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ASHLEY INKUMSAHNEWS EDITOR

Some of UB’s biggest decision makers spent Wednesday morning discussing some of the larger issues facing the university – from the controversial “White Only” art project to the high number of student ar-rests in the University Heights.

The UB Council, the primary oversight and advisory body to UB, held its first meeting of the fall semester to review the downtown medical campus construction, the recent art project and concerns within the Heights neighborhood.

President Satish Tripathi addressed the recent controversy over graduate fine arts student Ashley Powell’s art project. Pow-ell hung signs reading “White Only” and “Black Only” around campus as part of a class project two weeks ago. The signs caused fear and outrage among the student body, with some fearing it was a hate crime. The Student Association and Black Stu-dent Union (BSU) held a special forum last week to discuss the signs.

“As president, I am committed to en-suring our university community remains a safe, welcoming, inclusive open space,” Tripathi said. “As a public university we are also a part of the fabric of surroundings.”

Many students questioned Tripathi’s ab-sence from the forum and that the presi-dent had yet to release a statement on the matter a week after the events.

Art project, Heights hot topics at first Council meeting

TORI ROSEMANSENIOR FEATURES EDITOR

The 2,900 undergraduates in the School of Management have a new destination for studying, tutoring and interactive learning.

UB officials unveiled the School of Man-agement’s new undergraduate center in the Jacob’s Management Center on North Cam-pus Wednesday afternoon. The new center, named the Frank and Marilyn Clement Un-

dergraduate Community Hub after the two donors who made a lead gift of $500,000 for the center, includes a lounge where tu-toring will be available, recitation rooms with laptops and a new classroom.

The hub opened to students just after the start of the semester but Wednesday was the official ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The center was made possible with Clem-ent, a UB alumnus, and his wife Marilyn’s $500,000 gift, as well as matching fund-

ing from the Provost’s Office and another anonymous contribution.

Clement graduated from UB in 1966 and said he was amazed to see how the school has improved and expanded since he grad-uated.

“Words can’t describe it, it’s so beautiful,” Clement said. “I had no idea it would be so fantastic. Back in my day, we had black-boards, white chalk, and slide rules. No cal-culators, no computers, no TV sets. It was

just a room with chairs and a blackboard … The color is amaz-ing. We were on the old campus [South Campus] and the buildings are all gray.”

Connie Hanel, the manager of the center, was impressed with how quickly the school was able to put the center together. The proj-ect started in February.

“Though it was created in less than eight months, the idea has been around for a while,” Ha-nel said. “It’s almost unheard of to transform a basement into this kind of space so quickly.”

Hanel offered a tour of the cen-ter to donors and school officials Wednesday and showed the new features and spaces. Hanel also showed how the new space could improve student study habits.

New School of Management center unveiled

Center offers peer-mentoring, new technology and classrooms

YUSONG SHI, THE SPECTRUM

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GABRIELA JULIASENIOR NEWS EDITOR

UB’s classrooms may be filled with stu-

dents from around the world, but the faculty instructing those classes and the department policing the campus aren’t nearly as diverse.

Only one of UB’s 40 police officers isn’t white. And while just under half of UB’s stu-dents are white, there’s an underwhelming number of diverse faculty.

“UB can, and should be doing more to re-cruit minority faculty, but we are not unique in our challenges,” said Teresa Miller, a law professor and vice provost for Equity and In-clusion.

Only 48 percent of UB undergraduates are white, but almost 79 percent of UB’s faculty is white, according to UB’s demographic statis-tics. While international students make up 17 percent of the student body, only 5 percent of UB faculty is not from the United States. Some feel the lack of diversity amongst fac-ulty affects not only learning outcomes, but also the comfort level between students and the administration.

UB’s faculty demographics are similar to the 38 public schools in the Association of American Universities (AAU), but not all those universities have such a diverse student population, actively recruit international stu-dents or have a president from India, like UB.

Race and diversity have been prevalent topics on campus the past few weeks after graduate fine arts student Ashley Powell post-ed “White Only” and “Black Only” signs for a class project. The signs caused outage and debate and the Black Student Union (BSU) to hold a special forum last week.

UB faculty, police not as diverse as student population

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The Student Association Assembly kicked off its first meeting of the semester discussing issues UB students know all too well: Wi-Fi service and printing waits.

Chris Clune, director of UBIT custom-er service, and Diana Tuorto, UBIT com-munications specialist, discussed UB’s Wi-Fi boost, libraries, public computing sites and printing issues with the Assembly in the Student Union Wednesday night. UBIT is looking to set up a semester-long focus group to address these issues, according to Tuorto.

SA Assembly originally scheduled its first meeting for Sept. 23, but delayed it due to many members wanting to attend the Black Student Union’s open forum on the “White Only” art project. According to new Assem-bly Speaker James Corra, members received the meeting well even with the pushback.

SA Assembly is a part of the legislative branch of SA and votes on all constitu-tional changes. Any student can become a member with 40 signatures.

Fronzcak Hall and the Mathematics Building received the Wi-Fi boost in the past few weeks after the Natural Science Complex, the Computing Center and Rich-mond Hall in the Ellicot Complex received the boost over the summer. Baldy Hall’s improved Wi-Fi will finish this Monday.

Tuorti said UBIT chose Richmond Hall as the first residence hall in order to test it

out. “We wanted to

see how the Wi-Fi compared to all the other buildings in Ellicott,” she said.

The UBIT mem-bers also discussed the eduroam net-work, a nation-wide roaming ser-vice used at univer-sities that provides students and facul-ty with secure Wi-Fi access, that will eventually replace the UB_Secure net-work as the cam-pus’ main network.

The switch will be long-term, but will make traveling between institutions easi-er, according to Tuorto. UB_Secure will still be available for students to use, but the main campus network will be geared to-ward eduroam.

Clune said he wanted to obtain feedback from students about the printing stations in the cybraries and that he was surprised how dependent students are on the public com-puting stations.

The majority of the students expressed concerns with long waits for printing, slow log-ins and slow startups for Google Chrome. A shortage of computers was also a major issue, according to students at the

Assembly. Some students proposed solutions to the

issues.Edward Bennett, a junior political science

major, said his previous school, Case West-ern in Ohio, used wēpa, a printing app that allows people to upload documents from their personal computer, smartphone, tab-let or USB drive. Bennett said students then swipe their school ID card or credit card to pay and send to printers. Students then pick up their papers at the wēpa stations.

“There were many of them around cam-pus so students didn’t have to wait very long for printing,” Bennet said.

Clune suggested students give feedback to UBIT and said doing so is crucial. Stu-

dents are encouraged to leave comments on the UBIT website.

Editor’s note: James Corra is a Spectrum staff photographer.

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SA Assembly talks Wi-Fi, printing issues at first meeting

UBIT representatives get feedback from students

KAINAN GUO, THE SPECTRUM

Chris Clune (middle), director of UBIT customer service, speaks

during Wednesday's Student Association Assembly meeting as

Speaker James Corra (far right) listens. It was SA Assembly's first

meeting of the semester.

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Advertising has become a major part of our world. Ads permeate nearly every action and place. You can’t go a day without seeing one on TV, the Internet, a billboard or even on each other.

It also comprises a major source of revenue for many companies. Most websites run on advertising revenue and with the decline in newsprint, most major media out-lets rely on advertising for funding.

Apple’s iPhone 6, that has a new operating system that allows users to block mobile web ads, should be cause for concern.

Ad blockers will cost websites $22 billion in revenue this year, according to a study from Adobe and Pagefair. What this loss means for us as consumers is uncertain. The question of whether or not we owe it to companies to buy into their advertising looms over the entire situation.

The rising flexibility of online viewing – a site’s viewing numbers constitute a return for advertis-ers – means ads have had to be in-creasingly inventive to get viewers’ attention. Ad blockers allow these ads to be stopped, eliminating an unwanted intrusion when all we really want to do is read the latest news, listen to the newest single or watch a video game trailer.

Responses have been varied. Some sites plead with their view-ers to add their site to a list of “exempted sites” within the ad

blocker. Other venues are racing to outduel ad blockers, creating new ways to push the ads through the block-ers until the block-ing software updates to counter, and so on and so on.

The idea of native and integrated adver-tising, wherein the ad-vertising becomes or-ganically meshed with the article or video, has also come about. We’ve already seen this implanted adver-tising in movies, with characters conspicu-ously driving a Lex-us or holding up a can of Budweiser with the label just visible. This creates the dilemma for us consumers.

Would we rather sit through a video ad be-fore every music video from Taylor Swift, or be subliminally sub-jected to advertising? What if our favorite niche web-sites and Youtube channels can’t be sustained because we’ve elimi-nated all of their revenue through the prolific use of ad blockers?

It’s complex. But do we really want to hand

over our freedom like that and

force advertisers to come up with devious new ways to direct our purchasing power? That sounds a bit terrifying. Through our desire to avoid the obvious, we may be encouraging corporations to figure out ways to control us without our knowledge.

It’s for the best if we stopped

using ad blockers. Fifteen sec-onds of ads isn’t the worst thing that can happen to someone and it keeps the services we all use afloat.

Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.

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Ad blockers causing major problems for advertisers, which in turn affects

modern media

Regular ads better than subliminal ads

ILLUSTRATION BY MICHAEL PERLMAN

Celebrities often get a pass when it comes to crimes.

Driving while intoxicated? We’ve seen them get out of it with com-munity service. Beating your sig-nificant other? If you’re an NFL player, you probably won’t get punished any more than if you smoked marijuana.

So it comes as some relief to see a celebrity’s actions catching up to him or her.

Australia has informed rapper and R&B artist Chris Brown that he may be denied entry due to his domestic violence conviction from a 2009 incident.

Brown severely beat his then-girlfriend pop singer Rihanna. Pic-tures of Rihanna’s unrecogniz-able face after the attack were seen across the Internet.

Yet for the severity of the crime, little came of it. Brown continues to be a highly paid musician, huge crowds still flock to his concerts and all that came of his guilty plea was some probation and community ser-vice. He did lose some of his spon-sorships and other financial deals, but Brown is still a very rich man.

Brown being barred from an-other country is not a first. He was barred from entering the United Kingdom in 2010 over the domes-tic abuse case and now it seems that Australia is soon to follow suit.

It’s entirely deserved. Domestic violence is not a crime to be tak-en lightly.

While Brown may not be a direct threat to anyone in Australia while he tours, the country is still sending a strong message that domestic vi-olence is not acceptable. The mea-sures may seem extreme to some, but until it becomes clear there will be strict consequences for the of-fense, it will continue to happen.

The message is heard even loud-

er when it’s a celebrity or person of note receiving the punishment. While Brown should in no way be made an example of – everyone should receive the same punish-ment – more people are going to take notice when it’s Chris Brown, the famous singer and rapper, be-ing barred from entering a country for domestic violence than the aver-age person.

And in age where it seems ce-lebrities get out of punishments through wealth and influence, it’s refreshing to see one have a real consequence for his or her actions.

Brown has tweeted that he wants use his status as an artist to raise awareness about domestic vi-olence in Australia.

“I would be more than grateful to come to Australia to raise awareness about domestic violence,” Brown tweeted. “I’m not the pink elephant in the room anymore.”

If his intentions are genuine and not to simply continue his tour in Australia, Brown could do some good. We’ve seen celebrities bring awareness to the crimes they’ve committed, like NFL quarterback Michael Vick speaking out against dog fighting after he was convict-ing for doing so in 2007.

But the awareness of domes-tic violence – and the message that society is no longer standing for it – would increase even more if Australia simply didn’t allow Brown to enter its boarders.

It gives a measure of account-ability. The United States would be wise to follow Australia’s lead. Ignoring it becomes a dangerous precedent and continues to invali-date the very real violence against women that happens daily in this country.

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A powerful messageAustralia may deny entry to artist Chris

Brown over his criminal record

WILLIAM KRAUSEPOLITICAL COLUMNIST

Speaker of the House John Boehner’s resignation last Friday came as a shock to nearly every-one within the GOP.

The caucus had originally met to discuss the advancement of different legislation to fund the government, but a choked up Boehner chose this venue to an-nounce his impending resigna-tion. Rep. Lee Zeldin, (R-NY) said at the conference, “A lot of grown men and women were cry-ing, especially those who know him the most.”

Boehner’s resignation frees him from the pressure of Tea Party Republicans, who have been try-ing to compel him to take a hard-er stance against President Bar-rack Obama and the Democrat agenda. His speakership has been threatened on numerous occa-sions, and fellow Republicans had even filed motions to vote to re-move him. Boehner has been known to be a dealmaker, and to alienate the president and Demo-crats on a consistent basis isn’t a great way to make deals. But by doing this, he had alienated part of his own party instead.

But his resignation is still only a temporary fix to a much larger problem.

With Boehner’s resignation,

Congress was able to avoid a shutdown on Wednesday by pass-ing a temporary spending bill that will keep the government open until December. The bill did not include any language to defund Planned Parenthood and relied on Democrats to pass. The fight over Planned Parenthood will continue to rage on and will have to be ad-dressed again in December, when the temporary measure expires.

It was noble for Boehner to fall on his sword for the good of the Republican Party and the institu-tion of Congress itself. He was able to see that it would do irrep-arable harm to not only Repub-licans, but also Congress itself and more importantly the Amer-ican people. Another government shutdown is simply unacceptable and affects too many lives to be considered a legitimate means to an end. It would likely have cost Republicans dearly in 2016 as well.

But the next Speaker will be faced with identical problems that culminated in Boehner’s resigna-tion. Tea Party Republicans will continue to refuse to budge over funding for Planned Parenthood and will continue to threaten a shutdown, unless a spending bill with language to defund the or-ganization is put forward. They will continue to demand hard line stances against President Obama and Democrats alike.

But simply not compromising on anything isn’t going to work.

Boehner’s resignation is only a temporary fix

to a Grand Old Problem

Infighting

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UB is required to complete an Affirma-tive Action Plan every year, which is creat-ed to ensure equal employment opportuni-ty based on gender, race and ethnic profile. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs set a placement goal for UB to at-tain 7 percent representation of people with disabilities and 7 percent representation of veterans in the workforce.

But when it comes to gender and race, placement goals are based on the availability pool for the position, so there isn’t an exact percentage that must be met.

Miller said UB is working on many dif-ferent fronts to hire and retain more faculty of color, but the university has faced chal-lenges in doing so. One reason for the lack of diversity is the “critical mass” factor, ac-cording to Miller.

“It is much easier to recruit people of color to teach at a university that is already rich in racial diversity,” Miller said.

Nnedi Okorafor, a Nigerian-American associate professor in the English depart-ment, said the lack of diversity in the faculty is “highly problematic.”

Okorafor said in just the year that she’s been at UB, the numbers have proven what she’s seen as far as the low number of black faculty at UB, which is 3.79 percent.

Okorafor said the majority of the uni-versities she taught at have predominantly white faculty, such as University of Illinois. But from 2007-14 she taught at Chicago State University, which was predominantly black.

“I’m used to different types of universi-ties and I can basically fit in wherever I go,” she said. “So when I came to UB, [the pre-dominantly white population] was nothing new to me.”

Okorafor said she would like to know why there is a disparity in numbers when looking at the faculty demographics com-pared to student demographics. UB’s under-graduate population is 7 percent black.

“This is a teaching institution and people come here to learn,” Okorafor said. “Diver-sity is a requirement for knowledge and we can’t do this just to satisfy numbers. It is es-

sential to education.”At BSU’s open fo-

rum last Wednesday, stu-dents brought up the idea of having diversity train-ing for faculty. Okorafor said this training would get the university going in the right direction.

“For some of us, diver-sity is the norm,” Okorafor said. “I’ve been all over the world so some of us live that. But if I had to do di-versity training for the sake of people who need it, that would be fine. Any kind of activities that encourage di-alogue and awareness of this issue can’t be anything but positive.”

Micah Oliver, BSU presi-dent and a senior social sci-ences major, was unaware of the faculty demograph-ics and surprised to see the numbers.

“Those are staggering numbers,” Oliver said. “I thought there were more [minori-ties], not from what I’ve seen but from what I would assume from a university as diverse as UB.”

Oliver said he would like to see more black faculty on campus.

But the UPD statistics were the most shocking to Oliver. According to Deputy Chief of Police Joshua Sticht, only one of-ficer is black out of the 40 officers working for UPD. Only six are female, including the lone black officer.

Sticht said UPD gets officers from state-wide recruitment and there have been more black officers in the past, but they’ve gone on to other forces.

According to The Wall Street Journal, 13.2 percent of police officers in the United States are black.

“It actually makes me concerned,” Oliver said. “With all of the current events in re-gard to law enforcement and black people, now more than ever, black people need to see more of each other in those uniforms.”

At BSU’s open forum, Associate Vice President of Student Affairs Barbara Ricot-ta said UB is interested in creating an advi-sory colored committee to meet with UPD starting this month. Oliver and many other students are in full support.

“It’s an excellent idea being able to open up a channel between students and univer-sity police,” Oliver said. “But the university police [demographics] will present a certain bump in the road.”

Oliver said that although the committee is a good idea, it doesn’t excuse the fact there needs to be more black officers on campus.

Miller said an environment where fac-ulty members are “aware of, value and en-gage with students’ racial and ethnic back-grounds” would enhance student achieve-ment.

Elizabeth Cardinale, a sophomore phi-losophy major, also said UB should have a more diverse faculty, but wasn’t shocked to hear the demographic statistics.

“If you look around, we’re all so differ-ent,” Cardinale said. “When you only have on group of faculty, you’re not getting the full spectrum. People with a diverse back-

ground have more to offer I think.”Other students don’t find the statistics a

problem and don’t believe the differences in numbers are a concern.

Holly Raesly, a freshman architect major, said race shouldn’t be a factor when hiring for a job because then it would be “uneth-ical.”

Jasmine Nijjar, a freshman architect ma-jor, said, “It doesn’t bother me as much. They’re hired because they’re qualified for the job.”

According to the UB recruitment poli-cy statement, “UB is committed to ensur-ing equal employment opportunity to all qualified individuals. The university believes a diverse workforce will enhance its ability to fulfill the mission of education, research and public service.”

“Diversity isn’t a politically correct term, but it’s what the world is,” Okorafor said. “A diverse faculty brings something that is different from a non-diverse faculty. Some-thing should be done not only for political correctness but for the idea of reality.”

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DANI GUGLIELMOFEATURES EDITOR

Jenna Harsanyi has always felt spiritual and cultural connections with Judaism.

Harsanyi, a senior communication major, found social outlets to interact with other Jewish students in high school, but wasn’t sure where to go once she arrived at UB.

So she started her own organization. Harsanyi is now the recruitment manag-

er for Aish Buffalo, a Jewish organization that is recognized among eight college cam-puses. This semester, the organization has been brought to UB’s campus as a way for Jewish students to connect to their heritage away from home in an educational way. Other outlets on campus for Jewish stu-dents include the Hillel, which hosts events around Buffalo and the Chabad House of Buffalo, which offers students a Jewish en-vironment away from home.

“In high school I was very involved in BBYO [B’nai B’rith Youth Organization] and I didn’t feel like UB had anywhere where Jewish students could feel a sense of community,” Harsanyi said.

After Harsanyi went on a Birthright trip, an education trip to Israel for young Jewish adults, through Aish, she formed a close re-lationship with her Rabbi.

Her Rabbi then told her about bringing Aish to Buffalo and that Harsanyi would be the best person for the job of recruitment manager.

“I had meetings with the two Rabbis who

wanted to start Aish here and we hit it off,” Harsanyi said. “The organization took off from there.”

Aish is an organization for young Jewish students to have an interactive learning en-vironment about their heritage and a com-fortable community to be a part of.

The organization aims to build one-on-one relationships with students and make it a voluntary experience that students want to participate in. They want students to be able to continue to follow their reli-gion while away from home and learn more about the culture and religion.

Under the directions of Rabbi Baruch Frankel and Rabbi Bentzy Teller, every Fri-day night Aish hosts free meals on Shabbat for the students who are a part of the or-ganization.

During the week, the Rabbivs can be found on campus hanging out with stu-dents while studying a wide range of top-ics. Students can attend classes called Mai-monides, which include discussions, recre-ational activities and food.

This organization offers two trips to Is-rael and Poland for students to connect to and further learn about their heritage.

The trip to Israel is a 2-3 week excursion in which students can live in Jerusalem and take classes in the morning. The rest of the day is full of traveling and exploring to get to the feel of what it is like to live in Israel.

On the Poland trip, students have the op-portunity to visit concentration camps and experience Jewish history first hand in or-der to remember what their heritage had to go through to get to where they are now.

Harsanyi hired recruiters to work under her to help reach out to Jewish students and inform them about this new organiza-tion.

Their main source is word of mouth and informing friends of friends, but they also will spend time with tabling in the Student Union and using social media to get the word out.

Carly Kaminsky, a senior communica-tion major and senior Aish recruiter, feels inspired by Aish and is a part of something where she can make a difference.

“I'm so confident in this organization and know that Aish is going to become ex-tremely popular among the Jewish popu-lation here at UB,” Kaminsky said. “They provide their students with a recreation-al learning experience that makes everyone excited to learn and inclined to return.”

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Aish comes to BuffaloNew Jewish organization aims to teach students

about the religion

COURTESY OF CARLY KAMINSKY

UB students hang out and eat food in the Sukkah for the first meeting of Aish Buffalo, a new Jewish organization on campus.

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5ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTFriday, October 2, 2015THE SPECTRUM

LUKE HEUSKINSTAFF WRITER

Every day of the week WRUB gathers on the third floor of the Student Union in room 321. Tapestries and band posters hang from the walls and in the center of the room sits a table with two mics and broad-casting equipment.

A handful of dedicated students run WRUB, UB’s own student-run radio station.

Conceived in the 1970s, WRUB start-ed as an FM station but switched to online radio format with the advent of the Inter-net, making it one of the first internet-based college radio stations.

“WRUB stands for We Are UB, and I think that our name says it all,” said Gabri-elle Cohen, a junior environmental design major. “We are UB’s voice to the students via radio, whether it be music or talk radio, and we really strive to make WRUB inclu-sive of all listeners.”

Cohen works as General Manager at WRUB and runs Remulak Radio with co-host and Assistant General Manager, Carlie McHale, a junior social work and theater major.

Cohen got involved with WRUB her freshman year when she and McHale de-cided [they] “were going to be radio super-stars.”

Remulak Radio is part talk show, part mu-sic program.

A typical program might include political commentary, humor and music selections centered on weekly themes.

With a wide range of open slots, WRUB makes it easy for students with a drive for sharing music and thoughts to contribute to the station.

After he and a friend expressed interest to

WRUB staff, Mason Towne, a junior bio-chemistry major, said “we were part of the station in no time.”

“We don’t like to make people jump through hoops to join our program,” he said.

Towne now works as Training Director at WRUB, helping new DJs to learn the skills they need to broadcast their own shows.

“The best part about being a DJ at WRUB is having a platform to express my-self,” Towne said. “Being able to put my words out there, share some music and flex

my personality is an amazing creative out-let for me.”

Though it’s rewarding, running WRUB isn’t an easy task.

In addition to his responsibilities as Train-ing Director, Mason and cohost Antho-ny Siracuse, a junior studying management information systems, run their own show called Formerly Known As Radio on Tues-days at 7 p.m.“The biggest challenge to be-ing a DJ would have to be keeping the con-tent coming,” Towne said. “My cohost and I have to listen to a lot of music to bring fresh new stuff to our show every week.”

WRUB hosts a diverse range of shows, from a sports program hosted by Brandon Barnes to Matt Cosmai’s The Friend Zone, which includes “specially themed shows, such as ‘Sensitive Drake Day’ and ‘Your 7th Grade Emo Phase.’”

Everything’s Coming Up Millhouse airs Wednes-day nights at 10 p.m., and is one of WRUB’s most unique shows.

“The host, Ian, is a music theory major, so he’s able to provide a lot of interesting information about what he plays,” Towne said. “It’s listening to cool music and learn-ing at the same time.”

“The best thing about WRUB is creating the community. I love meeting new DJs and hearing the music they listen to,” said Carlie McHale.

WRUB alumni, Zaque Evans and Samu-el Hakim, took that sense of community be-yond the student-run station, putting their broadcasting skills to work in Buffalo. Ev-ans is a weekend host on 104.7/107.7 Alter-native Buffalo, and Hakim is the director of hockey broadcasting for the Bulls.

WRUB is currently investing in the tech-nology to return to the FM airwaves.

“When the FCC [Federal Communica-tions Commission] opens applications for FM channels we’ll be able to say ‘we are ready’,” said WRUB Technical Director Ross Moretzsky, senior architecture major.

The station has been involved in research and grant writing to obtain new console and autoplay systems, which would allow WRUB to broadcast material even when no one is in the studio.

There will be a WRUB day in the spring, featuring free mixing tutorials in the Student Union.

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The voice of the studentsWRUB helps students learn DJ skills,

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The recitation center offers laptops and a teacher’s desk is in the center of the room. Instructors have access to everyone’s com-puter and can project laptop images from both their own computers or one of the students’ onto a screen in the room.

The classrooms have colorful, mobile desks that adjust to any sitting position. The colors are utilized to brighten the space as well as to break students off into groups based upon desk color.

“One instructor said it was the best first class she’s ever had,” Hanel said about the classroom. “She said that students were en-gaged and excited about the class in a way that they hadn’t been before.”

The center will offer tutoring whenever it’s open. Those students seeking help can book appointments online or on the tablets

located in the center. Students will be as-signed to whichever tutor is available to help at that time.

The school selects students based upon their grades. Peer mentors go through a weeklong training program that teaches them not about material, but how to instruct material to others in different ways because students have different learning styles.

Shelby Wilde is an ESL tutor who helps international students improve their English and learn about the university, Buffalo and American culture.

“I took this job because I’m born and raised in Buffalo, I love UB, and the school of management,” Wilde said. “We have a great international community but they don’t know everything about Buffalo or all that UB has to offer, so I like to give back

in that way.”Wilde uses her experience to better other

students – and she sees results. She cited a few instances where students came in seek-ing help and when they came back the next week, they had significantly improved.

Clement and Marilyn, who now live in Se-attle, come back to Buffalo around this time every year. They are staying in Buffalo this weekend to see the football team’s home-coming game Saturday.

President Satish Tripathi was also in at-tendance amongst other officials. He deliv-ered a speech, along with the interim dean of the school, Paul Tesluk, about how he hopes the program will improve students in the School of Management.

“It’s to help us be able to support our un-dergraduates, and ultimately improve their

academic success, help improve retention rates” Tesluk said. “Especially in those crit-ical transitions, going from freshman to sophomore, and sophomore to junior year, which are so critical for their success and development.

Tripathi, like Clement, was impressed with the tour and the new technology that has been implemented. He said he hopes that it will help foster collaboration early on in students’ undergraduate years.

“When you look at the new learning style we have, look at the collaborative effort that goes into it,” Tripathi said. “The instructor standing in the middle of the room, that’s fantastic. It really allows students to interact with each other. It’s collaborate, it’s flexible, it’s fantastic.”

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New School of Management center unveiled

Tripathi released a statement to The Spec-trum the next day addressing the signs and explaining he was travelling to Albany for a SUNY presidents meeting the night of the forum.

Tripathi said he had a very productive meeting with student leadership members from SA, BSU and other concerned groups last week.

The art project has been “very delicate” on the faculty’s minds the past few weeks, according to Tripathi. He said there must be balance between artistic freedom and stu-dents’ safety and inclusion.

“As an academic community, we are al-ways seeking to understand the boundaries around academic freedom and freedom of expression [and] exploring a particular top-ic from a diverse point of view is part of why we are an academic community,” Tripa-thi said, “but at the same time it is critical that we do so in a safe, inclusive environ-ment in which all of our students and other members of the community feel respected.”

Tripathi said the topic was an impor-tant conversation to be had, but was by no means an easy one.

Tripathi also addressed concerns with stu-dent behavior in the Heights. Prior to this past weekend, 57 students had gone through Judicial Affairs for partying in the neighbor-

hood off South Campus, with UB suspend-ing 23 of them.

“We continue to take a number of steps to address these concerns, including working to ensure our students understand their respon-sibility as students and recognize the implica-tions of their behavior,” Tripathi said.

Buffalo police have cracked down on par-ties in the neighborhood after increased me-dia attention this fall and years of resident complaints. University Police only intervene with Heights house parties if Buffalo police ask and refer arrested and ticketed students to Judicial Affairs.

Tripathi said the university would contin-ue conducting visits to off-campus hous-es and assess UB policies and programs, in-cluding the UB Stampede buses and public safety. He also said the university will meet with the University Heights Collaborative to respond to community members’ concerns and ensure an open line of communication.

Jeremy Jacobs, UB Council chairman, ex-pressed gratitude Wednesday to the coun-cil for naming the new medical school af-ter him. Jacobs donated $30 million to the school that will now be named the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sci-ences. The school and UB’s new downtown medical campus will officially open in 2017.

“This is truly an inspiring time for our university,” Tripathi said. “Building on the

lifetime philosophy of univer-sity and the college communi-ty, the Jacobs family’s $30 mil-lion gift to the medical school will have a tremendous impact, allowing us to build even fur-ther.”

Michael E. Cain, vice pres-ident of health sciences and dean of the medical school, said the school has an ambi-tious strategic plan.

Cain said the university needs to “build a new school, pur-chase new equipment, build programs for research and medical care and education and continue to recruit the best faculty and leaders in aca-demic medicine.”

“The gift and naming of the school is greatly and positively impacted [and] we will continue to fulfill our mission and our goals,” Cain said. “The naming of the school really is the ultimate statement of commitment to the institution and the uni-versity and in this case the School of Med-icine.”

The medical school’s gift campaign, which has a $200 million goal, is currently at $160 million. Cain said the remaining $40 million is very important but the school is well on its way to getting the funds.

Tripathi said the medical school is look-ing to prepare students to be global leaders in their fields.

He said the school “aims to take students to the next level to the evolution of UB’s committees of excellence,” and he looks to do so by “ensuring students are connected through the research enterprise.”

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Ross Moretzsky is a UB student who participates in WRUB, the on-campus radio. The radio station is broadcasted right from UB and is home to over 30 student shows. His

show “Flying Model Rockets” airs on Mondays from 7 to 9 p.m.

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(From L to R) Michael E. Cain, dean of the medical school, President

Satish Tripathi, UB Council Chairman Jeremy Jacobs and Vice

Chairman Mark J. Czarnecki at Wednesday’s UB Council meeting.

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Buffalo isn’t slacking in this department either with its elusive mix of veterans, new-comers and the reigning tight end of the week Matt Weiser. But in the end, Bowling Green’s Johnson has more effective weap-ons. Offensive line: Bowling Green

Buffalo’s line has been making strides in getting better, but the unit isn’t there yet. Although the Bulls allowed only two sacks last week, there was a Nevada player in the backfield for most passing plays. There wasn’t going to be enough time for Licata to be productive, even on his best days.Defensive line: Bowling Green

While Buffalo’s ‘D’ line is still growing, Bowling Green’s is well on its way to be-coming the best unit in the MAC.

The Falcon front four allowed less than

80 rushing yards on 38 attempts to Purdue, a Big Ten Conference school, last Saturday. They play with force and clog running lanes – a possible downfall for a team like Buf-falo.

Bowling Green also recorded eight tack-les for losses and four sacks in the domi-nating performance last week. Expect more of that.Linebackers: Buffalo

Bowling Green may possess the best line-backer in Saturday’s game, but they are cer-tainly not the best unit on the field.

The Falcon’s Austin Valdez has 47 tack-les through the first four games of the sea-son – good enough for first in the MAC and fourth in the country. But he’s only one piece of a unit.

Buffalo has three impressive linebackers, all of whom contributed with gusto dur-ing the non-conference schedule. Seniors Nick Gilbo and Okezie Alozie, as well as ju-

nior Brandon Berry have formed an unlike-ly unit, but it’s worked so far and it should Saturday.Defensive backs: Buffalo

Junior Boise Ross has developed into one of the best cornerbacks in the conference and maybe the nation with the outrageous stats he’s been putting up this year. His 10 pass breakups lead the nation and he al-ready have two interceptions on the year.

Newcomers Ryan Williamson and An-drews Dadeboe and veteran Marqus Baker have solidified a once-questioned second-ary. Saturday will be a true test to see how well they’ve improved.Special teams: Buffalo

Senior punter Tyler Grassman and fresh-man placekicker Adam Mitcheson have been nothing short of phenomenal this sea-son for Buffalo.

Grassman continues to turn heads with his long and accurate punts. It was clearly

evident last week as three of his five punts landed inside the 20-yard line, two with-in the 10. Mitcheson is 4-of-6 this season and made both of his field goals in the last matchup against Nevada. Coaching: Bowling Green

It’s a rookie-veteran matchup. And this time, the veteran knows best.

Bowling Green head coach Dino Babers runs a fast-paced system, even faster than Buffalo head coach Lance Leipold’s tout-ed fast offense. Babers and the Falcons ran nearly 90 offensive plays last week and there is no sign of slowing down.

Babers also knows how to mix up his play calling. Even with a weapon like John-son, he still manages to run the ball 40 per-cent of the time. Leipold, in his first taste of MAC play, will hold his own, but the vet-eran will have the advantage this time.

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What made Boehner a great speaker, ac-cording to his colleagues, was his ability to negotiate and make deals.

He was able to work with Democrats and Republicans alike. He is a pragmatist who knows you can’t always get what you want. This rings especially true in govern-ment, where two ideologies are constantly pulling against each other.

The Republican Party needs to address deeper issues than its leadership posi-tions. Factions within the Republican Par-ty itself are apparent and they were able to effectively remove the Speaker of the House from his position. It is this group that consistently threatens shutdown un-less they get their way. Level-headed Re-publicans like Boehner know that deal making is part of the legislative process needed to take back the Republican Party so it does not walk itself off a cliff.

How the next Speaker chooses to han-dle the Tea Party will be a defining mo-ment for the Republicans. If he or she should choose to side with the Tea Par-ty, it is likely that the American people will see even more gridlock in Washington and further shutdowns. It is hard to see how this approach would be effective and it will likely hurt any Republican presidential candidate in 2016.

If they were to choose to not take such a hardline approach toward Democrats and consider compromise, we will likely see another Tea Party rebellion and more in fighting. This will again make the job of Speaker of the House extremely diffi-cult, but will hopefully allow for more ac-tual legislation in Congress.

Hopefully the next Speaker will be able to consider the good of the people, the party and the institution itself. If not, Re-publicans might just walk themselves off a cliff.

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KENNETH KASHIF THOMASARTS EDITOR

Album: HoneymoonArtist: Lana Del Ray Label: Interscope RecordsRelease Date: Sept. 18Grade: A-

Lana Del Rey is the queen of sad pop music.

Lana Del Rey released her fourth studio album, Honeymoon, on Sept. 18, which she started working on only two months after the release of her third project, Ultraviolence (2014).

Clocking in at an hour and five minutes, with 14 tracks, this project has shown that Lana has refined her sound without losing the characteristics of the iconic sound that we have all fallen in love with.

Lana Del Rey, in both sound and image, is ’60s pop culture made contemporary: the conflict and freedom, love and deceit in her music speaks to the era almost 50 years prior.

The cover drips with nostalgia ready to take you to another time – Del Rey sits on an old tour bus, waiting to take listeners on a trip to the past.

Buying the album means fans are tying the knot with Lana – to listen is to go with Lana on your Honeymoon, after five long years post-Lana Del Rey.

Honeymoon starts out unlike any of her other projects. With light instrumentals and deep, echoing vocals, she sets the tone with “Honeymoon.”

Her controlled excitement feels tanta-lizing she sings about embarking on a trip with the love of your life.

Lana opts for a darker persona than her previous album, Ultraviolence. Instead it har-kens back to Born to Die (2012). Where Honeymoon and Born to Die are different in

intensity, her newest album makes better use of sounds for a level of intensity nev-er before experienced from her.

Recorded in the fa-mous Electric Lady Studios, Del Rey’s Honeymoon is a testa-ment to her growing musicality.

“Freak” drowns and intoxicates, a slow, dripping track that will make four minutes and 55 sec-onds feel like an eter-nity.

In the chorus, she sings “screw your an-onymity/loving me is all you need to feel.”

The chant is downplayed as the drums become more intense - and what once felt intimate now feels trivial.

“Salvatore” feels like Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) never died in The Godfa-ther and moved to southern Florida.

Lana is preceded by a violin and piano, singing parts in Italian, marching on like an epic: its presence is like Pagliacci’s triumph.

Lana Del Rey gets to be long-winded in “The Blackest Day.”

After the first three minutes, you come to realize that this song is three minutes too long when you look at its six-minute run time - the songs sounds as if she in-tended to recreate and extend “Dark Par-adise.”

Channeling Nina Simone, Lana clos-es Honeymoon with a cover of “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” singing about the power struggle of a relationship being en-tered as you step on the plane back home,

the honeymoon over. She makes it her own, her cadence be-

ing so much different than Simone. Yet it doesn’t seem forced or unnatural, it’s still as vulnerable a performance as it was when it was first performed in 1964.

Overall, the album is a beautiful, seduc-tive experience and shows Lana can stick to a certain sound, all the while creating and exploring various facets within that sound.

It can become overbearing in her afore-mentioned track “The Blackest Day,” which often feels more like an arduous trek than an easy vacation on a beach somewhere.

As an artist, she is one that makes the heart of any music aficionado flutter: she’s managed to personify an era and become the visage of nostalgia.

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For the Buffalo football team, the road to Detroit begins Saturday.

The Bulls’ (2-2) losses to Penn State and Nevada won’t count against them. Their impressive wins against Albany and Florida Atlantic don’t matter either.

Almost every team in the Mid-American Conference, including Buffalo, has a 0-0 re-cord when it comes to the discussion of who will play in the MAC Championship game in Detroit, Michigan this December.

The Bulls face Bowling Green Falcons (2-2) at UB Stadium Saturday in what will be their first of eight conference games.

Head coach Lance Leipold said the game starts a “second season” for the Bulls.

“Win or lose, it would still be starting a second season at 0-0, so to speak,” Leipold said. “Now it’s exciting because we get to see where we’re at against some of the best teams in our conference, we get to contin-ue to evaluate as coaches and see what we need for the future if we want to be com-petitive.”

The Bulls are coming off a 24-21 loss to Nevada (2-2) last week at home. While the score was close, the Wolf Pack exploited some of Buffalo’s issues, particularly in the run game. The Bulls allowed Nevada to run for 202 rushing yards in the first half and 289 for the entire game, including two runs

of more than 50 yards.It doesn’t get much easier for the Bulls

with Bowling Green and its 1-2 running back duo of Travis Greene and Fred Cop-pet coming into UB Stadium.

Both Falcon running backs have ran for more than 220 yards and average more than 4.6 yards a carry. Buffalo’s trio of lineback-ers – seniors Nick Gilbo and Okezie Alozie and junior Brandon Berry – will need a big game once again to contain Greene and Coppet.

The Falcons’ passing attack is equally as dangerous, thanks in part to senior quarter-back Matt Johnson.

After missing all but one game last season due to a hip injury, Johnson leads the nation in passing yards with 1,760. Five hundred and fifty-nine of those yards have gone to sophomore wide receiver Roger Lewis, which ranks him fourth in the nation.

It’s that combination that gives the Fal-cons another one-two punch that will be tough for Buffalo to stop.

“They’re very talented, very explosive at what they do,” Leipold said. “If you judge them against Power 5 conference oppo-nents, they’re still getting behind people … when things aren’t there, [Johnson is] able to make plays with his legs … its another big challenge for us up front.”

It will be up to junior cornerback Boise Ross to contain Lewis. Ross ranks first in the nation in pass breakups with 10.

Buffalo and Bowl-ing Green have a history as well.

The Falcons de-feated perhaps the most talented Buffa-lo team ever in 2013, ending the Bulls’ chance of going to the MAC Champi-onship game. Last year, Bowling Green defeated Buffalo by just one point, 36-35, in part due to a late missed field goal by Buffalo that would have given the Bulls an 8-point lead. Four plays and 80 yards later, the Falcons found the end zone to take the lead for good. One loss later, Athletic Director Danny White fired former head coach Jeff Quinn.

The loss stung and stayed with the re-turning players and Leipold said the seniors are looking for revenge.

“You can see why they’re one of the fa-vorites in our conference,” Leipold said. “They have the skill players and the quar-terback to make it work. But we’re a team with some hungry seniors. Last year was a ball game that didn’t go our way and it

didn’t sit with our players.” Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m.

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The second seasonBulls start anew with first Mid-American

Conference matchup against Bowling Green

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Senior quarterback Matt Johnson looks to complete a pass. Johnson

leads the nation in passing yards with 1,760.

Bowling Green: The Bulls defense will be tested against the

best passer in the nation. I think the Falcons cover.

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Bowling Green: The Bulls haven’t had any recent luck

against the Falcons. And with BG’s deadly offense, that

streak will continue.

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Buffalo: Don’t get me wrong – I fully expect Bowling

Green to win just like always. I just don’t see the Bulls

losing by more than a touchdown at home.

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JORDAN GROSSMAN SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

The football team (2-2) takes on one of the more consistent teams in the Mid-American Conference, Bowling Green (2-2), at UB Stadium on Saturday.

The Falcons seem to always have the edge over the Bulls, whether it was last season’s heartbreaking 36-35 Buffalo loss or two years ago when they defeated the Bulls in what was an essentially a MAC East Cham-pionship game.

Here’s who The Spectrum thinks has the edge at every position. Quarterbacks: Bowling Green

Senior Joe Licata has played admirably through non-conference play, but he hasn’t lived quite up to the quarterback we know he can be. His 338-yard passing perfor-mance that ended with an interception last week is the best way to define his season thus far.

But Bowling Green’s Matt Johnson has been one of the best quarterbacks in the

entire nation this season. Yes, the nation. Johnson leads the country in passing yards and has passed for more than 400 yards in all four of his games this season. The Fal-cons’ pass-heavy offense could very well ex-pose the remaining holes in the Bulls sec-ondary.Running backs: Buffalo

To much surprise, the Falcon’s offense isn’t fueled solely by the passing game. In fact, Bowling Green runs on 40 per-cent of its offensive plays this season.

The Falcons, like Buffalo, have two elusive running backs in their backfield in Travis Greene and Fred Coppet. They proved their worth to the Falcons as they pounded in four scores in their 35-28 victory against Purdue last week.

But Buffalo’s backs have also been on a tear this season. Senior Anthone Tay-lor and junior Jordan Johnson already combined for 618 yards on the season and picked up the offensive slack when Licata had a down day. The Falcons’ de-fensive line is stingy, but not too over-bearing to handle.

Wide receivers and tight ends: Bowling Green

What’s a star quarterback without star role players?

Bowling Green features a trio of veteran receivers who bring multiple assets to the field. Ronnie Moore hasn’t had a catch-less game since 2013, and is second on the team

in receptions (29) and receiving yards (312). But their biggest asset this season has

been sophomore Roger Lewis, who has been on an absolute tear so far. He leads the team in every receiving category, including receptions, yards per catch, receiving yards and touchdowns.

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Junior running back Fred Coppet

ran for 65 yards and the game-

winning touchdown in Bowling Green’s 36-35 victory over

Buffalo last season. The Bulls host the

Falcons Saturday at UB Stadium.

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