This is a moment I have not been looking forward to. [read more]

The heinous 26-year career of the Bike Path Rapist concluded Monday when local police finally managed to bag the suspected culprit, Altemio Sanchez of Allendale Road in Cheektowaga, roughly four miles from UB's North Campus. [read more]

The 26-year hunt for the person responsible for the assaults and slaying of several women on local bike paths — including attacks on UB community members Linda Yalem and Joan Diver — led to the arrest of the man who police say is the "Bike Path Rapist" on Monday. [read more]

Neither Bulls' swim teams were able to beat the Ohio Bobcats on Saturday. The men's swimming team dropped a close meet to the Bobcats, 124-117. [read more]

Running outside is overrated. [read more]

Sometimes a team wins big and sometimes it gets blown out. Sometimes they can squeak out a close win, and sometimes they lose in heartbreak fashion. The Buffalo women's basketball team did all of the above over a rollercoaster winter break schedule. [read more]

Following the disappointing loss to then-nationally-ranked No. 2 Pittsburgh Panthers, Buffalo hosted three more out of conference games in Alumni Arena before beginning Mid American Conference play. The Bulls finished with a record of 2-1, with the lone loss coming to Delaware State. Buffalo played all three games without senior forward and leading scorer and rebounder, Yassin Idbihi, who was out with an elbow injury. [read more]

Alfonso Cuaron's "Children of Men" is perhaps the simplest futuristic dystopia ever made. Unlike Spielberg's "Artificial Intelligence" or Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner," this tragic masterpiece boasts no overwhelming special effects or grand explanations about the state of the world. [read more]

The club hockey team and the UB community were stunned this weekend when sophomore business major John Cavagnaro passed away suddenly Saturday morning. [read more]

If all those post holiday sales and New Year's Eve parties drained the cash Grandma gave you, shelling out a couple hundred dollars for textbooks probably doesn't make you want to jump for joy. [read more]

John C. Mohawk, associate professor of American studies, passed away Dec. 10 at the age of 61. American Studies Chair Donald Grinde cited apnea as the cause of death. [read more]

"Your first kiss, having a baby, getting married," Garrett Thomas said. "It is these first moments in our lives that define magic." [read more]

Boredom wasn't a burden that Buffalo's wrestling team had to bear over the winter break, as the Bulls stayed busy with nine meets in little more than a month of action. In this timeframe, Buffalo rattled off a five game win streak. [read more]

Overflowing parking lots and long lines at the Galleria Mall had very little to do with the after holiday sales this season. [read more]

Contracted construction workers struggle in the ice and snow to replace corroding steel pipes beneath the North Campus promenade. According to Keith Tramp of University Facilities, the construction in front of the Student Union should be complete today; sites by Baldy and O'Brien Halls are also slated for work in the near future. [read more]

The Ohio f***ing Bobcats. [read more]

On the afternoon of Dec. 9, Alumni Arena was certainly the place to be as the Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team came to town ranked second in the nation. The 6,350 screaming fans, the third-largest crowd in the history of Alumni Arena, saw the Bulls ahead throughout the entire first half before they squandered an 11-point second half lead. [read more]

Has anyone else ever noticed that the introductory credits of "March of the Penguins" includes an attribution to screenplay writers? That little detail led me to believe that all of the chirping was actually preconceived by some maniac on a typewriter, but logic indicates otherwise. [read more]

Identity theft occurs to an estimated nine million Americans each year, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Out of those nine million, almost half of them are students. [read more]

The Diver family is relieved that an arrest has been made. Our community is safer because of this. We appreciate the superb efforts of the joint task force. [read more]

Experiencing the expected growing pains of being a young team, the men's basketball team struggled in its first two Mid-American Conference games against Bowling Green and Kent State but were able to rebound on Sunday against Miami (Ohio). [read more]

Switchfoot must have spent more time riding killer waves and less time hashing out new jams over the last two years, and it shows. [read more]

Metallica, the inventors of modern heavy metal, have recently released a monument to their visual achievements — a DVD safely titled "The Videos, 1989-2004." [read more]

Under the guise of first person, many artists sing about things they haven't actually experienced. Sometimes their lyrical fabrications are eerily precise, but mostly painfully unconvincing. This list is meant to memorialize both the bold liars and the genuinely imaginative. [read more]

In a film industry bent on elaborate effects and abstract plotlines, the end of 2006 offered a movie that dares to be normal. [read more]

I didn't get any gifts for Christmas this year. I think that's because I'm Jewish. [read more]