Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, calls a recent decline in employment of 16- to 19-year-olds a "Great Depression for teens." He said the percentage of teens out of work in the summer has "never been this low in our lives."
From DJing to drug dealing, UB students have found more than a few ways to get by financially during the semester.
Gilbert Hammerman* paid his way through college. Not in the sense that he paid his own tuition or took out loans to receive his college degree. He paid his classmates and friends to write his papers, take his online courses and complete his projects. Hammerman spent $2,000 during his junior and senior years to graduate.
It's been 12 years since the planes fell out of the sky on that September day. Do you remember where you were on 9/11? Rolando Rabut, a sophomore architecture major, was in math class.
Running two and a half miles can give five meals to hungry people. Running 3.2 miles can provide roughly eight puppy and kitten vaccinations. Charity Miles, a free app available to iPhone and Android users, creates incentive to exercise by offering users an opportunity to give back to the community through charitable donations.
James Bowman did not find himself in college dorms or lecture halls after graduating high school in Wyoming, N.Y.
Mindy Weinman's life changed when she met David. The South American boy had just immigrated to Weinman's school in the United States and could barely speak English.
Madison Darling, a junior health and human services major, was covered in mud from head to toe and she loved every second of it. Approximately 10,000 females covered in pink and brown climbed, crawled and challenged themselves to complete the Dirty Girl Mud Run in support of cancer awareness in Buffalo suburb Lancaster on Saturday and Sunday. The participants organized in teams to take on various woman-themed obstacles at the non-competitive 5K race.
She could not verbalize anything. Laying in a hospital bed, hooked up to tubes and needles, bone-thin from not eating for five days, makeup blogger Talia Castellano held onto Lizzy Lenchner's hand. She opened her eyes for a few moments, looked at Lenchner and smirked.
One reason to try winter session? "Dare yourself to an intellectual challenge - an adventure," said Debra Street, professor and chair of the sociology department. UB added an extra week to its winter break, extending it to Jan.
Dylan Burns, a sophomore architecture major, spent his summer discovering the "sociology of architecture." Burns was the first UB student to be chosen for the Fulbright Summer Institute.
Four students are embracing UB's push to be more sustainable. And, according to them, it all starts with a garden. In June, Jonathan Gibbons, Kristen Janson, Margaret Murray and Dylan Steed attended the
If a zombie apocalypse hits Buffalo anytime soon, one group of UB students will be prepared to handle the impending chaos. These students meet every Tuesday around a large seminar table in Capen Hall and are instructed by John Edgar Browning, an adjunct English professor and Ph.D.
There was loud music blasting through the speakers and the DJs on stage were spinning songs that made the entire crowd go wild.
Every Friday night, Rivka Gurary serves a $1,000 meal to her family. She spends two to three days preparing dishes of chicken, soup, challah, gefilte fish, rice, salads and desserts - from scratch. The meal is not only for her immediate family - her husband, Rabbi Moshe Gurary and their five children - but also the entire Jewish community at UB. The Chabad House, located at 2450 North Forest Road behind Wilkeson Quadrangle, is a home away from home to over 100 UB students and thousands of UB alumni, according to Rabbi Gurary.
What used to be one of the most popular bars by South Campus has become the home of the calzone king. A neon blue sign and long line of drunken freshmen can no longer be spotted outside of 3160 Main St.
In a single walk down Delaware Avenue this July, participants of the Taste of Buffalo will inhale the tantalizing smell of steaming, saucy chicken wings, chow down on a beef on weck sandwich and be tempted by delicacies like chocolate-dipped cheesecake and strawberries. The Taste of Buffalo is a two-day festival of food that hosts restaurants from all over the Western New York area.
Anna Heintzman plans her life on her iPhone. She stands at the calendar at Dash's Market and triple checks her work schedule to make sure she is not double booked. After she is done with that, she checks her email for the assistant schedule at her promotions job. Then she checks her schedule for the Student Association.
For two years, Sara Festberg battled depression and anxiety. She enrolled at Penn State University for her freshman year at college. After a few months, Festberg realized her state was disabling her from receiving the education she needed.
Seven and a Half White Men struggled to march out of the knee-deep mud pit. Their faces were barely visible through the layers of caked-on mud from seven hours of grueling and demanding volleyball. For the third year in a row, the eight players were victorious. The 29th-annual Oozefest tournament took place on Saturday in the mud pit behind the South Lake Apartment Complex.
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