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ANTI-ABORTION DISPLAY INVOKES STUDENT RESPONSE SARA DINATALE
Senior News Editor
Graphic images of aborted fetuses towered beside the Student Union entrance on Monday and Tuesday. Between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. each day, billboards showed dismembered fetus limbs and comparisons of abortions to genocide, child abuse and hate crimes – images Christian Andzel, the president of UB Students for Life, knows may make people uncomfortable. But he feels “it’s time to resonate the word abortion with pictures.” The images
met a strong student force, and on Tuesday, opposition mounted as up to 150 students gathered outside of the Union. Andzel contacted the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform’s “Genocide Awareness Project.” The group travels around the country to multiple universities with its anti-abortion display. Darius Hardwick, the regional director for the Center of Bio-Ethical Reform, said he knows the display he brought to UB can get people “worked up,” but he thinks it’s important to discuss “what abortion is.”
UB Students for Life does receive a budget from SA, but none of that money went toward this event. It did not cost the SA club any money for the Center to come to campus. On Monday, Laura Curry, an adjunct professor in the media study department, was arrested after vocalizing her opposition to the display and using the word “f**k.” Curry was charged with disorderly conduct and the police report states Curry was released with an appearance ticket. Many students are upset with Curry’s arrest, and a cellphone-captured video of her confrontation with the University Police Depart-
ment has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook. “I’m not being disorderly, that is disorderly,” Curry told UPD while gesturing to the display, according to the video. She continued by saying she felt the large images were profane, and they were “swearing” to her. “What is the difference between that image and me saying f**k?” Curry went on to ask the officers. UPD declined to comment for this article. Andzel said he doesn’t think the incident with Curry called for an arrest, but it was UPD’s matter and he
and his associates had no involvement. “Our police are not doing a good job [in the terms of Curry’s arrest]. They are doing the best job they can, but they aren’t doing the best job possible,” said Phil Tucciarone, a junior chemical engineering major. “That’s because of a lot of confusion from the ground to the ceiling in terms of authority. I can’t blame them, but they are struggling like we are.” Tucciarone was frustrated with the arrest but expressed gratitude for the work UPD did in keeping the students safe. SEE PROTEST, PAGE 6
Boston bombings hit home at UB Marathon attack affects students, alumni; UB expert offers terrorist theories LISA KHOURY
Senior News Editor
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UB graduate James Hamel (left) posted this photo on his Facebook with his sister Nancy (right) to inform his family and friends they were safe at the Boston Marathon. An unknown attacker set off two bombs less than a half a mile away from Hamel and his sister. The act of terror killed three people, including an 8-year-old boy, and injured over 170.
UB alumnus James Hamel was almost at the finish line at the Boston Marathon on Monday when he heard an explosion .3 miles away. He didn’t stop running. He was about to beat his goal and finish the race in 4 hours and 15 minutes. He didn’t know that two bombs exploded near the finish line at 4 hours and 9 minutes. When Hamel got home and watched the replay of the explosion, he saw the clock strike 4 hours and 9 minutes. He then realized what had happened. “I just kind of was like: ‘Wow,’” Hamel said. “If I had just maybe trained a little harder or had a little bit of a faster pace – that was when I pieced it together how lucky we were. At first I was upset I didn’t finish. I was so close to the finish line … Once I realized how close and how severe it was, I was just thankful that everybody, my sister and my father and I, were OK.” His father was supposed to meet them at the finish line but decided not to before the race started. The attack killed at least three people, including an 8-year-old boy, and injured over 170 runners and spectators, according to ABC News. Hamel, a former UB wrestler who graduated in 2011, said Boston is in a state of shock.
Sophomore economics and international trade major David Harary is from Holliston, Mass., just outside of Boston, and is troubled by his vivid and happy memories of going to the marathon every year as a kid. Both can’t understand how someone could devastate such an innocent and exciting day, in which thousands of people from around the world attend the race and sporting events. Krista Konze*, who graduated from UB in 2009 with a business degree, and her fiancé had just sat down for lunch at P.F. Changs after attending the Boston Red Sox game. The restaurant staff immediately told them that the restaurant was in lockdown. Cellphones glued to hands, the restaurant-goers in the P.F. Changs on Boylston Street, a half a mile away from the Boston Marathon finish line, checked the news and social media and learned two bombings had just occurred only a few blocks away. People who had already finished the race were sitting down to eat, medals in hand, at P.F. Changs. “It was just scary to be locked down in a restaurant not knowing anything, and then to have to step outside and have the cops yelling at people to move away,” Konze said. “I was worried, being in such a big building, what if a bomb goes off in here? We didn’t want to stay there. My fiancé was trying to think
of ways to get out and get home safely.” Harary sat on the sidelines and cheered runners every year as a young child and early teen at the Boston Marathon. He said there’s a “very strong connection” in Boston between children having fun and the Boston Marathon. “I have very vivid memories, very happy memories, of going to Ashland to sit on the sidelines of runners,” Harary said. “Any of the runners that I know, I just imagine those same kids today doing the same thing, having that same support for the adults who run 26 miles, and hours later their legs are blown off. And that’s pretty scary to let a child know that the runner that you were just supporting and cheering for, their legs were just blown off. It hits it hard.” Nine children were admitted to Boston’s Children’s Hospital, according to the Washington Post. Hamel said one of the most disturbing parts of the attack is that many racers dedicated their run to the 20 children and six adults who were massacred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in December. Throughout the marathon, there were moments of silence for the victims. Then, in the same run, adults and their children experienced devastation again. SEE BOMBINGS, PAGE 11
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Civility and responsibility
Students should continue non-violent abortion dialogue at debate When UB Students for Life collaborated with the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) to bring its photomural exhibit to North Campus, displaying difficult photos of abortion images, the club was acting well within its First Amendment Rights. The university campus is public domain and no one is in the position of “abridging the freedom of speech” on its grounds. The display has galvanized the student body. It has marshaled anger and indignation, resulting in protest and vehement defense. The goal of the exhibit, as stated on GAP’s website, is to link the “genocide of abortion” to “historically recognized forms of genocide.” The graphic images of aborted fetuses are juxtaposed with images of the Holocaust and lynching that took place during slavery. The photos are blatantly obscene and designed to induce horror – which is both the complaint of the project’s detractors and the point of its demonstrators. GAP is a traveling exhibit. The members go to college campuses throughout the country advancing
the anti-abortion movement through the same methodology. They try to reveal what they see as the moral monstrosity of abortions through the power of visual images. What seems more relevant to UB students at this time is not so much the practice of how they promote their message, but rather, the manner of our response. Those who oppose the exhibit for comparing the legalization of abortions to Nazi Germany’s attempt to exterminate Jews from Europe are well within their rights to see such a connection as absurd. Those who are angry at the exhibit for expounding the abortion process in a way uncharacteristic of how the majority of these procedures occur and who resent someone trying to dictate what a woman can do with her body are all well within their rights to protest. The fact that all of these opinions were presented over the course of the two-day protest is a sign that the undergraduate student body is becoming more involved. Whenever something happens at UB, we are often disappointed over the students’
failure to respond. Certainly such an inflammatory topic that was propelled into the student spotlight in controversial fashion played a large role in escalating a reaction. What needs to be emphasized now, however, is the need to continue engagement through peaceful and respectful participation at the debate on Thursday. Last year, the debate quickly descended into madness. People began shouting and emotions ran high – it was aggressive and intense. Surely we can expect animated arguments again this year, but we should keep our focus on refraining from becoming volatile. It should be accepted at this point that everyone will never agree on this hotly contested issue. It will always be polarizing and divisive. What needs to be brought to students’ attention is that our biggest accomplishment as a community in this predicament would be to conduct ourselves with tolerance and respect, courtesy and class. People should voice their opinions – but they should do so diplomatically.
The debate will take place Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in Knox 20. Christian Andzel, president of UB Students for Life, has reported to The Spectrum that he is anticipating approximately 300 people in attendance. Those who are concerned about the issue or who want to learn more about the arguments from both sides should surely go. Thus far, the proceedings have been vigorous but have remained non-violent. A professor has been arrested, but many students have become active – and most of it has been a positive form of protest. The participation we have seen should continue on Thursday and it should be replicated for other issues again in the future. We should all aim to be courageous enough to express our convictions and compassionate enough to listen to others. Student involvement is always a good thing, but it is best when it is done a certain way. Email: editorial@ubspectrum.com
If you want to catch the show, you’ve got to know SA, students need better communication for Spring Fest tickets While preparing for Spring Fest on Sunday, many students did not anticipate the possibility of being turned away at the door. When it happened, some became volatile and infused with the sense of profound injustice with the kind of ferocity that comes after the third beer. For some, this intensity escalated the incident to the point of their own arrest. In the wake of this episode, numerous students have expressed disdain for the occurrence. The question remains now: Who is at fault and how should this situation be dealt with in the future? Alumni Arena can only hold so many people. For the Bob Dylan concert, 4,500 tickets were reserved for students and 2,000 for the general audience; for Spring Fest, 5,000 were reserved for students and 1,500 for everyone else. So, 6,500 people are able to fill the venue for a concert.
One remedy you may be thinking of to this limitation is to hold the concert at UB Stadium. It can fit more people and no one would run the risk of having to pack it up before they walk through the entrance. This seems feasible, but we are all aware of Buffalo’s sketchy weather patterns. To book a concert at the stadium does run the risk of having to deal with inclement weather and possible ramifications such as cancellation. They could schedule the event for a later date toward the very end of April or beginning of May to try and aim for a greater likelihood for appropriate weather for an outdoor concert. Other than that, there isn’t much else that SA or any event planner can do. What we expect them to do in the future, however, is to plan for this event better and inform the student body with more tools for preparation. There should have been an op-
portunity for students to stop in the SA office during the week before the concert to pick up a ticket. Many people enter the concert using other UB students’ IDs and alumni are using their old IDs to get in. There is no scanning at fests and it results in many students losing student seats to non-students. There needs to be a process that ensures students have first access to the tickets that are allocated for students and there is no reason anyone shouldn’t be able to pick them up in advance. While it is common knowledge many students show up to the anticipated event late, drunk and possibly wounded, there are many who had to come late from work and just wanted to catch the concert provided for them. Also, SA should give students more advance notice that it is anticipating the event filling to capacity. The biggest issue for students who
didn’t get in is that it was a complete surprise to them. The truth of the situation cannot be neglected – nobody is going to be expanding Alumni Arena any time soon. So, we shouldn’t expect more students to be allowed in. There are fire codes and state laws to consider – letting more people in is simply not an option. Though what we can expect is better planning. For next year, we want to see a more organized process for preparing students for the events and for SA to plan ahead, considering the issues that surfaced this year. What this issue really boils down to is preparation and communication. Students are responsible for making sure they show up early enough and plan ahead – but the issue for SA is making sure students understand they must plan ahead. Email: editorial@ubspectrum.com
My stance on abortion after Monday’s display
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KEREN BARUCH Special to The Spectrum
On Monday, my views on abortion were genuinely challenged for the first time.
I have always supported a woman’s right to choose. I still do. And it doesn’t look like anything will change my mind. However, during the heated debates that took place outside of the Student Union, due to the displays of bloody fetuses, Swastikas and a man being hanged, a part of me was somewhat disputed. A boy approached me and said, “My birth was a result of a rape.” His mother had been raped and she chose to go through with her pregnancy. He was lucky to have been given the right to life. It truly touched me to see and hear him so passionate because he feels so closely related to the topic of abortion. I was emotionally swept by his story and admired his ability to stand up for his belief on the issue. But I stand true to my opinion. His mother had the right to make a choice; she made a good choice, which brought
him into this world. However, it was still her choice and I believe that every woman has the right to make one. I also believe in the freedom of speech and watched a professor lose her First Amendment rights because she found the images displayed to be “profane.” She was swearing at the images, only to be handcuffed by police. I followed her to the car she was being escorted to and told her I completely agreed with her stance. These images were appalling, comparing a woman’s right to decide what she wants to do with her body to the Nazis actions against Jews in the Holocaust. Students for Life had the right to display their opinions. I believe the group did so too grotesquely, but it did succeed in starting conversation, which was its ultimate goal. However, I do not find it fair their members’ right to protest such a sensitive topic on campus was given, but this
professor’s right to do the same was completely taken away. While in handcuffs, she told me to say something, to stand up for my word and to make my point known. So for two hours and 46 minutes I stood outside of the Union and debated with those who have different viewpoints from me. I found only one female willing to debate the anti-abortion side. Seventy-seven percent of people who are anti-abortions are men and 100 percent of them will never be pregnant, according to sheets of paper being handed out near this display. The majority of people outside the Union who were anti-abortion were men. It was refreshing to see a student, who told me her name was Kim, attempting to find a solution to both sides of the case. She believed there should be a law stating that if there is reasonable doubt that a woman was raped and there is evidence to prove SEE MY STANCE, PAGE 16
Letter to the Editor AUDREY FOPPES Abortion. Let’s be clear: whether you are pro-life or pro-choice, abortion is not regarded as a positive experience, it is not enjoyable or looked forward to, and it is not, not, not an easy decision to make. Which is why I am so appalled at the University at Buffalo, a college I was moments ago proud to be a part of, for allowing the AbortionNO organization to park and display their horrific photographs in front of the Student Union on Monday, April 15. For those of you who missed the Technicolor nightmare, AbortionNO began by parking a large truck across from Starbucks, plastered with a full-color picture of a thirdtrimester aborted fetus. Their display consisted of large billboards featuring graphic, full-color, high-defini-
tion photographs of developing and aborted fetuses. The men (I observed no women) who were with the organization had fenced themselves in around the display using crowd-control fences (presumably to act as a barrier between themselves and offended college students) and were already engaged in heated debates with students who were, it would seem, as disgusted as I was. Aside from the graphic, stomachchurning nature of this display, I was enraged for several reasons. Once the initial shock of the display subsided (although only momentarily), I was immediately concerned for any woman in the area who had made the decision to have an abortion. I can only imagine the emotional and mental trauma that would be instigated by viewing such atrocious images.
This brings me to my next note of extreme outrage. Respect. Regardless of your position on abortion, I think we can all agree that this display did not help to resolve the issue. It succeeded only in violating our right to hold our opinions privately while respecting the opinions and decisions of others in the same quiet, respectful manner. The right to free speech allows you, as an American citizen, to express your own views and maintain your own opinions without fear of persecution. It does not allow you to forcibly impose your ideas and opinions on my mind – by doing so, you are, in fact, violating my right to live without persecution. My personal views on abortion were not altered in any way by this display. However, the nature of this message certainly did a lot to shape my opinions of those who were re-
sponsible for setting it up. I think it’s important to discuss social issues, especially those that concern human life. However, in all matters of opinion, respect for the opinions of others is absolutely essential, an attribute that AbortionNO was in egregious want of in the construction of their argument. What is most depressing here is that AbortionNO did not educate or persuade. They merely enraged and disgusted the people who had the misfortune to pass by. Their photographs did nothing to resolve what has long been an issue of contention – they merely exploited and exacerbated the hate that already exists between those of the pro-life and prochoice sects, both of which have a right to their opinion.
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Earth, wind and solar strands Earth Week aims to engage and educate students, staff in eco-friendly activities on campus JOHN NASSIVERA Staff Writer
Students in the UB Environmental Network (UBEN) are already planning their outfits for a fashion show this week. They can’t decide whether to wear cardboard or plastic bottles. The Eco-Fashion show, which is taking place on April 18, is one of the many events students will be participating in to celebrate Earth Week, which kicked off on Monday. The weeklong series, which started on April 15 and ends April 22, includes a variety of programs and activities in which students and faculty participate. The last day of Earth Week will be held at the UB Solar Strand park, where local and student-affiliated environmental groups will present exhibits in an evening with music and local food. “What’s unique about Earth Week this year and in the last few years is that it’s not just about one group, one club or one organization,” said James Simon, the sustainability engagement coordinator for the Office of Sustainability. “It’s about the campus celebrating Earth Day and Earth Week.” Simon brought organizations like the Alpha Kappa Chi, UB’s professional environmental fraternity, Engineers for a Sustainable World, SA Environmental and other groups together to create activities that focus on energy, food resources and recycling. Kim Hahn, a senior environmental studies major and president of UBEN, said the objective of the Eco-Fashion show is to help students understand the advantages of reusing material that most people throw out. “That’s just to show how much we, as a country, use,” Hahn said. “[Some materials] can be reused for so many different things.”
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Students gathered outside the Greiner Complex Monday evening for a fun-filled time of rock-climbing, caricatures, grilling, football, twister, mini-golf, tie-dye and much more, followed by a movie on an inflatable big screen after dark. The event came on the nicest day of 2013 so far, with the sun shining and temperatures being recorded at 70-plus degrees.
In addition to the fashion show, Hahn held “Environmental Awareness Tabling” on April 16. The event presented information on processes of obtaining resources that impose environmental threats. One of these processes is hydraulic fracturing, also referred to as “fracking” – an issue Hahn is very passionate about. Fracking is extracting natural gas in which gallons of water, chemicals and sand are pumped underground to break rocks apart and release the gas within the rocks. Hahn believes fracking poses a ma-
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jor health risk in the form of water pollution. She said there is a huge amount of water taken up to the surface during fracking that can spill over, and currently, there is no method to properly treat wastewater. Because New York State is heavily involved in fracking, the lack of a solution to wastewater pollution can have a damaging effect on the Great Lakes, she said. “As a student club, we don’t just want to be: ‘Say no to fracking,’” Hahn said. “We want to get the word out so people can make their own decisions about it.”
Hahn hopes the tabling shed light on the issue. The use of industrial hemp in the United States and the controversies of its legalization is another issue on which UBEN will focus. Although the topic will not be covered in Earth Week, UBEN held an event called “All the Wonders of Hemp” on April 9, which focused on how hemp can serve in the production of significant resources.
Students created their own hemp crafts like bracelets and other forms of art. UBEN club members ran the event. Hahn said the public’s misconception of hemp as marijuana is taking attention away from the fact that hemp is a renewable resource that can be used for food and nutrition and material for making paper and clothing. Wednesday’s events focuses on food systems, and students can do anything from making their own oatmeal to meeting with local food vendors. Events for the rest of Earth Week include: recycling and resource reduction on Thursday, a reptile party in Greiner Hall on Friday, an Earth Day celebration on Saturday, a Grand Island Cleanup on Sunday and a Sustainability Scavenger Hunt all day Monday. Hahn and other students plan to use the Earth Week celebration to touch on issues ranging from the importance of healthy food resources to the effects of climate change. UBEN will be working with Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, an environmental non-profit organization in Buffalo which dedicates itself to cleaning the Hudson River, to hold the Grand Island Clean Up, an effort on Sunday in which students will be given bags and gloves to clean up trash from the streets in different portions of Grand Island. Hahn thinks there is a lot that needs to be done in regards to these environmental problems, but educating people on the issues is the first step in the process for a cleaner, healthier environment. Email: news@ubspectrum.com
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Carly Battin (left) and Justin Azzarella (right) spoke to a group of students, who are a part of the grant-writing program headed by Barbara Bono, about what steps they must take in order to secure a grant from the New York State Homes and Community Renewal Agency.
PULL members need to have a thorough understanding of community needs and make sure their projects work with existing ones so they could “create a synergy” based on these different initiatives, Taylor said. Krolikowski has been interacting with three PULL project teams regularly. The first, which Murray is a part of, is a grant-writing program headed by Barbara Bono, an
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associate professor of English and director of the Civic Engagement Academy. The team will collect data from the Heights community and write a grant proposal based on the data analysis. Ultimately, the team hopes to procure a $500,000 grant from the New York State Homes and Community Renewal Agency (NYSHCR) for building renovations and streetscape enhancement. SEE IMPROVEMENT, PAGE 6
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ward community development. “What I really like about [PULL] is that it creates a pipeline that would make it possible for students to continually be involved in the neighborhood,” Taylor said. However, as much as Taylor appreciates UB students bringing their skills into helping foster a progressive neighborhood, he cautions against treating PULL as a standalone effort.
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pening,” said Krolikowski, who is currently a doctoral student at the University of Oxford and lives in the Heights to complete his thesis. “They love even more that UB students are getting involved in a really positive way.” Henry Taylor, director of the Center for Urban Studies at UB and a well-known urban planner in Buffalo, applauds the idea of getting UB students to contribute to-
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When Margaret Murray first came to UB, she saw the University Heights as a neighborhood from which to stay away. It was merely a place one goes “on the weekends” – a convenient hangout for partygoers. Two years later, Murray’s perception of the troubled South Campus neighborhood changed. The sophomore business administration major no longer views it with wariness and indifference. Instead, she embraces the neighborhood like her own and is enthusiastic about bettering the community. “[The Heights] is the UB community’s neighborhood,” Murray said. “And UB is my home, so I’d like to be as involved in the [Heights] as I am in my own hometown.” Some students in the Undergraduate Academies share Murray’s passion for improving South Campus’ surrounding streets. Together, they commit themselves to a brand new initiative: Pop-Up Living Laboratory (PULL), a series of projects that range from writing a business plan for local entrepreneurs to cleaning up graffiti. The goal of the projects is to transform the Heights into a vibrant neighborhood that supports local entrepreneurship and community engagement. PULL is the brainchild of Darren Cotton, the founder of the University Heights Tool Library, and Aaron Krolikowski, who helps to oversee the PULL projects. Both are UB alumni. They recognized the problem of vacant storefronts on Main Street in the Heights and came up with PULL as a way to fill these storefronts. From then on, PULL grew into an ambitious effort that engages both the Heights community and UB students. “I live in the community and everybody who lives in the community loves that these projects are hap-
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Continued from page 1: Protest UPD was present throughout the entire protest. Tucciarone helped organize a counter-protest on Tuesday alongside Chelsie Hinckley, a senior English major. Both created Facebook groups to bring students who opposed the anti-abortion display together. Tucciarone said UPD told him to make sure he and his protestors didn’t curse violently, get aggressive in speech through yelling or instigate physical contact, in order to avoid arrest. Tucciarone and Hinckley were adamant about keeping the protest peaceful on Tuesday. But the amount of passion and aggression that collected outside of the Union on Monday and Tuesday penetrated throughout the entire campus and on social media. While students did collect in opposition on Monday afternoon, a counter-protest wasn’t formally organized until Monday evening in Capen Hall. Andzel “snuck in” to the meeting with a hat on, Tucciarone said. The billboards “connecting the dots” of genocide to abortions were on display on Monday but not Tuesday. Frank Diorio, a volunteer with the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, said the group normally displays all 16 of its posters at once but couldn’t because of the space available at UB,
so it put up different ones Tuesday for variation. It’s the comparison to genocide that upset many students. Students who were “triggered” by the images contacted UB Wellness Education Services and the Student-Wide Judiciary on Monday, according to Hinckley. She felt the display was inappropriate to be outside the Union, and while she supports freedom of speech, she said she doesn’t support “the complete use of propaganda to forward that belief.” Andzel and UB Students for Life aimed to “put a picture to the word abortion.” “The reason why we brought the other genocides throughout history is to show two things: a continuum of oppression by those in power to suppress and oppress the voiceless – victims,” Andzel said. “I want to make that clear. What do they all have in common? They have victims that are voiceless. And we should stand up for all human rights. Now there are many differences and I understand that, and I hear the voices of those who may be offended. But all we are trying to do is to show the continuum of history of oppression of those without a voice.” Tom Tiberi, the director of Student Life, said UB Students for Life followed every appropriate procedure to reserve the spot outside of
the Union. Tiberi said Student Life, which allows recognized organizations to reserve areas in the Union, also spoke with University at Albany, one of many schools that previously showcased this display. UB knew what to expect and took the appropriate precautions, according to Tiberi. “As a state institution, we support the right of free speech, which is a part of this,” Tiberi said. “When we allow an event to come on campus, we are looking at what is available as far as space goes. We would look at if it is a structure to make sure it’s safe, but we do not look at the message. That is where you would infringe on the right to free speech.” Tiberi said what is good about a college campus is that it can be a platform of positive discussion back and forth. “It’s our hope that it stays positive,” Tiberi said Tuesday before the protests ended. No additional arrests were made on Tuesday. By 5 p.m. on Tuesday, the amount of abortion rights advocates overpowered the anti-abortion protestors. Chanting and students’ aggression continued to build under the cloudy sky’s persistent rain. “Whose vagina?” an abortion rights activist called out. “My vagina!” the crowd responded. “Whose choice?” – “My choice!”
The abortion rights activists mainly stayed separated from the display on Monday. They stood facing the display but at a distance of about 20 feet. Tuesday, the lines of separation deteriorated and protestors positioned themselves to block the images on display, even holding up a sheet with umbrellas and sticks in an attempt to hide the images. When the display was taken down at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, the crowd applauded and sang, “Na na na na… Hey, hey, hey. Goodbye.” Alana Barricks, the vice president of the College Republicans and a junior political science major, felt both protests were counterproductive, something she said the College Republicans and College Democrats agree on. “The people who are out there are all extremists,” Barricks said. “They are basically yelling at each other, and they are the people who will never have their opinions change on the issue … We are not saying which side is right or wrong. We are just saying none of this is doing any good – it’s all negative.” Andzel said he invited the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform to campus partially because of the abortion debate taking place in Knox 20 at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. Andzel said he expects about 300 people to attend the debate.
He took the events of Monday and Tuesday as “a positive” because “we talked about what abortion looks like and what abortion is.” The presentation will fuel the debates, Andzel said. “We are going to be in for a battle of the titans,” he added. “Here are two significantly different ideologies clashing head to head.” Tucciarone and Hinckley never want the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform to have a presence at UB again. Tucciarone said he wants to collect letters from students who felt attacked and give them to Tiberi and Dennis Black, vice president for Student Affairs. Tucciarone said the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform was “a hate organization terrorizing preaching fear tactics. By any definition that is a terrorist group. It was terrorism and that’s not appropriate.” To the people who opposed him, Andzel said, “God bless them for standing up for what they believe in because I do, too.” Now the billboards are down and students have cleared from the front of the Union – likely rearing to pick their debate back up on Thursday night. Additional reporting by Asst. News Editor Sam Fernando Email: news@ubspectrum.com
Continued from page 5: Improvement The second project team consists of members of Buffalo Undergraduate Consulting Club. These students will use skills they have learned in the classroom to create a business plan for local businesses. The last project aims to convert a non-operational railway line into a group of public spaces that could be used for various recreational purposes. PULL works closely with the University Heights Collaborative (UHC), an organization that directs community-based activities in the Heights, like Neighborhood Watch and Landlord Outreach. Mickey Vertino, president of UHC, believes PULL projects will inspire more UB students to take a proactive role in the Heights and become invested members of the community.
“We recognize that [UB students] are a valuable aspect of the community,” Vertino said. “We want to hear their voices. We want to see them participate. We want them to know their neighbors, face-to-face.” Mario Ayoub, a freshman media study major in the grant-writing program, said that one of the challenges of carrying out the project is changing students’ perception of the Heights. He said the negative connotation to the Heights is so deeply entrenched that it is hard to persuade his UB peers to think otherwise. “[The Heights] is viewed as a lost cause,” Ayoub said. “But when you look closely, you see the opposite. You see many willing residents, willing to work with the school and students. People are open for change and for projects to be started in the
community.” Wang Yan, a UB graduate and former University Heights resident, pointed out the conditions in the Heights are difficult to improve. While living in the Heights, Wang was harassed for money several times and had to put up with raucous parties on Friday nights, he said. He believes these unpleasant experiences arise due to “complex socioeconomic problems” within the neighborhood, making it hard to eliminate blights within the area. Meanwhile, PULL members like Krolikowski and Murray have advice for students who live in the Heights but are dissatisfied with their current residence: Speak up. It is imperative that UB residents recognize themselves as part of the Heights and voice out any concerns
to the community, said Krolikowski, who is also working with PULL members to design ways to better facilitate communication between UB and the Heights community. Krolikowski and Murray hope the projects encourage students to look beyond the Heights’ infamy and view it as a community they could be a part of and learn from. Ultimately, PULL is about creating a positive impact in both the Heights and UB. “We have no problem turning University Heights into a big laboratory for students to test out ideas that they learn in the classroom while simultaneously making the Heights a better place to live,” Krolikowski said. Grassroots activism has been flourishing in Buffalo, according to Krolikowski. Many young people in
their 20s and 30s have been helping to revive a city that “had just been under the decline for a long time,” he said. He believes, like many other neighborhoods in Buffalo such as Cobblestone and Black Rock, the Heights will make progress and turn into a better community. “There’s tons of new investments going in and the University Heights five years from now is still going to look very different from the University Heights of today,” Krolikowski said. By then, many UB students hope they can proudly proclaim they had a part in building the community. Email: news@ubspectrum.com
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Not a gold digger Archaeologist Perrelli goes on excavations in Western New York hoping to dig up history
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Douglas Perrelli, director of UB's Archaeological Survey in the Department of Anthropology, explores sites and history from around the Western New York area. ANDREA SAADAN
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Don’t call Douglas Perrelli a modern-day Indiana Jones. As an archaeologist himself, Perrelli sees the fictional character as nothing but a “fake” and a “borderline unethical artifact looter.” Perrelli is the director and principal investigator of the Archaeological Survey within the Department of Anthropology at UB. Unlike Indiana Jones, Perrelli is a professional archaeologist in charge of an applied archaeology team whose biggest contract is with Buffalo’s Department of Transportation. Perrelli is quick to debunk the idea of archaeologists “finding golden and crystal skulls and temples of doom.” He believes it is more interesting to dig up the kitchens and garbage from people’s lives from thousands of years ago. He describes the concept of Indiana Jones to be one that is “absurd” and “ridiculous” because it is so far from the truth of what real archaeologists do for a living. All of Perrelli’s archaeological life has been spent in Western New York or northwest Pennsylvania. He said a lot of people are surprised he hasn’t explored Europe
or Canada for archeological purposes. However, Perrelli said there is a perfectly good explanation to this. In Western New York, there are over 4,000 excavation sites. It was in Buffalo that Perrelli excavated what he believed to be the singlemost interesting site. Perrelli discovered remnants of a necklace made of bobcat teeth with holes drilled in them so they could be strung on string and worn around the neck. The site dated to about 1400 A.D. Perrelli had also discovered the bones of birds that are now extinct. Perrelli admits there are certain aspects of the job that bring about unhappiness. He said the general public could be difficult when they fail to understand why Perrelli and his team of archaeologists need to excavate a site that’s on their property. Perrelli stressed how he wants to educate the public so as to keep them informed. Dan Snyder, a fifth-year graduate student in the Department of Anthropology and one of Perrelli’s current students, agrees. “I think one of the best things he does and what we do is connecting with the local community and doing outreach projects and welcoming anyone that wants to learn
more about the history and prehistory of the area,” Snyder said. Nothing is tougher than dealing with the local Native American groups, according to Perrelli. “Here in Western New York, the Iroquois are alive and well,” Perrelli said. “When you dig up their heritage sites, they can be really profoundly offended and angry about it because they feel some ownership of those cultural resources as they’re ethnically related to it. When I dig up an Iroquois site in Western New York, that creates bad feelings between me and the Iroquois people who live here because they feel like I’m disrupting their past.” This direct conflict with Perrelli’s need to excavate can only be dealt with through negotiations and communication. This is why Perrelli has said his proudest moments on the job are when he has had successful negotiations with local Native American tribes. Perrelli’s job can be very demanding. He is both a member of the Registry of Professional Archaeologists and the Society for American Archaeology. Perrelli’s early undergraduate years were spent at SUNY Geneseo, where he graduated from in 1986. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Anthro-
pology at UB in 2001 and became director of the Archaeological Survey that same year. Perrelli said the Archaeological Survey is a company that does professional archaeology and is attached to the anthropology department. “He gets a lot of stress from all ends,” said James Hartner, the senior project director of the Archaeological Survey. “But he handles it really well. He goes fishing and plays hockey, too. I’ve known him for so long; I just know what he likes and I’m glad that he does it still because, just like any other job, you just want to get away for a while.” Perrelli believes one of the joys of anthropology and archaeology is to be able to practice it locally and to have students realize there’s always a new problem and new mystery to solve each time they dig material out of the ground. He sees the practical experience in the field as highly beneficial for students because of the hands-on and experiential training that can’t be learned from a book. Without experiencing field techniques of excavation, it is difficult for a person to be called an archaeologist, according to Perrelli.
As a professor, Perrelli communicates well and is one of the “more approachable” ones in the archaeology department, according to Hartner, his friend and coworker. Perrelli will always remember his very first student. In 1992, Perrelli was out at the Spaulding Lake site doing some excavation and a young kid had walked up to him. “I’ll never forget little Joe McGreevy walking up to me as a UB archaeologist and saying ‘Hey, can I watch you dig or maybe help out?’” Perrelli said. To this day, Perrelli is friendly with McGreevy, who went on to study archaeology in school. The two will be working together this summer for a local public outreach program. “I taught Joe how to do archaeology as a young kid who came walking up to a site I had happened to be working on and helped him throughout his college career into becoming a professional archaeologist … but that’s the one experience of reaching out to a local kid and helping him realize his dream of archaeology from my earliest days of local work,” Perrelli said. “He’s one of the best archaeologists I know.” SEE PERRELLI, PAGE 11
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Baby steps for UB Child Care Center ANDREA SAADAN
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In a hidden corner of UB North Campus, just beside South Lake Village, is a small building. It isn’t a place meant for UB students. Instead, this establishment – often been overlooked by the UB community – is for toddlers and infants. The UB Child Care Center (UBCCC) offers care for the children of faculty, staff, students and families in the local community who range in age between six weeks to 5 years old, according to Kathi James, director of UBCCC North Campus. UBCCC was set up in 1985 on UB South Campus with the North Campus site opening later on in 1998. Children at UBCCC are taught everything from math skills to social studies and even open-ended art. One thing the center promotes is “hands-on learning.� This doesn’t just apply to the kids but to the interns who work there, too. Kiki Liang, a senior health and human services and psychology major, is an intern at UBCCC and said her experience working has been nothing short of rewarding. She said the internship had given her a practical experience to “connect theory to actual work.� “You have to really experience it to know if you like or love being with kids,� Liang said. “Talking about something is not enough. You hear people talking about the job but it’s not the same as you being here. It’s different.� Liang recalls her fondest memory at the center to be on her third day of work, when a child called out to her once she had arrived. She felt “touched� and said seeing the kids smiling and calling out her name makes her bad days much better. UBCCC is open from 7:15 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Monday through Friday. The center is customer-based and allows parents to pick between the option of sending their child to UBCCC on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays or Tuesdays and Thursdays, James said. “We have an open-door policy,� James said. “[Parents] can come
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The UB Child Care Center offers childcare for faculty, students and families in the local community.
during the day and see their children. Mothers who are nursing can come in and feed their babies.� James said she would consider herself lucky to be able to leave her office and spend her hour break with her child. She said it’s comforting to know her child is close by. The center has 55 permanent staff members with approximately 20 additional people in the form of work-study students and substitute teachers. James emphasized the center’s ability to provide “high-quality care during the day� due to its good “teacher-to-child ratios� that allow children to get sufficient attention. James believes the center bene-
fits from its diverse staff and children. “Our teachers come from many different backgrounds,â€? James said. “Our children are the same. Many of them are bilingual. There’s a huge cultural aspect and that just enriches the environment in each of the classrooms so that’s what they do all day ‌ we accept everybody.â€? The staff members of UBCCC recently do something special for their kids. This past Saturday, the center held its inaugural annual fundraiser, the Family Fun Walk, which drew a large crowd. The fundraiser started off with a 3-mile walk around the bike path and families
returned for games and a healthy lunch. UB Dental and UB Pharmacy were also at the event, giving information and free prizes to the children, according to Ashley Orcutt, one of the center’s lead teachers for toddlers. The health-themed fundraiser drew a crowd of 261 people and raised over $4,000 – double the expected amount, Orcutt said. Orcutt and Melissa Summers, another lead teacher for toddlers, organized the event. Summers believed the walk went really well, especially for the first year. The turnout was bigger than what Summers expected and she is exited to host the Family Fun Walk again next year.
“With all the New York State funding, it’s hard to get money now because teachers are getting cut from districts and stuff so the money we used to have isn’t the same ‌ we’re just trying to be creative with resources and everything,â€? Orcutt said. Both Orcutt and Summers want UBCCC to be more involved in the UB community. Summers hopes having this walk every year will inform the UB community of their existence and success. James believes UBCCC is a huge benefit for the people who work on-campus because of how comforting it is to know their children are close by. Email: features@ubspectrum.com
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Improving transportation, improving life Civil engineering professor finds correlation between commute, life RONNIE SIMMONS II Staff Writer
Adel Sadek grew up in Alexandria, Egypt, and the pyramids and the ancient Egyptians always fascinated him. This fascination influenced his decision to pursue civil engineering – the field where “you build stuff,” he said. In 1993, Sadek emigrated from Egypt to attend the University of Virginia for graduate school. Now, as a UB professor of civil engineering and the director of graduate studies for civil engineering, Sadek’s focus has shifted to transportation. He won a grant and the Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Award from IBM in 2011 as a result of his gathering of information on the fuel consumption, emissions and environmental cost resulting from the parking search process. Sadek said every person spends at least one hour involved in transportation per day. He said improving the way people travel would improve the quality of life for all individuals. Traffic is a major problem in the United States – it costs the country almost $100 billion a year, according to Sadek. His research aims to reduce the lost time, fuel, productivity and lives that come with congestion and accidents. He hopes one day to construct a self-driving or autonomous car – a “connected vehicle environment.” “We all have cell phones and there are wireless communications everywhere,” Sadek said. “There are many communication systems and protocol and the idea would be in the future, cars would be able to talk to one another and talk to the infrastructure. So if a car is breaking, that information would be propagated immediately to the car behind.” He explained the advantage of this technology would be the response time. As humans, it takes the average driver one to two seconds to comprehend what’s happening, which is why people are taught not to tailgate – to leave enough space and time to react to the situation.
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Adel Sadek, a professor in UB’s Civil Engineering department, researches fuel and transportation efficiency in his work.
If information is communicated automatically between cars, that will help improve safety because the car would react in a millisecond, Sadek said. He also conducts experiments specifically affecting UB students and staff. One project examines what he calls the “parking search process,” in which he studied parking behavior on campus. Every driver has a preferred parking lot that is close to their destination, but drivers may go to an alternative parking lot farther away because there is a higher chance of finding a spot, according to Sadek. He is also working on improving efficiency at the border between Canada and Buffalo. Over the summer or on a long weekend, people wait for hours at the border, Sadek
said. So he is working with other engineers to construct a model that will help to predict the delay. Sadek made the move from the University of Vermont to UB five years ago because UB’s civil engineering department is ranked 24th nationally, while Vermont has a small engineering program. Sadek also loves the opportunity to work with various faculty members in multiple departments. “[Collaboration] is something that is very helpful because now when you have problems you cannot really solve them by yourself,” Sadek said. “One discipline or one field cannot really address a problem in a holistic way. The interesting work comes when we have interdisciplinary teams, so people from different fields, different dis-
ciplines working together and trying to solve problems together.” Sadek works with people in various fields in his research and as a part of his role as the acting chair of strategic strength in extreme events – a part of the UB 2020 plan. His department is looking at extreme events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorist attacks, tornadoes, volcanoes and floods, trying to understand how to better prepare for them, mitigate their effects and respond and recover. Sadek is working with people from the engineering department, the College of Arts and Sciences, geography, geology, the School of Management, the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, nursing school and School of Social Work. “We tried to bring people from different schools to approach a problem from a comprehensive view or holistic view,” Sadek said. “So you have the different disciplines contributing their knowledge and being a part of the solution to a problem.” This semester Sadek is teaching a class called Traffic Operations and Design in which he teaches his students to looking at traffic engineering, how to design roads, how to model traffic on the roads, how to determine the capacity of a road and how to design a traffic signal.
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Outside of UB, Sadek attends St. Mary and St. Moses Coptic Orthodox Church in North Tonawanda, N.Y., where he holds the position of youth leader. As a youth leader, he helps run meetings every Friday at the church to hold Bible study and discuss various topics affecting the youth. He also coordinates community outreach like visiting nursing homes. “The good thing is that these are things I enjoy,” Sadek said. “I enjoy teaching. I enjoy doing research. I enjoy working with the youth at the church, so I can’t complain.” Sadek advises Yunjie Zhao, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in civil engineering. Zhao echoes the professor’s claims of loving to working with his students. “Although being busy with meetings, researches and teaching, Dr. Sadek always manages to stop by at the transportation lab and talk with the students,” Zhao wrote in an email. “He is not only an academic adviser but also a life mentor.” Zhao cherishes each and every single talk he can have with Sadek. He said every conversation is always fun and memorable. Email: features@ubspectrum.com
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Sex portrayed in media FELICIA O. Special to The Spectrum
Sex sells. Sex sells TV shows and movies, and sex sells material objects. But the selling of sex influences personal perceptions on the topic. From the time people are cognitively able to process the flood of information surrounding them to the time they can actually understand what they are actually seeing, sex is ingrained into their brains. If you play video games, most female characters are portrayed with unrealistic bodies – huge chests, huge butts and tiny everything else. Remember The Sims video game you – or someone you knew – used to play? At some point, after you spent hours increasing the relationship points with a certain Sim, you can propose. After that, you’re able to have a baby. At least in this vid-
eo game, you had to be in love before you had sex. If you see advertisements, there are sexually provocative men and women intending to sell you something – perfume, cars or whatever they’re paid to look sexy for. With TV shows like Girls and Game of Thrones, you’re privy to images of naked bodies once every two minutes. And there’s nothing wrong with that when you’re a mature adult who is already in tune with your sexuality. Seeing a naked woman in a medieval whorehouse doesn’t necessarily encourage someone to head to Nevada and walk into a brothel. But there are some problems with the way sex is portrayed in some forms of media.
For one thing, reality television is just making the public dumber – on an overall level and on a sexual educational level. According to Sarah Gilbert, in an article from DailyFinance.com published in 2010, “less sexually experienced college students watch more reality television than their more experienced counterparts.” So when you see Snooki or one of those Jersey Shore characters having sex with a random stranger, it promotes disregard for the consequences and serious issues that come with promiscuity. When you watch The Bachelor and you see dozens of women throwing themselves at one man in the name of love, what is the public supposed to take away from that? Is the only way a man will want to marry you is if you fawn and fight over him?
For another, models and actors cause body image issues for many people. Through media, women are taught what beautiful is supposed to be. If you aren’t a size 0, like the models you saw on your television as you grew up, then you aren’t beautiful. This is preposterous and it is an epidemic in our society. According to admedia.com, “problems with eating disorders have increased over 400 percent since the year 1970.” Only 5 percent of women in the United States actually fit the current body type portrayed in advertising today, the same article said. The media has a stranglehold on the portrayal of beauty and, as a society, we adhere to it. We watch television, play video games and listen to music that portrays the “ideal woman” and the “ideal man.”
Instead of internalizing these images, ignore them. Choose to focus on health, not conforming to social norms. Admedia.com gives good examples on how to appreciate your body: “Be conscious about what your body is capable of every day. Keep in mind that the body is the instrument of your life and more than just decoration.” Think of individuals you consider role models – figure out why they are respected and why they are successful. Look for the beauty in the world around you; go to a park, read an uplifting novel. Remind yourself that life is too short to be unhappy. Don’t let the portrayals of beauty in media influence your life to the point where it makes you unhappy. Email: features@ubspectrum.com
Continued from page 1: Bombings “It seems like something you hear about that happens far away, like 9/11 – ‘Yeah it’s close, but it’s not that close,’” Hamel said. “Or down in Connecticut – ‘Yeah, it’s not too far from us, but it’s not here.’ And then to finally have it happen here, it really, really hit close to home, especially knowing how close we were to it, how lucky we were that we weren’t [at the finish line] at that time – such a short amount of time.” Michael Cavoto, a senior psychology major at Boston College, was celebrating Patriot’s Day on campus, about 5 miles from the end of the marathon, where the explosions occurred. He and many of his classmates found out about the explosions on Twitter. “We had several hundred BC students running in the race, so pretty much everyone knew at least one person running,” Cavoto said in an email. “I’ve never seen so many people go from partying and having fun to crying before.”
Social media played a crucial role on Monday. Hamel wanted to let his family and friends know immediately that he was OK, but phone lines were turned off in case anyone was using them to detonate bombs, according to Hamel. So he posted a photo on Facebook of him and his sister to tell everyone he was safe. It received 213 likes and 27 comments. Cavoto said the outrage and terror he experienced in Boston brings him back to Sept. 11, 2001, when he lived in his hometown outside New York City. Phillip Arena, an assistant professor of political science who specializes in the study of international conflict, said there are two possibilities for the attack: domestic terror, particularly from rightwing supremacist groups, or AlQaeda.
No one has claimed responsibility for the act of terror. It’s being treated as a “criminal investigation,” the head of the Boston section of the FBI told CNN, and “a potential terrorist investigation.” The Boston Marathon was on Patriot’s Day, a holiday that’s celebrated widely in Massachusetts but not throughout much the rest of the country. It commemorates the Battles of Lexington and Concord at the start of the American Revolution. It’s the same holiday Timothy McVeigh chose for the Oklahoma City bombings on April 19, 1995. Arena said the timing of the attack points it to being domestic. The attack could be right-wing American supremacists who believe the country is drifting too far left under President Barack Obama and are fighting his policies by drawing attention to their views on a day that’s affiliated with the use of violence against tyranny, Arena said.
“The fact that the attacks occur on the same day taxes are due makes it plausible that one motive would be fighting higher taxes,” Arena said. “The fact that the last mile of the race was dedicated to the victims of the Newtown shootings, and there’s a big national push for gun control now, makes it possible that they’re fighting gun control.” But domestic terror attacks from the right wing aren’t generally targeted toward public events; they tend to focus on government facilities, according to Arena. He said the chosen target makes it at least possible the extremists may be AlQaeda. In a statement on Monday evening, Obama said: “Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups will feel the full weight of justice.” “Bush said something fairly similar after the 9/11 attacks that obviously was referring to what later became the War on Terror,” Arena
said. “But given that we’re still involved in that, and we’ve expanded it to a number of countries, it’s not clear what policy change from the status quo would follow from Obama’s statements.” Hamel said his Boston family and friends are “glued to their TVs,” continually looking for an update on who is behind the attack. He said knowing who is responsible, if they’re brought to justice, would bring him a little piece of mind and closure from an event that could have taken his life. Email: news@ubspectrum.com
*Krista Konze is the sister of The Spectrum’s senior sports editor, Joe Konze Jr.
Continued from page 8: Perrelli Perrelli continues to be an influence his students’ lives today. “He’s been extremely helpful for me,” Snyder said. “I’m doing my work in Western New York and so being able to work with him has really facilitated my studies … what he’s doing is basically a model of what I’m trying to do.” Snyder believes his adviser has had a big impact on Western New York’s archaeological scene, which is impacting his own work greatly. Hartner said Perrelli has also built good rapport with a lot of his students. “Students are interesting because they always think in ways that I don’t,” Perrelli said. “It’s new to them so their suggestions of why something happened or why something is where we found it are always very instructive for me. Stu-
dents routinely come up with very good ideas about how to interpret the archaeological record in ways that I wouldn’t even think of. Sometimes those suggestions are really insightful and important to the interpretation of what you’re finding.” Archaeology was not Perrelli’s childhood dream. In fact, Perrelli went to college to major in preforestry – he even took an interest in fine arts for a while. He took an anthropology course by “accident” and the interest grew so much so that he ended up taking up a sixweek summer school program in Genesee Valley. Perrelli’s six-week experience in field school made him choose a career in archaeology.
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Fourteen hours of Dickinson PETE SHAPIRO
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In a bright wood-bound chapel room on a rainy Saturday night, a poetic atmosphere was created in honor of poet Emily Dickinson almost 130 years after her death. Literary scholars, readers and students gathered at the Westminster Presbyterian Church on Delaware Avenue for a 14-hour Emily Dickinson marathon reading. This was the second-annual reading of Dickinson’s poems in Buffalo. The selected readings from R.W. Franklin’s The Poems of Emily Dickinson and food and refreshments were served throughout the day for the attendees’ enjoyment. Kate Dunning, a Ph.D. candidate at Case Western University, did a project on Emily Dickinson fan fiction. “The stories are simple but sweet, and they tend to work in Dickinson’s poems in a really creative way,” Dunning said. When it was Dunning’s turn to read a poem, she recited the poem featured on her homemade tie-dye box, fitted with rotating blocks of text and select words. The rotating text is an allusion to Dickinson’s habit of using variants in her writing, which result in the use of different, effective words instead of repeating one. “The idea is that it mimics the creative act of writing poetry,” Dunning said. “It’s [there] to remind you that language isn’t static. It’s a dynamic process.” Across the room, Jonathon Welch, the owner of Talking Leaves Books, had a collection of biographies, academic texts and selected works of Emily Dickinson for sale. Welch believes that although Dickinson was against being in the public eye, readers are still lucky enough to learn about her personal and written legacy during events such as the 14hour marathon. “We who pay attention to the world of literature think all that information is extremely useful and wonder-
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Kate Dunning, a Ph.D. candidate at Case Western University, was one of the attendees at the 14-hour marathon Emily Dickinson reading.
ful and compelling and insightful, but is it necessary?” Welch said. “Poetry and fiction both, I think, are ultimately private – private on the part of the writer and private on the part of the reader and listener.” Cristanne Miller, a literature professor and chair of the Department of English at UB, organized the marathon reading and was present for the full 14-hour day. She is a scholar of modernist American poetry, but Dickinson is one of the main poets on which she focuses her work. “Dickinson is a particularly good poet to do this kind of thing for,”
Miller said. “These marathons are done with some frequency with Dickinson’s poems across the country, especially in Amherst, Mass., where she grew up.” Miller was elated by the success of the reading and the Buffalo literary scene’s collective appreciation of the poet’s works. “The poems are very short, so it’s easy for each person to read a whole poem, whereas if you were doing a marathon reading of Walt Whitman, his poems are extremely long,” Miller said. “You would have to figure out some other way to divide how each
person would read.” When asked how she thought Dickinson would react to the close and personal gathering of readers, students and scholars, Miller explained it was clear Dickinson didn’t want attention from publishing during her lifetime. “I think that she did not want herself to be involved in the marketing of her poems, but it seems to me by the way that she saved her poems she very clearly wanted them to be circulated after her death,” Miller said. Among a display of biographies and books of the poet’s works, a ta-
ble was set up with a collection of children’s books, articles and a homemade creation that replicated the creative process of one of Emily’s untitled poems. As the marathon came to a conclusion, there was a feeling of camaraderie and accomplishment amongst all who were in attendance. Laughter and jovial sincerity filled the room over the music from the corner as glasses of wine were filled and emptied. Email: arts@ubspectrum.com
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The Neglia Ballet Artists’ final performance was one to remember as they interpreted Giselle for the audience at Shea’s.
GISELLE SOARS INTO BUFFALO Neglia Dance Company brings famous ballet to Shea’s TIM ALLMAN
Staff Writer
The story of a beautiful village girl, combined with a dance that has lived through centuries, came together in downtown Buffalo for the final performance of a renowned local dance company. Last Thursday, the Neglia Ballet Artists dance company brought the famous French ballet, Giselle, to Shea’s Performing Arts Center. Giselle is the story a girl from the Rhineland of the Middle Ages who falls in love with Duke Albrecht, a visiting nobleman disguised as a simple traveler. His arrival coincided with the village’s celebration of the grape harvest, which presented many opportunities for the villagers to dance and be merry.
Eventually, the Duke’s true identity was revealed to Giselle when his betrothed Bathilde pays the village a visit. When Giselle discovers the Duke is not who he says he is, she dies of a broken heart. Act two introduced the audience to Giselle’s grave; she became part of the Wilis, a sisterhood of ghosts who all have suffered the pains of unrequited love and their spirits roam the earth, trapping any men who enter the cemetery and making them dance their dance of death. Afterward, the guilty Albrecht visited Giselle’s grave to offer flowers, but the Wilis find him and begin their terminal dance, which leads the young girl to face the decision of whether to spare his life. “I thought the show was great,” said 24-year-old Cassandra Long-
necker of Buffalo. “This was the first time I had ever gone to the ballet, so I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect. I kind of wish there was a little more drama, though.” Longnecker went on to add she was glad that she went and thought the dancers in the company were stellar. What she thought was lacking resided in the story itself. Giselle is categorized as a romantic ballet, which UB dance lecturer and ballet instructor Karen Georger said is most related to the historical style of dance more than anything. “The ballet was very much a product of the 1850s; there were very strict rules as to the form of dance. Things like the length of the tutus, the length of the calf, etc.,” Georger said. “But there is also that typical element of romantic
ballets which deal with the idea of unrequited love.” Georger added the period was famous for showcasing a quality of dancing which is meant to present the feeling of “other-worldliness” – showing the metaphorical reach for something beyond this world through exceptional dancing. The dancers alluded to strong themes like seduction, celebration and even magic during their performance, specifically in act two, a trait 22-year-old Alex Duringer of Buffalo enjoyed. “I thought it was so cool that we could pick up on so many different messages of the show through dancing,” Duringer said. “I studied English in college, but I really liked how you can still pick up the strong metaphors even without spoken language.”
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Duringer thought the show dragged in parts, but during the big dance numbers, he and his friends were vastly entertained. This seemed to be the general consensus from most of the audience in attendance that night, as well. When it comes to creating a production like this, Georger said choreography of this stature has been passed down through generations. The style’s notorious conservatism comes from its historical legacy. Every detail of production is taken into consideration and that resonated through Giselle. Although Giselle is the final production for the Neglia Ballet Artists, those interested can visit them at their office at 1685 Elmwood Ave.
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T H E WOLF Heroes run on IN THE HENHOUSE
MEG LEACH
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Then, sometime in the mid-2000s, Mos Staff Writer Def found religion, Jay-Z married Beyoncé and the whole institution was upturned. International hip-hop listeners have fiArtist: Tyler, The Creator nally reached the time of deliverance. Black Album: Wolf Label: Odd Future, RED Distribu- Star is reunited. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney stated Jay-Z has more montion, Sony ey than the U.S. government. Additionally, Release Date: April 2 the conglomerate known as Odd Future is Grade: Breaching the mainstream, attracting young and impressionable listeners in high schools Hip-hop music has been in a dark place and universities across America. since the late ’90s. A generation spoiled rotTyler, The Creator, self-proclaimed leadten with Wu-Tang Clan on the radio and er of the Odd Future misanthropes also Bill Clinton as the ‘head’ of state has sub- known as Wolf Gang, has shown himself to sequently become bitter toward the lack of be an incredibly talented and dynamic prodope beats in popular music today. And that ducer, allowing his minions to thrash about bitterness is justified. the popular music sphere in something of Post-Biggie hip-hop consisted of names a thrift-shop, hipster, post-internet era style. like Mos Def, Nas, Dead Prez and Jay-Z. Who could complain? SEE WOLF, PAGE 15
PETE SHAPIRO
Explosions rocked Boylston Street Monday afternoon. The concrete seemed to rise and erupt like a volcano as two bombs went off on the sidewalk bordering the 117th Boston Marathon. It was as if the street itself was inhaling deeply and blowing out an exhaustive breath of flame and smoke. Thirty-four years ago, my father’s lungs were burning like the air as he pushed himself down the same street. It was Patriot’s Day in Massachusetts – Marathon Monday. That year my father became the youngest person to complete the Boston Marathon at age 16. He was also the fastest to finish from Framingham High School at the time. Looking at my father now, I see he hasn’t really moved since that day, not that I blame him. In the confusion of Monday’s events, Twitter lit up as news flooded in. A death and injury toll ticked quickly from two dead and 23 wounded to over 100 estimated injuries and three fatalities between the explosions. Bomb estimations hovered between two and seven but ultimately settled at only two on Boylston Street going off. I watched my friends on Facebook check in, realizing cellular signals were jammed by the influx of use. They were trying to let their families know they were safe. I texted my cousins and collapsed in my astronomy class in relief at their prompt and shaky responses. The Boston Marathon has heritage. It is the oldest annual marathon on record at 117 runnings. With over 500,000 viewers, it is New England’s largest spectator sport. It is more nostalgic than red-dyed socks, baked beans, the Freedom Trail and “Hahvahd Yahd.” The marathon is also one of the hardest sporting events. At the 20-mile mark of the race in the town of Newton, the course takes the runners up a series of hills called Heartbreak Hill. The course that passes Boston College rises .4 miles and comes at a point in a marathon when a runner’s glycogen stores are depleted most.
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Sixteen, young and exhausted, my father found himself trapped on the hill, slowly crawling up, doused in sweat and delirious with exhaustion. With each step, his legs burned, sweat stung his eyes and his breath came in ragged, cutting gasps. “You can do it, Todd,” a cry of support came from seemingly nowhere. My dad looked to his right, and suddenly, my grandfather was beside him, jogging with a cup of water in his hands. “Come on, Todd! You gonna quit?” He handed my father the water, egging him on. “Let’s go, Todd! Let’s go!” It seems that heroes can come from the most unlikely places. When my dad talks about his time on Heartbreak Hill, you can hear the smile in his voice, the gratitude for his father sharing the brunt of the run with him. Heroes are not born but made. Massachusetts General Hospital is 1.3 miles from the Copley Square finish line of the marathon. In the wake of tragedy, runners spanned that distance, exhausted after their 26.2-mile endeavor, and rushed to the doors of Mass. General to give blood. When the street erupted in a plume of fire and smoke, countless people dropped what they were doing and ran into the chaos. Police and volunteers alike ran into an uncertain climate, throwing themselves into the dust to help the wounded. Those people are my heroes. In a time of distress, they gave me an ounce of hope. When police scanners crackled and told others to stay inside, they pressed on. When the suspicion that there were more bombs strewn about the city broke the news, they pushed on. Two years after his ordeal with Heartbreak Hill, my dad became the poster boy of an American hero. He joined the Marines and learned to fly helicopters in the ’80s . He made a commitment to always run toward the sound of danger. When times are at their worst, Marines push on. But before that, he had Heartbreak Hill. My grandfather handed him a cup of water and he pushed up the incline and actually sprinted down the backside. He finished the race in 3:42:53. Ronald Reagan said: “Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.” And on April 15, 2013, and April 16, 1979, the heroes ran on. Email: meganlea@buffalo.edu
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STEALING 42, depiction of Robinson’s MLB journey, thrives KIERA MEDVED
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Film: 42 Release Date: April 12 Studio: Legendary Pictures Grade: A In 1947, Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson became the first black man to play in Major League Baseball. Amidst receiving racial slurs and bigotry from fans, other players and even his own teammates, Robinson began desegregating professional baseball in America. The film 42 tells Robinson’s story and the struggles he went through during his first season in the MLB with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Harrison Ford (Cowboys & Aliens) portrays Branch Rickey, the general manager and innovative executive of the Dodgers in 1947. This role is the first historical character that Ford has ever had to play, and his performance as Rickey is undeniably incredible. Ford wore body padding and facial prosthetics to look similar to Rickey. Not only did Ford look and speak like Rickey, but his acting captured the late Baseball Hall of Famer’s passion for desegregation and love for the game. Director Brian Helgeland (The Order) pays an incredible tribute to the heroic and seemingly impossible fight for equality in Ameri-
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ca. Rather than creating a movie of Robinson’s entire career, Helgeland focuses on the most definitive years of Robinson’s life. The time leading up to the 1947 World Series was a time of personal growth and hardship for Robinson. The film was shot purposely from the perspective of the spectator; the audience is asked to look racism square in the eye. This was not a period of American history that should be ignored – this was one of the darkest times in American culture and history, and audience members are asked to reflect on that. One scene in particular depicts a young boy and his father sitting in the stands before one of Robinson’s games. The young boy is ec-
static to be at the game with his father and waits in anticipation for the players to run onto the field. As Robinson runs onto the field, the boy’s father starts heckling Robinson with racial slurs and obscenities. The boy, confused, looks at his father and notices how all the other white men in the stadium are yelling. It takes the boy all of 10 seconds to join his father in heckling Robinson, even yelling the ‘N-word’ after hearing his father do so. Although it’s uncomfortable to watch, the short clip is necessary to show how easy it is to influence children and how quickly they adopt their parents’ behaviors and values. It is because of those behaviors and values that so many African
Americans, like Robinson, had to endure the torture of cruel societal norms and stigmas. A tremendously talented cast of young actors gives insight into the confusing, difficult era after World War II. In war, all men are colorblind. Black men fought beside white men, only to return home to racial injustice and fear. Chadwick Boseman (The Kill Hole) takes on the influential and emotional role of Robinson. Boseman delivers an amazing depiction of Robinson’s hardship in the MLB. Boseman portrays Robinson with heart-aching grace, taking the audience through every racial slur and every hurtful comment Robinson was forced to ignore. Boseman’s Robinson gives life to an untold story. Nicole Beharie (The Mirror Between Us) plays Robinson’s wife, Rachel, who founded the Jackie Robinson Foundation, a cause that funds minority students in higher education. Boseman and Beharie share beautiful on-camera chemistry as lovers and fighters in a war against prejudice and racism. Beharie gives a performance of a wom-
an deeply in love, but also a strong, inspiring woman believing in her rights as an American. An inspiring score beneath melodramatic action and dialogue also assists the film. Mark Isham (The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Peter), known for his work on the television series Once Upon a Time, imagined beautiful, stunning music that matched the dramatically heightened emotions in the film. Costume Designer Caroline Harris (The Awakening) had the difficult task of creating historically accurate costumes for the main characters and the hundreds of extras who filled the seats in the stadiums. Harris created a believable 1940s world of fedoras and stogies. The film is supported by the spectacular lighting design, as well. Boseman is constantly silhouetted in a ray of heaven’s light, reinforcing the heroic image Robinson is meant to have. 42 is not just a sports movie. It’s an inspiring journey one man began that changed baseball, and eventually the United States, forever. Email: arts@ubspecrum.com
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On Tuesday, April 2, he dropped his third studio album, Wolf. If you are unfamiliar with Odd Future’s music, Wolf is a bad place to start (Hodgy Beats’ 2012 Untitled EP is where you should begin). As a whole, the album’s production is incredible, as expected, and Tyler’s lyrics show great potential, but Wolf lacks any subtlety at all and falls flat on its face in execution. With 18 songs, Tyler’s greatest weakness appears to be that he just can’t cut tracks. Tyler’s style is feverishly welcome. However, as other critics have mentioned, he is not RZA and Odd Future is not Wu-Tang Clan. With that disclaimer out of the way, the album is enjoyable throughout, with five or six incredible, totally fresh and well-written tracks. Tyler has no concept of subtlety whatsoever and a couple of the songs just sound silly and out of touch. His lack of subtlety, curiously enough, is also what makes the good tracks addictive and amusing. “Jamba” is one of the best songs on the album with an electro-influenced beat, fuzzy synth bass and kick-clap track drumbeat. It’s difficult to label Odd Future songs with a theme or topic, but “Jamba,” featuring Hodgy Beats, essentially focuses on Tyler’s father and his lack of involvement in the young producer’s life. “Papa ain’t call even though he saw me on TV, it’s all good (f**k you)/But now my balls, balls deep in this broad’s jaw,” Tyler renders in his opening line. “Cowboy” is a darker track with minimalist instrumentals and
jazz improv samples laced about. Again, the drumbeat is truly simple and effective. Almost as a counter to the better tracks on the album, “Domo 23” is just weird, with a Halloween-inspired siren in the background that raises blood pressure in an unappreciated way. “Trashwang” is another one of those songs. It sounds like a parody of a Birdman tune, which is never a good thing. “Rusty” is the other gem on the album; it features Domo Genesis and Earl Sweatshirt (another couple of Odd Future misfits worth checking out). With a simple drumbeat, synth, organ and piano samples, the song has a darker sound to it and feels, as a finished product, like an evil-ass, mean hip-hop track. Tyler’s social commentary is surprisingly accurate and intelligent, and it is littered throughout the album. “In a world where kids my age are popping Mollies with leather/ Sitting on Tumblr, never outside or enjoying the weather,” Tyler raps. Tyler’s got potential, without a doubt, but if there’s one strong critique of the album, it’s that he needs to learn to cut tracks. Wolf should have been a sevenor eight-song LP. His production is some of the best around and he has an original and fresh 2013 electro-beat sound to his music. Odd Future is under good management. Email: arts@ubspectrum.com
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Continued from page 18: Athletics Similarly, McCrea’s counterpart sophomore forward Will Regan should do his best Robin Lopez impression and grow his hair out to look like a caveman. The raw, intimidating look will only help his performance on the court and will surely spell success for the Bulls. There are so many things fall and winter teams can pull from spring teams; it would be a shame if they didn’t take this opportunity to improve. Email: ben.tarhan@ubspectrum.com
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Continued from page 3: My Stance it, she should have the right to an abortion. It was bracing to hear her say this because the majority of others arguing said even in the case of rape, an abortion should not be permitted. I still disagreed with her opinion. I believe mistakes happen and should not change a person’s life forever if there is a way to take care of that mistake. Someone I spoke to compared a pregnancy to lung cancer. She said if someone smokes for his or her entire life, then they deserve to have cancer – the same way if a woman has sex knowing she may get pregnant, she should deal with the circumstances. My response? The person who has lung cancer should have the right to chemotherapy the same way that a woman who unintentionally becomes pregnant has the right to an abortion. I asked a man what he would do if his 11-year-old daughter came home pregnant, and begged him to get an abortion because having this baby would lead her to become depressed and anxious, as it does to many women who choose to keep their unplanned child. He said because he is her legal guardian, he would not allow her to do so, but he would support her in her pregnancy and support her baby. I don’t see much support there at all. This man said he would support his daughter, however, he’s denying her the right to do as she pleases with her body. It repulsed me to hear this. I believe every woman has the right to make a decision about her body. I also did not find a single Jew willing to defend the comparison between the Holocaust and abortions. As a Jew, I found this offensive and inhumane. UB has a sizeable population of Jews – enough that classes are canceled for the important Jewish holi-
days, according to the UB Reporter. Thus, it’s distressing that students whose grandparents have been a part of the Holocaust, walking around with tattoos on their bodies as reminders of the pain, are forced to see blown up, larger-than-life-sized images of Swastikas and bodies of dead Jews outside of the Union. When I asked one of the people in charge of this display if there are any Jews on the team, he said they “once had a rabbi with them.” That rabbi’s name was not given and no further information about him or his stance was given. I watched Jewish students feel revolted and disgusted by what was being presented on their campus. I understand the reason these images were displayed was to cause debate and discussion. I do not believe the right images were displayed and I do not believe the right messages were being sent. People clearly feel strongly about this topic and it was refreshing to see students argue their opinions and fight for their beliefs on such a seemingly apathetic campus. I am glad conversations were happening and people were getting riled up, but I genuinely am nauseated by the way Students for Life presented its case. UB student Nicholas D’Angelo was the boy who approached me and told me his birth was a result of a rape. His email is ndangel@buffalo.edu and he said he “would love to enter into honest conversations on the topic and feel no shame with [his] story.” Contact him if you would like to have an open discussion on the topic. Email: keren.baruch@ubspectrum.com
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Check and mate
Bulls using different formations to improve doubles play
Spring cleaning It’s time for fall, winter teams to emulate spring teams’ winning ways
Haider Alidina, the spectrum
The Australian formation is a tennis formation used in doubles play. The server and player at the net are in line on the same side and the server is shielded by the player at the net. Normally, the server shifts to the opposite side of the court to confuse the opponent as the net player shifts to the side the server was serving from and the point begins. The dotted line represents the serve while the solid arrows represent player movement.
JOE KONZE JR
Senior Sports Editor
When the doubles pair of senior Vusa Hove and junior Yevgeiny Jason Shkodnik takes the court for play, it’s as if they are competing in a chess match. Moving from service box to service box, like a pawn moves from place to place on a chessboard, both switch up formations to confuse opponents. Through their strategies, Hove and Shkodnik set each other up to attack the net and hit blistering shots, making it difficult for the opposition to react. “Doubles is almost like chess,” Hove said. “The key is to avoidcheckmate.” Last Friday against Chicago State (1-20, 0-3 Mid-American Conference), Shkodnik was struggling with his backhand throughout his doubles match. After the first set, he and Hove huddled.
When they broke for the second set, they were in a new formation. “My strength is my forehand,” Shkodnik said. “My backhand wasn’t working, so we made an ingame adjustment where he would stand in one position and I would roll right to my forehand.” The formation is known as the ‘Australian Formation.’ Shkodnik and Hove line up vertically in the same service box on their serve. The server then serves the ball and both players move in opposite directions to the sides of the court, while the other team prepares to return the serve. This allows the back player to move diagonally toward the net, cutting off the angle and making the return shot for the opponent a difficult one down the line. By doing so, both players are now in an attacking position and lined up vertically at the net. “I believe it keeps the returner off guard,” Shkodnik said. “Be-
cause they don’t know where we’ll be moving. So, most of the time, they either miss the return or hit it right where you want them to and you get to put the volley away.” The formation shift has had an effect on the doubles play for the team this season, according to head coach Lee Nickell. “They are trying to adjust their formation to hold serve a little bit better,” Nickell said. “Our struggle has been holding serve in doubles this year. By adjusting the position and adjusting movement, it might give us some free points.” Doubles play has been a question mark for Buffalo this season, as the squad has been searching for the right pairings to carry the team to a regular season MAC Championship. Nickell changed his lineup to pair Hove with Shkodnik, and the cohesion of the two could not come at a better time for the Bulls (9-7, 3-0 MAC).
They currently sit near the top of the MAC, just a half a game behind Ball State (15-7, 4-0 MAC) for the regular season championship. Hove and Shkodnik hold a 4-2 overall record and a 2-0 MAC record as a doubles pairing. “At first we had trouble adjusting to each other,” Hove said. “But as the season went on, we got used to each other. Our intensity has helped us pick up doubles. and we’ve won a lot of tough matches with each other.” This upcoming weekend determines who will win the league title, as the Bulls play host to Ball State. The Australian Formation will be on display as the team bids farewell to seniors Hove and Nick Sarles, a Buffalo native who was a walk-on this season. Email: sports@ubspectrum.com
Bulls continue outdoor season success Track and field win nine events, break high-jump record JARED BOVE
Staff Writer
The track and field teams’ outdoor season is still young, but both teams already have reason to be optimistic looking toward next month’s Mid-American Conference Championships. On Saturday, the Bulls traveled south to Pennsylvania to compete in the Bucknell Bison Outdoor Classic. By the end of Sunday’s competition, the men’s and women’s track and field teams had earned nine first-place finishes and five second-place finishes. The men’s team won a pair of events, including the highlight of the weekend competition – a new school record in the high jump. Sophomore Chris Reape’s jump of 6-feet-11-inches added almost an inch to the school record that he had set himself earlier this season at the Wake Forest Open. Reape is the UB record holder in the high jump in both indoor and outdoor competition. “Chris has really come a long way since last year when he walked on to the team,” said head coach Perry Jenkins. “For him to hold both records in the high jump now is a great achievement.” The men’s 4x100 relay team also took first place in the weekend’s meet. The foursome – consisting of junior Miles Lewis and a freshmen trio of Darien Johnson, Ryan Billian, Micah Oliver – finished the race in a season-best 41.32 seconds. The Buffalo women completed the sweep of the 4x100 relay events as senior Jamiee McClary, junior Crystal Graham and freshmen Malayah White and Camaria Long won the event, setting a new Bucknell facility record in the process. The team finished the race in 45.88 seconds.
Nick Fischetti, The Spectrum
The track and field teams are off to a successful start. This weekend, they earned nine first-place finishes and five secondplace finishes at the Bucknell Outdoor Classic in Pennsylvania.
“It’s great to be able to have some success in the 4x100, especially with the Penn Relays coming up,” Jenkins said. “Our relay teams will definitely be pushing for some school records and some NCAA marks.” The women’s squad found success in the throwing events as well, as senior Shante’ White won the hammer throw – an event in which three Bulls finished in the top four. White also earned a second-place finish in the women’s discus with a season-best throw. In the women’s shot put, former Buffalo All-American Becky O’Brien secured a first-place finish that was closely followed by three current Bulls – junior Rachel Rob-
erts, senior Kristy Woods and senior Erin Miller. The Buffalo women put on a show on the track and came away with five first-place finishes. Long took first place in both the 100-meter and the 200-meter, putting up season-best times in both events. White followed Long very closely in the 100, and she finished in second place. In the 800-meter event, sophomore Megan Manley came in ahead of the pack, finishing the race in 2:09.80. The Bulls swept the women’s hurdle events with wins from senior Kristina Arcury and junior Donna Jeanty.
Although the Bulls saw were successful over the weekend, Jenkins stressed the team still has a long way to go “We have five weeks of training outside before the conference meet,” Jenkins said. “In these next few weeks, we’re really going to find out how badly we want to be MAC champions.” The next meet for both the men’s and women’s track and field teams is the Princeton Larry Ellis Invitational. The meet is scheduled for Friday and Saturday. Email: sports@ubspectrum.com
BEN TARHAN
Sports Editor
The spring sports season is more than halfway done, and one thing is evident: Buffalo’s spring teams are having more success than most teams did in the fall and winter. Some of the teams that compete in the fall and winter might want to try some new ideas. Here are a few things those squads could try in an attempt to emulate the spring teams’ success. Play fewer home games The poor weather and the baseball team’s poor facilities have forced the Bulls to play the entirety of their season thus far away from home. But this has not hampered the baseball team’s play. Through the Bulls’ first four conference series, they have gone 8-4, good for second in the conference. The team has an 18-14 overall record – just six wins away from the school record. Perhaps the football team could take a page from head coach Ron Torgalski’s book and play three quarters of its season away from home before exiting the tunnel at UB Stadium. Eight games away from Buffalo would surely make the football team eager to play on its home turf and give fans extra incentive to fill seats. Similarly, if the basketball team didn’t play a home game until February, it would prepare the Bulls for the Mid-American Conference Tournament – which is played mostly in Cleveland, Ohio. Practice winning The only team with an undefeated conference record on campus is the men’s tennis team. In an April 9 profile of head coach Lee Nickell, The Spectrum reported the Bulls practice by simulating the winning point of the MAC Championship match and storming the court. Both head football coach Jeff Quinn and head basketball coach Bobby Hurley should implement this practice. By giving their teams a taste of victory during practice, they will be more experienced and thus better prepared to handle it during a game against real competition. The men’s tennis team is one of the most successful on campus, having captured two regular season MAC titles in the past three seasons and aiming to clinch a share of another title with two matches this coming weekend. Clearly the football and men’s basketball teams should be following the example of a team that has won more MAC titles than they have combined. Grow awesome hairstyles Junior tennis player Yevgeniy Jason Shkodnik has arguably the coolest hair on campus, and he is also one of the team’s top players. It’s time for other athletes on campus to follow in Shkodnik’s footsteps. Junior forward Javon McCrea was already one of the best players in the MAC last season – imagine if he had dread locks like Shkodnik’s to distract opposing players as he went to the basket. He would be unstoppable. SEE ATHLETICS, PAGE 16