My children will not play football
By RYAN TANTALO | Jan. 5Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin's tragic injury is the latest example of the extreme risks football players accept every time they walk onto the field.
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin's tragic injury is the latest example of the extreme risks football players accept every time they walk onto the field.
If you get a “bad” grade, it isn’t the end of the world.
As children, we often ask each other the question: If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Will racism in the U.S. ever end? For myself and many of my friends, the likely answer seems to be that it won’t.
Don’t live life in service of others, desperate for their companionship. Be the jester, the king, the queen and the knight, in all of their glory.
You aren’t forced to have your life figured out after senior year. But the societal pressure of finishing school and finding a job right after graduation are real.
As a first generation college student, I felt a lot of pressure from my family to go into school with an idea of what I actually wanted to do, but I barely had any guidance during the application process.
But as I grew older and developed more of my personality, I started to feel like I was forcing myself to be a girl. It was like I was putting on an overly feminine performance to attract attention and to please my family, because it was easier to be a woman than it was to even consider the possibility that I may be nonbinary.
Being a member of a marginalized community is scary enough — let’s not make it worse by wearing inappropriate, insensitive or stupid Halloween costumes.
I am done with the system that deceives me and my peers into thinking that our success is defined by how high our grades are and how satisfied our family members and teachers are.
You don’t need to be perfect to be worth something. Memories are made when you set yourself free from the little, nitpicky expectations no one but you notices.
UB’s Homecoming fireworks are only one of many examples of environmental destruction. But its contract with the Town of Amherst for the Fourth of July display over Lake Lasalle magnifies this issue. Why does UB, a research institution with multiple offices and programs based in sustainability, continue with this engagement?
A graduate worker’s state of the union is this: the University at Buffalo knowingly keeps their graduate workers in severe financial distress and poverty, while their top administrators have received $20K+ bonuses EACH since the pandemic started.
Providing emergency contraception in vending machines is an innovative way to ensure easy access to basic, essential health care.
As a first-generation college student and an eldest daughter, it goes without saying that my family was completely and utterly terrified for me to move out and start attending parties.