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Voting away from home Students and faculty discuss absentee voting
WHERE are the VOTERS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016
Low voter turnout for SA elections leaves questions as to why more students aren’t hitting the polls
EVAN SCHNEIDER NEWS EDITOR
Roughly one percent of the undergraduate population voted in last year’s uncontested Student Association elections. And this year, despite a contested election, did not bring much better results, as just 1,254 students or six percent of undergraduates hit the polls. SA elections historically bring in a low percentage of student voters, who all pay SA $104.75 a semester through the mandatory student activity fee. Normally just 1015 percent of students vote to decide who will sit on SA’s executive board of president, vice president and treasurer. But the past two years’ lower-than-normal numbers have SA members both current and former questioning why so few students are voting or even running, as this was the sec-
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ond straight year the elections could not field two parties with SA experience. Transparency Party presidential candidate Maximillian Budynek, who along with his vice president running mate Daniel Christian had no prior SA experience, has said that this year’s SA elections show for “the need to overhaul the election process.” “Two days of speaking to clubs, and a poorly advertised debate, are simply not enough,” Budynek wrote in a letter to The Spectrum. “A more publicized election will allow for a greater exchange of ideas and more student involvement.” Budynek said that when campaigning in the Student Union last week, many students he spoke with were unaware the elections were even happening. He said SA doesn’t do enough to promote the election, which hinders the ability for candidates outside SA to
be competitive, as their message would resonate better with a large mass of students. Carl Ross, an SA senator who ran for treasurer this year, also told The Spectrum after his defeat that SA could do more to market the election. UB alumnus Carson Ciggia said he remembers SA elections voter turnout always being low and that once he realized the impact SA had on his “UB experience,” he felt he needed to become involved. Ciggia ran for president of the Forward Party in 2013, but ultimately lost to Nick Johns and the Spirit Party. Carson, who was SA’s Academic Council coordinator, said the student body is unaware of the elections and if students realized “who calls the shots” with their man-
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The state of New York doesn’t make it “incredibly easy” for students to vote in primary and general elections, according to Jacob Neiheisel, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science. With the New York State presidential primary coming up on April 19, both students and faculty are getting ready to head to the polls to vote. Some students, however, may be having a harder time doing so. Students living away from home must go through a different process to vote than those who go to school near home. Absentee ballots are required to vote if one is away from his or her county the day of the election, according to the New York State Board of Elections. According to the NYS Board of Elections’ website, there are more than 570,000 active voters in Erie County as of April 1. Of those voters, 6,325 people have submitted absentee ballots for the 2016 New York State Presidential Primary, according to Mario Alaimo, Office Manager of the Erie County Board of Elections. Bridget Murray, a senior anthropology and classics major, has been participating in absentee voting during her time at UB since the 2012 presidential election. She said the absentee process isn’t as simple as going somewhere to vote. “The hardest part of the absentee balloting process is getting the actual ballot itself,” Murray said in an email. “The process requires that you be really proactive.”
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Bill Clinton comes to Buffalo Former President Clinton campaigns for wife Hillary at rally TORI ROSEMAN SENIOR FEATURES EDITOR
TORI ROSEMAN, THE SPECTRUM Former President Bill Clinton campaigns for his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, at the Grapevine Banquet Hall in Buffalo on Tuesday.
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With both supporters and protesters outside the Grapevine Banquet Hall, Bill Clinton told the Buffalo community that they can “rise together” to support his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The former president spoke at the banquet hall on Tuesday in front of an eager crowd. Clinton also stopped in Rochester on Tuesday in an effort to campaign around New York before the state’s democratic primary on April 19. Hillary leads the Democratic primaries with 1,712 delegates over candidate Bernie Sanders, who has 1,011 delegates. UB students are currently petitioning for Sanders to come to campus, but there is no known petition for Hillary to come to UB. The petition currently has 2,920 supporters at the time or print and the university is de-
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ciding whether or not to invite Sanders. But there are UB students in support of Hillary’s campaign. Daniel Mattle, a senior political science major, works for the Erie County Democrats. Part of his job was to help facilitate the movement of the crowd and encourage others to help Hillary’s campaign in Western New York. “I think it’s good to try and increase the political activity in Buffalo and give students an opportunity to get involved in the process,” Mattle said. During his speech, Clinton talked about bringing manufacturing back to the United States to invigorate the economy and provide jobs. When discussing Hillary, he focused primarily on her earlier accomplishments such as her work in North Carolina when she got out of law school and her efforts as the Senator of New York. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
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datory student activity fee, they may be “more inclined to vote.” Travis Nemmer, a UB alumnus who served as SA president in 2012-13, said he thinks SA does all it can to make students aware an election is going on and ultimately it’s the candidates’ responsibility to bring students to the voting booths. “It’s certainly on the campaigns more than the SA to advertise the election because that’s just good politicking,” Nemmer said. “It’s not part of an institutionalized failure on SA’s part to say that students don’t know about the election, it’s on the parties.” Nemmer said his theory is SUNY delegates no longer being involved in the elec-
tion has led to less candidates running and the lower-than-usual voter turnout. Previously, presidential and vice presidential candidates would run with four SUNY delegates on their ticket, however SA Assembly and Senate amended the constitution in 2014 to give the president-elect the power to appoint SUNY delegates – taking delegates out of the race. Without delegates in the election, there are less candidates vying for votes and therefore less of an electorate being reached out to. Although SA made the move in the hope that it would encourage more students to run, as president and vice president candidates would no longer have to find an entire set of delegates to run, Nemmer said it might have had the opposite effect.
He said taking the delegates out of the election takes away a parties’ chance to be competitive against the favored party running for e-board, as delegates were often put on tickets to help gain votes. Current SA President Minahil Khan said she also thinks the low voter turnout this year was the result of this year being the first contested SA election without SUNY delegates. She said SA should look into holding online elections, as other universities do, but that a discussion would be needed before doing so. That’s because SA would not be able to hold an election on a secure server, because until this year, the elections brought in too many voters than one could hold. Khan said holding the vote online would mean SA has no way of regulating the voting.
Budynek said that the incoming e-board of Matt River, Megan Glander and Dan Emmons are qualified and supported for their positions, but that they should consider ways improve student involvement in the SA elections. “The upcoming administration needs to address this issue,” Budyenk wrote, “or face another year of a disenfranchised student body with indifferent feelings towards their ‘representatives.’” email: news@ubspectrum.com
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THE SPECTRUM Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Volume 65 Number 59 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. If a letter is not meant for publication, please mark it as such. All submissions must include the author’s name, daytime phone number, and email address. For information on adverstising with The Spectrum, visit www.ubspectrum.com/advertising or call us directly at 716-645-2152 The Spectrum offices are located in 132 Student Union, UB North Campus, Buffalo, NY 142602100
More students must vote in SA elections Low voter turnout is becoming growing concern This year’s recently concluded Student Association election featured just one ticket with experience inside the organization and the lowest voter turnout for a contested election in at least a decade. It has left us wondering: Where is the student involvement? SA controls a budget of around $4 million through the mandatory student activity fee of $104.75 a semester. The thought of just one SA-experienced party running for the three top positions in the organization and just six percent of all undergraduate students deciding who fills these positions is off-putting. It’s frankly a bit undemocratic. Last year, the Unity Party ran unopposed after the Clarity Party, which had no prior SA experience, dropped out of the race before voting ever began. Not surprisingly, only 217 students voted. This year, the now-elected Progress Party’s competition for president and vice president was the Transparency Party, which had never before been involved in SA. Two independent candidates, who had both been involved in SA, ran against Progress Party’s Dan Emmons for treasurer. Just 1,254 of UB’s nearly 20,000 undergrads voted. There are a variety of factors that could be the reason fewer candidates within SA are running and fewer students are hitting the polls. The first of course being that millennials, for the most part, just aren’t interested in voting in any kind of election – a concerning trend, especially in a presidential election year. But we feel there also issues inside SA that are perhaps keeping students from going to the polls. Yet we also feel there are steps
that members of the incoming SA eboard, Senate and Assembly should at least consider to ensure that next year’s elections do not continue this trend of less democracy. It’s easy to cast aside losing candidates’ complaints, but several of this year’s candidates made valid points that SA does not market its elections enough. There was very little marketing through social media or traditional advertisement. Even this year’s debate was essentially a non-event held in the Student Union lobby without any notice and attended by less than a dozen students at certain points. We at The Spectrum are happy to do our part every year in providing students with candidate breakdowns notifying them of when the elections will be, but SA must do more on its part as well. The average students, who are not involved in SA, need to know these elections are happening and decide who plays a large part in controlling where their $104.75 is going. At this point, we’re not sure they do. A major change to the election process occurred two years ago, when the SA Senate and Assembly decided SUNY delegates would no longer run in the election. The two bodies instead gave the incoming president the power to appoint their own delegates. That’s another eight or so candidates no longer attracting voters into the booths. Even more problematic is that becoming a SUNY delegate is no longer open to any student. That’s because in order to be a SUNY delegate, a student must have won some kind of school-wide election. That means only the SA president, vice president, treasurer, 12
SA senators and the UB Council student representative can be appointed as a SUNY delegate. That makes what used to be a position open for approximately 20,000 students to open to just 16. Sixteen. An opportunity for the average student to become involved in school- and SUNY-wide student government is no longer there. The SA Assembly and Senate took SUNY delegates out of the SA elections in the hope it would encourage more students to run for e-board – the thought being that president and vice president candidates no longer had to find four SUNY delegate candidates to run. Clearly that has not happened though. In two years without delegates running, there has been an uncontested election and an election with just one SA-experienced party. We think the senate and assembly should take time before considering putting delegates back into the election though – as candidates running for e-board would sometimes just put students who can bring in the most votes on their ticket to run for SUNY delegate. The SA Senate and Assembly should consider making an amendment that was passed by the assembly two years ago but never came to fruition: an amendment to have the president and vice president run on separate ballots. This would allow a president and vice president from different parties to be elected. President and vice president candidates must currently be voted for and elected together as pairs. The move was passed by the assembly, but due to a misread-
ing of the constitution, was never brought before senate to be approved – a required step. Despite being universally praised by most members of SA at the time, the amendment has not been brought back before the senate two years later. The move should be reconsidered – it would make the process more democratic. Students who like a president from one party and a vice president from an opposing party could then vote for both, instead of having to potentially vote for a tandem. It could also encourage independent president and vice presidents to run – meaning more candidates. Ultimately, more SA-qualified candidates need to run. The organization is large enough that there should be more than just one party with SA experience running in the election. If there are groups of students who want the e-board positions and feel they are qualified, they owe it to the student body and the democratic process to put their name on the ballot. If there are students out there that are aware of the SA elections but are simply choosing not to vote, we hope they reconsider. These elections directly affect their money, regardless if they’re in an SA club or not. Students cannot complain about the mandatory student activity fee or the Fall and Spring Fest lineup if they are not exercising their right to vote. But it’s on SA to make sure as many students are aware of the elections as possible, and that the elections are as democratic as possible. email: eic@ubspectrum.com
The bulls and bears of the stock market KENNETH KASHIF THOMAS SENIOR ARTS EDITOR
We have an inclination to use animals when describing or understanding situations – the stock market is no different. For decades the environmental behavior of securities, or stocks, have been described as being bullish or bearish. The terms take into account the prices of the securities and the trajectory they are taking, as well as the traders’ sentiments. Much like a bull in a china shop, you can expect there to be a lot of excitement and activity. Your assets are appreciating in value, traders are feeling positive about the
market and everyone is trading at high levels, with more traders buying than selling. During spring break, the stock market was extremely bullish, with stocks rallying for the entire week. This was good news for many traders who had been taking losses for the entire first quarter of the new year. The continued purchase of securities drives up the price as the volume of the stocks available decreases. This long string of losses was indicative of an extended bearish market. Bearish markets can also become a vicious cycle. As traders come to anticipate losses in the market, they buy less and sell more, which continues to drive the price down as the market is oversaturated with securities. The reason that the markets don’t do down a perpetual path of either bearish or bullish behavior is because market cycles create re-
cessions and booms. Usually the best time to buy securities is when the market is down, or bearish, but you want to catch it before the market begins to rebound upwards and securities begin to recover and make gains. This practice would allow a sophisticated trader to maximize their gains. Of course, bullish markets indicate high-levels of trade. Fortune favors the bold and those willing to take the shot on reading the market tend to gain the most in a bearish market by the time the market turns to bullish. Although, it’s important to note that the investing sophistication that comes with realizing significant gains in a market comes with education and experience – you have to put in the time to win big. email: kenneth.thomas@ubspectrum.com
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sexual assault survivors
Wellness Education Services shows students what to do when someone is sexually assaulted TOMAS OLIVIER
FEATURES EDITOR
The lights dimmed inside Student Union 330 and a video about sexual assault and rape crimes began: Two drug-abusing criminals theoretically rape a police officer in an alley. After the very detailed and very explicit video ends, Aaron Maracle talked about how the experience of the hypothetical male police officer is very similar to the experience of any woman who may have been a survivor of sexual assault. Maracle, an assistant violence prevention specialist with Wellness Education Services, said that Wellness Services has been putting on programs like this for close to 10 years. “[Sexual assault is] one of the most underreported crimes,” Maracle said. “That doesn’t mean folks aren’t telling someone but that their just not going to the police or an official body to actually report it. We want to give the tools to those people that might be having these events reported to them the tools to respond appropriately to the survivor of sexual assault.” Studies of sexual violence have shown many people, especially those on college campuses, have or will be affected by sexual violence and many times the crimes go unreported to police or any official bodies.
University Police had just eight reports of sex offenses in 2014, according to the department’s Cleary Act Crime statistics. Jackie Page, a second-year clinical nutrition graduate student, said she thinks it’s important for people to be aware that sexual assaults happen and that they should have a working knowledge of how to respond when a friend or coworker opens up to them about being sexually assaulted. “Its important that you respond to assault victims the way you would want others to respond to you,” Page said. “Always believe that what they’re saying is true and never blame the victim.” Page said she also learned that it is important that a person doesn’t force the victim to do anything that they don’t want to do. “They just lost control of the one thing in their life that they believed they had complete control over, so the person helping them should allow them to regain control of their lives by letting them decide what steps they want to take,” Page said. Page said UB has a lot of resources on campus and it really comes down to students “needing to be more informed” about the resources made available to them. Although the primary victim of sexual assault can be affected by the experience in many unique ways, it is also important to re-
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member that secondary survivors, those who have witnessed or have had survivors open up to them about their experience, might also require help in coping with the sexual assault crime they witnessed or were told about. “Secondary survivors can include folks from friends and family to coworkers and teammates,” Maracle said. “Its hard for people to believe that something like sexual assault could happen to somebody they know and they might internalize that and think ‘Well what if it can happen to me?’” Mark Russell, a second-year masters student in social work and co-host of the event on sexual assault, said his internship at the sexual violence prevention unit is to become more informed and be able to facilitate these types of educational programs meant to reduce campus sexual violence. “From the first time I stepped foot on this campus to now, I’ve notice how people’s views on topics like sexual violence have changed traumatically and there’s less blame and a lot more support for victims of sexual violence and it’s a lot more understood that acts like this aren’t okay,” Russell said. Russell said that men typically have a hard time believing that sexual assault can happen to them. He also spoke about an upcoming event Wellness Education Services will be
Wellness Education Services’ workshop aimed to give people the tools to help others who have been victims of sexual assault.
hosting related to masculinity and “what it means to be a man.” “I think UB does a great job of responding to [sexual assault] occurrences,” Maracle said. “The folks in Equity Diversity Inclusion, our Judicial Affairs office, our counseling services and our police also do a great job of responding to incidents. There’s always work that can be done in terms of getting the word out there that survivors have options and that this is a campus that will support its survivors and will be there in anyway that it possibly can.” For more information on how to get help after being sexually assault, students can stop by the Wellness Education Services office located at 114 Student Union on North Campus. email: features@ubspectrum.com
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ASA Jambo Pageant presents an impressive pan-African spectacle Contestants representing Cameroon and Congo take home this year’s crown LUKE HEUSKIN ASST. ARTS EDITOR
The African Student Association (ASA) gathered in the Student Union Theater on Sunday night to celebrate the vitality and diversity of African culture. ASA’s Jambo Pageant centered on the theme of African pride and ethnic unity. Attendees on and off stage could be seen wearing the colors of the Pan-African flag, and many performers expressed their cultural identity through traditionally inspired garb. Rahaman Adenola, ASA vice president and a junior exercise science major, expressed the importance of showcasing the diversity of the African community through the pageant, highlighting the unique identity of each African nation. “It shows that African culture is still around, and it’s being appropriated,” Adenola said. “We’re trying to spread awareness of African culture by showing different sides of it … All the countries are different in their own way. Africa is a continent not a country.” The spectacle kicked off with the first few bars of The Tokens’ “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” originally written and recorded by South African artist Solomon Linda. Dancers moved through the aisles of the theater down to the stage, setting the tone for the night with infectious energy as the first number ended and transitioned into more contemporary music. DJ Tunez and DJ Wire kept the theater pulsing with popular dance numbers throughout the evening.
Cletus Emokpae, better known as CletusRealTalk of WRUB and 91.3 WBNY, hosted the pageant with a powerful presence and enthusiasm that electrified the audience. The pageant also boasted a strong interscholastic presence, with impressive turnouts from neighboring universities such as SUNY Buffalo State. “We are here because we’re celebrating our African culture on campus,” Emokpae, a senior communication major, said in his opening comments, giving shout-outs to African nations ranging from Nigeria to Tanzania. The audience exploded with applause with the mention of each nation, reflecting the broad range of national origins among Buffalo’s African students. The next segment was a modeling pageant. Emokpae encouraged the audience to be as “thirsty” as they wanted as shirtless male models came onto stage first, followed by swimsuit-clad female counterparts. The modeling segment concluded with glamorous fanfare as a female model strutted across stage flanked by five males waving tree branches. The talent portion of the Jamba Pageant progressed through a gamut of group, solo and paired dances. The performers exhibited boundless energy and impressive isolations – control of one distinct part of the body at a time – moving from sensuous duets to acrobatic breakdances and highly syncopated group numbers. The dance routines were punctuated by a poetry reading on the introduction of Islam to Egypt and a standup comedy routine by Nigerian student Adeyinka Ajiboye, a junior
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Abiola Oladitan (bottom left) and Adeyinka Ajiboye (bottom right) were named queen and king of ASA’s Jambo Pageant in the Student Union Theater Sunday night.
biological sciences major. Ajiboye’s performance touched on a number of issues such as Nigerian family life and sociopolitical concerns. “In Nigeria, problem No. 1 is that there is no 911,” he said onstage about the challenge of poor legal resources in the West African nation. “Most of [the routine] was true, based on real experiences of friends and family and other Nigerians,” Ajiboye said after the pageant. The night concluded with a formal section to crown winners of the pageant with the titles of Jambo King and Jambo Queen. Ajiboye, or Mr. Cameroon, and Abiola Oladitan, or Mrs. Congo, were crowned king and queen of the pageant, respectively, and accepted their coronations with a dance duet. In her statement to the judges, Oladitan expressed the Pan-African sentiment of the function. “It’s not about my country,” she said. “It’s about my continent.” Ajiboye offered congratulations to the other contestants and reflected on the message of the pageant. “The whole contest is a way of exposing Africa to the rest of the world,” he said. “People don’t really know much about our culture or how we grew up. I think this is a
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good avenue to show that to people.” The night was capped off with a guest performance by Nigerian singer Ayo-Jay, who mingled with a dancing audience as he performed his single “Your Number.” Eugene Boadu, a senior nuclear medical technology major and one of the judges for the event, praised the talent act, especially Ajiboye’s comedic performance. “Overall, the whole event was a success,” Boadu said. Compared to last year’s event, Samuel Kyei, a senior animation major at Daemen College, said, “There were more surprises. Nobody could expect what was going to happen.” Kyei, who was last year’s Jamba King, also offered praise for the DJs, described this year’s event as “bigger and better” than past pageants. “[The pageant] brings a lot of African spirit to the community,” said Zena Iyekegbe, a junior health and human services major who worked as activities coordinator for the event. “It’s like a home away from home.” email: arts@ubspectrum.com
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Home of original chicken wing comes closer to campus Anchor Bar to set up new location in Amherst
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The new Anchor Bar location will be located closer to UB’s North Campus on Maple Road in Amherst, where Honey’s (pictured) used to be. This new location will make the restaurant more accessible for students.
TORI ROSEMAN SENIOR FEATURES EDITOR
Anchor Bar, best known for the original Buffalo chicken wing, is coming a little closer to UB students. A new location will be opening in late
June at the corner of Maple and Sweet Home Roads in Amherst, which was most recently a Honey’s and is less than a mile from North Campus. With seating for 250 people, this will be the largest Anchor Bar location to date. Mark Dempsey, vice president of Anchor Bar, said that the former Honey’s location is
a good place to set up a new restaurant. “When the location became available, we wanted to look at it and see if it fit our needs, and it did,” Dempsey said. The location itself is key, as it’s near markets, like UB and the Boulevard Mall that Anchor Bar hopes to tap into.
“The Boulevard Mall has always been a target for us, so we’re happy to be close to it,” Dempsey said. “The university is a great place to be around too – it’s a great school – plus the office buildings across the road from us.” Business partners Ming Tran, Tom Tran and Jim Kaczmarek will run the new location. They own other businesses locally including a restaurant and a supermarket. Kaczmarek said in a press release that, as a Buffalonian, the opportunity to serve the original chicken wings was something he and the other partners could not pass up. “We’re very excited to start this new venture with Anchor Bar,” he said. Students are excited about the new location as well, since the trip for high-quality wings will now be shorter. “I think it’s really cool,” said Logan Woodard, a senior history major. “It’ll be exciting to have another famous wing place right off campus. The new location is big enough for them to make a really cool atmosphere.” This will be the fifth Anchor Bar location in Western New York, with the original restaurant located in downtown Buffalo. The new Amherst location will seat 250 people both indoors and outdoors and feature a private banquet room. email: features@ubspectrum.com
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According to Alaimo, any ballot submitted to the state by mail must be postmarked the day before the election and must be received by the board of elections a week later. Absentee voting comes with a stigma that a vote may not count because the winner is usually projected the night voting is counted, Murray said. “A lot of people don’t think absentee voting is that important, or that their vote matters even less if it’s absentee, but sometimes in terms of close races or recounts it all comes
down to the absentee ballots,” Murray said. Although it has never been a factor in a presidential primary or election, absentee ballots have shifted elections numerous times in smaller-scale elections within Erie County, according to Alaimo. “There was a margin of 145 votes after a recount of the 60th State Senate district election in 2010,” Alaimo said. “That was within the amount of absentee votes collected.” But Alaimo said the state board of elections never hope for any election to come down to absentee ballots because the pro-
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cess is “tedious and has to be done numerous times.” In a university setting, where ideas and beliefs are thrown around from all different directions, its often hard for students to decide which party they want to represent, according to Neiheisel. If a student wishes to register or reregister for a different party than they had originally belonged to, there is added difficulty. “The process of registering or reregistering for a political party takes months,” Neiheisel said. “Back when the deadline for registering passed, Donald Trump was still seen as a sideshow.” The deadline to register was Oct. 8, 2015. During this time, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina and Trump were seen as front-runners for the GOP nominations, according to CNN/ ORC polling. Some UB clubs have been trying to get the word out about voting. Reed Tighe, treasurer of UB College Republicans said the “Trump factor” is definitely influencing campus discussion. Tighe has spearheaded absentee ballot efforts within his club. Tighe said some students are reluctant to vote this time around. “There are some students that say, ‘Why
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bother [voting since Trump is] probably going to win anyway’ and there are others that say they don’t want him to win,” Tighe said. This is one of the first election seasons in years that New York will even be relevant to both the Republican and Democratic delegate counts, with both elections not projected to have a candidate until their respective conventions, according to Wall Street Journal. Democratic candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton both have ties to the New York area. Sanders is a former resident of Brooklyn and Clinton is a former New York senator. On the GOP side, RealClearPolitics gives Trump a 32-point lead over John Kasich. Kasich and Ted Cruz are hoping for stronger showing in New York to boast their bid for a contested Republican convention. email: news@ubspectrum.com
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The law according to Kafka
UB holds symposium on Franz Kafka’s work
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With more than 40,000 students on campus every year, UB is home to a variety of different cultures, languages and religions. A few students who practice their beliefs on campus didn’t discuss religious books like the Quran, the Torah, or the Bible. Rather, they discussed the work of a novelist. On Monday the Department of Jewish Thought and UB Humanities Institute held a symposium entitled “The Law in the Work of Franz Kafka” in Clemens Hall from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Kafka was a German novelist who lived from the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s. Noam Pines, a professor in Jewish thought, organized the event. “The one topic that, in a way, covers what this entire conference is about is the topic of the law,” Pines said. Pines doesn’t believe the event was biased towards one specific viewpoint or religion. “I brought together scholars from different kinds of disciplines - from history, philosophy, literature and Jewish thought - to offer different perspectives on this law,” Pines said. “The law in Kafka is relevant to all these different disciplines.” The event took place at UB, but not everyone in attendance was from the Buffalo area. The scholars that attended came from a variety of different areas including Yale University, SUNY Binghamton and Lehigh University. Whether due to a lack of interest or just a lack of students not knowing that the event was even taking place, there weren’t many students in attendance at the symposium. Like every event, the students that did attend had a mix of different reactions. Josh Dawson, a graduate student, said that he enjoyed the event and stayed the en-
tire eight-hour length of the symposium. He was there because he is interested in German writers like Kafka and thought the symposium would be interesting. According to Dawson, the event covered multiple topics in the eight hours that it lasted. Multiple speakers read their work on their interpretation of the law in Kafka’s novels. After each speaker was finished reading their work, the room discussed what they thought of the ideas presented in it. One of the topics presented and discussed at the symposium was that of boarders and walls in Kafka’s work. “Both physical [and mental] boarders were discussed,” Dawson said. “So the example that was given was the wall of Westbank as well as the wall between Mexico and the U.S., but they were discussed as example of . . . I guess allegorical walls in Kafka’s work.”
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Noam Pines, a professor in Jewish thought, leads the symposium on German novelist Franz Kafka.
Dawson said that he enjoyed the event and he wasn’t the only student that felt this way. Sunjae Jan, a grad student, agreed with Dawson. “Very good detailed explanation on Kafka’s work and its reception in criticism,” Jan said. “I’m not specializing in this, but I think it was very good. I showed up for Kafka and [it] didn’t disappoint.” Other students weren’t as enthusiastic about the event as Dawson and Jan were. One student said he couldn’t comment on what he thought about the event because he couldn’t really understand what was being discussed. Pines admitted that Kafka can be difficult to understand at times. “If you’ve read the Trial, there is this form
of law we don’t understand,” he said. The Trial is one of the more popular novels written by Kafka in which the main character is arrested and never told what crime he committed. Pines believes that the difficulty of Kafka’s work doesn’t apply to just this novel. “[The topic of law in Kafka] is a very convoluted thing,” Pines said. “Essentially, there is no answer [to what the law means in Kafka’s work] because nobody has even dedicated much work to the law in Kafka, even though a lot has been written about him.” email: features@ubspectrum.com
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Clinton was preceded by multiple prominent Buffalo political figures including Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, Erie County Democratic Committee Chairman Jeremy Zellner, Lieutenant Governor of New York Kathy Hochul and Mayor Byron Brown, who introduced the former president. “[We are] hardworking people who know who our friends are,” Zellner said referring to the Clintons. “We didn’t know how good we had it until the next guy came in.” The crowd was filled with an assortment of political participants – students, members of the community, parents who brought their children and those who have seen plenty of presidents come and go. Nina Franco and Alexa Federice, seniors at Sacred Heart High School in Buffalo, came out with buttons and signs to support Hillary. “It’s a big, once in a lifetime opportunity to see a former president speak,” Franco said. “I just think Hillary is the most qual-
ified candidate and that she’s focused on moving forward.” Outside the venue, however, there was a mix of protesters, from Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump supporters to pro-Sanders signs. But this didn’t interfere with Clinton’s speech. He touched on the job market, explaining that in certain regions, like Louisiana, there is a need for workers that can be filled. He said people with disabilities struggle to make ends meet and even if they are able to work, it is often at a job that will only pay between $30,000 and $40,000, when medical bills are much higher than that. Clinton also touched on healthcare, the lack of raises since the Great Recession and national infrastructure before coming to a conclusion: “Together, we can rise again,” he said. “We can create millions of jobs in America and all rise together,” Clinton said. He reminded listeners about the 2008
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“We need to tell everyone we know that this election could matter most in the primary election,” Clinton said referring to the primaries.
2:20 p.m. - A student reported being stalked through social media and in person throughout the entire semester. 2:36 p.m. - A laptop was stolen from the Student Union. 11:46 p.m. - A student reported his credit card was used by someone else and it has a charge of $400. The student did not lose his card and it wasn’t stolen. Patrol was dispatched.
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Outshining expectations
Men’s tennis looks to make push for second straight MAC title as regular season winds down QUENTIN HAYNES SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR
Despite it being the reining Mid-American Conference champions, Buffalo men’s tennis head coach Lee Nickell thinks his team has “outshined [its] expectations” so far this season. After a conference title and NCAA Tournament appearance, the team lost two of its best players to graduation and another who quit the team to become a model in Europe. Needless to say, Nickell wasn’t sure what to expect from his team this season. Yet with four games left in the regular season, the Bulls (9-5, 2-1 MAC) are winners of four of their last five matches and looking to continue their positive momentum into the MAC Tournament. “I think we’ve definitely outshined our expectations,” Nickell said. “We lost three players last year, two to graduation and one went on to be a model, but coming in with
the guys we had, we didn’t know what to expect. We needed time and now we’re over .500 in conference play and our goal is to be playing for a MAC Championship.” Seniors Sergio Arevalillo and Pablo Alvarez have carried the team this season, with 20 and 16 singles victories, respectively. They have also been impressive in doubles play, as they combined with their respective partners for 18 doubles victories. Arevalillo said it’s been the goal of the seniors to make the team more like a “family.” “We wanted to create an atmosphere of always helping our fellow teammates and making it like a family,” he said. One of the players they have worked to help is fellow senior Akhil Mehta. Arevalillo said Mehta never stopped working last season, even when he wasn’t playing much. That hard work has paid off, as he is now fourth on the team in singles victories (10). Arevalillo said that Mehta’s ability to jump in and play right away is a testament to the
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Sergio Arevalillo returns back a hit for the Bulls. The Bulls play Western Michigan on Sunday at The Miller Tennis Center.
culture the program has built. “With Akhil, we just kept pushing him and telling him his time will come,” Arevailillo said. “Now, he’s an important part of our team and our chances of repeating in the MAC.” Freshman Ethan Nittolo is a new face to the team but is fifth in singles victories with nine. He may just be 9-16 overall in singles play, but Nickell said Nittolo has “turned a corner” recently and took on a “good plan of attack” against a veteran player in Saturday’s 5-2 victory over Toledo (7-14, 0-4 MAC). Coming into the regular season, the Bulls were seen as the second-best team in the conference despite being the reigning MAC champions. Western Michigan (15-4, 3-0 MAC) was seen as the favorite and has backed up that proclamation by winning nine of its last ten games and gaining a national ranking.
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Buffalo hosts Western Michigan at the Miller Tennis Center this Sunday. The Bulls lost to Western Michigan last week 5-2 in the two team’s first matchup of the regular season, but Arevalillo said that he wants to prove that the team is “confident” in their chances of winning the MAC and that might include defeating the Broncos to do so. Nickell said that the team is on the right track toward getting back in position to beat the Broncos and head into the tournament with the No. 1 seed in the conference. “We’re on the right path. Western Michigan is considered the frontrunner,” Nickell said. “I’m hoping on Sunday we can close out those leads and establish ourselves as the No. 1 seed in the MAC heading into the tournament.” Sunday’s match is set for 9:30 a.m. email: sports@ubspectrum.com.
Men and women’s basketball championships, Jon Jones among the best moments of March
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10) Football holds Pro Day Twelve former Buffalo football players began their pursuit of a professional career at the next level by participating in UB’s annual Pro Day on March 9 at the ADPro Sports Complex in Orchard Park. Among them was former Bulls quarterback Joe Licata, who holds many UB records, including the record for most passing touchdowns in UB history. Current NFL players and former Bulls Khalil Mack, Branden Oliver, Naaman Roosevelt and Jacob Schum were also in attendance.
9) Conner named MidAmerican Conference Tournament MVP Junior wing Willie Conner tore up the MAC Tournament this year on both ends of the floor. Conner was one of the Bulls’ most reliable defenders throughout the season and continued his immense defense in Cleveland. His offensive game is what set him apart as he hit 10 three-pointers in the tournament. He scored more than 20 points in two of the three games and played at least 35 minutes in all three.
8) Track and Field breaks three Outdoor Relay records in one day At the University of Florida on April 2, three school records fell in relay races. The Buffalo team of Melinda Wheeler, Camaria Long, Corinne Birchard and Amy Shaw ran the women’s distance medley relay in 11:45.27, breaking the old record by over four seconds. The women’s 4x200 team of Long, Malayah White, Asher Beasley, and Tyra Forbes ran the event in 1:37.46, nearly one second faster than the previous school record. The men’s 4x200 team of Darien Johnson, Mitchell Moore, Craig Howard, and Joshua Gali ran the event in 1:25.43, .01 seconds faster than the previous record.
7) Megan Burns goes all the way to NCAA Championships Sophomore swimmer Megan Burns advanced all the way to Swimming and Diving NCAA Championships this season. On March 17, she finished 22nd in the 50yard freestyle. She also placed 29th in the 100-meter freestyle.
6) Three wrestlers advance to NCAA Wrestling Championships After a few years of lackluster performances that coach John Stutzman referred to as “the dark ages,” the wrestling team made its comeback a nationwide affair this year. Three wrestlers, freshman Bryan Lantry (133 lbs.), sophomore Colt Cotten (149 lbs.), and sophomore Joe Ariola (184 lbs.) advanced all the way to NCAA Championships at Madison Square Garden. Ariola scored a shocking upset over No. 3-ranked Victor Avery of Edinboro on the first day of the tournament. Freshman Jake Gunning could have been a fourth UB competitor, but he was snubbed for an at-large bid in the heavyweight division. He was the runner-up in the MAC Tournament at 285 lbs.
5) Men’s ice hockey wins NCHA Championship While most people were watching the men and women’s basketball team work their way through their respective tournaments, the men’s ice hockey club team achieved its firstever National Collegiate Hockey Association Championship on March 20. The program is in its fourth year of existence. They defeated Penn State 4-2 in the championship game to seal the victory.
4) Women’s basketball wins first-ever MAC Tournament
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Joe Licata throws a pass at Buffalo’s pro day. Licata is Buffalo’s all-time leader in touchdown passes, and looks to be selected in the 2016 NFL Draft from April 28th to April 30th.
In a Cinderella run made for March, the women’s basketball team shocked the MAC on their way to winning their first-ever MAC Tournament, which gave them an automatic bid to the NCAA Women’s Tournament. Buffalo came into the tournament as a No. 8 seed and even had to win a campus game just to advance to Cleveland. Buffalo subsequently rolled off three successive upset victories over No. 1 seed Ohio, No. 5 seed Akron and No. 2 seed Central Michigan.
3) Jon Jones finishes fifth at 2016 World Indoor Championships Former UB National Championship winning shot-putter Jon Jones took a major step toward his goal of qualifying for USA’s 2016 Olympic Track and Field team on March 19. He finished fifth at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Track and Field Championships. His best throw of 20.31-meters was the best of any American.
2) Men’s basketball goes back-to-back Despite a new coach and overhauled roster, the men’s basketball team was able to repeat as MAC Champions and return to the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year.
It was the first year for head coach Nate Oats, who took over a roster without its star point guard, forward and top recruits.
1) Men and women’s basketball both advance to NCAA Tournament on buzzer-beaters hours apart March 12 may go down as the single greatest day in the history of UB Athletics. On the same floor at Quicken Loans Arena, mere hours apart, both the men and women’s basketball teams advanced to the NCAA Tournament on buzzer-beaters. Early in the day, sophomore guard Stephanie Reid hit a floater as the clock hit zero in overtime to lift Buffalo over Central Michigan and complete its Cinderella run. A few hours later, junior wing Blake Hamilton hit a three-pointer with only a couple seconds left on the clock. Both teams went on to their respective NCAA Tournaments, with the men losing a contested game, 79-72, against No. 3 seed Miami in Rhode Island, while the women were defeated by Ohio State 88-69 on the Buckeyes’ campus. email: sports@ubspectrum.com