Not that anyone has been paying attention, but the football team is currently in the hunt for a new offensive coordinator. As I am sure you are aware, the Bulls finished their 2010 campaign in poor fashion, posting a 2-10 record in the Mid-American Conference and finishing last in the conference in points per game.
As I'm sure many of you out there are aware, there's a particularly revolting rumor circulating around the Internet.
President Obama has taken a lot of heat from the left over the past year. Many liberals were dissatisfied with the health care bill, which looked a public option, and many argued that it compromised too much. Equally frustrating for the left was his compromise with the right on tax cuts for the top one percent of Americans.
Though I'm a huge sports fan, I've never been into college football. It's just a thing I have; I only like the ones with playoff systems. Even so, with all the hype surrounding the BCS National Championship Game between No.
Dear Editor of the Spectrum, Colin Knoer got an arrow splitting bull's eye (Marijuana Legalization: The NORML Perspective, Jan.
The shooting in Arizona on Jan. 8 was one of the most shocking events in recent American history. With six dead, including a federal judge (John Roll) and a 9-year-old girl (Christina-Taylor Green), and Representative Gabrielle Giffords left severely wounded, the public couldn't help but wonder how anyone could commit such a heinous act. Now, with shooter Jared Lee Loughner in custody and awaiting trial, the question of his mental stability is being raised.
Forget seatbelts, let the kids fly free in the back seat, and chug that beer while you barrel down the road; just don't touch that cell phone in your pocket. This is the light in which a recent USA Today article seemed to depict Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood's most recent year in keeping American drivers safe.
Before break, I wrote a column in an attempt to generate excitement around the men's basketball team. Two things occurred to me after the article went to print.
Here are some random thoughts about some random things that have happened locally, nationally, and throughout the world while we were away from school. Winter Break Last year it was far too short, but this year it was about a week too long.
When University at Buffalo President John B. Simpson announced his retirement on the first day of classes last August, his decision sent a shockwave throughout the school.
Ever since I've known who John McCain was, I've liked the guy. When he ran for the Republican nomination in 2000, I rooted for him, and I was sad when he lost to George W.
It is a Spectrum tradition for outgoing seniors to write one last column to cap off their tenures. Usually, these banal pieces reiterate the clich
When it comes to inter-media war, we are usually not ones to take offense to unwarranted attempts to get a rise.
Iran has celebrated the wedding of Imam Ali for over a millennium in a national holiday colloquially known as Marriage Day.
It feels great to be one issue away from completing this semester, especially since we made it through more than three months without making a single mistake. Yup, you read that correctly: we've been flawless thus far. There was one time ? I think it was in October ? when we almost made a mistake, but we quickly discovered our near erratum and made the necessary adjustment to maintain our errorless semester.
The Texas-Christian Horned Frogs are the final hope for non-BCS football teams. They just finished the regular season undefeated, and they have received the utmost respect from the voters for their success this season.
In California, health care and other amenities in state prisons have been on the slump as the enormous inmate population consistently runs up the state bill.
When children begin playing sports, most of them do not imagine themselves below the stadium lights at a Monday night game, soaking in the neon light from the corporate advertisements and knowing that they will recoup at least a few hundred thousand dollars when their cleats meet turf. Romantics pine for the days when professional sports players made peanuts for representing a franchise and they had to maintain a second part-time job just to make ends meet.
It seems like the semester started yesterday, but amazingly, we've reached the last week of classes.
The local, national, and international media craze has surrounded the recent release of thousands of cables that link the public to the clandestine conversations of foreign and domestic diplomats.
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