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UB reacts to Ukraine-Russia conflict SA

elections to begin after Spring Break

TORI ROSEMAN

STAFF WRITER

Since February, tensions between Ukraine and Russia have resulted in violent riots, Russian military action and a missing president. Russia’s recent invasion of Crimea has heightened the situation – and the ensuing publicity. Many faculty members and students believe the conflict is historically significant. Though some students say they are not as informed on the matter as they’d like to be, others have developed opinions on the implications of the events in Crimea. Colin Lewis, a junior psychology major, has been following the issues through articles and photos. “It’s as if I’m reading something out of a history textbook – this is going to have an effect over the next few years,” Lewis said. “Even though we’re obviously not in the Ukraine, it’s interesting to feel like you’re part of a historical event.” Russian President Vladimir Putin has stationed troops in Crimea. On Sunday, March 16, a referendum will determine what will come of Crimea – whether Ukraine or Russia will possess it as a territory and what rights the people of the region will have. The two countries signed an agreement over Crimea in 1997, putting it under Ukrainian control for the next 20 years. Crimea’s status was not supposed to be discussed until 2017, but the actions of Putin and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych have caused an early re-evaluation. “I think a number of factors are at play,” said Philip Arena, a political science assistant professor. “But a big part of the story is that Putin likely felt he had a narrow window of opportunity to guarantee that Russia would hold onto its naval base in Sevastopol – a city at the southwestern tip of the Crimean peninsula.” Sevastopol is important to Russia because its Black Sea Fleet, or navy, is stationed there. Without

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Russian President Vladimir Putin stationed troops in Crimea last month. The move followed protests in Ukraine demanding the removal of its president, Viktor Yanukovych, who has since fled to Russia.

that port, the navy would have to relocate, and Russia would lose access to the Black Sea and, indirectly, the Mediterranean Sea. When Yanukovych won the presidential election in 2004, citizens took to the streets in what was called the Orange Revolution – a 17-day protest against his election. A month later, a second election took place and Yanukovych lost. He came back into power in 2010, winning the election for presidency. The results were appealed but eventually dropped, and Yanukovych became president. Ukraine has been facing a financial crisis since November. Yanukovych decided to seek help from Russia. Though Ukraine is not part of the European Union (EU), it had the option to seek aid from the EU but chose not to. Yanukovych’s decision caused Ukrainian citizens to protest, mostly in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev,

which is about 500 miles from Crimea. What started as citizens with signs progressively grew into violence. The government reported the death toll has risen to 77, according to CNN. Parliament attempted to calm the riots, taking away powers from Yanukovych, who subsequently fled Kiev for Russia. He has not returned to his country but still proclaims himself president. Michelle Benson, a political science professor, wonders what will come next. “It’s the biggest East-West conflict that’s occurred since the end of the Cold War,” Benson said. “It could have some surprisingly important implications, economically and politically a ways down the road, depending on how Russia reacts. They’ve already reacted much worse than anybody could have imagined.” The U.S. Senate has discussed providing Ukraine with a $1 bil-

lion aid package. Secretary of State John Kerry has told Russia that any move to annex Crimea could end hopes of diplomacy. “I’ll admit, I haven’t kept up with what’s been going on,” said Jordan Alperin, a freshman accounting major. “I know that the situation over there isn’t good, but as far as the details go, I definitely haven’t followed as closely as some people may have. I feel like not too many students have the time to. Who has the time to sit and read about the conflict when I’m not required to know about it?” The upcoming Ukraine-Russia referendum will determine what will happen next. Putin is continuing to defend his actions, claiming to dismiss the idea of war. Kerry said Russian actions could have a major effect upon Russian-American relations.

Student Association elections for next year’s president, vice president, treasurer and SUNY delegates will take place March 25-27 – the week following Spring Break. Polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday, in the Student Union Theater. This year, each party can have only 15 supporters on the SU floor at one time. Also, on the Thursday of the election, supporters will be confined in an area that will not allow them to walk voters to the polls. The Impact Party consists of presidential candidate Erin Lachaal; vice presidential candidate Myriam Diomande; treasurer candidate Juan Jimenez; and SUNY delegate candidates Cesar Carrion, Tony Daniel, Farhan Hussain and Colin Kelly. The Value Party consists of presidential candidate James Ingram; vice presidential candidate Evan Chen; treasurer candidate Sade Cadle; and SUNY delegate candidates Sophia Peters, Hayley Ross, Corinne Zee and Collin Olander. Treasurer candidate Ali Ahmed is running independently. The Spectrum will release candidate breakdowns and the publication’s official endorsements Friday, March 14. email: news@ubspectrum.com

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Leonard to speak at UB’s Center For the Arts CHRISTIAN BRUNO

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World-famous sustainability proponent Annie Leonard will tell her Story of Stuff at UB Tuesday. She will speak at the Center For the Arts beginning at 7 p.m. Leonard is best known for her work leading up to the Story of Stuff project, in which she talks about the culture of waste with “stuff ” today. The project started as a lecture but expanded to a movie and then to a series of short films and a book. Leonard’s work centers on environmental problems generated by wasteful creating, using and throwing away of various products. Leonard addresses all parts of our production chain, and how it’s designed for waste – specifically to drive corporate profit. “Toxic in, toxic out,” Leonard says in one film. “I think [what Leonard does] is an excellent endeavor to be able to explain complex sustainability issues faced by our society … that is both informative as well as entertaining,” said Himanshu Grover, an assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Leonard’s work in activism started with her time at Green-

peace on a campaign to ban international waste dumping. Her efforts helped new regulations in international environmental standards. Leonard has caught the attention news outlets. Glenn Beck, former Fox News political pundit, for instance, once blasted Leonard for “left-wing propaganda.” In a 2010 interview with political satirist Stephen Colbert, Colbert joked Leonard “must think this economic downturn is fantastic,” to which she replied that it was “an opportunity for people to better use their money.” Matt Prizing, a senior environmental and geosciences major, was excited to hear Leonard is speaking at UB. Prizing is the president of Alpha Kappa Chi, the environmental fraternity on campus. “I was invited to the presentation and so were all the brothers,” Prizing said. “They’re all really excited to meet [Leonard]. When I mentioned Annie Leonard, there was this one pledge who was like, ‘Oh my God! I love Annie Leonard!’” Grover, who specializes in climate change, sustainability and community resilience, is also pleased about Leonard’s pend-

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ing visit. “We should do more of these [events],” he said. “It is an excellent way to introduce students to people they hear about and at times follow during their coursework. This is a very exciting lecture for me and I will surely attend.”

Leonard’s work, especially her videos, has inspired others to use and follow her example. Grover said he was following Story of Stuff before the talk was planned. He added that he has used Leonard’s clips, which are available on her website, to explain concepts in his lectures.

Prizing said he will be bringing his own film crew from a class to record Leonard’s talk. He encourages students outside the fraternity to attend the lecture. email: news@ubspectrum.com

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Paranormal activities

UB PARA club uses experiences with supernatural to fuel investigations CLAUDIA ORNIS

STAFF WRITER

Alicia Knauf has always felt surrounded by the supernatural – even before she was born. When Knauf ’s mother was pregnant, she visited a psychic, who told her the child she was carrying was a “gift from the angels.” Knauf ’s mother always told her there was a bright white light coming from her room at night, which symbolized the “Lady in White” visiting. When Knauf, a sophomore biomedical sciences major, saw the advertisement for UB Paranormal Activity Research Association (PARA) at a club fair her freshman year, she took it as a sign and eagerly joined the group. UB PARA is a club geared toward the education and investigation of paranormal and supernatural activities. The club meets every Thursday at 8 p.m. in 250 SU. The club is composed of eight members who have different views on the paranormal. Jennifer Empey, a sophomore chemistry major and vice president of the club, is more skeptical than other club members. “I’m mainly interested in finding reasons to ‘debunk’ many claims of hauntings or supernatural occurrences wherever we go,” Empey said in an email. Empey has never had any personal experiences with the supernatural, but she finds the ideas of ghosts and the paranormal to be fascinating and enjoys discussing the topics. The mystery surrounding hauntings keeps her coming to the club week after week. Growing up, Knauf said her parents made her pick their lot-

JUAN D. PINZON, THE SPECTRUM UB PARA members Carlos Cevallos, a sophomore biomedical sciences major, Alicia Knauf, a sophomore biomedical sciences major, Jennifer Empey, a sophomore chemistry major, and Stephen Keller, a junior computer science major, investigate supernatural activities on campus.

tery tickets because she often chose winning numbers. Knauf said when she was younger, she had conversations with a house in her neighborhood. The house was the site of where a young boy named Danny had died some years before, she said. She said she would often speak with the boy’s ghost whenever she walked by and sometimes he would even ask to play with her. More recently, during her commute to UB, Knauf was in a car accident and though her car was totaled, she managed to walk away unharmed. She believes this luck was the product of some supernatural force. “I believe in believing,” Knauf said. “Science itself is a philosophy defined as we know it. So to say that there isn’t supernatural forces will, in my opinion, be ig-

norant. I believe in [the supernatural] wholeheartedly, but I want to prove it scientifically.” UB PARA aims to collect scientific proof to either prove or disprove supernatural events. The club goes on investigations on campus to try and find evidence of supernatural occurrences. Carlos Cevallos, a sophomore biomedical sciences major, said the club works to educate members on the proper ways to conduct an investigation. “The first few weeks [of PARA] we mainly learn the proper procedures for when we go out on investigations,” Cevallos said. For these investigations, the club usually goes to locations around South Campus but also explores Clemens and O’Brian Halls. Once there, the members

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use a Maglite flashlight, which has a twistable light bulb that can be twisted almost completely off, to try and communicate with any potentially present supernatural force. “The theory is that ghosts affect the electromagnetic field, so if they were to interact with it, they would complete the circuit and turn on the light,” Cevallos said. During his freshman year, junior computer science major Stephen Keller experienced such an occurrence. Keller and the club members had set up a Maglite outside of Harriman Hall when the light started responding to the questions that they asked, he said. “We always try to follow a method of not going in thinking we’re going to find anything,” Keller said. “We try to find rea-

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sonable proof to debunk any strange occurrences that we find. But when we can’t find a reasonable explanation, then possibly [the occurrence] is something that we haven’t explained yet.” When Keller and company encountered the force, the members asked a series of ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions, inquiring whether the spirit in question was a student and whether it was happy. If the light turned on, it signified a ‘yes,’ but if it remained off, the answer was a ‘no.’ By the end of the questioning, Keller said the group learned that the spirit was a former nursing student. When on South Campus, the members usually ask questions geared toward the medical sciences and architecture, Empey said, because these are the topics students study on South Campus. During the spring semester of last year, the club went into the basement of Harriman Hall and entered a corridor now used for storage, turned off all the lights and set up their Maglite. The members of the club were asking questions but the Maglite still had not turned on. Suddenly, a member of the club felt a push. “Her trajectory didn’t match a fall,” Knauf said. “It looked like she was pushed. But we can’t say that a spirit pushed her; it’s too easy.” For the members of UB PARA, finding evidence that something is out of the ordinary or unexplainable is just the first part of their investigation. Empey said trying to debunk any strange occurrences makes their work scientific.

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New SAT gets a failing grade – again Revisions to the SAT do little to remedy problems of standardized testing

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A poor indicator of success in high school, of work ethic, of intelligence, of future performance in college – the SAT is all of the above. For the second time in a decade, the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) has gone through an overhaul. Ironically, this second round of revisions undoes one of the largest changes made in 2005 – adding an essay and shifting the maximum score to 2,400 points. The changes announced last week will do away with the essay, making it optional for students and bringing the maximum score back to 1,600. Additionally, College Board president David Coleman announced the revised test shifts the vocabulary tested to be more “relevant,” makes the math section more in line with “the real world” and aligns the test with the Common Core standards. The SAT is disliked across the board – by anxious high school students, critical teachers and disillusioned college students who wonder how it prepared them for college, save earning them an acceptance letter. Criticisms about the SAT, as it exist-

ed, have been common for generations. But the changes to be implemented in 2016 offer a mixed bag. The announcement has been met with a full spectrum of reactions – some lauding the shifts, others claiming they will make the test too easy and an expected revival of claims that the SAT is structurally inadequate as a measure of performance. The revisions are not altogether beneficial or harmful; such sweeping generalizations are as unhelpful in thinking about the SATs as taking them. When the SAT was introduced in 1926, then called the Scholastic Aptitude Test, it was purposely made to not align with curricula. The test was something more like an IQ test than a high school final exam. The code behind the test was quickly cracked, however, and classes and tutors arose charging hefty fees to desperate juniors dreaming of college acceptance. Making the test more in line with high school curriculum was a necessary change. It recognizes the reality that students studying for an exam with roots in the

education they are receiving is more worthwhile than stressing “test-taking skills” and obscure vocabulary. What remains unaddressed, and is likely too difficult to change, is the strong correlation between family income and test performance. Logically, a student with parents who can afford expensive test prep and tutors will perform far better than a student who cannot pay for extensive preparations. A test without roots in public school curricula magnifies these differences, but even this round of changes will fail to fully correct the disparity. The most significant change, the loss of the required essay portion, is the most troublesome. Though we all dreaded the 25 minutes of writing purgatory before descending into the hellish domain of hundreds of multiple-choice questions, the essay was among the most worthwhile portions. Writing remains among the most important skills a college entrant can hone in high school, and though the subject matter of SAT essays was humorous at best (or would have been if your

entire future didn’t ride on your response), the section should not be eliminated. The announced change was more indicative of the College Board’s attempts to give the fledgling SATs a facelift than trying to make meaningful changes. The essay deserved minor alterations, not complete eradication. Though grade-point average remains a stronger predictor of college success than the SAT, this newest edition of the test will likely haunt future generations of college-bound high school students. We are all too familiar with the spiraling doubts, fears and anxieties that emerge as soon as those bluish bubble sheets sit in front of us and we face a stern proctor from behind the back of our fellow standardized-test-takers’ heads. The question is, when we are sitting in class and taking a final exam, is that SAT prep from years before at all helpful? email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

Eighty percent (of taking a vote) is showing up UB Faculty Senate reaches quorum for only second time this year Fifty faculty senators met Tuesday to speak about, among other matters, how to increase attendance to the dismally unproductive Faculty Senate meetings. The conversation was both desperately needed and long overdue. The Faculty Senate is comprised of elected UB faculty members. The group is charged primarily with representing the interests of faculty to the administration. Through regular meetings, resolutions and reports, the democratic body consults UB President Satish Tripathi on the faculty’s viewpoints in regard to proposed objectives and operations. The Senate holds monthly meetings at which resolutions and positions are voted on – so long as quorum is reached. Reaching quorum, which requires the attendance of one more than half of the faculty senators, is an unjustifiably rare

occurrence. Tuesday was only the second time this year enough senators were present for a vote. Before last semester, the Senate hadn’t reached quorum since at least 2007. The poor performance raises concerns over the organization’s legitimacy. Understandably, it seems difficult to take seriously a group of elected, volunteer collegiate faculty members that cannot get even half their enrollment plus one together monthly. Though barriers to attendance exist, such as the time and locations of meetings, senators are strictly volunteers. Before signing up, any faculty members running should first consider whether they could meet the requirements of the position so the group can meet its requirements to the university. On Tuesday, the group addressed some of the more structural barriers to attendance, such as voting to move the loca-

tion of meetings from the Center for Tomorrow to the Spine. The Faculty Senate has also been cutting the number of senators, now down to 88, so that quorum is easier to meet in the future. This was an important step – if enough senators are not present, then resolutions are decided in a small, five-person executive session. The importance of the Faculty Senate cannot be overstated. It is an organization that stands for both the interests of this university’s faculty and democratic process generally. Students should keep in mind that issues concerning us are far more visible to professors than to distant administrators. The Senate’s votes on Tuesday were relatively minor, with the exception of propositions to increase attendance. The vote in December, however, which addressed increasing the transparency of the UB Foundation’s funds, was monumental. The de-

cision represented the Senate’s position as an arbiter to hold the administration accountable. More votes and actions like this from the Faculty Senate are necessary. The group deserves applause for this past action and encouragement to continue this mission. Likewise, the group should be commended for attempting to advocate for higher attendance. Last week’s meeting represented promising progress, but the road ahead is long and merits complete commitment. The Faculty Senate has the potential to effect positive change on behalf of this university’s faculty and to hold the administration accountable in a way unique from other groups. But that potential cannot be achieved if members do not show up. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

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LIFE, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Preparing for death through a love of life Students attend Ash Wednesday Mass to begin the Lenten season ANNE MULROONEY

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How should young people prepare for death? How should college students, in the words of Jean de la Fontaine, a French author of fables, “consider the end?” Any student who attended an Ash Wednesday mass knows the Christian answer: to prepare for death, one must appreciate life. The Flag Room in the Student Union was packed with worshipping students and community members as Father Pat presided over the Newman Center’s Ash Wednesday service last week. His homily reflected on the spiritual aspect of mortality, and students received the Eucharist and ashes on their foreheads to start off the liturgical season of Lent. During the 40 days and 40 nights preceding Easter Sunday, Christians are encouraged to pray, fast and give alms during the Lenten period of prayer in preparation for celebrating Jesus’ resurrection. The ashes serve as an important reminder of human mortality and the fall from Paradise, as told in Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament. Genesis Chapter 3, verse 19 says: “For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Christians should be simultaneously reminded of their humble beginnings and their humble ends when presented with the ash, according to Father Pat, the Newman Center’s only priest. “If you want to appreciate life, then you think about death,” he said. “Easter is about life; it’s about the resurrection. Lent is about mortality and it’s about how we prepare for the resurrection, for new life.” Prayer, fasting and almsgiving are the focuses of a Christian’s Lenten journey. Prayer is intended to make the Christian more transparent to God and to him or herself, while fasting and almsgiving are intended to reduce the needs of the flesh. By reducing the importance of the body, the spiritual needs become more poignant in a Christian’s

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With the beginning of the Lenten season, students are taught to prepare for death by embracing life.

life, helping to ready the soul of Jesus’ resurrection. “One thing I love about Lent is that it’s in the spring,” Father Pat said. “The air is clean, it’s fresh and we’re transferring from darkness to light, from dead trees to green buds – it’s life. It’s all life.” Father Pat gave the homily for the Ash Wednesday mass. Students were respectful and attentive as he walked around the flag room making jokes and encouraging students to “check their spiritual pulse.” Mikily Tenbrook, a freshman biology major, appreciated the energy and enthusiasm Father Pat brought to the experience. Tenbrook doesn’t usually go to mass, but because of the priest’s animated and humorous personality, she said she’ll try to go during the Lenten season.

“It was very different than what I’m used to,” Tenbrook said. “[Father Pat] was so upbeat. Usually priests are very solemn and serious, but he was just so excited the whole time. That made it fun.” Father Pat has been a priest at the Newman Center for 25 years and constantly tells people he has the “best priest assignment in the world.” His relationship with the students is one of great affection and fun – there’s nowhere else he’d rather be, he said. “I love it. It’s always great,” Father Pat said. “It’s so nice to see the young people and I try to spend as much time as I can on campus. I’m going to a lecture tonight, I try to get to the basketball games and I spend time hanging out around the library.” Jessica Mershimer, a freshman exercise science major, said her

favorite part of mass was Father Pat’s homily and believes he relates well to students despite being so much older than them. His words will be with her during her own Lenten journey, she said. “We should be keeping our focus on God and doing everything with his vision in mind,” Mershimer said. “I think that’s important to remember. If you’re doing everything for that ultimate motive, you’ll be doing some pretty good stuff and you’ll be led in the right direction.” Mershimer intends to be a good student, reach out to her friends and be more giving during the Lenten season. “Seeing that this is my first year of college, I want it to be an impactful time,” Mershimer said. “I want to set the tone for the rest of my years here and be

proud of my beliefs while doing so.” Although the ashes of Ash Wednesday should remind Christians of their mortality and to “consider the end,” Father Pat also said students should be living their lives as thoroughly and enthusiastically as they can. It’s difficult for students to think about death when they’re so young and there are other ways to appreciate and become aware of our mortality, he said. “Rather than thinking about death at this point in life, think about life,” Father Pat said. “Let’s do more living. Let’s eat up our poetry; let’s eat up our equations. Engage yourself in your studies. It’s about absorption.” email: features@ubspectrum.com

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It’s been four years since professors Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian have shown a John Cassavetes film through the Buffalo Film Seminars. In the spring of 2010, they showed A Woman Under the Influence (1974), an intense and emotional confrontation with the suffering of a marriage afflicted by mental illness. At that point, it had been over eight years since they had last shown a Cassavetes picture. In the fall of 2002, they showed his groundbreaking film Faces (1968), another acute dissection of the minutiae of a complicated marriage, and the film that earned Cassavetes recognition as a visionary director. This Tuesday night, Jackson and Christian will return to Cassavetes’ oeuvre; they are showing The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) at the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre in downtown Buffalo. And though this film doesn’t revolve itself around a marriage the way that Faces and A Woman Under the Influence does, it is as much an exemplar of Cassavetes’ personal style of nonformulaic filmmaking and the remarkable range of his emotional depth.

Cassavetes is often credited as making the first independent American film (Shadows, 1968). Professors Jackson and Christian will be the first to tell you that whenever anybody says that someone was “the first” to do something in cinema, they are wrong. Generally speaking, whatever it is in film, it’s been done before. Cassavetes wasn’t “the first” American filmmaker to make an independent film, but he redefined what independent meant. He proved that independent cinema doesn’t have anything to do with whether a movie is made inside or outside the Hollywood system. It has to do with filmmakers breaking free of conventions and formulas to tell a story. He showed us that independent movies are independent ideas put on the screen. And Cassavetes’ style of filmmaking is, in both its creation and content, totally independent. His movies are completely focused on the intricacies of behavior; they are driven to find truth in human experience. As a result, his films are some of the most entropic ever made – they lack order and inevitability and are never formed by some derivative plot arc. In fact, his films never have a plot. A plot is something that can be decon-

structed and reconstructed. Cassavetes wanted to show audiences how films can be like life. And in the sheer disarray of his cinematic style, he shows us that life is inherently messy. When Cassavetes made his gangster picture, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, he did something innovative: He took his cinema of disorder and applied it to a genre. Cassavetes’ film does contain some of the established traits of gangster films – action sequences, suspense, murder, a nightclub with topless dancers – and yet it retains the quality of a unique vision. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie tells the story of Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara), the owner and operator of a strip club called Crazy Horse West. He spends much of his time there drinking, gambling and dating strippers. Right away, we see that he is a prisoner to his compulsions and weaknesses. Even as he struggles with his debt to loan sharks, he can’t resist the indulgence of his desires. After he gets into trouble with the mob, he is given an order to kill a Chinese bookie or face the alternative – be killed himself. Cosmo is in no way sharp enough to dodge this demand, so Cassavetes makes the conflict about whether he has it in him to

commit the act. The reality of what he has to do all takes place amidst the realm of fantasy; Cosmo’s life is completely integrated with Crazy Horse West. The symbolic significance of strippers is almost always the same – they are something you are supposed to be made to desire, but also know that you cannot have. But Cosmo does “have” the strippers – he even dates one – and the movie explores what happens next. It becomes a nightmare fixated on coming to terms with yourself. In Cassavetes’ universe, the self is nowhere near knowable, as it is always transforming. Cosmo shows how the projection of self is often a frantic and constant improvisation. Much like a performance, it all takes place amidst a certain set of parameters that you yourself have created. As time passes, you inevitably evolve. As David Brooks once said, “The brain is a malleable organ. Every time you do an activity, or have a thought, you are changing a piece of yourself into something slightly different than it was before.” For Cosmo, this aspect of the human condition causes severe existential angst. Toward the end of the film, he tries to inspirit his dancers with a monologue that is really geared

more at himself. “Look at me,” he says. “I’m only happy when I’m angry, when I’m sad, when I can play the fool, when I can be what people want me to be, rather than be myself.” Implicit in his speech is the recognition that every person has a unique and idiosyncratic worldview, and that you need to craft a persona detached from other people’s expectations to find real inner peace – you have to just be who you are. But the question is, how do you really do that? How do you make sense of yourself when the self is always changing? Starring Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, Timothy Agoglia Carey, Robert Phillis, Morgan Woodward and Azizi Johari, the film bombed at the box office when it was released. Critics hated it and audiences believed them. It was originally 134 minutes long, but after commercial disappointment Cassavetes cut it to 108 minutes in what became a compressed version released in 1978. The Criterion Collection DVD includes both versions, however, and Professors Jackson and Christian will be showing the film in its original 1976 form. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie will be playing Tuesday at 7 p.m. Email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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Real Estate’s new album, Atlas, provides a mature sound JOE KONZE JR

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Album: Atlas Artist: Real Estate Label: Domino Release: March 3, 2014 Grade: A When Real Estate came out with their sophomore album Days in 2011, the band’s popularity grew. Reviews of the album were positive, and the band gained consciousness among indie lovers. With their new album Atlas, Real Estate builds upon past success, creating the same sound with a bit more vocal punch to it. They have matured from a breakthrough indie band to a concrete, consistent indie band. Atlas is proof of this. It is a different approach but the band keeps its old form. It’s as if they took their last album, reformed it and created a cleaner, brighter sound. Though some fans feel the new album is too similar to the band’s last, Atlas brings some-

thing fresh. Many may fail to realize the album’s brilliant contrast between well-thought-out music and the words that accompany it. Atlas’ album has a good pace and balance between upbeat and melancholy songs. The album is not too fast. It’s not too slow and it doesn’t bore you. You just have to embrace it. There’s an apparent raw emotion that comes through the brilliant lyrics of Martin Courtney and sunshine-styled guitar riffs. It creates an atmosphere that surrounds the listener. It’s a trance that is hard to escape. It makes the listener realize there’s no use in changing something that isn’t broken. The first track “Had To Hear,” sets the pace, and the album builds momentum up until the last number, “Navigator.” “Talking Backwards” is the album’s real attention-grabber. This song has everything an indie and surf-style lover wants with the reverb effects, which help amplify the guitar. These reverbs transform the song into a peaceful oceanic sound.

And while you are sitting there deep in thought, Courtney hits you with lyrics, “We can talk for hours / And the line is still engaged / We’re not getting any closer / You’re too many miles away.” The sound is perfectly balanced. It is a bit lengthy, but the composure of the tune is so intriguing that you lose track of time. You might even be able to relate to the lyrics. There is a direction with this album. It isn’t meant to create a distraction from your thoughts. It’s meant to fall in line with the listener and create an image that you can relate to. Real Estate isn’t the type of band that you can explain to a person in one sentence. You may not even be able to describe their music as whole. Atlas is an album that has a proper balance of nostalgia, and more advanced lyrics bring the sound to an elevated level. This indie band’s maturation is continuing.

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Hardwood Report Card Bulls split games in final week of regular season SPORTS STAFF The men’s basketball team (199, 13-5 Mid-American Conference) defeated Bowling Green (12-19, 6-12 MAC), 88-65, to win the MAC East Championship at Alumni Arena Saturday evening. Buffalo dropped its game at Akron (20-11, 12-6), 83-71, earlier in the week. Three-point shooting: B This hasn’t been the Bulls’ strong suit all season, but they’ve won regardless. UB’s offense revolves around senior forward Javon McCrea inside (as it should) and a fast-paced, get-to-the-basket style of play. But senior guard Josh Freelove’s deep shooting is what kept Buffalo in the game against Akron during the start of the second half. After being held scoreless in the first 20 minutes, Freelove hit 4 of 7 from beyond the arc in the second half. He is the Bulls’ go-to threat from deep. The rest of the team shot just 3 for 18 from downtown in the Akron loss. Buffalo responded by shooting 36 percent (8 for 22) in the Bowling Green victory. Foul shooting: B The Bulls have shot well from the line for the majority of the season. McCrea visits the charity stripe frequently and the daily statistics often revolve around his production. McCrea shot 5 for 9 from the line Tuesday and the Bulls shot just 66.7 percent as a team. McCrea went 7 for 10 Saturday and Buffalo shot 78 percent. Senior guard Jarod Oldham shot 6 for 7 Saturday. Ball control: AAfter Tuesday’s 15-turnover to 13-assist performance, it seemed

unlikely the Bulls could earn a grade higher than a C for this week. Saturday changed that. The Bulls had 20 assists and only five turnovers against Bowling Green, worthy of an ‘A++’ (if there were such a thing). Sophomore guard Jarryn Skeete, freshman guard Shannon Evans, Oldham and McCrea each had four assists in Saturday’s victory. The four combined for five turnovers. On Tuesday, they combined for 11 assists and 13 turnovers. Overall offense: B+ Despite Buffalo’s 88-point outburst on Saturday, Tuesday cannot be forgotten. The Bulls scored 71 points and shot 44 percent on the road against the Zips. Buffalo won’t return to Alumni Arena until next season, so the road game against a perennial top-MAC team ranks higher in priority. Junior forward Will Regan was 1 for 6 in the loss. The bench didn’t perform, but those criticisms will be addressed later. McCrea had only 15 points, which isn’t typical for the forward. The big man did return to form in his final Alumni Arena game, however, putting up a career-best 34 points. Rebounding: BAkron and Bowling Green outrebounded the Bulls. The Zips had 36 rebounds compared to the Bulls’ 28. The Falcons had 35 on Saturday compared to Buffalo’s 32. Akron and Bowling Green combined for 18 offensive rebounds, but the Bulls scored more second-chance points than their opponents in both matchups.

Quick Hits Women’s tennis continues hot streak; wrestler Flannery gets bid to NCAA Tournament

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Senior Anamaria Candanoza was victorious, 6-3, 6-3, as the Bulls won, 5-2, at Miller’s Tennis Center.

Baseball (7-3) The Bulls went 1-2 this weekend in Athens, Ga. Buffalo lost to Georgia (9-6), 11-10, Friday. The Bulls were down two heading into the final inning when sophomore infielder Tyler Mautner’s sacrifice fly scored senior outfielder Matt Pollock to pull the Bulls within one, but they could not finish off the comeback. The Bulls defeated Western Carolina (8-4), 5-4, Saturday before losing to Northern Florida (6-7), 4-3, Sunday in 12 innings. Buffalo will travel to Virginia Commonwealth next weekend to take on Rutgers (3-8) and Lafayette (4-4). Women’s Tennis (8-1) The Bulls defeated ASA (2-1), 5-2, Saturday at the Miller Tennis Center. Buffalo will be on the road next weekend to face Hillsdale (9-9) Saturday and Florida Atlantic (4-6) Sunday.

Men’s Tennis (7-3) The Bulls went 2-1 this weekend, defeating Bryant (9-7), 5-2, Friday and Boston (5-5), 5-1, Sunday. The Bulls lost to Brown (8-5), 7-0, Saturday. Buffalo will play at Central Florida (7-2) Tuesday. Wrestling (3-17, 0-8 MAC) The Bulls finished ninth with 12.5 total points in the MAC Championships in Kent, Ohio, this weekend. Senior Nick Flannery finished fifth in the 141-pound weight class and received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament in Oklahoma City, Okla., which begins March 20 and goes until March 22. email: sports@ubspectrum.com

Defense: B Buffalo has allowed more than 80 points twice in MAC play. Both times have been to Akron. The offense outran the Zips in the first meeting, but it was unable to do so Tuesday. Getting into a shootout is always a risk, no matter how talented your team is offensively. The Zips shot 51.8 percent against Buffalo and went to the foul line 28 times. But – as the trend continues to be in this recap – the Bulls had a better performance on Saturday. The Falcons scored 65 points while shooting 45.6 percent. They hit only four 3-pointers and went to the foul line 19 times. This is the defensive performance the Bulls will need in Cleveland. Bench production: AThis score is inflated because two Buffalo bench players pulled off an exciting play that earned the No. 1 spot on SportsCenter’s Top Plays Sunday. Evans and Moss combined for an alley-oop off the backboard that sent Alumni Arena into pandemonium Saturday. Moss only had four points in the game – both baskets coming on monster dunks. Evans and Skeete combined for 20 points Saturday after struggling Tuesday. The duo shot 7 for 13 on Saturday compared to 6 for 18 at Akron. It should be noted that because head coach Bobby Hurley started his five seniors Saturday, bench scoring numbers were higher than normal. Coaching: B Hurley has to stop with the untimely technical fouls. The Bulls trailed 51-50 with 12 minutes remaining before Hurley’s tirade

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Senior Javon McCrea scored a career-best 34 points as Buffalo defeated Bowling Green

led to a technical foul on Tuesday. Akron outscored Buffalo by 11 for the remainder of the game. But he did all the right things on Saturday. He started all five seniors on senior day – even those who haven’t contributed many minutes. He also handled McCrea’s playing time properly. Buffalo’s all-time leading scorer was flirting with surpassing 2,000 points for his career in his final Alumni Arena performance.

Hurley, however, didn’t let this impact his minutes. The Bulls led by double-digits the majority of the game and Hurley limited McCrea to 32 minutes rather than keeping him in and risking injury just for the record. We all know McCrea will surpass 2,000 Thursday during MAC Tournament play. email: sports@ubspectrum.com

Men’s swimming and diving finishes third at MAC Championships Dugan wins Outstanding Senior Award BEN TARHAN

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After winning the Mid-American Conference Championship in 2011, the men’s swimming and diving team has remained a top team in the conference but hasn’t been able to clinch a championship. The trend continued this season. UB hosted the Mid-American Conference Championships at Alumni Arena Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The Bulls scored 657 points, good for a thirdplace finish. Missouri State won its first MAC Championship with 833 points and Eastern Michigan finished second with 682. “[After the meet], I told the seniors how proud I am of them and what they have meant to this program over the past four years,” said head coach Andy Bashor. “I told the guys I was proud of the effort they put in. But when we walk off this pool deck, next year starts now. We’re not where we want to be and we have a lot of work to get to where we want to be.” When the Bulls won the MAC Championship in 2011, members of the team’s senior class were freshmen. They have been strong leaders for the underclassmen, according to Bashor. This weekend, seniors Dan O’Connor and Mike Dugan led the Bulls. In his final swims at Alumni Arena, Dugan won the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly; he was the only Bull with multiple victories. Dugan’s 50-yard freestyle time of 19.84 is a new school and pool record, he also won with a 100-yard butterfly time of 47.32.

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Senior Mike Dugan broke school records in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly as Alumni Arena hosted the MAC Championships this weekend. The Bulls finished in third among all schools.

Dugan finished second in his third individual event, the 100yard freestyle. His time of 43.67 was .06 slower than the winning time. In his final swim, Dugan swam the closing leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay. He made up one spot, helping the Bulls finish fourth. After the race, he lingered in the water for a moment before pulling himself out of the pool. “It’s kind of bittersweet,” Dugan said. “I’m kind of glad to be done, but I know I will miss it. It’s real nice to have it at home, to see all my fans, all the alumni here. It’s emotional.” O’Connor won the 1,650-yard freestyle with a school record and pool record time of 15:04.66. He finished second in the 400-yard individual medley and third in the 500-yard freestyle. Senior Eric Culver, freshman Scott Huang, sophomore Billy Patrum and freshman Charles Barry were all named to the AllMAC second team. “We’ve got a good future,” Bashor said. “I’m excited about the young guys. We have to get them in the weight room, get

some muscle on them. They’ve got a great work ethic, and we just have to improve if we are going to get to the top.” Sophomore Antonio Lanzi finished seventh in the 200-yard individual medley and eighth in the 200-yard freestyle. Sophomore Bill Caffee and freshman Reid Zyniecki finished in the top eight of the 1,650-yard freestyle. Freshman diver Cade Bennett also made significant contributions for the Bulls, finishing second in the 1-meter dive and fifth in the 3-meter dive. Bashor also highlighted senior diver Chris Iafrati’s performance. Iafrati had never made an ‘A’ final at a MAC Championship until he qualified in his final event for the 3-meter ‘A’ final on Friday. Iafrati finished sixth. A few Bulls qualified for the NCAA Championships with ‘B’ cuts, which means they will have to wait and see if they will have a chance to swim there. The NCAA Championships take place in Austin, Texas, starting March 27. email: sports@ubspectrum.com