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April 24, 2013Volume 62 Number 76

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EDITOR In ChIEf Aaron Mansfield

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In a recent poll conducted by The Spectrum, 82 percent of 700 students expressed they didn’t feel President Satish Tripathi’s presence on cam-pus. The problem that polls often have is they don’t include definition-al variations that can affect one’s un-derstanding of the issues present-ed. The meaning of ‘presence’ in the poll we refer to above demonstrates that very problem.

For many students, ‘presence’ just means physical presence. They don’t see him around campus – in the Union, in the hallways, at Star-bucks. Well, as surprising as it may be to some, Tripathi frequents Tim Hortons. He is on campus routinely.

He travels often on behalf of the university. Having recently returned from a leg of his fundraising tour in which he brought in $8.9 million in the first 17 stops (the numbers for later stops are not yet available), he has continued to campaign for the vision of UB 2020.

But let’s be clear – students don’t really care if they see the president around school. The fact that 82 per-cent of students didn’t feel Tripathi’s presence reflects more on the stu-dents than the president. UB under-graduates are simply not paying at-tention.

It’s not the job of the president of the university to have afternoon tea with Student Association clubs, to attend morning yoga classes at

Alumni Arena, to spend a Saturday afternoon playing corn hole with the hockey team discussing the virtues of distilling whiskey in Kentucky over Tennessee or to ruminate on the meaning of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby with English stu-dents.

His job is to serve the university in bringing ideas to fruition – in mak-ing tangible, concrete differences in the institution that advance the envi-ronment and enhance student expe-riences. It is through actually seeing palpable changes that students are able to recognize a president’s pres-ence – when the work he or she is doing for the school begins making a difference in students’ daily lives.

There are four substantial im-provements that Tripathi should fo-cus on. These changes would help students realize he is a relevant fac-tor to the university they experience every day. It is an emphasis on the nitty-gritty, on the small things that need to get done.

1. There should be more transpar-ency. When “The Heights of Fear” came out, it took Tripathi an entire week to respond. For students to feel their president is in touch, there should be a line of communication that is constant and reliable. Tripa-thi should speak more often to The Spectrum. He should consider activat-ing a Facebook and/or Twitter ac-count, much like Athletic Director

Danny White, so students can follow him as he posts announcements per-tinent to current events and student life. There needs to be a new form of interface that increases student awareness.

If the Pope can do it, Tripathi should, too. Even if he isn’t #Team-FollowBack.

2. There needs to be something done about parking. UB is largely a commuter school. Many come from all over the Buffalo area and park-ing has been problematic to count-less students. People are sometimes late to class because it takes so long to find a space and some have missed class completely because they could not find a space at all. This interferes with the academic experience – the most important element of a colle-giate institution.

There should at least be an addi-tional parking lot. There can be orga-nization that provides freshmen and sophomores with some lots and ju-niors and seniors with others. There needs to be a concerted effort to provide more parking.

3. We want to see improved librar-ies. The electricity has been dismal all year and we want the outlets at all ta-bles to be fixed. We want new, im-proved cubicles that give students a better study area. We want the con-ditions that help academic perfor-mance.

4. The bathrooms are a mess. They flood often and the design and lay-outs of many are not conducive to relief. The door handle is often on the inside of the door so students have to touch it immediately after washing their hands, with the aware-ness that many troubled souls decid-edly abstain from that practice. It is a sad truth we must face at this univer-sity that a surplus of students are not hygienically sound.

There also needs to be a better system for hand drying. These bath-rooms run out of paper towels of-ten and every bathroom on campus should have air dryers. It is good for the environment and easier to main-tain.

These are issues that students have to deal with every day. They may seem miniscule to some, but in the aggregate, they make significant im-pacts upon the college experience and daily life.

There has been significant time dedicated to UB 2020 and very little progress has been evident thus far. All the improvements we have sug-gested are feasible and minor.

We are hoping you’ll take our ideas – the students’ wishes – seriously, President Tripathi. We’ll be watch-ing, waiting, commiserating.

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All the small thingsSurprises let us know he cares

Following a sexting scandal, An-thony Weiner was forced to resign from the House of Representatives in disgrace.

A rising leader in the Democrat-ic Party and a potential candidate for mayor of New York City, Wein-er watched his career dissipate along with a host of hopes and possibilities for the future.

The man who has been removed from public life for two years now has decided to attempt and stage a comeback.

He is weighing a potential 2013 run for mayor.

In a lengthy profile in The New York Times Magazine, published on-line on April 10, Weiner expressed that “it’s now or maybe never for me.” He indicated that he would like to ask for a second chance as he has begun mounting the opportunity for a Clintonian comeback.

The question remains, however: Can he do it?

We’ve seen resurgence in poli-tics before. We’ve seen Bill Clinton

recover from accusations of mar-ital misconduct in 1992 and then watched him continue to thrive in public life following the Lewinsky scandal and its subsequent impeach-ment proceedings. The linkage is obvious, too – his wife, Huma, is a longtime aide and friend of Hillary.

We’ve seen attempts at resurgence fail, too.

The distinction between Clin-ton and Weiner is simple, however: Weiner has not the skills or prowess Clinton did, nor an entire party rely-ing on him as its national leader and largest fundraiser. The president had mountains of mainstream support.

What the president also had was a formative resilience. An overarching theme throughout his life of loss and recovery – and by the time the Le-winsky scandal surfaced, he had been well practiced at bouncing back.

This is the first scandal for Wein-er and it has become a signature el-ement of his public identity. Worse than the deed itself, his manner of response damaged him more. He tweaked during a press conference.

He was unable to answer the ques-tion directly: Was the picture of a bulging erection his? And he en-dured weeks of scrutiny and ridicule before being propelled by public in-fluence to step down.

Clinton understood the most im-portant factor in dealing with any kind of accusation is to remain un-ruffled and collected. Clinton com-municated allegations are part of the political game and they are designed to distract you from the issues.

And that is where Weiner will need to direct his focus if he wants to have a chance presenting himself as a viable candidate. He will need to run a campaign on the issues and demonstrate what Clinton did – that he’s a force of action and an agent of change.

People like redemption stories. They dominate our cultural outlets – film, literature, theater. They also re-main prevalent in our political mind-set. Weiner is a familiar figure to the city, but he has been out of the lime-light for two years acting as a stay-at-home dad. Now, as he is reenter-

ing public life, he needs to reinvent his image.

Weiner made a personal mistake. There is no doubt he has paid a heavy cost. He should be given the chance to present himself and his candidacy. The City of New York should for-give his past transgressions and allow him to be judged on the merits of his message and his capacity to car-ry it out.

There are many UB students from the city. Registered Democrats will have a chance to embrace him in a primary should he choose to run. The hope for him would be to secure a nomination in order to contend for the big seat.

If he does decide to challenge Mi-chael Bloomberg’s third term, resi-dents of the city should give them-selves a chance to learn what kind of mayor he claims he could be.

He should not be held forever to the demons of his past.


Can weiner be a winner?NYC residents should give disgraced former congressman a chance

The development of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is certain-ly one of the best things to happen to Buffalo and Western New York this century. In a city that has been suffering from decline for many de-cades, this sprawling consortium of health care entities, research facilities and medical education institutions will deliver world-class health care, cutting-edge education and research and will be an economic driver for the entire region.

That is the good news.The bad news is that UB, one

of the key partners in this endeav-or which owns much of the campus property including its planned new medical school, is abdicating its re-sponsibility to ensure adequate po-lice coverage and campus safety.

UB’s inaction on these critical issues, despite inquiries and guidance from its own police officers, has led to problems involving criminal activity and a looming feeling amongst some that the campus is unsafe.

UB recently announced plans to incorporate Buffalo’s Metro Rail sys-tem into its medical school building planned on the western edge of the campus. A recent Buffalo News article noted that this dual purpose is “….a role assigned to few – if any – med-ical schools around the world.” The inclusion of a subway inside a cam-pus building will increase the already significant challenge of ensuring safety on this urban setting. I only wish UB applied the same proactive approach it used planning transpor-tation and parking for the campus to

the crucial issues of safety and po-lice protection.

The Police Benevolent Associa-tion of New York State, the labor union which represents, amongst others, University Police Depart-ment (UPD) officers at UB, has shared concerns with UB officials regarding safety and police coverage for the campus. Union officials have communicated with a number of university officials to inquire if and when UB’s highly trained and dedi-cated police officers will be assigned to the new campus. UB officials’ an-swers have been noncommittal, and in some instances nonexistent.

Meanwhile, we continue to read stories in the media reporting seri-ous crimes on the campus, such as when a campus parking attendant

was robbed at gunpoint in Decem-ber.

UB can certainly do better than to relegate the police protection and safety of its students, staff, visitors and facilities on the downtown cam-pus to the backburner.

In order for the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus to be truly success-ful, installing a strong police pres-ence and ensuring the safety of the public can no longer be ignored and must become a top priority.

Daniel De Federicis, a native of Cheektowaga and UB alumnus, is the executive director of the Po-lice Benevolent Association of New York State

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REBECCA BRATEKMaNaGING EDITOr

On Tuesday, residents of the Fruit Belt, an area in Buffalo’s low-er East Side, finally got UB to re-spond to their concerns regarding the sale and development of Mc-Carley Gardens. But it wasn’t the response they wanted.

Mike Pietkiewicz, the assistant vice president for government community relations, spoke to Buf-falo’s Common Council on Tues-day afternoon about UB’s 2020 plan for the Buffalo Niagara Med-ical Corridor, which includes the purchase of McCarley Gardens from Oak Michigan Housing De-velopment Corp. Pietkiewicz read a prepared statement to the coun-cil, which outlined the beginnings of UB 2020 and why the university hasn’t moved forward with the sale or toward tangible plans.

George Arthur, who has lived in the Fruit Belt for decades, called the statement “double-talking gob-bledygook” and called Pietkiewicz a “loony toon” for suggesting the plans and statement had not orig-inated within the UB Foundation (UBF), a private group that sup-ports developing and managing real property on behalf of the universi-ty. He said UBF has ignored all res-ident concerns regarding relocation plans.

“It is the will of the people that McCarley Gardens not be sold,” Arthur said. “It is not needed. UB does not need it. And Oak Michi-gan doesn’t need the money … The University at Buffalo has been in this city for 167 years, since 1846. And one day out of [those years], they found the Fruit Belt. The only way they got students to go down there was to say that they wanted to have a ‘getting dirty’ party. Only

way you get dirty is by going to the Fruit Belt – what an insult. What a racist insult.

“I would hope this council would make a commitment to say ‘no’ to anything that deals with the selling of McCarley Gardens because UB’s intentions are not honorable.”

He continued on to say resi-dents of the Fruit Belt and McCa-rley Gardens are not against UB 2020 or the Medical Corridor; rath-er, they feel they are being taken ad-vantage of and they’re frightened.

Ellicott District Councilmember Darius Pridgen was also frustrat-ed with UB’s response after a uni-versity representative did not at-tend the Common Council meeting on March 19 (Pietkiewicz was out of town and received notice of the meeting an hour before it started).

Pridgen does not intend to pass any legislation until residents feel com-fortable with UB’s plans.

“I need you to hear my heart and I’m sorry to do this on the floor, but the question was about the folks who live in McCarley Gar-dens,” he said. “We went from ‘it will be sold by 2017,’ but could it be sold before 2017? What I’m ask-ing to address is the frustration of the people who I’m representing.”

No progress has been made and UB has not moved forward with developing McCarley Gardens be-cause the original deal stated the university would not gain the prop-erty until 2017. That contract ex-pired in March 2013, according to Pietkiewicz, and was automatical-ly extended as a result of St. John’s Baptist Church, which sponsors

Oak Michigan, not getting approval from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

UB first made reference to Mc-Carley Gardens in 2008 in a first draft plan for moving the medical school downtown as a part of UB 2020, according to Pietkiewicz. The final draft was released a year later, and St. John’s approached the uni-versity about its interest in acquir-ing the property in 2009. UB and St. John’s signed a deal in 2010.

The university cannot purchase the land until 2017 due also in part to lack of funds, Pietkiewicz said. New York State was supposed to embark on its next five-year capital plan this year, but because of the economic environment at the na-tional and state levels, it was unable to do so. The economic disparity left UB and SUNY without a capi-tal plan and no funds for any proj-ects, he added.

And because McCarley Gardens is not next on the “to-do list” for UB 2020 – next up is moving the School of Social Work and Gradu-ate School of Education back onto South Campus – no further talks have been geared toward the Fruit Belt area and no tangible, solidified plans have been put in place, Piet-kiewicz said.

Pietkiewicz stressed that UB does not own the property, nor is the university the landlord of any-one living in the area. But UB is still very concerned about commu-nity engagement and is working to connect with tenants regarding the sale and development of the land. “I understand these are just words, but we intend to prove it through action,” he said.

Pridgen is concerned that be-cause UB is a public entity and not a private citizen or organization purchasing the property, the sit-

uation is more worrisome to res-idents. He wants to see concrete plans and a concerted effort to en-gage the community.

“I think we couldn’t be at this point now had there been great communication, and if these res-idents really felt they understood, they wouldn’t have come the Elli-cott office and said, ‘We need help. We need a voice. We’re not being heard,’” Pridgen said. “This is not whether they’re black or they’re white or they’re rich or they’re poor. This is simply that they live there. We have to be very sensitive to that.”

Any future plans would affect 150 families that rent their proper-ties from St. John’s, and no reloca-tion plans will be set into effect un-til approved by HUD, according to Pietkiewicz. No one has currently been asked to move or relocate.

“There’s a lot of activity that’s going on that people are not rec-ognizing, and that’s OK,” Pietkie-wicz said. “[Whether] they’re not receiving that or we’re not commu-nicating enough, we need to com-municate more. I look at this as a learning lesson and we’re going to try to do a better job communicat-ing with the neighbors going for-ward. We certainly have our work cut out for us in terms of commu-nicating directly with the neighbors and residents.”

The Common Council tabled the discussion, and Pridgen has set up an advisory board to gauge what residents’ concerns. Pietkiewicz said the university will reach out to the board and other neighborhood groups to better future communi-cation.


UB meets opposition from fruit Belt residents at Common Council meeting

REBECCA BRATEK, The SpecTrum

Fruit Belt resident George Arthur (above, pointing) said Assistant Vice President for Government Community Relations Mike Pietkiewicz’s presentation during Tues-day’s Common Council meeting was “gobbledygook.” Arthur, along with Ellicott District Councilmember Darius Pridgen (below Arthur with his back turned) and other Fruit Belt residents, were concerned about UB’s purchase of the McCarley Gardens for development of the downtown medical campus.

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RACHEL RAIMONDI aSST. NEwS EDITOr

The lights didn’t extend far enough, some props weren’t finished and the tools were missing. Jenny Chen start-ed to worry. It was finally the big day.

On Friday night, the senior busi-ness and communication major orga-nized the seventh-annual Hillery Park Elementary School dance with her classmates in Communication 317: Business/Professional Communica-tion. The goal was to not only gain experience in business management, but to also inspire Buffalo youth to stay in school and dream of a college education.

But first, the UB students needed to finish transforming the elemen-tary school gymnasium into a faux Hollywood red-carpet event. Chen, the team leader for the project’s Cre-ative Design Department, adapted to the circumstances and changed the layout slightly. Still, the decorations – which included rich red cloths, twinkling lights, movie star cutouts and posters – were among the most

memorable aspects of the dance, said Mary Beth Debus, an adjunct com-munication professor who teaches the class.

Debus believes the only way to in-still lessons in her students is to teach them skills in the classroom and have them immediately implemented on a community project. Each year, she assigns her class the project of host-ing the school dance as a way to show them how multiple departments in a

business work to achieve one goal. In the beginning of the semester,

the students write resumes, go on in-terviews and apply for positions on the project’s teams, which include Creative Design, Procurement, Plan-ning and Logistics and Finance.

Hillery Park Elementary School gave the class $400, but the students fundraised to increase their budget. They also partnered with Buffalo Wild Wings and received a donation

of food for the event, according to Josh Rubin, a senior communication major. For him, the joy came from seeing the children smile as they en-joyed one of the last big events of their school year and started thinking about their futures.

Over the past few years, the inter-action between Debus’ students and the children has led to an increase in attendance rates and discipline with-in their own classrooms, Debus said. They don’t want to risk having to miss the dance because of a suspen-sion, according to Debus.

“Students have come back to [Principal Maria Miller] and said: ‘It’s because of my experience with the students at UB that I’m doing what I’m doing today,’” she said. “Certain-ly, that’s not [the experience] all the students [have], but just to even make that difference with a few students is an added bonus of doing this proj-ect.”

The communication students act-ed as paparazzi and took fake photos of the children as they entered the Grammy Awards-like event. As the night went on, many children wanted

to befriend the college students and asked them about what their lives are like and what could be expect-ed from the college experience. They also bonded over games like trivia and a beanbag toss, leaving a “lasting impression” on the children, accord-ing to Maggie Hoeltke, a Hillery Park staff member.

In a letter to Debus’ class, Hoeltke thanked the students for hosting the “top-notch” event and said: “They will remember this as one of the spe-cial moments in their lives.”

The event was just as important for the UB students. Chris Cozzens, a senior computer science major, has already used the experience to get a project management job in New York City at EMC, a company that specializes in cloud computing.

Hillery Park students are already looking forward to next year’s event, in which Debus will again assign the project of hosting the dance to her students – an experience from which both schools’ students prosper.


UB students host red-carpet event at elementary schoolCommunication students inspire Buffalo youth while learning business tactics

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UB’s Communication 317 class hosted a dance for Buffalo’s Hillery Park Elemen-tary School on Friday. The class posed for this photo. The event is planned largely to inspire Buffalo youth to stay in school and pursue a college education.


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name: Travis NemmerPosition: SA presidentMajor: Classics, history and politi-cal sciencePlans after graduation: Law school at American Universityword to describe experience at UB: Transformative

Travis Nemmer has a clear mo-ment he regards as his most mem-orable at UB: winning the election for SA president last spring. He said that moment and the people he met along the way as president have made his college time truly memo-rable.

“All the people I have met over the past four years, I wouldn’t have been able to make it through even half of it without them,” Nemmer said.

He is looking forward to special-izing in election law next year at American University. When asked what is going through his head two weeks before graduation, Nemmer, who waited for his last semester at UB to complete his science re-quirement, said: “Right now? Get through this final physics exam. ‘Gen eds’ suck.”

“Thank you to my cronies,” he concluded.

graduating Student Association officials bid UB adieuSAM FERNANDO

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name: Justin NeuwirtPosition: SA treasurerMajor: FinancePlans after graduation: Client ad-viser at Gerstein and Fisherword to describe experience at UB: Unforgettable

Justin Neuwirt has a job lined up after graduation as a client advis-er at Gerstein and Fisher, a wealth management firm in New York City. But he still doesn’t know what to think as his time at UB comes to an end.

“I haven’t had time to digest it all,” Neuwirt said. “It hasn’t hit me yet, to be honest. There were a lot of memorable moments – a lot of memorable moments that I forgot. But the most memorable had to be driving home with all my friends af-ter winning the election – windows down, sunroof open, blasting mu-sic, about to embark on a journey of a lifetime.”

He is grateful for everything UB has done for him, he said

“I never knew what to expect out of college,” Neuwirt said. “This university’s students get an oppor-tunity to make something more to their college experience than just going to a classroom, getting an ed-ucation and then leaving. I really took advantage of that.”

name: Jonathan GruninPosition: SA senate chairMajor: Political sciencePlans after graduation: Apply for jobsword to describe experience at UB: Opportunity

Jonathan Grunin is graduating in a couple weeks. He said the biggest thing running through his mind is to “get a damn job.” He is look-ing in the area of Jewish non-prof-it organizations and has a few inter-views in place. He hopes one will result in an offer.

Grunin has been heavily involved in SA since he was a freshman. He said one of his most memora-ble moments was winning a Senate seat that same year. He said another memorable moment was crying in the bathroom of a hotel room at 2 a.m. by Cornell University because he was so sick – it was alcohol in-duced. He said it was an interesting moment in his college career.

Grunin said he accomplished a lot over the past four years, and he credits much of that to UB.

“UB is a place for opportuni-ty for every student so long as they seek it,” Grunin said. “There was a lot of stuff I wanted to do at UB and everything I wanted to do – so long as it fit into my time – I did. And for that, I am very happy to have chosen to have come here as opposed to another university where the opportunities aren’t as abundant.”

name: TC ScottPosition: Chief of staffMajor: Political sciencePlans after graduation: Three-week trip out west, then apply for jobsword to describe experience at UB: Short

TC Scott doesn’t want to gradu-ate, though he feels he is ready to do so. In his opinion, his four years at UB went by too fast. His time may have gone so rapidly because of how busy he kept himself.

“I like to keep busy – I never like to sit at home and lay on my couch,” Scott said. “Working for the Student Association helped me avoid that. Waking up every morn-ing, I always had something to do or somewhere to go or someone to meet. I am going to miss that. I don’t see that happening when I have a full-time job.”

One of Scott’s most memorable moments at UB was performing in International Fiesta with the Filipi-no Student Association. As of right now, he’s not in “high gear” to find a job because he’s planning to drive out west for three weeks and visit Yosemite, Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, among oth-er sites.

name: Joshua AnbarPosition: SISH clubs coordinatorMajor: Political sciencePlans after graduation: Graduate school at West Virginia Universityword to describe experience at UB: Exhilarating

Although he was accepted into a master’s program in political sci-ence at West Virginia Universi-ty, Joshua Anbar is still uncertain about the future, which he said is common among graduating se-niors.

“I have no idea what the future holds,” Anbar said. “It’s intimidat-ing, and I think that is something that everyone says, but it’s true. I know where I am going and I know what the end goal is … but I’m filled with uncertainty and nervous-ness.”

He said his most memorable mo-ment at UB happened before he even took a class. He attended a Jewish Student Union barbecue in the Ellicott Quad as an “awkward little freshman.” He said it was there he began his SA career, becoming the treasurer of JSU his sophomore year, president his junior year and then SA senator and SISH coordi-nator his senior year.


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On Monday, Daniel Ovadia was officially re-elected as the UB Council student representative.

Ovadia, who collected 242 votes, narrowly beat Robert Go-lightly by eight votes. Nigel Michki received 122 votes and 25 students abstained.

Ovadia is excited to start anoth-er year at the position. He said his experience at the job is his biggest asset.

Usually, the first few months of holding the position are about building connections with the var-ious student governments, he said. Because he already built that net-work, he said he can get a dialogue started right away, allowing him to focus on ideas and solutions that are “intentional, specific and ben-eficial.”

He plans to strengthen this communication through the Co-alition Of Advocacy and Lead-ership (COAL), an organization created last fall semester by Grad-uate Student Association Presi-dent Jonathan Knights. The goal of COAL – which consists of the seven presidents of the student governments, the chief justice of the Student-Wide Judiciary and the student representative of the UB Council – is to discuss what is-sues the students believe need to be addressed.

“I will be able to understand what [the student governments] perceive the issues are,” Ovadia said. “The University Council rep-resentative is the representative of all the governments and all the stu-dents, and I plan to do my best to share that information with the council.”

Ovadia plans to do more with the position than he did this school

year. Although he will continue to represent the many students at UB as a whole, he intends to help any single person with a problem.

“If there are big issues, I am go-ing to make sure there are student groups coordinated to speak with administration,” Ovadia said. “But at the same time, if an individual student has a concern or a ques-tion and I am in a position where I can get them a real answer or facil-itate a solution for them, I am go-ing to do it.”

Although there was a total of 623 votes cast this year – 84 more than last year – Ovadia is disap-pointed in the low turnout. He be-lieves it is a small number because students don’t see the direct im-pact of the position. Unlike SA elections, he said clubs and future events at UB could be affected, which has more of an immediate effect on students.

In response to his eight-vote victory, he said: “I can’t appreciate

enough every individual vote. It highlights the importance of vot-ing.”

Ovadia intends to work with Golightly and Michki next year. Ovadia said they were both quali-fied candidates and share the same enthusiasm for UB and the same motivation to stay active that he does.

“When an individual expressed an interest which is similar to mine, I think it is important to work with them and collaborate,” Ovadia said.

Ovadia has already begun plan-ning out his schedule for next year and he is looking forward to con-tinuing the work he has done this year.


Ovadia wins UB Council student representative position by eight votes

name: Carl RossPosition: SA senatorMajor: Media studyPlans after graduation: Graduate school or try to find a jobword to describe experience at UB: Involved

Carl Ross said his most mem-orable moment at UB happened two weeks ago, when a girl bit his chest at Spring Fest. He was work-ing among the pit crew and he tried to stop a girl who was trying to get on stage. She then bit him and he had to tell her to let go.

Although that is what he remem-bers now, he said when reminisces about UB, he will always remem-ber the great friends he met. He said UB has a diverse student body and because of that, he was able to make a diverse group of friends.

Ross was involved in many differ-ent clubs and is happy to be gradu-ating, though he is nervous.

“I am freaking out right now be-cause I want everything to be fin-ished and I want to be able to make my family proud – but more to make myself proud,” Ross said.

He is glad he came to UB and said he gained some great memo-ries at a pretty good price.

name: Theresa CervantesPosition: International clubs coor-dinatorMajor: Math and actuarial sciencesPlans after graduation: One-week vacation in the Caribbean, then job at Aflacword to describe experience at UB: #NailedIt

Although Theresa Cervantes was nervous when she was on stage pre-senting the Indian Student Associ-ation, the winners of International Fiesta, the first-prize check and tro-phy, she said it was her most mem-orable moment at UB. She worked all year to put on the event, which she said was a success.

As she looks back on her four years, she said she will remember her experiences with SA. She is proud to be part of the organiza-tion and said her friends always tell her they are jealous of everything SA does.

She said adjusting to living at home with her parents again is “go-ing down a notch,” but she is excit-ed to start the next chapter of her life.

The people she met in clubs and SA are especially important to her.

She wishes the Class of 2013 the best of luck.


CONTINuED frOM PrEVIOuS PaGE

Daniel Ovadia was re-elected to his position as UB Council student representative on Monday by the narrow margin of eight votes. He plans to strengthen the com-munication between the seven student governments and the council.

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Emily Bradley (Change)After graduation, Emily Bradley

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gagandipi ‘gagan’ Singh (Binary)Gagandipi Singh, the director of

UBTV, chose “binary” to represent his four years at UB because he feels it represents the two lives he has here: music and computer sci-ence. He considers himself both an extrovert and an introvert, depend-ing on what he is doing. He en-tered college more of an introvert, but by surrounding himself with unique people, he has come out of his comfort zone and has become more of an extrovert.

Singh fell into music produc-ing and recording a year and three months ago because he “was de-cent and entered a contest.” Now after graduation, he plans to “get rich quickly.” He advises under-classmen to “only go back to your room to sleep.”

Chris Laforge (winning)College has taught Chris Laforge

to have “a winning attitude” re-garding all aspects of his life. He has learned to “do what you want and to just go get it.” After gradua-tion, he will be working at a media firm in New York City.

Although he has too many mem-ories to choose the best one, he will always look back at his time at UB and remember exploring the cam-pus at night during his sophomore year.

“If there is something you want to do, don’t hesitate because any-thing is possible,” LaForge said.

Rachel gaydosh (Adventure)Rachel Gaydosh chose “adven-

ture” to represent her four years at UB because she did things during college she didn’t expect to do and didn’t know she wanted to do, such as studying abroad in London.

She loved her time studying so-ciology overseas, but her favorite memories from college came from her time leading Active Minds, an organization she helped bring to UB that is focused on working to eliminate the stigma that surrounds mental health on college campuses.

After graduation, Gaydosh is pursuing her master’s in social work.

Marley Mandelaro (Improvise)Marley Mandelaro’s favorite

memory of her time at UB is when she directed the play From the Wings during spring 2011. It was dur-ing this play that she “found her strength as a performer and a di-rector.”

That was one reason she picked “improvise” as the one word to de-scribe her time at UB. Mandelaro hopes to be a comedian one day. So far, she has used improvisation to help her get through tough times and as a form of comedy in her life.

After graduation, she is mov-ing to Chicago, where she will be studying acting in general at The Second City, a school of improvi-sation.

Stefano Verdesoto (Power) Stefano Verdesoto thinks be-

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Verdesoto is staying at UB in the student affairs administration pro-gram. He hopes to one day be an academic adviser at UB because he loves everything about UB and wants to help students.

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Alisa Li (wisdom)Alisa Li chose wisdom to sum up

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The library staff at the Health Sciences Library initially came up with the idea but the introduction of therapy dogs to UB came when plans to being Stress Relief Week were being made in the fall semes-ter of 2011.

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Amy Lyons, the associate direc-tor of the Health Sciences Library, first thought of the idea of Stress Relief Week. Lyons and Rose start-ed talking about setting up a pot of coffee and having snacks for the students.

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She plans to come back to see the dogs next time they are on campus.

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Man’s best friend: therapy dogs at UB


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Pam Rose launched a program to bring therapy dogs to UB for students and faculty to relax as part of Stress Relief Week.


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approximately 2,600 cap and gowns will be sold for bachelor’s graduates and approximately 800-900 will be sold for master’s graduates, accord-ing to Debbie Davis, the general merchandise manager at the univer-sity bookstore.

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Advertised as “environmental friendly,” the ensembles are made out of fiber from forests, and the fabrics are completely decompos-able.

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Associate’s or bachelor’s caps and gowns cost $83.25 plus tax, while the price for master’s graduates is

$94.80 plus tax. Levine said the process of buy-

ing his cap and gown was easy, but he did not like how expensive it was. Although it’s tradition, Levine said, “The idea of paying so much for something we’ll only have to use once in our lifetimes is obnoxious.”

Michael Nuzback, a senior ac-counting major, is borrowing his brother’s cap and gown, a UB alum-nus from the class of 2010 – all Nuzback needs to purchase is his tassel.

From May 9-12, thousands of students will close a chapter of their lives by ending their educational career at UB and receiving their degrees. Students will embark upon the next jour-ney of their lives after attending one of the 17 commencement ceremonies.

Before graduation, students need to check a few things off their to-do lists.

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guest ticketsWhen registering for the com-

mencement ceremony, students have the option of obtaining guest tickets. Due to the capacity of Alumni Arena, where the gradua-tion ceremony for the College of Arts and Sciences – the largest cer-emony of commencement week-end – will take place, graduates are allowed a maximum of four tickets each.

Overflow seating will be available in Center For the Arts; the ceremo-ny will be shown live on the Main-stage Theatre screen.

Not all ceremonies have a lim-it on guest tickets. Levine, who will be attending the School of Engi-neering and Applied Sciences com-mencement ceremony, did not have a limit to the number of tickets he could obtain.

“I have five people coming to my graduation and I would feel terri-ble telling one of my closest rela-tives that they wouldn’t be able to sit and watch the commencement,” Levine said.

Levine understands that students who had a ticket limit for their cer-emony would be upset because, to him, “Commencement should be made as easy as possible for the stu-dents and having a limit [on tickets]

really kills that idea.”“It’s a culmination of your hard

work at UB and you have paid enough to attend UB [that] you should be able to have more peo-ple allowed at your commencement ceremony,” Levine added.

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Sign the buffalo All graduating students have the

opportunity to leave their mark on a piece of UB history – the buffalo. So far, 516 students have signed the painted fiber buffalo, which cur-rently resides in the Student Life of-fice in 150 Student Union.

This 9-year-old tradition is open to any student who is graduating this school year, whether he or she is an undergraduate, graduate, mas-ter’s or law student.

Every April, Student Life is deliv-ered a replica of the brass buffalo

outside of the Center For the Arts in a box the size of a smart car, ac-cording to Kerry Spicer, the associ-ate director of Student Unions and Activities. Spicer said the people in the office then decide on a theme and an informal name for the com-memorative animal.

The 2013 seniors are signing “Billy,” whose theme is school col-ors.

The buffalo is then painted by students and housed in 150 Stu-dent Union until senior week, when it is wheeled to all of the activities

– such as senior rose day, the senior brunch and graduation.

The previous buffalo are scat-tered around campus, including in Alumni Arena, Capen Library, South Lake apartment complex, Ellicott Atrium and the downtown medical campus. Last year’s buffa-lo is still residing in the Student Life office because they are still search-ing for a “home.”

The 2013 class buffalo will be kept in the Student Life office lob-by for the year until they find Bil-ly a home.

“We put them out to pasture, so to speak,” Spicer said. “We ask around campus and see if there is an office who is interested in hous-ing the buffalo. Many people are excited about it because it’s a nice decorative piece. Then students can come back and see their class’ buf-falo.”

Billy is taking autographs until graduation and through the sum-mer for any graduate who would like to leave his or her mark some-where on UB’s campus.

Commencement ceremoniesAccording to the Office of Insti-

tutional Analysis, 4,818 undergrads are graduating from UB this year.

Levine believes it’s logical to sep-arate students by school and degree because he wouldn’t want to sit and hear everyone in the entire school graduate at the same time.

Still, Levine isn’t particularly ex-cited for the commencement cere-mony.

“I know I should be excited for commencement because it sort of symbolizes the culmination of one’s hard work at UB, but I hon-estly feel it is more for my parents than anyone else,” Levine said.

While he’s excited to actual-ly graduate and finish the “tough course load that engineering of-fers,” he believes the commence-ment ceremony is “a bit superfi-cial.”

Nuzback is excited for the “icon-ic moment” of graduating from college, even if he considers sitting through the ceremony a nuisance.

“With all the hard work that I put into my degree, I feel that it’s validated the fact that I am actual-ly graduating with a degree and [the commencement ceremony] makes it feel official,” he said.

Nuzback’s immediate family – his mother, father, brother and grand-

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R. Lorraine Collins is known as a compassionate, ground-breaking psychologist, and re-cently, her accolades have sur-rounded two things: marijuana and research.

Collins, associate dean for re-search in the School of Public Health and Health Professions, focuses on alcohol and marijua-na use among 18- to 25-year-olds in her projects. Her current na-tionally funded grant is focused on physical activity and marijua-na use.

Her role as associate dean in-cludes encouraging and support-ing research, increasing research capabilities and providing men-toring to faculty and students within the UB community.

Her first influence to pursue psychology came when she was in high school, in which she had an opportunity to tutor elemen-tary school students who had learning problems and psycho-logical issues.

Now, she is a trained and li-censed clinical psychologist but does not see patients. She enjoys the research aspect much more.

“I like the intellectual stimula-tion of doing research,” Collins said. “Thinking about questions that you’d like to know more [about], setting up studies that will allow you to get answers to the questions … running stud-ies, finding out information and sharing it with your colleagues and the rest of the world. That’s the most appealing part of psy-chology as far as I’m concerned.”

Collins wants to understand what factors contribute to drug use and what kinds of conse-quences people experience in or-der to help young people nav-igate their use without having severe problems.

She sees substance abuse as an issue of self-control, drawing a comparison between drugs and

food. She claims food has the same possibility to harm as drugs if used incorrectly.

“If you eat moderately, you are probably going to be healthy,” Collins said. “If you eat to ex-cess and you become obese, then you are going to have all types of medical problems. What I try to understand is: if people are go-ing to use this substance, how can they use it in a moderate way … so that they don’t become ad-dicted.”

Collins finds individuals for her projects through flyers, ad-vertisements and friends of cur-rent participants. The researchers do not decide who participates based on demographic charac-teristics like gender or ethnicity; they focus their research on the participants’ ages and the level at which the individuals engage in the behavior.

Collins’ work focuses on young adults because she said it’s a time where people are experi-menting with new roles in life, like leaving for college.

“They’re trying to find the bal-ance between independence and freedom and adult responsibili-ties or lack of adult responsibil-ities,” Collins said.

Participants are insured con-fidentiality through certificates from the federal government, and gathered data is linked to numbers instead of names, Col-lins said. She said confidentiality is essential because some partic-ipants are engaging in illegal be-haviors.

She was driven to pursue mar-ijuana after doing research on malt liquor. Collins said half of the malt liquor users in her sam-ple were also regular marijuana users.

“That’s the fun part of re-search: you ask a question, [then] you find an answer to that ques-tion and it leads to another ques-tion,” Collins said.

To help her finding answers to such questions, Collins uses cell-

phone-based technology called ecological momentary assess-ment (EMA). The key to EMA is being able to get data in real time instead of retrospective data that is not reliable, Collins said.

She has been using this ap-proach since the ’90s with per-sonal digital assistants. Now, par-ticipants use cellphones to call into a server and answer ques-tions regarding their mood be-fore and after drinking and social factors when drinking, she said.

Paula Vincent, the project di-rector for Collins’ grant, sup-ports this tech-based strategy.

“She’s really pioneered the use of [EMA],” Vincent said. “She’s been at the forefront of this type of research in the field of addic-tions and she’s always pushing technology to the edge. We are going beyond pen and pencil.”

Collins hasn’t just garnered praise because of her dedication to her craft; she’s also known for her compassion. Sandy Wilson, the project coordinator for Col-lins’ grant, said that when Collins needs to dismiss staff because of lack of funding, she always tries to find another position for them elsewhere.

Vincent recalled a time when she had been working with Col-lins for less than a year and be-came pregnant with her first child.

“She barely knew me … and she threw me a baby shower be-fore my own mother did,” Vin-cent said. “She came to my house and set everything up. But that’s just the type of person she is.”

Moving forward, Collins wants to continue her job as the associ-ate dean and help the school to build on its research successes.


nothing in excessR. Lorraine Collins studies the reasons behind substance abuse

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Professor R. Lorraine Collins studies substance abuse because she wants to under-stand what factors contribute to drug use and to help young people navigate it with-out having problems.


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Distinguished playwright Pau-la Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) claims that theater has entered a “before and after” period with Sar-ah Ruhl. In the short time that she has been writing, Ruhl has gar-nered two Pulitzer Prize nomina-tions – once for her 2009 play In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play), and the other for The Clean House in 2004.

The Clean House made its Western New York premiere last Friday at the Road Less Traveled Theatre.

Director Derek Campbell said the play is “an extravagant comedy about dust,” since it features four women with different attitudes to-wards cleanliness.

The plot primarily revolves around a housemaid Matilde (Vic-toria Perez), who lives to make the perfect joke. This distracts her from her housekeeping job for her employer, Lane (Christina Rau-sa). Lane’s sister Virginia (Margaret Massman) is obsessed with clean-liness and she sees that Matilde does not enjoy cleaning her sister’s house, so she does it for her while Matilde theorizes over the perfect joke.

“Dust is the big obstacle that [Matilde] has to overcome in order to realize her dream is to tell the perfect joke,” Campbell said.

Campbell recognizes the touch-es of absurdity that are present within the play, but insists that one should not expect it to be an ode to realism. He added that there are elements of satirical and standup comedy, farce, dance and even a touch of Puccini to be found with-in the play.

“We are not in a realistic world; we are in a hyper-theatric environ-ment,” Campbell said.

The set designs and costume choices were perfectly in sync with

one another: a strictly white and architecturally modern environ-ment in Lane’s home fit both her personality and position on life. She wore an all-white, sterile cos-tume throughout the show. When splashes of color intruded upon this perfect world, either on Matil-de’s costume or a pair of provoc-ative women’s underwear, it began to feel foreign.

“I think my favorite part of the show was Matilde’s sense of hu-mor,” said 26-year-old Lindsay Bu-

zak, manager at the Elmwood Vil-lage’s Globe Market. “[Matilde] spends the duration of the play trying to come up with the perfect joke, but for me, her sense of hu-mor was so matter-of-fact, that was so much more funny, because she wasn’t trying to be.”

What Buzak is referring to is Matilde’s ability to see the humor in everything. At one point she makes a comment addressing complaints when the floor is dirty, “look at the ceiling, it is always clean.”

What made the play so digestible for the audience was a perfect for-mula that addressed poignant, seri-ous subject matter, under the guise of lighthearted situational come-dy along with sometimes. Themes such as loss, love and death were all within the play, but there was nev-er a sense of emotional exhaustion. As opposed to crying, the audience was always laughing.

“I try to come to all of the RLTP shows,” said 32-year-old Buffa-lo actor, Matthew Higgins. “They

always choose super cool mod-ern plays that are relevant to today. It’s great to have a company so re-nowned as them in Buffalo.”

The Clean House is the last play in RLTP’s current season. This sum-mer, the company will be putting together its first ever “Summer In-stitute” in July, which is dedicat-ed to educating new theatre artists aged 11-19.


The Clean House makes a clean sweepSarah Ruhl’s Pulitzer nominated play opens at Road Less Traveled

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A word that UB students over-look on a daily basis will come alive in downtown Buffalo at the hands of 35 talented members of the Class of 2013.

This Saturday, the graduating students from the Visual Studies department will present their the-sis exhibition, Shibboleth, in front of faculty, family and the most prom-inent people from the Buffalo art scene.

The term was one of many pro-posed between the group of stu-dents, but senior fine art major Jennifer Cornwell’s suggestion was chosen for the word’s connection to UB, as well as its definition, ac-cording to senior communication design major Ned Semoff.

Shibboleth is a word that car-ries multiple meanings, both literal-ly and for the graduating students. It is a word, saying or custom that a person who is unfamiliar with it would pronounce or perform in-correctly in comparison to those who are familiar with it. It is also defined as a custom, principle or belief that distinguishes a class or group of people and is used to identify foreigners or those who don’t belong to a specific class or group of people.

The latter definition encompass-es how many art students feel, as their realm on campus, the Center For the Arts, is literally detached from the rest of the Academic Spine. The merging of mediums and 35 different artists also adds to the ties of shibboleth because the mediums being presented this weekend will also vary.

Students will be presenting sculptures, traditional paintings, animation, graffiti, screen print-ing, print media, photography, en-vironmental art, sound art and two students will be selling clothes they have designed as their theses.

For senior communication de-sign major Kelzie Leach, Shibboleth serves as an early graduation cere-mony before her post-undergradu-

ate plans take her to Portland, Ore. As a student who came to UB ini-tially for its pre-health and dental program, Leach is grateful that a staff as supportive as the VS de-partment and her advisers, Rein-hard Reitzenstein and Stephanie Rothenberg, could help her hone her craft in design.

“I used to be so scared because I felt like everyone else was an art-ist and I wasn’t,” Leach said. “But I’m really happy with where I’m at. I think I’ve found my place as an artist and as a designer among my peers and that’s really awesome.”

Leach’s thesis project will pres-ent Rorschach tests, or inkblot tests, out of personal photos. The theme of family, home and child-hood has been prevalent in Leach’s art throughout the years and she credits the freedom she’s had as a visual studies major to help her find her niche.

Semoff ’s work focuses on lan-guage, a theme that has been pres-ent in his work due to his struggles with language throughout his life as a result of his dyslexia. He will be presenting a modern version of German artist Kurt Schwitters’

phonetic poem “Ursonate.” The original poem lasts about 45 min-utes, but Semoff ’s variation will be a kinetic animation and spans at 22 minutes.

Semoff drew inspiration for his project from the avant-garde Dada art movement, which left a lot of liberty for him in terms of tailor-ing it to his personal artistic vision.

“A lot of the poetry and lan-guage [in the Dada movement] was all about breaking down the nor-mal and taking it and putting it back together and not giving a f**k about what people say,” Semoff said. “The only instruction [giv-en] for the poem is to be imagina-tive. You need to take it and make it your own.”

Semoff, Leach and their 33 class-mates have been preparing their theses in a two-part class led by Reizenstein and Rothenberg, two major allies in their journey. Be-cause Reizenstein specializes in sculpture and Rothenberg special-izes in communication design, the resources the visual studies under-graduates have had has been mon-umental.

“It’s been important for all of us to stay motivated because after 10 months of working on something, there have been so many moments where we just want to go into a corner [and give up], but its been great [regardless],” Semoff said.

Reitzenstein finds his role in the 35 students’ lives extremely gratify-ing. He feels that helping the stu-dents with their projects has helped him as an artist and instructor

“The students have progressed substantially pretty much across the board and there are always some outstanding projects that rise above the others due to a number of factors that point to levels of maturity and familiarity with their evolving personal language and a personal determination to achieve on a high level,” Reitzenstein said in an email. “Those that accom-plish at a high level of output push the others to new heights along with them, so there is a lot of in-terplay and cross fertilization”

The visual studies program gives its students a strong founda-tion as underclassmen, which then leads them into niches or special-ties in art, Semoff said. The beau-

ty of Shibboleth and a thesis project, in general, is having the opportu-nity to combine the talent they’ve developed and still incorporate the basics they learned as freshmen.

Over 175 have people con-firmed their attendance on Shibbo-leth’s event page on Facebook, but Semoff said they will be expect-ing approximately 500 attendees this Saturday, thanks to the sup-port they have received from local galleries such as the Albright-Knox Gallery and Hallwalls Contempo-rary Gallery.

Shibboleth will be presented on the fourth floor of Hi-Temp Fabri-cation at 79 Perry St. in downtown Buffalo. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show is open to the public; re-freshments will be served and the show will conclude at 10 p.m.


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I almost had a panic attack at the uni-versity bookstore on Monday.

I bought my cap and gown, and when I realized how much meaning and pres-sure the biodegradable blue gown, cap and hood held, my breathing became er-ratic.

The thought of graduation has been pushed back into the depths of my mind for the past eight months – not because I don’t care nor because I’m in denial, but because of the constant pressure I’ve received from my family and friends as the day gets closer.

I am the first in my family to gradu-ate from college. My father came close to obtaining his bachelor’s degree in his native El Salvador, but due to the death of his father who paid his tuition, he dropped out six months before gradu-ation.

Although my decision to attend a four-year institution was a last-minute one, my parents were supportive once I shared my decision with them – almost a little too supportive. From there, the pressure was on. I would be the first in my family to finish college, and because I am the first, I’m expected to set the bar high – which is a feeling that’s be-come more and more daunting as grad-uation nears.

My college experience hasn’t been easy. I’ve had to deal with a lot outside of the classroom and it deterred me from being the student I wanted to be during my time at UB. With that said, I’m willing to take sole responsibility for my actions, but I’m not ready to disap-point my parents, who might not have the most realistic idea of what happens after obtaining an undergraduate de-gree.

My parents come from a world where any type of education is a gain, and be-cause I was blessed enough to be born an American citizen, they don’t see any reason I shouldn’t be able to land a great job straight out of college.

They also stress the importance of my culture and the stereotypes I shatter by getting my degree. According to the Pew Research Hispanic Center, 140,000 Hispanics received bachelor’s degrees in 2010, which is a great feat in comparison to previous years but still pales in com-parison to the 1.2 million degrees white students and 165,000 degrees black stu-dents received the same year.

While I understand it’s an accom-plishment to graduate with a bache-lor’s degree as a Latina, it doesn’t take away from the fact that the real world is a scary place – and statistics don’t help tame that fear.

According to a 2012 study done for The Associated Press that analyzed govern-ment data, 53.6 percent of people with undergraduate degrees under the age of 25 were unemployed – the highest per-centage in 11 years.

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What keeps me from having a full-fledged breakdown about graduation is, ironically, the same pressure that makes me anxious. I’m proud of myself, but not knowing what the future holds drives a control freak like me crazy.

I know my worries aren’t solely mine – I’ve met many students who are the first in their families to walk at an under-graduate commencement ceremony and I know a lot of first-generation Ameri-cans who feel the same pressure about graduating. The one common denomi-nator we all share, however, is our pride.

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The men’s tennis team’s season ended last season in the Mid-Amer-ican Conference Tornament cham-pionship game to Western Michi-gan.

This season, the Bulls have an op-portunity to end the Broncos’ run in the first round of the tourna-ment.

The Bulls (9-9, 3-2 MAC) have earned the No. 3 seed in the tour-nament and will take on the second-seeded Broncos (17-9, 3-2 MAC) on Friday in the semifinals.

After starting their conference season this spring with three straight wins, including a win over Western

Michigan, the Bulls dropped three straight matches, two in conference play, to end the regular season. The losing streak pushed them into a three-way tie for second place.

Buffalo had an opportunity to clinch its second-straight regular season MAC title when the squad hosted Ball State (16-7, 5-0 MAC) Saturday, but the Bulls dropped the match 4-3 and fell to Northern Illi-nois (15-8, 3-2 MAC) by the same score Sunday.

“Right now, we’ve got a pretty big chip on our shoulder,” said head coach Lee Nickell. “We know that three loses is obviously tough, es-pecially since they all came down to the end. The ultimate goal for us right now is to take what we learned

in these past three matches and put it to good use this weekend.”

The Bulls have lost the doubles point in three straight matchups, and after a change against the Hus-kies on Sunday, Nickell will with the pairings of sophomore Damien David and senior Vusa Hove; fresh-man Akhil Mehta and sophomore Sebastian Ionescu; and junior Jason Shkodnik and freshman Sergio Are-valillo.

Nickell is confident the Bulls’ sin-gles lineup has no holes in it and be-lieves if they can win the doubles point, they are strong enough to take at least half the singles points.

Despite the recent losing streak, Nickell thinks the Bulls are in a good place going into the weekend.

“Our success has been because of a chip on our shoulder,” Nickell said. “Our team does well with our backs against the wall, and this gives us another opportunity to go in ... Right now, I know I’m not satisfied and I know the guys are going to be the same way.”

Shkodnik feels the same way af-ter the tough weekend. Since the weekend, he has seen a hunger in his teammates at practice and thinks the losing streak has served as a wake-up call. The Bulls know they are close to their goal, according to Shkodnik.

This will be the last MAC Tour-nament for Hove, who was a mem-ber of Nickell’s first recruiting class at Buffalo. Hove is the Bulls’ No. 1

singles player and has accumulated 73 career wins.

Nickell credits Hove with help-ing turn the program around. The Bulls – who hadn’t had double-digit victories since the 2005-06 season – haven’t been below .500 since Nick-ell took over in 2009-10.

“He’s meant everything to this program,” Nickell said.

The tournament will take place on the campus of Northern Illi-nois and the Bulls will begin their quest for their first MAC Tourna-ment title at 2 p.m. on Friday with the championship game coming at 1 p.m. on Saturday.


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As graduation approaches, some student-athletes look forward to life outside of the sport that has domi-nated their last four years. Many of the Bulls graduating this year, how-ever, can’t resist the itch to pursue a career in the sport they love.

Here’s a list of some of the no-table seniors around campus and their plans for after graduation:Tony watson, men’s basketball:

Watson elevated his game in his final season with the Bulls. In three consecutive conference games this season, he recorded at least 24 points and rarely came off the floor.

His breakout season has earned him the opportunity to play profes-sionally overseas. After signing an agent two weeks ago, Watson is in discussions with teams in Germa-ny, Sweden and Romania.

“Right now, I’m just waiting to see where the opportunities come from,” Watson said. “Honestly, it’s the only option. I see profession-al basketball as what I want to do for the next few years of my life, and if it’s worthwhile, I’ll continue to play as long as possible and it’s just something I love doing.”

Watson is graduating with a mar-keting degree and is well versed outside of basketball. This past summer, he interned with external affairs in UB Athletics and earned the Intern of the Year award within the School of Management.

When his pro career is over, Wat-son is interested in entrepreneur-ship and starting his own business.

“I want to start my own business in training kids and helping them out to fulfill their dreams,” Wat-son said. “So I’ll take the money I get from playing professionally to start my business in that field and have a facility where I train kids and probably have leagues and tourna-ments.”

Vusa hove, men’s tennis:A Zimbabwe native, Hove has

had a significant impact on the men’s tennis team, totaling 73 ca-

reer wins in singles play in his four years at Buffalo and being ranked nationally at one point.

Though his tennis career at Buf-falo will soon be over, he will con-tinue studying at UB for two more semesters.

“I will be completing my chem-istry degree and look toward going to grad school for chemistry next year,” Hove said. “I definitely want to go into the teaching field. I want to be a chemistry professor if ten-nis does not work out.”

Hove is thankful to the UB com-munity for welcoming him from a different continent.

“I feel that the community as a whole is very welcoming and that UB has opened the door to many opportunities for me in life com-ing from Africa,” Hove said. “The sky is the limit if you put effort and work hard at what you do, and most of all, love what you do.”Jason Kanzler, baseball:

Kanzler burst onto the scene in his junior season, as he made the All Mid-American Conference sec-ond team and batted .345. This year, he has continued his success. In what has been the best season in the baseball program’s history, Kanzler currently leads the team in batting average, runs, hits, home runs and runs batted in.

After college, Kanzler plans to play professionally. He’s current-ly projected to be drafted between rounds 12 and 16 via perfectgame.org, according to Kanzler.

“It’s been a blessing [to play at UB],” Kanzler said. “I was cut from Northeastern baseball after two weeks of tryouts. To have the opportunity to come play at Buffa-lo has been amazing. When you’re told you’re not good enough to do something, and you come out and not only do it but do it at a very high level, it’s very satisfying.”

When his baseball career comes to an end, Kanzler plans to move south and pursue coaching and ath-letic administration.

“[Baseball] has impacted my life so much for the positive that I real-ly just want to make sure other peo-ple can experience it,” Kanzler said.

Steven Means, football:Means was a force in disrupting

opposing backfields. The Buffalo native was second on the team in tackles for loss last season.

Now, Means has his eyes set on the NFL. He is currently train-ing for the league and is ranked 44 out 200 outside linebackers on nfl-

draftscout.com. If football doesn’t work out for

Means, his plan is to become a fire-fighter.

“My father was a fire fighter and he’s retired now, so I want to follow in his foot steps,” Means said.nicki hopkins, women’s bas-ketball:

The sharpshooting Hopkins will be sticking with basketball after her time at Buffalo. Hopkins already has a job lined up as the director of basketball operations at Oakland University in Michigan.

“I have a marketing degree, so I wouldn’t mind doing a sports mar-keting position later on down the line, but I definitely want to stick with basketball and become a coach,” Hopkins said.

Hopkins leaves Buffalo in good spirits and is grateful of her time here.

“I’ve had a really great experi-ence here,” she said. “I’ve met a lot of friends and connections and it’s a great place to be.”

where they’re heading nowGraduating athletes prepare for career field post-UB



Graduating men’s basketball standout guard Tony Watson is weighing his options when it comes to playing professionally.


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With graduation fast approaching – this issue of The Spectrum being its commencement issue – some seniors might be lamenting the end of their college lives and the uncertainty of what waits beyond it.

One of the hardest aspects of leav-ing college, for some, might be losing a professor who has guided you every step of the way. Many students desire a mentor who could continue with us in our future endeavors.

In other words, we wish for our own Mr. Feeney.

On the popular ’90s television show Boy Meets World, George Fee-ney comically follows the series’ pro-tagonist, Corey Matthews, through his educational career. Feeney goes from being his sixth grade teacher to his high school principal and eventu-ally his college professor. Mr. Feeney guides Corey throughout the show, easing his transitions into the next stages of his life.

With the NFL Draft upon us, for-mer Syracuse and new Buffalo Bills head coach Doug Marrone has a chance to be a Mr. Feeney of sorts, as former Syracuse quarterback Ryan Nassib has a chance to become the Bills’ very own Corey Matthews.

Nassib was a three-year starter for Marrone’s Orange. The Syracuse football program made great strides under the pair. After going just 10-37 with no bowl game appearances be-tween 2005-08, Syracuse went 25-25 with two bowl game victories in the past four years under Marrone. The Bills are hoping Marrone can make a similar turnaround for the team with the NFL’s longest playoff drought.

Marrone has already brought in several of his staff members from Syracuse, including 33-year-old offen-sive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett. Hackett can be Mr. Turner in this sce-nario, Corey Matthews’ cool, young English teacher who rides a motorcy-cle (Does it bother anyone else that we never hear anything about him after he crash-

es his motorcycle?).With Marrone in place as head

coach and Hackett as offensive coor-dinator, Nassib could fit comfortably into his new role in the NFL with fa-miliar faces to ease his transition.

Just as Corey Matthews only had to walk into his backyard to con-sole with next-door neighbor Fee-ney, Nassib would only have to walk down the sideline to get advice from his college coach. What quarterback would be better for Marrone to de-velop than the player he knows bet-ter than most – one he’s already had success with in turning around a fail-ing program?

The Bills can either wait until the second round to draft Nassib, trade down to the bottom of the first round or make the gutsy move to take him with the eighth overall pick.

Most people would disagree with taking Nassib that high, as most of the so-called draft “experts” haven’t pegged any of the quarterbacks in this class as worthy of a high pick, with the potential exception of Geno

Smith. Just a year ago, however, an AFC East rival went against tradition-al wisdom, much like the Bills would be in drafting Nassib at No. 8.

The Miami Dolphins were in a very similar situation last year – holding the eighth overall pick with desperate need for a young quarterback to team up with their first-year head coach, Joe Philbin. The Dolphins ended up selecting Texas A&M quarterback Ryan Tannehill.

At the time, not many “experts” had evaluated Tannehill as the eighth-best player in the draft. But the Dol-phins knew they needed a signal caller and took their man regardless, avoid-ing the risk of another team select-ing him.

It ended up working out for the Dolphins as Tannehill quietly had a strong rookie season, though it was overshadowed by the phenomenal rookie campaigns of other quarter-backs like Andrew Luck, Robert Grif-fin and Russell Wilson.

I know all the so-called experts say it is a weak class of quarterbacks this year and that there are no clear-cut first-round talents at the position. But what has to be understood is that the draft is not an exact science. If it were, Ryan Leaf would be hoisting Lombardi trophies, not spending his days in a state correctional facility.

The fact is that these draft experts are just as clueless as the rest of us. It’s all speculation. None of us know how good a player is going to be in the NFL until he steps out until the field on Sundays. That’s why some picks turn out to be busts and others turn out to be steals.

Marrone knows Nassib and would be able to take advantage of his

strengths in the NFL.The Bills did recently invest mon-

ey in former Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb. His contract, however, has only $1 million guaranteed, with the rest of money laid in incentives if Kolb starts and does well.

Even though Kolb has said he is in Buffalo to win a Super Bowl, he should really only be regarded as a stopgap before the Bills hand the reins over to a youngster, such as Nassib.

In Kolb, the Bills are only getting a cheaper version of former starting quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.

Bills fans shouldn’t have to go through a season of watching anoth-er version of Fitzpatrick under cen-ter. The Bills need to put a new face on the franchise and the new regime of Marrone.

This is the new blueprint for NFL teams: draft a young quarterback ear-ly in the draft, throw him into the fire immediately and see what he can do. It works for some teams; for others it doesn’t. But when it does work, it reaps major benefits – just look at Indy, Washington and Seattle. The Bills need to jump on the bandwag-on and take a chance.

It seemed to work out pretty well for Corey Matthews (the character will be making his return to television in a new spin-off series called Girl Meets World), and it could work out for Nassib, too.

It’s the NFL; teams cannot afford to simply wait another year – espe-cially not a team that hasn’t made the playoffs in 13 seasons.


Quarterback meets nfLMarrone has chance to be Feeney to Nassib’s Matthews *Opinion*

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JOE KONZE JRSENIOr SPOrTS EDITOr

Alexis White could not compre-hend what the doctor had just told her.

Her eyes were wide but her stare was blank. She felt numb as she lis-tened to the clock.

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.She could not imagine worse

news.White had suffered two back frac-

tures, and for the next six months, she could not do the one thing that made her feel liberated:

Figure skating.White, now a sophomore pre-

pharmacy major at UB, grew up skating in Western New York. She traveled as far as Texas to compete against the country’s best.

Though she no longer participates in skating, she remembers the smell of a crisp sheet of ice every time she breathes in the cold air on a winter day. She remembers what it felt like to express herself, her innermost de-sires, on an ice skate.

The ice was her canvas, and the 1/8-inch blade was her paintbrush.

At the age of 8 years old, she would show off her skills for the neighborhood kids, skating circles around them on her roller blades during neighborhood street hockey games.

She was fascinated by skating. It brought about a sense of indepen-dence.

Her passion for figure skating and enthusiasm for tackling obstacles – like landing any type of edge jump with a panel of judges watching – transcended into her everyday life.

Her AOL screen name was even sk8rgurl1993.

Today, in Clemens Hall 103, White sits in the middle row of her pub-lic speaking class. She shows up 10 minutes early and, as the teacher be-gins to lecture, White is engaged in learning like she was once engaged in sticking her landing on her skates.

Whenever the teacher highlights a valuable piece of information, she jots it down in her notes. She knows it could be the difference between getting an ‘A’ or a ‘B.’ This habitu-al occurrence is something that was developed through figure skating.

At 4 years old, White would wake up at 5:15 a.m. for practice once a week to make it to her ice time at the Pepsi Center at 6 a.m. for practice.

White craved the rink, the feeling of freedom. She constantly asked her parents if it was the weekend yet – the time she would practice.

Today, she craves knowledge. She constantly asks her professors when assignments are due and does every-thing she can to get ahead in class. She’s pursuing her dream of becom-ing a pharmacist.

She learned discipline from figure skating and even brought it to ele-mentary school.

In second grade, White was a part of the gifted program at Maple West Elementary School in Williamsville, just 10 minutes from UB’s North Campus.

“Lexi would come home with problems that, honestly, you and I would look at and go: ‘What the hell are we doing with this?’” said her fa-ther, Bob White. “She is a special girl.”

She learned to exceed expecta-tions through figure skating.

In figure skating, you go through beginner levels and once you com-plete those levels, there are eight more. From that point, you have to test each time to move up a level.

For the average skater, it takes roughly 10-12 years to complete the ice dancing national ranking test. For White, it took just over seven years.

White was most successful her freshman year of high school at Williamsville South. She was mov-ing relatively fast through her tests, completing three performance tests a year – two in ice dancing, one in freestyle skating.

But while White practiced her routine, she felt a constant pain in her lower back – like something was stabbing her.

“I would get spasms in my back that would literally put me in tears,” White said. “I have a high pain tol-erance. I would have to lie flat to stretch and make [the pain] stop.”

She refused to succumb to the pain and her love for figure skating kept her from looking into the inju-ry; she was afraid she would lose that liberating feeling she loved.

It was when the pain brought her to tears that her mother, Val White, decided it was time to take her daughter to the doctor.

“I kind of felt bad as a mom be-cause when you skate, you always have aches and pains,” Val said. “She was skating at the time and also dancing at the time. It wouldn’t hurt her all the time, but it got progres-sively worse. She would say her back hurt and I would say: ‘Oh, it’s prob-ably what you did today.’ But when [the pain] brought her to tears, may-be something else was going on.”

White was sidelined from figure skating for six months. In that pe-riod of time, she was not able to do anything involving physical stress. She was forced to wear a back brace for a few months.

But she soon realized she was not prepared to lose figure skating.

In Oct. 2007, her freshman year of high school, after not being ac-tive for three months since the in-jury in August, she began her physi-cal therapy. She would have to regain the strength in muscles that an av-erage person doesn’t use on a regu-lar basis.

“I felt so weak,” White said. “All the muscles I had my whole life from skating, I felt were deteriorat-ing. I would do a [movement] that was so basic and it would hurt. Mus-cles I was so used to using were gone, and I didn’t know how I was going to build them up again.”

For the next three months, at Ex-celsior Orthopedics, she worked her hardest to retrain her muscles and build endurance to return to the ice.

In Jan. 2008, she was ready to pick up where she left off.

She had a goal: a gold medal in each of her events, freestyle and ice dancing.

With just eight dance tests left in ice dancing and three in freestyle, White was ready.

“Ninety-nine percent of the oth-er girls would have quit and thrown in the towel,” said Jessica Rosewell-Lauria, who coached White. “I was really, really proud of her because even though she was off the ice, she got right back on when she was ready.”

For the next two years, White passed multiple tests. And in two years, she finally passed her test for ice dancing, completing one of her goals. She was ranked professionally.

Her back would force her out of competition once again, however, as she struggled in her final test for freestyle. The arching of her back and constant stress were too much for her. The injuries kept her from completing her final goal.

But she is content looking back on such an event knowing that she at least medaled in one of her respec-tive events.

“I tried three times and just couldn’t complete it,” White said. “I had to stop, and I tried my best giv-en the situation so I could do noth-ing else.”

Today, White has developed two fractures, two bulging disks and two swollen joints all in her back, but that hasn’t stopped her from chas-ing her other dream of being a phar-macist.

When she doesn’t have her head buried in a chemistry textbook cram-ming the night before the exam, she is serving the Williamsville commu-nity in the pharmacy at Wegmans on Sheridan Drive, hoping to develop experience to be a pharmacist.

lthough she has four more years left of school and a hefty workload, she is accustomed to difficult scenar-ios.

Nothing compares to training her muscles to properly throw her body in the air, spin around multiple times before coming down on the right edge.

She learned her life skills on a 1/8-inch blade.


Carving her futureWhite applies lessons learned on skates to pharmacy career

‘‘Ninety-nine percent of the

other girls would have quit and thrown in the

towel. I was really, really proud of her because even though

she was off the ice, she got right back on when

she was ready.’’

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