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Teaching with style
By Aven Salih | Nov. 4, 2014A professor with a strong sense of personal style doesn?t necessarily make a class better, but it also doesn?t hurt, according to some UB students.
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Standout student style
By EMMA JANICKI | Nov. 4, 2014Chevon Rutty sports a "dapper" look that helps him stand out on campus. Chad Cooper, The Spectrum Although Buffalo has finally forced dreary fall weather upon us, some students on campus are still displaying their personal style.
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"Hey Cletus, can we go thrift shopping?"
By Cletus Emokpae | Nov. 4, 2014Caption Cletus here, fashion connoisseur and thrift specialist from the blog Styled by Cletus. Last week, The Spectrum put out a call on Facebook for any UB students who wanted to nominate themselves or nominate a friend for a style makeover. Sunday, I had the pleasure of taking two lucky winners, selected from numerous responses, thrifting to makeover their wardrobe. We filmed the whole experience and you can check it out on ubspectrum.com. Caleb Vaughn, a senior business management major, and Krithika Rana, a graduate mechanical engineering major, were selected as the winners of The Spectrum?s style makeover contest.
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Going the distance
By ASHLEY INKUMSAH | Nov. 2, 2014Manuel Duran, a graduate comparative literature student, watched ?Breaking Bad? with his girlfriend when they lived near each other in Miami, Florida. Now, with his girlfriend still in Miami, and Duran in Buffalo, his girlfriend counts down from three, and they push the play button simultaneously to watch the series together on Skype and emulate the experience of a close-proximity relationship. To learn how to continue his long-distance relationship, Duran attended ?Long Distance Love: Relationships While Apart,? a panel discussion held by the Student Health and Wellness Center Oct.
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Around Town: Something for everyone
By EMMA JANICKI | Oct. 30, 2014You can catch a screening of Ghostbusters at North Park Theatre on Hertel Ave. in Buffalo on Saturday and Sunday at 11:30 a.m.
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? la Mode: Style Guide
By EMMA JANICKI | Oct. 30, 2014By layering with staple fall pieces, you can stay warm as chilly breezes whip through campus. Turtlenecks, tall socks and scarves will keep you as toasty as a pumpkin spice latte.
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Miss Congeniality
By GABRIELA JULIA | Oct. 30, 2014Anastasia Harisis, a junior biology major, with her mentor Miss New York 2013, Amanda Mason. Harisis has been competing in beauty pageants since high school and uses the pageants as an outlet to teach others about melanoma, which she was diagnosed with at age 18.
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Stress chest
By SHARON KAHN | Oct. 30, 2014Spectrum File Photo When I?m stressed I get, what my friends have dubbed, ?stress chest.? Some people get anxiety, some people get headaches and some people lash out at everyone around them. When I get stressed out my chest turns flaming red.
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Do you dare to decorate?
By DEVASHISH AGARWAL | Oct. 28, 2014Leah Pilcher, a freshman dance and psychology major, decorated her dorm room with Christmas lights, cobwebs and paper chains of bats and ghosts.
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Members of the UB Dazzlers wish to be recognized by the UB Athletic Department
By GABRIELA JULIA | Oct. 28, 2014The Dazzlers are not recognized by UB Athletics because they are affiliated with UB?s Thunder of the East marching band.
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Giving life to the dead
By ASHLEY INKUMSAH | Oct. 26, 2014Xavier Perez, a sophomore spanish major is performing with the Latin American Student Association (LASA) for the International Fiesta celebrating El Dia de Los Muertos, Day of the Dead. Courtesy of Xavier Perez The day after Xavier Perez?s grandfather died, his mom spread flowers, known as ?flor de muertos,? on a table in their home.
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Around Town: Restaurant week and haunted events
By EMMA JANICKI | Oct. 23, 2014Restaurant Week There are massive amounts of restaurants all over Buffalo participating in this year?s Local Restaurant Week.
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Students from around the world experience first Halloween at UB
By SHARON KAHN | Oct. 23, 2014Yulia Gilichichiskaya, a graduate media study student from Russia, only knew about Halloween from what she had seen in movies.
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Not so tricky treats
By DEVASHISH AGARWAL | Oct. 23, 2014Students who participate in Trick or Eat go door-to-door collect non-perishable food items for food pantries in Western New York.
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Photo frames filled with skin
By EMMA JANICKI | Oct. 21, 2014A doctor approaches the corpse, scalpel in hand and removes a chunk of colored skin from the body. The skin is then frozen, put in formaldehyde and shipped to Europe.
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Around Town: Halloween Edition
By EMMA JANICKI | Oct. 21, 2014Praise the holiday Gods ? Halloween falls on a Friday this year. There is just about no excuse for a college student not to go out, dress up and celebrate the spookiest day of the year.
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? la Mode: Stylish Halloween costumes that aren't so basic
By EMMA JANICKI | Oct. 21, 2014Emma models her Betty Crocker costume. Chad Cooper, The Spectrum Mean Girls
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Cultural interactions
By TRACI THOMAS | Oct. 19, 2014The UB German Program and the Graduate Group for German and Austrian Studies showed Gegen die Wand on Oct.
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Fighting for a greener campus
By AUSTIN STEINBACH | Oct. 19, 2014Last week, UB held its first Sustainability Week with green initiatives, like a petition to ban styrofoam in The Commons, and a pop-up chalkboard in the Student Union that allowed students to create conversation about sustainability.
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UB's Indian Student Association celebrates its 25th anniversary
By DEVASHISH AGARWAL | Oct. 19, 2014The UB German Program and the Graduate Group for German and Austrian Studies showed Gegen die Wand on Oct.
