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New York Times columnist David Brooks opened the 26th season of uB’s Distinguished Speakers Series on Wednesday night. he spoke on political issues facing america – the changes he’s seen since World War ii and what he sees in the current presidential race.

Bulls fall victim to Arch nemesis

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Referendum passes at UB, students elect new senators

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Sara DiNataLeSenior News Editor

SuNY trustee Joseph Belluck thinks uB’s con-troversial fracking institute should be shut down.

in a meeting in New York city on Sept. 12, he said the controversy over the institute threatens to undermine SuNY as a first-class research institute and suggested the Shale research Society and insti-tute (SrSi) be dissolved.

Belluck blamed the controversy on college of arts and Sciences Dean Bruce pitman, who oversees the institute, and on uB president Satish tripathi.

“i think Satish has really failed to address this in the right way,” Belluck told the trustees.

SuNY trustees decided they did not yet have enough information to vote on the institute. instead, they unanimously passed a resolution to investigate the founding and funding of SrSi. the meeting was recorded and put online by SuNY over the week-end.

the university is currently responding to Su-NY’s requests, according to uB Spokesman John Della contrada.

university officials have repeatedly said no in-dustry funding went into the institute itself. this week Della contrada said the oil and gas industry did, however, help fund the april 2011 lecture series sponsored by the geology department that spurred the creation of the institute a year later.

in particular, he said the independent oil and Gas association of New York donated $5,000 to the marcellus Shale lecture series, which cost $12,900. other funding included:

$5,000 from otis eastern Service, inc, a leading pipeline contractor

$2,000 from Lenape enterprises, no informa-tion available

$200 from chautauqua energy management, a producer of oil and gas wells in pennsylvania and New York

LiSa khourYSenior News Editor

New York Times political columnist Da-vid Brooks came to uB on Sept. 20 to start off the 26th-annual Distinguished Speakers Series. But before his speech at the center for the arts, he stopped by uB’s student-run newspaper, The Spectrum, to give advice to the aspiring journalists.

While many students in the office plan to apply to graduate schools of journalism, Brooks said it isn’t necessary.

“i confess, i never took a journalism class,” Brooks, 51, said. “i think that’s a little overboard. i mean, you should take jour-nalism, but i’m a big believer in ‘You gotta bring something to the table.’ Say you’re ap-plying for jobs. a certain number of people can write a good story, but what else are you bringing?”

Brooks encouraged the students to find a niche, whether it is studying biology or economics, master a skill set – utilize it to write for future employers.

Brooks knew he wanted to be a writer when he was 7 years old, but he said if you

want to have a writing career today, you have to be “multi-platformed.” When he covered the republican and Democratic National conventions, only a third of his time was dedicated to writing columns; he also had a daily web conversation and web chat.

unlike many modern journalists, Brooks does not tweet. he does, however, appear on PBS News Hour on Fridays and of-ten on mSBc’s Meet the Press on Sundays, in addition to his two columns per week.

“and i do that just because i want to be able to survive, and i don’t know where the future is so i’m just going to do it all,” Brooks said.

he said today’s market in journalism is for two types of writers: the “sprinter” and the “long distance runner.” Brooks said the sprinter is the person who can tweet or write an instant web story, and the distance runner conceptualizes a big topic into one story.

Brooks got his big break while attend-ing the university of chicago, where he later earned a degree in history. he was an opinion and editorial writer for the school newspaper. then liberal, he wrote a parody about the conservative author and commen-tator William Buckley, because Buckley was coming to his campus to give a speech.

Fracking update: UB continues

to deny industry funding claimsUB says money only went to lecture series

Brooks advises Spectrum staff to “Bring something to the table”

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aLexa StruDLer /// the Spectrum

David Brooks speaks to a group of students in The Spectrum office shortly before giving his speech in the cFa thursday night.

reBecca BratekManaging Editor

two out of three college students would choose to have a lot of fame over the choice to have a lot of sex.

“i’m on tV a lot; i’m sort of fa-mous,” said David Brooks. “i’m 51, [and] i remember sex. Sex is a lot better.”

Nineteen percent of americans be-lieve they’re a part of the top 1 percent of wealth, according to a survey done by Time Magazine. the united States ranks No. 36 in the study of mathematics, but the country is No. 1 in thinking students are “really good” at math. men drown twice as much as women because men have tremendous confidence in their ability to swim after they’ve been drink-ing.

it’s this self-confident culture that is changing america in every aspect, ac-cording to Brooks – a New York Times op-ed columnist and political analyst – from the way we act, the way we think of ourselves and the way we govern our country. and, according to Brooks who cited all these facts, this self-absorbance has only increased since World War ii.

Brooks opened uB’s 26th-annual Distinguished Speakers Series in the center for the arts on Wednesday eve-ning. in front of hundreds of commu-nity members, he spoke of america’s current state – morally, economically and politically – while connecting these ide-als back to the current presidential race.

“this has been a cultural shift, and we don’t necessarily want to go back, but there is a sense of first – that we live in closed loops in the midst of our own rightness,” Brooks said.

Brooks, though he leans toward the right of the political spectrum (think theodore roosevelt/alexander hamil-ton ideology), has made a career of ana-lyzing how the government works and – more importantly – why it doesn’t work. But Brooks remains optimistic, yet prag-matic, as the current presidential race approaches; this college-aged generation and younger generations are becoming the ones who matter and the ones who can change the system.

Brooks, after about 30 minutes of speaking on america’s current state, shifted focus to the presidential candi-dates and his take on the obama-rom-ney battle and the republican party’s at-tempt to gain governmental control back from the Democrats.

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uB undergraduates voted to pass a referendum on thursday and elect-ed new student senators after a three-day election.

the referendum continues the use of the $94.75 mandatory stu-dent activity fee in students’ tuition. the referendum passed with 1,300 students voting “yes,” and 172 vot-ing “no.” there were a total of 1,760 votes, including those for senators.

the election brings in on-campus senators alexander archer, michael calliste, Dan Giles, Laura Grassi, ma-rissa malone and Darcie o’Sullivan. all of the newly elected on-campus senators belong to the reform party.

off-campus senators include carl ross, Nick Johns, Jonathan Grunin, Sonya abed, ali ahmed and tyler Bauer. Bauer is the only off-campus senator from the trust party.

the referendum vote occurs every two years. During the 2010-11 senate election, the referendum passed with 1,475 “yes” votes and 200 “no” votes, with a total of 1,904 votes.

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at the end of Buckley’s speech he said, “David Brooks, if you’re here i’d like to give you a job.”

Brooks took him up on that deal two years later. Buckley “adopted” Brooks and taught him how to be a journalist. he left Buckley a year and a half later to experience various jobs, including reporting abroad for The Wall Street Journal. he covered the middle east peace process, Nelson mandela coming out of prison in South africa and the fall of the Soviet union – which he said was the best story he’s ever covered.

Brooks eventually developed a conser-vative mindset, which he describes as “not quite where the republican party is, but it has more to do with where theodore roosevelt and alexander hamilton were.”

Brooks said he admires president Barack obama, as well as other politicians, but as a reporter he cannot allow personal loyalty to get in the way of a column. Brooks is instead loyal to a specific type of conservative vision.

at times when he thinks obama deserves it, Brooks “dumps” on obama. obama will then call him into the White house to try to explain why Brooks is wrong.

“one of the dangers of being a colum-nist is it’s so easy to turn into a partisan,” Brooks said. “You’re just going to represent the republican point of view or Democratic point of view. But if you try to be loyal to a vision rather than a party, then you get sh*t from both sides.”

Brooks said government demands the highest intellectuals and the highest moral skills, and it is incredibly important for stu-dents to pay attention to politics, especially with the upcoming presidential election.

though he’s written for The Times for nine years, Brooks still is never content with his work.

“i read my columns in the paper; they’re never good,” he said. “it’s never like, ‘man, i nailed that one.’… But occasionally it’ll be a B, often it’s a c or a D, and i feel humiliated and i really have a bad day. But at least i got another one coming in a couple of days.”


$200 from reserve energy exploration, a privately held com-pany focused on oil, natural gas and renewable energy projects

$250 from tectonic, a New York engineering firm

$200 minard run oil com-pany, an independent oil compa-ny in pennsylvania

“if the talk series is not part of the institute – if it’s just an in-dependent talk series – then it is unlike any such series i have ever organized or attended in that it fails to acknowledge the mon-eys that paid for it: in this case, $12,900 in support from oil and gas and affiliated companies,” said James holstun, an english professor and chairman of the uB coalition for Leading ethi-cally in academic research (uB-cLear), in an email.

he feels the basic principles of academic ethics that require acknowledgement and thanks to the donors should have occurred at the talk series and “not more than a year later, under intense public and [SuNY] trustee pres-sure.”

SrSi was founded in april 2012 and produced its first re-port in may. the report came out under uB’s name and suggested fracking is not as detrimental to the environment as many experts say. the report was immediately criticized for its findings, its nu-merical inaccuracies and the au-thors’ connections to the oil and gas industry. in addition, a uB press release claimed the report was peer reviewed. after a watch-

dog group questioned the review process and the report as a whole, uB reissued the press release say-ing it had not been peer reviewed.

Belluck is not the only one to question the institute’s valid-ity. Since its inception in april, uB faculty and community mem-bers have asked uB administra-tors to explain how the institute got started, who is funding it and what – if any – ties it has to the oil and gas industry. they have also expressed outrage over the salary of John p. martin, one of the in-stitute’s co-directors, and his per-ceived conflict of interest as an oil and gas insider.

pitman has defended mar-tin’s hiring and has insisted the institute has not received any industry funding and that it is a purely academic endeavor with an approximately $40,000 start-up budget, not including salaries.

according to the SrSi web-site, the institute has a $177,442 annual budget.

“the $40,000 was an esti-mate of operating costs and sup-port. [it] does not include person-nel costs,” Della contrada said.

the actual amount posted on the website for operating sup-port and staff support is $48,600. although pitman originally an-swered The Spectrum’s questions on SrSi, since Wednesday, he has deferred all questions to Della contrada, stating the uB spokes-person “is the appropriate person to respond.”

the additional $128,842 left in the $177,442 budget is allot-

ted for personnel costs, including “salary, fringe and other benefits” for the institute’s co-directors, martin and robert Jacobi. the funds are coming from a uni-versity at Buffalo Foundation account and a “state operating account,” according to the SrSi website.

martin’s part-time salary of $60,000 annually and a $1,000 monthly stipend for travel was re-leased last week after Artvoice filed a Freedom of information Law (FoiL) request.

Several uB faculty members, including holstun and law pro-fessor martha mccluskey, feel a combined $72,000 salary is too high for an employee only re-quired to work 25 percent of his time.

holstun is a founding mem-ber of uBcLear, a group of 25 community and faculty mem-bers who want the university to explain exactly how the institute started and has been funded. he is convinced documents obtained by Artvoice via a FoiL prove the oil and gas industries have helped and/or plan to help fund the in-stitute.

the document, a one-page description of SrSi’s goals and fundraising strategies, shows a commitment by the independent oil and Gas association of New York (ioGa).

“ioGa of NY is keenly aware of our plans and has not only aided us with funding, but also organizational help,” the doc-ument states. in the subsequent

bullet point, it states, “through our marcellus Shale lecture se-ries last spring, we reached out to local citizenry as well as govern-ment and environmental activist concerns and were able to make numerous contacts.”

holstun said the document is evidence that ioGa funded SrSi.

Della contrada said the ioGa money referred to in the one-page document went to the lecture series, not the institute. after the lecture series, “faculty and administrators saw sufficient interest to make an institute vi-able,” Della contrada said.

holstun doesn’t feel the lec-ture series properly disclosed the industry funding received – something that echoes his con-cerns regarding the entire insti-tute. he wants the administration to release all documents relating to founding, funding and gover-nance of SrSi.

“this is precisely the sort of thing we have to fear with the institute itself, if it ever should actually come alive again: that it will be supported by money from the oil and gas industry, laun-dered through the uB Founda-tion, which is currently immune to FoiL requests, so that uB peddles its legitimacy for an un-der-the-table corporate contribu-tion,” holstun said. “Nobody has the right to degrade the univer-sity at Buffalo in this way.”


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opinion

in “an assault on human-ity” (the Spectrum, Feb. 12, 2012), the editorial board called for the u.S. to apply its “great model” from Libya in Syria.

a full-scale invasion is too much, however. Libya works as a great model for how we should handle it. use airstrikes and drones to prevent forces from continuing their rampage on homs and other cities.

are they still as confident and sure?

everyone from mitt rom-ney to hillary clinton praised the death of Gaddafi. there was a bi-partisan consensus that, as clin-ton put it, “We came. We saw. he died.”

the hard work was done –smooth sailing ahead. or so the talking heads said.

therein lies the problem with american foreign policy: it is so incredibly shortsighted and arrogant that it deserves ridicule. You cannot expect the stars to fall into place just because you took out one madman. this line of thinking, which dominates the

airwaves, newspapers and con-gressional chambers, is so sim-plistic that it makes a mockery of logical thought.

Yevgeny Y. Satanovsky, president of the institute of the middle east in moscow, said of american policy: “You are the Soviet union now, guys, and you pay the price. You are trying to distribute democracy the way we tried to distribute socialism. You do it the Western way. they hate both.”

how much clearer can it be? We are now the imperialists. We reap what we sow, and so far that’s four americans.

how many more people – ambassadors, soldiers, men, women and children – need to die or get hurt before we realize how radically counterproductive our middle eastern policy is?

unfortunately, with Nobel unworthy Barack and warmonger mitt the only two “real” choices this November, it seems like a lot more.

-Brian Beyer

Letter to the Editor

a sea of blue washed over uB Stadium as royal blue sweatshirts and two-toned faces came through the gates for Wednesday night’s nation-ally televised game against kent State. everything was in place, and students were encouraged to come out to sup-port the home team.

unless you have a bag on you. then feel free to leave.

Students who brought their book bags with them to the game had them inspected but were not allowed to take them into the stadium either way.

Security picked the wrong day to implement a new policy.

the enforcement comes off like this: “oh, you just came from class, and you live all the way on South campus? either take that bag home or get out.”

the policy itself might not be new. uB athletics’ Game Day Guide currently lists backpacks under its prohibited items but just states that “all items entering the stadium will be inspected” and that “fans can speed their entry into the stadium by leaving these items behind.”

But according to uB athletics, the decision was made by university police and not by them. if both Dan-ny White and Jeff Quinn have made the point they want as many students as possible to come to the game, and they took the steps to improve the experience, why aren’t the police and uB athletics working to ensure that actually happens?

Follow up question: why is this policy – new or not – starting while you’re trying to get more fans to the games?

if your student section accounts for about 50 percent of a nationally televised game, you would think who-ever is running the show is going to make sure that 50 percent actually makes it into the stadium.

understandably, safety is a con-cern, but do you know how you can find out if students are smuggling in alcohol or weapons? check the bags. Stadium security is already doing this (most of the time), so there’s no rea-son to tell someone with a backpack of textbooks they can’t come in. it’s the same effect of the tSa telling a passenger they can’t have a carry-on after only finding a magazine.

it will be interesting to see if upD will begin to enforce this when other sports start up soon. imagine seeing crowds of students sadly shuf-fling out of alumni arena just be-cause they didn’t have time to drop off their Social psychology texts at their dorms.

Just be thankful these kids are even going to a night class before the game, and let them in. You have plen-ty of stadium security; use it.


BaggageStudents bringing bags to the game shouldn’t be forced out

this week brought disappointing news for hockey fans when commis-sioner Gary Bettman announced the NhL players’ association and the NhL had failed to reach a collective bargaining agreement, sending the league into a lockout.

With that news came bitter feel-ings, and for longtime fans, it’s déjà vu.

the 2004-05 lockout changed the way the game is played and the way the game is looked at. after sev-en years of rebuilding and recovering, the current lockout is the worst thing that could happen.

this year, the issue for the own-ers is money. the issue is always mon-ey.

according to owners, salaries have risen dramatically over the last couple years, and the players’ current 57 percent of hockey-related revenue is just far too high (they’re currently trying to roll it back to 43 percent). But this time it’s personal. the 2004-05 lockout hit players hard with a 26 percent pay decrease, and they’re making sure they don’t get the same poor treatment.

What’s becoming evident is that the two sides are not negotiating, not working together to reach an agree-ment. the players’ wishes are obvious: cutting draft rounds, revenue sharing, rules for compensation and no sal-ary cuts. For what they go through physically and mentally, none of these are absurd requests, especially when revenue is at an all-time high and the

highest paid player makes $12 mil-lion (compare to the highest payed in baseball at $29 million, the highest in basketball at nearly $28 million,= and the highest in football at $23 million).

But most importantly, they don’t want to feel like a commodity. the NhLpa is trying to negotiate, but owners are playing this game of chicken and will continue to as long as they think their players are dispens-able.

the two sides have agreed not to meet until either the NhLpa or NhL has a new proposal to present. it could be a long wait, and if you’re expecting the lockout to be over by the Winter classic on Jan. 1, don’t hold your breath.

everyone is losing on this one. referees and arena staff won’t get paid, local businesses won’t thrive as much as they normally do (think pearl Street) and fans will have a void to fill during the cold winter months.

hockey is at a point where it’s back in the national consciousness, and that’s what hurts the most. Your fans care enough to come out and watch, but egos on both sides of the deal are getting in the way – again. if this is a lockout that cancels the sea-son, don’t expect everyone to jump back onboard when the tickets go on sale in 2013.


On thin iceNHL lockout stings worse the second time

aDrieN D’aNGeLo

Arts Editor

according to paul auster’s nov-

el The Locked Room: “We exist for ourse lves,

perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we become more and more opaque to ourselves, more and more aware of our own incoherence.”

Democracy, freedom, cul-tural diffusion and thousands of quasi-american ideals saturate and dissolve into no solution that is indicative of its ingredients. our national identity is asym-metrical, our traditions are void of meaning and our patriotism is hollow and unwarranted.

The notion of where we came from is fading.

When the idea of the melting pot became the grandiose pride of american multiculturalism in the ’20s, many individuals strug-gled to retain their culture while assimilating to the american way.

the issue, i believe, has been identifying what assimilation ac-tually is – or what it is today. per-haps watching the Bills game on a 24” flat screen tV while drinking coca-cola and listening to tim mcGraw is defined as an ameri-can experience, but what i see is a nation of people scrambling to find common ground in the face of lost identity.

i recognize my father came to this country from France, but outside of my Fr151 course, my collection of bottles from Bor-deaux’s vineyards and the occa-sional visit overseas, i’m not quite sure French culture is a part of my life. and i know other sec-ond-generation americans feel the same way. So here’s what i’ve related to american culture.

here in the States, we buy our culture.

america: the business driv-en, bigger-and-better-than-you, world police helps its citizens identify themselves by what they consume. in 2009, the u.S. con-sumer goods market was the largest in the world, estimated at $416 billion according to se-lectusa.commerce.gov. the ulti-mate success of companies such as mcDonald’s, phillip morris, Budweiser and others is not just representative of our economy; these products have become part

of our culture. take a look at the way amer-

icans buy clothes. many choose to plaster the abercrombie or american eagle logos on them-selves, with the false precept of individuality. the pre-torn jeans and block letters have become the national garb – the uniform, the mark of corporate-instilled americanism.

if you think buying name brand clothing sets you apart from those who wear abayas, ya-makas, or hijabs – think again. the only difference being the meaning behind your clothes is in your wallet.

Television: the great American enslavement.

the u.S. entertainment in-dustry has been quite successful ever since hollywood’s coming of age in the ’20s. Since then, we’ve found new methods of entertainment that make our way directly into the comfort of our own home. mtV’s Jersey Shore, possibly one of the most widely recognized byproducts of ameri-can entertainment, gives a strong representation of our culture.

the message is clear: if you’re an american, you enjoy getting drunk, having sex and fighting with others about the sex you had when you were drunk. oh land of the free, you’ve cer-tainly set the bar high.

the media is barely an im-provement. there are three kinds of stories covered by the corpo-rate media: those that make you afraid of (insert race here), those that follow celebrities like they’re the pope and those that cultivate your long-founded desire to buy a new ridiculous product. participa-tion may vary.

Finally, americans are identi-fied by their income. We also tend to sort ourselves accordingly. For example: upper-class dinner par-ties will most likely be highly-se-cured to make sure no one from the middle-class dirties up the place.

Who you are depends on what kind of car you drive, what you bought your girlfriend last week, how many figures are in your paycheck and whether or not you can afford a beach house.

We seem to be a country of showoffs. But i guess that’s what is meant by “freedom isn’t free.”


Cultural ambiguity and the American corporate identity


SamaNtha oLiVia YueN-makStaff Writer

When rachel rabinowitz came to uB, she was undecided. it wasn’t until she took a nutrition class that she had any idea of what she wanted to do with her life. But uB doesn’t offer nutrition as a major.

rabinowitz changed that.rabinowitz, a sophomore chemistry

major with a special major in nutrition, is just one of the students at uB who is cre-ating her own major in the special studies program.

the special studies program started in the ’70s and approximately 25,000 students have graduated with their own special ma-jors. every year, there could be anywhere from 15 to 40 students in the program, ac-cording to michael kustreba, a senior aca-demic advisor for the college of arts and Sciences. kustreba works with students to help them create their own majors.

Students who are interested in the spe-cial major program must first come up with an idea or a field of study they want to major in. in rabinowitz’s case, it was nutrition.

Students must then come up with a list of courses they think will best prepare them for a career in their field.

For each of the courses chosen, the student has to write a proposal or justifica-tion as to why it is relevant to their chosen subject. this was the most stressful part of the process for rabinowtiz. She was worried about coming up with her own curriculum and electives.

after the classes are picked, a board of professors reviews the curriculum.

the board comes from different depart-ments at uB, according to kustreba.

the student must find two faculty men-tors to help him or her through the program. these mentors can also suggest courses ap-propriate to the field the student wants to study.

rabinowitz approached peter horvath, a professor in the department of exercise and nutrition sciences, to be one of her men-tors.

“it is hard, but i want to have this ma-jor,” rabinowitz said. “it can pay off in the end.”

Freshmen aren’t allowed to apply to the special major program because, according to kustreba, they aren’t aware of all 140 majors uB has to offer. he thinks freshmen will use this program as an easy way out of exploring their options.

he also thinks the ideal time for stu-dents to pursue creating a unique major is during their sophomore year, so they have enough time to complete the curriculum.

Students work closely with kustreba to come up with the appropriate title for the special major degree.

Some students may think of transfer-ring to another school before they realize they can create something entirely their own, according to kustreba.

“Some of the programs that are de-signed are so unique that they may not be available at another institution,” kustreba said. “We have had majors that were so highly specialized that you would not find it anywhere in the 55,000 colleges in the u.S., so that’s one reason. another reason why is students would not be likely to find it some-where else, and i’m talking about majors such as the title of physiology, psychology and marketing of martial arts for specialized population.”

rabinowitz would never think of trans-ferring. She likes her life and friendships at uB. according to rabinowitz, even though developing her own major takes a lot of work, it will add uniqueness to her degree.


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relationships end for a reason – people drift apart and the romance fizzles out. each party goes its separate ways with hurt feelings and no real desire to ever see the other again.

in many cases, though, a problem seems to arise: your ex is a part of your group of friends.

So you have to be civil with each other. You don’t fight as if you’re ron and Sami from Jersey Shore, but there’s still the underly-ing layer of awkwardness that just doesn’t go away.

i know a lot of couples that have broken up recently. to become friends with an ex isn’t anybody’s top priority of the semester. unfortunately, though, sometimes it has to

be done for the sake of your group’s friend-ship. in college, you get into a groove with a certain group of people and it becomes your family away from home.

a breakup within your college family can seem like a divorce.

mutual friends try not to take sides, both parties take blame for the tension, posses-sions are divided and the never-ending cus-tody battle of whose room you should hang out in comes after.

things don’t have to be this awkward. in most situations, the group is looking for cues from the ex couple on how to act.

if you avoid your ex like the plague in a group setting, your friends will notice and as-sume things are still hostile between the two of you. this is true in some cases and you and your partner may need to take some time to get over each other.

if you’re confused how to act around your ex, here are a few helpful tips:In a group setting – it may be easy to blend into the group and avoid speaking to your ex, but that could look suspicious after a while.

hopefully, before the break up, you weren’t the touchy feely type while hanging out with your friends. So just act how you used to act. Don’t be afraid to sit with your ex, or laugh at one of his or her jokes. You are friends now, and you should think of your ex as just another person to hang out with. Don’t over think it. Alone – if you get caught in a setting where you are face-to-face and alone with the ex, take a deep breath and stand up straight.

act normally. remember you’re friends now and just because you aren’t romantically compatible doesn’t mean you can’t be socially compatible. You started dating for a reason: a

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uB’s football team lost its third game of the season Wednesday night to kent State, 23-7. Surrounded by unresponsive fans who cared much more about tail-gating before and winning free stuff during, the game was as nail-biting as watch-ing the 700 club on repeat.

Football players re-sorted to bribery in order to fill the stands during their games. For hours they stood within the union, handing out ice cream sandwiches as they begged students to watch them half-heartedly let kent State trample over them.

they were quite suc-cessful, filling the stands with students and families covered head to toe in blue – some even taking the op-portunity to paint their stomachs.

“Yeah, i’m staying until the end of the first quarter so i can say that i at least stayed half the game,” said Vivian colin, a sophomore health and human services major.

During the first half, as the Bulls struggled to reach the 50-yard line, spectators were forced to find their entertainment anywhere but the actual game.

many focused their at-tention on the bottles of vodka they snuck into the stadium or decided playing Words With Friends was more engaging.

one student spotted something sparkly in the student section and spent the remaining 2 hours and 45 minutes of the game star-ing at it.

Students were lured into a false sense of success after the game against mor-gan State, in which the Bulls scored 56 points. too bad for the uninformed masses; the win was equivalent to the horde of 20 kids beating and hospitalizing their two unsuspecting victims last weekend on Winspear.

Becky mcmillion, a freshman undecided major, attended the football game with a group of her floor mates. With no background knowledge of the sport other than cheering for the “super sexy” tom Brady be-cause of her love for Gisele Bundchen, her hope was to impress men with being sport savvy.

“i had no idea how much i would actually enjoy football, but i’m really get-ting into it,” mcmillion said. “i’m such a huge Bills fan now!”

mcmillion promptly started jumping up and down, cheering for the team running the ball into the end zone. unbeknownst to the “hardcore fan,” it was kent State scoring.

uB Stadium was silent other than the occasional conversation in the stands about how excited people were to go to bed, what they were going to eat for break-fast and any other possible topic unrelated to the game.

at various times during the game, however, loud cheers and screams erupted from the audience.

unfortunately for the players, the screaming did not correlate with their ac-tual good plays (which hap-pened twice throughout the entire game) but when spec-tators had the opportunity to catch free t-shirts flying through the air.

the t-shirt throws were more accurate than junior quarterback alex Zordich. Later, the student respon-sible for throwing out free t-shirts was approached by head coach Jeff Quinn and asked to play quarterback against uconn.

he declined, stating he only likes winning.

it was decided that the most valuable player of the game was not an actual foot-ball player at all, but the stu-dent who caught footballs during half time in order to win free pizza.

in hindsight, students regretted their decision to attend the game. No mat-ter how much alcohol they were able to chug quickly before they entered the sta-dium, the only thing more painful than sitting through the whole game would have been getting tackled by the kent State players them-selves.


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expert moviegoers are culti-vated to obey the first rule of film law – to always empathize and root for the hero of a film. Arbi-trage is a loophole to this amend-ment; it provides the cruelest pro-tagonist in recent years – a fiend so tyrannical he would shut down an orphanage if it yielded a profit.

Arbitrage tells the tragedy of robert miller (richard Gere, The Double), a Wall Street shark who could have apprenticed beneath Gordon Gekko. miller frauds any-one he has to, including Brooke (Brit marling, Sound of My Voice), his daughter and chief financial officer of the corporation. Gere supplies one of his soundest per-formances, manifesting miller as an aging tycoon who personally plummets himself into the depths of moral destruction.

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miller cheats on his lifelong wife, ellen (Susan Sarandon, Robot & Frank) with a young artist, Julie (Laetitia casta, War of the Buttons). ellen knows of the affair, but for-lornly accepts it as a part of the rich-marriage package.

Just when the plot seems revealed, another curveball is thrown. miller takes Julie for a late night drive, only to get into an accident from falling asleep at the wheel and in turn killing Julie. miller isn’t worried about a homi-cide charge; rather, the last thing he wants is bad media coverage.

he escapes the wreckage with a bleeding head and cracked ribs, gets picked up by his friend Jimmy (Nate parker, Red Tails) and thinks all business is settled.

it isn’t. a loud-mouthed, yet wholehearted Detective Bryer (time roth, Lie to Me) catches miller’s scent quickly. Now his fate is rested upon Jimmy’s shoulders and whether or not Bryer can con-vince him to testify against miller.

here is where most films me-chanically supply needless action in an attempt to spice up the con-flict, but not Arbitrage.

instead, it courageously trav-els down the traditional path of dialogue warfare, as the characters struggle to fight for their personal beliefs. miller wants his empire to pass its audit and then transfer power down to Brooke. Detective Bryer wants justice suitably dished out to the upper class for once. and Jimmy is glued in the center, only wishing to move south with his girl and run an applebee’s.

there’s no scuffing it – Gere was perfectly cast here. it’s been reported he replaced al pacino during pre-production, which first appears as a downgrade. But Ge-re’s natural physique is uncannily convincing as a corrupt billionaire. his slicked-back grey hair has rest-ed in the same place for decades,

and his darkened, squinted eyes always appear to be concealing secrets.

roth also plays his best role of recent memory, somehow dis-guising his hometown London accent and transforming into the restless detective from Brooklyn. But above all, roth is able to play a down-to-earth cop who wants to convict miller for ethical obliga-tions, not simply because the plot tells him to do so.

Arbitrage is a real chin-bruiser – a brilliant thriller that will have people covering their mouths in stunned bewilderment. Jarecki filled his casting slates with docile actors who play believable char-acters and also wrote them smart dialogue that fiercely carries the film’s weight. it’s a treat to finally find a movie that capably mixes suspense and excitement and does so without aimless shootouts or noisy chase scenes. Arbitrage subtly mocks the action-thriller genre by allowing its words to speak louder than guns or car chases ever could.

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Last week, the u.S. mourned a tragedy that still haunts its citizens after 11 years.

one actor, however, took the weight of eight lives on his shoul-ders to relive the pain from that day.

The Guys, is a play that focuses on the husbands, brothers, fathers and friends that risked their lives to keep New York city safe during the chaos that ensued on that fateful day. the play, directed by matthew Lachiusa and written by anne Nel-son, was held at the america rep-ertory theater of Western New York inside the episcopal church of ascension.

Written just weeks after 9/11, having originally debuted off Broadway in New York city back in 2001, The Guys stars Victor mo-rales as Nick Flannigan – a New York city Fire captain who has been given the emotional burden

of preparing eight eulogies for the men in his company the lost, - and andrea andolina as Joan, a New York city writer who helps Nick with his task.

the play is simple, nuanced and controlled. the majority of it deals with Nick offering a series of stories about the men that were once in his company.

the stories detailed their likes, dislikes, flaws, shortcomings and failures. For Nick, the firefight-ers that died were simply his close friends and family, not the heroes the media depicted them to be.

“i personally loved the sto-ries,” said patricia Luko, a senior academics major from Northwest-ern university. “they were so de-tailed and just made you feel like you were right there and knew the person.”

Since the performance was driven solely by these stories and the resulting conversation between Nick and Joan, all of the emotional depth rested on the duo. there was

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no music accompaniment to set the tone – only their words. movement in The Guys was scarce, aside from a dance number.

a story this emotionally charged is reliant on acting in order to get across its message and it could poten-tially falter if the acting isn’t compe-tent. the play is about the human as-pect of the tragedy, so the acting had to reflect that.

morales is believable in the role as Nick Flannigan. his size bombard-ed the stage immediately, perfectly encompassing the role of a NYFD captain. By effortlessly depicting the struggle of losing his fellow freight-ers, morales is able to relive the pain of losing them.

his performance comes from an honest place, according to morales’

daughter rachel, junior general stud-ies major at erie community college.

“he’s a state trooper... [and he knew] a lot of people that went [to the towers],” morales said. “it’s just hard seeing my dad that emotional and thinking about everything that happened – especially so close to the [anniversary].”

matt chavez, a uB alum, agrees The Guys did an amazing job embody-ing the feelings around 9/11.

“it just brings you back, even if you weren’t there,” chavez said.

The Guys will be playing at the american repertory theater Sept. 14 through Sept. 29.


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mutual liking for one another.when you’re out during the week-end – it may be hard to watch an ex grind up against that newbie who is not nearly as pretty as you. But you have to remember that you’re not together anymore.

try to go find your own eye candy to have fun with. You can even try to be his wingman if you are emotionally stable enough. Just because you and him didn’t work out doesn’t mean you can’t help him find a girl.

according to cosmopolitan, it is possible to be friends with an ex. the experts say as long as there is no remi-nisce of sexual desire, as long as you don’t mind seeing your partner with someone else, and as long as he or she is someone whose friendship you truly value, then the two of you can handle life in the friend zone.

however, according to askmen.com, it is never a good idea to become friends with an ex, no matter what. they say that it will only cause bitter-ness, jealousy and a flood of returning memories every time you smell some-thing that reminds you of her.

Both of these sources make a valid point.

it doesn’t matter how long you have been broken up or if the two of you have both moved on – certain situ-ations will hurt a little bit. For example, when your group of friends goes to that bar where the two of you played your first game of pool or when you hear “your” song on the radio, the memories will start rushing into your head.

But in these situations you have to take a moment and remember why the relationship ended.

Sometimes a relationship will end and there is no way a friendship can persist. maybe you were cheated on, you were in an abusive relationship or you caught him trying on your red pumps and little black dress.

it is a hard thing to do, but if it’s possible, becoming friends with an ex could be a rewarding experience. i’m sure the break up was hard for both of you, but being able to stay friends soft-ens the blow.

We should all remember the wise words of that classic song nobody knows the name of: “as long as we can live in harmony, why can’t we be friends? Why can’t we be friends?”


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“offensively, we just weren’t there today,” said Zordich after the game.

Just the threat of oliver running the ball opens passing lanes. With he and promising No. 2 back sophomore James potts out with injuries, opposing defenses don’t need to respect the run. after the Bulls’ 56-34 win over morgan State two weeks ago, Senior Sports edi-tor Nathaniel Smith said: “the Bulls will run Branden oliver 40 or 50 times if they need to.”

i froze.Oh no, I thought, this is going to ruin

the season. Nate had a point: the Bulls would have a much better chance of winning every game if they were to hand it off to Bo every play. he trains harder than anyone and simply doesn’t get worn down. it’s uncanny.

Lest we forget oliver is still hu-man. he might not get worn down, but he will get hurt.

as a result, the very same uB team that looked so impressive the first two weeks of the season lost 23-7 to kent State, a team notorious for not knowing which way to run. Buffalo looked atro-cious, but the Bulls were going to win that game – or at least come close – if Bo kept playing.

he finished the game with 16 car-ries for 77 yards and didn’t even play the end of the first half. oliver would have had another 150-yard, maybe even 200-yard game if he hadn’t gotten hurt. kent State couldn’t stop him, but you can’t fault the Golden Flashes; nothing can stop oliver. Nothing, that is, except an injury.

i wrote a column last week about Buffalo’s dynamic offense, which re-ally is vigorous when its top players are healthy. But potts is done for the season and oliver is hurt, though the extent of his injury was unknown when the Spectrum went to print.

after Wednesday’s game, he tweet-ed: “i want to thank my family, friends, and fans for there support it is much needed always thanks for being the shoulder i can lean on.” When i spoke with him thursday, he said he’ll heal quickly in Jesus’ name.

that’s who Branden oliver is. he’s staying optimistic.

it’s admirable. But if Bo ends up missing extended time, there’s no rea-son for fans to be optimistic about the rest of this season.

there’s the real stomach punch.


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romney is a “hidden man,” according to Brooks. “i think he’s generally a good guy, but i think

because of mormonism, he’s a hidden man,” Brooks said. “he doesn’t want to show that side.”

obama’s campaign has hit romney hard with ads, but it hasn’t been able to run a single personality ad; romney does not show his true self. romney’s pre-tending to be something he’s not – he’s a non-ideo-logical person in a highly ideological time – and he’s disconnected from reality and he’s faking it, according to Brooks.

especially in the wake of secret romney videos that surfaced earlier this week, thanks to Mother Jones.

“that 47 percent comment – i find it morally offensive,” Brooks told the crowd when speaking on romney’s comment that 47 percent of americans are dependent on the government and don’t pay taxes.

in his Sept. 17 column, Brooks wrote: “First, it suggests that he really doesn’t know much about the country he inhabits … it suggests that romney doesn’t know much about the culture of america.”

although insincerity lies at the heart of it, Brooks believes romney would have a decent campaign if he ran as himself.

Brooks wasn’t only critical of the republican nominee; he has his qualms with obama and how he’s changed over his four-year tenure in the White house.

“in 2008 and 2007, he was bursting with ideas – 61 proposals in six months,” Brooks recalled. “he was also a self-confident person. in 20 years, the word ‘obama’ will be a unit for self-confidence.”

But Brooks has noticed obama wear down – mostly because he’s not a natural politician.

he’s distant, and members of congress often feel the president looks down upon them, according to Brooks. obama’s sick of Washington, D.c., he’s real-ized the president doesn’t hold as much power as the public assumes and he’s become much more insular and detached as he keeps to his own, cut-off world.

“[obama] hasn’t refreshed his batteries,” Brooks said. “he’s been consumed by a negative passion in this campaign – he really wants to beat the republi-cans.”

is there a second act for obama? Brooks isn’t sure of that answer. if america voted today, obama would stay another term, but the vote could swing come No-vember.

a hidden man and a cagey man – two good men in horrible circumstances who are not running cam-paigns they are capable of, according to Brooks. a big versus small government debate reminiscent of 1964’s presidential race and both parties are returning to the polls.

the next generation of voters is wholesome and responsible and though they may be self-centered and materialistic, they have an energy you can been seen through any falling statistic – divorce, abortion and teen pregnancy rates have all decreased – and there’s a lot of good behavior, according to Brooks.

“that energy still propels america,” Brooks said. “and it gives us the energy to correct all of our mis-takes.”


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after Buffalo scored 79 points in its first two games, the most since 1959, the “Sea of Blue” was calm on Wednesday night. hope-ful fans quietly exited uB Stadium after the football team’s mid-american conference opener.

the Bulls (1-2, 0-1 mac) failed to get their offense rolling against kent State (2-1, 1-0 mac) amid their worst offensive per-formance of the year. the Golden Flashes’ pounding running attack led them to a 23-7 victory on the road.

“it’s frustrating, a very disappointing loss,” said head coach Jeff Quinn. “it’s not about the losing. it’s the way we didn’t play, especially on the offensive side of the ball. i just expected us to play a lot better. Give kent State credit; they came in here and won a football game.”

after a scoreless first quarter, running back Dri archer opened the second with an electric 57-yard run. a few plays later he capped off the drive with an 11-yard touch-down on a reverse. archer finished the game with 159 yards on 16 touches, racking up 9.1 yards per carry.

Buffalo ultimately had no answer for the kent State ground game that rushed for 239 yards on 53 carries, as the Golden Flashes possessed the ball for 37:30 minutes of the game.

archer and his counterpart in the back-field, trayion Durham, accounted for 319 of the team’s 404 yards of total offense. Dur-ham recorded a new career-high, carrying the ball 23 times for 113 yards.

Buffalo’s single highlight came with five seconds left in the first half. the Bulls stood on kent State’s 46-yard line, anticipating en-tering the half down 10-0. But a hail mary reception by junior wide receiver alex Neutz as time expired brought the Bulls within a field goal.

entering the week, Neutz was tied for first in the nation with five touchdowns after his stunning four-touchdown game against morgan St. last week.

“it was a tremendous lift,” Quinn said of the hail mary. “it brought us within a few points, but we could not muster up enough

offense, or a rhythm or a flow, to keep our defense [off the field].”

But the story of the game was the ab-sence of junior running back Branden oli-ver, who came out of the tunnel after half-time aided by his father. oliver missed the remainder of the game with a leg injury. his future status was uncertain when this edition went to print. uB athletics plans to release an update sometime Friday. oliver was the brunt of the Bulls’ offense for the first half with 16 carries for 77 yards, on his way to another 100-yard affair.

oliver came into the game ranked 12th in the country in rushing, averaging 174.5 yards a game.

the star running back was not the only Bull plagued by injury. Junior wide receiver Fred Lee and senior defensive lineman Ste-ven means left the game in the first half with hand and head injuries, respectively.

things didn’t get much better in the sec-ond half. Junior quarterback alex Zordich finished the game having completed only 4 of 22 passes for 92 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions.

“i expect more out of myself to help this team win,” Zordich said. “offensively, we just weren’t making plays, and it showed out there. We weren’t able to help out our defense. they were putting us in great posi-tions to go ahead and win the game. offen-sively, we just weren’t there today.”

the Bulls held the Flashes to 23 points despite four offensive turnovers. aside from a last-minute touchdown after an intercep-tion by redshirt freshman quarterback Joe Licata, the Buffalo defense was again unable to keep kent State out of the end zone.

Junior linebacker khalil mack disrupted the Flashes backfield throughout the game. mack led the team with eight tackles, includ-ing two sacks, and four tackles for a loss.

the Bulls have over a week off before they travel to hartford, conn. to face a solid uconn huskies (2-1) team. the game is set for Sept. 29 at 12 p.m.


Bulls fall victim to Arch nemesisKent State defeats Buffalo, 23-7

the offense played poorly, to say the least, in an ugly Buffalo loss to kent State on Wednesday night. Season-lows were aplenty, as junior quarterback alex Zordich threw for a season-low 92 yards and went 4 for 22 with two interceptions. the Golden Flashes’ defense was domi-nant as it accrued constant pressure on the Bulls offensive line.

Buffalo’s defense played well, too, but it was on the field for far too long in the second half. the offense held the ball for only 8:41, and a gassed defense slowly unraveled. kent State’s two-head-ed running back tandem of Dri archer and trayion Durham punished the Bulls’ defense.Player of the game

the final score isn’t an indicator of uB’s dominant defense at times during the game. Junior linebacker Khalil Mack was the star in primetime; he had a tre-mendous night despite the loss. he fin-ished with 12 tackles (four for a loss) and two sacks. mack made plays in bunches and made crucial plays to hold certain kent State touchdowns to field goals.Unsung hero(es)

after the first half and the injury to junior running back Branden oliver, it seemed the run game would be in trou-ble, especially because the team’s original backup, sophomore James potts, is out for the season with a torn acL. Junior running back Brandon Murie and his counterpart, freshman Devin Camp-bell, filled in nicely early in the second half, as they teamed up to fill in for oli-ver. campbell had a way to find open holes against a tough Golden Flashes defense, and murie showed a burst that will lead to some long touchdowns in the future with more playing time.Bull Killer(s)

archer was free to exploit the Bulls’ defense whenever he wanted, and for

the most part, he did. he had 159 all-purpose yards, but it could have been much more had he not dropped some easy touchdown passes during the game. the real ‘Bull killer’ goes to

Durham, who consistently made backbreaking runs, especially on third and short situations.Turning Point

after kent State’s Freddy cortez kicked a 33-yard field goal to make the score 13-7 midway through the third quarter, Buffalo went on its longest drive

of the half. after a murie five-yard run gave the Bulls a first down at the kent State 37-yard line, Zordich took a shot at the end zone to junior wide receiver alex Neutz – a pass that was intercepted by Darius polk at the 2-yard line. From then on, Buffalo made one play in Gold-en Flashes territory – a sack that brought the Bulls back on the other side of the 50.he said it…

“It’s just a bad day all around. In-dividually this team needs more from me, and I put that on my shoulders. I expect more out of myself to help this team win.”

– Zordich on his performance Wednesday nightLooking Ahead

Buffalo has some work to do in the 10 days leading up to the game against uconn on the road, which is the first of three straight road contests. the 2-1 huskies are coming off a 24-21 win on the road against maryland, in which they defeated their former coach, randy ed-sall. Before playing the Bulls, they will travel to an environment familiar to Bulls fans, kalamazoo, mich., as they take on Western michigan.

the huskies are led by their defense, which is holding opponents to only 10.3 points a game. third in the country in total defense, as well as sacks with 14, their front seven led by linebacker Yawin Smallwood will cause problems for an offensive line that was frequently beaten by kent State.

kickoff for the game versus con-necticut on Saturday, Sept. 29 will be at noon.


game Rewind: UB 7 – Kent State 23

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the Bulls were inconsistent on offense, only amassing 265 yards as they lost their mac opener 23-7 to kent State at uB Stadium on Wednesday night.

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alex Neutz’s miraculous end-of-first-half grab landed him a spot on Sportscenter’s top plays.

aaroN maNSFieLDEditor in Chief

You could feel the air shift. uB Stadium paused for a moment. all went silent. it was as if Buf-falo’s biggest offensive line-man had wound up and clobbered everyone in at-tendance, all 14,373, square in the stomach.

oomf.the moment? Junior running back Branden

oliver walked out of the locker room at the start of the second half without his pads. Leg injury. Done for the night.

Worst-case scenario. how did this – how could this – happen?

accompanied by a trainer and his father, oliver looked more dejected than i’d ever seen him before.

this was Bo oliver. this was the ever-gregar-ious, always-smiling, self-assured tank who has ce-mented his spot as uB’s greatest football player of all-time. the same athlete who could bench press your family and leave a 250-pound linebacker on his posterior never even hints at a frown. he doesn’t get hurt. he doesn’t show weakness.

oliver hung his head when he walked out of that locker room. it was killing him to miss the game. Buffalo was down 10-7 to a conference rival, kent State, and had just gained momentum thanks to a successful hail mary to close the first half.

uB’s hope rides on oliver. that’s no secret. Junior alex Neutz is an incredible receiver, but he can’t do very much if he doesn’t have a quarterback who can get him the ball. Junior quarterback alex Zordich struggled Wednesday night with oliver missing.

it wasn’t a coincidence. in the first two weeks – with a healthy oliver scampering for 349 yards and three touchdowns – Zordich went a combined 30 for 45 for 385 yards, five touchdowns and one interception. against kent State – without Bo for the majority of the game – Zordich went 4 for 22 for 92 yards (46 of which came on one play), one touchdown and two interceptions.

UB’s ‘O’ won’t work without Bo

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