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After an uncontested election last year that brought just 1 percent of UB undergraduate students to the polls, this year’s Student Association executive board election features seven candidates aiming for three positions that control approximately $4 million of student funds.

The race for president and vice president, who must be elected together, is between two parties preaching very different platforms: the SA-experienced and -backed Progress Party, and the self-pro-claimed SA outsider Transparency Party.

Progress Party president candi-date Matt Rivera and vice president candidate Megan Glander are expe-rienced SA staff members running a campaign focused more on inclu-sion and less about internal issues inside SA.

The two-man Transparency Party of president candidate Maximillian Budynek and vice president candi-date Daniel Christian are advocating that outsiders with a fresh perspec-tive will help clean up the issues that have dogged SA for years and help add transparency to the average stu-dent who may not trust SA.

The race for treasurer, which is elected separate from the president and vice president, is a three-man race between Dan Emmons of the Progress Party, Carl Ross of the one-man Empowerment Party and independent candidate Aaron Hus-sian. All three have SA experience in some form and all three have ideas for improving the efficiency of SA finances.

Elections will be held in the Stu-dent Union Theater on March 29-31 from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

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The Spectrum annually endorses candidates for the Student Associ-ation executive board, but this year we do not feel confident enough in either party’s president and vice president ticket to give an endorse-ment.

Not that there aren’t things to like about the Progress Party of Matt Rivera and Megan Glander, and the Transparency Party of Maximillian Budynek and Daniel Christian. We like the experience of Progress and the well, the call for transparency of Transparency.

But our editorial board does not feel comfortable endorsing a set of candidates we do not feel 100 percent confident in. It would be a disservice to you, the UB student body, for us, the student newspa-per, to pretend we did for the sake of having to endorse someone.

So instead we have come to the decision to allow you to know what we like – and do not like – about this year’s presidential and vice presidential candidates in hopes of informing you as best we can before you head to the polls. We feel it is better to lay out our is-sues with each party than to mask our uncertainty with a hollow en-dorsement.

Our issues with the two parties come down to Progress’ vague-ness and Transparency’s lack of SA experience.

Rivera and Glander of Prog-ress have SA experience and are the safe choice, but gave unspecif-ic and rehearsed speeches to our staff on Tuesday that was far from deserving of an endorsement. Bu-dynek and Christian of Transpar-ency were professional and pre-pared for tough questions from our staff, and have worthy aspira-tions to make SA more transpar-ent, but their lack of any SA ex-perience at all gives us too much pause to endorse them.

In an ideal world, we could com-bine the experience of Rivera and Glander with the openness and calls for transparency of Budynek and Christian – but we cannot.

Progress is by all accounts the establishment party that has the support of the current SA staff, just check social media. The party is perhaps feeling confident in its electability – and it showed during their speeches and Q&A sessions in our office.

Progress’ entire platform of the “three C’s” of community, con-sistency and compassion felt hol-low to our editorial board. The par-ty centered its talk around inclu-sion and making more students feel a part of SA, but when pressed on specific plans and polices on how it would do so, we were not im-pressed.

Even last year’s Unity Party, who were running unopposed and had little if nothing to gain from our en-dorsement, proposed more concrete changes and implementations to SA than this year’s Progress Party.

Rivera’s Q&A session with our editorial board, which can be found on ubspectrum.com, ran longer than any other candi-date. That’s because we were wait-ing and pressing him to give spe-

cifics on how we would get more students involved and feel includ-ed in SA, but he instead choice to continue speaking in general terms and refer back to “community, consistency and compassion.”

For example, we like that Rive-ra wants to hold more open forms for students, like the current e-board has done with the athletics department fee. Yet it would have been nice to hear what exact issues his party is passionate about, as it was the current e-board that took charge on the athletics fee issue.

At times, Glander was equally unspecific. She too focused most of her talk on the “three C’s” and a somewhat rehearsed profession of her love for helping clubs in her current position as Special Inter-est, Services and Hobbies (SISH) Council coordinator.

Unlike her running mate, she did however propose some actual im-plementations to make things easi-er for clubs, like revamping club ori-entation, making the temporary club application available online and cre-ating video tutorials for clubs.

We’re a little hesitant on the vid-eo tutorials, as we’ve heard candi-dates promise to make such videos in the past to no avail, but Glan-der’s other proposals seem like re-alistic and simple changes that can be implemented to help clubs.

But presidents and vice presi-dents have to be elected as a ticket, and Glander’s proposals were not enough to overcome the vague-ness and unclear plans of Prog-ress.

Don’t get us wrong – Progress’ goal to include more students is a valiant one. All undergraduates pay $104.75 a semester to SA, and too often we see too many stu-dents not getting anything out of that money by not being involved in SA activities. It’s on the organi-zation to at least make an effort to reach them, and for that we were grateful of Progress’ message.

But their lack of specific ideas and reforms on how they would ac-tually make this happen turns what could have been a very solid plat-form into a loose ideal that seems like it will never come to fruition.

While there may have been some sense of disappointment with the qualified Progress Party, we were pleasantly surprised by the Trans-parency Party.

After last year’s brief run of fel-low SA outsiders the Clarity Par-ty, which seemed to be running on more of a whim than a serious campaign, we admittedly expected something a bit similar when Trans-parency came through our doors.

President candidate Budynek and his vice president candidate Christian were instead well spo-ken, prepared to answer questions about their lack of experience and with well-intentioned aspirations to make SA more accessible and clear to the average student, with things like an SA oversight com-mittee and encouraging critiques from The Spectrum.

Although Budynek and Chris-tian have never been involved in SA, other than Christian’s unspeci-fied amount of time in UB Space

Bulls, they have a host of other on-campus experiences and even some experience in a town mayor’s office.

Christian caught our attention when he delivered a passionate por-tion of his speech about advocating for a stronger university sexual as-sault response. We like for our can-didates to go beyond their job de-scriptions and use their positions as student leaders to advocate.

But when asked how exactly he would use his role as vice president to advocate for such policy, Chris-tian fumbled around about using his leadership role to voice con-cerns to the administration. It was as if he was unaware he could hold open forums and call for a stronger policy through the SA Assembly, as the current e-board has done.

And this perhaps best illustrates the problem with the Transparen-cy Party. They have solid goals and aspirations, but ultimately their lack of SA knowledge could hold them back from actually accom-plishing such tasks.

Budynek and Christian admitted they couldn’t say much about how they would change the inner work-ings of SA, as they have not worked inside organization. They simply see from the outside there are issues stu-dents have and they would work to address those once inside.

We would have liked Trans-parency to have researched SA enough to answer questions about fixing issues. We would have liked to hear that they have been actively meeting with the current e-board, the professional staff and council coordinators and making their fac-es known in the office. Instead Bu-dynek mentioned he had met with unspecified club who had issues.

If you’re going to run for posi-tions leading a $4 million organi-zation, you should do everything possible to learn about its inner workings and issues before you even ask students to put their trust in you.

Again, we were pleasantly sur-prised by Transparency. With their passion, smarts and calls for trans-parency, we would probably en-dorse them for an SA staff posi-tion or as speaker of the assembly or senate chair.

But to give an endorsement for president and vice president – two of the three highest positions in the organization – to two people with no past SA experience, that we cannot comfortably do.

That’s not to say we don’t feel outsiders could never lead SA. An outside perspective is never a bad thing. But for an outsider to re-ceive an endorsement from us, they would have to show they had previously made a large-scale ef-fort to understand SA. Budynek and Christian came close, and just not close enough to make us feel comfortable endorsing them to the student body.

But Budynek and Christian do bring up good points about bring-ing transparency to SA – points that reflected somewhat poorly on their more experienced running mates.

While Budynek and Christian said they would encourage criti-cisms from The Spectrum, Progress’

answers about the relationship be-tween The Spectrum and SA did not impress us as much. Progress did not seem as willing to accept crit-icism.

When asked what if any issues he took with how current SA Pres-ident Minahil Khan runs SA and what he would improve upon, Ri-vera could not give an answer. He instead took several minutes to profess how great he thinks Khan is as president.

Rivera is allowed to admire the person whose position he is run-ning for – but to not have even a small critique for the person who currently has the job you want, is concerning.

During this time, he also made comments that Khan sometimes gets too much blame for things that are out of her control. This made us take pause.

The president of SA is sup-posed to represent the organiza-tion and ultimately be responsi-ble for all that goes on. It’s on the president when things go right and wrong inside the organization, re-gardless if it was outside of his or her control or not. We would like a presidential candidate who accepts this and is willing to take it on, which Rivera did not show with those comments.

Again, Rivera and Glander have redeeming qualities. They have the qualifications, as well as genu-ine goals to get more students in-volved – an effort we would like to help them with if they are elect-ed – but their overall platform was not enough for us to tell our read-ers they are absolutely the ones to vote for.

And this is the dilemma we as an editorial board have found our-selves in. There are things to like and dislike about both tickets, but enough concerns with both that we feel we cannot definitively tell our readers they should vote one way or the other.

We only hope we have provided you with enough information to make an informed choice for your-self. And we really do hope you go out to the polls this week.

Whether you are in a club and attend Spring Fest or not – SA di-rectly effects every undergradu-ate who pays it $104.75 a semester. These positions that control that money and this election matter.

We know there is tendency to avoid the Student Union and the campaigning candidates handing out flyers and trying to speak with you during SA elections week. We know there is a tendency for SA staff and club members to make up the majority of voters.

Let’s start to change that. These are the only positions on campus that control your money that you, as a student, get to decide who holds them. So educate yourself on the candidates and platforms and make an informed vote this week. We hope we were able to provide you with that, even if we could not definitively tell you whose name you should cast on the ballot.

email: eic@ubspectrum.com.

Spectrum endorses neither Progress nor Transparency for president, vice president

Treasurer may just be the most important Student Association ex-ecutive board position.

It’s the position that deals most directly with SA’s budget and fi-nances of student funds, and SA is really all about dispersing student funds, collected through the man-datory student activity fee, back to students in the best way possible.

Therefore a treasurer must be someone who is smart, experi-

enced, professional and responsi-ble, and that person is Dan Em-mons of the Progress Party.

We commend fellow treasurer candidates Carl Ross and Aaron Hussain. They are both passionate to serve students and understand the issues plaguing clubs, but we overall felt Emmons has more ex-perience and more effectively ar-ticulated how he would actually go about improving SA.

Emmons has worked directly as a bookkeeper in SA’s finance de-partment and is a business admin-istration major and can articulate his realistic and sound goals ef-fectively. While we could not give his party’s president and vice pres-ident the same endorsement, we felt Emmons stood out from his running mates. It’s a good thing treasurers are elected separately.

He was not vague, and instead

brought up realistic and sound goals, like making club orientation more specific to individual clubs, moving the FAQ sheet to the front of the fi-nance handbook so clubs don’t lose it and working with Sub Board I Inc., to accept some paper receipts, as well making sure clubs get their rollover budget more often.

Dan Emmons for treasurer

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Matt Rivera Party: Progress Year: JuniorMajor: Business and musical theaterCurrent SA position: Director of Student Affairs

After living in Germany for 14 years be-fore moving to Buffalo, Matt Rivera said he has a different perspective. He said growing up somewhere other than the United States gives him “a worldly view” that can help him connect with students, which would be a large part of his role as Student Associa-tion president, if elected.

Upon coming to UB, Rivera joined the Academies before becoming a resident adviser and orientation team leader. Rivera currently holds the position of SA’s director of Student Affairs – the same position current SA Presi-dent Minahil Kahn held before being elected.

Rivera said he, along with the Progress Party, are basing their campaign on the “three C’s” of community, consistency and compassion.

He said his main goal if elected is to create an atmosphere where students feel as though they can voice their grievances or discuss suggestions they may have to the e-board.

Rivera said he could achieve this by hav-ing more open forums and open dialogue among students.

“One of the biggest goals would be con-necting to the students who aren’t already involved,” Rivera said. “Getting those stu-dents who are just here at the university, tak-ing classes, maybe they’re commuters, may-be they just take their classes and go home, maybe it’s students who live on campus but don’t really participate in any campus living events – getting that connection and being able to reach out to those people would be so rewarding.”

Maximillian BudynekParty: Transparency Year: JuniorMajor: History and political scienceCurrent SA position: None (On-campus resident adviser)

Maximillian Budynek considers himself an “outsider.”

Budynek, who has no prior Student Asso-ciation experience, said having a fresh per-spective in the SA office would ultimately help the organization.

He said being a resident adviser on cam-pus and interning under the mayor of his Brook Haven, New York hometown helped him get an understanding of how to be an effective president.

Budynek said he is basing his platform around transparency because it’s an important aspect for any government. He said with SA

controlling such a large budget – approximate-ly $4 million of student funds – he “wants people to know where the money goes.”

He would like to create an SA oversight committee and encourage The Spectrum to grade SA’s performance at the end of the semester, as he discovered the newspaper used to do back in 2006.

Budynek said he and his vice president Daniel Christian are running without a treasurer candidate intentionally. Budynek said, if elected, they want a treasurer who wouldn’t be quick to agree with their deci-sions and “will challenge [them].”

Budynek said, if elected, he hopes to leave a lasting legacy at UB that shows changes made while he’s in office.

“I hope that by the time I leave the uni-versity, the institutions or whatever changes I make to the university, they last,” Budynek said. “Students in the future, they see what the SA is doing, they understand what the SA does. I want them to know what’s going on.”

Vice President

Megan GlanderParty: ProgressYear: JuniorMajor: Political science and communicationCurrent SA position: Special Interest, Servic-es and Hobbies (SISH) Council coordinator

As the current SISH Council coordinator, Glander oversees approximately 60 clubs. Glander said serving as SISH coordinator has allowed her to prepare for a role as vice president of the Student Association.

“I cannot express how much I care about the clubs at UB,” Glander said. “I’m ex-tremely enthusiastic about helping clubs and helping UB students.”

Glander said her “biggest initiative” is to create online tutorials to teach clubs about their responsibilities. She said she would work closely with SA videographers in the entertainment department in order to achieve this goal.

Glander also looks to make the applica-tion process for becoming a temporary club status available online and encourage “con-sistency” by remodeling the track sheets for all of SA’s clubs.

Glander said she wants to make SA re-quirements more convenient for clubs while still fostering the community within the or-ganization. She plans to go about this by providing opportunities for SA participation credit every two weeks.

She wants to teach the coordinators what they need to do to improve communica-tion between the clubs before the summer. She also cited club orientation as one of her goals as vice president.

“I cannot stress how important it is to have an effective and efficient club orienta-tion and I’d like to work with my treasurer in order to make sure that happens,” Glan-der said.

Glander said improving SA’s social media presence will help encourage more students to join clubs. A large portion of the UB student population does not realize the power of com-munity and their role in SA, Glander said. She looks to increase student involvement in SA and make everyone feel comfortable.

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Daniel Christian Party: TransparencyYear: JuniorMajor: HistoryCurrent SA position: None (On-campus resident adviser, UB football intern)

Daniel Christian said his involvement with Student Association club UB Space Bulls, the Sub Board I, Inc. radio station WRUB and his current position as a UB football in-tern has taught him what a “shared experi-ence” can do for a student body.

And he said his last two years as a resident adviser, including in an international dorm, showed him the “unique challenges” many students face.

Despite the fact that he has limited SA club experience and has never held a posi-tion in SA, Christian said his on-campus ex-periences make him qualified for SA vice president.

“The Student Association is like an old grandfather clock,” Christian said. “You can think, ‘This clock is working just fine.’ But from where I’m standing outside the clock, I can see the face, I can see the time is wrong and that clock is broken.”

Christian, like his running mate, wants SA to be held accountable for its actions and said by doing this, students will no lon-ger identify SA as “crooks.” He said SA has for too long acted as a “shadow govern-ment” and he wants The Spectrum to grade it, whether it’s ‘A’s’ or ‘F’s’ on the newspaper’s front cover.

Christian said the biggest problem that SA staff has is that “no one tells them how to do their job” and he looks to fix that by outlining the job expectancies for all SA

club members.He would also like to cut down on costly

SA events with low attendance and instead allocate those funds directly to clubs.

He said he would assemble “experienced qualified candidates” to help him and Bu-dynek implement these changes.

One of the most essential parts of Chris-tian’s platform, according to him, is advo-cating for a more comprehensive universi-ty sexual assault policy. He looks to do so by lobbying for University Police to have an on-call sexual assault responder at all times.

“I have firsthand seen the way the univer-sity responds to these egregious acts and it is not acceptable,” Christian said.

He said it’s a cause that he will fight for, regardless if he becomes SA vice president or not.

Christian said he would like to inspire stu-dents to remember that SA can be an or-ganization that gives them “tremendous shared experience and joy.”

Treasurer

Dan EmmonsParty: Progress Year: JuniorMajor: Business administrationCurrent SA Position: Bookkeeper

Dan Emmons said he is not afraid of the Student Association’s $4 million budget and sees it as more than just a number, but rath-er a chance to make the university better.

Emmons describes himself as “calm un-der pressure and ready and able to tackle tough situations.”

He said he thinks SA needs to be more

consistent in its efforts as an organization for the students.

One of Emmons’ main issues is club roll-over. He wants to make it easier for clubs to receive their rollover budget from the se-mester or year before.

Another issue he would like to tackle is the handbook for clubs to make purchase orders. Clubs currently receive a handbook with a form to sign at the end that includes a “Fre-quently Asked Questions” section. He would like to move this section closer to the front of the handbook, as clubs often hand in the form with the FAQ still attached.

Emmons would also like to revamp club orientation. He describes the current club orientation process as “long, dry and drea-ry” and would like clubs to focus on their individual needs rather than going through everything during the process.

He also wants to push Sub Board I, Inc., which currently only accepts paper receipts, to accept some forms of digital receipts for clubs proving purchase.

Emmons emphasized that the finance de-partment is there to get clubs exactly what they need and said, if elected, he will do ev-erything in his power to make that happen.

“I also want to keep an open line of com-munication between myself, club coordi-nators and all clubs,” Emmons said. “I will keep an open door policy for the length of the school year.”

Carl RossParty: Empowerment (running alone)Year: Senior Major: Sociology Current SA position: Senator, Chinese Student Association treasurer

Carl Ross says his party of one is a par-ty for all.

Ross, running for treasurer on the one-man Empowerment Party after his two po-tential running mates backed out, wants to reestablish clubs as the lifeblood of the Stu-dent Association, something he said has been lost.

Ross said the current SA office is neither helpful nor welcoming to clubs, as he and other clubs have been “trashed on” when coming in to ask questions and are often told, “it’s in the finance handbook.”

Ross said that if elected treasurer, he would be proactive in assisting clubs, wheth-er that means pulling out the finance hand-book or taking the club to the Sub Board I, Inc. office himself to figure out why paper-work is delayed.

He also wants to reduce the fines levied on clubs based on their budgets, as there is currently one flat rate for fines. He would like the fine to be based on a percentage of the clubs’ SA-sponsored budget. He’d also like to make it easier for clubs to receive their rollover.

“[There are clubs that] want to be some of the best clubs here on campus but the prob-lem is at times they’re mired because they don’t have enough money, they have to keep running back to senate, they have to keep go-ing back to their coordinator,” Ross said.

Ross wants SA to better use its entertain-ment funds – proposing to forgo a second spring concert after this year’s sparsely at-tended MS MR show, and instead use the funds for a second Comedy Series act, as he said SA did before.

Ross, on his second undergraduate de-gree, has been with SA since his fellow can-didates were juniors in high school, previ-ously serving as international council coor-dinator in 2011-12. He’s said he was upset and it was hard for SA when former Trea-surer Sikander Khan tried to invest $300,000 into a fraudulent app company in 2012.

Ross said he sees his extensive experience and knowledge of the history of SA as a strength.

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Name: Aaron Hussain Party: Independent Year: Junior Major: Business administrationCurrent SA position: Treasurer for Stu-dents for Justice in Palestine

Aaron Hussain said he always hoped to be a voice for his community and that be-ing elected Student Association treasur-er would give him the opportunity to “be-come that voice.”

“I can bring change and I can bring pros-perity to the student government,” Hussain said. “My desire was always to serve my community, defend and foster my pride.”

Hussain said his current position as trea-surer for SA club Students for Justice in Palestine gives him the opportunity to build

stronger relationships with clubs like UB for Israel and the Black Student Union.

Hussain said he wants to continue but al-ter current Treasurer Joe Pace’s 3-3-3 roll-over program, which currently allows clubs that earn additional participation credits or hold additional club events and community service events to take 3 percent off the 50 percent of their budget they must raise to receive rollover.

Hussain wants to make a 4-4-4 program, which he said would give a two percent re-duction so there can be an overall 12 per-cent reduction in the budget.

“Clubs weren’t made to raise money,” Hussain said. “Clubs have been devel-oped here on campus to engage the student body.”

Hussain works in Buffalo City Hall as a Buffalo Urban Fellow in the resolution cen-ter and can propose some of his ideas at City Hall like increased bus times.

Hussain said he plans to develop a weekly packet for club events and to create a sug-gestion box specifically for the SA e-board to read what they can do to enrich the lives of students.

“It would truly be a government run by the students and not by a select few stu-dents,” Hussain said.

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Ross gave a passionate and wide-ranging talk about the issues in SA and revamping the organization. He wants clubs to have more money and overall bring more “fun to SA.”

But some of his answers, that gave us in-sight to what his potential spending habits would be, gave us pause.

Although he called himself “frugal,” Ross discussed getting more clubs more money through rollover and lessening fines for late penalties, adding more staff to SA and adding more activities. During a one-on-one interview, he began to say SA will always be financially stable no matter what, before catching himself and rephrasing.

He does not seem to have spoken much with SA higher-ups to make sure his chang-es are doable, only noting he’s talked to clubs who agree with him. His rollover and new system for fines also did not seem as fleshed out as they could have been.

Ross, who is on his second undergradu-ate degree at UB, has extensive knowledge and experience relating to SA, and he’d probably be a more than qualified and pas-sionate treasurer, but because of the afore-mentioned issues, we feel Emmons is the better pick.

Hussain is also a passionate candidate

who seems to genuinely want to make things better for clubs. We like his ideas for a weekly club events packet and a sugges-tion box solely for the e-board, but his ma-jor proposals, like a 4-4-4 rollover program, also seemed less than fleshed out.

We liked that he has taken steps to speak with current Treasurer Joe Pace on how SA finances work, but his only real SA expe-rience as treasurer of Student for Justice in Palestine may not be enough to prepare him for such an important role.

Also, his admission that he is indepen-dent because he learned of SA elections too late in the process to team up with an-other party is cause for concern. A candi-date should have prepared and thought hard about the position for a good amount of time, and his admission showed he may have rushed into the running, even if it was with good intentions.

We as an editorial board feel Emmons is the most responsible choice for SA trea-surer, based on his credentials, experiences, preparedness and realistic policy reforms. Although we did not feel confident enough to do the same for his running mates, Em-mons gets our endorsement to be the next SA treasurer.

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MARLEE TUSKESSENIOR NEWS EDITOR

Marlon Browar knows the reputation of University Heights landlords.

The neighborhood located right off South Campus has been plagued with absentee landlordism for years. UB students often live in unsafe houses with broken locks and black mold without things like working smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.

But Browar, a recent UB grad and land-

lord of more than a dozen properties in the Heights, sees potential in the neighborhood and the City of Buffalo in general. He said landlords who don’t care about their prop-erties are the ones who are dragging the Heights down.

“University Heights kind of gets a bad name and I think there’s a ton of potential in the Heights,” Browar said. “I think Buffa-lo in general, there’s a lot more opportuni-ty out there. You can really build up a busi-ness there.”

Browar started renting to UB students when he was still a student himself.

He first realized he could make a liv-ing out of real estate in the Buffalo area af-ter sitting down with his friends during his sophomore year.

Browar, who graduated from the universi-ty in 2013 with a degree in business manage-ment, had friends who lived in an apartment in Heights and was always curious about what they were paying for rent and what the property values of the houses were.

After checking what the houses in the Heights were going for, Browar – now a li-censed real estate broker – said he felt like he came across a business opportunity he couldn’t pass up.

After receiving a loan from his father,

Browar purchased some properties in the Heights while he was still a student himself, and has been leasing them to UB students ever since. He said he is currently leasing out more than a dozen properties in the area.

He said the properties in the Heights area don’t typically come up for sale and when they do they’re sold quickly, so often times he’ll hear about listings by word of mouth or referrals. He also said that since becom-ing a real estate broker, more people ap-proach him with properties.

Browar said convincing his father to help him with the business venture wasn’t hard, since his father also felt it was a great opportunity.

“When I told him originally what the houses were going for he didn’t really be-lieve me that properties were so low com-pared to New York City where one apart-ment costs a million dollars and compared to University Heights [the apartments are] a lot smaller,” Browar said.

Shannon Eaton has been renting through Browar since 2015. She said she and her two roommates were able to find Browar by a web search and found his Facebook page. The house, which is located on West Northrup Place, has three bedrooms – one for each girl.

“I don’t rent out bedrooms individually. I know some landlords do that,” Browar said. “I also don’t have anyone living in the attics or basements and stuff like that.”

Browar knows that if he split more areas of his houses up and rented out attics and basements, which is a fire hazard, like other landlords, it would bring in extra money. But he said it isn’t worth it to him to break the law and risk another person’s life.

Most of the homes Browar rents out are two or three bedrooms, and he said his ten-ants are “100 percent UB students.” Prior to renting the houses, Brower said he likes to

meet each potential tenant as well as perform credit checks on each person. Tenants are also required to take out renter’s insurance.

“We’re definitely careful who we lease to,” Browar said.

And while most tenants don’t cause an is-sue for him, Browar said he has not always had great experiences everyone he’s rented homes to.

“One night I was hanging out in my apart-ment in my roommate’s bedroom and he was reading The Spectrum and he starts read-ing out loud and goes, ‘Three kids busted in drug ring at 51 West Northrup,’” Browar said. “I wasn’t really listening and all of the sudden I go, ‘Wait a minute, I think that’s my house.’”

After going to the home, Browar realized the three tenants who lived there were sell-ing narcotics out of the home. He then had to go through the process of removing the tenants from the house before fixing the damages and releasing it.

He also said he had one instance of stu-dents turning off the heat before they went back home during winter break and he had to pay approximately $5,000 in damages af-ter the pipes burst and flooded the house.

Browar said whenever there is damage in a home he tries to fix it right away rather than leaving it for the tenants to deal with.

While his friends were staying in apart-ments in the Heights when they were stu-dents, Browar said their landlords would of-ten neglect taking care of issues, such as bro-ken windows or heating that wasn’t working.

Eaton said she and her roommates have had a couple problems while living in their apartment, but Browar had them quickly taken care of.

A real investmentUB alumnus Marlon Browar makes a living leasing houses to UB students

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For UB students, living on the less-inhab-ited South Campus has its pros and cons.

The university’s original campus, now small-er and less inhabited than its North Campus counterpart, is home to approximately 1,000 students – not counting the large group of students living in the neighborhood right off the campus, the University Heights.

While South Campus, located within City of Buffalo limits, provides students with more shops, restaurants and nightlife within walking distance, a better “student-to-bath-room ratio” and an overall more intimate dorm experience than the larger North Campus, it also has its hassles, like a bus commute to class, less on-campus food op-tions and high crime rates.

Michael Koziej, senior associate direc-tor for Campus Living and a UB graduate who lived on both North and South Cam-pus during his time as a student, said every student is going to find his or her own pros and cons to living on a certain campus. He said there are many similar services on each UB campus, including study centers, reno-vations and dining centers.

The area surrounding South is more crime-ridden than North Campus, which is located in Amherst. In 2012, there were more than 500 major reported crimes in the Heights, including homicides, assaults, rapes, larcenies, robberies, burglaries and ve-hicle thefts, compared to just 238 crimes in Amherst during the same year.

While Dan Ryan, director of UB Off-Campus Student Services, said safety is a concern in the Heights with issues like black mold in homes and an even higher rate of burglaries this year than years past, he also says students who dorm on the campus get “the best of both worlds.”

“They get safe quality housing and they get access to a movie theater and restaurants and easy access downtown,” Ryan said.

Some students feel the bussing system be-tween North and South Campuses is the biggest downside to living on South.

The vast majority of classes are held on North Campus. Only the School of Pub-lic Health, School of Pharmacy and School of Dental Medicine are located on South, as the medical school will officially move downtown in 2017.

President Satish Tripathi has proposed moving the School of Social Work and the Graduate School of Education to South.

This means students living on South with-out a car must rely on the Stampede bus to get them between North and South Campus – about a five-mile trip.

Joey Frederic, a freshman computer en-gineering major, said he has to wake up

at least two to three hours early to get to North Campus on time for class. He said people he knows who live on North Cam-pus can wake up an hour before class.

Kathryn Doherty also said the busses are the most difficult part about living on South.

Doherty, a freshman biochemistry major, said the bus schedule isn’t always accurate, especially if it’s raining or snowing. Some-times the busses are full when they arrive, which means she has to wait another 10 minutes for the next bus.

Yet even with the commute, both Doherty and Frederic said at times they like that they live away from where classes are held.

“I like to have a separation between work and home, so any work and classes I have I go to North Campus,” Doherty said. “This way there is a division between work and relaxation.”

Doherty said the food options for stu-dents on South Campus are another disad-

vantage to living there. She said there seems to be less options and the quality isn’t as good as places offered on North Campus.

“Anything we do have [for food places] closes really early or isn’t open every day, so it’s difficult sometimes to find food on South Camps,” Doherty said. “I think people are definitely limited to what our dining hall has to offer, especially people with food allergies or someone who is vegetarian or vegan.”

South Campus’s main dining center is lo-cated in Goodyear Hall, and the campus of-fers several other cafes.

The campus also offers more off-campus food options with in walking distance off campus than North Campus.

South Campus is located on Main Street, which is home to several restaurants and bars, as well as a grocery store and shops, includ-ing a comic book store. Doherty said “basi-cally anything you could think of is across the street.” The metro rail leading to down-town Buffalo is also located right on campus.

“You get to experience what that cultur-al life is like with only a few steps down the road, and you don’t get that with North Campus,” Koziej said.

Students feel living on South Campus also provides better nightlife options. Main Street is home to two popular college bars, The Steer and Surrender, and most student parties are located in houses in the Heights neighbor-hood, which has caused issues with residents.

When Mahmood Shilleh, a freshman me-chanical engineering major, learned he was assigned to dorm on South Campus, he said he was initially disappointed. But he said af-ter his first week on South he found advan-tages to living there, like being able to walk over to Clark Hall, South Campus’ gym, to play basketball with his friends.

The pros and cons of dorming on South Students enjoy access to nightlife, less crowded dorms, but dislike commute and limited food options

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Students living on South Campus are placed in either Clement Hall (pictured) or Goodyear Hall. South Campus, smaller and less inhabited than North Campus, has both its

advantages and disadvantages for students.

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The smaller community on South gives Frederic more opportunities to meet people from different age groups and cultures, he said. While North Campus is larger, he thinks it would be harder to establish connections with people living there. Approximately 6,600 students live on North Campus.

South Campus has two dorms – Good-year Hall and Clement Hall. North Cam-pus has two dorm complexes, Ellicott and Governors, which hold a total of 11 dorms. North Campus also has three on-campus apartment complexes and two apartment complexes for graduate students located on the edge of and directly off campus.

Koziej said one advantage students have living on South Campus is “the student-to-

bathroom ratio.” He said there are four peo-ple to one bathroom in South Campus halls, whereas the ratio is 12 people to one bath-room in the Ellicott Complex.

He also said students who live in a quad on South have one roommate, which he com-pared to Greiner Hall on North Campus.

Koziej said that most students think they have to live where their classes are, but he feels otherwise. Because of the layout of the buildings, Koziej said it’s very easy to make friends on South and said based on statis-tics, student satisfaction is greater on South Campus.

“I truly believe the South community is unmatched,” Koziej said.

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UB students living off campus will of-ten sign a lease to a new apartment and end up inhabiting unsafe living conditions. UB’s off-campus housing listing website looks to alleviate that problem.

The Off-Campus Student Services web-site provides students with a list of houses and apartments that have passed a munici-pal safety inspection in the last 36 months. The website provides students with a list of landlords that have successfully kept up-to-code on their properties. It also gives stu-dents a checklist of things they should look for prior to signing their lease.

Dan Ryan, director of Off-Campus Stu-dent Services, said students often end up making poor decisions about selecting housing based on a lack of experience.

“It’s sort of like buying a car,” Ryan said. “The first time you do it you make a deci-sion based on things that aren’t important and there ends up being things you over-look. It’s not uncommon when buying a car for people to pay too much attention to the sound system than miles per gallon.”

Ryan said students might not even realize when they are living in unsafe conditions.

Ryan and a group of City of Buffa-lo inspectors perform “housing blitzes”

twice a year, in which they check for hous-ing violations within the University Heights neighborhood, which has had issues with absentee landlordism and unsafe conditions.

Some landlords have yet to pass the housing inspections.

“It’s my understanding that the majority of houses owned by Jeremy Dunn have had some significant violations,” Ryan said.

Ryan said that he has discovered stu-dents living in attics with only one way to exit in Dunn’s apartments. He said he also witnessed situations in which windows or doors didn’t lock, buildup of black mold, missing smoke detectors and carbon mon-oxide detectors within his apartments.

The Spectrum reached out to City of Buffalo Inspector Lou Petrucci to confirm Dunn’s vi-olations, but he did not immediately respond.

Dunn owns roughly 24 properties on Winspear Avenue and Northrup Place with-in the University Heights neighborhood as of 2015, according to WGRZ.

None of Dunn’s properties have passed Ryan’s inspections.

Ryan said because the website only shows properties that have passed the inspection, there are currently no Dunn properties listed.

Dunn defends his landlord practices and homes.

“I have a full time staff that works on the houses and I think that we’ve taken a bunch

of run-down houses— and in a lot of cas-es foreclosed – and made them decent and we continue to improve our houses,” Dunn said. “The housing violations are only one component of what we do.”

Dunn said these violations have to do with students taking smoke and carbon monoxide detectors down during the school year.

He said it’s a “constant battle” to keep smoke detectors and carbon monoxide monitors intact all-year round. Some of his residents have taken batteries out of detec-tors and used them for devices such as re-mote controls, he said.

Dunn said Ryan has a “personal vendet-ta” against him, stemming from his refusal to provide Ryan with a list of his tenants.

“Dan Ryan should just chill,” Dunn said. However, Ryan said this isn’t the case,

and that he only asks for names of the ten-ants so he can confirm the stories he’s heard about their living conditions. He “just wants to make sure the houses are up to code.”

Other landlords within the Heights neigh-borhood have successfully passed inspec-tions and are therefore listed on the website.

Ryan cited Andy Sauer as one of the land-

lords who have complied with housing codes.Saur has worked closely with Ryan and

his team and invested money to make sure his houses are up to code, accord-ing to Ryan. Sauer owns properties on En-glewood Avenue and Northrup Place. Landlord Tom Ingalls, who owns houses on Lasalle Avenue, has also been compliant with the codes, according to Ryan.

The website also advises that students re-search the amount of crime on crimesreports.com in a neighborhood prior to moving in.

“We’ve had an awful lot of students who were burglarized who had problems with crimes,” Ryan said. “Install[ing] security sys-tems was just one way where they were bet-ter prepared.”

Ryan said students should also document the condition of the place before moving in so stu-dents can show problems that preexisted.

Sub-Board I, Inc. (SBI) also has a website that indicates off-campus property listings. However, the website includes houses that have not been inspected.

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have passed the municipal safety inspection.

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No one wants to look like the party poop-er and bang on your neighbor’s door ask-ing them to stop partying – but sometimes enough is enough.

For Valentina Valentine, hearing loud screaming and partying into the wee hours of the morning got old quick, especially with morning classes. The typical “college life-style” usually involves some loud moments, but sometimes roommates are just so bad it’s beyond the tolerance of most tenants.

Valentine, a junior health and human sci-ences and sociology major, has had many terrible experiences with inconsiderate hall-mates in Clement Hall.

College students might be able to pick their own roommates, but when it comes to their next-door neighbors, there’s little to be done. Among the perennial plagues of dorms, apartments and off-campus commu-nities, the noisy neighbor is one of the worst.

Between neighbors “screaming at 2 a.m.,” loudly slamming doors and cramming 18 peo-ple into a single room for dorm parties last-ing until early morning, Valentine was regularly kept awake with classes early the next morning.

Approaching the neighbors about the is-sue was unprofitable, as was stating griev-ances to the resident adviser (RA).

“They laugh it off. You complain to [a] RA and they still disturb people,” Valentine said.

Brianna Satter, a senior biology major, struggled with her neighbors over the past two semesters living in the South Lake Vil-lage Apartment Complex.

The group of students on the floor above

her would regularly bounce basketballs in-doors and play video games and rap music at “unbelievably loud” volumes during all hours of the day.

“I couldn’t even cover it up with my own speakers,” Satter said. “They were having a rap battle. It sounded like the apocalypse had begun up there.”

Confronting the neighbors about it di-rectly yielded no change.

After numerous requests to be consid-erate and three petitions for help from the community assistants, the conflict finally was resolved during finals week.

Satter was disappointed by the university’s response to the issue.

“UB seems to have a huge hands-off pol-icy until they have to step in,” she said. “I would have appreciated any sort of interven-tion beyond sending someone to tell them to stop. They ask you if you have tried talking to them when you call the Community Building, but how many times do I have to do that be-fore we get some real intervention?”

According to the 2015 Guide to Cam-pus Living, 24-hour quiet hours are in ef-fect during finals week and violations can be punished by “immediate suspension from the residence halls.” It also states “courte-sy hours” are always in effect, meaning that requests to discontinue noisy behaviors should always be honored.

UB Judicial Affairs offers mediation ser-vices located at the Center for Resolution and Justice. The Judicial Affairs website lists noise complaints among the issues students can bring to mediation sessions that include facilitated communication and brainstorm-ing between conflicting parties.

Living off-campus doesn’t provide respite from the curse of inconsiderate neighbors. While many students move off-campus seek-ing privacy, personal space and freedom from disruptions, the situation is often no better.

Ali Alsaqqa, a physics graduate stu-dent who lives on Springfield Avenue, said, “noise coming from parties was simply too often [not] to be mentioned.”

Additionally, he said his neighbors refused to take care of their garbage and often used Alsaqqa’s own garbage can for their trash.

The university encourages students and organizations hosting off-campus parties to use the Party Registration System. Ac-cording to the Off-Campus Student Servic-es website, registered parties are notified of noise complaints by the Buffalo Police and receive a “20-minute grace period” in which to break up the party.

The university also offers a “landlord re-port” where students can submit complaints about such issues as housing problems and loud neighbors.

Further noise complaints can result in the host receiving a noise violation fine and a referral to the university’s judicial process.

The website states that unauthorized par-ties receive no such notice and are treated with “zero tolerance” by the city.

Alsaqqa’s lack of success confronting the neighbors reflects the too-common theme of other tenants’ refusal to comply with noise complaints.

*Harry Zachariah, a senior at UB, is one of the people who would get noise complaints often.

Living in off-campus apartments, Zachari-ah and his friends would often play musical instruments in the common space of their apartment. The neighbors frequently found this disruptive and would often “bang on the walls really loud” when they played.

“If they knocked, we would usually qui-et down or stop,” Zachariah said. “One time when we were jamming I remember hearing a loud noise outside my door, but I didn’t re-ally think that much of it [until] later. When we opened the door later that night, we saw two or three eggs splattered across it.”

Zachariah said he questioned the neigh-bors about the incident shortly after, but was rudely dismissed.

The blight of the boisterous neighbor

COURTESY OF FLICKR USER RICH RENOMERONNoisy neighbors can completely ruin a peaceful home environment. The last thing anyone

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Falguni Bharadwha, a first-year comput-er science masters student, walked into her new home on South Campus last semes-ter with her housemates and was met with a completely empty space.

It was then they knew that they had to turn that house into a home.

“We literally had to buy everything,” Bha-radwha said. “We ordered a lot of stuff online from Amazon. We got the clos-et on Amazon [and] my study table is from IKEA. My cousins live around Ohio so they bought it and sent it to me.”

IKEA is well known for having cheap furniture that’s relatively easy to put togeth-er – minus the inevitable instance of a be-ginner homeowner putting together a new coffee table and losing a screw that keeps the coffee from sliding off the table.

But sometimes all students need for fur-niture is a graduating senior.

“We got some stuff from seniors who were moving out and were OK with get-ting rid of their bulkier possessions,” Bha-radwha said.

Graduating seniors can be a convenient source for furniture, as they’re often trying to get rid it since they probably won’t want to lug their bureau hundreds of miles across the state on the hood of their car.

Sometimes when students can’t find any-one to take the furniture off of their hands they end up donating their furniture to the Salvation Army. Students might consider going to the Salvation Army if they are in search of cheap furniture.

“I’ve never gotten anything from the Sal-vation Army but some of my friends have and they have good things to say about it,” Bharadwha said.

When looking for furniture, sanitary op-

tions are always highly recommended.Joel Nassi, senior biological science ma-

jor with a minor in management, was lucky enough to move into a house that was al-ready furnished by the previous tenants his junior year.

When he and his housemates moved to their new home they just took the furniture with them.

“I think going to the Salvation Army is definitely a good idea for students looking to get something decent for a good price,” Nassi said. “I think you just got to take a close look at what you get. A friend of mine got like a futon from there and it smelled pretty bad so they got rid of it pretty soon.”

Nassi said that its important to make sure that the used furniture you get is clean.

He recommended that students check out some of the garage sales and yard sales that happen around Chestnut Ridge Road when the weather gets warmer. He said that he and his friends were able to find a few more chairs that way for a relatively cheap price.

“I bought a pretty new mattress off of someone who was living there already,” Nassi said. “It was only used for a year and the guy, one of my friends, is pretty hygien-ic so I took it.”

Cynthia Burhans, a senior health and hu-man services major, also agreed with Nas-si that sharing furniture among hygienic stu-dents isn’t a bad idea.

“As far as wooden material or like a kitch-en table, I would totally buy that from the Salvation Army. But as far as a sofa I would be a little nervous because of things like bed bugs and bacteria that can travel from house to house,” Burhans said. “I wouldn’t neces-sarily want to get my mattress from Salva-tion Army but I would get chairs and desk or something.”

Burhans and her roommates split furnish-ing responsibilities among each other. Ev-eryone was in charge of furnishing their

own bedrooms and then one person would be in charge of the living room, bathroom, kitchen and other rooms.

“I was responsible for the kitchen and I chose to go to IKEA,” Burhans said. “Un-fortunately the closest one is in Canada so I had to order all my stuff online and have it shipped.”

Although Burhans went to IKEA she thought that students should check out places like American Freight located on Ni-agara Falls Boulevard in Tonawanda.

“They have entire five-piece bedroom sets, including a work desk, mattress and ev-erything for like $700,” Burhans said. “It’s not necessarily the best furniture but it will definitely last you four years in college. It’s good temporary furniture.”

Bharadwha, Nassi and Burhans all agreed that college students who live off-campus shouldn’t spend so much money on fur-niture because they are only in college for four years and most of the time they’ll end up getting get rid of it anyway when they move out or graduate.

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She said at one point the washing ma-chine stopped draining water and another time the fireplace wouldn’t turn on but Bro-war sent someone to fix these issues within a few days.

Eaton, who graduated from UB in May with a degree in exercise science, pays $500 a month in rent, which covers “just water and trash.” Eaton said she and her room-mates pay for electric, Internet and gas. If they wanted cable they would have to pay for that as well.

Browar said he determines the cost of rent on the location and size of the house as well as the finishes inside the house. Typ-ically, he said, rent ranges between $350-500 a month.

Tenants must also abide by certain rules

while living in the homes. Pets are not typi-cally allowed in the homes, barbeque equip-ment cannot be on the patios and tenants in a fraternity or sorority are not allowed to have parties at the house.

Browar said although he does not ask any-one up front if they are involved in Greek life, he said it’s obvious if the students living in the houses throw parties. He said some-thing like having cups in the basement is a sign that the tenants had a party.

Browar is focused on overseeing his pro-prieties and improving the reputation of landlords in the Heights. He understands his student tenants’ needs – after all, he was once a student and landlord at the same time.

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Ryan said other websites that provide housing listings place the value of adver-tising revenue ahead of student safety.

Darnell Lubin, a freshman biology ma-jor, said having a website to assist students in choosing off-campus housing is a good way to relieve students of the stress of searching.

“College students already have enough to stress about [like] work, studying, so I think making it easier to not have the stress of if our apartments have carbon monoxide detectors or fire detectors or simple things like mold building up,” Lu-bin said. “I think it’s a great idea.”

Ryan said for the most part the landlords in the Heights neighborhood have chosen not to go through the inspection process and

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roughly two weeks ago, where students were able to learn about selecting off-cam-pus housing.

City of Buffalo inspectors and police were present at the fair. SBI Legal also worked with students by reviewing their leases.

Two landlords from the Heights neigh-borhood were invited to the fair. Land-lords from the Cheektowaga-Buffalo area, Collegiate Village and Sweet Home Road were also present.

The next housing blitzes will take place in the first or second week of April, ac-cording to Ryan.

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“Like, I understand that we got loud once in a while but it wasn’t during late hours. Plus they would throw big par-ties every weekend where you could feel the bass through the walls. It’s ridiculous,” Zachariah said. “If they had been adults and asked us to quiet down in person, we would have cooperated. But they were very immature about it.”

While a desire for peace and quiet is one of the forces driving students off campus,

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For Valentine, noise levels alone make it not worth it to live on campus.

“It’s not worth spending $7,000 a year to live in noise,” she said.

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MICHAEL AKELSONASST. SPORTS EDITOR

Most freshmen student-athletes at UB en-ter their names into a lottery to determine where they will live on campus.

That hasn’t been the case for Buffalo fresh-men wrestlers. They know where they will live months before stepping onto UB’s campus.

Most wrestlers spend their first year living in the heart of Governors Hall, at the request of head coach John Stutzman. According to Stutzman, it’s been a tradition since he was a wrestler at UB in the mid-1990s.

For the most part, it’s been a success.Stutzman feels placing his young athletes

in an environment where they can be sur-rounded by studious students pays off both on and off the mat.

“When you’re around people who are goal-oriented, then you become goal-oriented,” Stutzman said. “When you’re around a bunch of kids who are really serious about their goals, serious about their academics, then hopefully that rubs off on some of our guys.”

Kelly Cruttenden, associate athletic director for compliance, said UB Athletics holds some housing slots for incoming freshmen and transfer athletes that want to live on campus.

The two main housing complexes for freshmen on UB’s North Campus are the Ellicott Complex and Governors Hall. Ell-icott is the main hub for UB freshmen with up-to-date rooms, grab-and-go food op-tions and a state-of-the-art dining facility that opened in 2012.

Ellicott also has a much larger capacity for student housing compared to Governors.

So why would Stutzman want his team living in Governors?

“It really kept us out of trouble,” said freshman Jake Gunning. “Whenever we’d go to Ellicott there would always be some-thing going on, people always doing some-thing. It kept us on top of our grades too. When you see people doing homework all the time, you’re just like, you know what, I’m gonna do my homework too.”

Gunning, the Mid-American Conference heavyweight runner-up, lived in Governors last year during his first year of school at UB. Gunning redshirted last season and is now a sophomore academically. Although

he said at first it was a little overwhelming how quiet and different from Ellicott Gov-ernors was, he feels that it ultimately bene-fited both him and his teammates.

The Governors tradition appears to pay off academically for the Bulls, who accumu-lated a GPA of 2.877 as a team last school year. It was their ninth consecutive semester with a team GPA higher than 2.60.

Additionally, living in Governors as op-posed to Ellicott gives Stutzman a chance to keep all his wrestlers together in a con-centrated location, as opposed to scattered

throughout the huge Ellicott Complex that consists of six separate dorm buildings.

“We make sure we keep all our freshman living together,” Stutzman said. “We have a couple who lived off campus this year, but for the most part they got to stay together, they got to grow together, and they got to make it together.”

Gunning also agrees that living in Gov-ernors helped form a unique bond between him and his teammates. He now lives in a house with most of the teammates he lived in Governors with last year.

“We went through the grind together,” Gunning said. “We’ve seen each other be down, we’ve seen each other be up. We’ve all had crossroads, and speed bumps we’ve had to overcome, and just being around each oth-er really helps overcome those speed bumps, so it was a good as a teammate standpoint.”

Following their freshman year, Stutzman lets his wrestlers choose where they want to live, but only with his “blessing.” He doesn’t let his wrestlers join fraternities or work at bars.

“When these guys move off campus, I make sure they’re with good people,” Stutzman said. “People who will help them achieve their goals.”

Overall, Gunning calls living in Gover-nors his freshman year a “good experience.” He lived with freshman Kyle Akins, another young star wrestler on the team. Gunning said it was important he lived with someone who has the same aspirations about wrestling.

“It’s good being around guys who have the same goals as you, and guys who want to work as hard as you,” Gunning said. “It’s good for competition, always try to make each other better.”

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Teammates on the mat and in the dorm Stutzman continues tradition of freshmen wrestlers

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ANGELA BARCA, THE SPECTRUMTwo UB wrestlers work on grappling during a practice in 2016. The freshman of the UB wrestling team live together in Governors Hall during their first year on campus.

QUENTIN HAYNES SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

Last week may have been the best week in UB Athletics history.

Of course the men and women’s basket-ball teams won Mid-American Conference titles and made NCAA Tournament appear-ances. Three members of the wrestling team went to New York City to participate in the NCAA Championships, sure. Senior swim-mer Megan Burns made her national tourna-ment and track and field alumnus Jon Jones was on display on the world circuit for shot-put as well.

We all know. But many Bulls fans may not know that

another Buffalo team claimed a champion-ship last week.

The men’s ice hockey team defeated Penn State 4-2 this past Sunday to win its first-ev-er National Collegiate Hockey Association Championship.

“[It’s] real emotional,” said senior cen-ter Zach LaMacchia after the championship win. “It was one of the happier moments of my hockey career.”

While the team continues to celebrate the championship, the goal is to make last Sun-day the start of something huge, rather than one singular moment. Buffalo coach Edd Kirchberger said he hopes he can “continue the run of success,” despite losing a hand-ful of important seniors, including LaMac-chia and Matt Cohen, both centers.

While the underclassmen continue to cel-ebrate, it’s the seniors who truly enjoy the moment they worked four years for. It was a moment that the seniors, the first-ever class for the program, would never forget.

“As a part of the original crew that put this team together four years ago, it was overwhelm-ing, seeing everyone jumping off the bench and throwing gloves into the air,” LaMacchia said.

The team, which is the Division-III com-ponent of Student Association’s men’s hock-ey club, was created just four seasons ago and already experienced a fair share of heartbreak. Three years ago, the Bulls made their first-ev-er national tournament, only to lose in the first round. Last season, as favorites, Buffalo lost in the final 15 seconds to Pittsburgh – ending their chance at a national championship.

LaMacchia, who was one of the original members of the team and assisted in putting the club together, said the scene as the final seconds ticked off the clock was emotional as the Bulls were officially announced as champions.

LaMacchia was the captain for the 2015-16 team and finished with 13 points, good for third on the team. In the playoffs, LaMacchia finished with two points. He said the team “made the right sacrifices and played hard,” allowing the Bulls to take a step forward as opposed to the previous seasons.

In his first season Kirchberger wanted to make sure his team could practice without the normal interruptions of school and work, so he set his practices for early in the morning – 5:30 a.m. to be exact. He said the reason he placed his practices early in the season was because “there was no reason for players to miss it.”

And to his – and the team’s – credit, no one did.

“Our practices are early because every-one’s school and work schedule and there wasn’t a reason people couldn’t make prac-tice,” Kirchberger said. “I give them credit. Some of them got up and came to practice with no excuses. Some stayed up the night before working on a paper, or studying for a test, but they never let it affect their play.”

One player that didn’t let the early practice time affect him was Cohen. Cohen, who fin-ished with one point in the postseason and four points in the regular season, called the championship victory “a long time coming.”

After years of coming up short as a member of the Bulls, Cohen was instrumental in Buffa-lo’s victory last Sunday, providing an assist, a key block on one of Penn State’s many scoring op-portunities and perfect play on the penalty kill with junior right winger John Danovskis.

Cohen, who committed 19 years to the sport of hockey and perfecting his skills, said that he’s happy to finally have some-thing to show that his hard work paid off.

“It starts early in the morning, you have to wake up and do that,” Cohen said. “We

play games on Friday at 7 p.m. Not a lot of people on campus are willing to give up the social life. It’s really nice to see it all come to fruition and it all finally be worth it. Play-ing this game for 19 years. My entire life, I’ve been giving up proms and spring breaks and it’s just nice to have it all finally be worth it.”

One player return is sophomore goalie Da-vid Nowak. Nowak finished the regular season with 3-1-1 record in goal and just allowed eight goals on the season and scored two points of his own in 238 minutes of action. In the play-offs, Nowak went 4-1 and held Penn State to two goals and claimed tournament MVP.

Nowak, who will man the net next season, said he thinks the Bulls can do great things.

“We can do a ton of things, and we weren’t the top hockey team in the division,” Nowak said. “I think we can build the pro-gram up, continue to put together a great run of success, then maybe we can take it to the next level. It would be nice to become a NCAA program. Buffalo has the resourc-es, and it would be great to be the team that started that program here at the university.”

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COURTESY OF UB MEN’S ICE HOCKEY The D-III men’s hockey team celebrate a 4-2 victory over Penn State this past Sunday. The Bulls brought home their first-ever NCHA Championship this past weekend.