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Landing a Job With a Liberal Arts Degree NATALIE LICATA Staff Writer
You’ve finally made it through the grueling exams, the caffeinated study sessions and the fatiguing all-nighters. Once you’ve earned the degree, suddenly your worry shifts from passing classes to finding a job. And for liberal arts majors, the market for opportunities often looks bleak. To help allay job fears, Drew Kerr will be conducting his fourth consecutive career session – titled “Don’t Jump! Improving Your Job Hunting and Networking Odds” – in 306 Clemens on Thursday at 4 p.m. A member of UB’s graduating class of 1979, Kerr received a degree in English, was a writer for The Spectrum, and did freelance work for The Buffalo News. In the last 20 years, he has run his own public-relations consultancy, through which he has received thousands of resumes and cover letters. He uses his experience to advise many UB students in his sessions.
“I want to show everyone that there is no reason to freak out,” Kerr said. “I don’t care if you are a sociology major and you have no idea what you’re going to do with the degree, or if you feel you know what you want to do, but don’t have a chance. I’m here to say you can improve your odds dramatically.” In their job searches, students are using a lot of outdated methods, some of which Kerr himself used in the early 1980s, that may be irrelevant today. In Kerr’s opinion, students don’t realize that there are a lot of things that they can do that will improve the likelihood of finding a job. The session will not be a resume-building workshop; rather, it will spread information about how to overcome obstacles within the job market.
“It’s never too early to think ahead and lay the ground work,” Kerr said. “If you lay the ground work now it will help you tremendously when you graduate.” The whole process of searching and applying for a job has changed dramatically, according to Kerr, who will be answering students’ questions during and after the presentation. “I feel for students,” Kerr said. “Last year was the most freaked out, numb group of students that have ever showed up for one of my sessions. Come in, be positive.” Kerr guarantees to provide eye-opening points and prompt many “ah-ha” moments. “You’re going to walk out thinking about things you never thought about before,” Kerr said. E-mail: news@ubspectrum.com Courtesy of Derek Kerr
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Obamacare Crescendo Final court battle for Obamacare draws near
MANAGING EDITOR Edward Benoit EDITORIAL EDITOR James Bowe NEWS EDITORS Luke Hammill, senior Rebecca Bratek Sara DiNatale, asst. Lisa Khoury, asst. ARTS EDITORS Jameson Butler, senior Vanessa Frith Nicolas Pino LIFE EDITORS Akari Iburi, senior Steven Wrobel Veronica Ritter Keren Baruch, asst. SPORTS EDITORS Aaron Mansfield, senior Brian Josephs Scott Resnick, asst. Andreius Coleman, asst. PHOTO EDITORS Meg Kinsley, senior Alexa Strudler Satsuki Aoi Troi Williams, asst. Nyeri Moulterie, asst. CARTOONIST Patrick Boyle WEB EDITOR Matthew Parrino James Twigg
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When President Obama signed his landmark healthcare bill in 2010, he not only solidified it as law, but he also solidified the future for one of the biggest Supreme Court cases in the last 50 years. It was almost inevitable. The law galvanized the Tea Party, which characterized it as a government takeover of healthcare. Big Republican gains in the 2010 election were undoubtedly tied to the fierce opposition to the president’s bill. Candidates used it as a springboard to show off how strong their conservative convictions were and how opposed they were to big bad Obama. They also used it as a weapon against Democratic incumbents. Obamacare was a triumph and a curse rolled up in an irony burrito.
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Soon other courts weighed in with their decisions. Some decided for and against the law, leading up to the final fight at the highest court in the land.
Vicious opposition vowed to take the bill to courts the instant it was passed. In Idaho, a bill passed the
It’s hard to think that making sure everyone in the nation has access to healthcare doesn’t fall under the
guise of general welfare. The watered down version of the bill makes this problem. It’s unfair to mandate that every person must get health insurance when the cost of care is still outrageously high. If a single payer system has been put in place, prices could have been pushed down and a mandate wouldn’t be such an issue. Partisan politics, however, have permeated and crippled every body of government. There was quite literally no way a bill with a single payer would have passed either legislative body. A measure that would reduce healthcare costs, reduce government spending, and increase quality of life failed because of blind opposition to a perceived opponent. The Supreme Court should uphold Obamacare. Although it’s not perfect, it’s perfectly within the power of congress to do it. It’s a sad day when taxes on megacorporations and millionaires are called class warfare, and reforms to healthcare in an effort to keep everyone healthy are met with staunch opposition.
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At issue was the mandate for people to get health insurance, or be subject to a penalty. Many states said the requirement overstepped the bounds of Congress’s ability to regulate interstate commerce. The case Florida et al v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, with 26 states as plaintiffs, found the law to be unconstitutional.
What people forget is that the government mandates many things that were previously voluntary. We would not be the same nation if the government didn’t mandate safety regulations that were previously voluntary. One of the explicit jobs of Congress is to provide for the “general welfare” of the nation.
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state legislature before Obamacare was even signed into law, vowing to take it to court if it did. It was the first in a cascade of states, 28 in all, to take the issue to court.
Voting mostly reflected that sentiment. No republican in either the House of Representatives or the Senate voted for the bill, and much of the resistance from House Democrats came from the bill being watered down and not having a single payer system.
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Cleaning a park is usually a pretty simple job. You go in, take out the trash, clean up after inconsiderate visitors who think the world is there for their dog to defecate on, and pick up after litterbugs. Usually this doesn’t requite a battalion of riot police. Such is not the case with Occupy Wall Street. Early Tuesday morning, at 1 a.m., NYPD forced out the protesters from Zuccotti Park, near the heart of the financial district in New York City. Earlier in the night, fliers were distributed throughout the park, detailing why they were being forced out. City officials and the owners of the park said the site needed cleaning, and that the protesters had to take all of their things and leave temporarily. Many protesters had tents and other things to facilitate a true “occupation,” and were told to remove them. Tents, sleeping bags, and tarps were not to be brought back to the park. Of course, many occupants decided to resist and were arrested, around 70 or so, but not all arrested were part of the movement. In a scary turn of events, media was barred from the area.
A CBS news helicopter was reportedly told to stay out of the airspace above the Park, and was forced into the ultimate punishment: going to New Jersey. The pilots were nearly blinded by the reflection of hair gel coming from outside clubs in Jersey. So, just like any other rational cleaning operation, it was executed at 1 a.m. and required several arrests and violence. That’s pretty much how cleaning a dorm room goes, too. It’s well within the rights of the city and the park owners to clear the place out for a little while to clean up. When you have a large group of people coming together like this, no matter how clean, there will be some refuse buildup. Cleaning that garbage ensures the park remains a safe and healthy place to continue peaceful protest. How NYPD handled the situation, however, is nothing short of a failure. Removing the press from seeing what was going on was a terrible decision, one that shows little respect for the most cherished of all rights in this nation. We, as reporters, have a duty to seek and report the truth, and NYPD stopped that duty dead. Why they did so is somewhat confusing, and all backwards. If they thought that nobody would be able to
take video or photos from the scene, they must have been out of their minds. Almost every human in the U.S. has a cell phone, and most have a camera. The media is inescapable now. So the decision to remove professional journalists only removes a group of impartial reporters who could bolster their image if they were conducting themselves well and respectfully. Now the speculation all falls back to the logical conclusion: that the NYPD knew it weas going to be doing things that wouldn’t look good. So it stifled the free press. This is a classic example of why the media is our most powerful, yet delicate, institution. We need it to expose truth, but that power can be broken when government and authority act against it. Whether or not you agree or disagree with Occupy Wall Street, we all have a vested interest in making sure the news is able to operate without fear of being stamped out. NYPD needs serious reform to ensure this doesn’t happen again.
LETTER to THE EDITOR Dear Editor, The writer of (Making a Statement, Waterboarding debate continues) is too biased to give an accurate interpretation of the Cain scandal. The entire article is one big hate fest on Herman Cain. The author even went out of their way to bash the 999 plan. Those who hate that tax plan have been listening to too many MSNBC talking points and clearly can't do a couple of simple calculations. Here is the truth behind the sex allegations. The first accuser, Sharon Bialek, came out and told her story about how Herman Cain sexually harrassed her and she was pretty graphic. Her lawyer is celebrity lawyer and democratic activist Gloria Allred.
This is the same lawyer who brought up a bogus illegal immigrant case against Meg Whitman, the woman who ran against Jerry Brown for Governor of California. A video can be seen of Allred and Bialek laughing and joking about Cain. Wouldn't a woman coming out to the nation about a man who sexually harassed her be a little more distraught? Secondly, why didn't she file a complaint against Cain 14 years ago? Thirdly, why is she coming out with this now when Cain has peaked in the polls? Private investigator TJ Ward from Atlanta used his voice analyzing software to tell if Cain was lying or not. This software is already used by law enforcement and is 95% accurate. His results determined that Cain was telling the truth and that Bialek is most likely lying. Let us not forget that Sharon Bialek lived in the same building as Obama advisor
David Axelrod while living in Chicago. The second accuser to come forward, Karen Kraushaar, actually works for the Obama administration. Cain was absolutely correct when he said these allegations are coming from the democratic machine. All the evidence points to that. In a court of law, Herman Cain would no doubt be innocent. At the end of the article, the author says republicans just blame everybody else and we don't need a president like that. Excuse me? What do you think Obama has been doing his entire 3 years so far? Steven Cooper, stevenco@buffalo.edu
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Take A Dirty Picture For Me KEREN BARUCH Asst. Life Editor
People are always connected in some way to that one girl in middle school who transferred because a naked photo of her was leaked. She may have been an acquaintance, your best friend’s camp friend, your dad’s girlfriend’s sister’s daughter, or just someone that you knew through Facebook stalking. But whatever you do, do not let that one girl be you. Officials and parents say that the pornographic exchanges – which often fall outside the law – are on the rise, according to The Washington Examiner. Reputations at schools are ruined and careers are destroyed due to pornographic pictures that girls send. I don’t get it. It is not cool or seductive to send out a naked picture, although girls may feel that it is in the moment. It is, however, pure stupidity. An intimate or inappropriate picture uploaded to a social networking site can haunt someone for years, even if the picture has been removed, according to keepyourfamilysafeonline.com. What many of these girls don’t realize is that while they think they’re being sexy and naughty snapping shots of themselves in the mirror (mirror pictures are so seventh grade, it’s time to get with the program girls), the recipients are sending them out to every person in their phone book. Eventually the entire town has the picture saved onto their phones, computers, and maybe even printed around lockers at school. Thirty three percent of young adults have sent a naked picture to a significant other at least once, and 17 percent of the recipients forwarded the message to someone else, according to MTV’s Sexting Survey. Granted there are some boys that respect their girlfriends and do not pass along the naked photo – at least not right away. Relationships come to an end and it is dangerous to have a nude picture out and about just waiting to be forwarded. “Naked pictures of some girls from my high school are literally saved on every single guys phone,” said Samantha Mule, a junior communication major. Fifty one percent of girls that send naked photos said that they do so because of pressure from boys, according to HYPERLINK "http://www.pcnsdreams. com" www.pcnsdreams.com. Why do girls fall under this pressure? If a boy is asking you for a picture of you butt naked, not only does he not respect you, but also he obviously isn’t satisfied with the way that you look in person. He knows that you’re going to try your best to impress him, and he’s obviously ready to lube his hands and get his arm muscles working, while staring at the image of you. I never understood and probably will never understand this rising phenomena of taking dirty pictures. If you can get it in person, why do you need it on screen? These couples are purely pathetic. Always remember to be safe, be smart, and never pose naked in front of a camera. There are plenty of other ways to be sexual without risking your future. Email: keren.baruch@ubspectrum.com
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A Photographer’s Manifesto Professor Sylvie Bélanger’s life as an educator and artist
STEVEN WROBEL Life Editor A collage of videos stretch across the walls of a room as each moving image captures the raw expressions and disciplined fingers of classical musicians. The piece is titled, Entre le son et l’image, or Between the Sound and the Image, and is one of many sophisticated works created by the innovative artist Sylvie Bélanger. Bélanger, an associate professor in the department of visual studies, has taught at UB since 2003. Her expertise, however, extends beyond the walls of UB and reaches worldwide, having done exhibits throughout the U.S., Canada, Western Europe, and Eastern Asia. But despite her international success, she maintains a humble view of her work, even declining her picture to be taken with any of her art. “Art should be represented by the art, not by the artist,” Bélanger said. “I’ve made only two works that I’m extremely satisfied with, among many, many, many, many, works.” One of these pieces that Bélanger speaks proudly of is, Entre le son et l’image. The piece, which initially exhibited in Japan, was inspired by a constant bombardment of music, combined with her love of the cello. “I just put my iPod in my ears for three days,” Bélanger said. “Everything I was doing – walking, shopping for my groceries, whatever I was doing – I always had music with me.
One night before going to bed, she had been listening to a tango and it was then that she knew what she wanted.
to Louise Noguchi, professor of photography at the University of Toronto/Sheridan College and a former student of Bélanger.
She contacted a French composer and had him compose a piece for her embodying the “violence, and the playfulness, and the passion” that tango offered, balanced by the accompaniment of the cello and flute.
Before settling at UB, Bélanger had taught at the University of Windsor, the San Francisco Arts Institute, the University of Toronto/Sheridan College, and Concordia University.
“Sylvie Bélanger mediates technology in deeply thoughtful ways by making works of substance, grace and intelligence,” said Millie Chen, the chair of the department of visual studies. “She is an artist who is dedicated to ideas and knowledge while simultaneously attentive to the importance of pleasure within the art experience, creating richly aesthetic, sensual and provocative experiences.” Bélanger’s love of art and aesthetics is apparent in her classroom. She has been teaching for over 20 years and has dedicated a lot of time and effort to her students, pushing them to achieve and be the best they can be, according to Porsche Jones, a junior studio art major. “She can reach into your head and find the exact right word for the concept you are trying to describe,” Jones said. “This is invaluable in artistic practice, because it makes you more aware of the dialogue in your work.” Bélanger’s ability to meet students on their level while expanding their depth of knowledge is one reason why she is so highly regarded among the artistic community, according
“Many students from Canada and around the world chose the University of Windsor just to study with her,” Noguchi said. “These undergraduate students are often the top choices of graduate schools and receive significant scholarships – she has an amazing skill at developing the level of her students. As a graduate professor, she likes to challenge her students and enjoys the challenge of instructing the graduate seminar class. Her classes are stimulating and engaging as she has the ability to interest students in discussion with her knowledge of art.” Bélanger herself has been the recipient of many awards and grants, including the Joseph L. Stauffer Award for Outstanding Mid-Career Artist from Visual Arts in Canada in 1995. She also has received a number of research and production grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Chalmers Foundation, Canadian External Affairs/Japan Foundation, Alliance Française, the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the Toronto Arts Council, according to Chen. Although she is the head of the photography department, Bélanger
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admits she is not bound by the constraints that photographs impose in her artistic works. “I don’t work only on photography. I don’t consider myself [just] a photographer,” Bélanger said. “I use different mediums according to different pieces…I use sound, I use video, I use photography, sculpture, other ways are always mingling in my work.”
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Bélanger attributes her successes in the classroom to allowing her students to explore themselves through their works with different designs and emotion. She encourages her students to read and go to art and dance exhibitions to find a perspective that works for each of them. “What is important is that the student finds their voice,” Bélanger said. “I don’t believe in originality, I think originality is a concept from the modernist. I believe in the individual bringing something different in their work.”
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Bélanger does not draw her inspiration from one particular person or event. Rather, she often immerses herself in her surroundings and believes that it is from the many experiences coming together in a particular moment that help her find her inspiration in creating her works. “It was a way of seeing the world,” Bélanger said. “Art is not black and white. It is always in the between in the white and the black that everything is happening.”
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A Week in Ink: Issue No. 37 NICOLAS PINO Arts Editor
Batman and Robin No. 3
Being a kid can be tough. Being a 10-year-old killing-machine turned vigilante is even tougher. Damian Wayne’s transition from aggressive assassin to the Bat’s tightwearing companion has been a difficult one, and principal writer Peter Tomasi pulls out every weapon in his literary arsenal to ideally illustrate Wayne’s inner turmoil. Tomasi has a connection to Damian like few other writers have, seamlessly capturing the rage and confusion of a child raised by Batman, and opposed to pushing the character to the background of the series, places the Son of the Bat front-page and center. As more light is shed on “Nobody,” Gotham’s newest wretched rogue, a story-arch emerges from the depths that will shake Batman, Incorporated to its core. Plus, book-ending the issue is one of the most bat-claw biting cliffhangers the DC team has produced in the first few “New 52” issues. With artist Patrick Gleason and Tomasi’s synergy reaching an all-time high, Batman and Robin has a defined direction, developed characters and Damian’s ever-present fear of failure that few stories on shelves can compete with. With five ongoing Dark Knight series that barrage reader’s wallets every month, there’s understandably only so much room in reader’s longboxes for the character’s caped crusades, but undoubtedly the unrivaled Batman and Robin deserves its place among the polyethylene-encased titans.
Avenging Spider-Man No. 1
The Occultist No. 1
While competing with Brian Michael Bendis and Dan Slott is like having to out-run Usain Bolt in the 100m Dash, Avenging Spider-Man writer Zeb Wells manages to keep up the pace.
Stemming from Dark Horse’s midsummer trial issue, The Occultist finally brings its brand of quirky, weird heroics into a three-issue series.
The premise for Marvel’s latest wallcrawling masterwork is simple: have New York’s most humorous hero team-up every issue with one of his Avengers counterparts, evoking a relationship that was previously unexplored territory in the comic book kingdom.
Writer Tim Seeley and Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson collaborate to write an issue that, besides having a relatively bland premise of being “the chosen one,” actually makes for a thrilling indie take on the world of the arcane arts.
Wells does well to keep the essential webbed-heartbeat of Spidey beating; each and every one of the Wall-Crawlers quips are hysterical, while his internal dialogue is rife with fatigue and doubt. This issue’s team-up with Red Hulk provides the reader with a plethora of opportunities to observe the stark contrast between Peter Parker’s incredibly over-caring personality and Thunderbolt Ross’ residual contempt for living organisms, and like a simmering ink-filled kettle, is coming to a boil.
For those that missed the issue’s absolutely incredible one-shot earlier this year, the story follows collegiate book-worm Rob Bailey. Bailey’s life works much the same as any other his age: school, work, putting in over-time with the under-explored, but overly endowed girlfriend, but unlike the rest of post-adolescence America, has the added responsibility of fighting the world’s unspeakable evil.
The issue faces a few relatively major problems however, most of which fall under Marvel’s decision to financially cripple its readers. At the issue’s near-extortion $3.99 price-tag, you’d expect a full-blown elaborate adventure, instead the reader is given a short glimpse at a universe in the making. While Avenging Spider-Man represents one of the first Marvel properties to come packaged with a free digital copy of the comic a la iOS Marvel app, the code expired not two days after AvSM hit store shelves. With its stunning artwork, brilliant character crafting and witty hero banter, Avenging Spider-Man should have been a must-buy, but as with any over-priced, half-cooked meal, AvSM needs to be sent back to the kitchen.
Artwork by Victor Drujiniu mostly aids the issue, as he creates scenes of intense drama, intimate action and outstanding camaraderie, all with unparalleled ease. Though all drawn in a semi-realistic nature, the character’s expressions range from a beautifully composed confusion and discord to slightly deranged and unintentionally inhuman physiques, the likes of which would have even the Crypt Keeper cowering from the issue’s poorly rendered human form. For those who still have not had their post-Hallow’s Eve paranormal impulse fulfilled, The Occultist embodies the perfect supernatural supplement.
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Daily Delights STEVEN WROBEL Life Editor
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a…weather balloon. While many students spend their weekends partying, studying, and hanging out with their friends, one club at UB spent its weekend studying the outer realms of Earth’s atmosphere. UB Students for the Exploration and Development Space (UB-SEDS) is a club that sets its ambitions skyward to generate interest and activism in the community for any and all space-related topics, according to Sean Lyons, a senior aerospace engineering major.
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Buffalosing: Don’t Abandon Optimism AARON MANSFIELD Senior Sports Editor
Everyone knows Buffalo sports and depression go together like beef and weck, Rex Ryan and feet, Corona and lime. But for a short time this fall, we – those dedicated and tortured enough to call ourselves Buffalo sports fans – had hope. How quickly that hope has been absolutely demolished. The sounds of the city have gone from shouts of “we can do this!” to murmurs of “same old, same old.” These days, you don’t hear horns honking to the tune of “let’s go Buf-fa-lo” and “the Bills make me want to shout” is no longer pumping through speakers.
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Folks, I’m here to tell you there is reason to keep the faith. Just two weeks ago, the Bills were 5-2 and making waves around the NFL. Even CBS analyst and formerly hated Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino said: “the Buffalo Bills will make the playoffs.” At one point, Fred Jackson was third in the NFL in rushing, trailing only Darren McFadden and Adrian Peterson. Ryan Fitzpatrick’s stats had him right around sixth or seventh best quarterback in the league, and he signed a mammoth $62 million contract extension. The Buffalo defense even had the best turnover margin in the league after finishing dead last a year ago. Just one week prior to that point, the Sabres improved to 5-1 and were ranked second in ESPN’s Power Rankings. Their defense looked strong and goalie Ryan Miller got off to an incredible start, surrendering eight goals in five starts – a Goals Against Average of 1.6. To put that number in perspective, Miller allowed 2.22 GAA in 2009-10, the year he won the Vezina Trophy, given to the league’s best goaltender. Led by Miller and sometimes-loved-sometimeshated forward Thomas Vanek and his six goals, the Sabres had Pegulaville in utter jubilance.
The wrestling team couldn’t get a single win in four matches over the weekend.
TYLER CADY Staff Writer Following an eventful offseason that was exhilarating at times and chaotic at others, the wrestling team finally got back to competition on Saturday. It only took one day for Buffalo to lose its first four matches of the season at the “Wrestle for a Cure” duals in Harrisburg, Penn. The Bulls went up against Old Dominion, Navy, Lock Haven, and Utah Valley in consecutive dual meets. The Bulls put up a solid fight in every match, but lost 24-15, 21-15, 17-16, and 19-12 respectively to their competition. It was the 285-pound weight class that would give the Bulls the most trouble, as the squad went winless in all four matches in the category. Three different Buffalo wrestlers competed in that slot. Those athletes had to step up due to a medical issue with junior Brett Correll, who was recently disqualified from ever competing again due to problems with his neck. Correll was
Both teams have plunged, but they still have life. I think the Bills will beat the woeful Dolphins this weekend in Miami and improve to 6-4 (but who doesn’t?) and finish 9-7. If 9-7 is good enough to get into the playoffs, I’ll be euphoric.
My beloved fellow Buffalo die-hards, it’s not over (cue Daughtry), so stop hanging your heads. And if nothing else, come see a men’s basketball game. That team hasn’t broken our hearts. Yet.
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They failed. “We have an issue there that we’re dealing with, and we’re struggling in that weight class,” said head coach Jim Beichner. “You won’t see Brett wrestle ever again, and those guys stepping in his place have to find a way to win.” Those wrestlers surrendered a combined 16 points to their opponents behind a disappointing performance from Mason, who was pinned by Navy’s Daniel Miller and beaten in a major decision by Henry Turner from Lock Haven.
mitted 53 turnovers against its opponents’ 29. The Bulls were able to overcome the 18-16 turnover deficit to Niagara because of the strong play of senior guard Brittany Hedderson. The senior recorded the first double-double of her career, scoring 19 points and snagging 10 rebounds.
Obviously, the past two weeks have proven the Bills are not great, but I still think they’re a good team. They’re struggling largely because Kyle Williams and Shawne Merriman are out, and now so is Eric Wood. 9-7 is a formidable record. Can we all agree on that? At the beginning of the year, most experts were predicting the team would finish 5-11 or 6-10. So maybe they don’t make the playoffs this year. It’ll be heartbreaking, yes, but it won’t be the end of the world. This team’s stars (i.e. Jackson, Fitzpatrick, Steve Johnson) are just entering their prime and the Bills should be even better next year.
No need to push the panic button on this one. If I see one more status like “the Sabres are terrible,” I might just lose it. Keep calm and honk on.
Redshirt freshman Zach Ward, who usually wrestles at 174 pounds, senior Tyler Peter, who usually wrestles at 197, and junior Jedd Mason all took a turn at the heaviest weight class.
Contrary to the performance from the Bulls’ heaviest weight class, the team’s lightest wrestler provided the day’s brightest spot. 125-pound redshirt freshman Max Soria went undefeated on the day. Soria won all four of his matches, highlighted by a pinning of Old Dominion’s Eric Dunnet in the first match of the day. “It was great to watch [Max] compete,” Beichner said. “Three of the four he won handily, and the other he won in overtime, and I’m really proud of his efforts. He looked really good this weekend.” Soria wasn’t the only newcomer to have a solid weekend. Freshman Jake Waste wrestled in the 184-pound weight class, losing only once on the day. Waste’s performance was highlighted by his win over nationally ranked two-time NCAA qualifier Luke Rebertus of Navy. Rebertus was coming off his second 30-win season for the Midshipmen, and he is one of only 13 wrestlers in Navy history to accomplish that feat twice. Waste pulled off
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The times they are a-changin’.
The Sabres have simply hit a rough patch, but they’ll be okay. Yes, the team will suffer because Miller is out with a concussion, but everyone in Buffalo has been aching to see promising Jhonas Enroth play anyway, as Miller has gone 1-5 in his last six starts. The squad is still 11-6. The Sabres are SECOND in points in the Eastern Conference and everyone is worried. They’re just one game back of Claude Giroux and the conference-leading Philadelphia Flyers.
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coming off of an incredible season in which he placed fourth in the Mid-American Conference and went to the NCAA tournament. His absence now leaves the Bulls shorthanded in the 285-pound class.
Hedderson added five assists and a steal. Her performance led to her being named the Mid-American Conference East Player of the Week.
TYLER CADY and BRYAN FEILER Staff Writers
Buffalo fans had no idea what to expect of the 2011-12 women’s basketball team heading into the squad’s first two games. Following those games, people still don’t know what to expect. Two different Bulls teams showed up on Friday and Monday. Buffalo (1-1) started its campaign with a 65-54 win against Niagara (0-1). That win was followed up by an embarrassing loss to Duquesne (2-0). Behind a 30-0 run to close the opening half, the Dukes put the Bulls away without so much as a challenge, winning 90-46. Turnover problems plagued the Bulls throughout the twogame road trip. Buffalo com-
“We kept turning the ball over,” Hill-MacDonald said. “I think we had 23 first half turnovers, and they had 39 points off of our turnovers. We didn’t shoot the ball all that well and we didn’t go to the boards all that well.” That trend carried over to the second half as well, as Buffalo would never cut the lead to any less than 30 for the remainder of the game. A lot of that had to do with the Bulls’ struggles to put the ball in the hoop, as they shot a combined 29.4 percent from the field on the evening.
Head coach Linda Hill-MacDonald praised Hedderson.
The Bulls have struggled with turnovers throughout their first two games, but it proved costly in their 90-46 loss against Duquesne. Spectrum File Photo
vor. The Bulls would fail to get on the scoreboard again until after halftime, and Duquesne opened up a 40-10 lead heading into intermission.
“I think Brittany Hedderson on the court certainly has stepped in and taken over our leadership role from a playing standpoint,” Hill-MacDonald said. “She has the ability to take over games and at times during our game [on Friday] she did that for us.” But Hedderson’s ability would not save the squad against Duquesne, as the Dukes dismantled the Bulls. The Bulls offense was sloppy all night, with an assist-toturnover ratio of 6-35. The Dukes also attempted a remarkable 33 more shots than the Bulls. Those 35 turnovers were more than Buffalo has had in any game in over a decade.
Duquesne played lock-down defense, effectively shutting down Hedderson, Buffalo’s most prolific scorer. She was held to eight points on 3-of-12 shooting. “[Duquesne] got very physical with [Hedderson] off the ball,” Hill-MacDonald said. “She didn’t have as many open looks as she did in the [previous game], and they did take her out of it.” With Hedderson held in check, the Bulls’ scoring was severely limited. Just one player, senior guard Ephesia Holmes, was able to reach double figures.
“Turnovers are the story of the game,” Hill-MacDonald said. “We were just very, very careless with the ball tonight.” The contest really got out of hand in the final 11 minutes of the first half. The game was tied at 10 with 11:32 remaining before the break, but that’s when the game turned dramatically in the Dukes’ fa-
Thankfully for the Bulls, they now get to return to the friendly confines of Alumni Arena. With their two-game road trip over, they’ll take on the Bucknell Bisons (1-1) of the Patriot league on Saturday at 5:30 p.m.
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the upset in overtime. “Jake was 3-1 and he beat a top-10 guy in the country and a returning AllAmerican,” Beichner said. “It was only his second weekend on the mat, so that’s pretty impressive.” The only two other wrestlers to post a winning record on the day were senior Kevin Smith – out of the 141-pound weight class – and redshirt junior Mark Lewandowski, who wrestled at 157-pounds. Both came away with only one loss in the four matches. Buffalo will now return home to take on Big-10 foe and seventh-ranked Michigan. The Bulls will host the Wolverines on Friday at 5 p.m. in Alumni Arena.
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Volleyball Team Sets Sights on 2012 BEN TARHAN Staff Writer The volleyball team needed to win its last two matches of the season to qualify for the Mid-American Conference Tournament. Although the Bulls (11-19, 4-12 MAC) struggled throughout most of the season and had very little success recently, they still positioned themselves to salvage the eighth and final playoff spot pending road wins over Ohio (20-9, 12-3 MAC) and Kent State (12-9, 5-11 MAC). But the Bulls had their playoff hopes dashed away as both teams swept them. The Bulls traveled to Ohio on Friday night in a must-win situation and played three close sets, 19-25, 22-25, 24-26, giving the Bobcats all they could handle, but it wouldn’t be enough to keep Buffalo’s playoff hopes alive. The Bulls led in the third set but were unable to put away the Bobcats. Sophomore Dana Musil was her usual steady presence, leading the Bulls with seven kills while freshmen Liz Scott and Sable Staller had six each. With their season all but over, the Bulls traveled to Kent State on Saturday for one last hurrah. But Buffalo came out flat, losing in straight sets once again, 16-25, 22-25 and 13-25. Head coach Todd Kress said his team knew it had to win both matches to get into the MAC Tournament, but after losing the tough match to Ohio on Friday night the girls just didn’t have any fight left against Kent State. The Bulls’ season got out to a fast start, but the second-youngest team in the NCAA could not maintain its momentum and suffered a dismal month of October, winning only three matches after Oct. 1. Kress credited the lousy stretch at
the end of the season to his team being overmatched by the MAC West. “We simply just played better teams,” Kress said. “The West division was better than we were and we weren’t ready to play at that level yet.” The good news for the Bulls is that they only graduate one senior and return a very young, talented core of players. Kress is looking for his team to refocus and rededicate through the offseason and into next season. The Bulls will be without senior Abby Niekamp next year, a player that filled a tough role in being the only senior on the team. Kress applauded the job she did as team leader. “I thought she did a really commendable job with everything that we faced, being such a young program and such a young team,” Kress said. “She did a great job with the challenges that she had, being the only senior.” Although the season didn’t play out exactly the way he would have liked, Kress can pull one huge positive from the 2011 season. The team played primarily freshmen and sophomores. Kress is looking for that early playing experience to pay off in the next few seasons as the program matures. The Bulls will use the offseason to try and eliminate rookie mistakes with hopes for a more successful season next year. One thing, however, is clear: if the girls want to be successful, they will need a “completely different level of commitment, determination and buy-in,” something that Kress doesn’t think will be a problem.
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