Elizabeth Chestnut, a senior French and Spanish major, and Stephen Wah, a recently graduated Interdisciplinary Degree Programs Social Sciences major, met and bonded during French class.
After I graduated from high school, almost all my friends were raring to get out of town and onto campus, eyes sparkling and heart pounding.
Regardless of his or her dream vocation, most every student is driven by passion and ambition. But some students are different.
If you were on campus between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday or Tuesday, then you probably saw the graphic photos of aborted children, lynched slaves and Jews in concentration camps outside the Student Union.
Video games. Shakespeare plays. Factory farms. Episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What do they all have in common? Violence. Students from UB and Buffalo State College participated in Western New York's first-ever undergraduate conference on the humanities, "On Violence and Representation" Saturday.
As a 5-year-old, Rebecca Mayville would gaze out the window on long car drives, mesmerized by horses - tall, powerful and gentle creatures.
Lilacs hardly breed in Buffalo, but T. S. Eliot got it right when he wrote that April is the cruelest month. Tantalizing whispers of spring are spastically punctuated with precipitation in our fair city.
With her crystal rings, sparkling laugh and starry eyes, her parents have always said, "all that glitters is Lexi." Alexis Katz, a junior English major, has been drawn to all things shiny and positive since she was a little girl.
From singing "Amazing Grace" to saying the 'Our Father' prayer in front of chain fences and razor wires, Newman Center students offered religious and emotional support to local prisoners this weekend. Saturday night, students visited the Collins Correctional Facility, a prison located in Collins, N.Y.
The act was over, the audience was sitting silently and there was a moment of breathing. Just breathing.
Solutions by The State News
