Issue
Volume 58, Issue 26
America, the world’s arms dealer
Lebanon gets tickets to the gun show
The United States has completed the first sales of military equipment and weaponry to Lebanon. The sale of heavier weapons systems is currently under negotiation. [read more]
An all-around tragedy
Yet another death that could have been avoided
A 26-year-old black rookie officer of the Buffalo Police Department fired five shots from his service weapon at a mentally disturbed 15-year-old black youth who was trying to rob him with a replica-style BB gun in the early hours of Friday morning on the East Side of Buffalo. [read more]
Beyond the goal
By: BRIAN MEINDL
Most athletes are allowed to play whichever sports they choose, but when a mother's best interest for their child's health comes into play, many of those choices are pulled off the table. [read more]
Bulls become weeknight warriors
By: CHRIS RYNDAK
As the football team enters the home stretch of their season, the Bulls also look at an unusual upcoming schedule. [read more]
Cat Venom bears their fangs with a message
By: KATELYNN PADOWSKI
With the current presidential election drawing near, the government has become a hot topic. Last Friday at the Center For Inquiry (CFI), crowds were treated to a politically charged comedy show from the improvisational group Cat Venom. [read more]
Democrat paradox
2+2=?
By: PHIL LUCSOK
It's clear that the most supported political party at our university is the Democratic Party, a party that preaches ideals that I see to be in conflict with one another when applied. [read more]
Fight the power
By: STEPHEN MARTH
After watching the Buffalo Bills lose to the Miami Dolphins Sunday on CBS, I looked back at last week's crazy game versus the San Diego Chargers. [read more]
Homeless and helpless
By: LAURA CRUZ
The streets of Buffalo are home to hundreds of people who suffer through harsh winters with no hope for change. What makes this picture drearier is that while the problem of homelessness has grown worse, stereotypes surrounding the issue have followed suit. [read more]
Hometown heart
By: JILL TARAPACKI
When a high school senior is looking for the next step in his or her education, a variety of questions are posed. The most important question to answer is where that next step takes place. For freshman women's soccer player Angela Nicholas, that answer was only 15 minutes away. [read more]
Machines of the future
By: ASHLEY OTTO
An on-campus staff of 10 researchers housed in Kimball Tower on South Campus has been producing inventions to assist disabled and elderly people that can also benefit the general public. [read more]
Pride filled with prejudice
By: COURTNEY SUDBRINK
Pride and Glory is yet another film that milks the all-too-familiar good cop/bad cop cliche. The only thing that sets it apart from others in its genre is the blatant prejudice that comes out of its overt and offensive stereotypes. [read more]
School’s first transportation engineers have statewide effect
By: JOHN ARCEDIANO
A new program in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences aims to change the future of transportation. [read more]
Second base souvenirs
By: LAURA KUNZ
Had an unsuspecting student wandered up to Goodyear X Saturday night, he or she might have stumbled upon a room full of women performing breast exams on themselves. [read more]
Shippin’ up to Canada
By: JON CHADDOCK
Buffalonians know that the United States' northern neighbor is always within driving distance here at UB. But whether or not students have realistically considered living there permanently is a different question. [read more]
Spiraling into a world of Perfect Symmetry
By: RHONDA LOWE
Hailing from Battle, England, the three-man entourage of Keane recently released their third album for adoring fans to swoon and croon over. [read more]
Stop, collaborate and ‘Chicken’
By: JOHN RANIC
Providing yet another hit of stop-motion hilarity for the drug-addled ADHD set, Cartoon Network's shining star, the Emmy award-winning show Robot Chicken, has nursed its third season to fruition on DVD. [read more]
Student robbed by gunpoint near South Campus
By: JOANN PAN
On Friday at approximately 9:55 p.m., an unknown suspect demanded money after grabbing and putting a gun to a UB student's stomach at 65 Custer Street. [read more]
Swimming strong despite split results
By: SAMANTHA HICKS
Excited to get a new season on the way, the men's and women's swimming and diving teams traveled to Pennsylvania hoping to start the year off with wins. One team was able to tally a win while the other has to wait to earn their first of the year. [read more]
