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Men’s basketball begins practice without departed coach, star players

Two McNair Scholars recognized at national mathematics conference

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EVAN SCHNEIDERSTAFF WRITER

Dr. Deborah Reed-Danahay started off in the same place as many college stu-dents. While taking classes at the Univer-sity of Delaware, she wasn’t sure what ma-jor was the best fit for her.

Now she’s a professor with an honor shared with only four other teachers in the United States and 40 people around the world.

This past August, Reed-Danahay, an an-thropology professor who served as di-rector of the Center of European Studies (CEUS) at UB from 2010-15, was named a Jean Monnet Chair recipient – a teaching post given by the European Commission

for professors with a specialization in Eu-ropean Union studies.

Reed-Danahay is a cultural anthropolo-gist and has experienced an extensive and rewarding career in her field conducting research and educating students on citi-zens of all different walks of life across Western Europe, with her main focus be-ing contemporary European societies.

A Jean Monnet Chair recipient must be a full-time professor and have a profile as a researcher. Reed-Danahay has five pub-lished books. An eligible professor must teach a minimum of 90 hours involving Europe per year, which equates to two courses.

Known across the globe UB professor receives prestigious teaching post

TORI ROSEMANSENIOR FEATURES EDITOR

UB students have had their share of le-gal trouble this semester with 23 stu-dents arrested by Buffalo police and sus-pended from the university for partying in the Heights during the first few weeks of school.

But the only place for students to get legal advice isn’t a lawyer’s office or courtroom. There’s an option right on campus as well.

Sub Board I, Inc. (SBI) Legal offers a va-riety of legal services for undergraduate stu-dents. The office, located on the third floor of the Student Union, is open from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. to accommodate both students and the attorneys who work there.

“We do everything we can,” said Chris Sasiadek, chief defender at SBI Legal and a law school student. “I definitely advise any-body, even if it seems like a minor issue to them, to come to us. Your education is one of the most important things and anything that puts that into the slightest bit of jeop-ardy is important. We can help a lot of peo-ple navigate that process.”

The office offers three types of servic-es: help with legal issues outside of school – such as criminal charges, insurance issues, the legalities behind starting a business or a car accident – advice for students facing the Student Wide Judiciary (SWJ) in on-campus proceedings and a class undergraduates can take to learn how to research a legal issue and legal procedures.

There are five professional attorneys on staff available to help students. Seeking out legal advice is free of charge, as it’s paid for through the mandatory student activity fee.

Students can also come to SBI Legal for help with housing issues like advice before

they sign their leases. Sasiadek said a lot of students come in seeking help on this issue in particular.

There are also 13 student defenders in the office. Student defenders are law stu-dents who assist Sasiadek in giving advice to students, trying to find evidence in stu-dents’ favor and teaching them how to pres-ent themselves in front of SWJ.

Students who participate as student de-fenders come in for a couple hours at a time, so that there is always someone on staff in the office. The job is also offered as work study so law students can be in the office for hours without falling behind on their studies.

Zach Persichini, a first-year student at UB’s Law School, just started working in the office. He saw a post for the position on the UB Law School Facebook page and decided to apply for it. He was a business major as an undergraduate at UB, but interest in law stems from interactions he had at his job.

“I was working at a company and they were in the middle of a merger,” Persichini said. “I worked a lot with the corporate law-yers, and that’s where it all began.”

Persichini’s job is to help students who got in trouble through the university – he walks them through the process and creates a plan of action so that they can find the best solution possible.

The student defender mentioned he hadn’t seen many cases, which he attri-butes to the fact it’s only the first month of school. Sasiadek takes the lead on many of them and some students choose to use the professional lawyers on staff.

Daniel Wright, a junior political science major, thinks that the opportunity to work with lawyers and in that setting would be helpful for anyone in law school.

Defensive strategy UB offers legal services to students through SBI Legal

JORDAN GROSSMAN SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

Tony Daniel wanted to unwind after the long 2014 football season – it had been a strenuous one.

The Bulls now senior quarterback and his teammates had dealt with everything, from a freak snowstorm canceling their fi-nal home game to the termination of their head coach.

The everyday rigors of a Division-I col-lege football player – even for a backup like Daniel – had come to an end in Novem-ber of 2014. There were no more worries, no more stresses. Life was finally carefree again.

Or so Daniel thought.He relaxed for about two days after the

season, until those thoughts were replaced with worry, tension and fear.

On Nov. 30, 2014, Daniel received a fran-tic phone call from his sister Carley telling him their father Jack had suffered a heart attack ear-lier in the day and was rushed to the hospital.

Forty-five minutes after the phone call, Jack passed away at the age of 65.

Daniel’s world became a “foggy daze.”“It didn’t really register at first,” Dan-

iel said. “At that time, nothing’s going to make you feel better or worse. Nothing re-ally helps, except knowing that he was at

peace.” There’s not much to do in the wake of a

lost loved one, especially for someone like Daniel. He values family more than any-thing. And the fact he’ll never see his father again was the most devastating news he’d ever heard.

Daniel is the one of leaders for the Bulls, despite passing the ball just 27 times in his four-year career. He is the type of player who will stay with a teammate for that extra five minutes after practice or go over game

tape. But being the backup quarterback for the football team may be something Daniel is least known for.

He can be found cheering on other UB sports teams at games across campus when he’s not playing football. He ran for a SUNY Delegate position in 2014. He’s one of the few, if not the only, 6-foot-5 Divi-sion I football players you’ll ever see hold-

ing a toddler’s hand while walking around campus, as Daniel spent time volunteering at UB’s Early Childhood Research Center last year.

During the past 10 months, slowly but surely, Daniel has learned how to cope. He stands proud as a senior quarterback for Buffalo, but he’s even prouder to call him-self Jack’s son.

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JUSTIN SHAW, THE SPECTRUM

Dr. Deborah Reed-Danahay received a prestigious Jean Monnet Chair teaching post. She is a cultural anthropologist who conducts research and educates students on people in Western Europe.

A family affairAfter father’s death, Tony Daniel learns family can come from anywhere

ANGELA BARCA, THE SPECTRUM

Tony Daniel (front) and his teammates (back, from L to R) Joe Licata, Ron Willoughby and Matt Weiser have spent years together on the UB football team. It’s like a family.

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JASHONDA WILLIAMSCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Out of nearly 20,000 undergraduates at UB, there are only 22 McNair Scholars. Out of those 22, two can say they present-ed their research to a room full of profes-sionals.

Nadia Syeda and Valerie Tapia are Mc-Nair Scholars who spent their summer completing a research internship and cre-ating their own research projects that they presented at the 21st Annual UB Under-graduate Research Conference. They also got the opportunity to present at the Utah Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges (UMATYC).

Syeda, a senior mathematics and eco-nomics major, and Tapia, a senior math-ematics major, have found opportuni-ties through the Robert E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program, also known as the McNair Scholars Program. The program is named after Dr. Ronald McNair, one of the first African Ameri-cans to become an astronaut, who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger launch in 1986. The McNair program is federally funded by the U.S. Department of Education and was created to help first generation, low-in-come students who are underrepresented in their fields.

But not just anyone can become a Mc-Nair Scholar.

Syeda and Tapia were given the chance to show off their expertise at the McNair un-dergraduate research conference.

Tapia’s research focused on education and exploring math anxiety among stu-

dents in high school. She also studied how teachers can use their expertise to help kids feel more comfortable with doing math.

The project required Tapia to travel to different schools in Buffalo to con-duct surveys. Syeda, on the other hand, wanted to investigate the Weierstrass function and theoretical

math and apply it to the real world with a focus on economics.

The research conference was held in Niagara Falls in July. This year, about 20 UB students presented their work. Students from different schools and pro-grams all over the country attended the conference and presented research.

When conducting research, students are encouraged to seek faculty mentors to help facilitate their work during the summer. McNair Program Director and Coordina-tor Dr. Susan Ott and Heather Hagenbu-ch, a project assistant and counselor in the program, matched Syeda and Tapia with UB mathematics professor Chris Yuen.

“[Professor Yuen] is amazing,” Ott said. “He’s tough but he puts everyone above all.”

What the girls enjoyed most about Yuen being their mentor is that they got to create their own projects. Syeda and Tapia didn’t expect this freedom. Yuen helped them develop their own research topics instead of allowing them to assist him with his re-search, which is most common in these sit-uations.

Syeda and Tapia’s work has also been recognized on a national level among pro-fessionals and professors in their fields.

Their work was chosen from a pool of na-tional applicants who applied to present at the Utah Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (UMATYC.)

UMATYC is a forum that encourages open discussions for potential mathematics teachers. Syeda and Tapia were the only un-dergraduates to attend and present their re-search – the rest of the attendees were pro-fessors. The McNair program paid all the expenses to enable them to attend.

The program is strict and usually only accepts college sophomores and juniors. Two-thirds of the students must be first generation college students and come from

low-income backgrounds. One-third must be underrepresented for doctoral study.

Students must have more than a 3.0 GPA and plan on continuing their education at a graduate level. The program is designed is to prepare students to get their Ph.D. af-ter graduating. The intensive research and close work relationship with professors give students firsthand experience of what it’s like to work in academia.

Students are able to attend credit-bear-ing workshops, obtain funding for graduate school preparation classes and textbooks, get waivers to applications, network with faculty and present their research at differ-ent schools all over the country.

“This program really knows how to take care of you,” Syeda said. “I’ve had a lot of eureka moments in the summer program, it made me feel like I can actually do some-thing,”

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JASHONDA WILLIAMS, THE SPECTRUM

(Left to right) Heather Hagenbuch,

Valerie Tapia, Nadia Syeda, Chris Yuen, Susan Ott. Tapia and Syeda

are two McNair Scholars whose work has been recognized among

professionals in their fields.

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TOM DINKIEDITOR IN CHIEF

It was exactly one year ago

Saturday. Well, 364 days.The Buffalo football team

had a chance to begin confer-ence play with a victory over one of the top and most consistent programs in the Mid-American Conference over the past few years: Bowling Green. A chance to let everyone know Buffalo can compete with the top teams in the MAC.

But former kicker Patrick Clarke’s field goal at Doty Stadi-um sailed wide right that Satur-day. The Falcons marched down the field and took the lead for good four plays later. The play-ers were dejected after the game.

One week and loss later, UB Athletics fired head coach Jeff Quinn.

It’s a new era – and new cir-cumstances – under new head coach Lance Leipold, but the Bulls (2-3, 0-1 MAC) came up short against Bowling Green again on Saturday, this time with a 28-22 loss at UB Stadium for Homecoming. And again Buffa-lo showed it’s not quite ready to beat the best of the MAC.

First let’s focus on Saturday’s

loss.You could look at the Buffa-

lo ‘D’ limiting a talented Bowl-ing Green offense in the second half as a positive, but the Bulls still allowed both Falcon run-ning backs to run for more than 7 yards a carry and wide receiv-er Roger Lewis to rack up more than 200 receiving yards – he had 196 in one half.

Buffalo’s offense, thought to be the team’s strong unit, again made costly mistakes and errors.

After being down 21-6 at half-time, the Bulls had a chance for a strong touchdown drive to begin the second half, but senior quar-terback Joe Licata was intercept-ed with Buffalo nearly in the red zone. It seemed like every time Buffalo got down near Bowling Green’s end zone, the offense couldn’t complete a pass.

And offensive coordina-tor Andy Kotelnicki had Licata throw 59 passes in not the best of conditions. Why? Running backs Anthone Taylor and Jor-dan Johnson both averaged 4 or more yards a carry, so why not give it to them more?

The box score may read as just a six-point loss, but Buffa-lo was down 28-9 in the fourth quarter. You could give the Bulls credit for fighting back to put a scare into the Falcons, but they shouldn’t have fallen behind by 19 to a conference opponent at home, regardless if that oppo-nent is a step above Buffalo.

Bowling Green is everything Buffalo should be aiming to be.

The Falcons have won at least eight games every season for the past three years. They’ve been to

three straight bowl games and two straight MAC Champion-ship games – and won one of them.

They’re a consistent program outside the Power 5 conferenc-es gaining respect.

When Bowling Green host-ed the Bulls in a cold October game last year, the parking lots were filled with swarms of fans and students clad in orange. It felt like a big-time college at-mosphere. The fans stayed un-til past halftime too, which has been a problem for the Bulls. UB Athletics announced Satur-day’s paid attendance as slight-ly more than 20,000, but there was nowhere close to 20,000 af-ter halftime.

Keep in mind this was Buffa-lo’s “Homecoming” game too.

That is Buffalo’s next step. They have to get to the lev-el of MAC teams like Bowling Green and Northern Illinois if the football program here is ever going to take off. Which means they have to start beating teams like Bowling Green and North-ern Illinois every once in a while.

The last time the Bulls defeat-ed Bowling Green? Jeff Quinn’s first MAC win as Bulls head coach. Buffalo hasn’t defeated a MAC team that finished the season with a winning confer-ence record since 2011. The best MAC team that great 2013 Bulls team – led by current NFL play-ers like Khalil Mack and Bran-den Oliver – defeated was Ohio who finished 4-4 in conference play. All the other MAC teams Buffalo defeated that year fin-ished with three total wins or

less. The Bulls have to start being

more competitive in the MAC – Saturday’s 28-22 loss to Bowl-ing Green was another missed opportunity for Buffalo. Maybe Leipold is the guy to do it even-tually, but it’s becoming more clear this won’t be the year.

That’s because it’s not going to get any easier for Buffalo. Next up is Central Michigan – who just defeated Northern Illinois – and 4-1 Ohio. Buffalo, despite having a pretty competitive ros-ter, could very well start confer-ence play 0-3.

It’s sad that Buffalo may not be contending for the East or a bowl game in Licata’s senior year – his final two years to be ex-act. It’s sad he probably won’t be the guy to win Buffalo a champi-onship in this new era. I’ve said it before – the best team Lica-ta will ever play on is the team he played on as a sophomore. Which there’s nothing wrong with – not everyone can go out on top.

Licata will still leave UB with a winning record – which is a ma-jor accomplishment for Buffalo if you look at its history – and most of the Bulls’ other passing records. He should be proud of his run.

But long term, Buffalo will have to start playing tough with the great MAC teams. It can’t move forward if it’s not mov-ing forward within its own con-ference. It has to start winning games like Saturdays.


You don’t have to win ’em all, but you can’t lose ’em allBulls need to start winning against good MAC teams

There have always been un-hinged individuals at the fringes of society – people who have bro-ken the social contract and act-ed upon debased whims. But the number of these individuals who are taking to mass shootings is horrifying. The sudden, terroriz-ing conversion of a public ven-ue such as a college or mall into a shooting gallery freezes the na-tion and brings about the question of what went wrong every time it happens.

And it is happening far too of-ten.

Thursday’s shooting at Umpqua Community College (UCC) in Or-egon is yet another example of this stereotypical and rote inci-dent. Stories are already circulat-ing – a veteran tried to stop the shooting. The shooter asked if people were Christian. He com-mitted suicide. The investiga-tion and profiling will go one for months, even as the incident slow-ly slides from our memories.

While the oft-quoted statis-tics on mass shootings in United States are exaggerated to a degree, no one can deny that the problem is escalating.

But the rhetoric employed in the wake of such events isn’t help-ing. The gun lobby staunchly op-poses any change and the pro-gun control folks propose either radi-cal laws or nothing at all. We can vividly recall shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in New-town, Connecticut and the mov-

ie theater Aurora, Colo-rado – but did anything meaningful come from those events? Did any-thing change that would help prevent these trag-edies from occurring again?

It seems like nothing did.

President Obama addressed the nation Thursday and said that Americans had become numb to mass shoot-ings given their frequency. He called the nation’s response “rou-tine” in that those who oppose “any kind of common-sense gun regulation” will call for more guns and fewer gun safety laws when in reality there should be a gun law overhaul.

“Each time this happens, I’m going to bring this up,” he said. “Each time this happens, I’m go-ing to say that we can actually do something about it.”

There has been slight progress in officials’ reactions following shootings. The sheriff in charge of the UCC investigation is re-fusing to identify, and thus glori-fy, the shooter. The creation of infamy through exhausting me-dia coverage of these shoot-ings causes a major conundrum – there is a need to talk about why such shootings are happening but we have seen that such coverage inspires other shooters.

But a more ingrained prob-

lem lies in the fact that access to guns, often in an illegal manner, becomes the outlet for individuals with mental illness. Mass shooters often procure their weapons from family members, usually without said family members realizing in time. There is no real cure for that problem beyond banning guns, which is a poor solution for mul-tiple reasons. Background checks, while a good start, won’t prevent this troubling trend of guns fall-ing into the wrong hands through simple ignorance.

Obama’s frustration, while laud-able, isn’t expressed in any kind of realistic terms. Calling on the United States to emulate Brit-ish and Australian gun laws is a non-starter for multiple reasons. The UK in particular did not have a strong gun culture before the bans; the United States obviously does, though ownership has tight-ened in recent years. Furthermore, violent crime has skyrocketed in the UK and a series of increas-

ingly Orwellian bans and security measures have had to be enacted.

It is now illegal in many plac-es in the UK to purchase butter knives if you are under the age of 18.

We need to get to the root of what ails our nation and get to work fixing it. The mental health of the United States needs to be examined and addressed. A lim-ited addition to gun control laws would help as well, but any such laws should be carefully consid-ered. They should not be a repeat of other laws that simply ban cos-metic features on guns.

Whatever happens, it needs to happen now. There are rights on both sides of the argument and they need to be respected. But such views can’t polarize our soci-ety. The time has come to act, not forget and allow history to repeat itself once more.


Another day, another shooting

Overblown rhetoric serves no one in preventing mass shootings

ILLUSTRATION BY MICHAEL PERLMAN

He’s found family can be anywhere and can come from anyone, like when his Buf-falo teammates drove 14 hours to attend Jack’s funeral during finals week. Even though he lost one family member, Daniel knows he has many more.

It’s his family affair. Small-town beginnings

The Daniel household prides itself on being from a small town.

Hiram, Georgia – roughly 30 minutes west of Atlanta – has a populace of about 3,600 and its small-town hospitality is what makes living there so appealing. Everyone knows everyone. Everyone went to the same schools and churches. People in Hi-ram attend elementary, middle and high school with the same people.

And Daniel loved it that way.“Everybody has a small town mentality,”

Daniel said. “My best friends’ parents are like my parents. Our parents feed all of us, like their own children.”

Carley said when Daniel received his scholarship offer from UB, the family couldn’t keep it private for long.

Within days, the entire town knew and was celebrating for him. There was always town camaraderie, but above all, there was town competition.

One event each week in particular took over Hiram: high school football.

There wasn’t much notoriety about Hi-ram, except that football was valued high-est. In some towns, it’s all people have to look forward to. Newspaper clippings about the local high school teams filled coffee and barbershops.

There were five schools in Hiram and all of them had a varsity high school football program. Football players were the stars of the school. And every Friday night was their moment. On any given Friday, the bleachers at any school would be packed with thou-sands of people chanting and screaming from beyond the sidelines.

Even thinking about it today gives Dan-iel chills.

“It’s a different feeling,” he said. “You’ve grown up with these guys your entire life. When you go into Friday night, you still get butterflies. You’re going to play for your family, friends and classmates.”

Above the competition and the results, football games were an event. Everyone got involved, from concessions to tailgating to even helping work the games from the side-lines.

That was Jack’s job.It wasn’t until Daniel’s senior year that his

father finally sat down and watched one of his football games. Daniel begged Jack to sit down and “just watch a game” instead of running amuck around the stadium, work-ing the chains and concession stands and even commentating for a local radio show up in the booth.

He sat down and just watched all five of Daniel’s home games that year.

So when Jack passed away last year, the entire town came together in support of the Daniels. That was the nature of Hiram. And Daniel couldn’t believe the outpouring of support in the following days.Family is everything

At first, Jack’s death didn’t feel real to Daniel.

He felt numb. He felt heartbroken. He felt pain. But the shock of the situation had not settled in yet – for only a couple of minutes.

Soon after he received the call from Car-ley, reality settled in and he realized what his sister had told him. And he wasn’t alone. Carley said it was “the worst day of [her] life.” Carley, like Daniel, is studying early childhood development. Her mission after she graduates from Tennessee Temple Uni-versity this year is to teach.

“As a teacher, I’ve seen what it’s like to not have a family,” Carley said. “There are students that do not know who their father is. It devastates me.”

It’s never easy for children to wrap their heads around the thought of losing a par-ent. It will always be there. But it can get easier. People have different ways of cop-ing. And at the time, Daniel and Carley needed family and faith.

And of course, the comfort of a mother.Rose admits she’s a standard southern

mother. She’s a natural protector who al-ways thinks her children are right. Dan-iel said if she witnessed him beat someone up in a fight, she would tell the police she didn’t see a thing. It’s natural instinct.

Not that she’d ever expect her kids to do that anyway.

“The kids never gave us trouble,” Rose said. “They never got into drinking and drugs. We never wanted to take vacations away from them. I didn’t do ‘ladies night out.’ I nev-er tried to get away from my kids. We always wanted to do things together.”

But don’t let her nurturing exterior fool you – she’s a competitor at heart. She was a basketball and volleyball player at Geor-gia State University from 1975-79 and one of the first athletes to be a part of Title IX, which gave men and women equal scholar-ships.

She’s a southerner at heart. She treats Daniel’s friends like they are her own chil-dren. She would always have a home-cooked meal ready to go or a box of bait waiting for Daniel’s friends when they went fishing.

“She keeps us together, especially dur-ing these times,” Daniel said. “She keeps us strong, grounded in our faith and makes sure we’re doing all right.”

Soon after Jack’s death, word spread around social media via various condolence posts and photo sharing. Within minutes, people knew about it and started “pouring in love and support.”

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – you name it. Wherever there was a social media plat-form, there was news about Jack’s pass-ing from people who knew him. Daniel and Carley received calls from people they hadn’t spoken to in years.

While the news was breaking about Jack’s death, Daniel was still in Buffalo. Carley was in Tennessee and their mother was at home in Georgia. It was finals week, but school didn’t matter at that point to Daniel, even though his teachers gave him the necessary time off before returning to tests.

And it didn’t matter it was test week to his Buffalo family. Its first concern was Tony.‘A southern thing’

It never even crossed Joe Licata’s mind to miss Jack’s funeral.

The Bulls’ starting quarterback has known Daniel since the two were fresh-men. The same applies for fellow seniors Ron Willoughby and Matt Weiser. The four of them have been best friends since they came into the program as redshirts in 2011. They were Daniel’s Buffalo family. And when Jack passed away, they treated Daniel as such. Licata, Weiser and Willoughby were going down to Hiram no matter how chal-lenging it would be.

“Anyone who knows Tony knows he puts everyone before himself,” Weiser said. “For such a difficult, heartbreaking situation, we knew we had to be there.”

And it wasn’t an easy process getting down there. They looked into flights and train sched-ules, but there were no times that worked with their schedules. Their only hope was a last-second plea to their former Buffalo teammate Jake Silas to borrow his car.

It worked.The trio took the 14-hour car ride down

to Georgia to make it in time for the funer-al. They didn’t even have time to stop and change into their suits before entering the funeral home. And to say they were sur-prised about southern hospitality is an un-derstatement.

“When you meet Tony up here, you know what kind of guy he is,” Licata said. “You wonder how he became such a nice guy. Then you walk in and everyone is the nicest person you’ve ever met. Then, it started to all make sense. This is where Tony gets it.”

They couldn’t even see Daniel until 25 minutes after their arrival. The funer-al home was fully packed. Cars wrapped around the area for miles and streets were even cut off to alleviate traffic jams. It was the second-biggest funeral the home ever hosted.

Licata, Weiser and Willoughby stood around without knowing anyone other than Daniel as everyone around them sparked conversation. But it didn’t take long to ad-just to the Hiram norm. Within five min-utes of their arrival, about three mothers who they’d never met before came up to them and asked if they wanted food or a

drink. Nothing out of the

norm. “It’s more of a south-

ern thing,” Rose said. “For them, it was a cul-ture shock. They’re all from the north.”

Licata, Willoughby and Weiser said they had never been to a funer-al like Jack’s. Licata said it reminded him of his family reunions, where everyone talks and “eats on repeat.” For hours, the trio heard stories about Jack and his ex-periences. And every-one had a story that had the whole funeral home “cracking up.”

“Funerals are such crappy situations,” Wil-loughby said. “There’s nothing enjoyable about a funeral. But that group of people, that commu-nity, made it an enjoy-able time. The positive stories, the amount of laughs shared. And like Tony, Mr. Daniel was involved in ev-erything. He had something to do with everything.”Jack’s legacy

Tony Daniel is experiencing some firsts.

Last December was his first Christmas without his dad. This past March was the first time he couldn’t celebrate his father’s birthday. June was the first time he wasn’t able to cel-ebrate Father’s Day.

But Daniel doesn’t mind it. Of course, there was sadness on those days, but he didn’t let them get to him.

“Those days are important because so-ciety makes them important,” Daniel said. “Live those days because you should treat your family with the same kind of respect everyday.”

Jack was a person that always put other people in front of himself. He would come down to practice when Daniel was in high school and cook hamburgers and hot dogs for the team “just because.”

In a small town, feeding the masses was important. In a community such as Hiram, a lot of people can’t go home and have a properly cooked meal. Like Rose, Daniel’s friends were Jack’s kids as well. He looked out for the whole community. Daniel loved the kind gesture.

“Reflecting back, I was able to see the im-pact my father had,” Daniel said. “You see it when he’s alive and you see how much people loved him and the trickle-down ef-fect he had on our community.”

And it would never go unnoticed. Af-ter his death, the community set up fund-raisers to help the Daniel family with bills. Daniel’s high school created a spur-of-the-moment 3-point contest in the days follow-ing – a competition Jack used to run during halftime at high school basketball games. The fundraiser allowed people to shoot a 3-pointer for a dollar. If made, the shoot-er won a $5 gift card to places like the lo-cal arcade.

The community raised $300 in an hour. But to really understand his value, his

award says it all. He is now the namesake of Hiram’s Jack Daniel Community Service Award for his efforts ensuring the health,

wellness and happiness to the people of Hi-ram.

That legacy and spirit lives on in Daniel now.

He regularly attends church. He is one of the most active students on campus. His personality shines through the most – he’s the type of person that puts on a clown nose and a cowboy vest just to cheer up a crying 2-year-old.

He studies hard on and off the field, even though he’s just a backup. His academic All Mid-American Conference Scholar acco-lades speak for themselves. But that doesn’t mean he’s not a talented football player. Al-beit a small sample size, Daniel passed for two touchdowns and even ran one in for a score in 2014.

But Daniel prides himself on being a family man – the values he got from his fa-ther.

“What makes a person memorable and makes a person stand out? For me, I think he exemplified everything that I want,” Daniel said. “He treated his family with ut-most respect, made sure we were taken care of and he tried to make my teammates and friends have everything I have and more.”

It takes a memorable person for a funeral home to be packed. It takes a special person for an entire town – and an entire Buffalo football team – to grieve over his death. It takes a family man.

“Family means everything,” Daniel said. “Family is everything.”


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A family affair

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(TOP) Tony Daniel runs for a touchdown against Akron at UB Stadium last season.

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(MIDDLE) Daniel looks to pass during spring practice in 2014.

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(BOTTOM) (From L to R) Carley, Rose, Tony and Jack pose for a photo while all donning

Buffalo gear.

“It’s something I would look into, be-cause the opportunity to do casework and learn the process with professional attorneys seems like a great internship,” Wright said.

SWJ doesn’t put students in trouble on trial – it’s more like a plea bargain. Those who sit on the judiciary analyze the evi-dence and decide on a punishment.

“Most people who come in admit that they committed whatever charge they committed,” Sasiadek said. “They just don’t want to risk losing their educa-tion.”

Sasiadek said that the office doesn’t maintain statistics, but there is a steady influx of students who come into the

office, especially at the beginning of fall semester and around Halloween.

Jane Helt, a junior psychology major, said she would definitely consider using the services if she found herself in trou-ble. She lives in the Heights and often sees police officers patrolling the streets and breaking up parties.

“If I ever had an issue with my house or found myself in trouble because I had people over, I would use the school’s services,” Helt said. “I wouldn’t know where else to go, and I feel like they would give me a fair chance to make my case without charging me a ton of mon-ey.”


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GIOVANNI GAGLIANESESTAFF WRITER

The Lehrer Dance Company has contin-ued to take flight on and offstage with its sellout first performance at UB.

Buffalo’s own Lehrer Dance with rock band 10,000 Maniacs soldout the Center for the Arts Mainstage on Saturday to start its home season.

Innovating modern dance with its sig-nature style, Lehrer Dance is thriving. The company has shared its choreography across the United States, and with sponsorship by the U.S. Consulate, has toured Russia three times, most recently in 2014.

Lehrer Dance is successful is part be-cause its style cannot be categorized under any dance genre. Its modern movement is a fierce fusion of jazz, acrobatic athleticism and theatrics. Each dancer brings emotion, thought and purpose with every movement.

“What sets us apart from other compa-nies is that we have a very specific style and technique that we are constantly develop-ing and exploring, “said Christiana Caval-lo, Lehrer dance member and UB alumnae. “We combine athleticism and artistry with accessibility. Our movement is highly influ-enced by physics and the way humans move naturally. So when we take those human qualities to the stage, we create something superhuman, but that the audience can still very much relate to.”

Opening with Cash or Check brought a 1920s jazz movement that had attendees snapping their fingers along to the rhythm.

The dancers made the performance seem easier than it really was – their graceful-ness onstage made the choreography visu-ally glossy.

It did well in grabbing the audience with its artful humor – during the performance the characters onstage included slapstick humor in between their arrangements. The

dancers seemed to personify the music.After the first song you could see the

dancers’ chemistry onstage. Murmur was a piece that seemed to buzz

with acrobatic prowess. Dancers floated, al-most weightlessly, about the stage.

Gabriella Mameli and Ginger Page, both freshman dance majors, said the company always puts on a good show.

“They are very fluid and smooth,” Page said.

Combining indigenous sound and move-ment, the world premiere piece Chukchi is a modern twist of Russian movement. The un-plugged music was hard-hitting and the vo-cals were tantalizing and tribal. The cos-

tumes for this piece glimmered under the opaque light and quickly became a crowd fa-vorite.

After intermission, Femeie De Lume took flight. Dancer Colleen Walsh began by hap-hazardly stepping on the other dancers who knelt down like stepping-stones for her, jumping from back to back.

This quickly became a powerful piece, as the eerie opera music met the negative shapes and shadows of the lighting onstage. The dancers coalesced into what seemed to be one unified movement – they turned this into a conceptually refined and aesthetically pleasing piece.

The next segment Loose Canon began like how most college mornings do – waking up

irritated and in need of more sleep. Each dancer captured a comical person-

ality with exaggerated movement, the result of a perfect collision between nimble, con-temporary movements and method acting.

The crowd hysterically laughed to the hu-morously inflated movements of the dancers.

A Western New York favorite, 10,000 Ma-niacs, began its five-song set titled Like a Dream in the Night with the soothing vocals of Natalie Merchant. The lyrics were packed with a string of beautiful imagery, from love songs to folk grooves.

The sound was textured with delicate vi-olin transitions, bass, rhythmical lyrics and guitar riffs throughout its set.

Lehrer Dance accompanied its set with the graceful repertoire that it’s known for.

Dancers performed in sync, only stopping at times to highlight an individual dancer’s athleticism and grace in a solo.

“[I’ve] never seen something like this be-fore, it was refreshing,” said Urias Dames, 32 year-old Buffalo native and attendee of the show.

The combination of movement and live music in this collaboration was described as new, interesting and at times, distracting – it seemed to draw mixed feelings from the crowd.

“It was a little too much at times,” said Larry Ezrow, a 20-year-old Western New York native.


Lehrer Dance[s] the night awayLocal dance company sells out CFA Mainstage

for first UB performance of the year

The position itself involves teaching, communication and community outreach.

Reed-Danahay conducts research and ed-ucates students on people of all different walks of life in areas of Western Europe, from citizens to immigrants. She describes cultural anthropology as the study of con-temporary human societies.

“I think it is really important for Ameri-can students to know about current events in Europe because we have close ties,” Reed-Danahay said. “It’s important for Americans to understand how the Europe-an Union functions and what its effects are on the everyday lives of people in Europe and America.”

After Reed-Danahay graduated from Del-aware, she decided to expand her knowledge on anthropology and pursue a Ph.D. in cul-tural anthropology at Brandeis University right outside of Boston, Massachusetts.

During her tenure at Brandeis, Reed-Dan-ahay met her husband and became pregnant with her first child. This is also when she be-gan work on her dissertation focusing on ru-ral France, spending a year with dairy farm-ers studying the French school system. She gave birth to her daughter shortly before

she defended her dissertation, which then became a published book entitled, “Educa-tion and Identity in Rural France: The Poli-tics of Schooling.”

Following the completion of her Ph. D., she and her husband stayed in the Boston area for some time. Reed-Danahay kept her focus on the career path that she set for her-self back in Delaware and took a part-time teaching position at the University of Mas-sachusetts Boston.

At that time she became pregnant with her second child and was soon grading pa-pers from the hospital room in which her son was born – authentication for her love of teaching and her work.

But she loves her kids more than her work, she said.

When her children were both in grade school in 1994, Reed-Danahay took a po-sition at the University of Texas-Arling-ton where she taught and served as associ-ate dean and director of anthropology un-til 2006.

During that time she conducted a re-search project on former Vietnamese refu-gees in the Fort Worth region of Texas.

“After the Vietnam War, many refugees

settled in different areas,” Reed-Danahay said. “They settled in Texas for its climate [similar to Vietnam] and its booming econ-omy.”

Reed-Danahay studied how refugee chil-dren were coming American and the ways in which they participated in American civ-ic life.

In 2006, Reed-Danahay found an oppor-tunity to take a position as Chair of the De-partment of Anthropology at SUNY Buf-falo State. She conducted more research and taught undergraduates there until 2008 when she was offered a teaching position at UB.

She was intrigued by UB’s offer because it would give her the opportunity to teach graduate students while also conducting re-search at a well-known research institute.

She returned to her interests in Europe soon after finishing the Vietnamese research and is currently doing a project on French migrants to London.

Since receiving the Jean Monnet Chair, Reed-Danahay has begun teaching a pilot program for the new UB curriculum, a test course for the introduction of the new gen-eral education program coming next fall.

It is a UB Honors Seminar called “Europe Today” open to freshmen of all different in-

tended majors in the Honors College and focused on contemporary Europe.

Since Reed-Danahay came to UB, she has helped students with interests similar to hers when she was an undergrad at Delaware.

Irene Ketonen, a graduate student pursu-ing a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, applied to UB in 2009 strictly because she wanted to work with Reed-Danahay.

“I wanted to work with her due to her excellent reputation as an anthropologist [studying] rural Europe,” Ketonen said. “She has also [conducted] much of her re-search on farming communities and that was also my interest.”

Ketonen is currently doing research on “how the moral and ethical values are uti-lized, negotiated and contested during en-counters between farmers in Northern Ire-land and European Union bureaucracy.”

Ketonen now serves as a chair of the committee for the Council of Europe-an Studies (CEUS), where Reed-Danahay serves as director.

She said Reed-Danahay is a “wonderful mentor” who has provided her with a pleth-ora of opportunities to learn more about professional academia through Graduate Assistantships with CEUS.


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Defensive line: CFinally, there was some production from

a lackluster unit, but nothing to get over-zealous about.

The defensive line recorded three sacks and was able to control a deep Falcons running game during the second half. But ultimately, it was Bowling Green’s run-ning game that won them the game. Tra-vis Greene ran for 119 yards and three dif-ferent players ran for a touchdown. There were also runs of 29 and 36 yards allowed from an inside run.

Brandon Crawford had the biggest day on defense as he compiled a sack and two tackles for losses to go with four tackles.Linebackers: B

There was nothing too flashy about the up-and-coming unit, but they deserve a high grade for effort.

Junior Brandon Berry and senior Nick Gilbo combined for 23 tackles while con-trolling the inside running game. Senior Okezie Alozie had arguably his worst game this season, recording just four tackles.Secondary: C

One of the few positives about the sec-ondary was ending Matt Johnson’s passing streak.

The defensive backs “limited” one of the best quarterbacks in the nation to 324 yards through the air, after he had a four-game

streak of 400 passing yards. But other than that, there wasn’t much to be proud of.

Roger Lewis went off for 201 yards and a touchdown grab as he justified his case as one of the top receivers in the nation. Se-nior cornerback Marqus Baker looked lost trying to cover the speedy down-the-field threat as Lewis had 196 yards alone in the first half.

Once junior cornerback Boise Ross was moved over to cover him, it was a much different result. But ultimately, it wasn’t a pretty game for the secondary all around.Special teams: A

Freshman Adam Mitcheson continues to prove his worth to the Bulls, even though his sample size has been small.

Mitcheson added three more field goals today of 30, 28 and 27 yards and didn’t miss one either. He is 7-of-9 in his young career. His only downfall was a shanked extra point after Willoughby’s late touch-down.

Senior punter Tyler Grassman only had two punts, but both went further than 46 yards. He is continuing to cement him-self as one of the best punters in the Mid-American Conference.Coaching: D

For the first time since head coach Lance Leipold came to Buffalo, he’s done a bad job as a head coach.

There were multiple problems Leipold

and the coaching staff experienced on Sat-urday and there were very few mid-game adjustments. The biggest adjustment he made was when he switched from Baker and Ross to cover Lewis, but it took a 196-yard receiving performance in the first half to do so.

Leipold also had questionable play calling

throughout the afternoon, beginning with 59 passes from Licata. Late in the third quarter, Licata threw three straight incom-plete passes within the Bowling Green 10-yard line and settled for a field goal instead.

When Willoughby scored a touchdown to make the game 28-15, Leipold sent his kicking unit onto the field instead of going for 2. Had they completed the conversion, all Buffalo would have needed was a touch-down with a 2-point conversion and a field goal to tie.

The Bulls enter a much-needed bye week after two straight losses.


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College is full of stress – stress from teachers, classes and lack of sleep. A nor-mal amount of stress is healthy, but too much can be dangerous.

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According to Director of Student Health and Wellness Sharon Mitchell, Counsel-ing Services offers individual therapy, cou-ples counseling and group therapy. Unless a student is experiencing a crisis or emer-gency – in which case, they can just walk in – he or she should make an appointment in order to see one of the 16 counselors that work there. Counseling Services is lo-cated in 120 Richmond Quad in the Elli-cott Complex on North Campus.

Despite the variety of services that are offered, most students do not seem to be going to Counseling Services. Mitchell said that the amount of students that uti-lize Counseling Services is not very high. The office saw 1,800 students last semes-ter, which is just 9 percent of the under-graduate population.

The therapists also act as mental health consultants, so if a student or a parent is concerned about someone, he or she can call Counseling Services to get informa-tion on how they can address the problem, Mitchell said.

Aside from scheduled counseling ap-pointments, Counseling Services also of-fers educational programs each year dur-ing Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Sui-cide Prevention Week and Mental Health Awareness Week. According to Mitchell, the educational programs are designed to be preventative, to stop students from act-ing in ways that might later cause them to need counseling.

Counseling Services also offers anony-mous online mental health screenings.

Some students are unaware the services are available, which may be why the center doesn’t see many students.

“I’ve just never heard of them before,” said Shruthi Reddy, a graduate student in electrical engineering. “I didn’t know we had counseling at UB.”

Students need different degrees of coun-seling, which is why the office assists stu-dents in finding outside help if an issue arises that cannot be resolved through the service.

“Let’s say someone has a severe sub-stance abuse problem and they need in-pa-tient treatment, or they have a severe eating disorder and they need in-patient treatment – we don’t do that,” Mitchell said.

Students with severe problems should still contact Counseling Services because even though they don’t possess the re-sources to help students with severe disor-ders, they can refer them to someone in the area who can.

Although not many use the Counseling Services currently, Mitchell said that the amount of students using the service is in-creasing compared to where it used to be.

“I’ve been here 12 years and each year there’s always been a little bit of a bump in the number of students that we see,” Mitchell said.

Not everyone feels the need to utilize the service, as many would rather speak to someone they are more familiar with be-fore a counselor. But Mitchell disagrees –

she believes that friends are not always as helpful as counselor might be.

“A counselor has some objectivity that a friend or a parent doesn’t have,” Mitchell said. “We don’t have a connected interest in the decisions that a person makes.”

She believes that students come into the office because there is less of a stigma as-sociated with people seeing a counselor or therapist, compared to what there used to be. There are also more students seeking counseling services for stress and anxiety related problems.

Sometimes the hardest part is taking that first step, like just walking into the office.


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The football team (2-3, 0-1 Mid-American Conference) fell 28-22 to Bowling Green (3-2, 1-0 MAC) Saturday at UB Stadium. The Falcons led 28-9 at the start of the fourth quarter before a Buffalo rally that fell short.

Here’s how The Spectrum graded Buffalo’s performance:

Quarterbacks: B+Senior Joe Licata had yet another impres-

sive 300-plus passing yard performance, but his untimely plays prevents him from get-ting an ‘A’.

Licata threw the ball 59 times, a new school record, while completing 35 of those passes. He found seven receivers for posi-tive yardage and successfully worked around a dangerous Bowling Green defense.

But the interception early in the third quarter halted momentum for Buffalo as it was driving toward its first touchdown of

the day.Running backs: A-

The duo of Jordan Johnson and An-thone Taylor proved to be a deadly 1-2 com-bo once again.

Taylor, a senior, picked up 93 yards while Johnson, a junior, added another 45 yards and the team’s only rushing touchdown. There wasn’t much opportunity for open runs, but the duo made the most of it and still ended up with impressive days.Wide receivers and tight ends: A

Seven different receivers grabbed a ball for positive yards on Saturday en route to

one of the more impressive performances by the receiving unit all season.

Senior tight end Matt Weiser proved he can be a regular part of the passing offense after his eight reception, 90-yard perfor-mance to follow up his record game from last week. Senior wide receiver Ron Wil-loughby hauled in the only touchdown through the air as part of his 73-yard per-formance.

The only downfall was a questionable of-fensive pass interference call on senior wide receiver Marcus McGill, which would have given Buffalo another touchdown.

Offensive line: C+Don’t let a one-sack performance fool

you.Although this unit only allowed one sack

for six yards, Licata was hurried on multiple plays and was often unable to successfully finish drives with a touchdown. The line al-lowed five tackles for losses and Licata was brutally hit three separate times.

It’s clear this unit still has some work to do.

Gridiron report cardBowling Green defeats Bulls in MAC-opener


Senior running back Anthone Taylor looks for a hole during Buffalo’s

game against Bowling Green Saturday. Taylor had 93 yards on the

ground.

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QUENTIN HAYNES SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

Coming off two straight losses and a 0-1 start in Mid-American Conference play, the Buffalo foot-ball team’s bye week couldn’t have come at a better time.

With a week off, the Bulls (2-3, 0-1 MAC) have a chance to rest and look at the film from the past two weeks to correct several areas, including penal-ties, turnovers and its defense.

“Turnovers and untimely penal-ties are what put you in a bad posi-tion,” said head coach Lance Leipold after Saturday’s 28-22 loss to Bowling Green. “We’re just putting ourselves in tough situations for us to over-come. Especially on third down, we’re driving the ball on two separate occa-sions and penalties stopped us.”

With a week to prepare for Central Michigan (2-3, 1-0 MAC), the Bulls have time to fix one of its biggest drive-killers: penalties.

Penalties a part of the game, from the more common plays like an off-sides and pass interference, to the more intricate calls like the newly out-lawed pick play. Either way, fans can’t see a football game on Saturday or Sunday and not see a yellow penalty flag.

After Saturday game against the Fal-cons (3-2, 1-0 MAC), the Bulls rank 10th in the conference in penalties with 46. In the past four games, Buffa-lo has committed at least eight penal-ties in every game, including a season-high 14 against Penn State.

Last week, senior offensive tackle John Kling was called for two person-al foul penalties, both on third down, halting two different drives for the Bulls. On Saturday, a dubious pass in-terference call negated senior wide re-ceiver Marcus McGill’s touchdown call in the second quarter and the Bulls ended up with just a field goal on that drive.

Senior quarterback Joe Licata said the penalties are something that must be fixed moving forward.

“I think we’re about four to six plays from victory [in] all of our losses,” Li-

cata said. “We continue to shoot our-selves with turnovers and penalties. We continue to shoot ourselves in the foot and we need to figure how we can play a better game. It’s one of the main things to work on in the bye week.”

The offense has lived up to expec-tations with Licata leading the charge and the development of McGill, sophomore wide receiver Collin Lisa and senior tight end Matt Weiser. But turnovers have also been an is-sue in addition to the penalties.

Licata has been picked off five times this season in six games. The in-terceptions have come at crucial times too, like near the end zone in Satur-day’s loss and at the end of the game against Nevada (2-3, 0-1 Mountain West Conference).

The Bulls allowed more than 370 yards for the past three games, includ-ing a 536-yard torching by Bowling Green on Saturday.

The defensive line has to play bet-ter. Nevada and Bowling Green both controlled the tempo, thanks to their ability to lean on their running game. Both teams ran for more than 200 yards while Buffalo’s defensive line struggled to create pressure and gar-ner sacks.

Outside of junior cornerback Boi-se Ross and his breakout season, the Bulls’ secondary has struggled. Buffa-lo has allowed three 100-yard receivers in the past three weeks with two Flor-ida Atlantic receivers going for more than 100 yards and Bowling Green sophomore Roger Lewis’ 200-yard performance on Saturday.

Buffalo will look to fix its issues be-fore it plays Central Michigan on the road Oct. 17. Kickoff time has yet to be determined.


Playing cleanBuffalo looking to correct penalties,

turnovers and defense during bye week

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Head coach Lance Leipold and his coaching staff look on during Buffalo’s 28-22 Mid-American Conference play opening loss to Bowling Green Saturday.

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