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<body bgcolor="#ffffff" alink="#dddddd" vlink="#000000" link="#006699"> <base href=""> <table width=99%> <tr> <td> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>VOLUME 32, NUMBER 21</b></font></td> <td align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>THURSDAY, February 22, 2001</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.gif" alt="" width="300" height="198"><br> <font size=1 face="arial">Photo: Stephanie Hamberger</font></td> <td valign="middle"> <font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="5">Bot Wars</font> <P> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Ilya Polyakov (right), a junior engineering major, makes an adjustment to "Bladerunner," the robot he built and sent into battle on Monday as part of Engineers Week. Team mate Lenny Jacinto (left) looks on. Polyakov and "Bladerunner" have appeared on Comedy Central's "BattleBots." <p></font> </td></tr></table> <br><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><f1mark><b>FSEC examines classroom issues</b><br> <i>Panel provides recommendations to address problems with teaching space</i></font><br> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The Classroom Quality and Attributes Committee of the Faculty Senate brought a list of recommendations to clean up, refurbish, modernize and make safe the university's teaching space to the Feb. 14 meeting of the senate's Executive Committee—a project totaling an estimated $772,230 for the 2001-02 academic year.</font> <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></font></p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><b>UB Council opposes student-fee cap</b></font><br> <font face="verdana,arial" size="-1">The UB Council went on the record on Tuesday in opposing an effort in the state Legislature to limit student fees to 15 percent of tuition.</font> <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> <p> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> · <a href="n1.html">Music announces March concert schedule: <i>Performances by violinist Oliveira, soprano Ohrenstein highlight Slee lineup</i></a><br> · <a href="n2.html">UB checks out NYPIRG: <i>Group investigates establishing chapter, to hold "teach-in"</i></a><br> · <a href="n3.html">Pitman applies math to kidney</a><br> · <a href="n4.html">Students focus of Thompson's work: <i>Priorities of associate director of admissions blend education with community service</i></a><br> · <a href="n5.html">Adolescent cigarette, alcohol use examined: <i>RIA study finds concurrent use of alcohol, cigarettes poses serious public-health issue</i></a><br> · <a href="n6.html">Wright material on the road: <i>Items from UB collection to appear in notable exhibitions</i></a><br> · <a href="n7.html">Smoking tied to hemorrhage risk</a><br> · <a href="n8.html">Exhibit contrasts nature, technology: <i>Work by Texan James Drake uses snake skin to depict customs, behaviors of environment</i><br> </td> </tr> </table> </center> <hr noshade width="90%" size="1"> <center> <p> <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="qa.html" target="Right">Q&A</a> | <a href="eh.html" target="Right">Electronic Highways</a><br> <a href="kudos.html" target="Right">Kudos</a> | <a href="mail.html" target="Right">The Mail</a> | <a href="sports.html" target="Right">Sports</a> | <a href="ex.html" target="Right">Exhibits, Notices, Jobs</a><br> <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/" target="_parent"></a><a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/calendar" target="_top">Events</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/" target="_parent"></a><a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/" target="_parent">Current Issue</a> | <a href="mailto:reporter@ubnews.buffalo.edu" target="Right">Comments?</a><br> <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/Archives.html" target="Right">Archives</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/search" target="_parent">Search</a> | <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> </p> </center> <br> <hr noshade width="90%" size="1"> <font size="2"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Reporter</font></i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 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>, 336 Crofts Hall, Amherst, NY, 14260, 716-645-2626. <br> <br> <i>The Reporter</i> publishes in print and online every Thursday during the academic year.<br> <br> </font><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Associate Vice President for University Services:</b> Carole Smith Petro<br> <b>Director of News Services:</b> Arthur Page<br> <b>Director of Periodicals and Editor:</b> Sue Wuetcher<br> <b>Assistant Editor: </b>Jennifer Lewandowski<br> <b>Art Director:</b> Rebecca Farnham<br> <b>Design Assistant:</b> Kristen Kowalski<br> <b>Contributing Editors:</b> Lois Baker, Patricia Donovan, Ellen Goldbaum, Mary Beth Spina, S.A. Unger, Christine Vidal, Ann Whitcher<br> <b>Online Publisher:</b> Liz Holland </font></font></font> </td> </tr></table> </body>