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SAM FERNANDOStaff Writer

Phil Chearmonte’s passion comes from the loss of his son.

Two years ago, Phil and his wife Linda had their world shaken when their 17-year-old son, Joe, completed suicide – “completed” being the dis-tinction Phil makes in retrospect. In the wake of their son’s death, they had no idea how to react.

Phil said there were two ways he could have responded: he could have kept to himself and tried to move past it, or he could have embraced his story and used it to help others who were going through the same thing.

He chose the latter. “No matter what we do, I can’t

bring Joe back,” Phil said. “The only way we could give back in some way is to share our experience and hope-fully save another life.”

Earlier this month, during Na-tional Suicide Prevention Week (Sept. 9-15), UB and the local community held events aimed at bringing aware-ness to the causes of suicide. But the

UB Student Wellness Team – a group comprised of Student Health Servic-es, Wellness Education Services and Counseling Services – continues to fight to prevent suicide year-round.

Phil has been a committee mem-ber on the walk for two years. He is also on the Western New York Amer-ican Foundation for Suicide Pre-

vention (AFSP) board. Linda and Phil are UB alumni, and their experi-ence fuels their dedication to educat-ing young people in suicide preven-tion and awareness.

In addition to working with AFSP, Phil works with local high schools, encouraging students to educate themselves on suicide pre-

UB community aims to prevent suicide

ERIN ELLISStaff Writer

A carbon monoxide leak. Faulty electrical wiring. A ceiling on the verge of collapse. Missing landlords.

In the last week, five students have had to evacuate their University Heights homes.

During Saturday’s housing blitz, a student living on Heath Street left her house so Buffalo City inspectors could immediately fix a potentially fatal carbon monoxide leak.

Last Wednesday, four students vacated their Englewood Avenue home so inspectors could fix faulty electric wiring, which could have caused electrocution or a fire.

In all of these instances, the landlords are to blame and hard to reach.

On Saturday, Dan Ryan, direc-tor of off-campus student relations; Gary Ziolkowski, a City of Buffalo chief building inspector; and two other city building inspectors evaluat-ed the homes on Heath Street. They go to a different street in the Heights almost every week in their effort to ensure the homes meet city codes.

Cheng Yao Tan – a second-year architecture graduate student – lives at 54 Heath St. An international stu-dent from China, Tan was unfamiliar with the threat of carbon monoxide and said she “didn’t smell anything.” She didn’t know what carbon mon-oxide was until the inspectors came to her house Saturday.

“We don’t go in the basement very much,” Tan explained to the inspectors. “I don’t understand the problem.”

Tan called her landlord three times at the request of the inspec-tors. There was no answer, and she was unable to leave voicemail.

Her landlord did not install a carbon monoxide detector in the house; city code states there must be at least two detectors in a house, ac-cording to Ziolkowski.

There was also no flue, which vents out carbon monoxide byprod-uct, connected to the water tank.

“Obviously there is carbon mon-oxide leaking through the house,” a city inspector said, while attempting a makeshift repair. “She doesn’t feel sick or anything. But we are calling the gas company, and she is trying to call her landlord right now.”

During blitzes, inspectors write down issues to notify landlords, who must comply with city codes within 30 days. In this instance, the inspec-tors were forced to act immediately for the welfare of Tan and her fellow roommates who weren’t home.

Ryan explained the severity of situation to Tan: “Just because you’re not coming in the basement doesn’t mean the carbon monoxide isn’t go-ing to come where you are,” Ryan told her.

One of the city inspectors at-tached the flue to the hot water tank as a temporary fix. They opened

doors and windows around the home to improve ventilation while Tan was outside for her safety.

On Wednesday, four students evacuated their Englewood Avenue home for two days. One of their landlords upgraded their electrical wiring without a permit or an inspec-tion.

The students from the Engle-wood home wished to remain anony-mous because their house’s electric problems are finally being fixed. They have had problems in the past that their landlord failed to attend to, and they are afraid

When one of the students called an electrical company to fix the bro-ken meter, he found the new wiring could cause a fire or electrocution. He turned off the electricity right away.

The students called their land-lords for two hours. One of the land-lords turned off his phone. In des-peration, one of the students called Ryan.

“Our landlord finally got back to one of us, and he was frustrated and he was yelling at my roommate, like telling her that she shouldn’t have gone to UB and that he did everything correctly and something must’ve gotten filed wrong,” the stu-dent said.

The inspector proved the land-lord never got a permit and he did the wiring himself by showing the students the meter box was not sealed. An electric company would have sealed the meter box.

If the students had used more electricity than the meter could han-dle, it would have caused electrocu-tion or a fire.

Some students, like the ones from the Englewood home, are wor-ried about how their landlords are going to respond if their concerns are made public. Saravanan Laksh-manan, a recent aerospace engineer graduate, isn’t afraid to stand up to his absent landlord.

After the last housing blitz, his landlord instructed Lakshmanan and his roommates not to let any inspec-tors from the city back into their house.

Lakshmanan, a resident of 81 Heath St., lives in a home ridden with severe water damage. His bathroom ceiling is buckling, nearing collapse.

Water was leaking from the showers on the second floor into the basement.

A week in the Heights

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City inspectors provided a temporary fix to a potentially fatal carbon monoxide leak at 54 Heath St.

COURTESY OF 2012 BUFFALO OUT OF THE DARkNESS WALk

On Sept. 15, participants in the 2012 Out of the Darkness Walk remem-bered their loved ones and walked to raise suicide awareness.

JACOB GLASERAsst. Life Editor

On May 17, 2011, Michael

David Israel attempted to commit suicide. His attempt was unsuccess-ful. Michael was taken to a facility, which by mandate of law is sup-posed to monitor its patients and take care of them following their attempted suicide.

Michael, the then 20-year-old undergraduate architecture major, was released after one day. On June 4, 2011, he reached the pinnacle of his struggles and took his own life.

Suicide ranks as the second-leading cause of death among col-lege students, according to Amanda Tyson-Ryba, a psychologist at UB Wellness Center. There was a me-morial service held this month to commemorate six UB students who took their own lives.

Michael was one of those six.

Michael was a fun-loving kid – just a joy to have around, Avi Israel, Michael’s father, told The Spectrum in April. A comedian with a knack for impressions, and an intelligent, bright kid with a good eye for detail

In loving memoryFamily takes action to stop

prescription drug abuse

Inspectors find life-threatening hazards on Heath Street

ERIN ELLIS /// THE SPECTRUM

An occupant of 54 Heath St. had no idea her house had a carbon monoxide leak.

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COURTESY OF THE ISRAEL FAMILY

Michael Israel committed suicide on June 4, 2011 after a long struggle with prescription drug addiction. Michael suffered from Crohn's disease and was taking multiple medications for pain, anxiety and depression.

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vention. He doesn’t want kids to stay silent. He said there is nothing wrong with seeking help and believes communication is essential to pre-venting suicide. He uses his and his wife’s story to try to get through to parents that what hap-pened to them could happen to anyone.

Although Phil had a great relationship with his son, he is stuck facing the “what ifs.” He wonders if there is one thing he could have said or done differently that could have saved his son. He encourages parents to constantly com-municate with their children, because with Joe, there were no clear warning signs of suicide.

“As a society, we like to be prescriptive,” Phil said. “That isn’t always the case with sui-cide. There isn’t one right way to handle [sui-cide]. ”

Ryan DiVita, a graduate student in ado-lescent social studies education at UB, recently had his first experience dealing with suicide. This April, one of his friends – a fellow UB student – completed suicide.

DiVita said there aren’t always blatant signs that someone is contemplating suicide. In his friend’s situation, it was a complete surprise.

“I had seen him a few days prior and I didn’t pick up on anything suspicious,” Di-Vita said. “We could not believe it because he seemed like such a happy, care-free kid on the outside.”

DiVita said dealing with his friend’s sui-cide has taught him to pay more attention to the feelings of his friends and people around him. He also said opening up to a friend you are concerned about may allow that person to open up to you.

“People don't realize what spending some time with a friend that needs to talk can do for them,” DiVita said. “They could have much more going on inside than you realize.”

DiVita wears a bracelet every day that says, “It’s the life in your years that counts.” It’s a constant reminder of his friend, which reminds him how to treat his other friends. He encour-ages people to open up to friends and he said that will help lower suicides rates. He believes if his friend had someone to open up to, his death could have been prevented.

According to research by the National Center for Health Statistics, suicide has passed car accidents as the leading cause of injury-re-lated death in the United States.

Since 2004, at least 12 UB students have committed suicide. Between 2006 and 2008, University Police responded to approximately 51 calls about suicide attempts.

Experts are now saying suicide in the col-lege student age range is preventable through understanding.

During the 2009-10 school year, UB sur-veyed 5,237 students asking various questions pertaining to suicide and mental health. About one-third of students stated there had been a time in the last year they felt so depressed that it was difficult to function. One hundred and eighty-three students reported they seriously considered suicide the past year. Thirty-one students reported attempting suicide in 2010.

Carissa Uschold, a licensed clinical social worker and suicide prevention coordinator for UB Wellness, said suicide is preventable. She said students can learn how to prevent suicide and detect depression.

“It is important to educate yourself regard-ing signs and symptoms,” Uschold said. “If you are concerned about suicide, it is important to understand that hope and help is available.”

According to AFSP, suicide is the third-leading cause of death among college students, behind unintentional injury and homicide.

Uschold was also the co-chair the AFSP Buffalo Out of the Darkness walk, which raised over $100,000 toward suicide prevention. She and her committee members all have a pas-sion that stems from educating people in order to prevent suicide.

“Obviously suicide is not the answer,” Di-Vita said. “It is a permanent solution to a tem-porary problem. I just wish more people would open up to others because it can save lives.”

Research shows early detection of metal health issues can lead to greater recovery and early intervention is critical, according to UB Counseling Services. UB Counseling Services offers workshops, programs and counseling services to those affected by depression or to community members wanting to learn more about preventing suicide – most notably, QPR Suicide Prevention Training, a 90-minute train-ing session that helps participants learn the warning signs of suicide.

The next session will be held on Nov. 6 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in 210 Student Union. If you or someone you know is in need of im-mediate help, you can call crisis services at (716) 834-3131.

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– Michael built model airplanes in his spare time. He was compassionate and ready to offer a hug to his loved ones, never wanting an argument to end on bad terms.

Even though Michael had been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, he tried to be a normal kid.

Michael was diagnosed when he was 12 years old with the painful chronic inflammatory bowel disease that causes scarring and thickening of the intestinal walls. With the dis-ease came many medication prescrip-tions.

With the prescriptions came ad-dictions.

Between the ages of 12 and 18, Michael was under pediatric care and treatment for his disease. During the six-year span, he was treated prop-erly without any gelatin encapsulate synthetic heroine – an addictive psy-choactive drug manufactured from the cannabis (marijuana) plant used to relieve pain – or other addicting medications.

Michael’s treatment changed when he legally became an adult at the age of 18. It was illegal for his parents to have open access to any of his pharmacy, treatment or prescrip-tion records. Michael also switched from his pediatrician to an adult gas-trointestinal specialist, a doctor who specializes in diseases of the stomach and intestines.

That’s when the doctor started prescribing the hard drugs, according to Avi.

The first round of treatment Michael received from his GI includ-ed a 15-minute consultation process, followed by a handshake at the door and a prescription for hydrocodone for the chronic pain Michael suffered

due to his Crohn’s disease, according to Avi.

“The problem with these pain pills – these opiates – [is] they don’t actually fix the problem or help treat the disease, they just act as a mask for the real problem,” said Philip Luzio, a family friend of the Israel’s. “And they are addicting. He wasn’t being helped or treated; they were just pre-scribing him pill after pill and not fix-ing the actual problem.”

Michael visited a second primary care physician. He told this doctor he was struggling with depression, the likes of which stemmed from his condition as well as the medication he was taking. He was written a pre-scription for Cymbalta, a drug used to treat depression and generalized anxiety disorder.

Michael continued to struggle with anxiety and depression while continuing to take the diet of pills his doctors had prescribed for him.

He eventually visited to a third primary care physician in his quest for help. He repeated to this doctor his growing list of ailments and the anxiety that had taken a hold of his life and in return, this doctor handed Michael a prescription for Xanax, a drug used to treat anxiety and panic disorders.

Now Michael was taking 21 pills a day for both his Crohn’s disease and the depression and anxiety that accompanied it.

After about a year and a half, Michael realized he had become ad-dicted to his pain medication, hydro-codone, which his doctors continued to prescribe him, according to Avi.

Michael never tried to hide his developed addiction.

He wanted help, but help seemed impossible to find.

Michael told his father about his addiction. Avi sought to help his son by getting him into a week-long detox program, but insurance only covered three days of the program. Avi paid the rest out of pocket. He desperately wanted his son to get the help he needed.

Michael’s parents felt the pro-gram couldn’t have helped him stay clean for more than a few days be-cause after that week, doctors went right back to prescribing him hydro-codone.

His two-year struggle with his addiction to opiates was getting the best of him so Michael called his drug counselor to try and enroll him-self in another detox program.

“Within five minutes, his coun-selor told him that there were no beds for him and that they could not help him,” Avi said. “He was dis-missed. He was ignored.”

That day, right after that phone call, Michael took his own life. After two years of battling not only his Crohn’s disease, but also his contin-ued dismissal and eventual addiction, it became too much for him.Taking action

In the 15 months following Mi-chael’s death, Michael’s parents and family friends – as well as other indi-viduals who have lost loved ones due to prescription drug addiction – have been at the forefront of a movement that has been lobbying to establish and reform legislation revolving around prescription drugs.

Previously, there hasn’t been legislation that mandates open com-munication about the varying medi-cations being prescribed to patients.

However, thanks to the Israels’ tireless campaign, that is about to change.

On June 11, 2012, the legisla-tion the Israels had been trying to get passed – known as Internet System for Tracking Over Prescribing Act (I-STOP) – was passed through both houses in a rarely seen unanimous decision from the Senate and the As-sembly.

This new legislation details the setup of a centralized database that will allow for more control over pre-scription drugs. The database will give doctors information on patient prescription history and will require pharmacists to provide information on these powerful, habit-forming drugs.

This bill also mandates the re-classification of hydrocodone to show the risk of abuse that coincides with its use. It will also initiate the “e-prescribing” – a computer-based filing system that allows a physician, nurse practitioner or physician assis-tant to electronically submit a new prescription or renewal to pharma-cies – of controlled substances to prevent prescription fraud.

This prevents errors found in paper scripts or the trading of scripts, and it allows healthcare providers to communicate directly with pharma-cies – an essential step that will con-nect all levels of a patient’s healthcare team in order to provide knowledge-able treatment.

The act has also created a safe drug disposal program for expired and unused medications.

“You wouldn’t believe the sup-port we received when we made our proposal in Washington,” Luzio said. “Everyone congratulating you, tell-ing you how good you’re doing, how many people were crying and how many people were truly touched.”

All of these prescription drug legislation changes were made six months after the Israels joined the cause.

It has not been an easy battle, however. Big pharmaceutical com-panies have been fighting the legisla-tion and have much more financial resources than Avi, an electrician.

“After all this [campaigning] and time off from work, my bank ac-count is pretty much nonexistent,” Avi said.

Nothing will stop the Israels as they fight on in loving memory of their deceased son.

Michael is just one of the thou-sands who has succumb to suicide because of prescription drug addic-tion in the United States.

On Oct. 29-30, a group of par-ent survivors will be protesting in front of the FDA, one of the move-ment’s biggest adversaries, in Wash-ington.

“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem,” Tyson-Ryba said. “Never forget there are people who love you and care about you, and no matter what, you always have someone to talk to.” Email: features@ubspectrum.com

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Opinion

AARON MANSFIELD

Editor in Chief

Our almost limitless language has few inad-

equacies. Words can change lives and alter

the course of history. They can start friendships, publicize proposals and express what you feel in most any situ-ation.

They just can’t handle death.Marina keegan had no problem

overcoming this shortcoming; she just didn’t know she was writing about death. keegan, a writer for Yale’s stu-dent newspaper, Yale Daily News, died in a car accident the week after she graduated in May. She was 22. Her posthumous words should affect the way we live every day.

This edition of The Spectrum in-cludes two articles and one editorial about suicide. Though keegan didn’t end her own life, my mind flashes to the lives that have been taken far too early. College students with so much promise, so much potential. People like keegan.

She left us with one final mas-terpiece right before she graduated – a column titled “The Opposite of Loneliness,” in which she reflects on her four years at Yale and encourages her classmates to look forward to the future.

“Let us get one thing straight: the best years of our lives are not behind

us,” keegan wrote. “I plan on having parties when I’m 30. I plan on having fun when I’m old.

“We’re so young. We’re so young. We’re twenty-two years old. We have so much time.”

Her words are haunting. With knowledge of her death, their impact is devastating. I didn’t know Marina keegan, but I imagine we would have been friends.

Everything seems small in the scope of death. The Bills game doesn’t matter all that much. The Spanish test isn’t so crucial. The computer that keeps freezing as I type isn’t the worst thing in the world.

Think of keegan, who went on to urge her classmates to forgive their past, anything they regret.

“The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical,” keegan wrote. “It’s hilarious. We’re graduating college. We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility be-cause in the end, it’s all we have.”

Society and college combine to create a vicious trap, one I had fallen into a month ago: Caring so much about your career, about making a lot of money some day, that you stop car-ing about what really matters – the people you affect.

Nobody will care about your sal-ary after you die. People will remember how you treated them. They’ll remem-ber your character, your personality.

In the life situations keegan speaks of, we do have time. Don’t stress about what you haven’t accomplished.

Don’t fret too much about your career.Smile and say hi to a Tim Hortons

worker. Hug a friend.There’s also a temptation to think

we have time to tell people how much we care. We don’t.

Call your mother or father. Make someone’s day.

Something bad may not happen to you, but it could happen to some-one you know, and there’s no way to predict its time.

Twenty-five days ago, a horrible feeling crept into my stomach. I was leaving The Spectrum’s office around 1 a.m. with two other editors when the voice got so loud I couldn’t tune it out. The words “something bad is about to happen” reverberated in my mind. I dropped off the other two editors, warned them to be careful and waited at a traffic light to turn left onto Miller-sport Highway.

Then it happened.The car in front of me turned the

wrong direction onto Millersport, im-mediately turned off its headlights and sped into the darkness. My stomach dropped like I was at the top of a roller coaster. I turned the correct direction and chased after with my high beams on, trying to light the road and protect the driver.

Then I heard the crash. The woman’s sedan crashed head-on into a Getzville Fire Department SUV. From what police told me in the aftermath, everyone seemed to be Ok. The wom-an had probably broken both her legs, but she was alive.

I cannot be certain, but it seemed to be a suicide attempt. And all I could do was close my eyes, thank God she was alive and take it as a sign. The next day, I reminded a couple loved ones just how important they are to me.

“We don’t have a word for the op-posite of loneliness, but if we did, I’d say that’s how I feel at Yale,” keegan penned. “How I feel right now. Here. With all of you. In love, impressed, humbled, scared. And we don’t have to lose that.

“Let’s make something happen to this world.”

She did.You could call it delay, leisure or

maybe idleness, but we don’t really have a word for the opposite of haste. I feel that is the best way to describe many of our attitudes. We think we have so much time, but in perspective there’s no way to be certain.

I did something I rarely do a couple nights ago. I thought of the car accident and told my dad I love him. We’re men; we aren’t supposed to say it often.

They were just words, and words can’t do everything. But after realizing either one of us could be gone any day, it felt right.

Make something happen to the world. Do it for Marina.

Email: aaron.mansfield@ubspectrum.com

The opposite of haste

Shepard Smith lives for a good car chase.

The boyish enthusiasm of the Fox News anchor is palpable when-ever he narrates flyover camera shots of highway car chases, sling-ing an array of phrases like “truck can’t go no mo’” and yelling at pro-ducers to take down screen banners to see the full shot.

How quickly he has to switch back to adult mode, though, when something goes wrong. Friday’s Studio B With Shepard Smith took a turn for the worst when during a live chase, the driver got out of his vehicle and shot himself in the head. The feed was cut and sent to commercial; Smith was noticeably shaken as he issued an apology to the audience after the break.

Suicide is one of the most diffi-cult subjects to cover in journalism. It requires the reporter to deal with overwhelming issue sensitivity while still properly and respectfully cover-ing the story.

This particular incident has re-opened old wounds for some and older discussions for others. It’s an

unspoken rule not to show suicide but still has an infamous history of being poorly reported. There is an absolutely necessity for change in the way violence, especially suicide, is covered.

In this field, we’re supposed to be objective and unbiased and show everything. In theory, by censoring death, it’s a bias – we’re making the decision that although we’ve seen the further truth, we will hide it away from the public.

We work hard to broadcast any-thing and everything to show the public the facts. However, this is one of the only instances where we are supposed to censor people.

In his apology, Smith said: “That didn’t belong on TV. Some-times we see a lot of things that we don’t let get to you because it’s not time appropriate, it’s insensitive, it’s just wrong … and that was wrong.”

It’s commendable of him to make this point, and it’s one all jour-nalists should be making. These are moments that won’t and can’t es-cape the memory. The father that loses his son will never be able to

sleep without thoughts of him, and in turn, the journalist who talks to the father will never be able to shake the sound of his sobbing mid-inter-view. The footage can’t be unseen and in the technological age, it can’t be deleted either.

In 1987, Pennsylvania State Senator R. Budd Dwyer commit-ted suicide during a live press con-ference following a bribery scandal and conviction. Despite being po-tentially scarring, the cameras kept rolling. Several stations re-broadcast the footage in full without warning to audiences. A quarter of a cen-tury later, over 100,000 videos of it can be found with one quick Google search.

There’s such an importance to bring you the news that a suicide like Dwyer’s can’t be avoided, especially as a high profile case. But there’s no reason to exploit the death of a ci-vilian if you’re not using the death to somehow serve the story.

The rule of thumb has always been if it doesn’t make you sick over breakfast, it’s fine to air. The trick is figuring out everybody’s different level of sensitivity. The reaction to

Fox’s gaffe says far too much about what we’ve become as a people – too many were quick to indignantly declare that it wasn’t a big deal or wasn’t even “bad.” That’s the level of desensitivity the country has reached – a live suicide isn’t “that bad.” After all, you couldn’t even see any blood.

This doesn’t pass the “break-fast test” because people don’t want to feel that uncomfortable while they’re reading or watching the news. Showing the public something it would never want to see is the last thing a journalist should aim for, and Fox dropped the ball on that.

The focus shouldn’t be on that last moment but on every moment before it. Journalists have the power to create beautiful tributes to the lives lost – no matter the reason – and that’s a far more important di-rection. No one should ever have to be immortalized by death, and jour-nalists need to make it their job to ensure that doesn’t happen.

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fox news crosses unspoken boundaryJournalism’s collective struggle to report on suicide

Topping State Senator Mark Grisanti’s résu-mé is UB 2020, the university’s expansion plan to bring in jobs and boost the economy. In the eyes of the government, the plan is the pinnacle for the crown jewel in the SUNY system. UB 2020: the best for the best.

Grisanti paints the plan up for his campaign like a fine portrait, but UB 2020 is only a carica-ture.

What a great idea in theory. Economic devel-opment, campus expansion, a better reputation … after all, who doesn’t want a big, impressive pub-lic school that can compete at the same levels as some of the top-ranked universities in the nation?

But it’s been made into nothing more than a cash cow while ignoring the internal complica-tions of it. With all the expansion plans and hiring of new faculty, someone is going to have to pay for it. If UB students haven’t been paying atten-tion yet, they can take a look at their ledgers and see their tuition is on the rise.

UB might end up as the private school of for-mer UB President John Simpson’s dreams. When he first proposed the plan to the state, it was shot down for obvious reasons: clearly Simpson missed the memo on the term “public university” and wanted complete control over student tuition. Af-

ter an amended version, students will face an eight percent tuition increase every year for five years.

How counterproductive. One of several rea-sons students lean towards UB when they make their admission decisions is that relatively low number on their bills (doesn’t $5,570 sound much nicer than, say, $60,000?), and despite that growing number, there’s been no change to the caliber of education being pushed out.

It might be a different story if Grisanti was just taking credit for the idea, but he’s taking credit for something that’s failing and building it up to be everything this city needs.

Grisanti succeeded in delivering UB 2020, his first goal – at least according to his campaign ads, which proudly conclude that UB 2020 is “just one example of what happens when a state senator puts people first, not politics.”

The senator has quite the imagination. Every-one in the state knows that Grisanti has a history of running on false campaigning (whatever your side, the dishonesty in campaigning and his “last minute” decision on New York’s monumental same sex marriage bill last year), and he is playing the game of politics hard right now clearly to keep that tradition alive.

But Grisanti can pull out whatever tricks he wants, UB students are not deceived or enter-tained; in fact, they’re well aware he’s lying. They’re watching their tuition rise and won’t be around to see the final product. Not only that, but what are the students not studying sciences or medicine getting out of this? Will their departments see im-provements or will they get left behind?

Sometimes the outside view looking in is the best view. The casual Buffalo citizen won’t have a clue tuition is lining the pockets of those not only already financially invested in UB but also those who aren’t exactly starving on the streets. Many of the Queen City’s wealthiest residents sit on the UB council (Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs, just to name one), and they can only gain from the massive projects that are under development.

It’s their gain, but the students’ loss. And it’s all happening because these millionaire players want to “revive” Buffalo, or in other words fill their wallet with whosever money the city wants to pay them with.

Don’t worry about everyone else; Grisanti isn’t.

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Leave the books. Take the cannoli.It’s time to go to Italy.For the third year in a row, UB’s classics

department is offering a trip to the Mediter-ranean as a winter study abroad program. The trip will be led overseas by Professor Bradley Ault and was designed by Professor Donald T. McGuire Jr., both members of the classics department.

On Dec. 26, students attending this year’s trip will fly from Buffalo to Naples. After spending seven days around the city, they will travel to Rome. The flight back to Buffalo is scheduled for Jan. 12, two days before the start of spring semester.

The Italy trip is cross-listed as a three-credit course, Archaeology and Rediscovery of the Ancient Mediterranean (CL200), which satisfies either the humanities or fine arts gen-eral education requirement. Students will be introduced to many aspects of Italian culture while studying at different archaeological sites and museums.

Two years ago, McGuire was incapable of leading his trip to Turkey due to health concerns. At the last minute, Ault stepped in and took the students. He loved it so much he ended up doing it again. This year, McGuire is playing it safe and waiting for a return to full health before traveling. He is unsure as to whether or not he will be leading this year’s trip.

To both Ault and McGuire, it’s the stu-dents’ enjoyment that keeps them coming back for more.

“I’ve been to many of these places mul-tiple times, but it’s always wonderful to go back,” Ault said. “To see what a profound spiritual, intellectual and emotional experience that [the students] have is tremendous for me.”

Most students who study on this abroad program do so without any friends – they tend to worry about spending time without any fa-miliar faces. By the end of the trip, the group becomes a family.

“I was nervous to be alone in a foreign country, but I knew that everyone was in the same situation,” said Steven Coffed, a sopho-more aerospace and mechanical engineering

major who went on the trip to Italy last year. “Within the first day we were all really good friends. We were all just talking recently about going to Duff ’s as a group sometime next week to reconnect.”

Even for students not studying humani-ties, a course in classics offers an opportunity to develop cultural and historical literacy.

McGuire’s personal study abroad expe-riences as an undergraduate fueled his desire to pursue classics as a career. Traveling as a student brought him to many exciting places, and it’s something he now views as an essential experience to provide to UB’s undergraduates, he said.

“It is such a dizzying, tremendously stimulating intellectual social experience,” Mc-Guire said.

McGuire has been designing tours for de-cades, beginning as a professor at University of Southern California, and thus has multiple foreign contacts that allow for this particular program to be cheap and organized.

McGuire’s contact in Italy takes care of all the necessities for the trip, which elimi-nates the cost for a foreign tour guide and other expenses. This program runs during the “low” season, in which tourism and the price

of airfare are down. Sites like the Colosseum normally have lines of people waiting over an hour during the summer months but during this trip, most of the sites are less crowded with tourists.

Students begin their stay at the Villa Ver-giliana, which is a farmhouse in Naples oper-ated by one family. The villa is nestled in the countryside just outside the city with sur-rounding vineyards and a view of the Bay of Naples.

On New Year’s Eve, the sky is completely blanketed with fireworks, and the family at the villa sets off their own as part of the cel-ebration. The festivities offer excitement and comfort to the students who miss part of the holiday season at home.

The family at the villa also invites their relatives to stay for New Year’s and the stu-dents join in for six courses of fish in addition to pasta, vegetables and other fresh dishes. Almost all the food is prepared on a wooden stove and students can taste and enjoy local wine with all meals.

“This is a very authentic experience,” Ault said. “It’s not like seeing it from the deck of a cruise ship. We’re embedded in living Italian culture all the time – the good and the bad.”

In Rome, the group stays at the Intercol-legiate Center for Classics within the heart of the city. Students take the city buses everyday; they get the opportunity to interact with “real” Romans on a daily basis.

Some of the students don’t want to go out and leave the good food behind, but the pizza in the city is a must, according to Coffed.

“It’s like eating a cloud doused in pasta and it melts in your mouth,” Coffed said.

For many, the Italy trip serves as a good first taste before trying other longer study abroad programs. Several students who have participated in past trips are now studying in Turkey or elsewhere in the Mediterranean for a semester or full year.

Aside from the price, safety is usually the biggest concern for students when they travel abroad. While girls often fall victim to the cat-calls of many Italian men, the trip is ultimately safe as the students always travel in numbers to minimize danger.

“The common misconception is that studying abroad is not safe – not true,” Ault said. “It’s safer than University Heights by a long shot.”

Students can talk to their financial aid ad-visers about affording the trip. The program fee is charged as part of the spring semester bill and comes at a very good bargain in terms of traveling around Italy.

Buongiorno, UB Bulls

COURTESY OF STEVEN COFFED

Students from the 2011 Italian excursion, designed by Professor Donald T. McGuire, stand in front of the Roman Forum.

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The stage was bare ex-cept for four suited men, seated in an arc facing the audience. The only other item permitted with them on stage was a tall microphone placed before their arc. Fingers in position, poised elbows and trunk muscles free to move – the musicians were ready.

Last Friday evening, the Tokyo String Quartet per-formed at UB’s Slee Hall as part of their farewell tour concert. The quartet – con-sisting of Martin Beaver and kikuei Ikeda on the violins, kazuhide Isomura on the vi-ola and Clive Greensmith on the cello – is known world-wide as a supreme chamber ensemble.

They honored the au-dience with three pieces – Franz Joseph Haydn’s “Rid-er,” the String Quartet No. 59 in G minor; String Quar-tet No. 6 by Béla Bartók; and String Quartet No. 4 in E minor by Felix Mendelssohn – all which brought three very different experiences.

Albeit brilliant, the ex-hilarating Bartók piece is where their talents peaked, both as musicians and as per-formers. Halfway through Bartók’s third movement, one of Beaver’s bowstrings snapped but the quartet played on, unfazed by the mishap. Meanwhile, Beaver multi-tasked to deal with the snapped string flying all over the place with every sweep of his bow.

“He pulled the string, just ‘schwoop,’” said Linda Freedman, a Buffalo native who works at the kaleida Hospital. “It’s amazing how they just work with it … At

first I thought … what was he going to do? Stop play-ing?”

The Tokyo String Quar-tet’s sound was clean and sharp, with every staccato and crescendo audibly dis-tinct. Their attacks were memorable and their unity undisputed. This was evi-dent during the Haydn piece, when after a lengthened pause they came in together at the precise time and note.

Haydn is a particular fa-vorite of 70-year-old Robert Giannetti, a creative writing adjunct professor at Niagara University and an estab-lished American poet.

“You can hear in that [piece] a lot of the things that were picked up throughout the history of string quar-tet music,” Giannetti said. “The tricks of the trade of the string quartet are right in there.”

Tokyo String Quartet bids farewell

LISA DE LA TORREAsst. Arts Editor

The stage of the Skir-

ball Center for the Perform-ing Arts in New York is a simple abyss – black cur-tains seem to mesh com-pletely with the black stage beneath them. The empti-ness is disturbed only by the man walking to the center of the stage and the ensuing rowdy wave of applause ac-companying his entrance.

Comedian Demitri Martin smiles and thanks the crowd humbly.

“Thanks for clapping so much,” Martin said. “I appreciate that. And thanks to anyone at home who was clapping ... That’s kind of weird, but I appreciate it.”

Last Saturday night, Demitri Martin’s newest stand-up special, Demitri Martin: Standup Comedian, aired on Comedy Central. Though he is known for his straightforward joke de-livery, Martin breaks things down even more for Standup Comedian. This time around, he focuses purely on telling direct jokes to the crowd

than engaging in more the-atrical bits like he did in his 2007 special, Person.

“In the other TV spe-cials I did, I had friends come on stage … wear-ing costumes and things like that, and there was set decoration you know, like a tree or something,” Martin said in an interview with The Spectrum. “This time I tried to really simplify it and focus most of it on just the jokes ... Pretty stupid descrip-

tion. [Standup Comedian is] mostly what I usually do but I kind of ... simplified things a little bit.”

Within the first five minutes of the special, it was obvious that the crowd loved Martin. Even the shortest of one-liners prompted riotous laughter and when the cameras fo-cused on the audience, faces without smiles were rare.

A big reason his humor is so effective is because of

Standup Comedian: A comedic success

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ALEC FRAZIER /// THE SPECTRUM

The Tokyo String Quartet went out in style during its farewell concert tour, which stopped at Slee Hall on Friday.

COURTESY OF MARTIN SCHOELLER

Demitri Martin – a comedian who is known for his straight-forward joke delivery – debuted his newest stand-up special, Demitri Martin: Standup Comedian, this past Saturday.

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blocking team coming in, but we just refused to make the changes that we needed to,” kress said. “We didn’t start to do that until the third and fourth set. We started to take bet-ter swings on the ball, give ourselves some opportunities to win some ral-lies. If we would have done that out of the gate, it could have been a dif-ferent outcome, but I credit Bowling Green with the way they blocked and defended tonight.”

Buffalo has another week of practice before it starts its four-game road stretch.

“When we go into this week-end against [kent State] and Ohio, we are going to know that there is no way they are beating us,” Svboda said. “We’re going to know that we worked so hard in practice this week that anything they throw at us, we will throw back in their faces.”

Buffalo hopes to right itself against kent State (4-12, 1-3 MAC) on Friday at 7 p.m. and will follow up the game with a match against Ohio (8-8, 3-1 MAC) on Saturday at 7 p.m.

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The musicians’ eyes were wholly trained on the sheets in front of them, only occasionally peeling away to meet the eyes of each other, as though to share an intimate secret. The sense of in-terplay and musical conversation between them could make anyone in the hall envious.

“It is truly an honor and a privilege to host one of the world's most esteemed string quartets during their final season together,” said Phil Rehard, concert manager at Slee Hall.

The Tokyo String Quartet performed an encore after a stand-ing ovation from the audience. They played the last movement from Op. 20 No. 4, by Haydn, fa-ther of the string quartet.

“It’s sad that this is their fare-well concert. So I also wonder what is going through their minds and what would playing the pieces they have now leave to them,” said Xi Yang Lee, a sophomore speech and hearing science major.

Last Friday’s performance was the Tokyo String Quartet’s fi-nal performance at Slee Hall and their time together as a group will conclude after their current tour ends.

The quartet had personally contacted Rehard, who planned out the details for their tour to UB. Unfortunately, Rehard was unable to attend the concert as he was recuperating from a recent heart attack.

And despite the problems, the Tokyo String Quartet ended on a high note, according to Gianetti.

The Tokyo String Quartet will perform in New Haven, Conn. on Oct. 2.

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its observational quality – most of his jokes revolve around uncomplicated, everyday sce-narios and situations. Though his subject matter is basic, his intelligent wit makes his jokes exceed acknowledgements of life’s quirks.

At one point, Martin dis-cusses middle names with the crowd – a two-part joke that prompts even more laughter from the audience.

“I was talking to my friend and I said, ‘Hey, what’s your middle name?’ He says, ‘I have two middle names.’” Martin pauses, letting the silence em-phasize his impending punch line: “You have no middle names. You have a space.”

Although his jokes are well thought out, he claims his joke process is much less complicat-ed than one might expect. The secret to his creative process?

Daydreaming.“Because I like to daydream

a lot, standup ended up being a job that was almost the short-est distance from daydreaming to doing a job,” Martin said. “I had day jobs when I first started, and I would goof off and stop

and daydream there, but ... it was kind of a distraction.

“This job … my mind just wanders and I’m actually kind of working, so I think that lends itself to observational immedi-ate kind of simple stuff.”

Of course, it wouldn’t be a Demitri Martin special without key Martin-esque segments: the first, plain joke telling accompa-nied by his own guitar and har-monica playing and the second, an easel that contains his own drawings which are integrated into his routine.

A large part of Martin’s ap-peal is his ability to illustrate his jokes as well as convey them ver-bally, so that type of segments had crowd members laughing non-stop.

For fans who missed the special, the Standup Comedian DVD is scheduled for a Oct. 2 release, and it will include jokes that didn’t make the televised version and other extras that Martin fans are sure to enjoy.

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“[The landlord] said he was go-ing to fix it, but it has not been done,” Lakshmanan said. “Whenever we take a shower, water goes all over the floor. Whenever we do our laundry, water goes all over the floor.”

Despite being instructed to not let inspectors back in, Ryan explained it is up to the tenants, not the landlord. Lakshmanan described his landlord, who he and his four other roommates only know as “Chen,” as frequently absent and difficult to reach.

“I sent him a letter three weeks ago,” Ziolkowski said. “I’m still find-ing things [wrong], especially down-stairs in the basement. I’ll be send-ing him another letter taking him to court.”

While a lot of the landlords seem to be absent figures, there are some who have taken action when issues

arise. Connie, a second year dental student, was a victim of burglary last year, due to the insufficient locks on her windows. Because the crime is unresolved, she didn’t want her last name in print.

Although her landlord lives in Germany, he addressed the issue by installing a security system, which in-cludes motion detector and window alarms. He also replaced the window locks.

Despite his distance, he still “takes care of whatever needs to be done,” according to Connie.

Others aren’t as lucky.

Email: news@ubspectrum.comAdditional reporting by Senior News Edi-tors Lisa Khoury and Sara DiNatale.

They say playing the quar-terback position is mentally tax-ing, and it’s refreshing to know he is the type of guy who is his toughest critic. He may not throw the prettiest ball at times, but he does make plays with his feet – which was evident against two of the best rushing de-fenses, UConn and Georgia, the Bulls will face all year.

After games, it’s evident his teammates will continue to have his back and defend him; after all, they do know that he, and the team as a whole, are a few plays away from winning these games. He has the potential to

make those plays. Quinn agrees, which is why he refuses to wilt to public pressure to switch to the hometown choice, freshman quarterback Joe Licata.

Winning doesn’t happen by accident. As German philoso-pher Friedrich Nietzsche once said: “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into fly-ing.”

The Bulls are dangerously close to hitting the skies.

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JOE kONZE JR.Sports Editor

A flash of life was put on display at the

University of Connecticut’s Rentschler Field on Saturday. A quick touchdown followed by an onside kick recovery invigorat-ed UB’s football team.

The Bulls (1-3, 0-1 Mid-American Con-ference) fell silent for three quarters before setting themselves up for a potential game-tying touchdown drive against UConn (3-2, 0-0 Big East). Their early dormancy, how-ever, proved too much to overcome, as the Huskies held on for a 24-17 victory.

This game was a gutsy performance for the young Bulls running backs, who filled in nicely for the injured junior Branden Oliver.

“I thought [freshman] Devin Campbell and [junior] Brandon Murie, they stepped in and stepped up,” said head coach Jeff Quinn. “I think all week they understood their role and responsibility. We didn’t have Bo, we didn’t have [injured second-string running back sophomore James Potts], we didn’t have [injured No. 2 receiver] Fred Lee – key players on the offensive side of the ball.”

The “two-some gruesome,” as they like to be called, combined for 24 carries, 83 yards and one touchdown.

Campbell took his increased amount of carries as a learning experience, even though his team walked away with a loss.

“I don’t really consider myself a fresh-man anymore; I consider myself a football player,” Campbell said. “I know I had to step up when Bo went down and I just came out and did what I could do.”

Buffalo’s coaching staff gave UB fans excitement in the third quarter, drawing up a “hook and ladder” play – a 50-yard gain involving a lateral from junior wide receiver Alex Neutz to Murie – that ignited the of-fense.

Although he didn’t get credited with the reception, his reception touchdown was the first of his career – something that Murie was prepared for.

“We practiced that play. We practice special plays to get ready for situations like that,” Murie said. “Coach called that at a per-fect time. We executed it and Neutz took a

big hit for me he pitched it to me and got drilled.”

The Bulls trailed 24-14 but fought back behind the impressive play of sophomore linebacker Lee Skinner, who kept the Hus-kies honest for most of the game by compil-ing 13 tackles.

“You look at a guy like Lee Skinner who had an all-time high in tackles. I mean he was all over the place,” Quinn said. “I wish he would have caught that doggone intercep-tion opportunity.”

A 44-yard field goal from sophomore Patrick Clarke brought the Bulls within a

touchdown and the Bulls’ defense forced a three-and-out, giving the offense one last chance to potentially tie the game. The Bulls could only advance the ball to the 41-yard line before turning it over on downs.

“There was some great effort from the defense late in the game that I thought really allowed us to be able to have that possession in the last final seconds of the game,” Quinn said. “We weren’t able to have some last sec-ond heroics in that moment.”

After going 4-for-22 with 96 yards last week against kent State, junior quarterback Alex Zordich finished the game 13-for-30 with a touchdown and one interception.

“We’re happy that we didn’t quit. We know that about our team: that we are not going to quit,” Zordich said. “We know we have a lot of season left; to say that we are satisfied, I don’t think that’s the word. We [didn’t] win. We came here to win, period. End of story.”

The Bulls’ schedule will not get any eas-ier as they travel to Athens, Ohio next Satur-day to take on the undefeated Bobcats (5-0, 1-0 MAC).

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Late flurry falls short in battle of Blues and Whites

MARkUS MCCAINEStaff Writer

Amid self-inflicted wounds, the volleyball team found a way to piece together the puzzle, grab a win and avoid certain disaster.

Buffalo (7-8, 1-3 Mid-American Confer-ence) split a weekend pair of games against its conference foes: a 3-0 sweep against Miami (5-12, 0-4 MAC) and a 3-1 loss against Bowling Green (8-7, 4-0 MAC).

“When we get into conference play, we know each other so well, scout so much, watch so much game film that we kind of know what they are going to do,” said head coach Todd kress. “They know what we’re going to do, and it makes it so difficult to score.”

In the first game of the weekend series, the Bulls went up against Miami. Buffalo fought its way back after and slow and sloppy start in the first set. An awkward serve that grazed the net and crept into the Buffalo zone allowed Miami to take a 24-25 set lead.

But Buffalo would not go down easy, string-ing together big kills and even bigger blocks to take the first set, 27-25. The Bulls went on to take the second set 25-23.

Up two sets to none, the Bulls would not look back as they finished off the RedHawks in straight sets, taking the third set, 25-23.

“It was a great team win and as much as you just want to celebrate it, you realize you have a bigger opponent tomorrow,” said junior blocker Carissa Mckenna. “Bowling Green is a great team and for us to get to the MAC tourna-ment, we have to beat them. So tonight is about enjoying the win but focusing on what I have to do and what our team has to do to get the job done tomorrow.”

Buffalo would go home, rest up and pre-pare for a match with perennial MAC title con-tender Bowling Green on Saturday.

With a win already under their belts, the Bulls looked to keep a four-game home winning streak in tact.

Buffalo’s streak was already in danger as it dropped the first two sets to the Falcons, 21-25 and 13-25, respectively.

However, Buffalo would not go down easy. The Bulls showed life as they fought hard to get themselves back into the match, with a 25-23 win in the third set.

Buffalo gave the Falcons all they could handle in the fourth set. But in the end, the Fal-cons and their big hitters were too much for the Bulls to handle. Bowling Green marched past

Buffalo splits weekend despite errors

Connecticut tackles UB, 24-17

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UB junior quarterback Alex Zordich (15, white) couldn’t bring the Bulls all the way back, as UConn held on for a 24-17 win Saturday.

It’s time to Quinn...and the Bulls are dangerously close to doing so

NATHANIEL SMITHSenior Sports Editor

Coaching legend Bill Parcells once said after a frustrating loss: “You

are what your record says you are.”

That might be true. The Bulls, after a tough 24-17 loss to UConn on Saturday, now sit at 1-3 a third of the way into a critical 2012 season. They haven’t beaten a Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) team this year. They are 0-1 in the Mid-American Con-ference after an ugly home loss to kent State, on national television no less.

With road trips to Ohio and North-ern Illinois on the docket and a home-coming game against Pittsburgh on the horizon, the Bulls are edging close to the danger zone: the season slipping away in a heartbeat.

But, after watching the Bulls play Saturday, one thing’s for certain: The Bulls are this close to putting it all togeth-er.

Despite its inability to play a com-plete football game, Buffalo has been close all year. Against kent State, even though junior quarterback Alex Zordich set the forward pass back 50 years with a 4-for-22 performance, the defense held the Golden Flashes close and the Bulls were a possession away from taking a lead in the fourth quarter. Against Geor-gia, the Bulls were within eight points at halftime on the road, and they had the Sanford Stadium faithful booing a team that is still ranked in the top five in the nation – a serious threat to win a nation-al title this year.

Against UConn, head coach Jeff Quinn went for broke and coached his

ass off, at least on the offensive end. After Buffalo’s first touchdown

drive, which included a well-timed screen pass on fourth-and-five to freshman running back Devin Campbell that went for 30 yards, Quinn decided to go for the onside kick. It worked to perfection, and although the resulting drive left the Bulls empty-handed, it was a sign to the team that he was willing to do whatever it took to win this crucial road game.

Another sign of Quinn’s aggres-sive nature: late in the game, the Bulls decided to reach further in their bag of tricks with a “Hook and Ladder” play. Zordich threw a short pass to junior wide receiver Alex Neutz, who flipped it to junior running back Brandon Murie. Murie was wide open. He scampered 50 yards for the score.

Speaking of Murie, how about that running back duo? With junior running back Branden Oliver nursing an injured leg, Murie and Campbell – the “Grue-some Two-some” – filled in nicely. Both scored a touchdown, the first of their careers. This is a promising sign, espe-cially because when Oliver does return, the Bulls won’t have to rely too heavily on his production to stay in games.

As a result of Quinn’s aggressive-ness, the Bulls ended up with the ball and a chance to tie the game with mo-ments left in the fourth quarter – an as-tonishing feat after being down 24-7 late in the third.

It wasn’t all good: Zordich did fin-ish 13 for 30, he did throw a terrible interception in the second quarter and that last drive for the Bulls was a bit of a head scratcher with all the short routes that were thrown. But Zordich just takes punches, owns up to them and keeps fighting.

NICk FISCHETTI /// THE SPECTRUM

Junior blocker Carissa Mckenna (14) helped lead the Bulls to an impressive victory on Friday.