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HANNAH STEINASST. NEWS EDITOR

Tom Toles described his creative process as “working inside of a razor machine.” He said it’s like labor and it’s “a tricky recipe to pull off.” Even with this diffi cult process, Toles fi nds it to be rewarding and that it is a “good match” for him.

Toles, a Pulitzer Prize-winning political car-toonist and Spectrum alumnus, came to UB Thursday as the honored guest in UB’s fourth annual Signature Series. He held a gallery pre-sentation of his work in Capen Hall Thursday afternoon and held what he called an “infor-mal discussion,” called “Talking Toles,” in Slee Hall Thursday night, in which he touched on his cartoons, career and political commentary.

The cartoons showcased in the Kaveesh-war Gallery in Capen Hall showcased his work from his time as a student at The Spec-

trum to his currentcartoons at The Washing-ton Post. The prints of Toles’ cartoons were produced on campus primarily by printmak-ing students in the Department of Art.

When Toles experienced “a painful end-ing” with the conclusion of his career at the Buffalo Courier-Express, he thought his ca-reer was over.

Toles said he’s always been an “odd duck” and a “bit of an eccentric” when it comes to his political cartoons, but little did he realize he would move on to become the editorial cartoonist of The Buffalo News and later The Washington Post.

Toles shared his “fi ve secrets” of edito-rial cartooning. He said fi rst secret is about learning how to draw, to which he showed a stick fi gure of his on the screen.

Tom Toles, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist and UB alum, comes to UB

KENNETH KASHIF THOMASSENIOR ARTS EDITOR

Just three days after Bernie Sanders held a rally that packed thousands of people into Alumni Arena, Ted Cruz held a small-er, more intimate town hall discussion with MSNBC in the Katharine Cornell Theatre in the Ellicott Complex Thursday.

The theater, which held approximately 300 students and residents from around the area, was covered in American-themed de-cor and the MSNBC name as Cruz spoke on a range of topics from abortion and contraceptives, to border issues and im-migration. Cruz, a Republican presiden-tial candidate and Texas senator, also took questions from the audience addressing his policies, past comments and his place in the current presidential election.

“Ted Cruz is a very polished speaker,” said Peter Yacobusci, a Buffalo resident. “I don’t think that anything he said will reach any voters, not in his base. With his most-ly evangelical voter base, his pro-life stance works well, but most of Americans and the country is pro-choice or moderately so.”

MSNBC reporter Chuck Todd asked Cruz about his stance against abortion and contra-ceptives. Cruz put a religious context on the question by questioning the stance the Dem-ocratic Party has taken on the subject.

“One of the saddest things we’ve seen is the retreat of the Democratic Party from re-ligious liberty,” Cruz said. “Hillary Clinton’s views on abortion are radical and extreme.”

Audience members asked Cruz questions in between Cruz’s segments with Todd.

When the audience asked Cruz about the representation of moderate Republicans, who are fi scally conservative but socially liberal, he responded with analysis of politi-cal corruption and career politicians.

“Most people that run for offi ce believe in something, they want to make a change,” Cruz said. “The thing is Washington is so corrupt and it corrupts incrementally.”

Cruz would use this opportunity to equate politicians looking for re-election to the “Godfather” movie series.

“After every movie Corleone becomes more corrupt and everyone dies at the end of the end of these movies, it’s like politi-cians looking to get re-elected,” Cruz said.

Todd then played a clip of Cruz calling Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar on the Senate fl oor. Cruz said people’s reactions to his statement were unexpected.

“They weren’t upset somebody lied. They were upset somebody said it out loud,” Cruz said.

Cruz also addressed his “New York values” comment, which caused a bit of controversy, particularly among New York City residents, back in January. Cruz said the values of up-state New York are tremendous and that he was referring to liberal politicians.

Ted Cruz takes questions at intimate UB town hall

Republican presidential candidate talks conservative values at Katharine Cornell Theatre

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom Toles speaks to the audience in Slee Hall. Toles, a UB and Spectrum alumnus, visited UB Thursday as part of UB’s fourth annual Signature Series.

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Ted Cruz speaks during a town hall discussion with MSNBC in the Katharine Cornell Theatre

in the Ellicott Complex Thursday.

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EVAN SCHNEIDERNEWS EDITOR

Alex Sityar said a person’s voice is a lot louder when it’s not behind a computer screen.

That’s why Sityar, a senior clinical psy-chology major, and other community members are planning to protest Donald Trump’s visit to Buffalo.

“I think someone’s voice is a lot loud-er when they stand up from behind their computer screen and go to an event like this,” Sityar said.

Trump, the frontrunner for the Repub-lican Party nomination for president, is holding a rally at the First Niagara Center in downtown Buffalo Monday. Trump has caused controversy with his comments on topics like immigrants, Islam and abortion throughout his campaign, which has lead some Buffalo residents, including some UB students, to plan protests.

Sityar attended a peaceful march start-ed at Bidwell Park in Buffalo Sunday that was organized by a small group of people not tied to any anti-Trump organization.

One of the group’s organizers, Ben Caldwell, said that the protest is a proac-tive one and isn’t a response to anything other than Trump’s arrival in Buffalo.

Due to the aggressive nature of previous Trump rallies and protests, the Buffalo Po-lice and the Secret Service will be allotting a safe protest area away from the lines at the First Niagara Center to try to keep any dis-orderly protesters or supporters away from each other, according to Caldwell.

“I don’t believe that today we are go-ing to encounter any counter protests, I’m confi dent today it will be friend-ly,” Caldwell said Sunday. “We also have peacekeepers that have been trained in de-escalation tactics.”

Caldwell also said that while the group is not attached to any larger organiza-tions, the Western New York Peace Cen-ter helped oversee the events.

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MEET THE CANDIDATESA breakdown of UB Council

student representative candidates on

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Name: Mikael Holcombe-ScaliYear: JuniorMajor: Management

Mikael Holcombe-Scali, founder of the UB’s Pi Kappa Phi fraternity chapter, said the most essential part of his platform is to unite the comprehensive student body.

“For the recent [Student Association] election, only 6 percent of the undergrads came out to vote,” Holcombe-Scali said. “I expect to get at least 20 percent of the en-tire student body to come out to vote for this election.”

He said the diversity on UB’s campus is large but completely “undervalued” and “under-represented.” Holcombe-Scali said his candi-dacy is based primarily on getting through to the diverse student population. He wants to get a feel of students’ dreams and hopes in terms of UB’s campus and assess how he can help students mobilize their ideas. He looks to achieve this by bringing together the presi-dents of SA clubs, organizations, sports teams and Greek Life among others.

Holcombe-Scali said he hopes to give members of these organizations a chance to voice their concerns in order to foster “pos-itive change” and looks to bring the voices of cultural clubs and organizations to the forefront through conferences, which he said will take place at least twice a month for a maximum of two hours.

Holcombe-Scali said founding the chap-ter of Pi Kappa Phi and bringing it to UB’s campus taught him about a range of issues

including “developing a brand, living by that brand, creating culture, leading people by that culture and sticking to those values.”

He said the values that he has acquired in-clude being a gentleman, honor and diversity.

Holcombe-Scali said he was motivated to run for UB Council Student Representative by Pam Stephens-Jackson, who informed him about the position when he was trying to establish his fraternity. He said Stephens-Jackson remains a close mentor.

Name: James CorraYear: JuniorMajor: Economics and history

James Corra said during his time at UB he’s had a lot of experiences that have al-lowed him to gain a perspective on what the ideal student experience is.

Corra, the current SA Assembly Speaker, has also previously worked as an orientation leader, student admissions recruiter for the Offi ce of Admissions and various on-cam-pus departments as a student assistant. He said these experiences have allowed him to develop the qualities of someone who will succeed in the position of UB Council stu-dent representative.

Corra’s main goal is to “share the student perspective.”

“I don’t believe this is a position where I can share my own goals, or my own plat-form. I believe this is a position where I can really share what the students want,” he said. “I’m here advocating for 30,000 students as UB Council Representative and my goal with that is to really share the student voice.”

Corra said he views the position as him “holding the microphone up” for the student population. He said he looks to hold monthly open advocacy forums in the Student Union Theater and Harriman Hall, located on South Campus. He said these meetings will be open to all students and would give them the op-portunity to discuss issues that are impor-tant to them, including concerns within their clubs or organizations and personal issues.

He said he also looks to attend various meetings of SA clubs and organizations so that he would gain a more comprehensive perspective. Corra said he looks to continue to push the university’s WiFi Boost project and to ensure the rapid completion of the UB Heart of the Campus project.

“[The third fl oor of] Capen library I think it very essential to students and they’d like to reclaim this space, so advocating for rap-id development there is very important to me as well,” Corra said.

Corra said he would also like to contin-ue to advocate for the increase of the ath-letics fee. He said splitting the UB Athletics and recreation fee is an essential part of his platform. He looks to ascertain whether or not students are looking for an increase in the Athletics fee and address this with UB Council. He also looks to increase commu-nication within the student government.

“I think that I’m the best candidate for this position because of my experience in student advocacy as well as my understand-ing of what the council representative po-sition truly is,” Corra said. “My opponents are all sharing different pieces of their plat-forms that are all made in good faith, but many of them are not things that in the pur-view of the council representatives that can be effectively implemented next year.”

MEET THE CANDIDATESA breakdown of UB Council student representative candidates

Protests against Trump are expected to d raw hundreds of protestors from a re-gion that typically supports Democrat-ic candidates, according to Victoria Ross, executive director of the Western New York Peace Center.

“Protestors will be wearing sky blue so they can connect with each other and peace keepers will be wearing yellow,” Ross said. “We are also trying to locate a sound system.”

Ross also emphasized that the Western New York Peace Center is a non-partisan organization and that they will help sup-port any candidate that is willing to stand out for unity and solidarity rather than “racism, Islamophobia and hate.”

“We’re standing up for principle,” Ross said.

Sityar said he believes this is a great op-portunity for students to not only voice their opinions but also listen to what oth-ers say, including Trump supporters.

“Being at a rally or protest like this makes the effort more visible,” Sityar said.

According to Trump’s local spokesper-son, Michael R. Caputo, Trump is expect-ed to speak between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. but attendees is encouraged to arrive at least three hours prior as entry will be granted on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served basis.

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TOM DINKIEDITOR IN CHIEF

Last Tuesday was the day a lot of UB fans, alumni and perhaps even some student-athletes have been waiting for for nearly three years – the day UB’s sports teams would once again prominently feature the word “Buffalo” and not “New York.”

UB’s university-wide branding initiative brought about the end of the “New York Bulls Initiative” and all of those “State University of New York Buffalo” wordmarks you’ve seen on more and more UB Athletics’ facilities and apparel the past three years. A new “Buffalo” wordmark and a bull logo have al-ready started to be implement ed.

It’s a move that many were clamoring for ever since former Athletic Director Danny White in-troduced the “New York Bulls Ini-tiative,” or NYBI, back in 2013. And it’s a move that once and for all ends any debate if moving away from the “Buffalo” identity and more emphasizing UB’s place as a public university in the state of New York was the right move.

Clearly it wasn’t. Offi cials wouldn’t be going back on the en-tire initiative three years after it be-gan if it was.

The majority of alumni – you know, the people UB needs to show up to games and donate money – felt alienated by NYBI. They didn’t re-member going to “New York,” they remember going to “Buffalo” or “UB.” UB Athletics needs to build a tradition as it moves through the de-cades of its Division-I history. Essen-tially changing the name of the team

was never the way to do that. And if anything, the shift away

from “Buffalo” offended the real core fan base UB Athletics needs to reach: Buffalo residents.

UB Athletics needs the support of more than just the campus to thrive – it needs the city of Buffa-lo. Those stadiums and arenas will look a lot fuller when UB proves it can provide a competitive bas-ketball team to a city without the NBA, and fi ll the college football appetite of an NFL city.

While yes, community members will show up to see a winning team regardless if it’s jerseys say “New York” or “Buffalo,” putting em-phasis away from the city is not a good way to start building that bond. Buffalonians are proud peo-ple, and with the revitalization of downtown and the One Buffalo movement, UB Athletics’ decision to distance itself from the city in 2013 was terrible timing.

Full disclosure, I’m a Buffalo kid. I have the same sense of pride for the city that a lot of people do. I’m com-ing to resent the fact that after grad-uation I’ll likely never be able to live my adult life in the city I grew up in.

But I’ve tried my best to leave my Buffalo bias out of my opin-ion of the “New York” wordmark. But even looking completely ob-jectively, the initiative never made sense for more reasons than just its slight to Buffalo.

The “State University of New York Buffalo” left too many logos and no brand recognition. There was the “New York” wordmark, the interlocking UB logo and the charging Bull logo, you could refer-ence the Bulls as “Buffalo,” “UB,” or “New York” – it was never clear.

As someone who attended a few Bulls’ road games the past two years, I can attest no opposing school was referencing the Bulls as “New York.”

New York City is its own beast – people associate the word “New York” with the city. It’s just the way

it is. A campus located in Buffalo was never going be referenced as New York’s team. I understand the idea, but what works for the Florida’s and Texas’s of the world is never going to work for the state of New York.

It’s shame the men’s basketball participated in the NCAA Tourna-ment the past two seasons with a “New York” logo that now no lon-ger exists. If Buffalo returns to the Big Dance this upcoming season, it’s likely some people will have no idea it’s the same team that made it out of the Mid-American Confer-ence the previous two seasons.

Also, there’s little guarantee the Bulls will get to back to the nation-al spotlight to show off those new “Buffalo” jerseys, anytime soon. Sports are far from predictable.

Current Athletic Director Allen Greene said that White was still in Buffalo when the initial rebranding discussions were happening. Yet something tells me the switch back to Buffalo was never going to ful-ly happen with everyone on board until White was gone. He left for the AD job at the University of Central Florida in November.

NYBI will be White’s lasting legacy at UB. Say what you will about fundraising efforts and Bob-by Hurley, but people are going to remember White as the guy who took Buffalo off the logo and jer-seys. A guy that didn’t fully under-stand the athletic department or the city it inhabited.

It’s not necessarily fair, but it’s the reality.

While White will be the scape-goat for NYBI in the minds of most fans who hated the move-ment, the university as a whole de-serves some of the blame as well for simply allowing it to happen.

These kinds of large-scale proj-ects, like UB’s branding initiative, don’t happen overnight. They are years in making. So why would the university allow White to create and implement a brand when it knew it would soon be starting a universi-

ty-wide branding that would com-pletely wipe it out anyway?

That’s shortsightedness. Greene said the major “New

York” branding of the past three years cost UB Athletics little ex-tra money. He said things like jer-seys, fi elds and courts need be re-done every few years anyway, so the New York branding simply fi t into the budget.

That could be true, but it’s some-thing students and taxpayers should at least be a bit skeptical of. NYBI was major rebranding – think about all the different way the “New York” wordmark has been incorporated into everything UB Athletics, from the new UB Stadium fi eld turf all the way to the Alumni Arena wall-paper of student-athletes all wearing jerseys that say “New York.”

The process to do all that and now undo it all can’t come too cheap.

I encourage the university and UB Athletics to make public how much money went into NYBI re-branding and how much it will cost to undo it all to implement the new “Buffalo” brand. I en-courage them to give out real dol-lar amounts.

It’s a question every student who pays an athletics fee deserves to know.

Yet the move back to “Buffalo” being prominently featured on logos and jerseys is the right move. It will allow UB Athletics to create a brand for itself that can perhaps be recog-nizable one day if its major sports can consistently have success.

But the days of “New York” wordmarks and NYBI shouldn’t be forgotten. They should serve as a reminder to both the athlet-ics department and university that the two need to be more closely aligned, and that more foresight is needed in major decisions like the NYBI movement.

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Album: You’ll Pay For ThisArtist: Bear HandsLabel: Spensive Sounds Release Date: April 15Grade: A

Bear Hands just fi nished a na-tional tour with fellow alterna-tive rockers Cage The Elephant, Siversun Pickups and Foals, and now have released their third stu-dio album You’ll Pay For This. In the band’s third album it devel-ops a heavier reliance on slick gui-tar riffs, electronic samples and electro-pop infl uences which gives them a more mature sound com-pared to their fi rst two albums.

The Brooklyn-based four-piece keep their style fresh by constant-ly changing the atmosphere of their albums. In 2014 they released Distraction, which featured their breakthrough single “Giants,” that charted in the Top 10 amongst Billboard’s Alternative Song Chart taking the eighth spot for weeks.

The opening track of the album is a contrast to the title of the al-bum. “I Won’t Pay” is an electric boost to the album that argues for not slowing down in life and almost getting away with some sketchy acts in life. It’s a different style for the band’s title track – perfect for new listeners to check out.

The overall feel of the album is somewhat sad. The general theme from singer Dylan Rau’s perspec-tive is the brutal truth of growing older and losing the fun of staying out with friends. The song “2AM” is the band’s latest single, gaining lots of attention on alternative ra-dio stations. The song highlights the theme of the album precisely.

“All your friends are sober / yeah we’re getting older / going out’s a drag now,” Rau sings. The lyrics are a brutally honest representation of being at the center of a party versus staying out all night opting to stay at home rather than going out with friends and partying.

The bands other big hit “Mara-thon Man” deals with someone’s feelings at the end of their rela-tionship, and a good mellow am-

bient track that lots of people can relate to if they’re feeling down.

Bear Hands seems to be in a bat-tle of wanting to progress and fi nd new sound and wanting to keep its roots in its original mellow sound.

On the other hand, “Purpose Filled Life” is a glimpse of opti-mism, at a crucial point in the al-bum. Rau sings “Oooh don’t let me be no kind of burden / just let me work and I will earn it / I want my life to have a purpose / tell me if you think I deserve it.” The lyrics outline the desire to be respected but be accepted only by our friends who matter most to us.

This album keeps the original sound that Bear Hands has estab-lished themselves as, a mellow yet

up-beat at times indie/alternative rock band. Yet, they have given themselves a much needed re-vamp that will appeal to a broader audi-ence and build a bigger following. No tour has been established yet, but they will be playing music festi-vals all during the summer.

Bear Hands have been growing and gaining confi dence throughout their career and it is apparent in this new album. If you’re looking for a new band to listen to when you feel like chilling out or after a stress-ful day and want to listen to some-thing meaningful and relaxing, Bear Hands newest album You’ll Pay For This is a great choice.


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“That’s the key,” Toles said. “Wanting to draw cartoons is not learning how to draw exactly how things look – it’s learning to draw in a way that conveys something.”

Toles was also humorous. He began his talk by telling the audience the best advice he has read about public speaking is that “a public presentation should be like the act of making love,” as Greek philosopher, Cicero, said.

Toles said a presentation should be paral-lel to that, where “you begin slowly, you es-tablish the connection, you work your way up to a climax.” Toles said “the most inter-esting part” is that a presentation should take the same length. Toles thanked the au-dience and jokingly said he was ready to end his presentation to which the audience ap-plauded and laughed.

But when it comes to political cartoons, Toles said being funny isn’t enough. He said it’s about knowing policy, politics and “com-municating something that’s real.”

Toles said cartooning traditionally de-

pends on “shared cultural references” and metaphors.

“It used to be people saw the same mov-ies and the same books, and when you made references people would know them,” Toles said. “Culture is disaggregated now.”

Toles said he tends to draw cartoons about income, inequality and education. When it comes to religion, Toles said he tries to avoid cartooning it.

“It’s a different area of human experience,” Toles said. “When people use it as an excuse to introduce odious behavior in the political system, sometimes I make an exception.”

Toles admits he’s often cartooning Repub-licans because “they deserve it more,” al-though he said he doesn’t feel he can “do jus-tice” to “the Donald Trump phenomenon.”

Toles showed a cartoon of his on “polit-ical correctness,” which he said he under-stands is a campus issue at UB and across the country as well as a pressing part of this year’s presidential race. He said many people say they’re “sick of political correctness.”

“I got sick of people saying they’re sick of political correctness,” Toles said.

Toles also addressed terrorism and cen-sorship. He talked about the Charlie Heb-do attacks last year, in which a terror attack was made against a French newspaper after it published cartoons depicting the Proph-et Muhammad. Toles said the situation “re-ally hit home” and it gave him a lot to think about. He immediately did a cartoon and he said his views on the matter are “complex.”

“While I do believe that free expression is something that is part of the human desire, I wanted to express it as something that is fragile too,” he said.

Toles gets inspired each morning by con-suming as much news as possible, yet he tries to avoid looking at other cartoonists’ work. He said there have been times he doesn’t do a cartoon because he thought an-other cartoonist would create a cartoon on the same topic, but they never did.

Some UB students and people in atten-dance resonated with Toles’ gallery and pre-sentation.

“I love his wit. He can be for or against things but yet he’s kind and funny. Some cartoonists are very sharp – he knows how to do his job in a kind way,” said Joan Ku-biniec, a Buffalo resident.

Other people in attendance found Toles’ work to be a cause for debate. Jagana-than Raghupathy, a graduate student in the School of Management said a lot of Toles’ work “is completely emblematic of today’s governments” and that the work “always [causes] debate and discussion.”

Toles said he wants to help shape the fu-ture with his cartoons. He said he hopes to be a “conversational lubricant, to get people thinking [and] facilitate the opening of con-versation.”

“I have an idea of what a better United States looks like, and I want to make that closer to real,” Toles said. “I’m not entire-ly sure that’s entirely my job defi nition, but what I fundamentally want to do is to help move the ball.”


Tom Toles, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist and UB alum, comes to UB

Alexis Ogra, president of UB College Re-publicans, said Cruz handled the questions effectively.

“I thought the questions were chosen ex-tremely well, especially when he went to clar-ify his comments on New York values, which were really referring to downstate liberals, not those from upstate New York,” Ogra said. “[Although,] I really wanted to hear his views on the second amendment and fi rearms.”

Other students, like Maximillian Budynek, a junior political science major, wished there had been questions for Cruz about topics that haven’t already been covered.

“It was interesting, but there was noth-

ing surprising to me. He answered questions well and he covered the relevant issues,” Bu-dynek said. “I’m an undecided vote, so I’m just looking to test the waters.”

When Todd asked Cruz about whether or not he would run as Republican frontrun-ner Donald Trump’s vice president if that’s what the delegates wanted, Cruz responded empathically, “Chuck, not a chance.”

Cruz is currently trailing behind Trump in delegates, but looks to close that gap in the New York Republican primary on April 19.

Trump will hold a rally at the First Niag-ara Center in downtown Buffalo on Mon-day at 7 p.m.


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Ted Cruz (left) and MSNBC reporter Chuck Todd (right) speak during Thursday’s townhall.

Cruz took questions from the audience addressing his policies, past comments and his

place in the current presidential election.

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TORI ROSEMANSENIOR FEATURES EDITOR

Pricilla Snider started out as a team mem-ber for Relay for Life and continued to get more involved every year.

In February of 2012, she was hit with a serious diagnosis – esophageal cancer. Sud-denly, she was on the other side of the event as someone who was fi ghting the battle, rather than just supporting others who do.

Part of the Relay for Life event is cele-brating those who have survived, as Snid-er, now a Relay for Life committee member, was the honoree survivor for the night at the annual UB Relay for Life event in Alum-ni Arena Saturday.

“I always tell people it’s a great family event,” Snider said. “It brings the commu-nity together.”

Relay for Life is a national fundraising event by the American Cancer Society to raise money to fi ght cancer, increase cancer awareness and celebrate cancer survivors. UB Relay for Life saw 67 teams and 1,096 people participate and raise $37,882 from 12 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday in Alumni Arena. Throughout the night, there were events in-cluding a scavenger hunt, a Zumba class and performances from groups like the dance team Crossfyah. Fraternities and sororities made up a large majority of the teams.

Last year’s event raised more than $52,000 and saw nearly 400 more participants.

Although the event went until 2 a.m., the gym was nearly empty by 9:30 p.m. This time marked the mandatory 75 percent at-tendance requirement for the event – so nearly all of students left to enjoy their Sat-urday night.

“It’s nice that everyone came and raised money, but it’s disappointing that so many

people left early,” said Dan Wright, a junior political science major, at around 9:30 p.m. “It cleared out and there’s still another fi ve hours left.”

Though many left early, teams like Alpha Epsilon Pi raised money for the event all year. Alpha Epsilon Pi member Josh Grove raised the most money as an individual – more than $1,000.

Missy Stolfi remembers listening to Cold-play’s “Fix You” while walking a darkened track, watching the luminaries that lined the outside glow in spite of the darkness at her fi rst Relay for Life event.

Stolfi , who helped to organize UB Relay for Life event, feels fortunate to have stayed so close to the organization.

“I meet new people every day who are im-pacted by cancer,” Stolfi said. “I meet people who are fi nding different ways to take action.”

Stolfi started out like many others, as a vol-unteer, and slowly became more involved in the organization because she liked the cause.

Those who participated in the event had stations where they set up tables to sell items and food to raise money. UB occupational therapy students set up a virgin margarita sta-tion while others sold Paula’s Donuts.

Tyler Beerse, a sophomore architecture major and member of Sigma Chi Omega, sat at the Paula’s Donuts table and tried to support his fraternity by selling the treats.

Sophomore communication major Alex-andra Furtzaig participated with her soror-ity Alpha Phi.

“Last year we raised a lot of money,” Furtzaig said. “We all have to be here today, though I personally didn’t raise any money this year.”

For some students, this was the fi rst year they were participating in the event.

Katie Koleda, a senior chemistry major, joined the UB Relay for Life committee be-cause her roommate did it last year.

“It’s really just about remembering those who lost their lives and celebrating all the money we’ve raised,” Koleda said.

The night was a celebration of the amount of money that was already raised and will continue to be raised through Au-gust of this year.


Fight for a causeDespite most participants leaving early, Relay for Life raises $37,000 for cancer

TORI ROSEMAN, THE SPECTRUM

Survivor Pricilla Snider (pictured top left) holds her Relay for Life shirt from 1997. She attended Relay for Life Saturday in Alumni Arena as the honoree for the evening. The Luminaria

Ceremony (middle) allows attendees to dedicate and decorate a paper bag in honor of someone who is battling cancer or has lost the fi ght. Missy Stolfi (pictured top right) has been

working all year to help organize UB’s Relay for Life, which raised over $37,000.

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Tom Toles admits cartooning is a “really weird thing to do.”

The Pulitzer Prize-winning political car-toonist reads as much as he can as fast as he can, determines “who the good guys are and who are the bad guys are” to make an opin-ion and thinks about expressing it through imagery until he connects things that he ad-mits probably shouldn’t connect.

Then he draws it.He said it’s not all that interesting or in-

spiring, even though he wishes it was when giving talks to students, as he did Thursday afternoon to The Spectrum staff in the news-paper’s offi ce. Toles, a Spectrum alum, told the current staff that that’s because life isn’t like a movie.

“Where you struggle in the beginning, you overcome the obstacles because of your per-severance and your moral standards and then you get to the end and it’s a reward and every-body’s happy – it’s not that way,” Toles said. “It’s hard and complicated and confusing.”

He said it’s still hard for him to draw po-litical cartoons, even after winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1990. He said work is always going to be diffi cult and the successful ones are the ones that simply keep doing it. His main advice for journalists?

“Find out. Tell,” Toles said.Toles, a political cartoonist for The Wash-

ington Post who attended UB and drew for The Spectrum in the 1970s, gave a candid and at times humorous talk to the current staff about topics like his drawing process

and how journalism is changing. But Toles, with his wife Gretchen sitting beside him, was more like another participant in a dis-cussion than a speaker, as he asked the Spec-trum staff as many if not more questions than they asked him.

Toles said cartooning is still hard for him to this day, but he has had success by con-tinuing to do it. He said the “faulty wiring” in his head allows him to come up with ideas for cartoons and connect ideas that may not make sense at the outset.

He said he doesn’t go out of his way to be provocative with his cartoons, but he’s not

afraid of angering people either. He said if anything he is hurting himself by being “too timid” with his cartoons, because the outra-geous is what is driving traffi c. He said car-toonists shouldn’t create provocative work just to get attention.

Toles also talked about how journalism is changing. He said the traditional print newspapers that he grew up with are “erod-ing away” and being replaced by something that’s going in a direction no one knows.

He discussed the effects the Internet has had on journalism, like pay-walls on news-paper’s websites that require users to sub-

scribe to read content. He discussed social media specifi cally and the possibility it could eventually control content users see.

“A lot of the traffi c is coming to the Post through Facebook and other social media and the question is, [does Facebook] eventually capture that fl ow and start pro-viding their own content?” Toles said. “But if Facebook becomes the only news organi-zation, that can’t be a good thing.”

But for the most part, Toles was interested in asking questions, like about the pieces the Spec-trum staff is working on and their views on the changing landscape of journalism.

“I’m probably learning more from peo-ple here than people are learning from me,” Toles said of his visit to UB this week.

Toles was also laid back and humorous in his discussion. After Gretchen joking-ly shook him because she felt he was too sleepy with his responses, Toles went into a humorous tirade about how tiring the meet-ings, dinners and “random” people he’d been meeting while on campus as UB’s Sig-nature Series honored guest were.

Toles also spoke about working at The Spectrum. He said he spent all of his time outside of class in the newspaper’s offi ce, which was in a different building on South Campus than where it currently is in the Student Union on North Campus. He add-ed that he had never seen his Wikipedia page photo, a picture of him in The Spec-trum offi ce from 1970, until four years ago.

He said although The Spectrum’s header is dif-ferent than when he was a student, he “felt warm” when looking at a current issue of the paper because it made him think of the mem-ories he had while working for The Spectrum.

“Journalism is something you love or you don’t,” Toles said. “The Spectrum meant the most to me.”


Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and Spectrum alum Tom Toles speaks to newspaper’s staffToles leads discussion in Spectrum offi ce about journalism


Tom Toles, a Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist and former Spectrum cartoonist, spoke to the Spectrum staff in the newspaper’s offi ce Thursday.

Name: Bree TomYear: First-year graduate studentMajor: MBA, B.S. in chemical engineering

Bree Tom said the moment she stepped onto UB’s campus she felt a connection and plans to help students create their own con-nection with the school.

“I want to enhance everyone’s experience and make it as great as mine has been,” Tom said.

Tom said as a student she has “invested interest” in both undergraduate and gradu-ate school “worlds” at UB.

She said when SA was able to bring Dem-ocratic presidential candidate Bernie Sand-ers’ to campus after thousands of students petitioned, she “saw how much of an im-pact students actually have.”

Tom said her platform aims to “empow-

er” the voices of students. She wants to hold biweekly Council of Ad-

vocacy and Leadership (COAL) meetings of the seven student government presidents and hold open forum meetings with students.

“I think it’s very important to get the highest leaders of our campus together and unite them and talk about the student issues and come up with plans,” Tom said.

She also said she wants to “build strong fi nancial models” starting over the summer. She wants to have a “truly impactful remod-eling” of Sub Board I, Inc. (SBI) by having more internal audits to reduce fees.

Tom emphasized the need to improve communication by bringing in the board of directors into student government meetings.

Tom also said she would attend as many government, senate, and assembly meetings “as possible.” She said she wants the face of the council representative to be known, “so students know their voices are being heard.”

Tom has made an effort to talk with for-mer Student Life, government liaison Mike Lewis and former two-term UB Council Student Representative Daniel Ovadia.

Tom said she will bring “compassion, drive, and commitment” to the position.

“I will do everything in my power to give students what they deserve,” Tom said. “I have made it my mission to understand ev-erything possible.”

Name: Rachel Stern Year: Third-year graduate studentMajor: JD/MBA, B.A. in international studies

Stern said as a student and a current Western New York Prosperity Fellow, she is interested in furthering the academic development of our region and she said UB plays a “huge role” in that.

With her experience as an undergraduate, graduate and professional student, she said she feels she has a lot to contribute to this position.

Stern wants to make changes to SBI by mak-ing it easier for student governments to use ac-

counting systems and services SBI offers. “I’ve been able to see the ineffi ciency

within some of the ways our university sys-tems are run and I advocate on behalf of all students from undergraduate through now,” Stern said. “I’ve always been an advocate.”

Stern wants to change the student recre-ation fee because she thinks the fee is still “a bit high.” She wants to start charging a fee to graduate students with an “opt-out program.”

Stern said all students should have access to Distinguished Speaker lectures without any additional fees. She said tickets should be provided equally to undergraduate and graduate students on a fi rst-come, fi rst-serve basis.

Stern also said there should be an hour-ly Stampede bus from North Campus to the downtown Medical Campus.

Stern has been in contact with Campus Life and Services and the University council in or-der to make these “ideas become reality.”

Next year will be Stern’s eighth year at UB, and she said she wants to make the UB experience great for everyone.

“I want people to feel like they’re includ-ed and that they are not just a UB ID num-ber,” Stern said.


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On Monday April 11, Mamrie Hart hosted the eighth annual Shorty Awards, honoring the best content across the social media spec-trum. Awards were given to stars from online sources including Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Instagram, Vine and Periscope.

The Shorty Awards, created and produced by Sawhorse Media and Univision, took place at the Times Center in New York. The

show was available to watch through a live stream at the Shorty Awards website.

Finalists in each category were recognized for excellence in sports, journalism, televi-sion and humor, among others. In addition to naming a winner for each category, the Shortys honored high-scoring celebs with gold, silver and bronze honors.

The winners were determined through rank-ings from the Real Time Academy and most importantly votes from nominee’s fans via so-cial media and on the Shorty Awards website.

Dwayne Johnson was named Best Arts and Entertainment Actor, beating out fel-low nominees including Zac Efron, Tom Hanks and Ryan Reynolds. Taraji P. Henson won the same honor for female actress in arts and entertainment.

Jimmy Fallon took the crown for Best Arts and Entertainment Celebrity, beating online super-stars like Snoop Dog, Chrissy Teigen and Weird Al.

Kevin Hart won in a category fi lled with lots of talent. He beat competitors like Nick Offer-man, Amy Schumer, Aziz Ansari and Aidy Bry-ant to take home the award for best Comedian.

The biggest upset of the night came when Adele won the award for best musi-cian. Big names like Drake, Pearl Jam and Kanye West were running against the sing-

er. And, with all the attention the rapper has been drawing to himself on Twitter, it was a shocker to everyone in the building when “Ye” didn’t win the award.

The most anticipated and hyped up award of the night was for Snapchatter of the Year. Me-dia stars on platforms like Vine and YouTube were awarded for their online presence, but the Snapchat category had two big name stars bat-tling it out for the top prize.

Kylie Jenner, the youngest member of the Kardashian/Jenner family has the most Snapchat followers totaling over 30 million, plus over 50 million on Instagram.

Another one DJ Khaled wins ‘Snapchatter of the Year’ at Shorty Awards

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Buffalo’s concert selections this week are undoubtedly low-key. From videogame-lov-ing bands to old Australian ’80s rock bands, there is no shortage of variety or options this week in the Queen City.

Some highlights this week include prom-inent R&B singer Jeremih, who performed at UB’s Fall Fest in 2015, and Noah Gunder-son, a talented acoustic musician. As the school year winds down, don’t let the stress of fi nals and papers get you down. Get out and go listen to some jams to unwind.

Tuesday, April 19The Protomen – Waiting Room

American rock band The Protomen is best known for its work with video game concept albums, most famously The Proto-men, a self-titled album centered around the plot of “Mega Man.”

The band originated in Tennessee and

mostly consists of Middle Tennessee State University record program graduates.

Despite its humble beginnings, the band has performed all across the world, includ-ing at Bonnaroo and SXSW. The band will be performing at the Waiting Room on Tuesday.

Wednesday, April 20Tech N9ne – Town Ballroom

Aaron Yates, aka Tech N9ne, is an Amer-ican rapper. He has been involved in the scene for quite some time, fi rst starting his own record label Strange Music in 1999.

As a solo artist, Yates has sold over two million albums and has appeared in many fi lm, television and video game spots.

Currently, Yates is working on his 17th studio album, The Storm, which is set to be released sometime in November.

Thursday, April 21The Spill Canvas – Waiting Room

Alt-rock band The Spill Canvas, hailing

from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, began as a side project by Nick Thomas, a musician for Nodes of Ranvier.

When it was clear that The Spill Canvas was going to be a bigger project, Thom-as dropped his gig and became a full-time member of the band.

The band has released seven studio al-bums since 2002, becoming a mainstay in the indie rock scene.

It announced an anniversary tour for One Fell Swoop in August and has been touring since last summer. The Spill Canvas will be playing at the Waiting Room on Thursday.

Friday, April 22Jeremih – The Rapids Theatre

Jeremih, a Chicago-born R&B singer best known for his single “Birthday Sex” released in 2009, has been signed with Def Jam Re-cords for a few years now.

His hit “Don’t Tell ‘Em,” peaked in the Billboard Hot 100 in 2014. Most recently, the artist released his fourth studio album Lat-er That Night.

He will be performing at The Rapids The-atre.

Saturday, April 23The Church – Tralf Music Hall

Sydney psychedelic rock band The

Church formed in 1980, during the peak of psychedelic fervor in the ’80s.

The band released its debut album Of Skins and Heart in 1981. Since, the band has not stopped touring or making music, re-leasing 24 studio albums since 1981.

The Church has been on countless world and national tours, hit the festival scene and has more live show experience than most bands ever will.

They will be performing at The Tralf on Saturday.

Sunday, April 24Noah Gunderson – Tralf Music Hall

Indie folk singer-songwriter Noah Gunderson will be bringing his talents to The Tralf on Sunday.

Born in Olympia, Washington, he initially founded the band The Courage, active pri-marily during the late 2000s. As a solo artist, Gunderson has released six studio albums – the most recent Carry the Ghost in 2015.

Gunderson is known for his acoustic tal-ents, performing live shows with long-wind-ed acoustic arrangements – perfect for a lazy Sunday.


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DJ Khaled, who arguably has drawn him-self a cult following on Snapchat for his an-ticipated “cloth talks” and behind the scenes shots of life as a hip-hop star, has making a new name for himself after earning many partnerships with record labels and radios across the nation over the past few months.

When it came down to it Khaled can now truthfully say “We Da Best” as he took home the award of the night, Snapchatter of the Year.

UB students had their opinions about the pop star winning the award. Many students thought it was a well-deserved victory.

Jorge Xell, a sophomore computer engi-neering major, said that Khaled is a genuine business person and that he is glad to see him being rewarded for all his hard work.

“He defi nitely deserves it, he’s a humble positive guy who works really hard every day,” he said. “He gives back to the community and never talks bad about anything or anyone, he always shows himself in meetings where he’s helping others gain the success he found. He’s funny and a great guy.”

Khalad’s Snapchat success has been meteor-ic. At the beginning of 2015 Khalad was practi-cally invisible from the pop culture landscape – now, he is seemingly everywhere.

But for some students, Khalad’s success is

superfi cial.Wojciech Bednara, a sophomore aerospace

engineering major, said he couldn’t disagree more. He said Khaled uses Snapchat as an out-let to excessively brag about his success.

“DJ Khaled gives false hope to regular peo-ple on Snapchat,” Bednara said. “I think he’s annoying as sh*t, he’s constantly bragging about his success, that’s a major reason I don’t like him and won’t follow him.”

Some students who knew of Khaled didn’t care that he won the award.

Andrew Martin, a junior computer sci-ence major, said that he doesn’t follow him on Snapchat and him winning the award doesn’t change his mind.

“I’m not surprised he won, he has a huge following,” he said. “I personally don’t fol-low him. I have a Snapchat [but] I’m just not that interested with it.”

Khaled credited all his success to his fans. “My fans made this happen, shout out

to Snapchat because this is a blessing in my life. It’s important for me as a mogul to be in tune with all social media. I’m all about being in tune with culture,” Khaled in an in-terview after the awards.

Regardless of what people think of him, Khaled is continuing to have a positive in-fl uence on the community.

Saturday afternoon Khaled joined the likes of Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, Ludac-ris and many others to meet with Presi-dent Barack Obama to be a part of the My Brother’s Keeper project.

Khaled continues to grow his name and brand in all aspects of the entertainment and news world.


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When UB all-time receiving touchdown leader Alex Neutz graduated two years ago, no one was quite sure who was going to re-place him as the Buffalo football team’s No. 1 wide receiver.

It wasn’t until a previously unknown play-er named Ron Willoughby exploded for 10 catches, more than 130 yards and two touchdowns in Buffalo’s 2014 season-open-er that the team had any idea who its next go-to guy would be.

With Willoughby now having graduated, the Bulls seem to be going for a similar ap-proach this offseason: give every receiver an equal opportunity through the grind of the spring and summer and see who emerges once the season kicks off in September.

“We’re not really slotting anyone in any-where right now,” said associate head coach and wide receivers coach Rob Ianello. “We’re gonna have an open competition of playing time that will continue through the fall.”

The Bulls’ full-contact practice at UB Stadi-um this past Saturday ran 40 minutes longer than expected as the team tries to get a bet-ter sense of its players, especially its wide re-ceivers. The Bulls have several receivers rising through the ranks but it’s still unclear who will replace Willoughby as Buffalo’s No. 1 wideout – a position that becomes all the more impor-tant with three unproven quarterbacks battling for the No. 1 spot under center.

Following the graduation of Willoughby,

rising senior Marcus McGill seems like a clear favorite to step up and be the team’s top guy in 2016. McGill is Buffalo’s top returning wide receiver in terms of yardage and receptions.

He very well could still be the guy, but Ianello made it clear that McGill is going to have to earn it. McGill was held out of Sat-urday’s practice for undisclosed reasons and he was not made available to members of the media after practice.

“He’s just got a little deal,” Ianello said. “He’s fi ne, he’ll be fi ne. He’ll be out there practicing next week. We just held him out for a couple of days.”

Whether his absence was injury-related or not, Ianello still seems to be challenging Mc-Gill to earn his keep and show necessary de-velopment in his senior season. McGill ac-cumulated 50 catches for 581 yards and four touchdowns while playing in all 12 games this past season.

“He’s still got a lot of improvement to make,” Ianello said. “I need him to attack the ball better. I need him to be crisper in his route running.”

Ianello feels the wide open state of the receiver position this year will allow him to keep fresh legs on the fi eld more often and throwing out more combinations of guys throughout the course of the game than he did last season. One benefi ciary of that could be rising junior wide receiver Jacob Martinez, who appears primed for a bigger, more versatile role in his junior season.

Martinez was used mostly in the slot in his fi rst two seasons, but this year it appears

he’ll also get a chance to play on the outside in addition to the slot. Martinez, a former high school quarterback, has game-changing speed and is hoping this could be the year he fi nally puts it all together as a wide re-ceiver. With the uncertain state of the Bulls quarterback position at the moment, Marti-nez is preparing himself for anything.

“Different QBs throw the ball a little dif-ferently,” Martinez said. “They have a little bit different tendencies, so you kind of got to know where they’re at … You just gotta work with them, bring them along with you and get on their good side.”

Coming into his second season on the team, rising junior wide receiver Collin Lisa is preparing himself to play a lot of snaps in the slot, just like he did last year. He caught 31 passes for 325 yards and two touch-downs last season after transferring from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Lisa spent much of the offseason work-ing on his blocking, an essential skill for any slot receiver. It’s an underrated task, but it’s one of the most important parts of the job right up there with catching the ball a key to getting on the fi eld.

Lisa knows that. “You really gotta work leverage,” Lisa

said. “You gotta work the techniques coach teaches us, you gotta keep your feet going. If you understand what the coverage is and where they’re rolling to and what not, it’ll make your job a lot easier.”

Rising senior Malcolm Robinson and ris-ing sophomore Brandon Smiley also fi gure to be in the wide receiver mix for Buffalo. There are plenty of options to choose from to create a receiving core, but Ianello may opt for the young guns.

If freshman wide receiver K.J. Osborn continues to play as well as he did at practice Saturday, he could be in line for more playing time than expected. He left his teammates in awe several times throughout the practice by making some great catches in traffi c.

“We’ll see what his role is,” Ianello said. “This was a good thing to see in a scrim-mage situation, coaches off the fi eld. To the eye, he made some plays today on tape, and he’s continued to get better.”

Next week’s Blue and White game will help settle position battles, especially the deep-rooted wide receiver position.

The Blue and White game will take place at UB Stadium on Saturday. Kickoff is set for 2 p.m.


Several players vying to replace graduated Willoughby as Bulls’ No. 1 receiver


Junior wide receiver Jacob Martinez catches a touchdown pass in last season’s opener against Albany. Martinez is expected to be one of the key receivers in Buffalo’s offensive

attack this upcoming season.

JORDAN GROSSMAN AND QUENTIN HAYNES

SENIOR SPORTS EDITORS

Former Buffalo quarterback Tony Daniel has been experiencing what it’s like to attend a “public powerhouse” for the past month.

As a graduate student at the Universi-ty of Mississippi, Daniel understands that “Ole Miss” is near the top, academically and athletically, when it comes to universities in the state. Ole Miss has made a name for it-self for its prominent Division-I sports pro-grams and high-profi le academics.

Daniel thinks UB Athletics’ new rebrand-ing could live up to its new tagline and be-come “New York’s public powerhouse.” But it’s not there yet.

“I’m getting to see what it’s like at Ole Miss and the [Southeastern Conference] level. I’m getting to see what’s it’s like as a premier insti-tution,” Daniel said. “Buffalo, as a name, isn’t out in the forefront as we’d like it to be.”

Last Tuesday, UB gave an update on a university-wide branding effort for the fi rst time in school history, effectively ending UB Athletics’ New York Bulls Initiative, or NYBI, that was in action for nearly three years. The main goal of NYBI was to mar-ket Buffalo as New York’s college team by boldly representing the name “New York” rather than “Buffalo.”

With the new rebranding, the term “Buf-

falo” is once again the prominent focus. Daniel still believes, however, that the change

back to “Buffalo” doesn’t mean the university is completely done with expressing their brand as New York’s biggest public school.

“I still think overall, they’re still trying to push the fact that we’re the biggest school in New York,” Daniel said. “Yeah, they did some changes, but you still see that Buffalo is still a public powerhouse.”

While Daniel, a Hiram, Georgia native, understood the change the program went through and the expectations it has, the players who lived closer to the universi-ty were happy to see the transition back to Buffalo and fully embrace the community in and around the university.

Former Buffalo quarterback Joe Licata is one of them. Before breaking the school re-cord for most passing yards and touchdown passes, Licata made his name at local high school Williamsville South.

While Licata said there was some pride wearing “New York” on his jersey as well, he said representing Buffalo was his real dream.

“Growing up, a fan of Buffalo sports across the board, just having the opportu-nity to represent Buffalo was always my dream,” he said.

For the fi rst season of his UB playing ca-reer, the Bulls’ jerseys had “Buffalo” across his chest. For his fi nal three seasons, the foot-ball jerseys featured the “New York” logo.

Licata said the NYBI wasn’t popular to lo-cals because people “didn’t get it.” He said the natives thought that it was a mouthful to say and it took away from having pride for the city.

But at the same time, Licata thought the NYBI marketing was successful. UB Athlet-ics brought in more high-profi le recruits and coaches and won fi ve Mid-American Confer-ence team titles within three years, including back-to-back men’s basketball championships.

For Shane Patterson, a senior commu-nication major and self-proclaimed “Hype Man” for True Blue, the program has been on the rise as a dominant Mid-Major, pos-sibly mimicking what schools like Gonzaga and Wichita State have been able to do as athletic and academic programs.

Patterson believes there was a double standard for people who thought different-ly about the branding change. UB support-ers who were a fan of NYBI, like Patterson, were mainly indifferent when the program made the switch from New York to Buffalo.

But the people who didn’t support the old branding initiative were excited to transition back to Buffalo.

Whether or not people support one side or the other, the logo and university focus has re-turned back to the city. Patterson said it’s a smart move that connects everyone in the area.

“I think students believed it was good overall, but some people were kind of won-dering ‘Why?”’ Patterson said. “I have lo-

cal friends who didn’t agree with the whole ‘New York’ thing and we’re proud of Buffa-lo and their name … I always thought that we weren’t proud of Buffalo and tried to minimize it, but we were trying to become a legitimate university overall.”

Students and athletes have mixed opin-ions on the new university logo, but when it comes to some of the university’s alumni and donors, the logo change was just anoth-er aspect of an evolving university.

Tunney Murchie, a major donor to UB Athletics and current owner and president of Lackawanna Products Corp., said he couldn’t “care less” about the program’s new look and still plans to donate and support to the uni-versity, regardless of the program’s look.

Murchie donated $3 million to UB to help expand what is now named the Murchie Family Football Center in 2014. He also do-nated $1 million to the university for “capital projects” in UB Stadium and Alumni Arena.

“They have different athletic directors coming in with different thoughts and dif-ferent ideas and you have [former athlet-ic director] Danny White thinking one way and [current athletic director Allen] Greene thinking another way,” Murchie said. “Any-time you see or make changes at the pro-gram, you’ll see things like this happen.”

Greene told The Spectrum last week that the athletics’ rebranding was beginning be-fore White left for the University of Central Florida and Green was promoted to AD in November.

“All of our athletic programs are on the way up,” Patterson said. “Men’s basketball back-to-back, women’s basketball, men’s tennis … this team is becoming more and more of a prominent and elite Mid-Major.”


UB community reacts to the new athletics’ branding and the end of NYBI

What’s in a name? SPECTRUM FILE PHOTO

The fi eld at UB Stadium prominently features UB Athletics’ old wordmark from their NYBI branding. UB recently rebranded so the entire university would be aligned.

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