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Students who take Adderall say it allows them to focus on tests and still have energy to hit the gym and party over the weekend. The effect starts about 20 minutes after a pill is popped and the peak occurs about an hour and a half in.

A thriving UB black market makes sure the pills are always within reach. Illicit sales are funding many students’ studies and ex-tracurricular activities.

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After Zach Towers tore his meniscus this past fall, he couldn’t walk for two months.

He worked his way through physical ther-apy all year. On March 27, his doctor gave him the news he was waiting for: He could fi nally get back into the pool.

But just one week later, he received more unexpected news when he found out UB’s men’s swimming and diving team was one of four teams cut from UB Athletics, effec-tive at the end of the spring semester.

“I was just getting back in a good place mentally and physically and now I got my team taken away from me which is a really big part of my life,” Towers said. “I’ve had

little to no motivation to do just about any-thing… Me being into my studies, that kind of stuff isn’t really happening.”

Richard Lydecker, a UB swimming and diving alum and attorney, is representing Towers and fi ve other swimmers pro bono. On Tuesday, Lydecker fi led demands for payment against the university on behalf of those six students, and they are all hoping the school will compensate them so they can continue swimming without putting them-selves and their parents in a fi nancial hole.

“I think it is so wrong that the administra-tion would treat such a large group of kids, vulnerable kids, to treat them this way and lit-erally throw many of their swimming or div-ing careers out the window,” Lydecker said.

UB has said it will honor any scholar-

ships it already gave out to members of the four teams cut. But for many swimmers, that doesn’t make up for everything else they are losing.

Towers began swimming before he could walk. His whole life, he dreamed of being a Division-I swimmer. Since there is no real professional swimming league besides the Olympics, he says Division-I swimming is the pinnacle of competition for most swimmers.

Towers, who has three years of eligibility remaining, is not sure if he will ever swim competitively again.

He has options to transfer to schools such as University of Cincinnati, but since most schools had given out most academic and ath-letic scholarships by the time the announce-ment was made on April 3, he will be forced to pay anywhere from $40,000-$60,000 more than he would have at UB over the next three years to continue swimming. On top of that, he was given only a few weeks to research schools and make a decision.

“The fact that UB’s hiding behind the idea that we can keep our scholarship if we stop swimming here, that really isn’t fair to us be-cause we came here for a reason, expecting the university to honor our commitment for four years, we signed off on that, they knew they signed off on that,” said Joey Puglessi, a freshman swimmer. “By saying you can stay here, quit swimming and keep your scholar-ship, we’re losing everything else so that’s re-ally not fair to us.”

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Jake Brand was failing math his sopho-more year, but no one told him he should resign the class. It ended up hurting his GPA.

He partly blames his adviser for not tell-ing him about the resign option.

Brand is a senior business major in the School of Management, where 2,950 under-graduates are advised by six full-time advisers and one advisement director, according to Di-ane Dittmar, the assistant dean of the school.

That means each adviser supervises ap-proximately 421 students.

The strain shows.And it’s happening across the campus. In

the College of Arts and Sciences, UB’s larg-est academic unit, with 27 departments and 8,000 undergraduates, the ratio is one ad-viser to every 900-1,000 student.

Students who know how to work the sys-tem and actively seek out their advisers for help navigate UB well.

But many don’t. Sometimes they don’t even know what

questions to ask. “This semester I’m taking a lot of class-

es I don’t really need just to meet my cred-it hours,” Brand said. ‘’My advisers weren’t keeping me on track for that. This is the fi rst semester anyone mentioned cred-it hours to me. It’s frustrating because I should have been told sooner.”

Whether the mistake is the student’s fault or a result of miscommunication with an adviser, the student gets stuck dealing with it. That can mean loading up on credits in remaining semesters, or staying at UB for extra semesters.

Saeed Darbo sought out his adviser in Spring 2016, but got bounced around.

He wanted to be an engineering major and asked his general adviser about the pro-gram. His general adviser told him to go to the school of engineering and ask. When he got here, no one would help him be-cause he wasn’t in the program.

“‘They would ask if I was an engineering major and I would say that I was intended,” Darbo said. “So they would tell me to con-tact my general adviser, who advised me to contact the major adviser in the fi rst place.”

The ratio of advisers to students looks like it will grow, not shrink in coming years.

“It’s getting harder because the [enroll-ment] numbers are going up,” said Bri-an Waldrop, director of the College of Arts and Sciences Advisement and Servic-es. Waldrop said he has about 450-500 stu-dents he advises, but that most of his eight colleagues have double that number.

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Darbo got so frustrated with UB that he transferred to Buffalo State College for his senior year. He fi nds the set-up at Buff State much easier.

“The advisers are also the professors,” Darbo said. “It’s very easy to get an appoint-ment during offi ce hours, which is very effi -cient for us students.”

Buff State has roughly one-third the num-ber of students at UB.

There are 21 general advisers for unde-clared majors, then different advisers de-pending on the major. The ratio of students to advisers is about 500-1.

Some programs at UB – the Honors Col-lege, The Educational Opportunity Pro-gram, The Athletics Department – have separate advisers and smaller student to ad-viser ratios. Each academic department has advisers for the major.

How the college advisers work with the department advisers differs.

“In the College of Arts and Sciences, the answer is always ‘it depends’ because of our diversity in function and approach,” Wal-drop said.

For example, in the communication de-partment, the department adviser Azita Sa-faie sees only approved communication ma-jors, while the Park Hall advisers handle in-tended majors.

Students work with their Park Hall advis-er until they are offi cially accepted into their major. With their pre-requisites completed, the student fi lls out the proper paperwork and works exclusively with Safaie.

Safaie handles 200 approved communica-tion students.

In the Department of Media Studies, Ann Mangan handles all DMS-related questions for 284 undergraduates and 60 graduate students from her offi ce in the Center for the Arts. In Park Hall, Darren Portis helps DMS students with their general education requirements.

While some advisers say they prefer that face-to-face interaction to build a better re-lationship with students, Waldrop said he answers many questions through email.

Safaie has been advising at UB since 2005 and loves speaking one-on-one with her stu-dents.

“I try to spend as much time with them as I can because I feel that some of them are not where they need to be academically,” Safaie said. “It’s not just about coming in, having an appointment, ‘these are the class-es that you need to take,’ and then go about your business. I kind of get into their busi-ness as far as life and what’s happening, and why they’re not doing well.”

While building a relationship with stu-dents and helping them fi gure out life be-yond school is a nice bonus, it goes beyond the central role of an adviser.

“To get the student through the program in a timely fashion is what I think the role of an adviser would be,” Mangan said. “You come in and I tell you your requirements. This is how you can get out in four years. If you fail to come in, you may be here lon-ger.”

Students are able to register for classes and view their requirements on hUB, but if they want to make sure they are on track to graduate, they must communicate with their advisers.

Other students say they have great rela-tionships with their advisers.

“I’ll meet with her once a semester, but that’s more than enough,” said Mark Mon-toro, a junior civil engineering major. “She really knows the major inside and out. The most helpful thing is before I enroll in a

class, she gives me a summary of the course and what sort of diffi culty I can expect.”

Montoro said his adviser is always avail-able when he needs to meet with her and she made his time at UB “much easier.” When Montoro sends an email, his adviser responds that day.

Safaie – who prides herself on her rela-tionship with her students – leaves it up to students to dictate the extent of their rela-tionship, while recognizing the dangers of doing so.

“I leave it up to them,” Safaie said. “They don’t really need to meet with me face to face. They just need to know what class-es they need to take and this is very doable via email. But then the responsibility is on you. If there’s something missing that you haven’t done when it’s time to graduate, that’s when they’ll want to see me.”

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Administrators can be intimidating. Students know it isn’t the easi-

est to get in touch with the presi-dents and provosts of the univer-sity, which is why they often resort to emails and social media to ex-press concerns with the university.

Students – who pay tens of thou-sands of dollars in tuition – have questions. But unfortunately, some of these questions go unanswered. And when they get no response, stu-dents feel their voices aren’t valued.

UB’s swimming and diving team – one of the four teams UB Ath-letics cut in April – is a paragon for how students should advocate for themselves.

For the past month, the team has asked administrators basic questions:

If administrators have been dis-cussing the cuts for three to fi ve years, why was Athletics asking for donations two years ago? Where exactly is the $2 million going? Why can’t the teams be saved if funding is restored?

And yet, there are still no answers. Reputable alumni have threat-

ened to sue the university on be-half of six swimmers and de-mands that UB pay all expenses the students incur as they transfer to other universities.

And it could’ve been avoided if President Satish Tripathi and UB

Athletics had scheduled a meeting with these alumni and donors to discuss an endowment plan. The swim team – upset with Tripathi’s lack of transparency – took it upon themselves to get those answers.

The team held a sit-in Monday afternoon and waited for Tripathi to come out of his offi ce. Tripa-thi, with nowhere else to go, was forced to listen and speak to two of the students.

Unfortunately, the students didn’t get the answers they wanted. Tripathi gave no answers regarding the cuts and agreed to meet with the donors, but did not schedule an exact date.

We hope the swim team doesn’t stop there. We hope this group of

students, and other students who have cornered administration and demanded answers, will not rest until offi cials give students the an-swers they deserve.

In December, Tripathi told The Spectrum he isn’t “someone on the fi fth fl oor of Capen that students can’t come talk to.”

So students, see if this is true. Sit outside his offi ce and see how long it takes until he opens his door.

Administrators exist because they are suppose to instill what’s best for the university and for its students.

Students must be advocates for themselves and must think what

is the best way to get their voic-es heard in a university of rough-ly 30,000 students.

If you have something to say, don’t wait for your voice to be heard. Don’t give up after weeks of no response. Show administration you demand respect. Go the old fashioned way and walk straight to the president’s offi ce or dean’s of-fi ce and prove your voice matters.

TAs, faculty members and stu-dents held a rally last May, fol-lowed by a march to Tripathi’s of-fi ce saying they aren’t making liv-able wage.

Faculty and donors have been seeking transparency from the UB Foundation, which operates with both members of the UB commu-nity and UB administration mem-bers.

The Spectrum editors face this lack of transparency all the time. We submit FOIA requests that go unanswered for months, we call offi ces and never get a response, we ask questions that are dodged or unanswered. This hinders our ability to effi ciently report on news around campus.

But that doesn’t mean we should remain silent. If we’re making ad-ministrators feel uncomfortable, then we’re asking the right ques-tions.


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What does it cost to live in Buf-falo? This is a question Teach-ing Assistants in the Department of English here have been asking. There are different measures for what a living wage is in New York. One could turn to the Coalition of Economic Justice’s estimate that a living wage for full-time work is $15 per hour, adding up to a $30,000 annual income, a number that New York governor Andrew Cuomo has also embraced. We could also turn to a fi gure closer to home; according to the UB Finan-cial Aid Offi ce website, the Grad-uate Cost of Attendance for the nine-month cost of attendance, for the 2016-2017 academic year, has been $20,584 for off-campus living and $17,891 for on-campus living. This fi gure excludes tuition, fees, and mandatory health insur-ance. This also does not factor the costs Teaching Assistants face in the summer months paying for housing, food, and transportation. Excluding the four-year fellow-ships some students receive, the basic stipend English TAs received this academic year was $14,180 for ten months, an amount that after taxes is close to $12,000.

The $8,500 gap between sti-

pend amounts and the fi gure the university has defi ned as the cost of living in Buffalo has affected the ability of students in the Eng-lish program to complete their degrees. A recent survey run by Teaching Assistants in English reported that this situation has caused 81 percent of the 62 stu-dents who responded (47 percent of the student body) to work ad-ditional jobs, 51 percent to take out student loans, and 72 percent to require fi nancial assistance from family, partners, or friends.

This gap also inordinately affects the lives of international Teaching Assistants who in most cases are le-gally not permitted to work in ad-dition to the 20 hours on campus, which coincides with their assistant-ships. Not being eligible to apply for loans, international Teaching Assis-tants also endure additional fees tied to their status, such as an interna-tional student fee. As a condition to be allowed to start teaching, interna-tional students must pay $75 to take the Speak Test. It doesn’t seem to matter that each of them, including those coming from countries such as India, where English is an offi -cial language, has already paid $170 to take the TOEFL test, specifi cal-

ly designed to measure their English speaking and writing abilities.

It is often assumed that graduate students are at similar life stages as undergraduates, but many gradu-ate students have adult responsi-bilities, such as childcare. Female graduate students have found that their options for postpartum sup-port discourage continued life in the program. One student was of-fered the chance to teach an on-line course the semester of giv-ing birth with the option of hav-ing six of those weeks covered, without pay, by a substitute - not enough to live on, let alone sup-port a newborn. When it comes to paying for childcare to resume Teaching Assistant work and work towards one’s degree, the unliv-able stipend offers no real options for parenting students of any gen-der identity. There is on-campus daycare that sets Teaching Assis-tant parents back $300 per week, in effect exceeding their stipend pay. Some might cite the recent ef-forts Governor Cuomo has made to make childcare more affordable in the state, but those strides in eq-uitable access still exclude workers, like Teaching Assistants, not legal-ly recognized as employees.

As the end of the semester ap-proaches, we all feel the pressure

of exams and fi nal papers ap-proaching. Now imagine that pres-sure compounded by the stress of teaching a class most students would just as soon not take - and working a job that doesn’t even pay your bills. What you’re pictur-ing is the life of many, if not most, Teaching Assistants here at UB. We’re students, too, but we’re also instructors - and many of us can barely afford to do our jobs. We suspect there are similar stories in other departments across campus who experience a gap between sti-pend amount and the cost of liv-ing in Buffalo. Those of us in the Department of English who have been asking these questions have begun to take these concerns out-side of our department in the form of a petition that we devel-oped with members of our fac-ulty. So far we have gathered 320 signatures, spanning faculty and students in the university, with a strong showing in the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Law School, School of Engineer-ing and Applied Sciences, and the Graduate School of Education.

To learn about the petition and to sign, visit: https://goo.gl/forms/x7t9WBT7aeXTpU3m2

- Concerned English TAs

LETTER TO THE EDITOREnglish TAs express concerns over stipends

Dear Editors: I read the front-page article

“UB’s Black Faculty: Dwindling and Isolated,” with great interest, as I am a black faculty member at UB myself. And as a senior ad-ministrator charged with ensuring UB’s diversity, I thought the article was fair and balanced. Ironical-ly, it was published the day before

the Chronicle of Higher Education re-leased a list of AAU member uni-versities with the greatest diversi-ty among tenure-track hires in the Fall of 2015. UB is listed at #33 of 60 universities, above Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, UC-Berkeley, and Stony Brook University. I have attached the list, and hope you will publish it. It provides context for better understanding how UB is

faring amongst its AAU peers in hiring underrepresented minori-ty faculty members. UB is by no means at the bottom of the heap.

Our commitment to faculty di-versity is evident in the training of search committees on reducing barriers to diversity in the hiring of deans and faculty members; the investment in staffi ng an Offi ce of Inclusive Excellence respon-sible for continuously assessing UB’s progress toward inclusive ex-cellence; our faculty mentoring ini-tiative for women and underrepre-

sented minority faculty; and UB’s new strategic diversity and inclu-sion plan. As Ashley Inkumsah’s article acknowleges, the challeng-es are very real. But our resolve to achieve even better outcomes in relation to our peers is just as real.

Sincerely, Teresa A. MillerVice Provost for Equity & InclusionProfessor of LawUniversity at Buffalo

In response to Spectrum’s ‘UB’s Black Faculty: Dwindling and Isolated’ article

Students must be advocates and demand answers from administrators

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Although swimmers understand that the decision was fi nancial, most have a prob-lem with Athletics’ abrupt announcement. Joel Shinofi eld, executive director of the College Swimmers Coaches Association of America, says most schools give at least a two-year phase-out period when cutting a team. At the very least, swimmers think the school could have announced the cuts soon-er, when more schools still had scholarship money and roster sports left.

Carson Burt, a high school senior, commit-ted to UB in October as soon as he received an offer. Burt immediately cut off commu-nications with other schools he was consid-ering, such as West Virginia and Kentucky, once he made his commitment. When he found out the team had been cut six months later, he was at a national swim meet.

“My coach pulled me out of the water be-cause he wanted to make sure I heard the right way and not from chatter from oth-er people,” Burt said. “We had an emotional moment for about an hour and a half where we were kind of like dumbfounded by the whole situation, it was like my future that I saw myself going into had fallen apart within 30 seconds and I had no idea how to react.”

Burt, who has Ohio residency, was told by

his parents they could only afford to send him to an in-state school. Most swim programs al-ready had full rosters and had used all their scholarship money by the time the athletes were told the teams would be cut. He has now committed to Ohio State University to swim, where he will pay $15,000 more per year than he would have at UB. That’s a $60,000 increase over the course of his college career.

“At this point in the season, there was no way any school was gonna have money for you,” Burt said. “It really left us in a situa-tion where we couldn’t get any scholarship to any school except small things like books and stuff like that… The whole situation left everyone in a big hole and looking for money was impossible.”

Two other swimmers Lydecker is repre-senting, freshmen roommates Puglessi and Luke Gordon, hope the school will pay for the costs they will incur from transferring. Gordon turned down offers from Boston University and RPI only a year ago to come to UB. Puglessi turned down offers from schools in major conferences like the Uni-versity of Pittsburgh and Minnesota.

Puglessi says academic and athletic schol-arships covered over 80 percent of his ex-penses at UB.

“I wanted to swim at a Big-10 school but I

sat down with my parents and realized that isn’t really the point, you gotta fi nd a good package fi nancially, academically and somewhere you’re gonna fi t athletically,” Puglessi said. “Not many kids can say they found the perfect package overall, but here I felt like I did.”

Puglessi has now committed to the Uni-versity of Cincinnati and estimates he will pay $13,306 more than he would have at UB next year alone, and he still has three years of eligibility left. Gordon has committed to UMASS, where he will pay nearly full out of state tuition, costing him an extra $51,000-$55,000 over the next three years.

Gordon, who is an engineering major, said he had a diffi cult time fi nding a school that was both an academic and athletic fi t for him in a matter of only a couple of weeks.

“I’d fi nd great engineering schools but the swim team was either like here – cut in year’s past or just not good enough to make it worth transferring,” Gordon said. “And a number of places such as Cincinnati, I was considering and they were no longer accept-ing students into the school of engineering, so that took away other options, so it really narrowed it down for me.”

Additionally, Gordon’s brother Ryan transferred into UB from Indiana University last fall so he could swim with his brother at

their mother’s alma mater.Gordon says the University of Massachu-

setts-Amherst application was due on April 15, only 12 days after he found out he would need to transfer. Gordon had to spend multiple week-ends visiting other schools, which included miss-ing Friday classes. This was especially tough, since Gordon has four classes on Friday’s.

Puglessi and Gordon both say they had academic scholarships at UB and that most schools would not give academic aid to trans-fer students at this point in the year. Both athletes say they gave serious thought to end-ing their swimming careers when the cuts were announced, even though both have been swimming for over 10 years and worked out for hours every day in high school to ful-fi ll their dreams of being college swimmers.

“People say ‘don’t worry about the mon-ey everything’s gonna work out,’ but a lot of the people that say that have never been in this position where we’re on the verge of losing 10s of thousands of dollars,” Pugles-si said. “As much as people say ‘it’s all gon-na work out, you’ll be fi ne, ignore the fi nan-cial aspects,’ it’s just too big to ignore. [Not swimming anymore] defi nitely crossed my mind, academically I’m doing really well here, fi nancially I’m very comfortable, at fi rst it seemed like ‘I’ll give it up just to help my parents avoid taking out loans.”

Towers says he is considering staying at UB for a year to continue training and seek out a better situation next year, but he thinks it’s unlikely since he’s not sure who he would train with. He is used to training with a coach and team to push him, now he would be forced to train alone or pay some-one to help him.

“I worked my whole life to get to this point and I now I may not be able to con-tinue my career, and it’s not even my fault,” Towers said. “It’s somebody else telling me my career is over or could be over if I don’t fi nd somewhere else and pay out my ass.”


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Rodriguez keeps her pills in an aspirin

bottle so people don’t know what she’s re-ally taking.

Adderall is a stimulant prescribed to treat Attention Defi cit Hyperactivity Disorder, a neurobehavioral condition usually found in children and characterized by inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. Prescriptions for the behavior, have skyrocketed in the past 20 years and in 2016, doctors wrote 16 million prescriptions.

When Rodriguez takes Adderall, her heart beats faster the minute she realizes she’s on it. She feels separated from the world. Every-thing outside her is on mute. All she can hear is what’s going on in her head. It’s like her brain becomes a narrow tunnel. She can sit still for hours, focused on one paper or topic.

Adderall makes her want to study. “When I take Adderall, I get that extra

boost,” Rodriguez, a junior industrial en-gineering major, said. “I feel like I’m on a massive high. It’s a little step below marijua-na and my brain just feels super heavy like

a bolder is pressing up against it but at the same time, I focus on one thing and I don’t wanna move,” Rodriguez said.

Adderall gives her confi dence and helps her maintain her GPA. She knows she has to be careful and she’s heard about people who get addicted. But in engineering, grades matter, she said, and tests are the sole mea-sure of success in a class, so there is huge pressure to perform.

Without Adderall, she says, she’d be out. That’s why she’s willing to pay anywhere

from $20 to $50 per pill. She’s confi dent she can control her use and believes as long as she doesn’t take the pills regularly, she won’t get addicted.

The fastest growing group of Adderall users in the U.S. is adults between the ages of 20 and 39, according to Quintiles IMS, a technology company that gathers health data. Sales are also huge; in the U.S. Adderall is a more than $2 billion business.

Full-time students are the most likely abusers of the drug, according to a Nation-al Survey on Drug Use and Health report.

For UB students, it’s the study drug of choice. It’s easy to get, works almost immedi-ately and is seemingly undetectable. And be-cause it’s prescribed, it has a veneer of legality.

Students who have not used it themselves know of students who have tried it. Every student interviewed knew how to get it. Yet, Adderall use is still not discussed much by UB administrators or health professionals.

Students are rarely getting caught using it illegally. In fact, University Police only found four students this year and three stu-dents last year using the drug without a pre-scription, said UPD Deputy Chief of Po-lice Joshua Sticht. Police didn’t make any ar-rests in these cases because of the Good Samaritan policy, which prevents students from being arrested when people call police for help.

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Sticht said UPD tries to pursue crimi-nal charges against students who sell drugs rather than students who take them. But po-lice haven’t arrested any students for selling Adderall yet.

Elizabeth Lidano, director of Judicial Af-fairs and Student Advocacy, hasn’t seen many cases of illegal Adderall use or sales either.

“It’s not super prevalent, or in large quan-tities,” Lidano said. “We might see it once in awhile, but I can’t say we’re overwhelmed with students being found with Adderall.”

Student Health Services prescribed Ad-derall to 32 students between Aug. 1, 2015 and July 31, 2016, according to Brian Hines, Records Access Offi cer.

Student Health Services has never treated any students for an Adderall overdose.

Jaclyn Singer, Alcohol and Other Drug Harm Reduction Specialist for Health and Wellness, said the university does not offer any seminars or meetings about Adderall use.

The National College Health Assessment sends out a survey every three years to col-lege students nationwide – including at UB – and Adderall use doesn’t rank as one of the substances students say they use. Every in-coming UB student must also complete the Alcohol.edu assessment which asks students the same question. Adderall still doesn’t rank.

Alcohol and marijuana are the two most abused drugs so the university prioritizes them.

But 34 percent of college students use ADHD stimulants like Adderall non-med-ically, a 2008 National Center for Biotech-nology Information study found.

And for many students in Science, Tech-nology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fi elds, Adderall is as necessary as a scientif-ic calculator.

“STEM students need Adderall more than English majors do,” Smalls said. “STEM is something you really have to build on and it’s just the foundation for what’s going to happen next. You really need to study and if you’re a person who parties every weekend it’s not go-ing work, but if you do party every weekend you need a background to study, that’s why I would say that Adderall is a great backup.”

Adderall dealingFormer UB student Griffi n Wells * used

to sell Adderall.He got a prescription from his doctor, al-

though he does not have ADHD. He got the prescription to sell the drugs to UB stu-dents. He did not need to pass a medical or psychological test to get the prescription.

“I literally just said to my doctor that my friend gave me one of his Adderall pills and it really helped me and he put me on a low dosage of Adderall,” he said.

Students like Wells are making hundreds of dollars a month selling Adderall.

They are not big dealers, though. They are limited by their prescription, which usually gives them between 30 and 90 pills within a one to three month period.

Nationally, 62 percent of college students with stimulant prescriptions reported having sold their medication at least once, according to the Journal of Clinical Psychology.

No one at UB – not University Police, Judicial Affairs or Student Health Servic-es – knows how many students are selling Adderall illegally because no one is talking about it or admitting it openly.

Student Health Services doesn’t know how many UB students have legal prescrip-tions because students aren’t required to list their conditions or medications. Student Health Services also has no records about how many students are addicted to prescrip-tion drugs or have to leave UB due to pre-scription drug addiction.

Caitlin Smythe*, a former UB student, underwent a more rigorous screening pro-cess before she got an Adderall prescription.

Smythe was 14 years old when doctors told her she had the short-term memory of a fi rst grader.

She underwent two weeks of testing be-fore doctors diagnosed her with ADHD. She had seconds to look at a picture and had to recite as many details as she could remember. She had to memorize dots and lines and tell her psychiatrist a story based on them.

She was diagnosed with ADHD at age 15 and her doctor prescribed Concerta, a drug similar to Adderall, and eventually switched

to Adderall. When Smythe came to UB, she was taking

Adderall, but no one ever asked her about it or asked her to indicate she had ADHD.

She began selling during her sophomore year. She did it for the money, but also be-cause the drug had stopped working for her and started working against her by causing extreme weight loss and anxiety-based shak-ing episodes.

Larry Hawk, a psychology professor at UB, said stimulants like Concerta and Ad-derall amp people up and if they are “pretty anxious people,” the drug might exacerbate the anxiety.

Once students found out Smythe had Ad-derall and wasn’t taking it they started offer-

ing cash.“I would only really say yes to my friends

and half the time, I wasn’t even charging for it, and then they would tell people and more people kept asking,” she said.

When fi nals week approached, she began to charge more and even began charging her friends.

“The less I knew the person, the more I would charge them,” she said.

Adderall dealers tend to spike up their prices during fi nals week.

“I remember for fi nals week two years ago I had to buy two 20 mg pills which would

usually cost about $20 and it was more than $50,” Rodriguez said. “And last year I wasn’t prepared for fi nals week and I was panick-ing. I needed [Adderall] and I was asking ev-eryone I knew who could’ve had a connec-tion to someone that might sell it. Every single dealer was dry.”

A tricky diagnosis Some students get tired of searching for

a seller and decide to get their own pre-scriptions. Mimicking the symptoms is easy. Doctors know this, but are often stuck.

“ADHD is a funny diagnosis,” said Rich-ard Almon, adjunct pharmacy and biolo-gy professor. “There’s no way to objective-ly defi ne it. It’s not like I can go in and take

your blood pressure or look at this or look at that and I have an objective measure,”

If students are having trouble paying at-tention, they can ask a doctor to prescribe them the drug since there is no objective criteria for diagnosing, Almon said.

“Thought Catalog” published an arti-cle in March 2014 entitled, “How To Get Your Doctor To Prescribe You Adderall In 5 Easy Steps,” which outlined how people could fake symptoms to receive the drug.

It’s a lot easier to diagnose ADHD in chil-dren than adults, according to Hawk.

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When I take Adderall, I get that extra boost, I feel like I’m on a massive high... I focus on one thing and I don’t wanna move.

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GABRIELA JULIAEDITOR IN CHIEF

I didn’t think I would make it. I wasn’t supposed to make it.

I’m the Puerto Rican-black girl from the inner city of Rochester, NY – a city with one of the highest murder rates in the state. A city where funerals come before high school graduations and baby showers come before weddings.

Kids killing kids. Babies raising babies. There’s rarely any good news that comes

out of the part where I’m from. So it’s no wonder my heart drops every time I get a call from my mom at 7 a.m.

Didn’t you go to high school with the girl who was stabbed last night? Do you remember the boy who

was shot this morning?I did. I knew both of them. And it’s an

eerie feeling to reminisce about someone whose life was taken way too soon.

That’s why I sometimes hate answering my phone.

But the hardest call was from my aunt. It was Nov. 23, 2015 at 12:14 p.m. My mom had been in the hospital for almost a week after having a stroke.

At that moment, nothing else mattered. I wasn’t thinking about my grades or the $4,000 outstanding tuition bill or the fact that I hadn’t eaten in two days.

I just couldn’t lose her. My mother was a single parent for most

of my life. She worked a nine-to-fi ve job and spent nights and weekends in her art studio. She struggled, but always appreciat-ed the beauty of art because she has such a pure, God-given talent. So when I told her I wanted to be a journalist at 15, she gave me everlasting support. She understood how therapeutic it is to practice your craft. To wake up every morning with a new idea and to push yourself to make your next piece better than your last.

I’ve always wanted to repay her, to show her that those long nights did make a dif-ference. My whole life we’ve been desper-ate for something good to happen and on March 6, it happened.

That was the day I found out I received a

full scholarship to attend graduate school at Newhouse at Syracuse University.

A full ride. My dream school. Finally, a call I wasn’t afraid to answer.

We both sat on the phone in tears – joyful tears. The hungry, sleepless nights spent stress-ing about unpaid bills were irrelevant. We both had something to look forward to. There was purpose and it all started to make sense.

I now understand these past four years were a test. Could I make a career out of journalism at a school with no journalism major? Could I survive as editor in chief for a newspaper that gets no funding from the university? Could I run a staff of people who were practically strangers?

Yes, yes and yes. These strangers have be-come the most infl uential people in my life.

I’m so grateful for the past editors who trusted me and instilled confi dence in me. Sara, Tom, Marlee, Alyssa, Brian – you all have taught me something I will hold onto forever.

And to my current staff – Ashley the glam-our girl, Max the cool kid, Sarah the sweet-heart, Maddy the brave one, Pierce the artist, Angela the socialite, Hannah the bookworm, K the guy with the biggest heart, Lindsay, Tom, Dan, Ben, David and Troy, the future of The Spectrum – I know at times you proba-bly hate me, (cough, cough, Mike) but I don’t want any of you to leave here without know-ing how much I truly care about you.

And Tori, oh Tori, where do I even begin? I’m actually at a loss for words because I love

you dearly. You have kept me sane and kept me laughing. We struggled together and I feel so extremely blessed that you’ve stayed by my side throughout this stressful year.

Jody, you have changed my life in ways I could have never imagined. Every day you have taught me something that has made me a better journalist, a better leader and a better woman. I aspire to be you one day. Headstrong, confi dent and extremely in-telligent. Thank you for your patience and thank you for believing in me when I didn’t believe in myself.

Helene, my second mother, thank you for constantly reminding that it’s possible to come from nothing and make something of it. Thank you for showing me how good it feels to love people unconditionally and al-ways be kind.

Saying goodbye to The Spectrum and this university has been the hardest goodbye. The good stories, the writing lessons, the awards have all been amazing. But I’m walk-ing away with so much more.

I thought about focusing this column on the little support The Spectrum gets from the university and the struggle of student jour-nalists. I’ll admit, it’s been hard. But as a journalist, I’ve learned to look at the bigger picture. I have a purpose and I’ve learned to push through and give it my all for my peers who never saw 22 years.

These past four years have taught me that things get bad before they get good. I some-how paid off that tuition bill and my mom has made almost a 100 percent recovery from her stroke.

I’ve learned that dreams do come true – not always when you fi rst make that wish, but always on time.

To my little brothers, you are the most im-portant people in my life and there will be times when you feel like you don’t belong, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a place for you. And to my parents and grandparents, I will always appreciate every sacrifi ce you’ve made for me. Right now, my only wish is to someday, somehow reward you.

Because of you all, I’ve found my way out.


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TORI ROSEMANMANAGING EDITOR

Time fl ies when you’re having fun?Our adviser, Jody Biehl, hates when we

open our work with cliché quotes, but I can’t help it this time.

After four years with The Spectrum, I can’t believe I’m here, in this moment, writing this goodbye column. I’ve read so many of them, cried over those who have left before me and imagined my own senior year. Will I be as panic-stricken as some of those who came before me, with no clear plans post-graduation? Will I pursue journalism? Will I even graduate on time?

In 10 days, I will walk the stage alongside of my peers. In 72 days, I start law school at Hofstra University, where I was offered a full scholarship.

But I will never stop being a journalist. I came to UB with low expectations and

did not fi nd immediate success. I didn’t live in the dorms because I had messed up my housing forms, so I had a hard time mak-ing friends.

I turned to new, dangerous vices. I stopped going to classes because they

were so hard. Though I began writing for The Spectrum my

fi rst semester, I was terrible at it. I was shy so interviewing was uncomfortable. I didn’t take criticism well, so I didn’t like going to the of-fi ce for help. I barely passed the class.

For the fi rst time, I felt stupid. Two of my roommates didn’t speak Eng-

lish and we hardly interacted. I ended my freshman year extremely sad

and lonely. I was put on academic proba-tion. My two friends I spent most of the year with were both leaving me – one was transferring and one was arrested.

I hated school – a feeling I never thought I would experience.

I left my freshman year excited to go home. I was going to talk to my friends and maybe transfer to escape this hell I was ex-periencing.

But then I got a call from the incoming editor-in-chief, Sara DiNatale. She asked if I would like to be an assistant editor.

That call changed my life. I spent the next three years involved as an

editor learning and growing. I got better. Things got better. My journey through school was not easy

or simple, but The Spectrum was always there. Finally, I had people to look up to. I had a purpose and was contributing to the univer-sity. I changed my major, made friends, got involved with other clubs and worked a vari-ety of part-time jobs.

As I moved up, I was able to interview people who were important to me, to cover fun and exciting events, to formulate and el-oquently write my opinion.

This newspaper gave me more than any

class, teacher or club at UB. And in these four years, the only thing The

Spectrum has received from the university is a sink for our offi ce.

I can only hope that in the future, the UB community has respect for what we do. We are students who are learning, and often receive a lot of criticism for what we publish. We make mistakes, but we make them publicly and then correct them. We tell the public our opinions and attach our name to it. We send staff writ-ers, people who are just dipping their toes into journalism, on assignments. We are not per-fect, but we are trying our best.

I have some people to thank for helping to shape me into the journalist and person I am today.

First and foremost, Jody, it is a gift to have been able to work with you. Your infi nite knowledge, your perseverance, your dedica-tion to our newspaper and your teaching are inspirational. You’re unintentionally hilari-ous and I will deeply miss your expressive nature. I feel incredibly grateful to have had your guidance in these past few years.

Rachel Kramer and Brian Windschitl, two who have graduated before me – thank you for helping me push through the fi rst cou-ple years at UB. Rachel, you dragged me to the Monday class my fi rst semester against my will and for two years, taught me an in-sane amount about writing style and editing. Now I hold your title, Managing Editor, and I hope I have made you proud. Brian, your attitude, wit and affi nity for writing served as motivation to me, more so than you may know. I treasure memories of our arts desk

and only wish you continued success. To anyone who has worked on a desk

with me or edited with me – Tomas, John, Ken especially – under my messy direction, thank you for your patience. I have no idea what I’m doing unless it involves writing, but I hope I at least taught you one thing along the way. I have enjoyed every mo-ment in the offi ce, whether we were playing Smash, spinning around in our offi ce chairs or blasting ridiculous music.

Gabi – we made it. We came up at The Spectrum in a similar way and here we are, overlooking the kingdom we’ve fashioned like old queens. Thank you for being so in-credibly smart, for always making me laugh, for making the newspaper fun again, for re-maining dedicated in times of diffi culty, for giving me advice when I needed it, but most importantly, becoming one of my dearest friends. I can’t wait to watch your success and cheer you on.

Huge shoutout to Pierce for being incred-ibly talented, for turning my articles into art and for singing showtunes at midnight. I cannot wait to see what you create.

To the staff that remains – Max, Sarah, David, Tom, Dan, Lindsay, Maddy and of course, Hannah – I feel so fortunate to have experienced working with all of you. You will always be special to me, and you know who to call when you need a headline.

To everyone after – thank you for con-tinuing an organization that gave me every-thing. I hope The Spectrum becomes as mean-ingful to you as it has to me.

In my last moments at the university, I am overwhelmed with emotion, primarily, a feeling of gratitude.

I cannot believe I made it to this point. The come up is real.

Cheers to four years. And of course, the sink.


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It was the second semester of my fresh-man year.

I was lazily ensconced in bed with my ex jamming to Ray LaMontagne when he asked me where I saw myself in 10 years.

“I’ve wanted to be a journalist since I was 14 years old,” I said.

“Why aren’t you writing for The Spectrum?” he said.

All of my friends constantly told me to write for The Spectrum all along but I always brushed it off saying “maybe one day,” but that night something clicked.

When I went back to my dorm the next day, I sent our then-editor in chief an email with a writing sample asking to join the pa-per and the rest was history as they say.

I had a rough start. I got 50’s and 60’s on my fi rst couple of articles as a staff writer and questioned if I should pursue a career in journalism after all. I wanted to change my major, lock myself in a room, rock to-and-fro and listen to Radiohead on repeat. I thought I had no future in writing.

My freshman year, these were my priori-ties: who I was dating, where the best frat par-ty was and where the best selfi e lighting was.

And now four years later I’m the senior

news editor for The Spectrum. I’ve inter-viewed a former U.S. Attorney General. I’ve raised awareness about causes I care about like LGBT issues and race relations.

Things started to come full circle for me when I went to the Apple Store last week and an employee recognized my name from the paper and said she reads all of my arti-cles. When people recognize my name and say they’ve felt something from my articles I feel proud and I feel humbled.

But I couldn’t have done it alone. Jody Biehl: you are an inspiration. It’s diffi -

cult to convey in words how much I appreci-ate and respect you pushing me to be a bet-ter journalist. You have a family, a husband, children and a mortgage and yet you devote so much time and energy to push us to be the best student journalists that we can be.

Once upon a time, my heart raced every time I stepped foot in 132 Student Union because I was terrifi ed you would shred my articles to pieces. And now in my senior

year, I’ve yearned for your advice, guidance and wisdom. Every time I write I an article I make sure to steer clear of word choices like “is currently.” I make my sentences short. Dramatic. And impactful. I try not to sound like a press release and I ask myself “What would Jody say?” over and over again.

Working alongside you has been an hon-or. I couldn’t have grown to be the journal-ist I am today without you. I’m excited to see how the remaining and incoming Spec-trum staff will be utterly terrifi ed of you then eventually learn that Jody knows best.

Hannah: my right hand woman. The Woodward to my Bernstein. My fellow veg-etarian sparkly princess. The girl who can’t tell the difference between Jared Leto and Jay Leno. I love you. For all our long night and heated debates about bananas, you’re the best partner a girl could ask for.

Gabi: My #girlboss. You showed the world that girls like us with tan skin can be bossy and beautiful.

To the other the fabulous people I’ve worked with this year on the news desk like Sarah, my Irish ginger unicorn, Maddy, my feminist warrior and Pierce my graphic guru. I’m excited to see you guys continue the legacy of The Spectrum’s best desk.

I’ve come a long way for a (faux) blonde girl from New York and I’m not nearly fi n-ished yet. I can’t say I’ll miss Buffalo’s de-plorable temperatures but I’ll always miss the memories I made here.


Better to burn out than to fade awayUB student Ashley Inkumsah fi nds her voice and identity four years later

“ADHD is commonly diagnosed in the fi rst few years of elementary school because the child makes the transition to the school environment and is struggling,” Hawk said.

But using Adderall as a study drug isn’t exactly a new fad, Almon says.

“Years and years ago in the ’60s when I worked in the steel mills, you could make a lot of money and get all the overtime you could handle,” Almon said. “This has been going on for years and years but maybe it’s become more popular, probably because it’s more available.”

Almon said Benzamine was the “fad drug” at the time that helped the workers to focus. He said people would line up waiting to be prescribed to sell it to other workers.

Dangers of the drugProlonged Adderall use has a number of

health risks, which include heart attacks, strokes and reduction of hunger, according to Almon.

It can also be a gateway drug and addict-ed students begin to crave the clarity and su-per-human stamina the drug offers.

Rodriguez continues to take Adderall de-spite knowing the risks and feeling like she’s cheating herself by taking it.

Anita Sharma, a senior health and human services major, feels Adderall only gives stu-dents “temporary knowledge.” Instead of retaining information, she says Adderall en-courages students to memorize.

She believes Adderall is a “disgrace” to the education system.

“Taking Adderall to study is like drink-ing liquor to socialize. How long can you

keep taking Adderall without getting addict-ed to it? In medical school are you going to take Adderall before operating on a patient? When you’re an engineer and you’re oper-ating on machines are you going to be high on Adderall? If students need to rely on a drug to make them smarter, they need to take a look in the mirror and ask themselves whether they’re in the right academic fi eld to begin with,” Sharma said.

Hawk said it’s important for students to not become dependent on taking Adderall as a means for studying.

“People are increasingly recognizing that stimulants for ADHD don’t in the long run cure the problem; they mask the prob-lem,” Hawk said. “And Band-Aids can be very useful, but a young adult should say to themselves ‘[each time] I use a Band-Aid how could I better prepare myself ?’”


* Editor’s note: Names of students have been changed to protect their privacy

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Over the course of four years, students learn a lot about themselves, whether it’s time management or learning how to make friends in a completely new environment, people learn and change with every pass-ing year. Some of UB’s seniors spoke to The Spectrum about their biggest regrets from their years at college and advice for next year’s freshmen.

Do your own thingDon’t overthink the party scene, said Mi-

chelle Arriesgado, a senior media study major.“Going out versus staying in depends on

who you are,” Arriesgado said. “I like to stay in, if I go out I often would end up being left by myself. You realize going out who your friends are.”

Get InvolvedShannon Gilbert, senior psychology and

economics major, regrets not getting in-volved on campus sooner.

“I think if I went out and got a job on campus or I got myself into some research, things could have gone differently,” Gil-bert said. “Even if it’s something small, like an hour a week, and you go out and volunteer, and do something consistently, over a course of a semester or two, it will be the best thing you could have done.”

Try not to stress yourself out Pratik Karkhanis, a senior mechanical en-

gineering major, advises students to put their mental health above grades.

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over an exam, it just makes it more hard-er for you to focus,” Karkhanis said. “For managing stress, I give myself regular short breaks while studying. It helps to recharge yourself.”

Live on campusPoorvi Nair, a senior physical anthropolo-

gy and theater major, recommends living on campus if students can make it work.

“Living on campus in the dorms is an ex-perience of its own and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. It was some of the best years of my life, including sharing two bathroom stalls with 25 people and the clogged show-ers. It’s all part of the fun and games.”

Don’t drink too muchMiranda Sidman, a senior psychology ma-

jor, advises freshmen to pace themselves while drinking.

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“In high school, your teacher knew you, but in college, that’s not always the case. You have to make a connection with your teacher,” Friol said. “Professors are impor-tant for recommendations, attendance de-pends on the class and what kind of learn-er you are. Now that I’m in my senior year, I realize that all those clichés that people have been telling me my entire life, are true .”


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Shane Patterson was catching a Grey-hound bus on his way to visit friends in Tennessee when he realized he had a missed call from his “former fl ame.”

He didn’t want to speak over the phone at fi rst and told her to text him, but she said her news was too urgent to share over a text message.

He had a gut feeling about what she was going to say and when he called her back she only confi rmed what he already knew.

She was pregnant. Patterson was oddly calm. That was his

natural temperament, he says. He was only a college student and fatherhood wasn’t on his schedule. But he was used to struggling. His parents struggled to put Patterson and his older brother through college.

But Patterson was determined to carve out a

better life for his son. He was the cliché Amer-ican dream chaser. He grew up in a “loving home with morals and respect” and he wanted to give his son the same upbringing.

He started working two jobs to build a life for his son; one a part-time job working col-lections for Capital Management Services and the other was a full-time job with KeyBank.

Patterson, a senior communication ma-jor, now balances being a father with run-ning his own entertainment company I Am HYPE Entertainment and being a UB stu-dent. I Am HYPE Entertainment hosts parties in venues across Buffalo. Patter-son hypes the crowd up on stage and danc-es to music at every event. “HYPE” stands for “hold your purpose eternally,” Patterson said. He hosted the company’s fi rst show on Dec. 30 2016 and since then, he has sold out seven out of nine shows.

“My journey has never been about only me, it’s always been about so much more.

My son. My family. My friends. My town. My doubters. My competitors. My school and anybody that has ever believed it was too diffi cult to attain their goals in the midst of fi nancial hardship. ” Patterson said.

Patterson was always a showman growing up. He grew up Seventh Day Adventist and spent his Sundays singing and dancing in church.

When DJ RanKan, a Buffalo DJ, told him he was talented, he knew he was meant to work in the entertainment industry.

His parents always encouraged his creativ-ity. When he told his father he wasn’t inter-ested in going to cricket matches, he under-stood. Instead, Patterson’s father encouraged him and his brother to do activities that they liked, like music, karate, gymnastics and track.

In high school, Patterson felt the school needed a mascot — so he created one.

“I remember telling my basketball coach that I wanted to be mascot, so I made a mas-cot uniform out of cardboard and foil and became the school’s fi rst mascot. From that point, we were The Crusaders,” Patterson said.

As a mascot, Patterson started to realize that he craved stirring up crowds and mak-ing people remember him.

When Patterson started I Am HYPE Enter-tainment, he contacted LegalZoom, an online legal technology company, and LLC, limited li-ability company, to make sure his personal as-sets were separate from his business assets.

Patterson said I am HYPE Entertain-ment looks to fuse the sounds of hip-hop, EDM and New Jersey club music. He looks to bridge a culture between different sounds of music, “and someday host events like the

Ultra Music Festival.”Patterson still struggles to learn the land-

scape of entertainment industry. He says the company is extremely time consuming and he’s become accustomed to a lifestyle of promoting and networking. But he won’t “sleep or eat” until his job is done.

He also sometimes struggles to continue to bring in money from the events he hosts but said he’s made a signifi cant profi t from the business. He works a part-time job as a bar-back at (716) Food and Sport to help make ends meet.

Jay Shah, manager of I Am Hype En-tertainment, LLC, said Patterson is a great friend and business partner.

“He has the ability of really connecting the performers [and] DJ’s to the crowd. I like to think of him as the icebreaker that gets the party started,” Shah said.

Patterson described Shah as the most cre-ative human being that he has ever met, who thinks outside the box and helps buy into their vision.

“Anything he puts his hands on he makes into magic,” Patterson said.

Patterson feels his “purpose” is bigger than himself.

“Yeah, wanting success for all these rea-sons is a lot of pressure but I can’t control the man I am. It’s my fuel. It’s what inspires me to be great,” Patterson said. “To me, greatness is defi ned when you accomplish what you set out to do, without conforming on what your purpose is.”

Patterson said his son will always be a driving force and motivation for him to keep chasing success.

He keeps the photos from the moment his son was born on his phone and looks at them almost every day. When he saw a life born be-fore his eyes, his life was put into perspective.

When his son was fi rst born, Patterson said he had “that squished up new baby look,” but Patterson immediately realized his son shared his big lower lip.

He’ll never forget his son’s fi rst words, “thank you.”

“We all have a purpose, and by God’s grace, I pray my purpose brings nothing but positive energy and a smile to your face. This is me. This is me in my entirely,” Pat-terson said.

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Kara Dunovant started a mentorship pro-gram for inner-city girls all while maintain-ing two jobs and her 3.8 GPA.

Dunovant is one of 27 graduating UB se-niors being recognized as an outstanding se-nior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Every spring, the dean of College of Arts and Sciences selects graduating students with the highest academic achievement and most involvement in their department to be awarded the “Dean’s Outstanding Senior.” Recipients will be presented with a person-alized medal and certifi cate at commence-ment on May 21.

Dunovant, a double major in linguistics and African American studies, is being rec-ognized as the outstanding senior in African American studies.

She majored in linguistics because she has always enjoyed learning foreign languages as a hobby, so it made sense to turn that pas-sion into a degree. She added the African American studies major because her history and her people are important to her.

“I could not spend four years in col-

lege without taking the time to expand my knowledge of the people who made it pos-sible for me to be there,” Dunovant said.

Dunovant feels time management was key to maintaining her high GPA. She bal-anced full-time classes and two jobs, but al-ways made time to go to the library to focus on her work.

Dunovant is completing a senior thesis project on inner-city education. After gradu-ation, she will attend law school at George-town University, where she plans to study human rights law, civil rights law and educa-tion policy and reform.

Andrea Niper, an economics major, is re-ceiving the outstanding senior award for the major. She feels time management played a big role in keeping her grades up.

“I [maintained my GPA] by assuring that I stay organized and disciplined. Despite playing a Division I sport at UB, I made sure to keep my academics a high priority,” Niper said.

Niper will begin working for Bloomberg L.P. as a Global Data Analyst in Princeton, New Jersey this September.

Several outstanding seniors participated in special projects during their time at UB.

Rebecca Jaffe, a senior communicative disorders and sciences major, worked as a research assistant in Dr. Kris Tjaden’s Mo-tor Speech Disorders Laboratory.

Jaffe works in the UB Speech and Hearing Clinic as an undergraduate co-clinician. She was an active member of the Student Asso-ciation of Speech and Hearing during her sophomore and junior year, and she worked at Bornhava, a preschool school for children with developmental delays.

Jaffe plans to remain at UB for anoth-er two years to pursue a master’s degree in speech-language pathology.

Jedidiah Kalmanofsky, a philosophy and psychology major, completed a senior thesis with Dr. Richard Cohen about the philoso-pher Emmanuel Levinas.

The thesis focuses on “the political impli-cations of [Levinas’] theory of ‘ethics fi rst’ philosophy,” Kalmanofsky said.

“He thinks that basically before anything else, we have an ethical encounter and rela-tionship with others. So, if you agree with him, then there is nothing that isn’t some-how ethical. And if you think that, you should build societies that are ethical too,” Kalmanofsky said.

Kalmanofsky likes philosophy because he gets to “ask and answer big questions,”

including how to do “good in the world, whether God exists and what justice is.”

“I’m sure almost everyone has some thoughts on those topics. Going into the major, I didn’t realize just how much fun it would be and I’m so glad I picked it,” Kal-manofsky said.

Over the summer, Kalmanofsky is work-ing at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires. After-wards, he plans to pursue jobs in communi-ty organizing and social justice.

Gregory George has worked on bio-chemistry research with Dr. Marc S. Hal-fon. George is a biochemistry and chemistry double major, and his project involved the “prediction and validation of new enhancer sequences” in the mosquito species that car-ries the Zika virus.

George will be attending Cornell Univer-sity in the fall to pursue a Ph.D in inorganic chemistry. He intends to pursue a career as a professor at a research university following the completion of his doctorate.

Dunovant created a mentorship program called Sparkle for inner-city girls ages sev-en to 10. She said creating the mentorship program has been the “highlight” of her life. The program focuses on fostering self-confi dence and stresses the importance of teamwork, leadership and creativity through “enriching” activities. The program meets one Saturday per month and participants engage in different activities including lim-ousine rides, roller skating, cupcake deco-rating competitions and science, technology, mathematics and engineering (STEM) proj-ects, Dunovant said.

In her free time, Dunovant works for the Community Action Organization of Buffalo as a youth services counselor at School No. 17. She also has a babysitting and tutoring business that she operates on the weekends.

Dunovant is pursuing law school because she has a “natural hunger for justice.” She has witnessed “so much” inequality in her life and refuses to believe there is no resolution.

“I feel that civil rights law and educa-tion policy are the best focuses for me be-cause issues in these areas are the ones that I’ve seen plague my community for far too long,” Dunovant said.


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For the UB women’s tennis team, there is nothing to lose.

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to square off against the third seed Ohio State Buckeyes, and are looking to prove they belong. On March 13, they will have that op-portunity, lead by Chantal Martinez-Blanco.

“They are the number three seed, we are the underdogs,” Martinez-Blanco said. “We have nothing to lose. We are just going to give it our all and see what happens.”

Martinez-Blanco’s progression through-out the season, both physically and mentally, mirrored the Bulls’ season. The competition, the effort put into practice and confi dence al-lowed the Bulls to adjust to a winning path that would prolong their season.

“We stayed calm,” Martinez Blanco said. “We knew the process was going to give us the results we wanted so in the fourth match, we literally brought the ship around.”

The Bulls haven’t had the chance to com-pete in the big dance since the 2007-2008 season. Freshman Emel Abibula was a sur-prising bright spot this year, having lost only one match all year. Abibula only wants to prove herself at the tournament.

“We worked a lot so I think we have chanc-es to prove that we are good players,” Abibu-la said. “We won’t focus on the result. We are going to be focused on the process. By fo-

cusing on little steps and have a goal every match and every time we step on the court.”

The Bulls’ presence at the tournament is an incredible feat that can only be topped by winning. Abibula is aware of that and looks forward to the credence a win would bring.

“I won’t focus on winning,” Abibula said. “But it would be a very, very good thing, it would raise up my confi dence from one to 100.”

Regardless of the outcome of the tour-nament, head coach Kristen Maines believes this season to be a success. The MAC tour-nament win was a step in the right direction for a team that faced early adversity.

Early in the season, assistant coach Sma-randa Stan took the reins of the team as Maines went on maternity leave, pushing the Bulls to become closer as a team, sup-porting one another.

“She made us get closer to each other,” Abibula said. “She would punish one part of the team, but then we had to prove that we care about each other, so we [the whole team] would all run together or do stuff together.”

Maines is prepared to use this season to help motivate the Bulls in the future.

“I want them to use it as building blocks for ‘we want to be here every single year,’” Maines said. “I want to go for consistency now. We have been consistently good, but I want this to be their expectation of ‘I want to be here every year.”

Maines knows when facing a powerhouse such as Ohio State, the only way for the team to be confi dent is to stay focused and take this as an experience to compete at the highest of levels in college tennis.

“All the pressure is on Ohio State,” Maines said. “We have zero pressure, we have nothing to lose. Go out there and swing free. Play your game, go after it and enjoy the moment.”


UB Women’s Tennis return to the NCAA Tournament after nine year hiatusBulls look to upset third seeded Ohio State

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UB’s women’s tennis team celebrates after winning the MAC Championship. They will travel to Columbus, Ohio for the NCAA Tournament this weekend.

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Back in September, the men’s tennis team (14-5, MAC 7-0) was not expected to con-tinue their winning ways. After failing to re-peat a MAC Championship win last year, many members graduated leaving spots to be fi lled.

This year, with half a team of freshmen and only one senior, growing pains were ex-pected to plague the team. But that never discouraged the young team, as they would go on to an undefeated conference record and earned the program another MAC Championship.

It all came together last week, at the selec-tion event for both tennis teams held in the Miller Tennis Center, where the Bulls found out they would be playing the Texas A&M Aggies (29-6) at College Station, Texas in the fi rst round of the NCAA tournament.

“This whole year has been amazing, es-pecially this selection event because we get to be here in Miller where we practice ev-ery day and now we get to see our work pay off,” said sophomore Ethan Nittolo.

Not even head coach Lee Nickells expect-ed the team to perform so well, and now he has a blue mohawk to show for it.

“Early in the season, I told them that if they went undefeated in conference, I would cut my hair into a mohawk and dye it blue,” Nickells said. “I am still incredibly proud of

these guys for proving me wrong, I couldn’t be happier with the team I am bringing to Texas.”

The Aggies come in off another success-ful season, extending their streak of consec-utive NCAA appearances to 24. The Aggies are considered one the best men’s tennis pro-grams in the NCAA and were ranked No. 13 in the nation at the end of the season.

Yet none of those credentials scare off Nickells and his team.

“I’m happy they gave us someone we can compete with,” Nickell’s said. “They are a great opponent but I think we have what it takes to get it done on the courts.”

Even with the Aggies coming from NCAA men’s tennis power conference the SEC, Nickell is even expecting better results than in previous NCAA visits.

“Two years ago we really underachieved, we got hot at the end of the season and

that’s why we got in,” Nickell said. “This year was so much more satisfying with this new crew… we have such a young group of guys who have no fear.”

That fearless attitude was evident in se-nior tennis player Tony Miller, who had a smile on his face for the whole selection event and only ever seemed eager to take on the Aggies.

“I think we are all ready to head to Tex-as,” Miller said. “I am not too familiar with [Texas A&M] but I know we can all go out there and really surprise people with what we can do.”

Even with a lack of knowledge on his op-ponent, Miller is defi nitely aware of the en-vironment he is going into.

“It is going to be hot in Texas so we have to get ready for playing in those kinds of conditions,” Miller said. “I am not too con-cerned about it though, I think all these guys

will be ready for some warm weather once we are down there.”

Both Nickell and his players all shared the same sentiment toward the Aggies, believing they can compete with a top team and con-tinue the success for the program.

This marks the fi fth trip to the NCAA tournament in 8 years for the Bulls, all un-der Nickell.

“I think this proves that all the success from the past seasons aren’t coincidence,” Nickell said. “This program isn’t another team, we are one of the best and most con-sistent teams in the MAC.”


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Freshman Villhelm Fridell prepares for a shot. Fridell will compete for the Bulls at the NCAA

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