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Regina Jose Galindo stands naked in an open field. A sta-tionary camera watches the art-ist as an excavator loudly strips the grass and dirt from the earth’s skin around her. In the chaos of the destruction, she stands erect – unmoved and un-affected. If the viewer watch-es long enough, Galindo is left on a tiny island of dirt slowly crumbling beneath her feet.

This curious video is one of 15 works featured in Fight Club: Politics, Law and Art, an exhibi-tion currently on display in the Center For the Arts’ Lower Vi-sual Studies Gallery.

The exhibition opened Nov. 7 and displays original work from 15 different artists inter-ested in exploring ideas of pol-itics and law and their relation-ship to art in contemporary cul-ture and society. The title of the exhibition is partially inspired by the famous film and novel Fight Club, but the real ideas driving the overall body of work are the brainchild of Mark Snyder, a 50-year-old Buffalo native cur-rently working on completing his Master’s of Fine Arts at UB.

Snyder described Galindo’s piece, Tierra, as a reflection on the former state of the Guate-malan government dictated un-der Jose Rios Montt.

“It emphasizes the vulnerabil-ity, it shows the mechanism of the government and just the in-

humanity in many ways,” Snyder said. “Each artist in this exhibi-tion produces works that expose invisible power structures and hierarchies, marking them for the public to see and confront.”

Snyder began working on or-ganizing Fight Club at the end of the summer, carefully selecting the artists who met the specific criteria he set forth for the ex-hibition.

Natalie Fleming, 25 of Car-mel, N.Y., has been working alongside Snyder to get Fight Club up and running. She hopes the work will allow individuals to walk away with a better un-derstanding of two things: the variety of forms that art can take and the variety of ways art-ists can engage in the important social/political issues of today.

Most of the pieces are inter-active, which allows for direct

engagement between the artists’ work and the audience.

Jennifer Gradecki, a visu-al studies Ph.D. student, has a piece featured in the exhibition that is modeled after a psycho-logical study in which partici-pants had the opportunity to shock other participants.

In Gradecki’s interactive piece, viewers can actually give someone else a shock to experi-ence the experiment.

One painting, similar to a Ve-rizon coverage map, took up an entire wall in the gallery from floor to ceiling.

Territories is the work of Pat-rick Foran, 34, and represents American Indian reservations in the United States. The Lansing, Mich. native created the map in three days. He is not an Ameri-can Indian himself.

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Some students view heated bus shelters as necessary salvation from harsh Buffalo winters, but not every student is sold on the impact of the idea.

Though UB has taken steps to make busing safer and easi-er for students, some think UB’s new swipe system and upcom-ing heated bus shelter outside O’Brian Hall may cause more is-sues than solutions.

Ivan Chao, a sophomore in-tended communication major, thinks the current state of cam-pus transportation is “disorga-nized.”

Maria Wallace, the director of Parking and Transportation Ser-vices, said UB put a lot of re-search into the design process and location, taking the utilities,

existing infrastructure and cost into account.

“Students will have the option during pleasant weather to wait at the [existing] shelter within Flint Loop, and then during in-clement weather they’ll have the option of waiting in the heated shelter,” Wallace said.

Chao said the location of the heated shelter, at North Cam-pus’ Flint Loop, could cause traf-fic and safety issues for students.

The South Campus pick-up station is next to Hochstet-ter Hall, and because the heated shelter is going to be adjacent to O’Brian, Chao worries students are going to run into the Flint Loop to get a seat on the bus. He also thinks students will over pack the heated shelter because they are desperate for heat in the winter months.

With heated bus stop on its way, some students question Stampede system

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On Wednesday, Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author and staff writer for The New Yorker, visited the University at Buffalo.

Gladwell knows how to cap-ture people’s attention. His books have sold nearly 5 mil-lion copies, his talks attract thou-sands and his television appear-ances reach millions.

But many of his public activi-ties he finds wearing.

He prefers spending most of his day reading and writing, which he attributes to his intro-version.

“An introvert is not someone who finds public encounters dif-ficult,” he said in an interview with The Spectrum. “An introvert is someone who finds public en-counters costly.”

At the age of 50, Gladwell is a cultural icon. As someone Time magazine named one of the 100 most influential people, he has taken on a distinctive role in the public sphere. Widely noted for his distinctive appearance – his puffed up hair, his spunky yet cultivated image – Gladwell is even more distinguished in the world of ideas.

His first book, The Tipping Point, focuses on how social trends emanate from unlike-ly sources – the various ways in which the world does not work as it seems. He uses social the-ories, sociology, psychology and an array of different kinds of re-search to explain the intricacies of human behavior and experi-ence through the lens of telling stories about real people and real events.

His most recent book, David and Goliath, uses that same ap-proach to provide an examina-tion of underdogs and adversity – how disadvantages can be ad-vantageous and how obstacles can become opportunities.

He told a group of students on Wednesday afternoon that he likes to write books that “can be read by precocious 12-year-olds.” He said the best praise

he gets is when parents tell him their children read his books, because it means he may have opened them up to a world – to the power of stories and story-telling.

And this week, Gladwell brought the power of stories to Buffalo as the third speak-er of UB’s 27th Annual Distin-guished Speakers Series. The event included an informal ses-

sion in the afternoon with stu-dents and an address in the eve-ning in Alumni Arena welcome to the general public.

The first thing Gladwell said in his speech Wednesday night was an implication that he may be a Bills fan. He said he grew up not too far from Western New York, in Southern Ontar-io, and because Canada has no NFL team, Canadians cheer for

the team closest to them geo-graphically. If you’re from Van-couver, you root for the Seattle Seahawks; if you’re from Mon-treal, you root for the New Eng-land Patriots.

“Had I grown up in Montre-al instead of Toronto …Well, those 400 miles would have made so much of a difference in my self-esteem,” he said.

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Fight Club: Politics, Law and Art is an exhibition currently on display in the Lower Visual Studies Gallery of the CFA. It features a variety of art forms from 15 artists who explore the grey areas that exist between art, society and culture.

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“In part, I made this work to educate my-self on the history of land struggles and sov-ereignty issues for Native Americans,” Foran said. “But I think it’s also about the blind spot these territories occupy in the mind of most non-indigenous people, including myself.”

Aside from his own work, Foran was im-pressed with the depth and diversity Snyder compiled for the show. He felt it has inspired conversation with his program and within the community.

Jeff Sherven, 50, a print media technician and instructor at UB, was also a contributor for Snyder’s exhibition.

Sherven admires the collected works for the variety they present to the audience.

“The nice thing to have a show like this is that [the artists] each have particular qualities, tactile qualities, sensory qualities, in terms of

sound or even auditory pieces,” Sherven said. “All of a sudden you get connected with his-torical data in terms of slavery or the issues related to Jim Crow, then you turn around and deal with how sex is a real arbiter of who we are.”

He explained that the artists have found a way to express a variety of topics in a subtle way, so the issue isn’t always obvious at first.

“Every one of the artists here have found a way to re-contextualize what is contemporary data and awareness,” Sherven said.

Fight Club: Politics, Law and Art will be on display at the Lower Visual Studies Gallery until Jan. 25.

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Assistant Director of Transpor-tation Services Chris Austin doesn’t think the number of students wait-ing at the new stop will be a prob-lem.

“There has never been an issue, historically, with people waiting for buses at key periods,” Austin said.

He thinks the Stampede sys-tem adjusts to the increase in the amount of student traffic at peak times of the day.

Rahul Ghera, a junior architecture major, is pleased with the location of the coming heated stop.

“It’s definitely needed by now,” he said.

Ghera thinks the area by O’Brian Hall is a “good hang-out area,” and he hopes the heated stops expand to also be in spots by the Student Union and on South Campus. Most

of his classes are on South and he has no qualms with how the buses have been running.

Though Chao is excited about the new heated bus stop, he feels the lo-cation of the shelter adds to what he calls the mismanagement of the bus system as a whole.

Chao, who lives near South Cam-pus, said he often freezes at the Flint Loop bus stop for nearly an hour toward the end of the day.

“I feel that the UB Stampede is very inconsistent,” Chao said. “The time it takes to wait for a bus great-ly varies.”

The time he spends waiting for a bus going to and from South Cam-pus varies between 10 to 40 min-utes, he said. Chao thinks Transpor-tation Services’ top priority should be a more organized bus system.

Chao also thinks Transporta-tion Services needs to ensure bus-es are on schedule. He feels the of-fice needs to take into account the time it takes for loading and unload-ing the bus.

“If students are experienc-ing delays that are not in line with the posted bus schedule, then they should reach out to our office,” Austin said.

Joseph Oot, a junior environmen-tal design major, thinks the swipe system, which was implement-ed in the beginning of the semes-ter, slows down the buses. People have to run to classes, and the time it takes for everyone to swipe is too long, he said.

Austin said the swipe system does not impede the loading time for buses.

Wallace said her office has “been out there first-hand,” observing stu-dents and staff members boarding the buses.

She said they did not see any de-lay due to the swipe system and be-lieves students are becoming “accli-mated” to the process.

Chao is dependent on the bus system to get him to and from his South Campus home. Oot and Chao think there are an adequate number of South Campus buses, but they are poorly organized.

“The number of buses is satisfac-tory; it’s the number of stops that causes issues,” Oot said.

He believes the large number of buses is an environmental concern as well. He said too many buses go between Ellicott Complex and the Student Union, and he wants Trans-

portation Services to build a cli-mate-controlled tunnel to clear the unnecessary traffic.

Austin said the buses traveling be-tween Ellicott and Lee Loop trans-port approximately 7,000 to 8,000 students per day.

Wallace said if students are hav-ing issues with the bus system, they should feel free to contact Trans-portation Services. She said students can comment, complain or sug-gest at any time and know that their voices will be heard.

Austin hopes students bring their “compliments or complaints” to the office.


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By the end of the night, audience members would realize this was an interesting prelude to the subject he would devote the majority of his hour-long speech. The argument in his speech was about another way of looking at and thinking about defeat.

Instead of lingering over his new-est work, Gladwell used his speech to tell a story that is not in his book. He noted the story’s theme was sim-ilar to Chapter 7 of David and Goli-ath, which details the resistance and opposition of Irish Catholic wom-en to heavily armed British soldiers during the Irish Civil War.

“The question that I explore in that chapter was, what inspired the women to march? What compels underdogs to fight?” he said. “But if I tell you too much about what’s in my book, I’ll diminish your in-centive to read it.”

So he told the story of Alva Smith – later Alva Vanderbilt and then Alva Belmont. She was a de-termined woman living a comfort-ably affluent life of privilege in the early 20th century before “half-way through her life, she became a radical, a very important radical,” Gladwell said. She became a leader in the suffrage movement that won women the right to vote in 1920.

In introducing the story, Gladwell

invoked a common explanation for why some people choose to flout authority – the Theory of Deter-rence, which says that people make decisions based on costs and bene-fits. When the benefit of breaking the rules exceeds the costs, people are more likely to engage in that ac-tivity.

But Gladwell asserts that this no-tion doesn’t hold as true as the The-ory of Legitimacy, which maintains that people obey authority when they are treated with fairness, trust and respect. When people aren’t treated accordingly, they’ll act out in a way that demands they be treated with legitimacy.

In the United State before 1920, women were not treated as legiti-mate. They were expected to stay at home and couldn’t work or run for public office. And their husbands often committed infidelities, such as Willy Vanderbilt, Alva’s first hus-band.

So Alva, a woman with seemingly everything who is living a cushioned life, decided to rise up and challenge a situation she did not find legiti-mate. When she moved the suffrag-ette movement’s headquarters to New York City and hired a lobbyist to push for the right of women to vote, she showed, as Gladwell said, “if you deny people legitimacy, they

will one day, by one means or an-other, come back and defeat you.”

The arena silenced as he said these words, finishing his speech, before he took questions from the audience. People had lots of ques-tions for the writer who has spent his career delving into strategies for how to defeat the world.

And a college campus was an ap-propriate forum for such a discus-sion.

In college, Gladwell never took a course in psychology, which is now what he is most interested in. At the University of Toronto, he ma-jored in history. Though he has said college for him was not “an intel-lectually fruitful time,” he empha-sized the continuing importance of studying the humanities.

“Being able to think clearly and write clearly and be knowledgeable about the world of ideas and litera-ture,” he said, “these are things that are part of what it means to be a human being.”

He acknowledged there are two factors relevant to the issue of stu-dents today being concerned over studying humanities in the current economy: value and practicality.

“I think there’s enormous value in studying the humanities,” he said. “It is true that in the modern world it’s a less practical degree than it was

years ago … so we just need to be forewarned that you have to be pre-pared to manage that gap between value and practicality.”

He does feel that the case for a humanities degree is much stronger at a public institution. “The cost-benefit makes more sense to me,” he said.

And in Chapter 3 of David and Goliath, he outlines the importance of public institutions – that they give you more freedom to tackle subjects and not get overwhelmed. “Public institutions like this give people the freedom to explore what they want to learn, not just what they can excel in,” he said.

Having a background in hu-manistic learning contributed to Gladwell’s ability to understand the world around him and how to pres-ent stories as a journalist.

“What is our job as journalists?” he said. “Our job is to translate the world for the public.” As a transla-tor, Gladwell is recognized for his distinct writing style noted for its lucid prose, which many find mes-merizing. “A lot of it comes from all the years I spent at a newspaper, be-cause newspapers demand that you be clear, simple, straightforward,” he said.

Since he began with The New Yorker in 1996, he has made it an ef-fort to remain a cogent writer. In the informal session, he recognized aspects of the magazine he does not like, such as how long some pieces are and that some writers are “too precious” with their writing, but he also recognized the aspects he cher-ishes.

“The quality of editing is so ex-traordinary,” he said. “They’re very sensitive to the precision of lan-guage.” Being there has fostered his career well, as he has used precise language to elucidate what he calls “weapons of the spirit” in his writ-ing.

The weapons of the spirit are what his work tries to illuminate, and it is designed to deduce mean-ing and pinpoint certain counterin-tuitive connections that help explain how we live and the world we live in.

It is what he, as a journalist, trans-lates to the public.

And on Wednesday night, the university community was able to hear the observations from one of the world’s most prominent transla-tors.


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In a recent opinion piece in The New York Times, Sandy Baum, an economist at George Washing-ton University, Kristin Conklin, a founding partner in HCM Strat-egists, and Nate Johnson, a con-sultant at Postsecondary Analyt-ics, address the problems regard-ing federal Pell Grants.

In “Stop Penalizing Poor Col-lege Students,” they write: “The problem is that the program pro-vides support for only 12 cred-it hours per term, which the gov-ernment defines as full time for financial aid purposes.”

It is certainly true that this makes it more difficult for recip-ients of Pell Grants to graduate in four years. And it is also true that there are many factors at play.

There is irony in the govern-ment’s categorization of full-time students to receive federal bene-fits when the amount of credit hours per semester is not enough to graduate on time. Keeping re-cipients confined to those lim-itations can wind up hurting the people it aspires to assist.

Keeping in mind that many col-leges have a set price for a full ac-ademic course load over the se-mester, it is true that many do not. A recent survey demon-strates that most community col-leges set prices by credit hour, ac-cording to The Times.

The majority of students ben-efitting from Pell Grants are at-tending community colleges as well as nonselective colleges and vocational schools. So the statis-tics demonstrate that most of the people that Pell Grants go toward are affected by this stringent, foolhardy policy.

A major aspect of this issue is that Pell students don’t get any other form of federal assistance. This is what they rely upon to pay for their college education.

Helping increase access to ed-ucation is an ever-important part of life in the 21st century. Very few Pell students can afford to pay for that extra course that the grant does not support. So the result is they stick with 12 cred-it hours per semester – they stick with what is permitted.

And as Baum, Conklin and Johnson point out, the 12-cred-it-hour limit becomes a ceiling. It invariably increases how long it takes them to graduate.

We would also want to point out that this diminishes the amount of people added to the workforce. Economists will dis-pute the positive and negative ef-fects of that, but in order to stim-ulate our economy and have more people working and more people spending, we need more people in the workforce.

We need more Americans hav-ing access to higher education and, thus, able to live the lives of their choosing.

Congress should consider modifying the program to alle-viate low-income students’ extra burden in trying to graduate on time. It is hard enough to be of little financial means while trying to earn an education. The current strains that make it harder for Pell students are unnecessary.

What is needed now is an in-vestigation into the program and the efficacy of the 12-credit-hour

cap – which seems to have an ar-ray of problems.

Many states recognize this, too. Hawaii initiated a “15 to finish” campaign (similar to UB’s Fin-ish in Four) that is designed to increase the number of students taking 15 credit hours per semes-ter in order to graduate on time.

But as “Stop Penalizing Poor College Students” indicates, this campaign was much more suc-cessful for the schools that charged a flat rate for the aca-demic year as opposed to charg-ing per credit.

This suggests that students re-ceiving financial support from the federal government to pay for college faced more challenges sticking with the plan outlined in that campaign.

Congress should consider changing the language of its fi-nancial aid regulations. Too many students are marginalized by the logistics of the current program.


A vital way to help low-income college studentsRecognizing the intricacies of Pell Grant reform

Students being robbed at gun-point – some being burglarized inside their homes; innumera-ble housing violations; the Uni-versity Police not having jurisdic-tion to patrol the neighborhood; scores of students and commu-nity members distraught over the university not doing enough to combat horrid living conditions.

These are just some of the stories media outlets in Buffalo should be paying attention to re-garding the University Heights neighborhood. But on Monday, WIVB Channel 4 focused on something else – public urination.

In an absurd display of report-ing, WIVB chose to run a story that seemed more like something that would come out of The On-ion than it would a serious news channel.

The story is about how the uni-versity has decided to install por-table toilets near the bus stops on South Campus.

WIVB chose to interview stu-dents around South Campus talk-ing about the trend of students – in some cases themselves – uri-nating on campus buildings. The interviewer used that as a way to address the ongoing debate of whether UB should monitor its buses transporting drunk stu-dents to and from South Campus.

He asked students if they ever use the bus system to get from North Campus to South Campus to go to the library.

“I have never used the buses to come down here to go to the li-brary,” said UB student Will Rob-inson. Before, he and another stu-dent said they use the bus to get to South Campus in order to par-ty.

The problem with this type of reporting is that it is an example of what literary theorists might call a synecdoche – taking the part for the whole. It portrays UB students as imbeciles – only inter-ested in partying and not interest-ed in the pursuit of knowledge.

But what the reporter didn’t do was actually go to the library and ask the students in there how many of them use the buses. In-stead, he engaged in a one-sided report that falsely depicts our stu-dent community as philistines.

In fact, WIVB cameramen staked out the bus stops at night when there is a likelihood there will be many college students en-gaging in nightlife activities. This is not to say that the drinking component of the college expe-rience is not prevalent within our community, it is, but it is only a

facet of it.And the way this report engag-

es its subject and specifically ex-cludes other facets of our com-munity is a misleading form of journalism. What it did include portrayed UB in a very negative light.

But what should be portrayed in a negative light is the univer-sity’s hands-off approach to the problems within the Heights. With all the egregious things go-ing on in the Heights that receive very little attention, WIVB chose to cover this – drunk students peeing on buildings.

The university administration’s remedy: Porta Potties. This is tan-tamount to using a Band-Aid for a gunshot wound.

And this report does show one resident commenting on how silly

these Porta Potties look on a col-lege campus. “It absolutely solves no problem whatsoever,” Ber-nard Kunz told WIVB. “It’s not good enough. It’s ridiculous. It’s disrespectful to the community and it just looks ridiculous.”

He gave an intelligent answer and made a valid point about the appearance of this measure. Think about it: Can you imagine Porta Potties in Harvard Yard?

But all of the students they in-terviewed were unable to provide intelligent, reasonable answers.

They apparently couldn’t find one UB student to comment on the matter who could resemble the majority of the student body – cultivated and discerning.

The ridiculousness of Channel 4’s coverage could have dissuad-ed the reasonable students from

participating. But that is likely not the case. The likelihood is that WIVB reporters didn’t look hard enough or thoroughly enough to find the real answers – because they already knew what story they wanted.

With all the dire questions sur-rounding the Heights in need of probing, WIVB demonstrated misplaced priorities in its recent reporting.

If our community wants to see the changes the Heights needs, we need honest reporting from our news sources. And if WIVB is the only source paying atten-tion to the Heights, we shouldn’t expect those changes anytime soon.


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GABRIELA JULIA Staff Writer

Sequined costumes, shiny poles and dancing on stage to a live band isn’t just for Vegas show girls.

Eight years ago, Chelsea Kel-ly quit her job as a kindergarten teacher and opened Pole Play Dance Studio in Buffalo. Some of the classes in the Hertel Av-enue studio are fitness-oriented while others teach skills wom-en may only want to use behind closed doors.

Kelly offers classes, work-shops and lessons for begin-ner, intermediate and advanced dancers. Classes include: pole dancing, cardio go-go dancing, chair dance workouts, cardio hu-la-hoop and lap dancing. Kelly even teaches girls how to ‘twerk.’ Girls can also book the studio for events like bachelorette or birthday parties.

The classes attract people of various ages from all around the Buffalo area, including UB stu-dents. In the past, Kelly has even taught two fitness classes at UB, one of which was a go-go style routine.

“We joke, we laugh, we have fun, all while getting a good workout in,” said Kim Shepherd, a business graduate student at UB. “I’m so happy I found Pole Play and would encourage any-one to try it. Just come in with an open mind and willingness to try. But be warned: It’s addict-ing.”

Shepherd had taken dance classes for years and was inter-ested in trying different styles. Once she saw an advertisement for Pole Play, she was intrigued.

The graduate student was a bit intimidated and didn’t know what to expect.

Shepherd was pleasantly sur-prised. She started off shy in classes, unsure of herself and self-conscious. But she became more confident as the weeks went on. She said the pole danc-ing class was a great workout and helped her build self-accep-tance. Each week, she looked forward to challenging herself to learn new moves.

“I try to teach these classes as if it were any other dance class,” Kelly said. “You will walk out with better posture, more poise and more confidence. You have a one-up on everyone once you see you have these talents.”

Seven years ago, after Kel-ly opened Pole Play, she saw a show at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas and came home inspired. She got her sister, best friend and some of her students to-gether to create Eye Candy Bur-lesque, a local dance troupe that performs throughout Western New York.

“There were girls hang-ing from strings, a girl taking a bath on the ceiling, champagne glasses coming from the floor and women singing and danc-ing all over,” Kelly said. “Then I thought about how there isn’t anything like that in Buffalo.”

The troupe of 10 dancers per-forms at local venues like the Town Ballroom and Riviera Theatre.

Burlesque Dance Workout is one of the studio’s most pop-ular classes. Its dance themes, from the 1930s though the ’50s, work as muscle-toning and car-diovascular workouts, according to Pole Play’s website.

This December, the burlesque dance troupe is doing a perfor-mance called “Eye Candy: On Thin Ice, A Winter Burlesque Show” at Tralf Music Hall. The

group will perform alongside a live band, emcee and drag queen show.

For those not yet skilled enough to be in a dance troupe, Kelly’s classes are $160 a session and each session is eight weeks long. Those who want to work at their own pace with more at-tention can choose private les-sons for $100 an hour. Each month, Pole Play offers different workshops or a “one-time teaser class” for $25.

Some people focus on the provocative aspects of bur-lesque, and others take the class to become better dancers and gymnasts.

“People always get the wrong idea of burlesque, but the wom-en love it more than the men because of how fun it is,” Kel-ly said.

Megan Austen, a sophomore nursing major at UB, likes the idea of pole workouts but said that once it’s called “dancing,” it sounds a bit risqué.

“I think it’s a good idea and I wouldn’t mind trying it,” Austen said. “I just wouldn’t become a stripper.”

There are no restrictions when it comes to signing up for class-es. Kelly has taught college girls, married women, doctors, teach-ers, cosmetologists and house-wives. Girls under the age of 18 can join with parental consent.

“The oldest woman we’ve ever had was a 75-year-old,” Kelly said. “One girl came in for a lap dance workshop and brought her grandmother along as well.”

The pole dancing classes also promote camaraderie, and the attendees often become friends with one another.


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Film: Thor: The Dark WorldReleased: Nov. 8Studio: Marvel Studios Grade: B

With the Bifrost destroyed,

the nine realms have fallen into chaos, and it falls on the Mighty Avenger to restore the peace he is sworn to uphold.

Thor: The Dark World picks up where Thor and The Avengers left off; Loki (Tom Hiddleston, Out of Darkness) is being brought back to Asgard to pay for his crimes, and Thor (Chris Hems-worth, Rush) is battling to save the realms from falling further into chaos.

As peace is restored, an an-cient enemy named Malekith (Christopher Eccleston, Emi-ly) reawakens and threatens to plunge the nine realms into total darkness, which he attempted to do many millennia before – un-til Thor’s grandfather stopped him.

Pitted against an enemy that neither Odin nor Asgard can withstand, Thor must risk ev-erything to stop the dark elf before the universe is extin-

guished. Generic plot aside, Thor: The

Dark World, directed by Alan Taylor (Game of Thrones), is ev-erything that fans of Marvel’s movie universe have come to expect and builds upon the en-joyable foundation of the first Thor film.

Thor was packed with whit, humor, charm and action, but between the mythological and fantastical was a film filled with family drama and memorable characters. The Dark World is no different.

From the large battles at the film’s onset to the climactic clash between Thor and Male-kith at the film’s conclusion, The Dark World is packed with ac-tion from start to finish.

Between armor-clad warriors and dark elves whose weaponry seems out of this world, even by Asgardian standards, action in The Dark World is as enjoyable as it is fantastical.

Though the film’s many bat-tles aren’t anything viewers fa-miliar with science fiction haven’t seen before, they remain pleasant to watch and continue to develop the fantastical world of Thor and Marvel’s universes.

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AARON MANSFIELDeditOr in Chief

A perfect day for Malcolm Gladwell is one in which he does not say a word to anyone until after dinner. He wants his writing to appeal to a precocious 12-year-old. His Twitter bio is simply, “Skinny Canadian.”

This is Malcolm Gladwell, the best-selling author of works such as The Tipping Point and Blink, we’re talking about. He is a national icon. He appears on CNN often, is name-dropped in hip-hop songs (most nota-bly “Ten Thousand Hours” by Macklemore) and is possibly the wealthiest writer in America. But you wouldn’t know that by talking to him.

Gladwell visited UB Wednes-day. He spoke at an informal session in the Center For the Arts with students during the afternoon, and he addressed Alumni Arena as UB’s third Distinguished Speaker at night – but in between those two events, he did something unusu-al. He took the time to sit down with two Spectrum reporters.

At the informal session, be-fore getting spruced up for his speech, Gladwell sported grey-and-black Nikes (their long shoelaces hit the floor), a baby-blue button-down (untucked) and stone-blue jeans (lightwash). The look is complete with his curly ’fro and round glasses. The eccentricity of his appearance

matches that of his thoughts.I wish I had the tact to sum

up all I learned from listening to Gladwell throughout Wednes-day. Where could I possibly be-gin? Thankfully, he has writ-ten much about the theory that disadvantages can become ad-vantages – for example, he pos-its that a child growing up with dyslexia can turn that into an advantage, as he or she will de-velop resiliency and work ethic at a young age.

In this case, my disadvantage is indeed an advantage – ev-erything Gladwell said is so ex-traordinary, so truly riveting, that I cannot possibly address it all. But that is, inherently, an ad-vantage: It guarantees any article about him will be interesting.

So let’s get to it. If you’re a college student

who feels lost, do not pan-ic. I opened our interview ask-ing about the fact that Gladwell has said his undergraduate expe-rience at the University of To-ronto was “not an intellectual-ly fruitful time.” That’s right – Malcolm Gladwell struggled in college, too. His advice for stu-dents today? Take advantage of the uncertainty surrounding the job market and slow down.

Take your time. Indulge your curiosity.

“I think that people are too quick to try to figure out what they ought to be doing with the rest of their lives,” he said. “My great regret when I look back on my college years is that there were all kinds of things I was interested in but didn’t pur-sue because I was in too much of a hurry. Or I falsely assumed I wasn’t interested. All the stuff I have gotten interested in over the course of my career is stuff I have learned since graduating.”

He wishes he had studied psy-chology and statistics, but he didn’t take one class in either topic. If you’ve read Gladwell’s work, you understand how ludi-crous that is. Part of what makes him great is his broad spectrum of knowledge. He is essentially a historicist, psychologist, sociol-ogist, scientist and philosopher rolled into a terrific writer.

But what makes him truly great is his skill of communi-cating illustrious thoughts and ideas and concepts to everyone – even a 12-year-old.

Gladwell is one of the leading intellectuals alive, but in person, he comes off as an average guy with awesome hair. He works most days out of his favorite coffee shop in New York City, and patrons rarely approach him or ask for photos. “The people there are over me,” he said.

The one thing that struck me most about him was not only his willingness to chat with two col-lege students, but his interest in our discussion. You know how you can tell when someone is re-ally listening to what you’re say-ing? He was engaged. He main-tained eye contact and was gen-uinely interested in offering advice and answering questions.

This is made more impres-sive by Gladwell’s admitted ex-treme introversion. That doesn’t mean he’s shy, or that he finds public speaking terrifying, or that encounters with people are cumbersome for him. It means he finds interactions with peo-ple draining. Whereas talking to others invigorates a classic ex-trovert like Bill Clinton, a classic introvert like Gladwell feels his figurative energy battery drain-ing when he is engaged in con-versation.

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Youngstown State jumped out to a 21-11 lead in the opening nine minutes before the Bulls pulled to within three and headed into the locker room down 32-29.

After an initial three-point goal by the Penguins to open the second half, Buffalo went on a 13-0 run over the next 3:30 to take a seven-point lead.

Buffalo outscored Youngstown State 43-33 in the second half – led by 48.3 percent shooting and a little help from the Penguins, who shot an abysmal 2 for 16 from deep in the second half.

The Bulls expanded their lead to as big as 12 with 4:41 remaining af-ter a Miley jumper. Youngstown State responded with an 8-0 run before Miley recorded two more of her eight points.

When the Penguins brought the game close again, Loesing found Sharkey for an open layup and a seven-point lead with 44 seconds remaining to secure the victory.

Loesing led the Bulls with 22 points on 7-of-20 shooting. She added five rebounds, five steals and three assists.

Seventeen of the Bulls’ 23 field goals came off assists, and the Buf-falo bench combined for 32 points.

Heidi Schlegel led the Penguins with 23 points and nine rebounds. Karen Flagg filled the stat sheet with 12 points, nine rebounds and six assists, but committed a game-high 12 turnovers.

Buffalo’s ‘D’ forced 23 turnovers, accrued 13 steals and held the Pen-guins to 35.8 percent shooting from the field – including 3 for 21 from behind the arc (14.3 percent).

The consecutive victories mark the first time the women’s team has started a season 2-0 since the 2007-08 season and the first time the team won back-to-back road games to open a season since 1983.

The Bulls return to Alumni Are-na this weekend for the first time since their two opening exhibition victories.

“I really enjoy our crowd,” Legette-Jack said. “The fans are really starting to buy into the ‘20 sports, one team.’ It’s going to be exciting to come back and see our Bulls nation embrace us.”

The Bulls host Cornell (1-0) on Saturday. Buffalo fell to the Big Red 70-43 at Cornell last year but then went on a three-game win streak at the start of MAC play.

The Big Red are led by Allyson DiMagno and Shelby Lyman, who combined for 36 points in their opening game. The duo started in this matchup last season and com-bined for 18 points.

The women’s contest will serve as the first of a UB basketball dou-bleheader. Tip is set for 12:30 p.m. and the men’s team will take the court afterward.


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When it isn’t an action movie or suffering from some pacing and plot issues, the film has some truly phe-nomenal moments that exceed Thor in their emotional weight and abili-ty to draw the viewer inward, all of which are carried to new heights and depth by the film’s exceptional cast.

After a sluggish start, a majority of the film is spent further exploring Thor and Loki, revealing aspects of the characters that viewers have nev-er seen before.

In the past, Thor was overconfi-dent and arrogant, nearly starting a war to put the frost giants back in their place, but this film finds the

character at ends with the kingly po-sition he has always wanted. Real-izing there are limits to what a king can do, Thor’s conviction and deter-mination drives the character as he deals with the difference between what he wants and what is expect-ed of him.

In the presence of Jane Foster, (Natalie Portman, Illusions and Mir-rors) who emotionally and roman-tically ties Thor to Earth, Thor be-comes a much more emotionally nu-anced character, furthering the range that viewers have already seen from the character in Thor and The Aveng-ers.

Loki, however, is just as mischie-vous as ever, still hungry for pow-er and waiting for his chance to sit on the thrown. But The Dark World takes the character to an unprece-dented emotional low; seeing a di-sheveled Loki on the floor of his destroyed cell is one of the many moments in which Hiddleston truly shines, bringing a depth and nuance to the character that is exacting and captivating.

Unlike previous films involving the character, The Dark World makes great use of Loki’s eye for decep-tion, providing the audience with a few surprises before he pulls off an

easily predictable twist, which only adds to the magnetic draw the char-acter has when he is on screen.

Aside from Thor, Loki and Jane, the film is packed with an outstand-ing supporting cast that brings some much needed levity to the film while maintaining its tone and making the experience more enjoyable as a whole. Some characters are unde-rused, but others like Darcy (Kat Denning, Day One) – Jane’s assistant – are given just enough screen time to make their performance memo-rable and important to the film.

Filled with humor, action and some astounding performanc-

es, Thor: The Dark World is anoth-er solid movie in the Marvel Stu-dios lineup. Though it builds on the strengths of the first Thor film and ends on some exciting possibilities for future titles featuring the Mighty Avenger, there isn’t very much with-in the film that feels as unique as the original Thor did a few years ago. Nonetheless, the film is every bit the action-packed adventure viewers likely expect.


With that in mind, it makes more sense why he’d rather not talk to people for most of the day. It’s not that he doesn’t like talking to peo-ple (in fact, he says, “I can do it, and I’m happy to, but I can’t do it for that long”), but it makes him tired – which is why it’s ironic that he has made his living communicat-ing.

Many of Gladwell’s books are self-help without being self-help; they better the reader by sharing stories of extraordinary others. But that doesn’t mean he is a fluffy writ-er. No topic intimidates him (per-haps that tenacity comes from his 10 years reporting for The Washing-ton Post).

Much has been made of Gladwell’s opposition to college football. Though arguably his most famous speech on the matter, at the University of Pennsylvania, discussed how Ivy League schools need to start the movement of re-moving their football programs, he does not believe any school – in-cluding UB – should have a team.

“The case in 2013 for football to be part of the educational man-date of a school is really weak,” he said. “It’s not clear to me, particu-larly when you consider the dam-age to the health of the players, a school should not be doing any-thing that damages the health of its students. That’s really obvious, particularly when you’re not pay-ing them. That’s even more obvi-ous. In some cases, football pro-grams make a lot of money for the

schools; in most cases they don’t … You come here to get an education. You don’t come here to hit some-one else on the head.”

I found it odd when Gladwell said he spends most of his day watching football. Turns out he loves the sport. He does not, how-ever, believe it belongs on a college campus. He states that a minor-league system, similar to that of baseball, would make more sense.

He will go on television and ex-press these thoughts, and he will do interviews, and he will write piec-es for The New Yorker. But Gladwell doesn’t think he’s some revolution-ist or genius.

“I don’t have any grand ideas that will save the world,” he said. That has been a criticism of his writ-ing: That it is too simplistic. Per-haps he doesn’t have ideas to save the world, but he does have a grand way of explaining ideas.

You can almost see Gladwell’s brain working as he speaks. He has a methodical approach to expla-nations – a skill he has possessed since he demanded he be the one to elucidate board-game rules to his friends at age 10 – and a person-al story to make almost everything understandable.

He has so far surpassed the level of an average reporter that it is easy to forget that Gladwell has been a journalist his whole career. And he weighed in on the change going on in the industry.

“Journalism is in this weird po-sition right now,” he said. “The

need for journalism has never been greater. So, what is our job as jour-nalists? Our job is to translate the world for the public, the general public. So as the world gets more complicated, translators get more and more important.”

He prides himself on taking complicated matters and mak-ing them clear for his audience – dumbing them down to a level a precocious 12-year-old can under-stand. In that sense, he is a trans-lator.

But just as he is not simply a journalist, Gladwell is not simply a translator. A translator, by its def-inition, must speak multiple lan-guages, and Gladwell speaks many. He does not, however, merely speak languages; he invents new ones.

He is, truthfully, one of the most brilliant people alive today. And yet he never saw his fame coming.

“No one’s more surprised than me,” he said. “I had no clue. I was a newspaper writer. I was anony-mous. I was quite happy. I was as stunned as anyone else.”

I have been fortunate to inter-view many interesting people as a young reporter. I can’t say anyone has ever impressed me as much as Malcolm Gladwell. I’m thankful to have caught him right after dinner.


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Dear Danny White,I need to apologize.I wrote a column on Oct. 14,

2012 titled “Get real” follow-ing the football team’s 45-3 loss against Northern Illinois, call-ing for the job of head coach Jeff Quinn.

I realize now that was unfair. There were plenty of other loss-es last season that warranted the same response, but that wasn’t one of them. Northern Illinois is on another level.

The Huskies proved that Wednesday night with a 48-27 statement victory over Ball State, leaving the Huskies as the lone team with an undefeated Mid-American Conference record.

In a Nov. 8 editorial, The Spectrum emphasized the importance of the 2014 football recruiting class be-

cause of the success of this year’s team. If you want to see a program that has gone through that process, look at Northern Illinois.

Though the school has won more than half of all its foot-ball games, Northern Illinois his-torically doesn’t have a great pro-gram. From 1996-2007, the Hus-kies went 63-76, making only two bowl games.

But the Huskies’ success since 2008, and particularly since 2010, is undeniable.

Buffalo should be where they are in the next five years.

Let’s recount the Huskies’ suc-cesses. They haven’t lost a game at Huskie Stadium since 2009. They haven’t lost a conference game at home since 2008. They’ve played in the last three MAC Champion-ship games, winning the last two.

They’ve lost one conference game since 2010.

Most impressively, the team has gone through three head coach-es in that time. The two coaches before the Huskies’ current head coach, Rod Carey, were hired by bigger programs – Minnesota and North Carolina.

But Northern Illinois’ domi-nance is merely a side effect of my main point. The Huskies have done a great job of sustaining their accomplishment.

It’s rare for mid-major programs to play at such a high level for so many years. Three straight – and probably soon to be four – 11-win seasons is a remarkable feat.

If you don’t look closely, you could chalk up the Huskies’ suc-cess to a few fluke recruits panning out, but that wouldn’t be accurate.

The Huskies won two games in 2007. There was a head coach-ing change and then quarterback Chandler Harnish took his first snap for the Huskies. They have lost only six conference games since then.

From 2008-11, Harnish ter-rorized MAC opponents. He was without argument the best quar-terback in Northern Illinois histo-ry at the time of his graduation. He graduated with 8,944 pass-ing yards, 68 passing touchdowns, 2,983 rushing yards and 24 rushing touchdowns.

In 2012, the MAC was final-ly released from Harnish’s reign of terror, but there wasn’t much respite. Jordan Lynch took the reins last season and led the Hus-kies to a 12-2 record, passing for 3,138 yards and 25 touchdowns and rushing for 1,815 yards and 19 touchdowns. The Huskies went to a BCS bowl.

And now, even as they’re under a new coaching staff, the Huskies look even better this season.

So you see the big shoes you have to fill, Mr. White. You see why your extension of Jeff Quinn drew such criticism.

Former NIU coach Dave Do-eren did in two years what Quinn has needed four to get close to.

You preach to us that you are building “America’s next BIG-TIME College Athletics Brand,” and I believe you. I see the same things you do in this university – the large endowment, vast alumni base and expansive room to grow.

But another MAC school is out-growing you. The Huskies’ foot-ball facilities – minus their sta-dium – have all been built within the past seven years. The Huskies’ Yordon Center – built in 2007 – includes academic support ar-eas, athletic training areas and a 12,500-square-foot strength and conditioning center. This past off-season, Northern Illinois complet-ed an indoor field house.

Buffalo’s newest athletic struc-tures are 20 years old. They are ar-tifacts from the school’s Division I-AA era. Buffalo has done re-markably well with the outdated facilities, but you’re not looking for remarkably well, are you?

This athletic department needs new buildings. The East Club is a great step and I hope it will help to fundraise for the things Buffalo’s athletes need. But I haven’t even seen a plan yet.

I’ve followed this program very closely over the past two seasons, but I have yet to see anything but a conceptual picture in passing.

Where are the big plans to pitch to donors? Why aren’t you pitching these things to recruits? Why aren’t you pitching UB Athletics’ growth to potential students? That is how you show people the potential of this university. That is how you get freshmen and applicants excited about being part of Buffalo’s ath-letics program.

You’ve already done many things to go in an upward direction. The pregame concerts and new tailgate atmosphere are unlike anything I’ve seen on campus before. The student section at the Ohio game last week was a proud representa-tion of this school. Plus, the over-all rising trend of attendance num-bers this season cannot be denied.

I don’t take some particular cru-el pleasure in watching my class-mates suffer through losses. I do not root against the Bulls. But when all I hear is talk and I see no action when comparable schools are actually taking steps forward, I have no option but to criticize.

Mr. White, give me reason to stop criticizing, and I will.

Sincerely,Ben Tarhan

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The “Purple Nation” crowd of students chanted boisterous-ly, “This is our house!” as the fi-nal seconds waned down at the ‘Taps’ Gallagher Center of Ni-agara University on Wednesday night.

The atmosphere was boom-ing for the Big Four’s showdown featuring the Bulls and the Ni-agara Purple Eagles. The Purple Eagles fed off their home crowd – snagging offensive rebounds, fearlessly slashing to the bas-ket and finding back-door cut-ters for easy layups in the paint – and the Bulls’ monstrous effort from senior forward Javon Mc-Crea wasn’t enough as Niagara won, 92-81.

McCrea finished with 31 points and 14 rebounds. Bob-by Hurley is now 0-2 as Buffalo’s new head coach.

“We have to get back to the drawing board defensively and figure out a way to not let our opponents shoot such a high percentage from the field,” Hur-ley said. “To give up 92 points is unacceptable.”

While the Bulls struggled to shoot early – scoring just five points through the game’s first eight minutes – the Purple Ea-gles (1-1) fought for offensive rebounds and created second-chance opportunities that got them out to an early lead. Niag-ara took a 6-5 lead three minutes in and never trailed again.

The Bulls were outrebound-ed 44-41 (28-17 in the first half), and the Purple Eagles shot 48.4 percent from the field compared to Buffalo’s 37.9 percent.

Aside from McCrea – Hurley said “[We] couldn’t have thrown the ball enough to him,” – Hur-ley’s new offense seems to be taking some time for the play-ers to get used to. The Bulls shot 31.2 percent against Texas A&M last Friday.

“Our guys will learn the of-fense better,” Hurley said. “It’s all new to them so I think it will come around once the season progresses.”

Senior guard Josh Freelove was second on the team with 15 points and has shown flashes of being a potential go-to shooter – a role that is increasingly becom-ing a necessity for the Bulls, who have shot 12 for 47 from three-point range in their first two games.

One of the biggest compo-nents of Hurley’s new system is a three-guard lineup, featur-ing a combination of Freelove, senior Jarod Oldham, sopho-more Jarryn Skeete and fresh-man Shannon Evans. All four guards played at least 22 min-utes Wednesday (Oldham 34 and Skeete 33), though they had struggles.

Oldham, Skeete and Evans shot a combined 6 for 28 and scored just 19 points. Oldham, the point guard, had eight turn-overs.

“[Oldham’s] arguably our best all-around player,” Hurley said. “He didn’t have a great game, but I’m going to anticipate seeing him playing a lot better through-out the year.”

Since falling behind in the game’s opening minutes and trailing 47-33 at half, the closest the Bulls came was an 83-79 def-icit with 3:30 left.

The Purple Eagles seemed to have an answer for every Bulls run – whether it was an Antoine Mason and-one 3-pointer with 12 minutes left to extend Ni-

agara’s lead to eight, or via two points at the free-throw line. The game featured 73 free-throw at-tempts (40 from the Purple Ea-gles), and Hurley described some of the referees’ block/charge calls as “peculiar.”

Mason, a guard and Niaga-ra’s leading scorer, torched the Bulls for 25. Ramone Snowden and Tahjere McCall each had 15 points and eight rebounds.

The Bulls failed to get much production from junior forward Will Regan – last season’s sec-ond-leading scorer and a pre-season first-team All Mid-Amer-ican Conference honoree. Re-gan got into foul trouble early, played 19 minutes and scored five points – often getting bullied in the paint defensively.

The Bulls will look to get their first win in the home opener on Saturday against Division II op-ponent West Virginia Wesleyan (1-1). Tipoff is set for 3 p.m. in Alumni Arena.


Bulls drop Big Four road test at Niagara, fall to 0-2

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The NCAA inserted new rules this offseason – including stron-ger enforcement of hand check-ing and defenders having two hands on offensive players in the paint – resulting in more fouls. It is an initiative aiming to increase scoring.

Buffalo’s women’s basketball team almost found this out the hard way on Wednesday night at Youngstown State (0-2).

Behind sophomore guard Mackenzie Loesing’s team-high 22 points, the Bulls (2-0) defeated the Penguins 72-65, despite com-mitting 29 fouls. Junior forward Christa Baccas (10) was Buffalo’s second-leading scorer but played only 18 minutes, and three oth-er Bulls (senior guard Margeaux Gupilan, junior forward Kris-ten Sharkey and freshman guard Camera Miley) had four fouls apiece and played limited min-utes.

The referees were consistent, whistling Youngstown State 25 times for fouls.

“Everybody says it’s going to be ugly before it gets great, trying to make the game a little bit more appealing,” said head coach Fe-lisha Legette-Jack. “But we have to go through the trenches right now and I think we will.”

The teams combined for 69 free throws. The constant whis-tles forced Buffalo to turn to its bench as all 12 players contribut-ed. Every Bull saw at least eight minutes of action and 10 of the 12 played at least 14 minutes. Mi-ley, Loesing and senior guard Slone Walton were the only Bulls to play over 20 minutes.

“We are just going to have to find our way through these games because we can’t have offi-cials coming to all of our practic-es,” Legette-Jack said.

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Freshman forward Nia Roberts goes up for a layup during the Bulls’ game against Youngstown State on Wednesday night. The Bulls won 72-65 to improve to 2-0.


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