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From fear to freedom Transgender UB student Amy O’Leary comes to terms with gender identity

Vice provost Andrew Stott and UB police address national clown trend HANNAH STEIN

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Amy O’Leary always felt like square peg in a round hole.

No matter how hard she tried to fit in with guys, she said it always felt wrong.

“Growing up I always knew there was something kind of different about me,” O’Leary, a junior psychology major, said. “I kind of knew that I was a normal kid but, I didn’t fit in with everybody else.”

O’Leary began transitioning from male to female in April 2016. Before her transition, O’Leary often found herself faced with body image issues, anxiety and depression. When she started college, these feelings only intensified.

O’Leary described herself as being very “sporty” as a child. She played basketball, soccer and a few other sports. But she said no matter what, she always hated being on the male team, being forced to socialize with guys and being grouped into a category where she didn’t really fit in.

“When I got to the fifth grade we had sexual education and male puberty was described to me and the girls were in a different room. When I heard about growing body hair and growing tall and having a deep voice and an Adam’s apple I cringed and I thought ‘I don’t want that, I can’t let that happen to me,’” she said.

O’Leary said it took a while for puberty to catch up to her.

“I was kind of a late developer,” she said.

“I didn’t really grow until I was about four-

teen and I shot up like seven inches in one year and my voice deepened around that same time and my parents were always saying ‘you’re growing up to be tall and you’re a good looking guy.’”

All of these compliments were supposed to sound good, O’Leary said, but she never really liked them.

She took the compliments in stride and pretended she was OK with them, but quickly began to experience gender dysphoria once she hit puberty.

Gender dysphoria is clash between a person’s physical or assigned gender and the gender they identify as, according to the American Psychiatric Association.

O’Leary started having intrusive thoughts and said she should be female when she was around the age of 16. She tried to shrug away these thoughts but remained “really

unhappy” most of the time.

“I had a lot of depression from the end of middle school until the end of high school,” she said. “ I couldn’t deal with what was happening to my body and I couldn’t put it into words, I didn’t really know what was going on.”

O’Leary had an “internalized transphobia” that stopped her from telling a doctor or her family that she wanted to be a female.

Her fear of being seen as different prevented her from verbalizing her feelings.

She had an “incredible fear” of becoming an adult because that would mean she was a man.

“I got confused for a girl a lot growing up and that always made me smile, but I had to pretend it pissed me off,” O’Leary said.

Andrew Stott said the chances of encountering a creepy clown is probably not much different from the chances of contracting Ebola or Zika viruses. The chances are “very, very slim.”

Since Aug. 20, clown sightings have spread nationally and have led to at least one death, roughly 12 arrests and school lockouts, according to The New York Times. Elementary schools, middle schools, high schools and colleges across the nation have dealt with clown reports and sightings. Many UB students have expressed concerns with clowns appearing on campus on Twitter, but university police don’t see clowns as a major threat.

Although there haven’t been any clown sightings at UB, UPD Chief Gerald Schoenle, said the “clown hype” has a life of its own and there hasn’t been any serious danger.

“I think it’s more of a high school thing and hopefully our college students don’t buy into that,” Schoenle said.

Schoenle said he wants people to be safe all the time but for Halloween there will be more police staff working and extra shifts.

He said 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. is typically a peak time for problems. Schoenle said it’s better to walk in groups of three when going out and to be cognizant at all times of surroundings.

Stott, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education and English professor, jokingly said clowns wouldn’t come to UB because they are scared of him.

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more prevalent and accepted, particularly among young people, as alcohol and cigarette use decreases.

Twenty years ago, roughly 80 percent of high school students viewed smoking marijuana as a “risky behavior.” Now, roughly one out of three high school students view smoking marijuana as risky behavior, according to a University of Michigan study.

“I think we can expect this trend to continue until marijuana replaces alcohol use in teens,” Collins said.

While recreational use is growing in popularity, the panelists agreed not enough people are aware of marijuana’s medicinal use.

Edward Bednarczyk, the keynote speaker and chair of the pharmacy department, began the panel with an overview of how medical cannabis is used and some misperceptions surrounding the drug.

Bednarczyk said proper dosage is key to treating symptoms effectively and safely.

Different strains of marijuana may be better in some situations, depending on the patient and the symptom being treated.

Another big misconception is that proponents of widespread marijuana use say that “all marijuana is medical marijuana,” but Bednarczyk explained a more complicated picture.

Those in favor of marijuana legalization, for recreational or medicinal purposes, tend to wrongly emphasize the medicinal uses.

Bednarczyk said marijuana has been used to effectively treat loss of appetite, epilepsy, childhood seizures and some types of pain.

“In my experience, it’s not hard to find volunteers for marijuana research… although there’s a certain art to instructing patients how to smoke in order to get accurate results,” Bednarczyk said.

Clinical trials are more difficult to conduct because cannabis is classified as a Schedule 1 drug by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), according to Bednarczyk.

Schedule 1 drugs are widely understood as illegal or illicit, including heroin, cocaine, meth and marijuana. Cannabis of any form is subsequently not allowed in pharmacies or hospitals because they fall under DEA ju-

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Amy O’Leary started transitioning from male to female in April 2016. O’Leary, a junior psychology major, experienced emotional distress prior to her transition.

UB panel says more research needs to be done on medical marijuana SARAH CROWLEY

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R. Lorraine Collins said marijuana is becoming more prevalent and accepted, but not enough people are educated on its medical uses.

Collins, PhD and associate dean for Research at the School of Public Health, was one of the panelists in Friday morning’s discussion on medical marijuana. Medical experts gathered in 125 Kapoor Hall to examine the successes, failures and challenges of keeping facts straight about medical marijuana in a country where multiple states have legalized recreational use.

“These states legalized marijuana essentially without really knowing what they were getting into and now they’re coming to us asking for information and we’re scrambling to give them information. But there’s still a lot we don’t know,” Collins said.

Medical marijuana is legal in New York State.

Collins said marijuana use is becoming

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risdiction, even in states like New York.

“It’s a real pain, I mean it’s possible to get a schedule 1 license, but for all the research that needs to be done, it’s just setting up barriers,” Bednarczyk said.

Bednarczyk said this could be improved by changing the classification, even if only by one level.

The panel also emphasized the importance of not misusing medical marijuana.

Jennifer Sharf, an adjunct professor at UB law, said the best advice she can give to people is to treat marijuana like any other drug – don’t take someone else’s prescription and be aware of potential adverse side effects.

“When it comes to driving [under the influence] think of it like alcohol, yes, technically it’s legal to drive after drinking, but it’s your responsibility to know if you are able to. A prescription for medical marijuana won’t get you out of a DUI,” Sharf said. email: sarah.crowley@ubspectrum.com

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“Clowns never come anywhere near me because I am sort of the anti-clown. I am the spokesperson for anti-clowness,” Stott said. “They don’t like me.”

Stott has written two books related to clowns. He said he’s a reluctant expert on clowns because he’s studied humor across centuries and especially in British popular culture for years.

Stott said clowns have become more associated with horror than laughter and the scary clown has now become an anachronism.

“The image [of clowns today] is still really vivid and bold, but the meaning has been hollowed out and changed,” Stott said. “They used to mean something benign, playful and humorous and in touch with a childhood innocence but now the symbol remains and all that has been turned on its head.”

There’s no prime television show for clowns and the Big Top Circus is not as popular anymore, Stott said.

If Stott were to encounter a clown, he would commiserate with him. He said he would discuss alternative career paths and

All information is according to university police.

9/29 8:43 a.m. - A woman reported a man made “unwelcomed advances” toward her after entering her studio in the CFA. Police filed a harassment report.

12:40 p.m. - An employee in the Harriman Hall bookstore reported two missing books.

The employee said the suspect is a white female in her 30’s, 5’5” with red hair in a bun.

The books were valued around $400. A larceny report was filed.

put them in touch with resources to be trained in something else.

“If you find a clown, try and relate to them other than just beating them to a pulp or setting them on fire or something like that.

I really don’t encourage that,” Stott said.

Stott said he feels bad for the clowns but is a little worried they will come get him one day and “eviscerate” him in “some psychotic fashion.”

Some students are concerned after hearing about the national clown trend.

Sindhu Morapakala, a first year graduate student studying computer science and engineering said this concerns her because clowns creep her out in general. She said clowns are a “very alien concept” for her since going to the circus is now an “old concept.”

Morapakala said if she were to encounter a clown, she would freak out and try to distance herself.

Stott said it’s fashionable and normative to be creeped out by clowns.

Stott said America is experiencing one of the most absurd, surreal counterfactual political cycles of all time which should be

matched with a surreal and absurd rash of clown sightings.

Stott would like to see the presidential candidates dedicate the next debate discussing the clown trend and how to protect us from them. He said it would be hilarious.

“It would be the absolute culmination of absurdity and I think everybody would just kind of dissolve into this sort of purple fog of insanity if that were to happen. It would just be great,” Stott said.

Stott mentioned classic clown figures such as the Joker and Krusty the Clown.

“If you think about when the clown was most prominent in the mid-twentieth century when America was at its industrial peak and the Big Top Circus was closely related to the majesty of the railroad and that industrial era has rusted and been outsourced and fled from America.”

Stott said the Joker is associated with a humor that has “boiled over from the normal and curdled into insanity.” The Joker is associated with appearances in disused facilities or boarded up fun parks.

These figures are way past their prime,

according to Stott. “All that remains is this kind of sad reflection of what was.”

Clowns represent cultural and economic anxiety, according to Stott. He doesn’t think students are thinking about clowns in this way. He thinks they are doing it just to be funny and to scare people.

Stott said the clowns need understanding.

“Really, they’re not scary, they’re just underemployed,” he said. “However, that in America itself is something of a crime.

We’re very keen to marginalize the underemployed in America and if you’re not part of the productive economic core, it’s very easy to become labeled and stigmatized in this country and that’s what’s going on with clowns,” Stott said.

Stott thinks the clown trend will soon reach its peak and a new trend will replace it.

“I feel a bit sorry for clowns in a way, but it’s over,” Stott said. “They need to go retrain as something else, maybe data analysts or something. The time is gone and that’s hard for them to hear.”

student said he thinks she might be heading toward her boyfriend’s house near South Campus. Patrol checked out the subject and then dropped her off in a Wilkeson dorm room. The subject was checked OK.

4:16 p.m. - A student reported he broke a vending machine outside of Knox Room 110. Facilities were notified the glass had to be cleaned up. The student was referred to the Student Wide Judiciary (SJW).

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2:26 a.m. - A Stampede bus driver reported a fight was about to occur in front of Greiner Hall between a few males. The police found no physical fight, but a mutual “combat over a female.”

The students were advised.

12:55 p.m. - A doctoral research fellow reported her wallet and university-owned laptop were stolen from an interview room in Farber Hall. Police said the items were taken from the room while the door was locked. A report was filed.

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Editorial Board EDITOR IN CHIEF

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MANAGING EDITOR

Tori Roseman COPY EDITORS

Saqib Hossain Emma Medina Margaret Wilhelm Dan McKeon Grace Trimper NEWS EDITORS

Hannah Stein, Senior Ashley Inkumsah, Senior Sarah Crowley, Asst.

FEATURES EDITORS

Kenneth Kashif Thomas, Senior Evan Grisley ARTS EDITORS

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THE SPECTRUM Monday, October 10, 2016 Volume 66 Number 12 Circulation 4,000 The views expressed – both written and graphic – in the Feedback, Opinion and Perspectives sections of The Spectrum do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board. Submit contributions for these pages to The Spectrum office at Suite 132 Student Union or news@ubspectrum.com. The Spectrum reserves the right to edit these pieces for style and length.

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InterVarsity’s latest statement is unjust, only alienates students InterVarsity announces decision to terminate gay marriage supporters InterVarsity, an Evangelical college group, is firing employees for supporting gay marriage, which is completely inhumane.

InterVarsity has chapters on 667 campuses nationwide and 1,300 staff members. As of Nov. 11, staff will be fired if they support gay marriage or disagree with the company’s newly detailed positions on sexuality. According to Time Magazine, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship will “start a process for ‘involuntary terminations’ for any staffer who comes forward to disagree with its positions on human sexuality.”

The editors at The Spectrum feel this policy is not only unfair but also outdated. Employees do not sign any sort of document that consents to this policy and are required to come forward, on their own.

Gay marriage, as of June 2015, is legal in all 50 states. There is no legal reason to terminate employees for supporting gay marriage. InterVarsity’s decision is based on religious beliefs. The group has released a statement to make it clear that they do not have a political position on civil marriage but a theological position on Christian marriage.

There is nothing systematic about this approach to gay marriage. The company is asking employees to oust themselves. If LGBTQ individuals want to remain on staff, they must remain celibate and study a 20-page position paper entitled “A Theological Summary of Human Sexuality.”

That is completely absurd.

The statement does not specifically mention gay marriage or sexuality, but rather refers to the Bible

and its teachings.

Other schools, including California State University, Tufts University and Vanderbilt University, have chosen to derecognize the organization. In 2012, UB’s Student Association voted to derecognize the group but that vote was overturned and they are still operating on campus.

There is a difference between more liberal campuses, like UB, and Catholic schools. Those schools that have a religious affiliation are less likely to have an issue with this policy because the group’s position is theological, not political. This means that religious schools will likely keep the group on campus and continue to fire employees for their belief.

No one from InterVarsity’s chapter at UB was available for

comment, which makes it difficult to say how this would affect our campus. If UB’s InterVarsity chapter decides to dismiss employees for their support of gay marriage, the group will face the possibility of being derecognized and kicked off campus.

The company is alienating future employees and participants by taking this stance. LGBTQ groups on campus are being discriminated against and have a right to be uncomfortable with this group’s presence on campus.

At this point, gay marriage is widely accepted and legal in the U.S., so for the group to take such a harsh position is strange and will most likely not be tolerated on a campus like UB. email: eic@ubspectrum.com

LETTER TO THE EDITOR IMPORTANCE MATTERS – ESPECIALLY THIS YEAR

Now that the first half of the semester is over, the dust settled, schedules adjusted, priorities set, and you find academics taking a “frontand-center” position in your lives, there is one question you should be asked: “What is the most important thing you will do this semester?” I will tell you that it is not getting an A in any class, it is not delivering a perfect capstone presentation, it is not finally completing that Masters or Doctorate degree by semester’s end, and it is not finding that absolute perfect relationship.

The most important thing that you will do this semester is to vote,

especially this year, and even more so, if you are a science, engineering, or other major that has links to the sciences. It is important, because you made a decision to study and learn science, and you already understand that science is not just a group of academic disciplines, but a series of activities linking your achievements to aspirational goals for a future vision. You undoubtedly selected this course of study realizing that good, sound science is an integral part of public policies and decisions, national defense and security, in many instances diplomacy.

Today your commitment to science is threatened and under attack, during a period of unprecedented antiscience rhetoric of two decades—an attack that is dangerously escalating at a rapid pace. These sentiments arise from a variety of political, cultural, and religious posturings that contribute to mistrust, confusion, and misinformation.

They negatively impact every aspect of your daily lives, and threaten future generations. You are being told that the science you study is fake, a scam, a hoax, a fraud, a contrivance, irrelevant, and worse.

You should not allow yourselves to

be bullied or threatened, but rather use your energies to carefully scrutinize the positions, policies, and rhetoric of candidates and decide which ones will represent your understanding and importance of sound science. Your future careers may very well depend on the most important thing you do this semester—what you do in the voting booth on November 8th.

Fred Stoss Associate Librarian (Biological Sciences, Geology, Mathematics) University Libraries

Money Talk: Speaking of equity

KENNETH KASHIF THOMAS SENIOR FEATURES EDITOR

When speaking on money and finances you might hear the word equity thrown around. But what is equity and how does it apply to you?

At its base level, equity is the measure of your assets minus your debts.

When gauging an individual’s net worth, you’re essentially calculating their equity. There are different types of equity including private equity, shareholders’ equity and ownership equity. Equity can be used to create plans for building wealth for the future and construct long-term financial plans.

Since the basic concept of equity is assets minus liabilities – or debt – the same holds true for shareholders and ownership as it does private equity.

With private equity, if you have $1000 in cash and $500 in credit debt, your private equity, or net worth, would be $500.

For shareholders’ equity, a company uses a balance sheet, which calculates the money shareholders have invested and subtracts the company’s losses.

Ownership equity is used in chapter 11 bankruptcies for businesses, which liquidates the value and assets of the business to repay creditors.

In a liquidation scenario, bondholders for that company would be the ones with “first dibs” on value and assets leftover from liquidation.

As a college student taking loans out on debt, it might be a bit depressing to assess your equity, only to find yourself in tens of thousands of dollars in debt.

The glimmer of hope is that it can help you manage your funds better, allowing you to built up your equity and actually create some real wealth.

It’s possible to build equity with value holding assets, like a house or a car. You create a foundation

for your worth, whereas liquidity of cash and the value of stocks can fluctuate and represent a level of volatility in your equity.

With homes, the value is measured as Real property value.

This is the comparison between its fair market value – what the average person would pay for the house – with the mortgage that’s still owed on the house.

While volatility is related to risk, younger individuals can shoulder more risk because in the longterm, everything stabilizes.

A famous economist once said, “In the long-term, we’re all dead.”

What’s to be gathered from the rather macabre statement is that, while you can be in a bad situation, it won’t matter in the future. email: kenneth.thomas@ubspectrum.com Twitter: @KenUBspec

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The suppression of O’Leary’s feelings eventually caused her to become “numb” and “emotionless.”

She started using drugs to a small extent in high school.

“I did it as a form of self-harm honestly,” O’Leary said. “It wasn’t because I was enjoying it, it was because I really didn’t like who I was and I didn’t care what happened to me and I just kept trying to numb the pain of getting old.”

O’Leary finally realized she wanted to transition around the age of 17, but didn’t act on it until last spring.

By the end of her freshman year of college, O’Leary had dated a few women.

“I had a couple of girlfriends, all of them were awkward relationships because they thought I was gay because I didn’t want to have sex,” she said.

Although sex with women was “uncomfortable” for O’Leary, she says she was still attracted to them. She was attracted to women, but couldn’t have sex as a man.

O’Leary identifies as pansexual, not gay or bisexual.

“I don’t care about gender identity. I will date anybody regardless of their gender or sexuality,” she said.

By her sophomore year of college, O’Leary began developing more masculine features. She resorted to extreme prevention methods. She started shaving her chest twice a day and her face sometimes three or four times a day. She also stopped exercising in an effort maintain a thin figure.

She began hormone therapy on April 20.

As soon as she started taking hormones, she said her gender dysmorphia disappeared.

“It kind of cured this mental anguish that trans people constantly go through,” she said.

“I suddenly feel normal. I don’t have this baseline depression and anxiety all the time.

Despite O’Leary’s contentedness with herself, she continues to struggle to be fully accepted by society.

She said people hurl transphobic insults at her daily.

“Yesterday somebody told me that it was hard to use my pronouns because of what my face looked like. They literally said ‘I would use your pronouns but have you seen what you look like?’ And it just made me burst into tears.”

The use of public restrooms has also been difficult and uncomfortable for O’Leary.

“At first when I started presenting as female, I didn’t feel comfortable using the women’s bathroom because I didn’t look fe-

PHOTOS COURTESY OF AMY O’LEARY

(far left) O’Leary five months into her transition. (top right) O’Leary when she was around three years old. (bottom left) O’Leary when she was 14 years old.

male enough,” she said. “If it was just me and another person in the restroom someone would call me a faggot or a queer or a tranny.”

O’Leary has even found some people are attracted to her solely because she is transgender. “[There’s] a scary number of men who are into trans people for being trans,” she said.

“There’s lots of people who will hit on me and say some really horrible things like “I always wanted to sleep with a girl with a penis.”

Some of her male friends will come to her house, but they don’t go out with her in public.

“People either don’t want to be seen with a non-passing trans person because of toxic masculinity and people will think [they’re] gay for being with a trans person or people will think they’re dating.”

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O’Leary’s family is slowly beginning to accept her as a transgender woman. The first person O’Leary came out as transgender to was her friend Sidney Bloch.

“I made her scream ‘I’m trans’ walking along the edge of Lake Lassalle,” Bloch, a sophomore communication major said. “I live under the assumption of the quieter you keep something the more it’ll affect you, so if you say something loud, it’s a little bit easier on yourself.”

O’Leary said the media’s portrayal of transgender people is immensely inadequate. Whenever the media reports on transitioning or transgender people, she said, they only want to know about the process, what they’ve changed, how they’re going to appear more male or female.

“Whenever you see pictures of Caitlyn Jenner in a magazine or on the Internet you’ll see pictures of her putting a bra on or a dress or trying to do her makeup because people want to hear about the transformation,” she said. “They don’t care about the person’s life and their feelings and how much they’ve suffered to get where they are.”

She feels the media should focus more on the emotional distress of being transgender, rather than the transformation.

Jenner is an insufficient representation of most trans people, O’Leary said, because most trans people are very poor and don’t have the access to her surgeries and lavish lifestyle.

“Everyone assumes that I’ve gotten the surgery,” Oleary said. “People

question why I’m not wearing frilly pink outfits and high heels and lots of makeup because people think that trans women have to be hyper feminine. And it’s because of the media’s portrayal of us that this happens because people feel like they have to fix into a [gender] box. There’s no ambiguity.”

But she does think visibility of transgender individuals is good, but Caitlyn Jenner is not a good visibility.

O’Leary’s transition has produced several positive outcomes.

Her experience has inspired her to become a gender psychologist specializing in transgender youth.

“I had a really difficult time coming to terms with myself and I want to teach other transgender kids growing up that they’re not freaks and they don’t have anything to be ashamed of and that it’s OK to be trans,” she said.

Since her transition, her grades increased dramatically and she was recently elected to UB’s LGBTA e-board. LGBTA has allowed her to foster close relationships with people who understand her experience.

“I learned from [O’Leary] to be more OK with myself as well,” Bloch said. “Just watching her go through really emotionally stressful events in her life and I see her just trooping through it like no other soldier I’ve ever met” email: ashley.inkumsah@ubspectrum.com Twitter: @AshleyInkumsah

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Trevor Joyce visits Buffalo Irish poet inspires UB faculty and students MIRANDA ALBINI STAFF WRITER

Trevor Joyce published his first collection of poems at the age of 19 and for the past 50 years, he has been writing, publishing and traveling the world.

Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland and cofounded the New Writers’ Press. He made a stop in Buffalo for a Poetics Plus event on Oct. 5 in downtown Buffalo. Poetics Plus brings contemporary poets to UB to share their work with students and faculty. He talked about his thought process while writing and where he finds inspiration. He even quit his job at Apple to become a full-time poet and produce newer work.

Joyce said it all started when he was 19 years old. He and a friend decided they were going to open up their own poetry press.

“It was a buzz and I was just fascinated by this thing which seemed to have great power, especially in Ireland,” Joyce said.

He also spent some time studying Japanese poetry, which influenced his works later on in life. He said over the last six or seven years, he has been actively trying to involve history in what he does.

Joyce said a family rivalry is what got him writing poetry.

“My father had a sister who wrote the most atrocious [poems] as far as I’m concerned, but it won prizes in newspapers in Ireland. So as a 14-year-old, I was shown one of these and I said ‘I can do better than that,’” Joyce said.

After years of writing poetry, Joyce said he became bored and stopped writing for a number of years. During this time, he worked for Apple as a business assistant an-

alyst.

Twelve years later, Joyce decided he was going to follow his passion, quit his job and become a full time poet, which he has been doing ever since.

As a poet, Joyce is always finding new inspirations for his work. When he first started out, he wrote horror stories.

At Poetics Plus, Joyce read through poems from his older collection as well as newer poems. With every poem Joyce read, his voice was expressive and filled with passion.

The room was silent for the whole forty minutes he read. Everyone in the audience was captivated by his words and unique poems.

In one of his poems, “Syzygy,” he repeated the same words throughout the poem, changing the order of the words in every

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Irish poet Trevor Joyce came to Buffalo on Oct. 5 as part of the Poetics Plus event. Joyce read his old and new work to UB students and faculty in downtown Buffalo.

stanza. He said he was “thinking in spreadsheet” while writing this piece.

He used a spreadsheet to put together words he was using in his poem and figured out different ways to rearrange them to form a coherent sentence.

Throughout his reading of “Syzygy,” he kept the audience engaged by snapping his fingers on beats that he wanted to emphasize. His use of percussions throughout the poem intensified his work.

The style of writing used in “Syzygy,” along with the other 36 word poems he recited, Joyce offered a unique approach to poetry that captured people’s attention.

Stephen McCaffery, the David Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters from the English department, has known Joyce since the ’90s and invited him to a do a reading for UB when he found out he was going to be in Buffalo.

The audience at this event was rather small and appeared to be mostly faculty and graduate students in attendance. McCaffery said the location of the event may be a factor in the attendance.

“One problem is, I think so many undergraduate students actually live on campus and it’s very difficult for them to get downtown,” McCaffery said. “They might not have a car or a way to get to events too far from campus.”

Kristen Tsanatelis, a junior psychology major, said she didn’t feel out of place going to a poetry reading although it was something outside her major.

“I saw the signs for the event, but I kind of felt like I didn’t belong there,” Tsanatelis said. “You can be interested in going, but not really feel like you belong in that environment with people who are really into it.” email: arts@ubspectrum.com

The Grapevine BENJAMIN BLANCHET STAFF WRITER

Whether you have a taste in conscious rap or death-metal, there’s something for everyone that’s only a short drive away. Stick around Queen City and kick back with a few friends at some of these marvelous musical offerings.

Tuesday, Oct. 11 Blackalicious – Iron Works Conscious rap duo Blackalicious will be spitting mindful bars come Tuesday night.

Best known for their song “Alphabet Aerobics,” the West Coast pair is fronted by wordplay mastermind, Gift of Gab. Both Gab and accompanying producer DJ Xcel are responsible for Blazing Arrow, one of the more cohesive rap albums of the early 2000s. The combined abilities of beats and words are something great to behold live.

Joining the two will be Lushlife, a fluid rapper and producer from Philly who has worked with underappreciated rappers like Elzhi and Shad. If you’re a self-proclaimed

hip-hop head, witnessing these skillful artists rock the stage should be first on your agenda.

Tuesday, Oct. 11 Hatebreed – Town Ballroom Metalcore band Hatebreed will be storming into the Town Ballroom this week. The beat down band is brutal to the bone, with their crowds forming intense mosh pits over their 22-year career.

Hatebreed is touring to promote their latest LP The Concrete Confessional which exhibits the band’s aggressive punkish metal sound.

The group will be joined by fellow metal bands DevilDriver and Devil You Know, which will greater amplify the evening at Buffalo’s notable music venue. If you need to get rid of all that pent up aggression over class, be sure to rage out to these hard-hitting rock stars.

Wednesday, Oct. 12 Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox – Center for the Arts Providing a vintage twist on popular mu-

sic, YouTube sensation Postmodern Jukebox is headed to North Campus on Wednesday.

The group is an Internet sensation, with Scott Bradlee leading the rotating music ensemble. Former American Idol contestants Haley Reinhart and Casey Abrahams are among the many notable guests the group has had.

Most famous for their covers of pop songs such as “All About That Bass,” Postmodern Jukebox gives an old-school glamour to a new-school sound. Be certain to give this wonderful collective a search online and you’ll be hooked before the show.

Friday, Oct. 14 Bria Skonberg – Center for the Arts Canadian jazz artist Bria Skonberg will be performing on Friday night. Skonberg is fresh off the release of her brand new album BRIA, the jazz musician does it all from singing to playing the trumpet.

Skonberg has toured the world exhibiting what makes her hot memorable jazz style. A lively evening will be in order on North Campus that’ll be full of coolness, so don’t miss out.

Saturday, Oct. 15 Chali 2na & Naughty Professor – Iron Works Wrapping up the week in Buffalo music will be Chali 2na and Naughty Professor.

Chali 2na, former member of the alt-rap group Jurassic 5, has one of the better baritone voices in all of hip-hop.

Chali 2na played a crucial vocal role in albums like Quality Control and on songs like “Great Expectations” and “The Influence,” The MC’s splendid prose was the highlight of many of Jurassic 5’s tracks.

Backing Chali 2na will be Naughty Professor, a jazzy style group out of New Orleans who is sure to bring the funk. The instrumentalist soulful band is under-the-radar in terms of popularity but those who have seen them live can attest to their impressive live performances. Don’t take a pass on this combination of spectacular musicians come Saturday night. email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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Outdoor Nations concludes with a scavenger hunt EVAN GRISLEY FEATURES EDITOR

In the last week of the Outdoor Nations Campus Challenge, UB still has time to move up in the rankings – students just might have to search for something to make it happen.

The North Face is promoting a scavenger hunt for participating schools for the final week. For the hunt, UB Outdoor Pursuits will hide clues in local parks near the campus. Students participating are challenged to go out and find them.

To enter to win the pack, students must register with Outdoor Nations and post a photo on the website in the final scavenger hunt location. Each photo must include the hashtags “#tnfchallenge” and “#outdoornation.” By posting the photo, students are entered to win a trip to one of five national parks: Yosemite, Rocky Mountain, Glacier, Mount Rainer or Acadia.

One student is chosen at random for the trip, which is valued at $2,000.

Clues for the scavenger hunt are available at the beginning of the week. The catch is that students must be registered on the Outdoor Nations website to find out the clues and participate.

One student from each campus will win a North Face hiking backpack for solving a clue.

Outdoor Nations also wants students participating to put their social media posts on “public” so they can track the participation.

This challenge requires students to get up and active for the final week. For some, finding the final scavenger hunt location won’t be easy. This list highlights the possible locations in Buffalo the clues might be pointing to.

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A man walks his dog around Delaware Park. Delaware Park is located in North Buffalo and may be a possible location in the Campus Challenge scavenger hunt.

Delaware Park Delaware Park is located in North Buffalo and is home to various attractions.

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Buffalo Zoo and Forest Lawn Cemetery are all set adjacent or in the park.

The park also offers running, walking and bike paths through the grounds.

Frederick Law Olmstead, the landscape architect for Delaware Park, was also the landscape architect for Central Park in New York City.

Even though this is an urban park, it offers history and land to get active, providing many possibilities for the scavenger hunt location.

Tifft Nature Preserve Tifft Nature Preserve is a 264 acre of land south of Buffalo dedicated to environmen-

tal and conservation education.

The land opened as a nature preserve in 1976.

Today, visitors can hike the grounds and get a glimpse of some of the wildlife that inhabits the area that is most known for its bird sightings.

The preserve also the park offers a view of Buffalo and Silo City.

Chestnut Ridge Park Located south of Orchard Park, Chestnut Ridge park is home to the Eternal Flame Falls featured in last week’s issue.

Chestnut Ridge also offers activities and hiking trails aside from the falls and houses a large meeting room called the “Casino.”

Built in 1925, the building hosts events like weddings and parties, boasting a large fireplace for the winter months.

The Casino also offers a view of the Buffalo-Canada shoreline.

There are nine hiking trails within the 1231 acres of land, including the hike to Eternal Flames Falls.

In the final week, UB has made its mark on the leader board. Buffalo is putting its name out as one of the top outdoor schools in the nation and is currently in front of schools like Virginia Tech, University of Iowa and University of New Hampshire. email: evan.grisley@ubspectrum.com

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Sophomore forward Carissima Cutrona takes on defenders. Cutrona leads UB women’s soccer with eight goals this season.

The road back

With ACL injury behind her, Carissima Cutrona takes center stage for UB women’s soccer THOMAS ZAFONTE STAFF WRITER

UB women’s soccer team has relied on a tough defense and star goalkeeper this season, but it’s Carissima Cutrona who has carried the load offensively.

Cutrona, a sophomore forward for women’s soccer (6-6-2, 3-3 Mid-American Conference), proves a team can’t win if they can’t score. Two years removed from ACL surgery, the training wheels are finally off for Cutrona this year. She leads the team with eight goals this season and is finally having the breakout season that many anticipated from her when she was a two-time All-American at local Williamsville South high school.

It has been a long journey back for Cutrona, who tore her ACL during her senior year of high school in 2014 and has slowly worked her way back ever since. Last year, head coach Shawn Burke eased Cutrona back into the fold by playing her at midfield where she had three goals.

“I have been playing soccer since I was five years old… not being able to play it for a long period of time was very tough,” Cutrona said.

Cutrona chose Colgate University out of high school, where she redshirted her freshman season as she recovered from her ACL tear – one of the sports most gruesome injuries. She still attended practices because being around the game is what motivated her to get back on the field. She continued to rehab her injury and made a full recovery

by the 2015 season.

After her redshirt season, she decided to return home to Buffalo with four years of eligibility remaining.

When she first started playing after the injury, she was cautious. She needed time to mentally move past it.

Whenever a player is coming back from a major injury, there is a period when they try to find their confidence in their game again, Burke said.

But since the injury, Cutrona has done nothing but prove herself. She has showed her skill on the field as the leading scorer this season and her leadership abilities are what made her a captain.

Each passing game would not only help rebuild her confidence, but improve her play as well. She started to trust her leg and was

Gridiron report card Buffalo Bulls vs. Kent State Golden Flashes position breakdown DANIEL PETRUCCELLI STAFF WRITER

The Buffalo Bulls football team (1-4, 0-1 Mid-American Conference) opened up conference play this week when they hosted the Kent State Golden Flashes (2-4, 1-1 MAC) at UB Stadium Saturday.

Kent State overwhelmed UB with their speed and came away with the 44-20 victory. Buffalo struggled all day in the loss. After a rough non-conference start to the year the Bulls were hoping for a shot of adrenaline to their season but may have left the game with less momentum than they entered it with.

Here’s the Spectrum report card for the game.

Quarterbacks: C+ Redshirt freshman quarterback Tyree Jackson had an interesting showing against Kent State.

He entered the fourth quarter of Saturday’s game with only 122 passing yards and no scores. His first three quarters were slow and Jackson and the Bulls were incapable of finishing drives. In the fourth, Jackson managed 128 yards plus a score through the air and on the ground and Buffalo pushed hard to catch up in a shootout final quarter, but were unable to.

Jackson’s 250 passing yards surpassed his previous season high of 178 yards. He also ran for 40 yards and completed 51 percent of his passes in the game.

Running backs: D Buffalo has now gone three games since their running backs have combined for 100 yards.

The Bulls running backs only combined for 76 yards against Kent State. Senior running back Jordan Johnson has been in a slump since Nevada and had his third game

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Junior linebacker Ishmael Hargrove and senior cornerback Boise Ross make a tackle against Kent State.

of under 50 yards. He also had a fumble that was returned for a touchdown. Sophomore Johnathan Hawkins failed to get anything going as well and only finished with 22 yards.

Both backs contributed two receptions to the passing game, including a touchdown by Hawkins.

Wide receivers and tight ends: C The Bulls receivers struggled to create separation against a Kent State defense that utilized press coverage throughout the night.

Senior receivers Marcus McGill and Malcolm Robinson led Buffalo with four catches each. McGill had 65 yards and Robinson finished with 52. Seven other players caught a pass for the Bulls. Senior tight end Mason Schreck finished with three catches for 21 yards and did not play up to par, usually being a major target for Jackson.

Offensive line: F Something needs to change in the Buffalo trenches.

The Bulls line was a detriment to the team on Saturday. Since the Nevada game they have failed to create any holes for the running backs. Johnson ran right into a wall of defenders on the play that he fumbled. They

also weren’t allowing Jackson enough time to let plays develop and set his feet.

Freshman Tomas Jack-Kurdyla started his first game of the year at right guard as junior guard David Goldsby, who transferred to UB this summer, was transitioned back out to right tackle where he played before coming to Buffalo.

Defensive line: F Buffalo has now allowed 340 or more rushing yard in three games this season.

The Golden Flashes finished Saturday with 341 yards on the ground. They averaged 7.6 yards per rush, the highest UB has given up all year. Junior wide receiver Nick Holley started at quarterback for Kent State and had a game high 224 rushing yards along with four rushing touchdowns.

The D-line did finish with three tackles for the loss including a 21-yard sack by senior defensive end Brandon Crawford.

Linebackers: F Buffalo’s normally strong linebacker core had one of its worst showings of the season.

Along with the defensive line, they had no answer for Holley’s speed. The Bulls allowed him to continually get outside them

moved from midfield to the forward position for the 2016 season. That’s when she was given more opportunities to score.

“Every time I step on the field, you never know if it is going to be your last so you have to give it everything,” Cutrona said.

That is the mentality she carries into every game. She now plays better than ever before and doesn’t even think about her knee on the field.

Cutrona feels that scoring gives her and her team confidence. As a captain, she wants to lead by example, something Burke feels can only help the team.

Burke said Cutrona has become a more dangerous player. She has a knack for finding spots the other team’s defense isn’t covering. Her awareness makes it easier to find these opportunities without having to control the ball for long periods of time.

Now the only weight on Cutrona’s play is the pressure, something she gets from both being a leader and scorer for the team.

But it is not an obstacle.

Cutrona said she loves the pressure and she is more comfortable on the field then she has ever been. Even Burke said she puts more pressure on herself than needed, but that pressure helps her thrive.

“She wants to be great. And when you want to be great, you are willing to do whatever it takes to get results and win,” Burke said.

Burke feels she has always been willing to put in the work and now it is paying off for the whole team. She has had a season that has put her in the running for MAC offensive player of the year, he said.

Cutrona hopes her play will only help the team win the MAC championship. email: sports@ubspectrum.com

and break off big runs. Holley totaled three rushes over 40 yards in the game. His pure athleticism was too much for Buffalo.

This is only the second game this season where at least one Bulls linebacker didn’t have double digit tackles.

Defensive backs: C+ UB’s secondary has yet to face many real tests this season.

Following Saturday’s game, Buffalo has given up the third fewest passing yards in the NCAA. They are also the only team in the top 50 of that list to face less than 100 passing attempts. Holley’s arm didn’t challenge Buffalo’s coverage skills much as he only attempted 13 passes, completing 7.

The secondary has shown great ability in the run game this season but poor tackling caused them to be less successful.

Special teams: C+ Sophomore kicker Adam Mitcheson went 2 for 3 on Saturday.

Mitcheson scored the first points of the game on a 34-yard field goal in the second quarter and followed it up with a 41 yarder after half. He missed a 46-yard attempt on the next drive. Sophomore punter Kyle DeWeen pinned two punts inside the 20.

Buffalo also gave up a 66-yard return to Kent State sophomore receiver Raekwon James.

Coaching: F For the fourth straight game the Bulls were held under three points in the first half.

Buffalo has only scored one touchdown in the first half and it came in the season opener against Albany. Flat starts have caused them to play from behind in every game. The offensive game plans have been ineffective and felt stagnant.

The defense banged its head against a brick wall all day and had no answers for Holley. Whether it was on sweeps or read options, Kent State was able to run the ball at will. The coaching staff needs to figure out mid game adjustments because they allowed even more points in the second half then in the weak first half.

Buffalo hosts the Ball State Cardinals (33, 0-2 MAC) at UB Stadium next Saturday.

Kickoff is at 3:30 pm. email: sports@ubspectrum.com