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UB community debates holidays in jeopardy RACHEL RAIMONDI Asst. News Editor A friend wrote “Happy Rosh Hashanah, Julie” on the whiteboard in her dorm at Buffalo State College. Another student approached Julie and said accusingly, “So, you don’t believe in Jesus.” As a freshman adjusting to life at a university that did not recognize Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Julie Rockmaker, now a social worker in UB’s School of Dental Medicine, felt unwelcome to not only practice her faith but also be at the school. “That was enough to intimidate me for four years never to ask a professor if I could have off for Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur,” she said. More than 10 years later, Rockmaker remembers the incident every holiday season. On Tuesday, she told her story at the Faculty Senate meeting in which UB community members debated the university’s recognition of Jewish holidays and Labor Day. Fewer than half of the Faculty Senate members attended the meeting, forcing the organization to adjourn without voting on the issue “Discrimination is out there,” Rockmaker said adamantly. William Baumer, a professor of philosophy and member of the Calendar Committee and Faculty Senate Executive Board, argued that having Jewish holidays off from university activities is discrimination, as well. In 2002, Baumer motioned to approve the proposed academic calendar that included the Jewish holidays, according to Faculty Senate minutes.
“I think in retrospect that was an error and I point out that we are in the unhappy position of discriminating in favor of one particular religious group and we do not do that for any other religious group or belief at all,” Baumer said. He suggested the Faculty Senate practice “non-discrimination” by removing all religious holidays from the academic calendar. However, Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashannah are exceptions because Jewish faith prohibits attending work or school, whereas Christian faith requires attending Mass, said Michael Ryan, former vice provost for Undergraduate Education, to The Spectrum in March 2010. Some students suggest the issue is larger than Rosh Hoshanah and Yom Kippur. Ilana Saffeir, a sophomore occupational therapy major, believes Saturday exams should no longer be scheduled as they conflict with Shabbat. Saffeir said she chose UB over a private school because of the university’s observance of the holidays and the larger Jewish community. However, last year, one of Saffeir’s professors refused to honor the tradition of not using electronics or modern transportation during the holy days. Saffeir was unable to get from North to South Campus and missed her class. Her grades were
docked even though she told the professor in advance, she said. “What is the difference between a tenured professor and a terrorist?” joked Elias Kaufman, an associate professor emeritus in the School of Dental Medicine. “The answer is you can sometimes negotiate with a terrorist,” he said. Kaufman believes although the university may observe the holidays in question, not all professors will follow suit. Since joining UB’s faculty in 1966, Kaufman said he has witnessed several “overt as well as covert violations” of the policies. Departments decided to stay open if the adversely affected population was small. Professors still gave exams on holidays. Faculty went unpunished, he said. “The university did nothing,” Kaufman said. Kaufman wonders how the policy and failure to adhere
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to it would be handled after the change. Cindy Konovitz, assistant dean of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, attended the meeting as a trained mediator and hoped to create a compromise that fulfilled the state’s education requirements and appeased the debaters. Continued on page 6
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Professor William Baumer argues in favor of removing Jewish holidays from the academic calendar at the Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday.
SAM FERNANDO Asst. News Editor While Student Association President Travis Nemmer admits it isn’t the “sexiest issue,” he thinks it’s the most important change being made under his administration. On Feb. 17, Nemmer made a proposal to the SA Senate to turn SA into a not-for-profit organization. The proposal was overwhelmingly supported by the Senate, which approved it with 13 senators voting for it and two abstaining. Nemmer worked with SA attorney Joshua Korman to produce the document outlining how SA would benefit from incorporation and how to start the process. The main purposes for becoming a not-for-profit is to strengthen liability protection, establish an independent identity and streamline finances, according to Nemmer. He said he didn’t need Senate’s approval but wanted its support. The Senate also voted to make the proposal a referendum issue, which means the student body will vote on whether to incorporate SA during the upcoming election. The referendum proposal was approved with 14-0-1 vote. If the student body votes to approve incorporation, SA will officially become the Student Association, Inc., at the end of spring 2014 semester. Senate Chair Jonathan Grunin said the approval from the Senate was largely based on the liability issue. “The senators felt that full liability upon the executive board was one, unnecessary and two, unfair,” Grunin said. “God forbid anything happens to the organization that is not their fault, the executive board as individuals should not be held liable for million-dollar lawsuits.” Continued on page 6
Bulls host annual pro day at Ralph Wilson Stadium For senior OLB, exposure Means chance of a lifetime AARON MANSFIELD Editor in Chief Western New York native Steven Means grew up a Buffalo Bills fan. After four years on the gridiron for the University at Buffalo Bulls, Means has a chance to achieve his dream of reaching the NFL. On Tuesday afternoon, the senior flaunted his athletic prowess in front of 18 NFL teams in the Bills’ practice facility. Twenty-one scouts watched, took notes and recorded iPad videos as Means worked out alongside seven other participants: fellow UB seniors Gokhan Ozkan and Willie Moseley, former UB punter Jacob Schum, former UB basketball player Byron Mulkey, Albany’s Jon Morgan, Buffalo State’s Pasquale Vacchio and Alfred University’s Jon Jackson. Ten NFL teams made the trip to Buffalo last year for the annual pro day. Means said the eight-team increase says a lot about UB’s football program.
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Senior defensive end Steven Means (left photo) and former UB basketball player Byron Mulkey (right) worked out alongside six other football players for 21 scouts from 18 NFL teams at UB’s annual pro day in Orchard Park.
“It says people are looking now,” said Means, who had 77 tackles, 6.5 sacks and three blocked kicks in his final year. “They aren’t treating us as a joke. This program is getting bigger and bigger … Confidence is going to be built in this program.” Three UB alumni – James Starks (Green Bay), Trevor Scott (New England) and Josh Thomas (Carolina) – are currently in the NFL, and
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a handful are between teams. Head coach Jeff Quinn said his team’s tough 2012 schedule helped this year’s players get exposure. “We play great competition, the Georgias, UConns and Pitts,” he said. “We’re playing against some of the best talent in the country, and our kids have really proven they can handle their own.”
Means and Moseley have been preparing for the draft at Proformance Sports Training in the Northtown Center (former Pepsi Center) across from North Campus. Means, a freak athlete who starred in track and field and basketball at the local Grover Cleveland High School (now International Prep), is a rare physical specimen. At 6-foot-
4, 257 pounds, Means fits the mold for an ideal outside linebacker. He said scouts have been impressed with how well he moves; Means ran an estimated 4.6-second 40-yard dash, though he was shooting for a 4.58. He also put up over 20 reps on the bench press (225 pounds). Continued on page 6
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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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Parents just don’t understand
Post-Newtown paranoia is unproductive and harmful to reform
In the world’s worst edition of misheard lyrics, we have a school receptionist and one of the most famous television theme songs of all time. Last Thursday in Beaver County, Penn., a receptionist at a local eye doctor’s office called 19-yearold Travis Clawson to remind him of his appointment. When she was connected to his voicemail, terror ensued and police were contacted. A quick confirmation turned into a district-wide terror as schools across the county were sent into lockdown for a half hour until Clawson was located, who was then detained for three hours. What deadly and dangerous message could have possibly sent the town into such disarray? A recording of Clawson singing Will Smith’s “Fresh Prince of Bel Air.” When the receptionist called Clawson and heard his rendition of a song that could easily be on the American citizenship test, she didn’t hear the lyric as “Shooting some b-ball outside of the school;” she heard “Shooting some people outside of the school.” An isolated incident would be ridiculous enough, but there have been a slew of post-Newtown reports in the last two months. A 6-year-old in Maryland who made a gun gesture at a classmate with his hand and said “pow,” a couple of first-graders in the same state playing cops and robbers and a Philadelphia fifth grader carrying a piece of paper that resembled a gun were all suspended. These three incidents are just part of a long line. Since the Dec. 14 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which resulted in the death of 20 children and seven adults, the country has been in a state of constant caution. Immediately following, school security and firearms reform became a focal point in politics. Our own state of New York was the first to push for and pass tougher gun laws when Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed NY SAFE into law on Jan. 15 with stricter national restrictions following soon after. These cautious but smart moves have been vital to make sure those children and teachers didn’t die in vain. But there’s a difference between being cautious and being paranoid, and as a country, we have made that dangerous transition. Cities like Detroit and Chicago, which set a new homicide record in January as the rate continues to rise (535 people were murdered in Chicago
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last year, up from 433 the year before), get the attention for being constantly violent, but rural Newtown, Conn. triggered a wave of panic and brought a very controversial, personal and heated argument into the national spotlight. Where there are children involved, it’s a new situation, a whole new level of alertness. Each school is looking at one another to see what its next move should be. Each parent is questioning if his or her child is safe, and each teacher is wondering what he or she needs to do to protect those children. How should a situation like a potential threat be handled? How should the student or students be dealt with? Fear drives society. We need to believe we and the people around us are safe, and it causes some people to report the smallest incidents the same way it causes others to buy guns. That same concept of fear drives people to act irrationally during that moment of vulnerability, passing more fear off onto the next person. The children who actually understand the magnitude of the tragedy are few and far between, however. Look back to a tragedy from when you were younger (Sept. 11, 2001 is a good place to
start if you’re in the 18-25 age group) and recall your actual comprehension of the subject. Most of these cases have been young children, and by pulling them out of school for every possible episode, what is that teaching them? Nothing – it’s confusing them if you’re not explaining anything to them. If you’re that worried as parents or teachers or concerned townies, then do what you’re supposed to be doing, whether that means drills, meetings, lessons, whatever, instead of overcompensating every time some 6-year-old plays with a water pistol. What happened at Sandy Hook could happen anywhere – from a church in Fort Worth, Texas to a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. But if we live with the mentality that every little joke or every possible situation could end in catastrophe, then we are only going to go backward. Email: editorial@ubspectrum.com
The Height of the problem REBECCA BRATEK Managing Editor What will it take to get a response? What will it take for students, faculty and, most importantly, the administration to pay attention to what’s right in front of their eyes? I walked into the UB Council meeting on Monday morning expecting to hear at least one council member ask President Tripathi and Dennis Black about The Spectrum’s latest press. I thought maybe, just maybe, the principal oversight of the administration – the advisory body that is supposed to keep an eye on everything the senior officers of this university do and how it affects students – would care for once about what is happening outside UB’s door. If students can’t get the administration to pay attention to problems in the University Heights, surely a group of some of the most powerful men and women in Western New York could convince them. Instead, it was yet another hour of fancy PowerPoint slides, empty plans and more clichés about UB 2020 than I can count. Are you satisfied? I was almost certain the Heights had to be mentioned in the meeting. After all, Black – the vice president for University Life and Services who was quoted saying UB is “not in the protection business” in last Monday’s “The Heights of Fear” – and Tripathi – who wrote an ambiguous response to all of the press, entitled “Enriching Our Communities” – were present and presented during the meeting. Not one council member, when given the opportunity, asked Black or Tripathi about their respective comments. And Tripathi only could discuss how
“Realizing UB 2020” has advanced in the vaguest terms possible. Black even gave a presentation about “student life and satisfaction.” Am I naïve for thinking safety in the Heights falls under that topic? Black didn’t think it was worth mentioning. Instead, he discussed a SUNY survey in which a majority of 1,727 UB students polled said they were dissatisfied with parking, the bookstore and the student newspaper. The survey, administered every three years by SUNY Institutional Research, is given to 75,000 undergraduate students across SUNY’s 64 campuses, including the four university centers – UB, Stony Brook, Albany and Binghamton. The information collected, in turn, is released to the home campuses to support “planning and processes, including enrollment planning, Mission Review, budget allocation, teacher education, SUNY’s Master Plan and campus assessment,” according to SUNY’s website. According to Black, the survey helps Student Life gauge level of participation (how many students are using campus services), satisfaction (the degree to which they get fulfilled by the services) and impact (does it move students toward their prize or degree?). And according to results, Black said during the meeting, UB ranks highest in SUNY in overall school satisfaction, including 22 services provided to students. UB is also “on par” with the other university centers and above the other four-year institutions with students’ sense of safety on campus, Black said. But the lack of parking, overpriced bookstore and the student newspaper – which is completely detached from the university, both financially and operationally – are the only issues students see on campus?
Maybe I’m missing the point. God knows parking is awful on campus – my 20-minute search for a spot every morning proves that – and I haven’t willingly bought a book from the bookstore since my freshman year days. But The Spectrum, completely autonomous and without a formal journalism major to back up five national awards in the past two years, is clearly doing something wrong. And safety on campus isn’t a problem? I forgot University Heights is off campus and therefore doesn’t exist in the university’s eyes. How silly of me. Students: we’ve heard your feedback on the Heights. You’ve written us letters, left comments on articles on our website and stopped in our office to voice your concerns. You’ve seen Tripathi’s response on our front page. And, yet, the administration and the higher-ups who govern UB’s most senior officers can’t even acknowledge something completely in their sights and instead choose to turn a blind eye. I want to believe the council members are more than a bunch of rich people concerned with stuffing their pockets as UB grows. On Monday afternoon, I sent our reporting, local news station WIVB’s reporting and Tripathi’s letter to the UB Council via the email form on its website. I asked if someone – anyone – on the council had noticed the issues and if there is any sort of response at one of the highest levels of this university. To those of you reading this, and if you care as much as we’ve seen this past week, I urge you to do the same. Don’t be content with silence. Email: rebecca.bratek@ubspectrum.com
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UB awarded for proposals in sustainability competition JOHN NASSIVERA Staff Writer Two departments at UB submitted winning proposals in the first inaugural Small Grant Sustainability Competition, bringing a combined $10,144 in winnings back to UB. The competition was set up by the SUNY Office of Sustainability as part of its goal of a statewide use of clean energy. Competitors included Geneseo, Oswego and Stony Brook University. The competition results were announced on Feb. 7. It was designed to increase the number of faculty and students working together to promote sustainability and reduce on-campus usage of energy, according to the SUNY website. UB’s winning proposals were about university traffic control and houses run by solar energy. One of the proposals, “Monitoring Event Traffic to Increase Efficiency,” was developed by Qing He, an assistant professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering and his students Nan Ding and Ming Mi, both second-year graduate engineering students. This project was designed to improve traffic flow during UB’s large special events, like football games and concerts. They were awarded $4,069, which will go toward the University Police in assisting with this project, as well as toward the further research and development that will continue in fall 2013. With the help of UPD, He and his students developed a traffic simulation program, which measured the data collected from different UB events that monitor how the police regulate the flow of cars in the streets, as well as in and out of parking lots. The data collected is put in the program, which simulates how the police make decisions directing traffic and pedestrians. He said that the most difficult part in developing the project was determining how to model human decision-making. “Nobody has done this before, especially modeling police decision making,” He said. “We have a very limited number of police, so we need to recruit more police to join this project and to have the ideas – have the experience and to model the experience – how to control the traffic at intersections.”
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Professor Qing He sits with students Nan Ding and Ming Mi. The group worked on a traffic simulation propsal that won $4,069 in SUNY’s first Small Grant Sustainability Competition, an effort to reduce on-campus usage of energy.
The team began working in August and continued through the fall semester, sending their findings in for the competition on Oct. 31. Martha Bohm, an assistant professor of architecture, headed UB’s second winning project, “Solar Decathlon.” She worked with 18 of her students in her Set-Zero Buffalo class to design small, solar-powered houses for the Department of Energy’s 2015 Solar Decathlon. Bohm and her students won $6,075, which will provide funding for further research needed for the Solar Decathlon competition.
The created houses must be completely powered by solar energy, with no battery backup or alternate power source. Students are prohibited from building a house above a certain height, which can conflict with the use of solar energy of nearby houses. The house must also be able to produce as much energy as it can consume, which results in judges giving the house a higher score in competitions. Matt Geiger, a senior architecture major who was involved in the project, said different departments like marketing, communication and engineering are involved in designing the house because judges test the houses’ appliances and comfort levels.
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Bohm said this project is important for solving Buffalo’s electricity and housing issues. Buffalo is one of the top 10 most expensive cities in America, in terms of heating costs per year because of the area’s cold climate and most of the housing in Buffalo is old and insufficient according to Bohm. “We have a mismatch between the requirements of energy based on where we are, the cost of energy based on where we are, and the amount of people have where we are,” Bohm said. “It’s a really appropriate place to make houses that use far less energy and to find ways that you can make affordable houses, which are also affordable to run.” The team is experimenting with new ways to help people save money on energy cost, according to Steve Parks, a first-year architecture graduate student who worked on the project with Bohm. “[The houses] can get really expensive,” Parks said. “It’s really hard to create a solar panel house that is inexpensive, but if you do build it, the return is great.” Bohm, with the School of Architecture and Planning, is looking into several locations in Buffalo to develop houses that use efficient energy, like places near the waterfront, and in growing areas, like the UB Medical campus. Bohm and her students will continue their research throughout the spring and coming semester. Email: news@ubspectrum.com
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Reigniting passion for math and science UB students help make learning more hands-on, applicable for pre-collegiate students TONG MENG Staff Writer The only learning obstacle Lavone Rodolph encountered in high school was trying to combine what he learned in the classroom with real life, he said. Then, education was sometimes intangible beyond earning a grade. “If I was learning a concept in class, physics or chemistry, sometimes I didn’t know how I would apply it in my personal life or I didn’t know the benefit of learning it other than passing a test,” Rodolph said. Rodolph – now a Ph.D. student in computer science and engineering – is trying to enhance the learning experience for students at his alma mater, Hutchinson Central Technical High School in Downtown Buffalo, so they do not have to face the same problem he did. Rodolph works with the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Partnership (ISEP), a five-year program led by UB. Its primary focus is to improve experiential learning in science, technology, engineering and math fields (STEM) for students in Buffalo public schools. Research has shown a significant proportion – 33 percent – of children start to lose interest in science as young as age 8. By middle school, the percentage increases to almost half of those children, according to the National Center for STEM Elementary Education. ISEP aims to reignite a passion for science and other STEM subjects through offering middle and high school students a more hands-on, interdisciplinary approach to learning. This means planning field trips that bolster understanding of learning materials and designing laboratory experiments that illustrate abstract concepts. These activities make learning STEM subjects fun, an objective that Rodolph believes to be a top priority for ISEP. “The main goal is, No. 1, to make any STEM field fun at the middle school level,” Rodolph said. “That way, from the middle school level, they would want to pursue it at the high school level. And again, the goal at the high school level is to make it fun as well as challenging, so from the high school level, they can pursue a STEM field at the collegiate level.” As a graduate assistant, Rodolph has helped with coordinating teachers in numerous projects. These include teaching Android programming, instructing students on creating carbon-dioxide-powered racecars and planning a trip to the Buffalo Museum of Science to see how DNA can be used in forensic investigations. Since its inception in 2005, ISEP has expanded from two pilot schools to 12 highneeds middle and high schools. In 2011, it received $9.8 million funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Working
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Lavone Rodolph, a Ph.D. student, is working to enhance learning in science and math in local public schools with the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Partnership, a five-year program led by UB.
with three key partners – Buffalo Public Schools, Buffalo State College and the Buffalo Museum of Science – and other supporting partners like Roswell Park Cancer Institute, ISEP aims to achieve its goal of improving students’ learning experience by pooling resources. Teachers’ education is a big part of ISEP’s plan. To better prepare teachers in making STEM education more relevant for students, ISEP and its partners enable teachers to become students themselves. During the summers, teachers develop their professional skills by working with UB graduate students and acquire skills in research and inquiry teaching. During the school year, both graduates and undergraduates help teachers design and implement more hands-on learning in the classroom. “[ISEP’s] objective is to give the teachers a greater level of professionalization, increasing the education level of the teachers themselves, so they can bring their education back into schools and create lasting benefits for students,” said Phillip Tucciarone, a junior chemical engineering major. He has been involved in ISEP for three semesters and mainly designs and conducts “hands-on laboratory experiments” with coordinating teachers.
ISEP has been making progress since its creation, according to UB News Center. For instance, students in ISEP classrooms at Native American Magnet School, one of the two pilot schools, have been approximately “30 percent more likely than district peers to attain proficiency on the eighth grade state science exam,” according to UB News Center. Prior to making such improvement, Native American Magnet School was on the Schools Under Registration Review (SURR) list. SURR schools are low-performing schools that do not meet state standards, according to New York State Education Department’s website. The Native American Magnet School may be closed, said Joseph Gardella, director of ISEP and a John and Frances Larkin professor of chemistry at UB, in an email. Native American Magnet School was removed from the list in 2009, four years after it got involved in ISEP. Seeing the school’s academic improvement among eighth graders has been one of the many memorable experiences for Gardella. UB students like Darcy Regan – a senior chemical engineering major who has been involved in ISEP since her freshman year – share in this sense of gratification.
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“My favorite thing about being involved in ISEP is when the light bulb goes on in a student’s head after I answer one of their questions,” Regan said in an email. “It’s so rewarding knowing that I successfully helped someone, as slight as it may be.” However, Buffalo Public Schools and their students still face many challenges. Gardella cites “poverty, lack of family support, transient students and families, lack of resources [and] attendance” among many others. He also said these are nationwide issues. To Gardella, there are no simple or fast solutions to these issues – efforts to improve the education system take effect slowly. A community “split about the value of public education and expects immediate results to problems” will lead to an overwhelming number of “reform efforts” that may or may not work. In the end, it is about making learning more relevant and applicable to students’ lives and not, just as Rodolph said, to “pass a test.”
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Continued from page 1: UB community debates holidays in jeopardy “I understand the idea of a religious-neutral calendar, but the only way this would ever come about is to offer classes on Sundays as well as other days of the week, in addition to offering classes on Christmas Day, Easter and Jan. 1,” she said. The outcome will never please all the believers of all religions. However, UB must continue to celebrate diversity in order to maintain recruitment, Konovitz said. “What we’re discussing here today is an issue of tradition versus pragmatism,” said Bob Sawyer, a United University Professions member. “There is a cultural issue here and that is the encroachment of our work on our family time. What we fought for was tradition and that is recognizing the unions, recognizing Jewish people, recognizing all of these things and spending time with your family. That’s what it’s about and nothing else.” The proposals will go back to the Faculty Senate Executive Board to be discussed further. The members will vote on it in the near future, although a set date has yet to be determined, according to Faculty Senate Chair Ezra Zubrow. Email: news@ubspectrum.com
Continued from page 14: Bulls split weekend series Junior Jason Shkodnik and Hove also won their doubles match, 8-5. The Bulls gained four points from David, Ionsecu, Mehta and freshman Pablo Alvarez in singles play. All four clinched their victories in the first two sets and Nickell was very pleased with their performances. “All our players were tired, but the team showed a will to compete and came out firing,” Nickell said. The Bulls will need to start fast in the opening matches in order to compete in their difficult upcoming schedule. Nickell is confident the Bulls can beat their next Ivy League opponent of the season if they come out “firing on all cylinders” next weekend. The team travels to Brown (5-5) on Saturday for a 1 p.m. start. Email: sports@ubspectrum.com
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Continued from page 1: SA pushes to become not-for-profit Nemmer said the decision to change SA into a not-for-profit was not a result of last spring’s $300,000 scandal. The idea was in the works before former Treasurer Sikander Khan signed a contract involving a fraudulent company in 2012. Nemmer said he is following through with something that was started before his administration was elected. Nemmer said if SA was to incorporate, an individual on the executive board will not be held liable for something a part of the organization is responsible for; instead, the organization will be held accountable. “Given the growingly litigious climate, it is increasingly likely that SA, Sub-Board or some other student government will get sued,” Nemmer said. “The most important thing that can come out of this is that we establish our own corporate identity.” Senator Michael Calliste added if an individual acts “egregiously” or breaks the SA Constitution, that individual could be singled out and held accountable rather than SA as a whole. Senator Marissa Malone said in an email that incorporating will draw a line between SA and other student organizations because SA will no longer be “held personally responsible for anything out of [its] control.” Nemmer is also concerned with the “murky” line that exists between Sub-Board,
Inc. (SBI) and SA. Incorporating will define where “SBI ends and SA begins.” SBI is a not-for-profit corporation designed to enhance student life at UB, according to SBI President Chris Noll. It is the fiscal agent, as specified by the Mandatory Student Activity Fee Guidelines, which states the fiscal agent is responsible for the “disbursal of student activity fee funds.” SBI also provides undergraduate students with access to SBI’s services like Health Education and SBI Safety Services, Off-Campus Housing, Pharmacy, Legal Assistance and others. “As an officer of SBI, it’s not my place to comment on what the Student Association is doing internally,” Noll said in an email. “I can say that the Student Association obtaining not-for-profit status will have minimal impact on the relationship it currently has with SubBoard, Inc.” Senator Michael Calliste believes establishing independence from SBI is an important step in “getting rid of the unnecessary bureaucracy.” Calliste, who is also an active member in clubs like the College Democrats, Mock Trial and Model UN, said he has heard people complain about how difficult it is to push checks through SA. He said incorporating will streamline the finance process and make SA run more efficiently.
Nemmer said titles may be different – like SA changing its name to Student Association, Inc., and the Senate would act as a Board of Directors – and the SA Constitution and bylaws will have to be revised to include New York State not-for-profit laws. The basis of SA’s internal controls will now be New York State non-profit law, which Nemmer said goes much further and has much more legitimacy than anything SA or the university can write. He said the way SA operates will ultimately stay the same. Most of the changes will come through tax filing and record keeping, which he said would solely reflect SA and not Sub Board’s operations. Nemmer said he spoke with Dennis Black, vice president of University Life and Services, and Barbara Ricotta, associate vice president of Student Affairs, regarding the change. Nemmer said they told him they will not stop him from pursuing incorporation. He said their response is “the closest thing to support we were going to get out of them.” He plans to speak with Black and Ricotta again to discuss his proposal. Email: news@ubspectrum.com
Continued from page 1: Bulls host annual pro day at Ralph Wilson Stadium “The process is similar to coming from high school to college,” Means said. “A lot of coaches call, but it’s a lot better because it’s the NFL.” Means said he always thinks he can do better, but the scouts seemed pleased with his pro-day performance. “As far as the reactions from the scouts, I feel like I did pretty good,” he said. “Everybody’s saying: ‘Good job, good energy, good hustle out there, everything’s good.’” Ozkan, an offensive lineman, ran a 5.3 40, and Moseley, who scouts are pegging as an inside linebacker, sprinted in at 4.7. Ozkan, who has lost 10 pounds since the end of the season and is “feeling a whole lot leaner,” did 19 reps on the bench press; Moseley did 16. Mulkey owns one of the most interesting storylines entering the NFL Draft. He was a point guard at UB from 2006-11, averaging 13.1 points, 4.5 assists and 3.9 rebounds per game as a senior. But football is his true love.
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Mulkey played quarterback and free safety at local Niagara-Wheatfield High School, and he earned a tryout with the Bills last year. He didn’t make the squad, but he left inspired. “To be honest, that’s why, from that point to where we are now, I’ve continued to stay at it,” said Mulkey, who earned his Master’s degree in higher education administration at UB and now works as an academic mentor at Georgia State. “Leaving the camp, I had a good feeling and it did a great deal for my confidence.” Mulkey has been training to get into the NFL ever since. So have his football abilities overtaken his basketball aptitude? He said right now, it’s not even close. “I got in the gym to stay loose yesterday,” he laughed, adding that he live-streamed the Bulls’ upset of No. 24 Akron on Saturday. “Long story short, I made my last shot before I left the gym. We won’t worry about the rest.”
He isn’t limiting his possibilities to just the NFL, though. Mulkey said he would be interested in any offers from Arena Football League or Canadian Football League teams, too. “At this point, I feel that there’s only a certain window when you can actually get out here and compete and your body’s able to do what it can do,” Mulkey said. “As long as I can compete, I’m all for it.” Quinn said two Bulls who graduated last year are playing arena football: safety Josh Copeland and wide receiver Ed Young. The 2013 NFL Draft will run from April 25-27. Email: sports@ubspectrum.com
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The multifaceted Frisch
Professor Michael Frisch has infused his love of history into all aspects of life ALYSSA MCCLURE Staff Writer Thirty-three years ago, Dr. Michael Frisch was arrested during his first year of teaching. On March 15, 1970, the 26-year-old history professor was part of the “Faculty 45” – a non-violent sit-in of 45 faculty members protesting UB’s use of Buffalo police officers on campus. The faculty members sought to discuss a more peaceful approach to student conflicts that were occurring at UB. Four hundred Buffalo police officers carrying guns marched across campus in squads of 20. The faculty stated they would remain on the premises until all Buffalo police were removed from campus. “There was enormous fear,” Frisch said. “You could see the situation unraveling; [the police] were there 24/7. This was before Kent State [the massacre of students protesting the Vietnam War by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Ohio in May 1970] but you could feel it – somebody was going to get killed.” Charged with criminal trespass, the faculty members made no attempts to resist police who began directing them out the back doors of the administration building and into police vehicles. “We marched into this building and they hauled us off and [we] suddenly found ourselves facing a whole slew of charges that … could have led to 20 years in jail,” Frisch said. While charges were eventually dropped, Frisch’s involvement demonstrated his passion for history, which continued to shine through in his academic work. He then taught mainly urban history, which at the time was considered an emerging field. Now, 33 years later, Frisch continues to be a history and American Studies professor at UB and works in his own business to document oral histories for the public. A culturally diverse outlook Frisch thought of it as a way to get out teaching strictly American history and “teaching the presidents.” He used his Fulbright experiences abroad in Asian countries, Korea and Italy to develop specialty courses in cross-cultural ur-
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banization and participated in service teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The Fulbright program is a prestigious, highly competitive, merit-based grant program for international educational exchange. Eventually, Frisch found himself in the American Studies department, which he helped establish. He believes his transition from 19th-century history to American Studies, which was “much edgier and more political,” gave him a different identity and is one of his main stories at UB. “I came to realize that [19th-century history and American Studies] were really the same thing, the same story, just with different facets,” Frisch said. As a national figure in his field, Frisch edited the Oral History Review at UB for 10 years and was elected president of the Oral History Association. He has written several books and has collaborated on several recognized projects. His book, A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History, is often cited by other historians. His most recent book is called Portraits in Steel – a collaboration with Buffalo documentary photographer Milton Rogovin, who recently passed away. He used Rogovin’s photographs of steel mill workers and combined them with the oral histories of the subjects. He wanted them to be remembered after they lost their jobs when the mills closed. He received several prizes for his work. Frisch was also instrumental in forming the American Studies department at UB, which is now housed under the Transnational Studies department. He was the chair of the department for many years and helped build the Ph.D. program. He argued for the need to have a culturally diverse history program that involved a Latino program, a women’s studies program and a Native American program. When Frisch was elected president of the American Studies Association, he was known as an instrumental part of the extensive program at UB. “In a way, the UB program was one of the leaders nationally and internationally in what has now become the dominant trend for a long time in American Studies and even more broadly,” Frisch said. “We were doing multicultural work before it was fashionable.”
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Dr. Michael Frisch has been teaching history for 43 years. He has found multiple ways to extend his passion to music and business throughout his time at UB.
A rockstar professor Frisch carries his passion for history into his love of music. He is a member of The 198 String Band. The three members are part of the musicians, historians and researchers from Buffalo, N.Y., who play “a unique repertoire of music from the Great Depression and the New Deal.” In doing photo research, they came up with the idea of combining the live performance of music with the presentation of photographs, excerpts from oral histories, poems and narratives. “It ends up being this really interesting performance mode where it’s kind of a concert but it’s got a real multi-media dimension and we’re able to do history without having to preach about it,” Frisch said. “We can [present this material] without turning it into an academic exercise and people respond very powerfully.”
Frisch has performed at several universities and conferences, including the Oral History Association, the national meeting of the Federation of State Humanities Council and Oklahoma State University. His band is scheduled to perform in Arizona next week as part of a weeklong “short course” on oral history, which he is teaching at Arizona State University. Mixing business and pleasure Frisch spends his time working in UB’s Technology Incubator. The Incubator is an umbrella of STOR – Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach – and its purpose is to encourage faculty and others with economic outreach to be entrepreneurial and create job opportunities out of the work they’ve done at UB. A little over 10 years ago, Frisch stumbled across software that could be used to index video recordings the same way one would index a book. Continued on page 12
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For mature audiences only Kelly Stone to combine sexual education and comedy in her performance, GREYed expectations LYZI WHITE Life Editor Kelly Stone once walked in on her son attempting to insert a tampon into his butt. Her son knew what a tampon was and what it was used for – that it was for his mother’s “gina,” and he didn’t have a “gina.” He proved his knowledge by bumping the tampon into his testicles. After Stone told this story to an audience, it produced two responses: laughter and awareness, things she constantly utilizes as a sexual educator. Stone, a sex educator and comedian, will be presenting GREYed expectations on Wednesday as part of Sub-Board, Inc.’s (SBI) Sex Week. Her performance, a combination of education and comedy, focuses on consent and communication in sex and sexuality, according to Jane Fischer, director of SBI Health Education. Sex Week is a collection of events hosted through SBI that focus on “education, exploration and discussion of healthy sexuality,” Fischer said. She hopes it will be an opportunity for students to consider and discuss aspects of sexual health, such as the choice to be sexually active, communication with partners, safe sex and how consent functions in concept and in practice. Demire Williams, assistant director of health services, met Stone at the National Sex Ed Conference in New Jersey this fall and enjoyed the way Stone delivered material in a way that made the audience laugh while simultaneously provoking thought about healthy sexuality, Fischer said. When Williams asked Stone to come speak at UB, she agreed. “I use comedy and use humor to break down barriers,” Stone said. “I think if I can get you laughing, then you’re letting down a wall and then you can let in some information.” Stone does this in the comedy club as well as the classroom. Her comedy has always been “sexually charged,” Stone said. She started doing stand up in 2006 while living in Philadelphia. “The very first time I did comedy, I talked about how it really irritates me how people say it takes balls to do something because balls are really not powerful,” Stone said. “My punch line was that, you know, instead of saying that it took balls, let’s agree to say that it takes labia majora.”
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Kelly Stone, a sex educator and comedian, will be performing GREYed expectations as a part of Sub Board Inc.’s Sex Week on Wednesday night. Her performance will combine education and comedy as she explores issues of communication and consent.
That’s when she lost the audience, Stone said. She tried the joke multiple times in different cities. The audience would be laughing until she said the word majora, “and then all of a sudden, silence.” Education and comedy have always been connected for Stone. She can’t remember a set where she hasn’t had to explain something to her audience. She credits her upbringing as one of the underlying motives for her current career as a sexual educator. Stone was a first-generation college student, born to a 17-year-old mother; her sister, when Stone was in college, became pregnant at the age of 15. Stone was the only person in her family to not have a child in her teen years. She didn’t want her mother’s life and her way to avoid that was by practicing abstinence until college. However, Stone realized how ignorant she and her friends were about sexual health, and after taking an adolescent development class during her junior year of college, Stone became interested in becoming a sexual educator. After finishing her undergraduate degree in family consumer science, Stone took a couple years off, some of which she spent working in a bar. She attended the University of Texas at Austin for graduate school, studying health education and focused her master’s thesis on adolescent sexual behavior and partner negotiation for condom use and self-advocacy.
Partner negotiation and communication is something she will discuss during GREYed expectations. The idea for the performance came after many of Stone’s students came to talk to her about 50 Shades of Grey. With the recent craze over the novel, she decided to read the book, so as to have a “better conversation” about it. After she finished reading, Stone realized many people were trying things without proper knowledge. Stone believes sex is a “common denominator” of society. “We live in a sex-phobic and a sex-centric society,” Stone said. “We’re a little bit schizophrenic [about] how we think about sex. So it’s almost like you’re being offended while you’re laughing at the same time.” Stone believes because the country is founded on Puritan heritage and values, as in The Scarlet Letter, there is a lot of sex phobia. However, at the same time, movies and advertisements feature sex heavily because sex sells. So while sex is everywhere, people are still afraid to discuss it. Stone is a single mom, a sexual educator and a comedian. She is very open with her two boys – who were born 15 months apart – which sometimes shocks people, she said. “I’ve been at parties where my 2-year-old, when he was two, walked up to a pregnant woman and patted her belly and he said, ‘you have a baby in your uterus,’” Stone said.
When people looked toward Stone after her son said this, her response was: “don’t you?” Many times, people are shocked or will “freak out” by what her children say because it’s so appropriate, Stone said. Her children have attended drag events and understand that a married man and woman do not always raise kids. She answers their questions, but she doesn’t tell them things they don’t need to know, such as information about the clitoris. Open communication is something Stone will discuss during her performance. She believes open conversations between partners about sex is very important, although Stone thinks many people still don’t know how to do so. “Maybe I sexted you and I told you I want to do dirty things, but now you’re over and I just ate a big meal and started my period and I don’t want to do that, but I don’t know how to talk to you about that,” Stone said. “That’s what I’m really interested in is getting people having a better conversation about it.” While Stone understands the topic of sex is difficult to discuss sometimes, she believes her performances are relatable to everyone in an audience, no matter how someone’s sexual experience level might differ from another’s. Fischer describes Stone’s performance as a blend of comedy, education and entertainment. Stone plans on combining personal stories, interactive dialogue and a text-youranswer technology during her show to see different opinions on different sex acts in which individuals might be participating. Kelly Stone’s GREYed expectations will be held in Norton 112 at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Stone wants students to know that “it’s OK to try something and not like it, and it’s OK to try something and like it.” The biggest takeaway message of the show, Stone believes, is the idea of asking and gaining consent. Email: features@ubspectrum.com
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The art of breaking down boundaries NICHOLAS C. TURTON Staff Writer
Past and present, man and woman, straight and gay: these are dichotomies that are all too familiar. We integrate them into our worldviews unthinkingly and never second-guess them. Kent Monkman, an internationally acclaimed Canadian artist, explores these binaries through his artwork and questions hastily placed labels with a provocative imagination. Monkman gave a lecture about his work last Thursday evening at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center as part of the LeslieLohman Queer Art Lecture Series. His work has been reviewed by the likes of The Wall Street Journal and The Boston Globe and has been exhibited extensively in Canada, the United States and Europe. Monkman, who is of Native Canadian and European descent, embodies a dichotomy himself. Working in mediums ranging from painting to performance art, Monkman focused exclusively on the contrast between aboriginals and Europeans through the lens of their cultures and time periods. He also added homoerotic imagery to create multi-layered pieces that are simultaneously striking, humorous and stunning. In his paintings, Monkman created sublime and larger-than-life landscapes reminiscent of 19th-century colonial era wilderness paintings. Monkman then inserts diminutive scenes of natives penetrating and dominating European pioneers in explicit erotic imagery, a stark reversal and sexualization of the traditional European-dominating-native images. Jonathan D. Katz, director of the UB visual studies doctoral program and curator of the lecture series, has written about and worked with Monkman in the past. Katz admires Monkman’s portrayal of the role reversal between the natives and Europeans. “[Monkman] believes in revolution,” Katz said. “In the sense of making the top the bottom and the bottom the top. That kind of play back and forth is one of the central themes of his work.” In addition to painting, Monkman is well versed in installation art and engages in performance art and film.
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Internationally acclaimed artist Kent Monkman visited Hallwall’s Contemporary Arts Center last Thursday as part of the Leslie-Lohman Queer Arts Lecture Series.
These disparate and diverse mediums are unified by the universal representation of Monkman’s alter ego: an extravagant drag diva clad in a pink dress, headdress and high heels. Her name is Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, a recurring character in Monkman’s work, first appeared in his paintings. Monkman was inspired by the mixed gender role of the berdache (a
man assuming the female’s role) in First Nations cultures, so he fashioned a humorous, gender-bending persona that symbolizes an exploration of gender and sexuality. Miss Chief is often depicted in Monkman’s paintings seducing men with her androgynous appeal – outclassing Europeans in dogsledding with a pink-clad dog team or serving as a fashion icon wearing her Louis Vuitton high heels, arrow quiver and accessories.
“Louis Vuitton is her brand,” Monkman said in his lecture about his alter ego. A warm laugh from the audience followed. But Miss Chief doesn’t only exist on the canvas; she’s real. Monkman dresses up and performs as his chic and fashionable character. Miss Chief has graced audiences from England to Washington, D.C. to Toronto. Lawrence Brose, an adjunct instructor in the Department of Visual Studies, finds Monkman’s ability to bring his painted character to life fascinating, especially as a comment on sexuality. “I’ve never seen a native [artist] actually talk about [sexuality] and embrace it, and in a sense, embody it,” Brose said. “I think that’s what is really fantastic about what Kent is doing. He’s not afraid to embrace the sexuality of it all.” Monkman screened a short clip from one of his films featuring Miss Chief. The film, Group of Seven Inches, presented an elegant Miss Chief dressed in white on horseback. “She normally rides bareback,” a narrator declares in the film. “But she’s grown accustomed to European brand saddles.” In the film, Miss Chief exerted her power over two European males by defeating them in archery. The rest of the film depicted Miss Chief ’s domination of the two males by stripping them and having her way with them. Monkman is constantly questioning our binary relationships in the world and finding new ways to exploit them artistically. He finds a deep interest in conflicting forces and bringing them together, whether it be cultures, genders or sexualities. “My work is about breaking down boundaries and creating a kind of ambiguous space,” Monkman said. “It’s that space that I’m interested in because it can be complex.” This ambiguity is a place where Monkman finds inspiration. “This is what I’m interested in: these spaces between [and] beyond boundaries that are as yet undefined,” Monkman said. This Thursday, Hallwalls will present author Alexandra Fuller at Kleinhans Music Hall as part of their BABEL series. Email: arts@ubspectrum.com
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The Bob Dylan Primer BRIAN JOSEPHS Senior Managing Editor
Dylan only looks smug because he already knows he will blow your mind. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963) – Also known as the album where Bob Dylan became Bob Dylan: the poetic, vivid musician critics and fans have come to laud. The interesting thing about this work is how the musical accompaniment sounds somewhat peaceful and easy, while Dylan’s vocal sounds grandfatherly. But how could Dylan’s voice have so much wisdom when he’s speaking of racism, war and the irrational concept of love? He even says “the answer is blowin’ in the wind” in the album opener. Freewheelin’ sounds too nice, too stuck in its own motion while the rest of us are just stuck, for listeners to question his logic.
Introduction by Max Crinnin, Asst. Arts Editor I can’t write about Bob Dylan. I find there are not enough words, and at the same time, too few, as I am limited here to 1,600 characters for your reading pleasure. Bob Dylan is a legendary musician, and you’d struggle to find someone who doesn’t agree. While most people think he deserves a special place in history, they also have varying opinions about the man and his music. This means nothing to me. Some say he was the “voice of a generation,” or a spokesperson; they label him a folk singer, a poet, a prophet – I think they’re mistaken. Others say, “His voice is terrible.” Many dismiss him as a druggie who “doesn’t make any sense.” Some think he abandoned his roots for sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. I disagree. “Some people are just not interested in Dylan. But for those who are, he goes way, way deep,” said Joan Baez in the 2005 documentary No Direction Home: Bob Dylan. This much is true for me; I’m interested. To me, Dylan is an artist. One particular artist Dylan has said he admires himself is Anton Chekhov, who famously said that it is the artist’s job to ask questions, not to answer them. Dylan constantly explores the gray area known as life. Nothing ever seems black or white with him; Dylan asks questions. I was raised on his music. At a young age, I became incredibly drawn towards him, and his music has been a companion and source of wonder to me for as long as I can remember. Finding out that my student activities fee was contributing towards the funding of a Bob Dylan concert at Alumni Arena was the first pleasant surprise I’ve had with regards to Student Association events. Clearly, the times are a-changin’. But I am still filled with questions: is the older, wheezing Dylan a lesser performer than the man I have built up as a hero in my mind? Is UB the right audience for him? Will I make it through the door before the tickets sell out? Who is Dawes? I urge all those interested to attend the show on April 5, because one thing’s for sure:
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Highway 61 Revisited (1965) – Rolling Stone declared this was Bob Dylan’s best album in its famous 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list – it ranked No. 4 overall. It also has what’s considered by many to be one of the greatest songs of all time – “Like A Rolling Stone.” The expectations are already high for putting this album on for the first time, but Highway 61 Revisited sounds best when its listened to detached from them. Disregard the cultural ramifications of Dylan’s classic. Disregard the fact this album singlehandedly changed the course of music. Doing the opposite may cause the listener to miss the rock n’ roll thrills of “Tombstone Blues” and the pathos of “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues.” Bruce Springsteen once said “Like A Rolling Stone” is a “snare shot that sounded like somebody’d kicked open the door to your mind.” Might as well leave that door unlocked. Courtesy of Associated Press
With a career that spans more than 50 years and dozens of albums, Bob Dylan has solidified himself as a musical and cultural icon. He’s performing in Alumni Arena on April 5.
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Essential Albums Blonde on Blonde (1966) – This is an album that’s not supposed to be this easy to like. First, Dylan looks smug as hell with that scarf on. Then there’s that 70+ minutes of length; Blonde on Blonde is also considered one of rock’s first double albums. This could’ve easily been an overly indulgent affair.
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Plus, the album isn’t even all that focused as it feels like a series of emotional rants. He starts the album with “Rainy Day Women #12 & #35,” which casts society as this ugly, judgmental, shallow machine. However, Blonde on Blonde works because it’s unfocused. It touches on emotions that range from heartbreaking loneliness (“Visions of Johanna”) to yearning (“One Of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)”). He’s able to turn these abysses into beauty throughout the long length of the album.
Blood on the Tracks (1975) – Dylan seemed confident and self-assured on Blonde on Blonde, his last masterpiece of the ’60s. The cover of Blood on the Tracks displays a painting of Dylan looking sullen behind his sunglasses. He’s visibly hurt from his broken relationship with Sara Dylan, his ex-wife. It’s the type of hurt that forces such an artist to look inward, which just happens to be inhabited by lush instrumentals accompanied by heartache. Blood on the Tracks is ambivalent at its best (“Tangled Up In Blue”) and painful at its most poignant (“If You See Her, Say Hello”). And it all sounds beautiful. Continued on page 12
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Continued from page 11: The Bob Dylan Primer Bringing It All Back (1965) – A major turning point in Dylan’s artistry. Here, Dylan isn’t this folk social activist hero but a rock star with his own band. Bringing It All Back took all the strengths that made his civil rightsrelated lyrics impactful and refocused them into a work that effortlessly switched from reflective to frantic. Case in point: For the opener “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” fans were treated to fast-flowing, stream-of-consciousness lyricism that felt like a bad LSD trip you can’t stop replaying. It’s followed by the nostalgic “She Belongs To Me.” The album also contains essential cuts like “Mr. Tambourine Man” and the haunting “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding).” Bringing It All Back ends with the emotional “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” which features some of Dylan’s most soul-slashing howls. The album as a whole may be a bit much to take in, but it’s a challenge that will make the listener feel emotionally renewed by the final harmonica chord.
Essential Songs “Blowin’ In The Wind” (The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan) – Considered by many to be the greatest protest song of all time next to Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” and Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come.” It’s also one of the most ambiguous. What does it mean when the answers are blowing in the wind? “Like A Rolling Stone” (Highway 61 Revisited) – Don’t take the fact that it was named No. 1 on Rolling Stone’s Greatest Songs of All Time list as the sole testimony of the song’s greatness. It’s impossible to explain why this song is still relevant after 48 years in mere words. “Tombstone Blues” (Highway 61 Revisited) – It’s not debatable that “Like A Rolling Stone,” which directly precedes “Tombstone Blues” on Highway 61 Revisited, is a better song. That doesn’t stop the opening drums from being thrilling, though.
“Subterranean Homesick Blues” (Bringing It All Back) – A barrage of non-sequiturs, imagery and juxtapositions, amongst other things. All in a sub-2:30 package. “Mr. Tambourine Man” (Bringing It All Back) – Another Dylan song where critics can’t seem to agree what exactly he’s talking about. Is the synonymous character alluding to a real person? We may never truly know. “Visions of Johanna” (Blonde On Blonde) – Generally hailed as a masterpiece. Dylan’s depiction of loneliness is so over the top, it can almost be taken as hallucinogenic. “If You See Her, Say Hello” (Blood On The Tracks) – This was extremely vulnerable coming from a man whose lyrical prowess seem to have the ability to change the world. And so emotional, too: “Say for me that I’m all right though things get kind of slow/She might think that I’ve forgotten her, don’t tell her it isn’t so.” Not a dry eye in the audience.
“Tangled Up In Blue” (Blood On The Tracks) – “[This song] took me 10 years to live, and two years to write,” Dylan said of this track. It seems fair enough because “Tangled Up In Blue” feels like it covers life itself: hope, optimism, love, loss. This is only just the guitar we’re talking about here. “All Along The Watchtower” (John Wesley Harding) – Dylan takes the listener on a journey on this cut, a journey that is at least three times as epic in Jimi Hendrix’s version. “Not Dark Yet” (Time Out Of Mind) – As a track in one of Dylan’s more haunting masterworks, “Not Dark Yet” finds emotion in the middle of an abyss.
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Continued from page 8: The multifaceted Frisch He quickly realized putting digital files in a database environment and developing metadata – references, annotation, index terms and codes that refer to specific passages of audio and video – allowed material to be explored and browsed faster and more efficiently. Because he was unable to run a business out of his UB office, he founded Randforce Associates, LLC, in the Incubator. He has three associates, but Frisch runs his own business in addition to teaching. While he admitted “it’s a whole different ball game” learning bookkeeping, sales and marketing, he described his transition from professor to business owner as “challenging and healthy.” By opening the business to the public, Frisch has participated in a variety of projects and has learned an immense amount of historical information.
He believes he does not have to choose between teaching, conducting research and running a business; the concepts run together. “I’m learning how to run a small business, but it is generating the interaction with my research … we are among the top people in the country in this type of frontier work on new tools for managing audio-video data and … that wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t quote ‘gone into business,’” Frisch said. Christopher Atkinson, a third-year graduate student in the American Studies program, has worked with Frisch for three years on a Vietnam Veterans oral history project. While he worked in the Incubator, he enjoyed his time with the history professor. He feels Frisch encourages passion in his students.
“He’s very enthusiastic and is very supportive of what you want to do,” Atkinson said. “He’s the kind of guy who will listen to what you are interested in and … will definitely offer suggestions but he’ll really push you to just do it.” In order to have time to run his business and continue teaching, Frisch took early retirement from UB and then contracted back to a part-time salary. He plans on retiring from teaching at the end of this academic year to focus on his business. Putting it all together Frisch stresses everything he involves himself in is interconnected. His professional friends “had no idea what to do with the notion that he wasn’t doing research anymore.”
He didn’t let this change his mind. “Ultimately, [business] is a way to do research, or maybe the research is a way to generate business; maybe they are the same thing,” Frisch said. He thinks people view the world as very cut and dry – as if they are carrying a lot of boxes in their minds and just want to neatly categorize the world. He thinks, “this idea of putting things in these boxes is just crazy; that’s not the way the world works.” By refusing to categorize his world, Frisch is able to extend himself across several disciplines and maintain a focus on history throughout his work. Email: features@ubspectrum.com
Weekend scoreboard JOE KONZE JR AND BEN TARHAN Senior Sports Editor and Sports Editor Baseball takes weekend series The baseball team picked up a series win as it traveled to Farmville, Va. to take on Longwood University (4-5). The Bulls (6-4) found their stride offensively after losing the series opener. After going 0 for 4 – ending a 21-game hitting streak – on Friday, senior outfielder Jason Kanzler bounced back with an impressive second game and recorded four hits in five plate appearances. Kanzler was one double shy of the cycle. “Jason came out [Saturday] and was focused and had some nice at-bats,” said head coach Ron Torgalski. “He drove the ball a couple of times.”
On the mound, Buffalo was able to pound the strike zone. Senior shortstop and pitcher Mike Burke – who earned the Mid-American Conference East Pitcher of the Week award – picked up his second win of the season. Burke also recorded six strikeouts in the final game in which he pitched to clinch the series. Pollock out for year Despite the Bulls’ 6-4 start – their best in program history – the Bulls will have to finish the season without their preseason AllMAC first team selection senior outfielder Matt Pollock. Pollock injured his hand in batting practice before the team’s first game at North Carolina A&T (4-7, 1-2 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) but was able to play in the Bulls’ first game of the season, going 2 for 4.
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“I had it taped pretty tight and once I took the tape off, my whole hand was swollen,” Pollock said. “The next day, I couldn’t even open and close my hand. At that point, I basically knew I was done for the year.” Pollock attempted to come back for a game the next weekend against Virginia Military Institute (5-8) but said he was “swinging with one hand.” Pollock had his hand examined on Tuesday morning and the surgeon told him his hamate bone was fractured and he would have to have surgery to fix it. Pollock expects recovery time for the broken bone to be four weeks. He also has tendonitis in his wrist, and if his wrist takes too long to recover, he may have to have surgery to repair that as well. Pollock intends to take a medical redshirt and sit out the rest of the season and return to complete his Buffalo career next year.
Softball rained out The softball team took part in the Marshall Tournament this past weekend for an early season matchup against Robert Morris (5-2) and Marshall (7-9). The Bulls (2-9) struggled offensively, recording eight hits on the weekend while leaving a total of 10 runners on base. Due to inclement weather, the Bulls were unable to finish their weekend series. No make-up games were scheduled. They will travel to California on March 8 to take on Southern Utah (3-12) in the Cal Riverside Tournament. Email: sports@ubspectrum.com
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Party Cooper Ohio guard thwarts Buffalo’s senior night JON GAGNON Sports Editor The men’s basketball team has faced the toughest competition the Mid-American Conference has to offer in its past two games. Three days removed from one of the biggest wins in the program’s history against nationally ranked Akron, the Bulls (12-18, 7-8 MAC) couldn’t carry their momentum over against Ohio (22-8, 13-2 MAC), losing 72-69. The Bulls let a 69-63 lead with 3:51 remaining slip away when Ohio guard D.J. Cooper (24 points) hit one of his five 3-pointers with just over a minute remaining to reclaim the lead. With 30 seconds remaining, the Bulls had the ball and trailed by just one but they missed their final two field goal attempts. “This one came down to turnovers versus rebounds,” said head coach Reggie Witherspoon. “We did a great job on the boards and we didn’t do a great job of taking care of the basketball. We turned it over in spurts and it helped them get the outcome they wanted.” The Bulls went on an 18-3 run with nine minutes left to give them a six-point lead in the last few minutes. They then turned the ball over on back-to-back possessions, which sparked the Bobcats’ run to close the game. “[It was a] humongous swing in the game,” Witherspoon said. “It just comes down to experience.” Buffalo finished the night with 19 turnovers – compared to Ohio’s meager seven – and the Bobcats were able to convert 27 points off the Bulls’ mistakes. While the turnover battle favored Ohio, Buffalo dominated the glass throughout the contest, outrebounding the Bobcats 43-22. “It’s an emphasis in our program to be dominant on the glass,” said
sophomore forward Will Regan. “As a team, the mindset was to take care of the ball and get rebounds, so those were things we focused on. Tonight, we were able to do the rebounding part.” Regan finished with a team-high 20 points (12 of which came in the second half) and hauled in eight rebounds. His counterpart down low, junior forward Javon McCrea, finished with 19 points. Though the Bulls weren’t able to complete the comeback and come away with a victory, Witherspoon still thinks the team is getting better. “To be in that situation and to be able to fight all the way back, it just shows that we’re getting better,” Witherspoon said. “These last two teams are the upper part of the conference and we’re not too far away.” Senior guard Tony Watson and senior guard Richie Sebuharara celebrated senior night before the game began. Watson finished with a rare double-double, scoring 11 points and grabbing 11 boards. In addition to the late-game three Cooper hit that proved to be a dagger to the Bulls, the senior guard made his marks in Ohio’s and the NCAA’s record books. He is now currently the program’s all-time leader in 3-pointers made and became the first player in NCAA history to record 2,000 points, 500 rebounds, 900 assists and 300 steals in a career. “D.J. hit a tremendous shot with the game on the line,” said Ohio head coach Jim Christian. “That’s the kind of kid he is: he wants the ball in big spots. The minute he walks out the door, you’re not going to see another one like him for a long, long time.” The Bulls wrap up their regular season on the road, as they take on Bowling Green (12-18, 6-9 MAC) on Friday for a 6 p.m. tip. Email: sports@ubspectrum.com
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Senior guard Tony Watson (above) finished with a rare double-double, scoring 11 points and grabbing 11 boards, but it was not enough to outlast MAC foe Ohio at Alumni Arena on Tuesday night.
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Junior Jason Shkodnik (above) and the men’s tennis team split a weekend series against Princeton and NJIT.
Bulls split weekend series JEFF PLACITO Contributing Writer It was an up and down weekend for the men’s tennis team, as it took to the road on Saturday to face Princeton (7-3) and then returned home on Sunday for a match with the New Jersey Institute of Technology (9-3) at the Miller Tennis Center. With little time to rest before playing NJIT on Sunday, the Bulls came ready to play. They defeated NJIT, 5-2. After winning three straight matches, the Bulls (6-3) were overmatched against their Ivy League opponent. Princeton (6-3) swept the Bulls, 7-0, ending their three-match winning streak. Sophomore Damien David and freshman Akhil Mehta could not keep up with Princeton duo Matija Pecotic and Zack McCourt, losing 8-1. The No. 2 doubles team of senior Vusa Hove and sophomore Sebastian Ionescu was also defeated, 8-1, by its opponents and freshman Sergio Arevalillo and freshman Ashwin Sharma dropped their match, 8-3. “We came out very flat in doubles and that just set a bad tone to start with,” said head coach Lee Nickell.
“When we finally woke up in singles, it was just a little too late.” In singles, David and Ionescu were able to force super-tiebreakers in their third sets but couldn’t capture the point, losing 10-8 and 11-9, respectively. Although the Bulls couldn’t upset the highly touted Princeton team, Nickell said they are gaining valuable experience by playing these skilled Ivy League opponents. “We have to play these Ivy League teams,” said Nickell. “If I scheduled against only teams in the area, we would have no test and going into the MAC, we would not know where we fit.” NJIT hadn’t lost the doubles point once all season, but the Bulls started off strong by winning the doubles point easily; the team rode the fast start into a 5-2 victory. David and Meta knocked off the Highlanders duo of Erik Arthursson and Petr Rousar, 8-5, to pace the Bulls’ success in doubles play. “You wouldn’t believe the difference in energy between Princeton and NJIT,” Nickell said. “We were jumping up and down, getting crazy against NJIT, and in Princeton, it felt like our dog died.” Continued on page 6
The Miller Tennis Center was packed with fans for both the men’s and women’s tennis teams Sunday afternoon. All eyes were glued to the action on the courts as both teams took on the New Jersey Institute of Technology. The women’s team started out hot, knocking off the Highlanders (6-2) in the first two matches to earn the doubles point. Juniors Tanvi Shah and Miranda Podlas came out hot, clinching the first doubles point for the Bulls (70). Shah had previously been announced as Mid-American Conference Player of the Week. “[Shah’s recognition] is well deserved,” said head coach Kristen Ortman. “She’s a great player and faces great players and she came out on top today, which is another example of playing a great player and being mentally focused to get the job done.” Junior Annamaria Candanoza and freshman Gopika Kapoor also contributing to the sweep. Both completed the doubles points with an 8-3 victory over their opponents. The Highlanders brought their best for the singles matches, forcing the Bulls to work for the win after their start. Senior Tamara Markovic finished her match first, beating Jana Luste, 6-2, 6-4. The Bulls won their next two matches in straight sets, before placing the clinching match on sophomore Laura Fernandez’s
shoulders. Fernandez defeated her opponent, 6-1, 7-6 (7-4). The last two singles matches for Candanoza and Kapoor were pushed until after the first four matches were finished and both matches went to extra sets. Kapoor defeated her opponent, 6-1, 7-6 (72). With so many matches extended to tie break, the intense conditioning that Ortman put her team through early in the year is finally paying off. “[Conditioning] has been a big difference this year,” Ortman said. “There’s been a lot of focus on conditioning and running and getting physically stronger. I’ve demanded a lot more out of them physically, and I don’t think they liked it at first, but I think they bought in and see, ‘Hey, in close matches we’re going to come out on top because we’re in better shape.’” The Bulls will head to the deep South during the school’s spring break. Their next match is against the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. The trip southward will be an opportunity for the team to play some outdoor matches, which Ortman believes will truly help the team when the girls start to face MAC competition. The Bulls’ match with LouisianaLafayette is on March 12 at 2 p.m. Email: sports@ubspectrum.com
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Rivalries make the sports world go ’round. Entire sports leagues thrive off the high-octane matchups of their biggest rivalries: Red Sox-Yankees, Canadiens-Bruins, Lakers-Celtics and Packers-Bears. When these teams get together, the intensity is unrivaled and the competition is cutthroat. But there is a different kind of rivalry that doesn’t always get the national attention the other games do. Rivalry games between regional rivals don’t always boast the best teams, but they are emotionally charged and fans’ energy is at an all-time high. As a Mets fan, the early ’00s were entertaining only because of the Subway Series. For two weekends in the spring, a dead stadium and team came awake for a few hours, just long enough to remind fans what it was like to be a fan of an energized, exciting team. For the less-decorated teams, these games are often their only chance to prove their superiority over their more-successful brothers. Unfortunately, every city has its team, and it’s rare you will find an evenly split fan base. The Yankees, Giants, Rangers and Knicks own New York City, while Los Angeles is a Dodgers and Lakers town. Chicago is arguably the most split of these cities, but when the Cubs are winning, the Windy City belongs to them. The size and profile of these cities allows for a lot of media coverage, but most of it is dedicated to these teams. It makes being a fan of one of the less-covered teams very frustrating. I know, I’ve been a Mets fan my whole life. Even when the Mets were good in 2006 and they could actually fill a stadium with fans, the Yankees got all the attention. The only two times I can remember the media openly admitting the Mets were more relevant than the Yankees were when Sports Illustrated predicted the Mets as the World Champions in 2009 and in June of last season, when the Yankees weren’t even a .500 team. We all know how those seasons went. Basically, even when the Mets win, they lose. So you’ll understand why I commiserate with the Clippers when it comes to basketball. The Clippers have been playing great all season and currently hold the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference. The Lakers weren’t at .500 until Monday and are still in ninth place. But every day on SportsCenter there is a Lakers update or debate on whether they make the playoffs and the latest installment of the Dwight Howard saga. On the complete other side of the media coverage spectrum is the New York Giants. The Giants run such a tight ship; there isn’t really much to say about them. The biggest story out of the Giants every year is Osi Umenyiora’s continuing contract debate, but that’s put to rest well before the regular season starts every year. So instead, the media flocks to Jets camp, where Rex Ryan and his players practically line up to speak to the media and talk trash about their teammates and opponents. But the Jets are also considered one of the biggest jokes of a franchise in the NFL. So goes to show what you get for opening your mouth. It isn’t easy being the little brother to a hugely successful sports franchise, but it also shouldn’t make you irrelevant. When sports media largely ignores or dismisses whole teams because they aren’t the main show in town (i.e. every article written about the Mets and the fact that they aren’t winning yet) it takes away from their credibility because they are ignoring a major league franchise. It’s time to recognize the little guy for more than being the little guy. Fans may hate a loser, but everyone loves an underdog. Email: ben.tarhan@ubspectrum.com