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Alana Barricks isn’t afraid to admit she is the person on Facebook “everyone hates.”

The poised, conservative girl would car-ry a gun in one hand and spray-paint can in the other. She’s also quick to share her political opinions on Facebook.

“I’m not your average Republican,” said Barricks, a senior political science major and president of UB College Republicans. “I have a ton of tattoos.”

Barricks joined UB College Republicans during her freshman year and is current-ly in her second term as president. She’s also the secretary of the New York State Federation of College Republicans and was the committee chair of the Black Stu-dent Union. Friends and family agree, Bar-ricks isn’t the norm – but she doesn’t want to be.

The graffiti artist and card-carrying member of the National Rifle Association

(NRA) said her biggest challenge as presi-dent is that many people regard her as one stereotype. She said politics are often seen as black and white, but there is a lot of room for gray areas.

“The Republican Party has been made out to be the party of ‘old white men’ but that’s simply not true,” Barricks said. “We

are always continuing to fight for equality but media rhetoric is always bias.”

In high school, Barricks was part of the speech and debate team, the cheerlead-ing team and sang in a death metal band. Her father said that everyone from jocks to goths loved her.

UB College Republicans president doubles as a

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Spray painting the town red

AMANDA LOWSENIOR NEWS EDITOR

UB is more than $500 million short of what it needs to finish its origi-nal construction and renovation plans across all three campuses.

The university has hit its spending cap for capital projects and recently presented a new plan with revised ex-penditures.

The original Five-Year Capital Plan allocated $404 million for projects on North Campus, $136 million for South Campus and $24 million for the down-town campus. It also had already allo-cated $375 million for the new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

“There’s a queue actually that’s much larger than [UB] can pay,” said Presi-dent Satish Tripathi of the university’s pending projects during Monday’s UB Council meeting.

Now the university is approaching the construction costs “year to year,” rather than on a five-year plan.

The Debt Reform Act of 2000 re-stricts the amount of money SUNY schools can spend per year. Because of this, UB is now planning on spend-ing less money to accommodate the spending cap.

In the 2014 fiscal year, for example, UB received $49 million from SUNY, but was only allowed to spend $23.5 million of that given amount. UB re-ceived no funding in 2013, but the un-used money from each year is rolled over to the next.

“We’ve taken small amounts of our critical maintenance money and put it toward small projects that are part of those larger capital projects to keep us moving forward toward our longer-term plan,” Laura Hubbard, vice pres-ident for finance and administration, said in an email.

Hubbard presented the revised plan to the UB Council Monday in its sec-ond meeting of the year.

The adjusted amounts now include $26.4 million for North Campus and $14.6 million for South Campus. There are no funds for the downtown cam-pus in the adjusted budget, but the medical school is still expected finish by late 2016 or early 2017. UB didn’t adjust the more than $300 million allo-cated to the medical campus.

Hubbard said the adjusted plan does not include the demolition of the Cary-Farber-Sherman complex, the current medical school. Demolition of certain buildings is the “ultimate goal” because it is more cost-effective than renovation, she said.

“Unfortunately, often one has to renovate those spaces to make them more usable,” Hubbard said. “We’re looking at ways we can do that with smaller amounts of money.”

UB is still planning on moving the Graduate School of Education and the School of Social Work to South Cam-pus once the medical schools have moved downtown.

About $13 million out of the $26.4 million for North Campus is going to-ward the Heart of the Campus project. This project plans to renovate Nor-ton Hall, Talbert Hall and Capen Hall as well as to create spaces “designed as a continuous environment in support of the discovery process,” according to UB’s website.

Other current construction projects include the $25 million renovation of Haynes Hall and the demolition of the Buffalo Materials Research Cen-ter, which was used to house nuclear reactors from 1960-94. All radioactive waste was removed in 2005.

Hubbard told the council the univer-sity will try to reestablish the five-year plan, as well as update plans for North and South Campus projects.

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SAMAYA ABDUS-SALAAM ASST. NEWS EDITOR

In a mock court case, the “mythical may-or” of Buffalo-Niagara enjoyed slipping into “something more comfortable” as part of his cross-dressing fetish.

But when his mayoral opponent discov-ered this, she hired her drug addict half-brother to acquire photographic evidence to force the mayor out of the election.

This fabricated situation was heightened when the opponent did not pay her half-brother for the job, so he conspired with the mayor to get the photos back – only if the mayor agreed to pay twice as much as the original job.

Somehow the two half-siblings ended up unconscious, and the mayor was charged with conspiracy and attempted murder.

Law students from 36 law schools across the country took on this case of mayoral conspiracy and attempted murder in the 11th annual Buffalo-Niagara Mock Tri-al Competition. UB hosted the event on Nov. 8-11. After the preliminary rounds Saturday and Sunday, 20 teams were left for the semifinals and finals.

Each school’s team has four students. Last year, Northwestern University won the competition.

This year, UB’s law school had two teams, but neither advanced to the semifi-nals. One team consisted of Amanda Can-navo, Ryan Poplawski, Gina Gramaglia and Kevin Cannizzaro. The second team included Sean Carberry, Sidney Mosher,

Christopher Berloth and Alison Camp.The semifinal and final teams were from

Creighton University, Western Michi-gan University Cooley Law School, Ford-ham University, St. John’s University, Nova Southeastern University, DePaul Universi-ty and Faulkner University.

The competition pits two members against two of the same team. Each pair will switch between being on the prosecu-tion and defense.

Judge Thomas Franczyk, a judge for the Erie County Court, creates the cases for the Buffalo-Niagara Mock Trial Competition each year and helps coach the UB teams.

“I want them to have an in-depth fact pattern with a lot of layers in it and a lot of legal issues,” he said.

The convoluted storyline requires the

members of mock trial to sort through the information, pulling out the relevant facts and setting aside ones that are just filler. At the same time, teams have to identify “the legal issues and the evidentiary issues so they can argue the case and present it in court,” Franczyk said.

Students prepare for the case during the semester before the competition. Based on their performance and a trial technique course offered through the law school, a team of four students is formed. Canna-vo, a third-year law student, said the group prepared for more than eight weeks, in-cluding meeting formally four times per week and many additional hours expand-ing their case and developing their skills.

'Cross-dressing mayor' gets cross-examined by UB mock trial teamUB hosts national mock

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Alana Barricks painted her “Queen City” piece on the side of Slice of Italy, a pizza shop near South Campus.

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Alana Barricks, a senior political science major, is the president of UB College Republicans and a graffiti art-ist. She isn’t afraid to speak, or paint, her mind, even if it offends some people.

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“She has the ability to adapt to any-thing,” said Jim Barricks, Alana’s father. “Alana was always the girl who made the new kid in class feel welcomed.”

He said she has always been a “chame-leon.”

When Barricks was a child, she wanted to go to Harvard University and become a lawyer. When she got to UB, she saw a fu-ture in politics.

But the road wasn’t simple, according to Barricks.

When she decided to declare a political science major, she said she needed to de-cide if she was a Republican or Democrat. Her mother is a Democrat and her father is a Republican, so she wasn’t raised lean-ing toward one political party.

During her freshman year, she attended both College Democrat and College Re-publican meetings. She said many students aren’t involved in politics because they don’t know which party to identify with.

“You have to learn about yourself be-fore you make any decision [about a polit-ical party],” Barricks said.

She found her niche when she realized she identified with Republican views on gun rights.

“I’m a self-proclaimed gun-nut and NRA card-carrying member,” Barricks said.

One of her close friends, Minahil Khan, a junior communication and political sci-ence major and the student representative to the UB Council, said Barricks “defies all social norms.”

“Alana always stands up for what she believes in,” Khan said. “A lot of stu-dents our age get lost in our views, but she doesn’t.”

Barricks often shares her political views on Facebook, but that’s not the only fo-rum she uses to express her opinions.

She also spray paints them to walls.Khan asked Barricks to “showcase her

artistic talent” and be a part of the Uni-versity Heights graffiti removal project in 2013. Approximately 40 people, mostly UB students, and 13 artists cleaned graffiti off buildings or covered it with larger de-signs near South Campus.

“Alana was always a creative girl,” her father said. “We weren’t sure about her being a graffiti artist until she sent us pic-tures of her art and we were amazed.”

Throughout high school, Alana painted using more traditional mediums.

Then, she learned how to spray paint.She turned to the documentary “Style

Wars,” which chronicled graffiti art in the ’80s, for inspiration for the mural. Her piece represented the idea of “war” be-tween artists. She used a different style for each letter in the words “Style Wars.”

Later, however, her piece was painted over with the word “GOKR,” a local graf-fiti artist’s name and a play on the word “joker.”

“I was upset, but it was perfect that it got painted over,” Barricks said. “It just proves the point about the graffiti wars.”

Barricks also painted the skyline of Buf-falo on the side of the pizza shop Slice of Italy on Main Street in a “Queen City” mural.

Barricks’ pieces take two to three hours to complete and she usually won’t do a piece that takes longer than one day.

She sees a connection between graffiti and politics because “a picture is worth a thousand words” and art can make politi-cal statements.

“The controversy over graffiti and the fact that it started off as a rebellious movement makes it politics,” she said.

Balancing school, art and politics is a full-time job for Barricks.

On the night before the Nov. 4 elec-tions, Barricks worked from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., wrote two papers, slept for three hours and then got ready for Election Day.

“Alana’s work ethic is ridiculous,” her father said. “It’s difficult … to understand how she balances all of her tasks at once.”

As part of her internship with the Erie County Republican Committee, she helped host an election party in down-town Buffalo where the election results came in.

She acts as a liaison between politics on and off campus, inviting guest speakers and local politicians to campus. In honor of Local Politics Month in October, Bar-ricks brought Jacob Bratek, a candidate for New York States Assembly, Ange-la Wozniak, a member of the Cheektow-aga Town Board, Assemblyman Raymond Walter and Sen. Michael Ranzenhofer to a club meeting.

This year, Barricks is ensuring members of UB College Republicans attend the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. from Feb. 26-28 for the first time in three years. Political fig-ures like Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney will also be at the conference.

From graffiti to politics, Barricks has found what she loves. She said once you find what you’re really passionate about, the rest will come easy.

“I just hope to see her heavily involved in politics because she’s so passionate about her beliefs,” her father said.

Whether she moves to Arizona to live with her parents, joins the NRA in Virgin-ia, moves to Albany to work in state pol-itics or is spray painting buildings, you’ll probably be able to read about it on her Facebook.


Carberry, a third-year law student, said he and his team have been preparing for the competition since Labor Day.

Carberry participated on mock trial for the past three semesters and has been to the Buffalo-Niagara Competition twice.

“The defense team went with the theme that ‘the wrong man is on trial,’” Carber-ry said.

His team argued Mayor Drysdale – the “mythical mayor” – should not be on trial, and the opponent’s brother, Mr. Jeb Beau-dine, took it upon himself to kill his own sister “in a fit of rage and personal ven-detta,” Carberry said.

Buffalo judges and attorneys evaluate the teams based on their arguments, mo-tions, objections, opening statements, di-rect examinations of witnesses, cross-ex-aminations of witnesses and closing argu-ments, Franczyk said.

Poplawski, a third-year law student, has been in “public speaking engagements” before, but has never competed in a mock trial competition until this past weekend.

“Being able to think on your feet and make split second decisions is something that only comes with practice and know-ing about your case,” Poplawski said. “A good advocate must know when to push and when to hold back on a witness. There are many strategic decisions made over the course of a trial between you and your partner that makes the whole pro-cess so interesting.”

Carberry said mock trial competitions give students an opportunity to experi-ence a court case from beginning to end.

“It helps you develop an understanding of how to put a case together, to recog-nize what is most important in a case and what the jury needs to hear to return the verdict in your favor,” Carberry said.

In a typical semester, UB sends mock trial teams to four or five competitions. Teams have previously competed in Michigan, Texas, New York, California and Florida.

The next competition for the UB team is the William W. Daniel National Invita-tional Mock Trial Competition in Atlanta, Georgia Nov. 21-22.


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When Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown announced 2015’s capital budget, totaling $26 million, he demonstrated the city’s commit-ment to its parks, arts and neigh-borhoods – essentially, its peo-ple.

The budget, which is $3.1 mil-lion more than last year’s, focus-es on renovations and rehabilita-tion projects, with only $2.5 mil-lion going toward demolitions.

Parks funding was cut almost in half, falling from $1.2 million this year to $674,000. But that money will be enough to sup-port significant improvements to Schiller Park and LaSalle Park.

Even more importantly, the cuts to parks seem to have bol-stered the funding directed to arts and culture, where financial assistance is sorely needed.

With an additional $400,000, arts and cultural organizations will receive $1.6 million. Librar-ies, theaters and the Buffalo Zoo will all get a portion of the boun-ty, and Shakespeare in the Park will soon enjoy a new stage.

Though the latter, with a price tag of $205,000, seems more than a little costly, it’s encourag-ing to see Buffalo recognize the value of these organizations to the people of Buffalo.

Struggling neighborhoods in Buffalo received a fair share of the budget, too, with $1.2 million going to infrastructure improve-ments in the East Side, an area which already is host to a $70 million housing development – the largest scale project of its kind in years.

In a more questionable alloca-tion of funds, $500,000 went to Coca-Cola Field, as the Bisons begin Phase I of what could be a long-term, large-scale renovation of the minor league baseball sta-dium.

This first phase involves re-placing 3,700 seats in the stadi-um, at a cost of $758,000. The team hopes to replace all of the stadium’s approximately 18,000 seats in addition to multimil-lion renovations to concession stands, dugout suites and a pos-sible retractable roof.

According to Brown, this $500,000 contribution is just the beginning, as the city plans to contribute to the future phases of the renovation.

The city’s willingness to hand over cash is questionable, espe-cially considering that Bisons owner Robert Rich, Jr. has a net worth of $3 billion. Terry Pegu-la put $170 million of his own money into the HarborCenter

– Rich should follow his com-mendable lead.

And although Coca-Cola Field is an important part of the downtown landscape, and the Bi-sons a team long-associated with Buffalo, extensive, publicly fund-ed renovations to the stadium are bound to raise some concerns.

Expensive sports arenas are all the rage, but it’s worth question-ing how much new revenue these renovations would bring in. Co-ca-Cola Field may not be awe-inspiring, but fans go to Bisons games regardless.

Despite the arguably unnec-essary contribution to Coca-Co-

la Field, this capital budget, as a whole, reflects a city with its pri-orities in line. Funding directed to parks, cultural institutions and low-income areas is undoubtedly money well spent.


Capital budget reveals proper priorities in Buffalo

Months after the Federal Com-munications Commission re-vealed its proposal that would limit Internet equality, and al-most a year after appointing a former lobbyist for cable com-panies as FCC Chair, President Obama is finally taking a stand in support of net neutrality.

A critical principle behind the Internet as we know it, net neu-trality allows every form of in-formation and application to be supported equally by an infor-mation network – that equality is now endangered.

The Internet, as it stands now, is “neutral,” in the sense that any website, whether it’s run by a corporation or an individual, has access to the same content deliv-ery speeds managed by broad-band companies.

Back in April, the FCC pro-posed that Internet providers could offer “fast lanes,” which would allow content to be de-livered at faster speeds, for the companies that could afford to pay.

Essentially, the Internet would

no longer be equal and free – in-stead, it would become yet an-other domain in which money equals power.

The reaction to this proposal was swift and severe, with Inter-net users directing their criticism at the FCC with such fury that their outpouring of comments crashed the FCC’s website.

Democrats were equally pro-tective of net neutrality, fight-ing the bill and contributing to its failure in the House of Rep-resentatives.

And yet, Obama stayed quiet. It would not be surprising if

the president’s reticence resulted from what must have been regret over his choice of FCC Chair Tom Wheeler, whom Obama appointed in November of last year.

Wheeler, whose driveway was blockaded by Internet activists on Monday morning, worked as a lobbyist prior to his appoint-ment.

In the 1980s, Wheeler lobbied Congress to deregulate the cable industry and from 1992 to 2004,

he worked as head of the Cellu-lar Telecommunications & In-ternet Association, in which he oversaw campaigns to fight FCC regulations of the wireless indus-try.

Obama’s selection of Wheeler, who clearly supports deregula-tion of the wireless and cable in-dustries, to head the agency that serves as the regulators of that same industry was questionable from the very beginning.

Now that choice has clearly backfired

So as Obama speaks up at last, his speech is overshadowed by his actions.

Nonetheless, it is reassuring to hear that the country’s leader supports Internet freedom, and that his opinion aligns with the public on such a critical issue.

In his statement on Monday, Obama reasserted his commit-ment to net neutrality, arguing against the blocking of websites and gatekeeping by Internet pro-viders.

He asked the FCC “to recog-nize that for most Americans,

the Internet has become an es-sential part of everyday commu-nication and everyday life.”

Obama’s statement – his first official declaration of support – is great to hear. It’s aggressive, strongly worded and supportive of the public opinion. The pres-ident’s willingness to listen to the public and make his stance un-equivocally clear is commend-able.

But that’s all it is: a statement. And unfortunately, expressing

his opinion is all Obama can do in this case.

The FCC is an independent agency, and when Obama picked Wheeler to be its leader last year, he put the power his hands. Whatever Obama says now is di-minished by his earlier choices.

Because in this case, Obama’s influence is guaranteed no spe-cial consideration – the FCC could dismiss the president’s comments as easily as it ignored the millions of complaints from Internet-users last year.


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Funding for arts and culture, neighborhood infrastructure help counter questionable investment in Coca-Cola Field

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SHAROL SHAMSORSTAFF WRITER

Kari Winter has dealt with

men and teenage boys who ex-posed themselves to her while walking down the street. She’s far from alone.

More than 60 percent of 2,000 women surveyed reported expe-riencing street harassment, ac-cording to non-profit group Stop Street Harassment.

Winter, a professor of transna-tional studies, said women in big cities have similar experiences to the one shown in a viral cat-calling video that has been filling Facebook feeds since late Octo-ber.

The video, which has more than 30 million views on You-Tube, showed actress Shoshana Roberts enduring 108 catcalls in the span of 10 hours while walk-ing through the streets of New York City.

The video has created mixed reactions from the public, in-cluding UB students. Students question catcalling’s broad effect on society, as well as what some viewed a flawed perception of race within the video and how it was edited.

Rob Bliss of Rob Bliss Cre-ative partnered with Roberts and Hollaback!, a non-profit move-ment launched by activists to end street harassment, to create the video titled “10 Hours of Walk-ing in NYC as a Woman.”

BSU held a meeting Monday to discuss the video as well.

“The catcalling video made catcalling real,” said Noelle Nes-bitt, president of Black Stu-dent Union (BSU) and a senior biomedical engineering major. “When I say this, I mean having a visual representation of some-thing makes it undeniable.”

In the video, multiple men walked and catcalled at Rob-erts for an extended period of time. At one point, a man walked alongside her for almost five minutes. Some of the men

said things like “beautiful” and “sexy” and would follow with angry remarks if Roberts did not respond.

“I have rarely, if ever, seen a man get ‘catcalled,’” Nesbitt said in an email. “[Women] are looked at as more of an ‘attain-able prize’ than a person with feelings, emotions, etc. In many cases no means no, and no re-sponse means leave me alone.”

Winter sees “signs of confu-sion” in the men of the video and worries they are unable to “tell the difference between be-ing aggressive and being friend-ly.”

Anne Marie, a graduate stu-dent in global gender studies and treasurer of UB Society of Fem-inists (SoFem), has worked with Hollaback! before. She does not really know if “we’ll ever be in a position to end street harass-ment.”

She said harassment is not as much about sexuality as it is about power. Rather, the issue is when women are alone in public places, this is somehow threaten-ing to “some masculinities,” she said.

Winter does not think the men who catcall mean to be hostile.

Some men do not understand these harassments are a “kind of aggression,” because it is “part of a culture, which men are not socialized to understand the dif-ference between being friendly, being aggressive, being insulting and being kind,” Winter said.

Marie doesn’t know what the actress might have been feeling, but admitted her past experience of harassment made her angry and involved in pointless argu-ments. If a woman responds to a harasser, she said it could esca-late into a “yelling match” where the harassers don’t believe they

have done something wrong.“You feel really angry because

there is nothing you can do real-ly,” Marie said. “It’s totally a no-win situation.”

Some criticisms of the video were racial politics that may or may not have been involved be-cause of editing.

Christine Varnado, assistant professor of transnational stud-ies, said the video reinforced “the false idea that street harass-ment usually or mostly happens to white women.”

Tiffany Vera, a junior psychol-ogy major and co-chair of UB’s Black Women United, said the video has good intentions, but it perpetuates negative stereotypes of minority men.

“By only showing minori-ty men cat call to the Cauca-sian woman, they are perpetuat-ing the ‘Black Brute’ stereotype,” she said in an email. “However,

in actuality, all men of every race and class cat call to women ev-eryday.”

Marie, however, said the video editing may not have intention-ally chosen to only include mi-norities catcalling, but she agrees there is still a problem of only showing minority races regard-less.

Ivan Fruehan, a junior me-dia study major, said he felt the video placed anything who was a “racial minority or not very good-looking” in a group of “creepers.” The video was “lumping people who greet her with people who try to violate her,” he said.

Fruehan said the “hollering” seemed out of proportion, but he would not “holler” himself.

Varnado said there is a robust community-based movement against the street harassment that happens to black and Lati-no girls and women, as much as it happens to white women.

“I actually think that women of color are recipients of a lot more hostility, violence, aggres-sion and sexual exploitations,” Winter said. “I think it is geopol-itics that women of color tend to be more vulnerable than white women.”

Noelle said having a wider va-riety of races in the video would have “elevated” the video.

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The question of how much of an artist can be seen in his or her art is a monumental question, both to the artists and their audiences.

“The Sexuality of Words,” a two-sided conference/exhibition in con-junction with the Anderson Gal-lery’s exhibit “Art=Text=Art: Pri-vate Languages/Public Systems,” explored the relationship between artists and their artistic expression. The gallery will be opened until Jan. 11.

The focus of the conference held Saturday was to highlight how spe-cific LGBTQ artists, in the present and past, use language and art to comment on the world they lived in, and included presentations and per-formances from various professors and artists across the country.

Jonathan D. Katz, Director of the Doctoral Program in Visual Stud-ies, curated the pieces that were dis-cussed at the conference.

Katz hoped the conference would help break the silence around queer art.

In the early ’50s, LGBTQ artists had no voice in the art world. Most queer artists were ridiculed and scorned, and so they hid their true sexuality from the world.

Many queer artists of this era gave birth to a new art form, com-bining and manipulating linguistics and art, to talk about various social and political issues – the issues that impede their ability to express being queer artists in a world that didn’t support their sexuality.

“The earliest use of words in American art was 100 percent used by gay artists,” Katz said. “That was too much of a circumstance to just be chance. We noticed that it then became an [art movement] that moved from gay people and across the American art [scene] as a whole.”

The advent of adding a language to visual arts became the dominant tool for queer artists to present their message to the world.

Language added an element to the art that gave the artists oppor-tunities to subtlety hide themselves in their work, while simultaneously presenting their work to the world.

“Language offers the opportunity for words [to] multiply meanings,” Katz said. “In other words, there’s one meaning the dominant culture or the public will get, your friends might get, and one meaning you will get.”

This interweaving of the artist’s expression in text and visual is high-lighted in Anderson Gallery’s exhib-it, which opened in September. The “Art=Text=Art: Private Languag-es/Public Systems” exhibit show-cases artists who utilized the combi-nation of text and art alongside the simultaneous emergence of con-crete poetry in the early ’50s.

Matias Viegener, an artist, writ-er and professor of Critical Stud-ies at the California Institute of the Arts, performed at the conference. Viegener, who sometimes uses the iPhone’s Siri to create poems, did an improvisational act during his Satur-day performance.

Talking about influences of his own work, Viegener acknowledged how the use of language by LG-BTQ artists provided subtle clues to their artistic intention.

“LGBTQ people weren’t repre-sented, they were invisible,” Viegen-er said. “The issue of representa-tion became importation – LGBTQ artists wanted to represent LGBTQ people.”

Viegener, however, recognizes that artistic expression is never a di-rect link to the artist.

Speaking on his own piece, Viegener was clear to separate him-self from his work.

“What I’m doing isn’t ‘gay,’ but I am gay,” Viegener said. “But in my piece, there is no gay content.”

The event and art exhibit fos-tered a discussion of language’s sex-uality and gender among the attend-ees.

Dan Gomez, a fifth-year Ph.D. English student, acknowledged the gender of language.

“Language is profoundly gen-dered,” Gomez said. “In histo-ry, most texts and styles are given a gender – masculine or feminine prose – and this has created a gen-der assumption.”

Gomez also said this is the bur-den that follows LGBTQ artists who avoided using obvious lan-guage, to give subtle hints and to bemuse viewers on their lifestyle and identity.

“Even font, color and layout can be associated with gender,” Go-mez said. “It’s almost oppression through language.”

Emily Anderson, a fourth-year Ph.D. English student, said that tex-tual and visual elements were strik-ing because it recalled the “material-ity of language.”

For Anderson, the relation of text and art is something less gender-oriented and more desire-driven.

“We use language to express our desires,” Anderson said. “The lan-guage is often about expressing our-selves and expressing something you can’t have.”

Anderson loved how the exhib-it forced a focus on thinking about the impact of language and the sex-uality within – one of the original goals for why Katz set up the con-ference.

“There’s been an aggressive si-lence conspiracy about sexuality in the art world,” Katz said.

Katz intended for the event to also highlight how we use language on a daily basis and how that is be-ing used in the art world.

“There are all sorts of meaning that surround the word – they can be context dependent, intonation dependent and speaker dependent,” Katz said. “We register those mean-ings without thinking about them. We think were just paying attention to the definition. I want people to start listening to all the ways we use words.”

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The final day to resign from class-es was Friday, Nov. 7 and with just four weeks left in the semester, exams, papers and projects are looming on the horizon.

Maybe you’re feeling like Christy Ye, a junior nursing major and plan to “cry and pray for the best” as you get ready for the final stretch.

Or, you might have developed your own study acronym like Deepak Rai, a sophomore mechanical engineering ma-jor. He’s going to “find help by reading important topics to prepare (FHRITP).”

“I am the type who ends up cramming my studies ‘til the night before, even though I try convincing myself to avoid doing that at all costs,” Rai said.

He’s hoping he won’t do that at the end of this semester, but he said he might anyway.

Sarah Verheyn, a freshman intended psychology major, plans to study hard and double check her work. She said those are two of the simpler ways to make sure you get the highest grade pos-sible.

Verheyn is feeling some stress be-cause as a freshman, she doesn’t feel like she was prepared for the rigor of col-lege courses. She didn’t do as well as she hoped at the beginning of the semester.

Here are some tips and tricks from professionals on campus about how to be successful as the semester winds down.

Reach out to professors &

tutors Office hours exist for the benefit of the

student, so use them. Even if you aren’t sure exactly what you’re struggling with, meet with your professor or TA and talk through your worries.

You should stop by your professor’s of-fice if you’re starting a paper and aren’t ex-actly sure where to go with it. They can help you articulate your ideas more clearly and give suggestions for new ideas to ex-plore.

In addition to your professors, UB of-fers a wide range of tutoring options for students. Stop by the Academic Suc-cess Centers and Tutoring, the Mathemat-ics Department Help Center or the Cen-ter for Excellence in Writing for some ex-tra help.

“It’s not too late to seek tutoring,” said Sheila Pinckney, assistant director for Resi-dential Education.

Get enough sleep“A rested mind is a sharp mind,” said

Kelli Hennessy, director of Organization-al Development and Training. “With plen-ty of sleep, you can get things done faster and with better results.”

Pinckney agrees. She advises students to take care of themselves.

Rather than staying up all night cram-ming, set time for yourself over the course of a few days to study. Do your best to get the full eight hours of sleep each night to keep your brain in tip-top shape.

Eat healthy meals regularlyPart of taking care of yourself, Pinck-

ney said, is eating regular meals. When students start cramming their studying, it is even more important to maintain their health.

Like sleep, eating healthy foods and reg-ular intervals will keep you energized and your mind sharp throughout the day. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables, whole grains and avoid fast food. Sacrificing health for convenience will not pay off the day of an exam.

Try new study strategies

If you didn’t do too well on your first exams and papers, then maybe your strate-gies weren’t right for you.

Pinckney said if you normally study alone, then try getting together with a group of students in your class. They may be able to offer some insight on informa-tion, or you can help clarify things they’re unsure of.

Or, she said, “re-write notes rather than just reading through notes” because the act of writing can help with memory and recall. You might get distracted while read-ing over notes, but if you physically write them, some part of you is paying attention to the words.

“Recite [notes] out loud,” Pinckney said. “Hearing in a different format might be helpful.”

Study when it works best for youHennessy and Pinckney both suggest stu-

dents should study without distractions like Facebook, Netflix or texts from friends.

“Schedule dedicated study time,” Hen-nessy said. “Turn off your phone and don’t surf the web or social media sites unless it’s related to your studying.”

Pinckney said to study in smaller incre-ments of time and be sure to step outside of your study area every once in awhile. If it’s nice out, go for a walk – the fresh air will re-energize your mind. When the weather isn’t so beautiful, even a jog around your dorm or a walk to grab some food will give you time to chill out.

Some silent time with yourself may spark new ideas about the subject for when you get back to studying.

It’s important to figure out when you work best. If you’re a morning person, get up extra early to get some studying in. If you’re a night owl, do your work then.

“Use your most productive time of the day to tackle the toughest assignments,” Hennessy said. “If you tend to have the most energy and sharpest mind in the eve-ning, do your assignments then and it will take less energy.”

By setting a schedule, you won’t get burned out from cramming everything into one night filled with caffeine and junk food, Pinckney said.

Hennessy said to keep work with you at all times so if you have to wait for the Stam-pede or a class to start, you can squeeze in a few minutes of review. It will make you feel more productive and keep your mind on task throughout the day.

Studying for exams, writing papers and completing projects at the end of the se-mester will come up really quick. Make sure to set a schedule for yourself and stay orga-nized. If you eat healthy, get sleep and try some new study strategies, you have a good chance at succeeding. Although these are all basic tips, they can make a big impact on your GPA.

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The Buffalo women’s soccer team sat in the UB Stadium meeting room Mon-day in anticipation to find out what team the Bulls would be playing in their first NCAA Tournament.

The Bulls had received their high-est national ranking (No. 32) and first Mid-American Conference Tournament Championship Sunday. The champion-ship gave the Bulls an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament, so the players in the room knew they’d be playing more soccer. The only question that remained was where.

Buffalo (16-2-3, 12-0-2 MAC) was awarded a No. 15 seed and will face No. 2 seed Penn State (17-3, 12-1 Big Ten Con-ference) Friday at 7:30 p.m. in State Col-lege, Pennsylvania. The Nittany Lions are ranked No. 6 in the country.

“I’m proud of coach Burke, the staff, and their players,” said Athletic Direc-tor Danny White. “We haven’t enjoyed a lot of success with just four conference championships in school history. In ef-forts of building a championship culture here, these athletes and coaches are lead-ing the charge.”

Head coach Shawn Burke expressed the team’s desire to play and continue to make program history.

“I guess we’re going big right off the bat,” Burke said. “This is what the team wanted. There’s a reason all of these teams are in the tournament, all of them are quality teams. We’ve been setting his-tory and breaking school records all sea-son, so this is another opportunity for us to do so.”

Senior midfielder Courtney Mann was still in shock about the team’s run to the NCAA Tournament. Buffalo made the MAC Tournament only once and won

eight MAC games in Mann’s first three seasons.

“It’s one of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen,” Mann said. “Being a lo-cal kid, it’s what you dream about. I’m still pinching myself a bit, so it’s pretty hard to describe how it feels right now. I’m just excited for my team right now.”

The Bulls played just one team in NCAA Tournament field this season – Virginia Tech. Buffalo lost 5-0 to the Hokies – currently ranked No. 19 in the country – Sept. 12.

Burke said the Virginia Tech loss was a learning experience and will help Buffa-lo against another top team in Penn State Friday.

“Our focus from day one is what we do,” Burke said. “Obviously, Penn State is

going to bring us a whole lot of challeng-es. We played Virginia Tech earlier in the season, so we know what caliber they will bring. We just have to play our game and continue to improve as a team.”

Junior defender and MAC Defensive Player of the Year Jackie Hall said Buffa-lo changed as a team after the loss to the Hokies.

“Against Virginia Tech, we learned that we had just to keep trying,” Hall said. “The confidence was big on this team af-ter that. We scored goals and we had goals scored on us and still won. In the past, I worried about our scoring, but now, I have full confidence in our offense and we can score in many ways.”

Buffalo has gone 14-1-2, including an undefeated MAC season, and allowed just

eight goals since the 5-0 loss to Virginia Tech.

Behind Hall and freshman goalkeeper Laura Dougall’s program-record 12 shut-outs, the Bulls’ defense has allowed just 13 goals all season. Penn State’s defense has been equally impressive, as it has al-lowed just 14 goals this season. The Nit-tany Lions seem to have the advantage on offense, however, as they have scored 46 goals compared to Buffalo’s 31 goals this season.

Penn State won the Big 10 Conference regular-season championship but was up-set 1-0 in quarterfinal round of the con-ference tournament by Northwestern. The Nittany Lions were a No. 1 seed in the 2012 NCAA Tournament but fell in the championship game 4-1 to North Carolina.

Buffalo and Penn State have played against each other three times – most re-cently in 1994 and 1995 – with the Nit-tany Lions winning both of these match-ups. The Bulls were shutout in both games. Buffalo’s lone win against Penn State came in a 6-0 victory in 1988.

Buffalo assistant coach Casey Derkacz played two seasons on the Penn State men’s soccer team from 2007-08 before transferring to Buffalo for his final two seasons.

“They put the work in, and now, it’s pay-ing off,” Burke said. “It started at the top with our leadership. It’s a smaller roster and we had some injuries, but everyone’s contributed. This is a special team from the staff, [assistant coach] Kim [Brandao] and Casey and the players. We’ll be ready for Friday.”

Buffalo would face either Connecticut or New Hampshire Nov. 21 in the second round with a win Friday.


Bulls to play Penn State in NCAA Tournament MAC Championship gives Buffalo tournament bid and a No. 15 seed

CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM

The women’s soccer team celebrates junior defedner jackie Hall’s game-winning goal in Sunday MAC Champion-ship game. The Bulls face Penn State in the NCAA Tournament Friday at 7:30 p.m in State College, Pennsylvania.

UB all-time rushing leader and now San Diego Chargers running back attend-ed the men’s basketball team’s exhibition opener Thursday night during the Char-gers’ bye week.

Oliver broke out Oct. 5 when he had 182 yards of total offense against the New York Jets and has the fourth most yards of any rookie running back in the NFL. The Spectrum spoke with Oliver at Thursday’s game about his journey.

The Spectrum: What’s it been like to go from an undrafted fourth string running back to a starting back in the NFL?

Branden Oliver: It’s been great, man. It’s been a dream come true. I’m just hav-ing some fun with it right now.

TS: What’s the outreach from your for-mer Buffalo teammates and coaches been like?

BO: There’s a lot of support and a lot of fans. It’s all from God. I know it wouldn’t be the same without him. My

past teammates and my current team-mates have shown support through this whole thing.

TS: What was it like to play against your former teammate Khalil Mack in the NFL?

BO: He’s my brother from another mother. I still get to play him after the bye week again … He tackled me once time in the game. I would’ve had him, but the [defensive back] contained so he had me that time.

TS: What’s it like to come back to Buf-falo and be such a celebrity at the basket-ball game?

BO: I know it comes with the territo-ry. It’s something God has built me up to handle. I’m just trying to stay humble be-cause it’s easy to get a big head in this sit-uation.”


Q&A with Branden Oliver NFL player and UB all-time rushing leader talks with The Spectrum about his journey

SPORTS DESK

The football team (4-6, 2-4 Mid-Amer-ican Conference) defeated Akron (4-6, 2-4 MAC) 55-24 Tuesday night. The 55 points were the highest the Bulls have ever scored against a MAC opponent. Ak-ron had the No. 1 ranked defense in the conference coming into the game.Stat rundown

-The Bulls possessed the ball for 36:03 to Akron’s 23:57 and ran more plays than Akron (77 to 65).

-Buffalo held Akron to just 229 yards of total offense – its best performance against an FBS opponent this season.

-After Akron scored on an intercepted pass from junior quarterback Joe Licata on the second play of the game, the Bulls outscored Akron 27-3 for the rest of the half.

-Buffalo averaged 7 yards per play, dou-bling Akron’s 3.5 yards per play output.

-Buffalo finished with zero ‘three-and-outs’ while forcing Akron into a ‘three-and-out’ on its first three possessions.

-Running backs Anthone Taylor and Jordan Johnson ran for more than 100 yards each. It was the first time two Buffa-lo backs completed the feat since Nov. 19, 2013 against Miami Ohio. Turning Point

-After turning the ball over on their first two drives, the Bulls scored a touchdown on their next three drives en route to 21 unanswered points and a 27-10 halftime advantage.

When the game was won-Buffalo scored 14 points in four plays

to take a 41-17 lead in the third quarter. Licata threw a 42-yard touchdown to ju-nior wide receiver Ron Willoughby. Zips quarterback Kyle Pohl fumbled on the first play of Akron’s ensuing drive, and Li-cata threw a 24-yard touchdown to junior running back Devin Campbell one play later. Buffalo’s Player of the Game

-Licata became Buffalo’s all-time lead-er in touchdown passes Tuesday night as he surpassed former Bull Drew Willy’s re-cord of 52. Licata broke the record on his first touchdown of the night: a 6-yard pass to Campbell. He finished with four touchdowns on 16 of 21 passing for 193 yards. Akron’s Player of the Game

-Senior running back Jawon Chisholm finished with 12 carries for 40 yards and one rushing touchdown. Quote of the Game

- “Honestly, I wanted to kill some-body after those first two turnovers, that’s what’s going through my mind,” said in-terim head coach Alex Wood. “But you hold your composure. It’s early in the ball game. You just have to keep playing.”Next Game

-The Bulls will host Kent State (1-8, 0-5 MAC) on Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 8:00 p.m. The game can be seen on ESPN2 and ES-PNU.


Bulls Breakdown Highlights from the Bulls’ 55-24 victory over Akron

Former Bull and current San Diego Chargers running back Branden Oliver has ran for 371 yards and two touchdowns this season. The Spectrum spoke with Oliver at the men’s basketball team’s exhibition game Thursday night.

Check out ubspectrum.com/sports for a full game story, The Spectrum’s Sports Desks’ grades and more coverage of Licata’s reocrd.

YUSONG SHI, THE SPECTRUM

Linebacker Jarrett Franklin and defen-sive lineman Brandon Crawford cele-brate in Buffalo’s 55-24 victory over Ak-ron Tuesday night. The win snapped the Bulls’ four-game losing streak.

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