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Students struggling

to deal with new

financial aid policy By CAITLIN TREMBLAYNews Editor

Some students will be forced to go without needed financial aid due to a uni-versity policy change over the summer – a change that comes just as congress works to make college more afford-able. On June 13, UB changed its financial aid policy, mak-ing it harder for students to receive aid. Nicole Eberth, a senior psychology major, is among those affected. “I worked too hard to get my GPA up and now they take my financial aid away,” Eberth said. “I feel punished for working hard. I’m pissed, and the worst part is that [the financial aid office] gave me little notice of the change.” The Educational Oppor-

tunity Program estimates that over 2,000 UB students, or over 10 percent of the undergraduate body, were left without financial aid this

fall Prior to June 2009, a stu-dent had to have fewer than 180 completed credit hours as well as a 65 percent com-

pletion rate for all attempted hours in order to be eligible for financial aid. Now, the policy has changed to what UB is calling Satisfactory

Academic Progress – a stu-dent now must have a 70 percent course completion rate to obtain institutional financial aid, making it hard-

er for students who drop or resign classes to receive aid. Now, all courses count toward the 180-credit limit, not just finished classes. All incompletes, resignations, absences due to military leave, failures and withdraw-als still count as courses in the eyes of the financial aid office. According to Michael Ryan, Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Educa-tion, the change in UB’s poli-cy was not solely a university decision. “We had to make the change in the financial aid policy in order to be in compliance with federal guidelines,” Ryan said. “The federal government has a set of standards for financial aid eligibility and we must fol-low them.” Students don’t seem to understand the reasoning behind the change, mostly because they were never given a straight answer. “After weeks of phone calls, a financial aid offi-cer finally told me that the

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Many students across campus are struggling to survive after losing a great deal of financial aid after a new policy was implemented this summer.

By BREDNY RODRIGUEZStaff Writer

New UB students are having a vastly different Internet experience than their more seasoned coun-terparts. Since the beginning of the semester, freshman, transfer, graduate and professional students have been taking part in a pilot testing the possibility of outsourcing UBmail to Google. UBIT and Google are bringing Google Apps to UB students in an effort to provide them with a more robust set of productiv-ity tools, UBIT officials said. The implementation

includes the complete Google Apps for Education Edition – which contains services such as Google Docs, in-browser Google

Chat and Google Calendar. The change is due to UB 2020 and its IT Transfor-

Bitemarks lose teeth in court

By ASHLEY HIRTAsst. News Editor

Bitemark evidence may not be as reliable as many in the forensic den-tistry field had hoped. UB research-ers have found that analyzing bite-marks may only be shaky ground at best, leaving this once useful way of gathering evidence essentially null and void. “There have been a number of exonerations of people convicted on bitemark evidence, following exami-nation of DNA evidence using tech-niques not available at the time of the trial,” said Peter J. Bush, director of

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By AMANDA WOODSAsst. News Editor

It was all business on Monday as UB Council members gathered to discuss the long-term goals of the university and the steps they must take to reach them. Attendees discussed efforts to move the UB 2020 plan for-ward from a vision to an actual-ity. President John B. Simpson pointed out that although the

road to implementing the plan has become more difficult and filled with obstacles, the ulti-mate goal has not and will not be changed. “The notion of UB 2020 as a coherent plan for where the university is going has not, in my mind, altered at all,” Simpson said. James Willis, executive vice-president for finance and opera-tions, presented an overview

of UB’s comprehensive master plan. First, the university will strive to place the physical assets of the university into a single context. Second, the administration will work to identify gaps the cam-puses’ physical infrastructure. Finally, it is important for UB to recognize the importance of the physical realm. “The master plan has placed the university and its physical

assets into a regional context,” Simpson said. The council members dis-cussed concrete plans the uni-versity is undertaking to put the plan into action. Jeremy M. Jacobs, chair of the council, discussed the recon-struction of the former Acheson Hall on South Campus into the new pharmacy building, Kapoor Hall. Simpson views this con-struction as a step in the right

direction. “[The reconstruction of Kapoor Hall] is something that I think is a positive step for the university and the community as we go for-ward into the future,” Simpson said. The Ellicott Complex is under-going its share of construction as well. A new 600-bed residential facility will be built to house

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The entire globe realizes that climate change is a very real issue, even though several major govern-ments have largely ignored it for the past two decades. However, the issue will be front and center at the United Nations summit on climate change, which began on Tuesday.

Up to 192 nations will sit down at the table and try to broker a deal. It will be the first of its kind since 1997, when a pact was introduced that failed to place emissions standards on countries such as China and India. The United States ignored it.

This will be a seminal test that can spark true global cooperation. As scientists lay out the evidence – evidence of the climate change already occurring and the threat that it poses in the future – we can-not allow the negotiations to turn sour. Failure would be inexcusable.

Many of the critics of climate change and emissions standards usually argue that the cost is too great and would result in an eco-nomic downturn.

In fact, the opposite would be true – an agreement on climate change could spurn a global eco-nomic recovery led by green tech-nologies. Countries that embrace the new technology would reap the rewards.

The United States is a prime can-didate for such an enterprise. The new industries could provide a slew of jobs and efficient energy usage will allow for less waste and greater productivity.

International Energy Agency estimates say that low-carbon ener-gy production for both developed and emerging economies could gain $33 trillion worth of investment funds by 2030. This newly devel-oped energy sector could be worth as much as $7 trillion and sustain 10 million jobs by 2015.

The best part about this change is it doesn’t have to occur overnight.

Prior to this summit, the United States and China were having seri-ous talks about climate change. If the summit pushes them over the edge, it could have quite a signifi-cant effect on the rest of the world – they could strike a deal that would provide enough leverage to bring along other major nations.

The polar ice caps are melting, storms are becoming stronger and the seasons are starting to fly by. The nations of the world need to come together and find the answer to climate change.

There’s no changing the begin-ning. All that can change is the end.

Big agenda for the G-20Getting serious on climate change

America needs a reality check. The president and the leaders of America’s armed forces need one as well.

Over 842 U.S. soldiers killed.

More than $227 billion spent.

During the election, President Barack Obama promised a victory over al-Qaeda by changing Afghani-stan’s political and economic cul-ture.

Then he added 21,000 combat troops to train the Afghan security forces to secure their nation.

And yet Obama’s handpicked commander, Gen. Stanley McChrys-tal, wants more troops and commit-ment from the United States. There doesn’t seem to be any strategy, much less an exit strategy.

No one disputes why the United States deployed combat troops on the ground in Afghanistan after 9/11. But the U.S. must seriously weigh the consequences of sending its best and brightest in to harm’s way.

According to a Washington Post/ABC poll, 51 percent of Americans believe the war has not been worth the cost. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) once wrote in David Halberstam’s book about the Vietnam War, “War is far too horrible to drag out unnec-essarily.”

It would seem history is repeating itself. The United States is getting stuck in an unwinnable war. But McChrystal doesn’t hold back in his assessment of the situation on the ground. He believes that American and NATO forces are in need of a new counter-insurgency strategy.

McChrystal is calling for an addi-tional 40,000 troops in Afghanistan, bringing the overall U.S. forces in the country to 100,000. He is care-ful to say that resources alone will not win the war, but he does say, “Under-resourcing could lose it.”

However, the commander-in-chief needs to ask if risking more American lives is worth it. It’s hard to make that argument – the Afghan government is corrupt and filled with drug traffickers.

Instilling freedom in a country where they’ve never had a concept like that is a long shot. And this is a losing war until the Afghan people actually fight for a country free of corruption and oppression.

Mr. President, the nation wants this war to end. There are far too many problems at home that need to be handled.

Operation Enduring Freedom needs to end. Bring the troops home.

Harsh realityIt’s time for the U.S. to leave Afghanistan

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My niche, my self There’s a fight brewing. Like most undeclared conflicts, the exact causes are unknown, but tensions have been appar-ent for years. I’ve encountered it myself, even among my dearest friends and acquaintances. I recall one particular con-versation as if it occurred yesterday. “English major?” an associate asked incredu-lously, after discovering my field of study. “Yes,” I answered, in my naïveté. “I love it. It’s what I’ve always wanted to do. What’s yours?” “Biological sciences,” they retorted, with an apparent air of superiority. “We do real work.” The person walked away shortly after that remark. I was speechless but not surprised. It is a sad fact that we live in a world where it is proclaimed that English majors hate science, scientists scorn English and a marriage between the two is a laughable impossibility. English majors regard themselves as being too optimistic for science, while scientists consider their vast experience with exams and labs – not to mention their almost guaranteed avenues for employment at graduation – to be a cause for superiority. I ask: Why? For the longest time I thought of myself as one of those English majors who loathed, or rather feared, the sciences. I found the fun facts to be lovely and endearing, but the formulas and lab exercises found me consis-tently overwhelmed. But then I remembered something.

One of my earliest memories is of my mother and me at the zoo. It doesn’t matter which one it was, but we were looking at a magnificent bald eagle. I had read one of my many animal books that day and had asked her why there were no eagles where we lived. “But Mommy, it says so here that this is where they live!” I said, pointing to the map on that

page, which clearly stated we were in their range.

My mother knelt down to my height with a smile that told me she knew. “Well honey, a couple of years ago, farmers

around here used this chemical called DDT to kill mosquitoes on

their crops,” she said. “While it did work at first,

when it rained, the chemicals washed into the rivers where it was absorbed by the fish. The eagles then ate the fish and it made them sick so they couldn’t lay more eggs.” I was shocked. I was enthralled. I was amazed. I was five. It was to be one of the moments that shaped my life. My mom continued. “It wasn’t until this biologist Rachel Carson wrote this book called Silent Spring that everyone realized what was going on and DDT was banned,” she said. “It’s what gave the eagle the opportu-nity to rebuild its population.” For some unknown reason, I never forgot that conversation. My appreciation and respect for nature remained even as my love of literature grew. And now, after one nearly completed English degree, a science requirement and many torturous high school science classes, I find that not only has my love for nature, sci-ence and animals returned, but

Reign of stupidity I’m going to destroy you all. I have a doomsday weapon strapped to my back with my fin-ger on the red button. Why have I decided to try to start humanity over again? What gives me the right? Noth-ing, actually, although after see-ing the phrase, “Books? Who reads books?” 500 times on Facebook, I think it’s time for a restart. Maybe that was a bit of an overreaction. The frustration from seeing people say something like that just builds and builds and then some blood vessel bursts in my brain from all the stu-pidity. When I first got to college, young and naïve, I was hoping for a change of pace from the usual banality from high school. Oh, how wrong I was. What I found was something on a much greater scale. The worst part was that I start-ed to give in. The mind blowing poor grammar of the personals section in Generation Magazine was funny. I was amazed when people could quote the entire script of Anchorman – yes, you do love lamp. That parody of the 1980s music video that no one remembers was probably the funniest thing I have ever seen.

I can’t wait for it to be all over YouTube tomorrow. I was building a prison for my mind and I was bowing at the altar of today’s trite, spoon-fed pop culture. It was easy and comfortable to follow what-ever D-list celebrity signed up to embarrass herself or whatever Internet video was popular at the moment. This has shifted into a major problem for our entire society. We are shunning challenges, we are shunning thinking and we

are shunning intellectualism. Society wants things to be

quick and easy. We turn to 30-second Internet videos for entertain-ment. W h a t h a p -

pened to us? How did Twilight and The Da Vinci Code become

what our society thinks is great literature? How did

great movies get pushed into little backstreet theaters while the anti-entertainment of Trans-formers 2 flourishes? It is a dark time – we have banished our art-ists into obscurity. We are surrounded by the detention center of recycled junk. We need to tear down these walls and open our minds to brand new experiences. Who cares what forgotten sitcom star won a dance competition? Who cares what happened in a house full of idiots? What could anyone possibly gain out of this? Nothing.

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There is nothing to gain from it. People sit there smiling and drooling as a farce plays out in front of them. I log onto Facebook and con-stantly see the highly conde-scending remarks against books. While it may seem harmless at first, it represents so much more. People are hostile to anything intelligent. Why does this exist? I’m met with blank stares and offended faces when I bring up things that exist out of their pop culture comfort zone. Maybe I’m just complaining too much. Perhaps I should just sit back and take whatever is

happening – just shut my mind off and stop caring. We live in a world of derivatives of deriva-tives and I can’t do anything about it. A few men in suits from giant corporations keep the status quo. They keep it easy. They are the ones who rip out the intelligence from the things they produce. The only way anything will ever change is if the people decide to change them. There will be no change anytime soon if things continue the way they are. That pesky thinking will be gone from anything we consume. Damn.

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also it never really left. When you look at it my way, you’ll realize this: there is no real reason for a feud between English majors and science majors. The best scientists are avid readers and have to be good writers. The best writers have a special regard for the sciences. The DDT biolo-gist, Rachel Carson, and bestsell-ing author and contemporary sci-entist Natalie Angier were both English majors before they made the switch. Anton Chekov, one of the greatest short story writers of all time, made his living as a medical doctor – a polar opposite of the literary professions. The way I see it, English majors

report on the world around them, while scientists report on the inner components that make up that world. We are like dis-tant cousins working toward a similar goal, which I hope is the continued survival of the best of humanity. We’re all work-ing toward humanity’s ideas, its goals, its accomplishments, its achievements, its successes and failures, its tragedies and joys, all the while moving toward a brighter future for us all. And that, my friends, is work anyone should be proud of doing.


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SPECTRUM PlaylistSongs of the Fall

The air begins to chill, the leaves start to fall, and obviously, you’re frantically scrolling through the pages of The Spectrum for our seasonal song listing. Well wait no more,

here’s a list of our fall favorites.

1.) Guns and Roses – “November Rain”

2.) The Mammas And The Pappas – “California Dreamin’”

3.) Mika – “Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)”

4.) Fall Out Boy – “Grand Theft Autumn“

5.) The Flaming Lips - “My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion”

6.) The White Stripes – “Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground”

7.) Nat King Cole – “Autumn Leaves”

8.) Green Day – “Wake Me Up When September Ends”

10.) Polaris – “Waiting For October”

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Dr. House is back and with-out the Vicodin – but he kept his notoriously bad attitude. However, if the first episode of House is any sign of things to come, he is definitely not the same grouchy doctor. Within the first three min-utes of the episode, it became blatantly obvious that the show was entering new ter-ritory. The usual opening montage with theme music was gone – instead it was replaced with a drawn out sequence of House’s drug withdrawal. Also gone was the open-ing sequence in which the patient is introduced in a chaotic manner. In fact, there was no patient. None of the regular characters appeared in this episode. There was only House – giving us a deeper look into why the show became so popular in the first place: Hugh Laurie. Laurie shone in this epi-sode. He brought the char-acter back to life and revived the show after five seasons of the same format. Touching, insightful and all around emotionally and psychologically driven, the episode definitely had a One

Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest vibe. At the end of the last sea-son, House began a drug detox program at the May-field Psychiatric Hospital in an attempt to get the Vicodin out of his system and control his hallucinations. This season, house is clean. He attempts to leave the hos-pital, but is forced into stay-ing by his psychiatrist (Andre Braugher, The Mist) who agrees to write a recommen-dation to reinstate House’s medical license only if he stays for further psychiatric treatment. He agrees to say and is moved to a different ward of the hospital where he begins to develop loose relationships with his roommate Alvie (Lin-Manuel Miranda), and Lydia (Franka Potente, Che: Part Two), a frequent visitor of one of the other patients on the ward. At first, House uses his usual brand of sarcasm and intellect to rebel against the doctors and staff, but after his actions cause a traumatic event, he folds and stops fighting the system. This begins an epic trans-formation for House. His hard outer shell begins to

House in a nut house

By MARISA MITTELMANStaff Writer

College sports attract a diverse crowd of viewers that enjoy everything from tailgating and giveaways to the halftime show. One group of students may just enjoy halftime a little bit more than the rest – the UB Dazzlers. The UB Dazzlers dance team works in conjunction with the marching band and pep band to entertain fans at both foot-ball and basketball games throughout the year. Being a member of the Dazzlers takes dedication and passion. The ladies prac-tice three days per week for about two hours a day with the marching band to coordinate their movements. During the football season, the practices often go longer. “We love to show off what we’ve worked so hard to do,” said Megan Houck, a senior nursing major. Houck is one of the captains, along with Melanie Warren, a senior health and human services major. Together, they help run practices and assist their coach with choreography. “We’re there to help the team,” Houck said. In addition to performing with the marching band during halftime, the team presents shorter dances called sidelines throughout the game. The sidelines are arranged to the band’s music or to popu-lar music played over the loudspeakers. Whether it’s a short sideline or a longer halftime show, the Dazzlers love what they do. Ariana Savovic, a freshman pre-phar-macy major, attended tryouts in August and joined the team right away. “We get everyone really excited about the game,” Savovic said. “Performing in front of so many people gets me com-pletely amped up.” Savovic, like many of the team mem-bers, has been dancing for as long as she

can remember. She started taking classes at a local studio when she was 3 years old and continues to practice there to this day. “[Dancing is] pretty much all I know,” Savovic said. “Without it in my life, I’d feel such a void.” During football season, the Dazzlers are considered part of the marching band and must perform exclusively to the marching band’s music. During basket-ball season, however, they are free to use their own music and incorporate popular rhythms. “During football season, we are limited as to what we can do,” Houck said. “Dur-ing basketball season, it’s all about us.” Brad Anhouse, a junior business major, is an avid Bulls fan and a member of True Blue. Anhouse loves the Daz-zlers and thinks they do some really

exciting things. “It’s entertaining… it’s a lot of fun to watch the new dances,” Anhouse said. However, Anhouse thinks that there’s a big difference between their football and basketball seasons. The Dazzlers hold tryouts in August and October every year because of the two different styles. Tryouts are two days and consist of a short routine and a sideline. At the end of the second day, girls try out in groups of two or three and the coach and captains decide who will make the team. “Everybody should try out,” Savovic said. “There is such a range in skill level on the team, so anybody has a shot. It really helps you get involved.”


Snap, dazzle and pop

Fox-y Shazaam She’s a wet dream come true – but maybe even that’s drying up. I swear, Michael Bay and whoever else is behind Megan Fox’s career must have taken a blueprint from my pervy adolescent dreams and plugged them into the computer from Weird Science and hit the manifest button. It’s all there – the absurd interviews next to a seductive Fox swimming in a deep sea of blankets and panties, those jean shorts that ride her harder than the slick, shiny chopper she’s straddling and of course, that cheer-leader/nerdy, cute girl make-out sequence that every post-pubescent boy prays will hap-pen as their God hands do something a bit less holy. She’s the gorgeous bad girl that does every-thing you’d ever want her to do on screen and in between the pages of your favorite bath-room material. She plays into just about every fantasy imaginable (unless you have a Lord Of The Rings fetish) and, as an added bonus, she even dates everyone’s favorite 90210 white rapper. Oh, and then there’s that whole thing about her being an actress. And on her star power alone … she’s fading. Sure, she was in the Transformers mov-ies that made ungodly amounts of money, but they sure as hell didn’t draw in millions because of her Shakespearian monologues. With the exception of her gratuitous screen time in Michael Bay’s Bad Boys and robot movies, Megan has delivered a handful of per-formances that you’ve probably never seen; I mean, unless you’re as much of a Hope & Faith fanatic as I am. She called out Mr. Bay for his exploitation of her not long ago, which is all well and good. And then she decided to launch the next step of her career with Jennifer’s Body, the inten-tionally cheesy horror-comedy that’s sexploi-tation, or more fittingly, Foxploitation at it0s finest. But isn’t that what the public wanted? Jennifer’s Body was hyped solely on Fox alone, with her in schoolgirl and cheerleader garb, making eyes, swimming naked and lick-

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melt away. House’s epiphany displays Laurie’s brilliance in full force as he manages to gain

our sympathy while still being a complete jerk. The second half of the episode explores House’s transformation, which begins with him telling his doctor that he is “sick of being miserable.” The episode is full of touching and emotional scenes that are a far cry from the usual House for-mat. The scene in which House and his doctor have their first therapy session is particularly telling. House explains his fear of los-ing his edge as a doctor by taking psychiatric medications, but also the contradiction with his desire to get better. The romance between House and Lydia is surprisingly touch-ing, though short-lived. The love scene between the two charac-ters is the moment where House moves into a completely new direction. The audience even sees him cry, something that he has never come close to doing in any of the previous seasons of the show. With such a drastic shift away from the typical House format, there is sure to be backlash from the die-hard fans of the brilliant curmudgeon. However, these fans should be comforted to see that all the wit and sarcasm that makes House a unique show still remains. What’s different is that viewers get to see a new side of House and if the first episode is indicative of the rest of the season, it should be the beginning of some exciting changes.


sophomore students. Accord-ing to Simpson, this facility will bridge the gap between the traditional dorms, where most freshman students reside, and the apartment-style living that upperclassmen are seeking. Also, the developments on the new downtown campus demon-strate UB’s dedication to better-

ing the community, according to Simpson. “It is a clear signal to the com-munity that we are committed to building a health center in down-town Buffalo,” Simpson said. Simpson also pointed out that UB 2020 exists not only to better students’ experiences, but also that of its employees. The Chron-icle recently ranked UB as one of the top five research universities

for employees. Simpson acknowledged the dif-ficulties that the university will face due to the state budget cuts and the decreases in the amount of funding UB will receive. He pointed out that although he doesn’t know what the future will hold, the university has to be adaptable and anticipate chang-es. “We had a poor year,” Simpson

said. “Private support of this pub-lic university is going to become more and more important in the future.” He added that the administra-tion’s dedication to the UB 2020 vision has helped the university prevail through economic diffi-culties. “We have coped with [the budget cuts] because of changes we have put in place through UB

2020,” Simpson said. The council members left the meeting with the understanding that the UB 2020 plan is not a dis-tant future goal, but a continuous effort. “This is not a plan that lies ahead of us,” Simpson said. “It’s a plan we’ve been working on for the past two-and-a-half years.”


things in his team that he likes. He hopes the effort his team has put in so far will translate to wins as the season progresses. “The biggest positive of this game was that… nobody on the team quit for the full 90 min-utes and everyone kept pushing through the last whistle,” Thom-as said. Thomas was proud that his team played hard despite health problems. The flu hit a few of the players, making it hard to have a steady strategy and rotation to utilize during the game. Buffalo’s lack of depth affected the team late in the game. “Also, we have got a few knocks, we have got a bit of the flu running through the team,” Thomas said. “A lot of players got some playing time, and as a coaching staff we have to figure a few things out.” Though Thomas credited his

team with strong effort, he saw many things the team needed to improve on. The one thing that he wants his team to work on for the rest of the season is, coincidental-ly, the same thing they excelled at this game. “It is mainly inconsistency,” Thomas said. “For parts of every game we come out and play very, very well, but it is a 90 minute soccer game. We have to learn that we have to battle. We have to do all the little things right for 90 minutes or we are not going to get results. Everything from connecting passes to battling for balls in the air to our one-on-one defense.” The Bulls will take on the Miami (Ohio) this Friday at the UB Stadium to open up Mid-American Conference play. Game time is at 7:00 p.m.


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the South Campus Instrument Center in the School of Dental Medicine. A bitemark analysis is per-formed when photographs are taken of the bitemark, with a scale in place, and the pattern of the mark is compared to a scanned image of the biting edges of the suspect’s arrangement of teeth, according to Bush. “Our approach was entirely exploratory, having no expecta-tion of what would be revealed. We simply reported what was found,” Bush said. “It was found in the study that dentitions that did not make the bite sometimes fit better than the true biting den-tition.” UB’s Laboratory for Forensic Odontology Research is one of the first institutions to use cadav-ers instead of animal subjects to perform this study. “The circumstances of an altercation in which a bitemark may be inflicted are impossible to replicate experimentally,” Bush said. “In our research, we used the best model available to study tooth impressions on the skin.” The study and its findings may help prevent wrongful con-victions from occurring in the future. “It is possible that our finding will be used by the defense in courts when bitemark evidence is introduced,” Bush said. “[The study] may have an impact on the levels of certainty expressed by an expert witness.”

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change was implemented to help motivate students to perform well academically,” Eberth said. “I’m finally performing well academi-cally and I get all my aid, including my loans, taken away and I could barely afford to pay for school. That’s not motivation.” Ryan claims that the university is not trying to persecute students. “UB is not victimizing students with the change,” Ryan said. “We are only changing policy so we can comply with longstanding federal guidelines.” Emmanuel Hudson, a senior psychology major, said that the Student Response Center told him that only a handful of students would be affected by the change. As a transfer student to UB who had changed his major, he thought he was just one of the unlucky few. However, that he wasn’t as alone as he thought. “Fifty-six students in my [Edu-cational Opportunity Program] program dropped out because financial aid was the only way they could pay for school,” Hud-son said. “Private loans weren’t an option because of family [issues] and whatnot.” Most of the 2,000 students who found themselves without financial aid were unable to take out private loans, according to the EOP. “I’m taking 27 credits this semester to try and finish my degree early to save money,” said Rashod Coston, a senior bio-medical sciences and psychology major. “It’s hard to take that many classes and still work enough to make my monthly payments for school, but it’s what I’ve got to do. I think my only other option might be to join the military.” Coston questions whether this rapid policy change is even legal. “The part that is weird to me

is how a new policy can affect returning students,” Coston said. “That seems like breach of con-tract. It should only affect incom-ing classes. It should be illegal.” Currently, SBI Legal Assistance is looking into the legality of the sit-uation. So far, nothing points in the direction of illegality as federal stu-dent aid is renewed each year when a student files his or her FAFSA. “Financial aid is appropriated every semester based on the federal guidelines that UB complies with,” Ryan said. “Each academic year, a student’s financial aid status could change.” Though students can generally apply for an appeal on their finan-cial aid decision, many students, like Hudson, are finding that an appeal is no longer an option. Eberth feels she’s being punished for past mistakes. This is her fourth year in school but she only has 63 credits and her completion rate is below the required 70 percent. She blames this on the fact that she had a hard time adjusting to college life as a commuter student. “My GPA is finally in an excellent position and yet I’m being screwed over,” Eberth said. Eberth looked into leaving the university, but was held back due to the quality of the program. “I would love to change schools if I could, but unfortunately UB’s psychology program is excellent and leaving would be a detriment to my education,” Eberth said. “I’m beyond upset.” Eberth is most angry about the short notice and the fact that no one seemed to know about the situ-ation, even her academic advisers. “My entire four years at UB, none of my advisers told me that this would be a problem,’ Eberth said. “They told me that if I felt I was going to fail a class I should drop it. My adviser even went down to the [SRC] after I said something

because they didn’t know about it.” The next step for students look-ing to change the fate of their financial aid decision is to call or write their congressman about pushing forward the federal leg-

islation regarding college costs. Eberth called Congressman Chris Lee (R-NY) and he personally called UB to help her get at least her TAP grant back for this school year. “Definitely call someone,”

Eberth said. “They can help. They are there to help when things don’t feel fair and this definitely does not feel fair.”


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mation Initiative, which seeks to consolidate and streamline UBIT services. “We have been looking at the possibility of outsourcing e-mail for about four years,” said Rich-ard Lesniak, director of academic services for UBIT. “Along with e-mail, Google Apps offers stu-dents expanded collaborative and productivity tools.” Google provides students with tools that can help them communi-cate more effectively, according to Lesniak. Google Chat, which works in-browser, allows students to instant message any of their contacts. “I could click on any of my con-tacts and start up an conversation on the spot,” said David Volmy, a fresh-man biomedical sciences major. “I can even can start a video conversa-tion without leaving my inbox.” UBmail outsourced to Google also offers students search capabili-ties and seven gigabytes of storage. “I have not had to delete any messages since starting UB and if I’m looking for a message, I just type any part of the message I can remember and [Google Apps]

locates it,” Volmy said. Although she’s not part of the pilot, Lauren Burkard, a junior biomedical sciences, uses Google’s e-mail client for personal use. “I like the way I could easily e-mail a group of people and clearly view all of their responses on one page,” Burkard said. Students can also use Google Docs to create, edit and share docu-ments without additional software, Lesniak said. “I like that I could create a docu-ment or presentation for my club, and instantly share it with my contacts,” Burkard said. “[Google Docs] makes it easier for me to receive feedback on new projects.” Under the new partnership terms, UB students retain their @buffalo.edu e-mail address-es and would still log in at ubmail.buffalo.edu. After logging in, students are securely trans-ferred to Google and use the service free of advertising. “The e-mail outsource will come at no charge to UB,” Lesniak said. “This would allow us to redirect the resources previously used to provide UBmail for other UBIT services.”

Although the implementation of Google Apps offers a wide array of tools that are missing from UBmail, one tool will be taken away. Accord-ing to Lesnaik, students will no longer be able to use IMAP. IMAP is an Internet messaging protocol that allows e-mail messages to be transferred from a server to an out-side e-mail client. “This is one of complaints we expect to encounter with Google Apps,” Lesniak said. “Students could still access their UBmail using the web browser on their cell phone.” UBIT has also addressed some privacy concerns. UBmail pow-ered by Google would only be available to UB students, according to Lesniak. This is to ensure that Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act regulations are fully met. “We have not had any major issues so far,” Lesniak said. “The time frame for rolling out the new service to all UB students is yet to be determined, but we estimate [UBmail powered by Google] to be available for the start of the 2010 academic year.”


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Although Buffalo ran well, the Zips gave them all they could handle. Akron’s Joe McCoy fin-ished the 8K race with a time of 25:29, a new course record.

McCoy’s finish impressed not only Akron fans, but Mitchell as well. “So far this season, [McCoy] has ran very, very strong,” Mitch-ell said. “He has come a long way from last season. He has con-

sistently improved through the indoor and outdoor seasons and we definitely want to give him props for running the great race he ran.” Despite the one-point loss to a conference rival, Mitchell believes the race might be a bless-ing in disguise. “I’m kind of glad we didn’t win because our team remains a little hungry now,” Mitchell said. “It lets our guys know that we’re capable of beating Akron. Hope-fully we’ll beat them when it real-ly counts at the end of October in

the conference championships.” The women’s cross country team also found success at the invitational with a third place fin-ish in the 5K race. The team’s 88 points placed them behind Cor-nell, which finished first with 20 points, and Akron, which tallied 44 points. Newcomers impressed for Buffalo and were led by freshman Jackie Cavalluzzo, who finished in 18th place with a time of 19:15. Freshman Katie Sanders finished 20th in 19:19, and freshman Leah Wightman finished 30th in 19:57.

Sophomore Ellen Muster placed 25th with a time of 19:38. The men and women will be back in action at the highly com-petitive Lehigh Paul Short Invi-tational on Friday, Oct. 2. Races are slated to begin at 11 a.m. “It’s a very highly competi-tive field,” Mitchell said. “It’s great for our kids to be involved in such a great competition just four weeks before our conference championships. We’re excited to race there.”


later, Western New Yorkers – including myself – have endured gut-wrenching loss after gut-wrenching loss. Nevertheless, as a loyal fan, I continue to support my team. I shrugged off the heartbreak-

ing loss and looked forward to Sunday’s home opener against Tampa Bay. Buffalo proved that its showing at New England was no fluke this week. In a convincing 33-20 win over the Buccaneers, the Bills seemed to have forged an identity that has been missing for the past decade. Quarterback Trent Edwards has been fantastic to watch through the first two games. With control over the newly installed no-huddle offense, Edwards has commanded the field with great poise and precision. The inexperienced offensive line has controlled opposing defenders, while running back Fred Jackson has rushed for 220 yards. The defense has created pres-sure on opposing quarterbacks,

produced turnovers and been stout against the run. Head coach Dick Jauron has shown confi-dence in his team and seems to have eliminated the bone-headed decisions that have haunted his career in Buffalo. I know it’s only two games into the season, but I can’t help but be excited for the team’s potential. I will admit that my head is high in the clouds after their first win and one bad loss will put my feet back on the ground. But that’s the life of a Bills fan and I wouldn’t have it any other way.


player in the nation. Starakiewicz had to bounce back after dropping the first set 5-7 and taking the second and third sets each by a score of 6-3. Penn’s Eugen Brazdil, who won in three sets, 6-3, 3-6, 6-0, eliminated Starakiewicz later in the day. Sophomore Alex Kalinin per-formed especially well in the E singles, making it all the way to the championship round. After beating Andreas Danielsson of Binghamton in the first round, Kalinin defeated Princeton’s Parker Preyer, 6-4, 6-4 and Penn’s Jeff Karsh, 6-4, 6-3. In Sunday’s championship match, Kalinin was knocked off in the championship round, 6-2, 6-3, by Yale’s Matt Schimmel. “Alex [Kalinin] played very well this weekend,” said Buffalo head coach Lee Nickell. “He did what we asked him to do and we’re very pleased with his prog-ress.” Junior Marcelo Mazzetto also advanced to the Sunday rounds, moving up to the consolation final after losing to Cornell’s Jonathan Fife in the first round. Mazzetto rebounded with straight-sets wins over Ryan Kim of Princeton and Jason Lin of Penn, only to fall to Yale’s Marc Powers, 6-2, 6-0. “Our goal is always going to be to go and win the tournament,” Nickell said. “Obviously we would have liked to come away with a few trophies, but being a new coach and having new play-ers and trying to establish our-selves in the region, the main goal is to go in and compete as hard as we can and we achieved that goal.” While four Bulls traveled to New Jersey, four others stayed local and participated in two dif-

ferent doubles flights at Niagara on Saturday and Sunday. Both Buffalo pairs reached the cham-pionship rounds in their respec-tive flights. Senior Eric Rothstein and sophomore Kristof Custers won the title in the White Flight competition, going undefeated in their six matches. The duo totaled four victories on Satur-day, enough to put them in the Sunday semifinals, where they shut out York University’s David Damiani and Chris Faltenheim, 8-0. In the championship match, Rothstein and Custers pulled out an 8-4 win against York’s Dan Weese and Tim Khagem. “We’re very pleased with the way that they played,” Nickell said. “To be able to take a victory away from [the competition] is great.” Junior Mitch Zenaty and freshman George Tibil competed in the Purple Flight, going 3-1 on Saturday to earn a spot in the semifinals. They then defeated Brandon Gallegos and David Sarrasin of Niagara, 8-4, and advanced to the finals. York’s Mikhail Lew and Anthony Rakic then beat Tibil and Zenaty in the championship match tiebreaker for the second time in two days. First-year assistant coach Jordie Kindervater handled the coaching duties at Niagara while Nickell was with the other play-ers at the Princeton Invite. “This tournament gave us a great opportunity to exclusively work on our doubles play and I am happy with how our guys per-formed this weekend,” Kinder-vater said in a press release. The Dartmouth Invitational is next on Buffalo’s schedule and is slated for Oct. 2.



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by MAC After taking home the championship of the Cornell tournament this past week-end, the volleyball team added another honor to its repertoire on Monday.

Freshman defensive spe-cialist Tori Beckman was named the Mid-American Conference East Defensive Player of the Week after aver-aging 5.4 digs per set during the Bulls’ last four matches.

Even during the Bulls’ five-set loss to Syracuse, Beckman recorded a match-high 24 digs. During the team’s triple-header at Cornell, Beckman again recorded match-highs with 15, 16 and 17 digs.

“I am glad to see Tori rec-ognized for her outstanding play this past week,” said head coach Todd Kress in a press release. “She has made a huge difference on this team since the first match and continues to be a big reason for our suc-cess.”

The Kansas City, Mo. native has quickly emerged as a leader on a revamped Buffalo squad. Beckman leads the Bulls with 208 digs on the season while her 4.73 digs per set ranks second in the MAC. Beckman is also second on the team in assists with 35 and tied for second in service aces with 10.

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By LUKE HAMMILLStaff Writer

The men’s tennis team put forth impressive per-formances on Sunday, even with half its squad split between two states. Buffalo sent four of its top players to the Farns-worth/Princeton Invita-tional in Princeton, N.J., and four others to the Niagara Doubles Shootout at nearby Niagara Univer-sity. The Princeton Invite consisted of five singles flights and two doubles flights. The competi-

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A true rivalry is brewing between two Mid-Amer-ican Conference cross-country foes. Over the course of the season, the Buffalo and Akron cross-country teams have been running step-for-step and their rivalry reached a new level this past Saturday at the UB Stampede Invitational. Unfortunately for the Bulls, the day belonged to Akron. Buffalo was unable to top the Zips’ 58-point first place finish, finishing just behind their conference foe with 59 points. “Akron has a really strong team,” said head coach Vicki Mitchell. “We were really excited

that they came out to run with us this year. Having a conference team running against you early on in the season helps you gauge where you stand in terms of [the] ultimate goal: the conference champion-ship.” Sophomore Jacob Hagen led the Bulls, finishing fourth in the men’s 8K race with a time of 25:59. Soph-omore Ryan Bloom placed 10th with a time of 26:19, while freshmen Dylan Conway finished close behind in 11th at 26:20. Seniors Mike Gillis and Ryan Zillman, who both finished the race in 26:33, also placed in the top 20. Their times were good enough for 16th and 18th place.

New season,

old tricks Here we go again. That all too familiar buzz has occupied the air in the city of Buffalo. With the second week of the National Football League season in the books, the Buffalo Bills are up to their old tricks. It was a wild week for the Bills prior to the season opener at New England. Just 10 days before the start of the season, Buffalo fired offensive coordinator Turk Schonert and replaced him with former quar-terbacks coach Alex Van Pelt. Four days later, the Bills released their multi-million dollar left tackle Langston Walker and put their faith in second-year project Demetrius Bell. After the hype that sur-rounded the team during the pervious few months, it seemed as though all hope had come crashing down in the blink of an eye. As a diehard Bills fan, however, I enter every sea-son with high expectations that this will be the year – the year we defeat the almighty Patriots, make the playoffs and finally win the Super Bowl. But after an embarrass-ing preseason and the drastic changes made on a whim, I couldn’t help but expect another disap-pointing season in Orchard Park. Heading into the first week at New England, I didn’t have a glimmer of hope for Buffalo to win the game. Though I may be a lifelong fan, I am also a realist. Traveling to Gillette Stadium to take on Tom Brady, on Monday night, in the national spotlight? Not a chance. To my disbelief, the Bills gave New England every-thing they could handle and more. In all reality, Buffalo should’ve left Bos-ton with a win. Controlling the Patriots for 55 minutes of football was an impres-sive showing for the young Bills. I’ll be the first to admit, I thought Buffalo had pulled off the upset. The excitement in the air gave me goose bumps as I waited for the clock to reach zero. Unfortunately, a football game totals 60 minutes. Blowing an 11-point lead in the final five minutes to lose 25-24 was an emotion-ally deflating defeat. But I should be used to this by now, right? Four straight Super Bowl losses, two straight Monday night meltdowns and a Music City miracle

Rivalry in the making

tion included teams from Binghamton, Columbia, Cornell, Penn, Penn State, Princeton, St. John’s and Yale. Despite the tough competition, Buffalo had an impressive showing. Sophomore Wojciech Starakiewicz played well in the A singles, cruising to a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Princeton’s Ravi Yegya-Raman on Friday. The next day, Starakiewicz, a native of Warsaw, Poland, turned heads by upsetting No. 1 seed Mihal Nichifor of Columbia, the 78th ranked

Split success

By MATT WEBERStaff Report

This past weekend, the women’s soccer team traveled 20 minutes down Main Street in its last game before the start of confer-ence play. With hopes of a win to give the team a little momentum heading into Mid-American Confer-ence play, the Bulls (1-7-0) came up short against the Canisius Golden Griffins (6-0-1), losing 3-1. “Overall I was certainly very happy,” said Canisius head coach Jim Wendling in a press release. “The girls played smart, played very well and it was nice to beat UB in a cross-town rivalry game.” Buffalo’s lone goal came in the 82nd minute of play from senior middle/forward Sara Hilliard off an assist from freshman middle/forward Natasha Arana. After a Canisius foul, Arana sent a long free kick towards to Hilliard,

who headed the ball into the back of the Griffins’ net. The goal was Hilliard’s first of her college career. By that time though, the Griffins had already posted three goals. Canisius scored the first goal 16 minutes into the game when Jenny Griffin outhustled three Bulls for a loose ball in front of Buffalo’s net to gain the lead. The Griffins quickly doubled their lead nine minutes later when Sylvia Kowalski received a long cross from Kelly Reinwald and punched it into the net. Down 2-0 late halfway into the second half, Buffalo tried to get some offense of its own, but they added to the deficit when one of the Bulls’ defenders deflected the ball into the back of the net to make the score 3-0. Despite the loss and the overall less than stellar season eight games into the season, Thomas sees some

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Griffs grab Bulls by the horns

Jeff Liu / The SpectrumThe men’s Cross-country team missed first place at the UB Stampede Invite by one point, falling short to the Akron Zips.

Spectrum File PhotoThe women’s soccer team’s woes continued as they fell 3-1 to cross-town rival Canisius over the weekend.

Spectrum File PhotoEric Rothstein and Kristof Custers won the Niagara Doubles Shootout as their teammates competed in N.J. at the Princeton Invite.

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