The Spectrum Vol. 68 No. 19

THE SPECTRUM VOL. 68 NO. 19 | NOVEMBER 5, 2018

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UB professor looks to help pregnant women quit smoking through research

Bulls move up East Division with three-game win streak

‘Go for it’: A discussion with David Archuleta

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REACHING NIRVANA

UPD investigating hit-and-run collision

How students brought the world’s biggest band to campus 25 years ago THE SPECTRUM ARCHIVES Kurt Cobain shreds in front of Alumni Arena in 1993. Cobain and his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band Nirvana sold out the venue 25 years ago today, and a group of students brought them here.

BRENTON J. BLANCHET MANAGING EDITOR

It’s 1993 and Kim Greenfield is sitting on her living room floor, talking on the phone with Nirvana’s attorneys.

She’s shuffling through 30 pages of paperwork for the grunge band’s upcoming UB performance when she sees an interesting detail in the band’s requests.

Nirvana wants several bags of M&Ms –– every color except green.

As director of the former University

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Union Activities Board, Greenfield oversaw an all-student staff and helped create campus events.

But on Nov. 5, 1993, her job was to tell her staff to handpick hundreds of green M&Ms out of Nirvana’s candy supply.

“Somebody had to sit and pull all the green ones out,” Greenfield said. “It kind of plays to that piece of artists being spoiled or being kind of big for their britches as they get more famous.”

It was one of many intricacies that went into creating one of the most remembered

shows to take place on UB’s campus –– Nirvana’s 1993 In Utero Tour stop at Alumni Arena.

Twenty-five years ago and just five months before lead singer Kurt Cobain’s suicide, Nirvana performed in front of 7,000 attendees, many of whom were students. The show featured everything Nirvana fans would expect: crowd-surfing students, a sweaty mosh pit below the stage and Cobain arguing with security. But the difference between the concert and most –– if not all –– other shows on Nirvana’s arena tour that year lay in those who made it happen.

College students made it happen.

They booked the band after renegotiating terms. They set up the unconventional stage overnight. And on Nov. 5, they helped Alumni Arena reach Nirvana.

A concert ‘In Bloom’

Before Nirvana left its mark on UB and before Greenfield and her army of 20-somethings brought the then-biggest name in rock music to campus, someone had to get the band’s attention.

Most ’93 UUAB staff The Spectrum spoke with didn’t want to take credit for the idea of bringing Nirvana to campus, and credited Kathleen Duffy, UUAB’s music coordinator at the time. Duffy, who died in 2017, said in The Spectrum’s concert coverage that UUAB –– a former division of Sub-Board I ––

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COURTESY OF UPD University police are looking for a suspect in a hit-and-run accident which left a 20-year-old female student in critical condition.

MAX KALNITZ SENIOR NEWS EDITOR

A female student is in critical condition after a driver struck her Thursday night at the Hadley Village Apartments on North Campus, according to University Police.

The student, 20, of Singapore, was transported to Erie County Medical Center after the crash, which happened just after 10 p.m., police said. The driver was in a dark-colored 2003 to 2008 Honda Accord, according to UPD. The vehicle could have damage to the front right hood, bumper, fender and headlamp, UPD said. Police are asking anyone with information to call UPD at 716-645-2222. emai: max.kalnitz@ubspectrum.com twitter: @Max_Kalnitz

UB Votes to offer free shuttles to polling places JACKLYN WALTERS ASST. NEWS EDITOR

UB Votes will be providing free shuttles to nearby polling places on Tuesday for the midterm elections.

Shuttles will be available to transport voters to Sweet Home High School and Gloria J. Parks Community Center. Polling is also available on campus at 145 Student Union.

If you are registered to vote with your on-campus address, your polling location will be as follows: for residents of Governors Complex, Hadley Village, Flint Village and South Lake Village the polling location is 145 Student Union. Residents of Ellicott Complex, Greiner Hall, Creekside Village Apartments and Flickinger Court Apartments will vote at Sweet Home High School and South Campus residents will go to Gloria J. Parks Community Center to cast their votes.

The shuttles will run from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and will pick students up from North Campus at the loop near C3 and at the Creekside and Flickinger community buildings.

From South Campus, shuttles will pick voters up at the Goodyear bus stop.

Shuttles will be Campus Living or Student Association vans marked with the UB Votes logo in the window. news@ubspectrum.com

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UB Votes is sponsoring shuttles from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday. The shuttles will take students to nearby polling places to vote in the midterm elections.

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Rebecca Kennedy spent two years recovering from her drug addiction.

Kennedy, who started smoking cigarettes at 12 years old, is now a 24-year-old mother.

As her five-month-old son Jaxson plays on her lap, Kennedy said she feels like she’s been judged her whole life.

“But I was never judged here for smoking while I was pregnant. Here, it was really the encouragement that helped me quit smoking,” Kennedy said.

Kennedy now lives a cigarette-free lifestyle and is a part of a research study, which aims to help pregnant women stop smoking. The study is part of research by Dr. Xiaozhong Wen, an assistant professor in the department of Pediatrics at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

Wen’s ongoing study, which started in 2015, includes three phases.

During the first phase, the mother is provided educational pamphlets that contain information about how smoking cigarettes affects their child.

While they read the pamphlets, expectant mothers also undergo counseling sessions twice a week for two weeks and once a week for six weeks. Kennedy said the reading materials helped her decide to stop smoking altogether.

The second phase of the study requires expectant mothers to keep a calendar of how many cigarettes they smoke each day.

The mothers then have to undergo two tests, which track carbon monoxide and urine cotinine levels. Wen said the results of the test provide further encouragement for expectant mothers to stop smoking.

“A lot of mothers look forward to the changes in their carbon monoxide test levels,” Wen said. “ With smoking, you don’t need to stop completely to see a positive change.”

The carbon monoxide reflects recent smoking activity, according to Wen, so when expectant mothers reduce the number of cigarettes they smoke, they can see changes in carbon monoxide levels within a few days.

This type of feedback, according to Wen, is essential to help expectant mothers quit smoking.

“Like any behavioral change, smoking cessation requires feedback. So we make sure to provide that feedback and encouragement and support,” Wen said.

The third phase of the study rewards expectant mothers who test negatively for carbon monoxide and cotinine, with financial incentives. These incentives are given in increments depending on the duration of the absence of carbon monoxide and cotinine.

Currently, expectant mothers receive $10 on the first visit that they test negatively for carbon monoxide and cotinine, according to Wen. The amount increases to $15 on the next consecutive visit with

ubspectrum.com negative levels, and the mother receives $25, which is the highest compensation.

When asked what part of the study helped her quit smoking the most, participant Natasha Frazier said it was about getting paid.

Wen said many of his patients really enjoyed the compensational aspect of the study.

“Especially because many of them have low socioeconomic status. This might not be big money for middle or high income patients, but for these patients, this money can make a big difference,” Wen said.

Wen’s study includes Buffalo community members from underprivileged and low socioeconomic status backgrounds, a fact which has made the study a top priority to UB’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute.

“We just want to help everyone regardless of their financial status. . . . but the fact is that 84 percent of persistent smokers during pregnancy are low [socioeconomic status],” Wen said.

“They have a high propensity for smoking before pregnancy and low propensity to quit during and after their pregnancy.”

Low socioeconomic status women are more likely to smoke, according to Wen, due to higher stress based on dire or ambiguous financial situations, relationship issues and their environment.

“I visit them during home visits. If I had to live in that environment where relationships with family members are tense, or the financial situation is like that, I guess I would have a lot of stress too,” Wen said.

Clara Bradizza, senior research scientist at UB’s Research Institute on Addictions found in her research that pregnant women were more likely to quit smoking once they learned to manage negative emotions.

Low socioeconomic status women, however, have fewer alternatives for stress relief and managing negative emotions according to Wen. “If you’re middle or high income, you may have other alternatives to reward yourself. … You can go shopping, you can watch movies or travel. You can do a lot of healthy, happy things,” Wen said. “But for most of our patients, you don’t have the resources or enough money or time.

But they do have cigarettes.”

Wen’s study, however, allows low socioeconomic status women the opportunity to stop smoking through education, counseling and monetary incentives that would also improve their household finances.

Kennedy and Frazier said they stopped smoking altogether and have no plans to ever start again.

“I was worried I wouldn’t take to it. But, thinking about it, it’s only helping me live longer. It’s only helping my baby live longer. There’s only positive outcomes that come from this,” Frazier said. email: features@ubspectrum.com.

OPINION

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THE SPECTRUM Monday, November 5, 2018 Volume 68 Number 19 Circulation: 4,000

EDITORIAL BOARD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Hannah Stein

Is no news better than fake news?

Ignorance is bliss, but information is not the enemy

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JACKLYN WALTERS ASST. NEWS EDITOR

It’s unfortunate to say that we are living in the era of “fake news.”

From news media to social media and mainly our president’s mouth, society has become accustomed to letting news go in one ear and out the other, seemingly unable to trust any source.

This could be in part due to the general increase of acrimonious partisan discussions and our generation’s inherent need to be right or left, rather. But historically, the connotation of journalism has not been positive.

With investigative journalists in the early 1900s coined as “muckrakers” for uncovering corruption, the general public has been taught to think negatively toward journalists for the last century.

It is very concerning that people have this innate desire to remain ignorant than to face unpleasant facts.

I believe that a good majority of the public’s increased distrust of the news stems from President Donald Trump’s anti-media agenda.

Everyday I wake up to a new

Professors should keep political viewpoints out of the classroom

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headline of a shooting, or a pipe bomb or any other tragedy, and regardless of the victim, the news is followed by tweets from the president ridiculing the media.

He has consistently supported the discourse that increases partisan discussion and only supporting one’s party line and he even attributed the success of Fox News to himself, responding to the news source’s high ratings by tweeting, “That’s because they treat me fairly!”

The President of the United States uses social media less responsibly than middle schoolers in 2012.

A CBS News poll found that 91 percent of “strong Trump supporters” said that they trust him to provide them with accurate information, while only 11 percent said they trust media sources to do the same.

This is terrifying.

Despite any supporting argument for Trump, he has been proven to be a liar, yet people trust him more than they trust the news.

I was scared the day he was voted into office and I’m still scared today.

Media and news sources are receiving bomb threats and are under fire at their places of work for practicing their First Amendment rights and reporting their opposition for the president. Reporters’ lives are put at risk because they refuse to remain silent on Trump’s ignorant antics.

Then in response to the Tree of Life massacre, a devastating hate crime that should have been immediately denounced by the president, Trump chose to turn the blame to the media as the source of spreading hate.

“There is great anger in our country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, re-

porting of the news,” he tweeted.

“The Fake News Media, the true enemy of the people, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly.”

In Trump’s defense, he’s not wrong.

We as journalists do need to take it upon ourselves to accurately and fairly report the news.

That’s essentially the job description of a journalist.

But Trump’s pejorative rhetoric toward the media is nothing new.

The day after Trump was sworn in, his attack on the media began. He referred to journalists as being “among the most dishonest human beings on earth,” according to the New York Times.

This statement was, ironically, among many of the president’s own lies, one of which being his self-proclaimed inauguration audience of “1.5 million,” which was instantaneously disproven by photos from the day.

In an interview with journalist Lesley Stahl the same year, Trump explained why he so harshly criticizes the media.

“I do it to discredit you all and demean you all, so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you,” he said.

Most recently, the president outright said “I am fighting the media,” last Saturday, according to NPR. But in a time where lies run rampant, it is the job of news media to hold politicians accountable.

It is especially crucial in a democracy for the masses to have access to all sides of a story. If there was no news source to inform the people of corruption within the government, it could go completely unchecked.

One thing that Trump has

Personal politics

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KIRSTEN DEAN ASST. FEATURES EDITOR

It is an understatement to say the nation was in a frenzy after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election. People were losing their minds across the country, and some of that was at UB. One of my professors that year ended class early the day after the election, so students could take time to think and reflect on the “tragedy” facing the nation.

I have heard from friends that

countless other classes they were in that day were outright cancelled.

The results of an election are no reason to cancel or end class early.

It’s a professor’s job to teach classes on the days and times they are scheduled. Unless they have a pre-planned absence or an emergency situation, that is their duty to students.

To not give students the opportunity to learn when they are supposed to, just because a professor is upset over the results of a democratic election, should not have been allowed and I wish UB did more to prevent those personal decisions from being made.

What was accomplished by missing class that day? Nothing, except successfully not learning material we were all scheduled to.

Professors didn’t just voice their indignation toward the president-elect the day after the election, though, they are voicing political opinions daily in classes years later.

It is my firm belief that professors should keep their political viewpoints out of the classroom, whether Democrat or Republican. I don’t care what your personal beliefs are regarding poli-

tics. If it is not factual material relevant to the class, please keep it out.

I cannot begin to count how many times I have had to bite my tongue when a professor used class time and his or her position of authority to talk about personal political opinions. I know I’m not alone in this.

To have to sit there and have your beliefs attacked is painful and as a student, there is nothing you can do about it. It feels very insulting and that is not a feeling you should be having in a classroom.

You can’t speak up now that you know the professor’s beliefs because your opinion differs and you fear you might be graded harsher or punished academically.

These personal beliefs also take the focus away from what students are supposed to be learning. Even if a quick, politicallymotivated side comment meant to be funny is brought up in class, it is all I can think about for the rest of the lecture. I can no longer focus on the actual material.

Instead, I think about why a professor thought it was appropriate to make such a remark in front of a class who must respect and listen to the opinions of the

managed to stay quiet about is the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and critic of the Saudi government, who was reportedly strangled to death as part of a supposed premeditated killing, according to NBC. Khashoggi, who had been living in voluntary exile in the U.S., visited the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul to gather paperwork that he needed to get married. He was suffocated, dismembered and “disposed of ” as soon as he reached the Saudi Consulate on Oct. 2.

The Saudi journalist came to America searching for a safe haven to speak out against the injustices within the Saudi government.

With the trajectory of Trump’s anti-media agenda, America may no longer be a safe space for our own journalists to speak out.

I want to be a journalist after I graduate. I want to fight for the freedom of knowledge and I can not wait to help people be informed.

But living in Trump’s America where journalists are condemned, belittled and called the “enemy of the people” scares me.

We, as a nation, need to come together and make it known that the suppression of rights and blatant spreading of lies to the public will not be tolerated, whether it be from the president or unethical “news” sources. We must not tolerate the ignorance or the besmirching of the media.

Silence is complicit. Go out and vote. Let your voice be heard.

In an article reporting the history of the deaths of journalists, The Seattle Times said that “an attack on a newspaper is the same as an attack on the Constitution, on the nation’s earliest face of the First Amendment.”

Without reporters who are willing to risk it all to uncover the truth for the American people, the U.S. would neither be the land of the free nor the home of the brave. email: news@ubspectrum.com

instructor.

Why would a professor choose to disrespect differing viewpoints that I can guarantee a student sitting in their class has?

You can’t assume that everyone in the class is a Democrat or everyone is a Republican. UB is so diverse, students and professors are going to have many differing views.

That being said, not every student here agrees with professors’ personal views on politics.

No matter what the viewpoints on politics are, liberal or conservative or whatever else you call yourself, if a professor voices them in class, some of the student audience is immediately going to feel isolated.

That’s why I feel it is best to just take personal politics out of the lecture hall.

In a time when politics is infiltrating almost every construct of society, let’s protect the classroom against personal political viewpoints.

It’s not fun to have your beliefs and morals attacked by a professor and to not be able to show any kind of reaction. To make it easier on everyone, classes should just focus on the facts of the lecture material, rather than the personal opinions of a professor. email: kirsten.dean@ubspectrum.com twitter: @KirstenUBSpec.

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News Briefs

National Institutes of Health grant to support research on prenatal drug and alcohol use

UB’s Clinical Research Institute on Addictions received a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand research on the effects of drug and alcohol use during pregnancy, according to the UB News Center.

Roh-Yu Shen, a senior scientist in pharmacology and toxicology, is studying the effects of prenatal alcohol use on the brain’s ability to plan, organize and problem-solve. She is specifically researching if prenatal alcohol use causes immature development of the prefrontal cortex.

Rina Das Eiden, a senior research scientist in psychology, and Panayotis Thanos, a senior research scientist in pharmacology and toxicology, are running a study on the effects of prenatal tobacco and marijuana use.

The research will first study humans who were prenatally exposed to tobacco and marijuana and will be translated to an animal study. Subjects involved will have factors such as behavior, memory, attention, body weight and reaction to stress examined and compared to those who were not exposed to the drugs.

HANATSU miroir to give free performance at UB

HANATSU miroir, a France-based ensemble will be playing a free concert on Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Lippes Concert Hall, according to UBNow. The group is known for its multidisciplinary shows which incorporate dance, theater and visual arts into its performances.

During the show, the group will perform pieces written by UB Ph.D. students and will feature three works written by Samuel Andreyev, an oboist and member of the ensemble.

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Two priests suspended after accusations of sexual abuse

Gunman kills two in Tallahassee yoga studio

Two priests from a parish in Clarence were put on administrative leave Saturday after claims surfaced against them, according to The Buffalo News.

Both Monsignor Frederick Leising and Reverend Ronald Sajdak were accused of sexual abuse last week.

Stephanie McIntyre, a woman who had previously said that she was sexually abused by another priest, indicated that in 1988, Leising grabbed her and forcibly kissed her.

Leising denied the accusations, instead stating that she had caught him completely off guard and kissed him, stating that he was shocked and would never have attempted to do that.

Sajdak did not respond to a request for comment from The Buffalo News. The reverend has a history of abuse claims dating from the ‘70s, prior to being ordained into the church.

Leising has an appointment to meet with Auxiliary Bishop Edward Grosz on Monday.

Friday evening, a man walked into a hot yoga studio in Tallahassee, Florida, posed as a client and then proceeded to fire a handgun without warning, according to CNN. Tallahassee Police say that the yoga students fought back against 40-year-old Scott Paul Beierle, who turned the gun on himself by the time authorities arrived.

More information has been released about the history of the gunman in the wake of the shooting. He previously was the subject of police calls “in the Tallahassee area related to harassment of young women”, according to police.

The New York Times revealed that in 2014, the gunman posted videos to YouTube where he denounced the legitimacy of interracial relationships and put down women who would not have a relationship with him. Beierle claimed to identify with “involuntary celibates” or “incels,” a group of men who react violently toward a women’s right to deny a man’s advances.

Leaders of Bahrain opposition movement sentenced to life in prison

Video shows high school teacher punching student

South Buffalo man arrested in relation to fake bombs placed around Buffalo

A music teacher at a Los Angeles-area high school was arrested last week on allegations of child abuse, according to NBC. A classmate’s cell phone video shows Maywood Academy teacher Marston Riley, 64, repeatedly punching a student while holding a cell phone.

The video shows the student confronting the teacher with curse words and racial slurs while standing threateningly close. The teacher warns the student to get out of his classroom before the altercation ensues.

Multiple students and an adult woman in a safety vest tried to break up the fight by pulling the student away from Riley by his shirt. The student was rushed to the hospital with minor injuries. Riley was booked at the sheriff ’s station on a $50,000 bail and was released early Saturday morning, according to the sheriff ’s Inmate Information Center.

On Friday, 54-year-old South Buffalo resident James Timpanaro was arrested and charged with conveying a hoax after leaving fake pipe bombs at the Buffalo Police Department and post office, according to The Buffalo News.

Timpanaro was identified by a South Buffalo food pantry worker and a neighbor from surveillance tapes near the locations of the bombs. Another neighbor familiar with Timpanaro also identified him on the tape.

Buffalo police originally believed Timpanaro did it to imitate the Florida resident Cesar Sayoc, who mailed more than a dozen pipe bombs around the country.

However, Gary Loeffert, an FBI agent with the Buffalo office, said there wasn’t a motive to Timpanaro’s actions besides instilling fear.

If convicted of the felony offense, Timpanaro could face up to five years in prison .

HUMANS OF

“ When I was 15, I ended my playing for India’s national soccer team due “ I [went] into biomedical engineering because I am interested in both [the] medical and engineering [aspects]. In this field, you build instrumental devices for [the] medical field. For me, I thought it would not be that struggling in the field since I came from a family full of engineers and doctors. But I still want to build my own career. When I was finishing my bachelor’s degree in India, I tried to apply for internships in the summer. I was in shock. In 18 out of 20 job descriptions, the first line was “MUST BE MALE.” I fit pretty well in other re-

quirements except that one. In India, even though the country’s point of view is more comfortable now, they still think males are more reliable.

That fact just makes me work harder to prove to my own culture. Other than that, I feel grateful for where I come from and what I have achieved.

Coming here to UB, I appreciate the opportunity that the community gives out to females. They support each other and the environment does not make me feel like the only place I belong is in the kitchen.”

- Nidhi Karkera, graduate student in biomedical engineering

The Bahraini appeals court sentenced three senior members of the outlawed al-Wefaq movement to life in prison, according to Al Jazeera.

The public prosecutor said in a statement that the trio is charged with “acts of hostility” and spying for officials in Qatar. The sentence comes three weeks ahead of Bahrain’s parliamentary election, where al-Wefaq is banned from running.

Those sentenced include the head of al-Wefaq, Sheikh Ali Salman, along with Sheikh Hassan Sultan and Ali alAswad. The verdict came months after the trio was acquitted by the high criminal court in June.

Human rights groups say that Salman and others jailed on similar charges are arrested due to government intolerance toward their political views.

New Caledonia rejects independence from France

Voters in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia have voted in majority to remain part of France, according to BBC. Eighty-one percent of eligible citizens voted, with 56.4 percent of voters opting to stay in France.

French President Emmanuel Macron has praised the voter turnout, saying it shows “confidence in the French republic.”

New Caledonia, an island located east of Australia, has a history of clashes between the French and indigenous Kanak people. It is one of the 17 “non-self governing territories” listed by the UN, as it has not been fully decolonized.

Kanaks make up about 39 percent of the population, whereas ethnic Europeans consist of 27 percent.

The island also contains large nickel deposits and, for this reason, is seen as an economic advantage to France. email: news@ubspectrum.com

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to injury and political situation at that time. I started professional training when I was five, before I even knew how to read or write. Soccer was my whole life. I thought so, you know.

Accepting [that I had] to leave professional soccer was my biggest turning point. At the age of 15, I learned to pick myself up. I had to start believing that I could do more than just soccer. Well, I had to form a new focus, and new habits to get into college since I did not care about school that much before. Along the way, I made friends with new interests. I figured out that engineering was my thing. Then, after graduating with a bachelor’s [degree] in mechanical engineering, I decided to go into music for one year. Yeah, I know, these fields never relate but I was full of

energy to try new things. I felt more than great with that decision. Me and my two other friends formed a band named Cat Kamikazee. We played post/progressive rock and composed our own album. The best part was that we went on tour around India, and played in 18 cities, which added a bunch of memories into my book of life. After a year of feeling the stage, I decided to go back to school. Now, I am here, finishing my master’s degree in biomedical engineering and applying my doctorate degree soon.

I still play soccer every week. I still pick up a guitar whenever I can. I feel grateful because if I did not quit soccer back then, I would still be in my comfort zone and not able to try out new things. You never know what is waiting for you in the future.”

-Ameya Deshpande, graduate student in biomedical engineering

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Monday, November 5, 2018 | 5 THE SPECTRUM ARCHIVES

On Nov. 5, 1993, Nirvana played a sold-out show to 7,000 attendees on North Campus. Students crowd-surfed in the mosh pit throughout the show, as lead singer Kurt Cobain (left) argued with security during the performance.

COURTESY OF KIM GREENFIELD Kim Greenfield (second from right) stands with UUAB staff backstage at Fall Fest 1996. Greenfield, former-director of UUAB, was in charge of the students who brought Nirvana to campus.

“didn’t really do major stuff ” until she joined the year before.

So she took it upon herself to make her first show a large one. She said she called booking agents and asked for Cypress Hill, Pearl Jam and Nirvana, among others.

Whether through Duffy’s timing or pure luck as some suggested, Nirvana’s agents were the first to bite.

UUAB’s first bid for Nirvana was $45,000.

Agents turned it down, but after UUAB renegotiated terms and promised a “massage therapist,” it secured a full-length tour stop on North Campus.

For what would now be $78,000 due to inflation, UUAB booked a band that holds two of Rolling Stone’s top seven albums of the ’90s.

The concert was roughly the equivalent of today’s Student Association booking modern Billboard chart-toppers like Kendrick Lamar or Drake, whose booking fees max out at roughly $1 million, for 12 percent of their booking value.

She worked as a rider, or someone who shops with and transports band members for the show.

Olson said she didn’t have the privilege of transporting Cobain to UB or bringing drummer Dave Grohl to the mall, and she also didn’t have the privilege of hand-picking hundreds of green M&Ms out of bags.

But Olson drove bassist Krist Novoselic and the band’s accountant to and from the Adam’s Mark Hotel, although it did take longer than she anticipated.

“I got to the Adam’s Mark.

They went inside and I waited. And I waited. And I waited,” Olson said. “I was like ‘I’m on a schedule here, I have to get back.’”

So Olson went inside the hotel to find out what the delay was. She asked the front desk where Nirvana’s accountant was.

“They just looked at me, like, ‘We’re not going to tell you where Nirvana’s hotel rooms are,’” Olson said. “And I’m like, ‘Ah,

“They just looked at me, like, ‘We’re not going to tell you where Nirvana’s hotel rooms are.

And I’m like, ‘Ah, crap.’ We didn’t have cell phones. I didn’t have any contact information. So I had to start wandering around.”

-Anna Olson

‘Something in the Way’

Joseph Schneider, UUAB’s assistant music coordinator at the time, didn’t anticipate the challenge he was presented on Nov. 4.

Nirvana’s contract said the band’s stage had to be “as wide as the lighting was tall,” something Schneider had never seen before.

“You look at a stage and it’s usually more of a panorama: it’s really wide but the light rig is not that high off the deck,” Schneider said. “But they wanted the width of the stage to be the same as the height of the light rig.”

Schneider was also a sound engineer at the time. It was his job to climb the stage’s towers and build the light rig.

And he had to do it overnight.

The day before the show, the basketball team used Alumni to practice, which conflicted with show preparation. So Schneider and his peers started building the stage at 10 p.m. They didn’t finish until the next morning –– just hours before the concert.

“It was pretty nuts, but it looked amazing,” Schneider said. “Of all the shows that we did, one of the reasons why it was really cool is that it was a pretty well-produced tour. …

It was a non-traditional setup that the towers went up really high.”

But Nirvana couldn’t appreciate Schneider’s stage at Alumni Arena just yet. Someone had to drive the band members around.

That person was Anna Olson, then-graphic artist and production assistant for UUAB.

crap.’ We didn’t have cell phones. I didn’t have any contact information. So I had to start wandering around.”

She went up to someone in the hotel to ask again, only to find out later on that she was talking to Nirvana’s touring guitarist Pat Smear, now a member of the Grammy-winning band Foo Fighters. Smear found Olson the accountant, and Olson drove back to Alumni Arena in time for the show.

At the venue, Public Safety took extra precaution.

Officers set up metal detectors at the door and confiscated over 30 knives and four or five “hits” of LSD, according to Spectrum archives. Even during the show, security paid close attention to crowd surfers.

But the show almost went uninsured if not for William Hooley, executive director of SBI. Just two hours before Nirvana was set to perform, SBI’s insurance broker called Hooley, and said the insurance company was withdrawing the liability insurance for the concert.

The company was concerned about “injuries in the mosh pit,” according to Hooley.

The concert was already sold out, and SBI couldn’t offer a refund to 7,000 attendees, who each paid roughly $20 for entry. The refund would have costed SBI upwards of $140,000.

“I talked to the insurance company and got that person’s supervisor and basically said, ‘If you want to have a conversation about whether or not you offer liability insurance for concerts like this, we can have that discussion,’” Hooley said. “But you can’t have the discussion with me two hours before the show.”

After a “great deal of persuasion,” Hooley convinced the insurance company to keep the liability insurance.

Alumni Arena was ready for Nirvana.

‘Nevermind’ the mosh pit

When Alumni Arena’s doors opened on Nov. 5, 1993, 7,000 students piled into the venue. But many students were turned away from seeing Nirvana and opening acts Boredoms and the Meat Puppets.

“The UB fire marshall looked at how many people were on the floor and he said, ‘This is too many people, you have to stop letting people in,’” Schneider said “We were capped a little bit below the number that we were hoping to get to. Eventually, we stopped letting people in.”

In The Spectrum’s show coverage, editor

Hakeem Oseni II wrote that Nirvana turned Alumni into a “human washing machine,” as he saw sweaty students getting tossed around the general admission floor.

But he also remembered issues between Cobain and security.

In a recording of the show, the band stops performing “In Bloom” and Cobain addresses the show’s security workers, who he thought were mishandling fans.

“Hey you guys in yellow, just get out of here,” Cobain said to security employees.

“This is ridiculous. You’re completely f– –––g up everybody’s enjoyment right in the front by standing up and holding everyone by their necks. There’s nothing they can do about it. It’s not their fault.”

Cobain then walked off stage and talked with public safety employee Jordan Schlansky, who was working at the front of the stage, according to Spectrum archives.

Schlansky told The Spectrum in ’93 that he explained the situation to Cobain.

“Some fans were just trying to get on stage and Nirvana kept commenting on how unfair we were to them,” Schlansky said.

“When Kurt [Cobain] jumped off stage, I explained the situation to him and he apologized and made an announcement.”

“From now on, nobody gets on top of everybody’s shoulders and swings around if you’re not hurt because they think that’s a sign of distress and it’s just f––––g up the whole show,” Cobain said.

Public Safety arrested four people for marijuana possession, and two people were thrown out of the show, one for “swinging” at security, according to Spectrum archives.

But even with the security-related misunderstanding, Nirvana still played through its massive setlist.

In 90 minutes, the band ran through some of its biggest hits, like “Heart-Shaped Box” and “Come As You Are,” and closed out the night with a jam session to “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”

Joe Morgan, a ’95 alum, still remembers the show and said he wishes he paid closer attention 25 years ago.

“From a personal perspective, it’s one of the cooler stories that I get to tell people … especially young people,” Morgan said. “I saw Nirvana at college. That sounds kind of cool.”

“Obviously, we didn’t know that [Cobain] would [die] a few months later, and this would all just be over that fast. We didn’t know that Dave Grohl would go on to this whole other amazing career with the Foo Fighters and everything.”

Schneider, who often reflects on his time at UUAB, said he hopes his club’s concerts had a lasting impression for alumni like Morgan.

“I did not bring Nirvana to UB,” Schneider said. “I happened to be in the right place at the right time where a lot of really great things were happening with a lot of amazing people.” email: Brenton.Blanchet@ubspectrum.com twitter: @BrentBlanchSpec

COURTESY OF ANNA OLSON, CHERIE CHASE, THE SPECTRUM ARCHIVES A VIP pass, ticket stub and advertisement from Nirvana’s 1993 Alumni Arena show.

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‘Go for it’: A discussion with David Archuleta Singer talks Mariah Carey advice and new album in exclusive interview BRENTON J. BLANCHET

COURTESY OF ROBBY KLEIN American Idol alum David Archuleta released his second Christmas album, “Winter in the Air,” this month. Archuleta talked with The Spectrum about this, advice from Mariah Carey and more in an exclusive interview.

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It’s been 10 years since David Archuleta hit the American Idol stage and caught an entire country’s attention with his rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” He was a gifted teenager with a budding fanbase and the vocal chops to show for it.

In the last decade, Archuleta has seen the world, tasted pop radio success with his massive hit “Crush” and taken time off to reflect on his journey.

But 27-year-old Archuleta is still the poised and kind-hearted kid he was back in 2008, and some, according to Archuleta, think he actually still is a kid.

Celebrating the decade anniversary of his debut album, Archuleta is back with a second Christmas record “Winter in the Air.” The Spectrum talked with Archuleta about his new record, a decade in music and taking advice from some of pop music’s legends.

Q: You got your start way back and even spent some time on “Star Search” –– a show that gave young artists a platform to show off their talent. Was it nerve-wracking to put yourself out there like that at a young age?

A: Yeah. I think the hardest thing about it was cameras because, for some reason, ever since I was little, I had a camera phobia. I couldn’t stand thinking of other people looking at me. I don’t know, I just thought, ‘oh man’ and to think that people were looking at me … I didn’t think very highly of myself and how I looked and how I acted and stuff so [I thought] “I’m inconveniencing everyone with having them look at me.” So I just dreaded cameras. My friends all knew –– even up through high school –– that I wasn’t going to go in pictures. I would always run away. I’ve gotten over it now, but that was

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A: I didn’t feel that much pressure until people started telling me that that was the impression that everyone was getting. When people started interviewing me in between the shows like “Oh, so you’re the one to beat” and I’m like “what?” I didn’t even think I would get that far on the show. I went to audition because I prayed about it and I was like “there’s something I need to learn from this experience.” But from the experience of just going to audition, I didn’t think I was going to get far. Like, I’m not competitive, I hate cameras, what on earth am I doing?

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Q: On the show you met music’s biggest legends and they gave you a lot of advice. I watched back and you met Mariah Carey and she told you to push into your falsetto. And I listened to the recent Christmas record, and during your cover of “White Christmas,” you really went for that. How much time did you spend with the “mentors” and what memories do you still have of meeting Carey and the others?

A: I was only 17, but I never really learned how to use my falsetto, especially because I had my vocal paralysis. So I just never knew how to use it. Once [Carey] told me to try it and stuff, she didn’t teach me how to do it, she just said “go for it and [you’ll] figure it out how to do it.” I spent the rest of the week just practicing it. It was there. I just had to gain some confidence. Now I use it, like in “White Christmas,” I do a whole verse.

Q: The next step after Idol was your debut album, which is about to celebrate its 10th anniversary. You recently commemorated “Crush” with a viral tweet for the same reason. That was actually the first record I ever bought as a kid, and probably the only physical CD I purchased three times. How does it feel to see fans who grew up on your music?

A: It’s funny because I look at myself and I’m like, “Oh yeah, that’s right, I’m 27 now.”

And I don’t feel like I’m that old because everyone still thinks that I’m a teenager. People still ask me on the airplanes like “oh, are

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They’ll even ask for my ID at the check-in counter and also boarding onto the plane. I guess I still feel like I’m young and I guess I still like Pokemon and things like that. I meet these people and they’re like “oh my gosh, I have my kids listen to your music” and they’re like “I loved you when I was 13 and this is my daughter,” and I’m like “what?”

I’m meeting these kids and it’s like “oh my gosh, you weren’t even born when this song was out.” That’s where I freak out. I’m like “Oh my gosh, I am old.” They’ll be like “I love this old song, this old tune ‘Crush.’”

That’s an old song now? I’m glad its a cool old song for them. It makes me happy that it didn’t just die with that generation and it’s continued.

Q: I remember your last Christmas record. I really enjoyed that one, and you’ve released a new one, “Winter in the Air.” What inspired you to put out a follow-up Christmas record?

A: Christmas is my favorite holiday. Even when I was making the first Christmas album, there were so many Christmas songs that I love and I didn’t know how I could do them all. So [I knew I’d] do another Christmas album eventually. I guess I just always knew I was going to make another one. So that first one, I definitely dedicated it to being more sacred, to the true meaning of what Christmas was for me. And the second one, I still dedicated half of the album to that, but with the other half [I said] “I want to have fun with it.”

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Buffalo vs. kent state A position-to-position breakdown for a key divisional matchup

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The Bulls look to continue their fourgame win streak this week at home against the Kent State Golden Flashes.

Last week, the Bulls struggled to stop the Miami (OH) defense, but won their fourth straight game by putting on an offensive show. Buffalo (8-1, 5-0 Mid-American Conference) is to make it five-straight against Kent State (2-7, 1-4 MAC), who has struggled to win in MAC games this season. Buffalo is playing on Tuesday night for the second time and looks strong heading into the matchup. The Bulls are mostly healthy going into the game so expect big stats from Buffalo.

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Quarterback- bulls Last week junior quarterback Tyree Jackson continued his impressive year by accounting for 6 touchdowns overall. He scored three through the air and three rushing. Buffalo is averaging 248 passing yards per game versus Kent State’s sophomore quarterback Woody Barretts 212 yards per. Tyree Jackson also has 23 passing touchdowns compared to Barretts’ 10. They both have 8 interceptions, but Jackson has put up bigger numbers more consistently. Jackson’s efficiency throwing the ball will make all the difference as the Bulls have had more success on their attempts. Barrett makes use of his legs and has 455 rushing yards and 6 touchdowns compared to Jackson’s 87 yards and 5 touchdowns. Jackson has the edge overall this week, but it should be an interesting quarterback matchup.

Running Back - Pick ‘Em Both teams have had similar rushing seasons so far. Kent State has 1,598 total rushing yards whereas Buffalo has 1,557.

The Bulls do have 20 rushing touchdowns to the Flashes’ 16. The Flashes have more of a committee running attack, with 3 rushers each with over 70 attempts. The Bulls are a two-horned attack, with both freshmen running backs Kevin Marks and Jaret Patterson splitting the load with 113 attempts each and 7 touchdowns for Marks and 8 for Patterson. Both teams excel in the rushing game, with the Flashes using it more in their offense with their quarterback over 100 attempts.

Women’s basketball junior forward Summer Hemphill was ruled ineligible to compete during the fall semester, announced on Thursday night by UB Athletics.

Hemphill, a social sciences major, failed to uphold institutional academic rules and was declared academically ineligible.

Hemphill was poised for her best season as a Bull, despite having a career year in 2017-18. As a starter on the Bulls team that went to the Sweet 16, Hemphill led the Bulls with 7.3 rebounds per game and finished fourth in points per game with 10.1.

Against Ohio, Hemphill broke the school record in rebounds with 23 on Feb. 24.

In Thursday night’s opening exhibition against Bloomsburg, Hemphill was replaced in the starting lineup by senior forward Courtney Wilkins. The Bulls would still defeat Bloomsburg 94-53, with senior guard Cierra Dillard accounting for 27 points.

Hemphill will now miss the majority of the non-conference schedule. Hemphill along with Dillard were named to the preseason All-Mid-American Conference team a day prior to the announcement. Hemphill was also named to the All Big-4 first team Friday.

Hemphill will be eligible to return at the conclusion of the fall semester on Dec. 18.

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Wide Receiver - Bulls The Bulls take this matchup with star senior receiver Anthony Johnson coming off his best performance of the season with 8 receptions for 238 yards and 3 touchdowns. Johnson along with junior receiver KJ Osborn, are averaging over 16 yards per catch to form a deadly pairing that worries opposing defenses. Both Johnson and Osborn have over 650 receiving yards, whereas the Flashes don’t have a single receiver over 500 yards. The Flashes leading receiver junior Mike Carrigan, leads his team with 417 yards. The Bulls have the edge in this matchup with a healthy Johnson against the Flashes.

Coaches – Bulls Head coach Lance Leipold looks to continue the team’s win streak against an opponent that has struggled this year from the start. The Bulls are looking dominant since their loss to the Army Black Knights (7-2) at the end of September. Buffalo has scored over 30 points in 3 of the past 4 games. Kent State’s coach Sean Lewis has struggled to lead his team to many wins going 2-7 in his first year as head coach.

His team has struggled to score the ball and against a good defense, something Buffalo has shown despite last week’s performance. With the Bulls offense looking in top form, it may be an ugly affair on Tuesday night for Lewis.

Defense - Bulls The Bulls have looked solid this season

MADISON MEYER | THE SPECTRUM Junior forward Summer Hemphill lays it in.

Hemphill will miss the majority of non-conference play after being ruled academically ineligible.

WAYNE PENALES | THE SPECTRUM The Bulls celebrate after a match by putting up the “UB horns up” hand gesture. Buffalo went 2-0 this weekend with back-to-back sweeps at home.

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Buffalo volleyball is now in first-round bye contention following back-to-back sweeps this weekend.

The Bulls went 3-0 against the Kent State Golden Flashes (13-15, 6-8 Mid-American Conference) and the Ohio Bobcats (1215, 7-7 MAC) in MAC playoff-deciding games. Buffalo saw solid play across the court, with multiple players having good

on defense, ranking second in the MAC in total defense. The Bulls defense is led by senior linebacker Khalil Hodge who has 111 tackles this season ranking fifth in the nation and 2 sacks this season. The Flashes are a below-average defense, ranking 11th in the MAC, allowing 34.2 points per game. The Flashes have struggled to stop offenses and have a long day awaiting them against the Bulls. email: sports@ubspectrum.com twitter: @UBSpecSports

performances throughout the weekend.

Buffalo was 2-4 in the MAC at the start of October, going winless at home during that stretch. Since, the Bulls have gone 6-2 and currently have a three-game win streak. The Bulls were ranked fifth in the East Division before the weekend but have now passed Ohio as the third-ranked team.

UB is now tied for fourth in the MAC with the Northern Illinois Huskies (10-19,

WAYNE PENALES | THE SPECTRUM Senior linebacker Khalil Hodge walks toward the sidelines after a targeting penalty. Hodge will miss the first half of the game against Kent State due to the penalty.

8-6 MAC) and the Eastern Michigan Eagles (16-12, 8-6). Whoever finishes fourth will receive a first-round bye in the MAC championship tournament. If Buffalo can’t win its last two games of the regular season, the Bulls will not have a firstround bye, having beaten both teams during the MAC season.

Buffalo’s first 3-0 win of the weekend came Friday against the Golden Flashes, going 25-17, 25-14, 25-18 in sets. The game included a standout performance from sophomore setter Tia Gleason who had 34 assist and 8 digs. Gleason would end with more assists than the Flashes had combined.

The Bulls returned to Alumni Arena Saturday to beat the Bobcats 25-14, 2511, 25-20 in sets. The Bulls would play a tight game, only having 9 errors in the three sets. Gleason would follow up with a 41-assist performance, once again having more assists than the opposing team.

Junior outside hitter Rachel Sanks led the offense with 16 kills on 27 attempts.

The Bulls play their last home game of the season against the last-in-MAC Akron Zips (11-14, 3-11 MAC), Thursday at 7 p.m. email: sports@ubspectrum.com twitter: @UBSpecSports