The Independent Student Publication of the University at Buffalo MONDAY EDITION January 24, 2011 Vol. 60 No. 43 v ubspectrum.com
Your Guide to the College Experience Outside the Classroom
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Heights Fire to Bring Lawsuit Against Landlords ANDREW WIKTOREditor in Chief Since the academic year commenced in September, there have been three fires in students’ homes in the University Heights. The latest one, which forced Allen Curry, Stefan Dosch, Brandon Nowak and David Lafferty out of their home at 63 Montrose Ave., will need a lawsuit to be resolved.
At around 4 p.m. on Jan. 9, Lafferty, a sophomore biomedical sciences major, was getting ready to head to his job as an EMT when one of his roommates raised an important question. “As I’m walking out of the house, our other roommate Jake asked me if I thought I smelled smoke, so we walked into his room and there was smoke pouring our of his window pane,” Lafferty said. “I turned around to go back into the kitchen and there was smoke pouring out of our sink, so we got out of the house and we called the fire department.”
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