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TONG MENGStaff Writer

After 18 years at the helm of the School

of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SoPPS), Dean Wayne Anderson is stepping down. A national search committee is finding his replacement.

Provost Charles Zukoski formed the committee and Dean of the School of Den-tal Medicine Michael Glick is heading it. It consists of a diverse group of people, includ-ing faculty members from both SoPPS and non-SoPPS schools, a Ph.D. student in phar-maceutical sciences and an associate profes-sor from the Roswell Park Graduate Division at UB. Russell Reynolds Associates, a consult-ing firm, has also been recruited to facilitate the search process.

Anderson, who is effectively stepping down at the end of the academic year, said SoPPS is in a very strong position to bring in a new dean. It was ranked the 17th-best phar-macy school in America in 2012, according to U.S. News & World Report.

“This is a perfect time to step down from the deanship and allow new leadership to continue our growth,” Anderson said in an email. “The school is in a very strong position now -- nationally ranked, in a strong fiscal po-sition and growing.”

Anderson is carrying on his responsibili-ties as dean until a new one is found, Zukoski said in a letter addressed to the university community. Zukoski hopes the new dean will be inaugurated before the beginning of the fall, according to UB Reporter. He expects

the search to be carried out during the spring semester. Selected candidates will come to UB for campus visits as the semester con-cludes.

School of Pharmacy prepares for new dean Dean Anderson to step down at end of academic year

KELSEY BENNETTStaff Writer

Thousands of African-American men lined up for battle to claim their rights as United States citizens during the Civil War. Carole Emberton tells their story.

Emberton, an assistant professor of his-tory, received the George and Ann Richards Prize, presented by the Civil War Era Center of Pennsylvania State University. It is given to the best article of the year published in The Journal of the Civil War Era. The board voted unanimously to award the honor to Emberton.

“[Experts] are all convinced it is going to make a big impact in the field,” said Erik Seeman, director of the UB Humanities In-stitute.

A kind woman with a soft southern ac-cent, the grisly depictions Emberton portrays are a shock to even the most studied histo-rians.

“Her piece is powerful, beautiful, mind-expanding, almost philosophical, and it is a model not merely of Civil War scholarship but of what historians can do when they are working at the top of their game,” said Ste-phen Berry, the Amanda and Greg Gregory chair in the Civil War Era in the University of Georgia Franklin College of Arts and Sci-ences, in an email.

Emberton’s essay, “Only Murder Makes Men: Reconsidering the Black Military Expe-rience,” elaborately explores the trajectory of black masculinity for men who served in the Civil War, as they went from slaves to free-men.

The essay is part of a book set to come out in June titled Beyond Redemption: Race, Vio-lence, and the American South after the Civil War.

Emberton said her book and essay sought to “challenge some of the most ba-sic assumptions of American historiography and complicate the story of freedom that we like to tell about this period.”

She argues what the nearly 200,000 black Union soldiers experienced in the Civil War created a hyper-masculine culture that would later have deadly affects on the freed slaves in the Reconstruction South.

“[The essay] explores how definitions of black manhood took root in the abolitionist response to slavery as an emasculating insti-tution that made black men too weak and passive to be ‘real’ men,” Emberton said.

Glorification of war is an unfortunate result of the monumental nature of the slave emancipation, according to Emberton. She said the United States has a tendency to “overlook the pain and suffering [war] caused the very people it was supposed to liberate.”

The liberation dealt not only with the desire for equality among races but also with what Emberton called gender dynamics.

“I’m interested in how ideas of mascu-linity – what it meant to be a man – inter-sected with ideas of race,” Emberton said.

Berry agrees Emberton’s work highlights how individuals in the 19th century assigned a synonymy between citizenship and mascu-linity, as well as masculinity and violence.

“[Emberton] has given more careful thought than anyone to the violence and threats of violence that form the bedrock of our unconscious and reflexive understanding of citizenship,” Berry said.

Emberton was shocked to win the award. She said she is deeply honored to re-ceive the recognition and she intended her essay to demonstrate the various erroneous conclusions many individuals have come to regarding the Civil War and its African-American participants.

Seeman, who is also a history professor and Emberton’s colleague for six years, be-lieves her work speaks to an important era, but its themes are still prevalent in today’s society.

“It is important for our era today and how we think about manhood, how we think about race, how we think about gun culture of the United States,” Seeman explained. “It is rare for a historical article to speak both to the past and have an important resonance about the present.”

Seeman finds the essay impressive. He said he is not surprised by her success. He said Emberton is hardworking, intelligent and dedicated to her students and research.

More than freedomProfessor examines Civil War’s black soldiers in award-winning essay

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Experienced medical professional opens new clinic in The Commons

Hong-biao “Hank” Liu, M.D. Ph.D., hopes his medical expertise will be useful to UB students, faculty and staff. His new clinic in The Commons uses high-tech equipment to ensure efficient health care.

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Wayne Anderson, dean of the School of Phar-macy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, is stepping down from the position. Provost Charles Zu-koski has formed a national search committee to find a replacement.


Carole Emberton, an assistant professor of history, received the George and Ann Richards Prize, an award given to the best article of the year published in The Journal of the Civil War Era.

Retired Coca-Cola CEO sets up UB scholarship

BRIAN JOSEPHSSenior Managing Editor

Hong-biao “Hank” Liu, M.D. Ph.D., is a busy man.

The doctor is currently splitting time as a house physician for Brylin Hospital, a pri-mary physician for the Medical Care of West-ern New York at Buffalo and as a medical officer at the vA Hospital in Buffalo.

He’s losing hair at 45, but he still glows with excitement as he’s talking about his lat-est innovation: his new medical center in The Commons.

Last December, Liu expanded his medi-cal clinic, Luna Medical Center, to a suite in The Commons. It is the first clinic of its kind to open on North Campus.

The center offers a variety of services despite its location in a small office tucked deep in The Commons’ second floor. Liu said the clinic revolves around 10 services, which include primary care, pain manage-ment and anxiety counseling.

Liu noted the new, more relaxed location was quite the change from Luna’s busy set-ting in its first location on Elmwood Avenue. It’s not about relaxation, though. A study done last year by the General Hospital Psychia-

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UB gave John Alm a second chance. Now, he gives its potential students hope for the future.

Alm, a retired Coca-Cola CEO who flunked out of UB the first time he attended, established a $150,000 scholarship for gradu-ating seniors at Maple Grove High School, his alma mater. Students from the Bemus Point school who have been accepted to UB and have financial need are eligible for the award.

Alm knows what it’s like to struggle in high school because he had a 1.65 GPA. He is a true underdog, according to Edward Tur-kasz Jr., the principal of Maple Grove high school.

“His story is pretty unique and pretty in-spiring, especially to the student who is strug-gling a little but needs that opportunity and is given that opportunity to be successful,” Turkasz said.

Alm hopes to get more students from his former school to attend UB. The Cheryl D. van Marter-Alm scholarship – named for Alm’s late wife who also graduated from Ma-ple Grove – will be given in increments.

The first student will receive $15,000, which will fund tuition, some books and room and board. Alm will then give $30,000 the second year, $45,000 the third year and $60,000 the fourth year. The number of re-cipients will also increase accordingly.

“I learned that very few students from there go to UB and I thought this would be a good way to connect the university to that school and would help promote a whole dif-ferent thought process on the ability of what they can do,” Alm said.

When Alm flunked out of UB and joined the military, he didn’t expect to go back and graduate from the School of Management in 1973.

“Attending UB gave me exposure to peo-ple who lived very differently from me and opened doors to a new world,” Alm said. “I hope this scholarship will provide a similar opportunity to Maple Grove students.”

Turkasz said Alm’s personal story dem-onstrates an additional layer of meaning to the significance and aim of the scholarship.

“John has a passion for providing edu-cational opportunities to underserved youth,” said Arjang Assad, dean of the School of Management. “This scholarship is an apt demonstration of this.”

The students who will receive the schol-arship are not at the top of their class, but with the help from Alm, they have potential, according to Turkasz.

Alm wants to expand on that and give Maple Grove students a greater sense of em-powerment.

“I hope that it opens up a new world of possibilities for them,” Alm said. “This is a small school in a small community … the University at Buffalo and the whole environ-ment there will open up new, broader possi-bilities.”

Maple Grove is a small, rural school in Chautaqua County, N.Y., with an enrollment of 386 students.

Alm is an example of someone who em-bodies the principles of hard work and resil-iency for both Maple Grove and UB students. His story shows the importance of striving and the significance of giving back to one’s community, according to Turkasz and Assad.

“I’m proud we’ve had someone come from here and help recognize that this is a place that helps students realize their poten-tial,” Turkasz said.

Pepsi sponsors UB, but in honor of Alm, the university installed one Coca-Cola vend-ing machine on campus.

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John Alm, retired CEO of Coca-Cola, established a scholarship program for seniors at Maple Grove High School, his alma mater, who are planning to attend UB.

Continued from page 1: Just your common doctortry journal showed only 22 percent of the college students who reported symptoms of serious depression received the minimal adequate care. That’s a statistic Liu hopes to change.

“Hospitals [often] refuse them and you don’t want something to happen to them on campus,” Liu said. “You think of one year – 2012 – with all the gun shootings. Most of these people had medical issues.”

What helps the clinic stand out is its use of technology and its emphasis on education. Liu proudly talked about the Apple-based clinical software, an iPad/iPhone-based skin temperature sensor and blood pressure monitor, the laser therapy machines used for pain management and his 73-inch 3D television in a presentation directed toward students and potential pa-tients on Tuesday.

These gadgets aren’t for show. Liu said he used an iPhone’s EKG (electrocardio-gram) system to assist a walk-in patient who was complaining of chest pains. A quick 30-second scan revealed the patient needed to be sent to the emergency room because of a potentially deadly irregularity.

Liu, whose medical career dates back to his time at China’s Binzhou Medical College in the ’80s, noted it’s hard to prevent such an incident in that case because the patient’s family had a history of heart attacks.

He can, however, help students make the right health decisions so they won’t end up in the same situation. The physician holds two weekly seminars – an open and closed one – to inform patients, students and faculty about common health prob-lems. Although there were only about 15 students attending the aforementioned pre-sentation, Liu spoke with fervor as he told them about the benefits of what he calls a “health coach.” These seminars feel like pep talks rather than lectures.

The seminars are part of a model that focuses on strengthening the doctor-patient relationship. One of Liu’s main concerns about medical care is the oddity of having to wait an hour or so for a minutes-long checkup. He’s hoping more patient-doctor dialogue would prevent cases such as drug abuse or misdiagnosis.

“I remember one patient. She had a fracture,” Liu said. “She needed medica-tion, but she tried to sell to somebody else … all to use alcohol and different drugs. I gave her an extra education talk and said, ‘If you [did this in] another doctor’s office, they would’ve kicked you out and you … would go to the streets. We work together.’”

He invested most of his last year’s in-come, $20,000, into the facility. He’s also re-ceived $400,000 from other unnamed phy-sicians to use toward nuclear medicine. Liu doesn’t have any paid employees yet, but he

hopes to hire two supporting employees in March and an M.D. in July.

For now, Liu’s getting help from his in-terns. These assistants include international, graduate and undergraduate students who work in four different departments: medi-cal, business, laser therapy and cooperative relationship. The internship is unpaid, but that doesn’t affect the contagious effect of Liu’s optimistic attitude.

“It’s not just about advertising our-selves. It’s only one part of it,” said van vu, a UB alumna with a Bachelor’s degree in business administration. “The main reason why he came on campus is because he wants to help the students. The patients he’s help-ing right now are middle aged or seniors. They didn’t take care of themselves prop-erly. Hank thinks we could do something to prevent it from happening. That’s why he works with students to help live a proper lifestyle to help prevent later problems.”

Luna Medical Center is a private medi-cal center, unlike the Michael Hall medical center on South Campus. Michael Hall, which has been on campus since 1955, has long been the students’ central spot for medical services and, for now, it seems that it’s going to stay that way.

Liu said he hoped the new clinic would complement Michael Hall’s service. Servic-es like laser therapy and weekend availability are exclusive to Luna Medical Center, but Michael Hall is better able to accommodate a large number of students.

Susan M. Snyder, director of student health services, is worried students may not be able to tell the difference between the two, even though she supports Liu’s en-deavors.

“I think one of the confusing things is that with it being in the commons,” Snyder said. “I think students can get confused that it is the health center and may not under-stand he’s a private physician. So I do think it may lead to some confusion in that regard … with it not being related and not covered under the health fee.”

Even with all the technology, it’s clear Luna Medical Center is still a startup of-fice. Eighty percent of Liu’s patients are still over the age of 30, and he’s only treated one UB student. However, he and Snyder are still confident in the new clinic.

“I think his heart is in the right place,” Snyder said.

The Luna Medical Clinic is open from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Satur-day. It currently accepts Medicare, Medic-aid and private medical insurance.


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CHRISTIAN ANDZEL

Believe in yourself. Seize the present day and take hold of your future. Through everything in life, every goal you set, every trial you go through, you must not let your doubts get to you. Believing in yourself to get over the lumps of life, especially in college, is a must because without believing in yourself first, how can you get others to believe in you?

Being confident and overcoming the obstacles in life are difficult. This is especially true in college, where sometimes, every day is a fight for some people. Even today, as you read this, you could be having a bad day. You could be wishing you never got out of bed to see with what the day awaited you. How can you inspire yourself to block out the tough times and instead see the bright future you have? How can you lift yourself out of the shadows of despair when all you may see is darkness? How can you be the person you once were? You believe in yourself that you will dig yourself out of this temporary lag in life.

You may ask, “Why should I, of all people, be-lieve in myself?” I would say that you are here today for a reason. You are here on this planet, here in Buf-falo, here at UB to make a difference. You are here for a reason. You have a talent that no one may have and,

from there, pursue that talent so as to advance your-self in the world.

You may ask, “How can I have such a talent?” I would say there is always something that makes an individual unique. There is always something in the depth of the person’s heart that makes him/her burn to be great. Find that special yearning. Find that special talent because it can and it will be used for greatness! By looking within yourself, you can find your true strength and endure the obstacles that may seem im-movable. I believe that is the true genius of believing in yourself.

Believe in yourself. You have promise. You do have hope! Promote peace; promote love! With prom-ising to love others, to love all people, you may find people who, in turn, encourage you to chase after your dreams. They can feed you the optimism in your life that you have always craved. They can give you the attention you have always wanted but never received. Something better awaits you as long as you keep dreaming and believing in yourself.

You may ask what I believe. I believe that no mat-ter who you are, what you do or do not believe in, what your record is, or where you came from, you have a chance for greatness and potential to accomplish many things. You, today, have a chance to affect some-one’s life. Turn cynicism into optimism, dislike to love,

confinement of emotions into freedom of expression, and shyness to beautiful audacity!

Fulfill your promise. Believe in yourself and in others encouraging you to make something out of yourself to better this world. There is so much hope in this world because there are billions of world changers who have the opportunity to birth something amazing. You and I are just two out of billions of people on this planet. Although we are minute people in a humon-gous world, we have the chance to change history and transform lives. Believe in yourself and anything and everything is a possibility.

Believing in yourself is certainly not something everyone does, but once you genuinely do, amazing things occur that you never imagined yourself do-ing. Have faith because you can do it. Keep moving forward and chase your dreams because, with faith in who you are, you can accomplish your goals. Stay driv-en and stay humble. After you have worked hard and become victorious, instill that same work ethic and be-lief in others. Extend your hand, your heart, and your spirit to those who need it most. They will then see you and you will become their example of believing in oneself. And before you know it, not only have you transformed someone’s life, but you have changed the world.

Letter to the EditorA gift of hope: believing in oneself

Dubya just can’t catch a break. Last week a hacker by the alias “Guccifer” broke

into multiple email accounts of the Bush family, un-covering private messages, pictures and documents from 2009-12. Among the loot were messages be-tween family members about George H. W. Bush’s failing health, a list of personal contact information for the former first family and a couple of interesting PG self-portraits of W. bathing. Yeah, that happened.

And from Guccifer to the main pages of major news organizations, the Internet got more Bush than it bargained for.

Yet there were few complainers. It doesn’t matter that it wasn’t pertinent news or that the messages were of a private manner or even that they were obtained illegally. If journalism is all about getting the big story – no matter how trivial that story may be – then TSG won the week’s jackpot. And how? Because sensation-alism sells.

TheSmokingGun.com, which aside from posting celebrity mug shots is known for obtaining exclusive material through government and legal sources, court documents and Freedom of Information Act requests, was the first news source to post about the hack. Its article contained everything from the digs at Bill Clin-ton to the awkward paintings. It was liked, shared and tweeted thousands of times.

Some major organizations smartly jumped on board. Reuters, the Daily News, USA Today and NBC News all wrote their own articles directly quoting the emails. Dozens of other websites wrote about it the hack without using any of the material. The New York Times, in a very New York Times-y move, even wrote an art review blog post on Bush’s paintings.

It’s not pretty, but it’s what people want to read. In the old rules of journalism (and perhaps in an ideal world), the emails would probably not have been pub-lished. There was once a time when we recognized the difference between a juicy story and an invasion of privacy, when the main story would’ve been about the hacker and not what the hacker found – maybe even a time when organizations would have thought twice before publishing a story that wasn’t actually a story for the sake of attention.

It’s hard to remember such a time, but it had to have existed.

The Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron drew a distinction between the publication of documents like the Pentagon Papers that reveal the conduct of the government and personal documents taken from a private source. The former, while possi-bly containing classified information, reveals informa-tion about our government that we may deem to be detrimental; the latter serve no purpose but to humili-ate the owner.

But we, as a whole, root for the downfall of our nation’s celebrities. The emails are the equivalent of the up-the-skirt shots of celebrities stepping out of their cars or a weeks-long series of articles about Brit-ney Spears shaving her head. These stories exist be-cause we want them to. News organizations know we read them and that those stories will bring them many readers. Many complain when they exist but only after reading them first.

This, of course, is not the first time a celebrity has been hacked. Staying within the field of politics, former vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin had her private email broken into in 2008. The hacker took screenshots of emails, a contact list and family photos, then shared them to Wikileaks. Just like with our cur-rent story, the screenshots quickly spread across the Web. Gawker, a popular news and gossip blog, repost-ed all of them, proudly crowing “it’s newsworthy, and we will not be taking it down!”

Society has become so much more digitally inter-active, and as a result, people’s needs and wants are changing. Everyone wants to know what is happen-ing instantly and all the time, even when a story (or a person) is no longer relevant. Because of incidents like this, people claim journalism is dying. But we don’t see it that way; we just see it adjusting with the times.

It’s been a couple big weeks of anniversaries and achievements for NASA. The rover Curiosity just suc-cessfully drilled into the surface of Mars and collected a sample from its interior, the first time ever on the planet.

In addition, Jan. 25 was the nine-year anniversary of the beginning of the rover Opportunity’s Mars mis-sion, a project NASA mission managers originally said they would be pleased if it lasted 90 days. Opportunity has proved to be one of the shining achievements, leading to discovery of chemical proof that the sur-face of Mars once had had standing water.

Despite all this, many people’s interest and per-ception of NASA’s importance is waning, citing the country’s current financial crisis as a reason to cut the program’s funding. To do so further would be an insult and a hindrance to our exploration and advancement.

The United States is currently in trillions of dol-lars in debt – over $16 trillion with an expected debt of $17.5 trillion by the end of the 2013 fiscal year. Add in a few spending limit crises and a massive fiscal cliff, and we’re heading for a disaster. It would only make sense for us to trim the budget and cut the luxuries.

NASA, however, should never be considered a luxury.

People who support cutting the budget support it in ignorance of not knowing what the program actu-ally does and what it costs to us. A 2007 study asked respondents what percentage of the national budget is allocated to NASA. On average, it was estimated at approximately 24 percent; in reality, NASA’s alloca-tion of the national budget in 2007 was 0.58 percent. Federal funding in 2012 dipped even further to 0.48 percent, making it the second-lowest year of funding since 1958 and 1959 – the founding years.

And according to the 2013 fiscal budget, it’s ex-pected to take another $59 million decrease.

That level of funding completely disregards the agency’s vast economical and technological impor-tance. The research that goes into and comes from NASA goes into technology that benefits and controls every aspect of our lives. You may be one of those people (and so many of them exist) who say, “well, what has it done for me?”

There’s a level of self-involvement in everything (ironically enough because our advancement of tech-nology and the digital age), leading to our impatient society. We want instant gratification. We expect every planet to have been visited by now, existence of life found and colonies built. And we still want it as cheap as possible.

Not enough people are aware of how much our space program does to benefit us. Without NASA, though, we would be without satellite television, MRI and CAT scans, temper foam, Life Alert, cell phone cameras, clean energy technology, water filtration and scratch-resistant lenses, just to name a few. These are innovations that benefit all of us. How much do they cost you personally? Half a penny to every tax dollar.

There is a responsibility to fund the agency not just for today but also for the future – especially for the future. We spend so much of our money dictating where our money should go – both in our country and in others – and as a result, we fall behind in innovation. We continue to request more and more people get an

engineering degree but then fail to support a major component of the field.

The program could be used as a successful eco-nomic stimulus, with many previous studies to back that up, but we don’t want to take that risk because we are currently in a bad place financially. But who knows how long it will take for us to get out of that hole, and if we don’t focus on advancing at all, where will that put us when we finally do?

We clearly don’t have the resources to make NASA a major priority, and that’s fine. But the atten-tion we give it is insulting. We fail to see the impor-tance, and subsequently, we’d rather spend billions of dollars filming stars on the silver screen than explor-ing the stars and space. Times are tough and money is tight but being able to give NASA at least one percent shouldn’t be considered generous. It should be a given.


Dub in a tubBush hack shows the importance of sensationalism

going back to the big leapsCutting NASA funding shows ignorance of the agency’s importance


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Artist: EelsAlbum: Wonderful, GloriousRelease Date: Feb. 4Label: vagrant Recordsgrade: B+

Having a lifelong relationship with a band isn’t always easy. One year, they can re-lease an album and you’ll swear they wrote each lyric just for you. The next year, your heart might break because it seems some stranger wrote the music under the same band’s name.

Fortunately for Eels’ fans, the band’s 10th studio album Wonderful, Glorious causes no such heartbreak.

In 1996, Mark Oliver Everett, aka ‘E’, released Beautiful Freak, a gloomy pop album with haunting lyrics. E’s amazing voice and Wurlitzer electric piano together created sin-gles that earned the band international atten-tion and success. Songs such as, “Novocaine for the Soul,” “Beautiful Freak” and “Susan’s House,” brought many listeners into E’s and fellow collaborators’ complicated world.

Over the years, Eels has remained with-in a melancholic realm of personal memoirs. In 1998, Eels’ second studio album, Electro-Shock Blues, provided a deeper look into Ev-erett’s personal life. The album deals with topics such as suicide, sickness and death.

But the most recent release from the band, Wonderful, Glorious, takes on a more positive perspective on life and reality. Its lyrics suggest the band’s transition into a much more upbeat and hopeful place. Lyrics from songs such as “On the Ropes” truly depict the band’s outlook on life that has seemingly taken on new shape.

“I’ve got enough I left inside this tired heart/To win this world and walk on my feet, know the trip” Everett sings.

The track embraces the realities of bad days and inevitable misfortune.

Wonderful, Glorious is the first album the band recorded in their new, expanded studio. The band had previously been recording in Everett’s basement, which had caused the

band many issues beforehand. With the new and improved studio for the band to work out of, it’s no surprise their music was affect-ed so positively. Everett’s tantalizing growls synchronize beautifully with the Eels’ guitar-ist’s, The Chet, hard rock jams.

“New Alphabet” reinforces not only their fresh take on a familiar style but their new motto of “getting ’em next time, tiger.”

“When the world stops making sense/Just take in what you can get/When the people on the streets start looking like sil-houettes/When the words just sound like noise/I need a new alphabet/When the world stops making sense/I make a new al-phabet” Everett sings.

Although most of the tracks stay true to the band’s style, one song in particular stands out in a negative way. “Peach Blos-som” sounds as if Everett scribbled down a few notes and tried to match them to the beat. The repetition of the lyrics overpowers the piano and guitar, and the goofiness of the song feels forced.

Listening to Eels’ music should not feel as if the band was self-conscious or mak-ing music they think the listener wanted to hear. They don’t need our approval to know they’re a fantastic band.

Wonderful, Glorious offers so much to those who have followed Eels over the years. Listeners should definitely check out the Deluxe Edition version of the album, which includes several live performances.


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The lens of one accomplished photogra-pher has reached across expanses of time and space, capturing the likes of desolate desert landscapes, poverty-stricken rural dwellers and the lives of prisoners on death row.

His name is Bruce Jackson, the James Agee Professor of American Culture and English at UB. Over 350 of Jackson’s pho-tographs graced the walls of the Burchfield Penney Art Center in the opening of Being There: Photographs 1962-2012 last Friday eve-ning.

Michael Brown, 48, of Buffalo, is an artist-in-residency at CEPA Gallery and was pleased with Jackson’s overall work.

“[Jackson’s] very accomplished,” Brown said. “He’s a really good photographer. His vision is universal.”

Jackson’s photographic work encom-passes a remarkably vast array of topics, time periods, genres and subjects. A walk through the exhibition is filled with images depicting rundown Buffalo buildings, beautiful land-scapes, black and white film prints from the

’60s and dozens of portrait photographs.Catherine Dawson, a Ph.D. student in

the Department of visual Studies, appreci-ated Jackson’s range and the versatility in his work.

“The deal with Bruce’s work is that his photography spans such a breadth of time and experience,” Dawson said. “I don’t think any other artist of the 20th century can claim to have done the same.”

Jackson’s photographs are remarkable not just because of the range of his work but also because he photographs his subjects in great depth. A passionate and piercing eye is what gives Jackson’s images their striking ap-peal.

One of Jackson’s most captivating works is entitled “House in Poorbottom,” and was taken in rural Kentucky in 1969. The black and white image depicts a destitute mother and her two children sitting in a ramshackle house. The children have dirty complexions and are sitting in front of a wall that is cov-ered with nailed down cardboard pieces, and the mother is seen smoking a cigarette and seemed to be missing teeth. One child faces the viewer with a blank and empty stare.

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UB Professor Bruce Jackson’s new exhibit at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Being There, reveals a passionate and piercing eye for the human aesthetic.

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Game design power-quartet RUST, LTD. may appear to be just four guys with great beards. However, the group is starting to gain national recognition for its award-winning ideas.

Unity Technologies is a company that drives video games like Dead Trigger (iOS and Android) and Endless Space (Windows) through their leading game engines. The company creates the pixilated magic behind digital environments produced by game de-velopers across the world. In celebration of its latest update in Nov. 2012, Unity Tech-nologies hosted a competition that asked game designers to utilize Microsoft’s newly released DirectX11 – a plug-in used to en-hance graphics.

The grand prize in this DirectX11 contest was awarded to RUST, LTD. (pro-nounced rust limited), a Buffalo media art collective made up of UB alumni, for their interactive video game, The Museum of the Microstar. This submission combines high technological graphics simulations with a story that points out the consequences of humanity’s haphazardous technological ad-vancement in a post-apocalyptic world.

The Museum of the Microstar is an interactive demo with two game modes: a technical walk-through that shows off some of the fancy digital rendering used in its pro-duction and a playable short narrative that’s meant to satirize tech demos. The museum is curated by the only corporation left in the Universe – a corporation that celebrates hu-man advancements toward discovering the Microstar, while celebrating the destruction of Earth simultaneously.

RUST, LTD. was surprised to receive the award, due to the satirical social commentary behind the game.

“[This demo] says we should think care-fully about what it means to unthinkingly cel-ebrate new technology as its role,” said Adam Liszkiewics, M.F.A. graduate from the De-partment of Media Studies and member of RUST, LTD. “[I believe] that it’s important to think about the consequences and context of technology as it’s being created and as it’s be-ing used. I think we have to give [Unity Tech-nologies] a lot of credit for awarding us the grand prize for something like that.”

Liszkiewics also taught classes at UB. The complete RUST, LTD. roster includes UB Fine Arts alumnus Anton Hand, Media

Studies alumnus Luke Noonan and Medias Studies alumnus Lucas Miller. The group met at UB in late 2009, while taking classes in the Department of Media Studies. Because the modus operandi of RUST, LTD. is non-hier-archical, Liszkiewics states the four members rely on each other heavily in all aspects of production.

This virtual media super-group has pro-duced a number of other games, including 3D puzzle platformer The Hold, which won Best in Show at Game Fest 2012, a neo-dada poetic approach to Minesweeper known as M!ndsweeper and many others.

The team noted associate professor and founding member of the Intermedia Perfor-mance Studio at UB Josephine Anstey left a long-lasting impression as a great educator and resource. She is a teacher who makes stu-dents feel comfortable taking risks as artists and excels in creating an excellent learning environment, according to Liszkiewics.

“One thing I noticed that differentiated [Anstey] from other professors was that she encourages students to work on things that are interesting to the student – that really pushes them – instead of things that are in-teresting to her,” Miller said.

RUST, LTD. found interest specifically in social activism in its work through proj-ects that have the potential to better the com-munity. Its project, Minecraft Memorials, has taken social activism into the digital world, quite literally, by erecting memorials of re-al-life mining incidents into the multiplayer game, Minecraft. This install has a strong ironic tone that the crew said relates to cities like Buffalo that utilize coal power.

“The fact that you’re burning real coal while you’re burning fake coal, and it’s a game that sort of glorifies coal production, when in reality it’s a pretty horrible profession,” Noonan said. “It’s really dangerous, it’s go-ing to give you some sort of cancer … [Coal production] is a pretty horrible job, actually,

and it took playing Minecraft for that to all come into focus there.”

As far as the future of RUST, LTD. goes, its increased reputation is helping the found-ers attain contracts in a highly competitive, rapidly growing field. Hand states the group’s work in the next six months will largely be in the mobile sphere, creating technology such as iPhone and Android apps, as the need for digital media production for mobile devices increases.

“From a commercial perspective, there’s money there because people want to hire you to do that,” Noonan said. “When you ap-proach the mobile space there’s a variety of unique interfaces there, so you have this re-ally sensor-rich device.”

The RUST, LTD. team is scattered across the country and solely collaborates online to create its innovative games.

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The image is haunting, but at the same time, it’s a beautifully shot photograph. The composition is well executed and the light-ing is dramatic. The picture comments on poverty in the rural south in a way that’s aes-thetic but also chilling.

Jackson’s most notable work of a simi-lar vein is his collection of photos grouped under the title “PRISON.” The “PRISON” series consists of several black and white im-ages of death row prisoners in Texas and Ar-kansas prisons. The series is a commentary on the American prison system, its place as a major institution in America and an inves-tigation of the lives of those who inhabit it.

Michael Moses, 75, of Buffalo, felt a personal connection with Jackson’s “PRIS-ON” photographs.

“The prison pictures are of particular interest [to me] because I worked at Attica for a period of time,” Moses said. “They’re very striking and moving. They display the pathos of that sort of experience that peo-ple have inside.”

Jackson’s documentary-like photo-graphs do more than just record prison life, according to the gallery inscription.

His impassioned visualization infuses his photographs with a touch of humanity, portraying them in sympathetic and personal manners.

“Excell White” is a 1979 black and white photograph that illustrates this. The image shows a prisoner standing behind the thick, metal bars of his cell. One of the man’s eyes is hidden by one of the metal bars; the other looks at the camera with a serious gaze.

The point of emphasis of the image is a tattoo on the man’s chest, which takes the form of a star and has faded lettering be-neath it. This mark of identity brings forth questions of the man’s past, the meaning of the tattoo and whether it once wrote out the name of a relative or significant other.

But then the thinking stops. “Put to death March 30, 1999” is written

next to the photograph in the description.Looking at a photograph of a man who

has been executed raises hard-to-describe feelings. The emotional reaction to this se-ries of work is a true testament to Jackson’s ability to capture moments and individuals that are all at once unsettling and affecting.

All of Jackson’s work demonstrates his penetrating vision for images that arrest and intrigue. The vast diversity in his photogra-phy illustrates the power of his camera lens and vision to cross and connect boundaries to form such commanding and captivating photographs.

Being There: Photographs 1962-2012 will be on view until June 16.


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“I hope to inspire in my students a sense of wonder and creativity when they think about and study the past,” Emberton said. “Writing history requires curiosity and imagination as much as it does memoriza-tion of names, dates and other facts.”

Emberton encourages her students to read to become more proficient in other ar-eas of their lives. As a child, Emberton was constantly reading, which instilled her with a natural curiosity and connection to the past – she can even recite most of Emily Dick-enson’s works by heart.

Emberton worked on her essay for 10 years; she began the project as her disser-tation at Northwestern University. The let-ters and testimonies from freed slaves who sought freedom from violence inspired her.

She contemplated how tribulations suf-fered by former slaves led to their concep-tions of what exactly “freedom” meant and what their government owed them. Ember-ton’s interests began to transition.

She studied the Civil Rights Movement of the ’60s and how women’s roles were often marginalized within Civil Rights or-ganizations. As an undergraduate student, Emberton’s studies moved backward in time to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

The works of freed slaves, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, began to transform the professor’s focus. She has authored several essays and books about the Civil War and Reconstruction.

She is currently focusing on the rela-tionship between southern reconstruction and western expansion. The focus of this piece will be on the Indian Wars of the 1860s and 1870s, which will be covered in her upcoming course, Reconstructing America, 1865-1900.

Emberton’s passion for history and the people who lived it fuels her work.

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“It might be a good change to have a new dean and maybe change things around,” said Diane Yu, a third-year pharmacy student and the president of UB-SNPhA, the UB chapter of the Student National Pharmaceutical Asso-ciation.

She hopes the new dean will continue to implement the new curriculum for the school’s Doctor of Pharmacy Program. Yu also hopes to see Anderson’s replacement bring in more scholarships and research opportunities and en-hance the already close student-faculty relation-ship in SoPPS.

“A lot of students need some kind of scholarship help and also it is a way to encour-age students to do better in school,” Yu ex-plained.

Despite her expectations for the new dean, Yu is appreciative of what Anderson has done. Anderson moved SoPPS to South Campus and established Kapoor Hall, the new pharmacy building that opened during the fall.

Kapoor Hall is designed to serve as a high-tech facility catering to teaching and research demands of SoPPS, the only pharmacy school in the SUNY system. It also provides better connection to the other health sciences build-ings on South Campus, as compared to the school’s previous home on North Campus.

Anderson considers Kapoor Hall to be one of his biggest achievements.

“He is trying to integrate the School of Pharmacy into the medical buildings,” Yu said. “And I really appreciate him for doing that, because as future pharmacists, we are working with doctors, veterinarians or a professional from the medical field.”

Now, Yu looks forward to a new leadership era under a different dean.

Meanwhile, Anderson said his plans for a future include “limited time in the classroom” and “some professional activities with national professional associations.”

He promises his support to the future dean and hopes he or she will be a “visionary leader who will recognize the talents of [SoPPS] fac-ulty, staff and students.”

The search committee includes: Edward Bednarczyk, the chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and clinical associate pro-fessor; Alice Ceacareanu, assistant professor of pharmacy practice; Lorraine Collins, profes-sor of community health and health behavior professions; Katharina Dittmar de la Cruz, as-sociate professor of biological sciences; Liesl Folks, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Pamela Hershberger, profes-sor of pharmacology and therapeutics; Joseph Izzo Jr., professor of medicine and chief of clinical pharmacology; William Jusko, distin-guished professor and chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Donald Mager, as-sociate professor of pharmaceutical sciences; Davina Porock, professor and associate dean for research and scholarship in the School of Nursing; and Nisha vijay, Ph.D. student in pharmaceutical sciences and chair of the UB student chapter of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.

The committee will continue to handle the most vital part of the leadership transition -- finding such a “visionary leader” worthy to assume Anderson’s role.

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Top-flight teams continued to prove their inconsistency, as 11 ranked teams fell to unranked opponents this week. The tourna-ment is just over a month away and experts are already scratching their heads over which teams to pencil into their brackets.

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The favorite to win it allgagnon: Michigan: The Wolverines have a formula proven for success in the NCAA Tourney: perimeter shooting, top NBA prospects and a battle-tested regular season schedule. They are 5-0 against Big East, Big 12 and SEC opponents, with their only three losses coming on the road in grueling Big 10 environments.McCaine: Indiana: Indiana started the sea-son ranked No. 1 and it will finish the season No. 1. The Hoosiers’ only losses have come at the hands of Butler, Wisconsin and Illi-nois, all teams that are on pace to make it to the dance.

Bracket Bustergagnon: Michigan State: State has been my sleeper team all season. Unfortunately, the Spartans are beginning to climb the rankings amid their three-game winning streak, ques-tioning their eligibility as a “sleeper.” Regard-less, Keith Appling and Gary Harris can hang with any guard combo in the country and the Spartans have size up front that could drive them to a deep run in the tourney. Tom Izzo’s squads have made it to at least the Sweet 16 in six of the past 10 seasons, despite never hav-ing fewer than seven losses. The Spartans are always playing their best basketball in March.McCaine: georgetown: The Hoyas are 3-1 this season versus ranked opponents. Their only ranked loss came to powerhouse Indi-ana in overtime and they’re currently on a five-game winning streak in the Big East. Big East Player of the Year contender Otto Por-ter Jr.’s game has turned the corner. He could be the reason the Hoyas ruin your bracket.

Overratedgagnon: Duke: The Dukies have only lost two games this season and will most likely enter the tournament as a No. 1 seed, but I’m not buying it. This team hasn’t changed all that much from last year’s first-round exit squad. The Blue Devils are one of the worst rebounding teams in the country and have zero size outside of Mason Plumlee – two things that seem to be of the utmost impor-tance for a team that has potential to make a title run.McCaine: Arizona: A soft schedule and an overrated Pac 12 is the only reason the Wild-cats are ranked so high. They are currently 123rd in team assists per game, and that lack of ball movement could mean death for Ari-zona come tournament time.

Cinderellagagnon: UnLV: UNLv has wins over then No. 15-ranked New Mexico and San Diego State, and the Runnin’ Rebels have a four-point loss to now No. 14-ranked Or-egon. Their diaper dandy, Anthony Bennett, is emerging as one of the best big men in the country and has potential to dominate the paint if the Rebels get an advantageous matchup in their bracket.McCaine: Butler: The Bulldogs are always dangerous in March. Year after year, I don’t put my faith in Butler and they devastate my bracket. This year will be different. Led by point guard Rotnei Clarke, the Bulldogs are an experienced, veteran, tested team. They may have some fluke losses this season to La-salle and St. Louis, putting them behind the 8 ball, but don’t write off Brad Stevens’ boys. Stevens will have Butler playing scrappy and ready to prove they are the best team in the Sycamore State.


Two steppin’ to The Big Dance

Bulls win dogfightBuffalo claims battle of the boards to seal victory

JON GAGNON Sports Editor

The men’s basketball team went to Michigan twice last week and lost by a combined 30 points. Midway through the Mid-American Conference sched-ule, desperation is brewing for a team that was one of the best in the confer-ence last season.

But on Saturday, the Bulls (9-15, 4-6 MAC) outlasted Northern Illinois (5-17, 3-7 MAC), 59-54. The Huskies went on a 7-0 run with 4:27 left and had a chance to tie the game with a 3-pointer in the final minute, but the shot clanked off the rim, resulting in the Bulls coast-ing to victory.

“We knew they were a gritty, grind-it-out team and they were that way to-day,” said head coach Reggie Wither-spoon. “They were going to force us to grind with them and it’s good to be on the winning side.”

The Bulls struggled offensively but accrued 17 of their points off turn-overs and second-chance points.

Three Bulls players eclipsed double digits, including junior forward Javon McCrea, who had 16 points to go along with six rebounds and four assists.

McCrea helped jumpstart the Bulls’ offense in the second half, going on a 6-0 run by himself.

“It was a very well-played ball game on both sides of the floor,” said North-ern Illinois head coach Mark Mont-gomery. “McCrea was definitely the dif-ference, hitting a 360 shot to start the second half. They’re a good team and you can see they are getting better.”

Senior guard Tony Watson has played at least 37 minutes in each of the Bulls’ last six games and didn’t sub out for one second on Saturday.

Watson added 14 points and will continue his consistent minutes due to news that that junior guard Jarod Old-ham will be sidelined for the remainder of the season.

“I’m definitely [feeling it]. I’m with the trainer everyday,” Watson said. “The coaches have a great system in place. We are drinking a lot of protein shakes and getting a lot of rest.

Junior forward Auraum Nuiriankh scored 10 points (2 for 9 from the field) and snatched 10 rebounds for his third double-double of the season.

Nuiriankh’s most vital rebound came on the Huskies potential game-tying 3-pointer with 22 seconds left in regulation.

“When he can get you extra effort on a night when he’s not shooting well, there’s a chance he might be growing in the right direction,” Witherspoon said about Nuiriankh’s development this season.

In two losses to Eastern and West-ern Michigan, the Bulls were out-re-bounded by a total of 14 rebounds.

At halftime, Northern Illinois had the rebounding advantage, but Buffalo turned things around and finished with a 34-30 advantage.

“We got outrebounded the last two games,” Witherspoon said. “I don’t remember the last time we got outrebounded two games in a row. It’s something we pride ourselves on.”

The Bulls will remain at home as Toledo (10-10, 6-3 MAC) comes to Buf-falo on Wednesday. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.


The women’s basketball team fell to Central Michigan, 86-51, on the road on Sunday. Read the game story at t h e n e w u b s p e c t r u m . c o m .

ALEXA STRUDLER/// THE SPECTRUM

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