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In less than one semester, Samah Asfour applied for 10 scholarships and was awarded $21,250. She need-ed to get to France.

Within the same week of her mother’s death, she received four congratulatory emails.

“Here I was at one of the lowest points in my life, and yet, I was receiv-ing all these emails every day – ‘Con-gratulations you won,’” said Asfour, a senior double major in political sci-ence and global Gender Studies. “It was a great blessing at that time. It so-lidified my desire to study abroad and I felt like I had to go.”

At the national level, Asfour won $5,000 for the Benjamin A. Gilman Study Abroad Scholarship. Local-ly, she received scholarships ranging from $750 from Wegmans to $8,000 from UB’s College of Arts and Sci-ences.

As student loan debt climbs across the United States – now reaching about $1.1 trillion – stu-dents may be feeling the push now more than ever to get scholarships. UB awarded more than $4 million in merit-based scholarship mon-ey to this year’s incoming freshman, according to the school’s website. For students like Asfour looking to study abroad without getting bur-ied in debt, UB’s Office of Interna-tional Education offers nine scholar-ships and links to 17 other external or departmental scholarship choices on its website.

Asfour’s scholarships funded her semester-long study abroad program at the Institute of American Univer-sity (IAU) in France and her travels to seven other European countries.

She said the most rewarding part of the application process was not receiving an award but being able to self-reflect.

“Every student has a story, and these scholarships really help you piece your story together,” she said.

So how do you snag some extra money to fund your education?

Elizabeth Colucci, UB’s coordi-nator of fellowships and scholar-ships, encourages student applicants to focus on their own interests and to take something they’re passionate about “to the next level.”

“I want to help students enhance their undergraduate experience and take advantage of things that make them happy and interest them,” Co-

lucci said. “It’s their life. I don’t ever want to tell a student what to do.”

As a junior, Asfour walked into Colucci’s office to review her appli-cation for the Honors College Inter-national Study Scholarship – one of the eight scholarships she won.

After Colucci read Asfour’s appli-cation, she reached into a filing cabi-net and pulled out an application for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship – an award that funds up to $30,000 in graduate studies for students dedi-cated to public service.

“Take a look at this,” she told As-four. “I think you have to apply.”

Asfour said that without Coluc-ci’s insight, she would not have seen herself as a competitive candidate for the scholarship.

She said Colucci helped her “con-nect the dots” and see experienc-es such as leading UB’s Girl Effect club and volunteering as an English as a second language teacher at Jour-ney’s End Refugee Services in Buf-falo gave her the potential to win the Truman scholarship.

UB nominated Asfour for the second round of applications, but she did not become a finalist.

“Even though I didn’t necessarily win that one, I still feel like I was a winner in a way,” Asfour said. “That one helped me more than the others figure out my future career and real-ly map it out.”

Colucci said the application pro-cess requires students to strategical-ly think about their future.

“You not only need to be passion-ate about your work but then you need to be able to justify it, and de-

fend it and really explain what you’ve done and why you want to go to a certain graduate school,” she said.

Nigel Michki, a junior computa-tional physics major, said applying for the Barry M. Goldwater Schol-arship – a national scholarship that designates money to students re-searching in science, math or en-gineering – during his sophomore year helped him solidify his goal to work in medical physics.

Michki learned he was a finalist a month and a half before he received an official email from the program. He was home for the weekend and “felt this urge” to go check the program’s website. When Michki checked his phone, he couldn’t be-lieve his name was on the list of fi-nalists.

“I ran over to the real computer because I thought my phone was ly-ing,” he said.

Michki is also a UB Presiden-tial Scholar, which means UB ful-ly funded his undergraduate educa-tion. As a Presidential Scholar, he said he feels he has a responsibility to contribute to the university and the community.

“I like the idea of being able to give back not on my personal time but as a career,” Michki said. “I really consider it more of an employment thing. They’re paying me to do good and ideally help other people to do good as well.”

Michki questions if scholarship’s nomination and selection process are entirely merit based and said they could be based on luck and what discipline the panelists are in.

The scholarship grind Student awarded more than

$20,000 in scholarship money

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Diana Rudz hit her limit two weeks ago.

The ex-Mighty Taco employ-ee used to work 10 to 15 hours a week, balancing her 19-credit school schedule with 10 weekly hours of research and the need to pay her bills.

After three and a half years of assembling nacho buffitos, she forced herself to quit so she could focus on her school-work. The senior biomedical en-gineering major later got a job related to her field, but that also proved to be too much to bal-ance. So, early into this semester, she quit working again to focus on school.

Up until recently, Rudz was one of the approximately 63 percent of employed UB stu-dents who are carving time out of their schedules to earn money for tuition and expenses, accord-ing to a survey conducted by The Spectrum.

Because Rudz ultimately wants to work in orthopedics and help develop innovations in pros-thetic technology for amputees, her second attempt at part-time work was at MedAssembly.

She helped assemble various medical products such as suction ablators, which are used in surgi-cal procedures.

“Having a job on or off cam-pus helps make [students] more marketable,” said Edward Brod-ka, a career counselor at UB Ca-reer Services.

He advises students to only work 10 to 12 hours a week “if they can afford it.”

“Being a student is their full-time job,” he said.

When Rudz was at Mighty Taco, she was working 10 to 15 hours per week. The Spectrum found the majority of students who are employed work 11 to 15 hours per week.

For Rudz, working over the summer at MedAssembly was fine, but once her senior year of biomedical engineering class-

es and research on possible al-ternative materials for shoulder replacements started again, her schedule didn’t allow for enough study time.

“I needed so much more time than I had expected to do all of my homework,” she said. “I end-ed up not having enough time to do research, but I wasn’t go-ing to give that up, or give up my homework. So I stopped work-ing.”

Rudz is currently applying to graduate school and knows how important a high GPA and re-search experience are when it comes to getting accepted into a good program.

She said she saved enough money over the summer to most-ly get by this semester. Luckily, she said, combined with the mul-tiple scholarships she gets from UB, she’s comfortable stopping work for now.

“But now I have no money to spend during the semester and it’s a pain,” she said.

Forty-six percent of students at UB are responsible for at least half of their expenses, and one-third of UB students are work-ing and earning $8 to $8.50 and hour (the New York State min-imum wage is $8), according to The Spectrum’s survey.

Rudz isn’t the only student whose work life has affected her academics.

Respondents to the survey mentioned some conflicts their employment had with their full-time 12 to 18-credit course load.

“My on campus job wouldn’t let me take off for a few of my exams,” said one student. While another responder said he or she got “called into work on days I wanted to take off so I can study.”

Another student said his or her job “cut down the time I had to focus and work on schoolwork.”

Rudz doesn’t miss rolling ta-cos, and this winter she plans on working at MedAssembly again to save money.

For now, she’s a student first.

‘Now, get this work’Spectrum survey shows most students have jobs in addition to class load

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COURTESY OF SAMAH ASFOUR

After receiving eight scholarships to study abroad, Samah Asfour only had to pay a little over $500 to travel across eight European countries.

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OPINION

In an era plagued by a terri-fying roughly $1.1 trillion in na-tionwide student loan debt, col-lege graduates can’t afford to pay their rent, buy a home or start a small business. Just moving out of their parents’ home is a feat comparable to a doctoral degree or a promotion to CEO for mil-lennial graduates.

When graduates complain they’re $80,000 in debt, after graduating from a private univer-sity with no career goals, it can be difficult to generate sympathy for their predicament. But while luxurious college experiences marked by trips abroad and friv-olous degrees do tend to result in skyrocketing loan payments, these outliers serve only to dis-tract from the reality and perva-siveness of the problem.

Seven in 10 college gradu-ates had student debt, averaging $29,400 per student last year, ac-cording to The Project on Stu-dent Debt. From 2008 to 2012, the amount students owed upon graduation increased by an aver-age of 6 percent every year.

Despite the constant conver-sation surrounding the problem, the issue continues to permeate the college experience. Less than half of college students took out loans 10 years ago. Now, more than 70 percent are compelled to do so.

The necessity of a bachelor’s degree for jobs that didn’t re-quire one in previous years is compounding this problem. The labor market research firm, Burning Glass, discovered that more companies are “up-creden-tialing.” For example, while only 19 percent of current employ-ees in secretarial positions have bachelor’s degrees, today, 65 per-cent of postings now require one. The same pattern is visible across multiple fields, including insurance, human resources and construction.

College is becoming more ex-pensive and bachelor’s degrees are a basically a requirement from employment. But an undergradu-ate degree means less because of academic inflation – more jobs are requiring not just a bachelor’s degree, but also a master’s.

More degrees require more tu-ition, which generates even more student debt.

Here at UB, ranked by U.S. News as 19th in the nation for graduating students with the “least debt,” many students seem like they’ve avoided the worst of the loan epidemic, thanks to their (or their parents’) sound fi-nancial reasoning.

More than half of UB grad-uates leave debt-free, accord-ing to U.S. News, a remarkable feat compared to alumni of na-tional universities that generate the “most debt,” with graduates averaging staggering, suffocat-

ing debts between $35,505 and $47,066.

Despite UB’s high ranking and the praise it garners for its low(er) costs, the average UB student nonetheless graduates owing $17,440.

When living in a city ranked by Forbes as the most afford-able nationwide, and attend-ing a public university with a reputation for affordabil-ity and positions on sever-al “best value” lists still leave the average student with al-most $20,000 to pay back, it’s glaringly obvious that this na-

tion’s system of higher edu-cation is broken.

Students who decide to at-tend UB are making a smart, mature financial choice. Many of them make sacrifices – turn-ing down elite, private uni-versities, living at home, risk-ing their lives in exchange for cheap rent in the Heights – in order to cut down on costs. These tough choices should, at the very least, be worthwhile. Ideally they wouldn’t even be necessary.

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In a move that threatens com-munity safety and ignores the ob-jections of the public and coun-ty officials, the State is allowing the establishment of a metha-done clinic in a residential neigh-borhood.

The clinic, which would dis-tribute methadone to recovering heroin addicts, will be located at 254 Virginia St. in Buffalo’s West Side. The neighborhood is final-ly recovering from a past that in-cluded streets ridden with drug dealers, gangs and prostitutes. Now, the area is largely residen-tial – and safe.

But the state doesn’t seem to have any interest in the neighbor-hood’s concerns, granting His-panics United of Buffalo and Acacia Network a conditional li-cense to operate the clinic. More than 60 community meetings were held over a two-year peri-od to discuss the issue, claims the state’s Office of Alcoholism and

Substance Abuse Services, but residents argue they heard about the proposal only a month ago.

Exacerbating the question-able methods of notification is the state’s willful disregard of not just the community, but also Erie County and Buffalo’s Com-mon Council, which considered residents’ concerns valid enough to go on record in opposition of the clinic’s placement.

The state’s actions are demon-strative of an issue even larger in scale – local officials and citi-zens should be able to voice their opinions about problems that af-fect them directly and have their concerns considered.

State officials are simply bull-dozing over the obstacles right-fully imposed by West Side res-idents and their actions threaten the entire community – especial-ly those most in need of protec-tion. The clinic isn’t just in a resi-dential area, but also on the same

corner as a school bus stop. If the clinic is established in

the proposed location, then chil-dren lining up for the bus each morning will mingle with heroin addicts waiting for their morning dosage and, potentially, the drug dealers who tend to prey on vul-nerable addicts. The planned lo-cation of this clinic simply offers too many, too likely worst-case scenarios.

It is, after all, the location of the clinic and not the establish-ment itself that is a site of re-sistance. Recovering addicts de-serve assistance and have a right to medication – no one is deny-ing that, but there are plenty of alternate locations that could be used to supply methadone to those who need it.

Residents who protested the clinic’s establishment are aware of this side of the issue as well, and they’ve suggested possible options, such as the more com-mercial area on Niagara Street. Addicts need a place to feel safe and work on their recovery, but residents of the neighborhood

have a right to safety, too. As the West Side (hopefully)

continues its revival, the area has the chance to attract new residents, new business and new visitors. With safer streets and well-kept houses, the area is becoming an appealing place, contributing to Buffalo’s rise. But bringing in a methadone clinic would bring in not just people in need of assistance, but also people looking to take advantage of the clinic’s pa-tients and send the West Side plummeting once again.

The State may not be aware of the complexities surrounding the area, of the changing culture and restored sense of community. That’s why it should be listening to those who are aware – those who live and work in the neigh-borhood, who understand better than anyone why the West Side deserves a second chance and why its fragile recovery needs to be protected.


A recovering community threatened by state’s obstinacy

Proposed methadone clinic threatens the revitalization of the West Side

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In times of financial strife, some students are turning on their campus stovetops to save a few bucks.

UB mandates freshmen purchase a meal plan, and once that obligation is over, some upperclassmen who live on campus opt to cook rather depend solely on a meal plan. Meal plan options range from $550 to $5,190 per year, which can be steep for a college student on a budget.

Kelly Wu, a senior exercise sci-ence major, chose to cook in the dorms during her sophomore year because she found she couldn’t put her freshman-year meal plan to full use. She was wasting money.

During her freshman year, she purchased the 19-meal plan. But even after her switch to the 14-meal plan, she still found herself unable to use all her meals.

“Even though I had lowered it to the 14-plan, I was still left with two or three more meals to finish off, especially since I don’t usually eat breakfast,” she said.

“Any 19 Plans” cost $2,595 per semester and “Any 14 Plans” cost $2,450 per semester – freshmen have to choose one of these op-

tions. The plans give students 19 or 14 meal credits each week to use at on-campus dining centers or loca-tions.

Instead of purchasing one of these meal plans in her sophomore year, Wu started buying her own groceries and making food in the dorm kitchens. She said she would spend around $60 during her week-ly visits to Wegmans. Under the “Any 19 plan” students are spending about $172 per week on food, av-eraging the overall cost out over 15 weeks.

The biggest challenge for Wu was traveling to the kitchen. She strug-gled hauling food and utensils down the hall, going back and forth to the public cooking space.

Wu said another reason she opt-ed out of the meal plan was be-cause she missed the taste of home. She said a lot of food on campus is cooked is reminiscent of “fast food.”

“I just wanted more home-cooked meals,” Wu said.

She would usually cook Chinese meals or special dishes, like pasta, but still keeps Dining Dollars for a quick bite on campus.

Theresa Blaise finds the time to cook almost every day for every

meal in Greiner Hall. The sopho-more biology major works in the dorm’s kitchen space, which in-cludes a stove and a microwave she shares with the people in her dorm room’s wing. The cooking spaces don’t have fridges, but students can have one small fridge for every two people in their dorm rooms.

Blaise has an “Upperclassmen Resident Plan,” which allows for 20 meals for the semester and $350 Dining Dollars for $550. Despite having a meal plan, she believes cooking with her roommate saves money and gives them alternative food options.

She splits the costs of grocer-ies from Wegmans or Walmart and finds the stores that offer food dis-counts. She admits finding the time to prepare meals between classes can be tough, but it’s cheaper than having a full meal plan.

Some upperclassmen who live in the dorms, however, find the meal plans worth the money.

Juan Salazar, a junior exercise sci-ence major, loves to workout and said he needs a lot of food for mus-cle recovery and growth. A meal plan easily provides him with the food necessary for this. Salazar also feels he doesn’t have time to cook

because there is a lot of work and studying involved for his classes.

Salazar currently uses the 19-meal plan. He said he tried the 14-meal plan before, but he switched back because it wasn’t enough. He is con-sidering cooking next year when he moves to UB’s on-campus apart-ments, which have full kitchens.

But for students like Julia Sta-chowski, being able to prepare food is a priority and something she con-sidered when transferring to UB from Nazareth College in Rochester.

Stachowski, a junior communica-

tion and Spanish major, sets limits around $40 per week for groceries. She focuses her purchases on fresh fruits and vegetables.

She said the food at her old school would make her sick and cooking was a way for her to know exact-ly what she was eating. But she still uses her Dining Dollars for a quick meal, just as other UB students bal-ance between saving money and convenience.


Ditching the meal plan Some students who dorm cook instead of purchasing a meal plan to save money

Several other defensive backs, like seniors Adam Redden and Courtney Lester, were originally wide receivers when they came to Buffalo. Redden believes Ross can make the transi-tion back to cornerback.

“I don’t think it will be too chal-lenging [for Ross] because for my-self it wasn’t too challenging,” Red-den said. “It’s football to us, if you go from playing corner to wide re-ceiver you’ve seen it before be cause the corner plays the wide receiver and vice versa. He’ll be a great piece to our defense.”

Ross’ transition has been easi-

er because he is going from playing wide receiver to cornerback, two po-sitions that often go head-to-head. Ross said he thinks about what route the receiver he is covering will run, as opposed to thinking about what route he himself will run.

Ross said Lester and senior defensive back Dwellie Striggles have been in-strumental in teaching him the defense.

“They’ve been getting on me about how the system works and how everything works,” Ross said. “Learning from them and picking their brains is huge and that’s what I’m trying to do right now.”

Ross feels comfortable practicing with the defensive backs and attend-ing their meetings because he had friendships with the defensive backs before the position switch.

“It’s definitely good to have Boi-se on what we call ‘the dark side,’” Redden said. “If he couldn’t do it, he wouldn’t be there.”

Ross played mostly in third down passing situations in Friday’s 63-21 loss to Baylor Friday. He did not re-cord a tackle or pass deflection in the game, but Ross believes it was great experience for him going forward in making the transition to cornerback.

“Getting out there and actual-ly being in an actual game and get-ting the actual calls is much different than just going through the practice motions,” Ross said.

Quinn said there is a possibility Ross could switch back to wide re-ceiver if Baker is able to return this season.

“You always keep an open mind,” Quinn said. “I would like to be able to have that conversation by being able to have Marqus back but right now it’s just going to play itself out.”

Ross still missies the thrill of catching touchdowns, but he is con-

tent with now trying to stop them instead.

“I miss [playing wide receiver] of course, but I’m all for the team so whatever the team needs, they need-ed me out at cornerback, I’m willing to change,” Ross said.

Ross will be seen wearing No. 1 and trying to force incomplete pass-es this weekend as opposed to his usual No. 87 and trying to receive touchdowns. Buffalo hosts Norfolk State (0-3) Saturday at UB Stadium. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m.


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Here is how some other UB stu-dents make some money:

Name: Jenna FormanMajor: Health and human servicesYear: SeniorJob: Teaching Assistant for ES102: Fundamentals of WellnessPaid: Slightly above minimum wage Description: Forman works with the professor as a “right hand man.” She assists in grading assign-ments, logging attendance into a database and helping students with day-to-day questions about the cur-riculum and various assignments.

“My favorite part about my job is working with the professor,” For-man said. “She’s my favorite pro-fessor that I’ve had since I’ve been at UB. She’s always been so helpful and is an all-around-great person to work with.”

Name: Laura WanerkaMajor: Masters in Business Ad-ministrationYear: First-year graduate studentJob: TA for MGS351: Introduction to management information sys-temsPaid: A stipend for the semester Description: Wanerka teaches six undergraduate recitations each week, holds office hours for stu-dents twice a week, proctors exams, grades homework, quizzes and in-class activities as well as assists stu-dents with their semester-long proj-ects.

“This job is definitely a lot of work but I chose to do it not only because it’s helping me afford my MBA but it’s also giving me a more in-depth understanding within the field of business, which I haven’t had much experience with prior [to this job].”

Name: Kristina GoehringerMajor: AccountingYear: JuniorJob: Lifeguard and Water Safety In-structorPaid: Above minimum wage Description: Goehringer is in charge of lifeguarding while UB’s Dive and Swim team practices on Saturday mornings. She also teach-

es beginner-level swim instruc-tion to kids as well as intermediate and advanced swim instruction for adults.

“My favorite part about life-guarding is being able to socialize with people of different tempera-ments, abilities and backgrounds,” Goehringer said. “It’s also so re-warding to see people of all differ-ent ages improving because of my instruction.”

Name: Emma BocchinoMajor: PsychologyYear: SeniorJob: Student Union ManagerPaid: Slightly above minimum wage Description: Student Union Man-agers are in charge of setting up and managing various events within the student union. Bocchino makes sure rooms are clean, unlocked and set up accordingly for various events.

“The people working at the Stu-dent Union were so nice and sweet when I first transferred here,” Boc-chino said. “I started working here right when I transferred and I love being able to see the cool events that take place here as well as help-ing in situations when things go awry. I’m also here to help students and I love being able to see them happy after helping them solve their problems.”

Name: Leonard ArambamMajor: Industrial EngineeringYear: JuniorJob: Student Assistant at Center For Student LifePaid: Starting at minimum wageDescription: Student Assistants help various clubs and organiza-tions reserve rooms for events. They organize and record exactly what students will need for the spe-cific events that they plan on cam-pus.

“I love the office work environ-ment,” Arambam said. “My boss is awesome, and everyone here has the same mentality and goal in mind – helping students.”

Rachel Kramer contributed reporting to this story.

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Joseph Gardella, a SUNY Dis-tinguished Professor and John and Francis Larkin Professor of Chem-istry, is regularly involved in the nomination process for scholarships and didn’t find that to be the case in his selection experiences.

Gardella said members of selec-tion committees do not lobby for the applications from their respec-tive students, but instead help oth-er committee members have an in-formed perspective on their stu-dents’ applications.

Michki advises students interest-ed in applying for fellowships and

scholarships to develop strong rela-tionships with faculty members. He said letters of recommendation car-ry the most weight in a student’s ap-plication.

“Someone else’s word about you is probably worth a thousand times what your word about you is worth,” he said.

Gardella said strong letters of rec-ommendation show a genuine rela-tionship between the student and the faculty member and address the student’s strengths and weakness-es. Michki said it’s important for stu-dents’ essays to be clear, thoughtful and resonate with experts in the ap-plicant’s field of study.

Asfour took initiative in her un-dergraduate experience in applying for scholarships and she encourages others to do the same.

It’s not enough to leave UB with a just a transcript, even if students have a 4.0, according to Colucci.

Asfour didn’t only fund her trip to Europe, she enhanced her résumé. She said she took control of her fu-ture.

“You can’t just sit back and say, ‘Oh if it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be,” she said. “You play a relevant role, a very crucial role, in your own career, and where life takes you.”


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Lunch: $8.00Gas: $50.00Junot Diaz’s new book: $14.99Bank account: EmptyWith the fall semester under-

way, it’s easy for students to get caught with an overwhelming list of personal expenses. The feel-ing of swiping a piece of plastic in exchange for “stuff you need” can be exhilarating, until one day, your card is declined.

Being a frequent player of “how much money is in my bank account?” is dangerous; but with some creativity, you can avoid losing that game. Got an uh-oh? Stick a pin in it

College not only tests your academic ability, but also your clothing. Vicious washing ma-chines and unpredictable weath-er can lead to the demise of many clothing items, leaving stu-dents heartbroken and defeated when they have to replace their favorite pair of jeans.

Sabrina Swenson, a sopho-more biomedical science major, found herself in an outfit crunch when she didn’t have anything

new to wear. She didn’t have the option to buy a new shirt, so she used bobby pins to put her shirt together, transforming a tank top to a crop top.

She said the idea came to her when she saw her cousin’s room-mate – at Fashion Institute and Technology – pin back her shirt. Swenson has been doing it ever since.

“I haven’t thrown away a piece of clothing since my sophomore year in high school,” Swenson said. “So a lot of [my wardrobe] is adding one or two new pieces and mixing and matching.” No such thing as a wasted meal

Students who depend on the university for food know all too well what it’s like to want meals when they aren’t accepted and food establishments are closed.

Put your meals to good use during the week by stocking up on foods that will last a longer than a day. If you use one meal to buy two large soups, you’ll have lunch and dinner for the price of one. This saves meals for late night snacking or acci-dental meal mismanagement.

It also means eating that left-over food in your mini-fridge on a Saturday afternoon instead of

waiting in line for Moe’s when you’d much rather be in bed.

And if the problem is having too many meals and not a large enough appetite, put your mon-ey to good use by stocking up on portable food items. Alyssa We-glarz, a freshman undecided ma-jor, buys extra yogurts and fruit cups on Fridays before her meals expire.

Other students prefer to spend their extra meals on friends in need. In addition to buying juice and fruit to get rid of meals, Ivo-ry Sligh, a junior international studies major, spends her meals

on one of her roommates who has only 20 meals for the semes-ter.

Your meals are already paid for – so why not get your money’s worth?

Bartering makes a comeback At Bennington College in Ver-

mont, students who are dorming host annual clothing swaps. This gives everyone a chance to get new clothes in exchange for the items they never wear.

The same concept works for food.

Garret Jermyn, a sophomore pharmacology and toxicolo-gy major, said he and his friends would often trade a pack of Ra-men for a bottle of water. Ac-cording to him, the going price for a Gatorade is two Ramen packets.

“Really, I can trade Ramen for anything,” he said.

At-home library for freeTextbooks can get expensive.Services like Amazon Prime

make it cheaper for students to buy books and quickly receive them, but a free six month ser-vice can only go so far before the website charges a $60 member-ship for the year, which defeats the purpose of buying a half-

priced book.If you prefer computer access

to your textbooks, then the In-ternet Archive is for you. It has 100 million books available elec-tronically to the public for free – no subscription needed. Students can now read and access books from cover to cover on their computer without opening their wallets.

Speaking of wallets …Why use a wallet when your

smartphone has a case? The ba-sic necessities a college student needs are ID cards, cash, deb-it cards and a cellphone, all of which are small, flat and can be placed in between your phone and its case.

Limiting the amount of stor-age space means you can only bring the exact amount of mon-ey for what you need and noth-ing more. Just remember, your phone has everything now – lit-erally.

Money-saving opportunities are all over campus; it just takes a little creative thinking to find them.


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JORDAN OSCARSENIOR ARTS EDITOR

Free concerts featuring world-renowned musicians are rare, but that’s what the music department is offering UB students this year.

Students who present a valid UB ID can get free tickets to all of the music department perfor-mances for the 2014-15 season.

Until now, students who were not music majors had to pay for most of the music department’s concerts, with the exception of the faculty recitals.

Phil Rehard, the music depart-ment’s concert manager, said they noticed 15 to 20 addition-al students in attendance when they allowed non-music majors to see faculty concerts for free. He hopes the department’s new policy combined with additional advertising will bring more peo-ple to Slee Hall concerts.

Rehard said the new chair of the concert committee, Eric Heubner, an assist professor in the Department of Music and pianist for the New York Phil-harmonic, was instrumental in

the changes to the ticket policy. “We wanted to make sure stu-

dents took advantage of an op-portunity to hear [high-pro-file artists] in Buffalo,” Heub-ner said. “It’s not every university or school or department of mu-sic that can bring artists of this caliber. The free tickets in es-sence are the best way to adver-tise what we’re doing.”

The first show is a Beethoven String Quartet performance by the Miró Quartet on Friday, Sept. 19. Performances this year in-clude faculty recitals, like Jean

Kopperud playing clarinet, Vis-iting Artists Series’ performanc-es like Christopher Houlihan on organ and Master Class perfor-mances by the Horszowki Trio, world-renowned violinist Jenni-fer Koh, and many others.

Rehard said some of the costs are being covered by increased ticket prices for non-students – up by $3 for general admission and $1 for senior citizens – and by the department’s endowment. But he said this is a gamble to get more students to attend, which he hopes will bolster attendance as a whole in the long run.

“There are 30,000 students on campus, so if 100 students would learn about this who are interest-ed in classical music would come over and take advantage of this that would be pretty amazing,” Rehard said. “That would make quite the impact. Then maybe they’ll tell their friends [and] get more people to here for these concerts.”

Heubner said he noticed the increased attendance during his

recitals when they began giving more free tickets. He enjoys be-ing able to perform in Slee Hall with his colleagues, who he said are “all wonderful performing musicians themselves.” He also enjoys playing in front of his stu-dents, who he hopes learn some-thing from each of his recitals.

“I think the acoustics [in the Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall] are good for classical perfor-mances,” said Jeff Knorr, a grad-uate music theory student and bass player for the orchestra. “I hope [attendance] increases be-cause it’s nice to see more peo-ple in the audience to appreciate the music.”

Knorr feels a lot of students aren’t aware of the performances put on by the music department and hopes students take advan-tage of the opportunities the free tickets provide.


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THE SPECTRUM

Sabrina Swenson, sporting a tank top turned crop top, saves mon-ey by reinventing old clothes.

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The Horzowski Trio is among many big musical talents that the music department is bring-ing to UB. All students can now get free tickets for all the department’s concerts and recitals.


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On Aug. 8, a federal court in Oakland, California passed a law that could drastically alter the landscapes of college athletics. The court ruled that student-ath-letes could capitalize on the reve-nue that athletes bring back into the school.

The ruling does not affect the Mid-American Conference, UB’s conference, as only the Pow-er Five Conferences are a part of this rule. Nonetheless, the change enhances a common de-bate among networks like ESPN: Should student-athletes be com-pensated?

We asked students on campus for their opinion on the issue.

Tommy Froehlich, a freshman mechanical engineering major

“The colleges make a lot of money off of the student ath-letes. It’s not fair to the players that they will not get any money from what the schools profit.”

Mike Clark, a sophomore undecided major

“I do believe student athletes should be paid in some sort of way. They’re chosen to play a sport and they’re going to a cer-tain school to play for, they can be bringing in a lot of money for the universities. They should be compensated for more than room and board.”

Brandon Charletta, a sopho-more actuarial science major

“Student-athletes should not be paid. They are choosing to play a sport and many people in this school are able to play sports. One person can just de-clare themselves an athlete and will get paid thousands and thou-sands of dollars just to become this paradigm of a student-ath-lete. Anyone can do it.”

STUDENT SOUND OFF: SHOULD STUDENT-ATHLETES BE PAID?

TOM DINKISENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

Before last Friday night’s game, Boise Ross had not played defensive back in an official game since high school. His task in his first game at his old position: defend the No. 4 ranked passing attack in the coun-try and its Heisman candidate quar-terback.

“[The game] was huge for me,” Ross said. “It was a steppingstone for my college career.”

Ross, a sophomore, started this season at wide receiver, but after in-juries to the football team’s second-ary, head coach Jeff Quinn decided to move Ross to cornerback before the Bulls’ game against Baylor.

Junior defensive back Marqus Baker missed the Bulls’ first three games with an unknown illness. Quinn said that when Baker “went down,” the team started slotting Ross in sub-defensive packages in practices.

Due to uncertainty around Bak-er’s status and the emergence of several Buffalo wide receivers like juniors Ron Willoughby and Mar-cus McGill, Quinn decided to make Ross a fulltime cornerback. Af-ter the Bulls lost 47-39 to Army on Sept. 6, Quinn called Ross into his office to tell the sophomore the news.

“Boise is a competitor, he wants to get on the field and compete,” Quinn said. “He’s an outstanding wide receiver but I also know if you’re an outstanding football play-er you can play multiple positions.”

Ross took the position change “well” and accepted his new role. Quinn was impressed by Ross’ will-ingness to switch positions for the best interest of the team.

“We needed help and whatever it takes to help the team I’m willing to do,” Ross said.

Ross played both wide receiv-er and cornerback at Liberty High School in Pennsylvania. He earned first-team all-State honors at wide receiver and second-team all-State honors at defensive back. He had 93 tackles and five interceptions in his junior year.

The Buffalo coaches did not dis-cuss playing defensive back with Ross when they recruited him. De-fensive coordinator Lou Tepper vis-ited Ross during recruiting trips, so Ross said he had heard a lot about Buffalo’s defense.

Ross said the techniques he learned in high school – like back-pedaling and getting out of his brakes – have helped him with the Bulls.

PUTTING THE TEAM ON HIS CORNERBACK

Nicholas Makarowsky, a freshman engineering major

“They should not be paid. They’re getting free tuition for full scholarships or partial schol-arship that pays for a lot of things. They get free athletic gear, tutors and perks that nor-mal students would not get.

Sophomore wide receiver switches back to high school position

ANDY KONIUCHSPORTS EDITOR

Since 1970, the only things taking

advantage of Lake LaSalle were the geese that flock UB’s North Cam-pus.

But as spectators gathered for the official unveiling of UB’s new-est outdoor activity, kayaking and canoeing, decades of neglect be-came a distant memory.

The ribbon cutting ceremony Monday officially marked the grand opening of recreational activities at Lake LaSalle waterfront.

“For students it’s an opportunity to get on a body of water and see the university from a different an-gle,” said Assistant Recreation Di-rector Russ Crispell. “It’s a spectac-ular view, something that everybody probably dreams of doing. That’s at least the response from our gradu-ated seniors, who say, ‘Thank God they did this, it’s about time.’”

The kayaking season is tentative-ly scheduled through Nov. 1, but is subject to change due to weath-er conditions. Students may rent kayaks and canoes from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday for free. Five kayaks and four canoes are avail-able for rent and the weight of each device varies from 25 to 78 pounds.

Students can take a standup pad-dle boarding class on Wednesdays for $5 dollars. Students are free to bring their own vessel but may not store them on campus.

Director of Campus Living An-drea Costantino supplied a boating

dock and Outdoor Pursuits, a sub-division of Student Life, donated the kayaks and canoes. The instal-lation of the dock was $25,000, ac-cording to Director of Student Life Thomas Tiberi.

The dock prevents any natural erosion caused by students dump-ing their boats off the edge of the shoreline, according to Tiberi.

Crispell said UB’s 2020 Plan calls for the expansion of experimental education and utilization of UB’s natural resources. He believes the docking station complements that movement.

Even though the 60-acre man-made lake isn’t technically natural, students are still getting something out of the initiative.

“Initially I was a little scared, be-cause the first time I went kayaking I capped sized,” said Oscar Chen, a senior psychology major. “The nerves went away though and it was pretty fun. It was definitely relax-ing. Being on campus on the water is definitely a whole new experience than walking on land.”

There is always at least one pad-dling instructor on duty for stu-dents worried about using the equipment. Instructors will go out onto water with inexperienced stu-dents and “leash” their boat upon a student’s request.

Students are required to wear portable flotation devices, provid-ed by the organization, when on the lake.

Instructors like junior social sci-ence major Sophia Chianese, who has been boating since she was 5, be-lieves canoeing is a great way to re-

lieve stress and form new friendships.“I would definitely recommend

this,” Chianese said. “Even to peo-ple who don’t think it’s a great idea or are a little frightened. You can come with a bunch of friends and we’ll make it a fun time. We know how to teach and have fun.”

Some students even take their books into the boats and studied in the middle of the lake, according to Nick Derrick, a senior anthropolo-gy major.

Derrick, one of Crispell’s former teaching assistants and current in-structor at the Outdoor Adventure Club, is in talks amongst the club to coordinate lake cleanups as trash from The Commons finds its way into the lake.

“We clean up the lake as much as possible,” Derrick said. “People fish down by the bridge, they’ll toss their garbage into the water and

leave it there.”The quality of its water has been

the subject of scrutiny among UB students, but Derrick says the water in Lake LaSalle, which comes from Ellicott Creek, is clean enough to swim in.

“People have the stereotype that the lake comes from a sewage dump,” Derrick said. “That’s not true. I would jump in this water. On a hot day, sometimes I wish I could just jump in or purposely tip my boat.”

Some students wish boating on the lake was available years ago. Af-ter Lake LaSalle’s opening in 1970 and prior to creating the dock, stu-dents needed special permission from special events to boat on the lake.

“If they had this my freshman year, I would have been out [on the water] every single day,” said Kevin

Santa, a senior environmental geosci-ence major and paddling instructor.

Chief Sustainability officer Ryan McPherson realized there was a de-mand for recreation. McPherson began to take safety procedures to meet the requirements of Univer-sity Police along with the Environ-mental, Health and Safety depart-ments.

“Activating this lake is taking a gi-ant step toward really realizing that greater connection – something bigger than ourselves,” McPher-son said. “This is the first step of a much larger effort at opening this campus and connecting with our ecosystems and enhancing the con-nection that we have as both faculty and students.”

Outdoor recreational activity classes will no longer be available for students for credit after this se-mester, so Crispell has been orga-nizing outdoor activities for stu-dents through Student Life.

Crispell is the faculty adviser for Outdoor Adventure Club, which currently has 200 active members and 800 total members. Active members participate in events reg-ularly, such as white water rafting, trips to Niagara Gorge in Niagara Falls State Park and the Adirondack mountains.

Crispell is still excited for the fu-ture of outdoor recreation at UB.

“I look at [the new dock] as a gateway to expand outdoor rec-reation for the students,” Crispell said. “That’s really what it is, it’s the first step.”


Kayaking at Lake LaSalle opens for students Kayaking and canoeing on campus available after over 40 years of lake’s nonuse

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Nicole Irons, a graduate design and interactive communications major

“The best compromise that can be given is scholarships. That would help with the financial side of it. However, that’s how I see them being paid is by the schol-arships that they would receive.”

EMILY LI, THE SPECTRUM

Senior archaeology major Nick Derrick, Chief Sustainability Officer Ryan McPherson and Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Barbara Ricotta cut the ceremonial ribbon at the grand opening of Lake LaSalle.

COURTESY OF PAUL HOKANSON, UB ATHLETICS

Sophomore cornerback Boise Ross scans the Baylor offense in the Bulls’ 63-21 loss last Friday. Ross switched from wide receiver to cornerback last week.

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