The Spectrum Volume 64 Issue 50

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The Tale of Two Colleges YUSONG SHI, THE SPECTRUM More than 8,000 student attended UB’s annual Fall Fest concert on Sept. 6, 2014. SUNY Fredonia recently canceled its annual spring concert festival, Fred Fest, amid large number of citations and arrests.

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Steve Merry has attended Fred Fest – SUNY Fredonia’s annual end-of-the-year concert festival – for the past two years despite not being a student at the university.

Merry, who graduated from UB in 2014 and would stay with friends who attended SUNY Fredonia, said the experience at Fred Fest was something he could not get at UB’s annual concert festivals, Spring and Fall Fest.

“It’s a different culture between Spring Fest and Fall Fest and Fredonia,” Merry said. “I haven’t been to party at Spring or Fall Fest anywhere near what Fred Fest has.”

But SUNY Fredonia is now hoping to deter nonstudents and non-community members from visiting Fredonia village during what is traditionally the weekend of Fred Fest by canceling the event all together.

UB students have made the trip to Fred Fest, and feel UB’s festivals, funded by the Student Association through the mandatory student activity fee, are not comparable to the atmosphere of the now canceled Fred Fest. UB’s concert festivals do not seem to bring as much trouble for the University Police Department as Fred Fest does for the Fredonia Police Department. While UB fielded just 17 arrests between both fests in 2014, Fredonia’s officers have dealt with nearly 90 during its last fest, according to the school’s SA president.

David Herman, SUNY Fredonia Vice President for Student Affairs, announced the cancelation of Fred Fest in a letter to students on Feb. 9, citing safety concerns with binge drinking at off-campus parties and arrests and incidents he said involved mostly non-Fredonia stu-

UB’s fest culture holds no comparison to recently canceled Fred Fest

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dents and non-community members. Guests will not be permitted in residence halls from May 1-3 – the weekend Fred Fest would normally be held.

Many schools across the country hold end of the year campus-sponsored concert festivals for students, but SUNY Fredonia often got an influx of students from different universities for its weekend festival.

“It kind of draws people to Fredonia,” said Joe Cardina, a senior video production and audio major at SUNY Fredonia. “It kind of separates it from the other little liberal arts schools spread across New York State. It’s kind of our thing.”

In his letter to students, Herman said there had been more than 100 citations in the village of Fredonia, numerous campus conduct incidents, injuries and reported sexual assaults over the last three Fred Fest weekends.

Fredonia SA president Jefferson Dedrick said there were nearly 90 arrests during last year’s Fred Fest weekend, and on WGRZ, Fredonia’s village police chief estimated there are at least 50 to 70 arrests during Fred Fest weekend.

Village of Fredonia Police didn’t respond to The Spectrum’s inquiries by the time of press.

The weekends of last year’s UB Spring and Fall Fests saw 17 total arrests (none of which occurred at the concerts), five students served Student-Wide Judiciary (SWJ) paperwork for marijuana complaints, seven alcohol overdoses first aid responses and two incidents of graffiti vandalism inside North Campus buildings. There were also seven total noise complaints about the concerts from Amherst residents.

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UB student raises money for the American Lung Association in charity event

SOPHIA MCKEONE STAFF WRITER Kristin Waldby will be fighting to breathe as she climbs the 800 steps of One Seneca Tower, Buffalo’s tallest building, in hopes that one day, those with lung disease will no longer struggle for air like her mother did.

Waldby’s mother, Kathy, died of lung cancer about a year ago.

Now, Waldby, a junior sociology and communication major, will be participating in the American Lung Association’s Fight for Air Climb on March 14, a fundraiser for lung disease awareness, education and research. Waldby raised $1,050 for the association – the second highest amount raised by any climber this year, according to the Fight For Air Climb website.

Lung disease “touches almost everyone,” said Annalise de Zoete, the event manager of Buffalo’s Fight for Air Climb.

In November 2011, lung disease touched Waldby.

She will remember her senior year of high school – a year typically devoted to senioritis, prom and worrying about college – as the year her mother was diagnosed with lung cancer.

“It became so important to me to find a fundraiser specifically for lung cancer and lung disease,” Waldby said. “This was the first one I had ever heard of or seen so I was really excited to be able to participate.”

Waldby remembers her mother developing a chronic cough that remained mysterious even after numerous doctor appointments.

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Max Soria recounts his storied career and his relationship with coach John Stutzman JORDAN GROSSMAN

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Kristin Waldby, a junior sociology and communication major, has raised $1,050 for the American Lung Association’s Fight for Air Climb. She is participating in memory of her mother who passed away from lung EMILY LI, THE SPECTRUM cancer a year ago.

After receiving a chest x-ray, the doctors found the cancer, thus beginning Kathy’s battle and Waldby’s determination to help the cause.

Lung disease – including lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma and influenza – is the third leading cause of death in the United States. Lung cancer is the most fatal cancer and each year causes more deaths than the next three most common cancers combined, according to the American Lung Association’s website.

“The higher up you get, the thinner the

air gets, so it’s actually tough to breathe if you don’t pace yourself, but that’s the point,” Waldby said. “We’re raising money for lung cancer and lung disease. We’re trying to make it so everyone can breathe, so it’s a really unique way to bring awareness to that.”

This will be Waldby’s second year participating in the climb. Anyone can do it individually, however, a large portion of the climbers are on teams. Waldby and her extended family from Rochester and Syracuse make up the team “Climbing for Kathy.”

SEE AIR, PAGE 4

Head coach John Stutzman remembers the first time he met Max Soria.

It was a match in 2011 against Bloomsburg, where Stutzman was the head coach at the time, at Niagara County Community College. Soria, a redshirt freshman at the time, defeated Bloomsburg’s Sean Boylan in a decisive 5-2 victory in the 125-pound weight class for the first victory of the day. Upon completion of the match, Stutzman had only one word to say.

“Wow.” Stutzman, who became the Buffalo head coach prior to the start of the 2013-14 season, coached Soria for two seasons as a member of the Bulls.

Now a senior, Soria has wrestled his final match at Alumni Arena under Stutzman.

“The first time I watched him wrestle, I competed against him at my past institution. I remember saying to myself, ‘Wow, this kid is pretty good,”’ Stutzman said.

“When I took the job over, I remembered his positive personality. And he did a really good job with the coaching change and buying in to the program.”

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Continued from fred fest, page 1 “We don’t make many arrests or have a lot of crime associated with the concerts,” said Chris Bartolomei, UPD assistant chief of police, in an email. “It wouldn’t be unusual to have an arrest due to a fight or criminal mischief, but mostly, we have a high number of alcohol and drug related first aid calls … After the concert, we may need to manage unruly crowds at the shuttle bus stops, and we usually continue to get the alcohol and drug related first aid calls throughout the evening.”

Merry said for students who attend, Fred Fest is more about all-day drinking and off-campus day parties than the actual school-sponsored events.

He said UB’s festivals are more focused on the actual concert because UB gets better known acts. UB’s concerts festivals have featured artists like Kendrick Lamar, Wiz Khalifa and Childish Gambino in recent years.

The past two years, Fredonia’s SA has had local bands play the fest and overall student attendance is low, according Cardina.

So if it’s not the acts, what makes Fredonia’s party scene so much wilder than UB’s?

Jacob Gullo, a junior communication major at UB, said “everything is within walking distance in Fredonia.” Gullo attended Fred Fest in 2013, and said there were day parties in backyards, barhopping and bands playing on street corners. He said UB could not have a similar festival to that because UB’s “geography doesn’t allow it.” “[UB] North campus, it’s all spread out. You have the Villas on Rensch, [Villas at] Chestnut, the dorms,” Merry said.

The village of Fredonia has a population of fewer than 11,000 people. UB has a little fewer than 20,000 undergraduates. Merry said he could attend five different house parties that are all just a five-minute walk away from each other in Fredonia.

He said UB has some element of parties and bars in walking distance of each other in the University Heights located off South Campus, but “even that is not the same atmosphere.”

UB spokesperson John Della Contrada said the university supports students’ rights to plan events and concerts on campus as long as they meet campus requirements, adding, “student planned events are an important part of the campus community.”

After every Spring and Fall Fest, a special events committee reviews the event and pays special attention to any concerns that need to be addressed at the next concert, according to Della Contrada.

Spectrum Entertainment Board, a constituted group of Fredonia SA, annually planned campus Fred Fest activities. Like Fall and Spring Fest, Fred Fest was funded by a mandatory student ac-

tivity fee.

Fredonia SA president Dedrick said Herman approached Fredonia SA last year in effort to “tone down the off-campus Fred Fest activities.”

He said some minor changes were made, but “the on-campus events hosted by Spectrum don’t really have any effect on the off-campus partying.”

Dedrick said it was Spectrum Entertainment Board’s decision to cancel Fred Fest this year.

He said Fredonia Student Affairs may have put some pressure on them to do so, but there was not much resistance after last year’s efforts to tone down off-campus activities did not work.

“The thinking, as I understand it, is that if the college does not sanction events associated with Fred Fest weekend, there may be less of a draw of non-Fredonians over time, lessening some of the problems the college and community have experienced,” Dedrick said in an email.

Dedrick said fewer than a handful of the arrests from last year’s Fred Fest weekend were SUNY Fredonia students. Herman said in his letter that most of the citations and issues involved friends and guests of students. Merry said he does not think it is mostly non-students causing the issues during Fred Fest.

“It’s everybody,” Merry said. “We’re all the same age. You don’t think [Fredonia] students are getting in trouble? … They are.”

But Cardina said a lot of Fredonia community members are happy about the cancelation because “it does draw a lot of people that kind of don’t treat the Fredonia community as they should as guests.”

Cardina said students were not too down trodden about the cancelation because they will still hold parties and friends will still visit the weekend Fred Fest was supposed to be.

Gullo said he will most likely make the trip to Fredonia this May. “You can’t stop the parties, and the bars just can’t close, so therefore I’d assume it’s going to be very similar,” Gullo said.

Gullo said SUNY Fredonia “eliminated healthy activities,” by canceling the school-sponsored concerts and activities. Merry said he thinks offcampus festivities will be the same if not worse because students may want to rebel against the cancelation.

“I hope we find a happy medium between partying, rage and destruction and no fun at all. I hope there’s a happy medium everyone can be OK with,” Cardina said.

Dedrick said there will still be a string of endof-the-year events, which will be revealed in March, but there won’t be any on-campus activities during the historical Fred Fest weekend.

2/3 11:56 a.m.: A UB employee reported that a catalytic convertor was stolen from his car on Feb. 2 while it was parked in the Main and Bailey lot on South Campus. The employee reported it happened between the hours of 5-11 p.m.

2/3 1:20 p.m.: A student reported that his iPad was stolen from the employee locker room in Putnam’s restaurant during his shift from 2-7 p.m.

2/3 10:34 p.m.: UPD reported a person entrapped in an elevator in Alumni Arena. Assistance was provided.

2/3 4:19 p.m.: UPD reported a suspicious male with white hair in Farber Café wearing a red backpack, a blue shirt and no shoes. Patrols were dispatched and found the individual to be a cleaner on his break.

2/4 12:02 p.m.: A parking and transportation employee reported a marijuana smell coming into her office from the west wing stairwell.

Patrol was unable to locate suspects.

2/4 7:24 p.m.: UPD reported three individuals in Wilkeson smoking marijuana and reported the marijuana paraphernalia in plain sight.

Patrol found the suspects and issued Student Wide Judiciary (SWJ) papers to Jake Lomonaco, Demetrius Pappas and Colin Thomas.

2/5 1:58 a.m.: A caller reported a bat in 209 Norton. Patrol arrived but the bat was gone.

2/5 9:43 a.m.: A UB student reported a hit and run to his vehicle. The student believes a plow truck in the Flickinger Lot hit his car on 2/4 and reported that hubcap and rear view mirror were missing from vehicle.

2/6 5:07 p.m.: A UB student reported her vehicle may have been struck by a plow some time in the last week while it was parked in the Govenors E Lot. 5:30 p.m.: Patrol reported a UB student walking on the fifth floor of Goodyear Hall with a plastic samurai stick. The student reported he was hanging it in his room. Patrol escorted him to an Resident Adviser (RA) director, who confiscated the samurai stick for safekeeping until the student could remove it from campus.

2/7 3:33 p.m.: An RA advised UPD that two subjects were smoking outside rear stairwell of Goodyear Hall. Patrol identified UB student Sadia Zaman and non-UB student Sifat Abir. SWJ papers issued to Zaman. Abir was advised and released.

2/7 10:21 p.m.: An RA reported that he found several spent bullet casings lying in the fifth floor hallway of Red Jacket building 3. An officer was requested and a report was filed.

2/7 12:26 a.m.: A caller reported an odor of marijuana coming from the Richmond Quadrangle. A patrol was dispatched and three subjects, Woldemedhin Belachew, Kaleb Negussie and Brian Potter were issued SWJ papers.

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As Buffalo continues to be pummeled by snow and sub-zero temperatures, UB students’ trek to campus has arguably surpassed mere inconvenience as they drive on icy roads and trudge along in wind chills far below zero to get to class.

But at least UB students have somewhere to go.

The homeless population of Buffalo remains outside, even as temperatures break cold weather records that residents would rather see left alone.

Newcomers to Buffalo are typically quick to pick up on the winter weather uniform necessary to stay safe in the cold – heavy coats and as many accessories as possible.

Because when the temperature drops below zero, wearing enough layers and exposing almost no skin makes it possible to almost feel warm.

But the homeless of Buffalo

often make do with just a jacket.

This was the case for Ronald Hunter Jr., who was homeless, mentally ill and just 21 years old when he died of hypothermia on Bailey Avenue on Jan. 8.

Hunter, who weighed only 150 pounds at 6 feet 3 inches, didn’t have much more than skin on his bones when he died – especially because, disoriented by hypothermia, he had removed his jacket and tried to take off his shirt.

The night of Hunter’s death, wind chill took the temperature 20 degrees below zero, and Hunter had nowhere safe to go and nothing warm to wear.

Hunter’s death illustrates the challenging task workers and volunteers face trying to prevent such tragedies.

Buffalo is not ignoring the plight of the homeless population during winter – the city’s programs have systems in place

to try to protect the homeless during cold weather.

When temperatures drop below 15 degrees, a Code Blue is declared and volunteers mobilize to bring the homeless into shelters for the night.

But some individuals can’t be swayed and remain outside, wracked by mental illness or disoriented by the cold, and convinced that the sidewalk is preferable to a shelter.

Facilities like Harbor House and the Buffalo City Mission do an admirable job of protecting the vulnerable populations in Buffalo. But clearly, traditional shelters aren’t always sufficient.

But alternatives do exist – like the new Hope Gardens complex on the East Side.

The shelter for chronically homeless women, which features a garden for therapeutic activities and allows women to sleep outside

if they feel trapped indoors, considers the long-term traumas that the homeless lifestyle can cause.

Programs that offer creative solutions and attempt to empathize with homeless individuals can go a long way in encouraging the homeless to trust those who want to help them.

Unfortunately, these sorts of shelters are also incredibly – almost prohibitively – expensive.

Hope Gardens, which offers only 20 apartments, cost nearly $6 million to construct.

At such a high cost, it’s unlikely such shelters could become widespread in Buffalo. But the ideas the complex promotes – considering the homeless lifestyle and allowing behaviors that may not seem “normal” to the nonhomeless – are free to consider and important to implement. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

Evidence lost is justice miscarried

Erie County deputy’s mistake is irreparable and inexplicable The innocence or guilt of four individuals accused of committing murder in 1998 is yet to be determined, but the incompetence of an Erie County deputy who disposed of evidence crucial to the case has been proven beyond a doubt.

Former Deputy Douglas Burke, now retired, explained to a federal judge that he gave away murder evidence to an auctioneer four years after the initial crime.

The evidence in question, which the auctioneer sold, was far from incidental. It included several knives, a shovel possibly used to bury the victim and a steak knife blade that may have been the murder weapon.

How any individual, much less a sheriff ’s deputy, could mistake these items as disposable is difficult to understand.

Burke claimed that he was simply trying to clear out some

space on the shelves of a crowded evidence storage room – a storage room that exists for the purpose of preserving any and all potential evidence.

This serious and embarrassing error leaves a murder trial overshadowed by incompetency and doubt.

The alleged killers of Francisco Santos, who was murdered in October 1998 in Seneca Nation territory, are believed to have stabbed Santos and buried him in a shallow grave after several drug-related feuds.

But the actions of the accused individuals, who maintain their innocence, are now impossible to prove forensically.

The disposal of evidence irrevocably taints this case, leaving Magistrate Judge Jonathan Feldman with a difficult decision regarding the efficacy of this trial.

Though Feldman decided that

the case would go on, declining to dismiss the murder charges, the trial can no longer represent an effective carriage of justice.

Burke’s error leaves the courts in a catch-22 – either dismiss the charges and allow four potentially guilty men to walk free, or carry on with a trial in which the full story can no longer be told.

Feldman chose the former option, leaving it up to prosecutors to take on the now exceptionally difficult task of demonstrating the guilt of the accused without the evidence that was once available.

The judge’s decision makes it possible that Burke’s mistake could be somewhat mitigated – if the guilt or innocence of the alleged killers can still be accurately determined, the repercussions of the lost evidence are certainly less severe.

But no matter the outcome, the existence of this dilemma is

problematic in and of itself.

The county’s current undersheriff insists that evidence handling has now been greatly improved, with a computerized locker and bar coded items. But it’s unforgivable that such a system wasn’t put in place until after crucial evidence was lost – and “lost” is an entirely too generous misnomer.

That the Sheriff ’s Office in 2002 was still using pen and paper records, that there was so little oversight of the evidence storage, that a deputy somehow wasn’t sufficiently trained in evidence handling (Step 1: Don’t give away evidence to auctioneers) is almost laughable.

Of course, this story revolves around a murder, so humor can’t sufficiently lessen the blow of the Sheriff Office’s failures. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

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Bill Jack and Jerasak Parker Manivong, both members of UB Improv, performed at Jamprov on Feb. 16. The event combined Jam Club and UB Improv to provide students a way to showcase their comedic and music abilities.

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Jam Club and UB Improv come together to create ‘Jamprov’ TORI ROSEMAN

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On one side of the room sit actors, preparing themselves by outlining the skits they’ll be performing within the hour. On the other side, students start to assemble a drum set, plug in amps and tune guitars.

Although the two groups are preparing in different ways, they’re both getting ready the same event: Jamprov.

On Monday night in the Student Union Theater, UB’s Jam Club and UB Improv collaborated for their second Jamprov event. The groups alternated half hour sets. The collaboration was organized to bring exposure to both clubs, as well as give members the opportunity to perform in front of a small crowd.

“We’re basically doing the same thing, just using different mediums,” said Jeremy Landau, a junior international business major and the president of Jam Club. “The collaboration was a match made in heaven.”

Jam Club and UB Improv are both im-

provisation clubs, allowing members to experiment with their medium – music or comedy.

“Jamming” is when a musician will improvise instead of performing pre-written sheet music or tabs. The instruments usually involved in jam sessions are guitars, keyboards, basses and drums. Sometimes, only a single instrument will play but usually, members improvise together creating a harmony of individual sounds and ideas.

Jam Club meets on Sundays in the Student Union.

UB Improv meets on Mondays in the Student Union in a workshop format to teach those interested the nature of improvisation.

Actors in UB Improv play skill-building games to help teach members how to become comfortable on the stage and how to naturally formulate dialogue with one another. New participants are always welcome to join warm ups, which include ice-breaker games.

“There are different kinds of improve:

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short form and long form,” said Corey Reisman, a senior political science major and the president of UB Improv. “What we focus on during meetings is long form, which is more internalized. Short form is what’s entertaining, and gets the audience involved. That’s what we perform tonight – something that the audience can get into and participate in.”

Jamprov opened with a four-person group from Jam Club, consisting of two guitars, a drum set and a bass. The group worked together to find harmony by starting in the same key, and switching between which instruments were leading, or performing solos.

Then UB Improv took the stage. They played games such as “pan left,” “director’s cut” and “line blind.” All the games required audience participation – the actors on stage performed scenes based on what audience members would shout out, or in the case of “line blind,” wrote down on slips of paper.

The audience laughed as UB Improv created comedy from their ideas.

The groups are planning their third Jamprov show to be on April 20 to further improve the structure of the event and help participants be more comfortable on stage.

“We’re hoping that for our next show, we’re going to find a way to combine what we do and what [Jam Club does] together,” said Rachel Sawyer, a senior English major and member of UB Improv. “Maybe we’ll have them play while we perform, or something similar to that. We want to perform together at the same time.”

Jam Club is also looking to collaborate with other on-campus organizations, like the Royal Pitches or the Buffalo Chips, UB’s female and male a capella groups, respectively.

Be it with music or acting, improvisation is a skill that takes practice and Jamprov allows the groups to explore their chosen mediums.

The combination of the two into one show sheds light to not only the difficulty of performing on the fly but the beauty of natural harmony between performers. email: arts@ubspectrum.com

It is people like Waldby and teams like “Climbing for Kathy” that are responsible for the increasing impact of the Fight for Air Climb. In the five years since the event was established, it has grown significantly.

“The climb has gone from nothing to raising over $125,000 last year,” De Zoete said.

Last year, almost 500 climbers participated and raised an average of $250 per climber. This year, their goal this year is to raise $150,000.

The fundraiser has set the minimum donation requirement of $100 for each climber. They can get sponsored or raise money on their own.

Waldby has received donations primarily by using social media. She asks people to either donate or spread the word, a process that has been successful for her.

De Zoete said 89 cents of every dollar raised goes to the American Lung Association, which is dedicated to funding the awareness, education and research of lung disease.

Although the Fight for Air Climb is making an impact, in general lung disease is a greatly underrepresented cause, according to the coordinators.

This is in large part due to the stigma that surrounds the disease’s connection to smoking, according to the American Lung Association.

Waldby wants to get rid of the stigma associated with lung disease.

Her mother never smoked a day in her life. Waldby said it’s important people know there are many causes of lung disease.

She said everyone deserves equal support, no matter what caused the illness.

Many people with lung disease and their loved ones feel shameful or guilty about their illness. Research and clinical trials for the disease are significantly underfunded and celebrities and community leaders are less likely to advocate for the disease, according to the American Lung Association.

“Because there is such a stigma with lung cancer and lung disease’s connection to smoking and other environmental causes, people aren’t as willing to fundraise for the cause; but there are people who have lung disease, who have lung cancer that never smoke, and even those who did smoke deserve as much care as anyone else,” Waldby said. “Everyone deserves to have a fighting chance.”

That fighting chance increases with the elevation of the climbers as they ascend the 38 floors of One Seneca Tower.

Last year, Waldby’s aunt picked her up from her dorm to take her to the climb since her mother was too ill to drive.

As Waldby walked to the car, she saw her mother in the passenger seat. Waldby’s mother had a “climb of her own,” traveling from her home in Syracuse to Buffalo in such poor health.

Waldby’s motivation has only grown with her mother memory in mind.

This memory has fueled her to climb the 800 steps.

Her mother’s memory will be with her for this year’s climb and for years to come. As long as there is a climb somewhere near her, she will be there, Waldby said. email: features@ubspectrum.com

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All taped up Students tape Dennis Black to wall to raise money for cancer JASHONDA WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER Dennis Black hadn’t ever been taped to a wall before this past Friday.

On Feb. 13, Relay for Life held a fundraiser in the Student Union lobby for the American Cancer Society. Students paid $1 for a piece of tape to hold the vice president for University Life and Services to the wall for an hour.

Students also could buy baked goods to help the cause. The event was held to kickoff fundraising for Relay for Life’s main event inside Alumni Arena on April 24.

The main Relay for Life event will run inside Alumni Arena from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. on April 25, and teams can walk around the track, sing songs and participate in other activities to fundraise money.

The club raises money through smaller events leading up to the 24-hour relay.

“It was pretty easy for me to say yes [to being taped to the wall],” Black said as students piled blue tape onto him. “I’ll spend an hour helping raise money to fight cancer.”

Kelsey Clark, a senior exercise science major and president and event chair of Relay for Life, yelled through a microphone to encourage students to donate by taping the university official down.

“It doesn’t matter how big or how small your contribution is, it really makes a difference,” said Megan Austen, a junior nursing student who volunteers with Relay for Life. “It’s just a great feeling. You

Dennis Black, vice president for University Life and Services, taped to a wall in the Student Union to raise money for Relay for Life.

feel like you’ve done something good.”

Kaeleigh Nissen, a senior biology major and the activities, entertainment and sponsorships chair of Relay for Life, said the club got the idea from Pinterest, where they saw a high school had done the same thing.

In the past, Relay for Life has done a “Bowling for Boobs” fundraiser and a kickball tournament entitled “Save Second Base,” which were both smaller events leading up to the main fundraiser in April.

Nissen said students seem to be more “into” taping Black to the wall than past fundraisers.

Nissen joined the organization three years ago when a friend’s father died of cancer. She said all the money from Friday’s fundraiser would be donated at the end of April after the main event.

“One of the things the money goes to is helping with lodging for people who have to stay away from home for cancer treatment,” Nissen said. “The good thing though, is that everything we raise actually stays in the Buffalo area.”

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The organization tabled last week in Student Union 145B to give students information about Relay for Life and how they can get involved. It also gave firsttime teams participating in the main event a chance to see what the campsites will look like, what they need to bring and more info about the performances they hold throughout the night.

Clark said it’s her goal to get more faculty and student clubs involved in events to create more of a community. She said she wants everyone, from freshmen to seniors, to be involved.

Clark lost her father to cancer when she was 9 years old.

“Everyone knows someone who has been affected by cancer,” Clark said. “It’s definitely something I’m passionate about and something I don’t want anyone else to have to go through.”

The main Relay for Life event’s theme will be board games and teams will use that theme to create a fundraiser.

Last year, about 200 teams signed up to participate in the event. This year, Clark

said she wants more teams to sign up.

The organization has fundraised $7,000 of their $85,000 goal. Last year’s goal was $65,000, while the goal was $80,000 in 2013.

“I think that everyone thinks they’re alone when they go through cancer battles, but our committee and Relay for Life is a big cancer fighting family,” Clark said.

“It’s just nice to be around so many people that support you and care about you, and it’s a big network of people that you can rely on to help get you through a hard time.”

He added that the lead up and preparation for Relay takes “an entire year” and supporters who come to the even typically stay “an entire 24 hours.”

Black said he enjoys his job not only because he gets to make sure campus events work out, but he also gets to be a part of them – even if that means getting taped to a wall for an hour.

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Over the years, Berlinale has massively expanded, especially under the leadership of Director Dieter Kosslick. Kosslick has been the director since 2001 and will remain in that position until 2019. One of his main goals has been expanding the festival throughout the city and making it more inclusive to the public and attractive to Hollywood stars – further distinguishing it from more private festivals, such as Cannes in France and the Venice Film Festival.

Whether it’s the allure of the red carpet, the breadth of films on display or the premier of big movies; it’s always about the films themselves.

“My favorite part is being among the first people in the world to see an exciting new film,” Cole said. “There’s a palpable energy in the audience when something wonderful is discovered, as we saw last year with The Grand Budapest Hotel and the year before with Gloria from Chile.”

Cole describes a palpable energy that can be felt by everyone in attendance.

The thousands of people that fill Berlin each year for Berlinale make it the largest film festival in the world. Kilian said it’s a festival for “the freaks” – a festival for the people.

The city’s nightlife and diverse culture help bolster the Berlinale’s roots as an international film that attracts attendees and films from all over the world, which was once what made the festival so important to attendees.

“Berlinale was more important in the time when we had the Iron Curtain,” Rebentrost said. “The Berlinale was the festival for Eastern Block movies. It was, for years, everyone came to Berlinale to buy Russian movies.”

The festival started in West Berlin in 1951, during the Cold War when Germany and Berlin were divided between the democratic West and communist East. It didn’t become an annual festival until 1978, where it remained a hotspot for people searching for a glimpse into East Berlin, and communist controlled Eastern Europe.

“The Berlin Film Festival was launched during the Cold War and was conceived as a kind of window on the world for the divided city,” Cole said. “It has maintained that intense focus on global politics while also drawing high-wattage glamour with major Hollywood productions and stars.”

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Each year for 10 days, Berlin becomes a sanctuary for film fans. Movie stars line the red carpet in front of Speilbank Berlin, a theater in transportation hub Potsdamer Platz. The theater is transformed into the Berlinale Palast.

Thousands of people from all over the world filled the 33 cinemas throughout Berlin to see some of the 400 films on display at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, or Berlinale. The festival ran from Feb. 5-15.

Last year’s festival was attended by over 491,000 people, according to the event’s website, making it the largest publically attended film festival in the world and setting Berlinale apart from smaller, more private festivals like Venice and Cannes.

Attendance records from this year’s Berlinale have not yet been released.

“What is very special about the Berlin Film Festival is the masses of young people being freaks about movies,” said Kilian Rebentrost, the former CEO of Tobis Films, a film production and distribution company. “They’re all over the town, discussing and standing in line, and they’re going, ‘Aw, I saw, did you see this black

Continued from Soria, page 1 On Sunday, the wrestling team celebrated Soria’s illustrious UB career. Prior to the beginning of the meet against Eastern Michigan, Soria and teammate Wally Maziarz were honored with commemorative plaques and a small ceremony.

“Every athlete has been in that situation before,” Stutzman said. “It’s emotional. You get your parents and the people around you for one last time at Alumni Arena. It’s a special moment.”

Soria is one of the most decorated wrestlers in Bulls history. He currently holds the record for most escapes in program history (85) and accumulated 104 takedowns, which leads the team. He also leads the team with 21 wins this season.

In his four years at UB, he earned two appearances at the NCAA Tournament.

During his redshirt freshman year, Soria was victorious over No. 20 Nick Smith of Northern Illinois. He currently leads the team with 12 career conference victories and holds a career record of 81-53.

But Soria’s accolades are only a testament to the journey he took to get to that point. At the beginning of this season, the wrestling program was punished by the NCAA because of a low Academic Performance Rate (APR). Due to the sanctions, the team is unable to compete

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and white movie from Romania?’ It’s a big discussion. Then of course there’s a sophisticated audience that wants to see the red carpet.”

Rebentrost said Berlinale is singular among many film festivals for its sprawling attendance records and because it separates the festival from the industry that runs along side it.

Claudia Shroeder, a second year cinematography student at the Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin, has attended and worked at Berlinale for six years. She agrees with Rebentrost that the size of Berlinale along with its division between fan interest and industry events are what set the festival apart from similar events she has attended.

“There’s so many people, normal people watching movies,” Shroeder said. “My parents go every year. For the other festivals it’s more of a business base, but with Berlinale the business is parallel to the public event. Everyone can go … you have private screenings at the European Film Market and screenings in the evening for children for example.”

Schroeder said she and her friends attend 20-25 films at each Berlinale between working and attending parties centered on the festival.

The European Film Market (EFM), which runs parallel to Berlinale from Feb. 5 to the 13, attracts 8-12,000 industry members from all over the world, who build and foster contacts and negotiate film rights.

Kilian said during his 45 years attending film festivals he never bought a film at Berlinale, but his daughter, Anna Rebentrost, who now runs the company uses the festival to meet with contacts, continues relations and discusses films she’s involved

in and find new ones for her company to work with.

Whereas many film festivals, like Cannes, are industry exclusive, Berlinale allows the festival to function separately from the industry events that happen at the same time.

The addition of a Critics’ Week this year adds another professional element to Berlinale’s program, which already includes Berlinale Talents – a summit for aspiring film creators.

Deborah Cole, a Berlin-based correspondent for Agence France-Presse, an international news agency, said Berlinale’s Critics’ Week is similar to the ones Cannes and Venice have had for years.

in the 2014-15 postseason – including Soria, who was on pace to compete in this year’s NCAA tournament.

“After hearing the news, it was heart crushing,” Soria said. “I’ve been there twice and I wanted to go there again and do some damage.”

At the beginning of this season, Soria was given the opportunity to transfer schools to compete in the NCAA Tournament for the third straight year. In the end, he decided to stay in Buffalo.

Soria said it was an easy decision. It wasn’t about the accolades or the awards that he yearned for. It was about the opportunity to lead a team.

“This whole year, just sticking around with the team as a captain allowed me to make so many memories over the year,” Soria said. “I’m glad I stayed to help out the UB program. I can look myself in the mirror with no regrets.”

Soria also decided to stay because of the influence of coach Stutzman.

Stutzman took over a scrutinized program from former head coach Jim Beichner in 2013. Before he was hired, Soria and the rest of the team were able to submit their input about the new hire.

Soria explains that potential hires were brought in and the team was able to question them about their philosophy and their plan for the program. Stutzman stood out. Two years later, Soria is pleased with the program’s decision.

“We had faith in what he was going to do,” Soria said. “After two years, I see the progress that he was trying to make and I have full faith in his plan … He was very passionate, very loud when he was coaching for Bloomsburg. Now, that he’s our coach, we see that passion first hand.”

Soria wrestled for the final time at Alumni Arena on Sunday. Despite a 2210 team loss, Soria picked up a 14-3 major decision victory over Eastern Michigan’s Blake Caudill.

But the victory wasn’t satisfying for Soria. He said he would have swapped his final individual win for a team win.

“I wanted to go out with a [team] win,” Soria said. “I feel like it’s over, but it’s not.

I want to go out with a win. I want the team to win. I want the team to experience it.”

Soria will wrestle for the final time in a Bulls singlet on Friday when the team takes on Northern Illinois.

After the season concludes, Soria said he is not sure what will happen with his wrestling career, but he hopes to be a liaison for the team in the future.

Soria acknowledges he will likely not wrestle on a team in the future. He knows he will not be part of the team that he helped build. He also realizes he will not wrestle under Stutzman again. And Stutzman acknowledged he would never coach Soria again.

“We’re going to miss him,” Stutzman

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Each year the Spielbank Berlin, a movie theater in Potsdamer Platz, transforms into the Berlinale Palast for two weeks, where films premiere and compete for the coveted Golden and Silver Bear awards.

“It will help round out the Berlinale program, but will make a huge festival even more sprawling,” Cole said in an email.

The festival becomes a place for film fans of all interests to gather and share their love of cinema, while simultaneously hosting industry functions similar to those of other film festivals.

“The Berlinale is one of the biggest audience film festivals in the world,” said Maria Peters, a press representative for Berlinale in an email. “Here professions and the audience mingle. And with the backdrop of a culturally very lively city, like Berlin, the festival is a unique experience for everybody who attends it.”

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Max Soria could have left UB in order to wrestle in the NCAA Tournament this year. But he trusted Stutzman and the program enough to stay in Buffalo. He never looked back from that point.

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Basketball preview: Men on the road, women back in Alumni Bulls basketball teams look to make final push before MAC Tournament QUENTIN HAYNES SPORTS EDITOR Women’s Basketball (14-9, 7-5 Mid-American Conference)

Winners of five of its last six games, the women’s basketball team is coming off a 54-44 victory over MAC West leader Western Michigan (16-8, 9-4 MAC) on Saturday at University Arena.

Now, the Bulls hope to avoid being upset by Kent State (4-19, 2-10) on Wednesday. Bulls head coach Felisha LegetteJack is doing her best to keep the team from over-looking the Golden Flashes.

“We respect all and fear none,” Legette-Jack said.

“We don’t put Akron over Kent State because they have a better record. Kent State just won against North Illinois and played Akron close. They just COURTESY OF GRAHAM SMITH couldn’t finish. We can’t Redshirt junior Melanee Stubbs drives down the court as Kent State takes allow them to finish when on Miami University in the M.A.C. Center on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2015. they come play us, either.”

Despite the 4-19 record, Legette-Jack resix games, Sharkey has averaged 19.8 spects the talent on the Kent State roster. points, 8.0 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.5 “They have a great shooter on their steals per game. team in Larissa Lurken,” Legette-Jack said.

“I can speak for Sharkey when I say “She can really shoot it out the gym, prob- that the accolades don’t matter,” Jack said. ably one of the best shooters in the Mid- “She’s more interested in putting a banAmerican Conference. They also have a ner in the rafters, being able to say that forward, CiCi Shannon, who can rebound she did something amazing before she left and run the floor like a deer. We have to UB. That’s the main focus for her now.” put more than one person on her.”

Sharkey’s play allows coach Jack to play The Bulls have to worry about the bat- freshman point guard Stephanie Reid, tle on the glass as they enter their match- and the results have been positive. After up against the Golden Flashes. The Bulls not playing earlier in the season, Reid has are currently ranked first in rebounding emerged as a solution to the point guard offense in the conference with 42.9 per position, averaging 3.4 assists per game game. and a 1.4 assists-to-turnover ratio in her On the other side, Kent State is first in first eight starts of her career. the conference in rebounding defense (34 “Reid is such a heady point guard,” per game) and offensive rebound percent- Legette-Jack said. “Smart kid, knows how age (37 percent). to manage spacing, get the ball to players Coach Legette-Jack said this is some- where they want to score, need to score. thing the Bulls can handle.

She’s just knows how to manage a bas“They out rebounded us twice last ketball game. She’s a true point guard year,” Jack said. “We’re more concerned and we’re very blessed to have her on our with the energy they put into rebounding team.” the ball. It’s impressive to watch. We have The Bulls and Golden Flashes are tied to do a better job of not rebounding, but in the season series, winning five games boxing out, getting in position, and letting apiece, dating back to the 2009-10 seathe ball fall to us.” son. But the Bulls have won their last four The Bulls will rely on senior forward matchups against Kent State, most recentKristen Sharkey to help them both of- ly, a 64-51 victory on March 8, 2014 at fensively and defensively. This past week, home.

Sharkey was named Big 4 Player of the Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday night Week, and last week, she won the MAC at Alumni Arena.

Player of the Week award. Over the last

#UBTop10 The top 10 moments in UB sports in the past three weeks JAMES BATTLE ASST. SPORTS EDITOR Editor’s Note: Tweet your submissions to @ ubspecsports using #UBTop10 10. Men’s tennis swept Boston College The men’s tennis team steamrolled Boston College, going 6-0 in singles and winning 2 of 3 doubles matches on Jan. 31.

Despite the loss in the doubles, the Bulls took home all seven points in the victory. It was the first and only sweep for the Bulls this season. Seniors Damien David and Sebastian Ionescu won singles matches in straight sets.

9. Ford named MAC East and Big 4 Player of the Week In the two games against Western Michigan and Kent State from Jan. 27-Jan. 30, senior forward Xavier Ford averaged 20.5 points, six boards, two assists and 3.5 steals. Ford shot 16 of 23 from the floor over the two-game stretch. During the Kent state game, the forward netted his career-high 25 points, nine of which came from three-point range.

8. Track and Field Records At Saturday’s SPIRE Division Invitational, the Bulls broke two school records.

Senior Emma Siuciak broke the school’s

high jump record at 1.78 meters. Junior distance runner Tyler Scheving broke the school’s 800 record previously set by himself with a time of 1:50.09.

7. Alexis Curtiss named MAC East Player of the Week Senior catcher Alexis Curtiss was named MAC East Player of the Week this past week for her play over the weekend. She accumulated a .562 batting, hitting five doubles out of her nine hits.

6. Women’s Basketball reaches four straight wins The women’s basketball team came off their win at Northern Illinois on Jan. 24 to win three more against Eastern Michigan, Toledo and Bowling Green. Senior forward Kristen Sharkey led all games in scoring for the Bulls. The team is now 14-9 overall and 7-5 in the Mid-American Conference.

5. Kristen Sharkey named Big 4 Player of the Week Sharkey was named Big 4 Player of the Week after an exceptional stretch of performances for the Bulls. Sharkey averaged 17.5 points and 7.5 rebounds over a twogame stretch in the previous week.

4. Justin Moss reaches career-high in points Junior forward Justin Moss bagged a career-high 33 points against Toledo on Feb. 10 in Buffalo’s 88-92 loss. Moss was 14 of 23 from the field against the Rockets and converted all five of his attempts from the charity stripe. Moss also grabbed 10 rebounds.

3. Xavier Ford scores career-high In Buffalo’s 80-55 rout of Kent State, Xavier Ford was on fire, netting 25 points against the golden flash, 17 of which came in the first half. Ford shot 3 of 6 from

ton into the lineup for freshman guard Lamonte Bearden.

Wigginton scored six points, grabbed four rebounds and dished out four assists in his first start of the season, while Bearden had six points and four rebounds off the bench.

It is unclear if Wigginton or Bearden will start on Wednesday.

The Bulls enter the game with the third best offense in the conference, thanks to junior forward Justin Moss and sophomore forward Shannon Evans – who are ranked first and sixth in scoring in the MAC, respectively.

The combination of Moss and Evans has been the team’s main source for offense, but the team has a whole has improved on the offensive end. After a minor slump, junior guard Jarryn Skeete has shot over 50 percent from three over the last two games. Senior forward Xavier Ford has three doubledigit scoring games over his last five.

On the other side, the Eagles are third in the conference in points allowed (61.6 points per game), field goal percentage allowed (36.6 percent allowed) and steals per game (9 per game). The Eagles also rank second in threepoint percentage allowed (30.3 percent allowed) and blocked shots (4.8 per game).

COURTESY OF CHLOE SMITH, EMU ATHLETICS Coach Hurley, while praisThe Bulls will face Eastern Michigan senior forward Karrington ing their defense, believes Ward on Wednesday. the Bulls should be able to produce offensively in their Wednesday matchup.

Over the last four games, Men’s Basketball (15-9, 6-6 Midthe Bulls have allowed 87.5 points per American Conference) game a significant increase from the avAfter a three-game winning streak, the Bulls have hit a snag in the middle of erage of 69 points allowed for the season.

And it won’t get any easier for the team.

MAC play, losing three of the last games by a total of 10 points. The losses have Eastern Michigan’s Raven Lee, the second dropped Buffalo into fourth place in the leading scorer in the MAC at 16.4 points per game.

MAC East and sixth in the MAC overall.

This is the only matchup of the season With a trip to Ypsilanti, Michigan on Wednesday, the Bulls are looking to snap between Buffalo and Eastern Michigan. the losing streak against Eastern Michigan Dating back to the 2009-10 season, the Bulls are just 2-4 in their matchups against (16-9, 5-7 MAC).

On Saturday, the Bulls allowed 43 Eastern Michigan. Their last matchup was points in the second half, falling to West- a 69-64 loss on March 13, 2014 in the ern Michigan 75-74 in the final seconds quarterfinals of the MAC Tournament.

The last time they played in the Convoafter holding a 13-point lead in the first half. Senior forward Xavier Ford had a cation Center, the Bulls lost 65-46 on Feb. chance to win the game in the final sec- 6, 2013.

The game is set to tipoff at 7 p.m. at the onds, but the shot was just short as the Convocation Center in Ypsilanti, MichiBulls dropped to 6-6 in conference play.

One of the more subtle changes made gan. in the game was the starting lineup change of junior guard/forward Rodell Wiggin- email: sports@ubspectrum.com

Junior forward Justin Moss was named as a candidate for the first-ever Karl Malone Award, which recognizes the best power forward in the country.

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beyond the arc and was 9 of 14 overall. Ford, who started the season coming off the bench, has been a mainstay in the starting lineup since Jan. 27 against Western Michigan.

2. Alumni Arena nearly sells out in nationally televised game On Jan. 30, the Bulls played against Kent State at Alumni Arena in front of an announced crowd of 5,797. The crowd was the largest attendance at Alumni Arena since 2010 when Buffalo took on BYU. The game was also aired on ESPNU. The Bulls outscored conference-leading Kent State by 25 points in the victory.

1. Moss named as candidate for firstever Karl Malone Award Moss has been nominated to the first-ever Karl Malone Award List, which recognizes the best Division I power forward in the country. Moss is one of 16 players on the list, joining the nation’s elite power forwards such as Arizona’s Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Kansas’ Perry Ellis and Baylor’s Rico Gathers.

Moss is averaging 18.7 points per game and 9.1 rebounds per game, leading the conference in both categories. email: sports@ubspectrum.com