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[IN PLUSH HE TRUSTS] Nguyen fights for identity through his art

by MEGAN WEAL, Asst. Arts Editor

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Nguyen and Jeffery Sherven, UB’s instructional support technician in print media, wrestle each other with the PLUSH artwork during the WW/PLUSH event on April 3. Sherven has acted as a friend and mentor figure to Nguyen since Nguyen began at UB in 2008.

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Nguyen and Sherven use the PLUSH artwork to hit each other during the WW/PLUSH event on April 3. The wrestling match was the final event of the In PLUSH We Trust exhibition. Throughout the event, Nguyen’s PLUSH art pieces were destroye

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Tanya Dorph-Mankey, a senior fine arts major, dances with the PLUSH costumes before the PLUSH Purr-Raid on March 24. All of Nguyen’s PLUSH pieces were designed to be worn and played with over the course of the two-week exhibit.

man walks through the gallery’s double doors. His identity is hidden by a white, plastic painting suit and a mask made from bandages. A pink helmet covered in condoms and breath mints rests on his head.

He speaks through a noise-distorting megaphone, taunting and teasing his opponent to come into the ring.

The audience, lining the edges of the room, looks around in eager anticipation. Long, stretched minutes pass before the man’s pleas are answered and Thomas Nguyen enters the room.

Nguyen has a crown on his head and his forearm fastened into a padded, spiked piece of armor. The two opponents scan each other with smiles on their faces.

The fighting begins.

Stuffed artifacts fly across the room, launched from both challengers’ hands. The next 20 minutes evolve into a blurred flurry.

The stuffed pieces begin to deflate as they are thrown forcefully, pushed and pulled.

These wrestlers are battling to be crowned the victor.

The conclusion nears when Nguyen falls and his body sinks into the once bulbous pieces of art. His opponent stands in front of Nguyen and lifts a soft, spherical ball above his head. He pauses for a moment before spiking the ball and launching himself on top of Nguyen.

BUT THE MATCH ISN’T OVER UNTIL THE BEST TWERKER EMERGES. Both men place their hands on the floor and kick their legs onto a wall. They twerk until they fall. And still no one wins – a victor is never crowned.

The wrestling ring was the Visual Studies Lower Gallery in UB’s Center For the Arts (CFA). The weapons were Nguyen’s art: “PLUSH.” And the two opponents were friends and artists Thomas Nguyen and Jeffery Sherven of UB’s Visual Studies department.

Thomas Nguyen (his friends call him Tommy) is a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) graduate student and the creator of the art exhibition, In PLUSH We Trust. Over the past two weeks, his artwork and personality invaded the CFA. Each day brought something new and unusual to the forefront for the audience – artistic stagnation was not an option for Nguyen. The exhibition began on March 25 with a PLUSH Purr-Raid – Nguyen, his colleagues and the students he teaches led PLUSH, his pieces of art, around the buildings of North Campus.

The parade dipped into the food lines in the Student Union, wove its way into classrooms and disrupted any normality of North Campus. PLUSH was alive.

“What is it?” curious onlookers asked.

“It’s PLUSH,” Nguyen said.

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Nguyen takes his art through O’Brian Hall during the PLUSH Purr-Raid on March 24. The Puur-Raid aimed to spread the message of PLUSH by disrupting classes and simultaneously making people smile in curiosity. The PurrRaid was well received across North Campus.

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Harumo Sato, a junior fine arts major, dances in the PLUSH costumes before the PLUSH Purr-Raid on March 24. The music was made using the PLUSH art pieces and mixed together by Philip Koperski, a senior fine art major.

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Chase Conaster, a senior English and communication design major, disrupts classroom teaching wearing a PLUSH suit that resembles a white bird during the PLUSH Purr-Raid on March 24. The Purr-Raid marked the beginning of Nguyen’s two-week exhibit which ran from March 25 - April 4.

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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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Spreading the Buffalo Billion around State funds will help Buffalo and potentially each resident Buffalo is finally receiving the $1 billion committed to redevelopment projects promised by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo two years ago.

The state budget passed last week included a provision for the remaining $680 million guaranteed under Cuomo’s “Buffalo Billion” initiative developed by the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council. With these funds in hand, work is slated to begin on the Buffalo Billion proposals, which include plans for an IT Innovation Hub, an Institute for Advanced Manufacturing Competitiveness, tourism to Niagara Falls and workforce training.

The provision of funds for this unprecedented program has been and should continue to be extolled across the region. The influx of so large a sum of state funds to improve a languishing region with less than half the population it had some 50 years ago will certainly be beneficial.

But approaching the news with only bright eyes stymies warrant-

ed skepticism on the distribution of this generous grant.

As anxieties over whether Cuomo would pull off his almost too-good-to-be-true plan begin to fade, euphoria has taken hold. The plan itself centers on a handful of proposals meant to stimulate the economy by building upon existing assets in higher-end manufacturing, research and development.

For all its positive prescriptions, the plan at times falls into potentially less realistic plans.

A proposal to stimulate tourism to the Niagara Falls region, fueled by a $40 million competition for designs and developments for the area, sounds optimistic at first blush. Though the Falls offer an entry point for a more significant impact from tourism in the depressed Niagara Falls downtown, it is naturally an industry dominated by lower-wage jobs.

Plans for an IT Innovation and Commercialization Hub and Medical Innovation and Commercialization Hub aim at gen-

erating higher-end technology and medical advances, creating both employment and (hopefully) spill-over effects for further developments. Plans like the Institute for Advanced Manufacturing Competitiveness and 43North Business Plan Competition seek to work with existing businesses to improve access to equipment and services and bring innovative business ideas to Buffalo, respectively.

These commercialization hubs will doubtlessly bring new talent to the region and help retain STEM talent graduating from UB, mitigating the problematic trend in which alumni shuffle off campus and out of Buffalo in search of careers elsewhere.

The proposals to stimulate growth from existing manufacturing centers and bring new ventures to the city for a minimum of one year are meant to spur employment in robust industries.

The Buffalo Billion will surely help revive Buffalo, but with its implementation upon us, care for

the lowest rungs of society is essential. Beyond notions of development trickling down to those most in need, programs like a center for workforce training and development deserve focus and interrogation to ensure all Buffalonians are served by this influx of capital.

Improving Buffalo schools, transportation infrastructure, food security and addressing structural socioeconomic plight in this region have received short shrift compared to more grandiose plans. All must be of primary focus if these funds are to fundamentally change Buffalo from a declining city to a reemerging one.

For political reasons or not, Cuomo has fulfilled his end of the bargain – the plans are made and the money is in hand. What happens with the implementation is up to us. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

Ten years too late

GM’s recall a decade after its problem begs questions, demands answers Thirteen deaths, 31 crashes, 2.6 million cars recalled. Most appalling, however, is that it took 10 years before General Motors fully admitted the problem publically, issuing a recall.

A defective ignition switch was the culprit – when the key would shake or move in just the right way, the car would turn off and the air bags, power steering and brakes would become disabled as the vehicle continued to barrel forward, leading to a disastrous end in far too many cases. A part was just 1.6 millimeters short, leading to the issues.

Last week, GM CEO Mary Barra, three months into her tenure, faced a barrage of questions from Congress on the matter, specifically on why GM failed to say anything about it for so long.

Barra responded with little more than apologies to families – appropriate, but far from adequate. She stalwartly refused to answer the prominent question on everyone’s tongues and

minds: Why did it take so long?

Congress’ questioning did more for politicians attempting to appear tough on corporate carelessness ahead of a mid-term election, however, than it did for families or citizens desperately searching for answers.

Deferring to a forthcoming report into the matter, Barra pushed through the session with apologies and promises.

Whether or not she personally knew of the defect ahead of time, GM itself must bear the responsibility in this clear case of corporate negligence – attempting to save cash at the cost of lives. Though the CEO claims the “new GM” is more committed to the safety of customers, this reprehensible breach of public trust cannot go unpunished.

The official timeline of events began in 2004 when a problem with the ignition switch was detected with the emblematic failure of pre-bailout GM – the

Chevy Cobalt. In 2005, the financially beleaguered company determined that an overhaul and redesign for the faulty part would be too costly.

Not as costly as 13 lives – but then the company wouldn’t be living up to stockholder expectations.

The first loss of life attributed to the negligent defect came in 2007, though neither GM nor authorities launched an investigation. It would take 12 more deaths and six more years before GM would formally cite the cause of bloodshed as its defective ignition switch.

The failure surrounding this entirely preventable series of tragedies – in which the majority of those killed were under 25 – lies firmly with the company, its leadership and safety authorities at organizations like the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.

Former customers seeking compensation for the lost val-

ue of affected cars have filed a $10 billion class action lawsuit against the company. In addition to the compensation, U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos is considering a mandatory “park-it” order for the cars impacted, according to Bloomberg News.

The park-it order would suggest the cars not be driven.

GM’s CEO claims the cars can be driven safely if everything is removed from the key ring attached to the ignition key to prevent the car from inadvertently switching off.

The case delineates the culture of allowing corporate negligence in favor of a bottom line.

Defects occur, mistakes are made in production and recalls must be made – these are all annoyances, but they are understandable.

Waiting 10 years and losing 13 lives to admit wrongdoing, however, is an unacceptable action in brazen disregard for human life. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

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Continued from page 1: In PLUSH He Trusts “It kind of weirds people out, because they’re like, ‘Well, this doesn’t seem familiar to me.’ But this is what he’s doing. He’s questioning the boundaries of communication,” said Jeffery Sherven, UB’s instructional support technician in print media and Nguyen’s wrestling partner. “They’re trying to make people aware of that because if you’re always around the familiar, around what you think you know, you’ll never question it and you’ll never really understand it.”

The art blurred the lines of what should go together, what was compatible and what was socially acceptable.

As the week progressed, Nguyen’s art was the subject of various events. It was the inspiration for a serious lecture from artist Rebecca Schneider, a hip-hop dance party entitled “A HIP-PLOP Hooray Hurrah” and a PLUSH-inspired nude “fuller figure drawing session.”

At every session and behind every piece of art, large or small, was the constantly smiling, curiously creative Nguyen.

“If you know Tommy, you know that he’s vivacious and outgoing,” said Natalie Fleming, UB’s Visual Studies resource curator. “He’s interested in interacting with you and getting to know you – PLUSH is his personality.”

But Nguyen hasn’t always been that way. He sees PLUSH as more than an exhibition – it was a way of expressing himself that he had always been unable to grasp.

When Nguyen was 14, his parents decided that the family would move from California to Houston, Texas, after his father was transferred to work in a new location.

This was one of the hardest challenges Nguyen has ever faced.

He moved from a place that encouraged freedom and eccentricity to a city and high school that left him feeling segregated and unwelcome.

Being a first-generation child in the United States didn’t help ease his insecurities. He was constantly torn between his mother’s desires to instill Vietnamese tradition in him and his brothers, and his own desires to assimilate and embrace the new, American lifestyle that he was witnessing.

“As an Asian American, you were told that you could only be an engineer, business person or a priest,” said Khoi Nguyen, Nguyen’s older brother. “So being a professional artist was looked down upon. Art is just a hobby – math is more regarded.”

Nguyen’s culture always seemed to be sneering at his artistic desires. It was only recently that he realized his struggle began long before moving to Texas.

whom he was constantly impressing did. They could see Nguyen’s potential and the seemingly neverending ways that he could apply it.

In the same way that PLUSH invades its exhibition space, Nguyen is on his way to invading the artistic world.

He is currently teaching within the Visual Studies department, attempting to instill his vision for creative freedom into students.

“Tommy’s really fun. He’s really different from any other art teacher that I’ve had,” said Elise Roy, a sophomore art history and studio art major. “He’s really chill about what you want to do. He’s really enthusiastic about everything – from what he’s teaching to what you’re doing. It’s always a nice, relaxed environment, but you get to be super creative.”

As a child, Nguyen’s artistic expressions faced consistent scrutiny, but now his dreams are beginning to manifest themselves.

In July, Nguyen will travel to Iceland to continue his work on PLUSH. He has been selected to be part of the Summer We Go Public arts festival at the Nes Artist Residency in Skagastrond. It’s an opportunity that carries weight to Nguyen because of his and PLUSH’s inherent obsession with the blending of cultures.

“It’s about different cultures,” Nguyen said. “It’s supposed to embody this weirdness that so many people try and hide, so, it’s become this semi-organism of people’s lives.”

Iceland embodies a path that Nguyen never thought would be available to him.

“Frustration is a challenge for you to learn something, not just something for you to get angry about,” Sherven said. “You’ve got to get over it, engage it and the results will happen. If you don’t, and you’re always looking for a result without engaging, it’s not going to happen.”

Nguyen discovered feeling angry about his confusing childhood was unproductive. His passions and desires had always been in front of him, and after almost two years of artistic expression in the form of PLUSH, Nguyen has embraced his upbringing and who he is.

Neither Nguyen nor PLUSH can be defined. They embody more than could ever be portrayed on the surface.

But for Nguyen, the internal wrestling that plagued him for so long has subsided. His life, both his struggles and successes, has resulted in a piece of art that questions the boundaries of communication. It has resulted in PLUSH.

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Chase Conaster, a senior English and communication design major, jumps and plays in a PLUSH costume during the PLUSH Purr-Raid on March 24.

“I didn’t know I was Asian until my first-grade teacher told me so,” Nguyen said. “I remember playing with the other kids, and wanting to go and play kickball – but she told me, ‘No, you need to go and play with those guys.’ It was like, go and play with the boys that are like you. And I did, because she was my teacher.”

He was encouraged to segregate himself within a group of only Asian boys.

As Nguyen grew older and his persona developed, his challenges only seemed to intensify. Who he was, or who he was supposed to be, was never clear to him. He would try to change himself in an attempt to fit in.

After high school, Nguyen transferred around the country, enrolling in university after university, aiming to find an economically fruitful career. In 2005, he received a bachelor’s degree in art and philosophy from the University of St. Thomas (Houston) after deciding to leave the five-year master’s in international business program that offered him no passionate outlet. He then began a Master’s degree in history at the University of Toronto.

In 2008, he decided to fulfill his passions and became a fine art major for a second bachelor’s degree at the University at Buffalo.

When he graduated from UB in 2010, his art had progressed, but he remained unsure of himself.

Very few people within the Visual Studies department knew Nguyen outside of his artwork. He was quiet and inward – a stark contrast of his work.

He was successful in his studies, but never fully happy.

With much persuasion from Sherven, in 2013 Nguyen accepted a place as an MFA graduate student at UB. He found comfort as he started working on his artistic venture, PLUSH. It was a voyage that began as an alter ego for Nguyen. It put the focus on something that wasn’t wholly him – a distraction of sorts.

But as PLUSH developed, Nguyen realized the exhibition was an outward expression of himself, his past and his attempt to find himself.

“In some ways, PLUSH is camouflage,” Nguyen said. “When you put it over yourself, it’s so colorful that it takes things away from the person who’s wearing it. Then when more people wear it, you become even more camouflaged.”

His camouflage is paradoxical. Its bold colors and strange shapes make it unavoidable and the art has only enhanced Nguyen as a social figure within the Visual Studies department. His name alone makes others smile.

Throughout his evolution over the past few years, both emotional and artistic, Nguyen has found support and friendship in his past professor and current colleague, Sherven.

“I think visual manifestations of critical thinking – thoughts, feelings, hormones – they don’t manifest themselves in some sort of neat prose or beautiful poetry.

Sometimes we have to have visual expression,” Sherven said. “In that sense, it helps highlight the questions of acceptance and diversity that he tries to raise by engaging in playful and, sometimes for others, awkward behavior – so that basically people reduce their

inhibitions.

“It’s a lot quicker than getting stoned.”

Over the past two weeks, visitors and friends have flocked in and out of the Visual Studies Lower Gallery in the CFA, which Nguyen designed to break their socially induced, preconceived reservations. They have stroked their hands against the plump, fabric skin of the pieces of art and smiled as they have embraced the colors that lit up their mundane days.

“This is great, Tommy.”

“It’s so animated.”

“You’ve worked so hard.”

Each visitor has come with his or her own exclamation of awe or praise – or both. And with each compliment, Nguyen has smiled, looked to the ground with coyness and politely replied, “thank you,” through doubtful laughter.

Philip Koperski, a senior fine art major, has been heavily involved with the execution of the PLUSH exhibition. His original, handmade, up-tempo music provided the soundtrack to people’s PLUSH experience as it played from the speakers of the exhibition space and helped enhance PLUSH’s fun-loving spirit.

“PLUSH to me is just the way the world should be,” Koperski said. “The way that people should act is the way that they act around PLUSH.” PLUSH was not the first time Nguyen’s talents have been applauded – those around him have long been aware of his promise.

In 2010, Nguyen was awarded the Eugene Gaier Award for Excellence in Drawing. He didn’t nominate himself – the faculty

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Gotta catch ’em all Google Maps, Nintendo create Pokémon game on April Fools’ Day

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‘Economusic’ merges delightful ditties with dismaying data World’s best, and only, economusician performs for colloquium

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Pokémon Club Treasurer Kathryn Wiley is always cautious about any news that comes around April 1.

“When Google announced the Pokémon Map app, I thought it was a joke and thought that thousands of people would be wasting their time meticulously scavenging Google Maps for Pokémon that weren’t there,” said Wiley, a junior studio art major.

Wiley thought the joke would end with a video sent out by Google. When she found out the game wasn’t an April Fools’ joke, it was a pleasant surprise.

Tuesday, Google released a fake video advertisement offering a job for one lucky fan to become a Pokémon Master. Any fan that went to Google for a job application soon found out that the position was a hoax.

But Google still took care of those crazed Pokémon fans.

On Google Maps, players can search around the world to find 150 Pokémon – that includes all six generations. Once a player catches all 150, he or she will have to catch the legendary Pokémon, Mew, to be a Poké-

mon Master.

Annmarie Agness, a junior general studio art major and Pokémon club member, was 4 or 5 years old when she got her first Pokémon game, Pokémon Yellow, and she has been playing them ever since. When she found out about the challenge Google sent out to fans, she was quick to embrace it and played the addicting game until her task was complete.

“I started at about 8 a.m. on April 1 and finished 12 hours later,” Agness said. “I was playing it every chance I had until my phone died, twice.”

Players began their search on the app at the Googleplex near Palo Alto, Calif., where there were a good amount of Pokémon, and quickly discovered that more Pokémon could be found in or near natural landmarks and major cities.

Agness found Pokémon at Mt. Everest and Mt. Vesuvius and cities like Paris and Dubai.

But she often hit a plateau.

“It got frustrating to keep searching and not find them around the 75-100 mark, just because you ended up finding the same ones over and over again,” Agness said.

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Jordan Oscar, The Spectrum Larry Bogad, a UC Davis professor and artist, performed his ‘Economusic’ set for the Performing Economies colloquium.

‘Economusic’ blends live music set to various economic data.

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Graphs on increasing income inequality, skyrocketing imprisonment rates and rising tides juxtaposed energetic, cacophonous piano playing and buzzing kazoos on Saturday.

At Hardware Café in Allentown, Larry Bogad put on a show for the Performing Economies colloquium. Bogad, a University of California (Davis) professor and performance artist, came to Buffalo for the colloquium, which explored economic issues and potential alternatives, both on the local and national systemic levels.

His performance tackles the “musicalization of economic

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data,” bringing a surprising, engaging take to otherwise dreary, if not appalling, data.

With a projector displaying various graphs behind him, Bogad played the piano, flute and kazoo to correspond with the rises and falls in the data.

Crowd participation was encouraged and the room was happy to oblige. Rarely is so much laughter and applause garnered in response to graphs of this nation’s growing economic inequity. But that seemed to be the point.

“It’s kind of ridiculous, but it’s surprising,” Bogad said. “A haptic way of experiencing data – that’s what I’m trying to get with this performance.”

Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as the Dada art movement of the early 20th century and the Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci, the performance was nothing if not an avant-garde experience.

Just like the Dadaists broke from the haute art of the day and embraced unpredictable new forms in response to the horrors of war, Bogad’s performance art made the dark, displeasing realities of our time eerily enjoyable to musically imitate. Giving kazoos to the audience to play along made the news of rising poverty rates displayed behind Bogad a bit easier to accept.

With his arms stretched across his keyboard to imitate the lines on graphs charting growing inequality, asking the kazoo-wielding audience to crescendo to imitate increasing incarceration rates, Bogad produced an ironic performance that was at times arresting, but always thoughtprovoking.

“We’re in a perma-crisis, in this economic system,” Bogad said.

“The system is getting less stable, more inequitable. Part of [this performance] is to use the musical form, which is just one form, to make that an embodied experience for the audience.”

Reversing optimistic credos like the French Situationists’ famous mantra, “under the pavement, the beach!” with “beneath the beach, more pavement,” a tinge of skeptical hesitation remained palpable throughout the playful performance.

The short piece remained fun and animated, providing a brief interlude in the academic colloquium’s formality and a great deal to mull over for the audience afterward.

For the performance’s conclusion, Bogad used an overhead camera connected to the projector and placed a graph of rising sea levels and carbon dioxide emissions in a Tupperware container that was then filled with water, imitating rising tides.

Humorous quotes and a handdrawn picture of Buffalo’s skyline were placed in the container next; the message was clear.

‘Economusic’ both delighted and disturbed in a manner divergent from most performances today. Bogad created an absurd piece that challenged the audience to interrogate the dominant socioeconomic system, all while giggling and clapping, kazoos in hand. email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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UB hosts speakers, Freedom Walk to advocate against human trafficking CLAUDIA ORNIS

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As a 4-year-old, Karen O’Hara was sold to men in her community for sexual exploits. She was a human trafficking victim until she was 16 years old.

Saturday, people from the Buffalo community piled into the Newman Center to hear O’Hara’s story. O’Hara founded United Hands of Hope, a foundation working toward building shelters for survivors of human trafficking.

“I was told that this is how women are trained to please their husbands,” O’Hara said.

“This is how I grew up. Back then, I didn’t know what human trafficking was, there was no name for it. I didn’t know it was wrong. I thought that every girl was trained this way.”

O’Hara was the first speaker in a series of advocates against human trafficking who took part in Buffalo’s second annual Human Trafficking Awareness Walk, a walk and seminar aimed to provide education on and awareness of human trafficking.

After the panel and a questionand-answer discussion, attendees took part in the walk, carrying signs and calling for an end to human trafficking. The walk spanned from the Newman Center to the Natural Science Complex Center.

Christine Tjahjadi, a senior international trade major, and Jaspreet Kaur, a junior political science major, organized Freedom Walk Buffalo.

Tjahjadi was inspired to bring awareness to human trafficking during an American Pluralism course. Alison Albright, a global gender studies student, taught the course, which included a film on human trafficking.

Tjahjadi was shocked at the

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exploits she saw represented in the film. What was more troubling to Tjahjadi was the lack of concern she saw on the faces of her classmates.

“When I looked around, no one seemed that shocked or even interested, and the people who were interested were all females,” Tjahjadi said. “And I thought that I must do something because this class could represent the population of [UB], because American Pluralism is required.”

Tjahjadi made it her mission to spread knowledge of the realities of human trafficking.

Human trafficking is a $32 billion industry, second only to the drug trade, according to FreeThem, a Canadian-based antihuman trafficking organization.

Eighty percent of those who are trafficked are woman and children. Every minute, two children are trafficked for sexual exploits.

Freedom Walk Buffalo aimed to put a face on the statistics.

Most of the speakers who at-

tended the walk and seminar were from Western New York.

Tjahjadi and Kaur said they wished to end the belief that human trafficking was something that happens in other nations and to other families. They wanted to inspire attendees to help end human trafficking and the sexual abuse of its victims.

O’Hara articulated this goal during her speech on human trafficking, stating, “It’s not just a hooker on the corner, it’s a person that society has thrown away. We need to stand up and say, ‘No more.’ We don’t buy people. The slave trade is over.”

O’Hara’s abuse ended on a basketball court. After pushing a girl during gym class, O’Hara faced a weeklong suspension.

The thought of having to stay at home for seven days frightened O’Hara; so, she sought solace from a guidance counselor.

The counselor called the police that day.

“I watched my father get handcuffed and put in prison,”

O’Hara said. “I sent my own father to jail. That is why I am standing here today.”

Her story is just one of several. After being freed from the trade, she learned of several girls in her community who went through the same turmoil she experienced.

“It doesn’t matter where you live. It doesn’t matter what color you are, what age you are. It doesn’t matter if you’re a boy or a girl,” O’Hara said. “Because the demand of what somebody wants is what a pimp is going to go out and find. We are the commodity.”

Though the demand remains, tactics have changed with the development of social media. Moses E. Robinson, a Rochester police officer and counselor for troubled youths, explained the new grooming process of young girls via Facebook.

The tactics included older men befriending girls and gaining their trust, eventually luring girls away from their homes and traf-

ficking them for sexual exploits.

O’Hara presented the story of one such girl who was a target of the grooming process.

Gillian was about 11 years old when she started receiving messages on Facebook from an older man. The two started talking via text message, until her parents were able to see signs of what was occurring and contacted O’Hara.

In addition to moving stories of survival and prevention, Deputy Elizabeth Fildes, the program director of the Human Trafficking Division in Erie County, brought a lighter tone to the seminar with a merengue-style dance. Fildes played the song “Por Una Como Ella,”

by Grupomania, grabbed a student from the crowd and started showing everyone the basic steps of merengue.

After lightening the mood and filling the center with laughter, Fildes spoke of her experience with human trafficking with women in the Erie County Correctional Facility in Alden. Fildes explained that violence and drug dependency were used to keep human trafficking victims in line.

Often, a trafficker would get victims addicted to drugs and use the addiction to keep the victims working to feed their drug habits, or make threats to their families and loved ones. Fildes said people don’t usually see these stories when they look at women selling their bodies.

Fildes challenged those in the Newman Center to try to remain aware of the ongoing victimization of women.

“Today, when you’re cold out there,” Fields said. “I want you to think about the girls who are cold all the time.” email: features@ubspectrum.com

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Exploring avenues of local art The Buffalo Small Press Book Fair exhibited a wide scope of artistic, literary work EMMA JANICKI

Asst. Features Editor

The Karpeles Manuscript Library, a repurposed church, housed a world of literature one might not expect to find in Buffalo. Vendors selling everything from self-published poetry books to posters, T-shirts and felt creatures lined the oval floor while shoppers milled about, reading excerpts and learning about the sellers’ crafts.

The eighth annual Buffalo Small Press Book Fair ran from Thursday to Sunday. Poetry and fiction readings were held Thursday and Friday evening at the Western New York Book Arts Center. The fair itself was Saturday and Sunday at Karpeles.

Sponsors included the UB Poetry Collection, the Buffalo State College Art Conservation Department, Talking Leaves Books and the Western New York Book Arts Center. The fair encompassed the key organizations of Buffalo’s literary scene while promoting the talents of lesser known artists and authors in the area.

For students in the fine arts and humanities, post-undergraduate life can be daunting as the “Will I get a job?” question lingers in the back of their minds.

At fairs like this, however, it is clear that someone with a passion for literary arts can find a niche in Buffalo.

Steve Ardo, a UB alumnus who graduated in 2012 with a degree in graphic design with a concentration in communication

design, said that during college, he did not know what he wanted to do after graduation.

While taking a class with John Jennings, a visual studies associate professor, Ardo realized he liked comic book art, one of Jennings’ major focuses.

Today, Ardo designs and illustrates fliers and handbills for basement and house shows in what he calls “Buffalo’s do-ityourself music scene.” After his friend in a punk band asked Ardo to make a flyer for a show, Ardo ended up designing the fliers for all of the band’s shows.

Ardo said after that, he began meeting more musicians and started designing fliers for more and more bands.

Although Ardo was uncertain during his undergraduate years about his future, his love of punk, combined with a passion for design, allowed him to “figure it out a year after the fact” and get involved in the do-ityourself music scene.

Starcherone Books, spearheaded by Ted Pelton, who received his Ph.D. in English from UB, is a slightly more traditional part of Buffalo’s arts than Ardo.

Not by much though.

Sarah Kinne, an editor at Stacherone, believes the fair is an opportunity to help to get out the names of authors published

by Stacherone. Kinne said Stacherone publishes innovative fiction that might not have a place in mainstream fiction. The press supports emerging authors as well as ones who are more established.

Continued from page 6: Pokemon But that didn’t stop her.

Finding the same Pokémon over and over doesn’t complete the game. Players have to find new ones in order to beat the game, which motivated Agness.

After catching all 150 Pokémon in the game, Agness spent an additional two hours searching to catch Mew. “I kept checking spots I guessed [Mew] would have been in,” Agness said. “Like the Nintendo headquarters in Japan.

A few times before, I found a Google Doc and a Reddit page of people posting coordinates where they found Mew.” When Agness was looking on social media sites, she didn’t see it as cheating and wasn’t doing it for the job.

Links on Reddit were telling her the legendary Pokémon was randomly appearing at the Bermuda Triangle.

But when she checked, she had no such luck.

“Eventually I found [Mew] at coordinates -0.2388, -50.411, which is around where the Amazon River reaches the Atlantic

The Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, held at Karpeles Manuscript Library Porter Hall Saturday and Sunday, exhibited the talents of local artists, authors and publishers.

Some titles published by the group include A Heaven of Others by Joshua Cohen, Floats HorseFloats or Horse-Flows by the language poet Leslie Scalapino and four works by the late Raymond Federman, a former SUNY distinguished professor emeritus of English at UB, according to Stacherone’s website.

Dr. Dimitri Anastasopolous, an associate English professor, is on the board of directors at Stacherone, which, according to the publishing group’s website, “seeks to educate the public in small press publishing and encourage the growth of other small presses.”

While Ardo helps the Buffalo punk scene reach out to its audiences, Pelton takes a goofy and slightly cynical approach to the work of Stacherone; the press’ business card reads, “Books have ruined my life and now I want to ruin yours.”

Prints were abundant at the fair, exhibiting everything from architectural jewels of Buffalo to the story of the Umbrella

that inning.

Buffalo went 2-2 for the week after splitting its doubleheader with Canisius (7-19) Tuesday. The Bulls dropped the first game, 8-7, in eight innings.

Senior infielder Heather Ryder and senior outfielder Holly Luciano led the charge for the Bulls with four combined RBIs, including a two-run homerun by Ryder. Buffalo held a 7-0 lead in the fifth inning but lost its momentum due to a seven-run Canisius fifth to tie the game.

“They finally got runners on and after a couple walks, they kind of just stole momentum after that,” Peel said. “They rallied in the seventh and we just stopped going after we scored seven.”

With a “chip on their shoulder,” Peel thought the team played much better in the second game. Ryder earned the win in Buffalo’s 6-3 victory as she didn’t allow any runs after the third inning The Bulls trailed 3-0 after the third inning, but rallied and

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Man. At the fair, David Huurman, who graduated from Buffalo State College with a degree in printmaking, and Nicholas Dowgwillo, a lecturer at Buffalo State, were selling prints they made as well as ones from other artists.

Huurman joked that he always wanted to call his stands “Books

by David and Prints by David,” imitating Beats by Dre. Huurman and Dowgwillo recall “falling into” printmaking – Hurrman through courses at Buffalo State and Dowgwillo when he wanted to make T-shirts as an undergraduate student.

Huurman’s prints at the fair were of animals, which he says were part of his thesis show at Buffalo State. But he said his current work has totally changed, and he is interested in combining printmaking and animation.

Dowgwillo is intrigued by the history of printmaking as prints are “for a mass audience rather than an elite audience,” as paintings historically have been. Dowgwillo recognizes and explores

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Ocean,” Agness said.

Unlike Agness and Wiley, some Pokémon club members missed out on the fun.

Amber Potter, a senior environmental studies major and Pokémon club president, sadly missed out on playing the game because she didn’t have a smartphone. But she spent a lot of time listening to some of her club members talk about it.

She said several people “posted on the club’s Facebook page about the game.”

Players are still frantically scavenging the world in search of all 150 Pokémon and the elusive Mew. Although she couldn’t play the Pokémon game, Potter believes Google Maps should come out with other games like this in the future.

“I think it would be great for Google to come out with similar games,” Potter said. “I’d be tempted to get a smart phone just for that.” email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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scored the game’s final six runs to finish the game. Sophomore infielder Ryleigh Fitzgerald hit a two-run home run and totaled three RBIs on her 20th birthday.

“Ryleigh swings it well and is a great RBI producer, she gets her hits with runners in scoring position,” Peel said. “And today was Ryleigh’s birthday, so it was great for her to get a happy birthday home run.”

The Bulls will return to Buffalo for their next 10 games. Their home opener is set for Wednesday against Niagara (8-14, 0-1 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference). First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m. email: sports@ubspectrum.com

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Continued from page 10: Quick Hits bon Field, this season. The first game is slated for Friday at 3 p.m.

Men’s Lacrosse (5-3, 0-1 Pioneer Collegiate Lacrosse League) The Bulls lost their conference and home opener Friday night to No. 8 Boston College (6-2, 1-1 PCLL), 6-5 in overtime. Buffalo rebounded Sunday with an 8-7 victory over Pittsburgh (4-5, 2-2 Central Collegiate Lacrosse Association).

Buffalo will have three games on the road next weekend, with New Hampshire (1-3, 0-2 PCLL) Friday, Northeastern (6-1, 2-0 PCLL) Saturday and Connecticut (4-1, 1-0 PCLL) Sunday. email: sports@ubspectrum.com

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the political nature of prints.

Also present at the fair was the oldest feminist literary and arts periodical, Earth’s Daughters, a multi-generational women’s collective located in Buffalo. The periodical has been continually published since 1971 and publishes approximately twice a year, according to Kastle Brill, one of the periodical’s editors. Earth’s Daughters features the submitted work of women and men from inside and outside of Buffalo.

Although the group is not officially connected to UB, Brill said the UB Poetry Collection maintains an archive of Earth’s Daughters’ issues and has a subscription to the periodical. The founder of Earth’s Daughters, Judith Kerman, received her Ph.D. in English from UB, according to Brill.

Earth’s Daughters has organized reading series in the past, including the Gray Hair Series that is currently on recess, according to Brill. She said the group noticed there were more readings in Buffalo for students’ works than for older writers, so Earth’s Daughters organized the series. Members of Earth’s Daughters are involved in organizing other poetry series across Buffalo, including the Wordflight series at Pausa Art House in Allentown.

The scope of artistic and literary work being done in and around Buffalo by local artists at the Small Press Book Fair showed that one’s passions could turn into viable options for the future.

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At spring practice, Licata lifts Bulls from off the field Daniel, Michael getting first-team reps while Licata rehabs OWEN O’BRIEN Sports Editor

In April 2013, quarterback Joe Licata was in the midst of a fierce competition for the starting position with Alex Zordich when Licata injured his hip.

The injury never went away, and he knew he’d get a post-season diagnosis he wouldn’t like.

“I was able to [play], so I wanted to [play],” Licata said. “There were alternative routes, but I wasn’t going to sit out. Those guys needed me out there. They needed a quarterback and I was the best option at the time, so I felt like it was my duty to this team and I wanted to be on the field.”

The Bulls began spring practice this year March 26. Buffalo has been practicing about four days a week in preparation for its Blue-White scrimmage Saturday, April 19.

Licata, who will be a redshirt junior in the fall, started all 13 games in 2013 with a torn labrum in his hip. He still finished with 233 completions, 2,824 yards, 24 touchdowns and a 132.7 quarterback rating. He didn’t have an MRI until after Buffalo’s Dec. 21 bowl game, a loss to San Diego State, but he wasn’t surprised to learn he had a tear in his hip. He and the training staff expected as much when the pain wasn’t going away.

“I didn’t even know you had a labrum in your hip,” Licata said. “I thought it was only your shoulder.”

He had the surgery Jan. 7 and the recovery usually takes four to six months. Licata said his rehabilitation has been going well and he is beginning to throw and jog a little bit, but he still can’t move laterally very well. He expects to be near 100 percent in June.

Licata is the first returning Week One starting quarterback for head coach Jeff Quinn since he accepted the job five years ago. Quinn said Licata’s return breeds “confidence and consistency,” and Quinn praised him for his play last season while battling the nagging injury.

Chad Cooper, The Spectrum Junior quarterback Tony Daniel takes a snap in the football team’s practice on April 5. Daniel and sophomore quarterback Collin Michael have taken more reps this spring due to junior quarterback Joe Licata sitting out with a hip injury.

“He’s a tough kid,” Quinn said.

“He fought through it. It’s just something that any great player would do for his team and that’s what Joe’s all about.”

Licata continues to serve as a mentor to the other quarterbacks during his recovery. He has yet to participate in any drills aside from simple throws and catches, which has allowed junior Tony Daniel and sophomore Colin Michael to earn valuable first-team reps. “[Licata’s] been another coach for us,” Daniel said. “Telling us what he sees, what he would do in certain situations when we are out there because he’s been out there, he’s been through all the games.”

Michael, likely to be UB’s third quarterback, echoed Daniel’s statement.

“Joe’s got that game experience, so he sees it faster than we

Quick Hits Men’s tennis sweeps the weekend, earns first MAC win; other teams split weekend Men’s Tennis (11-5, 1-1 MidAmerican Conference) The No. 72 Bulls closed out their home schedule with two wins against Binghamton (11-9) and Western Michigan (11-10, 0-2 MAC) – both by scores of 4-3 – despite losing the doubles point in both matches.

Sunday, junior Sebastian Ionescu won a tiebreaker in the third set of his singles match to clinch the win over the Broncos.

Sunday was also Senior Day for the Bulls, as they honored Jason Shkodnik and Jason Simon.

Buffalo will close out the regular season on the road two weekends from now against Northern Illinois (15-5, 2-0 MAC) April 18 and Ball State (9-11, 0-2 MAC) April 20.

Women’s Tennis (12-4, 3-2 MAC) The Bulls split their final two home games of the season this weekend, defeating Miami Ohio (12-5, 3-1 MAC), 5-2, Friday and falling, 4-3, to Ball State (13-7, 3-1 MAC) Saturday. It was the first time the Bulls defeated Miami Ohio since 2008.

Buffalo will be on the road for its last three matches of the season, beginning with Western

do,” Michael said.

With his time on the sideline, Licata said he’s been able to contribute through his leadership and develop that phase of his game. He called last year’s senior class “the best that has ever really gone through this place” and said he knows his teammates will lean on him more than ever for leadership.

“We got to have leaders to step up and replace their leadership,” Licata said.

“I think I’m one of the main guys. Obviously being the quarterback, it’s a natural leadership position.”

Quinn said his main focus during camp is getting the quarterbacks and wide receivers on the same page. The Bulls lost their top two wide receivers from last season in Alex Neutz and Fred Lee.

Until Licata can participate fully, Daniel and Michael are doing the bulk of this work.

“We are just all getting more reps with him out,” Daniel said. “[It’s] giving us a chance to show ourselves what we can do and building up our relationship with those guys we don’t get a lot of reps with.”

Daniel said there’s “never really an offseason” and the Bulls’ start of spring practice proves it.

Buffalo’s season ended Dec. 21 with the first day of spring practice starting March 26 – a 95-day layoff.

Licata has been working closely with quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator Alex Wood, who was previously the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach. Licata acknowledged that though he has been awarded the No. 1 quarterback

position, he can’t become complacent.

“If you ever feel relaxed, that’s when you lose your job,” Licata said.

Quinn has liked what he’s seen from his second and third quarterbacks. He said both quarterbacks have improved since last season and Quinn values the opportunity for the two to familiarize themselves with the first team, in the event Daniel or Michael are needed in a game.

“Repetition is the mother of learning and you learn by getting those opportunities and certainly they are taking more advantage of it,” Quinn said.

Daniel and Michael will lead the Bulls in their annual BlueWhite Game, which is set for 2 p.m. April 19 at UB Stadium. email: sports@ubspectrum.com

Speckman’s no-hitter leads softball to Saturday shutout JEFF PLACITO

Staff Writer

Yusong Shi, The Spectrum

Junior Sebastian Ionescu clinched the men’s tennis team’s 4-3 win over Western Michigan on Sunday with a tiebreaker win in the third set of his singles match.

Michigan (12-8, 1-3 MAC) Friday at 1 p.m.

Baseball (13-12, 4-4 MAC) The Bulls played (19-12, 8-1 MAC) Central Michigan in a three-game series this weekend, dropping the first two games before closing the series with an 11-3 victory Sunday. It was the first time the Bulls have lost a regular season MAC series since May 2012.

Buffalo will face Western Michigan (13-14, 4-5 MAC) this weekend for a three-game series.

It will be the Bulls’ first game on their home field, Amherst AuduSee quick hits, page 8

Senior pitcher Tori Speckman accomplished something Saturday that had only been done twice before in Buffalo softball history – throw a no-hitter.

The Bulls (16-15, 1-1 MidAmerican Conference) defeated Ohio (19-15, 4-2 MAC), 4-0, on Speckman’s historic day, but dropped Sunday’s game 6-3 in their first two games of MAC play. Buffalo also split a doubleheader with Canisius earlier in the week.

Head coach Trena Peel was not surprised by Speckman’s performance and even thought she could have pitched better.

“She was off today but it worked,” Peel said Saturday.

“I tell her you’re only as good as your missed pitches and today she was missing but still had great movement. We haven’t played the cleanest defense, and today with going into conference play, everybody was hyped and excited so that helped make great plays defensively behind Tori.”

The combination of great movement from Speckman’s pitches and excellent defense behind her resulted in her histor-

Yusong Shi, The Spectrum Junior outfielder Karly Nevez and the softball team split their conference-opening series with Ohio this weekend. Senior Tori Speckman no-hit the Bobcats on Saturday in a 4-0 win but fell 6-3 on Sunday.

ic performance. No-hitters often yield focus on the pitcher’s individual success, but Peel stated that without the support from her teammates defensively, the accomplishment would have been difficult to achieve.

Speckman earned her 11th victory of the season Saturday while striking out 10 batters and walking only three. Peel was especially impressed with senior infielder Tori Pettine’s defensive performance.

“Our defense finally played where we want them to be,” Peel said. “Tori Pettine made some awesome plays at third base, she

stopped some difficult shots and there were also a couple good plays at first base.”

Speckman took the mound again on Sunday but was unable to carry Saturday’s momentum into the next game.

After being blanked on Saturday, the Bobcats made up for their lackluster performance with 11 hits off Speckman on Sunday, including a two-run home run.

Freshman infielder Savanna Norcio kept the Bulls in the game with a two-RBI single in a three-run fourth inning, but the Bulls were unable to score after See SOFTBALL, page 8