Vol. 61 NO. 17
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Friday, October 7, 2011
From The Spectrum to The Nation SARA DINATALE Asst. News Editor As an adolescent, George Zornick never imagined he’d be reporting on massive civil disobedience movements outside the White House. Now, he works as a political journalist for leftleaning magazine, The Nation. Zornick – a UB alum from the class of ’05 – has been writing for The Nation since April of this year. He covered a protest in August about an oil pipeline from the tar sands of Canada – a big change from the stories he used cover as a staff member of The Spectrum. Zornick entered UB as an English major, but it wasn’t until his sophomore year that he got involved with journalism, and he joined The Spectrum’s news staff. He moved his way up in the paper’s ranks quickly, becoming assistant news editor his second semester on the staff. By his junior year, Zornick was managing editor for the paper, and by senior year editorin-chief. His reign as editor-in-chief of The Spectrum took place during the 2004 presidential election: a time that proved to be very volatile for the opinion page.
Students Push For Change
Before Zornick came to UB, he attended City Honors School in Buffalo. “English was my favorite class but I was kind of typical student; I wasn’t much of a writer in high school,” Zornick said. “I did usual high school stuff. I ran track and whatever, but I didn’t think about anything I particularly wanted to do.”
Protests call for salary cuts in administration
Students gathered to chant and protest tuition hikes and administration salaries on UB’s North Campus Wednesday, Oct. 5.
Erin Shultz, who was a news editor when Zornick first joined the paper, was impressed with his talents right away. “From about the first day he walked in, his writing was just excellent,” Shultz said. “He had a thoughtfulness most freshmen and sophomores [who were on the staff] to fill an English requirement didn’t have; he had a natural passion for the business.” Zornick covered a range of stories, like pipes bursting in dorm rooms to intense relations
STEVEN WROBEL Life Editor Students are tired of tuition hikes, and they want changes now. What started as a small protest of angry graduate students grew to a crowd of over 100 as New York Students Rising (NYSR) held a walkout and teach-in on Wednesday.
The protest started out with approximately 20 students, and began inside the Student Union. Once outside, the crowd was met with a mock counter-protest of “The UB Billionaires,” who called for the privatization of UB and larger salaries for administrators. The crowds grew on The Promenade as students chanted, “Ain’t no power like the power of the people, because the power of the people don’t stop.” The crowd marched on, banging on buckets
Alexa Strudler /// The Spectrum
and shaking noisemakers throughout Knox and Capen Hall, where President Satish K. Tripahi’s office is located. “If these [administrators] could really look at who they are affecting directly in the face and take responsibility for it, we can produce a dire effect,” said Liz Rywelski, a graduate teaching assistant in the department of arts and sciences and one of the NYSR representatives.
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Beating the Odds A student’s victory over cancer RACHEL KRAMER Staff Writer Matt Pavone’s doctor said he would probably be OK, but the lack of certainty cast a shadow on his optimism. In the winter of 2009, Pavone, a sophomore in the school of management, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: the news was devastating for the gameplaying, soup-cooking, fun-loving freshman. “It was always ‘I need to get through this and I’ll be okay,’” Pavone said. Pavone was one out of 8,830 estimated people that year to be diagnosed with the lethal disease, according to the American Cancer Society. While most college students were enjoying their winter break in 2009, Pavone was being told that he had a rare form of cancer that attacks the lymphoid tissues in the body. These vital tissues contain white blood cells that fight off infection. The cancer formed in the lymph nodes in Pavone’s throat. Small warning signs of Hodgkins Lymphoma emerged during Pavone’s senior year in high school. “I got sick, a cold, maybe it was mono, we just shrugged it off and I didn’t go to the doctor,” Pavone said. “Then maybe a month or two later, [the right side] of my neck got pretty swollen and it wasn’t going away.” After the swelling in his neck did not go down, Pavone decided to see a doctor. At first, the doctor wasn’t too concerned and told him to keep an eye on it. He diagnosed Pavone’s symptoms as Cat Scratch Fever, a common disease in children that causes swelling in the lymph nodes. The second time he visited his doctor he was referred to an oncologist who proceeded to transfer him to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY. This was
Sophomore Matt Pavone overcame his battle with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a rare form of cancer.
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Weather for the Weekend: Friday: Sunny - H: 72, L: 52 Saturday: Sunny - H: 75, L: 56 Sunday: Sunny - H: 75, L: 56
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Bulls Look to Bounce Back Against Bobcats The Bulls host the intimidating Ohio Bobcats on Saturday.
AARON MANSFIELD Senior Sports Editor One team is shattering expectations while the other is heading downwards. One team has only one loss; the other has only one win. One team has a quarterback who’s thrown for 12 touchdowns. The other team’s quarterback has only tossed three. Unfortunately for the Bulls (1-4, 0-1 Mid-American Conference), they’re the squad on the wrong side of these comparisons. The Ohio Bobcats (4-1, 1-0 MAC) come into Buffalo with every ounce of momentum. The Bobcats have only been bested this season by an impressive Rutgers (3-1, 1-0 Big East) squad. The Bulls take on a dominant quarterback for the second week in a row. Last week, Tennessee’s Tyler Bray tore Buffalo apart, throwing for 342 yards and four touchdowns. Tennessee thrashed the Bulls, 41-10. “I think we took a lot away from that game in a positive sense,” said head
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coach Jeff Quinn. “It’s unacceptable to lose, but these kids have been through a lot as a football program, and when you play against a team like Tennessee, you have to keep things in perspective.” Quinn added that he believes the Bulls – who have also taken on Pittsburgh (3-2, 1-1 Big East) and UConn (2-3) – have faced some of the country’s best teams, and their tough non-conference schedule has thoroughly prepared them for MAC play. This week, the Bulls face Ohio’s Tyler Tettleton, a tremendously talented young quarterback who’s almost already broken the Bobcats’ record for most passing yards by a sophomore, with 1,200. Tettleton has only thrown one interception this year and he’s averaging 240 yards per game with an incredible 149.94 passing efficiency. “He’s an accurate thrower, he makes good decisions, and he’s able to keep things alive if they aren’t there right away,” Quinn said. “He can beat you
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