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Community: For better or for worse
Stepping out into the rain and looking at the fallen tree in your yard, you realize that you are over the hump. The heat is back on and your neighborhood and road is clear of debris. Overall you survived the October storm rather unscathed, but just because you never lost power or the generator is thrown back in the shed doesn't mean your job is done. Chances are someone in Buffalo had it worse, and that person still struggling through this week will need us to extend our hands and pick him or her back up.
Spectrum Cartoon 18.10.06
The right priorities
A politician with his priorities straight is not always easy to find, but for Buffalo, a weekend of disaster brought the best out of some individuals. In response to the state of emergency, Mayor Byron W. Brown kept a level head and open mind with allocating relief efforts, and ultimately handled this disaster the right way.
UB students left in the dark
Friday the 13th spelled more than just bad luck for the university as communication, official response and campus emergency efforts experienced an unforgivable degree of delayed reaction and frivolous inaction. A weekend of record-breaking snowfall, collapsing trees and alarming power outages was also a weekend of university administrative failure and individual triumphs.
UB does not need Turnitin
As plagiarism becomes easier with endless resources available online, professors began to use Turnitin, a web-based plagiarism program that references millions of journals and student work to find plagiarizers in the classroom. While this program seemed helpful to faculty, issues with student privacy have made the seemingly useful program questionable. A lawsuit at McMaster University called out the privacy problems of Turnitin procedure, which stores submitted student work on a database indefinitely.
Spectrum Cartoon 10.13.06
Spectrum Cartoon 10.6.06
Size doesn't matter
With Saddam Hussein stripped from his position and thrown into a courtroom, President Bush has captured a man he feels is the "most dangerous dictator" in the world. When he finalized his orders to invade Iraq, he promised the American people that he would bring the "world's worst dictator" to justice - so why has Kim Jung-Il just detonated his first nuclear bomb?
Golisano gets serious
As many local officials and Buffalonians are hopeful that pending lawsuits will prevent the construction of the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino, Rochester entrepreneur B. Thomas Golisano says that waiting and seeing is not an option. Trying to trigger a powerful anti-casino push with a million dollar ad campaign, Golisano is spending his own money to inform Buffalonians of the consequences of the gambling institution.
Spectrum Cartoon 09.10.06
'The Foley and the restless'
Hope has been getting 'naughty emails' from her employer, and tells Bo, who is a recovering alcoholic in a rehab program, that she is resigning from her job rather than reporting her boss to the authorities. Suddenly little Timmy barges into the scene and confides to Bo that a priest has touched him inappropriately, but not to tell Mimi because she is running for political office. Seeing this scene unfold live rather than on a soap opera is outrageous.
Spectrum Cartoon 6.10.06
School shooting solutions
On Monday, the Bush administration proposed a school violence summit to be held next week to address the sudden escalate of shootings. The summit would hope to bring together education and law enforcement officials to discuss possible federal action to help schools prevent violence and disorder. On the surface, this summit may give the illusion of something being accomplished, but in reality this meeting has the potential to be an action-lacking appeasement that will soon be forgotten.
Spectrum Cartoon: 10.4.06
Spectrum Cartoon 29.13.06
Voters pass referendum election
The student activity fee vote ended Thursday night, resulting in a two-year continuance of the $80 mandatory fee; although voter turnout was sufficient and the majority got their way, the undergraduate community should not feel the job is done quite yet.
Activity fee poll should not be ignored
Students gripe about misspent money for Student Association entertainment, tuition bills and under-funding of clubs, but chances are those irate students aren't trying to do something about it. The Student Association student activity fee referendum elections are today and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Student Union, and this vote is that student's chance to do something
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Mike Migrelli, a freshman mechanical engineering major, finishes his selections for the referendum vote. Many freshmen like him are financially affected by the vote, but unaware they can participate.