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Helping with ‘Hugs’
Actions speak louder than words
UB student creates organization to help primary school children in Tanzania
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Hate InFocus discuses hate speech and actions DEVIN KOLLURU
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Tyler Choi, a sophomore political science major, is the creator of Hugs for Tanzania, a nonprofit organization that has donated school supplies and other contributions to primary schools in Tanzania. Tyler Choi raised over 2,000 school supplies and $1,000 in donations. He made 230 bags with school supplies and gave them to the principal of the primary school on his second trip to Tanzania. COURTESY OF TYLER CHOI
GABRIELA JULIA SENIOR FEATURES EDITOR One night in Tarime, Tanzania, Tyler Choi was having dinner with his fellow UB study abroad students. He noticed his driver, Peter, was not allowed to sit at their table. Peter was a native Tanzanian. Choi, a Korean-American, was considered of a higher class. Choi picked up his plate and went to sit at Peter’s table. Choi, a sophomore political science major, is the creator of Helping You Grow Stronger (Hugs) for Tanzania, a nonprofit organization that “envisions the world where individuals can act upon their blessings and gifts,” Choi said. Choi is the director of the judicial branch of Hugs in the Buffalo area. The mission of Hugs is to not only help improve the living conditions of people in Tanzania, but also to empower the youth in the United States by creating positive global change, Choi said. “There’s a saying that goes, ‘In return for their friendship, I want to share their stories so that they wouldn’t be forgotten from this world,’” Choi said. Choi is doing just that with Hugs for Tanzania. Choi went to Tanzania for the first time through a UB Study Abroad program in January 2014. Getting off the plane in Tanzania, he didn’t know what to expect. He had only seen the realities of developing nations in documentaries. One day, Choi saw two 3-year-old children fetching water for their family. Choi watched them smiling and laughing
as they played in the filthy water. This image stayed with him. In the countryside of Tarime, a district in East Africa, the tallest building is only four stories high. All the other buildings are made out of mud. Children walk around the city with no shoes – Choi could see the dirt on their hands and feet. Even the food and water in Tanzania were dangerous. Choi and the other UB students weren’t allowed to eat fruits and vegetables unless they were cooked and couldn’t drink water unless it came from a sealed bottle. Memories of Peter, the children fetching infested water and the dangerous food made Choi want to return, but he wouldn’t come back with nothing. Outlining his mission The first thing Choi did when he came to Buffalo after his study abroad trip was tell his friends, family and UB faculty members about Peter’s story. Peter was a 32-year-old man who belonged to a tribe where the marrying age was 18. But to get married, the groom must exchange a cow for a wife. Peter did not have the money to purchase the cow because he was supporting
SA’s new platform SA launches new website after years of outdated, confusing site TOM DINKI
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Student Association President James Ingram has seen almost every SA presidential candidate promise to upgrade the organization’s website in his time at UB. Campaign platforms to fix the site have gone unfilled over the past several years. The website frequently featured out-ofdate information about clubs and contact information, has been difficult to navigate
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his younger siblings’ education. He never went to high school and became a driver so that his siblings could go to school instead. Choi wanted to help people like Peter get back into school – that’s when he first thought about creating Hugs. In the spring of 2014, Choi met Joel Bervell, a sophomore at Yale University. Bervell had started his own nonprofit, Hugs for Ghana, when he was a freshman in high school. The program has raised thousands of dollars over the past six years. Choi hoped to do the same for Tanzania. “Children walk miles and miles to get water and don’t know when their next meal is going to be,” Choi said. “They can’t afford to go to school and it’s only about six U.S. dollars a year.” Last spring, at Dodge Elementary School in Williamsville, while working with the Just for Kids afterschool program, students asked Choi what he wanted to be when he grows up. But he didn’t know how to explain the United Nations to a class of second graders. So, he told them a story about the children he met in Tanzania.
and staff members could not update the site themselves. After years of difficulty, SA finally has a new website Ingram calls “simple, userfriendly and easy to maintain.” SA officially launched its new website, which was created by SA Entertainment Coordinator Marc Rosenblitt using a Joomla content management system, on March 18. The final price is still being determined but Ingram said the new site would cost SA around $9,000. He said the only future cost would be paying an SA staff member to update and maintain the site. The new site features up-to-date contact information for clubs, as well as a calendar of upcoming SA sponsored events. Ingram and Rosenblitt said the new site will allow SA to more easily update information, as well as add on new features at a low cost. “To me, it was just obvious our old website wasn’t meeting the needs we had as a Student Association,” Ingram said. “It just kind of came up this year that we were able to find a good person to do it and at a price that was going to be affordable for us.”
The Chabad House plans to host around 200 students this weekend for Passover
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Carl Nightingale said Donald Sterling’s alleged racist real estate practices should have gotten the former Los Angeles Clippers owner banned from the NBA – not his racist comments. Nightingale, a transnational studies professor, wants students to be able to distinguish between hate speech and actions so he led an InFocus discussion on racism Friday afternoon in Capen Hall. Nightingale moderated the InFocus discussion, entitled “Hate InFocus: How Race, Religion, and Class Fuel Intolerance and Murder in ‘Multicultural’ America,” during which students discussed incidents from Sterling’s comments to the viral video of a University of Oklahoma fraternity chanting a racial slur. InFocus is a forum organized by Student Life, the Honors College and International Student and Scholar Services. Nightingale said hate crimes occur in a progression of stages: from thoughts and emotions to expression of hate as speech to the act of performing hate crimes and finally to institutionalizing it. He said discriminatory practices should anger people and cause changes more than racist speech, and that people should react more to Sterling’s actions in real estate than his racist comments because many minorities were affected in looking for homes. The Justice Department filed a lawsuit in 2006 that accused Sterling’s rental company of refusing to lease Beverly Hills apartments to black people. Sterling paid $3 million in a court settlement in 2009. But he wasn’t banned from the NBA for life until 2014 after audio surfaced of him claiming he did not want black people to attend Clippers’ games and that he was upset his girlfriend, V Stiviano, took a photo with NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson, who is black. Nightingale opened up the conversation with a quote from an essay NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabaar wrote for Time Magazine. SEE INFOCUS, PAGE 4
Student Association President James Ingram shows off SA’s new website, which launched March 18. SA spent $9,000 to create a new website that would include more up-to-date information and would be easier to navigate. YUSONG SHI, THE SPECTRUM
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OPINION Housing lottery should reward the responsible, not the lucky UB’s current system simply isn’t as fair as it could be As a large university with multiple campuses, UB boasts a multitude of housing options – but not enough that a simple matter of bad luck can’t leave students with little choice in their living situation. The 7,000-plus students who live in residence halls and on-campus apartments at UB rely on a lottery system to determine their fate, their commutes to classes and who they’ll be sharing a small room with every year. When it comes time to choose (“choose” being a relative term in this circumstance) the lottery system randomly assigns students reservation numbers. The only factor UB uses for designating lottery numbers is seniority – the students who’ve lived on campus the longest get the best numbers. This may make sense and seem fair, except even among students with seniority, placement is still determined by nothing but luck – or
lack thereof. This system is simply too basic – it may be easy to understand but that’s because it’s uncreative and inflexible. A lottery not only leaves too much up to chance, but it causes complicated situations for students looking to live together in larger groups. And there is no shortage of solutions to this issue. UB’s housing office needs to accept that there’s a problem and open its eyes to the variety of options for more effective and adaptable systems. One potential system is “first come, first serve,” which puts control in students’ hands. The students who submit their housing deposits early would get first dibs on housing. This system would still easily generate a numbered list, but it would be ordered by the student’s actions, not an algorithm. Of course, this system calls into question the equity of basing something as important as housing selection on students’ economic resources. Students who can pay immediately may do so because they’re organized, responsible and remember
to sign up – this behavior should be rewarded. But there are many students who simply can’t scrape together the $300 deposit early. Those students shouldn’t be denied a chance at better housing. A “first come, first serve” system would also be complicated by students who receive scholarships and financial aid. Despite the few complications in the system, UB could do some troubleshooting and creative thinking to make the system work. UB could also consider using a student’s GPA or amount of earned credits to determine their housing priority number. By basing a student’s position on the housing list on merits, rather than economic status, the system would be more equitable and organized. Students who work harder in class should be rewarded with better housing. But any system has issues – many students have the same GPA and the same number of credits, so a tie breaking system would need to be generated. And UB’s system of roommate assignments is even more random and problematic. UB did away with its roommate preference questionnaire, claiming too many parents were filling out the form for their children. So instead of risking a few incorrectly filled out forms, UB is using an algorithm to match nearly 7,000 students. Unsurprisingly, not every-
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one is happy. Students entering college likely don’t know too many other students and among all the other requirements to start at UB, trolling the UB class Facebook pages for a good roommate is too time-consuming. It shouldn’t be solely up to the students, or an algorithm, to match roommates. Simply, UB needs to re-instate a questionnaire form, and while they’re not perfect or foolproof, it would reduce the amount of students living in undesirable situations. The excuse that too many parents were completing the form is weak and unsubstantiated. By giving students the opportunity to say they’d like to live with someone who has a regular sleeping schedule, who studies something similar to them or who can converse in their native tongue together, UB would allow students some control over their living situation. Certainly a modified system may present some short-term challenges, but UB could do a little bit of research and work – like every other college has to – to come up with a system that rewards responsible students. The current lottery system and lack of a roommate preference form is the easy way out for UB – they just have to switch on a computer, sit back and let students’ fates be decided by an algorithm. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com
Without enforcement, UB’s no smoking policy accomplishes little With a variety of potential solutions, administration needs to commit to an improved system The sight of students brazenly smoking on campus, exhaling smoke clouds directly in front of the many “No smoking” signs that dot UB’s facilities, is an ironic but not uncommon sight. More than that, it’s a scene that demonstrates the current ineffectiveness of UB’s prohibition of smoking on campus. The policy is backed by good intentions, but little else – it’s a rule without any real repercussions, and certainly no respect of the students. That’s why we support the Student Association Assembly’s move to create a task force to look into the unenforceable policy. Regardless of where you sit on the issue – that smokers should be free to smoke on campus or the policy should come with repercussions for those who don’t abide – a taskforce is at least a step toward something more functional. Though the health risks of smoking and the irritation of secondhand smoke are generally accepted, little else offers easy agreement. When it comes to UB’s current no-smoking policy, UBreathe Free, which bans smoking on all UB-managed property, both its legality and its feasibility come into question. SUNY encourages its 64 campuses to be smoke-free and provides funding for them to do so. There was legislation introduced in 2012 to make it illegal to smoke on SUNY campuses, but it died in committee. This imposition of a complete ban on the practice does seem harsh to some because, given the size of the campuses, smokers have to travel quite a distance to smoke off property. When it’s that challenging to fol-
low the rules, it’s far less likely the rules are going to be respected. But to those who vehemently oppose the habit of smoking, it may seem fair that smokers are inconvenienced. Although smoking is legal, it can also be argued smokers have no specific rights either and UB is completely justified in prohibiting smoking. Here lies the conundrum. It matters little, however, if UB’s ban is fair or not when that ban is simply not enforced. It essentially doesn’t exist. As seen by the minimal effect it’s had on the presence – and odor – of cigarette smoke floating in the air along the Spine. UB cannot reprimand its employees for smoking unless it’s written into the various union contracts. The university has decided not to punish students if it cannot do the same to the faculty and staff – which is the fair and logical choice. But that stance has also led to the current issue of a smoke-free policy that does little to stop smoking. A complete ban with repercussions sounds like a good idea – it’s simple, assertive and for non-smokers who are bothered by secondhand smoke, the ideal solution. But ideology aside, a ban in name only does nothing to improve the situation, so UB should swallow its pride and compromise. Enforcing an absolute ban seems like a waste of resources and energy, and although it could contribute to a healthier, more beautified atmosphere, it’s not worth the hostility and close policing that would be required for effective enforcement of such a strict – although justified – rule. Instead, UB should modify its policy to meet in the middle – create a rule that satisfies non-smokers’ desire for a smoke-free envi-
So what we get drunk Article suggests alcohol intake leads to lower probability of graduation
RACHEL KRAMER
MANAGING EDITOR
Increased drinking during your senior year leads to a lower probability that you’ll graduate, according to a UB Reporter article about a study conducted through the UB psychology department. Except that’s not true. As a senior with an active social life, who
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ronment that doesn’t insult smokers by offering no feasible way to follow the rule. Designated smoking areas would be an ideal compromise for this campus. Although it is impossible to contain tobacco smoke, if it was contained to a handful of areas that are easily accessible for smokers but also easy for non-smokers to avoid, then their experience on campus would be essentially smoke-free and certainly more so than it is currently. This stance would also return cigarette butt containers to campus, which have been absent since the smoke-free policy went into affect. While it’s understandable the university does not want to send a mixed message by providing butt
containers on a smoke-free campus, this has led to a further littering of butts, which can be harmful to the environment. Smokers would experience mild inconvenience with designated smoking spots that may not be close to them – but it’s still a lesser one than an enforced absolute ban would cause. Seeing that UB was willing to offer some resource to meet smokers’ needs would make smokers more amenable to following the policy. In this case, principles simply can’t compare to practicality – UB needs to show some flexibility to work on a solution that’s legal, feasible and acceptable to everyone.
is graduating with honors in May, I questioned the validity of this statement. The study, “The Role of Goals and Alcohol Behavior During the Transition out of College” conducted by Sharon A. Radomski, a psychology graduate student, UB professors Jennifer P. Read and Julie C. Bowker “examined whether and how changes in drinking over senior year moderate the association between achievement goals and related developmental task attainment as students move toward transitioning out of college,” according to the study’s abstract. Basically, will increased drinking
during your senior year – when you’re finally legally able to buy your own beer – decrease the likelihood you will graduate on time and achieve your career goals? The study followed a mere 437 students, who were selected out of a larger study investigating trauma and substance abuse. Out of that statistically insignificant sample of about 21 million college students in the United States, 75 students were represented as unemployed after their senior year – not achieving their career goal. Based off that ratio, that’s .0000036 percent of college students in America.
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Continued from InFocus, page 1 “[Donald Sterling] was discriminating against black and Hispanic families for years, preventing them from getting housing,” Abdul-Jabaar said. “It was public record. We did nothing. Suddenly he says he doesn’t want his girlfriend posing with Magic Johnson on Instagram and we bring out the torches and rope. Shouldn’t we have called for his resignation back then?” Discrimination has been well documented in different institutions like in real estate, according to Nightingale. He said black people and white people are segregated in neighborhoods and cities, as well as in how banks and the federal government deal with people of different races. The discussion also focused on the viral video showing Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members at the University of Oklahoma chanting a racist slur that surfaced online earlier this month. Kevin Appiah-Kubi, a sophomore political science major, voiced concerns at the meeting that the racism and mentality of the fraternity members will be institutionalized as they go on to their future careers. “These people will be your future lawyers, congressman, your policemen,” he said. Nightingale posed ethical questions to the group about the incident, racist comments in general and how they compare to actual hate crimes. “Is speech strong enough to be an act?” Nightingale said. “Does it create hostility? Did the incident of the Oklahoma [fraternity] students undermine the entire university? Did they have a right to free speech and were covered under the constitution?” The group also discussed the three Muslim North Carolina students Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, who were allegedly shot and killed by their neighbor, Craig Hicks, in what police originally ruled a dispute over parking but what many feel was a crime motivated by Hicks’ hate for the
students’ religion. One student at the discussion, whose children were of multiracial ethnicity, said people being in an environment with diversity and having multicultural experiences would allow them to have tolerance and acceptance of others. Patricia Johnson, a junior chemistry major, said she believes students are all in agreement that hate crimes are immoral. Students also discussed racism in the age of the Internet and social media. Some members of the group said people sometimes jump to conclusions about instances without having all the information. One student said people take action against others without having the truth of the matter, like the story of a brutal gang rape by a fraternity at the University of Virginia that was
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Dr. Carl Nightingale from Transnational Studies led the discussion on the rash of assaults and ‘hate crimes’ across the world. InFocus is a monthly series of student-orientated, informal conversations on today’s hot topics.
published by Rolling Stone Magazine and later discredited. A student at the discussion said that changes occur after having critical conversations on a small scale, such as the InFocus discussions. Nightingale said it is big political movements that will make changes happen. email: news@ubspectrum.com
A local company using proprietary software designed the previous site, but it had stopped supporting the site. Ingram said the software was too complicated for SA staff members to update themselves, and they had to go through the company any time the site needed to be changed or updated. The result: a website that was overly complex, hard to navigate and loaded with information that was either outdated or unnecessary, according to Ingram. “It was fairly obvious we needed to change,” he said. Ingram said he did not promise to update the website while campaigning last spring because previous candidates had and were never were able to come through. Nick Johns told The Spectrum during his endorsement speech in 2013 he would make the site “10 times better.” He resigned as SA president less than a month into his first semester as president amid allegations he mishandled funds and mistreated staff. But over winter break, Ingram began speaking with Rosenblitt about the possibility of creating a new site. Rosenblitt has maintained SA’s information technology systems for the past 15 years and has created websites for several different local law firms. He said he usually makes one website per year. Ingram said Rosenblitt worked on the site outside of SA duties, including evenings and when he was not in the SA office. “Marc already had a good understanding of what the SA website would need,” Ingram said. “So he was able to develop a good product for us.” Rosenblitt said the Joomla template offers a wide range of plug-ins and add-ons that cost anywhere from $10 to $99. SA Assembly has been discussing the possibility of creating a petition website for students, and that function could now possibly be served as an add-on to the new site, according to Ingram and Rosenblitt. “You can really make customized modifications to this website across the board and you’re really only limited by your own imagination,” Rosenblitt said. The site is simple to use so all SA staff members will be able to update it themselves, according to Ingram. Ingram said he is not a “strong computer person,” but even he is able to easily log on to the site and make changes without coding knowledge. He also said Joomla was a common content management system so there was a good chance someone on next year’s e-board will already be familiar with the template. Accessing the website will allow club members to post their current contact and event information, which was an issue in the past. Students would sometimes log onto the old SA website and see contact information for clubs that was out of date. Rosenblitt said some of the information on the previous site was up to three or four years old. “That’s always a big concern. Students are like, ‘OK, I want to join this club but who do I reach out to?’ So that will be right on the website,” Ingram said. Ingram said there are still some “kinks” to workout with the site, including style changes and programming, but he expects the site to be completely finished within a few days. email: news@ubspectrum.com
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Preparing for Pesach Chabad House of Buffalo prepares for the eight-day Jewish holiday TORI ROSEMAN SENIOR ARTS EDITOR Rabbi Moshe Gurary and his wife, Rivka, start preparing food for Passover 10 days before the first Seder. From crushing up potato chips for breading to hard-boiling enough eggs, the couple must prepare enough food for some of UB’s Jewish population to come and celebrate the holiday. Passover, or Pesach, is the eight-day festival that commemorates the emancipation of Israeli slaves from Egyptian rule. This year, the holiday begins on Friday, April 3 and lasts until April 11. The rabbi and his wife prepare every year to have students come for the Passover Seder, the traditional feast, to start the holiday. The Chabad House of Buffalo expects between 150 and 200 students for their Friday night Seder, and between 100 and 150 Saturday night. “Unfortunately, because of schoolwork, many students cannot go home for the holiday, so we provide students with a family atmosphere,” Rabbi Gurary said. “The motto of the Chabad is that it’s a home away from home. We aren’t like any organization or club
at the school.” Ilana Saffeir, a senior health and human services major, loves going to The Chabad because she “gets to spend time with my friends, who have become more like family because we go to the Chabad regularly,” she said. The holiday centers on the re-telling of the story of Passover from the Book of Exodus. The story follows Moses, the Israelite who told the Egyptian pharaoh to let his people go. When the pharaoh said no, a plague fell upon the land for 10 days. After the 10th day of the plague, the pharaoh told the Israelites to leave before he changed his mind, and before the city was ravaged from the pandemic. In their haste, the Hebrews did not bake their bread; rather, they carried the dough on their backs and let the sun bake it into a hard, cracker-like food. This is where matzo, a traditional Passover food, comes from. Other foods at the Passover Seder are intended to represent elements of the story. Charoset, a combination of chopped apples, walnuts and wine represent bricks and mortar and how hard the Hebrews worked. “Everything has to be made from scratch. I can’t use rice or flour, so I can’t use anything that’s ready-made. I have to crush up potato chips by hand to bread things, because I can’t just buy bread crumbs,” Rivka said. To prepare for the Seder, the couple must set up tables, make the food and plan out how everything will be served. Their kitchen must be prepared in advance for three days, while everything is cleaned and cooking materials, plates, cups and silverware are replaced to keep them kosher for Passover
Continued from alcohol, page 3 What the UB reporter article failed to report from the study’s findings was that for students who placed a high value on their goal attainment, drinking didn’t play a significant role in the outcome of achieving those goals. “The association between goals and [education] attainment was not [statistically] significantly different from zero from those whose drinking increased during their senior year,” the study said. Shocking – students who have strong academic values are able to handle drinking and completing their education at the same time. Although it is important to study the reasons college students are not successful after graduation, alcohol isn’t the answer. Seniors are typically 21-22 years old. One of this study’s main points was at this
pivotal period “at the juncture between adolescence and adulthood” where we “begin the process of coming into [our] own as independent adults,” we should drink less in order to stay more focused on our developmental tasks and individual identity formation. “Drinking may be interfering with who they’re becoming as adults. And that’s a big problem, one that has been grossly overlooked in the research so far,” said one of the study’s co-authors Jennifer Read, professor of psychology, in the UB reporter article. The United States’ legal drinking age is ridiculously high because according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. government, 21 years old is the age our brains are fully developed and won’t be damaged by consumption of a beer. But now, apparently, our brains
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– never having touched leavened bread. “We provide Haggadahs and matzo for everyone,” Rabbi Gurary said. “We will be having a traditional Seder that’s geared towards students, because that’s who we serve. Synagogues may gear their Seders towards family, but we mostly see students.” The Chabad House doesn’t just host a Seder on the first two nights. Throughout the week of Passover, their doors are open between 6-9 p.m. for students to come and have a home-cooked, kosher-forPassover meal. Saffeir takes advantage of this and uses the Chabad meals to help keep her Kosher. “On campus, there just aren’t really options for students trying to observe,” Rivka said. “It’s very informal, but we have food prepared for students to come in and have a meal. Some people stay and eat, others just pick it up and leave because they are so busy with school.” Hillel of Buffalo also has a Seder Friday night. They have a space in the Student Union and bring in traditional kosher-forPassover food. Their Seder is led and run by students. But not everyone stays in Buffalo for the holiday. For senior engineering major Sarah Jacobowitz, she said it’s important to spend time
aren’t developed enough to help us graduate and achieve our “goals.” But don’t worry; the study has a solution for us. “Findings suggest that interventions aimed at bolstering personal goals and reducing drinking during senior year may increase the likelihood of successful transitions out of the college environment.” I don’t disagree with the study’s idea that college is a pivotal time for young adults and yes, some students will have trouble transitioning between the college lifestyle into the real world. But telling seniors to stop drinking with their friends isn’t the way to help them be successful. A school-wide intervention isn’t going to help seniors’ transition out of the college environment. As someone who is currently working on that transition, a cover letter workshop would be more useful. To suggest wasting resources on instilling sobriety into newly legal college stu-
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YUSONG SHI, THE SPECTRUM Rivka Gurary, wife of Rabbi Moshe Gurary of The Chabad House of Buffalo, prepares Rosh Hashanah dinner for over 300 expected guests. Rivka and her husband will also be preparing food for some of UB’s Jewish population to come and celebrate the eight-day Jewish holiday of Passover.
with her family. “It was always a tradition to get together for the Seders and celebrate the holiday,” Jacobowitz said. “Finally, it fell on a weekend so I have the opportunity to go home and be with my family.” Religious or not, the Chabad House gives students the option to celebrate the holiday in a comfortable and open atmosphere. email: arts@ubspectrum.com
dents is laughable, especially when the study only followed the alcohol consumption patterns of 437 students - .00002 percent of the United States’ college population. The study boasts being the first one of its kind to examine the role alcohol plays on goal achievement. While this is a great area of psychology to explore, conclusions shouldn’t be made yet. It’s possible that some, non-goal oriented students can get sucked into the alcoholic vortex this study portrays college as. But maybe those students weren’t mature enough to attend college in the first place and I’m sure it’s not only their senior year drinking habits that caused them not to achieve their goals and graduate on time. There are many factors surrounding this topic and it’s just not fair for UB Reporter to tell me to “celebrate senior year without celebrating,” as the headline of its article states. email: rachel.kramer@ubspectrum.com
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Continued from Hugs, page 1 “I told them, ‘I have friends living in Africa and they are a lot like you,’” Choi said. “‘But they don’t know when their next meal will be and can’t go to school. Your parents give you breakfast and you can play on the playground. I want to give my friends a chance to live like you.’” Immediately, second-grade hands went up in the air asking what they could do to help. At that moment, Choi realized the children had potential to help. Their excitement inspired Choi to follow through with Hugs for Tanzania. The return to Tanzania On a Monday night last October, Choi had a panic attack. He wasn’t sure if he could pull Hugs off and was afraid to disappoint all the people counting on him. But with the support of his friends and the memory of Peter to guide him, Choi made a plan. He decided to start with helping the primary school he visited on his first trip to Tanzania. He made a promotional video and people donated 2,000 items of school supplies. He raised more than $1,000 that went to shipping the supplies to the school. Choi was “fascinated by how quickly the stars aligned.” He made 230 individual bags with pencils, pens, a highlighter, eraser and snacks. He packed it in a suitcase and on his second trip to Tanzania, he gave it to the principal of the elementary school. “Being in Tanzania and seeing them get so excited over common everyday items we can get from any drug store was a humbling experience,” said Allen Liu, a senior political science and legal studies major. Liu went to Tanzania this past winter with Choi and plans to go back to help more, even though he is graduating this semester. “What Tyler is doing is amazing,” Liu said. “He didn’t go to Europe to see the attractions but instead went to Africa and it impacted him so heavily.” The look on the children’s faces as they received the school supplies assured Choi that his dream had finally come true. Life in Korea and Seattle Choi never imagined he’d start something as big as Hugs when he first moved to the United States. Choi was born in Korea and came to the United States when he was 3 years old. His parents moved back to Korea when Choi was in second grade. Then, during his junior
According to Choi, the mission of Hugs is to not only help improve the living conditions of people in Tanzania, but also to empower the youth in the United States by creating positive global change. COURTESY OF TYLER CHOI
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year of high school, his parents moved to Seattle, Washington. After being in Korea for 10 years, he was terrified of the idea of adapting to a new culture. In Korea, classes went from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and he spent most of the school day in math and science classes. Then, after the school day ended, Choi went to tutoring sessions, leaving him almost no time to see his family. When he moved to Seattle, classes ended at 2 p.m. He was introduced to school dances, classes outside of math and science and the freedom to find his passion – eventually working for the United Nations. But with all his newfound free time, Choi couldn’t just sit back and relax. “When you step out of your comfort zone, so much will happen to you that you would never expect,” Choi said. Choi was involved in theater, choir, was on the swim team, participated in community service clubs and took on student leadership clubs. Choi even ran for school executive elections. Neither he nor his family thought he would win, but he came out on top. “Tyler doesn’t start things he won’t finish,
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geared our generation in a certain direction,” Choi said. “It forces us to think there are only certain majors or education systems that lead you to success.” Choi said it’s not only adults or educated people who can help those in need. “I want to tell people that they don’t need a crazy background, an insane amount of talent or a whole lot of money to share, inspire and empower the less fortunate,” Choi said. Choi emphasizes that working with Hugs also helps empower students in the United States as they work to create positive change. And it’s easy to do so, according to Choi and Liu. Liu said students should go through their dorms and bedrooms and donate items they no longer need. “A pen with no ink will be used to its end in Tanzania,” Liu said. Cantlon has never been to Tanzania but has watched Hugs grow over the past year. “Even though the organization is still at its ground level, it has already made an incredible impact,” Cantlon said. “I know for a fact that Hugs for Tanzania will be brought to new heights and be able to help children all over Tanzania and other parts of the world.” Cantlon said she hopes to visit Tanzania some day. “This organization is a representation of things that many of us have taken for granted … These resources can make a difference to others,” Cantlon said. Being in Tanzania clarified what Choi wants to do for the rest of his life. He always wanted to work in the global field and be a part of the United Nations. After this year’s trip, all he can think about is what’s next. After graduation, Choi hopes to attend Georgetown School of Foreign Service. He wants to feed his “adventurous” soul and find a story in every developing nation. As for short-term, Choi hopes that because of Hugs for Tanzania, he can soon tell his friend Peter that he can go back to school. email: gabriela.julia@ubspectrum.com
Continued from Burns, page 8 Burns is nationally ranked in the top eight for the 100-meter freestyle race and in the top 12 for the 50-meter freestyle among freshmen – the two races she primarily competes in, according to Bashor. Burns said she prefers to swim the 100-meter races because “the 50 is too quick.” “If I’m going to beat someone, I want it to be by a couple seconds, not by milliseconds,” Burns said. Burns said her success felt great, mainly because she was finally satisfied with her results in the pool due to motivation and increased effort. “I never tried very hard before, and never did as well as I wanted,” Burns said. “Now that I’ve seen my results at UB, I know that I can go farther. Ultimately, I want to make the Olympic trial in the 100- and 50-meter freestyle next year. More importantly, I want to win at the conference championship again and reclaim my titles.” Burns’ mother said Bashor’s efforts have allowed her daughter to blossom into the swimmer who finished with an undefeated season. Burns led the team in both the 50 and 100 freestyle in her freshman campaign, finishing with 22.66 and 49.04 times,
respectively. But Bashor said that she could have an even better sophomore campaign. Bashor said that Burns will be a “young star” and she will continue to grow stronger and her training will carry over into the pool. Last season, Bashor said she nearly qualified for the highest level of NCAA Division-I swimming. “She has the ability to make NCAA A-cut times. In the 100 free she missed it by about .016 of a second,” Bashor said. “The potential is there, but her getting to that next level depends on the way she approaches things this spring and summer, and she’s right there. She needs to keep progressing the way she has.” Burns’ season has motivated her to be more than perfection among current swimmers. She wants to be the best swimmer in Buffalo history. She said she is determined to break the school time records for both the 50 and 100-meter races before she graduates. “I will break records,” Burns said. “And I will try to be better than any swimmer before I graduate.” email: sports@ubspectrum.com
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SPORTS Just keep swimming Megan Burns’ last-minute choice to swim in college culminated in a 52-0 freshman year BOBBY MCINTOSH ASST. SPORTS EDITOR
Megan Burns wasn’t planning on swimming after high school. She admits she was lazy. Her mom pushed her toward the pool. She was a talented swimmer – but she didn’t have motivation. Burns, now a freshman on UB’s swimming and diving team with an undefeated season, planned on spending her summer before college outside the pool lifeguarding. This doesn’t seem to match the profile of someone who now aspires to make it to the Olympics. But Burns found her stride at UB – she found her passion. Her decision to continue swimming after high school – a choice she almost didn’t make – has led her to an individual perfect 52-0 season. She’s on track to become one of the best players in program history, but there was a while when Burns was still in high school her ambition dwindled. Burns needed her mother’s encouragement to continue swimming after high school. There were multiple times when Burns was ready to quit. “It was just laziness. I didn’t care, I never had to work hard to get good grades or good results in the pool,” Burns said. “But for my first three years, I did – it just kind of happened. There was no particular reason why I wasn’t interested; I was just lazy. Yet, my mom nagged me to work hard every day. ” Now there’s a different kind of Burns in the pool: In the 2015 Mid-American Conference championship, Burns took first place in both the 50-meter freestyle and the 100-meter freestyle, culminating in her perfect 52-0 season. But Burns wasn’t even sure she would commit on the first day. The summer after graduating high school, Burns spent most of her time lifeguarding. Burns, who was content with being poolside
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Megan Burns stands with her hands raised in celebration after winning the 100-meter relay at the swimming and diving MAC Championships last February. The victory was part of a perfect 52-0 season for the freshman.
for the summer, wanted to stop competitive swimming completely. Burns said competitive swimming felt like a hassle beginning at 8 years old. She didn’t have many friends in the pool. Even as she grew older and became more acquainted with the other swimmers, she still lacked
motivation to put in her best effort. “I didn’t like swimming as much as I do now,” Burns said. “I didn’t know if I wanted to spend another four years in the sport. It was more of a job and I didn’t like going to practice. It took away from my free time. It was a lot more of a hassle than it was fun.” Her parents, Jon and Kim Burns, said their daughter had contracted a severe case of “senioritis.” “She didn’t really try senior year,” Kim said. “She didn’t do her homework, didn’t study … she didn’t really care. She wasn’t failing, but she wasn’t putting much effort in – during school or swimming.” But she still excelled on her swim team at
Rush Henrietta Sperry High School. Burns earned a spot on the All-Greater Rochester team and was named the team MVP. During her senior year, her team qualified for the state tournament and she won Sportsman of the Year. Burns was planning to come to UB for nursing and despite her high school accolades, stay out of UB’s pool. But a summer visit with the swimming and diving team changed her opinion. She stayed in scrubs but added a swimming cap and goggles to her college life. During the summer, there was an open camp where she met many of her current teammates, as well as the swimming and diving head coach Andy Bashor. Burns said she instantly loved the girls and really enjoyed the coach’s practices because he made the sport fun – something that she hadn’t been used to. “I didn’t start having fun until I met my friends here at UB,” Burns said. “My friends keep me interested in the sport. I love them all – they’re like my sisters.” SEE BURNS, ON PAGE 6
Bulls face growing pains in series loss to Ball State Despite dominant Saturday win, Buffalo drops series to Cardinals
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Junior outfielder Nick Sinay and the Bulls lost two of three games against Ball State this weekend. The Bulls scored 14 runs on Saturday but failed to win another game the rest of the series.
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The growing pains of a young team continue to impact the baseball team this season. Buffalo’s inexperience particularly showed this weekend against an opponent that began the season ranked as the No. 28 team in the nation. On Sunday, the Bulls (6-14, 2-4 MidAmerican Conference) concluded a threegame series against Ball State (18-8, 5-1 MAC) with a 16-8 loss, giving the Cardinals the series victory. Buffalo dominated on Saturday with a 14-1 win that included 10 runs in the final inning, but the Bulls still failed to win their second MAC series in as many tries. Head coach Ron Torgalski said that the team is still in the midst of finding its groove. “Right now, we’re still on and off, hot and cold,” Torgalski said. “At times, we’ve been looking good. At times we make plays. At other times, we play like a young, inexperienced team. It’s part of maturity. After two conference weekends, hopefully they realize they can’t take a pitch off.” The Bulls fell to Ball State 6-4 in the first game on Friday. Buffalo got off to an early 2-0 lead after junior outfielder Nick Sinay scored off an error by the Cardinals third baseman and an RBI single by freshman first baseman Ben Vey. The Cardinals responded with three runs in the third and held the lead for the rest of the game. Sophomore pitcher Brent Cleland picked up the loss for Buffalo as he went 5.1 innings, allowed eight hits, five earned runs and one homerun. He also struck out five batters. The Bulls’ offense came alive on Saturday though, as they tallied 10 runs in the final inning and defeated the Cardinals 14-1. Torgalski said picking up a victory over Ball State was important to see “where they were” in the conference. “It’s always good to go on the road and get one game,” Torgalski said. “[Ball State] was picked to win the league this year and were ranked No. 28 in the preseason polls.
This was a team with high expectations. We played them tough.” Torgalski said that the team was capitalizing with runners in scoring position – something it wasn’t able to consistently do the previous game. “It was nice to see us bring in people from second and third,” Torgalski said. “We left too many people on base and we’re one big hit away from taking game one, so to get 10 runs, even in the final inning was great because we got experience in bringing those guys in.” Senior pitcher Anthony Magovney allowed no runs and just four hits in 5.2 innings. Sophomore pitcher Mike Kaelin picked up his third save of the season and struck out two batters over two innings of relief. The Bulls’ offense was balanced Saturday, as seven of the nine position players finished with at least one hit and eight of the nine finished with at least one RBI. Sophomore outfielder Vinny Mallaro finished 2-for-5 with four RBIs, including a homerun in the third inning. Sinay finished 3-for-6 with three RBIs. In the third and final game of the series on Sunday, the Bulls fell to the Cardinals 16-8. Senior pitcher Mike McGee lasted just 1.2 innings and allowed seven runs and walked four. The Cardinals scored eight runs in the second inning and forced the Bulls to use their bullpen early. Torgalski called it “one of those days.” “The wind was blowing to left field, so
any fly ball had a chance of going out the park,” Torgalski said. “We saw a kid hit a popup and it turned into a homerun. It was a terrible day to be a pitcher. They got some balls up into the jet stream and got some runs. Overall, it was a rough day.” Junior shortstop Bobby Sheppard finished 4 for 13 hitting on the weekend with three RBIs. Haefner finished the series 4 for 8 and added four RBIs and five walks. Mallaro went just 2 for 11 on the weekend, with most of his damage coming in his
grand slam in the second game of the series. Torgalski said the only thing the team can do is to continue to improve, despite the difficulty of not playing at home. Buffalo has yet to play at Amherst Audubon Field this season and its scheduled homeopening series against Northern Illinois last weekend was moved to Indiana due to weather. “I told them today, build on what we’re doing, continue to improve and it’s been tough for us,” Torgalski said. “We play a weekend outside then play inside. Most teams are outside practicing and getting into a rhythm … Every week, we’re adjusting travel. We opened up conference play with a home series seven-hour away. We don’t because of field conditions. It hurts us.” The Bulls travel to face St. Bonaventure (10-5-1, 0-3 Atlantic 10) for a two-game series on Tuesday. First pitch is set for 2 p.m. email: sports@ubspectrum.com
Hurley’s possible post-UB options limited Big East schools DePaul and St. John’s filled their vacant coaching positions Sunday. Buffalo head basketball coach Bobby Hurley interviewed in Chicago at DePaul Saturday and was a rumored candidate for the St. John’s position. DePaul hired Dave Leitao, who led the program from 2002-05 and made one NCAA Tournament appearance. St. John’s offered the head coaching position to Chris Mullen, a former standout player at the university. CBS Sports reported that Mullin is likely to accept.
Arizona State University, Texas and Tennessee still have open head coaching positions and it is unknown if these schools have interest in Hurley. As of Sunday evening, Hurley had yet to sign a new contract with Buffalo, although the school has a deal in place to make him the highest paid men’s basketball coach in the Mid-American Conference. Hurley led the Bulls to its first ever NCAA Tournament appearance, though they fell to West Virginia 68-62.