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Volume 62 No. 55

Friday, February 22, 2013

Walk-on goes from track and field cut to basketball leader Story on page 10

Baby steps become giant leaps for women’s club hockey Story on page 5

Carbon monoxide leak prompts UB to make safety changes in dorms LISA KHOURY Senior News Editor

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The Japanese Student Association has been practicing and preparing for months for UB’s upcoming International Fiesta.

Love beyond borders

Student Association clubs prepare for annual International Fiesta ELVA AGUILAR Senior Arts Editor UB is the SUNY school with the largest international population, and harmony among the various backgrounds is crucial. But once a year, UB’s international and American students come together to compete and showcase their cultures in the International Fiesta. The Chinese Student Association (CSA), Malaysian SA (MASA),

Japanese SA (JSA), Filipino SA (FASA), Indian SA (ISA) and Latin American SA (LASA) will compete in this year’s International Fiesta at the Mainstage Theater inside the Center For the Arts. And although the competition is fierce every year, the camaraderie within and among participating clubs trumps animosity for a night of dance, music and pride. International Fiesta began as a food event in the ’70s with a small dance presentation and has grown

into a major event throughout the years, according to SA International Coordinator and senior mathematics major Theresa Cervantes. Every year, the competing teams are presented with a theme, which have included “Culture Shock,” “Global Kaleidoscope” and “Around the World in One Night.” This year’s theme, “Love,” although simpler in concept, gave way for each group to present what the word means for their respective cultures. Continued on page 4

After a carbon monoxide leak in Richmond Quad poisoned 10 students and sent five of them to the hospital Sunday night, UB has made major safety changes in its dorms. Freshmen roommates Neil Campbell, Bennett Sciacca and Tijo Mathew – three of the five Richmond residents who were hospitalized – are still shaken up with what they experienced. They’re glad UB has finally made significant efforts to reach out to them. Colleen Connolly, a student affairs student support coordinator, emailed them to schedule individual meetings to see if they need to get checked out or need help filling out forms to get reimbursed by UB. “It’s good at this point now that people have been in contact with me,” Sciacca said. “It does make it a little better but, in general, it doesn’t change the overall scope of things for me … If it seems like it’s just to avoid a lawsuit, that would be a little upsetting. But if it genuinely does mean they’re trying to be there for us, it’d be better.” Sciacca is meeting with Connolly on Friday. The 18-year-olds were initially upset with UB’s response to the

carbon monoxide leak. When a boiler in Richmond malfunctioned and carbon monoxide went undetected because the two required CO detectors on the same floor were missing, the poisonous gas reached the entire dorm. UB said the detectors were present in October when the New York State Office of Fire Prevention and Control inspected UB residence halls. The university does not yet have documented proof it passed the inspection. The fire inspector verbally informed UB there were no violations in Richmond Quad, according to Director of Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) Joseph Raab. “We haven’t received the ‘certificate of compliance’ from the state, which is issued for the whole Ellicott Complex and not the specific buildings,” Raab said in an email. “This is normal that there is a brief gap between the end of the inspection and the receipt of the certificate.” Though UB replaced the missing plug-in detectors with wallmounted battery-operated models and added detectors in the corridors on the third, fourth and fifth floors – which by law it isn’t required to do – the victims told The Spectrum on Tuesday they didn’t receive an apology from the university. Continued on page 4

Remodeling the Grand Tour

Architecture students embark on 3,000-mile trip during winter break REBECCA BRATEK Managing Editor Three thousand miles, 200 hundred buildings, 20 cities – all in one hyper-fast, 15-day whirlwind tour. Twenty-two of UB’s School of Architecture and Planning students spent their winter break exploring the Southern United States as apart of Architrek – a two-week domestic study tour that capped off a seminar taught by Greg Delaney, an adjunct assistant professor of architecture. The excursion began on Dec. 27 in Dallas, Texas and wrapped up in Miami, Fla., on Jan. 12 – just in time for the start of the spring semester. Delaney spent six months planning the tour, which he said is a re-imagined version of the legendary architectural “Grand Tour.” “It used to be that all architects went on the Grand Tour, which is really just seeing the major monuments of the world: Rome, Italy, Greece, the pyramids in Egypt, Turkey, the ancient ruins,” he explained. “And now the idea of the Grand Tour is kind of subsided because of technology.” In today’s digital age, anyone can log onto the nearest computer or smartphone, search Google Earth and suddenly be transported to another place, Delaney said. Anyone today can see infinite photos of the Pantheon and the Parthenon in ways never imagined. Back

in the 1600s, architects would tour Europe’s most cultural spots as a culmination to their education, he added. Delaney wanted to change the definition and scope of the Grand Tour – recontextualizing it and rethinking it for today’s students. He wants to revive this practice of traveling and seeing the world’s wonders. Most architecture students today take a study abroad trip, but most of those voyages are placebased in one city – a chance to really study the culture, people and the urban building and planning. To really immerse themselves in the culture, students spend up to five weeks – equivalent to one term – in an area. Most of these programs tour Europe and countries abroad, taking students out of their domestic sphere and into a whole new world. “I think one thing about the states people think, ‘Oh the states. I know the states,’” Delaney said. “And what’s so shocking is how little most people actually do know. There’s this feeling like you know the history, you know the cities in a way that’s more intimate than something foreign – actually what you find is that these cities are so foreign.” Delaney had only visited one of the 20 cities – New Orleans, La. – before the trip. Many of the students had been to more of the cities but had never experienced them in this way – mostly because

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the tour focused on lesser-known structures. Colleen Creighton, a master’s student in the school of architecture, lived in Atlanta, Ga., one of the cities the group visited. She was shocked to realize she didn’t know the city quite as well as she thought. “It was kind of cool to see Atlanta from this viewpoint. Because I lived there, I didn’t go on tours of the city,” she said. “Some of the architecture I didn’t even know was there, and I was like, ‘Oh I lived here and never even saw this building before.’” The trip started in Dallas, Texas, and hit Austin, San Antonio and Houston before leaving the Lone Star State. They saw the missions in San Antonio, which date back to the early 18th century, and explored a world where the Apache were forced to become Spanish and pledge loyalty to a distant, almostinvisible king. The Perot Museum of Nature and Science opened in Dallas in December, and students noticed the stark contrast of three centuries. They spent New Years in New Orleans and the French Quarter – one of the trip’s “free days” – and they saw the “Make it Right” houses. These 150 sustainable homes were built in the city’s ninth ward, the neighborhood most devastated by Hurricane Katrina, and brought 350 people back to live in an area that was completely desolate.

“It was cool to see how far they’ve come but yet we can still see so much damage from Katrina even though it was [eight] years ago,” Creighton said. “That was pretty mind blowing.” They went across the Panhandle and into Florida, visiting Seaside. The students were fascinated by the neighborhoods The Truman Show was filmed in. They moved back up to Selma, Ala., which was an important site for the Civil Rights Movement. The tour concluded in Miami, Fla., which Delaney and Creighton found to be completely foreign despite it being a part of the United States. It even reminded Creighton of her study abroad trip to Barcelona, Spain. “Miami is just a kind of cultural city and the type of urbanism [there] is so different,” Delaney said. “It has this modernist urban fabric with this kind of playful twist.” Each day started at 7 a.m. and went on for about 14 hours, and Delaney planned every day down to the minute. “The trip can only be successful through this hyper-planning of time,” he said. “It went very much according to schedule.” For example, the guidebook would budget walking time from 9 a.m. until 9:15 a.m. and then another 30 minutes to see a building before getting back on the bus to drive for another 15 minutes. Continued on page 4

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Students laid on the floor and sketched the Hyatt Regency hotel in Atlanta, Ga. Sketching was a major component of Architrek, a 22-day achitectural tour of the Southern United States the students took during winter break.

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Editor in Chief Aaron Mansfield Senior Managing Editor Brian Josephs Managing Editor Rebecca Bratek Editorial Editor Ashley Steves News EDItors Sara DiNatale, Co-Senior Lisa Khoury, Co-Senior Sam Fernando, Asst. Rachel Raimondi, Asst. LIFE EDITORS Rachel Kramer, Senior Lyzi White Lisa Epstein, Asst. ARTS EDITORS Elva Aguilar, Senior Lisa de la Torre, Asst. Nathaniel Smith, Asst. Max Crinnin, Asst. SPORTS EDITORS Joseph Konze Jr., Senior Jon Gagnon Ben Tarhan Markus McCaine, Asst. PHOTO EDITORS Alexa Strudler, Senior Satsuki Aoi Adrien D’Angelo Nick Fischetti, Asst. CARTOONIST Jeanette Chwan PROFESSIONAL STAFF OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR Helene Polley ADVERTISING MANAGER Mark Kurtz CREATIVE DIRECTOR Brian Keschinger Haider Alidina, Asst. ADVERTISING DESIGNER Joseph Ramaglia Ryan Christopher, Asst. Haley Sunkes, Asst.

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One big gas mistake

UB’s lackluster communication over CO leak puts students in harm’s way Over the last few days, students all around campus have been buzzing, but the university has remained quite quiet on a situation that deserves many words. While students were receiving UB Alerts to their phones Sunday night, Richmond Quadrangle residents in the Ellicott Complex were being evacuated from their rooms due to a carbon monoxide leak. The leak was caused by a boiler leak on the ground floor when a piece of the boiler shifted and didn’t allow the exhaust gas to properly ventilate from the building. Since then, inspections have allegedly shown there are no longer any traces of carbon monoxide in the building, the problem has been fixed and all affected students have returned to class. But just a few days ago, two students drove themselves to Urgent Care, three were taken to the hospital and five other students were evaluated by an ambulance crew onscene. Students initially (i.e. for the first few days) received little information on what was going on, having to seek out news rather than being told any concrete information or plan from the university. This is completely, 100 percent the school’s responsibility, and UB underestimates how much – despite its apathy in other regards – students care about being in the know, especially when it’s something as important as health and safety. On Tuesday, Amanda Costantino, the director of Campus Living, told The Spectrum that representatives from Campus Living, Environmental Health and Safety and University Facilities would make sure the entire university is aware of the situation and would collectively determine the school’s long-term decisions. It’s good to see the school following up on that. By Amanda’s Law, carbon monoxide detectors are only required on a floor where there is a carbon monoxide source. The problem in UB’s case is Richmond’s two ground floor detectors were – for unknown reasons – missing. Vice President for University Communications Joseph Brennan said UB passed its annual fire control and prevention inspection in October, but after being told we would receive documentation on Wednesday, both The Spectrum and the university still have no evidence of this being the case. Instead, UB was verbally told it passed inspection in October, according to Director of Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) Joseph Raab. But despite that hiccup, the missing detectors have been replaced by wall-mounted battery-operated versions and some additional detectors have been added on the third, fourth and fifth floors of Rich-

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mond and in all residence halls. Environment, Health & Safety will also perform weekly inspections of all detectors to make sure they don’t randomly go missing again. The problem doesn’t lie in action, though; the problem lies in communication. It has been five days since the carbon monoxide leak in Richmond, and UB’s outreach to the victims and the student body as a whole has been all but nonexistent, even as the victims have made it known they are looking for just that. Brennan, though, says that is not necessary. To him and the university, anything found in the UB Reporter – which outlines the details of the incident and what the school is doing about it – is enough. To the rest of us, it’s hardly the bare minimum. Granted, Student Affairs emailed the victims to schedule meetings with them and help them move forward with the incident. But that’s standard procedure through Student Affairs, and Bennett Sciacca – one of the victims, who, while his roommates went to Urgent Care, was sleeping – even believes that’s more about saving face. It’s hard to disagree with him at this point. UB puts so much time and money into not just making sure the school’s reputation stays in tact but also building it up and improving it on a large scale. But while all this is happening, it can’t even take care

of the kids living on campus or give its students the bare necessities – health, safety and comfort. Here’s an important question: who is going to pay the health bills of the victims who went to the hospital? According to Sciacca, UB has not reached out to him on the concern-worthy issue and also didn’t check to see if he and his roommates had a way of getting back from the hospital. Is that how we treat our students – leaving them to fend for themselves after the school makes a mistake? That is a situation that needs to be rectified. Brennan said UB might compensate the victims’ bills. Might. It, of course, depends on procedure and submitted forms, so until then, we have nothing but ambiguity. There should be absolutely no reason the victims should have to take care of these health bills in this situation. We hope UB is recognizing the seriousness of the situation because, currently, it doesn’t feel like it. It feels more like the school is trying to play it off like it wasn’t that bad. Carbon monoxide poisoning is serious enough, though, without the lack of communication. Considering the gas has no taste, color or smell, it can be breathed in over a long period of time without noticing and can cause long-term damage. In many cases, the symptoms will wear off within a few days, but up to 40 percent of those poisoned can suffer health problems ranging from memory loss, impairment, behavioral changes and cognitive process in the long-term. Some can even be permanent. This is something UB has to be on top of all the time because anything can change in a minute, as Sunday night proved. Situations like this make us wonder what else could be going on at the university that is not being checked up on. What other skeletons could possibly be in the school’s closet? UB got so lucky in this situation, and those in charge of putting the school in a good light should be thanking the heavens every day. The students who got sick did everything they should have and could have done: they went to Urgent Care first to check to see if they were all right or got themselves into medical care, and they all avoided a major catastrophe. Did UB do nothing? No. But did it go above and beyond what it should have done? Absolutely not. No one has acknowledged students could have died, which is the most important part of this whole ordeal. It’s a very real, serious and scary situation that is only being addressed with procedures and formalities. Email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

Grappling with the IOC Elimination of wrestling from Olympic Games damages the future of the sport The International Olympics Committee is currently wrestling with an Olympic-sized problem. Last week, the executive board of the IOC held a vote and made the decision to eliminate wrestling from the Summer Games beginning in 2020. The 26 sports were carefully reviewed in order to remove one and add another later in the year, and in a shocking decision, wrestling was given the boot. “This is a process of renewing and renovating the program for the Olympics,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said. “In the view of the executive board, this was the best program for the Olympic Games in 2020. It’s not a case of what’s wrong with wrestling, it is what’s right with the 25 core sports.” While it’s all well and good to update the program, this was a poor judgment move on behalf of the IOC. Wrestling is much bigger than the committee thinks it is, and eliminating it from the Games would be completely damning to the sport. Now wrestling will join a list of seven other sports vying for an Olympic spot, including baseball/ softball (which have been off the program since the 2008 Beijing Games), karate, roller sports, squash, wakeboarding, sport climbing and wushu. After months of evaluation and deliberation, most people expected that the modern pentathlon

would be the one to get cut. Modern pentathlon – a sport that combines fencing, shooting, horse riding, swimming and running – was created in 1896 by the founder of the modern Olympics. In recent years, it’s been considered outdated, has lacked global popularity and has only a small base of competitors. Yet, wrestling is getting cut – a sport that isn’t exactly without a lengthy timeline or reasonable popularity. It was introduced to the Olympics back in 708 B.C. and became a focus in the modern Games when they began in 1896. And it has a huge force behind it. This is not a controversy contained to one corner of the globe – people from all over the world are outraged by the decision. Yesterday in Tehran, Iran, members of teams attending the World Cup Tournament protested the ruling by lying on their mats in a moment of silence. Bulgarian Wrestling Federation President Valentin Yordanov reacted to the ruling by sending back his 1996 Olympic gold medal. In the United States, wrestlers created the Committee for the Preservation of Olympic Wrestling and lawmakers also began a campaign to try and convince the IOC to change its decision. It seems like wrestling is currently the unifier of the world.

Wrestling advocates are going to have to fight hard to keep their sport in the Games, though, especially because they have to appeal what Bloomberg refers to as “a self-recruited club of tin-pot emperors presiding over the greatest monopoly in all of sports.” Among the IOC board members, for example, is Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr., current vice president of the International Modern Pentathlon Union. Doesn’t it seem strange on the board of the Olympics there is a member with major influence (Samaranch Jr. is the son of the former IOC president) who is one of the leaders of the sport that was supposed to get eliminated? What is unfortunate and important for the IOC to remember is there is little left for wrestling without the aspiration of being an Olympian. Wrestling, for many, has been a path to college, but through the past two years, the sport was the most often dropped by NCAA schools, leaving the future of wrestling in the hands of high schools and the Olympic Games. Without a spot in the Games, the idea of, “Wow, I could become the best in my country or even the world” is gone. Where does wrestling have to go from there? Email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

It’s time to make a statement RACHEL RAIMONDI Asst. News Editor When a college athlete is charged with an assault that leaves another student bleeding and unconscious on the streets, the athletic department must take action. Justin Lozano, a sophomore UB wrestler who competes in the 174/184-pound brackets, was arrested in connection with the assault of Joshua Rubin and harassment of Rubin’s three friends at approximately 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 16. He continues to attend UB on scholarship and has not been removed from the wrestling team’s roster. The real-life brawler has not faced the appropriate consequences from his school for bringing down the name of the university and beating another student. UB’s continued endorsement of the attacker is insulting to not only the victims but also any other student. Lozano and Clayton Reeb, a former Bulls wrestler, attacked a group of four students after a night of drinking at The Steer, where they encountered the victims.

The wrestlers followed the students for approximately three blocks until a police officer was alerted. The assailants vanished and then ambushed the four outside of St. Joseph’s University Parish, as previously reported by The Spectrum. Lozano threw the victim head first into the concrete sidewalk of Main Street, right outside South Campus. Rubin was seizing and vomiting, according to the other victims. Lozano was charged with second-degree assault. The athletic department will decide his future “soon,” according to Joe Kepler, assistant director for athletic communications. The decision should be clear-cut. It’s been almost a week, and UB Athletics has yet to make an announcement. “Why would an attempted murder[er] be allowed to return to campus?” posted an anonymous reader on the initial article. Lozano has been accused of stomping on the victim’s head after he was unconscious on the ground. The assailants kicked Rubin repeatedly. Lozano is innocent until proven guilty and perhaps the alleged assault is not enough cause to revoke

his scholarship, remove him from the team and kick him out of UB. But what was the 20-year-old wrestler doing drinking on South Campus the night before a match? His bio on buffalobulls.com states Lozano chose UB for the “nightlife and great team.” According to the Student-Athlete handbook at UB, alcohol consumption by an underage athlete is “illegal and unacceptable.” The athletes are encouraged to be role models for current and prospective students of the university. Lozano was not going to participate in the match the following day, however he was expected to attend the event and represent the Bulls. Is he the image UB wants to show its opponents? Allowing Lozano to continue his career at UB suggests athletes are untouchable and receive preferential treatment because of the attention they bring to the school. Is the publicity worth the risk of having a violent criminal walk the halls? Perhaps the coaches are choosing to not announce a decision until after the case is closed because they fear Lozano will join a rival school’s team. Continued from page 4

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Continued from page 1: Carbon monoxide leak prompts UB to make safety changes in dorms Sciacca, whose carbon monoxide level reached 17 times the normal amount, was very pale and could barely stand, said UB should cover his hospital bill, but the university has not addressed that issue. Vice President for University Communications Joseph Brennan said UB might compensate the victims’ bills. The students must first follow a New York State procedure, which calls for students to submit a form found on UB’s website. “The claims are then reviewed and the decision is made based on the circumstances of the incident,” Brennan said in an email. “Until the forms are submitted and reviewed, and a decision rendered, we can’t say ‘yes’ or ‘no.’” Though some victims were looking for an apology, Brennan said UB’s official statement can be found on UB Reporter, which outlines the facts, what happened and what UB is doing about it. To avoid this from happening again, Brennan said UB installed eight detectors in Richmond, though it is only required to have two on the ground floor (where the source of

carbon monoxide is located). Now, there are detectors outside of room 588B, 578B, 475B, 481B, 378B and 375B, according to Brennan. These models are tamper-resistant. EH&S said it will also perform weekly inspections of those detectors so they don’t go missing like they did between October and Sunday. UB is also beginning a project throughout all residence halls to install hardwired carbon monoxide detectors. By Amanda’s Law, UB only needs detectors on the ground floor where the boilers are, which can exhaust carbon monoxide. “I think it’s good that they put the carbon monoxide detectors in our hall … They said it was an extraordinary measure, which I didn’t really see as being very extraordinary,” Sciacca said. Sciacca said his meeting with Connolly on Friday will determine if he feels UB’s response is appropriate. Email: news@ubspectrum.com

Continued from page 1: Remodeling the Grand Tour “The long days were manageable, especially with Greg leading us on, and always having enough pep in his step for the rest of us,” said Ariel Resnick, a senior architecture major, in an email. Because Delaney felt that architecture guidebooks out in the market weren’t sufficient, he had his students create the 200-page book that directed the trip. Each student was assigned five buildings to outline, and each was required to present and lead discussion at his or her destinations. Each student was also required to sketch every building or site visited. This created a mini portfolio or catalog the students can reference in future classes or their careers. “With so much more of a digital focus in the profession, students aren’t getting as much of a foundation in hand drawing,” Delaney said. “We don’t spend an hour sketching. It’s not about producing something beautiful that you could sell on the street.” Creighton added she feels much more confident in visually representing her ideas – an important skill in today’s job market that

could potentially set her apart from other candidates. The architecture students returned to Buffalo on Jan. 12, just in time for the start of the spring semester. Many would love to take advantage of this sort of expedition again and see as much of their home country as possible. “This is not vacation,” Delaney stressed. “It was a time where you could incorporate academia but in a fun way. It’s travel, but it’s not really vacation.” Delaney is already planning next winter’s trip – a West Coast voyage that spans from Seattle, Wash. to Phoenix, Ariz. He hopes more students will take advantage of study abroad options, both internationally and domestically. Email: news@ubspectrum.com

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Continued from page 1: Love beyond borders Last year’s winning dance group, FASA, feels the pressure to win a second year in a row, but according to senior psychology major and FASA member, Althea Guiao, success doesn’t lie in tangible rewards only. “[Members are] always looking forward [to Fiesta] because they love having the late night practices together,” Guiao said. “They say, ‘Oh yeah, it’s stressful but we’re still with our FASA family.’ Someone [posted] a [Facebook] status about that today.” The reigning champs hope to proceed with their tradition of unique twists, which they believe helped solidify the top spot last year. Instead of a traditional love story, they plan to present a darker version of this year’s theme. MASA’s three choreographers, Tien “Alicia” See, Jason Goh and Mahisha Naidu, used love as an opportunity to show peace within the multiracial nation of Malaysia. “We are trying to show that the three main races [of Malaysia] – Malay, Chinese, Indian – can work together to protect our country and maintain harmony,” said See, a senior music major. With a club membership of over 100, it was no obstacle to recruit dancers, according to MASA president Heng “Adam” Jung Hee. The true obstacle lay in organization and time management of approximately 50 dancers that will represent MASA this year. “We have a label for that; it’s called Malaysian timing,” Goh said. Not every group is fortunate enough to have such a large dance group, however. JSA’s 11-person dance troupe, though small, shows the same heart as its competitors. JSA historian and Fiesta choreographer, junior business major Aline Kobayashi, prepared a

routine that focuses more on the passion within this year’s theme, along with influences of Japanese culture such as the Samurai. “You’ll feel a lot of emotions that you feel when you’re in love. You feel rage, you feel fear; you’re sad, you’re happy. Each [of our dances] has a different emotion,” Kobayashi said. And while each group is vying to win International Fiesta, the overwhelming theme among the choreographers and e-boards is what the event means for their members. According to Naidu, many members with no prior dance experience join the International Fiesta team solely to exemplify their culture. Both Diyanna Richard, a senior biology major and MASA secretary, and Jung Hee believe that although their performances bring relief, they also bring faint sadness that Fiesta is over. Kobayashi believes the late night practices also help JSA members create a strong bond that lives long past the annual dance competitions. “I danced in Fiesta as a freshman … but I made a lot of friends and memories that even today I laugh about thinking back,” Kobayashi said. “I made friends with people from Japan who I’m still close to today. That’s my favorite thing about Fiesta. Because you practice every night, you kind of suffer together, so you create a bond you wouldn’t create anywhere else.” Also performing this year will be seven exhibition acts, including Asian American Student Union (AASU), Vietnamese SA (VSA), UB Breakdance, Korean Folk Art Club (KFAC), UB Zeal, Saung Budaya and Random Nation. According to Cervantes, free undergraduate tickets sold out on Feb. 15. However, at time of press, $7 tickets are still available at the CFA. Email: arts@ubspectrum.com

Continued from page 3: It’s time to make a statement Students deserve better. Their parents deserve better. Crime is certainly no stranger to Buffalo, but parents shouldn’t have to worry about brutal attacks between the students. Reeb and Lozano seem unable to control their emotions and the skills they have learned in their sport. They seem to not grasp the severity of their actions and have continued to harass the victims. After his arrest, Reeb sent a message via Facebook – under the name Clay ‘Whiskerbiscuit’ Reeb – to victim John Brito and asked for clarification of the previous night. “Hey man sorry about the other night,” he wrote. “I followed my boy out of the steer [sic] and things escalated quick. Can you clear things up with me though? It was Justin and

your friend who he knocked out then me and you were basically wrestling?” “Wrestling,” he calls it. Lozano contacted a female victim via Facebook, according to Brito. He “liked” her photos and then “un-liked” them assumingly to evoke fear in the victims. UB Athletics must take a stance and show this behavior is unacceptable. Athletes at UB don’t deserve to have their reputation brought down by criminals. Excuse me, alleged criminals. The victims and student body deserve an answer. UB Athletics must drop Lozano. Email: rachel.raimondi@ubspectrum.com

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Baby steps become giant leaps for women’s club hockey RONNIE SIMMONS II Staff Writer When Jody Rosen took over as head coach of the women’s club hockey team five years ago, the team featured three figure skaters and no goalie. The team was used to losing every one of its games year after year. Rosen’s team finished the 2012-13 season with 10 wins. The women’s club hockey team, the Lady Ice Bulls, competes in Division I of the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA), which is a league comparable to NCAA Division III in skill level, according to Kasey Seidlinger, a freshman forward. The squad is aligned within the East Coast Women’s Hockey League (ECWHL) division. The transformation into a winning team was not an easy process. “The program was about to fold so I knew it was a long shot to try and save it. We were able to save it, get it going,” Rosen said. “By the end of the first semester, we had a full roster of 25 players. They weren’t the best players. They weren’t even very good players, but we were able to fill out the roster to field a team.” After Rosen’s second year, he was able to start recruiting players for the Lady Ice Bulls and the team began to enter competitions. Seidlinger did not originally plan on joining the team, but after visiting a practice, she realized it

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The Lady Ice Bulls didn’t have an easy road, but they’re turning into contenders one goal at a time. Junior defender Alison Edwards is pictured.

was much more serious than she thought. Now, members wake up at 6 a.m. on Tuesday and Thursday mornings for practices lasting over an hour. The practices include conditioning, drills and game-like situations. For some Lady Ice Bulls, balancing hockey with school and a social life is difficult, but the balancing act has culminated into a historic season. The team plays multiple games almost every weekend, sometimes doing so at other universities such as the University of Rhode Island, the University of Vermont and Northeastern University. Seidlinger admits the early practices mess with her sleep schedule and away games have the potential to get in the way of classes. Because it’s a club sport, not all teachers accept these trips as an excuse to miss classes or tests.

For Seidlinger and many of her teammates, the most memorable moment of this season was the opening weekend game against the University of Vermont in early October. After the first period, the Lady Ice Bulls were losing 4-2. “We weren’t playing to the best of our abilities the first period and we decided to turn it around and score some goals,” Seidlinger said. With a renewed mindset, the team pulled together and entered the third period aggressive for goals and completed the largest comeback in team history with a 5-4 win. Although Rosen considers this season as a good year for the program’s advancement, the team encountered many obstacles, including multiple injuries. In the final game of the fall semester, team captain defensemen Katelyn Bothwell broke her wrist and could not continue playing.

“After that, it was almost like the team was cursed with a voodoo doll,” Rosen said. “We ended up losing seven [out of 20] players to season-ending injuries. By the end of the season, we had one true defensemen left on the team. We had forwards playing defense to try to plug all the holes. I’ve been involved with hockey for 37 years and I’ve never seen anything like it.” The Lady Ice Bulls continued to have a respectable season in the spring semester, racking up five wins, until the team ended the playoffs with two losses, ultimately falling 3-2 against SUNY Canton this past weekend. According to Rosen, it was one of those games where the team ran into the “hot goalie” to get the puck into the net. With 30 seconds left in the game, Canton scored to beat UB. Still, Rosen considers it the best game the team has played in the five years he has been with the program. He believes it shows how far the Lady Ice Bulls have progressed. Although this season is over, Rosen and the Lady Ice Bulls continue to look to the future. Rosen plans to hoist an ACHA National Championship trophy by his 10th year as head coach The program also held a letter-of-intent signing day on Tuesday afternoon, in which five future players toured the Northtown Center in Amherst, the location of practice and home games for the team. Katie Wrona, a junior pharmacy major and forward, has great expectations for next season. “We are still a building team and we have a lot to work on, but we should have many new players coming in that will add numbers and strength to help our team,” Wrona said. “We will also continue to fundraise more in order to keep up with league expectations.” In a short time, with Rosen at the helm, the women’s club hockey team has made tremendous strides and hopes to continue the team’s progress. Email: features@ubspectrum.com

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Talking poetry: When We Were Human NICHOLAS C. TURTON Staff Writer In a small, cozy area of Talking Leaves Books, Jeannine Pitas’ infectious smile complemented the thin hardcover book in her lap. A modest gathering of people sat around her in wooden chairs and tall rows of wooden bookshelves bordered the area. Pitas opened the book and began lyrically reciting one of her poems as the air filled with her poetic voice. “The leaves begin humming and the ground starts to sing,” she read. “And until I find my way again, I am in paradise.” Pitas’ poetry reading, which took place at Talking Leaves Books last Wednesday evening, was well received by those in attendance. Pitas, a Buffalo native and current Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto, is becoming a formidable name in the Buffalo literary scene. Her poetry has been featured in various publications: Chrysalis, Carte Blanche, Fresh Yarn and The Buffalo News, to name a few. She recently published her first chapbook entitled Our Lady of the Snow Angels last November. Robert D. Pohl, editor of the Spotlight Poetry Feature of The Buffalo News, has known Pitas for some time and is an admirer of her poetry. “[Pitas’] work reflects a strong commitment to a kind of liberal Catholic humanism,” Pohl said. “It [also] shows a strong sense of language and poetic form.” Pitas’ style is multifaceted. It takes secular philosophies, religious imagery and personal experiences and fuses them together seamlessly. One of her most notable works encompassing this varied style is entitled “When We Were Human.” The poem begins by recollecting a forgotten and imaginative past: “When the hum of mosquitos was still the holiest prayer/ when the veins of our hands were still roots, and flowers sprouted from them as we grew old.” Pitas then transitions to the present, a time of inertia: “Now that we know all movement is rotation/Now that we are as motionless as stars.” The poem ends with a bold defiance of this degeneration from past to present: “They tell us that we should be grateful, as we drift from now to now,” Pitas writes. “They tell us that we are still human/But I don’t believe them.” The expressiveness of the piece is philosophical and striking. It’s a strong contemplation of our lives and of the world that strikes a chord with our innermost sentiments. “It’s almost manifesto-like, with a strong sense of what is left in terms of the project of humanism,” Pohl said. Another one of Pitas’ noteworthy works is a poem entitled “The Dolls.” The surreal poem is about four dolls on a fireplace mantel, each one a unique character. The dolls come to life at night and dance “like marbles, like snowflakes, like stars.”

Friday, February 22, 2013

Bullet For My Valentine review FELICIA HUNT Contributing Writer Artist: Bullet For My Valentine Album: Temper Temper Release Date: Feb. 11 Label: RCA Records Grade: CCourtesy of RCA Records Label

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This past Wednesday, Buffalo native Jeannine Pitas captivated attendees with her poetry, reading from her recently released chapbook, Our Lady of the Snow Angels.

Dolls that belonged to Pitas’ mother, Carol Pitas, inspired the poem. “I didn’t realize how much of an impression [the dolls] made on her,” Carol said. “It makes me feel good that I could add something to her inspiration and writing.” In fact, Pitas’ family and personal experiences have a large influence over her work. “Pork Chops and Pierogi” is a poem that portrays the struggles and hardships of her mother. It describes Pitas’ mother scrubbing a dirty floor on her knees and her father working long hours at a brewery. “My childhood wasn’t the greatest,” Carol said. “I told [Pitas] about my past when she was very young; she really took it to heart. [Her poem] made me a stronger person and I think it helped Jeannine as well.” For Pitas, poetry has served many roles in her life. It’s been a coping mechanism for some of life’s struggles and has also been an extremely uplifting and vital part of her life. “I’ve realized that almost everything in my life I can lose,” Pitas said. “I can lose friends. I can lose people that I love. I can lose relationships … But [poetry] is something that in my experience has always been there for me ever since I was 12.” Pitas sees it as an enduring part of her life, too. “[Poetry] is something that I can always rely on,” she said. “[It’s] something that I always come back to … something that comes back to me.”

Along with bands such as Papa Roach and Avenged Sevenfold, U.K. group Bullet For My Valentine is responsible for introducing teenagers in the mid-2000’s to the metal scene, complete with guitar riffs and worried mothers. They opened possibilities for genre expansion. Now, Bullet For My Valentine is just another commercial “metal” band. Temper Temper, the band’s fourth studio album, is an instruction manual for beginners in metal. The veteran rockers seldom show the talent that led to their success. Instead, they focus on a mainstream rock formula that disappoints longtime listeners. “Breaking Point” opens the album on a misleading high note. Vocalist Matt Tuck’s screams pierce through the song and visualizing a circle pit is effortless for listeners. The album then, however, spirals downward into failure. Tuck’s vocals in “Temper Temper” and “Riot,” the two current singles, lack any emotional connection like those in past hits “Tears Don’t Fall” from 2007’s The Poison and “Scream Aim Fire” from 2008’s Scream Aim Fire. The absence of lyrical value also hinders Temper Temper. Tuck’s lyrics are reminiscent of a 33-year-old male Taylor Swift

counterpart. Instead of moaning about relationship issues, though, he makes an attempt to act like a tough guy and warns listeners to watch out for his temper in eight songs – a temper that relays in comedic fashion. When an album is named Temper Temper, trying to actually evoke that feeling in your fans might help. Bullet For My Valentine’s creative ability hits an all-time low with “Tears Don’t Fall (Part 2).” Just when this album could not get any worse, Tuck and company did just that. Messing around with a past hit and the nostalgia that goes with it is never a smart idea. Temper Temper redeems itself on the last track off the album, “Livin’ Life (On The Edge Of A Knife).” The band returns to its signature sound; someone could guess the track is a Bullet one within the first chords. While the opening and closing tracks were highlights, they did not make up for the lackluster album. Bullet For My Valentine was consumed by the commercial success monster and needs to climb out of its belly for the next album to preserve their reputation as the pioneers of the metalcore genre. Email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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For the patriotic history buff: What: Founding Father’s Pub Where: 75 Edward St. Buffalo, N.Y. 14202 When: Late night every weekend

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Growing tired of the same bars every weekend? Venture away from South Campus and head downtown for a booze-infused colonial American time travel experience. Founding Father’s Pub is a cool little pub near the Allentown neighborhood with walls decorated entirely with American history memorabilia and artifacts. In addition to the decorations, this revolutionary utopia offers up free nachos and popcorn to all customers. The menu includes a good selection of craft beers along with a full bar and pub food menu.

This concert is part of one of UB’s longest running traditions: the annual Beethoven string quartet cycle. The tradition began with the bequest of Frederick Caldecott Slee’s estate, which left money to UB with instructions for the annual string quartet cycle. This particular concert will feature the Jupiter String Quartet, an intimate and closely related group of performers from Boston, Mass. Tickets are $5 for students in advance and are also available at the door.

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ACROSS 1 Annoyance for a fairytale princess 4 ___ point (hub) 9 Big girder

53 Away from one's mouth 55 Islamic fasting month 58 Sweeping story 60 Look at things to come? 61 They can be used remotely? 67 Pimple

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15 Get around

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62 Follow, as in Simon Says

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A 53-year-old man stood in front of the team he coached for 5,693 days. On Wednesday afternoon, exhausted and defeated, he walked out of the silver, blue and gold locker room door for the last time. While browsing through my twitter feed, I read 140 characters that many Buffalo Sabres fans have been eagerly waiting for. Lindy Ruff, the longest-tenured coach in the National Hockey League, was relieved of his duties. This move may have come as a surprise to many, but when put into perspective, Ruff ’s firing is well overdue. I have been a Sabres fan my entire life and I can’t even remember a time when Ruff wasn’t out there turning as red as a tomato while he argued with officials. But this season has been different. Ruff has looked uninspired behind the bench and has seemingly run out of solutions. The Sabres – who are 6-10-1 on the season – have gotten off to yet another slow start, and after 14-plus seasons of coaching, Ruff once again was left in the dust. I, like many other fans, find myself looking for answers to Ruff ’s decisions. Let’s start with Ruff ’s decision to sit his best player and put Jhonas Enroth – a young backup goaltender – between the pipes in only the third game of the season. Enroth was exposed by the Carolina Hurricanes and was scored on six times, as the Sabres suffered defeat. That game began to open my eyes about Ruff ’s lack of direction. Ruff claimed, on multiple occasions, that gifted first-round draft pick Mikhail Grigorenko could learn by watching the game in the press box. He recently listed the young Russian as a healthy scratch. What Ruff failed to realize is that Grigorenko can only advance his game further by being on the ice. Lindy Ruff has failed to find the right combination of accountability and inspiration in his players, most notably in one of the team’s top forwards, Drew Stafford. Stafford entered the season with expectations to be one of the Sabres’ leading scorers. Too bad he didn’t score his first goal until the 15th game of the season. Ruff may be the winningest coach in Sabres history, with 571 wins in his 14-plus seasons at the helm, but a .490 winning percentage is nothing to keep him around for. It’s time to trim the fat. The Sabres have only made the playoffs five times during the Ruff regime and in three of those appearances Buffalo has been sent packing in the opening round. Ruff has brought home a President’s Trophy and a Jack Adams Award, but he has failed to bring home the only hardware that actually matters: a Stanley Cup. But despite not being able to deliver the big prize, Lindy Ruff has been a part of this city for as long as I can remember. I will always welcome him in Sabres country. It breaks my heart to know that the last thing Lindy Ruff will remember about his coaching career in Buffalo is being booed on home ice during a frustrating 2-1 loss to the Winnipeg Jets. But it absolutely had to happen. I hope when Buffalo fans look back on 2013, we will see it as the year our professional sports franchises finally put their past failures behind them. It’s time to achieve something we can celebrate. Email: jrbove@buffalo.edu

Friday, February 22, 2013 ubspectrum.com

Richie Rich

Sebuharara goes from track and field cut to respected basketball leader JOE KONZE JR Senior Sports Editor Richie Sebuharara came to Buffalo expecting to run track and field and follow in his brother’s footsteps, but his heart was on the basketball court. When he was cut from the track team, the one-time high school basketball standout started spending his time dominating competition in pick-up ball in Alumni Arena. Then a friend of men’s basketball head coach Reggie Witherspoon spotted Sebuharara and knew he had to tell Witherspoon of the undiscovered star. Ever since, Sebuharara’s passion has been his reality. Sebuharara, a business administration major, is one of two seniors on a Bulls (11-15, 6-6 Mid-American Conference) squad that has won three straight games. “I always loved basketball, first and foremost,” Sebuharara said. “I just love the game.” Look at a stat sheet and he isn’t extremely prevalent (1.2 points in 8.6 minutes per game), but his teammates say the walk-on makes a colossal impact. “Whenever I’m down or defensively I need to pick it up, I just look at Richie,” said sophomore forward Xavier Ford. “He’s here helping his team win. We love him.” The other senior on the team, guard Tony Watson, said Sebuharara has one of the best personalities on the team. He said Sebuharara can do impressions of his teammates that make Watson cry from laughing so hard. “My stomach is all in knots from rolling on the floor laughing,” Watson said. Sebuharara may be a comedian off the court, but when he’s on the court, the speedy lock-down defender is all business. Sebuharara’s brother, Loic, is five years older than Sebuharara. Loic was a member of the track and field team from 2005-09 and he advised his younger brother to give track a shot. “I’m real close with my brother,” Sebuharara said. “He’s like my idol, so everything I did, he did. I was just like: he [ran track], so I’m going to try it. But I couldn’t get away from basketball.” Witherspoon said he wasn’t sure if Sebuharara would be interested in coming aboard because the Bulls did not have room for Sebuharara to dress for games his first year. They wondered if he would want to come to practice every day knowing he would not be able to participate in games.

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Through passion and relentlessness, senior guard Richie Sebuharara has settled into his role on the men’s basketball team.

However, Sebuharara agreed to the terms of what needed to be done to make the team – which, according to his brother, is not out of character. “When Richie chooses to do something, he’s all in. Whatever it takes for him to contribute,” Loic said. “If his job is to get in for two minutes in the game and guard the best shooter and make sure he doesn’t touch the ball, he will do everything in his power to make that happen. He’s a very smart kid. He understands his role.” On Nov. 24, 2012, Richie scored his first career points in a win over Mansfield University. He finished with five points, and Loic was there to cheer for his little brother. There was always competition among the siblings growing up in Vestal, N.Y. Whether it was the race to be the first one to the remote control to watch their favorite show or competing in checkers, the pair was always in a battle – even though Loic would win because he was older. “We would go play basketball at that park,” Loic said. “Any time I would be winning, because I was a lot older than him, he would get very frustrated, very hot-headed. He just couldn’t control his temper. Every single time, I would continue to do whatever it was to frustrate him.

If I scored going right, I would keep going right and I would tell him that he couldn’t stop me going right, and he would get really angry.” Amidst the frustration, Loic was always there to support his younger brother – especially when he received the phone call from Sebuharara saying he was going to be a member of the basketball team. “It’s gratifying to me that he [was] able to do that, and however good it felt for me, multiply that by 15 for him because again when he has a goal, he works very hard toward it and he won’t stop until he accomplishes it,” Loic said. Sebuharara’s selflessness is a large part of what earns his peers’ respect. Witherspoon plans to tell future players about Sebuharara’s journey. “It’s really the essence of what we do: growth and development of the young men in our program,” Witherspoon said. “We’ve seen that occur in his life. He demonstrates it in his play everyday. When Richie is playing well, he’s not pressing. He’s just thinking of how he can help contribute to the team and that’s not an easy thing to do. It’s the best thing to do.” Ask Sebuharara’s teammates and they’ll tell you selflessness and sense of humor are his two best personality traits. Sebuharara, Ford and sophomore forward Raphell Thomas-Edwards will argue about anything and everything. In order to discuss a topic, they must first call a ‘roundtable’ to analyze the situation. “We were all watching TV yesterday and Raphell saw that some study showed if a person likes you, their pupils dilate or something,” Ford said. “So we brought it up to Richie and we all had an argument for an hour and 20 minutes on pupils.” Sebuharara is active around campus, too. He is an RA in Greiner Hall and used to be one in Red Jacket Quadrangle. Sebuharara made his first start for the Bulls on Dec. 28, 2012, against Notre Dame College (Ohio) – a game in which he recorded five points and six assists. He started the next three games, as well, and played a career-high 29 minutes in a narrow loss at Tulsa Jan. 2. In addition to Sebuharara, the Bulls have had notable walk-ons in recent years like Byron Mulkey, Dave Barnett and John Boyer. Sebuharara and his teammates will play host to the Manhattan Jaspers Saturday in the Ramada Worldwide BracketBusters game at Alumni Arena. Tip-off is slated for 2 p.m. Email: sports@ubspectrum.com

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Bulls defense can’t fend off RedHawks in battle for third place JON GAGNON Sports Editor The women’s basketball team has failed to score more than 57 points in each of its five losses in Mid-American Conference play this season. The Bulls have notched at least 60 in each of their six victories. On Wednesday night at Alumni Arena, they scored 56 and tacked another loss onto their conference record. Buffalo (8-17, 6-6 MAC) fell 69-56 to Miami Ohio (15-10, 7-5 MAC). The Bulls defeated Miami in their last meeting and the two teams entered Wednesday’s game tied for third place in the MAC East division. The Bulls led early, but Miami answered with a 9-0 run to take the lead with 10:25 left in the half. Buffalo never reclaimed the lead. “You’ve got to play with a sense of going after something,” said head coach Felisha LegetteJack. “I’m so mad we let this opportunity slip away. It’s not about who we play against. You’ve got to capture that moment. We didn’t win either half, but in the first half, our energy was so horrible. We let an opportunity pass us by.” Freshman guard Mackenzie Loesing and junior forward Cherridy Thornton – the team’s two leading scorers – were unable to carry a team that struggled offensively all night. The two combined to shoot just 7 for 27 from the field. “[We struggle offensively] when we fail to play as a team,” Loesing said. “I think tonight, we played more individual basketball than we needed to. They had the will to win at moments that were important more than we did and we need to push ourselves harder.”

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Christa Baccas (above) and the Bulls were unable to fend off Miami Ohio as they fell victim at home 69-56 in conference play on Wednesday night.

Thornton finished with a team-high 13 points (5 for 17) and Loesing scored 12 (2 for 10). No other Buffalo player reached double figures. The Bulls shot just 27.6 percent from the field in the first half but trailed by only five at intermission. Senior guard Nicki Hopkins opened the second half with a 3-pointer, trimming Miami’s lead to two. The differential floated between one and five points over the next 10 minutes, as the

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game went back and forth. “We didn’t lock in defensively to get that stop when the team needed it,” Legette-Jack said. The Bulls trailed 43-41 with 11 minutes remaining before the RedHawks went on another 9-0 run in a span of three minutes. The closest the Bulls came after that was 62-56. Buffalo was outrebounded 34-28, despite grabbing 10 offensive rebounds in the first half. The Bulls finished the game shooting 36 percent from the field and committed 20 turnovers. RedHawks guard Courtney Osborn – second in the MAC in scoring and third in assists – dominated the second half after scoring just three points in the first. She finished with 19 points and seemed to have an answer every time the Bulls attempted to cut it close. Her 19 points also put her into first place on Miami’s all-time career scoring list. “When a kid gets 19 points and only had three in the first half, that’s that seniority,” Legette-Jack said. “That senior says, ‘I don’t care how I feel. We’re going to find a way to wheel our team to success.’ I’m really proud of her as a student-athlete and I wish her the best.” Osborn’s backcourt mate, Haley Robertson, scored 15 and forward Kirsten Olowinski recorded 14, giving Miami’s ‘big three’ 48 of the team’s 69 points. The Bulls hit the road to take on the Ohio Bobcats (6-18, 1-11 MAC) on Saturday at 2 p.m. On Jan. 13, Buffalo defeated the Bobcats 73-36. Email: sports@ubspectrum.com

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