The Spectrum Volume 62 Issue 14

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volume 62 no. 14

WedneSday, october 3, 2012

Catching up with Warde

A look inside UB’s paintball community Stories on page 6

Story on page 12

Memorializing Danny Chen UB honors the one-year anniversary of a soldier’s suicide LISA EPSTEIN Asst. News Editor

COURTESY OF THE CHEN FAMILY

Danny Chen was dragged from his top bunk in the middle of the night, his head hitting the floor first, knocking him unconscious. He was dragged across 40 yards of gravel into the middle of a courtyard, scraping and bruising his back, while being taunted and physically attacked by his fellow soldiers. The Asian American teen was tormented relentlessly by superiors, and witnesses did nothing.

This was what Private Chen lived through serving in the U.S. Army.

On Oct. 3, 2011, Chen committed suicide in a guard tower on his base in Afghanistan. He was 19 years old.

Danny was accepted to UB but never attended the university Eight Greek organizations and 17 SA clubs are commemorating the servicemen and all soldiers who passed away because of bullying or hazing in the Danny Chen Project. The event, organized by senior urban policy major Nelson Yu of the

Asian American Student Union (AASU), is set to raise awareness about anti-bullying and hazing in general. Yu said that the event, which will be held on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. in Knox 20, is for everyone.

“This not only can happen to a soldier, but it can happen to a basketball player, a football player, a regular high school student – it can happen to any one of us,” Yu said.

When Yu became president of his club, he planned on doing more events to reach out to the public and connect with events like the Danny Chen Project.

Danny’s cousin, sophomore art major Banny Chen, attended part of the trial of Sergeant Adam Holcomb, who was found guilty on July 30, 2012 of assault and battery and two counts of maltreatment for using racial slurs and dragging Danny over 40 yards of gravel. “[Witnesses] said they saw Danny the whole time and he wasn’t struggling, so they guessed that he was unconscious when he hit the ground,” Banny said.

“When he got up, he was really dazed and didn’t know what was going on. Someone saw his back

and took a picture, and he was roughed up and bruised.”

Banny said Danny was called names like “Ch*nk and “Dragonlady,” and he was told to yell out commands in Chinese, even though he was the only ChineseAmerican in the unit.

“Me and Danny, we would chat on Facebook every now and then – every time he got a chance to go to a computer,” Banny said.

“He never talked about anything like that going on. To me, he was just like every other teenager. He wasn’t a bad guy or anything.”

At the time of the trial, Holcomb was a non-commissioned officer in the Army. Yu said Wednesday night’s participants partnered with the Organization of Chinese Americans from the New York City division to petition for 1,003 signatures – which signifies the date of Danny’s suicide – to discharge Holcomb from the Army. AASU has put together a second petition – directed to U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta – attempting to stop military hazing.

AASU is a social-political club that deals with political issues in the media and hosts social events, according to Yu. He said Continued on page 10

The UB community is coming together to memorialize a suicide victim, Private Danny Chen.

Fracking discussion continues Faculty Senate, UB Council respond to community criticisms REBECCA BRATEK and SARA DINATALE Managing Editor and Senior News Editor Protesters holding hot pink signs stood outside UB’s Faculty Senate meeting on Tuesday at the Center for Tomorrow at 3 p.m.

Members of UB’s Coalition for Leading Ethically in Academic Research (UBCLEAR) handed out materials to the incoming faculty senators, calling for “academic integrity and transparency.”

UBCLEAR has been requesting the university fully disclose the founding, funding and governance of UB’s controversial Shale Institute since August, when UBCLEAR wrote a letter against the institute endorsed by 83 faculty members. The group’s support has grown to include over 600 community members.

During the Senate meeting, English professor James Holstun intended to hand a petition signed by over 600 New York State citizens to President Satish Tripathi, who was present at the meeting.

Faculty Senate Chair Ezra Zubrow said Holstun could not do so. If he wanted to give the petition to Zubrow he could, but no one else.

“Since this is not the office of the president or the provost, if you would like to give it directly to the president or the provost, I have to ask you to make an appointment

The naked truth about Billy the Kid KEREN BARUCH Life Editor

ALINE KOBAYASHI///THE SPECTRUM

Nathan Buckley, left, and James Holstun, right, stand holding signs in protest of UB’s Shale Institute at Tuesday’s Faculty Senate meeting.

and give it to them directly and not do it here,” Zubrow told Holstun.

Zubrow then stated, “I’m not making it open for discussion.”

Holstun handed the petition to Tripathi once outside the meeting, on public grounds. The president then took it.

The petition calls for the suspension of the institute until the public is provided full disclosure, an independent investigation and public discussion regarding the Shale Institute.

INSIDE

UB’s Faculty Senate is the elected official representative body of voting faculty members. The Oct. 2 meeting was the first of this year.

On Monday, the UB Council met for its first meeting of the 2012-13 school year. Both UB Council and the Faculty Senate discussed issues facing the university community – namely the legitimacy of the Shale Research and Society Institute (SRSI) and its first report – and the new developments across campuses.

Continued on page 7

OPINION 3 NEWS 4

Moments before starting a new job, Dan Horner was asked two questions: if he needed a minute to “clean up” and if he was wearing his cock ring.

The answer to the former was no, he had been shaving his pubes for years. He lost his virginity at the age of 12, after all. To the latter he asked: what’s that?

Before he received a response, it was his turn to walk on stage.

Horner, better known by his stripper name, Billy the Kid, attended UB class Sexual Communication (COM 492) last Thursday as a guest speaker. Lance Rintamaki, a professor in the department of communication, invited the stripper to lecture to his class for the second year in a row.

The room was filled over capacity. Even students who weren’t enrolled in the class wanted to hear what the stripper had to say.

His stripping career started one night in 2003 at Peppermints, a club in Canada. During that first performance, the thrill of what Billy the Kid was about to do got his blood pumping. It started in his head, then moved down to his heart and his penis.

Then 23-year-old Horner discovered he did not need a cock ring – a rubber band that keeps the blood flowing inside the penis so men can stay harder for longer. Although he was an amateur at the time, he stayed

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COURTESY OF DAN HORNER

Dan Horner, also known as Billy the Kid, lectured in Lance Rintamaki’s sexual communication class about his life as a stripper and gay porn star.

hard for a total of three songs on his own, pleasing the hundreds of women standing before him as they shouted for more.

His fellow strippers, standing behind him, preparing to make their entrance, clapped in shock.

Never before had they seen someone stay hard for so long without a cock ring.

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Happy birthday to me JAKE KNOTT Staff Writer Oct. 3, 1992 is my documented birthday.

But I don’t consider it the day I was born.

The revamped Jake Knott was propelled into existence sometime around sixth or sev-

The birds, the bees and the STDS Buffalo schools require an efficient sex ed program Abstinence-only sex education doesn’t work, and Buffalo Public School students have quickly proven it.

A report by The New York Civil Liberties Union analyzed sex education curricula taught at 82 school districts and found disturbing errors: medical inaccuracies, incomplete information, ineffective abstinence-only instruction and gender biases.

Even more disturbing and closer to home came the statistics from the Buffalo Public Schools 2011 Youth Risk Behaviors Survey. BPS students have a 20 percent higher sex rate than the state average, 16 percent of Buffalo middle school students are having sex (nearly half of those students report having had three or more sexual partners) and the total number of students with four or more sexual partners is 41 percent higher than the state average.

The statistics are hard to choke down, but here’s one more for the road: almost half of BPS students were reported as never learning about HIV/ AIDS in school. If kids can’t be stopped from having sex – and let’s face it, they can’t – then

there is an immediate need to help educate them. These kids are making poor decisions because they aren’t being educated.

Christopher Spicer of Planned Parenthood of WNY associated it with one of Buffalo’s biggest problems: “Unintended teen pregnancy is a major contributor to poverty.

And Buffalo has an issue with poverty.”

The poverty connection is understandable. Raising a child is expensive, and raising a child when you’re a teenager and the best job you can get is at your local grocery store is a struggle.

You have streets full of teenagers who can’t support their children financially so those children grow up in poverty and are neglected a good education in turn.

Buffalo’s problem is this cycle, where people in poverty stay in poverty and pass it on because there are no opportunities to get out of it. It all goes back to education. This would happen far less if students were just educated – and not just about abstinence but also how to be safe and protected. If you tell kids how wrong sex is and

they shouldn’t have it or are even forbidden to have it, the natural reaction for a teenager is to rebel.

But one of the main arguments is always if you give a teenager contraception, they’re going to have it as an excuse to have sex. Many would still rather take the risk to not provide contraceptives or even the knowledge of how to use them in the hope that they won’t have sex. In other words, the sex education system is based on hopes and prayers.

Buffalo Public Schools are now taking a step in the right direction by working with Planned Parenthood, Buffalo Community Council on Comprehensive Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, the Erie County Department of Health and other community partners to host community forums addressing youth sex in the city.

Now they need to take the next step and actually give these kids something that will help and save them.

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Face the nation

Both candidates need to bring their A game in tonight’s debate

After months of campaigning and preparation, the gloves go on tonight for the first presidential debate. In one corner, wearing blue, incumbent and President of the United States Barack Obama. In the other, donning red, Republican nominee and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

Most of the importance is being put on Romney, but this debate is crucial for both candidates.

Rasmussen Reports Daily Tracking Poll shows President Obama attracting support from 48 percent of voters and Mitt Romney attracting 47 percent.

Other polls published this week have the candidates within three points of each other.

While most people have already made their decision, there are still the swing voters left to be accounted for. A Pew Research Center survey conducted in April found nearly a quarter of registered voters (23 percent) identified themselves as swing voters, and Romney and Obama are still heavily campaigning in nine states.

Notice the strange shift in responsibility that’s currently going on. When Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan started downplaying how important this is for his running mate, you knew it was because Romney isn’t quite as secure as he’d like to be yet. But when Obama beenth grade, when my dad opened life’s curtains and exposed my mind to true cinema. Since then, life has unstructured before my eyes; it has evolved beyond its restricted boundaries, making even the most unfathomable idea fall within my mental grip.

But the younger Jake was a stingy snake; he quaked at the thought of blossoming into maturity. He unconsciously attended school, digested his brain cells in video games and marooned himself in his room daily, where he staged elaborate battles with his G. I. Joe action figures.

I was already heavily influenced by television and film at a young age. Toy Story was the movie that affected my mind the most, and led me to have thorough conversations with my toys.

gan complimenting Romney on being a great debater and Romney on Obama being a great speaker, that’s when the nation got a small glimpse into the candidates’ minds. Neither is as secure as he’d like to be.

In a sense, this isn’t a debate between Obama and Romney; it’s Romney versus Romney – the Romney who knows how to debate versus the Romney who doesn’t know when to shut up.

But if Romney’s biggest challenge to overcome is himself, then so is the president’s.

At first look, it would seem Obama could just play it safe to come out on top, but he, too, needs to aim high. You wouldn’t know it from the last few weeks of campaigning, but Romney is great with his words, and he’s a great debater. He’s cool, comes back quickly and knows how and when to hit hard.

The only problem is he has a lot of ground to make up. Vague economic plans, and the now-infamous “47 percent” remarks are all working against him. He’s going to have to dodge Obama’s comments and come out with a clear victory, not just a free pass.

The president has already developed a system that he’s sticking with, but Romney’s campaign is doused in ambiguity. He has to come out hard tonight and make his plans

known, especially since the debate topics will mostly cover the economy and domestic policy.

And keep this in mind: this is Romney’s debut on this stage. The Republican nominee campaigned in 2008 but never received the party nomination.

Tonight will mark the first of three times he will share the national stage with the president.

As long as he doesn’t screw up, he should get a boost from the debate. And knowing him, that’s easier said than done.

Who thinks the debate is important? New Jersey Governor Chris Christie does. So does MSNBC host Alex Wagner, who likened Romney’s task to “the moment where he has to pull a sword from the stone à la King Arthur.”

Romney is in the unenviable position in that respect.

The Republican nominee almost has to have that breakthrough moment or at least make sure to prove a point. But in the same sense, President Obama has to prove he can effectively govern a second term and turn the economy around.

Expect them to come out swinging hard for those swing voters because they both need to quickly turn their games around on the stage tonight.

I would purposely convince myself, and my parents, that I could see one of my toys move by itself. My proposition did seem sound at the time. After all, the movie was all of the evidence I needed.

Dad changed everything. It took him a few relentless years to convince me to watch a nonkid movie – precisely 12. I was allergic to change, but I willfully watched this one movie to make him happy.

It was called Platoon – a 1986 Vietnam War film. I had previously seen films like Saving Private Ryan and Forrest Gump, so I had already been minimally exposed to screen violence and cursing.

None of that was new to me.

What piqued my interest was the dialogue in Platoon – the ghastly suspense between the two U.S Army sergeants. Sgt. Elias (Willem Dafoe) catches Staff Sgt. Barnes (Tom Berenger) illegally slaughtering Vietnamese civilians.

“This ain’t a firing squad, you piece of s***,” Elias said.

Platoon involved me further with its undaunted, relentless portrayal of humane evil. I had already seen some botched horror films, such as The Ring, IT and The Grudge. Platoon redefined horror to me; it didn’t have any bloodthirsty clowns or satanic children.

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Just a facade REBECCA BRATEK Managing Editor UB is faking it.

On the outside, UB has it all together: NYSUNY 2020 passed in June 2011 and was signed into law. Former President John. B. Simpson’s ambitious UB 2020 plan was finally able to come to fruition with help from the state.

Under this law, UB is able to raise tuition, hire more world-class faculty and fund expansive building projects across all three campuses.

What could sound better than SUNY’s crown jewel growing academically and financially? It’s a great idea – in theory.

But UB 2020 – at least this year – hasn’t done a whole lot, and the university still sings its praises.

On Sept. 19, President Satish Tripathi released a UB 2020 progress report in which he answered common questions about the ongoing plan. It seems these answers are a bit stretched and success is exaggerated.

“UB 2020 is not just a plan on paper; it’s in full motion,” Tripathi wrote. “This is a time of tremendous momentum and energy at UB, and we are making tangible progress every day.”

He noted that 85 faculty – from all disciplines – joined the UB community this fall, bringing even more bright minds to the campus. In five years, the university will be able to hire 250 new faculty members with help from the 2020 plan.

Yet during Monday’s UB Council meeting, new Provost Charles Zukoski announced that while UB gained these 85 new minds, the university didn’t really gain any more faculty – the new bodies just filled the spots of professors who retired or left for other reasons.

The university has actually lost more faculty than it hired this year, according to Zukoski. How is UB 2020 building a stronger faculty and, in turn, a stronger university if we can’t attract new minds? Don’t we have the money from the state and tuition increases?

Actually, the answer is no. According to Zukoski, even though students are paying an extra $300 in tuition per year, UB still isn’t financially ready to handle an influx in hiring; the university not only has to pay the salaries of these professors, but they each get a start-up package – a dowry, of sorts – that makes UB worth their while. These could bear hefty price tags, depending on whom the university is trying to attract, according to Zukoski.

UB had roughly 20,000 undergraduates last year. If you collected $300 from each student – and estimate the undergrad student body grew by at least 1,000 as the total number of students rose to about 30,000– it would amount to over $6 million in revenue for the university. Where is that money going?

We can’t forget the expansive building projects. Kapoor Hall, home to the pharmacy school, just opened on South Campus on Sept. 27. It cost $62 million, with $46 million coming from New York State.

Construction of the new medical campus on the already-standing Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus should start in the fall of 2013; phase one of the project alone will cost $375 million.

And these aren’t the only expansion projects.

In total, UB 2020 will cost $5 billion. Clearly the extra $300 from each student for five years could never add up to that much. The rest comes from New York State taxpayers, though you won’t hear Tripathi preaching that.

During Monday’s meeting, Tripathi also noted that at least 35 percent of UB’s student body is eligible for financial help. Yet students don’t receive their aid on time, and many forfeit basic living needs in order to pay tuition by the due date. Last year’s director of financial aid, Jennifer Pollard, even remarked that students were the ones to blame.

“Financial aid is there to pay your tuition, fees, books and help with any additional expenses you have, but I think a lot of students believe it’s just there to help support their lifestyle,” Pollard told The Spectrum. “We hear a lot of times that students can’t pay their rent, they can’t eat, get their car or are getting collection calls, and they put a lot of pressure on our offices. But we’re really here to supplement paying for their education … not responsible for paying their education.”

This year, the financial aid office rolled out a new financial aid advising program to curb problems before they start. It’s yet to be determined if the project is successful.

But anything is successful as long as tuition revenue is going up, right?

UB seems to only care about getting worldclass faculty and state-of-the-art buildings to look good on paper; when it comes down to it, students still aren’t getting the education advertised by the ambitious 2020 plan and are left in the dust as UB tries to compete with the nation’s top schools.

UB rose 15 spots on U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings list. But even Tripathi remarked these rankings mean nothing during Monday’s meeting.

Do they mean nothing? The university’s actions contradict Tripathi’s words.

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Free protesters block Dine on a dime buses and stop traffic RACHEL RAIMONDI Staff Writer

SIOBHAN MCANDREW Assignment Editor Oct. 3, 1990 Students led by members of the New Student Union gathered in Founders Plaza Monday morning demanding to talk to the administration about the user fees.

“The administration is our target. They should be on our side,” said Black Student Union President Scott Norman.

Norman said the administration will have to listen to students’ demands and come down to Founders Plaza or “we are going to do something to make them come down here.”

The demands include the cancelation of all the new user fees, the administration being accountable to the University’s students, and that students, faculty and staff having legal and democratic control over all the University’s policies.

Students also yelled to Student Association officials asking what they had done, charging the SA of being invisible during the recent week. One student burned his bus pass to protest the bus fee.

When no response from the administration arrived by the union’s deadline, the union told the students to sit in Flint Loop to block the buses.

The scheduled Student Association press conference

for noon was dismissed.

Students block intersection Students stood in Flint Loop blocking one bus, then proceeded to stage another sit-in at the intersection of Flint Road and Augsburger Road.

As one bus entered the intersection and attempted to turn around, students sat behind the bus. Student protestors said they were determined to make the protest felt by the administration.

“I’ll sit here for as long as it takes,” said junior Kimmie Lewis.

Approximately 10 Public Safety officers attempted to keep traffic away from the students and the intersection, while traffic was routed around the campus to avoid the protestors.

After sitting in the intersection for about an hour, approximately 200 students proceeded to the Commons, where students shouted at the construction workers.

“They have a union and we don’t,” said senior Lynnanne Wiegelman.

Wiegelman also said the group has to stick with one goal.

Students then walked to Flint Road and Audubon Expressway and blocked traffic for approximately one hour.

One student who attempted to drive through was surrounded by a group of students. The student got out of his car and flashed his bus pass, which caused an argument between the students and the driver. Public Safety

officers told the student to get back in his car, and the student left the scene.

Another student received a summons because he was blocking a university vehicle.

Students returned to Founders Plaza and the union announced for students to meet Wednesday at 8 a.m. in Diefendorf.

Nothing to do with union “We do not affiliate SA with anything going on today,” said SA president Kelly Sahner.

She explained that she believes in the cause, but not the means in which the union is handling this.

SA officials have gone through extensive training in how to handle such protests, Sahner explained. Instead of being hasty, students should wait to see what happens concerning the buses, according to Sahner.

“I got on the bus this morning,” said SA Treasurer Michael Cross. “They haven’t done a thing.”

At the present time, the bus fee is not being enforced, he said.

“We don’t want the fees, but maybe we should consider a flat fee,” Sahner said. “I do not want students not to take the bus, especially with the events that have just occurred.”

Sahner said she was concerned about students’ safety.

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It’s time for some real food. But unless you buy ingredients from the Elli or CVS with Campus Cash, you need to spend real money. And that frustrates me more than the meal plan.

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Pumpkin soup: $12.51 8 ounces canned pumpkin ($2.19) 1 yellow onion, chopped ($1.50) 1 cup vegetable broth ($1.33) 1 cup milk 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg ($4.99) 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon ($2.50) 3/4 cup water This is one of the easiest things to make – all you have to do is heat everything up. Heat the onion in the 1/4 water until it becomes tender. Add the remaining water, pumpkin, broth and spices. Boil it all together and then let it simmer for five minutes. Stir in the milk and cook until it’s back at the desired temperature.

Serve.

Spaghetti squash: $6.04

1 small spaghetti squash ($2.39) 2 tablespoons of butter 2 cloves garlic, minced ($0.33 each) 1/4 shredded parmesan cheese ($2.99) 1/2 teaspoon salt Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Pierce the spaghetti squash a few times with a fork to make air holes.

Bake it for 45 minutes or until the outside is soft enough to cut easily. Cut the spaghetti squash lengthwise, and use a fork to scrape out the insides into spaghettilike strands. Heat the garlic and butter in a saucepan until it is ready to be tossed with the spaghetti squash. Mix in the Parmesan cheese. Serve.

Twice-baked sweet potato: $15.62 4 sweet potatoes ($0.99 each) 2 teaspoons oil ($3.99) 3 ounces cream cheese ($2.89 for a package of 8 ounces) 2 teaspoons butter 2 tablespoons brown sugar ($1.79) 1 tablespoon vanilla extract ($2.99) Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Rub the potatoes in oil and wrap in tin foil. Bake them for one hour.

Combine the cream cheese, brown sugar, margarine and vanilla extract. Cut the potatoes in half and scoop out the insides.

Mix the ingredients and potato insides, and put it all back in the skins. Bake them for five minutes. Serve.

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Continued from page 1: The naked truth about Billy the Kid Becoming the Kid Horner was born into a family that lived on a farm right outside of Syracuse. He is one of five children, the only male.

“I was raised old school,” Horner said. “Respect your parents, respect your siblings, totally proper. I left home at 16 because I didn’t like how I was being raised.

To me it wasn’t fair … it was a little rough being the only son. I had a lot of work to do and a lot of responsibility. It wasn’t what I wanted so I left home, continued my education and graduated from high school. I had to learn how to live on my own.”

He left home with his “high school sweetheart.” Horner followed her and her family to Tantasqua, Mass., where he lived with them for two years.

According to 11points.com, about one out of 10 strippers are married and only 13.5 percent have kids. Billy the Kid falls into the minority. He has five children.

The first was conceived with his high school sweetheart.

They got married, had their child and then divorced. So he left Tantasqua and moved in with one of his best friends, who attended Morrisville State College, south of Syracuse. While partying at the college bars, he met a 19-year-old girl from Buffalo. Horner said she “spent more time in my bed than she did in school.”

Again, Horner found himself in a different city because of a girl – this time, it was Buffalo.

The two ended up having a daughter, but gave her up for adoption because they realized they were incapable of raising a child together and their relationship was not going to last.

Horner was working at her father’s construction company at the time but knew he needed to make some extra cash. His girlfriend suggested he strip and, without hesitation, he agreed. She brought him to Peppermints in Canada, and that’s where his stripping career began.

Horner was officially “Billy the Kid.” Five years ago, he was stripping at Marcella’s – a gay bar in downtown Buffalo –when he met a woman who needed a ride home

at the end of the night.

“She had no gas money, so we traded gas money for sex,” Horner said. “A lot of people have a onenight stand that results in pregnancy. It’s not the best of situations.”

But it’s a situation Horner found himself in nine months later when he took a paternity test and discovered that his one-night stand’s child was his son. Horner calls this son his “oopsie child.”

The current Billy the Kid Four years ago, Horner met his current wife on Myspace. She is an ex-stripper who shares many similar viewpoints on relationships.

They have two children – a 2-year-old boy and a two-week-old boy.

When his son turns 18 and is legally allowed to go to a strip club, Horner plans on bringing him to a show and will even encourage him to follow in his father’s footsteps.

“He’s a big daddy’s boy and always wants to go with dad,” Horner said. “I was going to a party one night and he saw me put my thong on. Mom had one of her thongs sitting on the floor and he tried putting it on over his diaper. So my wife tied it up so it would fit him … now he has his own baby thong.

When I go stripping, he generally gets his thong on and says ‘daddy I go, daddy I go,’ but obviously he’s too young.”

Horner and his wife are both bisexual. Their marriage is open.

Oftentimes they go out at night and spot a person they’re both attracted to. Right away, they know they want to take that person home for a threesome or, if they find two attractive people, a foursome.

“It’s not an everyday thing or a weekly thing but a couple of times a month, I’ll go and play with others,” Horner said. “We have a few friends that we swing with on a more regular basis, but still that’s once a month. I bring my friends over – she brings women home, I bring guy friends home and if it happens, it happens. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t. Our kids know that we’re bringing friends over, but they don’t know anything further.”

Neither of them gets jealous.

Horner said he is living the life that most men wish they could live but simply cannot.

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“We have sex with each other and we have sex with other people – as couples, as singles,” Horner said. “I play more than my wife does. I can have sex with whomever I want. I just have to be the one to tell her and she has to be the one to tell me. She can have sex with whomever she wants as well.”

Horner said he has slept with over 800 women. He gets tested and, according to him, “so far so good.”

Horner and his wife haven’t put much thought into how their children will react to their open marriage when they get older. They do know, however, they have no plans to hide their arrangement.

Some UB students felt uncomfortable with Horner’s speech.

“I thought it was good to hear someone that is that into their job, but it made me personally uncomfortable,” said Stefanie Benison, a senior health and human services major. “He opened up a little too much. He seems to be too proud of what he does and he went a little too far. He didn’t teach much.

Even though we’re college students, it still made me feel a little bit uncomfortable, but I guess good for him for being so proud of what he does.”

Other students didn’t mind his stories because they were entertaining and an outlook into a life they’d never heard of firsthand.

“I wouldn’t choose to do that in life, but if that’s what he wants to do then go for it,” said Alexandra DeFeo, a junior intended communication major. “It was funny but weird at the same time.”

Bringing in the bucks Horner gets called for parties, mostly in the spring, summer and fall, and has averaged about a thousand dollars a week this season.

He strips for smaller parties, such as bachelorette parties, college parties, birthday parties, etc. and has also stripped at clubs around Buffalo, Syracuse and Canada. He has driven up to six hours in a night to get to a party and back home. But, according to Horner, the money is worth the trip.

In total, he’s made $20,000 since April.

Billy the Kid has worn a variety of costumes; his favorite per-

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sona is a cowboy because he feels it allows him to be his “true” self since he grew up on a farm. He loves stripping to Tim McGraw songs.

“When I’m doing private parties it’s not a big ordeal, but when I do male reviews, which is just a group of guys going to the bar and stripping, its more like it used to be when I was 23,” Horner said. “The excitement is there because it’s a group of women who strictly paid to be there to see all of us. They get crazy and shout and scream. I enjoy it and that’s why I still do it.”

Several years ago, Horner found himself in legal trouble.

He needed to make cash quickly.

That’s when he broadened his horizons and got into porn, specifically gay porn – which he said brings in the most money.

He made $3,000 during his one week as a porn star in Hollywood.

The future Horner plans on stripping until he gets tired of it or doesn’t look good enough anymore.

No one he knows disapproves of his career choice. His parents and sisters support whatever he wants to do and have even cracked jokes during family functions.

According to 11points.com, 91 percent of strippers are still close with their parents.

“I gave my father $25 in ones for his 70 birthday party and my mom [jokingly said], ‘I don’t want to know where they came from,’” Horner said. “They actually happen to come from a party I did the night before in the area.”

Horner encouraged Rintamaki’s students to get into stripping – if they are interested – because the money is good and it’s fun, he said.

Patrick Haddad, a junior finance major, thought his lecture was in fact educational for students who are interested in entering the profession.

“I thought it was good and educational,” Haddad said. “We learned what he actually did. He wasn’t very smart, though, but it seems [like an] entertaining [career].”

Continued from page 12: Men’s tennis shows signs of success in Penn Invite the finals was not the mantra of singles play, as Simon also fell – to Norfolk State’s Daniel Grauel, 6-3, 6-4.

“We are a better team already than we were last year and it is an exciting group to work with,” Nickell said. “This is by far the best group of guys we have had here in my four years. [It’s] the hardest-working group that we have, so we feel like we’re better prepared than we were last year to make another run.”

Only time will tell if the 2012 Bulls can match the output of the 2011 team. The Bulls do not open team play until Jan. 26, but it was a good opportunity for the Bulls to test themselves against some of the nation’s elite teams.

“This is a really good tournament for our guys to test themselves against some of the best teams,” Nickell said. “It’s always a great opportunity for all the guys to get out there and play some of the Ivy [League] schools and get some really good competition. It was a great experience for us especially, because that level is a little bit higher than what we face in the Mid-American Conference.”

Buffalo’s next match will be Thursday, Oct. 18 at the Northeast Regionals.

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A paintball champ ADAM LEIDIG Staff Writer

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UB’s nationally ranked paintball team has gone undefeated in its past four regional tournaments.

UB Paintball: low finances, high national recognition CALEB LAYTON Staff Writer They stand tall and ready to accept their first-place trophy, proud as their uniforms are covered in multi-colored splatters of paint. To them, that’s a sign of strength.

UB is home to a nationally ranked sports team – a team that has bested semi-professional teams in tournaments. A team that, last April, placed seventh in the national championship tournament, and the year before that, won it.

It’s not the basketball team and it’s not the football team – it’s the paintball team.

Paintball is an organized sport played by two teams on an outdoor field about one-third the size of a football field. A game consists of two fifteen minute halves in which players from the two teams run and duck around inflatable

bunkers, dodging the other teams shots and returning their own.

“Paintball is more strategy than it is physical,” said Scott Dahlin, a junior electrical engineering major and new team member.

“There has to be a certain level of gun skill, but if as a team you have no plan, you have no chance to win.”

A player must leave the field if he’s hit by a paintball. The goal of the game is to capture a flag from the center of the field and carry it to the other team’s setbox, which earns a team four points. The team with the most points at the end of 30 minutes wins, a result which the 15-person UB team has come to expect.

The paintball team has gone undefeated in its past four regional tourmanents and it doesn’t plan on stopping that streak anytime soon, according to senior biology major Ed Bautista, who is the team’s treasurer.

Joe Barrett, dripping with sweat in the extreme heat of Thailand, armed with his gun, pods and team threads, sprinted into battle.

He was thinking about his mission on the field, all while trying to avoid the hundreds of paintballs shot at him at up to 180 mph.

His team, as time expired, dove with flag in hand and hit the button.

They won the championship.

Barrett, professional paintball player and UB alumni, graduated in 2012. According to him, he is one of the top 200 paintball players in the world.

Joe has played in 14 different leagues and on over 30 different teams all over North America and Thailand. He loves what he does for a living and wouldn’t give it up for any type of office job.

“I wanted to get the degree so I could have it in my pocket, but I look at a lot of people who work eight hour [days], [people] with three cars, a house and a boat, and I just don’t want any part of it,” Barrett said.

Paintball takes an undying amount of focus with dozens of variables and actions going on every second, according to Barrett.

Barrett has bested some of the top-ranking paintball players in the country. He has been playing the game for over 10 years and has been traveling all across the country for different competitions since he was 17 years old.

In basketball or baseball, there is one constant focal point: the ball. But paintball takes a high amount of adrenaline and a ridiculous amount of focus, according to Barrett.

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Joe Barrett is one of the top paintball players in the world. He proudly wears his medals for all to see.

One difference between paintball and other conventional sports – football, basketball or baseball – is the amount of referees. In paintball, games can average up to 10 referees at a time, covering the entire game.

During the game, each player has four to seven pods (devices used to hold the paintballs) on his/ her lower back. A player will also have his or her sponsored clothing, a paintball mask to protect the face, and a gun, which could range from $800 to $1,500.

According to Barrett, some of the dirtier players resort to stepping on their opponents’ pods and will even shoot them off their opponents’ backs – a move he considers cheap and one he does not resort to on the field.

Barrett has missed birthdays, parties and weddings for paintball, and he has had fewer than a handful of weekends free in the last five years because of his dedication to

the sport. He’s worked countless odd jobs in order to pay for the equipment and trips.

Barrett even sold his couch and his sister’s bicycle to play paintball.

“His whole world is dedicated to getting out on the field, and he’ll do anything to play paintball,” said George Kalkowsky, senior engineering major and president of UB Paintball. “The dude eats, sleeps and lives for this stuff. He got a tattoo of the Buffalo Bull after we won our national championship, and he wears [a tattoo] on his shoulder in honor of the regional team we play on. He gives his all.”

According to Kalkowsky, Barrett will never give up.

“I’ve seen Joe collapse from exhaustion, but you’ll never see him break. If there’s still paintball to play he’ll be the guy out there calling the shots,” Kalkowsky said.

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Continued from page 1: Fracking discussion continues UB Council serves as the primary oversight and advisory body to the university, Tripathi and UB’s senior officers. The nine members are appointed by the governor of the State of New York, and one student member is elected by graduate and undergraduate students.

In both meetings, Provost Charles Zukoski addressed faculty and community concerns about the founding, funding and governance of SRSI. He read a prepared statement to the Council and subsequently answered any questions members had.

On Sept. 12, the SUNY Board of Trustees passed a resolution to investigate SRSI. UB has since sent all requested information to SUNY and will provide any other resources if asked, Zukoski said at the UB Council Meeting.

Holstun thinks the information sent to SUNY should be made public.

Zukoski stressed, in both the Faculty Senate meeting and at the UB Council meeting, SRSI received no industry funding, despite what he called “misinformation” from the media. He outlined UB’s academic integrity policies and explained how SRSI has disclosed all appropriate information, including sources of funding – which came solely from the College of Arts and Sciences and its discretionary funds.

The April 2011 Marcellus Shale lecture series received $5,000 in industry funding from the Independent Gas and Oil Association (IOGA) of New York. The series was not a part of the institute; the institute was an idea generated from the series, founded a year later, and IOGA’s money does not fund SRSI. Holstun feels the lecture series is not truly separate from SRSI. During the Senate meeting, Holstun said he thinks the university can take the steps to make sure “a problem like this” does not happen again.

“It does seem to me that some mistakes have been made, but from these mistakes can come an opportunity for really improving the university [and] improving our practices,” Holstun said.

Zukoski emphasized that even though SRSI did not receive any industry funding, it would be normal if it did. He cited several UB institutes and centers that receive industry finding – the Humanities Institute receives funding from Microsoft, the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition gets funding from the United States Postal Service and the Center for Computational Research is funded in part by IBM, to name a few – and such groups are required to release financial reports stating all funding sources.

He said industry ties never invalidate scientific findings, and UB is in the midst of setting up a committee – headed by Vice President for Research and Economic Development Alex Cartwright and Faculty Senate Chair Ezra Zubrow – that will provide advice on university practices and policies related to research, scholarship and publication across disciplines.

Members from UBCLEAR have also been contacted to participate in discussions with this committee, which Zubrow described as a debate.

Zukoski also said SRSI has not been questioned by the scientific community and no scholars have found problems with the actual findings of the report – just the legitimacy of the institute and its funding is in question by the media, community and some faculty members.

The Council hasn’t found any problems with SRSI or its founding, funding and governance. Robert Brady, a councilmember and director of National Fuel Gas Company, remarked that – from the perspective of a member of the oil and gas industry – UB has “it covered” and should forge ahead and answer any other unanswered questions from the community.

“Just because something is controversial, it doesn’t mean you shy away,” said Christopher O’Brien, a councilmember and UB law school lecturer, in response to claims that fracking is a controversial practice UB should not research.

In addition to addressing the current questions regarding SRSI, Zukoski also gave the Council an update on UB 2020 and other uni-

versity briefings. Tripathi provided similar information to the senate members on Tuesday.

University enrollment, including both undergraduate and graduate students, is up to almost 30,000 for the 2012-13 school year; last year’s enrollment was 28,680. This year’s freshmen class has increased by about 400 students, without a change to the average SAT and ACT scores of admitted students. This means the student body is growing without sacrificing academic excellence, according to Zukoski.

Forty percent of the incoming freshmen class has signed on to UB’s new Finish in 4 program – the university’s promise to help students finish a degree within four years. Subsequently, UB has added 12,000 seats and 10,000 credit hours to core classes – mostly within the College of Arts and Sciences – in order to help students take all required classes on time. New adviser-tracking software has been implemented, allowing students’ transcripts to be available across departments to best help students with advisement needs.

Graduate enrollment is slightly lower this year and is mostly affecting the law school and graduate school of education. This is mostly due to tighter controls and regulations on enrollment (meaning UB does not wish to give up academic standards for enrollment numbers) and national trends (fewer students are entering these fields), according to Zukoski.

UB has hired 85 new faculty members, but number of faculty is ultimately down. Eighty faculty members are lost each year to retirement or other reasons, according to Zukoski. With the tuition increases provided by NYSUNY 2020 – 8 percent each year for five years – the university will be able to hire 250 new faculty members. UB is currently determining how to best recruit new faculty and retain them.

The next UB Council meeting date has yet to be announced; the next Faculty Senate meeting is Nov. 6.

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Look at the body FELICIA O. Special to The Spectrum Here’s the situation: you’re at a bar and you’re talking to a girl who you’d really like to see naked. You think it’s going great, you’re telling her all of your favorite stories – like the time when you drank so much vodka that you passed out at a random person’s house and didn’t know how you got there. It’s a sure thing; you’re 100 percent positive this girl is going home with you tonight.

Problem is, you weren’t paying attention to how she was slowly backing away, how she kept rolling her eyes or how she kept glancing at the cutie across the bar.

You probably should have read her body language a little better.

Body language is extremely important to keep an eye on, whether you’re meeting someone for the first time or you’ve been dating for a while. How do you know if someone’s into you? How do you know if someone’s just humoring you?

Quit trying to analyze every word they say and just check out that sexy body of theirs.

According to Tracey Cox in her article, 18 Body Language Clues That Say He's Interested – Definitely on ivillage.com, “Women choose from no less than 52 moves to show men they're interested. The average man chooses from a maximum of 10 to attract a female.”

Let’s start with girls. Generally, we’re pretty easy to read.

When talking to you, does her face look just like it would as if she just stepped in her dog’s feces? Then she probably isn’t enjoying your conversation skills. Is she looking everywhere in the room but at you while you’re trying to tell her about your “interesting” vacation to your grandma’s house? She’s probably just waiting for a polite way to leave your presence.

But there are easy ways to tell if a girl is into you.

If you’re worried the girl across the bar who you’ve been eyeing won’t give you the time of day, just read her body – it will probably tell you more than her words will.

For one thing, when a girl wants to talk to a guy, she’ll try to catch his eye. She wants you to look at her (but don’t look her up and down, licking your lips like she’s a juicy piece of steak and you haven’t eaten in a month). She might look away right after you make eye contact but if she’s fishing for you to look at her, that means she wants you to come and talk to her.

If you’ve passed stage one and actually started a conversation with the object of your affection (for that night), here are some things to keep in mind. If she’s fidgeting – playing with her hair, her jewelry or her clothes – it probably means that she’s nervous. That probably means she’s into you.

When a girl leans toward you and finds any excuse for physical contact and especially if she laughs at jokes that even you know aren’t funny, then chances are she’s really feeling you.

On the other hand, there are some telltale signs to watch out for that show she really just wants you to walk away. According to askmen.com, if a girl leans away from you, keeps looking away or if she rarely smiles, she’s not interested.

Now if it’s a man you’re after, body language is easier to read.

According to Cosmopolitan, wherever a man is aiming his upper body at, that’s what he’s interested in. So if he’s chatting you up while leaning toward your wing woman – sorry to say – you’re not what he’s after.

When a guy lifts his eyebrows, it’s when he sees something he likes.

“Lifting our brows pulls the eyes open and allows more light to reflect off the surface, making them look bright, large and inviting,” Cox said.

Other things that can help you recognize his interest: he’ll smooth (or mess up) his hair, he’ll stand erect – in more ways than one – he’ll touch his face, he’ll sit on the edge of his seat and he’ll sit with his legs spread (to give you a better look at his assets).

There’s always the chance that a guy is going to friend zone you, though, and it’s better to know ahead of time so you don’t get too attached. If he’s giving you the same amount of attention as everyone else, even his guy friends, or if he knows that you can see him eyeing up other girls, he probably only sees you as a friend.

Just keep an eye on his or her body, which I’m sure you’re doing anyway.

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More than lyrics DUANE OWENS Asst. Arts Editor

Music, like sports, been regularly used as a medium for competition for as long as egos have been in existence. Who’s the best, who’s the hottest, who has more money – all questions that are used to designate the top from the bottom.

But in all competitive scenarios, there is a very thin line where situations can get personal and turn into something else. In hip-hop, we call that “something else” beef.

Over the weekend, Black Entertainment Television (BET) brand taped its annual Hip-Hop Awards, where rap music’s elite got together to enjoy the festivities. In an environment like this, it’s expected that any individual or group conflicts would be temporarily forgotten about. This potential dissipated when Maybach Music Group (MMG) founder Rick Ross got into a scuffle with Atlanta artist Young Jeezy and MMG artist Gunplay was involved in an altercation with Queens rapper 50 Cent – born Curtis Jackson – and members of his G-Unit security.

Rick Ross’ issues with 50 Cent date back to 2009 and coincidentally began at a BET Hip-Hop Awards show. As Ross’ longtime friend and label mate, Gunplay inherited the beef and sent threats and shots over in 50 Cent’s direction. In turn, 50 released footage of Gunplay laid out on the ground unconscious from a fight.

Ross followed with direct references from the opening track off his third album, Deeper Than Rap: “Curtis Jackson baby momma ain’t asking for a cent/Burn the house down, you gotta buy another/Don’t forget the gas can, jealous stupid mothaf***er,” Ross raps on “Mafia Music.”

These lyrics caused 50 Cent to release an image of Ross as a correctional officer, immediately crushing Ross’ street credibility, which shook the rap community and led to comical cartoons of Officer Ricky.

Rick Ross and Jeezy used to be cool, but since Ross released his 2010 track “B.M.F.” there’s been tension between the two. It’s rumored that the problems stem from the reaction to the track by Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory, who “B.M.F.” is about. That further led to a series of subliminal shots through interviews and tracks between Jeezy and Ross.

To the public, there seemed to be a cool down period, but apparently there were still salty feelings after hearing “Rich Forever” from the same-titled mixtape: has

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Datsik performed inside a vortex-shaped DJ booth at Town Ballroom on Monday night. The vortex caused nausea in many concert-goers because of the high-frequency beams it emits.

Datsik makes crowd that sick SHELBY MILIZIA Staff Writer Imagine a bass so loud it makes you vomit.

Some unlucky individuals who ventured out Monday night to Town Ballroom experienced such a high-voltage phenomenon as headliner Datsik took the stage shortly before midnight.

Datsik performed at Town Ballroom on Oct. 1 as part of his Firepower Tour. The night featured other fellow Firepower Records artists Delta Heavy, Bare Noize and AFK. But the evening’s surprise heavyweight appeared when the “vortex” bolted to life – a vortex-shaped DJ booth idea Datsik came up with earlier this year.

The recently unveiled DJ performance booth funneled around Datsik, as the man got down and dirty with heavy dub step, disorientating the audience as an additional 50,000 watts blared atop the venue’s already built-in sound system.

Hammering through the crowd harder than a Pikachu punch in the face, some crowd goers ran from Datsik’s audio experience in search for the nearest bathroom.

According to Michael Richards, 49, of Syracuse and head of the audio department at National Audio, the phenomenon is caused by sub frequencies that vibrate the body. High pressure condenses an individual’s or-

gans, which re-expand when the music calms down and the pressure drops.

It can lead to nausea.

The vortex functions by beaming sound through coned speakers that have a greater chance for hearing damage especially if played at a high frequency. Some people accidentally caught in this beam’s projecting path can become overloaded as their body cavity constricts.

“If you cross that beam, it will hurt,” Richards said, calling it “an improper use of [Datsik’s] equipment, for sure.”

Girls gathered in the restroom soon after the sound exploded from Datsik’s set, dabbing their noses with torn toilet paper as the bass vibrated through their nasal cavities and throat.

“It’s past the red line – this is ear damaging,” said Nick States, a senior digital media studies major.

Richards refutes worries of any permanent damage being brought by the extreme collection of sounds, but the body’s response to the frequencies may leave the listener with temporary hearing loss, possible vomiting and diarrhea due to the intense pressure’s wear on the body.

The venue, which usually holds a capacity around 1,000, was packed unusually tight Monday night due to the pending construction plans to turn Main Street’s massive sidewalks

into one way lanes, introducing cars driving parallel to the train’s path through downtown.

The openers played an amazing set causing havoc and spontaneous dancing among LED flashing ravers, a Mario brother and a few men in spandex suits.

The show went on without complaint until Delta Heavy’s set came to a close and a small intermission gathered as the stage crew rapidly assembled the massive vortex, which was used only during Datsik’s performance.

Hordes of fans, hoping to capitalize on the moment for a quick smoke, were quickly disappointed as security took control of the traffic movement between the doors to the outside gated area. The construction markers cut into the sidewalk, forcing the barriers to be placed closer to the doors, which confined the usually large smoking area and forced security to strictly monitor the people flow to the outdoors.

With the added construction enclosing Ballroom space and Datsik’s vortex experience, fans may have wanted to spend Monday somewhere that does not lead to spontaneous trips to the bathroom for the next few days.

That is for sure.

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“Your s**t pushed back because it ain’t buzzin/Now these thugs actors all of a sudden/N****s hustle backwards all of a sudden/Can’t talk snow, where the soft at?/Your man got murked, but you squashed that/Hope you knowing what we call that/I think you know just what we call that,” Ross raps.

What people need to understand is that this is more than music. These men are not friends and they don’t get along when they’re in the same venue, as last weekend proved. Neither one needs press to sell any albums because honestly, no one is even releasing an album any time soon.

As a man, if someone openly disrespects you in a room full of people who are watching, you’re expected to retaliate. How you make that happen is up to you, but something has to happen.

Imagine someone disrespecting you, calling you out by your one and only name in front of millions of people. Someone testing your credibility because they don’t believe you really live what you speak.

Beef is how credibility, careers and names get ruined.

If Ross buckled over the weekend, how could anyone respect him when he raps about being strapped and holding kilos in his home? With all those characters in one designated area, something was bound to happen. There are only so many hallways backstage, so it seemed inevitable for someone to run into someone.

People could die in situations like these; it’s depressing. Biggie and Tupac are perfect examples of this. A more recent example is the death of 17-year-old Chicago rapper Lil JoJo and the allegation that fellow rapper Chief Keef is connected to the murder, based on tweets leading up to the shooting.

Everyone enjoys making music, money and tracks that others can relate and vibe to, so that’s all it should be about. But that’s not realistic. Everyone believes they’re better than someone else, whether it has to do with lyrical capabilities or hood credibility.

The fights at the BET Hip-Hop Awards over the weekend could be the beginning of much to come. A video surfaced on the Internet of the altercation, but its low video and sound quality leave many questions unanswered.

I’m not trying to see a body drop from these altercations, so hopefully everyone can chill and agree to disagree.

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Marcus Mumford doesn’t mirror Justin Bieber. Mumford prefers flannel and a dirt ’stache to leather and diamond earrings. His rosy cheeks, unkempt hair and full-bodied figure don’t fit the pop persona. Nor does his gritty voice or his band’s ruggedbut-soulful style.

Bieber can’t keep up.

Mumford’s band, Mumford and Sons, released its second album, Babel, last week. The record is on pace to sell over 600,000 copies by Tuesday – annihilating the previous high for firstweek record sales in 2012, the 347,000 mark set by Bieber’s Believe.

After 2009 mega-hit Sigh No More snatched hipsters by the heart, Babel presents Mumford and Sons’ calling cards – grapples of love, spirituality and mortality – woven together seamlessly between tracks.

Babel will not be as well received if listened to as 15 separate tracks; rather, it is a 15-song epic, a cheery but up-and-down tale of two lovers.

The album’s self-titled opening track establishes its optimistic, folk presence. The folk twang continues as Babel melts gently into its second track, “Whispers In The Dark,” in which Mumford hints at the selfloathing nature he is known for.

This song marks the first of many biblical references, which have been well documented throughout Mumford and Sons’ career, as Mumford grew up in a devout Christian household.

While his parents’ religion does not denote his own and Mumford told The Big Issue he does not “feel evangelical about anything, really, other than music,” he makes it clear in Babel that he is enduring a spiritual tug of war.

“I’m a cad but I’m not a fraud/I set out to serve the Lord,” Mumford sings. “And this cup of yours tastes holy/But a brush with the devil can clear your mind/Strengthen your spine.”

The band displays its propensity for acoustics in the third track, “I Will Wait,” as the opening guitar riff harkens comparisons to Of Monsters And Men’s hit “Little Talks.” Later in the track, Mumford vows to “use [his] head alongside [his] heart,” but some

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critics bemoan a severe lack of creativity in his lyrics.

Simplicity, however, is what makes his delivery powerful and memorable.

William Shakespeare was known for his adroit phrasing with small words.

While Mumford is far from Shakespeare, his style can be considered along the same lines.

“Ghosts That We Knew,” a track that begins a cappella with slower and darker melody, offers a welcome change of pace from the consistent sunny optimism of Babel’s first four songs.

The sixth and seventh songs in the album, “Lover of the Light” and “Lover’s Eyes,” are the best in the arsenal. “Lover of the Light” works as a catchy plea to “love the one you hold” and stay positive, while “Lover’s Eyes” is a pensive, thought-provoking ballad.

“I must live with my quiet rage/ Tame the ghosts in my head,” Mumford sings. “Lord, forget all of my sins/Oh, let me die where I lie/There’s no drink nor drug I tried/To rid the curse of these lover’s eyes.”

Some of Babel’s songs, like “Hopeless Wanderer,” feel like an overdose of live shows aiming to start a dance party. While the track has arguably the strongest musical sequence in this album and the other upbeat songs are enjoyable easy-listens, their indistinguishable repetition is this album’s only downfall.

The less upbeat songs may not be Babel’s best-selling tracks, but they are the glue that makes this work of art exceptional – far surpassing the happy-go-lucky efforts. In “Below My Feet” and “Not With Haste,” listeners are given a view into Mumford’s private warfare – two consecutive songs in which he begs for life and curses his “fickle flesh.”

The regular edition of Babel comes with just 12 tracks, but the three bonus tracks in the deluxe version, including a mellow tune featuring Jerry Douglas and Paul Simon, are worth the extra $3.

While it will sell better and it is a superb sophomore effort, Babel is not as strong or deep as Sigh No More.

Nevertheless, Babel may end up dominating the Grammys in February. If nothing else, it is light years ahead of Believe.

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Looper doesn’t waste time JAKE KNOTT Staff Writer

Film: Looper Release Date: Sept. 28 Studio: TriStar Pictures Grade: AA man in a field determinedly waits for someone, glancing over his pocket watch and then raises a shotgun. A second man emerges, his face masked by a bag and his hands roped together. The first man shoots him.

The notion of time travel has provided some of most complex film plots throughout the years – The Terminator, Back to the Future and Groundhog Day, to name a few. Now there’s Looper, with a premise so inconceivable that director/writer Rian Johnson probably had blazing migraines penning the script.

This film serves as a labyrinthine trail through space and time for its characters and the audience, manifesting its own rules of time travel in comprehensible fashion. Looper doesn’t question the astonishment of time travel but cherishes it.

It’s the near future: Louisiana 2047. The man is Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Premium Rush), and he’s a Looper – an assassin sent back in time to kill and dispose of his targets in the past. Joe narrates, in a noir-like tone, the pros and cons of the Looper life, which he mostly embraces. Injecting drugs and buying hookers, Joe solemnly accepts his murderous role in society.

Joe’s last assignment before early retirement arrives – the last person he wanted to eliminate.

The older, future Joe appears (Bruce Willis, The Expendables 2), unmasked and boundless. They lock eyes in understanding, but the older Joe rebels and escapes. Younger Joe knows the penalty for losing a target. He reloads his gun and is more determined than ever.

The film diverts onto an unsuspecting path.

It digresses into the story of how the older Joe became a target.

But what becomes fascinating is the dual perspective that is created – the audience understands what both men need to do, along with the consequences that follow if they fail. Should these men work together? Should they eliminate one another? Looper underlines these tensions, soaking the audience with suspense.

The director Rian Johnson (The Brothers Bloom) indisputably loves filmmaking. Looper is just another example of this, after his first two films Brick and The Brothers Bloom showed his earnest creativity. Looper is his best film yet because he has finally solidified his characters and doesn’t solely rely on tricks for success.

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Strong supporting roles are filled by Willis himself, Jeff Daniels (Quad) as head of the Looper organization, Emily Blunt (The Five-Year Engagement) as a steadfast farmer and inevitable love interest for the younger Joe and Paul Dano (Ruby Sparks) as Joe’s co-assassin. All of these actors received adequate direction from Johnson’s script, which propels them to understand their characters and what’s at stake for them.

Looper slightly loses its balance by juggling a telekinesis sub-plot, which never really goes anywhere. But Johnson still manages to drive his story all the way home. He has fun filmmaking, and his films are a testimony to that. Johnson is certainly another recent and exciting independent filmmaker to watch out for who reportedly rejects Hollywood screenplays and instead favors his own. There’s so much to respect him for.

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Continued from page 12: Catching up with Warde Q: When you first came to Buffalo, there were a few teams that were struggling academically, and then you have the case with the UConn men’s basketball team, who’s not going to make the postseason this year due to its low APR score. What have you learned from Buffalo that you are going to use at UConn in terms of the “student” aspect of student-athlete?

A: It starts from recruiting and the tone that’s set when they walk onto campus as freshmen. The coaches and everybody, like at Buffalo, are committed to academic excellence and the university is as well. UConn and Buffalo are great academic institutions and so the commitment is there in the first place. You just have to set the right tone, set the level of expectations and the student athletes have to get to work and do what they need to do in the classroom. The good part about it for me is that even last year’s team, as well as this year’s [basketball] squad – none of them were the cause of the problem. It happened two or three years before, and we are dealing with it and making adjustments.

Q: So, are there any interesting stories in your first few months here in Connecticut?

A: Coming into this job, I knew that this school is an agricultural and farm community, so I was living on the farm in a farmhouse for the first few months. And that was interesting ’cause I’d wake up and there were horses that you can hear down the hill, but it was a great place. There are great people here and they have been really good to me and my family, and I’ve enjoyed it.

Q: Have you kept up with UB athletics since you moved to Connecticut?

A: I think Danny White is great. I’ve known him and his father for a long time. He has a great pedigree, in terms of understanding, not only as a former student-athlete but also as an administrator. I think Danny is gonna do a great job there. I’ve told President Tripathi and Danny that I could be of help to them … well besides [at the UConn/Buffalo game Saturday]. I want UB to do well in everything that they do. It was a great place for me and my family and, like I said earlier, we miss Buffalo in so many ways, and it will always have a place in my heart because of the things that we did and the people that we’ve met.

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Continued from page 6: UB Paintball: low finances, high national recognition The team is ranked 11th by the National Collegiate Paintball Association and has most recently competed in two national championship tournaments in Lakeland, Fla. Two years ago, Bautista sealed the victory over UB’s MAC rival, Western Michigan, to win the tournament – and earned UB its first national title in paintball. While the team’s success may be a well-kept secret on campus, it is known amongst committed paintball players.

UB Paintball has even helped the school increase enrollment.

“People know UB Paintball,” Bautista said. “We know people who were at Buff State or who played in summer leagues with us who came to UB because they wanted to be on this team.”

Paintball isn’t cheap.

The paintball team’s accomplishments are especially impressive considering the cost of playing the game. The Student Association will give the team a total of $2,500 this year, most of which will go to funding its trip to the national championship.

The average price of the equipment necessary for just one player to be ready for tournament competition is $2,000. The team tries to send 10 players to every tournament. Tournaments and practice add to the team’s financial burden. The entrance fee and travel cost usually run $1,000 per tournament, and the cost of paintballs nec-

essary to practice is an additional $100 per person.

The $2,500 provided by SA is a $1,000 cut from last year. This tightened an already stretched-thin budget, but the team isn’t bitter.

“You can’t expect the SA to shell out a lot of money just so we can go play,” said senior George Kalkowsky, senior engineering major and paintball club president. “Every club is taking hits right now. We just have to work harder to raise funds.”

Finding additional funds has proved a difficult task for the team, according to Kalkowsky.

In a club sport where the cost of playing is over $2,500 per person and the prizes for winning the national championship are plastic medals and a free Yoo-Hoo, private donations are essential.

With the exception of Headrush Paintball – a paintball arena in Syracuse which lets the team use its facility for a reduced price – local businesses have been unwilling to provide sponsorship despite numerous solicitations from the players.

But the team’s financial issues have brought its members closer together, Kalkowsky said.

“We’re all best friends. We’re all in the same struggle and that doesn’t stop at graduation,” Kalkowsky said. “You got two four-hour [trips] in a car together going to an event. You cram like nine guys into one

hotel room, and you’re going to get to know each other.”

The financial difficulties forced the team to compete in two tournaments per semester and one practice per week.

“Anyone who’s played paintball knows there’s nothing [else] like it,” Kalkowsky said. “When you play paintball there’s this adrenaline you get from it, and I’m a junkie.”

The team’s main goal is increasing the play of paintball in the Western New York area, which is a desert landscape for paintball players, Kalkowsky said.

“We go all the way to Syracuse or Angelica to practice because Buffalo is kind of a wasteland for paintball,” Kalkowsky said.

“Our main priority is to build paintball in the community and get more people from UB to come play. It’s hard because people don’t want to spend the money and are wrapped up in their own things, but it’s a lot of fun and we have less expensive options for those who can’t pay so much.”

Anyone who wishes to support the paintball team can attend its fundraiser on Thursday, Oct. 4, at Tonawanda Paintball. Attendees will be treated to a night of paintball with the players for a $30 charge, a portion of which will help fund the paintball team.

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Continued from page 6: A paintball champ played with, he’s stubborn as hell, but I’d never want anyone else in my pit.”

Ed Bautista, another former teammate of Barrett’s and the secretary of UB Paintball, is grateful for everything Barrett gave the team and knows of his passion for the sport.

“Joe is hands down the most dominant paintball player I have ever played with,” Bautista said. “Not only is he a talented player, he is also an exceptional coach. Everything I know about paintball, Joe has taught me.”

Bautista credits Barrett for their team’s exceptional reputation.

“By our junior year, Joe took a bunch of scrappy novice players and molded us into national champions,” Bautista said.

A common misconception of paintball is that it does not require any athleticism,

Continued from page 12: Bulls rally back to tie, snap drought

to get her to do is simplify because when she just goes out and lets her physical gifts take control, she’s a handful.”

Moore filled in admirably in the first start of her career. She gave up a tough goal early on, a chip shot in the 17th minute by Northern Illinois midfielder Sara Spaulding that barely floated out of Moore’s reach.

Despite that, she was able to buckle down on the defensive end and tallied a remarkable 11 saves on the day. Most of them came late, in the final overtime period, as the Huskies had multiple opportunities to win the game but were swiftly denied

by Moore and the Buffalo defense, preserving the tie.

Despite the lack of in-game experience, Moore wasn’t shocked by her strong performance.

“I’ve been practicing with this team for almost a year and a half and I’ve made these routine saves,” Moore said. “I’ve done it over and over again. I kept telling myself: I’ve done this before, I’m just in uniform

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but this couldn’t be further from the truth, according to Barrett.

Elite players sometimes spend three to five hours at the gym daily, while having restrictive diets and almost no body fat, according to Barrett. Barrett works out vigorously and bikes at least 20 miles on days he is not practicing or competing.

“This sport takes the cardio of soccer, the mental toughness of being in the military and the strategy of a chess game,” Barrett said.

Barrett believes the strong relationship he has with his teammates is pivotal to their success as a team.

“They become your brothers … you have to gel with your other players when you pick people; you have to be around people that you love,” Barrett said. “I literally have a place to sleep in every state in

the country and know if I’m in a new area without a tournament or competition or place to sleep, I’ll have somewhere to go.”

The connection that Barrett shares with these people extends beyond the field.

Even with Barrett’s numerous firstplace awards, he constantly has his sights set on new goals and aspirations. Barrett is preparing for a tryout near Orlando, Fla. with a professional team that could decide the fate of where he will reside for the next five to 10 years.

“I’m trying to be the best in the country … I want to be the number one ranked player in the world, and I will do everything I need to do to get there ... This is my dream,” Barrett said.

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Continued from page 1: Memorializing Danny Chen

playing against people that are not my teammates. It’s just a mentality, muscle memory. It’s almost second nature at this point.”

The result nets Buffalo its first points in MAC play after four games, a point that Thomas was pleased with despite the tie.

“We wanted to win today and we played well enough to come out and get that win,” Thomas said. “So without ever being satisfied with not getting a win at home, I was satisfied with things today.”

The Bulls will embark on another long road trip, a four-game stretch starting with Friday’s battle with rival Kent State (6-3-2, 1-2-1 MAC). Last year, the Bulls swept the Golden Flashes, which included back-to-back wins in the final game of the season and the first game of the MAC tournament.

The game in Kent, Ohio is slated for 4 p.m.

this is the first time his club will be doing something this big, collaborating with other clubs and organizations, including Greek Life.

Matthew West, a junior psychology major and president of the Caribbean Student Association, supports the Danny Chen Project and hopes it will bring awareness and knowledge to the UB community. “[CSA has] a motto for the year, and our slogan is called ‘Breaking Barriers,’ which is not only just getting familiar with

those students who are at UB,” West said. “[We’re] working on ways of trying to get connections with people outside of the University at Buffalo community. Supporting the Danny Chen Project was one of our ways to try and build a bond between clubs.”

West plans on trying to do more things with his club that have a causal effect rather than events they must attend to fulfill SA requirements.

At Wednesday’s event, attendees will decorate paper bags

with words of encouragement and messages of anti-hazing. The bags will then be taken out to the special event field near The Commons and lit with glow sticks.

Banny believes the event is going to be a good way to raise awareness for years to come.

“It is a good idea to remember [Danny],” Banny said. “It has put his death into use. I don’t want him to have died in vain.”

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Edited by Timothy E. Parker October 3, 2012 WHERE’S YOUR PAYMENT? By Raz Kelper 54 Uncle of folklore and literature 11 Early Japanese immigrant 55 Canary call 12 Readies for swallowing 57 Pillow-filling fiber 14 Hand over with confidence 60 Basilica center 21 Lando's sci-fi pal 61 Mechanical learning 22 Car dealer's offering 62 Elm or fir 26 Lyric poem part 63 Burlapmaterial 27 Struggle for breath 65 First name in pharmaceutical giants 28 NFL legend Graham 29 ___ vera 31 Cultural no-no 34 Better-chosen 36 Acquired dishonestly 38 Amusement park annoyance 39 Wildebeests 40 Yellows or grays, perhaps 42 River horse 43 Least bumpy 48 Unexpected 50 Kia subcompact 52 Sportscasting commentator's forte 53 Martini garnish

LIBRA (Sept. 23Oct. 22) -- Do what you think is best today, and trust that others will understand both your methods and your motives.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- You will be asking many questions today -- and those that are the simplest may take the longest to answer.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23Nov. 21) -- You may be feeling uncertain about what lies ahead -- particularly over the next few days. It may be time for some soul-searching.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Others may not agree with your premise, but they cannot argue with the way you are going after results. Some critics will want to help you!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- You'll feel pressured to move in a certain direction today, despite your sense that it is not the way you were meant to go.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Some things may be in a hopeless muddle today, but you'll have a clear sense of where you will be going -- as soon as you can get moving!

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Your ambitions are clear, but you may not fully understand what it will mean to you when they begin to be fulfilled. A prophecy is made.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Timing is keen, but you may not be aware of what someone is doing just over your shoulder.

Competition is likely to heat up.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- You are feeling as though you are not in sync today -- but really you are settling into a fine rhythm. Others must adjust around you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- With a little help from a friend you can break through certain barriers and enjoy greater personal freedom at this time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- You may not know why something is happening, but you surely know what it means to you -- both immediately and in the long run.

VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22) -- Give freely at this time, and you'll be rewarded in ways both rich and unexpected. Internal rhythms are changing in subtle ways.

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Sports

Wednesday, October 3, 2012 ubspectrum.com

Head coaches: the most underrated facet of the game

Catching up with Warde

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OWEN O’BRIEN Staff Writer “Oh, come on. Even I could coach that them to the postseason.”

These words have flowed out of my mouth countless times when talking about teams such as the Lakers, Yankees or the old-school Bulls, but never about the masterminds behind the Patriots, or who people can now refer to: the New Orleans Saints.

Coaching professional athletes, regardless of their talent level, is one giant headache. Not only are you dealing with enlarged egos and bank accounts, but sometimes their wives and girlfriends as well.

This is not to mention the constant badgering of the media, demanding quotes, interviews and inside information. Meanwhile, if you don’t win, you’re gone.

Still don’t think having someone who can handle all of this is important? Let’s look at recent history.

There is no need to look any further than the 0-4 Saints, who have a Super Bowl MVP in recordsetting quarterback Drew Brees. Without his partner in crime (no pun intended) – head coach Sean Payton – around, Brees looks like just another average NFL quarterback, not a superstar.

This offseason, Payton was suspended for the season due to an alleged bounty system that had been going on in the Saints’ locker room. Many expected Brees to take over and pick up where he left off after an unparalleled 2011 season. This hasn’t been the case.

Through the first four games, Brees has completed only 57.6 percent of his passes, by far his lowest of any season as a Saint. By comparison, he completed 71.2 percent last year and threw for 5,476 yards, an NFL single-season record.

Payton has been with him since the start. He immediately traded for the veteran when he found out Brees was about to be sidelined in favor of a hotheaded Phillip Rivers in San Diego. Brees and Payton clicked instantly, winning their division and going all the way to the NFC Championship.

Brees had potential in San Diego. Did he somehow just wake up one day in New Orleans and learn how to be an elite quarterback? He was a secondround pick, for crying out loud. He was just never given the chance to prosper in San Diego.

Still not convinced?

Peyton Manning had a miserable first season.

But Tony Dungy, a fantastic coach, saw his talent and never questioned his starting role. A great coach has patience, sees what the player can do and gets the most out of the athlete’s skills.

It’s clear his new role as player, leader and coach figure has impacted Brees’ performance in a negative way.

Along with their head coach, they seemed to have lost their home field advantage. The Saints have already lost two games at home this season after going 19-5 at home over the last three seasons.

A change in coach leads to a change in culture, attitude and results, which UB fans know all too well.

Buffalo football has been less than stellar lately.

In 2006, a former baseball player and Green Bay Packers offensive assistant turned out to be a savior for the Bulls. This man was Turner Gill.

Gill, who took over for Jim Hofher and his 8-49 record as UB’s head coach, was in charge of cleaning up a mess. Buffalo was one of the three or four worst FBS programs in the nation when Gill came, according to an article posted on collegefootballrivals.com.

In 2006, Gill’s first season with the Bulls, they only won two games. However, they scored the most points they had in a season since joining Division I. Finally, there was some reason for excitement in Buffalo, despite the record.

In 2007, the Bulls achieved their first winning record within the conference. Then they came out firing in 2008. They were poised, confident and ready to be known. This was thanks to Gill.

2008 was a year that will never be forgotten for Buffalo football. The Bulls posted their first winning record and won the MAC East. They then took down the No. 12 team in the nation, the Ball State Cardinals, on ESPN to win their first MAC championship. They made it to their first bowl appearance, the International Bowl, in which they lost to Connecticut 38-20.

Gill left for the head coaching job at Kansas the following season. Since then, the only bowls Buffalo sees are the ones lit up around campus.

The Jeff Quinn era has begun 6-22, including a 3-14 conference record and a 0-8 mark against nonconference Division I schools.

Still don’t think a head coach is a big deal?

A good head coach can ignore distractions. He can take criticism and find ways to turn it into motivation for himself and his players, without it looking like smoke blowing out of his ass. Especially in the college game, players need a guy they respect. And nothing demands respect more than what’s on the scoreboard.

Do you still think you and your buddy can coach Brady, Rodgers or Brees to postseason football?

No. Not a chance.

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NATHANIEL SMITH and JOE KONZE JR. Senior Sports Editor and Sports Editor As the UB football team traveled to Connecticut in a matchup with the Huskies, it was an opportunity for former athletic director Warde Manuel to take on his former school and reflect on the times he had while at Buffalo. The Spectrum’s Nathaniel Smith and Joseph Konze chatted with Manuel to reflect on how life has been since he’s left UB. Q: How has life treated you since you left Buffalo?

A: It’s going pretty good. I’m enjoying Connecticut and enjoying the people, getting to know the program, the student athletes. Seven months on the job and it still feels new to me. Going through a season is new, starting a basketball season, seeing all the teams play still feels new to me. But I’m settling down. The family is here and enjoying it, so life is pretty good.

Q: How’s the transition from being in the MidAmerican Conference to going to a conference like the Big East?

A: I think the level of resources is different, in terms of what is spent in this league per team, the resources in terms of what television [revenue] brings to the Big East and [Connecticut athletics] has been elevating each year like we did at Buffalo, but they’ve been doing it for a longer time than we have at this level. But other than that it’s the same thing. You have great people around you, great student athletes that are competing every day, and those are the things that are most important. The resources are helpful, don’t get me wrong – money’s always helpful – but it’s the people that are around you that are most important.

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Former Buffalo Athletic Director Warde Manuel is still adjusting to life at Connecticut after taking the athletic director job in the spring.

Bulls rally back to tie, snap drought NATHANIEL SMITH Senior Sports Editor It was a crucial moment for the women’s soccer team: down one at halftime, coming off a disappointing showing Friday night against defending Mid-American Conference champion Toledo (4-7-1, 2-2-1 MAC), and having won only one game in its last seven attempts.

It would have been easy for this team to falter. But Sunday was a different day, as the Bulls (2-8-2, 0-3-1 MAC) rallied back and took advantage of a golden opportunity to earn a 1-1 tie, stealing a win from Northern Illinois (5-4-2, 1-1-2 MAC) in the 54th minute.

The Bulls did it with a back-up in net: redshirt freshman Sarah Moore, who filled in for injured junior Ainsley Wheldon.

“With everything that’s been rolling against us it would have been easy to just go away and put our heads down after going down 1-0,” said head coach Michael Thomas. “I thought the girls did a phenomenal job of fighting back and continuing to fight even after the bounces maybe didn’t go our way.”

Senior forward Taylor Thompson made a run on the right side of the field, eluding two Huskies defenders flanking her side. Her cross deep from the corner of the Northern Illinois goal line went across the box to the foot of freshman forward N’Dea Johnson, who drew another defender and tapped it to senior forward Stephanie Velez, who was wide open for the easy finish.

It was Velez’s first goal of the season, one made possible by the aggressive, attacking play of Thompson and Johnson, two players who Thomas raved about afterward.

“It was a great individual effort by Taylor Thompson,” Thomas said. “You can have a class assist. Taylor was able to eliminate two defenders and a goalkeeper, just with the assist.”

He had even more glowing remarks about the young Johnson, who continued her strong play this year after what Thomas called her best performance of the season in the loss to Toledo.

“N’Dea is the best natural athlete on the team and probably one of the best in the conference,” Thomas said. “She’s still REIMON BHUYAN /// THE SPECTRUM working on her decision-making process, and when she figures it out she’s going to Freshman forward N’Dea Johnson (2) and the be dangerous. The thing we’ve been trying Bulls finally snapped their losing skid on Sunday Continued on page 10

as they rallied back from an early one-goal deficit to tie Northern Illinois, 1-1, at UB Stadium.

Men’s tennis shows signs of success in Penn Invite BRANDON BARNES Sports Reporter Last season, the men’s tennis team won the Mid-American Conference regular season championship before falling in the MAC postseason championship game.

With many of the same players returning, Buffalo has hopes of building upon last season to defend its title.

The Bulls traveled to Pennsylvania this weekend to take part in the Penn Invite. The fall tournament affects individual rankings, not team records.

Doubles play, which was inconsistent last season, proved to be strong for Buffalo over the course of the weekend.

In an intense match, sophomore Damien David and junior Ivan Vereshchaga ferociously fended off St. Josephs pair Jose Sierra and Alex Veronis, 8-6, in a tiebreaking set to advance to the semifinals.

However, the captivating play of Vereshchaga and David did not show up the following day (Sunday) as the Bulls’ run of victories met a sudden halt. Princeton’s Dan Davies and Zack McCourt outlast UB’s pair, winning in doubles competition by an 8-1 score.

“We competed very well; we made a lot of progress this fall and in college tennis, that is what the fall is for: developmental time,” said head coach Lee Nickell. “Our

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Sophomore Damien David and the men’s tennis team picked up where they left off over the weekend, as they had strong performances at the Penn Invitational in Philadelphia, Penn.

young guys, older guys, all the guys have come together and made big strides in their game and have gotten better in the three or four weeks that we have been practicing.”

Headlining singles play were juniors Jason Simon and Jason Shkodnik.

After back-to-back wins in the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds of the weekend invite, Shkodnik found himself competing

in the finals of the consolation round on Sunday. Delaware’s Evan Andrews proved to be the plight of Shkodnik’s singles run.

Shkodnik fought hard but was defeated in three sets, 6-4, 2-6, 11-9.

Simon knocked off Temple’s Hicham Belkssir, 6-2, 6-1, followed by a thirdset-super-tiebreaker win against Lehigh’s Timur Chemykh, 3-6, 6-4, 10-8. Success in Continued on page 5