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PROTECTING HER GOAL UB soccer player White defies medical history to become D-1 keeper SARA DINATALE

Managing Editor

Mckenzie White is wearing shorts. It’s warm for October – at least 65 degrees. And White, well aware of the looming harsh chill of a Buffalo winter, is embracing the last few days she can dress like it’s still summer. This soccer player’s got a new leg to show off. At any point last year – even if it were 90 degrees – she’d be wearing sweatpants to hide her legs. Soccer was her dream, but doctors kept telling her that the legs and feet she was born with would keep her from the field. She wanted to play and she has spent every day since defying and dumbfounding them. “Those doctors saw my body; they saw my clubbed feet,” White said. “They saw the breaks in my feet, the crooked legs. But they didn’t see me. They don’t see me. They don’t see who I am, my determination or my perseverance.” Until June, both her legs were offset, misaligned between the tibia (below the knee) and femur (above). And there was nearly unbearable pain in her right knee. That was before the surgery – before White finally got answers she’d been seeking and a straight right leg she was told she’d never have. Her feet have their own story, too – one that includes eight breaks between the ages of 10 and 15. And though all of White’s lower body complications are connected, it was usually her feet that were the focus. When she was born in 1993, they were clubbed – rotated facing each other from the ankle. She was in casts up to her hips when she was 2 years old. Her mother worried about her daughter being able to walk comfort-

ably. She had no notion White would grow up to be a Division I athlete. When White was 4, she hit the soccer field. She’s been fighting to stay on it since. She is an athletic anomaly. She should not be able to play soccer. Most people with a medical history like White’s self-select; they fall into hobbies that don’t tax their bodies. They don’t reach the level of athleticism White has already surpassed. White, a junior goalkeeper on the women’s soccer team, came to UB her freshman year on an athletic scholarship. At that point, she’d already been going against her doctors for years. She was told to stop playing – that her legs and feet couldn’t handle it, that she was “born with a bad set of wheels,” that she needed to drop her ball and try swimming or biking – but White knew things about herself the seven doctors who told her to stop playing couldn’t understand. White played on a fractured foot for eight months in middle school before doctors figured out it was broken in three places. She has kept ice buckets on the sidelines to soak her feet between halves. She has been bound to a wheelchair with two broken feet, impatiently awaiting a completed recovery so she could get back to the field. It’s always been about that field. And right now, White is not able to man her net. She’s spent the past two seasons in blue and white supporting the Bulls from the sidelines. She has been approved for a fifth year of eligibility, but whether she’ll be back playing next year, the year after or at all depends on her ongoing recovery process from the massive leg surgery she had in June.

Aline Kobayashi, The Spectrum

Before June, both of White’s legs were crooked. Her right leg, which was once 11 degrees deformed, was surgically straightened. Her left leg, however, is still 6 degrees deformed between her tibia and femur.

Femur 6° Tibia

Chad Cooper, The Spectrum

Mckenzie White is a junior goalkeeper for the women’s soccer team. She has sat the last two seasons out due to leg complications she’s had since birth. But the persistent athlete is determined to compete again once she recovers from her latest surgery.

“If I don’t succeed, if I’m not able to play again, it won’t be because I didn’t do everything in my power to get back on the field,” White said. “It would be because my body just simply didn’t allow me to do it.” She’s never been one to let an injury define her. Soccer has White under a trance she isn’t willing to break. She has had a lifelong star-crossed love affair with the game. One of her physical therapists, Sheri Walters, said she has never seen someone with White’s degree of deformity compete at such a high level and that most people with White’s medical history wouldn’t make it to club soccer. “It’s like she was made to play soccer,” said White’s brother, Matt, 27. She may have been made to play, but doctors would argue she wasn’t built to. They point to a few things – White’s worn-down knee cartilage, the flat bones in her feet that should be rounded, the rounded bones in her feet that should be flat – and tell her to put away her cleats for good. But this is the girl who would juggle a soccer ball down supermarket aisles – the girl who left her home and family in Flower Mound, Texas, at 15 to attend a boarding school in Missouri because it had a promising soccer program. It would take fewer than eight foot fractures (White had seven in just her left foot) to get many athletes to quit a sport, but White has never even considered it. Seldom does White let her positive attitude slip away. White’s mother said her daughter sees “the bright side of everything.” Her father, David, says she gets it from her grandfather – he ran a restaurant called The Optimist Café up until a year ago. White has been serving up optimism since she was a toddler, stuck in casts and a wheelchair with a big grin on her face and a mess of sweet strawberry hair on her head. White leaves little room for negativity to creep into her consciousness. When she was back in a wheelchair in middle school due to foot injuries, she kept herself entertained and her friends laughing by learning to “pop wheelies.”

She’s humble and quiet; her Texas accent is light – she was born, and lived a few years, in Boston. Her hair is typically pulled back in a ponytail. She’s most comfortable in soccer Tshirts. And even though everyone in her life seems to see something stunning in the persistent athlete, she says she’s nothing special. “I’ve just as much to learn from everyone else as they can learn from me,” White said. “And I think that is important to say. I don’t think I’m special or anything like that. We all have a story worth telling – this just happens to be mine.” *** White’s mom, Michelle, lovingly called them her “crazy legs.” “I used to pray for her to love her legs the way they are,” Michelle said. “She never could.” White admits she never did. “I literally just hated the shape of them,” she said. It was like an invisible string was always slightly tugging her knees toward each other. The inward-facing arch from her hip to her knee was more noticeable on the right leg – the degree of deformity was nearly twice as large on that leg than on her left. In June, White sat dazed and under heavy painkillers with a large wound snaking up her right leg. She had allergic reactions to the sedatives for days; she had been in varying stages of deep sleep and pain. Matt, her brother, described the wound as a “hack job.” It was open a few centimeters and surrounded by yellow and purple bruises.

“I got a distal femoral osteotomy and tibial tubercle osteotomy,” White said with ease. Her right leg was 11 degrees deformed between her femur and tibia. Some bits of metal and burrowed-out bones were beneath the unsightly wound. Doctors took a saw through White’s femur and removed a 13.38-millimeter wedge of bone, in order to align her leg, and attached it back together with five screws and a metal plate. They removed a wedge of her tibia, too, to bring the bone outward and relieve any burden on her knee. The bone is now held together with two screws and pressures are redistributed throughout her leg and knee. Even her quad muscles were repositioned. White goes to doctors with one question: “Can I play soccer?” And whatever they have to do to get her body to a place in which it can function as a keeper, she’ll do it. You can think of White’s knees like the tires of a car, according to Walters, who is the director of physical therapy at Athlete’s Performance in Texas. The ‘tread’ in White’s knees is her cartilage; tires only have so much tread before they “blow out.” White’s malalignment makes it so her cartilage wears down quicker – if she wasn’t so active, her knees would be in better shape, Walters said. That’s why doctors push White to stay off the field because even postop, White will still be putting stress on, and likely tearing up, her cartilage. SEE WHITE, PAGE 5

“If I don’t succeed, if I’m not able to play again, it won’t be because I didn’t do everything in my power to get back on the field.”

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UB students come together in Haiyan’s wake

FAFSA Project aims to increase opportunities for high school students

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During intermission of the Filipino-American Student Association’s (FASA) annual Barrio Fiesta event on Saturday, FASA served authentic Filipino cuisine to attendees. The club required audience members to donate a minimum of $1 or a non-perishable good. The proceeds will be sent to the Philippines for immediate relief after the devastating effects of the Super Typhoon Haiyan.

Chad Cooper, The Spectrum

JAMES DRAGONETTE

Staff Writer

Since being decimated by record-breaking Super Typhoon Haiyan earlier this month, Filipinos are continually working to locate missing loved ones and put their lives back together the way they were before the storm. Haiyan, a category-5 super typhoon with winds that reached up to 195 miles per hour on Nov. 8, was one of the most intense storms ever documented, according to The Washington Post. The storm has killed at least 5,235 and left over 3.4 million Filipinos displaced from their homes, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. In light of the destruction caused by Haiyan, UB students, the Filipino American Student Association (FASA) in particular, have come together with hopes of making an impact. From taking donations at its annual Barrio Fiesta play, to working alongside other clubs and organizations within the university, FASA hopes to begin making a tangible difference for those affected by Haiyan. This year’s Barrio Fiesta on Saturday, titled Pangarap, was an evening of singing, dancing and celebrating Filipino culture. Aside from the play itself, FASA sold plates of authentic Filipino cuisine to add to the experience for all attendees. FASA required the audience to donate a minimum of $1 or a non-perishable good

during Barrio Fiesta’s intermission to help the cause. The proceeds are going to be sent to the Philippines for immediate relief. Besides money, FASA encouraged attendees to bring supplies that could help those affected by the typhoon, including water purifiers, blankets, tents, generators and others. This initial wave of aid by FASA is part of a larger effort started by District Four of the Filipino Intercollegiate Networking Dialogue (F.I.N.D.). District Four is an overarching body that encompasses other Filipino clubs in the Upstate New York area, and was the main catalyst that worked to synchronize Filipino organizations and their donation efforts throughout the region, according to Adrianne Marquez, a senior nursing student. “[District Four] started this first,” Marquez said. “We obviously wanted to do it regardless of who wanted to start it, but it just so happened that [District Four] approached us with this idea.” In addition to money, nonperishable food items and various supplies students have collected so far, Marquez said the junior and senior classes of the School of Nursing have donated extra medical supplies to be sent as soon as possible to areas in need. Aside from students affiliated with FASA, Charrisse Morada, a junior accounting major and FASA’s treasurer, noted how many other individuals and clubs on campus have approached FASA and were willing to help fundraise for the typhoon relief. SEE HAIYAN, PAGE 5

Nathan Daun-Barnett, an assistant professor of higher education administration in the Graduate School of Education, is hoping to raise the number of completed Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms in public schools around Buffalo with his program, the FAFSA Project.

KEVIN HONG

Staff Writer

When Nathan Daun-Barnett was in the middle of talking to a class of high school seniors about the college process, he realized one particular student was not engaged. He sat him down to ask what he planned to do after high school. “I’ll probably just do my thing,” the student said. Daun-Barnett quickly realized the “thing” was drugs and the student was dealing on the streets. He told the student he understood, but asked why. The student said he needed the money in order to support his family. “I told him he had a ton of career options in college,” Daun-Barnett said. “There are so many different choices. His demeanor instantly changed and he was engaging in a different way.” Daun-Barnett, an assistant professor of higher education administration in the Graduate School of Education, is the director of UB’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) Project. The program looks to raise the number of completed FAFSA forms in public schools around Buffalo. The student he talked to was one of many who might not have completed a FAFSA form if it were not for Daun-Barnett’s project.

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FAFSA is a form available to students who seek financial aid for college. A student needs to complete the form to receive compensation from the federal government – which can include federal work-study programs, grants or loans. Disbursement is based on income. Having accurate tax forms is an integral part of the process. Buffalo public high schools have been participating in the “Say Yes to Education” program, which guarantees to provide a portion of a student’s tuition if he or she needs it after New York State’s Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) and Pell Grants. Daun-Barnett said this has also helped the amount of FAFSA applications being completed. Overall, Buffalo public high schools have seen a 61 percent increase of completed FAFSA applications since the program has started. Daun-Barnett realizes filling out FAFSA forms may be a wasted effort if students do not plan on attending college. But he thinks increasing the number of students who fill out FAFSA forms can help college application rates. “We’re hoping to allow more students the ability to attend college through the FAFSA project,” Daun-Barnett said.

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OPINION

GOING NUCLEAR In a tough call, Senate was right to change filibuster rule

There is no question that for the last five years, Senate Republicans have abused the filibuster rule to block confirmation votes on candidates nominated by President Barack Obama. Many of these candidates have been completely qualified and capable to carry out the various positions for which they have been nominated, but that means nothing to Senate Republicans; they were nominated by this president, and thus, they should have no role in our federal government. On Thursday, Senate Democrats showed that they have had enough. In a 52 to 48 vote, the Senate changed its rules, effectively ending the filibuster as an option on executive and judicial appointments. Now, it will only take a simple majority to confirm any of the president’s nominees, as opposed to the 60-vote threshold required in the past. By propelling this vote and changing the rules, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid (DIL), used what has been called the “nuclear option.” And in the current state of our politics, it may just take something nuclear. When the legislative body is rendered unable to function as a result of one party’s intolerance of the president, a change is clearly necessary. The only exceptions to the Filibuster rule change apply to legislation and Supreme Court nominations – which may one day change. There have been over 165 filibusters in the history of the U.S. Senate and over half of those have taken place since Obama took office. As The New York

Times has noted, 20 of his district court nominees have been filibustered when only three district court nominees have ever been filibustered before. But the straw that really broke Reid’s back is how Republicans have blocked all three of Obama’s nominations to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit – the second most powerful court in the land after the Supreme Court. As an 11-member panel, the court is currently filled with eight judges (split evenly between 4 liberals and 4 conservatives). The concern for Senate Republicans is that filling the court with Obama’s nominations will tip the court in an overwhelmingly liberal direction. There has been no suggestion, however, that any of the three nominees – Patricia Millet, Cornelia Pillard or Robert Wilkins – are unqualified or unfit to sit on that court. Nor is there any indi-

cation of controversy or scandal – there is no substantial reason to block them for appointment. Senate Republicans simply don’t want them on that court. And it is also part of the simple equation that if Obama is for it, they are against it. This is not what the framers of the Constitution envisioned when they formulated our democratic system. They did not have in mind an obstructionist Congress that was against a president simply to be against him. The system of checks and balances is designed in regard to ideas and goals – not personal distaste. The Senate’s role in presidential appointments is to provide “advise and consent” – which is important. Obviously, politics is a factor in confirmations. But it is ultimately the president’s job to fill vacancies. And the minority party in the Senate does not have the right to stop him from doing so.

Reid made the right call in finally ending the parliamentary procedure that has thwarted the Senate from being a functional body since Obama became president. There are some problems with this change that should be noted, though. It is true that this is likely to induce a more polarized body in the long term. Changing the traditions of the Senate is a radical thing to do – the Democrats have objected to this vehemently in the past. As an institution, the Senate functions much in the way it did in the 19th century. And the Senate, by its nature, is used to working in a bipartisan fashion in a way the House is not accustomed. Part of that comes from generally having to pass a 60-vote threshold. Now, this rule change does not apply to legislation or to the Supreme Court – though some are saying it may not be long before those rules are changed, too. The rule changes put in place last week will make it substantially easier for the Obama administration to achieve some of its goals for the remainder of Obama’s presidency. The change may, one day, work against the Democrats (it will hurt whoever is in the minority), but, for now, it will help restore the Senate as a functioning institution. And that will help us as a country now. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

Understanding the setting Planned Parenthood presentation was run appropriately On Nov. 20, the College Democrats brought a Planned Parenthood representative to UB for an information session. The event was open to the public and would include a presentation on the organization’s local chapters and its services. Never was the event advertized as an open discussion; it was a speaker event organized by a Student Association club. When members of Students for Life, an anti-abortion club, showed up to the event, they were acting well within their rights to be there. And the College Democrats were also acting well within their rights by ascribing a set of rules and regulations that attendees would have to comply with to attend the lecture. That stipulation, however, is something that Students for Life members either don’t understand or are unwilling to accept because they would rather inflame a reaction in order to direct attention toward themselves. Their response has been to voice claims that are built on a specious storyline. They say that the event was “censored” and was a blatant breach of the very values the club maintains it promotes. They take issue with how Quinne Sember, president of College Democrats, enforced a series of rules for the presentation, and that she specifically selected the questions that were addressed, leaving no room for dissenting opinions. In a letter to the editor submitted to The Spectrum by Students for Life member Anne Mul-

rooney, she wrote, “Besides being a violation of the attending students’ civil liberties, these offenses were shockingly undemocratic … The forbidding and censorship of honest questions is the prerogative of dictatorship, not democracy.” This narrative ignores several realities important in assessing this situation. Requiring that attendees follow a set of rules at a speaker event is certainly no violation of students’ “civil liberties.” In the Distinguished Speakers Series that the university runs – which hosted Hillary Clinton in October – they organize the event, set rules and determine which questions to ask. As an event that the university organizes, they are entitled to run it however they see fit. Wednesday’s speaking event hosted by the College Democrats is no different. When an SA club brings a representative of a non-profit, private organization on campus to inform community members of its services, the club is under no obligation to respect the requests made by non-members. It is non-members’ choice of whether they want to attend to event, and if they choose to do so, that choice entails compliance with the rules that have been put in place. And Students for Life members are confused if they are comparing an SA club to either a dictatorship or democracy. It is this type of jargon that exposes the delusions of grandeur embedded into the narrative that Students for Life has tried to propagate.

Mulrooney indicated that the College Democrats’ refusal to allow her group’s questions to be addressed is an evasion of the tough issues that Sember’s club chooses to ignore. “I wanted to know how abortion could make up only 3 percent of Planned Parenthood’s services while earning them over $150 million in revenue (according to their own publicized statistics),” Mulrooney wrote. The dubious insinuation that those findings don’t add up was certainly not in line with the event’s intention of allowing attendees the opportunity to learn about Planned Parenthood’s services outside of abortion, as that is only one of the many services it provides. It should also be noted that the statistic of abortions representing 3 percent of the organization’s total services (and roughly 10 percent of its clients receiving abortion treatment) is supported by the Annenburg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and various bipartisan think tanks. But this allegation also demonstrates Students for Life members’ desire to change the subject of the information session in order to address their political concerns, when the intention of the event was to address practical concerns regarding care available at Planned Parenthood’s local health centers. Sember’s action of enforcing a set of rules was recommended by both University Police (UPD) and Student Life – as the university has a history of abortionissue-related events escalating.

Wednesday’s event ran the risk of being another inflammatory episode on campus. Sember ran an event in collaboration with UPD and Student Life and violated no one’s civil liberties. Mulrooney’s account of saying “no one could freely distribute any kind of literature” is simply untrue. People were allowed to do whatever they wanted outside the room – distribute literature, hold signs, take pictures, etc. At the time of the event, the room 250 SU was registered to the College Democrats. This was not a public forum and was not a governmental proceeding – so whether the event was run “democratically” is completely irrelevant. And the notion that this event indicates that College Democrats are not open to debate and discussion is misleading – as this was clearly a speaker event and not an open forum. The club, just like the College Republicans, holds a weekly meeting that is discussion-based and open to everyone with any sort of opinion. If members of Students for Life are so concerned with facilitating an environment conducive to healthy discussion on public policy matters, they should start to recognize what and where are the appropriate outlets to do so. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

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LIFE, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Fine dining in the Student Union The Tiffin Room is a hidden North Campus gem for a calm lunch experience GISELLE LAM

Staff Writer

Daniele Gershon, The Spectrum On UB’s hectic North Campus, The Tiffin Room is intended to provide an environment for students, faculty and staff to dine with real silverware and enjoy casual meetings or sit-down lunches with colleagues.

Between the weekday hours of noon and 2 p.m., hundreds of students take over the Student Union. Edgy Veggies, Moe’s, Tim Hortons and Pistachio’s draw lines of over 30 students at a time. On the second floor – at the end of the corridor, to the left of Pistachio’s – lies a sit-down restaurant that contrasts the battlefield of students attempting to grab lunch between classes downstairs. The Tiffin Room, UB’s only full-service, sit-down restaurant, offers filling salads, hearty sandwiches and paninis, build-yourown burgers and entrees like pasta and pizza. On UB’s hectic North Campus, the Campus Dining & Shops (CDS) restaurant is intended to provide an environment for students, faculty and staff to dine with real silverware and enjoy casual meetings or sitdown lunches with colleagues. “The concept of The Tiffin Room is to have a nice, upscale dining place for people to eat during lunch,” said Mary Jo Butler, the general manager of Putnam’s, Pistachio’s and The Tiffin Room. The Tiffin Room is open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for lunch. As business grows, the eatery may

expand its hours to dinnertime. Though it originally only accepted cash and credit, the restaurant now takes meal plans, dining dollars and campus cash as a means of payment so students can enjoy a dine-in meal without having to spend extra cash outside their meal plans. “I appreciate the fact that UB is trying to accommodate our wants and needs by providing a restaurant that accepts meal credit,” said Mudita Mishra, a sophomore biomedical engineering major. The venue was renovated this summer. Patrons can find soft lights, open spaces and dividers to prevent disruption in the dining area. Some of The Tiffin Room’s food can also be found at CDS eateries Pistachio’s Bread Box Deli and Bravo Pasta – The Tiffin Room uses bread exclusive to those dining locations. A few of its sandwiches are the California club, reuben and tuna melt, which can be found at the Bread Box. Pastas like penne vodka, chicken or shrimp broccoli alfredo and spicy chicken alfredo are also served at Bravo Pasta. Many of The Tiffin Room’s items, however, can’t be found anywhere else on campus. One of its popular items is a Tiffin Room original – the Turkey Waldorf Salad, which consists of mandarin oranges, dried

cranberries, apples and walnuts, topped with a turkey breast and raspberry vinaigrette dressing. The Veggie Patch Pizza is also a favorite and is only found at The Tiffin Room, according to Butler. The Tiffin Room offers a “pick your pair” meal – two items (between soups, salads, sandwiches and pastas) together for a special price. Customers can pair options from any side to create a personalized meal. Prices vary according to how the items are paired, ranging from $6.49 to $8.49. The French onion soup is “hugely popular,” Butler said. She said, like all of The Tiffin Room’s foods, the soup is made fresh every day. For a university eatery, The Tiffin Room gives students more than the average, graband-go dining hall experience. “I think we give great service,” Butler said. “I think we’re better than some restaurants outside [of campus] in terms of the quality of our food and the quality of our service.” Though it may be faster to grab food on the first floor of the Union, students may want to slow down to enjoy lunch or schedule their next study session at the quieter upstairs eatery. email: features@ubspectrum.com

Searching for sustenance

Magnificent performances pervade excellent new film ERIC CORTELLESSA

Opinion Editor

Film: Dallas Buyers Club Studio: Focus Features Buffalo Release Date: Nov. 22 Grade: A In the 1980s when AIDS was first discovered, it was associated predominantly with homosexual men. Beyond the infected being stigmatized for the condition in and of itself, the association was used as fodder for the ignorant and the hateful as ammunition to prove that homosexuality was wrong – the disease was often derisively referred to as “The Gay Plague.” When Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey, The Paper Boy) is told he has contracted the HIV virus in the new film Dallas Buyers Club, he is initially more offended by the implication he may be gay than he is concerned about his health. But by the time he learns he’s been infected, we have already learned that his wellbeing is not his top priority – he sleeps with prostitutes; he compulsively drinks whiskey, smokes cigarettes and snorts cocaine; he’s an inveterate gambler who makes bets he can’t pay off when he loses. He lives in a trailer park and has little concern for his personal hygiene. He has a flippant sense of humor and he’s quick to fight when provoked. He’s a charismatic redneck. And he’s intensely homophobic. McConaughey transformed his body for the role – he’s not the chiseled, handsome Adonis we know him as; he’s scrawny and unsightly – practically emaciated and more distant than he’s ever been from the kind of sex appeal that made his career. Jean-Marc Vallée (Café de Flore) doesn’t let this become a point of overemphasis. It’s easy for directors when they have a star who is being cast against type to loiter on his or her performance

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– to hang the camera on the actor so extensively that it is practically screaming at the Oscar committee to take notice. But Vallée really lets the camera breathe and has it move rhythmically with the actors – giving the story the vital feeling it deserves. And the editing makes way for emotional cues – the abrupt shifts and swift pacing provide a sense of an unbalanced development appropriate for Woodroof, a character coming to terms with illness while stumbling toward redemption. Screenwriters Craig Borten and Melissa Wallack are deliberate in beginning the film with Woodroof scoffing Rock Hudson – the first major celebrity to

die of AIDS. Hudson was a man whose Hollywood persona was quite different from his personal life; during his time, many were surprised to learn he was gay. Beginning with Hudson, Vallée immediately suggests that people often transcend social categories – that the disease can hit anyone. Hudson’s death also inspired millions to donate money to medical research for AIDS. He died in 1985, the same year this movie begins. When Woodroof is told by his doctors, Dr. Sevard (Denis O’Hare, The Good Wife) and Eve (Jennifer Garner, The Odd Life of Timothy Green), he has the disease, and that he has been weakening his already susceptible im-

mune system due to excessive drinking and drug use, he is given 30 days to live. At first, he doesn’t take the gravity of his health condition at all seriously; he goes back to his normal habits – he parties and engages in more sexual conduct with prostitutes. It isn’t until he starts to notice his body weakening that he takes the initiative to research the disease. He reads that 71 percent of infected persons are homosexual and bisexual men. Then he reads that anyone can contract the disease, and that the more unprotected sex you have, the more likely you are to get infected – he begins to process that this has really happened to him.

When he wants treatment, the only medication available to him through the hospital that is FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved is AZT. And at first, it is not totally available; they are undergoing a trial period of giving half the patients the drug and the other half a placebo in order to test AZT’s efficacy. Unable to accept this option as a dying man, Woodroof cuts a deal with a nurse’s assistant to provide him the drug. Eventually, this arrangement proves unsustainable and he goes out in search of whatever alternative he can find. SEE DALLAS, PAGE 6

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Continued from page 1: White At the end of White’s freshman season, an increasing knee pain eventually left her unable to play. She didn’t spend her sophomore season recovering; she spent it searching for answers. At that point, White didn’t understand the degree of her deformity and she didn’t know there was any chance she could have her legs surgically straightened. She just knew she wanted to play soccer – the game she uses to define herself. Doctors – with her health in mind – have asked her, “How much do you love soccer?” “These questions for a Division I athlete don’t work,” White said. The surgeries don’t scare her. “The thought of giving up a dream and a goal – that scares me.” By November 2011, years of pounding her feet against grass, mud and turf had left White with pain she could no longer play through, as she had been doing for years. The deformity in her legs got more noticeable and she veered into solely wearing pants as a way to hide the crookedness. And White, though desperate for a solution, had no direction. Doctors were uncertain about what could fix the problem. Some said it was her hamstrings; others said she needed injections. White spent more time researching her legs than doing homework. She couldn’t exercise. She couldn’t walk up stairs. She couldn’t play soccer. She tried to prevent ever going back to a place that put her on the bench, but it happened anyway. It was another setback – something White is used to. *** In her freshman year at a public high school, White had two screws put into her right foot after a break struggled to heal, even after time in a cast. The following year, she started at Shattuck-St. Mary’s in Missouri – a place White described as “like college with a lot more rules” – so she could grow as a player in the prep school’s soccer program. But the recovery from her foot surgery was extensive. White didn’t feel like she was back performing at her best until her senior year. At that time, nothing was hindering her for the first time since her breaks started when she was 10 years old. And to be able to perform again at her highest – that was everything. She worked out three times a day. She was so thankful to be able to run, she’d go to her school’s soccer field alone and do laps for hours. She had an overwhelming feeling that she was almost invincible whenever her cleats sunk into that turf field. She’s already done so many things she wasn’t supposed to be able to do – the field is her salvation and a reminder. “It’s like a reminder that I’m here and I’m doing it and I’m playing,” White said. “In that aspect, when I’m on that field, I’ve already beat that – I’ve already won in a sense. I’m doing it.” Ellie Williams, one of her best friends who also went to Shattuck, described White as a vocal leader on the field. “The girls would lis-

Courtesy of Mckenzie White In White’s June surgery, doctors removed wedges of bone in her femur and tibia and used a metal plate and seven screws to align her leg so the pressures in her knee could be properly distributed. The x-rays above show the current state of White’s surgically straightened right leg.

ten to her,” she said. “They trusted her.” White’s high school team was going to a State Cup game. They were going to be champions. A week before the big game, White was hit with what she thinks was vertigo – likely due to a kick she took to the head. She couldn’t get herself out of the top bunk in her dorm, stand up, walk, think straight and – most importantly – play. She was so close to the moments you live for as an athlete. This was their year. And White wasn’t going to play. So when White started her freshman season at UB, she wasn’t going to set herself up to sit out again. She did physical therapy on every part of her body as a way to ensure her feet and legs would remain uninjured. She was done with being in boot after boot and cast after cast, with having to spend chunks of time in wheelchairs, with being on the sidelines watching and struggling to really feel a part of the team. But her body forced her off the field anyway. White wasn’t a starter her freshman year. She got to play three times during the season – moments White described as “a glimpse of how it felt to play college soccer.” She understood her role and that she had to prove her worth and that she deserved to be on that team. Her father, who was a keeper in high school, was always impressed

Continued from page 2: Haiyan “Just going through our general email that the Buffalo FASA uses, there are just people that I didn’t even know from our school – they just offered their help,” Morada said. “It’s really nice to see that, even in times of devastation.” Marquez echoed Morada’s sentiment, saying how good it was to see other clubs that had nothing to do with Filipino culture willing to join together and aid in FASA’s efforts. The members of Lambda Kappa Sigma – the professional pharmacy society for women – have expressed interest in organizing fundraising events such as bake sales. Corinne Zee, a junior exercise science major and the FASA vice president, added that other members of the International Council, particularly those in the Bangladeshi Student Association (BSA), have also been helpful throughout the collection of donations and plan to continually support FASA. BSA began making plans to fundraise for typhoon relief even without FASA knowing, and has since come to FASA on its own stating it

will be assisting in the collection of money and nonperishable items, according to Zee. “As Bangladesh is also a country that is affected greatly by typhoons and we do know the level of destruction and despair that is caused by a storm of this massive size,” said Taz Hossain, a sophomore political science major and president of BSA, in an email. “When I was contacted by some of my members to do something – anything – to fundraise for typhoon relief, I had no qualms about getting in contact with Corinne and referring my members to her; I felt it was my duty to help out, not just club-wise, but on a basic human level.” Though the deadline for FASA’s initial collection of donations for District Four has already passed, FASA will continue to collect money and other nonperishable items throughout the year. Those interested in donating can contact FASA for more information. email: news@ubspectrum.com

with his daughter’s quick hands. Her high school coach from Shattuck agreed. “What she didn’t have in terms of having ‘the best wheels,’ she made up for with her hands,” David, her dad, said. “She could stop and catch anything that was coming her way.” In White’s first season at UB, she was asked to “come off the bench cold,” according to thenwomen’s soccer coach Michael Thomas. White subbed in due to an injury in a conference game against Miami Ohio, and the goaltender had two major saves in 21 minutes to help her team earn a 1-0 overtime victory. It was a turning point in the season, Thomas said, and he added that the coaches were excited to see “the route she was going on.” But they wouldn’t get the chance. As soon as that first season ended, White started looking for a doctor who could solve her pain. The search continued as she sat out her sophomore year. After a yearlong hunt, White finally found a doctor – one in Boston – who was the first to propose a surgical solution. Ten days before the surgery, White made the mistake of watching the procedure on YouTube – citing the incident as “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” But White counted down the days until that surgery. Getting there was a struggle. Finding the doctor was just the first battle White faced.

This time, it was insurance. White’s health insurance refused to cover her surgery because it included what White described as a “cartilage transplant,” which she said insurance companies don’t always approve. And they wouldn’t approve her procedure. She called the insurance company every day for three months – so often that she had their phone number and her insurance group ID memorized. And each time it got denied, White would move on to the next step for her case to be reviewed again until she finally got to her last hope: “independent review.” She collected documents and letters from doctors she had been seeing since she was a kid. She wrote her own letter – her parents, too. She explained that it wasn’t just her leg or her knee – it was everything. It was her feet, her hips. It was all connected. And it wasn’t until she was 19 years old that one doctor seemed to put it all together and offer a solution. A solution her insurance company rejected, again. She was crushed. It was late in her sophomore year – the rejection fell right before exam week. “It honestly felt like I was just going through the motions of life at the time,” she said. So she applied for the surgery without the cartilage adjustment portion. It was approved. On May 10, White got word she’d be able to have the surgery – easily the happiest day of her life.

That’s what landed her in a hospital bed on June 10 with a bloody gash stretching from mid-thigh to mid-shin. “It looked terrible,” Matt, her brother, said. “They pulled back the bandages and all you saw was this red, bloody wound surrounded by yellow and purple bruising.” Matt remembers the days he used to push his baby sister around in a wheelchair so she could get outside. He remembers the times she was told to quit soccer and that her legs would never be straight. White went on a cruise with her family for Christmas during her freshman year and refused to wear shorts. She hated her legs. She hated that she wasn’t playing soccer. So her family sat huddled in the hospital room and had their eyes drawn to the bloody mess on her leg. And then her brother took a step back and realized, “Holy s**t; her leg is straight.” His voice got higher, he was excited and he demanded his sister look at her leg and see it was straight for the first time in her life. She looked down at it, and he lunged toward her for a hug. That’s when the Whites broke down and sobbed as a family because their Kenzie had something she had always wanted. And she still can’t believe it. She’ll catch it in the mirror sometimes and have the same reaction her brother did: “Holy s**t.” The wound has healed well, but it left a noticeable scar that sometimes attracts stares in the gym. She doesn’t mind. A smile worked across her face as she explained that she’d rather have people staring at a straight leg than a crooked one. “I’d rather have one million scars and a straight leg,” she said. It’s a reminder of what she has been through and overcome – it also shows her determination to keep going. Her left leg, which is 6 degrees off, will eventually need the same procedure – likely after she graduates. For now, White is focusing on her right leg. She’s allowed to use the elliptical – she does that for about two hours a day. She has started juggling and maneuvering a soccer ball again. Recovery from the procedure typically ranges from one year to 18 months – and though White is hopeful and feels like she may be able to play in the fall of 2014, it’s too soon for her to know for sure. She has aspirations to attend medical school and possibly get into orthopedics. She never wants anyone to feel like they need to give up because of their body’s restrictions. We all have struggles, according to White. And this is hers. “The important thing is that you are not beat until you surrender to your struggle,” White said. Mckenzie White is not surrendering. She’s wearing shorts. email: sara.dinatale@ubspectrum.com

Continued from page 2: FAFSA Daun-Barnett was first inspired to help high school students with FAFSA when he was a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan. The state announced a project in Kalamazoo, Mich., that promised to provide a tuition guarantee to every high school senior looking to attend college. “I thought, what an interesting thing to try and have a conversation here in Buffalo,” Daun-Barnett said. “It turns out that they were having a conversation in Buffalo about exploring this idea of helping high school seniors pay for college.” Daun-Barnett started partnering with Buffalo public schools in 2008. He went to school counselors to ask about challenges they face and found that a majority of them spent a large amount of time sitting down with students to fill out FAFSA forms.

In 2011, a project was started up in South Park High School. Using volunteers from his service learning class, Daun-Barnett brought free tax preparation services along with FAFSA completion services. The two forms go hand-in-hand and completing the two together increases the chances of receiving financial aid. “We did 33 FAFSA forms that year,” Daun-Barnett said. “It’s a modest number, but it was also two-thirds of the FAFSA forms that got done in South Park High School.” The FAFSA Project not only helps students fill out FAFSA forms, but also gives counselors time to focus on other things more related to their jobs. Mary Ross, a school counselor at Burgard High School, understands how much Daun-Barnett

has helped. She mentioned how difficult it was to contact parents and get crucial information from them in order to fill out students’ FAFSA forms. “It is really amazing to witness the students’ excitement of people taking the time to sit with them to help them accomplish such a tedious task,” Ross said. The FAFSA Project is currently recruiting team members to continue helping students fill out forms. Daun-Barnett encourages students to volunteer if they are interested. email: news@ubspectrum.com

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MILEAGE MAY VARY Need for Speed: Rivals game review

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JORDAN OSCAR

Staff Writer

Platform: Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC, PS3 [Played] and PS4 Developer: Ghost Games Publisher: Electronic Arts Released: Nov. 19 for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC; Nov. 15 for PS4 and Nov. 22 for Xbox One Grade: C+ Blazing through Redview County at breakneck speeds in some of the world’s most exclusive cars is exhilarating no matter which side of the law you are driving on. Whether racing, taking a cruise or trying to shut down some hooligans with an unhealthy addiction to high speeds, Need for Speed: Rivals’ fictional world of Redview County is gorgeous and diverse and provides hours of fun for players to experience both online and off. The game itself, however, is like a new car. It’s great to look at, fun to drive and has a nice interior, but after a few hundred miles, the polish starts to wear off and things start to go wrong. Like previous Need for Speed games, Rivals offers the choice of playing as either a cop or a racer at any given time and loosely strings in a few story details as players progress through the ranks – gaining access to faster cars and upgrades. Ranking up is as simple as completing “assignments” or “speed lists,” which are sets of tasks and events the player has to accomplish. These events range from getting silver in a “Hot Pursuit” to spending a set amount of time in the air. Both cops and racers have three different lists they can complete per rank. These lists allow players to play to their strengths and expose everything Rivals has to offer. As players become better, increasingly difficult variances of these challenges await. Trivial as they may be at times, the reward of unlocking a new car to drive is well worth it – especially when players begin reaching the game’s highest echelon of vehicles like the Bugatti Veyron, McLaren P1 or Lamborghini Veneno.

The dozens of cars within the game are as stunning and easy to drive as Redview County is to look at and navigate. The game’s world takes players from beachside towns to farm-filled countryside and then through mountainside tunnels in seconds, serving as a beautiful, refreshing backdrop for the pulse-pounding driving and vehicular carnage that fills every minute of the game. Redview County may have a love/hate relationship with the cops and racers that fill its streets, but that doesn’t stop the area from being jam-packed with races, time trials and events to keep players busy – which gains players “Speed Points” to buy new vehicles and upgrades. Through “All-Drive,” the game’s offline and online modes seamlessly blend together. The balance of competitive and engaging multiplayer is commendable, but there is plenty of room for players to play on their own. Rivals is at its best online when it isn’t an AI patrol officer trying to hunt you down or beat you in a race, but, instead, your friends. Though six people in any given multiplayer session can leave the game’s sprawling world a bit sparse of human interactivity, the risk of losing all of your hardearned speed points as a racer is never more tense than when it’s your friend trying to send you back to your hideout empty handed. Fun as the game may be, the lack of variety eventually becomes the game’s biggest downfall as aspects that once felt refreshing begin to feel increasingly familiar. Other elements within the game, like its inconsistent crash damage, or how AI racers will either slingshot past the player from way behind or seemingly slow down if they are miles ahead, continue to deteriorate an otherwise enjoyable experience. Need for Speed: Rivals is a lot of fun, especially with friends. Its ridiculously fastpaced races and chases are worth checking out, just be aware that the mileage each person will get out of the game will vary.

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Continued from page 4: Dallas He learns of an American doctor running a shop in Mexico after his license was revoked in the United States, and after Woodroof is treated by him for three months and learns more about the disease, he discovers a way he can profit from it – he can smuggle these anti-viral medications and vitamins into Texas and sell them to people who are HIV positive. When he returns, he runs into Rayon (Jared Leto, Mr. Nobody), an HIV-positive transvestite he met in the hospital. Rayon has a group of friends who want the medications Woodroof has, but Woodroof sees less gain in just selling it to them as opposed to setting up a sustainable business model – he wants to set up his own private shop: the Dallas Buyers Club. At this time, Buyers Clubs have been forming all around the country for AIDS patients who want alternative treatments; the complications of such an enterprise, however, are working around the FDA. Woodroof and Rayon have situated their business in a motel and have set it up by membership – people buy their memberships, not the drugs. Once you become a member, then you have access to the medications they provide. As they grow and attract more and more customers, this becomes a problem for the FDA and pharmaceutical companies, as they have now become competition. Now, the FDA sets out to destroy what Woodroof and Rayon have created. Throughout the film, there are some inevitable developments that the filmmakers handle well. It’s perfectly obvious that Woodroof will become tolerant of gays and realize that those suffering from the disease are human beings worthy of being treated and seen as such. But this film goes beyond what some may expect and becomes a stunning and poignant film about never giving up on the importance of one’s life. It is ironic how before Woodroof contracts the disease, his life is flat-out miserable (and incredibly lonely) – it is not until he becomes sick that he finds a sense of purpose. At first, his only purpose is to survive. And then, it becomes both deeper and more complicated than that. It may be convention at this point to have a character begin a venture with commercial incentive only to discover there is something more important beneath the surface, but this film handles it

better than any recent film I have seen. The Dallas Buyers Club provides Woodroof a community and a way to connect with other people. His methods may be compromised – he lies, steals, cheats, manipulates – but the purpose (and consequences) driving his actions eventually becomes noble. The FDA’s stringent regulations on the medications AIDS patients could try were undeniably unjust – what do terminally ill people have to lose? With all the sense of virtue embedded into the story, never do the filmmakers allow lame dialogue or oversentimentality to erode the screen. Some of the most touching scenes are the most restrained, like a moment when Rayon visits his estranged father to ask for money and dresses like a man to do so. It is quick and the camera doesn’t linger. Vallée quickly transitions to the next moment after Rayon gently asks his father, “How’s mom?” For the most part, we are past the point in which a film about AIDS should expect indignant response from the mainstream sectors of society. And as a piece of narrative, Dallas Buyers Club is nothing new and it lies almost on the brink of being formulaic. How many films are there about how it often takes someone facing death to learn about life? But a film’s quality relies less on what it’s about than how it is about it. Seeing this film is like experiencing what’s been done hundreds of times and seeing it in a new way. McConaughey and Leto give the best performances of their careers. Garner at first seems too earnest in her role and then embodies it with absolute precision. And Vallée is so proficient in the techniques of establishing momentum that the film provides a sense of satisfaction moviegoers seldom get to experience anymore. By the time you leave, you know the central ingredient that Woodroof ’s story entails – the quest for meaning. Rarely does a film’s quest and that of its protagonist coexist in such union. Dallas Buyers Club is one of the best movies of the year. email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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