The Spectrum Vol. 64 No. 66 by The Spectrum Student Periodical

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Volume 64 No. 66

UB coaches shortchanged?

Sexual assault reported in on-campus apartment TOM DINKI SENIOR NEWS EDITOR

JEFF QUINN football

$338,000 | $265,960

BOBBY HURLEY

FELISHA LEGETTE-JACK

$250,000 | $255,760

$160,000 | $163,690

men’s basketball

women’s basketball

UB spends the most money in the MAC, but not the most on coaches OWEN O’BRIEN INVESTIGATIVE SPORTS REPORTER

The University at Buffalo’s athletic department spends more money than any other school in the Mid-American Conference – but its coaches are making less money than most other coaches in the MAC. The department’s money – $31,134,149 – goes to athletic scholarships, administrative salaries, coaching salaries, marketing, team travel and team expenses, according to NCAA statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Education. UB is also tied with Miami Ohio for the most head coaching positions of the 12 MAC schools. Both schools have 18 head coaching positions, but some coaches at Buffalo coach more than one sport. Despite the large number of coaching positions, UB coaches make less money than most of their counterparts in the conference. UB has 14 “full-time” coaches, who make an average salary of $114,790, compared to $156,430 by coaches at Akron and $155,798 by coaches at Ohio – the two largest averages in the conference. The numbers put UB as the ninth lowest out of 12 schools for total head coaching salaries in the 2013-14 fiscal year. The Spectrum obtained this information via Freedom of Information requests, sports data compiled by USA Today and the U.S. Department of Education. Allen Greene, Buffalo’s deputy director of Athletics, attributed the lower salaries to a lack of championship seasons. This year, for example, marked the first season the basketball team won the MAC Championship and went to the NCAA Tournament. “I think for a long period of time, we have not been successful, so compensation doesn’t come along also,” Greene said. Still, UB Athletic Director Danny White made more money than any athletic director in the conference, with a school pay of $301,625 for the 2013-14 fiscal year, according to USA Today. The next highest in the conference, Northern Illinois’ Jeff Compher, made $17,625 less than White. White was ranked No. 76 of 113 A.D.’s listed by USA Today, and No. 14 among non-BCS schools. White’s base salary was set at $225,000 for 2013 – according to UB Athletics’ payroll sheet. White also received one of the largest pay increases in the athletic department in the past year. He did so without gaining a new title. His 2014-15 base salary will be $254,760, which is a 13.23 percent increase from 2013-14. Greene declined to discuss White’s contract and White declined to speak

Key

Base salary 2013 Base salary 2014

ANDY BASHOR

swimming and diving

$84,324 | $87,076 TRENA PEEL softball

$80,000 | $86,850 TODD KRESS volleyball

$79,160 | fired RON TORGALSKI baseball

$71,369 | $78,556 JOHN STUTZMAN wrestling

$70,000 | $72,160 SANDY CALFO women’s rowing

$65,000 | $67,060 VICKI MITCHELL

track and cross country

$62,052 | $64,053 MICHAEL THOMAS women’s soccer

$59,581 | fired STU RIDDLE men’s soccer

$59,581 | $61,533 LEE NICKELL men’s tennis

$55,338 | $60,205 KRISTIN ORTMAN women’s tennis

$49,372 | $52,619 SHAWN BURKE women’s soccer

$37,837 (asst) | $66,100 REED SUNAHARA volleyball

Not with Buffalo | $92,050 NUMBERS BASED ON UB ATHLETICS PAYROLL INFORMATION JEFF QUINN PHOTO COURTESY OF ARMY ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS

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to The Spectrum about this story or any budgetary issues. “Decisions that are made for Danny and his compensation come from the president, so us as an athletics department have no barring,” Greene said. “We have no input and no barring on what happens with him.” President Satish Tripathi said via email that White’s raise was “all contractual.” Tripathi also said that ticket sales, athletic sponsorships and philanthropic giving have all increased with White as the athletic director. Buffalo ranked third in the conference in athletic student aid and game-day expenses. Buffalo led the MAC in recruiting expenses and expenses “not allocated to a specific sport.” UB Athletics led this category by more than $1 million. UB spent $10.98 million on these allocation compared to second-ranked Kent State’s $9.17 million. Greene said this money goes toward the “operational side and salaries” within the athletic department. Besides staff salaries, this category cost more than $700,000 for team travel and more than $1 million for fundraising, marketing and promotion costs. UB Athletics also spent more than $2.8 million on direct facilities and maintenance and rental costs and “other operating expenses” – including printing, subscription, leases and non-team travels not reported elsewhere. Indirect facilities and administrative support, which includes areas like institutional administrative costs, maintenance, facilities and security, accounted for more than $2.2 million. Buffalo’s revenues outgained its expenses by $143,831 in the 2013-14 fiscal year. Greene said Buffalo wasn’t planning on ending the season with excessive revenue, but he said a portion of the money would go toward funding capital projects – like a new field house Buffalo hopes to build. The coaches According to numbers compiled by The Spectrum, Buffalo head coaches combined to make more than $1.695 million in annual institutional salary in the 2013-14 reporting year – spanning from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014. The Athletics Department spent more than $9.25 million in staff salary during this time for 175 positions. But base salary is only a portion of the money college coaches make. Coaches and athletic department staff get bonuses and perks just like professional athletes. These benefits include car stipends, country club memberships, speaking fees, radio and television income and housing allowances. Buffalo head coaches made nearly $1.779 million in such benefits.

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Changes in SA elections surface week before polls open Clarity Party drops out, election amendment never finalized TOM DINKI

SENIOR NEWS EDITOR

This year’s Student Association elections are going to look much different than what many might have expected at this time last year. A party is set to run unopposed for the first time since 2008 after the Clarity Party dropped out of the election Monday night, and some people in SA are just now discovering that an amendment to have the president and vice president run on separate ballots was never made official. UB Council Student Representative Minahil Khan, Special Interests Services and Hobbies (SISH) Council Coordinator Sean Kaczmarek and Engineering Council Coordinator Joe Pace, all of the Unity Party, will run unopposed next week as the only president, vice president and treasurer candidates, respectively. Elections will still be held from April 14-16 in the Student Union Theater, but SA President James Ingram said the polls might be open for reduced hours. CONTINUED TO PAGE 2

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A UB alert about a reported sexual assault in an on-campus apartment was sent out at 9:45 p.m. Monday. The report was made to the University Police Department that day. The alleged attack happened on Sunday. The alert said that the female victim was acquainted with the suspect. UB Spokesperson John Della Contrada said the suspect is a male and but that the university cannot release any other description. Deputy Chief of Police Joshua Sticht said the victim is being cooperative and helpful with the investigation. Della Contrada said the university cannot give more information at this time because the investigation is ongoing and in the early stages and UB does not want it to be compromised.

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Thomas Van Doran, Clarity Party presidential candidate, officially notified Elections and Credentials Chair Matthew Siwiec of the party’s decision via email Monday night around 11 p.m. Tim Martin, the party’s vice president candidate, and David Perl, the party’s treasurer candidate, did the same shortly after. Van Doran, Martin and Perl currently do not hold any positions in SA. Perl could have run independently as a treasurer candidate if he chose to do so. “We kind of went in with the expectation that we weren’t going to win and it was going to be an uphill battle,” Perl said. “Just kind of doing it for fun and give it the old college try and see if it starts off well, continue, and if not, just didn’t want to commit ourselves.” The party’s withdrawal came after it did not receive an endorsement from the Academic, Engineering and Sports councils on Monday night. Perl said the party went into the elections with the expectation they would have to reconsider after major events like club endorsements. He also said the party members had conflicts with their work schedule and they may have had to quit their jobs in order to campaign properly. “I don’t want to quit my job, not win and then not have a job,” Perl said. Perl said although he feels the Clarity Party was given a fair opportunity, the members knew they did not have a chance to win because the Unity Party is more experienced in SA. He said he did not feel the Clarity Party dropping out and allowing Unity to run unopposed hurts the democratic process of the elections. “I feel like the democratic process [in SA] is not very strong,” Perl said. “There’s one party that we all know was going to win regardless. The fact that there were only six students out of 20,000 that cared enough to fill out a petition, just kind of shows there’s not much of a process and not great involvement.”

Former SA President Travis Nemmer, who served in the 2012-13 academic year, said he was surprised SA was unable to get two parties to run in year in which it passed rules to “make it easy to run.” Nemmer was referring to the amendments passed to have the president and vice president run on different ballots and to have the president appoint SUNY delegates so delegates no longer have to run for election. But Nemmer was shocked to learn that the change for president and vice president to run on separate ballots would not be happening this year. “This was not an unreasonable call by the Senate last year to change the rule because it was a good change,” Nemmer said. Siwiec proposed changes to have the president and vice president run on different ballots – which would have allowed a president and vice president from opposing parties to be elected – and to have the president appoint SUNY delegates last spring. While Siwiec proposed the delegate changes to both the Assembly and Senate and got them passed, he never brought the ballot changes before the Senate. Siwiec said he was unaware the ballot amendment would have to go before the Senate to be made official. “I was under the impression it was just an SA rules and regulation rule, which all you would have to go through is SA Assembly to get that changed,” Siwiec said. “But it ended up being in the SA constitution, if you want constitution changes you need permission from Assembly and Senate.” Siwiec and Ingram said they discovered this while looking over the SA constitution over the summer but both have since changed their mind about the amendment after originally supporting it. Ingram ab-

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stained from the original vote because he said it needed more time for discussion, but spoke in favor of the amendment to The Spectrum in April 2014. SA Assembly Speaker Melissa Kathan did not find out that the amendment never went through until petitions were due on March 26 – at which point it was too late to amend the election procedures for this year. She said that she had been made aware that the amendment never went through, she would have worked to get in through the Senate in time for this election. Siwiec said no official announcement was ever made to SA to let them know the amendment still needed to go through the Senate. He said “there’s really no excuse for not getting it out into the public.” Siwiec was studying abroad in South Korea in the fall and said that had he been at UB, he may have made more people aware. “Sometimes there’s so much going on with the SA that sometimes there’s so many priorities that we have that we let it leave our minds, so to speak,” he said. “We should have made it more public, but at the same time I’m not as surprised it wasn’t more public.” He also said most news about amendments are not announced. Ingram said he has discussed the amendment not going through with some members of the Senate throughout the year who asked him what happened to it. He said he thinks “we all came to same conclusions it made sense to not go forward with the change.” “It’s not that no one has brought it up at all, it’s just that no one has brought it up to be voted on,” Ingram said. Siwiec said he changed his mind about the amendment because he realized “there’s a lot of things the vice president can’t do without the president’s approval,” therefore they should be from the same party. “So if the president and vice president do not have the same ideas it will be more difficult to get things done,” Siwiec said. “There’s a lot of approval that needs to be done by the president so it doesn’t make sense to separate them.” But Nemmer said that there’s very little a vice president needs to get the approval of the president for. He said the vice president mainly manages coordinators and di-

rects club policy. “If you can show me any point in the constitution where vice presidential action requires presidential endorsement, I will be shocked,” Nemmer said. Ingram said he thinks the president and vice president have separate enough jobs that they could be elected from different parties. He said the reason he changed his mind about the amendment has more to with campaigning. He said because the president makes policy, all the vice president would not be able to have a solid platform if they could not guarantee who their president was. “What I was envisioning was all the vice president would be able to campaigning on was advocating to the president for the policies he wanted, or they’d have to campaign on was, ‘Yeah I’ll be in the office and I’ll be in efficient and responding to your emails.’ It wouldn’t be a real platform that they could promise,” Ingram said. Nemmer said this argument is not correct either. He said with that logic, the president and treasurer should have to run together because the treasurer has to sign off on all expenses. The treasurer currently runs on a separate ballot than the president and vice president. Nemmer said he went weeks without seeing his vice president during his time in office, but saw Treasurer Justin Neuwrit every day. Nemmer and Neuwrit ran on different parties. Ingram said students can submit a blank ballot that will be interrupted as a vote of no confidence. Siwiec said only one vote is needed for an election to count. The polls are currently scheduled to be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. over the three days, but may be reduced. New York State election laws mandate that SA still run the elections from April 14-16 because it advertised it would have the elections on those days. The candidate debate scheduled for Wednesday night in the Student Union Theater will now be an open forum for students to ask Khan, Kaczmarek and Pace questions. email: news@ubspectrum.com

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Editorial Board EDITOR IN CHIEF

Sara DiNatale

MANAGING EDITORS

Rachel Kramer Emma Janicki, Asst. OPINION EDITOR

OPINION

Buffalo Untapped is an example of smart spending by the SA ILLUSTRATION BY HARUMO SATO

Despite suggestions for future, event shines a much-needed spotlight on Buffalo culture

Tress Klassen COPY EDITORS

Alyssa McClure, Copy Chief Anne Fortman Emma Fusco Natalie Humphrey NEWS EDITORS

Tom Dinki, Senior Ashley Inkumsah, Asst. Charles W Schaab, Asst. FEATURES EDITORS

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Tori Roseman, Senior Brian Windschitl Jordan Oscar, Asst. SPORTS EDITORS

Jordan Grossman, Senior Quentin Haynes Bobby McIntosh Asst. PHOTO EDITORS

Yusong Shi, Senior Kainan Guo, Asst. Angela Barca, Asst . CARTOONISTS

Harumo Sato Joshua Bodah

CREATIVE DIRECTORS

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When the Student Association spent nearly $9,000 on a new – and embarrassing – website, The Spectrum staff and much of the student body was displeased. But SA is slated to spend $12,000 on the upcoming Buffalo Untapped event for UB undergraduates and reviews are far more positive – though there’s still room for improvement. The event features food trucks, concessions and beer tasting, as well as music and boutiques, all from the Buffalo area. The focus on the City of Buffalo makes the event not just a fun activity but a smart opportunity to shine a spotlight on much of what Buffalo – rather than Amherst – has to offer to undergraduates. This festival looks like precisely the type of activity SA should be devoting its time and money toward organizing. Its draw is broad enough to attract a wide range of students – food trucks, hot dogs, tacos and music are as close to universally appealing as it gets – and undergraduate students don’t have to pay admission. The importance of showing students, many of whom are new to the Buffalo area, just how much the city has to offer cannot be understated and Buffalo Untapped is an effective form of demonstration. Students deserve to be aware that there’s more within their reach than just Mighty Taco on Sweethome Road or The U on Maple – there’s also Lloyd’s Taco

Truck and the Flying Bison Brewing Company, among dozens of other places to explore and enjoy. Of course, the Flying Bison and the at least three other beer vendors might have a quieter day than the food trucks, as the majority of students attending will likely be underage. SA chose to offer alcohol and selected a name for the event that focuses on drinking. But only a fraction of undergraduates are legally allowed to drink. The alcohol component made the underage members of the board question why their dollars were going to something they couldn’t enjoy. But most of the board who is of age felt the event is exciting and creative – even without the alcohol component. Had the Student Association marketed the event differently, with less of a focus on the alcohol, students under 21 might be more inclined to attend the event their

tuition money is helping fund. Featuring Buffalo’s breweries also attracted the critical eye of another demographic of students – one that is composed almost entirely of 21-and-overs. Some graduate students have expressed their displeasure at the exclusiveness of the event, which is firmly limited to undergraduates. It’s perfectly understandable that free admission is only offered to undergraduates. They pay a student activity fee to the SA each year, and it’s that money which funded the event. Graduate students’ activity fees go to the Graduate Student Association, which did not help plan or fund the event. But it seems like the SA inviting graduate students and charging them admission would be a good move, as it would help recoup the costs of the festival. SA has said it would consider allowing graduate students to attend the event

in the future and that’s something we think is imperative should this event continue. Undergraduate students aren’t the only ones who get stuck in the Amherst bubble. But given that this is the event’s inaugural year, it’s reasonable to assume the SA had plenty of concerns to address and elements to plan out. The SA represents the undergraduate student body – there’s a reason UB also has the GSA – so graduate students simply aren’t a priority for them, and there’s no reason they should be. Buffalo Untapped is an exciting event for undergraduates and a smart way to spend SA funds. This event may attract a subsection of the UB community, but unlike other SA events that do the same, Buffalo Untapped will importantly showcase some of what the City of Buffalo has to offer. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

Retraction doesn’t undo the damage done Our Facebook feeds may finally find relief from one of the most troublingly stories of this year but that doesn’t mean the story is over. In fact, we may just be finding out exactly how much damage has been done. Last November, Rolling Stone published “A Rape on Campus,” a feature story about the alleged violent gang rape of a University of Virginia (UVA) student at a fraternity on campus. Sexual assault on campus has been a major focus of the media recently, and rightly so as one in five women will be sexually assaulted before graduating from college. It wasn’t surprising that this story sent shockwaves across the country, generating outrage and criticism – what was surprising was what came after. Criticism of UVA, Greek life and environments that permit or promote sexual violence quickly dissipated as the article itself came under the spotlight of scrutiny when The Washington Post published a damning investigation, revealing inconsistencies and falsehoods in the account of the anonymous victim, known only by the pseudonym, ‘Jackie.’ Instead of generating muchneeded discussions about sexual assault and safety on college campuses, “Rape on Campus” has garnered attention for the poor, unethical journalistic practices of Rolling Stone. But it’s time to drop it. It’s understandable, and unavoidable, that the media would

Rolling Stone’s attempts at apology cannot repair the damage of their inaccurate reporting continue discussing the article but it’s time to move on and stop causing more damage and pain to those involved and rape survivors across the country. On Sunday Rolling Stone officially retracted the story, in a necessary acknowledgment of their failures. But that hardly undoes the damage their carelessness and reckless incompetence has caused. With the release of a highly detailed investigative report from the Columbia Journalism School – which essentially did all the research editors and fact-checkers at Rolling Stone should have done – it’s clear “Rape on Campus” never should have been published. Rolling Stone made a multitude of glaring errors, most notably failing to reach out to additional sources for corroboration. By not reaching out to sources, they denied Phi Kappa Psi – the fraternity whose members Jackie accused – the chance to respond to her allegations. Further, they never attempted to verify the identity of Jackie’s alleged attackers. They also never spoke directly to the friends Jackie said could verify her story. Although the truth of what actually happened to Jackie may never be known – and she very well might have been sexually assaulted – the reputation of the fraternity may also be irrevocably, and unjustly, ruined. Simply, the editors and the arti-

cle’s author did not do their jobs as journalists. Had they gone through normal fact-checking procedures, they would’ve realized “Rape on Campus,” which accused individuals and an institution of a heinous crime, was dangerously inaccurate. Instead, Rolling Stone simply relied on pseudonyms and sympathy when working with Jackie and failed to recognize their moral responsibility when joining a conversation about a deeply serious and problematic topic – one that is already plagued by exaggerations about how many false accusations are made. Both the story and criticism on its inaccuracies went viral, generating discussion about the potential for false rape allegations, not about what really matters – how many people are sexually assaulted. The percent of false rape allegations is laughably low – just 2 to 8 percent of all accusations reported to the police are false. But of the total amount of sexual assaults committed, only 68 percent are ever reported. Just a tiny fraction of people who come forward are lying – a statistic just about never discussed for other crimes – but “Rape on Campus” now perpetuates the idea that rape survivors are lying. Instead of emphasizing that 98 percent of rapists will never see

the inside of a jail cell, this article now perpetuates the ideologies behind rape culture – a society which blames, ignores and vilifies survivors, rather than punishing attackers and working toward systemic change to stop sexual assault. Rolling Stone failed in its duty to engage in meaningful and necessary conversations about sexual assault. The magazine hurt rape survivors everywhere. Now, those who come forward – and many never do because of the stigma attached to sexual assault – face an additional obstacle in telling their stories and having their attackers brought to justice. They may now have to prove they aren’t lying – something society should’ve overcome by now. Rolling Stone betrayed rape survivors as well as UVA and Phi Kappa Psi. UVA and the fraternity now have to figure out how to repair their reputations that were unjustly damaged by the article. To the individuals and institutions that have been directly impacted by the article, Rolling Stone’s retraction has little impact. The magazine certainly needed to retract the piece, but its editors can’t retract all the damage they’ve done. The magazine has fed into notions that perpetuate rape culture and needs to re-center the conversation on rape survivors – not on false allegations. It’s time to stop talking about Rolling Stone’s serious errors and instead bring awareness of sexual assault to the forefront. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

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UB coaches shortchanged? School Total Salaries - Total coaches Avg. Full Time Salary - Full-time coaches

1. Miami Ohio $2,464,348.00 - 18 $144,961.65 - 17

2. Ohio $2,040,952.00 - 14 $155,797.86 - 13.1

3. Akron $2,033,594.00 - 14 $156,430.31 - 13

coach ($114,789.91), leading only Northern Illinois and Bowling Green. The head coaches of Buffalo’s men’s teams made nearly 1.07 million while the women’s team’s head coaches made $627,039 in the 2013-14 reporting year. These numbers rank eighth and 12th (last) in the MAC. Bowling Green’s women’s team’s coaches rank No. 11 at $638,370. Former football head coach Jeff Quinn had a $250,000 base salary in 2013 – one of the lowest in the MAC for that season. But

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Even with these bonuses, UB head coaches move up only one spot, to No. 8, for total income – and that’s without factoring other schools’ coaches’ bonuses. John Affleck, the Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society at Penn State and who worked for the Associated Press for 22 years, said there are “various things that can account for” Buffalo’s No. 8 ranking for head coaches. Some factors he listed included the longevity of coaches’ contracts at UB and an increased market for new head coaches. “That might be a sign that the school’s not investing in coaches, but it also just might be a sign that they locked people in to long term deals a while back,” Affleck said. Of UB’s 18 listed head coaches for the 20 varsity sports, only 14.77 coaches are considered “full time.” Buffalo, like more than half of the MAC conference does, has coaches who run multiple programs. Vicki Mitchell is the head coach of both men’s and women’s cross country and track teams and swimming coach Andy Bashor heads both the men’s and women’s teams. The track team has two head coaches who are considered “part time.” White’s hired 11 Buffalo 14 full-time head coaches since he was hired in May 2012, including Tuesday’s announcement of new volleyball head coach Blair Brown Lipsitz. Buffalo ranked No. 10 of 12 MAC schools for average salary per full-time head

$2,021,474.00 - 14 $144,391.00 - 14

5. Ball State $1,993,628.00 - 17 $117,272.24 - 17

6. Eastern Michigan $1,980,087.00 - 17 $123,755.44 - 16 when Quinn and the Bulls finished 8-5 and played in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, he finished the year making $338,000. In total, the Athletics Department paid $398,317 for Quinn and his benefits, according to the NCAA Membership Financial Reporting System. The Spectrum has reported on these benefits, which included cars, tickets and bonuses for victories and fan attendance. Is donor money the answer? Men’s basketball head coach Bobby Hurley was the second-most expensive Buffalo head coach for the reporting year. Hurley’s base salary was $250,000 – second highest base salary in the athletic department – but earned $336,669 including benefits and bonuses paid by the university and third parties. Hurley’s original contract included $50,000 in additional compensation and 25 percent of ticket sales after $300,000 in gross sales. Steve Hawkins, who led Western Michigan men’s basketball team to the 2013-14 MAC

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Championship and NCAA Tournament, earned $312,000 last year, according to USA Today. Hawkins is currently in his 12th season with the Broncos. Akron men’s basketball head coach, Keith Dambrot, earns $400,000 a season. Dambrot has coached at Akron since 2004 and has two trips to the NCAA Tournament. Ohio University’s Saul Phillips currently leads MAC basketball coaches with with a $550,000 base salary. Buffalo has a deal in place to make Hurley the highest paid basketball coach in the conference. The offer came shortly after the men’s basketball team’s first appearance at the NCAA Tournament in program history. Hurley hasn’t signed the new contract with Buffalo – which is largely support by donation money. Dr. Welch Suggs, an associate professor of journalism at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at University of Georgia, said it’s risky to have donors raise money for a specific head coach because the donors could lose support for the coach over time. “If they get mad at the coach but the AD doesn’t want to fire him or her, what happens if the donors stop giving?” Suggs said via email. “Many universities now endow

7. Kent State $1,791,020.00 - 14 $137,770.77 - 13

8. Northern Illinois $1,743,694.00 - 16 $108,980.88 - 16

9. Buffalo $1,695,447.00 - 18 $114,789.91 - 14.77 coaching positions so that donors are giving to a permanent endowment that generates interest income that can be used to supplement salaries or program funds, so that makes sense, but if I commit [$50,000 per year] to help pay a basketball coach and then he doesn’t measure up to my expectations, is the AD going to try to force me to keep paying? Not going to happen.” Greene said following the postseason basketball success, Buffalo donors rallied to

raise money to increase Hurley’s base salary in hopes he wouldn’t leave for a position at a different university. Greene said the use of donor money could help keep coaches in Buffalo at a price that works for the Athletics Department. “The less burden we could put on the institution in order of financial resources, the easier it is for us to retain some of these coaches,” Greene said. Affleck said “donors frequently at the collegiate level donate for a specific thing” and “it’s a way to have a more concrete sense of where your money’s going.” A change in coaching spending Only two varsity teams – football and rowing – have won conference championships before this season. This year, however, the women’s soccer team won its first MAC Championship. During the 2013-14 fiscal year, Burke was an assistant coach on the women’s soccer team. Burke’s head coaching salary shows an increase in salaries among Buffalo coaches. Previous women’s soccer head coach Michael Thomas, who current University of Connecticut Athletic Director Warde Manuel hired in 2008, earned $59,581 in his final season as head coach. Burke earned $66,100 in his first season as head coach after earning $37,873 in his final season as an assistant. UB Athletics paid Burke 11.2 percent more than Thomas as head coach. Former volleyball head coach Reed Sunahara, who has more than 15 years of head Division-I head coaching experience and worked as an assistant for Team USA, made $92,050 in 2014, compared to former head coach Todd Kress’ $79,160. Softball coach Trena Peel is due to make $86,850 after earning $80,000 in 2013. CONTINUED TO NEXT PAGE

10. Central Michigan $1,675,818.00 - 12 $152,347.09 - 11

11. Bowling Green $1,602,459.00 - 16 $100,153.69 - 16

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Sunahara left Buffalo to take the same position at West Virginia University, where he will reportedly earn around $120,000 a season. “The reality of this business is you have some success and you are attractive to other people, and to people who have a little bit bigger pockets than we do,” Greene said. Greene said as coaches begin to win more at Buffalo, it makes sense for their earnings to rise. “I think with our increased success that we’ve had an increase in compensation for our coaches and I’d say that’s pretty broad and pretty consistent with how athletics departments operate around the country,” Greene said. In 2013, 175 Athletics Department employees combined to make $9,258,441.69. In 2014, 165 employees combined to make $9,115,438.84. There was a 47-employee turnover after 2013 that resulted in 37 new hires the following year. The average employee made $55,245.08 in 2014, and 126 of 128 returning employees received a raise in

2014 – the two exceptions being one graduate assistant and Quinn. Greene spoke about the difficulty in balancing and operating within the budget with the want to bring in the best coaches, staff and personnel possible. “That’s a challenge. It’s an absolute challenge,” Greene said. “We have to make some very tough decisions in order to compensate some coaches and we make decisions to ensure the student-athlete experience remain constant.” Greene said Buffalo doesn’t use a “one size fits all” technique when looking for new head coaches. Since White was hired at Buffalo in May 2012, he’s made 11 head coaching hires in less than three years. All 11 of White’s hires were former college athletes, with nine playing at the Division I level. Women’s soccer coach Shawn Burke and football coach Lance Leipold are the only two who aren’t former Division I studentathletes. Information for the 2014-15 budget was not available. email: owen.obrien@ubspectrum.com

Faculty Senate rundown: New decanal review policy passed CHARLES W SCHAAB ASST. NEW EDITOR

The Faculty Senate passed a new decanal review process on Tuesday afternoon in the Center for Tomorrow, as it had enough members of the body attending to vote. The Senate was unable to vote on the changes to how UB reviews its deans at its last meeting on March 3 because it did not have quorum – or half the body plus one member present. The new changes aim to make UB’s decanal review process clearer and more transparent. An amendment to include the vice provost of the libraries to the new dean evaluation process was pass unanimously. President Satish Tripathi addressed the Senate at the meeting Tuesday, as he reviewed the enacted next year’s SUNY budget, which the New York State Senate and Assembly have already passed. Tripathi called the budget process “elaborate and unpredictable,” but broke down the important aspects for the Senate. Here are the highlights: - UB will receive $18.2 million for critical

maintenance, which Tripathi noted is down from past figures that were as high as $60 million - $18 million in performance based funding will be split among all SUNY schools - Educational Opportunity Programs statewide will receive $5.7 million more in funding Tripathi commended the Senate for its “hard work” done to pass the new general education requirements, which will be implemented in the fall of 2016. Tripathi also congratulated faculty and students who received awards for excellence in their fields, including the Associate Dean for Graduate and Postdoctoral Education Luis A. Colón. United States President Barack Obama nominated Colón for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Tripathi noted only 14 educators nationwide are nominated for the award each year. The next Faculty Senate meeting, which is the last of the semester, will be held May 5 at 3 p.m. in the Center for Tomorrow. email: news@ubspectrum.com

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Tidal: pay to ride the wave

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An evaluation of Tidal’s status as a trend, questionable benefits and expensive price point BRIAN WINDSCHITL ARTS EDITOR

eo featured an unbelievable medley of art- ly how much higher are unclear. ists, including: Kanye West, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, In a recent New York Times article, Ben SiJack White, Calvin Harris, Daft Punk, Dead- sario talked to Tidal representative Vania mau5, J. Cole, Usher, Rihanna, The Arcade Schlogel but she declined to comment on Fire, Coldplay, Nicki Minaj, Alicia Keys, Ja- the company’s exact payout rate. son Aldean and Madonna, who were inRegardless, the high number of artists troduced as “owners” of this new music supporting Tidal gives a clear message: pay streaming company. for Tidal and save the music industry. They all turned their Twitter and InstaIn the company’s bid to find popularity, gram pictures into a solid color representing the service is offering “exclusive content” a solidarity movement to raise awareness for to subscribers. The growing list of Tidthe budding company. al-only content includes previously unreJay-Z’s glamorous, star-studded PR roll- leased Rihanna and Beyoncé songs, a Daft out worked; Tidal, almost overnight, be- Punk short film and even a White Stripes came a household TV spot. name, despite the There was even a ruoverall ambiguity of mor Kanye West leaked High Fidelity the company and its his new album, So Help Music Streaming: relevance. Me God, on Tidal: only four times as exThe positives: speculation, but this more figurative undoubtedly added to pensive, with little than literal the PR wave. to no benefits. Tidal, apart from The competition beits claim to offer tween Tidal and other better sounding music, is championing itself companies is escalating quickly: Jay-Z pulled as the savior of the music industry. his album Reasonable Doubt from Spotify earSpotify and Pandora have become noto- lier in the week in what looks to be the berious for their near non-existent royalty fees ginning of a long-fought battle for control for artists: one million plays on Spotify will of the streaming industry. garner an artist between $6,000 and $8,000, The negatives: too high a cost for luxury a meager sum for the substantial amount of For all this hustle and bustle, Tidal offers plays, according to Spotify’s website. less music than Spotify does, despite having According to Jay-Z, and all the artists in- a list of higher-profile singles. Spotify offers vested in the company, Tidal will have a 30 million songs, while Tidal only offers 25 higher payout for artists than any other million, according to RedEye Music. streaming service. But the details of exactThe exclusivity of content goes both

On Monday Jay-Z launched Tidal, his own music streaming service. It went viral almost immediately. But most people posting about it had no idea what it was. On Tidal’s homepage, the tagline reads: High Fidelity Music Streaming. It was clear that Tidal was a music streaming service; why it was different than, say, Spotify or Pandora, was not clear. Tidal’s selling point lies in its claim to offer a higher quality of music by using lossless hi-fi streams – stating its music will literally sound better than everything else. Lossless streams do not consolidate music files in any way – the sound remains unedited from the studio. MP3 files are condensed, which makes them easier to export and import, but decreases the music quality and audio frequency range. Tidal offers a “lossless” streaming format, while Spotify and Pandora offers MP3 files. But what does that really mean? What is it exactly you are paying for? Why the hype? Tidal, the latest company attempting to break into the burgeoning music streaming industry comes with a catch – it isn’t free. The company is charging a rate of $9.99 a month for their basic streaming services; the premium stream, which includes the lossless format, is double: $19.99. The company’s release video only added to the mysteriousness and hype of Jay-Z’s grandiose rollout of his company. The vid-

ways, however. While Tidal may have JayZ’s album, and a modest smattering of unreleased singles, Spotify has service exclusives, too. Despite Tidal’s claim to offer a tangible difference in audio quality, lossless streams will offer no clear-cut difference to anyone using a regular pair of ear buds other than trained audiophiles. In order to reproduce the highest quality of streams, listeners will require a high-end music system or production-level headphones. This makes Tidal more of a luxury brand than anything: to experience Tidal fully requires not only a pricey subscription but also expensive headphones or speakers. The monthly subscription is not cheap either. Already, the company has caught some criticism for being overpriced: the monthly fees are either $9.99 a month for a basic streaming service or $19.99 a month for “lossless quality.” At $120 or $240 dollar a year, Tidal is easily one of the most expensive streaming companies around. Competitors, and industry giants, Pandora and Spotify both offer free services for their users, who offer paid alternatives for ad-free listening. For a student paying $5 for Spotify Premium, Tidal’s premium service is four times as expensive, with little to no benefits. To compete with other companies, Tidal will have to do more than claim to have a superior music quality for its exclusive content. As the battle for music streams degrades into chasing individual albums, the choice between Tidal and alternatives like Spotify is reduced to making the choice between paying more, less or nothing per month – a seemingly easy decision. Tidal may have Reasonable Doubt, but Spotify still has Visions. email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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17 years later Buffalo ’66 still doesn’t glorify the City of Buffalo REUBEN WOLF

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Kidnapping, prison, marriage and murder are only some of the things that happen in Vincent Gallo’s 1998 film, Buffalo ’66. Last Thursday, the North Park Theatre celebrated the 17th anniversary of the first screening of the film that was shot entirely in Buffalo as the director was a native of the area. David Schmid, an associate English professor, hosted the screening with an introduction and a “lively discussion” afterward. Gallo, the Buffalonian director, co-writer and star of the film, plays Billy Brown, a man fresh out of prison who kidnaps Layla (Christina Ricci, The Lizzie Borden Chronicles) so she can pose as his wife in front of his parents – played by Anjelica Huston (The Master Cleanse) and Ben Gazzara (Ristabbanna). All the while, Brown plans an attempt to kill the man who sent him to prison, fictional former Buffalo Bills kicker Scott Wood (Bob Wahl, Buffalo ‘66). Anybody who lives in Buffalo and follows the Bills will be able to immediately spot whom Gallo is referring to – Scott “Wide Right” Norwood, the Bills kicker who missed the game-winning field goal in Super Bowl XXV in 1991. Even though Gallo did projects with big Hollywood names like Kiefer Sutherland (24), his head and his heart were still at home in the Queen City. The first time we see Billy Brown is with his mother, who’s dressed completely in Bills gear, watching the same game that put Brown in prison. Billy’s mother tells his “wife” the Bills have not won a championship since 1966 and she missed the game because it was the same day Billy was born. “I wish he had never been born,” she ut-

ters. Perhaps Buffalonians do not relate directly to the sentiments provided by Billy’s mother, but they feel her pain. Buffalo ’66 may be the definitive Buffalo film, not in its story or characters, but in its setting and mood. “Buffalonians, whether we’re native-born or transplants are starved of any representations of Buffalo on film,” Schmid said. Even though Buffalo ‘66 features some wonderful cinematography, the portrayal of the city is not glorifying – it is real and recognizable. Some shots of the city streets could very well be Elmwood or Delaware and could be hosting any number of UB students. “It doesn’t give a particularly flattering picture of either the city or the people who live here but, in my view, that doesn’t matter because I think it’s very true to life,” he said. Take the film Bruce Almighty (2003), a film that also takes place in Buffalo. Although more popular than Buffalo ’66, it would never be showcased at the North Park Theatre. Why? Simple – it presents a working-class

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town from an upper middle-class perspective. Buffalo ’66, on the other hand, presents the city the way it is, with a director at the helm who understands the spirit of the city. “Buffalo ‘66 captures better than any other film I know what Buffalo is like and for that reason alone I think it should be celebrated,” Schmid said. Buffalo is a city that desires to be loved, yearns to be heard and seen, either as the affluent, cultural center it once was and still

strives to be or the proud, blue-collar town embraced by its inhabitants. Much like Billy Brown in the movie, perhaps the city may never be looked upon in the light it deserves until the Bills bring home that championship. Until then, Buffalo needs to find its own sources of affection and attention consistent with the themes Buffalo ’66 ascribes to it. email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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Tough times in college media Buff State is the latest example in why student governments shouldn’t fund college papers

SARA DINATALE

EDITOR IN CHIEF

It’s been said, but certainly not enough: It’s hard out there for a college journalist. I know Buffalo State College’s The Record knows what I’m talking about. The newspaper, which is funded by its student government, published an April Fools’ issue (which they called The Wreckard) and got a hell of a response – the student government froze the paper’s budget last week. It also asked the newspaper staff to remove its editions from campus. It didn’t like The Record’s witty articles, because that’s, of course, a good reason to ignore the First Amendment. United Student Government Executive Vice President Emily Leminger sent an email to the paper saying, “It has come to our attention from many students and faculty members that some of the topics discussed in the ‘Wreckard’ satire addition were offensive to members of Buffalo State and the surrounding community.” The Spectrum chose not to do an April Fools’ issue for a lot of reasons (mainly, I’ve been told too many times I’m not as funny as I think I am) but that doesn’t mean I don’t support a college paper’s right to run an Onion-style edition. And a quick look at The Record’s satire issue makes it clear the staff did an April Fools’ paper right. The articles are humorous and smart. They poke fun at things all college papers and students can relate to –

like how painfully low voter turnout is for student government elections. There was a story about a “drone strike” killing UB leaders (I see you, The Record) and even if you happened to find it unfunny or in poor taste, it’s still not worth pulling papers over. Yet, Buff State’s student government felt the need to censor the paper because people reportedly found it offensive – even though it clearly wasn’t. I’ll never understand the odd phenomenon that is just how “cool” it is to hate your student paper. To me, that’s all this is. Not shocking – because this is how this stuff usually goes – once people started siding with The Record (like popular journalist blogger Jim Romenesko) the student government responded on its Facebook. Please read a portion of the post below, untouched so you can enjoy the group’s flawed understanding of grammar and what makes a good apology: “Hello Community & The Record, After much consideration; we have reconsidered our actions about freezing your newspaper budget. Our initial actions were made based on the concerns we received from several students. As United Students Government, students come first. The removal of the “April Fools” edition of the paper was called in order to protect our students from feeling uncomfortable. However, The Record you’re our students as well! & the freedom of speech and press proves that us limiting your distribution, is not right.” I’m baffled, truly. How could students in leadership positions running their own government not understand how freedom of the press works? How can these students then decide making a borderline illiterate apology on Facebook makes it OK? But the scariest part of this situation is how easy it was for the student government to freeze The Record’s funds. SUNY and universities need to do more to ensure student governments can’t just mess with funding

whenever they don’t like what a college paper does. There was a time The Spectrum got part of its funding from UB’s student government, the Student Association. We don’t anymore. We haven’t for years. It’s a long story, but what it sums up to is easy to understand: Student governments are usually able to handle their budgets however they see fit. And it’s easy for them to see not supplying money to their No. 1 critics as fit. Now, all The Spectrum’s funding comes from our ad revenue. We’re completely independent from the university, financially and editorially. We’re lucky a great history of leadership has allowed us to get to the point where we can hold that level of fiscal independence comfortably. But it doesn’t come without sacrifice – like being able to only give out very few (and quite small) stipends to students who pour 40-plus hours a week each into our publication. The majority of The Spectrum staff – like many other college media staffs – does not get paid and does the work because they love it. I’ve had talks with the university about creating a voluntary student fee so The Spectrum can have some support from the student body, so my workers can be compensated for their time and so we can ensure the future of this publication. But I am often told I should just go back to SA – that SUNY policy pretty much dictates that student organizations must get money through their student governments, which handle students’ activity fees. I think Buff State shows why that model is flawed – and it’s flawed for every college paper that relies on its student government for support without there being any safeguard to protect funding. How can any student paper staff objectively report on the organization that gives them the money they need to function? It goes against basic journalism ethics, but

for so many papers it’s impossible to avoid. No student media group should fear upsetting its student government – or its university administration – will mean its publications can be stripped from the newsstands and its budget taken away. This system is broken and it has been for years – it just isn’t apparent until instances like these make people pause and wonder, how is this even allowed in the first place? To The Record staff, I’m sorry your student government has put you in this position. To everyone else, the best thing you can do right now is buy a print or web ad from a student newspaper. I know as journalists we’re supposed to hate clichés, but lately it has never been truer: Every dollar counts. email: sara.dinatale@ubspectrum.com

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Buffalo Bucket List No. 6-9: Get your New York sports here See the Bills, Sabres, Bisons and FC Buffalo for some upstate New York sports action DANIEL MCKEON

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The Buffalo Bucket List is a series of articles highlighting my journey to achieve the full college experience in Buffalo, from Buffalo wings to Oozefest. Disclaimer: The Bills and the Sabres aren’t the best. But they are cheap. The Bills even look like they might be getting better. The Bisons, for those who don’t know, are a minor league baseball team, so they are also cheap and not that bad. And the new Buffalo soccer team, FC Buffalo, gives Buffalonians a chance for a fun day out without spending too much. No. 6: Go to a Bills game (and tailgate)

The Buffalo Bills put together an almost impressive season last year – might as well go see them! Despite that the team’s name is a fun little pun, the Bills are currently the most competitive professional team in Buffalo. They narrowly missed a playoff spot last season. The NFL season doesn’t start until mid-September so you won’t be able to see them this year, but if you’re looking for a good autumn day out with friends, Buffalo football is a great option. The Bills play at Ralph Wilson Stadium located in Orchard Park. It’s roughly a half hour from North Campus by car. If you’re going to a game, you’re going to want to get there early to tailgate. Ralph Wilson Stadium’s parking lot is a prime tailgating spot. Bleacher Report ranked it as the fourth best tailgat-

ing in the league. The neighborly attitude of Buffalo and Western New York as a whole is alive and well at Bills tailgates. Meet your fellow Bills fans, drink and be merry. Bills tickets, at their cheapest, cost around $48 depending on the opponent. No. 7: Go to a Sabres game

The Buffalo Sabres are currently in dead last place in the NHL – same as last year – which makes it pretty hard to convince people to come out to see them. The last few seasons have been a gradual rebuilding process. So why should you see them? One word: underdog. When I saw the Sabres this year, they were playing the Vancouver Canucks, the second-place team in the highly competitive Pacific Division. Tickets were only $20 and I figured even if they lose, it would still be a night out with friends.

Instead of seeing a weak team fold to a strong team, we saw a weak team wipe the floor with a strong team. The final score was 6-3. The crowd was ecstatic the entire time. Say what you will about Buffalo sports teams, but their fans are dedicated. Although the Sabres aren’t the best team – in fact, they’re quite the opposite – they are a fun, scrappy team to watch. They play with a lot of effort and work hard for their fans. The team plays at First Niagara Center in downtown Buffalo. The Metro Rail runs from South Campus directly to First Niagara Center and back, making it an easy and cheap ride. No. 8: Go to a Bisons game

The Bisons is the only way to get a firsthand experience in Buffalo with America’s pastime – baseball. Although it may only be minor-league baseball, going out to “the old ballgame” is a classic American experience. The Bisons are actually Buffalo’s most successful professional team with six league titles. They play at Coca-Cola Field in downtown Buffalo. The Metro Rail stops nearby and the best seats are only $15, so a day at Coca-Cola Field is a great way to find some inexpensive entertainment. No. 9: Go to an FC Buffalo game

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Ralph Wilson Stadium, home of the Buffalo Bills, is located in Orchard Park, New York which is roughly a half hour drive from North Campus.

soccer in the United States. Despite this, FC Buffalo has high ambition, aiming to break into the professional leagues of North America. The team’s nickname is the “Blitzers,” named after UB alum and CNN newscaster Wolf Blitzer. How awesome is that? They currently play at Canisius College’s Demske Sports Complex. Season tickets are only $50, roughly the price of tickets for one Bills’ game. Although FC Buffalo was only recently founded, it’s still a good value. FC Buffalo’s motto is “For Our City.” In many ways, all of these teams could use this motto. Each team is uniquely Buffalo and plays hard for its fans. Although the teams aren’t the top teams in the nation, they are the top teams in the hearts of Buffalo natives. Go out and feel what makes Buffalo truly Buffalo. email: dan.mckeon@ubspectrum.com

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Laundry on the go

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Freshmen Eddie Edwards (left) and Logan Harasta do their laundry in the Ellicott Complex. On April 10, students will be able to access laundry machines through a Mobile ID app on their phones and computers. Students can search for available washers and dryers, view wait times for machines and hold machines in Wilkeson and Fargo Quads in Ellicott Complex.

Students can access Wilkeson and Fargo laundry machines from their phones DANI GUGLIELMO

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When Nicolette Cohen went to check her laundry in the Wilkeson Quad laundry room in the Ellicott Complex, it was thrown on top of the washer waiting for her – dripping wet. As an attempt to lessen laundry room complications, UB Campus Dining and Shops (CDS) created a new mobile app for students to reserve washers and dryers. Starting April 10, washers and dryers in Wilkeson and Fargo Quads in Ellicott will be switching to the new CBORD Mobile ID laundry system. Additional laundry rooms will be upgraded to Mobile ID after April 10, according to Raymond Kohl, marketing manager of CDS. This system will allow students to search for available washers and dryers, view wait times for machines and reserve machines from their phones and computers. While some students think this app will help resolve laundry issues, others think it will only lead to more complications. Cohen, a freshman speech and hearing major, is one of many students who have gone to pick up their laundry and find their clothes balled up on top of machines or counters. She has also found her clothes thrown away or stolen by other students. “I think this new system will be very effective for students because it will allow them to reserve washing machines rather than carrying all their laundry down to find that no machines are available,” Cohen said. Joshua Sticht, deputy chief of police at UB, said the University Police have had three reports last semester and two so far this semester of thefts in the dorm laundry rooms.

“I am sure there are probably more in- dents continue this with the app in place, cidents where the victims did not report it could affect the app’s accuracy. it since the laundry was of lesser value,” “I haven’t personally had problems with Sticht said. “This is a pretty recurrent my laundry living in Fargo but when I problem with between three and 10 re- lived in Wilkeson my freshman year, it was ports like this each year.” horrible,” Murphy said. In all of the cases reported, the laundry Incoming freshmen living in Wilkeson was left unattended by students and the for the 2014-15 year returned to a newly value of the stolen clothing has ranged renovated laundry room. from $50-200, Sticht said. “Last year half the machines in WilOnce a student enters the Mobile ID lo- keson were always broken, people took cation number on out other stuthe laundry madents’ wet launchine they wish to dry and the dryEllicott, the Wilkeson use, they swipe the ers took an avercard icon across and Fargo laundry rooms age of four hours the screen on the to dry my clothes,” will be more crowded app and their maMurphy said. “My chine becomes acroommate and I than they already are, tivated. ended up going to a Laundromat to Loewy said. Cohen said this dry our clothes – new card system thankfully they rewill keep students from misplacing others’ clothes, but other did that laundry room.” students don’t see the app being a success. Michael Loewy, a freshman media study Samantha Murphy, a sophomore psy- major, said “first-come, first-serve” is less chology major, used Mobile ID when it complicated than reserving a machine. was first introduced in the fall of 2014 for “If I’m waiting in the laundry room to the UB Snackin’ vending machines. She do my laundry and an open machine can’t had problems logging into the app and be used because it is being held for someeventually deleted it. body, it wouldn’t really be fair,” Loewy Murphy said she’s concerned that if the said. mobile laundry app doesn’t work, it will He said it could be a problem if not evjust add to the frustrations of doing laun- eryone uses the app, or if the person who dry in the dorms. reserved the machine doesn’t show up or Murphy said she has seen people leave use the machine right away. their laundry in the machines while they Loewy said it’s likely more students are go out for the night or go to class, and going to use the laundry rooms that have other students take out others’ laundry to access to Mobile ID because they’ll be put in their own. Murphy said that if stu- able to hold the machines and access wait

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times, making doing laundry more convenient – but some people reserving the machines may not live in that dorm. Because of Wilkeson’s new renovation, Loewy has seen students from other quads using that laundry room, occupying potential washers and dryers that he could use. Corrine Cardinale, a freshman communication major who lives in Governors Complex, said it’s frustrating to hear students living in Wilkeson and Fargo will be able to use this new app, and she won’t have access to it yet. “I had to sit in the laundry room for three hours today in order to do one load of laundry, in fear of someone taking my clothes out and letting them sit if I wasn’t down there,” she said. “Especially because when I enrolled in shared interest housing I assumed that I would have better resources than Ellicott.” Jeremy Feinstein, a freshman accounting major, who lives in Governors thinks it’s not fair they don’t have access to Mobile ID until sometime “after April 10.” He said he feel Governors as a whole is neglected and doesn’t think the technology will be coming to Governors anytime soon. “We miss out on so many basic resources that students living in Ellicott have,” he said. “One would think that being accepted into these programs, some that require mandatory governors housing, would come along with some added perks. Instead we are left to deal with isolation, outdated living and soon to be inferior washing machines.” Loewy said he feels like a better solution would be to just renovate all of the laundry rooms instead of implementing a new system of holding washing machines. Until the app expands to the dorms in Ellicott, the Wilkeson and Fargo laundry rooms will be more crowded than they already are, Loewy said. email: features@ubspectrum.com

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Seniors Tony Daniel and Joe Licata provide stability at quarterback position

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Quarterbacks Tony Daniel, Collin Michael, Craig Slowik and Chris Merchant stretch during a practice on Wednesday. The team returns Daniel and senior Joe Licata, who is expected to assume the starting position after he recovers from off-season surgery.

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With all the changes to the football team this offseason, the one position the Bulls seem the most set on is one of the most important positions on the field – the quarterback. The Bulls’ two senior quarterbacks, Joe Licata and Tony Daniel, will assume their roles of starting and backup quarterbacks, respectively. With two seniors, head coach Lance Leipold said he believes the team is in “good position” at quarterback. “With a handful of changes we have, having two guys who have familiarity with this stadium and game reps, it’s a good start,” Leipold said. “More importantly, both have been good leaders during practice, which we can always use more of.” After practice on a cold and windy afternoon Monday, quarterback coach Andy Kotelnicki compared the quarterbacks to “a large chunk of granite, hoping to become a big, beautiful sculpture.” The arrival of Leipold also welcomes a multiple pro-style offense. In a small preview of the multiple prostyle offense, the Bulls looked to combine their fast-paced philosophy with different personnel on the outside. On Monday, the

team spread out its receivers and the quar- passes and finished second with a 64.9 comterbacks threw short, quick throws as part pletion percentage. He also set the proof the new offense. Kotelnicki said the team gram record for career touchdown passis struggling to learn the new terminology, es, as he surpassed Drew Willy for the most but the personnel is getting used to the new all-time by a Bulls quarterback. Entering his regime’s fast-paced style. senior season, Licata is expected to be the In the early struggles to learn the termi- starting quarterback. nology, Kotelnicki said, “it’s like learning a As a backup, Daniel played few snaps, yet new language” and the transition from last produced as a passer and runner. Daniel atyear’s calls have the quarterbacks “trying to tempted just 15 passes in the season and find the connection between the new calls completed two for touchdown passes. He and the old calls.” also ran for the team’s only rushing touchdown from a quar“There was a terback. struggle on the first The Bulls return day, but we’re getLicata is currenttwo seniors at the ting it,” Kotelnicki ly recovering from said. “In learning a offseason hip surmost important ponew offense, somegery. He injured sition on the team: times we have rough his hip late last seaspots. Practice has son. The surgery quarterback. been much better. prevents him from A huge step forward practicing in spring for where we want to be on offense.” practice for the second consecutive year and Last season, the Bulls were effective on he will miss the upcoming Blue-White game offense due to Licata’s performance under on April 18. center and finished third in the Mid-AmerDespite not being able to practice, Licata ican Conference in points per game with said he’s been able to see the offense from 32.3. Licata and Daniel produced 35 of the another perspective. team’s 49 touchdowns last season. “I’ve been able to see the game as a coach Licata led the MAC with 29 touchdown and it’s helping me,” Licata said. “I can see

The softball struggle An inexperienced roster leads to subpar season, 10-game losing streak for the softball team BOBBY MCINTOSH

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Softball head coach Trena Peel describes the first half of the season as “on-the-job training.” The team has a completely new infield after starters graduated last year and the inexperienced team has struggled to win this season – they’re currently on a 10-game losing streak. The Bulls are 7-26 and have lost all six Mid-American Conference games thus far. Through 33 games last season, the team held a 17-16 record while winning seven of their first eight games. Peel said that it’s been tough replacing the seniors that graduated last year. “They all were integral parts of our

team,” Peel said. “But the team we have now is capable playing every position.” The majority of the team is underclassmen – there are just five seniors and two juniors on the 19-woman roster. Although their record is subpar compared to last season, Peel said she thinks the game results don’t reflect the progress the team has made. “The stats don’t reflect our ability or the talent that we have right now, and I think that’s just a part of being young and being new in a program. It’s not the fact we can’t do it, it just that we haven’t done it consistently that’s hurting,” Peel said. According to Peel, the key areas the Bulls have struggled are fielding and pitching. In

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Sophomore catcher/outfielder Ashton Earnhardt slides safely into second base. Earnhardt and the softball team have a 7-26 records and have lost its last 10 games in what head coach calls a season of “learning on the go.”

some of the things they see and what they want on certain plays. Knowing when someone is supposed to break out of a route or if the running back is open out of the backfield is important.” While Daniel has been “coming along well” in learning the offense, Leipold said he still wants to see Licata’s progression and how he “comes together” in the fall. “Having both [Daniel and Licata] is great, though,” Leipold said. “Joe has a ton of game experience and snaps and we plan to utilize that.” Kotelnicki said Licata’s injury shouldn’t hurt him in learning the offense, but he still needs to see him practice with the team before the season begins. “You can’t get better as a player without practice,” Kotelnicki said. “He needs to get the reps, just to get acclimated to the offense and the looks. I’m confident once he gets back to 100 percent, he should adjust and learn the offense before the season starts.” The team continues training on Friday and will practice about nine more times until the team plays its annual Blue-White game on Saturday, April 18. email: sports@ubspectrum.com

Sophomore infielder Lauren Gambone leads the team in home runs with six on the season. Although her home runs have come at “key times,” Peel doesn’t think that home runs should be the team’s focus at the plate. “We’re not really a long ball team, but we 33 games, the Bulls have accumulated 87 er- can be consistent,” Peel said. “We’re getting rors and allowed at least one home run per on base, but we’re not getting the hits when game. we need to.” “It’s kind of ridiculous,” Peel said. This past Monday was Buffalo’s first out“When our pitchers are playing well from door practice at home as they prepare for a the [pitching] circle, the team is kicking the week-long home stretch. ball around. Our middle infield needs to im“It was great to be able to play in the dirt prove and our pitchers need to keep the ball and get some game situations,” Peel said in the park. If we do those two things, we’ll excitedly. “Now the pitchers don’t have to be fine.” practice with indoor softballs… the girls Sophomore pitcher Bobbi Langlois leads like it.” the rotation in home runs allowed with 18 This past Saturday, the team played Ball long balls in 22 game appearances. The low- State (11-7-2, 7-5 MAC) in Oxford, Ohio. The est earned run average is currently posted game was originally was supposed to be played by freshman Charlotte Miller with a 6.07. in Muncie, Indana, but was moved in accorThe Bulls opponents’ dance to Gov. Andrew ERA is 3.26. Cuomo’s non-essenIn trying to figure tial travel ban to the In 33 games, the out the team’s pitchstate. Peel said the loBulls have accumuing problems, Peel cation move didn’t afsaid that they’re still fect the team and does lated 87 errors and looking for their “ace not matter where and allowed at least one in the circle” and that when the team plays. home run per game. accuracy has been the The ban on travel to team’s biggest hurdle. Indiana has been re“You have to be moved. able to hit your spots consistently,” Peel The Bulls will host Detroit (2-28, 0-6 said. “The walks have just been coming at Horizon League) in a double header on the wrong times and it’s unfortunate.” Wednesday, April 8, at Nan Harvey Field. It Offensively, the Bulls rank near the bot- will be the first home game of the season. tom of most offensive categories, despite Peel said that the players are anxious to playing the fourth most games in the con- play at home and want to compete in front ference. The team ranks fifth in the Mid- of their peers. She said the team is “keepAmerican Conference, with a batting aver- ing their heads up and continuing to fight.” age of .284, but ranks No. 11 with just three “We’ve been fighting to get better every homeruns, eighth at 18 RBI on the season game,” Peel said. “If you change just one and 10th in slugging percentage at .404. inning in some of our games, our record The Bulls have also struggled to bring run- would be opposite of what it is.” ners in. The team average drops to a .257 Conference play will continue over the once runners are on base. When the bases week as Buffalo faces Ohio (11-20, 4-2 are empty, the average is .316. MAC) twice on Friday and play Akron (13Senior infielder Alexis Curtiss and soph- 17, 1-4 MAC) over the weekend. The home omore infielder Savanna Norcio have been stand ends next Wednesday, April 15, when producing at the plate, hitting an average of the Bulls take on local rival Canisius (13-9, .420 and .396, respectively. Curtiss leads the 4-0 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference). team in hits (47) and runs batted in, drivWednesday’s first pitch is set for noon. ing in 23. Peel describes the pair as the most consistent on the team. email: sports@ubspectrum.com