The Spectrum Volume 61 Issue 77

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Friday, April 20, 2011

Vol. 61 NO. 77

Khan Emails Budget Instead of Attending Senate

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Life

LISA EPSTEIN Asst. News Editor Student Association Treasurer Sikander Khan sent out the 2012-13 proposed budget on Monday after not attending Sunday’s Senate meeting.

Never Forget When Matt Huberfeld, a junior communication major, was 10 years old he began to learn about the Holocaust in Hebrew school. When his grandmother was 10 years old, she was living it. Story on Page 8

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Alexa Strudler /// The Spectrum The Student Association assembly decided to back the Senate’s petition after Senate Chair Darwinson Valdez presented to the body during Wednesday’s meeting.

At that meeting, Senate started a petition to recall Khan and suspended his pay.

SA Assembly Backs Senate Recall Petition

Engineering Coordinator Dan Pastuf made a budget because Khan failed to make his own budget by the April 14 deadline. Khan never called a finance meeting in the fall semester, according to Pastuf. However, Khan made and sent out his own budget at 12:52 a.m. on Monday.

REBECCA BRATEK Managing Editor On Wednesday evening, the Student Association Assembly unanimously passed a resolution to support the Senate’s efforts to recall SA Treasurer Sikander Khan. The decision was made after Senate Chair Darwinson Valdez implored the body to join with and boost the Senate’s efforts.

Pandas Add Strength To Their “Foundation” These pandas have dubbed their way across the country, bringing fresh paint to the roots of reggae while keeping red, yellow, and green as primary colors. Mindful, psychedelic, relentless, and eerie are a few of the best ways to describe this airtight group. Story on Page 7

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“I’m thankful the Assembly agreed with the Senate, but I don’t think it was good enough,” Valdez said. “ But I’m really grateful that Assembly is helping us and hopefully we can have something done by tomorrow.” When the Assembly last met, it decided to table any discussions surrounding Khan, his involvement with Virtual Academix, and how he

almost spent $300,000 on a mobile application. But at Wednesday’s meeting, the body was ready to take a stand.

Khan claimed that he hadn’t sent out the budget earlier because he hadn’t received a consensus from the finance committee and said that he took Pastuf’s budget into consideration when writing his budget. Senate Chair Darwinson Valdez said that he doesn’t care which budget is chosen, but he wants to use whatever budget is best.

The Assembly again chose not to exercise its constitutional right of initiating recall procedures because of the current timetable – there are only 11 days left in the semester and Khan’s term – and because threefifths of the body’s members would have to sign the petition. Only

SA has seen a deficit of approximately $140,000 in its budget, and Khan’s budget estimates a net income of $14,877.50 after revenue and expenses are calculated. Last year’s budget, put together by then SA Treasurer Anthony Roman, estimated a net income of approximately $4,635.

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A Time to Remember and a Time to Forget “It took a little longer for our train to get the people out,” Diamond said. “I don’t know what happened. So one of the storm troopers tells the service man that was in charge: ‘What’s taking so long to get these dummies out?’ He said: ‘Sir, some lady just gave birth and we’re trying to protect the child.’ The guy goes right up, picks up the little tiny baby and kicks it like a football.”

WESTON SHAPIRO Staff Writer At the age of 15, Joe Diamond awoke to German soldiers barging into his home. They dragged him and his family out into the streets of his small town within Czechoslovakia. As he was hauled away, all he could hear was the ridicule coming from the window of one of his neighbors: “Can I have your winter coat?” The acts of slaughter and destruction committed during the Holocaust almost 70 years ago still resonate within many. The murder of over 11 million innocent people – of which 6 million were Jewish – between the years of 1933 and 1945 shows how low the depths of human morality can sink. Hillel, the internationally run Jewish organization at UB, asked Joe Diamond, a Holocaust survivor, to speak this past Wednesday night. Diamond is a speaker for The Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo. He is one of the few who survived the onslaught of the Germans during World War II in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He told his story to 60 people in the Hillel lounge.

Diamond will never forget these moments.

Hanul Ryou /// The Spectrum Joe Diamond is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who spoke at Hillel, UB’s jewish organization, about his experience during one of the darkest moment’s in history.

The progression of the Nazi control over the 12-year period did not start off with the immediate killing of what Hitler and his regime considered “impure people.” It was a slow progression, as described by Diamond: a snowball effect of basic human rights being taken from the Jewish people, eventually leading up to their entrapment.

The Jewish people, along with homosexuals, the handicapped, and others deemed “unfit to be part of the human race” in Hitler’s eyes were shipped to concentration camps in boxcars on trains. The Germans packed them in like sardines, Diamond said, with a single bucket of water per car to survive the journey.

When he arrived, a German officer and two army men greeted Diamond, his 7-year-old brother, and his parents. His mother and brother were deemed “unfit” for slave labor and were sent off to a residential camp, also known as a gas chamber. Diamond never saw his mother or younger brother again. Diamond did anything he could to survive. Once he asked a German soldier for some spare bread. Diamond vividly remembers the officer throwing the piece on the ground only to watch 20 people dive toward it like animals. Continued on page 8

Doubles Play Loses Two Matches for Bulls The women’s tennis team has been struggling to win doubles matches since entering conference play. However, it needed the point in both matches this weekend. Story on Page 12

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Bulls Keep on Streaking Offense overpowers Niagara as Buffalo sweeps series BRANDON BARNES Staff Writer There were two outs, runners on first and second base, and the count in the pitcher’s favor. When all seemed lost, a rookie player on the softball team connected on a moonshot into deep left-center field. It didn’t leave the yard, but the first inside-the-park homer of the season came at an opportune time. The Bulls (14-21, 5-5 Mid-American Conference) hosted Big Four rival Niagara (9-20, 2-2 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) for a doubleheader on Wednesday. They swept the day, winning both contests while putting on a dynamic hitting and base running display. Buffalo won the first game 11-0 in five innings and took the second game, 9-6. In the middle of all of the offensive fireworks, freshman outfielder Karly Nevez had a big day. The young outfielder scored four runs, including the go-ahead homer to sink the Purple Eagles’ chances.

“Not gonna lie, I was surprised,” Nevez said. “I was thinking: ‘don’t hit it to the shortstop.’ All I thought: ‘get a hit, get on.’” In both contests the Bulls saw the ball exceptionally well, making solid contact and driving pitches into the gaps. The Bulls finished with 20 hits and 20 runs combined. In the first game, Buffalo sophomore pitcher Tori Speckman was dominant. Speckman allowed one hit and struck out six in five innings. She kept the Niagara batters off balance; they took flailing, weak, halfhearted swings with regularity. “I think Tori is starting to find some of the confidence that she had last year,” said head coach Jennifer Teague. “A lot of people don’t know but we are dealing with a little bit of a hand injury with her so we changed some of her grip. She is finally getting to the point where she is getting comfortable with it.” Continued on page 8

Tinghao Zhang /// The Spectrum Karly Nevez digs out an inside-the-park homerun giving the Bulls the lead for good in a 9-6 victory on Wednesday. With a double-header sweep the Bulls have won six of their last seven games.


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