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After an uncontested election last year that brought just 1 percent of UB undergraduate students to the polls, this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Student Association executive board election features seven candidates aiming for three positions that control approximately $4 million of student funds. The race for president and vice president, who must be elected together, is between two parties preaching very different platforms: the SA-experienced and -backed Progress Party, and the self-proclaimed SA outsider Transparency Party. Progress Party president candidate Matt Rivera and vice president candidate Megan Glander are experienced SA staff members running a campaign focused more on inclusion and less about internal issues inside SA. The two-man Transparency Party of president candidate Maximillian Budynek and vice president candidate Daniel Christian are advocating that outsiders with a fresh perspective will help clean up the issues that have dogged SA for years and help add transparency to the average student who may not trust SA. The race for treasurer, which is elected separate from the president and vice president, is a three-man race between Dan Emmons of the Progress Party, Carl Ross of the one-man Empowerment Party and independent candidate Aaron Hussian. All three have SA experience in some form and all three have ideas for improving the efficiency of SA finances. Elections will be held in the Student Union Theater on March 29-31 from 9 a.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5 p.m.

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THE SPECTRUM Monday, March 28, 2016 Volume 65 Number 56 Circulation 4,000 The views expressed – both written and graphic – in the Feedback, Opinion and Perspectives sections of The Spectrum do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board. Submit contributions for these pages to The Spectrum office at Suite 132 Student Union or news@ubspectrum.com. The Spectrum reserves the right to edit these pieces for style and length. If a letter is not meant for publication, please mark it as such. All submissions must include the author’s name, daytime phone number, and email address. For information on adverstising with The Spectrum, visit www.ubspectrum.com/advertising or call us directly at 716-645-2152 The Spectrum offices are located in 132 Student Union, UB North Campus, Buffalo, NY 142602100

Spectrum endorses neither Progress nor Transparency for president, vice president The Spectrum annually endorses candidates for the Student Association executive board, but this year we do not feel confident enough in either party’s president and vice president ticket to give an endorsement. Not that there aren’t things to like about the Progress Party of Matt Rivera and Megan Glander, and the Transparency Party of Maximillian Budynek and Daniel Christian. We like the experience of Progress and the well, the call for transparency of Transparency. But our editorial board does not feel comfortable endorsing a set of candidates we do not feel 100 percent confident in. It would be a disservice to you, the UB student body, for us, the student newspaper, to pretend we did for the sake of having to endorse someone. So instead we have come to the decision to allow you to know what we like – and do not like – about this year’s presidential and vice presidential candidates in hopes of informing you as best we can before you head to the polls. We feel it is better to lay out our issues with each party than to mask our uncertainty with a hollow endorsement. Our issues with the two parties come down to Progress’ vagueness and Transparency’s lack of SA experience. Rivera and Glander of Progress have SA experience and are the safe choice, but gave unspecific and rehearsed speeches to our staff on Tuesday that was far from deserving of an endorsement. Budynek and Christian of Transparency were professional and prepared for tough questions from our staff, and have worthy aspirations to make SA more transparent, but their lack of any SA experience at all gives us too much pause to endorse them. In an ideal world, we could combine the experience of Rivera and Glander with the openness and calls for transparency of Budynek and Christian – but we cannot. Progress is by all accounts the establishment party that has the support of the current SA staff, just check social media. The party is perhaps feeling confident in its electability – and it showed during their speeches and Q&A sessions in our office. Progress’ entire platform of the “three C’s” of community, consistency and compassion felt hollow to our editorial board. The party centered its talk around inclusion and making more students feel a part of SA, but when pressed on specific plans and polices on how it would do so, we were not impressed. Even last year’s Unity Party, who were running unopposed and had little if nothing to gain from our endorsement, proposed more concrete changes and implementations to SA than this year’s Progress Party. Rivera’s Q&A session with our editorial board, which can be found on ubspectrum.com, ran longer than any other candidate. That’s because we were waiting and pressing him to give spe-

cifics on how we would get more students involved and feel included in SA, but he instead choice to continue speaking in general terms and refer back to “community, consistency and compassion.” For example, we like that Rivera wants to hold more open forms for students, like the current eboard has done with the athletics department fee. Yet it would have been nice to hear what exact issues his party is passionate about, as it was the current e-board that took charge on the athletics fee issue. At times, Glander was equally unspecific. She too focused most of her talk on the “three C’s” and a somewhat rehearsed profession of her love for helping clubs in her current position as Special Interest, Services and Hobbies (SISH) Council coordinator. Unlike her running mate, she did however propose some actual implementations to make things easier for clubs, like revamping club orientation, making the temporary club application available online and creating video tutorials for clubs. We’re a little hesitant on the video tutorials, as we’ve heard candidates promise to make such videos in the past to no avail, but Glander’s other proposals seem like realistic and simple changes that can be implemented to help clubs. But presidents and vice presidents have to be elected as a ticket, and Glander’s proposals were not enough to overcome the vagueness and unclear plans of Progress. Don’t get us wrong – Progress’ goal to include more students is a valiant one. All undergraduates pay $104.75 a semester to SA, and too often we see too many students not getting anything out of that money by not being involved in SA activities. It’s on the organization to at least make an effort to reach them, and for that we were grateful of Progress’ message. But their lack of specific ideas and reforms on how they would actually make this happen turns what could have been a very solid platform into a loose ideal that seems like it will never come to fruition. While there may have been some sense of disappointment with the qualified Progress Party, we were pleasantly surprised by the Transparency Party. After last year’s brief run of fellow SA outsiders the Clarity Party, which seemed to be running on more of a whim than a serious campaign, we admittedly expected something a bit similar when Transparency came through our doors. President candidate Budynek and his vice president candidate Christian were instead well spoken, prepared to answer questions about their lack of experience and with well-intentioned aspirations to make SA more accessible and clear to the average student, with things like an SA oversight committee and encouraging critiques from The Spectrum. Although Budynek and Christian have never been involved in SA, other than Christian’s unspecified amount of time in UB Space

Bulls, they have a host of other oncampus experiences and even some experience in a town mayor’s office. Christian caught our attention when he delivered a passionate portion of his speech about advocating for a stronger university sexual assault response. We like for our candidates to go beyond their job descriptions and use their positions as student leaders to advocate. But when asked how exactly he would use his role as vice president to advocate for such policy, Christian fumbled around about using his leadership role to voice concerns to the administration. It was as if he was unaware he could hold open forums and call for a stronger policy through the SA Assembly, as the current e-board has done. And this perhaps best illustrates the problem with the Transparency Party. They have solid goals and aspirations, but ultimately their lack of SA knowledge could hold them back from actually accomplishing such tasks. Budynek and Christian admitted they couldn’t say much about how they would change the inner workings of SA, as they have not worked inside organization. They simply see from the outside there are issues students have and they would work to address those once inside. We would have liked Transparency to have researched SA enough to answer questions about fixing issues. We would have liked to hear that they have been actively meeting with the current e-board, the professional staff and council coordinators and making their faces known in the office. Instead Budynek mentioned he had met with unspecified club who had issues. If you’re going to run for positions leading a $4 million organization, you should do everything possible to learn about its inner workings and issues before you even ask students to put their trust in you. Again, we were pleasantly surprised by Transparency. With their passion, smarts and calls for transparency, we would probably endorse them for an SA staff position or as speaker of the assembly or senate chair. But to give an endorsement for president and vice president – two of the three highest positions in the organization – to two people with no past SA experience, that we cannot comfortably do. That’s not to say we don’t feel outsiders could never lead SA. An outside perspective is never a bad thing. But for an outsider to receive an endorsement from us, they would have to show they had previously made a large-scale effort to understand SA. Budynek and Christian came close, and just not close enough to make us feel comfortable endorsing them to the student body. But Budynek and Christian do bring up good points about bringing transparency to SA – points that reflected somewhat poorly on their more experienced running mates. While Budynek and Christian said they would encourage criticisms from The Spectrum, Progress’

answers about the relationship between The Spectrum and SA did not impress us as much. Progress did not seem as willing to accept criticism. When asked what if any issues he took with how current SA President Minahil Khan runs SA and what he would improve upon, Rivera could not give an answer. He instead took several minutes to profess how great he thinks Khan is as president. Rivera is allowed to admire the person whose position he is running for – but to not have even a small critique for the person who currently has the job you want, is concerning. During this time, he also made comments that Khan sometimes gets too much blame for things that are out of her control. This made us take pause. The president of SA is supposed to represent the organization and ultimately be responsible for all that goes on. It’s on the president when things go right and wrong inside the organization, regardless if it was outside of his or her control or not. We would like a presidential candidate who accepts this and is willing to take it on, which Rivera did not show with those comments. Again, Rivera and Glander have redeeming qualities. They have the qualifications, as well as genuine goals to get more students involved – an effort we would like to help them with if they are elected – but their overall platform was not enough for us to tell our readers they are absolutely the ones to vote for. And this is the dilemma we as an editorial board have found ourselves in. There are things to like and dislike about both tickets, but enough concerns with both that we feel we cannot definitively tell our readers they should vote one way or the other. We only hope we have provided you with enough information to make an informed choice for yourself. And we really do hope you go out to the polls this week. Whether you are in a club and attend Spring Fest or not – SA directly effects every undergraduate who pays it $104.75 a semester. These positions that control that money and this election matter. We know there is tendency to avoid the Student Union and the campaigning candidates handing out flyers and trying to speak with you during SA elections week. We know there is a tendency for SA staff and club members to make up the majority of voters. Let’s start to change that. These are the only positions on campus that control your money that you, as a student, get to decide who holds them. So educate yourself on the candidates and platforms and make an informed vote this week. We hope we were able to provide you with that, even if we could not definitively tell you whose name you should cast on the ballot. email: eic@ubspectrum.com.

Dan Emmons for treasurer

Treasurer may just be the most important Student Association executive board position. It’s the position that deals most directly with SA’s budget and finances of student funds, and SA is really all about dispersing student funds, collected through the mandatory student activity fee, back to students in the best way possible. Therefore a treasurer must be someone who is smart, experi-

enced, professional and responsible, and that person is Dan Emmons of the Progress Party. We commend fellow treasurer candidates Carl Ross and Aaron Hussain. They are both passionate to serve students and understand the issues plaguing clubs, but we overall felt Emmons has more experience and more effectively articulated how he would actually go about improving SA.

Emmons has worked directly as a bookkeeper in SA’s finance department and is a business administration major and can articulate his realistic and sound goals effectively. While we could not give his party’s president and vice president the same endorsement, we felt Emmons stood out from his running mates. It’s a good thing treasurers are elected separately. He was not vague, and instead

brought up realistic and sound goals, like making club orientation more specific to individual clubs, moving the FAQ sheet to the front of the finance handbook so clubs don’t lose it and working with Sub Board I Inc., to accept some paper receipts, as well making sure clubs get their rollover budget more often. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

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Matt Rivera Party: Progress Year: Junior Major: Business and musical theater Current SA position: Director of Student Affairs After living in Germany for 14 years before moving to Buffalo, Matt Rivera said he has a different perspective. He said growing up somewhere other than the United States gives him “a worldly view” that can help him connect with students, which would be a large part of his role as Student Association president, if elected. Upon coming to UB, Rivera joined the Academies before becoming a resident adviser and orientation team leader. Rivera currently holds the position of SA’s director of Student Affairs – the same position current SA President Minahil Kahn held before being elected. Rivera said he, along with the Progress Party, are basing their campaign on the “three C’s” of community, consistency and compassion. He said his main goal if elected is to create an atmosphere where students feel as though they can voice their grievances or discuss suggestions they may have to the e-board. Rivera said he could achieve this by having more open forums and open dialogue among students.

“One of the biggest goals would be connecting to the students who aren’t already involved,” Rivera said. “Getting those students who are just here at the university, taking classes, maybe they’re commuters, maybe they just take their classes and go home, maybe it’s students who live on campus but don’t really participate in any campus living events – getting that connection and being able to reach out to those people would be so rewarding.”

controlling such a large budget – approximately $4 million of student funds – he “wants people to know where the money goes.” He would like to create an SA oversight committee and encourage The Spectrum to grade SA’s performance at the end of the semester, as he discovered the newspaper used to do back in 2006. Budynek said he and his vice president Daniel Christian are running without a treasurer candidate intentionally. Budynek said, if elected, they want a treasurer who wouldn’t be quick to agree with their decisions and “will challenge [them].” Budynek said, if elected, he hopes to leave a lasting legacy at UB that shows changes made while he’s in office. “I hope that by the time I leave the university, the institutions or whatever changes I make to the university, they last,” Budynek said. “Students in the future, they see what the SA is doing, they understand what the SA does. I want them to know what’s going on.”

Maximillian Budynek Party: Transparency Year: Junior Major: History and political science Current SA position: None (On-campus resident adviser) Maximillian Budynek considers himself an “outsider.” Budynek, who has no prior Student Association experience, said having a fresh perspective in the SA office would ultimately help the organization. He said being a resident adviser on campus and interning under the mayor of his Brook Haven, New York hometown helped him get an understanding of how to be an effective president. Budynek said he is basing his platform around transparency because it’s an important aspect for any government. He said with SA

Vice President

Megan Glander Party: Progress Year: Junior Major: Political science and communication Current SA position: Special Interest, Services and Hobbies (SISH) Council coordinator

As the current SISH Council coordinator, Glander oversees approximately 60 clubs. Glander said serving as SISH coordinator has allowed her to prepare for a role as vice president of the Student Association. “I cannot express how much I care about the clubs at UB,” Glander said. “I’m extremely enthusiastic about helping clubs and helping UB students.” Glander said her “biggest initiative” is to create online tutorials to teach clubs about their responsibilities. She said she would work closely with SA videographers in the entertainment department in order to achieve this goal. Glander also looks to make the application process for becoming a temporary club status available online and encourage “consistency” by remodeling the track sheets for all of SA’s clubs. Glander said she wants to make SA requirements more convenient for clubs while still fostering the community within the organization. She plans to go about this by providing opportunities for SA participation credit every two weeks. She wants to teach the coordinators what they need to do to improve communication between the clubs before the summer. She also cited club orientation as one of her goals as vice president. “I cannot stress how important it is to have an effective and efficient club orientation and I’d like to work with my treasurer in order to make sure that happens,” Glander said. Glander said improving SA’s social media presence will help encourage more students to join clubs. A large portion of the UB student population does not realize the power of community and their role in SA, Glander said. She looks to increase student involvement in SA and make everyone feel comfortable.

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Daniel Christian Party: Transparency Year: Junior Major: History Current SA position: None (On-campus resident adviser, UB football intern) Daniel Christian said his involvement with Student Association club UB Space Bulls, the Sub Board I, Inc. radio station WRUB and his current position as a UB football intern has taught him what a “shared experience” can do for a student body. And he said his last two years as a resident adviser, including in an international dorm, showed him the “unique challenges” many students face. Despite the fact that he has limited SA club experience and has never held a position in SA, Christian said his on-campus experiences make him qualified for SA vice president. “The Student Association is like an old grandfather clock,” Christian said. “You can think, ‘This clock is working just fine.’ But from where I’m standing outside the clock, I can see the face, I can see the time is wrong and that clock is broken.” Christian, like his running mate, wants SA to be held accountable for its actions and said by doing this, students will no longer identify SA as “crooks.” He said SA has for too long acted as a “shadow government” and he wants The Spectrum to grade it, whether it’s ‘A’s’ or ‘F’s’ on the newspaper’s front cover. Christian said the biggest problem that SA staff has is that “no one tells them how to do their job” and he looks to fix that by outlining the job expectancies for all SA

club members. He would also like to cut down on costly SA events with low attendance and instead allocate those funds directly to clubs. He said he would assemble “experienced qualified candidates” to help him and Budynek implement these changes. One of the most essential parts of Christian’s platform, according to him, is advocating for a more comprehensive university sexual assault policy. He looks to do so by lobbying for University Police to have an on-call sexual assault responder at all times. “I have firsthand seen the way the university responds to these egregious acts and it is not acceptable,” Christian said. He said it’s a cause that he will fight for, regardless if he becomes SA vice president or not. Christian said he would like to inspire students to remember that SA can be an organization that gives them “tremendous shared experience and joy.”

Treasurer

Dan Emmons Party: Progress Year: Junior Major: Business administration Current SA Position: Bookkeeper Dan Emmons said he is not afraid of the Student Association’s $4 million budget and sees it as more than just a number, but rather a chance to make the university better. Emmons describes himself as “calm under pressure and ready and able to tackle tough situations.” He said he thinks SA needs to be more

consistent in its efforts as an organization for the students. One of Emmons’ main issues is club rollover. He wants to make it easier for clubs to receive their rollover budget from the semester or year before. Another issue he would like to tackle is the handbook for clubs to make purchase orders. Clubs currently receive a handbook with a form to sign at the end that includes a “Frequently Asked Questions” section. He would like to move this section closer to the front of the handbook, as clubs often hand in the form with the FAQ still attached. Emmons would also like to revamp club orientation. He describes the current club orientation process as “long, dry and dreary” and would like clubs to focus on their individual needs rather than going through everything during the process. He also wants to push Sub Board I, Inc., which currently only accepts paper receipts, to accept some forms of digital receipts for clubs proving purchase. Emmons emphasized that the finance department is there to get clubs exactly what they need and said, if elected, he will do everything in his power to make that happen. “I also want to keep an open line of communication between myself, club coordinators and all clubs,” Emmons said. “I will keep an open door policy for the length of the school year.”

Carl Ross Party: Empowerment (running alone) Year: Senior Major: Sociology Current SA position: Senator, Chinese Student Association treasurer

Carl Ross says his party of one is a party for all. Ross, running for treasurer on the oneman Empowerment Party after his two potential running mates backed out, wants to reestablish clubs as the lifeblood of the Student Association, something he said has been lost. Ross said the current SA office is neither helpful nor welcoming to clubs, as he and other clubs have been “trashed on” when coming in to ask questions and are often told, “it’s in the finance handbook.” Ross said that if elected treasurer, he would be proactive in assisting clubs, whether that means pulling out the finance handbook or taking the club to the Sub Board I, Inc. office himself to figure out why paperwork is delayed. He also wants to reduce the fines levied on clubs based on their budgets, as there is currently one flat rate for fines. He would like the fine to be based on a percentage of the clubs’ SA-sponsored budget. He’d also like to make it easier for clubs to receive their rollover. “[There are clubs that] want to be some of the best clubs here on campus but the problem is at times they’re mired because they don’t have enough money, they have to keep running back to senate, they have to keep going back to their coordinator,” Ross said. Ross wants SA to better use its entertainment funds – proposing to forgo a second spring concert after this year’s sparsely attended MS MR show, and instead use the funds for a second Comedy Series act, as he said SA did before. Ross, on his second undergraduate degree, has been with SA since his fellow candidates were juniors in high school, previously serving as international council coordinator in 2011-12. He’s said he was upset and it was hard for SA when former Treasurer Sikander Khan tried to invest $300,000 into a fraudulent app company in 2012. Ross said he sees his extensive experience and knowledge of the history of SA as a strength.

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Name: Aaron Hussain Party: Independent Year: Junior Major: Business administration Current SA position: Treasurer for Students for Justice in Palestine Aaron Hussain said he always hoped to be a voice for his community and that being elected Student Association treasurer would give him the opportunity to “become that voice.” “I can bring change and I can bring prosperity to the student government,” Hussain said. “My desire was always to serve my community, defend and foster my pride.” Hussain said his current position as treasurer for SA club Students for Justice in Palestine gives him the opportunity to build

stronger relationships with clubs like UB for Israel and the Black Student Union. Hussain said he wants to continue but alter current Treasurer Joe Pace’s 3-3-3 rollover program, which currently allows clubs that earn additional participation credits or hold additional club events and community service events to take 3 percent off the 50 percent of their budget they must raise to receive rollover. Hussain wants to make a 4-4-4 program, which he said would give a two percent reduction so there can be an overall 12 percent reduction in the budget. “Clubs weren’t made to raise money,” Hussain said. “Clubs have been developed here on campus to engage the student body.” Hussain works in Buffalo City Hall as a Buffalo Urban Fellow in the resolution center and can propose some of his ideas at City Hall like increased bus times. Hussain said he plans to develop a weekly packet for club events and to create a suggestion box specifically for the SA e-board to read what they can do to enrich the lives of students. “It would truly be a government run by the students and not by a select few students,” Hussain said.

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Ross gave a passionate and wide-ranging talk about the issues in SA and revamping the organization. He wants clubs to have more money and overall bring more “fun to SA.” But some of his answers, that gave us insight to what his potential spending habits would be, gave us pause. Although he called himself “frugal,” Ross discussed getting more clubs more money through rollover and lessening fines for late penalties, adding more staff to SA and adding more activities. During a oneon-one interview, he began to say SA will always be financially stable no matter what, before catching himself and rephrasing. He does not seem to have spoken much with SA higher-ups to make sure his changes are doable, only noting he’s talked to clubs who agree with him. His rollover and new system for fines also did not seem as fleshed out as they could have been. Ross, who is on his second undergraduate degree at UB, has extensive knowledge and experience relating to SA, and he’d probably be a more than qualified and passionate treasurer, but because of the aforementioned issues, we feel Emmons is the better pick. Hussain is also a passionate candidate

who seems to genuinely want to make things better for clubs. We like his ideas for a weekly club events packet and a suggestion box solely for the e-board, but his major proposals, like a 4-4-4 rollover program, also seemed less than fleshed out. We liked that he has taken steps to speak with current Treasurer Joe Pace on how SA finances work, but his only real SA experience as treasurer of Student for Justice in Palestine may not be enough to prepare him for such an important role. Also, his admission that he is independent because he learned of SA elections too late in the process to team up with another party is cause for concern. A candidate should have prepared and thought hard about the position for a good amount of time, and his admission showed he may have rushed into the running, even if it was with good intentions. We as an editorial board feel Emmons is the most responsible choice for SA treasurer, based on his credentials, experiences, preparedness and realistic policy reforms. Although we did not feel confident enough to do the same for his running mates, Emmons gets our endorsement to be the next SA treasurer. email: eic@ubspectrum.com

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A real investment

UB alumnus Marlon Browar makes a living leasing houses to UB students

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Marlon Browar (pictured) has been leasing houses to other UB students since his sophomore year at UB. The alumnus now owns and leases over one dozen properties, primarily in the University Heights area.

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Marlon Browar knows the reputation of University Heights landlords. The neighborhood located right off South Campus has been plagued with absentee landlordism for years. UB students often live in unsafe houses with broken locks and black mold without things like working smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. But Browar, a recent UB grad and land-

lord of more than a dozen properties in the Heights, sees potential in the neighborhood and the City of Buffalo in general. He said landlords who don’t care about their properties are the ones who are dragging the Heights down. “University Heights kind of gets a bad name and I think there’s a ton of potential in the Heights,” Browar said. “I think Buffalo in general, there’s a lot more opportunity out there. You can really build up a business there.” Browar started renting to UB students when he was still a student himself. He first realized he could make a living out of real estate in the Buffalo area after sitting down with his friends during his sophomore year. Browar, who graduated from the university in 2013 with a degree in business management, had friends who lived in an apartment in Heights and was always curious about what they were paying for rent and what the property values of the houses were. After checking what the houses in the Heights were going for, Browar – now a licensed real estate broker – said he felt like he came across a business opportunity he couldn’t pass up. After receiving a loan from his father,

Browar purchased some properties in the Heights while he was still a student himself, and has been leasing them to UB students ever since. He said he is currently leasing out more than a dozen properties in the area. He said the properties in the Heights area don’t typically come up for sale and when they do they’re sold quickly, so often times he’ll hear about listings by word of mouth or referrals. He also said that since becoming a real estate broker, more people approach him with properties. Browar said convincing his father to help him with the business venture wasn’t hard, since his father also felt it was a great opportunity. “When I told him originally what the houses were going for he didn’t really believe me that properties were so low compared to New York City where one apartment costs a million dollars and compared to University Heights [the apartments are] a lot smaller,” Browar said. Shannon Eaton has been renting through Browar since 2015. She said she and her two roommates were able to find Browar by a web search and found his Facebook page. The house, which is located on West Northrup Place, has three bedrooms – one for each girl. “I don’t rent out bedrooms individually. I know some landlords do that,” Browar said. “I also don’t have anyone living in the attics or basements and stuff like that.” Browar knows that if he split more areas of his houses up and rented out attics and basements, which is a fire hazard, like other landlords, it would bring in extra money. But he said it isn’t worth it to him to break the law and risk another person’s life. Most of the homes Browar rents out are two or three bedrooms, and he said his tenants are “100 percent UB students.” Prior to renting the houses, Brower said he likes to

meet each potential tenant as well as perform credit checks on each person. Tenants are also required to take out renter’s insurance. “We’re definitely careful who we lease to,” Browar said. And while most tenants don’t cause an issue for him, Browar said he has not always had great experiences everyone he’s rented homes to. “One night I was hanging out in my apartment in my roommate’s bedroom and he was reading The Spectrum and he starts reading out loud and goes, ‘Three kids busted in drug ring at 51 West Northrup,’” Browar said. “I wasn’t really listening and all of the sudden I go, ‘Wait a minute, I think that’s my house.’” After going to the home, Browar realized the three tenants who lived there were selling narcotics out of the home. He then had to go through the process of removing the tenants from the house before fixing the damages and releasing it. He also said he had one instance of students turning off the heat before they went back home during winter break and he had to pay approximately $5,000 in damages after the pipes burst and flooded the house. Browar said whenever there is damage in a home he tries to fix it right away rather than leaving it for the tenants to deal with. While his friends were staying in apartments in the Heights when they were students, Browar said their landlords would often neglect taking care of issues, such as broken windows or heating that wasn’t working. Eaton said she and her roommates have had a couple problems while living in their apartment, but Browar had them quickly taken care of. CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

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For UB students, living on the less-inhabited South Campus has its pros and cons. The university’s original campus, now smaller and less inhabited than its North Campus counterpart, is home to approximately 1,000 students – not counting the large group of students living in the neighborhood right off the campus, the University Heights. While South Campus, located within City of Buffalo limits, provides students with more shops, restaurants and nightlife within walking distance, a better “student-to-bathroom ratio” and an overall more intimate dorm experience than the larger North Campus, it also has its hassles, like a bus commute to class, less on-campus food opRASHAAD HOLLEY, THE SPECTRUM tions and high crime rates. Students living on South Campus are placed in either Clement Hall (pictured) or Michael Koziej, senior associate direcGoodyear Hall. South Campus, smaller and less inhabited than North Campus, has both its tor for Campus Living and a UB graduate advantages and disadvantages for students. who lived on both North and South Cam“They get safe quality housing and they at least two to three hours early to get to pus during his time as a student, said every get access to a movie theater and restaurants North Campus on time for class. He said student is going to find his or her own pros and easy access downtown,” Ryan said. people he knows who live on North Camand cons to living on a certain campus. He Some students feel the bussing system be- pus can wake up an hour before class. said there are many similar services on each tween North and South Campuses is the Kathryn Doherty also said the busses are UB campus, including study centers, renobiggest downside to living on South. the most difficult part about living on South. vations and dining centers. The vast majority of classes are held on Doherty, a freshman biochemistry major, The area surrounding South is more North Campus. Only the School of Pub- said the bus schedule isn’t always accurate, crime-ridden than North Campus, which lic Health, School of Pharmacy and School especially if it’s raining or snowing. Someis located in Amherst. In 2012, there were of Dental Medicine are located on South, times the busses are full when they arrive, more than 500 major reported crimes in as the medical school will officially move which means she has to wait another 10 the Heights, including homicides, assaults, downtown in 2017. minutes for the next bus. rapes, larcenies, robberies, burglaries and vePresident Satish Tripathi has proposed Yet even with the commute, both Doherty hicle thefts, compared to just 238 crimes in moving the School of Social Work and the and Frederic said at times they like that they Amherst during the same year. Graduate School of Education to South. live away from where classes are held. While Dan Ryan, director of UB OffThis means students living on South with“I like to have a separation between work and Campus Student Services, said safety is a out a car must rely on the Stampede bus to home, so any work and classes I have I go to concern in the Heights with issues like black get them between North and South Campus North Campus,” Doherty said. “This way there mold in homes and an even higher rate of – about a five-mile trip. is a division between work and relaxation.” burglaries this year than years past, he also Joey Frederic, a freshman computer enDoherty said the food options for stusays students who dorm on the campus get gineering major, said he has to wake up dents on South Campus are another disad“the best of both worlds.”

vantage to living there. She said there seems to be less options and the quality isn’t as good as places offered on North Campus. “Anything we do have [for food places] closes really early or isn’t open every day, so it’s difficult sometimes to find food on South Camps,” Doherty said. “I think people are definitely limited to what our dining hall has to offer, especially people with food allergies or someone who is vegetarian or vegan.” South Campus’s main dining center is located in Goodyear Hall, and the campus offers several other cafes. The campus also offers more off-campus food options with in walking distance off campus than North Campus. South Campus is located on Main Street, which is home to several restaurants and bars, as well as a grocery store and shops, including a comic book store. Doherty said “basically anything you could think of is across the street.” The metro rail leading to downtown Buffalo is also located right on campus. “You get to experience what that cultural life is like with only a few steps down the road, and you don’t get that with North Campus,” Koziej said. Students feel living on South Campus also provides better nightlife options. Main Street is home to two popular college bars, The Steer and Surrender, and most student parties are located in houses in the Heights neighborhood, which has caused issues with residents. When Mahmood Shilleh, a freshman mechanical engineering major, learned he was assigned to dorm on South Campus, he said he was initially disappointed. But he said after his first week on South he found advantages to living there, like being able to walk over to Clark Hall, South Campus’ gym, to play basketball with his friends. CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

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The smaller community on South gives Frederic more opportunities to meet people from different age groups and cultures, he said. While North Campus is larger, he thinks it would be harder to establish connections with people living there. Approximately 6,600 students live on North Campus. South Campus has two dorms – Goodyear Hall and Clement Hall. North Campus has two dorm complexes, Ellicott and Governors, which hold a total of 11 dorms. North Campus also has three on-campus apartment complexes and two apartment complexes for graduate students located on the edge of and directly off campus. Koziej said one advantage students have living on South Campus is “the student-to-

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UB students living off campus will often sign a lease to a new apartment and end up inhabiting unsafe living conditions. UB’s off-campus housing listing website looks to alleviate that problem. The Off-Campus Student Services website provides students with a list of houses and apartments that have passed a municipal safety inspection in the last 36 months. The website provides students with a list of landlords that have successfully kept up-tocode on their properties. It also gives students a checklist of things they should look for prior to signing their lease. Dan Ryan, director of Off-Campus Student Services, said students often end up making poor decisions about selecting housing based on a lack of experience. “It’s sort of like buying a car,” Ryan said. “The first time you do it you make a decision based on things that aren’t important and there ends up being things you overlook. It’s not uncommon when buying a car for people to pay too much attention to the sound system than miles per gallon.” Ryan said students might not even realize when they are living in unsafe conditions. Ryan and a group of City of Buffalo inspectors perform “housing blitzes”

twice a year, in which they check for housing violations within the University Heights neighborhood, which has had issues with absentee landlordism and unsafe conditions. Some landlords have yet to pass the housing inspections. “It’s my understanding that the majority of houses owned by Jeremy Dunn have had some significant violations,” Ryan said. Ryan said that he has discovered students living in attics with only one way to exit in Dunn’s apartments. He said he also witnessed situations in which windows or doors didn’t lock, buildup of black mold, missing smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors within his apartments. The Spectrum reached out to City of Buffalo Inspector Lou Petrucci to confirm Dunn’s violations, but he did not immediately respond. Dunn owns roughly 24 properties on Winspear Avenue and Northrup Place within the University Heights neighborhood as of 2015, according to WGRZ. None of Dunn’s properties have passed Ryan’s inspections. Ryan said because the website only shows properties that have passed the inspection, there are currently no Dunn properties listed. Dunn defends his landlord practices and homes. “I have a full time staff that works on the houses and I think that we’ve taken a bunch

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of run-down houses— and in a lot of cases foreclosed – and made them decent and we continue to improve our houses,” Dunn said. “The housing violations are only one component of what we do.” Dunn said these violations have to do with students taking smoke and carbon monoxide detectors down during the school year. He said it’s a “constant battle” to keep smoke detectors and carbon monoxide monitors intact all-year round. Some of his residents have taken batteries out of detectors and used them for devices such as remote controls, he said. Dunn said Ryan has a “personal vendetta” against him, stemming from his refusal to provide Ryan with a list of his tenants. “Dan Ryan should just chill,” Dunn said. However, Ryan said this isn’t the case, and that he only asks for names of the tenants so he can confirm the stories he’s heard about their living conditions. He “just wants to make sure the houses are up to code.” Other landlords within the Heights neighborhood have successfully passed inspections and are therefore listed on the website. Ryan cited Andy Sauer as one of the land-

lords who have complied with housing codes. Saur has worked closely with Ryan and his team and invested money to make sure his houses are up to code, according to Ryan. Sauer owns properties on Englewood Avenue and Northrup Place. Landlord Tom Ingalls, who owns houses on Lasalle Avenue, has also been compliant with the codes, according to Ryan. The website also advises that students research the amount of crime on crimesreports. com in a neighborhood prior to moving in. “We’ve had an awful lot of students who were burglarized who had problems with crimes,” Ryan said. “Install[ing] security systems was just one way where they were better prepared.” Ryan said students should also document the condition of the place before moving in so students can show problems that preexisted. Sub-Board I, Inc. (SBI) also has a website that indicates off-campus property listings. However, the website includes houses that have not been inspected. CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

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No one wants to look like the party pooper and bang on your neighbor’s door asking them to stop partying – but sometimes enough is enough. For Valentina Valentine, hearing loud screaming and partying into the wee hours of the morning got old quick, especially with morning classes. The typical “college lifestyle” usually involves some loud moments, but sometimes roommates are just so bad it’s beyond the tolerance of most tenants. Valentine, a junior health and human sciences and sociology major, has had many terrible experiences with inconsiderate hallmates in Clement Hall. College students might be able to pick their own roommates, but when it comes to their next-door neighbors, there’s little to be done. Among the perennial plagues of dorms, apartments and off-campus communities, the noisy neighbor is one of the worst. Between neighbors “screaming at 2 a.m.,” loudly slamming doors and cramming 18 people into a single room for dorm parties lasting until early morning, Valentine was regularly kept awake with classes early the next morning. Approaching the neighbors about the issue was unprofitable, as was stating grievances to the resident adviser (RA). “They laugh it off. You complain to [a] RA and they still disturb people,” Valentine said. Brianna Satter, a senior biology major, struggled with her neighbors over the past two semesters living in the South Lake Village Apartment Complex. The group of students on the floor above

her would regularly bounce basketballs indoors and play video games and rap music at “unbelievably loud” volumes during all hours of the day. “I couldn’t even cover it up with my own speakers,” Satter said. “They were having a rap battle. It sounded like the apocalypse had begun up there.” Confronting the neighbors about it directly yielded no change. After numerous requests to be considerate and three petitions for help from the community assistants, the conflict finally was resolved during finals week. Satter was disappointed by the university’s response to the issue. “UB seems to have a huge hands-off policy until they have to step in,” she said. “I would have appreciated any sort of intervention beyond sending someone to tell them to stop. They ask you if you have tried talking to them when you call the Community Building, but how many times do I have to do that before we get some real intervention?” According to the 2015 Guide to Campus Living, 24-hour quiet hours are in effect during finals week and violations can be punished by “immediate suspension from the residence halls.” It also states “courtesy hours” are always in effect, meaning that requests to discontinue noisy behaviors should always be honored. UB Judicial Affairs offers mediation services located at the Center for Resolution and Justice. The Judicial Affairs website lists noise complaints among the issues students can bring to mediation sessions that include facilitated communication and brainstorming between conflicting parties.

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Living off-campus doesn’t provide respite from the curse of inconsiderate neighbors. While many students move off-campus seeking privacy, personal space and freedom from disruptions, the situation is often no better. Ali Alsaqqa, a physics graduate student who lives on Springfield Avenue, said, “noise coming from parties was simply too often [not] to be mentioned.” Additionally, he said his neighbors refused to take care of their garbage and often used Alsaqqa’s own garbage can for their trash. The university encourages students and organizations hosting off-campus parties to use the Party Registration System. According to the Off-Campus Student Services website, registered parties are notified of noise complaints by the Buffalo Police and receive a “20-minute grace period” in which to break up the party. The university also offers a “landlord report” where students can submit complaints about such issues as housing problems and loud neighbors. Further noise complaints can result in the host receiving a noise violation fine and a referral to the university’s judicial process.

The website states that unauthorized parties receive no such notice and are treated with “zero tolerance” by the city. Alsaqqa’s lack of success confronting the neighbors reflects the too-common theme of other tenants’ refusal to comply with noise complaints. *Harry Zachariah, a senior at UB, is one of the people who would get noise complaints often. Living in off-campus apartments, Zachariah and his friends would often play musical instruments in the common space of their apartment. The neighbors frequently found this disruptive and would often “bang on the walls really loud” when they played. “If they knocked, we would usually quiet down or stop,” Zachariah said. “One time when we were jamming I remember hearing a loud noise outside my door, but I didn’t really think that much of it [until] later. When we opened the door later that night, we saw two or three eggs splattered across it.” Zachariah said he questioned the neighbors about the incident shortly after, but was rudely dismissed. CONTINUED ON PAGE 17

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Falguni Bharadwha, a first-year computer science masters student, walked into her new home on South Campus last semester with her housemates and was met with a completely empty space. It was then they knew that they had to turn that house into a home. “We literally had to buy everything,” Bharadwha said. “We ordered a lot of stuff online from Amazon. We got the closet on Amazon [and] my study table is from IKEA. My cousins live around Ohio so they bought it and sent it to me.” IKEA is well known for having cheap furniture that’s relatively easy to put together – minus the inevitable instance of a beginner homeowner putting together a new coffee table and losing a screw that keeps the coffee from sliding off the table. But sometimes all students need for furniture is a graduating senior. “We got some stuff from seniors who were moving out and were OK with getting rid of their bulkier possessions,” Bharadwha said. Graduating seniors can be a convenient source for furniture, as they’re often trying to get rid it since they probably won’t want to lug their bureau hundreds of miles across the state on the hood of their car. Sometimes when students can’t find anyone to take the furniture off of their hands they end up donating their furniture to the Salvation Army. Students might consider going to the Salvation Army if they are in search of cheap furniture. “I’ve never gotten anything from the Salvation Army but some of my friends have and they have good things to say about it,” Bharadwha said. When looking for furniture, sanitary op-

tions are always highly recommended. Joel Nassi, senior biological science major with a minor in management, was lucky enough to move into a house that was already furnished by the previous tenants his junior year. When he and his housemates moved to their new home they just took the furniture with them. “I think going to the Salvation Army is definitely a good idea for students looking to get something decent for a good price,” Nassi said. “I think you just got to take a close look at what you get. A friend of mine got like a futon from there and it smelled pretty bad so they got rid of it pretty soon.” Nassi said that its important to make sure that the used furniture you get is clean. He recommended that students check out some of the garage sales and yard sales that happen around Chestnut Ridge Road when the weather gets warmer. He said that he and his friends were able to find a few more chairs that way for a relatively cheap price. “I bought a pretty new mattress off of someone who was living there already,” Nassi said. “It was only used for a year and the guy, one of my friends, is pretty hygienic so I took it.” Cynthia Burhans, a senior health and human services major, also agreed with Nassi that sharing furniture among hygienic students isn’t a bad idea. “As far as wooden material or like a kitchen table, I would totally buy that from the Salvation Army. But as far as a sofa I would be a little nervous because of things like bed bugs and bacteria that can travel from house to house,” Burhans said. “I wouldn’t necessarily want to get my mattress from Salvation Army but I would get chairs and desk or something.” Burhans and her roommates split furnishing responsibilities among each other. Everyone was in charge of furnishing their

own bedrooms and then one person would be in charge of the living room, bathroom, kitchen and other rooms. “I was responsible for the kitchen and I chose to go to IKEA,” Burhans said. “Unfortunately the closest one is in Canada so I had to order all my stuff online and have it shipped.” Although Burhans went to IKEA she thought that students should check out places like American Freight located on Niagara Falls Boulevard in Tonawanda. “They have entire five-piece bedroom sets, including a work desk, mattress and everything for like $700,” Burhans said. “It’s not necessarily the best furniture but it will definitely last you four years in college. It’s good temporary furniture.”

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while living in the homes. Pets are not typically allowed in the homes, barbeque equipment cannot be on the patios and tenants in a fraternity or sorority are not allowed to have parties at the house. Browar said although he does not ask anyone up front if they are involved in Greek life, he said it’s obvious if the students living in the houses throw parties. He said something like having cups in the basement is a sign that the tenants had a party. Browar is focused on overseeing his proprieties and improving the reputation of landlords in the Heights. He understands his student tenants’ needs – after all, he was once a student and landlord at the same time.

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UB off-campus living website aims to help students choose quality housing CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11

Ryan said other websites that provide housing listings place the value of advertising revenue ahead of student safety. Darnell Lubin, a freshman biology major, said having a website to assist students in choosing off-campus housing is a good way to relieve students of the stress of searching. “College students already have enough to stress about [like] work, studying, so I think making it easier to not have the stress of if our apartments have carbon monoxide detectors or fire detectors or simple things like mold building up,” Lubin said. “I think it’s a great idea.” Ryan said for the most part the landlords in the Heights neighborhood have chosen not to go through the inspection process and

instead resort to Craigslist or SBI’s website. Ryan held the first-ever Housing Fair roughly two weeks ago, where students were able to learn about selecting off-campus housing. City of Buffalo inspectors and police were present at the fair. SBI Legal also worked with students by reviewing their leases. Two landlords from the Heights neighborhood were invited to the fair. Landlords from the Cheektowaga-Buffalo area, Collegiate Village and Sweet Home Road were also present. The next housing blitzes will take place in the first or second week of April, according to Ryan.

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While there has been no direct confirmation of who was responsible for the egging, Zachariah is convinced of the neighbors’ guilt and for this reason did not want his name in print. “Like, I understand that we got loud once in a while but it wasn’t during late hours. Plus they would throw big parties every weekend where you could feel the bass through the walls. It’s ridiculous,” Zachariah said. “If they had been adults and asked us to quiet down in person, we would have cooperated. But they were very immature about it.” While a desire for peace and quiet is one of the forces driving students off campus,

disruptive and inconsiderate neighbors seem hard to escape. For Valentine, noise levels alone make it not worth it to live on campus. “It’s not worth spending $7,000 a year to live in noise,” she said. Despite the stereotype of college students’ boisterous lifestyles, most students need peace and quiet when they get back home and expect others to also have reasonable noise levels. *Name has been changed to protect privacy of individual email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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Most freshmen student-athletes at UB enter their names into a lottery to determine where they will live on campus. That hasn’t been the case for Buffalo freshmen wrestlers. They know where they will live months before stepping onto UB’s campus. Most wrestlers spend their first year living in the heart of Governors Hall, at the request of head coach John Stutzman. According to Stutzman, it’s been a tradition since he was a wrestler at UB in the mid-1990s. For the most part, it’s been a success. Stutzman feels placing his young athletes in an environment where they can be surrounded by studious students pays off both on and off the mat. “When you’re around people who are goaloriented, then you become goal-oriented,” Stutzman said. “When you’re around a bunch of kids who are really serious about their goals, serious about their academics, then hopefully that rubs off on some of our guys.” Kelly Cruttenden, associate athletic director for compliance, said UB Athletics holds some housing slots for incoming freshmen and transfer athletes that want to live on campus. The two main housing complexes for freshmen on UB’s North Campus are the Ellicott Complex and Governors Hall. Ellicott is the main hub for UB freshmen with up-to-date rooms, grab-and-go food options and a state-of-the-art dining facility that opened in 2012. Ellicott also has a much larger capacity for student housing compared to Governors. So why would Stutzman want his team living in Governors?

Stutzman continues tradition of freshmen wrestlers living in Governors Complex

ANGELA BARCA, THE SPECTRUM Two UB wrestlers work on grappling during a practice in 2016. The freshman of the UB wrestling team live together in Governors Hall during their first year on campus.

“It really kept us out of trouble,” said freshman Jake Gunning. “Whenever we’d go to Ellicott there would always be something going on, people always doing something. It kept us on top of our grades too. When you see people doing homework all the time, you’re just like, you know what, I’m gonna do my homework too.” Gunning, the Mid-American Conference heavyweight runner-up, lived in Governors last year during his first year of school at UB. Gunning redshirted last season and is now a sophomore academically. Although

he said at first it was a little overwhelming how quiet and different from Ellicott Governors was, he feels that it ultimately benefited both him and his teammates. The Governors tradition appears to pay off academically for the Bulls, who accumulated a GPA of 2.877 as a team last school year. It was their ninth consecutive semester with a team GPA higher than 2.60. Additionally, living in Governors as opposed to Ellicott gives Stutzman a chance to keep all his wrestlers together in a concentrated location, as opposed to scattered

throughout the huge Ellicott Complex that consists of six separate dorm buildings. “We make sure we keep all our freshman living together,” Stutzman said. “We have a couple who lived off campus this year, but for the most part they got to stay together, they got to grow together, and they got to make it together.” Gunning also agrees that living in Governors helped form a unique bond between him and his teammates. He now lives in a house with most of the teammates he lived in Governors with last year. “We went through the grind together,” Gunning said. “We’ve seen each other be down, we’ve seen each other be up. We’ve all had crossroads, and speed bumps we’ve had to overcome, and just being around each other really helps overcome those speed bumps, so it was a good as a teammate standpoint.” Following their freshman year, Stutzman lets his wrestlers choose where they want to live, but only with his “blessing.” He doesn’t let his wrestlers join fraternities or work at bars. “When these guys move off campus, I make sure they’re with good people,” Stutzman said. “People who will help them achieve their goals.” Overall, Gunning calls living in Governors his freshman year a “good experience.” He lived with freshman Kyle Akins, another young star wrestler on the team. Gunning said it was important he lived with someone who has the same aspirations about wrestling. “It’s good being around guys who have the same goals as you, and guys who want to work as hard as you,” Gunning said. “It’s good for competition, always try to make each other better.” email: sports@ubspectrum.com

The sacrifice for success Tiring practices, program hardships push men’s ice hockey to first-ever NCHA Championship QUENTIN HAYNES SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

Last week may have been the best week in UB Athletics history. Of course the men and women’s basketball teams won Mid-American Conference titles and made NCAA Tournament appearances. Three members of the wrestling team went to New York City to participate in the NCAA Championships, sure. Senior swimmer Megan Burns made her national tournament and track and field alumnus Jon Jones was on display on the world circuit for shotput as well. We all know. But many Bulls fans may not know that another Buffalo team claimed a championship last week. The men’s ice hockey team defeated Penn State 4-2 this past Sunday to win its first-ever National Collegiate Hockey Association Championship. “[It’s] real emotional,” said senior center Zach LaMacchia after the championship win. “It was one of the happier moments of my hockey career.” While the team continues to celebrate the championship, the goal is to make last Sunday the start of something huge, rather than one singular moment. Buffalo coach Edd Kirchberger said he hopes he can “continue the run of success,” despite losing a handful of important seniors, including LaMacchia and Matt Cohen, both centers. While the underclassmen continue to celebrate, it’s the seniors who truly enjoy the moment they worked four years for. It was a moment that the seniors, the first-ever class for the program, would never forget. “As a part of the original crew that put this team together four years ago, it was overwhelming, seeing everyone jumping off the bench and throwing gloves into the air,” LaMacchia said.

COURTESY OF UB MEN’S ICE HOCKEY The D-III men’s hockey team celebrate a 4-2 victory over Penn State this past Sunday. The Bulls brought home their first-ever NCHA Championship this past weekend.

The team, which is the Division-III component of Student Association’s men’s hockey club, was created just four seasons ago and already experienced a fair share of heartbreak. Three years ago, the Bulls made their first-ever national tournament, only to lose in the first round. Last season, as favorites, Buffalo lost in the final 15 seconds to Pittsburgh – ending their chance at a national championship. LaMacchia, who was one of the original members of the team and assisted in putting the club together, said the scene as the final seconds ticked off the clock was emotional as the Bulls were officially announced as champions. LaMacchia was the captain for the 201516 team and finished with 13 points, good for third on the team. In the playoffs, LaMacchia finished with two points. He said the team “made the right sacrifices and played hard,” allowing the Bulls to take a step forward as opposed to the previous seasons. In his first season Kirchberger wanted to make sure his team could practice without the normal interruptions of school and work, so he set his practices for early in the morning – 5:30 a.m. to be exact. He said the reason he placed his practices early in the season was because “there was no reason for players to miss it.”

And to his – and the team’s – credit, no one did. “Our practices are early because everyone’s school and work schedule and there wasn’t a reason people couldn’t make practice,” Kirchberger said. “I give them credit. Some of them got up and came to practice with no excuses. Some stayed up the night before working on a paper, or studying for a test, but they never let it affect their play.” One player that didn’t let the early practice time affect him was Cohen. Cohen, who finished with one point in the postseason and four points in the regular season, called the championship victory “a long time coming.” After years of coming up short as a member of the Bulls, Cohen was instrumental in Buffalo’s victory last Sunday, providing an assist, a key block on one of Penn State’s many scoring opportunities and perfect play on the penalty kill with junior right winger John Danovskis. Cohen, who committed 19 years to the sport of hockey and perfecting his skills, said that he’s happy to finally have something to show that his hard work paid off. “It starts early in the morning, you have to wake up and do that,” Cohen said. “We

play games on Friday at 7 p.m. Not a lot of people on campus are willing to give up the social life. It’s really nice to see it all come to fruition and it all finally be worth it. Playing this game for 19 years. My entire life, I’ve been giving up proms and spring breaks and it’s just nice to have it all finally be worth it.” One player return is sophomore goalie David Nowak. Nowak finished the regular season with 3-1-1 record in goal and just allowed eight goals on the season and scored two points of his own in 238 minutes of action. In the playoffs, Nowak went 4-1 and held Penn State to two goals and claimed tournament MVP. Nowak, who will man the net next season, said he thinks the Bulls can do great things. “We can do a ton of things, and we weren’t the top hockey team in the division,” Nowak said. “I think we can build the program up, continue to put together a great run of success, then maybe we can take it to the next level. It would be nice to become a NCAA program. Buffalo has the resources, and it would be great to be the team that started that program here at the university.”

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