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For last year I've been the shadowy voice of The Spectrum. Every issue, I've chronicled the changing tides of recent events and our opinion about this little slice of the universe we call home. You see, I was the editorial editor for this publication. Remember when you saw one of those opinion pieces without an author and thought "what idiot wrote that?" That was me!
It's a cold Sunday afternoon in Buffalo, and I'm pushing a cart back to my 1998 blue/green Plymouth Voyager minivan at Wegmans. As my head cranes around to avoid looking another human in the eye and engaging them in some sort of social exchange, I view an unusual sight. At least, I later thought it unusual.
Ever since Sarah Palin broke the hearts of GOP voters around nation by announcing she's not going to run for president, Republicans have been searching for another name to get overly excited about.
Norman Finkelstein , a political scientist, author, and former college professor, spoke to a diverse crowd of students, professors and community members last Wednesday evening on an invitation from UB Students for Justice in Palestine, the Muslim Student Association, and other off-campus organizations. The event took place in room 225 of the Natural Sciences Complex.
The spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was in full force on Wednesday as the mayor of Newark, N.J., Cory Booker, took the stage as part of the 24th annual University at Buffalo Distinguished Speakers Series and the 35th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Event.
We've seen this before. It's become an old hat in this nation – a comfortable and ugly hat that we put on over-and-over again, even when we see how ridiculous it is in the mirror.
In a time when it seems that those who are the loudest are the only ones heard, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri showed the audience quite the contrary. The Distinguished Speaker Series' latest installment Wednesday evening showed that quiet elegance and sophistication could speak volumes in a cacophonous world.
Spacecraft building, fighting robots, and launching space shuttles might at first glance sound like an old episode of Star Trek, but last week it was all about the engineer at the University at Buffalo.
Excessive amounts of snow falling in the region is not bad news for everyone. For the skiers and snowboarders, this has been one of the best winters in recent memory, but even a lot of good can generate some bad.
Old man winter has proven to be very angry this year. The weather is frigid, the snow keeps falling, and the wind keeps blowing. In spite of this, many people continue to laugh at winter for one reason: this is Buffalo.
For many students, college will be the first time in their lives that they are truly free. Though this allows for many opportunities to grow and socialize, this liberation also has a seedy underbelly. With the computer now almost ubiquitous, and the Internet an unlimited Wild West, access to pornography becomes more open than ever before.
Family and spring were the themes on a snowy Buffalo afternoon at the Center for the Arts, where the Chinese New Year was ushered in with style and aplomb.
Thirty-eight teams, nearly 200 people, and six basketball courts all in one gym on one day might seem like a new NBA playoff schedule gone awry, but on Saturday, the Hoops for Hearts 3-on-3 basketball tournament may have given many a new way to look at philanthropy.
Solutions by The State News
