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BRAVING

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UB students discuss impact of massive snowstorm SARA DINATALE & AMANDA LOW EDITOR IN CHIEF AND SENIOR NEWS EDITOR

The last week has been more than trying for some Western New Yorkers as people in the area’s Southtowns were barricaded in their homes for days, snow engulfing their driveways, cars and homes, leaving them trapped inside.

At least 12 people died directly from the area’s historic lake effect snowstorm. The National Guard rolled in to rescue those most affected. Driving bans in South Buffalo weren’t lifted until Sunday.

Students were unable to make it to classes Tuesday and Wednesday under various driving bans – the school didn’t shut down until Thursday, a decision many students felt came too late.

Mother Nature dumped more than 7 feet of snow in some parts of the greater Buffalo area. By Sunday, the storm was gone with its traces impossible to miss.

Now, people are starting to trade their shovels in for umbrellas, as the area’s massive mounds of snow begin to melt, and rain and potential flooding moves in.

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But UB was faced with the decision to close or not close throughout the week.

Amherst was relatively unaffected the storm, which made other parts of the area look like a tsunami of snow had consumed vehicles and homes – especially in areas like Hamburg, South Buffalo, Lancaster, West Seneca, East Aurora and Orchard Park.

SUNY Buffalo State, Canisius, Daemen and D’Youville, among other local colleges, were closed Wednesday, some even Tuesday – UB didn’t add itself to the list right away, which left many questioning how UB makes its decisions. The university did tell students to use their “best judgement” in deciding whether to come to campus in online alerts.

One student was so fed up UB didn’t just close he started an online petition that reached more than 1,200 signatures. Jason Fialkowski, a senior computer science major, asked officials to close the campus “until the surrounding area is removed from its status as a ‘state of emergency,’” according to the web posting.

“I’m glad they made the decision, but disappointed that it took so much community pressure for them to do it,” Fialkowski said.

UB Chief of Police Gerald Schoenle said as the storm “intensified and lengthened in duration throughout the region” it became necessary to cancel classes.

Publishing textbooks can mean big money for professors

“While not everyone on our emergency oversight team was aware of this petition, during an emergency situation such as this input from those affected by an incident is always valuable and always informs decision-making,” Schoenle said in an email.

Frustrated commuters Molly Deacon, a third-year law student, said she spent Tuesday night nervously awaiting an email from her professor about a midterm. She was stuck in Cheektowaga facing a driving ban.

She said law students are required to disclose any traffic violations – which would be issued if she were caught driving during the ban – to become licensed attorneys.

For the days when school was not canceled, she said she felt like she was “being asked to choose between accruing traffic tickets or taking absences.”

She was thankful her professor turned the midterm into a take-home exam.

“Individual professors have been accommodating, but when we miss material in class, we’re at a disadvantage for finals based on where we live,” she said.

Some students said professors weren’t as understanding. Chelsie Khoury, a junior political science major, said her professor expected her to find a way to get to campus for an exam Friday – before UB canceled classes, which was verified in an email obtained by The Spectrum.

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Professors assign texts they’ve written, students wonder if it’s ethical

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When she was a freshman, Emily Malkowski, a sophomore communication major, didn’t find it unusual to pay her professor $40 in cash for her statistics textbooks.

Now, a year later, she wonders if the professor, Dietrich Kuhlmann, a research professor of biostatistics, was making a profit off her or was doing something unethical by selling her his book directly rather than through a major publishing house.

Jayne O’Connor, a law student, also took STA 119 with Kuhlmann when she was a sophomore undergraduate. She said it felt strange to pay Kuhlmann in cash.

“It just felt sketchy,” O’Connor said.

“It felt like he was using the class as an opportunity to make money for himself ... All the people I was in the class with thought it was a weird thing. We all felt it wasn’t the right way to go about it.”

Kuhlmann is the only professor for the course. This semester there are 723 students enrolled in it. At $40 per student, he collected nearly $30,000 in cash.

Malkowski now questions if Kuhlmann was “producing [the books] himself, and then up-charging them to make a profit.”

Other students at UB are asking similar question about their professors who assign textbooks they’ve written.

UB has no regulations about professors assigning their own textbooks, nor does the university have any written rules about professors accepting cash from students for self-published books. This lack of policy leaves students wondering whose wal-

The email, which was sent on Tuesday evening, stated her professor wouldn’t excuse the absence unless the university was closed.

On Wednesday afternoon, A. Scott Weber, senior vice provost of Academic Affairs, sent out a letter to faculty stating they should be understanding of students who missed classes because of driving bans. Khoury said the university should have sent the notice out Tuesday morning.

The letter read: “I remind all faculty that any student who is unable to attend a regularly scheduled class or exam or complete assignments because of weather related conditions should be offered reasonable accommodations for any missed academic work.”

Khoury felt not canceling classes gave professors too much wiggle room and it didn’t change the fact she missed class material, she said.

Kristen Kozlowski, a junior business major who lives in Lancaster, said her professor refused to give her an extension on a project that required a Windows computer to complete. Kozlowski, who has a Mac, usually does those assignments on campus. Instead of spending Thursday helping her family shovel snow to prevent her roof from collapsing, she had to struggle to download a program to essentially turn her Mac into a PC.

let their money is going into.

At the University of Minnesota, Southern Utah University and Cleveland State University, a faculty committee must approve if a professor can use his or her own text. North Dakota State University and the University of North Texas caution professors against making money off the sales of their texts to their students unless the text is “independently accepted” in its field.

Elaine Cusker, the associate dean for academic affairs and undergraduate education, said in an email at UB “courses are proposed and approved with descriptions and expected student learning outcomes, faculty are generally then free to choose the most appropriate instructional materials.”

There are no published statistics as to how many professors at UB are using their own textbooks, but The Spectrum knows of at least three other professors – Brian Reynolds, adjunct assistant professor and the sole professor of COM 101, Richard Almon, professor of biological sciences and adjunct professor of pharmaceutics and Donald McGuire, the undergraduate programs administrator and an adjunct associate professor of classics – who write and assign texts they’ve published.

Almon and his wife Debra Dubois, a research scientist and research associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences and biological sciences, co-wrote their textbook for BIO 129.

Sometimes, these self-created textbooks can cost more than $100 dollars each.

“I understand that college is ultimately a business and that teachers need to make a living too, I don’t think it’s right for them to be making a living off of students,” said Thomas Retter*, a student taking McGuire’s first-semester World Civilizations class.

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Continued from snowstorm, page 1 “The problem is, I don’t believe he understood the gravity of the storm, and how immobilizing it was,” she said in an email. “Failing to push back the assignment only made the lives harder for those who were enduring enough hardship.”

Storm ‘Knife’ creates a great divide UB estimates it has 2,100 commuters who were affected by the travel bans and more than half the campus’ 30,000 students live on or near campus.

“Our goal always is to make the best decision possible, based on the most current information available and the well-being of the university community,” Schoenle said. “There are a lot factors to consider.

In this case, we decided to cancel classes and activities because we felt it was in best interest of the larger community.”

Despite UB not officially canceling classes until Wednesday night for Thursday, numerous professors called off classes Wednesday, citing the conditions as too risky to drive in.

Adam Fries, a first-year business graduate student, was able to make it to campus from Williamsville on Wednesday, but the snow was picking up when he left his home.

He said he was driving into campus on Flint Road when his car almost “did a 360,” but he was able to get it back on track.

He said many of his friends were not able to make it to campus.

“There’s just too many people who were worried about things, and the few people who didn’t go to school were texting me all day asking what they missed,” he said.

Fialkowski said he created the online petition because he saw the demand. He said every time a student signed the petition an email was sent to UB administration he linked to the petition, including President Satish Tripathi.

“Hopefully I don’t get in trouble for flooding his inbox,” he said. “He would have received about 1,200 emails.”

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz described the storm as a knife that cut through Erie County in a press conference Tuesday – the juxtaposition between students on and off campus makes it clear why.

While Kozlowski was stuck housebound in Lancaster until Friday morning because her town got more than 80 inches of snow, students like Gillian Murphy, a freshman occupational therapy major, were in the dorms watching movies like Frozen.

Students on North Campus, which

Western New Yorkers spent much of this week clearing their driveways of more than 4 feet of snow.

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didn’t get enough snow to cause a weather advisory, got to have some fun on their days off. Murphy even got off campus to see The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.

Other students used the campus’ rental cars to go buy groceries.

Ashlee Foster, a senior graphic design major, said the second snow day was the “cherry on top” for the week. She wanted to take advantage of it. She created a Facebook event for a large snowball fight outside of the Student Union, which 30 people attended.

How UB makes its decisions UB got negative attention on social media for not canceling classes earlier – students were quick to tweet their complaints. Popular blog site Thought Catalog posted an article Wednesday entitled,

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Lauren Carrow, a senior nursing major who lives in Hamburg, said she was glad “in a weird way” that UB received so much negative attention.

“I’m glad they finally made the decision to cancel, but if this ever happens again they need to close if ever a state of emergency is declared,” she said.

Chief Schoenle said UB created an emergency response team Monday night that discussed weather conditions, forecasts, conditions of roads, travel bans and

UB activities throughout the week. The decision to cancel classes is based on the current forecast and weather and road conditions on and off campus, as well as if the campus “can continue to function and offer services,” he said.

He described the situation as an “evolving and unusual situation, with drastically different weather conditions throughout the region.”

He said UB made the “right decision” when it canceled classes Wednesday night.

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Bitter cold, and a bitter truth: UB handles school cancelations poorly As snow blanketed Buffalo in one of the most dramatic demonstrations of the power of the lake effect, the city and its surrounding suburbs came to grinding halt.

The government shut down, fire trucks and snowplows became stranded and grocery stores ran out of food. The death toll climbed, and Gov. Cuomo sent the National Guard to help.

And yet, inexplicably, UB remained open.

First on Tuesday, as the storm rolled in. Then on Wednesday, amidst students’ howls of protest and in the face of travel bans and death.

Classes continued. UB refused to waver.

Though they were unwilling to listen to students’ pleas and complaints, UB officials had no issue pandering to the press.

In the face of a public relations nightmare, the administration finally flinched.

As furious complaints from parents and students poured in, UB gave in, canceling classes Thursday and Friday.

UB Chief of Police Gerald Schoenle said, “The safety of everyone in our UB community is always our main concern and will always guide our decisions.”

Schoenle said the decision to close

UB’s decision to remain open Tuesday and Wednesday discriminates against commuters UB Thursday and Friday came from worsening weather and driving conditions in communities affected by the heavy snow band.

But many felt the university’s concession had less to do with true concern for UB students and more to do with countering negative press surrounding its decision to hold classes.

When UB defended its decision in The Buffalo News, UB Spokesman John Della Contrada, pointed out that only 2,100 students lived in areas affected by travel bans, compared to the remaining 30,000 students living on or near campus.

Those 2,100 students, buried under piles of snow and trapped in their homes, still matter. For many students, missing two days of class as finals approach can be devastating. Students who were unable to get to campus for classes Wednesday were told that their absences would be excused, and UB encouraged faculty to work directly with students who missed assignments due to the storm.

UB prides itself as a commuter campus. But a commuter campus only merits such a title if the

needs of said commuters are met – or at least considered.

And while the argument that keeping campus open because just over 2,000 students lived in hard hit areas may have sounded convincing in The Buffalo News, it doesn’t fly under closer examination.

Numbers don’t lie, but they don’t tell the whole story either.

In addition to commuters from the Southtowns, thousands of UB students commute every day from their homes in the University Heights to North Campus. To do so, the majority of students rely on the Stampede.

On Wednesday morning, as professors began their classes per usual, students sat stranded on immobilized buses.

When the university’s own buses can’t transport students between campuses, when students can’t get to their classrooms because conditions are too unsafe, it’s time to cancel classes.

When students have to trek through icy, unplowed sidewalks (even on South Campus) in the morning just to get to the bus station, it’s time to cancel classes.

When the university cannot provide the services students pay for and rely upon – it’s time to cancel classes.

It really doesn’t get more obvious than that.

Instead, classes continued on, as students sat stuck on buses or stranded at home.

And even as UB insisted that conditions didn’t merit a campus shutdown, they went ahead and canceled other events – most notably the appearance by John Oliver, scheduled for Tuesday evening – due to weather.

If it’s not safe for community members to travel to campus for an event, it’s not safe for students to drive or take buses either.

UB’s lack of consideration of student safety, first and foremost, as well as their academic needs demonstrates that their priorities are severely out of line.

Every student at UB deserves equal consideration from the administration. Every student deserves the opportunity to succeed academically.

It’s hard to do that under a pile of snow – or under the regime of an administration that seemingly doesn’t care. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

Buffalo matters more than the Bills

As dozens of people sat stranded, trapped and freezing in their cars all over Buffalo, buried under masses of snow and contemplating their odds of survival, the Buffalo Bills cried out for help.

Still in the midst of the storm Bills officials reached out across Twitter and the media to plea for help from Buffalo’s residents.

The stadium, filled with about 220,000 tons of snow, needed to be dug out.

Because even as the National Guard rolled into Buffalo, even as residents sat trapped in their homes and their cars, as roofs collapsed and food ran out – the Bills worried about their 1 o’clock game.

More problematically, they expected Buffalo to care, too.

It’s understandable the Doug Marrone and company would look past the storm and focus on football. That’s their job. But for the team to expect its fans – as devoted and loyal as they may be – to prioritize football over all else was shortsighted and selfish.

As early as Wednesday, as the snow continued to blanket the city

Bills officials pleas for help in clearing out the stadium an insult to those truly in need

and threaten lives, the Bills were offering fans $10 an hour and free game tickets in exchange for their assistance in shoveling snow out of the stadium.

Officials also noted that plows were coming from Rochester and Syracuse to help with the project – the parking lot and stands needed to be emptied out, but, of course the stadium was “the priority.”

Clearly, the Bills needed to step back and look at the bigger picture. Because as local governments shut down and county after county declared states of emergency, priorities piled up more quickly than the snow outside.

To anyone but the Bills officials, the Ralph was never a priority.

Football was never a priority.

Every single plow needed to go to people who needed it – not a football stadium.

Roads needed to be cleared so residents could get medical assistance, buy food or simply leave

their house. The thruway needed to be reopened, so residents could begin returning to their jobs – and their everyday lives.

Moreover, the shoveling skills of Buffalo residents were sorely needed throughout the area – distracting them from simply being neighborly with the promise of an hourly wage and free tickets was a cheap move.

Not only was that proposition selfish, but it also contradicted the orders of city officials, who encouraged individuals not to drive unless absolutely necessary – driving bans were in place in many areas throughout the week.

It’s rarely popular to speak out against football, especially against a city’s beloved, battered team.

But it’s necessary – when no one on the Bills administration considered an outside perspective, someone needed to offer up their voice.

Accordingly, County Executive Mark Poloncarz deserves praise

for his willingness to risk criticism and voice an unpopular opinion, as he critiqued the Bills’ offer to fans and reminded the team – and the city – that there was more at stake than a football game.

Now that the NFL has admitted defeat in the face of thousands of tons of snow, it’s easy to look back and say that the Bills were wrong. But Poloncarz had the guts to speak out without knowing the outcome, and that’s commendable.

Though the decisions made by Bills officials lacked perspective and foresight, their dedication to their team is unquestionable.

And Marrone, who was seen several times helping push stranded cars out of the snow, in a demonstration of classic Buffalo good-neighborliness that helped mitigate, but not eliminate, the sting of his poor short-sighted choices.

Many of us at The Spectrum love football, and the Bills. But ultimately, football is a game, Buffalo is our home, snow and all. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

Raise your hand if you've ever felt personally victimized by Snowvember A first person account on what it was like to be stuck in the heart of storm

SARA DINATALE EDITOR IN CHIEF Over the past few days, I’ve grown accustomed to hearing my dad’s footsteps on my roof.

I got used to having my ears attuned, listening for his distinct whistle, a piercing noise we agreed would signal an emergency. (Like a falling off the roof while trying to clear it of more than 4 feet of snow so our house wouldn’t collapse type of emergency.)

I live in Lancaster, one of the areas hit hardest by last week’s insane lake effect snowstorm. I had to stop and ask myself multiple times last week if anything I was experiencing was actually real life.

Did my suburb truly get more than 80 inches of snow? Did our snow blower really just break? Am I actually going to manage a re-

porting staff from my couch? Did my grandmother seriously just get evacuated from her nursing home because its dining room ceiling collapsed?

Yes. And to think, I was really set on driving to school Tuesday morning.

(And my grandma is OK – she will crack up telling you the story of how she had to ride a fire truck to safety.)

The week just kept getting weirder. I didn’t travel far from my house for four days, obedient to my town’s driving ban.

In that time: I ran The Spectrum from my living room Tuesday – many conference calls, rewrites and text messages later, we had a paper done … that no one would see a physical copy of until the weekend.

Wednesday, I was interviewed

by Poynter, a journalism institute, about how The Spectrum’s delivery was delayed due to the driving bans. This storm was making national news and everyone wanted a piece. A short time after, The Buffalo News interviewed me about disgruntled commuters angered UB didn’t immediately cancel classes.

I freelanced for The New York Times – walking through the snow banks in my neighborhood and talking to Western New York-

ers to capture at least a glimmer of the madness so the rest of the world could try to understand what was going on.

The abandoned cars and trucks, the massive walls of snow, the fears of collapsing structures, the climbing death toll.

It was chaotic. It was terrifying.

And it had its few charming moments.

Like when I convinced my dad to do shots of chocolate vodka with me because it was a Wednesday at 10 p.m., he spent the whole day shoveling and, like really, what else are you going to do on Wednesday at 10 p.m. after being cooped up with your 22-year-old daughter for days?

So we drank. And we laughed.

And watched an old movie from 1960. And laughed some more.

We were thankful to be together, warm and safe because for the first time in any storm we could recollect, we really saw what other people were going through.

Like I said, much of the last week has felt surreal – maybe because I was seeing images that caused even me, a life-long Buffalonian, to gasp.

My friends and family sent us iPhone pictures: What their cars looked like buried, the wall of snow pushed up against their back doors, the shed in the back almost lost under a mess of white. My

dad documented his entire journey cleaning off our roof on his new iPhone 6 to send to my uncle in Elma who was doing the same thing.

We weren’t just comparing our situation to the people across the street, but to the people across town. The people we couldn’t get to. Sure, broadcast news has always been aggressive in storm coverage, but there’s no better view than the one from someone’s back porch – the places reporters can’t easily get.

I remember the October storm.

It was 2006. We didn’t watch that story unfold on the screens of smartphones. We didn’t see the massive galleries of Instagram photos strung together by The Huffington Post.

Perhaps that’s why elements of my week felt so unreal – because we were seeing things at level we hadn’t before.

Buffalo, this was the first storm you could take over with social media and you certainly did not disappoint, sharing images that have the rest of the nation in awe.

I can’t be the only one wondering if last week was really real, but I guess we have the thousands of pictures to prove it certainly was. email: sara.dinatale@ubspectrum.com

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Continued from big money, page 1 McGuire has his 422 World Civ students purchase his $120 online textbook.

These students’ questions come at a time when college students across the country have been complaining about the high cost of textbooks, which, on average, run $1,200 a year, according to the consumer advocacy group U.S. PIRG. Universities, professors and university bookstores have responded to the national outcry by creating innovative ways students can get books at a cheaper cost. This includes forgoing textbooks all together, renting textbooks to students, using online texts or using websites like Chegg.com, a popular textbook rental site, which offers textbooks at up to 90 percent off the list price.

In a February paper called “Fix the Broken Textbook Market,” U.S. PIRG found that 48 percent of 2,000 students interviewed said the cost of textbooks affected which classes they took in a semester.

UB students are also struggling paying for pricey textbooks. UB students pay $1,164 each year for books and supplies, according to the Undergraduate Cost of Attendance.

Many UB students find it improper for professors to create textbooks on their own and make them required reading. Students wonder if their professors’ self-published books are worth the price they’re paying.

Keeping on the up and up The absence of textbook regulation from UB and SUNY allows professors to exercise their right to academic freedom, but also leaves them open to assign whatever textbook they want – including their own.

The rise of the Internet has changed the process for publishing. In past decades, professors needed to go through major publishing houses, where their work was edited and peer-reviewed before being sold to the general public, including students.

Now professors can upload what they want and set the prices for their students.

Cusker said it is “very appropriate” for faculty members who are experts in the field to use their own texts in class because it helps students get the best education possible.

“Many of our faculty are the experts in their field and their published works represent the authoritative source,” Cusker said.

“That is indeed one of the benefits of attending a research university. UB is proud

of its faculty scholarship and especially when that results in publications.”

Cusker did not answer The Spectrum’s queries about professors taking cash directly from students for self-published texts by the time of press.

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) pointed out the trend of professors appearing to profit from textbook sales to their students in November 2004. But AAUP did not offer guidelines for professors or universities to follow.

AAUP said it is necessary to ensure that any policy regarding professors assigning their own texts protects students from exploitation but also gives professors academic freedom.

“Professors, individually and collectively, have the primary responsibility for the teaching done at their institutions,” AAUP said. “Accordingly, their voice on matters having to do with the selection of course materials should be determinative.”

Still, students like Retter don’t see why a professor is allowed to charge students for an e-book that mostly consists of specific research done by the instructor.

“I understand that this is to an extent his research on the website, but I don’t think your research is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Retter said.

While students may be torn about what a professor’s work is worth – especially if it is required reading – professors can see the benefits in their colleagues assigning texts they’ve written.

By tailor-writing a textbook to a course and assigning it, under certain conditions, said Kenneth Shockley, an associate professor of philosophy, the text can provide a “great added value” because students won’t get a “cookie cutter education.”

But professors should assign their texts only if they follow certain criteria: if their texts are the best option, if the text is comparatively inexpensive or the quality of the text justifies the expense and if the professors assigning the texts are not motivated entirely by financial gain, Shockley said.

If a professor does not go through a publishing house, the “burden of proof ” as to why he/she assigned his/her book is much higher, Shockley said. There is no third party oversight if a professor sells a self-published text directly to students.

He said professors who sell a textbook directly to students may have “perverse incentive” to use that text when there is a better option – and nobody is there to

PROFESSOR check on that.

For Steven Brown, an associate professor in the law school, compiling one’s own textbook or materials for a course is just part of being an academic.

While Brown uploads the thousands of documents he’s compiled over the years for students in his law courses for free, he said he understands why a professor would charge for producing a “polished set of materials.”

“I know how much time goes into it; I know how much work you have to do beyond your normal workload [to produce a textbook],” Brown said. “I can understand where they’re coming from. I could just compile these materials and I can say, ‘Here you go,’ or I can be devoting a lot more attention to putting together a polished set of materials. I don’t receive anything additional for going above and beyond what’s required.”

Still Brown said that it can appear a pro-

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fessor is profiting from students if he/she assigns his/her own textbook.

If a professor’s textbook is published and available to other schools, Bill Adamczyk, course materials manager of the Follett University Bookstore on North Campus said, then the material must be “that good” to be widely regarded in the professor’s field. He doesn’t see a problem with professors using their own textbooks, in that case.

Neither McGuire’s nor Kuhlmann’s books are sold in other schools.

Adamczyk is concerned that students who rely on financial aid cannot afford to buy books directly from a professor. Financial aid and scholarships only cover books and materials purchased through the bookstore, Adamczyk said.

While Kuhlmann and McGuire said they provide options for students with financial concerns, students still only have one place to buy the book and only one price

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Some professors at UB write and assign their own textbooks to students. These professors go completely unregulated and students wonder if it’s ethical. Dietrich Kuhlmann, one of the numerous professors who does this, charges students $40 in cash and they receive two of the three texts (shown here) for STA 119 up-front and the third during the semester.

to pay. Without renting options or cheaper e-text versions, students do not have the same flexibility of searching for cheaper versions as they do in other classes.

Cash in hand Kuhlmann charges $40 for the three required texts he has written for the course.

Students pay him directly in cash – something many find strange.

“I didn’t really mind it [at the time], but I did find it odd,” Malkowski said. “Personally, I was a freshman at the time and was still figuring out what was considered ‘normal’ in the college setting … I’m sure others are probably in the same boat.”

Kuhlmann said the cost to produce his textbooks was close to what the students are charged. He asks his independent publishing company to print a few extra copies and gives those copies, for free, to teaching assistants and students with financial concerns. The price ends up being $40 per bundle.

Kuhlmann said he makes no money off the books sold.

Kuhlmann said he chose to go through an independent publishing house and take cash directly from students to avoid the mark-up the University Bookstore would impose on his texts.

There is no publisher information on Kuhlmann’s books.

He could go through the bookstore, if it would make students feel better about the whole process, he said.

Still, students like Brianna Hildreth, a sophomore nursing major, question why they had to pay cash for Kuhlman’s book at all.

Kuhlmann is the only professor who teaches STA 119 and with 723 students, his books are bringing in $28,290 – in cash – this semester. It’s a number that makes Hildreth wary.

“Some teachers put their notes online free,” she said. “Why did we have to buy his?”

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Each student receives two textbooks upfront and, a few weeks into the semester, the students have to go to his office hours to pick up their third book – a deal that Hildreth didn’t like. She said she thought students should’ve received all three “on the spot” when they paid in cash.

Some students in Kuhlmann’s STA 119 classes don’t mind shelling out $40 for his books.

“I was happy to pay [Kuhlmann] $40 for a textbook I’ll use every page of, rather than pay $100 to $200 for a textbook I’d use for a couple homework assignments,” said Martin Gartz, a junior theater performance major. “Plus, it’s his textbook, so he followed it religiously, which made the class easier.”

Michele Goldhirsch, a sophomore business and accounting major, said it was “a bit weird” to pay Kuhlmann directly, but it made it easier than searching for the cheapest version of the book online.

Hildreth said although people were annoyed at having to give Kuhlmann cash, “because it seems really sketchy for a teacher to be asking students for cash for textbooks they wrote themselves,” students in the class were OK with it because the books were cheap and fit the class “perfectly.”

Kuhlmann decided to write his own textbook for STA 119 due to the difficulties of teaching with other textbooks, he said.

“The [statistics] books are so overwhelming,” Kuhlmann said. “It’s so much easier to teach when [students are] looking at what you want them to look at.

A not-so-general education McGuire’s textbook, Why World History?, an e-text available through Great River Technologies (GRT), costs each student $120.

If students do not purchase the text, they immediately lose 15 percent of their grade because participating in the discussion boards is required. Students also complete assignments, quizzes and tests on the website.

Retter said although the textbook goes along with McGuire’s lectures and makes the course easy to understand, he was frustrated that he couldn’t keep the expensive text once the course ended.

The text is online and each student needs a code to access it. There are no PDF files available to download. When the semester ends, the text is gone.

The $120 cost per student reflects the “seven figure” cost needed to “develop the content delivery engine plus constant reinvestment to make enhancements,” according to Keith Kropp, national sales manager of GRT.

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Neither Kropp nor McGuire would disclose what the “seven figure” cost to develop the book was. Kropp said it can take a year or two of sales to “break even.”

“I can assure you that most authors, including authors of traditional textbooks, are not getting rich,” Kropp said in an email.

“In fact, there are many authors who don’t take royalties at all. I’ve heard many people laugh when comparing the number of hours they put into a project and their financial compensation. Many people would say it’s worse than minimum wage.”

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) found that in 2013, although workers under age 25 comprised only one-fifth of all hourly-paid workers, those young workers made up half of those making federal minimum wage ($7.25) or less.

There are currently a combined 422 students in McGuire’s two UGC 111 sections, which means McGuire’s textbook is raking in $50,640 this semester alone.

This is the first semester students are purchasing and using McGuire’s book.

Neither McGuire nor Kropp would comment on how much each text sold makes in royalties for either GRT or McGuire.

The cost of the text must cover the cost of borrowing content, using art or other images, interactive and animated elements, the development team, the cost of enhancing the publication, hosting the publication, the overall design of the product and support costs, Kropp said.

“Many traditional publishers still develop textbooks that are 900-pages, static, and expensive,” Kropp said in an email. “There are a number of world history textbooks that cost close-to or over $200 … Students that purchase access the publication directly through GRT avoid the large markup imposed by many college bookstores.”

McGuire’s textbook is listed at $120 on the bookstore’s website – the same fee charged directly by GRT. This semester, World Civ textbook prices vary from $24 for the cheapest class to $242.25 for the most expensive, if a student purchases all new printed books.

The single most expensive textbook, World Civilizations Vol. 1 by Philip J. Adler and Randall L. Pouwels, is assigned in a section taught by Christine Varnado, a visiting assistant professor of transnational studies. It costs $195, but students have the option to rent the book digitally for 180 days for only $57.99 – just under half the cost of McGuire’s e-text.

“If I really wanted to I could’ve made his website on Wix (a free website builder) for him, saved him the trouble of contracting a firm and money,” Retter said.

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LIFE, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT R&B’s favorite ‘Boyz’ are back

Boyz II Men perform at Center for the Arts for Ronald McDonald Holiday Show

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On Saturday, Boyz II Men members Shawn Stockman (left), Wanya Morris (center) and Nathan Morris (right) performed a holiday charity concert at UB’s Center for the Arts. The concert benefited the Ronald McDonald House in Buffalo and raised $40,000 in donations.

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Boyz II Men had no intention of letting the group’s age affect their performance; they sang like it was 1994.

The 23-year-old group emerged out of the fog that surrounded the Center for the Arts’ Mainstage, Wanya Morris, Shawn Stockman and Nathan Morris stood in a semi-circle formation. The har-

monious trio began singing “Believe,” one of their more recent songs. Regardless of the song’s popularity, the familiar Boyz II Men sensuality drew the audience to sing along with the a capella group.

Saturday night, Boyz II Men performed at the Center for the Arts, in the Ronald McDonald House of Charities of Western New York eighth annual holiday show.

The proceeds from the concert’s ticket sales went toward the Ronald McDonald

House of Buffalo, to provide programs that improve the health and well being of children.

“We make real music. We make music that you can actually make love to,” Morris, one of the three members of Boyz II Men said, reassuring the audience as long as they have the support of fans, they will keep making “real music.”

Their performance of “On Bended Knee,” a song that truly epitomizes the

Continued from big money, page 4-5 Adamczyk said $120 for an e-text or for a World Civ book is not uncommon.

“I certainly don’t feel like I’m profiting off the textbook significantly,” McGuire said.

Like Kuhlmann, McGuire chose to write a textbook for World Civ – a universitywide required course for general education – after feeling unsatisfied with the other material available.

“There’s always things to teach around [in other textbooks],” McGuire said. “Either they’re giving so much information that students don’t know what to do with it or we disagree philosophically with other cultures around the world and they trivialize it. It’s always been an impediment.”

Putting money back in students’ pockets It has never occurred to Brown to charge students for the thousands of documents he uploads to the Internet each semester.

Brown and Shockley said they recognize that the financial burden on students is high.

“It’s a matter of a few hours of deciding what I want to upload,” Brown said. “It’s something I’m doing anyway.”

Once, a student printed out all the documents Brown uploaded and put them in a massive binder.

“My students coming through right now are incurring a lot of debt,” Brown said. “They’re looking at a market that’s a lot tighter than when I came out of law school. I don’t need the $50 or $25 as much as they might.”

Ian Ayres, the William K. Townsend professor at Yale law school, the Anne Urowsky Professorial Fellow in Law and a professor in Yale’s school of management, wrote in a New York Times op-Ed in 2009 that “Instead of just trying to get the best

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book for my class (and to do so I should weigh both quality and price), I might also consider assigning my own book and increasing my profit. This is a self-dealing transaction, which would be presumptively illegal if professors owed a fiduciary duty to students.”

Ayres assigns his own contracts casebook to his students to reduce the “financial conflict of interest that professors have in assigning their own books.” Ayres decided to give $11 back to each of his students who purchased the book – the amount he made in royalties from each book sold.

“So students, if your professor has asked you to buy his or her book, ask for a rebate,” Ayres wrote in the blog, Freakonomics. “A small way to make professors more sensitive about the price of books they are assigning is to think about the royalties they are generating for themselves.”

Out in the open Some professors do not think UB should create a universal policy requiring professors to justify their textbook choices.

Shockley thinks it would be “problematic” to force professors to justify their choices and rather, students, faculty, administration or other interested parties should raise concerns “on a case-by-case basis” about this practice.

“It does strike me as something that would be disconcerting to some professors [to have to justify their choices], so I’m not sure how I feel about whether or not [creating a policy] could be done without costing some political capital in those negotiations,” Brown said.

But Brown said that if UB feels strongly about the practice, it could issue guidelines to “avoid the appearance of impropriety.”

Adamczyk supports a university-wide policy about selling directly or assigning

one’s own textbook to students.

A university-wide policy would provide oversight on professors using their own textbooks.

“I feel like it would be good if [UB] could limit the profit margin if the professor is going to use their own book,” O’Connor said. “They’re publishing their own books; they’re making money on it.

They shouldn’t use it as an excuse to pricegouge the students.”

If students know their professors are abiding by university guidelines, it may help them understand why a professor would write and assign his or her own text.

New Jersey, Connecticut and Washington bar professors from using their office to make monetary gains. New Jersey professors must donate their royalties either to the school they work at or another nonprofit institution.

At the University of Minnesota, Southern Utah University and Cleveland State University, a faculty committee must approve if a professor can use his or her own text. North Dakota State University and the University of North Texas caution professors against making money off the sales of their texts to their students unless the text is “independently accepted” in its field.

UB professors, however, do not need to justify why they are using their own book.

They are not required to give royalties back to their students.

The only choice students have is buy the book or drop the class. *Name has been changed to protect identity

essence of Boyz II Men, was the longest song they performed and the iconic track set the tone for the rest of the night.

Wanya spent the majority of the hit on his knees, as the audience stood in resounding reminiscence of the group’s 1994 hit single.

In the spirit of reminiscing and traveling back in time, the group paid homage to Motown Records, the record company that first signed them in 1991. The audience was treated to the roots of the R&B genre and to the sound of “trailblazers,” as the group put it, which made it possible for Boyz II Men to exist – the era of Motown.

“Reach Out, I’ll Be There,” is considered to be one of the Four Tops’ – a Motown band from the 1960s – signature songs. The voices of Boyz II Men and their fans gave the1966 hit a comeback.

“Reach out and touch us,” Stockman told the audience as hundreds of arms flew into the air, waving to the lyricism of the Four Tops.

Martha Jackson, 44, from Buffalo, is an avid Boyz II Men fan who was seeing them for the fourth time on Saturday. She said it was nice to see the group perform Motown.

“They’re not only paying respects to the musicians who changed R&B music, but it’s also where they got their start,” she said.

Boyz II Men’s gratitude, however, surpassed Motown and entered into the depths of rock ‘n’ roll soul. Stockman enigmatically memorialized two iconic members of the “27 club,” Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain, on his electric guitar.

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Continued from football, page 10 Licata said he got a few responses from Kent State players about his request for a snowball fight.

“They said ‘Bring it on.’ I don’t think they realized we’d probably beat them in that,” Licata said.

Buffalo took several precautions for the game had it been played. Only the West Side 100 Level and 200 Levels would have been opening for seating and Friday’s tentatively rescheduled game was set to be free for the public because low turnout was expected, according to Fuller. UB Athletics previously canceled the Tragically Hip’s Tailgate Concert Series Performance and all Stampede Square pregame festivities Tuesday. Fuller said UB Athletics did not want fans outside “in the cold for that extra time.”

The last time a football game at UB Stadium was postponed was 2006, when the Buffalo October Storm caused the Bulls’ game against Miami Ohio to be postponed one day from Saturday, Oct. 14 to Sunday, Oct. 15.

Both Buffalo and Kent State will finish the season playing just 11 games. The last time the Bulls played less than 12 games in a season was 2005.

The Bulls’ season ends on Nov. 28 on the road against Massachusetts. Kent State’s season finale against Akron was moved from Tuesday Nov. 25 to Friday Nov. 28.

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UB faculty to host international students for Thanksgiving SAMAYA ABDUS-SALAAM ASST. NEWS EDITOR

For Sushobhna Batra, Thanksgiving Day used to consist of microwavable meals and studying. But this Thursday, she will have a home-cooked meal in the company of a UB family.

The Office of International Student and Scholars Services and the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) are hosting their first inclusive Thanksgiving. UB faculty and staff members have volunteered themselves and their families to host at least two international students each for Thanksgiving dinner.

This Thanksgiving is the program’s “inaugural” year, said Chris Bragdon, the Office of International Students and Scholars Services international student advisor. There will be 19 host families and 56 students participating in the program. UB faculty members and students interested in hosting students for the holiday were sent a survey through the Office of International Students and Scholars Services.

Batra, a junior biochemistry and biological sciences major, said she will always spend her breaks at UB and being a part of a traditional Thanksgiving celebration makes her feel “warmly embraced by the American culture.”

Teresa Miller, vice provost of equity and inclusion, also knows what it’s like to be an exchange student during the holiday season.

Miller was an exchange student in the Middle East as an undergrad and in Germany for law school.

Her experience of spending the holidays with someone else’s family is why, for the past six years, she’s been hosting students for Thanksgiving dinner.

Miller said she and the Office of International Students and Scholars Services chose to start the program at such a small scale because she wants the program to grow into a tradition.

“When you grow a tradition, you have to grow a feeling,” she said. “[We] don’t want to put something on a large scale that doesn’t have the type of character and quality that we’re looking for.”

Bragdon said for many participating students, this Thanksgiving is the first time they have celebrated with an American family.

“They’re asking ‘What should I wear and should I bring a gift?’ so part of it is put-

ting them at ease,” Miller said. “No gift is expected and wear something comfortable.

No, it isn’t a dress-up event and there are children crawling all over the place.”

To put students and host families at ease the Office of International Students and Scholars Services and the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion created culturegrams for students and hosts. Culture-grams will give host families more background information on where the students are from and what the culture is like in their home country. Students are also given a culturegram with a map of the United States, pinpointing where the host families are from.

“The idea is to stimulate conversation and sharing, sharing the experiences,” Miller said. “I remember being an exchange student and how difficult it was being the sole object of people’s attention, so it really helps with communication and that one student not asked to carry the conversation by themselves.”

Unlike Miller, this Thanksgiving is the first time Michael Koziej, senior associate director of Campus Living, will be a host.

“I look at this as a perfect opportunity for us to open our home to those who are so far away from their families,” Koziej said. “I have three children at home, so I am also looking at this as a great opportunity for them to meet new people from other countries and to be introduced first hand to someone with different cultures and customs.”

He’s hosting May Elbanna, a medical Ph.D. student from Egypt and her child and spouse.

“When I told my kids that we will be hosting someone from Egypt, my two older kids went online and started to learn all about the country so they could talk to them about their home country,” he said.

Miller said the inclusive Thanksgiving program is the university’s way of making “a long-term commitment to grow this type of inclusive interaction around a very American holiday.” She said she hopes this program will foster life-long friendships between faculty and students.

She is still in touch with one of the partners she worked with at a law firm in Germany. Miller has taken her kids to visit her old colleague’s family in Germany.

Miller said she hopes inclusive Thanksgiving will “craft an experience that is fulfilling for both the host families and students. email: news@ubspectrum.com

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Students react to Spring Fest poll results Electronic and pop dominate as students’ top genre choices for Spring Fest

CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM

The Student Association recently announced the top music genre voted on for Spring Fest was electronic music.

Pop came in second. There were 1,119 students who voted, which is six percent of the undergraduate population.

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Less than six percent of the student body voted in this year’s Student Association (SA) Spring Fest Genre Poll.

The SA’s recently released poll showed electronic music as voters’ first choice.

Earlier this month, undergraduate students were given the chance to vote on UBLinked for their top two choices of genre for Spring Fest. There were 1,119 students who took advantage of this opportunity.

Music genres on the poll included electronic, hip-hop, pop, R&B, rock, country and reggae. The top-picked genre was electronic, with a total of 414 counts (37 percent), and the second top pick was pop, which was eight counts behind with 406 votes (36.3 percent).

Hip-hop and rock were not far behind in the polls. They tallied counts at 399 (35.7 percent) and 396 (35.4), respectively. R&B, country and reggae combined for 41 percent of the total votes.

SA President James Ingram said he was “not surprised” by the outcome of the results generated by the poll, but admitted he “would have liked to see more” students vote. At the same time, he was happy that more than 1,000 students participated.

“If we do it again in the future, I’d like

to see it be taken just a step further,” Ingram said.

He said he hopes to set up laptops in the Student Union and have students take the polls right away. He said it would be a great way to get more student participation input in the future.

Caleb Vaughn, a senior business administration major, thinks the results were “not fair” because it “didn’t represent the entire school.”

He does, however, understand how some may feel “frustrated” having voted and still not being able to get their genres as the top choice. If students want that to change, then it is important they vote, he said.

“If you didn’t vote, I don’t think you have the right to complain,” Vaughn said.

He was slightly surprised hip-hop was one of the top choices, despite the “outcry against hip-hop.”

Michelle Skillman, a senior biological sciences major, voted to hear rock and pop for Spring Fest and like Vaughn, found the results to be unfair. “[We have] thousands of undergraduate students, so with less than a couple thousand people voting, the results are probably skewed,” she said.

Skillman was not surprised by the outcome of the votes, but was “mostly annoyed” with the results.

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Continued from Soccer, page 10 “I started [rugby] as soon as I could run, really,” he said. “I played until I was about 15, but soccer was always my passion.”

He played as a winger, which is a similar position to one he plays now in soccer.

Al-Kalisy said to play a winger “you just got to keep running straight and be faster than your guy.”

Al-Kalisy used the skills he learned in rugby and translated them over to soccer when he started playing at 6 years old.

“I learned a lot in rugby: the side-stepping, the idea of passing to the open pockets. Things like that,” Al-Kalisy said.

Al-Kalisy’s mother, Nagham Aldurra, said she loved watching him play soccer when he was young. Soccer was a safer than rugby and demonstrated his raw talent from a young age.

“He was 5 years old and the club had chosen him best player of the year,” Aldurra said in an email. “They used to call him the smallest, the shortest and the fastest.”

Al-Kalisy was born in Jordan and moved to New Zealand when he was only a few weeks old. He lived there until he was 7, but moved to Dubai when his father, Tahseen Al-Kalisy, was offered a better job there with a higher income.

Growing up, Al-Kalisy’s two younger brothers, Yousif and Laith, often played soccer and rugby with him. His siblings eventually assisted in his practice regiment.

One of his favorite things to do in a game is to dribble past a defender by placing a ball through their legs.

“It’s a close second to scoring a goal,” he said, grinning.

When Al-Kalisy and his brothers played together, he tried to work on this skill by using his siblings as practice dummies and repeatedly kicking the ball between their legs. Now, he uses what he has practiced with his brothers to create thrilling breakaways and goal opportunities for Buffalo.

Nagham’s love for her son is evident, even through email. Even with Al-Kalisy playing thousands of miles away from his family, they stay in touch often. She said the family misses Abdulla “a lot.”

Al-Kalisy misses his family and former teammates but is happy to be playing in Buffalo.

“I enjoy myself when I’m playing football in a good professional atmosphere,” Al-Kalisy said. “That’s all I require, and I’ll be fine.”

Al-Kalisy’s time in Dubai helped shape him as a player. He played for Arsenal Academy and the Precor Football Academy. He helped the Precor team reach the Gothia cup, an international youth world cup in Sweden, two years before he came to the United States. “[There were] so many countries, so many different kinds of players,” he said.

“Small and fast, big and strong – it was just every style of football in one event, and it was the greatest thing ever.”

Al-Kalisy was one of the smallest players in the tournament but was eager to showcase his talents. He watched matches, learned different styles of play and indulged in his environment.

One of his favorite memories was watching a Brazilian team play. It had two small strikers who were outmatched against center backs that were 6-and-ahalf feet tall.

“The small guys were winning headers against them just because they played with so much heart,” he said, rising from his seat with excitement. “They had so much fight in them that the center backs just didn’t know what to do with them.

They’re testaments that size really doesn’t matter.”

His Arsenal team made it to the round of top-16 teams out of the hundreds that had entered the tournament.

What truly shaped Al-Kalisy’s ability to play at such competitive levels is his relentlessness during practice. Once team practice is over, he spends hours repeating the skills he had just been taught.

His life is dedicated to soccer and becoming a perfectionist at the sport.

“You can only go to practice so many times and the coach can only tell you so much,” he said. “But I’ve noticed that I’ve excelled most when I wait to do what the coaches tell me to do after practice. I just want to be perfect at everything I do” When Al-Kalisy isn’t playing soccer, he’s watching it. His favorite team Liverpool – he wears their trademark red scarf during the winter.

When he was asked what hobbies he

Al-Kalisy, Buffalo’s 5-foot-8 forward, from New Zealand’s began playing rugby but always loved soccer. He moved to Minnesota and in his senior year of high school, he was No. 2 in the nation in scoring in soccer.

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has other than soccer, he was stumped.

“This shouldn’t be so hard,” he said in response, covering his face with his hands.

With hopes for continuing soccer in more competitive leagues, Abdulla moved to Minnesota when he was a sophomore in high school to play academy soccer at St. Mary’s. Before the moved, his talents had gained Riddle’s attention.

“I was with a friend who coached an academy in Michigan and saw Abdulla play,” Riddle said. “After I saw him play, I knew I wanted him on our team.”

Riddle, who is also from New Zealand, and Al-Kalisy communicated through email from the time the freshman forward was in Dubai until he moved to Minnesota.

After finishing second in the nation in goals his senior year of high school, he was highly recruited. Riddle was pleased that Al-Kalisy chose to come to Buffalo.

Al-Kalisy had five goals in three preseason games with the Bulls, but he was unable to score his first official goal this season. Riddle said the freshman had been dealing with injuries and said Al-Kalisy’s best is yet to come.

“We expected him to be a really large piece of what we intended to do,” Riddle said. “I’m sure you’re going to see the best out of him as he grows.”

Because Al-Kalisy moved around his entire life, it has been difficult for him to find a niche with a team that doesn’t feel

temporary. But the youth of the Bulls made him feel welcome this season and the transition has been smooth. Eighteen of the 24 players on the team are either freshmen or sophomores.

Al-Kalisy feels he is going to grow and develop with the other players on the team, and he said it has the potential to reach the NCAA Tournament.

“I spoke with Stu and saw the team he was bringing in and struck me as a place that’s growing,” Al-Kalisy said. “Stu has a plan, a vision for this team. He’s not just getting players that are going to get him through the season, he actually has a longterm vision, and that mattered to me a lot.

I needed to know we were going somewhere with this.”

His impeccable work ethic, determination to be the best and desire to win makes Al-Kalisy the fierce competitor he is.

“I see myself being one of the leaders on the team in a year or two,” he said. “I want a championship.”

Al-Kalisy can easily be singled out on the field – and not just because he’s one of the smallest ones on the pitch. He’s always trying to break through the defensive lines to create opportunities for his team – you’ll probably catch No. 18 flash by on jersey when the Bulls are about to score a goal. email: sports@ubspectrum.com

Continued from R&B, page 6 Leaving the realm of R&B and saluting other genres of music and historic musicians is what made Mike Matthews’, 27, from Tonawanda, first Boyz II Men concert “incredible” and memorable.

“I like seeing things that are different,” he said.

Matthews’ attraction to the group intensified when they brought out electric guitars and did a salute to rock ‘n’ roll.”.

Stockman also showed the trio’s gratitude to the audience members by making light of the recent snowstorm.

“On TV, Buffalo was just gone. And I asked ‘Are we really going there? Why are we going there?”

Nathan and Morris added to Stockman’s charm by expressing their appreciation to their fans with one of their most popular songs, “I’ll Make Love To You.” Stockman, Morris and Nathan each held a boutique of roses, tossing and handing them to audience members.

Jackson was one of many fans to receive a rose.

Their 1994 hit won a Grammy for Best R&B song and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in 1995. It is also the song responsible for “Boyz II Men babies.”

“We know some of you had some Boyz

II Men babies because of this song,” Morris said. “We consider ourselves their uncles. But they better not ask us for money after the show.”

The group also promoted their newest album, Collide, which features an electric-funk twist to the otherwise sweet serenade.

At the start of the show, a $40,000 check was presented to Ronald McDonald House of Buffalo’s representative, Sally Vincent by event organizer, Rico Francani – about $5,000 more than last year.

In the spirit of giving, Francani introduced the audience to Matthews by giving him $2,000. Matthews recently bought a house for his wife and kids, all while battling stage-four Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He announced at Saturday’s concert that he is now cancer free.

Richard Tuozo, 19, from the Philippines, said Boyz II Men is one of his musical influences. Tuozo works with the Ronald McDonald House of Buffalo and performed in last year’s holiday show.

Tuozo and, his co-worker, Richard Sienkiewiecz, 27, a Cheektowaga native, enjoyed Saturday’s concert. It was their first time seeing Boyz II Men live.

“I usually listen to alternative music, but now I’m definitely going to listen to more

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of their music,” Sienkiewiecz said. “They have good harmony.”

Nearing the end of the night, the group performed four of their most famous songs: “4 Seasons of Loneliness,” “Water Runs Dry” and “End of the Road,” which remains Boyz II Men’s biggest hit. They ended with a grand finale of “Motown

Philly,” the group’s first single on their debut album Cooleyhighharmony in 1991.

“Motown Philly” brought the feelings of the concert full circle. In true Boyz II Men fashion, they ending the concert “doin’ a little east coast swag.” email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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SPORTS

Football game canceled amid snowstorm

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The football team gathers together at the end of the practice Sunday. The Bulls’ game against Kent State was cancelled by the MAC after Kent State’s equipment truck was unable to reach Buffalo due to road closings caused by the lake effect snowstorm.

equipment truck driver, who instead took Interstate 90 – which is currently closed due to the weather conditions. After what is normally a three-hour trip became a 10hour one due to a flat tire and travelling an additional 150 miles in order to avoid road closings, the Kent State players and coaches arrived at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo Hotel in downtown Buffalo at 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday night.

“The equipment truck, for whatever reason, decided to try and go the regular way through Route 5,” Fuller said Wednesday.

“For whatever reason, they did not take the route the buses took and that is why they are in the situation they’re in.”

Some players found out about the cancelation Thursday through social media.

“A lot of guys saw it on Twitter and then they got text about it,” Licata said. “[Interim head] coach Wood had a team meeting [Friday] said there’s nothing we can do about it.

It was a decision our conference made. We knew our administration and our coaching Jon Steinbrecher in a press release Thurs- staff really wanted to play this game and did day. “The game has been cancelled and everything in their power.”

Still, some players voiced their displeawill not be rescheduled. The safety of the student-athletes and fans is paramount. sure with the decision and some seemed to We want to be respectful of the efforts place the blame on UB Athletics, includof the emergency service personnel in ing Sales.

When White tweeted “Disappointed the Buffalo area who are working to assist for our team that game is cancelled, but I those in need.”

A UB Athletics press release on Wednes- want to thank the MANY UB folks who day, however, cited “travel issues” with worked incredibly hard to make it possiKent State’s equipment truck as the cause ble,” Thursday night, Sales replied to the of the postponement. Jon Fuller, Buffalo tweet saying “making what possible? SeAssistant Athletic Director for Communi- niors missing their last home game??”

When White sent out a tweet several cations, said on Wednesday the Bulls were prepared to play the game at UB Stadi- minutes later to clarify he was “referring to um had it not been for the delay of Kent the extraordinary effort, in extreme conditions, by staff to host this game,” when State’s equipment truck.

“It’s all about the truck,” Fuller said he said “‘make it possible,”” Sales replied Wednesday. “Everyone else is here. If “yeah, save it.”

Sales was not made available for comthey can’t get the truck here, we’re going to have to come up with a final decision. ment at Sunday’s practice.

Wednesday’s game was set to be BuffaWe’re going to have to see what the weathlo’s Senior night – where senior players are er is like and go from there.”

After leaving Ohio at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, honored before the game. Sokoli said the the equipment truck and three team buses Bulls would honor their seniors at the end transporting players and coaches stopped in of the year team banquet.

Several players referenced on Twitter Erie, Pennsylvania to convene on the best route to take in the weather conditions. that the Bulls would use the cancelation as Kent State officials determined the vehicles motivation against Kent State next season. would travel Interstate 86 and 390 through Senior linebacker Jake Stockman tweetRochester, New York in order to avoid the ed the Bulls would win against Kent State “anytime, anywhere. Schedule it. Let’s go.” storm and road closings.

SEE FOOTBALL, PAGE 6 There was a miscommunication with the

Stranded Kent State equipment truck causes cancelation of Bulls’ final home game TOM DINKI

SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

Senior center and captain Trevor Sales sent Buffalo Athletic Director Danny White multiple angry tweets and said his parents would not see his final home after driving 11 hours through a blizzard. Junior quarterback Joe Licata tweeted “mad is an understatement,” and was so desperate to face Kent State he challenged the Golden Flashes to a snowball fight.

Several Buffalo football players voiced their displeasure on Twitter Thursday night after the cancelation of the Bulls’ Nov. 19 game against Kent State, costing the Buffalo seniors the final home game of their careers and a chance to finish the season with a .500 record.

If the Bulls had won their final two games of the season, there was an outside chance of them making a bowl game.

There are 39 bowl games this season, which means 78 teams are necessary to fill those slots. Teams that finish 6-6 with less than two wins against FCS schools are considered “Bowl eligible.”

But if 78 teams don’t meet this standard, teams who finished 6-6 with two FCS victories become bowl eligible. The Bulls would have ben one of those teams and there is a slight possibility of less than 78 teams qualifying at 6-6 this season. Now,

the Bulls can’t finish better than 5-6 and have no possibility of playing in a bowl game.

“It was very tough and it was very unfair.

The right decision was not made,” said senior defensive lineman Kristjan Sokoli. “I believe in the administration and coaching staff and I know we fought our butts off to get that game played but I just think every team has their right to make the postseason and play 12 games.”

The Wednesday night game was postponed and later canceled by the MidAmerican Conference on Thursday, after the Golden Flashes’ equipment truck was unable to reach Buffalo due to road closings caused by Western New York’s massive lake effect snow storm. The truck became stranded on Route 5 in Hamburg, New York without a route to get to UB Stadium.

After postponing the game on Wednesday afternoon, MAC, Buffalo and Kent State officials “tentatively” rescheduled the game for Friday afternoon after a Thursday morning conference call. The MAC then announced Thursday night that the game had been canceled and would not be rescheduled.

“Despite the best efforts of all involved, it will not be feasible to play the football game between Kent State and Buffalo on Friday,” said MAC Commissioner

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Volleyball season ends in MAC Tournament; Roberts nominated for national award SPORTS DESK

Giant expectations

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Abdulla Al-Kalisy finished his freshmen season for the men’s soccer team with two assists. The undersized freshman forward has had to prove himself throughout his career and may play a large role in Buffalo’s future.

Despite size, Abdulla Al-Kalisy anticipates being a leader for men’s soccer BOBBY MCINTOSH

STAFF WRITER

Abdulla Al-Kalisy weaves through defenders and squeezes the ball between shifting ankles. His head lines up with his opponents’ shoulders. But that doesn’t stop him from blowing past them, making them look so slow it’s like they’re going in reverse.

Sometimes, size really doesn’t matter.

“Every time I play, I have to prove my worth,” Al-Kalisy said. “I’m just as good, if not better, than anyone else out there.”

Al-Kalisy, a freshman on the men’s soccer team, is an undersized forward for the Bulls. He makes up for what he doesn’t have in stature with speed, ability and will.

At first glance, you may never suspect that he is one of the cornerstones to the future of Buffalo men’s soccer. He stands at 5-foot-8 and is only 18 years old, but he has already shown potential to become one of the best players in the Mid-American Conference. His two assists and 19

shots this season led all Buffalo freshmen this season – a season that ended with a loss in Akron, eliminating Buffalo’s chances to play in the MAC Tournament.

But Al-Kalisy figures to play a big part in the Bulls’ in the team’s coming seasons.

Al-Kalisy’s listing at 5-foot-8 is generous. The Auckland, New Zealand native looks like a young James Dean, showing his strong jaw line when he grins. His dark brown eyes match his dark brown hair that is always neatly combed to the right.

He is relaxed when speaking – slow, concise, but engaging.

His charisma ropes you into the conversation. Or maybe it’s just that New Zealand accent.

Head coach Stu Riddle believes that AlKalisy is going to contribute to changing the Bulls’ future.

“He’s going to be a top striker in the league,” Riddle said But Al-Kalisy didn’t begin his athletic career in soccer. He began it playing rugby.

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Volleyball (16-15, 6-11 Mid-American Conference) The eighth seeded Bulls fell in the first round of the MAC Tournament with a loss to fifth-seeded Western Michigan in straight sets Friday. It was the Bulls’ first MAC Tournament appearance since 2010.

Junior setter Marissa Prinzbach led Buffalo with 19 assists and freshman outside hitter Cassie Shado led the team with nine kills and 18 total attacks. Junior outside hitter Tahleia Bishop did not play in the game. Head coach Reed Sunahara said the he made the decision to sit Bishop and would not disclose why.

Shado and Bishop were named to the All-MAC Freshman team and All-MAC First team, respectively, Thursday.

The Bulls will finish their season Saturday, Nov. 29 when they host Albany (1016, 7-5 American East). The match is set for 2 p.m.

Women’s Basketball (2-1) The Bulls put up 46 points in the second half to defeat Niagara (0-3), 73-64, Saturday in Alumni Arena.

After trailing by nine at halftime, the Bulls went on a 19-4 run in the first 7:11 of the second half to pull away with a lead they would not relinquish. Junior guard Mackenzie Loesing led the team with 18 points and sophomore forward Alexus Malone had a career-best 17 rebounds.

Buffalo travels to Durham, North Carolina to take on No. 7 Duke (2-0) Tuesday.

Tipoff is set for 2 p.m.

Men’s Basketball (2-1) The Bulls defeated Texas-Arlington (11), 74-68, last Tuesday at the College Park Center in Arlington, Texas. Sophomore guard Shannon Evans led the team with 24 points and senior forward Will Regan had with 15 points and six rebounds after not making a field goal in Buffalo’s first two games of the season.

The team was scheduled play Montana

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Junior guard Mackenzie Losing was just 3-for-20 from the field on Saturday but still scored 18 points, leading Buffalo to a 73-64 victory over Niagara.

State (0-3) Friday, but the game was canceled due to last week’s snowstorm. The Bobcats were unable to travel and a rescheduled date has not been announced.

The Bulls travel to Phoenix, Arizona to play Grand Canyon (2-2) Tuesday. The game is set for 9 p.m.

Women’s Soccer (16-3-3, 12-0-3 MAC) Senior forward Katie Roberts is one of 30 finalists for the College Boot – the National women’s soccer Player of the Year award. She was named MAC Offensive Player of the Year earlier this month.

Roberts led Buffalo and the MAC with 12 goals and 27 points en route to the Bulls’ first-ever MAC Tournament Championship.

Online fan voting takes place from Nov. 15 to Dec. 15 and will make up 40 percent of the total selection process. The Soccer Net News editorial staff will make up the other 60 percent. email: sports@ubspectrum.com