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Wellness and Recreation Center to be completed by 2026 Project planners present designs in Student Union Wednesday ELIZABETH NAPOLINATO ASST. NEWS EDITOR

available for faculty and staff. The Finance and Administration Office, Athletics and Student Life have already given guidance to the project planners, who plan construction at the site of the University Bookstore. Existing recreational offices and equipment will be moved out of Alumni Arena so UB Athletics can “take over Alumni completely.” The plan will

By 2026, a four-story recreation and health facility featuring pools, basketball courts and artificial turf fields will likely stand where The Commons and the University Bookstore are now located.

Representatives from CannonDesign, an integrated design firm working on the project, unveiled project boards and 3D models of the proposed Wellness and Recreation Center at the Student Union Wednesday.

The complex will house “dedicated recreational facilities” like an Olympic-sized pool, six basketball courts, multiple fitness centers, a rock-climbing wall, a secondlevel outdoor plaza and an elevated running track, according to project manager Frank Sica. In April 2019, the New York State Comptroller’s Office approved a $464,000 contract for Cannon Design’s work on the project, according to OpenBookNY. The facility will be open BenJAmin BlAnchet | The SpecTrum to all UB students, with day Plans foR the student wellness and RecReation centeR. passes and membership plans

also relocate the majority of Michael Hall’s services to North Campus and refurbish South Campus’ Clark Hall.

Christina Hernandez, interim vice president for Student Life, said students voted on fee increases in September and “the approximate fee increase tested with students was a combined increase to both the health fee and the recreation fee between

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‘Once in a lifetime opportunity:’ Yusef Salaam speaks at UB ‘Exonerated 5’ member visits UB for Distinguished Speakers event Monday ALEXANDRA MOYEN SENIOR NEWS EDITOR

Yusef Salaam said the Central Park jogger case is a “love story” between “God and his people.”

He said it was a story of a “criminal system of injustice placed on trial” by the people who then fixed it, to create a “miracle.”

Salaam, UB’s 44th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Keynote Speaker, was part of the “Exonerated 5” –– formerly, the “Central Park 5” –– who were wrongfully convicted of the rape and assault of a female jogger on Apr. 19, 1989. Today, he is a businessman, poet and an activist fighting for prison reform.

Salaam spoke for 30 minutes to roughly 1,000 UB community members Monday about how his life changed after this “tragic experience” during the Distinguished Speakers Series event in Alumni Arena.

He also discussed racial disparity between white people and minorities in prisons, how predominantly black and Hispanic areas are “heavily policed” and the ways we are “socialized” into forgetting our history.

Salaam said the current generation is “planting seeds” for the next generation to prevent cases like his from happening again. He called the current prison system “sick” and said it has been “morphed” into new Jim Crow laws.

“Through the 13th amendment, if you get punished for crime, we can take you and turn you back into a slave,” Salaam said. “When I got there, there were a whole lot of black and brown folks that look just like me as part of the landscape of the prison industrial complex.”

Salaam quoted MLK Jr., saying we currently have “two Americas divided.” He

asked the audience to imagine an “imbalance” in society where people take illegal measures to make money and it results in a drug war. He said this scenario has caused people to judge others on their race instead of their character.

“Nobody’s got a backyard that has poppy seed fields in it or nobody’s manufacturing guns,” Salaam said. “Yet, we’re heavily policed, stop and frisk permeates throughout the communities that we come from. Because we’re seen as more capable [to commit crime].”

While Salaam is fighting against the current prison system, he says he has noticed some men view prison as a “badge of honor.” He warned the audience not to treat prison as a “rite of passage” and to be careful about how they choose to “define” their “reality.”

Yousouf Amolegbe, SA President, said Salaam’s speech was “amazing” and that we as a society still aren’t past the injustices Salaam faced.

“We are taking steps forward but it’s important we’re taking steps as a collective to make sure we are fixing these injustices,” Amolegbe said. “I hope we take the advice

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Sica, the project manager, stressed that the project is still in development, but said UB administrators are “ready to act” on plans.

“We sat down with the directors of recreation, directors of Health Services, directors of Health Promotion determining what we need in terms of space to come up with a detailed program of different services that we needed,” Sica said. “And the administration is at the point of saying, ‘We’ve got to do something now.’”

Students believe the centralized Health and Recreation Center is “long overdue,” but are curious about the relocation of the bookstore and concerned about how the plans will affect student fees. Some students who study on South say they are also concerned that the project’s vision will prioritize facilities on North Campus and neglect “worn-down” facilities on South Campus.

Emily Kim, a senior occupational therapy major, said she is excited about the plans because “Alumni is not in the best condition,” but she’s worried that cur-

he gave us seriously as it’s very important that we try to make an impact and difference in the community.”

Salaam offered audience members a “paradigm shift” and said “everything that happens to you, happens for you.”

Six months into his prison sentence, an officer told Salaam that he knew he was wrongfully convicted. When the officer asked him what he was doing in prison, Salaam said he then remembered the meaning of his name, “God will increase the teacher with justice and peace.”

Salaam said, at the time, the officer’s question reminded him of a discussion he had with his mother. She told him that, in Muslim culture, the parents “watch” the baby and “understand” what God’s purpose will be for him in life in order to come up with a name.

“Every single one of us when our parents got together, there were one of over 400 million options. You were one of over 400 million options and you made it,” Salaam said. “That means God said to you, ‘be.’ He wanted you to ‘be’ and therefore SEE SALAAM PAGE 2

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UB introducing paper bags to comply with plastic bag ban State-wide plastic bag ban to affect UB, campus shops and students prepare ALEXANDRA MOYEN JULIAN ROBERTS-GRMELA SENIOR NEWS EDITORS

Campus Dining and Shops and other businesses around campus will stop offering single-use plastic bags as part of the state-wide plastic bag ban beginning March 1.

New York State created the law to reduce waste and other negative environmental impacts. All businesses required to collect NYS sales tax will be banned from distributing plastic bags, even during taxexempt sales. Businesses are not required to provide alternative bags, like paper bags, so NYS encourages consumers to carry reusable bags with them.

To comply with the law, CDS started reducing plastic-bag use in The Elli, Teddy’s, Main Street Market and Campus Tees and decided it will distribute free paper bags.

In “mid-March,” CDS will start selling reusable bags starting at $5, according to CDS Marketing Manager Raymond Kohl.

Many students say they support the ban, even though some acknowledged it may be an inconvenience.

Kohl says CDS “encourages” students to bring reusable bags with them when shopping and has been preparing for NYS’ plastic bag ban for the last two or three weeks. “[CDS] is ready to implement, and will be in compliance with, the state’s mandated ban on single-use plastic bags,” Kohl wrote in an email. “The ban officially goes into effect on March 1, but we have been removing single-use plastic bags from our SEE BAGS PAGE 2

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you are. So if you made it, that means that you were born on purpose and if you were born on purpose, that means you have a purpose in this world.”

Varnel Fleurisma, Vice President of the Black Student Union, said Salaam’s speech made him “look toward the future” and have “hope.” Yet, what stood out to him the most was learning about Salaam’s name.

“Something so little that he didn’t even know, just gave him so much hope moving forward,” Fleurisma said. “He still had that hope, ‘I’m still going to go to college, I’m going to get my degree.’”

Fleurisma called the event a “once in a lifetime opportunity.”

Ashley Wiah, a senior in the Interdisciplinary Degree Programs Social Sciences, said she came after watching the Netflix docu-series “When They See Us” and said his speech was an “eye opener.” She said the quote from his speech that stood out to her the most was, “Everything that happens to you happens for you.”

“I feel like that in itself just shows that –– yes, bad things happen, but they mold us and shift us to be who we are today,” Wiah said.

Salaam said people “immediately” saw the Exonerated Five as the modern day “Scottsboro boys,” a group of nine boys, aged 13 to 20, wrongly convicted of the rape of two white women on a train. He said two weeks after their arrest, there were articles “pulling their lives apart.”

Yet, when people used this reference, he had “no idea” who they were talking about. His good friend Angela Davis said people have “historical amnesia,” in which people forget their history, but he doesn’t believe this is true.

“The truth of the matter is that we don’t,” Salaam said. “The truth of the matter is that we’ve been socialized in such a way not to remember our own history and things that happened. So when people said that we were the modern day Scottsboro boys, I had no idea who they were referencing.”

Although Salaam called his experience “tragic,” he thanks God for the “blessings” and “lessons” in his life. He said, while in jail, he received a college education that allowed him to apply himself so he can “dream again.” If he hadn’t been able to do that, he said he would’ve been a man “full of fear.”

“When you go to jail, and you do the time and don’t let time do you, when you come back out of that, you are a person that is fearless,” Salaam said. “You realize that fear is false evidence appearing real.”

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rent students are paying for the project but “won’t be around” to use it.

“I mean, it’s really cool what they are doing because Alumni is not in the best condition and it’s really small,” Kim said.

“I won’t be around to use it though, which is the downside obviously. I don’t want to pay for something I’m not using.”

Since the 2005-06 academic year, UB has used $3.50 from each student’s comprehensive fee to finance the construction, according to a 2018 report from The Spectrum. As of 2018, the “Reserve Wellness Building” account held close to $2 million.

UB administrators began discussing a Health and Recreation Center in 2003.

Since then, students and administration vetoed two project models.

Sica said the current model is more “detailed” and is based on information the development team gathered to make the project more “student-focused.”

Student Life emailed a survey to students in September to gather information about “current usage patterns and preferences for wellness and recreation space.”

Ryan Phillips, a senior mechanical engineering major, said he’s excited about the plans and said the Alumni Arena gym is “too small” to accommodate the number of students on North.

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convenience store locations over the past [two-to-three] weeks and have had signage in the stores letting customers know of the change.”

Certain plastic bags, like those “used by a pharmacy to carry prescription drugs” and “produce bags for bulk items,” are exempt from the ban because of “specific circumstances,” according to NYS’ Department of Environmental Conservation. Erie County opted out of NYS’ optional five-cent paper bag fee, so paper bags offered around campus will be free.

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“As a freshman, I used the gym over at Alumni to lift, but I started using offcampus gyms after that because it was so annoying to try and get in there with how crowded it is,” Phillips said. “I went to Alumni at five in the morning and it was still packed, so it’s good there are plans to add more space.”

Hernandez said Student Life surveys will help estimate future project costs.

“The outcome of our [Fall 2019] study will help tell us this,” Hernandez said.

“The budget will be built for the actual North Campus building, renovation to Clark Hall and for operating the programming and Health and Wellness Center.”

Hernandez said students voted in support of the fee increases because of “the benefits of the project.”

Maredyl Biscocho, a senior occupational therapy major, does not want to pay more in student fees to fund the plans because she said the construction and renovations will primarily benefit students on North.

She thinks students on South won’t have “easy access” to the new facilities.

“They’re keeping a really small satellite location on South, but they’re moving practically everything to North,” Biscocho said. “It’s kind of weird that people who are studying medicine who are on South won’t even have easy access to all these new and improved health services that they are going to put on North.”

Health Services will still be available at Michael Hall for students on South, according to Sica, but the “majority of them” will be on North Campus. The move, he explained, will give project planners more space to install radiography and imaging services, a bigger pharmacy and an urgent care clinic. These services are expected to enhance the quality of the 42,000 clinic visits UB Health Services receives on average, per year.

Diane Kim, a senior occupational therapy major, is excited about the expansion of Health Services, but thinks Health Services should remain on South Campus and wonders what will happen to the bookstore.

“They don’t have to do so much construction and pay so much to move the campus bookstore,” Kim said. “This would actually be a good facility to have on South for [physical therapy] majors and students in other fields to practice what they’ve learned and shadow medical professionals.”

Hernandez said Lee Road is a good location for the center because the current campus bookstore’s contract expires next year.

single-use bags to customers.

Haven Nguyen, a sophomore media study and business administration major, said the ban is “an important movement.”

“It’s an important movement that will force people to now think about sustainability because people don’t think about it daily,” Nguyen said. “Because look outside, climate change is real.”

Brian O’Shea, regional operations manager at the bookstore, said the bookstore will send its unused plastic bags to other Follett Higher Education Group branches in states where plastic bags aren’t banned.

“We will be sending all plastic bags to states that are currently still using plastic

bags,” O’Shea said. That way we’re not throwing them out.” “We might as well just reuse them within our company so we decided to send them off to other stores.”

Kyle Rigault-Clement, a junior political science major, said he’d prefer if he could still get a plastic bag, but understands the change.

“I mean, I’d like to have a bag; I’d have to put [what I buy] in my bookbag,” Rigault-Clement said. “But, you know, if it saves the environment then I guess I can manage.”

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Former UB basketball player arrested in drug bust 2010 alum Rodney Pierce charged with conspiring to distribute ‘500 grams or more’ of cocaine JUSTIN WEISS SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

Former UB basketball player Rodney Pierce was one of four people arrested Tuesday in a Buffalo drug-trafficking bust.

Pierce, 32, was arrested and charged with conspiring to distribute 500 grams “or more” of cocaine. If convicted, he faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and maximum of 40 years in prison.

U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. also announced the indictment of David Washington, 39, Eleazar Martinez Medina, 50, and David Burgin, 47, who is Pierce’s uncle.

During the investigation, investigators seized six firearms, ammunition, mari-

juana, over 7.5 kilograms of suspected cocaine and crack cocaine, over two kilograms of fentanyl, over $750,000 in cash, six “traps,” scales and drug packaging materials.

In a press conference Tuesday, Kennedy said the seized fentanyl was enough “to wipe out the population of Erie County.”

Pierce attended Hutchinson Central Technical High School in Buffalo, where he became the 17th highest scoring player in Western New York history. He committed to Rider University, before transferring to UB. Pierce was a member of the UB basketball team from 2006 to 2010. He was named first-team All-MAC in 2009 and 2010. He led the team in scoring and started every game those two seasons.

Burgin and Pierce made initial appearances in court and were released on conditions.

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Deplorable defense Donna Rotunno’s victim blaming defense only solidifies Harvey Weinstein’s guilt

JACKLYN WALTERS MANAGING EDITOR

*This column contains sensitive content about sexual assault which may be triggering.

Harvey Weinstein is sitting in Rikers Island jail right now, awaiting a March 11 sentencing for two felony sex crimes.

But Weinstein’s conviction isn’t just a vindication or recognition of his survivors’ experiences.

It’s also a rejection of the disgusting tactics his lawyers employed to defend him.

In 1971, Weinstein wrote opinion pieces for The Spectrum. One piece was about a fictional man who abused women.

Now, nearly 50 years later, my piece is about him –– a man who actually abused women.

The jury –– seven men and five women –– found Weinstein guilty of third-degree rape and a criminal sex act, despite his lawyer Donna Rotunno’s efforts to victim blame Weinstein’s way into innocence.

Rotunno wasn’t alone, Weinstein’s defense team included Damon Cheronis and Arthur Aidala.

Rotunno, in an interview with The New York Times, said when Weinstein first reached out to her, “he was really interested in speaking to a female lawyer, and I said I thought that was a good idea for him.”

But you didn’t fool me, Donna. I think we all know Weinstein didn’t seek out your opinion because of his respect for a woman’s perspective. Perhaps it had more to do with your particular expertise in defending men accused of assault, and your willingness to use your identity to their advantage.

Defending a client is a lawyer’s job, I understand that. But Rotunno’s tactics, along with her remark that she has never been sexually assaulted because she “would never put [herself] in that position,” are tired and dangerous.

Victim blaming, coupled with the insinuation that Rotunno hasn’t been assaulted

because she’s too smart to be assaulted, is plain ignorant.

People like Rotunno, and especially women like Rotunno, show just how far we still have to go before the voices of survivors are heard, respected and believed.

The Weinstein case wasn’t Rotunno’s first rodeo –– she specializes in defending men accused of sex crimes and has defended as many as 40 in other cases.

Her reasoning is that when the accused are acquitted, their reputations are nearly irreparable.

And I’m certain she’s right. To be accused of such atrocities while innocent must be a devastating ordeal. This is why “innocent until proven guilty” is important, and why everyone has the right to speak their truth, even Harvey Weinstein.

Yusef Salaam spoke at UB Monday about how a false rape accusation cost him six years of his childhood spent in prison, and nearly cost him his life. (In Salaam’s case, the rape wasn’t falsely reported, he was wrongfully targeted.)

But only 2-10% of sexual assault reports are false, while roughly 63% of assaults aren’t reported at all.

Rotunno went on to argue in court that the women testifying couldn’t have been

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assaulted because they had consensual sexual encounters with Weinstein at various points in their relationships, and remained in contact with him.

She also said that if she was a man who was going to have sex with a woman, she would have them sign a consent form first.

If Consent 101 was a class, Rotunno would fail it.

Because no matter how many times two people engage in consensual sex, “no” means “no.” If people start having sex and someone changes their mind, that’s no longer consensual. If people agree to have sex but someone engages in an act the other person isn’t okay with, that’s no longer consensual.

If someone does not agree to a sexual act, that means it isn’t consensual.

End of story.

Rotunno also relied on the fact that Weinstein’s victims agreed to have sex with him after their alleged assaults.

But Weinstein had control of these women’s lives, their careers and reputations. If they said no, if they didn’t agree to continue contact or to have sex with him, who’s to say he wouldn’t have used his influence to ruin their lives?

And for assault victims, those possibilities seem endless.

But Rotunno doesn’t care.

And if you were worried about how

Weinstien is handling the charges, don’t.

“He took it like a man,” according to Rotunno.

She truly has a way with words, which she showcased in an opinion piece directed toward jurors days before their final decision.

She asked jurors to remain impartial, stating that Weinstein never had a chance, as all jurors knew who he was and –– likely –– had opinions on his guilt before the trial.

Rotunno argued the following: “The mocking of Mr. Weinstein’s walker, the unflattering courtroom-artist sketches of his body, the countless critical op-eds and biased stories and the convenient timing of the politically-motivated charges in Los Angeles were all designed to pre-determine his guilt.”

I get it, no one wants to look fat in their courtroom photos while on trial for five sexual assault charges.

But this is the only time Rotunno defended anyone’s right to their body during this trial.

Having empathy for sexual assault survivors would compromise her career.

But if Rotunno can’t do her job without victim blaming, then I don’t think she’s very good at what she does.

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Embracing the present, blessing the future and honoring the past Black Student Union prepares for its annual Black Explosion fashion show JUSTIN WOODMANCY ASST. ARTS EDITOR

The Black Student Union is once again planning UB’s biggest fashion show of the year. And it’s turning back the clock this time.

Black Explosion, the club’s annual fashion show celebrating African American culture and unity, is honoring the Black Panther Party with March 7’s “Rebirth.”

Black Explosion, which features a performance from rapper Sleepy Hallow, DJs PVO Sounds and an appearance from special guest host Cleotrapa, will hit the runway at the Marriott Hotel in Niagara Falls with doors opening at 5 p.m. and the event starting at 6 p.m. While last year’s Black Explosion, titled “3067,” demonstrated a thriving future world, this year’s theme is taking it back to honor cultural leaders.

The BSU was founded 53 years ago in 1967, one year after the formation of the Black Panther Party, a revolutionary political organization which inspired a social and political movement.

“It is so important to us because the Black Panther Party had such a huge influence on BSU [as a] club,” BSU secretary Polo Ramone said. “Essentially we started because of them.”

The annual fashion show has been successful since its origin, and has been called “the biggest fashion show in all of Western New York,” according to Olaide Lemoru, BSU’s Black Women United Coordinator.

Through their hard work and preparation, BSU members expect this year’s show to keep that title and more.

The show will celebrate the power of unity in the black community through

fashion by acknowledging how the past shaped the present and how it is shaping the future. The clothes showcased in the event, some designed by designer Clavon Leonord whose work was recently featured in New York’s Fashion Week, will display how the black community has used fashion to define themselves through the years and continue to do so.

BSU President Florence Ayeni hopes this year’s Black Explosion will show students the cultural significance of the Black Panthers.

“Once you hear Black Panther, people think of the Marvel movie instead of the actual party,” Ayeni said. “Which is kind of disheartening because of how much effort and how much influence that the Black Panther Party has had on our community.”

The show will emphasize this history and act as an educational tool, but BSU wants the event to be as entertaining and relatable as it is informational.

“Some of these students don’t know about the Black Panther Party but they may know about majorette dancers, or this rapper or this singer and stuff like that,” Ayeni said. “We’re trying to intertwine these two and lessen the seriousness but also push forward so students take something home.”

Preparing this year’s show to educate and entertain as well as satisfy each BSU e-board member’s vision of the event has been an obstacle, but BSU members believe they have done just that.

“It think it has been a learning process,” Ayeni said. “You’re dealing with 15 other minds on the [BSU] e-board and everyone just wants the best for the show.”

BSU focused on finding performers who align with the theme and purpose of the event.

“Nowadays, us kids kind of follow people that aren’t the best influence,” said

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Lemoru. “So, we try to find people that stand for something and are within our budget that also pay respect to the Black Panther Party.”

Attendees will hear tunes they recognize during the performances, but in honor of the show’s themes of the Black Panther Party and respecting cultural roots, traditional African music will be featured as well.

“There’s going to be a good variety with the music involved,” said Ramone. “It’s new school, but we have to pay tribute to the Black Panthers, that’s the whole point of the show, so we’re definitely going to include some old school aspects.”

Ayeni says the UB community will feel the club’s dedication and a “history of cul-

ture and love” in the black community.

“Honestly, I think you’ll see how hard we’ve worked. It’s not just UB, the Buffalo community is tying into this,” Ayeni said.

“It is one for the books.”

BSU believes that this year’s Black Explosion will display the black community’s influence on UB and beyond.

“The power of Black Explosion is in the name itself,” Lemoru said. “It’s to show people that we are excellent, we are vibrant, we are impactful, we are an explosion and we make a difference.”

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‘Comeback power’ The Spectrum’s exclusive interview with Yusef Salaam of the ‘Exonerated 5’ ALEXANDRA MOYEN JULIAN ROBERTS-GRMELA SENIOR NEWS EDITORS

Yusef Salaam and the four other members of the “Exonerated 5” did not receive compensation until 12 years after the Daily News declared “We got the wrong kids” on Oct. 11, 2002.

Over a decade earlier, the ‘Exonerated 5’ were wrongfully accused of raping “The Central Park Jogger.” Salaam was imprisoned for nearly seven years for a crime he did not commit.

But he refused to be bitter, and trained himself to channel his anger toward changing the system that failed him, he says.

Salaam, a deeply religious man, thinks everything happened so that he could grow.

Now, he spends his time retelling his story to ensure others can learn from it.

On Monday, the student-choice “distinguished speaker” gave a speech and recited poems at Alumni Arena. His speech was also recognized as “UB’s 44th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration.”

After his speech in Alumni Arena, we sat down with Salaam to discuss the process of rebuilding his life after prison, how he views politics and his opinions on “The Fourth Estate.”

The interview, lightly edited for style and length, follows below.

The Spectrum: What was it like trying to build a life for yourself after being imprisoned at 15 for six years?

Salaam: That was the most challenging, because you have to remember to be in jail for the amount of time that I was in jail for was all the formative years. It was those years that you will be learning about how to drive a car, definitely how to fill out a job application: all of the things that you would have been equipped with as an adult to move on. [Korey Wise] said it so beautifully. He said, “I have this big hole inside of me that can’t ever be filled.” And one of the beautiful things that we were able to do was we were able to fill it with getting married, having a family … and things like that. But you always remember.

When you come back home, you turn the lights off, you still have that time when you’re like “damn, I really went through this tragedy.’ But, you have to get up. You got to look like that Cardi B song, right?

‘Fall down nine times, get up 10,” you still have to get up. A good friend, Les Brown, says “when you fall in life, it’s not a matter of if but when.” He said, “try to land on your back, because if you can look up, you can get up.” And so even though we were stumbling forward at times, even though we may have fallen on our face, we still

had to keep getting back on. That’s a part of the comeback power that we have as a people trying to be resilient.

TS: I know the $41 million that “The Exonerated 5” received in a settlement with New York City can never give you that time back, but did it at least help?

S: Well, you got to remember, money can’t help you with anything. I mean, everybody wants to see if it can help, of course. Everybody wants to get rich. But the truth of the matter is that if you think about what we initially sued for, we each

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sued for $50 million. That means that the totality of our lawsuit was $250 million.

You realize that when they gave us $41 million, that wasn’t even close. That wasn’t even one of the whole $50 million. Onethird of [the $41 million] went to paying legal fees. People think that we each won $41 million. There are folks that are young enough that may say to themselves “if I could get $41 million, I would go to jail for that.” But they don’t remember or realize that we went to prison for a crime like rape, which is the worst crime that you can go to prison for: the only crime that trumps rape is child molestation. We were in there fighting for our lives. We came out of that, still not free, because we have parole and we had Megan’s Law and all that other stuff. It wasn’t until 13 years after we were initially accused that the truth came out. At that mark, we’re talking late 2002, early 2003, this comes out. This is an article from the Daily News on Friday, October 11, 2002. [The headline reads] “We got the wrong kids.” Once the truth came out, we had to fight. So we were already fighting, but we fought and we put our lawsuit in and it took another 12 years for us to win our lawsuit. That’s a tragedy.

You know, so we’re fighting tooth and nail a case that the mayor at the time, Michael Bloomberg, said is a no-pay case. So for 12 years we fought. You had a speedy method to convict us, but you don’t have a speedy

method to [make things right]. That’s a problem, and that’s the system now.

TS: As recently as fall 2018, Bloomberg said the “Stop and Frisk” policy he expanded during his time as mayor deterred crime without violating anyone’s civil rights, contrary to a court ruling. Since then, Bloomberg apologized for “Stop and Frisk” and is running in the Democratic primary. How does a political candidate’s past weigh into your assessment of them as a candidate and what advice do you have for voters?

S: I think that you should always look at a person’s track record. Anybody could

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tell you anything. That’s what we know as politricks in our community. But when you look at their track record, that tells you exactly what they’re capable of, what they’re going to do, because whatever they did, they could do in the future. You’re telling us now, “Oh, no, listen, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean that.” But you did that. I think one number I saw was 700,000 people were affected by “Stop and Frisk” laws that came trickling down. The part that gets me is that they were making it into law to harass people, as if they’re the only people capable of crime. They were making that legal, they were making that a part of the American way. And then black and brown folks that were being victimized started to accept it. That’s a real tragedy that you’re walking around knowing that you will have full rights, but you don’t have full citizenship. Your rights are being violated. You’re not seen as a full person, that three-fifths law is still in full effect. Those same policies that they put out there and continue to trample over the freedoms, the justice, the equality of the people –– that stuff speaks.

If that’s what you had in your past, that’s who you are.

TS: What was it like knowing that the story the media and the criminal justice system –– some of the major institutions that determine what we accept

SUNY faculty union rallies for funding increase United University Professions rally statewide, discuss budget ‘shortfalls’ REILLY MULLEN NEWS EDITOR

United University Professions (UUP), the SUNY faculty union, rallied for more state funding for SUNY on Tuesday at Buffalo State College and at other campuses statewide.

Roughly 70 UB and Buffalo State UUP leaders and students, many wearing red in support of UUP, met in Buffalo State’s Campbell Student Union at 12:30 p.m. to hear speeches from state, state and UUP leaders and officials.

SUNY schools like Buffalo State, Fredonia and New Paltz are “struggling” to close budget deficits, partly due to what UUP calls “dwindling” state funding. The deficits are due to an increase in the “TAP gap,” which UUP defines as “the difference between full SUNY tuition and the

amount campuses are allowed to charge TAP-eligible students.” Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed 2020-21 executive budget doesn’t include UUP’s proposed $87 million state subsidy for SUNY’s public teaching hospitals in Brooklyn, Stony Brook and Syracuse. It also does not include UUP’s $75 million demand to “close the gap” for SUNY’s state-operated campuses.

Gov. Cuomo’s office did not respond in time for publication.

Alex DeSha, a Buffalo State graduate student and UB proposal manager, said SUNY hasn’t fulfilled its reputation for putting students’ needs first.

“When I was looking to expand my education, SUNY was there for me,” Desha said. “When I go to my doctor, it’s a SUNY-educated doctor. When I go to my dentist, it’s a SUNY-educated dentist.

SUNY has been there for us. We have made an impact on the world after facing a decade of flat funding and budget cuts.

But it is time for us to enact a vision of what we can do for New York state and

the world.”

UUP points to an increase from 2007 to 2020 in the TAP gap. The increase, the group cites, caused a $660 million drop in direct state aid to SUNY campuses. Because of the increase, SUNY schools are earning $2,000 less per student in tuition, money that is not replaced by an increase in the state budget, which then reduces a school’s revenue.

Philip Glick, professor of surgery and medicine at UB, said the budget places the schools’ problems in students’ hands.

“What we’re asking now is to have a budget that provides operations, provides all the raises that have been given, provides all the maintenance that has been deferred,” Glick said. “Stop putting it on the backs of students. We want an adequate budget.”

Speakers encouraged attendees to fill out protest postcards to send to the governor’s office, waved signs that read “Billionaires, pay your taxes” and “Our SUNY, our future” and shared their experiences with the budget deficit increases.

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S: I couldn’t understand what was going on back then. I was too young to really understand that here you’re talking about the Fourth Estate. If somebody puts something in the papers, even now somebody can put somebody’s name in the paper, and let’s say they spell that person’s name wrong. There’s a section in the paper that says, “oh, wow, we got this person’s name wrong; this is the correct spelling of the name.” And then they keep moving forward. How many people read that section?

How many will know that that section is actually there? I call it tricknology, but I call it tricknology and I try to explain it. They came out in 1989 and they said “DNA evidence” in big, bold headlines. When the DNA didn’t match, they didn’t have a big, bold headline in the same way that said “DNA doesn’t match.” There was a very small headline. The negative residue of doing this clouds peoples’ judgement. It causes people to think “they had so much evidence against them, they had to be guilty of something.” That’s what Donald Trump said. The truth was that we were only guilty of having the color of our skin.

We were guilty of being seen as being the criminals when we weren’t. And that’s why I said the worst part about this case is that when you realize that because they got it wrong, because they stopped looking for the criminal who did it, the real criminal was out there committing more crime.

TS: In an interview with The Breakfast Club, you quoted Angela Davis, saying “we as a people have historical amnesia.” Do you ever wonder if the “Exonerated/ Central Park 5” will be forgotten because of this amnesia?

S: What I will say is this: I think what’s happening in most peoples’ lives is there’s a shift. Young people did not know about this story. Young people are furious. Now that they can just sit down and watch a Netflix series in their own house or chat with their friends and things like that, they’re furious that this stuff happened. But [also] that it’s still going on. Because you look at this stuff and you say “at least that was back then.” That’s like somebody saying “slavery was back then.” There’s still stuff going on. There’s still remnants of what was, and so therefore you may turn on the news and say to yourself “damn, why does it look like those are slave catchers?” This is what Michelle Alexander called “The New Jim Crow.” This is what morphed into what you see now. [When we say] “this is what it was,” what we are saying is that it’s gone, we’re finished, we’re not doing that anymore. But, then we’re gonna create vagrancy laws. So, we’re morphing what was into what’s now, therefore creating the New Jim Crow, therefore creating new systems of oppression that keeps things right in the spaces that they used to be in.

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“I thought [the turnout] was good,” UUP President Fred Kowal said. “It’s always difficult in the middle of the school day for students to step away, for faculty as well. There was some real interest in being heard and that’s what we need.”

Gaelle Jean-Baptiste, president of the Buffalo State United Students Government (USG), said she works three jobs on top of her regular coursework to pay for college.

“What we are fighting for here is worth the cause and I hope we can make a difference here,” Jean-Baptiste said.

The crowd of supporters wore stickers that read “REAL progress for SUNY” and often erupted in chants calling for the state to “fund SUNY now.”

UUP leaders say they hope to create an environment where students come first. “[Securing funding] is without a doubt for the students’ needs and that does make us unique as a union,” Kowa said. “It’s the idea that we can’t just be about ourselves, we’re public servants and we serve students, we serve patients, it has to be about them.”

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Selections from DJ AJ’s Black History Month playlist

As Black History Month ends, DJ AJ, commonly known as “Boombox Guy,” curated a playlist dedicated to celebrating black excellence. We’ve compiled selections from the playlist and included them below, with a QR code for students’ to explore the 121-song playlist in its entirety.

“So for this playlist I wanted to show a broad range of musical talent that black people internationally have contributed to. Being black is one of my favorite parts of my identity because black history tells a story of facing adversity and overcoming it. As well as expressing how you really feel and music is one of my favorite ways to express myself ,” said A.J. Franklin, the man with the boomboxes.

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“Novacane” by Frank Ocean “Can’t C Me” by 2Pac “Breathe” by Fabolous “What Will It Take” by Jah Cure “Trauma” by Meek Mill “MIDDLE CHILD” by J. Cole “Baby Birkin” by Gunna “Comfortable” by H.E.R. “Die Today” by Young Thug “Love” by Keyshia Cole “Rora” by Reekado Banks “Fall Back” by Rotimi “Jesus Walks” by Kanye West “Sidung” by Kranium “Back to Back” by Drake

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“What a Job” by Devin the Dude “Bad Girl” by Usher “INTRO” DaBaby “Over It” by Summer Walker “DTB 4 Life” by A Boogie Wit da Hoodie “CAPO” by NLE Choppa “Stay the Night” by The Internet “We Getting Money” by Sheff G “You Are My Joy (Interlude)” by Faith Evans “You Better Tell Her” by Teedra Moses “Bruk Off Yuh Back” by Konshens “Somebody Falling” by Maleek Berry “Infiltrate” by Sean Paul “Juicy” by The Notorious B.I.G. “good kid” by Kendrick Lamar

Chantel Clement Major: Anthropology Year: Master’s Student “I thought I was going to be a chemist for a while but I struggled with math and I never really pursued the avenues I could have to get better at it. And so I started taking a variety of classes. I took a lot of creative writing courses, and philosophy and social sciences and I ended up sitting in the Student Union and one semester I was skipping through the course outline book

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for the following semester and I saw this thing for ‘Cult Anthropology.’ And I was like, I’ve always been interested in religion and I thought it would be interesting to take a class about cults.

And I actually didn’t realize until the first day of class when I showed up in this big lecture hall and the professor walks out onto the stage area and was like, “Welcome to Cultural Anthropology.” And I was like, “Abbreviations are a thing. Okay, cool. I’m gonna learn what this class is about.”

Major: Political Science Year: Freshman “I’m looking forward to bettering myself because I used to be really motivated in high school. I did so many clubs. I knew what I wanted. I knew the path and how I was going to get there. But now I haven’t been feeling the same, even though I have more opportunities to do it or more resources.

So I’m looking forward to changing that and taking advantage.”

Major: Biological Sciences Year: Junior “A lot of people [inspire me], like my teachers and my parents. They’re my biggest inspiration. They kind of push me to send me to these places and seize opportunities. So I’m doing it because of them. They paid for me to be here to get an education so of course I have to do my job. And I guess I’ll do something they weren’t able to do, being immigrants and such. That’s very important for me.”

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‘If we’re going to lose, we’re going to learn’ Head women’s basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack on trying season, pushing her young team JUSTIN WEISS SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

Felisha Legette-Jack is taking a holistic approach to her team’s struggles this season.

The UB women’s basketball head coach, now in her eighth season at UB, is trying to salvage what has been a rather uninspiring 2020 campaign. Last week, the Bulls dropped six-straight conference games for the first time since Legette-Jack came to UB. Despite an 88-72 victory Wednesday over Miami (OH), the Bulls are still in danger of having to play in a hostile road environment for the first round of the MAC tournament.

“It’s so crazy,” Legette-Jack said. “I’m so discombobulated. Like, what is going on?

My husband says, ‘You’ve been spoiled.

You took a team to the NCAA [tournament] last year, the Sweet Sixteen the year before, you’ve won some MAC championships.’ Even in our bad year, in 2017, we went 22-10.”

Legette-Jack has been looking for answers this season, but she hasn’t found many yet.

The team has only two seniors — forward Summer Hemphill and guard Theresa Onwuka — and two juniors — guard Hanna Hall and forward Marissa Hamilton. But Hemphill, the Big 4 Preseason Player of the Year, underwent knee surgery prior to the season.

So Legette-Jack has been forced to cater to a roster that includes seven sophomores and four freshmen.

“We have a young team, we have a young staff,” Legette-Jack said. “My top assistant (Cherie Cordoba) left for LSU. We’re young everywhere.”

Legette-Jack is taking an unusual approach to helping her players, though. She is still holding 2.5 hour practices, an un-

usual step this late in the season.

“Most people would probably say you need to calm down and meet them where they are,” Legette-Jack said. “I’m coaching them harder. I’m demanding more, in preparation for next season. I really need them to understand the intricacies of what it takes to be a winner.”

For her part, Legette-Jack is focused on communicating with the team and stepping back from the action. She is taking a different approach than she did at the start of her coaching career at Hofstra University.

“Everything is in my head,” LegetteJack said. “I have to regurgitate it, I have to share it. I don’t remember all the time.

I took a day off last week. I have to figure this thing out. When you get quiet in your own space, you realize what you need to do. You have to coach them harder and you have to love them up.”

Freshman guard Dyaisha Fair, who

ranks sixth in the nation at 20.9 points pergame, is leading the roster. But while that’s an impressive individual accolade, LegetteJack thinks it’s the result of an unbalanced offensive attack.

“We need her to score 22 points pergame, in order to have a chance,” LegetteJack said. “In order for us to even have a chance, she has to play 35 minutes and put the ball in the hole for us.”

Last Wednesday, the Bulls may have leaned on Fair a little too much. From the outset, it was clear she wasn’t getting her way. But she kept shooting, going 5-22 from the field, including 2-9 from beyond the arc.

Legette-Jack isn’t concerned about performances like Fair’s. She thinks it’s part of the learning process, and that everything will eventually come together.

“I think they’re running around like a chicken without a head right now, but eventually the light is going to go on, and

Alexis Heng | The Spectrum Felisha Legette-Jack, head coach of UB’s women’s basketball coach talks about her team at practice

Men’s basketball falls to Ohio 80-69

Bulls couldn’t recover from slow first half ANTHONY DECICCO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

UB men’s basketball (18-10) lost to MAC East foe Ohio (14-14) 80-69 at the Ohio University Convocation Center Tuesday evening.

The loss ended the Bulls’ four-game winning streak as the team looks to secure a first-round bye in the upcoming MAC Tournament.

The Bobcats started out the game on an 18-0 run, with Buffalo missing its first nine shots. Ohio freshman forward Ben Roederick went 3-3 from beyond the arc during the Bobcats’ run and and put UB in a deep hole to begin the contest.

Senior guard Davonta Jordan finally got the Bulls on the scoreboard, hitting a stepback three seven minutes into the half.

Roderick had a career-high 21 points for the Bobcats while shooting a remarkable 75% from the three-point line. Ohio also received 19 points from sophomore guard Jason Preston and 14 points from redshirt sophomore forward Ben Vander Plas.

The Bulls went down in the first quarter, but they kept the game interesting in the second. UB stepped up on the defensive end and didn’t allow Ohio to hit a field goal for six straight minutes. Jordan and junior guard Jayvon Graves both connected from deep to bring the Bulls within five points.

Graves became the 23rd player in program history to reach 1,000 career points with a second-quarter triple.

But the Bobcats responded with multiple triples of their own to extend the lead to 13 points at the half.

UB put up a valiant second-half effort, but the first half onslaught from Ohio proved too much to overcome.

Graves scored 16 points and senior guard Antwain Johnson added 15 points for the Bulls, as they attempted to keep the team alive.

Preston hit multiple big shots down the stretch to secure the victory for the Bobcats, despite UB’s gritty second-half effort.

For the first time since the MAC opener on Jan. 4 against Northern Illinois, the Bulls were outrebounded, 39-36.

With the loss, the Bulls drop to third place in the MAC East, with three games remaining.

The Bulls will return to action Saturday afternoon at Alumni Arena when they face secondplace Akron (21-7).

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Thomas Atehortua | The Spectrum Jayvon Graves hits a three-pointer in a previous game against Ball State.

ubspectrum.com the same thing is going to happen that happened to the team that made it to the Sweet Sixteen — it wasn’t the most talented team, but it was a team we pounced on everyday,” Legette-Jack said. “By the time they became seniors, it was a chess match, and everyone else was playing checkers.”

Legette-Jack, entering the month, was just four wins away from reaching 300 career victories. But then her team started to slide in the standings, and the wheels came off. She is now three wins away with four games remaining.

No matter what happens the rest of the way, Legette-Jack is optimistic about the future — not because the Bulls are the most talented team, but because they’re going to continue to work hard on the little things and keep getting better.

“I think it’s getting to be good right now,” Legette-Jack said about her team’s recent practices. “I’m feeling good about it. Is it going to result in a win? I hope so.

But I think we’re not going to lose, because we’re going to learn.”

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