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CALEB LAYTONStaff Writer

Airport security procedures have become second nature to Professor Robert Wagmiller. He barely notices the pressure change in his ears as the plane takes off and lands. It’s no big deal to him; he does the same thing every week.

He has to since he commutes to class from New Jersey.

Wagmiller, a professor of so-ciology at UB since 2003 and resi-dent of New Jersey since his wife

took a job there in 2007, commutes to Buffalo every week from Moun-tain Lakes, N.J. – a small town a half hour outside Newark.

He takes a 5:30 a.m. flight out of Newark on Tuesday, stays at an apartment near the Buffalo Zoo until Thursday night and flies back to Newark that same night.

This way of commuting is less time consuming than driving, but much more expensive. An average round trip flight from Newark, N.J. to Buffalo, N.Y. can be anywhere from $200 to $330, according to expedia.com.

Prior to this semester, Wag-miller would drive for five and a half hours – 341 miles – to UB from his house every Tuesday and drive home every Thursday.

Since the average car in 2012 gets 23.3 mpg – according to a study done by Truecar.com – and the average gas price from Moun-tain Lakes, N.J. to Buffalo, N.Y. is $3.75, the average amount of gas Wagmiller would spend commut-ing one way is $59.15. This com-mute costs, on average, $3,783.35 per academic year.

LISA EPSTEINAsst. News Editor

Six UB students are trying to change the way faculty and students present PowerPoint presentations through a new website.

Presvo, a new presentation tool designed by second-year graduate stu-dents Manoj Chandrasekran, Dinesh Ravi, Micheal Benedict, Sean Zawicki, Magizharasu Thirunavukkarasu and Vishwa Srikanth.

Inspiration for the program came from the widely used Prezi system, which is used and taught to professors at UB currently. The team has created a program that can run on PC and Ap-ple products, including Droids, iPads and iPhones. The program doesn’t re-quire Adobe Flash Player to view the presentations, which allows viewing on any device.

Presvo was created at the UB Hackathon, held during the end of the Spring 2012 semester. Sponsors of the first-ever event included companies such as GitHub, SendGrid, Twilio, Sy-nacor and Iror.

The six students won the 24-hour event, which granted them a year of free server space, among other things, which totaled at a value of $24,000.

The site has changed from the original prototype made on the day of the Hackathon, but Presvo has always

been set apart from Prezi. Benedict believes the ease of use and free ser-vice sets Presvo apart from other pre-sentation tools.

“[Presvo] doesn’t need any spe-cial software to run,” Benedict said. “At the end of the day, it can run through a browser. If you view a Prezi on an Apple device like an iPad or an iPhone, you [won’t be able to access it] unless you have the app for [Prezi]. In our case, our main goal was to simplify creating presentations and sharing [them].”

The group launched the new and updated product last month and cur-rently has a couple hundred users reg-istered for the website. They’ve cur-rently closed registration to work out problems still popping up.

The home screen is a simple white layout, which opens up to a layout that can upload pictures from a URL, a file on a computer or dif-ferent colors and fonts for each slide. The slides automatically save every 10 seconds.

“It’s a combination of execution along with ideas,” Ravi said. “We’ve churned out quite a few things from how it started. Currently it’s looking totally different from how it was on Hackathon night, and that is to suit certain other requirements which in-clude the use of experience, apart from its functionalities.”

The goal of the site is to make presentation preparation and sharing easier for both the user and audience.

SHU YEE RACHEL LIMStaff Writer

The stage last saw them as eager young students. They re-turned as dance professionals and brought the experience that led them to success.

At last Saturday’s Back to Buffalo 4, An Alumni Dance Con-cert, eight former UB graduates returned to their alma mater to showcase their professional talents on Center for the Arts’ stage.

The most thrilling dance of the night belonged to Sarah Jean Kaye in “Bouchee.” Her number began and ended while a hoop suspended her approximately 3 feet above the stage floor. The au-dience cheered at her aerial work as she pivoted her body weight on the hoop. She teased the audience by maintaining a smile on her face, as though these feats were no chal-lenge.

She ended her number by dangling dangerously by the arches of her feet with her arms on her waist like a bat.

Performers like Kaye go to great lengths in the name of dance.

“I haven’t worn lotion in four years … I have the legs of an 80-year-old woman and shave 365 [days] a year,” Kaye said.

Katie Heintz’s “Perseverance” was visually intriguing. Her dance consisted of leaping, balancing and, on occasion, tumbling. She had many push and pull move-ments against the air, presenting an imaginary obstacle she wanted to overcome.

She ended her set with both feet firmly on the stage with one shirt’s strap around her arm – a sign of her struggle. Heintz’s choice of string music was appro-priately dramatic in that it compli-mented the tensions she portrayed while fighting her inner demons. “Perseverance” was received well by the crowd, but she wasn’t the only highly anticipated act.

“The dancer in ‘Perseverance’ was good, but I know my sister is going to be the best one,” said Emily Jacob-Zysman, 32, a UB alumna from Rochester. “My fam-ily came in just to see her.”

Her sister, Claire Jacob-Zys-man, paired with Sara Senecal to perform “a single dot of light.” They looked like a yin and yang that conspired harmoniously with each other – reflecting each other’s movements and supporting each other.

“They were beautiful and so grounded in their movement … it was very affecting,” said Tamara Hopersberger, 40, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Jacob-Zysman and Senecal ended their piece rolling on the floor in a figurative loop. Alireza Bakhtiar, a senior business ad-ministration major, said an image clicked in his mind when he saw Jacob-Zysman and Senecal per-form.

“I saw two friends who could support each other in their emo-tional lives and how that support continues in life,” Bakhtiar said.

The use of props and lighting were essential to the majority of

the performances. One performer who used these elements well was Nicole Calabrese.

Calabrese started her dance perched on a chair in the shad-owed part of the stage with a wa-terfall spotlight to the her right. She progressed in fear of the light and tested its boundaries before fi-nally leaping into the lighted circle and embracing the brightness.

Even her breath was in tune with the beat of the music as she blew her tangled hair out of her face.

“It gave me the feeling of someone who wanted to break the rules of her life and enter a new stage,” Bakhtiar said.

Gina Pero used her shimmery costume and a rose to bring out the flirtatiousness of her piece, “Wrapt,” as she danced to a jazzy double bass, saxophone and piano ensemble.

Current dance students also performed “Hearth.” With earth-colored blowy dresses, their move-ments were very lyrical, and their port de bras were fluid. The danc-ers resembled birds of a flock dancing together.

This graceful harmony was only interrupted when the danc-ers’ claps were not in-sync. But they were quick to recover, just like birds do when one flies out of formation.

“It made you feel like you just wanted to get up and dance with them. They made it seem so easy,” said Michelle Ballaro, a UB graduate and retired dance teacher. “It’s very nice to see people from Buffalo do very well in their cho-sen profession; their personalities really shine through their pieces.”

That night, the dance profes-sion did not look as risky as some current dance students feel.

When asked how she knew dance was the right path for her, Pero replied while pointing to her heart:

“It’s this. It’s here,” Pero said.

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Student-run website aims to change presentations

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A UB dance reunion

Wagmiller’s travelsUB professor maintains university relations despite long commute

ALEC FRAZIER /// THE SPECTRUM

Professor Robert Wagmiller – an associate professor in the Department of Sociology – commutes every week from New Jersey to Buffalo.

SATSUKI AOI /// THE SPECTRUM

UB alumni showcased their talent and experience at Saturday’s Back to Buf-falo 4: the UB Dance Alumni All-Star Concert.

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Five UB graduate students are constantly looking improve their UB Hackathon-winning invention: the presentation tool Presvo.

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Circle K: building a better community, one step at a time

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CONGRATULATIONSCongratulations to Employee Assistance Program for col-lecting the most donations for Haven House at the 2011 Uni-versity at Buffalo division of the statewide Walk With Me event, hosted by the Student Survivor Advocacy Alliance and the UB Men’s Group of Wellness Education Services.

For over 30 years, Child & Family Services Haven House has been working to promote peace in the home. Haven House provides safe, confidential services for victims of domestic violence and their children. Through direct services and community education and outreach, we work to ensure that all relationships embrace the principles of peace, respect and equal-ity. Visit www.cfsbny.org/ to learn more about Haven House, or how you can help a friend or

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REBECCA BRATEK Managing Editor

It’s going to be

legen – wait for it – dary.

How I Met Your Mother re-turns for season

eight tonight, and I couldn’t be more excited.

Some may say it’s sad that I’ve based a lot of my life around this show – all some of my friends and I do is talk in quotes and obscure references from the show – but I argue HIMYM has taught me some of life’s best lessons.

Ted and his crew have taught me more about love (and the lack thereof) and what true friends mean than any-thing else. And I think if you just lis-tened to Ted’s incredible story, you would agree:1. Don’t chase after the wrong per-son. The right person could be just around the corner.

We all know how it feels: unrequit-ed love. We all love the chase, and we all at some point will want someone we can’t have or someone who isn’t right for us. Ted Mosby knows this better than anyone. This is now season eight, and we’re still no closer to knowing who the mysterious mother is.

Ted has spent the past seven sea-sons chasing boring and crazy girls while hung up on his best friend and a girl who left him to chase her dreams. Has he met his wife? How often do we see that evasive yellow umbrella, wish-ing for her to show her face to end Ted’s misery?

How many of us are just searching for our yellow umbrellas while settling

for what’s easy and what’s right in front of us? Chase your yellow umbrella; don’t settle for less.2. Nothing good happens after 2 a.m.

Seriously, think about it. Any de-cision you make after this hour will be a bad one, and you will regret it. Ted Mosby did.

His girlfriend at the time, Victoria, had moved to Germany to chase her cooking dreams. Ted was anxious about them being apart so early in the relation-ship, so when she failed to call one night and Robin (his best friend with whom he shares a romantic past) calls, Ted goes over to her house. The pair end up kissing, and their relationship is strained.

Life lesson: just go to sleep and make your decisions in the morning with a clear head. 3. Your best friends are the people you share a bar booth with night af-ter night.

Lovers come and go, jobs are lost and nothing is static within this group, except for one thing: the bar booth at MacLaren’s.

Ted, Barney, Robin, Marshall and Lily share their best times in that booth, kicking a couple back and sharing mem-ories. No matter how awful life may be for any one of them, there is one con-stant place where they can just have each other.

I think everyone needs that type of group of friends in his or her life – the group you can always count on to be there and suit up when you need them. Which leads me to the next lesson…4. When in doubt, suit up.

Always dress to impress and it’s better to be overdressed than under-dressed. Barney Stinson even has suit pajamas.

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Opinion SARA DINATALE

Senior News Editor

I’ve got it bad. Real bad.

I’m completely infatuated with a cancer-ridden, 51-year-old high school chemis-try teacher. But

it’s fine, because so are 2.8 million other people.

Actually, I probably have even more people on my side than that. Al-most 3 million people tuned in for the midseason five finale of AMC’s hit Breaking Bad on Sept. 4, but that doesn’t include the millions of people who have “BrBa” on their Netflix instant ques.

If you have Netflix and have never watched Breaking Bad, you’re doing it wrong.

I’ve never watched an episode of Breaking Bad on television – same goes for almost every fanatic of the show I know. How Americans view TV is changing and our generation is leading the way.

My dad always tells me “patience is a virtue.” But you know what? When it comes to my favorite meth-slinging drama, saturated with cliffhangers and intricate plot twists, “patience” can bite it.

But as much as I love the show now, I didn’t know anything about it when it premiered in 2008. I started hearing the name bounced around once it received attention at the Emmy Awards, but I never turned on AMC to catch an episode.

Then I got Netflix and everything changed.

Breaking Bad will steal your life. You will go on what I call, “BrBa Binges.” This involves sitting around in your underwear, completely submerged in Walter White’s bald head, while munch-ing on Doritos and frozen pizza, losing chunks of your life in front of your glowing computer screen.

Four seasons of the show are on Netflix, most of them 13 episodes long. I finished, on average, one season per week over the month of August.

I’m pretty sure the only thing more addicting than methamphetamine is a show brilliantly crafted around making and selling it. If you disagree, you’ve clearly never watched the show. Or you have a weak stomach and couldn’t get through the first few episodes – which

is totally understandable – but not re-ally, because the first season is just as brilliant as the most recent one.

Season five isn’t on Netflix at all. If you’re inspired by the main characters’ criminal lifestyles, you can find it pretty easily pirated online, or buy it the legal way off of iTunes (which Jesse Pink-man would think is totally lame, yo).

The thing is, new episodes of the show don’t come out until the summer of 2013.

I can’t do that. That reality does not compute in my impatient, young adult brain. It sounds selfish and horri-ble, but I’m used to getting what I want when I want it. That’s what Netflix has done to me. I had hours of my favorite show at my mercy. Now that luxury is gone, and I’m not sure how I am going to struggle through until the summer.

But it’s not like having my favorite things instantly and all at once is un-usual. I don’t have to go to the store to get the new Mumford & Son’s album on Tuesday; it’s already slated to auto-matically download to my iPhone the moment it’s released.

When I’m hungry, I can get food shoved at me through a window with-out leaving the driver’s seat of my car. Want to talk to someone while I’m writing this column? No need to fum-ble with my phone, I can send them a Facebook message that will go directly to their phone if they’re not on the In-ternet. Easy.

Everything is instant. I never real-ized how unfamiliar I am with waiting for things until Breaking Bad. It may be totally pathetic, but I know there is an army of people who feel my pain.

Netflix has 23 million subscrib-ers. I see more of my friends plowing through five seasons of How I Met Your Mother over a few months on Netflix than I do catching its reruns on TBS.

We’re all spoiled. The days of watching a show sporadically are over. We all want to watch shows in their entirety, in the proper order and com-pletely at our personal convenience.

We’re breaking the old television rhythm. Cable is expensive; Netflix is $7.99 a month. It’s what college stu-dents can afford and the medium to watch television we’ve gotten used to. We watch our shows on our time, and while the Nielsen ratings may suffer from it, everyone will be too engrossed in their instant queues to notice.


Breaking (more than) Bad

Every student has experi-enced or has heard some kind of horror story about random roommate selection: thefts, lack of personal space and frequent “sexiles.” The college housing ex-perience can be miserable if you haven’t found somebody of the same sex you want to share your living space with.

UB provided a solution this fall: gender-neutral housing.

Starting this semester, two floors in the Ellicott Complex and several apartments in the Hadley and Creekside Villages, have been set aside for gender-neutral housing.

Not only should the univer-sity have begun this sooner, they should further expand it and oth-er schools should follow suit.

The decision allows college students who are closer with friends of the opposite sex, or students who don’t like the op-tion of being thrown together with a random stranger, to live with someone they’re actually comfortable with – despite that person’s gender. In addition, it benefits the LGBTQ commu-nity, providing a safer and more at-ease living situation than what you would get with random selec-tion.

It seems like such an obvious choice.

But UB is only the first school in Western New York to allow this living option (SUNY Geneseo – which is located out-side of Rochester – does as well). According to the Transgender Law & Policy Institute, at least 88 other colleges and universities in the U.S. have signed on.

The university has taken a step up and said, “These students are adults and should be treated as such. They’re perfectly capable of making the decision of who they want to live with, so let’s let them.”

The new housing option has many parents nervously wring-ing their hands, though. After all, how will two adults of different sex possibly share a living space for a few hours a day without having sex with each other?

UB ignored such a conde-scending attitude and the move wasn’t made with the intention to promote couple’s housing; it was made to make students feel more comfortable and safer – a step that should already be a goal for university housing.

If college is supposed to be the gateway into “the real world,” then shouldn’t students be able to make decisions about whom they are going to live with with-out having their hands held by the system?

If it doesn’t work, then at the very least students learn what they are mature enough to deal with and can move on from there. That’s for them to figure out, though, on their own – as adults.

UB Campus Living’s deci-sion is applaudable, and it’s good to see a choice made that puts students first. People should be comfortable with who they’re liv-ing with. There’s no reason gen-der should make any difference in that fact.


Comforts of homeUniversities should follow suit on

UB’s gender-neutral housing

Money will always be a cause for complaint, and this time of the year, students have every right to do so.

Last fall, UB’s Office of Fi-nancial Aid implemented a new financial aid process where stu-dents saw their financial aid cred-ited after the drop/add period concluded. Prior to this, financial aid was distributed before the school year started and refund checks were handed out immedi-ately. The goal was to line up the process with the academic calen-dar like other colleges.

UB doesn’t need a system that works for other colleges; it needs a system that puts its own students first.

When UB restructured its system at the beginning of last school year, many were outraged and left in the dark. One year later, not much has changed. Financial aid and scholarships both came late this year, and federal and state aid is still pending. The most that has been offered are new financial aid advisors, which most students don’t even know exist.

Students on a tight budget get hit hard at the beginning of every semester, relying on their checks to pay for food and text-books. Instead of cashing in be-fore classes start up or the rent is due, they now have to wait at least two weeks after classes start.

Financial aid doesn’t get dis-tributed until after the Financial Aid Census date, which for the

fall semester was scheduled for Sept. 4. Disbursement is listed as on or after Sept. 6.

Instead of a system, we have a vicious circle. You can’t add a new class with an unpaid bill hold on your account, but you can’t pay your bill until your financial aid is dispersed – after the add/drop period ends.

It was a good theory – wait until after the add/drop period so financial aid wouldn’t have to be recalculated and papers wouldn’t have to be re-filed. It would be great if it actually focused on the students instead of the people working in the office.

Last year, in response to the changes, the office of financial aid told The Spectrum that students in need of extra money should start seeking jobs. You can’t change the system and then just tell the stu-dents that rely on it “good luck.” Many of the students who were ignored by the system change are already working jobs and coming up short – the students who rely on the financial aid to be distrib-uted promptly.

UB’s financial aid system needs another revamp and this time with the actual students in mind. After all, efficiency and transparency is really all that is asked for, but earlier refund checks would be even better.


Money for nothingFinancial aid system needs

a revamp – again

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They are a close-knit group of college students who de-vote their weekends to making the Buffalo community a better place to live. They are Circle K.

Circle K International (CKI), founded in 1936, started as a project to provide young men with the means and financ-es to gain a college education or part-time employment. When the concept was recognized, community service was intro-duced.

Now the largest collegiate service organization, CKI has membership on more than 500 college campuses – UB is one of them.

Circle K, a Student Associa-tion club, performs community service all across Buffalo. Circle K is built on the premise of building a better society and de-veloping leadership qualities, and members provide community service while maintaining their busy college schedules.

Circle K provides a vari-ety of services around the Buf-falo community, from attending sporting events to help fundraise for money to spending time with less-fortunate children and help-ing clean up with Habitat for Hu-manity,

Denzel Mac-Ocran, a se-nior nursing major, first joined Circle K during his freshman year. He wanted to get involved and decided community service is something everyone should participate in.

Anybody can attend the Cir-cle K meetings or attend its char-ity or community service events. However, in order to be interna-

tionally recognized as a member of the club, there is an $8 fee.

Mac-Ocran was involved with community service through-out high school and plans on continuing into his nursing ca-reer.

“I’m lucky enough to have been raised in a great environ-ment,” Mac-Ocran said. “But others don’t get to choose what-ever situation they are born into, so [lending] a helping hand is al-ways nice.”

The first event Mac-Ocran attended was Wheels Around The Park – a carnival and walk

for families with kids who have Down syndrome. The most re-warding part of the event was taking time out of his day to make a “lifetime of difference in someone else’s,” according to Mac-Ocran.

“The families were so thank-ful for what we were doing, and things like that keep you going,” Mac-Ocran said. “The kids were so genuinely happy.”

Mac-Ocran also said the club has allowed him to meet a lot of people with similar inter-ests, some of whom he will stay friends with for life.

His favorite event was when Circle K went to Louisiana. They worked on a farm, which provid-ed food for the soup kitchens in the area, helped restore a camp for volunteers and aided in the rebuilding of an elderly woman’s house that was falling apart from Hurricane Katrina.

He helped set up a carnival at a local museum that was re-built in the aftermath of Hur-ricane Katrina. Circle K got a first-person look at the damage from the natural disaster, and Mac-Ocran even expanded his culinary horizons by eating al-ligator.

“It’s hard finding commu-nity service on your own,” Mac-Oran said. “Circle K presents a lot of different events in the Buf-falo area. It’s also a weekly meet-ing with email reminders and friends so you won’t get compla-cent with doing an event every couple of months. You get into a good routine of doing com-munity service, so it seems like second nature.”

It’s not about monetary awards for Circle K’s members, like Kim Bui, the vice president of Circle K. It’s about helping people and finding leadership ex-perience in the process.

“The club keeps me in check and teaches me how to serve. [It teaches me how to] be a leader and be a fellow volunteer,” Bui said. “I just see it as a part of my life, like meeting with friends and learning, which we all do in Circle K.”

Whether it’s an event on campus or an event miles away, Circle K strives toward making the Buffalo community a better place for themselves and for oth-ers.


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It’s typical for bands to break up after excessive confrontation and leave their fans heartbroken. However, one local Buffalo power-pop band was up for the challenge and decided to host a comeback show in their hometown.

A show that completely sold out. Cute Is What We Aim For performed

at Mohawk Place last Friday after being on hiatus for four years. The comeback was a benefit show to raise awareness for The Leu-kemia and Lymphoma Society and due to be-ing sold out, After Dark Entertainment col-laborated with the blog Property of Zack to stream the concert live online.

The line outside the venue wrapped down Washington Street. Fans were excited even outside the venue – some donning vin-

tage Cute Is What We Aim For T-shirts that they had saved for this very day.

Frontman Shaant Hacikyan recognized fans were anxiously awaiting the return of Cute Is What We Aim For and acknowledged it after playing an acoustic show in August. While that show did not sell out, it empha-sized how desperately fans wanted the band to return and to make new music.

“We had just been sitting around for years and it just seemed like something that was undeniable,” Hacikyan said. “We all wanted to get back together and [show] how we all grew up as individuals. It was some-thing we couldn’t fight anymore.”

Bands Fictitious Ray, The Stellar Life, Canoe and The Daydream Chronicles (for-merly The Mixtape) opened the show and could not have agreed more that the reunion was long overdue. All of the openers were honored to be able to share the stage with Cute Is What We Aim For – a band they grew up with.

Justin Juzdowski, guitarist of The Day-dream Chronicles, said the band had previ-ously played at Club Infinity with Cute Is What We Aim For and it was an incredible show.

“We’re very grateful that they offered us a spot on this show, especially seeing they’re back to their original lineup and it’s our first show back as an established band,” Juzdows-ki said.

When Cute Is What We Aim For finally took the stage, the crowd could not be con-tained. Piercing screams echoed through Mohawk Place and people began shoving to-wards the front as they saw Hacikyan emerge with his band to kick into “Newport Living.”

The band was blown away by the au-dience response. Hacikyan did not even have to sing most of the songs as the crowd screamed the words to hit singles “The Curse of Curves” and “Doctor.” But when he did sing, it was as though their album was play-ing. Hacikyan’s vocals matched the record al-most perfectly, minus a few riffs that enhance the live experience.

The set list contained tracks from both the debut album The Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch and their second album Rota-tion, which balanced the show and pleased the audience.

Drummer Tom Falcone, after playing with The Daydream Chronicles earlier, did not even seem to be exhausted. His drum-sticks pounded each note in time and the sweat pouring onto his kit did not bother him at all.

While Hacikyan danced around, bassist Fred Cimato and guitarist Jeff Czum com-manded their sides of the stage by spinning and jumping in circles while maintaining their chord progressions.

During the final song of the night, “There’s A Class For This” from their debut album, Hacikyan took a moment to thank all the fans and to thank his band mates for for-getting the past and reuniting for the love of music.

Cute Is What We Aim For is currently writing demo tracks in the studio and hoping to tour soon to reunite with their patient fans. Hacikyan expects the album to be complete within the year.

Hacikyan could not keep the smile off his face the entire night and was grateful for the energy his fans brought. The band re-portedly stayed at the venue until 1 a.m. to meet all the attendees.

“It’s been overwhelming but great that people are still interested in us,” Hacikyan said. I wake up every morning still surprised this is all happening for us again.”


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Album: ShieldsArtist: Grizzly BearLabel: WarpRelease Date: Sept. 18grade: A

One trait that some of the best in-die/alternative rock acts have in common is the ability to convey a similar, constant range of emotions while constantly chang-ing their sonic direction. Bands like Radio-head, TV on the Radio and Grizzly Bear all work off those feelings of existential angst, yearning and silent aggression but still release high quality albums without sounding monotonous.

Grizzly Bear showed its versatility when it followed up the fantastic Yellow House with the equally impressive Vecka-timest. But instead of going further into the experimental rabbit hole, the quartet brings a more expansive – and perhaps more accessible – sound with Shields.

Veckatimest sought to surround listen-ers with waves of densely expressive in-strumentalism and vocals. Shields stabs at that same hollow sphere of emotions with the same level of intricacy. Shields doesn’t build the expansive mausoleum Veckatim-est does, but sometimes a collection of vivid, masterfully painted pictures does just fine. Grizzly Bear paints some of its best pictures to date in this 2012 standout.

The production aesthetics are toned down slightly this album to draw attention

to the raw instrumentation. Shields has a bit more guitar play than Grizzly Bear’s previ-ous efforts, so the toned-down studio ef-fects gives the album more of an authentic feel.

The change subtracts some of the breadth the quartet had in previous efforts, but the added depth more than makes up for its absence. Those guitar riffs, abrasive horns and intense rhythm section sound much more emotional.

Sequencing is one of Shields’ greatest assets. There’s no question this album has its standouts – “Yet Again” and “Sleeping Ute” are some of this year’s best tracks – but each track fits together extremely well. “Yet Again” deserves to be heard after the dystopian majesty of “Adelma,” and the pseudo doo-wop of “gun-shy” begs to be heard after the creepy “What’s Wrong.”

The songs are structured in a way which allows the album to blend easily. Grizzly Bear’s best songs steadily build to a climax and vanish just as they reach their

peak (see “Two Weeks” and “On a Neck, On a Spit”). The songs on Shields mostly have varying crescendos and peaks, which adds to the album’s consistency.

Even though the LP sounds cohesive, each band member is given a chance to shine. Vocalist Daniel Rossen said, in an interview with The New York Times, the band wanted to, “write and make music that is as collaborative as possible, so that we have a product that we all feel a sense of authorship over as a collective.”

Nobody can say Grizzly Bear doesn’t sound completely in-sync on Shields, but it’s hard not to praise drummer Christo-pher Bear’s energy on “Speak in Rounds” or compliment Rossen on creating that ad-dicting riff on “Sleeping Ute.”

Rossen still maintains his high-pitched vocals throughout Shields. Some argue the style is a bit repetitive, but it’s crucial because it helps tie the whole al-bum. His vulnerability provides the emo-tional center of Shield’s constantly shifting instrumentals. The chemistry peaks in the album’s closer, “Sun In Your Eyes.” Here, a clichéd phrase turns into an empowering moment.

“Stretched out/fallen wide,” Rossen sings. “The light has scorched the same/So bright, so long/I’m never coming back.”

It’s strange to know beautiful music could come from such pain. If it takes three years to deliver an album of this cali-ber - there was also a three-year gap be-tween Yellow House and Veckatimest - who’s really willing to complain?


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Album: Cruel SummerRelease Date: Sept. 18Label: G.O.O.D./Def Jamgrade: A

Numerous record labels have attempted to release the ideal compilation album. In 2009, Lil Wayne and his Young Money crew presented We Are Young Money, which received lukewarm reviews from critics. Rick Ross and his Maybach Music Group released two col-laborative albums in 2011-12, Self Made Vol. 1 and Self Made Vol. 2. Both were successful but didn’t reach the masses they were set out to grasp.

Even Kanye West and Jay-Z’s Watch The Throne (WTT) wasn’t an undisputedly flawless album, but West has learned from his last ef-fort and brought together all of his G.O.O.D. Music artists for their first joint project, Cruel Summer.

West took a similar approach to WTT by taking a step back to allow his protégés and peers shine. But it’s knowing how to merge all of these artists, as well as his featured art-ists, in a cohesive manner which carries Cruel Summer.

Fans have had all summer to enjoy tracks “Mercy,” “New God Flow,” “Cold,” “I Don’t Like (Remix)” and most recently, “Clique,” but having a track with the resurfacing of R. Kelly hit listeners with a surprise they weren’t prepared for. R. Kelly hasn’t been in the main-stream eye, so a feature like this is definitely a treat – a treat Kanye West makes sure his listeners are aware of.

“R. Kelly and the king of rap/ S******* on you, holy crap,” West raps.

There’s no question the G.O.O.D. Music roster is phenomenal; artists like Big Sean, Common, Kid Cudi and John Legend have reigned supreme for years. Cruel Summer gives G.O.O.D.’s newcomers an opportunity to prove why Kanye signed them, as well.

On “The Morning,” West introduces singer D’Banj and fuses his reggae-influenced sound with the rawness of Pusha T and Wu-Tang member Raekwon’s lyrics.

West also gives rookie Teyana Taylor the chance to sing alongside John Legend on “Bliss.” The Harlem native was also given the hook to “Sin City,” which incorporates her soft, soulful voice well. She can also be heard as a background vocalist on “To The World.”

“Higher” features singer/producer The-Dream, who uses his production knowledge to make his voice an instrument itself. This combined with stylistic opposites Pusha T and Ma$e somehow makes sense.

Similar to R. Kelly’s feature, fans will be elated to hear the infamous bad boy rap.

“One, two, guess who back again/Har-lem in this?/Yeezy let Manhattan in,” raps Ma$e.

Although Cruel Summer barely made the season deadline, there is no question that this is the rap album of the summer and will prob-ably continue to shadow over competition for the rest of 2012.


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Album: Mirage RockArtist: Band of HorsesLabel: ColombiaRelease: Sept. 18grade: D

The newest release from indie-rock super power Band of Horses has had loyal fans saddled up and waiting in line at the stables for a ride down memory lane.

Much to their dismay, the excitement of a new album proves to be a mirage. The latest collection of songs gallops in a direc-tion that had fans worried after their 2010 album Infinite Arms. While the latter main-tained some of the awesome guitar tones and blood-pumping emotion that filled the band’s first two stellar albums, Mirage Rock feels weak and boring.

Infinite Arms seemed to move the band in a more sentimental direction. Songs like “For Annabelle” and “On My Way Back Home” lacked the power and driving riffs that marked earlier work, but they had something else. The dreamy guitars and the far more personal lyrics showed a softer side of Band of Horses that felt new but cozy at the same time.

Mirage Rock proves to be a loss of all force the band once had. The sound re-sembles that of classic Southern rock, but it doesn’t pack the punch those legendary

names like Lynyrd Skynyrd and Neil Young carried to form the genre. Weak guitar sounds and whiny lyrics lacking real emo-tion make up most of the tracks on the new album.

There are twangy guitars and some nice harmonies on this album, especially in “Dumpster World,” but a closer listen to the lyrics will leave fans wanting something deeper from the album.

Band of Horses’ powerful side worked wonders on their first two albums, but their latest work proves that sentiment is some-thing they have yet to master.

Lyrics on “How to Live” try to carry emotional force, but they don’t do so suc-cessfully.

“Guess what? I lost my job, it’s just my luck,” Ben Bridwell sings. “Guess what? You’re gettin’ old. Still gotta grow up.”

Rather than teaching fans how to live, Band of Horses seem to be teaching them how to delve into classic rock genres with

weak material. What remains in this latest collection

are lead singer Ben Bridwell’s unmistakable vocals. Even with weak lyrics, Bridwell’s voice reaches some beautiful places on the album, especially in “Slow Cruel Hands of Time.”

Band of Horses’ albums always sound-ed like the soundtrack to a perfect road trip. Songs like “The Great Salt Lake” from Everything All the Time and “Laredo” off of Infinite Arms are prime examples.

In this respect, Mirage Rock never puts the pedal to the floor and fails to carry us anywhere.

Truth be told, be prepared to ride off into the sunset on your band of ponies, not horses, with this sad release from an old fa-vorite.


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But Wagmiller isn’t complaining. “If I were to work in New York City I’d

spend an hour getting there and an hour or an hour and a half getting back every day,” Wagmiller said. “So me driving [to Buffalo] once a week really saves time.”

Wagmiller said the commute has grown on him, and he is beginning to see its hid-den blessings.

“At first [the commute] was tough, es-pecially when I was driving it,” Wagmiller said. “But after a while I got used to it. It became the routine. Like my students have heard me say, I’m more popular in two places than I would be in just one. Because this way people don’t have to deal with me every day.”

Wagmiller initially considered leaving UB for universities closer to his home but his affection for UB, particularly his col-leagues in the sociology department, con-vinced him to stay.

His wife supports him the most when it comes to his job. She convinced him to stay by saying, “You love where you work, you love the people you work with, they work with you to succeed and celebrate suc-cess. Who knows if you’ll find that some-where else?”

Since then, Wagmiller has led a double life while school is in session. He jokes around about one life where he lives alone and is a professor and another life where he has a wife and a dog and stays at home.

The distance hasn’t stopped Wagmiller from being active at UB. As of this semes-ter, he is the director of graduate studies for the sociology department, and he recently organized a 5K charity run benefitting can-cer research.

Professor Robert Adelman, head of the sociology department, said Wagmiller is thoroughly dedicated to UB and his stu-dents.

“Graduate and undergraduate students often talk about how much time Professor Wagmiller spends with them and how much energy he devotes to them,” Adelman said. “The distance he lives from Buffalo has made no difference in his ability to connect with students because Professor Wagmiller is the consummate professional."

Wagmiller is relieved the university had been so supportive about his commute. He makes sure he is always involved in campus activities in his department. Wagmiller man-ages to stay active in the university by keep-ing a hectic schedule while in Buffalo.

In one day, Wagmiller will go to a three-hour graduate seminar, meet with his hiring committee (which he is the chair of) and make sure to meet with his students.

The commute from New Jersey hasn’t prevented Wagmiller from connecting with his students. Professor Elizabeth Gage, a former student of Wagmiller’s who recently collaborated with him on a grant proposal, said both as student and colleague Wagmill-er’s distance from UB hasn’t been an issue.

“He lathers attention on his students, and he pushes students to go outside their comfort zone,” Gage said. “When I was a student I guess he was commuting [from New Jersey] but I didn’t notice. He was on my dissertation comittee which is a pretty close relationship, and I didn’t even know [he was living in New Jersey] or if I did know it wasn’t like a big deal.

“In some ways because he commutes he makes a bigger effort to connect with colleagues when he’s in town than the rest of us. He’s not always here so he definitely makes a point of making interactions hap-pen when he is.”

Wagmiller attributes his ability to con-nect with students to his effort to make his course work as interesting as possible. He tries to make the content of his lectures re-latable to his students. He wants to develop close relationships with them, even though he isn’t available every day of the week.

“When I first started out, I wanted to be serious and I gave boring lectures,” Wag-miller said. “But after a while I got more comfortable and was able to tell jokes and my lectures got better. Now I do things which, I hope, are more interesting for the students. Like right now I’m doing a study on movies, because students, at least most students, enjoy watching movies.”

Wagmiller hopes to continue teaching at UB for years to come, despite his uncon-ventional commute.



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Presvo is also an interactive tool for class-es. Students viewing a presentation on Presvo have the ability to add questions to the link provided and a new slide is made at the end of the presentation to be viewed and shared with the entire class.

“The ideas like sharing should be really simple whether it be on social network, like Facebook, Twitter, et cetera,” Benedict said. “Just put that one link out and boom, it’s just there. It could be there in your website, it could be there on your blogs, it could be there in your Twitter stream – that’s kind of our goal. We don’t want any special software.”

The group is looking to update the UB education process and test out the product on the university before sending it out to other companies and schools. It is currently ask-ing for feedback from the students to try and change whatever problems currently exist.

“We want students at UB to use it, and the whole idea is that we want as much feedback as possible, about the product ideas and whoever wants to contribute ideas to us in many ways,” Benedict said. “Hey, if you’re a hacker and you want to sit down with us and show us some things – great.”

Shounak Gore, a fourth-year computer science Ph.D. student, thinks that Presvo’s abil-ity to have different layouts and easy sharing makes it a valuable presentation tool.

“I myself have a MacBook and I use [Presvo] pretty comfortably because it’s direct-ly online and I don’t have to worry about the technology,” Gore said. “I can use it on a Mac, and I can use it on a Windows [computer].”

Steven Ko, an assistant professor in the computer science department, has worked with the group as students in his own classes and has given his own feedback on the new website. Ko has experience with each version of the Presvo website and sees great progress compared to the newest version of the soft-ware.

“There’s a lot of presentation software out there that is really widely used, like Pow-erPoint, Keynote and Open Office,” Ko said. “But I think this one has great potential to reach out to a bigger audience.”

According to Ko, the group is looking at the website from the point of view of the us-ers and trying to think of ways to make a bet-ter tool to allow users more freedom in their presentation. One of the biggest strengths of the site is not having to follow an exact format, according to Ko.

“They’ve been looking at this education space and trying to come up with a better way to encourage students and faculty members to interact with each other,” Ko said. “I think this tool is a particular implementation of a con-cept that they’ve been thinking of for a while now.”

Benedict said by the end of the month, Presvo should have more capacity to the serv-ers and expanding the network, so they can collect as much information as possible about user data and product data.

“The product is in the budding stages, and it’s quite usable right now with the basic features of adding text and pictures,” Bene-dict said. “Moving forward, we’ll be adding a lot more features to it like themes, sound and music.”

The group has been in touch with compa-nies like Google, Facebook and Twitter, while trying to gain attention and gain feedback about the site.

“[We’re] putting [Presvo] out to people to try it out and give us feedback because we really want to make it good before we actually put it out to the masses and they can start using it,” Benedict said. “We want it to be good, we want it to be interactive and really simple [and] that’s our goal.”


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I don’t think so.After next season, Zordich will be

gone and the Bulls will have to find a new quarterback. By starting Licata’s learning process now, at least Quinn would be set-ting the Bulls up for the future.

Shouldn’t it be about who the better quarterback is? Can’t we see Licata play so we know for sure what we have?

After Wednesday night’s embarrass-ment and sloppy passing attack by Zor-dich, I have joined “Team Licata.” I feel as

though a talented arm could bring much success to an offense that already has a leading rusher in Oliver – though we don’t yet know how long he’ll be out – and two solid back-ups.

By adding a defined, accurate passing quarterback like Licata, the Bulls will even-tually be scary good.

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Dressing up will always make you feel better – if you think you look good, you feel good because of the confidence you have and you instantly look better to all those around you.

Go for the suit; you never know what you might encounter. 5. When you’re feeling sad, stop feeling sad and just be awesome instead.

Barney had it right – only you control your happiness. You alone control your emotions, and everything and everyone else are just bystanders.

If you’re having a bad day, you can change it around with just simple positive thinking. Don’t be sad; be awesome.

Above all the funny lines and misfor-tunate events, How I Met Your Mother teach-es you more about life’s little pleasures. It teaches you not to sweat the small stuff and how family doesn’t always mean blood.

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JOE KONZE JRSports Editor

Kent State versus Buffalo, lights on, cameras surround-ing the stadium, countless

Twitter feeds hashtagging #SeaOfBlueOnESPNU.

A perfect venue for junior quarterback

Alex Zordich to shine.

He choked.

And the worst part about it? It was against an average team in Kent State, the same team that once ran the wrong direction while defending a punt. Kent State, which ranks seventh in passing defense out of 13 teams in the Mid-American Conference. Zordich finished 4 for 22 for 92 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions against the Golden Flashes. That’s medio-cre against a mediocre passing defense by a mediocre quar-terback, if you ask me.

The Bulls can’t run the ball every play. Although they were without junior run-ning back Branden Oliver for the second half, they still have talent in junior Brandon Murie and freshman Devin Campbell. Kent State knew the Bulls’ passing game was worthless without Oliver. The Golden Flashes stacked the box on every play, making it difficult for the Bulls to run the ball and forcing Zordich to beat them through the air.

So what kind of quarter-back would be most effective against this type of defense?

An accurate passing quar-terback.

That is what the Bulls have in redshirt freshman Joe Licata.

At 6-foot-3 and 217 pounds, Licata demonstrates the persona of a pure pass-ing quarterback. He may not be able to run read options as effectively as Zordich, but he has been known to accurately hit receivers.

Licata was a superstar at local Williamsville South High School under head coach Kraig Kurzanski. He broke Western New York records with 492 yards in a game, 2,573 yards in a season, 6,671 yards in a career and 87 touch-down passes in his career.

Accurate? No doubt.Just think of the Bulls

actually having a quarterback who could throw a nice deep ball to Alex Neutz or a healthy Fred Lee.

Zordich was 30 for 45 for 385 yards and 5 touchdowns through two games. So what? Four of the five touchdowns came against FCS school Mor-gan State, which had a much more exciting marching band than football program.

In that same game, Licata, on the first pass of his colle-giate career, found Neutz in the end zone for a score. He showed poise in the pocket and acted like he had been un-der center for years.

Why does all that mat-ter? Because it is evident head coach Jeff Quinn is too con-cerned about his status on the hot seat; his record is 6-21 as the Bulls’ head coach. He doesn’t have time to invest in the future. He wants immedi-ate success, and Zordich pro-vides experience. But is that necessarily the right decision?

JON GAGNONAsst. Sports Editor

His father starred at Penn St. and with the Ph i l ade lph i a Eagles and his brother currently plays at Penn St. In high school, he led his football team to a 15-0 state champi-onship season.

Junior quarterback Alex Zordich has foot-ball in his veins.

At the start of the 2012 foot-ball season head coach Jeff Quinn had made up his mind: Zordich was going to be his starting quar-terback, but it wasn’t an easy de-cision. Redshirt freshman Joe Li-cata is one of the most decorated quarterbacks in Western N.Y. high school history, and many will at-test that he is in fact worthy of the starting role for the Bulls.

But the marriage between Quinn and Zordich has interrupt-ed the highly anticipated college career of Licata.

If any quarterback was ever put in a better position to fail, it was Zordich in the Bulls’ first game of the season against No. 6 ranked Georgia. But he rose above and beyond expectations.

In his first two games, Zor-dich completed 66 percent of his passes, threw for 385 yards, rushed for 93 yards and amassed six total touchdowns. Last Wednesday’s game against Kent State was disas-trous enough for fans to demand Licata’s presence in the game.

Zordich ended up complet-ing 4 of 22 passes, throwing for 92 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. The touchdown and half of the yards came on a mirac-ulous Hail Mary catch at the end of the first half by junior wide out Alex Neutz. Simply put, the Bulls’ offense was completely immobile throughout the entire game.

Is this poor performance worthy of a quarterback contro-versy?

Zordich has been highly ac-claimed at UB since starting for the Bulls as a true freshman in 2010 – the first true freshman to start since Drew Willy did so in 2005 (Willy led the Bulls to their first Mid-American Conference Championship in 2008).

After suffering an injury that ended his freshman campaign as the starter, he rode the bench as the No. 2 guy in his sophomore year. But his junior year, he was ready to take the reins.

Up until the abysmal Kent State game, which was unfortu-nately broadcast nationally on ESPNU, he had been playing like the quarterback he was expected to be.

Most argue if Licata is going to be next in line, they might as well throw him in the fire this year with all the weapons surrounding him on offense. If Quinn made this decision at the beginning of the year, I wouldn’t have much of an argument, but at this point they’ve wasted precious time for Licata and the rest of the offense to develop chemistry.

Quinn made the decision to go with Zordich early on, and now he’ll have to live with it.

If Zordich posts anything similar to the stat line he produced against the Golden Flashes when he plays UConn next week, then Bulls’ fans will have every right to call for his head. But not after one bad game.

Give the kid a chance.


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The men’s basketball team has yet to officially release its schedule for the 2012-13 season, but its op-ponents have done so.

This is what the men’s basket-ball schedule looks like, according to the folks at UB Bull Run:

Among the notable games: The Bulls start off with a home game versus Princeton on Nov. 10. The Tigers are coming off a 20-11 sea-son in which they finished third in the Ivy League.

The Bulls then travel to Talla-hassee to play Florida State as part of the Coaches vs. Cancer tourna-ment.

Buffalo will once again play its Big Four rivals, Canisius and St. Bo-naventure, on the road and Niagara at home. The Bulls also continue their home-and-home series with Temple, as Buffalo hosts the Owls on Nov. 28.

During the holiday break, the Bulls will have two challenges on the road: Pullman, Wash. on Dec. 21 to take on Washington State, and Tulsa,

Okla. on Jan. 2 to take on Tulsa.The game in Oklahoma will be

the last before the Bulls make a run for their first ever Mid-American Conference title and automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, as they start conference play at home versus Miami Ohio.

This year, the MAC schedule is different in that the first 11 games will be mixed between MAC East and West foes – a change to help balance out the schedules.

Buffalo will once again be a part of ESPN Bracketbusters, and this year the game will be at home. The opponent will be named at a later date, as will the time of the game.

UB’s home finale will be played on senior night against reigning MAC champ Ohio. The Bulls will finish off the regular season on the road against Bowling Green. The non-conference portion of the schedule is due to change, as Buffalo may add another game to fill out the schedule – possibly a home matchup during the holiday break.

Buffalo looks to improve in 2013 after a stellar 2011-12 cam-paign, in which the Bulls went 20-11 and ended up in the Collegeinsider.com Postseason Tournament for the second straight year.


Men’s basketball schedule unofficially released

MARIA MANUNTAStaff Writer

After six straight losses, it

turned out all the Bulls needed was a new attitude and a dominant leader.

The Bulls (2-6-1) brought both to the field Saturday when they host-ed Albany (2-6) and came away with a 2-1 victory – their first win in the month of September.

Buffalo had struggled mightily since starting the season 1-0-1, scor-ing only three goals in an 0-6 stretch stretch. Head coach Dave Hesch in-stilled a new attitude in his team this weekend as the Bulls attempted to break their losing streak.

“We came out in a different system; we came out flying,” Hesch said. “We just forgot about the oth-er team. We just worried about our-selves and it all clicked at the end of the day.”

The first half held all the excite-ment and scoring for both teams, as the Bulls wasted no time getting on the board.

Senior forward Maksym Kowal found an opening in the seventh minute when junior midfielder Jesse Andoh made a swift cross from the right side of the field into the front of the box. Kowal volleyed the ball toward the net and past goalkeeper Tim Allen for the opening score.

“It was a relief because we just have been struggling so much in front of the goal,” Kowal said. “So the first one meant a lot personally and to the team.”

Kowal did not let up his relent-less pace after his first goal, as he continued to press Albany’s defense.

His aggression paid off in the 22nd minute when senior forward Pat Ryan found Kowal with a through ball. Kowal cleanly possessed the ball and struck it past Allen.

Kowal’s second goal proved to be the difference, as the Danes scored only one goal, which came in the 41st minute.

“I think it was a great team ef-fort and everybody was working hard,” Kowal said. “It looked like we were all a unit today, finally. We bought into what the coach said and planned. We got the job done.”

The Bulls edged the Danes in almost every statistical category, but not by much. They had two more shots, but only one more shot on goal. They also led Albany in corner kicks.

Hesch plans to focus solely on the upcoming game. He explained he does not want to look further than Sunday; he wants a second con-secutive win that will put the team back on track. The Bulls will play an offensively anemic Robert Morris (2-5-1) team that has only scored four goals all season.

“I think we have a lot of mo-mentum coming for the next game,” Kowal said. “I think it should be an easy win for us. If we keep the same spirit, same hard work, we will get an easy result.”

The Bulls will looked to end their non-conference schedule with a win against the Colonials on Sun-day at UB Stadium. See coverage on ubspectrum.com.


Led by Kowal, new-attitude Bulls end losing streak

Don’t bench Zordich yet

It’s time for Licata

Continued on page 8

NICK FISCHETTI /// THE SPECTRUM

Forward Maksym Kowal scored two goals to help the Bulls stop their six-game losing streak, beating state rival Albany 2-1 Friday evening.

NICK FISCHETTI /// THE SPECTRUM

Tony Watson and the Bulls look to im-prove on an impressive 2011-12 cam-paign. They are set to begin their season Nov. 10 at home against Princeton.

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