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Najmeh Moradiyan was treat-ed like a celebrity in her hometown upon being accepted to UB.

Her acceptance into the univer-sity was announced on the local news. She fielded countless phone calls and people assumed she was going to become a famous actress. She was the first female from Len-jan, Iran, to leave and pursue a de-gree in cinema and film.

She forged her path to America because of Iran’s restrictive culture.

When she was a cinematic con-sultant at a TV competition in Iran, one of her duties was to provide questions for the producer being featured on the show. She raised her hand to ask the film profession-al a question: “What was the cin-ematic technique Steven Spielberg used in his film Saving Private Ryan?”

The producer would not answer the question, so Moradiyan asked

why her curiosity was being disre-garded.

His response was the final trigger that led her to leave her homeland

and pursue her passion in America: “Because Steven Spielberg is Jew-ish,” he said.

NICHOLAS C. TURTONstaFF Writer

Robert Frost – one of the most

renowned American poets of the 20th century – died in 1963, but he hasn’t lived out his last story. His life and his work are still intriguing today.

UB recently inherited a part of Frost’s history, and for a limited time, members of the UB commu-nity can take the ‘road less traveled’ to the fifth floor of Capen Hall to experience it.

The Poetry Collection of the UB Libraries has extended its Frost display, which opened on Jan. 31, through the end of the semester.

In January, The Poetry Collec-tion, renowned and respected in its own right, received an exten-sive collection of Frost materials that included books, newspaper clippings, letters and other artifacts documenting the relationship be-tween Frost and Rabbi Victor E. Reichert.

Jonathan Reichert, a retired pro-fessor of physics from UB and son of the late rabbi, provided the doc-uments, placing them on display to

the public for the first time. The story of the collection cen-

ters on Frost’s extensive relation-ship with Rabbi Reichert, who Frost met by chance in 1939 at a poetry reading. Reichert was capti-vated by Frost’s poetry, and Frost was intrigued by Reichert’s reli-gious role. The two men quickly de-veloped a deeply intellectual, phil-osophical and religious friendship that materialized in the form of let-ters and other writings.

The history of this intimate con-nection between Frost and Reichert provides valuable insight into the life and creativity of the legendary poet.

The donation of the materials has added enough photographs, let-ters and other Frost relics to form the Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Col-lection, which is currently on display at The Kaveeshwar Gallery on the fifth floor of Capen Hall.

Some of the pieces include: a 1950 issue of Time magazine with Frost on the front cover; a limit-ed-edition copy of Frost’s reading at John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Ad-dress in 1961; Frost’s Congressional Medal, which he received in 1960; and the intimate, snapshot-like per-

sonal photographs of Frost him-self.

James Maynard, associate cura-tor of The Poetry Collection, said the value of the collection is indis-pensable because Frost is a univer-sal name when it comes to Ameri-can poetry.

“The name Robert Frost reso-nates so strongly with people as the defining poet of his genera-tion,” Maynard said. “We’ve had a lot of attention on this collection in ways that other collections of ours haven’t received.”

The amount of attention the col-lection has received is a testament to Frost’s timelessness.

Christian Science Monitor, The Jewish Daily Forward and National Public Radio have all reported on the story of the Reichert-Frost Collection. Vari-ous Frost scholars have also been in contact with Maynard to use the materials for scholarly research and investigation.

The reaction has been over-whelmingly enthusiastic and pos-itive – so overwhelming that The Poetry Collection has extended the exhibit’s display until mid-May.

Barbara Bono, an associate pro-fessor of English, brought students from her discovery seminars course to experience the exhibit. For Bono, the showcase provides learning that is impossible to bring to the typical classroom setting.

“It makes literature come alive to [the students],” Bono said. “It makes them realize that [literature is] a human product, that it occurs within spectrums of human ex-change [and] that it’s related to liv-ing history. It made our enterprise come alive for them.”

Frost’s influence as a poet still lives on after his death 50 years ago. Stacy Hubbard, an associate profes-sor of English, is fascinated by the power of Frost’s poetry.

“For many people, Frost repre-sents Poetry (with a capital ‘P’),” Hubbard said in an email. “He still has that kind of iconic status among ordinary readers, which means that he still shapes perceptions about poetry in a powerful way.”

Despite his iconic status as a stronghold in American poetry, Frost is transformed into an or-dinary, everyday person in the Reichert-Frost Collection. With such an intimate glimpse into his life

through correspondence and pho-tographs, the exhibit “humanizes” the renowned poet, according to Maynard. It also allows visitors to see Frost in new ways.

“Being curator of a collection like this, you never stop learning,” Maynard said. “This has been an [opportunity] to learn more about Frost and about Reichert, about the lives of these two men and the friendship that they shared for de-cades.”

For Hubbard, the collection is a vital resource for decoding the still-hidden mysteries of Frost; even the extensive scholarly work that cur-rently exists relating to Frost does not cover it all.

“There is a lot more critical work that needs to be done on Frost,” Hubbard said. “A reconsideration of many aspects of his language, his forms [and] his beliefs. There is new Frost scholarship waiting to be written and any one of our students might do it.”

The Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Collection will be on display until May 15.

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Censorship unleashed: Najmeh’s journey from Iran to UBArts and cinema student finds ambition through film

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Joe Konze, The SpecTrumNajmeh Moradiyan was determined to pursue her passion in media and film. She left Iran, where her ability to thrive was censored, and is living her dream at UB.

Courtesy oF MATT FAULKNER’S RecoveRy dOCUMENTARyMatthew Faulkner (above) was the focal point of senior media study major Ryan Monolopolus’ filmed documentary Recovery. Faulkner, who is now 20, survived a traumatic brain injury he suffered in an automobile accident that left him in a coma for several months. Recovery illustrates his journey from a coma in the Intensive Care Unit at ECMC hospital, to walking the stage at his high school graduation, to now leading a normal life.

The road to RecoveryUB student films documentary of friend’s second chance at life

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JOHN NASSIVERAstaFF Writer

University Police Department (UPD) has achieved the “gold stan-dard” of law enforcement and pub-lic service.

On March 23, the department was the first in Erie County and one of five in New York State to receive accreditation from the Commission of Accreditation of Law Enforce-ment Authorities (CALEA).

The goal of the accreditation program is to improve the servic-es of public safety organizations through setting high standards for crime prevention, emergency re-sponse and management practices.

Twenty-four law enforcement agencies have been accredited by CALEA from different universi-ties in the United States and were judged based on their ability to per-form under established policies.

“There are 18,000 law enforce-ment agencies in this country and only about 5 percent of them are able reach CALEA accreditation status,” said Craig Hartley, deputy director and chief of staff for CA-LEA.

From Nov. 18-20, CALEA asses-sors observed UB police officers and their facilities. They monitored policies for vehicle pursuit, use of force in arrests, high-liability cases and handling documents.

The officers made several chang-es in compliance with CALEA standards. Physical changes to the

building included installing secu-rity cameras in rooms where juve-niles are interrogated and setting up alarm clocks for when an officer needs assistance with a prisoner. A second level of security was in-stalled for evidence room cabinets and areas containing guns, drugs and money.

CALEA standards also require officers are familiar with the prop-er documentation used for making arrests, especially when force is in-volved. Officers must show they were trained in these policies and sign off on these documents to

show they read them.Chief of Police Gerald Schoenle

Jr. said it is important for police de-partments to have goals like reduc-ing residence hall burglaries by 10 percent, which he believes helped UPD achieve accreditation. Offi-cers checked doors and left notes to make sure students locked their rooms.

UPD also recently focused on car break-ins. Officers would leave vehicle report cards and warnings reminding drivers to keep their cars and belongings safe. They also sent out safety messages via email. In

September, UPD and public safe-ty aides canvassed 5,113 vehicles (3,643 on North Campus and 1,470 on South Campus) in an effort to reduce the number of break-ins and warn students who may be at risk of theft, as The Spectrum report-ed in November.

“You need to have policies on just about everything,” Schoen-le said. “On your budget, handling of petty cash [and] job descriptions for police officers. It’s a really com-prehensive program.”

UB Accreditation Manager Scott Marciszewski was in charge of handling UPD files. Marciszews-ki made sure the files were readily available for the assessors.

“Training is a big part of ac-creditation,” Marciszewski said. “I have to show through copies of re-cords that we adhere to the training standards, such as firearms, ethics and legal updates. I have to show through these programs that we comply.”

Learning new policies, updating them and sending them out to ev-eryone in the department spreads awareness of CALEA standards and leads to an overall effective law enforcement agency, according to Schoenle.

“It’s the best practice that has been proven to be an effective way for a police department to oper-ate,” Schoenle said. “If you do these things, you are going to be providing a better service to your customers, which is your students,

faculty and staff. You are, overall, a better police department. There are less lawsuits against departments that are accredited.”

On March 23, Marciszewksi, along with Assistant Chief Chris Bartolomei, attended the review committee hearing at the CA-LEA Commission Conference in Charleston, S.C. The assessment team decided UPD was worthy of accreditation because of its profes-sionalism, its involvement with the campus community and the sup-port it receives from UB.

Marcizsewski said it was an hon-or to receive accreditation and meet various accredited police de-partments from around the Unit-ed States.

“[UPD has] become somewhat elite because not every department seeks out accreditation,” Marcisze-wski said. “So these are probably the best of the best. These are the best policies and best practices in law enforcement. Being accredited, we are now recognized as a premier agency.”

Now that UPD has received ac-creditation, it must go through the process of re-accreditation every three years to make sure the depart-ment keeps up with current stan-dards in law enforcement.

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Matthew Faulkner will never re-member what happened on March 2, 2009.

Though the day’s events are not stored in his memory, he has a way to replay them on a screen.

After being in a traumatic car acci-dent, Faulkner was left in coma for six weeks. Doctors said he had almost no chance of survival. One hundred and three days later, though, Faulkner mi-raculously walked across the stage of his graduation from West Seneca West Senior High School.

Ryan Monolopolus, a senior me-dia study major and Faulkner’s long-time friend, saw this recovery period as an opportunity to create some-thing inspiring for all those who knew Faulkner. He wanted to bring Faulkner’s personal experience to a larger scale; that’s when Monolopolus’ road to Recovery began.

Monolopolus discussed the idea of a doing a small project with Faulkner, documenting the different stages of his recovery. Before they knew it, their small seed bloomed into a full feature film: Recovery.

“It started out as a project for class, and then when I started to do the in-terviews and realized how much there was to this, I realized there was some-thing more deserving of it,” Monolo-polus said.

Upon learning how to walk and talk again after the accident, Monolopolus was inspired by the way Faulkner was able to respond to questions.

“[Faulkner] was a good subject to have on film, and that’s always the hard thing to find,” Monolopolus said.

Monolopolus, interested in doc-umentary filmmaking, is always try-ing to “do things big,” he said. He de-cided this small assignment didn’t do

Faulkner’s story justice and looked to-ward making the film bigger.

After getting large-scale distribution for the film, the short documentary project for school turned into a two-year production cycle. The film re-ceived community-wide support. Erie County Medical Center, Sisters Hos-pital, Sisters of Charity Hospital and Mercy Flight of Western NY donated their time, support and even helicop-ters for the film.

“A lot of people knew Matt … it re-ally affected the community at large when the original event happened,” Monolopolus said. “The whole idea was that there was already such a huge base of people affected by this event. I figured it would be interesting to make a film uniting all of these different people that were affected by Matt.”

Monolopolus recognized the med-ical perspective of Faulkner’s acci-dent, the perspective from family and friends, the first responders and the re-ligious side that was accentuated in the film.

“All of these different parties were involved and this film synthesizes them together in one cohesive narra-tive,” Monolopolus said.

The film came as a challenge to Monolopolus, as it was his first feature film. He had been working on a sepa-rate narrative film in Buffalo for about two years and started his own media production company nearly a year and a half ago.

Without boasting, Monolopolus said he was equipped to take on the challenge through his experience with different types of film work.

“I think I have at least somewhat of a good sense of what makes a cohe-sive narrative and what makes things work,” Monolopolus said.

Monolopolus crafted this film as if it were his own child – sleepless nights without leaving much time for any-

thing else, other than filming and ed-iting.

“I think that’s what [you should do]: You should suffer for your art,” Monolopolus said.

The film received virtually all pos-itive reviews, according to Monolo-polus. Monolopolus said Artvoice and Buffalo First reviewed the film, and he received a lot of positive feedback from them. Monolopolus was over-joyed when his past professor Dien Vo, a mentor throughout his life, re-viewed the film.

“From my own experience, Recovery is the most ambitious project I’ve seen produced by an undergraduate,” Vo said. “This is true of the scope of the film’s production as well as its subject matter and thematic interests.”

Faulkner agrees with Vo that Mono-lopolus is very talented when it comes to documentary filmmaking and was impressed with how the entire piece came together.

“He really put a lot of thought into creating a moving account of my re-covery from traumatic brain injury by piecing together many different per-spectives,” Faulkner said.

Monolopolus has been interested in film for quite some time now, and he owes his continuation with the film program to his favorite professor, Vo, after taking his Basic Video class.

“[Vo] has been my mentor since the onset of my college career here [at UB],” Monolopolus said. “I was pretty close to leaving the university, and go-ing through his class really let me see that there is something to the program here.”

Monolopolus views film as a way to create relationships, the most impor-tant thing in his life. He believes that one’s relationships and experiences are the most important thing and there is no better way to bring the personal ex-perience to a large scale than film.

“Media is powerful; media affects us in every way and in so many ways that we don’t even realize,” Monolo-polus said.

He believes the media has the pow-er to reshape ideas, feelings, thinking and thought patterns. Monolopolus referred to a quote by Alfred Hitch-cock, English film director and pro-ducer: “It can make people whole again.”

Monolopolus is passionate about film and believes it is a beautiful art form and is something that can offer an escape from the world for a short time but also be so “indexical” to our relationship with the world, he said.

Joe Kirchmyer, a local Buffalo writ-er, teamed up with Faulkner short-ly after the film went into production to write a book about Faulkner’s re-covery. The book is titled Most Likely to Survive. Monolopolus said the book and the documentary show a lot of support for each other, though there is variation between the two.

“[The film] is drastically different than the book,” Monolopolus said. “The film is borderline experimental in a lot of the ways – it combines re-enactments and a lot of in-depth in-terviews with Matt.”

Monolopolus and Faulkner go back to a lot of the locations the film refers to, in order to create a sense of surre-alism while talking about various inci-dents. The two were able to do reen-actments of the helicopter during the Mercy Flight, as well as scenes in the hospital.

“A lot of it is really expressionistic, and I think that’s what is interesting about this documentary,” Monolopo-lus said. “It’s artful in the way it tells its story, which I think a lot of doc-umentaries lack – that artful ability to expressionistically tell a story.”

The film has received a lot of cov-erage throughout the Buffalo area, and

Monolopolus is headed toward inter-national film festivals with Recovery.

“I think it’s clear that Ryan real-ly wanted to try something different with this film, and it shows in how Re-covery is bold in its willingness to exper-iment with documentary film form,” Vo said. “In carefully selected parts, the film goes back and forth in its sty-listic treatment of Matt’s story. The film has both extremes of feeling like a conventional documentary while also being highly stylized, moody and cinematic in many parts.”

Monolopolus encourages oth-er filmmakers and students to go for whatever they believe in. He reminds students that nothing is ever that hard, and that at the end of the day, if you really want to do it, you can do it.

“It’s all about sacrifice,” Monolopo-lus said. “You have to decide what you want to do and how much work you want to put into something.“

Monolopolus put his time and money into the film and it’s starting to pay off. He said people often have trouble wrapping their heads around things, but once they focus on what they want to do, they must accept that it may take two years to actually get it done.

This is the longest production Monolopolus has completed; the ex-perience is really rewarding, he said.

“I personally believe if you’re really going to be serious about what you’re doing, you should really try to create something big,” Monolopolus said. “Don’t just fulfill your class require-ments, fulfill your intrinsic ability. “

Monolopolus said the media study department doesn’t require a se-nior thesis, so students should take it upon themselves to do what they want to do. He wants to tell Matthew Faulkner’s story.

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Danny White took over as ath-letic director last May with an agen-da. Rumors about possible changes to the athletic department began to generate immediately, prior to White learning the environment of the uni-versity he was about to enter.

Coming from a family line of people involved in collegiate athlet-ics – his father is the AD at Duke –, White decided to extend familial ties from Durham to Buffalo. Fol-lowing the abrupt dismissal of long-time basketball coach Reggie With-erspoon, White hired a replacement who emerged out of the athletic program his father now runs.

New men’s basketball coach Bob-by Hurley will bring name recogni-tion to the program and the expe-rience of having played for Mike Krzyzewski – where he won two back-to-back national champion-ships in 1991 and ’92. Though Hur-ley was an accomplished player, he has never before held a head coach-ing position, so his capacity to win as one is unproven.

Many have expressed the conjec-ture that because he is such a fa-miliar figure in the basketball com-munity, he will be better equipped to recruit greater talent. The equa-tion then is simple: More talent re-sults in more wins. Many have also made the link that because Hurley has in the past been surrounded by and embedded in an atmosphere of winning, he will be able to take what he has learned from that experience and apply it to his new role at UB.

Meanwhile, the men’s basketball team is yet again in the process of rebuilding.

When Witherspoon took over in 1999, it was during the most tumul-tuous period in the history of the program. Under his predecessor, Tim Cohane, there were recruiting violations that resulted in the Bulls being placed on two years proba-tion. After taking over as the interim head coach, Witherspoon held the position for the next 14 years and is widely credited for restoring charac-ter and integrity and establishing a family-like program.

It didn’t go without success, ei-ther.

Witherspoon had seven winning seasons – four consisting of 20 wins or more. He led the team to four postseason berths: the NIT in 2005 and College Basketball Invitational in 2009, ’11 and ’12. He is tied for second with Arthur Powell for most career victories in the school with 198 and he earned the respect of other coaches in the Mid-American Conference.

He was able to rebuild the pro-gram and did so with the bricks of proper values – including commit-ment to academics and personal at-tention to players. His energy rever-berated throughout all of Western New York and he became a pillar of the community.

When push came to shove, White slammed the door in his face. He made it clear this decision was to come regardless of the outcome of the season and he declined to comment to the media, aside from one quick interview with The Buffa-lo News.

As an institution, a university is supposed to conduct itself in a manner congruent with the values it aims to impart. The deed itself is one thing. There are understandable reasons a new AD would feel it was time to try a new coach. But the pro-cess is another.

First, Witherspoon should have been allowed to finish out his con-tract and should not have been de-prived of his last year with Javon McCrea – which also included the return of all but one impact player.

Second, there should have been more transparency from White about this decision and he should

have given Witherspoon the courte-sy of being honest and upfront with him. As Witherspoon has reported, the two had a conversation in Sep-tember about “the stability and ac-complishments of the program.” Yet, White later told him that he de-cided in December he would make a coaching change at the end of the season.

That is not the way a manager should treat a sandwich artist at Sub-way, let alone the way an AD should treat a coach who has developed a fruitful relationship and emotional attachment to not just a university but an entire region.

Hurley will be inheriting a team that Witherspoon assembled and groomed, one that many feel capa-ble of capturing the MAC title next year. If he does so, he will receive credit for a team that Witherspoon put together.

Best-case scenario, Hurley does great – he might still be gone in no time. This will be one step up the ladder for him to earn the head-coaching job at a school in a more competitive market, such as Duke. White replacing Witherspoon with someone whose possible success comes at the price of transience will not achieve an enduring successful program.

Witherspoon was able to do so in more ways than one.

White came to UB making it clear he was a basketball guy. He played for Notre Dame and assistant coached Ohio to a MAC Champion-ship. While everyone at the universi-ty would like to see us claim a cham-pionship, that is not the only kind of success we want to see.

What White needs to start artic-ulating to the community is how he defines success.

Extreme Makeover: program editionWitherspoon, UB deserved better from White

The Obama administration re-cently began an effort to encourage banks to grant home loans to people with weaker credit. While some of-ficials and economists are advocat-ing such policy, others claim it will lead to the type of risky lending that resulted in the 2008 subprime mort-gage crisis.

The circumstances now are differ-ent, however, in the midst of a hous-ing rebound and low interest rates. Banks remaining too frugal and too stringent about advancing loans are rendering too many people left be-hind – unable to purchase homes.

While we support widening the availability of loans, we also believe there should be a certain level of government oversight that regulates these procedures.

The administration is not justify-ing the type of lending that led to the housing collapse, in which loans were being issued to people who had lacked the means to pay them back. The administration wants a wider range of borrowers who can utilize a government program that is tax-payer backed and insures against de-fault.

This will not lead to the excessive amount of foreclosures that began to surface in 2008. What this does, however, is provide for people in need of lending who have jobs and a credit rating that demonstrates a ca-pacity to pay back the loans in time; it expands the availability of loans to many, especially those whose credit scores have gone down due to the recession.

After the housing collapse, the qualifications to receive home loans became exceedingly difficult. Obama wants lenders to have the room to make subjective judgment in order to determine whether someone can receive a loan. People shouldn’t have to suffer because of the mistakes of the past.

Simply stated, there needs to be more lending, but it should remain safe lending. People should only re-ceive loans if they have the financial wherewithal to pay.

This can affect a lot of young people of college age – people who are young and starting a family and whom it would be beneficial to own a home. This also helps young peo-ple who intend to move out of their

parents’ homes by buying as op-posed to renting.

There is also a responsibility to those of low- and moderate-income level communities to receive some support, if they can demonstrate the ability to get work and earn an in-come.

In the period between 2007 and 2012, new-home purchases declined 90 percent for people who held credit scores between 620 and 680 – which historically have been rep-utable enough credit scores. These figures reflect how paralyzing the current loan qualifications have been.

Instituting policy that provides more freedom to lenders will have exponential effects on the economy as well. More housing activity results in more purchases and construction, which also means more jobs.

There are a multitude of studies that show housing’s role in a family’s potentiality of accumulating more wealth, according to The Washington Post. The more stability, the great-er the capacity one has to maintain work and achieve a higher credit rat-ing.

If the economy begins picking up, more household formations will oc-cur and we can begin seeing more steps toward increased growth. While some say the decision of what borrowers should get loans should be a process to come out of the pri-vate market, the government has been managing the housing market mostly, anyway, and its aim should be to make homeownership a feasi-ble possibility and more affordable.

While the risks involved in wid-ening the availability of loans is dis-cernible, there are many of cases of creditworthy borrowers who deserve the opportunity for lending and are being deprived. The Obama admin-istration is making the right move in trying to make lending accessible to a larger amount of people.

A market economy works best when its government enables people to succeed in it.

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When Daniel DeVoe arrived at UB in the fall of 2011 to attend law school, he was disappointed to find a “complete lack of LGBT visibil-ity and class offerings.” UB’s law school environment had no oppor-tunities for an LGBT student or anyone interested in LGBT law, ac-cording to DeVoe. Instead of wish-ing he had chosen a school with a thriving LGBT community, he did something about it.

DeVoe, now a second-year law student, re-founded OUTLaw, a LGBT student group that previ-ously existed in the law school but had been inactive for about six years.

“Law school tends to lack the freedom that often dominates one’s undergraduate

experience [and] many law stu-dents may feel the need to go back into the closet or lack visibility in order to assimilate with conser-vative legal culture,” DeVoe said. “LGBT students need a place where they can feel accepted and welcomed.”

OUTLaw – composed of UB law school students – sponsors ac-tivities, seminars, service projects and social gatherings for members and supporters of the LGBT com-munity. Its goal is to educate and spread awareness about the legal is-sues pertaining to the LGBT com-munity.

DeVoe drew from his experience with LGBT rights issues at Bing-hamton University, where he got his undergraduate degree in Span-ish, history and theater. There, he co-founded The Right Side of His-tory Campaign, a group focused on LGBT rights. He held rallies

against Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the U.S. military’s former official poli-cy on gay servicemen, and educat-ed the student body.

DeVoe dedicated himself to es-tablishing OUTLaw as a strong or-ganization. He gathered signatures from the student body to get the club re-charted by the Student Bar Association (SBA). He recruited some friends to serve on the exec-utive board, authored bylaws, cam-paigned for funds from SBA and secured a grant from a local non-profit organization.

“A student group [like OUTLaw] helps the school at large to become more welcoming,” DeVoe said. “This is a time when LGBT rights issues dominate the nightly news. It’s a timely moment for OUTLaw’s rebirth.”

OUTLaw has accomplished sev-eral goals in the last year that it has been reinstated. The group has lob-bied for and won inclusion of gen-der identity and sexual orientation questions on law school applica-tions and successfully advocated for the addition of several gender-neutral bathrooms in O’Brian Hall.

The group hosted a fall sympo-sium with attorney guest speak-ers Shari Jo Reich and Bernadette Hoppe. The presentation, entitled “Working With LGBT Clients,” discussed etiquette issues and nav-igating marriage and family in light of the federal Defense of Mar-riage Act. The return of the annu-al OUTLaw dinner was also orga-nized, according to Lisa Patterson, associate dean for career services in UB’s law school and co-adviser of OUTLaw.

DeVoe has held the inclusion of optional questions on sexual ori-entation and gender identity in law school applications as an objective

since “day one.” He said he would sense an “environment of inclu-siveness” if a school asked him these questions. He believes posi-tive answers will enable the school to connect new students with OUTLaw and will help continue UB’s expansion of diversity.

The OUTLaw dinner, a highly anticipated event, was held this year at Chef ’s Restaurant in Buffalo. It brought together local attorneys, law school professors and deans and students and members of the LGBT community.

This year, OUTLaw will honor Jorien Brock, an alum who is the

senior director at the Pride Center of Western New York, and Assem-blyman Sean Ryan, an advocate for the Gender Employment Non-Dis-crimination Act legislation in New York, for his strong support of the LGBT community. The keynote speaker will be Michael Boucai, an associate professor at UB and co-adviser to OUTLaw. Boucai has fo-cused his research on sexuality and the law issues. He will use the op-portunity to speak as his introduc-tion to the LGBT legal community.

The work OUTLaw does is im-portant because of the unique legal issues the LGBT community fac-

es, according to Anastasia Stumpf, a first-year law student and active member of OUTLaw. She said an attorney and advocate should be knowledgeable about how topics like marriage, adoption and fertili-ty, divorce, health care and employ-ment discrimination pertain specif-ically to LGBT clients and be aware of the ways laws may affect her cli-ents.

“As a law student, I think it’s im-portant to bring about awareness of these issues so that my class-mates can serve and advocate for their LGBT clients to the best of their abilities in the future, no mat-ter what type of law they choose to practice,” Stumpf said.

Patterson believes OUTLaw is a fantastic group for many reasons.

“For any educational unit, it’s im-portant for there to be an active and welcoming LGBTQ organiza-tion,” she said in an email. “In a law school, our group not only exists to provide a social and profession-al network for our future LGBTQ attorneys and allies, but it also lends itself to advocacy and public edu-cation due to the unique skills in-herent in its membership.”

DeVoe dreams of working with LGBT rights organizations like Lambda Legal and the Hu-man Rights Campaign. Regardless of whether LGBT rights activism drives his career, he plans to con-tinue to campaign for LGBT rights because doing so enables him to be an activist and work for positive change.

Every little thing adds up in the end, according to DeVoe.

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Experiencing one of Kelly Rich-ardson’s video installations is like stepping into another world – a world where reality and fantasy mesh together to form awe-inspir-ing and discomforting multi-layered scenes at the same time. In Richard-son’s work, meteors fall over a tran-quil lake, holographic trees fade in and out on a mountainous terrain and ruined space rovers litter a des-olate Mars landscape.

Richardson, a Canadian-born artist, explores the relationship be-tween humans and natural settings through the use of large-scale vid-eo and sound installations. Richard-son is an accomplished artist who has been recognized in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. Her work is currently on dis-play at the Albright-Knox Art Gal-lery in an exhibition entitled Legion, a mid-career survey of her work over the past 15 years, the largest collection of Richardson’s works.

From forests and mountains to Mars and the moon, Richardson focuses on documenting existing landscapes or settings and then al-tering them digitally to create pieces that combine elements of the real and unreal, the natural and man-made.

“It’s about our ability to do real-ly great things, like land [the rover], Curiosity, on [Mars],” Richardson said. “But it’s also about our de-structive nature. We can’t help but destroy everything we touch.”

Holly E. Hughes, the Albright-Knox curator for the collection, has worked with Richardson and has been an admirer of her work since 2008. That year, they were intro-duced to each other at a Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center exhibi-

tion. Hughes appreciates Richard-son’s ability to take a landscape and “transform it and make it feel new” through her digital intervention.

What makes Richardson’s work truly stand out, however, is the ability of the installations to pres-ent something beautiful yet haunt-ing, making viewers feel conflicting emotions of awe and discomfort.

In Exiles of the Shattered Star, a piece from 2006, asteroids bom-bard a tranquil lakeside surround-ed by mountains. The landscape, which exists in real life, is altered by the invasion of digitally created as-teroids combining fiction and real-ity.

“The added element of the aster-oids [is] science fictional, apocalyp-tic and just stunningly beautiful,” Hughes said in an email. “It was the perfect storm. With each work, [Richardson] invents imagery that is at first seductive and lush and rec-ognizable as a landscape, but there is always a hauntingly eerie aspect.”

In addition to exploring land-scapes people see in nature, Rich-ardson is fascinated with the hu-man desire to explore other planets – most notably Mars. This is illus-trated in Richardson’s most recent and celebrated work, an installation entitled Mariner 9.

Mariner 9 is a 43-foot wide by 9-foot high video projection of a digital Mars landscape –a scale that allows a full immersion in experi-encing the piece. Created with the use of NASA data from previous space missions, Mariner 9 depicts a digital rendering of a futuristic Mars after a century or two of hu-man exploration on the red planet.

The result is a disheveled, deso-late wasteland littered with the re-mains of space rovers, including the Curiosity rover lying broken in the dust. The red and orange land-scape is barren and empty, albe-it with subtle movements of the space rovers and the dusty wind. Add the ominous, space-like sound

that accompanies the installation, and spectators are faced with a tru-ly immersive artwork – a haunting-ly beautiful landscape of what Mars may look like in the future.

Lindsay Gabryszak, 30, of Wash-ington, D.C., is fascinated by the questions the work brings up about the future of humanity. She de-scribed Mariner 9 as being a “med-itative escape or contemplative landscape” because of its overall ambiguity.

“You’re still visually going through it to try to determine if this is something that exists presently or an imagination of what might hap-pen in the future,” Gabryszak said.

For Richardson, Mariner 9 is a testament to the damaging nature of human beings, according to an interview with ITV News, a U.K. based news network.

Richardson connects deeply to this unforeseen future for the hu-man race; it’s an interesting facet of her work because it all portrays the aftermath of the human race whether on Earth or Mars.

“It is a very honest critique on the boisterous nature of mankind, and the assumptions we have made about our existence here, on Earth, and our hierarchy over the natural world,” Hughes said in an email. “Her works present a much differ-ent scenario – one that is very much void of human presence.”

This lack of human presence is another aspect of Richardson’s work that is disconcerting. While the altered landscapes are beautiful and evocative, otherworldly and re-alistic, we become conscious of the fact that maybe our future will not be.

Legion will be on display at the Al-bright-Knox Art Gallery until June 9.

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Born and raised in Iran, Moradi-yan lived a childhood of restrictions. She had the ability to pursue her pas-sion for media but under many limi-tations. Many of her questions were censored, similar to her question about Spielberg’s techniques. Mo-radiyan is currently a graduate stu-dent in the Media Study department. She’s using her time in America to launch her career in cinema.

The Internet in Iran is not as free or open as it is in other countries, Moradiyan said. She knew a career in media would not be possible, even with a good resume, unless she left Iran and moved to America to pur-sue her Master’s degree in arts and cinema. On Jan. 8, 2012, at exact-ly midnight, Moradiyan’s flight from Iran to her new home, Buffalo, land-ed. She was prepared to begin her journey.

“I felt like my American dream was coming true,” Moradiyan said. “I couldn’t believe my eyes that I was here, around all of these Americans and other people with different na-tionalities.”

Moradiyan said she remembers taking her time and looking around. She wanted to move very slowly so she could truly grasp the feeling of each moment in her new home.

Saying goodbye to home Moradiyan is an only child. The

goodbye was just as hard for her par-ents as it was for her, she said.

“Their eyes were filled with tears because goodbye is a different situa-tion with Iranian students,” Moradi-yan said. “When you come to the U.S., you don’t know when you’re going to get back. Most Iranian stu-dents have a one-entry visa, so when they come to the U.S., they cannot go back until they finish their studies. It’s just hard.”

Moradiyan has a multiple-entries visa, but she remains cautious with her travels and is refraining from re-turning to Iran. She will stay in the United States until she is finished with school because she is unsure whether she would be allowed back into the states due to the diplomatic system in Iran. Moradiyan does not know when she will be able to see her family again.

Moradiyan realized the sacrific-es she was making and the sacrifices her family was making upon saying goodbye to everyone. She said her

parents were being incredibly self-less by letting her come to the Unit-ed States because they are so emo-tionally tied to her and dependent on her. She knew she was sacrificing years apart from her family and they were sacrificing a lot of money for her future and happiness.

When she feels down or lost in America, she looks at the photo-graph of her mom in her wallet. Her parents are her motivation.

Because the Internet is so blocked in her country, she has very lit-tle communication with her fami-ly. She sends her mother pictures of herself working with cameras and other film instruments via email.

Cultural differences“There are lots of cultural differ-

ences,” Moradiyan said. “[Here] you can find a lot of people with differ-ent nationalities and religions; you have to learn how to get along with diverse groups of people. In my country, the majority of people are Muslim and they speak Persian or Farsi.”

Though Moradiyan feels the cul-tural differences each day, those sur-rounding her believe she has inte-grated into the American culture very well.

“I don’t have a strong awareness of cultural differences,” said Dean Sanborn, the graduate program co-ordinator for the Media Study De-partment. “She’s been a strong pres-ence in the department. She’s a very positive person and she’s very con-scientious about her work, both as a student and for the department itself. So we feel very positive about hav-ing her here. We know that there are good things in store for her and for her future.”

Moradiyan felt welcomed and at home when she got to America. She did not feel discriminated against in the slightest and she was looking for-ward to mingling with other groups of people. In Iran, she was raised Muslim, which was considered to be the elite and privileged group – she was lucky. However, Moradiyan has always been open to other cultures, even in Iran.

She said Persians are really open to other cultures, but the govern-ment masks the congeniality of Ira-nian citizens.

“I am an easygoing person and I’ve realized if you work based on your honesty, loyalty, and just be yourself in this society, everything is possible

for you,” Moradiyan said. In Iran, this was not the case.

She knew many good-hearted peo-ple who could not succeed because of their gender or religion. Some of her friends wanted to enter the field of directing, but because they were females, it was difficult for them to lead and rule a film’s production.

There is a language barrier be-tween Moradiyan and many of her classmates. She taught herself some English in Iran, though, and the bar-rier doesn’t bother her. She has no problem speaking with anybody on campus or off campus – she net-works all the time and loves to dis-cuss her experiences in America.

Michael Tyson, a graduate stu-dent studying elementary education, works with Moradiyan in the me-dia study equipment room. The two have had an opportunity to bond and get to know each other during shifts.

“I think Najmeh has done an ex-cellent job of integrating with our society,” Tyson said. “I am amazed at how different things are for her be-cause she seems to fit in so well now ... I have also never seen an interna-tional student … embrace Ameri-can cultures so passionately. Najmeh stretches her budget as thin as she can in order to experience as much culture and cuisine as she can get her hands on here in Buffalo.”

Tyson also said he thinks Moradi-yan is brilliant and talented with a keen eye for the human condition. He also predicts she will go far in the field if given the opportunity.

The fascination with media studyMoradiyan is actively involved in

media at UB. She is one of 70 Irani-an students at UB this semester, ac-cording to Eric Comins, coordinator for student programs at Internation-al Education Services. She is the only Iranian student receiving her degree in film and media at UB, Moradiyan said. She bonds with other interna-tional students in the field, making friends from Brazil, Korea, China and other areas.

After one year studying media in America, Moradiyan received an in-ternship at WKBW’s A.M. Buffalo show. She works hands on with live television, assisting the producer, di-rector and host biweekly.

“Najmeh is amazing,” said Lin-da Pellegrino, host of A.M. Buffalo’s morning talk show. “She has trav-eled so far and from such a different culture and yet she is eager to please

and blend into our life here in [West-ern New York]. I was amazed to hear that she already has done one film, a documentary. I’m anxious to see it.

“When you think of the male-dominated culture she’s from and the life she has carved out for herself with her family’s blessing, it should be a lesson for us all. If you work hard enough and want to succeed, you will ultimately be successful. She arrives upbeat, ready to work. She understands the tasks that help our show succeed and is truly happy to be here.”

Pellegrino looks forward to see-ing Moradiyan in Hollywood one day. She said Moradiyan has used her time at WKBW wisely and will con-tinue to learn and use the experience to expand her horizons in the film world.

Moradiyan’s fascination with me-dia stemmed from her middle school years.

“I used to go to a lot of movie the-aters and follow the film reviews and the critics,” Moradiyan said. “I used to talk about them and my friends would laugh and say, ‘Oh my God, she’s starting again.’”

However, because Moradiyan was the top student in her class through-out high school, her father wanted her to pursue a degree in medicine.

“He wanted me to go to medical school but I insisted that movies are my favorite thing and that was what I wanted to do,” Moradiyan said. “I said, ‘I know it’s difficult especially at this time,’ but I promised my father that if he let me pursue my interest, I’d promise to do my best to make him proud.”

Once she decided on the media industry, she had to choose a con-centration. She always loved acting and did well in front of the camera. However, Moradiyan said her soci-ety forced her to become more intro-verted because there were too many restrictions for female students. Many things she wanted to do were deemed unacceptable in society. So she chose editing. Moradiyan said the ability to work with only her com-puter was the best choice for her be-cause nobody could restrict her that way.

She attended a school in Tehran to receive her bachelor’s degree in ed-iting. She created her portfolio, edit-ed a myriad of films and created two short films and documentaries on her own. These good grades and suc-cessful pieces of work got her into

UB’s media and art program.

“At that time, I was the first girl in my hometown [to leave the country to pursue film]. People looked at the film industry as a [negative] place to work or study at,” Moradiyan said. “They wanted engineers and doctors – the most prestigious fields. When I [chose film], the city was in shock.”

Though the majority of the city was astonished, other young stu-dents with a passion for art became inspired. Before she left, Moradiyan advised and counseled these students to pursue their dreams. She’s proud to say she’s helped two people apply and become accepted to media pro-grams outside of Iran.

Moradiyan now has the ability to work with other professionals at UB. In addition to her internship at WKBW, she helps host events for Iranian Cinema.

Iranian film directors, who have been held under house arrest and have been banned from their own country, such as Jafar Panahi, in-spire Moradiyan to continue working within the film industry.

Moradiyan said the Iranian gov-ernment believes films like Panahi’s show the “dark side” of society in Iran. Moradiyan understands these restrictions, so she did what she had to do in order to succeed in the field: move to America.

“For me, film and art is the like the blood in my veins,” Moradiyan said. “When I go to the movie theater and I see a film, I come out with tears. I feel like there is something going on within myself. There is pure joy from watching these films.”

Carl Lee, director of facilities and equipment for the media study de-partment, said he is sure Moradiyan will be successful in whatever she pursues.

“She strikes me as very ambitious, very smart [and] very responsible,” Lee said. “She seems like the type of person that is inquisitive. She’s not shy. She figures out what she wants and who to talk to and she gets things done.”

Lee said he was very surprised upon seeing her work. The few piec-es she’s shown him have been high quality with a lot of slick, motion graphics in them, he said.

She is currently brainstorming ideas for her thesis. She looks for-ward to pursuing a career in media and advancing her knowledge and impact on the United States. Her

dream is coming true.

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1 Airport posting (abbr.) 4 County festivals 9 Border plant14 Down in the dumps15 At the original length16 External17 Saying at the onset of wrinkles (Part 1)20 "It's ___!" (Dr. Franken-stein's cry)21 Put down22 Burned up the highway23 All-too-agreeable fel-lows26 H.S. support group29 Preposition in poetry30 Siamese sobs31 Unskilled laborer32 Photocopier's ancestor33 Penny-pinching35 Saying at the onset of wrinkles (Part 2)38 Church groundskeeper39 Small, dark goose40 Held on to41 Long-limbed, as a model42 Product pitches45 "If ___ say so myself"46 They might keep you up all night48 Dance studio lesson

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1 Elvis' Graceland, e.g. 2 Clothing alterer 3 Look to as a role model 4 Act incensed 5 Santa ___, Calif. 6 Very standoffish 7 Massage 8 Cooks over boiling water 9 "Crocodile Dundee" star10 Yours and mine11 Increases inclination12 Contents of some small bags13 Gallery display18 Gift wrapping time, for many19 Lincoln, informally23 Middle Eastern country on the Red Sea

24 Wide-spouted pitcher25 Chew toy coating27 Ceremonial gown for Claudius28 In whatever quantity30 Otis' pal, in film31 Brad of Hollywood32 Marshal Dillon33 Deer that have antlers34 Smaller than small35 Give careful attention to36 Hazard for the snowbound37 Try to persuade38 Participate in a biathlon41 Non-company men?42 Dress code concern43 Hold for questioning44 Kind of cake or bath46 What's in, in fashion47 Penpoint48 Attack word50 "... unto us ___ is given" (Isa-iah)51 Tabloid gossip52 WKRP newsman Nessman53 "The Lord of the Rings" beast

54 Have a fever55 Find a function for56 Golfer's peg

Edited by Timothy E. Parker April 5, 2013TIME IS NOT ON YOUR SIDE By Gary Cooper

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- You may think you want to be left alone today, but the truth is that it will be counterpro-ductive -- at least in the long run.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- You'll want to talk close-ly and openly with a friend about what you are facing; he or she, in turn, will share some honest opinions.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- You and a friend have come a long way since you first encoun-tered an obstacle to open communication. Don't take a step backward!CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Things go in cycles, and today it may seem as if you are starting some-thing all over again -- but in fact it is an en-tirely new phase.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- You don't want to break any of the rules today -- but you may not be able to avoid bending them just a little!VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- You can have a little fun do-ing something that others expect you not to do -- but take care you don't get carried away.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- You have one or two surpris-es up your sleeve, and you're merely wait-ing for the right time to spring them on the unsuspecting.SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- You want very little to do with that which has not been tested by others. You're not into ex-perimentation at this time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- You may be mak-ing promises that you cannot keep -- try as you might. It's time to step away from that certain precipice.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- What you need can be gotten for you by someone who knows the ropes a little bet-ter than you. Experi-ence counts for much today.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Later on you can do what you want, but today you may have to do what you are told -- and only that. There are limits to your freedom.PISCES (Feb. 18-March 20) -- You are feeling vulner-able today, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing -- or a weak-ness. Embrace what you cannot avoid.

dream is coming true.

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ubspectrum.com8 Friday, April 5, 2013

Sports

JON GAGNONsenior sPorts editor

Who would have thought that a season that seemed to mean so little – a lack of stability in ‘elite’ teams near the top of the rankings, an insanely weak draft class with no glaring superstar – would produce a Final Four that is so intriguing?

Seventy-five percent of the teams left in the tourney have cap-tivating story lines. And then there is Wichita State…

Michigan Though the Wolverines are only

a No. 4 seed, people forget they were a staple near the top of the rankings for much of the season – which should banish the under-dog label. In fact, I picked them to win it all in a column I wrote on Feb. 11, mainly due to their explo-sive offense.

But their success through much of the season isn’t the story line here; the story is Trey Burke, the unparalleled superstar of this year’s tournament.

His performance at the end of the Kansas game was glori-ous. Burke’s lack of top NBA pro-spectus because he is allegedly ‘too small’ for the NBA is laughable. Size is important in a league dom-inated by high-octane athletes, but with Burke’s abilities to drive and dish, knock down threes and hit pull-ups and step-backs, he should be a top-five pick.

SyracuseSyracuse’s zone might have the

best chance at stopping Burke’s one-on-one playmaking ability.

The Orange’s defense is quite possibly the best defensive team in the history of college basketball. Yes, I just went there.

Even Syracuse’s arch nemesis, former Georgetown coach John Thompson Jr., is in awe of the or-ganism the zone has become.

“Everybody’s talking about the 2-3 zone,” Thompson told Grant-land. “[Syracuse] is not a 2-3 zone. The 2-3 zone has been with us since the dawn of time. It’s the way it slides and moves out there, like a damn amoeba. The only time it’s a 2-3 zone is when they’re waiting for you to bring the ball to it. Then, it becomes something else.”

Through their first four games, the Orange have held opponents to 28.9 percent shooting and have giv-en up only 183 points – the fewest through the first four games of the NCAA Tournament ever.

LouisvilleEvery fan who isn’t from ’Cuse,

Ann Harbor or Wichita must be rooting for Louisville, right?

The Cardinals showed as much heart as anyone could have shown in their victory over Duke (with the jarring injury to Kevin Ware), winning the hearts of every fan who didn’t already have a horse in the race. Additionally, most brack-ets that are still alive likely have the Cardinals winning it all.

They have scorers, freakishly ath-letic wingmen, shooters and a dom-inant, defensive center who can also hit mid-range shots. They en-tered the tournament as the best team, and they still hold that title as

they attempt to erase the frequent word associated with this season: parity.

Wichita StateSaving the best for last! The

Shockers are the most boring team in the last decade to reach the Fi-nal Four, which is quite an honor, considering VCU, George Mason and Butler (twice) have made ap-pearances.

Here’s the problem – they’re the in-between team. Because they’re a No. 9 seed, they aren’t a deep sleep-er or a Cinderella story team like George Mason or VCU. Yet they weren’t expected to go this far be-cause they aren’t a top seed. So who are they?

They’re the team that got lucky enough to be in a bracket with Gon-zaga as a No. 1 seed, New Mexico as a No. 3 seed and a No. 13 seed in the Sweet 16 – I’ll give the Shockers credit for the Ohio State win.

Regardless, their path has been incredibly easy and we should have just thrown a dart at that region to pick the team to get the honor of getting blown out by Louisville in the Final Four.

Now, what would a Final Four preview be without predictions?

Louisville over Wichita by 16, Syracuse over Michigan by six and then Syracuse gets its revenge over Louisville in the finals.

For those who say that’s biased (I am from Syracuse), remem-ber – ’Cuse beat the Cardinals in Louisville without James Souther-land, barely lost to the Cardinals in round two amidst the worst stretch of Syracuse basketball in the last three years and then held a 16-point lead in the Big East Championship only to blow the game in the sec-ond half. I don’t see that happen-ing again.

Final Four teams play to cut down the nets in AtlantaAnalyzing the storylines and making predictions

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BEN TARHANsenior sPorts editor

When junior running back Bran-den Oliver went down with an in-jury in the third game last season, many were concerned the dom-inant Bulls’ ground game would shift to ineffective.

Oliver was fresh off a season in which he had dominated competi-tion – running for a school record of 1,395 yards and 13 touchdowns. After Oliver’s breakout season, the Bulls’ next two leading rush-ers from 2011 graduated, leaving an apparent lack of depth behind Ol-iver.

Freshman Devin Campbell proved the Bulls’ running game was more than just Oliver, as he broke out for 160 yards against Ohio and rushed for over 100 yards twice more later in the season. He finished the season second on the team in rushing with 502 yards, two touchdowns and 176 yards receiv-ing, though he did not play in two of the 12 games.

This season, the Bulls will look to add even more depth to their run-ning game. Junior Brandon Mu-rie saw limited snaps last season as the third-string running back, but head coach Jeff Quinn sees Murie among potential contributors.

“We’re trying to get not just one running back on the field, but two, three and maybe we’ll have to go four,” Quinn said. “We’ll put a few new sets in there for them.”

Behind Oliver, Campbell and Murie are two players coming off redshirt seasons and one returning from an injury.

Junior James Potts had two car-ies and ran for 54 yards last season. The second time he touched the ball (during a 56-34 win over Mor-gan State Sept. 8), Potts took the ball into the end zone but tore his ACL in the celebration. Potts was sidelined for the rest of the season and though he has dressed for prac-tice this spring, he has yet to take a snap on the practice field.

Buffalo-area freshman Jordan Johnson redshirted last season, his first year on campus, but he will look to contribute to both the of-fense and special teams. Johnson played quarterback in high school – right next door at Sweet Home High School – rushing for 22 touchdowns in his career and win-ning Class A State Player of the Year in both his junior and senior seasons.

Sophomore Anthone Taylor is the sixth back who will look to con-tribute. Taylor redshirted last sea-son after seeing limited action his freshman year, when he appeared in seven games on special teams and also ran for 20 yards on four carries.

“We are going to have the type of running back core where any-body can step in,” Oliver said. “I don’t even have to do everything. We can go from the first string to fourth string; anybody can get the job done in our backfield.”

For Oliver, this season will be his final chance to etch his name into the record books at UB. He will start the year fourth on the Bulls’ all-time lists for rushing attempts and yards, seventh on the all-time touchdown list and second in 100-yard games.

He needs 627 yards to break the career rushing mark, 17 touch-downs to break the career rushing touchdown record and two 100-yard rushing games to break the ca-reer 100-yard games mark.

With so many individual acco-lades already accomplished and school legend status within his grasp, Oliver is clearly the leader of the group, but he is hungry for more.

“When you watch Bo Oliver practice, you don’t know if you are watching him rep the first play in practice or the last play because he doesn’t have any change in his effort, speed and determination,” Quinn said. “It’s always 100 per-cent. I’ve always been really im-pressed with his level of work ethic, attitude, passion and determina-tion, and I think that rubs off on the rest of the team.”

The Bulls’ offense will likely rely heavily on the ground game this season, and with Oliver and com-pany running between the tackles, there shouldn’t be much to worry about.

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Back for moreOliver, running back core look to build off successful 2012

JON GAGNONsenior sPorts editor

Football intellectuals recognize that a good running game can only be as successful as the offensive line. Last year, the football team’s offensive line was arguably the best unit on the team.

The line had all five starters start in every game and helped main-tain the team’s promising run game even amidst star junior run-ning back Branden Oliver’s absence with a leg injury. In 2012, the Bulls rushed for 176.7 yards per game in a season that featured a true fresh-man running back (Devin Camp-bell) for a large portion of the year.

However, this season’s consis-tency will be a bit less concrete, as soon-to-be senior Jasen Carlson and juniors Trevor Sales and An-dre Davis are the only three return-ing starters.

Carlson, the oldest of the group, was the recipient of the team’s of-fensive line UBelieve Award last season.

“He was voted and recognized as the No. 1 offensive lineman from our coaching staff,” said head coach Jeff Quinn. “We really felt, when you watch him play each and every snap, that he hit his assign-ments and played with great sound and fundamental technique. It’s a great honor to see how well Jasen has done.”

Carlson finished last season sec-ond on the team in total snaps played, only trailing the man to his left – the quarterback’s blindside protector at left tackle, Davis.

Davis made the transition from defensive line to offensive line while he redshirted in his freshman season. Since then, he has started in all 24 games the Bulls have played the last two seasons.

“One of the games, not only did [Davis] have the most plays in the game, total, but he also made three tackles [as starting shield on the punt team] in a game which was a big win for us,” Quinn said, refer-encing the Bulls’ 29-19 win at Mas-sachusetts Nov. 17. “It’s really good to see a big fella like that be on the field and want to see his team win.”

The line knows its best chance at helping the team win will like-ly come via a successful running game. Sales, the center, is an impor-tant vocal leader who loves noth-ing more than hearing Quinn call a running play right up the middle.

“The goal is to get as many yards as we can on the ground,” Sales said. “When the play’s called to run up the gut, that’s awesome for us. That’s our favorite play. We’re gain-ing yards no matter what, so that’s our philosophy up front.”

The new Bulls to fill the empty positions (after Graham Whinery and Gokhan Ozkan graduated last year) will be juniors Dillon Guy and Jake Silas.

Guy played in 10 games last sea-son and Silas played in five, giving the duo more experience than any other reserve lineman on the roster.

“They’ve worked hard and they’ve gotten playing time over the last two years, so they’ve gotten a little bit of a taste and now is their chance to be that full-time guy,” Quinn said. “The test will come quickly when we have to go line up against Ohio State and Baylor and a lot of good competition. We’re ex-pecting big things out of them.”

Carlson noted that losing the experience and the leadership of Whinery and Ozkan will be tough, but the three returners are ready to step up and assume leadership roles.

Down in the trenchesBulls’ O-line set to pave the way

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aLine KoBaYaShi, the sPeCtrumUB’s offense takes a snap during practice Wednesday at UB Stadium. Three of the five offensive line starters from last season return as the Bulls look to bolster an al-ready impressive running attack.

nicK FiScheTTi, The SpecTrumRunning back Devin Campbell runs through the snow during Wednesday’s prac-tice. Campbell filled in for an injured Branden Oliver last season, rushing for 502 yards and two touchdowns. Campbell will be a part of the running backs’ expanded role in the offense this season.