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Tournament Time

Scouting Ohio: Current Record: 25-7 (12-5 Mid-American Conference)

Predictions:

Two Bobcats to Watch: G-D.J. Cooper: The junior has been a Bull killer this season and for much of his career. He’s averaging 17.5 points, and 6.5 assists in the two contests with Buffalo this season. Cooper is someone who loves to get in the lane and mix it up (despite his 5-foot-11 size) but he can also pull the trigger from deep. He only shoots 29 percent from behind the arc, but has taken more 3-point shots than anyone on the Ohio roster.

G-Walter Offutt: Offutt is the only other player on the Ohio roster to start all 31 of its games.

He’s also the only other player averaging double figures for the Bobcats with 12.1 points per game. The Ohio State transfer has provided the 1-2 backcourt punch that the Bobcats have used all season long to play an up-tempo style. His 23 points in the last meeting were a big part of the win in Buffalo.

The Bulls will win if… They own the glass. Ohio got a staggering 20 more shot attempts than the Bulls in the February meeting. Buffalo is fourth in the nation in rebounding, and its games against Ohio have been the only aberration to the outstanding season on the boards.

Winning the rebounding battle will be the only way to offset what the Ohio backcourt brings to the game.

The Bobcats will win if… They win the turnover battle. Ohio is plus 14 in turnovers in the prior two meetings between the teams.

Buffalo’s sophomore point guard Jarod Oldham is in his first year at the helm of the Bulls’ offense.

Although he has shown flashes of brilliance this season, the Bobcats forced him to make enough mistakes to control the Bulls.

Buffalo looks to best Bobcats in semifinal

TYLER CADY

All-Time Record: 23-8 Ohio Last Meeting: 88-77 Ohio (Feb. 22, Alumni Arena)

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Senior Sports Editor Although Ohio head coach John Groce seems to have the Bulls number, this is a different Buffalo team. Last time these two teams met Buffalo was coming off an exhausting trip to South Dakota State. This time the tables are turned, Ohio played Thursday and are coming in on short rest. Buffalo has the talent, determination, and swagger to win the MAC, and Ohio is one of the last two teams in its way.

Senior forward Mitchell Watt is playing the best basketball of his career and I expect it to carry over to Cleveland.

MARK DAVIS

Staff Writer Joseph T. Walsh was supposed to be introduced Wednesday as a candidate for the next provost of UB. But Walsh, the vice president for research and professor of biomedical engineering at Northwestern University, is no longer a candidate for the position.

It is unclear whether Walsh was removed as a finalist candidate by the UB provost search committee or if he voluntarily withdrew his name.

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Connie Holoman, a deputy in the Office of the President, said the only people officially authorized to speak about the search for the next provost are search committee chairpersons Anne Curtis and David Felder, who were unavailable for comment. Attempts to reach Walsh at Northwestern offices in Chicago were unsuccessful.

Sports Editor Buffalo was swept by Ohio, including a rare home loss for Buffalo. But, that was after a long trip to South Dakota State.

This one will come down to the wire and I think the team with the ball at the end of the game will have a chance to win it.

The Bulls are 5-1 in the MAC in games decided by four points or fewer, so let’s hope they can continue that trend.

UB will take on Ohio on Friday in its’ first game of the MAC Tournament.

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Sports Editor Fact: Ohio has beaten Buffalo twice. Fact: Its guards have killed Buffalo in both games, and Cooper is a gamer. But the Bulls want Ohio. This is a team that has prevented them from proving that they’re the best in the MAC. Throw the X’s and O’s out of the window; this game will be won on sheer determination and will. The Bulls have that will.

Ohio better watch out.

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Northwestern Professor Dropped as Provost Candidate

One hundred nineteen days, 28 games, and it all comes down to this: the Mid-American Conference Tournament. The men’s basketball team sits just two wins away from its first ever NCAA Tournament appearance, but to get there it will have to get through the team that’s given it the most difficulty this season.

There’s only one team in the MAC that Buffalo (19-9, 12-4 MAC) has yet to beat this season, Ohio (25-7, 12-5 MAC). Luckily (or not, depending on how you look at it) the Bulls have one more chance to accomplish the task, and this time it means more.

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The Bobcats get the chance to beat the Bulls for the third time this season because of a convincing 65-57 victory on Thursday night at Quicken Loans Arena over Toledo (18-16, 7-10 MAC). Ohio dominated on the boards grabbing 38 total (15 offensive) and forced the Rockets to turn the ball over a whopping 16 times.

Ohio head coach John Groce said after the game that the Bobcats’ “calling card” is the way the squad has consistently forced teams to shoot low percentages from the field.

Groce believes there will be four things his team must do to beat Buffalo: make adjustments, be able to adapt, be able to impose its will, and finally and simply, players must make plays.

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UB spokesman John Della Contrada said on Wednesday that he was unaware of the recent developments and could not speak to Walsh’s removal as a candidate.

On Tuesday, the only remaining internal contender, Arjang Assad, met with members of the press and UB community to outline his vision as the potential provost. Assad is the current dean of UB’s School of Management and was a professor at the University of Michigan for 34 years before arriving at UB. The search for the next provost has progressed significantly since the fall semester.

In September, UB officials announced they would establish a committee for the search, headed by Curtis and Felder.

By February, the have been off-site interviews of at least 14 candidates. Beginning last Friday, March 2, The Center for Tomor-

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Acheson Annex Experiences Frequent Burglaries

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Buffalo’s Own moe.

Shows No Signs of Aging

“The unfortunate part is, and we totally see this, it’s a temporary building and it would just cost probably some insane amount of money to change all of these doors,” Maranto said. “And I don’t know if this building is slated to actually sit up or be here this long, and it really truly would, at the end of the day, become – in my opinion – a huge misuse of university funds.”

photo illustration by Meg Kinsley Two office burglaries have occurred through the ceiling of the Acheson Annex.

LISA KHOURY Asst. News Editor When Curt Maranto’s South Campus office in the Acheson Annex was broken into on Monday, he didn’t think of it as anything out of the ordinary.

The unidentified burglar entered the office through the ceiling. And it wasn’t the first time an incident like this occurred.

The Acheson Annex was built as a temporary building in 1965. It was not meant to stand for long, according to Lieutenant Joshua Sticht of the University Police, but it is still being used. The construction of the temporary building has allowed continuous break-ins to occur, according to Maranto, the director of advancement at the Buffalo Prep office in the Acheson Annex.

He and his colleagues have had multiple belongings stolen.

“We’ve been chronically broken into,” Maranto said. “They’ve taken our cameras, our computer screens, petty cash, bus tokens.

Anything that wasn’t nailed down – of any type of value – they take.

If it wasn’t pushing in doors, it was crawling over the cinderblock walls through the ceiling tiles.”

struction company put walls inside that were meant to be temporary rather than permanent, according to Sticht.

But the building has been “temporary” for 47 years.

Cinderblock walls go all the way up in permanent buildings, so when a ceiling tile is pushed up, one can only find a wall there. Meanwhile, in Acheson Annex, there’s a wooden dry wall that only goes up to the ceiling tiles, which leaves completely open space up above. Once the burglar got through the ceiling tile, it was only a matter of getting his or her body up above, crawling across, and coming out on the other side into Maranto’s office.

Maranto said the annex has been broken into four times in the 18 months he has been a staff member at UB. The wooden doors are also easy to break into. Only the door to the main office has been replaced with a metal door, but the rest of the offices still have doors that are easy to penetrate despite their locks.

Although nothing was stolen from Maranto in the recent break-in via ceiling, he has had his computer, two still-cameras, one video camera, and all of his office supplies stolen since he’s been at UB.

Once the annex was put up, a con-

Buffalo Prep Program Director Crystal Austin’s office was broken into via the ceiling on Oct. 22. Her microwave and refrigerator, totaling $200 in value, were stolen.

UPD officers are still investigating both break-ins, and a UPD detective believes the burglaries may have been by the same person, according to Sticht.

The Acheson Annex and the Diefendorf Annex are the only two remaining temporary buildings on the UB campus. There is no current plan to rebuild or replace either of them in the near future; there are only long-term plans, according to Kevin Thompson, the director of the Facilities Planning and Design Department.

Buffalo Prep staff attempted to install wireless security cameras, but they wouldn’t work because of UB’s wireless security, which frequently rotates its address to keep people from hacking into the system, according to Maranto. Sticht said UB has not installed a security system in the annex because the building is temporary.

Maranto also said they could not use the security cameras that the rest of the UB campus has because those cameras are hooked up to hard drives, and the hard drives in the Acheson Annex are always at a risk of being stolen.

Maranto does not feel unsafe in his office in the annex; he is just careful with what he leaves in his office. But even what he locks in his drawers gets stolen.

“They literally pried open my desk to get [my cameras],” Maranto said. “Like when the first camera was taken, I started locking everything up in my desk under lock and

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LUKE HAMMILL Senior News Editor While they had by no means witnessed a bad performance, some fans were using words like “old” and “boring” as they walked out of moe.’s last Buffalo-area show: a free July 20 performance at outdoor Artpark.

The inevitable comparison was to fellow jam band Umphrey’s McGee – a Chicago sextet about a decade younger than moe. – which had played Artpark just a month earlier, slaying the crowd with what frankly was a more aggressive and energetic brand of progressive rock, funk, and metal than the sound moe. brought to the table last summer.

Fans were declaring moe. as past their prime and no longer able to match the intensity of groups like Umphrey’s McGee or the Disco Biscuits – jam bands that embraced the recent popularity of the electronica scene while moe.’s traditional rockand-roll sound remained relatively stagnant.

It’s funny what one show can do to a band’s reputation. moe. set the record straight on Wednesday night at the Town Ballroom in downtown Buffalo, playing their best Buffalo show in years and proving they are still relevant, energetic, and capable of reaching musical peaks that any rock band would envy.

Fresh off the release of their 10th studio album, the surprisingly crisp What Happened to the La Las, moe. returned to the city where they formed – bassist/vocalist Rob Derhak and guitarist/vocalist Chuck Garvey formed the band in a UB dorm room, in fact – and found themselves in front of a rowdy soldout crowd.

They didn’t disappoint, playing two sets of scorching rock-androll as the crowd’s cheering, dancing, and debauching grew wilder and wilder.

The only two selections from moe.’s new album were the openers of each set – “Paper Dragon” and “Smoke,” two of the more interesting cuts from the disc. Other than those, all the

songs were old moe. favorites.

Highlights from the first set included a Peter Frampton-style talk-box solo from Garvey on “Happy Hour Hero,” a singalong ode to drinking; the ultra-fast, bouncing reggae-ska of “Threw It All Away”; and a face-melting guitar tirade in 7/8 time from guitarist/vocalist Al Schnier to end set-closer “Crab Eyes.” moe. is perhaps best-known for Schnier and Garvey’s dueling guitars, and though Schnier was firing on all cylinders Wednesday night, it was Garvey who dropped the most jaws. He was in top form, sometimes switching back and forth between a bottleneck (for playing slide guitar) and a traditional plectrum within the span of alternating phrases.

During “The Pit” – the centerpiece of the second set, a song about going down to hell – Garvey produced hitherto unheard of sounds from his axe, even grinding its strings against the microphone stand at one point.

The guitar’s furious yelps and screams did evoke a trip down the River Styx, and all the while Garvey looked like he could

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Courtesy of Nate Scheekloth moe.’s Chuck Garvey was in top form on Wednesday night, when the UB-bred band played downtown at the Town Ballroom.

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SA Assembly Rejects President Datz’s Appointment REBECCA BRATEK

News Editor In an unprecedented vote, the Student Association Assembly did not approve Gretchen Garcia’s appointment as chair of the Elections and Credentials Committee. She had been previously appointed by SA President JoAnna Datz amid accusations of “bias” and “cronyism.”

The Assembly met in an emergency session on Wednesday night to approve 13 new staff positions, and Garcia was the only position not approved, receiving a 6-10-5 vote. It was the first time the Assembly didn’t approve a president’s appointment, according to SA Assembly Speaker Steven Jackson.

“I think it’s a shame that the Assembly was influenced by the politics of what’s going on, and it was inappropriate,” Datz said. “And I think that they were unable to fully do their job because the politics were brought in, and that’s not what the body is meant to do.”

Garcia was not present at the meeting due to a previously scheduled commitment, according to a statement read by Jackson during the meeting.

Datz appointed Garcia as the Elections and Credentials Committee (ENC) chair-

continued from page 1: acheson annex experiences frequent burglaries key. And not the last time, but the time before, they actually physically pried my desk open – ripped it open – to get the cameras out.”

Staff members have lost watches, cameras, and computers due to burglaries in the Acheson Annex, according to Maranto.

The UPD is keeping an extra eye on the Acheson Annex.

“There’s been plans to demolish those temporary buildings,” Thompson said.

“But they have a use, they’re still in use, and until we find an alternate location for the programs in those buildings, we’re not going to be demolishing them, so there’s no current plans to take them down.”

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person after the former chair, Travis Nemmer, took out a petition to run for SA president. Since Nemmer has a petition out for the current election, he must recuse his duties and step down from his position to avert a conflict of interest.

The Elections and Credentials Committee exists to maintain fair and impartial elections that are independent of any outside influence.

The SA’s constitution gives Datz the sole discretion to make appointments to fill vacant staff positions. Those appointments then must be approved by a “half plus one” majority vote in the Assembly.

Nemmer recused his position on Feb. 24, when he signed out a petition to run in the election. On Feb. 26, Datz learned of the open position and appointed Garcia as interim chair the next day.

Garcia was assistant treasurer under current SA Treasurer Sikander Khan.

Raphew Fahm, the current assistant ENC chair, was not chosen to fill the open spot. Datz said she believed that appointing Fahm could pose a conflict of interest, since he might favor his old boss.

“In any business or any position that you apply for, just because a position becomes available, it doesn’t mean that the assistant becomes the next in line,” Datz said

during Wednesday’s meeting. “I picked the person I felt was most qualified for the position.”

Datz added that Garcia is “honest, dignified, and brings integrity to everything she does.” Garcia was a member of the ENC Committee in years past, but she had to step down from her position due to lack of time and conflict of interest issues.

Datz said she appointed Garcia because of her previous experience, regardless of past reasons to step down.

Fahm did not approve of Datz’s decision and believed he should have been chosen to replace Nemmer. He believes that her decision was “made with bias and reeks of cronyism,” as he stated at Wednesday’s meeting.

He believes that Datz appointed Garcia because of her ties to other presidential and vice presidential candidates – Judy Mai and Darwinson Valdez, respectively – and believes that Datz is trying to “manipulate” the election process, according to an email obtained by The Spectrum, which Fahm sent to various members of SA. “Understanding JoAnna’s amicable relationship with Judy, it is not surprising that JoAnna would support her,” Fahm wrote in the email. “That is totally fair as Judy is a great individual and would make an equally great officer. Therefore, I

want to stress that my issue lies not with Judy, but with JoAnna's underhanded, cowardly tactics of trying to manipulate the upcoming election for Judy’s benefit.”

biased, or we can accuse that the appointments Gretchen made were biased,” said Assemblyman Jimmy Mazur. “But at this point, no one can prove anything.”

Garcia is a member of both the Latin American Student Association (LASA) and the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Alliance (LGBTA). Mai is the current president of LGBTA and a member of LASA, a connection Nemmer thinks could cause Garcia to favor Mai.

The Assembly questioned Nemmer, Fahm, and Datz about Garcia’s appointment, and it ultimately voted to not approve Garcia as ENC chair.

Garcia, as interim chair, also named five people to the ENC Committee before the Assembly blocked her appointment. All of Garcia’s appointments had ties to LGBTA and LASA, according to Nemmer.

“I worked directly under Travis, but I’d like to note that even though I’ve worked under Travis and am Travis’s friend, I am also an independent and intelligently minded person,” Fahm said in the meeting. “Any type of partisanship is not really of a concern to me.”

Yet one Assembly member raised the question: why is it that Fahm is allowed to be an intelligent and freethinking person, but Datz’s appointments aren’t granted the same consideration?

“We can go around here accusing people of biasing their appointments. We can accuse that the appointment of Gretchen is

“I tried to make it clear to [the Assembly] that they shouldn’t take subjective comments into consideration; name-calling has no place in the decision-making process,” Jackson said. “But I think the Assembly asked the questions they needed to. They got down to the bottom of what they needed to know and made the decision they felt was right.”

Because Garcia was not approved, the ENC chair position will remain empty until Datz appoints a new candidate. Once she makes an appointment, the vote will go to the Emergency Powers Council.

The EPC consists of the SA president, vice president, treasurer, chairperson of the Senate, and the speaker of the Assembly. The EPC can either approve or not approve Datz’s appointment, but it is crucial a new ENC chair is found as soon as possible, according to Jackson, since it is election season.

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His considerably nonchalant swagger provided an almost-humorous contrast to the whole spectacle.

The second set blazed from beginning to end. moe. descended into “The Pit” with beautifully composed and oftentimes dark jams in favorites “Wind it Up” and “Water,” even reaching deep into their catalog to play “CalifornIA,” an instrumental treat that relatively few “moe.rons” have been lucky enough to witness. moe. climbed from “The Pit” with three fun singalongs to end the show – the subtly political “Captain America,” The Band’s “Up On Cripple Creek,” and set-closer “Waiting For the Punchline,” whose bouncy bluegrass ending sent the crowd into a final frenzy.

The band seamlessly traveled from one song to the next without stopping, using the mostly improvised,

jazz-spirited segues that make each moe. show unique. Even within individual songs and segments, moe.’s three-piece rhythm section bolstered the two soloists, building a more expansive foundation on the fly as the notes climbed into the upper register.

That was none more evident than in “Plane Crash,” a moe. classic chosen for the encore. Schnier, playing a 1974 Gibson double-necked guitar for the only time all night, slowly built a solo section from the ground up, taking a good 10 minutes to allow his bandmates to corral his momentum.

When it all came together, moe. showed the power created when five musicians operate on the same page, like a well-oiled machine.

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“Tomorrow night will be a game independent of the first two,” Groce said. “We’ll look at the clips. Obviously we’re familiar with them and they’re familiar with us. We’re going to have to play tomorrow night.”

Buffalo’s guards played sloppily in those contests, turning the ball over 37 times combined.

The normally sharpshooting senior guard Zach Filzen only averaged seven points per game against Ohio this year.

On Friday night at 9:30 p.m., when the two teams tip off, there will be only three teams remaining in the MAC tournament. The winner will be one game closer to the big dance, but the 40 minutes of basketball standing between Buffalo and the finals will be a war between two top tier teams.

The backcourt isn’t the only place where the Bobcats have outshined the Bulls. Ohio came into Buffalo and snared 21 offensive rebounds in the last meeting. Buffalo ranked third in the nation in rebounding at the time. After that contest, Witherspoon attributed the problem to lack of effort.

Guard play was the difference the last two times these teams met. Buffalo is known for its play in the paint, with two first team All-MAC forwards in the starting five, but the team’s weakness has been its inconsistent play on the perimeter.

“We got our hands on [the rebounds],” Witherspoon said. “We weren’t men about it and they were.”

Ohio’s backcourt combo of junior guards Walter Offutt and D.J. Cooper have dominated. Defenses, including Buffalo’s, have struggled to contain them all year.

“D.J. Cooper is fueling the whole system,” said head coach Reggie Witherspoon prior to the teams’ Feb. 22 matchup. “When their energy level is high they’re very difficult to play against.”

In the two matchups this season, Cooper averaged 17.5 points and 6.5 rebounds. Offutt, on the other, hand lit Buffalo up for 23 points in the February matchup to lead all scorers.

The loss at home was one of Buffalo’s more disappointing ones of the year. However, after that contest, sophomore forward Javon McCrea vowed to “fix it,” and the Bulls have done just that. Buffalo is on a three-game winning streak heading into the semifinal contest – one that has afforded it the opportunity to play one less game than the Bobcats. Ohio comes in having to play back-to-back games after beating Toledo on Thursday night.

The game will tip off at approximately 9:30 p.m. from Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.

The winner will face off against Kent State (2110, 11-6 MAC) on Saturday at 8 p.m.

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“Kony 2012” is not all that it seems

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Two weeks ago, had you asked the average high school student who Joseph Kony was, they would probably assume he invented the hot dog. Thanks to a YouTube video, however, anyone with a Facebook account now knows who Kony is.

He’s the brutal leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a militia from Uganda.

Kony’s method of leadership is more akin to stringing an unending line of atrocities together.

Aside from bringing destruction on the land like Atilla the Hun, Kony has perverted the most valuable resource of any society: children. When it became obvious that Kony was not drawing large enough numbers to continue his bloody raids, he improvised.

PHOTO EDITORS Meg Kinsley, senior Alexa Strudler Satsuki Aoi

Instead of hanging up the towel, he decided to build himself an army of kids. Some children were made into soldiers and others into sex slaves. As a warning, Kony’s forces sometimes cut off people’s noses, ears, or lips.

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The man is unmistakably blight on the face of the earth.

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Luckily, a viral video has exploded across social media sites. Titled “KONY 2012,” its creators, Invisible Children inc., have a clear goal: get Joseph Kony arrested for human rights violations by sharing the video and “making him famous.”

To that end, the video is an incredible success. Over the course of three days the video has generated over 35 million views, and has nearly as many

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Obviously this video has struck a chord with its audience. All over the Internet, sanctimonious slacktivists are making people feel guilty about their bad days and exhausting studying regimen by reminding them “at least they’re not abducted by Kony.”

As with almost every story, when you read a little more into it things start to get a lot more complex.

Invisible Children inc. has been taking in a great deal of money as donations to the cause. In the video, the filmmakers explain that they support the Ugandan military in its effort to catch Kony.

Problem is, the LRA hasn’t been in Uganda for some time. For a video trying to get the word out, that’s quite a major word to leave out. Then consider the fact that the Ugandan military isn’t exactly a group of cherubs either.

It’s also been accused of a number of human rights violations.

In fact, the LRA is hardly a force any longer. Some even think that the reason Kony has been so hard to find is because he’s actually dead.

Few hiding spots are as effective as a grave.

Then comes the money. Seventy percent of the donations are going to pay for travel expenses, salaries, and filmmaking. So out of every dollar

“Kony 2012” is basically emotion porn, designed perfectly to play you like a violin and get you to share the video. The beauty is that the filmmakers know how to get the word out to as many people as possible, and they did an amazing job of it. Few in history have raised awareness of an important issue this rapidly. In fact, it’s probably never happened this quickly.

It’s great to get the word out to people about a serious issue, and there is nothing wrong with helping spread the news, but Invisible Children has only a misguided way to solve a horrible problem.

That’s the amount of funding that the state might remove over this and next year after the Buffalo Teacher’s Federation (BTF), the teachers union in Buffalo, overwhelmingly supported a measure to maintain an attendance clause in this year’s teacher-evaluation agreement.

In an attempt to reform New York’s school system Governor Cuomo mandated that every school district come up with a plan to institute a system to evaluate educators. Previously, teachers were evaluated almost entirely by classroom visits and colleague opinions.

Cuomo’s plan included more of an emphasis on standardized testing, and was accepted by the state teachers union.

Educators in Buffalo find a flaw in the plan, however: there is no clause excluding absent students from being counted among evaluations. See, they object to the fact that a student who doesn’t show up to class ever will obviously test poorly and reflect badly on the teacher.

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Teachers don’t believe they should be held accountable because some students miss school very often, an aspect of education that is entirely out of their control.

State Education Department officials don’t exactly see eye to eye on that idea, and have promised that no teacher-evaluation plan that includes an attendance clause will be accepted.

Because of this disagreement, it’s fairly certain that the district will lose $9.3 million in state grants for this year. If the two sides don’t broker a deal within the next few months, the district stands to lose over $30 million more next school year.

Almost like a high stakes game of chicken that James Bond would play, only that Buffalo School District is no rich playboy. It doesn’t have the money to make it rain.

Forcing teachers to be evaluated on the record of all students, even the ones that don’t attend class, is unfair to the educators. You could be Albert Einstein teaching calculus and if the pupil is never there to see the lessons, he or she will never learn the material well.

Two bad years of attendance, however

Better charities abound that you can give your money to; charities that have been doing great work in Africa that are effective, responsible, and transparent like Doctors Without Borders or Africare. Many thanks should be given to Invisible Children for showing Kony’s face to the world, but this should also be a lesson for the future.

Just because they have a great video and a good message doesn’t mean you should take your chances with where your money goes.

unlikely, could skew good teachers into groups with bad teachers.

Cuomo and the state look like nothing but bullies for strong-arming this issue and refusing to negotiate a deal with the Buffalo teachers.

However, we must admit, we are decidedly pragmatic on this issue. It’s certainly not fair to the teachers to have incessantly absent kids count along with punctual students, but this is a very expensive stand.

The school districts can replace that money with a fund designed to be used in the event of a loss of grant money, but there’s only so far that will go until Cuomo’s cash will be a necessity again.

Most of the governor’s plan is reasonable. A reasonable evaluation system is necessary to ensure not only that good teachers are rewarded, but also to keep public confidence that our schools are moving forward and becoming better.

It’s not perfect, but in the end Buffalo can’t afford to sit on its thumbs while important funds drain away.

Sometimes what we need hurts a little bit.

papers. Honestly, we love editing; it’s kind of disgusting how much we love it. But when we have our own finals (which are almost always in research paper-form), correcting your run-on sentences and incorrect use of “its” and “it’s” makes us want to slam our heads into the wall and throw dictionaries in your general direction.

News Editor and Asst. News Editor “Oh, so you go to UB? Doctor or engineer?”

“English major, actually.”

UB is a large and diverse school. Naturally, it cannot only attract future doctors and engineers. The English department here is actually one of the best in the country (in our slightly biased opinion…). But even though we’re in our perfect major, we have noticed that there are still a few things we could complain about. Here is our list: Mispronounce a word? Spelling flub? Use the wrong form of “their/they’re/there?” Use a semi-colon when you should have used a dash? Someone will call you out on it. Our friends have taken to yelling “English major,” in a tone dripping with sarcasm and disdain if we make even the tiniest error.

Peeling out of a parking spot was a silver pickup with one of those Confederate flag bumper stickers. I think it had some worthless comment, something like “the south will rise again,” but I was temporarily irony-blind.

After what seemed like an eon leaving the parking lot and several drivers who looked like they found Methuselah’s secret to extreme age, my blind fury needed to latch onto something.

Didn’t those assholes lose the Civil War? Once I arrived home, my suspicions were affirmed via Google. In fact the Confederacy did lose.

So why do people still fly this flag? Don’t these redneck jerkoffs want to be the winners? It’s very emasculating to lose, especially a whole war.

Maybe there’s some redeeming quality about their loss. What if it was all a big misunderstanding and the Confederates weren’t that bad after all?

After a rudimentary read on what this whole Civil War thing was about, I discovered some shocking information. Apparently, the Confederates went to war because the North didn’t want slavery to expand. See, the South really liked slavery because cotton farming was insanely labor intensive.

On one side you have the CSA. Their ideology is that only white, Christian men are covered by the Constitution and that all the Blacks and other “inferior races” are not fit to be truly part of the American experiment. Therefore, they can be enslaved and treated as property.

Abraham Lincoln is on the other side, arguing that everyone is entitled to be part of this country.

Which would still be tolerable in today’s world?

I’ll give you a hint: Abe Lincoln is right.

Now I know that every guy that puts a bumper sticker with the Confederate Battle flag on it isn’t for slavery, but don’t they give a shit that the symbol they’ve tacked on to their car is a direct descendent of a symbol for the enslavement of an entire race?

I imagine sometimes what it would be like if that silver truck had a Nazi flag on it. The symbolism is quite similar: Nazis believe that some races aren’t fit to survive and are only kept around as long as they are useful. Not too far off from the Confederate ideal, really.

Most defenders of Dixie fall back on the old argument that the Confederate battle flag is a symbol of rebellion. Ignoring the fact that the U.S. flag is already a grand symbol for revolution, let’s look at some alternatives.

Why not fly a Soviet flag? That’s a great symbol of rebelling against a powerful government. What about the French flag? Nothing says rebellion more than overthrowing a king.

No? Still choosing the whole slavery image?

That’s odd; unless you consider that the symbol still fits for the modern conservative.

I’m not trying to say that the average guy who flies a confederate flag thinks slavery is OK. Although it is sometimes downplayed, most everyone agrees that raping an entire race is wrong.

The core notion of the Confederacy, however, still rings true for the modern Republican. To conservatives, this nation is for the white, straight, Christians and anyone else is damned. They get to have the rights and the privilege of first class citizenship and everyone else gets to go second.

Too bad for gays, who want to be treated like straight people and given the right to marry and be viewed by their government as equal, they have to be happy with being less than straight.

Sucks to be a Muslim – because a few people of your religion did some bad things you’re now under the watchful eye of big brother.

Don’t like it? Well apparently this is a Christian nation, and the Constitution is for the Christians, not you.

We’re never going to get jobs. No explanation necessary.

Worst of all, if you’re one of the millions of poor in

“Oh…” Despite popular belief, UB isn’t only home to science majors. That doesn’t stop people from constantly making assumptions that we’re in the sciences just because we look tired (we work at The Spectrum; we’re here over 40 hours a week).

It’s a cold Sunday afternoon in Buffalo, and I’m pushing a cart back to my 1998 blue/green Plymouth Voyager minivan at Wegmans. As my head cranes around to avoid looking another human in the eye and engaging them in some sort of social exchange, I view an unusual sight. At least, I later thought it unusual.

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Well, this particular sticker was actually a Confederate Navy Jack, the rectangular kind. The national flag of the Confederate States of America was pretty close to early U.S. flags, except for the CSA flag had three horizontal bars instead of 13 stripes, presumably because the average ConfedEven if Kony were caught tomorrow, erate had a hard time counting past 10 without and Invisible Children’s vision is real- taking off his boots.

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And even though we acknowledge that everyone is human and makes mistakes, sometimes the complete destruction of the English language we see in our Facebook feeds makes us want to vomit. Everywhere. We’re almost positive it causes absolutely no strain to type out the full word “you.” So if we see “u,” consider yourself deleted off of our friends lists.

“Oh, so you’re going to be a teacher?” The answer is no. Not every English major is meant to be a teacher. Trust us, you do not want us to mold the minds of your future offspring. Just because we love the English language, literature, and writing, it doesn’t mean we can force your children to.

If you’re an English major, every single one of your non-English-major friends will ask you to edit their

The reason we became English majors is because we enjoy a good book. However, staying up until 2 a.m. reading Paradise Lost by Milton cuts into our valuable time reading authors and books we truly enjoy. Shakespeare was a cool guy and all, but sometimes we just want to get inside Chuck Palahniuk’s twisted brain.

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this nation, you’re simply leeching scum that conservatives like Mitt Romney “don’t care about” because you already have a safety net.

No, the Confederate flag still flies in this nation whether we see it or not. It flies proudly when Rick Santorum tells us that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell should be reinstated, meaning that gays who serve this nation proudly should be ashamed of who they are. It flies triumphantly when the NYPD decides to stomp on the civil rights of American Muslims and conservatives flock in support, or when a Muslim wants to buy a building near Ground Zero and meets extreme opposition from the Fox News crowd only because of his religion.

But when it comes down to it, we couldn’t imagine being in another major. And while some studies might have a set job, we revel in the fact that we indubitably love what we study. We’ll worry about It flies in Mississippi still, where they apparently the future once we get there. haven’t received the memo that the South lost and the Confederate battle flag is still a part of their state flag.

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And for every vote, or veto, against gay marriage, another little salute goes out to that red white and blue symbol of inequality and hate.

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Good Times in the Great Outdoors

to Lynn, the hiking is hard and can be extra tough on some people who aren’t adequately experienced.

Even after hiking miles in the snow and freezing cold, however, the view from the top of the mountain is worth the exhaustion.

“You get up there and you’re like ‘Wow, this is f***ing gorgeous,’” Lynn said. “This exists in real life?

I thought this was only in pictures and movies. This is real and I’m feeling this, I’m up where nobody else is right now…Once you get up there, you just get that adrenaline rush.”

Courtesy of Akari Iburi UB’s Outdoor Adventure Club provides its members an opportunity to explore the great outdoors both near Buffalo and across the country.

LISA DE LA TORRE

Staff Writer Ryan Adams took a break from canoeing when somebody called out excitedly. A group of dolphins appeared in the water not too far from his group and Adams, at the time a junior mechanical engineering major, dove into the water to swim towards them. Adams was able to take a picture with one of their fins before they swam away.

This picture became one of his favorite mementos from the Outdoor Adventure Club’s (OAC) 2011 Spring Break trip to Florida. The OAC has been active at UB since the 1990s and attracts large numbers of students each year. The goal of the OAC is to bring students out of their everyday scenery and expose them to new experiences through trips to different places, both local and further away.

According to the club’s president, Leah Wzientek, a senior civil engineering major, one of the biggest benefits to being in the club is that it provides students with opportunities they may not find elsewhere.

The club tries to remain active and outdoors, regardless of the season.

be part of the fun as well. It wasn’t until her junior year, however, that she decided she wanted to hold a position in the club.

This revelation came about from a friendship she had made through the OAC with an international student named Yuka. Yuka signed up for the white water rafting trip without knowing much English, or much about what the trip entailed – she simply knew that she “liked water.”

“From there, Yuka went on almost every trip and became one of my best friends…we would talk about life, America, Japan, boys, etc. for hours on the night shift of driving,” Wzientek said. “[Before she left] she said that joining OAC and meeting the members had made her experience in America. That’s what influenced me to become president – I wanted everyone to be able to have that experience of being part of something.”

This year, the club will be driving for 24 hours to the Everglades in Florida. There, they will canoe for three days and camp out every night at designated spots along their path.

“In the past, OAC turned into ‘Indoor Adventure Club’ when it turned winter,” Wzientek said.

“This year, we tried to keep up with the outdoor activities. We wanted to bring it back to nature a little more.

Every weekend we try to have a hike, no matter what the weather is.”

After the canoeing portion of the trip, they plan to drive to Biscayne National Park, a location famous for their underwater attractions.

According to the National Park Service website, Biscayne National Park offers activities such as snorkeling, boating, and camping, in addition to enjoying the scenery.

Wzientek first learned about the club her freshman year. Her roommates and floor mates were leaving campus to go on “crazy trips” every week and when she became a sophomore, she decided she wanted to

Ryan Lynn, junior finance major and Vice President of OAC, said that some of his favorite memories from this year include the club’s trip to the Adirondacks. According

Though the club members are all educated on safety procedures, sometimes accidents happen. During one white water rafting trip, a raft popped after smashing against the rocks and the passengers were all reorganized onto other rafts.

Another time, on the way to a hiking trip in Zoar Valley, NY, one of the cars full of members got lost and wound up in Pennsylvania without the phone numbers of any of the other members in the other cars. According to the members, these types of occurrences are rare and shouldn’t discourage.

Lynn recalls one experience during a hike, however, that left him a little shaken up.

“I got trail fever,” Lynn said. “We were walking and I got this thing on the radio…and as [I responded] I just felt like there was a deer or something running behind me – I could swear on my life that this bear was just running after me. I felt the ground shake and I heard all this noise, and I shined my flashlight and there was just nothing. I was just hallucinating. Scariest thing that’s ever happened to me.”

Ultimately, the members of OAC are dedicated to the club and the trips because they enjoy being active with friends, and each trip is a break from their normal lives. “[At school] you can’t be adventurous – you go to class, you ride the bus, you walk from Ellicott to the Student Union. [So] its really the experience,” said Matt Schultes, a freshman engineering major. “You have to get out there and experience it. Once you go on one hike, you just keep wanting to go on more.”

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CareerFest: Opportunities, Experience and Networking NIKITA SIDANA Staff Writer

Well-groomed students wearing dark suits and polished shoes with portfolios in their hands lined up outside Edward L. Wright Practice Facility in Alumni Arena on Wednesday, March 7 at 3 p.m., ready to attend the CareerFest.

CareerFest gives UB students an opportunity to learn about local and national jobs as well as internship opportunities. Over 100 organizations visited UB to answer questions and present opportunities to hundreds of students. Tables were set up all over Alumni, where representatives promoted their companies with signs.

“We wanted to bring UB the opportunity to meet employers and organizations…to help them find internships and jobs,” said Judith C. Applebaum, an employer relations manager at Career Services.

Applebaum has worked for Career Services the past 25 years.

Representatives said that every year CareerFest gets more exciting and better than the year before. Companies like Citi, Your News Now, People Inc., and many more were there in search of potential employees. Citi offered internships for students in all majors and requested students to apply online.

“We find some of the best candidates here,” said Tracy Stallone, a recruiter for Citi. “We are looking for energetic, motivated [students] and those who have leadership skills and really good communication skills.”

Companies like Citi are looking for students to participate in internships as well as providing graduating students and alumni with career opportunities. Karen Zuchowski, a regional recruiting coordinator from First Investors, said that they are looking

Young Kyung Yoon /// The Spectrum This past Wednesday UB held Careerfest, where students had the opportunity to find jobs and internships at local and national companies.

for qualified students for both full-time positions and summer internships. They wanted to start initial conversations with students during CareerFest, get their resumes and go from there.

Career Services held workshops for students to prepare for the fair such as Resumania, where students could submit their resumes to be reviewed by companies like Citi and GEICO.

Various companies lured students to their desk with free pens, sanitizers, and lots of information.

Representatives were giving out their business cards and pamphlets for students who wish to gain more information.

They also held workshops to help students prepare their introductions and elevator speeches, which are less-than-two-minute speeches highlighting assets and values, according to busniessweek.com.

Moreover, they showed students how to network and make successful relations with various firms.

“I think CareerFest is a good opportunity to explore what local companies have to offer here in Buffalo,” said Sanjana Mahapatra, a junior biotechnology major.

“I am here to network and give out my resume and hope to get an internship this summer.”

According to Arlene F. Kaukus, director of career services, internships and jobs are offered to all students regardless of their major or if they are international. There are jobs and internships offered globally for international students or for those who wish to gain experience outside the U.S.

“I have been to the Career Services office many times and they have given me lots of good feedback and information I need to know,” said Mahapatra. “So I think I was well prepared for the CareerFest and am looking forward to hear from the companies I spoke to.”

For three hours, many students interacted with employers and promoted themselves. Professionally dressed, they built a reputation for themselves and continued networking.

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UB Works Out out can be difficult for Russell. During the non-winter months, students can take advantage of options like walks outside or simple outdoor recreation.

Students miss that in the winter.

“North Campus isn’t a good location for people who don’t have a car and can’t find something active to do within the athletic complexes,” Russell said. “The school does provide things for people to do, but sometimes you just feel like you’re stuck here.”

Courtesy of Official U.S. Navy Imagery While some students find it difficult to keep up with their physical fitness during Buffalo’s harsh winter, others find alternative ways to stay fit.

MAX CRINNIN

Staff Writer Frigid winds whip across campus, blowing gusts of icy air as students look out their windows, lamenting the weather outside. They want to go outside, but they won’t. With little daylight, dreary winter skies and frigid temperatures, many students just stay in bed with little desire to move around and get active.

While some are more affected by winter’s harsh weather than others, UB offers a variety of different options for winter recreation and fitness. The Wellness Center and Recreation and Intramural Services offer fun and healthy activities for students looking to stay in shape throughout the season.

The Wellness Center works to “make you feel great and perform better in college,” according to its website.

Offering advisement and information on fitness is a big part of that mission statement. Students tend to be more active than the general population, according to the Wellness Center, but its studies show that winter exercise habits for UB students are low in terms of recommended activity.

In a 2010 winter survey conducted by the Wellness Center, only 15 percent of students said they participated in 30 minutes of moderately intense aerobic cardiovascular exercise most days out of the week. In addition, 57 percent said they met this level of activity between one and four days of the week, while 28 percent said they didn’t meet this level at all. The numbers for vigorously intense activity were even lower.

For some, the weather takes a serious toll on motivation and daily activity.

“In the winter it’s so cold that sometimes I don’t even want to get out of bed which leaves me with no motivation to be active for the rest of the day,” said Mitch Russell, a freshman physics major.

With a busy schedule filled with classes and other non-fitness related commitments, finding time for a dedicated work-

Sherri L. Darrow, Director of the Wellness Center, works alongside her staff to ensure that UB is a university that not only provides students with options for fitness, but also provides services on how to best use them.

“A lot of recreation depends on the individual and what works for different people,” said Darrow. “We have resources here for students and we work to make them better. We have a lot of intramural sports clubs that go year round, and the Wellness Center offers free yoga classes through life and learning workshops. We have also worked with the recreation department to keep the gyms open later. ” These are just some of the options available on North Campus. UB also offers more adventurous activities for students who are bored with the usual gym session or recreational sport.

“There’s also Winterfest, Schussmeister’s, and things like that in the winter,” Darrow said. “Other options would be the Northtown Center for ice skating and hockey, and there are even times when life and learning workshops or other people affiliated with UB offer things like snowshoeing or cross country skiing at Reinstein Woods.”

Tyler Mancini, a freshman aerospace and mechanical engineering major, has been disappointed with his opportunities to ski this winter due to poor conditions. Despite the lack of snow, he has found other ways to continue his active lifestyle like lifting weights, swimming, and running.

“My whole life I’ve been active and I always need to be doing something, otherwise I get bored,” Mancini said. “It’s a good de-stressor, I enjoy it, and I can fit it easily into my schedule. If I couldn’t work out, I would probably go crazy.”

Mancini said that his outdoor job at the Delta Sonic car wash keeps him active and also provides a chance to get away from the feeling of being trapped indoors during the winter.

Being outside in the cold is rough sometimes but with multiple layers the time spent outside is worth it, according to Mancini.

When not at work, he uses a variety of the facilities at UB to keep himself enter-

tained and in shape. His only complaint regards the crowds at the gym at Alumni Arena.

“At the peak hours it’s always really crowded [at Alumni] and lots of people have to stand around waiting for weights,” Mancini said. “If they didn’t make it bigger I would like to at least see more little gyms spread out that are nicer than the existing ones. I would use the gym in Governors where I live, but it doesn't have a lot of the equipment that I like to use.”

For serious gym enthusiasts like Mancini the Governors gym is not enough, but for others it serves as a perfect option to workout without trekking across campus in the wintery weather.

“The gym is very accessible, especially where I live in Governors Hall,” said Vrinda Tarneja, a freshman biological sciences major. “I think everyone has their own list of priorities, but if you put being active at the top of that list it’s easy to find something at UB.” As a former tennis player, Tarneja is normally accustomed to a more active lifestyle when winter is not in session. She has had to find new ways to expand her winter fitness endeavors since coming to UB. Tarneja is a member of UB Zeal, an eightmember dance team that competes in different styles of dance. UB Zeal dances year round and most recently performed at International Fiesta in the Center For the Arts.

UB Zeal not only offers Tarneja a way to stay in touch with her culture, but also serves as an extraordinary way to stay active in the winter. The team practices two hours a day seven days a week when a competition is approaching.

On top of her dancing, Tarneja tries to get a gym session in every other day. She says that all of her activity is part of an extra effort she has made to stay healthy since coming to college.

“I think everyone gets scared of the ‘freshman fifteen,’ so I was really motivated to be active when I came here,” Tarneja said. “Exercising is a personal satisfaction. I think keeping a balance in your physical, mental, and emotional health will take you far in life.”

Students looking to balance their fitness this winter can go online to check out Wellness Center services or visit 114 in the Student Union with questions.

Readsh101.com/buffalo is a free online resource sponsored by the Wellness Center available to all UB students. The website offers videos with fitness tips and general information on staying healthy.

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Midterm Crisis WESTON SHAPIRO

Staff Writer The attendance in the libraries has increased, Capen Café is running low on coffee, and students are sporting sweatpants and bags under their eyes, all thanks to one thing – midterms.

Dealing with the stress that accompanies midterms is a part of college that doesn’t get taught in high school and is left out of the movies that show college as one big party. Although students sometimes deal with stress in negative ways – like binging on energy drinks or coffee – there are ways to deal with it that can be proactive.

Students at UB have different ways of dealing with midterms and the workload that accompanies them.

“How do I deal with midterms?” said Patrick Ryan, a junior marketing major. “It depends on the midterm. Usually procrastinate, and then study. Just cram, just cram.”

In college, this is a common scenario.

“Cramming,” as most students know, is the act of “studying the day of [a test],” according to urbandictionary.com. For students like Ryan, that is the only way he can learn.

“If I’m being good [I start] probably two nights [ahead],” Ryan said. “If not, I probably study starting the evening before and just go through all the Power Points or whatever it may be until right before the test the following morning.”

Cramming can be hit or miss for some students. Ally Geddes, a junior occupational therapy major, weighs out the pros and cons and knows that an information overload before a test can affect some students very differently than others.

“I don’t tend to cram,” Geddes said. “But I love index cards, diagrams, anything that I can just stare at. Any little bit that I can get in I try and get in.”

Geddes considers herself a visual learner, meaning she can visualize the aspects she studied when taking a test to maximize her information retention. Helpful ways of studying for visual learners include making outlines, drawing diagrams, watching videos, color coding and looking at maps, according to homeworktips.about.com.

Being organized is also an important aspect of staying calm during midterms, according to Jackie Hall, an undecided freshman.

“I try to organize it so I’m not overwhelmed at the last minute,” Hall said. “I use my agenda for the big things I have to do and then when I have a lot of things I write every single little detail on a piece of paper. I also like to write out my notes again.

Rewriting it out helps me to memorize it.”

Hanul Ryou /// The Spectrum Students give their tips for battling stress and give helpful study tips for midterms week.

Hall uses this organizational technique because she feels it helps her to remember what she needs to do and prioritize it accordingly. She believes writing out the notes increases the chances of retaining the information that she’s studying.

One thing most students can agree on however is that sleep is the first to go when they need to sacrifice something.

Sleep patterns can become very skewed and shortened, which can be dangerous for the learning process. If there aren’t enough hours in the day, students start taking hours from the night. Paul Norris, a clinical psychology intern at UB counseling services, couldn’t agree more.

“There is very good research evidence that if you don’t get enough sleep your brain does not work as well and that makes it harder to learn,” Norris said. “It really depends on the situation. There are people that can do that very effectively. I would say they are in the minority. For most people, that is not going to work very well.”

Geddes, who stresses a lot about midterms, tends to lose sleep over them when they do finally come around. She feels that she has to stay up late the night before the test to make sure that she has studied all the information.

Hall is also one of countless students at UB in that same boat.

“I sleep less, I stay up later,” Hall said. “I take naps every day. I’ll take probably one long nap because I have practice in the morning at 7 a.m. and I have class after that so I just sleep whenever I can.”

Some college students even stay up all night, known throughout the college student population as the “all-nighter.” Geddes, Hall, and Ryan have all pulled allnighters before with different opinions on their effectiveness.

In Hall’s opinion, staying up all night helped her feel confident for her test even though she was extremely tired afterward.

Ryan tends to agree with Hall, even after a significant one-time mishap back when he was at Virginia Tech.

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I was pulling an all-nighter and instead of studying I ended up throwing up,” Ryan said. “I had to tell my teacher I was sick and missed the midterm the next morning.”

Geddes agrees that all-nighters can make you feel terrible the next day but for different reasons than Ryan.

She thinks that there is a balance between studying and feeling like garbage the next day.

As the stress is piling up, a quick and easy fix is to take a moment to breathe.

“The way most people breathe is they breathe into the top of their lungs and they breathe fairly quickly,” Norris said. “If you put your hand on your stomach and try to breathe so your hand moves you are going to be using all of your lungs.

That is going to slow your breath-

ing, increase the amount of oxygen you take in, and trigger a positive common reflex.”

Daily exercise is another way to relieve stress. Besides having the short-term effect of making someone feel better, Norris said that it is helpful in brain functioning.

“One thing you want to do is to notice what helps you,” Norris said.

“What are the techniques you already use and decide if those actually work or not. Some techniques are very effective, some techniques are effective short-term but really counterproductive long term, and some techniques backfire.”

One commonly used short-term technique that can produce negative long-term effects is called self-medicating.

Self-medicating is a term used to describe the use

of drugs, includingalcohol or other self-soothing forms of behavior to deal with stress or anxiety, according to researchgate.net.

“Some forms of stress are unavoidable,” Norris said. “Being a student, you are going to have tests and other responsibilities.”

Norris urges students to come to the UB Counseling Center if they feel they need help, especially with drugs and alcohol. Pamphlets are always available at the office, which cover topics such as test anxiety, procrastination, and time management. Norris also reminds students that having complete control over their lives and stress is impossible, as it will only cause more stress as a result.

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continued from page 12: the power of five With the experience of playing in the MAC tournament last season, and competing at the highest level with the best that the MAC has to offer, the sky is the limit for this crew.

With the growing talent of McCrea, there can be concerns of him taking his talents to the next level early.

With this in mind, McCrea has a message to all of Buffalo’s fans.

“I definitely plan on staying here all four years with my four brothers,” McCrea said. “We can’t split up.”

Alexa Strudler /// The Spectrum With so much talent between the members of The Five, they aren't shy about their Mid-American Conference Championship aspirations.

“Our charisma, how we dress, how we talk, how we carry ourselves makes us special,” McCrea said. “We are honest to people, there’s no fake stuff [with us]. We just keep it real. And it helps that everybody here can really play ball.”

With that said, expect two more years of the Five continuing to rewrite Buffalo Bulls history.

“I think that there’s some exciting times in store going forward,” Witherspoon said.

Oldham, never at a loss for words, agreed.

“We’re excited,” Oldham said. “Aren’t you?”

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continued from page 1: northwestern professor dropped as provost candidate row has hosted the public on-campus visits for the three finalists.

Charles F. Zukoski, chair of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was the first to appear on campus to support his candidacy. On Friday, it will be Danny Reible’s turn to make an appearance. Reible is chair of environmental health engineering and director of the Center for Research in Water Resources at the University of Texas.

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While Assad hails from a business background Zukoski and Reible are professor and chair in departments in the field of science. This should come as no surprise to those familiar with UB 2020, as the school seeks to advance its esteem as a major research institution.

During Assad’s visit as a candidate on Tuesday, he spoke of the responsibilities facing the provost position as well as his own goals for implementing UB 2020.

“I think having committed to that plan [UB 2020], it has some freedom for the provost and the president to work together to tighten things and to fine-tune things,” Assad said. “They haven’t squeezed all the creativity out of the system.”

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The Art & Science of the Theoretically Known

Allen Lin /// The Spectrum Hallwalls hosted Science & Art Cabaret No. 7.0: Everything Is (Not Necessarily) Relative, an insight into topics such as black holes with a comedic and modern twist.

SEAN BABINEAU Staff Writer The process of being sucked into a black hole is a subject that has racked the minds of scientists and artists alike. At Asbury Hall at Babeville, the two disciplines came together to show their vision of the cosmic occurrence.

On Tuesday night, Hallwalls, Buffalo Museum of Science, and the UB College of Arts & Sciences hosted Science & Art Cabaret No. 7.0: Everything Is (Not Necessarily) Relative. The exhibit featured a theoretical simulation of a black hole’s consummation of a galaxy.

Will Kinney, associate professor of physics, Matthew Steilen, associate professor of constitutional law, and Timothy Scaffidi, graduate assistant at the CFA, hosted the free demonstration.

They satisfied the audience with perplexing scientific and artistic lectures on the unfathomable particularities of the universe.

The lectures resembled a more sophisticated version of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory, and the combination of art and science in these diatribes was both educational and beautiful for the audience to witness.

“Science and art are far more intimately linked than you would ever think on the surface, but there are these imagina-

tive, speculative, beautiful spheres of inquiry,” said John Massier, Hallwalls’ visual arts curator. “It’s kind of a wonderful alchemical process because we don’t know how it’s going to wind up until it plays out.”

Kinney used a projected simulation made by University of Colorado professor of astrophysics Andrew Hamilton to begin his quantitative, scientific explanation of the experience of being sucked into a black hole.

The audience was enthused by the professor’s explanations.

“When you are falling into a black hole the thing that will kill you is the tidal force,” Kinney said. “Because your feet are being pulled in faster than your head you will technically be spaghettified.”

As his lecture continued he was very particular about the pertinence of Hamilton’s simulation.

“These are not artist’s conceptions,” Kinney said. “These are very quantitative calculations based on the equations of general relativity that he’s using.”

Professor Steilen continued the peculiar lecture by discussing the concept of relativity using the Hermann grid illusion – an optical illusion that plays with the vision of the viewer. The main point of his lecture was that the truth

depends on context and the things that we rationalize as human beings may not be as real as we imagine them to be.

“Just like this grid is context-dependent, so are the other visual experiences that we have,” Steilen said. “We are all committed to an error theory – the towel isn’t blue, our experience with the towel is blue.”

Scaffidi led one of the more visually didactic parts of the evening. He showed his artistic interpretation of the gravitational performance of particles after the “big bang” through computer-generated images.

His interpretations were especially impressive since he’s not a scientist.

“I often think about how I can use these notions of gravity, time, light, or even chaos, as tools to produce interesting, thought provoking experiences,” Scaffidi said.

“I’m not a scientist, but sometimes I wish I were or think I should have been – so my investigations into these concepts are mainly aesthetic, poetic, or philosophical.”

The audience was truly captivated by every part of the evening. Everyone seemed to transcend the dungeon-like venue as their minds waited for them to regain their instinctual patterns.

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Casino Madrid Claims the Jackpot FELICIA HUNT

panded lyrical ability of “4:42 Reminds Me Of You” from Robots.

Staff Writer Pre-recorded synthesizer beats were greeted with cheers from the 25 people in front of the makeshift stage. Smoke clouded the area as figures appeared – the figures of Californian metalcore rockers Casino Madrid. The musicians shared a group hug with their backs turned before proceeding into “Robots,” the opening track from the same-titled album.

With its graffiti stained walls, arcade games from the ’80s and sticky floors, Broadway Joe’s is not the most glamorous venue for a concert, but Casino Madrid was up for the challenge. After their last successful show in October, they decided to return to Buffalo last Friday and played tracks off their first EP and latest album to please both old and new fans.

After 20,000 single downloads from their self-produced EP For Kings and Queens in 2009, Casino Madrid was signed to Artery Recordings’ roster. Their angst-ridden lyrics about heartbreak and moving on mixed with electronic accents secured the deal and led to their 2011 project, Robots.

“Being signed to Artery was a dream come true,” said lead singer Joe Demaio. “I never knew we would come this far and to think we are just getting started is mind-blowing to me.”

The audience heard firsthand the evolution of the band’s sound since they formed, from the early sounds of 2007 to the more electronic, dubstep, “electro-rock” sound and ex-

“For Kings and Queens we funded, wrote and produced it on our own,” Demaio said.

“Robots we recorded with our label and had a producer so it was a new experience for us.

It’s helped us get our name out there and helped our creativity for sure.”

Demaio’s deep growls mixed with his clean vocals were melodic and kept the crowd energized while lead guitarist, Armani Sanchez’s, fingers strummed quickly. Drummer Johnny Cruz spun his drumstick, keeping the band in time.

Casino Madrid values their fan base, even welcoming the crowd to sing into the microphone or join them onstage, something most bands would never think of doing. They also took the time to interact with their fans in between songs and after their set.

“Without our fans, we would be nothing,” Demaio said. “They’re helping us more than we could ever help them. They’re buying our music, merchandise, and giving us places to stay when the money is tight.”

“Fightin’ Words” was their final song of the night, but chants for an encore echoed in the barren bar. Casino Madrid, drenched with sweat, obliged to play “Pyramids” off of their EP as a final song before exiting the small stage.

Opening for Casino Madrid were No Sad Tomorrow, Tidings They Brought and Amyst.

Courtesy of Casino Madrid Casino Madrid performed a mix of old and new songs to fans last Friday night at Broadway Joe's.

Unfortunately, they all failed to impress patrons with their generic sound and image, as most people took smoke breaks and even went elsewhere in while waiting for Casino Madrid.

Although the night started off slow, the concert ended on the right note, despite the disappointingly short length of the 30-minute set. Drenched with sweat and exhausted, the crowd filtered out and could not wait for Casino Madrid’s next tour to stop in Buffalo.

“Yeah, we love Buffalo,” said Sanchez. “We are coming back in either April or May with Adestria. The fans here are so inspiring we have to come back.”

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Iceland’s Pride Sings Softly ADRIEN D’ANGELO

Staff Writer Artist: Of Monsters and Men Album: My Head is an Animal U.S. Release Date: April 3 Label: Universal Republic Records Grade: A Feel-good indie-folk bands like Mumford and Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and Da Brasilians have set the nostalgic mood that calls listeners into a dizzy dream where humanity resounds. It’s an infectious delight of charismatic, hearty play that moves like a red balloon through a deviant sky, wooing the listener with beauti-

ful imagery and soothing sounds.

Soon to join them is Of Monsters and Men, an Icelandic group who is set to release their first LP My Head is an Animal in April. After getting recognized in the U.S. for their single “Little Talks,” the sixpiece dual-vocal group is ready to make their big debut.

The lead track begins with finger picking and the sound of wind.

The echoing voices of Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar “Raggi” Þórhallsson drive to the drums as group vocals yell out and subdue. A slinky organ has a long and crinkling trail, as the song moves through peaks and troughs while a dragonfly tells the tale of a war between the birds and the bees, throughout the dashing lyrics.

The group’s masterful use of sonic depth is one the album’s highlights. They change background noises and effects without detection until the track begins to close and these sounds poke their heads from the mix. Wind chimes, voices, waves, feedback, and harmonics all add much more than expected.

The soon-to-be-favorite track “From Finner” is a delightful mix of guitar, shimmering effects and bright, punchy horns. The band also presents beautiful call-andresponse lyrics, giving the track a sweeping sense of curiosity. It presents a ska feel with a soft, ragged tone that begets pure bliss.

“There’s an old voice in my head that’s holding me back, / Well tell her that I miss our little talks,”

sings Hilmarsdóttir and Þórhallsson.

Integral to the bright mood are the organic percussion claps, stomps, tambourine, and bells, which hold ground beneath melodic percussion leads like xylophone and celesta. This conglomeration of unconventional instruments that indie lovers crave will surely push these colorful musicians to become an entity clad in praises.

The group is coming to the states this spring to showcase its new material, and will be performing at Water Street Music Hall in Rochester on April 9.

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Friday, March 9, 2012

Spring Break Games Movie Previews

One week. In between beaches, parties, and reuniting with friends from high school’s past, there’s plenty of down time. What better way to shirk the mounting homework of the final weeks of school than to waste friends and foes in the virtual realm?

Here are four games to help keep you out of the sun over the next seven days.

Game: Silent Hill: Downpour

Asst. Arts Editor

Spring break isn’t a vacation for everybody. For those who aren’t fortunate enough to have a sunny destination for their week off, there are a handful of highly anticipated movies coming out this week that we can distract ourselves with. So don’t feel bad if you won’t come back with a booze cruise story – you’re probably better off that way. Take a trip to your local theater and check out some of the following flicks.

Developer: Vatra Games Publisher: Konami Digital Entertainment Release Date: March 13

Game: Mass Effect 3 Developer: Bioware

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of combat connoisseurs occupied until Capcom’s next fighting masterpiece.

While Capcom horror competitor Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City doesn’t drop until after class is back

Publisher: EA

Movie: A Thousand

in session, this savant series has been a staple of the genre since its late-’90s appearance on Sony’s cornerstone console.

Release Date: March 6 The Reapers have finally arrived and the inhabitants of Earth are getting their collective butt thoroughly kicked. The only hope is the brave, strong, and slightly promiscuous Commander Shepard.

As the closing chapter in the sci-fi epic, Mass Effect 3 looks to be the best installment in the series. With more choices than ever before, be prepared to forge your own mark on the galaxy by either saving all the alien species in existence or condemning them.

The eighth installment of the franchise looks to be the scariest title this side of a Hollywood horror flick, and while there’s little known about the overarching plot one thing’s certain: there will be liquid, and lots of it.

Game: Mario Party 9 Developer: Nd Cube Co., Ltd. Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: March 11

Game: Street Fighter x Tekken Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Release Date: March 6 Ryu and Ken have finally found their greatest competitors in the form of fighters from the King of the Iron Fist Tournament, and when the worlds of Kazuya and Ken collide the result is nothing short of phenomenal.

From frenetic button-mashing scrubs to the most hardened of 2D fighting vets, SFxT presents some of the most fluid, combo-laden combat this side of the company’s fighting tour de force, Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

Though the game is taking flak for including unreleased content on the disk and requiring players to pay to unlock it, for the full price of title the game has enough content to keep even the most vehement

The series from the days of the three-pronged controller is now on its ninth iteration and shows no signs of letting up soon. Unlike the Parties of previous years, Mario Party 9 sticks all four money-grubbing competitors in one overly occupied vehicle, and altering the tried and true turn/mini-game formula.

Early reports suggest that the game will feature 12 playable characters and 80 mini-games that will surely test player’s ability with the Wii-mote as well as their tolerance of constant harassment from those they previously considered friends.

While Mario continues to age gracefully, the Italianderived, commercial juggernaut continues to party like a college kid. This break, raise a glass (and a controller) for a middle-aged man too legit to quit.

Movie: Casa de mi Padre

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Release: March 16

Release: March 9 Jack McCall (Eddie Murphy, Tower Heist) is a slick-talking agent who’s famous for closing any deal. He calls upon Dr. Sinja (Cliff Curtis, Colombiana), a spiritual guru to help his abilities in manipulation but instead gets set up for a life-changing lesson. This PG-13 movie is great for all ages, so if you’re forced to participate in family time and you’re not big on conversation, this is the movie for you.

Will Ferrell (The Other Guys) teamed up with Latin American heartthrob Diego Luna (Contraband) in Casa de mi Padre. In the movie, Ferrell and Luna are brothers fighting to keep their late father’s ranch open during financial struggles. Love-triangles, laughs, and a threatening drug lord are only a taste of what this movie has in store. This movie is perfect for a casual night out with friends no matter what the gender.

Movie: Silent House

Movie: 21 Jump Street

Release: March 9

Release: March 16

Elizabeth Olsen makes her first major movie debut in this horror film with her role as Sarah.

Sarah becomes trapped inside her family’s lake house and finds herself cut off from the outside world. As her night becomes more and more ominous her anxiety builds, as does the movie in general. If you’re headed home for break and need a way to reconnect with a hometown flame, Silent House could be your ticket since horror films are great for setting intimate moods.

The unlikely duo of Jonah Hill (The Sitter) and Channing Tatum (The Vow) bring their talents together as police officers who pose undercover as high school students. During their stint, they experience that life as a teenager has changed drastically since their wonder years. The recent buzz Tatum and Hill have individually built for themselves serve as great predictors that this film won’t fall short.

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Spring Break Jams FELICIA HUNT

The End of the World Party, which critics

Album: Sounds From Nowheresville

After a year of touring, I See Stars has transformed into what critics are naming electronicore. The first single from Digital Renegade, “Filth Friends Unite,” has metal riffs combined with pulsating electronic beats.

Artist: The Ting Tings

slammed for being identical to their debut.

Staff Writer With spring break upon us, we can’t help but long for summer. Lazy beach days, crazy parties, and sweaty concerts fill our heads during lecture and we struggle to pay attention. But with summer still three months away, something has to tide us over. Three albums coming out next week will give listeners a taste of summer to hold onto for the rest of the semester.

Album: Digital Renegade Artist: I See Stars Label: Sumerian Records Release Date: March 13 Post-hardcore sextet I See Stars needed a push in the right direction after the failure of their sophomore album,

Front man Devin Oliver’s clean vocals have grown as he hits an upper register and mixes well with Zach Johnson’s gruff screams in the single. The unexpected introduction of programmed effects pushes the boundaries of I See Stars’ talents while vocalists, Cassadee Pope of Hey Monday and Danny Worsnop of Asking Alexandria, also lend their respective talents to “Electric Forest” and “Endless Sky.” Hopefully, Digital Renegade will give Michigan boys the push they need to land a run on Warped Tour this summer.

Label: Columbia Release Date: March 13 After scrapping an entire euro pop-inspired album, The Ting Tings are releasing a follow up to 2008’s We Started Nothing.

The English indie rock duo ventured into America and broke into the mainstream.

With summer anthems such as “That’s Not My Name” and “Shut Up and Let Me Go” finding their way into apple commercials and Top 40 radio, they were impossible to miss.

If fans are expecting to see a new side of Katie White and Jules De Martino, they may be sorely disappointed.

Vocalist White’s voice has shown no growth in “Hang It Up,” the first single from their sophomore effort. Her whiney vocals grate on the nerves while De Marino’s forced rapping fails to mesh with their original sound.

If the rest of the album is anything like “Hang It Up,” maybe The Ting Tings should have quit after their two-hit streak in 2008. Just shut up and let them go.

Album: Anarchy, My Dear Artist: Say Anything Label: Equal Vision Records, Inc. Release Date: March 13 Los Angeles punk band Say Anything has been through lineup changes, drug ad-

dictions, and dealt with bipolar disorder.

With their fifth studio album, Anarchy, My Dear, the band has proved to fans and cynics they are here to stay.

Signing with Equal Vision and working with producer Tim O’Heir, Anarchy, My Dear looks to bring back Say Anything’s trademark tongue-in-cheek lyrics that fans craved.

The first single “Say Anything” has Max Bemis sing with all the brutal honesty of the band’s early works and the instrumentals have returned to their acoustic roots.

However, fans hooked by their fourth album may find the humor crass and the lyrics confusing.

Yet fans that have stuck it out this long will probably continue on no matter what.

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ACROSS 1 Network with an eye logo 4 Not well mentally

8 Depicts with bias

13 The entire lot

14 Dish of many ingredients 15 FedEx Field and Fenway Park 16 Painful activity for one sore throat

18 Sail line

19 Pressure unit

20 Plato's teacher 22 Vanquishes Dracula

26 "Beetle Bailey" pooch 27 One to avoid

29 Decisive boxing win

33 Laborious breathing

36 Introduction to the public 37 Uncle Sam costume piece

38 Reach one's goal

41 New Haven Bulldog

42 Intense enthusiasm

44 Cold symptom

46 Catchall category (Abbr.)

47 Candy maker Russell

48 Chore at hand

51 Arranged in sequence

55 Ships intended for battle

with a 59 Russian ruler of old

60 "Aladdin" setting

61 Displaying an allergic reaction

65 Hospital worker with

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66 Bill killer

67 Have ___ at

68 Big name in lawn equipment

69 Hymn of praise (Var.)

70 Petal-plucker's word

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2 Open, as a flower

3 Rude noise

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- A judgment call early in the day has you doing or saying things that only you know how to do or say. Your instincts are right on the money.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- You're going to have to follow the instructions you are given today, no matter how it may make you feel.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- It's important for you to know when to speak, and when to listen. Someone needs you to point out his or her inappropriate behavior.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- You'll have the good sense to realize that even when it appears you have no choice, a choice will surely present itself -- and it will do so soon.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- You needn't feel bad for feeling the way you do today; it's what you do as a result that really counts.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- You're trying to second-guess someone who is more immersed in the situation at hand than you are. He or she doesn't need you to intrude.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- What presents itself to you today is merely a matter of probability -- and there's nothing you can do to avoid it.

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6 Sturgeon steerer

7 Duds

8 Board game word

9 Offering of some bars

10 Check for errors

11 Burgundy or Bordeaux

12 Becomes baggy

15 Church branch

17 Fruit of the vine

21 "How impressive!" a residency,

23 Piano virtuoso Berman

24 "Hulk" actor Bana

25 Hyperbolic function

28 Feed for a fee, as cattle

30 Victim of the first sibling rivalry 31 Christmas shortening?

32 He gave us a lift 33 "Batman" sound effect 34 Famous spy Mata 35 Approx. takeoff hrs.

36 Put on the back burner

39 Baseball great Slaughter 40 On the qui ___ (watchful) 43 Leaf-raking month 45 On the ___ (inoperable) 47 Horn-heavy music genre 49 Blazing 50 "Black ___" (2010 film) 52 From Tibet, e.g.

53 "Last ___ in Paris" 54 Bane of grain 55 Word with "nurse" or "old" 56 Bird around the shore 57 "Great" detective of kid lit 58 Answer an invitation 62 Alumni news word 63 J.F.K. guesstimate 64 An extremely long period of time

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -Just when you think you've discovered enough about a previously mysterious situation, the facts just keep rolling in.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- An end of an era needn't be traumatic for you, since you are prepared to move forward in an exciting new way very soon.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- You must be ready to face something unpleasant today before the clouds break and the sun shines in as you have been hoping.

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The Savior Who Delivered BRANDON BARNES Staff Writer In 1998 the Colts were in the same situation they’re in now, having the first overall draft selection and a choice between two high-profile quarterback prospects.

They selected Peyton Williams Manning first overall over Ryan Leaf, a move that was unpopular at the time because Leaf was the cant-miss prospect, the future Hall-of-Famer.

But the Colts had faith, as they entrusted the gargantuan duty of revitalizing a doormat franchise on the 22-year old passer from the Bayou. With unfathomable expectations and little talent surrounding him, Manning did more than deliver on his potential. He single handedly turned a franchise from laughingstock to contender.

What an era it was. In his 14-year career with Indy, Manning has managed to rewrite the franchise’s and NFL’s record books. He is the Colts all-time leader in completions, passing yards, touchdowns thrown, 4th quarter comebacks, games started, and consecutive games played. He holds the NFL career record for touchdown to interception ratio, and most consecutive seasons with at least 25 touchdown passes with thirteen, and many others.

His most impressive accomplishment has nothing to do his gaudy stats. He managed to accomplish something that is nearly impossible – changing the entire culture of a city.

In the 1980s and ’90s the Colts were a joke in the NFL: a bottom-dwelling team that was stolen from Baltimore and could never get out of its own way. They were perennial losers, teams considered them an automatic win, and their fan support was non-existent. He made football relevant in the basketball thirsty state.

Eleven double-digit win seasons, seven divisional championships, and two Super Bowl appearances later, Manning has changed the perception of the Colts and the importance of football in Indiana as a whole.

His mastery of his opponent’s tendencies and his own playbook allows for him to call his own plays and to run a relentless no-huddle offense. That offense has become Manning’s trademark – the gyrations, hand signals and cadences that he routinely employs between every snap have become synonymous with the superstar and part of the NFL’s culture.

Manning’s pre-snap antics have been integrated into multiple videogames, pick-up games and have even been the centerpiece to comedy sketches. Speaking of which, Manning’s performance on Saturday Night Live after his first Super bowl appearance is considered to be one of the funniest episodes in the nearly 30year history of the show.

Manning revolutionized the way the quarterback position was played in the NFL. Early in his career his lighting quick release and decision making kept him up right and fairly injury-free.

Throughout his career these skills have always been a nuisance to defenders.

The play-action pass has been a staple in the NFL for years but Manning perfected it. Over the years Manning constantly suckered defensive backs and linebackers into rushing the line of scrimmages for a potential run, widening his throwing windows and making his receivers better. Blair White, Austin Collie, and Reggie Wayne are all capable NFL athletes. They all had awful seasons last year without Manning.

He even conquered his biggest foe: his playoff résumé. For years Manning could never get over the preverbal hump. Critics asked could he really come through when it counts?

The Power of Five Buffalo’s talented sophomore group makes waves on and off the court

NATHANIEL SMITH

Sports Editor In a life or death situation, what situation would be scarier: outswimming a big, ferocious shark or outrunning an equally big and vicious bear?

likens his game to Bryant as well.

Downing, a gentle giant with a smooth touch around the rim and a thirst for the ball on the offensive and defensive boards, is from Tulsa, Okla. He was nervous, but open-minded, about having to travel crosscountry into a whole new world.

Now this may seem like a silly debate, but these are the types of philosophical questions that a certain group of five guys on the men’s basketball team ponder. When the group gets together and analyzes a topic, prepare to see feelings hurt.

“It was something new,” Downing said. “I wasn’t used to everybody and their accents, and we all have different lifestyles, and we all grew up in different places, so it was just something new. [The Five] are pretty much my family now, my brothers and everything.”

These guys go back-and-forth on just about every topic imaginable, but the sophomore quintet – consisting of guards Corey RaleyRoss and Jarod Oldham, forwards Auraum Nuiriankh, Javon McCrea, and Cameron Downing, are an inseparable bunch.

McCrea, the best player of The Five, is a charming, and silly guy off the court. On the court he is a killer, as this 6-foot-7 physical specimen is a problem for those brave enough to stand in his path in the post.

These talented Bulls players refer to themselves as The Five. With big egos, big smiles, and approachable personalities, these young athletes are looking to usher in a new era of Buffalo basketball – on and off the court.

The Birth of The Five In the spring of 2010 the members of The Five signed their letter of intent to play basketball for head coach Reggie Witherspoon. In the late spring and summer, they practiced together, got to know the area and each other. An unbreakable bond was created; The Five was born.

“When we got here it was just us living together all day every day,” Nuiriankh said.

“We had the same schedules, we ate together, and we just bonded that way.”

The various lifestyles were apparent.

There’s Nuiriankh, the quiet leader. Hailing from Baltimore, Md., he is a toughminded, confident kid whose winning attitude is reflected in his commitment to defense, just like his idol Kobe Bryant.

Oldham, a young assassin on the court whose game is reminiscent of Boston point guard Rajon Rondo, is from Decatur, Ill. He is one of the best table-settlers in the MAC, as he leads the conference in assists. Off the court, he is a very personable guy, always willing to talk and laugh with fans.

Corey Raley-Ross is considered by Witherspoon to be the best athlete on the team.

With the ability to go to the rack and sky over opponents, the Charlotte, N.C. native

With five very different guys, from five different corners of the country, the speed in which they bonded was remarkable.

“You’ve got five guys, from different parts of the country, and they’re so close, and I think that’s so unique,” Witherspoon said.

“It usually takes time for that to happen but it happened so quickly for them. They know each other extremely well.”

Whether it was getting lost at the Boulevard Mall or getting stuck in the elevators at Governors Complex, The Five made every day and every experience a wild adventure. Cue the shark versus bear debate.

While the guys were watching Shark Week on the Discovery Channel over the summer, a debate emerged. Was it easier to get away from a shark or a bear in a life or death situation?

Oldham, McCrea, Nuiriankh and RaleyRoss, like many people, thought it would be easier to get away from a bear.

But Downing disagrees vehemently, something that Raley-Ross still finds incredibly funny.

“I’d rather take on a shark,” Raley-Ross said, mimicking Downing. “I would punch it in the gills, and drown it.”

Nuiriankh added on.

“To this day, he still believes that he can drown a shark,” said Nuiriankh.

Rising Stars

“The first game we played in was versus Navy,” Raley-Ross said. “I don’t know how everybody else felt, but I was happy going in with my brothers.”

For one of the guys, his playing time grew tremendously.

McCrea quickly became one of the rising stars in the Mid-American Conference, as his production grew by leaps and bounds.

He eventually won MAC Freshman of the Year and was an All-MAC honorable mention. He also gained nation-wide buzz, as he was selected to the U-19 World Championship training camp for the U.S. Despite the rise of McCrea’s national profile, there is no jealousy among members of The Five. On the contrary, they have supported him even more.

This year, Oldham and Nuiriankh have both received an increase in minutes as a result of their play. Oldham turned a question mark coming into the season into an exclamation point, as he has been one of the best young point guards in the MAC. Nuiriankh’s defensive efforts were enough to earn Witherspoon’s trust and a spot into the starting lineup.

Even though they have yet to join the rest of The Five in the starting lineup, RaleyRoss and Downing are using this opportunity to learn from their starting brethren.

“With them three starting, it helps me and Corey get ready for next year,” Downing said. “They are in the position in that they can help us out; they can talk to us if we start out a game nervous, because they have already been there.”

Family Values It can be depressing for kids that go away to school. Homesickness often occurs in freshmen across college campuses, and especially for athletes, whom travel often.

Enter McCrea. Being the ‘local’ kid, from nearby Newark, NY, his house – as well as his mom’s cooking – has taken center stage as the guys look forward to Mama McCrea’s culinary wizardry and warm hospitality.

“It’s always good to have a home cooked meal,” McCrea said. “My mom comes up once a month and cooks for us. The guys

come up for Christmas too. I spend a lot of time with the guys there.”

Witherspoon loves the fact that these guys can come together.

“It speaks highly of the university that we can attract people and families,” Witherspoon said. “When they got here they envisioned some success and they felt comfortable. And when they got around each other they just felt very good about everything.”

Getting the Team Involved It’s easy for outsiders to label The Five as a click on the team. It wouldn’t be shocking if other players on the team felt ostracized or not part of the club. When the group first came together, Witherspoon worried about potential problems with sects developing on the squad.

“I saw [a clique-like atmosphere developing] early on,” Witherspoon said. “Now, we have gotten through that. We just had to get them to understand that they needed to bring everybody into the fold. They needed to broaden their comfort with everyone on the team, and that takes time. It’s just the evolvement of a team.”

The concept gets interesting knowing that although the senior class of forwards Titus Robinson, Mitchell Watt and Dave Barnett, and guard Zach Filzen will be gone next year, redshirt sophomore forward Will Regan will be a major part of the team’s plans.

Transferring from Virginia, he is a guy that has a strong chance of playing major minutes for the Bulls.

Also, junior guard Tony Watson II has an excellent chance to start, especially considering his ability to shoot the ball and play defense off the bench this season.

Those two guys, as well as the possible rise of guys like freshman forward Xavier Ford, loom as potential threats to The Five starting as a group.

But they aren’t worried about that.

“Everybody knows what we have and how we came in, so our positive energy and our chemistry feeds off and brings everybody closer,” Oldham said. “We will make any transition smooth. We are not gonna shoo anyone away. If you wanna come in and help the team we’re all for it. We want to win.”

The Future With the future in their hands, this group agrees that Buffalo will remember them because of their swagger and talent, on and off the court.

Soria, Lewandowski Receive At Large Bids For National Championship JOE KONZE JR.

Staff Writer This past season has been one that most Buffalo wrestlers would like to have back. Close matches, injuries, and tough losses have left this year’s grapplers looking for answers.

Senior Kevin Smith was a great example of what the wrestling program believes in – student first, athlete second. A season that was crucial to his legacy here in Buffalo was cut short, as he did not make the cut for the National Championship.

Manning has accomplished literally everything a player would want to do within his career: hold multiple records, win the most valuable player award, and appear and win a Super Bowl. He was a model of excellence and did everything that the city of Indianapolis asked of him and more. A force on the field and within the community, Manning’s legacy will endure even after his stint with his next team.

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The Five’s impact on the team was immediate. In an early season blowout win against Navy, Witherspoon saw it as an opportunity to play the five freshmen for the first time.

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That question was answered in 2006. The Colts went on an improbable playoff run that was capped with the Franchise first Super bowl victory since relocating from Baltimore. The most memorable moment of that run came in the game prior to the big game. Facing the Patriots, Manning led the Colts to victory after falling behind by 18 points in the first half, winning 38-34. The comeback is still the largest in championship conference game history.

From a grieving Colts fan, thanks for the memories Peyton, I wish your successor a ton of Luck filling your shoes.

Alexa Strudler /// The Spectrum

In just a short time, The Five have bonded with each other, and with the university as a whole.

“It’s tough for all of us because we love him, he’s done an awful lot for us,” said head coach Jim Beichner. “We all feel for him, [however] the guys that qualified have to get that out of their system and compete for the University at Buffalo.”

Although this was a surprise to the team, two other wrestlers will be participating in the tournament.

Courtesy of Paul Hokanson A pair of Bulls received bids to the NCAA Tournament this season, with one noticeable exception. Senior Kevin Smith, pictured above, did not receive a bid.

Redshirt freshman Max Soria and junior Mark Lewandowski will look to erase the past assumptions that they are part of an inexperienced team.

Soria earned his first bid to the NCAA tournament this past weekend and looks to make an impact on a national level. In order to do so, Soria will have to compete with some opponents who already have experience in the tournament.

“You try to let him know it’s no different than any other match,” Beichner said. “You can’t tell him what the National Championship will be like.”

Soria will have time to scout his opponent he will be facing in the first round of the tournament. This could give him an inside advantage over his opponent, and help him get a feel for what the atmosphere is like. “[Soria] will get a chance to see the arena, with the huge crowd,” Beichner said. “He won’t be the first one up, he will see some other guys competing.”

Fellow teammate Lewandowski is more experienced in the tournament.

Lewandowski was a top-12 wrestler in the tournament last year. He just missed becoming an All-American by one point. He looks to avenge his loss from last season.

“I tell him Mark you are as good as anyone in the country,” Beichner said.

“If you go out there and wrestle hard, you go after it, you can be an AllAmerican, a national champion [and] you can obtain any goal you have.”

Wrestlers should not over-prepare for the competition, however. Coaches have to be careful how hard they work their wrestlers. Being 100 percent healthy, and properly prepared for competition can have an effect on how far one goes in the event.

“We are gonna see guys we haven’t seen before,” Beichner said. “Additional scouting, video review, and proper rest [is needed].”

The two representatives look to make a statement for the Bulls’ future as they take to the mat March 15-17 at the Scottrade center in St. Louis, Mo. for the NCAA Division-1 National Championships.

“If I was wrestling [both guys],” Beichner said. “I would be worried.”

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