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42 A look at UB’s prestigious Presidential Scholarship

Students complain about long lines and limited admission for Fall Fest

Students paid $53,000 in damages to Campus Living last year 6

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University Police say there was never a threat to campus, but students have mixed feelings about how UB responded to a re-port a man dropped what witnesses said looked like a gun in the Student Union Monday afternoon.

At least two students reported to UPD they saw a man drop what appeared to be a gun in the Union, pick it up and then exit the building with it Monday around 3 p.m.

UPD patrolled the campus but could not find anyone matching the two different re-ported descriptions of the suspect. UPD believes there was never a threat to cam-pus, but officers had an increased patrol of North Campus Monday night, with all but one South Campus patrol moving to the Amherst campus.

“It could have been a gun, it could have been a BB gun, it could have been some-thing that looked like a gun, we truly don’t know,” said Chief of Police Gerald Schoen-le. “All I could say was something was dropped. Witnesses thought it was a gun.”

Two students reported seeing the sus-pect. The first student reported seeing a

black, bald male wearing a hoodie and very baggy white sweatpants place a gun in his waistband – from where it had fallen out – before exiting the building. Another student came forward later Monday saying he wit-nessed a similar incident, but reported the man he saw was black with shoulder-length brown dreadlocks with blonde highlights.

The suspect reportedly dropped the could-be gun on the staircase near Put-nam’s. Schoenle said there are no securi-ty cameras in the area that could accurate-ly capture what happened, but UPD is con-tinuing to watch footage from other angles.

Zoe Peppas, a senior business major, said although she was off campus when the in-cident happened, she was still worried.

“It’s unsettling,” she said. A UB alert from UB’s Office of Universi-

ty Communications about the situation did not go out until 3:43 p.m. – nearly 43 min-utes after UPD received a call from the first student.

Suspect not found after search, students mixed about UB’s response

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UPD receives report of man dropping gun in Student Union

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Several University Police patrol the Student Union Monday afternoon after a report of a gun being dropped in the Union.

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TOM DINKIEDITOR IN CHIEF

UB’s new downtown medical campus has a $200 million donation goal. On Monday morning, the funds for that drive increased 15 percent.

“What had been $130 million on Sun-day [is] $160 million today,” said Michael E. Cain, dean of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and vice president of health services. “Thirty million dollars has real purchase power.”

Jeremy M. Jacobs, chairman of the UB Council and Delaware North, a food ser-vice and hospitality company based in Buf-falo, and his family gave the second-largest donation in UB’s history on Monday. The medical school will be named the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Scienc-es. This is the first time UB has named a school after someone. It brings the Jacobs family’s total donations to UB to more than $50 million.

“The Western New York community has been very good to my family and our com-pany,” Jacobs said at a press conference to announce the donation Monday morning at the medical campus. “We are proud to rein-vest in the region and improve the health of the community. I look forward to the medi-cal campus’ completion in 2017.”

The $30 million donation is an excla-mation point on Jacobs’ long history with UB, as he graduated from the university in the 1950s and has served as chair of the UB Foundation and adviser to the School of Management in addition to being UB Council chairman since 1998.

Jacobs’ donation and all of the mon-ey received for the $200 million donation goal will go toward building the new med-ical campus, which has moved from South Campus to downtown, according to Cain. That building process is both literal and fig-

urative, as Cain said the donations will go toward “both building new buildings and building new programs that help our faculty and students,” including scholarships.

Cain said the donation brings more than just funds to the school – it also brings prestige. He said it’s prestigious to have a medical school named after someone, as only 11 of the 62 Association of American Universities, of which UB is a part of, are named after someone. He said that sends a message that Jacobs and his family believe strongly in the direction of the school.

“It’s not just money,” Cain said. “You’re putting your family name out there.”

The donation process occurs over a long period of time. Cain said UB’s leadership has been interacting with Jacobs for years to establish their relationship and come to an understanding of how important it is for the school to have philanthropy.

Jacobs, Cain and President Satish Tripathi met in June and came to a verbal agreement that Jacobs would donate $30 million. Cain said it takes some time to get the process complet-ed and that the last step was getting the SUNY Board of Trustees to grant UB permission to name the medical school after Jacobs.

As for why Jacobs and his family wanted to make the donation, Cain said he thinks it’s because of Jacobs’ Buffalo roots.

“He is a Buffaloian,” Cain said. “He has come to understand that for Buffalo to have a great health care system that it needs a great medical school.”

Cain said he thinks the donation will en-courage other local leaders to give so the campus can reach the $40 million remain-ing for its goal.

“I think it will help get us that $40 mil-lion because this is an internationally recog-nized individual,” Cain said. “And when you look at others that have made public dona-tions toward the school and you add the Ja-cobs name, this telegraphs the message that a very prominent and very well-respected community leader believes that investment in the medical school is the right thing to do.”

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Attention Students

Close to 30,000 students attend the University at Buffalo. Unfortunately, a handful are giving the rest a bad name. Members of the University Heights Community are expressing outrage over overcrowded parties, litter and disorderly and disrespectful behavior exhibited by some students in the neighborhood.In the last week seventeen students were suspended and parents of twelve students were notified. Thirty students have been sanctioned to community service hours.

Buffalo Police, Amherst Police and University Police are committed to maintaining the quality of life in our community. They will be strictly enforcing disorderly conduct, open container, underage drinking, DWI/DUI and other ordinances in the weeks ahead. Be aware!

Students should also know that the University Heights area can be considered a “target rich” environment for crime. Intoxicated people, people traveling alone or in pairs, carrying cell phones or laptops, outside of well lighted areas, or on campus and people using headphones are particularly viewed as prime targets. http://www.student-affairs.buffalo.edu/public-safety/

Be aware. Consider crime, housing conditions, and community standards when making housing decisions. Please protect yourselves at all times, and when in the community, exhibit the same courtesy, respect and behavior that you would exhibit back home or on campus. And consider alcohol free programs on campus and elsewhere in the community. http://www.student-affairs.buffalo.edu/activities.

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GABRIELA JULIASENIOR NEWS EDITOR

Ever wonder what the messiest room on campus looks like?

It may be hard to say for certain, but Hadley Village 108 would probably be last semester’s lead contender.

The room had more than $3,500 in damages once it was inspected at the end of May, according to documents The Spectrum obtained from Campus Living through a Freedom of Information Law request.

And those students, who UB wouldn’t identify, aren’t the only ones who racked up damage costs – though they owed the highest amount.

Campus Living charged students a total of approximately $53,000 last year – that’s more than the cost of two students’ in-state tuition combined.

Campus Living houses 7,531 under-graduate and graduate students. The $53,000 was billed to students who lived in the Ellicott Complex and the five on-campus apartment complexes: Had-ley Village, Flint Village, South Lake Vil-lage, Flickinger Court and Creekside. Yet, students in Governors, Goodyear and Clement Halls avoided any damage costs completely, said Andrea Costantino, director of Campus Living.

Campus Living supplied photos of the rooms with the highest damage and mess costs. When Hadley 108 residents moved out, they left behind a milk carton in the refrigerator and food in the freezer. The kitchen cabinets were full of cereal boxes, canned beans and tuna and peanut butter

and the counters were covered with deter-gent bottles and garbage.

Old sneakers were tucked behind a TV stand and empty shampoo bottles lined the shower wall. The residents paid Cam-pus Living for painting, wall replacement, garbage removal and excessive cleaning.

But that isn’t the norm. No other rooms on campus were billed

more than $1,000. A great number of charges came from small marks on the walls or minor extra cleaning. But the small things were a large part of the big bill, showing many students don’t realize how the little things can add up.

“A lot of people don’t know how to use command strips,” Costantino said. “They pull them off the wrong way and leave a mark on the wall that we have to charge them for.”

When students incur these small dam-ages, they don’t necessarily realize how much they’ll be charged.

Some students say there’s a lack of communication between Campus Liv-ing and residents. There are students who said they were aware they were charged for damages but aren’t sure of the price or what the damage was.

“The main problem is they don’t tell us the charges until after,” said Madeline Marsack, a junior environmental engineer-ing major. “I got charged for having silly string [everywhere] and we knew we got charged but never knew the amount.”

Students’ damages are charged to their student accounts.

Other students say they pay too much for room and board to be charged a lot for what may or may not be damaged room. Room and board in residence halls and apartments on campus can range from $6,324 – $11,148 for an academic year.

“The rooms are pretty crappy and we pay tons of money for them already,” said Veronica Kreutzer, a junior environmen-

tal engineering major. “And the rooms are so public that the damages could’ve been from someone else and not you.”

There are also those who understand why they’re billed, but are annoyed about paying for a damage they didn’t cause.

Show Bamba, a senior electrical engi-neering major, lived in Fargo Hall during his sophomore year. In his residence hall, the shared bathroom became a problem for his entire floor. Campus Living found blood all over the bathroom and all of the males on his floor were charged $50. How much could this cost me?

Campus Living has more than 5,000 students in residence halls, and fewer than 100 were billed for damages, according to Brian Haggerty, senior associate director of Campus Living.

“For the relatively small number of stu-dents who are billed, most bills are under $50,” Haggerty said.

The most common charges are wall repairs and excessive cleaning – which means cleaners had to throw out litter left behind and sweep the floors. .

Inspectors often find towel bars that need to be tightened or a dresser drawer that is off its track, he said.

In the residence halls and apartments, students are charged $100 for leaving a re-frigerator in their room and up to $450 for a broken window. They pay up to $154 for a key replacement and up to $400 for room, wall, ceiling, closet and door re-pairs.

A repair for a single pane glass window is normally around $75, a blind repair is between $30 and $40 and a broken handle on a door costs about $75, according to Bill Suraf from A&W General Contrac-tors in Buffalo.

Campus Living charges students the cost to replace an entire item, like a desk or lamp.

Damage controlStudents paid Campus Living $53,000 worth of damages last year

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Attention Students

Close to 30,000 students attend the University at Buffalo. Unfortunately, a handful are giving the rest a bad name. Members of the University Heights Community are expressing outrage over overcrowded parties, litter and disorderly and disrespectful behavior exhibited by some students in the neighborhood.In the last week seventeen students were suspended and parents of twelve students were notified. Thirty students have been sanctioned to community service hours.

Buffalo Police, Amherst Police and University Police are committed to maintaining the quality of life in our community. They will be strictly enforcing disorderly conduct, open container, underage drinking, DWI/DUI and other ordinances in the weeks ahead. Be aware!

Students should also know that the University Heights area can be considered a “target rich” environment for crime. Intoxicated people, people traveling alone or in pairs, carrying cell phones or laptops, outside of well lighted areas, or on campus and people using headphones are particularly viewed as prime targets. http://www.student-affairs.buffalo.edu/public-safety/

Be aware. Consider crime, housing conditions, and community standards when making housing decisions. Please protect yourselves at all times, and when in the community, exhibit the same courtesy, respect and behavior that you would exhibit back home or on campus. And consider alcohol free programs on campus and elsewhere in the community. http://www.student-affairs.buffalo.edu/activities.

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Study after study has come out recently proving that diversity is key to properly acknowledging and working a group’s issues. More im-portantly, such diversity also im-proves the functioning of the group, as more and different ideas get tossed about than in a relative-ly homogeneous group.

So it is with some concern that Buffalo City Hall’s elected posi-tions are stunningly male-dominat-ed. There is not a single woman in either the mayor’s chair, the comp-troller’s chair, or any of the seats on the Common Council. Buffalo is the only major city west of Al-bany to hold this dubious distinc-

tion. The last woman to serve on

the Common Council was Bonnie Russell, who served for 10 years and quit in January 2014. During her 10 years on the Council, she was the only woman.

A lack of female elected repre-sentation poses a problem. Offi-cials have chosen to talk of their support for diversity and all the female candidates being support-ed for elected positions. All of the positions mentioned are in the suburbs.

Elected officials have tried to point to diversity in their appoint-ed positions. While certainly a sol-id point in the government’s favor, all of these appointed positions are in the executive branch of Buf-falo’s government. The legislative side of things remain disappoint-ingly barren.

Recent elections have hardly helped either. Men have replaced men and the upcoming election

in November has the entire Coun-cil looking at an easy re-election. Despite some efforts from local women to become candidates, it has not been easy.

The lack of equal representa-tion is disturbing. Women’s rights in our country have entered a ten-uous phase, as various states have attempted to complicate reproduc-tive rights. Donald Trump’s mi-sogynistic comments should have earned him reproach. Instead his popularity has only grown, which is a worrying indicator of where the level of respect toward wom-en resides. Sexual violence against women remains a troubling issue, especially on college campuses.

Every gender and minority needs to have a voice, at all levels of government. That elected of-ficials would shrug off a lack of equal representation comes across at best as narrow-minded, at worst as purposely supposing that they assume female representation

as unnecessary. It has been 20 months since Russell left her posi-tion on the Common Council. Yet, Councilman David A. Franczyk is untroubled.

“Perhaps it’s a fluke,” Franczyk said to The Buffalo News. “We should have women on the Coun-cil. I’m sure it will happen again.”

A complete lack of new female involvement in elected the Coun-cil for more than 11 years is no fluke. It’s troubling that Franczyk has a complete lack of concern in regards to the lopsided representa-tion of the elected body.

The lack of any stirring action from either political party is just as damning. Their responses have been mitigation, half-measures and misdirection. Is it really any surprise that Americans don’t trust the political system, when valid concerns are raised and languidly dismissed?


Buffalo ‘Boys’ ClubLack of women in elected positions

indicates problems in Buffalo

The imbalance of trade with Asian countries has been be-moaned in popular culture for years. Whether its been Japanese cars or cheap Taiwanese plastic toys, the United States has loved to gripe about such imports. Oc-casionally someone even mentions targeting unfair practices in such countries.

It comes as little surprise then that the Obama administration is drafting a series of sanctions against certain Chinese compa-nies. The major surprise may be what actions triggered these sanc-tions. Allegations of the theft of economic secrets via hacking lie at the root of the administration’s al-legations.

China heartily contests such claims. The companies being tar-geted say they aren’t controlled by the state, while the Chinese government points toward re-vealed information from Edward Snowden that says the NSA is spy-ing on Chinese corporations in a similar manner.

China is egregiously missing the point here, and as such sanctions against Chinese corporations who have benefited from state-fund-ed electronic crime should be en-acted.

American, and indeed most countries’, activity in this arena is targeted against government op-erations. The state-funded parts of espionage tend to do with po-litical or military objectives. The claim that Huawei, a Chinese tele-com company, may have been the victim of the NSA’s attention lies more with the fact that they are at-tached to the Chinese government and less with the idea of the NSA giving such information to some American telecom company to use against Huawei.

China has been getting into more and more hot water con-cerning cybercrime lately. In May 2014, the United States issued in-dictments against five Chinese mil-itary/intelligence officers for cy-bercrime-related charges. That such charges led to nothing is be-side the point. What remains more important is the fact that such charges were able to be issued with the expectation that a successful court case could be prosecuted.

The damage to the Chinese

companies accused of benefiting from economic espionage would be substantial. In the similar vein as our sanctions against Iran, those companies would be banned from doing any kind of business in the United States, thus closing off a very substantial market to said companies.

That such sanctions are com-ing is a welcome change to mere-ly warning China to knock it off. More importantly though remains the issue of cyber-security in gen-eral. Smaller corporations cannot possibly resist the kind of state-funded activities that a country like China can direct against them. Even at the governmental levels, there remain weaknesses. This July saw the theft of roughly 22 million federal personnel records from the Office of Personnel Management.

In light of the general attitude China has exhibited and the un-known capabilities of other actors, caution becomes a must. There is an urgent need for increased secu-rity at both the corporate and gov-ernmental level. While thefts of economic information or personal information can cause both panic and economic damage, there also exists the terrifying possibility of a more concerted attack, possibly by terrorist groups. There have been concerns voiced over the vast vul-nerability of our infrastructure to such an attack. The widespread, intricate, and ever growing nature of our computer networks renders us particularly vulnerable to dis-ruption from cyber-terrorism.

The drafting of the sanctions against the Chinese corporations sends an important message. The United States can not be trifled with easily, and there are repercus-sions for impinging upon our in-tellectual information. Howev-er, the rapidity, depth, and seem-ing ease of these assaults upon our electronic resources raises dire specters. The need for compre-hensive reforms and policy direc-tion has become frighteningly ap-parent. We have the brain power to shore up our defenses. It’s just up to our government to tap these resources for our mutual defense.


China brought to heelChinese companies accused of profiting from

cybercrime with sanctions incoming

JORDAN GROSSMANSENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

A few years back, I read a sto-ry about an up-and-coming high school student from the projects of Baltimore, Maryland. He was the top of his class, a rising stu-dent who was ready for college.

He worked tireless every day to get there, holding down jobs and making school a daily priority. He understood the degree of diffi-culty to go to college. He knew it was an uphill climb, but he worked tireless for it either way.

All I know is he never made it to college and that was the end of his story as far as I’m concerned. Who knows what he could have been capable of doing. All he wanted was a college education.

It’s something many people take for granted these days, especially student-athletes.

It’s a pre-conceived notion that whenever a student-athlete steps onto a college campus, he or she should be treated like a profession-al athlete. Some feel also deserve the perks of a professional ath-lete, especially at Power 5 schools where college athletics take prece-dence over most academics.

And it’s fair to say. Those athletes make a boatload of money for their respective schools through mer-chandising, name recognition and advertising, to name a few. And that list could go on and on.

It was estimated that former Kansas guard Andrew Wiggins was worth $1.6 million to the Universi-ty of Kansas – more than the aver-age rookie contract at the NBA lev-el. Johnny Manziel, the former Tex-as A&M quarterback, was worth even more to his school. The same goes for former Flordia State quar-terback Jameis Winston.

Many student-athletes in the same position will say the same thing about themselves. They feel entitled to money that the school makes off of them. When you start to make money as an athlete, you’re consid-ered a professional in my books.

So if a player wants to be paid like a professional, he or she must act like a professional.

Remember Winston’s out-bursts in the Florida State Student Union? That would be a hefty fine from the NFL and a possible sus-pension from the league. Remem-ber Manziel’s party boy antics? That would be a media nightmare for the Cleveland Browns and would have ended up being a fine and a suspension.

Remember what happened with former UB forward Justin Moss? After he was caught stealing mon-ey from an on-campus apartment in June, UB had to expel him. The Bulls did not remove him. If he was on a professional team and caught stealing even once, there’s a great possibility he would be cut immediately.

But all these athletes were in col-lege. They weren’t forced to pay a single dime. They served at most a two-game suspension handed down by the school. A suspension or fine would be inevitable at the professional level.

These athletes need to realize it cannot be a double standard. If they want to be treated like a pro-fessional, they must take the right action. That means no drugs, no public outbursts and nothing to draw attention to themselves other than what media can cover on the field or on the court.

But there’s the other side of the spectrum as well. I know many college athletes – nationwide and personally – that do not take their scholarship for granted.

As student-athletes, players get full scholarships. They don’t pay for school, which is the most im-portant part of the college pro-cess. They get free housing and a free meal plan. Professors some-times give a grade-handicap to ath-letes just because of their campus prominence. Players get all of this to play the sport they love.

Rough life.Players who get scholarships

sometimes take it for granted. They forget that less than one percent of college athletes go professional. Less than one percent get that multi-mil-lion dollar contract. More than 99 percent don’t make it and go on with their lives outside of sports.

College athletes – ask your-selves if you would you rather em-brace what the NCAA dictates and be ready for the future or have four years of privilege and bypass the real reason of college in the first place?


It can’t go both waysIf college athletes want to be paid as professionals, they

must act like it

TORI ROSEMANSENIOR FEATURES EDITOR

It’s the ideal situation: four years of un-

dergraduate tuition at a state school, com-pletely paid for.

When Michael Fiorica, a junior English major, applied for the Presidential Scholar-ship, he was under the assumption that if his grades were good enough, he’d automat-ically get the scholarship. He had fun with his application, embedding his Tweets to demonstrate creativity.

When the University Honors College brought Fiorica in to interview, he figured it was just a formality. He hadn’t even told his mother he had applied for it.

He quickly discovered just how serious obtaining the scholarship was.

“I realized the process was a lot more competitive than I thought,” Fiorica said. “Other students were there with their fam-ilies, some had driven hours from out of state for the interview. I felt really out of place, alone, in a shirt, tie and khakis when the other applicants and their parents were in their Sunday best.”

His interview went well, despite his nerves. A few weeks later, an acceptance packet arrived in the mail for him.

Fiorica described the feeling as a novel experience.

“Someone saw potential in me and ex-pected me to live up to it,” Fiorica said.

The Presidential Scholarship is the most valuable in the SUNY system for incoming freshmen, according to Megan Stewart, the assistant director of the University Honors College. In recent years, only 20-25 incom-ing students receive the scholarship, as its criteria for eligibility is highly competitive.

“We look for academic strength,” Stewart said. “We also look for leaders on campus and in the community and students with a spark of intellectual curiosity.”

For Walker Gosrich, a junior mechanical

engineering major, it wasn’t an easy decision to accept the scholarship. He was looking at 12 other colleges and wasn’t sure if he even wanted to go to UB.

“I was obviously incredibly excited as a recipient, but I didn’t fully appreciate it yet,” Gosrich said. “As my senior year of high school came to a close, however, I began to realize how valuable the opportunity I had been given was: the Presidential Scholarship took the financial stress out of college and opened up a lot more options for me.”

Students must have an un-weighted grade point average (GPA) of 95 or higher, and an SAT score of 1470 or ACT score of 33, to even be considered for the scholarship.

These grades must be maintained at UB – a 3.5 GPA is the minimum to keep the scholarship. For many recipients, that isn’t too difficult, as they are often part of the Honors College.

“I can’t speak for all the Presidential Scholars, but from what I know of most of them, any academic pressure and stress comes from within,” Gosrich said. “I think that most of the Presidential Scholars are motivated enough to push themselves above the minimum.”

Because the Presidential Scholarship is awarded by the Honors College, students are required to go through a more vigorous application process than other UB scholar-ships. The process has two steps: first, ap-plicants must fill out a lengthy online ap-plication that includes writing three essays. Next is an interview round, given by the

Honors College to determine the scholar-ship winners.

While Gosrich was unsure of whether to accept his scholarship or not, Eileen Ben-nett, a junior math major, was overjoyed when she received hers.

“It was so amazing,” Bennett said. “My mom and I actually cried when we opened the letter.”

Bennett had hopes of going to Yale or SUNY Geneseo, but the cost of the schools and the admissions process stood in the way. She’s happy to be at UB and isn’t too concerned about losing her scholarship.

“The Honors College is pretty under-standing so if I had a rough semester, I think I could explain myself,” Bennett said.

Because she doesn’t have to worry about paying for school, recipient Anna Porter, a sophomore anthropology major, said she has more options for life after undergrad-uate study.

“I would like to go to school for anthro-pology, but I’m still figuring that out,” Por-ter said. “Ideally, I would like to do some in-ternational travel, and [participate in] study abroad opportunities as well.”


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BRIAN WINDSCHITL SENIOR ARTS EDITOR

Eric Kishel, a senior biological scienc-

es and psychology major, said he and six of his friends arrived at Alumni Arena at 6 p.m. Saturday for Fall Fest only to see the line stretching all the way from Alumni to the end of the street, around the corner and to the University Police Station.

Kishel said he and his friends then went to a nearby friend’s house to wait until the line had shortened – when he returned an hour later at 7 p.m., the line was gone, but in its place were a group of police officers at the entrance of Alumni, refusing to let anyone else in.

One of Kishel’s friends, Cleo Gallagher, an environmental geosciences major, said she shouldn’t have to pay for something she wasn’t even able to attend.

“I have to pay out of pocket for lab kits, clickers, and other extra costs that are actually for furthering my education because UB would rather put my tuition money toward a concert I wasn’t even able to enjoy,” Gallagher said.

Even four days after the Student Asso-ciation’s annual fall concert, UB students are still talking about the unrelenting rain, painstakingly slow lines and limited space in Alumni Arena.

All undergraduate students who pay the mandatory student activity fee of $104.75 a semester get into the concert for free with a student ID, but once the 6,500-arena capac-ity had been reached Saturday, students and ticketholders alike were refused entry.

SA President Minahil Khan said despite some students not getting in, SA did the best it could given the circumstances, espe-cially with the switch to the indoor venue from an outdoor one came just days before the show because of the weather.

“We canceled outside ticket sales [after the switch to an indoor venue] as soon as we could – we did our best to accommodate all students,” Khan said. “I am proud and hap-py of how well everything went. So many peo-ple worked together to make this thing work.”

Inside, the festivities went smoothly, with both SA and the UPD commenting on the success of the event.

SA Entertainment Coordinator Marc Rosenblitt said there was nothing more dis-appointing than having to turn away under-graduates from an event.

“By 7:30 p.m., we had reached the arena’s capacity of 6,500 inside. Our plan had been to allow a certain number of additional stu-dents in, based on the number of people who left, if we reached capacity,” Rosenblitt

said in an email. “However by this point in the night, only 76 people had left the arena.”

Students began lining up at Alumni Are-na despite the persistent rain hours before the doors opened at 5 p.m. and the show’s designated start at 6 p.m. One of the chief complaints about Fall Fest among students was the wait in line.

Only the main entrance of Alumni was used. Only one door, out of the eight avail-able, was used to allow students to enter. Non-UB students, who bought general admissions tickets, were allowed to pass through the doors in a separate line because they did not have to have their UB IDs checked.

“Considering the multiple entrances into Alumni, I would’ve expected more of them being utilized since the event was sold out. I felt that the general public was getting VIP treatment while the loyal UB student popu-lation waited in line,” said Michael Marianel-lo, a junior engineering major.

Rosenblitt said that the amount of time it took for everyone to get into the concert was likely mostly due to the sheer number of students attending.

“In that hour [between doors opening at 5 p.m. and the show’s start at 6 p.m.], we were organized enough to process 2,500 students. Over the course of 2.5 hours, we processed a total of 6,500 through the line and metal detectors,” Rosenblitt said. “That works out to about 8-15 seconds per person.”

Rosenblitt said the biggest challenge was the building itself – only eight metal detec-tors fit in the entrance.

The security was tight at the arena – no bags, umbrellas or “anything that could be used as a weapon,” was allowed in, said Joey West, one of the members of the United States Security Associates contracted by SA to provide security at the concert.

Many students brought umbrellas to stay dry in the rain.

Students had to discard their umbrellas, ponchos and half-empty bottles before en-tering the arena. Discarded items lined the gated pathways to the doors. SA Event Staff Manager Scott Van Patten said that the piles of umbrellas were simply put into garbage bags and thrown away.

Despite the craziness at the entrance, UPD did not have any further security concerns.

Assistant Chief of Police Chris Bartolo-mei said the event went very well, all things considered. He said only one student was arrested for disorderly conduct and the ma-jority of the calls were first aid requests – mostly dehydrated and overheated people in the front of the crowd or in line.

“It’s a large crowd of people, many of whom come to the event under the influence of drugs and alcohol, there is always a risk of a serious medical emergency or violent alter-cations,” Bartolomei said in an email.

Bartolomei said the low crime stats were due to the large amount of planning that goes into the event each year.

Essentially the entire SA Entertainment staff, including the director, assistant, hospi-tality, talent and event management coordi-nators had been on-site setting up the event since 8 a.m.

SA Treasurer Joe Pace was one of the runners for the event, in charge of making sure the artists had everything they need-ed and arrived from the airport and hotel at Alumni Arena without a hitch.

“I drove around basically whoever needed to get somewhere. I drove around some Big Sean people, some Jeremih people – took them to the airport, hotel and campus,” Pace said.

The biggest logistical concern, Pace said, was the amount of people that needed managing.

SA had to coordinate with the artists arriving from the airport, as well as all of the volunteer staff from members of 31 different SA clubs – on top of managing concertgoers and security.

Kenneth Kashif Thomas contributed reporting for this story.


Fall Fest fallout

Students angry about long lines and limited capacity of Fall Fest

KAINAN GUO, THE SPECTRUM

UB students waited in line for Fall Fest in the cold and rain - some as long as three hours be-fore the doors opened. The line wrapped all the way down the sidewalk from Alumni Arena to the University Police Station.

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A description of the suspect was not sent out through UB Alert until around 5:15 p.m., but UPD said it sent one at around 3:15 p.m. to the Office of Communications.

Some students have questioned the delay in the alert and said they should have been notified sooner.

“I’m not happy with how long it took to notify us but I like how fast the police re-sponded,” said Michael Pastoressa, a fresh-man undecided major. “It should have been faster than 45 minutes.”

Shortly after 3 p.m. Monday, Lieuten-ant David Urbanek told a Spectrum reporter in the Union that an alert should be posted shortly. Several officers on scene comment-ed at the time that the alert should have been posted already.

The communications office normal-ly sends out alerts but UPD can send out them out itself in an emergency situation. Schoenle said it was a judgment call by of-ficers on scene to not deem the situation an emergency because it was unconfirmed if the dropped object was a gun or not and the suspect had left the building.

“In most cases, like in this one, we feel it’s more appropriate to get out the informa-tion that’s right and correct with UB Com-munications and they send out the notifica-tion,” Schoenle said. “That’s how that pro-cess works.”

Schoenle said an emergency situation would be something like an active shooter, in which case UPD would send out an alert itself and the building would be evacuated or locked down – as it was in a 2010 incident.

In 2010, an alleged gunman was seen in Lockwood Library. Lockwood was evacu-ated and UPD declared the area safe after searching for four hours. It is still unknown if the suspect was holding a gun or not.

Pastoressa said he thinks UPD should have evacuated the Student Union or had a lockdown.

Schoenle said the reason Lockwood was evacuated in 2010 and not on Monday was because in 2010 UPD had video surveil-lance of a suspect holding a suspicious item

and it was believed the suspect was still in the building.

Roshan Surendhran, a sophomore chem-ical engineering major, said he doesn’t feel there was a need for an evacuation, but that students should have been notified sooner.

UB Communications and UPD may be changing the alert protocol. UB Spokes-person John Della Contrada said he and Schoenle have discussed sending a text and tweet out immediately and then follow-ing up with a more detailed email. Schoen-le said UPD has plans to have two civilian dispatchers working at all times and to train them to use UB Alert.

Della Contrada said UB will push to get more students signed up for the UB Alert text messaging system. Last winter, about 18,000 people were signed up for the text alerts. The UB Alert Twitter had 2,639 fol-lowers at the time of print.

Students took to Twitter to voice their concerns about the alert, but most said UB was not taking the situation serious-ly enough. Some even made light-hearted jokes about the scare.

SUNY law prohibits anyone carrying a firearm on campus unless authorized by the university president. Schoenle said only UPD has authorization from President Satish Tripathi to carry guns on campus. He said in his 10 years at UB there have been a couple requests from civilians to carry fire-arms on campus but they were not honored.

Schoenle said if Monday’s suspect is ever caught and it’s determined he did have a gun on campus, he would be charged with “at least a misdemeanor.”

He added most campus crimes are solved because students come forward with infor-mation.

Schoenle did not want to say whether not he thinks a suspect actually dropped a gun or not, as there is not enough evidence at this time. He said the report is concerning nonetheless.


Haggerty said the vast majority of rooms are left clean and undam-aged. When there are items in need of repair, it is usually from wear and tear and less often a re-sult of damage done by students.How can I avoid being charged?

After a student’s de-parture, a member of the Building Services and Maintenance Team en-ters the rooms to do an initial assessment. When inspectors find damage, a Residential Life staff member verifies the oc-cupants and determines whether billing is needed.

To avoid charging students for damages they didn’t cause, students are advised to re-view the condition of their room at check-in time and notify their residential adviser of any pre-existing damages, which inspec-tors note in the room’s condition report.

Haggerty said students are responsible for leaving the room in good condition.

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“Most [students] understand their re-sponsibility for the damages found in their rooms, with only some seeking to dispute the charges,” Haggerty said. “We work hard to avoid charging students, but in some cas-es, there is blatant disregard for the facilities and we charge students so as to avoid pass-ing the cost off onto other students.”

Campus Living inspects the rooms regu-larly. Campus Living conducts two or three health and safety inspections throughout the academic year and in the residence halls when they close for breaks.

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JORDAN GROSSMANSENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

It’s almost fall, which means the leaves begin to change, the weather slowly turns from scorching hot to tolerable chilly and most importantly, football is back in the swing of things.

And what better way to celebrate foot-ball season than with everyone’s favorite pre-game activity: tailgating.

Buffalo could be considered an epicen-ter for football activities. Buffalo Bills fans are known nationally for their tailgates at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park on Sundays. Tailgating on a small scale hap-pens on Saturdays outside UB Stadium. Tailgating gives football fans and revel-ers alike the opportunity to absorb a true football atmosphere.

But it comes with a price.To enjoy a tailgate experience, you must

have the essentials. What’s a tailgate with-out food and drinks? Those amenities could get pricey as the weeks draw out. But how can one maximize his or her tail-gate experience without damaging his or her wallet?

The Spectrum has you covered:

Make your own burgersThe easiest way to save money is to make

your own hamburgers before you put them on the grill at your respective tailgating des-tination. At Wegmans, a box of “Bubba Burgers,” pre-made, frozen burger patties, will set you back $11.49 for a box of eight.

Ground beef will only cost $2.99 per pound. If the patties are made the night be-fore, you can bring them to the tailgate pre-made and begin the grilling process. Make sure to buy Wegmans-brand hamburger rolls, which will only cost you $1.49 for a package of eight.

Forget the fix-insIt’s always common to pair your favorite

tailgating entrée with a side dish, but it’s not needed at a tailgate. A three-pound serving

of potato salad will run you $11.99 at Weg-mans and a pound of macaroni salad will be $3.99/pound.

It’s not always necessary to have the side dishes at a tailgate. But if you do insist on your favorite fix-in, make it yourself. You can pick up a pound of russet potatoes for about a dollar and a box of elbow macaroni for $.99. If each dish requires mayonnaise, you can grab a Wegmans-brand 30 fluid oz. container for $3.49.

Buy in bulkWhat’s a tailgate without cracking open

a cold one?Beer has, and always will be, a staple

at tailgates around the country, whether you’re a college student or not. But beer could get pricey, especially if you don’t know which brands to buy.

If you’re looking to drink, you proba-bly aren’t the only person to do so. It’s bet-ter to team up with a couple of friends and buy the alcohol in bulk. Specialized brands such as Corona and Stella Artois will run you back $8.49 per six bottles of beer. You can also create your own six-pack of beer

for $9.99. For the money-saving crowd, a 30-rack of

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QUENTIN HAYNES SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

It was just another victory for the wom-en’s soccer team Friday, a seemingly routine 3-0 win over a nonconference opponent for a team many predict to win the Mid-Ameri-can Conference East.

It was more than that to N’Dea Johnson. Johnson, a senior forward who was side-

lined for three of her first four years at UB between an ACL tear and illness, scored her first career goal in the game. At the 76:08 mark in the second half, senior midfielder Kassidy Kidd made a pass to Johnson, who gathered the ball and fired a shot into the back of the net.

Johnson, after four years of injuries, sur-geries and missed seasons, finally connected again with the game she loves.

“It was unlike anything I’ve experienced in my life,” Johnson said. “I just kicked the ball and watched the entire thing happen. I saw the ball go into the back of the net, almost in slow motion. My parents were watching and they were excited for me. The entire sequence was unbelievable.”

Johnson’s road to recovery wasn’t easy. She missed her true freshman season with a torn ACL suffered before she even arrived on campus. After rehab and acquiring a red-shirt, Johnson returned the following fall for her first real season and appeared in 17 games and had one assist.

But before her sophomore season began, Johnson caught a fever of 104.3 degrees that didn’t break for weeks and underwent a series of tests. She had a fever and pain in the pit of her stomach. It was gastritis, ac-cording to her doctors. As a result of sur-geries to subdue the pain, Johnson missed the 2013 season.

“It was a tough moment for me,” Johnson said. “Laying in a hospital bed, getting sur-geries and not being able to play the sport I loved. Being on the sidelines was tough for me because I already missed a previous sea-son with the ACL injury.”

Once she was cleared to play, Johnson came back again for her junior season. She worked hard and even impressed in pre-season. Then, she began to feel ill. This time, Johnson withdrew from UB and en-tered the hospital.

In summer 2014, Johnson found out she was suffering from Crohn’s Disease. Crohn’s causes inflammation of the bowels and af-fects the digestive tract, often leading to pain in the abdomen, fatigue and weight loss.

For the second time in two seasons, John-son was told she had suffered a season-end-ing condition.

In missing the 2014 season, Johnson also missed a chance to be part of the Bulls’ first MAC Championship. The Bulls, with for-mer assistant Shawn Burke at the helm as head coach, finished with an overall record of 16-3-3, won their first-ever conference championship and made their first-ever ap-pearance in the NCAA Tournament.

And there was Johnson, watching the games from a hospital bed as her teammates celebrated in glory. Johnson was disappoint-ed, but became the Bulls’ biggest fan as she cheered them on from afar.

Johnson called watching her teammates as they made it to the NCAA Tournament “difficult,” but never saw herself as an out-cast or not a part of the team. The girls would often contact her and as a tribute to their injured teammate, the girls would wear purple wristbands with “NJ” on them, Johnson’s initials.

Johnson focused on getting back to the pitch. The road to return, as Johnson put it, “was tough because of the mental and physical aspects of being ready to return.”

But it was eventually worth it. Johnson was told she was finally able to compete on the field again – no more setbacks and no more delays. She looked to make her senior

year count. Mentally, Johnson said she had some

doubt whether she could return to the game at full strength. The goal was always to re-turn, but she debated whether it was some-thing she was supposed to do and how hard she was going to push herself moving for-ward. The toughest part for Johnson was “becoming a person again.”

“It was a struggle to say the least,” John-son said. “I had to work and relearn the game, like learning how to play in this sys-tem, where I’m supposed to be on the field and where I’m running. A part of it is the anticipation – waiting and preparing for the opponent’s next play. It was part of me be-coming a person again.”

The mental aspect was draining, but it didn’t weigh on Johnson like the physical as-pect of her return did. While Johnson was injured and recovering from surgeries, she wasn’t in playing shape and it had been a while since she was active and moving with a soccer ball.

During the offseason, Johnson returned to UB and fixated on getting back into play-ing shape.

“The difficult process was working back into ideal playing shape,” Johnson said. “I did some normal workout routine – running and exercising – but what really helped me was working with the UB strength coach-es. They worked with me just my body back in order and prepared me for the upcom-ing season.”

While the getting back into physi-cal shape is still a work in progress for

Johnson, it was actually working with a soc-cer ball that frightened her. She said work-ing with a UB soccer camp allowed her to practice and figure out what she could and couldn’t do and what needed time as she continued to make her return.

“I was coming along. I’m still coming along,” Johnson said. “Missing all that time means that it was a bit of a slow process – figuring out what you can and can’t do just yet. I still plan to be back to 100 percent, though. I think I’ll get back there.”

On Aug. 23, Johnson made her season debut, nearly two and a half years after her last appearance in her a UB uniform. In her fifth game back Friday, she got her first goal.

“My goal for the rest of the season is to score more,” Johnson said with a chuck-le. “That and getting more playing time are my personal goals. For the team, I want to get back to where we were last season. Last year, they made the tournament and the NCAA first round. I want to get back there and this time, be a part of it.”


JORDAN GROSSMAN, THE SPECTRUM

Tailgate essentials include hot dogs, ground beef for pre-made hamburgers and beer.

How to enjoy a tailgate without hurting your wallet

After years of surgeries and illness, senior N’Dea Johnson

nets her first-career goal

The road back

COURTESY OF

PAUL HOKANSON/UB ATHLETICS

N’Dea Johnson celebrates after scoring a goal against Binghamton. It was the first goal Johnson scored

in her UB career, after missing the last two seasons with various

injuries.

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