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HOUSING ISSUE 2014

CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM

Off-campus student Tripathi announces he can’t housing websites offer make UBF records public students safer options Some faculty senators baffled by president’s recent letter SARA DINATALE

Managing Editor

President Satish Tripathi says he does not have the “legal authority” to make how the university spends its nearly $1 billion endowment and assets public or available for faculty scrutiny.

The money and resources are managed by the UB Foundation, a non-profit private instituChad Cooper, The Spectrum tion that collects all funds donatDan Ryan, director of Off-Campus Stued to UB. In a letter received by dent Services, implemented a website for faculty senators Monday, Tripathi students that shows apartment listings of said the Foundation “is outside homes that have been inspected. of [his] purview as University at Buffalo President.”

He went on to write, “Neither a lot of landlords in the Heights SAM FERNANDO I as President, nor the University Senior News Editor not willing to get inspections.

Ryan thinks this is because the at Buffalo as an institution, have Dan Ryan has seen his share cost to fix whatever the inspec- the legal authority to make availof problems in University tion would determine as inade- able any records held by the UB Heights housing – electrical fires, quate would cost far more than Foundation as a private corporation.” bed bugs, black mold, lack of the $75 fee.

The letter – dated March 5 – He said there aren’t any saferunning water and electricity and guards for students that deter- came in response to a motion even homes without locks.

“We have a lot of students who mine the structural integrity of passed by the Faculty Senate in choose to live off campus and houses and if they are up to code December that asked Tripathi and the administration to “make many of them are not well edu- on websites like Craigslist.

“Right now, students are available the budget of UBF and cated in real estate matters,” said Ryan, the director of off-campus finding out about apartments its associated foundations as if it student services. “But they sign through websites that put the were subject to [the Freedom of leases and we have found that a interest of the landlord ahead Information Law].” The motion lot of our students are living in of the interest of the students,” was passed by a 38-17 vote.

Faculty Senator Kenneth substandard housing and danger- Ryan said. “Students are picking places where they are putting Dauber, an English profesous living conditions.”

In September, he implement- themselves and their roommates sor who originated the motion, said he’s baffled by Tripaed UB’s new off-campus housing at risk.”

Currently, a housing website thi’s decision. After the motion website: buffalooffcampus.newrun by Sub Board I (SBI) and was passed in December, Dauber digs.com.

It gives students a safe option chiefly used by students lists told The Spectrum he knows of no to find places to live near cam- houses with and without certif- laws that require UBF to keep its pus. A landlord or homeown- icates of occupancy. SBI, a stu- books closed.

“The funds held by UBF are er can only post a listing on the dent-owned and operated notfunds of the University at Buffafor-profit corporation funded website if he or she has a certificate of occupancy, or safe- by UB’s various student govern- lo administered by UBF at the dity inspection, from the area the ments, has a housing website, rection of the President of UB,” house or apartment is in – either subboard.com/och/, which is Dauber said in an email Tuesday.

“I don’t know what President separate from Ryan’s.

Buffalo or Amherst.

SBI is a separate entity from Tripathi means when he says that The inspection costs $75 and is valid for three years – which UB and functions to “empower UBF ‘is outside of my purview as averages to just over $2 a month. students and to provide student- UB President.’ The issue is very simple. SUNY Buffalo is a pubRyan said he is finding there are SEE HOUSING, PAGE 2 lic institution. It is an academ-

Chad Cooper, The Spectrum

President Satish Tripathi responded to a resolution passed by the Faculty Senate, saying he and the university do not have it in their legal authority to make UB Foundation’s records public.

ic institution. As both public and academic, its most basic value is transparency. The Faculty Senate asked the President to make transparent the financial operations of UBF. The President said no. I do not know why.”

Several faculty senators say they are asking for transparency because they want to understand how the university spends its endowment and where exactly money donated to and raised by the university ends up.

Martha McCluskey, a law professor and faculty senator, said she, too, knows of no laws that would prevent the disclosure to the faculty and the public. “UBF apparently delegates to UB’s President almost all the important decisions about how to spend and raise UBF money,” McCluskey said in an email. “As a public official, President Tripathi has the legal authority (and presumably the legal duty) to open records of UB’s crucial decisions about UBF money to the Faculty Senate and to the public.”

In previous Senate meetings, some faculty members have voiced concerns about having a private organization handle money for a public university.

The policy is not unique to UB or to SUNY. Most public universities in the country have private foundations that manage donations.

But there is movement around the country encouraging public access to internal records. California, as of Jan. 1, 2012, has a Transparency Act that brings academic foundations under the state’s public record laws, which means all Californian foundations’ financial records are open to the public and faculty for scrutiny. This is the kind of transparency some UB faculty is calling for.

Not all faculty thinks December’s resolution was necessary.

In December’s meeting, Robert Wetherhold, a senator and professor of mechanical engineering, said he was uncertain of what issue the resolution aimed to solve and suggested the volume of information being asked for may not be appropriate for the public. Other senators were concerned about donors’ privacy and were satisfied with the public-private relationship as it exists now.

Tripathi’s letter also notes UBF makes its audited financial statements available on its website and states that UB will be adding IRS 990 tax forms.

The tax forms are currently made public by IRS tax rules.

UBF’s most recent 990, from fiscal year 2012, shows it processed $4.7 million on student scholarships, $8.1 million on office expenses, $3.1 million for travSEE UBF, PAGE 2

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Continued from page 1: UBF el, $2.9 million for meetings and conferences and $51.8 million for “other fees for services.”

The numbers appear in broad categories and are not broken down into precise expenses, and no explanations are offered for what “other fees” might include or what precise office supplies were purchased. It’s the exact expenses the faculty is asking to see.

UBF Director Ed Schneider, who responded to The Spectrum’s questions about UBF in Febru-

ary via an emailed document, said UBF does not decide where funds will be spent, but rather makes sure the guidelines are followed, like that schools abide by the wishes of donors on restricted funds.

The spending decisions “primarily [rest] with UB and the various schools and units,” Schneider wrote.

Tripathi is also on the UB Foundation’s board of trustees and compensation committee, but according to a statement from UB

Spokesman John Della Contrada, this would not give him power to make the UBF financial documents public. “However, individual members of boards or committees do not have the authority to act independently of the board,” Della Contrada said.

In 2011, the New York State Supreme Court ruled UBF was not a public entity. Buffalo newsweekly Artvoice argued UBF should be subject to the Freedom of Information Law because it is part of a

public university, but lost the case.

Schneider, who has worked for the Foundation for 37 years, said UBF does what it can to be transparent and, in the February email, emphasized that “UBF is more transparent than is required by New York State or federal law.”

For instance, he writes, “UBF has been fully transparent with its audited annual financial reports and tax returns, both of which are publicly available. As well, UBF’s business practices are consistent with

best practices among campus-related foundations nationwide.”

The conversation is not over and Tripathi’s letter suggested opportunities for the Senate to have discussions with Laura Hubbard, vice president for finance and administration.

Dauber said the budget committee of the Faculty Senate, which McCluskey is also on, “will meet soon to discuss the issue.”

er’s experience as easy as possible is important to him, and he feels the SBI website does that.

“We at SBI seek to provide valuable information to students so that they can make the best housing decision for them,” Atkinson said. “The high volume that SBI’s website experiences during renting season attests to the value that students place in our student-run listing service.”

Ryan’s website has 75 apartment listings, most of which are in the

Amherst area near North Campus. He hopes the SBI website will soon only list inspected homes, too.

“But until that time, until that policy changes, we are going to be doing what we can to make sure there is at least one place where students and their parents can go to find properties that are safe,” Ryan said.

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Continued from page 1: Housing run services here at UB,” according to SBI President Chris Atkinson.

“SBI, with [the Undergraduate Student Association (SA)] and [the Graduate Student Association (GSA)], has met with UB concerning the best way to provide students with access to off-campus housing listings,” Atkinson said in an email. “The interested parties have discussed ways in which we could pool our resources in the future. All of the parties seek to provide a platform for students

to easily and safely locate off-campus housing. So far, we have been unable to work out the logistics of how a combined site would work.”

SBI’s website provides labels for houses that do not have certificates of occupancy. It also gives information like whether the apartment has working smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.

Atkinson said SBI provides students with services to ease the process of renting houses or apartments. The organization pro-

vides free legal services, in which lawyers can review students’ leases before students sign them. SBI’s website also gives students “Quick Tips” to help first-time renters throughout the process.

Ryan commends the work Atkinson, SA President Sam McMahon and GSA President Mike Egnoto have done on the SBI website. Ryan said the three are “committed to doing what’s best for the students.”

Atkinson said making the rent-

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EDITORIAL BOARD EDITOR IN CHIEF Aaron Mansfield MANAGING EDITORS Lisa Khoury Sara DiNatale OPINION EDITOR Anthony Hilbert COPY EDITORS Tress Klassen, Chief Amanda Jowsey Samaya Abdus-Salaam NEWS EDITORS Sam Fernando, Senior Amanda Low Madelaine Britt, Asst.

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Bulls, fans pay the price for athletic director’s failure Culmination of bad decisions came at MAC quarterfinals A cohesive team, strong senior players and momentum from improving performance in past years were all squandered in Cleveland because of poor leadership. It was more due to the young, hubristic Athletic Director Danny White, however, than Bobby Hurley, the inexperienced rookie coach.

UB’s men’s basketball team suffered an upset loss March 14 in the Mid-American Conference Tournament quarterfinals to Eastern Michigan, 69-64. Making accepting the situation even more difficult: that fans expected this to be ‘the year’ for the Bulls after a disappointing, though understandable, loss in the quarterfinals last year.

The pieces were in place.

The team would have all but certainly performed better if not for a foolish decision by White to fire longtime coach Reggie Witherspoon last March.

Following this year’s MAC Tournament loss, UB was invited to the College Invitational Tournament, a respected postseason tournament for quality teams mainly from mid-major conferences. The athletic department snubbed the offer. The New York Bulls apparently only attend larger tournaments, never mind that nothing was gained in cutting the season short after the disappointing quarterfinals loss.

UB issued this statement to Cleveland.com: “We made the decision that our goals were to play in either the NCAA or the NIT. Expanding our post season options are something we will evaluate each year.”

UB’s athletic department has experienced some rather significant (and at times confusing) decisions since White took over in 2012. At just 31 when he was hired, the young and idealistic director has pushed a rebranding of the department’s sports, the “#NYBI” (New York Bulls Initiative).

The initiative, and many of White’s actions, has effectively worked to remove UB’s association with the city of Buffalo, focusing on associating the school with New York at large.

aline kobayashi, the spectrum Senior guards Auraum Niuriankh and Josh Freelove look on as the Bulls fall to Eastern Michigan, 69-64, in the quarterfinals of the MAC Tournament March 13.

Changing logos and shifting titles to make the University at Buffalo more about New York is certainly a slap in the face to the community that has given rise to this institution. It is other missteps, however, that are to blame for the department’s stagnating performance.

The former men’s basketball coach for 14 years, Witherspoon, has been a mainstay of Buffalo basketball for decades. Beginning at Sweet Home High School, moving to coach at Erie Community College and finally UB in 1999, Witherspoon had unmatched community rapport and he made a shattered program riddled with NCAA penalties into a respectable one known for its character.

Last year, Witherspoon was fired from his position immediately following UB’s loss at the MAC Tournament. This happened despite his strong performance in years past; rescuing of the formerly in-shambles program when he took the helm; and the confounding difficulties the team had that year, namely inexperience – rebuilding after losing much of the team from its

successful 2011-12 season – and injuries.

White cited “need for new leadership” for the firing, promising to do a comprehensive national search for a new coach. He then hired Bobby Hurley, with whom White had connections through Duke University, just two weeks later.

Surely poor performance is not White’s only prerequisite for dismissal, given the five-year contract extension White gave to football coach Jeff Quinn despite his dismal 9-26 (.257) record at the time.

As many speculated at the time, Witherspoon’s firing was hardly for valuable reasons and the hire was decided long before that March.

Danny White’s attempt to plug Hurley into the winning team Witherspoon assembled not only robbed Witherspoon of his team, it robbed fans and players.

There was no doubt that a MAC Championship, or even place in the finals, would be a huge boon to Witherspoon, who had never led a team to MAC title victory. The praise would be rightfully his, and there would

have been immense uproar if White had fired the beloved figure after such a successful year (which many expected).

Hurley would have been a good hire if done down the road.

The timing and intention behind the coaching shake-up is far more reprehensible than Hurley failing to put a championship team together with a squad he was unfamiliar with, in a new city and school, during his first year as a head coach.

White was keenly aware a title this year (with all the team’s talent and expectations) would have given the credit to him for going out and hiring his own guy.

A young, brash director comes in, shakes up the team, rebrands the department and seizes a championship. The headlines write themselves if the plan comes together.

White’s arrogance wasn’t enough to get the victory. It has succeeded, however – in taking this team from its city and a potential championship from the squad. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

SA president, VP’s comments on election are ill-timed, unprofessional Two-thirds of the current Student Association executive board attempted to sway the SA election with a message released Monday.

The night before polls opened, SA President Sam McMahon and Vice President Judy Mai sent the SA club listserv a message de facto endorsing some SA candidate platforms while opposing others.

The email breaks down a selective list of each party’s proposals and gives an “objective” comment on the plausibility of each.

Though the document begins by claiming the statements on the proposals will be objective and are not endorsements, the truth runs contrary to both of those claims.

Though denigrating to both platforms, the criticisms are clearly more biased against the Value Party’s proposals. With both stronger language and more negative responses overall toward the selected list of Value’s

proposals, any reader would finish with the impression that the Impact Party has more plausible ideas.

The current SA president and vice president should not be taking such an opinionated stance or capitalizing on their positions of influence to sway voters; it’s unprofessional. Informing SA club members about the election and providing links to debates or platforms alone would have been commendable and appropriate.

Interjecting with opinions on the platforms to a captive audience is not.

Uncalled for, poorly timed and a general misuse of power, the letter is deplorable for the timing and manner in which it was released more than for its content.

The letter was sent out just one day before polls opened. Releasing such an influential document to so active a constituency that close to the election is problematic itself.

The short timeframe also dis-

allowed any form of rebuttal from candidates. Though the proposals cited were fairly extensive, they were hardly exhaustive.

The candidates could have addressed some of McMahon and Mai’s concerns if the candidates were given time and an appropriate platform to respond to those criticisms.

The obvious question, given that the proposals have been available for weeks, is: Why wasn’t this message sent out earlier? Such a common-sense move would have given the candidates time to flesh out propositions and respond to concerns.

One day – with Spring Break immediately preceding this election – is simply an inexcusable timeframe for this message. It precludes discussion and causes an undue influence on voters.

McMahon and Mai sent this email to the SA club listserv.

Though this reaches a wide audience of voters, it is far from public, further reducing the prac-

ticality and possibility of public discourse. The opinions of the current administration went out to SA clubs both unopposed and without room for discussion, from candidates or from anyone else.

A semi-private letter was simply not the appropriate forum for this type of message.

Though this may not rise to the level of reprehensible abuse of power, it is unbecoming of the current leaders of a student organization with an image problem. Both McMahon and Mai should be more concerned with leaving a positive legacy behind for the incoming SA administration, whomever they may be, than shifting election results.

The email, the time it was released and the way it was sent all leave the door open for potential mischaracterizations, or even simple misunderstandings, of proposals. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

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Spectrum editor in chief wins national college media leader of the year Recognition marks newspaper’s 14th national award in past four years SPECTRUM STAFF On March 15, the College Media Association (CMA) announced Aaron Mansfield, the editor in chief of The Spectrum, has won the first-place Apple Award for Best Student Media Leader.

The award recognizes excellence in student leadership in college newspapers, television stations, magazines and other outlets throughout the country.

“I’m excited to accept this prestigious award, but I’m mostly grateful to my staff for putting in the time to nominate me,” Mansfield said. “People shouldn’t get the idea that this is an individual award – this is an award for the entire Spectrum team. I haven’t done anything special, but I have been surrounded by special people who make my life easy. On any great unit, the person at the top will get a lot of credit, but it’s the team that gets the job done.”

The announcement, which was made at the Spring National College Media Convention, an annual event in New York City, came as a surprise to Mansfield – his staff nominated him without his knowledge.

Brian Keschinger, the creative director of The Spectrum, filmed and edited a nomination video, which consisted of testimonials from those who have worked with and under Mansfield during his tenure. The video accompanies the version of this article on ubspectrum.com.

“Aaron is the quintessential leader for us here at The Spectrum, and it was important to us for him to receive tangible recognition on a national scale,” Keschinger said.

Prior to this award, The Spectrum had won four national awards this year. Mansfield received a Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Mark of Excellence award for his sports columns and an SPJ Mark of Excellence Award with Se-

nior News Editor Sam Fernando for general news reporting.

Managing Editor Lisa Khoury earned an SPJ Mark of Excellence Award for in-depth reporting and a Camayak Student Media Competition Award for first place in Best Investigative Journalism Production.

Mansfield’s CMA award marks the 14th national award The Spectrum has won in the past four years.

In addition to the Apple Award and the two aforementioned SPJ awards, Mansfield won Honorable Mention Sports Story of the Year from the Associated Collegiate Press in October 2013 and the SPJ Mark of Excellence award for Sports Column Writing in March 2013.

Jody Kleinberg Biehl, The Spectrum’s faculty adviser and director of UB’s Journalism Certificate Program, expressed excitement about the paper’s success.

“It is always exciting to win, and this is a very special award because it really gives merit where it’s due,” Biehl said. “Aaron never likes to take credit for himself, but he has done a phenomenal job at the paper. It’s a great role model for upcoming

editors in chief.”

Matthew Parrino, editor in chief of The Spectrum in the 2011-12 academic year, commended Mansfield’s work as editor in chief, saying that the job Mansfield has done with the paper has exceeded his expectations when he handed over the position. He said Mansfield won the award because he is able to “motivate, educate and mold those around him to help create an outstanding product for the UB community.”

“With the recent national exposure of the paper, The Spectrum has been recognized as one of the top papers in the country,” said Parrino, who was a finalist for the same award in 2012. “To be at that level, especially without a journalism major [at UB], is amazing. Aaron has helped keep the standard set before him and has raised the bar in his tenure.

I’m proud of his accomplishment and the entire UB community should share in that pride.” email: news@ubspectrum.com

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SA elections exit polling After the first day of the Student Association election, The Spectrum polled 116 students who voted.

A total of 981 votes were cast, according to Elections and Credentials Chair Matt Siwiec.

Polls are open on Wednesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Party

Votes

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Erin Lachaal Impact Myriam Diomande

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James Ingram Evan Chen

Value

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Treasurer

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Juan Jimenez Impact Sade Cadle Value Ali Ahmed Students/Independent

71 38 7

61.2 32.8 6.0

SUNY Delegates

Votes

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Cesar Carrion Impact Tony Daniel Farhan Hussain Colin Kelly

63 73 71 65

54.3 62.9 61.2 56.0

Collin Olander Value Sophia Peters Hayley Ross Corinne Zee

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One Region Forward creates new Citizen Planning School AMANDA LOW News Editor

People from all over Erie and Niagara Counties will have the opportunity to champion an idea for community change.

UB’s Regional Institute (UBRI), a subset of UB’s School of Architecture and Planning, is offering a new program to teach Buffalo residents how to create sustainable developments in the two-county region. One Region Forward, a local initiative in conjunction with UBRI, created the Citizen Planning School, which is not limited to UB students, to prepare people who want to impart change for their communities.

The first track goes from April to June and transitions into the advanced second track that ends in August. Participants from the second track have the opportunity to present their community change project at the Sustainability Action Summit in the fall.

“It’s small-scale actions that happen over and over again and start to be a mat-

ter of routine that are about how we take care of the city and region where we live,” said Robert Shibley, director of the UBRI and dean of the School of Architecture and Planning. “And how in taking care of it, it takes care of us.”

The goal is to foster citizens who have these sustainable ideas and to point them in the direction of other agencies that have the capacity to fund them, according to Bart Roberts, a project manager for One Region Forward.

The Citizen Planning School is split between two consecutive tracks – starting with the “Citizen Planners” track and advancing to the “Champion for Change” track.

The first part of the program will begin with basic training that teaches students the skills and knowledge necessary in planning change in a community.

The four-session track will also include lectures by multiple experts speaking on different fields. The topics discussed will include climate change, food system security, housing, transportation and land use.

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The Citizen Planners that apply to be Champions for Change will go through a selection process to be accepted into the second half of the program. Here, members will actually start planning their project proposals.

The champions will be provided with additional services by staff from UBRI on how to prepare and deliver their content at the Sustainability Action Summit.

“They will go through an additional module, where we will help them take the planning tools they learned in the Citizen Planning School, apply them to their own project idea [and] help them come up with the starter for a project plan,” said Cristina Delgado, a project manager and a graduate student in the architecture program.

Delgado, along with other project managers, will be in charge of that section of the Champion for Change track.

Roberts hopes the program will reach “many quarters of our region.”

He will be one of the experts speaking at the four sessions of the Citizen Plan-

ning track. He will discuss trends that have had a large impact on our past and what the future will look like if we continue to follow them.

One Region Forward launched in 2013 and grew out of a collaborative effort of multiple groups.

UBRI is a part of One Region Forward through a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Shibley hopes to eventually offer a course in sustainability annually for the planners that participate in the program.

He is proud to be involved in the development of One Region Forward.

“It’s our mission,” Shibley said. “We are in Buffalo and in this region for a purpose.”

The deadline to sign up for the Citizen Planning School and to be a Champion for Change is March 31. email: news@ubspectrum.com

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UB emphasizes importance of evacuating dorm rooms during fire drills BRIAN WINDSCHITL

Asst. Features Editor

The clock reads 11 p.m., and your bed is really comfortable.

It’s 15 degrees outside, and your comforter seems to be the only warm place. Suddenly, the fire alarm goes off.

Students are faced with a choice: Stay cozy, or follow the command of the blaring siren to ensure their safety. Outside, they’ll wait – sometimes in frigid temperatures – until the building is cleared and the alarms shut off. Oftentimes, it’s a false alarm.

In 2013, the University Police Department (UPD) responded to 1,064 fire alarms. Sixteen of them turned out to be actual fires, according to Lt. Joshua Sticht. Three of those fires took place in resident halls. That means that .02 percent of the fire alarms that go off are in response to an actual fire. In 2012, UPD responded to 1,126 fire alarms.

Students are used to the false alarms, and many choose not to react with immediate concern when hearing the alarms.

Yusong Shi, The Spectrum Many students choose to ignore fire alarms while in their dorms, despite university regulations. In 2013, the University Police Department responded to 1,064 fire alarms. Sixteen of them turned out to be actual fires, according to Lt. Joshua Sticht.

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Continued from page 8: Fire alarms Some students ignore them altogether, despite warnings that their safety could be in jeopardy.

Lily Weisberg, a freshman business major, decided to not leave her dorm room when the alarms started to ring in Richmond at the end of last semester. It was around 7 p.m., and Weisberg was packing up to leave for break.

A resident advisor (RA) opened Weisberg’s door and saw her still in her room. Though there was no fire, Weisberg was written up for her decision to not leave the room.

Fifty-four students were written up for breaking the fire alarms and fire-fighting equipment regulations in 2012-13, according to the Community Stan-

dards Program. The regulation includes students who don’t leave for fire alarms and also students who shoot off fire extinguishers, tamper with fire systems and more, according to Victoria Hellman, the assistant director for Residential Life in the Ellicott complex.

The students who do get in trouble face punishment from the ResLife. Hellman said the punishment for staying inside while a fire alarm is sounding includes community service, mandatory fire education courses or being put on fire extinguisher safety checks. Repeat offenders could face probation or dismissal, Hellman said.

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The Environmental Health and Safety’s policy for New York State fire code states universities must have four scheduled fire drills in each residential area per year. All other non-residential buildings must have at least three drills annually.

Typically, students are caught when RAs open dorm rooms after an alarm to see if students have left or not. RAs are given full permission to check residents’ rooms during fire alarms, once the cause of the alarm is determined to not be a real fire.

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“We take every alarm seriously and assume it to be a real fire and expect students to do the same, so if it seems like there should be more students outside during an alarm, then yes, we reserve the right to check rooms,” Hellman said.

In case of emergency, the Getzville Fire Department is the main responder (outside of UPD) for North Campus and the Buffalo City Fire Department is for South Campus.

The University Police are the first responders to any reported fire on campus. UPD works

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There’s no place like the dorms Freshmen learn to make four white walls home ANNE MULROONEY

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A green Starbucks apron, a bright red bow, game tickets and photographs of smiling people – these can transform a barren dorm room into a home.

The Ellicott Complex on North Campus – which many students affectionately refer to as “lego-land” – contains six quadrangles: Richmond, Fargo, Porter, Red Jacket, Wilkeson and Spaulding. Behind the brick walls and up the silver elevators, freshmen have learned what it takes to call these buildings home. As it turns out, decorations make all the difference in the thin-walled rooms, while noisiness is residents’ chief complaint.

Caeleigh Heavey, a freshman communication major, lives in Richmond Hall and was immediately pleased with the size of her double room when she moved in, as it seemed bigger than dorms she’d seen at other colleges. As she hung up her pictures, set up her bed and arranged her pictures on the wall, the room became pleasantly cozy.

“I put up a ton of pictures all over my wall, making it colorful with my bedspread and wall stickers,” Heavey said. “I put in extra lamps and lights on the walls to make it brighter. I really make my dorm feel like home with my own decorations, so there’s not much more to do to make it feel more home-y.”

Heavey’s room is filled with festive and sentimental decorations that she believes make the difference between a dorm and home.

On her bed lies a UB logo pillow, which her aunt made by

Courtesy of Caeleigh Heavey Caeleigh Heavey, a freshman communication major, decorates her dorm to make it feel like home with her old Starbucks apron, pictures and Christmas lights.

hand and gave to her when she left for school. Little bows line the lights around her mirror, tokens from her friend’s bow-making business. Her rowing poster is a celebration of her past and current days on the crew team. An “Anything Goes” poster hangs on the wall – a souvenir from the Broadway show she attended when she was younger.

There’s even a bright green Starbucks apron hung above her bed from her job at home.

Heavey admits dorm life isn’t perfect. Though the tight-knit community can be a source of

comfort for many students during their first year away from home, the constant company and noise can be taxing.

“My least favorite part [of living in the dorms] is the lack of privacy,” Heavey said. “It can get noisy on the weekends and friends typically just walk right in, even if you need some time for yourself.”

Shannon Torpey, a freshman political science major, also believes dorm life can be a little too close – and loud – for comfort.

The “random people knocking on the door at random hours” is

unappreciated, she said. Torpey also lives in a Richmond double.

Other residents of Ellicott are more enthused with their friends’ perpetual presence. Melissa Dellamore, a freshman intended occupational therapy major, believes “always [having] someone to talk to and be there for you” is the best part of dorm life – although she could do without sharing a bathroom with 18 girls. Nevertheless, she said she still loves her dorm and her roommates.

When Torpey first moved into her room, she was struck

by its vast size and bareness.

She couldn’t imagine labeling the space as her own living area, let alone her home, for the year ahead. But she’s getting there.

“Little by little, I’ve been adding decorations on my walls to make it seem like my own,” Torpey said. “I have tickets from games and plays from this year.

I also have notes, pictures and other things from my roommate and friends.”

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The ‘experience’ Learning how to live through where you live

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Location, location, location: the mantra of real estate agents.

What does ‘location’ mean for a college student?

Where you choose to live is an integral part of your ‘college experience.’ It can determine

how involved you are on campus, who your friends are, where you hang out and what you do in your spare time.

We’ve got four primary options as students: live on campus, live at home, live in student housing off campus or live in an apartment off campus.

Deciding where to live can be both stressful and exciting, regardless of what year you are in school. Freshmen hope to get a good selection number for choosing their new dorms, and by the time you’re a sophomore, the hunt for an apartment near campus is on. You gather a group of friends and hop into a seemingly decent building within walking distance of a few tolerable bars and hope for the best.

After moving in to wherever they’ve selected, students work

to make their room, apartment or house their own. We’ve all grown up since graduating high school, and college is the time to continue growing and creating ourselves. Where you live and what you do with your space can have a major impact on how you experience college.

However, society assumes that it’s necessary to live on campus if you want the full ‘college experience.’ Living in a dorm comes with the connotation of beer pong on a Tuesday night, getting laid with a white sock on the door knob and making lifelong friendships with the random people on your floor.

Certainly, dorms can be good in that they are a breath of fresh air – well, maybe not so much when you’ve got dozens of kids living together – after living

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A feel-good home

Students discuss making their South Campus abodes more “homey” KEREN BARUCH

Senior Features Editor

Living in the University Heights could mean inhabiting homes with broken front doors, cracks in the walls, creaking floors and an overall disheveled feel.

But that’s not to say that a bit of feng shui and decorating can’t make some of the most unkempt houses more “homey.” Some UB students have figured out how to make their South Campus homes feel less like broken-down sheds and more like home.

When Carly Schreiber, a senior communication major, first saw the Tyler Street home she’d be living in during her sophomore and junior years, there were holes punched through the living room walls, a broken ceiling light fixture hanging in the middle of her soon-to-be kitchen and dirt covering the floors and walls.

Toilets were broken and the house seemed unlivable, she said.

But throughout her three years living in a house away from her home, she and her friends figured out how to make their South Campus home more comfortable.

Christmas tree lights, tapestries and photographs are the ingredients Schreiber uses to spice up her bedroom. For $2, she purchased Christmas tree lights from the Christmas Tree Shop and hung them from each corner of her bedroom to circle her ceiling. Behind her bed, Schreiber hung a purple tapestry – $10 from a boutique in Israel – along with a black Grateful Dead tapestry on the wall across from her bed.

The longest wall in her room is filled with posters of her favorite bands – Sublime, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish and more. She

Courtesy of Lily Weisberg Carly Schreiber, a senior communication major, believes tapestries, Christmas lights and band posters are the ingredients to make a room homey.

Courtesy of Lily Weisberg Nicole Faerman, a junior communication major, decided to create her own headboard out of a broken door and painted the walls of her South Campus home in order to feel comfortable in her room.

collected these posters from concerts, travel and the Internet.

Her bohemian quilted comforter is made up of teal, orange, pink, white and light blue abstract designs – these warm colors add a comforting feel to her bedroom. Schreiber has a television, a white dresser and some shelves in her room as well.

The final touches are the pictures of her and her friends

throughout their college career hanging near her door. These mementos make Schreiber feel truly at home in her room.

Nicole Faerman, a junior communication major, used her artistic skills to add zing to her room.

Because her bed didn’t come attached to a headboard, Faerman took a door off its hinges, sandpapered it, painted it bright teal and hung it behind her bed.

Courtesy of Lily Weisberg Amber Rijos, a junior speech and hearing sciences major, believes warm colors and a dream catcher are perfect additions to any room. She finds comfort and happiness come from calm and stylish rooms.

“The inside of my room was very dark – the walls were supposed to be white but they were covered in tape, nails and dark dirt marks, so my parents and I repainted it immediately,” Faerman said. “The posters above my bed now add personality and color to my room. The random throw pillows and Anthropologie comforter I have make my room feel more like home.”

Paige Liebowitz, a senior communication major, believes making a house more “homey” involves more than just bedroom decorations. Liebowitz and her friends decorated their living room in purple and gold colors to represent their sorority, Delta Phi Epsilon.

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Continued from page 14: South Campus courtesy of lily weisberg Many students in Greek Life like to decorate their living rooms based on their sorority. They use banners, pillows and photographs with their friends in order to make their living rooms comfortable for nightly hang outs.

created from painting sorority symbols and images on mattress sheets.

Liebowitz’s kitchen features wooden cabinets and drawers, matched with red décor she and her roommates picked out at Bed, Bath & Beyond and ordered from eBay. Furthermore, blasting loud music through speakers in the house while the girls cook dinner or get ready to go out also enhances the comfort and “home-good” feel, Liebowitz said.

She personally loves her room, too. She said every roommate decorated her room based off a color scheme – hers is pink and black.

She found a zebra striped comforter and other funky hot pink decorations at Target.

She bought simple, cheap furniture from IKEA, she said, in order to complete her room.

Amber Rijos, a junior speech and hearing sciences major, painted one wall in her room turquoise and matched it with a lime green carpet and blue and green paisley comforter.

The brightness adds happiness and comfort to her life.

Above her bed, Rijos hung a dream catcher, along with a collage of her and her friends nailed into the wall – the framed photos remind her of good times.

“I just like to go home and feel at peace,” Rijos said. “Laying in my bed, I want to be surrounded by a positive atmosphere.”

Joyce Chun, a junior social science major, values home décor. She said it’s important to make a space your own, especially when living in an area with so much urban decay, in order to find comfort when you feel homesick.

Good color schemes are everything to Chun, who lives with Liebowitz. Her house’s gold and yellow living room is covered in tapestries and sorority banners that are paired with matching colored pillows on couches and futons.

“Your room is like an extension of yourself,” Schreiber said. “It’s hard to create a perfect home when you have so many roommates – not everyone has the same style or likes. But when you’re inside your room, you’re in your safe zone, and I think it’s important to make college a home away from home – just as contented and cozy as your real home.”

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Taking Back Sunday’s Happiness Is lacks consistency, but gets through to listener Album: Happiness Is

Artist: Taking Back Sunday

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With its sixth studio-recorded album, Taking Back Sunday has a lot of fans to impress. And anyone who grew up listening to the Long Island band has a lot to look forward to with Happiness Is. Similar to Taking Back Sunday’s past albums, Happiness Is offers songs illustrating therapy sessions, one-night stands and issues with ex-girlfriends. Though the album itself lacks consistency and echoes past works, it still has a few standout tracks.

Track one, “Preface,” provides an angelic-like entrance to Happiness Is. It leads listeners into the album to discover what the band has created these past three years.

“Flicker, Fade,” the second track, is noted to be the favorite single on the album. The song starts with a heavy electric guitar mash that lasts for 10 seconds between lead guitarist John Nolan

and Eddie Reyes. Once the mashup becomes a more soothing melody, lead vocalist Adam Lazzara breaks into a sad but hopeful tune.

With lyrics like “If you should change your name / I’ll love you just the same / And if you should run away / I would save your place/ So you can go, go, go,” the song leads the listener down that sad but hopeful path.

Track three, “Stood a Chance,” is another popular song on Happiness Is. Rather than starting the song with a loud lead from the guitarists, “Stood a Chance” begins with a more rhythmic and happy tune from Nolan. The singing from Lazzara sounds more upbeat as he keeps up with the rhythm of the song.

By the end of “Stood a Chance,” fans have already listened to two hit singles in a row, but then Happiness Is hits a plateau, until tracks 10 and 11. “We Were Younger Then” and “Nothing At All” escape the usual sound of Taking Back Sunday.

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In “We Were Younger Then,” Taking Back Sunday strays away from its traditional happy and high-school-sounding tune. It starts slow with a faint sound from the guitar, and then Lazzara comes in. After singing a few stanzas, the song’s beat picks up and sounds more like an alternative song.

The album’s final track, “Nothing At All,” is the only song on Happiness Is that has an acoustic guitar. For acoustic guitar lovers, the song may be for you. It may start slow, but it picks up a little toward the end. The track harkens back to the album’s first song with its angelic sound.

Though the band offers much of the same sound as its previous albums, Taking Back Sunday’s newest work still has hits – and misses – with the plateau between tracks three and 10. And overall, Happiness Is should please most fans. email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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Professors disapprove of downtown theater’s potential privatization New ownership may jeopardize UB class, community access to film screenings JORDAN OSCAR Arts Editor

Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian have hosted the Buffalo Film Seminars since 2000.

But the concept of their class, which doubles as a popular gathering for the film community in downtown Buffalo, is under threat. The theater that hosts the seminar, the Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre, is at risk of being privatized – and some worry it may wind up not functioning as a theater at all.

The City of Buffalo is putting the complex up for bid. Dipson Theatres owns the venue, which is located at 639 Main St. in downtown Buffalo. But the Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre board of directors, of which Jackson was made chairman Friday, manages it.

The mayor’s office stated the city wants the theater to remain operating as it is now. But Jackson and Christian, who are both distinguished SUNY professors, are worried they and other groups who use the venue will lose access.

Jackson and Christian have used the theater, which is the only movie theater in downtown Buffalo, for their class for the past 14 years; they’ve shown 14 or 15 films each semester and have screened over 300 movies.

Yusong Shi, The Spectrum The last movie theater in downtown Buffalo and the only eight-screen independent movie theater in the country, the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre, may soon close its doors to UB’s Buffalo Film Seminars.

But their intent is not just to screen films – they aim to bring students downtown and become immersed in Buffalo’s city and film culture. “[Diane and I] could have done this in the Center For the Arts … but we thought it was important to do it in a real movie theater in the heart of a real city,” Jackson said. “For all kinds of reasons – some of them pedagogical and some of them having to do with the cultural life of the city.”

Michael DeGeorge, the City of Buffalo Police spokesman, reiterated a statement made by the mayor’s office, which said it wants to see “the operation as a cinema and local programming and festivals continue.”

“Since 2012, Buffalo has experienced $4.3 billion dollars in new economic development activity providing the opportunity for the City to transition the property back to private ownership,” according to the statement.

Jackson said that with the City of Buffalo, it’s hard to determine what is going to happen “when things are happening behind closed doors.”

He also said that although he has heard some new operators would keep the theater, others might turn it into condos or interfere with the operations that matter to the theater, including the Buffalo Film Seminars.

For many in the Buffalo and UB community, including Barbra Bono, an associate professor of English, the theater has been

a catalyst for film festivals over the years.

The Market Arcade, which is the only publicly owned eightscreen theater in the country, has been a community resource and town connection for over 15 years, according to Bono.

In addition to Buffalo Film Seminars, the theater has hosted multiple film festivals and shows, including the UB Gender Institute International Women’s Film Festival and the local experimental theater company Road Less Traveled.

“It would be a sad irony if the city withdrew its support for and stewardship of the space just as UB is planting itself more thoroughly at the heart of the city of Buffalo’s downtown revival with initiatives like the new Medical School and the Gateway Building,” Bono said in an email.

The theater needs expensive improvements and renovations, including fixed roofing and new air conditioning, concession stands and stadium seating, according to Jackson.

Notably, the theater needs new projection equipment capable of showing the films, which are increasingly being sent out as digital files rather than in canisters of film. Jackson said the theater needs seven new projectors because one has already been donated; each would cost roughly SEE Theater, PAGE 19

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Christian pointed out that donors would be open to pay for the upgrades, but that’s not an option.

“The problem is really political,” Christian said. “A lot of the foundations really love this operation and would pay to upgrade it, but they can’t do that unless the city would give us a lease …

The city won’t give us a lease because they want to sell it and make money, they say.”

Christian and Jackson reflected on their class’ beginning and its growth over the years. Christian said over 80 people – including the 40 UB students registered for the class and roughly the same number of ticket holders – attended the first screening of the Buffalo Film Seminars at Market Arcade Jan. 19, 2000.

The film, a showing of William Wellman’s The Public Enemy (1931), gathered a decent crowd. But by the fourth week, which was a showing of Triumph of Will (1935), the theater had to turn people away. Shortly after that, the Seminars moved from a screening room that held 154

people to one that held 324. The event has stayed there ever since.

“The students were at the heart of it, but we opened all the discussion to anyone who paid for a ticket,” Christian said. “Almost immediately it was a big success … in that first semester of 2000, we put the theater in the black … It was really amazing … it’s a phenomenon.”

While the cultural learning experience behind the Buffalo Film Seminars is under threat, the class is not. Jackson and Christian could use Dipson’s Amherst Theatre near South Campus.

Jackson said the Amherst Theatre would actually draw a larger audience because it is more accessible to students and the Amherst community.

But both Christian and Jackson would like to remain at the Market Arcade because of the theater’s significance to the Buffalo community and the cultural experience for their students.

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Continued from page 13: The experience with my boyfriend. Sometimes I feel like a housewife straight out of the 1950s, but I’m overall much happier with my ‘college experience’ since I’ve moved back to Buffalo, my hometown, and into my own apartment.

When I lived on campuses, I felt so detached from the ‘experience’ I thought I should be having that college began to feel like an interruption to my life, rather than part of it. I didn’t live in Geneseo or Binghamton; I was just there.

If you don’t enjoy living on campus or going to parties down the hall, that doesn’t mean you’re not having the ‘college experience.’ It took me until moving into my own apartment to fully understand that having a good time as a student does not need to be doing what is pushed by the media and the regrets and ‘good old days’ nostalgia of people long out of college.

College does not need to be a time of partying if you don’t want it to be. It can be sitting on your porch at night with one or two friends; it can be having a

glass of red wine with dinner every night; it can be sitting alone watching Law and Order: SVU for six hours in a row. College can and should be whatever you want. Whether you live on campus, at home, in an apartment or in student housing off campus, you are in charge of your ‘experience’.

Actually, forget the whole idea of the ‘experience.’ College is part of your life. You’re not just a student. You’re you, inside and outside of the university setting.

I didn’t feel like Emma Janicki when I lived on campus because I felt like I needed to live according to some ‘experience’ that wasn’t mine.

Today, I’m a resident of the vibrant West Side; I’m a girlfriend; I work two part-time jobs I love; and I get to write my opinion in this lovely newspaper full of talented writers. Oh, and I’m a student.

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Continued from page 12: Dorms been doing her best to make her room feel more like a home. Her side of the room has pictures of her family and friends, as well as her favorite quote: “You are stronger than you seem, braver than you believe and smarter than you think you are.” She regrets not buying enough and not spending enough time on decorations at the beginning of the year, a mistake she plans to remedy next fall.

“I [spent] so much time getting things I would need this year, like a comforter set and mattress pad and storage stuff … making sure I had all of what I could call necessities,” Goodman said. “I didn’t take enough time to get really cool decorations.”

For Goodman, it’s the people that have made her freshman year in Ellicott successful. Being on the rowing team makes meeting other people difficult, so she appreciates having people to meet in close proximity, though she doesn’t like the “loudness after 1 a.m.” Goodman has early morning rowing practice on weekends, so late-night noisiness is an issue. email: features@ubspectrum.com

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HOUSE OF BEATS MEGAN WEAL

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There is something about Electronic Dance Music (EDM or house music) that makes a person want to throw their hands in the air and let go of all their stress.

When you hear its deep, bellowing bass and electronic sounds, a crazy feeling takes over your body and you don’t stop dancing until the song does.

This playlist will give you what we think is some of the best house music to get the party started wherever you are – and to keep it going until the wee hours of the morning.

Cash Cash – “Lightning” (feat.

John Rzeznik) This is probably one of the most accessible house tracks – it’s like EDM for beginners. It heavily features John Rzeznik, the lead singer of alternative-rock group Goo Goo Dolls. In fact, Rzeznik is so heavily featured that it’s like hearing an electronic, euphoric Goo Goo Dolls. It’s got a club-friendly synthesizer running throughout.

Although it is subtle and unobtrusive, the track would be lost without it. It seems that this song has struck a hard-to-find balance between nighttime house and pop.

Aimoon – “Cloudbreaker” Aimoon isn’t an artist who holds any punches and “Cloudbreaker” is no exception to that rule. There’s no unnecessarily slow buildup – it comes in with a beat worthy of vi-

cious fist-pumping and satisfactory head nodding. The synthesizer growls from underneath a comforter of stylistic melodies that travel around the room. It’s seven minutes of non-stop beat – no time for a drink break while you’re dancing to this one.

Vicetone – “Heartbeat” Bewildering kicks and huge synthesizer sounds is a combination that can only conclude in a great hit. But nevertheless, plenty of people have tried and failed miserably. Luckily, Vicetone has mixed together a near-perfect cocktail and topped it off with a smooth, evocative aftertaste in the form of Collin McLoughlin’s captivating lyrics. It’s a beat that could be repeated over and over again and people would still be dancing into the morning.

Avicii – “Hey Brother” Avicii is a Swedish DJ who’s managed to break into the charts with a strange, yet genius blend of folk and dance. Technical-banjo finger picking marries with elevated club beats. The music is rounded out by the all-American sound of Dan Tyminski. It may not be the hardest of house tracks – but you can take from a road trip to the club.

Tiësto –“Red Lights” “Red Lights” deceives you for the first eight seconds – there’s nothing but a crisp, clean acoustic guitar. But once the ninth second hits, so does the beat. It has a feel-good house sound to it that really kicks in at 1:24. It’s mainstream and chart-worthy, but the subtle house thumping that invades throughout gives this track its edge.

Steve Aoki & R3hab – “Flight” This four-minute track could fill a stadium and make the ground shake. The beat slams. The earpiercing, laser-like electronics are a definitive takeaway from this track – an addition that lifts each beat to a new exhilarating height.

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Ellie Goulding – “Burn” The stunning vocals are nothing but expected from the British songstress – but the stuttering synthesizer and up-tempo, radio-friendly beat is Ellie Goulding bringing something new to the table. If you’re new to the house or EDM scene, listening to “Burn” will be like dipping the tips of your toes into a pool that’s only going to get warmer. It’s hypnotic, infectious and dance inducing.

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Skrillrex – “All Is Fair In Love And Brostep” Skrillrex is known for annihilating beats – slamming them down and letting them blow up in the listeners’ ears, “All Is Fair In Love And Brostep” is subtly reminiscent of Skrillrex’s early dub-step days.

And the prominence of the Ragga Twins’ sound gives a new dimension – something closer to the realm of jungle, but not fully immersed. It’s an intoxicating mix of genres – but most of all, it’s house at its finest.

Daft Punk – “Around The World” To the uneducated listener, Daft Punk would probably be the first name that was thought when the genre of house or EDM was brought into conversation. “Around The World” is a funky electronic song. The dulled beginning makes you think you’re standing outside the sweat-filled club grabbing gulps of fresh air into your lungs – the music pulsating behind the closed door. The hooks are unbelievably catchy; Daft Punk’s notorious robotic voice echoes the phrase “around the world” continuously and the drops are located steadily throughout. If there were a template for a good house song – “Around The World” would be it. email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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Continued from page 24: Quick Hits Women’s Tennis (10-3, 1-1 MAC) The Bulls traveled to Florida for two matches and returned home to begin conference play.

Buffalo split matches with Hillsdale (9-12, 8-6 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) and Florida Atlantic (88, 0-2 Conference USA) before returning home for its first two MAC matches against Eastern Michigan (9-6, 2-0 MAC) and Toledo (10-4, 1-1 MAC). Buffalo lost to the Eagles, 4-3, but rebounded to defeat the Rockets by the same score.

The team will next play Saturday at Northern Illinois (5-7, 0-2 MAC) at 2 p.m.

Men’s Lacrosse (4-1) Buffalo traveled south for five games, three of which went into overtime. The team defeated Minnesota (3-3, 1-0 Upper Midwest Lacrosse league), 6-5, in extra time and Vanderbilt (4-3, 2-1

SouthEastern Lacrosse Conference), 8-7, in four overtime periods.

The Bulls fell to Central Florida (5-1, 1-1 SELC), 11-10, in overtime. Buffalo defeated Alabama (2-8, 1-2 SELC), 11-5, and Western Virginia (2-2), 12-7.

The Bulls next play No. 6 Michigan State (5-2, 2-0 Central Collegiate Lacrosse League) Saturday at 7 p.m.

Swimming and Diving Senior Brittney Kuras competed in the NCAA National Championships in Minneapolis, Minn., this weekend. Kuras set a school and MAC record in the 200 individual medley with a time of 1:58.01, but she did not advance past the preliminaries. Kuras was the lone Bull at the meet.

Wrestling (3-17, 0-8 MAC) Last Thursday, senior Nick Flannery competed in the NCAA Tournament at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklaho-

ma City, Okla. He lost both of his matches in the 141-pound weight class, being pinned by Virginia Tech’s Devin Carter and losing by technical fall to Iowa State’s Josh Dwieza in the consolation match.

Flannery was the lone representative from Buffalo in the tournament. He received an automatic bid after finishing fifth place in the 141-pound weight class in the MAC Tournament.

Flannery is a transfer from Cleveland State and finished his only season as a Bull with a record of 22-20.

Track & Field Senior shot putter Jonathan Jones and sophomore heptathlon athlete Mike Morgan competed in the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships in Albuquerque, N.M., March 1415. Morgan finished in seventh place and Jones finished in 12th.

Despite first-year head coach Bobby Hurley’s billing as bringing a high-flying, guard-driven offense to Buffalo, the squad was 1-5 when it allowed more than 80 points.

The Bulls were fifth in the conference in steals with 6.8 per game and often flustered opponents with their high-energy, pressuring style of play, especially at Alumni Arena.

Bench production: B+ The Bulls’ bench is a complicated matter. The starting five at the beginning of the season were McCrea, Oldham, Freelove, Regan and sophomore Jarryn Skeete. Evans came off the bench and played starters’ minutes almost from the start of the season, but particularly once Skeete was sidelined due to an ankle injury.

Instead of starting Evans, Hurley started junior Xavier Ford, even though he averaged 13.5 minutes to Evans’ 26.4.

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Without Evans, the bench production would have been dismal.

But had Skeete stayed healthy all season, there is a much weaker argument to start Evans.

Though Moss did contribute more down the stretch, he was not a key contributor. Evans carried the Bulls’ bench this season.

He will likely take on a starter’s role next season, leaving the sixth man production to another player.

Coaching: B Hurley showed flashes of greatness in his first season as a head coach. When the Bulls were clicking, they were the best team in the conference. But they lacked consistency.

Hurley was easily frustrated on the bench, and he was repeatedly called for technical fouls throughout the season. Though his energy translated well into his players and made the Bulls exciting to watch, he needs to learn how to corral his emotions.

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Taking it to the house Five football players live together, bond through cooking, studying, pranking TOM DINKI

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One might expect a residence occupied by 1,416 total pounds of football players to be a house filled with talk of X’s and O’s and copious amounts of food.

Only the latter is correct in the case of the house occupied by five Buffalo football players, however, as their home is usually filled with talk of computer programming and coding as opposed to audibles and gap assignments.

Senior defensive lineman Colby Way, sophomore running back Anthone Taylor, junior offensive lineman Jake Silas and junior defensive linemen Dalton Barksdale and Kristjan Sokoli live together in the same house two minutes from North Campus.

Three of the roommates study computer engineering at UB and have developed several apps for gaming.

When the football team has 6 a.m. workouts, Way is usually the first one up and making breakfast for his roommates.

“I always like to eat breakfast before a workout,” Way said. “So I’m always willing to help out and make it for other people, too, because if you’re up making breakfast for yourself, it’s pretty easy to just throw a couple more eggs on.”

The house uses more than just a couple eggs, however. They estimated they go through about 108 a week. The Bulls said they eat a lot of eggs because they want to stay healthy. They use eggs to make breakfast sandwiches, wraps and omelets.

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Courtesy of Dalton Barksdale Five Buffalo football players live in a house together, where the conversation is centered more around computer programming and coding than X’s and O’s. From left to right: junior defensive lineman Kristjan Sokoli, sophomore running back Anthone Taylor, junior defensive lineman Dalton Barksdale, junior offensive lineman Jake Silas and senior defensive lineman Colby Way.

mates weighing over 290 pounds, the house always has a steady appetite to fill.

“We go through a lot of food,” Barksdale said. “Like, seriously, a lot of food.”

The roommates usually can’t eat breakfast together during the school week because of their different schedules, but they’re typically together for dinner.

Way has a condition for his roommates if he cooks breakfast or dinner: they have to clean the dishes.

A few weeks ago, the dishes in their sink piled up so high that the Bulls could not fit another dish. The dirty dishes had even started to overflow onto the counter. Way eventually got so fed up that he cleaned the dishes himself and made a rule that everyone cleans their own dishes.

“Normally, it’s so dirty that one person gets so mad that they just

Quick Hits Spring Break recap

Chad Cooper, The Spectrum Freshman pitcher Mike Kaelin and the baseball team went 3-4 over Spring Break, but the Bulls took two of three in their first conference series of the season against Northern Illinois.

Baseball (10-7, 2-1 Mid-American Conference) The Bulls began Spring Break in Virginia, losing to Rutgers (812) and Virginia Commonwealth (20-3, 3-0 Atlantic 10 Conference) and defeating Lafayette (610).

The team returned to Buffalo to take on Canisius (14-7, 3-0 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) Wednesday and lost, 1211. Heading into the ninth inning, Buffalo was down 10-8 but scored three runs to take an 1110 lead. The team allowed a tworun, walk-off homerun in the bottom of the ninth.

This weekend, the Bulls began conference play against Northern Illinois (3-17, 1-2 MAC) to wrap up Spring Break. After losing the first game of the series, 15-9, Buffalo rebounded with two victories to take the series.

It is the 11th straight conference series the Bulls have won dating back to 2012.

The two wins featured solid pitching, as Mike Burke and Anthony Magovney combined to give up just two runs and seven hits in 13 innings pitched.

This weekend, the Bulls host Ball State (16-8, 3-0 MAC). The

series will take place at Monroe Community College in Rochester and begins Friday at 3 p.m.

Softball (14-13) The Bulls went 4-6 during Spring Break while competing in the University of South Florida (USF) Under Armour Tournament. The team faced Stetson (21-5) and Florida A&M (10-17) to end the trip.

Buffalo will begin conference play next weekend, as it hosts Ball State (18-11) for a doubleheader on Friday, beginning at 1 p.m. The Bulls then host Miami Ohio (11-14) for a two-game series starting Saturday at 2 p.m.

The series will conclude with a game Sunday at 1 p.m.

Men’s Tennis (9-5, 0-1 MAC) Sunday at the Miller Tennis Center, Buffalo lost its conference opener to Toledo (7-15, 1-0 MAC), 5-2. It was the Bulls’ first home match in over a month.

The Rockets got the doubles point and clinched the match early in singles play. Buffalo will host Binghamton (10-8) Friday, April 4, at 2 p.m.

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clean everything,” Barksdale said.

Barksdale noted there are currently only two dishes in their sink.

Silas admitted their house “definitely [has] a lived-in look.”

The Bulls said whoever sees something that needs to be cleaned does it – like taking out the trash. They’ve had to mop their floors a few times because they often track mud into the house.

Way and Silas both said Barksdale is the messiest of the roommates. When Silas and Barksdale were asked who the messiest was, Silas said to Barksdale: “Dalton, you care to take that one?”

Barksdale first denied the claim that he was the messiest of the roommates, but then he admitted it.

“If you were to ask everyone in the house, they would say me,” Barksdale said. “But if

you ask me, it’s everyone else. It’s not that my room is messy … all right, I’m the messiest one in the house. But there’s a reason.

I’m not in my room a lot. It just sneaks up on me.”

The roommates try not to talk about football at home much because they have to talk about it all day at practice, but Barksdale and Way sometimes go around the house calling out defensive play calls and adjustments to mess with their roommates who play offense.

“Sometimes, the defensive guys, we’ll just say stuff that we know they don’t know just for fun,” Barksdale said. “We’ll just go around calling plays out and signaling plays for fun.”

The conversation in the house often turns to computer programming and coding.

Way and Silas are computer engineering majors, and Barksdale is a math major with minors in computer science and education.

The roommates have developed several free downloadable app games for the Android phone.

They described the apps as brain activity games.

A day after one of their games was released, the roommates told all of their teammates and coaches at practice to download it. Barksdale said they even told “random staff members in the training room,” and he believes head coach Jeff Quinn has downloaded the game.

Some of their teammates have told them they’re waiting for them to develop new levels for the game. The roommates said one of their games has 2,000 downloads.

Way, Silas and Barksdale will

often sit in the living room with their laptops as they program and talk to each other about coding.

Sokoli sometimes gets tired of all the computer talk and will come into the living room and mock his roommates by pretending to talk about coding with them.

“Sokoli will come in and talk nonsense, but it actually kind of sounds legit,” Way said. “He’ll just say random technical terms.

It’s kind of funny.”

The roommates sometimes play pranks on one another, as well. Recently, Barksdale got a rattlesnake eggs prank from Canada. It’s an envelope that contains a metal washer and rubber band, and when it opens it makes a loud rattling sound. The envelope is labeled “rattlesnake eggs,” and Barksdale has pranked all of his roommates with it.

The prank scared Taylor the most.

“We got Anthone the best,” Barksdale said. “He doesn’t like snakes anyway, but if the wall weren’t behind him, he may have fallen over.”

The Bulls appreciate living with one another because they can relate with what they’re going through.

“I know some other people that live with non-athletes.

They’ll go home and be tired and their roommates will go around having parties,” Barksdale said.

“No matter how bad you feel, you look around the house and you see they’re just as tired and you think, ‘Maybe I shouldn’t be complaining.’” email: sports@ubspectrum.com

Hardwood Report Card Grading the men’s basketball team’s performance this season When the buzzer sounded at Quicken Loans Arena on Thursday, March 13, at the end of the Bulls’ (19-10, 13-6 Mid-American Conference) 69-64 MAC Tournament quarterfinal loss, it signaled the end of a lot more than just the 2013-14 men’s basketball season.

It was the last time UB’s alltime leading scorer, senior forward Javon McCrea and fellow seniors guards Josh Freelove and Jarod Oldham would play in a Bulls jersey and the end of what many had believed would be a special season.

Here is The Spectrum sports staff ’s analysis of the Bulls’ season.

Three-point shooting: B Freelove was the Bulls’ most prolific long-range shooter and the fourth most efficient threepoint shooter in the MAC, hitting 41 percent of his shots from beyond the arc. He also led the conference in three-point field goals made.

As a team, the Bulls shot 33.5 percent from three, fifth best in the conference. The biggest issue with the Bulls’ three-point shooting was their streakiness. When faced with a good zone defense, the Bulls were forced to attempt unfavorable shots, and their success dropped considerably.

Free throw shooting: BThe Bulls were streaky from the free throw line all season, shooting above 80 percent some games, and then shooting 37.5 percent the next. McCrea attempted 198 free throws on the season due to his physical play in the post. He shot 67 percent, hitting 132 shots.

Oldham was the only other player to attempt more than 100 free throws, hitting 83 of 113 shots.

Yusong Shi, The Spectrum Freshman guard Shannon Evans was the Bulls’ most productive bench player, averaging 8.5 points and 3.3 assists per game. Evans was involved in several highlight-reel plays and was a major sparkplug for the Bulls.

As a team, the Bulls shot 71.2 percent from the line.

Ball control: AThe Bulls benefitted from having a veteran point guard and a young point guard on the team.

Together, Oldham and freshman guard Shannon Evans combined for 248 of the Bulls’ 436 assists.

With Buffalo’s 365 turnovers, the Bulls were second in the conference with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.2.

Overall offense: B+ The offense was streaky and there was seemingly an easy formula to stop Buffalo: Zone defense. When McCrea was able to play his game inside, the entire Bulls’ offense clicked. But once teams clogged up the middle, Buffalo lost the ability to get the ball inside to McCrea and effectively drive the lane.

The only zone defense the Bulls really thrived against all season was Bowling Green in the last regular season game of the year March 9.

Without McCrea next year, there is a question as to how the offense is going to function.

Rebounding: B+ The Bulls always seemed to be outrebounding their opponents during the season, but their final season statistics are not eye popping.

Buffalo was second in the conference in rebounding, grabbing 37 boards per game, but sixth in rebounds allowed. The Bulls were third in rebounding margin, outrebounding opponents by three boards per game.

McCrea was the Bulls’ most prolific rebounder, grabbing 9.9 boards per game. The Bulls’ next highest rebounder, junior Will Regan, averaged 5.8 rebounds per game.

Regan and sophomore forward Justin Moss will need to step up next season to lead UB on the boards.

Defense: B+ The Bulls went on a six-game stretch in which they didn’t allow an opponent to score more than 70 points, but they also allowed 80 or more points five times during the season.

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