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THE SPECTRUM, JUSTIN SHAW

TOM DINKI

EDITOR IN CHIEF

Two married UB faculty members sat on the porch of their University Heights home Friday night and watched groups of UB students parading past, searching for house parties. Two weekends ago, they counted 200 in a span of 20 minutes walking past their Winspear Avenue home in the Heights, which surrounds South Campus.

A group of six drunken male students even used their front lawn and bottom steps as a stopping point to figure out where the next party was. The female resident eventually brought out pieces of honey cake on Styrofoam plates with plastic forks for the visitors.

“Find a good time but don’t act like a jerk,” she said of her mentality about the student partygoers.

“People live here,” her husband said.

“This isn’t Bourbon Street.”

Jackie Deniston, a junior health and human services major, also sat on her Winspear Avenue porch this weekend. On Saturday night, she said a freshman student approached her porch asking to use a phone because he had just been mugged on Lisbon Avenue and had lost everything.

“So you can bust up parties,” Deniston said, pointing down Winspear where a Buffalo Police car’s lights flashed, “but you can’t stop this?”

Friction is again occurring in the Heights.

The conflict pits students who want to have fun against residents who want a quiet life and police who are charged with patrolling the neighborhood that is home to approximately 1,300 UB students.

The drinking, noise and litter of opening weekend has outraged local residents and received local media attention. Buffalo Police responded this past weekend with crackdowns on parties, arresting 12 UB students and referring a total of 60 to University Police. The University Heights Collaborative, which has banded together to improve the reputation of the area, held a meeting

Volume 65 No. 4

Unrest in the Heights

Residents and students divided on solution for partying culture in University Heights neighborhood

YUSONG SHI, THE SPECTRUM

Students make their way back to the South Campus bus loop early Monday morning after a night in the Heights. There is conflict between students and residents in regard to the partying in the neighborhood.

Tuesday night to discuss student partying.

But students who spoke with The Spectrum this weekend, some while wandering the Heights and others from their apartments’ front porches, feel the increased police attention and scrutiny is unwarranted. They feel like partying is a part of college – that Heights residents should expect it and that the police should focus their attention on crime like robbery and gang violence surrounding the neighborhood.

Buffalo Police reported 523 major crimes like robbery, burglaries and assaults, in the Heights in 2012. A Buffalo Police crime sta-

tistics search of the Heights shows more than 30 similar crimes in the past month alone.

“We’re just trying to have a good time, not cause havoc,” said Seamus McGovern, a history and international studies major who lives on Winspear.

All sides have questions for one another. Should Buffalo Police be doing more to stop partying and will their crackdowns on parties keep up? What responsibility does UB have in the situation? Should issues like crime and housing be at the forefront of a discussion on how to improve the Heights rather than underage drinking?

The only thing that feels certain is that the issue isn’t going to be solved anytime soon.

Breaking down the Heights Partying in the Heights is nothing new.

Residents have complained for years about the parties and UB’s 24-hour bus service that many students call “the drunk bus” and use to get down into the Heights. Residents have also asked for more help from University Police, which does not patrol the KAINAN GUO, THE SPECTRUM The National Buffalo Chicken Wing Festival was held at Coca Cola Field in downtown Buffalo Saturday and Sunday.

Festival-goers were able to sample various flavors of Buffalo's speciality and enjoy live entertainment.​

Wingin’ it Buffalo Wingfest attracts students and community members to taste a hometown specialty TORI ROSEMAN

SENIOR FEATURES EDITOR

Fifteen minutes before the College Wing Eating Competition began at the National Buffalo Chicken Wing Festival in downtown Buffalo Saturday, Ethan Mirenberg’s friends signed him up.

After his friends begged the coordinators

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to allow him to participate, Mirenberg, a graduate accounting student, scarfed down 25 chicken wings in less than 10 minutes – and took home first place.

This weekend was the 14th annual National Buffalo Chicken Wing Festival, more commonly known as Wingfest. The event lasted Saturday and Sunday and allowed community members and visi-

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tors from around the world to taste flavors from various vendors of Buffalo’s famous export: the chicken wing. The event included musical performances, competitions and of course, plenty of eating.

People from all 50 states and 64 different countries came to Buffalo for the festival and were eager to try the wings being offered. Twenty-eight vendors were present, including Buffalo Wild Wings, La Nova Pizzeria and Randy’s Wing Bar from London, England. The vendors set up camp at Coca Cola Field in downtown Buffalo, right off Washington Street.

The two-day event featured various competitions in addition to the ten-person College Wing Eating Competition – in which UB students also took second and third place. Saturday featured competitions like the Amateur Creative Sauce-Off, Bobbing for Wings and the Restaurant Awards Ceremony. A stage at the corner of the stadium hosted all the events, with the competitions playing on the Jumbotron so wing-eaters could watch in between hand wiping and

Fall Fest moved inside and security procedures revamped

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area and only assists Buffalo Police when asked – as it was 11 times this weekend.

“UB strives to maintain a positive ongoing relationship with the University Heights community and takes residents’ concerns about student behavior very seriously,” said UB Spokesperson John Della Contrada in an email. “Fostering this relationship starts with UB working proactively with the City of Buffalo, UB students and the community to promote good student citizenship, provide resources to residents and address student behavior.”

Della Contrada said UB has no plans to change the 24-hour bus service or UPD’s involvement with off-campus disturbances.

The student renters who throw the Heights’ large-scale parties are usually affiliated with both on-campus and illegal Greek life or some kind of campus organization, and the parties can often pack hundreds of people into houses that were built around a century ago.

Aside from the parties, many students chose to live in the Heights for the cheap rent and free transportation to North Campus. Jane Truesdell, Deniston’s roommate, said she’d rather live in the Heights and pay around $350 a month as opposed to paying $700 a month to live in the Villas off North Campus.

South Campus has become less active in recent years. UB has moved the Medical School downtown, taking away the campus’s main draw. The Law School and Schools of Social Work and Architecture will move to South in the next few years.

Relationships between students and residents Some students can’t understand why residents would move into the Heights and then complain about partying.

“It’s college, what do you expect?” said one sophomore male student, who asked not to be named, after police broke up a party he was attending on Winspear Avenue Friday. “You should not move on Winspear if you’re not down to party.”

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dips into blue cheese.

One of the competitions on Sunday, the Miss Buffalo Wing Pageant, featured three young women. The winner, Cheyenne Oar, is a junior at Daemon College.

“I signed up a couple weeks before and prepared for it,” Oar said. “I studied up on the history of wings, in case they asked me any questions.”

The festival featured original wing flavors like the “Chili Nacho Wing” from LaNova and the “Rock Lobster” from Boneheads. Some vendors advertised their wings from most mild to the hottest.

Quaker’s Steak and Lube used a scale: the safest choice was the Kentucky Bourbon while Ghost Pepper sits at the top.

Boneheads had the largest, most eclectic variety of wings sauces from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (maple bacon) to “Eye of the Tiger” (spicy golden BBQ with balsamic) to “Wrong Side of the Road” (honey Sriracha).

“I tried the Creamsicle wing, and it was surprisingly really good,” said Kristen Gehnrich, a junior business major. “I wasn’t sure what to expect but it was different than anything else I had.”

Some vendors like Eric Zimmerman didn’t even bother to sell food. Zimmerman sold his invention, “trongs” – a device to help eat wings while avoiding messy hands. It focuses on triangulating the bone, like a claw machine, to hold the wing most efficiently.

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NEWS

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

UB welcomes ‘Wi-Fi’ boost to campus Police blotter UB to spend $3 million to better on-campus Wi-Fi 9/1-9/4 COURTESY OF UB NEWS CENTER, DOUGLAS LEVERE This past summer UB Information Technology (UBIT) began a three-year initiative called Wi-Fi Boost. It is only in its early stages and has been deployed in four oncampus locations so far.

EVAN SCHNEIDER STAFF WRITER A problem common to college campuses is finding the best library, lounge or study area for Wi-Fi. UB is no exception.

This past summer UB Information Technology (UBIT) began a three-year initiative called Wi-Fi Boost. Wi-Fi Boost is only in its early stages and has been deployed in only four on-campus locations thus far: the Student Union, the Computing Center, the Natural Sciences Complex and Richmond Hall in the Ellicott Complex.

According to J. Brice Bible, vice president and chief information officer of UBIT, the three-year process will cost the university upwards of $3 million in funds provided by the state – meaning there will be no direct cost to students. He said if all goes to plan, the initiative might cost less than $3 million.

With the growing use of technology across campus, “[UB] needs more access points to support the density of usage,” Bible said.

The basis of this initiative is giving students faster Wi-Fi. To do this, UBIT is tasked with installing, replacing and renovating 8,000-plus access points across campus.

Access points are routers around campus that students and faculty connect to when they log on to UB Secure, UB Wireless, UB Gaming or UB Guest on their devices.

Deployments are occurring on a daily basis with Fronczak Hall, Baldy Hall, O’Brian Hall, Lockwood Hall and Capen Hall. All of these buildings will receive the Wi-Fi boost

by Thanksgiving break. O’Brian Hall and the Flint bus stop will also be a part of the early deployments.

Richmond Hall in the Ellicott Complex is currently the only residence hall receiving the boost under a testing period. UBIT hopes to equip all residence halls by the end of the three-year project and the more populated areas on campus should be finished by the end of the school year.

The installation of additional access points will help students find Wi-Fi in more places and for longer periods of time, according to Bible.

These access points are inconspicuously located in the ceilings of buildings or mounted on walls. They are strategically placed based on analysis of the density of usage from one access point to the next, Bible said.

Some students noticed a difference in speed, compatibility and convenience of the new WiFi as soon as they arrived on campus this fall.

David Kirshensteyn, a senior business administration major, noticed a difference in Wi-Fi connection within the first two days of being back on campus.

“It is easier to check my email when I’m walking between classes,” Kirshensteyn said.

Other students are skeptical about the

changes.

Michael Loewy, a sophomore art major, has only been on campus for a year but still isn’t thrilled with the current state of Wi-Fi on campus.

“There has never been anything that has made me say, ‘Yeah this Wi-Fi’s great,’” Loewy said.

Throughout the early stages of the summer, Bible and UBIT decided upon a provider best suited to deliver the campus the most seamless Wi-Fi it could give. When they figured out their two best candidates, they staged what they call a “bake off.”

A bake off is a head-to-head competition between two vendors trying to win over a potential client. The vendors contending for UB’s Wi-Fi overhaul were Aruba Networks and Cisco Systems, who provided UB’s Wi-Fi hardware in the past. Aruba and Cisco’s products were each installed on a different floor of the Computing Center in Lockwood Library and then tested thoroughly by UBIT engineers.

A UBIT engineer moved a cart with two laptops installed with mobile network analysis software. Engineers connected to each vendor’s network and measured the strength and speeds of the network before moving to another location in the building and conduct the same tests. This process went on for several weeks until UBIT selected Aruba Networks.

Another major factor behind the decision was cost. Aruba was able to provide UB with a discount that made the entire project immensely more cost efficient. Bible said Aruba’s devices are also more easily installable compared to Cisco.

UBIT will promote the initiative by hanging posters throughout the school year whenever it is working on a certain building.

Students will receive updates on the UBIT website. The comments and suggestions tab on the UBIT website is open for student opinions on the Wi-Fi boost. email: news@ubspectrum.com

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NEWS DESK All information according to University Police.

9/1 5:53 a.m. – A cleaner reported a large bat flying around the Lockwood Cybrary.

Patrol reported the bat would not leave building but doors were opened while cleaning so the bat may leave on its own.

9:15 a.m. – A UB employee reported a UB hard drive was stolen from room 714 in Clemens Hall. The larceny occurred sometime between Aug. 10 and Aug. 31.

3:31 p.m. – A small dog was reported locked in a car outside the Squire Hall parking lot at the UB School of Dental Medicine. Someone heard the dog in distress barking while caged in the car.

6:54 p.m. – A UB student reported an unknown vehicle struck her car and caused damage. The student was parked in the Governors C parking lot during the hit and run. No note was left.

9/2 3:57 a.m. – Electricians reported an unknown person opened their sheds. The electricians said they will perform an inventory and contact UPD if anything is missing.

9/4 9:35a.m. – A UB student reported her roommate in Greiner Hall was threatening her.

10:08a.m. – A UB student reported an unknown male was staring at her and took pictures of her while in the Health Sciences Library on South Campus between 7:45 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. on Sept. 3. She believed the male followed her around the library as well.

4:56p.m. – A UB student reported a vehicle struck his car while he was parked in the Spaulding parking lot. A witness left a note on the student’s windshield. email: news@ubspectrum.com

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OPINION Editorial Board EDITOR IN CHIEF

Tom Dinki

MANAGING EDITOR

Alyssa McClure OPINION EDITOR

Ricky Nolan COPY EDITORS

Kayla Menes Renée Staples NEWS EDITORS

Gabriela Julia, Senior Ashley Inkumsah Marlee Tuskes, Asst.

FEATURES EDITORS

Tori Roseman, Senior Dani Guglielmo, Asst.

ARTS EDITORS

Brian Windschitl, Senior Kenneth Kashif Thomas Alexandra Saleh, Asst.

SPORTS EDITORS

Jordan Grossman, Co-senior Quentin Haynes, Co-senior PHOTO EDITORS

Yusong Shi, Co-senior Kainan Guo, Co-senior Angela Barca .

CARTOONISTS

Joshua Bodah

CREATIVE DIRECTORS

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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Students need to take responsibility for Heights, but there are other issues to deal with

Amid the furor concerning University Heights and the student population, responsibility has to be shouldered. We have to be willing to make the changes necessary to ensure that debauchery and disturbances do not become the norm.

The situation will calm down as the semester progresses. That the first weekend of the semester was rambunctious and destructive shouldn’t really surprise anyone.

Yet media attention has brought the issue to a forefront.

The Buffalo News article published this weekend documenting opening weekend in the Heights has everyone talking about the town/ gown conflict in the neighborhood.

While a thorough documentation of the events of opening weekend and the issue, there were many holes that we, as an editorial staff, felt missed the real story.

First of all, none of these issues are new. Extremely similar articles can be found online from local Buffalo media about opening weekend’s party problems in the area dating years back. The attention always seems to eventually go away.

It’s also concerning that no students were interviewed for the piece, with the reporter instead using drunken shouting she overheard as the only student “voice” in the piece. A quote from a Buffalo Police E-District Chief about the safety risk of hundreds students cramped into century-old houses is completely glossed over.

If the reporter had taken the time to interview students, perhaps she

Media attention has focused on drinking, but what about housing and crime?

JOSHUA BODAH, THE SPECTRUM

would have learned about another set of issues in the Heights, like absentee landlordism and crime – crime more serious than underage drinking that is.

The houses students are partying in are often unsafe – with problems like bedbugs, black mold, asbestos and lack of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Usually the landlord is nowhere is be found to fix these problems. Students have reported being mugged and robbed while living there.

Despite The Spectrum bringing these issues to light in the past, aside from work being done by Off-Campus Student Services, UB still has a mainly hands-off approach to the Heights.

Is it just us, or are there issues the ones that are more concerning

Don’t Bern out

Bernie Sanders might not need mainstream media coverage to win There’s roiling unrest in United States, in case you’ve been living under a rock. Dissatisfaction with our government and society has hit an all time high, yet the existing power structures seem intent on perpetuating the status quo.

Enter the two wild cards: Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. While the former has become a media darling thanks to his soundbitable rhetoric and aggressive nature, the same media shuns Sanders to a profound level.

Bernie Sanders may not need the mainstream media to upset the Democratic Party and herald something new, but apathy will be his worst enemy.

The lack of media coverage hardly seems surprising in light of Sander’s radical nature. He has trumpeted a lack of a Super PAC as proof that corporate money doesn’t control him and his proposed measures would limit campaign funding for future elections. While United States seems to be sick of a Congress purchased by the wealthy,

the media – as a corporate machine – understandably doesn’t want to help a candidate strip power away from them.

Yet Sanders has been succeeding. Somehow, despite the odds, his rallies have become massive events drawing tens of thousands of people. While most attendees are young and white, he has worked to expand his platform to incorporate racial issues.

Days after “Black Lives Matter” activists disrupted a rally in Seattle, Sanders released a sweeping racial equality platform and hired Symone Sanders – a racial justice activist of no relation – to be his national press secretary.

Imagine, a politician paying attention to his constituents and not the companies that funded his campaign.

It is worth noting the incident with the “Black Lives Matter” activists is indicative of Sanders’ nature. He allowed them to hold the podium, say what they wanted, and – after waiting 15 minutes – shook a few hands and left for the next scheduled rally. This comes in marked contrast to Trump’s behavior in regard to race. During one of his press conferences, an Univision reporter, Jorge Ramos, was phys-

What really matters A big win, but thoughts remain on injured Collier and what could have happened

TOM DINKI

EDITOR IN CHIEF

Suddenly, everything was different.

The crowd noise and stadium music went silent. The once active football players, who had been colliding into each other moments before were now still – some standing around with their hands on

their hips, others taking a knee on the turf. More than 21,000 people were now not watching the Buffalo football team’s season opener in UB Stadium, but a 19-year-old kid being loaded onto a stretcher and put into an ambulance.

I never thought my first football game day column of the season would revolve around Jordan Collier. I’ll admit I didn’t even know the freshman backup safety’s name until it was coming through the

that some loud parties?

The click-bait nature of the article aside, the facts reported are true. The burden for such activity rests on students, Buffalo Police as well as the University.

Students, especially under-age students, are going to drink. Can anyone deny that by now? Prohibition doesn’t work. Abstinence education doesn’t work. While authority for lowering the drinking age rests at a higher level than we can change, we can work to make drinking less of a taboo problem that is openly condemned yet culturally condoned.

The problems of excessive and out-of-control partying are widespread. Other colleges in Western New York have had problems as well, with SUNY Fredonia’s Fred Fest being shut down last year due

to the spiraling party scene. Solutions will have to be produced at a comprehensive, higher level.

Yet responsibility for the conversation rests at a local level. UB has to address the concerns, and some action would be better than none.

Possible solutions vary wildly.

Some say increased police presence is the answer. But students will still find a way, whether it’s moving parties off the main streets police are looking for or keeping students out of the front lawn to avoid attention.

The UB’s Stampede’s 24-hour service that transports students into the area has been called into question as well. Blaming the buses for transporting students is wrong for two reasons: students will still party regardless of where they are and buses prevent drinking and driving.

But the students must too accept their part. Buffalo is our home away from home for four years. Some of us may even choose to make it permanently home after college. We should not be so crass as to destroy our host in selfish pursuit of a good time. Go out, have fun. No one can stop you from being reckless if you so choose. Yet the fun should be tempered with the responsibility of being part of the community.

This is all true. But we should remember what the real issues are in the Heights when thinking of ways to improve the neighborhood we’d all like to see thrive. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

ically removed from the conference for asking pointed questions about Trump’s plans for immigration.

Sanders has also been sweepingly successful on social media. This success has led to the mainstream media gently reassuring us that social media represents an isolated pocket of the world, filled with a small number of people who can easily share stories that can skew perception. Don’t fear, his idealism doesn’t stand a chance. He can’t win. It would splinter the Democratic Party. Even if he were elected, it wouldn’t change anything – so the corporate media would have us believe.

The last two years of Congress has seen bafflingly low approval ratings. Fourteen percent has been the average yearly approval rating according to the Gallup Poll. In November 2013, the approval rating hit nine percent.

Nine percent. Let that number sink in. As a democratically elected body, only nine percent of Americans felt that Congress was competently doing its job. Do we want to let this continue? Do you want to continue to expect the government to use and abuse the majority of the population for the benefit of major corporations and our elected officials?

As the youth, as educated college students, we have to be ac-

tive. You should want to determine your fate. You should want this country to be the best it can possibly for the highest possible amount of people. We need to take control of the political direction of this country in a concerted and sustained manner.

Bernie Sanders might not win.

As it stands now, he probably won’t win. But maybe he will.

The naysayers say that even if he were to be elected, he might not be able to accomplish anything he aims to accomplish. Others point to Obama’s lack of domestic accomplishment as proof of the break between electoral hopes and presidential reality.

Yet much of this failure –notably the forced dilution of Obamacare into the ineffective machinery it is today – can be laid directly at the feet of an intransigent Congress, notably the Republican Party.

The art of political compromise seems to be dead. The Republican Party has been caught off guard by the insurgent Trump, who has harnessed the usually aimless racist undertones of many of the party’s policies to whip up a populist frenzy. Clinton is a weak candidate, running a tired establishment campaign. The time for sweeping change is now.

UB Stadium press box as confirmation of the player who was down on the field with a neck injury.

Luckily, UB Athletics announced Collier was moving all his extremities and his hospital visit was precautionary. It was good to hear. But the fear remains that it could have been worse.

Former Rutgers player Eric LeGrand’s spinal cord injury in 2010 is one of the most well known college football incidents. Former Buffalo Bill Kevin Everett nearly being paralyzed after a helmetto-helmet collision on a kickoff comes to mind. A Louisiana high school kid just died Friday after a neck injury on a football field.

It’s always scary. When it happens in college, it’s a quick reminder of what all those players are really risking when they strap on that helmet. Some for a chance at the pros.

Some just as a way to pay for college. Some just because they enjoy it.

But the moment the ambulance doors closed, the Bulls and Albany players lined up, the officials threw the ball back onto the field and the line judges got adjusted. The crowd’s energy returned. The next hit was celebrated. Soon enough we were all thinking about the Bulls’ fast-paced offense and the defense making plays. Like the rest of the media, I continued to tweet and make games notes. Already we were all distracted with America’s favorite game.

Players were back colliding with one another before Collier’s ambulance had even left the stadium.

Head coach Lance Leipold said he was relieved when he saw Collier’s legs moving before he was loaded in. He knows football – and he knows all about the unfortunate stories. He said he had to just try to prevent negative thoughts and keep the team focused on what they’re doing.

email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Ten highly-anticipated new TV series for fall 2015 ALEXANDRA SALEH

ASST. ARTS EDITOR

The Bastard Executioner (FX) Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 10 p.m.

Creator of the renowned FX television series “Sons of Anarchy”, Kurt Sutter is producing a highly anticipated historical fiction drama series, set to run on the same network.

Set in the early 14th century, warrior Wilkin Brattle is overwhelmed by his life of violence and decides to lay down his sword.

But his old friend soon finds him again, forcing him to pick up the executioner’s sword.

Starring Lee Jones as Wilkin Brattle, Stephen Moyer (“True Blood”), Matthieu Charneau, Katey Sagal (“Sons of Anarchy”), Flora Spencer-Longhurst, and Kurt Sutter himself, “The Bastard Executioner” may become another successful FX series.

Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris (NBC) Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 10 p.m.

NBC is attempting to bring back the “variety show” after its failed attempt seven years ago with “Rosie Live.”

And who better to star in an hour-long variety show than the award-winning theater and television actor Neil Patrick Harris?

In 2014, Harris received a Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Musical as Hedwig in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”

He has also hosted the Tony Awards three times and the Primetime Emmy Awards once, performing extravagant dance numbers every time.

Based on the British series “Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway,” “Best Time Ever” will feature musical performance, sketch comedy and other entertaining acts and celebrity appearances.

Blindspot (NBC) Premieres Monday, Sept. 21 at 10 p.m.

Greg Berlanti, executive producer of the television series “Arrow” and “The Flash,” brings to the screen a new mystery drama.

Jaimie Alexander stars as a woman who

COURTESY OF FX “The Bastard Executioner” is a new show airing on FX Sept.15 starring a peace-seeking knight (Lee Jones) thrown back into a violent world he so desperately wanted to escape from.

wakes up in Times Square, unable to remember the past and fully covered in strange tattoos.

Sullivan Stapleton also stars as an FBI agent investigating the significance of the tattoos and the truth of the woman’s identity. “Blindspot” seeks to unravel a conspiracy piece by piece.

Scream Queens (FOX) Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 8 p.m.

Ryan Murphy distances himself from his last achievement, “Glee,” with the premiere of his new show, “Scream Queens.”

The all-star cast includes Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lea Michele, Nasim Pedrad, Oliver Hudson, Keke Palmer and Ariana Grande.

This highly anticipated comedy/horror series centers around a sorority forced by the school dean to accept every girl wanting to pledge. With a serial killer on the loose, no one knows if the killer has joined the sorority or not.

Check out “Scream Queens” – it could get bloody.

Limitless (CBS) Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 10 p.m.

“Limitless” is one step ahead of its competition as it already has an established fan

base.

The 2011 film starring Bradley Cooper received mostly positive reviews and has a 70 percent rating from the critics website Rotten Tomatoes. It also received an award for Best Thriller at the 2011 Scream Awards and was nominated for Best Science Fiction film at the 2012 Saturn Awards.

If the television adaptation “Limitless” is anything like the film, it is bound to outperform its contenders.

Jake McDorman will be taking the pill to access 100 percent of his brain functionality – hopefully he can make it work as well as Bradley Cooper did.

Heroes Reborn (NBC) Premieres Thursday, Sept. 24 at 8 p.m.

For all those die-hard “Heroes” fans, NBC will be running a spin-off of the 2006 sci-fi drama.

It is meant to be a continuation of the original series, set to run as a 13-episode “event miniseries.”

The concept of ordinary people with extraordinary abilities resumes in this series.

After a terrorist attack in Odessa, Texas, these “ordinary” people have no choice but to run from law officers and vigilantes seeking revenge.

Some returning actors include Jack Coleman as H.R.G., Greg Grunberg as Matt Parkman, and Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura.

Blood and Oil (ABC) Premieres Sunday, Sept. 27 at 9 p.m.

North Dakota is booming with oil – in fact, it was the site of the biggest oil discovery in American history.

“Blood and Oil” looks to be very similar to the violent drama, There Will Be Blood.

IMDB labels it as “a story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness.”

Oil and blood are synonymous, at least in the eyes of an oil tycoon like Hap Briggs (Don Johnson).

Young couple Billy and Cody LaFever (Chace Crawford and Rebecca Rittenhouse, respectively) is interested in owning part of the newly discovered oil, but it remains to be seen if they are up for the challenge.

Will greed dictate their actions? Oil, not blood, runs through the veins of the greedy.

Quantico (ABC) Premieres Sunday, Sept. 27 at 10 p.m.

The FBI is training new recruits at its academy in Quantico, Virginia. The twist – after graduation, one of the new trainees is suspected of planning one of the biggest terrorist attacks in America since 9/11.

A look into the life of an FBI agent is too alluring to resist.

This terrorism thriller stars Priyanka Chopra as Alex Parrish, the series’ protagonist; Josh Hopkins as FBI Special agent Liam O’Connor and Aunjanue Ellis as the assistant director of the FBI Academy, Miranda Shaw.

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Fall Fest security procedures revamped with location change Concert moved from Baird Point to Alumni Arena due to chance of thunderstorms BRIAN WINDSCHITL

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No one wants to waste $163,700.

To make sure none of the entertainment budget for Fall Fest is wasted, the Student Association has opted to move the fall edition of the bi-annual concert series to Alumni Arena in case of inclement weather.

The concert, featuring Big Sean, Jeremih, Isaiah Rashad and Tink, will be held Saturday, Sept. 12.

The relocation of the concert has caused a scramble among SA, Student Life and Public Safety officials, who have had to re-evaluate their safety policies from an outdoor show to an indoor one.

According to The Weather Channel, there is a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms on Saturday. If lightning does strike within the vicinity of an outdoor concert, the entire venue must be evacuated for safety purposes and the show cannot continue until after 30 minutes of lightning-free weather.

SA President Minahil Khan said the decision was not an easy one.

“I wanted to have a Baird Point Fall Fest so badly,” Khan said, “but the risk of wasting all the work we put into Fall Fest because of a thunderstorm, it just didn’t make sense.”

Due to the transition to an indoor venue, SA has discontinued ticket sales to the general public so most of the UB undergraduate students who wish to attend will be able to do so.

SA Entertainment Coordinator Marc Rosenblitt said 1,500 tickets were originally available to non-UB students and 5,000 spots were reserved for students. Before Ticketmaster closed online sales, 575 tickets were sold to the general public, Rosenblitt said.

The remaining 925 tickets will be added to the undergraduate seating, which brings the total number of undergraduate spots up to about 6,000.

SA’s announcement that Fall Fest was being moved indoors was subtle – it changed the location of the event on Facebook to Alumni Arena. In fact, some people found out when Ticketmaster, previously the only place for non-students to get a Fall Fest pass, discontinued ticket sales to the general public.

This means that any non-student who was planning on attending Fall Fest but hadn’t already bought a ticket, no longer can.

Jake Kinley, a sophomore pharmacy major, said some of his friends were trying to get tickets for the concert – but now they won’t be able to come.

The only place for non-students to get tickets now would be to buy a ticket from any of the 575 people who already bought tickets.

Nick Cashman, a sophomore pharmacy major, said he is going to Fall Fest no matter what. Cashman said he would have gone to the show even in the rainstorm.

“It should just be a free-for-all,” Cashman said. “Let everyone in.”

Besides ticket sales, the shift from outdoors to indoors has also brought on a series of shifting security concerns for SA, Public Safety and all the smaller groups involved in concert safety.

Rosenblitt said that he had to re-plan all of the emergency strategies with Chris Bartolomei, assistant chief of police and special events coordinator for public safety.

According to Rosenblitt, there are contingency plans for any and all emergency situations, including evacuation, situational hazards, electric problems, structural flaws and on-campus emergencies.

Out of everyone, Rosenblitt is one of the best educated on what it will take to make the venue secure, as he’s been involved in UB’s event staff since 1988.

“For every event, there has to be a plan on file for any and all possible emergency situations,” Rosenblitt said. “There are so many moving parts and people in-

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The day of the concert, there will be anywhere from 100-150 volunteers working the show. There will also be four lieutenants in charge of volunteers and an event staff manager with each lieutenant to ensure things run smoothly. There will also be ambulances and emergency stations, per university policy.

In addition, each year SA contracts with a security company to provide high-tech security essentials, such as metal detectors and crowd control.

Normally, SA contracts with the same company as UB Athletics: Contemporary Services Corporation (CSC).

This weekend, however, the CSC staff will be travelling with Athletics for a football game at Penn State, so SA chose to use the United States Security Associates.

Apart from handling the nuances of security tech, a U.S. Security Associates member also be put with each lieutenant and event staff manager to ensure safety from every aspect of the show.

From top to bottom, the event staffers have to be ready for anything.

Despite the difficulties of managing it all, public safety rarely has any problem with crowd control or security. The worst cases in recent years, Bartolomei said, have been dealing with students who are too drunk or on too many drugs.

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scene or ambulance transport to the hospital, and a campus judicial referral if they are a student,” Bartolomei said.

But actual crime, Bartolomei said, is rare.

He said that is it not unusual to have zero criminal incidents at concerts and sporting events.

“The difficulty of the event comes from having to manage so many people at once while still being ready to act on any emergency situation,” Rosenblitt said.

Fall Fest, like SA, is funded by undergraduate students through the mandatory student activity fee of $104.75 per semester. All undergraduate students will get into the concert for free with a student ID. email: brian.windschitl@ubspectrum.com

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Gary Vider was never interested in a job where he would have a 9-to-5 workday.

“I never wanted to get a job that I had to wear a suit for,” Vider said. “I never liked the idea of going to work and being uncomfortable with the stuff that I was wearing and also not liking what I was doing.”

After graduating with an English degree from UB, he became a stand-up comedian.

Vider is currently a contestant on “America’s Got Talent,” where he is competing against other acts to win $1 million and a consistent gig in Las Vegas. He’s currently one of 11 semi-finalists competing in Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

This past February, Vider auditioned for the show after sending in a clip to the producers. He decided to audition for the show because he said it’s the biggest show on in the United States on Tuesday nights.

“I knew from past experiences some other comedians that were able to generate fans from the show because so many people watch it,” Vider said. “I thought that I would be able to do well on the show and I’ve seen other comedians that have been on it and I think the types of jokes that I have would work well so I figured I would give it a shot.”

His comedic influences include people who he has grown up watching in both movies and shows, including Adam Sandler, Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Carry and Mitch Hedberg. To begin his journey into comedy and the art of stand-up, he began watching stand-up routines.

“You kind of just have to figure it out on your own and you can do that just by watching and seeing people who are good and who make you laugh,” Vider said. “You’re going to take a little bit from those people and learn from what they do and then try to apply it. It kind of becomes your class for comedy and you learn from that.”

Vider likes to perform in more of a dry, sarcastic way of joke telling. He also likes to have a possible twist at the end of his jokes to shock the audience. He says there’s not really a particular comedy he practices but that he has shorter jokes as opposed to long stories.

“I get my material from stuff that happens in a day or in my life,” Vider said.

“When something strikes me as funny I try to make it a joke. It’s usually something that I’ve come across that may be a little bit odd or interesting.”

Andrew Stott, an English professor and associate dean for undergraduate education at UB, sponsored Vider on an independent study when Vider was Stott’s student and encouraged him to work on his comedy.

“He had to write 20 jokes a week and we would talk about them,” Stott said. “What worked, what didn’t – and we’d rewrite them, find different ways into the jokes and different perspectives on what he was trying to say. Comedy is all about showing the world from an oblique angle, and so we

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Gary Vider performs a stand up routine at Radio City Music Hall.

Vider is a UB alum and competing on America’s Got Talent.

talked about that a lot.”

Once Vider graduated, he moved back in with his parents. He knew he wanted to do stand-up comedy but hesitated to jump right into the business. Vider started looking for writing jobs where he could write jokes for a show or movie. He found it difficult to get hired and realized he was missing a key component: help from the inside.

“They have submission packets but if you send those packets to somebody they are only going to look at it if they know the person – and I didn’t know anybody,” Vider said.

After submitting packets, not hearing back from anyone and being out of college for six months, Vider began working as a waiter to save up money while still looking for a job closer to his dream profession. A year out of school, he got a job in Manhattan as a receptionist. Even though he hated it, it allowed him to move into New York City three months later.

In 2008, Vider started performing standup at open mics in New York City bars and comedy clubs. He had to perform in front of people who were trying to do the same thing he was. The open mic scene was full of other comedians starting out.

“When you go on [stage] and tell jokes, the people that are there are half listening and concentrating on what they’re doing,” Vider said. “It’s a very tough environment to get people’s attention. Even when somebody does laugh it could just be a sympathy laugh – you have no idea.”

Vider did open mic for three years and said it taught him how to become more comfortable on stage and gave him a little bit of schooling.

Stott said that stand-up comedy requires more self-motivation than perhaps any other profession he can think of.

“With the exception of active combat or working in a particularly busy ER, I can’t think of a harder job,” Stott said. “Anyone who does it has to be really dedicated, and able to slog through an enormous amount of rejection and hard knocks. Surviving that is not something you can teach.”

As far as the experience on “America’s Got Talent” itself, Vider said it has been incredible. People are starting to know him as more buzz is generated about him as well as more respect in the comedy community. It’s the most TV exposure the young comedian has had. He was on NBC four times over the summer.

Stott said that there’s no doubt Vider’s degree in English helped him get to where he is today – even if it isn’t entirely obvious.

“Some people are wary of degrees that don’t have any self-evident career path attached to them, but that’s what’s so brilliant about a degree in English,” Stott said. “It’s not confined by any one profession but teaches skills and habits of mind such as excellent writing and communication skills, strong critical thinking, the ability to effectively digest and filter large amounts of information, an awareness of history and forms of cultural expression, that can be used in an infinite number of professional settings.”

Vider is currently one of 11 semi-final acts in the competition. Viewers can vote to put their favorite acts into the finals. email: features@ubspectrum.com

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The faculty members who sat on their porch, who asked to not be named out of fear of bringing attention to their home, said students who have that mentality don’t understand what a community is. They moved into their Winspear Avenue home during the summer and said it’s a great place to live outside of the weekend rowdiness that accompanies the start of the semester.

And they say it’s not their student neighbors that are causing trouble in the Heights – it’s the students that don’t live there and come looking for a party.

They said they’ve met with some of the students who live on their street and they were all friendly. Some even took interest in their home and garden. They said that most parties aren’t that loud, but the students looking for them are and they often leave behind trash.

McGovern said he gets along fine with one of his Winspear Avenue neighbors, but not with the other. He said the former has told him and his roommates she knows they’re going to party, and only asks they try to keep it down past 2 a.m. He offered the latter his cell phone number and asked her to call them first instead of the police.

He says the neighbor scoffed at the idea.

Truesdell, a junior communication and health and human services major, doesn’t have to deal with her neighbors much.

Friends live in the apartment to her right and the house on her left is unoccupied.

Her house proudly dons a “Dad Bods only” sign from the roof and threw a few small parties last weekend. Students, particularly those in fraternities, displaying offensive signs from their apartments have garnered national attention recently and The

Buffalo News reported in its article Friday that a Heights home displayed a sign saying “At UB, moms drink FREE.” Truesdell said her apartment’s sign was for fun and she hopes it doesn’t offend anyone.

The faculty couple doesn’t think the students are all to blame for the partying – they think the landlords deserve some too.

Landlords need to have polices about no partying and capacity limits to discourage students from hosting large-scale parties, the male resident said.

Dan Ryan, UB’s director of Off-Campus Student Services, said most leases have a quiet enjoyment clause that guarantees residents the quiet enjoyment of their home.

But he admits the parties that house 250 students go “well and beyond quiet enjoyment.”

Absentee landlordism and crime in the Heights McGovern said residents complain about the partying but the party streets could be worse.

“At least people aren’t getting shot,” he said.

The Heights have larger crime issues than underage drinking – like robbery, assault and gang violence.

Buffalo Police crime statistics show more than 30 crimes committed ranging from theft, assault, breaking and entering and robbery in the Heights neighborhood just from the past month. The Davidson Bailey Boys are a well-known street gang that operates on the borders of the Heights and is

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Students stand on the corner of Main Street and Winspeaar Avenue early Monday morning.

made up of smaller gangs that control individual streets like Minnesota Avenue, as reported by The Buffalo News.

Students who live in the Heights and spoke to The Spectrum said they’re very aware of the crimes in the neighborhood and think the increased patrol for parties this past weekend takes away from addressing more serious crime.

“Buffalo Police have so much more to deal with,” McGovern said.

The Spectrum made several calls to Buffalo Police’s E-District, which oversees the Heights, this weekend for comment, but was told to call Buffalo Police headquarters on Monday. The Spectrum was then told Monday that only Buffalo Police Spokesperson Michael DeGeorge could provide comment. He did not return phone calls by press time.

Poor housing conditions in the Heights and absentee landlordism have plagued the neighborhood for years. Ryan has accompanied City of Buffalo inspectors into Heights homes and seen violations from black mold, asbestos, faulty wiring and lack of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.

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The utensil acts as a polite, easy to use way to enjoy the Buffalo delicacy while also maintaining a clean appearance.

“Buffalo seemed like the right place to market,” Zimmerman said. “We’re trying to appeal to a different kind of culture – cell phone culture – where we are constantly using touch screens and can’t afford to be constantly wiping our hands.

This is going to become the fourth utensil – chopsticks, forks, spoons and trongs.”

Wings weren’t the only food on the menu. Perry’s Ice Cream, cupcakes and different beer distributors speckled the festival. Many of them are on a mobile marketing tour in which they travel to a different city each weekend for a new festival.

One of these vendors, Cupcake Vineyard, handed out nearly 4,500 giveaways Saturday. For one of the employees, Joe Rivers, the festival was more than a business opportunity.

“I’m from Buffalo and I used to go to Wingfest when I lived around here,” Rivers said. “I went to Buffalo State and used to come every year since it was right downtown. It’s nice to be back here, back home.”

Frank’s Hot Dogs was one of the represented and familiar restaurants amongst many newcomers. The stand utilized the crowd to introduce new flavors of wing, including sweet chili and Sriracha.

“We’ve been coming here for the past few years,” said Melanie Heger, an account manager at Frank’s. “Yesterday we gave out about 1,500 giveaways, and we’re looking at similar numbers today. “ Festival-goers Derek and Kanan Wright sampled chocolate wings from RuChDa Wings, appreciated the weather and reflected on the how Wingfest has improved.

“There are definitely a lot more people here this year,” said Derek Wright. “We came last year just to check it out but it rained – the nice weather makes the day better.” email: features@ubspectrum.com

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Mickey Vertino, University Heights Collaborative president, said at Tuesday night’s meeting that his biggest concern with the partying is the safety of the 100-200 people who pack into the homes. He said the houses simply aren’t equipped for that.

“If a fire does start, not only will that house be quick to be consumed, most of them don’t have quick smoke detectors anyway,” Ryan said. “Many of people attending, there’s a decent likelihood they’ve consumed something that makes their response time longer than it would normally be …The houses are not built to hold that many students.”

Will the police crackdowns keep up?

It was hard to walk down streets like Winspear and Northrup Place Friday night without seeing flashing police lights.

At the start of the night, police were simply cruising down Heights streets, occasionally turning on their lights. It caused one woman screaming from a Winspear Avenue roof to go silent. But by around 11:30 p.m., the parties and the police got more active.

Around 1 a.m. Saturday morning, seven police cars were lined up on Winspear to break up one party. The police ticketed student renters on their front lawns after party

breakups. Buffalo Police arrested 12 students and UPD received 60 referrals.

“We have taken a proactive approach and are trying to deal with students by going into the house party when we see one,” said Buffalo Police E-District Captain Carmen Menza said at Tuesday’s meeting. “Whoever is responsible will be arrested.”

The faculty couple would be disappointed if Buffalo Police layoff on crackdowns as the weekends go by. But that’s exactly what most students are expecting.

The students’ consensus is that Buffalo Police will be hard on parties for the first few weeks to appease residents and then ease up eventually. Some students don’t even think the police will be needed as the weeks go by and the temperature drops.

“Seventy-five percent of the year, no one is here,” Truesdell said. “Halloween will be last time a lot of people come down to South.”

She said the majority of kids wandering the streets right now are freshmen looking to meet people. Menza said as much at the meeting, adding that the “first month [of the se-

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That’s his job to do that. It’s his job to make sure Buffalo still beats up on Football Championship Subdivision Albany. It’s the players’ job – the NCAA won’t like that wording – to keep focused. It was my job to keep covering what was happening on the field. It’s the fans’ right to continue to enjoy their Saturday afternoon at a football game.

I get all of that.

But something about it stuck with me. It seemed strange for everyone just go back to

playing. Even though I had seen a player been stabilized after a neck injury on TV before, I’d never seen it in person. Never seen the strangeness and the return to normalcy firsthand.

The question becomes, is it all worth it?

The NFL is drowning in safety issues. Particularly with concussions and things like Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), but also with neck and even some lung injuries. A lot of people question the future of the game.

The NCAA doesn’t face as many of these

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YUSONG SHI, THE SPECTRUM Students wait at the Goodyear Bus loop on South Campus early Monday morning.

mester] is the worst” and that the freshmen come in and just want to have a good time.

Still, residents had suggestions at Tuesday’s meeting for improving the Heights – ranging from checking students’ IDs at the bus stop to publicly shaming students for intoxicated behavior. Between Fall Fest Saturday and Greek Life’s Rush Week, partying in the Heights this weekend may not let up despite the crackdowns.

With broken glass and trash littering the streets, one local resident living on Highgate Avenue griped at Tuesday’s meeting that he is unable to walk his dog. email: tom.dinki@ubspectrum.com

safety questions – at least not yet. The focus is still on players’ rights and what exactly the term ‘student-athlete’ means. But I’m sure these questions that have been surrounding the NFL for years will make their way into the college game as well.

The question: is football really safe?

As for the Bulls, they’ll continue to play football just as they did the last 48 minutes of Saturday’s game. Collier will try to work himself back out onto the field. I’ll even continue to cover this team for the remaining 11 games.

But watching it will feel different.

It’s an offense that looks to get everyone involved.”

Weiser said he’s excited that he and Schreck will be incorporated into the passing game, but he also understands that his position still entails blocking for the quarterback.

And even with that, they both succeeded.

Weiser and Schreck were integral parts of a transitioning offensive line that did not allow a sack all game. The O-Line lost three starters from last season and started a freshman at center Saturday.

“Sometimes, we have to do the dirty work with the O-Line,” Weiser said.

“But it’s fun when you go out and catch the passes at the same time. This offense is exciting and it gives us a chance to be able to make some plays.”

And Leipold doesn’t plan on settling with Saturday’s performance. He sees them as important parts of the team for the foreseeable future.

“Those are two excellent football players,” Leipold said. “We’re going to continue to work ways to use both of them, have them both on the field sometimes.”

The conference’s potential “Tight End U” will have its next shot against “Linebacker U” of the Big 10 next week when Buffalo travels to State College, Pennsylvania to take on Penn State (0-1). Kickoff is at noon. email: jordan.grossman@ubspectrum. com

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Heating up Extreme heat overshadows UB’s first opportunity to create ideal game day atmosphere JORDAN GROSSMAN SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR Faythe Nunes, a senior psychology major, and her friends had problems finding a row of seats during the first half of the football team’s blowout victory against Albany Saturday.

But she didn’t have those same problems during the second half of the game. She was there for only a little bit of the third quarter before she and many other UB students left the student grandstand and made their way to air conditioning.

Buffalo is notorious for its extreme weather conditions, especially during the cold winter months. But there are times when Buffalo experiences the opposite weather extreme and it throws many people off guard. On Saturday, UB fans witnessed it first hand.

Even with the new-and-improved game day atmosphere, the uncontrollable heat – which reached more than 95 degrees at certain points throughout the afternoon – was the downfall of student attendance during the second half. It’s an area that UB Athletics had hoped to approve with promotions and an interactive game day atmosphere.

“The one hurdle which we can’t control is the weather,” said Todd Garzarelli, senior associate athletic director for external affairs. “The heat led people to come a little later and exit a little bit earlier. But other that that, a lot people were excited to come out.”

The game’s announced attendance was 20,872 – roughly 500 more fans from last season’s opener against Duquesne, which totaled 20,329. And it looked that way in UB Stadium for the first 24 minutes, but the

stadium looked completely different come the second half.

Many students enjoyed themselves during the pregame activities, which included a tailgate at Baird Point and a performance by country duo Thompson Square as part of the Tailgate Concert Series. To many students, the pregame was the best part of the day.

Robert Featherstone, a senior business major, stayed at the tailgate for more than two hours. He said he would have liked to see more food vendors at the tailgate at Baird Point like there were last year. Otherwise, he enjoyed hanging out with a bunch of friends in the parking lot and playing games like cornhole in the shady tree-filled area near the parking lot.

Garzarelli was glad students found shade in the unbearable heat.

“It’s an open area,” he said. “Even last year, students found their way to the trees because of the weather. If you had a group of friends that wanted to play cornhole, space was limited in the parking lot.”

But Featherstone didn’t go to the game.

He could have been convinced to go, but he feels UB Athletics needs to do a better job “pumping up the crowd” during the pregame.

“The school should be more involved with it,” Featherstone said. “The only people that are UB affiliated were UB police officers. There should have been a mascot or someone pumping students up to go to the game. People are just coming and going just

for an excuse to drink on North Campus.”

But there were still a number of students that did enter through the gates of UB Stadium. Tyler Radzyminski, a junior mechanical engineering major, stayed for the first half of the game and was excited that Buffalo had a huge lead heading into the third quarter. He thought the game was basically over, but the overbearing heat was ultimately the deciding factor for his departure from the stadium.

“It was hot. It had quite a bit to do with why we left,” Radzyminski said. “It wasn’t a close game. It was really hot and I thought it was too hot to stay.”

Radzyminski and junior exercise science major Ashton Devall think promotions and giveaways throughout the game may entice more students to stay and watch the game for longer than the first quarter. UB Athletics did hold a $10,000 punt, pass and kick challenge during halftime of Saturday’s game.

Garzarelli said a plan is already in place for weather extremities, which could be devastating heat or a notoriously cold Buffalo winter that many students are accustomed to. He said water coolers will be made read-

Buffalo may become the MAC’s ‘Tight End U’ JORDAN GROSSMAN SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR The Buffalo football team may be well on its way to becoming the Mid-American Conference’s Tight End University.

It may not be on the same scale as prolific Power-5 schools such as Notre Dame and Miami, both of whom are nationally praised for the star power from that position. But on the Mid-Major level, the Bulls have two tight ends that have been making a difference as blockers for the past three years.

And on Saturday, everyone learned they

could be dangerous receiving weapons as well.

Amidst the 51-14 blowout of Albany (01) on Saturday, the Bulls’ tight ends reeled in nine catches for 83 yards out of the team’s total 255 passing yards on 22 completions. Junior tight end Mason Schreck, who totaled 106 yards all of last season, was Buffalo’s leading receiver with five catches for 62 yards. Senior tight end Matt Weiser wasn’t too far off either, catching four passes for 21 yards.

Fans know the talent level of wide receiver Ron Willoughby – who went for 60 yards on three catches – and touted new-

KAINAN GUO, THE SPECTRUM At the start of last Saturday’s 51-14 victory over Albany, the bleachers were packed with UB students. Buffalo recorded a total of 20,872 - roughly 500 more fans than last year’s opening day numbers. But by half time, a majority of students had fled the beating sun for air conditioning.

ily available during hot games and hot chocolate and chili could potentially be available for colder games later on in the season.

Garzarelli also noted various foods will be made available in the stands and in the brand-new Student VIP Patio, which was considered a success as well. He expects more food to be made available to students throughout the game to ensure students stay.

“We’re continuing to do better to entertain our consumers,” Garzarelli said, “and also build up in-game environments as well.” email: sports@ubspectrum.com

Tight ends Weiser, Schreck prove to be important to Buffalo’s passing and running game

comer Collin Lisa, who brought in three catches of his own for 56 yards. But the tight ends, who were used mostly as blockers under former head coach Jeff Quinn, were the stars Saturday.

And according to current head coach Lance Leipold, that won’t change for a while.

“To me, it’s an offensive coordinator’s dream,” Leipold said. “You can use them in many different ways and we’re going to continue to use them.”

It’s always a luxury to have a good tight end. Senior quarterback Joe Licata calls a tight end a “quarterback’s best friend” – and

KAINAN GUO, THE SPECTRUM Senior tight end Mason Schreck (85) gets ready to block an Albany pass rusher (36) in Buffalo’s 5114 win at UB Stadium Saturday. Schreck and fellow tight end Matt Weiser may be integral parts of the Bulls’ offense this year.

for good reason. The tight end is the only position on the field that can be used to block on the offensive line and become a receiver as well. A tight end is typically strong in stature with soft hands and a knack for the game. Schreck is 6-foot-4 and 250 pounds while Weiser is 6-foot-5 and 255 pounds.

It’s Licata’s dream scenario.

“Those are big body guys,” Licata said.

“They can block, run and catch. They showed great hands, great route running ability. And they’re both very smart football players. It’s a great luxury for me.”

Licata saw potential for the tight ends in Leipold’s new offense. He said during the summer he wanted to incorporate them more in the passing game rather than use them solely for pass blocking.

Schreck proved that tight ends could be valuable assets to a passing attack. In the second quarter of Saturday’s game, Buffalo decided to go for it on fourth-and-two when on the Albany 16-yard line.

Schreck was expecting a flat route, but coverage wouldn’t allow the play go into fruition. Licata still had faith in his bigbody tight end and floated the ball up to Schreck, who came down with it on the Albany 2-yard line to set up a first-and-goal.

Weiser called it a “heck of a catch.”

Junior running back Jordan Johnson would pound it in two plays later for Buffalo’s third touchdown before the half.

“As a tight end, you gotta love when the tight ends get the ball,” Weiser said. “That’s a testament to Mason [Schreck] and our hard work, the younger guys, the older guys who were here before that pushed us.

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