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The Spectrum responds to Issuu’s Sex Issue censorship

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The Buffalo Chips celebrate 20 years of music on Valentine’s Day

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Students, experts react to hype around “Fitfy Shades of Grey”

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SENIOR NEWS EDITOR

Here comes the Magic Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson speaks at Alumni Arena as part of Distinguished Speaker series TOM DINKI SENIOR NEWS EDITOR When Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson was in high school, he’d sneak into the CEO office of the building he cleaned on the weekends. He pretended he was the boss.

He imagined his secretary “Ishia” would bring him his coffee, doughnuts and newspaper every morning.

For three hours, Johnson dreamed. Now, he’s the CEO. He said he’s spent his whole life “over delivering” to be successful and Thursday in Alumni Arena, he wanted all students present to agree to do the same.

Growing up poor in a threebedroom house with six sisters and three brothers in Eastern Michigan, Johnson knew he had to “over deliver” in life in

order to succeed.

And Johnson – with his larger-than-life personality and stature – had every student in Alumni Arena repeating the word, “over deliver,” back to him.

“This is really important,” Johnson told the crowd as they stood up from their seats.

“You need to over deliver to your parents, your siblings, in the classroom. It’s not enough to just deliver today. You have to over deliver.”

Johnson paced around the floor of Alumni Arena and addressed – sometimes directly one-on-one – the thousands of people in attendance Thursday night, as the 39th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Keynote Speaker as a part of UB’s Distinguished Speaker Series. Johnson was not available for interview. He focused his

speech around what he considered to be the two biggest challenges for minorities: education and economic development.

Johnson, 55, played all 13 of his NBA seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers, winning five NBA championships – including three NBA Finals MVP awards – throughout the 1980s.

But Johnson only mentioned his Hall of Fame career on the hardwood a few times Thursday night – not what one would normally expect when listening to a speech by a retired athlete regarded as one of the best to ever play his sport.

With Johnson, it’s not correct to simply label him as an NBA Hall of Famer. His postretirement job titles read almost as long as his playing career accomplishments: en-

trepreneur, philanthropist, activist, analyst, MLB owner and after Thursday night, a Distinguished Speaker.

He’s one of the few superstar athletes to be known as well as, if not better, for his accomplishments post-retirement than what he did in his illustrious playing career. He spoke more about educating inner city kids and executing business contracts than dishing out assists or winning NBA titles.

Johnson is also known for retiring from the sport in 1991 after discovering he was HIV positive, but he only mentioned the virus near the end of a Q&A session, saying God has blessed him to still be alive 23 years after his diagnosis. He became a huge voice and advocate during the AIDS epidemic.

“The main thing I’m proud SEE MAGIC ON PAGE 2

Heights residents angry over plans to turn former supermarket into self-storage University Heights Collaborative hosts meeting to brainstorm alternatives CHARLES W SCHAAB ASST. NEWS EDITOR University Heights residents could soon have a place for self-storage, but some residents would rather have their grocery store back.

Joe Dash, owner of Dash’s Market, purchased Budwey’s Market on Kenmore Avenue from Frank Budwey in November 2013. Dash closed the supermarket for renovations in May 2014, but later announced that the site may not reopen as a grocery store, but as a self-storage unit.

“Everyone is disappointed that there will not be a supermarket,” said Mickey Vertino, University Heights Collaborative president. “We need to bring [that] information to Joe Dash and the community.”

The University Heights Collaborative, a non-profit community based organization, held a meeting at the Gloria J. Parks Community Center Tuesday night for residents to discuss alternatives for Dash’s current plan to turn the former grocery store site to a self-storage unit.

A petition is currently circulating against the supermarket reopening as a storage unit. The University Heights Collaborative is serving as a facilitator for the petition, allowing residents to voice their concerns, but is not taking a side on the issue.

Many residents want a supermarket at the Kenmore Avenue location because it is within walking distance of their homes,

Charles W Schaab, The Spectrum University Heights Collaborative president Mickey Vertino (left), Darren Cotton (center) and Aaron Krolikowski (right) at Tuesday night’s meeting.

and are concerned a storage unit would attract crime and detract other businesses from opening in the area.

“There is urban decay along Kenmore and Englewood – a storage facility would not improve that area,” said Joe Schmidbauer, a University Heights Collaborative member. “Storage facilities can become a place for black market transactions or a drop site.”

Schmidbauer said Dash made a bad investment when purchasing the Budwey’s location.

Dash told Heights residents in Novem-

ber that the location cannot sustain a grocery store, in part because of road construction that will be occurring on Kenmore Avenue throughout this year and next year. He also said he has not received any offers from buyers looking to use the site as a grocery store.

Dash’s Market has two other locations, on Hertel Avenue and Colvin Boulevard, both less than two miles from the Kenmore site. When Dash purchased the Budwey’s building, some residents originally feared the Hertel location would be closed.

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Professors can tend to forget a $100 textbook can be the equivalent of two or three days pay for a student, according to Stephen Dyson, a classics and anthropology professor.

He said professors shouldn’t be pocketing that money either.

“We have to be conscious of what we assign and really avoid any sense that we are profiting from something we probably shouldn’t be profiting from,” Dyson said.

On Wednesday, the Faculty Senate Executive Committee discussed making policies to regulate professors assigning and selling their self-published textbooks. UB currently has no policy on professors assigning their own textbooks for their courses, or on professors accepting cash from students for books.

“I think we can say there may be, at least it appears, the misuse of application of faculty publishing and assigning textbooks,” said Ezra Zubrow, Faculty Senate Chair.

The Faculty Senate Executive Committee will assign committees to review the issue at its next meeting on Feb. 25.

Zubrow said making a policy regarding the issue is up to the Faculty Senate.

The Spectrum published an article in November reporting UB did not regulate professors’ self-published textbooks, and that at least four UB professors assign their own textbooks for their courses – with some making students pay them in cash.

Concerns over professors profiting directly from students caused Ernest Sternberg, an urban and regional planning professor, to email Zubrow and suggest the issue be discussed at Wednesday’s meeting. Sternberg’s email outlined potential polices UB could enforce, but it was not an official motion.

Zubrow admitted he was surprised to learn professors were accepting cash from students in the classroom.

“That crossed my mind as possibly going across the line,” he said.

Robert Granfield, vice provost for Faculty Affairs, had a meeting with Senior Provost for Academic Affairs A. Scott Weber and Faculty Director Jim Jensen in November to “explore some of the issues” after The Spectrum article was published.

Granfield spoke with officials from the University of Minnesota, which has several regulations on professors assigning their own textbooks for courses. Granfield said the University of Minnesota requires that a faculty committee decide whether a professor can assign their own textbook.

University of Minnesota also prohibits any transaction of currency between students and professors.

“We can understand why,” Granfield said. “The potential for misconduct is rather significant.”

Michael Cowen, a mathematics professor, said students should pay professors for textbooks through a departmental office rather than exchange cash in the classroom, adding that it “at least would be a less offensive way of doing it.”

Peter Elkin, a biomedical informatics professor, said professors should not sell their textbooks directly to students, as it “gives a conflict of interest appeal to the whole thing.” He said some professors are inclined to assign their own textbook rather than another because of the profit, notoriety and grants that could be received by their book being used.

The Spectrum reported in NovemSEE TEXTBOOKS, ON PAGE 2

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Continued from Heights residents, page 1 Around the time the Kenmore location closed for renovations in May, Dash said that the Hertel location would never close. Dash originally wanted to put up to $4 million worth of renovations into the Kenmore Avenue building and surrounding space.

After Dash announced in July that the site might not reopen as a grocery store, Heights residents held a meeting with Dash and his lawyer in November to discuss the fate of the old Budwey’s site.

According to the general minutes of the meeting, Dash told community members he wants turn the building into storage and build additional outdoor storage facilities. He also wanted to hear public input on the project.

Dash did not attend Tuesday night’s meeting, but did meet with University Heights Collaborative members on Feb. 3 to discuss their concerns. Darren Cotton, University Heights Collaborative vice president, said that Dash argued that at this time the only commercially viable use for the land is storage.

Members of the community offered alternative ideas for the site instead of a storage unit Tuesday night. Residents suggested only developing part of the land, pursuing ideas for other grocery stores to go there or giving a parcel of land to the community for gardening or farming.

Cotton recorded the ideas and plans to compile them into a document to be sent to Dash’s representatives.

Dash’s proposed plan to make the site a self-storage unit would have to be approved by the Buffalo Common Council.

The University Heights Collaborative is currently seeking information on the existing zoning codes for the area. If the lot is zoned as a community business district, the Buffalo Common Council would not permit a self-storage site and Dash would be required to have a zoning variance to build. If the site is zoned as retail strip, Dash would not be required to have a zoning variance and a self-storage would be permitted.

Michaela Schmidbauer, the University Heights Collaborative secretary, said residents need to be brought together against this storage facility.

“We need to come together and continue a strong voice of we do not want a storage facility. Period,” Schmidbauer said.

The Buffalo Common Council will have a public hearing on Feb. 24 at 1 p.m.

Dash’s representatives did not return the request for comment by the time of press. email: news@ubspectrum.com

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Continued from textbooks, page 1 Michael Cowen at Wednesday’s Faculty Senate Executive Committee meeting, which focused professors on selling self-published textbooks to students.

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ber that adjunct assistant professor Brian Reynolds wrote and assigned his own textbook for COM 101, for which he is the sole professor.

Cynthia Tysick, an associate librarian and Faculty Senate Secretary, said on Wednesday that the COM 101 textbook is a “compilation” of many faculty members’ work, so Reynolds is not the only person receiving profits from the text. He is just the only one teaching the course.

She said the communication professors chose to self-publish in order to reduce the price students would have to pay. She

said she is unsure of the “margin of profit” of the COM 101 textbook.

Joseph Mollendorf, a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor, said a potential regulation would have to be carefully worded, so professors who publish quality textbooks may still be allowed to assign them. He also said professors should not be able to sell them directly in the classroom.

The next Faculty Senate Executive Committee meeting is Feb. 25.

through education, education and more education,” Johnson said.

Johnson said he wasn’t “one of those athletes who didn’t go to class,” while at Michigan State and wanted to invest his money into urban America.

He said he researched that black people were the No.1 group going to movies, but there were no theaters in his community.

He made a deal with Sony to open theaters in the inner city.

Johnson told the story of when he knocked the door of Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and said, “Black folks drink coffee, too.” He said people thought a Starbucks would never work in urban America, so Johnson had to first show Schultz the theater he opened in the urban city before approving a deal.

He said King preached about blacks being “first class,” so Johnson made sure his theater was run “first class” and had the best customer service.

“I became the first person and only person outside of Starbucks to own Starbucks,” Johnson said. “Anytime a man of color can build 125 Starbucks and be the

only one to do that, that’s what Dr. King was talking about.”

Johnson is a part owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers after heading a group that bought the team for $2 billion in 2012.

Johnson was approached by six billionaires to join the bid for the team.

“A kid from the ghetto, from Lansing, Michigan. Six billionaires – billionaires with a ‘b’ – called me up and wanted to join me in the bid for the Dodgers,” Johnson said. “This is what Dr. King was talking about. Here comes Magic Johnson owning the Dodgers.”

But Johnson doesn’t want students to think they can’t have his success because they’re not NBA players, as he made clear to one student who asked how he, too, could achieve a lot.

“You got yourself and that’s enough,” he told the student.

And that’s the mentality that brought Johnson from pretending to be a CEO to actually being one.

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CONTINUED FROM MAGIC, PAGE 1 of is not what I’ve done in basketball, it’s my work in urban America,” Johnson said.

Johnson entered the stage in Alumni Arena to a roaring round of applause, but instantly jumped off the stage – admitting he was “too old” to be doing so in the process.

“I like to roam,” Johnson said. “I’m not a guy who likes to stay on stage.”

Johnson delivered his speech weaving in and around the ground floor seats of Alumni Arena, often picking out an individual attendee to address directly, from a 13-year-old basketball fan to Mayor Byron Brown and his wife.

He’d ask them for their first name and pose for a picture, flashing his signature smile, before telling them a story from his business or playing career. He addressed them by their first name and kept eye contact with only them, almost as if he was oblivious to the thousands of other people or as if everyone else in attendance was eavesdropping on a private conversation.

Johnson picked out two young boys, Tyler and Cam. He told them how he grew

up poor. Johnson’s family couldn’t afford to buy him Julius Erving sneakers – what he calls the equivalent of Jordan sneakers today.

Johnson had to wear $1.99 sneakers.

“But for the $1.99 sneakers I wore, that didn’t stop me from being the best basketball player on the court,” Johnson told the boys. “All of the other kids had Dr. J’s on.

I had the $1.99 shoes on. But here I come.

Guess who won?”

One of the boys promptly answered Johnson with, “You.” As the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Speaker, Johnson spent much of the night discussing King’s vision for the United States and the struggles of the black community. Johnson said he wouldn’t have played in the NBA if not for King’s civil rights work in the 1960s.

He said it’s imperative black people get back to owning their own businesses, and education is the key for black people in poverty to improve their economic situation.

“The way they’re going to get out is

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Let’s make it explicit: it’s OK to talk about sex Issuu balks at talk of fetishes and threesomes, but The Spectrum’s Sex Issue is appropriate, informational There’s nothing inappropriate about talking or writing about sex.

It’s natural.

It’s normal.

And it’s what about 86 percent of us are doing at UB, according to The Spectrum’s latest poll.

It only becomes improper, lewd, wrong and intimidating when it’s treated that way.

And that’s precisely what Issuu, the company that hosts The Spectrum’s digital copies on its website, did this week.

Spectrum editors worked over 20 hours Tuesday to produce a paper full of thoughtful, informative and well-researched and sourced articles and opinions about sex.

Issuu decided our topic – we don’t think anyone at Issuu bothered to read our content – was inappropriate and flagged the Sex Issue by imposing a “Content Warning” wall on it. The wall required users to verify that they were over 18 years of age by signing in before they could use it. Issuu also prevented our editors from sharing the site on Facebook, which is how we get many of our readers.

We find such action reprehensible. It’s so puritanical and ignorant it’s almost laughable. Almost.

The problem is that it is damaging. It’s damaging to us, to our reputation, to a 17-year-old freshman who would have to lie about his or her age in order to sign on and learn about the staggering statistics that came out of The Spectrum’s 2015 and 2014 sex surveys.

And it’s censorship of the most basic and dangerous kind. It’s basic because it’s thoughtless. It’s dangerous because it’s unwarrant-

ed and sets a frightening precedent. First sex, then what?

To keep our readers informed, we posted our Sex Issue on Sribd, which did not impose a block.

Meanwhile, we complained to Issuu. Two days later, we have yet to receive a response beyond an automated reply.

Luckily, we do have allies.

The college media blog College Media Matters picked up the story and expressed outrage over the block. Then, The Huffington Post ran a version of the same piece.

Popular journalist Jim Romenesko wrote about us, too. College newspaper editors and advisers around the country noticed and began to wonder if their sex issues were, too, at risk.

Our editors starting poking around on Issuu and quickly realized that Issuu had not only flagged our current issue, but had also retroactively flagged all past Spectrum sex issues. They all required a log in.

On Thursday, as censorship discussions whirled around col-

lege media sites, Issuu quietly lifted the ban on the current sex issue. The ban on two of the older issues remains.

Issuu offered no explanation or apology. The censorship lifted as wordlessly as it had begun. Now, the policy is even more convoluted and senseless. Now, only some of our content is behind the wall. Hence, only some of our content is deemed inappropriate.

Why? To whom?

We take Issuu’s silence and inconsistency as an affront to our staff, to our hard work, to our profession and to the First Amendment. If Issuu is going to censor, we and our readers deserve to understand why. Such haphazard censorship is keeping valuable information from our readers and silencing us on an important topic.

Issuu has created a stigma that we don’t feel or accept. And it is doing it wordlessly – without argument or explanation.

Last year’s front page – now behind a content wall – in-

forms readers about the alarming amount of sexually active UB students who’ve never taken a test for sexually transmitted infections. This year’s survey talks about the numbers of students who abstain from sex, who have been sexually assaulted and who use birth control.

Students talk and joke about sex a lot. But they rarely have a chance to see statistics or listen to experts on the subject. The Spectrum’s Sex Issue offers a rare opportunity for serious, thoughtprovoking conversation about sex.

Issuu has the right to monitor its content, but it can’t block content that isn’t offensive or inappropriate. Condemning topics like threesomes, fetishes and sexuality stigmas – which this issue approaches – only serves to isolate and shame individuals. It closes, rather than opens conversations.

UB students should be able to easily access and read The Spectrum’s Sex Issue without sensing the content is lewd or that they are doing something wrong when they read it.

The same goes for students at other schools whose papers produce sex issues hosted by Issuu.

Today, this is a Spectrum problem. But if Issuu doesn’t change its policy, the censorship can and likely will reoccur. All college papers that use Issuu are at risk.

The danger is there. We must be vigilant and make sure students’ right to information isn’t violated. email: editorial@ubspectrum.com

Fred Fest is rejected but should be protected

Administrators cancel annual festival in misguided attempt to curb out-of-control parties Administrators at SUNY Fredonia have decided to cancel their end-of-the-semester festival in an attempt to stem the binge drinking and rowdiness that has dominated the college in years past.

Controlling student drinking at the end of the semester? Good luck with that.

The cancellation of Fred Fest – a free, annual weekend event sponsored by the university featuring concerts, picnics and other (non-alcoholic) events – will not put an end to students’ parties.

Instead, it will deprive nondrinking students of any form of celebration and drive students who do want to party to drink more, dance harder and ramp up the rowdiness for the sake of some good, old-fashioned rebellion.

And they should.

College is a rare, fleeting four (or so) years that offer opportunities never to be seen again. Drinking en masse with strangers-turned-

best-friends, chugging from balcony-level beer bongs and taking shots in bounce houses – it only happens at Fred Fest, at Syracuse’s Mayfest, and at the many similar, end-of-the-year events at colleges nationwide.

Many universities face dilemmas similar to Fredonia. Sponsoring a wholesome, fun event for students to unwind after classes end is a generous and worthy move, but it is also extreme and often generates extreme levels of off-campus debauchery.

And although many, or most, students love it, it’s understandable that college administrators and community members do not.

Other universities, including SUNY Oswego and Iowa State, have canceled similar events, according to The Buffalo News.

Syracuse University attempted – unsuccessfully – to curb offcampus drinking with a steppedup police presence during the

Buffalo’s own ‘Carrie Bradshaw’

JACKIE GRABER CONTRIBUTING WRITER I sit down at my computer with overwhelming excitement, as I’ve recently been confronted with one of the most fun and exhilarating opportunities of my college career.

Everybody: say hello to UB’s newest female sex columnist.

Anyone who has seen HBO’s Sex and the City can probably

guess my immediate reaction to hearing the news – I am [finally] Buffalo’s own Carrie Bradshaw.

The very notion made me want to rush all of my fur to the dry cleaner and spend my entire savings account on a pair or two of Jimmy Choo shoes. I also briefly considered Carrie’s cigarette addiction, but decided that might be taking it too far.

When the initial awe subsided – right after actually checking my bank account and realizing that I can barely afford one pair of shoes from Aldo - I began to reflect on the impending responsibilities that would come with regularly writing about such a hot button topic.

I thought it was interesting that I immediately associated a sex column with fashion and glamour, but decided this was a result of classical conditioning. I’ve worked within the fashion indus-

campus’s all-day, all-night celebrations. SUNY Cortland imposed similar restrictions, and succeeded in keeping parties under control.

But Fredonia is joining the ranks of campuses disappointing their students with the unnecessarily harsh decision to cancel its event entirely, demonstrating a lack of flexibility and creativity.

Rather than shutting down the festival, Fredonia should at least attempt to try solutions that offer a compromise.

Encouraging attendance at campus-sponsored events, making more severe penalties for off-campus partying known in advance, promoting more reasonable levels of alcohol consumption and working with community members to acknowledge their requests would all provide Fredonia with more control over what they seem to view as an uncontrollable situation.

Because currently, Fredonia’s solution will likely end up causing more problems.

Students who don’t want to drink but do feel like celebrating will now face a dearth of non-alcoholic options.

Local restaurants and hotels, which benefit from an influx of alumni and visitors coming to Fredonia for the festival, will also lose out.

Students who typically party and drink, seeing that Fredonia doesn’t care for their lifestyle, will see no incentive to respect the university’s restrictions.

Fredonia has turned a winwin situation into a lose-lose-lose scenario. Canceling the drug-free elements of an event that once catered to all students will only drive more students to drink.

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Sex and the Queen City: Welcome The Spectrum’s newest sex columnist try since high school, including a year during which Victoria’s Secret employed me as a Certified Lingerie Specialist. If I’ve learned one thing, it is this – sex sells.

This, I’m sure, is evident to everyone. We see it in our day-today lives. It controls the media.

We wouldn’t be able to escape it if we wanted to.

Frankly, I am not in any position to critique this fact. While I agree that there is no one specific definition of “sexy” nor one definitive formula to create sex appeal, I can’t deny how empowering it is to genuinely feel sexy, and thus have no problem consuming goods that will help me achieve this feeling.

Do I believe that wearing designer bras will make me look like Adriana Lima? Of course not.

Could the media do a better job including all body types and versions of sexuality? Absolutely.

Do I celebrate my personal aesthetics and individual sexuality even though they are vastly different than that of a Victoria’s Secret model? Heck yes.

There have been sex columnists at UB before me, all of whom seemed to approach the situation with the same bold mentality as I. The task comes with a certain level of criticism. Keren Baruch, a UB alumna who wrote sex columns for The Spectrum in 2011 and 2012, wrote a piece entitled “True Life: I’m a Sex Columnist” about the various types of backlash she received from the student body.

She notes how readers would post “deliberately hurtful comments” on her articles, calling her “classless” and “gross” and how even some people thought that the school needed “someone more physically appealing” to write about sex.

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A musical brotherhood

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The Buffalo Chips celebrate 20 years of music on Valentine’s Day

GRACE TRIMPER STAFF WRITER

When attendees walk into the Mainstage Theater in the Center for the Arts on Valentine’s Day, they will hear the sounds of a full band, bass and percussion. But they will only see 12 men.

UB’s male a cappella group, the Buffalo Chips, has been practicing in Knox 4 for their 20th anniversary show on Saturday, Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m. since August of last year. The Buffalo Chips – originally called Cadence – held their first performance on Feb. 14, 1995, making this anniversary a special performance for both Chips’ alumni and current members. Founding members will perform favorites from their time in the group alongside today’s members.

“We started back in 1994, just a bunch of guys who wanted to sing and now, 20 years later, we’re performing all over Western New York and we’re still carrying on that legacy,” said Zach “The Rock” Carr, a communications graduate student and the Buffalo Chips’ business manager.

“So it’s an honor for me, being a fourth year member of this group. It’s quite a tradition to carry on.”

A cappella came to the national spotlight during this year’s Grammys on Feb. 8 when Pentatonix – a pop a cappella group from Arlington, Texas – won in the category Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella for its medley “Daft Punk.”

Pentatonix is the only musical act besides Taylor Swift and Sam Smith who has sold more than one million copies this year with their album “That’s Christmas to Me,” according to Forbes.

The Chips have recorded 10 full-length studio albums and one live recording.

Their most recent, “Blue & White,” was released in February 2013.

The Chips perform at events across Western New York. They sang the national anthem alongside the Royal Pitches, UB’s female a cappella group, during President Barack Obama’s visit to UB in August 2013 and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Distinguished Speakers Series lecture that November.

The group has competed in the International Championship of Collegiate A Capella (ICCA) where they won the Mid-Atlantic Championships in 2011 and 2012.

They went on to compete at the ICCA fi-

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The Buffalo Chips have been practicing in Knox since August of last year for their 20th anniversary concert Saturday in the Center for the Arts.

nals in New York City.

The Buffalo Chips has a tradition of brotherhood among members – they are lighthearted, crack jokes and give each other nicknames.

Their harmony extends to their musical productions, which they spend weeks perfecting.

“It’s all about the group, all about singing together,” Carr said. “One person’s off, the whole group’s off. So, in my mind, it’s like the highest form of brotherhood, really.”

As an a cappella group, the Chips have to recreate the sounds of instruments using their voices. They take well-known songs and make them their own through experimentation.

“Whatever genre you can think of, we probably have some type of it within our show,” said Eric “Zimm” Zimmerman, a sophomore political science major. “[We] don’t have the instruments so you kind of get to watch us experiment and figure

out how to make those sounds with our mouths.”

From modern-day singer-songwriters like Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran to legends like Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson, the Chips perform a range of music.

“I’ve been with the Chips for three years and when I first joined, I did not think it would be such a production,” said Marty Gartz, a junior theater major known by his fellow Chips as ‘PartyMarty.’ “I expected, like a high school concert sort of vibe, but it’s not. We’ve got a full light show.

We’ve got a full sound system. And being in the Mainstage, it’s a big auditorium, and it’s going to be a blast.”

This performance will be the first time the Chips have performed in the Mainstage Theater in 10 years.

Gartz is “very, very excited” to perform in the Center for the Arts (CFA) on Saturday because of the prestige that goes along with it.

“When I first got into the theater ma-

jor, they told us on our tour [of the CFA] that unless we graduate and get a national tour, we will never be on the Mainstage, and now I’m like, ‘Haha! I get to be on the Mainstage before I graduate,’” he said.

To advertise for the show, members have been gathering in hallways on campus, like the Baldy Walkway, singing together and handing out flyers.

The current members of the Chips are celebrating the legacy they’re part of, and Gartz said that that’s “awesome.”

“It’s so cool knowing that this is something that they put so much time and effort into, and that they trust us down the line to continue the legacy and continue the hard work,” Gartz said. “It’s really exciting to know that it’s something that’s so long in the works.”

Tickets can be purchased through the event’s Facebook page or at the door for $10. email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT #Buffalove UB Alumni who fell in love on campus RACHEL KRAMER MANAGING EDITOR

Some people come to college hoping to walk away with more than an education and a diploma; they hope to find their soul mate.

The popular notion of finding “the one” in college has been around since before my grandmother went to school – she went to University of Michigan where she met my grandfather.

Twenty eight percent of married couples meet each other in college, according to a data collection study done by Facebook.

UB is no exception.

Here are some couples who met at UB and are still together, hoping to live happily ever after. email: features@ubspectrum.com

UB undergraduate class of 1996 and 1995 How they met: On the day Renee moved in, Joe showed up at her Roosevelt dorm room looking for his cousin, her roommate. He lived in room 310, and she was in 307.

They developed the same group of friends and grew to be best friends. Eventually, they got closer and d Renee Lansley an i started hanging out just the sk w ko ta Joseph Szus two of them. That’s when s together for 21 year they became “exclusive friends,” Renee said.

Life after UB: The UB Honors College couple got married in 2002 at St. Joes in Buffalo after Joe proposed to Renee at Baird Point on North Campus. They currently reside in the Boston area with their two kids.

Advice to college students: “If you aren’t best friends, it’s probably not the right match,” Renee said. “The romance could and will eventually wear off but if you marry your best friend, you always have that.”

David W einman and Weinma Mindy Patticoff n together for 38 ye ars

Chris Egebert and Michael Cohen together for 32 years UB undergraduate class of 1988 and 1987 How they met: They met their first day of school in chemistry in 1983 and then were in the same group of friends for a year and a half before anything romantic happened. They noticed they had similar interests and one day Chris said they “took the plunge” and kissed on the couch. They have been together ever since.

UB undergraduate class of 1987 How they met: Melissa’s best friend was trying to set her up with a UB football player on a group date. Instead of hitting it off with the athlete, she started talking to his best friend, Kenny. The two of them started dating in October of their freshman year after he asked her to meet him at the Library, a popular bar at the time but has since closed.

Life after UB: Melissa went to Hofstra University to get her masters and Kenny continued at UB in dental school. Their long-distance relationship

UB Dental School class of 1981 How they met: Mindy met David in a 100-student dental school class of 81 boys and nine girls. His version of the story is seeing her in a lecture hall and wanting to ask her out, but her version is more detailed. He asked her out, but made her drive to their first date at a friend’s concert in Eden, New York. During their first year of dental school, however, Mindy had to focus on her health, due to a medical condition. She and David almost didn’t work out. He asked her out again their second year, and fortunately they were able to stay together.

Life after UB: As Mindy puts it: They “forgot to leave

Life after UB: After graduation, Chris continued at UB in grad school while Mikael went to Cornell Law School. The couple then moved to Boston, Massachusetts – where they currently live – in 1991 and got married in 2006.

Advice to college students: “It will be that one best person in your life,” Chris said. “In college, get involved with things you’re passionate about. Living off campus made me grow up and meet more people. Also stay open minded.”

Kenny a nd M together elissa Patticoff for 31 ye ars lasted two years and he proposed in Atlantic City.

They later got married on Long Island and live there with their three kids.

Advice to college students: “You can’t look for love” Melissa said. “Find yourself in college first and when you do that, you’ll find the one. It will come when you least expect it and you can’t have a negative attitude about it, either. It’s not instant, the whole fireworks thing is bulls***, it takes time to grow and develop. People your age are sometimes superficial about love, but it’s not physical, it grows.”

Buffalo.” The couple got engaged their third year of dental school and got married right after graduation on Long Island, but came right back to Western New York to complete their residencies. The dentists still live in Amherst and Mindy works as a professor in UB’s Dental School.

Advice to college students: “You need to find a friend,” Mindy said. “If it goes well and turns into something, that’s the best kind of relationship. You should also have differences. Yes, we both are dentists but he’s into sports and I’m not. It probably wouldn’t work if we were together all of the time and liked all of the same things.”

Continued from sex, page 3 Obviously, we’re dealing with a touchy subject.

My overarching responsibility, then, is to make a committed effort to be all-inclusive in terms of diverse sexualities and to be sensitive to my readers’ varying comfort levels with their own sexuality. I realize that not everyone hears “sex” and thinks “glamour,” and I realize that neither sex nor glamour seem like a noble pursuit for a young academic.

After all, this very same publication frequently includes impressively intellectual pieces about worldwide violations of human rights, the academic and professional pursuits of our university’s leaders and student winners of prestigious contests and scholarships.

Yet, here I am writing about writing about sex. You may be wondering how I

can take myself seriously. You may jump immediately to the assumption that I am innately promiscuous. In fact, upon notifying my Twitter followers of my impending column, a good friend promptly replied, “you’re a sex addict.”

How flattering.

Admittedly, even I wondered if this was something I could include on a resume and contemplated how to handle the topic without coming off as sophomoric, vapid or sounding like an aspiring Cosmopolitan writer. Should I be informing you all about the latest trends of pubic hair maintenance? Or formulating lists with titles like “Ten Positions for Backseat Lovemaking?”

To be honest, I’d rather not.

Experimenting with sex is incredibly fun, so I’ll leave it up to you and your part-

ner to determine the best position for having sex in the shotgun seat. I’d much rather bring your attention to everything else.

Sex is such a broad subject and there are so many facets of it. Sex can be a physical issue, a biological issue, an emotional issue, a societal issue and even a moral issue.

From the very moment we become aware of our sexualities, even before we become sexually active, we invite a whole world of issues into our bedrooms.

Am I sexy? How do I put on a condom? What if I get pregnant? What will my friends think? Should I wait until I’m in love? Should I wait until marriage? Am I a slut? What turns me on? Are my turnons natural?

I’m certainly no “sexpert” and won’t be able to provide everyone with all the answers. What I can attempt to do, however, is

allow for sex to become less taboo of a topic among our readers. Not everything about college has to be academic in nature, and sex is something that 21st century 20-somethings don’t have to be ashamed of.

Truthfully, I believe all of us can embrace and even personify sex simply by realizing it is just as big a part of us as our health, education, career and everything else. Does this have to mean the same thing for everyone?

Of course not. Carrie Bradshaw personifies the glamorous genre of sex, both in her column and her fictional life. Do I personify sex? I’m aware of and in love with my sexuality and enthusiastic about discussing the concept so, I’d like to think so. Even if I lack the Jimmy Choo shoes. email: jacqulyn@buffalo.edu

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An on-campus Valentine’s Day date For your last-minute Valentine’s Day enjoyment

The Miro Quartet’s performance in the Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall this weekend is one of many events students can attend if they need something to do with their sweetheart on campus. Saturday’s concert starts at 7:30 p.m.

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REBECCA VINCENT

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With Valentine’s Day around the corner, there’s little time left for planning an extravagant outing. Whether or not you have a date or the ability to leave campus, there’s plenty to do at UB to fill your V-Day with excitement. Here are some events that take place on Saturday, tailored for all types of fun-seekers.

Winterfest 2015 This event presents a variety of activities for those looking for something a little less romantic. Activities to enjoy include ice bowling, snowman and igloo building contests (with prizes, of course), taking a horse drawn carriage ride or various smaller games that will be held indoors.

In addition to the activities planned for the event, the ice rink will be open to skate from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. From 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. the ice rink will be open solely to the broomball tournament. To participate, register online through UB events. Round up your friends to make a team and head over to the Student Union for a day full of winter fun.

Film Screening The Center for the Arts will be screening “The Age of Love” at 1 p.m. in the CFA Screening Room. The documentary is set in Rochester, New York and follows the quest of 70-90 year olds who restarted dating. The film follows 30 seniors who candidly discuss what they’re looking for and about their past experiences, while filming their adventures to create a comically poignant picture. For a new look at life and love, see the film and ap-

preciate how love changes over time.

Buffalo Chips The all-male UB a cappella group will be celebrating their 20th anniversary with songs, skits and sweet solos during their performance at 7:30 p.m. in the Center for the Arts’ Mainstage Theatre. The group will be performing songs from their newest album “Blue & White” as well as classic favorites. The concert will have a Valentine’s Day feel to it, as it’ll be filled with songs of love and romance. Tickets for the event can be purchased online at tickets.com, at the CFA box office or at the door for $10.

Miro Quartet performance The world-renowned quartet will be performing at Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall at 7:30 p.m. on Valentine’s Day for their second show in a three-show installment. The other two parts take place Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3:00 p.m.

The group’s Beethoven String Quartet Cycle is perfect for fans of classical music or students looking for something a little more cultured on their evening of romance. Relax and enjoy the music of violins, a viola and a cello during this event that’s free for all UB students.

Dinner C3 will be hosting a special dessert night for lovers of chocolate to satisfy that V-day sweet tooth. Chocolate lover or not, the event is a perfect way to interact with other students and enjoy an evening with friends or just talk to your date.

The dining hall is now taking reservations, so book your seat to the sweet occasion. email: arts@ubspectrum.com

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Starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, as Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, the film adaptation of E.L. James’ “Fifty Shades of Grey” is the fastest selling R-rated film in Fandango’s history.

RACHEL KRAMER AND JORDAN OSCAR MANAGING EDITOR & SENIOR ARTS EDITOR

The Red Room, silk ties and “Laters baby” may mean nothing to some people, but to the over 100 million people who have read the “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy, those three phrases will send shivers down their backs.

E.L. James’ “Fifty Shades of Grey” may have started as a “Twilight” fan fiction, but it has become a worldwide phenomenon, selling over 100 million copies since it was published in Jan. 2011. Now, James has given those fans a visual way to explore their fantasies of Charlie Tango and the famous Red Room.

The movie’s release at midnight on Friday, Feb. 13 has been long awaited by fans.

Most of the 22 showings at the AMC Maple Ridge 8 near North Campus this Friday and Saturday sold out weeks in advance.

The film adaptation starts Jamie Dornan (The Fall) as millionaire and philanthropist Christian Grey, whose sexual experience and interest in BDSM becomes a crucial part of his relationship with Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson, Anarchy), a virgin college student.

The movie is expected to be a massive success due to the book’s popularity. It was the fastest selling R-rated film in Fandango’s history, according to Variety. Movie critics, however, and members of the kinky community of which the saga was based on, aren’t fans of the sultry film.

“When something is this big there’s always an X-factor that you can’t quite pin down,” said David Schmid, an associate professor of English. “It has little to do with the literary merit of the text … The film is going to do gangbusters business, but it’s also getting panned by critics all over the place.”

Fans don’t seem to care about the film’s lowly 32 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Fans like the scandalous material, which goes just far enough beyond what’s viewed as the norm in sexual relationships that it never becomes offensive or overly scandalous, Schmid said.

He points out two main arguments surrounding the story. The sexual content within the novel and film drive its popularity and express an acceptance of kinky sex in society. The other argument is the movie shouldn’t be celebrated because it glorifies the role of pain in sexual pleasure and paints women as submissive.

He says neither said is entirely accurate, nor should one side be disregarded entirely.

“People are buying into the fantasy,” Schmid said. “They’re not buying into the reality.”

Schmid remembers seeing six people reading the book on a bus when it first came out, while others like Courtney Thomson, a junior nursing major, picked up the book based on her grandmother’s recommendation.

“Actually my grandma got me to read it,” Thompson said. “She was reading it on her

Kindle and said it wasn’t that bad of a story, despite all the sexual scenes, so I ended up reading it. It was just to see why everyone was so interested in it.”

The book’s popularity grew as more people wanted to see what all of the fuss was about. The movie looks to be no different.

Fifty Shades of Grey may not be thrilling the critics, but it’s already setting records for advanced ticket sales for films on Valentine’s Day with 80 percent of tickets being purchased by couples, according to MovieTickets.com. Critics believe it could surpass the current record holder Valentine’s Day, which grossed $63.1 million as the highest grossing film of the four-day President’s day weekend.

“I really want to [see it],” said Kerry McPhee, a senior gender studies major. “I guess [I want to see it] because it’s a big thing and I’m joining into what everyone else is doing.”

She said her friends saw an advanced screening and told her that there’s a lot of discussion around BDSM. She thinks the movie will do a good job of representing BDSM. Members of the BSDM – an overlapping abbreviation of bandage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism – community disagree.

Lorna Loster, a breast fetish model and dominatrix, thinks the film and the books paint the BDSM community in an unrealistic light. She points out most of the sexual and kinky acts done by the characters are without the consent of Steele, whereas in the BDSM community, consent is something that’s taken very seriously.

In a typical BDSM scenario there are two roles: a dominant and a submissive.

The dominant has all of the power and the submissive has given up his or her power to their dominant.

After any encounter, it’s important to have a conversation, called “after care”, and ensure the submissive recognized it was play and not reality, Loster said.

James also never addresses after care in the books.

“It was like ‘Oh I’m just going to spank you a lot and yeah just leave you be,’” Loster said. “If you read on she goes through mental anguish because of it and she’s really confused and doesn’t know what to do.”

Despite the inaccurate representation of the lifestyle, Loster has noticed a rise in sales of BSDM-related products at her sex shop, Four Beauties, located near UB’s South Campus.

“I don’t know if they’ll necessarily use BDSM,” McPhee said. “But I think we’re becoming a culture that opens up more about our sexuality and our sexual preference.”

In Thompson’s mind the film’s popularity boils down to one thing: “people like sex.”

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Meet the baseball team’s starting lineup No. 11 | Nick Sinay

No. 5 | Brian Dudek

No. 20 | Mike Abrunzo

No. 7 | Brent Cleland

No. 2 | Bobby Sheppard

No. 15 | Anthony Magovney

No. 28 | Vinny Mallaro

No. 9 | Chris Kwitzer

No. 31 | Kyle Brennan

SPORTS DESK No. 28 Vinny Mallaro, junior first baseman After batting .289 in a limited role in his freshman season, Mallaro is set to be the team’s starting first baseman. He suffered a hand injury over the summer while playing in a travel league and he still feels lingering hand pain from time to time. Nonetheless, he is ready for the season and said he is “up for the challenge” of playing a new position.

No. 9 Chris Kwitzer, sophomore third baseman In order to get ready to assume third base for the first time in a Bulls uniform, Kwitzer said he has done a lot of mental training over the summer and has been in close contact with former third baseman Mike Burke. Kwitzer hit .219 in 64 at-bats last season.

“I did a few things this offseason,” Kwitzer said. “Hitting the weights twice a day and a lot of mental training. Just

preparing myself for tough situations and getting ready for the season.”

No. 5 Brian Dudek, sophomore second baseman Dudek started 42 games at second base last season, but he is expected to be an everyday player at the same position.

He hit .221 in 160 at-bats last season as a freshman. Now a sophomore, he expects to take on a leadership role.

“There are only a few starters back from last season,” Dudek said. “I think I’m going to take a lead role this season, help people out who didn’t play much last year and see what happens.”

No. 2 Bobby Sheppard, junior shortstop Sheppard transferred from Prairie State Junior College. Last season, he finished with 64 hits on 167 at-bats. He totaled 11 doubles, six triples, two home runs and 17 stolen bases for Prairie State Junior College last season and is expected to replace Mike Scarcello as the team’s starting shortstop.

Growing pains JORDAN GROSSMAN SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR Baseball head coach Ron Torgalski expects the Bulls to go through a season of growing pains.

Buffalo finished last season with a 2626 record, including 13-13 in Mid-American Conference play. The team also finished fourth in the MAC even with one of the best group of seniors that ever graced a Bulls uniform.

But with the new year also comes a much different roster. The Bulls lost seven of their nine regular position starters and two rotation pitchers. The team also welcomed 11 new players to the team, including eight freshmen. Although the team’s faces have changed, Torgalski said he doesn’t think it will drastically change the direction of the program.

“It’s going to be an interesting season,” Torgalski said. “We’re going to have some growing pains early on. We have a lot of guys that haven’t gone through the grind that the seniors have gone through. But a few of them got some good at-bats last year. That young talent will surprise a lot of people.”

But Torgalski said there’s one player in particular that will be “near impossible” to replace: pitcher/infielder Mike Burke.

Burke was dominant for Buffalo on both the mound and at the plate. He finished his senior season with a .324 average with three home runs and 20 RBIs. He also compiled a 6-5 record with a

No. 31 Kyle Brennan, junior catcher Brennan played in 32 games last season, earning 26 starts. He finished with a .202 batting average. He finished last season with 173 putouts from the catcher position. He also posted career highs – 18 hits, nine RBI’s, five doubles and two home runs last season. With the graduation of Kyle Figgins, Brennan will be the primary catcher on the roster.

No. 15 Anthony Magovney, senior Pitcher, After posting a 4.12 ERA, a 6-4 record and 44 strikeouts in 12 starts last season, Magovney will be called on to lead the rotation. He also was tied with Mike Burke for the most wins on the team last season (six). He was third on the team in innings pitched after Burke and Kevin Hughes.

No. Nick Sinay, junior outfielder Sinay will move over from right field to center field as the only returning starting outfielder from last season. He finished with seven doubles, 23 RBIs and

a .254 batting average, earning himself the leadoff spot for 2015. The speedster also swiped 31 bases last year – nearly 20 more than the next best on the team.

No. 20 Mike Abrunzo, junior outfielder Abrunzo is excited to start his career as a Bull after transferring from Lackawanna College. He carries over a .372 average with four homeruns and 31 RBIs in 40 games played last season. He is projected to take over left field. Abrunzo said that junior college has “prepared him well” for Division-I baseball.

No. 7 Brent Cleland, sophomore outfielder The sophomore pitched in 11 games last season and started in four games last season. He went 1-0 with 27 strikeouts in 27 innings pitched. Cleland is expected to see a larger role on the team this season in right field. He got one hit in two at-bats last season.

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UB’s baseball team looks to continue past success despite losing seven starters

3.33 ERA as Buffalo’s “Sunday starter.”

Burke was drafted to the Baltimore Orioles in the 30th round of last year’s amateur baseball draft.

“There’s no replacing Burke,” Torgalski said. “He’s not a guy that you can replace easily. He hit .330 for us and held down the Sunday starter responsibilities. He had a tremendous career and he will surely be missed.”

Senior pitchers Mike McGee and Anthony Magovney will be the team’s 1-2 punch at starting pitcher, but Torgalski is unsure who will replace Burke as the Sunday starter.

Sophomore infielder Chris Kwitzer is projected to replace Burke at third base.

He hit .219 in just 64 at bats last season, but has been training all offseason to get ready for the role, including staying in constant contact with Burke.

“In the offseason, I worked on a ton of mental training,” Kwitzer said. “[Burke] gave me a ton of hints and tips last year on playing third. He got me into the mental training. It’s a good guy to work with on third base.”

The Bulls also have to replace production from a talented Bulls’ senior outfield last season. The unit featured Jimmy Topps and Matt Pollock, who combined for nearly 25 percent of Buffalo’s total RBIs and were vocal clubhouse leaders, according to Torgalski.

Topps finished with a .296 average to go along with a team-leading 44 runs while holding down the leadoff spot for the ma-

jority of the season. Pollock had a .324 average with 61 hits as the starting left fielder.

Junior outfielder Nick Sinay is the only starting outfielder from last season to return to the team this season. He is expected to succeed Topps as the starting center fielder after starting all but one game in right field last season.

Sinay led the team with 31 steals and 45 runs while batting in the seven-hole. Torgalski said he expects Sinay to produce much more this season as the team’s primary leadoff man.

“Nick had a phenomenal summer in the valley league,” Torgalski said. “He hit .340 and stole over 50 bases in a really competitive league. He’s going to carry that into his junior season because he’s been excelling as of late. I’m excited to see what he can do for us this season.”

Sophomore infielder/outfielder Vinny Mallaro played in 35 games last season, splitting time between the outfield and first base. Mallaro wasn’t considered for a starting outfield position because Torgalski wants him to fill the void at first base.

Tyler Mautner – the team’s starting first baseman last season – left the team with two seasons of eligibility remaining after being drafted in the 14th round by the Minnesota Twins. He led the team with a .337 average and 52 RBI’s last season.

Mallaro spent the entire summer playing the position and said he is ready to take the position.

“I played some really good compe-

tition [last summer], facing some guys from Texas, some from LSU – all those big schools,” Mallaro said. “I’m up for the challenge.”

Rounding out the outfield is sophomore Brent Cleland and junior Mike Abrunzo.

Cleland pitched in 11 games last season, but will be assuming a larger role as an everyday player. Abrunzo – a transfer from Lackawanna College in Pennsylvania – finished last season with a .370 batting average and is expected to assume left field responsibilities.

Sophomore reliever Mike Kaelin will continue his dominance in the bullpen.

He threw for a team-low 0.82 ERA last season in 16 appearances.

Torgalski said he understands it will be a different season than last year. But Torgalski said the success of a team isn’t based on the talent of the players. Rather, it is the team’s chemistry.

“The fact that we are a team, that goes a long way,” Torgalski said. “This is a great group of kids that come to work every day. They know when they have their time to screw around and have their fun. But when they step on the field, they’re serious about getting better.”

The team begins its season on Friday against James Madison in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, followed by games on Saturday and Sunday against GardnerWebb. Friday’s game is set for noon. email: sports@ubspectrum.com