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<base href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol29/vol29n27/"> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" alink="#dddddd" vlink="#000000" link="#006699"> <table width="475" border="0"> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/images/blank.gif" alt=" " width="2" height="2" border="0"> </td> <td> <table width=99%> <tr><td> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>VOLUME 29, NUMBER 27</b></font> </td><td align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1998</b></font> </td></tr> </table> <img src="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/images/Flag.gif" alt="Reporter" width="450" height="77"> <table border="0"> <tr><td><img src="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol29/vol29n27/Graphics/cover.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="210" alt=""></td> <td valign="bottom"> <p> <font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="10">The Royal Pitches</font> <br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"> SinginÕand dancinÕ for an appreciative crowd in Slee on April 1 are The Royal Pitches, UBÕs all-women a cappella group. The Royal Pitches, with 14 current members, was founded in 1996.</font> </td></tr></table> <br> <p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><b>Research center to focus on urban problems <i>School of Social Work unit to initiate, test interventions for todayÕs socio-economic ills </i></b> </font><br> The School of Social Work has announced plans to open a research center devoted to seeking solutions to problems faced by today's urban society. <br> <div align="right"><a href="f1.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="1">FULL STORY</font></a></div> <p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><b>Welcome mat is out for senior auditors</b> </font><br> You may have been in class with one of them: that 78-year-old veteran who actually flew the missions described in an assigned reading from a Joseph Heller novel; the Oklahoma native who enriched her graduate history seminars with vivid recollections of Dust-Bowl life, abandoned children and mountain witchcraft; the retired police lieutenant in the gray eiderdown jacket who seems to know more about the Punic Wars than the instructor. He says he was there. <br> <div align="right"><a href="f2.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="1">FULL STORY</font></a></div> <p>  <a name="Top_Stories"></a><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="3"><b>Top Stories...</b></font><br> <center> <table width="90%" border="0"> <tr><td> · <a href="n1.html">Continuous learning vital to higher education; Speaker says leadership is crucial if universities are to survive Ôgusts of competitivenessÕ </a><br> · <a href="n2.html">FSEC hears Coleman, SA president </a><br> · <a href="n3.html">Spotlight on career options for Take Our Daughters to Work Day </a><br> · <a href="n4.html">Tailor-made programs; MFC looks at retirement learning designed for specific community needs </a><br> · <a href="n5.html">Rights, environment abuses to be studied </a><br> · <a href="n6.html">Vitamins wonÕt offset effects of smoking on pregnancy, study says </a><br> · <a href="n7.html">Eight to receive Alumni Association honors </a><br> · <a href="n8.html">Turn off TV? 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