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Bulls teams of 2008, 1958 recognized

The accolades continue to roll in for UB’s Mid-American Conference Championship football team and the university’s 1958 Lambert Cup team.

The SUNY Board of Trustees unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday honoring the “courageous actions” of the 1958 team, which turned down an invitation to play in the Tangerine Bowl because its two African-American team members would have been prohibited from playing.

It also recognized the athletic accomplishments of the 2008 squad, which won the MAC championship with a convincing victory over undefeated and nationally ranked Ball State University and earned a berth in the International Bowl. The team was the first UB team and first SUNY team ever to compete in an NCAA post-season bowl game.

Athletics Director Warde Manuel and head coach Turner Gill attended the SUNY board meeting in Albany.

Manuel and players James Starks and Naaman Roosevelt are expected to be in attendance at today’s meeting of the Erie County Legislature when the body issues a proclamation congratulating the Bulls on their trip to the International Bowl as MAC champions and paying tribute to the 1958 team on the 50th anniversary of its stand against racial segregation.

“The members of the Erie County Legislature take pride in these two defining moments in the history of the UB Bulls,” the proclamation states.

Albright-Knox to screen films

“3 x 3 @AKAG,” a film series featuring three films by three master filmmakers—Jean Renoir, Federico Fellini and Yasujirō Ozu—will be presented on Thursdays in February, March and April in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery by UB faculty members Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian.

The films will be screened at 7:30 p.m. in the gallery auditorium. The series is free for gallery members and free with gallery admission for nonmembers.

Each week, Jackson, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel P. Capen Professor of American Culture in the Department of English, and Christian, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, also in the English department, will introduce the film and briefly discuss the career and influence of the filmmaker. After the screening, they’ll join audience members in a discussion of the film. A booklet by Jackson and Christian with notes on the three directors and nine films will be available at each screening.

The schedule:

•Jean Renoir: Feb. 5, “The Grand Illusion” (1937); Feb. 12, “La Bête Humaine” (1938); Feb. 19, “Rules of the Game” (1939).

• Federico Fellini: March 5, “I Vitelloni” (1953); March 19, “8 ½” (1963); March 26, “Juliet of the Spirits” (1965).

• Yasujirō Ozu: April 9, “Late Spring” (1949); April 16, “Tokyo Story” (1953); April 23, “Floating Weeds” (1959).

“3 x 3 @ AKAG” is co-sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute and the Capen Chair in American Culture.

Penderecki Quartet to perform

The Penderecki String Quartet will make its first appearance in UB’s Slee/Beethoven String Quartet Cycle when it performs the fourth concert in this year’s cycle at 8 p.m. Feb. 6 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.

Approaching the third decade of an extraordinary career, the Penderecki String Quartet has become one of the most celebrated chamber ensembles of its generation. Natives of four different countries—Poland, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom—the musicians bring their varied, yet collective experience to performances that demonstrate their “remarkable range of technical excellence and emotional sweep,” according to the Toronto Globe and Mail.

The quartet, a devoted champion of new music that has premiered more than 100 works to date, is quartet-in-residence at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.

Advance tickets are $12 for general admission; $9 for UB faculty and staff, alumni and senior citizens; and $5 for students. Tickets purchased at the door are $20, $15 and $8.

Tickets may be purchased at the Slee Hall box office, the Center for the Arts box office and at all Ticketmaster outlets.

For further information on UB Music Department events, click here.

Free tax preparation available

IRS-certified accounting students from the School of Management will again provide free tax-preparation services to individuals and families with annual incomes below $42,000.

Members of the UB community and area residents are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity, which will be held on both the North and South campuses. The IRS estimates that using such free services can save taxpayers between $100 and $300 in preparation fees.

Free tax preparation will be offered from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on a first-come, first-served basis in 109 Allen Hall, South Campus, on Feb. 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28 and March 1, and in 106 Jacobs Management Center, North Campus, on March 21, 22, 28, 29 and April 4, 5, 11 and 12.

The tax service is coordinated by the UB chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, an international honors organization for accounting, finance and information systems students, with help from the UB Accounting Association.

For further information, send an email to mgt-freetaxprep@buffalo.edu or call 480-9720.