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JON GAGNONSenior SportS editor

The men’s basketball team won’t ease into its schedule with a cupcake. It will face one of its toughest opponents all year on Friday night.

The Bulls have traveled over 1,400 miles to College Station, Texas, to take on the Texas A&M Aggies of the Southeast-ern Conference.

It’s hard to judge the Aggies right now. Last season, they had impressive wins over Kentucky and No. 21 Missouri, but they aren’t returning last year’s lead-ing scorer, Elston Turner (17.5 points per game).

“It’s a bit of a mystery,” said first-year head coach Bobby Hurley. “I’d like to know more about them and be more famil-iar with what they’re going to do, but they’re probably in the same boat.”

In fact, the Aggies may be more mystified as to what to ex-pect from the Bulls, who will play their first game in 14 years without former coach Reggie Witherspoon. Hurley has imple-mented an entirely new game-plan that focuses on lockdown defensive intensity and pushing the ball up the court for transi-tion buckets.

The plan may be tested more in Game One than in any other game this year.

“They’re pretty athletic,” Hurley said. “Their roster has changed significantly, but they’re an SEC power conference team.”

Athletic ability is typical-ly what distinguishes the cali-

ber of player between mid-ma-jor conferences and power con-ferences. Nonetheless, Hurley still wants his team to play in the open court.

The Bulls do appear to have some advantages on pa-per, though. The Aggies’ lead-ing rebounder, 6-foot-9 forward Kourtney Roberson, left prac-tice a few weeks ago with a rap-id heart rate and the Bulls don’t know if he’ll be in action Friday.

If Roberson can’t go, the Ag-gies will lean on inexperienced forwards – which should play in the Bulls’ favor, as All-MAC for-wards Javon McCrea and Will Regan are the strength of their offense.

In the backcourt, the Aggies’ returning scoring leader is point guard Fabyon Harris (12 points per game), who stands at a mere 5-foot-11.

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Faculty Senator Kenneth Dauber wants the University at Buffalo Foundation (UBF), a pri-vate organization that manages the millions of dollars donated to the university, to make its bud-get public – and he’s looking to the Faculty Senate for support.

But he is going to have to wait to find out if he has it; the mo-tion Dauber made was deferred to the next meeting. A trend of low attendance has followed the Faculty Senate for years, leaving the body unable to have quorum and vote on motions.

Tuesday afternoon’s meeting in the Center for Tomorrow was no different. Dauber, an Eng-lish professor, made a motion re-questing the Faculty Senate ask UB President Satish Tripathi and UB administration to make UBF and its associated foundations’ budget public.

Dauber stood in front of the crowd, which included 37 sen-ators – 14 short of what’s re-quired for the body to vote – and read from his motion statement. He said, according to the Sen-ate’s bylaws, it is the group’s re-sponsibility to have oversight on the university’s budget and make

recommendations on “funding priorities.” UBF holds a “signif-icant” portion of the university’s funds, Dauber added.

Last Senate meeting, UBF di-rector Edward Schneider held a Q&A regarding the Foundation and said its “size” is about $1 bil-lion.

“[UBF], because it has been constituted as a ‘private’ corpo-ration, is not subject to the Free-dom of Information Law (FOIL) and about which, accordingly, we

are blind,” Dauber read aloud. Unlike state institutions – which must provide requested infor-mation to the public – UBF’s re-cords and meetings are private. Foundations like UB’s are also present at other SUNY universi-ties.

Some faculty and communi-ty members have voiced concern with a private organization han-dling money for a public univer-sity.

Dauber said, within his mo-tion statement, that the Senate should – “in the spirit of colle-giality” and transparency – ful-fill its responsibilities and request UB make the private organiza-tion’s budget available “as if it were subject to FOIL.”

Artvoice, a Buffalo newsweek-ly, once took the Foundation to court in an attempt to get finan-cial data and make the private or-ganization subject to FOIL. The publication lost the case, as it re-

ported in an investigative piece in March 2011.

With the inability to vote on the motion, present senators par-ticipated in an open discussion about why some members of the Senate were pushing for the mea-sure.

Martha McCluskey, faculty senator and law professor, ex-pressed how important she felt it was that faculty be able to look at what UBF money is being spent on.

“Many of us in our depart-ments are faced with dramatic cutbacks in programs, services, hiring, resources – a lot of trou-ble that’s affecting students, af-fecting our work,” McCluskey said. “It is an issue.”

She explained it isn’t so much important where money came from, but where money is being spent. She also noted concern over which procedures are fol-lowed to determine the hundreds of university employees who re-ceive supplemental salaries – in addition to their state salaries – from UBF, which, in some cases, are over $100,000.

Some senators questioned what the opposition had to say about the motion, but no senator readily spoke against the motion.

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Hurley Era begins Friday nightMen’s basketball set to open season at texas A&M

TRESS KLASSENContributinG Writer

As UB commences its annu-al celebration of Internation-al Education Week this Monday, the Student Union will transform into a hub of international activ-ity, as student groups perform traditional dances, host fashion shows and demonstrate martial arts.

The event, which is being held Nov. 11-15, will feature student performances, cultural work-shops, academic presentations and a keynote speaker and film, which will address the week’s theme of women’s human rights.

Ellen Dussourd, assistant vice provost and director of the Of-fice of International Student and Scholars Services, noted the rele-vance of this year’s theme.

“In the past year or so, we have seen coverage of the prevalence of sexual assault in the U.S. mil-itary, the gang rape of [an] Indi-an medical student and resulting protests, attempted assassination of Malala Yousafzai in Paki-stan and other acts of violence against women,” Dussourd said. “Accordingly, we felt that the theme of women’s human rights would be timely.”

Liesl Gerntholtz, executive di-rector of the Women’s Rights Di-vision at Human Rights Watch, will address this topic in her key-note presentation, “Women’s Human Rights: The Unfinished Revolution.” The event will take place at 4 p.m. on Nov. 14 in Slee Hall.

UB community to celebrate International Education Week

Low attendance at Senate meeting hinders voting on UBF-related motion

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The Korean Folk Art Club (above) has performed in recent years for International Education Week. The year’s week, which will take place Nov. 11-15, is dedicated to women’s human rights while highlighting the diverse cultures at UB.

ALine KOBAyAShi, The SpecTrum At Tuesday’s Senate meeting, Faculty Senator Kenneth Dauber (left) discused his motion, which requests the Faculty Senate asks the UB administration to make UB Foundation’s budget available.

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CourteSy of texAS A&M AthLetiCSTexas A&M’s returning scoring leader is point guard Fabyon Harris (12 points per game), who will direct the Aggies’ offense in UB head coach Bobby Hurley’s first game Friday night.

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“As Chair, I’m not going to say what my own position is,” Sen-ate Chair Ezra Zubrow said in response. “But I do think I have heard that at least one of the con positions is, simply, that it is a pri-vate foundation and operates un-der the laws of a private founda-tion. What we are asking it to do is become more transparent than the rules of a private foundation would be.”

Amidst the discussion, it was decided a document with “pro” and “con” viewpoints regarding Duaber’s motion would be giv-en to senators before their next meeting, where it may or may not be voted upon – depending on at-tendance.

If there is still no quorum at that meeting, the motion could ei-ther go to the Faculty Senate Ex-ecutive Committee or be held again until the next meeting.

There are about 100 senators – 50 percent plus one is neces-sary to have a vote. But the num-ber of senators could change, as those with two unexcused absenc-es may be dismissed and their va-cancy would not be part of the quorum count.

Tuesday marked the second Senate meeting of the academic year. The next meeting will be on Dec. 3 at 3 p.m. in the Center for Tomorrow.

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Gerntholtz will discuss the efforts of the Women’s Rights Division, which seeks to pre-vent abuses against women on an international scale and sup-ports their efforts to gain mar-ital, reproductive and econom-ic rights.

The screening of the film Sal-ma will continue the discussion of the fight for women’s rights worldwide. Christopher Lee, a professor at Canisius Col-lege who specializes in the an-thropology of religion and re-ligion in South Asia, will offer commentary on the film, which tells the story of Salma, a young Muslim girl in a south Indian village.

Denied an education and forced into seclusion and ear-ly marriage by her family, Sal-ma managed to defy the odds and become a famous Tamil poet. The film traces her unlike-ly journey to success and fol-lows her on an eye-opening trip back to her village. The screen-ing will be held in the Student Union Theater Nov. 12 at 7 p.m.

Throughout the week, UB professors will participate in a series of internationally orient-ed presentations, representing a diverse selection of disciplines from nursing, architecture, en-gineering and law, to name a few.

Dr. Davina Porock, associ-ate dean for research and schol-arship and a professor in the School of Nursing, will discuss her study of dementia and care-giving on a global scale.

“The nature of the disease means that it can and does af-fect people of any culture no matter what their status, wealth, family circumstance,” Porock said. “The driving force behind my research is the desire to en-sure that no one has a misera-ble end to their life. Across the world, the work of caring for people who are ill or infirm tra-ditionally falls to women. Care-giving is often hidden work which goes unacknowledged and unrewarded.”

Professor Sebastiano Andre-ana, who will present on be-half of the UB School of Den-tistry, also described the need for greater awareness of un-derserved populations’ access to health care. He hopes to en-courage students to consider the international potential of a profession like dentistry.

“Every year, faculty members and students go abroad to deliv-er dental procedures and spread the word on oral care in differ-ent countries,” Andreana said. “Our work opens new horizons to people that maybe want to consider dentistry as a profes-sion and as a humanitarian mis-

sion.”More than a dozen interna-

tional student groups are slated to take the stage in the Union next week as part of the week’s festivities. Many will perform dances representing styles from Russia, India, Bangladesh, Ma-laysia and the Middle East. Var-ious styles of martial arts, in-cluding Kendo and Tae Kwon Do, will be featured, as well as a Korean percussion perfor-mance and an international fashion show.

Tazrin Hossain, president of the Bangladeshi Student Asso-ciation (BSA), expressed excite-ment about her club’s involve-ment. The group will be per-forming a dance that meshes traditional Bengali folk dance with American hip-hop.

“This performance is meant to express the duality of the students living the States – the potentially clashing aspects of their culture and the influence of their surroundings,” Hossain said. “This is BSA’s first ever performance as a club. Interna-tional Education Week is always a great week and we are very happy to be a part of it.”

For a full schedule of events, visit the ISSS website. All events are open and free to the public.


“One of our strengths on our team is the pressure we’re able to exert on the opposing point guard and hopefully that will be consistent throughout the year,” Hurley said. “Jarod [Oldham] is an elite defender and Shannon Evans is not too far off. I have a lot of confidence in both those guys defensively.”

Hints of the true freshman guard Evans cracking the Bulls’ rotation have surfaced all offsea-son and this may pose as a good matchup for the newcomer.

Hurley won’t reveal his full starting lineup for Friday. He confirmed that senior guard Old-ham, McCrea and Regan will be in the lineup, and he knows who the other two starters will be, but doesn’t want to give Texas A&M an advantage in releasing the lineup. The Aggies haven’t an-nounced their starters either.

Many expect the Bulls’ oth-er two starters to be sophomore guard Jarryn Skeete and senior guard/forward Josh Freelove, though senior Corey Raley-Ross is also in the mix at the 3 spot.

The game will not be televised. Tipoff is set for 8 p.m.


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On Tuesday night, the UB foot-ball team faced one of its biggest games in years. With a national audience watching on ESPN2 and expectations as high as they’ve ever been, the Bulls came through – they won by 27 points.

As Buffalo football continues to labor toward its ultimate goal, a MAC Championship, what has been a constant this season, more so than in the past, is the sus-tained and spirited support of its fans. There were 22,918 people in attendance for the Bulls’ home fi-nale Tuesday. And what has been especially discernible during each game this year is the role that the student fans have played in the energy inside the stadium.

School spirit and showing sup-port at athletic events is an im-portant part of the college expe-rience. It gives students a chance to come together and rally behind our peers, to have shared experi-ences in the stands, to form mem-ories and to build community.

When students have a sports team to be excited about, it ele-vates their college experience in-surmountably. And one of the reasons student support has in-creased this fall is precisely that: We have had a team we can be ex-cited about.

There is no doubt that the heightening of the tailgating ex-perience with the athletic depart-ment’s organized concerts has drawn more spectators to the sta-dium, and this year’s football team is arguably the best in UB history.

With Tuesday’s win marking the team’s seventh straight victory – the first time UB has won that many in a row since 1897 – the fan base has recognized a sense of possibility embedded in this season. They could really go all the way.

Fans want to come out and support the Bulls when they win. They also love supporting inter-esting characters and sensation-al players. Having a packed stadi-um filled with exhilarated people screaming in support adds to the vitality that makes sporting events worthwhile – for both the players and the fans.

Having Khalil Mack as a player to watch this season has provid-ed the Buffalo fan base with ex-citement that renders them anx-iously anticipating what sort of egregious play he will make each week; Branden Oliver leaves fans guessing how many yards he will add to his total and what record he will break each week; and Alex Neutz keeps all on their toes to

see how his adept catching ability will add to Oliver’s ground attack.

One thing about all those su-perlative players, however, is that they will be gone next year. And with 2013’s recruiting class being ranked the second worst in col-lege football, according to Rivals.com, the prospects of the future are looking potentially grim.

Without many of these excit-ing players – who are NFL pros-pects – the fan base is, sadly, likely to diminish. What Athletic Direc-tor Danny White needs to recog-nize is that the increased fan turn-out this season has had nothing to do with the rebranding cam-paign that has been at the center of his mission.

It has had to do with the quality of the team.

Something that can’t be ignored is that White or head coach Jeff Quinn did not assemble this year’s team, which is stacked with talent; these players all came from for-mer coach Turner Gill. And, as Rivals.com has indicated, Quinn has not been particularly success-ful at attracting talent.

But what makes this year spe-cial, what gives it so much poten-tial, is that in addition to the pos-sibility of winning a MAC Cham-pionship and attending a bowl

game, this season could be the impetus for the football program to attract more high-level recruits.

With national coverage and with players like Mack project-ed to go first round in the NFL Draft, the team is getting a lot of attention. High school players are beginning to see that UB is a good place to play football.

So what matters now is that the athletic program uses this mo-mentum to continue developing a winning program. Having the pieces in place to recruit is not enough – they have to actually go out and do it.

With the success of the athlet-ic department riding on winning and the ability to bring in revenue to the university, it is important to note that more fans spend-ing more money on the team has come from us having a good team with good players.

White and Quinn should re-member what they are experi-encing now come the offseason if they want to continue bringing fans into the stadium.

They need to work hard to re-cruit well – it is a winning strat-egy.


A winning strategyAthletics must recruit well to maintain strong student support

Everything that was expected to happen on Tuesday did. Chris Christie won for reelection handi-ly in New Jersey; Terry McAuliffe edged off Kenneth Cuccinelli II narrowly in Virginia; and, for the first time in 20 years, a Democrat will be the mayor of New York City with Bill de Blasio’s landslide electoral victory.

So what does this all mean?Regardless of how premature

it is for commentators and strat-egists to speculate on the 2016 presidential elections this early, we all do it. What everyone wants to know now is what Christie’s victory and Cuccinelli’s loss mean for the Republican Party, which has been struggling to define its identity and shape its image.

“If we become ideological, then we’re blind to evidence,” explained former President Bill Clinton to a crowd of McAu-liffe supporters last week. Com-ing from Clinton, who, in recent years, has become something of a professor in political science, this message resonates.

The brand of Tea Party poli-tics that caused the federal gov-ernment shutdown has exasper-ated the American public. With 49 percent of Americans holding a negative viewpoint of the Tea Party, according to the Pew Re-search Center, it is fair to say that its leverage in American politics is diminishing.

Cuccinelli, a Tea Party hero, lost despite the president’s health care law being largely unpopular in his state. Fifty-three percent of Vir-ginians opposed the law, accord-ing to Politico. But with no finan-cial backing from the Republican establishment (he was outspent by nearly $15 million) and with outdated views on contraception and his equating immigration pol-icy to pest control, he failed to capture the electorate.

Not to mention, Democrats highlighted his opposition to abortion rights throughout the race. After seeing the danger in Texas of electing a rigidly an-ti-abortion governor, Virginians didn’t want to risk seeing that happen in their state.

Twenty-five percent of Virginia voters said abortion was their top priority in the election, accord-ing to Fox News, and, with them, McAullife had a large advantage.

What hurt Cuccinelli even more was that almost half of the state was affected by the shut-down – nearly 45 percent, accord-ing to The New York Times. And, of course, the blame for that im-passe falls on Republican extrem-ists like Cuccinelli.

While Virginia is widely noted for being emblematic of the na-tional political landscape, signs of Tea Party disintegration were evi-dent elsewhere – in red states like Alabama where moderate Repub-lican Bradley Byrne defeated Tea Party-backed Dean Young in a primary congressional election.

Voters are fed up with the ex-treme right – they want poli-tics of pragmatism over gridlock and unity over division. Christie’s victory in New Jersey and talk of him as the Republican Party

frontrunner for 2016 symbolizes the need for a new direction.

A common notion that has been emerging from conserva-tives is the need to nominate a “true conservative” – they feel they sold out going with moder-ates in 2008 and 2012, and that in order to win back the indepen-dent vote they need to fully em-brace their political ideology.

It is well established politically that through a presidential elec-tion candidates must appeal to their base in the primary before moving to the center in the gen-eral election to win the indepen-dent vote.

But for Republicans this trend has not been working. As much as the base wants to blame their candidates’ centrism, it is hard-ly why Republicans have failed to gain the presidency.

In 2008, it was hard to have any presidential candidate win when, after an economic collapse, John McCain admitted the economy

was not “his forte.” And in 2012, they had a candidate who failed to resonate with voters; Mitt Rom-ney appeared phony and artificial.

People elect presidents as indi-viduals – who they are and what they represent. Christie’s being the Republican frontrunner at this point hints at something the party needs to desperately real-ize: that the American people are tired of Tea Party Republicans alienating voters.

Americans want cohesion – a sense of community that comes from our diversity. And with that, we want Democratic and Repub-lican lawmakers who can come together and compromise on is-sues and solve problems.

What the rest of the country realizes that the Tea Party ironi-cally doesn’t is that the framers of the Constitution were deliberate in making the first word of that document: We.

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October was a good month for music.

The twerk queen, Miley Cyrus, kicked off the month by storming through the charts and placing her musically matured album Bangerz at the No. 1 spot. Our ears were treated to the sounds of HAIM, who kept the summer festival spir-it alive just a little bit longer. And Pusha T broke new limits in the hip-hop scene with My Name Is My Name.

Those are all worthy contend-ers for this list, but none made the cut. There are three other al-bums from October that you need to check out. It would be a musical crime not to.

Arcade Fire, Reflektor

This is the top album of the month. Arcade Fire has killed it with their fourth album release, Reflektor. But prepare to be con-fused.

There’s an odd balance between celebration and confined despera-tion, but somehow it works. The 75-minute-long, double-sided al-bum keeps itself on point. There aren’t tangential tracks or exper-imental melodies – the album knows what it is and it’s tuned to near perfection.

The outside influences that in-spire Reflektor make it something beautifully different. Most no-table is the Haitian influence that Arcade Fire has intelligent-ly entwined into the tracks. “Here Comes The Night Time” is the epitomizing track of the whole al-bum – an eclectic, exciting juxta-position of Haitian-celebration and dreary-disco that melts to-gether seamlessly.

The album does have flaws, though. It’s unarguable that Vol-ume one (Disc one) is consid-erably better than Volume two. Though epic in its entirety, Vol-ume two is left to go a bit limp in comparison to the outstanding clarity and energy of Volume one.

Nevertheless, Reflektor is sharp, creative and quite frankly the best album out of a competitive bunch. Don’t just listen to this al-bum through your headphones. Listen to it in a big room where it can be turned up loud and fill all the space around you – it is the art rock epic of our generation, after all.

Los Campesinos!, No Blues

Los Campesinos! have official-ly grown up. And at this point, everyone holds their breath – is grown up a good thing? Are they one of those bands to comfort-ably slip into musical bleakness? Are they bad now? Well, the an-swer is officially no.

Best alternative albums of OctoberThree fall albums that prove mainstream isn’t always in the spotlight

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ERIC CULVER StAff Writer

Anxious fans clad in grungy Pearl Jam, Audioslave, Sound-garden and Temple of the Dog t-shirts from yesteryear skipped out on the big UB football game on Tuesday night to see a music legend perform at UB’s Center For the Arts.

Chris Cornell, an icon of the ’90s Seattle grunge scene, played a solo performance to a sold-out audience. It was his first time back in the Queen City in 14 years.

Cornell’s history as front man makes him one of the most re-

spected and well-known mu-sicians of his generation, and, now, he is travelling the coun-try performing a solo act with familiar success. His current tour is the first time in 16 years U.S. fans have heard acoustic ar-rangements of the songs he has from his whole career with sev-eral bands.

For every ticket sold on the tour, a dollar will be donated to The Chris and Vicky Cornell Foundation, which provides aid to vulnerable children. A por-tion of the profits will also go to Childhaven’s Creative Music Therapy Program Expansion.

Fans were itching to see the rock legend perform from the moment they filed into the CFA.

“I want to see his sweat,” said Brad Romans, of Detroit, Mich. The 27-year-old was happy to be seated so close to the stage be-cause he has been a fan of Cor-nell for over a decade.

When Romans was a fresh-man in college, “Outshined” by Soundgarden was his anthem when he drove to school every day.

“I love his voice and he has some of the best rock pipes I have ever heard,” Romans said.

CHARLIE BROWN GOES GRUNGE Chris Cornell performs solo act at Center for the Arts

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CourteSy of fLiCkr uSer THEBREWERpATRIOT On Tuesday night, Chris Cornell performed a solo act at UB’s Center For the Arts to a sold-out audience, playing acoustic versions of fan favorites from his many former bands.

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Last month, Shelby Lebo, a junior communication major, won $250. The competition, she said, was far from ordinary. She was asked to rate and review her male friends using an iPhone app called Lulu.

The contest was made up of 11 agents, all competing to rate the most males. With a goal of a min-imum of 300 reviews, Lebo quick-ly began rating all of the males she knew on Facebook. As she made her way through all of her Facebook friends, she began rating males at ran-dom that had been selected for her through her school network and lo-cation.

The rating process consisted of selecting answers to multiple-choice questions related to the male’s ap-pearance, humor, manners, sex, first kiss, ambition and commitment. Then, users assigned hashtags to each male, all predetermined by Lulu.

The first set of hashtags were the male’s “best” characteristics, such as, “#CanTalkToMyDad,” and “#SexualPanther.” The sec-ond set of hashtags consisted of the male’s “worst” characteristics, such as, “#GoneByMorning,” “#Own-sCrocs,” “#BeerFirstClassSecond,” “#BurnsCornflakes” and more.

“It took me less than a minute to complete a rating,” Lebo said. “The more I did, the quicker the next one came. Before I knew it, I had com-pleted hundreds of ratings.”

Lulu, a girls-only app created to rate exes and crushes anonymously, launched in February 2013 and now has over 1 million users. Reviews al-low girls to note whether they are a crush, an ex, a friend, hooked up, are currently in a relationship or a rel-ative. The questions are then for-mulated based on the reviewer’s se-lection, and the reviewer is directed through several pages of multiple-choice questions.

At UB, approximately 65 percent of the men on campus have been re-viewed, according to Deborah Sing-er, head of marketing for Lulu. Lebo believes she and her fellow competi-tors played a big role in its popular-ity at UB.

Lebo completed over 1,000 re-views for the competition, winning the prize money. Although she was announced as the winner, the compe-tition didn’t stop there.

The second stage of the compe-tition had the agents become “buzz builders,” where they earned points by spreading the word about Lulu. Sharing Lulu videos through Face-book and Twitter, getting friends to download the app and reviewing even more males was each worth a specific number of points. The first to reach 300 points completed the second stage, but whoever got the most points by the end of the week was announced the winner.

Taylor Wolf, a sophomore commu-nication major, won the $300 grand prize.

“I couldn’t believe I won,” Wolf said. “At first, I was just playing around with the app, rating boys and laughing with my friends about it. Be-fore I knew it, I was rating and shar-ing left and right and suddenly I was announced the winner.”

Lulu ranks 53rd out of 400 free iPhone apps in the social networking category, according to Appdata.com. Lulu co-founder and CEO Alexan-dra Chong said the app’s mission is to “tap into the power of girl talk.”

While eating lunch with some friends on Valentine’s Day three years ago, Chong realized the impor-tance of creating a safe environment where girls can help each other make smarter dating decisions – and that’s where the idea for the app began.

Chong and co-founder Allison Schwartz run Lulu out of their New York and London offices.

Though the app is completely anonymous and is only accessible for females, males have been starting to catch onto it.

“Walking through the library, you can hear boys asking girls, ‘Can you give me a good rating on Lulu?’” Lebo said. “I thought guys would hate the app because they have abso-lutely no say in what girls rate them, but they actually like it.”

Wolf agreed that many of her male friends, too, think the app is fun.

“At first, my guy friends were ner-vous that girls would start trash-talk-ing them,” Wolf said. “But once they realized how it works and what it’s for, they started to really get into it.”

Half a million men have sent re-quests to have themselves reviewed by girls on Lulu, according to Chong and Schwartz.

In an interview with The Daily Beast, Chong said the founders make sure to be mindful and cautious that the app can be slightly hurtful to males.

“It’s more of a positive place than a negative place,” Chong said. “Once guys understand it better, they see it as a secret weapon to engage and use to their advantage.”

She said that although people who don’t understand how Lulu works might find the app to be sexist, they ensure that they are using technolo-gy to harness a real-world experience.

Guys are also able to remove them-selves from Lulu if they want to.

“[Lulu] is weird,” said Joey Wilner, a junior communication major. “But I understand why girls would take part in something like that. I mean, it benefits me. I have an 8.2, so these girls are promoting me to everyone they know and I don’t even have to do a thing.”

The app was meticulously designed to keep females from being too mean toward the males they are review-ing. At every step along the review-ing process, Lulu leaves no room for girls to provide their own words or bash a past relationship. Each ques-tion is predesigned by Lulu, as are the answer choices.

The Huffington Post refers to Lulu as an app that “lets women review men like restaurants.”

Lulu’s FAQ section explains why the founders believe the app is useful.

“If you meet a guy at a party and hit it off, admit it: you’re going to Facebook and Google him when you get home. Lulu is the place to do your research. Except we’re not going to bore you with whether he’s regis-tered to vote. No way. Lulu tells you the stuff you want to know: is he a heartbreaker or your future husband? Lulu is the fastest way you can find out if he has a good track record with the ladies.”

The company holds marketing competitions, like the one Lebo and Wolf took part in, on college cam-puses to help build buzz among stu-dents.

Though the winners of each stage go home with some prize money, Lulu makes sure the other partici-pants get something out of it as well – internship experience. Those who rated at least 300 males in the first stage and gained at least 300 points in the second stage were rewarded with the opportunity to write that they in-terned for Lulu on their resumes.

“It was easy money, easy internship credit and it was fun,” Lebo said.

After participating in the competi-tion, Lebo and Wolf said they both noticed a lot more students using the app on campus.


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In fact, growing up might have just been the best thing that this indie-pop group could have ever done. No longer are they a wor-ried, self-conscious teenager who peers round a corner before turn-ing it, but a suave, confident man in the peak of his life.

The tracks are much more lyr-ic heavy. And as is always the case with indie-pop, a little bit of dark-ness and emotional deterioration never hurt – “What Death Leaves Behind” is an ever-shining em-blem of this.

Unlike so many bands before, Los Campesinos! have matured while not neglecting their musical integrity and excitement. There’s still a sense of vulnerability that indie-pop strives for and flour-ishes with. Overall, No Blues is re-freshingly true and inescapably musically developed.

Tim Hecker, Virgins

Virgins is an album more con-frontational, more savage and more brilliant than anything that Hecker has produced before.

Don’t let the abrasive and dark sounds put you off, though. They are beautifully contrasted with delicate woodwind instrumentals that are given their own space to flourish in. Pile on top of that the

rawness of live performance that features so heavily throughout the album and Hecker has pro-duced his very own monster of beauty and space.

The space of the album coin-cides with a more rhythmic im-pact. “Virginal I” and “Virginal II” offer rhythm through the pia-no and clarinet that dominate the tracks. It’s a fairly new expression for Hecker. The idea of space and rhythm take you far, far away from the claustrophobic sounds of Ravedeath, 1972 (which is a very good thing).

In the spirit of October, Vir-gins could easily be cast as the soundtrack to an eerily bru-tal horror movie – a movie that wholly captures every sense in your body whilst simultaneously terrifying you with its brilliant in-tricate details.

Like any great horror movie, the importance is in the timing and the contrast. For, nothing’s as scary if it’s constant – horror is aroused by suspense and impact.

Virgins is an album that de-mands concentration in order for the thrills to be reaped. It is seri-ous and complex, but utterly and indescribably excellent.

Continued from page 4: Best of OctoberBefore Cornell took the stage,

fans sat through on opening set from American folk-rock artist Bhi Bhiman.

Bhiman played for an hour, getting the crowd warmed up with his rhythmic acoustic skills. “I need everyone now to whis-tle this tune so I can play this song,” Bhiman said, asking the crowd for help. He started to whistle the keyboard tune from “Walk of Life” by Dire Straits. Soon enough, the audience joined in.

Although Bhiman did a good job getting the audience excited, the applause he got was nothing compared to the energy buzz-ing in the crowd from fans wait-ing to see Cornell.

Then, the lights went out in the theater.

Middle-aged men with scrag-gly beards and leather jackets started to scream and holler for Cornell like teenage girls squeal-ing for Justin Bieber to come out on stage.

Cornell slowly walked onto the stage, waving to all of his fans whose excitement finally burst into a massive applause.

“Buffalo, New York,” Cornell yelled to the crowd.

Another burst of screaming and excitement erupted from the audience.

Cornell joked with the crowd, telling them he felt like Char-lie Brown after his wife dressed him up in a puffy jacket to pre-pare him for the “traitorous weather of Buffalo.”

“Isn’t there a football game here tonight?” Cornell asked his fans.

“I’d rather be here,” yelled a fan from the dark abyss of the audience. Cornell smiled and thanked him, grabbing his gui-tar to start the show.

He asked everyone to close his or her eyes and imagine a peaceful place. With the simple and smooth strum of his acous-tic guitar, Cornell started to play “Scar On the Sky” from the al-bum Carry On.

He continued to perform a slew of songs from his former bands’ albums, including gems like “You Know My Name,” “Like a Stone” and “Doesn’t Remind Me.” He also played a cover of “A Day in the Life” by The Beatles.

After a two-hour-and-15 min-ute performance, Cornell ran off behind the curtain. Audi-ence members got on their feet clapping and shouting for his return, which brought a full five-minute ovation.

Cornell reappeared riding a red bicycle with streamers com-

ing out of the handlebars. The crowd erupted with laughter.

“I figured I’d bring this and ride up to Toronto for the night,” Cornell shouted.

The bike became an impor-tant piece for his next song as Cornell began to play “I am the Highway.”

Cornell closed out the show with “Black Hole Sun,” which is perhaps Audioslave’s most well-known song.

“That was fantastic,” said Jes-se Bower, 19, of Armonk, N.Y.

This was Bower’s first time going to one of Cornell’s per-formances and he loved it; he couldn’t think of anything that could have made the show any better than what it was. “I’ve seen him play with all those bands like Audioslave and Soundgarden, and I’m actual-ly almost speechless about it – completely blown away,” said Anthony Botting, 27, of Niag-ara Falls.

Cornell continues his tour in Europe on Nov. 10 in Switzer-land.


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Quinn was impressed with his grades but, because coach-es can’t lead practices during the summer, he wasn’t sure how that would translate onto the field. Once practice started, Quinn re-alized Franklin could be a solid contributor as a true freshman.

Franklin is a key member of three of the Bulls’ four core spe-cial teams formations, but he didn’t see many defensive snaps until injuries began to wear down the linebacking core.

On Oct. 26 at Kent State, ju-

nior linebacker Adam Redden went down with a knee injury and Franklin started to see more playing time.

On Tuesday, Franklin was ro-tated in regularly – and he proved he was ready.

“It’s important that guys like [Franklin] demonstrate to the other freshmen that if you do all these things the right way and you’re a good player and they have a need for you to be in there, then obviously you’re go-ing to have an opportunity to an-

swer the call,” Quinn said.When Buffalo called last year,

Franklin did an internet search of the program and discovered Mack. He saw Mack’s skills and it only made him more excited about attending UB.

“I was ecstatic to be able to play on the same defense as he was,” Franklin said.

Both Mack and defensive co-ordinator Lou Tepper have helped mentor Franklin dur-ing his transition from defensive end to linebacker. Franklin says

they’ve helped improve his form the most.

Franklin has been impressed with the way the veteran play-ers have welcomed the freshmen and made them feel at home. He sees an enthusiasm that the se-nior leadership has passed on to the younger athletes.

“I think our young guys have a lot of enthusiasm,” Franklin said. “Even on the sidelines dur-ing the game when they’re get-ting ready for kickoff, it’s amaz-ing. It seriously brings energy to

the field and I still think we are going to have that next year.”

With Redden not expected to return until Nov. 29 against Bowling Green, Franklin figures to be a key contributor on de-fense the rest of the season.

The Bulls’ next game is on Tuesday, Oct. 12, when they trav-el to Toledo. Kickoff is sched-uled for 7:30 p.m.


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Binghamton’s women’s bas-ketball team entered Alumni Arena last season with a winless record. Buffalo was struggling as well, at 1-8.

The Bulls lost 65-60, but fin-ished the season going 11-11. Now, 335 days later, they travel to Binghamton with a new con-fidence following a long offsea-son.

“This is honestly what I live for,” said second-year head coach Felisha Legette-Jack. “The kids really get excit-ed about getting out there and showing all their hard work, so I get excited for them. It’s excit-ing for me through the eyes of them.”

Buffalo’s season ended 239 days ago in an 83-79 defeat to Akron in the Mid-American Conference quarterfinals. After an offseason filled with sprints, intersquad scrimmages and a few exhibitions, the Bulls open up the 2013-14 regular season on Friday night at Binghamton.

The Bulls looked impressive in their two exhibition games last week, winning by a com-bined 170-104 in preparation for the upcoming season.

Buffalo was outrebounded, 43-29, by Binghamton in 2012. The team struggled again on the boards (outrebounded 35-23) in the first half of its second exhi-bition, against Buffalo State.

Legette-Jack has emphasized the importance of rebounding for the Bulls.

“They thought they would just jump over people and I’m like: ‘Guys, we are not a very tall team, so jumping over people is not an option,’” Legette-Jack said. “Boxing out is something we really need to do.”

Binghamton is coming off a 64-58 exhibition victory over Rochester, which Legette-Jack described as a “great DII team that runs the court hard.” Junior forward Sherae Swinson led the Bobcats with 16 points and re-corded eight rebounds.

Swinson led Binghamton with 9.9 points per game last season and totaled 11 points and seven rebounds in last year’s contest against the Bulls.

Buffalo senior point guard Margeaux Gupilan had a career-high seven steals and 20 points on 6-of-8 shooting last season against the Bobcats, and junior forward Christa Baccas record-ed one of her four double-dou-bles with 15 points and 10 re-bounds.

Sophomore guard Mackenzie Loesing played only 10 minutes for Buffalo against Binghamton last season and senior forward Cherridy Thornton was still in-active due to NCAA trans-fer rules. Both of them look to have major contributions for Buffalo Friday.

The Bulls’ bench scored only 12 points last season against Binghamton and their improved depth should pay dividends.

Despite their slow start last season, Legette-Jack doesn’t want to put too much pressure on the team in this game. She wants to make sure her team understands this is just the first of many games.

“You got to take that first step and you can’t look at it like, ‘Oh, God, look at what we were last year and let’s change this now,’” Legette-Jack said.

The Bulls have won three of their last four opening games and look to continue the suc-cess on Friday night at Bing-hamton. Tip is set for 5:30 p.m.


BULLS OpEN SEASON LOOKING TO REDEEM 2012 LOSS

BEN TARHANSenior SportS editor

Jarrett Franklin wasn’t sure

if he was going to get a chance to play Division II football – let alone Division I.

His high school coaches told him his senior year he would be lucky to get a Division II scholar-ship. But head coach Jeff Quinn saw something others didn’t see in the undersized defensive end.

“[I] don’t look at the size of the guy; [I] look at what’s in his heart,” Quinn said. “And that’s what I saw in him. He’s just a quality young man that is doing extremely well in school along with balancing playing as a true freshman, which isn’t easy to do.”

On Tuesday night, Franklin took the most snaps of any Bull and led the team with eight tack-les and 1.5 sacks.

Franklin, a freshman line-backer, was a wrestler before he played football – one of the rea-sons Quinn was drawn to him. In elementary school, one of his coaches realized his style of wrestling was football-like.

The coach suggested he play football, so Franklin did and im-mediately loved the game, par-ticularly the contact. He played football all throughout high school and started as a junior and senior on varsity.

His senior year, he was a cap-tain on both the wrestling and football teams. He recorded 85 tackles, 21 sacks and two fum-ble recoveries and was named

first-team All-State (Missouri) by the media. In wrestling, he won a state title his junior year and lost in the championship round his senior year.

Before coming to campus, Franklin thought he would be redshirting his freshman season. He saw a lot of older, talented players who already had estab-lished roles and figured he would spend the year learning from them.

And that’s exactly what he’s done, particularly under senior linebacker Khalil Mack.

Franklin came onto campus early this past summer with the other freshmen and his perfor-mance in the classroom imme-diately made an impression with the coaching staff.

Capitalizing on opportunityfreshman franklin makes an impact on the football team

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CourteSy of BinghAMtOn UniverSityBinghamton forward Sherae Swinson is the Bearcats’ go-to of-fensive weapon. She averaged 9.9 points per game last season, including 16 points and eight rebounds in last season’s 65-50 Binghamton victory over UB.

ChAd COOPer, The SpecTrum Freshman LB Jarrett Franklin chases QB Tyler Tettleton on Tuesday during the Bulls’ 30-3 win. Franklin helped force Tettleton to throw the ball away, bringing on an intentional grounding call, which resulted in a safety.

ChAd COOPer, The SpecTrumJunior outside hitter Liz Scott and the Bulls return to Alumni Arena for the first time since Oct. 19. Buffalo begins a three-game homestand to close the conference season.

Volleyball (16-10, 4-9 Mid-American Conference)

The Bulls lost the first of their last four games on Thursday night 21-25, 25-22, 25-20, 23-25, 13-15 to Akron (6-17, 1-12 MAC).

Sophomore outside hitter Tahleia Bishop had an outstand-ing match recording 26 kills.

The Bulls return home on Sat-urday in a must-win situation for the first of three consecutive games at Alumni Arena to close the season. Buffalo faces Tole-do (17-10, 10-3 MAC) in a piv-otal matchup on Saturday night. Game time is set for 7 p.m.

Senior libero Kelly Svoboda was honored as the MAC East Defender of the Week on Mon-day for the third time this sea-son.Women’s soccer

UB Athletics announced on Thursday that Athletic Direc-tor Danny White has decid-ed not to renew head coach Mi-chael Thomas’ contract. Thomas was 31-67-13 (12-43-9 MAC) in six seasons as head coach, high-lighted by a 12-5-4 (4-3-4 MAC) mark in 2011.

“After an extensive evaluation of the program, we decided it was time to move in a different

direction,” White said in a press release. “We remain very com-mitted to winning Mid-Ameri-can Conference championships at UB. Although it was a difficult decision, we believe that a lead-ership change in women’s soc-cer is necessary. We appreciate all that coach Thomas has done for the women’s soccer program over the past six seasons.”

Thomas coached the Bulls to one of only three seasons of at least 12 wins since joining the MAC in 1998.Men’s soccer (3-11-3, 1-4 MAC)The Bulls close off their season

on the road against Northern Il-linois (4-13, 0-5 MAC). Buffalo has played increasingly well to-ward the end of the year, win-ning two of its final five con-tests. First kick is set for 6 p.m. on Saturday.Swimming and Diving

The Bulls hosts Colgate on Saturday at Alumni Arena in their final home meet until Jan. 25. The meet is set to begin at 1 p.m. and both the men and women will be in competition.


Quick Hits: Thomas’ contract doesn’t get renewed; volleyball starts on sour note

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The Spectrum Volume 63 Issue 32