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President Satish Tripathi as-sured the crowd in the Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall that UB is on track to fulfill its goals over the next seven years.

“Every day, we continue to el-evate our university in excellence, impact and stature,” he said.

On Friday, Tripathi delivered his annual State of the University Address to an audience of about 150 people. In a speech that last-ed about 30 minutes, Tripathi em-phasized strengthening the cur-rent path of UB 2020 and focused on three interconnected goals: ad-vancing research, creating glob-al leaders and engaging communi-ties, locally and globally.

“As we realize this vision, we are bringing the eyes of the world to UB and to Buffalo as a lead-ing site for innovative research and discovery; as a place where bright students flock for opportu-nities they won’t find elsewhere; as a worldwide destination for excel-

lence in the arts, culture and cre-ativity; and as a global hub for the best in health sciences education, research and clinical care,” Tripa-thi said in his speech.

The speech was reminiscent of his address last year; Tripathi said the goals have remained relatively the same.

“We haven’t changed the things we want to do,” Tripathi said. “What we have done the last year is refine some and see how we can make the undergraduate experi-ence a lot better.”

Tripathi stressed the impor-tance of improving UB’s research presences as a major facet of UB 2020.

Liesl Folks, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sci-ences, believes this is crucial in or-der to advance UB as a globally recognized research institution.

“We have a huge opportunity to leverage where we are now and make great strides,” said Folks, who was hired in October 2013.

President reaffirms UB 2020 plan

Fall Fest 2013 in Lake LaSalle Lot a success despite the rain

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MAX CRINNINSenior ArtS editor

On Sunday night, UB mobbed with A$AP, putting in work through heavy rain and several de-lays for a show that seemed like it might not even happen from the start. Nonetheless, the art-ists who performed and the fans that joined them through hours of downpour came together for a memorable concert on Lake La-Salle.

The line began to form around 1 p.m., four hours before doors opened. Clouds cast a grey light over the crowd and cool air came over the lake, threatening to open the sky with rain for most of the day.

The atmosphere was eerily rem-iniscent of the last Student Asso-ciation concert, on Sept. 1, when Reel Big Fish almost could not perform due to rain and lightning. While the lightning stayed at bay for Fall Fest, the rain came and

poured on fans for the duration of the four-hour show.

Once again, the UB communi-ty proved that a little rain would not keep them away or stop them from having a good time, as the show had a large attendance with most fans sticking it out for the entire performance.

More than 3,500 students at-tended the show, according to SA Entertainment Coordinator Marc Rosenblitt. Official numbers for fans in attendance were not avail-able by the time of publication.

Speckled throughout the crowd amongst a sea of crop tops and high-wasted booty shorts were signature A$AP fashion items: Comme des F***down hats, A$AP t-shirts, gold grills and chains.

Loyal fans proved they came dressed to impress and prepared to party. The rain sent the non-diehard fans packing, leaving only dedicated members of the A$AP Mob to get wild for the night.

A$AP Rocky, the headliner for the show, and A$AP Ferg showed their appreciation by playing many of their most popular songs. They stopped often during the show to thank the fans and encourage them to live by the A$AP code of “Always $trive And Prosper” – to do great things and enjoy life, es-pecially while young and in col-lege, a place they remember being in before dropping out to chase their dreams.

Rocky proved to be a master of the crowd. His delivery, verses and dialogue were perfectly timed and aggressive – he delivered a punch to the audience with each new song. Ferg matched this energy as he emerged with other members of the A$AP Mob for a collabora-tive effort to get the crowd going.

The rain would not let up for the entire evening. As fans grew cold and tired, it seemed that de-spite all efforts from A$AP, the crowd would not be able to match the energy the artists were bring-ing for the performance.

Rather than give up on the stu-dents who weathered the storm, A$AP moved the crowd on stage.

Rocky stopped the music and called for any member of the crowd who thought they could prove they were wild enough to join the crew to do so. He was looking to start a party, not just put on a show.

In a matter of minutes, a group of approximately 30 members of the crowd, almost entirely fe-males, had joined A$AP on stage for a night they will likely never forget.

Ivory Vasquez, 22, and Mary Jo-seph, 23, both of Buffalo, agreed that it was one of the best nights of their lives.

Tripathi delivers State of the University Address

Honoring a student, athlete and friendPaul Englert Jr. is remembered as positive, fun-loving ‘brother’

ALYSSA MCCLUREASSt. FeAtureS editor

Paul Englert Jr., though an only child, was part of a broth-erhood.

He graduated from St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute in 2012 alongside his brothers. He went on to attend UB, where he was a sophomore civil engineering ma-jor this fall.

On Sept. 19, Paul passed away. He suffered from a pulmonary embolism while waiting for his Engineering Computations lec-ture to start in Knox Hall on North Campus.

“This is an uncommon occur-rence in an otherwise healthy, ac-tive 19-year-old male,” said De-nise Englert, Paul’s mother. “This is why we are still in shock. He was our only child.”

Jessica Henry, a nursing ma-jor, was sitting in the upstairs

area of Knox when she noticed Paul hunched over and mak-ing strange noises. Emily Ippoli-to, a freshman undecided ma-jor, also noticed Paul as she was walking past and asked him sev-eral times if he was OK. When the two girls realized something

was wrong, they got two other students to come over and help. While someone called Univer-sity Police, the girls took Paul’s phone and called his mom.

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Paul Englert Jr., a sophomore civil engineering major, passed away suddenly in September due to a pulmonary embolism. His family, friends and the UB and St. Joseph’s Collegiate In-stitute communities remember him as a hardworking, athletic and fun young man.

More than 3,500 students attended the rainy show and saw Rocky, A$AP Ferg, Ace Hood and Super Mash Bros perform, according to SA Entertain-ment Coordinator Marc Rosenblitt.

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“I was able to reach her at work and explained to her who I was and what was happen-ing,” Henry said. “I stayed on the phone with her to calm her down and help her get to the Flint Loop, where [Ippolito] and I met up with her and brought her to [Paul].”

By the time they returned to Knox, Paul was having a seizure and an officer was using a defi-brillator on him. The building’s sirens for medical help echoed through Knox.

Paul was rushed to Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, where he passed away.

Paul’s friends and family de-scribe him as genuine and whole-hearted with a positive spirit. He was an avid athlete and diligent worker. His high school commu-nity has banded together in sup-port of his family and in remem-brance of Paul – creating a fund that will benefit students who display his exemplary academic and personal characteristics.

Paul experienced a pulmonary embolism, a blood clot that trav-eled to his lungs, leading to an abrupt respiratory failure and cardiac arrest, according to his mother.

“We are so very grateful that members of the UB student body stepped in so quickly to try to help him and that he was not alone,” Denise said.

Pulmonary embolism is di-agnosed in about 500,000 per-sons each year in the United States, resulting in about 200,000 deaths, according to HealthCen-tral, an online medical encyclo-pedia. Studies show that for ev-ery case of a diagnosed, non-fa-tal pulmonary embolism, there

are 2.5 cases of fatal pulmonary embolism diagnosed only after death, according to the Ameri-can Thoracic Society.

Blood clotting is uncommon among young adults, accord-ing to the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. Only 1 in 20,000 young adults will have a blood clot.

The university has been in contact with Paul’s family and classmates, as well as the stu-dents who came to Paul’s aid, to provide whatever assistance it can offer since the incident.

Paul was excited to be study-ing civil engineering and looked forward to graduating from UB, according to his mom.

“Paul was an easy-going young man, always smiling,” Denise said. “He loved to play lacrosse, water ski and fly in his uncle’s small plane. He enjoyed just hanging out with friends or go-ing to the gym to work out with them.”

Paul played varsity lacrosse for all four years at St. Joseph’s. John Maher, a sophomore chemical engineering major and a mem-ber of Paul’s graduating class at St. Joseph’s, played football with Paul during his first two years of high school, though he de-scribed lacrosse as Paul’s “thing.”

“He was the best goalie we had, especially our junior and se-nior years,” Maher said.

While at St. Joseph’s, Paul was also a member of the food pan-try and recycling clubs, the Na-tional Honor Society and the Donate Life club. Paul’s involve-ment in the Donate Life club sparked conversation with his parents about organ donation. Paul was an organ donor and

helped 50-70 people, according to his mother.

Paul’s family was very small, and his grandfather, with whom he shared a birthday, passed away a few days prior to Paul.

Maher first heard of Paul’s passing through social media.

“I didn’t think it was true. I didn’t want to believe it,” Ma-her said. “I took it with a grain of salt.”

Paul’s graduating class was rel-atively small – around 165 kids – and as a result, the class was close knit.

“Everyone at St. Joe’s [was] like brothers, so we got to know everyone pretty well,” Maher said.

This brotherhood continues after graduation, according to Maher. As St. Joseph’s students became aware of Paul’s pass-ing, many alumni began express-ing their condolences on Face-book and Twitter. The day after Paul’s passing, St. Joseph’s tweet-ed: “Mourning our brother Paul Englert ’12, whose life was taken too soon. We pray for his fami-ly, friends and teammates.” Paul’s senior picture was attached. One hundred and fifty five people retweeted it.

Because Paul commuted from Clarence and Maher lives on campus, he didn’t see Paul often. St. Joseph’s students emphasized that being part of the brother-hood, however, is a tie for life. Even if they drift apart from each other, they will always stop to say hello and reconnect.

“I just saw him last week, a week before he passed,” Maher said. “Just walking through the halls you’d expect to see him.”

Ryan O’Hara, a sophomore biomedical engineering ma-jor and 2012 graduate of St. Jo-seph’s, also frequently greeted Paul around campus.

“If I ever saw [Paul] in the halls or on the Spine, I would say hello and see how things were going, just as the members in our graduating class do on a dai-ly basis to each other,” O’Hara said.

Maher recalled Paul as rela-tively quiet in class but as some-one who constantly contributed to conversation and bettered the discussion.

“He was a kid who would al-ways laugh, even at corny jokes,” Maher said. “He had a real hearty laugh and could laugh at anything, anytime something was sort of funny.”

After Paul’s passing, Maher wanted to show support for Paul and his family. The Englert fam-ily had gratefully declined flow-ers and asked instead that, if de-sired, contributions be made in his memory to St. Joseph’s.

Maher decided to set up a me-morial fund in Paul’s name to show support for Paul’s family; the money was donated to the school. He said he spread the word about the fund through so-cial media, and a lot of students Paul’s age and older, as well as their families and friends, donat-ed.

“Paul was a wonderful young man who cared deeply for his fellow students – no matter who they were or what age they were or where they may have come from – and for St. Joe’s,” said Robert Scott, president of St. Joseph’s, in an email. “The out-pouring of support for his fam-

ily and in his name [is] indicative of the way our community felt about Paul.”

Maher’s memorial fund for Paul, set up through youcaring.org, received an overwhelming response. Maher met his origi-nal goal of $250 within a couple hours, and he kept increasing the threshold of the donation goal, eventually reaching $1,250.

Maher collected $1,255 in about eight days to be donated to St. Joseph’s in Paul’s memory.

“In [the spirit of brother-hood], Paul’s classmates are making a significant donation to St. Joe’s in his name,” Scott said. “Their donation, together with other donations made at the time of Paul’s death, will be add-ed to a donation from an anon-ymous donor so as to create the Paul Englert ’12 Memorial En-dowment Fund at St. Joe’s.”

The specifics of the endow-ment fund are still being final-ized, according to Scott.

The fund will annually sup-port an underclassman who will be chosen in the spring, accord-ing to Scott. The student will be “identified as having the char-acteristics Paul consistently dis-played while a student at St. Joe’s – a serious academician, leader-ship, concern for others, passion for his school, and a lacrosse player,” Scott said.

Paul’s legacy will live on at St. Joseph’s, and his impact on the brotherhood will never be for-gotten.

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“Engineering in particular has bumped the national trend in that we have seen an uptake of students coming to UB, where many midrange private schools have seen a serious decline in the number of students attending their engineering program.”

She said it is evident that stu-dents value the low tuition rate and great education.

On Aug. 22, President Barack Obama visited UB to give a speech addressing the state of education in terms of affordabil-ity and debt.

Tripathi used Obama’s visit as evidence that UB 2020 is, in fact, working.

Tripathi said UB is already see-ing the effects of UB 2020 in multiple other areas, citing the Medical Campus and increased number of faculty as two exam-ples.

The Medical Campus will ad-vance UB into a leader in areas like “academic medicine, world-class medical education and state-of-the-art health care,” he said.

The downtown campus – which is expected to bring 2,000

more UB faculty, staff and stu-dents downtown every day – is scheduled to open in the fall 2016 semester. Tripathi said the new faculty and facilities are a large part of the initiative.

Last year, UB hired over 180 new staff and about 150 new full-time faculty members, in-cluding the largest group of new tenure-track faculty the school has seen in decades, he said.

In addition, Tripathi stressed the importance of three chang-es in the infrastructure and cur-ricula. He said he plans to give students significant global expe-rience in their time at UB, which may include study abroad pro-grams. He also said a way to ex-pand the effectiveness of aca-demics is by offering students experiential learning options. And finally, he emphasized the addition of a capstone course, which would allow students to apply what they learned at UB to their future careers.

The president noted the dis-cussion about UB’s future shouldn’t only focus on admis-sions and graduation.

`“Thus far, this debate has fo-cused mostly on two things: get-ting more students in the door and sending them more quickly out the door, degrees in hand,” Tripathi said. “But we are not talking enough about what hap-pens in the vast space in between entering and exiting higher ed-ucation. We need to be talking more about the college experi-ence itself.”

The Lippes Concert Hall was filled mainly with UB adminis-trators, faculty and staff with very few students in attendance.

Though Tripathi felt the 11 a.m. speech may have conflicted with many students’ class sched-ules, Provost Charles Zukos-ki believed there was a different reason for the small student at-tendance.

Zukoski described trying to in-crease student involvement in the goals of UB 2020 as an “in-teresting challenge.” He said the nature of the initiative has a lot of students disinterested be-cause many of the goals will af-fect students starting in 2016, af-ter most students currently en-rolled will have graduated.

“There is a challenge in the time constants of the students and time constants of the insti-tution,” Zukoski said. “When we implement these things, we almost have to start four years ahead.”

Asked what the administra-tion plans to tell current students about how UB 2020 will affect them, Tripathi said the increased faculty this year already affects students.

Zukoski said the short-term goals of UB 2020 revolve around improving student life and the long-term goals are more academics- and infrastruc-ture-based. He added that mak-ing UB a more prestigious insti-tution in the future will have a direct impact on students who graduate prior to 2016. He said students will be able to say they graduated from the prominent school UB is looking to become.

Tripathi said he is happy with the progress UB has made over the past year and is confident in achieving his UB 2020 plan.

“As a public research universi-ty, this is what our mission is all about: to enrich the quality of

life through our ideas, discover-ies and contributions,” Tripathi said. “Our students, faculty and staff bring this mission to life each day. You are advancing re-search that responds to vital so-cietal needs. You are providing a relevant, rigorous curriculum that prepares students to com-pete and lead in the 21st century. And you are partnering with our communities to make the most of these contributions.”

Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Bruce Pitman thought the president succeeded in articulating his goals and ideas for the future of UB. He be-lieves the UB community needs to embrace UB 2020 to see the plan through.

“The president put out his vi-sion of what the campus can be and now, it is up to us to re-spond to it,” Pitman said.

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It is time that congressional leaders put an end to this im-passe. We need more than just an end, however; we need a real res-olution.

Offers from House Repub-licans to cut a deal that post-pones our default rather than dealing with it now are unaccept-able. Failure to pay the nation’s fi-nancial obligations could result in catastrophic economic conse-quences, and it is time that Con-gress put aside partisan politics for the sake of doing what’s best for the country.

On Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) began bi-partisan talks in an effort to end this shutdown and avoid default. Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) offer on Thursday to temporarily raise the debt ceiling without re-opening the government is not substantial enough. The Ameri-can people deserve more; we de-serve a functional federal govern-ment – one in which members of opposite parties are willing to come together to prevent disaster, one in which we aren’t constantly inundated with one manufactured crisis after another.

The allowing of across-the-board spending cuts (known as sequestration) was already an in-sult to the American public – a stark example of how partisan-ship outweighs pragmatism in Washington. The government shutdown reinforced that no-tion. But to let this nation enter

default – which would risk letting the market collapse – would dem-onstrate a whole new level of ir-responsibility.

A default would complete-ly rattle the global bond market, it would cause interest rates to skyrocket and it would very like-ly cause another recession. Speak-er Boehner recognizes the sever-ity of this and he maintains that his offer to provide a six-week de-lay is an example of his willing-ness to compromise, but it iron-ically reveals the opposite.

It shows what an awful hole he has dug himself into (by giving in to the extremists in his own par-ty) and how dangerous the politi-cal climate is – the speaker of the House considers it a compromise to delay raising the debt ceiling in order to avoid descending into another recession.

It is a bleak and profound look at how Washington operates at the moment.

It is perfectly obvious that the debt ceiling must be raised before Oct. 17, when the U.S. govern-ment is scheduled to run out of money. But to delay really dealing with this now just means we will be facing the same exact disaster again before Thanksgiving. And if recent history were any indi-cator of what we could expect to happen during that fiasco, there won’t be much that we could feel grateful of in November.

What we need now is for House Republicans to exercise some rea-son and raise the debt ceiling and pass a clean continuing resolution

to end this shutdown that is hurt-ing our federal workers and the rest of the country.

With disaster looming, Re-publicans have seemed to drop their demand that requires Presi-dent Obama eviscerate his health care law in order to reopen gov-ernment. They are now only ask-ing for minor provisions to be amended – which are still offers that should not be entertained.

But now the issue has shifted to federal spending where Repub-licans still want to use this shut-down and this threat of default as a weapon to extort more cuts without adding any increases in revenue.

We believe compromise does go both ways, and it is likely Dem-ocrats will have to give up some-thing in order to end this stale-mate to move forward, but they must not allow Republicans to push forward a budget that leaves the American people too thin for themselves.

Many states are now on the cusp of losing federal aid for nu-trition aid to those living in pov-erty. Michigan, for example, is about to close several of its pro-grams, such as Temporary Assis-tance for Needy Families, food stamps and school lunches, ac-cording to The New York Times.

Sen. McConnnell’s proposal on Saturday to raise the federal debt limit until Jan. 31 was properly re-jected by Senate Democrats. And Democrats are right to attempt to address the sequester as part of any negotiations. And as they

have properly noted, these talks should not begin until after the government reopens.

Sequestration reduces spend-ing by over $70 billion more than congressional Democrats deem acceptable; these drastic cuts are harmful to our economy and to American workers. The damage of these cuts takes effect in in-crements and the longer we allow them to remain in place, the more harshly they will impact Ameri-cans.

Any new budget deal must con-front these sweeping cuts as a way to move the nation forward. Even Senate Republicans have suggest-ed they are tired of the House’s overreaching strategy and would like to see a plan that ends this government shutdown and raises the debt ceiling.

There is no more time to wal-low in our current state of dys-function. It is time a resolution is passed that does both of these things. And it must happen before serious negotiations take place. The American people should not be held hostage to Congress’ in-ability to work together.

They should end this crisis now and then begin negotiating a bud-get.

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Default is not an optionCongress must end this crisis now

Forbes magazine has ranked UB’s School of Management as one of the best business schools in the world. On Oct. 10, the magazine placed UB at No. 40 – eight spots ahead of where it was in 2011. The metric for the rank-ings was based on the return on the investment that graduates get for their MBA degrees.

Keeping in mind a healthy skepticism over rankings – what Plato once said about who will evaluate the evaluators – we think UB’s rise in the rankings demon-strates how this university is an exceptional place to earn a de-gree.

And not just through the School of Management.

In 2012, UB’s English Depart-ment was ranked ninth (tied with Princeton) by U.S. News and World Report for the best places to study literary theory and criti-cism – ahead of schools like Har-vard, Stanford and Brown.

The most recent ranking of our business school validates what that ranking suggested then: that UB as a whole is on the rise and is a superlative institute for learning.

UB has made it a priority to be-come a global university. With in-ternational businesses growing, this ranking only helps UB’s pur-suit to diversify its student body – specifically the goal of attract-ing international students to seek business degrees.

Rankings are a tool that many people use to guide them through the process of college selec-tion. They can mean a lot to pro-spective students. And the high-er ranked our programs are, the more credibility our degrees maintain.

Thus, national and international rankings are important to an ex-tent. They solidify a place within

people’s minds as a reliable insti-tution and they help a school gain wider recognition throughout the globe. And, by extension, they help to bring more money into the school.

This most recent ranking plac-es UB’s business school in the top 10 percent of more than 680 graduate business programs that are certified by the AACSB – The Association to Advance Colle-giate Schools of Business.

This ranking also recogniz-es what President Barack Obama lauded the university for in his visit in August – that UB is an af-fordable institution where stu-dents can graduate with less debt than most other universities.

We also want to call attention to how the university often gets reduced to a mere research insti-tution. This attitude makes it easy for some to not pay sufficient at-tention to other departments. And many departments here are

some of the best in the country – and some in the world.

The English Department, for example, is internationally known as an avant-garde center and a thriving literary center. It has had famous writers, legendary po-ets and acclaimed critics as facul-ty members such as Leslie Fiedler, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, John Barth, Anthony Burgess, Carl Dennis and Robert Haas. And the department today has an abundance of esteemed fac-ulty who are some of the most beloved and revered teachers on campus.

Many of us come out of the English Department and feel at-taining our degree from it has been instrumental in preparing us for our careers – and not to men-tion for living.

The way more departments and schools within the university are receiving the recognition that accompanies high placement in rankings will help prospective stu-dents see that they can have sim-ilar experiences that we have had here at UB.

The business school’s ranking may help keep some of the best business minds here (for cheap-er) who might have otherwise at-tempted to go elsewhere to get ahead. And by keeping those stu-dents here, the program will only get better.

In the meantime, we, the stu-dents, should give UB credit for facilitating multiple facets of the school to climb its way up in rankings. The school has, after all, earned it.

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“It was the best experience I’ve ever had,” Joseph said after coming off the stage. “I’ve been dreaming of this – it was on my bucket list.”

Those lucky enough to make it on stage were the only ones who had a chance to get close with A$AP. As for the other perform-ers, Super Mash Bros. and Ace Hood, students got to enjoy their presence not only from the audi-ence but also in meet-and-greet sessions that allowed a select few students to meet with the artists after their performances.

Dick Fink was the only Su-per Mash Bro able to perform for the UB audience on Sunday, as the other member of the duo was unable to attend due to a can-celed plane flight. After his per-formance, Fink explained that he was a little nervous to perform alone, but the crowd quickly re-sponded in a way that made the experience easy for him.

“The show must go on,” Fink explained. “Everyone’s so nice around here – I can’t believe it. The crowd killed it.”

Fink played his “mash-up” soundtracks for nearly an hour to open the show. The mash-up is essentially a continuous track of other artists’ work arranged in a remix with added beats and

sounds. Fink and his partner, Nick Fenmore, mix the songs to create one high-energy mix from a wide array of genres and peri-ods in popular music history.

Sprinkled in with Taylor Swift was a selection of old and new, hip-hop and rock, mainstream and alternative. Even a sound clip from “Chappelle’s Show” snuck into the mix.

Ace Hood came on and set the tone for the remainder of the show, which consisted entirely of hip-hop. His beats dropped hard and shook the crowd with excite-ment.

Ace Hood geared his per-formance very specifically to-ward Buffalo and its fans, which seemed to only make him more loveable in the hazy eyes of the rain-soaked crowd. He repeatedly expressed his love for the fans of the city and pointed out his fitted Buffalo Bills hat, which matched the rest of his outfit.

What Ace Hood did best was cut the music for several long, a cappella freestyle raps. He proved his lyrical talent and held the audi-ence’s attention – not an easy task in the weather or in anticipation for the headliner.

The scene at Fall Fest had its usual array of debauchery: stu-dents passed out on the ground,

victims of too much alcohol or other substances being carried away in stretchers and others be-ing escorted away from the ven-ue by police. At least two fights broke out.

Senior mathematics and eco-nomics major Gabriel Martinez watched as one of his friends got into an altercation with another male, both of whom were ejected from the venue by University Po-lice. Martinez noted that the po-lice handled the situation and did what they had to do to keep the peace.

In another altercation, students gathered in the middle of the crowd as two males fought. Im-mediately after the fight diffused, the circle remained in tact for a twerk contest between acts.

In the face of the rain, audience members stuck around for hours. For the second year in a row, Fall Fest took place outdoors.

The next SA concert will be held during the spring semester.

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Behind the Fall Fest crowd, on a stage of his own, stood Josh Azoulay. The senior theater and design and technology ma-jor bobbed his head and tapped his foot in tune with the music. He used those beats to splash the stage with flashing beams of white, yellow, red and blue, each stream of light emphasizing a dif-ferent note, creating a symphony on the stage.

Azoulay, who was in complete control of the lights on stage, was one of three people on the ‘front of the house’ stage; he had two men behind him moving the spotlight.

Fall Fest took place Sunday night, but before the three-hour show could start, there were over 50 hours of behind-the-scenes set up – including a team of 20 students building a stage out of a truck – that went into the con-cert.

Azoulay is one of the perform-ers in the concert but never takes a bow.

Sunday night wasn’t his first light show. He had worked on Spring Fest in May and works in the theater department at the Center For the Arts. He liked working a live show much more than a rehearsed theater show.

“I missed some beats and didn’t hit all the things I would have liked, but that’s OK because at an event like this, nobody will re-ally notice or care,” Azoulay said. “Unlike in the theater, where if you miss a beat or a cue, you could ruin the whole show.” Setting up

Azoulay got to the LaSalle Lot, where Fall Fest took place, at 9 a.m. Saturday ready to work. He had worked a few other fests and knew he was in for a long week-end.

He was one of 23 people work-ing to build the Fall Fest stage. He worked alongside profession-als from the company Audio Im-ages, which provided UB with the stage, electrical equipment and seven professionals to assist. The rest of the set-up crew were paid

students with experience in the production side of theater.

Alicia Marvan, a student pro-duction manager, has her bach-elor’s degree in dance and the-ater and has been working in the-ater production for 10 years. She thinks students getting involved and gaining real-world experience is quite valuable.

Azoulay hopes to be a light de-signer when he graduates and is grateful for the opportunity to design the lights at an event as big as Fall Fest.

Sometimes, students get jobs from working with experienced professionals in the field, accord-ing to Marvan.

Tannis Kapell is living proof of that. When the alum was a stu-dent, he worked as a light tech-nician during Fall Fest in 2012. While he was helping to decon-struct the stage, someone from Audio Images offered him a full-time position after he graduated.

He agrees that every student hoping to go into the production business should experience the real-world aspect of Fall Fest.

Not only was Azoulay in charge of the lights during the show, but he also managed a team of stu-dents as they set up the two light-

ing trusses. Three weeks before the show,

Azoulay created a “plot” – a map of where each light would be on stage. He chose the color, posi-tion and placement of each light on the stage. The only restriction was A$AP Rocky requested pur-ple lights.

“I think of all the lights like each one is a different paintbrush and you need a lot of colors and paint brushes to decorate the can-vas that is the stage,” Azoulay said. “I think of myself as paint-ing the stage with color.”

By Sunday morning, the 40-by-40 foot stage was built, the side monitors were hugging both sides of it and the front of the house was ready for Azoulay to play with.

The light board was different from the equipment Azoulay was used to working with in the CFA, so Kapell became his go-to man for questions about the system.

Azoulay spent five hours pro-gramming the computer. He cus-tomized various buttons on the screen to make certain lights jump, rotate and flicker at his command.

For one hour between his pro-gramming, he was called to the

stage to focus the lights. Two stu-dents, wearing harnesses, climbed 40 feet to the lighting truss to ad-just the light bulbs under Azou-lay’s direction.

Steve Baker, a senior math ma-jor, was one of the students ad-justing lights. Although he was 40 feet in the air, he wasn’t scared of falling but of dropping one of his tools or a piece of the light. This was his fourth fest, but he doesn’t plan on going into theater pro-duction when he graduates. Showtime

Minutes before the show, Azou-lay took a seat behind his light board next to the UBTV camera-men, giggling as they filmed girls making out with each other on the kiss cam. His face was con-centrated on the empty space in front of him.

He had no plan of action go-ing into the concert; he figured he would “just wing it.”

“I just want it to start,” he said. “Because I know once it does, it will be over too soon.”

Once Super Mash Bros took the stage, the cameramen stopped giggling and Azoulay stood up and took his place behind the light board. Like a pianist ready

to play in an orchestra, his hands were placed in specific spots on the light board, ready to create something beautiful.

As the music thumped through the speakers, Azoulay’s eyes dart-ed back and forth between the stage and the light board, his fin-gers played the sliders and turned knobs making lights fade in and out and scan the crowd’s growing excitement.

And then it started raining. Within 30 seconds, tarp was

covering the light board and soundboard, protecting the thou-sands of dollars of equipment from getting wet.

After Super Mash Bros left the stage, Azoulay was grinning with excitement.

“That was good,” he said. “I got my bearings and now I’m ready for the next performance. It’s going to get even better.”

After the show, he said this was his favorite part of the night be-cause he was most familiar with Super Mash Bros’ music; it was “fun to play with.”

The second act was Ace Hood, and Azoulay said he wasn’t famil-iar with his music. He had spent the week prior to Fall Fest listen-ing to A$AP Rocky and A$AP Ferg in preparation for the big night.

Throughout the rest of the three-hour show, the rain got worse, but Azoulay never fell off pace. Crewmembers came to his station with napkins to protect the equipment but the rain didn’t bother Azoulay.

Kapell thought Azoulay did a great job all night.

“He killed it, especially for his first light show,” Kapell said. “The rain also made everything harder and he did a great job.”

The lights went out on stage and Azoulay joined the team of 23 people to deconstruct it. He planned on being in the LaSal-le Lot until 4 a.m. cleaning and packing everything away, until it’s needed again for Spring Fest.

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Josh Azuley was in complete control of the lighting for Fall Fest. As the light de-signer, he had the power to paint the stage with whatever colors he chose.

DANIELE GERSHON, THE SPECTRUM

Ace Hood geared his performance very spe-cifically toward Buffalo and its fans, which seemed to only make him more loveable in the hazy eyes of the rain-soaked crowd.

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Crowd surfers bounced across a sea of people, mosh pits emerged and a lone fan jumped off a ledge into the pit below.

Taking Back Sunday’s show at the Town Ballroom Saturday night was full of intensity.

The sold-out show, which took place on the second day of the veteran rockers’ Fall 2013 tour, was everything fans antici-pated.

21-year-old Samantha Boyce traveled three hours from To-ronto, Canada, to see her favor-ite band for the seventh time.

“No amount of money can keep me from seeing Taking Back Sunday,” said Boyce, who forgot her ticket at home and had to buy another. “You can’t put a price on the show that Taking Back Sunday gives to their fans.”

The band’s 90-minute set spanned all five albums with

tastes of songs from their up-coming untitled release. Both old and new fans could enjoy the night with songs like “Catholic Knees” from Taking Back Sun-day’s vault.

The ballroom was illuminat-ed with shades of red and purple as the band played though the night. It felt like an arena-sized show with the balance of light-ing. At times, the lights had a dripping effect on the velvet cur-tains behind the drum kit.

Vocalist Adam Lazzara be-came the focal point of the stage. He showed his signa-ture microphone tricks multi-ple times. Lazzara twirled his mi-crophone by its elongated cord and swung it around his neck as he bounced to each side of the stage. Fans crawled over each other, attempting to grasp at the rocker’s hand as he approached the edge of the stage.

“The last time I tried Ad-am’s microphone skills, I almost choked myself,” said Ryan Per-

ry of Rochester. “Don’t try it or you’ll have a bad time.”

Taking Back Sunday played classics like “Liar (It Takes One to Know One)” from 2006’s Louder Now and “Cute Without the ‘E’ (Cut From the Team)” from their debut album Tell All Your Friends. The opening chords of the nostalgic songs instant-ly energized the crowd to new heights as they sang along with their fists raised.

“They always play ‘Liar’ be-cause they know how much we love the song,” Boyce said. “That song defined part of my childhood.”

Lead guitarist John Nolan maintained friendly banter with Lazzara between songs. They re-marked on how they liked Buf-

falo’s energy and how they were beyond grateful for the turn-out, considering Pearl Jam was down the road at the First Niag-ara Center.

Lazzara also posed for pic-tures on stage briefly as he told the crowd to “Get ready because we are gonna blow your minds.”

“Flicker Fade,” a track from the new album, was filled with classic Taking Back Sunday flair. Lazzara spun in circles, whipping around his long hair and moving his hips as the rest of the band utilized as much of the stage as they could. Some fans were sing-ing along to the new track.

Taking Back Sunday returned to the stage for a three-song encore, closing the show with 2006’s “MakeDamnSure,” their

most successful single to date. Fans in the pit of the Ballroom made sure to make the last song count; almost everyone in the crowd was moving.

Pop-punk band Transit and punk rockers Polar Bear Club opened up the show and instilled the energy that carried over to Taking Back Sunday’s set. Their vocalists attempted to embody Lazzara’s stage presence by run-ning around and jumping into the crowd.

Taking Back Sunday played in Rochester Sunday and will be in Stroudsburg, Pa., today. The tour ends on Nov. 7 in the band’s hometown of Long Island.

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Taking Back Sunday takes Buffalo back in timeAlternative rockers sell out the town Ballroom

JOSE ESCOBARContriButinG writer

Snow hasn’t fallen in Buffalo yet, but Schussmeisters Ski Club didn’t let that stop them from showing off their tricks Thurs-day.

Over 150 people flooded the parking lot – which was filled with scraped ice from various Buffalo hockey rinks – outside The U on Sweet Home Road. Skiers, snowboarders and skate-boarders displayed their electri-fying tricks for local residents and students at the second an-nual Fifth Season Festival to kick off the 2013-14 ski season.

The event was highlighted by a rail jam, which was comprised of a skate park section with rails and boxes for skateboarders and a snow-filled ramp for skiers and snowboarders provided by Holi-day Valley Resort.

The festival focused on local businesses and featured a ven-dor village to promote the shops that support Schuss, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing inexpensive skiing to the UB community.

“I think that it’s good that [Schuss] gets involved with the local businesses to get more peo-ple [to them],” said Michael Da-naher, a freshman engineering major who has skied since age 6.

“Honestly, if Schuss wasn’t in-volved with any of these busi-nesses, I probably would never hear about them because I have a ski shop at home that I go to. But I definitely like these guys better.”

The festival began with a skate session at 3 p.m. followed by a snowboard/ski session at 6 p.m. Schuss welcomed riders for reg-istration at 5 p.m.

The Boardroom Snowboard Shop, Eastcoast Wax, Holiday Valley Resort, Phatman Board-shop, Snowflake Ski Shop and TwoFourFive Boardshop were among the businesses that at-tended the event.

Parking lot partySchussmeisters holds second annual Fifth Season Festival to kick off winter season

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BRIAN KESCHINGER, THE SPECTRUM

Vocalist Adam Lazzara and Taking Back Sunday’s 90-minute set at the Town Ball-room spanned all five albums with tastes of songs from their upcoming untitled release.

BRIAN KESCHINGER, THE SPECTRUM

Guitarist John Nolan, left, and bassist Shaun Cooper engaged the crowd as the band played classics like “Liar (It Takes One to Know One)” from 2006’s Louder Now and “Cute Without the ‘E’ (Cut From the Team)” from their debut album Tell All Your Friends.

NICK FISCHETTI, THE SPECTRUMSkiers, snowboarders and skateboarders filled the parking lot at The U, located at Maple and Sweet Home Roads, Thursday to help kick off the 2013-14 season at the second annual Fifth Season Festival.

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GABRIELA JULIAStAFF writer

Aisha O’Mally, a communi-cation Ph.D. student, lay in her hospital bed and watched all of her dreams nearly come to an end. In need of a heart trans-plant, O’Mally believed the plan she had for her life was no longer attainable.

O’Mally, an organ recipient, had a heart transplant at age 25. O’Mally was given a second chance at life, a second chance to pursue her dreams.

“It’s about living for the next minute, the next hour, the next day,” O’Mally said.

O’Mally traveled to Paris and Italy to tell others about the im-portance of organ donations and is now studying at UB – but she’s still spreading the word.

“Being an organ recipient is bittersweet,” O’Mally said. “For a heart transplant, someone has to die in order for you to live.”

Organ donations are feasible because of an individual’s deci-sion to donate, and thousands of people face the same plight O’Mally once did, she said.

The Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) has linked with UB’s group of Trans-plant Warriors to create Cam-paign 4 Life. The campaign has been taking place for the last four years, and each fall and spring se-mester, a one-month run of the competition takes place. During the competition, anyone in New York State can create a team. The squads compete to try and get the most people to sign up as or-gan donors.

Corey Rosen, a junior film studies and communication ma-jor, is the president of PRSSA. She said Campaign 4 Life is not only a meaningful campaign, but also a learning experience for those who are a part of PRSSA.

The campaign received a grant from Dr. Thomas Feeley, a com-munication professor and chair of the communication depart-ment at UB.

Teams are provided with fly-ers, backpacks, water bottles and bracelets in order to promote the cause. The club wants students

to promote awareness about or-gan donations and increase the 29 percent of registered organ donors in New York State.

“We’ve been doing research on organ donation this past sum-mer and it has given us a chance to gain valuable information and educate people to pass on this knowledge as well,” said Jessica Covert, a graduate student in the communication department.

Seventy-seven people receive organ donations each day while 18 people die waiting for a trans-plant that will never happen be-

cause of the shortage of donated organs, according to the Wom-en’s Health website.

“There are now more than 105,000 people on the waiting list for solid organ transplants,” according to the website. “Ex-perts suggest that each of us could save or help as many as 50 people by being an organ and tis-sue donor.”

In order to become a regis-tered donor, people can go to the Campaign 4 Life website and select the UB team, Transplant Warriors. The process is an easy

way to help the cause and give the team a vote in the competi-tion, according to Rosen, who said her interest in the cause has intensified since she met O’Mally.

“I registered as an organ do-nor a year ago,” said Rosen. “I’m way more passionate about or-gan donation now that I’ve met someone who has had a trans-plant.”

O’Mally believes her story has already had a significant impact on the people around her.

“It really hits home when you know somebody who is an organ recipient,” she said.

There are different reasons people are afraid and not as re-ceptive as they should be to or-gan donation, O’Mally said. The only way to get rid of the mis-conceptions about organ dona-tion is to seek more information. People of all ages and medical histories should consider them-selves potential organ donors, ac-cording to the United Network for Organ Sharing.

Transplant Warriors is reaching out to other clubs to get students more involved. Transplant War-riors table in the Student Union and attend tailgating events to spread word on how students can get involved. The team wants people to know that even if you are already a registered organ do-nor, you can still help the cause by telling a friend.

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Transplant Warriors promote organ donation on campusCampaign 4 Life aims to get more people signed up as organ donors

Senior defensive end Col-by Way had three sacks (for 25 yards), a career high. Senior line-backer Khalil Mack was Khalil Mack (six tackles, two tackles for loss, one fumble forced sack and another recovered – just anoth-er day on the job). Senior stand-out corner Najja Johnson had his third pick of the year.

Sure, the offense was good (it’s no off day whenever you score 33 points), but in reality, its stars’ stats were pedestrian. Sopho-more quarterback Joe Licata went 11 for 21 for 124 yards. Se-nior receiver Alex Neutz had two catches for nine yards. It was se-niors running back Branden Oli-ver (19 carries for 139 yards) and receiver Fred Lee (four catches for 88 yards and a touchdown) who carried the offense, but it was the defense that took over this game and has taken over Buffalo’s season.

That’s good news for Bulls fans. In the MAC, you need a couple stars on offense and a

well-balanced shutdown defense to win games. Buffalo has those offensive stars in Oliver and Neutz. As for the defense? Show me the weakness.

The defensive line, led by Mack and Way, has been the most impressive unit. The line-backers, with senior Adam Red-den’s emergence, have been thor-oughly reliable. The defensive backs, led by the veteran, fifth-year Johnson, are making plays and flying around the field like ball hawks.

People who talk about UB’s 2008 MAC Championship team often mention quarterback Drew Willy, running back James Starks and wide receiver Naaman Roos-evelt. They seem to forget, how-ever, just how good that defense was, with players like Domon-ic Cook, Davonte Shannon and Mike Newton roaming the field and forcing their will on oppos-ing offenses.

Let’s not get ahead of our-selves with comparisons. West-

ern Michigan is 0-7. The Bron-cos are not very good; they’re re-building in the post-Alex Carder era.

Buffalo’s defensive perfor-mance, however, was no fluke – as we have seen each of the past three weeks.

The Bulls will face anoth-er woeful team, Massachusetts (1-5, 1-1 MAC), at home next week. There should be no rea-son for them to drop that game. That means Buffalo could – and should – be 5-2 (3-0 MAC) head-ing into three conference show-downs with Kent State, Ohio and Toledo.

That’s the time the pretenders will be separated from the con-tenders.

If the Bulls’ ‘D’ continues playing the way it has lately, they have realistic championship aspi-rations.

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Pass Rush: B+The Good: Senior defensive end Colby Way had three sacks. Senior linebacker Khalil Mack also had a sack and a forced fumble.The Bad: The line struggled to catch Zach Terrell when they flushed him out of the pocket in the first half.

Pass Defense: B+The Good: The Bulls had two picks and Western Michigan had 16 incompletions.The Bad: The Broncos were only able to move the ball through the air and not the run, passing for 164 yards.

Special teams: B+The Good: Sophomore run-ning back Devin Campbell had a 32-yard kick return to start the

game. Junior kicker Pat Clarke made two field goals, one from 51 yards (a career-long).The Bad: Clarke’s first extra point attempt of the game was blocked.

Coaching: A-The Good: The Bulls knew Western Michigan had a porous run defense and they took ad-vantage of it, running the ball all game even when it wasn’t as effective as they would have liked.The Bad: The Bulls were pe-nalized eight times for 105 yards and were 4 for 13 on third downs.

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“When buying equipment, it’s good to have an informed opinion about what you’re buy-ing, and these stores do a lot more than just sell the equip-ment,” said Schuss Chairman Marc Greenbaum, a junior com-puter and electrical engineering major. “They do servicing and a lot of community organizing around the skiing community, so we invite them to come to these events. They show us a lot of support, offer discounts to our members and just try to enhance the ski experience.”

Phatman Boardshop, which has been assisting Schuss since 1994, provided the skate-park props. The organization was also on hand at this year’s festival to raise money for the Alix Rice Peace Park Foundation, an initia-tive created in memory of Alex-andria Rice, an 18-year old Buf-falo resident who was hit and killed by a drunk driver while riding her long board on July 8, 2011. The foundation hopes to build a skate park in Amherst in her memory.

“We just want to build a me-morial park in remembrance of her so that when people are drinking and driving or texting and driving, there is a remem-brance of it,” said Bob Knab, Phatman Boardshop’s owner and a former Schuss member.

WRUB, UB’s student radio sta-tion, gave out free CDs at the festival.

“We’re just out here support-ing the local ski scene,” said Sam Hakim, a senior communi-cation major and WRUB’s gen-eral manager. “I know Schuss goes through a lot of hard work to make this happen. I think it’s an awesome event that real-ly gets the community going … I like that it’s a celebration of the changing of the seasons.”

Currently, the price for a Schuss season pass is $175 un-til Oct. 18. Passes take effect on Dec. 15 and include free busing to and from various mountains and resorts until March 29.

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(Left to right) Corey Rosen, a junior film major, Jessica Covert, a graduate student in the communication, and Aisha O’Mally, a communication Ph.D. student, are taking part in Campaign 4 Life, a competition run by the Public Relations Student Society of America. The month-long competition’s aim is to register more people as organ donors.

Skateboarders displayed tricks in front of local residents and students.NICK FISCHETTI, THE SPECTRUM

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After the football team record-ed nine turnovers over a three-game homestand, some were un-sure if Buffalo would be able to duplicate its dominance on the road. This question was an-swered late in the second quarter – Western Michigan, trailing 6-0, drove 58 yards and had an op-portunity to take the lead.

Senior cornerback Najja John-son capitalized on a tipped pass to end the Broncos’ drive in the final minutes before the half. The Bulls carried the momentum into the second half when soph-omore corner Marqus Baker in-tercepted Zach Terrell and senior linebacker Khalil Mack recorded a strip-sack the very next posses-sion.

Both turnovers led to Buffa-lo scores as a part of its 17-point third quarter.

The Bulls (4-2, 2-0 Mid-Amer-ican Conference) defeated West-

ern Michigan (0-7, 0-3 MAC), 33-0 on Saturday afternoon. It is their first four-game win streak since 2008 and their first-ev-er road win against a MAC West opponent.

Senior running back Bran-den Oliver provided the major-ity of the Bulls’ offense in the first half, recording 116 yards on 18 carries. He ran the ball only once in the second half and fin-ished with 128 yards. It was the 14th time Oliver went over the century mark in his career, and he took sole possession of first-place in school history for 100-yard games. He has the third-most 100-yard games among ac-tive NCAA players.

This game was more about the entire run game than just Ol-iver’s success. Junior running back James Potts had a season-high 91 rushing yards and soph-omore running back Anthone Taylor and senior running back Brandon Murie combined for 55 rushing yards. The run game amassed 290 of Buffalo’s 424

yards.“I thought our backs did a

great job making people miss and breaking tackles,” said head coach Jeff Quinn. “Just how strong they ran today inspired our entire football team.”

Senior quarterback Joe Licata had 124 yards and three touch-downs to three different receiv-ers. Licata became the first UB quarterback since Zach Maynard in 2009 to throw a touchdown in the first six games of the season.

With the Bulls struggling all season to find a second op-tion behind senior receiver Alex Neutz, senior receiver Fred Lee had a big afternoon with 88 yards and a touchdown. Lee was the only Buffalo receiver with more than two catches.

“Freddy stepped up big time,” Licata said. “Alex isn’t going to be able to go for 200 yards a game every game and we need other people to step up and Fred did a good job of that today.”

Junior kicker Pat Clarke had

two field goals, including a ca-reer-long 51-yard kick early in the third quarter.

Buffalo’s ‘D’ held the Bron-cos to just 202 yards and 2 of 12 on third downs. Senior defensive lineman Colby Way had three sacks to lead Buffalo, and Mack had two of the Bulls’ seven tack-les for loss. The run defense con-tained Western Michigan, and the Broncos had just 38 yards on 26 carries.

Broncos freshman receiver Corey Davis continued his im-pressive start to the season with eight receptions for 92 yards.

“The shutout feels great, and it’s going to really help carry mo-mentum into next week,” Way said.

The Bulls return to UB Sta-dium next week when they host Massachusetts (1-5, 1-1 MAC) and look to extend their win streak to five games. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m.

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BULLS BUCK BRONCOSdefense shuts down Broncos en route to fourth straight win

Passing game: BThe Good: Sophomore quarter-back Joe Licata matched a career-high in touchdowns and all three of his TDs were pinpoint passes – allowing only the receivers to make plays on the ball.The Bad: The Bulls’ run game was a menace all afternoon but the squad couldn’t get much go-ing through the air early in the game. Licata threw for just 124 and the Bulls were 4 for 13 on third downs.

Run game: AThe Good: As a unit, the run game was phenomenal, rushing for 10- to 20-yard gains consis-tently throughout the game. The rushers combined for 290 yards on 56 carries.The Bad: Senior running back Branden Oliver ran for 128 yards but failed to get in the end zone.

Receiving: A-The Good: It was promising to see someone other than se-nior receiver Alex Neutz lead the team in receiving. Senior Fred Lee caught four balls for 88 yards and a touchdown.The Bad: Neutz, arguably the team’s best offensive weap-

on, didn’t get involved until he caught a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter, once the game was already out of reach.

Offensive line: AThe Good: The o-line created gaping holes for Oliver to run through all game as the Bulls had their most impressive rushing performance of the season.The Bad: While most rushes re-sulted in positive yardage, the

Broncos still managed to stop Oliver in the backfield often when the run was predictable.

Run Defense: AThe Good: The Bulls held the Broncos to 38 yards rushing on 26 attempts. Western Michigan couldn’t get anything going.The Bad: Every play wasn’t a tackle for a loss.

Gridiron Report CardThe Spectrum analyzes the Bulls’ fourth straight victory, a 33-0 win over W. Michigan

AARON MANSFIELDeditor in ChieF

The Bulls’ defense had valid reason to be discouraged after Week Three.

In consecutive weeks, they had surrendered 70 points to Baylor (I don’t care who you’re playing – giving up 70 points is embarrass-ing) and allowed FCS team Stony Brook to matriculate down the field in a touchdown drive that sent the game to overtime.

It was a tough, if not embar-rassing, two weeks.

Buffalo is now 4-2 (2-0 Mid-American Conference) after de-feating Western Michigan, 33-0, Saturday. The reason the Bulls have ripped off three straight im-pressive wins? It’s that very same defense, which has rebounded to form the most imposing unit in the conference.

The Bulls have won their past three games by an average of 30 points. Though they have put up 41, 42 and 33 points in those games, they have been so domi-nant because of the defense.

Just look at the Broncos’ stats from Saturday – 202 total yards (38 rushing), only 23:02 time of possession (compared to Buffa-lo’s nearly 40 minutes) and four turnovers. The Bulls also had seven tackles for loss.

Bulls have put ‘D’ in dominance last three weeksBuffalo’s defense is the key to its title dreams

Quick Hits: Close games rule the weekend

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Volleyball (15-4, 3-3 Mid-American Conference)

The Bulls played well on the road this weekend, splitting their contests with Bowling Green (7-9, 4-1 MAC) and Miami Ohio (9-9, 1-5 MAC).

On Friday night, Buffalo had a 2-1 lead over the Falcons but could not put them away in the fourth set and eventually lost, 27-25, 16-25, 25-17, 14-25, 21-23.

The Bulls dropped their first set Saturday but then won three straight to defeat the RedHawks.

Senior libero Kelly Svobo-da had 47 digs on the weekend while Tahleia Bishop had 38 kills.

The Bulls host Northern Illi-nois (11-9, 3-3 MAC) and West-ern Michigan (10-9, 3-3 MAC) next weekend. Women’s Soccer (4-7-2, 1-5 MAC)

The Bulls continued their ear-ly-conference woes this week-end, dropping their match against Kent State (9-5, 4-2 MAC) on Friday, 1-0.

Buffalo went scoreless again on Sunday, dropping its third straight match to Ohio (6-4-4, 2-2-2 MAC), 1-0, despite out-

shooting the Bobcats 23-12.The Bulls will look to get

their offense going as they come down the back half of the con-ference schedule when they host Bowling Green (0-11-1, 0-5-1 MAC) and Central Michigan (3-9-1, 3-2 MAC) next weekend. Men’s Soccer (1-8-3, 0-2 MAC)

In head coach Stu Riddle’s re-turn to Western Michigan (4-6, 1-0 MAC), the Bulls were thor-oughly outplayed in their second conference matchup as they lost 4-0.

Buffalo was outshot 22-5 and allowed three goals in less than 10 minutes late in the second half, as the Broncos pulled away.

Junior midfielder Kristian Lee-Him was given a red card in the 89th minute of the game and will not play in Tuesday’s match-up with Hartwick (4-5-2, 2-0 MAC) at UB Stadium.

CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM

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Senior linebacker Khalil Mack had six tackles, two tackles for loss, a sack, one fumble forced and another recovered.

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Senior running back Branden Oliver ran for 128 yards in the Bulls’ 33-0 win over West-ern Michigan Saturday.