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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT PUBLICATION OF THE UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, SINCE 1950 Monday, March 4, 2013 ubspectruM.coM VoluMe 62 no. 59 OpiniOn 3 Life, Arts & entertAinment 4,5 CLAssifieds & dAiLy deLights 7 spOrts 8 inside RACHEL RAIMONDI Asst. News Editor Antoine Matthews pleaded guilty on Friday to trying to rob five UB students in November. Matthews pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted robbery in the second degree. He was released from Attica Prison in November and two weeks later attempted to rob five students in the Heights in two separate incidents, according to the Erie County District Attor- ney’s Office. Matthews was in prison from 2007 to 2012 for burglary and at- tempted assault. On Nov. 17, Matthews displayed what appeared to be a silver revolv- er to three students on Winspear Avenue and demanded money. After they gave him their money, Matthews fled the scene. The stu- dents ran to South Campus and called University Police (UPD). UPD Officers Eric Radder, Scott McMillan and Theodore Kopacz gathered enough information from the three witnesses to canvass the area and locate Matthews, said UPD Chief Gerald Schoenle. Matthews tossed the gun, which turned out to be a silver toy revolv- er, before the officers approached him near the intersection of Bailey and Shirley Avenues. The officers recovered the toy gun and other property on the suspect that con- nected him to a different robbery on Winspear about 30 minutes prior, according to Schoenle. Matthews robbed two female students who identified him in a lineup. He faces a maximum prison sentence of seven years for each robbery and will be sentenced on May 1. He also faces additional time for a parole violation as a re- sult of these crimes, according to the Erie County District Attorney’s Office. Email: [email protected] Local felon targets students in the Heights Daly life lessons, one English class at a time Beloved professor Robert Daly explains how literature has helped guide his life CARRIE LOMBARDI Staff Writer On Robert Daly’s first day of teaching, a student asked him if he was a professor. He was 22 at the time and he didn’t look much different from the students them- selves. To ease the tension, he replied, “No, actually, I’m a janitor in this building. But as you know, there is a teacher shortage, so they gave me this tie and just told me to come in here and wing it.” Nobody laughed. At that moment, Daly realized teaching was not going to be easy, but it was something that would continue to excite him. Dr. Robert Daly, a SUNY Distin- guished Professor of English, has been teaching for 40 years, all of which has been spent at UB. He did not intend on majoring in English but does not regret his decision to change majors. Now, as a professor, Daly strives to teach his students to interpret and synthesize not just lit- erature but life, as well. Daly didn’t always have his life figured out. To him, there is noth- ing wrong with that. He believes the earlier a person has things “figured out,” the less exciting and meaning- ful his or her life will be. In the sticks of Ohio, with the help of his grandfather, he learned to love mathematics from a young age. He could calculate simple equations, performing what his grandfather deemed “lightning mathematics,” before he could re- cite the alphabet. It wasn’t until col- lege, during the second semester of his junior year, that English became a priority. SAM FERNANDO Asst. News Editor I n 1984, Australia held its first sci- ence summer program for high school students. Liesl Folks was there. When the 16-year-old laid her sights on a nuclear accelerator, she knew she wanted to be a scientist. Now Folks is one of seven female deans of any engineering school in the United States. That summer 29 years ago, the self-proclaimed “prototypical geek” had the opportunity to visit the Australian National University, where she saw the nuclear accelera- tor – a device that speeds particles up to create high energies allow- ing scientists to do various experi- ments. She was astounded by the sheer magnitude and power of the piece of equipment. Folks, the new dean of the School of Engineering and Ap- plied Sciences (SEAS), has worked over 15 years in the private sector for IBM and Hitachi. The Austra- lia native plans to take her experi- ences and passion for science and apply them to her new role at UB to recruit more women to the engi- neering field and enhance the uni- versity’s rank and reputation. One of Folks’ biggest concerns is women’s disinterest in engineer- ing. She plans to strengthen pro- grams for college students, local high schools and grade schools to increase engineering appeal not only for women but underrepre- sented minorities. “For UB as an institution, I think it is terrific for UB to have a woman in a position of leadership in what is a traditionally male-dominated field,” said Bruce Pitman, the dean of the College of Arts and Scienc- es, in an email. “She is a great role model for young women consid- ering a career in [science, technol- ogy, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)] fields.” Folks went to Penrhos Ladies College, an all-girls high school in Perth, Western Australia. She said the stigma of a girl pursuing a career in the sciences was non- existent there because the school pushed girls to excel in those fields, to which she partially attributes her passion. She went on to major in phys- ics at the University of Western Australia and became an academic at the same school until she left to work in the private sector. Pitman, who was on the search committee that interviewed Folks for the dean position, said Folks’ hiring will strengthen UB’s engi- neering and industry collaborations. He agrees UB has to make an effort to bring more women into SEAS. He said in addition to Folks’ credentials and industry experience, she is the person who will pique the interest of women. “For me, the most critical thing is for when you get women and underrepresented minorities into engineering, nurture them as best you can to make sure they get out the other end, that we don’t lose them along the way, that they don’t become disenchanted for whatever reason and drop out of the pro- gram,” Folks said. Folks compared this “problem” to the issue in the field of medicine. She said a few years ago, medicine was a male-dominated field, but now, there are more women pursu- ing a career in the field than men. However, that same trend isn’t hap- pening in the engineering field. Folks said her experience in in- dustry is very different from aca- demia, but she is excited to tackle the task of enhancing SEAS. “In business, you pretty much have a single focus, which is to push your product out the door and to make money,” Folks said. “Here, we have many missions – education may be the prime among them, but also engagement with the broader community, with industry and with [lower-level] education. It’s a much more interesting ecosystem.” Folks replaced Harvey G. Stenger Jr., who stepped down in April 2011; she has held the position since January. She was selected as one of four finalists in October. “She has a great experience with industry, and she has a lot of con- nections,” said President Satish Tripathi on Feb. 6. “She is a leader in the field and she has a great con- nection with academia. At the end of the day, [we hired her] because of the fit and how the rest of the university felt.” She said there is a perception that UB doesn’t do enough with in- dustry. But she found UB does an enormous amount of interaction with industry, but not many people outside the university know about its “breadth and depth.” “We need to be proactive about communicating our successes in re- search with the broader community, not just with the funding agencies but also with the business commu- nity and industry,” Folks said. UB is currently ranked the 54th- best engineering school in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. Folks said she is go- ing to work to move UB further up the list. Venu Govindaraju is a distin- guished professor in computer sci- ence and engineering who served on the search committee that inter- viewed Folks. He said her leader- ship as the president of the Insti- tute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Magnetics Society – also being the first woman to hold this prestigious position – will propel UB’s rank and reputation. ‘SEAS’ of new hope New engineering dean works to bring more women to her field Continued on page 7 Continued on page 2 COURTESY OF DOUGLAS LEVERE / UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO Liesl Folks has high ambitions as the new dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). One of her goals is to draw more women and minorities into the field of engineering. ALEC FRAzIER /// THE SPECTRUM Professor Robert Daly aims to inspire and educate his students by teaching them more than just lessons in literature, but lessons in life. Bulls defeat first-ever ranked opponent Story on page 8 Story on page 2 Law school dean Mutua serves on international tribunal

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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT PUBLICATION OF THE UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, SINCE 1950

Monday, March 4, 2013ubspectruM.coM VoluMe 62 no. 59

OpiniOn 3 Life, Arts & entertAinment 4,5CLAssifieds & dAiLy deLights 7 spOrts 8inside

RACHEL RAIMONDIAsst. News Editor

Antoine Matthews pleaded guilty on Friday to trying to rob five UB students in November.

Matthews pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted robbery in the second degree. He was released from Attica Prison in November and two weeks later attempted to rob five students in the Heights in two separate incidents, according to the Erie County District Attor-ney’s Office.

Matthews was in prison from 2007 to 2012 for burglary and at-tempted assault.

On Nov. 17, Matthews displayed what appeared to be a silver revolv-er to three students on Winspear Avenue and demanded money. After they gave him their money, Matthews fled the scene. The stu-dents ran to South Campus and called University Police (UPD). UPD Officers Eric Radder, Scott McMillan and Theodore Kopacz

gathered enough information from the three witnesses to canvass the area and locate Matthews, said UPD Chief Gerald Schoenle.

Matthews tossed the gun, which turned out to be a silver toy revolv-er, before the officers approached him near the intersection of Bailey and Shirley Avenues. The officers recovered the toy gun and other property on the suspect that con-nected him to a different robbery on Winspear about 30 minutes prior, according to Schoenle.

Matthews robbed two female students who identified him in a lineup. He faces a maximum prison sentence of seven years for each robbery and will be sentenced on May 1. He also faces additional time for a parole violation as a re-sult of these crimes, according to the Erie County District Attorney’s Office.

Email: [email protected]

Local felon targets students in the Heights

Daly life lessons, one English class at a timeBeloved professor Robert Daly explains how literature has helped guide his life

CARRIE LOMBARDIStaff Writer

On Robert Daly’s first day of teaching, a student asked him if he was a professor. He was 22 at the time and he didn’t look much different from the students them-selves.

To ease the tension, he replied, “No, actually, I’m a janitor in this building. But as you know, there is a teacher shortage, so they gave me this tie and just told me to come in here and wing it.”

Nobody laughed.At that moment, Daly realized

teaching was not going to be easy, but it was something that would continue to excite him.

Dr. Robert Daly, a SUNY Distin-guished Professor of English, has been teaching for 40 years, all of which has been spent at UB. He did not intend on majoring in English but does not regret his decision to change majors. Now, as a professor, Daly strives to teach his students to interpret and synthesize not just lit-erature but life, as well.

Daly didn’t always have his life figured out. To him, there is noth-ing wrong with that. He believes the earlier a person has things “figured out,” the less exciting and meaning-ful his or her life will be.

In the sticks of Ohio, with the help of his grandfather, he learned to love mathematics from a young

age. He could calculate simple equations, performing what his grandfather deemed “lightning mathematics,” before he could re-cite the alphabet. It wasn’t until col-lege, during the second semester of his junior year, that English became a priority.

SAM FERNANDOAsst. News Editor

In 1984, Australia held its first sci-ence summer program for high

school students.Liesl Folks was there. When the

16-year-old laid her sights on a nuclear accelerator, she knew she wanted to be a scientist.

Now Folks is one of seven female deans of any engineering school in the United States.

That summer 29 years ago, the self-proclaimed “prototypical geek” had the opportunity to visit the Australian National University, where she saw the nuclear accelera-tor – a device that speeds particles up to create high energies allow-ing scientists to do various experi-ments. She was astounded by the sheer magnitude and power of the piece of equipment.

Folks, the new dean of the School of Engineering and Ap-plied Sciences (SEAS), has worked over 15 years in the private sector for IBM and Hitachi. The Austra-lia native plans to take her experi-ences and passion for science and apply them to her new role at UB to recruit more women to the engi-neering field and enhance the uni-versity’s rank and reputation.

One of Folks’ biggest concerns is women’s disinterest in engineer-ing. She plans to strengthen pro-grams for college students, local high schools and grade schools to increase engineering appeal not only for women but underrepre-sented minorities.

“For UB as an institution, I think it is terrific for UB to have a woman in a position of leadership in what is a traditionally male-dominated field,” said Bruce Pitman, the dean of the College of Arts and Scienc-es, in an email. “She is a great role

model for young women consid-ering a career in [science, technol-ogy, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)] fields.”

Folks went to Penrhos Ladies College, an all-girls high school in Perth, Western Australia. She said the stigma of a girl pursuing a career in the sciences was non-existent there because the school pushed girls to excel in those fields, to which she partially attributes her passion.

She went on to major in phys-ics at the University of Western Australia and became an academic at the same school until she left to work in the private sector.

Pitman, who was on the search committee that interviewed Folks for the dean position, said Folks’ hiring will strengthen UB’s engi-neering and industry collaborations.

He agrees UB has to make an effort to bring more women into SEAS. He said in addition to Folks’ credentials and industry experience, she is the person who will pique the interest of women.

“For me, the most critical thing is for when you get women and underrepresented minorities into engineering, nurture them as best you can to make sure they get out the other end, that we don’t lose them along the way, that they don’t become disenchanted for whatever

reason and drop out of the pro-gram,” Folks said.

Folks compared this “problem” to the issue in the field of medicine. She said a few years ago, medicine was a male-dominated field, but now, there are more women pursu-ing a career in the field than men. However, that same trend isn’t hap-pening in the engineering field.

Folks said her experience in in-dustry is very different from aca-demia, but she is excited to tackle the task of enhancing SEAS.

“In business, you pretty much have a single focus, which is to push your product out the door and to make money,” Folks said. “Here,

we have many missions – education may be the prime among them, but also engagement with the broader community, with industry and with [lower-level] education. It’s a much more interesting ecosystem.”

Folks replaced Harvey G. Stenger Jr., who stepped down in April 2011; she has held the position since January. She was selected as one of four finalists in October.

“She has a great experience with industry, and she has a lot of con-nections,” said President Satish Tripathi on Feb. 6. “She is a leader in the field and she has a great con-nection with academia. At the end of the day, [we hired her] because of the fit and how the rest of the university felt.”

She said there is a perception that UB doesn’t do enough with in-dustry. But she found UB does an enormous amount of interaction with industry, but not many people outside the university know about its “breadth and depth.”

“We need to be proactive about communicating our successes in re-search with the broader community, not just with the funding agencies but also with the business commu-nity and industry,” Folks said.

UB is currently ranked the 54th-best engineering school in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. Folks said she is go-ing to work to move UB further up the list.

Venu Govindaraju is a distin-guished professor in computer sci-ence and engineering who served on the search committee that inter-viewed Folks. He said her leader-ship as the president of the Insti-tute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Magnetics Society – also being the first woman to hold this prestigious position – will propel UB’s rank and reputation.

‘SEAS’ of new hopeNew engineering dean works to bring more women to her field

Continued on page 7

Continued on page 2

COURTESY OF DOUGLAS LEVERE / UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO Liesl Folks has high ambitions as the new dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). One of her goals is to draw more women and minorities into the field of engineering.

ALEC FRAzIER /// THE SPECTRUM

Professor Robert Daly aims to inspire and educate his students by teaching them more than just lessons in literature, but lessons in life.

Bulls defeat first-ever ranked opponent

Story on page 8 Story on page 2

Law school dean Mutua serves on international tribunal

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Makau Mutua, dean of SUNY Buffalo Law School, served as one of the six judges on the international tribunal that heard tes-timony in October in The Hague, Nether-lands.

The tribunal has finally issued a verdict against the Iranian government for crimes against humanity and gross violations of hu-man rights.

During the ’80s, the Islamic Republic of Iran arrested, imprisoned, tortured and killed thousands of Iranian citizens whom the gov-ernment claimed were opponents of the state of Islam.

Only recently has their government even acknowledged these mass executions oc-curred.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran carried out systematic executions, torture, detention and rapes of suspected or imagined government opponents from 1981-88,” Mutua said in an email.

It has been estimated in that time over 20,000 political prisoners, men and women – as well as underage detainees – were sen-tenced to death by execution, according to The Guardian, a newspaper in the United Kingdom.

The peak of this mass slaughter took place in the summer of 1988 when more than 5,000 people were killed in a short span of time throughout prisons all over Iran.

“Iranian prisons, especially the notorious Evin Prison, were the sites of summary tri-als and executions of ‘non-believers’ and ‘enemies of the state,’” Mutua said. “Women were routinely raped in these prisons. Men were killed and buried in mass graves, which is not permitted in Islam.”

The tribunal heard distressing testimonies of such atrocities from 19 witnesses during the three-day proceedings. They also heard from the victims themselves.

“Hearing the testimonies of the victims was gut-wrenching,” Mutua said. “It’s prob-ably one of the toughest things I have had to do. To hear the stories of brutal torture, rape and executions was chilling.”

The tribunal considered a 419-page report formulated by the Truth Commission that encapsulated the entire investigation; it in-cluded almost 75 witnesses who told stories of torture, rape and murder.

“The Truth Commission was a truth-tell-ing device,” Mutua said. “Its purpose is to create a moral account and record of what happened – who were the victims and their victimizers, why the violations took place and by whom. This account is the basis of future investigations and hopefully prosecu-tions of those culpable.”

The Iranian tribunal consisted of interna-tional jurists who have expertise in human rights and international law.

Aside from being the dean of the law school and a SUNY distinguished professor, Mutua is a vice president of the American Society of International Law and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

It because of his background as a promi-nent figure on the international human rights scene that Mutua was asked to serve as one of the judges to look into these charges against Iran’s Islamic leaders.

Mutua hopes this verdict will lead to pros-ecution of those responsible and begin a process of trying to compensate the victims.

“Thousands of Iranians of all back-grounds were victimized by the state. These abuses were not secret, but the state never acknowledged them, or prosecuted officials who carried them out,” Mutua said. “We are pressing the international community, including the United Nations and other re-gional organizations, to put pressure on Iran to bring the perpetrators to justice.”

Mutua and the rest of the judges on the tri-bunal stated in their verdict released on Feb. 5 that it now falls on the Iranian government to proceed forward in taking responsibility for “substantial and widespread violations of human rights.”

The verdict holds what took place in Ira-nian prisons during an entire decade was without question in violation of established international law and the Islamic Republic of Iran should be held fully accountable for what they characterized as “systematic and widespread commission of crimes against humanity.”

“One wonders why human beings can be so cruel and evil to one another,” Mutua said. “It boggles the mind and shocks the human conscience.”

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“Liesl’s industry leadership experience cou-pled with her understanding of true excellence in scholarship are already making a positive im-pact on the faculty and students of the school,” Govindaraju said in an email. “Her dynamic vision and passionate commitment to higher education are strong assets in steering us to-ward fulfilling the mission of establishing UB engineering as a world-class program.”

Last year, the number of students in the en-gineering department increased 50 percent, ac-cording to Provost Charles zukoski. Folks is excited about the new challenge.

She said the heightened interest is a good thing and means more students and parents are realizing the importance of engineering in the future of the country.

However, she said dealing with the sudden increase of students can be problematic, and she would have to come up with creative solu-tions to cater to their needs.

“The challenge for us is that you can’t ramp a university’s capacity to take on students very quickly,” Folks said. “We can’t build our class-rooms fast enough to meet the demand, for

example. So we are going to have to get much more cunning on how we deliver education to make sure that quality isn’t compromised, but we can deal with these variables.”

Folks’ experience at Hitachi and IBM – in the data storage industry, in which she focused on finding ways to make hard-disk drives more efficient at low costs – has taught her how to apply her experience in the private sector to academia.

“The most important thing working in in-dustry [is it] trains you for is the importance of setting goals and milestones toward those goals and trying to keep people moving in the same direction,” Folks said. “Some of that is a leadership issue, some of it is a question of how to keep people motivated and some of it is operational in making sure you are setting the right goals.”

Folks is excited to lead SEAS forward in the engineering world; she hopes more women will join her in the workforce along the way.

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Continued from page 1: ‘SEAS’ of new hope

Members of Pi Lambda Phi decided to come together and raise money for Breezy Point be-cause they think it’s the area that was hit the worst.

“None of us [here] live in Breezy Point, where the money is going, but we all live in Long Island,” Warenycia said. “We went back home and saw the destruction it caused. We know the magnitude of it.”

Although Burdish isn’t raising money for his hometown, he is happy his fraternity is trying to make a difference.

“It’s really nice to know there are still good people in this world,” he said.

Pi Lambda Phi thought of the idea to fund-raise last semester, but put the plan into effect this semester and worked with MORE House, UB’s sophomore learning community.

Hayley Ross, a sophomore international studies and history major, and Jenny Goracke, a junior psychology and communication major, were surprised by the success of Pi Lambda Phi’s fundraiser.

Ross and Goracke are members of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. They were supportive of the drive and dedication seen in the frater-nity members at the table. Like their brother fraternity, Pi Lambda Phi, sisters of Alpha Gamma Delta were also greatly impacted by the destruction of the hurricane.

Goracke was stuck in the Bronx with her boyfriend for a week while the storm raged through New York State because none of the airlines were flying. She said they weren’t hit tragically; they only experienced the bad weath-er.

Ross wasn’t personally affected either, but she jumped at the opportunity to help her friends.

“A lot of my friends’ houses and families within my sorority were affected because they live there,” Ross said. “It hit home, just hearing everyone talking about it, and [I enjoyed] being there to support my sisters.”

About 20-30 percent of people walking through the Student Union donated to the cause and the majority were UB faculty, staff and former students, according to Ross. She thinks the boys picked a great place to set up their fundraising because so many people walk through that area everyday.

This is the first natural disaster fundraiser Pi Lambda Phi has done, but they hope to con-tinue to raise money for various charities. The fraternity raised $280 over the two days, exceed-ing its goal of $200. They were glad they were able to make a difference.

Burdish is feels the donations will leave a big impact on his community.

“Friends of mine and neighbors had lost their entire houses to the storm. The hous-es next door, across the street and diagonal have all been abandoned since the storm hit,” Burdish said. “Everything is slowly returning back to the way it was, at least for us, but I know there are families that are still in shambles, and my heart really goes out to them and their loved ones.”

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COURTESY OF DOUGLAS LEVERE Makau Mutua, dean of the SUNY Buffalo Law School, was a judge on an international tribunal. The tribunal issued a verdict against the Iranian government for crimes against humanity and gross violations of human rights.

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While actors and actresses were waltzing down the Red Carpet Sunday, Feb. 24, The Onion was learning an important lesson: pick on someone your own size.

The faux news organization’s Twitter account sent the ever-watchful World Wide Web into a rage on Oscar Sunday when Oscar-nominated actress Quvenzhané Wallis became a target. A now-delet-ed tweet read, “Everyone else seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhané Wallis is kind of a c**t, right? #Oscars2013.”

Oh, by the way: Quvenzhané Wallis is 9 years old.

As a generation and as a society, we don’t often reach our boundaries and deny we even have them, arrogantly claiming there is nothing you can’t joke about. We like shock value, and we defend every-thing as falling under free speech. There’s a famous saying by George Carlin about comedy: “I believe you can joke about anything. It all depends on how you construct the joke.” Like Carlin, many people believe that as long as the joke has an exaggeration, it doesn’t matter what the subject matter is. Sexual-ity, rape, murder, etc. – it’s fine to joke about.

Or is it? Because public reaction to the tweet says otherwise.

The Onion’s mission is to make people laugh while testing the limits of what offends people. From Armageddon to starving children, it toes the line but rarely crosses it.

This is one of those rare exceptions.Many want to make the argument that this falls

under that category of exaggeration because no matter how many people found her posing to be overdramatic, nobody’s annoyance is that strong to warrant that kind of response.

Those who are on The Onion’s side aren’t neces-sarily on The Onion’s side, though; they’re on the

side of the joke. What the joke’s author meant but failed to properly execute was a critique of the ridiculousness of media coverage and the main-stream gossip bloggers, the people who explicitly tear down a celebrity and in his or her place leave scathing, discriminatory commentary. The joke meant to emulate the style of those like Perez Hil-ton, who has become a celebrity based on noth-ing more than undeserved and immature attacks. The people standing up for the organization are the ones saying everyone else didn’t get the joke or people are too sensitive.

But the joke also has to be funny, and whether you like The Onion or not or understand what the joke was trying to do or not, there is nothing funny about calling a 9-year-old a c**t.

It’s a strong word that packs a punch, and de-spite the fact it is seemingly becoming more prevalent and slightly less taboo, it still holds all the same connotations. That does not change how very powerful and insulting it is. That is the point of using it: it’s not to satirize the work of the al-ready offensive but to insult somebody in the most misogynistic and sexualized way – to refer to that person as weak. Even if that is not the intention, who is going to know the difference?

Certainly not a 9-year-old girl smiling for the cameras and showing off her puppy-dog purse.

Are children the only people off limits? Come-dian Daniel Tosh lit a fire under many over the summer when controversial jokes about rape got out of hand at Los Angeles’ Laugh Factory. After a female audience member heckled him that rape is never funny, Tosh reportedly said, “Wouldn’t it be funny if that girl got raped by, like, five guys right now?” Comedians and fans stuck up for him, but most people did not.

But like the present situation, it brought up whether or not comedy should have limits. The Onion even apologized for the tweet via an offi-cial Facebook post (albeit awkward and very out of character for the organization), which perhaps speaks more than the actual public reaction. If anything, this should set a precedent and other or-ganizations – satirical or not – gauge exactly the kind of reaction this caused. We are more sensitive of a society than we’d like to believe, and that’s probably a good thing.

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MARIO AYOUB

I have to say that I’m very pleased to see the Uni-versity Heights finally in the spotlight. This neigh-borhood hasn’t lived up to its potential in years past, and I feel confident that we are approach-ing a transitional period. I want to believe that the attention the Heights is receiving will generate a positive response. However, as of right now, this isn’t going to happen.

The main problem I see is press coverage. While I appreciate the Spectrum’s call for action, I cannot help but think Khoury’s article, “The Heights of Fear,” has done more harm then good. Before I explain myself further, I wish to express that I do not discredit any of the issues facing the University Heights. I do not wish to downplay the violence, thefts and the deteriorating housing stock. These are real problems, that if continue to go unad-dressed, will have a negative impact on the school, as well as the city as a whole.

The issue I had with “The Heights of Fear” is fairly straightforward: it did not examine the Heights from both sides of the story. If you are a newcomer to the area, or you are simply not famil-iar with the neighborhood, the article will not ac-curately portray the situation. None of the points presented by Khoury are wrong on their own. But the article fails to mention the positive strides this neighborhood is taking. To me, this reduces these points down to partial truths. And I’m not so sure partial truths mean a whole lot.

When a piece of journalism is fear-driven, a few things are bound to happen. First off, an accurate portrayal of any subject will not be possible. I firmly believe this is the case with the University Heights. Based on this article, you are likely to get shot just driving down Main Street. Second, you are going to scare people away. Of course reader approval should not be of much concern when try-ing to get the facts out there. However, this article reads like a call to action. Right now I feel like the article is intimidating much of the student body. Thirdly, because of this fear, the Heights won’t be a talking point for much longer. Students will see it as an issue they cannot address on their own, and put it out of their minds. Let me elaborate a little on this last point.

To me, “The Heights of Fear” is trying to ex-pose the lack of effort the school has put into the neighborhood. The whole article is appealing to the administration. The sad reality is, that none of the problems highlighted by the piece (burglaries, landlord issues, violence) is news to the administra-tion. They are well aware of the problems facing the Heights. It is redundant to direct an entire in-vestigative piece to just the institution.

What I would like to know is where do we come in? Where do the students of this university play a role in any of this? That is what is lacking from this article. Wouldn’t it have been more effective to direct “The Heights of Fear” at the students, so we in turn could put pressure on the administration? It seems like a more efficient idea, to rile the stu-dents up rather than the administration.

Take for example the last sentence of the Khoury’s article: “So long as the university contin-ues to insist living in the Heights is a choice, stu-dents may have to choose a life of fear.” From a student’s perspective – from my perspective – this article doesn’t leave us many options. Basically, if UB does not step in, the helpless and naïve stu-dents will be haplessly victimized. I am so happy to report this is not the case.

Leaving the students out of the conversation cre-ates a bit of a dilemma. I strongly believe that “The Heights of Fear” is a great piece on the grounds that it exposed the neighborhood to a lot of new-comers. Some of my friends have been discussing the Heights, a place they never knew existed just a few short days ago. But the detrimental error of not involving the students, forces the article to take two steps back. Portraying the typical UB student as a defenseless victim doesn’t empower anyone. It doesn’t inspire hope and it doesn’t inspire action. Yes, everything mentioned in the article did hap-pen. Crimes are committed against students on a regular basis, but we don’t have to stand around. And we don’t have to wait for the administration to throw us a life preserver. I know the point of the article was to reveal that the University Heights is major issue, but not providing a positive talking piece takes power away from the student body.

So how do we the students, get that power back? I will now attempt to include some information I believe that “The Heights of Fear” should have added. Most importantly, the University Heights has many active residents that genuinely care about the safety and integrity of their community. This isn’t the toxic wasteland crawling with crime lords that thrives in Khoury’s article. This is a Buffalo community, separate from the university. Like all promising neighborhoods that have fallen on hard times, there is a core group of residents that want to change things.

Great examples of these people are the mem-bers of the University Heights Collaborative. I en-courage you to check out their site for more infor-mation: www.ourheights.org. The vision posted on their website reads, “A University Heights neigh-borhood that is safe and has a vibrant business dis-trict utilizing and revitalizing walkability, diversity, affordable housing stock, and green space where people desire to live.” Yes, there are people out there who care. No, it is not a forsaken underworld that only the UB police force can save.

Another great group is the University Heights Tool Library. This is an excellent resource to stu-dents and permanent residents alike. For a low yearly fee, a member can check out almost every kind of tool required for a home improvement job. Students with tight budgets are incredibly lucky to have this organization. It can empower them to work past difficult landlords and complete some home repairs on their own.

Neighborhood events such as farmers markets and garden walks can provide invaluable relaxation time for students on the weekends. The sterile, North Campus apartment complexes can never replicate this type of community feel. Building a strong community is the first step toward im-proved safety.

The University at Buffalo is involved in the Heights in a variety of ways. I take a Civic En-gagement course through the Academies that al-lows me to work in the Heights. I have witnessed firsthand the dedication that residents have for their community. My class is working in conjunc-tion with the Tool Library and UHC to apply for a grant to improve the deteriorating commercial corridors. Main Street and Bailey Avenue will be directly impacted by this grant, which will in turn have an affect on student life.

The Tool Library is also working with the UB Undergraduate Consulting Club on a project called PULL. PULL stands for Popup Living Laborato-ries. What PULL does is provide a storefront for local entrepreneurs to set up shop for two to three months. In this stable environment, Heights resi-dents will get the opportunity to start a small busi-ness and test different models. After their time is up in the temporary environment, PULL will assist that business in finding a permanent home in the Heights. These incredible community programs can only mean one thing. The University Heights is alive and kicking. Dedicated minds are here for the long haul. Instead of scaring students away with dramatic front-page headlines, let’s talk a little about what we can do to help.

As for UB’s involvement in the Heights, I do not disagree with Khoury. Everyone would like to see the university invest some big dollars in neighbor-hood. However it is unfair to ask them to bear the entire responsibility. It just doesn’t make sense for them to manage a whole neighborhood way out of their jurisdiction. In order for them to loosen their purse strings, they need to know that there are stu-dents out there who aren’t running away from the Heights.

I urge The Spectrum and its staff to continue its coverage on the University Heights. However, we need to draw attention to some key players in the community. It’s a tough time for the South Cam-pus neighborhood and we aren’t going to get any-where by beating the same facts into the ground. It’s time to focus on the progress being made so that the students can join in. It’s time to become a community and look out for one another in the streets. The safest neighborhoods aren’t the ones heavily policed. It’s the ones that know each oth-er. It’s the neighborhoods that work together, the neighborhoods that have vigilant eyes.

This is how we decrease violence and crime in the Heights. This is how we hold landlords ac-countable. This is how we rid the neighborhood of that negative façade. The students have to par-ticipate collectively. Join some of the movements happening already, attend a UHC meeting, care about where you live. Because if the situation is as bad as “The Heights of Fear” suggest, we don’t have much time to lose.

Mario AyoubFreshman media study major

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Eight local bands, sweaty palms, deep breaths and anxiety are at an all-time high. The next 15 minutes will help determine the future and these are regular conditions for competition time.

Last Wednesday night, After Dark En-tertainment hosted its Road to the Sphinx competition at Xtreme Wheels Skate Park. The 55-city showcase arrived in Buffalo with representatives from Sumerian Records in an effort to potentially add to its roster as well as to award an opening slot for the closest Sum-mer Slaughter Tour or All Stars Tour date.

“We’re interested in making Sumerian more diverse,” said Vincent Nguyen of Sumerian Records. “We’re looking for a band with tal-ent and I’m definitely seeing a ton of talent here in Buffalo tonight.”

Much to Pennsylvania band Skylime’s joy, its individuality and element of diversity caught the attention of the Sumerian Re-cords representatives. The Bradford, Pa., group earned the title of Buffalo “Road to the Sphinx” finalist and will compete for the regional championship in hopes of advanc-ing to the national round in Hollywood.

With eccentrically titled tracks such as “Geppetto Rape Boogie” and “A Redneck’s Rebuttal,” the Pennsylvania rockers brought something new to the Buffalo music scene. The elements of ska and dance in their music mixed with vocalist Rich Bisker’s passionate screams were surprising.

“It’s absolutely amazing that we had this opportunity,” Bisker said. “We didn’t know what to expect coming into this, but I’m glad we decided to take a shot.”

Regardless of how nervous the bands seemed they all put on performances that ex-ceeded expectations.

Deathcore band A Future Corrupt’s vocal-ist Ethan Fingold commanded the stage dur-ing the band’s 15-minute set with his demon-like gutturals. Fan favorite “Captain America” brought brutal bass drops and crushing riffs into the competition and kept the crowd head banging.

Currents, a djent/metalcore band, brought the mosh pit on stage for its encore. The well-known group had the opportunity to play last, and vocalist Darren Silver brought excitement by jumping into the crowd while bassist Joe Mosey kept the energy flowing on stage by pounding his feet during the break-downs.

Even fairly newer groups The Creator, The Architect and A Breath Alive delivered ener-getic performances that kept the crowd mov-ing and begging for more songs.

“We were obviously nervous but extremely excited that we had this chance to play for Sumerian,” said Tony Avino, vocalist for The Creator, The Architect screamer. “Seeing the crowd so into our performance made every minute worth the nerves.”

Rochester favorites Vanity Strikes along with Gretta Moire and Led By The Blind of Buffalo also used their time wisely. While the crowd reaction was not as strong, these bands put all of their talent on the line for the chance to live their dream.

The local bands needed their audience to be present and the skate park was definitely filled with a supportive one. The music scene has a well-conencted atmosphere where ev-eryone knows and supports one another. That atmosphere consistently allows the local bands in Buffalo to survive.

“Bradford has a smaller metal scene with heart,” Bisker said. “I can see the same quali-ties in Buffalo every time we play here.”

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Road to the Sphinx: the Buffalo breakdown CARRIE LOMBARDI

Staff Writer It’s time to keep eyes and hearts open for

the warmth and kindness students display toward each other.

The Wellness team at UB is inviting stu-dents, from now until March 20, to seek out and record these daily acts of kindness in a photograph to be entered for a contest called “Snapshots of Service: Caught in the Act of Kindness.”

Every spring, the Mental Health Aware-ness Committee, part of the Student Well-ness Team, holds an annual contest, which in the past, has been a writing contest fo-cusing on different themes. This year, the committee brainstormed a new and cre-ative contest idea that encourages students to not only think and write about helping others but motivates students to go out within the UB community and interact with each other to realize, appreciate and cel-ebrate the good within everyone.

Acts of kindness include volunteerism, kind gestures, helping another person and something a student witnessed in certain activities such as during alternative break programs or a picture taken years ago. The photo submissions must be accompanied by a brief description explaining the act of kindness.

“[Snapshots of service will] force stu-dents to think about what effects certain acts of kindness or contributions have had on them because they have either been the recipient or have witnessed the acts them-selves,” said Dr. Amanda Tyson-Ryba, a psychologist at the counseling center at UB and member of the Mental Health Aware-ness Committee. “This will boost mental health and lead one to living a healthier lifestyle.”

Tyson-Ryba believes this program will show students the impacts their behavior has on others and will help students be aware that students are all very connected individuals and it does make a difference when they contribute to one another.

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Snapshots of kindness

COURTESY OF SKYLIME

Last Wednesday night, Bradford, Pa., band Skylime won the title of “Road to the Sphinx” finalist in Buf-falo and beat out seven bands for the opportunity to be signed to Sumerian Records.

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Rich Burdish, a senior environmental de-sign major, did not know what to expect when he returned home to Lindenhurst, N.Y., for Thanksgiving Break. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, he was floored by what his hometown had become.

He had been at school when the storm hit and only saw pictures of the disaster awaiting him – but it didn’t seem real. It wasn’t until he went home a month later that he witnessed the enormity of the situation.

“The area was still in ruins, Red Cross trucks and representatives were still on every corner, a curfew was still in full effect, Hum-vees for the U.S. National Guard were patrol-ling the area and stationed at all major inter-sections,” Burdish said. “I felt as if I were in a war zone; it was honestly something I never thought I’d witness.”

Entire sides of houses were ripped off. Boats lay inside living rooms. Houses lay in shambles completely destroyed, he said.

The first floor of Burdish’s house was flooded with 5 feet of water and one of the walls was burnt. Anything left on the first floor was destroyed and items were found strewn on the lawn and shredded. For several weeks, his parents sifted through the rubble trying to salvage anything that held meaning.

Burdish is one of many UB students who were affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Last Monday and Thursday, his fraternity, Pi Lambda Phi, held a Hurricane Sandy Re-lief drive four months after the storm for those who are still affected. The fraternity brothers set up a table in the Student Union to accept donations for Hurricane Sandy Victims. From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., students who stopped by the table learned about victims in Breezy Point, N.Y., and donated money to help the cause.

Students contributed whatever amount they wanted and were given cookies and cof-fee as a thank you gesture, said Kasian Ware-nycia, a sophomore civil engineering major and philanthropy chairman of the fraternity.

Coffee and cookies for a cause Pi Lambda Phi raises money to help victims of Hurricane Sandy

Continued on page 2Pi Lambda Phi raised money by selling coffee and cookies in the Student Union to give to victims of Hurricane Sandy, like Rich Burdish, whose home in Lindenhurst, N.Y., flooded during the storm.

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Daly began his undergraduate degree at the University of Akron studying engineering but changed to physics at the end of his second year. He had always read a great deal of lit-erature and it occurred to him that although he may not be as good in English as he was in math and science, English seemed more important.

His senior year, he made the decision to be-come a lumberjack for a while after gradua-tion. Daly had worked in factories, farms and loading docks for financial support through college, and he planned to continue that work instead of going to graduate school.

Until he met Sharon, a girl in his American Literature Class who changed his life.

Sharon, now his wife of 47 years, intrigued him enough to stay at Akron for graduate school.

When Daly told the head of the English department what caused his change of heart to accept the offer to attend graduate school, the department head replied with a smirk, “I admire your scholarly enthusiasm.”

Daly does not regret his decision. While making his switch to studying English, it oc-curred to him the classes taught the skills of analysis, interpretation and synthesis, all of which people utilize in everyday life.

“When we are making sense of literature, we’re making sense of the ways in which we try to make sense of our lives,” Daly said. “Literature gives a strategic preview of life and we still have to make decisions our-selves, but the more a person reads, the better equipped they are to make life decisions.”

Daly imposes this belief on his students and encourages them to strive for new op-portunities, no matter how much they may doubt themselves.

Daly remembers the words of 20th century German poet Rainer Maria Rilke: “There are no classes in life for beginners. You simply have to make the most important decisions almost immediately.”

Daly believes people formulate life plans too early and cling to them too tightly.

“Think about it: If you live your life the way you planned to when you were 12, you are basing your life on the judgment of a 12-year-old,” Daly said.

Daly remembered a graduate student who took his seminar and did not do very well. The same student overheard Daly giving ad-vice to a classmate about how to prepare an essay for publication. He went to Daly’s of-fice to ask about his own essay, and Daly’s honest answer was that it was not ready. Daly sat with the student and told him step by step how to prepare an essay for publication.

Years later, Daly presented a paper at the Wyoming Conference at the University of Wyoming, and after he was done, the stu-dent popped up and came over to thank Daly for getting him started. His former student is now a tenured professor at a midwestern university and continues to publish his work.

Daly recognized a quality in this student that he encourages all his students to develop: metanoia, the idea that the mind should go beyond itself, beyond what it knew before.

“No matter how bright or knowledgeable you are, all your life, you’re going to need that ability to make midcourse corrections,” Daly said.

Beyond connecting and influencing people who he believes possess unique and unusual qualities, Daly loves teaching because of the realization that any class working together is smarter and more knowledgeable than any one person in the class, including the teach-er. By getting the class to work together, the students can teach each other a tremendous amount, he said.

Caroline Nickel, a senior English major, signed up for Daly’s class because of class-mates who said she couldn’t graduate without the experience.

“He approaches the works he teaches both humorously and philosophically, and he wants us not just to learn about them, but learn from them,” Nickel said. “I can say for certain that I am a better student for hav-ing him as a professor, even after just seven weeks.”

Before accepting a teaching job at UB, Daly spent a total of two years in England working on research fellowships.

The second year Daly spent in England on the Guggenheim Fellowship, he remembers walking across the beautiful campus of Cam-bridge when something occurred to him.

“This campus was built during a time when there were no business schools, when there were no law schools; there were only the hu-manities and it was built because people be-lieved in the power of ideas, in the power of knowledge and it was very inspirational for me,” Daly said. “I thought that is what I, in a humble way, [and] what everyone who works in this area is carrying forward.”

He teaches courses across the English spectrum – from a class on the Puritans to Nathaniel Hawthorne and from the modern novel in the United States to a class on the definitions of America. He wants to explore how American literature and culture influ-ence each other.

Kerri Pickard-DePriest, a senior English major, is now taking her second class with Daly. She is amazed by his deep understand-

ing of American literature and how it’s relat-ed to history.

“His professional demeanor is balanced by a grandfatherly presence, making his class a safe space that challenges students to think more deeply about literature and their place within it,” Pickard-DePriest said. “He re-minds us that the works of great writers are important. Without these works, we would be left without a comprehensive foundation of understanding of where we came from and how we came to be where we are as a nation and a people.”

At the end of Daly’s second fellowship in England, he received offers from Florida State, Buffalo and other schools. UB had a fantastic reputation for theory and criticism, which were his areas of interest. When he re-ceived the offer from UB, he had no trouble making a decision.

Daly recalls walking into a classroom to be-gin instructing when a student in the front row looked up and said, “Are you always this cheerful?’”

Daly replied, “Only when I’m with you. At all other times, I’m sullen and morose.”

He has taught many generations and has seen how technology has changed the work ethic of the average student. He thinks the current generation is technology focused but respectful at the same time.

“They’re very sweet; they turn the cell phones off at the start of class,” Daly said. “The instant the class is over, the phones are back on and they’re texting away like mad. A lot of professors bemoan this [behavior], but I don’t at all. They’re a generations of writ-ers.”

Outside of the classroom, Daly often spends his time chasing his four grandchil-dren around the Finger Lakes, the Adiron-dacks, North Carolina and Cape Cod. He grew up in horse country and looks forward to when his grandchildren are old enough to share his love of horses.

To students concerned about their future, Daly’s advice is to work on their skills and knowledge and “follow the things that really interest you, but don’t worry if you haven’t figured out your entire life yet. I would say worry more if you have figured out your en-tire life because the moment will come when you say, ‘OK, this is what I should be doing. This is it.’”

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Instead, the squad relied on its big men and capitalized on mismatches in the paint.

With 12:23 left in the second half, the Bulls took a 48-46 lead on a jumper from McCrea, which ignited a 14-4 run. Buffalo did not lose the lead for the rest of the game.

“We wanted to keep attacking them in-side,” Witherspoon said. “I think these guys did a really good job understanding where the opportunities were. Last time we played at Akron, we had a double-digit lead. We were a little hesitant. We’ve grown our ability to play against the zone.”

The win places the Bulls tied for fifth over-all in the MAC, tied with Kent State (17-12, 7-7 MAC) and Eastern Michigan (14-14, 7-7 MAC). However, due to losses to both squads – Kent State twice and Eastern Michi-gan once – the Bulls currently sit in seventh.

Although defeating Akron is impressive, the Bulls still have work to complete as Ohio comes to town this week.

“Going into this game, we had a little bit of a chip on our shoulder,” Watson said. “We knew we had to prove something not only to ourselves, but to the rest of the conference.”

Tip-off is slated for Tuesday at 7 p.m.

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Continued from page 8: Upset city

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Sports

JOE KONzE JRSenior Sports Editor

The last time the men’s basketball team played Akron, it had a chance to end the zips’ 10-game winning streak. Instead, the Bulls watched their 20-point lead evaporate, lead-ing to a devastating loss on the road.

This time, the young Buffalo basketball team looked mature and composed in earning UB’s first-ever win against a nationally ranked opponent.

The Bulls (12-17, 7-7 Mid-Amer-ican Conference) took down No. 24 Akron (23-5, 13-1 MAC) 81-67 Sat-urday night in Alumni Arena, end-ing Akron’s 19-game winning streak – the longest in college basketball this season. The zips had not lost since Dec. 15.

Junior forward Javon McCrea scored a game-high 26 points – 18 in the first half – while going 13 of 18 from the field and besting foe zeke Marshall.

“I didn’t play as well the first time we [played Akron]; I really wanted to come out tonight and be aggres-sive,” McCrea said. “They won a lot of games on the road and they were ranked. I knew this was going to be a big one.”

McCrea was the cornerstone of the Bulls’ offense, which had four other players finish in double figures. His counterpart, sopho-more forward Will Regan, added 16 points while grabbing seven re-bounds and amassing a career-high three blocks.

The freshman-and-senior guard duo of Jarryn Skeete and Tony Watson provided strong presence in the backcourt. Skeete and Wat-son each played a game-high 40 minutes, and they combined for 31 points (Skeete 18, Watson 13).

“I think our guys persevered all year and made a great effort to just take it a day at a time in an attempt to get better every single day,” said head coach Reggie Witherspoon. “I think today, we put together a pret-ty good 40 minutes.”

The Bulls were able to hold off the zips despite being outrebound-ed on the offensive glass, 17-6. Buf-falo allowed 46 points in the paint.

After Akron opened up the sec-ond half on a 10-6 run, Marshall cooled off. The Bulls held him to 17 points on the night.

“We got beat one-on-one off the dribble and really, most of the time, their guards beat us off the drib-ble,” said Akron coach Keith Dam-brot. “We just had trouble guarding, and the zone wasn’t working for us because we just didn’t have it. So no matter what we played, [it was] one of the first times this year we’ve said: ‘Hey, we just couldn’t play any defense.’”

Akron shot just 38 percent from the field. The Bulls, who were 7 of 14 in the first half from beyond the arc, only attempted three three-point shots in the second half.

Upset cityBulls end No. 24 Akron’s winning streak at 19 games, defeat first-ever ranked opponent

BEN TARHANSports Editor

This year’s Mid-American Con-ference Championship meet was very similar to last year’s for the Buffalo Bulls. The Bulls won mul-tiple MAC Championships and ju-nior Brittney Kuras won the Mid-American Conference Outstanding Swimmer Award for the second year in a row.

There was one major difference, though: This year, the Bulls hosted the meet.

“It was nice to be able to show what we can do here at home,” Kuras said. “We were able to break some pool records and some MAC records here, and our relays did re-ally well. It was really nice to be able to do that at home.”

The Bulls experienced individ-ual success throughout the meet, crowning seven MAC champions, but did not have enough swimmers place in every event to score the points necessary to finish higher. They finished the weekend in fifth place. Miami Ohio won the meet.

Kuras won six of seven events – three individual and three relays.

She won the 200-yard individual medley, setting meet, MAC and pool records; the 200-yard free-style; and the 100-yard freestyle with meet and pool records. Kuras was a member of the 200-yard free-style relay, which set a pool record; the 800-yard freestyle relay; and the 400-yard freestyle relay, which also set a pool record.

Senior Mallory Morrell was the only other Bull to win an individual MAC title.

In her final MAC Championship and final meet at the Alumni Arena Natatorium, Morrell won the 50-yard freestyle, anchored the cham-pionship 200-yard freestyle relay and finished second in the 100-yard freestyle relay. In her last-ever swim at home, Morrell led off the cham-pionship 400-yard freestyle relay.

“It probably didn’t hit her [yet] but later on, when she gets older, she will realize how cool that is – to finish your last race in your pool and be MAC Champions,” said head coach Andy Bashor. “It’s something she can look back on and be very proud of.”

Morrell competed for the Bulls for only two seasons, after attend-ing Rhode Island her freshman year

and transferring to Monroe Com-munity College for her sophomore year. In her two seasons at UB, Morrell was a part of the highest scoring and placing women’s team

ever. She played a major role as one of the team’s top sprinters.

Sophomore Jessica Powers com-peted in her first MAC Champion-ship. Powers was a member of the 800-yard freestyle relay, finished second in the 200-yard freestyle and also had a pair of third-place finishes in the 500-yard freestyle and the 1,650-yard freestyle. Her finish in the 1,650-yard freestyle set a new school record.

Junior Marissa Murphy and se-nior Karly Moore joined Kuras and Morrell in the 200- and 400-yard freestyle relays. Freshman Paula Stoddard and sophomore Becky Evangelista joined Kuras and Pow-ers in the 800-yard freestyle relay.

Miami Ohio finished in stark contrast to the Bulls. Despite win-ning the meet, the RedHawks did not win a single event. Their point total of 621 was also the lowest amount ever scored in an eight-team MAC Championship meet.

Both Kuras and Morrell had times which were good enough for NCAA B cuts, which means they now must wait to see if they qualify for the NCAA Championship fi-nals at the IU Natatorium in India-napolis, Ind., from March 21-23.

Despite just finishing the MAC Championships, Bashor does not think there will be any trouble mo-tivating his athletes to train and compete at the NCAA Champion-ships.

Bashor said that level has been their goal all season and they won’t need any extra motivation to swim against some of the best swimmers in the world.

He plans on letting Kuras and Morrell rest for a few days before getting them back in the pool to train for the meet.

The Bulls will return nearly ev-ery point scorer next season – ex-cept for Morrell, Moore and senior Emma Miller (who placed 16th in the 1,650-yard freestyle). The Bulls also hope to get back a few injured swimmers next season, including the 100-yard freestyle school record holder, sophomore Taylor Steffl.

The men will travel to Southern Illinois next weekend to compete for the men’s MAC Championship.

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NICK FISCHETTI /// THE SPECTRUM

Junior forward Javon McCrea (above) and the Bulls ended Akron’s 19-game win-ning streak while earning UB’s first-ever win against a ranked opponent at Alumni Arena on Saturday night.

NICK FISCHETTI /// THE SPECTRUM

Junior Brittney Kuras (right) and sopho-more Jess Powers were two of the Bulls’ three first-team All-MAC members this weekend as the Bulls hosted the MAC Championships.

OWEN O’BRIENStaff Writer

A day after the men’s basketball team pulled off arguably its biggest home victory ever, the women’s hoops team put on a senior day per-formance that Alumni Arena won’t soon forget.

The Bulls (10-18, 8-7 Mid-Amer-ican Conference) defeated Kent State (3-25, 1-13 MAC) 81-45, scor-ing a season high in points and al-lowing only nine first-half points.

The victory marks Buffalo’s fourth win by 20 or more points this season.

“We’ve been building up to this moment for the entire year,” said head coach Felisha Legette-Jack. “We’ve been learning lessons, get-

ting kicked in the head, teeth and back, but we have kept getting back up and fighting.”

The Bulls began the game with a 17-0 run, as the Golden Flashes missed their first eight shots of the afternoon. They didn’t hit a field goal until the 11:54 mark, and Buf-falo retained the momentum for the remainder of the game.

Four different players scored in double figures for Buffalo, in-cluding freshman guard Macken-zie Loesing, who led the way with 17 points on 6-of-8 shooting. Her backcourt mates – junior guard Margeaux Gupilan and freshman guard Karin Moss – had 11 points apiece, and junior forward Cherridy Thornton added 11. Nine different Bulls scored.

“Everyone got involved tonight, which is something that is really good for our team,” Loesing said. “Everyone got playing time, which is a goal we set each game.”

Buffalo shot 49.2 percent from the field, including 58.1 percent in its 50-point second half. The squad shot 10 for 22 from behind the arc as well.

The Bulls’ lead never dipped un-der 23 points in the second half and the team earned its largest lead in any game all season – 37 points. Buffalo gave up only 18 points in the paint and outrebounded the Golden Flashes, 45-34.

“We were really clicking today,” said senior guard Nicki Hopkins. “Everyone was distributing the ball and working really hard offensively and defensively, so I think that re-ally helped us get into a flow.”

Kent State’s nine points in the first half marked the fewest Buf-falo has surrendered in a first half all season. Kent State shot just 4 of 24 from the field to start and stockpiled 14 first-half turnovers en route to a 31-9 halftime score in favor of Buffalo.

The stingy Buffalo ‘D’ held Kent State to only 25.5 percent shooting from the field on the day. Guard Ashley Evans’ 12 points led the Golden Flashes.

“That’s the first time I’ve ever been a part of a team that re-ally locked in defense like that,” Legette-Jack said.

Hopkins recorded a career-high seven assists while playing 38 min-utes in one of her final games at Alumni Arena; Sunday’s game was Senior Day.

“The girls got a little emotional,” Hopkins said. “Even a little before the game, also, and I said: ‘Hey, we need to focus on the game.’ It was a great atmosphere. A lot of kids were here today playing and a lot of people came here supporting me. It was a great Senior Day for me.”

Sophomore forward Christa Bacccas’ contributions were felt throughout the stat sheet as she re-corded eight points, six rebounds, four blocks, three assists and two steals.

The Bulls look to ride a two-game win streak into the MAC Tournament when they face Akron (20-8, 11-4 MAC) at Alumni Arena on March 6. Game time is set for 7 p.m.

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