The Spectrum Volume 62 Issue 57 by The Spectrum Student Periodical

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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Volume 62 No. 57

*Editorial*

Dear President Tripathi, It’s your turn to talk about the Heights

We are tired of one-sided conversations and unanswered phone calls, of turned cheeks and of the ticking time bomb that is the University Heights. So today, we want to make a deal: We are reserving Friday’s front page for you. You have the opportunity to say whatever you want about the problems in the Heights, how you feel UB should or should not handle it, respond to students’ concerns or write whatever comes into your head. By emailing your response to the address at the bottom of this editorial, you guarantee a spot to answer the criticisms that your school is facing without fear of censorship or spoiled words – a spot to instill faith in the student body. However, if we don’t receive anything from you by 10 p.m. on Thursday, the front page will remain blank. Sometimes nothing speaks louder than silence. We are faced with short deadlines and quick responses day after day, so we realize this isn’t a lot of time. But we are tired of waiting. This is The Spectrum’s second editorial of the school year regarding the University Heights district of Buffalo. In October, we made a call for action to UB, encouraging – nay, pleading – with the school to make a push to take care of the living conditions that UB’s off-campus residents are subjected to and that UB so willingly endorses as alternative, affordable housing. In case you failed to notice (but we know you didn’t), Monday’s paper was dedicated to the area. Our eight-page issue was almost

Your students do not need guardian angels, completely occupied by a comprehensive outline of the crime but it does seem like at this point they need and conditions in the Heights. We a miracle to actually get and hold your athad interviews with international tention. Crime after crime and violation students who had few other op- after violation, students are told just how tions besides their unsafe, unten- little the school is willing to do to help ded homes. We had other residents Heights residents. Black told The Spec– current and former – who felt trum if a student feels unsafe where strong enough about the matter he or she lives, that person needs to to share their own experiences of move. To him, that choice is as simple as the choice of drinking alcohol break-ins and gunpoint robberies. And not once have we heard back or the time you pick to go out (yes, from you. Not one single word. that is actually what he compared it We’ve seen you jump at the oppor- to). Meanwhile, somebody else is maktunity to answer questions about school-wide expansion and even ing the choice to break your windows gave a full interview to a Spectrum or steal your money. staff writer on state funding for the These are not isolated inciCenter of Excellence for Materi- dents or uncommon als Informatics earlier this month occurrences; this is (and you responded quite quickly, at what happens in the that). This is your school and these Heights – rather are your students and hearing your frequently, in fact, thoughts on the negative aspects of and increasingly the former that hurt the latter has so. Robbery numbeen an impossible mission. You bers have gone and your staff want pats on the down since 2008, back when something good hap- but crime – includpens but pass the blame on nega- ing homicide, rape, tive press. robbery, assault, larceny It’s becoming increasingly evident burglary, that we are being played, but we are and vehicle theft – not the victims of this game; the remains unchained. victims are all the students who are Five hundred twenbeing misguided and misinformed ty-three crimes in by a school that is supposed to have the Heights in 2008, their best interests at heart. It’s sup- 523 crimes in the posed to be a school that will pro- Heights in 2012. tect them, yet Dennis Black, your And enough stuvice president of University Life dents who live there and Services, has said you’re “not in feel unsafe and want done the protection business” and you’re something “not guardian angels that can travel about it. with 40,000 people wherever it is Continued on page 3 they are or wherever they go.” Art by Jeanette Chwan

Henderson finds home on stage Tony-nominated actor directs play at UB SARA DINATALE Senior News Editor

Nicholas Fischetti /// The Spectrum

Buffalo residents and UB students play pick-up basketball in Clark Hall Tuesday afternoon. A man pulled a gun following a pick-up game Monday.

UB will not yet provide answers about South Campus gunman University Police and Clark Hall employees refuse to release any information regarding the man who pulled out a handgun in the South Campus gymnasium at 3 p.m. on Monday. The whereabouts of the suspect, who is not affiliated with UB, have not been made public. However, UPD has a “strong lead” on who the suspect is, according to UB Spokesman John Della Contrada. The perpetrator was last seen leaving the east side of Clark Hall. Della Contrada said it is believed the man left campus. The incident was an isolated occurrence, and the university community is not at risk, UB Alert

released at 8 p.m. on Monday. Students received the initial alert via email and text at 3:37 p.m. The man pulled out a handgun during an argument regarding a pick-up basketball game, Della Contrada said. Whom he was arguing with is not public information at this time. The suspect is described as a black male wearing a green and black hooded sweatshirt, grey shorts and black and white sneakers. Email: news@ubspectrum.com

Inside

Stephen McKinley Henderson found his third family in theater. His mother – a single parent who had two children in her teens – was unable to support him herself and gave him to another family. The reason: poverty. Henderson, now 63, had to cross state lines on the bridge from Kansas into Missouri to see his mother and siblings, which eventually included two sisters. Henderson, who was the only child to the couple that raised him, craved a greater sense of belonging. He found his answers on the stage. And in theater, he’d eventually find great success, a Tony nomination for his role in Fences, an unforgettable relationship with its Pulitzer-winning playwright August Wilson and work with renowned actors in theater and film. Since 1987, Henderson, a professor UB’s Department of Theater and Dance, has been splitting his time between the stage and the classroom. His most recent acting credits include the Oscar-nominated film Lincoln and Aaron Sorkin’s HBO show The Newsroom. He is currently in the midst of directing UB’s production of Forgiving John Lennon. But Henderson’s life fits together in the realm of theater; he believes that every experience he’s encountered prepared him for the next one.

Opinion 3 News 4

Aminata Diallo /// The Spectrum

Professor Stephen McKinley Henderson, second from left, in black, directs students in Forgiving John Lennon. Henderson has a rich career in theater and film. He recently appeared in the Oscar-nominated film Lincoln.

Michael Dempsey, a sophomore theater performance major who is in Forgiving John Lennon, pointed out there are celebrities and there are artists and Henderson, whom he described as humble, is an artist. “The first day we had rehearsal, we had a table reading,” Dempsey said. “When he walked in, he sat down and said, ‘Yes, I was in Lincoln. Yes I was Tony nominated, but let’s never talk about that ever again.’” Henderson jokes, “It takes 20 years to become an overnight suc-

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cess.” He put all that time in and then some. But Henderson understands the value of a journey – it is an actor’s fuel. “So much of your life is the only pallet of colors you have to dip into; you have got to paint with your experiences,” he explained. He can captivate a crowd on stage or “he can hold you spellbound” with stories of his past experiences, according to friend, colleague and former UB professor Anna Kay France. Continued on page 6

See more on Henderson, Forgiving John Lennon and the Buffalo theater scene on pages 10-11.

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Arts & Entertainment 10,11 Sports 14

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EDITORIAL BOARD 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. Max Crinnin, Asst. SPORTS EDITORS Joseph Konze Jr., Senior Jon Gagnon Ben Tarhan Markus McCaine, Asst. PHOTO EDITORS Alexa Strudler, Senior Adrien D’Angelo Nick Fischetti Satsuki Aoi, Asst. Aminata Diallo, 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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Continued from page 1: Dear President Tripathi, As for increased police presence (which has been proven to deter crime) by the Buffalo Police Department, Black is all for it. “I think that anything people can do to take away the opportunity for crime is good,” he told The Spectrum at the end of December. “And that’s lighting, that’s transportation, that’s people being smart and that’s enhanced police presence.” But as for expanding University Police’s jurisdiction to help cover that? It’s a no-go. The excuse Black gave us against adding UPD patrol to the Heights? We’ll give you a hint: It’s green and keeps the university alive. “Imagine what it would cost for University Police to patrol University Heights,” he said. “Who would pay that cost?” Us probably, like everything else that goes into the university. Black says two things could happen: Cost of attendance would go up and/or other services would go down (“It’s not magic,” he said). Is anybody actually going to object to an added service that protects a good percentage of the student body? Plus, the cost of attendance going up is hardly a threat when it is already going up steadily each year to pay for UB 2020, that lovely expansion plan that will increase the school’s presence in downtown Buffalo yet continues to ignore South Campus. As a city, Buffalo is relying on UB to pull it from depression, and UB 2020 is supposed to be the program that does so, but what about the facets that are getting ignored in the process? It only makes sense to give University Police jurisdiction in the University Heights, and community members have no idea why it hasn’t been done yet, especially after other universities have taken that step. In September, Ohio State University and the City of Columbus teamed up to give campus police the right to patrol the inner city. In the first two months, violent crime dropped 5 percent from the past 10 years. According to OSU Undergraduate Student Government President Taylor Stepp, he just wasn’t comfortable having students in a situation where they were getting mugged off campus or held at gunpoint. Clearly UB’s administration is. As Black noted to The Spectrum, doubling up on jurisdiction requires state legislation and approval, but in Ohio’s case, University President E. Gordon Gee actually pushed and worked with state legislature to make sure that it was acted upon. Black’s response to that one? Nothing – unless you count a stymied grunt for an answer. So here we are. How did we get to the point where we say, “Well, it’s not as bad as Detroit” or “South Campus isn’t as bad as the East and West Side?” This shouldn’t even be a talking point – not now and not ever. Our two main campuses are in Amherst and Buffalo. That’s what we should be comparing – the two places where our school’s flag is flown high. By name, UB owns the University Heights. It’s supposed to be safe, and our students are supposed to be protected. You promote the housing and give us vendors in the area to use Campus Cash and spend our weekends when we’re bored of Amherst. But none of us signed up for what we have to face. Most people are coming to Buffalo for the sole purpose of going to school. This is a neighborhood the school promotes, a neighborhood on which you can find listings galore for on Sub-Board and that the school helps find apartments in. Why do we get to go home at the end of the day and have to worry about getting robbed or having our house get broken into?

Art by Jeanette Chwan

Every Buffalo official and UB administrator likes to pretend the situation is fine. It’s not fine. You can’t build up a failing city with a university that will not protect its students. You cannot build up a university while ignoring your student body. And the state is not going to ignore a state university and one of its major centers if you, President Tripathi, try to protect the school’s students. It’s not magic. To all the students who are reading this along with President Tripathi, we hope you are not taking it as lightly as our administration is. In the last few days, we have been accused of muckraking and fear mongering, of exaggerating the severity of the situation. Let us assure you: the problems and the fear already exist. How many people have to say “the people who are walking around at 3 a.m. should know better and are just asking for it” before one person recognizes residents in the Heights shouldn’t have to worry about walking in their neighborhood at 3 a.m. for whatever reason? You should be able to come home without getting robbed between your driveway and your doorstep. You shouldn’t have to fear for your life coming home late from work or from studying because your school’s administration has blatantly and clear-as-crystal said UB has no responsibility for its students off campus. If somebody breaks into your house and takes your belongings, there’s a chance you can get them back. What we’re trying to do is prevent something much bigger from happening that has yet to happen. Things are going to come to a head, and when they do, we at The Spectrum are going to just be forced to cover it again, hoping that story will be the triggering event, hoping the university will finally do something. It’s not enough to just pick up the paper and read it anymore. You have to pick it up, read it and do something about it. You have to tell your friends and your family. You have to get as angry as you should be about the situation. You have to make the university know this is as unfair and unsafe and deplorable as you know it is. Because this university does not care about you. The administration has said it doesn’t want to widen UPD’s jurisdiction because tuition will go up, but tuition is still going up. The worse the conditions in the Heights,

the more money students are going to be willing to shell out for the ridiculous costs of on-campus living. For the parents who may be reading this, nobody is going to do anything without your help. We are students who don’t find it safe, but after months and years of asking, we are constantly ignored. You have let your children go off to a school that claims it’s “not in the protection business,” a school that lets them live in an unsafe neighborhood in homes that are not up to code with just a pat on the back and a bill in the mail. And as to you, President Tripathi, of the 760 students we polled, 82 percent said they think UB should do more to improve the living conditions in the Heights. A majority (54 percent) of the 787 polled on the question “Do you feel safe in University Heights” said no. How are those numbers you can even continue to ignore? You are trying to build and expand the university as a major force in higher education but refuse to answer the most comprehensive critiques of it. You promote housing off campus for students (especially international students) who cannot afford any other options, yet not only does your administration refuse to help those who are being threatened and who are suffering, it also places all the blame on said students, apathetically declaring their decisions are choices they have the opportunity to change and turn the other cheek. But if choosing to live in the Heights is just one of many choices we make in our lifetime, as Black so nonchalantly suggests, then some of our other choices must include whether or not to even go to UB, encouraging our children and siblings to go here or even donating money to future development as alumni. If these are our choices, then we can surely guarantee what options the average student is leaning toward, and if you’re as concerned with the image of this university as we know you are, you’re not going to like what we’ve all picked. We await your reply. Email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

More than a test score

Reform the broken standardized testing system You will take hundreds of exams and quizzes during the course of your education. Some will be to test your general comprehension of a topic; others will be more in-depth, focusing on parochial themes and material delved upon in class discussions. What is important, however, is that each of these tests are different for different classrooms, different age groups and different schools. And then there are standardized tests. For the last decade, the importance of standardized tests in American education has steadily increased starting with No Child Left Behind, a law with good intentions – that being to make sure all students get the education and attention they deserve, even if they have been ignored in the past – but ineffective in execution. In more recent years, good performance on the tests has been vital, as the Obama administration has linked good grades with teacher evaluations. In states like New York, you have to take a series of mandated exams (the Regents exams or your state’s equivalent) at the conclusion of your coursework that tests your knowledge on a given topic, and then to get into college you have to take a couple more (the SAT and/or ACT, plus SAT II exams). After several hours of recollecting months of specific facts and function, you have a grade on the best intelligence scale our country could come up with. Much like The Spectrum’s editorial board, people currently protesting across the country know the standardized testing system needs a serious overhaul. High school students, teachers, parents and college professors around the United States have recently begun a movement after a Seattle high school decided to unanimously refuse to administer standardized tests “on ethical and professional grounds.” From Portland to Providence, groups brought attention to “high-stakes testing,” which requires students to pass or they don’t graduate, even if they pass the class. So what exactly is wrong with the standardized testing system?

The overuse and misuse of standardized testing across the United States is one of the most important conflicts in the education system, and it seems like everyone is jumping on board to criticize it lately. Scholar and Duke University professor Cathy Davidson describes today’s youth as “assembly line kids on an assembly line model,” each part of a one-size-fitsall model. But one of the most unfortunate parts of the system is the fact our “one-size-fits-all model” doesn’t really serve all. Exams that require payment, such as the SAT, already set an unfair advantage for people without the financial means to not only pay to take it but also for additional tutoring, study supplements and other materials. For that, college-entry standardized tests are frequently considered to be tests only for the white middle-to-upper class. So if standardized tests are actually a valid measure of intelligence, then does that validity hold for all ethnic, age, gender and income groups? The current system isn’t really a triumph for anyone – not the white middle-to-upper-class, not the teachers and certainly not the education system as a whole. Because good scores will give good teacher evaluations, teachers will narrow and mold their curriculum around the tests (also known as “teaching to the tests”) a good majority of the time, and what is not tested is not taught. The curriculum omits complex social problems and creative instruction, and in their place leaves a robotic system of education. Listen, remember, repeat. Then wipe the slate clean. For this reason and many more, the SAT is the stuff of high school students’ nightmares. It’s nothing more than a collection of random facts that you can only hope you didn’t rub out of your memory completely. An empty acronym with a big meaning, the infamous exam helps determine where you’re going to go for college and how much money you’re going to get to go to that college. Admission, merit-based scholarships and placement are all based on how high on the scale you place.

And as important as it is, you would think you’d be able to focus on getting the best possible score on it while not having to worry about anything else. Wrong. An exam that has no weight on your actual schoolwork and doesn’t affect your final grade or graduation status has to be studied for and taken while you worry about the classes that do have weight. And you have to pay for it – from preparation to testing. The education system has created an industry based around preparing for the SAT, a terrifyingly manipulative move to profit on students trying to move onto college and become the profitable member of society they’ve been told they have to become. In its current state, the SAT is only beneficial to colleges as a way to compare apples to oranges. Ask any college student (or consider it for yourself): did the SAT (or ACT) prepare you for college in any way? You don’t even have to answer – we know it already. Surely this isn’t the best way to measure intelligence, but nobody in the United States has thought of any other way. Other countries like Finland – which ranks consistently near the top in math, reading and science – take very few tests and are all low stakes, using assessment as a tool for development and not accountability. The National Center for Fair and Open Testing lists nearly 850 four-year colleges that don’t use the SAT I or ACT for admission. Some of these schools exempt students who meet grade point average or class rank criteria, while others only use SAT or ACT scores for placement or research. Two Buffalo universities fall into this list: Medaille College and Villa Maria College. Out of all the options, there’s only one SUNY school: SUNY College of Technology at Delhi. It is clearly possible to assess student intelligence without using standardized test scores, as 850 schools and multiple countries have proven. A serious problem with the tests is it forgets the margin of people who are brilliant thinkers but terrible test takers. Continued on page 12

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 ubspectrum.com

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UB becomes epicenter of earthquake study Researchers study vulnerability of NYC buildings

TONG MENG Staff Writer A short, shrill beep pierced through the silent room. The audience watched with bated breaths as the next test – meant to simulate the 2011 Christchurch earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 – began. Violent tremors, generated by an earthquake shake table, rocked both walls from side to side. A few seconds later, the left wall couldn’t stand. Its upper part, also known as the parapet, fell with a resounding clank onto the steel structure between the two walls. It leaned limp while the parapet of the right wall became slightly displaced from the wall’s lower part moments later. Last Tuesday, UB’s Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL) simulated an earthquake inside Ketter Hall. It was part of an experiment by UB researchers to study how unreinforced masonry buildings in New York City, specifically brownstones, would fare during an earthquake. “[The experiment] was pretty interesting and exciting because you see the walls falling down,” said Ciara Olea, a senior civil engineering major who witnessed the experiment. “I was excited because I’ve never seen anything like it before.” The experiment marks the first time researchers are studying the seismic behavior of unreinforced masonry walls found on the East Coast. A shake table was used to produce an intense ground motion. The two walls in the experiment represent the unreinforced masonry structures in New York City. They were made using 100-year-old bricks and specially made mortar. The initial tests simulated the 2011 Virginia earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 and later tests simulated the Christchurch earthquake that shook New Zealand the same year. Experimental results will help validate computer simulations used to evaluate seismic risks such as casualties and economic loss, according to the program’s handout. “Our goal is ultimately to understand the risk posed by unreinforced masonry buildings in NYC,” said Andrew Whittaker, a researcher involved in the project, professor and chair of

Nyeri Moulterie /// The Spectrum

UB’s Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL) simulated an earthquake last Tuesday in Ketter Hall. UB researchers conducted the experiment to study how unreinforced masonry buildings in New York City, specifically brownstones, would fare during an earthquake.

the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (CSEE) and director of the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER). The work performed at MCEER represents the first two steps in a multi-step process to assess earthquake risk and earthquake vulnerability on unreinforced masonry buildings in the city, according to Whittaker. There are no “reliable computational tools” to predict how such unreinforced masonry buildings are going to behave during an earthquake, according to Juan Aleman, a Fulbright scholar and Ph.D. candidate in civil, structural and environmental engineering. Yet, unreinforced masonry buildings make up 80 percent of construction in New York City, researchers said. Brownstones, common in the city, were

popularized in the late 1800s to early 1900s and many are more than a century old. Age, combined with wear and tear, makes these constructions potentially hazardous. “Some older, unreinforced masonry buildings in New York City are collapsing just due to their own weight or fires,” Gilberto Mosqueda, faculty adviser of the research team and associate professor in the Department of Structural Engineering at the University of California at San Diego, told UB News Center. Whittaker is also concerned about the safety of these buildings. “The past experience is that they are vulnerable to earthquakes and vulnerable in the sense that they collapse and kill people,” he said. Earthquakes with a magnitude of five and higher are uncommon in New York but are

possible. Even a moderate earthquake could be disastrous in the city because of dense population and hectic commercial activities, UB researchers said. In the final test, the parapet of the left wall fell. If this simulation actually occurred in the city, “[It] could have probably killed a person. If someone was walking on the street, the parapet would have fallen down [on him or her],” Maikol Del Carpio, a research assistant and Ph.D. candidate in civil engineering, told YNN. Aleman has personal experience with earthquakes. He is from Nicaragua, part of the infamous pacific ring of fire, where seismic activities are common. “My full house was shaking like crazy; it was amazing [and] really scary,” Aleman said about a 5.0 earthquake near his home in 2000. “My house was not damaged, but other houses almost collapsed.” To Aleman, the project was “really rewarding.” He feels better prepared to help in the engineering community in New York as well as his native home. UB has a “pretty unique combination” of “strong faculty” and “world-class facility,” according to Aleman. Olea thinks the simulations could attract incoming students. The entire experiment lasted a few hours, but the walls collapsed in a few seconds. For four years, the team did experiments and scoured New York for appropriate materials to build the two walls. The International Masonry Institute donated the bricks. Apart from Whittaker, Mosqueda and Aleman, project participants also include Amjad Aref, professor of structural and earthquake engineering. The research is a joint effort with the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) and the International Masonry Institute (IMI). The research team will be doing extensive data analysis as a follow-up to the simulations. Whittaker said the team hopes to obtain funding from the federal government in order to “quantify the risk and exposure that folks have in New York City to earthquakes.” Email: news@ubspectrum.com

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Continued from page 1: Henderson finds home on stage He lives as a perpetual storyteller, both as a director and actor. “I never started acting in order to be in a movie – I never thought I’d be in a movie. I had no idea,” Henderson said. “I was doing it when I did it because of the stories.” While Henderson has spent his entire career being the vehicle to tell others’ stories – acting alongside greats like Denzel Washington and Daniel Day-Lewis – he has a compelling story of his own. “I knew my family. I just didn’t live with them because it was just too much for [my mother] at that time,” Henderson explained. After 12 years, his mother’s life began to stabilize in Missouri, but at that point, Henderson had built his life in Kansas. He got used to living with the couple that took him in and visiting his siblings on the weekend. Despite the unconventional situation, he still built a strong bond with his older brother. His brother, five years his senior, lost his hearing as an infant. But Henderson glows on the mention of one of his life’s biggest influenc es. “He was my big brother,” Henderson said with a thoughtful assertiveness. “It didn’t really mean that much to me that he was deaf because he seemed to be so astute about other things.” He fondly remembered the trips the two would take to the movies and recounted how others didn’t see the brilliance in his brother quite like he could. Henderson finished junior high and high school in Kansas but always wanted to be with his brother and sisters – it’s that desire to belong that made him feel so comfortable in theater. He wanted to be a part of something but let out a soft laugh as he admitted he didn’t have the athleticism to join a sports team – those skills went to his brother and later his son. But in school, a knack for poetry grew into a passion for the arts and acting. His office is covered with playbills and posters from an extensive career. A 1993 plaque celebrating his direction of a one-man play about Muhammad Ali in the London Olympic Arts Festival hangs on his back wall. Henderson, the soft-spoken man with a rhythmic voice, had a warm smile creep over his face as he recounted introducing his family to the esteemed

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Stephen Henderson has spent most his life working as an actor; as an adolescent, he found the greater sense of family he was seeking on the stage. He shares his passion with his students.

boxer, who came to the play’s London premiere. He admits his wife and son get more out of the movie premieres and Broadway show openings than he does. “That’s when I like it because they know what I used to do; they know I do it because I love it,” Henderson said. “It’s great to see them enjoy it, but I like to get to work. I like the work.” Henderson stresses the value of “the work” to his students. When someone in his cast of Forgiving John Lennon asked him why he didn’t go to the Oscars – even though a clip he was in was shown in the telecast – Henderson responded: “it’s about the work; it’s not about who I am,” according to Dempsey. And Henderson has been working for decades. Dempsey said while actors with the same credentials may have an ego, Henderson is the “most humble and modest person [he’s] ever worked with in theater.” Henderson was part of The Julliard School’s first acting program in 1968, after studying at Lincoln University in Missouri. He spent two years in New York at Julliard before deciding to go back South to study at the North Carolina School of the Arts. He went on to graduate school at Purdue University, where he is now a distinguished alumnus. Throughout his college experiences, he became classically trained and educated about the black theater movement and worked directly with the Black Panther Party, an AfricanAmerican socialist organization. He

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for best performance by a featured actor in a play. “When you get nominated for a Tony, you realize just how far you’ve come – it really sort of justifies a lot of people who had faith in you, a lot of the folks who helped you,” Henderson said. “It makes you grateful; it humbles you. But you really do realize how few people get that kind of endorsement.” Henderson said he could have easily gone his whole life without doing Broadway and not getting that break. He spent years in regional theater, bouncing between a few select cities working as a company actor. In Fences, he worked with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, who brought in people from Hollywood. The exposure helped Henderson get TV roles and a big role in the 2011 comedy Tower Heist with Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy. Tony Kushner, who wrote the screenplay of Lincoln, saw Henderson act in multiple Wilson plays. Again, Henderson felt the pieces of his past experiences coming together. “Some things come and you just know ‘I’m just supposed to be a part of this; that’s just it,’” Henderson said, drawing parallels to how it was like his “fit” within Wilson’s plays. Kushner personally asked Henderson to play the role of William Slade, a historical freeman who was a close friend of Lincoln’s. When Henderson walked on set, Daniel Day-Lewis was so much in the realm of his character he greeted Henderson with, “Oh, Mr. Slade, so good to see you again.”

For Henderson, being told by someone, “I think we need you on this” is a huge honor, no matter how big or small the role, he said. But while other actors were decked out and walking the red carpet, Henderson spent Oscar night at rehearsal with the Forgiving John Lennon company. Dempsey said Henderson is different from any other director he has ever worked with because he pushes his students to create characters and understand the choices their characters would make. “What he stresses is, ‘acting is not about getting it right; it is about getting it true,” Dempsey said. Live theater hones the human experience in Henderson’s eyes; it’s powerful and raw. He views each piece of theater as a journey. “I have to really focus, really have to take this journey with [the actors], but after I take the journey, I feel somehow more human,” Henderson said. “I feel more at home being a human, realizing just how we’re all survivors. We’re surviving things and I think that’s it. I think the theater exists to reveal the capacity of the human spirit.” And Henderson is pleased to share the gifts he finds in theater with his students. France described him as a “generous spirit” and said he cares deeply and passionately about all his students, former and current. France is thrilled to watch Henderson’s continued success and feels it provides invaluable experience to the university. Henderson admits some people can’t understand why he would choose to spend a semester each year teaching and not acting full time. They ask him, “Well, if you’re really such a good actor, what are you doing here?” He said those people “don’t think much of where they are, so they don’t know why you’re there.” Henderson remembers what it was like to be back in Kansas where he found his home on the stage and discovered his family. He remembers what it was like to have people tell him, “I think you’re good enough to leave Kansas and go make a living at this.” He hopes to do the same for his students. He lives to pay it forward. Emails: news@ubspectrum.com

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ALYSSA MCCLURE Staff Writer It started out as an accident. Kayla Cornell thought she was attending an event for the Colleges Against Cancer her freshman year. When she got in a car with her roommate, who had attended the meeting with her, they realized they were at the wrong CAC event. They had arrived at the Community Action Corps meeting. Cornell, now a senior anthropology major, ended up at a mosque in Getzville. She spent the day decorating the mosque and serving food Aminata Diallo /// The Spectrum at a benefit for the Pakistan flood in 2010. That The students in the Community Action Corps spend their free time volunteering at and fundraising night, they raised $90,000 for the victims. for local and national charities and organizations. She was hooked on helping others. tion that aids the homeless. CAC members cook ease and I’m happy to say that I know so many The Community Action Corps (CAC) is a dinner for these individuals, families and others wonderful people who work tirelessly to cure it.” student-run community service organization in need. Cornell hopes to be a Generic Counselor at on campus. Members of CAC dedicate themIn the past, the club has been involved in Roswell one day. selves to enriching and enhancing the education of UB students through active involvement in Habitat for Humanity and other rebuilding CAC does not focus its work locally all the volunteer and community service activities both causes in the Buffalo area. time. The club is also involved in several interon and off campus. CAC prides itself for being CAC also works to bring cheer to hospitals national causes. Members work to raise awarea hands-on club. through hosting Halloween and Easter parties ness about the world water crisis – the lack of “I believe in allowing the members of the club for children at Roswell Park Cancer Institute accessible clean water throughout the world – by to let their passions be seen in the community,” and making Valentine’s Day and Christmas participating in World Water Day. Additionally, said Cornell, the president of CAC. “If I have a cards for patients undergoing treatment there. the club holds a yearly benefit for the women member dedicated to creating a greener tomor- The club also sponsors an on-campus American of Nicaragua to promote their entrepreneurial row, we create an event for that. Same thing for a Red Cross blood drive, plants trees in Delaware endeavors. member who has a passion for cancer research. Park and participates in numerous park and river CAC also participates in Student Association Community service is boring and menial unless clean-ups in the surrounding area. and UB-sponsored events like UB Gettin’ Dirty, you have a passion and strive to make the world Roswell Park is another organization Cornell UB A Good Neighbor, Relay for Life, Saturdays a better place. I really push the UB students to feels passionate about. of Service and the Linda Yalem Run. find that passion between themselves and their “Everyone knows someone who has been afThe club fundraises in order to provide moncommunity.” fected by cancer,” Cornell said. “It’s a terrible dis- etary donations to organizations they don’t perCAC is extremely active in the Buffalo community, both on campus and in the surrounding area, according to Cornell. The club likes to work in the area because it helps connect students to the causes of their choice. Still, some members do not cater their services to a specific set of people in a certain area. Buffalo’s Best BBQ! CAC helps whatever needs to be helped, Cornell said. CAC was first founded in the ’60s and membership was considered a prestigious honor. Members received course credit for being involved. Today, membership is strictly on a volunteer basis, and those involved participate because they want to change lives in their comGreat Happy Hour and munity. Game Day Specials Cornell is personally driven to volunteer for Planned Parenthood. “When people hear about them, they imme- Huge Beer Selection! Over 90 bottles & 12 draft! diately think abortion,” Cornell said. “However, that is less than 5 percent of their services. I love how passionate they are about keeping the com- Drop‐off Catering for munity safe from STIs, as well as educating them Any Event! about sexuality and safe sex along the way.” CAC also focuses on the homelessness and 41 Virginia housing situation in the area. In the Place The club works with Compass House, which Heart provides housing for runaway and homeless 716‐887‐2971 adolescents; Ronald McDonald House, a global fatbobs.com of organization that provides housing for children Allentown! and their families undergoing medical treatment in Buffalo; and Porter House, another organiza-

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Professor Carole Emberton wants Americans to consider the “hidden history” of the Second Amendment. Emberton, an assistant professor of history, specializes in the Second Amendment and the understanding of guns in the United States. The Second Amendment as it functioned when it was created during the late 1780s is a far cry from the way present-day Americans view it, she said. In the late 18th century, Southern slaveholders were in favor of the amendment because they worried Congress would employ local militias to fight Native Americans and the British around the country and in Canada, Emberton said. Slaveholders needed the Second Amendment to keep local militias nearby, so they could prevent slave insurrections, according to Emberton. “In those debates, it was not about an individual’s right to have a firearm, but who was going to have control of these state militias,” Emberton said. “Today, when people talk about the Second Amendment the clause about the militia [is ignored] and it’s really about the right to bear arms.”

With the rise in the production of guns after the Civil War explained, the gun industry used its wealth to donate to the political process, Emberton. The gun industry is an obstacle when it comes to reformation. The political system is so dependent upon money, and the gun industry is incredibly wealthy, Emberton said. The gun rights lobby has thus far been effective in “shutting down any talk or entertaining of the possibility of any sort of combination of gun laws and better mental health treatment,” she said. Emberton believes this is one reason there hasn’t been a conversation about how to prevent gun violence and protect citizens. She said guns did not always have the “protected, exalted status” they have in present-day America. During the 19th century, there was a multitude of regulatory measures on types of firearms and ammunitions at the state and local level. In the early 19th century, there were no automatic weapons, so guns did not pose the same public safety risk, Emberton said. As someone who works in an education environment that has increasingly seen mass shootings occur, Emberton hopes, as horrible as they have been, they will spark a breaking point in our political culture. “We can now open things up for discussion and try to think about reasonable ways that we can try to deal with this problem because there is a problem,” Emberton said.

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Professor Steven Dubovsky thinks President Obama’s proposals are a superficial attempt at protecting citizens from unpredictable violence. Dubovsky, chairman of the psychiatry department at UB’s School of Medicine, agrees a national dialogue about the high murder rate can save lives. Dubovsky is an expert on disaster response, extreme events and psychiatric illness, like posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He referred to Obama’s proposals as “cotton candy” legislation. “You can prepare it really quickly … and it seems to taste really good at first and all you get from it is an upset stomach and some cavities,”

Dubovsky said. “It’s a very poorly thought-out scheme, but it is obviously popular with his political supporters.” Dubovsky does not think Obama’s proposals will help limit mass shootings. Tougher gun laws have no evidence of effectiveness, according to Dubovsky. One thing that will save lives, he believes, is looking at how people obtain a higher level of respect and appreciation for each other. The problem, Dubovsky believes, is the violent culture in the United States modeled through national, regional and local leaders. He believes this sets a national tone of not valuing other people and their opinions. It attributes to individuals viewing others as “lower” than them. This is the attitude of many people within our society, according to Dubovsky. “If you feel like you’ve been wronged, like this ex-cop running around shooting other policemen in California, or if you feel you’ve been mistreated or this woman on trail now for murdering her boyfriend and you feel that treated you badly, then it’s OK to kill them because they are not as good as you are,” Dubovsky said. This is a widespread problem with the country’s culture, Dubovsky believes, and if it is not addressed, violence will not stop and “banning a few rifles or magazines won’t matter.” But the violence problem is not caused by mental illness in any way, shape or form, Dubovsky said. “These are silly ideas that don’t get at the core issue, which is, No. 1, you don’t need a gun to kill people, and secondly, people who are committing these horrible acts, not out of mental illness, not because of access to guns, but because we as a society are doing multiple things to encourage it, not discourage it,” Dubovsky said. Dubovsky believes mental health patients like individuals with PTSD are unwarrantedly scapegoated as the cause for violence, and he strongly disagrees with background checking for mental illness. “Now if you want to do a background check for anyone with a mental illness, what do you mean by that? Do you mean anyone who has been anxious? Anyone who has been depressed?” Dubovsky said. “You start adding psychiatric illness to those background checks … you won’t find anybody … that has a high risk of violence necessarily.” Dubovsky believes instead of psychiatric illnesses, background checks should look for violent behaviors like restraining orders, drunk driving and child abuse.

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Amanda Nickerson believes the proposed laws are moving in the right path toward curbing mass shootings. Nickerson, director of the Alberti Center for Bullying and Abuse Prevention, believes a decrease in violence starts by working with kids from a young age. She thinks it should be done by teaching skills not consistent with violence in order to create a generation that engages in non-violent behavior. She believes Obama’s proposals make sense and is hopeful they will save lives. But Nickerson is not completely sold on the idea because she believes it is unlikely to contribute to a steep drop in violence in the United States. “Mass shootings, in particular school shootings, are so rare [that] trying to assess what is going to actually change those is difficult to do,” Nickerson said. In the early 2000s, an FBI report revealed two-thirds of school shooters were chronically bullied, according to Nickerson. However, she points out most victims of bullying do not become violent but become depressed or anxious. She notes there should also be a concern with physical security in schools – making sure there is ample supervision and people prohibiting access to schools for people who shouldn’t be there. Nickerson said putting more guns in schools by adding armed guards, and especially arming teachers, could have dangerous outcomes, but she sees a place for school resource officers. “Having someone that is well-trained, who might also be armed and has a role in the school and is part of a comprehensive crisis team in the school is a good idea,” Nickerson said. Nickerson was pleased with the comprehensiveness of Obama’s proposals because it dealt with gun control, mental health issues, threat assessment and crisis preparedness in schools.

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I dreamed a dream KIERA MEDVED Staff Writer

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Buffalo is home to various theater programs that work with students in both theatrical and technical facets. In the above photo, cast members practice for Forgiving John Lennon.

All of Buffalo’s a stage KIERA MEDVED Staff Writer The essence of theater in Buffalo is more than just putting on an amazing show, but instead inspiring young artists to pursue their work in theater. In some circles, there is something about Buffalo that makes it more than just wings, sports and snow. To thousands of people, Buffalo is synonymous with a flourishing theater community. Buffalo is home to two dozen theaters and various universities. Of those, five offer a theater program to undergraduate students, including Buffalo State College, Niagara University (NU) and UB. Allison Monaco, 20, a senior theater major at Buffalo State College, transferred from Rochester Institute for Technology (RIT) to pursue her love for theater. “I took a few theater classes at RIT. I stage managed, acted, directed; I had these kind of crazy, whacky professors,” Monaco said. “They told me if it’s something I loved, it’s something I should pursue – and so I did!”

Monaco faced the fears of pursuing something different and of disappointing her family members who had graduated from RIT before her. She worried she would be letting her mother down by choosing to get a bachelor’s degree in theater instead. “It was the right decision, but a very tough decision,” Monaco said. “I had my entire desk covered in Post-its with every school that had a theater department, a number for that school and an email address. I made some calls. I did the research.” During her search, Monaco remembered attending a performance of Dog Sees God at Buffalo State College when she was in high school. Her memory of watching the show helped in her decision of which school to attend. “I remembered how I felt when I saw that show and I thought, ‘That’s the school I want to go to,’” she said. Buffalo State offers a theater program that balances work in both technical and performance work. Donn Youngstrom, chair of the school’s Theater Department, happily voiced his pride for his students. Continued on page 12

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Forgiving John Lennon explores genuineness and the human connection LISA DE LA TORRE Asst. Arts Editor If William Missouri Downs had been a bit older and more familiar with New York City, he probably would not have gotten lost on that fateful night 33 years ago. But he was young and learning, and upon returning from one of his first playwriting lessons, he took the wrong train home and found himself meandering down Central Park West by himself. When he reached the famous Dakota apartment building, his eyes lingered on the ambulances and crowds of crying people, but it took him several blocks to realize he had just walked through the assassination of John Lennon. Starting tonight and continuing through March 7, UB’s Department of Theatre and Dance will be presenting Downs’ play Forgiving John Lennon, a comedic drama about political correctness, genuine understanding and the situations that occur when the two don’t necessarily coincide. The play revolves around married professors Joseph and Katie, played by sophomore theater performance major Michael Dempsey and sophomore chemical engineering and theater performance major Ashley Wurtz, respectively. Both professors carry themselves with a sense of pride – they believe themselves to be open-minded, freethinking souls who can do no wrong. The couple works at a small liberal arts college, and in an attempt to impress their superiors, they invite Somalian poet Asma to read poetry and give a keynote speech – “for the students’ benefit.” But upon entering their house, Asma, played by freshman theater performance major Catherine Espinal, can immediately tell their sense of cultural understanding is skewed. The conversation that ensues between the couple and Asma reveals to the characters and the audience that the professors’ motives in hosting Asma may not have been as altruistic as expected, and they’re more naive than they’d like to think. Though Forgiving John Lennon doesn’t have much to do with the actual Beatle himself, the title is influenced from the Pope’s absolution of Lennon after his infamous statement that the Beatles were “bigger than Jesus,” according to Downs.

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UB professor Stephen McKinley Henderson prepares his student cast for the premiere of Forgiving John Lennon, written by William Missouri Downs.

According to Downs, people have molded Lennon’s ideas and lyrics – such as those of “Imagine,” which are discussed in the play – for their own benefit, detracting their meaning in the process. The element of fake understanding versus genuine understanding is one of the biggest themes of the play. “We operate sometimes that all cultures, all ideas are equal and should be given the same amount of respect and the same amount of consideration,” Downs said. “For example, college professors often have to give both sides of the argument, and that’s not always a good idea because sometimes one of the sides is wrong.” The couple’s clumsily desperate attempts to appease Asma reflect a common pattern in society in which people try to appear learned in an attempt to appear respectful, even though these attempts might actually fail. “I think it’s really about how there’s such a dichotomy that exists within today’s society of trying so hard to be politically correct and pleasing everyone … and really missing the level of human understanding,” Wurtz said. “It’s not really about religion. It’s not really about politics. It’s about human connection and I think sometimes we lose that. I think this play’s a good reminder.”

Renowned actor and director Stephen McKinley Henderson (Lincoln) is directing Forgiving John Lennon, a fact that many of the students were excited about during the casting process. This is his first time directing the show, although he himself took part in a reading of the play years ago, where he originally met Downs. Henderson is confident the students acting in Forgiving John Lennon, but he acknowledges the challenges that a drama of this nature presents. “It’s a very challenging play because it’s people in a room talking about things that matter to them,” Henderson said. “There’s not a lot of action. There’s not any kind of risqué sexual stuff or anything like that, or any wild costumes. It’s really a drama. I’m really glad to have been a part of this because I see these young people who are taking on some really challenging roles are giving it 100 percent.” To add pressure to the actors, unlike in many other productions that are put on by the Department of Theatre and Dance, the playwright will actually be in the audience on opening night. However, Henderson isn’t concerned, as Downs is a professor himself and Henderson believes his students are sufficiently prepared.

Junior theater performance major Giancarlo Gioia, who plays the delivery man, attributes his sense of preparation to the help he’s received from his director and the research he’s done for his part. “Working with Steve, first of all, was just breathtaking, and to know that [Downs] will be here on Wednesday made it a lot more pressing that we did know all the facts,” Gioia said. “I feel like I’m coming out of this experience with a greater understanding of what the craft really is and how to utilize every bit of the script for the purposes of the play.” Gioia isn’t the only one who put in time researching in order to nail his part. Much of the subject matter in the play deals with being Muslim and people’s differing views on the traditions and practices of Islam. Espinal isn’t Muslim herself, so she sought the help of the Muslim Student Association in order to ensure she portrayed Asma accurately and respectfully. “They really embraced [Espinal] and helped her with pronunciation of certain words and knowledge of and how to wrap the Hijab,” Henderson said. “They’ve been very helpful and hands on, student to student … they’re very supportive of the efforts to tell the story.” Forgiving John Lennon is a “serious comedy” that deals with sensitive topics, but the entire cast and crew has worked hard to ensure that audiences understand the story as it was meant to be told and not as an attack on religion or people’s beliefs. According to senior theater design and technology student Ross Juzdowski, the set – Joseph and Katie’s living room – was not only to maximize the audience’s ability to see but to give them a subtle yet deeper look into the couple’s personalities. It features just one room in their house and the main door in order to give the impression that the audience, like Asma, is only allowed to see the part of the couple’s life that they’re comfortable with outsiders viewing. While opening night is completely sold out, tickets are still available at $10 for students and seniors and $20 for the general public. The show will take place in the Center For the Arts’ Black Box Theatre at 7:30 p.m. from Feb. 22 to March 2 and 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 3. Email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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Continued from page 3: More than a test score The measure of a man is not determined by a spot on a 0 to 2400 scale, but with standardized tests, school is where testing rules and only the good testers matter. Exams like the SAT only measure a few key components: math, reading comprehension and writing, which is rarely even looked at by universities. What it can’t measure, according to education theorist Bill Ayers, is “initiative, creativity, imagination, conceptual thinking, curiosity, effort, irony, judgment, commitment, nuance, good will, ethical reflection or a host of other valuable dispositions and attributes.” Instead, it measures “the least interesting and least significant aspects of learning.” But an additional question to ask is if the tests add anything significant to what admissions officers already know about applicants, and that all depends on a case-to-case basis. Imagine you have two students – one who does great

in school but is a poor test taker, and therefore does not do well on the standardized tests, and the other whose grades aren’t up to par for whatever reason but does phenomenally on the standardized tests. Can you, without a question or a doubt, pick who should be admitted? Instead of eliminating standardized testing (unless it’s completely necessary), it’s imperative our educators and the Department of Education work together to create a new, fair system that focuses on teacher evaluations in the appropriate context and doesn’t teach for the tests. Perhaps the focus can be shifted to the test subjects that correspond most with the student’s major. Is that even a possible goal? Difficult to tell. But the system is too broken to keep it as is and important enough not to eliminate it all together. Email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

Continued from page 10: All of Buffalo’s a stage “Some of these kids are the first in their family to go to college,” Youngstrom said. “They’re very truthful and hard-working students – they’re raw and honest.” About 90 percent of his students are on an acting track in the department, according to Youngstrom. In addition to acting, there is a critical literature track and a design track, as well. Andy Anselmo, a former singer and voice teacher at Buffalo State, gives a yearly grant in order for the college to produce a musical each year. The department is co-produced with student-run production company Casting Hall, which receives money from the United Student Government and from within its own foundation. This way, the students have input into what shows are being done each season. Students at Buff State have the opportunity to perform, write, design and critique several times during the academic year. The college even has a special part of the day on Tuesdays and Thursdays, called Bengal Pause, when no classes are held and students have time to study and eat. During this break, many students find the opportunity to perform short plays or scenes. It can be an opportunity for the students to do what they love to do, regardless of the curriculum. NU also has its own eclectic theater program. “We offer a conservative approach to actor training within a liberal arts curriculum,” said Sharon Watkinson, professor and chair in the Department of Theatre & Fine Arts, in a phone interview. Watkinson has been teaching at Niagara University for over 40 years. “Every day, our students are in an acting class, diction class, voice class,” she said. “Our students come out with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts [BFA] degree and a bachelor’s degree. It’s a full liberal arts curriculum and intensive training.” NU theater students are in class approximately 15 hours a week, but they rehearse 2124 hours a week. Last year, the average freshman in the program took a Theatre 101 class, which includes three hours of acting, three hours of dance movement and three hours of voice or singing class. This semester, NU will be performing the musical Into the Woods, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Watkinson will fulfill the role of the narrator, at the request of the director, Doug Zschiegner. She will be one of a few professors to participate. “It’s wonderful to share the students’ life for a period of time,” Watkinson said. “With rehearsals, class, and this and that – you forget their lives. This helps me get back in touch with the students. It’s a very humanizing thing.” The University at Buffalo’s own theater department is separated by interest. Students have the option of pursuing concentrations in theater performance, theater design and technology, musical theater and dance.

Although there are separations between the sub-departments, there are numerous opportunities for students to take a class in an unfamiliar subject. In fact, students are required to take classes outside of their concentration in order for a broader understanding of the different facets of theater. Former UB student Dyan Burlingame, who is now a professor in the Theater Design and Technology Department, mentors the design students. “The theatrical design and production program here is unique because of our approach in training scenographers,” Burlingame said. “Our students are exposed to all areas of design and production. A declaration of specialty is not required, and an exploration of multiple design and technology areas is encouraged.” Burlingame graduated from UB in 2004 from the same program she now teaches. “It’s an experience I imagine not many have had,” Burlingame said. “I consider it a privilege to be in this position, now working alongside former mentors. Teaching the craft and art that I love to a whole new generation of UB students is exciting, challenging, nostalgic, rewarding and eye-opening.” Wednesday night, in the Black Box Theatre in the CFA, UB will premiere Forgiving John Lennon, a sold-out show directed by Stephen McKinley Henderson featuring an all-UB cast.

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Carbon monoxide victims meet with Student Affairs Students still waiting for answers on why they were poisoned LISA KHOURY Senior News Editor Freshmen roommates Neil Campbell, Bennett Sciacca and Tijo Mathew – who were poisoned with carbon monoxide in their Richmond Quad dorm last week – met with a Student Affairs official on Friday and Monday. Colleen Connolly, a Student Affairs student support coordinator, had individual meetings with Campbell and Sciacca on Friday and Mathew on Monday. Her goal was to check how they were doing and ask if they needed anything after being hospitalized on Feb. 17. Campbell, an exercise science major, said Connolly didn’t ask him any questions outside of “what happened” the night he was poisoned. He said Connolly asked his roommates if they needed help filling out medical insurance forms to get reimbursed by UB in their individual meetings, but she didn’t ask Campbell and he didn’t bring it up. “All she did was ask us what happened,” Campbell said about his 20-minute talk with Connolly. “I mean, if [UB] would answer some questions like what actually happened, then I feel like that would be good enough for me.” Campbell, Sciacca and Mathew are currently filling out the forms, which will determine if UB will reimburse them. Campbell, whose carbon monoxide level reached over 26 times the normal level, said he and his roommates are going to talk to someone at UB this week to ask how exactly Richmond’s two carbon monoxide detectors could have gone missing, which caused them to almost die. He said if he and Mathew hadn’t driven themselves to the hospital after feeling light headed, numb and “drunk,” they “probably would not have woken up the next morning.” Some victims, including Campbell and Sciacca, were unsatisfied with UB’s response to the gas leak. Sciacca said he expected a more personal outreach, like an offer to cover the victims’ hospital bill.

“Everything I’ve read so far has said either the detectors in the room were missing or didn’t work,” Campbell said. “I’m just wondering why they wouldn’t work if carbon monoxide levels were so high. Just that, I guess, is my main question.” UB went “above and beyond the requirements of the code by adding more detectors,” Vice President for University Communications Joseph Brennan said. In Richmond, UB replaced the missing plug-in models in the residence rooms on the first floor with wall-mounted battery-operated models. The university also added six detectors in the corridors on the third, fourth and fifth floors. In addition, there are now more detectors in other residence halls with natural gas-fired boilers, which aren’t required by law. Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) staff are conducting inspections of the detectors that are located in common areas of residence halls to make sure that they are present and working once per week. UB’s next project will be putting hardwired carbon monoxide detectors in every residence hall. By New York State law, two carbon monoxide detectors had to be on the ground floor of Richmond Quad, where the boiler that caused the gas leak is located. On Sunday night, after 10 students became ill and five of them went to the hospital – including Campbell, Sciacca and Mathew – the two plug-in detectors were missing. However, UB passed the New York State Office of Fire Prevention and Control inspection in October, which means the detectors were present, according to Director of Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) Joseph Raab. Campbell said one of his main questions is: “Why did this happen if [UB] passed fire code?” The fire inspector verbally informed UB there weren’t violations in Richmond Quad, and Raab said he will provide The Spectrum with the certificate of compliance for the Fall 2012 NY state fire inspection when he gets it. Email: news@ubspectrum.com

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