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A family affair

After father’s death, Tony Daniel learns family can come from anywhere

JORDAN GROSSMAN SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

Tony Daniel wanted to unwind after the long 2014 football season – it had been a strenuous one.

The Bulls now senior quarterback and his teammates had dealt with everything, from a freak snowstorm canceling their final home game to the termination of their head coach.

The everyday rigors of a Division-I college football player – even for a backup like Daniel – had come to an end in November of 2014. There were no more worries, no more stresses. Life was finally carefree again.

Or so Daniel thought.

He relaxed for about two days after the season, until those thoughts were replaced with worry, tension and fear.

On Nov. 30, 2014, Daniel received a frantic phone call from his sister Carley telling him their father Jack had suffered a heart attack earlier in the day and was rushed to the hospital.

Forty-five minutes after the phone call, Jack passed away at the age of 65.

Daniel’s world became a “foggy daze.”

“It didn’t really register at first,” Daniel said. “At that time, nothing’s going to make you feel better or worse. Nothing really helps, except knowing that he was at

peace.”

There’s not much to do in the wake of a lost loved one, especially for someone like Daniel. He values family more than anything. And the fact he’ll never see his father again was the most devastating news he’d ever heard.

Daniel is the one of leaders for the Bulls, despite passing the ball just 27 times in his four-year career. He is the type of player who will stay with a teammate for that extra five minutes after practice or go over game

ANGELA BARCA, THE SPECTRUM

Tony Daniel (front) and his teammates (back, from L to R) Joe Licata, Ron Willoughby and Matt Weiser have spent years together on the UB football team. It’s like a family.

tape. But being the backup quarterback for the football team may be something Daniel is least known for.

He can be found cheering on other UB sports teams at games across campus when he’s not playing football. He ran for a SUNY Delegate position in 2014. He’s one of the few, if not the only, 6-foot-5 Division I football players you’ll ever see hold-

ing a toddler’s hand while walking around campus, as Daniel spent time volunteering at UB’s Early Childhood Research Center last year.

During the past 10 months, slowly but surely, Daniel has learned how to cope. He stands proud as a senior quarterback for Buffalo, but he’s even prouder to call himself Jack’s son.

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Defensive strategy Known across the globe UB offers legal services to students through SBI Legal TORI ROSEMAN

SENIOR FEATURES EDITOR

UB students have had their share of legal trouble this semester with 23 students arrested by Buffalo police and suspended from the university for partying in the Heights during the first few weeks of school.

But the only place for students to get legal advice isn’t a lawyer’s office or courtroom.

There’s an option right on campus as well.

Sub Board I, Inc. (SBI) Legal offers a variety of legal services for undergraduate students. The office, located on the third floor of the Student Union, is open from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. to accommodate both students and the attorneys who work there.

“We do everything we can,” said Chris Sasiadek, chief defender at SBI Legal and a law school student. “I definitely advise anybody, even if it seems like a minor issue to them, to come to us. Your education is one of the most important things and anything that puts that into the slightest bit of jeopardy is important. We can help a lot of people navigate that process.”

The office offers three types of services: help with legal issues outside of school – such as criminal charges, insurance issues, the legalities behind starting a business or a car accident – advice for students facing the Student Wide Judiciary (SWJ) in on-campus proceedings and a class undergraduates can take to learn how to research a legal issue and legal procedures.

There are five professional attorneys on staff available to help students. Seeking out legal advice is free of charge, as it’s paid for through the mandatory student activity fee.

Students can also come to SBI Legal for help with housing issues like advice before

they sign their leases. Sasiadek said a lot of students come in seeking help on this issue in particular.

There are also 13 student defenders in the office. Student defenders are law students who assist Sasiadek in giving advice to students, trying to find evidence in students’ favor and teaching them how to present themselves in front of SWJ. Students who participate as student defenders come in for a couple hours at a time, so that there is always someone on staff in the office. The job is also offered as work study so law students can be in the office for hours without falling behind on their studies.

Zach Persichini, a first-year student at UB’s Law School, just started working in the office. He saw a post for the position on the UB Law School Facebook page and decided to apply for it. He was a business major as an undergraduate at UB, but interest in law stems from interactions he had at his job.

“I was working at a company and they were in the middle of a merger,” Persichini said. “I worked a lot with the corporate lawyers, and that’s where it all began.”

Persichini’s job is to help students who got in trouble through the university – he walks them through the process and creates a plan of action so that they can find the best solution possible.

The student defender mentioned he hadn’t seen many cases, which he attributes to the fact it’s only the first month of school. Sasiadek takes the lead on many of them and some students choose to use the professional lawyers on staff.

Daniel Wright, a junior political science major, thinks that the opportunity to work with lawyers and in that setting would be helpful for anyone in law school.

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Two McNair Scholars recognized at national mathematics conference

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UB professor receives prestigious teaching post EVAN SCHNEIDER STAFF WRITER

Dr. Deborah Reed-Danahay started off in the same place as many college students. While taking classes at the University of Delaware, she wasn’t sure what major was the best fit for her.

Now she’s a professor with an honor shared with only four other teachers in the United States and 40 people around the world.

This past August, Reed-Danahay, an anthropology professor who served as director of the Center of European Studies (CEUS) at UB from 2010-15, was named a Jean Monnet Chair recipient – a teaching post given by the European Commission

for professors with a specialization in European Union studies.

Reed-Danahay is a cultural anthropologist and has experienced an extensive and rewarding career in her field conducting research and educating students on citizens of all different walks of life across Western Europe, with her main focus being contemporary European societies.

A Jean Monnet Chair recipient must be a full-time professor and have a profile as a researcher. Reed-Danahay has five published books. An eligible professor must teach a minimum of 90 hours involving Europe per year, which equates to two courses.

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Dr. Deborah Reed-Danahay received a prestigious Jean Monnet Chair teaching post.

She is a cultural anthropologist who conducts research and educates students on people in Western Europe.

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UB McNair Scholars recognized at national mathematics conference JASHONDA WILLIAMS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Out of nearly 20,000 undergraduates at UB, there are only 22 McNair Scholars.

Out of those 22, two can say they presented their research to a room full of professionals.

Nadia Syeda and Valerie Tapia are McNair Scholars who spent their summer completing a research internship and creating their own research projects that they presented at the 21st Annual UB Undergraduate Research Conference. They also got the opportunity to present at the Utah Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges (UMATYC).

Syeda, a senior mathematics and economics major, and Tapia, a senior mathematics major, have found opportunities through the Robert E. McNair PostBaccalaureate Achievement Program, also known as the McNair Scholars Program.

The program is named after Dr. Ronald McNair, one of the first African Americans to become an astronaut, who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger launch in 1986.

The McNair program is federally funded by the U.S. Department of Education and was created to help first generation, low-income students who are underrepresented in their fields.

But not just anyone can become a McNair Scholar.

Syeda and Tapia were given the chance to show off their expertise at the McNair undergraduate research conference.

Tapia’s research focused on education and exploring math anxiety among stu-

dents in high school. She also studied how teachers can use their expertise to help kids feel more comfortable with doing math.

The project required Tapia to travel to different schools in Buffalo to conduct surveys. Syeda, on the other hand, wanted to investigate the Weierstrass function and theoretical math and apply it to the real world with a focus on economics.

The research conference was held in Niagara Falls in July. This year, about 20 UB students presented their work.

Students from different schools and programs all over the country attended the conference and presented research.

When conducting research, students are encouraged to seek faculty mentors to help facilitate their work during the summer.

McNair Program Director and Coordinator Dr. Susan Ott and Heather Hagenbuch, a project assistant and counselor in the program, matched Syeda and Tapia with UB mathematics professor Chris Yuen. “[Professor Yuen] is amazing,” Ott said.

“He’s tough but he puts everyone above all.”

What the girls enjoyed most about Yuen being their mentor is that they got to create their own projects. Syeda and Tapia didn’t expect this freedom. Yuen helped them develop their own research topics instead of allowing them to assist him with his research, which is most common in these situations.

Syeda and Tapia’s work has also been recognized on a national level among professionals and professors in their fields.

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(Left to right) Heather Hagenbuch, Valerie Tapia, Nadia Syeda, Chris Yuen, Susan Ott. Tapia and Syeda are two McNair Scholars whose work has been recognized among professionals in their fields.

Their work was chosen from a pool of national applicants who applied to present at the Utah Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (UMATYC.) UMATYC is a forum that encourages open discussions for potential mathematics teachers. Syeda and Tapia were the only undergraduates to attend and present their research – the rest of the attendees were professors. The McNair program paid all the expenses to enable them to attend.

The program is strict and usually only accepts college sophomores and juniors.

Two-thirds of the students must be first generation college students and come from

low-income backgrounds. One-third must be underrepresented for doctoral study.

Students must have more than a 3.0 GPA and plan on continuing their education at a graduate level. The program is designed is to prepare students to get their Ph.D. after graduating. The intensive research and close work relationship with professors give students firsthand experience of what it’s like to work in academia.

Students are able to attend credit-bearing workshops, obtain funding for graduate school preparation classes and textbooks, get waivers to applications, network with faculty and present their research at different schools all over the country.

“This program really knows how to take care of you,” Syeda said. “I’ve had a lot of eureka moments in the summer program, it made me feel like I can actually do something,” email: news@ubspectrum.com

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Another day, another shooting Overblown rhetoric serves no one in preventing mass shootings

There have always been unhinged individuals at the fringes of society – people who have broken the social contract and acted upon debased whims. But the number of these individuals who are taking to mass shootings is horrifying. The sudden, terrorizing conversion of a public venue such as a college or mall into a shooting gallery freezes the nation and brings about the question of what went wrong every time it happens.

And it is happening far too often.

Thursday’s shooting at Umpqua Community College (UCC) in Oregon is yet another example of this stereotypical and rote incident. Stories are already circulating – a veteran tried to stop the shooting. The shooter asked if people were Christian. He committed suicide. The investigation and profiling will go one for months, even as the incident slowly slides from our memories.

While the oft-quoted statistics on mass shootings in United States are exaggerated to a degree, no one can deny that the problem is escalating.

But the rhetoric employed in the wake of such events isn’t helping. The gun lobby staunchly opposes any change and the pro-gun control folks propose either radical laws or nothing at all. We can vividly recall shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and the mov-

lem lies in the fact that access to guns, often in an illegal manner, becomes the outlet for individuals with mental illness. Mass shooters often procure their weapons from family members, usually without said family members realizing in time. There is no real cure for that problem beyond banning guns, which is a poor solution for multiple reasons. Background checks, while a good start, won’t prevent this troubling trend of guns falling into the wrong hands through simple ignorance.

Obama’s frustration, while laudable, isn’t expressed in any kind of realistic terms. Calling on the United States to emulate British and Australian gun laws is a non-starter for multiple reasons.

The UK in particular did not have a strong gun culture before the bans; the United States obviously does, though ownership has tightened in recent years. Furthermore, violent crime has skyrocketed in the UK and a series of increas-

ingly Orwellian bans and security measures have had to be enacted.

It is now illegal in many places in the UK to purchase butter knives if you are under the age of 18.

We need to get to the root of what ails our nation and get to work fixing it. The mental health of the United States needs to be examined and addressed. A limited addition to gun control laws would help as well, but any such laws should be carefully considered. They should not be a repeat of other laws that simply ban cosmetic features on guns.

Whatever happens, it needs to happen now. There are rights on both sides of the argument and they need to be respected. But such views can’t polarize our society. The time has come to act, not forget and allow history to repeat itself once more. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

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ie theater Aurora, Colorado – but did anything meaningful come from those events? Did anything change that would help prevent these tragedies from occurring again?

It seems like nothing did.

President Obama addressed the nation Thursday and said that Americans had become numb to mass shootings given their frequency. He called the nation’s response “routine” in that those who oppose “any kind of common-sense gun regulation” will call for more guns and fewer gun safety laws when in reality there should be a gun law overhaul.

“Each time this happens, I’m going to bring this up,” he said.

“Each time this happens, I’m going to say that we can actually do something about it.”

There has been slight progress in officials’ reactions following shootings. The sheriff in charge of the UCC investigation is refusing to identify, and thus glorify, the shooter. The creation of infamy through exhausting media coverage of these shootings causes a major conundrum – there is a need to talk about why such shootings are happening but we have seen that such coverage inspires other shooters.

But a more ingrained prob-

TOM DINKI EDITOR IN CHIEF

It was exactly one year ago Saturday. Well, 364 days.

The Buffalo football team had a chance to begin conference play with a victory over one of the top and most consistent programs in the Mid-American Conference over the past few years: Bowling Green. A chance to let everyone know Buffalo can compete with the top teams in the MAC. But former kicker Patrick Clarke’s field goal at Doty Stadium sailed wide right that Saturday. The Falcons marched down the field and took the lead for good four plays later. The players were dejected after the game.

One week and loss later, UB Athletics fired head coach Jeff Quinn.

It’s a new era – and new circumstances – under new head coach Lance Leipold, but the Bulls (2-3, 0-1 MAC) came up short against Bowling Green again on Saturday, this time with a 28-22 loss at UB Stadium for Homecoming. And again Buffalo showed it’s not quite ready to beat the best of the MAC. First let’s focus on Saturday’s

loss.

You could look at the Buffalo ‘D’ limiting a talented Bowling Green offense in the second half as a positive, but the Bulls still allowed both Falcon running backs to run for more than 7 yards a carry and wide receiver Roger Lewis to rack up more than 200 receiving yards – he had 196 in one half.

Buffalo’s offense, thought to be the team’s strong unit, again made costly mistakes and errors.

After being down 21-6 at halftime, the Bulls had a chance for a strong touchdown drive to begin the second half, but senior quarterback Joe Licata was intercepted with Buffalo nearly in the red zone. It seemed like every time Buffalo got down near Bowling Green’s end zone, the offense couldn’t complete a pass.

And offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki had Licata throw 59 passes in not the best of conditions. Why? Running backs Anthone Taylor and Jordan Johnson both averaged 4 or more yards a carry, so why not give it to them more?

The box score may read as just a six-point loss, but Buffalo was down 28-9 in the fourth quarter. You could give the Bulls credit for fighting back to put a scare into the Falcons, but they shouldn’t have fallen behind by 19 to a conference opponent at home, regardless if that opponent is a step above Buffalo.

Bowling Green is everything Buffalo should be aiming to be.

The Falcons have won at least eight games every season for the past three years. They’ve been to

three straight bowl games and two straight MAC Championship games – and won one of them.

They’re a consistent program outside the Power 5 conferences gaining respect.

When Bowling Green hosted the Bulls in a cold October game last year, the parking lots were filled with swarms of fans and students clad in orange. It felt like a big-time college atmosphere. The fans stayed until past halftime too, which has been a problem for the Bulls.

UB Athletics announced Saturday’s paid attendance as slightly more than 20,000, but there was nowhere close to 20,000 after halftime.

Keep in mind this was Buffalo’s “Homecoming” game too.

That is Buffalo’s next step.

They have to get to the level of MAC teams like Bowling Green and Northern Illinois if the football program here is ever going to take off. Which means they have to start beating teams like Bowling Green and Northern Illinois every once in a while.

The last time the Bulls defeated Bowling Green? Jeff Quinn’s first MAC win as Bulls head coach. Buffalo hasn’t defeated a MAC team that finished the season with a winning conference record since 2011. The best MAC team that great 2013 Bulls team – led by current NFL players like Khalil Mack and Branden Oliver – defeated was Ohio who finished 4-4 in conference play. All the other MAC teams Buffalo defeated that year finished with three total wins or

less.

The Bulls have to start being more competitive in the MAC – Saturday’s 28-22 loss to Bowling Green was another missed opportunity for Buffalo. Maybe Leipold is the guy to do it eventually, but it’s becoming more clear this won’t be the year.

That’s because it’s not going to get any easier for Buffalo. Next up is Central Michigan – who just defeated Northern Illinois – and 4-1 Ohio. Buffalo, despite having a pretty competitive roster, could very well start conference play 0-3.

It’s sad that Buffalo may not be contending for the East or a bowl game in Licata’s senior year – his final two years to be exact. It’s sad he probably won’t be the guy to win Buffalo a championship in this new era. I’ve said it before – the best team Licata will ever play on is the team he played on as a sophomore.

Which there’s nothing wrong with – not everyone can go out on top.

Licata will still leave UB with a winning record – which is a major accomplishment for Buffalo if you look at its history – and most of the Bulls’ other passing records. He should be proud of his run.

But long term, Buffalo will have to start playing tough with the great MAC teams. It can’t move forward if it’s not moving forward within its own conference. It has to start winning games like Saturdays. email: tomdinki@ubspectrum. com

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He’s found family can be anywhere and can come from anyone, like when his Buffalo teammates drove 14 hours to attend Jack’s funeral during finals week. Even though he lost one family member, Daniel knows he has many more.

It’s his family affair.

Small-town beginnings The Daniel household prides itself on being from a small town.

Hiram, Georgia – roughly 30 minutes west of Atlanta – has a populace of about 3,600 and its small-town hospitality is what makes living there so appealing. Everyone knows everyone. Everyone went to the same schools and churches. People in Hiram attend elementary, middle and high school with the same people.

And Daniel loved it that way.

“Everybody has a small town mentality,” Daniel said. “My best friends’ parents are like my parents. Our parents feed all of us, like their own children.”

Carley said when Daniel received his scholarship offer from UB, the family couldn’t keep it private for long.

Within days, the entire town knew and was celebrating for him. There was always town camaraderie, but above all, there was town competition.

One event each week in particular took over Hiram: high school football.

There wasn’t much notoriety about Hiram, except that football was valued highest. In some towns, it’s all people have to look forward to. Newspaper clippings about the local high school teams filled coffee and barbershops.

There were five schools in Hiram and all of them had a varsity high school football program. Football players were the stars of the school. And every Friday night was their moment. On any given Friday, the bleachers at any school would be packed with thousands of people chanting and screaming from beyond the sidelines.

Even thinking about it today gives Daniel chills.

“It’s a different feeling,” he said. “You’ve grown up with these guys your entire life.

When you go into Friday night, you still get butterflies. You’re going to play for your family, friends and classmates.”

Above the competition and the results, football games were an event. Everyone got involved, from concessions to tailgating to even helping work the games from the sidelines.

That was Jack’s job.

It wasn’t until Daniel’s senior year that his father finally sat down and watched one of his football games. Daniel begged Jack to sit down and “just watch a game” instead of running amuck around the stadium, working the chains and concession stands and even commentating for a local radio show up in the booth.

He sat down and just watched all five of Daniel’s home games that year.

So when Jack passed away last year, the entire town came together in support of the Daniels. That was the nature of Hiram.

And Daniel couldn’t believe the outpouring of support in the following days.

Family is everything At first, Jack’s death didn’t feel real to Daniel.

He felt numb. He felt heartbroken. He felt pain. But the shock of the situation had not settled in yet – for only a couple of minutes.

Soon after he received the call from Carley, reality settled in and he realized what his sister had told him. And he wasn’t alone.

Carley said it was “the worst day of [her] life.” Carley, like Daniel, is studying early childhood development. Her mission after she graduates from Tennessee Temple University this year is to teach.

“As a teacher, I’ve seen what it’s like to not have a family,” Carley said. “There are students that do not know who their father is. It devastates me.”

It’s never easy for children to wrap their heads around the thought of losing a parent. It will always be there. But it can get easier. People have different ways of coping. And at the time, Daniel and Carley needed family and faith.

And of course, the comfort of a mother.

Rose admits she’s a standard southern

mother. She’s a natural protector who always thinks her children are right. Daniel said if she witnessed him beat someone up in a fight, she would tell the police she didn’t see a thing. It’s natural instinct.

Not that she’d ever expect her kids to do that anyway.

“The kids never gave us trouble,” Rose said.

“They never got into drinking and drugs. We never wanted to take vacations away from them. I didn’t do ‘ladies night out.’ I never tried to get away from my kids. We always wanted to do things together.”

But don’t let her nurturing exterior fool you – she’s a competitor at heart. She was a basketball and volleyball player at Georgia State University from 1975-79 and one of the first athletes to be a part of Title IX, which gave men and women equal scholarships.

She’s a southerner at heart. She treats Daniel’s friends like they are her own children. She would always have a homecooked meal ready to go or a box of bait waiting for Daniel’s friends when they went fishing.

“She keeps us together, especially during these times,” Daniel said. “She keeps us strong, grounded in our faith and makes sure we’re doing all right.”

Soon after Jack’s death, word spread around social media via various condolence posts and photo sharing. Within minutes, people knew about it and started “pouring in love and support.”

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – you name it. Wherever there was a social media platform, there was news about Jack’s passing from people who knew him. Daniel and Carley received calls from people they hadn’t spoken to in years.

While the news was breaking about Jack’s death, Daniel was still in Buffalo. Carley was in Tennessee and their mother was at home in Georgia. It was finals week, but school didn’t matter at that point to Daniel, even though his teachers gave him the necessary time off before returning to tests.

And it didn’t matter it was test week to his Buffalo family. Its first concern was Tony.

‘A southern thing’ It never even crossed Joe Licata’s mind to miss Jack’s funeral.

The Bulls’ starting quarterback has known Daniel since the two were freshmen. The same applies for fellow seniors Ron Willoughby and Matt Weiser. The four of them have been best friends since they came into the program as redshirts in 2011.

They were Daniel’s Buffalo family. And when Jack passed away, they treated Daniel as such. Licata, Weiser and Willoughby were going down to Hiram no matter how challenging it would be.

“Anyone who knows Tony knows he puts everyone before himself,” Weiser said. “For such a difficult, heartbreaking situation, we knew we had to be there.”

And it wasn’t an easy process getting down there. They looked into flights and train schedules, but there were no times that worked with their schedules. Their only hope was a lastsecond plea to their former Buffalo teammate Jake Silas to borrow his car.

It worked.

The trio took the 14-hour car ride down to Georgia to make it in time for the funeral. They didn’t even have time to stop and change into their suits before entering the funeral home. And to say they were surprised about southern hospitality is an understatement.

“When you meet Tony up here, you know what kind of guy he is,” Licata said. “You wonder how he became such a nice guy.

Then you walk in and everyone is the nicest person you’ve ever met. Then, it started to all make sense. This is where Tony gets it.”

They couldn’t even see Daniel until 25 minutes after their arrival. The funeral home was fully packed. Cars wrapped around the area for miles and streets were even cut off to alleviate traffic jams. It was the second-biggest funeral the home ever hosted.

Licata, Weiser and Willoughby stood around without knowing anyone other than Daniel as everyone around them sparked conversation. But it didn’t take long to adjust to the Hiram norm. Within five minutes of their arrival, about three mothers who they’d never met before came up to them and asked if they wanted food or a

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drink.

Nothing out of the norm.

“It’s more of a southern thing,” Rose said.

“For them, it was a culture shock. They’re all from the north.”

Licata, Willoughby and Weiser said they had never been to a funeral like Jack’s. Licata said it reminded him of his family reunions, where everyone talks and “eats on repeat.” For hours, the trio heard stories about Jack and his experiences. And everyone had a story that had the whole funeral home “cracking up.”

“Funerals are such crappy situations,” Willoughby said. “There’s nothing enjoyable about a funeral. But that group of people, that community, made it an enjoyable time. The positive stories, the amount of laughs shared. And like Tony, Mr. Daniel was involved in everything. He had something to do with everything.”

Jack’s legacy

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(TOP) Tony Daniel runs for a touchdown against Akron at UB Stadium last season.

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(MIDDLE) Daniel looks to pass during Tony Daniel is experiencing spring practice in 2014. some firsts.

COURTESY OF TONY DANIEL Last December was his first Christmas without his dad.

(BOTTOM) (From L to R) Carley, Rose, Tony This past March was the first and Jack pose for a photo while all donning Buffalo gear. time he couldn’t celebrate his father’s birthday. June was the first time he wasn’t able to celebrate Father’s Day. But Daniel doesn’t mind it. wellness and happiness to the people of HiOf course, there was sadness on those days, ram. but he didn’t let them get to him.

That legacy and spirit lives on in Daniel “Those days are important because sonow. ciety makes them important,” Daniel said.

He regularly attends church. He is one “Live those days because you should treat of the most active students on campus. His your family with the same kind of respect personality shines through the most – he’s everyday.” the type of person that puts on a clown Jack was a person that always put other nose and a cowboy vest just to cheer up a people in front of himself. He would come crying 2-year-old. down to practice when Daniel was in high He studies hard on and off the field, even school and cook hamburgers and hot dogs though he’s just a backup. His academic All for the team “just because.”

Mid-American Conference Scholar accoIn a small town, feeding the masses was lades speak for themselves. But that doesn’t important. In a community such as Hiram, mean he’s not a talented football player. Ala lot of people can’t go home and have a beit a small sample size, Daniel passed for properly cooked meal. Like Rose, Daniel’s two touchdowns and even ran one in for a friends were Jack’s kids as well. He looked score in 2014. out for the whole community. Daniel loved But Daniel prides himself on being a the kind gesture. family man – the values he got from his fa“Reflecting back, I was able to see the imther. pact my father had,” Daniel said. “You see “What makes a person memorable and it when he’s alive and you see how much makes a person stand out? For me, I think people loved him and the trickle-down efhe exemplified everything that I want,” fect he had on our community.”

Daniel said. “He treated his family with utAnd it would never go unnoticed. Afmost respect, made sure we were taken care ter his death, the community set up fundof and he tried to make my teammates and raisers to help the Daniel family with bills. friends have everything I have and more.”

Daniel’s high school created a spur-of-theIt takes a memorable person for a funeral moment 3-point contest in the days followhome to be packed. It takes a special person ing – a competition Jack used to run during for an entire town – and an entire Buffalo halftime at high school basketball games. football team – to grieve over his death. It The fundraiser allowed people to shoot a takes a family man.

3-pointer for a dollar. If made, the shoot“Family means everything,” Daniel said. er won a $5 gift card to places like the lo“Family is everything.” cal arcade.

The community raised $300 in an hour. email: jordan.grossman@ubspectrum.com But to really understand his value, his award says it all. He is now the namesake of Hiram’s Jack Daniel Community Service Award for his efforts ensuring the health,

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Lehrer Dance[s] the night away GIOVANNI GAGLIANESE STAFF WRITER

The Lehrer Dance Company has continued to take flight on and offstage with its sellout first performance at UB. Buffalo’s own Lehrer Dance with rock band 10,000 Maniacs soldout the Center for the Arts Mainstage on Saturday to start its home season.

Innovating modern dance with its signature style, Lehrer Dance is thriving. The company has shared its choreography across the United States, and with sponsorship by the U.S. Consulate, has toured Russia three times, most recently in 2014.

Lehrer Dance is successful is part because its style cannot be categorized under any dance genre. Its modern movement is a fierce fusion of jazz, acrobatic athleticism and theatrics. Each dancer brings emotion, thought and purpose with every movement.

“What sets us apart from other companies is that we have a very specific style and technique that we are constantly developing and exploring, “said Christiana Cavallo, Lehrer dance member and UB alumnae.

“We combine athleticism and artistry with accessibility. Our movement is highly influenced by physics and the way humans move naturally. So when we take those human qualities to the stage, we create something superhuman, but that the audience can still very much relate to.”

Opening with Cash or Check brought a 1920s jazz movement that had attendees snapping their fingers along to the rhythm.

The dancers made the performance seem easier than it really was – their gracefulness onstage made the choreography visually glossy.

It did well in grabbing the audience with its artful humor – during the performance the characters onstage included slapstick humor in between their arrangements. The

Local dance company sells out CFA Mainstage for first UB performance of the year

dancers seemed to personify the music.

After the first song you could see the dancers’ chemistry onstage.

Murmur was a piece that seemed to buzz with acrobatic prowess. Dancers floated, almost weightlessly, about the stage.

Gabriella Mameli and Ginger Page, both freshman dance majors, said the company always puts on a good show.

“They are very fluid and smooth,” Page said.

Combining indigenous sound and movement, the world premiere piece Chukchi is a modern twist of Russian movement. The unplugged music was hard-hitting and the vocals were tantalizing and tribal. The cos-

tumes for this piece glimmered under the opaque light and quickly became a crowd favorite.

After intermission, Femeie De Lume took flight. Dancer Colleen Walsh began by haphazardly stepping on the other dancers who knelt down like stepping-stones for her, jumping from back to back.

This quickly became a powerful piece, as the eerie opera music met the negative shapes and shadows of the lighting onstage.

The dancers coalesced into what seemed to be one unified movement – they turned this into a conceptually refined and aesthetically pleasing piece.

The next segment Loose Canon began like how most college mornings do – waking up

COURTESY OF RHEAANNA.COM The Lehrer Dance Company (pictured) soldout the Center for the Arts Saturday.

irritated and in need of more sleep.

Each dancer captured a comical personality with exaggerated movement, the result of a perfect collision between nimble, contemporary movements and method acting.

The crowd hysterically laughed to the humorously inflated movements of the dancers.

A Western New York favorite, 10,000 Maniacs, began its five-song set titled Like a Dream in the Night with the soothing vocals of Natalie Merchant. The lyrics were packed with a string of beautiful imagery, from love songs to folk grooves.

The sound was textured with delicate violin transitions, bass, rhythmical lyrics and guitar riffs throughout its set.

Lehrer Dance accompanied its set with the graceful repertoire that it’s known for.

Dancers performed in sync, only stopping at times to highlight an individual dancer’s athleticism and grace in a solo. “[I’ve] never seen something like this before, it was refreshing,” said Urias Dames, 32 year-old Buffalo native and attendee of the show.

The combination of movement and live music in this collaboration was described as new, interesting and at times, distracting – it seemed to draw mixed feelings from the crowd.

“It was a little too much at times,” said Larry Ezrow, a 20-year-old Western New York native. email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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The position itself involves teaching, communication and community outreach.

Reed-Danahay conducts research and educates students on people of all different walks of life in areas of Western Europe, from citizens to immigrants. She describes cultural anthropology as the study of contemporary human societies.

“I think it is really important for American students to know about current events in Europe because we have close ties,” Reed-Danahay said. “It’s important for Americans to understand how the European Union functions and what its effects are on the everyday lives of people in Europe and America.”

After Reed-Danahay graduated from Delaware, she decided to expand her knowledge on anthropology and pursue a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at Brandeis University right outside of Boston, Massachusetts.

During her tenure at Brandeis, Reed-Danahay met her husband and became pregnant with her first child. This is also when she began work on her dissertation focusing on rural France, spending a year with dairy farmers studying the French school system. She gave birth to her daughter shortly before

she defended her dissertation, which then became a published book entitled, “Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling.”

Following the completion of her Ph. D., she and her husband stayed in the Boston area for some time. Reed-Danahay kept her focus on the career path that she set for herself back in Delaware and took a part-time teaching position at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

At that time she became pregnant with her second child and was soon grading papers from the hospital room in which her son was born – authentication for her love of teaching and her work.

But she loves her kids more than her work, she said.

When her children were both in grade school in 1994, Reed-Danahay took a position at the University of Texas-Arlington where she taught and served as associate dean and director of anthropology until 2006.

During that time she conducted a research project on former Vietnamese refugees in the Fort Worth region of Texas.

“After the Vietnam War, many refugees

“It’s something I would look into, because the opportunity to do casework and learn the process with professional attorneys seems like a great internship,” Wright said.

SWJ doesn’t put students in trouble on trial – it’s more like a plea bargain. Those who sit on the judiciary analyze the evidence and decide on a punishment.

“Most people who come in admit that they committed whatever charge they committed,” Sasiadek said. “They just don’t want to risk losing their education.”

Sasiadek said that the office doesn’t maintain statistics, but there is a steady influx of students who come into the

settled in different areas,” Reed-Danahay said. “They settled in Texas for its climate [similar to Vietnam] and its booming economy.”

Reed-Danahay studied how refugee children were coming American and the ways in which they participated in American civic life.

In 2006, Reed-Danahay found an opportunity to take a position as Chair of the Department of Anthropology at SUNY Buffalo State. She conducted more research and taught undergraduates there until 2008 when she was offered a teaching position at UB. She was intrigued by UB’s offer because it would give her the opportunity to teach graduate students while also conducting research at a well-known research institute.

She returned to her interests in Europe soon after finishing the Vietnamese research and is currently doing a project on French migrants to London.

Since receiving the Jean Monnet Chair, Reed-Danahay has begun teaching a pilot program for the new UB curriculum, a test course for the introduction of the new general education program coming next fall.

It is a UB Honors Seminar called “Europe Today” open to freshmen of all different in-

office, especially at the beginning of fall semester and around Halloween.

Jane Helt, a junior psychology major, said she would definitely consider using the services if she found herself in trouble. She lives in the Heights and often sees police officers patrolling the streets and breaking up parties.

“If I ever had an issue with my house or found myself in trouble because I had people over, I would use the school’s services,” Helt said. “I wouldn’t know where else to go, and I feel like they would give me a fair chance to make my case without charging me a ton of money.” email: features@ubspectrum.com

tended majors in the Honors College and focused on contemporary Europe.

Since Reed-Danahay came to UB, she has helped students with interests similar to hers when she was an undergrad at Delaware.

Irene Ketonen, a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, applied to UB in 2009 strictly because she wanted to work with Reed-Danahay.

“I wanted to work with her due to her excellent reputation as an anthropologist [studying] rural Europe,” Ketonen said.

“She has also [conducted] much of her research on farming communities and that was also my interest.”

Ketonen is currently doing research on “how the moral and ethical values are utilized, negotiated and contested during encounters between farmers in Northern Ireland and European Union bureaucracy.”

Ketonen now serves as a chair of the committee for the Council of European Studies (CEUS), where Reed-Danahay serves as director.

She said Reed-Danahay is a “wonderful mentor” who has provided her with a plethora of opportunities to learn more about professional academia through Graduate Assistantships with CEUS. email: news@ubspectrum.com

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UB offers counseling services to students but just 9 percent use it JOHN JACOBS STAFF WRITER

College is full of stress – stress from teachers, classes and lack of sleep. A normal amount of stress is healthy, but too much can be dangerous.

Students who are feeling overstressed, overwhelmed by anxiety or who just need someone to talk to can utilize UB’s Counseling Services.

According to Director of Student Health and Wellness Sharon Mitchell, Counseling Services offers individual therapy, couples counseling and group therapy. Unless a student is experiencing a crisis or emergency – in which case, they can just walk in – he or she should make an appointment in order to see one of the 16 counselors that work there. Counseling Services is located in 120 Richmond Quad in the Ellicott Complex on North Campus.

Despite the variety of services that are offered, most students do not seem to be going to Counseling Services. Mitchell said that the amount of students that utilize Counseling Services is not very high.

The office saw 1,800 students last semester, which is just 9 percent of the undergraduate population.

The therapists also act as mental health consultants, so if a student or a parent is concerned about someone, he or she can call Counseling Services to get information on how they can address the problem, Mitchell said.

Aside from scheduled counseling appointments, Counseling Services also offers educational programs each year during Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Suicide Prevention Week and Mental Health Awareness Week. According to Mitchell, the educational programs are designed to be preventative, to stop students from acting in ways that might later cause them to need counseling.

Counseling Services also offers anonymous online mental health screenings.

Some students are unaware the services are available, which may be why the center doesn’t see many students.

“I’ve just never heard of them before,” said Shruthi Reddy, a graduate student in electrical engineering. “I didn’t know we had counseling at UB.” Students need different degrees of counseling, which is why the office assists students in finding outside help if an issue arises that cannot be resolved through the service.

COURTESY OF COUNSELING SERVICE The Counseling Center takes appointments, though students facing crisis can simply walk in and speak to a counselor. Sharon Mitchell, the Director of Student Health and Wellness (pictured), thinks that more people should utilize the service.

“Let’s say someone has a severe substance abuse problem and they need in-patient treatment, or they have a severe eating disorder and they need in-patient treatment – we don’t do that,” Mitchell said.

Students with severe problems should still contact Counseling Services because even though they don’t possess the resources to help students with severe disorders, they can refer them to someone in the area who can.

Although not many use the Counseling Services currently, Mitchell said that the amount of students using the service is increasing compared to where it used to be.

“I’ve been here 12 years and each year there’s always been a little bit of a bump in the number of students that we see,” Mitchell said.

Not everyone feels the need to utilize the service, as many would rather speak to someone they are more familiar with before a counselor. But Mitchell disagrees –

she believes that friends are not always as helpful as counselor might be.

“A counselor has some objectivity that a friend or a parent doesn’t have,” Mitchell said. “We don’t have a connected interest in the decisions that a person makes.”

She believes that students come into the office because there is less of a stigma associated with people seeing a counselor or therapist, compared to what there used to be. There are also more students seeking counseling services for stress and anxiety related problems.

Sometimes the hardest part is taking that first step, like just walking into the office. email: features@ubspectrum.com

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Defensive line: C Finally, there was some production from a lackluster unit, but nothing to get overzealous about.

The defensive line recorded three sacks and was able to control a deep Falcons running game during the second half. But ultimately, it was Bowling Green’s running game that won them the game. Travis Greene ran for 119 yards and three different players ran for a touchdown. There were also runs of 29 and 36 yards allowed from an inside run.

Brandon Crawford had the biggest day on defense as he compiled a sack and two tackles for losses to go with four tackles.

Linebackers: B There was nothing too flashy about the up-and-coming unit, but they deserve a high grade for effort.

Junior Brandon Berry and senior Nick Gilbo combined for 23 tackles while controlling the inside running game. Senior Okezie Alozie had arguably his worst game this season, recording just four tackles.

Secondary: C One of the few positives about the secondary was ending Matt Johnson’s passing streak.

The defensive backs “limited” one of the best quarterbacks in the nation to 324 yards through the air, after he had a four-game

streak of 400 passing yards. But other than that, there wasn’t much to be proud of.

Roger Lewis went off for 201 yards and a touchdown grab as he justified his case as one of the top receivers in the nation. Senior cornerback Marqus Baker looked lost trying to cover the speedy down-the-field threat as Lewis had 196 yards alone in the first half.

Once junior cornerback Boise Ross was moved over to cover him, it was a much different result. But ultimately, it wasn’t a pretty game for the secondary all around.

Special teams: A Freshman Adam Mitcheson continues to prove his worth to the Bulls, even though his sample size has been small.

Mitcheson added three more field goals today of 30, 28 and 27 yards and didn’t miss one either. He is 7-of-9 in his young career. His only downfall was a shanked extra point after Willoughby’s late touchdown.

Senior punter Tyler Grassman only had two punts, but both went further than 46 yards. He is continuing to cement himself as one of the best punters in the MidAmerican Conference.

Coaching: D For the first time since head coach Lance Leipold came to Buffalo, he’s done a bad job as a head coach.

There were multiple problems Leipold

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Senior quarterback Joe Licata looks to run during Buffalo’s 28-22 loss to Bowling Green Saturday.

and the coaching staff experienced on Saturday and there were very few mid-game adjustments. The biggest adjustment he made was when he switched from Baker and Ross to cover Lewis, but it took a 196yard receiving performance in the first half to do so.

Leipold also had questionable play calling

throughout the afternoon, beginning with 59 passes from Licata. Late in the third quarter, Licata threw three straight incomplete passes within the Bowling Green 10yard line and settled for a field goal instead.

When Willoughby scored a touchdown to make the game 28-15, Leipold sent his kicking unit onto the field instead of going for 2. Had they completed the conversion, all Buffalo would have needed was a touchdown with a 2-point conversion and a field goal to tie.

The Bulls enter a much-needed bye week after two straight losses. email: sports@ubspectrum.com

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Coming off two straight losses and a 0-1 start in Mid-American Conference play, the Buffalo football team’s bye week couldn’t have come at a better time.

With a week off, the Bulls (2-3, 0-1 MAC) have a chance to rest and look at the film from the past two weeks to correct several areas, including penalties, turnovers and its defense.

“Turnovers and untimely penalties are what put you in a bad position,” said head coach Lance Leipold after Saturday’s 28-22 loss to Bowling Green. “We’re just putting ourselves in tough situations for us to overcome. Especially on third down, we’re driving the ball on two separate occasions and penalties stopped us.”

With a week to prepare for Central Michigan (2-3, 1-0 MAC), the Bulls have time to fix one of its biggest drive-killers: penalties.

Penalties a part of the game, from the more common plays like an offsides and pass interference, to the more intricate calls like the newly outlawed pick play. Either way, fans can’t see a football game on Saturday or Sunday and not see a yellow penalty flag.

After Saturday game against the Falcons (3-2, 1-0 MAC), the Bulls rank 10th in the conference in penalties with 46. In the past four games, Buffalo has committed at least eight penalties in every game, including a seasonhigh 14 against Penn State.

Playing clean Buffalo looking to correct penalties, turnovers and defense during bye week

Last week, senior offensive tackle John Kling was called for two personal foul penalties, both on third down, halting two different drives for the Bulls. On Saturday, a dubious pass interference call negated senior wide receiver Marcus McGill’s touchdown call in the second quarter and the Bulls ended up with just a field goal on that drive.

Senior quarterback Joe Licata said the penalties are something that must be fixed moving forward.

“I think we’re about four to six plays from victory [in] all of our losses,” Li-

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Head coach Lance Leipold and his coaching staff look on during Buffalo’s 28-22 Mid-American Conference play opening loss to Bowling Green Saturday.

cata said. “We continue to shoot ourselves with turnovers and penalties.

We continue to shoot ourselves in the foot and we need to figure how we can play a better game. It’s one of the main things to work on in the bye week.”

The offense has lived up to expectations with Licata leading the charge and the development of McGill, sophomore wide receiver Collin Lisa and senior tight end Matt Weiser.

But turnovers have also been an issue in addition to the penalties.

Licata has been picked off five times this season in six games. The interceptions have come at crucial times too, like near the end zone in Saturday’s loss and at the end of the game against Nevada (2-3, 0-1 Mountain West Conference).

The Bulls allowed more than 370 yards for the past three games, including a 536-yard torching by Bowling Green on Saturday.

The defensive line has to play better. Nevada and Bowling Green both controlled the tempo, thanks to their ability to lean on their running game.

Both teams ran for more than 200 yards while Buffalo’s defensive line struggled to create pressure and garner sacks.

Outside of junior cornerback Boise Ross and his breakout season, the Bulls’ secondary has struggled. Buffalo has allowed three 100-yard receivers in the past three weeks with two Florida Atlantic receivers going for more than 100 yards and Bowling Green sophomore Roger Lewis’ 200-yard performance on Saturday.

Buffalo will look to fix its issues before it plays Central Michigan on the road Oct. 17. Kickoff time has yet to be determined. email: sports@ubspectrum.com

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JORDAN GROSSMAN SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

The football team (2-3, 0-1 Mid-American Conference) fell 28-22 to Bowling Green (32, 1-0 MAC) Saturday at UB Stadium. The Falcons led 28-9 at the start of the fourth quarter before a Buffalo rally that fell short.

Here’s how The Spectrum graded Buffalo’s performance:

Quarterbacks: B+ Senior Joe Licata had yet another impressive 300-plus passing yard performance, but his untimely plays prevents him from getting an ‘A’.

Licata threw the ball 59 times, a new school record, while completing 35 of those passes. He found seven receivers for positive yardage and successfully worked around a dangerous Bowling Green defense.

But the interception early in the third quarter halted momentum for Buffalo as it was driving toward its first touchdown of

Senior running back Anthone Taylor looks for a hole during Buffalo’s game against Bowling Green Saturday. Taylor had 93 yards on the ground.

the day.

Running backs: A- The duo of Jordan Johnson and Anthone Taylor proved to be a deadly 1-2 combo once again.

Taylor, a senior, picked up 93 yards while Johnson, a junior, added another 45 yards and the team’s only rushing touchdown.

There wasn’t much opportunity for open runs, but the duo made the most of it and still ended up with impressive days.

Wide receivers and tight ends: A Seven different receivers grabbed a ball for positive yards on Saturday en route to

one of the more impressive performances by the receiving unit all season.

Senior tight end Matt Weiser proved he can be a regular part of the passing offense after his eight reception, 90-yard performance to follow up his record game from last week. Senior wide receiver Ron Willoughby hauled in the only touchdown through the air as part of his 73-yard performance.

The only downfall was a questionable offensive pass interference call on senior wide receiver Marcus McGill, which would have given Buffalo another touchdown.

Offensive line: C+ Don’t let a one-sack performance fool you.

Although this unit only allowed one sack for six yards, Licata was hurried on multiple plays and was often unable to successfully finish drives with a touchdown. The line allowed five tackles for losses and Licata was brutally hit three separate times.

It’s clear this unit still has some work to do.

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