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Because of their expertise and reputations, members of the UB faculty and staff are sought out by reporters who quote them in print, broadcast and online publications around the world. Here is a sampling of recent media coverage in which UB is mentioned prominently.
"Pocahontas was not romantically involved with John Smith. John Smith was one of those guys who used to go around writing stories that made him look glamorous. That was a tradition in those days. He spun this fancy tale about how this beautiful maiden saved him, but it was all bunkum."
John Mohawk, director of indigenous studies, in an article in The New York Times on Pocahontas and the inaccuracies in the way she and other Native Americans are portrayed in movies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/movies/27chago.html?pagewanted=all
"Kenyans have resoundingly said that they reject his administration. He now must go back to the drawing board and start the process of climbing out of the pit into which he dug himself."
Makau Mutua, professor of law and chair of Kenya's independent Human Rights Commission, in an article distributed by Agence France Presse on the rejection of a new constitution backed by Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051125/wl_afp/kenyapolitics_051125130835;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
"Being on a regular allowance, no chores needed, to my mind is like being on welfare. I don't mean that in a pejorative sense, but if you receive money as an entitlement, I think, people tend not to care as much about it and probably don't pay as much attention as (they do) when they have to work for it or beg for it."
Lewis Mandell, professor of finance and managerial economics, in an article in Newsday on kids and allowances.
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/nyc-allow1128,0,7757568.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-manhattan
"Very few people with a life cap ever get paroled and his case has generated so much negative publicity."
Charles Patrick Ewing, professor of law, in an article in The New York Times on the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's murder by Mark David Chapman.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Lennon-Mark-Chapman.html