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EMMA JANICKISENIOR FEATURES EDITOR

It began with a bucket, a hose, a vacuum and a stench.

In 2004, citizens of Tonawa-nda, New York began using a “Bucket Brigade,” a method of air sampling, to find out what was making their air stink. The three samples collected over two years showed high levels of ben-zene, a carcinogen, according to Jackie James-Creedon, the assis-tant director of Citizens Science Community Resources (CSCR).

“I’ve talked to people who said they’ve smelled it all the way out in Amherst,” James-Creedon said. “I’ve smelled it.”

The benzene had polluted the air so much that it was making people physically ill and unable to leave their homes at certain times of the day.

The New York State guideline micrograms per cubic meter for benzene is 0.13µg/m3 – Tonawan-da’s levels were at 54 µg /m3. Mi-crograms per cubic meter mea-sures the amount of chemical dust, vapor or fumes in ambient air.

“It’s a very distinct smell,” James-Creedon said. “One of the original members [of the Clean Air Coalition of WNY] that took the bucket [as part of the Buck-et Brigade], she’s from Riverside, and she said she wasn’t able to walk her dog at certain times.”

Now a decade after the first air samples, CSCR, developed out of the Clean Air Coalition of WNY, is collecting soil samples of lawns in and around Tonawa-nda. Community members are working with high school and college students – including UB students – to answer questions about the air and soil pollution affecting the community.

When Citizen Science first formed, they didn’t have an end

goal in mind. They were only concerned with

collecting air samples, according to Andrew Baumgartner, a senior nuclear medicine and psychology major and the High School Citi-zens Science Program Director of CSCR.

“Our scope of what we’re do-ing has broadened a little bit and we changed our name to CSCR,” he said. “We use community-based science to affect change.”

The group was able to reduce air pollution in Tonawanda by using their original air samples in a winning court case against Tonawanda. But air pollution has settled on lawns across the “im-pact area” of the pollution.

“The air pollution has been reduced,” James-Creedon said. “But we don’t know what’s left over.”

The “leftovers” are what the studies conducted by Citizen Sci-ence – and in the future, those by UB in conjunction with CSCR and SUNY Fredonia – are looking for.

James-Creedon said she has fi-bromyalgia, which causes wide-spread pain in muscles and soft tissues, and believes it was caused by the air pollution. That, com-bined with Baumgartner’s inter-

est in chemistry and his communi-ty, caused the duo to get involved with finding out what was plaguing the area. Today, students can vol-unteer to use their knowledge of chemistry to make changes in the community. Applying the syllabus to the real world

Robert Bennett, a graduate pharmacy student at UB, became involved with CSCR during his sophomore year when he was a chemistry major.

He said Citizen Science helped him understand how his course-work had real implications into re-search around the community and made him feel he wasn’t in courses “just designed to weed people out.”

Baumgartner agrees, saying the chemistry classes he took at UB, especially organic chemistry, gave him a “very strong foundation” as he did research into pH’s for CSCR tests. He thought it was “amazing” to see the real-world uses of the knowledge he learned in the class-room translate into the study.

Baumgartner teaches high school volunteers involved with CSCR some of the fundamental ideas and concepts he learned in Chemistry 101 and 102 at UB.

A stench in the air

GISELLE LAMASST. NEWS EDITOR

Sade Cadle remembers the day her mother turned off all the lights in their New York City home.

Cadle’s mother, Stephanie Cadle Osoba, was devising a surprise for the gaggle of children – Cadle and her brothers and cousins – who were about to return from a day of playing.

White powder covered Steph-anie’s face as she jumped out and screamed, teasingly terrorizing the kids. They ran away in fear from the woman who spent her life making people smile and laugh.

Cadle, the Student Associa-tion’s treasurer, lost her mother to breast cancer as a freshman in college.

“With a mother, you just feel like they’re your backbone,” Cadle said. “They’ll pick you up if you fall. I guess when that happened, it was just like if I fall, there’s no one really there. It’s just me.”

The UB senior looks back at her mother’s “hilarious” white powder prank with a laugh. Stephanie’s memory fuels Ca-dle to be independent and driv-en. She has goals to open “en-richment centers” for children in countries with poor education standards and a small business in her hometown of Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn.

Stephanie was diagnosed with cancer when Cadle was in the eighth grade, but she was always willing to help her neighbors.

She always wanted her children to be involved with the community be-cause it was a way to have a better quality of life, Cadle said. Her moth-er often helped teenagers and young

men in their neighborhood stay in school and keep “off the streets.”

Cadle’s mother would invite children from the neighborhood to her home for dinner and fami-ly events like barbeques and trips to amusement parks. She’d shuttle them to church and help them find jobs or programs to help them be productive.

After her mother’s diagno-sis, Cadle had to take on a larg-er role around her home. Her fa-ther, Olugbile Osoba, was often at work and her mother at the hos-pital. But Cadle didn’t want peo-ple to feel sorry for her. She didn’t give off any “negative energy” to those who surrounded her.

“I knew who I was from a young age,” Cadle said. “So I knew what I could deal with.”

Thomas James Victorian III, Ca-dle’s brother, said the two grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, or “Bed-stuy.” He said crime was visible in the Brooklyn neighborhood.

“There were so many negative influences around,” Cadle said. “From drugs to just people doing nothing with their lives.”

Victorian said he is proud of what his little sister has achieved. She could have gone on a com-pletely different route and gone with the “trend” of the neighbor-hood, he said.

“I look at Sade as my mother in spirit,” he said.

He sees similarities between the two – like their ability to talk through problems.

Cadle is able to see different points of views in an argument, something he said their moth-er passed on to her. Even though Victorian now resides in Maryland,

he said there’s no one else he’d rather talk to.

Cadle was a freshman at the University of Bridgeport when her mom died. But when she trans-ferred to UB, her mother’s death impacted her more. She remem-bered her mother enforcing the value of community involvement and decided to become immedi-ately involved at UB.

Cadle, a business and finance major, joined Black Student Union (BSU). She eventually became treasurer of BSU, which holds the largest budget in SA. Its budget was nearly $49,000 in fall 2013.

SA President James Ingram then asked Cadle to join the Value Par-ty as its treasurer candidate. Ca-dle won the position in the spring 2014 election with 1,021 votes.

Ingram said he didn’t need to look further for someone to fill the spot because he felt Cadle was the obvious choice for the position.

“If she can do such a good job

on BSU, I’m sure she would do a great job with SA,” Ingram said.

Before the academic year even began, Cadle had already rewrit-ten the SA Financial Handbook, which was outdated, according to Ingram. He said Cadle started re-vising the SA handbook to reflect current policies. She wanted it to be easier for SA clubs to under-stand because finance is one of the more confusing and compli-cated aspects of a club.

Cadle said working for SA gives her the opportunity to gain expe-rience, work with different people, grow the creative mind and pre-pare herself for the finance world.

She sees getting involved as not only a way to meet people, but also to grow as a person.

Cadle believes people should give back to a community. Parents al-ways want better for their children, and everyone should follow this ex-ample to offer the next generation opportunities to succeed, she said.

Cadle wants to open enrich-ment centers for children around the world in the future. She visited her dad’s native Nigeria when she was 7. She said children in foreign countries, like Nigeria, don’t have opportunities like in America. She wants to change that and she said losing her mom gave her a better life perspective.

“When a tragedy like that hap-pens in your life, you become more aware of what’s going on in the world,” Cadle said.

A large portion of Cadle’s fam-ily were teachers – including her mother, who taught special educa-tion students from the grades of six to eight. Cadle said teachers are able to impact youth the most and feels teaching is how she wants to “make a difference in the world.” That’s why she hopes she’ll be able to create education centers in im-poverished countries.

But the student in the school of management also wants to help start-up designers with their bud-ding businesses. She said it’s hard to get started in that industry and she wants to create a boutique in Brooklyn that will give the design-ers an opportunity to grow.

Chris Cadle, her cousin, said Ca-dle inherited her mother’s intelli-gence and honesty. Everyone in their family would go to Cadle’s mother for advice, he said.

He said Cadle’s present and fu-ture successes are what he tells other younger members of their family to strive for.

“She’s definitely a dying breed,” he said. “They don’t make them like Sade no more.”

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SA Treasurer keeps her mother’s influences in mind and at heart Pushing forward >>>

Students and community members work together to uncover pollution in Tonawanda

CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUMSade Cadle keeps her late mother’s influences in mind and heart as she takes on her position as SA treasurer to manage finances and assist clubs.

COURTESY OF CITIZEN SCIENCE COMMUNITY RESOURCESMembers of Citizen Science Community Resources, from left to right, Jackie James-Creedon, Nick Bassisi, Jon Rusch, Alex Rusch and Andrew Baumgartner, take soil samples at a lawn in the Tonawanda area after high levels of benzene were detected in the air in 2004 and 2005. The ben-zene was traced to Tonawanda Coke, which produces coke to be used in the production of steel.

SAMAYA ABDUS-SALAAM & GISELLE LAM

ASST. NEWS EDITORS

The Student Association’s mandatory activity fee will be raised by $10, based on a vote that only brought about 5 per-cent of UB’s 20,000 undergrad-uates to the polls.

The mandatory student activi-ty fee will be raised to $104.75. Just fewer than 1,000 students voted. The voters also elected next year’s SA Senate in the Sept. 24-26 election.

The increase of the mandatory student activity fee passed with 632 “yes” votes and 338 “no” votes. The referendum passed with 858 “yes” votes and 131 “no” votes.

UB has a referendum every two years to allow students to vote on whether or not they want to keep the mandatory student activity fee, in accordance to SUNY pol-icies. This is the first time in six years the fee has increased. In 2008, students agreed to a $15 in-crease from its $79.95 fee.

The student activity fee helps SA pay for the events on cam-pus, such as Fall Fest, Spring Fest, SA Carnival and the Distin-guished Speakers Series.

Buffalo now has a larger man-datory activity fee than Bingham-ton University ($95.50), Stony Brook University ($99.50) and University at Albany ($100).

Student Association President James Ingram said increased op-erating costs for SA are the reason the organization asked to up the fee. He said the $10 increase will allow SA to offer the same level of quality and services as well give next year’s SA potential to grow.

Ingram said he would also like

to put more money toward clubs, specifically increasing future club budgets.

Along with the referendum vote, students elected senators for the 2014-15 year. This year’s elected party is the Constitution Party. The elected senators are Paris Canty, Matthew Cato, Alex Dvorscak, Anthony J. Fields, Daniel Giles, Laura Grassi, Da-vid Harary, Esther Hong, Karen Hsieh, Diane Orosz, Corey Reis-man and Yaser Soliman.

In past years, senators were di-vided into on-campus and off-campus groups. On-campus stu-dents could only vote for candi-dates living on campus and the same rule applied for off-campus students. The rule was amend-ed last semester and students can vote for whichever candidates.

Giles, a re-elected senator, said the Senate decided its three main goals for the semester are “in-vesting in the UB experience, promoting the UB brand and en-couraging student participation.”

Giles also said he expects to see an increase in student servic-es after the $10 increase. If there aren’t, he said “rectifying poten-tial problems of that nature is part of the Senate’s job.”

Students will start paying the increased fee in fall 2015.


Students to pay higher mandatory activity fee

Despite low voter turnout, SA passes referendum, Constitution Party assumes Senate seats

JUAN D. PINZON, THE SPECTRUMUB undergraduates at the polls voted to keep SA’s student fee, as well as raise it by $10.

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With a few clicks online, Jen-nifer Whalen helped her daugh-ter end an unwanted pregnan-cy – and committed a felony in doing so.

The 39-year-old mother of three living in rural Pennsylva-nia is currently in jail serving a nine to 18 month sentence af-ter ordering mifepristone and misoprostol. The drug combi-nation, which is used to induce a miscarriage, can be obtained legally with a prescription, but purchasing and using them in the way Whalen did is illegal – and dangerous.

The illegality of Whalen’s actions isn’t in question here. There’s no doubt that the dis-persal of prescription drugs needs to be strictly monitored and controlled by professionals who are trained to do so. But that Whalen felt she needed to circumvent the law is the real issue at hand.

The decision to buy pills on-line is inherently risky. Women can end up buying fake med-ication, incorrect dosages or taking pills without the prop-er safety information, which

can lead to serious health reper-cussions that would be avoided with the involvement and ad-vice of medical professionals.

Though Whalen’s daughter didn’t suffer any serious com-plications, she and her mother also didn’t have all the informa-tion about the process. So when the daughter grew frightened after having stomach pains and bleeding, she and Whalen went to the hospital uninformed, which led to Whalen’s arrest.

Whalen was charged with a felony – offering medical con-sultation about abortion with-out a medical license and three misdemeanors – endangering the welfare of a child, dispens-ing drugs without being a phar-macist and assault. In an at-tempt to avoid losing her job, she pled guilty to the felony charge. Because her record was clean besides a 1994 charge for underage drinking, she could have received probation.

Instead, the judge decided that Whalen should go to jail. His harshness, while entire-ly within his purview, reveals a lack of sympathy for Whalen’s

situation – a situation created by factors entirely outside of her control.

Tasked with helping her daughter end an unwant-ed pregnancy – with protect-ing her daughter and the future she wanted – Whalen didn’t feel like she had any options avail-able, at least not any legal ones (she also says that she didn’t know her actions were illegal when she committed them).

When Whalen looked for lo-cal abortion clinics, the clos-est location was approximately 75 miles away. It would cost at least $300, and Whalen’s daugh-ter, per state law, would have to visit the clinic to receive coun-seling and return after a 24-hour waiting period.

Whalen didn’t have health in-surance for her daughter, had only one car that she shared with her husband (who didn’t know about the pregnancy) and wasn’t sure if she could take multiple days off of work. Whalen’s circumstances weren’t extreme or uncommon, but they were enough to make a legal abortion feel impossible.

If there was an abortion clin-ic nearby; if the cost wasn’t so prohibitive or the waiting peri-od so daunting; if Whalen had known of the risks of order-ing pills online, this probably wouldn’t have happened.

Whalen’s daughter is not a victim of any crime, but her mother was a victim of their circumstances. Accessibili-ty and education is key to pro-tecting women from taking un-necessary risks to end unwant-ed pregnancies, or from feeling forced to have a child because they didn’t have a choice. For Whalen, the Internet offered accessibility, and the state of-fered only complications and costs.

And now, her daughter is go-ing to college and working two jobs. Thanks to her mother’s efforts, she is free to pursue whatever future she desires – for her mother, it’s patently un-just that freedom is only a dis-tant hope.


In prison for parenting

Inaccessibility of legal abortion options leads to unnecessary risks and repercussions

The people of Buffalo have spoken and in a surprisingly pleasant turn of events, they’ve been heard.

After years of emotional con-tention and unproductive dis-cussion, UB has decided that it will not purchase McCarley Gardens, a low-income apart-ment complex within the bor-ders of the university’s expand-ed medical campus. Mainly low-income blacks and Hispanics populate the 149 apartments, owned by St. John Baptist Church. The federally subsi-dized development had provid-ed stable, safe housing for Buf-falo residents since 1978.

When Reverend Michael Chapman, pastor of St. John Baptist Church, approached UB in 2009 and agreed to sell the land for $15 million, he did so in the hopes of revitalizing the area, and instead invited un-certainty and tension into the

lives of the Gardens’ residents.Had the sale gone through,

and the apartments been de-molished, all of the tenants would have been relocated to housing that was equal or bet-ter than their previous apart-ments at no extra cost, but the prospect of moving appeared daunting to residents, many of whom grew up in the Gardens and felt victimized by the sale.

The residents had every right to be upset, as their voices went unheard and their opinions deemed irrelevant to a decision that directly involved them.

No one from the neighbor-hood was invited when meet-ings were held and when St. John’s and UB developed an Economic Opportunity Panel to discuss the sale and its out-come. This lack of concern and apparent disinterest in hearing from the people impacted by the sale indicates a serious lack

of respect for the Buffalo com-munity on the part of UB.

The situation seemed too cli-ché to be real – a major institu-tion stepping on the powerless, impoverished citizens without regard for their well-being. UB, in accepting the offer, was also accepting a tarnished reputa-tion and inviting criticism.

Fortunately, the university has reconsidered and avoided mak-ing what would have been a devastating mistake.

The decision to let the Gar-dens survive, in lieu of demol-ishing the apartments despite lacking a specific plan for the site, is a relief not only for the residents of the Garden but for members of the UB communi-ty who questioned the ethicality of the purchase.

Demolishing the Gardens and forcing its tenants to relo-cate against their wishes would have demonstrated a complete disregard for the Buffalo com-munity and further implied that the continuing development of the medical campus would come at the expense of local residents.

As UB expands its reach into

Buffalo, respecting the opinions and the rights of the communi-ty need to remain a top priority. There’s no need for an antag-onistic relationship to develop between two entities that have as much potential to help each other as they could to cause in-convenience and strife.

The medical campus holds enormous potential for Buffalo, bringing an influx of properties and employment opportunities and contributing to the over-all development of the city’s downtown. But this potential can be fulfilled without steam-rolling the people who deserve to benefit from the projects. UB’s choice not to purchase the Gardens after all reinforces that possibility.

This decision was a laud-able move by UB, and reflects an admirable willingness by the university to reconsider their choices and recognize a poten-tial mistake in the making. Such self-awareness and unselfish be-havior should be the standard for the medical campus project and for the university’s adminis-tration as a whole.


Decision not to purchase McCarley

Gardens is the right move for UB

and the city of Buffalo

UB hits ‘undo’ on a mistake in the making

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Students and community mem-bers scanned the spreads of fresh vegetables, tasty fruits and deep-colored jams while the rain trick-led down on an early Saturday morning on UB’s South Campus.

The University Community farmer’s market opened with the support of the University Heights Collaborative in 2007. Gail Will-sky, the University Heights Collab-orative market manager and asso-ciate biochemistry professor at UB, and seven committee members or-ganized the farmers market. Ra-sheed Wyatt, the University District council member, supplied the fun-damental running costs that elim-inate vendor fees for the farmers market. The farmer’s market will be open through Oct. 12 every Satur-day from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

“Having a venue where stu-dents and residents amicably in-teract promotes pride in the neigh-borhood,” Willsky said in an email. “One of the goals of Uni-versity Heights Collaborative is to promote the quality of life in the Heights.”

But not all the farmers are happy.Nancy and Frederic Bryant, who

have been dedicated vendors at the farmers market since 2007, said they faced difficulties when the farmers market on North Campus was shut down.

“The North Campus market was financially better than this one, but the two of them worked together for us quite well,” Byrant said. “We could support ourselves [but] without that we have lost about half of our income.”

The North Campus farmers market opened in 2008 and closed in the fall of 2013.

The location was closed because there was not enough support, ac-cording to Janice Cochran, the nu-

trition and physical activity pro-motion coordinator for Wellness Education Services and previous manager of the North Campus farmer’s market.

Although the University Com-munity farmers market helps farm-ers earn a living by selling their produce to UB students and mem-bers of the community, Cochran feels it is important to reopen the farmers market on North Campus to increase student and faculty ac-cess to fresh fruits and vegetables.

Willsky believes some of the vendors on South Campus miss the positive interactions they had with students and faculty on North Campus.

Aysegul Ozgen, a sociology graduate student, said she used to go to the North Campus farm-ers market every week but has dif-ficulty visiting the one on South Campus as often as she would like.

Willsky sees the farmer’s market as a source of stability in Universi-ty Heights.

The farmer’s market aims to provide “fresh produce, recipes and a meeting place on Saturday mornings for neighborhood resi-dents,” according to Willsky.

Vendors and customers appre-ciate the freshness of the produce sold at the market. Kevin Buczack,

a vendor at the South Campus farmers market and a construction worker, said he has picked his pro-duce the night before he sells them at the market for five years.

Kristen Abbott, a science teach-er at a Niagara County high school, and Wassinger like helping local businesses and purchasing fresh products at the market.

“It’s nice to talk to people and the prices seem to be reasonable,” Wassinger said. “I like the idea of helping local farmers the best.”

Customers also appreciate how certain products at the market are less expensive than they are in gro-cery stores.

“I try to help people out, if they only want one or two, I let them take a couple,” said Tiffany LaJoie, who works in catering and has been a vendor at the market for the past two years.

Some customers like Ozgen don’t like that they have to pay in cash and that there is less variety at the market than in a grocery store.

Students and community mem-bers can find fresh, local produce as well as a sense of community at the University Community Farmers Market on UB’s South Campus.


Freshness by the bushel University Community Farmers Market brings together students and community members

Bennett noticed some of the younger students were timid about getting involved, “because they were not as educated and they didn’t want to ruin our work, but when they were educated by Andrew or myself as to why we do certain things certain ways, a lot of them seemed very eager to jump in.”

James-Creedon, who has a BS in chemistry from SUNY Fredonia, said getting involved with CSCR gives the opportunity for some high school students to get in-volved with science in “a more en-gaging way.”

“For me in high school, when they were thinking about jobs they always said, ‘Do what you love and make a career out of it,’” Baumgartner said.

James-Creedon thinks she would have been excited and in-trigued in an organization like CSCR during her undergraduate years.

Baumgartner saw that excite-ment in the high school students’ eyes when Citizen Science took them to Test America in Amherst where the soil samples are ana-lyzed. The students put on goggles and lab coats and learned how the samples were evaluated.

It was a “spark moment” for them.

Although most of the samples are collected during the summer, the group says it will begin looking for more volunteers in December or January. Students of all ages, from high-school freshmen to col-lege seniors, are welcome.

The application process is very short, according to Baumgartner, and he has found that grades are not a direct correlation to a vol-unteer’s ability in the organization. He said that CSCR looks for work ethic, scientific inquiry and the ability to “step up” when needed in its volunteers.

“As they’re going through the process, the more we see that they’re interested, the more we teach them and the further they go in CSCR,” Baumgartner said.

The guilty partyWith 50 air-regulated facilities in

Tonawanda, it was difficult to pin point exactly who was the culprit of the stench.

The Clean Air Coalition worked directly with representatives from the New York State Depart-ment of Environmental Conser-vation to determine that Tonawa-nda Coke Corporation was the main source of benzene polluting Tonawanda’s air.

Tonawanda Coke produces coke, which is smelted with iron ore to produce molten iron as part of the production of steel.

Benzene has been shown to

likely cause cancer, skin disorders and harmful effects in reproduc-tion and development in humans. Benzene is indirectly produced in coke ovens, according the Envi-ronmental Protection Agency.

On March 19, 2014, Judge Wil-liam Skretny ordered Tonawanda Coke to pay $12.5 million in fines for 11 violations of the Clean Air Act and three counts of violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. They are also re-quired to fund a $711,000 air and soil study run by CSCR, another $11 million University at Buffalo Health Study.

But the verdict is in appeals court, so Citizen Science is waiting for the $711,000 to be released be-fore it can begin the comprehen-sive study.

In the meantime, the grassroots organization has been able to con-duct approximately 30 soil sam-ples for concerned citizens in the Tonawanda-Kenmore area since 2012, according to Baumgartner.

Due to the limitations of their current sampling, CSCR is unable to tell citizens if their lawns are contaminated.

“The Environmental Protec-tion Agency takes six or sev-en soil samples per property; we’re taking one,” James-Creedon said. “If numbers come out low, we’re not saying you’re OK.” But James-Creedon said the tests, though limited, still help people get a “peace of mind” be-cause “a lot of people are afraid.”

The Wellness Institute of Great-er Buffalo will be holding a com-munity meeting on Sept. 30 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Sheri-dan Parkside Community Center in Tonawanda. James-Creedon will be speaking along with presenta-tions given by U.S. Attorney Aar-on Mango and Senior Trial Attor-ney Rocky Piaggione. From UB, Dr. Matt Bonner and Joe Gardel-la will present projects for health studies and soil sampling and Dr. Jessica Castner will talk about ways to involve more community mem-bers in the projects.

Although Citizen Science Com-munity Resources began with an unpleasant odor, the organization is able to help community mem-bers put their minds at ease and work to reduce the impact of pol-lution on their community. The or-ganization also gives students the opportunity to be involved with science in the real world, rather than only working in a sterile lab.

“It all started with us taking an air sample of our own,” James-Creedon said. “We believed in us-ing citizen science for change and that’s what happened.”


DEREK DROCY, THE SPECTRUMEvery Saturday morning until Oct. 12, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., the University Heights Farmers Market on South Campus offers up fresh produce and a sense of community as students and residents of the Heights gather to peruse produce from local farms.

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Game: Destiny Developer: Bungie Publisher: Activision Released: Sept. 9 for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and PS4 (Played)Grade: B+

As a Fallen drop ship plummets into Earth’s atmosphere and the clandestine aliens of the galaxy bounding from the massive red, rusty vessel fire at you, you fire back and lob a grenade at them.

The grenade explodes, evis-cerating a few of your enemies and making a dent in the enemy’s strength. You still feel heavily out-numbered when suddenly players from all over the world arrive and help you riddle humanity’s interga-lactic enemies with enough ammu-nition to win a battle three times the size.

At least that’s the experience players were promised.

The opening hours of Destiny – complete with being revived from the dead by a floating robot called Ghost, voiced by Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), and warned of humanity’s impending doom – reveal a game begging to live up the to the grand sci-fi adventure Bungie, the creators of Halo, had promised gamers since the details of the game leaked in November 2012.

It’s big, it’s grand, it’s gorgeous and it’s full of bullet-laden, ac-tion-filled, cooperative adventures that have kept gamers around the world over logging millions of hours since Destiny’s release.

The always-online world of Destiny, which is two parts shoot-er, one part MMORPG (massive multiplayer online role-playing game), is always evolving and, with time, could be one of the greatest game of this generation.

After being revived, players are told of “the Collapse,” a pe-

riod where humanity went from a Golden Age of space explora-tion and colonization to faltering on the brink of extinction. Hu-mans hold one last safe city that was saved by a white spherical, ce-lestial being known as “the Travel-er,” who helped humankind reach the stars, but now it’s imperiled – the Darkness that caused the Col-lapse is returning and the Traveler can’t stop it this time.

As Guardians, players choose one of three classes – either a Warlock, Hunter or Titan – and use light energy given to them by the Traveler to devastate enemies, save humanity and uncover the mysteries of the Collapse.

Life in Destiny is rarely a dull tale. It can be repetitive, grueling and unrewarding when it shouldn’t be. But it’s always fun, intense and entertaining when it needs to be.

The experience is packed with pristine production values like stunning vistas that jut out from the edges of each landscape, me-ticulously detailed levels, gau-dy enemies and a remarkable soundtrack – things Activision re-portedly spent part of the game’s

$500 million budget on. On top of that, the game is

sound mechanically and comes with a control scheme that not only streamlines the experience as a whole but is also one of the most satisfying in beyond recent memory. The game’s responsive-ness is truly remarkable and there’s never a time that players wonder what button they should press – they already know and Destiny doesn’t waste any time trying to re-mind them.

Between the highlight moments of adrenaline-packed Strike mis-sions and high-level raids, there are plenty of story missions to blast through and areas to patrol. But the downtime between missions is where the gaps in Destiny begin to shine.

Raids and Strikes rarely loose their allure, even after multiple playthroughs.

There are plenty of moments throughout the story in which players just hold the square or “X” button on an Xbox controller while Ghost does something and they wait for more action to ensue. And that wouldn’t be a bad thing

if the story knew when to mute it-self, if the levels weren’t filled with repetitive enemies or if bosses didn’t take more than 10 minutes of soaking up thousands of bul-lets to die.

Destiny is also home to the Cru-cible where Guardians fight to the death. It’s full of game modes fa-miliar to anyone who has picked up a multiplayer shooter in the past few years and grants high-lev-el players some great rewards. Just be aware, it isn’t exactly balanced - low-level players will have to con-tend with the highest echelon of Destiny enthusiasts.

Mechanically, visually and audi-bly, Destiny hits all the right notes in all the right places, save for a few.

The game has the key pieces for an iconic sci-fi story and one play-ers have seen in one way or anoth-er plenty of times before: Human-ity is almost extinct, an evil force is returning to finish the job and the player is all that stands between annihilation and survival.

The story is full of tropes and predictable moments and some-where between the Ghost’s globs

of uninspired exposition and the clumsy cut scenes the story lost the same polish and game design fervor maintained by the game’s other elements of the game.

Destiny is inescapably a grind, both of leveling and searching for precious rare, legendary and exot-ic items that may have players talk-ing like Gollum when they find the right one. And the best mo-ments the game has to offer, like the Vault of Glass Raid, aren’t un-locked until players near and ex-ceed the level cap.

It takes about 15 hours to reach the game’s current level cap of 20, after which players need to find armor that contains light to keep leveling – armor that’s quite rare, considering bosses don’t drop loot despite taking 10 or more minutes to conquer. Chests are sparse and purple – legendary – loot doesn’t always equate to a purple piece of armor or legendary item at all.

Thankfully, Bungie announced it’s working on making legendary items easier to obtain.

With its hands on the controls, Destiny is an overseer that always knows what to turn the dial to. It surely has its faults. But when the music amps up, the action intensi-fies and the screen becomes filled with glorious action, those faults rarely feel memorable until they’re encountered again.

As a constantly changing and improving experience, Destiny might occasionally leave players feeling unrewarded for their time. It might present them with a seem-ingly endless amount of hoops to jump through and it might drag on from time to time. And at times it doesn’t live up to the hype.

In the middle of a Strike mis-sion or raid those times don’t mat-ter.

The future looks bright – Bun-gie is hard at work.


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Before they took the stage at the Center for the Arts Friday night, “Whose Line is it Anyway?” stars Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood sat down with The Spectrum. The two-man improv group talked about advice they’d give college students, why they like improv over standup and what it’s like being on tour.

The Spectrum: Do you have any profound life advice for col-lege students?

Colin Mochrie: Just chill out. There are so many pressures you

face when you’re in college, when you leave college, getting a job and setting up your life. Looking back now, I wish I was more relaxed about things and was able to take things as they came.

One of the best side effects of being an improviser is you learn to go with the flow a lot more. And times when you think, ‘Oh, I could never do that,’ you find that you can if you just give yourself a chance.

There’s a rule in improv where you just [accept what comes] and build on it. It’s something I think we’ve tried to put into our lives and it’s led to a lot of great ex-periences and things that I never thought I would do. Just be open to everything. Try to keep fear down to a minimum. Or, if you have fear, use it to your advantage.

Brad Sherwood: My advice

would be not to take life too seri-ously and to find things in your life that you’re passionate about and pursue those, as long as they’re making you happy. Because you can pursue things that you’re ob-sessed with that aren’t rewarding and then you find yourself feel-ing like you’re wasting your life. It’s OK to abandon that and then go towards something else that you’re passionate about.

TS: Where do you see your-selves in five years?

BS: The best part of this job is that it’s a fun way to make money. I love performing live and I love making people laugh. This is the combination of those two things and what I do best, which is im-prov. And artistically, the show nev-er gets boring because every night is like opening night: You never know what’s going to happen.

TS: Was there ever a time when it was hard for you to stay comedic?

CM: Sometimes life does get in the way and you go through a dark period, but personally, I’ve never [gone] longer than three years be-ing depressed.

BS: Really?CM: No. You find ways [to stay

comedic]. A lot of times some of [that pain] fuels your humor. So for a while, you’re humor becomes a little bitter, but it’s still an out-let. And it’s probably way cheaper than a psychiatrist.

TS: Do you feel like people in your everyday life expect you to be

funny all the time?CM: When somebody comes

up and they’re a fan of the show, there’s always a sense of disap-pointment because they want you to do a joke or something. But we don’t “do jokes.”

BS: We’re certainly not “on” in our everyday life. But because we both come from a theater back-ground, the majority of our peer group tends to be vibrant people with big personalities that are pas-sionate and creative. That’s one of the good things about coming from a theater background or be-ing in the arts.

TS: When you’re on tour, does that mean you’re away from your family for long periods of time?

CM: We usually only work on weekends. We worked it out so we spend most of the week with our families.

BS: We’re home more than we’re gone. It’s tough for a lot of

standup’s because they [perform in] comedy clubs and they have shows Thursday through Sunday. They’re hardly ever home.

CM: The travel kills me. I can’t imagine going months on end, go-ing to airports and flying.

BS: You can see how bands break up because when you’ve been together for three months on a tour bus, even the nicest people in the world start to hate each other. Those long hours being confined in each other space for that long …

TS: Maybe that’s because people in rock bands aren’t always come-dians who can find the humor in the situation.

CM: Or they don’t have the right drugs.

BS: Don’t do drugs.


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Comedians Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood tiptoed blind-ly through a minefield of 100 mousetraps – trying to avoid the traps – and one another – during a comedic, self-mutilating battle.

What started as a comedy skit quickly turned into mischief, as the comedians broke the rules of their own game, sneakily slipping off their blindfolds and hurling the active traps at each other.

The “Whose Line Is It Any-way?” stars performed at UB’s Center for the Arts as a two-man improv group Friday night. Their performance was structured sim-ilarly to the televised show: A se-ries of skits in which the come-dians improvised song lyrics, sound effects and characters on the spot.

Mochrie and Sherwood have been performing together for more than 11 years and have created a two-man traveling im-prov show, predominately per-forming on weekends. The duo prefers playing performances live in a theater rather than do-ing prerecorded shows on a set. It gives them more freedom to fail, they said, which is a terri-fying prospect that makes their performance even more satisfy-ing when they succeed.

As comedians, Mochrie and Sherwood shy away from any type of structure or pre-plan-ning – everything they do is improvised.

“We both do our best work

when we’re in the unknown and a little scared,” Sherwood said. “That’s when our best stuff comes out. We open up some lit-tle scared part of our brain that really makes us rise up to the oc-casion.”

Sherwood says most stand-up comedians are terrified of im-prov and most improvisers are terrified of stand up. They said there isn’t anything appealing to them about stand-up comedy, which requires a lot of advanced planning, trial and error and re-hearsal of a comedic monologue that can be repeated verbatim at multiple performances.

An improviser’s show is never the same twice, which prevents boredom elicited by continu-ously performing the same rou-tine, the duo said. Each night is a unique experience for the come-dians and the audience.

“The audience knows we have nothing; they’re giving us all the suggestions,” Mochrie said. “They want to see us in trouble, but they don’t want to see us fail.”

In this way, the audience is the backbone of the performance. Improv requires a relationship between the performer and the audience that goes beyond sim-ple cause and effect – beyond the performer telling jokes and the audience applauding.

Members of the audience were called on stage to partake in games such as “Fill in the Blank” and “Sound Effects.” Partic-ipants were randomly select-ed and brought on stage where they were instructed on how

they could be part of the perfor-mance. Their job in most cases was to help guide the performers in improvising a storyline.

Cory Reisman, who performs with UB’s improv club, was one of the audience members called on stage during the performance.

“It was actually a dream come true being able to go on stage with the guys who made me want to do improv,” Reisman said. “I’m still star struck.”

Reisman is the treasurer of UB Improv and plans to incorporate some of what he saw during the performance into the club’s skits.

Bringing audience members up on stage gives participants a more vested interest in the suc-cess of the performance, Moch-rie said. But the relationship be-tween the performers themselves is also vital to the success of the performance.

“I think the two of them com-pliment each other very well,” said Nick McCabe, 27, from Amherst. “It wouldn’t have the same effect if Colin was with Wayne instead, or Brad with Ryan,” he added, re-ferring to other “Whose Line is it

Anyway?” cast members Wayne Brady and Ryan Stiles.

Sherwood describes the per-formance as being similar to a magic act – everything is being made up and the comedy of the show is accompanied by an ele-ment of wonder.

During the duo’s “fill in the blank sketch,” which asks audi-ence members to interject in an ongoing sketch, one student of-fered the word “toilet.” The word prompted Sherwood to go on a tangent about “space poo,” which had the audience in hysterics.

“Rule No. 1 of space trav-el, and sometimes No. 2: There is no No. 2,” Sherwood told the audience. “There is only No. 1. That is the No. 1 rule of space poo. Two must become one. One is the loneliest number you will ever poo in space.”

The same rules apply to space travel as they do to improv. Two must become one.

Tori Roseman contributed reporting to this story.


The two-man improv group performs at the CFA

Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood: Two become one

The Spectrum sits down with Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood

JEFF SCOTT, THE SPECTRUM“Whose Line is it Anyway?” comedians, Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood, performed a two-man improv show Friday night at the CFA.

JEFF SCOTT, THE SPECTRUMBrad Sherwood (left) and Colin Mochrie, offered advice to college students and talked about the life of an improv comedian in an interview before Friday’s show.


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Quarterbacks: AThe Good: Junior quarter-

back Joe Licata was nearly flaw-less Saturday, competing 28 of 38 pass attempts for 276 yards and two touchdowns. The Red-Hawks’ coverage took away any chance for big completions down the field. Licata was smart and efficient, getting the ball to his receivers underneath and in the middle of the field.

Licata moved to second in program history with 45 touch-down passes.

The Bad: Licata and the of-fense stalled after scoring touch-downs on their first two drives of the game. The Bulls did not score again until more than mid-way through the third quarter.Running backs: A+

The Good: With sophomore running back Jordan Johnson out with a knee injury and Devin Campbell returning from injury, the workload fell onto Anthone Taylor. Taylor made all 36 carries count.

The junior running back ran for a career-high 222 yards and three touchdowns, including the game-winner. Campbell added 61 yards on nine carries, includ-ing a 20-yard run that set up Tay-lor’s game-winner.

The Bad: Taylor had the game of his career and Campbell looked good in his first game back. There was no ‘bad.’Wide receivers and tight ends: B+

The Good: Freshman wide re-ceiver Jacob Martinez had eight catches, 94 yards and a touch-down – all career highs. Junior tight end Matt Weiser had his best game of the season with four catches for 56 yards, includ-ing a 31-yard touchdown.

The Bad: The Bulls top-3 re-ceivers heading into the game – senior wide receiver Devon Hughes and juniors Ron Wil-loughby and Marcus McGill combined for just 10 catches, 103 yards and zero touchdowns. Licata was able to find other op-tions, but his top-3 threats need to be more productive going for-ward. Offensive line: B

The Good: Taylor’s 222 yards are in part due to the big guys up front and the only reason the grade isn’t lower.

The Bad: The offensive line was called for several penalties, including a personal foul on se-nior center Trevor Sales when he pushed a RedHawks player after the play. Junior tackle John Kling ran into Licata on one play. Lica-ta was only sacked once but took several hits throughout the game, including two that were called penalties. It’s the line’s job to make sure that doesn’t happen. Run defense: B

The Good: The RedHawks ran for 133 yards, but they seemed to never find a consistent rhythm running the ball. The Bulls had three tackles for losses and made big hits throughout the game, the biggest of which came from sophomore linebacker Jarrett

Franklin in third quarter. The Bad: The Bulls run de-

fense only had one breakdown, a RedHawks’ 61-yard touch-down run in the second quarter that tied the game at 14. If you take away that play, Miami Ohio ran for only 72 yards on the day. This is a huge improvement for this team after the amount of big plays surrendered against at Army.Pass defense: C+

The Good: RedHawks quarter-back Andrew Hendrix complet-ed one of his final 14 passes after Buffalo scored the game-winning touchdown. Hendrix threw 26 incompletions, 11 of which were directly broken up by the Bulls. Senior cornerback Courtney Les-ter had six pass breakups.

The Bad: Lester had those breakups because Hendrix tar-geted him throughout the game. He was consistently beat on

passes that were lofted up in the air. The RedHawks averaged 19.8 yards a completion.

The Bulls’ defense could not intercept a quarterback who threw six picks in his team’s first four games and sacked him only once. Franklin, playing Khalil Mack’s position, has no sacks through five games and missed a perfect chance to get his first one when he missed a tackle on Hen-drix. Special teams: D+

The Good: Senior kicker Pat-rick Clarke made a 37-yard field goal in the fourth quarter to give the Bulls an 8-point lead. But Clarke also committed the big-gest mistake a kicker could make.

The Bad: Bulls’ fans may have experienced flashbacks of Pe-ter Fardon costing the Bulls a chance at overtime with North-ern Illinois in 2011 when Clarke missed an extra point that would

have tied the game at 21 Satur-day. Luckily for Clarke, it did not cost the Bulls in the end. Buffa-lo’s special teams allowed an av-erage of 36 yards on kick returns before deciding to kick the ball away from Scott. Coaching: B

The Good: Head coach Jeff Quinn realized Taylor had the RedHawks’ defenses’ number, and used him as a workhorse for the victory. The Bulls coaching staff found ways to get the ball to their tight ends and get Marti-nez involved in the slot with the RedHawks taking away plays on the outside. Quinn finally took McGill off punt return duties.

The Bad: Replacing McGill should have never taken this long. The receiver was consis-tently muffing punts, not fair catching when he should and not gaining yardage.

Quinn chose to pass the ball with the Bulls deep in their own territory at the end of the first half. He should have learned his lesson after the Army game when Licata was picked off at the end of the first half. Both 2-point conversion play calls were ques-tionable. Quinn called for a pass on the first attempt when Taylor was easily running through the RedHawk’s defense. He called a quarterback draw with Licata – a very immobile quarterback – on the second attempt. Neither worked.


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Anthone Taylor was the football team’s X factor Saturday evening.

The junior running back set ca-reer highs with three touchdowns and 222 yards. His most impor-tant run, however, was only 1 yard. Taylor’s 1-yard touchdown with 11:19 remaining in the game put Buffalo ahead 32-27 and ended up being the game’s deciding score.

In a matchup that featured five lead changes, the Bulls (3-2, 1-0 Mid-American Conference) defeated Mi-ami Ohio (0-5, 0-1 MAC) 35-27 at UB Stadium in front of 20,841. The game was the RedHawks’ 21st con-secutive loss.

“I was really pleased with the way these kids kept responding,” said head coach Jeff Quinn. “[Mi-ami Ohio] kept challenging us, [but] we kept answering and cer-tainly at the end when we were able to close it out.”

Buffalo’s defense allowed quar-terback Andrew Hendrix to com-plete a 36-yard pass on the first play of the game. The drive ended in a 6-yard touchdown pass to Jar-ed Murphy.

Junior quarterback Joe Licata responded with two touchdown passes of his own – a 9-yard pass to freshman receiver Jacob Marti-nez and a 31-yarder to junior tight end Matt Weiser – on the Bulls’ first two possessions of the game.

Licata’s pass to Weiser was the 45th of his career, overtaking Mar-ty Barrett for No. 2 all-time. Mar-tinez’s touchdown was the first of his career.

Taylor opened Buffalo’s first drive with an 18-yard run. He was heavily involved throughout the drive, including a 25-yard run lat-er in the series– his longest of the night.

Before the game, former UB running back Branden Oliver –

now a member of the San Diego Chargers – texted Taylor to wish him good luck.

Oliver even tweeted Taylor would run for over 200 yards.

Taylor used his former mentor’s advice, along with the Bulls’ offen-sive line, to his advantage.

“Coach always says, ‘See a lot, see a little. See a little, see a lot,’” Taylor said. “You just got to have faith the line is going to do their job and they always do their job.”

Taylor has a personal vendetta against the RedHawks.

His previous career-high was 154 yards against Miami Ohio last season.

The RedHawks scouted Taylor and offered him a scholarship but later took it away.

“I always play with a chip on my shoulder against Miami [Ohio],”

Taylor said.Hendrix finished the game com-

pleting only 12 of 38 passes, but totaling 238 yards. The RedHawks game plan was clearly to challenge the Bulls downfield and they had succeeded early in game.

But the Buffalo ‘D’ stopped Mi-ami Ohio late.

After the Bulls took a 32-27 lead, Hendrix completed just one of his final 14 passes.

Licata completed 28 of 38 passes for 276 yards and two touchdowns. Junior running back Devin Camp-bell had nine carries for 61 yards and Martinez led the receivers with eight receptions for 94 yards and a touchdown. Senior wide receiver Devon Hughes, junior wide receiv-er Ron Willoughby and Weiser each had four receptions.

“We’re not a one dimensional

offense,” Licata said. “We’ve got playmakers on the inside. If they want to take Ron away that’s fine, we have Devon. If they want to take Devon away that’s fine, we got Marcus [McGill]. If they want to take him away we’ve got Jacob [Martinez]. We have a lot of play-makers on this offense.”

The offense, however, strug-gled after the quick start and didn’t score again until past the midway point of the third quarter. The score was 14-14 at halftime.

The RedHawks had the first score of the second half on a 27-yard touchdown pass to Jared Murphy.

But Taylor responded with an-other big play of his own.

Taylor had a 16-yard run, which was followed by a 15-yard pass from Licata to Martinez. Two

plays later, the Buffalo offense got creative. McGill, the team’s wide receiver, took an end-around and passed to Hughes for 26 yards.

Taylor finished the drive with a 13-yard touchdown.

“[Coach] talks about turning up to the next degree,” Taylor said. “At 211 degrees water is hot, at 212 degrees, water boils. We want to make sure that in a game we’re not hot water, we’re boiling water. That creates steam, and steam can power a locomotive.”

After a missed extra point by senior kicker Pat Clarke, Buffalo trailed by one.

Licata completed four passes for 44 yards after Buffalo’s ‘D’ forced a punt. Taylor ended the drive with a 3-yard touchdown run to put the team up 26-21 after a failed two-point conversion.

But Miami Ohio responded yet again. This time, courtesy of a 32-yard touchdown pass to Alex Welch.

Campbell dashed down the side-line and dove toward the end zone for what was originally ruled a 21-yard touchdown. The ruling was overturned and Buffalo was spotted at the 1-yard line. Taylor scored on the ensuing play for the game-winning touchdown.

[Taylor’s] had a great example over the last four years with [Bran-den Oliver] and he knows he has to fulfill that role,” Quinn said. “There’s high expectations here and he’s certainly being more ma-ture and more responsible relative to the outcome of games.”

Buffalo travels to Bowling Green (3-2, 1-0 MAC) next week. The Falcons defeated the Bulls 24-7 in the final game of the 2013 season at Ralph Wilson Stadium – which was essentially a MAC East Championship game. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m.


RedHawk down Running back Anthone Taylor sets career highs in Buffalo’s 35-27 victory

Gridiron Report Card: The Spectrum grades the Bulls’ 35-27 victory over Miami Ohio

CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM

Junior running back Anthone Taylor ran for a career-high 222 yards and three touchdowns Saturday in the Bulls’ 35-27 victory over Miami Ohio.

CHAD COOPER, THE SPECTRUM

Freshman wide receiver Jacob Martinez scored his first career touchdown on a 9-yard pass from junior quarterback Joe Licata in the Bulls’ 35-27 victory Saturday.

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