UB prides itself on having Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified buildings, and several sustainability-related awards, including the 2016 Green Power Award from the EPA.
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We are grateful UB Athletics has decided to take a look at how it is spending our student fee money. But we are shocked at the callous way administrators chose to announce $2 million cuts and the disintegration of four UB teams.
They lined 120 student athletes up in a room at 8 a.m. Monday and collectively slaughtered their college dreams. Is this UB’s definition of providing an education?
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Pepsi’s newest advertisement could not be more off the mark.
The new ad features model Kendall Jenner clad in a blonde wig at a photo shoot as a protest hits the streets in the background. It is unclear what this protest is even about; demonstrators carry cheesy signs with messages like “spread love” and “join the conversation,” that don’t indicate what the group is fighting for.
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When I sat down for an interview with my soon-to-be boss, he told me, “This job is like having a hundred grandparents come at you all at once.” I found out pretty soon that he was right.
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There was once a time when I thought the snow was the coldest thing on this campus.
It was a simpler time, before I encountered the most diabolical, cold-hearted creatures on planet earth: the geese.
When I say “the geese,” I’m not referring to any goose. The UB geese are far from your average birds.
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I’m proud to be from the “tech generation.” The access to constant information, entertainment, resources... life has never been easier or more complicated.
And to think it hasn’t always been this way; a world once existed without Uber, streaming TV or Instagram.
read more >>It was 2 p.m. on a weekday. My mom picked me up from the front of my elementary school as she usually did.
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What is the cost of speaking your mind in the NFL?
In the case of Colin Kaepernick, the answer is shaping up to be millions of dollars.
Four years ago, it was unthinkable to imagine that not a single NFL team would want Kaepernick.
read more >>During her speech at the College Media Association convention in New York City this past weekend, Ann Shoket, former editor in chief of Seventeen, emphasized the importance of honoring your childhood dreams and the limitless aspirations that you dream up sitting in your teenage bedroom.
read more >>This is the first year many Spectrum editors have seen a competitive Student Association e-board election.
read more >>Our paper made an inexcusable mistake on March 9. We printed an insensitive, transphobic slur that rightfully upset many students.
I apologize profusely for the error; we made it out of ignorance and quickly corrected it online. But the damage remains in our printed paper.
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I gave up a life of guaranteed stability to gamble on what is, to be fair, a bit of a pipe dream. And I’m sure I am not the only one.
read more >>I’m a huge fan of motivational, self-improvement advice.
I’ve Googled “how to not be scatter-brained,” I highlight every day, I make lists for fun, save Pinterest articles about improving memory – it’s practically in my LinkedIn bio.
read more >>On any given day, I experience widespread, chronic pain that ranges from mild to debilitating.
I have fibromyalgia: a medical condition characterized by chronic widespread muscle pain, heightened pain response to pressure, extreme fatigue, altered sleep, poor memory and impaired concentration
read more >>I can remember hating my body as far back as eight years old. I remember reading my mom’s diet books late at night in middle school.
By age thirteen, I had tried South Beach, Atkins and Weight Watchers.
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For a student, nothing is more frustrating than thinking you’re done with homework, or a project only to figure out you messed up and need to start over.
After about a semester of reporting, this is exactly what happened with my article, “Isolated: International Students not Integrated.”
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Whenever I told my peers that my mom is Dominican and that my dad is Nigerian, I received a mix of responses.
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Melania Trump is featured on the cover of February’s Vanity Fair Mexico in diamonds – a must see.
The First Lady is wearing diamond rings and bracelets and posed as if she is “eating” a bowl of stringed jewels like spaghetti. Inside the issue, there is another photo of Melania drinking a jewel-laced cocktail through a straw.
Her cover photo is being criticized as insensitive and out of touch, coming at a tense time between Mexico and the United States.
read more >>On Sunday, I was one of roughly 100 people who gathered in Niagara Square to rally for transgender rights and protest President Donald Trump’s administration’s recent legislation on trans bathroom rights.
read more >>After the initial excitement of the election and the inauguration, it’s easy to let politics fade into the background of student life. At this point, Donald Trump is president. We can continue to protest or accept the election results.
read more >>It started with a cough – nothing out of the ordinary for someone with allergies and asthma. I brushed it off; I was not about to let a tickle in my throat foil my Saturday night plans.
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