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The National Buffalo Chicken Wing Festival was held at Coca Cola Field in downtown Buffalo on Sept. 5 and 6 of 2015.
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Around town: events for $6 or less

The back to school prep is here: buying books, moving in and the first week of classes. But the city of Buffalo isn’t quite done with summer yet and events around town and on campus are a good way to escape the school preparations, even if it’s only for a little bit.


SA President Matt Rivera wants to use his past experiences to help inspire UB students.
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Student Association President Matt Rivera wants to hear students’ stories

When Matt Rivera was growing up, he and his family had been struggling to find the “time, patience and work that a military family needs.” This struggle drove them apart. Rivera’s mother, stepfather and sister had all served in the military. After living in Germany almost his entire life, Rivera, a senior music theatre major, left on a plane to New York City three days after his high school graduation, leaving his family behind.


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Taste of Thai review

Now I’m back and my search for authentic Thai food is continuing here in Buffalo. Located at 1460 Hertel Ave., Taste of Thai’s dimly lit, crimson red walls contain a huge selection of Thai dishes.


Nick Czekaj points to the route he will be taking starting in May when he bikes across the country and helps to build homes.
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UB student plans to travel across the country and raise awareness on affordable housing

Nick Czekaj has to bike 500 miles, run two miles a day and hit the gym whenever he gets a chance before he sets off to bike from North Carolina to San Diego. From middle of May to the end of July, Czekaj, a junior political science, international relations and French major, will ride his bike across the country to benefit affordable housing through the Bike & Build organization.


Many students have experienced being broke and not knowing where or how they are going to get their next meal. The Spectrum interviewed UB students to find out just exactly what students do when they only have random assortments of food in their fridges and how they make a meal out of it.
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​Le struggle meal

As the year winds down, dining dollars and meal swipe reserves become depleted and students are forced to make a meal happen with minimal to no funds. That being said, college students are no strangers to struggle meals – it’s almost a rite of passage for a college student.


A workshop aimed to give people the tools to help others who have been victims of sexual assault is held in the Student Union on Tuesday. 
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UB discusses how to help sexual assault survivors

After the very detailed and very explicit video ends, Aaron Maracle talked about how the experience of the hypothetical male police officer is very similar to the experience of any woman who may have been a survivor of sexual assault. Maracle, an assistant violence prevention specialist with Wellness Education Services, said that Health Education Wellness Services has been putting on programs like this for close to 10 years now.


Noam Pines, a professor in Jewish thought, leads the symposium on German novelist Franz Kafka.
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UB holds symposium on Franz Kafka’s work

On Monday, the Department of Jewish Thought and UB Humanities Institute held a symposium entitled The Law in the Work of Franz Kafka in Clemens Hall from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Kafka was a German novelist who lived from the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s.


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