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The Organization of Arab Students (OAS) dangled 100 white paper cranes from the ceiling of the Student Union on Monday.

Students like Hannah Glossner were struck by the beauty of the meticulous-ly folded pieces of paper, which took on a new meaning after realizing each crane symbolized 2,000 deaths in the Syrian War.

The cranes were a part of Syrian Aware-ness Week put on by OAS, who wanted to educate UB about the tragedies of the war, which has raged for over two years. Other activities included a speech by Mat-thew Van Dyke, a filmmaker and former journalist who was held captive in the Middle East, a screening of his national-ly acclaimed film and a candlelight vigil to be held Friday.

“We want people to understand the magnitude of the issue,” said Lemma Al-Ghanem, a junior architecture major and the events coordinator of OAS. “We wanted a visual representation so people can see how many have died.”

She said the group chose to fold white paper cranes for roughly 36 hours because the birds would symbolize the “pure and innocent” souls “flying away.”

Some students’ initial opinions drasti-cally changed upon learning the meaning of the cranes, Al-Ghanem said.

“I wasn’t really sure what [the cranes] were when I first saw them,” said Gloss-ner, a sophomore media study major. “They took on a whole new meaning after I was told what they were for.”

Al-Ghanem has family in Syria and said the events in Syria have been getting worse and OAS wanted people to be aware of

the news as soon as possible.“I think the beauty of it was we had

people from everywhere coming,” Al-Gh-anem said of the crane memorial. “Even if we had introduced it to one person, it would have been a success.”

Glossner said she believes the ongoing conflicts in Syria should be a more widely publicized issue.

In 2000, Bashar Al-Assad succeeded his dictator father, Hafez Al-Assad, as presi-dent of Syria.

After successful uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, pro-democracy protests also oc-curred in Damascus in 2011.

In spring of 2011, protests broke out

demanding the release of political pris-oners. One group of teenagers and chil-dren were arrested and killed for writing political graffiti, according to CNN. Out of this, more protests arose and Assad re-sponded by abolishing political parties and implementing a violent crackdown.

The Syrian War is ongoing and its death toll is 191,000, according to the United Nations.

Al-Ghanem said she and others in her club believe the recent uprising of the Is-lamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has overshadowed the ongoing issues in Syria and shifted the focus from the Assad regime to ISIL, also known as ISIS.

“I don’t think the international commu-

nity has responded in the way it should,” Al-Ghanem said. “Our media today brushes it under the bus and we want our cause to be heard.”

OAS also hosted a speech by Matthew Van Dyke, a filmmaker and former jour-nalist who was held captive in the Middle East for 81 days in solitary confinement, while the Libyan government refused to give information to the United States on his whereabouts.

His film, “Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution,” was screened before his speech and has won national acclaims for aiming to improve world opinion on the Syrian cause.

Joe Jessee, a junior biomedical sciences major and secretary of OAS, became very passionate about the cause, despite not being of Syrian descent. He became inter-ested in the conflict when he met Al-Gh-anem.

“I think that there is a massive [amount] of political noise and chaos that sur-rounds the conflict itself,” Jessee said. “What should really be important to the global community is the humanitarian cri-sis. It’s not highlighted how many people who have died and we’ve lost sight of hu-manity.”

OAS hopes its events can inform the UB community about the Syrian cause, even if they are not on a global scale.

“It was truly spectacular the amount of cooperation and charity this week from people where the effort was not obligato-ry,” Jessee said. “It was an amazing thing to see.”

On Friday, OAS will host a candlelight vigil by Lake LaSalle at 8 p.m. to pay re-spects to the hundreds of thousands of people killed in Syria.

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Tavaine Whyte remembers the sound of bullets whizzing past his window late at night.

Whyte, a freshman African American studies major, grew up next to the hous-ing projects in Brooklyn. Living near the projects exposed him to violent situations and required him to always be alert of his surroundings.

“I remember the fights that gangs would have in my local park (H park) and the times I had to run when the shots rang,” he said in an email. “I remember walking the streets of my neighborhood at age 9 wondering if I would live to see 18.”

For Whyte, school was not always a hav-en from than the streets.

Students from rival middle schools of-ten fought each other, he said. As a result, some of Whyte’s friends were hospitalized and one of his friends died.

But those aren’t Whyte’s only memories.“The one time that I can say all the

schools and students connected was while vibing over hip-hop,” he said. “I remem-ber making drum patterns on school desks rapping the lyrics to “Forever” by Drake. Those were some of the best times of middle school.”

Youth across the United States em-braced hip-hop in the 1970s as a social response to systemic problems such as crime, poverty, street violence and gentri-fication, according to Kushal Bhardwaj, known as ‘Dr. B,’ an academic adviser, athletics instructor and professor of UB’s Hip-Hop and Social Issues class. Hip-hop culture, which includes DJs, MCs, rap mu-sic and graffiti art, has evolved in response to changes in cultural ideals and technolo-gy. Today, Whyte and students across UB continue to identify with both original and modern-day hip-hop culture.Hip-hop’s disciples

Hip-hop is integral to Whyte’s lifestyle and influences the way he acts, dresses and speaks.

“I hear the voices of my peers on some of these songs and the frustration is something that I relate to heavily,” he said. “Hip-hop made me.”

Whyte is inspired by hip-hop lyrics, his favorite being: “It drops deep as it does in my breath / I never sleep / ’cause sleep is the cousin of death” from Nas’ song, “N.Y. State of Mind.”

This line has multiple meanings for Whyte. For example, Whyte can relate be-cause he remembers how it was risky to fall asleep and not be vigilant while living in the ghetto. He also said this line could

represent the life of drug dealers who of-ten need to sacrifice many hours of sleep to make a living.

“The fact that Nas wrote this line at age 19 astounds me to this very day,” Whyte said. “[He was] a young black teen grow-ing up in the worst situation, telling stories of those who never have their screams an-swered.”

People do not have to grow up in the ghetto to connect with hip-hop, according to Christina Dunn, a sophomore sociolo-gy major and vice president of Black Stu-dent Union, a Student Association club. Dunn said she identifies with hip-hop be-cause she struggles to pay for college.

“My parents didn’t go to college,” she said. “Sometimes they’re suffering at home while they’re putting me in college.”

Dunn’s favorite quote from a hip-hop song is, “They say anything’s possible / You gotta dream like you never seen ob-stacles” from J. Cole’s “The Autograph.”

Noelle Nesbitt, a senior biomedical en-gineering major and president of Black Student Union, said minority students identify with hip-hop not only because paying for college is difficult, but also be-cause they are often first-generation col-lege students and are learning how to nav-igate interactions in a multi-racial school.

Her favorite line from hip-hop music is,

“You can buy your way out of jail, but you can’t buy freedom,” from Kanye West’s “All Falls Down.”The Bronx salad bowl

During the 1970s, the sociopolitical en-vironment in New York City created the perfect “petri dish” for the creation of hip-hop, Bhardwaj said. New York City was not simply a melting pot where peo-ple sacrificed their individuality for the group. It was a salad bowl.

“You’re a carrot, I’m a tomato and you’re celery. We’re all in the same bowl,” he said.

Under the leadership of Afrika Bam-baataa, Kool Herc and Grandmas-ter Flash, hip-hop emerged in the South Bronx in the 1970s as a way for black youth to connect with each other and ex-press the challenges of living in a discor-dant society.

In particular, Afrika Bambaataa empha-sized how hip-hop served as a way to cre-ate unity.

“He was the Prometheus of hip-hop,” Bhardwaj said. “He taught us the fire, and it was around that communal fire that we built the culture.”

Whyte agrees and said hip-hop was a way for young, black youth to develop sol-idarity.

For some UB students, hip-hop serves as connection to their roots

1970s 1980s 1990s today

Hipool Herc, Afrika Bam-baataa and Grandmaster Flash (pictured) were the

founding fathers of hip-hop.

The 1980s were the golden age of hip-hop and were characterized

by socially conscious hip-hop artists such as Public Enemy (pictured) and

KRS-One.

Advances in technology, such as the development of Nielsen

SoundScan, an information and sales tracking system, contributed to the rise of

modern hip-hop.

Today, mainstream hip-hop artists tend to sexualize women and glorify the pursuit of wealth. Some artists,

such as J. Cole (above), continue to write socially conscious

hip-hop.

The message in the music

The Organization of Arab Students (OAS) hung up 100 paper white cranes in the Student Union on Mon-day as a part of their Syrian Awareness Week. Each crane symbolized 2,000 deaths in the Syrian War. The club wants to educate the UB community on the tragedies of the war. YUSONG SHI, THE SPECTRUM

Organization of Arab Students wants to bring awareness of Syrian War to UB

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Hochul makes history for herself and for Western

New York

Kathy Hochul, newly elected lieutenant gover-nor, is the first person to hold the position from Buffalo in 120 years after Gov. Andrew Cuomo was re-elected for a second term on Tuesday.

Hochul will replace lieutenant governor Rob-ert Duffy, a former Rochester mayor who did not want to serve a second term.

The lieutenant governor’s only constitution-al duties are to preside over the State Senate and hold power if the governor is out of state. In the past 40 years, many former lieutenant governors have gone on to challenge the governor in the next election.

Hochul said she wants to be active with her role to oversee New York State’s 10 regional eco-nomic development councils and to work on vet-eran issues and Cuomo’s women’s equality goals.

New York State midterm election results

Midterm elections took place on Tuesday. Here are the winners for Buffalo and the surrounding Western New York area:

Thomas DiNapoli, Comptroller, Democrat Eric Schneiderman, Attorney General, Demo-

cratBrian Higgins, 26th congressional district en-

compassing Buffalo, DemocratChris Collins, 27th congressional district en-

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encompassing Amherst and the University at Buffalo, Republican

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Rasheed N.C. Wyatt, City of Buffalo Common Council University District, Democrat

Obama has GOP Senate after Monday midterm elections

President Obama said in a news conference that he is planning on finding common ground with Republicans, but he will use his executive authority to reform the United States’ immigra-tion system, according to The New York Times.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky called for Obama to not solely act on his immigration plans in a news conference. McConnell is a Re-publican in line to be the majority leader in Con-gress.

Obama acknowledged he was responsible for Americans’ belief that Washington has become dysfunctional and unresponsive, but he said both parties should now work together more. He asked Congress to pass an emergency request to fund combat against Ebola. He also announced he would seek congressional authorization for a military campaign in Iraq and Syria.

On Wednesday, the Republicans’ majority seats increased to 246 – the most since World War II.

Kidnapped woman found alive three days after

abduction

On Wednesday, a Philadelphia police detective found Carlesha Freeland-Gaither, 22, three days after her abduction was captured on a surveil-lance video. She was found alive in Jessup, Mary-land. The suspect is Delven Barnes, 37.

FBI agent Ed Hanko said Freeland-Gaither has some injuries but is in “good shape” overall.

The abduction Sunday occurred Sunday. A sur-veillance video released by authorities showed Freeland-Gaither grabbed near an intersection where she was dragged and tossed into a car.

Chinese officials and leaders

President Xi Jinping of China visited Tanza-nia in March 2013 with many Chinese govern-ment officials and business leaders to promote a relationship between the two countries. A new report from the Environmental Investigation Agency, however, said members of Xi’s party used the trip to obtain ivory.

The report said the local prices of ivory dou-bled to $700 per kilogram because of the amount bought. Chinese buyers bought thousands of pounds of the poached ivory that was later sent to China, according to the report released Thurs-day.

Tanzania is the largest source of poached ivo-ry and China is the largest importer of it, accord-ing to the Environmental Investigation Agency. Tanzania has lost an estimated 10,000 elephants in 2013 alone, which averages to 30 elephants per day, and has lost more elephants than any other country in the past four years.

Meng Xianlin, executive director general of China’s endangered species trade authority, de-nied Chinese officials are involved with the trade.

Mayor and wife arrested for missing students

Jose Luis Abarca, mayor of Iguala, Mexico, and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, were taken into custody Tuesday morning. Abarca is considered to be a “probable mastermind” in the abduction of 43 students who have been missing for weeks, according to CNN.

A woman was seen entering and leaving a sup-posed abandoned house, where the couple was staying. The woman who was helping them, Jose Luis Abarca, was arrested as well.

Although authorities are not sure how the ar-rest will get them closer to finding the students, it’s a “major milestone” in the case, according to Jose Ramon Salinas, Mexican Federal Police spokesman.

The 43 students were mostly men studying to become teachers. The group was on its way to a protest in Iguala on Sept. 26.

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Elections are always divisive but as the results of this year’s midterm pour in, there’s one is-sue no one’s debating.

Low voter turnout is an un-shakable and – thus far – irrecon-cilable issue.

Only 36.6 percent of eligible voters made it to the polls this year, a number so low it rivals voter turnout from the 1940s, when many Americans failed to vote because they were overseas, fighting in World War II.

There’s no simple, singular cause of voter apathy, and like-wise, no easy solution.

The midterm elections are es-pecially emblematic of this prob-lem. Without the thrill of deter-mining who will be, arguably, the most powerful individual in the world, the political apathy of the American populace cannot be disguised, illuminated by an un-comfortably harsh spotlight that casts its light every four years.

But considering today’s politi-cal climate, apathy is understand-able – if not justifiable.

Voting often feels like a prac-tice in futility, in an era of gov-ernment shutdown, partisan bickering and general political malaise.

And so a catch-22 is born – if more people voted, perhaps the United States would have a more representative government, but without a productive political system, Americans don’t feel mo-

tivated to vote. Improving voter turnout is,

perhaps, more about changing the process of Election Day, so it requires less motivation – voting should necessitate less time and less energy for a population that is, it seems, always in a rush and chronically exhausted and over-worked.

Sure, polls are open early and don’t close until late. In New

York, where midterm turnout dropped 36.3 to 30.2 percent, from voters had from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. to cast their vote.

And though that helps 9-to-5ers, for people who work odd schedules, parents who have chil-dren to drop off, pick up and chauffeur for all hours and stu-dents whose days are jampacked with hours spent in class, at work and on the Stampede.

And because every voter must go to his or her assigned poll-ing place, the inconvenience is heightened further.

It’s no wonder only 13 percent of voters in this election were under 30.

It might sound like catering to the lazy, or a lowering of national expectations, but it’s clear the in-convenience of voting – no mat-ter how slight – is enough to dis-suade people from getting to the polls.

Making the voting process feel meaningful may be too tall a task for now, but making the process easy is within reach.

All it takes is a mailbox.Already instituted by Washing-

ton and Oregon, vote-by-mail is an ideal simplification of the vot-ing process. Residents receive their ballots via mail, in advance of Election Day, and can drop off their ballots – at no cost for postage – in any mailbox, at any point prior to the polls’ closure.

There’s no struggle to decipher polling place locations, no rush to fit in voting after class but be-fore work, no need to get up ear-ly or arrive home late.

Even if Americans should be willing to power through these annoyances, they’re clearly not, so it’s time to eliminate the irri-tation and clear a path for conve-nience – and democracy.


“Lackluster” is probably too generous of a term to character-ize Western New Yorkers’ show of support for Governor An-drew Cuomo.

Though he was re-elected Tuesday, winning 54 percent of the vote overall, compared to Re-publican candidate Rob Asto-rino’s 40.6 percent, that victory is diminished by a multitude of losses in Western counties.

Cuomo lost seven of the eight counties that he failed to win over four years ago.

The governor had focused his attention in the area, making campaign stops, touting the Buf-falo Billion and selecting Kathy Hochul, who is from Buffalo, as his lieutenant.

And in Erie County, Cuomo’s one WNY victory, the governor only eked out a win, getting 52 percent of the vote.

As Cuomo enters his sec-

ond term, he faces a more skep-tical New York. After facing stiff competition from Zephyr Teachout in the primaries, weath-ering allegations of corruption and humiliating himself with questionable Ebola policies, Cuo-mo returns to office as a belea-guered figure.

It’s a far cry from Cuomo’s tri-umphant arrival as a first-term governor four years ago, when he won with more than 62 percent of the vote.

Nonetheless, Cuomo must make the most of a less than ide-al situation. He needs to move past this election and the shaky show of support from Western New York, and prove his critics wrong.

Cuomo has a wealth of oppor-tunities to fight for New Yorkers.

When the next legislative ses-sion begins in January, Cuo-mo and Senate Democrats must

strive to fulfill their promises.Raising the minimum wage, in-

stituting the Dream Act for un-documented immigrant students and revamping campaign-finance laws should only be the begin-ning for Cuomo.

It’s also time for the governor’s Women Equality Act to come to fruition. The agenda, which failed to pass in 2013, will be up to a vote once again.

The nine bills would strength-en laws requiring equal pay for equal work, combat pregnan-cy discrimination, human traf-ficking, employment discrimina-tion and sexual harassment while also supporting domestic vio-lence victims and encouraging fair housing access.

The passing of this act would be a victory for Cuomo and women across the state.

The governor’s proposals are promising and suggest that he is

willing to stand behind legislation even after initial failure.

But Cuomo must also show a willingness to address errors from his past – specifically his questionable actions regard-ing fracking. The governor has avoided the hot-button issue, de-spite its urgent nature, delaying and editing a key study on the subject and offering no substan-tive solutions.

Cuomo has garnered a chilly re-ception from his constituents, but to some extent, a win is a win.

Regardless of the number of votes he failed to earn, or the counties he lost, he has won the opportunity to make the most of his extended time in office.

New Yorkers have given the governor a second chance, and it’s on Cuomo to prove that they made the right choice.


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I’ll admit it. I didn’t watch Buf-falo’s entire 37-14 loss to Ohio Wednesday night.

No, it wasn’t because I turned the game off. I didn’t even have the opportunity to turn it on until the end of the third quarter.

I didn’t watch the entire game because I was covering Section VI high school field hockey champi-onships for The Buffalo News.

There were many reasons why I decided standing in an open-aired press box (yes, it was freezing) would make for a more enjoyable evening than sitting on a couch in The Spectrum office watching the Bulls.

Yes, I got paid to be at the field hockey game. Yes, I could be pub-lished in The Buffalo News. But also,

I knew between three field hockey games, I’d see something that ex-cited me.

I wasn’t confident that I’d see anything worth watching in this Buffalo-Ohio #MACTION affair.

And I began to realize I was cor-rect before the opening kickoff. The start of the game aired on ESPN News, rather than ESPNU. Why? Because an Ole Miss-Missis-sippi State volleyball game was still being played.

ESPN made it clearer than I ever could. Southeastern Confer-ence Wednesday night volleyball is more exciting than Wednesday night Mid-American Conference football.

But I continued to follow the game on Twitter – I mean follow-ing this team is a part of my job, right? BullRun – a blog that would say the glass is half full even if there was one drop remaining – showed a dumpster fire with the tagline “Meanwhile in Athens…” as Buffalo was getting destroyed.

The first tweet I saw from @ubspecsports (The Spectrum’s of-ficial sports Twitter) read: “Jacob Martinez muffs punt, Ohio recov-ers. Adam Redden injured on play. Ohio leads #UBBulls lead 3-0. 7:48 left.”

Every sentence made me cringe.When I finally got into my

car and found the game on 1520 ESPN Radio – yes, the entire state of New York was treated to this lovely contest – I heard Buffalo’s Paul Peck and color analyst Ed

O’Neil discuss what went wrong on a poor snap on a Buffalo punt. Was it a poor snap, or just that a Buffalo player “stepped into the ball?”

No matter where I turned, it was clear Buffalo’s football game was a mess. I didn’t need to see it.

I can’t imagine it’s surprising to anybody that Buffalo’s lost its first two games since the Jeff Quinn firing. Whenever you fire a foot-ball coach midyear, you are admit-ting the season is over. An athlet-ics department can tell the student-athletes whatever it wants – but the players aren’t stupid.

They’ve overcome Quinn’s shortcomings before – just look at last season’s 8-5 record. Look at how the Bulls finished the 2012 season (three wins in the fi-nal four games). If Athletic Di-rector Danny White thought this team was talented enough to over-come Quinn and salvage the sea-son, Quinn would still be the head coach.

But White didn’t believe this – and frankly, he shouldn’t have. White realized he was better off looking for a new head coach-es than to fool himself about this year’s team any longer.

And this season’s failure shouldn’t be a surprise to any Buf-falo football fan that’s being hon-est with him/herself.

Remember that squeaker victo-ry against Duquesne Week One? Remember trailing by 30 points to Army Week Two? Remember

barely defeating Miami Ohio – who hadn’t won a game in nearly two full seasons – at home in the first MAC game of the season?

I do. You know the players do. There’s no doubt Danny White does.

If only ESPNU had anoth-er volleyball game it could turn to Wednesday. If only Amherst high school had a fourth field hock-ey game I could attend. If only Buffalo was led by someone who served as a head coach sometime this century.

ESPN returns to campus Nov. 11 against Akron. But don’t ex-pect another 7,000 students like the Baylor game. Don’t expect 700. With the way this season has been going, 70 students may be a stretch.

The field hockey games I was at – which charged $5 a person – will end up with a better showing than next week’s True Blue section.

But I don’t expect anymore pas-sive-aggressive tweets from White this season. Even he knows this football season is over.

But, hey, basketball season is about to begin – so White will have a new toy to play with.

There won’t be a bowl game this season, but there will be three more games.

I just hope there will be a gym-nastics competition or spelling bee I can cover.


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EMMA JANICKISENIOR FEATURES EDITOR

The Spectrum staff members made their choices for fun things to do in Buffalo this weekend – what will you do?

For the partier:Put on those furry boots, col-

orful tutus and sequin eye make-

up because EDM DJ RL Grime is

performing Saturday, Nov. 8 at

the Waiting Room at 8 p.m. and

Rusko, an English dubstep pro-

ducer and DJ, will take the stage

the same night at Town Ballroom

at 8 p.m.

For the intellectual:Canadian translator and poet

Erin Moure will give a poetry

reading and lead a discussion at

the Western New York Book Arts

Center, (WNYBAC) 468 Wash-

ington St. in Buffalo at 7 p.m.

The WNYBAC is an education-

al non-profit organization that

has a letterpress, screen-printing

studio, gallery and working mu-

seum. You can peruse the hand-

made cards, postcards and post-

ers as well as the small library of

books on book arts.

For the athletic type:Catch the Buffalo Bills play the

Kansas City Chiefs Sunday, Nov. 9, 1

p.m., at The Ralph.

For those staying on campus, the

Buffalo women’s soccer team plays

Ball State Friday in the MAC Tourna-

ment semifinals, 4 p.m., at UB Stadi-

um. If the Bulls win, they’ll compete

in the MAC Championship Sunday at

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“A young black youth in the mid ’80s could go to a local party where a DJ would start mixing a break beat togeth-er with a rusty record player and feel a sense of community with those around him,” Whyte said. “The sense of togeth-erness that hip-hop gave was beautiful to see, considering that the art was formed from the creativity of those with little to no money to their name.”

Bhardwaj and Nesbitt agree that people often misperceive hip-hop as a genre sole-ly created and consumed by young, black men. Although young, black men still dominate the genre, people from countries such as Germany and Japan are embracing and rearticulating hip hop, Bhardwaj said.

And if it weren’t universal, hip-hop wouldn’t be music, according to Nesbitt.

“The more the merrier,” she said. “If you like what I like, we can get along.”

This mentality lies at the heart of hip-hop’s predecessor: Jazz.

Peter Clavin, a Ph.D. American studies instructor, said jazz was the first mass-pro-duced counterculture and brought whites and blacks together during the Roaring ’20s.

“Jazz was this incredible moment of syncretism,” Clavin said. “They were oc-cupying the same space on a Friday night, which was nothing short of revolution-ary.”

Jazz became mainstream in the 1930s and became counterculture again in the 1950s when the Beat poet movement as-sociated it with drugs and sex, Clavin said in an email.

By the early 1970s, hip-hop replaced jazz and became the primary countercultural force in the United States, Clavin said.Activism, gangster rap and the fall of turntables

Chuck D., the founder of Public Enemy, referred to rap as “Black America’s CNN.” Without N.W.A. and West Coast hip-hop, he said he would not have known what life was like in the streets of Los Angeles.

Similarly, Jesse Jackson, a civil rights ac-tivist, believed rappers turned “a mess into a message,” according to Bhardwaj.

Today, the opposite is true and rappers are paid more to say less, he said.

During the 1980s, revolutionary groups

such as Public Enemy and KRS-One based their music on pro-black conscious-ness and made the 1980s the golden age of hip-hop, according to Bhardwaj.

“Those acts made it cool to wear Af-rican medallions instead of the big gold chains,” he said.

Although hip-hop originally aimed to expose and fight social inequality, modern hip-hop often glorifies wealth and objecti-fies women, Clavin said.

This shift in style began in the 1990s when Mike Fine and Mike Shalett devel-oped Nielsen SoundScan – a computer-ized system used to track sales in the mu-sic industry.

Data from SoundScan revealed that consumers bought twice as many albums from N.W.A., a gangster rap group, than from Public Enemy, a more socially con-scious rap group.

To maximize profit, record executives chose to focus on selling a more “de-based” form of hip-hop instead of sell-ing socially conscious hip-hop, Clavin said. Their motivation to earn money caused them to neglect the consequences of pop-ularizing gangster rap.

“An arbitrary piece of paper [became] more valuable than a human life,” he said.

Bhardwaj said hip-hop is currently at risk for losing its core functional compo-nent – the DJ. Serato software – a mod-ern-day technology DJs use to play mu-sic on their laptops – is replacing the tra-ditional practice of using turntables and vinyl records.

“It reproduces the sound, but the disci-pline of the old, actual physical instrument is getting lost,” Bhardwaj said.

Unlike original hip-hop, modern-day hip-hop does not tell a story, according to Nesbitt.

“I don’t listen to the lyrics,” she said. “I listen to the beat. You can’t really relate to [the lyrics] anymore.”

A caricature of societyBhardwaj and Clavin agree that mod-

ern-day hip-hop is similar to minstrelsy – a form of 1830s American entertainment featuring white actors performing black-face and portraying blacks as primitive and ignorant. Today, mainstream rappers “put on the costume” of black stereotypes, ac-

cording to Bhardwaj.Paradoxically, many people who criti-

cize the themes of modern-day hip-hop – such as the emphasis on wealth and sexu-al objectification of women – do not re-alize that these themes not only dominate mainstream hip-hop, but also characterize American society, Clavin said.

Clavin said the lyrics illustrate themes that apply across American society.

“Hip-hop’s problems are society’s prob-lems,” he said.

Although gangster hip-hop dominates the music industry, socially conscious hip-hop still exists, Dunn said. For exam-ple, she listens to J. Cole recent song “Be Free,” which is based on the events sur-rounding Michael Brown’s death in Fergu-son, Missouri.

“There’s socially conscious hip-hop out there,” she said. “It’s just not played on the radio.”Today’s fight

As a cultural phenomenon, hip-hop will inevitably stray from its roots and continue to evolve and migrate across the globe, ac-cording to Bhardwaj.

Rearticulating art is important, but it’s also essential to stay in touch with its cul-tural roots, he said.

“The fire of hip-hop continues to burn,” Bhardwaj said. “[But] people are looking at

the smoke and not recognizing the fire.”The issues of the 1970s – such as gun

violence and segregation – continue to ex-ist today, according to Dunn.

J. Cole recognized these issues through hip-hop when he visited Ferguson and wrote a song in tribute of Brown’s death, Dunn said.

Dunn said that Cole empathized with Brown because black males across Ameri-ca are equally vulnerable to discrimination, regardless of their economic status.

“Even though he’s a celebrity, he’s still a black man,” she said.

People in Buffalo may also identify with the problems hip-hop culture addresses, Clavin said. He said the suburbs of Buf-falo have a high concentration of white people and that the city invests less in ar-eas dominated by black people such as the West Side and East Side.

Hip-hop can influence policy-making and bring these problems to the forefront of our discussions, Bhardwaj said.

“To live hip-hop is to not just listen to hip-hop music but to let the culture per-meate the way you approach everything in your life,” he said. “It indeed is a shared consciousness that transverses cultures, ethnicities, races and languages.”


Kushal Bhardwaj (left) and KRS-One (right) met at UB’s 2010 Fall Fest. KRS-One’s group, Boogie Down Productions, played a pivotal role in the rise of socially conscious hip-hop in the 1990s.

COURTESY OF KUSHAL BHARDWAJ Continued from hip-hop, page 1

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When Devin McGuey couldn’t resolve

back pain with chiropractic care, cortisone injections, physical therapy, pain medications or menthol patches, she turned to yoga.

McGuey, a graduate psychology student, said when she doesn’t do Hatha Yoga, she notices an increase in her back pain.

UB Wellness and Education Services of-fers a Hatha Yoga class Wednesdays at 5 p.m. on the 10th floor of Goodyear Hall on South Campus. Hatha yoga uses postures and con-scious breathing to increase mental aware-ness, strength, flexibility and relaxation.

“The practice of yoga postures has kept my body flexible and healthy,” said Ulrike MacDonald, the instructor of Gentle Ha-

tha Yoga and research medicine techni-cian. “The relaxation and meditation prac-tices, which are another part of my yoga practice, have helped me become calm-er and more patient with myself and the people around me.”

During class, students concentrate on stretching and enhancing major muscle groups and joints. At the end, students relax and meditate. The class focuses on helping students find inner peace and heal their mind and body.

Macdonald, whose been working with UB Wellness since 2008, started practic-ing yoga 11 years ago. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance and started teaching in the community more than five years.

Wanly Chen, a freshman undecided ma-

jor, said attending Gentle Hatha Yoga allows her to simultaneously relax and exercise.

Doing yoga improves both physical and mental health, according to MacDonald.

“Relaxation practices and meditation also offers the practitioner a tool to calm down an often very restless and overactive mind,” MacDonald said. “If the mind is calm, one usually feels more at ease and less anxious.”

Michelle Dein, a graduate psycholo-gy student, said she enjoys the class be-cause it energizes her, enhances her flexi-bility and gives her an opportunity to take a break from her busy routine.

Each session also helps some student improve resilience.

“Greater awareness of the body and its needs often brings with it beneficial chang-

es such as making sure the body gets the right foods and enough rest to function optimally,” Macdonald said.

The class offers beginners a chance to gently exercise their whole body. Each pose “flows” from one to another unin-terrupted and ends in peaceful relaxation and mediation for the mind.

“I offer the students a series of gentle stretches combined with balancing and strengthening poses that address the ma-jor joints and muscle groups of the body,” MacDonald said. “We also work with the breath as a tool to keep us in the present moment.”

At the end of class, the instructor turns off the lights and students practice deep, systematic relaxation along with a sitting meditation exercise. The instructor does not play any music during this part of the class so students can experience uninter-rupted silence.

“The relaxation exercises are very im-portant since they teach the students how to relax,” MacDonald said. “Medita-tion, especially, is a great tool to calm the mind.”

Doing meditation is Chen’s favorite part of the class.

Although some students have trouble sleeping at home, they quickly fall asleep at the end of class, MacDonald said.

“I find times like that very valuable since so much of our lives are filled with ambient noise,” MacDonald said.

Many students who attend Hatha Yoga experience a sense of wellbeing, balance and strength.


Breathing your way to relaxation Students find their focus and inner peace in yoga

GISELLE LAMASST. NEWS EDITOR

About 30 UB students started one week-end in a C-130, a military transport aircraft, to Fort Drum with a view of Upstate New York through huge front windows.

UB ROTC (Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) students joined other ca-

dets from the Golden Griffon Battalion in Fort Drum, a U.S. Army military reserva-tion, in late October. The club went for their semesterly Leadership Training Ex-ercise (LTX). This particular training al-lowed the cadets to apply what they learn and gain experience on a battlefield.

ROTC is “the college elective for un-dergraduate and graduate students that

provides unrivaled leadership training for success in any career field,” according to the U.S. Army’s website.

During this time, the students engaged in simulated scenarios of dealing with mil-itary weapons, medical emergencies and avoiding dangerous situations.

“Imagine Xbox Kinect mixed with a Wii, while holding a weapon, and run-ning simulated missions,” said Alfredo Ramirez, a sophomore sociology major and second-year cadet.

The event allowed the cadets to train with modified weapons, which have the same feel, weight, recoil, fit and sounds of an actual weapon, he said.

Campbell Lindsay, a junior physics ma-jor and public affairs officer for the UB ROTC Club, said this year’s LTX was much different from past years’ Field Training Exercise.

“This year the focus was taken away from being out in the cold, suffering, learning how to use a map and conduct-ing a small-squad-sized mission,” he said.

Instead of utilizing the old infantry-training model, cadets had the opportuni-ty to understand how current equipment functions and how to apply it one day, Lindsay said.

After riding the C-130, Lindsay said it was a “much smoother ride” than a usual commercial aircraft.

James Spellman, a junior mechanical en-gineering major and third-year cadet, said they had a chance to visit the cockpit once the plane finished its ascent. He said the amount of controls and meters in the cockpit was overwhelming, but the view

was beautiful.“Being able to see the sun shine through

the clouds and vast forests of Upstate New York through the huge front win-dows of the aircraft was a view unlike any I’ve had during any commercial flights I’ve ever been on,” Spellman said.

Once the cadets arrived at Fort Drum, they began their simulated military training.

In previous years, the cadets would con-duct their tactical exercises against the op-position forces, which were other mem-bers of their battalion, Spellman said.

“Everyone would hold rubber rifles and yell ‘bang,’” he said. “On this LTX, the simulators gave a realistic feeling because we were actually able to exchange fire with the opposition forces, albeit virtually.”

Spellman said they used two types of simulated rifles. The first rifle replicated a real weapon with a mounted infrared laser to use during training. Targets would pop up and fall over once they registered being hit by the beam.

For the second simulator, cadets held a rifle while looking at a wall-sized screen wearing virtual reality goggles. The room had loud speakers to set the scene of a virtual battlefield.

Lindsay said the simulators added prob-lems and stresses that mirrored real world scenarios.

In their Humvee Egress training, the lights were shut off while the room filled with fog and gunfire sounds blasted from the speakers. The cadets had to then make their way out of the rolled-over four-wheel military vehicle.

The cadets fought off an ambush while giving medical aid, Lindsay said.

To assess medical emergencies at the scene, the cadets were trained in Combat Life Saver (CLS), which is combat “first aid,” Ramirez said.

Ramirez said he was amazed by the technology of the simulated victim and how realistic it looked. He said he could tell it was a male by the features on the head and body structure.

“He had an injured leg that was moving, while the head was shaking side to side,” Ramirez said. “On top of that, he was blinking and gasping for air as his chest rose up and went down.”

Spellman said the mannequins had tubes inside that acted as arteries so the cadets could see when they had to put on a tourniquet, a compressing device, tight enough to stop the bleeding. The trainees would see when the “casualty” had a suck-ing chest wound or tension pneumotho-rax that needed to be treated.

Lindsay said over the summer, cadets are sent all over the world to do similar training and improve themselves in the same way others work at jobs or internships.

He said being cadets help them mature faster than the average college student be-cause their decisions immediately affect a larger amount of people and because their actions reflect on the entire Army.

“We all live the Army values,” Lindsay said. “[It] doesn’t stop when we take our uniform off.”


COURTESY OF CAMPBELL LINDSAY

UB ROTC students got the chance to fly to Fort Drum on a military aircraft and experi-ence the simulation of being on the battle-field, including combative, medical and pro-tective training exercises.

HARUTYUN KHACHATRYAN, THE SPECTRUM

Students in Ulrike Macdonald’s Gentle Hatha Yoga class stretch, breathe and focus their way to relaxation and health every Wednesday at 5 p.m. on the 10th floor of Goodyear Hall on South Campus. The class is run by UB Wellness and Education Services.

Soldiers in trainingUB students engage in weekend of simulated military activities


BRIAN WINDSCHITLARTS EDITOR

Gia-Bao means “a precious treasure passed down from gen-eration to generation” in Viet-namese. But it took G.B. Tran a long time to fully realize what it meant to him and his family.

The lauded illustrator and au-thor spoke Wednesday at UB about his work in an event host-ed by the Asian Studies Associ-ation.

Tran is an Eisner Industry Award – which is like the Acade-my Awards of the comic world – nominee for Best Reality-Based Work, as well as a fellowship re-cipient of The New York Arts Foundation.

Tran is best known for his im-pressive depiction of his family’s traumatic journey in his graphic novel, “Vietnamerica.”

Tran’s graphic novel gives an admirable depiction of his fam-ily’s struggle through war, immi-gration and his own exploration of the effects both can have on a family.

The novel was made when he was exploring the ties between his family’s legacy and his Amer-icanized identity of the present.

But he was not always so en-raptured and inspired by his fam-ily’s story – in fact, it was quite the opposite when he was young-er.

During the lecture, Tran ad-mitted that his own family heri-tage was of minimal importance to him during his childhood. His youthful attitude toward his own family legacy was summed up in

two words: “Who cares?”As Tran grew up, that he start-

ed to get more curious about his heritage.

The major turning point, he said, was after college, when he was aimlessly living in Brooklyn. Feeling lost, Tran decided to ac-company his parents on a trip to Vietnam.

His family had emigrated from Vietnam in 1975, but Tran had never been there.

When he visited Vietnam, he said everything started to change when his parents told him about their experiences.

“I had never gotten the full

backstory of my family and their journey. It shocked me, confused me and made me feel proud,” Tran said. “Perhaps now that I have my own child, but I realized how much your parents sacrifice to give you a life of choices.”

Through his experiences in Vietnam, and his newfound ap-preciation for his family’s histo-ry, Tran was inspired to write his now critically acclaimed graph-ic novel.

After the lecture, Tran fielded questions from the audience, al-lowing people to come up and talk with him.

Tran emphasized the pillars of

his graphic novel to the crowd.He said there were three

themes he wanted to focus on for “Vietnamerica.”

“War and conflict, and how it affects families, immigration and the idea of family legacy and awareness of heritage,” he said.

Peter Yun, a sophomore bio-chemistry major, said Tran’s sto-ry resonated with him and his own experiences.

Yun first encountered Tran when he spoke in Yun’s world civilization class. Yun said his own experiences as an immigrant moved him to see Tran again.

“The story reminded me a lot

about how rough it can be to move from another country,” Yun said.

This well-rounded perspective was why Paul McCutcheon, ad-junct professor and Asian stud-ies graduate student, assigned Tran’s novel to his Asian Amer-ican studies class.

“[The book] attempts to get the students to think about dias-pora and identity, and negotiating international, local and person-al identity,” McCutcheon said. “How we understand ourselves is important, and where we fit into our families is as well.”

McCutcheon said Tran’s lec-ture was the perfect way to give his students context to “Vietna-merica,” as the backstories of the author would give deeper insight into the book.

Leah Raimondi, an English major and intern for the Asian studies department, said that the Tran’s lecture was so personal – both to him and the audience – and provided a great insight into the author’s life as well as Viet-namese culture.

Themes of immigration and war in “Vietnamerica” didn’t res-onate with Raimondi as much as the overriding theme of Tran’s lecture – know your roots and learn as much as you can about yourself as early as you can.

For Raimondi, this meant one thing: “Do what you want now before it’s too late.”


G.B. Tran: The artist who gives life to legacyVietnamese comic book artist and author of

“Vietnamerica” discusses his roots and influences

MATTHEW POREMBACONTRIBUTING WRITER

It was dark outside, chilly and pouring rain. The sidewalks of Buffalo were almost completely empty – except in front of Town Ballroom.

Despite the weather, a long line of people stretched down Main Street. People were wearing ev-erything from tutus to ski masks, mostly in bright pastel colors.

They were eagerly anticipat-ing entrance into the Town Ball-room to see the DJ Carnage host the Carnage: Parental Adviso-ry Tour Tuesday night. Carnage wasn’t alone. The night was filled with performances by three solo acts, including Carnage himself, and a set by Canadian duo Dze-ko & Torres.

“I’m pumped up,” said Saman-tha Nabb, an 18-year-old from Lockport. “This is going to be a night for me to finally let loose.”

When the doors opened, au-dience members began trick-ling into the venue. The dim-ly lit main floor smelled of in-cense when the night’s first DJ began to play. DJ Junkie Kid set the pace for the evening, blend-ing top-40 hits, hip-hop, trap and up-tempo dance music.

“To me it doesn’t really matter who's playing,” Nabb said. “As long as the music is good and loud I’ll have a good time.”

The show was sold out by the time Dzeko & Torres performed. Dzeko & Torres played more adrenaline-pumping club music and peppered their set with cool tricks, such as shooting smoke into the audience.

Dzeko & Torres and Junkie had short, concise half-hour sets, but the next DJ, Paris Blohm, changed that trend by playing for

a full hour. “All these sexy ladies make

some noise right now,” Blohm said toward the beginning of his set. “We’re about to go crazy.”

Blohm played in front of a large display with his name in white neon letters on a purple backdrop. His set was notable for incorporating the most mod-ern pop music, often bringing

exhilarating results on the dance floor.

When he started playing Iggy Azealea’s “Fancy” during the middle of his set, the audience began screaming so loudly that it was heard out in the lobby.

When DJ Carnage’s ascended to the stage, people emptied out of the lobby and onto the dance floor.

“He’s definitely the reason I’m here,” said Tristan Jones, 21, from Elma. “When Carnage is on, I will rage hard. He’s the best of the best.”

Carnage had multiple turnta-bles on stage, and was expertly switching in between beats. The crowd was visibly enjoying Car-nage’s set, whether fans were dancing or just standing on the side in a trance.

“The best part about the rave culture is you can do whatever you want,” Nabb said. “Nobody is going to judge you.”

At one point, Carnage got nearly the entire audience to take their phones out and shine them up above their heads, so he could take a photo. Carnage later post-ed it to his Facebook.

DJ Carnage closed with an original song, “Bricks,” featuring hip-hop artist Migos.

It was one of the most distinct originals of the performance and was well received by the audience as many people rapped along to the track.

“I love Bricks,” Jones said. “That is probably the most clas-sic Carnage track right there.”

As the concert ended, the ec-centrically dressed crowd exit-ed back out into the pouring rain on Main Street – a stark change from the upbeat raved.


Rave on Buffalo DJ Carnage brings a wild party to Town Ballroom

CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM

Vietnamese comic book artist G.B. Tran talks to UB students and faculty about his work, accomplishments, and influences.

COURTESY OF FLICKR USER SWIMFINFAN

An eclectic mix of costumes filled the dancefloor and partied all night to the mixes created by Carnage.


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HOROSCOPES Friday, November 7, 2014FROM UNIVERSAL UCLICK

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Take a moment to relax and rethink your next move. Don’t feel pressured to make a decision because someone is putting demands on you. Open up conversations that will help you see all sides to whatever situation you face. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Problems with teach-ers, superiors or anyone in charge can be expected. Don’t lose patience when what’s required is well-thought-out solutions. A partnership will boost your confidence and strengthen your position. Romance is in the stars. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Avoid joint ventures that are financially or contractually binding. It’s important to stick to your original plan, especially if it allows you the freedom to follow a path that is better suited to your needs. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Arguments will flare up with a friend, lover or a youngster in your life. Try to remain calm and you will save yourself the grief a no-win situation has to offer. Peace and love will offer better results. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t make changes at home that are likely to upset your relationship with someone you live with or near. Altering your location will do more for your morale and help you come up with ways to do what you want without causing a ruckus. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Start the process of making the alterations to your life that will help improve your stan-dard of living. This is not the time to invest in what some-one else does. Put yourself first and don’t feel guilty about doing so. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Keep a watchful eye over your personal finances, your home and the people around you. A change in the way someone treats you should be an eye-opener regarding what you should do to protect your position. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Keep life simple and in-dulge less. Work toward a common goal with someone you respect. Focus on manipulating your environment to suit your needs. Love is on the rise, and help will come from an unusual source. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don’t make un-necessary changes to the way you earn your living. Focus more on home, family and improvements that affect you personally. Problems with someone you work with must not lead to an impulsive mistake you’ll live to regret. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t take on too much or neglect what’s most important to you. Concen-trate on home, family and nurturing what you have worked so hard to acquire. A unique job offer will be worth con-sidering. Romance will enhance your personal life. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t trust anyone with your secrets. Look at your options and be creative in the way you move forward. An emotional issue regarding your physical well-being must not be allowed to fester. Overre-acting will not solve the problem. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Money matters are look-ing good. Coming into a windfall or being offered a con-tract too good to refuse is possible. Wheel and deal until you get what you want. New prospects appear to give you a boost personally and professionally. Love is highlighted.

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6 Dark reddish- brown 11 Photo ___ (media

events) 14 Cruz of salsa music 15 Not a soul 16 Geller

the spoonbender 17 Features of most

restrooms 20 Small

songbird 21 Arm bone 22 Equestrian 23 Cause of inflation? 24 Flower fanciers 25 Antenna shelter 26 Deep-voiced one 28 Dandy dresser 29 Conk out 30 All over

the place 34 “Act your ___!” 35 Generous, friendly

reception 37 Central 38 Buttercup family

member 39 Newspaper page div. 40 Word on either side

of “-a-” 41 Not mounted, as a

gem 45 Astronaut Buzz 47 “___ the night before

Christmas ...” 50 Adam’s mate 51 Chops finely, as

potatoes 52 “Sight” or “over”

ender 53 “We try harder”

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company 54 Pressure-laden time 57 Hockey great Bobby 58 Having beams

of light 59 Jedi’s power 60 ___ XING (road

sign) 61 Some jazz instru-

ments 62 Plant ___ of suspi-

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2 Illinois city 3 Changes 4 City in

central China (Var.) 5 Word before and after

“oh” 6 “I give!” 7 Natural satellites 8 Gaucho’s weapon 9 Last word

of a film? 10 Cover over 11 Surpass at evading 12 Early arrival in the deliv-

ery room 13 No-Bob link 18 Payable

immediately 19 Abet’s

partner 24 Nuclear physicist Niels 25 Florestan’s jailer in

“Fidelio” 27 Large amount 28 What soap may leave 31 At full speed

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Baptiste Poquelin 39 Drive-in employee 40 Sunlight blockers 42 Bad, as weather 43 Demonstrate clearly 44 Quizzed 46 Abbr. for an old

soldier 47 Giggle 48 They’re

not flowers 49 Provide weapons for 52 Charon’s river 53 Andy’s radio partner

of old 55 Air safety org. 56 Birds ___ feather

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Ohio (5-5, 3-3 Mid-American Confer-ence) defeated Buffalo (3-6, 1-4 MAC) 37-14 in Athens, Ohio Wednesday night. Buf-falo has now lost four straight games and is ineligible for a bowl invitation.

Stat rundown:- Ohio outgained Buffalo 389 to 134 in

total yards of offense.- Both teams struggled on third down:

Buffalo went 2 for 13 on third down con-versions, and the Bobcats went 4 of 13. Ohio had 19 first downs, however, com-pared to Buffalo’s seven.

- The Bulls scored at least 21 points in every game under former head coach Jeff Quinn this season. Buffalo has scored just 14 points in both games under interim head coach Alex Wood.

- Anthone Taylor has ran for 52 yards in his past two games, after running for 685 yards in his previous four.

- Junior quarterback Joe Licata has thrown seven touchdowns and six in-terceptions in his last four games, after

throwing 14 touchdowns and four inter-ceptions in his first five contests.

- Of Buffalo’s 12 drives, six ended in a punt, two with an interception, one with a botched punt snap, one with a fumble, one with a missed field goal and one with a touchdown. Buffalo’s lone offensive touchdown drive started on Ohio’s 19-yard line after a forced fumble. Turning point:

Buffalo allowed 10 points in less than a minute and a half, allowing Ohio to ex-pand its lead from 17-0 to 27-0 early in the third quarter. On Buffalo’s first play after Ohio took a 20-0 lead, Licata and Taylor fumbled a handoff. The Bobcats recovered and quarterback Derrius Vick ran in a 9-yard touchdown three plays lat-er to give Ohio a 27-0 lead. When the game was lost:

When Vick ran in for the touchdown to give the Bobcats a 27-0 lead. Buffalo Player of the Game:

Junior defensive back Okezie Alozie had six tackles, two for losses, and a strip sack that led to Buffalo’s lone offensive touchdown. Alozie now has 2.5 sacks in

his past two games after not recording a single sack in Buffalo’s first seven games. Ohio Player of the Game:

Bobcats freshman running back A.J. Quellette ran for 155 yards on 29 carries (5.3 yards per rush) and two touchdowns. Quellette’s hard running set the pace for an Ohio offense than outgained Buffalo by more than 250 yards. Quote of the Game:

“We really don’t know what’s going on,” said junior wide receiver Ron Wil-loughby.Next game:

Buffalo hosts Akron (4-5, 2-3 MAC) Tuesday, Nov. 11 at UB Stadium. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. and the game will be fea-tured on ESPNU.


Bulls Breakdown

QUENTIN HAYNESASST. SPORTS EDITOR

The Buffalo women’s soccer team is looking to win its first MAC Championship in school history.

After defeating Toledo 2-0 in the tournament quarterfinals, the No. 49 Bulls (14-2-3, 10-0-2 MAC) take on Ball State (11-6-2, 6-5-0 MAC) in the semifinals on Friday at UB Stadium. As the top seed, Buffalo will host all of the final four matchups and would advance to Sunday’s cham-pionship round with a victory over the Cardinals.

“We understand what could happen this week-end,” said head coach Shawn Burke. “However, the coaching staff made sure to tell the team to take it one game at a time. It’s so easy to look ahead, but we made sure to let our girls know that we have to beat Ball State before even con-sidering advancing. Focus on that.”

Burke was an assistant coach for the Bulls in 2011, which was the last time Buffalo advanced to the MAC semifinals. The Bulls lost to Tole-do 3-1.

Buffalo defeated Ball State 2-1 in overtime Oct. 24 in the team’s lone regular season meet-ing. The Cardinals outshot the Bulls 9-4 and scored first, before the Bulls scored a second half goal and again in overtime to remain unde-feated in MAC play.

“They threw different things at us, pushed the pace offensively, and worked up top,” Burke said. “We struggled with that and as a result, barely came away with a victory. It’s a luxury to have the game tape from that last game. It al-lowed us to see what we did wrong and we made sure to focus on those miscues in practice.”

The Bulls are currently on a six-game winning streak and have allowed just two goals during that span. The defense has only allowed 21 shots in its past six games.

“Our defense will certainly need to lead us to victory,” Burke said. “We pride ourselves on having a strong defensive unit, and last week was tough to watch. We have to adjust and make sure that we don’t give Ball State the same chances we gave Toledo last week, because they will score.”

Buffalo’s dominance this season has not gone unrecognized either.

The Bulls swept the major conference awards and earned eight All-Conference honors Thurs-day, highlighted by Burke winning the MAC Coach of the Year award in his first season.

He is the second Bulls head coach to win the award. In 2000, Jean-A Tassy won the award af-ter leading Buffalo to the first MAC regular sea-son championship in school history.

Senior forward Katie Roberts won MAC Of-fensive Player of the Year and junior defender Jackie Hall won MAC Defensive Player of the Year, becoming the first players in school history to receive the honors.

Roberts leads the conference in goals (11), points (24) and game-winning goals (six) this season. Hall was the leader of a defense that has given up just 12 goals in 19 games this season. The Buffalo ‘D’ has allowed five shots on goal or fewer in 14 games.

That defense helped freshman goalkeeper Laura Dougall win MAC Freshman of the Year, as she set a program record with 12 shutouts and 14 victories to go with a conference best goals-against-average (0.37) and save percentage (.911).

Senior defender Courtney Mann was named to the All-MAC first team, along with Dougall, Hall, and Roberts. Sophomore forward Celi-na Carrero and senior defender Sophie Therien made the All-MAC second team. Freshman mid-fielder Julia Benati joined Dougall on the All-MAC freshman team.

“It feels great to be recognized,” Burke said. “The best thing about it was that it was a team effort. Sweeping the awards wasn’t possible without a team effort, our amazing coaching staff and even better support staff. It allowed us to focus on soccer and put together a great sea-son. We hope to continue that run on Friday.”

Buffalo and Ball State kick off Friday at 4 p.m. at UB Stadium. Western Michigan and North-ern Illinois, which finished sixth and seventh, re-spectively, in the MAC, play after Buffalo’s game. The winners of each matchup will play for the MAC title at Sunday at noon.


Women’s soccer heads into MAC Semifinals

Bulls sweep MAC awards heading into matchup against Ball State

SPORTS DESK

Quarterbacks: FThe Good: Junior quarter-

back Joe Licata tied former Buffa-lo quarterback Drew Willy for the most touchdown passes in pro-gram history (52).

The Bad: That touchdown drive started on Ohio’s 19-yard line. Li-cata failed to move the offense down the field throughout the game. He completed 9 of 20 pass-es for just 74 yards. Licata was in-tercepted on a terrible throw he may have been trying to throw out of bounds while under pressure. Running backs: F

The Good: Junior quarterback Tony Daniel had Buffalo’s longest run of the night (13 yards).

The Bad: Junior running back Anthone Taylor had his second consecutive pedestrian game, run-ning for just 37 yards on 17 car-ries. After rushing for 685 yards in a four-game stretch, Taylor has totaled just 62 yards in his past two games. Taylor fumbled an ex-change with Licata in the third quarter that led to an Ohio touch-down. Wide receivers and tight ends: F

The Good: Junior wide receiver Ron Willoughby caught a 12-yard touchdown pass in the third quar-ter.

The Bad: The receivers struggled to get open or make plays and also dropped several passes. The tight ends again failed to get involved in the offense, as the group did not re-cord a single catch.Offensive line: F

The Good: Licata was only sacked twice – or 10 percent of his drop backs.

The Bad: Quentin Poling had a sack on Licata in which the line-backer ran right past senior center Trevor Sales. The line failed to open holes in the running game for the second straight week. Run defense: D

The Good: Sophomore corner-

back Boise Ross returned an Ohio fumble for a 76-yard touchdown with less than two minutes remain-ing in the game.

The Bad: Ohio freshman run-ning back A.J. Quellette ran for 155 yards and two touchdowns. The Bobcats ran for 233 yards and four touchdowns as a team. Pass defense: D+

The Good: Ohio completed just eight of 19 pass attempts as a team.

The Bad: Those eight completions went for 156 yards. Buffalo contin-ued to allow big passing plays from the start, giving up a 47-yard comple-tion down the sideline to senior wide receiver Chase Cochran on the Bob-cats’ first drive. Special teams: F

The Good: Junior running back Devin Campbell had a 50-yard kickoff return in the first quarter.

The Bad: Freshman wide re-ceiver Jacob Martinez replaced ju-nior wide receiver Marcus McGill as the punt returner a few weeks ago, but Martinez muffed two punts Wednesday night. The punt team had two miscues: Martinez’s first muffed punt, and a snap that hit off of a blocker in the back-field. The two turnovers led to 10 points for Ohio. Senior kicker Pat-rick Clarke missed a 33-yard field goal in the second quarter and is now just 6 of 13 on the year.Coaching: F

The Good: It’s hard to find pos-itives in interim head coach Alex Wood’s performance from the sideline Wednesday.

The Bad: After scoring at least 21 points in every game under Jeff Quinn this season, Buffalo has scored just 14 points in both games with Wood as coach. Buf-falo looked completely unprepared and unmotivated for this game right from the beginning. Wood failed to play call an effective game plan, as the offense was out of sorts all night.


Gridiron report card: The Spectrum grades the Bulls’ 37-14 loss

COURTESY OF CREDIT DAN KUBUS

Junior quarterback Joe Licata is sacked Quentin Poling in Buffalo’s 37-14 loss Wednesday night. Buffa-lo’s offense generated just 134 yards.

YUSONG SHI, THE SPECTRUM

Katie Roberts was named MAC Offensive Player of the Year Thursday. Buffalo faces Ball State in the MAC Semifinal Friday.

COURTESY OF CREDIT DAN KUBUS

Ohio quarterback Derrius Vick runs for a gain in Buffalo’s 37-14 loss Wednes-day night. Buffalo is no longer eligible for a bowl game.

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