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Follow in their footsteps

By BEN TARHAN | Mar. 5, 2013

Rivalries make the sports world go 'round. Entire sports leagues thrive off the high-octane matchups of their biggest rivalries: Red Sox-Yankees, Canadiens-Bruins, Lakers-Celtics and Packers-Bears. When these teams get together, the intensity is unrivaled and the competition is cutthroat. But there is a different kind of rivalry that doesn't always get the national attention the other games do.

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Where's the sun?

By LISA EPSTEIN | Feb. 21, 2013

I am not a winter girl. Because I was born and raised in Buffalo, people assume I'm a total winter-lover. But this is certainly not the case.

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"What's the ""Harlem Shake?"""

By Brian Josephs | Feb. 19, 2013

It looks like 2013 didn't waste any time. It's not like we were looking for the next trend, especially after a year chock full of them.

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Love is in the eye of the beholder

By ELVA AGUILAR | Feb. 12, 2013

I'm 22 and I've seen my parents kiss less than a handful of times. I hate public displays of affection and find them to scream insecurity.

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MAC attack: time for UB to look elsewhere

By BEN TARHAN | Feb. 5, 2013

The Mid-American Conference is not a good place to be, especially for Buffalo. Saturday night's men's basketball game against Western Michigan was the most recent reminder of that. The officials in Saturday's game were whistle happy all night.

OPINION

Cindereality

By AMI DIALLO | Nov. 29, 2012

Say Yes to the Dress, Four Weddings and David Tutera's My Fair Wedding all have one thing in common: fairytale weddings.

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Sexy gifts to buy your boo

Nov. 27, 2012

Just in case you haven't noticed from Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You"blasting in every single store you walk into or all of the Christmas lights decking the halls - it's the holiday season.

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An extremely frustrating Black Friday

By Rebecca Bratek | Nov. 13, 2012

I hate coupons. I hate people who use coupons. I hate sales.

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Get ready to cheer: winter is almost here

By BEN TARHAN | Oct. 21, 2012

As I stood on the sideline of the homecoming football game on Saturday, I didn't feel very comfortable.

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How To: avoid getting sick

By RACHEL KRAMER | Oct. 4, 2012

It's coming. The coughing, the sneezing, the watery eyes and the endless tissues. Your roommate has it: her boyfriend has it, your professor has it and that girl who sits behind you has it. The common cold. Around this time of year students start to get sick with the common cold, the flu and everything in between. You don't have to let it take you as well.

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How To: avoid getting sick

By RACHEL KRAMER | Oct. 4, 2012

It's coming. The coughing, the sneezing, the watery eyes and the endless tissues. Your roommate has it: her boyfriend has it, your professor has it and that girl who sits behind you has it. The common cold. Around this time of year students start to get sick with the common cold, the flu and everything in between. You don't have to let it take you as well.

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True Blue shines despite cloudy weather

By OWEN O'BRIEN | Sep. 9, 2012

What began as a cloudy afternoon turned into a beautiful sunny day with plenty of sports, drinks, food, activities and entertainment to keep students partying all afternoon.

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Sikander Khan Leaves Everlasting Black Eye on Student Association

By Matthew Parrino | Apr. 25, 2012

I am the editor in chief of The Spectrum, but I am also a student at UB and for the past three weeks I've had a front row seat for one of the biggest scandals in Student Association history. The scariest part is that nobody in my office was surprised when SA Treasurer Sikander Khan wanted to fork over $300,000 of student money for a mobile application produced by a company that had no record or any discernable employees.

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The Theatric Idiocracy

By JAKE KNOTT | Feb. 12, 2012

I'm a guy that watches a lot of the late George Carlin's stand ups. I'll take a seat, venture to YouTube, and watch a line of his episodes for countless hours. The other day, my insides agitated with laughter to one of Carlin's comments that suitably fits the premise of this column, "I like people? But I have a very low tolerance level for stupid bulls***!" George and I share this idea.