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When the new season of Game of Thrones premiers on April 12 at 9 p.m., students living on campus won’t have to use distant relatives’ logins to watch it on HBO Go.

Students returned to campus at the start of the semester to find pamphlets at their doors, flyers throughout the dorms and messages in their inboxes telling them they now had access to HBO Go. Gone are the days on-campus students need to beg their sister’s cousin’s aunt’s nephew’s broth-er’s niece’s girlfriend. HBO Go has come to campus. The university is calling the ser-vice a “soft roll out” and some students are still learning about their new access.

The streaming service offers access to the network’s many lauded series like Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire and Girls. The service is available through a variety of devices and now with their UB ID and password, students living on cam-pus can access it at no additional cost.

Tavaine Whyte, a freshman African American studies major, saw a flyer for HBO Go in the atrium and went to check

it out. He realized he could “watch what-ever he feels like.” Now, he uses it to catch up on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and check out the library of movies HBO offers like Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix (Inherent Vice).

“I use it all the time,” Whyte said. “I’m not sure why we have it, but I’m not com-plaining about it. I’m definitely glad [they brought it to campus]. It gives me the op-portunity to watch shows that I couldn’t otherwise, that I’d have to go through ille-gal means to watch, like Game of Thrones.”

Whyte said he loved the safety, ease and convenience of the streaming service.

Prior to signing up for HBO Go, Cam-pus Living asked students what kinds of services they were looking for, according to Michael Koziej, a senior associate di-rector for Campus Living.

Last year, UB offered on-campus stu-dents an on-demand movie service. The service allowed students to watch four

scheduled movies a week. “[Students] were able to on-demand any

of the movies playing that week,” Koziej said. “We got really good feedback from our students that they liked the on-de-mand concept.”

With the feedback they got, Campus Living contacted its provider, Campus Televideo, about what services were avail-able – HBO Go was one of the options.

“We looked into it. It looked like a good service and it wouldn’t add any expense to students’ rent, and we were able to do that,” Koziej said.

Campus Living got rid of the weekly mov-ie selection to cover the cost of HBO Go.

Koziej said Campus Living worked with UBIT to ensure UB’s network could han-dle the streaming service before they final-ized plans to make it available to students.

Koziej is quick to point out that HBO Go is only available for students living on-campus. Campus Living is not affiliated

with the Villas at Chestnut Ridge, Rensch or the University Village at Sweethome.

While students like Whyte love using HBO Go, others are either too busy to take advantage of the service or see it as a distraction.

“I found out about it through Yik Yak, actually,” said Shayan Ahmad, a freshman biomedical engineering major. “I haven’t looked at it yet, but my roommate uses it for Game of Thrones.”

Ahmad plans on using it for the “good movies and shows” it offers, but hasn’t had the time to check it out yet.

Michael Salotto’s roommate uses HBO as well, but Salotto sees it as an interfer-ence from his studies, aside from his in-terest in Game of Thrones.

“It would just be a distraction,” Salotto, a senior psychology major said. “I’m trying to get good grades this semester. I haven’t really looked to much, but I’m sure I’d find something else to waste my time with.”

Whether students use HBO Go or not this semester, Koziej said that HBO Go wouldn’t go into Campus Living’s official “literature” and promotional materials un-til next fall. For now, they’re seeing what students think about it.

“We’re in a testing phase right now,” Koziej said. “We got the product live just a month ago … I’d like to call this a soft roll out … While it’s provided for every-one and we’ve told everybody, we’re not doing the whole bells and whistles and ‘Hey, look at all these great things that we’ve got.’”

Koziej said he and Campus Living plan on following up with students and seeing what they think of the newly added service.

Students can choose to distract them-selves with HBO Go and embrace the va-riety of shows, movies and entertainment options the service offers.

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DAVID DRESSNERSTAFF WRITER

Torrenting, peer-to-peer or file sharing – whatever you call it – is easy, illegal and popular among UB students.

Although torrenting on campus won’t bring the police knocking at your dorm room door, you may receive an email warning from UB’s Computer Discipline Officer.

Michael Behun, the computer dis-

cipline officer for the past eight years, manages copyright infringement com-plaints handed down by various agen-cies. Most complaints are from students illegally downloading music, movies, TV shows and, recently, textbooks. Students who are caught are required to take an online class, aimed to teach them about copyright laws. Student violators are rarely referred to Student-Wide Judicia-ry, the on-campus court system used to discipline students.

Students continue using torrents, de-spite the prevalence of streaming servic-es like Netflix and Hulu Plus. UB has a system in place to catch and punish tor-rent users, but not all get caught.

A poll of 212 UB students showed that more than 80 percent admit to torrenting. Of the students who used torrents, 79.8 percent said they got away with it without any negative repercussions.

Companies like Sony Entertainment hire an outside agent to catch people

who illegally download their movies. “The University receives hundreds

of complaints each year,” Behun said. “A few years ago we weren’t seeing any [textbook complaints], that kind of ma-terial wasn’t out there.”

Behun said in 2014, UB received more than 1,800 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaints. So far this year, they have already received just over 200 complaints.

Game of Thrones premiere on April 12 at 9 p.m. isn’t something students living on campus will need to torrent or borrow from a friend now that HBO Go is included in student’s housing packages.

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OPINION

As college tuition continues to skyrocket, students are look-ing in state for affordable options. SUNY Fredonia and SUNY Al-fred State want to take a risky, con-troversial step in changing that.

Fredonia currently draws most of its students from New York State, with only 18 students from Pennsylvania enrolled – even though parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio are a short drive away from Fredonia’s campus.

Fredonia and Alfred State, along with SUNY Potsdam, which is close to Canada, are all included on a proposed State Senate bill that would allow tu-ition cuts for close, but out-of-state, students.

The bill would reduce tuition at Fredonia for Pennsylvania and

Ohio students to approximately $9,255 a year. Currently, out-of-state tuition and fees total over $17,000 while in-state costs total a much more affordable $7,740 annually.

The proposal certainly sounds appealing – at first. Reducing tu-ition is a difficult suggestion to oppose, as making college more affordable for students is an inar-guably noble and needed change.

But the division between in state and out of state exists for a reason – watering down that boundary makes for a slippery slope.

Borders, no matter where they’re drawn, can always be called arbitrary. But the division between states generates less ar-gument than a border deter-

mined by general proximity. After all, if students from

Pennsylvania and Ohio get re-duced tuition, why not students just across the border of those states?

Students living just across the border from Pennsylvania could make the same argument as those living minutes away from New York State.

Additionally, Fredonia and oth-er SUNY schools are support-ed by taxpayers of New York, not Ohio or Pennsylvania. For students and their families who don’t pay taxes to receive bene-fits typically reserved for taxpay-ers seems unjust.

Yet, this move is not unprece-dented and far from unnecessary.

Cleveland State has initiat-

ed tuition cuts for New York students, and the University of Pittsburgh Bradford offers in-state tuition to students in nearby counties – a slightly more limited model of tuition decreases that SUNY schools could consider.

And though the tuition de-crease is problematic, the SUNY schools considering this program are doing so out of necessity, not mere generosity. Fredonia is seek-ing to increase enrollment – cur-rently only around 2 percent of its students come from out of state, and administrators would like to see that number closer to 10.

This initiative is certainly con-troversial, but at least proponents are aware of the potential issues that could develop. For example, the program would ensure that out-of-state students do not end up taking away spaces sought af-ter by in-state applicants.

More importantly, the tuition discount would be implement-ed on a trial basis. A three-year tri-al would allow the effectiveness of the program to be evaluated, and adjusted or eliminated if necessary.

It’s hard to argue against any program that reduces the finan-cial burden on college students, regardless of their home state. But the needs of in-state stu-dents must be considered as well.

Fortunately, it appears that the proposed program can offer a compromise, one that helps stu-dents from nearby states but doesn’t hurt those from New York, while also increasing en-rollment at schools that need it.


Reducing tuition is laudable, but SUNY has to draw the line somewhereProposed initiative offering discounted tuition to neighboring states has promise – and problems

Like many graduate programs, law school is stressful, competi-tive and exhausting, with no guar-antees of success.

It’s only logical, then, that ap-plying to law school should be equally strenuous.

Apparently UB disagrees.SUNY Buffalo Law School has

announced two initiatives to begin in the fall of 2015, which both ca-ter to high-performing UB under-grads.

“Cater” is perhaps not a strong enough word – these two new programs practically hand aca-demically successful UB students admission to SUNY’s only law school on a silver platter.

The law school’s new, dialed-down criteria will allow UB stu-dents who have earned a GPA of 3.5 or above and scored at the 85th percentile or above on

a standardized test (including the SAT, ACT, GRE or GMAT) to apply to the law school without taking the dreaded LSAT.

Not only would these students get to skip what’s regarded as a challenging benchmark for law school admissions, but they would also receive priority consideration.

This first initiative is high-ly problematic. It may encour-age more UB students to apply for law school, but ultimately this proposal simply waters down the admissions pool and damages the school’s reputation.

To begin with, the requirements for students to qualify as “high performing” aren’t exactly diffi-cult to reach. A 3.5 GPA is bare-ly an A average – it’s a grade point average that certainly wouldn’t im-press many graduate admissions boards, so UB shouldn’t consider it sufficient enough to earn priori-ty consideration.

Allowing students to use their SAT or ACT scores is equally il-logical.

Four-year-old test scores may no longer reflect students’ apti-tudes, or the effort they’re willing

to put into an application. Maybe as high schoolers, stu-

dents put in the time to study for standardized tests, learning vocab-ulary and equations in order to reach the 85th percentile or high-er – but that may not be the case. UB has no way of knowing that without requiring the LSAT – or at the very least, other standard-ized tests for graduate school ap-plicants, like the GRE or GMAT.

Accepting high school test scores makes the application pro-cess far too easy for potential ap-plicants. Requiring some form of testing ensures that only serious students apply.

Under this initiative, students can simply apply on a whim using old scores – no studying or stress-ing needed.

And the law school’s second initiative takes this problematic stance even further, guaranteeing admission for UB students in the University Honors College.

In this case, impressive academ-ic performance in high school doesn’t just make the application process easy for undergraduates, but eliminates it entirely.

Although partnering with the Honors College is a smart move – this initiative also establishes pro-gramming for students consider-ing law school, allowing them to start preparing for graduate stud-ies as early as their freshman year – automatic admission is just too extreme.

These initiatives favor UB stu-dents too strongly and make the law school appear far less com-petitive.

Rather than attracting students willing to study intensely for the LSAT, UB’s law school will now ap-peal to students who worry they’ll poorly on the test. And for under-graduates who did well at UB, but lack direction or career goals, the law school now looks like a safe ha-ven – somewhere for aimless, job-less graduates to take refuge.

Graduate programs are com-petitive for a reason. They should accept only the best of the best, because classes are challeng-ing and competition is fierce. Law school is difficult. Applying should be, too.


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KAYLEIGH REED CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Ani DiFranco, a feminist song-writer, sings in “Everest,” Take a few steps back, and put on a wider lens. That’s exactly what I did last Friday, when I donned a heads-carf by choice – just like dozens of Muslim women on campus do every day. The personal effects were astonishing.

I was asked to participate by my friend, Nida Syed, earlier that week. I quickly responded,

“Sure!” I was curious about Islam and

events such as “World Hijab Day” since high school so when I heard about Cover a Mile in Her Scarf, I knew I wanted to try it out.

My Friday actually began on Thursday, when the UB Mus-lim Women’s Council executive board met with me to discuss wearing the hijab. That after-noon, I met with Montaha Rizeq and Samiha Islam, along with a few other MWC members, in

the Student Union Lobby. Each of the ladies thanked me for par-ticipating and made me feel wel-comed into their community in minutes. With Rizeq, I made sure I could pin the hijab correctly come the next morning.

The scarf I chose was my mother’s – a blue-beige paisley, warm for the frigid Buffalo tem-peratures. I don’t think I knew fully what I was getting into, but I was enthusiastic and (mostly) relaxed.

Thursday night, I shared the event on my Facebook wall and told my friends why I was doing it.

When I woke up on Friday, however, I was a little bewildered.

There was the scarf. And there was my face, in the mirror. I tied my hair back, and wrapped the scarf around my hair, tucking in the ends and framing my face. Near the base of my chin, I safe-ty-pinned the scarf so it wouldn’t fly off and then pulled one end

toward my left ear, pinning it back with a flowered brooch giv-en to me by the e-board.

I stared into the mirror and smiled. I never felt more beau-tiful and in control. I got out of my car and walked into the Union.

Eyes. That was all I noticed for a solid 10 minutes. The hard-est thing I did all day? Staring back. I was defending my deci-sion, without words, to everyone. Not only was I defending a per-sonal choice, but I was serving as a representative of the Muslim community – a weighty decision, but one I stood by.

Some of my friends and pro-fessors ignored the hijab on Fri-day, while others asked about what I was doing. Aware that I was representing a communi-ty of sisters, I treated everyone I met with respect, smiles and peace.

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MARISSA FIELDINGSTAFF WRITER

After Teagan Eschborn finished her coffee, Suzan Akpinar, president of the Turkish Student Association, flipped the coffee cup from under the plate to read her fortune, an important cultural prac-tice in Turkey. Eschborn, a freshman biology student, did not expect the news to bring her to tears.

“Someone you’re close with is getting pregnant,” Akpinar said to Eschborn as she read the coffee grounds. “This baby brings pure joy. It makes you happy. I see a huge smile on your face.”

On Wednesday, students were invit-ed into the Student Union Theater for some coffee, fortune telling and to learn about Turkish culture. About 30 peo-ple attended the event. This was the first event for the Turkish SA, which be-came a permanent club this semester. Students drank the cup of coffee, leav-ing the ground coffee beans at the bot-tom. Then, flipping the cup over onto the plate, they waited until the grounds chilled. Akpinar, a sophomore political science major, read their fortune from the leftover coffee grounds that ran down the sides of the cup.

The four members on the e-board of the club introduced students into the Student Union Theater by giving them kolonya, a floral hand sanitizer with a hint of lemon in order to awaken their minds. They were also given a Turkish word from a bowl with the English trans-lation to help begin their experience of learning about the Turkish culture.

In order for a fortune to be given, students had to purchase the small cup of coffee for $3. This was added to the club’s fund for future events.

In Alexandra Carr’s coffee grounds, Akpinar saw a woman that Carr does not always see eye to eye with, but once they part after a debate, they find total bliss.

“I thought about my mother,” said Carr, a senior psychology major. “We live together and I love her, she loves me, but we butt heads.”

Carr felt as though her reading was accurate, leading her to have a reward-ing, unexpected experience, she said.

“It was so cool,” Carr said. “I love that I can be accepted here, even if I’m

not Turkish. I’m a little bit more wiser and more cultured. I feel like I’ve grown just by being here for 20 minutes.”

Coffee is a significant part of Turk-ish culture. Akpinar said Turkish peo-ple drink coffee so much it is “almost like water” to them. Coffee is served to guests as a way to welcome them into the host’s home.

The Turkish SA’s e-board members have used their cultural past to inspire the club’s events.

Akpinar learned to read fortunes from her mother and was pleased with the re-sponses from the event, especially since it allowed other students to expand their cultural experience.

Akpinar moved from Turkey to the United States when she was 10 years old. When she moved to the Unit-ed States, she wanted to influence oth-er people’s perspectives on different cul-tures. She speaks English and Turkish and said the mixture of cultures is better than one culture alone.

Akanksha Kataria, the vice president of Turkish SA and a sophomore psy-chology major, is from India.

The club’s diversity helps members learn different religions, cultural practic-

es and even languages.“It always connects people,” Akpi-

nar said. “They teach me so much ev-ery day.”

Turkish SA plans to join with UB for Israel and gather other cultural clubs to sing in a Eurovision contest.

The club’s next event will be held on Feb. 24 from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Student Union Theater where they will live stream a soccer game between Manchester City and Barcelona, another favorite pastime in Turkey. There will be free snacks and drinks provided.

The club is giving students the op-portunity to explore the Turkish culture first-hand.

Eschborn was happy to have taken advantage of the fortune telling event and wants the Turkish SA to prosper.

“I hope they get their club going,” Es-chborn said. “It looks like a good way for people from this great country to get together and people who aren’t from Turkey or want to learn about it, like myself, can.”


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Turkish SA president Suzan Akpinar reads Shawn Zadeh’s fortune by looking at leftover coffee grounds. ELAINE LAM, THE SPECTRUM

New Turkish Student Association club reads fortunes for studentsSometime around 10:30 a.m., the anxiety

set in.Is my chocolate chip muffin halal? Are Muslims

supposed to pray right now? When am I going to run into another woman in hijab? Is that hijabi a partic-ipant, as well?

All these thoughts rushed into my head and refused to leave. When I wasn’t in class, I sat in the library, alternating between study-ing and looking up facts about Islamic life. Every time I passed another hijabi – or wom-an wearing the hijab – in the hallway, I was overwhelmed with relief.

Occasionally, a fellow hijabi would mouth: “Salaam,” the Arabic word for “peace,” to me. Several times, I thought, “Is this what it’s like to wear hijab every day?”

My questions were answered later on Fri-day afternoon, at the forum held by the MWC.

Around 40 women (and a guy or two) – old friends, new friends and close friends – gath-ered in Baldy 101 to talk about Islam, the hi-jab, how their days went and how the partici-pants’ days went.

Rizeq and Islam began their presenta-tion with the idea that “Muslim women are like superheroes. They represent something greater than themselves, and even have a cool costume.”

All the hijabis in attendance expressed sim-ilar feelings. No Muslim women I spoke with ever felt like they were forced to wear it, nor did they resent it. Many described it as a will-ing and loving expression of faith, complete with a sisterhood under God. Many wom-en even thanked me for wearing it, telling me that I was an “example” for Muslim non-hijabi women who have never tried it.

As a result of participating in Cover a Mile in Her Scarf, I gained a much greater under-standing of “a day in the life” of a hijabi. I felt more connected with my Muslim friends and also felt more inspired to re-examine my own beliefs. I left the event that night with a rose from the e-board, a wider perspective and more knowledge about how Muslims practice their religion in the United States.

What did wearing the hijab do for me? Well, it made me think about what I consid-er beautiful and what others around me be-lieve is beautiful. In addition, it framed that day’s actions in terms of a religion I knew lit-tle about.

What did it do for others? I cannot say. But I hope I inspired others to think about Islam in a new way: a religion of sisterhood, broth-erhood and peace.


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A group of about 10 students sits around a large table in the Intercultural and Diversity Center on the second floor of the Student Union while instructor Terri Budek assigns the homework for the week. But the homework students do in this class isn’t research papers or textbook assignments; they’re volunteering efforts and trips to indoor trampoline parks.

(sopho)MORE House is a living and learning class for sophomores living in Greiner Hall. The class is taught once a week in the Intercultural and Diversity Center and aims to teach sophomore stu-dents about leadership, diversity and be-ing involved in their community and on campus. Students take the class as a two-part installment in the fall and the spring.

Students said the class has given them the opportunity to work on their leader-ship, communication and teambuilding skills. Students in the program also volun-teer in the community, including working with Re-Tree Buffalo to plant trees in the University Heights.

“It’s all about service and learning, so we’re all interested in volunteering on campus, getting involved and getting to know people,” said Andrew Sweetman, a sophomore biological sciences major. “I really like to volunteer. It’s something that I’m passionate about, and this was a great opportunity because we do it as a group.”

The program was started in 2012 with the goal to enhance the sophomore expe-rience. The class is intended to teach stu-dents to have more of an appreciation for the university and become a better citizen and leader.

Students take free trips and retreats throughout the year. Students have gone to Sky Zone, where they participate in team building activities such as ropes courses, and to the local YMCA camp-sites to have an overnight retreat.

A lot of the students in the program come from small towns, so the program aims to integrate students with different cultural backgrounds.

“The goal is to have a sense of family and bring together students who wouldn’t necessarily have met because they have different majors, course loads and person-alities. It’s kind of like a breath of fresh air,” said Christy Krawczyk, co-instructor

of (sopho)MORE House and a graduate student in the office of Student Engage-ment. “You’re going to grow as a person. I would consider us to be a family and I think that’s a unique thing on UB’s cam-pus.”

Ely Cuberos, a sophomore biomedical science major, joined (sopho)MORE House to learn how to communicate better.

“I felt scared, like I was just one person, and no one was going to listen to me,” Cuberos said. “But now, I’m not afraid to speak up if I don’t like something. I can express myself.”

Students in the program have a chance for their voices to be heard during in-class group decision making.

The coursework required includes jour-nal entries and reflection papers about the

things students experience and read in the class. For one assignment, students set up a mock TED talk and each discussed what leadership meant to them. For an-other assignment, students picked an ini-tiative they want to address and educate others about it and how they can bring about change.

(sopho)MORE students must enroll in the two-credit Interpersonal Skills for Leading and Serving (UBE 110) course in the fall, which teaches students about leadership, diversity and being involved in their community and on campus.

In the spring, students take Leader-ship Practicum (UBE 496) – a one-credit course that teaches students how to make positive changes within their community.

The program is competitive, with only

16 spots available. Students are required to have an informal interview with Budek, an associate director in the Intercultur-al and Diversity Center, assistant direc-tor of Student Life and co-instructor of (sopho)MORE House. Budek said she chooses qualified students who will have something to contribute to their commu-nity. Students must apply on UB Linked, provide solid references and take person-ality tests.

Budek said students should join be-cause they “learn how to do more with their time at UB.”

“You get to learn about yourself and the type of leader you want to be,” she said.


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When caught torrenting, an email warn-ing is sent to the UBIT name of the of-fender. The offender is then enrolled in a UBlearns copyright class they must com-plete within a week. Should the student complete the class on time and remove the torrenting software and copyrighted material, the case is closed.

“While most people receive an individu-al notice, some receive multiple copyright complaints in a single day,” Behun said in an email. “As a result, 162 UBIT names were added to a UBlearns copyright class so far in 2015. Each year, we have only a few students that may be referred to the Student Judiciary. Most students under-stand the risks of using file-sharing pro-grams to infringe on copyright and are never referred to Student Judiciary.”

If it is a second-time or a higher of-fense, the punishment is then handed off to the Student-Wide Judiciary. Behun said only a few students are referred to UB’s judicial extension.

“These agencies look for the download of certain files at certain times across a number of IP addresses,” Behun said.

UB acts as an Internet Service Provider, or ISP, for the campus. Due to this classi-fication they get what is called “Safe Har-bor” under the DMCA. As long as UB makes attempts and acts on any com-plaints it receives, they cannot get in trou-ble for violations made by the students.

But UB is not catching every stu-dent who torrents on campus. “I definitely torrented a couple things, but I didn’t use [campus] wifi,” said Phil Shar, whose name was changed to protect his anonymity. “I used my own hotspot and torrented from there because Buf-falo chases after you. My roommate got caught four or five times. They just kept giving him the course over and over again. They never investigated anything.”

With only a fraction of torrenters get-ting caught, the penalty doesn’t outweigh the convenience for many students. But Behun doesn’t see the UBlearns course as punishment.

“While some persons may view the re-quirement to complete this 20 minute course as disciplinary, it is designed as educational,” Behun said. “My goal is to provide information on the risks of copy-right infringement to help students pro-tect themselves.”

Torrenting wasn’t always the file sharing

method of choice for UB students.Students once used a campus-only file

sharing system that had movie and mu-sic files in shared folders on the cam-pus network called, ResNet. This allowed students to copy what they wanted and download it.

Originally, students had to search through thousands of folders and files on ResNet. Eventually, one student wrote a program that indexed the entire library of media throughout ResNet, making it searchable.

The school knew about the site but didn’t take it down until complaints sur-faced.

While ResNet is no longer an option for file sharing for UB students, there are many other choices.

The Piratebay, a popular torrent-host-ing site, is a viable option for students. Despite being taken down often, it comes back – usually under an altered address.

Torrents can have numerous sourc-es and multiple locations where a file is stored. A user is connected to many other machines and those machines each con-tribute a small portion of the file.

Torrenting differs from downloading a song off iTunes. A conventional down-load starts when a user makes a request, like purchasing a song. Then, the user

connects to a single server that contains the file of the song. The file is download-ed through the Internet to the user’s ma-chine. This is called a Client-Server model.

Peer-to-peer sharing uses a number of machines acting as servers of the file. For example, Machine A might send 1 min-ute of a song and Machine B sends anoth-er minute. In bigger files, such as a mov-ie, one might connect to more than 100 different machines all contributing small parts of a whole file.

“I use torrent because it’s easy and free,” said Bobby Asher, whose name has been changed to protect his anonymity. “I can download an entire album all at once, and the quality is better [than converting from Youtube].

Thomas Johnson, whose name was changed to protect his anonymity, admits that in the past when he didn’t have a job, he downloaded music illegally, but hasn’t done so for years.

But what is most convenient and cheap-est today might not be what’s most conve-nient tomorrow, according to Behun.

“As network speeds increase torrents will become less useful,” Behun said.

Companies and consumers seem to be catching on.

In the past few years many companies turned to streaming to distribute con-

tent. Netflix, Hulu and Amazon are pop-ular video streaming services and Spotify, Pandora and Google Play stream music to millions of people.

The popularity of these services marks a shift in entertainment culture. Consum-ers are increasingly willing to pay for the convenience of on-demand content.

A survey of 2,500 BitTorrent users, a popular torrent site, found that a majori-ty still purchased content legally on a reg-ular basis. Half of the site’s users said they purchased music each month and 52 per-cent bought movies, according to the Bit-Torrent User Survey.

BitTorrent’s global users spend $48 per year on music and $54 on movies, accord-ing to BitTorrent Blog.

Students are enticed to use streaming services through special offers. Amazon and Spotify both offer reduced pricing for college students. HBO Go is now avail-able to students living on campus.

Until torrenting becomes less conve-nient than streaming services, it’s likely students will use it as a preferred method for getting entertainment. After all, tor-rents are free and just a few clicks away.

Jordan Oscar and Tori Roseman contributed reporting to this story


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The Pirate Bay, a popular torrenting site, re-turned to the web under a slightly different ad-dress after being taken down for illegal content.


Edited by Timothy E. Parker February 23, 2015

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The men’s basketball team (17-9, 8-6 Mid-American Conference) played two crucial conference games this week, win-ning on the road at Eastern Michigan, 78-63, and at Bowling Green, 68-56.Three-point shooting: A

The Bulls shot 16 of 30 from 3-point range over the course of the two games, in what was a great showing from be-yond the arc. In Wednesday’s game against Eastern Michigan, junior guard Jarryn Skeete led the Bulls in 3-pointers, shoot-ing 3 of 5 for the night. Sophomore guard Shannon Evans was close behind, shoot-ing 2 of 4.

Evans sank five 3-pointers against Bowling Green and shot 83.3 percent from beyond the arc. The rest of the team accumulated four 3-pointers, one com-ing from senior forward Xavier Ford and three coming from Skeete.Foul Shooting: A-

The Bulls shot well from beyond the arc, and the same can be said about their shooting from the line. Buffalo shot 77.5 percent from the stripe over the two games.

Senior forward Will Regan went to the line seven times against Eastern Michigan, converting five of those attempts. Ford was perfect from the line, shooting 4 of 4. The Bulls shot 70.6 percent as a team.

On Saturday, the Bulls shot 82.6 per-cent from the line. Junior forward Justin Moss shot 11 of 12 from the line to lead the team. The rest of the team shot 19 of 23 on the night.

The Bull’s free throws against Bowling Green came at very pivotal points as well. The Bulls hit their final 12 free throws down the stretch seal their 68-56 win over the Falcons.Rebounding: A-

The Bulls out-rebounded both Eastern Michigan and Bowling Green this week. Buffalo grabbed 46 rebounds against the

Eagles and 43 against the Falcons. Moss had a total of 21 rebounds over

the course of the two games. Ford and Skeete totaled 12.

On the offensive end, the Bulls totaled 27 offensive rebounds, with Ford grab-bing three against Eastern Michigan and Skeete snatching four against Bowling Green.

The bench had 28 rebounds in the two games. The leading rebounder on the bench was junior forward Rodell Wig-ginton, who had eight between the two games.Ball Control: C+

Buffalo had 25 turnovers to just 20 as-sists this week.

Despite winning by 15 on Wednes-day, the Bulls turned the ball over 17 times. Buffalo was lucky their carelessness with the ball did not hurt them against a weak Eastern Michigan team. All players who recorded more than 11 minutes in the game accumulated a turnover except Johnson.

The Bulls turned it over only eight times against Bowling Green. Moss had a par-ticularly rough week while handling the ball, as he turned the ball over eight times between the two games. Offense: B

As opposed to the high-scoring games over the past few weeks, the Bulls turned it down a bit on the scoring end. The team averaged slightly less than their overall sea-son average of 74 points, averaging 73 points between the two victories this week.

On Wednesday, the Bulls had four play-ers in double-digits, including Regan who came off the bench to drop 13. But on Saturday, the Bulls only had three players who were in double-digits. Evans led with 19 points on 5 of 6 shooting from beyond the arc. He scored 14 in the first half, but only five in the second. Defense: B+

The Bulls stepped it up on the defensive end this week, contributing to their two

crucial road wins. In addition to out-rebounding both

teams, the Bulls had both teams shoot-ing less than 50 percent from the field. Against Eastern Michigan, Buffalo al-lowed one player had a field goal percent-age of 50 percent or above, and in the sec-ond half, the Eagles only shot 36 percent.

Bowling Green faired a bit better, go-ing 20 of 50 from the field. Four of their players had double-digit scoring figures, but still lost to the Bulls by 12 points.

Buffalo outscored this week’s oppo-nents 146-119. It is the second-highest differential in a two-game stretch this sea-son. Bench Production: B-

After producing 24 points against East-ern Michigan, the Buffalo bench produced just four points against Bowling Green.

Regan stood out for the Bulls com-ing off the bench against the Eagles. Al-though he only played 19 minutes in the game, he scored 13 points and grabbed three rebounds.

But he only put up four points in Satur-day’s win. He went 2 of 7 from the field and missed both of his free-throw at-tempts in a four-point performance. Wig-

ginton only put up six points in the games this week despite playing an average of 25 minutes per game.

Buffalo will need better production from the bench if its going to go far in the MAC Tournament. Coaching: B-

Head coach Bobby Hurley secured two significant road victories to give the Bulls a winning record in MAC play. The Bulls were 2-4 in road conference play before this week, but were able to pick up two crucial road victories. In both games, the Bulls were up at half and came through for the victories, even though they almost gave it away against Bowling Green.

Hurley’s grade would have been much lower had the team not lost its second-half lead against the Falcons. On Satur-day, the Bulls were up 36-22 to begin the second half but squandered the lead with 7:15 left in the game after Falcons went on a 23-7 run to take a 49-48 lead.

The team won due to clutch free throws, not for Hurley’s coaching. Nonetheless, two road wins in the MAC is hard and the team was able to pull it off.


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When Northern Illinois’ Arthur Bunce won a 2-0 decision over Bulls freshman Mike Silvis on Friday, the 2014-15 Buffalo wrestling season was officially over.

That’s because while the other Mid-American Conference teams will compete in the MAC Wrestling Championships in Columbia, Missouri on March 7-8, Buffa-lo will be at home.

The Bulls were banned from both the MAC Tournament and NCAA Nationals due to academic ineligibility. The NCAA requires each team to register a minimum academic performance rate (APR) of 930. The Bulls registered a 925 over a four-year period, making them ineligible for postseason play. Buffalo finishes the sea-son with a 5-14 record, an increase over last season’s three-win campaign, but it also failed to win a conference dual meet for the second straight year.

Head coach John Stutzman said the penalties were a perfect time to reinforce academics and getting the players to be accountable for both them and their fel-low teammates.

“Our season is over,” Stutzman said. “This is a teaching moment for our play-ers. We need everyone to be account-able at all times. These players had noth-ing to do with it, but it’s NCAA rules. The coaching staff and I will take it as a learn-ing experience and move forward. We’re making it a positive.”

Senior Wally Maziarz said he doesn’t think the current Buffalo wrestlers should be punished for what was done in the past, but that it could be a learning experi-ence for the underclassmen.

“I disagree with the whole academic performance rate,” Maziarz said. “They kicked off the guys who got suspended and forced this postseason ban. Hopeful-ly, the younger players on the team under-stand this is punishment for not perform-ing in the classroom.”

With no postseason, the Bulls were able to use the regular season to get acclaimed freshmen and sophomore classes adjust-ed to college wrestling. The Bulls entered the season with the 18th best freshman class in Division I athletics, according to TheOpenMat.com, a website that ranks high school wrestling prospects.

“Progress was being made through-

out the season,” Stutzman said. “When you look at the big picture, we’re at better place now than when I got hired. We’re getting people to come out to the games and I’m excited for the future of UB wrestling.”

Boding well for the future, the Bulls saw numerous freshman, redshirt fresh-men and sophomores have promising campaigns.

Freshmen Jake Gunning and Trevor Hoffmier each finished with a team-lead-ing 28 overall wins on the season. Four of the five leaders in overall wins this season were freshman, with Brandon Lapi finish-ing third with 25 wins, while Jake Weber finished fifth with 20.

Freshman Colt Cotten’s season was shortened due to an injury, but he still pulled off a 20-win season, nonetheless.

After reconstructive surgery on a torn lat-eral collateral ligament (LCL) and hamstring knocked him out early, Cotten returned and finished his redshirt freshman campaign with a 20-12 overall record and a 5-3 MAC record. He was tied for first on the team this season for reversals with three.

With an offseason to improve and re-cover his physical stature, Cotten said that he and his fellow underclassmen will make a leap in 2015.

“We’re on the rise,” Cotten said. “We’re

growing and the numbers say that we’re improving. Next year, we’ll push for 10 wins and then 15 to 20 the year after that. With the coaching staff and the team’s work ethic, I truly believe that we will be a top-10 program.”

Cotten – a transfer from Stutzman’s former school Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania – said the transfer to Buffa-lo, a team with a younger roster, will allow him to grow into a better player.

“At Bloomsburg, there were a ton of juniors and seniors there,” Cotten said. “Here, we’re all in the same age range and it’s fun to have people your age to work with, improve on the mat with and over-all practice and go through weight training with. We’ve already bonded and that has helped us on and off the field.”

Maziarz and fellow senior Max Soria, both wrestled their last matches in a Bulls singlet in Friday’s 26-10 loss.

Soria ended his season with a 21-8 re-cord and a career record of 81-54, saying that this was the best season of his col-lege career.

“Honestly, in all of my five years at UB, this was my best and most consis-tent year,” Soria said. “I don’t know if it was the offseason training or entering the season with a focus, but this year was my best. I give most of my credit to coach

[Stutzman].”Soria’s senior night against Eastern

Michigan on Feb. 15, in which he won by major decision in his final Alumni Are-na match, will always remain one of the most memorable moments of his career, he said.

“I’ll never forget senior night,” So-ria said. “Other nights where I defeated ranked opponents. I was ranked in the top 12, the highest I was ever ranked. It was bittersweet. We haven’t had a home win in a couple years and my parents were there. It was surreal, even though we couldn’t come away with the win.”

Maziarz – who also wrestled his last match on Friday – was rehabbing a bro-ken leg for six months. After suffering the gruesome injury this offseason, he com-pleted his goal of returning to the mat and competing in his last season as a Bull.

Although he was physically ready for the season, he said he felt he was unpre-pared.

“I didn’t do much walking – usually walked with crutches,” Maziarz said. “My rehab was four, five times a week and I got back quick. My explosiveness just wasn’t the same.”

Maziarz finished with a 6-17 record this season and ended his career with a record of 55-72. Maziarz made two goals for himself this season: compete again and work with the younger players on the ros-ter. He was successful in both.

“I was glad to get back to help the young guys,” Maziarz said. “I know how the transition from high school and col-lege is. Every match turns into a grind and there’s not too many pins in Division I matches. I wanted to work with them and help them find a way to win close match-es, rather than looking for pins.”

After another sub-.500 season, the Bulls will look to compete next season. Stutzman – who will enter his third year as head coach of the team – doesn’t plan on stopping at the MAC Tournament.

“I want to compete for NCAA tro-phies,” Stutzman said. “That’s my goal and vision for the program. We need our players and their families to buy in 100 percent, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. If we can get that cooperation, we could be dangerous moving forward.”


Despite a postseason ban, Buffalo aims to build for the futureWrestling reflects on postseason-less campaign

Senior wrestler Max Soria defeats Eastern Michigan’s Blake Caudill by major decision, 14-3, in Buffalo’s 22-10 loss in Alumni Arena on Feb. 15. Soria and the Bulls will not be eligible for the postseason after an NCAA ban due to low Academic Progress Rate scores.

Rodell Wigginton and the men’s basketball team picked up two decisive victories over conference rivals Eastern Michigan on Wednesday and Bowling Green on Saturday.

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