family in Israel, called the election a “major turning point” in the country’s history.

Voter turnout for the election was the highest since 1999. Netanyahu’s party won the election through a majority 31 seats on Jan. 22. However, he lost major ground in a legislature that holds 120 seats. The Likud Party now holds 11 fewer seats than it did in the 18th Knesset Assembly, giving it less political leverage.

The campus community realizes the implications that come from this election can affect Israel and even its relationship with the United States.

“Basically, the results represent the increasingly strong voice of a non-ideological Israeli-Zionist middle,” Dauber said in email.

Dauber went on to say most Israeli voters identify themselves with neither the socialist Zionist left nor the Likud Party. Rather, they are simply “Israelis committed to the flourishing of their country and are rather pragmatic on matters both of foreign and domestic policy.”

The election resulted in a major transition in Israeli politics as people went to the polls. Though Netanyahu’s Likud Party won, the Yesh Atid party – a new centrist party focused on helping the middle class – gained more support than originally expected.

In 2012, Yair Lapid, a former television personality, created the Yesh Atid party – which translates to “There is a Future.” This year, the party won 19 seats.

Concerns of the peace process, relations with Iran and the role of the ultra-Orthodox in Israeli society dominated the election year.

In Israel, military service is compulsory, but the ultra-Orthodox – also known as Haredim – are excluded from the draft. David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of Israel, gave them an exemption at the founding of the state while providing large government subsidies so their children could study the Torah and not have to enter mainstream society.

“I think the draft should absolutely be mandatory for all,” Balderman said. “It’s not fair that the ultra-religious should be exempt.

A lot of these Haredim don’t even believe in the modern state of Israel because it’s a secular country. Yet they are still receiving so much money for them to pray and learn the Torah, but they don’t have to give anything back.”

Joe Ornstein, an English and media studies major, agrees with Balderman and wants Haredim to abide by the same laws as the rest of the population.

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Looting UB’s campus

CampusLOOTr gives students safe, easily accessible bazaar BETHANY WALTON Staff Writer Harrison Kim was surrounded by things he didn’t use. He had a mini fridge, a huge bag of clothing in his closet and no way of efficiently getting rid of either. He didn’t want to throw anything away – his things weren’t broken; he just didn’t need them anymore.

So he decided to do something about the clutter. He created CampusLOOTr. Kim designed CampusLOOTr, a free website targeted toward students, to facilitate trade between students exclusively at UB. Kim, a senior business major, created the website to be a free way for students to buy and sell items safely and efficiently.

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CampusLOOTr is unique because the transactions all occur face to face between students. This saves students from paying shipping fees to sell items. Kim said the strictly UB community guarantees vendor and buyer can meet on campus with little to no hassle.

“I think [CampusLOOTr] is the perfect formula for students,” Kim said. “You have Facebook, eBay, Amazon, Craigslist and all of those websites. They’re good if you’re out of school and you want to sell something.

But students want to keep their money and students are really busy. They don’t want to go to the post office or they may not have the means or transportation to get there and buy these things.”

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Courtesy of Lootr

CampusLOOTr.com, created by Harrison Kim, enables UB students to buy and sell essential items such as textbooks, furniture and clothing with one another in a safe online environment.

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Underemployment numbers instill further pessimism for grads They say the master’s is the new bachelor’s, but in the end it’s still just a glorified piece of paper.

According to a recent study by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, nearly half (48 percent) of college graduates are said to be overqualified for their current jobs. The study shows the number of grads is far larger than the number of jobs requiring a degree, leaving those entering the workforce with naïve optimism to apply for positions they could have gotten in high school.

College administrators have force-fed us the belief we’ll never get a job if we don’t get a degree, and political leaders have used the same belief as part of their campaigns. Yet this new study illustrates the concept of supply-and-demand and shows exactly what we fear: there are more of us than there are positions that employers are willing to create and fill.

All we ask is for our education to be worthwhile.

We do not spend thousands of dollars to flip burgers.

It all revolves around an incredibly flawed American education system. Students are told a degree is important, and the more money you pay to get that shiny B.A., the better, but those numbers don’t feel like they’re holding up anymore with each new labor study.

Classes are full and people still keep going to school, but it’s disheartening to put so much time and money into something to see its perceived usefulness go out the door. Employers want to hire only those with experience, but where are grads supposed to get this experience if no one will hire them?

Of course not all majors are created equal. According to the study, economics and engineering majors unsurprisingly earn twice what social work and

education graduates receive by mid-career. But either way, you have to get hired first. A degree is something nice to hang on our walls, but first we have to be able to afford the walls to hang them on.

It’s a shame on the big businesses that wonder why our economy is so stagnant. While experience always triumphs (and rightfully should), experience is nothing if it’s no longer innovative. Employers are not hiring new candidates and are not bringing in any new ideas.

Instead, they’re hiring what are essentially calculators – people with experience who can do what they’re told to do and nothing more. Save for a few major companies (e.g. Google, Apple, etc.), what you’re doing is systematically erasing creativity and imagination from big business. And that is why we’re at a stand-still.

The only comforting thing about this study is it looks like experience trumps trivial knowledge after all.

Students always need to be realistic on that level because, yes, grades matter, but what good is that with no actual work ethic or no idea what you’re doing when push comes to shove? But if that is really the case, then stop expecting applicants to walk in able to pull out a diploma from Prestigious University.

People need to make up their mind – what exactly is important for students? Is the master’s actually the new bachelor’s or does it even matter? Are we wasting money that we’ll probably never get to pay off? And, most importantly, what can our universities actually do for us? For many students, the answer is clearly nothing.

And that’s enough to keep every student up at night.

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49er receives wide criticism

Culliver’s comments reflect the prejudice of athletic culture Perhaps San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver was just a bit too excited about the big game to remember to think before he spoke.

Culliver appeared on The Artie Lange Show last Tuesday, and in a series of the host’s usual odd questioning, the player caused controversy when Lange asked if there are any gay players on the team.

“I don’t do the gay guys,” he said. “We don’t got no gay people on the team. They gotta get up out of here if they do – can’t be with that sweet stuff.”

The 49ers immediately distanced themselves from the remarks, and in a statement released on Wednesday, Culliver said, “The derogatory comments I made yesterday were a reflection of thoughts in my head, but they are not how I feel … Those discriminating feelings are truly not in my heart.” Culliver’s agent quickly jumped to his rescue, claiming his original remarks were misinterpreted.

With every word and every backtracked comment, it is evident the league and primary American sports, in general, are still a long way from embracing their first openly gay player.

It’s always been a question among the LGBTQ community and advocates: when will the nation see a player who puts everything aside and comes out while his career is still in progress? Many retired athletes have taken that step after they’ve hung up their uniforms, but they are no doubt mindful of the adverse effect it would have on their careers. Anyone whose name still appears on an active roster remains in the shadows.

Last year, the 49ers became the first NFL team to create a video for the “It Gets Better” campaign, a movement directed toward LGBTQ youth to let them know that while things are bad now, they won’t always be bad. But in the last few days, the video has been pulled. Why? SF linebacker Ahmad Brooks and tackle Isaac Sopoaga both denied their participation in the video when asked by USA Today about it on Thursday. The players then claimed ignorance and refused to comment after they were shown the video.

Such is the culture of sports. While the team made its effort to do something positive, Culliver’s comments and the actions of a few of his teammates completely counteract that effort. What we have is men who see football as the epitome of masculinity, and as a result, no one is willing to see that vision change.

Culliver’s comments do not stand as an isolated opinion, but it’s an opinion that, luckily, faces opposition among players and among his teammates. 49ers receiver Randy Moss stated it would be difficult for gay players to come out, but it’s past time we turn toward acceptance. “We just need to accept it and move on,” he told USA Today. “I don’t really look at gays in sports as a problem.”

Brendon Ayanbadejo, linebacker on the Baltimore Ravens and advocate for LGBTQ rights, answered Culliver’s comments with apparent pity and an obvious lack of surprise.

“I’d say 50 percent of the people [in the NFL] think like Culliver,” he told the Associated Press. “I’d say 25 percent of the people think like me. And 25 percent of the people are religious. They don’t necessarily agree with all the things I agree with, but they’re accepting. So it’s a fight. It’s an uphill battle.”

It’s a sad reality that, in 2013, people not only still think the way Culliver thinks, but many like Culliver also have a platform that allows them to blather ignorant and hateful speech. He has every right to his opinion, as backward as it might be. But what he needs to realize is he gets paid to be a public figure, and that adds a whole other dimension. He isn’t just some random homophobe people can shrug off; he is someone millions of people watch and cheer for and look up to, people of all ages, genders and sexual orientations.

Not to mention Culliver is in what many consider America’s gayest city. San Francisco ranks high on different lists of America’s most gay-friendly cities and grabs a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipality Equality Index. His comments aren’t just affecting people on the other side of the country, they’re also hurting people in the city his team is connected to.

Culliver will now receive sensitivity training and become a volunteer with the Trevor Project after the Super Bowl. Whether it helps or even matters at this point is only a side note. The fact we need to keep sending athletes and public figures away every time they say something offensive is more indicative of the culture and society that surround them. The athletic mindset and culture is lagging behind the societal shift, and it is in desperate need of an overhaul.

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When it’s 95 degrees outside and the air is so humid that you feel like you have to drink it in, it can be pretty difficult to think straight. But the moment she looked at me with a broken smile and said, “Thank you,” with her voice cracking as she began to cry, I had one crystal clear thought. I knew what my career would be.

I knew I wanted to be a doctor.

I, along with nine others, had spent the past 10 days giving school supplies, clothes and shoes to school children in the blistering heat and humidity of Central America.

I had been to Costa Rica before, but it felt new this time. Something was different. I had arrived expectant, and I refused to leave without gaining something more than I had the year before.

I didn’t know it would take everything out of me.

We went from school to school, giving notebooks, pencils, crayons and hope for education to every child we could find.

It was only three hours by car from Monte Verde, but I remember the village on the border of Nicaragua feeling further away from normalcy than anything else I had experienced.

We began unloading school supplies, as a man kept a watchful eye with a Glock obviously tucked into his waist. A pre-teen girl walked over to him and he grabbed her, kissing her on the mouth. She looked up at him with a fear I’d never seen before.

Later, I learned that she, along with more than 15 of the other girls in the village, were used as prostitutes to seal drug deals between the cartels in Nicaragua and the northern border of Costa Rica.

My family has an unfortunate close history with sexual abuse; my eyes burned with tears and anger when I learned what their adolescent years would entail.

Never in my life had I wanted to help someone more, but I had never felt so useless. In that moment, I knew things would not change for her if I refused to act on my hopelessness.

We stayed at a hotel that night on the beach in Jaco. Black sand and four-foot swells made for a peacefully breathtaking view, but I couldn’t shake what had happened earlier that day.

I spent the night painfully aware of my own spoiled existence, with cockroaches at the foot of the bed. I don’t remember if I slept.

In the morning, our group leader called us together and made an announcement. For the next three days, we would be working with a group of volunteer doctors and social workers to take teenage prostitutes off of the streets of the surrounding areas and set them up in rehabilitation and recovery centers. Many of them were on heroin to keep them from running away. They would be able to leave the country with job placements our coordinator had prepared.

We would help them start new lives at the age of 15.

I aided doctors with performing physical and psychological checkups on all the girls who came through. Most didn’t speak. Half were high – a small portion yelling and screaming while going through withdrawal.

The doctors’ hands were kind and caring – gentle on severely bruised and broken bodies filled with lice and sores.

I am grateful to be the daughter of a Spanish teacher. There was little language barrier. I learned more in those three days than I had in any science class. Physical, emotional and mental health radiated from the doctors as they helped those girls heal.

I’ve never seen a human so passionate about what they were doing. I basked in every second of it.

On our last day, we said goodbye to the girls, two of whom I had come to know pretty well. One wrote me a letter, addressed to “Janna,” in which she wrote that my hair was prettier than a treasure box full of gold and we had shown her kindness – kindness she had never known.

She told me she had faith she could have a happy life now, and it was because of us.

She handed the letter to me with teary eyes, empty of the fear I saw in the young girl from the village. I thought of how small the number 15 was compared to the number of lives spent in the hell of a different stranger’s hands every night. As I read it – so long labored over – I thought also of how big a number it was to each girl there. Here was a problem and my future, a solution to it – something I could do to change a life, or many.

Medicine embodies everything I had learned in those three days. It was a tool I could use to heal others while healing myself. I knew then what I would do for the rest of my life.

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CORRECTION

On Feb. 1, the article “Planting seeds of hope” stated: “Wellness Education Services tries to offer as many resources as possible ... such as individual or group counseling.” Question, Persuade, Refer would like to clarify it is Counseling Services for which Amanda Tyson-Ryba works.

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Life, Arts & Entertainment Angels and AIDS

Angels in America explores struggles with pain and illness KIERA MEDVED Staff Writer A huge theater, elaborate costumes and over 20 stage crewmembers aren’t necessary to put on an extraordinary theatrical performance – an exemplary set is. Tony Kushner’s Angels in America proves that with its flawless acting conjoined with its multi-faceted stage.

Angels in America Part I: Millennium Approaches, a Subversive Theatre production, is currently playing at the Manny Fried Playhouse. The play depicts the lives of several people who are struggling to accept themselves and the world around them in a time of political uncertainty and sexual ambiguity.

The play opened with a rabbi standing over a woman’s grave as he informed the audience they are gathered at a funeral in New York City – a city he refers to as, “a melting pot where no one melted.” The rabbi, played

by Timothy Patrick Finnegan, immediately sets the tone for this wonderfully executed play. The rabbi is Finnegan’s first character to appear onstage, as he portrays four characters in total.

Brian Riggs’ portrayal of Prior Walter truly depicts the pain and suffering men and women went through during the ’80s in New York City. Riggs’ ability to capture Walter’s struggle with AIDS and abandonment helped to draw the audience closer into his world.

Kristin Bentley, a 27-year-old UB alumnus, played Harper Pitt, a character plagued by mental illness.

“I really love Harper and her quirky ways,” Bentley said. “I think the women in the audience can connect with her and how she is trying to hold on to a relationship. I can feel the women in the crowd respond to that, and it really propels me as an actress.”

While the actors did a good job of bringing the audience into their characters’ lives, the brilliant stage design made audience members feel like they were in several different worlds at once. The set pieces are covered in white fabric and the set is built with plastic sheets used as walls and screens for projections. The projections included videos of cells moving across the stage, giving the set a gorgeous layer of organic texture.

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Tony Kushner’s Angels in America Part I: Millenium Approaches confronts issues such as dealing with AIDS and mental illness.

“The images on the projection were supposed to create living organisms; there is always something living and breathing on the stage,” said Christopher Standart, the director of Millennium Approaches.

Even the colors of the lights were significant to the play’s theme. The red emblematizes not only the blood of those succumbed to the symptoms of AIDS but also simply the fiery emotions this play can evoke.

“It’s a challenge to create this on stage,” said Katie Little, 22. “But they approached the play in a way that was believable.”

Angels in America may mean something different to each person in the audience and each viewer considers the play meaningful in his or her own way.

Actor and adjunct Buffalo State College professor Tim Joyce played eccentric New York lawyer Roy Cohn, a big-time lawyer who is also diagnosed with AIDS. Standart approached Joyce about taking on the role of Cohn after working together on Richard III last summer at Shakespeare in the Park.

Joyce was ecstatic but explained he had reservations about stepping into such a huge role.

“I’ve acted in over 100 plays and this is one of three best parts I’ve ever gotten,” Joyce said. “I was excited, but nervous I wouldn’t live up to the role … It’s like when you’re cast as Hamlet – you better nail it.”

Angels in America: Part I: Millennium Approaches and its second part – Perestroika, directed by Christian Brandjes – will run at the Manny Fried Playhouse until Feb. 16.

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Citizen’s Police Academy 5 UPD educates students, staff on being a police officer JOHN NASSIVERA Staff Writer For the fifth-straight year, the University Police Department (UPD) is holding the UB Citizen’s Police Academy (CPA), which gives students and staff members the opportunity to understand what it takes to be a police officer.

CPA, which begins on Feb. 13, is based on a nation-wide police program that teaches the average citizen about a variety of topics involving how to defend the public as well as themselves. This year, CPA is adding its first internship program.

UPD Lieutenant David Urbanek is involved with CPA and emphasized how important it is for people to know the police are the “good guys.” Officers should know how to appropriately conduct themselves in their profession.

“Training is very, very important,” Urbanek said. “You’ve all seen things on the news and YouTube of the public interpreting the police acting inappropriately. Good training can keep all of those behaviors in line.”

It is important for new police officers to know the mental work that goes into being a cop or a detective. Urbanek said the program tests students’ and staff members’ objectivity and ability to stay calm, reasonable and assertive in various situations.

Using force has to be justified and only as a last resort, according to Urbanek. In the program, students experience the duties of a police officer instead of sitting through lectures.

Urbanek believes using words, rather than force, is more effective. He calls this tactic “verbal judo,” a method he plans to teach his students.

Richard Donovan, a senior political science major and one of the new CPA interns, explained how students can learn about different areas of police work and how to operate in various scenarios. Activities of the program included riding along with officers in patrol cars, learning to use pepper spray and utilizing self-defense tactics.

“One night we had a guy come in, who was either a lieutenant or a patrolman and had a son who was an intern when we were in the academy,” Donovan said. “He had a lot of

“Two men are better than one!

We’ve got more money, more energy and more condoms.”

- Male teacher in a communication class “I would definitely highly consider being a sex slave. I have college bills to pay.”

- Boy in the Villas on Sweet Home Courtesy of University Police Department

The UB Citizen’s Police Academy is beginning its fifth year educating students and staff on the day-today duties and responsibilities of a police officer.

training in pressure points and defense tactics. We learned what happens when someone comes at you or how you restrain people so they can’t hurt you. Everyone that came each night had something different that they brought to the table.”

Donovan emphasized the importance of all students – especially those who want to work in law enforcement – to learn what it takes for an officer to keep the average citizen safe. The students outnumber the police, which demonstrates the difficulty in maintaining stability in tough situations, he said.

“They really work hard and try to keep everyone safe,” Donovan said.

Students who join CPA can gain crucial knowledge from the program that can be used in any profession, according to Donovan.

One of the biggest lessons the students learn is how to pay attention to their surroundings. As practice for identifying a suspect, the lieutenant would arrange for a stranger to come into the classroom and take something while the students were on a break.

“I wasn’t even paying attention, and I couldn’t tell you what her hair color was or what jacket she was wearing,” Donovan said.

“That’s something you can learn and take

with you into something else, as far as being able to look at small details.”

Donovan hopes to work in the Secret Service or the FBI in the future.

Urbanek started planning an internship program with UPD Chief Gerald Schoenle when Schoenle came to UB in 2006. The idea came from internship programs from other police departments they researched, specifically Amherst Police Department, Cheektowaga Police Department and Arlington Texas Police Department.

The activities in detective work and patrol have fostered a huge waiting list for internships, according to Urbanek.

CPA will work with other police departments to create and change programs and activities. CPA will focus on making sure UB students will be put on the list, but students from other schools will also be given the opportunity.

Classes for CPA begin Wednesday, Feb. 13, at Bissell Hall at 6:30 p.m. The program will be conducted in other locations in the Buffalo area as well.

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Acoustic album recruits new Beliebers FELICIA HUNT Contributing Writer Artist: Justin Bieber Album: Believe Acoustic Release Date: Jan. 29 Label: Island Records Grade: B+

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Road Less Traveled Productions presented Circle Mirror Transformation at the newly reopened space at 710 Main St., now known as 710 Main Theatre.

Coming full circle Shea’s, Road Less Traveled Productions bring famous Buffalo theater back to life TIM ALLMAN Staff Writer In 2008, the curtains closed on Studio Arena Theatre and it almost became a parking lot.

Last Friday, Buffalo’s theater scene came back to life with the Road Less Traveled’s production of Annie Baker’s hilarious Circle Mirror Transformation.

Formerly known as Studio Arena, 710 Main St. was once a historic landmark of Buffalo, boasting an impressive theater that has brought nationally renowned talents such as Kathy Bates, Glenn Close, Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voight and Christopher Walken.

Due to financial struggles, the theater was forced to shut down, which put a halt to the work put on by Studio Arena since it was founded in the 1920s.

“Tonight, the audience was rooting for the theater just as much as for anyone on stage,” said Mary Beth Lacki, 25, of Buffalo.

Now, with the help of Shea’s Performing Arts Center, the theater has been reopened with a new name, 710 Main Theatre, and a new mission: to help support and showcase the work of local theaters in Buffalo.

Now, Shea’s presents RLTP’s production of Circle Mirror Transformation, which received rave reviews in New York City and won the 2010 Obie Award for best new American play and a Drama Desk nomination for Best Play.

The play centers on five strangers living in Shirley, Vt., who came to the small town to take an adult theater class; it is in the process of taking the course that they are “transformed.”

The characters go through a series of typical theater exercises, which at first seem to make the group uncomfortable. One such exercise features members introducing themselves as other characters in the play.

This activity asks the question of how we perceive others and if we really can understand who people are.

“I liked how the plot followed the arc of the actual training process from beginning to end,” said Matt Snyder, 24, of Buffalo.

At first, the characters deemed the drills absurd. In a particular drill, their teacher, Marty, asked the characters to run around the room and simply take notice of each other. Having to actually focus on listening is

different from the implied sense of passivity we tend to take in our own lives, according to the play.

“Start noticing everyone around you,” Marty said. “Don’t forget to really listen, you guys.”

The members of the audience enjoyed themselves during the show, really taking in all of the subtle humor. Some audience members even snorted with laughter throughout the play. “[Circle Mirror Transformation] is an accessible show with RLTP values, meaning that it both entertains and challenges the audience, but also, it is just a great night of live theater,” said Scott Behrend, director of the play and artistic director for RLTP. “That’s the great thing about theater: you can never take away that it is live.”

Behrend stressed that local theater-produced plays are relative to the community more so than glitzy musicals.

He went on to comment he wanted to direct this play because of its non-conventionality. The play speaks to the struggle we face when trying to communicate with other people. Behrend believes the play shows how theater can have the ability to make people open up. He sees it as a parallel between catharsis and therapy.

In a press conference held in May, it was officially announced that Shea’s and 710 Main Street Inc. entered into a management and programming agreement together.

The theater will now operate as a presenting space managed by Shea’s, which will partner with local theater companies to bring an assortment of theatrical events to the 625-seat theater.

“We truly have come full circle,” said Ross Eckert, a 25-year subscriber to the former Studio Arena and now chairman of the board of directors for 710 Main Street Inc. As far as what is next for RLTP, Behrend assures they will continue to produce great plays while also helping playwrights with their own careers. This summer, the theater company will offer its RLTP Summer Institute: a comprehensive introduction to theater and drama for budding theater practitioners ages 11-16.

Circle Mirror Transformation runs at 710 Main Theatre until Feb. 17.

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Who would have thought a rap about Buzz Lightyear with mainstream pop-radio appeal would sound decent?

Pop heartthrob Justin Bieber surprises haters and fans alike by taking his hit single “Boyfriend” from last year’s Believe and transforming it into a soothing acoustic track on Believe Acoustic. The album boasts eight acoustic renditions from his third release, as well as three fresh tracks written a little over a month ago.

Naysayers around the world are quick to say Bieber doesn’t deserve his chart-topping success. He proves them wrong.

Believe Acoustic allows Bieber to showcase his growth from the pre-pubescent vocals of “Baby” off his debut album My World into a soulful croon that would make his mentor, Usher, proud.

Bieber definitely needed this album considering the high publicity of his latest scandals, which constantly flood the Internet. Between his relationship woes with Disney starlet Selena Gomez and being caught smoking marijuana by paparazzi, his clean-cut charm has taken a hit in the past year.

Believe Acoustic is a solid release that forces listeners to realize Bieber is a normal teenager behind the scenes and he is still growing up.

Out of all the remixed songs on the album, “Beauty and a Beat” is the most refreshing. The absence of rap artist Nicki Minaj stuttering about how she better watch out for

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Selena is a relief. Her rap in the original version contributed nothing but publicity.

“She Don’t Like the Lights,” a track about Gomez, is another solid moment from the album. Bieber’s falsetto combines with the stripped-down sound to give him a new dimension. He sounds emotionally vested and vulnerable – something his fans crave and critics praise.

The three new tracks on Believe Acoustic offer a look into the Bieber’s future.

However, “Yellow Raincoat” falls flat.

Once again, the lyrics are about Gomez, and Bieber’s vocals sound forceful. The song is predictable and offers nothing new to listeners.

While “I Would” is the only non-acoustic track, it doesn’t detract from the overall album. An air of soul floats over the drumbeats and vocal overdubs, and it meshes well with the faint strumming of an acoustic guitar.

After listening to Believe Acoustic, it’s possible you might develop a slight case of Bieber Fever. Don’t be embarrassed.

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Heartthrob: A guilty pleasure MAX CRINNIN Asst. Arts Editor Artist: Tegan and Sara Album: Heartthrob Release Date: Jan. 29 Label: Warner Bros.

Grade: B Guilty pleasures are the things you really enjoy when no one’s around. They’re the things you pretend to hate in front of your bros, and the things you wish you really did hate, but actually love.

Tegan and Sara Quin’s seventh studio album, Heartthrob, is just like that.

Many were introduced to the openly gay, twin sister Canadian duo on Grey’s Anatomy in 2005 when it had five songs featured in season one of the show. Like Tegan and Sara, the show became something that tough guys started enjoying in secret, tuning in once a week on the couch with their moms.

Songs like 2007’s “The Con” and 2004’s “Fix You Up” are classic break up songs.

“Walking With A Ghost” was an instant favorite in 2004, and it was eventually covered by the legendary rock duo, The White Stripes.

Heartthrob is the duo’s most commercialsounding album yet and most of the songs could easily be used in a corny, overly sentimental teen movie or a Gap commercial.

Half of them could be top-10 radio hits if Carly Rae Jepsen or Katy Perry were singing them. The “indie” title that Tegan and Sara have donned over the years is a confusingly stupid one.

But Heartthrob is an album that’s pleasing to the sensitive side in all of us.

The first song off the 10-track album, “Closer,” establishes the new electronically charged sound that Tegan and Sara went for on the album. It sounds surprisingly fresh, and thankfully what remains throughout are the unique vocals that make a Tegan and Sara song unmistakably noticeable to any fan.

“Closer” also reveals a mature side of Tegan and Sara with lyrics that may shock those who only remember the duo’s early work as the soundtrack to their first breakup.

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“All you think of lately is getting underneath me/All I dream of lately is how to get you underneath me/Here comes the heat before we meet/A little bit closer/Here comes the spark before the dark/Come a little closer,” the duo sings.

Heartthrob carries the spirit of a young innocent lover with a broken heart into a newfound realm of grown up love. There’s a lot of reflection on themes the duo tackled in past work with new outlooks and answers to love’s most difficult questions. This is perfect for the fan that has grown with Tegan and Sara’s music and listened for the span of their career.

“I Was A Fool” is a memory of the past when first-love feelings were overwhelming and the first taste of heartbreak was crushing. Tegan and Sara get all of their emotions out with this song in order move on from their ‘foolish’ years.

“Love They Say” is the realization of what love is supposed to be. This track embodies the awakening that Tegan and Sara are trying to share with fans that have struggled through the lovesick confusion with them over the years.

“You don’t need to wonder if love will make us stronger/There’s nothing love can’t do,” they sang.

One thing definitely hasn’t changed.

While the sound is refreshing and new, bros will still be enjoying Tegan and Sara in secret.

They’re still a guilty pleasure.

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Continued from page 1: Lessons from behind the bars room surrounded by tall fences and barbed wire at the top. The scene was very reminiscent of a dog running around in a cage. It was extremely disturbing.”

However, as much as these prison visits can be insightful learning experiences, they can also be very overwhelming for some.

Miller has had students experience trauma.

“This particularly happens with women’s prisons, with female students, because the big things that predate incarceration for women are sexual abuse at an early age [and] domestic violence, and those are experiences that other women have had as well,” Miller said. “Students started to have nightmares.”

Miller said she never had such experiences and the situation surprised her. She got in touch with psych services to assist her students.

Miller did, however, have unpleasant experiences at the prison.

“You cannot wear an underwire bra into Attica,” Miller said. “It means that if you accidentally forget, you have to take your bra off. You have to go through the security without it, with everybody in the room looking, and then you just do with your shirt on but no bra on.

“So yeah, I had those days when I accidentally forgot and dressed normally, and those days [were] not fun days.”

Miller is a filmmaker and advocate. She gives a voice to those who are not heard beyond the unrelenting walls of correctional facilities.

“I tend to tell people rehabilitation implies that something that the government is doing is changing our behavior,” Miller said.

“What I tend to see more than rehabilitation is redemption. I see people come to grips

with having done really horrific things and hurt a lot of people.”

Miller came to UB after realizing she didn’t want to answer to a boss anymore, like she did as an attorney clerking for a federal judge. Preferring the autonomy of an academic, Miller moved to Buffalo from Miami in 1995.

The transition marked the start of her 18-year dedication to prison research and prisoners’ rights advocacy.

Miller recognized the prisons around Buffalo provide an invaluable opportunity to study the prison system.

“I thought this is a laboratory, this is an opportunity for me to really study and learn about how we’re coping with problems that we have in society,” Miller said. “I was excited in an odd way.”

Miller said she was never fearful of speaking to inmates.

“I connected with them very easily; they were very polite,” Miller said. “And most prisoners I’ve talked to – the people that I bring students to talk [to] – are the model inmates. They’re the people who’ve made the right choices – they’ve done all the right things.”

She built a rapport with the correctional officers and prison administrators, too.

Through her interactions with them over the years, Miller realized the importance of getting the public’s attention on the prison system and its problems.

“There are fewer and fewer degrees of separation between anyone on the outside of the prison system and anyone on the inside,” Miller explained. “Many more people have a friend or loved one or someone they know that’s incarcerated. So what happens

in places like Attica affects us just simply because we are so much closer to the experience.”

Miller said the guards at Attica were operating on a model much like “the Jim Crow South,” back in ’71 while inmates were “just fresh off the streets” – many in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.

“And the problem for Attica was that these two cultures collided,” Miller asserted.

“So it’s vitally important that people on the outside understand what’s going on [in] the inside, so we don’t have that disconnect and then that clash of two cultures, [which] was just a very explosive situation.”

In order to get her message across, Miller uses media as a vehicle of dissemination.

She has already produced two short documentaries: Encountering Attica and 4 Myths About Attica. Her third documentary, Attica: The Bars That Bind Us, will be a feature-length film that “takes a unique look at the human costs of working and living in a large men’s maximum-security prison,” according to indiegogo.com, a website that hosts the documentary’s fundraising campaign.

Miller believes making these documentaries is a good way of making the public aware and getting her messages across.

“Sometimes [legal education and scholarly legal writing] can be obscure, and the nice thing about [using media] is it’s more accessible,” Miller said.

Her colleague, Charles Ewing, a SUNY distinguished service professor and vice dean for academic affairs at the SUNY Buffalo Law School, agrees.

“She’s an accomplished filmmaker, and she’s been able to use her filmmaking skills to give the public an idea of what life in

prison is like,” Ewing said. “And from my experience, no one else in the law teaching profession has ever done that.”

She shared what she has observed after spending years in prisons and her thoughts on the criminal justice system.

She works with the Attica Lifers Group.

It consists of inmates who are trying to make Attica into a better living environment, according to Miller.

“I have never seen a more focused group of men, focused on making the environment in Attica livable,” Miller said.

The men create sports programs and mentor in counseling programs to help control violence.

“They [could] be activists in their community,” Miller said. “But the sad truth is, when they came into prison, they were running the streets, they were hurting people, they were getting into trouble.”

Miller said more must be done to reduce crime in society. She said investing in communities, especially poor communities, would do more than incarcerating people.

The professor and mother of three coaches girls middle school basketball; she said coaching is a way to keep kids doing things that are positive. Basketball keeps kids in an environment where someone is always a role model, where someone is always rooting for them, and according to Miller, they become less likely to get “claimed by the streets.”

and Amazon). Kim and his team make no profit from the website.

“A lot of people ask me what the catch is – there is no catch,” Kim said. “It’s completely free, and it’s always going to be free.”

It is simple enough to avoid frustrating users, and CampusLOOTr breaks down the website’s categories into subsets so a user doesn’t need to spend all day looking for what they want, Hong said.

Just a few days after its official launch on Jan. 28, Kim said the team has already begun planning and working on CampusLOOTr’s 2.0 version. In the coming weeks, the team hopes to make the website more user-friendly.

Plans for the future include creating more categories and subcategories, incorporating online credit card purchases and launching a mobile app that will allow sellers to upload pictures of their items.

Kim believes UB students will like the different features CampusLOOTr will soon be implementing and notes that the website is always a work in progress.

Although CampusLOOTr is still in its beginning stages, students can begin browsing and shopping online.

“The website is in beta,” said Matthew Siwiec, a junior Asian studies and economics major. “There will be some minor, faulty details or a lack of actual items on sale, but I think once people start catching on to the website, it will pick up and a lot more stuff will be on sale.”

Kim and his team are looking for feedback on CampusLOOTr.com and although people have suggested allowing other schools access, he wants to keep it solely for UB students.

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Continued from page 1: Looting UB’s campus He sees CampusLOOTr as a unique way to help students. By pairing with Environmental Affairs, he is helping to eliminate waste on campus and helping students save money. He believes it’s wasteful to buy something when someone is willing to give it to you.

Along with four other students – including Linghui Tang, computer science major; Ying Yang, computer science major; Maria Lee, graphic design major; and Christopher Oh, business major – Kim has recently launched the beta version of the online trading hub.

CampusLOOTr gives students the opportunity to post items on the website they would like to sell. Interested buyers contact the seller and discuss the details of the purchase. Kim said students can sell practically anything on the website – sneakers, fridges, skis, perfume and anything that isn’t dangerous or illegal.

“With [other online sites], you always hear those stories about how someone meets up with a vendor from Craigslist and gets killed,” Kim said. “And with Facebook group pages, a lot of the pages get lost because everyone is posting all different kinds of items they are selling.”

The website works on a system of organized private messages, so losing posts and information in the shuffle will not be considered a problem. The website’s privacy also ensures user information will never be given out to a third party.

To use the website, a person signs up with his or her UB email address. So if someone is not a UB student, he/she cannot access the website. This makes it easier to get in contact with users if a problem arises or if a user wants to learn more about who is selling a product before completing a transaction.

CampusLOOTr has no limit to the amount of items you can sell (unlike eBay

Continued from page 1: Students, professors reflect on Israeli legislative election “[The ultra-Orthodox] need to offer something back to the country,” Ornstein said. “They don’t offer much more than a lot of hatred.”

The debate over military service has been a political issue in Israel for decades but has recently intensified. Throughout the campaign, Lapid and his party exemplified the theme of “sharing the burden.”

The election’s outcome demonstrated some Israelis’ disapproval of Netanyahu’s proposals and his increasingly tense relationship with President Barack Obama. “[Netanyahu] has his own priorities, and as he’s shown before, he doesn’t care what anyone else thinks of him,” Ornstein said.

Balderman expressed more disappointment with Obama. He said the president hasn’t demonstrated the support Balderman expects from the leader of Israel’s greatest ally.

“I feel as if Obama has kind of alienated Israel in many ways,” Balderman said.

“He gave a talk saying that Israel should come to the table expecting to go back to the 1967 borders agreement.”

Balderman felt Obama was “taking a side” in his 2011 comments about the border that supports Palestine instead of Israel.

The majority of the Israeli public supports a two-state solution, according to The Jerusalem Post.

“I agree with the idea that a two-state solution would be absolutely ideal,” Balderman said. “On the other hand, I don’t see any serious partners in peace.”

Israelis wonder if this will change the country’s negotiating stance with Palestine.

The election has changed the circumstances of Israeli domestic politics, but there is still a great deal of uncertainty as to how it will affect the possibility of a peace agreement, according to Dauber.

“They await a change in circumstances where negotiations might begin,” Dauber said. “In the meantime, they will work to strengthen the Israeli social fabric and keeping open as best as circumstances allow the chance for forging a peace in the future.”

Dauber said any coalition that Netanyahu will form with Lapid is likely to be less confrontational with Obama and “generally more open to good ideas and any possibilities that seem realistic to emerge.”

Throughout the election, Israelis and Jews around the world have expressed a desire for secure peace and a humane end to the occupation.

Dauber, Balderman and Ornstein each hope the Jewish state will be able to make political strides with security and prosperity.

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Continued from page 8: Bulls run on less horsepower “[Javon] played hard. He needed some help today around the basket,” Witherspoon said. “We didn’t have it for him.”

Inconsistence perimeter shooting and turnovers slowed the production of the Bulls’ offense.

Regan, who has been nothing short of brilliant from behind the arc, struggled to provide the Bulls with an outside advantage.

Regan was 2 for 10 from three-point range and 3 for 13 from the field.

“It’s hard for [Regan] to turn down those [shots],” Witherspoon said. “The looks he got tonight [and] the looks we’ve been getting all season, I hope Zach Filzen is not watching any of these games. Him and Byron Mulkey and some of the guys we’ve had in the past would have paid $100 a shot to get that open.”

The Bulls turned the ball over 20 times in the game, 12 coming in the second half, which led to center Shayne Whittington cre-

ating havoc for the Bulls’ defense, going 15 of 32 from the floor with 23 points and 14 rebounds.

Whittington and McCrea battled pound for pound in the post throughout the game like a prizefight.

But the Bulls were out-rebounded 4030 by Western Michigan, which collected 15 offensively.

“With the basketball, you can’t give in and wait for someone to give you something,” Witherspoon said. “You’ve got to go to work and earn it, and we’re not ready to do that right now.”

The Bulls will continue their conference play as they travel to Eastern Michigan (1011, 3-4 MAC) on Wednesday. Tip is at 7 p.m.

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Historic senior class says goodbye to Alumni Arena Swimming and diving sweeps St. Bonaventure

BEN TARHAN Sports Editor On the day reserved for celebrating the men’s and women’s swimming and diving team’s seniors, 14 members of the senior class set a precedent of a winning identity.

The Bulls hosted Big Four rival St. Bonaventure on Saturday and were nothing short of successful, as the women won 177-111 and the men won 159-135.

In 32 events, the Bulls posted 29 first-place finishes. Ten of those individual victories came from seniors.

“They elevated this program to higher standards,” said head coach Andy Bashor. “They kept raising the expectations of our program to become better. I think that is the mark they set. Creating that winning culture, creating that leadership and then every year raising that bar to be better.”

Seniors Cory Zorsch and Matt Hogan each won two events, Zorsch in the 100-yard backstroke and 100-yard butterfly and Hogan in the 50- and 100-yard freestyles.

Fellow seniors Josh Meints won the 100-yard backstroke and Matt Schwippert added victories in the 100-yard backstroke and 22-yard backstroke.

The Bulls were also victorious in the 200-yard medley relay as Zorsch, Meints, Schwippert and senior Ryan Smrekar finished with a time of 1:31.78.

With their victory against the Bonnies, the Bulls’ dual meet season is over. They can now focus all of their energy on preparing for the MAC championships.

Now that the dual meet season is over, Bashor thinks the Bulls are ready for what he calls the “fun” part of swimming: championship swimming.

Bashor plans on dialing back his team’s workload to get the squad energized. The most important things his swimmers can do now?

Stay healthy and sleep.

For the seniors, it’s no secret what they are excited for.

“Definitely MACs, and a few of us are trying to make [the] NCAA [championships],” Morrell said.

The women will be looking for a top-three finish when they host the MAC championships in Alumni Arena from Feb. 28 to March 3.

The men will be traveling to Carbondale, Ill. for their championships from March 7-9, looking to win their second title in three seasons.

Those swimmers who will not be swimming in the MAC championships will be swimming at Ohio State University next weekend at the Ohio State Winter Invite.

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The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams were victorious on senior day. The men won 159-135, while the women won 177-111.

The trio of Karly Moore, Mallory Morrell and Emma Miller led the senior women. Moore won the 50-yard freestyle and 200-yard backstroke, while Morrell and Miller won the 100-yard freestyle and the 500-yard freestyle, respectively.

Despite the celebration of the seniors, the underclassmen were not to be outdon. They were eager to show the team will be left in good hands.

Freshman Billy Patrum collected three victories for the Bulls in the 1,000-yard freestyle, 200-

yard butterfly and 400-yard individual medley.

Sophomore Spencer Rodriguez and junior Ava Giachino won two events apiece for the women.

Rodriguez won the 1,000-yard freestyle and the 400-yard individual medley while Giachino swept the diving events.

This senior class was integral on the men’s side in capturing the program’s first Mid-American Conference championship two seasons ago and coming within 20 points of repeating last season.

The women do not own a conference championship, but their fourth-place finish at the MAC championships last season was a program best.

“I never really thought this day would come when I would be standing out on the bulk head and be recognized for being a senior,” Hogan said. “It’s a really cool feeling that I have achieved and I’ve stayed with swimming for four years and it’s really worked out well for me.”

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Shooting pains Streaking women’s hoops team falls to Akron, 75-57 JARED BOVE Staff Writer After shooting an efficient 46.6 percent from the field and 45.8 percent from behind the arc in Thursday’s win over Miami, the women’s basketball team traveled northeast to take on Akron (14-7, 5-3 MidAmerican Conference).

The Bulls (7-14, 5-3 MAC) came into the game tied for first place in the MAC East but saw their shooting numbers fall drastically in the second game of their Ohio road trip, as they suffered a 75-57 defeat at the hands of the Zips.

The story of the game was the difference in shot making, as the Bulls could only cash in on 32.8 percent of their field goal attempts and only four of their 17 attempts from three-point range.

“We were taking the shots but unfortunately they weren’t finding the hole,” said head coach Felisha Legette-Jack. “Offensively, we really struggled today.”

The Bulls’ guards struggled in the loss, as they shot a combined 5 for 28 on the day.

Akron was able to find an offensive rhythm on the other end of the floor. The Zips hit 42.6 percent of their attempts from the field and nine 3-pointers, seven of which came in the first half.

One shot summed up the opening 20 minutes of play, as Akron junior Kacie Cassell hit a threeball at the buzzer to send the Zips into the locker room with a 37-34 lead.

“Sometimes they’re going to make some tough shots, shots that are contested but still go in,” Legette-Jack said. “We just need to stick to our defense.”

The Bulls were dominated in the second half and were outscored 38-23. Akron also held a significant edge in the second half in the rebound department, grabbing 28 rebounds to the Bulls’ 18.

For the first time since Dec. 2011, two Bulls players finished with double-doubles in the same game. Sophomore forward Kristen Sharkey recorded the

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Javon McCrea led the Bulls with 22 points and 10 rebounds, but it wasn’t enough as the Bulls lost to Western Michigan 71-60.

Bulls run on less horsepower Buffalo can’t pull off late comeback at Western Michigan JOE KONZE JR Senior Sports Editor Nick Fischetti /// The Spectrum

The Bulls could not cool off Akron’s three-point shooting as they fell 75-57 in conference play. Kristen Sharkey (25) led the Bulls with 14 points and 11 rebounds.

fourth double-double of her season, as she led the team in scoring with 14 points and added 11 rebounds.

Sophomore center Christa Baccas notched her fifth doubledouble of the season with 12 points and 13 rebounds.

“I really liked the play of our post players today,” Legette-Jack said. “They did a good job of commanding the ball and making things happen.”

Junior forward Cherridy Thornton also put up double-digit scoring numbers on Saturday.

Thornton put 12 points on the board in the first half but was only able to follow up with one point in the final 20 minutes.

Four Akron players put up double-digit point totals and junior Sina King wreaked havoc on

the Bulls defense, finishing with a game-high 20 points.

“We’re going to break this game down and just try to keep the focus on us,” Legette-Jack said.

“When you worry about the opponent, you lose track of what you can do. We’re going to come back to Buffalo, figure out how we can get better and go from there.”

The Bulls return home to Alumni Arena on Thursday night as they play host to MAC East opponent Bowling Green (13-7, 4-3 MAC). Fans are encouraged to wear pink for Thursday’s contest as the team will be taking part in its annual breast cancer awareness event titled “Play 4 Kay.” Tip off is at 7 p.m.

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On a day where junior forward Javon McCrea etched his name in the Buffalo record books, the men’s basketball team was unable to etch a ‘W’ into the win column.

The Bulls (8-14, 3-5 MidAmerican Conference) were unable to hold off a late offensive surge by Western Michigan (14-7, 6-2 MAC), resulting in a 71-60 loss on the road Saturday night.

Buffalo came within four points late in the second half but missed three consecutive shots, and the Bulls were unable to overcome the Broncos’ 7-0 run in the final three minutes.

There were 38 fouls in the second half. Junior forwards McCrea and Cameron Downing and sophomore forward Will Regan fouled out.

“We got out-toughed tonight,” said head coach Reggie Witherspoon. “We had three post players foul out so we were thin, but we have to be tough enough to fight through those things.”

McCrea led the Bulls’ offense with 22 points and 10 rebounds, earning his fifth double-double of the season.

McCrea’s 22 points moved him into a tie for 13th place with Rodney Pierce on the Bulls’ career scoring list, while his 10 rebounds gave him 600 in his career. He is the sixth player in Bulls history to do so.

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