FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2015 UBSPECTRUM.COM VOLUME 64 NO. 45 THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT PUBLICATION OF THE UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, SINCE 1950 School of Management students offer free tax service Page 2 Page 4 Page 8 Bulls football signs 21 recruits News Bites: Catch up on this week’s headlines CHARLES W SCHAAB ASST. NEWS EDITOR The scraps from your on-campus Sloppy Joe or that fourth plate of maca- roni and cheese you grabbed at the din- ing hall aren’t getting sent into a landfill, but back into the earth. Students may not realize their left- overs are being mixed into UB’s soil, helping on-campus foliage thrive. Cam- pus Dining and Shops (CDS) has been using students’ food waste to produce soil amendment for more than six years, but a lot of students don’t know that. UB estimates it prevents more than 700,000 pounds of food waste from entering landfills annually, according to Raymond Kohl, the marketing manag- er for CDS. “Our recycled scraps can be put into further use … getting maximum use out of our organic materials is impor- tant,” said Brian Lounsbury, a sopho- more environmental geosciences major. “I had no idea UB offered the waste us students produce in compost form.” UB’s pre- and post-consumer waste is collected and sent to an on-campus fa- cility to begin the composting process. Composting is the natural process of organic material degrading into an or- ganic matter that is beneficial for all plant growth. This matter, which some gardeners refer to as ‘black gold,’ is not considered a fertilizer but a soil amendment. “I think it is awesome UB is helping reduce some of the waste we produce,” said Veronica Kreutzer, a sophomore en- vironmental engineering major. “Being the major campus we are, [UB] should do something to help reduce trash.” UB hosts roughly 30,000 students who are regularly going in and out of on- campus eateries and producing loads of waste. Normally, the waste breaks down slowly. It can take months for an eggshell or banana peel to decompose and be used in soil. But UB has a food decomposer that expedites that process, allowing the university to produce soil amendments in about 16 hours. All pre- and post-consumer waste from around campus is sealed in recy- cled plastic containers. Those contain- ers are then taken to the Statler Food Commissary in Amherst, where they are emptied and any non-organic materi- als are sorted out. The material is then fed through a grinder. This process re- moves moisture and gives the material added surface area, according to Kohl. The extra surface area and reduced moisture in the product aids in the next step of the process: the food decom- poser. This food decomposer takes the organic material and, through a heating and churning process, sanitizes and de- Black gold UB makes own compost out of campus food waste SEE COMPOSTING, PAGE 6 TOM DINKI SENIOR NEWS EDITOR When the matter of possibly changing UB’s decanal review process was raised in a Faculty Senate Executive Committee meeting last fall, “Most people said, ‘Wait, where did this come from? What’s the problem? Why should we bother?’” according to law professor Martha McCluskey. McCluskey was part of a group that initial- ly discussed making changes to the process in 2011. She stepped onto the Faculty Senate floor Tuesday to advocate for them again. “We’re in an era and culture of assessment. We have to not just trust in excellence, but we have to really have different ways of assessing and monitoring it,” McCluskey said. “We’ve done that for students and faculty and staff. I think including a more professional, clearer, ramped-up process for decanal performance is just part of that same goal and culture and it will benefit us all.” A committee tasked with evaluating how UB reviews its deans presented its findings in the first Faculty Senate meeting of the spring se- mester Tuesday. Decanal review changes were not the only thing discussed, as members of UB’s administration also gave updates on the implementation of new general education re- quirements and the Heart of the Campus ini- tiative. The committee, which includes members from 12 UB schools, was formed in fall 2013 after a Faculty Senate Executive Committee motion in April 2012 by professors, including McCluskey. McCluskey said Tuesday that UB’s current decanal review policy from 1994 is vague, not regularly followed and hard to find. Elaine Davis, an oral diagnostics professor Some Faculty Senators look to change dean review process SEE FACULTY SENATE, PAGE 6 TORI ROSEMAN SENIOR ARTS EDITOR What starts as an average music vid- eo for just another rock band becomes a work of art, as the group starts to play in front of a green screen. The upbeat tempo of the drums keep time as the world around the band begins to shift, morphing into various psychedelic pat- terns and shapes. The band members become cartoons. Their limbs stretch and twist as their music continues to beat on in the back- ground. Shawn Lewis turns what could have been a simple music video shoot into performance art for the Sleepy HaHas, a Buffalo-based band. Lewis, a UB alumnus who graduated with a B.S. in architecture, has taken his life in a different direction than his de- gree suggests. Lewis graduated from UB in 2013 from the architecture program, but in his current career as an artist, he doesn’t use formulas or blueprints. He is fol- lowing his dream of being an artist un- der the title Lesionread. He creates mu- sic and exhibits, showing his exhibits at the Center for the Arts (CFA) and per- forming his music throughout Buffalo. “I had to choose between architec- ture, which would provide me with a job where I’d be paid and being an art- ist, which would allow me to spend my time pursuing not just one thing, but all of my hobbies,” Lewis said. A change of heart Lewis started taking art classes his ju- nior year as a way to fill his schedule. He didn’t expect to enjoy designing installa- tions more than designing buildings. Af- ter a couple of classes, he picked up an art minor and continued taking classes for the next two years, engrossing him- self in sculpting and media. Many of the skills he had been using in his archi- tecture classes carried into his art class- es, like conceptualizing ideas and de- signing sketches. The architecture major began to no- How UB alumni Shawn Lewis went from architect to artist Building a new bridge SEE LEWIS, PAGE 5 CHARLES W SCHAAB ASST. NEWS EDITOR University Police reported finding 470 photos of what “appears to be an ISIS repre- sentative” holding a gun and wearing a black mask in a copy machine on South Campus, according to police reports. The report was filed at 9:33 a.m. on Feb. 2. The copy machine was in Farber Hall, which houses classrooms, wet labs and offices of the School of Public Health and Health Pro- fessions. Chief of Police Gerald Schoenle told The Spectrum an investigation of the incident is ongoing. “What we have is a picture printed on a copy machine,” Schoenle said. “No threats, no verbiage, no crime involved. None the less, we are still investigating to look into this further.” The complaint was filed a day before ISIS released a video of Muadh al-Kasasbeh, a Jordanian pilot, being set on fire and burned to death in a cage. Any information regarding the issue should be reported to UPD (716) 645-2229. email: [email protected]470 photos of possible ISIS representative found on campus Decanal review process dominates semester’s first Senate meeting Courtesy of Jeanette Chwan Shawn Lewis, who graduated UB with a B.S. in architecture, pursues a career as an artist creating music, music videos and art installations. Tom Ludtka, the service manager for CDS, holds some of UB’s soil amendment. Courtesy of Raymond Kohl
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CHARLES W SCHAABASST. NEWS EDITOR
The scraps from your on-campus Sloppy Joe or that fourth plate of maca-roni and cheese you grabbed at the din-ing hall aren’t getting sent into a landfill, but back into the earth.
Students may not realize their left-
overs are being mixed into UB’s soil, helping on-campus foliage thrive. Cam-pus Dining and Shops (CDS) has been using students’ food waste to produce soil amendment for more than six years, but a lot of students don’t know that.
UB estimates it prevents more than 700,000 pounds of food waste from entering landfills annually, according to
Raymond Kohl, the marketing manag-er for CDS.
“Our recycled scraps can be put into further use … getting maximum use out of our organic materials is impor-tant,” said Brian Lounsbury, a sopho-more environmental geosciences major. “I had no idea UB offered the waste us students produce in compost form.”
UB’s pre- and post-consumer waste is collected and sent to an on-campus fa-cility to begin the composting process. Composting is the natural process of organic material degrading into an or-ganic matter that is beneficial for all plant growth.
This matter, which some gardeners refer to as ‘black gold,’ is not considered a fertilizer but a soil amendment.
“I think it is awesome UB is helping reduce some of the waste we produce,” said Veronica Kreutzer, a sophomore en-vironmental engineering major. “Being the major campus we are, [UB] should do something to help reduce trash.” UB hosts roughly 30,000 students who are regularly going in and out of on-campus eateries and producing loads of waste. Normally, the waste breaks down slowly.
It can take months for an eggshell or banana peel to decompose and be used in soil. But UB has a food decomposer that expedites that process, allowing the university to produce soil amendments in about 16 hours.
All pre- and post-consumer waste from around campus is sealed in recy-cled plastic containers. Those contain-ers are then taken to the Statler Food Commissary in Amherst, where they are emptied and any non-organic materi-als are sorted out. The material is then fed through a grinder. This process re-moves moisture and gives the material added surface area, according to Kohl.
The extra surface area and reduced moisture in the product aids in the next step of the process: the food decom-poser. This food decomposer takes the organic material and, through a heating and churning process, sanitizes and de-
Black gold UB makes own compost out of campus food waste
SEE COMPOSTING, PAGE 6
TOM DINKISENIOR NEWS EDITOR
When the matter of possibly changing UB’s decanal review process was raised in a Faculty Senate Executive Committee meeting last fall, “Most people said, ‘Wait, where did this come from? What’s the problem? Why should we bother?’” according to law professor Martha McCluskey.
McCluskey was part of a group that initial-ly discussed making changes to the process in 2011. She stepped onto the Faculty Senate floor Tuesday to advocate for them again.
“We’re in an era and culture of assessment. We have to not just trust in excellence, but we have to really have different ways of assessing and monitoring it,” McCluskey said. “We’ve done that for students and faculty and staff. I think including a more professional, clearer, ramped-up process for decanal performance is just part of that same goal and culture and it will benefit us all.”
A committee tasked with evaluating how UB reviews its deans presented its findings in the first Faculty Senate meeting of the spring se-mester Tuesday. Decanal review changes were not the only thing discussed, as members of UB’s administration also gave updates on the implementation of new general education re-quirements and the Heart of the Campus ini-tiative.
The committee, which includes members from 12 UB schools, was formed in fall 2013 after a Faculty Senate Executive Committee motion in April 2012 by professors, including McCluskey. McCluskey said Tuesday that UB’s current decanal review policy from 1994 is vague, not regularly followed and hard to find.
Elaine Davis, an oral diagnostics professor
Some Faculty Senators look
to change dean review process
SEE FACULTY SENATE, PAGE 6
TORI ROSEMANSENIOR ARTS EDITOR
What starts as an average music vid-eo for just another rock band becomes a work of art, as the group starts to play in front of a green screen. The upbeat tempo of the drums keep time as the world around the band begins to shift, morphing into various psychedelic pat-terns and shapes.
The band members become cartoons. Their limbs stretch and twist as their music continues to beat on in the back-ground.
Shawn Lewis turns what could have been a simple music video shoot into performance art for the Sleepy HaHas, a Buffalo-based band.
Lewis, a UB alumnus who graduated with a B.S. in architecture, has taken his life in a different direction than his de-gree suggests.
Lewis graduated from UB in 2013 from the architecture program, but in his current career as an artist, he doesn’t use formulas or blueprints. He is fol-lowing his dream of being an artist un-der the title Lesionread. He creates mu-sic and exhibits, showing his exhibits at the Center for the Arts (CFA) and per-forming his music throughout Buffalo.
“I had to choose between architec-ture, which would provide me with a job where I’d be paid and being an art-ist, which would allow me to spend my time pursuing not just one thing, but all of my hobbies,” Lewis said.A change of heart
Lewis started taking art classes his ju-
nior year as a way to fill his schedule. He didn’t expect to enjoy designing installa-tions more than designing buildings. Af-ter a couple of classes, he picked up an art minor and continued taking classes for the next two years, engrossing him-
self in sculpting and media. Many of the skills he had been using in his archi-tecture classes carried into his art class-es, like conceptualizing ideas and de-signing sketches.
The architecture major began to no-
How UB alumni Shawn Lewis went from architect to artistBuilding a new bridge
SEE LEWIS, PAGE 5
CHARLES W SCHAABASST. NEWS EDITOR
University Police reported finding 470 photos of what “appears to be an ISIS repre-sentative” holding a gun and wearing a black mask in a copy machine on South Campus, according to police reports.
The report was filed at 9:33 a.m. on Feb. 2. The copy machine was in Farber Hall, which houses classrooms, wet labs and offices of the School of Public Health and Health Pro-fessions.
Chief of Police Gerald Schoenle told The Spectrum an investigation of the incident is ongoing.
“What we have is a picture printed on a copy machine,” Schoenle said. “No threats, no verbiage, no crime involved. None the less, we are still investigating to look into this further.”
The complaint was filed a day before ISIS released a video of Muadh al-Kasasbeh, a Jordanian pilot, being set on fire and burned to death in a cage.
Any information regarding the issue should be reported to UPD (716) 645-2229.
470 photos of possible ISIS representative found on campus
Decanal review process dominates semester’s first
Senate meeting
Courtesy of Jeanette ChwanShawn Lewis, who graduated UB with a B.S. in architecture, pursues a career
as an artist creating music, music videos and art installations.
Tom Ludtka, the service manager for CDS, holds some of UB’s soil amendment. Courtesy of Raymond Kohl
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Police Blotter 1/31-2/2All information according to the University Police Department.
1/312:52 p.m. – A UB student reported someone took his laptop and KeyBank debit card from his room in Good-year Hall.
2/11:35 a.m. – UPD observed a large crowd at Main Circle on South Campus pushing to get onto a Stampede bus, knocking over fences in the process. Patrols were dispatched to the scene.3:32 a.m. – UPD arrested Jacob D. Honsberger for driv-
ing while intoxicated on Millersport Highway at North Forest Road. His vehicle was towed from the scene.
4:04 a.m. – UPD reported an alcohol overdose in Good-year. Caller requested welfare check on a sick student. UPD requested an ambulance and the student was trans-ported to Erie County Medical Center.
10:52 p.m. – Amherst Police Department reported a sil-ver Nissan driving northbound in the southbound lane on the John James Audubon Parkway. Police were un-sure of the exact location of the vehicle and patrols came back unfounded.
2/27:57 a.m. – UPD reported a vehicle stuck in the Good-year Hall entrance. Dispatch requested a diversion of bus traffic. UPD was able to assist driver and the entrance was cleared.
8:25 a.m. – UPD patrol reported a vehicle stuck at Winspear and Winridge. Patrol and grounds assisted the motorist.
2:22 p.m. – Two occupants were entrapped in an Allen Hall elevator between the basement and first floor. UPD arrived on scene and occupants were released.
3:07 p.m. – UPD received a report of a hit and run in the Sherman special parking lot off of Bailey Avenue. Victim reports her vehicle was struck.
3:40 p.m. – UPD reported a walk up larceny complaint from a student. Student reported his wallet was stolen on Stampede bus 4116 between 10:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. The wallet was returned missing $340 in cash.
5:48 p.m. – A resident adviser in Red Jacket quadran-gle requested UPD assistance with the odor of marijua-na on the fifth floor. Patrol issued Student Wide Judicia-ry to Brendan Wanek, Jack Nguyen and Ovie Lattimore.
VACCINATIONS HELPING STOP SPREAD OF MEASLES IN ERIE COUNTY
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention re-ported that measles has afflicted at least 102 people in 14 states since the start of 2015. New York State has had three separate cases of measles this year, with one occurring in Dutchess County and two occurring in New York City.
In Erie County, 169 of 321 schools have reported im-munization rates of 99-100 percent during the 2013-14 school year, according to The Buffalo News.
State laws require that children must be vaccinated un-less their parents’ religious beliefs conflict with vaccination. Burstein warned that children who don’t get vaccinated are increasing the risks of the spread of measles in local areas.
CUOMO WARNS STRUGGLING SCHOOL DIS-TRICTS AGAINST FAILURE
New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tues-day that the state education budget would increase from $377 million to $1.1 billion if the New York State Legisla-ture accepts his plan. The governor also warned Buffalo public schools they will not continue to get money if they do not attempt to improve.
On Jan. 21, during his State of the State address, Cuomo stated that Buffalo receives $16,170 per student in state aid, which is almost twice the state average of $8,114. Out of 14,000 Buffalo public school students – in grades 3 to 8 – only 13 percent were proficient in math and only 12 percent in English, recent testing found.
What you need to know
nationally:
NEWS BITES CATCH UP ON THIS WEEK’S HEADLINES
What you need to know
globally:NBC NEWS ANCHOR BRIAN WILLIAMS
RECANTS 2003 IRAQ STORYNBC news anchor Brian Williams recanted a sto-
ry this week about being aboard a helicopter that was forced down by gunfire during the Iraq invasion in 2003. Williams is now saying that he did not recall the events correctly and spoke incorrectly.
His admission comes after crewmembers from the Chinook helicopter, which was hit by rockets and small firearms, stated that Williams was nowhere near the he-licopter when it was forced down. Crewmembers say Williams arrived an hour after these events took place.
POPE FRANCIS TO ADDRESS CONGRESSOn Sept. 24, Pope Francis will become the first pope to
address the United States Congress. House Speaker John Boehner granted the pope an invitation to speak last year. No other religious leader in history has ever addressed the Con-gress, according to the U.S. House Historian’s Office.
The pope is set to meet with President Barack Obama in the White House as well.
ISIS PILOT EXECUTION VIDEO SURFACES A video of terrorist group ISIS burning alive Lt.
Muath al-Kaseasbeh, a Jordanian pilot, surfaced on the Internet Tuesday. ISIS has had the video in its possession since December 2014. Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh was cap-tured after his plane crashed in Syria on Dec. 24.
A day before the graphic video surfaced, ISIS said the media could not release any of the group’s activities with-out receiving permission from the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi or spokesman Mohammad al-Adnani.
Last Saturday, a video surfaced showing the execution of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto. A video detailing the execution of Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa surfaced a week prior.
AT LEAST 31 PEOPLE KILLED AFTER TAIWAN PLANE CRASH
A Taiwanese plane containing 58 passengers crashed into the Keelung River in Taipei, the capitol of Taiwan, Wednesday, killing at least 32 of the passengers.
The crash happened shortly after takeoff and was cap-tured on video by a driver who was traveling on the free-way. The plane lost altitude and its wing clipped the free-way. 15 passengers were rescued, while 11 remain missing.
The cause of the crash is yet to be determined. Possible theories include engine trouble, weight shifting, pilot er-rors and weather conditions.
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Even with the same endgame – an improved education system for New York State – it appears impossible for Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the teachers’ union to agree on just about anything.
Since the start of his second term, Cuomo has made it clear that education reform is a prior-ity, calling for ambitious changes and pointing out flaws that need correcting.
Identifying the need for change and the importance of the state’s public school system is about as far as Cuomo can get before drawing the ire of his opponents.
Although the need for im-provement is inarguable, the “how” of the matter is far less
black and white. Firmly planted in that weari-
some gray area, the system of evaluation for teachers remains as contentious as ever. Cuomo has argued the tests are too easy pass and allow underperform-ing teachers to continue in their posts.
Not surprisingly, this claim has enraged teachers who called the evaluations a distraction.
However, when nine out of 10 teachers in New York City earned one of the two highest rankings available, it seems that Cuomo may be right to worry about the test’s standards – un-less the city’s educators are sim-ply that excellent.
It’s a dilemma that would be difficult enough to solve without fiery debate creating a legitimate distraction.
Teachers who aren’t effective shouldn’t be able to get away with glowing evaluations, but students shouldn’t see their class-rooms become testing arenas for their teachers or for themselves.
It would be all too easy to rely on the results of standardized testing to judge teachers’ effec-tiveness, but an increased em-phasis on state tests is even more problematic than a shaky evalua-tion system.
Clearly, the issues that plague the school system come with no easy fix. Problems and solutions
are far too intertwined and ev-eryone involved – from teachers to unions to politicians – seem-ingly has a different idea about how to enact reform.
At the very least, it’s promis-ing that the issues are being dis-cussed and treated like the priori-ties that they are.
Cuomo merits praise for his willingness to take on such a challenging issue.
But despite this, Cuomo con-tinues to hear criticism and in-sults from those with different opinions.
Name-calling and political pos-turing does nothing to solve the problem or benefit New York’s schools.
It allows for no progress, even as students in Buffalo and across New York attend failing, under-funded and under supported schools.
The president of the New York State United Teachers even went so far as to say that Cuomo has “declared war on the public schools.”
Such a denouncement, against a politician who clearly acknowl-edges the pressing need for re-form, simply seems unfair.
Even though the unions and the governor don’t agree on the best way to improve the state’s schools, they’re ultimately pur-suing the same goal – better schools – and care about the same group of people – New York’s students.
That common ground should, at the very least, allow for some basic civility.
Stop the name-calling Education reform invites impassioned but ineffective debate
The Village of Kenmore has decided to “just say no” – to pawnshops.
After local business owners became suspicious that a loan broker was quietly attempting to open a shop in the area, town of-ficials acted rapidly and severe-ly by placing a six-month ban on the businesses.
This temporary ruling culmi-nated in the recent decision to disallow pawnshops and loan brokers entirely.
The ban stems from concern that pawnshops could attract criminal activity and allow for the trafficking of stolen goods, though no reports of crime stemming from such shops have surfaced.
Instead, the move appears to be preemptive – and perhaps presumptive.
In a copy of the law propos-ing the original six-month mor-atorium, the Village Board cit-ed “several communities across the country” that noticed pawn shops causing “certain negative effects.”
The details justifying Ken-more’s decision are scarce to say the least.
There was no uptick in crime in Kenmore due to pawnshops, and even the national examples the Board cites are lacking spec-ificity.
This is not to say that Ken-more is entirely wrong in their decision or that there is no de-tailed evidence supporting the village’s choice. But with the in-formation being shared, the de-cision to outright ban an en-tire business category seems ex-treme.
Such a characterization is exac-erbated by the reports the Board cited, which expressed concern and a “need for regulation” – but not specifically prohibition.
The City of Buffalo, for exam-ple, allows pawnshops to operate but maintains specific regulato-ry practices to keep the business-es in check and avoid negative effects of the pawnshops’ pres-
ence.Regulation and supervision
seem a much more reasonable move than prohibiting opera-tions entirely.
This is especially valid con-sidering that this is the first step Kenmore has taken regarding the issue. When the village first placed its temporary ban, it did so in order to evaluate the situa-tion and make a decision.
With all that time available to the Board, it seems that they would have considered compro-mise as a wise first move.
If imposing regulations on pawnshops in the village doesn’t work, the Board would use pro-hibition as the next step. With such a readily available fail-safe plan, Kenmore’s decision seems all the more hasty.
But other recent decisions by the Village Board offer a possi-ble and worrisome explanation for the ban.
Kenmore recently approved stricter height restrictions on businesses near Kenmore’s wa-terfront and village officials are also considering an expansion of the village’s restricted business district near Delaware Avenue.
Suddenly, the board’s decision to ban pawnshops seems less anomalous and more indicative of an unnerving trend.
Kenmore seems determined to control the distribution of busi-nesses in their village, and the vil-lage officials are doing just that. While the board has the right to pass legislation regarding zon-ing, their actions are beginning to look overzealous.
Preserving a specific neigh-borhood’s image or maintaining a desired environment are wor-thy goals, but organic develop-ment and change should be al-lowed to flourish as well – even if such change includes a new pawnshop.
We’ve all done it: Walked seamlessly down the crowded spine with our eyes glued to our phones. “Oops, excuse me, sor-ry.”
Texting while walking is just as dangerous as distracted driving.
Last week, I found myself trip-ping over a book bag and falling into a wall from not paying atten-tion to where I was walking be-cause I was texting.
I never before took into con-sideration that I am one of thousands of students walking around campus completely un-aware of what’s in front of me.
For many of us, walking to class becomes a routine and re-quires little thought. We tend to look at our phones out of habit or to avoid awkward eye contact with someone coming from the other direction.
This is a problem. “Nationally, of the 41,000 pe-
destrians treated in emergen-cy rooms each year, as many as 15 percent of accidents, or more than 6,100, involve cellphones,” said Dietrich Jehle, MD and UB professor of emergency medi-cine in a press release.
It is clear this is a reoccurring problem because there are apps designed to keep people from walking while distracted.
Type & Walk enables iPhone users to text while being able to see what’s in front of them through the camera background feature.
For me, this was an epic fail. It seemed pretty useless because most people text with their heads down, which means you only see the floor. In order for it to work properly, you must hold your phone up in the air, which is inconvenient and looks awk-ward. It’s also pretty hard to see the text on the your phone when there are bodies walking in the background.
Nice try, but not effective. I don’t believe this problem will
ever be solved until people make the personal decision to stop tex-ting and walking.
Other than your potential to cause accidents and physical harm to yourself and others, tex-ting while walking makes you less engaged with and more vulnera-ble to the people around you.
In high school, my mother warned me about walking to the bus stop looking at my phone or walking by myself with head-phones in. I didn’t understand the overprotective lectures until one day I was being followed and didn’t notice until the man got on my school bus.
I was scared and embarrassed to admit that I was so focused on Twitter, I didn’t even see a poten-tial stalker.
There are endless advertise-ments urging people to stop tex-ting and driving, but now the need to stop texting and walking will be just as important.
In 2012, 488 children ages 19 and under died after being hit by a car while walking. Of those, 284 were teens ages 13 to 19, ac-cording to the Safe Kids World-wide website.
From the students who say they were hit or almost hit by a vehicle, 47 percent said they lis-tened to music while crossing the street, 18 percent said they text-ed and 20 percent said they talk-ed on the phone while walking across the street, according to the website.
Those numbers are disturbing, mainly because I am part of that percentage.
Safe Kids is one of the few or-ganizations that have started to take action against texting while walking.
Their Moment of Silence cam-paign is in memory of a 15-year-old girl who was hit by a car while crossing the street with headphones in.
Therefore, I pledge to (try) to keep my eyes off of my phone until I reach my destination and tell those around me to put their phones down and keep their heads up.
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SOPHIA MCKEONESTAFF WRITER
While many college students will still
be spending their Saturday lounging and catching up on homework, some will be heading to UB’s South Campus to spend the day providing free tax services to the surrounding community.
These students are in the Volunteer In-come Tax Assistance program (VITA), a national program sponsored by the IRS offering free tax services to those with an average to low annual income, the cap sal-ary being $53,000 a year.
Students in the program are from the School of Management and UB’s chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, an international hon-ors organization for financial information students and professionals.
Spencer Gates, a senior accounting ma-jor and president of Beta Alpha Psi, said the program is rewarding on many levels.
“Not only am I giving back to my com-munity of Buffalo, it’s a good way for me
to learn and touch up on skills that I can use in my own return, my career, or in helping out a friend,” Gates said.
Kathleen Nesper, assistant professor of accounting and law in the School of Man-agement and faculty adviser to Beta Alpha Psi, said this is one of the main reasons UB decided to get involved in the pro-gram in 1981.
Faculty members at the time were drawn to the program because it would “give students some practical experience and not just book experience,” Nesper said.
The assistance porgram’s main audience is those eligible for the earned income-tax credit. The earned income-tax cred-it (EITC), is a refundable tax credit that pays on average $2,407 to those who qual-ify, according to the IRS website. But one in five workers eligible for the EITC do not claim it.
Last year, $359,500 of the $1.28 million of the program’s volunteers got back was the EITC, a fact that is satisfying to stu-
dents who used the service and motiva-tional for coordinators to make the pro-gram more accessible to the community.
“It’s a cool two-way exchange,” said Rowan Ketchum, a master’s student in UB’s accounting program and VITA vol-unteer. “They’re giving us an opportunity to practice and we’re giving them free tax preparation.”
The program operates through host sites set up by various organizations in communities around the nation. Beta Al-pha Psi is one of its most prevalent spon-sors. UB’s chapter partnered with the UB Accounting Association and they are re-sponsible for coordinating the assistance program’s sites on UB’s campuses.
“Other tax services may be hard to get to, or the ones that are super close, may end up [costing] up to $300,” Gates said. “By [coordinating sites] on multiple cam-puses, you get to affect a community that’s in walking distance, or people that are just a bus ride away. Hopefully, we’re saving them time and money.”
In previous years there have been sites on both North and South Campus. For one weekend this tax season, there will be a site on UB’s downtown campus.
Garry Vinette, a senior accounting ma-jor and vice president of Beta Alpha Psi, enjoys the program’s ability to reach a large and diverse population.
“You literally meet every walk of life out there from student, domestic, to inter-national who works a job at the Tim Hor-ton’s or somewhere on campus to the guy with three kids that owns his own busi-ness,” Vinette said.
Although diverse, those seeking tax help from the program have a fundamen-tal similarity – just how important this is to them. Vinette said a lot of the time, people come in whose tax return is one of his or her main sources of income.
Sessions begin in February and contin-ue mid-way through April.
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Curling is back in Buffalo. It’s been six years since the former Buf-
falo Curling Club closed its doors in 2009, but a new club is back at The Riverworks, the newly dual-rink entertainment com-plex in downtown Buffalo.
UB students were reintroduced to the sport at an event hosted by UBThisWin-ter, the department in charge of the three-week winter session offered by UB, on Jan. 23. The event brought 16 students along with various faculty and staff to Riverworks for a night of curling aimed at helping students adjust to the winter.
Curling is played with two teams sliding stones down the ice, aiming for the bulls-eye of a circle painted at the other end of the rink. The sweepers use their brooms to speed up the curling stone as it slides down the ice. The strategy is to knock op-ponents’ stones out of the circle, set up a blocker stone or to curl a stone around a blocker.
Each game requires the use of 16 44-pound granite stones; the game piece costs $300 to $400. The Buffalo Curl-ing Club receives nearly all of its money through people coming out to curl, accord-ing to Danielle Buchbinder, a UB alumna and Buffalo Curling Club president.
The club itself has been around for less than a year and is run by volunteers. They operate weekly leagues, learn to curl nights and hold an annual curling tourna-ment – a bonspiel – on March 7.
“Curling is a tremendously fun time,” said Thomas Slomka, a designer at the Center for Educational Innovation at UB who participated in the event. “The 16 [UB students] in my group had a fun time learning the game, practicing the ba-sic movements and testing their learning by playing a quick match.”
Slomka has been a fan of curling since he was a kid. He began to curl at Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada when there was no option in Buffalo.
With the return of curling to the Queen City, Slomka and UB students and faculty
now have an option closer to home. The Buffalo Curling Club has no offi-
cial affiliation with UB, but Buchbinder said she hopes more UB students try curl-ing. She hopes some may eventually start a club, similar to the popular on-campus skiing club Schussmeisters.
“I’ve always been interested in curl-ing ever since seeing during it the Winter Olympics,” said Zach Fehrman, a sopho-more chemical engineering major. “Last year, a few of my friends talked about starting a curling club on campus but we were disappointed to learn that the closest club was in Rochester. It’s great to know we can now try out the sport for the first time in Buffalo.”
Matthew Blum, director of UB’s sum-
mer and winter enrollment, planned the curling event as well as most of UBThisWinter’s events. He placed an em-phasis on winter-themed activities for stu-dents, such as free UB hockey games and a winter carnival.
Blum said by getting students and facul-ty to “embrace the winter” through events like curling, the winter becomes less of hin-drance and more of an opportunity for fun.
“You can complain or you can curl,” he said. “It’s everyone’s winter here.”
Traditionally, curling has been played on frozen lakes. The Riverworks is an open-air ice rink with an overhead roof, giving curlers the effect of playing on a lake in the traditional sense while still protecting the rink from snow or rain. The open-air
quality “harkens to a purer time in curling history” according to Slomka.
Riverworks isn’t the only option for prospective curlers. Although not a for-malized club, the Canalside rink in Buffalo also offers open curling periodically with instructors.
While the Winter Olympics might still be two years away, there have never been more opportunities for UB students as well as Buffalo locals to enjoy the winter pastime of curling.
Newly started Buffalo Curling Club is attracting UB’s interestFell in love with a curl
Senior accounting majors (left to right) Andrew Robertson, Andrew Leung and Spencer Gates look over pa-perwork. The three are part of UB’s VITA program, Angela Barca, The Spectrum
A UBThisWinter event provided students and faculty with a chance to try curling out with the Buffalo Curl-
ing Club at The Riverworks in downtown Buffalo. Cour-tesy of Matt Blum
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ARTS, LIFE & ENTERTAINMENT
tice a shift within himself during his ju-nior year. He realized his hobbies of cre-ating music and art were making him hap-pier than the piles of work that came with studying architecture. He realized archi-tecture wasn’t his final destination.
“The first two years of the [architec-ture] program were great, but as I moved into my junior year things became a lot more technical,” Lewis said. “It started to be more about the logistics and the practi-cal elements of architecture and I started losing interest.”
The Buffalo native started making electronic music his junior year of high school, using Adobe Audition to experi-ment with basic tracks and sound bites. He continued his hobby throughout high school and eventually into college.
When he graduated from high school and entered college, he switched pro-grams from the primitive Adobe to a bet-ter program called Mixcraft. The music he created grew more advanced, developing from “bleeps and bloops” to more com-plex sounds, he said.
It was after he finished his final se-nior project that Lewis bought Ableton, a more complex program, as well as var-ious other technological gear to improve his music-making abilities. He knew he wasn’t be going into the city to work 80-hour weeks as an architect.
“[The architecture program] helped me
get into some of the more conceptual as-pects of architecture and think in a more conceptual and creative way with design-ing,” said Chris Osterhoudt, a friend of Lewis’. “[Shawn] was always one of the more creative students with some of the more far-fetched and provocative con-cepts.”
Osterhoudt received his degree in archi-tecture in 2013 and is currently pursuing his master’s in architecture at UB.The birth of Lesionread
Lewis’ projects – both musical and physical – fall under the title Lesionread. Although he didn’t follow a career based upon his degree, the artist uses elements he learned in his classes to develop struc-tures for his shows on a regular basis.
For one of his art projects senior year, he used his skill in structures to devel-op a helmet for himself in a project titled “Control the Red Man.” Lewis stood out-side the Student Union while a friend sat at a table in the union. His friend, using walkie-talkies, would give commands of those who approached his table to Lewis. Lewis’ actions were videotaped and com-piled into a video, creating a piece of per-formance art.
On a much larger scale, Lewis, alongside a friend, constructed a giant robot to be placed on the stage of one of his shows. The 9-foot-tall robot was construct-ed mostly of cardboard. It took weeks
to plan, build and eventually paint, creat-ing a monstrous, intimidating figure. Af-ter the figure imposed itself on stage dur-ing Lewis’ show, the artist tore it to pieces, destroying what he had created.
Lewis works with his friends on some of his projects and said it makes it “fun to work on” them.
“Having someone next to you saying, ‘C’mon let’s finish this,’ is motivation-al and that way you’re not stuck finishing such a huge project alone,” Lewis said.From architect to artist
Lewis doesn’t regret taking classes in architecture. He worked hard to get into the competitive program at UB, as he had always dreamt of being an architect, even sending in pictures of the structures he’d created to UB as evidence of his tal-ent. Once accepted, he was thrilled to be chasing his childhood dream. The classes were difficult, keeping him up long nights in the library but, ultimately, teaching him the value of hard work.
But art classes were a new world to Lewis. He found himself surrounded by peers who struggled to have one cre-ative idea per week, which differed from the constant project building he faced in his architecture classes. He felt everyone around him lacked the motivation nec-essary to succeed. He took what he had learned from semesters of architecture classes and applied it to his art: Work hard
and the success will come. It was among these art classes that Lew-
is met Jeanette Chwan*, a photography major who graduated in 2013. In the print labs of the CFA, the two were utilizing the same space for their separate screen printing classes. They made a connection.
Today, the two are in a relationship, both professionally and personally.
“Shawn asks for my opinion and crit-icism on the way a song might sound, merchandising ideas and design, hand printing posters and other media for shows,” Chwan said. “I also photograph press photos for him to send to websites.”
Louis collaborates with a variety of people he’s met from UB including peers he had classes with or artists he encoun-tered during his shift between architect and artist. Whether or not he’s collaborat-ing, Lewis finds the work rewarding, more so than if he had chosen the field his de-gree would have provided.
The musician knows what struggling artists are. He grew up with parents who had artist friends. He’s watched them scrape by. He knows that his art will not make him rich. He knows that it will not be easy. But he knows it will make him happy.
“I think whatever he may end up doing, he’ll find a way to have some sort of cre-ative outlet,” Chwan said. “If his career doesn’t revolve around art and expression then he will most definitely use the skills and talent he has to pursue something parallel with the job he would be holding.”
Lewis has been working on his latest project – his first album – for the past few months. The album will be released on Valentine’s Day at a showing at 378 Franklin St. in Buffalo. The event will in-clude an exhibit in addition to Lewis’ mu-sic and feature Jon Bap, Planet Three and Sleepy Hahas. Lewis’ goal is to display he’s a musician and an artist. With this album release, he hopes to move on to bigger projects.
Although music is what Lewis is using to fund his career, he continues to work on his visual art like using Photoshop to create psychedelic computer backgrounds or designing installations with complex LED lighting for his shows.
He sees himself going on a countrywide tour within the next year. Whether he will be an artist for the rest of his life is un-certain, but art and music will always be a part of his life – a creative outlet for a for-mer architect.
*Full disclosure: Jeannette Chwan was a cartoonist for The Spectrum in spring 2014
ed their week up to $8,000 richer.Throughout Entrepreneurship Lab,
or “eLab,” – a three-week winter session course – students were able to pitch start-up ideas for fellowship money. From a new search engine for big companies to portable walls to prevent flooding, stu-dents used the class to share their ideas to a panel of investors.
Students Mahmoud Kamal Ahma-di, Jorge Cueto, Joseph Peacock and Rohan Shah collected $8,000 of seed money for their projects. The mon-ey came from an anonymous dona-tion to the School of Management. The purpose of the eLab class was to help student entrepreneurs accelerate the startup process, according to Yong Li, as-sociate professor of operations manage-ment and strategy and one of the pro-gram’s teachers.
“Just as you experiment in a scientific lab, we hope our students use the eLab to experiment with their entrepreneurial ideas,” he said.
The course, which was made up of 13 undergraduate and graduate students, helped students identify their markets and perfect their business pitches before pre-senting them to a panel of local business leaders and investors. Last year, six of the 12 students enrolled in eLab won be-tween $5,000 and $8,000 of seed funding for their projects.
Mahmoud Kamal Ahmadi, a Ph.D. stu-dent studying chemical and biological en-gineering, created PreMer X, Precious
Metal Retrieval.The purpose of PreMer X is to re-
trieve and recycle precious metals – such as gold, silver and platinum – from solu-tions so they are not wasted, according to Ahmadi.
Joseph Peacock, a computer engineer-ing major, created Igloo, an enterprise search engine that allows businesses to access files across their network from one place. It gives individual employees the ability to easily search for lost or mis-placed documents. The program can save companies well over $1 million a year in productivity with 200-plus employees, ac-cording to Peacock.
Rohan Shah, a senior computer science major, created InteractiveX with his part-ner, Nate Burgers, a computer science major, who wasn’t in eLab.
InteractiveX is an interactive eBook that not only provides text to the read-er but can also run programs. Shah said an example would be a math eBook with a scientific calculator built into the pro-gramming.
Jorge Cueto, a civil engineering major, created Smart Walls, which are portable, deployable walls that stretch as tall as nec-essary to protect areas against flooding. They are also more cost-effective than other flood barriers because they’re made of concrete instead of Kevlar, steel or aluminum.
Despite the ingenuity of their inven-tions, many of the students have not cre-ated fully functional prototypes yet. But along with their winnings, they’re going to receive some help from UB.
“The eLab course is not a tradition-al course in that our students learn tools and skills through various ways, includ-
ing short lectures and guest speakers,” Li said.
Robert Genco, a professor of oral and microbiology and Martin Casstevens, a business formation and commercializa-tion manager, taught the class with Li.
Three professors leading the class isn’t the only thing that separated it from other courses, Li said.
Students took a trip to a forum hosted by Western New York Venture Association, a local non-profit that provides oppor-tunities for local businessmen to present their designs. Students watched entrepre-neurs pitch their ideas and had a ques-tion and answer session with Buffalo An-gels, a group of investors who can choose
to back a presented idea or product.Li said that as part of their award the
students will receive “mentorship and a shared space” in the UB Technology In-cubator. The Technology Incubator aims to help the economic development of western New York by commercializing inventions at UB, according to the Of-fice of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach’s website.
“Like other science-based startups, we will spend the money mostly to research and develop [a] prototype,” Ahmadi said. “We might spend a little on marketing to explore new customers.”
Four great pitches UB students win $8,000 each for startup businesses
Courtesy of Douglas Levere, UB ReporterMahmoud Kamal Ahmadi, Rohan Shah, Jorge Cueto and Joseph Peacock, left to
right, won $8,000 for projects they pitched during a winter class.
Lesionread was featured in an episode of Chic-a-go-go,a children’s showfilmed in Chicago. Courtesy of Jeanette Chwan
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and associate dean for Student Affairs, is chair of the committee and present-ed its findings Tuesday. She said the con-cerns about the current policy brought to her committee were a lack of consisten-cy, transparency in evaluation procedures and confidentiality of interviews. The tim-ing of the reviews, which UB policy states should happen every five years, was also an issue, according to McCluskey.
“When does five-year review start? Does it start in year four and completed by year five? Does it start year six and then be completed in year seven? [What] if some-one had two years as an interim dean? So there was a lot of confusion about this,” McCluskey said.
Former law school dean Makau Mutua was dean for six-and-a-half years before his review was initiated. Mutua resigned on Dec. 19, 2014 amid allegations he lied in federal court and in a state administra-tive proceeding.
Davis’ findings found that some of the concerns were valid, including the lack of public information on the current decan-al review process. She said the decanal re-views seem to be a confidential process, but there are inconsistent procedures. The process is also not transparent to the dean undergoing review, according to David.
McCluskey is concerned that the com-mittee did not give its report to the Facul-ty Senate early enough so it could be dis-cussed in Tuesday’s meeting. McCluskey said she personally emailed the report over the weekend to a list of members, but said that list is “probably not up to date” or ac-curate.
Richard Gronostajski, Senate parlia-mentarian and biochemistry professor, said “the report was not sent out as earv-
ly as we would have liked.” He also said the report, recommendations and any pro-posed amendments will be discussed and voted on in the Faculty Senate meeting on March 3.
President Satish Tripathi and Provost Charles Zukoski could not make com-ments or take questions about the decan-al review at Tuesday’s meeting because of a “procedural error,” by Senate Chair Ezra Zubrow.
Zubrow said Tuesday the Faculty Sen-ate Executive Committee originally decid-ed it was not necessary have the president or provost respond to the decanal report findings. The committee changed its mind at a second meeting and Zubrow was to inform Tripathi and Zukoski.
Zubrow said he did not do so because
the minutes for the second meeting were not yet approved, so he thought the pre-sentations of the findings would be had later in the semester. He said he still scheduled the findings to be presented for Tuesday because there was a “considerable desire” by many members of the Facul-ty Senate Executive Committee to have it that day.
He asked the Senate to remember that if Tripathi or Zukoski did not feel they were in a position to make a comment, it is not their fault, but his own.
The president and the provost did still address the Faculty Senate Tuesday, dis-cussing such topics as the Heart of the Campus.
grades the waste into soil amendments.Even though there was an increased
cost for UB to compost food waste, Kohl said, “It was just the right thing to do.”
Kohl said composting at UB began as a student and CDS initiative to reduce waste. One of the first steps was help-ing residential dining halls and other food service spots on campus save as much pre- and post-consumer waste as possi-ble.
With biodegradable napkins, contain-ers, cups and composting, UB is sav-ing thousands of pounds of trash from reaching landfills, according to Kohl. With less trash, dumpster trucks have to come to campus less often, lowering car-bon emissions.
UB groups – like the Office of Sustain-ability and CDS – try to educate students two or three times a year about food waste and composting. They use events like ‘Weigh the Waste,’ where CDS weighs food waste to show students the amount and impact of their waste.
Kohl said one of the next steps of UB’s composting goals is to provide composting bins on campus, so that post-consumer waste can be collected outside of residential dining halls.
“It all starts with educating the students on their food waste,” Kohl said.
Organizations like the Massachusetts Avenue Project – which focuses on im-proving Buffalo’s local food system – and the Buffalo Zoo use soil amendments to improve the structure of their soil.
Rather than aid with the growth of the plant, this compost increases soil mois-ture retention, supports nutrients in the soil, increases permeability and drain-age and feeds beneficial organisms within the soil. Healthy soil allows for the plants roots to grow faster, deeper and stronger.
Kohl wishes that all post-consumer waste could be saved across campus so it, too, can be turned into compost. But he said it’s not that easy.
“We would need to find space to store all the extra waste,” Kohl said. “We wish it were that simple.”
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Zukoski said UB has queued proj-ects for its Heart of the Campus ini-tiative so that if money becomes avail-able from SUNY, UB will be more likely to receive it than other schools that do not have “shovel ready” projects.
Tripathi acknowledged that UB has old buildings that need repair, particular-ly on South Campus. He said the universi-ty wants to push for more critical mainte-nance money from SUNY for South Cam-pus buildings that are 60-70 years old.
Tripathi said SUNY Chancellor Nan-cy Zimpher’s announcement that SUNY would graduate 60,000 more students each year by 2020 is “a tougher thing to do” if the universities don’t have extra money from the state to serve the stu-dents.
Zubrow and Andy Stott, Dean of Undergraduate Education, announced that the subcommittees that designed the new general education program will be dis-solved, and new subcommittees will be made for the implementation.
There were several other announcements at Tuesday’s meeting:
Kainan Guo, The SpectrumLaw professor Martha McCul-skey speaks at the first Fac-ulty Senate meeting of the spring semester Tuesday.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t mess with people who can influence your future. Do whatever it takes to get along without compromising your integrity. Listen attentively to others. Being accommodating will help you get what you want in the end.TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Get ready to make a crucial move that will help you establish your direction and your position. Forget about what has happened in the past and remain focused on what you want. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Listen to what others have to say. Ignoring good advice will result in a mis-take that you’ll regret. Anger and aggression will not solve problems, but practical solutions will. Be the big-ger person and you will make a difference. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Partnerships will take on a new direction. Observe what others do and say and you will be able to make wise decisions. Tradition-al means and methods are not always the best route. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Money will come from an un-usual source. The decisions you make regarding financ-es, health and legal matters are best based on facts and figures. A past partner will try to influence you. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t let your heart rule your head. You will be set back by comments and criti-cism. You’ll have to decide whether what is said is con-structive or meddling. An outsider is likely to see your situation much clearer than you do. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Take the path that is free of conflict. Problems at work will arise if you have been mixing business with pleasure. You are best to make adjustments to a relationship that is crossing boundaries and could make you look bad. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t believe everything you hear. Listening to someone’s boasting may be in-triguing, but it will not benefit you in the end. Focus on your own ideas and plans and you will make progress. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): All eyes will be on you. Keep a low profile and don’t make promises you cannot deliver. Emotional problems will escalate if you aren’t honest about the way you feel. Protect your emotional and physical well-being. Use your head. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Go after your dreams, hopes and wishes. Love and romance are ele-vated, and a commitment can be made. The more you do to please someone you care about, the easier it will be to get your way. An agreement will pay off.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Sort through your pos-sessions and get rid of what’s no longer relevant. Sell-ing unwanted items will bring in a little extra cash, giving you incentive to purge more and spend less in the future. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Observe what everyone around you is doing before you make a move. Some-one you least expect will set you up for a fall. Don’t let anyone take you for granted. Embrace the changes that are necessary and inevitable.
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locale 5 Smugly
superior type 9 Samantha of the
silver screen 14 Musical miscellany 15 Skedaddled 16 Carried, as by the
wind 17 Parent of 39-Across 19 Sandy shade 20 Busy bug 21 Number
on a grandfather clock
22 Fuddy-duddies 24 Scottish clans 26 Regret 27 Philosopher Jean-Paul 30 Lack of slack 35 Brainless sort 36 Husky food? 37 Splashy party 38 Not “for here” 39 Offspring of
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revolutionary ruler (Var.) 60 Andy Capp’s brew 61 Bullish times
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Wednesday officially began the new era of Buffalo football, according to head coach Lance Leipold.
Leipold announced the Bulls’ 2015 re-cruiting class Wednesday, which was Na-tional Signing Day – when high school football players sign a letter of intent for the university of their choice. The Bulls landed 21 recruits, including five defen-sive linemen, three safeties, three corner-backs, three wide receivers, two offensive linemen, two tight ends, a quarterback and a running back. The Bulls also recruited Emmanuel Reed, who will be used at var-ious positions.
“This is a very exciting day for our pro-gram as we head into the new era of Bulls football,” Leipold said.
Leipold and his new staff were not able to recruit many of their own players, as they did not join the Bulls until late in the recruiting process. Leipold said they were able to keep the majority of their pri-or commitments who were originally re-
cruited by former Bulls head coach Jeff Quinn.
Leipold praised associate head coach and wide receivers coach Rob Ianello for his efforts as a transition advisor who worked “the organizational end.” Ianello is also Buffalo’s recruiting coordinator.
Leipold also praised Buffalo staff mem-bers who worked under Quinn and stayed on, like running backs coach Matt Simon, who assisted him in flying back and forth to Buffalo in December.
Leipold would not say how many play-ers were originally recruited by Quinn.
Leipold’s first recruiting class as Buffa-lo head coach focused on bolstering the defense. Leipold and his coaching staff made an effort to find players to fit the new 3-2-5 system.
“With the 3-2-5 concept, the lineback-ers and safeties vary,” Leipold said. “That will be an evaluation process that will continue throughout the spring as we go along. We needed a starting point, and one of the things that we needed besides de-fensive tackles were the defensive ends who can hold the edge, as well as get to
the passer.” Leipold said the reason there are no
linebackers in the recruiting class is be-cause the Bulls wanted to find help for the defensive line.
The Bulls ended up with five recruits on the defensive line – three for the interior and two on the outside, including defen-sive end Torey Hendrick who declined of-fers from Iowa and Kansas.
The 6-foot-4 junior transferred from ASA University in Brooklyn, New York after two seasons. He recorded 52 tackles and 10 sacks while forcing four fumbles for the Avengers.
While at Kansas, Ianello tried recruit-ing Hedrick. Hendrick signed with Iowa, but Leipold said that “didn’t work out and now he’s here.”
“When Torey became on our radar, he became vital for us and the finishing touches of this class,” Leipold said.
Also joining Hendrick on the defensive line is defensive end Charles Harris from Southfield, Michigan. Harris was ranked as the 23rd best prospect in Michigan, ac-cording to The Detroit Free Press.
The Bulls graduated three starting of-fensive linemen, including Andre Davis, Jake Silas and Trevor Sales, but the recruit-ing class only saw two incoming offensive lineman: junior college signee Roubbens Joseph from Hudson Valley Community College and freshman Evin Ksiezarczyk from local high school West Seneca East.
Leipold said he expects Joseph to be an immediate benefit to the program.
“As a junior college kid, we think that he can provide instant depth inside,” Leipold said. “As for Evin, it was very im-portant for us to get him here to Buffa-lo. He received a fare amount of attention from competitors so we made sure to se-cure him. Our offensive line coach is ex-cited to work with both of them.”
Junior quarterbacks Joe Licata and Tony Daniel are entering their final year of col-lege eligibility.
Enter Tyree Jackson. Jackson – a 6-foot-4 recruit out of Nor-
ton Shores, Michigan – received offers from Mid-American Conference rivals Western Michigan, Central Michigan and Eastern Michigan, before signing with the Bulls. He was originally a recruit of for-mer head coach Jeff Quinn, but decided to stay with Buffalo despite the coaching change.
And Leipold is happy with his decision after viewing’s Jackson’s game tape.
“Jackson appears to be a multi-dimen-sional quarterback that everyone looks for these days,” Leipold said. “He’s tall, he’s rangy and he got ability to create plays with his arms and his legs. We have a great senior quarterback in place. That will al-low Tyree the time to grow and mature into the position.”
Leipold and the staff hope to have found the next Branden Oliver, James Starks or possibly Khalil Mack.
“Again, it was all about the quality of the players, this university, this area, and your commitment to being here,” Leipold said. “I told every player that they’re a part of a special class – one that elevates the program to where we want to be on a consistent basis.”
Bull rushBuffalo announces 21 recruits on National Signing Day
JAMES BATTLEASST. SPORTS EDITOR
The softball team finished its best sea-
son in program history last year. After only making the MAC Tourna-
ment three times and finishing with a win-ning record just once in their first 15 years of Division I play, the Bulls finished with a program-best 30-22 record and featured some of the best hitters and pitchers to ever don a Buffalo uniform.
But second-year head coach Trena Peel is not satisfied.
“We may have earned the best record in school history, but we didn’t accomplish anything we wanted to,” Peel said.
Buffalo ended its season with a 4-0 loss to Ohio in its first-ever trip to the Mid-American Conference Championship.
“It leaves a bitter taste in your mouth,” Peel said. “The girls feel that we came up short. Working to get back to that game is one of the teams’ goals for the sea-son. But we’re looking further than that. Our ultimate goal is to get to the College World Series.”
Buffalo’s goal to go even further than last year’s accomplishments may be diffi-cult though, as the team will have 10 new players after losing some of the most tout-ed players in program history – like pitch-er and all-time wins leader Tori Speckman.
Speckman appeared in 39 games, had a 22-13 record with a 2.17 ERA with seven shutouts in over 244 innings pitched last season. Speckman is also the only Bulls pitcher to ever record two no-hitters in the same season.
Peel said she is aware that it will be ex-tremely difficult to match Speckman’s pro-duction. But Peel is not looking for just one player to replace Speckman.
“We’ve done a great job in recruiting a pitching staff,” Peel said. “There will be four young ladies in the pitching circle as opposed to one.”
Incoming redshirt sophomore Bob-
bi Langlois will be one of the options that Peel will use in the rotation. Langlois transferred from Hampton University, where Peel was head coach from 2011-13. Langlois struck out 61 batters in 113 in-nings pitched over 29 appearances for the Pirates in 2013. Peel is excited about Lan-glois for her ties to Hampton, but also her experience in the postseason.
“She’ll bring a wealth of experience,” Peel said. “She’s been to the NCAA Tour-nament [with Hampton]. With her bring-ing her experience will only help our team.”
Senior pitcher Hayley Barrow is the only player on the roster who has thrown a pitch for Buffalo. She is expected to as-sume a larger role on the mound this sea-son after posting a 2-2 record with a 3.50 ERA last season.
Incoming freshmen Charlotte Miller and Madison Vaught round out the pitch-ing rotation. Miller hails from local high school Kenmore West. She finished with a 1.90 ERA and recorded a no-hitter. Vaught is UB’s first Hawaiian-born ath-lete. She is a two-time All-League selec-tion in high school.
Miller and Vaught are two of the teams’ 10 new players Peel will expect to make an immediate impact for the team.
“I try to recruit kids that can come in immediately,” Peel said. “I don’t like to recruit people that have potential with a redshirt year and have potential to grow. A lot of the freshmen will be called on right away. Most of them played in trav-el leagues and hopefully, there will be an easy transition for them.”
One of Buffalo’s biggest issues dur-ing the offseason was addressing the pro-duction of former outfielder Holly Luci-ano and infielder Sammi Gallardo. Lucia-no led the team with a .340 average and 53 hits. She was the only player to play in every game last season. Peel admitted that Luciano was a big loss and that she was a “unique, one-of-a-kind player.”
Gallardo led the team with 16 home
runs. Her graduation leaves a gap in pow-er production. Peel said the team lost a plethora of power hitters, but plans to compensate with speed and defense.
“I think we’ll have a good balance,” Peel said. “We’ll be able to attack the short game more and take advantage of base running for our power hitters to drive them in. I love the balance about the team this year.”
Senior outfielder Alexis Curtiss will lead a young group of outfielders. Curtis hit .310 last season despite missing significant time due to injury. She is healthy now and will immediately benefit the team, accord-ing to Peel.
“Alexis is our emotional leader. She may not be as vocal, but she leaves it all on the field,” Peel said. “Barrow is definitely try-ing to go out with a bang.”
The team also lost its assistant coach, Horace Smith. Lee Dobbins, who has been a part of many college level softball
programs, assumed the position. Dobbins coached at Emory, where he helped the team reach a 76-10 overall record at his time there.
Peel admires Dobbins’ resume. She said she understands the coaches are not “the people who swing the bats,” but is eager to welcome a seasoned coach to the ros-ter.
Despite the success of the program last season, Peel wasn’t happy with its culmi-nation. Even though the team won the conference, Peel’s main goal was to get to the NCAA Tournament.
“We had a great season, the best in the school’s history,” Peel said. “But getting to [the College World Series] is the goal.”
The team kicks off its season on Feb. 6 against Western Kentucky in the Troy Chik-Fil-A Invite in Troy, Alabama. First pitch is scheduled for 10:30 a.m.
