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In a city with Food Truck Tues-days and Food Truck Rodeos throughout the summer, Buffalo-nians love their meals on wheels. Up until this semester, UB had yet to bring that gastronomy to cam-pus.

Over the weekend, UB’s first food truck was unveiled to the public at the opening home foot-ball game against Duquesne. Big Blue, the new truck, will be sta-tioned at North and South Cam-pus at locations that current Cam-pus Dining and Shops (CDS) food stations do not serve.

“It’s certainly a national trend,” said Ray Khol, the marketing man-ager for CDS as to why now was the right time for Big Blue. “Food trucks, they’re peaking right now.”

The truck will be on North Campus Monday, Wednesday and Friday and South Campus Tuesday and Thursday, according Kohl.

The menu will change dur-ing the week. Students can order grilled cheese and mac and cheese Monday through Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday, the truck will serve mac and cheese and the Tep-panyaki – a Japanese style of cook-ing with an iron griddle – dishes.

“Mobile vending,” which was a little-known industry five years ago, has become “one of the fast-est growing trends in food ser-vice,” according to the National Food Truck Association’s website.

Between 2007 and 2012, the mobile restaurant industry grew by 8.4 percent is valued at $1 bil-lion. In 2017, food trucks are es-timated to generate $2.7 billion in revenue, according to aboutfood-trucks.com.

That’s no secret in Buffalo.The city has 25 food trucks that

belong to the Buffalo Food Truck Association. Big Blue is UB’s twist on the transportable dining trend.

“It’s a mobile kitchen,” said Adam Coats, the assistant director

of CDS. “It has everything. We’re 100 percent flexible. If there’s something out there that increases in popularity but we don’t have it in one of our storefronts, we can try it out there [with Big Blue].”

For Ryan Pope, a junior eco-nomics major, the menu options were a “little limited” at the Aug. 30 opening. He said he prefers eat-ing at the Student Union because it has more variety.

Neil Tsirkin, a sophomore busi-ness major, attended the “secret”

pre-opening of Big Blue on Aug. 27 and tried The Pink Goat, a grilled cheese sandwich made with herbed goat cheese on rye bread with pickled beets and arugula.

“It was very refreshing and light,” Tsirkin said. “A nice spin on the typical old school grilled cheese.”

Other dishes on the menu in-clude the Cha Cha Chicken Melt, the Peanut Butter with Sideburns and a Beef on Weck Mac and Cheese.

Big Blue’s menu varies unlike other food trucks in Buffalo that specialize in one type of food – Lloyd’s has its tacos, The Whole Hog focuses on pork and Maca-rollin’ specializes in gourmet mac and cheese.

Lloyd’s Taco Truck opened in 2010 with OG Lloyd and now has three trucks traveling around Western New York, according to mobile-cuisine.com. The taco truck spends a lot of time around SUNY Buffalo State’s campus and allows students to pay using Ben-gal Bucks, comparable to UB’s Campus Cash.

As a popular eatery close to campus, Buff State students ap-preciate both the prices and menu choices.

“It’s fast, convenient and a de-cent price for good food,” said Elizabeth Lusk, a senior educa-tion major at Buff State. “The bean burrito is my go-to. There is always a line of some sort every time I walk by no matter what time of the day it is.”

Food trucks can offer an atmo-sphere of community as patrons stand outside in line. Jessie Cram-er, a senior business major, ate at Big Blue’s opening Saturday and said buying food at the truck cre-ates a good opportunity to meet new people and make friends.

“It’s good [for] camaraderie,” Cramer said. “It adds school spir-it to the campus.”

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JORDAN OSCAR SENIOR ARTS EDITOR

The once dispersed crowd con-tent with trying dozens of ven-dors’ wings began to cluster around the stage as announce-ments that the “Ridiculously Hot Wing Eating Competition” was about to begin rang through Co-ca-Cola Field in downtown Buf-falo.

Contestants dressed in red shirts with blue rubber gloves on their hands walked up on stage and took their places behind the table, while pans of wings were brought on stage. The steam and fumes from the sauce lathered wings rose through the air. The crowd’s anticipation grew and the competitors put on their game faces. It was show time.

Tears ran down one compet-itors face as he began tearing into the 25 wings that lay before him. Another competitor began bouncing up and down, dancing as he took one more bite toward victory. The true victor, however, was already claiming his lead.

“Jorge is on a mission … Jorge is an animal,” the announcer quipped of Jorge Jaramillo, 35, of Tafton, Pennsylvania, who dec-imated the 25 wings in six min-utes, and once ate 10 wings in 1.5 seconds, according to the an-nouncer.

“They were fun [and] pret-ty hot,” Jaramillo said holding an ice cream sandwich and trophy in hand minutes after the competi-tion had ended. “My mouth is still burning.”

Jaramillo wasn’t the only per-son with a burning mouth inside Coca-Cola Field. Over the week-end, hundreds of students and thousands of people flocked to the 13th annual National Buffa-

lo Wing Festival and consumed thousands of pounds of wings. Last year’s attendants consumed more than 20 tons of wings – that’s 40,000 pounds of chicken – according to the event’s official website.

Fans of the animated feature film Osmosis Jones were the first to see the National Buffalo Wing Festival or Wing Fest when fast food junkie Frank DeTorre (Bill Murray, The Grand Budapest Ho-tel) attended the event. But at the time it didn’t actually exist. In-spired by the film’s celebration of chicken wings, Buffalonian Drew “Wing King” Cerza created the event in 2002 and it has been a lo-cal tradition since.

Since its conception, the event has become a mecca for chicken wing fans from all over the world. This year’s attendance reached 72,000, according to Cerza, and the event’s Twitter said that all 50 states and 51 countries were rep-resented by attendants.

“It was awesome,” Cerza said. “The energy was fantastic and it

was probably the best vibe we’ve had. There was a great vibe out there.”

Entry to the event was $5 per person and tickets for food sold at $1 per ticket. Each wing cost one ticket, or $1, and some food options like pizza or chicken wing soup cost two or more tickets.

This year featured wing-themed creations from more than 20 companies, including local fa-vorites like Danny’s Buffalo Cui-sine and Bocce Club Pizza. Out-of-state participants like Booty’s Wings, Burgers and Beer and Na-tive Grill and Wings from Arizo-na traveled to the event. Tradi-tional chains, such as Brick House Tavern and Buffalo Wild Wings, made appearances as well.

Most companies featured varia-tions of barbequed, grilled or tradi-tionally sauced wings, but some had odd flavors like peanut butter and jelly. Some companies even brought original creations like Ru’s Pierogi’s chicken wing pierogi and Danny’s signature chicken wing soup.

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Feel the heat, taste the burn; this is Wing Fest National Buffalo Wing Festival is popular amongst UB students

Students for Justice in Palestine returns to UB

ATHIRA UNNIASST. NEWS EDITOR

Manar Kustiro’s grandmother and aunt lived across the street from each other in Beit Hani-na in Eastern Jerusalem. But in 2000, the apartheid wall sprung up between the houses.

The two-minute walk became either a two-hour drive or a two-hour wait at the checkpoint, much to the pain of the separat-ed family members.

Kustiro, a sophomore nursing major, is now president of UB’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The club is a sec-ular humanitarian group that has gathered momentum on cam-pus in the backdrop of the Gaza bombings. In the fall semester of 2013, Kustiro and a few oth-er students started the process of reviving SJP on campus after it disbanded in 2012. The recent events in the Middle East com-pelled SJP to spring into action this past summer.

SJP aims to encourage conver-sations in the student community about Israel-Palestine border is-sues that have lasted for the past 66 years. The group wants to cre-ate awareness on campus about the experiences and living condi-tions in Palestine. The members also want to bring out diverse perspectives with the Jewish Stu-dent Union and Hillel.

SJP is currently a “prospec-tive club” under the Student As-sociation, but it hopes to be-come a temporary club soon. SA Vice President Evan Chen said the recognition is a process that “varies depending on how ev-erything flows … [and] if poli-cies and guidelines are met along with multiple checkpoints for re-quirements.”

“Without the temporary club status, it would still be significant and important for me to stand up for what I believe in,” Kustiro said. “One life should never be more important than the other.”

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JORDAN OSCAR, THE SPECTRUM

Lauren Joyce represented Empire State College as one of eight competitors in Sun-day’s college wing eating competition. Representatives from UB, Medaille, RIT, Northwestern, Buffalo State College and Canisius had eight minutes to eat 25 wings from Sliders Bar & Grill.

CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM

Students gathered at Big Blue, UB’s first food truck, before Saturday’s football game. The truck will be at locations on North and South campus throughout the week serving up mac and cheese, grilled cheese sandwiches and Teppanyaki dishes.

The once disbanded club looks to return to campus in light of Gaza conflict

COURTESY OF SAFRA BACCHUS

Manar Kustiro (left) is president of UB's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine and co-founded the club in the fall of 2013. Along with Talha Rah-man (center) and Fadi Suboh (right), Kustiro discusses plans the group has for this semester.

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Echoing an all too familiar refrain, the board of directors for North Tonawanda’s Carnegie Art Center an-nounced they laid off their last paid employee due to a lack of public funding.

Despite receiving $343,000 from the federal government to repair and update the center, which is over a century old, the newly renovated fa-cility now faces an uncertain future. With no money to fund operations, or to pay employees to run them, the building – which is owned by the city of Tonawanda – may end up housing meetings and events, rather than art exhibits.

This would be a loss for the entire community. As Buffalo begins to pick itself up after years of economic de-cline, the arts cannot be left behind, forgotten amidst the industrial and technological development spurred on by Governor Cuomo’s highly-touted “Buffalo Billion.”

Residents of Buffalo will undoubt-edly benefit from the employment opportunities generated by the in-flux of corporate headquarters, health care institutes and research facilities. The development of the waterfront and construction of new parks will offer the community additional op-portunities for recreation and leisure. Though all of this is fantastic for Buf-

falo’s image and its residents, the arts remain overlooked and underfunded.

The shuttering of the Carnegie Arts Center is emblematic of this is-sue. Though the federal government stepped in to help, local and statewide organizations have turned away from the center’s financial woes.

North Tonawanda has more than 30,000 residents and now, one art gallery (though if, as Google Maps claims, tattoo parlors qualify as gal-leries, then the region is host to an impressive three cultural meccas). If Buffalo can afford multiple multi-mil-lion sports arenas, it doesn’t seem un-realistic to ask for that the region of-fer a museum to citizen ratio greater than 30,000 to one.

The efforts of the Carnegie’s vol-unteer board have been nothing short of inspiring, as they’ve kept the cen-ter functioning for over a year despite running solely on reserve funds. It’s time for the community to recognize their work with a little financial recip-rocation. It won’t be just the volun-teers who benefit, but all of the res-idents of North Tonawanda.

As investors pour billions of dollars into luxury housing, casino construc-tion and waterfront development and while Bills fans enjoy the $130 million renovations at Ralph Wilson Stadium, at the very least, the Buffalo commu-

nity can give a few moments of their time – if they won’t give a few dollars – to lament the loss of the Carnegie Art Center.

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WILLIAM KRAUSE

Editor’s note: The following letter is in re-sponse to an Aug. 27 editorial called “Tear gas and terror in the heart of America.” It has only been edited for grammar and clarity.

The conflict between police and citizens in Ferguson has highlighted numerous questions surrounding po-lice procedure, action and the equip-ment police deploy. There is no ques-tion that over-militarization of local police forces is unnecessary, but in most cases, only half of the story is told. I believe this is true in the edi-torial piece: Tear gas and terror in the heart of America. I support the po-lice, and believe that the use of mili-tary equipment is not only necessary, but allows police to serve and protect even better than before.

Military-grade equipment is capa-ble of doing things that regular vehi-cles and equipment that are normally associated with police simply cannot do. When I’m not at UB, I reside on Long Island, where local police utilize military equipment. A recent News-day article highlighted the military equipment that the Nassau and Suf-folk County Police Departments have and occasionally need to use. The cover picture is of the Nassau Coun-ty Police Department’s MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush-Protected Vehicle). Newsday’s outraged commenters la-ment as to why NCPD needs a mine resistant vehicle. However, the cap-tion explains that this MRAP has been modified to travel through deep waters up to at least 6 feet, which is especially important on an Island.

Nassau County Chief of Department Steven Skrynecki said: "We're not pa-trolling the streets in a Humvee. We're very conscious about police response having the potential to aggravate crowds. We c ertainly don't want to present an image of having military equipment. We're a very ser-vice-oriented police department. We don't want to appear to be a threat to citizens."

On Aug. 13, a record 13 inches of rain fell in less than 24 hours on the Island. Roads were impassable and flash flooding caused numerous cars to be totaled, and even completely submerged in water. As nice as those 1999 Crown Victoria Police Intercep-tors are, they would meet the same fate as motorists who were out that day. Having a vehicle that can pass right through those waters enables police to do their job swiftly and ef-fectively; the vehicle just also happens to be blast resistant as well.

Last winter, Suffolk County was hit by multiple snowstorms, resulting in huge amounts of car accidents, and motorists getting stuck on the road. Newsday also wrote an article last winter about the Suffolk County Po-lice using military Humvees on the lo-cal roads. As with the recent article, residents questioned why police need-ed military Humvees. In this case, the Humvees were able to plow through snow to rescue stranded motorists, and get down roads that had not been plowed. Police cars are just that - cars. They are subject to the same occur-rences as the every day motorist. This equipment is not being used to sup-press the people. It is being used to save them.

The editorial Tear gas and terror in the heart of America paints a picture of police officers on normal patrol carrying rifles and wearing full-riot gear. This equipment does not make daily appearances. University at Buf-falo Police, like a city or county police department, have AR-15 rifles for cer-tain situations. These rifles (which are not automatic), serve a distinct pur-pose. In the event of an active shoot-er event at UB, it is imperative that the police stop the shooter as quickly and effectively as possible. An AR-15 is an efficient rifle that, with the right training, is easy to load and fire in or-der to do a police officer’s job effec-tively. They can fire more rounds per minute than a regular service weapon, and they can pierce light armor that an assailant may be wearing. These ri-fles only come out in times of emer-gency. While I am not a resident of Ferguson, I can say with confidence that before the police involved shoot-ing, officers were not walking around in full riot gear wielding rifles.

I am also in full support of peace-ful protests. It is a right of the people to assemble, so long as it is done legal-ly and peacefully. There have been re-ports from Ferguson of riots, looting, Molotov cocktails, throwing rocks and other violent acts that would war-rant the use of riot gear. Even UB Po-lice has full-scale riot gear. Riot gear is not for the people protesting. It is to protect the police so they can enforce the law with less of a chance of inju-ry while doing so. Just because it may look scary to the average person, does not mean it isn’t necessary. The police ARE protecting those who wish to protest peacefully. Officers from the

NYPD were reportedly handing out free water bottles to those who were a part of Al Sharpton’s recent march against the NYPD for Eric Garner – something that the event coordina-tors should have thought of them-selves. The same is true in Ferguson. Once those protests turn violent, the police need to respond to maintain order so that peaceful protestors are allowed to continue.

This letter is not to say that the po-lice are infallible, because they are not. Mistakes have been made on the police side as well as the civilian side in Ferguson, and across the coun-try. However, police officers are con-stantly portrayed as aggressors or bad guys, and the police reputation is in shambles. Editorial pieces such as this one, that only portray one side of the aisle, only make things worse. There have been many positive results from allowing police agencies to purchase surplus military equipment. Should police roll around in tanks and ar-mored trucks without cause? Abso-lutely not. But normal police equip-ment is vulnerable in large-scale riot situations, and armored trucks and riot gear do have a time and place to be used. In the words of Chief Skry-necki: "If you were shot and bleeding, would you want to wait for the police to be able to get in there, or would you want the heavily armored truck to get there in two minutes and rescue you?" It is time to find a medium, and repair the police reputation, so they can continue to serve and protect.

William Krause is a junior political sci-ence major.

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What began as a classic family va-cation ended in tragedy, punctuat-ed by the recoil of a submachine gun that ended one life and irrevocably al-tered another.

Last week, a 9-year-old from New Jersey, on vacation with her family, ac-cidentally shot and killed Charles Vac-ca, who was instructing her in the use of an Uzi submachine gun. Vacca was an employee at Last Stop, a rec-reational shooting range in Arizona that participates in the Las Vegas area “Bullets and Burgers” tour.

Rereading those last sentences – the child with an Uzi, a shooting range designed as a tourist attraction, the bullets, burgers and trivialization of deadly weapons – the phrase “only in America” comes to mind.

Only in America: families tour the Grand Canyon and then let off some

steam with grenade launchers and sniper rifles. Only in America: a lit-tle girl is handed a gun that fires 600 rounds per minute. Only in Ameri-ca: her parents film the moment their daughter loses control of the weapon and shoots a man in the head.

It was a freak accident, an anoma-lous tragedy, a horrific, “this has nev-er happened before” mishap. It was an accident that mirrors a similar inci-dent in 2008, when Christopher Bizilj, an 8-year-old from Connecticut, acci-dentally killed himself when he tried out an Uzi at a gun show in Massa-chusetts.

For children like Bizilj and the girl from New Jersey, even supervision and instruction proved insufficient. Powerful weapons like Uzis are dif-ficult to control and dangerous to fire, especially for children who aren’t prepared or simply aren’t physical-

ly capable of firing them safely. This risk is apparent in the video of Vac-ca’s death, the gun in the young girl’s hands can be seen rising and jerk-ing toward Vacca, as the child finds herself unable to hold the weapon straight.

Bizilj’s death swayed Connecticut lawmakers to pass more restrictive gun laws, prohibiting access to ma-chineguns for anyone under 16. It was a sensible response to a senseless death and a decision that more states should consider.

Americans have the right to bear arms, the right to try out a variety of weapons, the right to treat guns as a source of fun and entertainment. While recreational gun ranges may not appeal to more pacifistic Ameri-cans, they nonetheless provide a safe environment and controlled condi-tions – or at least, they should.

If ranges aren’t going to insti-tute rules limiting children’s access to high-powered weapons – the shoot-ing range where Vacca worked has yet to do so – then it’s up to lawmakers to strike a less lethal balance between the Bills of Rights and the safety of our population.

Children are taught, repeatedly that “guns aren’t toys.” But when they are allowed to play with them at the shooting range, on vacation, they’re hearing a very different message. Now it’s time to eliminate these dead-ly mixed messages and replace them with laws limiting children’s access to machine guns – laws that reflect the barest minimum of gun control, but laws that could prevent the most pre-ventable of tragedies.

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“It was a mix up from having a clas-sic barbeque, like a classic wing sauce,” said Dominic Grisanzio, a freshman pharmacy major, after eating a pea-nut butter and jelly wing – the oddest wing he found at the festival. “It didn’t go together. I was expecting it to be a sauce, but it was just peanut butter and jelly on the wing. It was weird.”

Grisanzio, like many others, said he enjoyed the ability to try good food in a festival environment with his friends.

The wings Jaramillo ate during his competition may have been hot, but he said they weren’t the hottest at the event. One of the hottest laid in wait for attendees at the popular Quak-er Steak & Lube tent – so spicy that foodies had to sign a waiver.

After signing this waiver, brave wing fanatics were able to try the company’s hottest wing: the Triple Atomic. At a staggering 500,000 Scoville heat units (SHU), this wing is 167 times hotter than their standard hot wing (3,000 SHU). With a T-shirt on the line, the challenge was much less a test of fin-ishing the wing, or wings for the truly courageous, as it was a test of oral tor-ture and endurance.

“It wasn’t bad until about a minute after I ate the wing and [I had] a burn-ing pain down my throat,” Grisanzio said. “It pretty much felt like I was eat-ing fire and water couldn’t help much. I just had to wait it out,” he said.

Grisanzio said that the T-shirt was definitely worth the 10-15 minutes of agony he experienced and that he would do it again given the chance.

For some, the Triple Atomic was just an itch in their throat, others cried for minutes on end until the pain sub-sided, but not everyone needed to eat the hottest wing on the menu to feel the burn.

“I’m still crying,” said Corey Rosen, a senior communication and film stud-ies major after she at Quaker Steak & Lube’s “SuperCharged” wing (30,000 SHU). “I think, I’ve cried off all my make up. I like spicy, but that was too hot. I didn’t think it would be that spicy, so I went for it and now I’m kind of sad that I did. I wasted a wing.”

While spice connoisseurs and wing fanatics alike climbed the SHU scale from tent to tent, good old-fashioned mild, medium and hot wings remained

the most popular option. This was (716) Food and Sport’s ex-

ecutive chef, Andrew Nuernberger’s, first year at Wing Fest. He said the res-taurant went through more than 1,000 pounds of wings the first day, main-ly of their popular dry rub or beer and barbeque sauce wings. The company earned the rookie of the year trophy and was popular for their wings made from locally produced ingredients.

Wing Fest returned competitions ranging from the “Ridiculously Hot Wng Eating Competition,” a college wing eating competition, to the “Na-tional Wing Eating Championship,” which was televised on ESPN3, along with a crowd favorite chicken wing based twist on bobbing for apples – water substituted with blue cheese and apples for chicken wings.

“The world championship was spe-cial because it helped make the event unique,” Cerza said. “Being on TV is the type of thing that can take your event to the next level.”

Contestants and attendees seemed to enjoy themselves, but some had is-sues with this year’s celebration of all things chicken wing.

Like Grisanzio, Emily Cook, a se-nior social science major, enjoyed the environment and opportunity to try different wings, but she found the event “a little disorganized.”

Zack Basmajian, a senior environ-mental studies major, was attending Wing Fest for the second time and had issues with the pricing. The $5 en-trance fee, he said, should include a bottle of water, which cost $4 with-in the event, or at least few tickets for food. He also thinks the wings could be a little cheaper, and he wasn’t alone.

“A dollar per chicken wing, come on, that’s crazy,” said Noel Tennant, who recently graduated from UB with a degree in communication. “I think they should be like, 50 cents.”

Tennant said she thought the event was a “one and done type thing.” But despite their complaints, Basmajian and others said they would go back again.

Even before the cleanup was com-plete, Cerza already started planning for next year’s big Buffalo wing bash.

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Members of SJP provided ac-tive support to a protest held in solidarity with Palestine on July 18 at City Hall in downtown Buffalo. The protest had more than 350 people, including mem-bers of the Muslim community in Western New York.

SJP said they are not against Judaism or those who practice it. The club is against the ideology of Zionism, which is the belief in the preservation and protec-tion of the Israeli state.

Fadi Suboh, a sophomore me-chanical engineering major, and Kustiro are the only executive board members of Palestinian descent. Suboh has close family members in Palestine, including his father who travels between the two regions for his work. He grew up in Ramallah and moved to the United States when he was 13.

He recalls when the horror of the conflict first hit him as a child.

When the Israeli occupation became stronger, Suboh had to find longer, more complex routes to get to school. He had to go through various check-points, whereas his formal route was short and straightforward.

“It also hit me when some members of family were assault-ed and kidnapped and treated very badly,” Suboh said. “It was very hard to do well in school with the occupation going on.”

The SJP executive board also constitutes of members from Bangladesh, Ghana and Yemen.

Safra Bacchus, a senior biolog-ical science major and the histo-

rian of SJP, is of South Ameri-can descent.

Bacchus thinks diversity on the e-board is important for the goals of SJP because it addresses not only Palestinian struggle, but also humanitarian struggles.

When the original found-ers of the group graduated, the club disappeared like many oth-ers that have “cyclical lives,” said English professor James Hols-tun.

Holstun believes SJP em-bodies the idea of free speech, which is important in the case of a political issue. He said the State of Israel has encouraged pro-oc-cupation ideas on U.S. campuses through Israel-studies programs, subsidized guest speakers and the Birthright program.

“SJP doesn’t have anything like the same level of resourc-es,” Holstun said in an email. “But the motivation for making a strong case is the same.”

Responses to SJP on campus are varied.

Benjamin Balderman, a senior biological sciences major and president of UB for Israel, said he is “worried of SJP’s inten-tions” at UB. He said he met the president and vice president of SJP over the summer and they had “immediately stated that they support Hamas.”

SJP, however, said they do not support Hamas, the Palestinian-Islamic organization serving as the effective leader of the cur-rent Palestinian people.

SJP takes issue with the large number of Palestinians civil-ian casualties, as opposed to the

number of Israeli civilian deaths. The UN says seven in 10 Pales-tinians killed in Gaza were ci-vilians, according to The Wash-ington Post. Pro-Israel and pro-Palestine groups dispute that number.

Gaza is currently peace-ful, in the context of the recent ceasefire agreed upon by Isra-el and Hamas. Although mem-bers from SJP are happy about this, Kustiro points out that the struggle is not over.

“It’s not over until the people have the right to move and have equal rights as every other citi-zen in Israel does,” she said.

Even as they work toward their goals, the group mem-bers know they are dealing with a heavy conflict – one that was born during the British libera-tion of Palestine in 1948.

But Suboh thinks it shouldn’t take 66 years to solve a political conflict.

“Thing is, [politicians] don’t want to be part of the solution,” he said. “They want to be part of the problem.”

SJP will be helping the Muslim Student Association and Orga-nization of Arab Students host a guest speaker event on Sept. 5 in Norton 112 at 3:30 p.m. fea-turing the Gaza activist Moham-med Zeyara.

The club hopes to get recog-nized as a temporary club soon and garner support from more students on campus.

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On Sept. 1, two burglaries oc-curred in the first block of Min-nesota Avenue in the University Heights.

The first incident occurred sometime between 12:30 and 5:30 a.m. The suspects managed to en-ter the house through an open window, according to Buffa-

lo police spokesperson Mike De-George. The burglars took elec-tronics and clothing from the res-idence.

The second burglary happened from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. The sus-pects also made off with electron-ics from the house.

Buffalo Police are investigating both reports. They urge residents of the Heights, which houses many UB students, to keep their doors and windows locked.

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GISELLE LAMASST. NEWS EDITOR

Despite consistently high lev-els of snowfall and a lacking rap-id transit system, Buffalo has proven itself to be a city worth staying in, according to one on-line top 10 list.

NerdWallet, a finance web-site that helps consumers make money decisions, recently ranked the Queen City as No. 6 on its list of cities with the high-est quality of life. The findings were based on common sources of stress: income, affordability and health benefits, local econo-my and work-life balance. Much of the City of Good Neighbors is happy to celebrate the above-average marks, but others ques-tion the validity of what the study examined.

“It’s great when these stud-ies tell the rest of the world how great Buffalo is,” said Brad Hahn, the executive director of Explore Buffalo, a non-profit organization that provides tour services around Buffalo.

Hahn said when Buffalo is evaluated based on standards of employment and rent, it is easy to see why the city comes out on top.

Buffalonians work less than 36 hours a week in an office and only spend about 21.9 percent of their paychecks on rent, both relatively low figures compared to other larger cities, accord-ing to NerdWallet. Rent prices in Buffalo are a fraction of what people pay in cities like New York or Boston, where the aver-age monthly rent is $2,902 and $1,752, respectively, according to Forbes. The average monthly rent in the Buffalo area is $816, ac-

cording to RentJungle.com. Hahn said, moreover, the av-

erage 20-minute commutes to work are “practically legendary.”

But Macy Todd, an English professor at UB, finds fault with the accuracy of the study. He said the study does a poor job of representing anyone’s real life.

“Thirty-six hours of work a week is good if you’re making enough money,” Todd said. “But if your wages are cut from a lack of hours, this can be a great source of stress. Similarly, hav-ing exceptionally low rent can be either a blessing or a curse, as the conditions of this housing

are not discussed either.”NerdWallet took stress, a nega-

tive concept, to determine qual-ity of life, which is a positive concept, according to Todd. In-stead of basing quality of life on positive indicators, the idea is based entirely on the absence of stress-inducing factors, he said.

Todd contrasts qualities like affordability and accessibility be-tween Buffalo, where he resides now, and New York City, where he has resided before. Although Buffalo is more financially af-fordable, New York City pro-vides a convenience that Buffalo doesn’t offer, like close proximi-

ty to entertainment and everyday necessities.

In 2013, 258,959 people called Buffalo home in comparison to 19,651,127 residing in New York City, according to the Unit-ed States Census Bureau. De-spite criticisms of Buffalo’s liv-ing conditions, the city ranked as part of NerdWallet’s study re-sults while New York City was not.

Henry Taylor, a professor for the Center for Urban Stud-ies who disagrees with the study, said Buffalo has a large divide in terms of quality of life.

Black people, on average, pay

around 50 percent of their in-come on housing, nearly twice the amount listed in the study, Taylor said. There is a gap that runs between those with high qualities of living and low ones in Buffalo.

“In the city as a whole, the quality of living is good,” he said. “But in the black commu-nity it is not.”

Vineet Madasseri Payyappal-li, a second year industrial engi-neering graduate student living in the University Heights, does not think Buffalo has a high quality of life compared to oth-er cities like New York or Cali-cut, the nearest city to his home-town in India.

“I say so because I understand there are a lot of poor neighbor-hoods in Buffalo,” Payyappal-li said. “There is a considerable number of people much below my estimate of American living standards.”

He said Buffalo is better in terms of hygiene and cleanliness in public places, but overall, it is lacking compared to other com-parable cities.

Savanna Skarbowski, a se-nior health and human services major, has lived in Buffalo her whole life and thinks her home-town is worth staying in.

Skarbowski said other cities she has visited are more expen-sive to live in. She said Buffalo’s family-oriented lifestyle – the idea that people live in Buffalo with family in contrast to other cities of mostly single people – adds to the city’s quality of life.

“I wouldn’t want to be any-where else,” she said.

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LIVING THE HIGH QUALITY LIFEBuffalo named top-10 city for quality of life, some celebrate results while others question the validity

COURTESY OF CHRIS DLUGOSZ

Buffalo made it on a list of the top 10 cities with the highest quality of life, but some question the legitimacy of the Nerd-Wallet study.

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ANDY KONIUCHSPORTS EDITOR

On Saturday at Coca-Cola Field an atomic bomb went off.

No human causalities were reported, al-though several of my taste buds were set on fire.

The Quaker Steak and Lube Triple Atom-ic Wing challenge had gotten the best of me.

Because I spent all my cash, buying water was not an option. Frantic, I examined the ground for someone’s leftover drink.

A barrel of melted ice came in view, with an empty bottle a float.

Digging to the bottom of the barrel, I re-peatedly drowned my face with the murky wa-ter. This process went on for about 15 min-utes.

After cooler mouths prevailed, my friends and I began to laugh at how ridiculous we all looked.

You’d think we’d be prepared for the heat wave we were about to experience after sign-ing a waiver, but ignorance is bliss, I suppose.

That was the last of my 10 $1 tickets and the end of my evening.

I couldn’t leave the 13th annual National Buffalo Wing Festival, however, until I signed up for the college wing-eating contest the fol-lowing day.

As I lined up for the event, I made new friends and heard stories of their wing eating endeavors. I explained how I’ve been grilling wings for several years now and how I was a shoe-in for first place.

What I didn’t realize is I would be compet-ing against a stud from Medaille College who finished 25 wings in five minutes and 45 sec-onds.

I finished the competition with 17 in eight minutes, one shy away from tying for third place.

The competition consisted of students from Buffalo State, Canisius, Empire State, Northwestern and Rochester Institute of Technology.

One girl told me this was her second time participating, that’s when the butterflies start-

ed to kick in. The promoter cut off our conversation and

explained the rules: Eight minutes to finish 25 wings or whoever eats the most in that time frame, wins.

In an instant my new friends became ene-mies.

I began to clown around on stage, stretch-ing my arms and legs as if I was about to run a 5K marathon, finishing off with the Hulk Ho-gan signature windmill to pump up the crowd.

I was having a blast, until the competition started.

The promoter counted us down, “Five, four, three, two, one, eat!”

I began to stuff my mouth with medium wings from Sliders Grill and Bar.

You’d think wings taste better when they’re

free, but not when you’re trying to cram three down at once. My only option was to drink them down with water, like Danny’s Restau-rants’ Buffalo Chicken Wing Soup.

It still amazes me how I didn’t vomit on stage in front of the 50 states and 51 countries represented in attendance.

Once the Medaille student finished, I lost hope and began to enjoy my tray of wings that sat in front of me. I didn’t realize second and third prizes would be awarded.

Upon receiving this information via the promoter screaming, “Keep eating!” I began to pick up the pace again.

But I couldn’t take any of this serious-ly. Hot sauce ran down my cheeks and was lodged in my nostrils. The roar of the crowd and my friend’s chants from just beyond the stage sent me into an ecstasy of laughter. I

was having the time of my life. I was high off hot sauce.The crowd began to countdown the re-

maining seconds and the competition was over. The gentleman to my right finished off 18 wings, good enough for third. I was very displeased with my lackluster performance.

But as every wing connoisseur knows, there’s always room to improve his or her wing eating skills.

And you better believe I will be hitting the deep fryers and grills this summer, training to be the best.

Look out for Andy Koniuch at the 2015 National Buffalo Wing Festival.

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FEATURES

Attention Students

As you may know, the University is facing increasing pressure from the Univer-sity Heights community to end Stampede bus service that now runs between campuses 24 hours a day. Members of the community are expressing outrage over overcrowded parties, litter and disorderly behaviors exhibited by students in the neighborhood. While the Stampede serves an important function moving the campus community between campuses, the service may be in jeopardy because a small number of students are creating a significant nuisance for the community.

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

Students should also know that the University Heights area is 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 peo-ple 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 ex-hibit 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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LET’S GET ATOMICMy National Buffalo Wing Festival experience

JORDAN OSCAR, THE SPECTRUMSports Editor Andy Koniuch celebrates his 17-wing performance at this year's Wing Fest in Buffalo.

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EMMA JANICKISENIOR FEATURES EDITOR

Since kindergarten, the first day of school comes with serious pressure – the pressure to pick out the best-ever outfit: the out-fit that summed up how much you changed during the sum-mer, the outfit that best showcas-es your personality, or the outfit that will finally get your crush to notice you.

In college, fashion often takes a backseat to laziness or comfort as students pull on snuggly sweatpants just a few days into the semester. But during the first week, many stu-dents are dressed to the T’s.

We may be in Buffalo, but Rizzi’s outfit transports you to sunny Cal-ifornia. Longboard in hand, he has captured the easy, breezy, laidback West Coast vibe that demands at-tention – without really asking for it. Rizzi picked up on the all-white trend that made a major im-pact in Spring 2014 collections but punched it up with simple accesso-ries. In perfectly understated style, the red sneakers, neon sunglasses and orange watch speak for them-selves. In this outfit they blend seamlessly. This outfit is as effort-less and as cool as jumping on a longboard and gliding to class.

With just a flash of leg and a hint of strappy gladiator sandals, Bynum’s look is totally fluid and confident. This first week outfit mixes the go-to summer maxi – floral print included – with a touch of fall in the denim shirt. With no obvious trends in sight, Bynum has created a classic look perfect for the semester’s calm first few days.

Lees is mixing it all up with a black flat-brimmed hat, a thrift flo-ral kimono, a simple white dress and not quite combat, not quite rigger boots. In a seemingly hap-hazard manner, these elements seem like they shouldn’t work as well together as they do. By com-bining unusual pieces, Lees’ look makes a quirky statement. Hats have lately garnered much atten-tion by the fashion social media crowd and Lees’ casually placed

classic hat is distinctly cool. Lees really is the queen of mixing in this outfit, and injecting more of ‘you’ by creating new fashion formulas is the best way to make outfits tru-ly you.

These gladiator sandals are ev-erything. In a totally unexpected way, Thurston combines warrior gear with a simple summer dress in the cutest of prints. Thurston achieved keeping the summer vibe even as school begins.

I can imagine Brunner stroll-ing down a wide tree-lined French boulevard, coffee in hand in this outfit. The red bandana knotted around his neck adds a twist on an otherwise classic outfit. Red, navy and white is one of the best color combinations for adding a touch of Europe to your outfits – think la Nouvelle Vague and walk-ing along the Seine at dusk. May-

be my imagination is getting away with me. Either way, Brunner has pulled off a classic, sophisticated first-week look.

Gallivan is totally adorable in this printed sleeveless dress. Black and white has been a trend for a while now, but Gallivan looks wholly herself, not jumping on any trend wagons. I appreciate the mix of medallion print with bold black and white strips. Plus, major props for wearing black with brown.

What isn’t there to love about this combination? While I per-sonally have yet to try mixing running shoes into my every-day wardrobe, Lee is rocking a crisp, printed dress shirt, well-fit-

ting trousers and bold, red Nikes. By keeping to standards of prop-er fit, Lee has the sophistication to punch up his look with the extremely fashionable sneaker trend. This mix of comfort and style is perfect for campus fash-ion – you can run to class upon realizing your ten minutes late in the line at Starbucks, but you can impress the professor with your polished look. (Oh, and with your intelligence too, of course).

All-black is probably the most consistently awesome thing you can put on in the morning. Bal-cerzak nails it with a simple black crop top, high-waisted vegan leather shorts and barely there black flats. Despite the utter sim-plicity of her outfit, Balcerzak is on point without stepping into the pretentious territory of ma-jor trends. Crop tops and high-waisted bottoms are to be cele-brated, but simplicity is the name of the game when playing with such popular trends. A look that doesn’t scream ‘look’ is always a winner.

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Sierra Thurston, junior fine art

Ian Brunner, junior English

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Wide Receivers and Tight Ends: C+

The Good: Had it not been for the production of Willough-by, the receivers would have se-verely suffered. But there were bright spots. Willoughby went off for 10 receptions and 132 yards and two touchdowns, all career-highs. The 6-foot-4 re-ceiver dominated Dukes’ 5-foot-9 cornerback.

The Bad: Wide receivers Marcus McGill, Devon Hughes, Boise Ross and Jacob Martinez combined for a meager nine re-ceptions for 88 yards, including dropped passes and poor routes. They may not be able to rely Willoughby every week, so Li-cata will have to develop more chemistry with the other receiv-ers on the team.

Tight Matt Weiser only had one reception after his 41-yard touchdown in the first drive. The 6-foot-5 weapon should be better utilized throughout the game. Offensive Line: B+

The Good: With the excep-tion of two sacks, the offensive line did not give up much room up front. The team was hop-ing the line would be a mainstay that continued from last season. They were right.

They gave plenty of room for Licata to step up into the pock-et and it was a rarity to see him get pressured. The offense line created opportunities in the run-ning game, resulting in 174 rush-ing yards for the team on the day.

The Bad: There wasn’t much to criticize, but there were some mental mistakes. Senior left guard Andre Davis had a hold-ing penalty early in the second half and the line gave up a cru-cial sack while Buffalo was driv-ing at the end of the first half. As long as they rid the mental mistakes, the line should be the least of the teams’ problems. Rush Defense: A-

The Good: There’s a rea-son why the Dukes only ran for 51 yards and averaged only 1.5 yards a carry. The big men up front did exactly what they were supposed to do: Stop the run.

One of defense’s best mo-ments came in the second quar-ter when the Dukes were driving into Buffalo territory. Senior de-fensive lineman Kristjan Sokoli had tackle for a loss, followed up by back-to-back sacks from se-nior defensive end Tedroy Lynch and senior safety Adam Redden that forced a punt. Senior line-backer Lee Skinner made some nice plays and finished with sev-en tackles.

The Bad: The front seven needs to step up in goal-line sit-uations, as they allowed an easy 3-yard touchdown run by the Dukes’ fullback to begin the sec-ond half. Pass Defense: D-

The Good: Senior cornerback Courtney Lester had moments where he made some nice plays in one-on-one coverage. Redden had a great game as well, culmi-nating with seven tackles, two sacks and two-and-a-half tack-les for loss.

The Bad: It appeared the pass defense forgot to return to the field to begin the second half as Duquesne receivers ran un-covered down the field through-out the final 30 minutes. Buffa-lo allowed wide receiver Chris King to catch eight passes for 199 yards and two touchdowns, including an 88-yard score that tied the game at 21.

The secondary made Duquesne quarterback Dillon Buechel look like a star, as he threw for 322 yards and three touchdowns. Lester did not look like the shutdown corner he was supposed to be and de-fensive backs Witney Sherry and Dwellie Striggles were virtual-ly non-existent. Teams are go-ing to look to exploit this weak-ness and will torch the defensive backs for the rest of the season if things do not change. Special Teams: D

The Good: Junior punter Ty-ler Grassman punted the ball five times with a 45.8-yard aver-age, including a long of 51 yards and senior kicker Patrick Clarke had three touchbacks.

The Bad: The special teams were not ready for this game. The unit made too many men-tal mistakes, including a fumble on a punt by McGill that was re-covered by Duquesne. The Bulls had an opportunity to block a botched punt midway through the fourth quarter, but to no avail. Clarke missed a 44-yard field goal to end the first half. Buffalo’s special teams need to prepare much better if they ex-pect success against better tal-ent. Coaching: C

The Good: If the game end-ed in the first quarter, coaching would have received an ‘A.’ Un-fortunately for head coach Jeff Quinn, football games have four quarters. The Bulls were torch-ing the Dukes in every way pos-sible, taking an early 21-0 lead in the second quarter.

After falling behind 28-24, Quinn did keep the team togeth-er to rally for the win. When the Bulls retook the lead and pos-sessed the ball, Quinn listened to Licata and Davis’ sugges-tion to try a quarterback sneak on fourth-and-one rather than punting the ball. Licata picked up the first down and the Bulls were able to run out a good por-tion of the clock in the fourth quarter.

The Bad: The Bulls should have never been in the posi-tion to have to come back. Go-ing up against an FCS team in its first-ever game against an FBS school, Buffalo should have been able to pull its starters out and start thinking about Army at halftime. With the way Buffa-lo was dominating in the second quarter, it’s clear the team got complacent with the lead. Quinn said after the game that his play-ers are not coached to get com-fortable with a lead. But that’s how they played.

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A-Turf, a local synthetic sur-facing company from local sub-urb Williamsville, installed A-Turf Titan on the field. It is the same product that was put down at Ralph Wilson Stadium in 2011.

The A-Turf Titan has been lauded for its safety, as it possess-es the No. 1 safety rating for turf fields in the industry, accord-ing to Fuller. The turf is known for reducing injuries because it is protected with ShockPad, a built-in material that reduces G-Max, a unit to measure player impact on a field.

The construction left UB teams without a game field to practice on. The football team spent its summer practicing on a grass field behind the stadium. The team took the news well, ac-cording to Quinn.

“Practicing on the grass was something the entire team ac-cepted,” Quinn said. “Now, we have two practice fields; one grass and one turf. It’s actually a benefit to our program to get

a feel of which surface we’ll be playing on that week.”

Construction concluded a couple weeks before the team opened up its season against Duquesne on Aug. 30. Once they were able to hit the field, the players were pleased with the new turf.

“I love it,” said sophomore linebacker Jarrett Franklin. “No more potholes or twisted ankles this year. It’s a great addition to the program.”

Sophomore running back Jor-dan Johnson said it was the best field he’s ever played on. He said it could help the team win more games this year.

The women’s soccer team got the first opportunity to play on the new turf in a 1-0 win over St. Bonaventure on Aug. 22. UB teams are undefeated on the new turf so far.

SUNY Albany installed a new field turf along with construc-tion of a sports complex in the fall of 2013. Albany Depu-

ty Athletics Director Rick Coe said football ticket sales have in-creased from averaging 2,000 ticket sales a game to 7,000 after the construction of the complex.

Along with the rebranding, the athletic department is hoping to use the field to increase exposure for its programs.

“We are trying to get the word out to the people that we are becoming the next big athletic brand of New York,” Fuller said. “We are going to have numerous games this year on ESPN and then everyone will be noticing.”

The new turf will make an ap-pearance on ESPN’s flagship channel on Sept. 12, as the foot-ball team hosts nationally ranked Baylor.

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Coats said the truck could help provide food to some of the less-er-served locations on campus.

He said the truck’s goal is to go where there aren’t “any points of sale,” such as areas on the Ac-ademic Spine, by the dorms and near UB Stadium and Alumni Arena.

The mobility of the truck gives CDS the opportunity to service new areas, despite being limit-ed physically with stationary food stations, Kohl said.

Coats and Kohl agree Big Blue could present opportunities down the road for later hours – with a late-night menu for late-night cravings – and maybe even anoth-er truck.

But one professor isn’t a fan of Big Blue. On Saturday, she no-ticed some of the menu items were spelled wrong.

“That sign isn’t a very good ad-vertisement for literacy at UB,” saud Susan Udin, professor of physiology, about Big Blue’s menu in a comment on a UB Report-er article. “The words mozzarel-la, beets, peanut and banana are all misspelled. Also, the menu is amazingly high on cheese, cheese, cheese and more cheese, with sides of fried stuff. Yikes. I want to head over to Amy’s Place for some of their yummy lentil soup.”

Tsirkin and Rick Larocco, a freshman pharmacy major, don’t agree.

“It tastes fresh,” Larocco said. “You wouldn’t expect that from a food truck. Every time I go to a game, I’m going to go here.”

CDS prides itself on using lo-cally sourced produce and Big Blue will be no different.

“The chef also informed me

most ingredients will be grown on campus or locally,” Tsirkin said. “I think if they keep up the high quality and freshness of the food it will be a big hit for the UB community.”

Students will be able to pay us-ing campus cash, dining dollars, cash and credit cards. Meal ex-changes will not be accepted.

“It’s a big campus, big col-lege, but it’s not that big though,” Coats said. “It’s still a captive au-dience. We had to be flexible and keep it fresh for them. When we designed it, we didn’t design it to a menu. We designed it to be able to produce anything.”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Enjoy life and all it has to offer. Indulge in events, activities and doing things that interest you, and you will gain knowledge and improve your prospects. Travel will lead to a new ad-venture. Romance is highlighted. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Financial ventures and opportunities will come from an unusual source. Plan carefully or whatever you gain will slip through your fingers. Stringent policy when it comes to ex-penditures should be put in place before someone convinces you to spend inappropriately. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Focus on personal gains and improve-ments, not on those putting demands on you. You aren’t likely to get valid information and should make a point of doing your own re-search. Make changes at home or to your current living arrangement. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t be alarmed by the changes tak-ing place. A strong, stable, responsible approach to work and personal duties will put you in a good position that will bring promising results. Your personal secrets will be revealed if you are too trusting. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Strut your stuff and put on a show. Not ev-eryone will be entertained by your bravado, but it will grab the atten-tion of someone who likes your style and knows how to put your tal-ents to good use. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Invest in education, travel and your community. Don’t let emotional issues stop you from following through with your plans. Make a couple of changes to your living quarters to accommodate something you want to pursue. Emotional deception is apparent.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Speak up and ask questions if you are un-certain. Attend an event or activity designed to improve your commu-nity. Personal connections made at functions will turn out to be op-portune. Romance is in the stars.SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Observe how others react to what you say. What you learn will help you avoid making a mistake. Protect against physical illness or injury. Do something to make your domestic surroundings more conducive to the things you enjoy doing. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Check out what everyone is do-ing or saying. Stick to the truth and focus on getting ahead profes-sionally, financially and personally. Positive changes at home will raise your standard of living and lead to a better relationship with some-one special. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Ulterior motives are apparent and taking precautions to keep your intentions a secret will be in your best interest. Be ready to counter an unexpected change someone makes at the last minute. Don’t let it disrupt your plans. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Say what’s on your mind and get what you want in writing. A professional change looks inviting. Your negotiating skills will help you win a position that can lead to great-er income. Romance will help bring you closer to someone you love.PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Avoid emotional confrontations. Con-centrate on contracts, settlements and other legal or financial matters that can influence your standard of living, your reputation or your po-sition. Honesty will be a factor regarding an old friend. Lay your cards on the table.

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On Tuesday, men’s basketball head coach Bobby Hurley agreed to a contract extension with Buf-falo through the 2018-19 season.

Hurley led the Bulls to a 19-10 record last season and their first-ever outright Mid-American Conference East championship. The No. 3 seed Bulls fell in the MAC Quarterfinals to No. 6 seed Eastern Michigan 69-64.

“I want to thank Athletic Di-rector Danny White and Pres-ident Satish Tripathi for their continued support in my future as the leader of the UB men’s basketball program,” Hurley said in a released statement. “To-day’s contract extension solidi-fies the university’s commitment to building an elite college bas-ketball program here in Western New York.”

Hurley could not be reached for further comment.

Hurley’s extension adds one more year to his existing con-tract. He signed a five-year deal through the 2017-18 season to become head coach of the Bulls in March 2013. That con-tract paid Hurley an annual sala-ry of $250,000 along with incen-tives and other benefits. UB did

not say if the extension changes Hurley’s salary.

In March 2014, rumors emerged on Twitter that Hurley was in contention for multiple head coaching vacancies at larg-er programs like Virginia Tech and Boston College. Hurley de-nied these rumors on his person-al twitter.

“Our men’s basketball pro-gram made tremendous progress in just one season under Coach Hurley and his staff,” said Ath-letic Director Danny White in a press release statement. “Our program is moving forward in the right direction and this is an-other positive step as we work, collectively, to build Ameri-ca’s next big-time college ath-letics brand. Bobby is a talent-ed coach, and we are confident his leadership will bring our pro-gram to new heights in the com-ing years.”

Buffalo opens its season Nov. 14 against South Dakota State at Alumni Arena.

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Bobby Hurley agrees to contract extension with UB

SPORTS STAFF

Quarterback: B+The Good: If the players

around junior quarterback Joe Licata were able to finish plays, the grade would be higher. Li-cata played a commendable game, going 25 for 36 with 298 yards and three touchdowns. The quarterback led two fourth-quarter scoring drives, both ending with touchdown passes to junior wide receiver Ron Wil-loughby to take the lead and seal the victory.

The Bad: With the Bulls on the Dukes’ 27-yard line at the end of the first half, Lica-ta completed just two four-yard passes and then was sacked on third down after being flushed

out of the pocket. Buffalo had to settle for a 44-yard field goal attempt – which was missed – to end the half.

He also had a few mental er-rors – including an intercep-tion in the red zone in the sec-ond quarter. With the way the receivers, beside Willoughby, played there was only so much Licata could do. Running Backs: B

The Good: The Bulls worked all three running backs into the game and the backfield consis-tently looked sharp. Junior run-ning back Anthone Taylor got most of the workload, as he carried the ball 30 times for 115 yards and two touchdowns.

The Bulls were efficient in running out the clock in the

fourth quarter. Taylor and soph-omore running back Jordan Johnson were effective on a 16-play, 76-yard drive that lasted 6:34 and gave Duquesne the ball back with just 1:24 remaining.

The Bad: Despite rushing for 174 yards, Buffalo averaged just 3.6 yards a carry. That num-ber is even more concerning when you take into account that Duquesne is a Football Cham-pionship Subdivision (FCS) school and Buffalo’s offensive line should have manhandled them at the line of scrimmage. Taylor fumbled near the end of the first quarter, but luckily for him, senior left tackle Jake Silas recovered the ball.

Gridiron Report CardThe Spectrum grades the Bulls’ come-from-behind victory over FCS Duquesne

New $1 million field in UB Stadium continues rebranding efforts JORDAN GROSSMANASST. SPORTS EDITOR

The football program went through a major redesign this offseason.

While the team was in the mid-dle of reconfiguring its roster, a different type of reconstruction was occurring on the field of UB Stadium.

This past summer, a new turf field was installed after the old one was damaged in a polar vor-tex during the winter. The state

of the old turf was discovered during the football team’s spring practices and a “state of emer-gency” was declared to fix it, according to Athletic Director Danny White. UB Athletics con-firmed the field cost $1,097,000 to install.

“There were some ruts and un-even waves in multiple areas of the field,” said Assistant Athletic Director Jon Fuller. “Simply put, it was unplayable. Our first prior-ity is the safety and well being of our student-athletes.”

The school paid $240,000 of the total cost out of its emer-gency fund, while the remaining $857,000 was released from Buf-falo’s budget plan through the Capital Construction Program.

The state-run program, based out of Albany, approves the funds of state schools. Rather than wait almost two months for the money to be authorized be-cause of state bid processes, the program allowed UB to take out needed funds and use them im-mediately.

“If we didn’t make the call, we wouldn’t be playing football in our stadium,” said Allen Greene, the deputy director of Athletics.

Stony Brook University As-sistant Athletic Director Adam Gutes said he could not give the exact price for his SUNY school’s year-old field, but he de-scribed UB’s funding breakdown for the turf as “standard.”

UB’s new turf is part of the athletic department’s ongo-ing rebranding movement, the New York Bulls Initiative, or

“#NYBI.” The new field fea-tures the word “Bulls” in each end zone, along with a shadowed outline of New York State on the 50-yard line. On top of the outline are the words “State Uni-versity of New York Buffalo.”

“It’s a beautiful surface,” said head coach Jeff Quinn. “It jumps out at you – the colors, the wa-termark in the middle. It brings a good level of energy and excite-ment to the athletic program.”

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CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM

Men’s basketball head coach Bobby Hurley signed an extension through the 2018-19 season. Hurley led the team to a 19-10 record and the team’s first-ever outright Mid-American Conference East championship last season.

CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM

UB Athletics installed a new $1 million field turf this past summer at UB Stadium because of damage done to the old one. It will be seen on ESPN when the football team plays Baylor on Sept. 12.

CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM

Junior wide receiver Ron Willoughby catches one of his 10 receptions Saturday in a 38-28 win over Duquesne. He also scored two touchdowns to go with 132 receiving yards.