The Spectrum Volume 63 Issue 47

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2014UBspEctRUM.cOM VOlUME 63 NO. 47

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OWEN O’BRIENSportS Editor

Margeaux Gupilan is a statisti-cal anomaly.

She’s 5-foot-7, Filipino and plays Division I basketball.

In the 2010-11 season – Gu-pilan’s freshman year at UB – less than 1 percent of Division I women basketball players were Asian (45 of 4,820 players, total-ing 0.93 percent). In the 2012-13 season, this number dropped to 0.5 percent. Of the 4,972 ath-letes, only 27 were Asian, accord-ing to NCAA.org.

“[During] warm-ups, I know, who sees a small Filipino girl?” Gupilan said. “They look at you and look the other way. When game time comes, I love it when they say, ‘You need to watch where she goes, pick her up, where’s No. 15?’”

Gupilan, a senior, is the start-ing point guard for the women’s basketball team. The Sun Valley, Calif., native started 28 games last season and emerged as one of Buffalo’s key playmakers. She’s averaging 7.9 points and 4.6 assists this season and leads the team with 31.4 minutes a game.

“Always being doubted or overlooked has probably been with me my entire life,” she said. “It’s like that little fire in me when I play. The feeling of, ‘You should have never doubted me,’ is the best feeling ever, especially since I’ve worked so hard for it.”

When she goes home to Sun Valley, family, friends and strang-ers want to talk and congratulate her. Her little cousins and their friends tell Gupilan they want to be like her.

“I was shocked,” Gupilan said. “I didn’t know I could be an in-spiration to other people,” she said, noting she regularly receives supportive phone calls, text mes-sages, emails and Facebook mes-sages. She said the outpouring motivates her. She wants to im-press all those watching.

Gupilan said it doesn’t add ex-tra pressure. If others look up to her, she wants it to be due to her work ethic – something her father instilled in her at a young age.

Basketball wasn’t an immedi-ate love for Gupilan, according to her father, “King” Gupilan. In

fact, she stumbled into it when she was pulled from the stands to sub in one of her older sis-ter’s games. She was only 8 – two years younger than the others – but she jumped in happily.

Gupilan said she “probably hated basketball” for the first few years because of how much work her father made her put in. She remembers not being al-lowed to come in for dinner un-til she made a certain amount of shots. She was only 9.

“I would go into my room cry-ing,” Gupilan said. “There were nights I wouldn’t even talk to my dad because he was so hard on me.”

Even after coming home from a practice or camp, King made her go through her workouts again in the backyard. Gupilan’s friends would call and ask if she wanted to get pizza, but she had to wait until her driveway basket-ball workouts were over.

“He never really told me, but I knew he was always preparing me

for something beyond what was going on in that moment,” Gu-pilan said. “It was tough love.”

Gupilan’s sister, Amanda, was a local basketball stand-out. Growing up, the two played one-on-one in their backyard for hours.

Amanda noticed Gupilan’s bas-ketball IQ just from their games at home. Gupilan wouldn’t let her shoot – which was her strong point. Instead, she forced Aman-da to dribble around so Gupilan could swipe the ball away.

Basketball is popular in Sun Valley – a largely Asian commu-nity. Gupilan said there were al-ways pick-up games in parks around the city.

When Gupilan began playing in organized leagues, she was tall-er than most of the girls her age. She was a post player until high school.

After her transition to guard, because everyone else either caught up or eclipsed her in height, Gupilan still had tremen-dous post skills, which separat-ed her from most of the oth-er guards in the league. She still, however, felt she had something to prove.

“Every single time Margeaux plays, she’s trying to knock over something and convince people that [she] belongs,” King said. “Everywhere you go, there will be doubters. People saying, ‘You aren’t big or athletic enough,’ but Margeaux would just take the negatives into positives.”

She comes from an athletic background. Her father was one of 11 children, who all played basketball, and Manny Pacquiao is one of her uncles. Some fam-ily members played profession-al basketball in the Philippines. Her family competes against oth-er families around the neigh-borhood, and the games can get physical, with small fights occa-sionally breaking out.

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AMANDA LOWNEwS Editor

Judy Mai didn’t give up on the Student Association after she lost the 2012 presidential race.

Two years later, she is now SA vice president. Mai is a natural leader, both in clubs and in help-ing raise her siblings.

After being at UB for five years and immersing herself in multiple clubs – serving as pres-ident of two – she has seen the organization’s “ups and downs.” Now, she has the chance to fi-nally serve on SA’s e-board and make a lasting impact.

“I’m a firm believer in not giv-ing up,” Mai said. “I don’t think it’s right to run for something you care about and – because you didn’t win – choose the route of not sticking with it … I’m here for a purpose and the pur-pose is to help students.”

After Lyle Selsky resigned for personal reasons Jan. 22, Presi-dent Sam McMahon named Mai

interim vice president. The SA Senate officially voted Mai into office Feb. 2.

Two years ago, former SA President Travis Nemmer beat Mai by a slim 47 votes – a loss she described as “devastating.” But Nemmer hired her as the as-sistant international coordinator soon after his victory.

Mai stuck with SA because of how much work clubs do; their determination inspired her. She did not want to stop working just because she lost a race.

She ran for president after for-mer SA Treasurer Sikander Khan almost moved $300,000 of SA money into a fraudulent mobile application. Mai said the scan-dal triggered her to try to change SA’s face to the student body.

“I don’t think students get the right idea,” Mai said. “One bad egg doesn’t make the entire orga-nization horrible. And I think my biggest thing was running and be-ing someone people look to and say, ‘SA is great.’

JENNA FITTSStaff writEr

In June 2013, Russia passed legislation banning “propagan-da of nontraditional sexual re-lations.” With the Winter Olym-pics scheduled to begin eight months later in Sochi, Russia, the country received backlash from multiple global pro-gay rights organizations.

On Friday, Dr. Jonathan Katz, an associate professor and direc-tor of the visual studies doctor-al program, moderated the lat-est InFocus meeting. InFocus is a monthly event that allows stu-dents to partake in a group de-bate on a current controversial issue in the media.

“To what extent are we talk-ing about universal laws, and to what extent are we talking about national ethical codes?” Katz asked at the meeting, sparking a discussion about gay rights as pertaining to the Olympics and America’s role on a global scale.

One student provided his opinion, arguing that Americans “cannot force an idea on peo-ple who don’t truly want to be-lieve it. The only thing you can

do is try to bring a little bit of humanity to the subject and try to get people to see the error of their thinking and try to get them to look at a different view-point.”

Katz then asked about the va-lidity of the claim that queer people deserve “unmolested lives and civil liberties across na-tions.”

Phil Tucciarone, a senior chemical engineering major in attendance, responded.

“To an extent, we have a mor-al obligation,” Tucciarone said. “I would say not necessarily to insist, but to educate … There is no reason why we shouldn’t ex-tend our moral obligation to an educational standpoint. We can’t just bark back at a dog, but we can try to train it.”

Many western countries have concerns over the Russian Par-liament’s passage of the anti-gay law, which Russian President Vladimir Putin supported. Some countries, including the Unit-ed States, entertained the idea of boycotting or protesting the Olympics.

Gay rights, Winter Olympics subjects of debate at latest InFocus meeting

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chAD cOOpER, The SpecTrumMargeaux Gupilan has started 57 games in her four years and all 20 this season for Buffalo. She currently ranks eighth in school history in assists and tied a school record with six 3-pointers in a half this season.

Mai gets chance to help lead SA in 2014

Once 47 votes short in presidential election, Mai joins SA e-board as VP

SEE MAI, pagE 6

In the spring of 2012, Judy Mai lost her campaign to be Student Association president by 47 votes. Now, two years later, the newly named Stu-dent Association vice presi-dent is aiming to restore the name of the organization.

AMANDA LOW, The SpecTrum

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Shooting by South CampusOn Saturday around 11 p.m., a person

was injured in a shooting in the Univer-sity Plaza on Main Street by South Cam-pus. The victim did not sustain any life-threatening injuries.

Police said multiple shots were fired after a large group of people was seen fighting, WGRZ reported.

No arrests have been made and police described the shooter as a black male last seen wearing a brown hooded sweatshirt. Body found in Amherst fire

The body of an unknown person was found at 285 Scamridge Curve in Am-herst after a fire broke out around 2 a.m. on Sunday, WIVB reported.

Most of the residents in the eight-unit building were able to escape with the help of Amherst Police (APD). Snyder Police used ladders to rescue two peo-ple and a pet stuck in the upstairs of the apartment complex.

APD and the Amherst Fire Inspectors office are investigating the cause of the fire and the identity of the deceased oc-cupant.

The building suffered severe water damage and the roof was partially col-lapsed. The damage is estimated at $1.15 million. Student who started fire in Spauld-ing sentenced

The State Supreme Court sentenced Alec Seidenberg, the student responsible for the North Campus fire at Spaulding Hall, to three years’ probation and 100 hours of community service.

On May 2, 2013, Seidenberg dropped a butane torch he was using to light mari-juana in his dorm room. He and his girl-friend, who suffered minor burns be-cause of the incident, escaped through a window before the room was engulfed with flames, causing $80,000 in damage.

Seidenberg, who is suspended from UB and is taking classes at Erie Com-munity College, paid $1,000 of his own money to cover part of the damages. Campus Living covered the remaining $79,000 – insurance was unable to offset the cost.

Seidenberg was originally charged with fourth-degree arson and criminal mis-chief. In October, he pleaded guilty to criminal mischief.

AMANDA LOWNEwS Editor

On Saturday, in its second meeting of the semester, the Student Association Sen-ate discussed the future of an LSAT (Law School Admission Test) tutoring program, the Student-Wide Judiciary (SWJ) and the derecognition of the Arab American As-sociation of Engineers and Architects (AAAEA).

Dan Ovadia, a senior business ma-jor, proposed the creation of a low-fee, 15-person LSAT tutoring program in conjunction with Mock Trial. Saturday marked Ovadia’s third time coming to the Senate on the issue.

Ovadia asked for $680.70 from the New and Innovative line. SISH (Special Inter-ests, Services and Hobbies) Coordina-tor Michael Calliste has already supported Ovadia’s program with $150.

Ovadia planned to ask $15 from each participant – $10 of the fee will cover the cost of two textbooks and the remaining $5 will go to Mock Trial for their fund-raising. The program is over the course of eight weeks.

Ovadia said he is offering his services during that time for free because he feels a great desire to give back to UB. His pre-sentation outlined ways to make the pro-gram more sustainable in the future by partnering with Mock Trial.

The Senate decided to give $250 to Mock Trial from the New and Innovative line. Because the Senate cannot tell Mock Trial how to spend its money, it advised Ovadia to have students pay a $25 fee and have Mock Trial contribute $200 from its budget.

SWJ Chief Justice Twiesha Vachhrajani asked for a $1,200 stipend for her work. The Senate revoked the stipend when past

chief justices were not adhering to their duties for the role.

After discussion, the Senate decid-ed there were not enough precautions on handling SWJ if members do not fol-low through on their jobs. The issue of her stipend was tabled for the next Sen-ate meeting.

At the conclusion of the meeting, the Senate voted to derecognize the AAAEA after it showed no signs of activity over the past year.

The Senate changed the date of future meetings, which will now take place every other Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in 250 Student Union starting Feb. 23.

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Although Putin claims that the Games will proceed without any discrimination, many members at the InFocus event felt strongly that members of the LGBTQ community still face prejudice.

Attendees said it is challenging to sepa-rate politics from personal sexual prefer-ence. Many acknowledged the Olympics are a business.

“The Olympics are a huge moneymak-er,” one student said. “That’s what the Olympics are – it is about capitalism.”

She continued to talk about how ath-letes have taken a stance against social is-sues in past Olympics. She praised John Carlos, an American track & field ath-lete who won bronze in the 1968 Summer Olympics. Standing shoeless on the podi-um in black socks, he raised a fist in the air to shed light on the state of black pover-ty in America.

Jim Bowman, the LGBTQ Wellness and Special Projects Coordinator at UB, said athletes find ways to protest issues in their own way, mentioning a Russian snow-boarder who wore rainbow-colored gloves in protest of the anti-gay legislation.

Katz posed a question: “If you create a cultural context in which an individual

may be able to have a private life, which is queer but publicly has to adhere to hetero-normative standards, is that free?”

A student replied, “Not if they’re forced to.”

Bowman questioned whether having gay rights but not societal acceptance can constitute freedom.

“I was in the military for seven years,” Bowman said. “I lived in an environment where I was forced to live a heterosexu-al life in public and a gay life in my pri-vate life. I don’t know if it’s better or not. It’s mentally challenging and draining and causes a lot of mental health issues for people.”

Some students found it hypocritical of the United States to be pushing for gay rights overseas, when there is still inequal-ity in America.

Tucciarone said he didn’t feel like the American model was “all that positive.”

“We draw very thick black lines between gender and orientations that don’t actually exist,” Tucciarone said. “People are peo-ple. We hang out in herds. We are creating this model that isn’t ideal. It is a poor con-struct to draw these thick lines.”

He said there must be a cultural prioriti-

zation of equality to transcend the homo-phobic society, and legislation can’t be the only solution.

Another student responded, saying that although he agreed that legislation isn’t the sole solution, it is a necessary step in achieving equality.

He then quoted rap artists Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s “Same Love” which states, “A certificate on paper isn’t gonna solve it all / but it’s a damn good place to start.”

Katz closed the discussion by saying there isn’t an easy solution to the mat-ter, and he reiterated the importance of communication in understanding society’s views.

“The West is so torn, whether or not it is fair to impose a western model of LGBT queer civil rights internationally,” he said.

Though the next topic has not been chosen, UB plans to have another InFo-cus in coming months.


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Dear Spectrum,I would like to applaud CVS’

decision to eliminate tobac-co sales. I believe this will bene-fit UB’s campus greatly. This is my third year studying at the Uni-versity at Buffalo. I was excited to come to UB when I heard about its smoke-free policy, which went into effect in August 2009. Walk-ing through crowds of smoke al-ways bothered me and I would start feeling sick. Since I started here at UB as a freshman, I have seen a significant change on cam-pus regarding smoking, and in August 2012 a huge step was tak-en to further support our cam-pus’ UBreathe Free Policy by de-termining Campus Cash could no longer be used to buy tobac-co products.

As an intern for Wellness Edu-cation Services and a tour guide for Undergraduate Admissions, I no longer will get questions ask-ing “Why does CVS sell cigarettes on campus if it is a smoke-free campus?” The UB Community receives a mixed message when cigarettes are sold on a campus that has a policy that prohibits people from smoking them.

I want to reduce the negative effects of tobacco at UB. During the fall 2013 semester, I helped collect nearly 800 signatures from the UB community for a petition: Penalty Needed For Those Who Disrespect UB’s Smoke-Free Pol-icy. In addition, we started a por-table ashtray campaign to help re-duce cigarette butt litter because it takes up to 25 years for a ciga-

rette to decompose.Having no more cigarettes be-

ing sold on campus is great news for UB, as we have been trying to get the North Campus CVS to stop selling cigarettes on campus for more than five years. In the next few years, more pharmacies and health care centers should be making this change. Pharmacies are supposed to help heal people, not make them sick.

This is a smart and forward-looking move that will help save lives – and force other compa-nies to confront this critically im-portant public health issue. I want to thank CVS for being a leader in better serving its patients’ health care needs. Students can “Like” CVS’ Facebook page and send them a thank-you note, post or

tweet if they agree!Students, faculty and staff who

are interested in quitting smok-ing can get help on campus at the Wellness Education Services Quit Clinic in 114 Student Union on Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to noon and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. We offer free nicotine replacement gum, lozenges and patches and quit-smoking tips at those times or by appointment.

Matthew Waldman is a junior environ-mental design major.

Letter to the Editor

UB smokers will have a tough-er time getting cigarettes start-ing Oct. 1, due to a CVS Pharma-cy decision that has already bol-stered the company’s image.

In an announcement Wednes-day, CVS President and CEO Larry Merlo said the company’s over 7,600 stores will no longer sell tobacco products starting in October. It will cost the company approximately $2 billion, accord-ing to CVS’ estimates.

Even for a company that prides itself on a healthy image, the de-cision may (initially) come as a shock – $2 billion is nothing to scoff at, even compared to the over $123 billion CVS Caremark reports making in revenue in 2012.

That is, until you consider the positive PR this will, and already has, generated for the corpora-tion surely seeking to gain an edge in such a competitive mar-ket niche.

Corporate social responsibili-ty, a part of a business model for companies looking to portray a friendly, ethical face to the pub-lic while gaining a strategic edge over competitors, is a growing trend. This decision is a prime ex-ample.

Further, smoking is a dying trend. There has been a precipi-tous fall in students and adults who smoke regularly, accord-ing to a Center for Disease Con-trol (CDC) study. CVS’ decision could easily be seen as just getting ahead of the curve and improv-ing its good image along the way.

Couple this with CVS’ far-from-coincidental announce-ment of a new smoking cessation program, which will “help offset the estimated loss of 17 cents in

earnings per share of stock an-nually,” and you have a winning combination.

But while cynicism comes quickly, appreciating the real im-pact of this move both national-ly and at UB takes a bit more con-sideration.

Though the CDC report cites a dropping trend, the numbers re-main staggering. In 2011, over 18 percent of high school students and nearly 20 percent of adults reported smoking within the last 30 days. These numbers are far from the goals of 16 and 12 per-cent the center has set for those demographics in 2020.

At UB, the National College Health Assessment for 2013 re-ported over 10 percent of stu-dents had smoked cigarettes within the last 30 days.

Being the only retailer of to-bacco products on campus, the decision will doubtlessly make it more difficult for students, par-ticularly those without cars, to get tobacco. UBreathe Free, given its inefficacy thus far, could use all the help it can get.

Though the final results will take some time to gauge, the move will presumably cut some of the tobacco use on campus and will certainly provide a fur-ther barrier to smoking.

Perhaps this business decision can succeed where UB policy has failed – reducing smoking.

Businesses will take actions for good business reasons, to gen-erate buzz and gain an edge on the competition – this is the re-ality of capitalism. But failing to see the genuinely positive impact these choices and campaigns may

have is a level of skepticism we need not embrace.

The decision sets a precedent and will hopefully cut the pres-ence of products that negatively impact so many lives – of smok-ers and those they smoke around.

If the announcement by CVS leads to other companies doing the same, and a further reduction in cigarette and tobacco use, then perhaps the company deserves the image it’s seeking to promote and a minor boost in stock prices. That will be incentive for others to follow suit.


CVS Quits – good for business and student healthGoing cold turkey to boost image should help UBreathe Free

An advertisement by an Amer-ican corporate icon meant to mark the cultural diversity that has made this nation great has brought out the ugliest of Ameri-can xenophobia.

The commercial ran during the Super Bowl and featured a multi-lingual rendition of “America the Beautiful,” accompanying a dis-parate series of vacuous videos – people running and smiling, danc-ing, drinking coke. The otherwise innocuous celebration of Ameri-can culture and cola has sparked controversy.

Following the ad, social me-dia erupted with irate tweets con-demning the performance of the patriotic American tune in mul-tiple languages. The hashtag #SpeakAmerican began trending soon after the ad aired.

Never mind that the song was written by an Englishwoman for a

nation made up nearly entirely of immigrants or their descendents.

The ensuing dispute on the place of linguistic difference in this nation is simply the most re-cent manifestation of a long-run-ning debate. Calls for English to be the official language of the United States are hardly new; nar-row-mindedness has plagued this nation since its inception.

Language is often associat-ed with the nation or area from which it originates – a culturally laden source of community and understanding between a group. That the United States would al-low and embrace a variety of lan-guages is something to be appre-ciated.

The truism “diversity makes us great” is taught to American chil-dren at the earliest age. That a small group of adults have pre-sumably not learned this, and ac-

tively contested it, is worrisome.Patriotism almost necessitates

a level of defensiveness, a desire to protect what aspects of a na-tion makes it great and worth tak-ing pride in.

This advertisement, depicting the rich variety of our nation – the one mainstay of the United States since its formation and for centuries before – should be up-held as evidence of exactly what we should be patriotic about.

Differences, beyond just coex-isting, actively coalesce to form the fabric of this country. This is exactly what we should defend, protect and promote as the sym-bol of our union from those who seek to impinge on it.

Though detractors are likely far from the majority, social me-dia has a way of bringing other-wise unseen national issues to the fore. Social media empowers cyn-

ics and gives a soapbox to critics, as inflammatory viewpoints are thrown into the spotlight.

But what they promote is not Americanism, patriotism or even defense of what was – it is bred from fear of difference and is ex-actly the bigotry that is un-Amer-ican.

“The message we’re sending through this video is so beautiful, that we are all the same. We’re all Americans, and we can come to-gether to make change,” said Su-shmitha, one of the vocalists in the commercial, in an interview.

Her statement could not ring more true. Our cultural differ-ences blending with a common sense of our humanity is what has always made America beauti-ful. The change necessary now is against detracting from that.


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Album: So Long, See You TomorrowArtist: Bombay Bicycle ClubLabel: Vagrant RecordsRelease Date: Feb. 2, 2014Grade: C+

Bombay Bicycle Club’s fourth album So Long, See You Tomorrow manages to produce a euphor-ic feeling of wanderlust and ex-citement, while simultaneously evoking the nostalgia of long-past summer evenings.

There’s no denying that this feeling is exciting, but when this excitement overshadows the music of an album, the mu-sic itself can’t be that exhilarat-ing. And this is a problem. With its dull enthusiasm, So Long, See You Tomorrow is good – it’s just not great.

The album is illogical in its placement – it’s a summer al-bum released in the midst of winter. The tracks fail to accu-mulate and produce an overall sound, even though the songs alone deserve high praise.

The first four tracks of the al-bum are stand-alone EPs that risk being lost in the ambiguous track progression that follows.

“Overdone” may be the head-ing of the opening track, but its pessimistic titling fails to re-flect the finely tuned song. If anything, it is underdone – as the echo begins to fade out the end of the track, you expect a heavy drop. An unexpected drop in the opening track could have taken the listener to a new realm of indie-electro. But the band seems to have steered

away from anything too drastic. It’s ambitious, but perhaps not brave enough.

“Carry Me” is a track of pure contradiction. The prolonged, smooth vocals are matched with a drum-heavy, electro-pop sound that veers so far from Bombay Bicycle Club’s infa-mous indie-pop sound that the band borders on unrecogniz-ability. But their sound manag-es to resonate through the re-verberating electronic keyboard and into the forefront – Stead-man’s repetitive lyrics.

While “Carry Me” is the epit-ome of the band’s new direc-tion, “Come To” gives the lis-tener a sound that is closer to the old Bombay Bicycle Club – if not a little more euphoric and echoed.

What makes “Come To” more distinguished than the bands old work is the increased tempo. As a single track, it’s an important transitional piece, but on an album that is attempting to move to a new sound, it dis-tinguishes itself as an anomaly that just doesn’t fit. As a whole, the album is dangerously slow, bordering on boring. But even the slow songs have an essence

of soothing excitement – the increased tempo just seems like an unjustified and dangerous at-tempt at a break from Bombay Bicycle Club’s already impres-sive sound.

“Feel” and “So Long, See You Tomorrow” are the tracks that make you want to spread your wings. The injection and assimi-lation of the foreign sounds are so subtly dispersed through the album. It feels as if you’re tak-ing a leisurely walk across the Eastern hemisphere, while re-maining in the comfort of your Western home. It’s an inspiring sound that makes you want to step on a plane and leave any-thing mundane behind.

No great indie-pop album would be complete without some sort of ballad. Though “So Long, See You Tomorrow” is a great attempt, it seems to be an anti-climactic conclusion to an album that is so stylistical-ly exciting. “So Long, See You Tomorrow” is a disappointing conclusion. It’s not a bad track – it’s an accumulation of echoed vocals and it seems like an iron-ic ending, which is hopefully a suggestion that there’s more to come from the four-piece.

It risks getting lost in the bombardment of summer al-bums that are to come in the upcoming months but, So Long, See You Tomorrow holds within its tracks a tone that reverber-ates summer and longs to be a soundtrack of adventure.


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In November, when Play-station 4 and Xbox One de-buted, gamers had a new con-sole to play for the first time in eight years.

And with highly anticipated games like Destiny, The Witch-er 3: Wild Hunt and Watch Dogs coming out this year, the out-look for 2014 is promising.

In addition to the games coming out for the next gen-eration consoles, there are plenty of great games coming out for Xbox 360 and Playsta-tion 3 this year.

Here are a handful of the best new gaming experiences this spring: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 Release date: Feb. 25 for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360

After a lengthy slumber, Dracula awakens to discov-er his castle under siege and his powers diminished. As he explores his castle to regain his power and defeat the ene-mies that seek his demise, the Prince of Darkness must also prepare to face his greatest foe yet: Satan.

The original Lords of Shad-ow was epic in scope and full of enjoyable combat scenari-os, puzzles and stunning sur-roundings. With streamlined combat, larger environments and an all-new game engine, Lords of Shadow 2 looks even better. South Park: The Stick of Truth Release date: March 4 for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360

Despite multiple delays and setbacks, fans of the popu-lar television show will final-ly be able to enter the world of South Park, create their own characters and embark on a quest to obtain the leg-endary Stick of Truth. Writ-ten by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park: The Stick of Truth looks like it’s packed with hu-mor from the show and the makings of a great role-play-ing game.

Dark Souls IIRelease date: March 11 for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360

The grim, dark and brood-ing world of Dark Souls II may not be for everyone – at least if its predecessor is any indi-cation. Dark Souls (2011) was one of the year’s best role-playing games, but it was also one of the most challenging titles. Dark Souls II looks to be no different. Though the game has a new setting, the enemies look just as merciless and daunting, which makes killing them all the more sat-isfying.

Titanfall Release date: March 11 for PC, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Titanfall is one of this year’s most anticipated titles. Wheth-er running on foot as an agile pilot with a jetpack and ma-chine gun or roaming the map in a massive mechanized Ti-tan, Titanfall has a dynamic

and fast-paced style of mul-tiplayer. As a multiplayer-on-ly title that incorporates sin-gle player and story elements into each match, Titanfall will not only be one of this year’s best games, but a tremendous leap forward for gaming.

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Ze-roes

Release date: March 18 for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

The first part of Metal Gear Solid V and prologue to the upcoming Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Ground Ze-roes follows Snake as he in-filtrates a top-secret mili-tary base in Cuba to extract two of the base’s prisoners. Ground Zeroes, unlike previous Metal Gear Solid games, is de-signed to give players more options to accomplish each mission and objective, espe-cially within the game’s large, open world. Metal Gear Solid’s ‘tactical espionage action’ ap-pears to have been enhanced. For a franchise that has devel-oped over a decade, Ground Zeroes is taking the series to a new level.

Infamous: Second Son Release date: March 21 for PS4

Years after the conclusion of Infamous 2, Delsin Rowe discovered that, like Cole MacGrath – the protago-nist of Infamous 1 and 2 – he had powers too. Unlike Cole, Delsin can mimic other con-duits’ (people with superpow-ers) abilities. With his new-found power, Delsin decided to rebel against the govern-ment agency that hunts and oppresses conduits like him.

Players can also mimic oth-er characters’ abilities, and that gives a chance to con-stantly change how the game is played. The opportuni-ty to constantly change how the game is played, com-bined with the superlative vi-suals, story and morality that has made previous Infamous ti-tles so enjoyable will make In-famous: Second Son the best one yet.

The Walking Dead: Season Two Digitally released episodically throughout the year for PS3, Playstation Vita, PC, Xbox 360, Mac OS X, iOS and Ouya

The grim choice of who lives and dies was one of the many elements that made the first season of Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead one of 2012’s best gaming experienc-es. Through the game’s unique art direction, game play and emphasis on player choice, The Walking Dead embodies the popular comic book series by Robert Kirkman in its aes-thetics, tone and ethics. Sea-son Two follows Clementine, a young survivor struggling to maintain her humanity in a world where the walking dead are more trustworthy than the living.


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UB’s Black Student Union (BSU) has big plans for Black History Month, including birth-day celebrations for Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, two pioneers for black equality.

BSU has several events lined up, such as a leadership confer-ence for local high school stu-dents, its annual health fair with local health organizations, com-munity service events that will be held every other weekend and a Valentine’s Day candy-gram and raffle, according to Chris-tina Dunn, an activities coordi-nator for the club and a sopho-more sociology and communica-tion major.

To conclude the month’s fes-tivities, the club will continue its tradition of hosting Black Ex-plosion.

“It’s a fashion and cultural show where we take any theme or idea that we want and run wild with it,” said President Greg Bellonton, a senior psychology major. “The point of this year’s fashion show is to readjust the focus to show that black is beau-tiful by taking the same ideas [that society has deemed beauti-ful] and putting our passion into it and showing that black is beau-tiful.”

This year, BSU is switching things up by holding Black Ex-plosion on March 1 instead of in February.

“It’s really important to realize that black history is not just one month,” Dunn said. “You should know your culture and your peo-ple and the way that we appreci-ate our history.”

BSU holds meetings every Wednesday at 5 p.m. in 307 Stu-dent Union and welcomes peo-ple of every ethnicity and cul-ture.

“You don’t have to be black or from the Caribbean or Jamaica to come to our events,” Bellon-ton said. “We can relate to every-body in America and throughout the world on different topics.”

Anyone in the UB community can join BSU’s progressive think-ing by becoming a part of the club, Bellonton said. Even stu-dents from other schools, such as Buffalo State College and Erie Community College, attend the meetings, Dunn said.

Vice President Robin Mur-ray said the club focuses less on “fighting against racial pressure” and more on “fighting for prog-ress as youthful individuals.”

BSU Treasurer Efun Sade Ca-dle, a junior finance major, is in her second semester at UB. She transferred to UB in August.

“I went to a historically black high school and 98 percent of the school was black,” Cadle said. “UB is huge, and to find a small group of people who share the same interests as you just in-

stills so much in you.”BSU Publicity Coordinator

Sean Galette said the club al-lowed him to find family eight hours away from his home. Be-ing an active BSU member has challenged him to maintain cer-tain standards at school and led him to make multiple sacrifices.

“You really have to be truly dedicated to more than one thing at once,” said Noelle Nesbitt, an activities coordinator and a ju-nior biomedical engineering ma-jor. “You do have to measure up to the requirements that you ac-tually put yourself up for.”

Despite the challenges, Nesbitt said she is thankful for how BSU has provided her with the oppor-tunities to network and grow as a person.

To find out more about the club or its events, Black Student Union is an open group on Face-book.


UB’s Black Student Union celebrates Black History MonthMembers promote black history, culture – ‘not just one month’

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In the United States, celebri-ties roam the streets of Los An-geles, star in movies and make Billboard-topping records.

In India, they play cricket. Cricket is so highly regarded

in India that some consider it to be like its own religion. In 2012, the game garnered attention in America after ESPN’s Wright Thompson traveled to South Asia and wrote a lengthy feature titled, “Why You Should Care About Cricket.” The competi-tive outdoor game – which ath-letes play with bats, wickets and a small, leather-covered ball – is a vital part of Indian culture. It’s carried over to be a part of UB’s campus, too.

When Raman Rana, a Ph.D. student in the field of medical physics and coach of UB Crick-et Club, left his home in India in 2009 and arrived to the United States, the first thing he looked for was a cricket association.

UB’s club has helped Rana’s love for cricket flourish.

In 2010, alumni Nikhil Sa-pre, Anirudh Kumpawat and Anirudh Reddy founded UB’s undergraduate cricket club (UBCC). During the first year, the club had 16 members, many of whom graduated that year.

This prompted the club’s found-ers to recruit new members in 2011, leading to an increase in membership.

Today, UBCC has over 250 members.

Rana said UBCC allows play-ers at every level to come and enjoy the sport. UBCC offers in-ternational students the chance to reconnect with the sport while they’re from their home country and introduces others to a sport that they are unfamiliar with, Rana added.

Aakash Dixit, a senior busi-ness major and president of UBCC, said membership is en-ticing for students because of cricket’s cultural importance in Asian countries such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangla-desh.

Many members who already have developed skills in crick-et are able to compete in tour-naments around the United States. Newcomers are able to play alongside seasoned players to learn more about the sport, Rana said.

In July, the UBCC team partic-ipated in the Vibha Cricket tour-nament and won. The team also won a cricket tournament that UB’s Pakistani Student Associa-tion organized.

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UBCC also participates in tournaments outside of Western New York that American Col-lege Cricket puts on. In October 2012, the members competed in the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) regional tournament in Colum-bus, Ohio, and left as semifi-nalists. The following year, they competed in the ACC National Championship for the first time in UBCC history and made it to the quarterfinals.

Dixit and Rana are hoping to make it to nationals again and bring home the title. UBCC’s large membership allows Dixit and Rana to create several teams and compete in more regional tournaments.

Most of the club’s practices take place in the parking lot of Governor’s Residence Hall. The club’s leaders also reserve prac-tice time on Kunz Field. Rana and Dixit are able to keep their large club organized by commu-nicating practice dates and times through Facebook.

UBCC usually meets for prac-tice weekdays from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., the day dependent upon when the most members are free. Practice begins when the weather gets warmer, which is typically mid-March to mid-No-vember.

Rana also encourages students to also join the UB Cricket As-sociation, a club he created for graduate students, in addition to the undergraduate cricket club.


Amanda, her cousin Shelly and Gupilan were separated by three classes in high school. The trio played together at Bellarmine-Jefferson High School. Gupilan played varsity since her freshman year and won the school’s first state championship as a junior.

Her family’s large-scale support was evident during those games. Gupilan described the environ-ment around her games as a party. Sometimes, her family would have a barbecue outside the arena be-fore and after the games.

“We would go to games, and I’m not exaggerating, there would be at least 50-75 people with just their family to come out and sup-port for the games,” said Brian Camacho, Gupilan’s high school coach.

When Gupilan began to play college basketball, the 5-foot-10 post players became 6-foot-2. The competition wasn’t only bigger, but faster and stronger as well. Gupilan had to rely on her bas-ketball smarts to beat the bigger players. She tries to beat her oppo-nents off the dribble before they have the time to react.

“What I do in a game is just be one step ahead,” Gupilan said. “Even if you are faster than me, I’m already there.”

Gupilan received college offers from Division I and II programs around the country. Her par-ents let Gupilan decide where she would go and what level of bas-ketball she would play for the next four years.

Buffalo is a long way from sun-ny southern California. When Gu-pilan first heard about Buffalo, she had to go on Google Maps just to find where it was. She originally thought it must be like New York City.

“Driving on the street, I [would] slide [in the snow] sometimes and I thought I was going to die,” Gu-plian said. “I was going 5 miles an hour.”

Gupilan’s arrival in Buffalo is credited to an unlikely source – Seattle University’s women’s bas-ketball coach Joan Bonvicini. Ca-macho reached out to Bonvicini to gauge her interest in recruiting his point guard. Bonvicini had already signed her incoming class, but she took an interest in seeing Gupil-an play D-I basketball because she knew Gupilan had the talent.

One email Bonvicini sent was to Linda Hill-MacDonald, Buffalo’s women’s head basketball coach at the time. Hill-MacDonald and her staff began making phone calls about Gupilan, and then-assistant coach Cara Pearson flew to Cali-fornia to watch her practice.

“We needed a point guard at the time, and we felt that if someone of Joan Bonvicini’s caliber would take the time to contact peo-ple about [Gupilan], there had to be something special about her,” Pearson said.

Pearson watched Gupilan for only 30 minutes. It was enough to confirm everything she saw on tape.

When Hill-MacDonald was fired after Gupilan’s sophomore season, it was another challenge for Gupilan to overcome. It was difficult for her to see the coach who gave her the chance to play D-I basketball lose her job.

“I just saw it as another ob-stacle to get over,” Gupilan said. “Then we interviewed coach [Fe-lisha Legette-Jack]; she was my first interest. She was very upbeat, passionate and enthusiastic. You could just feel the energy in the room at the first meeting.”

But the new head coach, Felisha Legette-Jack, wanted more out of Gupilan.

“When I first met Margeaux, it wasn’t love at first sight,” Legette-Jack said. “I thought Margeaux was an underachiever. I thought Margeaux wasn’t serious about ac-ademics. I told her I didn’t see her future at Buffalo being extended beyond the summer.”

Gupilan responded to that chal-lenge and earned a 3.5 GPA in summer courses. Then she re-ceived a 3.7 the following fall, proving to Legette-Jack that she had the off-court toughness and work ethic to play point guard for her. Now, Legette-Jack says she’s “truly grateful” Gupilan is part of her team.

In the rare moments when she’s on the sideline, Gupilan is one of the loudest supporters. She’s the first one standing after a three and holding her teammates account-able defensively.

She wasn’t always this way. Gu-pilan was quiet and shy growing up. She said her large family al-lowed her a comfort zone and she always had someone to talk to. She didn’t have many friends, describ-ing herself as not a “social butter-fly.”

When she arrived at UB, how-ever, she became more confident and assertive and began to branch out and meet new people.

Those in Gupilan’s “comfort zone” kept a close eye on her bas-ketball career. Her family is con-stantly watching her on TV and their computers when she plays in Buffalo.

“Man, you have no idea,” King said about watching his daugh-ter play. “My family will run in-side and go, ‘Dad, what’s going on? Why are you screaming?’ and I’ll go, ‘I’m, watching your sister play.’”

The Gupilans subscribe to ser-vices such as CBS Sports to watch as many of her games as possible. These services, along with mac-sports.com, allow them to watch most of Gupilan’s contests. They also travel to UB for about four games per season.

“She knows we are there,” Amanda said. “She knows we will be watching, so she knows she has to perform every single time.”

Gupilan is aware of the eyes watching back home, especially her father’s. King makes a unique whistle by squeezing his lips to-gether – Gupilan says she can still

hear it from across the country. “It’s like a little birdy on my

shoulder when I’m playing,” Gu-pilan said. “I know he’s watching. I know he will say something. I just try not to let him down.”

Gupilan has already received of-fers to represent her country and play professionally in the Philip-pines after graduation. She was in-vited to play in a tournament with the national team in Canada this summer, but she declined due to her commitment to UB and fear of injury.

Her goals at UB are still devel-oping.

On a personal level, she finds motivation from Buffalo’s newest assistant coach, Ashley Zuber. Zu-ber holds the single-game and sin-gle-season assists records at UB and ranks fifth in school histo-ry in assists. Gupilan is currently eighth in school history with 313 and is 75 behind Zuber. One of her goals is to surpass her coach.

But the more important one will likely be even more challenging: She wants to finish her career with a championship and believes this year’s team, which is 13-9 after fin-ishing 12-20 in Legette-Jack’s first season, has that potential.

This is her final hurdle: bring-ing Buffalo its first Mid-American Conference women’s basketball championship, just as she helped Bellarmine-Jefferson win its first state title.


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“We provide really good oppor-tunities for students to be student leaders. And we get to work with amazing people and amazing ad-ministrators and make this univer-sity a better place. Now I get to be in that position.”

Mai said she and McMahon have specific goals and similar mindsets for the path they want their administration to follow. Their biggest aim is to “make peo-ple want to believe in [SA] again.”

Mai had experience with a lead-ership role growing up in Roches-ter.

As a kid, with three siblings and parents who worked most of the time, Mai, the eldest child, felt she had to take the lead in her family.

Mai’s family consists of her younger twin sisters, Jennifer and Jamie, the youngest sibling, her brother Kevin, and her grandpar-ents.

“She was more like a mother to us, because our mom worked 24/7,” Jennifer said.

Their parents, who are from Vietnam, were not able to speak English well, so the siblings strug-gled to communicate with them. They all had a limited understand-ing of Vietnamese, but Mai would normally be the one to translate their parents’ words to them.

“We were a traditional Buddhist household, and there was a lot of emphasis on school because I’m a first-generation student, so I’m the first one to go to college,” Mai said. “[My parents and I] didn’t have the best relationship growing up … [but] I think I just appreci-ate them more now and I under-stand what they did.”

Mai’s grandmother is her big-gest role model.

Her grandmother endured a lot – including the Vietnam War – and is a strong figure in Mai’s life. Her grandmother’s dedication to her family has never wavered.

“My grandmother just grew up with loving each other and treat-ing each other with respect,” Mai said. “I really appreciate all the hard work she does and I think that rubs off on me.”

It’s clear Mai’s a hard worker – she’s held leadership roles in mul-tiple clubs, two of which she was president.

Outside of the SA office, she’s a singer and gay rights advocate; she’s known for her cheery de-meanor and knack for organiza-tion.

Mai struggled to find her niche during her freshman year, but when she joined the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Alliance (LGBTA), she began her jour-ney into SA clubs. She went on to serve as the club’s president. There, she met Chelsea Abrams, a senior English and anthropolo-gy major and Mai’s current room-mate.

“She’s probably one of the most responsible, organized peo-ple I’ve met in my life,” Abrams said of Mai.

But Mai felt she was most at home in UB’s Glee Club. When UB Glee was founded in 2010, Mai was part of the original group of members. She eventually be-came the president.

Matt McHale, a second-year graduate student in mass com-munication who was also in Glee

Club, described Mai’s process for picking her audition songs as in-dicative of her attention to de-tail. She always managed to find one that reflected what she was feeling, and that made her perfor-mance more meaningful, McHale said.

“Everything she would per-form would turn out beautiful-ly,” McHale said. “It’s such a free form of expression because she’s gone through so much in her life. And it’s just a great outlet when you need relief, when you’re feel-ing joy, whenever you’re feeling down.”

McHale recalled a Christmas ex-change when Mai put effort into making a special gift for each of her friends. She made a chalk-board-bordered picture frame with a photo of a cherished mem-ory and a personalized message for each person.

“Even if she doesn’t know someone, she sympathizes with them so much and really wants the best for every single individ-ual, no matter what they’re going through,” McHale said. “So, [it doesn’t need] to be a loved one for her to go out of her way; she just genuinely cares about the well-be-ing of everyone around her.”

McHale said Mai is the “glue” among their friends.

Mai fittingly used the same term to describe her relationship with McMahon and SA Treasurer Sid-dhant Chhabria.

“I feel like I’m that glue to the guys,” Mai joked. “Having a girl’s opinion in there helps round them out. I keep them sane, I would like to think.”

Mai worked in the SA of-fice over winter break. She was shocked when McMahon asked her to become vice president.

“I really appreciate it, and it’s super humbling,” Mai said. “He could have picked anyone and the first person he chose was me.”

Coming into the position, Mai will have to cover everything that Selsky left behind. Selsky turned the position around by becoming more involved with his job than previous vice presidents.

In turn, Mai said she takes her position seriously.

“I’ve been here for four years – I’ve seen the good and the bad of SA through every single elect-ed e-board,” Mai said. “My expe-riences in other departments give me that different view. I can step out of SA and bring it into what we do here.”

Despite all the staffing chang-es in the SA office, Mai believes it only shows that the “system works.” She explained that if SA staff or clubs sensed a problem within the institution, they would be able to fix it.

“I would really like it to see SA inspire people like it inspired me,” Mai said. “Being part of an or-ganization like this, it requires so much effort. But at the end of the day, you challenge yourself and you get to see what type of per-son you become. That college ex-perience is there through organi-zations like this.”

Mai understands there is a lot of work left to do in SA and she is coming into a position that already has high standards from her pre-decessor. But she has been prepar-ing for this opportunity since she decided SA deserved better two years ago.


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SportS

The men’s basketball team (13-7, 7-3 Mid-American Con-ference) defeated Ball State (4-17, 1-9 MAC), 69-48, at home and Central Michigan (8-14, 1-9 MAC), 79-70, on the road this week and has won four of its last five.

Here is the sports staff ’s grad-ing breakdown of how UB per-formed in each phase of the game.Three-point shooting: B

The Bulls were average be-yond the arc this week – which is a step up from last week’s un-satisfactory performance. They struggled against the Cardinals, going 5 of 17 (29.4 percent), but shot almost 40 percent (7 of 18) against the Chippewas.

Two of the team’s best shoot-ers led Buffalo’s outburst against Central Michigan. Senior guard Joshua Freelove shot 2 for 5 from three and freshman guard Shannon Evans hit three of six 3-pointers.Foul shooting: A-

Against Ball State, Buffa-lo attempted 35 foul shots and missed nine for a shooting per-centage of 74.3 percent. Had the game been closer, the foul shots could have meant more, but the Bulls pulled away early in the second half to make the missed shots a nonfactor.

In Saturday’s game against Central Michigan, the Bulls at-tempted only 17 foul shots, but they hit 14 for a much more im-pressive 82.4 percent. During the two-game span, senior guard

Jarod Oldham hit 15 of 17 from the line and senior forward Ja-von McCrea hit 8 of 11.Ball control: B

The Bulls’ assist-to-turnover ratio this week was nearly 1:1 (26 assists to 22 turnovers), which is surprising considering Mc-Crea played 38 minutes on Sat-urday and scored 25 points with only five offensive rebounds – thus, UB did not have many ex-tra possessions.

Evans and Oldham – the team’s two primary point guards – did much of the scoring this week, with Oldham scoring 17 points against the Cardinals and 11 against the Chippewas. Evans scored eight on Wednesday and 19 on Saturday. Overall offense: B+

Neither opponent this week should have been a challenge for the Bulls, but the weak offen-sive output against the Cardinals was a bit of a disappointment. Despite that, Buffalo’s ability to outscore MAC scoring leader Chris Fowler and Central Mich-igan on Saturday was impressive, especially with double-digit per-formances from four players.

Look for McCrea to have a few more games like Satur-day’s as the Bulls’ schedule gets tougher down the stretch.Rebounding: A-

McCrea’s 20-rebound perfor-mance highlights a terrific week on the boards for the Bulls. Buf-falo allowed only seven offen-sive rebounds on Saturday and the Bulls outrebounded both

Central Michigan and Ball State. The Bulls captured 40 boards

on Saturday for the first time since Jan. 29.Defense: A

The Bulls allowed only 48 points on Wednesday – the sec-ond time this season they’ve al-lowed fewer than 50 points. The Buffalo ‘D’ held Ball State to 35.2 percent shooting from the field and forced 17 turnovers on Wednesday. Bench production: B

Buffalo’s bench production revolves around Evans, and he didn’t disappoint this week.

The freshman played 37 min-utes Saturday in his 19-point outburst. Evans led the Bulls with three 3-pointers on Satur-day. Jarryn Skeete returned to the Buffalo lineup on Saturday, but he played just 10 minutes off the bench.Coaching: A

It’s hard to complain when the team allows only 48 points in one game and sweeps two conference games in February. The Bulls have looked impres-sive lately, winning four of their last five, and it seems the team is grasping Hurley’s system.

The schedule gets more dif-ficult to close the season as the Bulls look to extend their win-ning streak, so we will find out more about this team in upcom-ing weeks.


Hardwood Report CardBulls sweep conference foes Ball State, Central Michigan

ANDy kONIuchStaff writEr

Despite the men’s ice hock-ey team’s dominant play in the first two and a half periods in Saturday’s game against Roch-ester College, the game was tied at 1-1 late in the third period. It appeared Buffalo’s chances at an appearance in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) national tournament could be in jeopardy.

But Rochester defenseman Sam Berry gave Buffalo a break when he committed a five-min-ute major penalty for checking from behind.

The Bulls scored two goals during the ensuing five-minute power play, which proved to be enough to earn the victory. The No. 20 Bulls (23-9, 11-2 North-east Collegiate Hockey League) defeated the Warriors (13-13), 3-2, at the Northtown Center in a Saturday night showdown.

“We were trying to work the puck,” said sophomore forward Willie Sanchez, who scored the first goal on the power play. “We were getting chances all game and were just trying to bear down. [Sophomore forward] Scott Sims gave me a nice pass and I was just lucky to get it over [the goalie’s] shoulder.”

Shortly after Sanchez’s goal, junior forward Brenden Robin-son scored the eventual game winner with 5:46 left in the game.

The Bulls scored all three of their goals on Saturday night on power plays, the first coming off the stick of senior forward Tim Benner in the first period.

“The [three] power play goals were huge,” said head coach Sal Valvo. “Special teams is a big part of this game. Not only did we kill off our penalties all game, but we capitalized three goals on power plays.”

The Bulls dominated early, outshooting the Warriors 17-8 in the first, with the puck in Roch-ester’s end for most of the peri-od. The Bulls could not, howev-er, capitalize on their scoring op-portunities.

The game continued to play out in the Warriors’ end in the second period, but after stretch-es of play where it looked inev-itable that Buffalo would pull away, Rochester scored its first goal of the game with 4:42 left in the period.

“When you dominate a team down low in their zone and don’t get the bounces or capital-ize on your chances, nine times out of 10 the puck’s going to go the other way and they’re going to score,” Valvo said.

The Bulls’ play in the third pe-riod proved to be the difference.

After 10 minutes of back and forth, it looked like the game could be heading to overtime. But Berry’s penalty gave Buffalo the spark it needed to pull away from Rochester and give the Bulls a 3-1 lead with less than four minutes to play.

Rochester scored a late third period goal with 39.8 seconds left to pull within one, but the Warriors were unable to get any closer due to the stellar play of senior goalie Mike Musialowski and the Bulls’ defense that stood

in front of him.“Every game is do or die for

us,” Sanchez said. “Especial-ly because we’re trying to crack that top spot to make nationals.”

On Friday night, Buffalo trav-eled to St. Bonaventure (5-11, 3-7 NECHL), where it defeated the Bonnies, 6-1, with an offen-sive onslaught.

The Bulls have one game left in NECHL play, but due to a tiebreaker, Syracuse (19-5, 12-2 NECHL) has already clinched first place in the NECHL and the auto bid to the ACHA tour-nament. This means the Bulls must finish the season ranked in the top 20 to qualify for an at-large ACHA tournament berth.

The Bulls have one more game left in the regular season before they host the NECHL tournament at the Northtown Center starting Feb. 28.

Buffalo will host Ithaca (7-15, 1-11 NECHL) at the Northtown Center Friday in its last regular season game. The puck is set to drop at 7:30 p.m.


Power play leads to Bulls’ victoryBuffalo earns 3-2 win over Rochester College

Quick HitsSoftball has historic opening weekend, men’s tennis continues hot streak

yuSONg ShI, The SpecTrumSenior forward Javon McCrea had his best performance of the season so far on Saturday night, scoring 25 points and grabbing 20 rebounds in a 79-70 victory over Central Michigan.

Junior forward Bren-den Robinson scored one of three Buffalo goals as the men’s ice hockey team defeat-ed Rochester Col-lege 3-2 on Saturday night at the North-town Center.

chAD cOOpER, The SpecTrum Men’s Tennis (3-1)

The No. 71 Bulls made an East Coast road trip over the weekend, traveling to Dart-mouth (7-1) and Penn (0-1) for a pair of Ivy League matchups. The Bulls dropped their first match of the weekend, 6-1, to the No. 63 Big Green.

Dartmouth swept the dou-bles, and Pablo Alvarez won the Bulls’ only point, 6-1, 3-6, 6-2.

On Saturday against Penn, the Bulls turned it around. After losing the first doubles match-up, the Bulls won the next two. The first six singles matchups were evenly split between the two teams, but Alvarez came back from a 1-0 deficit to win the last two games, 6-5, 6-4, and seal the victory.

Buffalo returns home next weekend for a home match against Duquesne (5-1, 2-0 At-lantic 10 Conference) at 1 p.m.

Women’s Basketball (13-9, 6-5 MAC)

Junior forward Kristen Shar-key led the Bulls with 21 points and six rebounds on Sunday af-ternoon against Central Mich-igan, but they couldn’t pull out the victory as Buffalo fell 74-63.

Junior forward Christa Baccas added a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds.

Track & FieldSaturday, the track and field

teams competed in the Skyes & Sabock Challenge Cup in State College, Pa. The women fin-ished second and the men fin-ished third.

Sophomore distance runner Brian Crimmins set a UB re-cord in the mile run, with a time of 4:08.73, which was good for third place in the event.

The teams will next compete in the Division I Invite next weekend in Geneva, Ohio.

Wrestling (3-14, 0-6 Mid-American Conference)

The Bulls traveled west this weekend to take on No. 9 Mis-souri (8-2, 5-1 MAC) and Southern Illinois-Edwardsville (3-10, 0-1 MAC).

The Tigers swept the Bulls Friday, 41-0, but UB bounced back to defeat Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, 27-12, Sunday.

The Bulls will next face Bing-hamton (4-11) this Friday at Alumni Arena at 7 p.m.


Spectrum Sports 360 podcast – The men’s basketball team is starting to hit its stride. Spectrum editors and bas-ketball reporters Joe Konze Jr., Ben Tarhan and Aaron Mansfield discuss the team’s recent performance and talk about what needs to happen for the Bulls to win a MAC ti-tle. Visit the multimedia tab at ubspectrum.com.

Softball game story – In 2013, it took the softball team 28 games to win six. The 2014 team only needed six games to reach that mark. Read how the squad started its season 6-0 this weekend.

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