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UB looks to overhaul general education requirements
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AMANDA LOW SENIOR NEWS EDITOR UB’s general education requirements are about as old as its current class of seniors. The curriculum hasn’t been majorly altered since 1992, but Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Andrew Stott is working on a major program overhaul. In a survey of more than 3,000 students, 68 percent said general education requirements were something to “get out of the way.” The current general education program requires students to complete 39-48 credits and students need 120 credits to graduate. Stott said if students feel indifferent about one-third of their education, it’s a “waste.” The proposal for a revamped program is just starting to be presented to the UB community – its first open forum was on Tuesday and its next is Friday afternoon. The current system “has rather been allowed to wander in the dark with no real faculty oversight, and as a result, some of the original intention of the program from 20 years ago has been allowed to erode,” Stott said. The existing curriculum includes writing skills, mathematical skills, a world civilizations sequence, a natural sciences sequence, an American pluralism class, social and behavioral sciences skills as well as language, humanities, arts and depth requirements. Students also need to complete library skills but not for credit.
“We are the most comprehensive public university in the state of New York, so we have enormous academic and educational riches here on campus,” Stott said. “We have all these incredible things and they’re right here. It’s just that, in relation to general education specifically, we feel we can make more of the package that we currently have.” Between Feb. 1, 2012 and June 1, 2013, 16 percent of the 8,184 graduated students completed the entire general education requirement through UB. Students can receive exemptions from some of the general education curriculum through things like advanced placement exams and transfer credits. Stott said 72 percent of students are exempt from some or all foreign language study – like students with engineering majors – and 73 percent of students receive a “waiver, exemption or exception” from UB’s six-credit writing composition program. If a transfer student enters UB with more than 24 credits of college classes, they are able to be exempt from the world civilizations sequence, American pluralism and art. In some cases, students can fulfill a humanities requirement if they take the ENG 101 or 201 class under writing skills, Stott said. An assessment of students who completed the writing skills portion of the curriculum found 65.8 percent of students felt their achievements from the class were “excellent or very good” and 26.9 percent felt their performance was “good,” according to the proposal.
YUSONG SHI, THE SPECTRUM Kaitlin Ahern, a third year Ph.D. student of anthropology and TA for world civilizations, teaches a class in Knox 104. World civilizations is one of the general education requirements that would be affected under a new proposal to revamp UB’s general education program.
A team of graders led by UB’s director of composition sampled the students’ papers against a rubric and found 40 percent did not reach the standards and 24 percent were “borderline.” Stott said UB participated in the National Survey of Student Engagement, which sets standards for the amount of student participation on campuses. It benchmarked the university against 62 other schools in the American Association of Universities and found UB lacked in the amount of opportunities students were given for “high-impact education practices,” Stott said. High-impact education practices include first-year seminars, internships, study abroad, research projects and capstones. The proposal for the new general education program will undergo multiple revisions and take in sug-
Still on different sides of the room StandWithUs brings Charlotte Korchak to campus to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict EMMA JANICKI SENIOR FEATURES EDITOR UB students and professors yelled, interrupted each other and politely – and impolitely – disagreed Tuesday during a contentious debate about the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine. Charlotte Korchak, a representative from pro-Israel group StandWithUs, began the discussion by invoking the moving image of four young Palestinian cousins who died when Israeli rockets hit them as they played on a Gaza beach in July. Images of the dead cousins galvanized the world and became a symbol of how Israeli aerial attacks in Gaza were inevitably killing civilians. Korchak said she identified with the Palestinians, particularly the children who lived in fear as Israeli rockets hit Palestinian targets during a 51-day conflict in July and August. “My heart broke this summer as the death toll in Gaza rose,” Korchak said. She spoke about Danny, a 4-year-old Palestinian boy who lived in a “reality of terror” each day. Every day as bombs were dropped on his community by the Israeli government, he is said to have told his family and friends once they were in a bomb shelter, “It’s OK, we’re safe now and we’re in the shelter.” But some attendees at the event disagreed with the way Korchak presented the Palestinian side of the conflict. James Holstun, an English professor at UB, said in an email that Korchak ignored “the freshly-dead 2,200 Palestinians who fell to Israeli bombs and missiles and bullets. Ms. Korchak began her talk emoting about how deeply she was af-
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On Tuesday, Sept. 16, Charlotte Korchak lead a presentation and a question and answer session with students, professors and members of the community on the Israel-Palestine conflict that has affected millions of lives. The presentation invoked heated debate on both sides of the topic but some students wished there was more of the story told.
fected by the deaths of four Palestinian boys on a Gaza beach. After her talk, I asked her if she knew the names of any one of them, or of a single other Palestinian victim of the massacre. She did not, but said it didn’t make any difference.” These strong and divided opinions characterized the event as pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli attendees discussed and debated after Korchak’s presentation. “Korchak was excellent at persuading the audience that Palestinian and Israeli life are equal while it’s quite evident that it is not,” said Manar Kustiro, a sophomore intended nursing major and the president of Students for Justice in Palestine, which is in pursuit of being a Student Association club. “She stated that there are extremists on both sides of the Israeli and Palestinian side, which I agree with, but I question why the whole Palestinian race is being generalized as terrorists, being occupied and deprived of their basic human rights from the Israeli occupation. Why do the safety and freedom of Israelis have to come at the price of the Palestinians?” Kustiro has family in Eastern Je-
rusalem. Korchak is the diaspora education coordinator for StandWithUs, an international non-profit pro-Israel education and advocacy group. She spoke to a crowd of about 40 students, professors and members of the community gathered in Cooke 121. She spoke about her experiences growing up in Israel during the second intifada and about her hopes for the future of Palestine and Israel. Korchak gave a half-hour presentation and then led a 45-minute question and answer session during which UB students and professors on both sides of the conflict offered strong opinions. Attendees were still discussing the conflict 45 minutes after the Q&A session ended. That was when the real debate began as attendees gathered in groups to discuss their opinions – often in heated, loud voices. The United Nations General Assembly partitioned Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state on Nov. 29, 1947 – an act that the Arabs referred to as “al-Nakba,” or the catastrophe. SEE DIFFERENT SIDES, PAGE 6
gestions, like through the open forum. It will then be presented to the Faculty Senate. Stott believes if the Faculty Senate agrees with the proposal by December, the earliest the new curriculum could be implemented is the fall of 2016. To integrate more student involvement into the proposal, Stott met with Student Association President James Ingram and Minahil Khan, SA student affairs director and UB Council representative, to ask how to receive more student feedback. The group decided to create a task force that involves about 13 students from diverse majors to formulate an opinion on the proposal, which aims to promote a liberal arts education while incorporating major-related classes. The committee will meet on Sept. 30 to discuss final changes and give
Stott a report with an approval, approval with recommendations or denial of the proposal before it goes to the Faculty Senate. Khan believes the response from the committee has been “overwhelmingly positive” and she did not hear any preference for the current program over the proposed one. “There’s not an even distribution of what students are required to take,” she said. She said it’s important to create a “more comprehensive general education requirement” so students feel like they’re not only fulfilling requirements, “but also gaining something out of it.” Stott believes the value of a liberal arts education is not being communicated through the current general education program. Although he does not mean to “denigrate” the present system, but thinks students deserve a change if they’re not getting the most out of the program possible. “There’s no reason why we can’t build a world-class general education program out of all the raw materials that we have here,” he said. “We don’t need anything new, we just need to structure it differently.” On Sept. 19, an open forum will take place at the Center For the Arts’ screening room from 1-3 p.m. The session will give the UB community an opportunity to discuss the old and new general education requirements. A previous open forum took place on Sept. 16 on South Campus. email: news@ubpsectrum.com
Unprecedented number of students prompt increased tailgate patrol COURTESY OF BEL PAVLIK UB Athletics estimated about 5,000 students attended last Friday’s Party in the Point. The parking lot was filled with trash and empty beer cans before a UB Stadium record 7,000 students attended the football game.
OWEN O’BRIEN MANAGING EDITOR When some UB students looked outside their South Lake apartments, they saw something they weren’t accustomed to – thousands of students throwing a party in the Lake LaSalle parking lot. UB Athletics estimates 5,000 students attended the Party at the Point tailgate before last Friday’s nationally televised football game against Baylor. More than 7,000 students attended the game. The tailgate began three hours before kickoff and left the lot filled with garbage, beer cans and red solo cups. University Police is set to increase patrols for this Saturday’s game against Norfolk State. Tailgating is a tradition almost as old as football itself. Orchard Park, New York lifts its public drinking laws between certain hours for Buffalo Bills games. Ralph Wilson Stadium is nationally known for tailgating environments. “It’s tailgating, so it’s different … it’s an event in and of itself as
an extension of the game,” said Sue Kurowski, Buffalo Assistant Athletic Director of Event/Facility Operations. “It’s more of a game day experience than an every day ‘pull up your car and do what you want to do.’” UPD’s police report showed 21 calls from near UB Stadium between 6 and 10:30 p.m. last Friday. Of these 21 calls, eight reported disorderly conduct incidents in and outside of the stadium. Other complaints ranged from public unration to students trying to sneak in alcohol to vandalized cars in the parking lot – one student even tried to steal a traffic cone. There were two reports of “highly intoxicated” fans and at least three others who needed medical attention inside the stadium. But Schoenle said there weren’t any “major incidents.” Students who ordered a Lake LaSalle parking pass received a list of the tailgate rules as well, according to Kurowski. SEE TAILGATE, PAGE 6
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Anything but peace at the Peace Bridge Political dispute and deception mar a once-amicable relationship between U.S. and Canadian border authorities The Peace Bridge used to live up to its name. Now, those long-lost days of tranquility and friendship must seem a distant memory to authorities on both sides of the Niagara. With all the political turmoil and violent disputes plaguing the globe, and with needs statewide for reform to New York’s prisons and educational systems, this dispute with Canadian officials must be resolved before “Canadian diplomatic crisis” is added to the United States’ ever-growing list of concerns. More than $150 million is currently devoted to multiple improvement projects at the bridge and the nearby plaza, as a series of infrastructure developments aimed at reducing traffic congestion by increasing queuing space, adding more truck lanes and widening approach ramps broke ground last month. Despite this seemingly positive development, Canadian hackles are raised over the deceptive behavior by Governor
Andrew Cuomo and program manager Maria Lehman, who attempted to avoid publicizing details of construction projects until after the deadline for legal objections. This sneaky political maneuvering will only exacerbate the ongoing legal dispute between the two contingents of the Peace Bridge Authority. The litany of complaints expressed by both sides and documented in legal papers accumulated over two years of disagreement range from claims of sexual harassment, improper hiring and firing and defamation. Clearly, tensions are high between the two countries’ authorities. Many of the complaints reveal practices that are questionable at best, and undeniably immature. Canadian general manager Ron Rienas, who the U.S. contingent says has “gone rogue,” is accused of using his position to secure employment for his son, while hostility still lingers over Canadian Vice Chairman Anthony Annunziata’s dubious decision
to call Lehman “the governor’s concubine.” Meanwhile, the U.S. officials’ behavior has been far from perfect, often approaching incompetence. Court papers reveal that U.S. authorities insisted on paying $2 million for a property despite the Canadian’s successful lobbying for a $1 million payout, and mismanagement bordered on cattiness when authorities published a press release detailing their request for Rienas’ dismissal. Sadly, these examples are only a selection made from a far larger pool. It reflects an administrative mess of inappropriate behavior, immaturity and hostility that has thus far resulted in not just poor public relations but also inefficiency and ineffectiveness. This deeply unflattering history has culminated in a new lawsuit from the Canadians, who allege that Kavinoky Cook, the authority’s former law firm, which for the past 30 years has represented both sides of the bi-national group,
is now only working for the United States, and is refusing to turn over files, documents and emails. The newest development in an incessant and unnecessary conflict serves to further reveal the pettiness that epitomizes this disagreement. The authority has new lawyers, new projects to focus on and new problems to solve – with that comes a need for new attitudes all around. At a time when the United States is in conflict with so many nations already, and struggling to maintain fragile diplomatic relations with others, an amicable relationship with our neighbors in the north in more important than ever. Ultimately, both sides need to grow up. Clearly, poor decisionmaking and petty politicizing has run amok among the Peace Bridge Authority for years, and it’s time for that to change – it’s time for a clean slate. It has to be said: Let’s not burn any bridges. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com
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As victims speak out, it’s time to do more than listen Sexual assaults on campus continue to make headlines and now universities need to make a difference It’s an all-too familiar story by now: When senior art student Emma Sulkowicz reported to authorities at Columbia University she’d been raped in her dorm by a male student, her case was dismissed and her rapist remained on campus. But Sulkowicz’s story joins the legions of cases gaining national attention as she, after finding out that two other students also reported being raped by her attacker, has refused to stay silent. Sulkowicz is carrying a dormroom mattress with her on campus in protest and has motivated other students to join her. Sulkowicz’s courage and resilience are worthy of praise, but the necessity of her actions is emblematic of a far larger problem. Campus administrators and legal authorities are failing students, often willfully, leaving it to the victims themselves to seek justice. The authorities refuse to do their jobs, but fortunately they’ve been thrown into a harsh spot-
light, as colleges across the country have their incompetence splashed across headlines. As news outlets publish campus-by-campus report cards and publications like The New York Times generate detailed profiles of schools that fail to properly acknowledge and take legal action against sexual assaults on campus, it’s clear that the epidemic of sexual assaults on colleges campuses is, at last, receiving the attention it rightfully deserves. Sexual assaults on campus are forcing reluctant universities to take action or face public scrutiny and stricter laws are being passed. To see this serious issue brought into the spotlight is encouraging, but also deeply depressing. The need for a “yes means yes” law, which passed in California and defines consent as a required “affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement” is saddening and reflective of a widespread and insidious cultural
trend in which one in five women will be sexually assaulted at college. Despite that number – which should be enough to motivate universities to act, rather than the fear of public critique – a national survey released in July found that 41 percent of colleges have not investigated a single claim of rape on their campuses in the past five years. UB is not immune to this disturbing trend. Though data from 2013 is not yet available online, the number of forcible sexual assaults on campus – that’s not including nearby areas – rose to 12 in 2012 – a dramatic increase from the three cases in 2011 and two in 2010, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Education. As campuses face the dreaded “red zone,” the period from the beginning of classes to Thanksgiving break when students are at the highest risk of sexual assault. It’s time for administrators to realize that they can no longer get away with their questionable policies and barbarous treatment of victims brave enough to file charges. There’s so much wrong with
that last sentence, and accordingly, with the culture surrounding sexual assault: There shouldn’t be a “red zone,” universities should be motivated by a desire to protects their students rather than by fear of negative press and victims should be able to accuse their attackers without worrying about reprisal. But we, as a nation, are not there yet. We’re still at the point where “one in five” no longer carries shock value and public awareness and media attention are more effective than legal proceedings. The SUNY system recently made headlines for its support of a bipartisan, federal effort to increase university’s resources for sexual assault victims and establish penalties for non-compliance. And though this is certainly a positive step UB’s part and its fellow SUNY universities, demonstrating an awareness of the problem and a willingness to take action, until the number of cases at UB falls from 12 to zero and until Emma Sulkowicz can put down her mattress, there is little to celebrate. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com
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UB holds Suicide Prevention Week, UPD in search of offers QPR suicide prevention training alleged assault suspect SHAROL SHAMSOR STAFF WRITER
Since January 2010, campus police have responded to approximately 69 calls about suicide attempts. Since November 2012, eight UB students have completed suicide. Last week, UB participated in National Suicide Prevention Week (Sept. 8-12) and offered multiple programs across five days. On Thursday Sept. 11, Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR), an institute that offers suicide preventing training programs, education and clinical material, suicide prevention training had its first out of three sessions during this fall semester as a part of National Suicide Prevention Week. “We need to be talking about suicide,” said David Gilles-Thomas, a presenter of the QPR program and the assistant director of Counseling Student Health & Wellness. “For so long, it’s been one of those taboo subjects, and we need to break through that.” Suicide is the second leading cause of death for college students and the number one cause of suicide is due to untreated depression, according suicide.org. The week started Sept. 9 with Meg Hutchinson, who spoke on behalf of Active Minds, a UB club. She educated students about mental health issues, suicide and how to cope with these topics. The next day, the Wellness Office held an event in the Student Union with tabled demonstrations. The week ended with an Out of the Darkness Walk in Delaware Park held by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention on Sept. 13. The first session of the suicide prevention training was held last week and there will be more training sessions on Oct. 13 and Nov. 17. “In an important part of all the QPR training, all the suicide prevention work we do is as a community,” Gilles-Thomas said. “We have a responsibility to each other and the only way we can move
LILY WEISBERG, THE SPECTRUM QPR, a suicide prevention training program, teaches students to recognize the warning signs of suicide. During the training sessions, students are shown a film based on real-life experiences of families who have experienced suicide.
forth with that is making sure [suicide] is part of our conversation.” The three letters in QPR focuses on how to “question” a person about suicide, “persuade” the person to get help and “refer” the person to the appropriate resource. QPR aims to create “gatekeepers,” people who are in a position to recognize a crisis and warning signs that someone may be contemplating suicide. They say everyone can become a gatekeeper, especially on a campus with large populations of students and faculty. Before the session began, presenters told the participants how the session could affect some people more emotionally than others. The session began with a film developed by several universities, based on real life experiences about attempted suicides and friends and families who had lost someone through suicide. Gilles-Thomas admitted even after watching the same film after countless of times, it still moved him. In the second half of the training session Melinda Haggerty, a presenter of the QPR program and the associate director of counseling Student Health & Wellness, introduced the Wall of Resistance – pieces of paper printed to look like bock walls. Participants wrote a personal “something to live for” on each brick. The training then concentrated
on detecting possibly signs of depression including abrupt behavioral and verbal changes or clues. The presenters talked about some of the notable symptoms of depression including fatigue or loss of energy, diminished ability to think or concentrate, a change of sleeping and eating patterns and a decrease in sexual drive. QPR is not intended to be a form of counseling or treatment but to offer hope through positive action, according to one of the program notes. Haggerty believes the session was interactive and hopes people who came to the training session will be aware they can apply what they learned to the future. She believes “[suicide] is important to address and that it is something we do not address enough.” Haggerty is hopeful participants “know that they are supported” in any of their efforts of trying to support anyone who is struggling and to also always think, “Oh, if I’m struggling, there is also someone to help me.” Gilles-Thomas encourages people to learn about QPR so it “demystifies a lot of our beliefs about suicide.” He believes counseling services will always find a way to help people who are in need of help. email: news@ubspectrum.com
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On Wednesday, Sept 17, an unknown college-aged black male allegedly assaulted a female UB student. The incident occurred near Capen Hall around 2:15 p.m. The suspect allegedly struck the victim in the face, causing her earring to rip out and mouth to bleed, according to UB spokesman John Della Contrada. The victim told the police this has been an ongoing situation since the start of the semester and has escalated since then. She said there have been two other incidents regarding the suspect, which she didn’t report until recently. The UB student does not know her attacker, but reports he
has personal information about her, like her name and where she lives. The suspect has stated he is a UB graduate student and played for the UB football team as an undergraduate. The UB Alert post said the suspect was described to be college aged, 6 feet tall, skinny, a black male, having long dread locks and light facial hair. UB police are currently searching for the suspect and increasing patrol in the area. The University is taking the matter very seriously, Della Contrada said. email: news@ubspectrum.com
Continued from page 8, Déjà Vu? Only one win against an FCS team counts toward the six-win plateau necessary for bowl eligibility. That means the Bulls have already used up their lone FCS win. This is why programs normally schedule one non-FBS opponent for the non-conference schedule. “That’s not something we’re going to do every year,” Quinn said in August about scheduling two FCS opponents. “At the time we felt like it was in the best interest of our program to schedule those two games and that’s where we are and we’ve got to overcome it.” Why does Buffalo have to overcome something that’s in its best interest? If the Bulls’ main goal is to play another bowl game, which was reiterated by Quinn and the players during the summer, why did they force themselves to win even more games? Scheduling two FCS games doesn’t sound like a program with bowl aspirations. It sounds like a team wanting an extra early season home game – preferably against a team it should beat – in front of a crowd that needs convincing that its team is worth coming out to UB Stadium to see. I think Buffalo wanted an extra home game in good weather and scheduling another FCS squad was the only way to do it. That’s Athletic Director Danny White’s decision to make – and he’s done a great job enhancing Buffalo’s game day experience – but doing this raises questions. Does the program care more about bowl invitations or attendance?
You know what will really ensure those stadium seats are filled? Consecutive postseason appearances. It may benefit the overall program’s initiative to have that extra early home game, but it hurts the team on the field. You have already handicapped your bowl aspirations with your schedule. Is the 2014 team really supposed to win seven or eight games when last year’s squad – led by players like Khalil Mack, Branden Oliver and a host of other impact seniors – only won eight? Buffalo players and coaches were unsure of if they would even be playing in a bowl game when the regular season ended. If the Bulls were going to sniff bowl eligibility in 2014, they were going to do so just barely – win six to seven games, have a solid performance against either Army or Baylor, with a solid MAC win over a team like Bowling Green thrown into the mix. That would be the best-case scenario. Playing two FCS teams is questionable, and when Buffalo can’t easily handle its FCS opponent when it gets on the field, it makes everything look that much worse. Buffalo’s long-term goal is to become a top-25 caliber school, but the facts are the facts: Its lone win was a comeback victory over an FCS opponent, and its two losses were mostly one-sided affairs with FBS schools. Right now, Buffalo is closer to its FCS foes than its Top-25 ones. email: tom.dinki@ubspectrum.com
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UB The Spectrum has started its own version of the popular online presence, Humans of New York, titled Humans of UB. Photographers have been walking around campus snapping photos and interviewing students about their life and UB experiences. This week they focused on finding artists who were working on their craft around campus. They found three students and their stories:
"What inspires your photography?”
"I like how enthusiastic so many teachers here are. I haven’t had a class with a teacher that is boring."
"Right now I have a really cool teacher that I haven’t had before and she inspires me to do a lot."
“What was it like transferring from a small school to a large school?"
"What does your teacher do to inspire you?”
"Kind of overwhelming at first, this is my second year here. I remember last year when I first came here, just finding my classes was a nightmare. I spent an entire day walking around [North] campus, just figuring out where everything is. At the place I used to go to, you could walk from building 1 to building 19 in under a minute. So it got kind of overwhelming at first.” - Rhys Oschmann, a junior linguistics major
"She tries to get us out of our norm. Really get us to go out there, and act like we’re professional. Instead of still being a kid and experimenting. To just go out and do it.” - Kim Horton, junior photography major
"What motivates your art?” “The stressfulness of my major; I need to turn to artwork to destress. With biomedical sciences it’s very busy all the time and then doing English on top of that. Art is my space to relax, a source of peacefulness." "That’s a cool sketch of the towers(Clemens towers), do you draw a lot of campus?"
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Q: What inspired you for this outfit? A: I definitely chose to be more comfortable and casual because I’ll be in the library studying for the MCAT all day. Q: Where do you like to shop? A: Pretty much everywhere. I’ve grown accustomed to try to find the best deals, so stores
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Matina Douzenis, a senior biomedical sciences, communication and psychology major hailing from Long Island, found the perfect balance of comfort and style in this simple yet distinctive outfit. Douzenis’ sassy, yet effortless outfit works well with her busy schedule of balancing three majors and managing Pre-Meds Without Borders. Here, Douzenis wears classic Converse, Lululemon sweatpants, a denim jacket and luxurious MCM backpack.
Q: What’s your favorite fashion trend? A: Classic and simple styles that will always be modern, I don’t like to be too out there.
"I feel like UB has a lot of beauty that people don’t acknowledge very often. At first when I was a freshman I didn’t necessarily love how it looked either, but it grew on me to the point where I think it’s really visually interesting now. I really like it here.” - Taryn Rutka, a junior in biomedical sciences and English, and art minor
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Wearing: thick round-rimmed Dolce and Gabbana glasses, Douzenis’ Lululemon sweats, white Converse sneakers with a MCM classic backpack
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like Marshalls and Century 21. I also like stores like Urban Outfitters, Bloomingdales and random unique boutiques wherever I roam in Buffalo or in New York City. Q: How would you describe your style? A: Well today’s not the most accurate. I really enjoy mixing unique blazers and sneakers or shoes with simple and classic color schemes like neutrals and blacks. Q: Who’s your favorite fashion designer/stylist? A: I definitely like Kim Kardashian because she got the vava-voom going on. email: features@ubspectrum.com
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Grilled cheese seemed like a good idea until the stove caught on fire, setting the Sim on fire and destroying the entire kitchen. After dousing himself in the shower, he returned in time to save the living room from a fiery demise, but it was already too late for the kitchen. The room you spent 30 minutes designing is destroyed in an instant because of a failed attempt at grilled cheese. But nobody is upset. Half of the fun of The Sims is watching the ups and downs of everyday computerized life. The Sims 4 is an entertaining advancement in The Sims series, but the new release lacks features offered in the series, which has been around since 2000. The game is a life-simulator in which the player controls one individual character, a “Sim,” or an entire family. The games are open ended, meaning the player has no particular goal or storyline. You choose whether you want to make their lives fantastic or awful. The newest installment brings notable new features, such as emotions, multi-tasking and in-depth career options. It doesn’t have some luxuries and options pre-
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The latest installment of The Sims features open-ended games, allowing you to choose whether to make your Sims' lives awful or fantastic.
viously included in the series such as swimming pools, basements and vehicles. The most innovative feature is the emotions system. It brings more comical humanity to each Sim and gives the users more ways to play. If a Sim has a bad day at school, you may find him hiding under his covers or trying to give himself a pep talk in the mirror. If a Sim cooks a good meal, then he or she may feel confident, unlocking new actions to choose from such as admiring himself in the mirror, using a daring pick-up line or “peeing like a champion.” The new system could use some fine-tuning in its manifestation. Sometimes, moving from room to room can change the character’s emotion drastically. These mood jumps can cause difficulty for the user to keep up with his or her Sim and maintain digital homeostasis. Sims can now multitask. They can now eat while walking or speak while running on the treadmill. This feature creates more realistic gameplay with characters moving more naturally throughout their setting. But not all the multitasking activities make sense. Sims can often be found eating in weird places – like drinking orange juice on the toilet. The biggest problem with The Sims 4 is the game lacks many sim-
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À la Mode: Style Guide Subculture style, Vol. 1 an equivalent to the U.S. ‘soulbrother’ look; tight-fitting, looselimbed, black and yet urbane,” Hebdige writes. The rude style was immortalized by The Specials, an English ska band that began in the 1970s, with songs like “A Message to You Rudy” and “Rude Boys Outa Jail.” “The working class dressed up for the weekend and the easily attainable and striking evocation of mid ’60s Jamaica was too irresistible for those who found punks sartorial alienation just that bit too alienating,” according to The Specials’ website.
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In America, we had 10 or so years of the hippy subculture. More than 50 years later, the hippy look has permeated the mainstream. Not only diehard festival goers are sporting dreads and flower headbands, but stores as commonplace as Urban Outfitters, H&M and Forever 21 are peddling their ‘flower child’ ware. England had at least 30 years of stylish subcultures that have remained relatively under wraps in mainstream society. For the next couple of Fridays, I’ll be introducing you to some of my favorite subcultures. This week we’ll start with the rude boy subculture of 1950-80s.
Whereas rude boys stuck with suits, rude girls floated between an iconic “SKA” cartoon and an androgynous look. In the cartoon, the girl wears a tight a black or white mini-skirt, black tights, black heels and a black or white sweater. As she danced with her cartoon dance partner, other girls followed the lead of Pauline Black of The Specials and dressed like the boys. They wore black trousers and jeans, white button-ups and chunky black brogues and boots – always sticking to the two-tone color scheme.
The rude boys wore “two-tone” outfits; that is, they primarily wore black and white. They were known for their two-piece suits, slicked and pompadour hair and brogues. Today, Cletus Emokpae, a Spectrum photographer and junior communication and international business and trade major, Charles Donigbine, a junior pharmacy major, and I drew on the rude style to inspire our outfits.
I decided to play with the classic girly side of being a rudy. I’m wearing a classic white button-up from Ann Taylor, a black Merino wool sweater from Ann Taylor, a black denim skirt from H&M, black tights and Clark’s brogues. To draw more on the rude boy look, I wore my handy black H&M bowler hat.
Emokpae has played up the classic rude style by wearing a fitted linen blazer, a striped bow tie, fitted chinos and distressed Italian leather
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Cletus Emokpae, Charles Donigbine and Emma Janicki model their best “rude boy” looks in this Friday’s fashion guide. shoes. His pageboy cap highlights a traditional English look.
Donigbinde replicates some of the more casual rude boy looks – similar to those of The Specials. He wore slim fitted jeans, an ivy hat, a plaid shirt, a black sweater and Hunter boots. Many white working-class English boys and girls adopt-
ed the rudie style after an influx of immigration from the West Indies to Britain in the 1950s and ’60s. These kids were rebelling against the conservative society of the 1950s in a far different way from American hippies in the ’60s. Whereas hippies flew against social convention by growing their hair long and
Continued from page 1, Different Sides Since the founding of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, controversy and violence have surrounded the 200-square-mile country, which is just larger than the state of New Jersey. The country and its neighbors have had a tumultuous 67-year relationship with two intifadas – a Hebrew word meaning “uprising” – and multiple wars. Disputes between the Israelis and Palestinians have for decades been the source of bombings, acts of terror and thousands of casualties on both sides of the conflict. Korchak experienced the “reality of terror” that both Israelis and Palestinians faced during the second intifada on a daily basis. She recalled when the bus she took to school every day was bombed in 2002 – that day she caught a bus 10 minutes before her usual schedule. That same year, she said she lost three friends to a suicide bomber who detonated explosives in a pizza shop. Korchak and her family moved from Los Angeles to the northern West Bank when she was 9 years old. A few years later, just before the second intifada, the family moved to Jerusalem. Kevin Appiah-Kubi, a sophomore nursing major and the treasurer of Students for Justice in Palestine, said he attended the presentation to learn more about the Israeli side of the conflict. He said he felt she gave an honest account of her experiences. Hadeal Attal, a junior early childhood education and psychology major and the coordinator of public outreach for Students for Justice in Palestine, said in an email that the talk was well-planned, but that “the point of the event was to talk about the history of Israel, yet it did not really focus on that a lot and was more of her experiences and personal life living in Israel.” Korchak and pro-Israel attendees spoke about the education system in Palestine that they felt taught children to hate Jews from a young age. Benjamin Balderman, a junior biological sciences major and president of UB Israel, said that “if [hate] was taught in Israel, we could not have peace with [the Palestinians]” and that “once the education system changes, then we will have peace.” Kustiro disagrees. “[Palestinian children] learn hate
when they are subject to live under inhumane conditions, when they experience their homes being demolished, when they see their loved ones being tortured, detained, arrested, and killed in front of their eyes,” he said in an email. After the presentation, Korchak opened the floor up to a question and answer session which Yoni Kaplan, the tri-state area coordinator for StandWithUs, said would not be a debate, but rather attendees could ask her one question at a time and she would respond. Some attendees came to the event equipped with notes, books and cellphones they used to formulate their questions. Among a multitude of questions about specific instances of Palestinian suffering and statements by members of the Israeli government, a group of students demanded that Korchak discuss the use of white phosphorus by the Israeli government, arguing that it was illegal under international law. Korchak said that under certain uses, white phosphorus was legal but illegal in others. During her response, multiple attendees said “It’s torture!” in unison. Some held their heads in their hands and spoke amongst each other in hurried whispers. Yousuf Zubairi, a sophomore political science major, felt that Korchak was “spewing the same propaganda as the Israeli government.” In an email to The Spectrum, Korchak said she was expecting attendees to “tackle the tough issues” during the Q&A session, but she felt that the attendees challenging her “were coming from a narrow viewpoint.” Holstun said that Korchak was “surprisingly ill-informed” and “rather than engage in actual debate, Ms. Korchak attempted to talk out the clock with endless, repetitive answers, while denying follow-up questions” during the Q&A session. Attal felt similarly to Holstun and said that Korchak “denied and disregarded everything we were asking and tried to answer around our initial questions. I thought it was also very unfair due to the fact that I raised my hand multiple times and for long periods of time yet I was not called on once.” Students like Rachel Marks, a senior theater design and technology major, said Korchak disputed
“a lot of uninformed errors and factual inaccuracies” offered up by the pro-Palestinian students and attendees. “It’s scary when people don’t know all the facts and base movements on it,” Marks said. Despite the debates, after the question and answer session, Appiah-Kubi and Balderman sat next to each other in the orange chairs of the lecture hall and amicably discussed their opinions on the presentation and the conflict. Balderman held out his bag of Fritos to Appiah-Kubi to share. “[Appiah-Kubi and myself] have a lot of the same ideas, but the means to get there are different,” Balderman said. Although the club is listed on the Student Association website as UB for Israel, Balderman said the club is actually UB Israel, in order to avoid claiming that all of UB is pro-Israeli. Although the discussion flared, attendees still supported the oncampus discussion while others felt that only one side of the story was told. “I absolutely think we should continue these events to educate people on what’s going on in Palestine and in other countries suffering around the world,” Attal said. “However, this was not a debate it was very one sided so I would love if we could have real debates in order for both sides to get a chance to speak about the issue.” Holstun said universities, dating back to the Middle Ages, have always been about “debate, debate, debate.” “Hats off to UB for Israel for bringing [Korchak] to campus. I look forward to more,” Holstun said. Korchak agrees with Holstun. “Our discussion was productive, where people were engaging with each other rather than shouting people down, like we’ve seen on many other campuses,” Korchak said. “If you can’t learn about these issues on campus, then where?” email: features@ubspectrum.com
adopting free-flowing styles, rudies were outfitted in suits and pork pie hats, according to Dick Hebdige, the author of Subculture: The Meaning of Style. The “soul brother moved on the cool lines of jazz, ska and American R&B” and combined “hats and ‘shades’ and Italian suits to produce a West Indi-
Whether you play around with the dressy side of the rude boy or keep it casual like Donigbinde, simply by mixing together black and white – and maybe skanking (that’s a dance move) around your living room before school – you can reference one of the coolest subcultures to emerge out of England’s long history of revolutionary style movements. email: emma.janicki@ubspectrum.com
Continued from page 1, Tailgate Rachel Choma, a senior biology major who attended the tailgate with a large group of friends, said she had no idea there were any rules handed out. Glass bottles, drinking games and items such as funnels and kegs are prohibited in the parking lot. All students who are drinking must have a proper ID and be prepared to show proof if asked by a police officer or UB employee, according to the tailgate rulebook. Students brought their own food and drinks to the Lake LaSalle parking lot before kickoff. UB does not sell alcohol to the general public in or outside of the stadium. Despite these rules, many students were drinking out of funnels and playing popular drinking games such as flip cup and beer pong while dancing to music played by DJ Anthony of Kiss 98.5. Although UB Chief of Police Gerald Schoenle said things were “pretty good” at the tailgate and game, he noted there were “some behavior issues [UPD wasn’t] thrilled about.” “I think it would be fair to say [drinking will be more moderated], there are going to be certainly more staff there,” Schoenle said. “We just want everybody to do things legally and safely and that’s the bottom line.” Schoenle said checking IDs in the parking lot is a “possibility, depending on the situation.” There have been tailgating incidents in the past in which UPD had to check IDs and moderate drinking, according to Schoenle. Kurowski said she doesn’t know if anything was put in writing to bypass the open container laws during the tailgate hours,
but she worked with UB Assistant Chief of Police Chris Bartolomei on making the official tailgate rules. UPD enforces the rules but Kurowski said there are other staff members walking around the parking lot and educating students who appear to be acting outside of the rules, like if they are underage or holding a funnel. Police stood around the parking lot to keep order, but Schoenle admitted there should have been more officers for a crowd of 5,000 students. “For next game we’ve asked Athletics, and we are going to have more staff ourselves to just make sure that we have adequate staffing,” Schoenle said. Schoenle said UPD doesn’t expect Saturday’s crowd to be as large as Friday night’s, but the officers will be prepared either way. There will be additional garbage cans and Port-a-Potties to combat some of the problems that arose Friday. The University Grounds maintenance is responsible for cleaning up the garbage by 8 a.m. the following morning. Kurowski said UB consulted with larger universities and other Mid-American Conference schools – along with the Buffalo Bills – before making its tailgating rules. UPD’s largest concern for the tailgates is that students are behaving in a safe and legal way. “There is always room for improvement, that’s the way I look at it,” Kurowski said. “It’s never perfect.” email: news@ubspectrum.com
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Buffalo to take on the Spartans Saturday Bulls will face their second FCS opponent of the season JORDAN GROSSMAN ASST. SPORTS EDITOR
Despite starting Week One with a 21-0 lead against Duquesne (1-2), a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) team, the Buffalo football team found itself trailing 2824 in the fourth quarter. The team rallied back and narrowly avoided an upset to start to its season with a 38-28 victory on Aug. 30. With another game against an FCS opponent slated for Saturday, head coach Jeff Quinn had a message to his team: Learn from the past – don’t live in it. “We need to create a winning culture,” Quinn said. “To be able to do that, we have to have our young men understand you cannot live in the past. Learn from it, build on it and understand how to play at the highest level.” The Bulls (1-2) have an opportunity to execute their head coach’s message when they host FCS Norfolk State (0-3) Saturday at UB Stadium. Quinn said the Bulls prepare the same way for every team, regardless of whether that team is in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) or the champion division. “I’m not interested in external factors,” Quinn said. “I’m interested in our kids preparing and understanding we respect every single opponent we play.” Senior safety Adam Redden said Buffalo is preparing for the Spartans with the same intensity it did for No. 7 Baylor (3-0) last Friday. “We like to take every team as a challenge so there’s not much of a drop off between a Norfolk State and a Baylor,” Redden said. “We
like to treat every team like a good, quality opponent.” The Spartans have scored only 20 points and gained 637 yards through three games. Buffalo has 98 points and 1,420 yards this season. Quinn said Norfolk State’s offense has “been a little out of sorts.” The Spartans hired a new offensive coordinator over the summer and Quinn said they are still trying to “find their identity.” Quinn said the Spartan offense played much better last week. The team scored 14 points in a 29-14 loss to The College of William & Mary. Norfolk State quarterback Terence Ervin has not thrown a touchdown pass through three games, but he has improved his passing yardage totals every week. After throwing for 61 yards in the Spartans’ first two games, Ervin completed 16 passes for 176 yards last week. Norfolk State appears to have only one receiving threat – junior wide receiver Isaac White. White has half of the team’s total receptions (16) for 134 yards. No other Spartan has more than three catches or 55 yards. The team’s strength is its defense. The Spartans’ 3-4 scheme allows an average of just 78 rushing yards, 155 passing yards and under 19 points to opposing offenses. The Spartans’ ‘D’ features 6-foot-7, 260-pound senior linebacker Lynden Trail, who has 20 tackles, 2.5 sacks and two forced fumbles this season. Redden described the first three games of the season as “rough” for the Bulls’ defense.
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Norfolk State quarterback Terrance Ervin leads a Spartan offense that has scored just 20 points through three games this season. The Bulls host Norfolk State Saturday at 3:30 p.m.
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This could be a rebound game for Buffalo’s defense. But the final score will still end up being closer than it should be.
Buffalo’s secondary will dominate the struggling Spartan offense. In contrast, Licata will pick away at Norfolk’s defense.
Men’s soccer looks for new identity BOBBY MCINTOSH STAFF WRITER After a disappointing 3-11-4 record in 2013, the men’s soccer team entered this season looking for improvement. It’s still searching after six games. Buffalo has only one win and six goals this season. Head coach Stu Riddle believes the team still has an opportunity to correct its mistakes and contend this season. “We were looking for improvement from last season and we still have time to do that, especially once it comes conference time,” Riddle said. “So the expectation is to still have improvement on the season. I have no doubt we’re going to get that.” The Bulls (1-5) host Detroit (22-1) Friday at UB Stadium and travel to Duquesne (3-1-2) Sunday. Buffalo dropped both of its games last weekend, but sophomore midfielder Russell Cicerone believes the team is on its way to improving. “We played really well this past weekend,” Cicerone said. “We made an identity for ourselves.” The Bulls have seven freshmen on the roster including several who experienced significant playing time, including midfielder Abdulla Al-Kalisy, defenders Fox Slotemaker and David Enstrom and goalkeeper Cameron Hogg. Junior forward Marcus Hanson, a team captain, is optimistic the young squad can jell together. “We’re working hard to figure each other out,” Hanson said. “We’ll see the chemistry more as the season goes on.” The Bulls have only three se-
niors and three juniors on their 24-man roster. Two of the Bulls’ promising young players are currently dealing with injuries. Sophomore defender Alec Fisher will miss the next 3-4 weeks with an ankle injury. Sophomore midfielder Nicolai Berry, who was second on the team in goals and points last season, has been cycled in and out of the lineup. Berry had a late start to training due to a thigh strain and back injury. Riddle hopes to slowly move him back into a starting role as he recuperates. Berry still leads the team with two assists despite his delayed start. In addition to managing Berry’s minutes, Riddle has also been switching between his two goalkeepers. Senior Waleed Cassis has started four games, while Hogg has two starts. “They both have excellent attributes and if we could get the combination of both right now we’d have a wonderful top-class goalkeeper,” Riddle said. “So I think there’s areas they can both work on but areas of their game they’re doing exceptionally well.” Riddle said he listens to Buffalo goalkeepers coach Cody Camp about who should start in net for a particular game. He said Camp’s decisions are based on which goalkeeper does best in practice. Riddle hopes to have a solidified 11 players for a starting roster once Mid-American Conference play begins on Oct. 10. Riddle is eager to adjust his team’s performance this weekend, saying “rather than focusing on our opponents, we’re focusing becoming more clinical in the final
third of the game.” He hopes this will result in an increase of goals, which the Bulls have been lacking thus far. Cicerone leads the team with three goals. One of those goals was from midfield in double overtime that clinched the Bulls’ lone win of the season, 3-2 over Bryant (2-4). The play made No. 2 on SportsCenter Top-10 plays. The midfielder said he would not have taken the shot if Riddle didn’t tell him to. The wind at his back and the possibility of the game being called off due to lightning factored into the decision to shoot from midfield. Cicerone threw off his shirt in celebration and was swarmed by his teammates after the goal. “It was pure joy,” Cicerone said. “It’s why we play the games, for moments like that.” Last season, Cicerone led the team in goals, points and shots as a freshman. He believes the team has a variety of players who can complement him this season. “We have all kinds of attacking firepower and it’s going to come out soon,” Cicerone said. Riddle said Buffalo’s final four games before MAC play begins are important. The players are confident in each other. Cicerone said that he is watching the chemistry grow exponentially. “We’re just going to go up from here,” Hanson said, The Bulls host Detroit at UB Stadium Friday at 7 p.m. email: sports@ubspectrum.com
– the third best attendance in UB Stadium history – and UB Athletics estimates around 7,000 of those attendees were students. It was the highest student turnout in stadium history. “We’re going to continue to need our students to continue to show up,” Quinn said. “[Our team] appreciates the energy and enthusiasm that was in that stadium [Friday].” The Spin Doctors will be performing prior to kickoff as part of the Tailgate Concert Series. The game is set for 3:30 p.m. email: sports@ubspectrum.com
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Junior wide receivers Ron Willoughby and Marcus McGill and senior wide receiver Devon Hughes all have at least 149 receiving yards and two touchdowns. Junior quarterback Joe Licata is on pace to set a career-high in touchdowns and passing yards this season. He has thrown for nine touchdowns and 870 yards through three games. Sophomore running back Jordan Johnson had 20 carries for 97 yards last week. Quinn said Johnson could see more carries this week as well. Junior running back Devin Campbell’s status for Saturday is unknown. Quinn said Campbell did not practice Monday. Last Friday, 24,714 fans attended Buffalo’s game against Baylor
Buffalo is allowing 502 yards and 46 points per game. The defense has forced just three turnovers this season – all fumble recoveries. “As a team we stress turnovers,” Redden said. “We definitely need to force more turnovers. Turnovers always help us win … the more turnovers you have more opportunities the offense has to score.” Quinn altered the Bulls’ secondary last week, switching sophomore Boise Ross from wide receiver to cornerback. Quinn made the move because junior cornerback Marqus Baker continues to miss time with an unspecified illness, and because of the Bulls’ depth at wide receiver.
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(3-0): Buffalo 42-28 The Bulls’ offense put up 21 points against the second ranked defense in the country last week. Expect a high-scoring game from Buffalo.
Déjà vu?
Bulls playing FCS team raises questions
TOM DINKI SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR A 26-23 five-overtime victory against Stony Brook Sept. 14, 2013. A 38-28 win over Duquesne on Aug. 30, 2014. These are two of the Bulls’ most disappointing wins in recent memory. ‘Disappointing’ is usually not a word associated with wins; that goes especially for a program like Buffalo, where wins have historically been hard to come by. But even a team like the Bulls (1-2), on the lower end of the FBS spectrum, should easily handle Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) teams like Stony Brook and Duquesne. Buffalo defeated Morgan State 56-34 in 2012 – the Bulls went 4-8 that year. The Bulls demolished Stony Brook 35-7 in a 2011 – they finished 3-9. And in 2010, one of Buffalo’s two wins was a 31-0 thrashing of Rhode Island. Recently, they’ve struggled
against FCS schools. Last season, arguably the most talented Bulls team in program history needed five overtimes to defeat Stony Brook. And just three weeks ago, the Bulls needed a fourth-quarter rally to defeat Duquesne, who was playing in its first-ever FBS matchup. And who’s next to play at UB Stadium this Saturday? FCS Norfolk State (0-3). Why is it then, in an era when the Bulls are attempting to move up the proverbial ladder of college football, is this team struggling against teams it wants to be well ahead of ? Perhaps Buffalo took its FCS foes lightly the past two seasons. Head coach Jeff Quinn said his team is not coached to think that way. “Doesn’t matter who you play, it matters how you compete for four quarters,” Quinn said. “I’m not interested in external factors. I’m interested in our kids preparing and understanding we respect every single opponent we play.” If this team wants any chance of playing in a bowl game for the second straight season – which is becoming a long shot with each passing week – it can’t just win Saturday. The Bulls need to dominate. This Buffalo team is desperate for a statement win over an FCS team for bowl selectors. Mostly because another normal win doesn’t change much for the Bulls. SEE Déjà vu?, PAGE 4