The Spectrum Volume 62 Issue 61

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Three arrested at student apartments off North Campus RACHEL RAIMONDI Asst. News Editor

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The True Blue student section, including medical school student Jeffrey Herendeen (with cape, holding the sign of D.J. Cooper), cheers during Tuesday night’s game, which Ohio won 72-69.

Three men were arrested following a narcotics dispute at the Villas at Chestnut Ridge late Monday night.

At approximately 10:30 p.m., the Amherst Police Department (APD) received a call regarding Jacob Schiller of Amherst. The caller said Schiller was “agitated” and Schiller threatened he might “take matters into his own hands,” according to APD. In apartment 4105, officers found Michael Sussman, a biological sciences major, lying on the floor with his hands tied behind his back with flex cuffs. An inoperable handgun was found in the kitchen trashcan. The investigation, which is ongoing, revealed Schiller and Sussman were involved in a dispute over narcotics distribution, APD said in a press release.

Authorities believe Sussman may have angered Schiller by providing narcotics to an acquaintance, according to The Buffalo News.

The officers then found Jeffrey Barber of Kenmore in the parking lot outside the apartment. They arrested him and believe he is Sussman’s partner. The man did not struggle against the officers.

Sussman and Barber were charged with conspiring to commit a narcotics felony. Schiller was charged with felony assault, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon. The men were arraigned in Amherst Town Court, according to APD. It is not clear if Schiller and Barber are affiliated with UB. Email: news@ubspectrum.com

The multitasking Cooper attempts to steal sign architect from UB’s student section Following Tuesday’s Ohio win, guard curses fans for bikini poster AARON MANSFIELD Editor in Chief

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ne of the best players in the Mid-American Conference may have gotten into an itsy bitsy, teenie weenie amount of trouble.

Following Ohio’s come-frombehind win over the men’s basketball team in Alumni Arena Tuesday night, Bobcats standout senior guard D.J. Cooper stole a sign, which portrays him wearing a bikini top, from UB’s student section.

Cooper took the sign while True Blue, UB’s official student fan club, was distracted – the members were chanting “We Know Buffalo!” for a promo video for WKBW, Buffalo’s Channel 7 affiliate.

True Blue recovered the sign near Ohio’s team bus later that evening.

Ohio’s athletic department stated it does not have a comment on the situation at this time.

Jeffrey Herendeen earned his bachelor’s degree from UB in 2012 and he is currently in the medical school. He is known as True Blue’s “Cape Guy” for the outfit he wears to games.

“Somebody pushed past the girls and walked over to the D.J. Cooper poster, which was sitting along the bleachers,” Herendeen said. “We realized it was him, and he grabbed it and basically said something along the lines of: ‘I’m taking this s**t.’

“He was just swearing as he stormed off with it. He gave us the middle finger, visibly upset about it.”

Herendeen said True Blue’s officers, understanding Cooper’s

frustration, decided to let it go and avoid a confrontation. He was unsure if Cooper left the sign outside the arena intentionally.

The game marked his last trip as an athlete to Alumni Arena, where fans owning the sign have taunted him for the past three years. A USA Today story printed in March 2012 states: “[Cooper’s] success has made him a bit of a villain who gets booed around the MAC. And in a game at Buffalo this season one fan sitting in the front row doctored a postersized photo of Cooper to have him wearing a bikini.”

However, the photo is not doctored. It appeared on Cooper’s Twitter account in July 2010 along with another photo of him wearing the top and a photo of bikinis at Wal-Mart. In a tweet that has since been deleted, Cooper (@DJCoop5) claimed he was paid to wear the outfit.

Mark Pereira received his Master’s degree in economics from UB in 2011. Known as “Top Hat Guy,” Pereira started the bikini tradition in 2011.

“I knew it was always good to dig up some dirt on players, so that’s what we did every game,” said Pereira, who saw the photo on a UBFan.com forum. “The first time we played Ohio after that, we made that giant poster and we printed out 500 copies of small sheets of him in a bikini and passed them out to the whole student section.”

The student section chanted “D.J. Swimsuit!” often throughout Tuesday’s game.

In the first half, Cooper hit a 3-pointer and pointed both hands at the section. When Cooper hit a

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pivotal three to put Ohio up 70-69 with 1:34 remaining, he stared at the students while slowly walking backward. Ohio won the game 72-69.

“When you play in Buffalo, you’ve got the crowd, the poster up – it’s just a hostile crowd,” Cooper said after the game. “I embrace that type of stuff. It gets me going.

I don’t think it’s very smart for opposing teams to give a little fuel to the fire to one of the best players. I use it as motivation to basically step up and show ’em.”

Cooper made NCAA history in the matchup. He became the first athlete to record 2,000 points, 900 assists, 600 rebounds and 300 steals in a career.

“The kid’s a great player, but [he has] zero class,” Herendeen said.

Buffalo and Ohio have developed a rivalry since Ohio defeated UB on a last-second tip-in in the MAC Championship game in 2005, and tensions were high throughout Tuesday’s hard-fought game.

Herendeen said fans were also left discussing another post-game incident. “[Ohio forward] Reggie Keely had an altercation with Javon McCrea’s mom in the hallway,” Herendeen said. “He walked back into the gym and he was yelling at her about something, and he took his jersey off and threw it on the ground.”

Ohio swept its regular season series with Buffalo, 2-0, though there is a chance the two teams could meet again in the MAC Tournament, which will run March 11-16.

Jordan Geiger discusses his journey through fields of study JOHN NASSIVERA Staff Writer

Jordan Geiger creates more than just buildings.

As an assistant professor of architecture in the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies (CAST) in UB’s School of Architecture and Planning, Geiger is using architecture to help young immigrant and refugee children understand their own individual journeys of migration.

“There was a time, maybe, that architecture was designed to shape a building,” Geiger said. “But now architects can build many things that affect our beliefs and our built environment, and there are many different ways to participate.”

Geiger is planning to relaunch one of his biggest projects, “Beau Fleuve (You Are Here),” an interactive architecture installation inspired by the legend that Buffalo’s name comes from the French words for “beautiful river.”

Some people believe the name stems from French settlers who came to the area and called the Niagara River “beautiful,” according to Geiger. The British heard the French phrase and misunderstood it and said “buffalo” instead, he said.

“Beau Fleuve” is 15-foot tube made of felt and embedded with speakers and microphones. As children crawl through the tunnel, they can touch sensors and trigger the microphones, which talk to them and ask them to talk about themselves. The children, in turn, explore their own histories through the help of the structure.

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Jordan Geiger, an assistant professor of architecture in UB’s School of Architecture and Planning, uses his work to help young immigrant and refugee children understand their own individual journeys.

“I like to explore the ways that architecture relates to the rest of the world, being it culture, technology or society,” Geiger said. “It’s not just about buildings, but how we live in it.”

The Manhattan native explored his own innovative path through his studies. Geiger earned his undergraduate degree in contemporary literature – studying literature in Italian, French and English – from UC Berkeley in California, but he became interested in architecture while in school. After graduation, he earned a Master’s in architecture from Columbia University in New York City.

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Continued from page 1: The multitasking architect He worked in many different architectural studios and he created his own studio, Ga-Ga, in 2002. The California-based studio was inspired by a project by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, an interdisciplinary design studio in New York City that combines architecture, visual arts and performing arts in its projects, according to Geiger.

“It was really fulfilling,” he said. “I had worked for other architects for many years, and I decided I wanted to go on my own. That was the start of exploring my own interests more than before.”

Ga-Ga, in turn, has produced its own installation, gallery and urban design projects, which have been exhibited and published at the American Institute of Architecture in 2005 and the ZeroOne Festival in 2008.

Geiger closed Ga-Ga in 2009 and continued his architecture journey and came to Buffalo for a professor position. He said moving to Buffalo gave him the opportunity to learn how architecture could be used with different fields of studies, such as computer human interaction, to analyze social and environmental issues.

Geiger currently works as an assistant professor at CAST and teaches undergraduate design studios, such as “LifeCycles,” and graduate design studios, such as “Felt,” which centers on soft structures made digitally from fabric. He also teaches history and theory seminars, such as “Zero Atmosphere Architecture,” which is about spaceships, and “Orders of Magnitude,” which centers on global computer networks and architecture.

Omar Khan, an assistant professor of architecture and one of Geiger’s colleagues, said Geiger’s work is a great asset to CAST due to his ability to think big. Khan said he’s an excellent organizer, especially with finding how technology intersects with large organizations.

Nima Vakili, a second-year graduate student in the Department of Architecture and Department of Media Study and one of Geiger’s former students, discussed how Geiger worked with his students on an equal level, without hierarchy playing a factor in his relationships with his students.

“He himself embraces any opportunity to learn new things,” Vakili said in an email. “Sometimes, he attends workshops if he feels that he can learn something new. Once, I brought an idea (borrowed from another discipline) and discussed it with him, and he was surprised and said that it was really interesting, and I should start working on it.”

Geiger’s upcoming projects include a book of essays called “Entr’acte,” which is about digital media and public space, and a conference called “MediaCities” for May 2013, which is about cities and digital media. Geiger plans to coorganize the conference with colleagues Khan and Mark Shepard, an associate professor in the school of architecture. He also plans to open an exhibition of his design work, called “Very Large Organizations,” at the WUHO gallery in Los Angeles, Calif. this April.

Outside of his design work, Geiger enjoys using his free time to travel Buffalo and getting to know the Great Lakes Region and learn about the area – his inspiration for the “Beau Fleuve” project.

Geiger believes there are more careers in architecture than ever before – aspiring students should find the path that’s right for them, whether it focuses on buildings, material research or academics.

His journey began as a college student and the opportunities to explore as an architect were endless. Geiger believes the same is true today.

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UB professor receives $50,000 grant for scientific research TAYLOR BRUNDAGE Staff Writer Dr. Eva Zurek knew she was destined to be a star.

She wanted to study acting at Canada’s University of Calgary despite her parent’s disapproval. They told her there was no money in the arts. They encouraged her to pursue science.

Zurek, an assistant chemistry professor who once aspired to be on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is receiving $50,000 in grant money to work with supercomputers and examine structures and properties of everyday materials.

The Poland native is using the Sloan Research Fellowship grant to continue studying how superconductors can save energy.

Zurek’s endeavor is to make systems stable without pressure by studying superconductors and create plastic in a more cost-effective manner. She is also a member of UB’s recent New York State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics and is interested in studying plastics, like the ones used in display screens or high-definition televisions and smartphones. Zurek focuses on how organic molecules interact with surface metals. She wants to find ways to build different organic electronic materials.

She hopes to accomplish three things: Create a practical electric superconductor, use organic plastics in TV display screens and study certain catalysts that could create cheaper plastics.

All three projects, if accomplished, will benefit the environment and economy, according to Zurek.

With a superconductor at room temperature, electricity is able to flow without resistance and thus conserves it, she said.

“You wouldn’t waste energy,” Zurek said.

“With something like a superconductor, you would be able to pass electricity without resistance.”

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards the grant to 126 researchers in the United States and Canada in an effort to not only support research and higher education but also improve the quality of American society, according to its website.

This year, Zurek is one of the 126. The grant will provide her with the funds to buy materials, travel for conferences and pay students and postdoctoral fellows who assist her, according to Michael Detty, professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry. “[Zurek is] an emerging leader in our department – not only scientifically, but in all aspects of the academic endeavor,” Detty told UB Reporter. “Her research in computational materials prediction is destined to have high impact in materials research in areas including superconductivity, catalysis, energy and molecular self-assembly.”

For years, Zurek worked under Nobel Prize winner Roald Hoffman; she attributes a large portion of her win to him.

After earning a Master’s degree in theoretical chemistry, she continued her postdoctoral research at Cornell University, where she met Hoffman.

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Dr. Eva Zurek, an assistant chemistry professor, received the Sloan Research Fellowship grant, a $50,000 award that she plans to use to continue to study how superconductors can save energy.

“I attribute the win to my background,” Zurek said. “I’ve received really good training and understanding in interesting new materials.”

Zurek notes Hoffman taught her to look at chemical systems in a completely different way – a vital tool in her studies.

She credits the Nobel Prize winner with teaching her how to “understand bonding in solids” and how to approach examining chemical systems.

The $50,000 grant allows Zurek the freedom of spending with no restrictions. A large portion of the grant will go toward salaries for her TA students, she said. “[The grant] gives Dr. Zurek the opportunity to go into a field that she doesn’t normally have,” said Andrew Shamp, a Ph.D. chemistry student. “This grant allows her to do whatever she wants.”

Although this may seem like a large sum of money, Zurek pointed out that even with the grant she couldn’t hire as many people as she would like.

She said her research projects involve indepth chemical knowledge and application.

“The students will benefit from their adviser’s enhanced reputation,” Detty said. “A good reputation rubs off on others.”

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Detty nominated Zurek for the fellowship.

She was the best candidate because she is an assistant professor and already has national and international recognition for her accomplishments, according to Detty.

Members of the department acknowledge the importance of faculty-student relationships.

“One way for students to become eligible for such awards is to engage with our excellent faculty,” said Alexander Cartwright, vice president for research and economic developments. “Students should work with the faculty on their research.”

Zurek stressed the grant is a continual opportunity and students who have been rejected should be persistent.

“You always get rejected,” Zurek said.

“You have to learn to be open minded and understand criticisms.”

Zurek submitted her publishing last year for the award and did not receive the grant.

Zurek emphasized the importance her background played in her success, as well as her persistent drive and determination. She thinks students should be enthusiastic about everything they learn.

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Enriching this community Five things UB could (and should) do in regard to the Heights

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“You’re in charge of your own safety.”

That’s one of the main points on UB’s OffCampus Student services page and the highlight of the last few weeks of our nearly one-sided conversation.

In other words, as Vice President for University Life and Services Dennis Black so encouragingly puts it, “We’re not in the protection business.”

Several articles, editorials and interviews later, The Spectrum’s question remains the same: Should UB take responsibility for the University Heights?

And so does the answer: Yes. The higher-ups clearly disagree, but if UB shouldn’t take responsibility and the Heights aren’t really a problem, then why have our inboxes been flooded with messages that say otherwise?

So to help them out and save them yet another public relations strategy meeting, here are five things The Spectrum feels could – no, need to – be done on the topic of the Heights.

1. Acknowledge there is a problem When we asked President Satish Tripathi last week to respond to the aforementioned question, his answer was one of little substance. Despite all the underlined and accented implications of unit, there is nothing in its contents that instills confidence in UB’s students – off campus or on – that they will be safe. No promises, no suggestions – just, as one commenter said, “a lot of pretty words.” And that unity only exists in writing. Otherwise, we would not be having this conversation.

There would be no talking of rising crime rates or of South Campus falling behind North Campus if we were all in this together.

Consider this UB’s intervention. The first step is admitting you have a problem. It takes credit for the good and pushes the bad into the “deal with later” pile. Except it never actually gets dealt with.

Not once have the students heard anything that resembles responsibility, nor do they feel like the university is even interested in what they have to say. Instead, it finds the easiest possible way out of the situation: blame games and carefully worded letters that say “we’ll take care of it, don’t worry about it” rather than “this is what we’re going to do to take care of it.”

Because of that, the student residents get the blame for what is done and not done in the neighborhood. Part of UB’s plan for safety is to help students realize what they’re doing wrong. They’re told to keep their porch lights on and be hospitable and warm to their neighbors and are given brochures on how to be a better person. They’re told if they don’t feel safe in the Heights but need a cheap option, they should go live in other neighborhoods like Allentown, even if accessibility and transportation is not available to them. They’re told the Heights aren’t that bad by people who are only there for a couple of hours on the weekend.

What they’re not told is how the school will help them if they need it.

“The problem is that nobody takes ownership for the students in the University Heights. The university doesn’t, the community does to some extent, as long as they’re well-behaving,” said Fred Brace, University District Housing Court liaison and Heights resident of 25 years. “For some, it’s a priority for the police because they consider it to be just kids acting up and they’re stupid walking around at 1 o’clock in the morning. You blame the victim is what it basically boils down to.”

UB even blames the students on its University Heights FAQ, citing vandalism and other “nuisance crimes” and referring to more serious incidents as rare – if your definition of rare equates to over 500 crimes of homicide, assault, rape, larceny, robbery, burglary and vehicle theft recorded last year. And Black told The Spectrum he thinks most

crimes in the Heights are student-on-student, which is just untrue.

2. Own up to its size In case you haven’t noticed during your morning cram into a Stampede bus to the Student Union, UB is not a small school. However, it’s noticeable by their actions – or lack thereof – our higher-ups believe the opposite. The Heights FAQ addresses this when mentioning why it doesn’t buy properties in the Heights: “UB simply doesn’t possess the resources needed to purchase large numbers of private residences and then provide the services required for this type of student housing.”

Most likely untrue, especially when we’re paying our president more than we’ve spent on the Heights. UB has spent approximately $150,000 in the Heights on things like security cameras, doorhangers and police patrols on peak weekends. University of Pennsylvania, a slightly smaller school but with admittedly bigger pockets, has spent $185.7 million on its off-campus residences. Canisius has also made efforts in its surrounding neighborhoods.

Unfortunately for UB, nobody believes for a second that this is too big of a deal for it to handle, especially when it’s shoveling students’ money into expansion programs and upgrades elsewhere.

3. Give University Police joint jurisdiction in the Heights In warmer months, the Buffalo Police Department and University Police Department share a joint bike patrol on Main Street. But it’s Buffalo, so do the math on how long that actually is. The only other times the departments share jurisdiction is during the first few weeks of the academic year and on Halloween weekend.

Besides that … well, good luck.

Instead of the security cameras installed that UB seems to be obsessed with talking about (which only help long after an incident, if someone can even make out the blurry image on the tape), it is essential that UPD be given joint jurisdiction in the Heights.

We’ve already mentioned a couple of major moves by other universities. Ohio State University agreed on joint jurisdiction with the City of Columbus and has seen a crime rate decrease of 5 percent. But because one of UB’s many excuses for this and for Heights housing is that it’s a state school, it’s fair to compare us to New York’s other state schools, especially the other SUNY university centers – Albany, Binghamton and Stony Brook.

In Albany, the university works with the city, other local colleges and neighborhood associations on the issue of student safety and does not endorse or recommend any areas off campus as UB does with the Heights. While Albany City Police and East Greenbush Police have main jurisdiction in off-campus residences, the school has multiple safety programs in its Pine Hills neighborhood, where many off-campus residents live.

In 2011, the Binghamton Police Department put the Police & Neighborhood Partnership for a Safer Binghamton in place. Police and city leaders meet on a monthly basis with different underrepresented communities, including students in local institutions living off campus, to figure out what needs to be improved upon.

The only one of the centers that doesn’t make up the difference is Stony Brook. Like UB, it doesn’t operate or sanction any off-campus student housing or organization facilities, nor does it share any kind of jurisdiction. However, Stony Brook also has a B grade on CollegeProwler’s Health and Safety rankings, a D- on American School Search’s Crime and Safety rankings and a walkway by campus apartments many students refer to as the “rape trail.”

If the problem is politics – which we fear it is – between BPD and UPD and students are suffering as a result, then that’s unacceptable, especially as crime rates increase and more students begin to feel unsafe. This is a state university, the crown jewel of the SUNY system and a large school with plenty of opportunities to be funded. All it will take is a level head and some actual conversation.

4. Help international students There are 5,500-plus international students at UB. Tripathi has made it part of his mission to increase that number. John Wood, senior associate vice provost for international education, told The Spectrum many, if not most, of them live in the Heights. And why shouldn’t they? It’s cheap, right off South Campus and has “university” in the name. How bad could it be?

Pretty bad, as they find out rather quickly.

It’s not until these international students get to orientation that they find out the Heights could be “potentially” dangerous and are told to be careful renting homes. By then, they’ve already found the listings on Sub-Board, Inc., and signed the leases, only to be left to figure out on their own that their houses’ conditions are deplorable or their street isn’t safe mid-afternoon, let alone late at night, or their landlord doesn’t even live in Buffalo.

This is not a difficult situation to fix; it’s just one you have to be willing to fix. Don’t leave it up to orientation brochures. Make more available to students (all students) once they’re accepted and they begin looking for housing options.

5. Buy the houses in the Heights.

Better yet, how about if UB just purchases houses in the Heights for students?

Eighty-two percent of 760 students polled felt UB should do more to improve living conditions for students in the Heights. Those conditions include over 750 violations to landlords in the past two years, including – but definitely not limited to – nonexistent carbon monoxide detectors, collapsing ceilings, bed bugs and inadequate plumbing.

Off-Campus Student Services Director Dan Ryan and Buffalo building inspectors started doing housing blitzes in 2011 to see if homes are up to code, but as Brace puts it, Ryan is just one man doing “a job for Jesus,” especially as the conditions are coupled with negligent landlords and the fact that only houses that are actually registered are inspected.

Instead of relying on a single representative to do the job of the entire university, UB has an option in which it needs to invest: Buy houses in the Heights for student use. Both UPenn (which partnered with local businesses to buy homes in University City) and Canisius College (which has since stopped buying houses but makes up for it by meeting with and monitoring landlords) have done this.

We understand the benefits of not doing anything. UB is profiting off of those who decide to stay on campus rather than spend their money elsewhere. These are the students who buy from campus dining services and pour their tuition into residence halls. These are the people UB cares about. But it would also profit from buying homes in the Heights because it would get back the money the landlords are making by taking advantage of the school’s students – hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In conclusion Nobody seems to understand that students living in the Heights aren’t looking for lavish homes and gated communities; they’re looking for the bare essentials. Safety and shelter are not the outlandish requests UB is making them out to be. They are necessities, not luxuries, and all entirely obtainable.

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Buffalo boy brings it home

Director Raymond Guarnieri’s first feature film ready for theaters MAX CRINNIN Asst. Arts Editor The last time The Spectrum covered Buffalo Boys, Raymond Guarnieri’s real work was just getting started. He has since edited tirelessly, lost countless hours of sleep and put all of his time, money and resources into his first feature film.

The finished project has exceeded his expectations.

Buffalo Boys is based on a true story that 23-year-old actor and director Ray Guarnieri witnessed first hand while growing up in the suburbs of Buffalo. As an outsider looking in on the life of the film’s troubled main character, Guarnieri knew the story was worth sharing with the world.

But he has a story of his own.

Guarnieri left Buffalo immediately after high school to chase his dream of finding work in the film industry. After a positive experience with acting in high school and the go-ahead from his family, he chose to radically change his surroundings and move to New York City in order to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA).

“The first night I was terrified,” Guarnieri said. “My parents left me in this tiny little box of a dorm room in the middle of Midtown Manhattan where it’s constantly loud with thousands and thousands of people all around you all the time. I knew no one. I was like, ‘What the hell am I doing? I miss my bedroom.’”

Guarnieri learned to adapt and found New York City to be the perfect place to start his career. The friends he made in his small Midtown dorm are still his best friends today. Together with Matt Tester and Mckenzie Trent, Guarnieri co-founded Better StirFry Productions in 2010.

Both Tester and Trent worked on Buffalo Boys as actors and producers. Tester, a 24-yearold from London, England said the project was first planned out in his Brooklyn apartment.

“It’s a passion project for Ray,” Tester said.

“He put everything into it and really drove the project forward. It’s been really crazy – two years in the making with lots of ups and downs. When we started, we didn’t envision it being this big, but now we’ve put the time and effort in and the experience has been very fulfilling.”

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Twenty-three-year-old actor and director Raymond Guarnieri has finally finished production on Buffalo Boys, a film about a story he witnessed while growing up in the Queen City. Though the film is based off his own experiences, he shares responsibility for the final product with friends and coworkers he met along the way.

For Guarnieri, it meant a great deal to make his first big project a story that brought him back to his roots in Buffalo. Not only was the story close to home, so to speak, but the City of Buffalo itself offered unique opportunities for making a film that other cities don’t have.

“You can shoot a movie that takes place just about anywhere [in Buffalo],” Guarnieri said. “There’s tons of really old architecture, you can shoot period pieces, you’ve got four seasons and it’s very diverse. Buffalo needs another industry … Buffalo having a really strong film industry is a better Buffalo. Period.

I will shoot as much of every one of my [future] films in Buffalo as I can.”

Guarnieri took full advantage of Buffalo’s resources and diversity while shooting his film, and he even chose to return for part of the editing process.

His original plan was to edit the entire project himself, but this proved to be too daunting of a task to take on alone. Guarnieri’s search for an editing partner brought him back to Buffalo where he hired the help of his close friend Don Burns.

At the time, Burns, a 32-year-old Buffalo native, had recently left a position at Full Circle Studios, a production company in Buffalo. Burns had already worked on Buffalo Boys as the cinematographer and director of photography, and his strong ties with Full Circle made him a perfect fit for the editing position.

Guarnieri said the “stars aligned” when he asked Burns to sign on for post-production.

“We hit it off right away,” Burns said. “We saw eye to eye with making creative decisions.

I was really impressed with Ray’s level of knowledge and leadership for only being 22 years old [at the time]. That was refreshing to see.”

Guarnieri and Burns were able to use the facilities at Full Circle, where they worked tirelessly for more than three and a half months making the rough cut of the film into a finished product – segment by segment.

While Burns was not the first person that Guarnieri approached for the editing job, he was ultimately the perfect fit.

“He’s the kind of guy you want to have a beer with, but at the same time, he knows how to switch that off and remain hyper-focused and do what he needs to do to get the best result,” Guarnieri said of Burns. “To find someone who’s like that is, in my opinion, pretty rare. I like to think of Buffalo Boys as only the beginning of my working relationship with him and our friendship, too.”

Burns’ embodiment of Buffalo’s “City of Good Neighbors” spirit was a common thread within the crew that consisted almost entirely of Buffalo natives.

Guarnieri has been working that same charm to get his film funded and recognized by critics and audiences alike before submitting to a list of coveted film festivals.

The most crucial element of this process is the Buffalo Boys Kickstarter.

Kickstarter is an online funding program that allows people with creative projects to set a goal for fundraising with one simple rule: meet or exceed the pledged goal within a specific deadline and receive whatever funds have been raised. Miss the goal – receive nothing.

Guarnieri described Kickstarter as the newest, most popular way to fund a project of this kind.

Buffalo Boys’ pre-production Kickstarter was a great success and collected more funds than originally expected. The new Buffalo Boys Kickstarter is set to end March 17, and the pledged goal of $7,500 is more than halfway there. If the fundraiser is a success, the money will go toward a world premiere at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in New York City on Aug. 24, and submission fees for film festivals.

Contribution to the Kickstarter page can be as low as $1, but larger donations come with a variety of perks. Guarnieri said the best way for people to see the film is to contribute enough to the Kickstarter fund to receive a copy of the DVD. Guarnieri also hopes to make a regional premiere of Buffalo Boys at the Buffalo International Film Festival, where fans from the area can come to show their support for the film.

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GREYed expectations offers laughs on sex Comedian Kelly Stone teaches sexual consent, communication in comedy show TIM ALLMAN Staff Writer Some time ago, down a river in Texas, sex educator and comedian Kelly Stone overheard a couple arguing.

“Your problem is you’ve gained weight and lost confidence in yourself,” the wife said to her husband.

Being a sex educator, Stone couldn’t help but wonder if this was an argument about their sex life, so she chimed in with her two cents.

The wife, after having read the popular novel 50 Shades of Grey, was inspired to sexually try new things. The husband, however, did not feel comfortable. Stone then explained it is important to set your expectations when it comes to sex and we all have to respect those boundaries. The couple thanked her for her help and Stone drifted away down the river.

On Wednesday night, Stone came to UB to perform her educational comedy show, GREYed expectations. The show dealt openly with issues concerned with sexual consent and communication. Though the show was meant to be funny, it mostly dealt with matters of sex education.

“I like to think of it [the show] as “edutating,” Stone said. “The combination of educating people about sex while also entertaining them.”

The show dealt with a variety of scenarios in which Stone described, “We all have the right to set our own expectations when it comes to sex.”

The show was a multi-media event, mixing casual conversation about Stone’s own sex life with an educational lecture and funny videos Stone has collected from YouTube.

One video showed two women and two men, all respectively retelling how their dates went from the night before. The men discuss over a barbeque, while the women talk during a run in the park. Making fun of the ambiguity of subjectivity, each point of view had a different take on how the dates went for the women than from the men.

“I was a little surprised by the show, actually,” said junior business management major Caleb Vaughn. “I thought the show

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On Wednesday night, comedian Kelly Stone visited UB for a night of sex education and entertainment, courtesy of Sub-Board, Inc.

was going to talk about sexual safety as in protection from STDs and things like that, but this show actually talked about physical safety, like while actually having sex. It was a lot more open – making sure communication is there before, during, and after sex. I liked that.”

What Stone pointed out was that at no point in the video do the couples discuss their expectations with one another.

“The one woman was upset because the sex only lasted for a minute, without any foreplay,” Stone said. “Had she been up front, she wouldn’t have been so disappointed. The same goes for the other couple, the guy wouldn’t have been stuck with the bill if he would have said upfront we’re going to split it.”

Another interesting part of the show was when Stone invited four students from the audience up to the stage – two boys and two girls, to play a quick game of soccer – once with co-ed teams and the other boys versus girls.

Stone pointed out how the lines of communication were different for each pairing of teams. When teams were co-ed, there was very little communication between team members – just focus on making it to the goal. With boys versus girls, there was a lot more discussion.

Stone would reiterate throughout the show the importance of communication between sexual couples.

“It’s OK to say, ‘Hey, I can’t get it up right now; perhaps we shouldn’t have sex right now,’” Stone said. “Or if you’re into some-

thing like S&M, you don’t want to be put in a situation where someone is choking you even though you were never asked.”

Stone later said there are still some things that even comedy still can’t necessarily help to talk about, like jokes about abortion or leaking.

“I thought the show was funny and informative,” said Erica Buckhanan, a junior film studies major. “I liked the idea of communicating before sex, like what I like and what I don’t like upfront. These are tips I’ll definitely share with my friends.”

Students with questions about sex education or Kelly Stone’s show can visit SBI Health Education at 341 Student Union.

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UB Students Against Cancer is raising money for this year’s Relay for Life event, scheduled for April 6 in Alumni Arena, to assist all types of cancer research.

Every step counts

Editor’s note: This article is a satire piece. It is not to be taken literally. ‘Carson’ is a pen name.

Dear Carson,

UB students raise money to participate in this year’s Relay for Life event SHARON KAHN Staff Writer Last April’s Relay For Life event raised approximately $85,000 for cancer research. This year, participants hope to raise $150,000.

The 24-hour event is taking place on April 12 at 6 p.m. and goes until April 13 at 6 a.m. in Alumni Arena. Since the day last year’s relay ended, the executive board and committee members have been working to plan for Relay 2013. The student-run event works with an American Cancer Society staff partner to execute the event.

According to Julie Smith, the adviser to the executive board, this is the eighth year UB has been involved with the American Cancer Society and Relay For Life.

In previous years, the national Relay for Life campaign raised $23.4 million on 467 college campuses. Last year, over 600,000 survivors along with 3 million participants walked tracks nationwide to raise money for cancer.

Because “cancer never sleeps,” Relay for Life is an overnight event. Teams walk around a track for 24 hours to raise money for multiple types of cancer research.

Yasmine El-Gohary, a senior anthropology major, is vice president of UB Against Cancer and co-chair of the Relay For Life event.

The committee has been planning this year’s event since the summer.

Each board member is in charge of overseeing different committees to make sure everything is properly planned. El-Gohary’s position is to oversee the activities and entertainment committee for the event. This includes the Luminaria – a candle light vigil held to honor those who lost their lives to cancer – and ceremonies committees.

“I work closely with those chairs and advise them,” El-Gohary said. “I was the activities and entertainment chair for two years so I know that area well. At Relay itself, the executive board works on engaging everyone in the room. We make sure people are happy, [we] get feedback and solve problems.”

Currently, 50 teams have signed up to participate in Relay For Life this year. The teams consist of a total of 350 participants and they have already raised $15,334. Last year’s event had approximately 1,500 participants on the night of the event.

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Department of Geography

SUMMER 2013 COURSES

Session J (May 20-June 28, 2013) GEO 101 EARTH SYSTEMS SCIENCE I M – F 9:40 AM - 10:55 AM

* Sequence satisfies General Education’s Natural Sciences requirement

GEO 103 GEOG OF ECONOMIC SYSTEMS ONLINE GEO 281 WEB BASED GIS ONLINE *Both components (lecture and recitation) must be taken in the same semester

GEO 330 DYNAMICS OF INTL BUSINESS M W 6:30 PM - 9:40 PM GEO 334 INTL ENV & COMM PROBLEMS ONLINE For further details, please check the department website: http://www.geog.buffalo.edu

Session M (July 1-August 9, 2013) GEO 106 EARTH SYSTEMS SCIENCE II M – F 9:40 AM - 10:55 AM (Lecture) LAB – GEO 106 Lab T R 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Both components (lecture and lab) must be taken in the same semester

**GEO 211 UNIVARIATE STATISTICS M- F 12:35 PM -1:50 PM (Lecture) LAB- GEO 211 T R 2:00 PM- 3:00 PM

Both components (lecture and lab) must be taken in the same semester * Sequence satisfies General Education’s MathematicalSciences requirement

GEO 333 BASES OF WORLD COMMERCE M W 6:30 PM - 9:40 PM GEOGRAPHICAL INFO SYSTEMS T R 6:30 PM - 9:40 PM (Lecture) GEO 481 [Undergrad] or GEO 506 [Graduate] LAB – GEO 481 T R 5:00 - 6:20 PM Both components (lecture and lab) must be taken in the same semester

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Sincerely, Passive Prez

Dear Prez, I’m glad you took my advice last week, because honestly, leaving the front page blank would have been totally mainstream. Not only would all those little muckraking sensationalists at The Spectrum have gotten their way with you, they’d think their paper was doing something worthy of attention. What they don’t realize is that whether you say something about the Heights or not, nobody reads The Spectrum. Preaching the truth to “several important on-campus communication channels” was way more indie, chill-wave and bodacious. Right on, man. Those reporters came at your life hard, and it’s a typical Spectrum-like display of unethical journalism.

Aaron Mansfield, with his hipster haircut, thinks he can call you out on your campus?

(I liked how you bolded and underlined the word “all” a bunch of times in your response, so I was vibing you there for a sec.) Well, too bad he chose Lisa Khoury for the job. This story will tattoo her reputation forever with a failure to fact-check and cover both sides of the story. I told you to just leave The Spectrum out of your response entirely and you were right on target, so direct in doing so – the best way to “say something” is by saying nothing at all (that’s how I get chicks, at least). You’re a fearless leader, and I won’t let The Spectrum bend or break you. Continue to sweep everything under the rug, hole up in your office, give your PR rep something to say ... Do what you gotta do. This is some heavy s**t that you’re going to have to “UB 2020” yourself out of for a little while longer before everything goes back to normal. Until then: get money, get paid. Deuces.

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Librarians: mastering the art of research SHARON KAHN Staff Writer After two-and-a-half years of labor and education law, Tiffany Walsh realized it wasn’t the career for her.

She needed to start over and find her passion.

Walsh remembered what an old college professor once told her, “If you know you’re not happy [with your profession] then what you should do is just put out a lot of different feelers … try four or five different avenues and set that out as different options, and then when you get some information back, see which one of those will actually lead to something.”

Eager to stay local, the Western New Yorker returned to UB, after attending Columbia University, for a more cost-efficient education.

When she came to UB, the Master’s of Library Science program caught her attention.

“I had an epiphany – why didn’t I think of that before,” Walsh said.

Walsh has been a librarian at UB for nine years and maintains it was the right decision.

She now provides in-person and online reference and instruction services for undergraduates. Walsh is also in charge of administering and maintaining the Library Skills Workbook, which every student at UB has to complete in order to graduate.

Walsh said applying to UB was the right decision. The timing was right and the content was right in terms of her personality and interests.

Walsh loved the program.

“I have always been a person that enjoys reading,” Walsh said. “I very much like working one on one with people and I get a lot of fulfillment out of helping somebody find something and being able to have that personal contact with them.”

Walsh applied and was accepted into the Master’s of Library Science program for spring of 2003 and was excited to return back to school.

“I was still in my 20s so I was pretty young and I knew I had lots of time if I wasn’t really happy,” Walsh said. “I thought that at this point in my life I can really go back to school and it wont be a hardship.”

Walsh’s next move scared her the most – leaving her job as an established attorney. She still had student loans to pay back and gave up her salary to go back to school.

During her time as a full-time student at UB, she was able to get a job at the Law Library making minimum wage. She loved it.

Walsh finished the program in three semesters and kept her job at the library to make sure she was financially stable until graduation.

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Tiffany Walsh never imagined she would end up as a librarian after being a lawyer for two years. She found her passion in the UB Master’s of Library Science program and has never regretted her decision.

“I think something people don’t know about librarians is that many of them have backgrounds in topics you may not imagine,” Walsh said. “All of them have a extremely wide-ranging bachelor’s degrees and even master’s degrees, as well.”

According to Walsh, academic librarians already have master’s and a background in various subject areas. Walsh believed this program was right for her because she was in the same place as her peers.

“They weren’t just out of college, and many were even teachers who were working during the day and taking classes in the evening,” Walsh said. “It was really an eclectic mix of people and backgrounds and it was a very warm and welcoming environment.”

Walsh happily followed the general library track within the master’s program to become a reference librarian, a career that better suited her than being an attorney. During her time as a master’s student at UB, Walsh enjoyed classes involving reference services, where her passion for researched thrived.

“I enjoyed learning about all these different things out there that I didn’t know about,” Walsh said. “Places you could go to find information about these little facts and questions somebody might have.”

She was introduced to a new side of being a librarian during her library instruction course.

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“This was a wonderful, wonderful class,” Walsh said. “You’re in a small environment and it’s not intimidating because you’re amongst friends.”

Walsh, along with the rest of her peers, had to prepare a 20-minute presentation, where her peers acted as a class of students. It was intimidating, but it was the best thing she had ever done, Walsh said.

She was able to use the 20-minute presentation for interviews and job opportunities for future academic positions. Now, as a full-time librarian, Walsh uses lessons similar to the ones she executed during her time as a student.

Walsh still spends a lot of time doing public speaking, especially when it comes to teaching classrooms full of students, but now she is in a much more comfortable role. Walsh enjoys the personal and one-on-one attention her career provides, and she finds a lot of joy in helping students.

Continued from page 5: Every step counts “Naturally, we reach out to a lot of sponsors,” El-Gohary said. “But mainly we are focusing on getting the teams engaged and encouraging them to start fundraising now and get creative with their events. Spreading the word about Relay is the key to gaining more participants and that’s done by organizing said events and asking for donations.”

The committees are working hard to raise staff involvement by sending out invitations. They are also turning to staff members and professors who have previously participated and are encouraging them to attend as well.

UB Relay For Life, as well as UB Against Cancer, has hosted multiple events to raise money for its cause including raffles, bake sales, pancake sales and clothing sales, according to Megan Rosen, secretary to the executive board and junior biological sciences major. Rosen has been involved with Relay since she was 17.

Team members are encouraged to fundraise individually for the event as well as create team fundraisers. Phi Alpha Delta, a co-ed pre-law fraternity, held an event last Saturday at The U, located near UB’s North Campus, which raised $1,318 for the event.

Upcoming events include a variation of March Madness – called Race to Electricity – in which teams will register and advance in the “tournament” by fundraising. The final four, semi-final and “relay champion” will win prizes, be crowned at the closing ceremony and awarded with a surprise.

They are using every outlet possible to get students involved and engaged in the cause. Students and staff members who are looking to participate in the event or create a team can do so at relayforlife.org/ ubny.

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1 Botanical intersection

57 Charles family pet, in film

5 Become troublesome

58 Circle measurements

10 Ends bachelorhood

59 Poi, essentially

14 "Once ___ a midnight dreary ..."

60 Sgts. and cpls.

15 Tonsorial service 16 Fabled fast starter 17 Word with "media" or "exodus" 18 Less dangerous 19 "Put ___ writing!"

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61 Turn aside, as a gaze 62 Good's opponent

22 "___ it" (thief's admission)

50 Bequest recipients

63 Athletic shoe bottom

25 Big cheese in Greece

52 Lab measuring unit

64 Rancorous, as a divorce

26 Bad spot for dandelions to appear

53 Carry on wildly

65 It gets you a hand

27 Roman who recorded Greek mythology

54 Cleanse with soap and water

28 Bewildered utterances

55 Opera solo

29 Atomic number of hydrogen

56 Kewpie, for one

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1 Ready for the dentist's drill

31 Abbr. in a real estate ad

23 Champing at the bit

2 Lustrous gem

32 1, 66 or 95, on GPS (Abbr.)

24 On edge

3 Bit of reality?

33 ___ monster (lizard)

25 Groups of indigenous plants

4 Captures, as a wild animal

34 Inconclusive

28 Head covering

5 Balance-sheet pluses

35 Sheep hangouts

30 Gutter locale

6 "Hanging" problems in the 2000 election

37 ___ down (softened)

31 "City Slickers" co-star Kirby 33 "___ Blas" (LeSage novel)

7 Stretchy seaside sweet

39 Told a story

36 Make a bad situation worse

8 Pigmented part of the eye

43 Gratify

40 Common conjunction

9 It can make waves

44 Mental health

41 Fairytale monsters

10 Frittered (away)

45 "Whether ___ nobler ..."

42 Cryptographer's A

11 Eschew a restaurant

46 "___ home is his castle"

43 ___-Penh, Cambodia (Var.)

12 ___ up (quits talking)

47 '70s "fever"

44 Adoptable animals

13 Become aware of

48 Sing the praises of

46 "Rolling in the Deep" singer

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) -- You may not be responsible for as much as usual today, as someone else is likely to jump in and take some of the load.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- What goes on behind the scenes today is likely to impact you more directly than anything that happens out in the open.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- The devil is in the details, they say, and you'll know just what they mean as you tackle the little things that make all the difference.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- You may not be able to force the issue today, but if you lay back and let others do the work for you, it can be resolved very much to your liking.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Now is no time to insist on having things your way; compromise is the only way to achieve even just a portion of what you want.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- You know what is likely to be asked of you today -- but take care you don't jump the gun in any way. Wait until you are asked!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- No news is good news -- at least for a portion of the day. After dark, you'll want to keep your ear to the ground and get all the scoop.

LIBRA (Sept.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -You may be afforded a rare glimpse today at the inner workings of something that is usually kept very much under wraps.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -You and a teammate may have to work from positions that others might consider disadvantageous.

Indeed, you may be quite far apart.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- You're showing signs of being rather worn down by an issue that refuses to be resolved.

Perhaps it's time for you to let it go!

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Admiration for ’Cuse nation

A flat finish

Bulls fall to Akron, 77-60

JON GAGNON Sports Editor

JARED BOVE Staff Writer Three days after one of its most dominant defensive performances of the season, the women’s basketball team was faced with the challenge of hosting one of the nation’s hottest offenses.

The Bulls (10-19, 8-8 Mid-American Conference) were unable to keep up with Akron’s (21-8, 12-4 MAC) ninth-ranked scoring offense, as they fell 77-60 in their regular season finale.

After holding Kent State (3-26, 1-15 MAC) to just nine points in the first half of Sunday’s game, the Bulls started off trailing 8-0 within the first few minutes and ended up allowing 45 points at the end of the first half.

“Our motto this whole year has been defense,” said freshman guard Mackenzie Loesing. “You win games through defense and today we weren’t tough enough defensively. We didn’t believe we could stop them early.”

Despite some early steals and transition opportunities, the Bulls were unable to keep pace with the Zips. This was due, in large part, to their shooting inefficiencies.

The Bulls’ perimeter shooting was underwhelming, as they were unable to find the hoop on their first 10 attempts from behind the arc.

Akron scored the last 10 points of the half and the Bulls hit the locker room facing a daunting 21-point deficit.

After the break, the Bulls outscored the Zips 36-32, but they were ultimately unable to recover from Akron’s first half performance.

“We’ve come too far to perform like we did tonight,” said head coach Felisha Legette-Jack. “Akron is a very good basketball team, but we didn’t let them beat us. We helped them beat us.”

One of the trademarks of this Bulls team has been its physicality. This season, it has outrebounded a majority of its opponents, but Wednesday night’s contest was a completely different story.

The Bulls were dominated in the rebound battle, 50-30.

“As a coach you come to rely on certain things like one player giving us 12 rebounds and another player giving us eight or nine.”

Legette-Jack said. “Today, it wasn’t like that and there were some times when we looked like a completely different team out there.”

The Bulls came into Wednesday night averaging 60 points per game, and their offensive performance was precisely that: average. Three Bulls put up double-digit points, but outside of the top three, the rest of the team only managed to score 17 combined.

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Sophomore forward Kristen Sharkey (above) added 11 points and two blocks for the Bulls. It was not enough to fend off Akron in UB’s final home game on Wednesday night.

Freshman Mackenzie Loesing led the team in scoring with 17 points. Her night also included three rebounds and four steals in 28 minutes on the floor.

Junior Cherridy Thornton and sophomore Kristen Sharkey also turned in doubledigit scoring performances, as they finished with 15 and 11 points, respectively.

The Bulls finishes the regular season with an 8-8 record in conference play, a mark good enough for the No. 7 seed in the upcoming MAC tournament.

“The great thing about tonight is that the regular season is over,” Legette-Jack said. “A new season begins on Saturday.”

The team will host Northern Illinois (722, 2-14 MAC) on Saturday in the tournament’s first round. Tip-off is at 2 p.m.

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Byron Mulkey, Ohio and a daunting juxtaposition AARON MANSFIELD Editor in Chief It is not normal to play four years of college basketball, no football, and then try out for the NFL two years after your basketball career has ended. Normal has never been the Mulkey Way. I attended UB’s annual NFL pro day at Ralph Wilson Stadium on Tuesday. The competitors who showed up were unsurprising: three UB seniors and a few other college athletes from the area. And then there was Byron Mulkey.

If you are a freshman or sophomore, you probably never had the opportunity to see Mulkey play on the men’s basketball team.

If you didn’t get to see him play, I am truly sorry – you missed out on a show. The Bulls have not had a floor general or leader quite like Mulkey the past two seasons. Of course, they have had amazing athletes, including a conference player of the year, but that’s what made Mulkey so endearing to fans: He was never the most athletic.

He had copious talent, as expected of any Division I point guard, but there were always guys on the bench with more raw athleticism.

He just knew what he was doing (he was a “coach on the court,” as they say), boasted a wet jumper and, most importantly, had an innate ability to rally his troops.

I witnessed a strange juxtaposition on Tuesday. Shortly after my conversation with

Mulkey, I attended the men’s basketball game against Ohio. When the Bulls led 69-63 with 3:51 to go, I felt a knot in my stomach.

I turned to the two gentlemen next to me and asked: “Do you have the strange feeling they’re going to blow this?” They agreed.

And the Bulls eventually fell, 72-69.

Here’s the reason we were doubtful: This year’s team doesn’t have the all-around leadership.

There are a few players who play bit roles: Senior Tony Watson is an exceptional leader, but his primary role is streak shooter and it’s tough to play both roles, especially when you’re cold, which inevitably happens to every three-point specialist; freshman Jarryn Skeete has really stepped up at the point, and he showed brazen confidence late in the game when he took the ball right to the rack (though Ohio’s Reggie Keely sent that attempt into the stands), but he’s still a freshman and has “rookie moments,” which often come full-circle at the end of games; junior forward Javon McCrea is dominant but he isn’t vocal on the court; and junior Jarod Oldham is the established point guard, but he has missed most of the season with a wrist injury.

Mulkey had a good team surrounding him during his senior year, but it wasn’t great.

Jawaan Alston, the sixth man, would occupy the same role this year. Zach Filzen was a great shooter, but so is Watson. There was no post player back then nearly as good as McCrea today, who will go off for 30 and 10 whenever he wants to. Nonetheless, that 2010-11 team finished 20-14.

This year’s Bulls are 12-18, though their roster is inherently similar to that of 201011.

Why? A team will never be great if it doesn’t have defined leadership. I recently had a conversation with junior wide receiver Fred Lee of the football team, and he shared an interesting thought: “Leadership is what wins games,” he said. “That’s why Alabama wins games – because you have guys on the team who don’t tolerate anything.”

Mulkey has his Master’s degree in higher education administration from UB, and he has a good job as an adviser at Georgia State.

Someday, he will be high up in an athletic department, maybe even an athletic director.

Anyone who knows him knows he’s going to make UB proud.

Frankly, he will have a hard time catching on with an NFL team, but the Arena Football League and Canadian Football League are very realistic options. Regardless of what happens, Byron Mulkey is going to be successful because he is a natural leader.

The men’s basketball team will continue to look for unceasing leadership that is not intimidated late in tight games but instead demands the ball, saying: “This is my team, and I will lead us to victory.”

You know who did that Tuesday? Ohio’s senior guard D.J. Cooper.

Mulkey had Cooper’s mindset, and it didn’t always work. The Bulls lost some games, but overall, they were much more successful than this year’s squad.

Mulkey knew each team needs that leader: It’s the only Way. Email: aaron.mansfield@ubspectrum.com

I am a die-hard Syracuse Orange basketball fan. I was born and raised in ’Cuse and am proud to say one of the happiest moment of my life was in sixth grade (2003) when the Orange won the National Championship.

Lately, I haven’t been so happy. The Orange were recently on a three-game losing streak and dropped out of the top 10 in the rankings for the first time since the end of the 201011 season. It’s safe to say this is the worst stretch of basketball we’ve seen from ’Cuse in about three years, which is prompting me to go against my better judgment and write my first-ever column about my beloved team.

Everyone in the country, including the city’s own, has written us off for the season, but not me.

Not only am I a die-hard Orange fan, but I am an avid fan of college basketball in general. And I believe ‘Cuse has a good chance to cut down the nets this year.

If you’re still reading, you are probably aware of the team’s recent struggles. The Orange have lost six of their last 11 and their current No. 17 ranking is the lowest the program has had since Feb. 21, 2011. Their three-game losing streak came at the hands of teams that were all ranked in the top 25 – but that isn’t why I still have hope.

The reason: there has never been this much parity in college basketball for as long as I can remember.

Indiana has been the only team in the country that has ever serviced the title as a “great team,” and even the Hoosiers have five losses.

There are zero great teams and just a handful of good ones.

I’ve had my doubts about the Orange, but their most recent loss to Louisville altered my mindset on the rest of their season. They failed to defeat the Cardinals, but their second-half performance was some of the best basketball I’ve seen them play all year. They looked hungry and aggressive for once.

Had it not been for one key player’s mistakes, I think they would have pulled off the win. ’Cuse faithful know who I am referring to – our senior who has started every game while a member of the Orange and couldn’t touch the ball in the second half without taking a bad shot or turning the ball over: Brandon Triche.

Despite the losses, it hasn’t been all bad for ’Cuse. Which leads me into an Orange-devoted segment: the good, the bad and the ugly.

The good: C.J. Fair, aka Mr. Reliable. Fair has been the only consistent player on the team throughout the entirety of the season. In the last three losses, the offense has been stagnant and inefficient, to say the least. But Fair has managed to drop 17.3 points per game while shooting an incandescent 54 percent during the losing streak and always finding a way to keep hope alive.

Honorable mention: James Southerland has undoubtedly given ’Cuse a lift with his perimeter shooting. Before Wednesday’s game against DePaul, he had averaged 14.1 PPG and knocked down over three 3-pointers since his return from suspension. But his trigger-happy ways lose possessions early in the shot clock all too often.

The bad: Michael Carter-Williams. Earlier in the season, he was a candidate for Player of the Year, but since then, it seems members of ’Cuse nation are the only people to recognize that his stock as a top 10 draft pick is absurd. His assists and points are down during the losing streak and he continues to struggle shooting the ball.

The not-so-bad? He has been the only player to attempt to penetrate and attack the basket late in games – making former Scoop Jardine haters regret his absence. If only MCW had this mentality for 40 minutes.

The ugly: Brandon Triche. It’s not his 8.7 PPG, his ungodly 29 percent field-goal shooting or even his 7.6 percent (1 for 13) shooting from deep (stats from the three-game losing streak) that makes him intolerable to me. It’s his mindset. When he misses or turns the ball over, he looks defeated and rejected. He has had this frigid attitude his whole career, but there’s no time for that now.

You’re the senior; step it up. Unless he goes “Keyser Soze” on us come tournament time, he’ll forever remain in my ’Cuse doghouse with the likes of Donte Greene and Fab Melo.

There’s time for this team to turn it around – look at what UConn did two years ago. The Orange play defense and are as athletic as any team in the country. If they can put together performances like they did in the second half against Louisville last week, I like this team.

When Gonzaga sits atop the top 25 rankings as the “best” team in the country, there can still be hope.

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