The Griffin

By Tracey Penner
Sports Writer

In their first home conference match of the season, the women’s volleyball team came through successful. Improving their record to 9-6 overall and 3-1 in MAAC play, (the best start in conference play since 2002), the Griffs swept both Loyola and Rider.
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New senators have high hopes for year

By Carolyn Millard
Editor in Chief

The Undergraduate Student Association (USA) announced the results of Freshman Senate elections yesterday.

Sixteen students competed for five senator spots and one alternate position.The winners were Emma Fabian, Dewey Hastrich, Allyson Matlock, Joe Robinson, Brian Sebastian Weinzler and Jonathon Casey (alternate).
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By Ashley Smigelski
News Writer

Tuesday, September 19, approximately 30,000 students, alumni, faculty and others gathered at the University at Buffalo Stadium to listen to the message of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso.

The program began at 1 p.m. with video presentations and musical performances. The video presentation featured Mandala Art, a Buddhist symbol of the Universe depicted in the form of a circle divided into four separate sections. The image was created by monks out of millions of grains of colored sand.
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By Mike Robb
News Writer

On Monday, Sept. 18, members of the Canisius community heard noted author and lecturer Tom Kane speak about college safety and, in particular, about the increasing danger of using online social networking websites such as Myspace and Facebook.
Kane has been featured on such shows as the O’Reilly Factor, as well as on CNN, FOX and MSNBC. Kane is also the author of a soon to be released book with the working title of Protect Yourself at College.
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By Paula Hopeck
Life & Arts Editor

On July 1, seven new board members were appointed to Canisius’ Board of Trustees. All of the new members will serve three-year terms.

The seven new members are Rev. Albert DiUlio, S.J., Secretary for Finance and Higher Education for USA Jesuit Conference; David A. Dooley, PhD, CEO and President/Senior Radiological Consultant for MJW Corporation, Inc.,; LeRoi C. Johnson ‘74, Attorney; Rev. Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J., President Emeritus of Fairfield University; Elizabeth N. Kolber, MSEd ’72, First Vice President of Investments and Wealth Management Adviser for Merrill Lynch Private Client Group; Nancy W. Ware, ’78, MBA ’85, President of EduKids, Inc. and Deborah Caudell Leous ’79, MBA ’82, CFO for NFTA and President of the Canisius College Alumni Association Board of Directors. Leous will serve as an ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees.
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By Elyse Krezmien
News Editor

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a research grant to Dr. H. David Sheets, professor of physics at Canisius and director of its Pre-Engineering Program.
The $20,870 grant, which will be produced over three years, will be used to study the development of A. konincki, a species of trilobite. Trilobites are hard-shelled, marine creatures that existed in Paleozoic era and became extinct at the end of the Permian period. Scientists have been able to find nine orders and over 15,000 species of tribolites so far, and more are thought to have existed. They are also the second most known group of fossils, following dinosaurs.
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17 Sept. 2006 / 5 p.m. / Harassment
Student reported that he was harassed in the Delavan Townhouse quad area by juveniles on the sidewalk. The individuals allegedly threw rocks at and threatened the student. There are no suspects.
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By Elyse Krezmien
News Editor

The Fourteenth Dalai Lama was an honored guest at an interfaith service in the Alumni Arena of the University at Buffalo Monday, September 18. The service was an intimate ceremony showing the shared message of peace and humanity that is a part of every religion.

The ceremony opened with a short welcome from Master of Ceremonies, Bert Gambini, Music Director, WBFO, and continued with a stirring flute solo performed by Tibetan flute master, Nawang Khechog.
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By Elyse Krezmien
News Editor

As part of the various events to welcome the Dalai Lama to Buffalo, the Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery constructed a Mandala Sand Painting over four days, September 16 to September 19, at the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts.
A mandala is an object that is used to aid in meditation. It is also a cosmogram that represents objects in Tibetan cosmology.

These cosmograms have outer, inner and secret meaning. They “represent the world in its divine form” at an outer level. They show a path to enlightenment at an inner level. Mandalas, on a secret level, “depict the primordially perfect balance of the subtle energies of the body and the clear light dimension of the world.”
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It was brought to the attention of the staff of The Griffin that twice recently Canisius President Rev. Vincent Cooke, S.J. has criticized the quality of the writing in this publication. Both comments were made in public forums: the first at the Undergraduate Student Association’s annual retreat and the second at the Academic Convocation that Cooke delivers yearly to Canisius’ faculty and administration.
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