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Swimmer Barbour perseveres through cancer, starts Hope Floats in search of a cure SARA DINATALE

Senior News Editor

Kelsey Barbour was radioactive for 48 hours.

Quarantined in her bedroom and allowed minimal human contact, Barbour sat docile as radioactive iodine coursed through her body. The treatment had one mission: Destroy any lingering thyroid cancer cells.

It was Oct. 2011. Three months prior, Barbour was diagnosed with cancer. In Aug. 2011, doctors removed her entire thyroid. A 1 1/2inch scar stretched across the base of her neck.

That fall, Barbour had to face the treatment alone. Her body was giving off radiation; even contact with her mother had to be limited. Barbour only saw her briefly to receive meals. Her younger brother, who couldn’t be exposed to the radiation because he was under 18, had to stay with a friend.

But as Barbour will attest, she was only alone in the physical sense.

Stuck in the confines of her room, Barbour Skyped with her second family: UB’s swim team.

She watched the men’s and women’s teams on her illuminated computer screen as they moved crisply through the water – Barbour isn’t one to miss practice.

After facing isolation, she was thrilled to reconnect with her team-

mates. Her spirits were lifted, and she was reminded that she had everyone behind her.

It would be another eight months and a round of radioactive treatment before Barbour would know she was officially in remission.

Once Barbour got the official word, she felt the same rush she does when she tears through the water and is the first person to slam the touchpad and win a race by a fingertip. In that moment in the pool, it is Barbour’s hard work that exudes. In beating cancer, it was her strength that shone through.

Barbour, now a junior health and human services major and member of the women’s swim team, has been cancer-free since June 2012.

At 19, she faced her own mortality.

And now, about a month before her 21st birthday, her scar – once a visible talking point – has mostly faded into her olive complexion.

Barbour isn’t one to talk about her bout with cancer, but she is one to take action. Since her diagnosis, Barbour has become a member of UB Against Cancer (UBAC) and an executive board member of UB’s Relay for Life planning committee. She has also created her own fundraiser with members of her swim team called “Hope Floats.”

Through these initiatives, she has helped raise thousands of dollars for cancer research.

But Barbour won’t stop there.

For her, fundraising for cancer research isn’t just a hobby or a side project. It’s become her life path and after-college career plan. In cancer, Barbour found her mission: to help raise money so every cancer patient can be as lucky as she was. *** Her friends, family and head coach agree: The word that best describes Barbour is resilient.

You can’t see her thick skin through her bright eyes and big smile. But behind her sweet, bubbly voice and emanating compassion is a girl who never allowed cancer to stand in the way of life. Admittedly stubborn, Barbour – complete with an athletic frame that clearly belongs to a swimmer of 12 years – planned to miss the least amount of school possible in handling surgeries and treatments. She didn’t want to fall behind.

Three weeks after she had her thyroid removed, she was back at UB ready to start her sophomore year.

“One of the things I told her up front was: ‘I don’t want you to play the victim,’” said Andy Bashor, the head coach of the swim team. “You play the victim, you’ve lost. You have to look at this [as] happening for a reason, use this as a positive to help shape you, because this is who you are and I think that can be

a very empowering thing when you own it.”

Barbour has used cancer for just that – empowerment. Barbour doesn’t play the victim and pushes so others can be granted the same opportunity at life. “I did have cancer, but that didn’t define who I was,” she explained. “That’s what I really want for other people.”

So she works. Hard. Today, she carries around a packed planner bursting with “to-do lists” scribbled on sticky notes. One of the best gifts she can get from one of her roommates is a new pack of the brightly colored, lined adhesive bits of paper, she laughs.

She manages to balance a fulltime course load with swim practices and event planning for fundraisers. This season, she swam the best time for the 100-yard breaststroke on her team. “It’s my race,” she confirms. “It’s more of an awkward stroke,” she jokes, explaining how her legs have to move like a frog’s as she sweeps her arms in and out.

She isn’t the most competitive person on the team and while the edge to win does find her at times, she also is just happy doing what she loves with the team she loves.

What really gets Barbour motivated is the battle against cancer.

She wants cancer patients to receive the treatments they need to survive like she did. It fuels her passion.

Now in remission for about 11 months, Barbour stands to evaluate life from a perspective most college students don’t have. Barbour’s eyes – which are often hidden behind the cool, slick-blue plastic of her swim goggles – can bring the “big picture of life” into focus.

But she started her freshman year like most new students – looking to find her niche on campus. She was excited for a new surge of independence and happy to have a builtin network of friends on the swim team. She was a comfortable distance from her hometown of Clifton Park, just outside Albany, and she was the third Barbour daughter to make her way to UB’s campus.

She first noticed an unsettling lump on the base of her neck when she was doing her makeup in a magnifying mirror during that first year of college. She didn’t think much of it. She didn’t want to overreact.

But over the course of her freshman year, she noticed the lump getting bigger and eventually brought it to the attention of doctors, who come to the trainers’ office in Alumni Arena.

Lynlee Barbour, Barbour’s sister and a public health master’s student at UB, said when Barbour tilted her head back, the lump looked like “a second Adam’s apple.”

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PROCRASTINATION

MEDICATION UB students use Adderall to cope with college stress

TAYLOR BRUNDAGE

Staff Writer

Jeremy Ferris, a senior political science major, washed down an unprescribed 20 milligram extended-release Adderall with a swig of AMP energy drink.

His French 104 exam was the next day, April 12, and he hadn’t started studying yet.

“I don’t need [Adderall] to study,” Ferris said. “I just prefer it.”

With the help of AMP and Adderall, Ferris found he was able to take in a week’s worth of information in one night.

Ferris stayed glued to his computer screen throughout the night.

He smoked half a pack of Marlboro 27s and drank three bottles of water. He slept for one hour – a quick nap from 6-7 a.m.

Ferris received a B on the test.

The following day, Ferris felt sluggish and unmotivated. After he finished his daily tasks like attending class and doing homework, he headed home from campus around 4 p.m. and slept through the night.

This method of studying has become increasingly common in college students, according to a study conducted by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The survey showed nonmedical use of Adderall in the past year among college students increased from 3 percent to 6.4 percent.

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EDITORIAL BOARD Editor in Chief Aaron Mansfield Senior Managing Editor Brian Josephs Managing Editor Rebecca Bratek Editorial Editor Eric Cortellessa News EDItors Sara DiNatale, Co-Senior Lisa Khoury, Co-Senior Sam Fernando, Asst.

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“A heightened sensitivity for the promises of life” Lessons Gatsby can teach us for the upcoming summer We all remember our early summers: the interval of time when youth and glory coalesced, the scale of horizons appeared infinite and days were filled with verve for both momentary diversions and distant prospects – when transience seemed everlasting and idyllic fantasies were child’s play.

At the beginning of The Great Gatsby, protagonist Nick Carraway asserts, “I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” As we near the release of the sixth film adaptation of the classic American novel, we are reminded yet again that we are still not finished with this story. Since 1925, it has refused to escape America’s cultural consciousness and it’s becoming more evident that its lessons apply to us still.

As the upcoming movie reinserts the story back into the forefront of our minds, it is useful to think about what it says about the meaning of summertime – what it can and should do for our lives as college students.

Without going into a synopsis, it is enough to say that The Great Gats-

by has everything to do with the nobility of striving, with having a sense of purpose. Over the course of the novel, Jay Gatsby comes alive for Carraway as he exemplifies what it means to be driven. And though his dream may be flawed, he wants to recapture an unrecoverable past. His aspirations are what ultimately define him. Gatsby comes to suggest that while the object of the quest may not be worthwhile, the quest itself is.

The summer is an important time for the mind to be nimble. As much as the desires for peace and tranquility are embedded into many people’s idea of summertime, it contains a greater sense of possibility that can fuel our imagination and reinforce our optimism. There is an invigorating quality to summer that creates a possibility for reinvention.

After a long and arduous semester, students deserve some time to decompress. But after a short while, it is important to take advantage of all the opportunities that are available.

Summer is an extended period in which students are liberated from

the constraints of a full academic semester. There is now time to get a job, take summer courses, etc. It behooves many – specifically those who know what type of career they want to get into – to seek an internship that could set you up for a job after graduation.

It is also a time for introspection and focus on personal growth. If you’re in Buffalo over the summer, take advantage of what the city and the region have to offer – visit Niagara Falls, go to Shakespeare in the Park, check out Albright-Knox. Engage in your own personal journey to acquire knowledge and develop a greater sense of self.

Some say The Great Gatsby is a very sad book. Well, it is sad, but it is also hopeful. Carraway is a better human being at the end of the novel than he was at the beginning. Through his interactions with all the characters (not just Gatsby), he gains a better understanding of himself and the kind of life he wants to lead.

He learns from Gatsby the virtue of wanting to make yourself into a better person – and that is perhaps what summer is here for. It enables

you to stop in your tracks and reflect on how you can improve yourself.

Summer is also a time to have fun – there is no question. But it is regenerative more than anything else.

It is a time to keep working and keep moving and to develop aspirations.

Even if you partake in a share of tomfoolery once in a while, or maybe more than once in a while, be sure to squeeze in some time to better yourself.

Be sure to remember that this upcoming period is a time to think about the future while simultaneously living deep in the moment.

Think about how you want to be better in September than you are now. Unlike when you were a child, your prospects are no longer distant – they are right in front of you.

When you see the movie, we hope it will contain the same subtle reminders the book does – time passes and you can’t get it back.

So, like Gatsby, believe in the green light; try to make the most of your summer.

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Can a presidential library earn a ‘W?’ Bush’s new library attempt to reshape history Presidential libraries present an interesting opportunity for former presidents. They are able to construct their own shrines and facilitate a way for their presidencies and legacies to be reconsidered.

On Thursday, George W. Bush opened his new library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. In his address during its dedication, Bill Clinton shared with the crowd what he told President Barack Obama prior to the ceremony – that the library was “the latest, grandest example of the eternal struggle of former presidents to rewrite history.”

When Bush left office in 2009, his approval rating was 34 percent, according to The Huffington Post. His approval rating now is 47 percent.

It is natural for former presidents to receive high approval ratings after they leave office. The people have a chance to look at their presidency with the distance of time. The president also no longer has to endure the intense and constant scrutiny he did while in office. And there’s no doubt that when you are in a position to make decisions that affect

other people, there are always going to be some people who disagree with you or don’t like what you’re doing.

In other words: Once you’re outside the limelight and you’re no longer impacting people directly, they become more forgiving and accepting. General perceptions become altered by the movement of time.

There has been much talk surrounding the nature of presidential libraries over the last several days since Bush opened his library and museum.

Bush has always said that he believes history will be the true judge of his presidency. He emphasized that point again recently.

“One of the benefits of freedom is that people can disagree,” he said.

“It’s fair to say I exercised plenty of opportunities to exercise that right.

But when future generations come to this library and study this administration, they’re going to find out we stayed true to our convictions.”

Jon Stewart has hilariously parodied the declaration as commensurate to saying, “When we’re all dead, you’ll see.”

Nevertheless, Bush is right in saying history will ultimately determine his presidency. Every recent president has established his own library.

Obama used to say he did not want one, but in the last year, he has asked aides to start looking for locations in Chicago, according to The New York Times.

A presidential library gives the former president an opportunity to present his presidency as he sees it, or as he wants us to see it. Objective historians will consider the presidents down the line and make their judgments, but presidents want to have a way to control the public perception – once a politician, always a politician.

But the distance time can give us from a former president can provide insight into what was really going on then. One definition of history can be “change over time,” and interpreting the way changes over time transform our understanding of a period in our nation’s history enables us to better understand the world we are living in now.

Consider Richard Nixon. He marshaled lots of anger during his presidency but is now more widely looked at as a tragic figure, a prisoner of his own compulsions. Historians have also given Nixon much credit as a sterling president. He opened relations with China, ended the conflict in Vietnam and desegregated some Southern schools.

This is not to suggest the same will necessarily happen to Bush. He was a highly unpopular president and did not oversee a prosperous time in our nation’s history. But now that he has been out of office for four years and we are deeper into the chapter of his post-presidency, we should understand the need to look with an objective eye at the background and truth of who he was as president.

Having your own library should not be seen as an opportunity for Bush to simply manipulate the public perception, though he should be able to express his side of the story.

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What is a goodbye?

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AARON MANSFIELD Editor in Chief

There is one sentence I have seen begin articles more than any other in my two years as an editor: “It’s that time of year again.”

Aside from the repetition, there is a greater reason I dislike that sentence: While it carries connotations of hope (the start of the school year, the first snowfall of cheery Christmastime), it holds just as many negative implications – such as the end of the school year, the time we say goodbye to a class of seniors who have changed us tremendously and left their mark irrevocably.

Have you ever spent so much time with a couple people that nothing they say surprises you? You know exactly how they’re going to react to any given situation, and you estimate your success rate to be around 65 percent when it comes to predicting what they’re going to wear.

It’s a beautiful thing, really. You get to know another soul so well that it feels like your own. I will be back for one more year with The Spectrum, but nine editors, including the two managing editors with whom I have shared so many nights and treasured moments over the past five semesters, will not be returning.

I know when Senior Managing Editor Brian Josephs sits down in his chair, though there are two walls separating our offices. I recognize the silent squeak; it’s different from any other.

I know when Managing Editor Rebecca Bratek is walking toward my office. I recognize the sound of her feet, usually bare, sliding on the floor like roller skates.

With their commencement ceremonies looming and departures from Buffalo at the forefront, I’ve found myself deliberating the gravity of “goodbye.”

A goodbye is a handshake that turns into a hug, a smirk and downward head turn that silently says, “you’re ready for bigger things, and I’m OK with letting you go so you can pursue them.” A goodbye is unselfish.

A goodbye is song lyrics that seem overdone outside the moment but never hit harder than when you are in it. Every word relates.

A goodbye is a “thank you.”

Thank you for putting up with my old self and your crucial role in mak-

ing me the person I am today.

A goodbye need not be teary to be genuine, but it makes no apologies for emotions. It knows that given the weight of the situation, sometimes they’re uncontrollable.

It’s that twist in your stomach that you get when you’re nervous, like when you’re about to speak in front of a crowd or receive the final examination for which you’ve studied over many sleepless nights.

A goodbye steals the moment.

It takes the concerns, the pebble in your shoe and ink stain on your shorts, and destroys them. It saturates the setting.

A goodbye is sneaky. It lurks in the corner, reminding you one day it will come, but you never sense its authority until it has finally and fully arrived.

I find it fitting to begin and end each semester with a lesson learned.

I began this spring writing about death, talking about the certain humanity, the specific empathy, in the moments of a funeral that cannot be duplicated.

Admittedly, it was dark, but it served a concrete purpose: a reminder that one day, we all won’t have color under our fingernails, and that day, the things we obsess over now will not hold much significance at all. It was a reminder to impact people by caring about them.

A goodbye is a great thing. It is an admission. That, aside from death, there is no such thing as a goodbye.

It is closing your eyes and rationalizing that now, in this technological day in which you can video chat on your telephone, there is no true distance.

When it comes to your future, seniors, I refer to a Gaelic blessing: “May the road rise up to meet you.

May the wind be always at your back.

May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.”

We read for selfish reasons. We read because by the end of any writing, we want to believe we are better off for having read it. We have learned something. We have advanced. If you get anything from this column, as you go through this tumultuous time of graduation, please remember the following: A goodbye is a greeting. Hello to a different stage in life – a stage with the wind always at your back, with the sound of a new person sitting down, with the constant memory of the people who made it so hard for us to admit that it was, indeed, that time of year again.

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Former UB law professor proceeds with federal suit against

jeffrey malkan

LISA EPSTEIN

Asst. Features Editor

A former law school professor has filed a federal lawsuit against UB’s Law School Dean Makau Mutua for firing him without cause and for breach of contract.

Jeffrey Malkan, who taught from 2000-09, claims he was unjustly fired in 2009 and has been unable to get a job since because Mutua has refused to write him a letter of recommendation. He is asking for $1.3 million from the state in back and front pay in the Court of Claims and reinstatement plus back pay from the public employment board.

Mutua declined comment due to pending litigation in the case.

Malkan was hired in 2000 as a clinical associate professor and director of the Legal Research and Writing program (LRW). In 2006, Malkan was promoted to professor and entered into a three-year employment contract, under SUNY policy. American Bar Association (ABA) accreditation standards require full professors have five-year contracts. Following ABA standards, Malkan’s contract included an automatic two-year extension.

“To be terminated for cause from a tenured position is the end of your career,” Malkan said. “The cause that [Mutua] gave in the letter where he terminated me, he said the reason why he was terminating my employ-

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ment was that my job no longer exists because he’s terminating the entire legal program. The only thing they changed about the legal writing program is instead of calling it the Legal Research and Writing, now they call it Legal Analysis Writing and Research.

Otherwise, it’s the same exact course and the same teachers. Everything is the same – the same curriculum.”

The suit alleges that after Mutua became dean of the law school in 2008, Malkan was illegally fired and Mutua violated Malkan’s right to due process under the 14th Amendment and barred access to a mandatory faculty review procedure.

The lawsuit also names Charles Ewing, the current vice dean for legal skills, who allegedly worked in conspiracy with Mutua to block Malkan from the mandatory faculty grievance process. Ewing then became director of LRW after Malkan’s dismissal.

Malkan also claims Mutua did not allow the faculty to vote on his dismissal, as stated in his contract, which violated due process.

Malkan said there were no legal grounds for his termination.

In emails obtained by The Spectrum sent to Mutua on Oct. 19, 2010, three tenured faculty members requested a special faculty meeting on Oct. 26, 2010, which would have been up for the consideration of a vote of no confidence in Mutua as dean of the law school. President John B. Simpson and Pro-

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vost Satish Tripathi – who both held those positions at the time – asked the faculty to attend the meeting that would be held on Oct. 22. Mutua declined the meeting despite receiving a request signed by three members of the faculty in accordance with faculty bylaws.

On Oct. 25, following a faculty meeting on Oct. 22, Simpson and Tripathi sent an email to the faculty addressing the meeting regarding Mutua.

According to an anonymous source in the law school, the faculty never voted on the question of no confidence in Mutua but voted to put it on the agenda for the next meeting and discussion. This triggered a meeting with Tripathi and Simpson, who then said the dean “served at their pleasure indefinitely and, in effect, that they were not interested in further discussion with the faculty about any leadership concerns,” according to the anonymous source.

“In response to our request for specific suggestions, some members of the law faculty have suggested that the appointment of Dean Mutua be terminated ‘no later than June 2011,’” Simpson and Tripathi wrote in the email. “With this communication, we wish to indicate to you that the dean has our full confidence and support. During Dean Mutua’s tenure, the Law School has made substantial progress and we believe that the dean has positioned the School well to continue to serve, as do all deans at the pleasure

of the provost and president, or until he decides to retire from the deanship.”

Malkan filed an improper practice charge with the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), claiming that following his notice of dismissal, UB denied Malkan renewal of his appointment as clinical professor.

On Nov. 15, the state filed an answer denying any violation of the law and dismissing Malkan’s claims. The PERB hearings were held on Nov. 17, 2009; March 31, 2010; and April 1, 2010.

In the PERB decision released after the Nov. 15 ruling, Malkan’s initial appointment was for a term of three years in which he taught a number of courses while holding his position as director of LRW. None of them were clinical courses. Former Dean of the Law School Nils Olsen then offered Malkan a second three-year contract following what Malkan called a “perfunctory review.”

According to the court, in April 2006, the faculty undertook a review of Malkan’s performance in order to determine whether they would offer Malkan a permanent appointment for his position as director of LRW. Mutua testified that he was at the April 2006 faculty meeting in which the faculty discussed whether Malkan should continue as director and be promoted from clinical associate professor to full clinical professor.

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Continued from previous page: Mutua testified that during the meeting, the faculty discussed whether Malkan’s initial appointment as clinical associate professor was appropriate. Mutua then testified that there was a heated discussion on whether Malkan should remain the director of LRW. Mutua claimed he then recommended Malkan be terminated immediately and the program be removed and restructured.

The faculty did not vote on Malkan’s faculty appointment at that time but resolved they would recommend to Olsen that Malkan’s appointment as director of the program be continued for one year.

The faculty then resolved to look for a new director and asked Olsen to appoint a committee to study and restructure the program.

The PERB case has currently been submitted to the Board in Albany but has not been scheduled for an oral argument. Malkan said the federal court rules in the Western District of New York require mandatory mediation before the case can go to trial.

On March 1, mediation was held. Malkan said he was there with his attorneys, along with Ewing, SUNY Counsel Jim Jarvis, Esq., and Assistant Attorney General David Sleight.

According to Malkan, Mutua did not show up to the mediation, claiming that he had more important business elsewhere. Malkan claims this is a violation of the rules.

Malkan also claims the attorney general asked for time until March 21 to come back with a settlement offer but later asked for an extension until April 2. The attorney general informed Malkan that UB declined to make any settlement offer, saying the case will be going to trial in federal court before the end of 2013.

“This is disappointing, of course, because over the five years of this dispute SUNY Buffalo has refused to make any settlement offer at all, not one dollar, and has blocked me from obtaining a teaching job at any other law school,” Malkan wrote in an email. “I’m also afraid that the trial in federal court will be harmful to the law school’s reputation because the facts that will be revealed will not be flattering.”

In an article published by the New York Law Journal in Oct. 2012, Federal Judge Richard Arcara denied the motion to stay the case, holding the defendants to a higher standard. According to Arcara’s decision, Mutua removed Malkan as director of LRW and notified Malkan six months later that his contract as clinical professor would expire at the end of the 2008-09 school year, without renewal.

Malkan alleged Mutua refused to discuss his dismissal with him, the faculty grievance committee and the committee chairman. Malkan also claims defendant Ewing refused to take the matter before the faculty.

On Oct. 3, 2012, the Federal District Court issued an order denying Mutua’s motion to dismiss the case.

Malkan claims that during Mutua’s testimony in PERB, Mutua lied under oath about the events leading up to his removal as director of LRW. “Makau Mutua testified to the promotion of tenure committee, which is the entire tenured faculty, that back when I was promoted to full clinical professor on April 28, 2006, that they voted to terminate my employment on one year’s notice, and that was a lie,” Malkan said. “He gave his testimony on March 31, and on cross examination by the union attorney on April 1. This is prepared, premeditated testimony. The dean of the law school went into court and committed perjury.”

During the last two years, Malkan has attempted to contact Tripathi and Provost Charles Zukoski, sending letters asking Tripathi to investigate Malkan’s claims that Mutua committed perjury in the PERB hearing.

“It would be serious if he was the dean of the pharmacy school or the dean of the dental school,” Malkan said. “But this is the dean of the law school, which means he’s also a member of the bar. He’s an officer of the court, and he’s responsible for the education of hundreds of students. This is such a serious corruption of the integrity of the law school.”

Malkan said after he sent the letters to Tripathi, asking him to investigate the claims and find out if Mutua did lie under oath in the PERB hearing, Tripathi threatened Malkan and his union lawyer.

“I’m asking President Tripathi, please, before you go forward with this lawsuit, would you please do your minimum due diligence and find out what really happened?” Malkan said. “His response has been to have the attorney general threaten me and my union lawyer with sanctions for contacting him ex parte. I did absolutely nothing wrong by contacting him. I sent him 13 pages of transcript testimony, Mutua’s sworn testimony at PERB, and I also sent him an email.”

Malkan believes Tripathi is simply turning a blind eye on the things Malkan sees within the law school. Malkan also believes Tripathi has an obligation to look into situations like this when they come up, instead of ignoring it all together.

“I feel like this is another Penn State

situation developing,” Malkan said.

“You can’t cover up a crime from another member of your administration. This has been going on for two years, with me begging [Tripathi] to answer my question. He’s responsible for the conduct of officers of his administration. He’s acting as if the law doesn’t apply to him, which is exactly what [Graham] Spanier did at Penn State. And where is Spanier now? He’s been indicted on perjury and obstruction of justice just because he refused to listen to the evidence that was coming in about the crimes that were being committed on his campus by university administrators.”

Malkan said that when questions about his job as director first came into question, he tried to line up a new position at a different school. In May 2009, while Malkan was still officially working at the law school, he had secured a job at the Charlotte School of Law in North Carolina.

Malkan found the school couldn’t vote on his potential position there because Mutua was interceding to withdraw his candidacy before it could go to the faculty.

Malkan said he’s had interviews at employment conferences, but once he explains the circumstances of how he was terminated, nobody will go forward with an interview. He has been unemployed since 2008.

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UB students plan karaoke fundraiser for bombing victims ANDREA SAADAN

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In about a month’s time, Buffalo’s annual marathon will take place. Thomas Scott, a senior political science major, said it’s scary to think what happened during the Boston Marathon could happen anywhere.

On Patriots’ Day this year, two bombs exploded during the annual Boston Marathon near the finish line. Scott, along with members of the Buffalo community and UB students, gathered at VIP Karaoke on Thursday night to raise funds in light of the recent tragedy.

Andrew Tan, a senior business administration major, planned the fundraiser to raise money for The One Fund.

This foundation set up by the Boston mayor to gather donations for the victims of the Boston bombings as well as to honor the heroes that helped out at the incident, according to secure.onefundboston.org.

In total, they raised $530.

The event started at 9:30 p.m., and the atmosphere in the room was harmonious as everyone sat together eating and drinking.

All proceeds from ticket sales were donated, while 10 percent of bar and food tab went to The One Fund Inc. Various audience members put on impromptu performances throughout the night. Those in attendance included students from Student Association international clubs, brothers and sisters of different fraternities and sororities and members of SA, according to Tan. SA Assistant Treasurer Darwinson Valdez, a senior philosophy major was impressed by the turnout because it took place on a weekday night.

“I feel like you can see how the international community comes together even when an attack is not even in their own country,” Valdez said. “I’m a senior and I have classes on Friday nights but I just wanted to come out and sing a little bit. I think it’s an excellent idea.”

After midnight, the members of UB Glee Club performed their rendition of The Beatles song “Imagine” for the crowd as a tribute to the victims and heroes of the Boston bombings.

Judy Mai, a junior health and human services major and member of UB Glee Club, felt close to the tragedy that occurred in Boston.

“Boston is not too far and there’s a kid who died and there were people running for charity,” Mai said. “[It’s] the last thing you’d expect to happen, and it happened.”

Scott agrees with Mai. As a marathon runner, the incident “hit close to home” for him when news about the bombings surfaced.

He sees the bombings as an incident that could have taken place anywhere and finds it “scary” something like that could happen in Buffalo, too.

The bombings caused three deaths, including a Chinese international student from Boston University. Tan, who is also an international student at UB, said he wanted to “give back” especially because of how “welcomed” he has felt since coming to America to study two years ago. He wanted to show how people who have been welcomed to America could initiate fundraisers for a good cause.

“Just as I was about to graduate, this incident hit,” Tan said. “I felt for them because I didn’t feel that they deserved it. I want to repay the fact that I was so welcomed by this country to study here. Terror may be the doing of one, or in this case two brothers, but peace, love and harmony should be the doing of the rest of us.”

The fundraiser was planned quickly, and the community was invited less than a week before the event according to Tan. With the help of some personal friends, Tan managed to draw a huge crowd, despite the lack time taken to plan for the event. However, Tan said he had consciously set out to have a closer deadline for himself so as to not let the fundraiser lose the meaning.

Mai wants the event to take place every year in order for it to serve as a reminder for all to “raise peace and not war.” She thinks it is imperative for everyone to keep talking about the attacks and not just let it be in the media for a while.

“What we can do is to spread the message to the community … at the end of the day, money can rebuild a city but love can make a city even more powerful and enjoyable,” Tan said.

Due to the fundraiser’s success, Tan has faith that UB students possess the potential of being leaders and forerunners of spreading hope, peace and harmony.

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Continued from page 6: Adderall The survey revealed 15 percent of college students have illegally ingested Adderall, Ritalin or another stimulant in the past year.

Additionally, the survey showed 29 percent of students believe addiction is impossible because of Adderall’s prescription status. Thirty-nine percent said it is acceptable to abuse Adderall without contacting a doctor. Out of the students surveyed with prescriptions, 95 percent of those reporting abuse admitted to faking their prescription.

Between 30 and 40 percent of undergraduates reported abusing Adderall and similar stimulants during strenuous times like the weeks of midterms and final exams.

Dan Haeseker, a senior international trade major, will be taking Adderall during finals week.

“If Adderall was a woman, I would marry her,” Haeseker said.

David Dietz and Jun-Xu Li, assistant pharmacology and toxicology professors, said Adderall and associated psycho-stimulants are more dangerous than many college students understand.

Adderall is prescribed to people diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) to calm the brain, according to Dietz. He said when abused, the opposite could occur. Taking unprescribed Adderall at a low dosage can increase brain activity and aid in focus, according to Dietz.

He said the adverse effects could be as serious as a psycho-stimulant-induced psychosis indistinguishable from schizophrenia. Dietz noted the highly addictive qualities of the drug.

“Adderall is so much like cocaine,” Li said.

“You almost cannot discriminate between the two.”

Despite the negative side effects, students still use Adderall. Some students say getting a few pills is as easy as making a quick stop between classes, according to Ferris and Haeseker.

The two students said the exchange of Adderall occurs all over UB, from the dorms to the hallways and libraries.

Will Kaicher, a senior environmental design major and Ferris’ roommate, said he has never taken Adderall but feels it is abundant at UB. “I don’t do it myself,” Kaicher said. “But I do know where to get it.”

Many students like Ferris find it’s easier and cheaper to get Adderall illegally than getting a prescription.

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Dietz said the prescription process is questionable as a whole because ADD and ADHD are difficult to diagnose. He pointed out a doctor cannot determine psychiatric disorders from drawing a blood sample; therefore, a psychiatric evaluation is necessary for an Adderall prescription.

Ferris’ Adderall provider, who wished to remain anonymous, has a prescription and believes he needs the medication to function productively. He said he experiences no adverse side effects.

“It was relatively easy to get,” Ferris’ Adderall source said. “I just had to fill out a survey.”

He said he takes his Adderall pills during the week and doesn’t need them on the weekends to focus on work. He saves his leftover pills from each weekend and sells them throughout the year but mostly during midterm and finals week to make “a quick buck.”

He sells each pill for $5.

On average, Ferris spends approximately $20 per semester on Adderall, mostly during midterms and finals week.

Ferris’ seller believes Adderall successfully treats his ADHD when he uses it as directed.

Ferris, however, questions the drug’s associated disorder as a whole and considers Adderall a “booster.” He uses it strictly to propel his studying.

Ferris worries about the adverse effects this method of studying may have and feels he has trouble retaining the information in the long term.

When asked about the French subjunctive tense he was tested on one day after the test, Ferris responded with a blank stare and a shrug. “[Adderall] is just a quick fix,” Ferris said.

“It allows us to be pretty terrible students and temporarily make up for it in one night.”

Ferris’ Adderall dealer said he plans on continuing filling a prescription for the stimulant for the remainder of his life. He said without it, his simple daily tasks would become more difficult.

Ferris said Adderall consumption is exhausting but is a price he has to pay. When he needs to get his work done fast and efficiently, he considers Adderall the most helpful option. He said he sees no reason to take the pill after he graduates.

“When my college career is over, so is my Adderall consumption,” he said.

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Life, Arts & Entertainment Gettin’ muddy with it RACHEL KRAMER

Senior Life Editor

Seven and a Half White Men struggled to march out of the knee-deep mud pit. Their faces were barely visible through the layers of caked-on mud from seven hours of grueling and demanding volleyball.

For the third year in a row, the eight players were victorious.

The 29th-annual Oozefest tournament took place on Saturday in the mud pit behind the South Lake Apartment Complex. The UB Student Alumni Association (UBSAA) organizes the celebratory mud volleyball tournament each year during senior week as a “last hurrah before finals really start,” said Jay Friedman, the associate vice president of UBSAA. The winning team gets free registration for next year’s tournament and the top three teams win $15 Target gift cards for each member.

This year, around 1,500 students and alumni participated in 192 teams of six to eight players. Teams were dressed an minions from Despicable Me, in formal suits and gowns, in complete camouflage, as Power Rangers and as the Mario Kart gang. About one-fourth of the teams were comprised of alumni, according to Friedman.

One team, Poached Trout in White Wine Sauce, has been competing in Oozefest for 24 years. Although they have won their bracket in previous years, they have yet to win the tournament.

Every year the six-men and onewoman team dresses up in outrageous costumes. It started as an effort to win the costume contest, but eventually, the team became known for their unique outfits and won so many times, UBSAA enlisted them to judge the contest, according to Friedman.

Their 2013 costumes were six bishops and the pope.

For them it’s not about winning – it’s about the reunion. Because the best friends currently live across the country, from California to Rochester, Oozefest is the one time of the year they set aside to get together and catch up with each other.

“It’s great to see friends and come back to the school every year,” said Craig Caplan, who graduated in 1992 and was dressed in the pope outfit. “It’s the only thing that gets us together.”

Another alumni team, The Sheepherders, has been competing for 20 years. They have won twice – in 1998 and 2003 – and made it to the finals five times. They have a unique strategy compared to other teams.

“So much duct tape and none of that bump, set, spike s**t,” said Jason Bellows, core member of The Speepherders and class of 1997 alumnus. “Let the other team screw up. And grow an intimidating beard.”

Each year, they have improved their Oozefest presence. While the garbage bag team uniform has stayed the same, they have learned to come prepared. One year, when it snowed, they stashed a car with supplies. That has progressed to renting a small U-Haul and parking it in the South Lake Apartment Complex parking lot.

They lined the inside with garbage bags and were fully stocked with coffee, snacks, water bottles and duct tape. The team men made it to the quarterfinals but lost earlier than expected this year.

“We are older than most of the participants and we have been competing for as many years as some of you guys have been alive,” Bellows said. “The fact that us old f**kers can still make it to the finals or even win is exciting.”

They left with another collection of “bittersweet” muddy memories and the promise to come back next

29th-annual Oozefest tournament brings students, alumni together for day of mud volleyball

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Over 1,500 students participated in the 29th-annual Oozefest tournament and left the knee-deep mud pit dripping in dirt after playing multiple competitive games of volleyball.

year because, according to Carl “Big C” Miller, the captain of The Sheepherders who graduated in 1997. “It’s a great time to see everyone we love and even though we all keep in contact with each other, this is a solidifying event.”

Throughout the bright and sunny day, teams slowly dwindled until only the best were left. Rather than defeat on their mud covered faces, it was enjoyment. Groups of students left muddy trails as they walked to the showers outside of Alumni Arena.

The winning team, Seven and a Half White Men, weren’t in costume, but were wearing matching T-Shirts. But by the end of the tournament their lime green shirts

were dripping brown.

In the final game, they played Just the Tip, a team that lost to Seven and a Half White Men the previous year. Both teams were comprised of recent UB graduates.

Seven and a Half Men almost lost it all toward the end as Just the Tip attempted a come from behind victory. But when the buzzer signaled their game time was up, Seven and a Half Men won 18-17.

This was the team’s third victory in a row.

They say their secret is “the skyball.” “[Skyballs] are a super high serve,” said Megan Nostro, a second year master’s student. “Some people complain about them, but

we do what we got to do to win.”

Sean Steckelberg, a member of the team who didn’t attend UB but who used to play volleyball with Paul Dhand, class of 2011 alumnus, offers his advice for other teams who hope to win Oozefest.

“Don’t bother because we will be back next year,” Steckelberg said.

“Threepeat!”

Seven and a Half White Men plan on coming back to Oozefest for years to come and one day being the “old guys” at the tournament.

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Shibboleth: Not easily defined NICHOLAS C. TURTON Staff Writer

Art is not easily defined by a single word, phrase or definition; art is multifaceted, diverse and encompasses everything from paintings and sculptures to digital projections and clothing designs – it would be near impossible to condense something so wide-ranging into a single, faithful definition.

The same can be said for the group of 35 graduating seniors from UB’s Department of Visual Studies; these students are as equally multifaceted as the artwork they create. While all of these seniors are art students, they cannot be easily defined or demarcated.

The thesis works of these student artists – which the students have worked on for the past two semesters – has culminated into the presentation of a large group exhibition, entitled Shibboleth, which opened this Saturday evening at Hi-Temp Fabrication in downtown Buffalo.

The fourth floor of the Hi-Temp Fabrication warehouse was filled with the likes of interactive installations, digital projections, largescale drawings and paintings and student-designed clothing, some of which was for sale. The variation in the work is a testament to the multi-natured aspect of art and art making.

Stephanie Rothenberg, an assistant professor in the visual studies department, worked with several of the students in the exhibition throughout the year to guide them in their journey as artists. Rothenberg is pleased with the multidimensional nature of the students’ work.

“I like the fact that [the exhibition] is interdisciplinary,” Rothenberg said. “People are painting, drawing, sculpting, casting [and] performing … that is the mission of the visual studies department.”

Take, for example, the work of Caroline Kopesky, a bachelor of fine arts (BFA) student in the general studio program. Kopesky’s work, “Simulations in Hypertext,”

Courtesy of Fahad Hossain

Last Saturday, 35 graduating students from UB’s Visual Studies department presented their art at Shibboleth, a thesis exhibition, at Hi-Temp Fabrication in downtown Buffalo.

focuses on the simplified forms of graphic novel artwork combined with elements of fine art drawing.

Kopesky begins by drawing in pen and ink and then uses digital processes in the computer to complete her finished drawings.

The result is a display of 18 letter-sized panels – laid out like a storyboard – that feature the narrative of a young girl who becomes acquainted, and soon absorbed, by the Internet when she develops a close relationship with an anonymous young man over the web. The overall work is eye-catching, intricately detailed and socially relevant to today’s world.

Brittney Dullin, a BFA student concentrating in communication design, presented her work in the form of a digital projection accompanied with audio. Her work, entitled “Ceremonies,” is a comment on the modern world of surveillance.

“I titled it ‘Ceremonies’ because it’s about the daily surveillance ‘ceremonies’ that we go through in our lives,” Dullin said. “We don’t pay attention to [them] much … [They’re] things we do all the time and don’t realize that we’re being watched.”

The digital project displays nine panels of different visual forms of Dullin’s personal identity – an image of where she lives, her fingerprint, a photo from Facebook.

Each of these images is fragmented to make them slightly indiscernible.

Additionally, the accompanied audio features a narration in a robotic voice, much like that of Microsoft Sam. The narration is a comment on the Patriot Act of 2001, which lessened restrictions regarding surveillance and intelligence gathering within the United States – another aspect in which we may not know we are being watched.

Teke Cocina, also a graduating BFA student, incorporates performance into his work. Cocina’s work, entitled “1/6084” features several of his prints mounted on a large, draped red cloth. Many of the prints feature images of people with animal heads – a comment on the “masking” of one’s own identity in social media, where one can pick and choose how they want to represent themselves online.

A table and two chairs are placed in front of Cocina’s prints, where Cocina sits with a deck of tarot cards waiting for his next “client.”

Audience members can interact with Cocina and receive their own personal tarot card reading. The use of the tarot cards extends Cocina’s comment on our own identity. It is our investment in the tarot reading that forges our identity.

“It’s a meaning system that is dependent upon the subject’s investment into that meaning system,” Cocina said. “The tarot are tied to archetypes and a lot of vague ad-

jectives; from there, people can put themselves into it, or [not].”

The tarot is a parallel to social media where both depend upon our efforts to sift, conceal and reveal certain aspects of our own identity – an identity that often isn’t faithful to our own selves.

Ian McCrohan, a BFA student with a concentration in painting, works three-dimensionally creating sculptures and installations.

His work, “Scheme No. 3: Revolving Interventions,” is an installation made of wood, metal and found objects such as bricks, an amp and a record player. The sculpture features lights and revolving pieces that spin from the mechanics of a deconstructed record player. For McCrohan, his work signifies the breaking down of technology into its most basic derivatives.

“It’s essentially about this idea of deconstructing technology into something that’s more understandable,” McCrohan said. “It’s about making technology more relatable … and tearing down the line between the audience and object.”

Reflecting on the outcome of the senior thesis exhibition, McCrohan is quite impressed. He feels the work of his fellow graduates is quite notable overall. The vast diversity of the 35 different artworks makes it hard to come up with a certain theme for the entire show, according to McCrohan. For McCrohan, the title of the exhibition, Shibboleth, is quite perplexing and hard to define.

“Maybe that’s what shibboleth means – there is no theme,” McCrohan said. “Variety is a key word to this whole show and the search for some sort of unity in that variety. I think that’s what art is about sometimes – biting the ether and going with the unknown.”

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Swimmer Barbour perseveres through cancer, starts Hope Floats in search of a cure

The trip to the doctors in Alumni began the three-month journey that would eventually end with a cancer diagnosis – something Barbour never expected.

Doctors threw the word “cancer” around but with the suggested possibility came reassurances it was highly unlikely.

In June 2011, she had a biopsy taken of her thyroid cells to test for cancer; the results were inconclusive. In July, she had a part of her thyroid removed so a diagnosis could be made.

From the original test, doctors “didn’t think it looked like cancer,” according to Lynlee. “When they went in a second time to take part of her thyroid out, they didn’t expect to find the cancer cells,” she said.

On July 20, 2011, Barbour and her mother were on two separate ends of their home’s landline to speak to the surgeon together on the phone.

The verdict: Cancer.

The plan: Surgery. School. Treatment.

“It was a lot of medical talk that was over my head and I didn’t care to listen,” Barbour said. She didn’t absorb the details but grasped what she and her family needed to do.

“We figured we’d take it day to day.”

After a second surgery in the first week of August, in which surgeons removed what remained of her thyroid, Barbour came back to UB with a new scar and plans to take on further treatment in October. But when others probed her at athletic orientation about the source of her new scar, her answer was simply: “Oh, I just had surgery.”

Barbour, aware cancer is a “buzzword,” didn’t want to make anyone uncomfortable. She wanted to be sensitive to others’ feelings. “I know how trying to react to something like that can be,” she said.

Katelyn Grimm, one of Barbour’s best friends, said Barbour never plays “the cancer card.”

“She doesn’t take it as ‘woe is me,’” Grimm added.

But Barbour didn’t shroud her cancer as some big, scary secret.

Courtesy of Kelsey BARBOUR

Kelsey Barbour, a junior on UB’s swim team, created a fundraiser called Hope Floats during her sophomore year at UB after being diagnosed with cancer in the summer of 2011. Because of Barbour’s vigor in the fight against cancer, she was asked to be the survivor speaker at UB’s Relay for Life in 2012 – this year she served as a Relay e-board member.

Her two best friends, roommates and swim team members, Grimm, a junior communication major, and Taylor Lansing, a junior psychology major, knew all the information Barbour knew related to her illness.

“If it was a shock to her, then it was a shock to us,” Grimm explained.

But the situation was no different from how the three girls tackle any part of life. The close-knit trio is constantly in each other’s business, but they wouldn’t have it any other way.

The two best friends helped Barbour through the taxing time leading up to her first radioactive iodine treatment.

Thyroid cancer cells can travel throughout the body and the thyroid gland absorbs most of the iodine in blood. By taking a radioactive iodine pill, Barbour made her iodine cells radioactive. Her thyroid cells then absorbed the radioactive iodine cells, which aimed to destroy any remaining cancer cells.

Her body was also scanned to see if any cancer cells lingered.

In order for the radioactive iodine to be effective, Barbour had to go on a strict low-sodium, low-iodine diet and stop taking her artificial thyroid medication.

Because Barbour no longer had a thyroid, the gland responsible for regulating hormones and the body’s energy use, she began taking a pill to keep her body balanced. She was mandated to take the pill every day – except for the two weeks that led up to her radioactive iodine therapy.

Without the medication, Barbour was continually fatigued. But she didn’t let the exhaustion win.

She never missed practice.

“Nothing is going to stop Kelsey from doing what she wants to do,” Grimm said.

While the surgeries to remove Barbour’s thyroid kept her out of the water that summer, the only time she truly took off from the swim team was the week and a half she spent back at home getting the radioactive iodine therapy.

And though the thought of having to redshirt her sophomore year crept into her mind, Barbour kept swimming.

“I was already that much further behind than I normally was,” she said. “So it did cross my mind that I wasn’t going to able to swim that year.”

But she pushed on and wound up only sitting out the first five meets of the season and took two weeks off practice.

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When she swam in the Mid- an event that raises money for canAmerican Conference Champion- cer research. ship meet in the 2011-12 season, A year before, Barbour’s role in she set three lifetime-bests.

Relay wasn’t behind the scenes, but “She didn’t allow [cancer] to de- center stage. Then, eight months fine her,” Bashor said. “In a way, it past her diagnosis, Barbour was Rekind of gave her extra motivation lay’s student survivor speaker. A to not let cancer defeat her and take few things were different then – not away from her success.” only was she donning blonde hair, Cancer-free, Barbour was inter- but she was also a different major ested in taking on more than just with a different career in mind. swimming. She wanted to give back.

Barbour entered UB as an exerIt started in 2011 with the idea cise science major and dabbled in for Hope Floats, a charity led by speech and hearing before settling Barbour, Grimm and Lansing that into her current major, health and involved the men’s and women’s human services. Barbour found her swim teams. In Jan. 2012, the event life’s direction after she started get– which came to fruition and was ting more involved in not-for-profit held during a swim meet – raised fundraising, like Relay for Life and $9,400 for the American Cancer UBAC. Society. The swim team still proudOver 1,200 participants piled ly sports its royal blue Hope Floats into Alumni Arena for Relay this swim caps and T-shirts. It was a lot year. The theme was “Wish Upon for three college sophomores to or- a Cure,” a play on Disney – iconganize, but the trio was determined ic songs suiting the theme were the to do it indepenbackdrop to a dently and make night of solidaran impact. ity and remem“What I real- “She didn’t allow brance in the fight against canly loved about it is that it was nev- [cancer] to define cer. er about [BarBarbour’s perbour],” Grimm spective was difher. In a way, it beamed.

“It ferent from what wasn’t about that was when she kind of gave her itattended she had cancer; Relay it was just about in April 2012. extra motivation She wasn’t menthis has come into her life, and tally rehearsso she wants to to not let cancer ing a speech, but give back and do studying the mesomething.” chanics of the defeat her and night. Since Sept.

Hope Floats she and the was just the push take away from 2012, other committee off. This year, members toiled Barbour became her success.” to ensure the evean e-board memning ran smoothber of UB’s Relay ly and everything for Life planning committee and heavily involved in was set in its proper place.

UB Against Cancer as a whole.

In her e-board position – the On April 12, 2013, Barbour stood event chair of mission, which was with her brown hair tucked under created with her in mind – she was a black baseball cap, adorned with responsible for reminding everyone pins and the Relay for Life logo. She the bigger purpose of that evening. was serving up barbecued chicken – “We just remembered this isn’t Hope Floats took on a new life as a about us,” Barbour said. “It’s about chicken barbecue, hosted in Alum- everyone there and anyone who has ni Arena before UB’s Relay for Life, been touched by cancer.”

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JOHN NASSIVERA Staff Writer

Alexa Strudler, The Spectrum

Kelsey Barbour, above, proudly dons her Hope Floats swim cap. Because of her experience with thyroid cancer, Barbour’s life path has shifted to include fundraising for cancer research.

Barbour – who was so caught up in making sure everyone else was where they needed to be – forgot to sign up to be a part of the event’s survivor lap. She put so much of herself into organizing the event that she “just kind of forgot about me being involved in the survivor part of it,” she said.

Barbour never makes it about her but the thousands of people she knows she’s helping. Even if planning for Relay and homework took over the majority of her time, Barbour always made it work – even if it meant swimming like a zombie at 6 a.m. practice.

This year, UBAC – under which Relay for Life operates– raised about $64,000, according to Julie Smith, the organization’s adviser.

Barbour had a large role in raising that money and has been vital to the organization’s success, according to Smith. “She’s modeling the way,” she added.

The fraternities and sororities from the Inter Greek Council raised more money for Relay than in years past, according to Smith.

“They saw [Barbour’s] passion and they fed off of it,” she said.

At the end of her senior year in 2014, Barbour will hang up her swim cap and goggles to focus on her future in raising money for cancer research. She wants to study in a graduate school program for public health and is interning at the American Cancer Society this summer.

In five years, she hopes to be doing the same kind of event planning she does now, but on an even bigger scale.

“Sometimes, I beat myself up because the reason I got involved is because it touched me personally,” Barbour said.

She tells herself she shouldn’t have gotten involved just for that reason, but remembers everyone has his or her own reasons for becoming an advocate, for fighting the disease and for working tirelessly to help those affected.

It has become a part of her teammates’ lives, too. Grimm and Lansing are already excitedly discussing next year’s Hope Floats event – a possible 5K run.

Barbour is left humbled and thankful for support, love and volunteering she has seen the people in her life provide, especially her teammates. To them, she feels indebted.

“Things happen in life that set you on a certain path,” she added.

Cancer helped her find that path.

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UB students have come together to aid victims of the April 15 bombing in Boston.

Jessica Tomasello, a sophomore exercise science major, and Valerie Wellenc, a freshman social science major, set up Herding for the Hurting on April 17 after feeling affected by images of the bombing victims on television. They decided to figure out a way to help.

The students teamed up with Shoe Recycling Fundraiser, a social enterprise that collects used shoes and donates them to children in Africa, according to its website.

Together, they will collect used shoes from places around Western New York. For every pair collected, $0.50 will be donated to One Fund Boston to help the victims and their families, and the shoes will be donated to children in Africa.

So far, One Fund Boston has raised over $26 million in public and corporate donations, according to its website.

Tomasello and Wellenc set up bins to drop off shoes in locations around North Campus and University Village at Sweethome, a student-apartment complex in Amherst.

Donations are also set up in a variety of locations off campus including Primerano Fitness in Niagara Falls, Catalyst Fitness and schools in the Kenmore-Tonawanda and North Tonawanda school districts.

“We’ve had bins filled already,” Wellenc said. “I put bins up in a few gyms. [Tomasello] put them up at Ken-Ton schools and they were just filled within a day. We didn’t think it would go this fast. It was just an idea off the top of our heads.”

Tomasello was surprised at the immediate impact the fundraiser had. She said some of her teachers told her how full some of the bins were.

The shoes will be sent to the Shoe Recycling Fundraiser headquarters in Holyoke, Mass., and will then be donated to children Africa.

The Shoe Recycling Fundraiser is an organization dedicated toward improving the environmental and economic development of Africa, especially in countries like Morocco, Liberia, Mali and Angola.

Michael Aronson, the president who works in the Shoe Recycling Fundraiser headquarters, spoke with Tomasello and Wellenc and provided bins and other materials for the fundraiser.

“I know people who were [in Boston],” Aronson said. “They were unaffected physically, but emotionally, it’s a very serious thing.”

Tomasello and Wellenc used social media to raise awareness for the fundraiser in addition to posting flyers on and off. They posted donation news on Facebook and links and videos on Instagram.

“I have couple of friends I went to high school with in Boston,” Tomasello said. “I talk to them about it. They’re doing a lot [to help]. To know that [my friend] was literally around the block when it happened. It kind of hits you.”

Kelly Savage, a senior exercise major, is one of the many students who volunteered to help the fundraiser by getting permission to set up bins on North Campus while Tomasello and Wellenc sought permission from off-campus locations.

Twenty to 25 bins will be set up 24 hours a day in front of the Student Life Office and outside the pro shop in the Alumni Gym. Bins will also be set up in Clark Hall and other buildings on North Campus.

Savage, who knows people who were in New York City during 9/11, can relate to wanting to help people after a tragedy. He jumped on the opportunity to help in the fundraiser for Boston.

“It felt right to want to do something to help those people,” Savage said. “I was young when 9/11 happened. I couldn’t really do anything. I was really helpless. But now that I’m older and I have an idea of how to approach situations, I can actually help the situation.”

Savage said the donations will not only help the people in Boston but give the donators a better outlook on others.

“We’re just random college kids, just doing this on a whim,” Savage said. “If we can do this, then really anybody can do it.”

Tomasello and Wellenc are aiming to receive about 4,000 pairs of shoes, which will amount to around $2,000, by the end of the fundraiser. Tomasello said they have collected close to 600 pairs of shoes so far.

The Herding for the Hurting program will end on May 19 with an event at the fundraiser’s home base in Primerano Fitness where students and Buffalonians can get one last chance to donate shoes.

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Sex, Drugs and Fare-thee-well Star Wars

ALEXA STRUDLER

Senior Photo Editor

In my three years working for The Spectrum, I have seen it all.

I’ve seen crowds of people fight for a cause, spectacular feats of athleticism, beautiful performances and people drenched in mud. I have seen everyone from authors to first ladies and everything from scandals to celebrations.

I am the person around campus behind the camera at every event, seen but not often heard, capturing every moment, action and reaction.

You don’t have to be at The Spectrum or have a press pass to experience these moments. I’ve been lucky enough to fall into some wonderful opportunities, but there are so many ways on campus to explore UB. There are many organizations that allow you to do incredible things and meet incredible people, just as this paper has done for me.

Take advantage. These opportunities can lead you down paths and help you discover things about yourself you never knew were there.

I am not the most outgoing person in the world. In fact, I’m pretty quiet and like to keep to myself most of the time. My introversion used to hold me back and it kept me from going out and experiencing life. By joining The Spectrum, I gained a confidence I never knew was there. I discovered myself.

If I have anything to say, it is this: Time goes by fast, and it can pass you by if you let it. That’s the biggest shame, so don’t let life happen without you when there is so much to see and do.

How many times in your life do you have the opportunity to roll around in the mud playing volleyball all day and then go to see Steve Martin speak at night? You do not want to look back and regret your time at UB. In the end, life is not like a video you can go back and rewind; it’s like a photo album.

It is a series of moments – snapshots we treasure and reflect on but cannot relieve – so it’s best to take care that you are in the pictures.

I am lucky to have one more year left at UB and you can be sure you will still see me around campus clicking away.

As for my time at The Spectrum, I want to thank all of my friends and colleagues for a wonderful three years and for putting up with my ranting and raving during that time.

I wish the best of luck to those graduating, and to those remaining, I expect nothing but the best. This paper has improved vastly in three years because of you, and I cannot wait to see what else you will do with it.

Email: alexa.strudler@ubspectrum.com

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LYZI WHITE

Life Editor

Most people tell you to make mistakes. Few tell you why.

You’re going to embarrass yourself. You’re going to want to bury your head in the sand.

Your cheeks will burn when you see certain people. You’ll avoid certain places and it will feel like the world is out to get you. Then time will pass – minutes, hours, maybe months – and then you’ll laugh.

The most embarrassing moments are the stories that you’ll remember and you’ll retell.

Like the time I tripped over someone’s leg in my geography lecture and fell face-first onto the ground. My professor was kind enough to call me out in front of everyone and I was forever known as the face planter.

You’re going to do stupid things. Things that mean when you wake up the next morning, you’ll pull your covers over your head and try your hardest to fall back asleep because you can’t bear to think about how badly you messed up. Or you’ll say something you’ll immediately wish you could take back.

Like the time I made out with someone just because I thought he was from Australia. He was not.

It’s after moments like these that you decide what kind of person you want to be, what person you’ll most likely become.

You’re going to hurt; you’re going to cry.

Whether you shed tears privately or publicly, it’s during the hardest times that your true friends come to your aid, no matter how hard you try to push them away.

Sometimes it’s the lowest points that bring

you closer to people. It’s when a friend believes in you when you can barely believe in yourself, when a friend calls you out for acting irrational when everyone else around you is walking on eggshells to keep you complacent, when a friend barges into your room and comforts you no matter how much you pretend you want to be left alone.

Or maybe it’s when your friends take you to the hospital, stay with you all night – even though they might have been the reason you landed in the emergency room in the first place – let you sleep in their bed while they buy you an eye patch, or when they bring you dinner because you refuse to leave your room.

Most of all, you’re going to learn – learn that sometimes the world just isn’t fair, learn that no matter how open and carefree you are about your own life choices there will always be someone listening who will judge you.

But you’ll also learn how to deal. You’ll learn to deal because you have friends who will let you watch Star Wars in the living room even if they can’t tell the difference between Darth Vader and Darth Maul, you have coworkers who put up with your hangovers and your (seemingly alarming) drunk texting addiction, you have family who tell you when you’re being a b**** or need to reevaluate your current life decisions.

Without mistakes, life is dull. Without mistakes, how can you grow as a person?

So try things: taste every food in the dining hall, attend club meetings that you don’t think you’d enjoy, talk to the students sitting next to you, go to parties and go to bars, watch the sunrise on top of a construction site (I’d tell you to go to the one I climbed, but it’s now Kapoor Hall).

I’m not perfect. You’re not perfect. Life is not perfect. The best you can do is learn to adapt.

I’ll never deny the stupidity of some of my actions throughout my four years at UB. I could write pages and pages on the subject – I probably will some day.

But please, do not spend your college career stuck inside your dorm room. The closer the graduation date gets, the more you realize how little time you actually had during the most experimental and monumental time of your life.

So go out and make mistakes because trust me, if I survived my own stupidity, so can you.

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Siguen luchando Keep grindin’

ELVA AGUILAR

Senior Arts Editor

Finally.

After years of what college students deem “the struggle,” it is finally all over.

My undergraduate years haven’t been easy, but in retrospect, the ability to become as self-sufficient as I am today is a blessing.

I’ve learned what real hunger is. I’ve learned what it’s like to be stripped of every resource and every person you’ve taken for granted, and I’ve learned how to appreciate the bare minimum life gives you – even if that’s just a friend and a Celeste pizza for one.

I also learned the broke diet is the best way to lose 20 pounds in two months, but I would never recommend it.

I learned to love, embrace and share my culture because it won’t always be at my disposal or around me. In 2011, Latinos were named the largest minority in college, with 2 million students enrolling, according to a study by the Pew Hispanic Center. However, a study from 2010 deemed Latinos the one demographic with the fewest degrees.

Although Latinos are making strides in getting their young people into college, we (and by “we” I mean Latinos) must make sure they stay in school, obtain their degrees and use those degrees to help the United States and our cultures prosper.

While I was never an active member, I commend the Latin American SA and PODER for keeping the community tight-knit and educated, and we need to make sure this continues and that education trumps socialization.

UB is diverse, and I’m not saying Latinos need to fit a certain mold or attitude, but no matter where you come from, it’s nice to have a common ground with people who were raised with the same traditions, food, ideals and tribulations you did.

It’s humbling. It’s home.

And while I do consider myself stronger than yesterday, I wouldn’t be where I am without the strong-willed women, friends and family that carried me when I was too lazy or too torn to do it myself.

Veronica Labrador and Margaret Bryner were the two women to introduce me to higher education. And while I strayed from the university they introduced me to, the journey I’ve embarked on since has taught me so much about myself and about adulthood. Thank you, ladies.

Physically, I’ve been alone on my undergraduate journey. I made friends, I lost friends and sometimes I really just preferred not having anybody around. But even then, the ghosts in my iPhone’s contact list made sure I woke up after a nightmare of a day. My mother, my father, Beto, Jeannette, Olga, Jackie, Erika and Jensi: gracias.

And although I have considered myself a loner on campus, my strength off campus always sent me to school with a joke, rap lyric or piece of tough love stuck in my head. My roommate, best friend for the last five years and the person I’ve been blessed enough to have show me the Queen City in all her glory, Devonte, thank you.

The Spectrum has been my only tie to UB and aside from the illustrious Barbara Bono and Hershini Young, it holds the only positive memories I’ve made here.

My time here will be what I take with me in my heart, my resume and my mind and if I could go back I would only apply myself more but nothing else.

It’s been a real four years, Buffalo.

Thank you for all the food, the ratchetnesss and the amazing people who’ve come in and out. I’ll pay you back, someday.

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Looking forward to looking back

LISA DE LA TORRE Asst. Arts Editor

When I was a freshman, a very important friend of mine who was graduating wrote me a letter before she left.

It detailed the ins and outs of college and gave insight on how to navigate through the highs and lows I’d inevitably face. She stressed the notions of spending time with friends and of truly making the most of every second as it passed.

To be completely honest, I didn’t appreciate it when I read it then. It seemed like advice I’d heard a million times in the past about any experience – people have been telling me to “make the most of ” things since I was old enough to understand what that even meant.

Yet, three years later, when I have only a smidge of time left in Buffalo, I finally see the true value of her words. My friend’s letter holds some of the same secrets I’ve learned throughout my time here, secrets I planned to share with any youngins who might read my farewell column.

But though hindsight offers the best advice you can give a person, without that hindsight, it’s hard to appreciate the advice when you get it. So instead of wasting words and excellent, expert advice on those who won’t appreciate it until it’s too late, I’m just going to say … thank you.

Thank you to every professor who ever held a lecture I didn’t have to fight the urge to sleep through.

Thank you to the kind women who work at Berts, who’ve endearingly called me “baby” each time they rung up my food and even once let me slide when I didn’t have enough campus cash to pay in full.

Ironically, thank you to the people in charge of the infamous anti-abortion display, not only for curbing my excessive appetite for a couple of hours, but also for enabling me to watch my peers protest and actually give a damn about something real – an experience that restored my faith in our generation, if only for a couple of days.

Thank you to the amazing people I’ve met, whose relationships made my time here worthwhile. Thank you to my sorority, and to my coworkers at The Spectrum: You’ve proven to me that life is much more rewarding with a diverse social circle.

And thank you to the ridiculous and horrible people I’ve managed to stay away from, too – if nothing else, you’ve provided me plenty of entertainment from afar.

Thanks to all of you, I’ll leave college feeling fulfilled and more prepared for the real world than I ever thought I would when I entered school. And though I may not have been able to treasure each moment of college as it occurred, because of you all, I have reasons to wish I had.

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What up, Carlos? And then I found $5

MARKUS MCCAINE

Asst. Sports Editor

You’re praying to the porcelain gods and getting cozy on the bathroom floor all morning. Your headache is pounding through the front of your skull and your stomach is twisting and turning as you go for a roller coaster ride on your couch. And you aren’t even going to go outside today because it’s way too bright.

I’ve been there. We all have. We all rode the Stampede home from South Campus, still dressed in the same clothes we had on the night before, hoping and praying that the bus driver would stop pumping the brakes. Your late night U Hots is about to cascade out all over that guy going to the library on a Saturday morning.

It’s a long bus ride from South to North Campus after a long night out of hopping around all of the staple spots along Main Street.

You even took a trip off Main to a local frat party in between your journey from Mojos to The Steer.

But you just had to stop at U Hots before crashing face-first on your best friend’s couch. We all know your drunk ass isn’t going home with anyone.

But hey, it was a good night and the memories will last forever. You will never forget steering that flat-tired bike into Lake La Salle. You still keep that photo of you shaving UB into your friend’s back – you can’t let him live that one down. And every now and then, you pull up that video on YouTube where your best friends thought it would be a good idea to take out some mailboxes.

The hangover will only last for a few hours (you hope), but times you shared and the friends that you made will last forever. Who could ever forget the road trip all the way to Panama City, Fla.? The memories you made cannot be taken away from you by anything.

College is a time for experimenting, a time for pushing the limit and a time to see what you are really comfortable handling. It is meant to test you and take you out of your comfort zone.

So take a risk and try something you never thought you would do in a million years. Take a spontaneous road trip, prank your friends and create some lasting memories. Above all, make sure you make the most of every opportunity you can while you are at the University at Buffalo – it will be over before you know it.

I can’t speak for everyone, but I can speak for myself. It wasn’t always the best experience here at UB, but I can’t complain. I experienced things and met people who have changed my life forever.

Thank you to everyone who has helped me find my way through the complex college atmosphere.

I am truly grateful. I wish everyone could have a college experience as meaningful as mine.

In the end, some people can handle three beers, while others are face-deep in a funnel, trying to see how much frozen margarita they can really handle. Whether you are a big drinker or you enjoy relaxing on a weekend night, college holds a place in our hearts that no other place will ever be able to take away. These really are the best years of your life.

Email: markus.mccaine@ubspectrum. com

REBECCA BRATEK Managing Editor

It was early March, the first day of spring break, and we sat in my car in a nice New Jersey suburb, waiting for the last bus to New York City. It was close to midnight, and we had driven over eight hours to get there, barely having enough time to stop at Sara’s aunt’s house to use the bathroom and stretch our legs.

Aaron wanted to wait outside, but we told him it was too cold and we weren’t leaving him alone in a strange town. Plus, weren’t we having more fun talking about our trip together in the warmth of the car?

Out of the corners of our eyes, then full heads and bodies turned, we saw the bus drive by as we tried to open the doors fast enough to flag it down. But it was useless. We sat in silence trying to figure out what to do next. That was the last bus. Aaron’s sister was waiting at the bus terminal alone.

“I … could drive you into the city?” I said apprehensively, almost immediately regretting my decision.

With two major accidents and several other mishaps since I was 17, I get really scared behind the wheel.

And after not killing us on the drive from Buffalo? I was terrified. Aaron offered to drive my car, but if we were going to crash in the Big Apple, I wanted it to be my fault.

Not even five minutes later, the Port Authority was plugged into my GPS and I was yelling at Sara to sit on my EZPass so that my mother wouldn’t know I drove through the Lincoln Tunnel (sorry, Mom).

I kept muttering, “We’re fine. It’s OK. I can do this,” over and over as I clenched the wheel and I felt my blood rush to my fingertips; every inch of my body prickled with anxiety and I tried to hide my shaking hands. Traffic was still pretty heavy,

even at the late hour, and I’m not as quick as those taught on the city streets.

“I know what this moment needs.

It’s not the ‘tunnel song’ from Perks, but it’ll do,” Aaron said as he pushed a disc into my silent stereo and he tried to calm my nerves.

She thinks I’m much too thin/She asks me if I’m sick/What’s a girl to do with friends like this?

We all sang along as the New York City skyline emerged at the end of the tunnel, and in that instant, we were as close to infinite as you could get. My hands stopped shaking, and the driving came more easily. We weren’t supposed to drive outside of my comfort zone that night, but it seemed there was no other place to be in that moment.

Life doesn’t always go according to plan. Sometimes, things happen when you least expect and sometimes they surprise you. Just like that night that started in Jersey took us somewhere unexpected, the last four years have been a ride unimaginable.

I started my college career as a biology major, completely intent on going to medical school post-graduation. I had my life planned out down to the doctor husband, two kids, dog and white-picket-fence house. Because I wanted it to happen, it had to happen. I wouldn’t accept anything less.

I hit a really low GPA my second semester of freshman year. I was devastated and I didn’t know what to do because everything had come so easily in high school. I hated where I was and I didn’t know why I wanted my life to be a certain way so badly before. The doctor husband no longer looked so attractive and the dreams faded away.

So I did the unthinkable, much to the horror of my family and everyone who knew my life plans: I switched my major to English. Instead of questions of how I was going to afford medical school, my parents were now asking if I would even have an income once I graduated. Would I live in a box?

What the hell do you do with an English major, anyway? Teach? No way. I get too scared even calling for takeout.

Read? Nice try, but not many jobs pay you to read books all day.

Write? Now you’re talking.

I was sitting in church about three weeks ago, and even though I’m not that religious, the message the minister spoke stuck with me: If you spend your life planning for something, completely set on one path, you’re not going to amount to anything. If you spend your life working for just that one success, you’re going to end up unfulfilled and you’re probably not going to meet that one goal you wanted so badly. If you forget to appreciate life and who’s around you, your big dreams will fizzle out, and you will be left with nothing.

And since that spontaneous car ride into the city, with two of my best friends by my side, I made the choice to go with the flow. Sure, I still am an overachieving control freak who lets anxiety get the best of her sometimes, but I’d like to think I let things happen as life intends.

That B on a paper? Missed a class? Boyfriend broke up with you or you got turned down by the boy you wanted? You won’t remember it in a year or even two months. Focusing so sharply on one thing or one person will get you nowhere.

Spending time with family and friends is more important. So is working at The Spectrum (probably the greatest, most serendipitous find in my four years). And experiencing college while you’re there – don’t forget that. There’s a bigger plan than I can imagine, and I’m waiting to find it.

I’ll be moving to the City this fall to start a new chapter – this time without my car, without the need to drive through the Lincoln Tunnel, without friends or family by my side. It wasn’t part of my plan, but it’ll be an adventure.

I hope it feels as good as when we had the lights behind us at the end of our spring break trip – when we sang aloud to nothing more than the steering wheel, content in the moment and in each others’ presence. I hope it feels as infinite as Buffalo has the past 21 years.

And if you feel just like a tourist in the city you were born/Then it’s time to go/ And define your destination/There’s so many different places to call home.

Email: rebecca.bratek@ubspectrum.com

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Monday, April 29, 2013

Hockey brought me home

MEG LEACH

Staff Writer

Liev Schreiber concluded the first season of HBO’s 24/7 Penguins/Capitals with a quote that brought me to tears. In three minutes, he concisely summed up the most powerful aspect of my favorite sport. It was one of the most beautiful examples of scripting I had ever heard.

“Hockey won’t hold still to give you a better look,” he said. “You wouldn’t want it to anyway. It’s the action that makes the possibilities endless. The next practice, the next city and the next game await.”

I heard the lines midway through my sophomore year at UB. I only related the words to what hockey meant to me. I thought the quote only applied to pucks and sticks, men in pads and skates.

I didn’t think it would apply to me.

Looking back on my time at UB, I can only think of who I was when I walked in and who I am today. Reflecting on the biggest transition of my life, I realize that my toes grace the precipice of what might be an even more risky and encompassing decision.

When I came to this sprawling campus, I came with hopes that I would find myself.

I was depressed; you might even go so far as to say I was suicidal. I was lonely, desperate for companionship, but with little to no social skills and no idea of how to make friends.

I had social anxiety. I hid away in my room, talked to friends back home online.

I considered myself a boat without an anchor, because I so easily left my family behind. I thought it was a bad thing. I thought that because I had no anchor, I had no control over my course; I would drift from place to place and remain lonely.

The only time I truly felt alive was down the street from my South Campus dorm room. The then-HSBC Arena was my home away from home. I remember my first game there, a preseason game against the Toronto Maple Leafs. I was so excited to be in the presence of my favorite hock-

ey team, I sunk to the ground beside the boards and cried.

Now, a born-again Bruins fan, I smile fondly in remembrance of my adoration of the Sabres.

It was my love for the Sabres that slowly brought me out of my shell. Sophomore year, I wrote for The Spectrum, hosted a hockey talk show on WRUB radio and worked at WGR 550 to try to step into the hockey media business.

I made friends, a closely-knit group of people who went with me for almost all of the 19 games I spent at the arena freshman year (that’s half of all home games, for those keeping track). We bonded over our love for the game.

And slowly, the symptoms of my mental instability started to slip away.

I look at myself now and see almost no resemblance to the person I was four years ago. I don’t see an opponent in the mirror, someone who I have to defeat to be happy. Four years ago, my reflection was my most hated rival. The person in the mirror held me back, a groping opponent who just wanted to smash my face into the glass.

I don’t recognize myself sometimes, because I don’t hate who’s looking back at me any more.

Hockey helped me find who I am. If you asked me who I was four years ago, I’d say “No one special.” I’d avoid your eyes, and I would make any excuse to abandon the conversation.

Now? I’m Meg. Let’s talk sports. Let’s talk cars. Let’s go get a few beers and talk about anything. I want to talk to you. I want to know you better.

UB gave me the stage to build my confidence, to grow and to be who I want to be. And that confidence, while still in its infancy sophomore year, led me to find love.

A relationship based around hockey and physics.

I lost that love a little while later, and I thought the world was ending, but I also learned that it wasn’t.

If you took a picture of me the past few years, a picture of what I think would be the most important part of my UB experience, it would be out of focus. I was never the same person long enough, never sat still long enough to take a proper portrait. My identifying mark would be a blur.

Four years ago, I was anxious about being a boat without an anchor.

Now? I wouldn’t want one anyway. The next city and the next game await.

Email: meganlea@buffalo.edu

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Back to Brooklyn

BRIAN JOSEPHS

Senior Managing Editor

So this is it. Four years of writing for The Spectrum. Four years of college, ending with a brutal, 21-credit semester. In two weeks, I’ll be sent off to the world in glorious, blue-cap-and-gown fashion to face a mountain of college debt.

Four years of learning and honing my writing talents, and lo and behold, I catch writer’s block right before my long-awaited goodbye column. You’d think four years’ worth of taking English courses and writing for a nationally awarded student-run newspaper would prepare me for such a moment. Nope.

I was going to start by saying, “Writing gave me a voice,” but that’s a cliché. If these past four years have taught me anything, it’s that I hate those damn clichés.

I’ve also enjoyed writing because it did the exact opposite. I was able to hide behind words. One thing that’s always had me interested in writing – particularly journalism – is the guise of objectivity. I could be whatever I wanted within the black ink and 11 x 8.5 sheets of paper. Being able to connect with people through words felt arbitrary; I didn’t really care about making connections when I became serious about writing back when I was a freshman in a high school in Brooklyn.

I was a weak, scrawny 14-year-old. I always came to class with unsightly, nappy hair with ill-fitting pants, and was constantly picked on. I didn’t do much, as long as I was left alone at the end of the day. I wasn’t too much of a fan of people at that point of my life.

Then I started running track & field on a whim and became a bit more sociable. We ran, we jumped, we laughed and talked s**t for the remaining three years. Then when I came to UB, one of the few things that invigorated me in high school was gone. I’ve stopped running track to focus on being a college student (and I wasn’t really all that

great of a runner anyway, so there’s that).

So, starting from my freshman year locked up in my single dorm room in Spaulding Quad, I dove deeper into writing and eventually sports and music journalism. I needed something to hide within.

Something to help me keep running away.

Something to make up for my failures as a student. My failures as a friend. My failures as a son.

How could something that felt like such a symbol of my cowardice give such strength? Writing didn’t just shelter me; it made me into the man I am today. It gave me something to strive for. Every time I got behind the keyboard, I no longer felt like I was adapting to the world. The world was mine for the taking.

I’ve never been that much of a fan of John Milton, and honestly, how many people really are? But one thing that always stuck out to me about Paradise Lost was its first line: “Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit.”

First. In the middle of the retelling of the tale of man’s fall from paradise was a blind author obsessed with being the first.

This is my goal, as well.

I think complacency is one of the main problems our generation has to overcome.

Complacency is the enemy of progress.

Our biggest heroes were driven by the desire to be the first or the best, like Michael Jordan for instance (I know linking Michael Jordan to Milton is a bit random, but bear with me). My family’s country’s – Haiti’s – claim to greatness is being the first black nation in history to gain independence. It’s something that I’m very proud of.

The most talented and innocent youths and young adults die because of random circumstance and the evils of others. I’m lucky to be alive. You’re lucky to be alive. We should be striving to be the best in whatever we decide to do. Why? Because you’re reading this right now. Because you’re breathing. Because your biggest worry is what you’re going to have for lunch, dinner or what-have-you after you read this column. Catch my drift?

To T.G., thank you.

To Archie, rest in peace.

To my roommate, next year’s Spectrum staff and Caribbean Student Association eboard: You can always do better.

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Baseball sweeps Zips in rain-shortened series BEN TARHAN

Sports Editor

When sophomore pitcher Mike McGee was pulled in the bottom of the second inning in the series opener against Akron (9-31, 6-11 Mid-American Conference) on Friday night, the Bulls’ streak of conference series-opening wins seemed to be very much in jeopardy.

McGee allowed five runs in just an inning and two thirds and the Bulls (23-18, 13-4 MAC) trailed 5-1.

But then Buffalo did what it has done all season. The team didn’t panic and it went to work on offense, rallying to holding the Zips’ lead to only four runs. The Bulls then scored three of their own in the third inning before taking the lead for good with a two-run sixth inning, finally winning 7-6.

In what was a shortened series due to a rain out on Sunday afternoon, the Bulls swept their second straight opponent, putting their conference win streak at six games, dating back to April 14.

When the Bulls were in Ohio, their final game was cancelled due to the weather, while Buffalo featured some of the nicest weather so far this year.

“I thought we had a good chance at having another three-game sweep,” said head coach Ron Torgalski. “We were disappointed.”

The Bulls didn’t mind playing on the road.

Despite falling behind early on Friday, they rallied behind 11 hits to score seven runs in the victory.

Buffalo put up a total of 14 runs on 20 hits, including eight extra-base hits, in just two games.

On Saturday, senior outfielder Jason Kanzler hit his MAC-leading eighth home run – his first since April 5 – in the third inning to give the Bulls a 1-0 lead, which they held onto.

The Bulls’ offense was given a boost by shoddy defensive play from the Zips. Akron committed four errors on Saturday, which led

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to five unearned Buffalo runs.

Despite McGee’s lack of control on Friday, the pitching was sharp. Freshman Ben Hartz and senior River McWilliams combined to pitch 7 1/3 innings of one-run ball.

McWilliams was particularly dominant. He threw three scoreless innings on Friday, allowing just two hits and striking out three, and earned his ninth save of the season.

He returned to the mound on Saturday for just 1/3 of an inning, striking out the only batter he faced on four pitches, earning his 10th save of the year.

“He wants the ball every day,” Torgalski said. “If we played today, I would have used him today. He was ready to go. He is a guy that loves a challenge late in the game and has steped up all year long for us.”

The Bulls were forced to settle for the twogame sweep due to the rain out.

Saturday’s win was Buffalo’s 23rd of the season, which ties the Bulls’ modern-era record.

The wins record isn’t on their mind, though.

“The ultimate goal for us to get to the conference tournament and try to win a conference tournament,” Torgalski said. “Right now we are in first place and we are trying to play to stay there. It would be great to send some of these seniors out with an East division title and we are three weekends away. If we take care of business these last three weekends, it’s within reach.”

The Bulls will host Canisius (31-11, 9-6 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) on Wednesday at Amherst Audubon Field. The Bulls have dropped the first three meetings with the Golden Griffins. On Friday, the Bulls will take on Ohio (12-31, 7-12 MAC) in their final conference home stand of the season.

Wednesday’s first pitch is slated for 3 p.m.

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The Spectrum presents its end-of-the-year sports awards As voted on by the fans Athlete of the Year: Khalil Mack and Mike Burke (tie) The polling for athlete of the year ended in a tie between junior linebacker Khalil Mack and junior pitcher/shortstop Mike Burke. Mack, also the editors’ pick for Best Male Athlete, has an opportunity to graduate as the best-ever defensive player in Buffalo football history.

Burke, the baseball team’s ace, has started 10 games this season and is averaging over seven innings per outing. Through 70.2 innings, he has pitched two complete games with 54 strikeouts and a 3.31 ERA. Burke is also the starting shortstop for the Bulls when he is not pitching, and he has turned 13 double plays, the second most on the team.

The editors’ picks Best Male Athlete: Khalil Mack Mack led the football team with 94 tackles, 21 tackles for loss, four forced fumbles and eight sacks. He was also named to the All-MidAmerican Conference first team for the second straight season. Entering his senior season, Mack is in reach of becoming the NCAA’s alltime leader in career tackles for a loss; he is just 19 short of the mark.

Best Female Athlete: Britney Kuras Junior Brittney Kuras has now won back-toback MAC Most Outstanding Swimmer awards.

She has never lost an individual event in the MAC Championship meet and has gone to the NCAA championship meet both seasons at UB as well (she swam her first year at Rutgers). Her dominance in conference and performances on the national stage make her an easy pick for female athlete of the year.

Coach of the Year: Felisha Legette-Jack Head women’s basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack led her team to a 12-20 record, going 8-8 in MAC play, before losing in the MAC Tournament quarterfinals to Akron. The young team was hampered by injuries but surged late in the year nevertheless. Legette-Jack started turning around a program that went 75-137 in the previous seven years under former head coach Linda Hill-MacDonald.

Club Sports Team of the Year: Ice Hockey Despite being a ‘hockey town,’ UB doesn’t have a Division I hockey program, but the club ice hockey team fills the void. With a 26-4 record, the Bulls were ranked 24th nationally and second in the Northeast Collegiate Hockey League. They went on to defeat Niagara to win the NECHL Championship this winter, cementing their status as the best club team on campus.

Biggest Surprise of the Year: Reggie Witherspoon’s firing Athletic Director Danny White relieved Reggie Witherspoon of his duties as men’s basketball head coach March 15, just a season after winning 20 games and making a MAC Championship semifinals appearance. Under Witherspoon, the Bulls had four 20-win seasons and made two MAC Championship games. From 2003-13, the men’s basketball team went 173140 overall under Witherspoon. White hired Duke legend Bobby Hurley to replace Witherspoon.

Best Game of the Year: Men’s basketball vs. Akron On March 2, the Bulls defeated then-top 25 ranked Akron, 8167, in Alumni Arena.

At the time, Akron was on a nation-high 19-game win streak. It was the first victory over a top-25 opponent in UB program history.

Rookie of the Year: Mackenzie Loesing As a freshman, Loesing led the women’s basketball team with 11.6 points per game. Loesing scored at least 12 points in 15 of 19 conference games (including the MAC Tournament).

Best Team: Baseball In 2012, the baseball team went to its first-ever MAC Tournament, winning two games before falling to Kent State. The Bulls then lost their star catcher, Tom Murphy, to the draft and best pitcher, Cameron Copping, to graduation. To make things worse, preseason first-team All-MAC selection senior outfielder Matt Pollock went down for the season in the first weekend series with a broken wrist.

The team didn’t falter, though, and has already tied the modern era record for wins in a season. At 23-17 (13-4 MAC), the Bulls are one of the only teams on campus to have a record over .500 this year and they’ve dominated conference play.

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Two Bulls headed to Tampa Bay following NFL Draft Means drafted, Moseley signed

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Graduating Bulls defensive end Steven Means (above) was drafted No. 147 overall in the fifth round of the NFL Draft on Saturday by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Means is the fifth UB player to be drafted in the past five years.

JOE KONZE JR

Senior Sports Editor

On the third and final day of the 2013 NFL Draft, graduating Bulls defensive end Steven Means was outside, enjoying the gorgeous, 68-degree Buffalo day.

For weeks, he had been waiting for his name to scroll across the screen, anxious to see if he would have a future in professional football.

And then his phone rang.

“It was a crazy feeling,” Means said. “I wasn’t even in the house. I had my phone with me. I was outside getting a breather, playing catch with my little brother and my father was outside. I heard my phone ring and everyone stopped and looked.”

Means was the No. 147 overall pick in the fifth round by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Saturday – making him the fifth Bull to be drafted in the past five years. Graduating UB linebacker Willie Moseley, who was signed as an undrafted

free agent moments after the draft, will be joining Means in Tampa Bay. Means made a name for himself at Grover Cleveland High School (now I-Prep), right down the road from UB, receiving two All-Western New York Selections. He also starred in basketball and track.

Means posted a stat line of 108 tackles, 20 sacks, an interception and five forced fumbles in his senior year, before embarking on a memorable career at UB. In his four years, Means accumulated 186 tackles and 18.5 sacks to go along with two interceptions.

Last year, Means had 77 tackles, 6.5 sacks and three blocked kicks.

His 18.5 sacks are the fourth most in school history.

Although he played defensive end for the Bulls, Means is predicted to play outside linebacker for the Buccaneers, who already have depth at linebacker. Lavonte David and Jacob Cutera play on the weak side and Adam Hayward and Dekoda Watson are on the strong side.

“I’m willing to do everything and put my all into it,” Means said.

“My main focus is going to be on the field and to be in that playbook.

I’m going to be flawless with every technique and play out there. I’m just ready to go.”

Moseley had a successful senior season, as well, posting 51 tackles, 2.5 sacks, an interception and a fumble recovery.

The pair will be joining another local product in Tampa in wide receiver Mike Williams. Williams, a Buffalo native who attended Riverside High School, was drafted No. 101 in the fourth round in the 2010 draft.

“Everyone in Buffalo has talent,” Means said. “If you work hard every day, you can be a professional.”

Means and Moseley will start training camp July 27.

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Willie Moseley (above) signed with Tampa Bay as an undrafted free agent on Saturday following the conclusion of the NFL Draft. This past season, Moseley had 51 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, an interception and a fumble recovery.