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Volume 64 No. 18

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ov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday all 64 SUNY schools will have uniform policies on sexual assault. UB officials say much of the university’s policies are already aligned with the new SUNY rules.

The governor attended a SUNY Board of Trustees meeting, where members passed a resolution to implement polices for dealing with sexual assault at SUNY schools like UB. He said he wants the policy to eventually lead to a statewide law including the state’s private universities. Cuomo is also proposing to add a Sexual Assault Victim’s Bill of Rights that will be distributed to notify victims of their right to go to the police or campus enforcement.

“A woman’s consent in Oswego should be a woman’s consent in Buffalo, should be a woman’s consent in Albany,” Cuomo said at the meeting Thursday, which was broadcast online.

The resolution will define a SUNY-wide meaning of consent; a policy that provides amnesty for legal violations, like underage drinking or drug use, if a student files a sexual assault report; a training program for campus police and administrators on how to deal with sexual assault reports; and a public campaign on the issue.

UB defines sexual assault as “any sexual act committed against a person without their consent,” according to the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. It also defines consent as “a voluntary, verbal agreement between equal and unimpaired partners, without coercion.” The university also has a definition for stalking, sexual violence and domestic violence.

Cuomo described the current state of sexual assaults as an “epidemic” that is “plaguing college campuses.” He said one in four females will experience sexual assault.

Anna Sotelo-Peryea, violence prevention specialist at the UB Wellness Education Services, appreciates Cuomo’s attention to sex-

Governor leads SUNY overhaul on sexual assault policies Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he will be implementing a new SUNY policy about sexual assault that will apply to all 64 campuses. UB officials say the university already has similar policies to the ones that are being proposed.

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ual assault on college campuses.

“It is an issue that receives far less attention than its prevalence and impact would demand,” Sotelo-Peryea said in an email.

“I think it makes sense to begin tackling this issue through SUNY, as we are the largest system, and stand well poised to provide leadership for other New York schools.”

This fall, UB assembled a presidentiallevel Sexual Assault Working Group that is assessing UB’s sexual assault prevention and response efforts. The group is responsible for identifying opportunities for students to prevent and address sexual assault.

Sharon Nolan-Weiss, director of the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Title IX coordinator, said UB is already doing most of the policies that will be initiated by the SUNY Board of Trustees. UB also already has a victims’ bill of rights.

Nolan-Weiss said UB developed the Confidentiality and Reporting Protocol that is being used as a model for other SUNY campuses in the policy changes.

SUNY trustees voted to give the SUNY campuses 60 days to instate the new sexual assault and prevention plans. Presidents will have to report back to Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher by March 31, 2015.

All schools are required to inform students about sexual assault prevention measures as well as to spread the awareness of rape and other sexual offenses, according to SUNY policies. This can be through workshops, seminars or other informational programs.

Sotelo-Peryea said she hopes the official policy will take into consideration the work that individuals have done at all the different SUNY campuses. She said the experiences and ideas of those currently working with sexual assault on college

campuses are able to know what is needed in a policy.

“I think the extent of the value will come down to the details of what exactly will this orientation training, awareness campaign and climate survey look like – how will they fit our diverse student body, will they reflect the best practices and research that has informed our efforts, and thereby enhance our comprehensive plan,” Sotelo-Peryea said.

There are currently programs and resources at UB for students like bystander intervention training, the Men’s Group and the Survivor Advocacy Alliance.

“An important thing to remember is that sexual assault prevention is the responsibility of the entire UB community,” Nolan-Weiss said. email: news@ubspectrum.com

Students herd to new app Yik Yak UB community connects through anonymous posts

Sharon Kahn FEATURES EDITOR

When Lindsay Rosenthal is overwhelmed with work and looking for a quick social media break to relax, she doesn’t go on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram anymore.

Rosenthal, a freshman accounting major, turns to Yik Yak. From musings about boring classes to suspicions of sexual acts taking place during a lecture, the smartphone app has become a hub of anonymous gossip on campus.

Yik Yak, an app that is only a year old, has taken over the phones of many UB students.

The app allows users within a five-mile radius to anonymously post messages in a newsfeed-like forum. Yik Yak is aimed at connecting people, specifically college students, through locationbased posts.

Tylor Droll and Brooks Buffington, two Furman University students, launched the app at the end of last year as a way to “deliver a unique social networking app that takes social interactions to the next level.”

Rachel Brous, a sophomore philosophy and psychology major, uses the app to stay up-todate and find out what’s going on around campus at any given time.

Her favorite post was one about a female student giving a male student a hand job during class – other students have posted bragging about places on campus they’ve had sex in public.

Typically students at UB post about things going on during their classes, their dorm life experiences and parties.

According to Justin Nunez, account director for Yik Yak, Droll and Buffington identified a need

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to create conversations and build communities without prerequisites such as prior relationships or connections.

“With a majority of citizens communicating via mobile devices, Yik Yak’s founders recognized the importance of a localized forum that could be open to anyone to discuss events, issues and general happenings in the area,” Nunez said. “Yik Yak is the only way to create a localized social forum without prior relationships or friendships for the purpose of delivering relevant, timely content to hyper-local areas of people, whether it be a weather warning or emergency news.”

Six months ago, Yik Yak reported the app had over 240,000 users, according to USA Today.

Like many social media platforms, the anonymity of Yik Yak has an increased risk of cyberbullying and harassment. Yik Yak began geo-fencing – creating a virtual barrier that restricts realworld geographic areas from using the app – nearly all primary and secondary schools.

“Yik Yak recognizes that with any social app or network, there is the likelihood for misuse from a small group of users,” Nunez

said. “The company has put specific algorithms in place to prevent this from happening.”

The app is rated 17-plus in app stores to ensure the user base is age appropriate and parents can easily block the app on their children’s phones. Additionally, the app monitors conversations and posts, and any negative or harmful behavior will result in the respective user being blocked or altogether banned from future use of the app.

“Yik Yak continues to build out this technology to ensure positive interaction,” Nunez said.

“We’ve found that as more users sign up and start using the app, each community begins to selfregulate itself in a positive way.”

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“Many people at UB use Yik Yak to express their thoughts and feelings,” Rosenthal said.

“Yik Yak shows us when other people [are experiencing] or feeling the same way that we do, which is pretty cool.”

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Users post comments, similar to Twitter, and the posts are then shared to a newsfeed. Other users can then either “vote up” or “vote down” the posts they read and based on how many votes a post gets, it moves up or down the newsfeed. Posts that are “voted up” the most appear at the top of the newsfeed, while posts “voted down” the most appear at the bottom.

Although the app allows users to post nearly anything they want, Brous thinks the app creates a surprisingly honest forum that relates to students’ experience on campus.

Austin Brown, a sophomore accounting major, saw great potential for Yik Yak when he downloaded the app earlier this year. He decided to apply to become a campus representative for Yik Yak and help promote the app at UB. “I was interested in helping Yik Yak grow as a social media app,” Brown said. “As a representative [my responsibilities include] hanging up flyers around campus, setting up tables and handing out Yik Yak giveaways, such as koozies, pens and stickers.”

Brown is currently the only UB representative for Yik Yak and works toward marketing Yik Yak on campus and increasing its overall users at UB. “With Yik Yak, it’s particularly valuable for college campuses because of the hyper local aspect,” Nunez said. “Negative comments are a reality, but that is most often the work of a small minority. The value far outweighs the misuse in each region.”

Although the anonymity of the app provides opportunity for misuse, it’s what makes Yik Yak different and popular on UB’s campus.

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“My favorite part about Yik Yak is the anonymity of it. You could post 50 things in a row with different emotion and context, and no one would know it was the same person,” said Chris Kozlowski, a senior business major. “It lets you fully express yourself without any link to who you are.”

Nunez said the company expects to continue to grow the app. It continues to scale up the product and work on the technology. He said users can look forward to better interaction features within the coming year. email: features@ubspectrum.com

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UB hosts first digital series

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Lectures focus on challenges of the digital world

SHAROL SHAMSOR STAFF WRITER

On Wednesday, UB students and faculty learned how dangerous “Your Digital Footprint” could really be.

The event “Your Digital Footprint” featured five expert guest speakers in the first installment of the new Digital Challenges Series held in the Student Union Theater. UB introduced this series in a bid to raise awareness of the current trials of the Digital Age. Brian Boetig, FBI special agent in charge of the Buffalo Office, was the first speaker to lecture about the current digital world.

He focused on cyber threats that could potentially harm our country’s future if they aren’t protected against corrupt foreign governments.

He said national secrets, such as advanced technology, could get leaked because of corrupt foreign governments if our digital information isn’t secure.

“There are organizations, big businesses, corporations that are out here in this country that spend millions upon millions of dollars of research and development to bring you the next technologies,” Boetig said. “And when any foreign group, foreign nation, nation state steals this technology by breaking in, they don’t invest in anything, other than the Internet connection and their computer.”

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On Wednesday, “Your Digital Footprint” presenters raised awareness on challenges in a “Digital Age,” where technology is more advanced and relied on.

United States government’s datamining program have led to rumors of law enforcement-proof phones. Boetig said the safety of families, especially children, could be compromised. He is not entirely convinced of these phones because he believes there is a need to make sure they are always capable of being detected.

Boetig professed his patriotism and combatting the constant cyber threats against America are the main reasons for his job.

“I am American and I am very proud to be here,” he said. “I want this country to be the best it can be.”

Tracy Mitrano, director of IT Policy and Institute for Comput-

er Policy and Law at Cornell, also spoke. She discussed laws disturbed by the Internet.

Mitrano talked about the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA), a law enacted by the United States Congress that sets provisions on what privacy rights people have when they use telephones, computers, cellphones or other means of electric transmission of communication. She gave a short history lesson on ECPA and related the content of the law to the Fourth Amendment.

She then explained the distinction between metadata and the content being collected. Mitrano used an example of calling

her son to explain the concept.

Metadata would be the “telephone line” of that phone call, she said. Information like the phone numbers of the two parties and the amount of time they talked would be available as metadata. But metadata is not able to record who spoke on the devices, she said.

“It may not even be true that my son and I were talking on the phone,” she said. “But it was those two phones that were being used.”

Mitrano said agencies such as the National Security Administration (NSA) collects and uses stored metadata. Although metadata is widely used by the likes

of NSA, she tried to inform the distinction between the uses of metadata and content recorded.

She emphasized the need of a warrant, in order to tap a phone line for content.

Marcus Ranum, a senior strategist at Tenable Security, Inc. and another speaker in the series, said metadata is “one of those big lies.”

He believes “no one would build a system that does this, unless it actually kept the data.” Ranum said there is no value in only keeping metadata.

“If you are not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide” is an unfair and “rude comeback,” according to Ranum.

Ranum drew attention to a quote by Voltaire, who was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher in the 1700s, in one of the slides from the presentation: “Once government begins to engage in secret diplomacy, it cannot last long.”

Ranum said a democracy couldn’t exist if the government keeps secrets from its people.

Other speakers included Kristen Martin, assistant professor of strategic management and public policy of the George Washington University, who spoke on how companies track individuals online. Christina Peters, chief privacy officer of IBM, talked about on privacy and innovations. email: news@ubspectrum.com

UB panel applies teachings of Gandhi and King to today AYLIN ERDOGAN STAFF WRITER When Sriram Ravindran left India to continue his graduate studies in the United States, he said he was already aware of cases in which people were arrested because they wrote or liked Facebook posts that criticized the government or politicians in India.

He wished he could do something to raise awareness to issues like freedom of speech in his home country.

He found a solution after meeting with his housemate, Santosh Rohit, a fellow UB student and president of the Association of India’s Development (AID) Buffalo Chapter. The group is an international organization that raises funds for development projects in rural areas of India and educates and raises awareness for international and local communities on human rights, education and development issues in different regions of India.

On Thursday, Ravindran, a second-year graduate student of electrical engineering, and Rohit, a fourth-year Ph.D. mechanical engineering student, were at the panel discussion “Martin Luther King and Gandhi: Are They Still Relevant?” The panel focused on the relevance of today’s non-violent movements as well as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.’s values and approaches on non-violent movements. It also discussed the definition and different interpretations of “peace.”

The day of the event corresponded with the International Day of Non-Violence, a day the United Nations declared to coincide with Gandhi’s birthday.

The four panelists of the event were Barry Gan, a professor of philosophy at St. Bonaventure University, Juhi Roy, a member of the Graduate Student Employee Union in UB, Michael Zak, a board member of WNY Peace Center and Durgham Alyasiri, a senior biology and health and human services major and president of the Organization of Arab Students.

“Gandhi and King both had a view of non-violence approach that regarded the enemy as injustices or wrongs, not as people,” Gan said.

He said non-violence approaches have a broad spectrum where the approach may or may not work in different situations.

Gan also touched on the influence of technology in today’s movements. It took Gandhi and King years to spread their message. He said the tradition of “organizing a movement” seemed to change from lobbying first and protesting later to protesting first and lobbying later.

He said with the help of current technology, people have “merged non-violence with civil disobedience” as a tactic of non-violent approaches to problems. But he also said there are varying ways of determining success of movements.

“Success should not be measured in terms of overthrowing dictators,”

he said. “Instead, it should be measured by long-term stability and fair treatment of all in a society.”

In his presentation, Zak talked about Satyagraha, which is pressure for social and political reform through friendly passive resistance.

Satyagraha is a concept conceived and developed by Gandhi and that later inspired King and Nelson Mandela.

Zak discussed the balance of fighting oppression non-violently. He said movements can still be successful with a combination of non-violence, non-cooperation and civil disobedience.

Alyasiri talked about the differences between “peace” at the local level versus at the global level. He explained as the world becomes more global with the help of technology, people might empathize with victims of violence around the world by liking a Facebook page, picture or status, but aren’t really able to put themselves into victims’ place.

The reason is their understanding of the issues is only limited to what they can see from a screen in their rooms, not from talking and listening to people face-to-face, he said.

He said, therefore, occurrences of violence differ from region to region. It gets harder to maintain peace on a global level because it gets harder for us to sympathize with victims of violence, he said.

The last panelist, Roy, emphasized the importance of a sense of community as well as the importance of “feeling included.”

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“Martin Luther King and Gandhi: Are They Still Relevant?” focused on the relevance of today’s non-violent movements and Gandhi and King’s values and approaches to non-violent movements.

community, they will be an advocate for the values of their communities in times of conflict and violence,” she said.

Abhishek Yadav, a second-year graduate student of computer science, attended the panel. He is working with his friends to create a non-profit organization based in Bhiwani, a city in India. Its goal is to provide assistance to orphans in the district.

Yadav, who lost his parents when he was 19, said he feels it is his responsibility to find solutions to the suffering of orphans living in his hometown. As he works to develop a curriculum for the newly founded organization, he keeps in mind Ghandi’s values on com-

munity building, a concept called Swaraj that roughly means selfrule or governance. The concept will serve as a guideline for his organization.

After the panel, Ravindran said it is sad to see how philosophical concepts like Swaraj and Satyagraha were born in India but are now slowly dying.

He is, however, optimistic as this deformation also inspires his friends and himself to be active and to take more responsibility in their communities to raise questions for issues and spread education and training for possible nonviolent solutions. email: news@ubspectrum.com

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statewide sexual assault policy rightly accentuates New York says ‘yes’ to yes New importance of consent and empowers victims In an encouraging legislative move, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered the SUNY system to revamp its sexual assault policy, revealing that sexual assault remains on the forefront of lawmakers’ minds.

It appears that, finally, this issue is being taken seriously even after it fades from headlines (though this new development has brought the topic back to the front page), and lawmakers are generating long-term, permanent solutions that allow for greater optimism than ever before.

The new, statewide policy requires that New York’s public universities include an affirmative consent rule on all campuses. The new policy, similar to California’s recently instituted “yes means yes” law requires that consent be an affirmative, unambiguous and mutual act.

The new SUNY rule will read that “Consent is clear, knowing and voluntary ... Consent is active, not passive.”

This increasing emphasis on the nature of consent as unambiguous and outright removes the problematic “gray area” from cases of sexual assault. The laws specify that silence does not count as consent, and that agreeing to one form of sexual activity does not automatically provide consent for anything else.

Such concrete rules not only make it much simpler to recognize when consent has not been given, but also make it clear to students that this issue matters enough to generate specific and pointed legislation.

These new policies are impressive in their relevance to the context of universities and situations that arise when alcohol is involved – the law details that individuals are not capable of giving consent if they are “physically helpless, mentally incapacitated or asleep,” as described by the New York Times.

The change to the definition of consent is the most striking aspect of the legislation, but it’s also important that this new policy unifies all 64 SUNY campuses in their procedures addressing sexual assault. Previously, each school had developed their own policies, leading to inconsistency and varying effectiveness.

Cuomo’s request ensures that SUNY provides a united and aggressive front on this issue, and gives New York the opportunity to lead the charge against a problem that the nation has woken up to at last.

The additional elements of the proposed policies indicate a similar awareness of the issues that plague sexual assault – including that crimes often go unreported. New rules guarantee immunity for students who report sexual assault even if they were breaking laws or violating campus policies. The fear of being punished for underage drinking, for example, should no longer prevent students from reporting a crime.

The introduction of a Sexual Assault Victims’ Bill of rights, which informs students that they can go to campus security or the police to report a crime and which will be widely distributed on campuses also indicates the

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increased sensitivity to the plight of victims of sexual assault on college campuses.

Hopefully the institution of new laws, the increased pressure on campuses to tale prevention and prosecution seriously and a growing awareness of this is-

sue’s prevalence will ultimately reduce the number of sexual assault victims drastically. But until then, ensuring they at least are assured their rights is an encouraging step forward. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

infected with Ebola made it to Texas and Dallas, we have a problem Patient out of an E.R. due to series of administrative failures Just a few weeks ago, The Spectrum called upon the United States to do more to combat Ebola in Africa. Now, America is failing to get the job done on home soil.

All it took was a single “no” instead of an affirmative on a form at a Liberian airport, and Thomas Duncan made it into the United States, bringing with him the Ebola virus. Duncan, who arrived in Dallas on Sept. 20, had accompanied a pregnant woman with Ebola to a hospital in Liberia and ended up helping to carry her back home after she was turned away and became too weak to walk.

Though a lack of understanding about incubation periods (Ebola’s maximum is 21 days) has been attributed to Duncan’s reticence on the questionnaire, it seems equally likely that he chose to answer untruthfully. The question, which asks whether or not he’d been in contact anyone who may have been infected with Ebola in the past three weeks, seems difficult to misinterpret.

While discussions of prosecuting Duncan have been raised – the chairman of the Liberia Airport authority said that he would pursue prosecution – the very existence of such a possibility points to the far more pressing matter – that intentionally or not, it is all too easy for infected individuals to slip through the screening process. Because Duncan passed a visual assessment and did not have a fever, only honesty on his part could have kept him from boarding his plane.

There should be no room for error, and no dependence on something as tenuous as honesty in a system tasked with something as important as preventing the spread of a deadly epidemic.

Right now, it appears that there is plenty of space for individuals like Duncan, who is currently hospitalized in critical condition, to slide through and into previously unexposed populations like that of the United States.

The list of people who had contact with Duncan in Dallas continues to grow. A second in-

dividual may now be infected, 12 to 18 have possibly been exposed and at least 80 people have had indirect or direct contact with him.

The problem of Duncan’s arrival in the United States was exacerbated by a second failure – that of health officials in Dallas, both in diagnosing Duncan and containing him and the family members with whom he’d been living.

In an unbelievable demonstration of incompetence, doctors at a Dallas hospital actually sent Duncan home with antibiotics after the crucial detail that he’d traveled to Liberia was not communicated to medical staff.

Three days passed until Duncan was admitted once again and finally placed in isolation – three days in which the potential for exposure increased and the vital process of clean up and containment was delayed.

The series of mistakes, astonishingly, did not end there. Four more days passed before the apartment in which Duncan had been living, and where four other people – a

woman and three children – were ordered by health official to remain, had not been sanitized.

Duncan had been vomiting and suffering from diarrhea.

Dirty towels and sheets were left behind in the still-occupied apartment. According to Texas’ health commissioner, officials had struggled to find a contractor who was willing to enter the apartment. And despite the lack of sanitation, county officials had visited the apartment without protective gear.

In a situation where vigilance, efficiency and procedural discipline should have been on display, sheer incompetence took center stage instead.

As this case develops and mortality rates continue to rise, it’s increasingly difficult not to worry about Ebola – not to let some anxiety or fear creep in. But even worse is the fear of incompetence, the looming anxiety that if an outbreak were to occur, this country isn’t prepared to handle it.

cata. “It’s something that we talked about since [Bowling Green] beat us at Ralph last year was getting our second chance. When I looked at the schedule, the first game I looked at was October 4. That’s what I was looking for all season and we came up short today.”

And the Bulls came up short in all aspects of the game.

Buffalo lost because the offense gained only 22 yards and one first down in the third quarter, after totaling 208 yards and 14 first downs in the first half. After throwing for 119 yards in the first half, Licata was just 6 of 13 for 25 yards in the final 30 minutes.

Buffalo lost because the defense forced only two punts in the game and surrendered 17 plays of more than 10 yards – including two of the Falcons’ final four plays on their game-winning drive.

The Bulls have looked like two different teams in every game except the Norfolk State 36-7 victory. They have yet to dominate the game for 60 minutes, but were able to overcome this in wins over Duquesne and Miami Ohio.

Bowling Green is neither of those teams.

The offensive inconsistencies and the defensive performance – which is certainly a liability at the moment – must change before the players can think of a championship game as a realistic goal.

“We just need to finish out, be complete every step of the way, even in the fourth quarter,” Redden said. “That’s what it came down to today. We definitely did let off the gas, [we] just left a few plays out there on the field today.”

This idea of “letting off the gas” is very disturbing, especially considering the magnitude of this game.

Buffalo had the opportunity to prove itself as a team to fear in the MAC. Bowling Green entered the season as the clear favorite to win not only the East division, but also the entire conference. But the Falcons have suffered injuries to some of their key players, and now seem more vulnerable.

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A missed opportunity

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MANAGING EDITOR

It would be too easy to blame Buffalo’s 36-35 loss to Bowling Green Saturday on Patrick Clarke’s 33-yard missed field goal in the fourth quarter.

It would also be an inaccurate statement.

Football is the ultimate team game. How many times do you hear coaches and players say, “You win and lose as a team?”

It’s a cliché, but it’s true. And the Bulls have done a lot more losing than winning on the road.

Buffalo football is 5-21 on the road since 2010. The Bulls are only 1-6 in one-score games on the road over this time. To be in the discussion for conference championships, you need to perform on the road.

The Bulls did just that last season. Buffalo went 3-3 on the road, including a 3-1 mark in Mid-American Conference road games. This is why Buffalo had an opportunity to win the MAC East in its regular season finale last season against Bowling Green. We haven’t seen a winning performance on the road yet. Buffalo is 0-2 away from UB Stadium – both one-score losses in winnable games.

Senior safety Adam Redden said that the Bulls consider themselves one of the two best teams in the MAC East. He could be right. The conference is more wide open than it’s ever been in my five fall semesters at Buffalo.

“Definitely a missed opportunity,” said junior quarterback Joe Li-

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LIFE, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT UB offers free self-defense class for women Students learn the importance of situational self-awareness ASHLEY INKUMSAH

STAFF WRITER

After a van slowed down as it drove alongside her, Yu-Xi Liu ran the rest of the way to her building in Harlem, New York.

She then watched the van speed away from the safety of her building.

Now hyperaware of her surroundings, Liu was one of 14 women who attended a self-defense class hosted by studentrun club UB Women in Management. UB police officers Johnny Sindoni and Sergio Disanto explained the importance of selfdefense and taught women selfdefense tactics for different situations in the free lesson. The one-and-a-half-hour class coincided with October’s Domestic Violence Awareness month and was open to all female UB undergrad and graduate students on Wednesday evening.

“You’re not going to be a ninja when you leave here, but we’re doing our best to make sure you get down these basic self-defense skills,” Disanto said.

Liu, a senior finance major, now holds her keys in between her fingers when she walks outdoors and is always prepared to defend herself from potential attackers.

“My neighborhood has a lot of rapes,” she said. “I turned on the news once, and I heard that this woman was raped on exactly my street.”

One in four college women have reported surviving rape or attempted rape at some point during their lives.

Disanto said certain safety precautions that work in Buffalo may not be as useful in other cities. Liu said many women fall into dangerous situations because they ignore their instincts.

“Obviously if you live in somewhere like New York City, you can’t turn around every time someone is walking behind you,” Disanto said. “But usually when the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, your body is tell-

Kristin Jorgali, president of UB Women in Management club, (left) and UB police officer Sergio Disanto (right) practice selfdefense. According to Disanto, situational awareness is the key to effective self-defense.

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ing you something is wrong.”

Meredith Kaplan, a junior accounting major and Executive Vice President of Women in Management experienced a potential stalker situation during her freshman year at UB. A man from her pre-calculus class would show up from time to time at the dining center at which she worked. She didn’t view him as a threat at first until he followed her near the Student Union.

“I heard footsteps behind me, and I noticed that the same guy was following me so I turned around and told him to leave me alone,” she said. “He asked, ‘I can’t say ‘Hi’ to you?’ and I responded ‘No!’ as I ran to the bus stop.”

After this incident, he continued to frequent Kaplan’s place of work. When she returned to her pre-calculus class a few days later, he gazed at her in an unsettling manner, she said.

“We had class on his birthday,

and he asked why I was being so mean to him,” she said. “I responded by telling him that I was not being mean to him, and he responded by calling me a bitch.”

Kaplan informed the man that she would call University Police and obtain a restraining order against him if his behavior continued. He left her alone after being threatened with police intervention, but Kaplan knows the situation could’ve “turned ugly very quickly.”

Sindoni and Disanto are Rape Aggression Defense Systems (R.A.D.) instructors. Lawrence N. Nadeau founded R.A.D. in 1989 when he worked at the Old Dominion University Police Department in Norfolk, Virginia and saw a need for women to fight back against violence. Since then, R.A.D has trained more than 900,000 women across the United States in self-defense.

Although Sindoni and Disanto usually teach self-defense as a semester-long one- credit course,

on this evening, they offered it as a basic presentation.

“When they first told us they wanted us to teach, we were kind of reluctant,” Disanto said. “You can’t really teach someone selfdefense skills in half an hour, but what’s really important with any type of self-defense is to raise awareness, increase reduction, gain recognition and promote avoidance.”

During the presentation, Disanto and Sindoni taught attendees self-defense tactics that students can use at school, at home and in the parking lot. Disanto asked the attendees to consider how they would handle and prevent attacker-prone situations.

“Do you have dark drapes or clear drapes? Can potential attackers see inside your house?

Are your bushes close to your door? Are they really high, can somebody hide in them? Are your windows closed on the first floor of your home? Are they locked? How many people do

you know that put a spare key under a rug or a potted plant?”

Disanto also advised attendees to leave keys with trusted neighbors instead of under commonly known places such as rugs.

Instead of simply opening the door without speaking when someone knocks, Disanto encouraged women who are home alone to use phrases like “I’ll get it” before answering the door.

That may make attackers believe the woman is not alone.

“Attackers usually want easy prey, not anything that they’ll have to fight with,” he said.

Disanto said many women believe pepper spray will always protect them from attackers, but he recognizes a drawback to carrying it. If the pepper spray is buried at the bottom of a woman’s purse, “the perpetrator is definitely not going to wait for you to find” it, he said.

Sindoni added that shoes, fists, fingers, elbows, heads, knees and feet are often more powerful vessels than pepper spray. Women can also use their voice as a weapon when they scream.

“Everyone thinks self-defense is just punching and kicking … it’s not, 90 percent of selfdefense is situational awareness,” Disanto said.

Women should place their fists by their chest instead of by their face to prevent the attacker from making them punch themselves in the face, according to Sindoni.

Toward the end of their presentation, Sindoni allowed the attendees to practice a few self-defense moves on him.

Liu attended the WIM presentation because she believes in the power of self-defense.

“I believe that as a woman you have to know how to defend yourself, even if that never happens to you, having that knowledge on you could save your life,” she said. “I believe that in those situations we revert to training and whatever we know.” email: features@ubspectrum.com

Buffalo Film Seminars eases into new home near South Campus Professors notice attendance increase since move to Amherst Theatre GABRIELA JULIA STAFF WRITER

There aren’t many English classes that allow you to sit back, eat popcorn and watch movies on the big screen once a week.

Now – after UB’s film seminar moved from a theater downtown to one near South Campus – students only have to take the Stampede or walk for a few minutes to see famed films.

In November 1999, the city of Buffalo asked UB to organize a course to take place in the cityowned Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre to bring people from the suburbs to downtown. Since the spring of 2000, the Buffalo Film Seminars, a course taught

by SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Diane Christian and SUNY Distinguished Professor Bruce Jackson, has been held every Tuesday at the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre. This past summer, the City of Buffalo decided to sell the theater and the film seminar moved to the Amherst Theatre at 3500 Main St., across from UB’s South Campus.

Christian has noticed more people attending this semester’s seminar than in previous years at Market Arcade.

“The opportunity to see films in proper large format with an audience is the great boon,” Christian said.

She said the big screens are much better than the iPhones and iPads that most students use to watch movies.

Collin Diver, a junior English and Spanish major, thinks the new location of the film seminar

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Students enrolled in the Buffalo Film Seminars can now enjoy free films at the Amherst Theatre across from UB’s South Campus.

After each screening, students discuss key elements of film such as directing, acting and cinematography.

is comfortable and accommodating. The theater is about a fiveminute walk from the Main-Bailey Lot on South Campus.

The Amherst Theatre is also larger than the previous location.

Although Christine Proulx, a senior English and international studies major, never attended the film seminar at Market Arcade, she knew other people were upset that it had been moved from the historic theater.

Market Arcade opened on Dec. 18, 1987 and was the last operating movie theater in downtown Buffalo in 2013, according to Cinema Treasures. Dipson Theatres closed the theater this past June.

AMC recently signed a letter of intent to become the new operator for the theater with an opening anticipated for summer 2016, according to The Buffalo News.

Proulx, like Diver, believes the new location is more convenient for students living on North and South Campus. Proulx decided to take the course because friends recommended it and it fulfilled her 400-level English requirement.

“I really enjoy the opportunity to take a class that introduces me to films I have never heard of or would have never watched outside of the class,” Proulx said.

Each semester, the Buffalo

Film Seminar screens 14 or 15 films from the silent film period to the present and genres range from slapstick comedies to police procedural dramas.

Both Proulx and Diver said their favorite film they watched in the course was Red River, a 1948 Western drama centered on a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas.

Every Tuesday night, Proulx arrives at the theater about 15 minutes early to get popcorn, find a seat and take notes on the film.

After each film ends, Christian and Jackson lead an in-depth discussion about the elements of film such as directing, acting and

cinematography.

“When you know what to look for and understand what the director was getting at, it makes it a lot more enjoyable experience overall,” Proulx said.

This course gave Proulx a different perspective on films. She plans on coming back in the spring just for the enjoyment of seeing the films and listening to the discussions.

“It’s a nice touch to get to know the audience of a movie afterward instead of just seeing it, leaving and telling your girlfriend or boyfriend, ‘Yeah, that was great,’” Diver said.

For Diver, the seminar is a multi-faceted experience. Each film interrogates the viewers on certain issues. The foreign films also expose students to new cultures and modes interaction, he said.

Christian believes film is society’s most important cultural art form and the seminar offers students and the general public the opportunity to engage with complicated works of art.

“We’re ticked every week with the joy of that,” Christian said.

The Buffalo Film Seminar takes place Tuesday evenings from 7 p.m. to 9:40 p.m. The students in the class have free admission and the general public can buy tickets. Adults are $9.50, students are $7.50 and seniors are $7.00. Season tickets are available any time at a 15 percent reduction for the cost of remaining films. email: features@ubspectrum.com

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Dr. John Plotz speaks about Buster Keaton as part of Juxtaposition Lecture Series

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After several technological blunders almost kept Dr. John Plotz from the podium, he stepped up to head a Clemens classroom Friday, ready to delve into his work on silent films.

Students’ pencils began to scrape along their notebooks, fingers tapped on MacBook keys and eyes were focused on Plotz’s presentation.

Plotz, an English professor and published author from Brandeis University, gave a lecture exploring the characterization of partial absorption within film experiences focusing on performer Buster Keaton’s art.

Keaton was an American actor, writer, comedian and former vaudevillian who reached the peak of his career during the silent film era of the 1920s. The actor is best known for his physical comedy, featuring a detached facial expression, which became commonly known as “The Great Stone Face” – an attribute Plotz discussed in detail.

Plotz’s analysis was about the aesthetics of Keaton’s acting as he managed to travel in and out of his own world in films. Film clips complemented the lecture and demonstrated Keaton’s work.

Dr. John Plotz’s lecture on Buster Keaton’s method of acting made famous by his “great stone face,” detailed how actors, like the audience, can become separated from reality through film.

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The first clip was from the 1925 film, Seven Chances. Keaton’s shy character fantasizes about and rehearses a marriage proposal. The audience can see Keaton practicing the proposal, without the actor realizing his love was behind him the entire scene. To Keaton’s surprise, the girl says yes causing him to sync back into the reality of the situation.

The professor said this particular scene speaks directly to the film’s audience and our understanding of the world around us.

Plotz focused on Keaton’s ability to exploit and be semi-detached to every possibility in his surroundings with his face’s blankness also engaging the audience.

“This lecture is a real departure for me, it’s the first time I’ve talked about films ever. I usually discuss

novels and a little bit about paintings,” Plotz said. “I was a bookworm as a kid and lost myself in books and films. I feel like I lived most of my teenage years in books.”

Plotz suggested Keaton is a master of exploring the art of one’s skill to be lost in his or her thoughts. Plotz highlighted Keaton’s signature “stone face” as his method of interpreting circumstances found within films. The professor described Keaton as a hexagon trying to fit unsuccessfully into a circle where the audience can properly assess his failures, as he manages to recover in the end.

Plotz discussed his theory used to define Keaton’s relative adjustment to the changing world. The professor introduced this term as a cycloid, construing it as the

mathematical format of Keaton’s comprehension to be in and out of touch with reality.

“I thought it was an interesting lecture and he had a lot of early, great insights about how film functions,” said Paul Beattie, an English graduate student.

“That has a lot promise by looking [at] how other types of narratives, books and other media work as well.”

The final clip shown was from the 1924 film Sherlock Junior. Keaton was also trying to propose to a girl in the film, but he wasn’t sure how. The actor began to watch a film along with the audience, where a man was proposing and followed his lead step by step.

The camera cut between Keaton’s “stone face” while watching the film, then back to him proposing to his girlfriend. When the film that cued Keaton’s steps ended, he was unsure what to do next. Plotz said the scene signifies our ability to be partially immersed into what’s offered and apart from us.

In the final part of his lecture, Plotz theorizes that Keaton explores real presence and also disembodied abstraction regardless of if it’s in life or film. The professor discussed the audience’s understanding of what it means to be captured in a dream space

of film and have the capability to separate from it and bounce back.

As his lecture ended, Plotz stayed for half an hour to answer questions and critiques on his ideas.

“He did a really good job, especially answering the several rigorous questions,” said Luke Heister, an English graduate student. “There’s some references in World War I poetry with soldiers being disoriented to the world and the lecture made me think of it because of the closeness in time.”

Plotz, who specializes in novels, Victorian literature, politics and aesthetics, had a children’s novel, “Time and the Tapestry: A Williams Morris Adventure” published in July. His next creative project is writing “The Recalcitrants,” a novel about the immensely forgotten and cantankerous writers trapped in “the American century.”

Plotz’s lecture showed those in attendance that actors, like Keaton, can become just as separated from reality in making a movie as the audience does watching it, forcing them to bounce back.

“The Great Stone Face” becomes the perfect expression for suspension of disbelief. email: arts@ubspectrum.com

TDE’s underdog, Ab-Soul, shows that he has bark and bite Ab-Soul’s first solo tour arrives at the Waiting Room BRIAN WINDSCHITL ARTS EDITOR

Ab-Soul doesn’t so much as entertain a crowd as he does entrance it.

The artist, who never showed up to his Fall Fest slated show at UB on Sept. 6, performed at the Waiting Room in Buffalo Thursday, Oct. 2. The rapper is on his first-ever solo tour, promoting his latest EP These Days.

The 27-year-old, born Herbert Stevens IV, gave a cool, calm performance with a lyrical style expressed in soft, stuttering staccato.

Ab-Soul is considered one of the most talented lyricists on his label, Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE), which includes label mates Schoolboy Q and Kendrick Lamar. He draws from a broad variety of topics in his music – ranging from underground terrorist plots to sacred biblical references.

His gritty concert was anything but divine, as Ab-Soul began his show with his song “Track Two,” rapping: “Yeah I’m high off life, but I’m rolling blunts.”

The energy of the crammed Waiting Room crowd was tangible – and the opening acts, Bas and Earthgang, primed the au-

dience perfectly. By the time AbSoul took the stage, the audience looked less like a crowd and more like a frothing mob.

Rob Miller, a junior at Buffalo State, felt as if the crowd really “turned up” for Ab-Soul, saying that the concert was one of the best he had been to in a while.

Miller, a fervent Ab-Soul fan, was crushed when the artist didn’t show up to UB’s Fall Fest.

“It was ridiculous that he didn’t show up to Fall Fest, but I am pumped I got to see him anyways,” Miller said. “Seeing him later kind of added to the excitement.”

Ab-Soul spits his rhymes in the Waiting Room on Oct. 2, after missing his original Buffalo tour date on Sept. 6 for Fall Fest.

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Miller said his favorite moment was when Ab-Soul performed his song, “Terrorist Threats.”

Ab-Soul, over the course of an hour, rapped a multitude of his top hits, including “Track Two,” “Terrorist Threats,” “Illuminate” and “Saulo Ho3.”

The crowd echoed Miller’s sentiments. As Ab-Soul performed, the audience continued to feed off of the thudding bass and his smooth lyrics.

Nate Smith, a student at ECC, epitomized the high-energy atmosphere of the night.

“I was going crazy during that concert,” Smith said. “I was jumping all over the place and screaming along to every song, all night.”

But Ab-Soul never let the audience get out of hand, as some performers do.

During a pause in the music, Ab-Soul put his hand out to the crowd to give high-fives to hands thrust toward him. Fans at the front of the crowd began to push and shove in an attempt to touch the rapper.

Security immediately surrounded the sides of the crowd and tried to move to the front to break up the ensuing chaos before it turned violent.

Before pushing degraded to punching and before the security could intervene, Ab-Soul addressed the crowd himself.

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“Relax everyone,” the rapper said. “Just relax.”

The crowd, instantly, was noticeably tamer.

“That’s better,” Ab-Soul laughed.

Rick Harcrow, an undergraduate student at Canisius, said the concert was the perfect amount of craziness.

“I loved getting wild for the concert, but anymore and it might have been too much,” Harcrow said.

It was this balance between rowdiness and mob mentality that gave Ab-Soul’s concert special feel.

Throughout the night, Ab-Soul demonstrated a live performance that was convincing not because of his rowdiness but because of the control he expressed onstage.

He built an interesting dynamic. The crowd fed off of his music, but he never altered his act to match the audience’s increasing fervor – he simply stood in the middle of the stage and said what he needed to say.

Ab-Soul never wanted things to get out of hand, but he never sacrificed the atmosphere of the concert for passivity, encapsulated most in his final song, “W.R.O.H.” “I just kept it real with y’all, keeping it real with me.” email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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In need of white knights, and not just male ones #Gamergate highlights why sexism in the video game industry needs to end

JORDAN OSCAR

SENIOR ARTS EDITOR

When a game developer is afraid to go home at night, fearing someone might follow her there and harm her; it’s time to reflect on the tragic misfortune that has become the face many people think of when they hear the word “gamer.”

People can say the trolls of online forum Reddit aren’t part of the gaming community at large or that the vile things people say to women attempting to find a place in and enjoyment from the games industry and its community are a minority. Minority or not, they’re the vocal “misogynerds” many people outside of the industry and games community think of, and that’s truly a shame.

They’re the face of “the gamer” because they’re vocal and the people vocal against them get drowned out in the Internet wars trolls relish in creating.

I don’t want to be associated with the sexual harassment women face within the gaming community, nor the sexist nature of the industry itself. I don’t want to be associated with the misogynerds of yesteryear, who are afraid to see the industry that has catered to them change directions.

And I certainly don’t want to be grouped into a community that has maliciously and virulently torn peoples’ lives apart, making them fear for their safety.

If the burgeoning $8.5 billion games industry is a melting pot with a few bad eggs then #Gamer-

gate is the hotplate that might finally burn the rotten eggs out.

Gamergate began in August after independent game developer Zoe Quinn’s ex-boyfriend wrote a lengthy and malicious blog post, insinuating that Quinn cheated on him with a writer for Kotaku in order to receive more press and a better review of her game, Depression Quest – an indie game exploring the effects and feelings of depression through text-base choices.

Finally, the Internet had “proof ” that game developers and journalists have become too close. “Proof ” that games journalists are being bribed in one way or another into giving games unfair scores. “Proof ” that their biggest fears are real.

As a result of the blog, Quinn received numerous death and rape threats, had her personal information and photos hacked and displayed on the Internet. At one point, she was forced from her home, fearing someone would follow her home and harm her.

She wasn’t the first to be subjected to such scrutiny or malice, and she probably won’t be the last.

The explosive discourse that resulted from Quinn’s harassment or the creation of #Gamergate isn’t just about the industry and community’s sexist nature; it’s about the distrust between the games journalism industry and the community it hopes to inform, it’s about the dying image of “the gamer” as a white nerd and it’s about the diversification of the industry’s creations and its community.

The free-for-all between all involved has been anything but quiet and civil.

Industry members bicker backand-forth, community members put on their troll caps and type more forum posts and hundreds of tweets, Facebook statuses appear by the hour.

This backlash and public outcry has left industry members caught on either side of the crossfire, penning articles or columns and creating videos of their own to

battle the Internet and gaming community’s unbridled fury.

A fury that had a resounding silence during its conception with comments/posts on various forums being censured for their content and industry members and critics afraid to speak about either side of the issue, fearing the backlash that would ensue.

Silence and censorship that only stocked the fires.

Silence is no longer an option.

Hopefully, the currently shouting match that has lit a fire under the gaming community and industry at large brings about the end to the disgusting practices many of its members help perpetuate, or take part in.

Gamegate might be a wide net that was inevitably going to be cast in one way or another.

Games are in the hands of more people than ever; hands that want far more than blockbuster titles like Call of Duty or Halo. The iconic experience of male power fantasies and the big titles that have made “the gamer” feel catered to for years – not that those games are going away anytime soon or dwindling in predictable commercial success.

“The gamer,” however, is a relic. A dying, blanket term for a community that has become just as diverse, and outspoken, as the experiences it consumes. Indie games and unique experiences have replaced many gamers’ lust for big explosions and high budgeted games.

Perhaps Gamergate’s inevitable discourse, like “the gamers” that perpetuate it, is just as much a dying breath for the age of arguments it represents as it for the identity of “the gamer” itself.

A loud, but necessary dying breathe – one that has brought resounding awareness to these issues and will leave its corpse in the hands of the community to fix.

Independent German game developer penned an open letter to the gaming community stating: “We believe that everyone, no

matter what gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion or disability has the right to play games, criticize games and make games without getting harassed or threatened.

It is the diversity of our community that allows games to flourish.

If you see threats of violence or harm in comments on Steam, YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook or Reddit, please take a minute to report them on the respective sites.

If you see hateful, harassing speech, take a public stand against it and make the gaming community a more enjoyable space to be in.”

If you’re like me and agree with Zecher, and the thousands of industry members who co-signed the letter with him, then speak up.

The letter is an expression of solidarity from an industry at war with itself and under siege by the community it works to entertain and support.

Whether it’s a person on a game trying to silence his or her fellow gamers from harassing another community member, a developer speaking out about women being marginalized within the industry or female characters becoming less sexualized, these problems need voices and attention to find resolution.

Gamergate has exponentially increased awareness to these issues, giving voices to thousands of people on all sides of them and bringing the problems to the forefront of a previously growing conversation. The conversation, like a budding flower is now in full bloom.

Regardless of where it ends, it still falls on people within the community to continue the conversation and help fix the horrific harassment of women in gaming – let alone the other issues this scandal represents.

So who ever you are, speak up; become a white knight, or a dreaded “social justice worker.” email: jordan.oscar@ubspectrum. com

Continued from Grades, page 8 The Bad: While Buffalo devoted extra attention to Lewis, sophomore wide receiver Ronnie Morris caught nine passes for 178 yards a touchdown – 76 of those yards came on Bowling Green’s 40-second, 4-play, 80yard game winning drive in the fourth quarter. Knapke averaged 19.5 yards a completion.

Special teams: D The Good: Senior safety Adam Redden forced a fumble on Morris on a kickoff in the second quarter that the Bulls recovered.

The Bulls converted all of their extra point attempts for the first time in three games.

The Bad: Senior kicker Patrick Clarke missed a 33-yard field goal wide right that would have given Buffalo an 8-point lead with three minutes remaining. Bowling Green scored the game-winning touchdown four plays later.

Coaching: D+ The Good: The Bulls executed a great game plan on their first drive of the game: Keep Bowling Green’s high scoring offense and Buffalo’s suspect defense off the field for as long as possible.

Buffalo started the game with a 15-play touchdown drive that took up more than half the first quarter. Head coach Jeff Quinn

elected to go for it on a fourth and goal from the 1-yard line on that drive. Licata converted for a touchdown on a QB sneak.

The Bad: After attempting to pass the ball while deep in their own territory against Army and Miami Ohio, Quinn elected to kneel down to end the first half with Buffalo on its own 44-yard line with 16 seconds remaining. The Bulls could have easily moved into field goal range and possibly went into halftime with a 31-20 lead.

Taylor was not on the field on Buffalo’s final drive. Campbell was instead and the Bulls were

off the field in four plays. Quinn said Taylor wasn’t injured, but the team “felt there was some opportunities to get a matchup with [Campbell] … both competitors get involved in our game plan.”

But one competitor ran for 111 yards on his last 11 carries and could have still have been used to run the ball with on a drive that started with 2:11 remaining. Buffalo’s passing attack was awful in the second half and never adjusted – or if it did, made very poor adjustments. email: sports@ubspectrum.com

Continued from Missed, page 3 This could have been Buffalo’s “statement game.” But until the Bulls can win on the road, they are just another team in the conference.

Even with the Buffalo ‘D’ performing poorly, it still felt like the offense was going to do enough to win this game. Junior running back Anthone Taylor proved to anybody who thought last week’s game was a fluke that he is a MAC running back to fear. He became the first Bull ever to record back-to-back games of more than 200 rushing yards. Even Branden Oliver and James Starks didn’t do that.

The defense had its chance to redeem itself. If the Bulls stopped Bowling Green in the final possession, it’s a victory on the road against the best team in the conference.

All of a sudden, 30 points surrendered doesn’t seem like so many.

Buffalo has scored at least 35 points in five of its six games.

There is no reason the Bulls should only have three wins. At some point, the defense or special teams need to provide the offense with some support.

Heartbreak and sports are synonymous in Buffalo. UB Athletics is no different. In 2009, the basketball team lost the MAC championship game as time expired.

In 2011, the football team rallied from a 21-point fourth quarter

Travis Greene, a preseason all-MAC first-team selection, led the Falcons ground game with 74 yards and had 44 receiving yards. Buffalo allowed more than 500 yards in the 36-35 loss.

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deficit, only to lose by one point due to a missed extra point with 14 seconds left. The Bills lost four consecutive Super Bowls in the 1990s – one due to a missed field goal late in the game.

Unfortunately for Buffalo, the “wide-right” returned when Clarke missed a 33-yard field goal with 3:04 remaining in the fourth quarter Saturday. This would have extended the lead to eight points.

Less than a minute later, the Falcons scored what turned out to be the game-winning touchdown.

The game ended with a game-

winning score. Not a game-losing kick.

The Bulls play at Eastern Michigan next week. The Eagles are 1-4, but will be playing their first game at home since a victory on Aug. 30. Buffalo’s other two road games will be at Ohio Nov. 5 and Massachusetts Nov. 28 – the final game of the season.

There’s a very good possibility this final game will have MAC championship game implications.

That is, if the Bulls prove they can win on the road before the final contest.

“This can’t be the turning point to turmoil. It has to be the turning point to glory and more victories down the road,” Redden said.

“Don’t let this be the turning point to the worse and let’s build from it.”

There’s no powerhouse team in the MAC this season. And Buffalo took the defending champions to the final possession. There’s no reason to panic.

But how many more games will Buffalo lose in heartbreaking fashion? email: owen.obrien@ubspectrum.com

Don’t ask Anne

ANNE FORTMAN

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Editor’s note: This article is a satire piece and should be taken as such.

Dear Anne: My hallway seems to be very musical. We have people singing, dancing and playing instruments almost continuously. It’s getting really annoying. Whenever I try to study, someone down the hall decides it’s time to practice the clarinet, the tuba or his or her new opera music. I would really like them to stop, but I’m uncomfortable asking them to drop their life’s passion so I can have some peace, especially since they politely stop during quiet hours. How can I handle this?

Dear Misguided Reader: First off, you’re right not to talk to these people face-to-face and beg for quiet study time.

You would come off as a wimp with no life, and who wants that reputation? Instead, if you have some printing dollars to blow, why not plaster passive-aggressive signage around the hallway?

Hopefully, this will embarrass the offenders into silence. If that doesn’t work, perhaps you should get a little musical yourself and take up the air horn.

Dear Anne: I want to mail some things to my friends and family. But when I went to the post office in the bookstore, I found that the post office hours are very restricted, which is inconvenient with my schedule. Envelopes and stamps are overpriced, and on top of that, the post office doesn’t take Campus Cash. It only accepts real money. Who carries that around here? I feel that it’s unnecessarily hard to mail things from campus. Why is it so hard to contact the outside world?

Dear Misguided Reader: Shh. You’re not supposed to ask that question. And so, I can’t directly answer it. But I can give you several hints. Why is it so hard to contact the outside world, you ask? Well, haven’t you ever wondered why it’s so hard to get off campus? How come the campus is in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by barriers of highway? Why, it’s almost like the roads twist themselves around with the purpose of making sure that you will never get away.

Are you planning on sticking around for four years of undergraduate study? Well, heck, UB has a nice Master’s program for you. Why not stay here for graduate school? And then it’s just a few more years for a doctorate. Wouldn’t you like to have a Ph.D.? And while you’re getting that, why not get some experience in your field and become a TA? Once you’re a doctor, have you ever heard of being a post-doc? And at that point, you might as well just stick around and become a professor.

You know what comes after that? Tenure.

Run, my friend. email: features@ubspectrum.com

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DAILY DELIGHTS sponsored by buffalostudenthousing.com Crossword of the Day Monday, October 6, 2014 FROM UNIVERSAL UCLICK

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Fill up your day with all the errands you’ve been putting off. Opportunities will arise, bringing about a positive change. Share your knowledge with an expert, and you will pick up valuable information. Love is highlighted.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Speak up and clear the air. As long as you stick to the truth and keep your complaints simple, solutions will be offered and promises put in place. A proactive approach will help you put stress behind you. Ask and you shall receive.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You can make self-improvements without breaking the bank. Look for simple but effective changes you can make to update your look or to make your skills and attributes more appealing. Socialize, and you will encounter someone who has something to offer.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Come to a decision before someone puts pressure on you. Don’t ignore the signs or complaints being made. It’s best to be upfront and take care of business. Once you address concerns, you will feel free to relax.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Look at a challenge as a chance to show off. Give your all, and you will leave an unforgettable impression. Turn on your charm and flirt a little, and you will encourage a romantic encounter with someone special.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Get out and ask questions. Research will be your ticket to advancement. Network and attend industry events that will allow you to display your skills and knowledge. A creative idea will be considered if presented to the right person.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Expect to face opposition at home. Get out and do things that bring you joy to avoid a domestic situation that is likely to leave you facing uncertainty.

Focus on exploring your options and discussing your concerns with a trusted friend.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Plan a unique way to improve your home and surroundings. Implement changes that allow you the freedom to explore your creative skills, and you will feel more excited about turning something you enjoy into a prosperous venture.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Think about your next move. What you’ve done in the past, coupled with your current position, will make your next move easy if you just follow through with your plans. Don’t give in to blackmail or emotional manipulation.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t feel you have to make a move if you aren’t ready yet. Back away from a situation that is causing you stress. Focus on what you have to offer and start putting your ideas and plans on paper. A unique career plan looks appealing.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Review your personal investments, legal matters and health concerns, and you will find workable solutions. Love is in the stars, and a stronger vow to someone you think is special will bring you closer together.

Children will bring you good fortune.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t get frazzled because someone opposes your ideas or challenges you. Concentrate on doing what you do best and presenting the options you have to offer. You will win favors thanks to your creative imagination and persistent nature.

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esteemed 28 Put it where your mouth is 29 Trousers material 30 U.K. cents 31 Fields of study 34 A long, backless sofa 36 Long March site 38 Relish-tray item 39 Powerful projectile 45 Barren area 47 Round Table king 48 Far from spiffy 49 Porkers’ patter 50 Juvenile newt 1 Better than better 2 World’s Fair, for one 51 Excessive supply 52 “Muffin” starter 3 Ollie’s partner in old comedy 53 “Wine” counterpart 54 Went around in circles 4 Get it wrong 55 Go-___ (kid’s vehicle) 5 Adopt, 56 Places to overnight as a stray 58 ___ Tome and Prin 6 Testimony taker cipe 7 Dishevel, 59 Airport listing, for short as hair 8 Yoko who married Lennon 9 Missteps 10 Out of place 11 Dipstick wipers 12 Result of too much exercise 13 Casino transactions 18 Hanks’ “Big” keyboard dance partner 19 Games of chance 23 Assumed as fact 24 Furnace light 25 Movie award 26 Botanist’s expertise 27 Widely known and

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FINAL GAME INFO

an incomplete mission TOM DINKI SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR With three minutes remaining in the football team’s game at Bowling Green Saturday, senior kicker Patrick Clarke set up to take a 33yard field goal that would have given Buffalo an eight-point lead.

Clarke’s attempt sailed wide right, and Bowling Green scored the game-winning touchdown 40 seconds later on a four-play, 80yard drive, giving the Bulls (3-3, 1-1 Mid-American Conference) a 36-35 loss.

Bowling Green (4-2, 2-0 MAC) defeated the Bulls Saturday at Doyt Perry Stadium to move to first place in the MAC East in front of an announced crowd of 17,185. It was only Buffalo’s second road game of the season.

“We put ourselves in position and weren’t able to capitalize on it. [Clarke’s] been big for us and it’s disappointing he wasn’t able to come through,” said head coach Jeff Quinn. “No excuses. We had a chance and weren’t able to complete the mission.”

Both teams combined for 876 yards in the game and scored 48 combined points in the first half before both defenses seemed to improve after halftime. The Falcons outscored Buffalo 16-7 in the second half.

The Bulls had an opportunity to take back the lead after Bowling Green’s sophomore running back Fred Coppet’s game-winning 4-yard touchdown run.

Junior running back Devin Campbell returned the ensuing kickoff 42 yards to the Bowling Green 48-yard line. The Bulls failed to convert a fourth-and-8 on the Falcons’ 46-yard line. Bowling Green ran out the clock for the remaining 88 seconds.

Licata’s pass on fourth down was intended for junior wide receiver Marcus McGill, who was covered by three Bowling Green defenders.

Bowling Green freshman defensive back Nilijah Ballew broke up Licata’s final pass.

Licata was under pressure on the play and he said he could not “set his feet.” Licata also overthrew junior wide receiver Ron Willoughby on third down the play before.

Willoughby was open on the right sideline for what would have been a first down.

“My thing is to be able to move out the pocket and make a throw and I got lazy with my feet on that play,” Licata said. “I didn’t deliver the ball [and] didn’t find a lane to throw.

That’s my job. I’m the guy that’s supposed to finds lanes in the pocket and delivers the ball under pressure and I need to be able to do that.”

Buffalo took a 35-30 lead after junior running back Anthone Taylor ran for a 12-yard touchdown – his third of the game – with 12:36 remaining in the fourth quarter. A mistake by Bowling Green’s field goal unit set up the touchdown drive.

The Falcons’ junior kicker Tyler Tate attempted a 40-yard field goal that would have given Bowling Green a 33-28 lead early in the fourth quarter. The Falcons did not get the snap off in time, however, resulting in a 5-yard delay of game penalty. Buffalo senior defensive lineman Dalton Barksdale then blocked Tate’s 45-yard field goal attempt. Taylor scored nine plays later.

The Bulls’ defense forced the Falcons to a punt on the next drive, and Taylor ran for 65 total yards on the next possession to get Buffalo down to the Bowling Green 16-yard line. Clarke then missed his 33-yard field goal.

Buffalo’s late field goal miss contributes to loss against reigning MAC champions

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Senior safety Adam Redden forces a fumble on a Bowling Green kickoff return in the second quarter. The Bulls fell 36-35 to the Falcons on Saturday.

The Bulls led 28-20 after a first half that included five lead changes, and only two drives that did not end in a turnover or a score – a Bulls punt on their second drive of the game and a kneel down to end the half.

Buffalo took a 28-17 lead with 2:02 left in the first half after a sequence of three straight possessions that ended in a turnover.

Buffalo led 21-17 in the second quarter after an 8-yard touchdown run by Taylor. Senior safety Adam Redden forced a fumble on Bowling Green’s wide receiver Ronnie Moore on the ensuing kickoff return, and Buffalo senior linebacker Jake Stockman recovered it.

Licata was intercepted two plays later with Buffalo on the Falcons’ 6-yard line.

The Bulls got the ball back three plays later, however, when sophomore defensive lineman Brandon Crawford strip-sacked Bowling Green sophomore quarterback James Knapke. Taylor scored a 1-yard touchdown seven plays later

The Spectrum grades the Bulls’ 36-35 loss to Bowling Green SPORTS DESK

Head coach Jeff Quinn looks on as the clock runs out in Buffalo’s first nonconferCHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM ence loss of the season.

nior wide receiver Marcus McGill caught passes for more than 20 yards on consecutive plays in the second quarter that set up Taylor’s first rushing touchdown.

The Bad: A Buffalo player failed to record more than 72 receiving yards for the first time this season. Licata did not really give his receivers an opportunity to make plays in the second half, as he threw short completions that gained just 15 yards.

Offensive line: AThe Good: The line led the way for Taylor to run for 219 yards. The unit often gave him holes that he was able to take advantage of and later cut up field for long runs.

The Bad: Licata was sacked only once, but he was under pressure from on some crucial plays, including on the Bulls’ failed fourth down conversion at the end of the game.

Run defense: CThe Good: The run defense held Bowling Green to only 45 rushing yards in the first half.

The Bad: The Falcons only handed the ball off to their backs 10 times in the first half,

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Bulls Breakdown

Gridiron Report Card: Quarterbacks: CThe Good: Junior quarterback Joe Licata looked in total command of the offense in the first half, completing 10 of his 11 passes for 119 yards and a touchdown in unfavorable conditions.

The Bad: Licata’s lone incompletion in the first half was an interception when Buffalo had the ball on the Falcons’ 6-yard line.

Licata was 6 of 13 passing for just 15 yards in the second half.

Licata has yet to perform well in both halves of a game this season. On third down of the Bulls’ final drive of the game, Licata overthrew junior wide receiver Ron Willoughby when the receiver was open for a first down on the right sideline.

Running backs: A The Good: Junior running back Anthone Taylor had his second consecutive game with more than 200 rushing yards. He is the first player in program history to do so. Taylor also had three rushing touchdowns for the second straight week and has nine scores in just six games – which is tied for the third most rushing touchdowns in the country. Taylor was the sole reason Buffalo moved the ball in the second half, as he ran for 125 of Buffalo’s 160 total yards of offense after halftime.

The Bad: Junior running back Devin Campbell ran for just 10 yards on six carries.

Wide receivers and tight ends: C+ The Good: Willoughby and Licata connected for a 16-yard touchdown in the second quarter. Licata put the ball in the perfect spot over the top of Willoughby, and the receiver made a great catch and got his feet in bounds for the score. Sophomore tight end Mason Schreck and ju-

to give the Bulls a 28-17 lead.

After putting up 208 yards and 28 points in the first half, Buffalo did not continue its offensive success in the second half.

The Bulls had three “3-and-out” drives in the third quarter, and another drive – which started on the 50-yard line after sophomore cornerback Boise Ross intercepted Knapke – that ended in a punt. It was Buffalo’s first interception of the season.

After going 10 of 11 passing for 119 yards and a touchdown in the first half, Licata completed six of 13 passes for just 15 yards in the second half. It was the first game this season that a Buffalo receiver did not finish with at least 72 receiving yards. McGill had a teamhigh 41 receiving yards.

Taylor ran 36 times for 219 yards and three touchdowns – making him the first player in program history to run for more than 200 yards in two straight games. He ran for 111 yards on 11 carries in the fourth quarter alone.

Only two drives in the game

lasted longer than four minutes – Buffalo’s game opening 15-play touchdown drive and the possession that ended in Clarke’s 33-yard field goal miss. That drive lasted 4:22.

The Falcons ran a quick tempo offense, running 76 plays in just 21:52. Buffalo ran 71 plays in 38:08.

Bowling Green’s seven scoring drives lasted an average of 1:57.

Quinn said Bowling Green’s quick tempo offense was not “the biggest difference in the game,” and noted the Bulls missed several tackles and it is an area the team needs to correct.

Bowling Green defeated Buffalo 24-7 last season at Ralph Wilson Stadium on Nov. 29, 2013 in what was essentially a MAC East Championship game.

“Its something that we talked about since they beat us last year, was getting our second chance,” Licata said. “When I looked at the schedule the first game I looked at was October 4. That’s what I was looking for all season and we came up short today.”

Redden said the Bulls cannot “let one game dictate the season.”

“It was definitely a tough loss but this can’t be the turning point to turmoil,” Redden said. “It has to be the turning point to glory and more victories down the road. As a senior ... my feedback to [my teammates] is definitely don’t let this be a turning point for the worst. Lets build off of it.”

The Bulls play at Eastern Michigan (0-4, 0-1 MAC) next Saturday in what will be their final game before the bye week. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m.

but totaled 142 rushing yards in the second half. Bowling Green was effective using shovel passes with junior running back Travis Greene, and although these plays count toward pass yards, it’s up to the linebackers to contain these plays. The Falcons used a shovel pass to convert a third and 10 on their first drive of the game. They did the same thing with Greene two plays later and it went for 20 yards.

Pass defense: C+ The Good: The Bulls got their first interception of the season in the sixth game courtesy of sophomore cornerback Boise Ross – who was a wide receiver four weeks ago. The defense held the opposing quarterback to less than a 52 percent completion rate for the third straight game.

The Bulls sacked sophomore quarterback James Knapke twice, including a strip-sack by sophomore defensive lineman Brandon Crawford. Buffalo held Bowling Green’s leading freshman receiver Roger Lewis to one catch for 13 yards – by far the worse game of his young career.

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Highlights from the Bulls’ onepoint loss to Bowling Green The Bulls (3-3, 1-1 Mid-American Conference) lost 36-35 Saturday on the road against Bowling Green (4-2, 2-0 MAC) Saturday.

The win moves the Falcons into first place in the MAC East.

Stat rundown -The Bulls possessed the ball for 38:08 – nearly two-thirds of the game. The Falcons only possessed the ball for 21:52, but still ran more plays (76 to 71) than Buffalo with their quick-tempo offense.

-There were only two drives in the entire game that lasted more than four minutes – Buffalo’s game opening 15-play touchdown drive and the drive that ended in senior kicker Patrick Clarke’s 33yard missed field goal attempt.

-After taking a 28-17 with 2:02 left in the first half, the Bulls were outscored 19-7 for the remainder of the game.

-Junior quarterback Joe Licata completed six of 13 pass attempts in the second half for just 15 yards.

-Junior running back Anthone Taylor ran for 219 yards Saturday, including 111 in the fourth quarter alone.

Turning point: Clarke missed a 33-yard field goal attempt wide right with three minutes left in the game that would have given Buffalo an 8-point lead.

Bowling Green scored the eventual game-winning touchdown four plays and 40 seconds later.

When the game was lost: The Bulls failed to convert on fourth-and-8, turning the ball over on downs and allowing the Falcons to run out the remaining 88 seconds. Licata was under pressure and threw to junior wide receiver Marcus McGill in the middle of the field, but three Falcons were in the area and the pass was broken up.

Buffalo Player of the Game: Taylor ran for more than 200

Fred Coppet fights for extra yards at the goal line. The Falcons averaged more than 5-yards per rush in their 3635 victory. CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM

yards for the second consecutive game – making him the first player in program history to do so. He also ran for three touchdowns and was essentially the Bulls’ offense in the second half, running for 125 of the team’s 160 total yards of offense after halftime.

Bowling Green Player of the Game: Sophomore wide receiver Ronnie Moore had more than half of Bowling Green’s receiving yards – finishing with nine receptions for 178 yards a touchdown Saturday.

He had 40 and 36-yard plays on the Falcons’ four-play game-winning drive.

Quote of the game: “No excuses,” said head coach Jeff Quinn. “We had a chance and weren’t able to complete the mission.”

Next game: Buffalo returns to the road against Eastern Michigan (0-4, 0-1 MAC) next Saturday. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. The game can be seen on ESPN3. email: sports@ubspectrum.com