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Bowling for revenge Bulls take on Falcons looking to avenge last season’s loss Tom Dinki
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Bowling Green ended Buffalo’s – arguably the most talented in team in the football team’s history – chances at a Mid-American Conference championship last season. The Falcons defeated the Bulls 24-7 in what was essentially a MAC East Championship game Nov. 29. Bowling Green went on to defeat No. 16 Northern Illinois 47-27 for the conference title. “All summer that’s what our motivation was,” said senior left guard Andre Davis. “When Bowling Green beat us, that took away our title shot and that’s what we want this year.” The Bulls (3-2, 1-0 MAC) travel to Bowling Green, Ohio this weekend to face the reigning MAC-champion Falcons (3-2, 1-0 MAC). But Buffalo will play a much different Bowling Green team Saturday than in previous seasons. After leaning on a strong defense under previous head coach Dave Clawson, the Falcons have been relying on their offense to cover for their suspect defense this season under first-year head coach Dino Babers. Bowling Green allowed MAC teams to score just 12 points a game over the previous two seasons. The Falcons surrendered 42 points to UMass (0-5, 0-1 MAC) last week in their first conference game. “Their defense has been the reason they’ve been so successful [in the past],” said head coach Jeff Quinn. “Certainly they’re now having to outscore opposing offenses.” The Falcons are are giving up the
fifth most points per game in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) this season. Bowling Green graduated Ted Ouellet, its 2013 sacks leader, BooBoo Gates, who was tied for first in interceptions last season and Aaron Foster, who led the Falcons in pass breakups. Senior defensive back Ryland Ward, who tied for the team lead in interceptions last season, missed the Falcons’ previous game against UMass with an injury. Senior linebacker D.J. Lynch, Bowling Green’s leading tackler in 2013, has played in only two games this season due to injury. Bowling Green’s offense has also been hit with injuries. The Falcons lost senior quarterback and preseason All-MAC first-team selection Matt Johnson to a season-ending hip injury in their season-opening 59-31 loss to Western Kentucky (2-2, 0-1 Conference USA). But the loss of Johnson hasn’t seemed to hinder the Falcons’ passhappy offensive approach. Sophomore quarterback James Knapke averages 47 passes a game, including a season-high 73 throws in a 45-42 victory over Indiana (2-2, 0-1 Big Ten) on Sept. 13. Knapke has been productive, throwing for 1,238 yards and seven touchdowns in four games as a starter. He also takes a few gambles with his passes and has thrown six interceptions. Knapke’s top target is a freshman wide receiver Roger Lewis, who has 44 receptions, 582 yards and three touchdowns. His “speed is very evident on film,” Quinn said.
Alternative rock band Bayside to perform in Buffalo
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Anthony Raneri of alternative band Bayside remembers when the band played shows in front of unpredictable audiences – some of which ended in police intervention. At a show at Club Infinity in Buffalo in 2011, Raneri recalls police coming in to help a girl who was injured crowd surfing. When the police arrived, the officers requested the alternative-rock quad stop playing. They didn’t. Not until the police abruptly ended Bayside’s set by cutting the power to the concert venue. The power was cut in the middle of a guitar solo in the final song of the set. The fans weren’t pleased. Backstage after the show, the lead singer was worried the promoter would be upset with the band for not listening to the police and for someone getting injured. He said he was shocked when the promoter came in and said, “That was the best ending of the show I’ve ever seen.” “We’ve had shows that have fallen apart like that, where we can’t even finish our last song and people start chanting and everyone is all riled up,” Raneri said in a phone interview with The Spectrum. “As much as it sucks someone was hurt, it was really cool to go out that way.” The band will be performing at The Waiting Room on Oct. 8 and The Spectrum had the opportunity to speak with Raneri about Bayside’s history, future and latest album. The lead singer of Bayside, an alternative punk band, admits the band doesn’t play “those types of venues” anymore. After more than a decade of performing, the group has learned how to feed off the crowd’s energy. He loves “people singing along, getting sweaty and moving around.” In 2000, a young Raneri and his bandmates drove to a New Found Glory show on Long Island hoping to give the pop punk group their demo CD. While riding the Long Island Rail Road, the guys realized their CD was unlabeled. New Found Glory wouldn’t know who they were listening to. When they reached the Bayside train station, they scribbled it down. The name stuck. None of them knew how much success the band would achieve.
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Volume 64 No. 17
Winter comes early to UB
CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM
Junior Chenquin Xu rides on one of the three rail features from ski resort Kissing Bridge, which sponsored Shussmeisters’ Fifth Season Festival Thursday on the hill next to Lake LaSalle. Although it was 74 degrees, riders could pull out their snowboards for a day of fun gliding on ice shavings from local rinks. See a full photo gallery on The Spectrum’s Facebook page.
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A “Cult” of their own Tori Roseman
UB students twist, shout and swing dance
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David Harary, a senior economics, geography and international trade major, founded the Center CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM for Development and Strategy to promote student research.
Thinking for his generation UB student David Harary develops a think tank to uplift his peers Giselle Lam ASST. NEWS EDITOR
Since signing with Victory Records in 2003, the group has successfully released six albums, the latest being “Cult.” They’ve gone on to three different labels, currently working under Hopeless Records. Bayside has performed with bands like Fall Out Boy. Billy Joel makes an appearance on their latest EP. Raneri said it’s important the band maintain the sound they’ve developed over the years. They don’t feel the need to reinvent themselves, he said. “We’ve never made a record and said we’re going to try all kinds of new stuff, we’re going to reinvent our sound, we are getting tired of this … you’re hearing differences in ‘Killing Time’ from this newer album, it comes more from the process than the intention,” Raneri said. “We never want to sound like a different band.” In Queens in 2000, the four-man band played for friends, family and anyone else who would listen. They moved up to playing local venues like The Paramount, pushing their sound and working toward stardom. Bayside began to tour, opening for bigger names in the industry, like Fall Out Boy in an effort to prove their worth. “We would play a show for thousands of people who weren’t there to see us,” Raneri said. “They didn’t know our music and didn’t care, because we were just the opener … I would rather play a show for five people who know and enjoy my music than 1,000 strangers.” Bayside has continuously generated records, putting their first three out within four years. The Walking Wounded and Shudder were written while on tour, because the band couldn’t afford to take time off to be in the studio. SEE BAYSIDE, PAGE 2
David Harary is tired of seeing students’ research papers – his own included – “go to waste.” Undergrads spend hours toiling over computer keyboards, compiling data and color coding graphs to create massive pieces of academic writing – but many of those papers don’t see much life once they’ve passed through a professor’s red pen. So Harary has founded what he sees as a way to create a community of students focused on research and development. It’s an international student-run think tank, anchored at the University at Buffalo with partnering branches at other universities. He calls it the Center for Development and Strategy. “All of this stuff that these kids created went absolutely nowhere,” he said. “And I think the reason why is because they don’t know about the research process. They don’t know how to submit a research paper to a journal and they’re not given these tools and resources.” He said his group is the second studentrun think tank in the country, and the second student-run international think tank in the world – as far as he could tell after an extensive Google search yielded few things similar to what Harary has founded. He wants students to not only have a place to publish their works, but also network and connect with other student researchers. He founded it in May and, in addition to UB, it already has branches at the University at Albany, University of Toronto, University of Oxford and University College London. The senior economics, geography and international trade major said he didn’t know what he was doing when he first started getting involved in research – he doesn’t want other students to have the same problem. He didn’t know what a literature review was or how to conduct data analysis and he
said there was no one from the university guiding him through the process. Harary was completely “independent” and had to learn everything on his own, he said. The first student-run think tank was the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, which was started by students of Stanford University and Yale University. “And now we’re being founded in UB and that’s something I think the campus can really be proud of,” Harary said. Harary’s organization will teach students about the research process, give them the opportunity to get involved in research and allow students to publish their research. A think tank is an organization that sponsors research on specific problems, encourages the discovery of solutions to those problems and facilitates interaction among scientists and intellectuals in pursuit of these goals, according to the National Center for Policy Analysis. It officially started with a Facebook group over the summer – after the idea percolated in Harary’s head over two to three years as he worked as an undergraduate researcher. He used Facebook get members together – there are now 13 staff members and a number of researchers – and collect $10 from each to start up their webpage, which has a few postings live now. The think tank’s online presence includes a blog, which only members can submit to and pieces that will go into the group’s first journal of student research, which it will publish in December. UB offers research opportunities like the Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities, or CURCA. The organization provides students with possible research opportunities through the university. Harary said resources at CURCA – like providing grants for students to do their own research – are helpful. SEE THINK TANK, PAGE 4