THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT PUBLICATION OF THE UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, SINCE 1950 MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2014 UBSPECTRUM.COM VOLUME 64 NO. 27 At age 17, Angela Rose was kid- napped at knifepoint and sexually assault- ed by a repeat sex offender. Rose was walking to her car when a man on parole for rape, kidnap and mur- der, grabbed her and pushed her into his car. She said she was “completely power- less.” After Rose was released by her attacker, “she suffered at the hands of the author- ities, who subjected her to the scrutiny of blame and additional victimization,” according to Aaron Maracle, the assis- tant director of Sub-Board I, Inc. (SBI) Health Education, who introduced Rose. On Thursday, Rose, a sexual assault sur- vivor and founder and executive director of Promoting Awareness, Victim Empower- ment (PAVE), shared the story of her attack and the aftermath as a part of UB’s 26th annual Take Back the Night. In her pre- sentation, “Shattering the Silence of Sexu- al Violence,” Rose spoke to an audience of around 175 to educate attendants on how to respond to these dangerous situations and how everyone can help the cause. Rose also appeared on Saturday’s epi- sode of “48 Hours” on CBS and talked about her previous attack. Rose said she had to tell the same story over and over to different officers, many whom did not believe her. Officers pre- ceded to ask her questions about if she was in an abusive relationship or if her boyfriend beat her. “That’s when the nightmare begins,” Rose said. Rose founded PAVE from her experi- ence with sexual violence. After noticing there were no groups on campus at Uni- versity of Wisconsin-Madison that sup- ported sexual assault awareness, she de- cided to create her own organization. PAVE currently has more than 50 col- lege chapters and affiliates. They are also working with “Carry that Weight,” a cause “to raise awareness about the prev- alence of sexual and domestic violence, advocate for better campus policies and challenge rape culture,” according to its website. College students, more specifically women between the age of 16 and 25, are most at risk for sexual assault and that is why Rose is so passionate about working with and speaking to college students, she said. But most college students aren’t aware of the statistics of sexual violence, ac- cording to Jane Fischer, director of SBI Health Education. One in four women and one in six men will be sexually assaulted before the age of 18, according to Fischer. In college, around 20 percent of women will expe- rience sexual assault. It is also estimat- ed that as many as nine out of 10 victims know their offender, she said. “I was at that age when it happened to me,” Rose said. “I was 17. I was about to be a freshman in college.” She said colleges are a great launch point for student activism and students can make a large difference in the world. There is three important things college students can do “to create and cultivate safer and more healthy campuses,” Rose said in her presentation. Her first advice revolves around the notion of bystander intervention. “If you see something, say something to raise awareness of rape culture and consent,” she said. The most impactful thing Rose said during the presentation, according to Venecia Williams, a junior nursing and so- cial sciences interdisciplinary major, was “it only takes one person to stop whatev- er is going on and it only takes one per- son to make an impact on the entire so- ciety.” Williams has a daughter who will be starting college next year, who she de- scribes as “sheltered.” “It makes you think as a mother,” she said. “My daughter should have been here to really get the effect of what she said.” Rose also talked about how there is no shame in being a survivor. She said there are things we can’t control, but we can control our responses. Rose said people should work on re- moving the victim-blaming language from culture, which was something she had to deal with following her attack. Many people she knew asked her would why she didn’t try to get away or how she could have let it happened. The responding officers asked her what she wearing during the attack. During the presentation, Rose said she was wearing a pantsuit, but it shouldn’t matter if she was wearing that or a red miniskirt. The third way Rose said college stu- dents can change stigmas around rape is if individuals know what to say or do if a victim discloses his or her attack. She said it’s important for people to believe any- body who says he or she has been sexual- ly assaulted and to reassure the person it wasn’t his or her fault. Rose had one close girl friend at the time and after Rose had been kidnapped, her best friend stopped talking to her. She said her friend didn’t know what to say or how to react so she chose to not say anything at all. “You want to make sure that you just be a listening ear,” Rose said. “That’s all I wanted when my best friend just shut me out of her life. I just wanted somebody to talk to.” Rose also suggested recommending lo- cal resources to the victims. UB offers resources for students in- volved with sexual violence through Well- ness Education Services and Student Health Services. Students can utilize the counseling services and clinics the univer- sity provides. Cameron Balon, a domestic violence and sexual assault case manager from Cri- sis Services Advocate Program, works with victims and found everything Rose said about the challenges these victims face when it comes to reporting incidents to be “100 percent accurate.” “I had never heard her story before and I loved her message to especially college campuses,” Balon said. Sigrid Fertig, an adjunct foreign language professor at UB, immigrated to the United States from Austria in 1989. She came with the impression the educa- tion professions here would be more reg- ulated with more opportunities and ben- efits. Twenty-five years later, Fertig is still an adjunct professor, teaching both Ger- man and French and is reliant on her hus- band’s salary to get by. “In my home country, I would be able to retire with a nice benefit package and pension [by now],” Fertig said. “Now, I’ve worked for nothing for 25 years.” Fertig is one of the professors in the Buffalo Adjunct Movement (BAM), a co- alition of adjunct professors and gradu- ate students in Western New York. On Friday afternoon, the group held a rally and “grade-in” in Lafayette Square and the Buffalo and Erie County Central Li- brary to protest the pay and treatment of adjunct professors in the Buffalo area. Adjuncts brought their students’ pa- pers or tests to grade together in the li- brary for the “grade-in.” Maria Daxenbi- chler, an adjunct German professor said the “grade-in” allowed adjuncts to feel like they are a part of the campus com- munity. Most adjuncts share an office, if they have an office at all, she said. “[The] grade-in [is] countering an alien experience,” Daxenbichler said. Adjunct professors make up 70-75 percent of all university faculties in the country. At a research university like UB, 57.9 percent of faculty and staff are ad- juncts. Derek Curry, an adjunct profes- sor in the media study department, said the percentage of UB adjuncts is close to that average. Curry said the initial purpose of ad- junct professors was to create a good foundation for those looking to become full-time professors. He said professors who adjunct want to gain experience rather than a stable income. In 2011, Curry started as an adjunct at West Los Angeles College. Working sole- ly as an adjunct professor, he was unable to make his rent, which forced Curry to work another job to pay his rent. He said he “wouldn’t have known what to do,” if his landlord didn’t give him a second job. Adjunct professors are paid per class, earning from $2,000 to $4,000 per class. UB pays its adjunct professors $3,200 per class, Curry said. “UB is probably the highest in the area. It’s all about the same. It’s all below pov- erty,” Curry said. Curry came to UB to complete his Ph.D. and ended up with a teaching assistant scholarship. The scholarship pays Curry twice as a much as his adjunct position. “I can’t think of another vocation where you get paid twice as much to learn your profession as you do to actually work in it,” he said. Curry said he thinks universities have a larger budget for student teachers than teachers who already have a degree. Therefore, universities try to attract stu- dents to earn their graduate or Ph.D. de- grees and teach as part of their programs. Typically, adjunct professors are gradu- ate students, or students earning a Ph.D., but there are some who have already completed their education. Kate Cac- cavaio has a Bachelors of Arts, Masters of Arts and a doctrine in English. She’s been an adjunct for the past two years. After completing her education, Cac- cavaio wasn’t planning on being an ad- junct at all. This fall is Caccavaio’s first semester “adjuncting” at UB, teaching an English 201 class. Last fall, she worked four jobs, including her adjunct position and made $13,000 for the year, she said. She has tried to change her profession because of the poor job market for edu- cators. “When [companies] see that I’ve been teaching for the past 10 years in college, it’s hard to convince [them] that I can switch careers,” she said. “People think we only have this one skill set.” The retirement packages and bene- fits adjuncts receive are only a fraction of what professors gets, even though it is the adjuncts doing the majority of the class work, Fertig said. New nightclub LiFT opens downtown Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Zac Brown Tribute Band plays latest tailgate UB students celebrate the Day of the Dead The workforce behind UB ‘invisible’ Samaya Abdus-Salaam ASST. NEWS EDITOR Sexual assault survivor Angela Rose shares her experience to reduce sexual violence on campuses Giselle Lam ASST. NEWS EDITOR Shattering the silence During the 26th annual Take Back the Night at UB, Angel Rose, a sexual assault survivor and founder and executive director of Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (PAVE), shared her personal story and educated college students on how they can combat the issue on their own campuses. CLETUS EMOKPAE, THE SPECTRUM Friday afternoon, adjunct professors in the Buffalo area, held a rally in Lafayette Square and Buffalo and Erie County Central Library. Buffalo Adjunct Movement (BAM) protested the treatment of adjunct professors in university workforce and their pay. 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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT PUBL ICAT ION OF THE UN IVERS I TY AT BUFFALO , S INCE 1950
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At age 17, Angela Rose was kid-napped at knifepoint and sexually assault-ed by a repeat sex offender.
Rose was walking to her car when a man on parole for rape, kidnap and mur-der, grabbed her and pushed her into his car. She said she was “completely power-less.”
After Rose was released by her attacker, “she suffered at the hands of the author-ities, who subjected her to the scrutiny of blame and additional victimization,” according to Aaron Maracle, the assis-tant director of Sub-Board I, Inc. (SBI) Health Education, who introduced Rose.
On Thursday, Rose, a sexual assault sur-vivor and founder and executive director of Promoting Awareness, Victim Empower-ment (PAVE), shared the story of her attack and the aftermath as a part of UB’s 26th annual Take Back the Night. In her pre-sentation, “Shattering the Silence of Sexu-al Violence,” Rose spoke to an audience of around 175 to educate attendants on how to respond to these dangerous situations and how everyone can help the cause.
Rose also appeared on Saturday’s epi-sode of “48 Hours” on CBS and talked about her previous attack.
Rose said she had to tell the same story over and over to different officers, many whom did not believe her. Officers pre-ceded to ask her questions about if she was in an abusive relationship or if her boyfriend beat her.
“That’s when the nightmare begins,” Rose said.
Rose founded PAVE from her experi-ence with sexual violence. After noticing there were no groups on campus at Uni-versity of Wisconsin-Madison that sup-ported sexual assault awareness, she de-cided to create her own organization.
PAVE currently has more than 50 col-lege chapters and affiliates. They are also working with “Carry that Weight,” a cause “to raise awareness about the prev-alence of sexual and domestic violence, advocate for better campus policies and challenge rape culture,” according to its website.
College students, more specifically women between the age of 16 and 25, are most at risk for sexual assault and that is why Rose is so passionate about working with and speaking to college students, she said.
But most college students aren’t aware of the statistics of sexual violence, ac-cording to Jane Fischer, director of SBI Health Education.
One in four women and one in six men will be sexually assaulted before the age of 18, according to Fischer. In college, around 20 percent of women will expe-rience sexual assault. It is also estimat-ed that as many as nine out of 10 victims know their offender, she said.
“I was at that age when it happened to me,” Rose said. “I was 17. I was about to be a freshman in college.”
She said colleges are a great launch point for student activism and students can make a large difference in the world.
There is three important things college students can do “to create and cultivate safer and more healthy campuses,” Rose said in her presentation.
Her first advice revolves around the notion of bystander intervention.
“If you see something, say something to raise awareness of rape culture and consent,” she said.
The most impactful thing Rose said during the presentation, according to Venecia Williams, a junior nursing and so-cial sciences interdisciplinary major, was “it only takes one person to stop whatev-er is going on and it only takes one per-son to make an impact on the entire so-ciety.”
Williams has a daughter who will be starting college next year, who she de-scribes as “sheltered.”
“It makes you think as a mother,” she said. “My daughter should have been here to really get the effect of what she said.”
Rose also talked about how there is no shame in being a survivor. She said there are things we can’t control, but we can control our responses.
Rose said people should work on re-moving the victim-blaming language from culture, which was something she had to deal with following her attack. Many people she knew asked her would why she didn’t try to get away or how she could have let it happened.
The responding officers asked her what she wearing during the attack. During the presentation, Rose said she was wearing a pantsuit, but it shouldn’t matter if she was wearing that or a red miniskirt.
The third way Rose said college stu-dents can change stigmas around rape is if individuals know what to say or do if a victim discloses his or her attack. She said it’s important for people to believe any-body who says he or she has been sexual-ly assaulted and to reassure the person it wasn’t his or her fault.
Rose had one close girl friend at the time and after Rose had been kidnapped, her best friend stopped talking to her. She said her friend didn’t know what to say or how to react so she chose to not say anything at all.
“You want to make sure that you just be a listening ear,” Rose said. “That’s all I wanted when my best friend just shut me out of her life. I just wanted somebody to talk to.”
Rose also suggested recommending lo-cal resources to the victims.
UB offers resources for students in-volved with sexual violence through Well-ness Education Services and Student Health Services. Students can utilize the counseling services and clinics the univer-sity provides.
Cameron Balon, a domestic violence and sexual assault case manager from Cri-sis Services Advocate Program, works with victims and found everything Rose said about the challenges these victims face when it comes to reporting incidents to be “100 percent accurate.”
“I had never heard her story before and I loved her message to especially college campuses,” Balon said.
Sigrid Fertig, an adjunct foreign language professor at UB, immigrated to the United States from Austria in 1989. She came with the impression the educa-tion professions here would be more reg-ulated with more opportunities and ben-efits.
Twenty-five years later, Fertig is still an adjunct professor, teaching both Ger-man and French and is reliant on her hus-band’s salary to get by.
“In my home country, I would be able to retire with a nice benefit package and pension [by now],” Fertig said. “Now, I’ve worked for nothing for 25 years.”
Fertig is one of the professors in the Buffalo Adjunct Movement (BAM), a co-alition of adjunct professors and gradu-ate students in Western New York. On Friday afternoon, the group held a rally and “grade-in” in Lafayette Square and the Buffalo and Erie County Central Li-brary to protest the pay and treatment of adjunct professors in the Buffalo area.
Adjuncts brought their students’ pa-pers or tests to grade together in the li-brary for the “grade-in.” Maria Daxenbi-chler, an adjunct German professor said the “grade-in” allowed adjuncts to feel like they are a part of the campus com-munity. Most adjuncts share an office, if they have an office at all, she said.
“[The] grade-in [is] countering an alien experience,” Daxenbichler said.
Adjunct professors make up 70-75 percent of all university faculties in the country. At a research university like UB, 57.9 percent of faculty and staff are ad-juncts. Derek Curry, an adjunct profes-sor in the media study department, said the percentage of UB adjuncts is close to that average.
Curry said the initial purpose of ad-junct professors was to create a good foundation for those looking to become full-time professors. He said professors
who adjunct want to gain experience rather than a stable income.
In 2011, Curry started as an adjunct at West Los Angeles College. Working sole-ly as an adjunct professor, he was unable to make his rent, which forced Curry to work another job to pay his rent. He said he “wouldn’t have known what to do,” if his landlord didn’t give him a second job.
Adjunct professors are paid per class, earning from $2,000 to $4,000 per class. UB pays its adjunct professors $3,200 per class, Curry said.
“UB is probably the highest in the area. It’s all about the same. It’s all below pov-erty,” Curry said.
Curry came to UB to complete his Ph.D. and ended up with a teaching assistant scholarship. The scholarship pays Curry twice as a much as his adjunct position.
“I can’t think of another vocation where you get paid twice as much to learn your profession as you do to actually work in it,” he said.
Curry said he thinks universities have a larger budget for student teachers than teachers who already have a degree. Therefore, universities try to attract stu-dents to earn their graduate or Ph.D. de-grees and teach as part of their programs.
Typically, adjunct professors are gradu-ate students, or students earning a Ph.D., but there are some who have already completed their education. Kate Cac-cavaio has a Bachelors of Arts, Masters of Arts and a doctrine in English. She’s been an adjunct for the past two years.
After completing her education, Cac-cavaio wasn’t planning on being an ad-junct at all.
This fall is Caccavaio’s first semester “adjuncting” at UB, teaching an English 201 class. Last fall, she worked four jobs, including her adjunct position and made $13,000 for the year, she said.
She has tried to change her profession because of the poor job market for edu-cators.
“When [companies] see that I’ve been teaching for the past 10 years in college, it’s hard to convince [them] that I can switch careers,” she said. “People think we only have this one skill set.”
The retirement packages and bene-fits adjuncts receive are only a fraction of what professors gets, even though it is the adjuncts doing the majority of the class work, Fertig said.
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Sexual assault survivor Angela Rose shares her experience to reduce sexual violence on campuses
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Shattering the silence
During the 26th annual Take Back the Night at UB, Angel Rose, a sexual assault survivor and founder and executive director of Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (PAVE), shared her personal story and educated college students on how they can combat the issue on their own campuses. CLETUS EMOKPAE, THE SPECTRUM
Friday afternoon, adjunct professors in the Buffalo area, held a rally in Lafayette Square and Buffalo and Erie County Central Library. Buffalo Adjunct Movement (BAM) protested the treatment of adjunct professors in university workforce and their pay. YUSONG SHI, THE SPECTRUM
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Balon said Rose’s presentation was a great way to educate col-lege students about consent and Title IX, which protects students from sexual discrimination, sex-ual harassment and sexual vio-lence.
This is the 12th Take Back the Night that Balon has attended at UB. She went when she was a student at Buffalo State and con-tinues as a representative of Cri-sis Services.
Rose said the world is in a completely different place than it was when she was in college in terms of handling sexual assault. White House representatives are
now speaking about the subject, Congress is creating policies to hold schools accountable and more survivors in Hollywood, college campuses and citizens in general are coming forward with their stories, she said.
“I’ve waited for this moment in our nation’s history for years,” Rose said.
Rose said sexual assault is a “tough issue,” but college stu-dents can transform this into a movement, not only nationally, but right here on campus.
“The treatment of adjunct professors represents the strug-gles of the university,” she said.
Adjuncts are hired or re-hired on a semester basis. When Cac-cavaio was hired at the end of August, it was too late for her to order her class books from the university bookstore.
Universities are reliant on ad-junct professors and many of those teachers cannot devote enough time to each student, ac-cording to Daxenbichler. Many adjuncts recognize that stu-dents grow frustrated when their emails go unanswered, Curry said, but most of the time, the adjuncts are at a different job try-ing to pay their rent.
Daxenbichler said she has had fellow colleagues teach six class-es at once.
“Language is taught by ad-juncts and teachings assistants, so without adjuncts, universities can’t sustain the core curricu-lum,” she said.
Daxenbichler said because so many adjunct professors teach core classes, students build a closer relationship with the ad-juncts rather than the professors. Most students, Fertig said, don’t know that adjunct professors aren’t technically members of the departments. And when students ask their adjunct professors for a recommendation, students are often denied their request.
“If a recommendation has ‘ad-junct professor’ on it, it will be ignored,” Caccavaio said. She said she refuses to write a rec-ommendation letter for students because the letter “won’t be tak-en seriously” and will inhibit the success of the students.
During Friday’s rally, adjuncts and supports of adjuncts, like Emily Anderson, a fourth year Ph.D. student at UB, marched through Lafayette Square, with flyers including their concerns of “protection and job security, a voice at work, inclusion, equal treatment and respect.”
Anderson said events like Fri-day’s rally and the “grade-in” help to promote a conversation about the job market for teachers and educators. Right now, An-derson is a teaching assistant for an English 201 class, but the pos-sibility of becoming an adjunct may be in her future.
Fertig said adjuncts are treated as if they are “invisible” by the university. And if the treatment continues, she said, she will have to give up teaching.
Anderson said BAM plans to hold more rallies to raise aware-ness for adjunct professors in the future, but have not scheduled any yet.
UB officials could not be reached for comment by the time offpress.
unsuccessful on-campus movie screenings, the Student Association has switched to offering movie tick-et vouchers.
Every Monday at 10 a.m., a long line forms in in front of the Sub-Board I (SBI) ticket office that al-most stretches to the other side of the floor. SA’s new ticket program started early this month and re-placed the film series that showed movies in Student Union Theater.
SA plans to give away 2,500 free AMC movie ticket vouchers to UB undergraduate students this fall semester. Only 200 movie ticket vouchers are available on a week-ly basis. After three weeks with-in the promotion, a total of 600 movie ticket vouchers have been redeemed. Students are only able to receive four vouchers for the entire semester. The popularity of the new program has resulted in average hour-long wait.
The cost of the AMC movie ticket vouchers is higher compared to the previous program. SA trea-surer Sade Cadle said the previous film series, which included staffing and movies, cost SA $38,918.99. The AMC movie ticket programs costs $40,040.
Around the end of last semes-ter, the SA entertainment depart-ment and previous SA executive board wanted to come up with a better option to provide movies to students after low attendance at the old film series. SA President James Ingram said they decided the AMC movie ticket vouchers would pro-vide a better film experience.
Ingram said the vouchers were a “plausible idea” because the UB Parking and Transportation department started having bus-es running to nearby AMC plaza. He said this allows the program to lessen transportation issues for students without cars, who will not feel they had “a service taken away from them” through the switch.
Cadle said switching to the AMC movie ticket vouchers has made students happier and it also clears SU Theater for other clubs to use.
While some students have not had a chance to get an AMC mov-ie ticket voucher, Kushan Abey-awardhane, a senior mechanical engineering major, managed to get the vouchers twice.
He said his secret to success-fully claiming the vouchers is to head straight for the SBI ticket of-fice before 10 a.m. after class ev-ery Monday.
Abeyawardhane said, however, there should be more staff handing out the tickets to make the collection process faster. He waited almost an hour to receive a movie ticket voucher the first time. He’s started studying during the wait to help pass the time and be productive.
After getting his voucher, he said the line looked like it would still take more than an hour to fin-ish hand out the rest of the tickets.
Ingram acknowledged the wait time and said he hopes to improve that part of the program. He said the queue made him happy to see many students interested in the program, but he said he is also try-ing to brainstorm ways to make the ticket collection process run more efficiently.
“The Sub-Board I ticket office is the best way that we come up with currently to give out the tickets because Sub-Board I has a whole system that can keep track of how many students are getting tick-ets and how many tickets students have picked up,” Ingram said.
At the end of the semester, In-
gram plans to sit down with Loren-zo Guzman, SBI Ticket Office gen-eral services manager, to see if there is a way they can make the ticketing distribution more efficient.
Harbind Brar, a senior psychol-ogy major, said he waited in line for 40 minutes to get his ticket. He had his friends accompany him while he waited in line.
“I left from home to campus early in the day and I waited pa-tiently in line for a ticket before the ticket office opened up,” Brar said. “Sometimes, I asked a friend to hold a spot in line for me.”
Brar hasn’t had the chance to put his AMC movie ticket voucher to use because he plans on either using it when a “big movie comes out in the theaters” or during the winter break. He was quick to say how nice it was to be able “to grab one of the tickets.”
“It felt like a reward from work-ing hard each week in school and extracurricular,” Brar said.
Despite the promotion being new, Ingram said the weekly give-away is a success. He hopes to eventually have a possible group deal with AMC to purchase more tickets if it stays popular with the students.
Ingram said the AMC movie ticket vouchers program will con-tinue next semester.
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After managing to illegally cross the border into the Unit-ed States, undocumented immi-grants on Long Island face an equally daunting task: enrolling their children in school.
Both legally and ethically, the schools preventing students from signing up for classes on Long Island – where Suffolk and Nassau Counties rank third and fifth respectively in num-bers of arriving unaccompanied minors – are wholeheartedly and reprehensibly wrong.
Legally, public schools in the United States are required to provide an education for non-citizen children of illegal immi-grants. That battle has already been fought – in the Supreme Court in 1982 – and the children won.
Recently, schools have be-gun to feel comfortable ignoring the Supreme Court. The New York Times reported that the Justice and Education Depart-ments dealt with an influx of complaints about schools dis-couraging enrollment by immi-grant children, requiring visas, Social Security cards and driv-er’s licenses from parents – doc-uments that this population gen-erally cannot obtain.
Last May, Attorney General Eric Holder reminded districts of these laws – and their obliga-tions as education providers.
But Long Island continues to flout federal policy.
Schools regularly drown par-ents in overwhelming amounts of paperwork, demanding not just basic and important infor-mation like immunization re-cords, proof of residency and contact information, but affida-vits from landlords, notarized paperwork and mortgage state-ments or homeowner deeds.
Paperwork and policy is im-portant in administrative con-texts, but so is flexibility.
Long Island’s reputation with respect to immigrants has long been sullied, as school districts in the ’90s tried to expel undoc-umented students or impose a requirement of permanent resi-dent visas.
Years later, they’re continu-ing an unfortunate trend, cost-ing children their education and the opportunities they fled their homes in order to pursue.
Like the outright discrimi-nation practiced years ago, the schools’ intolerant behavior to-wards immigrant children ex-tends beyond the passive resis-tance of unnecessary paperwork and administrative obstacles.
Even students who managed
to enroll in Long Island schools have found themselves turned away due to their status: dozens of students reported arriving at school only to be told to sign an attendance sheet, then leave.
The state of New York and the federal government have re-sponded admirably, demonstrat-ing that they, unlike the schools in question, understand their ob-ligation to all children, regard-less of their nationality or immi-
grant status. And thanks to the in-depth and humanizing report-ing by the New York Times, the public is aware of this problem.
Though it’s disheartening to see the selfish unethicality on the part of educators who should be anything but self-centered, it’s equally encouraging to know that this issue will not be overlooked or ignored.
The problem must be resolved, and quickly: as a result of Long
Island’s intolerance, inflexibili-ty and what essentially amounts to stubborn immaturity, children are left feeling lonely, unwanted and left out.
And even more problematic than damaged psyches is the de-nial of what is an inarguable hu-man right – the right to an edu-cation.
In disgraceful demonstration of intolerance, schools are turning away undocumented immigrants
Long Island must accept that education is a universal right
Tweenage fans across West-ern New York are convulsing with excitement at the prospect of seeing One Direction in Buf-falo, and although the news of the popular boy band’s pending arrival at the Ralph Wilson Sta-dium may not excite too many UB students, the opportunities that this development presents should be cause for celebration.
Despite the Ralph’s impres-sive history – the venue has been host to performers like Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones and Michael Jackson over the years – the stadium hasn’t held a concert since the summer of 2001, when *NSYNC and the Dave Mat-thews Band came to Buffalo.
This long, silent interlude at the Ralph is understandable. As an outdoor stadium in an area known for its frigid winters, the window of time for concerts is limited to late spring through early fall.
And when it comes to concert venues in Buffalo, the city enjoys an abundance of possibilities, in-cluding the scenic Artpark and Canalside, which hosts free con-
certs each week in the summer.Though the absence of per-
forming artists at the Ralph has long been a downer, consider-ing the much touted, multimil-lion dollar renovations complet-ed just this year, it’s more crucial than ever that the Ralph fulfills an objective beyond featuring Bills games.
With $130 million worth of fan amenities, like larger con-cession stands, improved video technology and increased points of entry, the stadium is now bet-ter suited than ever to hosting concerts.
Filling the Ralph is no easy task, admittedly. As The Buffalo News notes, Bruce Springsteen failed to sell enough tickets to perform at the stadium and had to move his concert to Darien Lake.
But as One Direction’s upcom-ing concert indicates, there are acts that can jam the stands –
and performers like One Direc-tion, who draw fans interested in spectacle, rather than solely su-perior acoustics, would be an ide-al fit for the stadium.
The boy band is hugely pop-ular – their hits consistently top the Billboard 200, they were named the most popular act worldwide in 2013 by the Inter-national Federation of the Pho-nographic Industry and the fer-vor of their young fans is a well-known and well-documented phenomenon.
But there are other perform-ers whose fame rivals the group, who could surely sell enough tickets to come to the Ralph – think superstars like Beyoncé or Taylor Swift, whose tours consis-tently sell out.
With the Ralph back on the map as a potential concert ven-ue, more top-tier artists could come to Buffalo, bringing with them increased numbers of vis-
itors to the area – visitors with cash to spend on not just concert tickets and memorabilia but ho-tel rooms, dinners and drinks.
Not only would the Ralph earn some revenue, but the whole city would also benefit from a consis-tent and dramatic influx of tour-ists to the region.
Buffalo is known for its sports teams – though perhaps not their success – and its venues are var-ied and lucrative (when there’s a game on).
There’s no reason that the Ralph should sit empty and un-profitable six days a week. The stadium – and the city – would benefit from a reputation for large-scale performances, in both cultural and financial terms.
The Bills have been winning games this season and the Ralph has been host to hordes of screaming, cheering, foot-stomp-ing football fans. Now, it’s time for the stadium to welcome dev-otees of a different sort as well – without a doubt, the fans in the stands will be just as frenzied,
After 15 years of silence, the Ralph makes welcome return to the concert scene
One Direction’s announcement of tour date at the Ralph could be music to Buffalonian’s ears
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The day after Xavier Perez’s grandfather died, his mom spread flowers, known as “flor de meurto,” on a table in their home. Until then, Perez never saw a reason to cele-brate the dead.
Mexican students at UB are finding ways to celebrate El Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. During this three-day long hol-iday, which takes place from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2, Mexicans give offerings known as “ofren-das” in their homes and at cemeteries to de-ceased family members such as traditional fruit, candles and chocolate beverages. The holiday was first observed more than 2,500 years ago in Mexico. Mexico is comprised of 31 states and each one puts a different spin on El Día de los Muertos.
Hispanics make up about 10.53 percent of Buffalo’s population, and 5.03 percent of them considered themselves as Mexican, ac-cording to data collected by the Census Bu-reau in 2010. Hispanics make up 5.2 percent of UB’s population, according to SUNY’s website.
“In the past, my family did not really cele-brate El Día de los Muertos because we did not really have anyone to remember,” said Perez, a sophomore Spanish major from Mexico. “But when my grandfather passed away, all of that changed.”
Perez used to ask his grandmother why their family didn’t celebrate Halloween in-stead. His grandmother responded by tell-ing him a popular Mexican urban legend that acted as fodder for his curious mind.
She said there once was a little girl whose mother passed away. The father grew so de-pressed that he neglected his daughter. One night, the father had a dream he saw all the people who died in his state, including his wife, coming back to Earth. The dream changed him forever.
After hearing this tale from his grand-mother, Perez finally learned the meaning of El Día de Los Muertos.
Though El Día de los Muertos falls around the same time as Halloween, the two holidays are actually quite different.
“What I know about Halloween is that you dress up to get candy or to socialize and it’s more geared towards children and occa-sionally adults who go to parties,” Perez said. “El Día de los Muertos is more for adults
because they have experienced the loss of loved ones.”
Perez sometimes struggles to celebrate the holiday at UB be-cause he lives in a dorm.
“I still put the image of my grandfather on a table surround-ed by candles and some sweets,” Perez said. “My space is very lim-ited but as long as I am honoring my grandfather I am happy.”
Another limitation of celebrat-ing El Día de los Muertos in Buf-falo is the hassle of finding the native flowers and fruits used in Mexico, Perez said. He is able to find imported versions of fruits but he said it’s not the “same as the real thing.”
During El Día de Los Muer-tos, Mexican families surround the portrait of the deceased with items they may have liked. For example, it is popular to put te-quila on the ofrenda.
Food is an essential compo-nent of El Día de los Muertos. Mexicans begin to prepare their dishes early in October. Pan de muerto (“bread of the dead”), jicama, a fruit native to Mexico and tangerines are popular foods consumed during El Día de los Muertos.
Mexican families also serve chocolate beverages known as Champurrado.
“The chocolate is made man-ually from scratch with a wooden stick-like tool,” Perez said. “The chocolate is then mixed with water and then shaken and stirred until the texture is perfect and plas-ma-like.”
Depending on the town, the beverage could be sweet and savory or hot and spicy.
Mexico’s economic strife makes many poor Mexicans worry they will not be able to afford to offer their loved ones any offer-ings, according to Perez.
El Día de los Muertos has helped Perez to learn more about his grandfather.
“I went to the attic with my grandmother and she asked me if I wanted to settle the ta-ble for my grandfather,” Perez said. “I went with her and she took out a box and I got to see the toys my grandfather had when he
was little and they were very different from the ones we have now.”
Kevin Carpio, a junior Aerospace Engi-neering major, believes Halloween is more commercialized than El Día de Los Muertos because Halloween has lost its actual mean-ing, unlike the Mexican holiday.
“Rather than going house by house ask-ing for treats and dressing up with costumes, Día de los Muertos is a day where we re-member our lost family and celebrate with them with food and dancing,” Carpio said.
While Mexican students like Perez, who lived in Mexico for eight and a half years, ac-tively celebrate the holiday, some Mexican students feel more or less apathetic when El Día de los Muertos approaches.
Arnold Rodriguez, a sophomore music major, doesn’t know too much about the holiday.
“My mom doesn’t really embrace Mexican culture so I’ve never really celebrated it,” Ro-driguez said.
He said the lack of unity within his ex-tended family members might be a reason that they never really celebrated the holiday. Although he hasn’t really celebrated it in the past, in the wake of his grandmother’s recent death, Rodriguez said he just might honor her memory this year by setting up an ofren-da in his dorm room.
Despite the fact the Mexican population in Buffalo is quite small, organizations still exist to bring the community together. In 1947, Centro Social Club Mexicano was estab-
lished in the city of Lackawanna, just South of Buffalo. The community sponsors social events celebrated on Mexican holidays.
The Day of the Dead Party hosted by Be-yond Ghosts is one of the few El Día de Los Muertos celebrations in Buffalo. The party is loosely based on the holiday and is held on Genesee Street on Nov. 1.
“While Halloween celebrates monsters, darkness and horror, our party celebrates the vibrant nature of life after death,” said Chrissy Lis, the event manager for the Day of the Dead party.
Although there’s an increased interest in the part of Latin and Mexican Americans to celebrate the holiday, the event manages to bring a diverse crowd of people, according to Lis.
“I feel like [UB doesn’t] celebrate [El Día de Los Muertos] because there’s not a large amount of Mexicans in our school so there’s not as big of a demand for the holiday to be celebrated,” Perez said.
Mexican students at UB are hosting events in an effort to honor El Día de Los Muertos. Caprio said the Latin American Student As-sociation will help host a Día de los Muertos event with food and games at the Richmond Locked Lounge from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Oct. 30.
Giving life to the dead Mexican students honor their deceased loved ones during El Día de los Muertos
Xavier Perez, a sophomore spanish major is performing with the Latin American Student Association (LASA) for the International Fiesta celebrating El Dia de Los Muertos, Day of the Dead. COURTESY OF XAVIER PEREZ
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The Queen City’s electronic dance mu-sic community has a new club to call their own – flashing lights and electronic dance music came to Franklin Street in Down-town Buffalo last week.
LiFT is a 21-and-over bar with an EDM atmosphere that opened Oct. 17. It will showcase renowned DJs such as EDX, Electric Area, Jay Flip and Pierce Fulton throughout the year, according to employ-ees.
The LiFT nightclub officially opened with a show by Audien, a 22-year-old EDM DJ and producer. LiFT is located two floors be-low Sky Bar on 257 Franklin St.
The owner, Mark Croce, who owns 257 Franklin St. and multiple other properties downtown including Buffalo Chophouse, the Curtiss Building and the Statler City building, changed former club Rendez-vous’ name to LiFT to refresh the club’s image, according to Nikki Butchart, the club liaison for DJs and VIP clients.
Rendezvous struggled because it lacked an intimate atmosphere – it had enough space to accommodate 1,500 people, but only 500 people regularly came. In addi-tion, it was located on Delaware Street and distanced from the bustling activity on Chippewa Street.
“On Chippewa you’re going to see a lot
of pubs, just random bars,” Butchart said. “Here, girls can feel comfortable coming in their little black dresses, [and] guys can wear button-down shirts.”
LiFT is an intimate, comfortable club, looking to cater to a new crowd of clubbers, Butchart said. Attendees paid a $23 cover charge to get into the sold-out opening.
Samantha Robbins, a UB graduate reha-bilitation counseling student, said she had a great experience at the opening and en-joyed the décor and outdoor patio at the bar. But she wasn’t a fan of the dance floor’s layout.
“I did not like the dance floor and how it had different platforms, or steps,” she said. “It’s a bit dangerous and it made it difficult to dance with all the people who were there.”
Still, Robbins said she was excited to at-tend more LiFT events, especially their EMD Fridays.
By next Friday, LiFT will have a multi-colored dance floor, Butchart said. The bar – made of an opaque, black marble lined with steel – is situated within three gridiron pillars and lit by an intricate set of crystal chandeliers. The bar is stocked with a vari-ety of drinks and cocktails and the average drink costs $4 to $5.
Christopher John, a 25-year-old resi-dent of Cheektowaga, preferred the at-mosphere and setup of Rendezvous to the new LiFT.
“LiFT leaves you scratching your head wondering why they chose to put the bar in the center of club,” he said. “It de-tracts from the performer, and as some-body who doesn’t drink, it’s just annoying to wade through drunk people.”
He said LiFT is a “Vegas-style night-club” and lacks the “private underground feel” Rendezvous had.
He, nonetheless, enjoys the energy of the club and EDM shows.
LiFT plans to bring some of the most famous DJs to Buffalo and aims to give local DJs the opportunity to perform, such as Nick Styles and Jesse Aaron.
LiFT is currently preparing for Friday’s Halloween event, 98 Nightmares. Early-bird tickets are $15 and there will be more tickets sold at the door.
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Marvel’s Civil War and DC Comics’ Jus-tice were the comic runs that really got me into the genre.
I started picking up comics in fifth grade when my friends and I wanted to make our own – a James Bond inspired tale that was, shall we say, a bit mature for our age.
Somehow our inspiration was the orig-inal Spider-Man comics by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. The first graphic novel I bought was Marvel Masterworks Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 – a collection of the first 10 issues of Spider-Man. My collec-tion grew over the next couple of years, but exploded after I read Marvel’s Civ-il War and DC Comics’ Justice in seventh grade – the first two comic runs I collect-ed monthly.
I fell in love with Kurt Busiek’s writing, Doug Braithwaite’s pencils and Alex Ross’ immaculate painted colors on Justice, just as much as I enjoyed Mark Miller’s writing and Steve McNiven’s pencils on Civil War.
The prospect that one of those will soon be brought to the silver screen with the full weight of Marvel Studio’s movie magic behind it, has me more excited than seeing James Spader’s menacingly voiced Ultron take on The Avengers.
“I’m gonna show you something beauti-ful,” Ultron says at the onset of first trail-er for Avengers: Age of Ultron. The trail-er was leaked and then formally released late last week.
Ultron isn’t alone. Marvel is ready to show its growing fan-
base something beautiful with their third
phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Sadly, the universe doesn’t include last year’s phenomenal X-Men: Days of Fu-ture Past from 20th Century Fox or Sony Entertainment’s Amazing Spider-Man 2.
So far phase three includes a Doc-tor Strange and Ant-Man movie, a sec-ond Guardians of the Galaxy and anoth-er Captain America – a film that the ru-mor mill believes will pit Tony Stark’s Iron Man against the First Avenger, the leaders of Civil War.
There are also rumblings of a Planet or World War Hulk inspired film, a third Thor and film based around Black Pan-ther. Marvel has multiple unannounced films slated for release in coming years.
Even if the rumor mill is wrong, Marvel has been on fire lately.
Their biggest gamble, Guardians of the Galaxy with two entirely CGI characters – a talking, lovable tree named, Groot and a sassy, psychopathic raccoon named, Rock-et – is one of the best Marvel movies to date, becoming the third highest grossing Marvel film. It fell short of The Avengers’ $1.5 billion and Iron Man 3’s $1.2, gross-ing a measly $750 million, according to Box Office Mojo.
It had it’s own vibe and didn’t detract from the power and brilliance of X-Men: Days of Future Past or Captain America: Winter Soldier, which were both equally great films in their own way.
Some might argue that we’re being in-undated with super hero films. Between DC Comics and Marvel there will be over 20 in the next 10 to 14 years. Marvel has more than a dozen films planned through 2028 and DC Comics announced they currently have 11 films in one stage of de-velopment or another.
Next year alone will include, Age of Ul-tron, Ant-Man and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a film that will presum-ably set up the beginnings of DC Comic’s grander cinematic vision.
Inundated or not, if this year is any in-dication, people are certainly willing to continue supporting their favorite heroes and heroines appearing on the big screen. And I’ll be among them.
I’m ready for phase three; I’m ready for Wolfgang von Stucker’s “age of miracles.”
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KAYLA MENESSTAFF WRITER
Album: Sound of a WomanArtist: KieszaLabel: Lokal Legend / Island RecordsRelease Date: Oct. 21Grade: B+
Kiesza travels across music genres and timelines, delivering an ebullient homage to ’90s deep house, R&B and dance with Sound of a Woman.
The singer-songwriter originally played folk music, but then met soul produc-er Rami Samir Afuni and gradually tran-sitioned to a more upbeat sound. With a new approach to music amplified with retro flair, Kiesza’s creates a fresh, in-triguing sound.
Sound of Woman dives into themes of love and heartbreak showcasing Kiesza’s high-pitched vocal range.
The album opens with Kiesza’s plati-num summer hit, “Hideaway.” The song is up-tempo and filled with a house bassline and cracking drums. It’s height-ened with Kiesza’s blissful vocals.
“You’re just a hideaway, you’re just a feeling / You let my heart escape, beyond the meaning,” Kiesza sings about falling hard for someone. Her “oohs” and “ahs” add a feeling of euphoria throughout the track.
“Losin’ My Mind” begins with Kiesza singing a cappella leading into DJ scratch-ing, rhythmic drums and a suave bassline. “All this talk of eternity / Why not start out one single night,” Kiesza croons to a potential love interest.
The sound blends ’90s hip-hop and R&B aesthetics with interpolating dance elements. Guest rapper Mick Jenkins adds to her dialogue by spitting, “I nev-
er thought I would be here / Guess it’s Dallas Texas to Lamar Odom / You play your cards and you never fold ‘em, it’s Texas Hold ‘Em.”
The song is enhanced with grimy pia-no, snappy drums and Kiesza’s catchy vo-cals as well as a memorable hook. “May-be that’s a bad thing, bad thing / I’mma fiend for that thing, that thing,” Kiesza sings about a toxic relationship.
Guest rapper Joey Badass continues her conversation by rapping, “Now we grow-ing wings, she’s the girl of my dreams / I could, give her my last name but that’s a bad thing.”
Kiesza sings a stripped down version of Haddaway’s 1993 dance hit “What is Love.” The sound is complimented with light piano and a faint violin highlighting Kiesza’s emotional vocals.
Her cover of “What is Love” acts as a heartfelt nod to her folk roots, adding a new level of feeling to the already mega-popular song.
“The Love” begins with Kiesza’s elated vocals and bursts into a song you’d hear in a crowded 90s club. “This is the love / Something you can feel but you can’t de-fine,” Kiesza sings.
The song’s sound is powered by synths, piano chords and EDM influences, and Kiesza intensifies the song by harmoniz-ing with the prime beats, forming a dance anthem.
Taking a note from “The Love,” “Over Myself ” starts slowly heightened with a faint organ, then builds into sublime house synths and snaps.
“Tip of your love but I just don’t feel it / Got what I want but I just don’t need it,” Kiesza sings exultantly about getting herself back after a rough break up.
Sound of a Woman closes with a folk version of “Hideaway.” Kiesza shows her range and recognizes her early beginnings in the music industry.
Complimented with smooth acoustics and celestial vocals, Kiesza takes the sum-mer hit to new heights.
With her songwriting abilities and Afu-ni’s creative, retro production, Kiesza takes a peek into a relationship’s com-plexities with Sound of Woman. While the album pays tribute to Kiesza’s early folk influences, Kiesza shows she’s not a one-genre singer with her eclectic sound.
The line was also penalized for a chop-block. Run defense: B
The Good: Central Michigan senior run-ning back Thomas Rawls, who was the na-tion’s sixth leading rusher entering Saturday, left the game with a knee injury after four carries. The Bulls defense contained Raw-ls’ backups, limiting both Saylor Lavallii and Martez Walker to fewer than 4 yards a carry.
The Bad: Lavallii and Walker ran for a combined 137 yards after Rawls’ injury. La-vallii ran for two first half touchdowns in-side the 10-yard line, running over Buffalo defenders both times. Pass defense: B
The Good: Buffalo had a season-best five sacks, including two from senior safety Adam Redden. Senior safety Witney Sherry intercepted Central Michigan sophomore quarterback Cooper Rush in the third quar-ter, which was just Buffalo’s second inter-ception of the season.
The Bad: The secondary allowed sever-al big completions down the field yet again. Members of the secondary were caught out of position on several of Rush’s long com-pletions. Chippewas’ senior wide receiver Titus Davis caught six passes for 100 yards, including the game-winning fourth-quarter touchdown. Special teams: A-
The Good: Devin Campbell had a sea-son-long 69-yard kickoff return to start the second half. The return set up sophomore wide receiver Malcolm Robinson’s 6-yard touchdown catch that tied the game at 14.
The Bad: The kicking unit was not test-ed in this game, so there’s not too much to complain about. Senior kicker Patrick Clarke, who has only made six of 12 field goal attempts this season, did not attempt a kick partly due to the wind conditions. Ju-nior punter Tyler Grassman failed to land a punt inside the 20-yard line. Coaching: C
The Good: Buffalo rebounded to tie the game after trailing 14-0 in the second quar-ter.
The Bad: Saturday was interim head coach Alex Wood’s first game calling plays
from the sideline as opposed to up in the coaches’ booth, and it seemed to impact the offense. The Bulls failed to score more than 20 points for the first time this season and they had their worst yardage output of the season (271). Wood has been Buffa-lo’s play-caller all season, so the biggest dif-ference for him in Saturday’s loss was that there was no one above him to override his decisions.
Wood’s biggest decision was electing to go for it on fourth down on Buffalo’s final two drives. Due to the wind conditions and the situation of the game, however, Wood had no choice but keep the offense on the field on fourth down. The Bulls failed both attempts.
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It’s one thing to be a cover band; it’s quite another to be a Grammy winning cover band.
The Zac Brown Tribute Band paid homage to one of music’s most famous country folk groups Saturday in Stam-pede Square, before the Bulls’ 20-14 loss to Central Michigan, as part of UB’s Tailgate Concert Series. Their set cov-ered a range of the band’s music, from original songs to multiple covers.
The seven-piece group has been play-ing together since 2012. What sets them apart from other tribute bands, or any band in general, is that all seven mem-bers sing, which allows them to create complex harmonies. These harmonies are not only similar to the original band’s sound, but provide a distinctive element to the tribute band’s show.
“I’ve seen the Zac Brown Band before, and this group gives them a run for their money,” said Sandy Kantz, 45, from Am-herst. “I had low expectations, especial-ly from a tribute group, but they blew me away.”
The tribute band has a method to their music – according to their website, they try to learn a new song every week. They have multiple set lists prepared for their gigs, filled with songs like “Sweet Emo-tion,” “Highway 20 Ride” and “Settle Me
Down.” Two electric guitars, two acoustic gui-
tars, a violin, a piano and a drum set cre-ate the band’s smooth country sound. The band’s slow-paced lyrics are relaxing and compliment the strong voices of the singers.
Their diverse performances are what makes the Zac Brown Band appealing to such a broad audience range – from old to young, even father to son.
“I came here with my dad, because he likes the Zac Brown Band,” said Joe Cas-tanza, 19, from Niagara Falls. “Now I’ve found a band that I can listen to and en-joy and my dad was able to see a con-cert he thought gave the original band justice.”
The group tours all over New York and creates set lists catered for the ven-ues they are playing. Aside from just playing shows for fun, the band at-tempts to help children in need by play-ing at benefit concerts. They raised more than $3,000 in 2013 at a fundraiser they helped to develop, and plan to continue working to help children.
“We’re here to put on a show that’s just as good, if not better than, the orig-inal group,” said frontman Matt Ste-phens. “And if you think we’re doing a good job, let us know.”
Though everyone in the band sings, the group has three frontmen that cover songs while the other members harmo-
nize. The three frontmen pass vocal re-sponsibility between them depending on the song.
A brisk wind that intensified toward the end of the show didn’t stop fans from staying until the last chord was played. The group exited the stage to ap-plause from the audience, who were beg-ging for a longer set than the 90-minute show.
Despite being a tribute band, the band transforms the original band’s sound into their own.
The final Tailgate Concert Series per-formance will feature Frankie Ballard on Nov. 11 at 6 p.m. – two hours before the Bulls’ game against Akron.
A country tribute The Zac Brown Tribute Band brings a little country to UB
SHARON KAHNFEATURES EDITOR
Yulia Gilichinskaya, a graduate media study student from Rus-sia, only knew about Halloween from what she had seen in mov-ies.
That type of experience is sim-ilar for many international stu-dents – UB often serves as their first real-life introduction to the holiday.
International students make up about 17 percent of enrolled stu-dents at UB. In 2013, UB ranked among the top 20 U.S. universi-ties in international student en-rollment.
Although some of these stu-dents are finishing off their fourth year at UB, others are just beginning, and are about to ex-perience their first Halloween in America. Russia
Gilichinskaya attended her first Halloween-costume party when she attended college in Moscow.
This year, Gilichinskaya is go-ing to attend her first Halloween party in the United States thrown by the graduate student depart-ment. She hopes to go bar hop-ping afterward and attend the ghost tour in Buffalo’s Central Terminal.
“I’m going as a ‘Russian,’” Gilichinskaya said. “A striped shirt, teddy bear and bottle of vodka. An ear flat cap, too, if I can find one.”
Although Gilichinskaya expe-rienced a small taste of the Hal-loween experience when she was in Moscow, she never experi-enced going door-to-door trick-or-treating with friends and fam-ily, collecting candy from her neighbors.
“I’ve never trick-or-treated in my life,” Gilichinskaya said. “I feel like I’m missing out.”Israel
After she moved to Israel in 2011, Gilichinskaya was the only one who walked into work wear-ing a costume on Halloween.
“I was the only one who even remembered about the holiday,” Gilichinskaya said.
In Israel, Jews celebrate Purim, the closest thing they have to Hal-loween, Gilichinskaya said. Purim is a religious holiday. People dress up in costumes and wear them to tem-ple.
“The first time I experienced [Purim] I was mesmerized,” Gilichinskaya said. “Even rabbis and solemn old people dressed up for temple on Purim.”
On Purim, observant Jews go to temple and listen to the sto-ry of the holiday – the book of Esther – and pray. The holiday commemorates the escape of the Jewish people from Haman, a royal adviser to the King, who had plotted to kill all the Jews throughout the empire. Esther, who had risen to become Queen of Persia, saved the Jewish peo-ple. The holiday is now a day of feasting and celebration.
More secular Jews drink and
party, similar to Halloween, Gilichinskaya said.
“It is commanded to be joyful and to drink on Purim,” Gilich-inskaya said. “So drinking on that day is still a part of the tradition. It’s a really fun holiday.”India
Unlike Gilichinskaya, Maha-thi Gottumukkala, a sophomore economics major, experienced trick-or-treating back at home in India when she was in seventh grade.
She had only heard about Hal-loween from what she had seen on television shows such as Dis-ney’s “Wizards of Waverly Place” and the “Suite Life of Zack and Cody,” she said.
Eager to get involved in the Halloween spirit, Gottumukkala and her friends hung up posters around their apartment building urging her neighbors to get can-dy because they were going to go trick-or-treating.
Gottumukkala, along with the rest of the children in the build-ing, went knocking door-to-door for Halloween candy.
“Some people had candy and some people didn’t,” Gottumuk-kala said. “But it was still fun to dress up and it amused people.”
India doesn’t customarily cele-
brate Halloween but Gottumuk-kala got a small taste of the cel-ebration as child. She was as-tounded at how big Halloween was in America.
“Halloween stuff comes out in stores months in advance,” Got-tumukkala said. “I didn’t know it was so big, I was quite surprised.”
For her first Halloween in the United States, Gottumukkala vis-ited haunted houses in the Stu-dent Union and in Goodyear. She thought they were done well.
This year, Gottumukkala hasn’t decided what she will do on Hal-loween.
“There are so many options,” Gottumukkala said. “I will def-initely visit one of the haunt-ed houses and possibly watch a movie with the UB Lit Club.”
Sushobhna Batra, a junior bio-chemistry and biological sciences major, is from New Delhi, India. She said in New Delhi, Hallow-een has become a lot more popu-lar over the last few years.
She experienced Halloween parties and dressing up in cos-tumes at home, but her first American Halloween last year was an entirely new experience.
She decorated her dorm room with various Halloween decora-tions and little pumpkins and she
attended a Halloween program in Governors Complex and carved pumpkins with her friends for the first time.
“My hands got a bit too slimy, but it was sheer fun,” Batra said.
This year for Halloween, Batra plans on attending the Haunted Union with her friends.China
Guyin Yu, a junior political sci-ence and math double major, ex-perienced her first Halloween in the fall of 2012 as a freshman at UB.
While Yu doesn’t care much for holidays, she took her first Halloween as an opportunity to socialize with friends and have fun.
It wasn’t customary in China to celebrate Halloween, according to Yu. She said while stores often try to get into the spirit by selling decorations, it’s on a much small-er scale than in the Unite States.
This year, Yu plans to get more into the spirit of Halloween than she has in the past. In past years, she didn’t choose to dress up, but this year she has decided to take part in the costumes.
“This year I plan on looking for makeup tutorials online and getting the vampire look,” Yu said.
Students from around the world experience first Halloween at UB
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The Zac Brown Tribute Band took the original country band’s music and molded it into their own sound, becoming a grammy award winning tribute band. They performed Saturday in front of a crowd that braved the windy weather to see the band perform prior to the Bulls’ loss against Central Michigan.
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Quarterbacks: CThe Good: Junior quarterback Joe Li-
cata had two touchdown passes, including a nice throw to junior wide receiver Ron Willoughby over the middle for a 28-yard score. Licata – despite his limited mobil-ity – scrambled out of the pocket sever-al times to keep the play alive when fac-ing pressure.
The Bad: Licata threw two intercep-tions, including one pass that was inter-cepted at the 2-yard line with the game tied at 14 in the third quarter. Licata has thrown five interceptions in his last three games. Running backs: F
The Good: Licata had Buffalo’s longest run of the day (10 yards).
The Bad: After running for more than 100 yards in his previous four games, ju-nior running back Anthone Taylor ran for just 25 yards on 14 carries Saturday. The
Bulls’ running game was completely shut-down by the Chippewas, as Buffalo aver-aged 1.7 yards a carry. Wide receivers and tight ends: B+
The Good: Willoughby caught four passes for 90 yards, including a 28-yard touchdown at the end of the first half. Ju-nior wide receiver Marcus McGill had his longest catch (34 yards) since Week Two against Army.
The Bad: Outside of Willoughby and McGill, no receivers were able to get open down the field. No other Bull had more than 27 receiving yards against Central Michigan’s No. 1 MAC pass defense.Offensive line: F
The Good: The running game strug-gled and Licata rarely had time to throw down field. It’s hard to find a “good.”
The Bad: The line failed to open holes in the running game and protect Licata. The Bulls had their lowest rushing output of the season (38 yards) and Licata – de-spite only being sacked twice – was under constant duress throughout the game.
Gridiron Report Card: The Spectrum grades the Bulls’ 20-14 loss to Central Michigan
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The Bulls (3-5, 1-3 Mid-Amer-ican Conference) lost to Central Michigan (5-4, 3-2 MAC) 20-14 at UB Stadium Saturday. With the loss, Buffalo must win its fi-nal four games to become bowl-eligible for the second straight season. Stat rundown:-Buffalo was outgained in most categories, including rush-ing yards, total yards and time of possession. The Bulls out-gained Central Michigan in pass-ing yards, but only by two (233 to 231). -Central Michigan converted three of four fourth down at-tempts. The Chippewas’ first
fourth-down conversion came on a fourth-and-9. Saylor Laval-li scored a 4-yard touchdown on the following play.-Junior running back Anthone Taylor struggled throughout the game, finishing with only 14 car-ries and a season-low 25 rushing yards after four straight games with more than 100 rushing yards. -Junior quarterback Joe Licata completed 21 of 35 passes for 233 yards and two touchdowns, but he also threw two intercep-tions and was sacked twice. Li-cata is now just one touchdown pass behind Drew Willy (52) for the most in program history. -Junior wide receiver Ron Wil-loughby and Licata connect-ed for four passes, 90 yards and a touchdown. His 28-yard score
came with 1:49 remaining in the first half.-Buffalo’s ‘D’ finished the game with five sacks. Senior safe-ty Adam Redden led the Bulls with two sacks, while junior safe-ty Okezie Alozie had 1.5. Buffa-lo recorded just its second inter-ception of the season, courtesy of senior safety Witney Sherry in the third quarter.Turning point:
With the game tied at 14 and Buffalo on Central Michigan’s 34-yard line, Licata threw a deep pass to senior wide receiver Dev-on Hughes. Central Michigan’s Brandon Greer intercepted the pass at the 2-yard line.
The Chippewas then went on a 16-play, 98-yard drive that end-ed with the game-winning touch-down pass to senior wide receiv-er Titus Davis.
When the game was lost:After a missed extra point fol-
lowing Davis’ touchdown catch, Buffalo had two possessions to potentially win the game. Both, however, ended in failed fourth down conversions.
Buffalo’s final offensive play was a failed fourth-and-six on its own 41-yard line. Central Michi-gan ran out the remaining 1:28. Buffalo Player of the Game:
Redden had 10 tackles, two sacks and 3.5 tackles for loss-es. His strip sack and recovered fumble in the second quarter shifted the momentum in Buf-falo’s favor, as the Chippewas were driving down the field with a 14-0 lead at the time. The turn-over led to Buffalo’s first touch-down drive. Central Michigan Player of the Game:
Davis led all Central Michi-gan receivers with six catches and 100 yards. His game-winning touchdown was a 6-yard recep-tion with 8:08 remaining in the fourth quarter.Quote of the game:
“Our backs are against the wall and we know that,” said senior center Trevor Sales. “But we’re not going to go hide in the cor-ner and cry about it. There’s four games left … and we’re going to come out swinging and we’re go-ing to finish this thing out strong. There’s going to be some fun ones to watch. So stay tuned.”Next game:
The Bulls travel to Ohio (4-5, 2-3 MAC) Nov. 5. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. and the game will be aired on ESPN2.
Head coach Shawn Burke said one of the women’s soccer team’s preseason goals was to win the regular season Mid-American Conference title.
As the UB Stadium announc-er counted down the final 10 sec-onds of the Buffalo’s match Sun-day, the Bulls embraced one an-other on the field to celebrate the completion of their first goal.
The No. 69 Bulls (12-2-3, 8-0-2 MAC) clinched the regular sea-son MAC championship at UB Stadium Sunday afternoon after a 2-0 victory over Miami Ohio (13-3-1, 7-2-1 MAC). Buffalo defeated Ball State (9-5-2, 5-4-0 MAC) 2-1 in overtime Friday. It was Buffalo’s second-ever regular season confer-ence title and its first since 2000.
“This is a major step for the program,” Burke said. “We set goals before the season and this was one of them. We want to make it to the NCAA Tourna-ment. We want to win the MAC Tournament. This is a great step-pingstone to get there.”
The Bulls’ defense dominat-ed their two games this weekend – as it had much of the season – allowing just one goal and eight shots on net in both games com-bined. With Sunday’s shutout, freshman goalkeeper Laura Dou-gall set the program record for shutouts in a season with 11. For-mer goalkeeper Ainsley Wheldon had 10 shutouts in 2011.
Buffalo sophomore midfield-er Angel Hart and senior forward Katie Roberts each scored in Buf-falo’s 2-0 victory Sunday. Roberts scored three goals this weekend, and currently leads the confer-ence with 10 goals.
Roberts was near speechless after the game, which was the
team’s Senior Day. “It’s crazy. The past two years
were down years, but this year, es-pecially being a senior, it’s amaz-ing,” Roberts said.
Over the last two seasons, Buf-falo won just six conference games and failed to reach a .500 winning percentage. Burke had previously served as Buffalo’s as-sistant coach for five seasons be-fore being promoted to head coach in January of this year.
After the game, Burke praised Roberts and the rest of the senior class for their leadership on and off the field.
“The key word was leadership,” Burke said. “Experience is some-thing you can’t teach and the fact that we have eight of them is one of the biggest reasons why we’re here today.”
And it’s clear Roberts has em-
braced her role as one of the team’s leaders.
Following a Ball State foul in overtime on Friday, Buffalo was awarded a goal kick and had the opportunity to win the game. Burke didn’t need to say a word from the sideline. Roberts wanted to take the shot.
“I want someone on the field that wants to step up and take it … I like her assertiveness,” Burke said.
This game-winning goal gave Buffalo the opportunity to clinch the MAC title Sunday.
The Bulls trailed 1-0 after Ball State’s Orla Travers-Gillespie scored on a penalty kick near the end of the first half. Roberts then scored twice, once in the 70th min-ute to tie the game, and then in overtime off a penalty kick to win the game. It was Roberts’ fifth game-winning goal of the season.
Burke was impressed with his team’s comeback victory.
“The girls showed character,” Burke said. “We had to battle back the entire time and we didn’t lose it. We maintain composure and got right back into it. That’s what a good team does. We kept going and eventually, [Roberts] found the back of the net twice.”
In their first season with Burke as head coach, the Bulls received their highest-ever national rank-ing (No. 56) and set several pro-gram records including the lon-gest shutout streak to start a sea-son (493 minutes).
Buffalo’s defense, which has al-lowed just 11 goals through 17 games, has been a major reason for the team’s success. Dougall has tal-lied 65 saves in her first season and has a goals against average of just 0.36. She has allowed just three
goals in MAC play thus far. “As a freshman, I have to give
credit to my teammates,” Dou-gall said. “They gave me the con-fidence to go out and play my game. They told me that they just wanted me to do my thing, so with that support in front of you, it allowed me to just play my game.”
Defenders Jackie Hall and So-phie Therien have lead the de-fense with their leadership and physical play. And Buffalo’s of-fense has been about more than just Roberts’ play.
After receiving limited play-ing time as a freshman, sopho-more forward Celina Carrero is second on the team behind Rob-erts in goals (six) and points (17). Freshman midfielder Julia Bena-ti is third on the team with 10 points and tied for second with three goals. Senior midfielder Me-gan Abman has also scored three goals.
Buffalo has clinched the No. 1 seed in the MAC Tournament, which begins Nov. 2. The Bulls will play the lowest seeded team in the quarterfinals.
If Buffalo wins its quarterfinals game, the semifinals and champi-onship games would both be held at UB Stadium – regardless of the outcome of the games.
If the Bulls win the confer-ence tournament, it would re-ceive an automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Women’s Soc-cer Championship.
“Teams now have to come and play in Buffalo and the girls deserve the right to play in the NCAA Tournament,” Burke said.
The Bulls finish the regular sea-son against Akron (6-11-1, 2-8 MAC) Oct. 30 at UB Stadium. The game is set for 3 p.m.
Women’s soccer claims MAC regular season championshipBuffalo wins regular season conference title for first time since 2000 after 2-0 weekend
The Bulls clinched the No. 1 seed in the Mid-American Conference after a 2-0 win over Miami Ohio Sunday and a 2-1 victory over Ball State Friday
Junior wide receiver Ron Willoughby goes up for a pass during Saturday's 20-14 loss to Central Michigan. Willoughby caught four receptions for 90 yards and a touchdown. YUSONG SHI, THE SPECTRUM
