The Spectrum Volume 64 Issue 8

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Athletic Director Danny White signs a five-year extension OWEN O’BRIEN

MANAGING EDITOR

The University at Buffalo and Athletic Director Danny White reached a five-year contract extension through 2019 on Wednesday.

White’s former deal, which was signed in 2012 after former Athletic Director Warde Manuel accepted the same position at the University of Connecticut, included a window to extend his contract in 2014. White said he and his family were very “anxious” to get a deal done to show “commitment to the Buffalo community and this university.”

White was 32 years old in 2012 and the youngest athletic director in the country.

White was paid more than $300,000 in 2013 – the highest contract for an Athletic Director in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) – according to USA Today. His original contract included a $75,000 payment “to assist with relocation expenses,” which White owed back to UB if he voluntarily ended his employment before June 3, 2017.

He didn’t comment on the details of his new contract.

President Trapathi described White as “vital” to be success of UB Athletics.

“We are obviously very grateful to President Trapathi and his team for giving us the leadership and continue to build on the work that’s been done here at a place that just has so much potential,” White said.

Since his hire, White had a clear plan. He wanted to rebrand UB Athletics.

A glance at his Twitter page shows a plethora of #NYBI tweets, which stands for New

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York Bulls Initiative. The name “New York” is now featured at midfield of UB Stadium and half court at Alumni Arena – along with an outline of New York State. The words are featured much larger than “Buffalo” on every team’s jerseys as well.

He believes the initiative has been successful in its first 28 months.

“I think by any measureable stat, the success of the New York Bulls Initiative is undeniable,” White said. “Our donations are up, our attendance is up. Ticket sales in both of our revenue generating sports are at levels we’ve never seen before.”

But with success, often comes rumors. White is no exception.

Maybe it’s because of his age, family pedigree – his father is the AD at Duke – or the potential to make money at a bigger program.

Speculation of where his “next job” is a discussion on blogs, in the media and on Twitter.

White hopes this contract ends these rumors.

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A ‘joint’ union

UB study finds that couples who use marijuana are less likely to engage in domestic violence GISELLE LAM

ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Young couples who smoke marijuana may be less likely to become violent with their significant others, according to a recent UB study.

The study found that frequent marijuana use in young married couples is related to the decreased likelihood of domestic violence or hostile behavior in a relationship. Researchers with the School of Public Health and Health Professions and Research Institute on Addictions conducted the study, which took place over a span of nine years and followed 634 newly married couples.

“In one year, if the husband is a frequent marijuana user and the wife is a frequent marijuana user, that couple in the next year will experience lower levels of marital aggression,” said Kenneth Leonard, Ph.D. and director of the addictions research institute.

The study compared three situations of marijuana use between couples. It looked at which factor reduced the most aggressive behavior – only husbands smoking, only wives smoking or both parties smoking, according to Leonard.

The data revealed the correlation between aggressive behavior and marijuana use was strongest when both partners used the drug. A husband’s aggression was only reduced if he or both partners smoked marijuana and a wife’s aggression was lowered in all three scenarios.

Although the study was conducted in New York, only medicinal marijuana is legal in the state. Colorado and Washington are currently the only states that

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have legalized marijuana for recreational use.

The marijuana study stemmed from a different investigation that looked into marital relations and couples’ alcohol use, according to Leonard.

The researchers had certain control elements like age, education, ethnic background, income and employment. Marijuana use was one factor. UB researchers found a correlation between the regular use of marijuana and

hostile behavior between the couples studied.

William Lu*, a UB student, has smoked marijuana since he was 17. Now 22, Lu does not smoke as often anymore and finds it a “luxury.” He thinks the drug helps couples to better connect.

“Many people I know use it to get more intimate with their partner,” he said. “It has this calming effect … The person does not get annoyed at little things.”

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‘Wild’ loss turned into 1,100 miles of life Distinguished Speaker Cheryl Strayed discusses effects of mother’s death in book, ‘Wild’ AMANDA LOW SENIOR NEWS EDITOR Cheryl Strayed knows what it’s like to feel buried under grief. She struggled to cope with the sudden death of her mother and felt weighed down at every step.

And on the first day of what would be a 94-day hike, Strayed felt the heaviness of something else – her backpack.

It contained all the necessities for her trip of self-discovery that would eventually turn into a New York Times best-selling memoir and soon, a feature film. But she couldn’t lift the bag.

It was in that moment Strayed understand why she needed to tell her story.

“You’ve all at some point been alone, in the metaphorical, with something you can’t lift and you have to,” Strayed told a crowd at UB’s Alumni Arena. “And you have to walk out the door with it on your back and you have to keep walking.”

On Wednesday evening, Strayed spoke about the story leading to her journey across the Pacific Crest Trail into her memoir, “Wild.” Strayed, the first speaker of this year’s Distinguished Speaker Series, spoke of her perils with drug abuse and of her mother’s death to cancer, both of which led her to go on a grueling hike.

She urged the members of the audience to find their own adventures.

The Pacific Crest Trail, which travelers often call the PCT, is a hiking path that stretches from the U.S. border of Mexico to Manning Park in British Columbia, Canada. It’s more than 2,500 miles long. Strayed’s memoir

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On Wednesday evening in Alumni Arena, Distinguished Speaker Cheryl Strayed spoke about how the loss of her mother led her on a journey of self-discovery on the Pacific Crest Trail.

“Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail” details her own 1,100mile trek.

Strayed believes the intense physical aspect of her trip – the boots she wore caused her to lose nearly all her toenails – forced the “truest version” of herself to emerge. Strayed’s mother was an integral part of her life and she was unsure how to move past the death. But she said the hike helped her discover the person she “always intended to be.”

“Just get comfortable with being uncomfortable, not just on the trail but in life,” she told The Spectrum. “Because so many of the best things in life has come to me when I can settle into that and just accept, sometimes misery makes the best memories.”

Her mother found out about the cancer only seven weeks before she died. Strayed was 22 years old.

When Strayed was a child, her father left her family. Her mother was left to

fill the role of both parents, which led to a close-knit bond between the two women.

Strayed, now 45, realized the “sustaining power of having been loved well” by her mother would be “never ending.” She used that loss and love to fuel her PCT trip.

“We can live with sorrow and still thrive,” she said.

When Strayed attended the University at St. Thomas, a small college in Minnesota, her mother enrolled into the same college. Students’ parents were able to take classes for free, Strayed said. She joked to the crowd about how mortifying it was to have her mother attend the same school.

After transferring to University of Minnesota, her mother transferred as well but to a different campus – much to the relief of Strayed.

Strayed’ mother died during the then college senior’s spring break. Her mother was only two classes away

from a bachelor’s degree.

This was the start of Strayed’s spiral into self-destruction. She remarked she now understands how untrue the idea was, but at the time, she wanted to grieve “so wildly” and “so savagely,” as to let the world know how much she loved her mother.

That’s when she started using heroin. The drug became a “self-destructive cure” because it was the “first thing that took away [the] pain” of her mother’s death.

After reaching this “bottom point,” Strayed knew she had to change her life.

She found her answer in a Pacific Crest Trail guidebook on the cashier counter of a R.E.I., an outdoors equipment store, in Minnesota. Strayed knew then she was going to tackle the PCT. She grew up in 40 acres of wilderness and this rawness of nature was “home” to her.

“I just thought …‘I’m going to do this thing,’” she told Alumni Arena. “It seemed such a simple, but good idea to go to the place – the wilderness – that made me feel the most gathered and at home and at peace with myself.”

Strayed transformed on her journey, enduring intense physical pain. She said it took several years for her toenails to grow back. Strayed even offered to show the audience the current normal state of her nails.

Holly Kistner, a senior environmental geoscience major, was excited to hear Strayed was coming to UB. After reading “Wild,” Kistner admired the steps Strayed took to change the unfortunate circumstances of her life.

She said what stood out most in Strayed’s talk was how she did not mean the book to be “inspiring” or to “have a message.”

“It was a book meant to tell a story about carrying on in your life with an enormous weight,” Kistner said in an email.

Strayed stressed the book’s intention isn’t to congratulate herself on hiking the PCT. She said she wanted to tell her story of loss and how she found her own meaning of happiness on the trail.

Strayed’s book has been adapted into a film of the same name, which wil be released in December. It stars Reese Witherspoon as Strayed. During the production of the film, which Strayed was heavily involved in, Strayed asked Witherspoon why she wanted to play the role.

“She’s like, ‘I’ve never seen a film where the main character, a woman, has no money, and no man and no home, and nothing, and you know she’s going to be totally OK,’” Strayed said. “And that’s how I felt that day. I knew I was going to be OK, because I had myself back.”

Strayed said all she ever when wanted was to have her mother back, but it was the one thing she could never attain. Writing “Wild” gave her the opportunity to create a version of her mother that lives on in her life and, now, in the rest of the world.

“Your happiness doesn’t obliterate your sorrow,” Strayed said. “But you also can’t let your sorrow obliterate your happiness, no matter what that sorrow is.” email: news@ubspectrum.com

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Students remember 9/11 by packing Munch away – guilt free Wellness Education Services offers lunches for the City of Buffalo students healthy food alternatives SAMAYA ABDUS-SALAAM ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Among the moments of silences dedicated to the tragedy of 9/11, UB students gave back to the community as a part of the National 9/11 Day of Service.

For the past three years, the Center for Student Leadership & Community Engagement (CSLCE) has hosted a 9/11 service day. On Thursday afternoon, members of the engagement center and student volunteers made more than 200 sandwiches in the Student Union. The sandwiches were donated to the Buffalo City Mission, a Christianbased organization that helps homeless Buffalonians.

“We’re giving back because it’s a day of service [and] because the police and firefighters gave to us,” said Elijah Polanco, a sophomore environmental engineering major.

On Sept. 11, 2001, members of Al-Qaeda crashed two airplanes into the World Trade Center complex in New York City. A third crashed into the Pentagon and a fourth in a field in Washington, D.C. Thirteen years later, students are memorializing the horrific event through local community service.

“They’re one of the organizations that makes the biggest impact in Buffalo,” said Rachel DiDomizio, the community engagement coordinator at CSLCE. The number of participants doubled this year from 12 to 24.

They made ham and turkey sandwiches and packed chips and apples.

DiDomizio believed the increase in participants is because the event took place during a common lunchtime for students.

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Students prepare sandwiches for the Buffalo City Mission in 2013. For the past three years, the Center for Student Leadership & Community Engagement has hosted a 9/11 service day.

This made it easier for students to stop and volunteer for the event.

Many of the club’s service events take place off-campus in the University Heights, so the opportunity to have a community service event readily available to students helped increase participation.

“A lot of volunteer opportunities are off campus,” DiDomizio said. “And because of scheduling, we like to offer on-campus opportunities just to catch those students who have five minutes to spare.”

Videos of 9/11 day of service events from other Buffalo communities and footage of the memorial service at Ground Zero played as students made and packed sandwiches.

“We showed videos to give students something to look at and something to reflect upon,” DiDomizo said.

CSLCE wasn’t the only club

memorializing 9/11 in the Student Union. Clubs like UB Republicans and UB Conservatives also had booths and service opportunities in honor of 9/11, giving students the ability to remember where they were during 9/11.

“I remember sitting in my second grade classroom,” said Kristina Galang, a junior occupational therapy major. “People were receiving phone calls and left.”

Galang felt the tragedy impacted “not just people from New York City, but people from around the world.”

CSLE hosts community service opportunities every month.

DiDomizio wants to “spread the love a little” in hopes the event will expand next year and serve other organizations in Buffalo.

Giselle Lam contributed reporting to this article email: news@ubspectrum.com

Continued from ‘Joint’ Union, page 1 In Lu’s past relationships, smoking with his partner helped the couple open up and talk about what is bothering each other. He said neither person in the relationship would “bottle up” problems, which led to less aggressive behavior.

While many marijuana users can find the substance to be therapeutic, others experience more negative reactions.

“I could see how [marijuana] might help some people,” said UB student Claire Meddle*. “But in my personal experience, hostile attitudes are more prevalent under the influence of marijuana.”

Meddle said when she is under the influence, she becomes more annoyed with her boyfriend and anybody she interacts with.

She said she experiences increased levels of anxiety when she smokes marijuana.

Her and her boyfriend of more than four years would often get into fights when she was under the influence of the drug.

She would find flaws in his closest friends very “exaggerated” and argue over why he’s friends with them.

“I see what I perceive to be people’s flaws more,” Meddle said. “I get more aggravated with them … just feeling more overjudgmental in social situations.”

Meddle also pointed out people who read the results of the study might interpret the findings in the wrong way.

“I feel like you can’t take this study at face value and say ‘Oh, because they smoke weed, they’re not getting in violent episodes,’” she said. “But how do you know they’re not?”

Most people in violent relationships won’t come out and say it, even if it were for an anonymous study, because they don’t see anything wrong, she said.

Leonard said it’s important to understand aggression is only one aspect of marital relations.

“It’s pretty clear from our data that couples where they are both using marijuana are not experi-

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encing increased levels of violence,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean that everything is good with their marriage.”

In a previous study where Leonard and his colleagues delved into divorce, there was a slight, but not significant, increase of likelihood in divorce occurring if either partner smoked marijuana, Leonard said.

The study does not mention every aspect of a marriage and it does not address potential harms of marijuana, he added.

“I think that many people assumed that smoking marijuana actually led to reduced violence,” he said.

Leonard believes further research is necessary in determining whether in fact this is true and until then, conclusions should not be drawn. *These names have been changed to protect the sources’ anonymity. email: news@ubspectrum.com

Living a healthy lifestyle doesn’t mean you have to toss away the pizza and chew on celery sticks.

It’s all about balance.

Snacking Tuesdays began in 2007 to increase healthier eating on campus. Between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. in Student Union 114, students can get a quick and healthy appetizer, grab a cup of tea and relax in the quiet office space.

This week’s snack was a Caprese salad made with mozzarella, tomato, basil, salt, pepper and olive oil.

“Pretty much the only vegetables I get are the ones hidden in the fried rice at C3,” said Meghan Capeling, a sophomore chemical engineering major.

Janice Cochran, the nutrition and physical activity promotion coordinator for Wellness Education Services (WES), believes one of the best ways to promote healthy eating is making healthy snacks available to students. After students try – and enjoy – these foods, they will eventually change their eating habits and become more conscious of what goes into their bodies, she said.

According to Cochran, many students miss meals early in the day, which leads to overeating later. Only 6 percent of students eat the proper servings of fruits and vegetables a day, Cochran added.

“We want to promote tips for students on how to eat healthy despite having no time,” Cochran said. “What’s available on campus plays a large role. Healthy students are beneficial to everyone.”

Many students also face the challenge of adjusting to the food choices on campus, rather than eating home-cooked meals.

For Capeling, being away from home gives her the freedom to regularly indulge in sugary foods; she would eat a four-serving carton of ice cream once a week, in one sitting during her freshman year.

“I like sugary foods. I have a sweet tooth, and my mom’s not here to tell me no,” Capeling said.

“Me and Ben & Jerry got to know each other very well last year.”

Akshata Chaudhary, a sophomore biomedical sciences major, was used to eating home-cooked Indian meals full of vegetables and spices such as turmeric and paprika. Because her meals were Ayurvedic, or medicinal, they balanced her stomach and acted as a counterforce to the sugary food she ate.

Once she got to UB, however, Chaudhary was not able to balance her diet as she had at home.

“Outwardly I didn’t look too much different and I thought I was OK,” she said. “But inwardly I felt really bad.”

Meredith Garrison, a senior environmental studies major, is a student assistant for WES. Garrison has adrenal fatigue and found that changing her diet was far more beneficial than taking medication.

“Eating healthy helps you manage stress,” Garrison said. “A lot of students don’t realize how much it affects your grades.”

Both Chaudhary and Capeling are making steps towards eating healthier on campus, like choosing blueberry pancakes over chocolate chip, or adding a salad to a meal.

“Because my habits went wild my freshmen year, I find myself reigning myself in,” Chaudhary said. “This year, I’m going to try to eat better for myself – not because someone is telling me to do that.”

Cochran recommends dining areas such as Edgy Veggie in the Student Union and Greens and Beans in the Ellicott complex.

These dining locations allow students to make their own salads with protein and carbohydrates.

Putnam’s in the Student Union has “grab-and-go” food such as vegetables and fruit with various dips as well as soup.

Cochran said that C3 is also a great place for students to eat because they can choose the exact serving sizes to make a balanced meal.

Snacking Tuesdays teaches students that balanced meals can be inexpensive. Students can save money by buying seasonal fruits and vegetables.

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On Tuesday, Sept. 9, the Wellness Center served up a caprese salad to students looking for a healthy alternative to food available on campus. Snacking Tuesdays, a weekly program, serves to educate students about healthy eating and encourage them to make better choices for themselves.

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Editorial Board EDITOR IN CHIEF

Sara DiNatale

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OPINION Letter to the editor

UB Israel responds to The Spectrum’s Israel-Palestine coverage

Dear Editor, We are writing to express our concern over an article that ran in the Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014 edition of The Spectrum. An article featured on the front page and continuing on the fourth page, entitled “Students for Justice in Palestine returns to UB” is filled with numerous inaccuracies.

The Spectrum wrote of this issue as if it is black and white. It is not.

Nonetheless, we truly appreciate the apologetic nature of The Spectrum and its editor, Sara DiNatale.

It is not taken for granted.

Anti-Israel advocates often claim that Palestine has been occupied for 66 years. In order to fix this ignorance, we have to take a look back into the history.

In 1947, the United Nations voted to partition a block of land into Israel and Palestine. The international community gave 54 percent of that land to Israel. As a result, five Arab countries attacked Israel in attempt to annihilate the Jewish population, with Israel surviving against all odds.

In 1967, Israel was again attacked by several of her neighbors, in which the tiny nation defensively won the West Bank from Jordan and the Gaza strip from Egypt. Note: Israel gained control of Jordanian and Egyptian land; there was never an occupation of a past or present Palestine simply because there was and is no state of Palestine.

The article mentions an “apartheid” wall. The incorrect usage of the word “apartheid” demon-

strates extreme ignorance and diminishes the plight of those who fell victim to actual apartheid. Furthermore, the article provides no explanation for the existence of the security fence. Due to the violent and indiscriminate terrorist attacks targeting Israeli civilians committed by Palestinian terrorists, a fence was erected in order to protect the lives of innocent Israelis, Jewish and non-Jewish alike.

Every country has its own borders and has the right to protect its borders. From 2002 to 2003, alone, there were 73 Palestinian suicide bombings on Israeli civilians. Since the security fence was erected, the number of Palestinian attacks on Israeli innocents has drastically decreased.

Israel is a democratic country that adheres to a moral and just set of laws. Israel condemns and punishes to the full extent of the law those who break the laws that exist to protect all of the citizens of Israel. Even further, when an Arab child was recently kidnapped and murdered, the Israeli perpetrators were arrested by the Israeli police force for their hideous crime. There is no double standard in Israeli law.

Within the article, SJP claims to be a “humanitarian group,” however, SJP does not openly condemn the human rights violations of Hamas or any other Islamic terrorist organization in the Middle East. SJP serves only to demonize the State of Israel and delegitimize its right to exist.

Found within the article, SJP said they are “not against Judaism

or those who practice it. The club is against the ideology of Zionism, which is the belief in the preservation and protection of the Israeli state.”

First, Zionism is simply the belief in the right of the Jewish people for self-determination, just like every other people. Second, SJP is openly stating that they do not believe that Israel has the right to exist or to defend itself from terror. Their disbelief in Israel’s legitimate right to exist in any capacity disallows any successful resolution for peace. Nowhere do they condemn any terrorist attacks committed by Hamas, an internationally recognized terrorist organization, on the state of Israel.

It should be noted that the SJP umbrella leadership is a proponent of the BDS movement (Boycott Divestment Sanction), which has the end goal of wiping Israel off the map. SJP is not pro-Palestinian; they are anti-Israel. Further proof can be found simply by looking at SJP national and local events. The two speakers they brought in last year, Eva Barlett and Miko Peled, both called for the destruction of Israel and failed to propose any ideals for a prosperous Palestinian state.

Just three weeks ago, a Jewish student at Temple University was physically assaulted and called anti-Semitic names (i.e. “Kike”) by an SJP member for approaching their table at a club fair. The intentions of SJP are worrisome.

Ben Balderman and Logan Woodard, the president and vice

Letter to the editor

U.S. is unmoved by 2,296 deaths

Dear editor, I appreciate the Sept. 8 column

by Spectrum Editor Sara DiNatale on the controversy over Athira Unni’s Sept. 3 story about UB Students for Justice in Palestine, which appeared in print under Ms. Unni’s name. After heavy editing, it appeared online in a shorter version, attributed to “News Staff.”

But some of the edits are troubling. Unni’s original version refers to the family experience of UB SJP President Manar Kustiro in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem –specifically, the way in which her grandmother and aunt were separated from each other by Israel’s Apartheid or “land grab” Wall.

UB SJP member Fadi Suboh spoke of his difficulty concentrating in school in Israeli-occupied Ramallah when members of his family were kidnapped and assaulted.

It’s surprising to see that both passages have been cut from the online version, without explanation. It is common practice for all newspapers to present personal experience, identified as such, without independent verification.

The Spectrum itself regularly does this, and it would have been easy enough to emphasize the unverified quality of these recollections through phrases such as “Kustiro says” and “Suboh claims.” Indeed, Suboh’s comments in the original version appeared in quotation marks as his claims, not those of The Spectrum.

Simply to cut these passages, without explanation, raises the uneasy suspicion that it’s only certain sorts of experience that will be edited out. Unfortunately, there is a long history of Palestinian voices being repressed. This goes all the way back to the 1947 UN resolution that split Palestine in half, without asking Palestinians whether or not they desired this split. It’s good to see that UB SJP is working to restore these voices. I look forward to The Spectrum’s future coverage of the full campus conversation about the 66-year-old Occupation and its effects on Palestinians and Israelis alike.

On Dec. 6 of last year, a toddler in southeastern Guinea died from Ebola and since then, 2,296 people in West Africa have joined him in the death toll.

The outbreak, which is the most severe epidemic of the disease since its discovery in 1976, has infected at least 4,293 people as of Sept. 6, and is rapidly gaining ground on understaffed and underfunded health organizations.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that the outbreak – currently predicted to spread even more quickly in the coming weeks – could be brought to a halt in six to nine months, but only if global powers rise to the occasion.

America – it’s time to do just that.

The United States, and the rest of the world, has a chance to help save lives without any need for political debate and confrontation. This isn’t contentious military action or questionable expenditure of resources – this is aid, pure and simple. It’s lives saved and countries rescued, and a possible global outbreak prevented.

The WHO, along with Doctors Without Borders, is clearly overwhelmed. Their doctors and medical staff are risking – and giving

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president of UBI, met with SJP over the summer. SJP claims to not be supporters of Hamas within the article, however, at the meeting they openly stated that they do in fact support Hamas. When this was said, they were asked if they were aware of the Hamas Charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel and the eradication of the Jewish people (i.e. “The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him”).

They responded by saying that they had no idea what the Charter was and had never heard of it; demonstrating their blind following of a genocidal terrorist organization.

In contrast, UB for Israel has open discussion and events. We want peace. We dream of a bright future for both Israeli and Palestinian children. We hope for a prosperous life for both peoples.

Amen!

With this opportunity, we would like to encourage all of your readers to like “UB Israel – UBI” on facebook.

B’kavod Rav- Appreciatively, UB for Israel Board Benjamin Balderman, President Logan Woodard, Vice President Yulia Shtork, Treasurer David Perl, Secretary Emily Hill, Communications

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The U.S. needs to fully commit to the fight against Ebola – immediately – their lives. Weakened by budget cuts and a limited number of health workers, the WHO cannot tackle this alone. Their problems are exacerbated by the feeble health care systems in the afflicted countries, and a reluctance among the infected to admit that they are sick.

The question isn’t whether the United States should take charge, it’s why they haven’t already.

As of Aug. 4, 31 members of the Center for Disease Control’s staff were deployed in West Africa, with an additional 50 disease control experts on the way. But a team of 81 people does not comprise a sufficient response to an epidemic involving more than 6,000 people and threatening millions more.

On Monday, the Pentagon announced that it was supplying Liberia, one of the nations hit hardest by the deadly disease, with a 25-bed hospital costing $22 million But the WHO estimates that 980 additional beds are needed, not to mention trained personnel to staff them. But the Pentagon emphasizes that the United States would not be providing patient care, even as sick patients are turned away from clinics.

The countries affected by this

outbreak simply don’t have the resources to address the needs of those infected, or prevent the epidemic from spreading. America and the international community at large have to step in.

If, inexplicably, the White House is not motivated by their ethical imperative, then self-preservation should stir them to action. A new study by PLOS Currents: Outbreaks suggests that there’s an 18 percent chance Ebola could reach the United States, and with every day that action is not taken, with every infected person left to wander the streets and spread their disease, the odds that this country is spared get worse.

The decision shouldn’t come to that. Morality, not fear, should be enough to convince our government to just do the right thing and take action. Americans have access to privileges, like health care and education, which much of the West African population can’t even imagine.

Now is the time to put that privilege to good use, and help instead of harm, for once. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

Pegula supports the Bills – fans need to do the same New ownership of Buffalo’s football team merits celebration, but not unequivocal acceptance When the Bills stunned the Chicago Bears last Sunday, clinching an overtime victory and beating the team on its home turf, a question lingered: What would “home” soon mean for the Bills?

Now, thanks to Terry Pegula, Buffalo’s local billionaire, the city has its answer. The Bills aren’t going anywhere. Buffalo gets to keep its team, and Jon Bon Jovi, figurehead of Toronto’s bidders, can avoid becoming the most hated man in Buffalo.

Being a Bills fan is tough enough already. It’s been a decade since the team’s last winning season (and going 9-7 isn’t much too celebrate), 15 years since it reached the playoffs, and the memories of four consecutive Super Bowl losses have yet to fade from fans’ collective memories.

Anyone who has stood by the Bills after all that deserves a victory. It’s a far cry from a conference

championship, but Pegula’s new ownership of the team is, at the very least, a win for the football fans of Buffalo.

But, of course, there’s more to Buffalo than football. And there’s plenty of people who could care less about the location of an NFL team – people who might be more concerned with Pegula’s financial priorities, or the origins of his vast wealth.

Pegula’s earned his $3.3 billion fortune in the energy industry. He created his own drilling company that uses the controversial method of fracking – hydraulic fracturing – to reach stores of gas and oil that were previously inaccessible. The obvious economic benefits are offset by dramatic environmental consequences, which range from water contamination, degradation of air quality and increases in seismic activity.

The practice of fracking is a hotbutton issue that generates intense debate nationwide – and now the Bills are inextricably linked to the practice.

Although it’s beneficial to at least have an awareness of the financial background behind the Bills’ new patron and it’s certainly true that Pegula’s priorities will not satisfy Buffalo’s environmentalists.

But how about some context? Bill Bidwill inherited the Cardinals from his father, who has been linked with Al Capone. Jimmy Haslam, owner of the Browns, runs a company that sells diesel fuel at truck stops and is under federal investigation for shortchanging customers. Jerry Jones, of the Cowboys, Pat Bowlen, of the Broncos, Bud Adams, of the Titans – they all made their money in oil.

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À la Mode: Style Guide On Wednesdays, we wear black: Vol. 2 EMMA JANICKI

SENIOR FEATURES EDITOR

You know by the two interlocking ‘C’s’ that adorn quilted black purses with gold chain straps or by bottles of golden perfume that you have encountered the legacy of, arguably, the founder of modern fashion.

She made pants part of women’s wear. She elevated the black dress from the uniform of shop girls to the iconic ‘Little Black Dress.’ She used jersey for ease and comfort and she layered costume jewelry with luxury items.

Need I say more?

Coco Chanel, born Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, grew up in an orphanage after her mother died, where she learned to sew. Chanel sang in clubs – where she came up with the name ‘Coco,’ a derivative of cocotte, or “kept woman” – and began her fashion career as a milliner, a hat maker.

After she opened her first store in 1910, Chanel designed the jersey dress and just a decade later, she created Chanel No. 5, the first perfume to feature a designer’s name. Although Chanel was forced to close her shops during World War II, she made a successful comeback later in her ’70s.

Re-creating Chanel’s iconic style transcends time. Chanel elegantly wore all black and created black wardrobes for women around the world that maintain a stronghold in our collective fashion conscious.

While it was tempting to embrace pants, as Chanel did, I went instead with my own LBD – a structural little number from Ann Taylor and layered on a few strings of faux pearl necklaces.

Low, black heels keep the look elegant but easy for hurrying from one end of campus to the other.

Of course, I topped it with a few

spritzes of Chanel No. 5.

Chanel kept her makeup simple and her short hair was delicately curled in a ladylike fashion.

For busy college students like us, this look is effortless but looks extremely polished – perfect for internships, interviews and even an unexpected night out.

Chanel is modern and her style does not abide by the laws of trends. Rather, she draws inspiration from this style: rock is all about being polished, elegant and sophisticated. A sharp suit jacket, tweed skirts, well-fitting trousers and few strands of costume jewelry are really all it takes to feel like Madame Chanel herself.

There’s nothing better I can say than those said by Chanel herself, “fashion changes, but style endures.”

Words to get dressed by. email: features@ubspectrum.com

Twenty years of living poetry Electronic Poetry Center celebrates decades at the forefront of poetics with EPC@20

A little band with a big punch Becky and Maya of The Pack A.D. give a lesson in how to rock and roll BRIAN WINDSCHITL

COURTESY OF REBECCA BLISSETT

ARTS EDITOR

TORI ROSEMAN

ASST. ARTS EDITOR

When Loss Glazier created the Electronic Poetry Center in 1995, he had no idea that it would still exist today, let alone be an epicenter of poetic evolution and teaching.

“I started the Electronic Poetry Center before Facebook and Twitter [existed and] it was one of the biggest websites,” said Glazier, the director of the EPC, E-Poetry president and artistic director and Department of Media Studies professor. “The way it’s exceeded my expectations is that it [has] remained [one of] the largest and most used sites … No one has surpassed it, not even organizations with a lot of funding.”

The Electronic Poetry Center, or EPC, is celebrating 20 years of shared ideas, creative writing and success in being a growing online community for poets all over the world. Glazier created EPC@20 as a celebration of the website’s success.

The event is taking place over two days, starting on Thursday Sept.

11 with speeches and readings in the Center for the Arts during the day and evening performances at the Burchfield Penny Art Center near Buffalo State College.

The EPC is a website designed to make a wide range of resources centered on innovated poetry, new media writer and literally programs available to the public.

The E-poetry and Author libraries are intended for personal use, research and teaching. All texts on the website have been approved by its producers and website is sponsored by the media studies department.

Contributors to the EPC were flown in from all over the country to speak Thursday and Friday.

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Cris Cheek was one of many speakers who spoke at the Electronic Poetry Center's 20th anniversary celebration of shared ideas, creative writing and success in being a growing online community for poets all over the world.

“It’s nice to be part of a community,” Cris Cheek, an English professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio said. “It’s a network; you make connections and look at work you’re interested in.”

The event began at 1 p.m. Thursday with an introduction by Steve McCaffery, an English professor at UB and the David Grey Chair of Poetry and Letters. He spoke about the significance of anniversaries and how celebrating a specific date is part of human nature.

Danny Snelson, a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania and Laura Shackelford, an English professor at RIT spoke after McCaffery.

Snelson discussed how the EPC fit into his dissertation, adding information about portions of the EPC that no longer technically exist, but that can still be found.

Shackelford on the other shared her thoughts on poetry as a “living process” that evolves with technology and current events “I think the EPC is extremely significant,” McCaffery said. “It’s nice and hopefully [the event will give the EPC a] sense that as well as disseminating archival material, it is

also a center … of living poetics. I think that social dimension and the socialization of language is very important and EPC has played an important role in that.”

Today’s events continued through the afternoon with multiple presenters including Elizabeth Willis and one by Glazier himself. Presentations and performances went into the evening at the Burchfield Penny Arts Center and will resume Friday afternoon at 1 p.m. in the CFA. But according to Glazier, Thursday was the smaller and more intimate of the two days with Friday’s events taking place in a larger screening room for bigger presentations.

He added that the EPC “was one of the earliest websites at SUNY Buffalo, and Buffalo has a tradition of innovative poetry and a poetic community that really makes it extraordinary.”

Glazier believes the site has become so successful because it was created in the spirit of caring for other people and making literature available to everyone. email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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Two seasoned performers – one smashing drums and the other shredding guitar and screaming into a mic – dominated the dimly lit stage, head-banging and dancing crazily, hair spiked and swept over their faces. A closer look revealed their eyes were closed – they were performing in their own world.

Maya Miller on drums and Becky Black on guitar and vocals make up the duo The Pack A.D. On Wednesday they put on an electrifying rock concert at the Tralf Music Hall in downtown Buffalo.

The show was testament to the band’s years of touring experience with a commanding onstage charisma.

Concerts fall into three categories: good bands with bad live shows, bad bands with good live shows and bands that just make you want to hop on the air guitar and dance away.

The Pack A.D.’s show can be filed somewhere in the latter category.

Recorded, The Pack A.D. sounds like any old generic rock band – spiraling rock riffs punctuated by rhythmic drums and pitchy vocals. Live, however, it is completely different.

The duo opened their set with their hit, “The Water.” The song, filled with raucous drum beats overlaid with hard guitar riffs and wailing vocals, was a good indicator of what was to come – a pure rock ‘n’ roll concert.

Over The Pack A.D.’s over seven years of touring experience, the duo has traveled with bands like Alice in Chains and No Means No. They have had quite a long time to perfect their practice.

The duo’s familiarity and comfort onstage was apparent both in the pair’s inhibition – the two girls did not hesitate to rile up the crowd between songs with throaty chants and lackadaisical, mindless strums of the guitar.

“I loved them,” said Spencer Levitt, a sophomore political science major. “I never heard of them before, but that set was killer.”

Although he had never listened to the pair before, he was thrilled by their performance.

“If you know us, then you know our songs,” Miller said onstage. “If you don’t know us, well … you’re learning now, aren’t you?”

The female duo said it’s often asked about what it is like to be in an “all-female band.”

This question, to Black, is confounding.

“I think that is kind of a weird issue in culture,” Black said. “There is such a separation between genders based on arbitrary roles constructed by cultural connotations. I don’t focus on how it feels to be a woman in the music industry. I’m just a person.”

The band played a number of its songs, ranging in style from the classic-rock infused “Battering Ram” to the lighter, alt rock “Cobra Matte.”

Black said their diverse style isn’t

something they’ve focused on; it just happened.

“Our style has changed naturally,” Black said. “Our first album we were really just learning how to play.

I played guitar as a teenager, but casually. I guess our style evolved as we got better at playing.”

In the beginning, Black described their early style as more simple. Both the guitar and drum parts were technically easy, in order for the budding musicians to learn. Now, the style of the band draws from every possible genre of rock music.

As for the future – who knows, Black said.

“Maybe next album will be completely different,” she said. “Or maybe it won’t. We’re working on it – it will get there.”

When listening to The Pack A.D., one can hear roots of punk rock, grunge, hard rock, blues-rock and classical. They have grown from a band that only grasps at music concepts into a band that can experiment with their own musical identity on a regular basis.

Becky’s screaming guitar and Maya’s pounding drums creates music that emanates from the purest forms of rock ‘n’ roll – it’s magical and nostalgic.

Now far from their beginnings, the seasoned performers can dominate an audience. The show ended with The Pack A.D.’s “Sirens,” a song that involved a room full of whipping hair, pumping fists and wailing vocals.

“They were amazing for just two people,” said Lauren LoVullo, who attended the show. “They had so much energy.”

Offstage, the girls’ rocker personas are replaced by something less largerthan-life. The two play tennis in their spare time, and Black reads a lot.

This contrast, perhaps, personifies the band. They can play an out-ofthis-world rock concert one day, but then lounge around reading sci-fi paperbacks the next.

Miller and Black play for the modest things, like paying their rent on time and enjoying their shows. They aren’t out to change the world or make headlines. They aren’t even worried about the future, or how long their band will keep touring. But that’s all OK, Black said.

According to Black, it’s simple.

“Its all about the music, man,” she said. email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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The language of lying Pretending to be culturally savvy has created a shroud between truth and lie

BRIAN WINDSCHITL ARTS EDITOR

We all know “those” people. A new album is released and a day later, suddenly “those” people are experts on the album: “This song exhibits a breathless vocal range I think it was the strongest on the album, to be honest.”

Hmm, well, being honest, chances are that this newfound expert on Andrew Bird’s twotone production and listless vocal range hasn’t even listened to the album yet. Maybe the person skimmed a couple of reviews and pawned off what was written as opinion.

I won’t lie. I’ve done it, you’ve done it – it’s not a big secret. I’ve faked it before. It’s easy, pretending to be knowledgeable about some groundbreaking news story or award-winning movie.

Somehow it has become almost a reflex to say, “Oh, yeah, I’ve heard of that.” I might get asked if I have seen a movie or listened to so-and-so’s newest album so I’ll use my 5-second Google search results as placeholders in my conversation.

I catch myself, again and again, without even realizing, trying to stay culturally relevant in any conversation.

An informed opinion about a topic can even be drawn from just skimming a headline: New album exhibits interesting, esoteric mix of hip-hop and trip-hop.

“Yeah, I’ve heard of so-andso’s album. For me, it felt like a cool mix of hip-hop and triphop.”

This is the current state of affairs – all you need to sound intelligent in a conversation about pop culture is a headline (a.k.a. not much).

Why is it becoming a natural response to flaunt faux knowledge about cultural trends?

This problem will seem superficial and irrelevant to many.

Superficial: yes. Irrelevant: no.

The subconscious need to stay “in the loop” on the latest and greatest of pop culture is slowly overwhelming our sense of rationality and honesty.

Imagine the scene: A student has to go the movies and analyze a film in theaters for his or her film studies class and present the story to the class.

This student’s report is due tomorrow, but he or she hasn’t gone to the movies yet. Rather than go to the movies, the student looks up already written reviews and summaries of the movie online and uses the information he finds to make the presentation.

The report takes 30 to 40 minutes, tops.

The next day, the student gives the presentation and gets a very high grade for thoroughness and interesting discussion questions – all of which were taken from various obscure blogs about the movie. Meanwhile, 100 percent of the student’s materi-

al was pulled straight from Internet sources.

This student, in theory, could continue to do this exact thing for the next projects or papers in his class.

This, of course, is plagiarism, but the root of which also exhibits another, more complex problem: feigning cultural literacy.

It’s scary how easy it is to pretend to be culturally informed.

Worst of all is the absolute ease in which cultural literacy can be faked, just by frequenting sites like IMDB, Twitter, Facebook or YouTube and reading headlines.

This lack of holistic comprehension is exemplified in NPR’s 2014 April Fools web story, “Why Doesn’t America Read Anymore?”

This article’s headline complained how no one ever reads a full news story. The story, receiving hundreds of shares and retweets, flew around the interweb. It was a hoax.

While the story’s headline complained about how no one reads stories anymore, the article was actually a prank to see who would actually read the article or not.

At the bottom of the article, viewers were told to like the post rather than share or retweet it, in order to see who was guilty of the exact crime the article’s headline poked fun at.

This subconscious need to appear culturally literate is creating a culture that supports being fake and pretentious over being genuine. When culture creates a system that encourages lying over telling the truth, some warning signs should be flashing, somewhere.

There is a fine line between relevant and irrelevant information. The relevance of information lasts as long as it takes for new information to replace the old (five to 10 minutes).

So, in a way, yes, this problem is superficial. But the superficiality lies not with the problem itself, but with the people – in their own need to remain knowledgeable.

Socially, there is a notion of personal relevance in terms of information gathering, and by extension, cultural fluency. This notion is so strong that people will casually and habitually lie about their cultural fluency, passing off a few minutes worth of skimmed headlines as invested personal knowledge.

The Internet is constantly evolving. It is growing at a pace at which humans can never keep up. The amount of information “out there” is stunning, a pinnacle of human ingenuity.

But the information is coming at us so fast that all we think we can do is skim the headlines, in order to keep up with the pace of new information and remain fluent in the language of pop culture.

Faking cultural literacy is just a natural response to keep from disappearing under the infinitely and endlessly updating information.

We don’t want to be irrelevant, but we can’t lose ourselves in the process either.

What’s the answer? Click retweet to find out. email: brian.windschitl@ubspectrum.com

Councilman “blew” this student’s mind As a student living in the Heights, I know all too well that there’s more to the story

TALIA SCHWARTZ SPECIAL TO THE SPECTRUM

In my three years at the University at Buffalo, I have had the opportunity to live, work and learn on both of the university’s primary campuses as well as in the surrounding communities.

I’ve relocated to the Heights this year, after living in the dorms on North Campus as a freshman and in the Villas on Chestnut Ridge last year.

It’s no secret that there is a divide between the residential community members and the students renting homes in the Heights. For years, members of the Heights community have raised concerns about the parties.

Pressure has been placed on both the university as well as the Buffalo Police to take action to stop – or at least curb – the partying. Mickey Vertino, president of the University Heights Collaborative, would “like to see the buses slow down” in reference to the UB Stampede buses that provide transportation between

North and South Campus, according to WIVB. Vertino suggests that if the school does not readily provide transportation to and from South Campus, then fewer students will travel to the Heights to party. According to WIVB’s story, UB does not plan to stop busing at night. As students and faculty of this university, we need to make sure that this decision holds.

From a plainly academic standpoint, the only 24-hour library is located inside Capen Hall on North Campus. Cutting off buses would halt transportation for all students residing by South Campus that need to get to the library and prevent students who stay in the library late from taking the bus home.

And stopping the buses will not prevent UB students from partying; it will simply limit their safe options and encourage drunk driving.

We are one of the largest research universities in the country.

We are supposed to be innovative and progressive – not shortsighted and regressive. It is our responsibility to ensure the continued safety of our students in ways that the university can control – chiefly by guaranteeing that the university does not stop or limit the Stampede transportation.

Not only that, but the university and local police should do more about student safety on South Campus.

Although noise complaints, open alcohol container citations and underage drinking are all relevant complaints – complaints

that have attracted the attention of Common Council Member Rasheed Wyatt and WIVB 4 News – my concern and the concern of many students residing in the neighborhood is the mismatch between stopping these “crimes” associated with partying and actually stopping crimes that ensure the safety of all of the residents in the Heights.

I went out this past weekend and dare I admit it in print – partied in the Heights.

The police broke up nearly every party that I attended or saw.

Many cop cars were following groups of students walking down the street to their parties so they could break them up in anticipation of neighborhood complaints. In fact, one party that I was headed to was broken up before it had even started – the Buffalo Police were clearly intent on efficient response.

In contrast, when my home on West Winspear was broken into two weeks ago in the middle of the day, it took the police almost an hour to arrive at my house.

The Heights community is fighting the wrong battle. Just blocks away from these “belligerent” partygoers are legitimate criminals. Perhaps the reason that the streets are rampant with herds of students is because we do not feel safe to walk down these streets alone.

The armed burglaries and drug deals gone awry seldom make the headlines, but underage drinking and partying do. And though students definitely bring noise and litter to the community with their parties, we also contribute to the local economy by

eating at nearby restaurants and shopping at local stores. Students who live in the Heights are residents of the neighborhood too, just like their more permanent neighbors. Regardless of our age or status, we matter, too.

But it’s also true that students living or partying in the Heights need to do their part, and address the problems they create when attending parties. Littering on residents’ lawns and in the streets needs to end and neighborhood cleanups by teams comprised of students and yearround residents would help our streets get clean and stay clean.

Additionally, garbage and recycle receptacles should be put on every corner – providing a convenient alternative to littering.

Most importantly, an open line of communication between the established University Heights residents and the students is crucial to making strides toward improvement. Students need to be respectful and conscious of their neighbors’ needs, but they also deserve the opportunity to express their own opinions. That requires that both sides communicate with each other – although it’s silly that there are “sides” at all.

We need to come together with the community to keep it safe and clean – but that cannot and will not happen until the focus shifts from college students partying in their homes to the real crime and danger that lurks from the outskirts of our community.

Talia Schwartz is a junior psychology major.

Pocket gods Apple, the trendsetter?

Not quite

JORDAN OSCAR

SENIOR ARTS EDITOR

On Tuesday, Apple fanboys, fangirls, techies and casual electronic consumers all over the world rejoiced when the tech company unveiled two larger phones – the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus – and the highly rumored and anticipated Apple Watch.

Wearable tech is all the rage these days. It’s everywhere. Nike Fuels and Fitbits light up the wrists of many college students, myself included. So when Apple convened their annual fall event to announce the next upgrades to some of their products, it came as no surprise that they finally came out with a device to rival Samsung’s – their top competitor – Galaxy Gear.

The real surprise, to me at least, was that the iPhone 6 Plus packed a whopping 5.5” screen – .8” larger than the iPhone 6, 1.5” larger than the iPhone 5s’, and .2” smaller than the gargantuan Samsung Galaxy Note 4 – following the trend of phones with increasingly larger screens.

These aren’t just phones anymore. They are pocket tablets that aren’t so pocket friendly. With their new phones, Apple stopped setting trends and started following them.

For $100 more than the still larger iPhone 6, which starts at $200 for a 16g phone on a two-year contract, everyone can have one of the largest phones on the market. Now brought to you by Apple.

Their newest phones are so big that they had to build in “Reachability” features that attempt to make these phones as thumb friendly as their early and smaller brethren – phones Steve Jobs once described as perfect for their ability to comfortably be held and used with one hand. Good luck trying to use these phones comfortably with one hand.

We all know someone with a phone like Samsung’s Galaxy Note 4, a phone big enough to block most of their face when they’re taking a call or watching a YouTube video. And soon, we’ll know plenty more when the 6 Plus launches on Sept. 19.

Apple was once a trendsetter that revolutionized phones and handheld technology forever with the advent of the iPhone. What they did others followed. The iPod, iPad and iPhone are three devices that have inspired years of other companies’ innovation and to some degree, copying.

But now it seems Apple is comfortable following the pack rather than putting its foot down like the alpha dog they once were. Are other companies making smaller tablets? ‘Introducing the iPad mini!’

Someone made a watch that works with our leading competitors’ phone? ‘Introducing the Apple Watch!’ Bigger phones are trending? We have those now, too!

The phones look great and the watch looks cool – I can’t deny that. At some point in the near future, I’ll undoubtedly own both or some variant of them.

But I miss the Apple I was excited for – the Apple that made other companies follow the trends it started. Apple was the Buzz Aldrin of technology and now, sadly, it’s starting to look like just another guy on the moon.

Come back Apple. I miss you. email: jordan.oscar@ubspectrum.com

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Out of the bleakness

Singer, songwriter and poet Meg Hutchinson discusses depression for Suicide Prevention Week KENDALL SPAULDING STAFF WRITER

It took nearly 10 years for Meg Hutchinson to seek help for the fog and bleakness she felt.

The award-winning singer, songwriter and poet began her own fight against depression when she was 19 years old, but wasn’t diagnosed with Bipolar 1 disorder until she was 28.

Hutchinson spoke at UB Tuesday as part of Suicide Prevention Week. Other campus-sponsored events included a wellness day, a ‘Question, Persuade and Refer’ session and the eighth annual Out of the Darkness Walk for Suicide Prevention.

Suicide is the second leading cause death among college students, according to Student Affairs’ website. UB offers free counseling and other services to anyone dealing with depression and other mental health issues.

Hutchinson was traveling to Greece with a friend when she first experienced depression and the start to her mental health issues.

She said she felt disconnected from daily routines and confessed that her depression often fogged her memory.

“I remember feeling like I was on the other side of bulletproof glass,” Hutchinson said. “I had no will to do anything.”

Hutchinson immediately began searching for treatment when she returned home. Doctors ran tests on her, but couldn’t find a solution for the “fog” she was experiencing.

She began to feel detached from the world and even her own feelings and emotions. The songwriter said it felt like an intense “bleakness.” Her depression and detachment from daily life made it difficult for her to relate to other people.

“It felt like everyone had a place in [society],” she said.

Hutchinson battled the “highs and lows” of depression for years, including a toxic relationship. The worst low came when her sister was getting married.

When she looked at her sister’s wedding dress, Hutchinson said she could only think about all the new people she would have to face and the fact that she had “nothing to relate to.”

This was when she “wanted out.” Fortunately for Hutchinson, her sister noticed her drastic mood changes and began to seek help.

DEREK DROCY, THE SPECTRUM

Singer, songwriter and poet, Meg Hutchinson spoke about her fight with depression on Tuesday as part of Suicide Prevention Week.

Now, the songwriter has been recovering for eight years.

Initially she saw her diagnosis as “a blemish.” She urges others dealing with depression and other mental illnesses to diligently seek treatment.

“I had to be gentle with myself,” she said, emphasizing how important it is not to blame yourself.

Carissa Uschold, suicide prevention coordinator for UB Counseling Services – which sponsored the event – was also in attendance.

She said the difficulty and stress on students transitioning into college could lead to depression.

“There is the [feeling of] independence and that you want to move forward and having fears surrounding that,” Uschold said.

She encourages anyone struggling with mental health issues, to seek help. Counseling Services is located in 120 Richmond Quad on North Campus.

Students like Emily Cook, a senior social science major, were moved by Hutchinson’s story of determination and optimism.

“I love the story,” Cook said.

“Some people don’t make it as long as she did.”

Hutchinson ended her talk with encouraging words for people dealing with depression and other mental illnesses.

“This is only part of who you are,” Hutchinson said. “You can do it, but you can’t do it alone.”

Suicide Awareness Week ends on Saturday with the Out of the Darkness Walk for Suicide Prevention at 10:30 a.m. in Delaware Park.

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Rich” doesn’t even begin to describe the extent of Pegula’s financial resources.

Friday night’s game.

So to Licata and the rest of the Bulls: Don’t be too upset if you lose Friday. Be upset if you don’t put up a fight. Even a 25-point loss would be an accomplishment.

Prove you deserve to be on the same field as teams like Baylor, not Duquesne.

It’s the only way the program can move upwards. email: tom.dinki@ubspectrum.com

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Wellness Services has other ongoing programs for students such as smoking clinics, 10-minute chair massages, Yoga for Student Living and International Tea Time.

Cochran enjoys having students come in to try new foods, but she really wants to see students get excited about living healthier lifestyles and sharing their recipes with their friends.

Sushmita Gelda contributed reporting to this article email: features@ubspectrum.com

Continued from Baylor, page 8 The Tailgate Concert Series has vastly improved the game-day experience and helped increase game attendance. The facilities master plan lacks concrete planning, but it would be a major asset to the athletics department if executed.

And I agree with White: with UB being New York’s largest statesanctioned university, this athletic department has a lot of potential to grow. But it has to start by taking advantage of opportunities like

It’s unfortunate that the Bills aren’t owned by an environmental advocate or an icon of philanthropy. But drilling for oil tends to generate the kind of revenue that can buy a football team – the same can’t be said for attempting to stop the practice. And the first question asked of a prospective franchise-owner isn’t “is he virtuous?” but rather, “is he rich?”

“Rich” doesn’t even begin to describe the extent of Pegula’s financial resources. The depth of his pockets is better illustrated by his mammoth purchases and contributions: $1.4 billion to own the Bills, $189 million for the Buffalo Sabres, $170 million spent on the city’s HarborCenter hockey and hotel complex, as well as $88 million to his alma mater, Penn State, directed toward the launch of the school’s Division I hockey program and a new ice arena.

Pegula’s wealth is easily apparent, as are his priorities: sports. Sure, he’s saved Buffalo from athletic decline, but our schools need to be rescued, too.

He can afford to fund a school’s hockey team, so it seems like he could chip in and save an arts program, or buy some school supplies for Buffalo’s many underprivileged students.

But ultimately, it’s his money. It’s not the state’s, it’s not the taxpayers’ – so as long as Pegula is reaching for his own wallet, he gets to decide where to put his cash. The prioritization of athletics over education is a nationwide issue that Pegula doesn’t deserve to symbolize.

Discussions of a new stadium, on the other hand, which would likely require some form of public support – such as higher taxes – brings the conversation of uneven priorities right back to the table. The community isn’t willing to support the arts and the school district struggles to fund vital assistance programs . A new, billion-dollar shrine to the toxic “athletics over all else” attitude should be out of the question.

Principles aside, practicality should reign supreme. More than $100 million has already been spent remodeling Ralph Wilson stadium, which also allows for one of the best tailgating experiences in the country and ensures that downtown Buffalo (the most likely location if a new stadium were to be built) isn’t tasked with a massive overhaul of public transportation and infrastructure. There’s already plenty to enjoy downtown – Buffalo doesn’t need a billion dollar cherry on top.

Bills fans should be grateful that their team is still nearby, competing in a newly renovated stadium that should serve as a multimillion-dollar reminder: The enthusiasm with which this new ownership has been greeted should be affirmed by ticket sales. It’s time for Buffalo’s football devotees to do their part. Pegula put out over a billion dollars, so cough up some cash, buy a ticket and help fill up the Ralph – for once – this year.

Continued from Wellness, page 2 Wellness chooses which foods to have for Snacking Tuesdays depending on what food is in season.

During the spring, Wellness will have more dried, canned and frozen foods. Cochran gives the dining shops around campus a list of the most popular snacks Wellness offers. Her hope is to get other locations around campus to add these healthy snacks to their menus.

Each week, anywhere between 50 and 130 students show up to Snacking Tuesdays.

Snacks on South, the South Campus version of Snacking Tuesdays, will be in Harriman Hall

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Around Town

From art to music to film to poetry – Buffalo has it all EMMA JANICKI

SENIOR FEATURES EDITOR

It’s that weird transition time between summer and winter and it seems fall might not happen this year in Buffalo. Instead of spending your study break goofing off on Netflix for eight hours, choose to participate in cultural activities that’ll give you an education outside the classroom. Whether you want to explore art, film or contemporary poetry, there’s something each day this weekend.

The “Mummies of the World: The Exhibition” at the Buffalo Museum of Science is due to close on Sept. 21. This Friday is the final night of College Week at the Museums, where students can get entrance to the “Mummies” exhibit for $10 – normally $18 for students.

The exhibit uses state-of-theart technology to understand the life and death of each mummy. The displays hail from around the world, including Egypt, South America and Europe.

It’s the second Friday of the month and that means it’s time to get down to the Burchfield Penney Art Center from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. because the Center will be free to the public. Current exhibitions include “At the Waterfront: Gene Witkowski,” an exploration of the life and activity of Buffalo’s grain silos in the present day; Janelle Lynch’s “Presence,” which is the photographic culmination of her experience as the 2013 Artistin-Residence at Burchfield Penney; and “Displacement: Barge Prototype,” a full-scale canal barge created by Buffalo artists, curators and educators, according to the Center’s website.

The Music is Art Festival (MIA)

will be at Delaware Park on Saturday Sept. 13 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Robby Takac, the bassist of the Goo Goo Dolls and Buffalo resident, founded the Festival in 2003. This year over 100 bands and DJs will perform at the free outdoor festival, according to its website. There will also be live art, projections and performance art. The day-long festival encourages “people to find their musical voice, think about how music touches their lives and most importantly think about the fact that ... music is art.”

Saturday, Sept. 12 and Sunday, Sept. 13 the Screening Room Cinema will be showing “Don’t Bother Knocking” at 7:30 p.m. and “Canopy” at 9 p.m. “Don’t Bother Knocking” is a thriller starring Marilyn Monroe and Richard Widmark in which a babysitter begins a dangerous affair with a hotel guest.

“Canopy” was released in 2014 and follows the story of an Australian fighter pilot and a Singapore-Chinese resistance fighter in 1942. The Screening Room Cinema is just a few minutes from North Campus, at 3131 Sheridan Dr. in Amherst.

Are you looking to share some of your poetry with people outside of your creative writing classes? On Sunday, Sept. 12 at 6 p.m., the Gypsy Parlor, located at 376 Grant St., hosts a Pure Ink Poetry Slam. Buffalo’s West Side is home to a large number of immigrants and college students, creating an eclectic and vibrant atmosphere – the perfect spot for The Gypsy Parlor. Menu choices at the colorfully decorated parlor include jalapeno corn bread, Somali beef, poutine and papanasi, a Romanian donut with fresh preserves and fresh cream. email: features@ubspectrum.com

Continued from White, page 1 “I haven’t been pleased with how frequently that is mentioned in the media about the notion of a stepping stone,” White said. “I think it’s the largest state school in New York, it’s the only public AAU institution in the country outside of the power-five conferences. There’s no reason to think we can’t make this a destination place for intercollegiate athletics.”

White comes from an athletic background. In addition of his father, Kevin, being an athletic director at Duke University, his brother, Michael, is the head basketball coach at Louisiana Tech University. His brother, Brian, is the associate athletics director for development at the University of Tulane. White played basketball at Notre Dame.

He worked at California State, Northern Illinois and University of Mississippi before arriving at UB. White served as the senior associate athletics director at the University of Mississippi. He was the executive director of the UMAA Foundation, which raised $17.1 million in 2010 and $17.5 million in 2011.

White’s continued his fundraising prowess in Buffalo. UB Athletics secured a $3 million commitment from the Murchie family.

But White doesn’t think his presence is the reason for the donations.

“I would hope [the contract extension] doesn’t have a huge impact,” White said. “We ask that people donate to UB, not to any individual person, but I do think there is a benefit to the people who are making the long term commitments, the donors, those who are investing in our program, it’s a benefit to them to know that I’m just as invested and our staff is just as invested.”

Tunney Murchie, a ’71 graduate, former UB hockey player and one of UB’s largest donors, was a part of the executive team that hired White in 2012. Murchie says White doesn’t put pressure on the alumni to donate, but delivers presentations and is always ready for a contribution.

“He’s one of the main reasons I’ve stepped up and made com-

mitments to the athletic department,” Murchie said. “I think they are moving in the right direction.”

Buffalo has plans to upgrade facilities – many projects center around UB Stadium. Besides stadium upgrades, one of White’s largest goals is the installation of a field house, an indoor facility for UB teams to train.

White, Murchie and other donors already began discussing the field house, according to Murchie.

“I throw my hat in there and I feel like it’s something we need to have,” Murchie said.

When White worked at Northern Illinois, a MAC school, he assisted in the completion of a $14 million Academic and Athletic Performance Center – a similar project to UB’s field house.

White said there is still work to be done.

“Not one of us is satisfied,” White said. “I think we are on to something pretty special, but there’s a lot more work ahead that has to happen.”

White wants MAC championships. He wants packed areas. He wants to build America’s next bigtime college athletics brand – as is stated on UB Athletics’ website.

“That’s going to put a big smile on my face when there’s people that are being turned away at the door, not because we don’t want them in, but because we don’t have room for them,” White said.

As for 2019, White believes he will still be at UB. “We got four kids that are growing up in Buffalo, so we are raising our family here,” White said. “We want to continue to build this athletic department so I have no intention of being anywhere but here.”

Although Murchie said he would understand if White eventually left for a bigger offer, this extension leaves the donor excited about Buffalo’s future.

“All I can tell you right now is he’s made that commitment to me to see this thing unfold,” Murchie said. email: sports@ubspectrum.com

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Can’t ‘bear’ a repeat Bulls host Baylor looking for different result than last year’s blowout ANDY KONIUCH SPORTS EDITOR

Junior quarterback Joe Licata remembers sitting on the team bus after Buffalo’s 70-13 loss to Baylor in Waco, Texas last season.

He looked over at now graduated wide receiver Alex Neutz. Neutz, who had six receptions for 197 yards and a touchdown in the game, wasn’t happy.

Licata said Neutz told him, “Next year you better get those guys.”

The Bulls (1-1) host reigning Big 12 Conference champion, No. 8 Baylor (20) Friday night. The game will be UB Stadium’s first appearance on ESPN. “We’re excited to have another opportunity to face off against a great team and to do it in front of our fans is going to be a great experience,” Licata said.

Buffalo is faced with the challenge of defending Baylor’s high-scoring, quick tempo offense. The Bears have outscored opponents 115-6 in their first two games, despite missing some

of their key starters.

Baylor senior quarterback and Heisman trophy candidate Bryce Petty missed the Bears’ game last week with two cracked bones in his back. Baylor defeated Norfolk State 70-6 with backup quarterback Seth Russell throwing for 438 yards and five touchdowns.

Petty is set to start Friday against Buffalo.

He will be without his returning four leading receivers from last season.

Wide receivers Antwan Goodley, Levi Norwood, Corey Coleman and Clay Fuller are all expected to miss Friday’s game with injuries.

Despite being without some of its best offensive weapons, head coach Jeff Quinn believes Baylor is just as dangerous and said Buffalo’s defense has been spending extra time to prepare.

“They were here a long time last night,” Quinn said. “Some of them lost a little bit of hair and I know they lost a lot of sleep. I appreciate those gentlemen on the defensive side of the ball.”

Buffalo’s offense mimicked Baylor’s quick paced offense in practice in order to prepare the defense. Quinn said the Bulls even let their receivers jump the snap count to prepare for Baylor’s speed and quickness.

Buffalo’s defense struggled in the first two games of the season, allowing 322 passing yards to Duquesne in the season opener and 341 rushing yards to Army last week.

Quinn said the Bulls need to make adjustments in order to handle the current No. 2 offense in the country.

“Defensively, just too many big plays, we need to clean that up,” Quinn said.

“That’s just not like us. We know we’re going to be challenged again this week … Certainly is going to take everything we have defensively to defend them.”

Baylor’s defense is also ranked No. 2 in the country and has allowed just six points in two games.

The defense features All-American candidates linebacker Bryce Hager and defensive end Shawn Oakman. The Bears recorded 12

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TOM DINKI SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR At the football team’s weekly press conference Tuesday, junior quarterback Joe Licata was asked how Buffalo answers to outside perceptions about its chances in Friday’s game against Baylor. The Bulls are 35-point underdogs to the reigning Big 12 Champions and No. 8 team in the country.

“If that’s what people outside of our locker room want to think, then that’s fine,” Licata said. “But if anyone in our locker room doesn’t think we can win that game, then I don’t want them suiting up on Friday night.”

I appreciate Licata’s competiveness – beside, how else is he supposed to answer that question? Athletes want to win every game, but Buffalo should not consider a loss to Baylor on Friday (which is an almost certainty) a failure.

A repeat performance of last year’s 70-13 loss to the Bears would be a failure.

Since arriving in Buffalo in 2012, Athletic Director Danny White’s mission has been to make UB Athletics “America’s next big-time college athletics brand,” with the New York Bulls

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(2-0): Baylor Joe Nichols’ “The Impossible” is the best way to describe this game. Baylor will score at least 80 regardless of the quarterback.

Initiative or #NYBI. Regardless of whether or not you think it’s misguided, there’s no denying the opportunity this game – which will be UB Stadium’s first appearance on ESPN’s flagship channel – presents Buffalo.

The country will see Buffalo’s new $1 million dollar field turf with the new brand name and New York State outline (although it may further encourage the misconception Buffalo is in or around New York City). If UB Athletics has its way, viewers will see a passionate and raucous student section, all wearing $12 ‘blackout’ T-shirts.

But will anyone remember “The State University of New York Buffalo” after the game if the Bulls gets trounced 60-3?

No. If Buffalo really wants to become a top-tier athletics department, it must start with being competitive against actual top-tier athletics departments.

Buffalo must have success on the field to climb out of a midmajor conference and into a larger one. The team has to take advantage of its opportunities on the national stage against bigger opponents.

During Buffalo’s Media Day in August, head coach Jeff Quinn talked about how valuable the Bulls’ strong performances against high-ranking teams are to the program.

They put a scare into No. 6 Georgia in 2012 with a 45-23 loss. They hung tough with No. 2 Ohio State in the season opener last year.

On Tuesday, I asked Quinn how important a good showing

on Friday would be to showcase UB Athletics’ brand and further its initiative.

“These guys, that’s why they signed up to come here, is to make this a big-time atmosphere, a big-time program with big-time results,” Quinn said. “To be able to do that, you have to measure up against the very best.”

Quinn also said, “Nobody came to this program that’s sitting in that locker room right now, wants to be average.”

But that’s exactly how his team has been this season.

The Bulls came from behind to defeat Duquesne, an FCS opponent, in the season opener, and trailed Army by 30 points in the fourth quarter last week before a ferocious failed comeback attempt.

Despite those Georgia and Ohio State games, the Bulls have also had subpar performances against better teams in the past.

Buffalo lost by 57 points to Baylor last year in Waco, Texas.

They’ve even struggled against some of the better Mid-American Conference teams like Northern Illinois and Bowling Green.

You have to dominate the MAC before even talking about becoming “America’s next bigtime college athletic brand.”

That’s essentially my only issue with White’s movement; it’s bold for an athletics department when the team doesn’t even dominate its own mid-major conference yet.

That being said, White has made key improvements to put Buffalo on the right track.

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(1-1): Baylor

Buffalo allowed 322 passing yards to Duquesne and 341 rushing yards to Army.

Baylor could very well do both and have this spread beat in the second quarter.

Even with players like Khalil Mack, Buffalo lost 7013 to Baylor last season. With an already shaky start, Bulls’ defense is going to have a rough time against the Big 12 champs.

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(2-0): Baylor Baylor put up 70 points last week, it has the No. 2 offense in the country and Bryce Petty is returning from injury. Buffalo, brace yourself for a long day.

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Baylor Baylor obviously has this. Freshman KD Cannon already has eight catches for 282 yards and four touchdowns – he’s going to get at least two more Friday night.

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Baylor senior quarterback Bryce Petty will play Friday against the Bulls after missing the Bears’ last game due to a back injury.

Buffalo must take advantage of spotlight against Baylor

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He earned two All-Big 12 linebacker awards, led his respective conference in tackles per game last season (9.5) and was named to 2014 preseason AllAmerican team by Sporting News.

Hager is the leader of the No. 2 ranked defense in the country that has only allowed six points through the team’s first two games. He plays with the intensity of a linebacker but possesses the feet of a defensive back. His awareness for the football is excellent, given his team-leading 11 tackles last week against Northwestern State. Hager has played like one of the best linebackers in the country to begin the season.

Key Matchup: Bears’ passing attack vs. Bulls’ secondary The Bulls’ secondary lost seniors Najja Johnson and Derek Brim, but no one could have expected this dramatic of a drop-off. The ‘D’ allowed 322 passing yards and three touchdowns to Duquesne. Even Army’s quarterbacks completed all seven passes of their passes for 125 yards.

With the No. 2 offense in the nation coming to Buffalo with its Heismancontending quarterback back at the helm, it is going to be interesting to see how the Buffalo defense will matchup against Baylor’s aggressive passing attack. Even without Petty for the majority of their first two games, Bears quarterbacks have combined to throw for 768 yards and eight touchdowns. The secondary needs to improve or it could be another long day for the group.

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Friday night lights

The Bear trap: Don’t be fooled by the 47-39 score against Army last week. Buffalo trailed by 30 in the fourth quarter and were outplayed the majority of the game.

The offense was not playing in rhythm and the defense did not follow its assignments. Things will only get harder for Buffalo (1-1) when it faces its toughest competition all season: No. 8 Baylor (2-0).

Here’s a few things to know about the defending Big 12 champions.

Offensive Players to Watch: Bryce Petty, senior quarterback Petty missed Baylor’s last game due to cracked bones in his back, but he’s been cleared to play against the Bulls.

The Heisman candidate and reigning Big-12 Offensive Player of the Year is a tremendous threat to the Buffalo defense and one of the most decisive and talented college quarterbacks in the country.

He threw for 4,200 yards and 32 touchdowns in 2013. Last year against Buffalo, he completed 13 of 16 passes for 338 yards and two touchdowns before he was removed from the game when the Bears took a commanding lead.

KD Cannon, freshman wide receiver Each of the Bears’ top-four returning receivers from last season has all battled injuries this season. Cannon has made up for that production.

The freshman had six catches for 233 yards and three touchdowns in a 70-6 victory over Northwestern State last week. The true freshman possesses incredible speed – proven by his 4.56 40-yard dash – and is a downfield threat every play. With Petty back under center, Cannon could be even more dangerous.

Defensive Player to Watch: Bryce Hager, senior linebacker

sacks in their first two games.

“They’re big and physical up front,” Quinn said. “They play real hard, they have a lot of confidence. Their defense has improved over the course of the past few years.”

The game will be a ‘blackout.’

The Bulls will wear all black jerseys and unveil a new black helmet. The school is also selling ‘blackout’ Tshirts.

“It’s going to be a great experience out here Friday night,” Licata said. “I know the fans are real excited, as they should be. It’s a great opportunity to showcase our venue, our program, and I hope the fans are ready to go. Because it’s going to be real exciting.”

Kickoff is set for for 8 p.m. Country artist Joe Nichols – highlighted by hit songs “Yeah,” “Sunny and 75” and “Tequila makes her clothes fall off ” – will perform a free concert two hours before kickoff.

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