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Spectrum Recommends: Best Toilets on Campus
By THE SPECTRUM STAFF | Nov. 15, 2023We here at The Spectrum have identified the crème de la cràp for your next on-campus trip to the loo.
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‘These are the Facebook message boards of our times’: A look at UB’s bathroom graffiti
By XIOLA BAGWELL | Nov. 15, 2023Bathrooms around campus share polls, contact information, drawings and other commentary, including statements on the recent Israel-Palestine conflict.
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Spectrum recommends: Stress relievers
By THE SPECTRUM STAFF | Nov. 8, 2023Aaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!! It’s that dreaded last stretch of the semester where assignments are piled high and stress levels are even higher. But don’t fret.
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Winner, winner, chicken wing dinner
By JASON TSOI | Nov. 8, 2023Whether students are talking about a restaurant’s wing sauce consistency or texture, students can’t seem to reach consensus on the best wing place in town — until now.
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Spectrum recommends: The best courses
By THE SPECTRUM STAFF | Nov. 2, 2023There’s no need to schedule an appointment with your advisor. The Spectrum is all you’ll need to fill the spring with courses you’ll actually wake up for.
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Where does that soda can go?
By DOMINICK MATARESE | Nov. 1, 2023UB removes just over a ton of waste from its campuses every day, a majority of which ends up in landfills. The university is working toward sending only 10% of UB-generated waste to landfills, but around 70-80% of waste currently goes to the dump.
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‘Death doesn’t exist’ according to UB engineering professor
By XIOLA BAGWELL | Nov. 1, 2023UB Engineering professor Cemal Basaran's farm allows him to reflect on his theories about the continuity of life from the comforts of quiet and tranquil home.
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Philosophy, Politics and Economics club creates small forum to discuss big topics
By FERDINAND BABIANO | Oct. 27, 2023The club was founded this semester as a forum for students who want to talk about issues at the nexus of philosophy, politics and economics.
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What’s the buzz behind Hive, a student-created app?
By JASON TSOI | Oct. 25, 2023Jacob Rhinehart runs like a machine, repeating the same schedule day after day: wake up, go to the gym, read, journal, work and pioneer a new social media platform. When Rhinehart first came up with the idea to create Hive, he had one goal: to improve university life by connecting students together on a social media platform.
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How MNM Presents brought bass to Buffalo
By DOMINICK MATARESE | Oct. 25, 2023MNM Presents is the premier electronic dance music (EDM) promotion company serving Buffalo and Rochester. MNM brought dozens of EDM titans to Buffalo including Excision, SVDDEN DEATH, deadmau5 and Subtronics.
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A ghoul’s guide to UB’s must-watch movies
By ESTHER ARNOLD | Oct. 25, 2023Here are the top seven films that UB students say give them the chills.
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A conversation with Amy Schneider
By SOL HAUSER and GRANT ASHLEY | Oct. 19, 2023Schneider sat down with The Spectrum this Thursday before her Distinguished Speakers Series talk to discuss being a trans woman in the public eye, being her own boss and life after “Jeopardy!”
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From Buffalo to Baghdad: A decade of conflict through Daniel Britt’s lens
By DOMINICK MATARESE | Oct. 19, 2023Daniel Britt, UB graduate and Spectrum alum, has had many brushes with death as a war correspondent.
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Spectrum recommends: How to have fall fun before the first snow
By THE SPECTRUM STAFF | Oct. 19, 2023The Spectrum staff has compiled a list of the things they’ll be doing before we get crushed by two feet of snow and 15 daily hours of darkness.
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UB student runs home hairstyling business
By JASON TSOI | Oct. 18, 2023During her junior year of high school, Aicha Niang started her hairstyling business: Styled By Aichaa. Since then, Niang has been running Styled By Aichaa for five years at two locations: her home in Brooklyn, New York, and her Creekside Village apartment at UB.
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UB history professor decorates office with memories
By XIOLA BAGWELL | Oct. 11, 2023For Kristin Stapleton, a professor and department chair in history at UB, office decorations represent memories and the people associated with them.
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From trenches to trades: Michael Santoro’s WWI militaria collection
By DOMINICK MATARESE | Oct. 4, 2023Whether he’s getting into fistfights with neo-nazis, sleeping on the couch of the museum he’s building, or pouring hundreds of hours into research, Michael Santoro eats, sleeps, and breathes a passion for WWI memorabilia.
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Inside the finances of a graduate student worker
By KAYLA ESTRADA | Oct. 4, 2023Ali Lazik thought that being diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome and needing hand surgery would be the worst thing to happen to her art career. She was wrong.
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Nightmare roommates
By KAYLA ESTRADA | Sep. 27, 2023The Spectrum highlights UB’s top 10 weirdest roommate encounters.
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‘Take what you need, leave what you don’t’ is the motto of Buffalo Community Fridges
By JASMIN YEUNG | Sep. 20, 2023Buffalo Community Fridges debut in October 2020 and helped Buffalo become part of the nationwide community fridge movement.
