OPINION
Ask Valentina: ‘Can I please worship your feet?’
By VALENTINA | Dec. 6After a month of working part-time as a barista, I was once again out of a job.
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Holiday burnout is real
By DARCY WINTER | Dec. 6Holidays are a time for honoring something important to you, and I understand the urge to make it perfect. You come to college with traditions of all shapes and sizes from home that make it feel like the holiday season. And if you’re anything like me, you want to be able to bring that holiday cheer with you even when it simply isn’t feasible.
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Matt Rife is offensively unfunny
By KAYLA ESTRADA | Nov. 29The dark context of Rife’s joke isn’t the issue. It all comes down to the "comedian" making the joke and the group he made the butt of the joke.
OPINION
The influence of my favorite TV characters
By JOSH PAWLIK | Nov. 15If you’re anything like me, you have a character from a TV show that makes you feel seen. When you watch it, you feel a sense of comfort, feel included in something much bigger than your own life and most importantly — you see yourself. The following is a list of the TV characters that I see myself in the most...
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It’s never too early to start celebrating the holidays
By JASON TSOI | Nov. 15The air is getting colder, the days are getting shorter and Mariah Carey has defrosted, which can only mean one thing: the holiday season has arrived. Although many follow the unwritten rule to wait until after Thanksgiving to start celebrating the holidays, I prefer to bring in the festive cheer early.
OPINION
It’s OK to end a relationship over politics
By SARAH OWUSU | Nov. 8We are in a place where politics has turned into a debate about whether or not someone should have rights and be protected from discrimination. I am a bisexual, biracial woman. If I meet someone whose political ideology leads them to not see the harm of LGBTQ+ discrimination, then that simply does not work.
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Why ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ hits different
By JOSH PAWLIK | Nov. 1I still experience the feelings and memories that I associated with these songs in middle school, but now I can more deeply relate to the lyrical content of these tracks.
OPINION
Western New York’s haunted histories
By DARCY WINTER | Oct. 25Western New York is surprisingly filled with a rich history of doom and gloom. So, grab a blanket, turn off the lights, light those candles Campus Living doesn’t know about and get ready for some local macabre moments in Western New York.
OPINION
Use all of your pumpkin this Halloween
By ALEX OLEN | Oct. 25Every year more than 1 billion pounds of pumpkins are grown only to end up rotting in landfills after Halloween festivities are over.
OPINION
We need to judge ourselves less
By TENZIN WODHEAN | Oct. 19Every time you let a judgment hurt the way you embody a trait, you’re losing a bit of that trait that makes you who you are.
OPINION
Why I’m not buying the iPhone 15
By ALEX OLEN | Oct. 18Once a revolutionary technology that paved the way for smartphone invention, the iPhone has lost its innovative edge, swapping ingenuity and quality for mass production and profit.
OPINION
I can’t understand my ‘mother tongue’
By SARAH OWUSU | Oct. 18We are not all afforded the opportunity to embrace our identity as a child. Having your roots explored and explained to you is a privilege I never had. The language my father uses to communicate, the food that means home to him — I’m missing these layers.
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Celebrities can’t 'queerbait'
By ALEX OLEN | Oct. 11Compromising the well-being and privacy of public figures to feel less alone as a queer person is never the answer.
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Letter to the editor: A Graduate Student's Perspective on the Undergraduate Student Association
Oct. 9"I’m not arguing that I know what the solution to this problem is, all I’m saying is that the Undergraduate Student Association at UB is fundamentally broken."
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Editorial: Students deserve to know more about why the SA canceled Fall Fest
Oct. 4For our part, The Spectrum will keep following YAF’s suit against the SA and figure out what the SA is doing with the Fall Fest budget. Students have a right to know.
OPINION
Life across the pond
By ESTHER ARNOLD | Oct. 4"After being in Buffalo on exchange from England for six weeks, I’ve come across many culture shocks and confusions."
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Letter to the editor: Vice-President Hamluk tolerates free speech, but only because the law compels him to
Oct. 4"The vice-president of student life should be one that sees the vital importance of these values and not one that tolerates it because the law compels him to."
OPINION
In defense of social media
By ALEX OLEN | Sep. 27Social media will continue to pervade every aspect of modern life, reaching both personal and professional spheres. So why not use it for good?
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‘We have the Roman Empire at home’
By DARCY WINTER | Sep. 27There’s a myriad of battles, influential figures and cultural touchstones that line this city’s streets and museums. Maybe Buffalo can be your Roman Empire, too.
OPINION
Let’s talk about the fights outside the Octagon
By KAYLA ESTRADA | Sep. 20I’m afraid that in the three years that Jon Jones hasn’t been in the Octagon, we’ve forgotten about his most infamous beatdown — one that took place outside the arena.
