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Samah Asfour, a junior polit-ical science and global gender studies major, is a first-genera-tion American. The rest of her family is in what she considers her homeland – Palestine – and due to political and social op-pression, she said many of her family members don’t have the opportunity to get an education.

“I’m basically dedicating my career to ensure that the next generations of my family still living in Palestine receive the same education that I have been blessed with here in the states,” she said.

Asfour is the president of UB Girl Effect, a club on campus that works to promote female education in third-world coun-tries in hopes of alleviating pov-erty.

Asfour believes she owes chil-dren around the world experi-encing war and poverty her ut-most effort to improve their sit-uations – not just those in the Middle East. The Girl Effect is a national movement that lever-ages adolescent girls’ potential to end poverty for themselves, their families, communities, countries and the world, as stated on its website. It’s “about making girls visible and changing their social and economic dynamics by pro-

viding them with specific, pow-erful and relevant resources,” the website states.

This Sunday, the group is host-ing the second annual “Night of Girl Power” in Norton 112, where the Royal Pitches, Buffa-lo Chips and slam poets will per-form on the topic of female em-powerment. Last semester, UB Girl Effect teamed up with the Royal Pitches to host the event and raised $250 to donate to the national Girl Effect movement. The club hopes to raise more money this year.

Asfour, Kerry McPhee, a ju-nior political science and glob-al gender studies major and vice president of Girl Effect, and ju-nior political science and soci-ology major Samantha Vranic started the club on campus their freshman year. They were in-spired by a YouTube video.

Many club members decid-ed to join the movement af-ter watching Girl Effect’s “The Clock is Ticking,” a three-minute YouTube video about young girls who live in poverty. The vid-eo, which was posted three years ago, has over 1.5 million views.

McPhee watched “The Clock is Ticking” before entering her freshman year at UB.

“From that [moment], I knew I had to bring [Girl Effect] to campus,” McPhee said. “I learned that the situation for mil-lions of girls worldwide is severe and, for that, I had to take action

and help in any way I could.” McPhee’s parents never at-

tended college. Her father told her almost daily that education is the most important tool a person can have, she said. Her parents worked hard to ensure their chil-dren could have better lives than they did, according to McPhee.

“The UB Girl Effect rais-es awareness on the ever-pres-ent situation many girls face: the absence of education,” McPhee said. “Due to cultural practices, girls are excluded from school based on the pure reasoning that they are girls. I find this com-pletely unjust and have always pursued a passion in reaching equality for others.”

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Students respond after Trader Joe’s opens near campus

SAM FERNANDOSenior newS editor

Years ago, when Hillary Clin-ton was a New York Senator, she visited Buffalo frequently and stayed at the same hotel every time. One night, a housekeep-er at the hotel gave her a snow globe with a buffalo in it. The woman delivered the gift with a message: “Mrs. Clinton, don’t forget Buffalo.”

Since then, Clinton has kept the snow globe in her office in the Senate, her office in the State Department and now in her home. She said she “firmly” be-lieves in the future success of the Buffalo community.

On Wednesday night, Clinton addressed a packed Alumni Are-na and took the opportunity to praise the direction of the City of Buffalo. She compared the growth of the city to what she sees as the future of the country. The event, which had a sold-out crowd of 6,500 people, was the second installment of this year’s Distinguished Speakers Series.

“Western New York [is] home to some of the hardest working, most generous and most innova-tive people you could meet any-where,” she said.

In addition to the city, she praised UB specifically. She said the progress of the medical cam-pus, the global recognition of

UB’s research prowess and the school’s diversity are some of the aspects that separate the institu-tion from others. She said this is “exactly what we need to be do-ing in Buffalo, in New York and in America.”

“This university community is at the heart of what makes Buf-falo both good and great,” Clin-ton said. “It made me proud just talking about it and knowing that the students here are learning the skills that will shape and power our economy for years to come.”

Clinton said Buffalo was an es-sential focus of hers during her tenure as senator. She said she worked to further the develop-ment of the city’s waterfront, to

make infrastructure changes to education – especially in the arts – and to improve and expand technology research in the city. Long-term investments like these are crucial in rebuilding the U.S. economy, according to Clinton.

She also applauded the univer-sity’s diversity. She is impressed with the international presence at UB – which includes 115 coun-tries – and the 11 percent of stu-dents who study abroad, which is five times the national average, she said.

“The diverse community that is represented here brings both Buffalo to the world and the world Buffalo,” Clinton said.

Clinton – who is the most-traveled Secretary of State in U.S. history, having traveled over 1 million miles, to 112 countries – admires the city’s collaborative nature.

“Too often, we are not com-ing together to solve our prob-lems and plan for the future the way people in Buffalo have been doing; Buffalo is a good model for the rest of this country,” she said.

As she continued that thought, a member of the audience be-gan shouting, “Benghazi! Beng-hazi! You let them die!” – a ref-erence to a terrorist attack on the

Former Secretary of State sees Buffalo as a model for the country

Clinton addresses sold-out Alumni Arena

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Effecting changeUB Girl Effect aims to help oppressed girls worldwide receive education

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed a packed Alumni Arena on Wednesday night. When asked what she thought the 2016 presidential candidate could look like, Clinton responded, “I have to say, I am not as in-terested in what the candidate looks like as what the candidate stands for.”

UB’s Girl Effect volunteered at Habitat for Humanity last year and they hope to continue volunteering at human rights organizations in the Buffa-lo community. Samah Asfour (middle), the president of the club, has an aim to provide education to underprivileged girls in socially and politically oppressed countries.

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For two years, McPhee worked at Jour-ney’s End Refugee Services in Buffalo teaching English as a second language. She found inspiration there from all the people who were yearning to learn in or-der to create a better life for themselves, and more importantly, their children, she said. Sometimes, she taught English to people much older than her; their en-thusiasm for education inspired her even more.

“Education is key to reaching a more equal and peaceful society, and that is ex-actly what the UB Girl Effect preaches,” she said.

Asfour said the club has come a long way in the past two years and it trans-formed from merely an idea into an ac-tual club that affects the UB community.

“There will always be more we can do to raise awareness,” Asfour said. “If you stop a person in the hall and ask if they know what the Girl Effect is, and they do, that would be a great step. Again, we are doing this for young girls in third-world countries. We must remind ourselves of this every day.”

McPhee said “The Clock is Ticking” video is inspiring; it’s what influenced her and Asfour to get involved with Girl Ef-fect, and almost every time they play it to students, those watching want to know how they can help the cause.

McPhee said that’s how the message usually starts. When Girl Effect club members show the video, viewers seem to automatically want to know what they can do to help. McPhee said that’s when action starts – people make donations and help the club raise money for things like school desks, binders, papers and transportation.

Elif Capar, a senior legal studies ma-jor and member of the club, is passionate about Girl Effect’s mission. She was born and raised in America, but her family is originally from Turkey. She said there are a few rural areas in Turkey that don’t ap-

prove of educating women. She feels for-tunate to have grown up in a family that supported educating women, so now, she’s fighting for women’s rights with the club.

“The majority of our meetings con-sist of planning and organizing events to raise awareness and donations to assist girls in developing countries,” Capar said. “The rest of our meetings are composed of raising awareness between members of the UB Girl Effect and learning about different ways we can help.”

Capar said club members also read to young girls who have just immigrated to Buffalo.

McPhee hopes to go to law school and obtain a degree in international and hu-man rights law. She is an advocate for gender equality and wants to be a lawyer in the United Nations Entity for Gen-der Equality and the Empowerment of Women.

“My passion in life is to be an advo-cate in creating a gender-equal world,” McPhee said. “As Hillary Clinton once said, ‘I believe that the rights of wom-en and girls is the most unfinished busi-ness of the 21st century.’ And I could not agree more. My future goals relate direct-ly to the goals of the UB Girl Effect.”

Asfour said, in her opinion, the Israeli occupation of Palestine has affected peo-ple economically, so it’s difficult for stu-dents to attend college. She hopes to help Palestinian girls, as well as oppressed girls worldwide, receive the proper education that her grandparents and family mem-bers might never be able to have.

They are two of the students dedicat-ing their futures to ensuring girls world-wide are given the opportunity to receive an education – that’s the mission of UB Girl Effect.

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U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four American ambassadors on Sept. 11, 2012. Many have alleged that Clinton is responsible for the deaths.

Though the shouting persisted for about a minute before police appre-hended the heckler, Clinton continued without pause.

“We can’t move from crisis to crisis. We have to be willing to come togeth-er as citizens to focus on the kind of fu-ture we want, which doesn’t include yell-ing; it includes sitting down and listen-ing,” Clinton affirmed as the crowd gave the former Secretary of State a standing ovation.

Clinton also addressed the current state of American politics.

She called the recent government shutdown a “self-inflicted wound.” She stressed the nation was built on collab-oration and compromise, and she said those two ideals are essential to the country’s success – both socially and ec-onomically.

“The future belongs to those coun-tries, communities and individuals who are looking forward over the horizon in-stead of backwards to the past,” Clinton said.

The night concluded with a question-and-answer session hosted by Vice Pres-ident for Student Affairs Dennis Black. Audience members were able to send questions for Clinton through written-down messages, email, text messages or tweets during the event.

Black said the final inquiry of the eve-ning was the most prevalent question Clinton gets asked recently. He also said, because it was such a common question, he wanted to ask it in a “different way.”

“Perhaps you could describe for us what the ideal candidate for the presi-dency would look like for 2016,” Black requested of Clinton.

The crowd roared in laughter and Clinton even chuckled, acknowledging that was a clever way of wording the fa-miliar question.

“That is a new way of phrasing it; I have to give you a lot of credit,” she said. “I have to say, I am not as inter-ested in what the candidate looks like as what the candidate stands for.”

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Suspected drunk and drugged driver crashes into pumpkin cart

On Wednesday, a woman was arrest-ed after driving into a hay wagon full of pumpkins in the yard of a Boston, N.Y. home.

Barbara J. Bender-Suto, 52, of Cold-en, N.Y., was found on the shoulder of a roadway after her Mercury Mountaineer collided into a mailbox, a pumpkin cart and a fence.

Witnesses said Bender-Suto was driv-ing erratically before she crashed and crossed lanes into the yard. She was unin-jured but had signs of intoxications and admitted to taking multiple prescription narcotics, according to The Buffalo News.

She was arrested for DWI, DWAI-drugs and multiple traffic violations.

White House official is fired after twitter posts are unmasked

A twitter account, @NatSecWonk, has been criticizing U.S. government officials, Democrats and Republicans alike, and their policies for the past two years.

The man behind the tweets was Jofi Joseph, the former director of nuclear nonproliferation issues on the National Security Council staff. He was fired last Wednesday after

White House officials discovered it was Joseph’s fake twitter handle. The tweets were meant to be a “parody account” of White House politics, Joseph wrote in a public apology. But it turned into a “se-ries of inappropriate and mean-spirited comments.”

The account has since been deleted.Among the many political figures tar-

geted in his tweets, Josephs attacked Sec-retary of State Hillary Clinton many times. Some of the tweets criticized her handling of the terrorist attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya – an at-tack where four American ambassadors died.

Joseph worked many foreign poli-cy jobs before he was employed by the White House. He also had connections

with neoconservative establishments and his wife, Carolyn Leddy, was on the Re-publican staff of the Senate Foreign Re-lations Committee.

Many of his colleagues were surprised at this revelation because he was respect-ed at his workplace and was a prominent figure in foreign policy. Some, howev-er, said they are not surprised due to his known snarky nature.

China newspaper makes bold front-page plea for journalist’s release

The New Express, a newspaper based in Guangzhou, China, released an issue that headlined the words “Please set him free” on the front page.

The headline called for the release of one of its reporters, who had been de-tained by police.

Chen Yongzhou was arrested on Satur-day on the basis of damaging a business’ reputation. He wrote an article claiming a Hunan-based company, Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology, falsified sales numbers.

The newspaper verified Chen’s alle-gations and found one inconsistency in which he claimed the company spent 513 million yuan on advertisements. The money, however, was spent on “adver-tisements and entertainment.” The news-paper said if the government can find any other discrepancies, the staff would gladly acknowledge it.

There are not many cases of open con-frontation to the government by the me-dia in China. This past January, however, there was also a protest led by journalists in Guangzhou against government cen-sorship.

Chen was taken from his home in a black Mercedes Benz with Hunan license plates, according to CNN.

Chen’s contemporaries said he was a hardworking reporter, but didn’t have the money to take his wife to Pizza Hut.

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“Too often, we are not coming together to solve our problems and plan for the future the way people in Buffalo have been doing; Buffalo is a good model for the rest of this country. We can’t move from crisis to crisis. We have to be willing to come together as citizens to focus on the kind of future we want, which doesn’t include yelling; it includes sitting down and listening,” Hillary Clinton affirmed as the crowd gave the former Secretary of State a standing ovation.

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It was recently announced that California’s public university sys-tem has proposed a plan to begin charging higher tuition rates for high-demand classes.

This is ludicrous.What has been proposed is un-

deniably unjust. It denies fair ac-cess to low-income students. The students who come from fami-lies of greater financial means or who have more money will have the opportunity to take certain classes – with others being put in a more difficult situation. And this is not right within a commu-nity college setting.

Community colleges operate under the premise of providing equal opportunity in education. They are not private colleges; they are not major universities; they are educational institutions open to the public.

But what these California schools want to do is grant fa-voritism to students with more money for the purpose of gen-erating more revenue – not for staying true to their educational mission.

We are not so naïve to believe that any institution or business should drop commercial incen-tive. Not at all. But education is one of the most important com-ponents of our society – and it is imperative that it is accessible to as many people as possible.

And today, community col-leges are playing an increasingly important role. They are a step-ping stone for many young stu-dents – as someplace many begin their higher education careers. It can be a place to start at to save money or to earn the grades nec-essary to get into the college of his or her choice.

With a lackluster economy that is experiencing slow growth, community colleges are an op-tion that more and more students choose to utilize. Regardless of the potential for increased rev-enue for individual institutions – and thus the California State University System – it is utter-ly wrong to make certain classes more expensive than others.

There is no justification to pro-pel an unfair system.

And we object to the no-tion that this will automatical-ly increase revenue. It is certainly possible that making more class-es more expensive will have neg-ative impacts. With classes being less affordable, there is likely to be a decrease in enrollment.

There is something to be said about an education being a good deal – that can be a very good business model, too.

It is also worth noting how many students take time off of their college years due to strains of cost. Many of us know peo-ple who have taken a semester or two off to make money in be-tween a semester to pay for the next.

Placing value on certain class-es (due to their popularity) over the others is itself unfair treat-ment on an educational system, but it undermines the very rea-son many students are at a com-munity college – for low costs.

Here at UB, a great number of students come from their lo-cal community colleges and they know what a pivotal place it can be and how it can facilitate a time

for one to achieve his or her edu-cational goals.

It is also no doubt that, often, young people aren’t sure of who they are and what they want to do. Starting off at a communi-ty college is a good time to take classes, work a job and figure out one’s goals. Taking time away from classes, in general, is likely to just set you back.

And the California system is known for many of the good schools it has.

There is a misconception among some that communi-ty colleges are a joke. This is not true. In fact, it is far from true. There are many exceptional teachers and opportunities pro-vided at community colleges.

It makes these opportunities even more exceptional when they are accessible and afford-able. And California state com-munity colleges should not tam-per with that.

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This is an embarrassment. It has been over three weeks since HealthCare.gov – the website for the new health care law – opened and it has yet to become ful-ly functional. Filled with glitch-es and insufficiencies, consum-ers are denied the ability to easily sign up for a new plan – some-thing the administration prom-ised.

They have had over four years to get this right and it is absolute-ly mystifying that, one, the web-site wasn’t prepared for the high volume of visitors in the first place, and, two, that they haven’t been able to fix what’s wrong with it.

And this website belongs to the administration; they creat-ed it, so it is their responsibility. There is no excuse for President Obama and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius that the website was not ready.

The dysfunction of this web-site has been a source of endless frustration for millions of Amer-icans interested in obtaining in-formation on the new policy and acquiring coverage. With over 46 million Americans uninsured, it should have been expected that this website would receive an

endless amount of hits. It is unfathomable that this ad-

ministration did not anticipate the high demand of consumers entering the online marketplace. And this is something that the president has not explained – not even in his address in the White House Rose Garden on Monday.

President Obama was right to say in his speech, however, that this law was not created for a website; it was created to make health care affordable and acces-sible to all Americans. Wheth-er it manages to accomplish that is the ultimate test of his signa-ture law’s efficacy. But this is ri-diculous.

This mess has also become a talking point for the opposition: If they can’t even get a website to work, how on earth will they get the actual law to work?

Sebelius’ appearance on The Daily Show on Oct. 7 didn’t help alter this perception, either. She seemed confused – embroiled in a mess of this administration’s own making. The appearance probably wasn’t too far from the reality, however, that there are no acceptable answers for the tech-nical mess that is this website.

And they have lost credibility with some who question wheth-

er they should delay the individ-ual requirement. How can people be expected to pay a fine for not signing up for the health care law if they can’t even sign up for the health care law?

Of course, they can do so over phone, but there is no denying we are living in a highly technol-ogy-dependent age. It was also promised that Americans would be able to sign up for health care coverage as easy as they could make online purchases of cloth-ing.

Broken promises are not a good precedent to set, especially for something related to a piece of legislation as gargantuan and important as health care – for the outcome of this law’s effective-ness is something that will set the trajectory for this nation.

We support this law and be-lieve it will work better than most of its critics are claiming. Most of the opposition from the pub-lic that has surfaced is against ‘Obamacare’ as some abstraction – one that has been mostly prop-agated by a misinformation cam-paign.

Jimmy Kimmel invoked the way this propaganda has been dispersed with a bit on his show of random surveys in which peo-

ple support the “Affordable Care Act” yet oppose “Obamacare.”

And it’s important to note that the opposition voiced against Obamacare is its totality as idea – not what it does.

When you get into individual components of the law, people like what it has to offer – people like being protected against dis-crimination for pre-existing con-ditions; people like young people being able to stay on their par-ents’ plans until they are 26; peo-ple like subsidies it provides.

One thing that will happen if the law was to go away is that Americans would be losing a lot of good stuff.

We want Americans to have access to all that good stuff – and we presume the president does, too. He did, after all, pass the law. But it’s a major problem that the website for the new law is not working and Americans are not able to sign up for cover-age. Making sure the technology operates properly is the first step to making the Affordable Care Act work.

It needs to be repaired now.

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NO EXCUSEDysfunction of health care website unacceptable

A flawed experimentCalifornia community colleges wrong to charge more for popular classes

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Past the meringues and next to the cookie butter is a wealth of new choices now open to local residents.

On Oct. 11, Trader Joe’s, a grocery store chain, opened its doors locally. The trendy estab-lishment offers organic and fair-trade items at low prices. Trad-er Joe’s has earned a reputation for its outstanding customer ser-vice, according to patrons. The 12,000-square-foot store is locat-ed at 1565 Niagara Falls Blvd., between I-290 and Maple Road in the Boulevard Consumer Square.

“In the town of Amherst, there’s been a lot of support for Trader Joe’s coming [here],” said Ken Gaytan, an 11-year Trader Joe’s employee and the new Am-herst store captain. “We felt this was a really great city and fit for us as a company.”

The environmentally and so-cially conscious grocery store is known for its philosophy of traveling the world in search of the finest products and provid-ing them to customers at a fair price, according to the store’s website.

Trader Joe’s was established in Pasadena, Calif., in 1967. For 46 years, it has expanded all over the country. In the mid ’90s, Trader Joe’s moved across the nation to Boston, Mass., and continued to open stores along the East Coast.

Today, Trader Joe’s has 403 lo-cations in 35 states.

“We have a fun atmosphere, people first, and we don’t take ourselves too seriously,” Gaytan said. “We love to have fun and share that enthusiasm with our customers.”

Trader Joe’s offers antibiotic-free meat and poultry and is a proponent of the Fair Food Pro-gram and the Fair Food Code of Conduct – initiatives that ensure the quality of the food and well-being of those who make the food.

The company is noted for its employee satisfaction and fresh products.

“Our products are privately la-beled, so 90 percent of products we sell are under the Trader Joe’s employment label name,” Gay-tan said. “Anything under those private labels is free of artificial colors, flavors and preservatives. That’s one thing that makes us different: our quality of prod-ucts.”

For established local grocery stores like Wegmans Food Mar-kets, the new competition is not a pressing concern.

“Wegmans does not comment when new competitors move into the area,” according to an emailed statement from Weg-mans spokesperson Jeanne Col-

leluori. “We simply choose to continue our focus on providing incredible service and helping our customers put easy, healthy, affordable meals on their tables.”

Student reaction to the Niag-ara Falls Blvd. location has been mixed. Some students are enthu-siastic about the chain’s emer-gence in the area. One UB stu-dent gushed about the new store because she was able purchase meringues, which can be tough to find. Others are excited to pe-ruse the store’s interesting as-sortment of products – some even said if you want “normal” groceries, you should head to Wegmans.

Some students expressed more concerned views about the po-tential impact Trader Joe’s could have on local businesses.

“I’m from Buffalo, so I’m more a fan of local things like the Lexington Co-op,” said Sea-mus Degan, a freshman bio-medical sciences major. “I’ll go to more local places. I’m from around here and I know where to go. But in a pinch, yeah, I’d go to Trader Joe’s.”

Some are indifferent to the store.

“I’m not particularly excited that they’re coming,” said Nate Neuman, a senior urban plan-ning major. “I usually focus my spending on local businesses in the city … I’m impartial to [Trader Joe’s]. I wish them well and I’m happy they’re here, but it’s not going to affect my shop-ping habits.”

Some are concerned the area may have trouble handling the increase in traffic. Up to 35,000 cars a day use Niagara Falls Bou-levard, according to the Town of Amherst.

The attraction of Trader Joe’s also brings up the issue of trans-portation for students. Though the university does provide mall buses for students, the current routes won’t go to Trader Joe’s.

Yasmin Abdul-Malik, a fresh-man geology major, said she doesn’t have a car, but if she had a way to get to the new store, she “definitely” would shop there.

Trader Joe’s is open seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Trader Joe’s brings mixed feelingsStudents respond after new store opens near campus

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Editor’s note: This article is satirical and is not meant to be taken literally.

Dear Carson,

I am at a crossroads in my life. My dreams – once a precise, clear vision of happiness and success down the road – have faded into a gray abstraction of what I thought I would become before I knew what college, or life for that mat-ter, would really be like. I graduated from high school with a passionate agenda laid out for a career in medicine. Now, hav-ing experienced my own generous dose of real struggles and emotional crises, I feel myself gravitating toward the arts. Money, power, the white picket fence – none of that means anything to me any-more. Having always enjoyed literature, I never considered writing until it became a way to express myself and transcend the pain of the experiences I mentioned above. Essentially, I think I am not cut out for the long road that all future doc-tors must walk. I feel so confused. A big part of me would rather focus on art, mu-sic and writing in an effort to find some answers and perhaps even deliver my own ideas on truth and beauty to the masses. What does it take to become a writer, or any kind of artist for that matter?

Sincerely,Afraid to make the cut

Dear Afraid,

Oh my God! You are such a hipster ... but have no fear, Carson is here. I hope you’re ready for this, because sometimes a “dose of real struggles,” as you so el-oquently penned it, can only be treat-ed with a dose of tough love. First of all, how do you plan on becoming a success-

ful writer when you send me a letter that starts with a cliché like “I am at a cross-roads in my life?” That is as uncomfort-ably mainstream as it gets for me. But I’ll tell you what else is mainstream: giv-ing up on your dreams. In your youth, you decided you wanted to be a doctor, and I think the real thing putting doubt in your mind is your fear of success. Be-coming a doctor is hard, but it is also very doable. Let’s face it, the prospect of you going somewhere with this “art” idea you throw around like a beach ball – waiting to be smashed down by someone like me – is not exactly a career path or a deci-sion that people make with guaranteed success in mind. Real artists are confused about a lot of things, too, but certainly not about whether they should be artists. You are not an artist unless you need to be one. Part of being an intelligent, self-con-scious human being is dealing with your own s*** more than the average dunce. Wouldn’t you rather have it like that than the bro who wanders aimlessly through a boring life of mediocrity without ever stopping to realize what he’s doing? Did you really want to get into medicine in the first place for the money, power and the white picket fence? I don’t think so. Think of the Manhattan apartment, man – not the boring white picket! Instead of de-livering your scheisse prose to the mass-es, give the people good health. Restore faith in yourself and use your powers for good as a physician. If it’s any consola-tion, most doctors are stressed/bummed out to the max all the time, so it’s actually perfect for you. The secret here is that it’s not all about you, dude. Any great writ-er would tell you that giving something to the world is art’s truest aim, and what better way to go about it than the beauti-ful, pragmatic approach of modern med-icine?

A silent minorityUB professors’ film on death row is shrewd and provocative

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ERIC CORTELLESSAoPinion editor

When Bruce Jackson first met Ker-ry Max Cook on death row in 1979, he thought Cook was a “whiner.” That was, until he learned that he had been raped in the recreational room of the prison – where the perpetrator used a piece of glass to carve “good p****” into his but-tocks.

Cook was 21 years old.Since 2000, SUNY Distinguished Pro-

fessors Jackson and Diane Christian have shown over 300 films at the Buffalo Film Seminars. But on Tuesday night, for the first time ever, they featured one of their own.

Death Row was made in 1979. It is the first documentary the couple made to-gether and probably their most notable; it was a major piece of ammunition used by former French President François Mit-terand to abolish the death penalty in France in 1981.

And today, Jackson and Christian’s work is referenced as important evidence of a flawed and broken system. Exalt-ed civil rights leader and U.S. Congress-man John Lewis said their book In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America, which includes the DVD of Death Row, is a “significant work that speaks to our collective need to right the wrong that is capital punishment.”

Cook is the first inmate featured in Death Row – a stark and evocative docu-mentary film about Ellis Unit, the Texas Department of Corrections death row. In the opening minutes of the film, he dis-cusses his inability to comprehend the re-ality of being sentenced to death. Jackson

and Christian said after Tuesday night’s screening that, 22 years later, he was ex-onerated due to DNA testing.

Most of the other inmates featured in the film, however, would go on to be ex-ecuted.

The crime for which Cook was convict-ed is not mentioned in the film. None of the crimes for which any of the inmates are imprisoned are mentioned. Death Row does not concern itself with the crimes committed by the inmates; it is about the world of death row.

“If we were to put the crime each of them committed on the screen, that’s all you’re going to think about,” Jackson said at the screening. “And that’s not what this is about.”

It’s about a small world that goes large-ly unnoticed. Death Row moves beyond being an exploration of an institution; it is an in-depth study of human needs – and the ability an institution like death row has to suppress them.

As Jackson noted at the screening, the Row is a place where behavior is mean-ingless, where notions of rehabilitation have no significance. In most prisons, in-mates are serving time, but on death row, inmates do not serve time for their crimes – their punishment is the execution. The prisoners never spoke of “doing time,” he said. “Nobody there is doing time.”

Made with a certain rawness that sug-gests a gravity of feeling, the film exudes a complexity that comes out of its sim-plicity in presentation.

It is well established critically that nar-ration that “shows” is more affecting than narration that “tells.” And often to-day, documentary filmmakers forget that.

They have a tendency to obscure the world that they are observing by insert-ing their own intrusive voiceover into the film, “telling” the spectator what to no-tice or what to deem important. But Death Row really shows you the world it is pene-trating – and lets the visual imagery speak for itself.

What accentuates this achievement is how it remains so visual while the film centers primarily on talking – prison-ers talking about their experiences, the guards talking about their experiences, the guards talking about the prisoners’ ex-periences.

DANIELE GERSHON, THE SPECTRUM

On Oct. 11., Trader Joe’s opened the doors of its new-est location on Niagara Falls Blvd. Some students on campus are excited about the variety the new store boasts, while others want to focus their attention more on local businesses.

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FELICIA HUNTaSSt. artS editor

As the lights dimmed and the Monday Night Football theme song began to play, fans rushed up to the barricade-less stage at the Waiting Room in an attempt to be as close as possible to the headlining band.

Alternative rock group Sens-es Fail emerged on stage Sunday night to cheers and kicked into their set immediately. The band had not played a show in Buf-falo since 2009 and it was their first performance at the Waiting Room.

They came to Buffalo, a city they don’t normally visit, be-cause on this latest tour they are visiting cities where they don’t usually perform, according to drummer Dan Trapp.

“Of course, the wings are pretty enticing as well,” he said.

The night started off slow with the opening acts that were a mix of different genres. Being as an Ocean, a melodic hardcore group, had a fan base of a dozen kids who were cheering for them as the rest of the audience drank alcohol, texted and glanced at the football games on the TVs. The next band, Expire, a true “beatdown” band, garnered the attention of the tough kids but failed to grasp the entire venue’s ears.

“Expire isn’t for everyone,” said Paul French of Rochester. “They’re a band that doesn’t give a f*** and I love throwing down to their jams.”

The third band, For The Fall-en Dreams, livened the crowd and got them ready for Sens-es Fail. Vocalist Chad Ruhlig, who was in a motorcycle acci-dent a few months ago, hob-bled on stage with crutches – the true definition of hardcore. The crowd pushed up against the

stage, climbing on each other’s shoulders to scream the lyrics: “Where were you when I needed you” from “Brothers in Arms” into the microphone.

A portion of the audience left after For The Fallen Dreams, including French. Their heavy tastes had been satisfied.

For the fans that stayed, Sens-es Fail put on an unforgetta-ble performance. It was full of mosh-inducing breakdowns and crowd-surfing antics – neglect-ing the signs posted in the venue forbidding such actions.

“If you listened to us 10 years ago and then listened to the new album Renancer, it’s like night

and day,” Trapp said. “It’s the heaviest we’ve been and it’s nice to break out of the same old sound. We wanted to give our fans something diverse.”

Senses Fail played songs from every crevice of their musical repertoire, ranging from “Tie Her Down,” “Lady in a Blue Dress” from 2004’s Let It Enfold You to “Path” and “Closure/Re-birth” from Renancer.

Senses Fail wanted to please fans from all generations.

Vocalist Buddy Nielsen cir-cled around on stage, taking time to interact with the crowd as he screamed the lyrics of fan favor-ites such as “Bite to Break Skin.”

His stage presence was mesmer-izing and became proof of how a long-standing group can still bring immense energy to its per-formance.

Trapp said the band always bring the moves.

The hour-long set sound-ed pristine, as if the audience was listening to Follow Your Bliss: The Best of Senses Fail at home. Nielsen’s vocals and the band’s instrumentals consistently matched the recorded tracks.

Fan-favorite “Lungs Like Gal-lows” from Life is Not a Waiting Room brought the crowd to life and even ignited a few fights.

“I live in the moment ev-ery day,” Trapp said. “We didn’t start Senses Fail because we were bored, we started it because we had a passion for making music, for being there for our fans and we’re lucky enough that we get to do what we love every day.”

Senses Fail will conclude their tour on Nov. 10 in Los Ange-les. Trapp said the band is always working on new material and they would love to play Warped Tour again soon.

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Senses Fail brings life to the Waiting Room

Veteran alternative rockers return to play Buffalo’s newest venue

JORDAN OSCARStaFF writer

Put down the popcorn and leftover Halloween candy, dim the lights and pick up a con-troller, mouse or keyboard. You might be pleasantly surprised to discover just how gripping and terrifying video games have be-come.

Over the past few years and even just over the course of the past few months, there have been a plethora of games that retain an extraordinary propen-sity for being terrifying caus-ing some horror film fanatics to change the medium that they get their scares from.

Although some do it better than others, there are plenty of games in recent memory that are guaranteed to be full of thrills, chills and downright petrifying moments. OutlastRelease date: Sep. 4 for PC, ear-ly 2014 for PS4

‘Not for the faint of heart’ is a gross understatement when it comes to this psychological thriller. Outlast isn’t just a game, it’s a test of mental endurance and has quickly become praised as one of the scariest gaming ex-periences ever created.

In Outlast, hiding under a bed or in a locker will only save you for so long. Trapped in Mount Massive Asylum as a defenseless journalist equipped with only a video camera makes this game petrifying from start to finish. Slender: The Arrival Release date: Mar. 26 for PC and Mac

The infamous Slender Man

may have started as a meme, but that doesn’t stop him from being terrifying and creating his own fair share of scares. As a full-fledged version of Slender: The Eight Pages, The Arrival evokes a sense of helplessness that few other games can match.

The series started with wan-dering around the woods, col-lecting pages, dodging Slender and praying the flashlight’s bat-tery didn’t run out. Slender: The Arrival takes this tried-and-true scare fest to a whole new level. Though it may get a bit repeti-tive in the end, it doesn’t detract from the scare factor. Doom 3: BFG EditionRelease Date: Oct. 16, 2012 for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC

When it was first released in 2004, Doom 3 proved it doesn’t take the player feeling helpless in order for the game to be blood-

curdlingly scary. Despite provid-ing the player with loads of fire-power, the renowned first per-son shooter remains terrifying.

Known for its grim atmo-sphere, superb soundtrack and excellent game play, Doom 3 was recently digitally re-mastered into the BFG Edition. The time-less collection of the revolution-ary game series by id Software is just as frightening now as it was nine years ago. Amnesia: The Dark DescentRelease Date: Sept. 8, 2010 for PC and Mac

Memory loss is the least of Daniel’s problems when he awakens in a mysterious Prus-sian castle with a note telling him to kill the castle’s owner, Alex-ander. Soon, Daniel’s sanity be-comes something the player has to manage as they evade enemies in this critically acclaimed hor-

ror-adventure game. Amnesia: The Dark Descent’s

combination of ominous atmo-sphere, ambience and game play will keep players coming back for more, all the while providing an unforgettably horrific experi-ence. The sequel, A Machine for Pigs, launched in September and while it is quite scary, it pales in comparison to its predecessor in its propensity to create terrifying situations.Dead SpaceRelease Date: Oct. 14, 2008 for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC

There are few places more iso-lating than an abandoned mining vessel on the fringes of space. Trapped on an enormous “plan-et cracker” with only a hand-ful of mining tools and a picture of his girlfriend, engineer Isaac Clarke must face off against droves of mutated humanoid

“Necromorphs.” As a third-person survival hor-

ror shooter, Dead Space spends a lot of its time encouraging play-ers to maim and dismember their foes. Despite this, everything from the sound, atmosphere and setting, to the lighting and boss fights, turns Dead Space into a bleak, pulse- pounding and all around terrifically terrifying ex-perience. Resident Evil series

Before they turned into gener-ic action-adventure games with an affinity for explosions, vio-lence and hordes of zombie can-non fodder, the Resident Evil se-ries was groundbreaking and it defined the survival-horror genre.

With a legacy spanning almost 18 years and nine games, the se-ries constantly reaffirmed its dominance in a genre it practi-cally invented. The original Res-ident Evil in 1996 had an atmo-sphere and story of a B-grade horror movie. Over time and through the release of Resident Evil 4 in 2004, the series retained its scare factor despite growing more action oriented.

Although recent iterations like Resident Evil 6 and Revela-tions have failed in their commit-ment to dedicating sections of the game to being scary, that still leaves almost a decade of scary games worth checking out.

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FEAR FACTORVideo games for the not-so faint of heart

BRIAN KESCHINGER, THE SPECTRUM

Senses Fail played the Waiting Room on Oct. 20 with passion and energy, performing songs dating back to their 2004 release Let It Enfold You. The pristine, hour-long set had Buffalonians feeling like they were listen-ing to the album recordings.

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Good luck beating these games – it’s hard to play when you can barely keep your eyes open to watch the screen.

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Key matchup:Buffalo’s defense vs. Dri Archer

We saw Buffalo struggle against faster players when it faced Ohio State and Baylor ear-ly in the season. If the Bulls let Archer get the ball in open space, it will be a long day for what has been an otherwise dominant Bulls’ defense. Archer poses the first true threat they have faced since Week Two, and it’s imper-ative that the defense continues to put the offense in good field position.

Buffalo’s strength is a stin-gy defense and a pounding run-game. If Archer gets loose for long gains and the game be-comes an offensive shootout, the Bulls could be in trouble. Prediction:

Despite Kent State’s mediocre 2-6 record, it’s the toughest team the Bulls have faced since Baylor.

For the sixth straight game, Buf-falo is facing a putrid defense. Kent is giving up 228.2 rush-ing yards per game and 239.8 passing yards per game, which should give senior running back Branden Oliver the opportuni-ty to continue his recent slate of dominance.

The Bulls’ offense will have no problem moving the ball. With that said, their fate will lie with the defense’s performance. The formula for success is sim-ple: Eliminate Archer’s big-play ability and you’ll contain an of-fense that is putting up only 19.1 points per game.

If the defense can’t accom-plish this task, it may not be as good as we think it is.

Buffalo 20, Kent State 13

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Continued from page 4: Death row

CASSANDRA yOCHUMStaFF writer

Every city has its secrets. Buf-falo’s stories are just well hidden.

Despite all the graffiti, caged storefronts and general urban decay, Buffalo was once a hub of travel and architectural style. With its great history, come many terrifying tales and leg-ends.

These are the hauntings of Buffalo.

This past weekend I went on a trip around Buffalo in an effort to uncover the urban legends and ghost stories of the city.

My first stop was Iron Island Museum, located on a small side street off of Bailey Avenue in the middle of a tiny impover-ished neighborhood. Built in the 1800s, the building was original-ly a church and then adopted a new front in the 1950s as a fu-neral home.

During 2000, when the Iron Island Preservation Society of Lovejoy acquired the ownership, some members discovered 24 unlabeled, cremated human re-mains stashed away in the corner of the basement.

I walked up the steps and im-mediately felt the chills crawl up my spine.

Walking in, you could feel something strange about the place. I walked through the building on my own and did not find anything strange but leaving the museum was the most event-ful part of my stop.

A tiny, warm shadow passed by my feet. I figured it was just my mind playing tricks on me, but I left the Iron Island Muse-um with a perplexing question stuck in my brain: why was the shadow warm?

As if to answer my question a tiny gray cat appeared in the window of a neighboring house. It’s tail twitched violently as it watched me crawl back into my car.

Since the museum’s creation, paranormal events have been reported. The museum’s web-page has 18 audio recordings of ghosts. Several include children, but the strangest recordings are of Edgar Zernicke, a ghost of one of the cremated remains who had made his home in the attic of the museum. The oth-er is of a ghost cat that is talk-ative compared to some of the house’s spirits.

This gives me a mini-heart attack. I’d love to think that I could explain the shadow away with hard science, but the idea of the ghost cat nags at the back of my mind.

Next, I traveled down to the theater district and learned more about the resident ghost of Shea’s Performing Arts Center. I couldn’t stay long inside, but it was fitting Ghost The Musical was playing at the time.

Currently, Shea’s is under ren-ovation. Some have said the de-ceased Michael Shea appears to customers and volunteers ask-ing, “Isn’t it wonderful?”

When it comes to the paranor-mal, Michael Shea is decidedly a friendlier ghost than most. That sounds like my kind of ghost.

The USS The Sullivans was my third stop along my journey to uncover ghost stories of Buffa-lo. The ship is named after all five Sullivan brothers who en-listed in the U.S. Navy. They sailed out on the USS Juneau into the fray of battle. Unfortunately, the ship was lost and in the ini-tial explosion four of the Sulli-van brothers perished. The fifth brother was George Thomas Sullivan. Though wounded, he managed to escape the wreckage on a raft where he survived for five days more.

No one is sure of the exact cause of death, but George’s life would expire on that raft. Now, he haunts the USS The Sullivans in search of his lost brothers.

The idea that some spir-it would attach themselves to

this empty metal shell of a ship is depressing. I always figured that when someone dies they find peace. Somehow the idea of George wandering the ship endlessly looking for his family doesn’t seem to be a serene af-terlife.

People have seen George walking the docks and looking for his brothers, according to the Paranormal Ghost Society. Others say the ship’s doors of-ten slam and lock by themselves, burning and disfigured bodies appear and disembodied voic-es pour out from the crevices of the ship.

While I didn’t see him, there is no doubt in my mind that if he is here, he is suffering.

My last stop turned out to be the most interesting part of the trip.

I went on Beyond Ghost’s candlelit tour of Buffalo Cen-tral Terminal. The Buffalo Cen-tral Terminal was where many soldiers left home on trains and most would return home in cof-fins. The terminal operated from 1929-79. This entire building was one large center of emotion and travel.

When I arrived they checked off my name, gave me a hard hat and put me into a room of

about twenty people. Then the film started.

“They call me Zachary.”A chilling quote from a child’s

voice caught on tape. His voice would haunt me as

I traveled through the different parts of the terminal. When we stopped in a back room on the second floor, I noted the small, green ball on the floor. Amy Campbell, my tour guide, ex-plained that many volunteers and ghost hunters would leave Zachary toys to play with.

The next location we went to was the apartment on the sec-ond floor of the station.

In the Fedele Apartment with-in the terminal, there have been recordings of communica-tion with Tony Fedele, a previ-ous owner of the Buffalo Cen-tral Terminal. The story goes that one of the first recordings of ghost voices is believed to be Fedele’s voice on EVP, saying, “Bring back the ladies.”

Though I did not witness any strange occurrences, there have been many investigations that get a lot of ghostly activity in this apartment, according to Campbell.

After the tour, I talked with John Crocitto, a para-historian for Beyond Ghosts, about the different places I visited. His words to explain the spiritual world were comforting.

He said that though spirits are not tied to places, they might stay different dwellings that hold significant meaning to them. Ghosts cannot harm you, unless you think they can, he explained.

“We create our own demons,” Crocitto said. The idea that ghosts can harm you and want to harm you is a Hollywood cre-ated version of the paranormal.

It’s up to the individual to break his or her predetermined concepts of the spiritual world and ghost stories.

email: ceyochum@buffalo.edu

The Buffalo ghost trailA day’s trip to Buffalo’s most haunted locations

And what you see from hear-ing all this is that the Row is an abhorrent place to be – and it is inhumane. A dejected Cook even talks about how his being there has discombobulated his under-standing of what “normal” be-havior even is. It calls to mind an observation Victor Frankl makes in Man’s Search for Meaning when he says there is no such thing as normal behavior in an abnormal environment.

As an examination of an en-vironment, Death Row provides a unique lens into a certain fac-et of human experience. Most people have formed an opin-ion of the death penalty with-out any sense of what it truly entails. This film provides that sense and shows how the death penalty machine produces a de-humanizing effect.

Regardless of what you think of capital punishment, this film shows that, however wrongly the state (in this case, the State of Texas) may have the right to put people to death for their crimes, it doesn’t have the right to treat people the way they are on the Row.

One thing Jackson said that evening was that documentary

films have an additional require-ment that fictional films don’t – they require accuracy in depict-ing their subject. A fictional film owes nothing to the world out-side of the movie, but a docu-mentary owes something (truth) to the world it is about.

Death Row finds nobility in bringing attention to a place that is often ignored, and in the pro-cess, captures something that is vital and real.

In 2011, the United States was the only western democracy that executed prisoners, according to Amnesty International. And so far in 2013, over 30 inmates in the United States have been exe-cuted, and over 1,300 since 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

It is hard to imagine how many of those executed prison-ers may have been innocent like Kerry Max Cook; the very sense of possibility that even one of them could have been innocent is horrid.

I have been attending the Buffalo Film Seminars regular-ly since the fall of 2010. I have seen some exceptional films there; I have been there on nights when there are a lot of

people in the theater and nights when there aren’t. Never have I seen as large a crowd there as on Tuesday night.

When the film began, after the professors introduced it, some-thing unusual occurred. There was no sound accompanying the images. Professor Jackson ran out of the theater and the audi-ence could hear him notify the movie house attendants.

They tried a second time; there was no sound. They tried a third time; there was no sound. Even-tually an audio engineer in atten-dance went to help. As we were all waiting for them to fix the problem, Jackson told us how, when they first showed the film to an audience in 1979 at Sam Houston State College Criminal Justice Center, the same thing happened: the film began and complete silence.

As I left the theater Tuesday night, I considered the irony of this – that maybe the voices of those on death row are as silent now as they were then. And that is something that is wrong with America.

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Cassandra Yochum, a Spectrum staff writer, attend-ed the Buffalo Central Terminal’s Candlelit Tour and explored other haunted venues in Buffalo.

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The football team has the op-portunity to leave Kent, Ohio, this Saturday bowl eligible for the second time since joining the Mid-American Conference in 1999. To do so, the Bulls will need to defeat Kent State, a team that is much better than its two-win record suggests.

The Bulls (5-2, 3-0 MAC) will travel to Kent State (2-6, 1-3 MAC) in pursuit of their first six-game win streak since 1959. Many consider this to be Buffa-lo’s biggest test thus far in con-ference play.

The Flashes have dropped their last three games, but their previous two conference loss-es were to Northern Illinois and Ball State, which are a combined 14-1 and 7-0 in the MAC.

“The last thing I’m talking about is records to our team,” said head coach Jeff Quinn.

Senior running back/wide receiver Dri Archer, a player Quinn called “the fastest player in the MAC,” leads Kent State. Archer was slowed by injuries earlier in the season but explod-ed last week with 10 rushes for 114 yards and two receptions for 85 yards. He has scored at least one touchdown in the last four games.

“If there’s a 4.3 [-second] 40[-yard dash] guy in this league, it’s him,” Quinn said. “There’s no-body like him [in the MAC]. He can take it to the house on any play.”

The most difficult part of de-fending Archer is his ability to

line up at multiple positions. One play he will be in the back-field, and the next he will line up at wide receiver. He leads all rushers with at least 10 carries in yards per rush (7.6), averages 15.4 yards per catch and has two touchdowns of over 70 yards this season.

Archer had 14 carries for 127 yards and a touchdown in Kent State’s 23-7 victory over Buffalo last season.

“It’s going to take a lot for our corners, safeties and linebackers to contain him and nobody’s re-ally been able to do that,” Quinn said.

It is unclear who will start at quarterback for the Golden Flashes. Starting freshman quar-terback Colin Reardon suffered an ankle injury two weeks ago and was unable to start last week against South Alabama (3-3). Se-nior dual-threat quarterback Da-vid Fisher filled in last week against South Alabama in a loss and threw for 181 yards and two touchdowns; he also ran for 106 yards.

Reardon had nearly 1,200 yards passing and 10 touch-downs in the seven games before his injury.

Quinn said the defense is pre-paring for both quarterbacks be-cause Reardon is listed as ques-tionable.

The Bulls have their own inju-ry problems. Buffalo lost senior offensive lineman Jasen Carl-son when he suffered a broken leg last Saturday against UMass. Whether he will miss the remain-der of the season is question-able, according The Buffalo News.

Along with Archer, the Buffalo ‘D’ must contain junior running back Trayion Durham, who leads the team with 501 rushing yards and 777 total yards. The team’s leading receiver through eight games is junior Chris Humphrey with 37 receptions for 439 yards and three touchdowns.

Kent State ran for 239 yards in last year’s contest against the Bulls. But this season, Quinn has seen tremendous strides in his defense’s play.

“We weren’t quite ready to measure up against that kind of offense last year at that particular time,” Quinn said. “But as time moved along, we saw the growth, development and confidence coming.”

The defensive improvements have been most evident through the turnover margin. Buffa-lo ranks second in the nation in turnover differential (+13), trail-ing only Houston (+14).

Senior safety/linebacker Adam Redden is coming off his sec-ond MAC Defensive Player of the Week honor after recording 12 tackles and a fumble recovery last weekend. He currently leads the team with 49 tackles and has 8.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, a forced fumble and three fumble recoveries.

“We said it all year long: Peo-ple aren’t going to run to 46 [Khalil Mack], so get ready over there, 29 [Redden], because they are going to come your way,” Quinn said.

Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. at Dix Stadium and the game will be broadcast on ESPN3.

@owenobri (6-1): Buffalo – If Alex Neutz is able to play, the offense will continue putting

up points, and this ‘D’ is too good to allow one player to dictate the out-come.

Containing lightning in a bottleBuffalo to take on Kent State Saturday

Predictions: Buffalo (+2) @ Kent State

@aaroncmansfield (5-2): Buffalo – I think it’ll be close;

the Bulls are the better team, though.

@bentarhan (4-3): Buffalo – The Bulls will have to lose eventual-ly, but it won’t be

against Kent State.

@jgags15 (5-2): Buffalo – Another opponent that can’t stop the

Buffalo run should equate to another victory.

Offensive player to watch:Dri Archer, senior, running back/wide receiver

Archer is the most electrify-ing player in the Mid-American Conference. His speed and agil-ity are infamous and he is often referred to as the type of play-er who should be playing in the Southeastern Conference.

Archer entered this season as a long-shot Heisman hopeful – af-ter breaking Kent State’s single-season touchdown record with 23 in 2012 – but was injury-rid-den in early action.

He didn’t see real action until Kent’s fifth game of the season. In his last four games, he has put up 209 rushing yards, 224 receiv-ing yards and five touchdowns (four receiving).

But Archer isn’t an every-down-back; Trayion Durham has that role – he leads the team with 129 carries.

When Archer is in, he dom-inates. He has busted multiple 70-plus-yard plays this year. He’s had just 40 touches (26 rushes, 14 receptions), but he is averag-ing an astonishing 10.8 yards per touch. Defensive players to watch:Luke Wollett, senior, safety

Kent State’s run and pass de-fenses have been equally disap-pointing this season. Wollett is the unit’s captain and was named

to Phil Steele’s preseason All-MAC second team.

He leads the team in tackles (62) and is tied for the lead in in-terceptions (two). Wollett has been an active member of Kent State’s defensive backs unit his whole career, making appear-ances since his freshman year, and he earned the starting safety job in his sophomore season. Roosevelt Nix, senior, defensive line-man

Nix is by far the most deco-rated player on Kent State’s de-fense. He was named to Phil Steele’s preseason All-America fourth team and is currently sec-ond among active FBS players in career tackles for loss (59), fifth in forced fumbles (10) and 14th in sacks (21.5).

But Nix has struggled this year. Having played in seven of Kent’s eight games, he has notched only 23 tackles and a sack.

HoopsThe men’s and women’s bas-

ketball teams will participate in “Bulls Madness” on Friday at 7 p.m. in Alumni Arena. The event will feature team introductions, a three-point contest and a slam-dunk contest. It is free to UB students, and the doors open at 6 p.m.

Volleyball (16-5, 4-4 Mid-American Conference)

The Bulls go on a Michigan road trip this weekend as they face Central Michigan (9-11, 3-5 MAC) on Friday and Eastern Michigan (12-11, 2-6 MAC) on Saturday.

The Chippewas and Eagles are at the bottom of the MAC West standings, and a weekend sweep could go a long way in securing the Bulls’ playoff hopes.

Women’s Soccer (5-8-2, 2-6 MAC)

The Bulls are desperate for a late-season conference turn-around as they enter their final three games of the season. If they are going to make a playoff push, they cannot afford to lose any more games.

They will travel to Eastern Michigan (9-6-1, 6-2 MAC) on Friday and Western Michigan (7-4-4, 5-1 MAC) on Saturday.

The Eagles and Broncos are among the top teams in the con-ference.

Men’s Soccer (3-9-3, 1-3 MAC)

After a 3-1 non-confer-ence victory over Gannon on Wednesday night, the Bulls will travel to Belmont (4-8-2) on Sat-urday for another non-confer-ence matchup.

This will be the Bulls’ last non-conference match of the season. Buffalo has two confer-ence matches remaining.

Swimming and Diving

Both the men and women’s teams will open their dual-meet schedules this weekend with home matchups.

The men will host Cornell on Friday afternoon. Last season, they won 10 of 16 contests in the non-scoring event.

The women will open their conference schedule with a meet against Toledo on Saturday. To-ledo finished sixth last season at MAC championships, one spot behind the Bulls.

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CourteSy oF KENT STATE ATHLETICS

Senior running back/wide receiver Dri Archer is one of the most dangerous players in the country. The Bulls must contain his ‘big play’ ability on Saturday when they travel to Kent State.

CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM

Sophomore Tahleia Bishop leads the Bulls on a two-game road trip as they look to advance to over .500 in Mid-American Conference play.