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Swimmer Barbour perseveres through
cancer, starts Hope Floats in search of a cure
SARA DINATALE
Senior newS editor
Kelsey Barbour was radioactive
for 48 hours.
Quarantined in her bedroom and
allowed minimal human contact,
Barbour sat docile as radioactive io-
dine coursed through her body. The
treatment had one mission: Destroy
any lingering thyroid cancer cells.
It was Oct. 2011. Three months
prior, Barbour was diagnosed with
cancer. In Aug. 2011, doctors re-
moved her entire thyroid. A 1 1/2-
inch scar stretched across the base
of her neck.
That fall, Barbour had to face the
treatment alone. Her body was giv-
ing off radiation; even contact with
her mother had to be limited. Bar-
bour only saw her briefy to receive
meals. Her younger brother, who
couldnt be exposed to the radia-
tion because he was under 18, had
to stay with a friend.
But as Barbour will attest, she
was only alone in the physical sense.
Stuck in the confnes of her
room, Barbour Skyped with her
second family: UBs swim team.
She watched the mens and wom-
ens teams on her illuminated com-
puter screen as they moved crisp-
ly through the water Barbour isnt
one to miss practice.
After facing isolation, she was
thrilled to reconnect with her team-
mates. Her spirits were lifted, and
she was reminded that she had ev-
eryone behind her.
It would be another eight months
and a round of radioactive treat-
ment before Barbour would know
she was offcially in remission.
Once Barbour got the offcial
word, she felt the same rush she
does when she tears through the
water and is the frst person to slam
the touchpad and win a race by a
fngertip. In that moment in the
pool, it is Barbours hard work that
exudes. In beating cancer, it was her
strength that shone through.
Barbour, now a junior health and
human services major and mem-
ber of the womens swim team, has
been cancer-free since June 2012.
At 19, she faced her own mortality.
And now, about a month before her
21st birthday, her scar once a visi-
ble talking point has mostly faded
into her olive complexion.
Barbour isnt one to talk about
her bout with cancer, but she is one
to take action. Since her diagnosis,
Barbour has become a member of
UB Against Cancer (UBAC) and an
executive board member of UBs
Relay for Life planning commit-
tee. She has also created her own
fundraiser with members of her
swim team called Hope Floats.
Through these initiatives, she has
helped raise thousands of dollars
for cancer research.
But Barbour wont stop there.
For her, fundraising for cancer
research isnt just a hobby or a side
project. Its become her life path
and after-college career plan. In
cancer, Barbour found her mission:
to help raise money so every cancer
patient can be as lucky as she was.
***
Her friends, family and head
coach agree: The word that best de-
scribes Barbour is resilient.
You cant see her thick skin
through her bright eyes and big
smile. But behind her sweet, bubbly
voice and emanating compassion is
a girl who never allowed cancer to
stand in the way of life. Admittedly
stubborn, Barbour complete with
an athletic frame that clearly be-
longs to a swimmer of 12 years
planned to miss the least amount of
school possible in handling surger-
ies and treatments. She didnt want
to fall behind.
Three weeks after she had her
thyroid removed, she was back at
UB ready to start her sophomore
year.
One of the things I told her up
front was: I dont want you to play
the victim, said Andy Bashor, the
head coach of the swim team. You
play the victim, youve lost. You
have to look at this [as] happening
for a reason, use this as a positive
to help shape you, because this is
who you are and I think that can be
a very empowering thing when you
own it.
Barbour has used cancer for just
that empowerment. Barbour
doesnt play the victim and pushes
so others can be granted the same
opportunity at life. I did have can-
cer, but that didnt defne who I
was, she explained. Thats what I
really want for other people.
So she works. Hard. Today, she
carries around a packed planner
bursting with to-do lists scrib-
bled on sticky notes. One of the
best gifts she can get from one of
her roommates is a new pack of the
brightly colored, lined adhesive bits
of paper, she laughs.
She manages to balance a full-
time course load with swim practic-
es and event planning for fundrais-
ers. This season, she swam the best
time for the 100-yard breaststroke
on her team. Its my race, she
confrms. Its more of an awkward
stroke, she jokes, explaining how
her legs have to move like a frogs
as she sweeps her arms in and out.
She isnt the most competitive
person on the team and while the
edge to win does fnd her at times,
she also is just happy doing what
she loves with the team she loves.
What really gets Barbour moti-
vated is the battle against cancer.
She wants cancer patients to receive
the treatments they need to survive
like she did. It fuels her passion.
Now in remission for about 11
months, Barbour stands to evalu-
ate life from a perspective most col-
lege students dont have. Barbours
eyes which are often hidden be-
hind the cool, slick-blue plastic of
her swim goggles can bring the
big picture of life into focus.
But she started her freshman year
like most new students looking to
fnd her niche on campus. She was
excited for a new surge of indepen-
dence and happy to have a built-
in network of friends on the swim
team. She was a comfortable dis-
tance from her hometown of Clif-
ton Park, just outside Albany, and
she was the third Barbour daughter
to make her way to UBs campus.
She frst noticed an unsettling
lump on the base of her neck when
she was doing her makeup in a mag-
nifying mirror during that frst year
of college. She didnt think much
of it. She didnt want to overreact.
But over the course of her fresh-
man year, she noticed the lump get-
ting bigger and eventually brought
it to the attention of doctors, who
come to the trainers offce in
Alumni Arena.
Lynlee Barbour, Barbours sister
and a public health masters student
at UB, said when Barbour tilted her
head back, the lump looked like a
second Adams apple.
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TAYLOR BRUNDAGE
StAff writer

Jeremy Ferris, a senior political science major, washed down an
unprescribed 20 milligram extended-release Adderall with a swig
of AMP energy drink.
His French 104 exam was the next day, April 12, and he hadnt
started studying yet.
I dont need [Adderall] to study, Ferris said. I just prefer it.
With the help of AMP and Adderall, Ferris found he was able to
take in a weeks worth of information in one night.
Ferris stayed glued to his computer screen throughout the night.
He smoked half a pack of Marlboro 27s and drank three bottles of
water. He slept for one hour a quick nap from 6-7 a.m.
Ferris received a B on the test.
The following day, Ferris felt sluggish and unmotivated. After he
fnished his daily tasks like attending class and doing homework,
he headed home from campus around 4 p.m. and slept through
the night.
This method of studying has become increasingly common in
college students, according to a study conducted by the National
Survey on Drug Use and Health. The survey showed nonmedical
use of Adderall in the past year among college students increased
from 3 percent to 6.4 percent.
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Presidential libraries present an
interesting opportunity for former
presidents. They are able to con-
struct their own shrines and facili-
tate a way for their presidencies and
legacies to be reconsidered.
On Thursday, George W. Bush
opened his new library at South-
ern Methodist University in Dallas,
Texas. In his address during its ded-
ication, Bill Clinton shared with the
crowd what he told President Barack
Obama prior to the ceremony that
the library was the latest, grandest
example of the eternal struggle of
former presidents to rewrite histo-
ry.
When Bush left offce in 2009, his
approval rating was 34 percent, ac-
cording to The Huffngton Post. His
approval rating now is 47 percent.
It is natural for former presidents
to receive high approval ratings after
they leave offce. The people have
a chance to look at their presiden-
cy with the distance of time. The
president also no longer has to en-
dure the intense and constant scruti-
ny he did while in offce. And theres
no doubt that when you are in a po-
sition to make decisions that affect
other people, there are always go-
ing to be some people who disagree
with you or dont like what youre
doing.
In other words: Once youre out-
side the limelight and youre no lon-
ger impacting people directly, they
become more forgiving and accept-
ing. General perceptions become al-
tered by the movement of time.
There has been much talk sur-
rounding the nature of presidential
libraries over the last several days
since Bush opened his library and
museum.
Bush has always said that he be-
lieves history will be the true judge
of his presidency. He emphasized
that point again recently.
One of the benefts of freedom
is that people can disagree, he said.
Its fair to say I exercised plenty of
opportunities to exercise that right.
But when future generations come
to this library and study this admin-
istration, theyre going to fnd out
we stayed true to our convictions.
Jon Stewart has hilariously paro-
died the declaration as commensu-
rate to saying, When were all dead,
youll see.
Nevertheless, Bush is right in say-
ing history will ultimately determine
his presidency. Every recent presi-
dent has established his own library.
Obama used to say he did not want
one, but in the last year, he has asked
aides to start looking for locations in
Chicago, according to The New York
Times.
A presidential library gives the
former president an opportunity to
present his presidency as he sees it,
or as he wants us to see it. Objec-
tive historians will consider the pres-
idents down the line and make their
judgments, but presidents want to
have a way to control the public per-
ception once a politician, always a
politician.
But the distance time can give us
from a former president can pro-
vide insight into what was really go-
ing on then. One defnition of his-
tory can be change over time, and
interpreting the way changes over
time transform our understanding
of a period in our nations history
enables us to better understand the
world we are living in now.
Consider Richard Nixon. He mar-
shaled lots of anger during his presi-
dency but is now more widely looked
at as a tragic fgure, a prisoner of his
own compulsions. Historians have
also given Nixon much credit as a
sterling president. He opened rela-
tions with China, ended the confict
in Vietnam and desegregated some
Southern schools.
This is not to suggest the same will
necessarily happen to Bush. He was
a highly unpopular president and did
not oversee a prosperous time in our
nations history. But now that he has
been out of offce for four years and
we are deeper into the chapter of
his post-presidency, we should un-
derstand the need to look with an
objective eye at the background and
truth of who he was as president.
Having your own library should
not be seen as an opportunity for
Bush to simply manipulate the pub-
lic perception, though he should be
able to express his side of the story.
Email: editorial@ubspectrum.com
Can a presidential library earn a W?
Bushs new library attempt to reshape history
We all remember our early sum-
mers: the interval of time when
youth and glory coalesced, the scale
of horizons appeared infnite and
days were flled with verve for both
momentary diversions and distant
prospects when transience seemed
everlasting and idyllic fantasies were
childs play.
At the beginning of The Great
Gatsby, protagonist Nick Carraway
asserts, I had that familiar convic-
tion that life was beginning over
again with the summer. As we near
the release of the sixth flm adapta-
tion of the classic American novel,
we are reminded yet again that we
are still not fnished with this sto-
ry. Since 1925, it has refused to es-
cape Americas cultural conscious-
ness and its becoming more evident
that its lessons apply to us still.
As the upcoming movie reinserts
the story back into the forefront
of our minds, it is useful to think
about what it says about the mean-
ing of summertime what it can
and should do for our lives as col-
lege students.
Without going into a synopsis, it
is enough to say that The Great Gats-
by has everything to do with the no-
bility of striving, with having a sense
of purpose. Over the course of the
novel, Jay Gatsby comes alive for
Carraway as he exemplifes what it
means to be driven. And though his
dream may be fawed, he wants to
recapture an unrecoverable past. His
aspirations are what ultimately de-
fne him. Gatsby comes to suggest
that while the object of the quest
may not be worthwhile, the quest it-
self is.
The summer is an important time
for the mind to be nimble. As much
as the desires for peace and tranquil-
ity are embedded into many peoples
idea of summertime, it contains a
greater sense of possibility that can
fuel our imagination and reinforce
our optimism. There is an invigorat-
ing quality to summer that creates a
possibility for reinvention.
After a long and arduous semes-
ter, students deserve some time to
decompress. But after a short while,
it is important to take advantage of
all the opportunities that are avail-
able.
Summer is an extended period in
which students are liberated from
the constraints of a full academic
semester. There is now time to get
a job, take summer courses, etc. It
behooves many specifcally those
who know what type of career they
want to get into to seek an intern-
ship that could set you up for a job
after graduation.
It is also a time for introspection
and focus on personal growth. If
youre in Buffalo over the summer,
take advantage of what the city and
the region have to offer visit Ni-
agara Falls, go to Shakespeare in the
Park, check out Albright-Knox. En-
gage in your own personal journey
to acquire knowledge and develop a
greater sense of self.
Some say The Great Gatsby is a very
sad book. Well, it is sad, but it is also
hopeful. Carraway is a better human
being at the end of the novel than
he was at the beginning. Through his
interactions with all the characters
(not just Gatsby), he gains a better
understanding of himself and the
kind of life he wants to lead.
He learns from Gatsby the virtue
of wanting to make yourself into a
better person and that is perhaps
what summer is here for. It enables
you to stop in your tracks and refect
on how you can improve yourself.
Summer is also a time to have fun
there is no question. But it is re-
generative more than anything else.
It is a time to keep working and keep
moving and to develop aspirations.
Even if you partake in a share of
tomfoolery once in a while, or may-
be more than once in a while, be
sure to squeeze in some time to bet-
ter yourself.
Be sure to remember that this
upcoming period is a time to think
about the future while simultaneous-
ly living deep in the moment.
Think about how you want to be
better in September than you are
now. Unlike when you were a child,
your prospects are no longer distant
they are right in front of you.
When you see the movie, we hope
it will contain the same subtle re-
minders the book does time pass-
es and you cant get it back.
So, like Gatsby, believe in the
green light; try to make the most of
your summer.
Email: editorial@ubspectrum.com
A heightened sensitivity for the promises of life
Lessons Gatsby can teach us for the upcoming summer
AARON MANSFIELD
editor in Chief
There is one sentence I have seen
begin articles more than any other in
my two years as an editor: Its that
time of year again.
Aside from the repetition, there
is a greater reason I dislike that sen-
tence: While it carries connotations
of hope (the start of the school year,
the frst snowfall of cheery Christ-
mastime), it holds just as many neg-
ative implications such as the end
of the school year, the time we say
goodbye to a class of seniors who
have changed us tremendously and
left their mark irrevocably.
Have you ever spent so much time
with a couple people that nothing
they say surprises you? You know
exactly how theyre going to react
to any given situation, and you esti-
mate your success rate to be around
65 percent when it comes to predict-
ing what theyre going to wear.
Its a beautiful thing, really. You
get to know another soul so well that
it feels like your own. I will be back
for one more year with The Spectrum,
but nine editors, including the two
managing editors with whom I have
shared so many nights and treasured
moments over the past fve semes-
ters, will not be returning.
I know when Senior Managing
Editor Brian Josephs sits down in
his chair, though there are two walls
separating our offces. I recognize
the silent squeak; its different from
any other.
I know when Managing Editor
Rebecca Bratek is walking toward
my offce. I recognize the sound of
her feet, usually bare, sliding on the
foor like roller skates.
With their commencement cer-
emonies looming and departures
from Buffalo at the forefront, Ive
found myself deliberating the gravi-
ty of goodbye.
A goodbye is a handshake that
turns into a hug, a smirk and down-
ward head turn that silently says,
youre ready for bigger things, and
Im OK with letting you go so you
can pursue them. A goodbye is un-
selfsh.
A goodbye is song lyrics that seem
overdone outside the moment but
never hit harder than when you are
in it. Every word relates.
A goodbye is a thank you.
Thank you for putting up with my
old self and your crucial role in mak-
ing me the person I am today.
A goodbye need not be teary to
be genuine, but it makes no apolo-
gies for emotions. It knows that giv-
en the weight of the situation, some-
times theyre uncontrollable.
Its that twist in your stomach that
you get when youre nervous, like
when youre about to speak in front
of a crowd or receive the fnal ex-
amination for which youve studied
over many sleepless nights.
A goodbye steals the moment.
It takes the concerns, the pebble
in your shoe and ink stain on your
shorts, and destroys them. It satu-
rates the setting.
A goodbye is sneaky. It lurks in
the corner, reminding you one day
it will come, but you never sense its
authority until it has fnally and ful-
ly arrived.
I fnd it ftting to begin and end
each semester with a lesson learned.
I began this spring writing about
death, talking about the certain hu-
manity, the specifc empathy, in the
moments of a funeral that cannot be
duplicated.
Admittedly, it was dark, but it
served a concrete purpose: a re-
minder that one day, we all wont
have color under our fngernails, and
that day, the things we obsess over
now will not hold much signifcance
at all. It was a reminder to impact
people by caring about them.
A goodbye is a great thing. It is an
admission. That, aside from death,
there is no such thing as a goodbye.
It is closing your eyes and rational-
izing that now, in this technological
day in which you can video chat on
your telephone, there is no true dis-
tance.
When it comes to your future, se-
niors, I refer to a Gaelic blessing:
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your
face and the rains fall soft upon your
felds. And until we meet again, may
God hold you in the palm of his
hand.
We read for selfsh reasons. We
read because by the end of any writ-
ing, we want to believe we are bet-
ter off for having read it. We have
learned something. We have ad-
vanced. If you get anything from
this column, as you go through this
tumultuous time of graduation,
please remember the following:
A goodbye is a greeting. Hello to
a different stage in life a stage with
the wind always at your back, with
the sound of a new person sitting
down, with the constant memory of
the people who made it so hard for
us to admit that it was, indeed, that
time of year again.
Email:
aaron.mansfeld@ubspectrum.com
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News
LISA EPSTEIN
ASSt. feAtureS editor
A former law school professor has fled
a federal lawsuit against UBs Law School
Dean Makau Mutua for fring him without
cause and for breach of contract.
Jeffrey Malkan, who taught from 2000-09,
claims he was unjustly fred in 2009 and has
been unable to get a job since because Mu-
tua has refused to write him a letter of rec-
ommendation. He is asking for $1.3 million
from the state in back and front pay in the
Court of Claims and reinstatement plus back
pay from the public employment board.
Mutua declined comment due to pending
litigation in the case.
Malkan was hired in 2000 as a clinical asso-
ciate professor and director of the Legal Re-
search and Writing program (LRW). In 2006,
Malkan was promoted to professor and en-
tered into a three-year employment contract,
under SUNY policy. American Bar Associ-
ation (ABA) accreditation standards require
full professors have fve-year contracts. Fol-
lowing ABA standards, Malkans contract in-
cluded an automatic two-year extension.
To be terminated for cause from a ten-
ured position is the end of your career, Mal-
kan said. The cause that [Mutua] gave in the
letter where he terminated me, he said the
reason why he was terminating my employ-
ment was that my job no longer exists be-
cause hes terminating the entire legal pro-
gram. The only thing they changed about the
legal writing program is instead of calling it
the Legal Research and Writing, now they
call it Legal Analysis Writing and Research.
Otherwise, its the same exact course and the
same teachers. Everything is the same the
same curriculum.
The suit alleges that after Mutua became
dean of the law school in 2008, Malkan was
illegally fred and Mutua violated Malkans
right to due process under the 14th Amend-
ment and barred access to a mandatory fac-
ulty review procedure.
The lawsuit also names Charles Ewing, the
current vice dean for legal skills, who alleged-
ly worked in conspiracy with Mutua to block
Malkan from the mandatory faculty griev-
ance process. Ewing then became director of
LRW after Malkans dismissal.
Malkan also claims Mutua did not allow
the faculty to vote on his dismissal, as stated
in his contract, which violated due process.
Malkan said there were no legal grounds for
his termination.
In emails obtained by The Spectrum sent to
Mutua on Oct. 19, 2010, three tenured fac-
ulty members requested a special faculty
meeting on Oct. 26, 2010, which would have
been up for the consideration of a vote of
no confdence in Mutua as dean of the law
school. President John B. Simpson and Pro-
vost Satish Tripathi who both held those
positions at the time asked the faculty to at-
tend the meeting that would be held on Oct.
22. Mutua declined the meeting despite re-
ceiving a request signed by three members of
the faculty in accordance with faculty bylaws.
On Oct. 25, following a faculty meeting on
Oct. 22, Simpson and Tripathi sent an email
to the faculty addressing the meeting regard-
ing Mutua.
According to an anonymous source in the
law school, the faculty never voted on the
question of no confdence in Mutua but vot-
ed to put it on the agenda for the next meet-
ing and discussion. This triggered a meeting
with Tripathi and Simpson, who then said
the dean served at their pleasure indefnitely
and, in effect, that they were not interested in
further discussion with the faculty about any
leadership concerns, according to the anon-
ymous source.
In response to our request for specifc
suggestions, some members of the law fac-
ulty have suggested that the appointment
of Dean Mutua be terminated no later than
June 2011, Simpson and Tripathi wrote in
the email. With this communication, we
wish to indicate to you that the dean has our
full confdence and support. During Dean
Mutuas tenure, the Law School has made
substantial progress and we believe that the
dean has positioned the School well to con-
tinue to serve, as do all deans at the pleasure
of the provost and president, or until he de-
cides to retire from the deanship.
Malkan fled an improper practice charge
with the Public Employment Relations Board
(PERB), claiming that following his notice of
dismissal, UB denied Malkan renewal of his
appointment as clinical professor.
On Nov. 15, the state fled an answer de-
nying any violation of the law and dismissing
Malkans claims. The PERB hearings were
held on Nov. 17, 2009; March 31, 2010; and
April 1, 2010.
In the PERB decision released after the
Nov. 15 ruling, Malkans initial appointment
was for a term of three years in which he
taught a number of courses while holding his
position as director of LRW. None of them
were clinical courses. Former Dean of the
Law School Nils Olsen then offered Malkan
a second three-year contract following what
Malkan called a perfunctory review.
According to the court, in April 2006, the
faculty undertook a review of Malkans per-
formance in order to determine whether they
would offer Malkan a permanent appoint-
ment for his position as director of LRW.
Mutua testifed that he was at the April
2006 faculty meeting in which the faculty dis-
cussed whether Malkan should continue as
director and be promoted from clinical asso-
ciate professor to full clinical professor.
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Mutua testifed that during the meet-
ing, the faculty discussed whether Mal-
kans initial appointment as clinical asso-
ciate professor was appropriate. Mutua
then testifed that there was a heated
discussion on whether Malkan should
remain the director of LRW. Mutua
claimed he then recommended Malkan
be terminated immediately and the pro-
gram be removed and restructured.
The faculty did not vote on Malkans
faculty appointment at that time but re-
solved they would recommend to Olsen
that Malkans appointment as director of
the program be continued for one year.
The faculty then resolved to look for a
new director and asked Olsen to appoint
a committee to study and restructure the
program.
The PERB case has currently been
submitted to the Board in Albany but
has not been scheduled for an oral argu-
ment. Malkan said the federal court rules
in the Western District of New York re-
quire mandatory mediation before the
case can go to trial.
On March 1, mediation was held. Mal-
kan said he was there with his attorneys,
along with Ewing, SUNY Counsel Jim
Jarvis, Esq., and Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral David Sleight.
According to Malkan, Mutua did not
show up to the mediation, claiming that
he had more important business else-
where. Malkan claims this is a violation
of the rules.
Malkan also claims the attorney gener-
al asked for time until March 21 to come
back with a settlement offer but later
asked for an extension until April 2. The
attorney general informed Malkan that
UB declined to make any settlement of-
fer, saying the case will be going to trial
in federal court before the end of 2013.
This is disappointing, of course, be-
cause over the fve years of this dispute
SUNY Buffalo has refused to make any
settlement offer at all, not one dollar, and
has blocked me from obtaining a teach-
ing job at any other law school, Malkan
wrote in an email. Im also afraid that
the trial in federal court will be harmful
to the law schools reputation because
the facts that will be revealed will not be
fattering.
In an article published by the New York
Law Journal in Oct. 2012, Federal Judge
Richard Arcara denied the motion to
stay the case, holding the defendants to
a higher standard. According to Arcaras
decision, Mutua removed Malkan as di-
rector of LRW and notifed Malkan six
months later that his contract as clinical
professor would expire at the end of the
2008-09 school year, without renewal.
Malkan alleged Mutua refused to dis-
cuss his dismissal with him, the faculty
grievance committee and the committee
chairman. Malkan also claims defendant
Ewing refused to take the matter before
the faculty.
On Oct. 3, 2012, the Federal District
Court issued an order denying Mutuas
motion to dismiss the case.
Malkan claims that during Mutuas tes-
timony in PERB, Mutua lied under oath
about the events leading up to his remov-
al as director of LRW.
Makau Mutua testifed to the promo-
tion of tenure committee, which is the
entire tenured faculty, that back when I
was promoted to full clinical professor
on April 28, 2006, that they voted to ter-
minate my employment on one years no-
tice, and that was a lie, Malkan said. He
gave his testimony on March 31, and on
cross examination by the union attorney
on April 1. This is prepared, premeditat-
ed testimony. The dean of the law school
went into court and committed perjury.
During the last two years, Malkan has
attempted to contact Tripathi and Pro-
vost Charles Zukoski, sending letters
asking Tripathi to investigate Malkans
claims that Mutua committed perjury in
the PERB hearing.
It would be serious if he was the dean
of the pharmacy school or the dean of
the dental school, Malkan said. But
this is the dean of the law school, which
means hes also a member of the bar. Hes
an offcer of the court, and hes responsi-
ble for the education of hundreds of stu-
dents. This is such a serious corruption
of the integrity of the law school.
Malkan said after he sent the letters
to Tripathi, asking him to investigate the
claims and fnd out if Mutua did lie un-
der oath in the PERB hearing, Tripathi
threatened Malkan and his union lawyer.
Im asking President Tripathi, please,
before you go forward with this lawsuit,
would you please do your minimum due
diligence and fnd out what really hap-
pened? Malkan said. His response has
been to have the attorney general threat-
en me and my union lawyer with sanc-
tions for contacting him ex parte. I did
absolutely nothing wrong by contacting
him. I sent him 13 pages of transcript
testimony, Mutuas sworn testimony at
PERB, and I also sent him an email.
Malkan believes Tripathi is simply
turning a blind eye on the things Mal-
kan sees within the law school. Malkan
also believes Tripathi has an obligation to
look into situations like this when they
come up, instead of ignoring it all to-
gether.
I feel like this is another Penn State
situation developing, Malkan said.
You cant cover up a crime from anoth-
er member of your administration. This
has been going on for two years, with me
begging [Tripathi] to answer my ques-
tion. Hes responsible for the conduct of
offcers of his administration. Hes act-
ing as if the law doesnt apply to him,
which is exactly what [Graham] Spanier
did at Penn State. And where is Spanier
now? Hes been indicted on perjury and
obstruction of justice just because he re-
fused to listen to the evidence that was
coming in about the crimes that were be-
ing committed on his campus by univer-
sity administrators.
Malkan said that when questions about
his job as director frst came into ques-
tion, he tried to line up a new position
at a different school. In May 2009, while
Malkan was still offcially working at the
law school, he had secured a job at the
Charlotte School of Law in North Car-
olina.
Malkan found the school couldnt vote
on his potential position there because
Mutua was interceding to withdraw his
candidacy before it could go to the fac-
ulty.
Malkan said hes had interviews at em-
ployment conferences, but once he ex-
plains the circumstances of how he was
terminated, nobody will go forward with
an interview. He has been unemployed
since 2008.
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The survey revealed 15 percent of college
students have illegally ingested Adderall, Rit-
alin or another stimulant in the past year.
Additionally, the survey showed 29 per-
cent of students believe addiction is impos-
sible because of Adderalls prescription sta-
tus. Thirty-nine percent said it is acceptable
to abuse Adderall without contacting a doc-
tor. Out of the students surveyed with pre-
scriptions, 95 percent of those reporting
abuse admitted to faking their prescription.
Between 30 and 40 percent of undergrad-
uates reported abusing Adderall and similar
stimulants during strenuous times like the
weeks of midterms and fnal exams.
Dan Haeseker, a senior international trade
major, will be taking Adderall during fnals
week.
If Adderall was a woman, I would marry
her, Haeseker said.
David Dietz and Jun-Xu Li, assistant
pharmacology and toxicology professors,
said Adderall and associated psycho-stimu-
lants are more dangerous than many college
students understand.
Adderall is prescribed to people diagnosed
with Attention Defcit Disorder (ADD) or
Attention Defcit Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD) to calm the brain, according to Di-
etz. He said when abused, the opposite could
occur. Taking unprescribed Adderall at a low
dosage can increase brain activity and aid in
focus, according to Dietz.
He said the adverse effects could be as se-
rious as a psycho-stimulant-induced psycho-
sis indistinguishable from schizophrenia. Di-
etz noted the highly addictive qualities of the
drug.
Adderall is so much like cocaine, Li said.
You almost cannot discriminate between
the two.
Despite the negative side effects, students
still use Adderall. Some students say get-
ting a few pills is as easy as making a quick
stop between classes, according to Ferris and
Haeseker.
The two students said the exchange of
Adderall occurs all over UB, from the dorms
to the hallways and libraries.
Will Kaicher, a senior environmental de-
sign major and Ferris roommate, said he has
never taken Adderall but feels it is abundant
at UB.
I dont do it myself, Kaicher said. But I
do know where to get it.
Many students like Ferris fnd its easi-
er and cheaper to get Adderall illegally than
getting a prescription.
Dietz said the prescription process is
questionable as a whole because ADD and
ADHD are diffcult to diagnose. He point-
ed out a doctor cannot determine psychiat-
ric disorders from drawing a blood sample;
therefore, a psychiatric evaluation is neces-
sary for an Adderall prescription.
Ferris Adderall provider, who wished to
remain anonymous, has a prescription and
believes he needs the medication to function
productively. He said he experiences no ad-
verse side effects.
It was relatively easy to get, Ferris Ad-
derall source said. I just had to fll out a sur-
vey.
He said he takes his Adderall pills dur-
ing the week and doesnt need them on the
weekends to focus on work. He saves his
leftover pills from each weekend and sells
them throughout the year but mostly during
midterm and fnals week to make a quick
buck.
He sells each pill for $5.
On average, Ferris spends approximately
$20 per semester on Adderall, mostly during
midterms and fnals week.
Ferris seller believes Adderall successfully
treats his ADHD when he uses it as directed.
Ferris, however, questions the drugs associ-
ated disorder as a whole and considers Ad-
derall a booster. He uses it strictly to pro-
pel his studying.
Ferris worries about the adverse effects
this method of studying may have and feels
he has trouble retaining the information in
the long term.
When asked about the French subjunc-
tive tense he was tested on one day after the
test, Ferris responded with a blank stare and
a shrug.
[Adderall] is just a quick fx, Ferris said.
It allows us to be pretty terrible students
and temporarily make up for it in one night.
Ferris Adderall dealer said he plans on
continuing flling a prescription for the stim-
ulant for the remainder of his life. He said
without it, his simple daily tasks would be-
come more diffcult.
Ferris said Adderall consumption is ex-
hausting but is a price he has to pay. When
he needs to get his work done fast and eff-
ciently, he considers Adderall the most help-
ful option. He said he sees no reason to take
the pill after he graduates.
When my college career is over, so is my
Adderall consumption, he said.
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Adderall
ANDREA SAADAN
StAff writer
In about a months time, Buffalos annu-
al marathon will take place. Thomas Scott, a
senior political science major, said its scary
to think what happened during the Boston
Marathon could happen anywhere.
On Patriots Day this year, two bombs ex-
ploded during the annual Boston Marathon
near the fnish line. Scott, along with mem-
bers of the Buffalo community and UB stu-
dents, gathered at VIP Karaoke on Thurs-
day night to raise funds in light of the recent
tragedy.
Andrew Tan, a senior business admin-
istration major, planned the fundraiser to
raise money for The One Fund.
This foundation set up by the Boston
mayor to gather donations for the victims
of the Boston bombings as well as to hon-
or the heroes that helped out at the incident,
according to secure.onefundboston.org.
In total, they raised $530.
The event started at 9:30 p.m., and the at-
mosphere in the room was harmonious as
everyone sat together eating and drinking.
All proceeds from ticket sales were donated,
while 10 percent of bar and food tab went
to The One Fund Inc.
Various audience members put on im-
promptu performances throughout the
night. Those in attendance included stu-
dents from Student Association internation-
al clubs, brothers and sisters of different
fraternities and sororities and members of
SA, according to Tan.
SA Assistant Treasurer Darwinson Val-
dez, a senior philosophy major was im-
pressed by the turnout because it took place
on a weekday night.
I feel like you can see how the inter-
national community comes together even
when an attack is not even in their own
country, Valdez said. Im a senior and I
have classes on Friday nights but I just want-
ed to come out and sing a little bit. I think
its an excellent idea.
After midnight, the members of UB Glee
Club performed their rendition of The Bea-
tles song Imagine for the crowd as a trib-
ute to the victims and heroes of the Boston
bombings.
Judy Mai, a junior health and human ser-
vices major and member of UB Glee Club,
felt close to the tragedy that occurred in
Boston.
Boston is not too far and theres a kid
who died and there were people running for
charity, Mai said. [Its] the last thing youd
expect to happen, and it happened.
Scott agrees with Mai. As a marathon run-
ner, the incident hit close to home for him
when news about the bombings surfaced.
He sees the bombings as an incident that
could have taken place anywhere and fnds
it scary something like that could happen
in Buffalo, too.
The bombings caused three deaths, in-
cluding a Chinese international student
from Boston University. Tan, who is also an
international student at UB, said he want-
ed to give back especially because of how
welcomed he has felt since coming to
America to study two years ago. He want-
ed to show how people who have been wel-
comed to America could initiate fundraisers
for a good cause.
Just as I was about to graduate, this inci-
dent hit, Tan said. I felt for them because
I didnt feel that they deserved it. I want to
repay the fact that I was so welcomed by this
country to study here. Terror may be the do-
ing of one, or in this case two brothers, but
peace, love and harmony should be the do-
ing of the rest of us.
The fundraiser was planned quickly, and
the community was invited less than a week
before the event according to Tan. With the
help of some personal friends, Tan man-
aged to draw a huge crowd, despite the lack
time taken to plan for the event. However,
Tan said he had consciously set out to have
a closer deadline for himself so as to not let
the fundraiser lose the meaning.
Mai wants the event to take place every
year in order for it to serve as a reminder for
all to raise peace and not war. She thinks
it is imperative for everyone to keep talking
about the attacks and not just let it be in the
media for a while.
What we can do is to spread the mes-
sage to the community at the end of the
day, money can rebuild a city but love can
make a city even more powerful and enjoy-
able, Tan said.
Due to the fundraisers success, Tan has
faith that UB students possess the potential
of being leaders and forerunners of spread-
ing hope, peace and harmony.
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RACHEL KRAMER
Senior Life editor
Seven and a Half White Men
struggled to march out of the
knee-deep mud pit. Their faces
were barely visible through the lay-
ers of caked-on mud from seven
hours of grueling and demanding
volleyball.
For the third year in a row, the
eight players were victorious.
The 29th-annual Oozefest tour-
nament took place on Saturday in
the mud pit behind the South Lake
Apartment Complex. The UB Stu-
dent Alumni Association (UBSAA)
organizes the celebratory mud vol-
leyball tournament each year dur-
ing senior week as a last hurrah
before fnals really start, said Jay
Friedman, the associate vice presi-
dent of UBSAA.
The winning team gets free reg-
istration for next years tournament
and the top three teams win $15
Target gift cards for each member.
This year, around 1,500 students
and alumni participated in 192
teams of six to eight players. Teams
were dressed an minions from De-
spicable Me, in formal suits and
gowns, in complete camoufage, as
Power Rangers and as the Mario
Kart gang. About one-fourth of
the teams were comprised of alum-
ni, according to Friedman.
One team, Poached Trout in
White Wine Sauce, has been com-
peting in Oozefest for 24 years. Al-
though they have won their bracket
in previous years, they have yet to
win the tournament.
Every year the six-men and one-
woman team dresses up in outra-
geous costumes. It started as an ef-
fort to win the costume contest,
but eventually, the team became
known for their unique outfts and
won so many times, UBSAA enlist-
ed them to judge the contest, ac-
cording to Friedman.
Their 2013 costumes were six
bishops and the pope.
For them its not about win-
ning its about the reunion. Be-
cause the best friends currently live
across the country, from California
to Rochester, Oozefest is the one
time of the year they set aside to
get together and catch up with each
other.
Its great to see friends and
come back to the school every
year, said Craig Caplan, who grad-
uated in 1992 and was dressed in
the pope outft. Its the only thing
that gets us together.
Another alumni team, The
Sheepherders, has been competing
for 20 years. They have won twice
in 1998 and 2003 and made it
to the fnals fve times. They have
a unique strategy compared to oth-
er teams.
So much duct tape and none
of that bump, set, spike s**t,
said Jason Bellows, core member
of The Speepherders and class of
1997 alumnus. Let the other team
screw up. And grow an intimidat-
ing beard.
Each year, they have improved
their Oozefest presence. While
the garbage bag team uniform has
stayed the same, they have learned
to come prepared. One year, when
it snowed, they stashed a car with
supplies. That has progressed to
renting a small U-Haul and park-
ing it in the South Lake Apartment
Complex parking lot.
They lined the inside with gar-
bage bags and were fully stocked
with coffee, snacks, water bottles
and duct tape. The team men made
it to the quarterfnals but lost earli-
er than expected this year.
We are older than most of the
participants and we have been
competing for as many years as
some of you guys have been alive,
Bellows said. The fact that us old
f**kers can still make it to the fnals
or even win is exciting.
They left with another collection
of bittersweet muddy memories
and the promise to come back next
year because, according to Carl
Big C Miller, the captain of The
Sheepherders who graduated in
1997. Its a great time to see ev-
eryone we love and even though we
all keep in contact with each other,
this is a solidifying event.
Throughout the bright and sun-
ny day, teams slowly dwindled un-
til only the best were left. Rather
than defeat on their mud covered
faces, it was enjoyment. Groups of
students left muddy trails as they
walked to the showers outside of
Alumni Arena.
The winning team, Seven and a
Half White Men, werent in cos-
tume, but were wearing match-
ing T-Shirts. But by the end of the
tournament their lime green shirts
were dripping brown.
In the fnal game, they played
Just the Tip, a team that lost to Sev-
en and a Half White Men the pre-
vious year. Both teams were com-
prised of recent UB graduates.
Seven and a Half Men almost lost
it all toward the end as Just the Tip
attempted a come from behind vic-
tory. But when the buzzer signaled
their game time was up, Seven and
a Half Men won 18-17.
This was the teams third victo-
ry in a row.
They say their secret is the sky-
ball.
[Skyballs] are a super high
serve, said Megan Nostro, a sec-
ond year masters student. Some
people complain about them, but
we do what we got to do to win.
Sean Steckelberg, a member of
the team who didnt attend UB but
who used to play volleyball with
Paul Dhand, class of 2011 alum-
nus, offers his advice for other
teams who hope to win Oozefest.
Dont bother because we will be
back next year, Steckelberg said.
Threepeat!
Seven and a Half White Men
plan on coming back to Oozefest
for years to come and one day be-
ing the old guys at the tourna-
ment.
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playing multiple competitive games of volleyball.
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Art is not easily defned by a sin-
gle word, phrase or defnition; art
is multifaceted, diverse and encom-
passes everything from paintings
and sculptures to digital projections
and clothing designs it would be
near impossible to condense some-
thing so wide-ranging into a single,
faithful defnition.
The same can be said for the
group of 35 graduating seniors
from UBs Department of Visual
Studies; these students are as equal-
ly multifaceted as the artwork they
create. While all of these seniors
are art students, they cannot be eas-
ily defned or demarcated.
The thesis works of these stu-
dent artists which the students
have worked on for the past two se-
mesters has culminated into the
presentation of a large group ex-
hibition, entitled Shibboleth, which
opened this Saturday evening at
Hi-Temp Fabrication in downtown
Buffalo.
The fourth foor of the Hi-Temp
Fabrication warehouse was flled
with the likes of interactive instal-
lations, digital projections, large-
scale drawings and paintings and
student-designed clothing, some
of which was for sale. The varia-
tion in the work is a testament to
the multi-natured aspect of art and
art making.
Stephanie Rothenberg, an assis-
tant professor in the visual stud-
ies department, worked with sever-
al of the students in the exhibition
throughout the year to guide them
in their journey as artists. Rothen-
berg is pleased with the multidi-
mensional nature of the students
work.
I like the fact that [the exhibi-
tion] is interdisciplinary, Rothen-
berg said. People are painting,
drawing, sculpting, casting [and]
performing that is the mission
of the visual studies department.
Take, for example, the work of
Caroline Kopesky, a bachelor of
fne arts (BFA) student in the gen-
eral studio program. Kopeskys
work, Simulations in Hypertext,
focuses on the simplifed forms of
graphic novel artwork combined
with elements of fne art drawing.
Kopesky begins by drawing in pen
and ink and then uses digital pro-
cesses in the computer to complete
her fnished drawings.
The result is a display of 18 let-
ter-sized panels laid out like a sto-
ryboard that feature the narra-
tive of a young girl who becomes
acquainted, and soon absorbed, by
the Internet when she develops a
close relationship with an anony-
mous young man over the web. The
overall work is eye-catching, intri-
cately detailed and socially relevant
to todays world.
Brittney Dullin, a BFA student
concentrating in communication
design, presented her work in the
form of a digital projection accom-
panied with audio. Her work, enti-
tled Ceremonies, is a comment
on the modern world of surveil-
lance.
I titled it Ceremonies because
its about the daily surveillance cer-
emonies that we go through in our
lives, Dullin said. We dont pay at-
tention to [them] much [Theyre]
things we do all the time and dont
realize that were being watched.
The digital project displays nine
panels of different visual forms
of Dullins personal identity an
image of where she lives, her fn-
gerprint, a photo from Facebook.
Each of these images is fragmented
to make them slightly indiscernible.
Additionally, the accompanied au-
dio features a narration in a robotic
voice, much like that of Microsoft
Sam. The narration is a comment
on the Patriot Act of 2001, which
lessened restrictions regarding sur-
veillance and intelligence gathering
within the United States another
aspect in which we may not know
we are being watched.
Teke Cocina, also a graduating
BFA student, incorporates per-
formance into his work. Cocinas
work, entitled 1/6084 features
several of his prints mounted on
a large, draped red cloth. Many of
the prints feature images of people
with animal heads a comment on
the masking of ones own iden-
tity in social media, where one can
pick and choose how they want to
represent themselves online.
A table and two chairs are placed
in front of Cocinas prints, where
Cocina sits with a deck of tarot
cards waiting for his next client.
Audience members can interact
with Cocina and receive their own
personal tarot card reading. The use
of the tarot cards extends Cocinas
comment on our own identity. It is
our investment in the tarot reading
that forges our identity.
Its a meaning system that is de-
pendent upon the subjects invest-
ment into that meaning system,
Cocina said. The tarot are tied to
archetypes and a lot of vague ad-
jectives; from there, people can put
themselves into it, or [not].
The tarot is a parallel to social
media where both depend upon
our efforts to sift, conceal and re-
veal certain aspects of our own
identity an identity that often isnt
faithful to our own selves.
Ian McCrohan, a BFA student
with a concentration in painting,
works three-dimensionally creat-
ing sculptures and installations.
His work, Scheme No. 3: Revolv-
ing Interventions, is an installation
made of wood, metal and found
objects such as bricks, an amp and
a record player. The sculpture fea-
tures lights and revolving pieces
that spin from the mechanics of
a deconstructed record player. For
McCrohan, his work signifes the
breaking down of technology into
its most basic derivatives.
Its essentially about this idea
of deconstructing technology into
something thats more understand-
able, McCrohan said. Its about
making technology more relatable
and tearing down the line be-
tween the audience and object.
Refecting on the outcome of
the senior thesis exhibition, Mc-
Crohan is quite impressed. He feels
the work of his fellow graduates is
quite notable overall. The vast di-
versity of the 35 different artworks
makes it hard to come up with a
certain theme for the entire show,
according to McCrohan. For Mc-
Crohan, the title of the exhibition,
Shibboleth, is quite perplexing and
hard to defne.
Maybe thats what shibboleth
means there is no theme, Mc-
Crohan said. Variety is a key word
to this whole show and the search
for some sort of unity in that vari-
ety. I think thats what art is about
sometimes biting the ether and
going with the unknown.
Email: arts@ubspectrum.com
Shibboleth: Not easily defned
CourteSy of FAHAD HOSSAIN
Last Saturday, 35 graduating students from UBs Visual Studies department presented their art at Shibboleth, a thesis exhibition, at
Hi-Temp Fabrication in downtown Buffalo.
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The trip to the doctors in Alumni
began the three-month journey that
would eventually end with a can-
cer diagnosis something Barbour
never expected.
Doctors threw the word can-
cer around but with the suggested
possibility came reassurances it was
highly unlikely.
In June 2011, she had a biop-
sy taken of her thyroid cells to test
for cancer; the results were incon-
clusive. In July, she had a part of
her thyroid removed so a diagnosis
could be made.
From the original test, doctors
didnt think it looked like cancer,
according to Lynlee. When they
went in a second time to take part
of her thyroid out, they didnt ex-
pect to fnd the cancer cells, she
said.
On July 20, 2011, Barbour and
her mother were on two separate
ends of their homes landline to
speak to the surgeon together on
the phone.
The verdict: Cancer.
The plan: Surgery. School. Treat-
ment.
It was a lot of medical talk that
was over my head and I didnt care
to listen, Barbour said. She didnt
absorb the details but grasped what
she and her family needed to do.
We fgured wed take it day to day.
After a second surgery in the frst
week of August, in which surgeons
removed what remained of her thy-
roid, Barbour came back to UB
with a new scar and plans to take on
further treatment in October. But
when others probed her at athlet-
ic orientation about the source of
her new scar, her answer was sim-
ply: Oh, I just had surgery.
Barbour, aware cancer is a buzz-
word, didnt want to make any-
one uncomfortable. She wanted to
be sensitive to others feelings. I
know how trying to react to some-
thing like that can be, she said.
Katelyn Grimm, one of Barbo-
urs best friends, said Barbour never
plays the cancer card.
She doesnt take it as woe is
me, Grimm added.
But Barbour didnt shroud her
cancer as some big, scary secret.
Her two best friends, roommates
and swim team members, Grimm,
a junior communication major, and
Taylor Lansing, a junior psycholo-
gy major, knew all the information
Barbour knew related to her illness.
If it was a shock to her, then
it was a shock to us, Grimm ex-
plained.
But the situation was no differ-
ent from how the three girls tackle
any part of life. The close-knit trio
is constantly in each others busi-
ness, but they wouldnt have it any
other way.
The two best friends helped Bar-
bour through the taxing time lead-
ing up to her frst radioactive iodine
treatment.
Thyroid cancer cells can travel
throughout the body and the thy-
roid gland absorbs most of the io-
dine in blood. By taking a radioac-
tive iodine pill, Barbour made her
iodine cells radioactive. Her thy-
roid cells then absorbed the radio-
active iodine cells, which aimed to
destroy any remaining cancer cells.
Her body was also scanned to see if
any cancer cells lingered.
In order for the radioactive io-
dine to be effective, Barbour had to
go on a strict low-sodium, low-io-
dine diet and stop taking her artif-
cial thyroid medication.
Because Barbour no longer had
a thyroid, the gland responsible for
regulating hormones and the bodys
energy use, she began taking a pill
to keep her body balanced. She was
mandated to take the pill every day
except for the two weeks that led
up to her radioactive iodine therapy.
Without the medication, Barbo-
ur was continually fatigued. But she
didnt let the exhaustion win.
She never missed practice.
Nothing is going to stop Kelsey
from doing what she wants to do,
Grimm said.
While the surgeries to remove
Barbours thyroid kept her out of
the water that summer, the only
time she truly took off from the
swim team was the week and a half
she spent back at home getting the
radioactive iodine therapy.
And though the thought of hav-
ing to redshirt her sophomore year
crept into her mind, Barbour kept
swimming.
I was already that much further
behind than I normally was, she
said. So it did cross my mind that
I wasnt going to able to swim that
year.
But she pushed on and wound up
only sitting out the frst fve meets
of the season and took two weeks
off practice.
When she swam in the Mid-
American Conference Champion-
ship meet in the 2011-12 season,
she set three lifetime-bests.
She didnt allow [cancer] to de-
fne her, Bashor said. In a way, it
kind of gave her extra motivation
to not let cancer defeat her and take
away from her success.
Cancer-free, Barbour was inter-
ested in taking on more than just
swimming. She wanted to give back.
It started in 2011 with the idea
for Hope Floats, a charity led by
Barbour, Grimm and Lansing that
involved the mens and womens
swim teams. In Jan. 2012, the event
which came to fruition and was
held during a swim meet raised
$9,400 for the American Cancer
Society. The swim team still proud-
ly sports its royal blue Hope Floats
swim caps and T-shirts. It was a lot
for three college sophomores to or-
ganize, but the trio was determined
to do it indepen-
dently and make
an impact.
What I real-
ly loved about it
is that it was nev-
er about [Bar-
bour], Grimm
beamed. It
wasnt about that
she had cancer;
it was just about
this has come
into her life, and
so she wants to
give back and do
something.
Hope Floats
was just the push
off. This year,
Barbour became
an e-board mem-
ber of UBs Relay
for Life planning
committee and heavily involved in
UB Against Cancer as a whole.
On April 12, 2013, Barbour stood
with her brown hair tucked under
a black baseball cap, adorned with
pins and the Relay for Life logo. She
was serving up barbecued chicken
Hope Floats took on a new life as a
chicken barbecue, hosted in Alum-
ni Arena before UBs Relay for Life,
an event that raises money for can-
cer research.
A year before, Barbours role in
Relay wasnt behind the scenes, but
center stage. Then, eight months
past her diagnosis, Barbour was Re-
lays student survivor speaker. A
few things were different then not
only was she donning blonde hair,
but she was also a different major
with a different career in mind.
Barbour entered UB as an exer-
cise science major and dabbled in
speech and hearing before settling
into her current major, health and
human services. Barbour found her
lifes direction after she started get-
ting more involved in not-for-proft
fundraising, like Relay for Life and
UBAC.
Over 1,200 participants piled
into Alumni Arena for Relay this
year. The theme was Wish Upon
a Cure, a play on Disney icon-
ic songs suiting the theme were the
backdrop to a
night of solidar-
ity and remem-
brance in the
fght against can-
cer.
Barbours per-
spective was dif-
ferent from what
it was when she
attended Relay
in April 2012.
She wasnt men-
tally rehears-
ing a speech, but
studying the me-
chanics of the
night. Since Sept.
2012, she and the
other committee
members toiled
to ensure the eve-
ning ran smooth-
ly and everything
was set in its proper place.
In her e-board position the
event chair of mission, which was
created with her in mind she was
responsible for reminding everyone
the bigger purpose of that evening.
We just remembered this isnt
about us, Barbour said. Its about
everyone there and anyone who has
been touched by cancer.
Swimmer Barbour perseveres through
cancer, starts Hope Floats in search of a cure
Continued from front page:
She didnt allow
[cancer] to defne
her. In a way, it
kind of gave her
extra motivation
to not let cancer
defeat her and
take away from
her success.
Continued on NExT PAGE
CourteSy of KELSEY BARBOUR
Kelsey Barbour, a junior on UBs swim team, created a fundraiser called Hope Floats
during her sophomore year at UB after being diagnosed with cancer in the summer
of 2011. Because of Barbours vigor in the fght against cancer, she was asked to be
the survivor speaker at UBs Relay for Life in 2012 this year she served as a Relay
e-board member.
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Barbour who was so caught up in mak-
ing sure everyone else was where they needed
to be forgot to sign up to be a part of the
events survivor lap. She put so much of her-
self into organizing the event that she just
kind of forgot about me being involved in
the survivor part of it, she said.
Barbour never makes it about her but the
thousands of people she knows shes help-
ing. Even if planning for Relay and home-
work took over the majority of her time, Bar-
bour always made it work even if it meant
swimming like a zombie at 6 a.m. practice.
This year, UBAC under which Relay for
Life operates raised about $64,000, accord-
ing to Julie Smith, the organizations adviser.
Barbour had a large role in raising that
money and has been vital to the organiza-
tions success, according to Smith. Shes
modeling the way, she added.
The fraternities and sororities from the In-
ter Greek Council raised more money for
Relay than in years past, according to Smith.
They saw [Barbours] passion and they fed
off of it, she said.
At the end of her senior year in 2014, Bar-
bour will hang up her swim cap and goggles
to focus on her future in raising money for
cancer research. She wants to study in a grad-
uate school program for public health and is
interning at the American Cancer Society this
summer.
In fve years, she hopes to be doing the
same kind of event planning she does now,
but on an even bigger scale.
Sometimes, I beat myself up because the
reason I got involved is because it touched
me personally, Barbour said.
She tells herself she shouldnt have gotten
involved just for that reason, but remembers
everyone has his or her own reasons for be-
coming an advocate, for fghting the disease
and for working tirelessly to help those af-
fected.
It has become a part of her teammates
lives, too. Grimm and Lansing are already
excitedly discussing next years Hope Floats
event a possible 5K run.
Barbour is left humbled and thankful for
support, love and volunteering she has seen
the people in her life provide, especially her
teammates. To them, she feels indebted.
Things happen in life that set you on a
certain path, she added.
Cancer helped her fnd that path.

Email: news@ubspectrum.com
Continued from previous page:
JOHN NASSIVERA
StAff writer
UB students have come together to aid
victims of the April 15 bombing in Boston.
Jessica Tomasello, a sophomore exercise
science major, and Valerie Wellenc, a fresh-
man social science major, set up Herding
for the Hurting on April 17 after feeling af-
fected by images of the bombing victims
on television. They decided to fgure out a
way to help.
The students teamed up with Shoe Re-
cycling Fundraiser, a social enterprise that
collects used shoes and donates them to
children in Africa, according to its website.
Together, they will collect used shoes from
places around Western New York. For ev-
ery pair collected, $0.50 will be donated to
One Fund Boston to help the victims and
their families, and the shoes will be donated
to children in Africa.
So far, One Fund Boston has raised over
$26 million in public and corporate dona-
tions, according to its website.
Tomasello and Wellenc set up bins to drop
off shoes in locations around North Cam-
pus and University Village at Sweethome,
a student-apartment complex in Amherst.
Donations are also set up in a variety of
locations off campus including Primera-
no Fitness in Niagara Falls, Catalyst Fitness
and schools in the Kenmore-Tonawanda
and North Tonawanda school districts.
Weve had bins flled already, Wellenc
said. I put bins up in a few gyms. [Toma-
sello] put them up at Ken-Ton schools and
they were just flled within a day. We didnt
think it would go this fast. It was just an
idea off the top of our heads.
Tomasello was surprised at the immediate
impact the fundraiser had. She said some of
her teachers told her how full some of the
bins were.
The shoes will be sent to the Shoe Recy-
cling Fundraiser headquarters in Holyoke,
Mass., and will then be donated to children
Africa.
The Shoe Recycling Fundraiser is an or-
ganization dedicated toward improving the
environmental and economic development
of Africa, especially in countries like Mo-
rocco, Liberia, Mali and Angola.
Michael Aronson, the president who
works in the Shoe Recycling Fundraiser
headquarters, spoke with Tomasello and
Wellenc and provided bins and other mate-
rials for the fundraiser.
I know people who were [in Boston],
Aronson said. They were unaffected phys-
ically, but emotionally, its a very serious
thing.
Tomasello and Wellenc used social me-
dia to raise awareness for the fundraiser in
addition to posting fyers on and off. They
posted donation news on Facebook and
links and videos on Instagram.
I have couple of friends I went to high
school with in Boston, Tomasello said. I
talk to them about it. Theyre doing a lot [to
help]. To know that [my friend] was literally
around the block when it happened. It kind
of hits you.
Kelly Savage, a senior exercise major, is
one of the many students who volunteered
to help the fundraiser by getting permis-
sion to set up bins on North Campus while
Tomasello and Wellenc sought permission
from off-campus locations.
Twenty to 25 bins will be set up 24 hours
a day in front of the Student Life Offce
and outside the pro shop in the Alumni
Gym. Bins will also be set up in Clark Hall
and other buildings on North Campus.
Savage, who knows people who were in
New York City during 9/11, can relate to
wanting to help people after a tragedy. He
jumped on the opportunity to help in the
fundraiser for Boston.
It felt right to want to do something
to help those people, Savage said. I was
young when 9/11 happened. I couldnt re-
ally do anything. I was really helpless. But
now that Im older and I have an idea of
how to approach situations, I can actually
help the situation.
Savage said the donations will not only
help the people in Boston but give the do-
nators a better outlook on others.
Were just random college kids, just do-
ing this on a whim, Savage said. If we can
do this, then really anybody can do it.
Tomasello and Wellenc are aiming to re-
ceive about 4,000 pairs of shoes, which
will amount to around $2,000, by the end
of the fundraiser. Tomasello said they have
collected close to 600 pairs of shoes so far.
The Herding for the Hurting program will
end on May 19 with an event at the fund-
raisers home base in Primerano Fitness
where students and Buffalonians can get
one last chance to donate shoes.
Email: news@ubspectrum.com
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thyroid cancer, Barbours life path has shifted to include fundraising for cancer research.
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LYZI WHITE
Life editor
Most people tell you to make mistakes. Few
tell you why.
Youre going to embarrass yourself. Youre
going to want to bury your head in the sand.
Your cheeks will burn when you see certain
people. Youll avoid certain places and it will
feel like the world is out to get you. Then time
will pass minutes, hours, maybe months
and then youll laugh.
The most embarrassing moments are the
stories that youll remember and youll retell.
Like the time I tripped over someones leg in
my geography lecture and fell face-frst onto
the ground. My professor was kind enough to
call me out in front of everyone and I was for-
ever known as the face planter.
Youre going to do stupid things. Things
that mean when you wake up the next morn-
ing, youll pull your covers over your head and
try your hardest to fall back asleep because
you cant bear to think about how badly you
messed up. Or youll say something youll im-
mediately wish you could take back.
Like the time I made out with someone just
because I thought he was from Australia. He
was not.
Its after moments like these that you decide
what kind of person you want to be, what per-
son youll most likely become.
Youre going to hurt; youre going to cry.
Whether you shed tears privately or public-
ly, its during the hardest times that your true
friends come to your aid, no matter how hard
you try to push them away.
Sometimes its the lowest points that bring
you closer to people. Its when a friend be-
lieves in you when you can barely believe in
yourself, when a friend calls you out for act-
ing irrational when everyone else around you
is walking on eggshells to keep you compla-
cent, when a friend barges into your room and
comforts you no matter how much you pre-
tend you want to be left alone.
Or maybe its when your friends take you
to the hospital, stay with you all night even
though they might have been the reason you
landed in the emergency room in the frst
place let you sleep in their bed while they
buy you an eye patch, or when they bring you
dinner because you refuse to leave your room.
Most of all, youre going to learn learn
that sometimes the world just isnt fair, learn
that no matter how open and carefree you are
about your own life choices there will always
be someone listening who will judge you.
But youll also learn how to deal. Youll
learn to deal because you have friends who
will let you watch Star Wars in the living room
even if they cant tell the difference between
Darth Vader and Darth Maul, you have co-
workers who put up with your hangovers and
your (seemingly alarming) drunk texting ad-
diction, you have family who tell you when
youre being a b**** or need to reevaluate
your current life decisions.
Without mistakes, life is dull. Without mis-
takes, how can you grow as a person?
So try things: taste every food in the dining
hall, attend club meetings that you dont think
youd enjoy, talk to the students sitting next to
you, go to parties and go to bars, watch the
sunrise on top of a construction site (Id tell
you to go to the one I climbed, but its now
Kapoor Hall).
Im not perfect. Youre not perfect. Life is
not perfect. The best you can do is learn to
adapt.
Ill never deny the stupidity of some of
my actions throughout my four years at UB. I
could write pages and pages on the subject I
probably will some day.
But please, do not spend your college career
stuck inside your dorm room. The closer the
graduation date gets, the more you realize how
little time you actually had during the most ex-
perimental and monumental time of your life.
So go out and make mistakes because trust
me, if I survived my own stupidity, so can you.
ALExA STRUDLER
Senior Photo editor
In my three years working for The Spec-
trum, I have seen it all.
Ive seen crowds of people fght for a
cause, spectacular feats of athleticism, beau-
tiful performances and people drenched in
mud. I have seen everyone from authors to
frst ladies and everything from scandals to
celebrations.
I am the person around campus behind
the camera at every event, seen but not of-
ten heard, capturing every moment, action
and reaction.
You dont have to be at The Spectrum or
have a press pass to experience these mo-
ments. Ive been lucky enough to fall into
some wonderful opportunities, but there
are so many ways on campus to explore UB.
There are many organizations that allow
you to do incredible things and meet in-
credible people, just as this paper has done
for me.
Take advantage. These opportunities can
lead you down paths and help you discover
things about yourself you never knew were
there.
I am not the most outgoing person in the
world. In fact, Im pretty quiet and like to
keep to myself most of the time. My intro-
version used to hold me back and it kept
me from going out and experiencing life. By
joining The Spectrum, I gained a confdence I
never knew was there. I discovered myself.
If I have anything to say, it is this: Time
goes by fast, and it can pass you by if you let
it. Thats the biggest shame, so dont let life
happen without you when there is so much
to see and do.
How many times in your life do you have
the opportunity to roll around in the mud
playing volleyball all day and then go to see
Steve Martin speak at night? You do not
want to look back and regret your time at
UB.
In the end, life is not like a video you can
go back and rewind; its like a photo album.
It is a series of moments snapshots we
treasure and refect on but cannot relieve
so its best to take care that you are in the
pictures.
I am lucky to have one more year left at
UB and you can be sure you will still see me
around campus clicking away.
As for my time at The Spectrum, I want to
thank all of my friends and colleagues for
a wonderful three years and for putting up
with my ranting and raving during that time.
I wish the best of luck to those graduating,
and to those remaining, I expect nothing
but the best. This paper has improved vast-
ly in three years because of you, and I can-
not wait to see what else you will do with it.
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When I was a freshman, a very important
friend of mine who was graduating wrote
me a letter before she left.
It detailed the ins and outs of college and
gave insight on how to navigate through
the highs and lows Id inevitably face. She
stressed the notions of spending time with
friends and of truly making the most of ev-
ery second as it passed.
To be completely honest, I didnt appre-
ciate it when I read it then. It seemed like
advice Id heard a million times in the past
about any experience people have been
telling me to make the most of things
since I was old enough to understand what
that even meant.
Yet, three years later, when I have only
a smidge of time left in Buffalo, I fnally
see the true value of her words. My friends
letter holds some of the same secrets Ive
learned throughout my time here, secrets
I planned to share with any youngins who
might read my farewell column.
But though hindsight offers the best ad-
vice you can give a person, without that
hindsight, its hard to appreciate the ad-
vice when you get it. So instead of wasting
words and excellent, expert advice on those
who wont appreciate it until its too late,
Im just going to say thank you.
Thank you to every professor who ever
held a lecture I didnt have to fght the urge
to sleep through.
Thank you to the kind women who work
at Berts, whove endearingly called me
baby each time they rung up my food and
even once let me slide when I didnt have
enough campus cash to pay in full.
Ironically, thank you to the people in
charge of the infamous anti-abortion dis-
play, not only for curbing my excessive ap-
petite for a couple of hours, but also for
enabling me to watch my peers protest and
actually give a damn about something real
an experience that restored my faith in our
generation, if only for a couple of days.
Thank you to the amazing people Ive
met, whose relationships made my time
here worthwhile. Thank you to my sorority,
and to my coworkers at The Spectrum: Youve
proven to me that life is much more reward-
ing with a diverse social circle.
And thank you to the ridiculous and
horrible people Ive managed to stay away
from, too if nothing else, youve provided
me plenty of entertainment from afar.
Thanks to all of you, Ill leave college
feeling fulflled and more prepared for the
real world than I ever thought I would when
I entered school. And though I may not
have been able to treasure each moment of
college as it occurred, because of you all, I
have reasons to wish I had.
Email: lisa.delatorre@ubspectrum.com
Looking forward to
looking back
Siguen luchando
Keep grindin
ELVA AGUILAR
Senior ArtS editor
Finally.
After years of what college students
deem the struggle, it is fnally all over.
My undergraduate years havent been
easy, but in retrospect, the ability to be-
come as self-suffcient as I am today is a
blessing.
Ive learned what real hunger is. Ive
learned what its like to be stripped of ev-
ery resource and every person youve tak-
en for granted, and Ive learned how to
appreciate the bare minimum life gives
you even if thats just a friend and a Ce-
leste pizza for one.
I also learned the broke diet is the best
way to lose 20 pounds in two months, but
I would never recommend it.
I learned to love, embrace and share
my culture because it wont always be at
my disposal or around me. In 2011, La-
tinos were named the largest minority in
college, with 2 million students enrolling,
according to a study by the Pew Hispan-
ic Center. However, a study from 2010
deemed Latinos the one demographic
with the fewest degrees.
Although Latinos are making strides in
getting their young people into college,
we (and by we I mean Latinos) must
make sure they stay in school, obtain their
degrees and use those degrees to help the
United States and our cultures prosper.
While I was never an active mem-
ber, I commend the Latin American SA
and PODER for keeping the communi-
ty tight-knit and educated, and we need to
make sure this continues and that educa-
tion trumps socialization.
UB is diverse, and Im not saying Lati-
nos need to ft a certain mold or attitude,
but no matter where you come from, its
nice to have a common ground with peo-
ple who were raised with the same tra-
ditions, food, ideals and tribulations you
did.
Its humbling. Its home.
And while I do consider myself stron-
ger than yesterday, I wouldnt be where
I am without the strong-willed women,
friends and family that carried me when
I was too lazy or too torn to do it myself.
Veronica Labrador and Margaret
Bryner were the two women to intro-
duce me to higher education. And while
I strayed from the university they intro-
duced me to, the journey Ive embarked
on since has taught me so much about
myself and about adulthood. Thank you,
ladies.
Physically, Ive been alone on my un-
dergraduate journey. I made friends, I lost
friends and sometimes I really just pre-
ferred not having anybody around. But
even then, the ghosts in my iPhones con-
tact list made sure I woke up after a night-
mare of a day. My mother, my father,
Beto, Jeannette, Olga, Jackie, Erika and
Jensi: gracias.
And although I have considered my-
self a loner on campus, my strength off
campus always sent me to school with a
joke, rap lyric or piece of tough love stuck
in my head. My roommate, best friend
for the last fve years and the person Ive
been blessed enough to have show me
the Queen City in all her glory, Devon-
te, thank you.
The Spectrum has been my only tie to
UB and aside from the illustrious Barba-
ra Bono and Hershini Young, it holds the
only positive memories Ive made here.
My time here will be what I take with me
in my heart, my resume and my mind and
if I could go back I would only apply my-
self more but nothing else.
Its been a real four years, Buffalo.
Thank you for all the food, the ratchet-
nesss and the amazing people whove
come in and out. Ill pay you back, some-
day.
P.S. I wish I had gone to Stony Brook

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MAnAGinG editor
It was early March, the frst day
of spring break, and we sat in my
car in a nice New Jersey suburb,
waiting for the last bus to New
York City. It was close to midnight,
and we had driven over eight hours
to get there, barely having enough
time to stop at Saras aunts house
to use the bathroom and stretch
our legs.
Aaron wanted to wait outside,
but we told him it was too cold and
we werent leaving him alone in a
strange town. Plus, werent we hav-
ing more fun talking about our trip
together in the warmth of the car?
Out of the corners of our eyes,
then full heads and bodies turned,
we saw the bus drive by as we tried
to open the doors fast enough to
fag it down. But it was useless. We
sat in silence trying to fgure out
what to do next. That was the last
bus. Aarons sister was waiting at
the bus terminal alone.
I could drive you into the
city? I said apprehensively, almost
immediately regretting my decision.
With two major accidents and sev-
eral other mishaps since I was 17, I
get really scared behind the wheel.
And after not killing us on the drive
from Buffalo? I was terrifed. Aar-
on offered to drive my car, but if
we were going to crash in the Big
Apple, I wanted it to be my fault.
Not even fve minutes later, the
Port Authority was plugged into
my GPS and I was yelling at Sara to
sit on my EZPass so that my moth-
er wouldnt know I drove through
the Lincoln Tunnel (sorry, Mom).
I kept muttering, Were fne. Its
OK. I can do this, over and over as
I clenched the wheel and I felt my
blood rush to my fngertips; every
inch of my body prickled with anx-
iety and I tried to hide my shaking
hands. Traffc was still pretty heavy,
even at the late hour, and Im not
as quick as those taught on the city
streets.
I know what this moment needs.
Its not the tunnel song from
Perks, but itll do, Aaron said as he
pushed a disc into my silent stereo
and he tried to calm my nerves.
She thinks Im much too thin/She
asks me if Im sick/Whats a girl to do
with friends like this?
We all sang along as the New
York City skyline emerged at the
end of the tunnel, and in that in-
stant, we were as close to infnite as
you could get. My hands stopped
shaking, and the driving came more
easily. We werent supposed to drive
outside of my comfort zone that
night, but it seemed there was no
other place to be in that moment.
Life doesnt always go according
to plan. Sometimes, things happen
when you least expect and some-
times they surprise you. Just like
that night that started in Jersey took
us somewhere unexpected, the last
four years have been a ride unimag-
inable.
I started my college career as a
biology major, completely intent on
going to medical school post-grad-
uation. I had my life planned out
down to the doctor husband, two
kids, dog and white-picket-fence
house. Because I wanted it to hap-
pen, it had to happen. I wouldnt
accept anything less.
I hit a really low GPA my sec-
ond semester of freshman year. I
was devastated and I didnt know
what to do because everything had
come so easily in high school. I hat-
ed where I was and I didnt know
why I wanted my life to be a cer-
tain way so badly before. The doc-
tor husband no longer looked so at-
tractive and the dreams faded away.
So I did the unthinkable, much
to the horror of my family and ev-
eryone who knew my life plans: I
switched my major to English. In-
stead of questions of how I was
going to afford medical school, my
parents were now asking if I would
even have an income once I gradu-
ated. Would I live in a box?
What the hell do you do with an
English major, anyway? Teach? No
way. I get too scared even calling
for takeout.
Read? Nice try, but not many
jobs pay you to read books all day.
Write? Now youre talking.
I was sitting in church about
three weeks ago, and even though
Im not that religious, the message
the minister spoke stuck with me:
If you spend your life planning for
something, completely set on one
path, youre not going to amount
to anything. If you spend your life
working for just that one success,
youre going to end up unfulflled
and youre probably not going to
meet that one goal you wanted so
badly. If you forget to appreciate
life and whos around you, your big
dreams will fzzle out, and you will
be left with nothing.
And since that spontaneous car
ride into the city, with two of my
best friends by my side, I made the
choice to go with the fow. Sure, I
still am an overachieving control
freak who lets anxiety get the best
of her sometimes, but Id like to
think I let things happen as life in-
tends.
That B on a paper? Missed a
class? Boyfriend broke up with you
or you got turned down by the boy
you wanted? You wont remember
it in a year or even two months. Fo-
cusing so sharply on one thing or
one person will get you nowhere.
Spending time with family and
friends is more important. So is
working at The Spectrum (probably
the greatest, most serendipitous
fnd in my four years). And expe-
riencing college while youre there
dont forget that. Theres a bigger
plan than I can imagine, and Im
waiting to fnd it.
Ill be moving to the City this fall
to start a new chapter this time
without my car, without the need
to drive through the Lincoln Tun-
nel, without friends or family by my
side. It wasnt part of my plan, but
itll be an adventure.
I hope it feels as good as when
we had the lights behind us at the
end of our spring break trip when
we sang aloud to nothing more
than the steering wheel, content
in the moment and in each others
presence. I hope it feels as infnite
as Buffalo has the past 21 years.
And if you feel just like a tourist in the
city you were born/Then its time to go/
And defne your destination/Theres so
many different places to call home.

Email:
rebecca.bratek@ubspectrum.com
MARKUS MCCAINE
ASSt. SPortS editor
Youre praying to the porce-
lain gods and getting cozy on the
bathroom foor all morning. Your
headache is pounding through the
front of your skull and your stom-
ach is twisting and turning as you
go for a roller coaster ride on your
couch. And you arent even going
to go outside today because its
way too bright.
Ive been there. We all have. We
all rode the Stampede home from
South Campus, still dressed in the
same clothes we had on the night
before, hoping and praying that
the bus driver would stop pump-
ing the brakes. Your late night U
Hots is about to cascade out all
over that guy going to the library
on a Saturday morning.
Its a long bus ride from South
to North Campus after a long
night out of hopping around all of
the staple spots along Main Street.
You even took a trip off Main to
a local frat party in between your
journey from Mojos to The Steer.
But you just had to stop at U Hots
before crashing face-frst on your
best friends couch. We all know
your drunk ass isnt going home
with anyone.
But hey, it was a good night
and the memories will last forev-
er. You will never forget steering
that fat-tired bike into Lake La
Salle. You still keep that photo of
you shaving UB into your friends
back you cant let him live that
one down. And every now and
then, you pull up that video on
YouTube where your best friends
thought it would be a good idea to
take out some mailboxes.
The hangover will only last for
a few hours (you hope), but times
you shared and the friends that
you made will last forever. Who
could ever forget the road trip all
the way to Panama City, Fla.? The
memories you made cannot be
taken away from you by anything.
College is a time for experi-
menting, a time for pushing the
limit and a time to see what you
are really comfortable handling. It
is meant to test you and take you
out of your comfort zone.
So take a risk and try something
you never thought you would do
in a million years. Take a spon-
taneous road trip, prank your
friends and create some lasting
memories. Above all, make sure
you make the most of every op-
portunity you can while you are at
the University at Buffalo it will
be over before you know it.
I cant speak for everyone, but
I can speak for myself. It wasnt
always the best experience here
at UB, but I cant complain. I ex-
perienced things and met people
who have changed my life forever.
Thank you to everyone who has
helped me fnd my way through
the complex college atmosphere.
I am truly grateful. I wish every-
one could have a college experi-
ence as meaningful as mine.
In the end, some people can
handle three beers, while others
are face-deep in a funnel, trying
to see how much frozen margar-
ita they can really handle. Wheth-
er you are a big drinker or you en-
joy relaxing on a weekend night,
college holds a place in our hearts
that no other place will ever be
able to take away. These really are
the best years of your life.
Email:
markus.mccaine@ubspectrum.
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BRIAN JOSEPHS
Senior MAnAGinG editor
So this is it. Four years of writing for
The Spectrum. Four years of college, ending
with a brutal, 21-credit semester. In two
weeks, Ill be sent off to the world in glo-
rious, blue-cap-and-gown fashion to face a
mountain of college debt.
Four years of learning and honing my
writing talents, and lo and behold, I catch
writers block right before my long-awaited
goodbye column. Youd think four years
worth of taking English courses and writ-
ing for a nationally awarded student-run
newspaper would prepare me for such a
moment. Nope.
I was going to start by saying, Writ-
ing gave me a voice, but thats a clich. If
these past four years have taught me any-
thing, its that I hate those damn clichs.
Ive also enjoyed writing because it did
the exact opposite. I was able to hide be-
hind words. One thing thats always had
me interested in writing particularly jour-
nalism is the guise of objectivity. I could
be whatever I wanted within the black ink
and 11 x 8.5 sheets of paper. Being able
to connect with people through words felt
arbitrary; I didnt really care about making
connections when I became serious about
writing back when I was a freshman in a
high school in Brooklyn.
I was a weak, scrawny 14-year-old. I al-
ways came to class with unsightly, nappy
hair with ill-ftting pants, and was constant-
ly picked on. I didnt do much, as long as I
was left alone at the end of the day. I wasnt
too much of a fan of people at that point
of my life.
Then I started running track & feld on a
whim and became a bit more sociable. We
ran, we jumped, we laughed and talked s**t
for the remaining three years. Then when I
came to UB, one of the few things that in-
vigorated me in high school was gone. Ive
stopped running track to focus on being a
college student (and I wasnt really all that
great of a runner anyway, so theres that).
So, starting from my freshman year
locked up in my single dorm room in
Spaulding Quad, I dove deeper into writ-
ing and eventually sports and music jour-
nalism. I needed something to hide within.
Something to help me keep running away.
Something to make up for my failures as
a student. My failures as a friend. My fail-
ures as a son.
How could something that felt like
such a symbol of my cowardice give such
strength? Writing didnt just shelter me; it
made me into the man I am today. It gave
me something to strive for. Every time I
got behind the keyboard, I no longer felt
like I was adapting to the world. The world
was mine for the taking.
Ive never been that much of a fan of
John Milton, and honestly, how many peo-
ple really are? But one thing that always
stuck out to me about Paradise Lost was its
frst line: Of Mans frst disobedience, and
the fruit.
First. In the middle of the retelling of
the tale of mans fall from paradise was a
blind author obsessed with being the frst.
This is my goal, as well.
I think complacency is one of the main
problems our generation has to overcome.
Complacency is the enemy of progress.
Our biggest heroes were driven by the de-
sire to be the frst or the best, like Michael
Jordan for instance (I know linking Michael
Jordan to Milton is a bit random, but bear
with me). My familys countrys Haitis
claim to greatness is being the frst black
nation in history to gain independence. Its
something that Im very proud of.
The most talented and innocent youths
and young adults die because of ran-
dom circumstance and the evils of oth-
ers. Im lucky to be alive. Youre lucky to
be alive. We should be striving to be the
best in whatever we decide to do. Why?
Because youre reading this right now. Be-
cause youre breathing. Because your big-
gest worry is what youre going to have for
lunch, dinner or what-have-you after you
read this column. Catch my drift?
To T.G., thank you.
To Archie, rest in peace.
To my roommate, next years Spectrum
staff and Caribbean Student Association e-
board: You can always do better.
Email: brian.josephs@ubspectrum.com
MEG LEACH
StAff writer
Liev Schreiber concluded the frst sea-
son of HBOs 24/7 Penguins/Capitals with
a quote that brought me to tears. In three
minutes, he concisely summed up the most
powerful aspect of my favorite sport. It
was one of the most beautiful examples of
scripting I had ever heard.
Hockey wont hold still to give you a
better look, he said. You wouldnt want
it to anyway. Its the action that makes the
possibilities endless. The next practice, the
next city and the next game await.
I heard the lines midway through my
sophomore year at UB. I only related the
words to what hockey meant to me. I
thought the quote only applied to pucks
and sticks, men in pads and skates.
I didnt think it would apply to me.
Looking back on my time at UB, I can
only think of who I was when I walked in
and who I am today. Refecting on the big-
gest transition of my life, I realize that my
toes grace the precipice of what might be
an even more risky and encompassing de-
cision.
When I came to this sprawling campus, I
came with hopes that I would fnd myself.
I was depressed; you might even go so far
as to say I was suicidal. I was lonely, des-
perate for companionship, but with little to
no social skills and no idea of how to make
friends.
I had social anxiety. I hid away in my
room, talked to friends back home online.
I considered myself a boat without an an-
chor, because I so easily left my family be-
hind. I thought it was a bad thing. I thought
that because I had no anchor, I had no con-
trol over my course; I would drift from
place to place and remain lonely.
The only time I truly felt alive was down
the street from my South Campus dorm
room. The then-HSBC Arena was my
home away from home. I remember my
frst game there, a preseason game against
the Toronto Maple Leafs. I was so excited
to be in the presence of my favorite hock-
ey team, I sunk to the ground beside the
boards and cried.
Now, a born-again Bruins fan, I smile
fondly in remembrance of my adoration of
the Sabres.
It was my love for the Sabres that slow-
ly brought me out of my shell. Sopho-
more year, I wrote for The Spectrum, host-
ed a hockey talk show on WRUB radio and
worked at WGR 550 to try to step into the
hockey media business.
I made friends, a closely-knit group of
people who went with me for almost all
of the 19 games I spent at the arena fresh-
man year (thats half of all home games, for
those keeping track). We bonded over our
love for the game.
And slowly, the symptoms of my mental
instability started to slip away.
I look at myself now and see almost no
resemblance to the person I was four years
ago. I dont see an opponent in the mirror,
someone who I have to defeat to be hap-
py. Four years ago, my refection was my
most hated rival. The person in the mirror
held me back, a groping opponent who just
wanted to smash my face into the glass.
I dont recognize myself sometimes, be-
cause I dont hate whos looking back at me
any more.
Hockey helped me fnd who I am. If you
asked me who I was four years ago, Id say
No one special. Id avoid your eyes, and
I would make any excuse to abandon the
conversation.
Now? Im Meg. Lets talk sports. Lets
talk cars. Lets go get a few beers and talk
about anything. I want to talk to you. I want
to know you better.
UB gave me the stage to build my con-
fdence, to grow and to be who I want to
be. And that confdence, while still in its in-
fancy sophomore year, led me to fnd love.
A relationship based around hockey and
physics.
I lost that love a little while later, and I
thought the world was ending, but I also
learned that it wasnt.
If you took a picture of me the past few
years, a picture of what I think would be
the most important part of my UB experi-
ence, it would be out of focus. I was never
the same person long enough, never sat still
long enough to take a proper portrait. My
identifying mark would be a blur.
Four years ago, I was anxious about be-
ing a boat without an anchor.
Now? I wouldnt want one anyway. The
next city and the next game await.
Email: meganlea@buffalo.edu
Hockey brought me home
Back to Brooklyn
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When sophomore pitcher Mike McGee was
pulled in the bottom of the second inning in
the series opener against Akron (9-31, 6-11
Mid-American Conference) on Friday night,
the Bulls streak of conference series-opening
wins seemed to be very much in jeopardy.
McGee allowed fve runs in just an inning
and two thirds and the Bulls (23-18, 13-4
MAC) trailed 5-1.
But then Buffalo did what it has done all
season. The team didnt panic and it went to
work on offense, rallying to holding the Zips
lead to only four runs. The Bulls then scored
three of their own in the third inning before
taking the lead for good with a two-run sixth
inning, fnally winning 7-6.
In what was a shortened series due to a
rain out on Sunday afternoon, the Bulls swept
their second straight opponent, putting their
conference win streak at six games, dating
back to April 14.
When the Bulls were in Ohio, their fnal
game was cancelled due to the weather, while
Buffalo featured some of the nicest weather
so far this year.
I thought we had a good chance at having
another three-game sweep, said head coach
Ron Torgalski. We were disappointed.
The Bulls didnt mind playing on the road.
Despite falling behind early on Friday, they
rallied behind 11 hits to score seven runs in
the victory.
Buffalo put up a total of 14 runs on 20
hits, including eight extra-base hits, in just two
games.
On Saturday, senior outfelder Jason Kan-
zler hit his MAC-leading eighth home run
his frst since April 5 in the third inning to
give the Bulls a 1-0 lead, which they held onto.
The Bulls offense was given a boost by
shoddy defensive play from the Zips. Akron
committed four errors on Saturday, which led
to fve unearned Buffalo runs.
Despite McGees lack of control on Friday,
the pitching was sharp. Freshman Ben Hartz
and senior River McWilliams combined to
pitch 7 1/3 innings of one-run ball.
McWilliams was particularly dominant. He
threw three scoreless innings on Friday, allow-
ing just two hits and striking out three, and
earned his ninth save of the season.
He returned to the mound on Saturday for
just 1/3 of an inning, striking out the only
batter he faced on four pitches, earning his
10th save of the year.
He wants the ball every day, Torgalski
said. If we played today, I would have used
him today. He was ready to go. He is a guy
that loves a challenge late in the game and has
steped up all year long for us.
The Bulls were forced to settle for the two-
game sweep due to the rain out.
Saturdays win was Buffalos 23rd of the
season, which ties the Bulls modern-era re-
cord.
The wins record isnt on their mind, though.
The ultimate goal for us to get to the con-
ference tournament and try to win a confer-
ence tournament, Torgalski said. Right now
we are in frst place and we are trying to play
to stay there. It would be great to send some
of these seniors out with an East division ti-
tle and we are three weekends away. If we take
care of business these last three weekends, its
within reach.
The Bulls will host Canisius (31-11, 9-6
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) on
Wednesday at Amherst Audubon Field. The
Bulls have dropped the frst three meetings
with the Golden Griffns. On Friday, the Bulls
will take on Ohio (12-31, 7-12 MAC) in their
fnal conference home stand of the season.
Wednesdays frst pitch is slated for 3 p.m.
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Baseball sweeps Zips in rain-shortened series
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Baseball coach Ron Torgalski has his team in good position as the Bulls near the programs all-time single-
season wins record. It would be great to send some of these seniors out with an East division title and
we are three weekends away, he said.
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Sports
As voted on by the fans
Athlete of the Year: Khalil Mack and Mike
Burke (tie)
The polling for athlete of the year ended in
a tie between junior linebacker Khalil Mack and
junior pitcher/shortstop Mike Burke. Mack,
also the editors pick for Best Male Athlete, has
an opportunity to graduate as the best-ever de-
fensive player in Buffalo football history.
Burke, the baseball teams ace, has started 10
games this season and is averaging over seven
innings per outing. Through 70.2 innings, he
has pitched two complete games with 54 strike-
outs and a 3.31 ERA. Burke is also the starting
shortstop for the Bulls when he is not pitching,
and he has turned 13 double plays, the second
most on the team.
Te editors picks
Best Male Athlete: Khalil Mack
Mack led the football team with 94 tackles,
21 tackles for loss, four forced fumbles and
eight sacks. He was also named to the All-Mid-
American Conference frst team for the sec-
ond straight season. Entering his senior season,
Mack is in reach of becoming the NCAAs all-
time leader in career tackles for a loss; he is just
19 short of the mark.
Best Female Athlete: Britney Kuras
Junior Brittney Kuras has now won back-to-
back MAC Most Outstanding Swimmer awards.
She has never lost an individual event in the
MAC Championship meet and has gone to the
NCAA championship meet both seasons at UB
as well (she swam her frst year at Rutgers). Her
dominance in conference and performances on
the national stage make her an easy pick for fe-
male athlete of the year.
Coach of the Year: Felisha Legette-Jack
Head womens basketball coach Felisha
Legette-Jack led her team to a 12-20 record, go-
ing 8-8 in MAC play, before losing in the MAC
Tournament quarterfnals to Akron. The young
team was hampered by injuries but surged late
in the year nevertheless. Legette-Jack started
turning around a program that went 75-137
in the previous seven years under former head
coach Linda Hill-MacDonald.
Club Sports Team of the Year: Ice Hockey
Despite being a hockey town, UB doesnt
have a Division I hockey program, but the club
ice hockey team flls the void. With a 26-4 re-
cord, the Bulls were ranked 24th nationally
and second in the Northeast Collegiate Hock-
ey League. They went on to defeat Niagara to
win the NECHL Championship this winter, ce-
menting their status as the best club team on
campus.
Biggest Surprise of the Year: Reggie With-
erspoons fring
Athletic Director Danny White relieved Reg-
gie Witherspoon of his duties as mens basket-
ball head coach March 15, just a season after
winning 20 games and making a MAC Cham-
pionship semifnals appearance. Under Wither-
spoon, the Bulls had four 20-win seasons and
made two MAC Championship games. From
2003-13, the mens basketball team went 173-
140 overall under Witherspoon. White hired
Duke legend Bobby Hurley to replace Wither-
spoon.




Best game
of the Year:
Mens basket-
ball vs. Akron
On March 2,
the Bulls defeat-
ed then-top 25
ranked Akron, 81-
67, in Alumni Arena.
At the time, Akron was
on a nation-high 19-game
win streak. It was the frst vic-
tory over a top-25 opponent in
UB program history.
Rookie of the Year: Macken-
zie Loesing
As a freshman, Loesing led the
womens basketball team with 11.6 points
per game. Loesing scored at least 12 points
in 15 of 19 conference games (including the
MAC Tournament).
Best Team: Baseball
In 2012, the baseball team went to its frst-ev-
er MAC Tournament, winning two games be-
fore falling to Kent State. The Bulls then
lost their star catcher, Tom Murphy, to the
draft and best pitcher, Cameron Cop-
ping, to graduation. To make things
worse, preseason frst-team All-MAC
selection senior outfelder Matt Pollock
went down for the season in the frst
weekend series with a broken wrist.
The team didnt falter, though, and
has already tied the modern era record
for wins in a season. At 23-17 (13-4
MAC), the Bulls are one of the only
teams on campus to have a record
over .500 this year and theyve domi-
nated conference play.
The Spectys
The Spectrum presents its end-of-the-year sports awards
JOE KONZE JR
Senior SPortS editor
On the third and fnal day of the
2013 NFL Draft, graduating Bulls
defensive end Steven Means was
outside, enjoying the gorgeous,
68-degree Buffalo day.
For weeks, he had been waiting
for his name to scroll across the
screen, anxious to see if he would
have a future in professional foot-
ball.
And then his phone rang.
It was a crazy feeling, Means
said. I wasnt even in the house. I
had my phone with me. I was out-
side getting a breather, playing catch
with my little brother and my father
was outside. I heard my phone ring
and everyone stopped and looked.
Means was the No. 147 overall
pick in the ffth round by the Tam-
pa Bay Buccaneers on Saturday
making him the ffth Bull to be
drafted in the past fve years. Grad-
uating UB linebacker Willie Mose-
ley, who was signed as an undrafted
free agent moments after the draft,
will be joining Means in Tampa Bay.
Means made a name for himself
at Grover Cleveland High School
(now I-Prep), right down the road
from UB, receiving two All-West-
ern New York Selections. He also
starred in basketball and track.
Means posted a stat line of 108
tackles, 20 sacks, an interception
and fve forced fumbles in his se-
nior year, before embarking on a
memorable career at UB.
In his four years, Means accumu-
lated 186 tackles and 18.5 sacks to
go along with two interceptions.
Last year, Means had 77 tackles, 6.5
sacks and three blocked kicks.
His 18.5 sacks are the fourth
most in school history.
Although he played defensive
end for the Bulls, Means is predict-
ed to play outside linebacker for
the Buccaneers, who already have
depth at linebacker. Lavonte David
and Jacob Cutera play on the weak
side and Adam Hayward and Deko-
da Watson are on the strong side.
Im willing to do everything
and put my all into it, Means said.
My main focus is going to be on
the feld and to be in that playbook.
Im going to be fawless with every
technique and play out there. Im
just ready to go.
Moseley had a successful senior
season, as well, posting 51 tack-
les, 2.5 sacks, an interception and a
fumble recovery.
The pair will be joining anoth-
er local product in Tampa in wide
receiver Mike Williams. Williams, a
Buffalo native who attended River-
side High School, was drafted No.
101 in the fourth round in the 2010
draft.
Everyone in Buffalo has talent,
Means said. If you work hard ev-
ery day, you can be a professional.
Means and Moseley will start
training camp July 27.
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Two Bulls headed to Tampa Bay following NFL Draft
Means drafted, Moseley signed
Willie Moseley (above) signed with Tampa Bay as an undrafted free agent
on Saturday following the conclusion of the NFL Draft. This past season,
Moseley had 51 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, an interception and a
fumble recovery.
Graduating Bulls defensive end Steven Means (above) was drafted No. 147 overall in the ffth round of the NFL Draft
on Saturday by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Means is the ffth UB player to be drafted in the past fve years.
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