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Legal action likely due to financial aid policy By CAITLIN TREMBLAY News Editor
Stung by the loss of their needed aid money, some UB students are preparing to fight. Affected students, together with the assistance of SBI Legal Assistance, are looking into taking legal action against the university for a financial aid policy change the university adopted in June. “I can say that SBI Legal is
strongly considering bringing legal action to make the university undo their change and provide affected students with money as soon as possible,” said Brendan James Gilbert, director of SBI Legal Assistance. Vice provost and dean of undergraduate education Michael Ryan told The Spectrum in its Oct. 9 issue that the shift was made due to a change in federal guidelines. “We had to make the change in the financial aid policy in order
to be in compliance with federal guidelines,” Ryan said. “The federal government has a set of standards for financial aid eligibility and we must follow them.” Beginning June 13, UB changed its financial aid policy, leaving an estimated 2,000 students without the option of financial aid – meaning that more students than ever before are lacking a means to pay for school. The new financial aid policy makes it harder for students to be
eligible for federal aid. Students now need a 70 percent completion rate, as opposed to the previous rate of 65 percent, and must have within 150 percent of the institution’s required credits for graduation, which at UB is 180 hours. Also, the calculated number of credits is now cumulative. Previously, only completed credits were taken into consideration for financial aid. Now incompletes, resignations, withdrawals and failures
count against the student when calculations are made as to whether to award aid. UB attributed the change in policy to federal law, stating that it wasn’t the university’s decision but rather something that needed to be done to stay within the guidelines of federal regulations. However, it was later determined by SBI Legal that the parts of the see AID page 8
A VISION FOR THE FUTURE UB 2020’s comprehensive plan unveiled
By STEPHEN MARTH Editor in Chief
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Early Tuesday evening, President John B. Simpson unveiled UB 2020’s Comprehensive Physical Plan to over 500 members of the Western New York community. Skating on Lake LaSalle
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The plan to propel the University at Buffalo into the 21st century was unveiled to the public on Tuesday, with an ultimate goal of uniting all three of Buffalo’s campuses. The plan, known as UB 2020, will be used to guide UB to evolve into a model 21st-century university by increasing enrollment. The plan calls for 10,000 more students and 6,700 new faculty and staff members. “It’s designed to make UB bigger, better and a more livable place to attract talent,” said President John B. Simpson. “It will help many realize the vast potential of
the University at Buffalo.” According to Jeremy M. Jacobs, chairman of the UB Council and chief executive officer of Delaware North Companies, UB is the most influential institution in Western New York. “The University at Buffalo is the head of the Buffalo-Niagara region,” he said. “This plan will make the heartbeat stronger.” The plan calls for each of UB’s campuses to have their own distinct environments while becoming better connected with each other. According to the plan, North Campus will evolve from a campus designed for the ’70s to a community connected rather than isolated.
It will be home to UB’s main libraries, the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and the School of Management. In addition, there will be other minor changes throughout the area. UB Athletics will gain a new field house and tennis center directly between UB Stadium and South Lake Village, with the hopes of attracting top-quality talent to the athletics program. Also, with an increase in students attending UB, new forms of housing will appear throughout the campus. The plan calls for housing to appear north of the Natural see PLAN page 7
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Lopez’s book inspires food drive By AMANDA WOODS Asst. News Editor
Wednesday night will be devoted to homelessness awareness as Steve Lopez, author of this year’s UB Reads book, The Soloist, takes the stage in Alumni Arena. Members of UB Community Outreach for Employees hope to draw more attention to this issue through a canned food drive that will take place during Lopez’s speech. For Katherine Frier, the director of Wellness and Work/Life Balance in the Human Resources department, the decision to hold the drive during
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Lopez’s talk was an easy one. “My colleague and I recently read The Soloist. We were both inspired and saddened by Nathaniel’s story, knowing that we have similar problems right here in Buffalo, a city with a very high rate of poverty and at least 2,000 homeless individuals,” Frier said. “We decided that Mr. Lopez’s lecture was a perfect opportunity to raise some food for organizations that need our help, so we mobilized our volunteers and put together this drive.” According to Frier, there are numerous parallels between The Soloist and the goals of the food drive.
“The canned food drive relates to the most basic level of the book – hunger and homelessness – because it is the one on which we can have an immediate impact,” Frier said. “I think the important thing we need to remember is that we need to sustain our contributions through both donations and community service throughout the entire year. We also need to be supportive of the professionals who can address the medical health and substance abuse issues that are portrayed in the book.” Frier encourages students and
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A canned food drive will be held on Wednesday during Steve Lopez’s lecture to benefit Buffalo’s homeless.
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No safety in the air Pilots distracted by laptops in flight Air travel has always fascinated American society. In the early 1960s, jet setting was glamorous and a window into the good life. Airline pilots and flight attendants had movie star status. However, the airline industry recently received a black eye due to a very big error in judgment of two pilots. Northwest Airlines Flight 188 from San Diego to Minneapolis was cruising across the sky when it overshot Minneapolis by 110 miles. Captain Timothy Cheney and first officer Richard Cole were busy learning the new scheduling system on their personal laptops instead of preparing for landing, while ignoring more than a dozen air traffic controllers in three different locations for over 90 minutes. Personal business has no place on the flight deck. If something is that pressing, one pilot can continue to watch the instruments while the other attends to it. Important matters include things like eating a meal on a very long flight. But pilots checking their Facebook or scheduling their next flight is unacceptable while in mid-air. There has been a major concern from the Federal Aviation Administration that pilots are falling asleep during long flights. However, the computer session has opened up a whole new realm of worry; the pilots created such a panic due to lack of radio communication with ground control that North American Aerospace Defense Command readied four fighter jets in case the flight had been hijacked.
The pilots in this case have more than enough experience and have no blemishes on their personal safety records. But it opens the door to questions about what pilots do to fill their time as flight operations become more computerized with advanced autopilot systems. Since 9/11, flight attendants have not had keys to open a plane’s cockpit door, and there is no procedure on how they can check in on pilots. The crew communicates by phone or through chimes that can be heard in the passenger cabin. Airline pilots from Northwest Airlines were given a memo about safety earlier this year to avoid distractions while on the job. Airlines strictly prohibit such behavior from pilots, and rightfully so. Because of a simple oversight and losing track of time, pilots put hundreds of lives at risk. Lack of communication with air traffic controllers could lead to in-air collisions and unnecessary panic. Pilots are highly trained professionals and their job isn’t to be taken lightly. Too many things can happen during flights; it is imperative that pilots’ concentration not be interfered with. These two pilots must be held accountable for their lack of judgment. Air safety is too important to ignore.
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Chopping away Having roughly 120 credit hours completed, I was able to register on Saturday for spring semester classes. While I’m not an honors student, I was still at an advantage to get into the classes I needed. Or so I thought. At 10 a.m., nearly half of the classes I needed were already filled, or the allotments of non-major seats were grabbed nearly instantly. As I pouted in disgust and looked to find other courses, I realized something. The amount of classes offered this year is dramatically less than in recent memory. Thanks, Gov. David Paterson. After cutting $146 million from SUNY’s budget last year, PaterStephen Marth son has proposed a $90 Editor in Chief million cut this year – the first of an expected four cuts that will affect each of SUNY’s 64 campuses. This is after he raised tuition by $610 per student, with only 10 percent of the increase actually going to our schools. The other 90 percent is going to the state, which obviously doesn’t know how to handle funds. You also can’t forget about his thoughts on the Tuition Assistance Program, better known as TAP. Paterson has proposed to cut $26 million from the 123,060 students who receive the necessary funding. Is he insane? Or is he just flat-out stupid? People were quick to hang former Gov. Elliot Spitzer after he was found soliciting the services of a prostitute. But he didn’t screw every student in the state. Budget cuts to higher education mean less money for our schools. Less money means fewer professors. Fewer professors mean larger class sizes or the cutting of classes altogether. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. This past summer, many states looked to higher education funding as a way to solve debt. An estimated $4 billion of spending was cut for the current fiscal year – a five percent overall reduction. While it might look bad in New York, it’s actually see MARTH page 4
Lack of decision regarding Afghanistan draws fire Afghanistan is becoming a sinking ship. The Taliban has battered U.S. forces in recent weeks and the U.S. public is losing faith in the war’s merits. For the latter half of the Bush years, Afghanistan became a “forgotten conflict,” but as President Barack Obama’s inauguration day closed in, the public’s attention was refocused — and they didn’t like the view. A corrupt Afghan government, a first-class drug trade, a resurgent Taliban and steadily rising U.S. casualties have made the lack of action by the administration worrisome.
Iraq came back from near implosion, and the war there became largely a nonissue for most Americans. The American public would be more likely to endure the losses in Afghanistan if they saw real progress being made there. And right now, they don’t. It’s time to put aside the counterinsurgency doctrines that preach “connecting the people to the government.” The Afghans have never expected much from their government, and they still don’t. They want something very basic that has eluded them for decades – security.
Eight Americans died in combat on Tuesday, bringing the total killed in action this month to 53. It has been the deadliest month for Americans in the conflict’s eight-year history.
The last government to provide Afghans with real security was the Taliban. When they ruled the country before 9/11, the security they provided came at a steep price: a violent, theocratic regime that provided little in government services and removed Afghanistan from the world stage.
In a recent speech to 3,500 members of military and their families, Obama said that troops deserve a clear strategy and full support to finish their mission. It seems that the lack of decision means that the administration is trying to figure out if Afghanistan is worth the commitment.
Allies around the globe are looking for exits to remove their combat troops. The tasks of providing security and training Afghan security forces fall solely on the United States. If Obama is serious about securing the country, then the choice to put more combat boots on the ground shouldn’t have taken weeks.
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Around 40 percent of Afghanistan was controlled by the Taliban or was at high risk for attacks by insurgents in April, according to a private assessment prepared by the Afghan military that was obtained by CNN.
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From that assessment, it would seem the 48,000 U.S. forces are already at risk. The president ran on a platform of winning the war in Afghanistan, but the war in Iraq has turned around much faster.
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Armed groups like the Taliban don’t ease up when they believe they have a fighter’s chance. The Taliban feels it is winning the war. True victory can only be achieved when the Taliban feels there is no hope of winning. But none of that can be achieved unless a clear strategy and resources are in place. The public support for the war is waning. The president, who is normally charismatic on issues, has been surprisingly quiet about this decision. Tick tock. Tick tock. Time to choose.
C O R R E C T I O N In Monday’s article entitled “The Dirt on Dirt,” the research cited in the story was incorrectly attributed to the Department of Geology. It should have been attributed to the Department of Geography. The Spectrum regrets this error.
Swine flu is the new black Sweet baby Hills, don’t you go dying on me! So apparently, there’s this flu that used to be pretty popular in the piggy population that’s taking the human world by storm. Hey pig. Yeah you. Hey pig, piggy pig pig pig pig. All of my fears came true. Well, not exactly. But this swine flu, H1N1 nonsense has come into the McDonald’s that is my life and has taken the Mayor McCheese of my golden archway right out of commission. Before you think I’m high, let me explain. Last year, my brothJohn Ranic er’s school was closed Senior Arts Editor early due to the pig flu. He was pumped. I was happy for him, largely because we had more time to dominate the first installment of Mario Party on our Nintendo 64, but it fittingly made this fairytale flu seem real. Ever since I can remember, the flu was a fairly manageable virus with the appropriate medication. Maybe this new strain is stronger, but newsflash – it’s still the flu. It’s not the black plague. It’s not like finding out you’ve contracted HIV and don’t have that Magic Johnson money. It’s the flu. Yet we worry. We wax catastrophic. We strap on our surgical masks and invest our lives in a paperthin air filter. I got sick two weeks ago. The symptoms were all there. And you know what I did? I kicked that illness right in the privates and got over it. Maybe I coughed up blood, hawked out some bright green phlegm and blew my nose like the Bills manage to do in any game of importance. But here I stand, swine free. Oh yeah, McDonald’s. Today, I found out that one of my co-editors may have contracted H1N1 and is being quarantined see RANIC page 8
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MARTH from page 3 worse in other states. Take California, for example. The state proposed a $1.1 billion cut for higher education earlier this year, which has public universities and colleges scrambling to find solutions. The University of California had to reduce its incoming class size and it expects to have to cut it even more the following year. While other public universities and schools might be an option to those waitlisted students, that probably won’t happen. California State University, considered a second choice to many students, also has to cut enrollment, which could leave many qualified students out to dry if this pattern continues. To add salt to the already open wound, many people who have lost their jobs are now looking to higher education as a way to find a solution to the problems facing the economy. See the issue here? Governments – both state and federal – need to realize that they are only going to hurt this country in the long term if they continue to cut funding for higher education. Americans will have to look elsewhere for an education – perhaps abroad. Funding for higher education isn’t a possibility – it’s a necessity. Invest in the future before it’s too late. E-mail: stephen.marth@ubspectrum.com
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AR T S & LI F E UBreathe Free kicks some butts By KYLE BRANDON SMITH Staff Writer
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Students gathered together last Friday in an effort to clean up North Campus and keep a healthy and smoke-free community.
As the unmistakable, putrid scent of damp, used tobacco floats throughout the room, a white bucket filled nearly to the brim with collected cigarette filters is placed on a scale. A few adjustments are made, and the verdict is announced – 9 pounds. Armed with plastic bags, disposable gloves and pure determination, students tackled the sidewalks, walkways and grassy areas of North Campus last Friday to clean up cigarette butts and spread the word about UB’s movement toward a smoke-free campus with the
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UBreathe Free policy. UB Kickin’ Butt was created in response to the increasing number of cigarette butts accumulating around campus after all of the butt containers were removed to promote the new smoke-free policy. “More often than not, people’s behaviors are slower to change than the policy itself,” said Martin Smallidge, a senior biotechnology major, and an intern with Wellness Education Services. “People are still smoking in areas that are banned and throwing their cigarette butts on the ground.” WES and the University Residence Halls & Apartments sponsored the event, in collaboration
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Oderus Urungus spread his seed, musically and physically, Monday night.
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By JOHN RANIC and JAMES TWIGG Oderus Urungus and crew mutilated the Town Ballroom Monday night with more blood, semen and crack than G.G. Allin’s underwear. Celebrating their two-year long 25th anniversary, GWAR literally went balls-out with Job for a Cowboy and The Red Chord gurgling in support. Even with the dual opening slots that they always manage to fill, this was absolutely and unequivocally the GWAR show. Opening with their own 10-minute long Behind The Murder, a VH1 Behind The Music parody, Oderus, Sleazy P., Beefcake The Mighty, Balsac the Jaws of Death, Flattus Maximus and Jizmak Da Gusha surmised their quarter-century long career in a docu-comedy that was as funny as it was disturbing. Luckily for GWAR’s miscreant fanatics, crack-cocaine and pornography were enough to save the band from the dredges of destruction and keep them freebasing. “I ruined a lot of people’s lives with my crack addiction,” Urungus said. “All I can say is that I don’t give a f***.” As the video came to a cliffhanger, with Cardinal Sin’s chainsawed and rocket-skulled cronies approaching Earth, the screen went to Antarctica and the anti-heroes
with UB Colleges Against Cancer. “We are not an anti-smoker organization. We are here to help,” said Sharlynn Daun-Barnett, an alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention specialist with WES. “Seventy percent of smokers want to quit, and we offer many programs to facilitate that.” The event began at 3 p.m. in front of the WES office at 114 Student Union. Students were briefed on their mission, broken up into teams of six or seven people and handed a map that highlighted the areas of the North Campus for which they were responsible.
An energetic crowd packed into the Student Union Theater on Sunday evening to find the best student performers in season two of UB Thinks You Can Dance. After what was considered a tremendously successful premiere last year, the Hip Hop Student Association was looking to expand on that foundation in this year’s event. Isaac Kramer, president of HHSA, had great hopes for a successful competition. “Last year was the first year we ever did it and it was really [entertaining],” Kramer said. “With that, our club’s goal in every event we do is to make it bigger, so [this year] we started planning earlier and contacting teams earlier.” The organization gathered a total of 11 dance teams to compete for the $300 cash prize, including three non-competing acts that performed solely to amuse the crowd. Ranging in size and style, every team came out to show its passion for dance. “We aim for diversity. Not only [did] we have the UB Step Troupe, but also Latin American SA [was there] doing salsa,” Kramer said. “There [was] break dancing, more choreographed forms of hip-hop, crumping and our solo exhibition performance,
[which was] more modern.” International Coordinator Andrilisa Read co-hosted the event with Ahmed Jahmi, a junior business major. “Although it was HHSA, there was still a range of performances. The audience was receptive to all the different styles, from lyrical to belly dancing,” Read said. “We got a pretty good reaction from crowd. I think everybody was happy.” Both of the announcers participated in the show, with Read belly dancing and Jahmi performing a freestyle rap. “We had a good crowd – they were excited, having fun and laughing,” Jahmi said. The audience was on its feet when it came time for the surprise guest performance. A group of girls from Big Brothers Big Sisters, trained by HHSA Vice President Brittany Malone, a junior undecided major, took over the stage wearing white gloves on one hand, dancing to “Thriller,” “Black or White” and “Dangerous” in a tribute performance to Michael Jackson. Audience members even got the chance to show off their own moves in a freestyle dance-off. The last person standing took home $50. Once the participants settled back into their seats, the crowd had see DANCE page 6
Carnage with a message By ANGELA VIZZI Staff Writer
Saw VI AJigsaw is back. Well, sort of. As Halloween approaches, diehard fans of the insanely popular Saw series will inevitably flock to theaters to see the new chapter (barring any more paranormal activity). After a recent string of snoozers, the sixth installment of the Saw franchise has managed to reawaken the series by interjecting a bloodsoaked political message. The film starts up right where the previous one left off. Special Agent
Strahm is dead, leaving Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor, Saw V) left to carry on the work of the famous Jigsaw killer (Tobin Bell, Saw V). As the FBI becomes increasingly suspicious of Hoffman, he is forced to put the game into motion so that Jigsaw’s master plan can be revealed. The film has everything that audiences have come to expect from the Saw movies. It has enough gore to satisfy hardcore fans, and also a strong enough plot to intrigue some new ones. The traps are still as creative as they are sadistic, and the movie opens in the same way that all the other sequels have – with a bang. Behind all the blood and guts,
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The Saw franchise is back yet again with more traps and more gore.
there lies a biting social commentary. The film manages to criticize the American health care system without becoming preachy. The film’s main character, William, is an executive of a major
health insurance company, whose job is to approve or deny coverage based on a risk assessment system he has devised. The executive proves to be the most interesting character in the film because, unlike
many of the victims in previous Saw films, this guy deserves what is coming to him. Unlike the previous sequels, the see SAW page 9
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Students participated in intense competition to see who the best dancer of the year is
to pick a winner. As the loud cheering reverberated around the theatre, Kramer chose hiphop dancers May Cheung and Sakura Lin as the second place winners. After a thunderous applause, members of the largest group, Eccentric Flow, were named the best dancers at UB for the second year in a row. Desiree Allen, a junior exercise science major and president of the team, helped to deliver a powerful and acrobatic routine, merging modern and hip-hop styles of dance. She attributes her group’s success to dedication. “It took a lot of [weeks] of hard work,” Allen said.
Crystal Pierce, a junior health and human services major and Eccentric Flow’s vice president, was thrilled with the crowd’s enthusiasm. “We were very happy [with the results],” Pierce said. “We definitely appreciate everyone that comes out to help make our show that much better.” David Distant, a senior African American studies and political science major, was in the audience when the winners were announced. He believes the best team won, and was very pleased with the overall results. “I thought it was a nice variety in terms of different styles of dance,” Distant said. E-mail: features@ubspectrum.com
Metalheads drenched in E.T. juices GWAR from page 5 took to the stage. Opening with the fire-starting, smack-shooting fist pump that is “Metal Metal Land,” GWAR took their fans by storm with one of the heaviest tracks off of Lust In Space and cracked the rock before the theatrics. The second “Saddam a Go-Go” de-horned itself, fans recollected their bearings and danced around the Ballroom as they were drenched in faux alien blood. Cue the real fun. There’s something absolutely timeless about seeing a sea of Caucasian metalheads being drenched in erotic extraterrestrial juices as they dance around to punk-fused metalcore. Over the course of the hourlong horror fest, GWAR mauled, de-limbed and skinned everything
Cardinal Sin threw at them, including zombie Michael Jackson, a gurney-strapped alien demigod, and an extremely loose alien baby that may or may not have been penetrated with a giant metal tampon. Set to the tunes of “Where is Zog,” “Let Us Slay” and “Immortal Corrupter,” GWAR drenched their soon-to-be slaves in everything from green space blood to the rubyred wine spurting from singer Oderus Urungus’ Cuttlefish of Cthulhu. Ending with an epic battle with the 8-foot tall Cardinal Sin during “Lust in Space,” GWAR were victorious, ripping his arms off and poking the babies in his stomach vesicle, all the while leading around 700 fans through the supposed closing notes of the night. The band returned for an encore solely because of the lack of crackcocaine backstage. As they resumed
their places on stage to the fist pumping chants of “GWAR,” the band picked things up where they left off with “Bring Back The Bomb.” Their final kill went to Barack Obama, whose head Urungus ripped off after GWAR were awarded Obama’s bling fist for “a**-kickingness.” Before the beheading, an eager fan hit the Obama look-a-like in the face with a cup. Who would have thought that a group of angst-ridden, overweight, bearded Caucasian metalheads wouldn’t be down with Obama? Ending the night with the jazz stylings of “Have You Seen Me” and “Sick Of You,” GWAR left their fans cream-covered and craving more. “Twenty-five years and we’re not done with you yet,” Urungus said. E-mail: arts@ubspectrum.com
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The participants were not disheartened by the dark and dreary afternoon that faced them. They
eagerly formed groups and spread out across the Academic Spine, searching every nook and cranny for the discarded filters. However, a downpour made their
efforts all the more difficult. The filters were soaked, falling apart in gloved hands and making the task more unpleasant than many anticipated. The favorite smoking spots of students, as determined by the sheer number of butts across the ground, were the picnic tables on the edge of the Academic Spine, hidden alcoves along buildings and by the flower pots in Founder’s Plaza. Chris Boardway, a senior biological science major, is a non-smoker living in a house of smokers. He originally got involved with WES to acquire more information about the effects of smoking. “I believe that the entire population’s health is more important than a small percentage of people’s right to smoke wherever they want,” said Boardway. “It’s all about the right to clean air.” Wei Xu, a senior mathematics major, felt as if his actions had a real impact. “I was planning on going to the gym this afternoon, but then I heard about [UB Kickin’ Butt],” Xu said. “I got my workout in while helping the environment and the university.” According to Daun-Barnett, UBreathe Free will also host the Great American Smoke-Out on Nov. 19. This event encourages smokers to quit smoking for just one day. WES will have tables set up across both campuses to provide smokers information and support. On Nov. 4 at 12 p.m., WES will sponsor Kickin’ Butt II. Students will meet outside of Capen during the Farmer’s Market and join together to collect more butts.
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Redistribution of majors part of plan PLAN from page 1 Sciences Complex, as well as along Lee Road between the Student Union and the Ellicott Complex. Along with the housing will come a recreation and wellness center, as well as a hotel in walking distance of the Student Union, located in the spot the University Bookstore currently calls home. Next to the recreation and wellness center will be a green space known as “The Oval,” which will replace The Commons. This area will be a gathering place for students, and also the hub to boating and ice skating on Lake LaSalle. “The North Campus lacks soul now, but the plan will create fabulous social spaces on the Academic Spine, Lake LaSalle and a new ‘Main Street’ leading to the Ellicott Complex,” said Fredrick A. Bland, managing partner for Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners. South Campus will become the home for professional education, bringing in the Law School, School of Education, School of Social Work, and School of Architecture and Planning. It will also build three new housing complexes near Goodyear Hall to accommodate new students. Goodyear Hall will also go under a partial conversion toward graduate student housing. “It demands a high standard of design excellence,” said Robert G. Shibley, senior adviser to the president for campus planning and design. Finally, the Downtown Campus will aim to be a world-class academic health center. Unlike its sister-
campuses, the Downtown Campus’s shape is questioned at this point, but UB’s administration plans to move the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the School of Dental Medicine, the School of Nursing, the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the School of Public Health and Health Professions to the location. The move will bring 13,000 new jobs to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, according to James A. “Beau” Willis, executive vice president for university support services. Simpson feels the move should bring in people from across the world to Buffalo for medical treatment instead of places such as Pittsburgh or Cleveland. “I want people to say, ‘If I have health problem X, I’m going to Buffalo for treatment’,” he said. One major goal for all three campuses involves transportation. The plan is pushing for parking garages throughout each of the campuses, in hopes of fixing the parking problems that plague students and faculty today. In addition, the plan gives way for the NFTA Metro Rail to connect the City of Buffalo to North Campus, a plan that has been kicked around for years. The plan calls for approximately $2.9 billion in state funds to build core academic facilities, in addition to $2.1 billion of UB funding, through private partners, philanthropy and other sources. While the plan itself is very attractive to many, there are many people skeptical of the chance of it actually being implemented due to the financial
Enjoy the game experience SANCHIRICO from page 12 minds for a lifetime. And I’ll enjoy the moment without unnecessary luxuries. I don’t need a piece of prime rib to go with my foul ball. I want a Sabrett’s hot dog with sauerkraut, a beer and some quality company. Let’s talk about Petite’s pick-off move, not about the current economic trends. And there’s no need to have someone walk down to my seat to take my order; I’m at a baseball game, not Chef’s. But if you’re wealthy enough to drop $500 bucks on a ticket – which the vast majority of us aren’t – you get some extra benefits. You get looked at differently.
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Giving students a voice AID from page 1 policy that UB changed were not, in fact, part of the federal regulations. “Federal guidelines only state general terms for [Satisfactory Academic Progress]. Students only need to be within 150 percent of the required credits to graduate and must comply with the institution’s set percentage of credit completion,” Gilbert said. “UB changed the financial aid policy on its own discretion. Nowhere in the federal guidelines are UB’s new guidelines outlined.” Legal has received estimates that between $360,000 and $380,000 have been withheld from students because of the policy change. Students are now looking for a way to make UB accountable for its actions. “We want to do something about this injustice,” said Rashod Coston, a senior biomedical sciences and psychology major. “It’s not fair and it’s not right. We’re going to fight for the funds that we have a right to.” If the students and SBI Legal decide to take legal action against UB, they would do so under New
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Get medicine and start healing RANIC from page 3 away from us for at least a week while he undergoes further testing. Part of me feels like he’s just looking for an excuse to stay home, conquer a couple Hungry Man frozen dinners and play Brutal Legend as he fist-pumps his way to gamer glory, but my non-cynical side sees his worry. The man we’ve lovingly dubbed “The Hills,” who you can probably decipher if you look at the masthead, is now black hawk down. I am here to tell him to put some pants on, lift his chin and stand up as confident and monotonic as ever. You, and any other person with a functional immune system and
access to some good old-fashioned OJ, will get over it. It’ll just take some time. Go to a real doctor – not those people over at Michael Hall. Get your antibiotics and begin the healing. It’s not the end of the world. It’s not like trying to beat you at Golden Eye, where you’ve clearly spent years figuring out exactly where to place the remote mines in multiplayer mode so whichever way we run, we’re dead. We love you, Hills. Hurry up and get back here so I can get mad at you for stealing my chair. Because despite what you think, that pleather is mine. E-mail: john.ranic@ubspectrum.com
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‘We are asking students to bring a canned good’ FOOD from page 1 faculty to contribute to the drive. “We are simply asking people to bring a canned good, if they can, that we will collect and donate to the Friends of Night People and the Buffalo City Mission so that we can reach out to the Buffalo community in the way that Mr. Lopez reached out to the Los Angeles community,” Frier said. UB CORE will also be tabling at the Community Engagement Fair, sponsored by the Center for Student Leadership and Community Engagement, prior to Lopez’s lecture. Frier hopes that faculty and staff who wish to reach out to the homeless and poverty-stricken in the Buffalo area will stop by and ask about upcoming opportunities. This theme of helping the homeless will carry over into the other projects UB CORE will engage in this semester. In fact, the remainder of UB CORE’s 2009 projects relate to homelessness awareness. “From now until the end of the year, we will be dedicating our programming to hunger and homelessness to benefit organizations like the Buffalo City Mission, Cornerstone Manor and Friends of Night People,” Frier
said. “If we are asked by the Homeless Alliance to do more, we will.” UB CORE, moderated through the Human Resources Department, was first developed in April 2008 to enable UB faculty and staff to engage in community and volunteer projects. According to Frier, this food drive is not the only activity in which UB CORE partners with student organizations. She pointed out that students, faculty and staff have worked together at the Shoreline Sweep and the Linda Yalem Run. This year, UB CORE will meet with Student Affairs and the Alumni Association to identify community service opportunities they can collaborate on. So far, the UB CORE participants have received nothing but positive feedback. “The organizations with whom we have partnered are enthusiastic about having UB as a partner. We have many talented and generous people at UB that are willing to give of their time to reach others in the community,” Frier said. “After one year, we are confident that we have made progress, but know that we have the ability to make an even bigger impact and hope to do so in 2010.”
Audiences will squirm SAW from page 5 main character in this film learns from his experience. Jigsaw has created a puzzle that makes William fully understand the mistakes that have led him to his situation. Audiences will undoubtedly be squirming in their seats and watching much of the film through their fingers. The mother of all gross-out moments comes at the end of the film and it might possibly be the most intense scene in the series to date. Saw VI has something for everyone. Director Kevin Greutert knows exactly what fans want and gives it to them, while also bringing some new things to the table. It is possibly the best of the series so far and it will be sure to please old and new fans alike.
Astudillo knows his team wouldn’t be the same without Bulley and the style of play he brings to the table. “Bulley is such an unpredictable guy,” Astudillo said. “You never know what he was going to do with the ball. I was happy to see him on Senior Day score the goal, and it was a timely goal. I’m very happy for him.” Even though the team continues to give less than ideal results, Astudillo applauded the effort Canisius gave in the stalemate. “I think Canisius did well disrupting our flow,” Astudillo said. “But in the first half, we should have played better and we didn’t. When we really should have been cranking up the speed of play and holding onto the ball a little bit more, we were rushing. We didn’t need to [rush the tempo].” Bulley also believed the aftermath from a hard-fought game against Akron may have
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Richard Jefferson and all of the sudden you have a championshipcontending team. Gregg Popovich remains one of the premiere coaches in the league and will be able to mold this group into winners. Guys like Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili – who is finally healthy and remains a force off the bench – and Michael Finley won’t settle for another early departure from the playoffs. It’s easy to hate the Spurs, with their half court sets and hardnosed defense, but you have to respect them. Look for them to finish in the top three in the West and to make a push deep into the playoffs. -Sports Editor Andrew Wiktor
3. Portland Trailblazers: I know what you’re thinking. The Blazers are on everyone’s radar this preseason as an up-and-coming franchise, but how good they’re going to be is up for discussion. I am telling you right now, Brandon Roy and company are a legitimate threat in the West and will challenge for the Western Conference Championship. Last season ended in disappointment for the Blazers when the Houston Rockets eliminated them in the first round of the playoffs. Former first-round draft pick Greg Oden is finally healthy and has put up staggering numbers in the preseason. “B-Roy” is arguably a top five player in the league and looks to elevate his game to the next level this year. Along with big man LaMarcus Aldridge, the duo hopes to welcome veteran Andre Miller into the mix and cash in on his experience. There is no ceiling for this young squad that is just packed with talent. If second year man Jerrod Bayless matures and is able to con-
tribute, this team will be a real force in the Western Conference. -Asst. Sports Editor Matthew Parrino
Teams to Flop 1. New Orleans Hornets: A great point guard can only take your team so far. New Orleans’ starting five, which includes leader Chris Paul, is strong, but the Hornets still lack the slashing playmaker and the depth needed to contend for the Western Conference title. Head coach Byron Scott is banking on Julian Wright to become the slashing forward that his team needs, but he has yet to prove himself. He will start ahead of Peja Stojakovic, whose stats diminished dramatically after a successful comeback season in 2007-08. And who knows what Morris Peterson will bring to the table. The guy hasn’t averaged double-digits in three years. In a tough Western Conference, the Hornets will be looking up and will struggle to make the playoffs this season. -Senior Sports Editor Dave Sanchirico
2. Los Angeles Clippers: In the past 30 seasons, dating back to when they played their games in San Diego, the Clippers have only had two winning campaigns (1990-91, 2005-06) making them the laughingstock of Los Angeles. They’ve always taken a back seat to the world-renowned Lakers, and this season will be no different. After acquiring power forward Blake Griffin with the number one pick in the lottery this past June and watching point guard Baron Davis lose close to 30 pounds – putting him in the best shape of his life – expectations were high for the team that finished 19-63 last year. Despite the glimmer of hope, Griffin went down with a shoulder injury
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in a summer league game and Clippers fans were crushed. Just when it appeared that the team’s fortune had turned around when Griffin returned from the injury, the star rookie went down with a broken left kneecap in the final exhibition game of the preseason. He’s expected to miss the first six weeks of the season, which translates to about 20 games. Taking his starting role will be power forward Craig Smith. Who? Exactly. -Sports Editor Andrew Wiktor
3. Boston Celtics: Kevin Garnett is back and the team added veteran Rasheed Wallace. So why will this team be anything short of amazing? Because this squad has too many question marks. Garnett is coming off of knee surgery that forced him to miss the end of last season and the playoffs. At this point in his career, he is getting older and has become injury prone. Those two characteristics are not the recipe for success in this league. Paul Pierce seems to have lost some of the fire that catapulted this team to a championship two seasons ago. On the other hand, Rajon Rondo is in a contract year and may be playing for a big payout. The bottom line is that this team is old and I don’t see them staying healthy for an entire season. With that said, this team will compete in the East, but I just see too many issues for them to be real competition for the Magic and Cavs. -Asst. Sports Editor Matthew Parrino
PREDICTIONS SANCHIRICO: Championship: Lakers over the Cavs – It’s the matchup we all want to see. Even with a lack of depth, the Lakers should be able to repeat. MVP: LeBron James – James is only 24 years old. He hasn’t even reached his prime yet. That’s a scary thought. Rookie of the Year: Tyreke Evans – The company surrounding Evans on the Kings isn’t great, but his skill set will translate to early success in the NBA. Once he improves his ball handling skills, he’ll be a top-notch point guard. WIKTOR: Championship:Cavs over the Spurs – The King is hungry and after feasting on the East, he’ll devour the West. MVP: Kevin Durant – Not only will his team make the playoffs, but he’s going to win the scoring title as well. Rookie of the Year: Blake Griffin – He’ll come back in mid-December and shake up the league. He looked beastly in the pre-season and if he can stay healthy, he’ll be a lock for ROY despite missing the beginning of the season. PARRINO: Championship: Cavs over the Lakers – The Big Diesel wants to get LeBron a championship. Last time he had that desire was when he signed with Heat… what happened? MVP: LeBron James – The best allaround player in the game just can’t be stopped. Plus the Cavs will finish with more wins than the Lakers. Rookie of the Year: Brandon Jennings – I had Blake Griffin penciled in here, but he will miss the first six weeks of the year. Jennings is NBA ready and will get the majority of the starting minutes for the Bucks.
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SP O R T S Buffalo duo posts strong fall finish By MATTHEW PARRINO David Sanchirico Senior Sports Editor
Yanks’ unavailable luxuries There were two different scenes occurring at Yankee Stadium during Game Six of the American League Championship Series. There was a party going on in the upper levels of the new stadium. Every twostrike count Andy Petite got on Angels hitters brought the 300 and 400 levels to a standing ovation. When the Yankees scored a run, fans hugged eachother, others jumped with joy, and some females showed their satisfaction by kissing their men. But the noise level was noticeably lower down near the field. While the partying fans – who spent half of their bank accounts on upper level seats – were wasting their money on $10 beer while enjoying the Yankees clinch the AL Pennant for the first time since 2003, the snooty rich “fans” in the 100s behind the plate were enjoying their sushi and champaign while paying more attention to their phone conversations than the ball game. This has been the story all year. When Yankee management decided that the inaugural season of the new stadium would bring fans out in hordes, they decided to max out the prices of tickets. It isolated the high rollers from the fans deemed lower by societal standards. Surely fans would pay $1,000 to sit behind home plate, Yankee management thought. But this logic didn’t work out so well for the Yanks. Game after game, the Legends Suite, the section of seats closest to the field behind the plate and along the first and third baselines, was so empty that the stadium looked empty on television. What happened to the days in which people could buy 100-level seats for $12? According to ESPN.com’s Wright Thompson, that’s how it was 20 years ago. Nowadays, that money won’t even pay for parking. Taking those field level seats now are businesses and upper-class, hoity toity, non-baseball fans. It has relegated the die-hards either 100-feet up or in the bleachers. They manage to have a good time with eachother and Game Six was a night many of these, including myself, won’t forget. But it comes at a cost. It’s not easy for me to spend $100 on anything, much less something that won’t ensure longterm benefits. At the same time, that’s what real fans do. They don’t look at the game as “something to pass the time” seeing the Yanks clinch a World Series birth will stay in their see SANCHIRICO page 7
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In its final fall competition, the women’s tennis team got a taste of the Ivy League over the weekend when the team participated in the ITA Regionals at Yale University. The Bulls top doubles team of senior Denise Harijanto and junior Diana Popescu, who was ranked No. 4, impressed throughout the course of the tournament. The pair opened up on Saturday with a victory over Army’s Jessica Ahn and Erin Colton by a score of 8-3. The next match pitted the duo against the Marist
pair of Erin McCarthy and Kelsey Raynor. They dominated the match, winning 8-0, advancing the pair into the round of 16. Harijanto and Popescu continued to roll on Sunday when they disposed of Boston University’s Vivian Laszloffy and Monika Mical, 8-6. The momentum ended there as the duo lost to Yale’s Vicky Brook and Stephanie Kent on Monday. Harijanto and Popescu failed to reach the semifinals of the ITA Regionals for the secondstraight season. Junior Adi Petrova and freshman Tamara Markovic made up the other doubles
team for the Bulls. The pair lost their opening match 9-8 (9) against the Syracuse duo of Simone Kalhorn and C.C. Sardinha. In singles play, both Harijanto and Popescu received opening round byes after being ranked as the seventh and 16th players competing. Petrova did play in the first round and easily ousted Niagara’s Hilary Hansen in straight sets, 6-1, 6-1. Harijanto made it to the round of 16 after winning two matches on Sunday. In the first match, the senior beat St. Bonaventure’s Maria Barouse, 6-0, 6-0. In the second contest she came from
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behind to defeat Monica Chow from Princeton, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2. Attempting to make it to the quarterfinals, Harijanto was eliminated by Stephanie Kent, 6-4, 7-5. Petrova and Popescu were both defeated on Sunday. Petrova lost in three sets against Rutgers player Amy Zang. Popescu reached her second match of the day, only to lose to Stevi Petrelli of Yale in three sets. The Bulls will host St. John’s University on Jan. 23 to kick off their spring schedule. E-mail: sports@ubspectrum.com
NBA Preview
Beyond the arc By DAVID SANCHIRICO, ANDREW WIKTOR and MATTHEW PARRINO Senior Sports Editor, Sports Editor and Assistant Sports Editor
The NBA season tipped off last night. Here is how our editors feel the season will turn out. Teams to Watch 1. Atlanta Hawks: After being putrid for a majority of the decade, the Hawks finally had a winning record last season. They’ve clinched playoff births the last two seasons and could be a contender in the East this season. The reason: the leadership of Joe Johnson. One of the most overlooked players in the league, Johnson has been a go-to scorer ever since landing in the South. He is one of the main reasons why Atlanta is no longer an Eastern Conference laughingstock. The Hawks also have more talent than last year. They have an instant scorer in Jamal Crawford coming off the bench when Johnson needs a rest. Young guns Josh Smith, Al Horford and Marvin Williams are a year older and wiser, and the additions of rookie Jeff Teague and veteran Joe Smith provide depth. I think a stronger, more mature Atlanta squad comes out this year and impresses in the East.
Softball players earn award The National Fastpitch Coaches Association released its academic award list, which included four members of the Buffalo softball team. The criteria for the award is earning a 3.5 GPA or better for the fall and spring semesters. Accepting the Girls Got Game/NFCA All-American Scholar award from the Bulls were junior infielder Kelly Cummings and former UB athletes Erin Zilka, Dana Carter, and Jen Mongiovi. Zilka earned a 3.9 GPA in the spring semester while starting all 48 games for the Bulls. She hit three home runs with 19 RBIs and led the team with 22 runs scored. Carter earned a 4.0 GPA in her first semester and finished with a 3.57 cumulative GPA in her final season of eligibility for the Bulls. The former first baseman started all but one game and hit two home runs. She is still attending Buffalo and is working towards her master’s degree in School Counseling. Cummings turned in a 3.61 GPA in the fall and a 3.5 in the spring. She played in 15 games for the Bulls last season. Mongiovi played in 26 games last season and accumulated a 3.68 GPA in the fall, followed by a 3.82 GPA in the spring. The Bulls tied for the most wins in UB softball history and finished with a record of 25-27 (7-15 Mid-American Conference).
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Sunday Women’s Soccer Buffalo 1 Ohio 2 Monday Men’s Soccer Buffalo Canisius
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2. San Antonio Spurs: Even after 12 years, center Tim Duncan is still putting up numbers. He finished last season averaging 19 points and 10 rebounds and shot over 50 percent from the field. Add a vet like Antonio McDyess and a talent like Courtesy of Keith Allison
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A healthy Kevin Garnett hopes to help bring the Celtics back to the NBA finals.
Senior Day stalemate By MATT WEBER
receiving a pass from leading goal scorer Alan McGreal, Hughes was left alone from eight yards out with just sophomore goalkeeper Nick Fetterman to beat. He sent the shot low left and past Fetterman to give the Griffs a 1-0 lead. Hughes’s goal was the lone score in the first half, but Buffalo answered early in the second half, courtesy of senior forward Dan Bulley. A misplayed header by Canisius ended up on the foot of senior midfielder Mateo Escobar, who found Bulley trailing down the right side of the field. From 12 yards out, Bulley cranked home a goal past Canisius goaltender Luke Seymour – his third goal of the season and 17th of his career. The goal puts Bulley in a three-way tie for 10th place on Buffalo’s all-time goal scoring list, alongside Kurt Felgemacher and Brian Hanchar. “Looking at that list, there are a few really good players on it,” Bulley said. “I feel privileged to be on it. I couldn’t have done it without my team and the support of the coaches.”
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Even with the momentum of an impressive performance against No.1 ranked Akron, the men’s soccer team could not find a way to end its current winless streak. Buffalo was looking for a Senior Day win against rival Canisius on Monday. However, the Golden Griffins (3-10-2) had other ideas, playing to a 1-1 tie against the Bulls (5-9-1, 0-4 Mid-American Conference). It was Buffalo’s fifth-straight game without a win. According to Buffalo head coach John Astudillo, the result left his team aggravated. “It is a frustrated team right now because they are not getting results,” Astudillo said. “You work so hard for the results and want them to play as well as you prepared them to do. We had quite a few chances, and we didn’t capitalize on those at all and we should have.” The Griffs opened the game on a goal by midfielder J.J. Hughes in the 15th minute. After
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The Bulls couldn’t break the tie against cross town rival Canisius.
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