The Spectrum Volume 61 Issue 75

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Monday, April 16, 2012

Vol. 61 NO. 75

SA Senate To Begin Recall Process

President Tripathi Talks with UB Community LISA EPSTEIN Staff Writer UB President Satish K. Tripathi met on Wednesday with students and faculty to discuss the last year in office and his vision for the future of the university.

Alexa Strudler /// The Spectrum

The SA Senate moved to start a petition within the student body in hopes to initiate recall proceedings against Treasurer Sikander Khan.

REBECCA BRATEK News Editor On Sunday evening, the Student Association made the decision to start a petition to initiate recall proceedings against SA Treasurer Sikander Khan. The Senate would not be initiating recall proceedings as a legislative body, but as members of the student body.

The Senate was unable to motion recall proceed-

ings of its own because recall motions must start within the Assembly, according to the SA constitution. The Assembly chose to table discussion of recall proceedings until the next meeting, ultimately a decision to not start litigation, as the next meeting will not be held until April 18.

“I personally feel that maybe the Assembly should have [started the recall process],” said Senate Chair Darwinson Valdez. “They weren’t informed. Most of the legislative body does not get trained – as things come, that’s how we learn.

I feel like they didn’t know that they could’ve done something but as the Senate, we are going to be reaching out to the Assembly to help us with this recall process.”

The other option for recall is a petition led by the students themselves – the petition needs to be signed by at least 10 percent of the student body or have as many signatures as votes in the last election – whichever is greater – according to the SA constitution. continued on page 13

IVCF Derecognized

Tripathi was appointed in April of last year; “Realizing Our Vision, Transforming Our Future,” was an open forum held about possible plans moving forward while Tripathi is in office.

Tripathi talked about his plans to hire approximately 250 to 300 new faculty members to support the students – he hopes to bring in more quality students as soon as possible.

“We must become better,” Tripathi said.

“Not only to achieve greater stature, but to achieve a greater impact. This is the long range commitment we have made together as part of the UB 2020 process.”

Tripathi discussed the move of the downtown campus, and he said that the proxcontinued on page 4

LISA KHOURY Asst. News Editor The Student Association Senate derecognized the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship on Sunday, finally reaching a decision after months of controversy about the club’s constitution, which requires officers to endorse Christian beliefs.

The Senate also resolved that next year’s SA will review each club’s governing documents between May 1 and Aug. 15. If the documents violate any SA or university policies, the club will have to fix the issues to avoid derecognition.

The SA froze IVCF’s budget ($6,000 in mandatory student activity fee money at the beginning of the year) and launched an investigation into the club in December. The constitution came into question after former IVCF Treasurer (and current Assembly Speaker) Steven Jackson said the club forced him to resign because he is gay. continued on page 13

Alexa Strudler /// The Spectrum Members of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship started a prayer circle as they awaited the SA Senate’s decision on Sunday afternoon.

Alexa Strudler /// The Spectrum President Tripathi gave a "state of UB" address on Wednesday.

Granting UB’s Wish An interview with the voices of Dragon Ball Z NICOLAS PINO Senior Arts Editor Over a candle-lit dinner and a few glasses of beer, two of the most recognized figures in anime met with The Spectrum Saturday night to discuss everything from failed marriage proposals to ’80s nostalgia. This wasn’t any ordinary interview, but a trip through the past 20 years of anime history.

South Campus' two peregrine falcons continue to awe.

Courtesy of UB Facilities

South Campus’ Avian Romance MARK DAVIS Staff Writer High atop UB’s South Campus, there lies a love story.

For the last four years, a female peregrine falcon – an endangered species of bird – has laid her eggs atop the Mackay Heating Tower. BB, the mother, and Yankee, her new male suitor, have excited local birdwatchers and many within the UB community. As of this month, BB has laid four eggs in her nest.

After peregrine falcons had already constructed their own nests on top of the tower, the birds received local assistance toward a permanent habitat in 2009. Officials of the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), along with the Buffalo Audubon Society, teamed up with staff members of UB Facilities to install a permanent

nesting box for the falcons.

Yankee is BB’s new partner after Smokey, BB’s former mate, was driven off in 2010.

So far, BB has birthed 15 eggs since she found her new home. This is good news for environmental conservationists around New York. Pesticides drew down peregrine numbers in the 1960s and rendered them virtually extinct near the Atlantic coast, according to the DEC of New York State website.

Loren H. Smith, the executive director of the Buffalo Audubon Society, believes the installation of the nesting box has already provided a better relationship between local birds and their human counterparts. While the DEC is primarily responsible for monitoring the falcons, many birdwatchers across Western New York have already come to visit BB and Yankee.

This was one of the rare meetings between Eric Vale and Monica Rial, the faces – or rather, the voices – behind one of the most beloved animes, Dragon Ball Z, and the venue set the perfect backdrop for the heartfelt conversation that ensued.

How it all began: Vale began the night by remembering his postgrad days dripping with the confusion many face and getting lucky landing his first job at Funimation. Vale then got the chance to work alongside industry vets Chris Sabat and Sean Schemmel doing something he absolutely loved.

“Without the character of Trunks I don’t know what I would’ve done. [Playing Trunks was] the thing that started me understanding what it was like to have a career in this business, not the business of anime, but of being an actor,” Vale said. “Without Trunks I wouldn’t have a career in anything.”

Though Rial wasn’t an original cast member, she landed the part to voice Bulma in the re-cut 2009 revamp Dragon Ball Kai and since then never looked back.

“I wasn’t in the original DBZ, so when I came on for Kai it was kind of like being that kid who

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Aline Kobayashi /// The Spectrum Voice actors Eric Vale and Monica Rial came to UBCON Friday and Saturday night imparting their industry experience to the hundreds in attendance.

dreams of being in Kiss, and then one day the drummer dies or something, and they’re like ‘Hey you’re in the band!’” Rial said. “That’s how I felt when I got to join this all-star cast.”

While Vale landed his dream job right out of school, Rial would take her own journey to reach the cast of what was admittedly one of her favorite shows.

“We would go to Spain to visit my family and my little brother fell in love with this show, Dragon Ball Z, and he didn’t speak very good Spanish, so I would translate for him,” Rial said. “I got to watch the series evolve over time, and when I finally got to join the cast it meant so much.”

The skills of the trade: But animation from the Land of the Rising Sun isn’t the voice actors’ only line of work. Besides Rial recently getting the chance to work with developer Twisted Pixel in the 2011 Xbox continued on page 10

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No Longer a Series of Tubes As technology integrates into our lives, protection is needed

Station, discovered that around 70 million of its users’ data had been stolen. Names, passwords, addresses, and dates of birth were all taken.

Stay calm: We’re not witnessing the rebirth of SOPA. CISPA is not the end of the Internet as we know it.

Yet this was only the biggest and most visible of any number of attacks. Companies that handle online banking information, vast amounts of money, and extremely sensitive data are all on the list of groups hit by hackers.

Internet activists have been up in arms about a bill called Cyber Intelligence and Sharing Act. You’ve probably seen on your Facebook news feed. The bill has good intentions: it seeks to aid companies under cyber attacks by allowing for information to flow more easily between them and the U.S. government.

Even Lockheed Martin, a military defense contractor, was successfully infiltrated by a group of Chinese hackers. It’s not certain what was taken, but it’s apparent that the techno-spies were after plans for the extremely advanced F-35 jet fighter.

Critics charge the bill with being another attempt to bring Nineteen Eighty-Four to life by being broadly defined and easily manipulated. Groups like the ACLU contend that because the bill does not specifically mention what information is shareable, it opens the door for companies to share personal information.

The issue takes a new facet when you factor in the direction technology has been moving in the last few years. Now, more than ever, we are on the verge of complete connectivity between our lives and the Internet.

Emails can be shared, content and websites can be blocked, and other personal information is fair game according to detractors of the bill. They paint a terrifying picture.

With that, more and more information about us is being broadcasted through the air and to companies. Your cell phone, iPad, laptop, and a myriad of other devices have the capability to hold all your personal information and have GPS units to track your movement.

Much to the anger of web activists, hundreds of companies, including Facebook, have signed on in support of CISPA. The more companies that sign on, the bigger the paranoia fire becomes.

Yet CISPA seems to be more of a lesson in not naming your bills something catchy than a lesson in creating a totalitarian police state.

Firstly, although the bill does not specifically exclude emails as information to be shared, CISPA is clear on the fact that the information can only pertain to cyber attacks. Unless that email you sent to your grandma is a plan to hack into Lockheed Martin’s database and steal blueprints for the F-35, your information is not being shared.

Transparency is also a major concern for CISPA’s critics, who say that the bill allows anything related to sharing cyber threat information to be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. In part, they’re right, but mostly this is not a concern.

Only the information that is specifically shared with the U.S. government is exempt from the FOIA. This is to prevent proprietary information from being available with a simple FOIL request.

The idea that everything the government does with the information is going to be completely hidden from public view is simply not true.

UBCon: A Societal Reflection AARON MANSFIELD Senior Life Editor

I didn’t dress up for UBCon – UB’s own massive anime/gaming convention – this weekend. I didn’t even know it was going on until I saw some Facebook statuses and tweets on Friday night. But when I strolled into the Student Union to get The Spectrum ready to print this rainy Sunday morning, there were dozens of people donning dozens of quirky costumes, consumed by character, galvanized for a day full of festivities.

Is…that…Ash Ketchum? Making out with Zelda? At college, you get used to seeing some pretty strange stuff, but this was a new level of curious. I didn’t recognize most of the outfits, and when they asked who I was dressed as, I looked down at my shirt and tie and muttered: “Clark Kent.”

I was an outsider. Here’s the strangest part of it all, and what sparked this column: when I was standing in line at Tim Hortons, scanning the bizarre crowd, and listening to the “nerdy” conversations, I spotted something that made me feel at home: a kid holding a basketball.

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Even with these protections, the bill’s sponsors offered up two amendments in response to critics.

One amendment makes it clear that a business does not have to participate, and another prevents the government from forcing a company to give information in exchange for sharing back.

Most disingenuous of the claims by critics is that the bill will allow for content control and regulation of information. No provision of the law even comes close to providing a means to shut down websites or filter content.

Unlike SOPA, which was well intentioned but very poorly designed, CISPA is designed to do what it says, combat cyber attacks on legitimate companies. As much as it would make for a sensational headline, CISPA isn’t the son of SOPA. In fact, it’s good to see government taking a proactive stance on a growing issue. According to the Federal Trade commission, identity theft has been the fastest growing crime in the U.S. for some

time now, and personal information is often the prize for cyber attackers.

Normally, it’s not hard to thwart crime, as most are just crimes of opportunity. If you leave your car unlocked, you’ve just opened up an opportunity.

Locking your car eliminates that opportunity for potential criminals.

Just like in real life, there are easy ways to protect yourself from Internet crimes of opportunity as well. When a major company with sensitive information is targeted for a crime, however, it’s not as simple as being careful with your passwords.

Take, for example, last year’s attack on the PlayStation Network. The service is designed to bring online gaming services and numerous other Internet resources to PlayStation 3 users, but was the target of a coordinated cyber attack.

After the dust settled, Sony, the makers of Play-

MANAGING EDITOR Edward Benoit EDITORIAL EDITOR James Bowe

The possibilities are truly endless, but also underscore the importance of having an effective system for thwarting cyber attacks. Soon, if someone has your information, he or she will not only know your address, but your place of work and any other piece of information that you ever see through the camera on the Google glasses.

Crime is changing along with technology. Although not every attempt to ensure the safety of our information is a good one, CISPA is a balanced attempt to prevent our life from being taken and sold to the highest bidder by sophisticated Internet thieves.

In my opinion, nothing positive will ever come from making fun of someone else. Do you feel good about yourself after you demean someone? I know I don’t.

Did you know that people who feel rejected are likely to have shorter lives than those who feel accepted? It’s scientific fact – their immune systems break down and they’re prone to severe depression and anxiety. I’m not saying all “nerds” feel rejected, because I know that’s not the case. But I’m guessing that if we continue to propel these social theories of what is cool and what is not, we’re headed Why is it OK – or, I guess, more socially ac- down the road to alienation – if we haven’t ceptable – that I always had the NBA, NHL, reached its apex already.

MLB, and NFL standings memorized when I I found some fascinating analysis on psychowas a kid? Does that make me a nerd? logicalscience.org: To some extent, I think it does. But in society’s eyes, I am a dude, and guys are sup- “Exclusion isn’t just a problem for the person who suffers it, either; it can disrupt society at posed to care about sports. large…People who have been excluded often I played into the stereotype when I watched lash out against others. In experiments, they a meaning Raptors-Celtics game Friday night give people much more hot sauce than they instead writing my Criticism paper. I played can stand, blast strangers with intense noise, into the stereotype Saturday when I played and give destructive evaluations of prospecfootball with my friends instead of cleaning tive job candidates. Rejection can even conmy room. I played into the stereotype today tribute to violence. An analysis of 15 school as I flipped through Sports Illustrated with shooters found that all but two had been soThe Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of cially rejected,” according to the website.

John Milton sitting on my floor.

So when we call someone a “nerd,” we are So who is to say that I’m more socially normal essentially calling them weird, and when – or cooler – than the kids who show up, outfits we call them weird, we are essentially sayand all, to comic-cons? And why am I so so- ing they aren’t like us, and when we say they cially conditioned to cringe when I see a large aren’t like us, it all comes back to haunt us. group of people that look different from me?

I’ve wanted to write on this topic for a while, but it’s such a slippery slope. I tried to write on how girls always hate on others girls for the worst and pettiest reasons, but that could be interpreted as sexist. And now, as I try to grasp this particular social divide, I could look like a typical jock “bro” asshole.

When I surround myself with sports guys like me, it’s easy to look like I know what I’m talking about. Those are the things I like, the things I grew up focusing on. Meanwhile, the kids at UBCon grew up on comics, video games, and cartoons – and there is nothing wrong with that.

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SENIOR MANAGING EDITOR James Twigg

This kind of innovative technology is beyond exciting. We’re finally moving towards a future that really feels like the future, and the new uses of this technology moves well beyond simple social networking.

Maybe it’s because we like feeling accepted.

And when we’re surrounded by a huge group of people that don’t look like us, well, we don’t feel accepted.

I sighed, relieved: there is a normal person.

I’m not alone. Then I got to thinking: why do I think this kid is normal? What if he and I are the peculiar ones? Certainly, to this crowd, we are pretty weird.

April 16, 2012 | VOLUME 61 NUMBER 75 | CIRCULATION: 7,000

EDITOR IN CHIEF Matthew Parrino

Google even plans on taking this technology one step further with Project Glass, a seamless integration of smartphone technology with an interface on glasses. Instead of touching a screen, simply moving your eyes will give all the functionality of your Android phone.

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Here’s where the circular mocking starts: It’s easy to get full of yourself when you accomplish something, and in college, it’s pretty easy to accomplish stuff: get an A on a paper, get a promotion for your club, run train in intramurals. It’s a simple theory: when you get full of yourself, you automatically get lower on others.

And when you get lower on others, you belittle them (whether you’re conscious of it or not), and when you belittle them, it will come back to bite you, one way or another.

We will not progress as a society until we accept that it is never all right to feel above someone else just because that person is different.

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continued from page 1: president tripathi speaks with ub community imity of the campus to facilities – like Buffalo General Hospital and Roswell Park Cancer Institute – gives students a better understanding and education through close work with doctors and physicians. Tripathi also said that hiring more faculty members would provide more time to perform cutting edge research in their fields for advancement.

“Education of medical students now is so much tied to their interaction with physicians and hospitals right from the first year,” Tripathi said. “The close proximity provides [medical students with] a better education.”

Though Tripathi has clear plans for what the university should look like, Chuck Mitchell – a professor in the geology department – said that the transition from provost to president was harder than it seemed, and he praised Tripathi for his work thus far.

“From our perspective, on our campus, it doesn’t look like it was a difficult transition,” Mitchell said. “He had the ability to carry through things that he’d been thinking about, even though there was a hiatus while the new president spent six months learning the ropes of the campus and what our priorities were.”

Najmeh Moradyan Rizi, a first-year graduate student, criticized Tripathi for his involvement with international students.

The meeting also covered the tuition increase for the students and Tripathi’s plan to address the lower income students.

“I’m a graduate student in the Center for the Arts and most of the students are Americans,” Rizi said. “I’ve just heard that they need to get involved more with international students… what are the opportunities for them?”

“Affordability is always an issue even at the tuition level we had before the $300.00 increase,” Tripathi said. “One of the things we make sure during the UB 2020 and the SUNY 2020 process was to take 25 percent of the increase from the top and make sure the students at the lower income level don’t get impacted by the tuition increase.”

Tripathi addressed international students by saying that every student – foreign and domestic – comes to UB for good faculty, good facilities, and a good environment overall.

continued from page 1: south campus’ avian romance “Monitoring of the current population and awareness of the species will allow us to better understand the needs of these birds,” Smith said.

The peregrine falcon possesses some unique characteristics. In addition to its stunning plumage, the peregrine can reach up to 2 feet in length, 4 feet in their wingspan, and can top speeds of up to 200 mph, making it an excellent hunter.

Stories of rare birds adopting exceptional nesting grounds are not new to New York State.

In 1990, a Red-Tailed Hawk – dubbed “Pale Male” by native New Yorkers – took residence on top of a Fifth Avenue apartment building that overlooks Central Park. Since then, Pale has garnered much attention, be-

coming a bit of an avian celebrity amidst New York City’s unforgiving concrete environment.

The story of the hawk inspired The Legend of Pale Male, a documentary produced in 2009.

While BB and Yankee have yet to motivate feature documentary accounts, they are nevertheless the stars of their own show. In 2010, a web cam was installed

by UB Facilities to monitor the falcons. Since its inception, the 24-hour live feed of BB, Yankee, and their eggs has been one of the most frequently visited web pages associated with UB. The “falcon-cam” anticipates the arrival of the chicks that viewers can watch as they become fledgling young birds.

of bird diversity across Western New York. The Niagara River is nationally recognized as a “Globally Important Bird Area,” as determined by the National Audubon Society. Ontario and Western New York fit in a region known as the Eastern Flyway where many birds continue their own migratory patterns from Canada and the Midwest towards the Atlantic coast.

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Police Blotter SA Assembly Discusses Virtual Academix According to NYS University Police – SUNY Buffalo 4/3: 11:50 a.m. – A hall director reported that she observed three white male subjects using drugs on the terrace level by Wilkeson then took off in a car from Spaulding Lot to Audubon. She believes the operator of the vehicle, a former UB student, was under the influence of drugs.

12:23 p.m. – A stranger was reported entering 207 Capen Hall, a classroom, in the library and using the computers without authorization. It was reported that this has been occurring for the past month.

4/5: 12:42 a.m. – A student reported that she believed the students in the room next to hers were using marijuana in Clinton Hall.

8:58 p.m. – A student in Flint Village reported unauthorized transactions on his debit card.

4/7: 1:53 a.m. – The Amherst Fire Department advised the University Police they were sending an ambulance to Roosevelt Hall because of an intoxicated student. The student was transported to ECMC. 4/8: 2:11 a.m. – An intoxicated student passed out in room 206 of Goodyear Hall. The student was transported to ECMC by Rural Metro Ambulance, and was issued SWJ paperwork.

4/9: 2:08 p.m. – A fire was reported outside of the Natural Sciences Complex; patrol was able to extinguish it with water.

9:40 p.m. – A student reported she believed someone stole her Samsung Galaxy cell phone from Diefendorf Hall at 12:00 p.m. that day. Patrol arrested Dan Botzenhart for petit larceny and possession of stolen property.

Botzenhart was referred to SWJ. 4/10:

4/6: 2:01 p.m. – A student reported a male student in Clement Hall was harassing her.

2:03 p.m. – A student reported that an unknown person used a key to damage is car in Hochstetter A Parking Lot.

12:52 a.m. – Students were reported throwing toilet paper rolls out of the windows of Red Jacket Quad. James Knerr was identified as one of the students responsible, and he was advised to clean up the mess. Campus Housing was satisfied with the result.

The motion would have to first be called in the Assembly, and the Senate could then follow suit.

A resolution – if passed with two-thirds majority of the Assembly, along with two-thirds majority of the Senate – is then presented to the StudentWide Judiciary (SWJ) for review. SWJ would investigate the validity of the charges against officials, and if the charges were found to be valid, the officials would be removed from office immediately, according to the SA constitution.

LISA EPSTEIN Staff Writer The Student Association Assembly met on Wednesday to discuss the possible motion of recall procedures for two e-board members following an investigation into Virtual Academix.

Nothing was decided.

Every motion at the meeting was tabled for the next Assembly meeting, at which Assembly Speaker Steven Jackson will be writing a resolution based on emails from members expressing their concerns.

Present to answer questions were SA President JoAnna Datz, SA lawyer Josh Korman, and SA Administrative Director Mark Sorel. The three fielded questions from Assembly members regarding the possible recall of SA Treasurer Sikander Khan and SA Vice President Meghan McMonagle.

Korman addressed the Assembly about the University Police Department’s and the district attorney’s choice not to pursue the case.

The Assembly meeting immediately followed an open forum held by SA for the public to voice any opinions, concerns, or comments to Datz, Korman, and next year’s SA President Travis Nemmer and Treasurer Justin Neuwirt.

“My role as lawyer, and I would say the professional staff too, and to a certain extent JoAnna in a more political situation, is to defend the organization,” Korman said. “It’s not our job to articulate the defense on behalf of the adverse party. What I will say is at this point we have been contacted by two separate attorneys representing Meghan and Sikander.”

The meeting discussed the possible removal of McMonagle and Khan, but the Assembly was informed that, other than petitioning, the only way to recall members is if the Assembly makes a motion for recall and votes at the following meeting. The next meeting would then be called and could take place five days later.

The Assembly discussed drafting a resolution for next week. It was stated that by simply making a resolution it would only send a strong mes-

sage to the Khan and McMonagle.

Freshman assembly member Marissa Malone thinks that SA needs to change the way it works together.

“Honestly, from the information I have gathered of the Virtual Academix scandal, I have lost a lot of respect and trust for the e-board members,” Malone said. “These people are the ones [who] are representing our school as a whole, as well as every single individual at UB, and it makes me question all that goes on behind the scenes.”

The Assembly also elected the Speaker for the 2012-13 school year. Jackson won the position for a second time, beating out Assembly Members Zeesth Malik and Sanjot Nijjar. Jackson looks forward to another year as Speaker and looks forward to bettering the Assembly.

“I think we need to expand and keep growing in membership,” Jackson said. “Last year only eight people voted in the election and this year I think we had 26. I’d like to see more people get involved and more involvement with various departments – make sure the students’ voices are heard and acted upon.”

The next Assembly meeting will be held on April 18.

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NEWS BRIEFS: Prostitution Scandal: 11 Secret Service Agents Put on Leave The U.S. Secret Service put 11 of its agents on administrative leave due to misconduct involving prostitutes.

The men allegedly brought prostitutes to their hotel rooms in Cartagena, Colombia on Wednesday night. The following morning there was a dispute with one of the women over payment.

This situation goes against the service’s zero toleration policy on personal misconduct. Their trip was intended to prepare President Obama’s arrival at an international summit.

The scandal is currently overshadowing Obama’s trip where he discussed trade and the economy with 32 other heads of states. The agency has said Obama’s “security was not compromised,” according to The Washington Post.

On Saturday the Defense Department announced that five military personal, staying in the same hotel, violated their curfew on Wednesday night.

The department will investigate this situation on its own.

way, it shows how important weapon development is to the North Korean government.

The agent involved in the altercation with the women eventually paid her and she left. But police reported the incident to the U.S. Embassy, and the Secret Service recalled the agents. The agents were replaced with a new team before Obama’s arrival Friday afternoon.

Kim’s claims of technological superiority come two days after a North Korean rocket disintegrated in midair. Kim made no mention of the rocket’s failure.

The Colombian police have made no arrests in the matter because prostitution is legal in the country.

North Korean Leader Gives First Public Speech Kim Jong-un gave his first public speech as the leader of North Korea on Sunday.

Kim’s speech focused on his priorities to strengthen the military and declared that superiority in military technology was “no longer monopolized by imperialists,” according to The New York Times.

Following the speech there was a military parade that showed off what appeared to be the largest missile the North has ever had. It’s unclear whether it’s a new long-range missile or a mockup. Either

Kim’s speech and public debut was held on the 100th birthday of his grandfather and the North’s founding president, Kim Il-sung. The 20-minute speech made it clear Kim intends on adhering to his father’s “military first” policy.

Kim faced a crowd of tens of thousands in the capital, Pyongyang, and demanded his people appreciate the work his father and grandfather did in developing nuclear weapons to deter an American invasion.

Progress for the Heritage Corridor After five years of delays, those pushing for a heritage corridor that showcases a Buffalo neighborhood that shaped the civil rights movement are starting to see some progress.

Due to a resolved funding issue, there is $120,000 redirected in state grants to pay for a management plan for the Michigan Street African American Corridor.

A consultant who has studied the corridor will meet with community stakeholders Tuesday and then will hold a public meeting. Those attending the public input session are encouraged to share their visions regarding the historic neighborhood.

Many believe the neighborhood could serve as an attraction for heritage tourism. Within the neighborhood is the Michigan Street Baptist Church, a cultural landmark which was both a stop on the Underground Railroad and part of the civil rights movement.

The goal is now to develop a managing plan that allows the heritage corridor to get additional grants and resources to develop the area.

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Looking Back on SA Scandals A look into The Spectrum’s archives

September 28, 2007 The problem with a prayer: SA President vs. SA President Hussain brothers and Muslim SA accuse Student Association of discriminatory practices SILAS RADER Editor in Chief In an email sent to Muslim Student Association members and miscellaneous SA administrators on Wednesday morning, Muslim SA President Shujauddin Hussain charged “SA officials” with discriminatory practices.

The complaints were filed after the MSA was instructed to vacate the SA office at 350 Student Union immediately following a prayer held there by the group past business hours.

“I told them ‘after you finish praying, please leave,’” said SA Vice President Ashish Abraham.

The business hours of the SA office at 350 Student Union are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with one extra hour until 6 p.m. usually reserved for paperwork and administrative tasks. The office is not open past that time for club services.

“The doors might be open, people might be in here, but we don't allow any clubs to use the space past six,” said current SA President Peter Grollitsch.

MSA is also currently under club suspension for failing to attend club orientation.

“We had to discipline the clubs that didn’t attend orientation, and we thought a 14-day suspension was reasonable,” Grollitsch said.

After business hours on Monday, Sept. 24, former MSA President and former Student Association President Viqar Hussain participated in a protest against the removal of the prayer group from the SA office. He was escorted from the Student Union by University Police after a confrontation between his prayer group and Student Association Vice President Ashish Abraham, who asked the group to leave the room because the office was closed to services.

According to Grollitsch, Hussain claimed to have received permission from Administrative Director Mark Sorel to hold the prayer in the office prior to the confrontation.

“I never had the opportunity to ask

him if that’s what he said,” Sorel said.

He added that he did not give Hussain permission to hold the service.

Muslim SA had already been provided a location at 145B Student Union for prayer by club coordinators, which the group declined to use on Monday evening.

“They wanted to stage a protest because they felt wronged,” Grollitsch said, referring to the club's suspension for failure to attend orientation.

Muslim SA member Viqar Hussain and President Shuja Hussain initially declined to comment on the issue until suspension negotiations with the Student Association and administrators were complete, but later came forward to respond when they learned the SA executive board had spoken with the press.

“I’m only a member of the Muslim Student Association, I don’t want to get anybody in trouble,” Viqar Hussain said.

Responding to rumors of the club's dissolution, Grollitsch explained that there was no plan to dissolve Muslim SA and that there is "no reason to."

“We’re very conscious of their rights and religion, and after [the suspension] they will continue to be one of our strongest clubs; business as usual,” Grollitsch said.

Abraham and Club Programming Director Jeyandini Fernando were particularly unsettled by the accusation of discrimination.

“A lot of my family is Muslim, so I know how important this month and the services are. I made an effort to work around their schedule,” Fernando said.

She went on to agree with Abraham's denial of discriminatory practices.

“Discrimination is saying ‘you’re Muslim, so you can’t do this.’ What actually happened is that people didn’t follow the rules,” Fernando said.

Though the rules in question state that failure to attend one of the four orientations offered will result in club suspension, a fifth orientation was offered for any clubs that needed to make up the attendance.

According to Club Service Director Victor Bulinski, a confirmation email

was received by the Student Association on Wednesday, one day before the makeup orientation.

“I booked the rooms, sent out an email Tuesday stating the time and location, and [Shuja Hussain] responded on Wednesday that he and his e-board would be there,” he said.

The makeup orientation was not attended by the Muslim SA e-board.

“We had the event and they weren’t there,” Bulinski said.

Shuja Hussain demands on behalf of Muslim SA that the Student Association executive board deliver an apology to MSA's membership.

“We want to forgive them and we want to move on,” he said.

MSA Vice-president Farah Hassan extended a similar gesture of forgiveness regarding the issue.

“It’s the month of Ramadan. This is the month of forgiveness, when you don’t hold a grudge against anyone.”

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Diversity in Disability Ari Ne’eman, founding president of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, lectured on neurodiversity and civil rights.

He compared the exclusion disabled David Dodge, a junior English major, people face to the exclusion of African served as the chairperson for the DiverAmericans and women from institusity in Disability Planning Committee. tions of education and government. He Alec Frazier, Hope Supernault, and Caroutlined the unfolding of the Disability ly Skonecki – all UB students – assisted Rights Movement in the U.S. in the 20th Dodge in planning the symposium. century. als, and administrators from UB and throughout the country.

Yan Gong /// The Spectrum UB hosted a symposium on addressing its past failure to accommodate the disabled.

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“The idea for a symposium started out when I transferred to UB and wanted to bring attention to the larger spectrum of disabilities,” Dodge said. “I read an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and decided to focus on the idea of diversity instead of just access.”

UB is making its campus more accessible to people with disabilities, and this weekend, for the first time ever, it held a symposium opening the conversation about future advancements.

Dr. Tammy Milillo, post doctorate research assistant in the Department of Chemistry, delivered the keynote address entitled “Self Advocacy – Opening the Channels of Communication.”

This idea was the center of the “Diver- Milillo discussed her own struggle with sity in Disability” Symposium, held on accessibility during her undergraduate Saturday at the Center for Tomorrow years, which led her to file a lawsuit from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. UB’s Office of against UB. Since then, UB has worked Accessibility Resources and the Diver- on making its campus more accessible sity in Disability Planning Committee to people with disabilities, although it organized the event. The symposium still has work to do, according to Milibrought together over 100 people, in- llo. cluding students, disability profession-

Milbern looked to the audience for suggestions on how improve the integration of disabled people into the wider community. She referenced The Spectrum’s article, “A Shameful Low in Higher Education,” which revealed UB’s lack of compliance with the Americans with He stressed that disabled people need Disabilities Act. Milbern stressed that “Research focused on cure aims to create a world without disabled people,” Ne’eman said. “The aim is to make people less autistic, indistinguishable from others, not to make them better off.”

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“There needs to be a move away from doing ‘for’ [disabled people] to doing ‘with’ [them],” Ne’eman said.

Stacey Milbern, president of the National Youth Leadership Network, led a discussion with the audience about “abilism,” or the stratification of society Ne’eman sought to redefine “disabil- based on favoring people who do not ity” not as the actual physical or men- have impairments. The discrimination tal impairment a person faces, but as disabled people face in society is similar “something which emerges from the to racism, according to Milbern. interactions between a person with an impairment and the larger society.”

Milbern – like Ne’eman – pushed for an inclusive, liberating definition of disNe’eman is autistic and, because of his ability. disability, he advocates for the concept of neurodiveristy. The idea is to focus on improving the quality of life of peo- “People with disabilities often have ple with neurological disorders, rather ingenious and brilliant ways of coping than finding the cause and cure for their with the world around them,” Milbern said. condition.

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A panel including students from UB discussed issues like wider awareness about disabilities and how language used to refer to disabilities is sometimes demeaning.

The symposium also featured resource tables with representatives from organizations like the Museum of Disability History; UB Wellness Education Services; and UB’s Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion; among others.

The symposium provided an opportunity to understand “the personal experiences that people [with disabilities] have gone through,” according to Amarja Desai, who works for the Center of Assistive Technology at UB. She also felt she gained a better insight on how people with disabilities understand their own lives.

“Disability is a good thing,” Dodge said.

“It shouldn’t be looked at as a problem, but as an opportunity to experience things in a different way.”

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Cichocki: Tough to Spell, Easy to Learn From WESTON SHAPIRO Staff Writer Professor Dianna Cichocki spends her day surrounded by numbers, computers, and students. When the class is dismissed, she starts her other job: being a mother.

Cichocki teaches statistical decisions in management at UB, but she hasn’t been teaching here for very long. With just under two semesters experience, Cichocki has quickly adapted to the professor’s lifestyle at a university.

“I took [Statistics Decisions in Management] last semester [with Professor Cichocki],” said Amilyn Corliss, a junior accounting major. “I really enjoyed her class. She always tried to make it fun, especially since it’s a distance learning class where some people can watch it online. She was really focused on making her students succeed.”

Before Cichocki came to UB, she gained experience teaching at different levels of education, ranging from middle school to community college. Her life plan was always to be a teacher.

“At St. John Fisher I had a professor who was fabulous [and] who said that all junior high teachers go to heaven,”

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Cichocki said. “So I started off in junior high and I thought I would pave my way that way.”

of Two-Year Colleges and the national board of American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges.

Cichocki continually changed what level of education she taught. She went from junior high, to high school, and eventually to Erie Community College (ECC) where she taught everything from basic math courses to calculus and statistics for 10 years.

“I’ve given different presentations on using technology in statistics,” Cichocki said. “My students know that I like to use applets and I like to keep up with technology. I tell my students in my stats class that I want them to be able to use the tools that are out there to be able to perform the analysis rather than having to memorize formulas and having to plug in numbers. There are all these tools and you hold them in the palm of your hand.”

During her tenure at ECC, she was rewarded for her exceptional effort and teaching style with two awards: an NYSAD excellence award in 2009 and a President’s Recognition Award for Instruction in 2010.

To win the awards, professors must attract special notice from both peers and students. She won the awards because of positive student evaluations, evaluations within her department, and the letters of recommendation.

They are proudly hung on the walls of her office – right next to paintings and drawings by her three children.

Cichocki’s ambition to teach has led her to several presentations to other educators at the state and national level. She is currently on the state board of the New York State Mathematical Association

Cichocki’s has given presentations on teaching in online learning environments while at ECC and UB. Having been a member of the online learner’s group at UB and co-chair of the distance learning education for ECC, she frequently gave insight on how to improve distance education and teaching through an online medium.

Professor Cichocki’s move to UB has been well received. After notifying ECC that she would not be returning, the school said it would hold her job for one year so that she could explore her other options. At UB, Professor Cichocki began to fit in right away.

“So far it has been fabulous,” Cichocki

said. “It was different for me to teach in the digital access environment. I stand up there for an hour and 20 minutes and I don’t stop talking. It’s a completely different way of teaching than what I was used to so I was apprehensive of that, but I really like it.”

Her positive attitude trickles down to her students and is seen in her teaching style. It is not difficult to figure out that Cichocki cares about her students’ success, as she’ll often ask her previous students what they liked and disliked about her class when they come to visit.

“I love when students come back to me,” Cichocki said. “We have some good conversations and I really like that.

I really appreciate that they are willing to go back and forth and they’re appreciative of the fact that I’m willing to listen to them and take into consideration how they think the course went.”

On the weekends, Cichocki changes roles from professor to mother. With two daughters and one son, she rarely has any time for herself. On a typical weekend, her life revolves around her family and its needs.

“You’ll find me running to hockey practice, you’ll find me picking up my daughter from softball practice or bringing somebody to a friend’s house,”

Audrey Lin /// The Spectrum Only in her fist year at UB, Professor Dianna Cichocki has made an impact on her students as she continues to make her classroom an interesting place to learn.

Cichocki said. “We go to church together as a family every Sunday, and every Sunday we’re at the hockey rink. I try to not miss any of my children’s events. I like to run and I try to read but it doesn’t go so well when you have three kids.”

Between being a sports fan, a mother, and a professor, Cichocki is doing all she can to teach lessons in the classroom as well as outside of it.

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UBiz Means Business

Students gathered in a lecture hall with notebooks open, ready to take notes on how to succeed in the future of the business world. The room got quiet as Merle Whitehead, CEO and owner of RealtyUSA, began to tell his story of success to the members of UBiz. The Undergraduate Business Association, better known to its members as UBiz, is a new club on

campus that brings together business-oriented students who are interested in learning more about entrepreneurship and its derivatives. Carson Ciggia, a sophomore business administration major, founded the club during his freshman year. He explored all of the business clubs on campus and decided that he wanted to start something new.

“I decided to go ahead and start my own organization,” Ciggia said. “It was a very bold move but it’s turned out successful. It’s incredible to think that there are 40 people out here. I mean UBiz started on a piece of paper.” continued on page 12

Peiran Liang /// The Spectrum Important figures come to speak to the members of UBiz in order to get them prepared and give them helpful tips for the tough real-life business world in their future.

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FSA: It’s So Hot Right Now

MAX CRINNIN Staff Writer They walk around campus as if it’s a runway, striking a pose and stealing attention. Head to toe, they’re dressed to kill. They set the foundation for fashion.

The Fashion Club has arrived and is ready to heat up the last few chilly weeks of classes at UB, turning heads with all the latest trends and must-haves for spring fashion.

Fashion SA (FSA) is currently a temporary club. It is brand new and will seek permanent approval from the SA Senate for next semester. Even though there are currently approximately 30 temporary clubs in the SA, Fashion SA hopes to stand out by hosting the most exciting and unique events.

The members are always seeking out hip new trends to take over the UB community.

Drawn together by a common interest – style – FSA’s mission is to create a sense of community and opportunity for the UB students who are interested in developing their own style and learning about the fashion trends around the world. The goal is driven by a desire to empower and inspire students to go outside of their comfort zone and experience new trends, styles, and cultures.

“FSA does not follow trends; we set them,” said Desiree Hill, a junior English and art history major and the club’s president. “FSA is a culmination of every style from every corner of the world. We are a multicultural, unified body of stylish students, looking to impact our community and school.”

Hill, whose Facebook picture shows her posing at the end of a runway, is excited to bring something to UB that she believes was missing.

Fashion is a part of almost every college community, and the lack of a fashion program here, along

Members of FSA promote high fashion and hope to become a permanent club in the near future so they can host more events, and further educate the students at UB about fashion around the world.

with the lack of a fashion club, has left Hill and her fellow fashionistas looking for an outlet.

“Walking around campus over the past year, I have noticed so many different styles,” Hill said.

“For UB to not have a fashion program I was shocked. I felt the school needed a fashion community, a place where we can all get together and share creative ideas.

Ironically, I learned there had already been a Fashion Student Association before I transferred here, so I decided to resurrect the club.”

Hill said that working with the SA has been a pleasurable experience, and the members of SA have been a great help with resurrecting the club. She described the process of developing a club as “fairly easy,” but said that writing a constitution for a new club can be lengthy and difficult due to the many revisions that are needed before the senate

approves temporary status.

Hill and her cohorts plan to work hard over the summer to ensure that FSA reaches permanent status so they start receiving funds for events. As a temporary club, FSA receives no funding from the SA, and the members are forced to fundraise for their budget.

Future plans, according to Hill, include: “Fashion in the Union” (a fashion and culture show), community outreach, and general meetings.

Hill explained that members of FSA make fashion a priority at UB with their own unique tastes and styles. FSA hopes to appeal to students of all genders, races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations in its effort to embrace the diversity of the fashion world.

“It promotes individuality and freedom of expression for students on campus,” said Alexandria Kornfield, a freshman occupational therapy major. “There already seems to be a lot of trendy people walking around, but this club will give them the chance to share new ideas and meet people that have the same interests.”

Those looking to join the club in the near future can expect to spend time creating events, blogging, designing clothing, and producing fashion shows.

Looking ahead, FSA is already preparing this summer for next year’s events, and the club encourages all students to check out what it is about by contacting the e-board or stopping at the SA office for more information.

Courtesy of Desiree Hill

The SA currently has 176 clubs…

Of those clubs, 29 have been created this semester and are awaiting permanent approval by SA’s Senate Every new club has to follow certain rules…

You need a minimum of 10 undergraduate students to create a club.

In order to qualify, new clubs must have a written constitution, which follows a written template.

New clubs receive no budget and must fund themselves until approved by the SA Senate.

Temporary Council 29/176 16.5%

Academic Clubs 26/176 14.8%

Sport Council 32/176 18.2%

Engineering Clubs 14/176 8%

International Council 21/176 12%

SISH Council 47/176 26.7%

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Executive Council 2/176 1.1%

People of Color Council 5/176 2.8%

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UB Con 2012: A Weekend of Fantasy and Friends continued from page 1: granting ub’s wish Live Arcade and Steam title, Ms. Splosion Man, both are just finishing up work on Gearbox’s roleplaying hybrid, Borderlands 2.

“I was the voice director for the game and we both did voice for [Borderlands]. We got to work with people like Anthony and Ashly Burch…Ashly does an incredible voice in the game, and Anthony wrote it,” Vale said. “Monica does a voice that we can’t talk about yet, but it’s a weapon and everyone will enjoy it quite a bit.”

Though both showed up for this year’s UBCON and their accompanying panels, Vale is a Buffalo veteran, making this his second sequential attendance at the event.

“It’s a great Con, I really like it here. Coming to a college-run con is a little more of a special experience than going to any of the bigger shows. I like it a lot more honestly,” Vale said.

While Vale and Rial have been working together for years, Rial

often acts as someone’s mother, daughter, or cousin who she’s never met, but events like UBCON give the actors a chance not only meet their fans, but the actors they’ve spent years working blindly alongside of.

“You usually play someone’s mom or even their best friend, but you’ve never actually met them before, so that’s always a good experience,” Rial said.

But it’s all about the fans: And though the duo has a massive following across the states, the two emphasized the importance of their fan-base and how much it means to the industry.

“The fans are amazing. At almost every Con I go to a fan makes me a plushy or something, usually hand-made, and those are so kind,” Vale said. “I don’t keep them – I’m a grown man and that would be creepy – so I take them home and I give them to my daughter who’s five. And after every time I come home, I walk in and give them to

her and she just gushes over them.

That’s a unique thing that other parents don’t get to do.”

“Anime fans as a whole are just so gracious, such kind-hearted people that you constantly have people going out of their way for you,” Rial said. “It’s almost overwhelming at times, you just feel so humbled sometimes.”

This however is the bright side of the fans. Both Rial and Vale admitted to more than one awkward encounter with a fervent fan that went just a little too far.

“I’ve been asked by an older man what kind of cologne my boyfriend wears. I was like ‘I’m not telling you,’” Rial said. “But those are so few and far between, the good far outweighs the bad.”

The two gave their goodbyes Sunday afternoon as UBCON came to a close, and with this event fading fast on the horizon the two are already looking forward to next year.

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Woods Not the Typical Horror Film ABBY NIEKAMP Staff Writer

Whedon has established himself as a sci-fi genius with his work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, and more recently Dollhouse. He sees the world from a different view and translates that into the alternate worlds he creates through his screenwriting.

Movie: The Cabin in the Woods Release Date: April 13 Studio: Lionsgate Films Grade: B It’s almost a cliché – a group of sex-crazed college students venture into the woods for a minivacation and end up in a fight for their lives. This plot has been a staple of horror films for decades, but the premise feels fresh in the hands of writer Joss Whedon.

The Cabin in the Woods, written by Whedon (The Avengers) and Drew Goddard (Lost), has a complex science-fiction side that reinvents the classic horror film plot. The opening sequence shows a group of scientists in a control panel room preparing to watch five college students enter the woods that they refer to as the “killing field.”

Viewers soon find that these scientists’ jobs are to ensure the students do not leave the woods alive.

They eagerly watch and control the field by locking doors or changing the temperature when needed.

Kristen Connolly (Certainty) stars as the sweet virgin, Dana. The well-casted redhead portrays the innocence and intelligence of her character.

Jules (Anna Hutchinson, Wild Boys), her best friend in the film, is just the opposite. Hutchison doesn’t fall short when acting as her blonde, flirty character who just wants to have fun.

Probably the most dynamic character is Marty (Fran Kranz, Diary of a Whimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules). Clearly he is a stoner, but he’s an intelligent one. He is the first character to realize that someone is controlling them.

The Cabin in the Woods, as to be expected from today’s horror offerings, has more gore than all of Buffy’s adventured combined. The film doesn’t waste any time getting to the bloodshed. Horror fans will love this, but those with a weak stomach may need to look elsewhere.

The Cabin in the Woods is anything but cliche.

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The Cabin in the Woods isn’t without flaws, however – the opening might confuse less savvy viewers.

Things don’t take shape until a third of the way into the film. There are enough twists later on in the movie to keep it interesting without hiding the initial concept of why these friends are being targeted to begin with.

The Cabin in the Woods should be in a genre all on its own. It’s scary with humorous one-liners being dropped here and there, but most of all its shocking. Just when the movie seems to be over, it develops into another twisted fight for life and no one will guess the final outcome.

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Queer Art Enlightens CFA Attendees and audio energy to show the clash of socio-political prototypes and identities, Any Ever’s abstractness and quick tempo enthralled the audience.

SEAN BABINEAU Staff Writer Queer Art is a subject that has been tenuously studied for decades. Two artists brought the topic to UB in a high-speed fashion last Thursday.

Artists Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch presented The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art showcase at the CFA. The two-hour long presentation showed works of queer art that captivated a packed audience.

The event included a showing and discussion of their latest creation, Any Ever – a body of work comprised of seven autonomous, interrelated movies that function together as a whole.

Taking over three years to produce, Any Ever features heavily symbolic proliferations, queer aesthetics, and suggestions of the destruction of cultural binaries.

Still from The Re'Search (Re'Search Wait'S), 2009-2010, Ryan Trecartin Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch presented Any Ever at the The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art showcase.

“It was all shot in Miami,” Trecartin said. “We rented a house that we lived in and used as a place of production. We lived inside the set and kind of squatted there without any of the things that were personal to us.”

The film features a very fast-paced style; multiple videos play on the same screen accompanied by sped-up, heightened audio. This adds the sense of incomprehensibility they strive for.

“Especially when it’s the first time you’re watching it,” Fitch said. “The speed is going in a way where you only have enough time to process what you’ve just heard, so you miss the next thing. But once you go back into it you already have that piece so you add on to your collective memory of what you’ve just watched. This changes the read of what you’re watching a lot of the time.”

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“Ryan and Lizzie’s art changes the discourse by, curiously, a proliferation of possibilities,” said Jonathan Katz, director of the Visual Studies program at UB. “No longer is opposition the hallmark of being progressive, now to be progressive is to swamp the power binary with as many possibilities and permutation as their fevered imaginations can conceive.”

Trecartin and Fitch’s work offers viewers an experience that is rarely had with any other art forms.

“Their work breathes with multiple selves,” Professor Katz said. “A cycling through of permutations on difference that leads the viewer to the single, inescapable conclusion of any thinking person: that we’re all different and we’re all the same.”

Trecartin is no stranger to this level of acclaim; his work has been featured in New York at The New School and London’s Saatchi Gallery, while Any Ever has been seen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Cat Dawson, a doctoral student in the Visual Studies department, was happy that Trecartin has been able to produce high-quality art throughout his career.

“It is wonderful to hear that he is so intellectually and conceptually engaged in his work,” Dawson said “It is stunning.

The depth of complexity that exists in his work is really heartening and a beautiful and wonderful challenge.”

With senses on the verge of overload, the audience left the showcase with a new, and more informed, view of the complexities and innovation of queer art.

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The Image of Pride VILONA TRACHTENBERG Asst. Arts Editor A young soldier in decorated military apparel accepts his rank of staff sergeant as a noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force. A group of soldiers stands ready to relocate from Kuwait to Iraq two weeks after Baghdad was captured in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Guns sit ready for use.

These are just some of the captured moments that pay tribute to the experiences of several of UB’s students, faculty, and staff.

The Veterans Outreach Committee works to assimilate and recognize veterans in the UB community. According to Amberly Panepinto, a representative of the committee from UB Counseling Services, the committee started the Military and Veterans Photo Project in the fall of 2011 as an ongoing symbol of appreciation for veterans serving the UB community.

Displayed in Capen Hall since the beginning of the semester, the photos are rotated monthly and collected on an ongoing basis. Any student, faculty, or staff member can submit photos of his or her own military experiences, or those of family members.

“We hope that these photos really get into the consciousness of the UB community,” Panepinto said. “By having this display this semester…we know that people are looking at them and thinking about the military.”

The committee, which was formed in 2011, is comprised of representatives from the Student Affairs departments of Accessibility Resources, Counseling Services, UB Art Galleries, UB VA Benefits, Wellness Education Services, and the UB Military Members Club. Although the budding committee is not official and lacks resources, the members are invested in reaching out to student veterans and using the assets of each department to help them assimilate to life outside of the military.

The photo project, sponsored by the UB Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, represents different eras of military service, including images from

Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Desert Storm.

Bowman has seen how diverse the military journey is in his seven years of service.

“The experience of the military individual is more than just frontline combat, but there is a lot more experience that the students have and that military people experience,” Bowman said.

Student representative Daphne Booth, a senior interdisciplinary social sciences major, was a member of the reserves, an active member in Desert Storm and was also deployed to Iraq in 2003. She hopes this committee will become officially recognized in order to help even more veterans on campus and help to make UB more veteran-friendly.

“I think it’s important to get the word out to the public what people are doing in the military, the sacrifices that people are making, and to not let people forget,” Booth said. “People are just forgetting and there are still thousands of soldiers deployed all over the country putting their lives on the line.”

Ciggia aims to educate the members of the club about the real world of business by bringing in experienced speakers to share their stories of success.

“Our meetings are really structured to get members involved and really help them gain some practical knowledge,” Ciggia said. “We have internship opportunities with a few different companies like Mutual of Omaha. We’re constantly coming up with new and innovative ways to help our members.”

According to Panepinto, the photos that are submitted have an uplifting theme to them and there are no photos of combat, despite the combat zones depicted.

A photo submitted by veteran Jared Jacobson, a freshman exercise science and physical therapy major, reveals his experience in the Marine Corps as he poses with citizens in the country he was serving in as if they were old friends. Camaraderie also shines through in Michael Flood’s photo with his fellow marines and the people of Djibouti, Africa.

Jim Bowman, a special populations outreach coordinator for Wellness Education Services, is part of the committee who procures and organizes the photos for the exhibit. As a veteran himself, Bowman also submitted a piece to the exhibit. The image portrays his time served in the Air Force from September 1994 to July 2001 and his experiences in achieving his rank of staff sergeant, a large accomplishment after going through rigorous training and earning the spot of top graduate in Airman Leadership School.

continued from page 8: UBiz means business

Whitehead spoke this past Thursday night. He was one of several speakers that have been brought to UB

by UBiz to talk about what success means to him.

Alexa Strudler /// The Spectrum The Military and Veterans Photo Project is an ongoing exhibit in Capen Hall showing appreciation for the service of veterans in the UB community.

According to Booth, whether or not a person has been to war, when they come out of the military, they are a different person, and have different needs when they become students. She believes there is a lot the university could do to make it easier on the more than 1,500 veteran students on campus.

“I think it’s important because people who’ve been in the military are some of your most motivated people, whether they’re going for employment or furthering their education,” Booth said. “[Veterans] have a lot of real world experience to offer and a lot of skills that [they have] gained in the military both from the duties [they have] performed and from things that [they have seen].

As students [they] have a lot to share.”

Whitehead also talked about some of the mistakes he has made along the way. Coming from a man who is CEO of a company that had $3 billion in sales last year and over 2,300 employees, everyone in attendance was intent to listen to what he had to say in hopes of one day becoming as successful as the CEO, according to Ciggia.

The one line of advice Whitehead stressed throughout his visit was: surrounding oneself with positive and successful people will inadvertently increase someone’s chances of being successful.

“I want somebody who is confident but more importantly I want someone who is coachable,” Whitehead said, referring to what he was looking for in new employees. “I look at so many people who have come in and we’ve mentored them, we’ve coached them, and the success that they’ve realized is unbelievable. So coachable would be a huge characteristic.”

Ciggia and UBiz’s e-board have put in a significant amount of effort to engage current club members and to entice new students to join. Bringing in speakers like Whitehead has helped the club gain traction and credibility among young business students looking for ways to meet other business-oriented students.

Ciggia was pleased with the turnout at the seminar. He said the entire crowd was active and intrigued by Whitehead. Ciggia believes everyone left wiser, and they all received some valuable insight. He hopes that hosting events that will educate students about how to succeed will help the club gain popularity and, ultimately, help the members succed in the future of the business world.

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continued from page 1: sa senate to begin recall process Valdez read the following statement after the Senate deliberated its options in an executive session: “Individuals from the senate intend to start a recall petition for the SA treasurer. We will get the required number – which is the number of votes in the last election – signatures of the student body and submit it to SWJ for investigation, in accordance with Article 9, Section 9.01 – Causes for Recall – and Article 9, Section 9.02 – Initiating Recall – of the Student Association constitution.”

The Senate and Assembly would need to obtain at least 2,576 signatures (the number of votes in the last election) before submitting the petition to the Student-Wide Judiciary. SWJ will then review the petition and causes for recall; if charges against the official – in this case, the charges against Khan – are determined to be valid, he or she will be removed from office immediately and the position will be declared vacant.

“I’m not totally aware of how long it’ll take, but as a Senate Chair, once I get that petition, I will turn it into SWJ with a letter stating please as soon as possible [make a decision] so we could appoint somebody and get the work done for the rest of the semester,” Valdez said.

The decision to start the recall process in this manner came after the Senate introduced two resolutions. The first resolution would suspend Khan’s pay for the remainder of his term; the Senate voted to approve this resolution in a 9-0-3 vote.

The second resolution proposed that the powers of the treasurer should be transferred to the assistant treasurer with the most academic credit hours completed at UB. The Senate does not have the power to make such a decision.

“The reason why the resolution was not passed is because we do not have the authority to do that under the SA constitution because it is essentially

impeaching him without going through SWJ,” Valdez said.

Both resolutions were proposed with a list of circumstances in which Khan failed to execute his duties. The list said Khan failed to: Present the Finance Committee with their finalized budget by the date required by the Student Association Constitution, as outlined in Article 7, Section 1. The budget given to the Finance Committee was not presented in good faith.

Chair the Finance Committee, missing approximately 90 percent of club budget hearings.

Call a meeting of the Finance Committee to deliberate on the budget.

In due diligence regarding following internal controls relating to signing of contracts.

“The treasurer has not been fulfilling those duties, and it is absurd that he was absent at 90 percent of the budget hearings,” Valdez said. “We had

to go outside of him to get the budget prepared, [done with] the help of Dan Pastuf. I’m glad that we were able to suspend his pay. Maybe that will motivate him to go to the office and work.”

The Senate will immediately begin to collect student signatures because it, as a whole, wants to ensure that future officials complete their set duties. The Senate wants to set precedent and show that it will use its power to recall officials if they fail in their positions.

“Really when you think about it, I don’t represent SA; I represent students,” said On-Campus Senator Kittie Pizzutelli. “That’s my job as an oncampus senator. I’m not paid by SA. We’re doing [this] as individual students taking initiative.”

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continued from page 1: ivcf derecognized Upon being elected, Jackson and the rest of IVCF’s e-board were required to sign a “basis of faith” statement, committing themselves to a series of evangelical Christian beliefs, such as the absolute truth of the Bible. Certain Bible verses condemn homosexuality.

en Hall-Lochman Van Bennekom, spoke for the club along with other club members. Tamazian said a joint CMA and Student Life investigation determined that the club is not in violation of any federal, state, or university anti-discrimination policies.

suggesting that many sports clubs discriminate on the basis of gender.

put toward a new organization with a similar purpose.

“So are you saying that restricting leadership is in no way restricting membership?” Jackson responded.

After determining that the constitution violated university anti-discrimination policy, SA told the club numerous times to remove the basis of faith from its constitution, but IVCF repeatedly refused to do so.

The CMA and the Office of Student Life couldn’t be reached for this story.

Tamazian said sports teams can allow a person to be a teammate but not officially compete, so the IVCF should be able to allow a person who does not sign its basis of faith to be a member but not an officer.

“I feel like to some extent with all that happened around the case…I think there was a lot of bias, but that’s impossible to avoid with this kind of situation,” said Tamazian. “I hope that before we graduate we are able to be recognized by the SA as we have in years past, but I don't know what’s going to happen.”

“I think [IVCF’s derecognition] was long overdue…The IVCF broke the law by discriminating in the way that they did,” Jackson said after the decision. “And while I initially supported them remaining a campus organization, the fact that they continued going on with a practice that they were told was against the law, against the rules, and said we’re not going to change anything, that was just disrespectful to the word of the law and the people who they have been discriminating against.”

IVCF volunteer John Coles, a Ph.D. student in industrial and systems engineering, said the Senate is misunderstanding the subtleties of the legal argument. He requested that the SA and IVCF lawyers sit down to “hash out the legal issues” before the Senate makes a decision.

Tamazian compared the IVCF to sports clubs,

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The Senate motioned to move into a closed executive session, and after over an hour of deliberation, it decided to derecognize the group. Any funds the club attained are to be taken by SA and

The derecognized IVCF will no longer be funded

by SA and will not be allowed to use classrooms for official meetings. The Campus Ministries Association (CMA), however, still recognizes the club.

At Sunday’s meeting, the club had the opportunity to show why it is not in violation of any anti-discrimination policies. Shant Tamazian, filling in for IVCF Outreach Coordinator Quint-

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continued from page 16: two’s a party, three’s a crowd “I take pride in being able to command the offense and command the huddle,” Licata said. “And show these guys that I’m able to play the game of football, and play quarterback, and be able to control the offense. It was big for me and big for the team.”

Zordich ended his first half with a 42yard touchdown to Neutz, going 8-for11 with three touchdowns and 162 yards in the half.

He proved to be a dual threat, as he also ran for 34 yards. Zordich was all over the place in the backfield and, in one broken play, scrambled 25 yards behind the line of scrimmage before completing a 10-yard pass.

“He was out there showing and demonstrating what he is capable of doing,” Quinn said. “It’s not always about accuracy and throws. It’s about getting out of some tough situations and he

did that today. He scrambled and made some key plays down the stretch.”

Quinn said he would not name a starter until after fall camp to give all applicants a chance to separate themselves from the others. However, he believes that the Bulls will need more than one consistent quarterback if they want to win with their schedule.

The men going for the job are willing to wait for an answer and prove why they should get the first snap in the fall and feel the continued competition will help the entire team improve.

“I think competition is always good,” Licata said. “It’s sports, it’s football.

You always compete, you always want to compete. You never want be comfortable with your position, you want to always have someone there. You always want to fight for the job and you want to earn it, so I think it’s great for the team.”

The main target at wideout on the day was Neutz. He finished with six receptions for 112 yards and two touchdowns.

Neutz had surgery on his wrist in November and was fully tested for the first time at the spring game.

“I thought today was a really good test,” Neutz said. “It really is a confidence issue, a mental thing. Structurally, the wrist is healed and the surgery went very well…Going back out there today was an awesome test. I got to block, everything was full go, catch and tackle. It felt good, it was an awesome experience.”

The Bulls are also looking to their tight ends to get more involved in the passing game. Redshirt freshman tight end Matt Weiser and junior tight end Alex Dennison each had over 50 yards receiving and a touchdown.

Junior running back Branden Oliver caught a pass from Licata to start the game and was given the ball for the second play. He led the way in the rushing department with 77 yards, while junior running back Brandon Murie followed with 54.

The game featured a distinct scoring system to determine a winner. Any offensive scores were awarded the traditional amount of points. However, first downs for offensive and third down stops for defensive were worth a point.

Additional points were given for other situations as well.

The offense was up 67-19 at the half with the help of five first half touchdowns and a field goal. The teams’ scores were then switched to give the offense an opportunity to play from behind and the defense won a much closer second half, 13-12. Neutz attributed the success of the offense to having learned the system under offensive coordinator Alex Wood last season and the defense

still adjusting to a new system and defensive coordinator.

“We feel real good,” Neutz said. “The defense has a new position coach, obviously. So they got a little bit to learn.

But offensively, we’re coming back with coach Wood, our second year with the offensive coordinator. So we didn’t have to learn too much more this year.

So it’s good knowing [that we already have] that confidence going to into the spring.”

The defensive star was senior linebacker Willie Moseley. He finished the day tied for the most tackles with eight and the most for loss with four. He also put a furious hit on Davis for a sack.

The Bulls’ spring schedule is complete and they look to go into summer workouts before starting fall camp. Their first game is Sept. 1 at Southeastern Conference powerhouse Georgia.

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continued from page 16: luck shines down on buffalo “It was great all weekend long, we battled and never gave up,” said head coach Ron Torgalski. “A couple of times we were down and we always fought back, tied it, and gave ourselves an opportunity. It was great to have three close games like that to see how we respond.”

It was a series capped off with momentum-shifting hits by both teams, and solid pitching by the Bulls starters. Senior pitcher Cameron Copping had a dominant outing in the first game of Friday’s doubleheader, throwing for 8 1/3 innings and allowing one unearned run. Copping was in command throughout the contest, keeping the Akron batters off balance, often forcing tentative swings and striking batters out. Copping had eight strikeouts on the day.

Copping, who leads the Bulls in total innings pitched and strikeouts, had been pitching well of late. Head coach Ron Torgalski was not surprised by Copping’s effort.

Bulls have lost seven games on their last at-bat this season, and after the double put the winning run at the plate, it looked as though it might be déjà vu for the home team.

“Cameron threw well again for us,” Torgalski said. “This is four conference games in a row that he has really stepped up, he knew that it was a must win situation for us, the ball was in the right man’s hands he stepped up and did a great job he pitched ahead all day and was really impressive.”

Fortunately for the Bulls, junior relief pitcher River McWilliams came in and slammed the door on Akron, retiring the next two batters he faced and securing the win.

Copping did eventually get into some trouble in the final frame. Akron outfielder Jared Turocy hit a line drive deep to left field, but Buffalo was unable to retrieve a catchable ball as Turocy made it safely in scoring position at second base. The

“Usually in a situation like that in the past we made an error and haven’t bounced back,” Torgalski said. “We were able to put it behind us and finish the game it was great to see guys are learning there getting it done and they didn’t let it affect them.”

Senior Jeff Thompson came out in the

second part of the doubleheader and systematically mowed down Akron’s lineup.

Thompson had command of his pitches and stayed ahead of batters, throwing strikes early in counts and making batters chase late. He had seven strikeouts on the day, but it couldn’t last, as the Zips finally made things interesting, scoring three in the eight and running Thompson.

“I think he ran out of gas, we were pushing him. He was throwing well, he had them off balance, he was in control the whole game and I think he just got tired,” Torgalski said.

The Bulls were eventually able to tie the game, and both teams settled down as the game extended for a wild 16 innings in total. The Zips were able to bring a run in at the top of the 16th, as the Bulls could

not respond.

For the Bulls the loss was a tough one to swallow, but Torgalski rounded his team up and told them to put it behind them, and that the team that is mentally tougher will come out on top.

His words would prove to be prophetic, as the Bulls were able to take that game and the series.

The Bulls will stay home, as they take on local rival Niagara (13-18, 5-6 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) in a doubleheader at Amherst Audubon Field on Tuesday. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m.

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5 Graft recipient

9 Kindergarten adhesive

14 Diva's solo

15 Teensy bit

16 Tin Pan ___

17 Be utile

20 "The King's ___"

21 Barrister's headgear

22 Shell competitor

23 Unambiguous response

24 "___ So Fine" (Chiffons)

26 Big bird of the pampas

28 Cookie celebrating 100 years 30 Wooden footwear

34 Told too many times

37 Barber's quick job

39 Native Indian in the British army

40 Where advancing is the only option

44 Cessation of breathing 45 Polar bird

46 Word on wine bottles

47 Pea or bean, e.g.

49 Belgrade citizen, perhaps

51 Academic period

53 Cross-reference word 54 "Caught in the act!"

57 "Miracle on Ice" opponent

60 "Promise to pay" letters

62 Voter's sheet

64 What rules are, essentially

67 Dried plum 68 Piece together film

69 Be a farrier

70 Word with "common" or "horse"

71 Adams and Ameche

72 "Legal" opener

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Edward Benoit’s Super Sick NFL Mock Draft 2012

Monday, April 16, 2012

seven drafts. Jacksonville, meanwhile, has the luxury of being able to trade down while still being able to land a much-needed defensive lineman in a draft that’s deep at the position.

8. Miami Dolphins – Ryan Tannehill, Quarterback, Texas A&M

Self-proclaimed draft expert breaks down the first 16 picks EDWARD BENOIT Managing Editor, Spectrum Fantasy Football League champion If you’re like me (and you probably aren’t), you’re extremely excited for the 2012 NFL Draft. And with the real thing just around the corner, now’s the time of year where draftniks the Internet over begin formulating their mocks. Usually, these prove to be a tremendous waste of time because projecting beyond, like, the fifth pick of the first round gets really dicey. As the (ahem) reigning Spectrum Fantasy Football League champion, however, I feel it is my duty to give the world my best shot. Without further ado…

1. Indianapolis Colts – Andrew Luck, Quarterback, Stanford This pick is pretty much set in stone and has been since the moment the Colts let Peyton Manning go. There is, however, a small but vocal contingent that clamors for Baylor’s Robert Griffin III at this pick. While RG3 is undoubtedly an incredible prospect, Luck’s accuracy (a 71.3 completion percentage playing on a less-than-talented Stanford team) and brains (he calls audibles at the line, and will soon be a Stanford grad) ultimately make him the pick.

2. Washington Redskins – Robert Griffin III, Quarterback, Baylor Another pick you can pencil in as a sure thing. The Redskins, after all, didn’t trade away three years’ worth of first round picks for nothing.

3. Minnesota Vikings – Matt Kalil, Offensive Tackle, USC There’s recently been a lot of talk about the Vikings trading down out of this pick, but ultimately I don’t buy it. Kalil fills a huge need, and will automatically make Christian Ponder, Percy Harvin, and Adrian Peterson more effective.

4. Cleveland Browns – Trent Richardson, Running Back, Alabama Despite all the swirling rumors about the Browns wanting to deal this pick, I ultimately think they’re going to stay put. They already have a league-topping 13 picks in this year’s draft, plus Cleveland’s offense is perhaps the least talented in the league in terms of skill guys after the front office let Peyton Hillis go. Richardson would automatically give the Browns a running game again.

5. Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Morris Claiborne, Cornerback, LSU There’s a pretty good chance that both Aqib Talib and Ronde Barber might not be on the Bucs’ roster in the near future (the former because of jail, and the latter because of retirement), therefore rendering cornerback a pretty big need. The fact the Bucs play in the same division as Drew Brees, Cam Newton, and Matt Ryan should make this pick that much more obvious.

6. St. Louis Rams – Justin Blackmon, Wide Receiver, Oklahoma State The Rams need a receiver; Sam Bradford can’t throw nine-yard ins to Danny Amendola forever and expect to win his team football games. Blackmon is the natural selection here.

7. Philadelphia Eagles (after trade w/ Jacksonville) – Riley Rieff, Offensive Tackle, Iowa Fact: The Eagles’ top-heavy roster is built to win now. Fact: Jason Peters’ ruptured Achilles’ tendon is the biggest obstacle to the Eagles winning now. The Eagles, therefore, will ship their first round pick and one of their two second round selections the Jags’ way to grab Rieff, lest the Bills take him at 10, and skip the obligatory defensive lineman Philly has picked first in four of the last

After totally whiffing on Manning, Flynn, and even Alex Smith (who is, like, the 28th-best passer in the league, yet still too good to consider playing in Miami, apparently), the Dolphins totally reach here for the inexperienced Tannehill.

9. New York Jets (after trade w/ Carolina) – Michael Floyd, Wide Receiver, Notre Dame The UB football team scrimmaged it's offense against it's defense in preparation for the coming season.

The Jets have been aggressive in the draft under GM Mike Tannenbaum; the team has traded up in the first round twice since he took over the position in 2006. The Jets really luck out here, as both Melvin Ingram and Michael Floyd are still on the board. Seeing as Tannenbaum is 100 percent accountable for the fiasco that is Mark Sanchez, it’s in his best interest to improve his offense with this pick.

10. Buffalo Bills – Luke Keuchly, Linebacker, Boston College Though the Bills really need a tackle, it’ll be hard for Buffalo to pass up Keuchly if he falls down to 10, and it’s hard for me not to give Buffalo Keuchly here. (Plus there isn’t an elite tackle prospect to take at this point in this scenario anyway.)

11. Kansas City Chiefs – Melvin Ingram, Defensive End, South Carolina A lot of mocks have Stanford guard David DeCastro going here – needless to say, I don’t think that happens. Not even Todd Haley values interior offensive lineman that highly. Instead, the Chiefs totally luck out in this scenario and grab the versatile Ingram, who can play both 4-3 defensive end and 3-4 rush linebacker.

12. Seattle Seahawks – Quentin Coples, Defensive End, North Carolina This pick’s kind of tricky, in part because most “professional” mock drafts by non-Spectrum Fantasy Football League champions have Keuchly landing here.

I, however, am pretty sure Coples will be the pick. His character concerns will cause a lot of teams to shy away, but Pete Carroll has a history of bringing in players with such concerns before and getting production out of them (cf. Mike Williams and Marshawn Lynch).

13. Arizona Cardinals – Dontari Poe, Defense Tackle, Memphis Arizona’s defense was pretty bad last year, and the athletic Dontari Poe could go a long way toward fixing that, provided he gets his act together in the pros.

Two’s a Party, Three’s a Crowd Quarterback Tony Daniel proved that he is a viable candidate for the starting role BRYAN FEILER Sports Editor In an already heated position battle, the two players vying for the starting quarterback job welcomed another player to the competition following the football team’s spring game.

Current frontrunner for the job, junior quarterback Alex Zordich threw for a game-high 183 yards and three passing touchdowns with his top competition going into the game, redshirt freshman quarterback Joe Licata, posting 99 yards with a touchdown and an interception.

Redshirt freshman Tony Daniel made a strong case for the starting role by leading all quarterbacks with 19 completions. He had a stretch where he completed nine straight passes. He also showed his versatility as a runner with 62 rushing yards

during his reps in the four-man rotation at quarterback. “[Zordich and Licata] are the two guys that we are really going to look at carefully to be that guy to take that first snap against Georgia,” said head coach Jeff Quinn. “But you can’t dismiss what you saw out of [senior quarterback] Jerry [Davis] in a couple moments in the game today. And also Tony Daniel, he was as loose as any of them and he did a good job commanding the offense, so that’s a good situation.”

Daniel’s first series under center was highlighted by his running ability.

He broke out for two runs, both over 10 yards, and then kept the chains moving by converting a third and one on a quarterback keeper. That drive ended with senior fullback Rashad Jean jumping over the pile for a score.

Luck Shines Down on Buffalo

Bulls win first conference series in two years in walk-off fashion BRANDON BARNES Staff Writer Bottom of the ninth: tied score, two outs, and a full count.

It is the perfect scenario everyone envisions in a baseball game, and it was the exact situation junior first baseman Alex Baldock found himself in Saturday versus Akron.

The Bulls (9-20, 3-8 Mid-American Conference) have seen the other side of this situation, as they have struggled in one-run games and have been subjected to walk-off hits by the opposition. With the game and the series in the balance, Baldock was in position to buck that season long

trend, but he popped a seemingly harmless fly ball to shallow left field.

However, it was windy day at Amherst Audubon Field, and the ball hung in the air and carried farther than second baseman Tyler Begun had anticipated, as he started to rapidly backpedal. The ball bounced off the top of his glove and landed in play.

That play gave Buffalo an emotional 7-6 win and a series victory against conference rival Akron (14-21, 7-5 MAC) after thirty-four innings of baseball over two exhausting days. It is the first series win in the MAC for the Bulls since the 2010 season. continued on page 14

14. Dallas Cowboys – Mark Barron, Safety, Alabama

Jacksonville trades down and snags the versatile Upshaw. While he probably won’t play at linebacker at all in the pros – he weighs in at 270-plus pounds – he’ll make a good run-stuffing defensive end for the defensively oriented Jags.

16. Carolina Panthers (after trade w/ NYJ) – Michael Brockers, Defensive Tackle, LSU The Panthers are in dire need of an interior defensive lineman, and are apparently really impressed with Brockers, as they worked him out recently. Notice how in this scenario they can grab him here, vindicating the choice to trade down.

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Despite being disappointed with his play, Licata had the most impressive drive of the day. Taking over with just 49 seconds left in the half, Licata marched the offense 65 yards down the field and capped the drive with an eight-yard pass to junior wide receiver Alex Neutz as time expired.

“That was a great drive if you look at it,” Quinn said. “We needed some momentum and that’s what I kept telling him. We weren’t going to take a timeout and he didn’t have to because we were at about the eight yard line and he spiked the ball to stop the clock, which was a heads up play by him and he was able to connect with Neutz right before the half.”

Licata threw the lone pick and went 7-for-13, but proved he can lead the offense despite being a freshman. continued on page 14

Watt Turns Heads

in Portsmouth TYLER CADY Senior Sports Editor Mitchell Watt’s stay at the Portsmouth Invitational came to an end on Saturday. But he left an impact that will likely linger with NBA scouts well beyond the four-day tournament.

Watt picked a good time to have an impressive showing, as scouts from all 30 NBA teams were on hand for the tournament that has sent over 100 players to the NBA in the past decade.

The senior forward averaged 12.3 points, nine rebounds and four blocks per game over his three-game stint.

Watt helped his team (Norfolk Sports Club) to a 2-1 record on its way to winning the consolation bracket.

His performance peaked in his final game when he put up a double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds.

The Cowboys have a gapping hole at the safety position and SEC defensive backs typically translate well to the NFL. Being in a division with Eli Manning, Michael Vick, and, now, RG3 helps with the choice to go defensive back here.

15. Jacksonville Jaguars (after trade w/ Philadelphia) – Courtney Upshaw, Defensive End, Alabama

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He finished the tournament second on his team in scoring and third in rebounding while averaging over 28 minutes per game.

Nick Fischetti /// The Spectrum Senior pitcher Cameron Copping pitched 8.1 innings and combined eight strikeouts with just one earned run to get his second win of the year

The ultimate goal of this performance is to have his name called on June 28 – the night of the NBA draft.

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Athletics Receives Two Donations TYLER CADY Senior Sports Editor The UB athletic department received one of its largest donations in history on Sunday.

Tunney Murchie, a former UB hockey player, and his family gave $1 million to the university. The money will be used for facilities upgrades or capital projects in UB Stadium and Alumni Arena.

In return for his generous gift, Buffalo has decided to name the football center at UB Stadium “The Murchie Family Football Center.”

The money will first go toward a new entrance to the football offices and other upgrades to the look of the facility.

Murchie is a member of the class of 1975 and earned his MBA a year later at UB. His wife Deanna is also an alumnus, graduating in 1974 with a degree in public health. The two have been suite holders at UB Stadium since 2009.

Murchie had previously donated to the triple gym upgrade in 2009, but did so under the name of his former hockey coach Edward Wright.

Murchie’s gift was not the only generous donation that the Bulls received on Sunday.

John “Bear” Dempsey’s estate was committed to the athletic department. As a member of the 1958 Lambert Cup team, Dempsey’s contribution will go to the 1958 Lambert Cup team scholarship fund, which now totals over $500,000.

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