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"What's the ""Harlem Shake?"""
By Brian Josephs | Feb. 19, 2013It 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, 2013I'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, 2013The 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.
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Cindereality
By AMI DIALLO | Nov. 29, 2012Say 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, 2012Just 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, 2012I 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, 2012As 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, 2012It'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, 2012It'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, 2012What 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, 2012I 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, 2012I'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.
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How To: NYC
By SARA DINATALE | Jan. 17, 2012Subway maps, numbered streets, seas of taxis, and buildings that attempt to reach the sky make up an atmosphere all too familiar to UB's high population of New York City natives.
