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Patricia Morrison has been living in McCarley Gardens for the past eight years. She moved to the neighborhood when her autistic son was 5 years old.

Her son, now 13, has memorized the route from where the bus drops him off after school at City Honors School to his front door steps. Because of his au-tism, Morrison said he has to learn these

routes through repetition.Morrison said McCarley Gardens is

all her son and most of the younger residents of the complex know. Before last Thursday, many of the residents thought they were on the cusp of los-ing their community.

On Thursday, however, UB officials said the university is no longer planning on purchasing the low-income housing complex. McCarley Gardens residents said they are excited their community

will remain intact and within an area of potential economic growth.

“Our fight all along wasn’t to stop UB from buying the property, even though we didn’t want anyone to buy it,” said Lorraine Chambley, the McCarley Gar-dens tenant association president. “What we wanted was to keep our com-munity. This has been our fight from the beginning.”

The property is located right next to the construction of the Buffalo Niag-ara Medical Campus. The UB Foun-dation, which assists the university in property purchases, planned to buy the neighborhood from St. John Baptist Church, the owner of McCarley Gar-dens, for $15 million. The church built the complex in 1978.

McMarley Gardens residents weigh in, UB to no longer buy the low-income housing complex

‘At ease’ for now

The people of McCarley Gardens are now excited after learning UB is no longer planning on buying the low-income housing complex. The neighborhood was worried about the prospect of being relocated if UB bought the area. The neighborhood is located immediately south of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. Residents who have lived at McCarley Gardens for years have developed a strong community, like Patricia Morrison, pictured below, who has lived there for eight years. JORDAN OSCAR, THE SPECTRUM

Amanda LowSENIOR NEWS EDITOR

nthone Taylor pointed toward the sky after his game-winning touchdown Saturday.

The gesture is more than just a cel-ebration for the junior running back; it’s a commemoration to his lost friend and former teammate – Jason Bitsko.

“Whenever I score I always point up, because I want [Jason] to know that I’m not forgetting him,” Taylor said. “I feel like sometimes he gives me that extra push to get into the end zone, or he sets an invisible block nobody sees. I know he’s always with me when I step onto the field.”

Bitsko, who was Kent State’s center, passed away in his sleep Aug. 20 due to an undetermined medical issue, ac-cording to police reports. Taylor was unable to attend Bitsko’s funeral be-cause of financial issues and football conflicts.

The two grew up in Huber Heights, Ohio together and were teammates at Wayne High School.

Taylor thought of another way to give back.

He wanted to wear No. 54 through-out the season, but was told he wouldn’t be an eligible receiver. So, he decided to wear Bitsko’s number at practice and during postgame press conferences.

“I wrote a message on my cleats, ‘R.I.P. No. 54,’ so whenever I go out [on the field], not only do I keep him in my spirit, but also on my feet when I run,” Taylor said.

Taylor is Buffalo’s junior running back who emerged Saturday in the Bulls’ 35-27 victory over Miami Ohio. He ran for a career-high 222 yards and

three touchdowns. He had a lot on mind entering Sat-

urday’s contest. Taylor was thinking about Bitsko, his mentor Branden Oli-ver who reached out to him just before the game and getting revenge against the school that revoked his scholarship offer.

He’s dedicated the 2014 season to keeping his friend’s memory alive.

“He was bigger than himself,” Tay-lor said. “I don’t know if he realized it, but he touched a lot of peoples’ lives. I admire that and try to model my life af-ter him.”

Taylor also draws inspiration from his parents – particularly his mother.

Throughout his years at Wayne High School, Taylor’s mother “always made sure [her son] was all right before she took care of herself,” Taylor said.

His mother’s work ethic has been a driving force behind Taylor’s upbeat perspective on life. His determination on and off the field stems from the lessons he’s learned from his mother.

“I’m ready to come out here every day to work,” Taylor said. “Even if I don’t feel 100 percent, I still give 100 percent. I just want to make sure to make it to the next level and take care of her someday. Even if I don’t make it to the next level, I want to be in the best position to take the burden off of her.”

Oliver, Taylor’s former teammate and UB’s all-time rushing leader, has made it to the “next level.” He plays for the San Diego Chargers.

Like Bitsko, “Bo” still has an impact on Taylor’s life.

“Bo’s like one of my best friends; I can talk to him about anything,” Tay-lor said. “If I’m having trouble with anything he always gives me clarity of

mind, even when he’s not around me.”Before Saturday’s game against Mi-

ami Ohio, Oliver texted Taylor telling the UB running back that he would have a big game. During the contest, Oliver tweeted Taylor that he would run for at least 200 yards.

Taylor’s 222-yard performance was the fifth best in Buffalo’s Division-I era. It was also only 27 yards shy of Oliver’s record of 249 yards.

He recorded more rushing yards than any Division-I player in the coun-try last week.

“Bo texted me he was watching, so I knew I had to put on a show for him,” Taylor said. “It was a huge relief to live up to his expectations.”

Oliver often calls Taylor to discuss what the emerging running back still needs to improve on. Throughout their three years together, Taylor has learned to “read blitzes more effectively and identify threats quicker” under his mentor and former teammate.

The two speak at least once a week, according to Taylor.

“It’s huge that I still have my men-tor,” Taylor said. “I grew up in college watching and learning a lot from him, looking up to him. He still teaches me things.”

Taylor grew up fewer than 60 miles from Miami Ohio’s campus. The Red-Hawks scouted Taylor at Wayne High School, while he was teammates with Bitsko.

Before Taylor could accept Miami Ohio’s offer, the school went through a coaching change. The new staff de-cided not to offer Taylor a scholarship.

“I told myself if I ever got the op-portunity to play against [the Red-Hawks] that I’ll make them regret the decision,” Taylor said.

And Taylor delivered on his promise.He exceeded his previous career-

high of 154 yards – which occurred in last season’s game against Miami Ohio – on Saturday. Taylor has 376 rushing yards and averages 7 yards per carry in two games against the school that gave up on him.

Taylor uses motivation from his departed friend and current mentor to lead Bulls

Running with a purpose

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Junior running back Anthone Taylor emerged for 222 yards last weekend against Miami Ohio. Taylor wears No. 54 in honor of his former high school teammate who passed away at Kent State in August. ANDY KONIUCH, THE SPECTRUM

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“[Taylor’s] had a great exam-ple over the last four years with [Branden Oliver] and he knows he has to fulfill that role,” said head coach Jeff Quinn. “There’s high expectations here and he’s certainly being more mature and more responsible relative to the outcome of games.”

Taylor is one piece of what’s been called the “three-headed beast” at Buffalo.

Sophomore running back Jor-dan Johnson and junior running back Devin Campbell are the other two “monsters” that form the “beast.”

Together, the three have accu-mulated 962 rushing yards, with Taylor contributing 611 yards and six touchdowns.

Taylor sees himself as a “com-bo, one-cut back.” He said John-son is more “powerful” and Campbell “has his speed.”

“You can use either of us at any time, we have a three-headed beast because at any time you get a monster depending on what you want: A monster with speed, a monster with power and a monster with a cut,” Taylor said.

Even on game days when he has to wear No. 1, Taylor has No. 54 on his cleats.

He is never running on the field alone.

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SHAROL SHAMSORSTAFF WRITER

Arizona Border Police found a decomposing, unidentifiable male body deep in the Sonora Desert. Underneath the deceased man’s shirt, officers found the words “Dayani Cristal” tattooed on his chest.

On Thursday, the story of im-migrants’ journeys crossing the American border made its way from the West Coast to UB’s Center for the Arts. UB screened the documentary “Who is Day-ani Cristal?” as part of the pre-liminary events for the first Buf-falo Humanities Festival. The documentary, which won an award for cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013, followed Humanities Festival theme of “Migration Nations: Moving Stories.” The screen-ing also hosted a discussion to talk about the significance of the documentary.

The film, directed by Marc Sil-ver, follows a nameless migrant who tried travel to American from Honduras. In the end, the man perished in the sun-blistered Sonora Desert in the Southwest-ern United States. The tattoo was the only clue to his identity.

Tanya Shilina-Conte, a UB pro-fessor with Ph.D. in English, in-troduced the film and said the United States-Mexico border is the most frequently crossed bor-der in the world. She said attempt-ing to cross is “not worth” risking anyone’s life. The Sonora Des-ert is located in the western part the United States-Mexico border, connecting Mexico with South-eastern California and South-ern Arizona. Within the past de-cade, the Sonora Desert has been the most traveled route along the United States-Mexico border.

“The Sonora desert’s extreme climate, temperatures reach as high as 180 Fahrenheit and then [drop] suddenly to 50 Fahren-heit,” make it “one of the dead-

liest stretch of land on the plan-et,” Shilina-Conte said.

The extreme temperatures, however, do not deter people trying to cross the border.

“[The] economic needs and de-sires continue to beckon people to take the ultimate risk,” she said.

Joseph Conte, an English pro-fessor at UB and Shilina-Conte’s husband, held a one-hour discus-sion after the film screening end-ed. Conte began the discussion by reminding viewers of one of the film’s most powerful quotes from a friend of the nameless migrant. The quote questioned the United States’ billion-dollar investment in the United States-Mexico border, claiming it was an inanimate and dead investment and the money could instead be used to help hu-man beings.

To hone the issue of immi-gration back to Buffalo, Conte also spoke of the apples at Weg-mans. He said he wondered who would stop to think of the mi-grant workers who gather the fruits. He asked who would even realize the blue-collar labor face is “brown” in the United States.

The audience’s commentary on

blue-collared immigrants sparked a discussion centered on xeno-phobia, a dislike or fear of peo-ple from other countries.

The documentary had shots of a “mass grave” – lockers in a morgue containing ashes – present in the United States. The ashes are of the unidentified illegal immi-grants who attempted to cross the United States-Mexico border but died because of the journey across the desert, Conte said.

“I don’t want to be associated with a mass grave,” Conte said. “I don’t want the United States to have the mass grave of people on our hands or under our feet.”

Conte said if America’s invest-ment toward U.S.-Mexico border wall keeps growing, attempts to cross the wall could lead to more deaths.

The screening ended and many of the participants left with plen-ty to think about – an impact that Shilina-Conte intended.

After the discussion ended, Conte said it was a “very spirit-ed discussion of the crisis of im-migration” and “we are trying to understand for ourselves what roles we play in that drama as

Americans.”“I think that most of us would

prefer to not think about [immi-gration],” Conte said. “But the crisis and the conditions, that are described by ‘Who is Day-ani Cristal?’ are the crisis and the conditions that all of our parents, grandparents and great grand-parents, faced at some point in the past. I guess you could say that a film like this, raises the consciousness of us, as Ameri-cans, as to the cost of migration and immigration.”

Paolo Antypas, a junior com-munication major, thought the film screening was an important part of the Buffalo Humanities Festival as well as to the world because of refugee problems in Syria and Iraq.

“The discussion at the end, not only helped us give our points out but also listen to the other’s points,” Antypas said. “And the most important thing is to get an opinion and conceptualize what you believe is the right way to go about solving something like this.”

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Lost identity in the Sonora Desert“Who is Dayani Cristal?” film starts the Buffalo Humanities Festival

On Thursday, the Buffalo Humanities Festival began the “Migration Nation: Moving Stories” with “Who is Dayani Cristal?,” a documen-tary looking at the journey immigrants make along the United States-Mexico border. DEREK DROCY, THE SPECTRUM

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Andre Robinson may go to pris-on after he kicked a stray cat with enough force to send it flying about 20 feet. He then posted the video online.

Though 22-year-old Robinson and similar animal abusers certain-ly deserve to be penalized for their behavior, their punishment should be proportionate to their crime. But recently, new law enforcement policies and courtroom decisions suggest the increasing influence of animal activists is generating ag-gressive reactions to animal abuse.

This week, the FBI announced it is now tracking animal abuse and reclassified the crime as a “crime against society,” which puts it at the same level as murder, drug trafficking, arson and assault.

In a similar move, New York City’s police department created an Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad in January, resulting in a 250 percent increase in arrests for an-imal abuse. Nationwide, cases of animal abuse are resulting in sig-nificant jail time, as the protection of animals becomes an increasing-ly mainstream issue.

The growing concern for an-imals is admirable, considering

their inherent vulnerability. Ani-mal cruelty is deplorable, and of-ten indicative of greater patho-logical problems. The FBI is wise to track animal abuse with great-er vigilance, because they can use that information to better under-stand crimes like domestic vio-lence and be alerted to potential future offenders.

But with limited resources and an ongoing battle against all sorts of crime – particularly those involving other humans – the use of officers’ time and energy in combatting ani-mal abuse is certainly questionable.

And more problematical-ly, though animal abuse certainly merits punishment, but the rising number of jail sentences handed out for animal abuse is excessive and unnecessary.

Imprisonment is not only an ex-treme punishment that exceeds the severity of the crime in question, but sending a person to jail has the potential for long-term con-sequences – consequences that, in these cases, outweigh the merits of strict penalization.

If a person has committed a crime that indicates he or she is al-ready a danger to society – to fel-

low humans – then jail is a neces-sary measure. The risks inherent in that decision, like the potential de-velopment of gang affiliations and the detrimental effects of being re-moved from school or employment, are outweighed by the need for dis-cipline and (ideally) rehabilitation.

Punishment for animal abuse is necessary, of course. It’s a crime for a reason. Those who commit it should be stuck with a criminal re-cord, face monetary consequences

and eliminate the possibility of leni-ency if future crimes are committed.

That’s the sort of penalization Robinson should face – harsh but not extreme, offering long-term consequences without send-ing abusers to prison. After all, if Robinson had kicked a human rather than a cat, would he be fac-ing jail time?

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Animals deserve protection, but Andre Robinson doesn't deserve jail timeDespite admirable intentions, prosecution of animal abuse is unnecessarily aggressive

With breweries, bars, wine trails and tailgates, Buffalo is a city with plenty of options for alcoholic in-dulgence (and considering the re-cent performances by the Bills and the Sabres, there’s no short-age of reasons to knock back a few beers).

Now, with decommissioned grain silos redecorated to look like a giant six pack of Labatt Blue, Buffalo’s relationship with beer has ascended to a whole new level.

The bright blue color is cer-tainly an improvement over the previous shades of dirty, indus-trial grey and the new look will undoubtedly attract the pub-lic’s attention, generating great-er awareness for the renovations going on in the area.

The silos’ redesigned exterior brings new character to an unat-tractive building and transforms what was once industrial into a

humorous and iconic tribute to Buffalo’s love of beer.

But even though this is a clev-er use of the silos design, and a relevant image for the city, this iconic image is still undeniably commercial.

Turning a 100-foot tall land-mark into what is essentially a three-dimensional billboard reeks of commodification and invasive corporate involvement. Advertis-ing is aggressive enough already, and incorporating a brand name into the Buffalo skyline is even more blatant than pop-up ads and halftime sponsorships.

Turning the silos into ad space may not be ideal, but capitalizing on the gigantic blank canvas is a wise move, and considering the silos’ setting, the Labatt logo is especially relevant.

The silos are part of the on-going Riverworks project, which

will renovate the Ganson Street Site along the Buffalo River and feature two ice rinks, concert venues, restaurants, bars and a hotel. The area has already host-ed the Labatt Pond Hockey tour-nament, an event organized by Buffalo entrepreneur Earl Ketry.

Ketry’s business relationship with Labatt, whose national head-quarters are in Buffalo, certain-ly explains why their logo is now looming over the Buffalo River – as owner of the Pearl Street Grill and the Pan Am Brewery, Ketry is Labatt’s largest restaurant client in the country, according to Buffalo Rising magazine.

Riverworks is turning the silos into an in-house brewery, so the choice of decoration is certain-ly relevant. And Labatt, though not a local brewery, is at least lo-cated in Buffalo. Considering that Buffalo’s affection for beer

and sports is well known, it’s not completely out of line to say that this new décor reflects an impor-tant part of the city’s culture.

But there’s a lot more to Buffa-lo than its beer.

Fortunately, there are a lot more silos left along the Buffalo River – they’re just as public, just as eye-catching and they don’t all have to be six-packs.

Though this set of silos now functions as advertisements, oth-er abandoned buildings could serve as a blank canvas for more artistic functions, featuring im-agery that is truly personal to Buffalo (because let’s be hon-est, Buffalo isn’t the only city that consumes copious amounts of alcohol) and that is created by the people of Buffalo, not its corporations.

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Cultural icon or corporate image – Labatt logo on grain silos a questionable choice Buffalo loves its beer, but not everyone is thrilled by its new position in the city skyline

Dear Editor,We are writing in response

to The Spectrum’s editorial “In Prison for Parenting: Inaccessibil-ity of legal abortion options leads to unnecessary risks and reper-cussions” published on Sept. 29. This letter will address the reali-ty of the events leading up to the case. It will not address legalities, nor will it perpetuate the deceiving rhetoric employed by publications like The Spectrum and The New York Times.

We must first address euphe-misms: to “end an unwanted preg-nancy” and to “induce a miscar-riage” both mean “abortion.” The Merriam-Webster dictionary de-fines “abortion” as “a medical pro-cedure used to end a pregnancy and cause the death of the fetus.” In this instance, we are talking about the death of a human embryo or fetus, a member of the human spe-cies. In other words, we are talking about killing a living human being.

Now that we’ve established the truth of what’s happening, we can critique the euphemisms. Eu-phemisms may help us feel bet-ter about what we say, but they do so by obscuring the truth. Do you support abortion rights? Then don’t hide behind these euphe-misms. If you think abortion is permissible, then you shouldn’t be afraid of calling it what it is.

In short, own your position.Onto another crucial question:

how did the human killed by Jen-nifer Whalen’s abortion pill begin? Every science textbook tells us mammal life begins when a sperm fertilizes an egg. At this moment, a new and unique member of a spe-cies comes into existence, exhibit-ing all traits of life. Jennifer Wha-len’s daughter provided the egg, but who provided the sperm? Be-cause he is unmentioned, he is im-plicitly unimportant in deciding the future of his offspring.

Was he not equally important or responsible in the creation process of his now deceased child? Why is his existence ignored? Did he not deserve the right to have a say in his child’s fate? Fathers of children killed in the womb are too often not even told of their children’s existence. This may have been the case here; even if it wasn’t, why is he not part of the story printed?

Sexism.Let’s also address this statement:

“thanks to her mother’s efforts, she is free to pursue whatever fu-ture she desires.”

This implies that Jennifer Wha-len’s daughter would not have been free to pursue “whatever fu-ture she desires” had her child not been killed. Pregnancy, the natural and necessary condition that fur-thers our species, is here deemed an obstacle to true happiness and achievement. What does this say to

women? What does this say about their bodies, their role as mothers, and their own embryonic origins? This statement assumes pregnancy is a handicap.

Again, sexism.No matter what futures Jennifer

Whalen or her daughter pursue, their actions have stripped their granddaughter and daughter of all choices and all futures. They are now the grandmother and mother of a dead child.

Finally, we must call the very structure of the New York Times’ and The Spectrum’s argu-ments into question. Anyone who has taken a course in critical think-ing knows that arguments that ap-peal to emotion without correct rationale are fallacies. This falla-cy is committed by both publica-tions because they harshly capital-ize on fear.

The Spectrum dangles Wha-len’s desperate actions in front of readers, saying that unless we have nearby access to instant, cheap abortions, this kind of pain is bound to continue and even in-crease. It faults protective laws like the twenty-four hour waiting period for Whalen’s actions, rather than faulting Whalen herself.

The Wahlen family’s situation is not a sound argument for the pro-liferation of abortion facilities or the abolition of the mandatory 24-hour waiting period. Dangling their misfortune with the intent to

frighten readers into the arms of pro-abortion ideologies is utilitari-an, unethical and despicable.

The Spectrum’s fear monger-ing may remind some readers of N.A.R.A.L.’s Roe v. Wade testimo-ny, which stated that unless abor-tion was federalized, 10,000 back-alley abortions would continue to occur per year. Bernard Na-thanson, former abortionist and N.A.R.A.L. founder, later con-fessed that he had fabricated these numbers in an effort to frighten the Supreme Court.

We encourage readers to in-dependently research questions raised by this editorial. Informa-tion on the origins and develop-ment of human life may be found at www.ehd.org; information on the nature of abortion may be found atwww.abortionfacts.com.

Thank you,UB Students for Life BoardAnne Mulrooney, PresidentChristine Schaefer, Vice PresidentMatt Ramsey, TreasurerJessica Mershimer, SecretaryCristina Lauria, Marketing Director P.S. To the reader, a note on the

term pro-abortion: Earlier we asked you to own your position. Pro-choice is a euphemism. As pro-lif-ers, we are happy to own our posi-tion: We are anti-abortion and seek to abolish it.

Own yours.

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There were only 10 people at the first general body meet-ing of the Polish Student Asso-ciation (PolSA) this year. The e-board members are worried, but hope to engage more students as the semester continues.

“The times have changed now,” said Mike Rusin, a mem-ber of the PolSA e-board and a senior health and human ser-vices major. “People don’t take pride in their heritage any-more. My own cousin doesn’t care about Polish tradition, even though our family is Polish.”

Polish influence in West-ern New York, specifically the Greater Buffalo area, can be traced back to 1860, accord-ing to the Polish Genealogi-cal Society of New York State. Between 1873 and 1922, Pol-ish Americans established 34 church parishes in the Great-er Buffalo and Western New York area. By 1940, there were 76,465 Western New Yorkers of Polish decent.

The PolSA has been function-ing since 1907 making it one of the oldest clubs on campus.

“We have to make [PolSA] as strong as the Polish commu-nity in Buffalo,” said Richard Schavowski, a junior business major and the vice president of PolSA.

The club is eager to grow membership and build Pol-ish pride in a community filled with Polish heritage. They hope to reach out to and find stu-dents and encourage them to get involved with their roots, said Tom Travers, a senior so-ciology major and treasurer of PSA.

The club hopes to engage stu-dents on campus by celebrat-ing commonly Polish traditions

such as Swieconka, the Polish Easter Sunday dinner, and Wi-gilia, the Christmas Eve dinner. At these events students have the opportunity to converse with a priest, according to Trav-ers.

The PolSA plans to hold two off-campus events to celebrate Swieconka and Wigilia, accord-ing to Benjamin Zelinski, a ju-nior psychology major and sec-retary of PolSA. Off-Campus events allow the club to serve authentic Polish food instead of being restricted to the UB au-thorized caterers.

Rusin thinks much of the community’s disinterest in Pol-ish heritage is because Polish

neighborhoods in Buffalo only publicly celebrate Swieconka and Dyngus Day.

Dyngus Day represents the end of Lent and Buffalo has the largest Dyngus Day celebration in the world – even larger than celebration in Poland, according to Dyngus Day’s website.

PolSA plans to hold events for other holidays to bring the Pol-ish community together more often.

They are currently seeking permission form the university to hold a wine and vodka tasting event in the spring – the club said it last hosted one in 2004.

“Campus ministry got the permission to hold wine tasting

on South Campus, so we’re very optimistic,” Rusin said.

Their events differ from oth-er organization because Pani Danuta, the faculty adviser of PolSA, brings her Polish friends. Katie Ehlers, a senior speech pathology major and president of PolSA, the club has the sup-port of people from the city.

“We can be inactive but can never die,” she said.

Ehlers hopes the club’s inclu-siveness and diversity will at-tract more students to the club. She said the activities are open to people of all ethnicities and backgrounds. She said only two of the five e-board members are Polish.

Though club members are a little disappointed with the re-sponse of the student commu-nity on campus, they are explor-ing new ways to reach out to students – like flyers, pamphlets and social media.

“We’re a jovial communi-ty and put having fun over ev-erything else,” Schavowski said. “There’s nothing to be intimi-dated of.”

PolSA will hold its Wigilia cel-ebration Dec. 13 and is confi-dent that the event will reach more students and increase its on-campus presence.

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Reviving roots Polish Student Association looks forward to rebuilding after period of public disinterest

Last year’s president of the Polish Student Association (PSA), Krzysztof Kosz, led a group at Buffalo’s Dyngus Day celebration to represent the PSA. Buffalo’s ties to Poland date back to 1860 and a large number of Polish descendants still live in Buffalo. JOE KONZE, THE SPECTRUM

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A room full of digital projects, televisions, printers and a plastic Christmas tree might look like use-less trash to someone walking by. But in a month, participants in the Cradle to Grave II: Re-Appropri-ation, Obsolescence and the Arts exhibits turned seemingly useless and outdated technologies into works of art.

Participants had from Aug. 25 to 29 to pick up one or two ob-jects from the Lower Gallery in the Center for the Arts. Follow-ing, the 30 artists who picked up objects had a month to turn them into a multi-dimensional piece of artwork. The exhibit looked at the various ways technologies can be used after they’re replaced by new, more efficient options. It official-ly opened Sept. 25 and will remain open to the public until Oct. 18.

Untitled by Sangjun Yoo, a piece of art on display at Cradle to Grave II: Re-Appropriation, Ob-solescence, and the Arts, used an overhead projector, filmstrips and Mylar, a type of plastic, to create a mesmerizing light installation.

“Conceptually, I wanted to use the film to trigger memories in each viewer,” said Yoo, a second year Masters of Fine Arts student. “I want people to translate film slides into their own lives. I got the film and the overhead from the department. They were just left-overs.”

Yoyo was able to capture the es-sence of the exhibition by using an overhead projector to create colorful lighting patterns, although it was not the object’s original in-tended purpose.

The university would have re-moved most of the items avail-

able for pick-up after a surplus or scrap form had been filled out, but this exhibit saved these items from that fate.

“We’re constantly trying to im-prove the technology at the CFA so we always have this excess and I’ve been collecting it,” said Nata-lie Fleming, the Visual Studies Re-source Curator at UB. “We very easily assume items are obsolete and no longer have a purpose … we’re living in a world where we’re rapidly running out of resources. We can’t be so reckless.”

This is the second year in a row Fleming has taken charge of a Cradle to the Grave exhibition at UB. There were about 20 partici-pants last year and more than 30 this year, including professor Rein-hard Reitzenstein, photography in-structor Daniel Calleri, MFA stu-dents like Yoo, undergrad students and a few local artists.

The exhibit was conceptualized with the intent to draw attention to what people do with their tech-nological leftovers.

“We’re looking for ways to min-imize the amount of waste we’re creating,” Fleming said. “Really, this exhibit should be called from Grave Back to Cradle. We’re re-purposing objects.”

The exhibition officially opened Sept. 25 at 5 p.m. in the Lower Gallery at the Center for the Arts. A variety of healthy snacks and wine were offered to the attendees and the crowded room was full of lively conversation.

There were many pieces of art-work on display that creatively re-purposed their supposedly dated technologies. One such piece was Technology (Or the Space Between Us), by Rosemary Williams, who gradu-ated in the spring with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts. Her piece is made up

of four long rectangles and the at-tendees at the exhibition were en-couraged to push on one side of the rectangle while someone else pushed on the other side.

“I chose to create a piece the viewer can interact with be-cause of the nature of technolo-gy itself,” Williams said in email. “I wanted whoever was experiencing the piece to have fun, but also un-derstand that technology not only brings us together … it also cre-ates a strange barrier between the people using the technology.”

The rectangles in her piece are made out of dozens of used foam protectors that were sewn together.

“Art has a way of appreciating neglected objects, technologies and materials by nature of pro-cess,” Williams said. “The more time an artist spends with some-thing, the more we think of cool ways to change it, make it better, make it funny, make it beautiful and have meaning.”

Most of the artwork on display proved that just because some-thing may be considered dated, we might not want to dispose of it without entertaining other possi-ble uses for the object.

“We very easily assume items are obsolete, used and no longer have a purpose,” Fleming said. “What is great about art and 21st Century artistic practice is we have a new way of looking at objects that have been discarded. We are reconsidering what we label now as garbage.”

The Cradle to the Grave II: Re-Appropriation, Obsolescence and the Arts exhibit will be open to the public until Oct. 18.

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From the Cradle to the Grave and backArt exhibit asks people to consider waste

and technological re-appropriation

EMILY LI, THE SPECTRUM

The Cradle to Grave II: Re-Appropriation, Obsolescence, and the Arts exhibit opened to the public on Sept. 25. The exhibit looks at the ways outdated technol-ogy can be reused long after it has been surpassed by more efficient technologies.

UB never revealed what its in-tentions were for the plot of land, but the sale garnered a lot of con-troversy.

John Della Contrada, UB spokes-person, said UB decided not to pur-chase the property “after careful consideration of UB’s long-term plan for a Downtown Campus and the plan’s stated goal that UB’s ex-pansion should be in concert with the needs of the community.”

He said UB’s goal is for the sur-rounding community to benefit from the expansion. UB will contin-ue to engage with bordering neigh-borhoods, like McCarley Gardens and the Fruit Belt neighborhood, he added.

UB not buying McCarley Gar-dens is a “good outcome for every-body involved at this point” due to the complications and disputes in-volved with the sale, said Robert Sil-verman, an associate professor in the Department of Urban and Re-gional Planning.

Plans for the 15-acre site were never fully developed, according to Kelly Patterson, an assistant profes-sor in the UB School of Social Work who used to teach in UB’s School of Architecture and Planning. She said the large amount of pushback from the community made it “un-palatable” for the school to contin-ue pursing the sale.

“My colleagues and I did not want to see individuals and families ripped from their neighborhood where they have built friendships and sup-port networks,” she said in an email.

Silverman said St. John Bap-tist Church had to receive approval from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to move people from the property into re-placement housing. He does not think the church was able to develop a plan that satisfied the relocation of McCarley Gardens.

McCarley Gardens residents were against having the property sold to the university because the neighbor-hood was in such a “resource-rich area,” according to Silverman. The complex is located next to accessi-ble public transportation as well as health care and social services.

Like Morrison’s son, many of the children in McCarley Gardens are able to attend nearby schools with high success rates like City Honors and Futures Academy, Silverman said.

When the people of McCarley Gardens heard about potentially having to move out, Morrison said there was a lot of “animosity” be-tween residents and the church. She said younger residents, especially, felt the sale was throwing aside 150 units within the complex.

Many of the younger residents responded strongly, displeased with the prospect of being forced out of their homes. Morrison said she and other older members of the community would do “damage control” to try to make those up-

set by the prospect understand the sale was meant to “better the city.”

“When you separate these people, you separate their family,” she said.

Many of the children who live in McCarley Gardens are brought up in an environment that allows them to flourish, unlike other neighbor-hoods in Buffalo, said Crystal Kay, who has lived in McCarley Gardens for 14 years.

“We’re a community here,” she said. “It’s low-income housing but it’s family based.”

Marion Brant, a resident of Mc-Carley Gardens for 15 years, said the neighborhood is “at ease” for the time being and is looking to put greater care into the commu-nity to build more “pride into the children.”

Patterson said she thinks there will be other attempts to purchase McCarley Gardens because of its prime location.

“For now, it is a victory for them,” Patterson said. “But in the future, they will have to be vigilant and ready to fight for their neighbor-hood.”

She said McCarley Gardens rep-resentatives will have to demand to be involved with any other fu-ture negotiations surrounding the neighborhood, especially if there is a possibility of it being sold again.

Chambley, currently the sole member of the McCarley Gardens tenant association, wants to rees-tablish the group, as all of its mem-bers have either moved or passed away. She said the reformation of the group would allow the neighbor-hood to have a stronger voice in sit-uations such as potential sales.

Silverman said he believes there won’t be any efforts to sell the prop-erty soon because of the original difficulties of UB’s deal.

He said UB is potentially looking to expand into Pilgrim Village, a 90-unit subsidized housing complex lo-cated north of the medical campus’ construction.

Chambley said she is happy the complex is not being sold. She ac-knowledges, however, there is a chance for another party to buy the property. But she said UB would’ve been the “lesser of the two evils.”

Morrison said she understands why the university wanted to buy the piece of real estate.

“I’m not angry because I un-derstand that things have to go on, things have to grow,” Morrison said. “And sometimes things you don’t want to get rid of, you might have to get rid of to move on, to further ev-erybody.”

But for now, her son won’t have to memorize a new route home from the bus stop.

Jordan Grossman contributed reporting

to this story.

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Spanish music blaring in the background, desserts, slide-shows and trivia questions marked this month’s Hispanic Heritage cultural awareness cel-ebration.

From 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 24 in Student Union 240, the Hispanic Heri-tage Dessert Hour highlighted a variety of Latino cultures. This month’s dessert hour was put on by the Student Association and held at the Intercultural and Di-versity Center (IDC).

“The desserts provided re-minded me of the time I spent in Central America and as well as how much I would like to get involved with learning more Spanish language and culture,” Jesse Moses, a junior interna-tional study major, said in an email.

The U.S. Hispanic population is now more than 54.1 million, according to the Census Bureau data. Hispanic students make up 6.5 percent of UB’s student body, according to Forbes.

“It is important for UB to cel-ebrate Hispanic Heritage Month to make others aware that the university has serviced and in-vested in the Hispanic Commu-nity [and] vise versa for years,” said Marcelina Rodriguez Ron-don, a senior counselor at the Educational Opportunity Pro-gram in an email. “The Hispan-ic community has contributed to the multicultural experience and what the University is today.”

President Lyndon Johnson be-gan Hispanic Heritage Week in 1968 and President Ronald Rea-gan expanded it to a month-long celebration in 1988. It begins on Sept. 15 and runs through Oct. 15 to coincide with the celebra-tion of the independence of Latin American countries from Spain. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nica-ragua, which celebrate their in-dependence on Sept. 15. Oth-er Latin American countries like Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence in September.

“By learning more about oth-er cultures in our UB commu-nity, we find that we have more in common with our classmates than we previously thought,” said Helia Zand, a senior bio-medical major. “I feel that so of-ten Hispanic Heritage refers to a broad idea without acknowledg-ing the individual contributions and uniqueness of each Hispan-ic country.”

Terri Budek, the assistant di-rector of IDC, and Kavitha Muralidhar, a higher education graduate student, agree that Hispanic Heritage Dessert Hour furthers the goal of the IDC, which celebrates the cultures of students on campus. They be-lieve students gain an apprecia-tion for other cultures and eth-

nicities when they learn about them in interesting ways.

Zand, Budek and Muralidhar said the dessert hour was special because it celebrated multiple Latino cultures, rather than just a generic Hispanic experience.

Rondon said she firmly be-lieves in informing people about the contrasting traditions, cus-toms and celebrations with-in the different Hispanic coun-tries, but she said the desserts at the event did not give a fair representation of different Lati-no cultures. She hoped to have more homemade desserts other than store-bought wafers, plan-tain chips and tortilla chips.

“The dessert hours did not meet my expectation,” Rondon said in an email. “I wanted to taste desserts from Columbia, Venezuela, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, etc.”

Zand felt that the dessert hour was not only a great way to meet new people, but that it provided a tasty way to learn more about the Hispanic population.

Anmol Bambrah, a gradu-ate programming major, agreed. She said she thinks that having a dessert hour about a particular culture cultivates a way for stu-dents and faculty members to have open discussions.

“It's important for me be-cause I get to be in a more open-minded environment, where I can learn about oth-ers. The dessert hour is one ex-ample that shows what UB is all about,” Bambrah said.

Rondon said any occasion that creates awareness concerning other ethnic groups, languages, food and traditions brings the community together.

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A tasty celebrationIntercultural and Diversity

Center introduces a tasty way to learn about cultures

AVEN SALIH, THE SPECTRUM

On Wednesday, Sept. 24 students got a taste of Hispanic culture at the Intercultural and Diversity Center’s Hispanic Heritage Des-sert Hour. The dessert hour cel-ebrated the many diverse Latino cultures in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month which runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.

SHARON KAHNFEATURES EDITOR

On Saturday, I took the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT).

Needless to say, my entire life has changed since I’ve taken it.

I couldn’t remember what it was like to do absolutely noth-ing for an entire day until this past Sunday. I couldn’t remem-ber what it was like to not be taking a practice exam, think-ing about how I did on my last practice exam and thinking about how any minute I wasn’t studying was a minute wasted.

But was it all worth it? There was the stress, the lack of sleep and the complete removal from everything around me that wasn’t related to the exam.

I’m not really sure, I guess in a month we’ll see how it went when I receive my score. But after reading dozens of LSAT blogs, I think I may have done it all wrong.

Apparently there is a way to go about the exam with-out dedicating your life to it – an idea that LSAT preparation courses don’t want to tell you.

“This is the most important exam you will ever take.”

That’s what I heard the first day of my course.

“Your entire future will be based around this exam: If you go to law school, where you go to law school, if you’ll be in debt when you graduate and if you’ll land a job after gradua-tion.”

They even tried to tell me that this exam was more impor-

tant than the Bar (reason being that the LSAT is score-based and the bar was just a pass or fail exam – as if it’s really as simple as that).

After classes – which I took through Kaplan – instill in your head that this is the most im-portant exam and your life de-pends on it, they try and un-derestimate the difficulty of the exam. The book constantly drills you on how all of the an-swers are always right in front of you and how it’s all a matter of “following the rules.” My in-structor constantly used words like “simple” and “easy” and by the end of the course I was sure I was going to score a 180, the highest possible score on the exam.

But then our final practice exam of the course came along and my score was lower than my diagnostic exam – which I took blindly without ever hav-ing been exposed to a question.

Most of the class faced the same issue and my instruc-tor reassured us that this was common. We were on the right track to getting a higher score – the Kaplan guarantee.

Throughout the duration of the course, the idea about this being the most important test of our lives while simultane-ously telling us how easy the exam was clearly boosted ev-eryone’s confidence – in a neg-ative way. I was so sure I was going to do well on the final exam because I was told how prepared I was and how “easy” the exam was.

As the weeks flew by and the LSAT seemed closer than ever, I continued studying and practicing the techniques I had learned. My score fluctu-ated throughout the remaining weeks so I was never truly able to predict how I was going to do. The test is over and now I will patiently wait a month until I receive my score.

The best tips I learned – some a little too late – were from LSAT blogs and previ-

ous LSAT takers. While courses can help you with strategies and make you feel more confident, I would highly encourage any-one taking the test to read up about it online as early as you can.

Regardless of what my score may be, I know that I would go about my studying com-pletely differently if given the chance to do it all over again. After hearing countless stories about students who drastical-ly increased their score by 10-20 points, here are the best tips and tricks I could advise future LSAT takers to follow.

You get what you put into it – the more you study, the better you will do. It’s really that sim-ple.

Don’t overthink any question – even though the answer is not always in the passage like my instructors taught me, the right answer is always there, you just need to find it.

Always attack the longest question first – it’s better to guess on a smaller section if you run out of time.

Don’t dwell on past questions – keep focusing on the task at hand.

Always read the stimulus first – it will help focus your read-ing on identifying the correct answer.

The hardest logic games al-ways have the easiest questions – so don’t get nervous when you don’t understand what to do.

Remember that no matter what, you will get into at least one law school.

The test is not a measure of your aptitude or intelligence.

Stay calm and don’t panic – even when you are in the mid-dle of a tougher section.

If you truly studied your hardest, then there is nothing more you could have done to improve your score. Everything happens for a reason.

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JORDAN GROSSMANASST. SPORTS EDITOR

The Goff rugby report, a web-site that covers high school, col-lege and American rugby – pre-dicted UB’s team to finish in last place in its conference.

But the UB Rugby Football Club doesn’t mind the ranking because for the first time, they’ll be playing in the best division in the nation.

“Division-1A – I’d prefer to lose every game this season, but be able to say I’m playing the best competition in the United States,” said senior prop, a for-ward position, Alex Butler*.

In April, the UB men’s rugby team was accepted to the D-1A Rugby East Conference – one of the most competitive college rug-by leagues in the country – after spending the previous three sea-sons in the D-1AA Empire Rug-by Conference. The team caught the attention of D-1A repre-sentatives at last spring’s 7-on-7 matchups held at UB.

The team hopes playing against some of the best compe-tition in the country will improve the future of the program, even if it means enduring losses in the short term.

There are 15 players on the field for each team, whose ob-jective is to get the ball over the opposing ‘try,’ the equivalent of a touchdown. A player can also score by conversion kicks and penalty kicks that are worth two and three points, respectively.

The men’s rugby team is a club team, funded by the Student Asso-ciation. Because of its club status, the decision to move conferences was decided solely by the players.

The players met together after a spring tournament last year to dis-cuss the future of the team. UB joined the Rugby East, alongside Iona College and St. Bonaventure University as the three new teams to join the Rugby East.

“I was the first person to say,

“Let’s go, let’s do this,” Butler said. “I consider myself as a leader on this team and it would be an honor to say I was part of the foundation for a new era of UB Rugby.”

The Rugby East consists of some of the top teams in the country, including No. 3 Kutz-town, No. 5 Army, No. 7 Penn State and No. 14 Wheeling Jesu-it. Buffalo faces all four schools this season.

“Our goals is to win at least two games,” said head coach Mike Hodgins. “It doesn’t sound like a huge goal, but when you’re going against four out of seven teams that are ranked in the top-20 right now, it’s a successful season.”

The team got its first Rugby East experience in a 62-0 loss to No. 3 Kutztown Sept. 13. The team may have expected the out-come, but the loss didn’t stop Buffalo’s drive.

“We went into Kutztown fight-ing them as hard as we could,” said senior inside centre Collin Olander. “Even though we lost, we were standing up against them. We’re trying to show [the compe-tition], ‘Listen, you guys may have been here longer, but we’re here and we came to fight.’”

The team suffered the loss of one of its senior leaders as well, when outside centre Bryan Moore suffered a possible sea-son-ending thumb injury in a 36-8 loss at Ohio State Sept. 5.

Senior lock, a forward posi-tion, Tim Murray has emerged as one of Buffalo’s best players in his second season on the team. Murray has progressed his game substantially and solidified him-self as an on-the-field leader, ac-cording to his teammates.

The team relies on a lot of young talent. Sophomore flank-er, a forward position, Colton Kells was third on the team with

35 points last season as a fresh-man. He is also the only return-ing Buffalo player who earned a berth on the Rugby East Confer-ence All-Conference team.

Sophomore outside center John Grasso is another second-year starter. He is one of the best backs on the team and began starting as a freshman last sea-son. Grasso’s emerged as a leader in the backline this season.

Despite a 0-2 record in con-ference play, Buffalo defeated Norte Dame 20-19 Aug. 30 for its first and only victory of the season thus far.

This isn’t the first time the men’s rugby team has been in the national spotlight. In 2010, the club was ranked No. 1 overall by RugbyMag.com among D-1 rug-by. Buffalo finished 7-0 in 2010 and captured a New York State Rugby Conference title.

Buffalo is not in that same po-sition now, but it has many fresh-man and sophomore players who have been playing rugby for up to six years prior to joining the UB men’s rugby team. The team may not be elite right now, but Kells believes it will be soon.

“In four to five years, I want us to be one of the best team’s in the country,” Kells said. “I want to be the top of this division. We are playing the top competition in the country and we will be able to play at that level.”

The team hosts No. 7 Penn State on Oct. 11. The game will be played on Ellicott Field and is scheduled for 1 p.m.

*Alex Butler works on The Spec-trum’s advertising staff

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JORDAN GROSSMAN ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

Derek Jeter has been consid-ered one of the most influential people in New York for 20 years. He’s also the reason I – and my family – was not kicked out of Game 4 of the 2000 Mets-Yan-kees World Series.

My father wouldn’t let my fam-ily miss the game. We arrived at the stadium early to watch bat-ting practice and I, at 6 years old, hoped to grab a foul ball. If my brother and I were lucky, then maybe we would get an autograph.

While we sat in the stands for the practice, Yankees second baseman Chuck Knoblauch hit a sharp grounder down the third base line – and with some seren-dipity – the ball stopped directly in front of my father.

Without even thinking, he jumped down onto the field. We were surrounded by security within minutes. My family and I were about to be thrown out of the World Series before it even began.

But Jeter wasn’t going to let that happen. Even in opposing territory, Jeter proved to have more authority than anybody.

Jeter stopped his pregame rou-tine to help me.

“Let the guy stay,” Jeter said.

“All he wanted was the ball for his kid.”

And just like that, the security was gone. And the ball was in my hand.

An hour later, Jeter hit the first pitch over the left field wall for a homerun. The Yankees won the game and eventually their third straight World Series.

I received a text from one of my childhood friends last Thurs-day that took me by surprise.

“Come over to watch history,” he said.

I knew what he was talking about – Derek Jeter’s final game at Yankee Stadium after an illus-trious 20-year career. But even as I was walking over to his apart-ment to meet up with him and two other avid Yankee fans, I kept pondering the same ques-tion in my head: Why do they want me here?

I have been – and will always be – a die-hard New York Mets fan.

My parents both grew up in Queens, New York. My father was raised five blocks away from Shea Stadium, the home of the Mets until 2008. He and my un-cle ran onto the field after the ‘Miracle’ Mets’ 1969 World Se-ries win and stole third base. I didn’t believe him until he walked out of our garage with it to show me.

My father introduced me to baseball when he took me to my first Mets games at 3 years old. You could sense the energy of the crowd from nearby LaGuar-dia Airport. Sometimes it felt like the upstairs bleachers would col-lapse from the emphatic, cheer-ing fans.

But the Mets haven’t been in the postseason since 2006 and

haven’t won a World Series since 1986. As a Mets fan, you learn how to accept disappointment. I learned that harsh reality when the Mets lost to the Jeter’s New York Yankees in the 2000 “Sub-way” World Series.

There is a big difference be-tween Mets and Yankees base-ball, especially in New York City. The Yankees and their fans know what it was like to win. After winning four out of five cham-pionships from 1996-2000, the Yankees established a dynas-ty through a combination of five talented players that were all brought up within the Yankee organization.

The Yankees had their most successful run since winning nine of 14 consecutive championships, led by players like Joe DiMag-gio and Mickey Mantle. Between Jeter’s first full season in 1996 and until 2006, the Yankees averaged nearly 98 wins per season, won the American League East every year and won four of their five trips to the World Series.

Slowly, members of the dy-nasty began to leave. Bernie Wil-liams retired in 2006. Catcher Jorge Posada was next in 2011. Pitchers Andy Pettitte and Maria-no Rivera retired in 2013.

And then there was Jeter, left to continue the legacy and magic of what he and his former team-mates created.

In January, Jeter announced he would retire at the end of the 2014 season. After Jeter retired, every tie to the Yankees’ World Series teams would be gone.

Jeter’s retirement marks not only the end of a career, but also the end of a generation that looked to Jeter as a role model. In a time

where performance- enhanc-ing drugs are a trend, Jeter stayed clean. He was never publicized about being late to practice or get-ting into trouble with the law.

Baseball needed a face to look up to, and Jeter answered the call.

His statistics will get him to Cooperstown. He ranks in the top-10 all-time in at-bats, hits and runs. He’s the only person to ever record 3,000 hits in a Yan-kees uniform. He was elected to 13 All-Star games, amassed a career .310 batting average and won five World Series rings.

But it’s the intangibles in the game that pushes him over the edge unlike no other player be-fore. In his entire 2,747-game ca-reer, Jeter was never ejected.

The famed “Mr. November” home run will go down as just a home run. The “dive” will be put down as a pop out in foul territo-ry. The “flip” will be put down as an assist.

But the people who saw these Jeter plays will be talking about them for the rest of their lives. He put his body on the line every time he took the field, even if he wasn’t at 100 percent.

So why was I, a Mets fan, in-vited over to my friend’s apart-ment on the night of Jeter’s last game? Because Jeter’s last game was about more than just the Yankees.

Even though my friends and I grew up with different preferenc-es in teams, we were baseball fans first. We know when a good play-er comes along and Jeter was no exception. And whatever you say about Jeter, he represented the city of New York for 20 years and put on one heck of a show.

As much as I would have loved

to see Mike Piazza hit a game-winning home run to win the World Series or Robin Ventu-ra make an astounding catch at third base that people will still be talking about – they didn’t do it. Jeter did.

And even if I don’t like the team he played for, how could I not respect a player of his stat-ure?

So, like millions of people around the world, I stood up watching Jeter’s last Yankee Sta-dium at-bat on Thursday. I was cheering for the Yankees. I was optimistic when my friend said Jeter would walk-off in his last at-bat. I was cheering even hard-er when Jeter took the first pitch of his final at-bat and, in classic Jeter-style, drove it to right field to drive in the winning run.

As the other members of the dynasty embraced Jeter when he walked off the field at Yan-kee Stadium for the final time, I tipped my cap along with them.

And regardless of your favor-ite team, you should have done the same thing. Although he was the face of a franchise that dom-inated New York sports, he did it every way he was supposed to.

I will always be a die-hard Met fan. But I’ll also remember Jeter as the player who made me love baseball. I’ll always remem-ber him as the guy who saved my family from getting thrown out of the World Series.

Farewell, captain. And let’s hope I never have to

write another good thing about the Yankees again.

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A trying season

Sophomore flanker Colton Kells runs with the ball in the men’s rugby team’s 31-8 loss at Iona Sept. 27. The team is currently in its first year in the Rugby East Conference. COURTESY OF POTTER PALM PRODUCTIONS