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recreation for 16 years, recently visited SUNY College at Brockport’s $44 million, 138,000-square-foot student recreation center and had one thought: How can UB not have this?

The center opened in 2012 and includes a state-of-the-art fi tness center, weight room, 200-meter running track and courts for basket-ball, volleyball, badminton, tennis and soccer.

UB – unlike some of its fellow SUNY schools and all of its athletic conference ri-

vals – has no standalone recreation center for its 30,000 students. Instead, the university crams the majority of its recreation services, like fi tness and intramural sports, into Alum-ni Arena, which also houses its Division I var-sity programs, and into Clark Hall, a nearly 80-year-old rec building on South Campus.

UB is one of a fraction of universities that does not separate its Division I athletics pro-gram and its on-campus recreation into two departments, and lets the athletics depart-ment decide how much of the $9 million stu-dent athletic fee goes toward D-I athletics and how much will go toward recreation pro-grams. UB does not have a recreation fee.

This year, the breakdown was simple: 92 percent of the student fee went to the D-I athletics programs, while 8 percent went to recreation services, according to UB’s com-prehensive fee website and the athletic de-partment’s 2014-15 athletic fee expenditures.

The money breaks down like this: Rec-reation services, which are available for all 30,000 students, got $712,069, or $23 per stu-dent. The D-I athletics programs, which have 535 student-athletes, got roughly $8.4 million, or $15,700 per player. The football program alone received $1,130,140 from student fees.

And while last school year the athletic de-partment had a $32.1 million budget, which

was close to 70 percent subsidized by stu-dent fees and direct university support, rec-reation and intramurals operated with just a $1.8 million budget.

Students insist the numbers tell the story. Clearly, they say, recreation is not a priority for UB Athletics, which has pushed to im-prove the national exposure of its 20 Divi-sion I varsity sports.

“The focus hasn’t been how do we build recreation and how important it is,” Hutchins said. “It’s been we’re gonna bring the basketball program up, we’re gonna bring football up.”

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Haniyyah Bashir said she has struggled to fi nd a “safe space” at UB as a Native Amer-ican student. She said although this is a con-stant struggle, she found that safe space while performing with the UB Step Troupe.

Bashir, who graduated last year with a de-gree in higher education and administration program, will be facilitating the ALANA Celebration of Achievement in addition to the graduate school of education ceremony.

UB will hold four different recognition cer-emonies for graduating students including the Veteran and Military Recognition Ceremo-ny, the ALANA (African-American, Latino, Asian and Native American) Celebration of Achievement, Lavender Reception (LGBT) and the University Honors College celebra-tion. These ceremonies are in addition to the seventeen-degree conferral ceremonies.

Micah Oliver, a senior business major, said diversity takes on a different feeling and look in every setting. He said he feels UB has made an effort to embrace the challeng-

es diversity brings by having multiple cere-monies for different groups.

“The university is learning to have un-comfortable and diffi cult conversations—it’s a great time to be actively involved in the UB community,” Oliver said in an email.

Oliver said the ALANA ceremony is an “uplifting kick-off to the larger undergradu-ate commencement ceremonies.”

He will be participating in the ALANA Cel-ebration as well as the undergraduate com-mencement ceremonies of the College of Arts and Sciences and School of Management.

Most students who attend one of the recognition ceremonies also attend a de-gree conferral ceremony, according to Ter-ri Budek, associate director of the Intercul-tural & Diversity Center and coordinator of the ALANA celebration.

“I think the population of ALANA stu-dents typically has different stories on how they got to college,” Budek said. “We know students traditionally who are underrepre-sented have to overcome barriers that oth-

er folks who are of the majority don’t have to think about.”

She said it’s important to recognize the accomplishments of these students and the ceremony is a way to connect underrepre-sented students to appreciate UB’s diverse student population, she said.

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UB will hold four different recognition ceremonies including the Lavender Reception, ALANA

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Honors College ceremony to enhance the commencement experience.

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The scariest part of fi nishing col-lege is fi guring out the next step.

Those who graduate are left to fi gure out what their best path would be, whether it’s gradu-ate school or pursuing a job. For many, the job search is diffi cult and time consuming. The search is so diffi cult because many students wait until the weeks before leaving school to start looking for a job.

It can be diffi cult to narrow down a major – like business, or political science – into a job. Engi-neers can typically go straight into their fi eld and fi nd jobs where they apply what they learn. A business major needs to decide what they want to do with the degree and narrow down the search in order to fi nd a job, which is more diffi -cult than just blindly applying.

The job market for graduating college students is tough. Young and educated, yet inexperienced, millennials make up 40 percent of those who are unemployed in the U.S. according to Newsweek. To get

a job in the right fi eld can be hard without connections, a competi-tive resume and some sort of ex-perience. It’s more than being the perfect candidate – it’s about being the perfect fi t for a company.

Of course, having a competitive resume or good connections gives the applicant a leg up on anyone else, but this still doesn’t guarantee employment.

The key to fi nding employment is to start early and get your foot in the door. The 100-day applica-tion challenge is a good place to start, in which you apply for a job every day for 100 days. This keeps the job search ongoing and the ap-plications improve over time be-cause the process is so well prac-ticed. Job searching in October or November is less stressful than waiting until April, with gradua-tion around the corner. Planning

ahead could lead to actually fi nd-ing a job in the fi eld of choice in-stead of panicking in the fi nal few months and having to settle.

Settling for a small position has a bad stigma, but leads to long-term success.

A graduate is better off as an unpaid intern in a company they could grow into, or anywhere in their preferred fi eld, than working a job that pays well but isn’t in the right fi eld. To get your foot in the door in the right place and make connections with people to further your career is more important than fi nding a job that pays well.

Moving for a job should also be more strongly considered for those looking to advance in a par-ticular fi eld.

It’s important to be mobile and fl exible as someone looking to break into the fi eld. Moving to an-

other state for a job is easier for graduates who are less likely to have to worry about a family, chil-dren or anyone other than them-selves. This makes moving easier and increases the chance of get-ting your foot in the door at the right place. Moving also means more connections in different parts of the country, which can only help your career.

A dream job is not something that can be obtained right after gradua-tion. It takes patience and determi-nation. It means constantly working towards it and not giving up.

Graduates need to want it. If you don’t want it, work for it

and wait for the right opportunity, it’s that much easier to get sucked into a bad job or to get stuck somewhere you don’t want to be. Job searching earlier in the year and not being afraid to start small can lead to fi nding a job, or at least a place to start.

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Finding a job after graduation means determination and patience

Though it may seem scary, the job search post-graduation doesn’t have to be

TYLER WALTERSCONTRIBUTING WRITER

I found myself in New York City for New Year’s during winter break and was sure the Big Apple would have good Thai food. For those of you fortunate enough to live in the city, be sure to check out Pure Thai Cookhouse in Hell’s Kitchen.

This place had the complete au-thentic Thai package. Whacky, wood-toned interior, songs sung in Thai and, of course, delicious Thai cuisine. It felt like I had stepped off 766 9th Avenue between 51th and 52nd, right into bustling Bangkok.

Now I’m back and my search for authentic Thai food is continuing here in Buffalo. Located at 1460 Hertel Ave., Taste of Thai’s dim-ly lit, crimson red walls contain a huge selection of Thai dishes. Ap-petizers from Satay to Spring Rolls to Thai Fried Wonton, Tom Yum soup, varieties of fried rice, stir-fried rice, salads, curries – if you have a hankering for Thai, you’ll fi nd your fi x here.

I chose a variety of stir-fry called Pad Ka-Prao. This is my fa-vorite dish for investigating a Thai restaurant’s authenticity. It’s a won-derfully simple entrée with all of the staples of Thai cuisine: gar-lic, chilies, and fi sh, oyster and soy sauces. While a simple meal this recipe makes, it is very easy to cut corners without the indispen-sible ingredient of Pad Ka-Prao: holy basil. This variety of basil na-tive to Southeast Asia is diffi cult to acquire just about anywhere else, as it’s typically only used in dish-es from this region. It contains

earthy, clover-like fl avors accom-panied by a quick spicy kick.

The Pad Ka-Prao with pork came with Jasmine white rice, two fried eggs, onions, napa and mush-rooms. The stir-fry was slight-ly oily. Also, I’ve found that pork is very often overcooked in local Asian restaurants. This held true with Taste of Thai’s pork, but this defi nitely wasn’t the worst that I’ve had. It was slightly chewy, but the extra oil seemed to soften it a bit (even more so when it was reheated).

After sampling the basil leaves – drumroll – they really did use holy basil. I could taste clove and feel the quick heat after singling out the leafy-green with my fork. The dark soy sauce provided a slightly sweet and malty taste to the dish, while the fi sh sauce and garlic of-fered a pungent reminder to you and everyone you met for the next fi ve hours that you ate Thai food. The fried eggs were a welcome ad-dition. The yolk added a creamy texture to the stir-fry.

Their prices are reasonable, with meals ranging from anywhere be-tween $7.25 for noodles to spe-cials that could go up to $16.95 for a dish of Chu Chee, which con-tains a special curry sauce with lime leaves. Appetizers are reason-ably priced as well, so anyone dar-ing enough to try something new won’t break their wallet.

Appetizers vary anywhere from fried tofu to tod mun, which is a chicken, fi sh or shrimp cake. The menu itself is packed with options, including salads, soups and special entrees.

I did enjoy Taste of Thai’s Pad Ka-Prao. But it isn’t in the spirit of the Thai food that was served to me on a wooden picnic table from a jol-ly Thai mother in the middle of an elephant sanctuary outside of Bang-kok. It’s good Thai food for Buffa-lo. I’ll have to keep chasing that fi rst high and I keep getting closer.

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GABRIELA JULIAMANAGING EDITOR

It isn’t very often you can take a class that allows you to really dive into your roots.

I was tired of taking class-es where not a single lecture stuck with me once I left the classroom, so I decided to take something out-side of my major. That’s when I saw The Caribbean American Im-migrant Experience with Professor Craig Centrie fi t into my schedule.

This has unexpectedly been the best class I’ve ever taken at UB.

I’ve never been a history person, which is why I considered drop-ping the class when our fi rst few lectures were going over the histo-ry of the Caribbean.

But I later found out it was more than just a history course. It was a course about my history.

I learned about the urban ex-periences of Latino immigrants who came to the United States in the mid-1900s. I learned about the barriers while coming to New York and the discrimination they faced from all ethnic groups. I learned how diffi cult it was for them to receive a basic elementary school education and how parents shied away from teaching their children Spanish in hopes of them becoming more “American.”

And these weren’t just people in a textbook, these were my people. My grandparents, their parents, brothers and sisters. This textbook had a part of me in it.

When the class was assigned a 10-page research paper relating to

any topic pertaining to this course, I knew I wanted to write about something that would be benefi cial to myself and something I could one day show my children.

I wrote about the multiple iden-tities some Latinos have to face while in the United States, and al-though the entire paper is writ-ten in third person, I later realized how much of myself was in each paragraph.

Coming to a university with over 30,000 people walking the campus every day, it’s easy to lose yourself. It’s easy to forget where you come from because you’re so focused on where you’re headed.

I don’t speak Spanish regularly because I’m not around my fami-ly. I don’t listen to the music or eat the food, and I realized I’ve start-ed to forget how rich my culture really is.

That’s why I thank Professor Centrie for reminding me who I am and where I come from. I thank him for showing me that a

10-page research paper isn’t some-thing I have to dread, but some-thing I can take in line by line and reevaluate who I am.

This class made me think back to my grandfather who came to New York from Puerto Rico when he was 13 years old. He had to be put back in the fourth grade be-cause he didn’t speak English, but he never gave up. His determina-tion, courage and his fi ght to make a better life for his family is the reason I am attending a four-year university today.

So here’s a little advice to ev-ery student: Embrace your roots. Make the most out of what UB has to offer and get to know some amazing professors. Take a class that dives into your family’s histo-ry. Do some research and learn to appreciate where you come from and how it’s brought you to where you are now.

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Embracing my rootsHow one class taught me more about myself than any other class has

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Ashley Cercone has always been obsessive about her grades.

She said she wanted to prove her high school counselor wrong by showing her that she could perform at a high level during her undergraduate career – especially because she didn’t perform as high as she would have liked on her SATs.

Cercone, a senior anthropology and clas-sics major, is one of 27 graduating UB stu-dents being recognized as an “Outstand-ing Senior” in their departments. Cercone is recognized for her achievements in the an-thropology department.

Every spring, the dean of College of Arts and Sciences selects the students in the grad-uating class from each department with the highest academic achievement and most in-volvement in their department to be award-ed as the “Dean’s Outstanding Senior.”

The students must “have demonstrated academic excellence exemplifi ed by an ex-ceptional grade point average, election to honor societies, participation in research,” among potential academic other factors, ac-cording to UB’s website.

Students who receive the award must also attend the university’s commencement cer-emony.

“[My high school counselor] told me as a junior in high school that I would never be accepted to UB and I should instead study at a lower rank university,” Cercone said. “I completely ignored what she said and ap-plied anyway.”

She said when she fi rst entered UB, she

aspired to work with immigrants and looked to do so by pursuing a degree in cultural an-thropology.

Cercone said since her freshman year, she wanted to win the outstanding senior award, but did not think she could actually do it.

Kenneth Minorczyk, a senior biological sciences major, said he wanted to graduate at the top of his class and be accepted into a top medical school.

Minorczyk, who received the award of Dean’s Outstanding Senior in his depart-ment, said he aspires to be a neurosurgeon and has voluteered at Mercy Hospital, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship and Elderwood Nursing Home during his undergraduate ca-reer. He has also shadowed orthopedic sur-geon Michael Ostempowski.

“Initially, the spark was neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson’s book ‘Gifted Hands,’ particularly since he grew up very poor like myself, but became extremely successful in medicine,” he said.

Minorczyk said Carson’s success-ful surgery stories were “touching.” “Once I checked out the medical fi eld by shadowing some physicians and volunteering at medical facilities, it was exceedingly clear there was nothing else for me but medicine.”

Minorczyk will be attending the Universi-ty of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine on a full-tuition merit based scholarship.

He said he looks to attend a top neuro-surgery residency program and bring his tal-ents and passion back to Buffalo, because it is “an underserved location medically.” Minorczyk’s goal in medicine is two-fold. He fi rst looks to help the sick to become better as well as to use medicine as a means

of bridging the disparity gaps that exist among socioeconomic levels in society.

Like Minorczyk, Max Crinnin, a senior English major, said he looks to pursue med-icine after graduating. He was named “Out-standing Senior” in the English department.

He also shadowed doctors and volun-teered at hospitals during his undergradu-ate career.

Crinnin said he was inspired by the pa-tients he oversaw when volunteering. He cit-ed playwright Anton Chekhov as a literary inspiration.

Laura Mannara, a senior economics and political science major, is also being recog-nized as an “Outstanding Senior.” She is re-ceiving the award in the economics depart-ment.

She said the McNair Scholars Program, which assists students from diverse and un-derrepresented backgrounds to earn their Ph.D. was very helpful to her as an under-graduate.

“This program gave me the opportunity to do faculty advised research and provided guidance and support to help me through the process of applying to graduate school,” she said.

Mannara is attending the University of Rochester’s Ph.D. program for political sci-ence.

Cercone said she hopes to become a pro-fessor of archaeology with her degree. She aspires to teach her own classes and con-duct her own own research. She is interested in ancient trade routes between the Aegean and Near East.

She participated in her fi rst excavation in Romania and has continued to travel abroad

every summer. She said having hands-on ex-periences by engaging in excavations is “real-ly the only way to become an archaeologist.”

Cercone has since worked on three ar-chaeological sites in Romania, Turkey and Hungary over the course of four summers.

She is a member of three archaeology groups, including the Archaeological Insti-tute of America (AIA), Society for American Archaeology (SAA) and Institute for Europe-an and Mediterranean Archaeology (IEMA).

Cercone plans to take a year off and teach English in Turkey. She also plans to start a new archaeological excavation project.

“I want to earn my Ph.D. in archaeology so that people can call me Doctor Cercone,” she said. “My parents always encouraged me to attend university in order to become a doc-tor. A doctor of archaeology counts, right?”

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Class of 2016 Outstanding Seniors share academic inspirations and post-graduation

Students honored for high academic achievements and involvement in departments

GABRIELA JULIA, THE SPECTRUM

Students with high academic achievement

and involvement in the Class of 2016 are

being recognized as the “Outstanding

Senior” in their department. Ashley

Cercone(pictured), a senior anthropology

and classics major received the award in the

anthropology department.

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EVAN SCHNEIDERNEWS EDITOR

Dorminic Ong said he was not expecting to be selected as a speaker for UB’s College of Arts and Sciences commencement cere-mony, and when he found out he was cho-sen, he was humbled.

Ong, a senior communication major, is originally from Singapore and has spent his last semester at UB fi nding different op-portunities for himself than what his home country can offer.

“[The United States], as broken as it is, still represents opportunity that I have been excluded from whilst living in Singapore,” Ong said.

He said his speech that he submitted was partly based on a piece he submitted to Temasek Polytechnic School in Singapore, but “tweaked it” to embody his experience while in Buffalo and attending UB.

Ong said his speech comes from a very intrinsic part of his student experience.

“It feels good to fi nally be acknowledged and accepted for what I am capable of,” he said. “I really feel that I have been vindicated.”

Ong is unlike most undergrads at UB – he’s 27 years-old.

He moved to Pittsburgh, PA at six years old and went to public school until 16, when he moved back to Singapore to fi nish high school.

“I didn’t grow up too far removed from [America],” Ong said.

Upon returning to Singapore and fi nish-ing his diploma at Temasek Polytechnic, Ong enlisted in the Singapore Armed Forc-es in the infantry division for two years. He was stationed in Singapore.

In Singapore, enlisting in the Armed Forces is mandatory. According to the CIA’s website, males between the ages of 18 and 21 are obligated for male compulsory mil-itary service. Citizens can also volunteer as early as 16 years old.

“There was a sense that a lot of people were [enlisting] just to waste their time,” Ong said. “I took it as an opportunity to see how far I could push myself, and I did. I was the best possible soldier I could be.”

Ong said he felt that being in the military taught him a lot of lessons that have helped him here in Buffalo, like discipline and the willingness to endure.

“As much as I resented a part of my time in the army, I can’t change the fact that is has changed me and I decided I wanted that change to be for the better,” he said.

After his service, Ong decided to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Communication from the Singapore Institute of Management, UB’s sister school in Singapore, before ar-riving back in the U.S. to attend UB.

Ong only just arrived in America this year but still decided he wanted to take a shot and try to speak at his graduation.

He explained that four other students were selected as fi nalists to be the University Commencement student speaker.

Each student was asked to recite their speech in front of a selection committee, according to UB spokesperson John Della Contrada.

Ong said that he had to stand on a podi-um in the Center for the Arts theater and read his speech before the committee.

The University Commencement will also in-clude a speech from President Satish Tripathi.

Other ceremonies will feature speech-es from Richard F. Andolina Sr., president-elect of the NYS Dental Association, who will speak in front of the School of Dental Medicine. Mary Garlick Roll, national direc-tor and clinical trials liaison for Halozyme Therapeutics Inc. and president of the UB Alumni Association, will speak before the School of Nursing. Robert Odawi Porter, an attorney, legal scholar and former president of the Seneca Nation, will speak before the School of Law.

Ong said he found out the night he gave his speech in front of the committee that he had been selected to be this year’s student speaker.

Ong said that the main thing he wants students to take from his speech is “the im-portance of doing the work.”

“We all have the capacity to be great men and women but it’s not about the big fl ashy victories,” Ong said. “It’s about the little things we do every day, being strong in the face of adversity and being consistent about our values.”

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UB announces student speaker for University Commencement on May 15

Singaporean exchange student Dorminic Ong selected to speak before class of 2016

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UB Athletic Director Allen Greene admits UB’s recreation facilities are inadequate and less sophisticated than those at other SUNY schools. He also acknowledges UB needs a standalone student recreation center. But he insists UB Athletics has done what it can to fund recreation with the lowest athletic fee among the four SUNY university centers and without a standalone rec fee.

“I think the misconception is that athlet-ics is taking all this money just for [D-I varsi-ty] sports. I think pretty consistently we’ve di-vided up the athletic student fee and applied that toward the recreational aspect of our op-eration,” Greene said. “Is it enough? No. And it’s never been enough … There’s an athletic fee, and that’s all we have. It’s multi-layered of what we need to do, how we got here, what we need to do to get to a position where students have better and adequate facilities.”

Students say the current athletics and rec-reation model simply doesn’t work. They say there’s not enough fi tness equipment and space for students looking for a work-out, nor enough courts and fi elds to ac-commodate UB’s 32 club teams and 19 in-tramural sport leagues. They say UB’s main recreational fi eld, Kunz Stadium, has an in-adequate turf that is patched with duct tape and leads to dozens of ankle sprains.

Club teams also question the athletics de-partment’s policy of charging additional us-age fees when every undergraduate already pays the athletic fee of $267.25 per semes-ter. Athletics charges clubs $54 for an hour in the pool and will implement new fees next year for teams hosting games and tourna-ments on athletics-owned fi elds.

Students have begun to push back. The executive board of the Student Asso-

ciation, UB’s student government that funds 32 sport club teams, has formally proposed

that UB separate recreation services from UB Athletics and house it under Student Affairs, as most universities do.

The board proposes a lowered $240.35 athletic fee, and a new $158 recreation fee that it said would allow Student Affairs to build a standalone recreation facility on campus while also improving existing facil-ities. UB is in talks with SUNY to split the fees, and the SUNY Chancellor will make a fi nal decision this summer.

UB’s recreation dilemma highlights the burden heavily-subsidized college athletics can have on other areas of campuses like student recreation, and shows the confl ict that can come about when a Division I ath-letic department has to directly compete for funding and space with student recreation.

Even if SUNY approves the creation of a

UB recreation fee, which many expect it to, recreation will still be under the control of athletics. SA President Minahil Khan, who worked with her fellow board members Sean Kaczmarek and Joe Pace to propose a split fee, worries this model will never work, as UB Athletics will always have to prioritize athletics over recreation. She questions why UB, con-sidered the fl agship of SUNY, is unable to have adequate recreation for its students.

“We’re the best SUNY school, but it doesn’t necessarily fi t with that image when we think about how far behind we are in rec-reation,” Khan said. “We claim we’re the best SUNY so every part of our campus should refl ect that and it’s a little upsetting and em-barrassing if there’s other SUNY schools with much smaller populations and a much smaller reach that can do that before we can.”

A growing demand for campus recreation

Students say recreation is a major part of the university experience and adequate rec-reation services should come standard with a tuition bill.

Hutchins served as UB’s senior associate director of recreation and intramural servic-es for fi ve years before leaving for what he called a better opportunity to be athletic di-rector of Park School, a local preparatory school, in September. He said recreation has a “social impact on all students.”

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(Left) Students cheer on the football team during a home game at UB Stadium. UB Athletics has tried several marketing techniques to get more students to games, and to stay at games

past halftime. (Right) Senior defender Braden Scales and other members of the men’s soccer team received $116,073 in student fees last school year.

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Budek said this celebration will include any and all graduating students at UB who advocate for the principles of diversity. She said this is what makes the celebration at UB more unique.

The ALANA Celebration will be held on May 13 in Slee Hall and it will be the 20th anniversary. Budek said in past years rough-ly 275 students registered, but this year they have hit an “all-time high” with 460 students registering. Budek said there might be fewer students because of exam confl icts and she expects 350 to 400 students to attend.

Oliver said the ALANA celebration is an “excellent” way to celebrate diversity.

Oliver and Bashir both said the online registration for the ALANA Celebration was simple.

Budek is hoping to do more ALANA pro-

gramming throughout the school year. She said the celebration is the only event that cur-rently brings everyone together in this capacity.

Other ceremonies include the Veteran and Military Recognition Ceremony, which will take place on May 4 in Allen Hall.

Last year was the fi rst annual ceremony with 10 students in attendance. This year 15 students are estimated to attend. Red, white and blue honor cords will be distributed to wear at each student’s commencement cere-monies, according to Daniel Ryan, director of Veteran Services.

There will also be a ceremony for graduat-ing students in the University Honors College on May 13. This ceremony is by invitation only.

The 10th Annual Lavender Reception hosted by the Intercultural Diversity Center and Wellness Education Services will take

place on May 6 in 145 Student Union.The reception will acknowledge the ac-

complishments of graduating lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) stu-dents, according to James Bowman, LGBTQ Wellness and Special Projects coordinator.

Dr. Ronni Sanlo facilitated the fi rst Laven-der Graduation celebration 21 years ago at the University of Michigan. In 2007 a group of staff, faculty and students hosted the fi rst ceremony at UB, according to Bowman.

Bowman said UB is “one of many higher education institutions in the U.S.” that hold LGBTQ graduation celebrations.

“Recognizing the challenges that LGBTQ students face on their journey to graduation, this celebration provides a positive last ex-perience for our LGBTQ and ally students at our institution,” Bowman said in an email.

He said this ceremony is one of many celebrations happening to recognize a vari-ety of different constituency groups, both in terms of academics and identities.

Twenty students have registered as of April 29 and this number is twice as many as

in years past, according to Bowman. Bowman said the ceremony allows for stu-

dents to share personal stories about their personal and academic successes, such as piv-otal moments in their educational careers.

“The stories they share make us smile, laugh, [cry] and understand the important role community has in support our achieve-ments,” Bowman said.

Oliver said UB has provided him with in-numerable opportunities to express himself and his culture. He said he has an overall positive experience as an African American student at UB. He said he has been chal-lenged to expand his “cultural niche.”

“I think college is the best time to be inten-tional about making yourself uncomfortable,” Oliver said. “When I meet challenges concern-ing culture, there are resources that are here to help me understand that and package that as a learning experience that can positively impact me presently, and in the future.”

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“You look all over the country, recre-ation is becoming key to college campuses,” Hutchins said. “You have a stressful work-load, you want to be able to get recreation.”

A 2013 survey of more than 33,000 col-lege students conducted by NIRSA, formerly known as the National Intramural-Recreation-al Sports Association, found that 75 percent of college students use their on-campus recre-ational facilities, programs and services.

The study found benefi ts, with high per-centages of students saying recreation im-proved things like their personal well-being, stress management and concentration.

It also found that recreation impacted student recruiting and retention, with 68 percent of students saying a campuses’ rec-reational facility infl uenced their decision of where to attend college, and 74 percent say-ing it infl uenced their decisions to continue attending that college.

Some universities have taken notice. Stony Brook, a SUNY university center

like UB, spent $37.5 million in 2012 to cre-ate an 85,000-square-foot recreation cen-ter. UB’s fellow Mid-American Conference universities have also invested in their rec-reational facilities, with Ball State opening a $40 million rec center in 2010 and Bowling Green spending $14.8 million to upgrade its rec center in 2014.

And students have proven they’d be will-ing to pay for such a facility at UB.

UB worked with a consultant to determine student support for a standalone recreation center in 2002 and 2013 – with 72 percent of students in the latest survey saying they’d pay a $129 to $165 recreation fee per semester to fund recreational enhancements at UB.

“If I’m going to college already and I’m taking out loans to go here, if I have to pay another $150 a semester for recreation,

granted I’m biased because I use recreation, people aren’t even going to notice that,” said John Grasso, a junior engineering major and member of UB’s men’s rugby club team.

UB has made some improvements to Clark Hall in recent years, like renovations to its pool and bringing in new equipment for its fi tness center, as well as opening a team store in Alumni Arena to generate recreation revenue. But students say minor fi xes are not enough.

They say a standalone recreation center is needed. So, if students want and are willing to pay for a recreation center, why hasn’t it happened yet?

UB President Satish Tripathi responded to The Spectrum’s questions via email. Tripa-thi said UB’s Capital Planning Committee supports building a recreation facility and has recommended UB “continue to explore the feasibility of making it happen.”

“We also understand and appreciate that our students want better recreation facilities,” Tripathi said. “That’s a priority for the broad-er university capital planning process as well. And that is why we are actively exploring the feasibility of a new recreation center.”

Club sports’ issuesThe UB men’s rugby club team does more

than what some might expect a club to do.Two years ago the team moved into the Rug-

by East Conference of DI-A College Rugby, and plays against varsity programs like Army West Point and Wheeling Jesuit.

“Rugby wants to be at that national level, and I wholeheartedly agree with them,” said Jane Truesdell, SA’s Sports Council coordina-tor and a junior health and human services major. “I want them to be able to compete with Army and Kutztown and all these in-sane teams, but they literally cannot because they don’t have gym equipment and they don’t have proper equipment on the fi eld.”

SA sports club teams, like men’s rugby and lacrosse that play at the national level, say they’re held back by the state of recre-ation on campus. The tension was visible, audible and all in one room back in Febru-ary, as approximately 70 students, mostly SA sport club members, expressed their frustra-tions with a panel of four athletics adminis-trators in an open forum.

One of students’ main complaints was the lack of space in Alumni Arena, as clubs, intramurals, varsity teams – and sometimes even the basketball teams’ opponents – vie for space in Alumni Arena’s main court and Triple Gym. In Alumni Arena’s main gym, clubs and intramurals must practice on the fl oor space surrounding the court, as they’re not allowed on the men’s and women’s bas-ketball team’s court.

The men’s lacrosse club said lack of prac-tice time and practie time being moved around by athletics directly affected their preparation and performance this season.

When it comes to UB’s two turf fi elds, stu-dents have major issues with one – Kunz Sta-dium, which they say has turf that is inade-quate and sometimes, unsafe. UB’s other turf fi eld is the football teams in UB Stadium.

UB Athletics funded a patch up of Kunz’s turf, but students say it hasn’t been enough. Truesdell said she’s seen 30 to 40 student ankle sprains on the turf during her two years in SA, and that the problem be-came so bad she almost began emailing for-mer UB Athletic Director Danny White ev-ery time there was an injury.

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Most subsidies in Mid-American Conference from 2010-14 (Percent of department subsidized) 1. Eastern Michigan - $120,777,522 (83 percent) 2. UB - $110,591,193 (77 percent) 3. Akron - $102,843,637 (72 percent) 4. Western Michigan $99,924,110 (72 percent) 5. Miami Ohio - $99,221,217 (72 percent) 6. Ohio - $99,076,303 (72 percent) 7. Central Michigan - $93,637,174 (69 percent) 8. Kent State - $92,401,453 (77 percent) 9. Northern Illinois - $88,872,733 (70 percent) 10. Ball State $80,241,363 (73 percent) 11. Bowling Green - $70,327,402 (64 percent) 12. Toledo - $57,117,825 (52 percent)

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“Ankle sprains left and right,” Truesdell said. UB Athletics spent $1 million to redo its

football stadium fi eld turf after it was dam-aged by a winter storm in 2014.

Clubs are also worried about additional fees. UB Athletics charged the water polo club $54 an hour to use the Alumni Arena pool outside of the normal rec swim time, as well as the $30 an hour it must pay for lifeguards. Despite stu-dent push back, those fees will increase next year, as the rate will go up to $112 an hour.

“Which is really high for trying to play a game for an hour,” said Ben Harper, pres-ident of the water polo club and a junior aerospace engineering major.

And UB Athletics will implement brand new fees for any team holding a tourna-ment or game on an athletics’ fi eld outside their normal practice time next year, accord-ing email correspondence obtained by The Spectrum between UB Athletics and SA. The email said the club fees would be at a “dis-counted” and “appropriate rate.”

A UB Athletics spokesperson did not im-mediately respond to The Spectrum’s inquires about what those rates would be.

SA funds all of its 130-plus student clubs through a mandatory student activity fee of $104.75 a semester. Sport clubs’ bud-gets can range from high as the men’s rug-by’s $18,000 budget, to the swimming club’s $700 budget, depending on the club’s need, participation and status.

Khan said SA pays for clubs’ trainers and

insurance through its main $4 million bud-get line, so the majority of teams’ budgets go to paying league fees and coaching sala-ries. Most clubs need their members to pay team dues for cover all costs.

She said additional fees for hosting games and tournament would seriously threaten clubs’ ability to do so, and that UB should want its sport clubs to host tournaments with other schools because it brings recognition.

Concerning the fees, Greene said students have to remember there are maintenance costs, and that any revenue generated through recreation is put back into recreation.

“It’s not like there’s just money being gob-bled up and spent on other things,” Greene said. “We’re working as hard as we can to invest in recreation understanding we have real limitations with the facilities under their current model and current state.”

Does ‘big-time’ athletics confl ict with recreation?

UB has competed in Division I of the NCAA since the early 90s. The football pro-gram reached Division I-AA status in 1993 and reached Football Bowl Subdivision, or Division I-A, in 1999. It was during this build-up that recreation became, according to one former UB recreation employee who asked to not be named, “the stepchild” of athletics in terms of adequate funding.

Division I athletics administrators have to focus on their program, on selling tickets, on NCAA compliance, on generating expo-sure and above all, on winning. Hence, they automatically care less about providing top-notch recreation.

Hutchins said it’s up to university admin-istrators to tell to UB Athletics that recre-ation is a key part of its operation. Perhaps, he suggested, the university should decide how much of the student athletic fee goes toward recreation. He doesn’t think UB ad-ministrators have told athletics not to worry about recreation, but, he said, it’s clear that no one in Capen Hall has insisted that recre-ation be prioritized as much as athletics.

Several former UB recreation employees who spoke with The Spectrum said they had hoped UB would bring in someone with

a recreation and physical education back-ground when hiring its last two athletic di-rectors. Both Greene and his predecessor Danny White had backgrounds mostly in college athletics and fundraising.

“I don’t think Allen Greene wakes up in the morning thinking, ‘I’m gonna give stu-dents the shaft,’” Hutchins said. “I think Al-len Greene wakes up in the morning think-ing, ‘How can I do my job to the best of my ability?’ within the confi nes of what he has. If he’s given a directive to make recreation better, then he’s gonna do that … If you em-phasize to them that they need to win to keep their job, then where does the focus go?”

Tripathi said Division I Athletics and recre-ation are both important and the key for UB is fi nding the right balance. He said funding dis-parities between athletics and recreation are understandable because “sponsoring a Divi-sion I athletics program inherently requires more investment in athletics than recreation.”

“And a major part of this investment is student-athlete scholarships,” Tripathi said.

UB Athletics spent $8,364,393 on student athletic aid for the 397 student-athletes re-ceiving some kind of aid, according to its 2014-15 budget, which The Spectrum obtained via a Freedom of Information Law request. The athletics department used $2,944,794 of student athletic fee toward grant-in-aid, ac-cording to its fee expenditures.

UB Athletics has worked hard to be “big-time” these past few years.

White, who left UB in November to become the University of Central Florida’s athletic di-rector, introduced the “New York Bulls Initia-tive” or NYBI in 2013 to, as he and the depart-ment put it, make UB “America’s next big-time college athletic brand.” UB announced the end of NYBI marketing last month and unveiled branding that more closely aligns with a new university-wide branding initiative.

SPECTRUM FILE PHOTOS(Top) The football team is UB Athletics’ most

expensive sport and received $5.7 million in subsidies last year, including $1.1 million in

student fees. (Bottom) Clubs teams like men’s lacrosse (right) must compete for fi eld time

with other clubs and intramurals. When in Alumni Arena, the team and other non varsity

sports cannot use the main basketball court used by the men’s (left) and women’s team.

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ing, both implementing and undoing, would cost UB Athletics, Greene said the brand-ing fi t right into money already allocated in the budget every year for new fi elds, courts and jerseys. USA Today reported that some schools use private organizations to fund large-scale branding. UB disclosed docu-ments to USA Today that the UB Founda-tion, its private foundation that handles mil-lions of dollars in donations, spent more than $142,000 on men’s basketball graphics and Alumni Arena’s new hall of fame wall.

UB Athletics had fi ve team MAC champi-onships the past two seasons during the move-ment, including the men’s basketball team’s back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances.

University and athletics administrators like Tripathi and Greene -- and pretty much all sup-porters of college athletics -- stress that college athletics bring more attention to the academic aspects of the university, enhance the student experience and bring alumni together.

Yet for programs like UB outside of the Power 5, the richest athletic conferences in the country, striving for “big-time” college athletics comes with a “big-time” subsidy.

Athletics heavily subsidized UB was second-most subsidized program

by percentage (77 percent) in the 12-team MAC from 2010-14, according to data collect-ed by The Huffi ngton Post and The Chronicle of Higher Education. The data looked at 201 public universities that collectively spent more than $10 billion on Division I athletics. UB also re-ceived the second-most subsidies in the MAC during that time with $110,591,193. Only Eastern Michigan received more.

UB ranked just ninth, however, in both the amount of money it collected from stu-dent fees and the percentage of its budget subsidized by student fees.

About 68 percent – or $22.2 million of UB Athletics’ $32.1 million in revenue came from student fees and direct institution-al support from the university, according to the department’s 2014-15 budget. With-out student fees and direct institutional sup-port, UB Athletics would have had a loss of $21,946,091 last school year.

John Affl eck, the Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society at Penn State who worked for the Associated Press for 22 years, said the universities that don’t rely on subsidies are “the Michigans, the Ohio States, the Penn States of the world” that have large TV contracts and ticket sales. Ac-cording to its budget, UB Athletics made just $1.1 million in ticket sales and $142,500 in media rights, although TV revenue for MAC schools is expected to increase after a new deal with ESPN last year.

“Those are the areas UB isn’t making the kind of money that it needs to make to be self-sustaining,” Affl eck said.

The 11 other universities in the MAC, how-ever, all have a standalone recreational facility. Some of the MAC school’s rec centers feature amenities like rock walls, lazy rivers and golf simulators in addition to the traditional ame-nities like weight rooms and basketball courts.

Other MAC schools have this despite making limited revenue and relying heavily on subsidies. Ten of the 12 programs were at least 69 percent subsidized, according to The Huffi ngton Post and The Chronicle of Higher Education data.

The difference between UB and its 11 conference rivals?

The split between recreation and athletics. UB is the only MAC program responsible

for overseeing its on-campus recreation ser-

vices. Most universities, like the rest of the MAC, house their recreation services under a department like Student Affairs.

Where does student fee money actually go?

What does the roughly $700,000 of athlet-ic fee money that goes into recreation actual-ly pay for? Mostly student employees.

Ninety-three percent of fee money allocat-ed for recreation pays student personnel like gym monitors, lifeguards, intramural referees and team store employees, according to UB Athletics’ 2014-15 fee expenditures.

The other seven percent, or $45,151, was spent on equipment. No student fee money went toward facility maintenance, according to athletics’ expenditures.

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UB students’ money mostly goes toward funding the football team.

Football received $1,130,140 in student fee money last year – the most of any var-sity team. That accounted for 15 percent of the team’s budget. Women’s basketball was second with $816,540.

The football program spent the most of any UB team by breaking even with a bud-get of $7.2 million last year. But nearly 80 percent, or $5.7 million, of its budget, came from student fees and direct institution-al support from the university. Without sup-port from the university and student fees, the team would have had a defi cit of $5.7 million last reporting year.

The team has also historically struggled. Since entering Division I-A in 1999, the foot-ball team has had just two winning seasons, including a MAC Championship in 2008.

Although football got the most student money, women’s teams were funded with student fees double that of the men’s teams. The women received $4.8 million compared to men’s $2.4 million. Another $1.1 million of student fees were not designated to any

specifi c team.

Rec center or fi eld house?In 2014, UB contracted Brailsford and

Dunlavey, the same project management fi rm that consulted on the 2002 survey, to tour current recreational facilities, conduct student focus groups and develop a fi nancial model for improving recreation on campus.

The fi rm recommended that UB build a $80-million 265,000-square-foot student recreation center on North Campus, spend $16.4 million on renovating Clark Hall and build four outdoor recreation fi elds. There were also several options as to how those projects would come about, like whether a private entity would build and UB would operate, or vice versa.

Brailsford and Dunlavey’s recommend-ed a rec center that included features like six basketball courts, a 25,000-square-foot weight and fi tness center, a 54,000-square-foot turf fi eld and even six bowling lanes. In renderings, the rec center would be con-structed in the open fi eld off Lake LaSalle between the Ellicott Complex and the Stu-dent Union.

It is unclear how, if at all, a standalone rec-reation center would fi t in with UB Athlet-ics’ plan to build a new indoor fi eld house.

UB Athletics has been pushing to build such a facility for the past few years, as it is the only team in the MAC without one. Not having a fi eld house puts its football program at a major disadvantage during the cold win-ter months, as it must practice outside in UB Stadium or make a nearly half-hour commute to the Buffalo Bills’ fi eld house.

When UB Athletics released its “Facili-ties Master Plan,” in February of 2014, it in-cluded plans for an on-campus fi eld house, tennis center, baseball diamond and fi eld for the soccer programs. It did not include any design for a student recreation center.

Greene said a fi eld house and recreation center should be separate facilities, as he doesn’t know of any sophisticated models that hold both, but that a fi eld house would also help club and intramurals sports, not just the outdoor D-I programs.

“Having a fi eld house at least provides an indoor space for the students, for recreation use, for band use, for club sport use and for intercollegiate athletics use,” Greene said. “It alleviates the pressures that rest in Alumni Arena and provides at least an indoor option

for some of those activities to occur.”Greene said UB Athletics will soon sub-

mit a Request For Proposal so a few select-ed architects can submit their proposal of what a North Campus fi eld house would look like. Greene would not disclose how much money UB Athletics currently has for the project, only saying the department still has money to raise.

UB maintains its commitment to Divi-sion I athletics – including football. In re-cent weeks, students and faculty at Eastern Michigan released a report suggesting the school should drop football and move to a conference that does not require it.

Tripathi said Division I athletics is “a source of spirit and pride” for the entire university and “unite alumni, friends, students and com-munity for a common cause – to support, pro-mote and energize our university.”

Khan, who will graduate this semester, said she hopes to be able return to campus as an alumna and see a standalone recre-ation center.

email: tom.dinki@ubspectrum.com.

SPECTRUM FILE PHOTOSWhile the Division I varsity athletics programs, like the women’s soccer team and Celina

Carrero (left), had a budget of $32.1 million, recreation and intramurals, like basketball in the Triple Gym (right), had an operating budget of just $1.8 million.

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UB Athletics budget

$32.1 million2014-2015 budget

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From death metal to Christian rock, there is a different genre for everyone.

This week’s highlights include Snarky Puppy, a popular jazz collective, and Sun-fl ower Bean, an up-and-coming rock band. Make sure to get your tickets today.

Monday, May 2Thy Art is Murder – Iron WorksAustralian deathcore band Thy Art is Mur-

der will be bringing their high-octane brand of metal to Buffalo on Monday. If you ever need a pick me up for Monday, this is it.

The band is one of the most popular met-al bands currently touring and their album, Hate, reached the number 2 spot on the USA iTunes metal charts.

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roomAlt rock band X Ambassadors, hailing

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CollegeSaxophonist, songwriter and producer James

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Thursday, May 5Zomboy – Town BallroomEnglish DJ Joshua Mellody fi rst made his ap-

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Senior Sergio Arevalillo still remembers his greatest moment on a tennis court.

Trailing 5-1 in the third set of his sin-gles match against Binghamton in last year’s Mid-American Conference Championship game, Arevalillo pulled off a comeback that led the Bulls to their fi rst-ever conference ti-tle and NCAA Tournament appearance.

Yet after the Bulls’ (11-8, 4-3 MAC) 4-2 loss to Ball State in the MAC Champion-ships Semifi nals Friday, Arevalillo, along with fellow senior teammates Pablo Alva-rez, Amar Hromic, and Akhil Mehta, all say goodbye to the program. The Bulls took the doubles point Friday, but couldn’t come through in singles play to advance to the championship game.

“I guess it feels a bit worse, just being that

close,” Arevalillo said. “You cannot help but think what would have happened if, just one point here, one point there, we could have had it, and then we’d be playing [Saturday] for the championship.”

Despite being the defending conference champions, Buffalo did not come into the season with high expectations. They had lost their two best players, Damien David and Sebastian Ionescu, to graduation. Nick-ell says he was proud of where his team wound up this year.

“With the expectations of everybody else coming into this year, you wouldn’t expect that we were supposed to win a match,” Nickell said. “To make the MAC Tourna-ment, to beat a couple of Ivy League teams, is a successful season even though we still felt like we could win a championship. That being said we can hold our heads high with the way that this season fi nished up.”

Buffalo’s four seniors, who combined for 71 of the Bulls 82 singles wins on the sea-son, carried the load. Two seniors – Alvarez and Arevalillo – notched their 100th career victories in their UB careers.

Nickell said all he could do after Friday’s loss was thank his graduating seniors for ev-erything.

“I just thanked them,” Nickell said. “Thanked them for everything they did, thanked them for the way they represented our program, and for all the heart and effort they put in to help this program.”

Arevalillo, who had a breakout season and went 24-9 in singles matches and became the No. 1 singles player on the team, was emo-tional when refl ecting on his career and how close the team was to defending its title.

“I wanted to thank my coaches for such a great opportunity they gave me to come here,” Arevalillo said. “Because I really had the best time of my life when I was here. I told [my coaches] I hope the players they recruited have the same heart we have and passion for the team, because if they do I know they’re going to do great.”

With the expectations heading into the

season, Nickell said that the team should hold their heads up. The Bulls were able to defeat Ivy League’s Yale and Brown in the regular season.

Both Nickell and Arevalillo are hopeful about the future of the program despite the loss of four seniors.

“Nobody’s bad at our level it’s just a mat-ter of who wants it more,” Arevalillo said. “And that’s really what’s being developed in our program, just a lot of fi ghting your heart out, and I’m sure that’s why we achieved so many goals.”

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The end of an eraMen’s tennis says goodbye to four seniors

after MAC Semifi nals loss

KAINAN GUO, THE SPECTRUM

(From L to R) The men’s tennis team’s seniors Amar Hromic, Pablo Alvarez and Akil Mehta, as well as Sergio Arevailillo (not pictured), had their UB careers come to an end on Friday with

the Bulls’ season-ending loss in the Mid-American Conference Championships Semifi nals.

MICHAEL AKELSONASST. SPORTS EDITOR

Although no UB players heard their name called in the 2016 NFL Draft, at least three will get an opportunity to continue their football careers.

Former Buffalo offensive tackle John Kling and tight end Matt Weiser signed as undrafted free agents with the Chicago Bears and San Diego Chargers, respectively, while former quarterback and UB all-time leading passer Joe Licata will get a tryout with the hometown Buffalo Bills.

Licata, a Buffalo native, will attend the Bills’ rookie minicamp on a tryout basis. Li-cata is the program’s all-time leader in pass-ing yards (9,485) and passing touchdowns (76) and led the Bulls to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Game in 2013. The Bills draft-ed former Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones in the fourth round of the draft.

Kling played 12 games at left tackle for the Bulls last season, while Weiser experi-enced a breakout season for Buffalo with 63 catches for 625 yards, three touchdowns and an All-Mid-American Conference fi rst-team selection. Weiser will be reunited with UB all-time leading rusher Branden Oliver in San Diego.

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Women’s tennis (14-8, 5-3 Mid-American Conference)

The Bulls picked up a victory in the MAC Championships Quarterfi nals, but fell in the semifi nals.

On Friday, the Bulls defeated Akron (15-9, 5-3 MAC) 4-0 in the MAC Quarterfi nals by sweeping the Zips in both singles and doubles play.

On Saturday, the Bulls fell to Ball State (20-3, 7-1 MAC) 4-3 in the MAC Semifi nals. The Bulls took two of the three doubles sets, before losing four of the six singles set. The loss ends Buffalo’s season. Baseball (13-26, 6-12 MAC)

Buffalo dropped two of three against Ball

State (27-18, 12-6 MAC), with a win in their last game ending a six-game losing streak.

The Bulls dropped the fi rst two games of their weekend series: a 4-2 loss in 10 innings on Friday and a 9-6 defeat on Saturday. The Cardinals scored two runs in the top of the 10th inning and Bulls could not respond.

To close the three-game set, the Bulls sal-vaged the series with a 4-3 victory. Junior catcher Kyle Brennan fi nished 3 of 4 at the plate, while junior starting pitcher Shawn Dubin pitched 8.0 innings, struck out six batters and allowed three earned runs.

The Bulls will stay home to face Canisius (26-18, 11-4 Metro-Atlantic Athletic Con-ference) on Tuesday at Amherst Audubon Field. First pitch is set for 3 p.m.Softball (15-34, 9-11 MAC)

The Bulls are losers of seven of their last

eight games. The Bulls started the weekend positive-

ly, as they defeated Ohio (30-21, 11-9 MAC) 5-3 in 10 innings Friday. Sophomore pitch-er Charlotte Miller pitched all 10 innings for the Bulls, struck out six batters, walked fi ve and surrendered just three earned runs. Ju-nior infi elder Savanna Norcio went 2 of 5 at the plate with three RBIs.

The Bobcats would go on to win the next two games of the series, defeating the Bulls 3-2 on Friday and 2-1 on Saturday. The Bulls had a chance to win both games but allowed the Bobcats to score late in both.

The Bulls face Niagara (9-31, 7-7 MAAC) for a doubleheader on the road Tuesday. First pitch for the fi rst game is set for 3 p.m.

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Women’s tennis falls in MAC Semifinals, baseball and softball suffer losing streaks

Quick hits:

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Former Bulls quarterback Joe Licata makes a pass in a loss to Nevada last fall. Licata, John Kling and Matt Weiser will all get a chance to

make an NFL roster.

TROY WACHALA, THE SPECTRUM

The baseball team goes to bat in a 5-4 victory over

Canisius on April 12. The Bulls ended a six-game losing streak

in their last games, a 4-3 win over Ball State.