The Spectrum Vol. 64 No. 75

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Volume 64 No. 75

Art for justice

Student to travel across the United States to documenting her life with Crohn’s disease

African American studies class holds art show in honor of Black lives lost JAMES BATTLE

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Filming the final chapter GABRIELA JULIA SENIOR FEATURES EDITOR In 2009, Ivana Bosek thought her 15 years were coming to an end. Her 5-foot-8, 93-pound frame lay bedridden, unsure of what was causing the agonizing pains in her stomach.

A year later, she was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease.

Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract. Bosek had an inflammation where her small intestine and large intestine came together which created scar tissue and a stricture, not allowing food to pass through.

She threw up excessively.

Once she had surgery, her life took a turn for the better.

Bosek, a 22-year-old senior contemporary marketing major from Rochester, New York, is still fighting Crohn’s, but now with a camera crew and a new vision.

In two months, Bosek plans to travel across the country while producing a documentary called The Crohn’s Moans. She will be speaking with physicians and patients from different cities while trying to answer questions that she and other Crohn’s patients have always asked about the disease.

Bosek created a Kickstarter campaign to raise $20,000 by May 13 for the production of her documentary.

She is excited to share footage of her journey to the West Coast but is also taking the audience back to her diagnosis when the idea for the film first started.

Scene 1: The diagnosis Ever since Bosek was a child, she had severe stomach problems.

Bosek has distinct memories of leaning over buckets and laying on the bathroom floor so the cold tile would touch her face and ease the discomfort. She would throw herself over railings and tables to try to get rid of the sharp pain in her abdomen.

“It’s like you’re in this body that isn’t doing what it’s supposed to do,” Bosek said. “You’re in so much pain that you feel stuck.”

Bosek’s health rapidly declined during her junior year in high school.

She lost weight quickly, had no appetite and was extremely fatigued. She knew something was wrong.

When Bosek was 15, she was misdiagnosed with mononucleosis for a year. Her pediatrician didn’t take her case seriously, she said.

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Ivana Bosek, a senior contemporary marketing major, was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease when she was 16.

She’s taking her story and traveling across the country to get footage for her documentary The Crohn’s Moans.

Moneyball: The cost of Division I football OWEN O’BRIEN

INVESTIGATIVE SPORTS REPORTER

When UB Athletic Director Danny White assumed his position in May 2012, it took him 15 months, or 478 days, to send his first #NYBI tweet – meaning the New York Bulls Initiative. His plan is to make Buffalo, a program with middling success in a Mid-Major conference, “America’s Next Big-Time Athletics Brand.”

Judging by attendance numbers and million-dollar television contracts, football seems to be the best way to get a college athletics brand to the public’s eye. The football team brings the most revenue of all of UB’s 20 varsity sports – but it also costs the most.

UB isn’t making a profit off its football team, and that’s not abnormal for Mid-Major conferences.

So is it worth it for universities? The an-

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swer isn’t clear. Most recently, the University of Alabama at Birmingham cut its D-I football program. UB has no intentions of doing the same.

Buffalo spent $6,699,385 on its football program in 2013 – the most on any of its 20 varsity sports and seventh most of the 12 full-time schools in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) according to the U.S. Department of Education. Buffalo broke an even profit margin for football – but largely because of university support.

The Spectrum obtained information for this story via Freedom of Information requests and data compiled from the Knight

An editor’s opinion on the violence in Baltimore and on-going racial tensions

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THE SPECTRUM FILE PHOTO

The UB football team runs out of the tunnel of the UB Stadium. The gap between the schools in the Power Five conferences and Mid-Majors like UB seems to be widening, raising the question if it is worth is for schools to have Division I football teams outside of the Power Five.

Foundation database. These numbers are the most recent available and reflect the 2013-14 fiscal year.

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Outdoor Adventure Club used kayaks and canoes to clean up the shores of Lake LaSalle

“‘I love you, too,’ Sean Bell. Nov. 25, 2006.”

After the words – which were read aloud on a platform in the Student Union – the sound of gunshots rang out.

“I love you, too” were Bell’s last words.

The gunshots came after only some of the many names were read of people who were killed by police. The gunshot sound was met with mixed reactions from the crowd.

On Monday in the Student Union lobby, professor Toni Pressley-Sanon’s African American studies 425 class: “Liberation Struggles” held an art showcase entitled: “Art for Justice” to increase campus awareness of police brutality across the United States. Students in Pressley-Sanon’s class planned the show. “[Recent protests] in Baltimore, for example, that’s a response to people being tired,” said Isaiah Davis, a junior philosophy and English major. “It’s the embodiment or the manifestation of: ‘We’re tired and we don’t know what to do and this is all we have left.’”

Art for Justice is a more peaceful means, Davis said.

Following the death of Freddie Gray, who was beaten into a coma by Baltimore police and later pronounced dead from his injuries, protesters in Baltimore took the streets and, in some cases, clashed with police.

Tensions in the city are high – while some protests are peaceful, other clashes are violent.

But Monday’s event aimed at responding to the high-profile deaths in a creative way.

Davis said people should utilize their talents, passions or hobbies in a different form. He was hoping to open that gateway to students.

“I was doing a lecture in class about the Black Power Movement, and the day of the lecture was actually the day after the Walter Scott incident,” Davis said. “[Our class] figured that something had to be done.”

Scott was fatally shot on April 4 after a daytime traffic stop in North Carolina. Officer Michael Slager was charged with murder after a video surfaced that showed him shooting Scott in the back while he was fleeing.

Professor Pressley-Sanon and her class used the showcase as a creative outlet for students to voice their concerns.

Pressley-Sanon said the class didn’t see anything being done on campus besides “a few talks that historicized violence against Black men in particular.”

She wanted to plan an event that was student-led and something students took ownership of.

“Just talking to my students, mainly African-American male students, I realized that they really didn’t have an outlet or a place to talk about what happened,” Pressley-Sanon said. “It’s very scary, and to not have some sort of outlet was really problematic.”

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Men’s tennis team to play Ohio State in the NCAA Tournament

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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 NUMBERS BASED ON THE UB ATHLETICS BUDGET FOR THE 2013-14 FISCAL YEAR

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Sixty-two percent, or $4,188,874, of the football program’s revenue in 2013 came from student fees and direct institutional support. Institutional support includes direct university funding, indirect facilities and administrative support and direct state or other government support. As an athletic department, UB received more than $13 million in direct institutional support, $8 million in student fees, $2 million in indirect facilities and administrative support and no money from state or government support.

The MAC, Buffalo’s conference for all varsity sports except women’s rowing, is considered a Mid-Major conference outside of the Power Five conferences that include the wealthiest and biggest conferences: Southeastern Conference (SEC), Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big 12, Pacific-12 and the Big Ten. UB Athletics operated with a $31,134,149 budget in 2013-14 – the largest in the MAC, but significantly less than Power Five conference schools.

It’s common for MAC football teams to break even – all but three of the 12 in the 2013-14 fiscal year did, according to the U.S. Department of Education – but do so mostly because of university support.

“The reality is that if you are not in a Power Five conference, it is very difficult to be completely,” White paused. “Nobody is completely self-sufficient that doesn’t enjoy conference membership at the highest level because the TV revenue they get in the Power Five conferences is substantially higher.”

Conferences in the Power Five have their own television networks and contracts with ESPN of over a billion dollars, so their universities have to put less money into them.

Although UB paid $42,482 in institutional support per student-athlete for all teams in

2013 – the average for a MAC school was $39,856 – according to the Knight Foundation database for Division I spending, some universities in the Amount spent Amount of football Total UB Athletics Budget: Power Five, like the SEC and revenue that came from on football: institutional support and the Big 12, only needed to athletic fees: $6,699,385 pay around $5,000 in universi$4,188,874 ty funding per student-athlete.

Big Ten schools only averaged $985. “[You] have to recognize not everybody is Alabama and Texas with 100-plus-millioncoaches: dollar budgets,” said Buffalo Deputy Director of Athletics athletic $1,406,703 travel: Allen Greene. student aid: $904,018 Some schools are begin$2,760,455 ning to question if the cost guarantees: of Division I football outside $429,450 the Power Five conferences is worth the expense. The Uniequipment, supplies versity of Alabama at Birand uniforms: mingham was a member of $416,129 Conference USA, which is not game expenses: recruiting: in the Power Five, in its final $351,568 $164,403 season before the university cut its football program for fihelp build up the national exposure of uni- tracts that teams in the Power Five receive. nancial reasons. versities. President Satish Tripathi said in And some think the gap is only widening, “I love football, but the reality is that an email that UB Athletics is rightly funded which could leave schools outside the Powmost of the expense growth has come from and “doing a terrific job in terms of increas- er Five like UB to questioning retaining Diexpanding football programs,” said Dr. ing sponsorship, philanthropic giving and vision I football.

Welch Suggs, an associate professor of jourticket sales to generate more revenue for our Impact of television and mass media nalism at the Grady College of Journalism athletics program.”

While the Power Five conferences have and Mass Communication at University of Both Tripathi and Greene said the univerTV contracts with ESPN worth a billion Georgia in an email. “I wonder if the sport sity doesn’t have any input in how the athdollars that can pay each school $20 milas played at the FBS level is sustainable for letics department spends the money given lion, the MAC’s newest deal with ESPN is schools outside the top tier of the Power from the school, and Greene and White said reportedly worth around $100 million.

Five conferences.”

UB Athletics wants to reduce the amount Forbes reported the SEC and ESPN White called any decision to cancel or of money the university gives the athletics reached a 15-year, $2.25 billion deal and reduce a football program a “shortsightprograms.

CBS Sports reported each SEC school ed mistake.” He said it’s not something UB The goal for athletics is to make money would receive an average payout of $20.9 is considering and he believes football can on its own. million per season.

“We want to be as self sustaining as posThe MAC’s 13-year TV deal with ESPN, sible,” Greene said. “You need to have a signed in August 2014, pays every MAC winning product in order to do that. But school just $670,000 per season, as reportit’s not our intent, nor do I think it’s wise to ed by ESPN’s Brett McMurphy. And the go back to the university and say, ‘We need MAC’s previous deal with ESPN paid each more money, please.’ We need to show we university just around $120,000. can generate some revenue on our own and And college football is the main reason having championship-caliber teams makes for these gigantic contracts, budgets and opthat conversation a lot easier to be able to portunities for other sports to gain nationsell more season tickets.” al exposure.

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Editorial Board EDITOR IN CHIEF

Sara DiNatale

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OPINION EDITOR

Tress Klassen COPY EDITORS

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

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Charles W Schaab, Asst.

FEATURES EDITORS

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James Battle, Asst.

ARTS EDITORS

Tori Roseman, Senior Brian Windschitl SPORTS EDITORS

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PHOTO EDITORS

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CARTOONISTS

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New and improved laundry system is anything but Laundry tends to be a consistently annoying chore – especially for students living in a shared space – and despite the efforts of Campus Living, a new mobile app and swipe system has done nothing but move the irritation online.

The installation of card swipe consoles in laundry rooms in the Ellicott Complex, along with the rollout of a new mobile app, was supposed to simplify the process and allow students to reserve machines, search for availability and view wait times.

The app sounds promising. It’s also clear the app is a response from Campus Living, who made an effort to respond to students’ complaints about the process when staff conducted a survey, finding residents felt there weren’t enough machines and they didn’t know when they were available.

This new system, which also limits students to a maximum of three machines at a time, seems to address these problems.

What sounds good on paper, however, isn’t translating into improved experiences in the dorms’ laundry rooms.

Even if students don’t want to use the app, they have to enter their information into the consoles installed in the laundry rooms and swipe their UB IDs to access a machine.

And that process is inconvenient at best – residents have to go back and forth from the console to the washer and dryer, adding several steps to a process that’s tedious from the start.

This annoyance is especially irk-

some to students who don’t see the need to use the app that corresponds with the new consoles, as they don’t see any benefit from the added inconvenience they’re experiencing.

Many of the aspects to the updated system reflect thorough research of residents’ experiences on the part of Campus Living

Spend money to improve UB, not its image Branding initiative appears as expensive as it is unnecessary The initial phase of a four-part, $314,000 branding initiative at UB just came to a close – but somehow, even though branding is entirely focused on image and publicity, not many students are aware of the process.

The initiative was aimed at improving UB’s “inclusiveness,” but it hasn’t done much to include students, other than then encouraging the student body to take a survey about the changes.

Students should be aware of the project so they can develop opinions about the process – and its worth.

As UB advances through its planned 2020 expansion, which includes the creation of its downtown Medical Campus, it’s important that the university maintains a focus on its academic improvements, rather than its advertisements and public image.

UB 2020 is a promising project that affords the university the opportunity to expand its presence in downtown Buffalo and take part in the city’s burgeoning recovery.

But this doesn’t mean UB needs to rebrand itself.

Rather than spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a branding project to improve inclusiveness – the details of which are still vague even though the initiative is 25 percent complete – UB should instead dedicate time and money to including its students in the experiences of downtown Buffalo.

A major increase in the presence of UB students throughout Buffalo – rather than in the UB-Amherst bubble – would do far more to communicate and promote UB’s in-

drying loads of laundry requires longer than that, and accordingly, now requires multiple ID card swipes and machine reservations.

Automatic emails are also ILLUUSTRATION BY HARUMO SATO problematic, as all students – even those not using the app – receive notifications about their laundry. Because residents swipe their UB IDs, the system has their email information and sends multiple messages reminding students about the status of their laundry.

For some students, this could certainly be helpful – it’s not uncommon for students to forget their laundry and unintentionally abandon their clothes, to the frustration of other residents.

But though the emails aren’t an entirely misguided idea, students should be able to opt out if they choose.

A more flexible system in general would improve students’ experiences in the laundry rooms.

This update has promise.

Some of the elements seem useful – like the app itself, which has information about wait times and available machines, and the option of email reminders.

But the required swiping of IDs, multiple trips to and from the consoles and incessant notifications are all stymieing – the three machine limit, for exwhat could be an efficient system. ample, was selected because survey Campus Living should have andata suggested students typically other go at these changes and lisdon’t use more than that number ten carefully to student feedback at a time. in order to use technology to imBut this clearly isn’t the case prove the process of doing launwith a new 45-minute time limit, dry in the dorms, rather than overas students have grown frustrated complicate it. because they can only reserve machines for 45 minutes at a time –

Updated technology overcomplicates what used to be a simple process

fluence in the city than a new website, a different message and whatever other yet-to-be-named changes this initiative may bring.

And that sort of promotion would also directly involve – and benefit – UB students, while also helping the city of Buffalo.

The city, the school and its students would profit from an initiative that focuses on rebranding UB’s relationship with Buffalo and increasing student awareness and inclusion with the city’s growth.

Instead of spending money to change the university’s image, that money should go toward projects that change the university’s influence – promotion of events downtown, funding for Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) Metro access – because that would ultimately affect and improve this school’s reputation anyway.

When UB Athletics rebranded its program to focus on New York State rather than Buffalo – an odd move, considering how many SUNY universities exist throughout the state – the change not only insulted other public New York universities but also acted as a blow to Buffalo.

UB 2020’s new branding should avoid this – and do precisely the opposite, by emphasizing the school’s dedication to an improved relationship with the city and appreciation for all Buffalo has to offer.

Increased community outreach will accomplish a lot more than a changed brand, especially because students are largely unaware of what this new UB image will look like or even what’s going to be different.

If UB can’t even promote its branding initiative among its students, then the effectiveness of the project overall seems doubtful at best. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

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Letter from the editor The Spectrum staff questions how we describe race

SARA DINATALE EDITOR IN CHIEF

The deaths of young black men have gripped the headlines of newspapers across the country within the last year.

The deaths of Freddie Gray and Michael Brown, the grim statistics that black young men are 21 times more likely to be killed by police than young white men, the communal rage against police officers, the riots.

The media is writing about race issues. The Spectrum is writing about race issues.

Ethical newspapers – The Spectrum included – don’t write the race of an individual unless it’s pertinent to the story. If race is a contributing factor to tensions, those details need to be explained.

But what way is the right way to encapsulate race?

Do we use white or Caucasian?

More pertinently, do we use African American, black or Black?

You may have seen a column in Monday’s edition of The Spectrum on page three called “African Americans are more than just a color.” Staff writer Jashonda Williams criticized The Spectrum and

the Associated Press’ choice to use the word “black.”

Williams prefers “African American.” She writes, “Every other race gets the satisfaction of being called the politically correct term but African Americans are subjected to being identified as just a color. We are more than that.”

The story ran while I was out of the office. Annually, The Spectrum has a trial week, in which the following year’s staff takes over to try out its new roles. This means I didn’t see Williams’ piece until it was in print. I suggested she write the column near the start of the spring semester when she first brought her feelings about black vs. African American to me.

I’m glad she did.

It’s sparked a conversation in our newsroom about how we want to address race in the future.

The staff is keen to keep talking until we come up with a policy that doesn’t alienate anyone.

When handling race, The Spectrum has traditionally followed the guidelines of the AP and used “black” rather than “African American” and “white” rather than “Caucasian.”

The AP style guide provides a rubric that helps ensure cohesiveness in journalism style. It explains the correct way to write everything from abbreviations for states to numbers to dates to words like email. It’s more than 400 pages long.

Williams’ column brought attention to a grave mistake within the pages of The Spectrum’s course book, for which I apologize. The course book states that “Caucasian” should be used over “white.” That’s incorrect and not what we have ever used in print.

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Kayaks and canoes lead to improved cleanup of Lake LaSalle Outdoor Adventure Club cleans lake as a part of Earth Week

KAINAN GUO, THE SPECTRUM

Celia Rosen, a sophomore health and human services mayor, filled one of many trash bags with garbage from the Lake LaSalle shore lines.

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Traffic cones, stools, a satellite dish and pizza boxes – items normally found in a dumpster – were all pulled out of Lake La-

Salle on Friday afternoon.

The Outdoor Adventure Club (OAC), in partnership with the office of Outdoor Pursuits, pulled these and other bizarre items out of the lake in a cleanup effort as a part of UB’s Earth Week celebration.

“It was crazy,” said Andrew Charbonneau, a sophomore environmental engineering major and OAC trip leader. “We didn’t even finish the whole lake and had 25 bags of trash.”

Roughly 15 students, mainly members of the OAC, helped clean around 75 percent of the man-made lake, and thanks to a recent partnership between Outdoor Pursuits and Student Life, kayaks and canoes were used in the cleanup effort for the first time ever. The OAC does a cleanup every year around campus, but this was the first year students were able to go out onto the lake and use paddles to scoop out trash along the shoreline.

Kayaking and canoeing on the lake became available last fall, as Student Life installed a dock and Outdoor Pursuits donated kayaks and canoes for students to rent.

Charbonneau noted that kayaks and canoes made this year’s lake cleanup the most successful one yet.

“When Outdoor Pursuit merged with Student Life it opened up a lot of opportunities for [OAC], and students, to get involved with outdoor life,” Charbonneau said. “One being the use of kayaks on the lake.”

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Students from the Outdoor Adventure club and volunteers were able to use kayaks and canoes, for the first time, on Lake LaSalle to access parts of the shoreline that were inaccessible by land.

Schoenle said it’s possible the excess litter found Friday may have blown out of garbage cans and dumpsters. He said more litter is being discovered now that the snow has melted so not all of the trash found on campus can be attributed to littering.

The OAC has been doing events like the lake cleanup in an effort to become more engaged with UB and the surrounding communities, according to Charbonneau.

“This is the direction we want to take the OAC,” Charbonneau said. “Being more involved with the community and helping the environment is what we’re looking to do.”

The office of Outdoor Pursuits merged with Student Life in the fall of 2014, which brought the Outdoor Pursuits office to the Student Union and has allowed students to rent hiking gear, take wilderness courses and kayak on Lake LaSalle for free.

Crispell said Outdoor Pursuits is looking to get students more involved with maintaining a healthy environment for the campus. Crispell is advocating this involvement through events like the lake cleanup.

The OAC recently received a grant to chaperone a fifth grade Buffalo public school class at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site in downtown Buffalo on May 9.

The grant came from the New York State Park Service and will provide admission for the OAC and the children, according to senior physics major and senior trip leader with OAC Steven Rabinowitz. Rabinowitz said the trip would help get students in the OAC more involved with the community and the outdoors.

“This is all a part of the OAC being a larger part of the Buffalo community,” Rabinowitz said.

Members of the OAC, such as sophomore health and human sciences major Celia Rosen, said they were happy and proud to clean up part of the campus, “We had a lot of fun doing it,” Rosen said. “Cleaning the environment is awesome.”

Brian Johnson, a junior communication major and OAC’s vice president, stressed the importance of using canoes and kayaks to help clean the lake. He said after only collecting trash from the shoreline for several hours, he can’t imagine how much is actually at the bottom of the lake. There are parts of the Lake LaSalle shoreline that are steep and inaccessible by land, and therefore garbage has been piling up there, according to Johnson.

“There was lots of crap on the edges near the tree line,” Johnson said. “We just grabbed what we could with our paddles and hands … it was nasty in some parts.”

Litter is a problem anywhere humans travel. Whether it is on top of Mount Everest or at Lake LaSalle, humans pollute the environment, according to Russ Crispell, director of Outdoor Pursuits and OAC’s faculty adviser.

“We found bottles, tons of paper, a few dollar bills, a chair … it is incredible what one finds,” Crispell said. “Sad to say … Litter is a problem everywhere.”

Lake LaSalle was created in 1970 to provide flood control and water runoff while the UB North Campus was being constructed, according to UB Facilities. The average depth of the lake is 10 feet and it is 25 feet at its deepest point.

Littering in Lake LaSalle is enforced by University Police and offenders can receive a $250 fine if caught, according to UB Sustainability. An offender of a litter ordinance would receive a traffic summons if caught, according to Chief of Police Gerald Schoenle. He said each town makes its own violations regarding litter, and because it is not a crime, these violations are not recorded as such.

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where to find the hope. The hope is within each and every one of us. I didn’t want him to have features that would discern him to look like a particular person.”

The showcase also incorporated live performances, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 such as a step routine from UB Step Troupe, a live poetry reading and a solo dance performance.

The original plan for the show was to do a live Toward the end of the showcase, the African drawing of a chalk outline, which is seen around bodAmerican studies class and volunteers from the audiies at a crime scene. The outline was to be filled in ence read the names and last words of people killed with the names of people who lost their lives to poby police and a loud gunshot sound followed. lice officers in recent years.

Some people attending the show were unhappy and It was then that Davis, as well as other students uncomfortable with the gunshots, shouting, “Please in the class, thought it stop; that’s disrewould be an even betspectful.” ter idea to do a whole art The gunshots show. stopped.

The small exhibit in the Davis was quick heart of campus featured to respect the wishwork from student artes of offended atists as well as a few prints tendees, but felt from Stacey Robinson, a that sound efUB art graduate student. fects were needed The students’ goal was to drive the point to feature paintings based home to people. on the idea of oppression “I was fine with and injustice at the hands it,” Davis said. “I of police. organized the event One painting was a but I was open to panoramic view painted other people’s senon a mirror of the killing sitivity. I don’t of Scott. The artist, Lisa know how they take DeAbreu, painted it on those deaths pera mirror in order to have sonally. For a pothe viewer see a reflection litical movement, of them in the face of sometimes you tragedy. have to make things DeAbreu, a junior fine known.” arts and education major, Aside from the uses her art to help exrequest for the press how she feels about ANGELA BARCA, THE SPECTRUM sound of gunshots situations she can’t easily The African American studies 425 class held an art show in to stop, Davis said the Student Union on Monday entitled “Art for Justice.” The put into words. he got nothing but “When I make some- art displayed in the showcase brought awareness to the positive feedback reprotests taking place around the country. thing, I put my whole garding the event. heart into it, my passion,” “As human beings, DeAbreu said. “That’s how I can communicate [how we’re attracted to art and things, so even though when I feel].”

Another one of DeAbreu’s paintings was a piece the more politically charged aspects of the show that she painted live at the Black Student Union’s came, a lot of people who were white came by and were taken by the art,” Davis said.

“Black Explosion” fashion show and art showcase.

Silence the Hostage is a multicolored face with white Editor’s note: The Spectrum has chosen to capitalize the eyes being gagged by the American flag.

“What I wanted to do was give people something word “Black” in this article out of respect for the wishes of the to think about,” DeAbreu said. “I wanted to hit peo- staff. See the column on page three for further explanation. ple with a striking image and for me; I wanted was to evoke a pain. When I started painting it, I didn’t know email: features@ubspectrum.com

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Had a reporter asked me which we use, I would have said “white.” I’ve never published a story with the term “Caucasian,” because I have been taught otherwise. But that doesn’t excuse the mistake in the 83-page book we use to teach our staff writers the basics of journalism.

Williams is far from alone in preferring “African American” over black – others in our newsroom agree. Some preferred the term “Black,” emphasizing the B should be capitalized.

Right now, I have no answers about what is the “best” identification to use. I can say that our use of the term was never meant to offend or be political.

Rather, we were aiming for consistency and professionalism. I am deeply sorry to those we offended.

I now see that the latest versions of the AP style book states that while black is suggested, African American is acceptable. I will recommend to my editor in chief-elect that that be added into our course book in addition to fixing the aforementioned mistake.

For clarity, I also want to say The Spectrum never alters quotes, even with brackets, to make them AP style friendly. If a person says “Caucasian” or “African American” in a quoted sentence, we don’t change his or her words.

I want to assure students that how The Spectrum handles race goes beyond a few lines written in its course book. If a student identifies as African American and that detail is pertinent to the story, there’s no reason that students needs to be referred to as “black.”

But with that term needs to

come care because not everyone identifies with his or her African roots in the same way.

It’s complicated. There isn’t a simple solution.

I can’t recall a time when a student has requested to be identified a certain way over another because, as I said, identifying race in a story is necessary in so few occasions.

But as racial tensions continue to boil in our country, The Spectrum wants to address these issues honestly and open a campus dialogue. That means we need to make a decision on what we want to do – and maybe that differs from what the AP suggests.

My staff has, in overwhelming numbers, said if we use the term “Black” we should capitalize the “B.” Out of respect to them, I have chosen to do that in today’s story on an African American studies class that honored Black lives lost due to police brutality by creating an art exhibition on Monday in the Student Union.

I have two weeks left as editor in chief. Ultimately, what the staff does after me is up to them. We’ve talked about having a poll to ask students what term they prefer. We’ve talked about voting as a staff to make it “Black.” But does that mean we capitalize White, too?

Williams has started this conversation, but I can’t be the one to finish it.

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“At the time that I was diagnosed, a lot of Crohn’s patients go through that where their doctors don’t take them seriously because they had stomach problems and everyone has stomach problems,” Bosek said.

According to the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America, 1.6 million Americans have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Most people are diagnosed with IBD before the age of 15.

Bosek said she and other Crohn’s patients consider Crohn’s an “invisible illness.” On the outside, they look like nothing is wrong.

But on the inside, each day is different.

One morning, Bosek was in such pain that she went to see her pediatrician. Her pediatrician told her she was just having stomach problems and couldn’t be bothered by her,

Bosek said.

Bosek and her parents were angry and frustrated and went to a new doctor who accurately diagnosed her with Crohn’s disease.

She was 16 at the time.

“We were extremely frustrated and felt very helpless,” said her mother, Carol Ann Bosek. “We didn’t know why she was fading away.”

Carol Ann said Bosek was so frail and weak that she couldn’t eat and had to be put on a liquid diet. There were times where she would faint at school and had to come home.

Bosek was excited to learn she had Crohn’s, as “twisted” as it sounds, she said. She was just happy to finally have answers.

But doctors weren’t able to give her all the answers. She still doesn’t know what caused her to have Crohn’s disease. Doctors have told her it could be genetic, environmental or from her diet.

After MRIs, heavy medications and waking up during a colonoscopy, Bosek decided to meet with a surgeon.

At the time, she was so frail that they couldn’t get IVs into her for a CAT scan. Her surgeon didn’t have a clear plan but decided surgery was the only option.

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Bosek still has the scar on her stomach where 16 inches of her small intestine was removed.

She said surgery isn’t the answer for all Crohn’s patients, but it did change her life significantly.

“I was in the hospital for five days and recovered in another five days and then I went to junior prom,” Bosek said. “It was amazing, I was a completely normal person again.”

Scene 2: The recovery After graduating from high school, Bosek lived life like the average college student for her first three years at UB. “I got to go out with my friends, stay up late and pull all-nighters for exams,” Bosek said.

Bosek was a film major when she first came to UB. After her freshman year, she decided to go to Los Angeles to work on a documentary. She was offered a job as an editor for the documentary but after three days in Los Angeles, Bosek realized she wanted to come back to UB with a new plan in mind.

She came back to Buffalo the second semester of her sophomore year and designed her own major called contemporary marketing through social media, a combination of

communication, marketing, design and media courses.

She created a curriculum and met with a special major adviser before the dean approved. She will graduate May 17 with her special major degree.

“I wanted to get into social media and learn how to market myself as an artist,” Bosek said.

But coming back to UB and jumping into new courses wasn’t the smoothest transition.

Since Bosek’s surgery, she’s had to make a lot of life changes. Her diet, social life and schoolwork had to be altered because of stress management.

Bosek is still taking medications. She is currently on Cimzia, an immune depressant that causes her to get sick easily. Patients treated with Cimzia “are at an increased risk for developing serious infections that may lead to the hospitalization or death,” according to cimzia.com. Lymphoma and other malignancies have been reported in some children and young adults.

Bosek administers the stomach injection to herself once a month.

On top of being a vegetarian, Bosek has to eat gluten-free and has to stay away from

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Bosek has taken different medications ever since she first felt severe pains in her stomach. She was misdiagnosed with mononucleosis for a year before she found out she had Crohn’s.

processed foods, whole grains and excessive alcohol consumption.

Bosek enjoyed the nightlife during her first three years of college, but she eventually had to learn how to say no to parties during her senior year.

“Now that it’s 2015, people seem to be more aware of what Crohn’s is, so everyone has been much more understanding,” Bosek said. “But when I was first diagnosed, there wasn’t much awareness.”

Bosek said a lot of her friends didn’t realize how severe her disease was because they were new friends she made after coming to college.

Bosek and Shannon Trubatch, a senior biological sciences major, met through Facebook their freshman year while looking for roommates. Their four-year friendship has been strong ever since and she has been with Bosek during some of her worst flare-ups.

During the summer of 2014, Bosek’s health started to worry her again. She has learned not to stretch herself too thin and to only take on a workload she can handle.

times with her boyfriend, Dylan Bromley, who graduated from UB last year. Bosek and Bromley went to the same high school and have been dating for over a year.

Bromley said all it takes is one little slip to be back at square one.

Watching Bosek fight for a healthy lifestyle is the hardest thing he has had to witness.

But Bromley never felt Crohn’s was a threat to their relationship.

“Her ambition to make herself better and the strength she displays through fighting the disease are things that make me attracted to her,” Bromley said.

Since Bosek’s last heavy hit this past summer, she decided she wasn’t going to stay in bed. She YUSONG SHI, THE SPECTRUM wanted to capture each moment for the big screens.

Scene 3: The Crohn’s Moans production In high school, Bosek was determined to travel and start her own film.

During her sophomore year of college, she shot footage of herself during doctor visits and MRIs. “This year I started thinking about the impact I wanted to make on the world and who I wanted to tell my story to,” Bosek said.

Bosek’s health and the Kickstarter camThe Crohn’s Moans logo is an illustration of paign has caused tension in her relationships Bosek’s stomach scar turning into flowers to with close friends. She said it’s difficult for represent her transformation during this exsomeone who doesn’t have a chronic illness perience. to understand what she’s going through at all Bosek said she has an alternative look on times. how Crohn’s should be treated and that’s Trubatch agrees. what made her want to film and produce her “At times, [Crohn’s] has put a strain on our own documentary. She will start her journey relationship, especially during times when it June 4. got more severe,” Trubatch said. “Once I un“I will be talking to conventional gastroderstood better why she was getting so upset, enterologists who believe drug therapy is the I could respond appropriately and be a better only way but I’ll be adding other perspectives friend and support system.” so that patients see that it isn’t the only thing Bosek also spent some of her toughest available to them,” Bosek said.

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During the documentary, the audience will follow Bosek through her two-month road trip to New York City, Chicago, Colorado, Oregon, California and Seattle where she will film interviews with physicians and patients.

But Bosek’s big dream will cost her.

She doesn’t have an exact date as to when the film will be finished. It all depends on how much money she raises and whether or not she has to find a job during production, she said.

She limited herself to $20,000, a budget solely on donations she hasn’t fully received yet.

Bosek created the Kickstarter campaign to raise funds. Traveling, hiring a production crew and getting proper equipment will be most of the cost. She has only raised just more than $7,000.

Bosek will not be making any money from the film. All of the donations will go directly toward production.

If she runs out of money, she could be homeless – one of her biggest fears.

“I’m afraid that I’ll finish filming and have to work just to pay the bills and not be able to throw myself into the project like I would like to,” Bosek said.

Her biggest fear is the Kickstarter campaign not being fully funded. But it’s not all about the money, Bosek said. It’s more about telling the story and providing hope.

Regardless of her worries, Bosek’s friends and family believe she is more than capable of completing a successful film.

“I’ve seen her skills grow over the last few years and I have no doubt she can put together a cohesive, interesting piece that is both entertaining and informative,” Trubatch said.

Although Bosek’s mother is nervous about her traveling across the country, she is happy and excited for her daughter’s journey.

Bosek will be traveling with other film students from different schools. Almost the entire production crew will be college students and graduates, she said. Once the film is complete, she will be submitting The Crohn’s Moans to film festivals across the country.

“Ivana [Bosek] has an open mind and a beautiful heart, so all of the [future] possibilities are endless,” Trubatch said. email: gabriela.julia@ubspectrum.com

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Buffalo has increased its presence on ESPN3 – broadcast online to homes around the world. In September, the MAC chose Buffalo, along with Central Michigan and Northern Illinois, to play at least 35 schools on the ESPN family of networks last season. Every home wrestling match, along with men’s and women’s basketball games, aired on an ESPN network. Every Buffalo football game aired on an ESPN channel, except the game against Army, which was picked up by CBS Sports.

White said television contracts within college football have “certainly changed the game,” but he doesn’t think its caused greater separation between the Mid-Majors and Power Five schools.

“I think there was already a gap and that gap still exists,” White said. “At the end of the day, there are only so many things within the rules that those institutions are allowed to pay for and by in large, most times, when a student-athlete has the opportunity to go to a Power Five school or a Mid-American Conference school, we are very rarely winning that recruiting battle anyway. So I don’t think it has created any larger of a gap.”

These Power Five conferences continue to make decisions to separate themselves from the rest of the NCAA. In January, these schools voted and passed to have the ability to pay for student-athletes total cost of attendance – rather than just the value of the scholarship.

Even with new rule changes that favor the Power Five schools, White said the presence of an FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) football program helps the athletic department as a whole. There are currently 10 FBS football conferences, compared to 13 FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) conferences. White said “having access to some of that revenue is a difference maker as we move forward and try to build our program.”

John Affleck, the Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society at Penn State, who worked for the Associated Press for 22 years, called television the “driver” for universities and said the “incredible boom” of television money has led to the separation of the Power Five schools and Mid-Majors like Buffalo. He credited football as the main reason for this boom but thinks every school has to make its own decision when it comes to college football.

“I don’t think it should be axiomatic for schools to have football,” Affleck said. “A lot of schools have bet on football as the way to overall raise the profile of the school and some people win, but not everybody wins in that equation.”

Shawn Heilbron, current SUNY Stony Brook athletic director and former senior associate athletic director for development at Oregon State, has worked within the Pac-12, a Power Five conference, and now Stony Brook, an FCS school. He’s seen firsthand the impact of television contracts on large universities.

“The TV contracts we have seen with the Power Five conferences have been a tremendous game-changer,” Heilbron said. “With the money that is now available to those institutions, it allows them to reinvest in other aspects in their department and make them stronger.”

Greene said since White’s arrival at Buffalo in 2012, football has been one of the highlighted sports in the athletic department.

“There have been strategic investments since Danny’s arrival in football to get the biggest bang for our buck in terms of relevancy and in terms of the ability to win,” Greene said.

White recently announced the “West Club,” which will contain 400 premium seats and an indoor lounge at UB Stadium next season and one of UB Athletics’ largest capital projects at the moment is to build a field house, which will largely help the football team, along with UB’s other outdoor sports, train during poor weather.

Nine of 12 MAC schools have a field house.

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some of its $143,831 profit from the 201314 fiscal year toward capital projects.

Buffalo was one of only four MAC schools that operated without any athletic facilities related debt. The average MAC school had $1.8 million in debt in 2013, according to the Knight Commission spending database, and the average FBS schools had $3.1 million. Ball State, Northern Illinois and Kent State are the other three MAC schools without facilities debt.

White called football the most “visible sport in the country.”

According to White, Buffalo’s 2013 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl game had 2.06 million viewers and its September 2014 home game against Baylor this past fall drew 1.29 million viewers. White said the men’s basketball team’s NCAA Tournament matchup in March drew 1.3 million viewers. It’s one of the reasons White said a successful FBS football program is key to building UB Athletics.

“The NCAA Tournament in men’s basketball, as great as it was, that was the equivalent to a regular season game in terms of viewers for football,” White said.

Greene said he “would like to think” that Buffalo would never feel the need to drop its

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football program or return to FCS. He did say each campus is different in terms of its investments in particular sports, and that if UB were ever in a position in which it had to drop its football program, Greene wouldn’t be the person in charge of making that decision.

An FCS approach The UB football program dates back to 1894, with multiple periods of time in which it was canceled and reinstated. From 1977 to 1992, UB had a Division III football team.

In 1993, Buffalo moved up to FCS. Buffalo went 21-45, highlighted by an 8-3 1996 season, in six seasons in the FCS before moving to the MAC in 1999. Buffalo got off to a slow start in the FBS, dropping 79 of its first 92 games in seven seasons before winning five games in 2007 and its lone MAC Championship in 2008. Buffalo has gone 27-45 since 2008, including a trip to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in 2013.

Stony Brook, current member of the Colonial Athletic Association in the FCS, is investing in its football program but isn’t getting ahead of itself in terms of making the jump to FBS. Before Stony Brook can make the jump to FBS, Heilbron said it’s important for programs to establish themselves within their level of competition.

“Everything that we want to do here is compete at the highest level,” Heilbron said.

“The highest level in football is the FBS right now, but I think we have to prove that we can be a national power at the FCS before we have that conversation about the FBS because I don’t want to ever want to make that move simply just to make it.”

White said the MAC is the right conference for Buffalo at the moment. “[The MAC] gives us every opportunity to show that we can be a consistent competitor in college football,” White said. “We need to show that because we haven’t since we joined the FBS level 16 years ago.”

Buffalo has had just two winning seasons and two bowl game appearances since joining Division I and the MAC in 1999.

Heilbron said Stony Brook conducted a study in 2012 looking into the costs of an FBS football team. Heilbron said some of the largest financial burdens for making the changes include increasing stadium size, facilities and raising the number of football scholarships from 63 to 85.

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“I do think there’s tremendous merit in [moving to FBS],” Heilbron said. “But the downside of going to FBS is that if you are not prepared and not willing to invest the resources into it – because to just be an FBS and win two or three games a year and have empty seats, that would not be worth it.”

Heilbron said Stony Brook’s football budget is between $1-1.5 million, compared to Buffalo’s nearly $6.7 million. According to the Knights Commission spending database, Buffalo spent $59,355 per football player compared to Stony Brook’s $47,311 in 2013. For institutional support, however, Buffalo averaged $42,482 per student-athlete compared to Stony Brook’s $49,459.

Heilbron said when the Pac-12 renegotiated and received a new TV contract, it opened up “new streams of revenue that were very, very important to us” at Oregon State. At Stony Brook, Heilbron said the athletics department must rely more on fundraising, state money and institutional support.

“I do know the cost associated with being at the FBS are significant and the schools need to be willing to make that investment because it’s not worth it, to me, if you are just there to be there,” Heilbron said about a school’s decision to move to FBS. “But I do think every school has to do what’s in its best interest.”

UB football budget breakdown The 2013 football season – in which the Bulls went 8-5, played in a bowl game and had the second-most successful season since becoming a Division I team – had a total operating expense of $6,699,385. This includes everything from coaches’ salaries, equipment, travel, recruiting, promotions, game-day expenses and other expenses.

Buffalo ranked No. 7 in the MAC for football expenses in the 2013-14 fiscal year. Northern Illinois led the conferences with more than $8.3 million on its football team. The Huskies went 12-2, including 8-0 in the MAC before losing in the conference title game and dropping their bowl game to Utah State.

There were 104 players on the Buffalo roster in 2013, including 97 student-athletes receiving athletic aid. Much more goes into a football program than just the players – like coaches, marketing staff, vendors, spirit groups, maintenance – but the average player/expense ratio was $64,417.16. Men’s basketball ($124,739) and women’s basket-

ball ($88,498.21) were the only sports with higher ratios.

UB football finished with revenue of $6,699,385 – breaking even – largely due to university and student funding.

“Football’s just such a different beast because there is a lot more that comes into play for having a successful football program,” Greene said.

The football team received more than $1.3 million worth of revenue from the Athletic fee UB students pay every year – more than any other sport and the entire recreation department. The fee covers the cost of activities like attending games, recreation activities and intramural services. The fee for the 2013-14 school year generated $8,788,000 for the Athletics Department. Ninety-three percent ($8,168,727) of this money went toward intercollegiate sports.

White said it’s very important for the football program to not only prove it can break even but also turn a profit. White said he’s been happy with increasing revenues in basketball and football and he said these sports are getting “closer and closer” to turning profits.

“We are never going to be satisfied, in terms of my team at the administrative side, until we are at least breaking even and then building off that and profiting off those sports to help fund the other Division I sports that we have,” White said.

Affleck said the value of having a football team is more than just the product on the

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Football players on the sideline of a game at UB Stadium. Nine of the 12 teams in MAC broke even in the the 2013-14 fiscal year did, but do so mostly because of university support.

field for game days.

“One thing to know is that it’s not just an equation that’s about football,” Affleck said.

“It’s about the university as a whole and the university’s image and fundraising outside the university.”

The majority of the football team’s expenses came from athletic student aid. Ninety-seven football players, even some who finished four years of eligibility or could no longer compete due to injury, received some portion of aid. In total, the Athletics Department awarded $2,760,455 – an average of $28,458 – to football players.

The football team accounts for nearly 20 percent of the student-athletes on campus, but the Athletics Department gave 36 percent of its $7,635,181 of total of aid to football players in the 2013-14 fiscal year.

Coaching salaries were the second-largest expense for the football program. Former head coach Jeff Quinn earned $338,000 in 2013, but including his benefits and bonuses – such as cars, media obligations and bonuses for wins and attendance – Quinn cost the football program $398,317. His 13 assistant coaches earned $1,003,679 from the universi-

ty and $4,707 from third party benefits. Former offensive coordinator Alex Wood and defensive coordinator Lou Tepper led all assistants with $130,000 in 2013. Three other coaches each earned more than $83,000.

The football team spent more than $900,000 in travel. The Bulls traveled to Ohio State and Baylor for non-conference games in 2013 and had four conference road games. They also played their bowl game in Boise, Idaho.

Buffalo spent $429,450 on “guarantees” – the amount paid to visiting schools to play at UB – $416,129 on equipment, supplies and uniforms, $351,568 on game expenses and $164,403 on recruiting to round out sixfigure costs. The football program allotted for 31 percent of total university recruiting expenses, 28 percent of travel, 47 percent of equipment, supplies and uniform expenses and 44 percent of game expenses – all ranking No. 1 compared to the rest of the sports in the department.

“I think the unique challenge for football and basketball is the public’s appetite for those sports causes more visibility so because of that, different decisions are made for our football and basketball [teams],” Greene said.

Although football is the most expensive sport, it also generates the most revenue compared to UB’s other teams. The football team resulted in more than 70 percent of the total ticket sales ($902,461) at UB. In 2013, Buffalo reportedly made nearly $1 million for playing Ohio State Week One. The Bulls generated $1,150,000 in guarantees, resulting in a $660,568 profit from the guarantee expenses.

The football team led all sports in contributions ($63,510), program sales ($35,656) and royalties ($259,321).

College football generates tens of millions of dollars at larger schools around the country, but at Buffalo and other MAC schools, programs want to break even. Although a college football program is often viewed as the “staple” of an athletics department and sometimes even a university, it’s an expensive one.

“I think it’s an equation people have to think about carefully and that doesn’t necessarily end with football being at every school,” Affleck said. email: owen.obrien@ubspectrum.com

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SPORTS Heartbreak and triumph UB men’s tennis to play Ohio State, reflect on last year’s missed opportunity

JORDAN GROSSMAN

SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

Jason Shkodnik, a former Buffalo player and current assistant coach of the men’s tennis team, said he came back to coach the Bulls because he wanted to make history.

Last year, Shkodnik sat stoic and silent as a senior on the bus ride home after losing to Ball State in the Mid-American Conference Championship match, 4-3, in what players called “heartbreaking” fashion. This season, Shkodnik and the team he was now coaching were ready to take home the program’s first-ever MAC Title.

And that’s exactly what they did.

On Tuesday, the Bulls (12-10, 2-3 MAC) found out they will play the No. 12 team in the country, Ohio State (25-8, 10-1 Big Ten), May 8 in Columbus, Ohio in the NCAA Tournament in their first-ever national tournament appearance. The winner of the match will advance to take on the winner of Vanderbilt and Notre Dame in the next round.

“In six years that I’ve been here, we’ve had this opportunity four times,” said head coach Lee Nickell. “And on the fourth time we got it. But in terms of validation, it’s more in terms of how happy I am to see these guys experience this after such heartbreak the last few years.”

This is the third MAC Championship for UB Athletics this season. Athletic Director Danny White called the feat “a positive step” for the program and UB Athletics.

“We’ve been working hard on building a championship culture,” White said. “In 15 years in the MAC to have one NCAA bid

ANGELA BARCA, THE SPECTRUM

The men’s tennis team celebrates in the team meeting room in UB Stadium Tuesday after finding out it will travel to Columbus to play Ohio State in the NCAA Tournament..

and this year to have three in one year, we feel it’s a really positive step. We’re getting a lot more competitive and it’s happening really quickly.”

White also praised Nickell, who led the team to the MAC Championship four times in his six-year tenure.

“Nickell is a talented guy,” White said.

“What he’s done with this program is unbelievable.”

Unlike the men’s basketball and women’s basketball teams that won MAC Championships as top teams in the conference, the tennis team needed to rely on upsets to take the title.

The Bulls went into the MAC Tournament as underdogs, but Shkodnik said the team refused to travel to the tournament “to come back without a trophy.” They were determined to have a different vibe on the ride home to Buffalo than in previous years.

Buffalo clinched a spot in the tournament after a 4-2 comeback victory over Binghamton (8-16, 3-2 MAC) Saturday. The Bulls entered the tournament as the No. 4 seed after edging out Ball State (12-11, 2-3 MAC) for the final spot in the conference tournament. Buffalo defeated Western Michigan (18-5, 4-1 MAC), the No. 1 seed, Friday in the semifinals.

The nod to the NCAA Tournament also gives the team an opportunity to gain national exposure. Last season, Buffalo tennis was ranked top 50 nationally for the majority of the season, but missed the NCAA Tournament. The national exposure will help the program “tremendously” and will help recruiting a “pipeline of American players,” according to Nickell.

Sophomore Jonathan Hannestad was a freshman during last season’s championship match and lost 8-2 in a doubles match.

This season, Hannestad won a singles match 7-5, 6-4 and won a doubles match with junior Sebastian Arevalillo en route to a tournament bid.

Hannestad said he would have liked to go somewhere warm like California, but he wants to make the most out of the experience in Ohio.

Bull rush Buffalo looks to get after the quarterback with a revised four-man front QUENTIN HAYNES SPORTS EDITOR In the transition from former head coach Jeff Quinn to new coach Lance Leipold, the football team is experiencing turnaround on nearly all units on the team, including the offensive line, linebackers and secondary.

But the biggest change the team is experiencing is on the defensive line, with graduating three defensive linemen from last season and transitioning to a new scheme.

“Biggest thing is going from three down linemen to four,” Leipold said. “We just wanted to increase the numbers there.

Took a couple guys who stood up and made them defensive linemen. We have a ton of guys in place and [defensive line coach] Tim Edwards believes that we can go two deep with our defensive line.”

With the departure of seniors Tedroy Lynch, Dalton Barksdale and Kristjan Sokoli on the line, the coaching staff will rely on a conglomerate of younger players and experienced players who will assume larger roles to man the defensive line. Last season, the Bulls’ 3-3-5 defense was made up by three larger defensive linemen whose main role was to plug the running gaps. In a switch to the 4-3, the Bulls will have leaner defensive ends on the outside and slight-

ly smaller defensive tackles in the middle.

Junior defensive tackles Max Perisse and Brandon Crawford are the unit’s most experienced returners. Perisse finished with 13 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and one sack as a defensive end last season. Crawford finished with 19 tackles, three tackles for loss and three sacks from the same position.

Perisse and Crawford would have returned as defensive ends, but new defensive coordinator Brian Borland’s 4-3 scheme prompts them to move to the inside and play the tackle position.

Crawford said the scheme change doesn’t affect what is expected from the defensive line. And he’s embraced it, too.

“As far as the four-man front, I really like the scheme,” Crawford said. “It feels easier for us to make plays and help each other. As for me and Perisse, we’ve really embraced being the leaders. We’ve helped lead the young guys and trying to bring them along so we can be ready this season. Everything is coming along great, the entire defense is for that matter.”

In last week’s Blue-White spring game,

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The defensive line is transitioning into a 4-3 defense, where there will be four linemen on defense instead of three. Players like Kristjan Sokoli and Tedroy Lynch were lost to graduation and were pivotal parts of the line last season.

the defense finished with eight tackles for loss, five sacks and one forced fumble. After the game, Leipold said the defensive line was impressive and both he and Edwards felt “confident” about a new eightman rotation on the line that was implemented this offseason.

The eight-man rotation will include four defensive tackles and four defensive ends rotating in and out, hoping to find cohesion between one group of four. Leipold said “some guys will play more than others,” but the Bulls are expecting to get as many defensive linemen in as early as possible.

With Perisse and Crawford expected to be the starters on the inside, sophomore Chris Ford and freshmen Christian Gon-

“It’s going to be a huge experience,” Hannestad said. “We’re going in as underdogs and hopefully we’ll be able to upset them … But just having a chance to be a part of this, representing the program and showing them what we’re made of is going to be a huge experience. We’ll just pray for the best.”

The Buckeyes finished the year ranked No. 12 nationally and were named the No. 11 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The top 16 teams were awarded with home-court advantage for the first two rounds. Nickell said Ohio State is usually a top five program and possess some of the best players in the country.

“You never know what can happen,” Nickell said.

Shkodnik thinks Buffalo is ready to pull the upset. “[Ohio State is] coached really well.

They have the best players in the country,” Shkodnik said. “But I think we’re going to be ready for them. I know we’re going to be ready for them. The pressure is on them.”

The time of the first-round matchup has yet to be determined. email: sports@ubspectrum.com

zalez and Corey Henderson will be the primary reserves. But this season will be about the growth of the underclassmen and their immediate impact on the program.

One player that stood out was freshman defensive end Randy Anyanwu. Anyanwu, a linebacker last season, made the switch to defensive end during the spring and will be one of many underclassmen on the line looking to get valuable playing time in 2015.

Anyanwu said having so many young players should help the Bulls in the long run.

“It’s good, we know the people that we’re playing with now,” Anyanwu said.

“It’s like a brotherhood, we’re all really close in age and it has helped us work together on the field … We’re all looking for chance to make an impact early in our careers, so it’s a battle on the field, but it makes us tighter off it.”

Along with Anyanwu, freshmen defensive ends Demone Harris and Solomon Jackson and junior college transfer Torey Hendrick are also expected to take snaps at defensive end.

Despite all of the underclassmen taking snaps on the defensive line this season, Leipold said the amount of talent will figure itself out and the chance to have young players on the line next year will only help the Bulls in the future.

“We want them to thrive right away,” Leipold said. “Having a good pass rush is vital to what we want to do defensively. If these guys can come in and provide positive snaps right away, not only do they help us this year, but will help us in the long term, too. It’s our job to coach them up and get them ready for Albany.”

The team will not practice for the rest of the spring and will meet up again in July for summer workouts, with the season starting on Sept. 5 against Albany at UB Stadium. email: sports@ubspectrum.com