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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 30</b></font> </td><td align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 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/vol29n30/Graphics/cover.jpg" alt="ooze fest"></td> <td valign="bottom"> <p> <font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="10">Hair-Raising Event</font> <br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"> OozfestÑit's enough to make your hair stand on end! Senior Rob Auer (with the mud-enhanced hairdo) and his team joined more than 1,000 players who came to UB Saturday for the largest continuous mud volleyball tournament in America. </td></tr></table> <br> <p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><b>Finding pictures on the World Wide Web <i>'WebPiction' developed at UB is first to combine text, image-processing technology</i></b> </font><br> You wouldn't hire a private detective who couldn't distinguish one face from another. <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>FSEC discusses improving student quality</b> </font><br> The quality of students attending UB has declined, and the faculty is to blame because it has not paid much attention to admissions standards, a member of the Faculty Senate Committee on Admissions and Retention has charged. <br> <div align="right"><a href="f2.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="1">FULL STORY</font></a></div> <p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="3"><b>Photos...</b></font><br> <center> <table width="90%" border="0"> <tr><td> · <a href="photo1.html">Daughters Find Work Can Be Fun </a><br> </td></tr> </table> </center> <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">What's the real cause of mountain sickness?; Research at UB points to leaks in blood-brain barrier, not oxygen deprivation </a><br> · <a href="n2.html">FSEC briefed on classroom issues </a><br> · <a href="n3.html">Maya Angelou: best-selling poet shares story of her life and work </a><br> · <a href="n4.html">Law Alumni to honor six with awards May 14 </a><br> · <a href="n5.html">New name for earthquake center </a><br> · <a href="n6.html">Shades of Fred and Ginger: UB dancers are whirling around to swing music </a><br> · <a href="n7.html">Cassatt ensemble to be Quartet-in-Residence </a><br> · <a href="n8.html">Sheridan honored for research on volcano </a><br> · <a href="n9.html">Ekeh working for peaceful solution to constitutional crisis in Nigeria </a><br> </td></tr> </table> </center> <p> <center> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"> <a href="front.html" target="Right">Front Page</a> | <a href="front.html#Top_Stories" target="Right">Top Stories</a> | <a href="briefly.html" target="Right">Briefly</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/Calendar.html" target="Right">Events</a> | <a href="eh.html" target="Right">Electronic Highways</a> | <a href="transitions.html" target="Right">Transitions</a> | <a href="obit.html" target="Right">Obituary</a> | <a href="sports.html" target="Right">Sports</a> <br> <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/" target="_parent">Current Issue</a> | <a href="mailto:reporter@ubnews.buffalo.edu" target="Right">Comments?</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/Archives.html" target="Right">Archives</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/Search.html" target="Right">Search</a> <br> <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/index.html" target="_parent">UB Home</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/news/index.html" target="_parent">UB News Services</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/UBT/index.html" target="_parent"><i>UB Today</i></a> </font> </center> <br> <hr noshade width="90%" size="1"> <font size="2"> The Reporter is a campus community newspaper published by the Division of University Services, State University of New York at Buffalo. 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