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<base href=""> <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 30, NUMBER 19</b></font> </td><td align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>THURSDAY, February 4, 1999</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="Graphics/cover.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="210" alt=""></td> <td valign="bottom"> <p> <font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="10">Serenade at Slee</font> <P> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"> Members of the Slee Sinfonietta perform during a concert last week in Slee Hall. This professional chamber orchestra is made up of UB faculty and students, members of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and other professional musicians from Western New York. </td></tr></table> <br> <p> <br><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><f1mark><b>Budget 'gaps' to have $6 million impact on UB<br></b> <i>Pataki proposal fails to provide funds for contractual salary increases, inflation costs</i></font><br> The executive budget proposal released by Gov. George Pataki last week fails to provide money for SUNY contractual salary increases and inflation costs, a move that would have a $6 million impact on UB, administrators say. <br> <div align="right"><a href="f1.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="1">FULL STORY</font></a></div> <p><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><f2mark><b>Alcohol abuse study looks at effects on kids </b> </font><br> Researchers in the School of Social Work have received a four-year, $1.4 million federal grant to study maternal influences and behaviors on children when the mothers abuse alcohol. <br> <div align="right"><a href="f2.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="1">FULL STORY</font></a></div> <p><br>  <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">Student Development Center: <i>A new name for office devoted to multiculturalism, diversity</i> </a><br> · <a href="n2.html">PSS updated on capital budget </a><br> · <a href="n3.html">Conference to address growth of sweatshops in American industry </a><br> · <a href="n4.html">Charlie Keil: he's the 'Musicking' Man: <i>Professor's mission is fostering musical expression in youth</i> </a><br> · <a href="n5.html">International Film Series set </a><br> · <a href="n6.html">Clinton and the impeachment process: <i>UB offers courses, Web information on "hot" political issues </i> </a><br> · <a href="n7.html">The decline of the traditional family: <i>UB sociology professor begins study on why some choose cohabitation over marriage</i> </a><br> </td></tr> </table> </center> <p> <br><br><br> <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://wings.buffalo.edu/calendar" target="_top">Events</a> | <a href="eh.html" target="Right">Electronic Highways</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. Editorial offices are located at <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/news/" target="_parent"><b>UB News Services</b></a>, 136 Crofts Hall, Amherst, NY, 14260, 716-645-2626. <br><br> The Reporter publishes in print and online every Thursday during the academic year.<br><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Associate Vice President for University Services:</b></font> Carole Smith Petro<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Director of News Services:</b></font> Arthur Page<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Associate Director of News Services and Editor:</b></font> Sue Wuetcher<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Associate Editor:</b></font> Joan Danzig<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Art Director:</b></font> Rebecca Farnham<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>News Services Editors:</b></font> Lois Baker, Patricia Donovan, Ellen Goldbaum, Mary Beth Spina, Christine Vidal<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Editorial Assistant:</b></font> Mara McGinnis<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Online Publisher:</b></font> Liz Holland </font> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table>