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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT PUBL ICAT ION OF THE UN IVERS I TY AT BUFFALO , S INCE 1950

TOM DINKISENIOR NEWS EDITOR

Student Association President James Ingram has seen almost every SA presi-dential candidate promise to upgrade the organizations website in his time at UB.

Campaign platforms to fix the site have gone unfilled over the past several years. The website frequently featured out-of-date information about clubs and contact information, has been difficult to navigate

and staff members could not update the site themselves.

After years of difficulty, SA finally has a new website Ingram calls simple, user-friendly and easy to maintain.

SA officially launched its new website, which was created by SA Entertainment Coordinator Marc Rosenblitt using a Joom-la content management system, on March 18. The final price is still being determined but Ingram said the new site would cost SA around $9,000. He said the only future cost would be paying an SA staff member to up-date and maintain the site.

The new site features up-to-date contact information for clubs, as well as a calendar of upcoming SA sponsored events. Ingram and Rosenblitt said the new site will allow SA to more easily update information, as well as add on new features at a low cost.

To me, it was just obvious our old website wasnt meeting the needs we had as a Student Association, Ingram said. It just kind of came up this year that we were able to find a good person to do it and at a price that was going to be afford-able for us.

SA launches new website after years of outdated,

confusing site

Student Association President James Ingram shows off SAs new website, which launched March 18. SA spent $9,000 to create a new website that would include more up-to-date information and would be easier to navigate. YUSONG SHI, THE SPECTRUM

SAs new platform

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Opinion: Bogus UB study tells seniors increased alcohol con-sumption will threaten future

Megan Burns finishes swim-ming season undefeated with 52 wins

The Chabad House plans to host around 200 students this weekend for Passover

GABRIELA JULIASENIOR FEATURES EDITOR

One night in Tarime, Tanzania, Tyler Choi was having dinner with his fellow UB study abroad students. He noticed his driv-er, Peter, was not allowed to sit at their table.

Peter was a native Tanzanian. Choi, a Korean-American, was considered of a higher class.

Choi picked up his plate and went to sit at Peters table.

Choi, a sophomore political science ma-jor, is the creator of Helping You Grow Stronger (Hugs) for Tanzania, a nonprof-it organization that envisions the world where individuals can act upon their bless-ings and gifts, Choi said. Choi is the direc-tor of the judicial branch of Hugs in the Buffalo area. The mission of Hugs is to not only help improve the living conditions of people in Tanzania, but also to empow-er the youth in the United States by creat-ing positive global change, Choi said.

Theres a saying that goes, In return for their friendship, I want to share their stories so that they wouldnt be forgotten from this world, Choi said.

Choi is doing just that with Hugs for Tanzania.

Choi went to Tanzania for the first time through a UB Study Abroad program in January 2014.

Getting off the plane in Tanzania, he didnt know what to expect. He had only seen the realities of developing nations in documentaries.

One day, Choi saw two 3-year-old chil-dren fetching water for their family.

Choi watched them smiling and laughing

as they played in the filthy water. This im-age stayed with him.

In the countryside of Tarime, a district in East Africa, the tallest building is only four stories high. All the other buildings are made out of mud. Children walk around the city with no shoes Choi could see the dirt on their hands and feet.

Even the food and water in Tanzania were dangerous.

Choi and the other UB students werent allowed to eat fruits and vegetables unless they were cooked and couldnt drink water unless it came from a sealed bottle.

Memories of Peter, the children fetch-ing infested water and the dangerous food made Choi want to return, but he wouldnt come back with nothing. Outlining his mission

The first thing Choi did when he came to Buffalo after his study abroad trip was tell his friends, family and UB faculty members about Peters story.

Peter was a 32-year-old man who be-longed to a tribe where the marrying age was 18. But to get married, the groom must exchange a cow for a wife.

Peter did not have the money to pur-chase the cow because he was supporting

his younger siblings education. He never went to high school and became a driver so that his siblings could go to school instead.

Choi wanted to help people like Peter get back into school thats when he first thought about creating Hugs.

In the spring of 2014, Choi met Joel Bervell, a sophomore at Yale Universi-ty. Bervell had started his own nonprofit, Hugs for Ghana, when he was a freshman in high school. The program has raised thousands of dollars over the past six years.

Choi hoped to do the same for Tanzania.Children walk miles and miles to get

water and dont know when their next meal is going to be, Choi said. They cant af-ford to go to school and its only about six U.S. dollars a year.

Last spring, at Dodge Elementary School in Williamsville, while working with the Just for Kids afterschool program, students asked Choi what he wanted to be when he grows up. But he didnt know how to ex-plain the United Nations to a class of sec-ond graders.

So, he told them a story about the chil-dren he met in Tanzania.

UB student creates organization to help primary school children in Tanzania

Helping with Hugs

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Carl Nightingale said Donald Sterlings alleged racist real estate practices should have gotten the former Los Angeles Clippers owner banned from the NBA not his racist comments.

Nightingale, a transnational studies professor, wants students to be able to distinguish between hate speech and ac-tions so he led an InFocus discussion on racism Friday afternoon in Capen Hall.

Nightingale moderated the InFocus discussion, entitled Hate InFocus: How Race, Religion, and Class Fuel Intoler-ance and Murder in Multicultural Amer-ica, during which students discussed in-cidents from Sterlings comments to the viral video of a University of Oklahoma fraternity chanting a racial slur. InFocus is a forum organized by Student Life, the Honors College and International Stu-dent and Scholar Services.

Nightingale said hate crimes occur in a progression of stages: from thoughts and emotions to expression of hate as speech to the act of performing hate crimes and finally to institutionalizing it.

He said discriminatory practices should anger people and cause changes more than racist speech, and that people should react more to Sterlings actions in real estate than his racist comments be-cause many minorities were affected in looking for homes.

The Justice Department filed a law-suit in 2006 that accused Sterlings rent-al company of refusing to lease Bever-ly Hills apartments to black people. Ster-ling paid $3 million in a court settlement in 2009.

But he wasnt banned from the NBA for life until 2014 after audio surfaced of him claiming he did not want black peo-ple to attend Clippers games and that he was upset his girlfriend, V Stiviano, took a photo with NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson, who is black.

Nightingale opened up the conver-sation with a quote from an essay NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabaar wrote for Time Magazine.

Hate InFocus discuses

differences in impact between

hate speech and actions

Actions speak louder than words

Tyler Choi, a sophomore political science major, is the creator of Hugs for Tanzania, a nonprofit orga-nization that has donated school supplies and other contributions to primary schools in Tanzania.

COURTESY OF TYLER CHOI

Tyler Choi raised over 2,000 school supplies and $1,000 in donations. He made 230 bags with school supplies and gave them to the principal of the pri-mary school on his second trip to Tanzania.

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SEE TANZANIA PAGE 6

SEE INFOCUS, PAGE 4

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As a large university with multi-ple campuses, UB boasts a multi-tude of housing options but not enough that a simple matter of bad luck cant leave students with little choice in their living situation.

The 7,000-plus students who live in residence halls and on-cam-pus apartments at UB rely on a lot-tery system to determine their fate, their commutes to classes and who theyll be sharing a small room with every year.

When it comes time to choose (choose being a relative term in this circumstance) the lottery sys-tem randomly assigns students res-ervation numbers.

The only factor UB uses for des-ignating lottery numbers is senior-ity the students whove lived on campus the longest get the best numbers.

This may make sense and seem fair, except even among students with seniority, placement is still de-termined by nothing but luck or

lack thereof.This system is simply too ba-

sic it may be easy to understand but thats because its uncreative and inflexible. A lottery not only leaves too much up to chance, but it causes complicated situations for students looking to live together in larger groups.

And there is no shortage of solu-tions to this issue.

UBs housing office needs to ac-cept that theres a problem and open its eyes to the variety of op-tions for more effective and adapt-able systems.

One potential system is first come, first serve, which puts con-trol in students hands. The stu-dents who submit their housing de-posits early would get first dibs on housing. This system would still easily generate a numbered list, but it would be ordered by the students actions, not an algorithm.

Of course, this system calls into question the equity of basing something as important as housing selection on students economic re-sources.

Students who can pay immedi-ately may do so because theyre or-ganized, responsible and remember

to sign up this behavior should be rewarded.

But there are many students who simply cant scrape together the $300 deposit early. Those students shouldnt be denied a chance at bet-ter housing.

A first come, first serve system would also be complicated by stu-dents who receive scholarships and financial aid.

Despite the few complications in the system, UB could do some troubleshooting and creative think-ing to make the system work.

UB could also consider us-ing a students GPA or amount of earned credits to determine their housing priority number. By basing a students position on the housing list on merits, rather than econom-ic status, the system would be more equitable and organized.

Students who work harder in class should be rewarded with bet-ter housing.

But any system has issues many students have the same GPA and the same number of credits, so a tie breaking system would need to be generated.

And UBs system of roommate assignments is even more random and problematic.

UB did away with its roommate preference questionnaire, claiming too many parents were filling out the form for their children.

So instead of risking a few incor-rectly filled out forms, UB is using an algorithm to match nearly 7,000 students. Unsurprisingly, not every-

one is happy.Students entering college like-

ly dont know too many other stu-dents and among all the other re-quirements to start at UB, trolling the UB class Facebook pages for a good roommate is too time-con-suming. It shouldnt be solely up to the students, or an algorithm, to match roommates.

Simply, UB needs to re-instate a questionnaire form, and while theyre not perfect or foolproof, it would reduce the amount of stu-dents living in undesirable situa-tions.

The excuse that too many par-ents were completing the form is weak and unsubstantiated. By giv-ing students the opportunity to say theyd like to live with someone who has a regular sleeping sched-ule, who studies something simi-lar to them or who can converse in their native tongue together, UB would allow students some control over their living situation.

Certainly a modified system may present some short-term challeng-es, but UB could do a little bit of research and work like every oth-er college has to to come up with a system that rewards responsible students.

The current lottery system and lack of a roommate preference form is the easy way out for UB they just have to switch on a com-puter, sit back and let students fates be decided by an algorithm.

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UBs current system simply isnt as fair

as it could be

Housing lottery should reward the responsible, not the lucky

The sight of students brazen-ly smoking on campus, exhaling smoke clouds directly in front of the many No smoking signs that dot UBs facilities, is an ironic but not uncommon sight.

More than that, its a scene that demonstrates the current ineffec-tiveness of UBs prohibition of smoking on campus.

The policy is backed by good in-tentions, but little else its a rule without any real repercussions, and certainly no respect of the students.

Thats why we support the Stu-dent Association Assemblys move to create a task force to look into the unenforceable policy. Regard-less of where you sit on the is-sue that smokers should be free to smoke on campus or the policy should come with repercussions for those who dont abide a taskforce is at least a step toward something more functional.

Though the health risks of smoking and the irritation of sec-ondhand smoke are generally ac-cepted, little else offers easy agree-ment. When it comes to UBs cur-rent no-smoking policy, UBreathe Free, which bans smoking on all UB-managed property, both its le-gality and its feasibility come into question.

SUNY encourages its 64 cam-puses to be smoke-free and pro-vides funding for them to do so. There was legislation introduced in 2012 to make it illegal to smoke on SUNY campuses, but it died in committee.

This imposition of a complete ban on the practice does seem harsh to some because, given the size of the campuses, smokers have to travel quite a distance to smoke off property.

When its that challenging to fol-

low the rules, its far less likely the rules are going to be respected.

But to those who vehemently op-pose the habit of smoking, it may seem fair that smokers are inconve-nienced. Although smoking is legal, it can also be argued smokers have no specific rights either and UB is completely justified in prohibiting smoking.

Here lies the conundrum.It matters little, however, if UBs

ban is fair or not when that ban is simply not enforced. It essentially doesnt exist. As seen by the mini-mal effect its had on the presence and odor of cigarette smoke floating in the air along the Spine.

UB cannot reprimand its employ-ees for smoking unless its written into the various union contracts. The university has decided not to punish students if it cannot do the same to the faculty and staff which is the fair and logical choice. But that stance has also led to the current is-sue of a smoke-free policy that does little to stop smoking.

A complete ban with repercus-sions sounds like a good idea its simple, assertive and for non-smok-ers who are bothered by second-hand smoke, the ideal solution. But ideology aside, a ban in name only does nothing to improve the sit-uation, so UB should swallow its pride and compromise.

Enforcing an absolute ban seems like a waste of resources and ener-gy, and although it could contribute to a healthier, more beautified atmo-sphere, its not worth the hostility and close policing that would be required for effective enforcement of such a strict although justified rule.

Instead, UB should modify its policy to meet in the middle cre-ate a rule that satisfies non-smok-ers desire for a smoke-free envi-

ronment that doesnt insult smok-ers by offering no feasible way to follow the rule.

Designated smoking areas would be an ideal compromise for this campus.

Although it is impossible to con-tain tobacco smoke, if it was con-tained to a handful of areas that are easily accessible for smokers but also easy for non-smokers to avoid, then their experience on campus would be essentially smoke-free and cer-tainly more so than it is currently.

This stance would also return cigarette butt containers to cam-pus, which have been absent since the smoke-free policy went into af-fect. While its understandable the university does not want to send a mixed message by providing butt

containers on a smoke-free cam-pus, this has led to a further litter-ing of butts, which can be harmful to the environment.

Smokers would experience mild inconvenience with designated smoking spots that may not be close to them but its still a lesser one than an enforced absolute ban would cause. Seeing that UB was willing to offer some resource to meet smokers needs would make smokers more amenable to follow-ing the policy.

In this case, principles simply cant compare to practicality UB needs to show some flexibility to work on a solution thats legal, fea-sible and acceptable to everyone.

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With a variety of potential solutions, administration needs to commit to an

improved system

Without enforcement, UBs no smoking policy accomplishes little

RACHEL KRAMERMANAGING EDITOR

Increased drinking during your senior year leads to a lower proba-bility that youll graduate, accord-ing to a UB Reporter article about a study conducted through the UB psychology department.

Except thats not true. As a se-nior with an active social life, who

is graduating with honors in May, I questioned the validity of this statement.

The study, The Role of Goals and Alcohol Behavior During the Transition out of College con-ducted by Sharon A. Radoms-ki, a psychology graduate stu-dent, UB professors Jennifer P. Read and Julie C. Bowker ex-amined whether and how chang-es in drinking over senior year moderate the association between achievement goals and related de-velopmental task attainment as students move toward transition-ing out of college, according to the studys abstract.

Basically, will increased drinking

during your senior year when youre finally legally able to buy your own beer decrease the like-lihood you will graduate on time and achieve your career goals?

The study followed a mere 437 students, who were selected out of a larger study investigating trauma and substance abuse. Out of that statistically insignificant sample of about 21 million col-lege students in the United States, 75 students were represented as unemployed after their senior year not achieving their career goal.

Based off that ratio, thats .0000036 percent of college stu-dents in America.

Article suggests alcohol intake leads to lower probability of graduation

So what we get drunk

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A local company using proprietary software designed the previous site, but it had stopped supporting the site. Ingram said the software was too complicated for SA staff members to update themselves, and they had to go through the company any time the site needed to be changed or updated.

The result: a website that was overly complex, hard to navigate and loaded with information that was either out-dated or unnecessary, according to Ingram.

It was fairly obvious we needed to change, he said. Ingram said he did not promise to update the website

while campaigning last spring because previous candidates had and were never were able to come through.

Nick Johns told The Spectrum during his endorsement speech in 2013 he would make the site 10 times better. He resigned as SA president less than a month into his first semester as president amid allegations he mishandled funds and mistreated staff.

But over winter break, Ingram began speaking with Rosenblitt about the possibility of creating a new site. Rosenblitt has maintained SAs information technology systems for the past 15 years and has created websites for several different local law firms. He said he usually makes one website per year.

Ingram said Rosenblitt worked on the site outside of SA duties, including evenings and when he was not in the SA office.

Marc already had a good understanding of what the SA website would need, Ingram said. So he was able to develop a good product for us.

Rosenblitt said the Joomla template offers a wide range of plug-ins and add-ons that cost anywhere from $10 to $99. SA Assembly has been discussing the possibility of creating a petition website for students, and that function could now possibly be served as an add-on to the new site, according to Ingram and Rosenblitt.

You can really make customized modifications to this website across the board and youre really only limited by your own imagination, Rosenblitt said.

The site is simple to use so all SA staff members will be able to update it themselves, according to Ingram. Ingram said he is not a strong computer person, but even he is able to easily log on to the site and make changes with-out coding knowledge. He also said Joomla was a com-mon content management system so there was a good chance someone on next years e-board will already be fa-miliar with the template.

Accessing the website will allow club members to post their current contact and event information, which was an issue in the past. Students would sometimes log onto the old SA website and see contact information for clubs that was out of date. Rosenblitt said some of the information on the previous site was up to three or four years old.

Thats always a big concern. Students are like, OK, I want to join this club but who do I reach out to? So that will be right on the website, Ingram said.

Ingram said there are still some kinks to workout with the site, including style changes and programming, but he expects the site to be completely finished within a few days.

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[Donald Sterling] was discrim-inating against black and Hispan-ic families for years, preventing them from getting housing, Ab-dul-Jabaar said. It was public re-cord. We did nothing. Suddenly he says he doesnt want his girl-friend posing with Magic Johnson on Instagram and we bring out the torches and rope. Shouldnt we have called for his resignation back then?

Discrimination has been well documented in different institu-tions like in real estate, accord-ing to Nightingale. He said black people and white people are seg-regated in neighborhoods and cities, as well as in how banks and the federal government deal with people of different races.

The discussion also focused on the viral video showing Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity mem-bers at the University of Oklaho-ma chanting a racist slur that sur-faced online earlier this month.

Kevin Appiah-Kubi, a soph-omore political science major, voiced concerns at the meeting that the racism and mentality of the fraternity members will be institutionalized as they go on to their future careers.

These people will be your fu-ture lawyers, congressman, your policemen, he said.

Nightingale posed ethical questions to the group about the in-cident, racist comments in general and how they compare to actual hate crimes.

Is speech strong enough to be an act? Nightingale said. Does it create hostility? Did the incident of the Okla-homa [fraternity] students undermine the entire university? Did they have a right to free speech and were covered under the constitution?

The group also discussed the three Muslim North Carolina students Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, who were allegedly shot and killed by their neighbor, Craig Hicks, in what police originally ruled a dispute over parking but what many feel was a crime motivated by Hicks hate for the

students religion.One student at the discussion, whose

children were of multiracial ethnicity, said people being in an environment with diversity and having multicultural experiences would allow them to have tolerance and acceptance of others.

Patricia Johnson, a junior chemistry major, said she believes students are all in agreement that hate crimes are im-moral.

Students also discussed racism in the age of the Internet and social me-dia. Some members of the group said people sometimes jump to conclusions about instances without having all the information. One student said people take action against others without hav-ing the truth of the matter, like the sto-ry of a brutal gang rape by a fraterni-ty at the University of Virginia that was

published by Rolling Stone Magazine and later discredited.

A student at the discussion said that changes occur after having critical con-versations on a small scale, such as the InFocus discussions.

Nightingale said it is big political movements that will make changes happen.

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Dr. Carl Nightingale from Transnational Studies led the discussion on the rash of assaults and hate crimes across the world. InFocus is a monthly series of student-orientated, informal con-versations on todays hot topics.

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Rabbi Moshe Gurary and his wife, Rivka, start preparing food for Passover 10 days be-fore the first Seder.

From crushing up potato chips for bread-ing to hard-boiling enough eggs, the couple must prepare enough food for some of UBs Jewish population to come and celebrate the holiday.

Passover, or Pesach, is the eight-day festi-val that commemorates the emancipation of Israeli slaves from Egyptian rule. This year, the holiday begins on Friday, April 3 and lasts until April 11.

The rabbi and his wife prepare every year to have students come for the Passover Sed-er, the traditional feast, to start the holiday. The Chabad House of Buffalo expects be-tween 150 and 200 students for their Friday night Seder, and between 100 and 150 Satur-day night.

Unfortunately, because of schoolwork, many students cannot go home for the holi-day, so we provide students with a family at-mosphere, Rabbi Gurary said. The motto of the Chabad is that its a home away from home. We arent like any organization or club

at the school.Ilana Saffeir, a senior health and human ser-

vices major, loves going to The Chabad be-cause she gets to spend time with my friends, who have become more like family because we go to the Chabad regularly, she said.

The holiday centers on the re-telling of the story of Passover from the Book of Exodus.

The story follows Moses, the Israelite who told the Egyptian pharaoh to let his people go. When the pharaoh said no, a plague fell upon the land for 10 days. After the 10th day of the plague, the pharaoh told the Israelites to leave before he changed his mind, and be-fore the city was ravaged from the pandemic.

In their haste, the Hebrews did not bake their bread; rather, they carried the dough on their backs and let the sun bake it into a hard, cracker-like food. This is where matzo, a tra-ditional Passover food, comes from.

Other foods at the Passover Seder are in-tended to represent elements of the story. Charoset, a combination of chopped apples, walnuts and wine represent bricks and mor-tar and how hard the Hebrews worked.

Everything has to be made from scratch. I cant use rice or flour, so I cant use anything thats ready-made. I have to crush up potato chips by hand to bread things, because I cant just buy bread crumbs, Rivka said.

To prepare for the Seder, the couple must set up tables, make the food and plan out how everything will be served. Their kitch-en must be prepared in advance for three days, while everything is cleaned and cook-ing materials, plates, cups and silverware are replaced to keep them kosher for Passover

never having touched leavened bread.

We provide Hagga-dahs and matzo for ev-eryone, Rabbi Gurary said. We will be having a traditional Seder thats geared towards students, because thats who we serve. Synagogues may gear their Seders towards family, but we mostly see students.

The Chabad House doesnt just host a Sed-er on the first two nights.

Throughout the week of Passover, their doors are open between 6-9 p.m. for students to come and have a home-cooked, kosher-for-Passover meal.

Saffeir takes advantage of this and uses the Chabad meals to help keep her Kosher.

On campus, there just arent really op-tions for students trying to observe, Rivka said. Its very informal, but we have food prepared for students to come in and have a meal. Some people stay and eat, others just pick it up and leave because they are so busy with school.

Hillel of Buffalo also has a Seder Fri-day night. They have a space in the Student Union and bring in traditional kosher-for-Passover food. Their Seder is led and run by students.

But not everyone stays in Buffalo for the holiday.

For senior engineering major Sarah Jaco-bowitz, she said its important to spend time

with her family. It was always a tradition to get together

for the Seders and celebrate the holiday, Ja-cobowitz said. Finally, it fell on a weekend so I have the opportunity to go home and be with my family.

Religious or not, the Chabad House gives students the option to celebrate the holiday in a comfortable and open atmosphere.

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Preparing for PesachChabad House of Buffalo prepares for the eight-day

Jewish holiday

YUSONG SHI, THE SPECTRUM Rivka Gurary, wife of Rabbi Moshe Gurary of The Chabad House of Buffalo, prepares Rosh Hashanah dinner for over 300 expected guests. Rivka and her husband will also be preparing food for some of UBs Jewish pop-ulation to come and celebrate the eight-day Jewish holiday of Passover.

What the UB reporter article failed to report from the studys findings was that for students who placed a high value on their goal attainment, drinking didnt play a significant role in the outcome of achiev-ing those goals.

The association between goals and [ed-ucation] attainment was not [statistical-ly] significantly different from zero from those whose drinking increased during their senior year, the study said.

Shocking students who have strong academic values are able to handle drink-ing and completing their education at the same time.

Although it is important to study the reasons college students are not successful after graduation, alcohol isnt the answer.

Seniors are typically 21-22 years old. One of this studys main points was at this

pivotal period at the juncture between ad-olescence and adulthood where we be-gin the process of coming into [our] own as independent adults, we should drink less in order to stay more focused on our developmental tasks and individual identi-ty formation.

Drinking may be interfering with who theyre becoming as adults. And thats a big problem, one that has been grossly over-looked in the research so far, said one of the studys co-authors Jennifer Read, profes-sor of psychology, in the UB reporter article.

The United States legal drinking age is ridiculously high because according to the Center for Disease Control and Preven-tion and the U.S. government, 21 years old is the age our brains are fully developed and wont be damaged by consumption of a beer. But now, apparently, our brains

arent developed enough to help us gradu-ate and achieve our goals.

But dont worry; the study has a solution for us.

Findings suggest that interventions aimed at bolstering personal goals and re-ducing drinking during senior year may in-crease the likelihood of successful transi-tions out of the college environment.

I dont disagree with the studys idea that college is a pivotal time for young adults and yes, some students will have trouble transitioning between the college lifestyle into the real world. But telling seniors to stop drinking with their friends isnt the way to help them be successful.

A school-wide intervention isnt going to help seniors transition out of the col-lege environment. As someone who is cur-rently working on that transition, a cover letter workshop would be more useful.

To suggest wasting resources on instill-ing sobriety into newly legal college stu-

dents is laughable, especially when the study only followed the alcohol consump-tion patterns of 437 students - .00002 per-cent of the United States college popula-tion.

The study boasts being the first one of its kind to examine the role alcohol plays on goal achievement. While this is a great area of psychology to explore, conclusions shouldnt be made yet.

Its possible that some, non-goal orient-ed students can get sucked into the alco-holic vortex this study portrays college as. But maybe those students werent mature enough to attend college in the first place and Im sure its not only their senior year drinking habits that caused them not to achieve their goals and graduate on time.

There are many factors surrounding this topic and its just not fair for UB Reporter to tell me to celebrate senior year without cel-ebrating, as the headline of its article states.

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I told them, I have friends living in Af-rica and they are a lot like you, Choi said. But they dont know when their next meal will be and cant go to school. Your par-ents give you breakfast and you can play on the playground. I want to give my friends a chance to live like you.

Immediately, second-grade hands went up in the air asking what they could do to help.

At that moment, Choi realized the chil-dren had potential to help.

Their excitement inspired Choi to follow through with Hugs for Tanzania.The return to Tanzania

On a Monday night last October, Choi had a panic attack.

He wasnt sure if he could pull Hugs off and was afraid to disappoint all the people counting on him.

But with the support of his friends and the memory of Peter to guide him, Choi made a plan.

He decided to start with helping the pri-mary school he visited on his first trip to Tanzania.

He made a promotional video and people donated 2,000 items of school supplies. He raised more than $1,000 that went to ship-ping the supplies to the school.

Choi was fascinated by how quickly the stars aligned.

He made 230 individual bags with pencils, pens, a highlighter, eraser and snacks. He packed it in a suitcase and on his second trip to Tanzania, he gave it to the principal of the elementary school.

Being in Tanzania and seeing them get so excited over common everyday items we can get from any drug store was a humbling experience, said Allen Liu, a senior political science and legal studies major.

Liu went to Tanzania this past winter with Choi and plans to go back to help more, even though he is graduating this semester.

What Tyler is doing is amazing, Liu said. He didnt go to Europe to see the at-tractions but instead went to Africa and it impacted him so heavily.

The look on the childrens faces as they received the school supplies assured Choi that his dream had finally come true. Life in Korea and Seattle

Choi never imagined hed start something as big as Hugs when he first moved to the United States.

Choi was born in Korea and came to the United States when he was 3 years old. His parents moved back to Korea when Choi was in second grade. Then, during his junior

year of high school, his parents moved to Seattle, Washington.

After being in Korea for 10 years, he was terri-fied of the idea of adapt-ing to a new culture.

In Korea, classes went from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and he spent most of the school day in math and science classes. Then, af-ter the school day ended, Choi went to tutoring ses-sions, leaving him almost no time to see his family.

When he moved to Se-attle, classes ended at 2 p.m.

He was introduced to school dances, classes outside of math and sci-ence and the freedom to find his passion eventu-ally working for the Unit-ed Nations.

But with all his new-found free time, Choi couldnt just sit back and relax.

When you step out of your comfort zone, so much will happen to you that you would never ex-pect, Choi said.

Choi was involved in theater, choir, was on the swim team, participated in community service clubs and took on stu-dent leadership clubs.

Choi even ran for school executive elec-tions. Neither he nor his family thought he would win, but he came out on top.

Tyler doesnt start things he wont finish,

which is usually never and when he does start some-thing its done extraordi-narily well, said Mcken-zie Cantlon, a sophomore political science major and friend of Chois.

After graduating high school, Choi decided to go to the other side of the country for college.

Choi is currently the philanthropy chair for the pre-law fraternity, Phi Al-pha Delta. He was in the Glee club last semester and still tries to find ways to sing and perform. Looking to the future

The school supplies drive was just the first step for Hugs. The next step is a medical drive for the summer of 2016.

Choi was an AIDS ed-ucator promoting HIV and AIDS awareness in the Seattle school district during high school.

He plans to take this experience to Tanzania. Because of the increas-ing HIV epidemic in Tan-zania about 1.6 million people there are living with AIDS he wants to supply Tanzanians with basic sexual health sup-

plies and education about STD prevention methods.

In the meantime, Choi and Liu stress that college students can help.

Its important for colleges to take on these missions because schools have

geared our generation in a certain direc-tion, Choi said. It forces us to think there are only certain majors or education systems that lead you to success.

Choi said its not only adults or educated people who can help those in need.

I want to tell people that they dont need a crazy background, an insane amount of talent or a whole lot of money to share, in-spire and empower the less fortunate, Choi said.

Choi emphasizes that working with Hugs also helps empower students in the United States as they work to create positive change.

And its easy to do so, according to Choi and Liu.

Liu said students should go through their dorms and bedrooms and donate items they no longer need.

A pen with no ink will be used to its end in Tanzania, Liu said.

Cantlon has never been to Tanzania but has watched Hugs grow over the past year.

Even though the organization is still at its ground level, it has already made an in-credible impact, Cantlon said. I know for a fact that Hugs for Tanzania will be brought to new heights and be able to help children all over Tanzania and other parts of the world.

Cantlon said she hopes to visit Tanzania some day.

This organization is a representation of things that many of us have taken for grant-ed These resources can make a differ-ence to others, Cantlon said.

Being in Tanzania clarified what Choi wants to do for the rest of his life. He always wanted to work in the global field and be a part of the United Nations. After this years trip, all he can think about is whats next.

After graduation, Choi hopes to attend Georgetown School of Foreign Service. He wants to feed his adventurous soul and find a story in every developing nation.

As for short-term, Choi hopes that be-cause of Hugs for Tanzania, he can soon tell his friend Peter that he can go back to school.

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I want to tell people that they dont need a crazy background, an insane amount of talent or a whole lot of money to share, inspire and empow-er the less fortunate.

According to Choi, the mission of Hugs is to not only help improve the living conditions of people in Tanzania, but also to empower the youth in the United States by creating positive global change. COURTESY OF TYLER CHOI

Burns is nationally ranked in the top eight for the 100-meter freestyle race and in the top 12 for the 50-meter freestyle among freshmen the two races she primarily competes in, according to Bashor.

Burns said she prefers to swim the 100-meter races because the 50 is too quick.

If Im going to beat someone, I want it to be by a couple seconds, not by millisec-onds, Burns said.

Burns said her success felt great, mainly because she was finally satisfied with her re-sults in the pool due to motivation and in-creased effort.

I never tried very hard before, and never did as well as I wanted, Burns said. Now that Ive seen my results at UB, I know that I can go farther. Ultimately, I want to make the Olympic trial in the 100- and 50-me-ter freestyle next year. More importantly, I want to win at the conference champion-ship again and reclaim my titles.

Burns mother said Bashors efforts have allowed her daughter to blossom into the swimmer who finished with an undefeat-ed season. Burns led the team in both the 50 and 100 freestyle in her freshman cam-paign, finishing with 22.66 and 49.04 times,

respectively. But Bashor said that she could have an even better sophomore campaign.

Bashor said that Burns will be a young star and she will continue to grow stron-ger and her training will carry over into the pool. Last season, Bashor said she nearly qualified for the highest level of NCAA Di-vision-I swimming.

She has the ability to make NCAA A-cut times. In the 100 free she missed it by about .016 of a second, Bashor said. The po-tential is there, but her getting to that next level depends on the way she approach-es things this spring and summer, and shes right there. She needs to keep progressing the way she has.

Burns season has motivated her to be more than perfection among current swim-mers. She wants to be the best swimmer in Buffalo history. She said she is determined to break the school time records for both the 50 and 100-meter races before she grad-uates.

I will break records, Burns said. And I will try to be better than any swimmer be-fore I graduate.

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SPORTS

BOBBY MCINTOSHASST. SPORTS EDITOR

Megan Burns wasnt planning on swim-ming after high school.

She admits she was lazy. Her mom pushed her toward the pool. She was a talented swimmer but she didnt have motivation.

Burns, now a freshman on UBs swim-ming and diving team with an undefeated season, planned on spending her summer before college outside the pool lifeguarding.

This doesnt seem to match the profile of someone who now aspires to make it to the Olympics. But Burns found her stride at UB she found her passion. Her decision to contin-ue swimming after high school a choice she almost didnt make has led her to an individ-ual perfect 52-0 season. Shes on track to be-come one of the best players in program his-tory, but there was a while when Burns was still in high school her ambition dwindled.

Burns needed her mothers encourage-ment to continue swimming after high school. There were multiple times when Burns was ready to quit.

It was just laziness. I didnt care, I never had to work hard to get good grades or good results in the pool, Burns said. But for my first three years, I did it just kind of hap-pened. There was no particular reason why I wasnt interested; I was just lazy. Yet, my mom nagged me to work hard every day.

Now theres a different kind of Burns in the pool: In the 2015 Mid-American Con-ference championship, Burns took first place in both the 50-meter freestyle and the 100-meter freestyle, culminating in her per-fect 52-0 season.

But Burns wasnt even sure she would commit on the first day.

The summer after graduating high school, Burns spent most of her time lifeguarding. Burns, who was content with being poolside

for the summer, wanted to stop competitive swimming completely.

Burns said competitive swimming felt like a hassle beginning at 8 years old. She didnt have many friends in the pool. Even as she grew older and became more acquainted with the other swimmers, she still lacked

motivation to put in her best effort.I didnt like swimming as much as I do

now, Burns said. I didnt know if I wanted to spend another four years in the sport. It was more of a job and I didnt like going to practice. It took away from my free time. It was a lot more of a hassle than it was fun.

Her parents, Jon and Kim Burns, said their daughter had contracted a severe case of senioritis.

She didnt really try senior year, Kim said. She didnt do her homework, didnt study she didnt really care. She wasnt failing, but she wasnt putting much effort in during school or swimming.

But she still excelled on her swim team at

Rush Henrietta Sperry High School. Burns earned a spot on the All-Greater Rochester team and was named the team MVP. Dur-ing her senior year, her team qualified for the state tournament and she won Sports-man of the Year.

Burns was planning to come to UB for nursing and despite her high school acco-lades, stay out of UBs pool. But a summer visit with the swimming and diving team changed her opinion.

She stayed in scrubs but added a swim-ming cap and goggles to her college life.

During the summer, there was an open camp where she met many of her current teammates, as well as the swimming and div-ing head coach Andy Bashor. Burns said she instantly loved the girls and really enjoyed the coachs practices because he made the sport fun something that she hadnt been used to.

I didnt start having fun until I met my friends here at UB, Burns said. My friends keep me interested in the sport. I love them all theyre like my sisters.

Megan Burns last-min-ute choice to swim in col-lege culminated in a 52-0

freshman year

COURTESY OF MEGAN BURNS

Megan Burns stands with her hands raised in celebration after winning the 100-meter relay at the swimming and diving MAC Championships last February. The victory was part of a perfect 52-0 season for the freshman.

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Just keep swimming

QUENTIN HAYNESSPORTS EDITOR

The growing pains of a young team con-tinue to impact the baseball team this sea-son. Buffalos inexperience particularly showed this weekend against an opponent that began the season ranked as the No. 28 team in the nation.

On Sunday, the Bulls (6-14, 2-4 Mid-American Conference) concluded a three-game series against Ball State (18-8, 5-1 MAC) with a 16-8 loss, giving the Cardi-nals the series victory. Buffalo dominated on Saturday with a 14-1 win that included 10 runs in the final inning, but the Bulls still failed to win their second MAC series in as many tries.

Head coach Ron Torgalski said that the team is still in the midst of finding its groove.

Right now, were still on and off, hot and cold, Torgalski said. At times, weve been looking good. At times we make plays. At other times, we play like a young, inexperienced team. Its part of maturity. After two conference weekends, hopeful-ly they realize they cant take a pitch off.

The Bulls fell to Ball State 6-4 in the first game on Friday. Buffalo got off to an early 2-0 lead after junior outfielder Nick Sinay scored off an error by the Cardinals third baseman and an RBI single by freshman first baseman Ben Vey. The Cardinals re-sponded with three runs in the third and held the lead for the rest of the game.

Sophomore pitcher Brent Cleland picked up the loss for Buffalo as he went 5.1 in-nings, allowed eight hits, five earned runs and one homerun. He also struck out five batters.

The Bulls offense came alive on Satur-day though, as they tallied 10 runs in the fi-nal inning and defeated the Cardinals 14-1.

Torgalski said picking up a victory over Ball State was important to see where they were in the conference.

Its always good to go on the road and get one game, Torgalski said. [Ball State] was picked to win the league this year and were ranked No. 28 in the preseason polls.

This was a team with high expectations. We played them tough.

Torgalski said that the team was capi-talizing with runners in scoring position something it wasnt able to consistently do the previous game.

It was nice to see us bring in people from second and third, Torgalski said. We left too many people on base and were one big hit away from taking game one, so to get 10 runs, even in the final in-ning was great because we got experience in bringing those guys in.

Senior pitcher Anthony Magovney al-lowed no runs and just four hits in 5.2 in-nings. Sophomore pitcher Mike Kaelin picked up his third save of the season and struck out two batters over two innings of relief.

The Bulls offense was balanced Sat-urday, as seven of the nine position play-ers finished with at least one hit and eight of the nine finished with at least one RBI. Sophomore outfielder Vinny Mallaro fin-ished 2-for-5 with four RBIs, including a homerun in the third inning. Sinay finished 3-for-6 with three RBIs.

In the third and final game of the series on Sunday, the Bulls fell to the Cardinals 16-8. Senior pitcher Mike McGee lasted just 1.2 innings and allowed seven runs and walked four. The Cardinals scored eight runs in the second inning and forced the Bulls to use their bullpen early. Torgalski called it one of those days.

The wind was blowing to left field, so

any fly ball had a chance of going out the park, Torgalski said. We saw a kid hit a popup and it turned into a homerun. It was a terrible day to be a pitcher. They got some balls up into the jet stream and got some runs. Overall, it was a rough day.

Junior shortstop Bobby Sheppard fin-ished 4 for 13 hitting on the weekend with three RBIs. Haefner finished the series 4 for 8 and added four RBIs and five walks. Mallaro went just 2 for 11 on the weekend, with most of his damage coming in his

grand slam in the second game of the se-ries.

Torgalski said the only thing the team can do is to continue to improve, despite the difficulty of not playing at home. Buf-falo has yet to play at Amherst Audubon Field this season and its scheduled home-opening series against Northern Illinois last weekend was moved to Indiana due to weather.

I told them today, build on what were doing, continue to improve and its been tough for us, Torgalski said. We play a weekend outside then play inside. Most teams are outside practicing and getting into a rhythm Every week, were adjust-ing travel. We opened up conference play with a home series seven-hour away. We dont because of field conditions. It hurts us.

The Bulls travel to face St. Bonaventure (10-5-1, 0-3 Atlantic 10) for a two-game se-ries on Tuesday. First pitch is set for 2 p.m.

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drops series to Cardinals

Bulls face growing pains in series loss to Ball StateCOURTESY OF UB ATHLETIC COMMUNICATION

Big East schools DePaul and St. Johns filled their vacant coaching po-sitions Sunday. Buffalo head basket-ball coach Bobby Hurley interviewed in Chicago at DePaul Saturday and was a rumored candidate for the St. Johns position.

DePaul hired Dave Leitao, who led the program from 2002-05 and made one NCAA Tournament appearance. St. Johns offered the head coaching po-sition to Chris Mullen, a former stand-out player at the university. CBS Sports reported that Mullin is likely to accept.

Arizona State University, Texas and Tennessee still have open head coach-ing positions and it is unknown if these schools have interest in Hurley.

As of Sunday evening, Hurley had yet to sign a new contract with Buffalo, al-though the school has a deal in place to make him the highest paid mens basketball coach in the Mid-American Conference.

Hurley led the Bulls to its first ever NCAA Tournament appearance, though they fell to West Virginia 68-62.

Hurleys possible post-UB options limited

Junior outfielder Nick Sinay and the Bulls lost two of three games against Ball State this weekend. The Bulls scored 14 runs on Saturday but failed to win another game the rest of the series.