The Spectrum, Volume 60, Issue 39

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W EDN ESDAY EDI T ION December 8, 2010 Volume 60 Issue 39

Government Turns to Invasive Searches to Prevent Terrorism DEMIRE COFFIN Staff Writer

The Transportation Security Administration’s new full-body scanners are causing an uproar among air travelers.

Passengers are worried that the levels of radiation used to see through clothing are dangerous and may cause cancer.

The TSA has worked jointly with independent researchers to issue statements assuring the public that the radiation emitted from the scanners is harmless and that a passenger would have to pass through a scanner a thousand times in a year to be affected by the radiation.

“There have been some questions and criticism about the scanners,” said Brett O’Neil, a local customer support manager for the TSA. As it stands, the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport has five full-body units in place.

“Locally, we have gotten mostly positive feedback,” O’Neil said.

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Illustration by Aline Kobayashi. Color addition by Jeannette Wiley.

Crispin Glover is Coming to Buffalo BRITTANY CESAR Staff Writer

He h a s b e en des cr i b e d a s one o f H o l l y w o o d ’s m o s t e c c e n t r i c geniuses and intrig uing personalities.

Crispin Hellion Glover, established avantgarde artist, director, actor, and writer, will be performing the extremely rare Crispin Hellion Glover’s Big Slide Show (Part 1) and showing It is fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE, the second film in his trilogy “IT,” at Market Arcade Theatre in Downtown Buffalo on Dec 15.

Glover h a s app e a r e d i n l a r g e scale blockbuster hits and low-budget independent films, covering a spectrum of talent and attracting the likes of directors Steven Spielberg and David Lynch.

Glover stands out in the media for his distinctive and idiosyncratic personality that has made his Hollywood roles memorable.

Many might remember him for his roles as George McFly in the Back To the Future series, the Knave of Hearts in Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, and Grendel in Beowulf.

However, Glover’s own artistic endeavors are far from the Hollywood limelight.

He directs, produces, and writes his own independent works, which are funded by his large-scale Hollywood performances.

Jill Mertz, UB alumna and organizer of the event, says that Glover is unlike most artists because of his artistic drive and his desire to have complete artistic control. “ What [Glover] is doing is really taboo,” Mer t z sa id. “ He wa nts t he audience to react and participate in an unconventional way when approaching his films.

He goes against the Hollywood codes and the rules [filmmakers have come] to obey.”

Glover’s unique 35mm avant-garde films can only be viewed when he performs alongside them. Following the viewing of his film

Courtesy of Thomas Atilla Lewis

Crispin Glover will be bringing his unique productions to Buffalo, and he will, of course, be coming along for the ride.

and performance, Glover’s program includes an extensive question and answer discussion.

Ric Royer, an artist and organizer of the event, has already seen Glover perform four times and plans on booking him for the second time in Providence, R.I. Royer says that Glover’s eccentric work is truly a one-of-a-kind and intimate process.

“The films are very unique because he accompanies them,” Royer said. “[This] is very rare in our day and age, [as] commercially released films gain an audience with more speed because of the mass distribution, [and Glover] self-distributes the films individually. This is very much related to control over [Glover’s] ideas [that is] expressed, but also to inject each performance with a little bit of liveliness.”

Glover plans to start his show with Crispin Hellion Glover’s Big Slide Show (Part 1), during which he will perform a one-hour dramatic narration of eight different profusely illustrated books. The images from the books are projected behind Glover during the performance.

The performance will be followed by It Is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE, a 35mm film

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written by Steven C. Stewart and directed by Glover.

The film is an extremely unconventional autobiographical re-telling of a relatively unaccepted point of view in mainstream society.

Stewart, who has cerebral palsy, expresses ideas about females and sexuality from his standpoint as a man with a physical disability.

“The second film is a more complete work,” Royer said. “It’s a lot juicier, and Glover also admits that it is probably [the] best film he will ever make in his entire career.”

Chris Fritton, a UB alumnus and artist who designed the event poster, is planning to help out with the show. Fritton believes that the show will be worthwhile because of Glover’s literary material and magnetic personality.

“You can see [Glover’s] multifaceted personality enter his art and vice versa,” Fritton said. “[Glover] is someone who has made an effort to extend his art into every aspect of his daily life.

[When you meet him], you don’t know if you’re getting Crispin as the actor, artist, and so on.”

Part of Glover’s eccentricity is that as an artist, his identity is manifested through his various personalities as both an actor and an artist. He has been known to appea r onstage a s his cha racter Rubin Farr from the movie Rubin and Ed. At the same time, Glover likes to show that he is accessible and wants to connect with fans through his after-performance dialogue period, meeting period, and book signing.

ANDEW WIKTOR

Editor in Chief

Almost Perfect It feels great to be one issue away from completing this semester, especially since we made it through more than three months without making a single mistake.

Yup, you read that correctly: we’ve been flawless thus far.

There was one time – I think I it was in October – when we almost made a mistake, but we quickly discovered our near erratum and made the necessary adjustment to maintain our errorless semester. It hasn’t been an easy ride, but we can officially claim the title of ‘perfect.’

I know what you’re thinking, and the answer is yes. It is lonely at the top, but somebody has to be number one.

This is the first time that The Spectrum made it through the fall term without screwing anything up, so if you’ve read our publication at all, congratulations, you’re a part of history.

If you’re still reading this because you believe the last four paragraphs, I feel terribly sorry for you. You either haven’t read our paper with a critical eye, this is the first issue you’ve picked up, or you blindly believe everything you read. Either way, you’re not getting your tuition’s worth. You should be challenging what you read, regardless of what the source may be.

Just ask the Generation writer who criticized our paper for being sexist and implied that we place ads for other colleges in order to encourage students to leave UB. Although we did print a sexist column, it was the sole opinion of one staff member, and we encouraged one of our female editors to respond in the following edition, which she did quite eloquently. We also printed numerous personals that criticized the piece. Oh, and student quotes are student quotes; we don’t exactly have the right to change those.

And although we do run advertisements from other schools in our publication, it’s ludicrous to infer that we do so to drive people away from UB. Is it possible, perhaps, that other schools have graduate programs and are interested in recruiting students who currently attend our university?

Regardless of how far off the writer’s parting shots were, it’s still nice to see that people are reading and thinking.

In fact, you should be challenging everything and looking to make positive changes.

The truth is that we’re a student publication, and every day we learn something new. As a reader, there were hopefully points in the semester where continued on page 2

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Inside:

opinion — 3

Provost Satish Tripathi presents Jennifer Schulman an iPad for winning the “Name It” contest. Close to 2,000 name suggestions were submitted, but Schulman’s “HUB” was made the winner.

arts & life — 5

classifieds — 11

sports — 12

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news briefs

Assange Arrested, UB Transportation Denied Bail Researchers Julian Assange, founder of the Combat Severe WikiLeaks website that leaked thousands of secret U.S. military Weather and State Department documents, turned himself in to the British police on Tuesday after Britain received a formal warrant for his arrest from Swedish authorities.

He is being held in custody until a trial next week decides his possible extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for sexual assault charges.

WikiLeaks drew condemnation for posting classified documents on its website, which included U.S. embassy communications and a military video of a July 2007 helicopter attack in Iraq that killed a Reuters television cameraman and his driver. Created in 2006, WikiLeaks receives confidential material and posts it on the Internet.

The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into the release of government documents.

The U.S. embassy in London said it didn’t send a representative to Tuesday’s hearing.

His surrender to police followed a warrant on one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation, and one count of rape.

The crimes were allegedly committed in August of 2010.

Prosecutors at the hearing said some claims relate to whether Assange failed to use condoms during sex and whether he may have exploited a woman while she was sleeping.

MasterCard, the world’s secondbiggest payments network, and London-based Visa Europe are suspending payments to WikiLeaks via their systems, the companies said.

MasterCard and Visa Europe are following the lead of eBay unit PayPal, which recently cut access to WikiLeaks for violating the online payment processor’s acceptable use policy.

Adel Sadek, associate professor in the UB Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, and UB’s Transportation Systems Laboratory are working on developing a computer model that will be used to determine how to better manage the region’s transportation system in severe weather conditions.

Using the model, the researchers will be able to determine the effects that emergency measures, such as closing a lane or entire section of the New York State Thruway, will have on local traffic patterns.

Sadek and his colleagues will be able to use the model to simulate the outcome of diverting traffic to lesser-used roads that typically do not handle much traffic.

Factored into the simulations will be variables such as average driver speed and the distance left between one car and another, as well as how those factors are affected by road and visibility conditions.

In collecting the information for their model, the UB team has relied heavily on analyzing the behavior of a car in which they installed a GPS system and the way it responded to changing weather.

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Aspirin Cuts Death Rates From Range of Cancers, Researchers Say Aspirin, a century-old medicine known to relieve pain and prevent blood clots, also reduces the risk of death from a variety of cancers, researchers said.

Taking 75 milligrams of aspirin a day for more than five years cuts deaths from cancer by 20 percent, according to the study published in The Lancet medical journal Tuesday.

The researchers found that the pill was associated with a reduced risk of death from esophageal, colorectal, lung and prostate cancers.

More studies are needed before aspirin, which can increase the risk of internal bleeding, should be recommended for cancer prevention, said the researchers, led by Peter Rothwell, professor of clinical neurology at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England.

The risk of death after 20 years was lowered in patients who took aspirin by 60 percent for esophageal cancer, 40 percent for colorectal cancer, 30 percent for lung cancer and about 10 percent for prostate cancer.

Aspirin doses greater than 75 milligrams didn’t appear to increase the benefit.

The effects of the drug over a longer period are unknown, and further data on the risks of taking aspirin for tumors that affect women, such as breast cancer, is needed.

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you agreed with our coverage and commended our reporting. If you’ve picked up the paper enough, however, then you’ve (hopefully) realized that we’re far from perfect and that there is a ton of room for improvement at The Spectrum.

And we’re working on that, one day at a time.

Just last semester, any student was able to register to become a staff writer, regardless of his or her prior writing experience, or lack thereof. With that, students signed up for ENG 394 and didn’t take the paper seriously, which reflected in their writing.

It’s difficult to encourage students to write for the school newspaper when our university doesn’t offer a journalism degree. Those pursuing a career in journalism simply don’t apply to UB, so we’re forced to field a staff from biology and business majors.

Roadblocks, however, aren’t going to stop us from striving for excellence. An open Spectrum course no longer exists: if a student wants to write for our paper, he or she needs to send me a writing sample and get approved by our advisor and me.

We also realize that our newspaper has looked the same for quite some time and could use some sprucing up. We’ve been working on that, too. You may have seen signs around campus mentioning a “New Spectrum” coming next semester. If you haven’t, here’s your warning that our paper is going to look completely different come January.

Despite the mistakes we’ve made and the criticisms we’ve received, we’ve kept our chins up and have looked toward a better tomorrow.

If you’re one of the students who have expressed a negative opinion about The Spectrum and want a better newspaper on campus, I challenge you to send me a writing sample. I challenge you to attend our class, learn about what we do, and try your hand at it.

You don’t have to be an English major to work for us. In fact, we’re also looking for upper level business majors in the School of Management to take part in an independent study for credit next semester. Such students will work with a professor and a graduate student doing market research for The Spectrum.

Although this column is specific to our publication, it can be read as more than that. If you see something on campus that you think needs a change, don’t keep your mouth shut. On Monday night a friend of mine claimed that UB should drop the football program and use the athletic budget to fund a hockey team. Whether he was right or wrong, it’ll never happen unless he speaks up and pushes for the change himself.

And who knows? Maybe a hockey team at UB would be perfect, just like we were this semester.

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California Scrambles For A Money-Saving Ploy Releasing Convicts Is Perhaps Not The Best Answer In California, health care and other amenities in state prisons have been on the slump as the enormous inmate population consistently runs up the state bill. More than 160,000 California state residents are currently serving terms in penitentiaries; such a spike, dispersed around the state’s 33 facilities, has forced wardens to cut corners.

The state is now ordering that the institutions “reduce” their populations by 30 percent. In other words, California is releasing close to 40,000 convicted criminals in order to free up space and to re-allocate state funding for criminal justice.

Citing several “experts,” Californian movers and shakers believe that an increase in funding for law enforcement, made affordable by a decrease in the prison population, will effectively reduce crime. California, they say, is at the forefront of over-conviction.

The means by which California deals with its financial shortcomings have been some of the most controversial, as a spike in state college tuition brought angry students to the streets this past year and as Proposition 19 promised millions of dollars to the ailing state if only it might regulate marijuana.

If they pay in safety, as a result of prison

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overcrowding, we are willing to bet that many California residents are now regretting having not voted for Prop 19.

Obviously, prisoners are still people who deserve fair treatment and humane living conditions. But their current place in society, or in this case, outside of society, is truly problematic for a country that cannot afford them; and in states like California, it seems that nobody can win.

Saving money in state criminal justice methods sounds wonderful, but the money saved must go to increased law enforcement, another expensive public enterprise. And it seems counterproductive in reducing prison populations to add police, as if seeing more police will deter criminals from committing crimes, rather than that the higher number of police will bring in more arrests.

It would not be the first time that a state government was wrong about a money-saving prospect.

It is disappointing that state deficits have become such an issue that prisoners must be dealt with in this manner and thought of as the tertiary citizens with whom we must deal in order to keep our heads above water. Though they deserve to pay their debt to society, prisoners should not be treated like dead collateral.

From an outsider’s perspective, it looks like California is the best place to live if you are into vice. Now it looks like crime is a more safe undertaking as police try to reduce crime by… getting more police?

Just be more careful and you will not get caught in California. The prisons are too full anyway.

Iran Divorce Rate Soars Divorce Catalyzes the Problematic Death of Romance Iran has celebrated the wedding of Imam Ali for over a millennium in a national holiday colloquially known as Marriage Day. But this year, in light of the divorce rates that are gaining notoriety in leaps and bounds, Iranian authorities have renamed the holiday “No Divorce Day.” On No Divorce Day, the Iranian justice minister will not process divorce permits to legally break wedlock.

In 2010, more than 150,000 Iranian marriages ended in divorce; with their population, that is one out of every 3.76 marriages. And in a theocratic country that is still clearly given to patriarchy, that is a startlingly high number.

On one side, it is wonderful that women are taking advantage of their legal right to divorce in order to get out of unwanted marriages in a country where arranged marriages are still a factor.

But Iran’s divorce numbers shrivel before the rates in the United States, which have continually flirted with a solid 50

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percent divorce rate for first marriages.

In that sense, it is a poignant reality to recognize that the institution of marriage is clearly on its way out in the world, even in theocracies where traditional religious values preserve its former sanctity.

There are many Americans that will still stick to their decision to marry; still, many would rather kill their spouse than get a divorce. Sometimes, people fall back in love or work through their problems.

But too many people who are bound to each other would be better off apart, even if it means splitting custody of marital children. We respect the right to divorce and encourage the attitude toward choice.

But No Divorce Day seems to be less about preventing divorce as much as it is about preserving marriage as a benevolent union between two people who promise to love each other for the rest of their lives. Having one day a year when everyone recognizes that union is a good thing.

And it does not seem to

violate any right to divorce; similarly, in the United States, one may not be able to file for divorce on a national holiday, as the civil office employees have the day off.

The Spectrum’s editorial board likes happy endings just as much as the next publication’s does; it is a symptom of objective journalism, as tragedies of varying size and shape make our front pages.

Some want for the days when tradition made marriage look great, or at least made it possible for men and women to coexist happily for appearance’s sake.

And despite the American sitcom humor that playfully stigmatizes marriage, as if it sucks heavily from one’s life like a leech, many people do live long and happy lives together.

But we salute the option of divorce for anyone who wishes to end a bad marriage. Tears for the death of romance should not keep someone from freeing themselves from a dysfunctional relationship.

THE WORD AROUND CAMPUS Although not quite as raunchy as Generation’s personals once were, these are voices of UB students who have something to say. If you want to be heard, too, write us a blurb online at ubspectrum.com. Some of the wittiest remarks will appear in the paper in no particular order. (Edited for grammar.)

> Goodbye, John, and good riddance. Your contempt for the liberal arts is duly noted. Enjoy the millions of dollars you’ve been compensated to cancel our classes, close our departments and build ugly buildings. Please don’t ever come back. > To the person who wrote that incredibly biased piece in Wednesday’s paper:

Do you accept everything a superior authority tells you without question? Wikileaks is a bold step forward in increasing government transparency. While this may make certain actions more difficult, it makes it harder for the government to violate basic human rights.

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

ANGELICA MAIER

Staff Writer

I Don’t Care If You Ask, I’m Going to Tell If I walked up to you and said, “Don’t ask, don’t tell,” what would your first response be?

Most would simply oblige and leave it at that. Yet for others, this would spark a highly controversial discussion of U.S. military policy on the sexual preferences of its troops and whether or not they have, or can have, the ability to serve in the armed forces as openly gay men and women.

The policy, which is officially known as “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue,” and is also commonly referred to as DADT, was introduced as a compromise measure in 1993 by former President Bill Clinton to allow homosexuals to serve in the military, although not openly.

Until then, it was law under Department of Defense Directive 1332.14 that no homosexuals would be allowed to serve in the military. The basis of this law was the belief that homosexuals “would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability.”

This law against military service by homosexuals was passed by Congress in 1950 as part of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or UCMJ. It was soon thereafter signed by then President Harry S. Truman, making it “illegal” for homosexuals to serve in the military, openly or not.

Personally, I believe that being homosexual or heterosexual does not affect one’s capabilities.

Whether a man is gay or straight does not affect how well he can aim a gun, his ability to problem solve, or what he is willing to sacrifice for his country. In the same way, whom I choose to date does not affect my ability to succeed in school or my chosen career.

They are separate issues.

I think it is clear that a man who is capable of serving should be allowed to serve, regardless of his sexuality. But to be honest, I’m not sure how that would affect “unit cohesion,” since I haven’t served in the military.

However, my boyfriend, Joshua Burch, served in the Marine Corps for four years, from 2001 until 2005, and he believes the issue is irrelevant to him.

“I could care less, to be honest,” Burch said. “I knew guys in the corps who were gay and competed in drag competitions on the weekends.”

His grandfather, Paul Newton, served in the Navy during the 1950s. When asked about gays in the military, he had a similar viewpoint.

“Oh, sure, there were homosexuals,” Newton said. “No one really cared, though. They did their job and we did ours.”

For Burch and Newton, sexual orientation was a non-issue while they were serving. They may just be liberal, but I think they signify a changing sentiment in American society. As society becomes more accepting of homosexuals in general, it may be time for the military to catch up.

The military prides itself on traditional values, one of which is truth. With DADT still in effect, the military essentially asks for some soldiers to lie, which is completely hypocritical.

According to an Associated Press article published this past Wednesday, top Pentagon leaders stated that gay troops serving openly would not harm the military’s ability to fight. Hopefully this finding will help repeal this intolerable law.

E-mail: ajmaier@buffalo.edu

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Government Turns to Invasive Searches to Prevent Terrorism continued from page 1

wasn’t as big as they thought [it would be], and they aren’t scaring anybody.”

A full-body pat down is offered as an alternative to those who decide to opt out of a full-body scan, according to O’Neil.

The full-body pat down, like the body scan, is used to detect contraband items such as wires or other things that can aid in causing harm or damage to airplane passengers or crew members.

In a pat down, the TSA agent slides the palms or the backs of his or her hand along the entire body of a traveler.

“The pat down occurs on top of the clothes only,” O’Neil said. “Those who opt out of the scanning are not considered suspects because people have a variety of reasons why they don’t want to go through the scanners. [The pat down] is just another form of screening.”

Despite the growing public outcry and alleged passenger horror stories, the Buffalo Niagara Airport has not faced any major problems with these security measures.

“I fly about four times a semester, and I have never come into any friction flying out of Buffalo,” said Renee Jeremiah, a junior nursing major. “I have only gotten the pat down in JFK, because I had silver bangles on that were

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really hard to take off, so I had to do a full-body pat down because I couldn’t go through the scanner. A female TSA person patted down my sides, my legs and my stomach area. It was within view of other people. I didn’t get pulled into a side room or anything. They were pretty cool about it. It seemed very routine.”

Some of the horror stories facing other airports include the story of a 61-year-old man named Tom Sawyer. Sawyer has said that he was departing a Detroit airport and elected to go through the full body scanner but was given a pat down afterward anyway. Sawyer is a bladder cancer survivor and wears a urostomy bag that collects his urine.

In an interview with CBS affiliate WLNS, Sawyer said he warned the TSA agent about the bag, but the agent was still unnecessarily rough. The pat down concluded with the urine bag spilling all over Sawyer. Sawyer said that he broke down crying.

“I was just so embarrassed, so humiliated.”

Sawyer said in the interview with WLNS. Cases like Sawyer’s have prompted groups like the American Civil Liberties Union to look into the constitutionality of these searches.

Private organizations, including a group of Harvard students, have also been motivated to take legal action against the TSA. O’Neil assures students traveling out of the Buffalo Niagara Airport that the pat down is only used on people who trigger alarms or opt out of the scanners and that the pat downs are “on top of clothes only.”

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POLICE BLOTTER 11/30 — A subject was taken to Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital after suffering a hip injury on a bike path.

11/30 — A subject was taken to Erie County Medical Center from Richmond Quadrangle for an evaluation.

11/30 — An iPod was taken from a Goodyear Hall room by an unknown subject.

11/30 — An unattended wallet with credit cards was taken from the Student Union.

12/1 — An unattended backpack was taken from Lockwood Library by an unknown subject.

12/1 — An unattended backpack was taken from Lockwood Library by an unknown subject.

12/1 — An unattended Macbook was taken from the fourth floor of Lockwood Library.

12/1 — An unattended Macbook was taken from the fifth floor of Lockwood Library.

12/1 — A subject reported being bothered by another student at Parker Hall.

12/2 — A UB card was taken and used at a Goodyear Hall vending machine by an unknown subject.

12/2 — An intoxicated subject was taken to Erie County Medical Center from Spaulding Quadrangle for evaluation and was also referred to the Student Wide Judiciary.

12/3 — A subject was taken to Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital from the Student Union for a finger injury.

12/3 — An unknown subject pulled a fire alarm at Knox Hall when there was no fire.

12/3 — An unattended wallet with credit cards was taken from a Student Union bathroom.

12/3 — Two envelopes with a key were taken from Fronczak Hall.

12/3 — Two subjects were referred to the Student Wide Judiciary for marijuana possession at Spaulding Quadrangle.

12/3 — A natural gas smell was reported at Fronczak Hall and was checked by the fire department.

12/3 — An unknown subject scratched a car window in a South Lake Village lot.

12/4 — A subject was taken to Erie County Medical Center and referred to the Student Wide Judiciary for alcohol and other drugs at Goodyear Hall.

12/4 — A subject was taken to Erie County Medical Center from Wilkeson Quadrangle for an evaluation.

12/4 — A subject was taken to Erie County Medical Center and referred to the Student Wide Judiciary for alcohol and other drugs at Lehman Hall.

12/4 — Two subjects were taken to Erie County Medical Center from Clark Gym for head injuries 12/4 — Jamar A. Campbell was charged with Driving While Intoxicated on Kenmore Avenue and had a blood alcohol content of .11.

12/4 — Pasquale Rappa was charged with Driving While Intoxicated on Main Street and had a blood alcohol content of .15.

12/4 — Four subjects were referred to the Student Wide Judiciary for trespassing at the Wende Hall construction site.

12/4 — A subject was taken to Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital from Richmond Quadrangle for kidney pain.

12/5 — A subject was taken to ECMC from South Lake Village for an evaluation.

12/5 — A subject was taken to Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital from Creekside Village for abdominal pain.

12/5 — A subject was referred to the Student Wide Judiciary for marijuana possession at Wilkeson Quadrangle.

12/5 — A subject was taken to Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital from Richmond Quadrangle after feeling faint.

12/6 — A subject was taken from Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital from Richmond Quadrangle for stomach pain.

12/6 — A subject reported being bothered by another student at the Winspear Service Building.

12/6 — A subject fell on the stairs at Michael Hall and refused aid.

12/6 — An unattended backpack with a laptop charging cord was taken from Lockwood Library.

12/6 — An unattended Dell laptop was taken from Capen Library by an unknown subject.

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With the final week of classes underway, exams approaching, and holidays right around the corner, college students are facing an escalating amount of stress.

A great stress reliever many students turn to is yoga.

“I started getting into yoga at a time when work and school were really stressing me out,” said Danielle Jakubowski, a senior history major. “I noticed I was getting high-strung and short-tempered.

Immediately after starting yoga, I noticed a difference in my nerves and felt a lot calmer.”

There are a variety of styles of yoga practiced throughout the world, many of which can be found in Western New York.

A familiar form is traditional Hatha yoga, available to students through courses in the athletics department. Leanne Oldenbrook, a graduate of UB and founder of Crescent Moon yoga, teaches Hatha yoga at the UB Newman Center.

After being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, Oldenbrook found yoga to be very helpful in her pain management. She completed the 200-hour Yoga Alliance certification program at Seven Centers Yoga Arts in Sedona, Ariz. and has been teaching Hatha yoga since 2003.

“When you practice mindfully, with full attention on what you’re doing, you connect every movement to breath,” Oldenbrook said. “The inhale brings energy, and the exhale releases it. It’s important to listen to the spaces between breaths to calm the body and quiet the mind. I wish I could make [yoga] mandatory.”

Bikram yoga, founded by Bikram Choudhury in 1974, consists of a 26-posture sequence

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Finals week may stress students out, but yoga is a creative way to ease off some of the tensions that come with the end of the semester.

adapted from traditional Hatha yoga. This challenging workout takes place in a 105-degree room with 40 percent humidity.

“Bikram yoga is really intense.

The first time I went I thought I was going to die,” said Sarah Brewer, a senior international studies major who tries to attend Bikram yoga classes five to six times per week. “Nothing else matters in that moment. The momentum stays with me after class.”

Another unique form of yoga is warm water yoga, which generally takes place in a 90-degree heated pool that is shallow enough to stand in. After doing research on different water yoga methods, Oldenbrook developed a water yoga class that she teaches at the Kenneth Kurtz Physical Therapy pool in Clarence.

“In water yoga, you use the wall of the pool and hang on the edge of the wall. You’re somewhat limited, but many of the postures you can do standing can be done

in the water,” Oldenbrook said.

“The warmth of the water is good for muscles, and the water supports you so you can do postures that are more difficult on land.”

For those looking for a change of scenery, Oldenbrook also teaches morning classes at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery every Saturday. Each week, students are introduced to new artwork by a gallery docent, and they practice yoga in the space of the gallery.

There is also a meditative presence at UB being spearheaded by the Meditation Club, which is in the process of being recognized as an official club by the Student Association. It is currently part of the Wellness Center’s stress management program. Club members begin their meetings with 15 minutes of tai chi or yoga, followed by meditation to relieve stress.

“Meditation counters the stress response by encouraging deep breathing, which slows down your heart rate and relaxes

the whole body,” said Cyndney Schwartz, president of UB Meditation. “Most importantly, meditation encourages mindfulness, or the ability to live in the moment, meaning rather than worrying [or] fantasizing about the future or dwelling on the past, one focuses on the now.”

There are many yoga studios to choose from in Western New York. More information about Oldenbrook’s Hatha yoga, water yoga, and yoga at AlbrightKnox Art Gallery can be found at cmyoga.com.

“Yoga gives you the ability to let your thoughts settle for a while,” Oldenbrook said. “How many times do we think about the past and worry about the future? How often do we worry about right now? Yoga helps get you in the space where you can be present in your life.”

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bang. In fact, the first half of the film is slow and seems to take its time building to the eventual climax, which viewers are expecting from the first five minutes of the film.

As in any action film, there is an obligatory romance between Yang and Lynne that ANGELA VIZZI seems forced. There is no real chemistry Staff Writer between the two characters other than a master-student bond.

Many of the scenes between the two lead Movie: The Warrior’s Way characters seem like revamped versions of Release Date: Dec. 3 scenes in The Karate Kid, with Jang taking Courtesy of Culture Unplugged Studios on the role of a makeshift Mr. Miyagi, spoutGrade: B Ninjas vs. Cowboys turns out to be just as awesome as anyone would predict. ing clichéd dialogue about the necessity of focus, speed, and strength in a sometimes Move over pirates: The Warrior’s Way, a for the citizens of Lode, as well. This deadly incoherently thick Korean accent. new action film from rookie director Sngmoo combination of conflicts eventually comes The action doesn’t start until later in the Lee, is proving that ninjas and cowboys are to a head as the bandits and the ninja clan film.

Once it does, however, viewers are in really where the action is. simultaneously find their own ways to make for some good old-fashioned entertainment The story of The Warrior’s Way is that of the assassin’s life more difficult. as Jang slices and dices cowboys and ninjas assassin Yang (Dong-gun Jang, Good MornJang, a superstar in South Korea, proves that alike in a larger-than-life, 300-esque fashion. ing President), who travels to the West to he can replace Jackie Chan as the next big marThese fight scenes are spectacular due escape his clan, which is after him for failing tial arts star to run the screens of America. As in large part to the remarkable Jang, who to complete a mission. Yang failed to kill the he tears up the screen in scene after scene, Jang baby girl who is the last surviving member of portrays his character’s emotional evolution is able to carry out the highly stylized and a rival clan. The assassin decides to hide out subtly while still maintaining the statuesque choreographed fight sequences with perfect in Lode, a small Western town mostly filled demeanor of a cold-hearted assassin, making skill.

The film is also visually stunning, with circus folk. him an interesting character to watch. although sufficiently bloody. The moody, While attempting to start a new life in Bosworth’s character, Lynne, is almost the small town, he meets a feisty girl named able to singlehandedly ruin the film with digitally-enhanced backdrops, blood spurts, Lynne (Kate Bosworth, 21), who helps accli- her annoying, hyperactive, and over-the-top Matrix-style stunt work, and fascinating mate the stranger to small-town life. Yang personality. It is hard to tell if it is bad acting slow-motion sequences of bullets and slashing begins to make a family out of the unusual or bad writing, but the character of Lynne blades are technically impressive and add to townspeople, including a drunken ex-bank doesn’t bring anything positive to the movie, the film’s visual appeal.

Highly stylized and action-packed, The robber (Geoffrey Rush, Legend of the Guard- and she is almost unbearably annoying during Warrior’s Way is an interesting film that melds ians: The Owls of Ga’hoole) and a kindly dwarf the first half of the film. two conflicting cultures to create an interest(Tony Cox, Disaster Movie).

Luckily, however, she begins to mellow ing new genre. While it has some issues, it is an Meanwhile, a ruthlessly cruel and power- out as the film progresses, and she proves to old-fashioned fun film that audiences should hungry Colonel (Danny Huston, Robin Hood) be much more bearable in the second half. find enjoyable to watch. and his crew of violent bandits have it out The Warrior’s Way does not start with a E-mail: arts@ubspectrum.com

About one year ago, my radio was invaded by an annoying, presumably alcoholic woman who sang about how she woke up feeling like P. Diddy and only slept with guys who looked like Mick Jagger.

Naturally, I was horrified.

By all accounts, Ke$ha seemed like the most vacuous, empty-headed woman on the planet.

All of her songs were about drinking heavily and having anonymous sex. Admittedly, there’s nothing wrong with either of those things, but when they’re the only topics someone discusses in her music, you have to wonder if she has any personality whatsoever.

Taking all this into consideration, I had to wonder how anyone could be so shallow.

Then, I realized something. Ke$ha’s not shallow at all; she’s a genius. She’s making terrible music on purpose to make a point about just how bad mainstream music has gotten.

Much like Joaquin Phoenix did in I’m Not Here, Ke$ha is playing a very elaborate prank on America, and so far, no one has noticed.

I know this seems a bit far-fetched. It’s strange to think that a pop star’s entire career could be one big, ironic performance piece, but the evidence points strongly toward this conclusion.

Let’s look at the facts; for one thing, Ke$ha is pretty smart. She received a near-perfect score on her SATs, and in interviews, she generally comes off as thoughtful and articulate – not at all like the woman who told a gentleman caller to “show me where yo d*** at.”

Ke$ha also seems oddly self-aware about how terrible she is. Her Twitter name is @keshasuxx, and when Chelsea Handler told her she looked like trash at this year VMAs, she simply said “thank you.” It might have seemed like her way of telling us, “I don’t care what you think,” but perhaps she was really saying, “You’re right, I do suck. Thank you for catching on.”

Finally, by all accounts, her taste in music is pretty good. In a Rolling Stone interview, she stated that her favorite album was Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline. Shortly after that statement, a clip of her singing Radiohead’s “Karma Police” appeared on YouTube.

So, how do you go from Dylan and Radiohead to singing about boys trying to touch your junk? That question had stymied me, but I eventually figured it out.

It turns out, Ke$ha and I are kindred spirits.

She has the same contempt for most modern pop that I do. The difference is that while I just complain about it in columns, she decided to give the industry a taste of its own medicine.

She wrote the most vain, idiotic songs she could possibly think of, hoping that the public would recoil and realize how foolish it had been for embracing such crap over the years.

Unfortunately, the plan backfired. The public ate it all up, and Ke$ha wound up representing everything she came to take a stand against. As it turns out, the American public is so shallow that it will send anything with a good beat to the top of the charts no matter how insipid it is. As a result, Ke$ha’s grand point was lost, and she fit right in with the Black Eyed Peas and the Pussycat Dolls.

Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe Ke$ha is just a talentless disaster who can’t write about anything more than boys, sex, and drinking. Still, I like my version better. It allows me to have a little respect for Ke$ha, and more importantly, to think there’s one person in the music industry who knows how bad things have really gotten.

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The Walking Dead Rises JAMES TWIGG

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Disney’s new game Epic Mickey is anything but epic.

EPIC FAIL NICOLAS PINO Asst. Arts Editor

Game: Epic Mickey Grade: CLike most failing franchises, all Mickey Mouse needed was a gritty reboot to place him back in the hearts and minds of children around the world.

Sadly, all thoughts of the mouse with the largest ears on television will be negative after kids get their hands on Warren Spector’s interpretation of the age-old rodent in Epic Mickey.

Like many games before it, Epic Mickey’s appeal is limited to the ease of control of its main protagonist, and after spending five minutes with the game, players will groan, as the camera can almost never quite capture the on-screen action.

The landscape is one that has never been explored by the mouse’s eccentric designer, and the barren wasteland makes the perfect place for the attempted narrative Spector presents. The game plays as any platformer should. Buttons include a jump, a simple attack, and a few bells and whistles, but the game mostly stays true to its two-dimensional roots.

Though it has been nearly 15 years since the rodent has appeared in native 16-bit systems, players will get to relive the experience in the many side-scrolling levels that litter the game’s wasteland.

While the wasteland is a true graphical delight, the level designs are so repetitive that players can enjoy a similar backdrop for the entirety of the game’s 12 hours of story mode.

The story of the game is one that is so clichéd that it makes playing it more of a pain than a pleasure. Walt’s proto-Disney mascot, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, begins as the game’s antagonist but slowly begins to love the Disney icon just as much as, or a little more than, a 1930s American.

Similarly, the plot begins as a dark and cynical memorial to gamers’ childhoods but slowly morphs into something that can be instantly

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forgotten.

Mickey, wielding Yen Sid’s magical paintbrush, traipses around the less than magical environment and can either return the color stolen from the landscape or continue its destruction by removing what little architecture still inhabits the ruinous land. This artistic system consists of using blue paint to create what was once existent or using green paint thinner to erase the game’s obstacles.

Theoretically, this system should sustain the game’s playability beyond an hour, but the manipulation of a game’s world is less enjoyable than one would originally believe.

Cinematics are done in a truly unique fashion as cell-shaded art brings Epic Mickey’s plot to life.

However, without the use of in-game video, the game is left with little choice but to use text bubbles to convey conversations.

This wouldn’t be so bad if the game designers hadn’t chosen to leave out voice acting and replace it with noises that are reminiscent of nails on a chalkboard. While this has worked in the past for AAA titles like Banjo-Kazooie, it has absolutely no place in this generation’s platformers.

Boss battles are occasionally optional, but they are always lacking in difficulty. Their tactics are foreseeable and weaknesses apparent, and most of them can be beaten with little to no struggle.

In between the boss fights, the quests are even more irritating than their simple-minded overlords. They often require fetching an item from an unexplored location or chatting with one of Disney’s obscure creations, whom Mickey Mouse himself doesn’t remember.

That seems to be the running joke in Epic Mickey. The plot, its characters and its once harmonious landscape have all been discarded and forgotten. This joke is rather sad, as the game does nothing to change the minds of its players.

While it seems that Spector has failed to create the world’s first truly immersive Mickey experience, this is perhaps the closest anyone has come to creating a game befitting of the rat king.

Heartfelt storytelling and brainsplattering gunshots have proven to be a winning combination with AMC’s latest series, The Walking Dead.

Sunday night saw the season finale to AMC’s new post-apocalyptic horror series. While the finale may have left viewers hungry for more, it still rounded out the premiere season interestingly enough and has solidified The Walking Dead as one of the best new series on television.

The show, based on the comic book series of the same title, follows the story of Sherriff Deputy Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln, Made in Dagenham). Soon after waking from a coma to find that the world now belongs to flesh-hungry zombies, Grimes sets out to uncover the fate of his wife Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies, Lullaby for Pi) and his son Carl (Chandler Riggs, The Wronged Man).

This was the driving plot line for Grimes and the show as a whole during the first couple of episodes.

However, the mystery is resolved for Grimes rather quickly, and by the third episode, he is reunited with his family and joins a group of survivors.

In addition to his wife and son, Grimes also discovers that his partner Shane (Jon Bernthal, Date Night) is still alive. From this point on, the show switches gears from a man on a quest to the story of a ragtag group of survivors trying to live day-to-day in a zombie-infested world.

The Walking Dead’s story has more to it than one would expect.

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People struggle to survive in a zombie-filled world in The Walking Dead.

slow-motion headshots and fleshtearing bites, the show would have lost its appeal in just a few episodes.

From the opening scene, it’s made clear that The Walking Dead isn’t a show for the squeamish.

Within the first five minutes, Grimes shoots a young zombie girl in the head, and she falls back into a puddle of her own blood and skull fragments.

Moments like these are the reason The Walking Dead has become such a sensation so quickly. It’s unafraid to be bold or graphic, and the crew behind the scenes does its best to give the show an authentic feel.

It would have been easy for this show to market itself as a gimmick and take the campy route to appeal to a wider audience, but it instead decided to take itself seriously.

As a result, The Walking Dead has become a must-see for any horror, drama, or action fan.

Though the release date has yet to be announced, The Walking Dead has been renewed for a second season. When the time comes, fans can expect more intricate storylines, bigger reveals, and thousands of freshly-rotted zombies.

All in all, The Walking Dead is the best show to shuffle its way onto primetime television in a long time.

The zombie apocalypse serves as more of a backdrop to the series, and the strained relationships between the characters are placed at the forefront.

Before Grimes returned to his family in episode three, Shane had developed a relationship with Lori on the assumption that Grimes had not survived. Once Grimes returned, however, Lori felt as though Shane had betrayed her.

This situation develops into a prominent subplot that has yet to be resolved at the end of the season.

Don’t be surprised if the show delves into the situation even more when the second season starts up.

From lost loved ones to hidden relationships, the show features a heavy dose of drama. This manages to keep things interesting and allows the viewers to actually care when a E-mail: arts@ubspectrum.com member of the group gets his throat gruesomely torn out.

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There are no horror movies about it and Stephen King doesn’t write books about it, but for some, public speaking is a less enticing choice than death.

Making speeches is likely one of the last things college students want to do, but Jude Butch, the leadership program coordinator for the Center for Student Leadership and Community Engagement (CSLCE), believes it is an art that can be mastered.

Speakers often overestimate the extent to which things can go wrong during a presentation. In doing so, many trick themselves into making those things happen. Butch suggests arriving early to avoid these distractions, which gives speakers time to relax and greet the audience members as they arrive.

Another strategy to combat nerves when presenting is having a full understanding of the topic of discussion. If speakers have two or three key points that they know they have to make, it will be much easier for them to avoid freezing up and stuttering. Speaking from personal experiences also makes for great speeches, according to Butch.

“You never forget your own stories,” Butch said. “It helps the audience relate to you and makes you feel more comfortable.”

An important and often underestimated factor in public speaking is understanding the audience. The way a student would want to present to his friends is entirely different from the way he would present to a potential employer, Butch says. Furthermore, speakers should avoid “talking at” an audience.

“Rather than speaking at them, engage them in conversation, and hopefully, they will engage you back,” Butch said.

Engaging the audience may be different for each group of people, however. Butch proposes the use of PowerPoint, group activities, and relevant handouts to help with this task. Students should remain flexible in their approaches, however, and should be able to

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expecting 24 points and nine rebounds,” Hill-MacDonald said. “We didn’t make adjustments to stop her. She was relentless on the boards in the second half.”

The Bulls’ struggle to avoid turnovers affected the outcome of the game. The Dukes forced the Bulls into 23 giveaways on the night.

“We didn’t use pass and shot fakes, didn’t reverse the ball enough, our off the ball movement wasn’t good enough, [and] we didn’t get into triple threat,” Hill-MacDonald said. “There were 23 turnovers, and there could be 23 different reasons for us turning the ball over.”

The Bulls shot only 33 percent in the second half in comparison to Duquesne’s 50 percent. The poor shooting, along with turnover issues and the inability to get Brown the ball, led to a frustrating night for Buffalo.

The Bulls will remain home on Friday as they host Big Four rival St. Bonaventure (5-3). The game is set to begin at 7 p.m.

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Although conventional wisdom encourages presenters to imagine their audiences nude, a lecture held at UB gave alternative pointers to easing the difficulties of public speaking.

adapt to whatever the situation may bring.

Being slightly overdressed in comparison to the audience may give the speaker an edge, which could help in adapting to varying circumstances.

“You always want to one-up your audience in your attire; it shows that you’re the expert in the room,” Butch said.

Most importantly, Butch urges students not

to use the age-old trick of picturing everyone in the room naked. She claims it’s just a weird trick and might be very inappropriate for certain audiences. Speeches don’t have to be hard or tricky, but preparation is certainly important in ensuring everything goes smoothly.

“Practice doesn’t make perfect, but it certainly makes better,” Butch said.

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12-1. However, it has wins over LSU,

BCS participant Arkansas, SEC East champ South Carolina, and defending national champion Alabama.

Now, jumping Oregon could have been a possibility. If Oregon had lost at Oregon State in the alwaysdifficult rivalry game, there’s a chance TCU could have moved up.

The Horned Frogs defeated Oregon State on a “neutral field” in Dallas this year.

But Oregon also played a much more difficult schedule than TCU. They routed the fourth-ranked team in the country, Stanford, and pounded the Trojans in The Coliseum. This gives the Ducks an edge with the voters in terms of big wins.

They also stick out with their average of 50 points a game.

One would assume the human voters would have a tough time putting a TCU team that played a cake schedule in the championship over Auburn, who played in the SEC, or a flashy Oregon team. And the human voters determine a solid proportion of the formula.

TCU finishing in third this season forever gives a ceiling to non-major conference schools.

Boise State and TCU were supposed to be the best non-BCS teams since the formula’s institution. And being shut down stunts all the progression that these schools have made over the years.

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it is presented with, so it decided to bolt. If the school can’t make it this year, it will never be able to qualify for the BCS National Championship game while a member of the Mountain West Conference.

TCU’s only option this season is to decidedly defeat Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl; a win like this would bring credibility to the program.

However, actually topping the Badgers will prove difficult and, in my opinion, very unlikely.

But earning respect from the rest of college football will be harder.

There will always be doubters who will argue that TCU didn’t get to play for a championship, so that BCS win is not the same.

The current formula has cornered TCU into joining the Big East. It has no other option but to join a major conference if it wants proper recognition for its success.

The Big East is far from the SEC or Big Ten, but it’s a step in the right direction for TCU. It will compete for a conference title annually in the Big East, and maybe it will help the school reach the BCS National Championship someday.

I do know one thing, however; the Horned Frogs won’t be challenging for a basketball title anytime soon in a stacked 17-team conference.

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Incoming freshman and transfer students at UB complete mandatory alcohol education and sexual assault prevention education called AlcoholEDU. Despite having some knowledge of the potentially fatal risks of alcohol consumption, however, students continue to drink irresponsibly.

“We had 2,777 students participate in the national college health administration survey in the spring semester of 2010, and we asked how much they used in the last two weeks,” said Amberly Panepinto, assistant director of counseling from Student Health and Wellness, at an alcohol awareness workshop held by Counseling Services. “About 49 percent of the nearly 3,000 students consumed alcohol in the last two weeks.”

One reason why students consume alcohol has to do with their surroundings, especially their college community. However, an overwhelming 84 percent of students polled at UB said that they do not need to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs to enjoy themselves when they go out.

The remaining 16 percent justified their responses by saying that the parties they attend influence their decision to drink. “[If ] I go to Mojo’s… I’m going to need a lot of alcohol,” said Lelia Fletcher, a senior communication major. “It depends on who throws the party, where it is, what type of music is playing, and the crowd.”

Michelle Olandese, outreach coordinator at UB Counseling Services, explained that not all students are of that opinion.

“I think some students think that but not all. [Some students] may think substance use is a must-have throughout one’s college experience,” Olandese said.

“Alcohol has the ability to distort a person’s perceptions. [This] can lead to significant negative consequences. [It is] important for students to assess their substance use and weigh the advantages and disadvantages of using.”

It may sometimes be difficult to judge one’s level of intoxication because there are numerous factors that influence alcohol’s effect on an individual. Physical variables such as weight, body size, the amount of food in one’s stomach, type of alcohol, and gender play a role.

Other factors, such as blood alcohol

content (BAC) and metabolism, also have an impact on one’s drunkenness, according to Niki Keating, a clinical graduate student in counseling and school psychology.

Women may be more prone to getting drunk quickly because they weigh less than men on average, resulting in less water by volume, which leads to a higher BAC. Female bodies also have lesser amounts of the enzyme needed to metabolize alcohol. Women contain about 20 to 30 percent less of the enzyme than men.

The national legal limit for driving in the U.S. is a BAC of 0.08 grams per deciliter of blood, but even this seemingly low amount may be detrimental.

“We used formulas to get people to the 0.08 level [for a study I did in grad school], and the people got very drunk,” Panepinto said.

“People lose their ability to process information and make quick decisions. Their speech slurs and their balance and motor skills become reduced.”

Many social gatherings involving alcohol incorporate some form of drinking game, which may lead to more drinking at a faster rate, according to Panepinto. Furthermore, many students may be influenced to drink if they are surrounded by others who are drinking.

“If you’re going to be at a party where everyone is drinking, you’re going to want to be under some kind of influence to experience the same sense of fun,” said Jessica Rosenberg, a sophomore psychology major. “It depends on the setting.”

Setting a personal limit to the amount one drinks and avoiding shots are good ways to avoid getting too drunk, especially when the results of getting too drunk may be fatal; a student from SUNY Geneseo died of alcohol poisoning last year.

Signs that a person has consumed too much alcohol include vomiting, incoherency, shallow breathing, clammy skin, blue lips or fingertips, and unconsciousness.

Unfortunately, alcohol abuse can also lead to sexual assault.

“There’s a great possibility of getting assaulted or abused when you’re blacked out,” Keating said.

“For the record, it is considered rape if the other person is intoxicated and incapable of making a decision.”

Students can go to Counseling Services at 120 Richmond or stop

by Wellness Education Services at 114 Student Union for more information.

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Records Sink at Zippy Invitational MEG LEACH Staff Writer

There is arguably nothing better on a frigid weekend in Ohio than breaking records. That is just what the swimming team did this past weekend at the Zippy Invitational.

The three-day event took place at the Ocasek Natatorium, the home of the Akron Zips. The Bulls have a history of success competing in the Zippy Invitational, an event notorious for hosting stiff competition, and have usually posted season-best times and set school records. In this year’s edition, the men’s team placed first and the women’s team finished third.

From the start of the tournament on Friday, the four-man team of freshman Phil Aronica and sophomores Josh Meints, Cory Zorsch, and Matt Hogan posted a season-best time of 3:24.05 in the 400-yard medley relay. The time was fast enough to take first in the competition, beating out second-place Xavier by nine tenths of a second.

Despite placing second, Hogan would make another season-best time in this first day of competition in the 200-yard individual medley. Hogan’s time of 1:53.18 was only 3.33 seconds away from first place.

On the women’s side, sophomore Caroline Simmons had a season-best time of 23.57 in the women’s 50-yard freestyle.

On the second day, Aronica and Hogan joined sophomore Matt Schwippert and junior Jared Heine in the

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On his successful streak, Aronica also won an individual title in the backstroke with a season-best time of 50.11 seconds.

Junior Colin Patrican of the diving team won a title with a six-dive total of 302.35 points.

As the invitational came to a close on Sunday, the Bulls showed no intention of slowing down.

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“I was anxious to get out there and play with my teammates, play with A-Rod [Aaron Rodgers],” Starks said in an interview on the official Packers website. “You know the fans here at Lambeau, finally getting to run out there, it was an exciting moment for me. I just took it all in; I was just like an excited little kid out there.”

Men’s Basketball Adds Another Home Game to Schedule The men’s basketball team is adding an extra home game to its 2010-2011 schedule. On Dec. 18, the Bulls (4-3) will host Houghton College (4-2). The game will be part of a four-game home stand that begins on Wednesday night against Niagara (2-6, 0-2 Metro-Atlantic Athletic Conference).

“We really needed a game between Dec. 11 and Dec. 30,” said head coach Reggie Witherspoon in a press release. “It’s important that we stay sharp heading into conference play.”

The game against Houghton College is scheduled for a 1 p.m. tip-off.

Mulkey Named MAC Scholar Athlete of the Week Senior guard Byron Mulkey was named Mid-American Conference Scholar Athlete of the Week.

Mulkey has maintained a 3.37 grade point average.

Mulkey, who redshirted last season, is currently leading the team in assists and the entire country in steals, with an average of 4.1 per game. He scored a career-high 23 points in the Bulls’ 81-64 victory over Canisius and was a combined 12-of-12 from the free-throw line against Canisius and Indiana State.

Brown and Aronica Named Athletes of the Week Senior forward Kourtney Brown of the women’s basketball team and freshman Phil Aronica of the men’s swimming team were announced as the Bulls Athletes of the Week.

Brown, who currently leads the Bulls in points and rebounds, had a huge game in Buffalo’s 79-50 victory against Canisius. Her 26 points and 15 rebounds gave Brown her 33rd career double-double.

Aronica won the 100-yard backstroke at Akron’s Zippy Invitational with a season-best time of 50.11.

Aronica was also part of the winning 200-yard medley relay (1:32.06) and 400-yard medley relay (1:32.06).

Baseball 2011 Schedule Revealed The baseball team recently released its 2011 schedule. The Bulls, who finished with a 23-29 (9-18 MAC) record last season, begin play with a four-game series at New Mexico State on Feb. 26. They will play their first home game on Apr. 1 against Northern Michigan.

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Proudfoot, claimed first place with a meet record time of 3:03.88.

In the 200-yard freestyle, Schwippert won with a season-best time of 1:50.43.

Freshman Eric Culver won the 1,650-yard freestyle race with a time of 16:08.90.

At the end of the tournament, the men’s team totaled 1,626 points, beating out second-place Xavier by 157 points.

The women’s team came in third, only 145.5 points out of second place. Ohio took first with 1,562 points, and Illinois State finished second with 1,146 points.

The season will come to a brief pause, as the next time the Bulls will dive into action will be on Jan. 15, when they will host the Binghamton Bearcats at Alumni Arena Natatorium.

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from getting any confidence shooting the basketball. The Purple Eagles are giving up 78 points per game this season and the Bulls are averaging 88 points per game at Alumni Arena. The Bulls have to play better perimeter defense and feed off of a home crowd that should be loud during this rivalry showdown.

The Purple Eagles will win if… every player in purple and white turns in his best performance of the season. The entire team has to limit turnovers and find a way to win the battle of the boards. Niagara’s freshman duo of Marvin Jordan and Skylar Jones has to have its best shooting performance of the season and dominate from 3-point range.

PREDICTIONS: To borrow a phrase from head coach Reggie Witherspoon, I think the Bulls are going to be galvanized after losing such a close game to St. Bonaventure. Senior guard Byron Mulkey knows what the rivalry between the two schools means and he will be able to lead his team to victory.

Bulls leading scorer Zach Filzen has had two strong games at home this season, and I look for him to punish the Purple Eagles from downtown. The Bulls defense has been stifling at home, and I don’t expect Joe Mihalich’s squad to handle the heat.

Bulls – 81 | Purple Eagles – 69

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The Bulls offense has been unstoppable at Alumni Arena, and it has gotten off to quick starts in both games. Seeing the Bonnies go off from 3-point range on Saturday will inspire the Bulls to do some shooting of their own, but this time in the comfort of their own gym.

Look for the Bulls to jump out to a hot-shooting start behind their backcourt tandem of Mulkey and Filzen.

The Bulls’ size advantage will come into play, and they will dominate on the glass. Buffalo will give its home crowd something to cheer for with a double-digit victory in the rivalry game.

Bulls – 86 | Purple Eagles – 71

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The Texas-Christian Horned Frogs are the final hope for non-BCS football teams.

They just finished the regular season undefeated, and they have received the utmost respect from the voters for their success this season. It seems as though everyone is starting to realize the power of the Mountain West Conference. TCU is in a great spot for the future in their current conference.

Oh wait, scratch that. They actually just accepted a bid to join the Big East Conference starting in 2012-13. Damn, a Texas school in the Big East? Maybe this is a sign of the apocalypse.

Do you think this sudden desire to join a conference with an automatic BCS bid had anything to do with the outcome of this season?

Definitely. The Horned Frogs may be the best team in the country, but because of the conference they play in, they are perceived to be inferior to the upper-echelon of college football. So no one will ever know.

Boise State and TCU were ranked highly heading into the season because both schools had virtually their entire rosters returning and both finished last year’s regular season undefeated. They met in the Fiesta Bowl, where the Broncos topped TCU. The problem for both teams was that it was a year when people thought both teams could contend with the top teams in the country. Yet, the teams ended up playing each other, which didn’t give them the chance to prove their worth against the country’s best.

This left much to be desired from the fans of college football.

After Auburn and Oregon closed out their regular seasons with wins on Saturday, once again TCU will be left out after an undefeated regular season. However, this time it will have a chance to show what it has against a legitimate college football program.

However, even if Oregon or Auburn were to lose, I believe that TCU wouldn’t deserve to go ahead of a one-loss and play for the BCS Championship.

TCU’s best win this season was against the then fifth-ranked Utah Utes. Utah ended up dropping another game to an average-atbest Notre Dame team and has since fallen to 20th in the country.

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It’s hard to be disappointed with historic performances, but the wrestling team did not meet expectations over the weekend.

On Sunday, the Bulls participated at the Penn State Open, a tournament that featured several top-25 teams with a number of elite wrestlers.

While some wrestlers met the challenge, others were unable to measure up to the competition.

However, there were some highlights for the Bulls, the biggest of which was the accomplishment of senior Jimmy Hamel. Hamel entered the day with only three wins needed to reach 100 for his career.

It did not take Hamel long to reach this mark because he won his first three matches of the day. The victories made him the fifth wrestler in school history to record 100 victories.

Hamel got his first win of the night against King College’s Brandon Tressler in a 6-0 shutout.

He then beat Maryland’s Brad Nielson, 8-3. The senior finally reached the century mark with a 10-4 victory against Josh Tuck of The Citadel.

“This was a pretty exciting thing for Jimmy,” said head coach Jim Beichner. “Winning 100 matches at the Division 1-A level is a very difficult thing to do. He didn’t have a great weekend, but we are very proud of him. Hopefully the best is still yet to come.”

Another big highlight of the day was the performance of junior Kevin Smith. Smith wrestled his way to a second-place finish in a talented 133-pound weight class.

Smith won his first four matches before losing in the championship against Edinboro’s Mitchell Port. Smith was able to take his first four victories against wrestlers from Navy, Bloomsburg, Maryland and North Carolina.

“Smith was a finalist on the day, our only one of the day,” Beichner said. “He did a great job…

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The wrestling team competed at the Penn State Open this weekend. The tournament featured a number of ranked opponents, including the fifth-ranked host Nittany Lions.

getting to the finals.”

The second-best finish of the day for the Bulls was by junior John-Martin Cannon. He was able to finish fourth in the 165-pound weight class. The Brockport native won his first few matches before falling to the eventual champion, Maryland’s Josh Asper.

Sophomore Josh Peters also stood out in the event with his second-straight strong performance. Peters finished fifth in the 197-pound weight class after finishing third at the Body Bar Invite just a couple of weeks ago.

Peters finished on a strong note, winning his last three matches. His fifth place match resulted in a 3-2 win over Justin Ortega of Penn State.

Brown’s Double-Double Not Enough for Bulls ZACH FILZEN Staff Writer

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The women’s basketball team struggled in the second half against Duquesne on Monday at Alumni Arena, dropping the game by a score of 67-53.

A poor second-half performance proved to be the downfall for the women’s basketball team, despite the 34th career double-double by senior forward Kourtney Brown.

The Bulls (4-4) lost to Duquesne (6-1), 67-55 at Alumni Arena in a non-conference battle on Monday night.

The first 20 minutes of the game went back and forth; the score was tied seven times, and there were five lead changes. The largest lead either team had in the first half was four points.

A major issue was the inability to get Brown the ball in the second half. She went the first 14:43 of the half without a shot attempt after finishing with 10 points and 10 rebounds in the first half.

“They were double teaming me,” Brown said. “Fronting me and bringing someone over the top. They all sucked in and were digging on the ball. So it was important for me to chin it, kick it back out, and repost.”

Brown finished with 17 points on 8-of-12 shooting. However, she only had three of those attempts in the second half, although she managed to make all of them. Brown also contributed 16 rebounds, nine of them on the offensive glass.

Head coach Linda Hill-MacDonald was not happy with the inability to get Brown the ball in the second half.

“The guards were not putting themselves in a position to get the ball inside,” Hill-MacDonald said. “Kourtney had a lot of company in there and one way to get her the ball is to shoot it well and we didn’t do that.

The Duquesne defense really sucks in the paint and Kourtney had five players sinking in on her. Our guards needed to ball fake and shoot well and we didn’t have that in the second half.”

Duquesne was up four points with only a few seconds left in the half, but a jumper by senior Bridgette Kendricks cut the deficit for the Bulls to only two, at 29-27, going into the half. This would be as close as Buffalo would get for the rest of the night.

Six quick points from Duquesne forward Samantha Pollino sparked the Dukes at the start of the second half. They took a 44-35 lead into the first media timeout. Pollino would continue to hurt the Bulls for the rest of the half.

Pollino scored 18 second-half points en route to a 24-point outing.

She also contributed nine rebounds, eight of which were on the offensive glass.

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A few other wrestlers also placed for the Bulls, but as a group, Beichner had mixed feelings on the overall performance of his team.

“It was a rough tournament,” Beichner said.

“We had six guys in the quarterfinals, but we didn’t win as many as I expected.”

Buffalo is currently 1-1 in dual meets and will look to get back to its schedule next Sunday.

The Bulls will take on Drexel, Bloomsburg and East Stroudsburg in a dual meet round robin. The all-day event will begin at 9 a.m.

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2010-11 Record: 2-6, 0-2 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference 2009-10 Record: 18-15, 9-9 MAAC All-Time Series: Niagara leads 55-27 Game Time: Wednesday, 7 p.m.

PLAYERS TO WATCH Anthony Nelson (Sr. Guard) - Nelson has been a warrior for the Purple Eagles this season. With Niagara losing four of its top five scorers from last season, Nelson has had to make up for the lost production. He is averaging 15.6 points per game and plays big at his position, averaging almost six rebounds a game. While not a threat from 3-point range, the Bulls will have to find a way to slow down the only senior left on the Niagara roster.

Kashief Edwards (Jr. Forward) - Edwards is a monster on the glass and is averaging 7.4 rebounds per game this season. His matchup with the Bulls’ big men will be something to watch in the game. What Edwards lacks in size – he only weighs 195 pounds – he makes up for with pure athleticism. The Buffalo bigs will have to locate Edwards when shots go up, because half of his rebounds come on the offensive glass.

Antoine Mason (Fr. Guard) – Mason, son of former NBA player Anthony Mason, will make his return from injury Wednesday night against the Bulls. The freshman has missed five straight games with a foot injury. Before suffering the injury, Mason led the Purple Eagles in scoring with 16.7 points per game. He is also a presence on the glass and averages 4.3 boards per game. The Bulls will have to keep an eye on the freshman if he gets significant minutes.

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