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My final, but not first, goodbye
By KARA ANDERSON | May 17Every member of this staff will always have a piece of my heart that I’m so happy to carry beyond this campus.
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‘The man, the myth, the legend’: The last school song of Boombox Guy
By AJ FRANKLIN | May 17For the past four years, thousands of members of the UB community have been telling me how they feel about me.
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Psychotropic medications can be useful, but they aren’t the answer for everyone
By EMILY PANDEL | May 16Psychotropic medications are often seen as a quick fix — but there is no one-size-fits-all solution.
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It’s time to break up with fast fashion
By ALEX OLEN | May 3In a world dominated by fast fashion and the money-thirsty industry that drives it, it’s hard not to fall into the cycle: buy cheap, buy more, throw away, repeat.
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Dear professors, use your passion to make us care
By DYLAN GRECO | May 3It’s baffling how many UB professors’ lectures contain blank slides, plain Arial font, black text and one stock image of a textbook diagram per slide. As an educator, it’s a professor’s job to deliver engaging lectures so their students retain as much information as possible.
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Letter to the editor: How Women in College Navigate Their Sex Lives
By SANAI SUDLOW | May 3Fleeing out of dorm room 223, Olivia’s feet can’t keep up with her brain. Her phone slips out of her sweaty palms as she struggles to dial her roommate’s number. The date Saturday, March 5, hastily appears on her screen. As Olivia exits the building, her mind is in a daze. Vivid images of the night fill her head. The only thing forcing her back to reality is the whoosh of cold air that smacks her face. Her body is shivering. The sole fabric covering it, a sheer white lace dress. She questions the promises made the night before.
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Being a lesbian is hard f—king work — literally
By KARA ANDERSON | Apr. 26Everyone has the right to f—k, to get f—ked, and to abstain from f—king at their and their partner’s consensual discretion. But not all f—king is created equally.
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The media’s portrayal of sexiness and beauty is a long-standing joke… that we’re falling for
By AJ FRANKLIN | Apr. 26The media has been telling me — and all of us — that to be sexy and beautiful we need to live up to the looks of a select few.
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Put some respect on pole dancing
By KIANA HODGE | Apr. 26Pole dancing is physically and mentally challenging, but nothing feels better than stretching my limits and mastering this form of art
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Lesbian relationships aren’t a joke
By AMY MASLIN | Apr. 26I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen a woman posting a picture of herself kissing a friend on the lips during a night out — and many of them have boyfriends.
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We need to break away from the normality of objectifying women
By VICTORIA HILL | Apr. 26Society is hypocritical because it claims to advocate for women's body positivity, for us to be confident and comfortable in our skin. But as soon as we are, we are negatively labeled.
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Stoners can be productive too
By KIANA HODGE | Apr. 19With more research, I hope we will come to understand that “the devil’s lettuce” is a misnomer. There are many positive benefits to smoking. I just wish we’d stop generalizing marijuana users as a group and focus on individuals and their habits instead.
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Never stop saying gay
By ALEX OLEN | Apr. 19For years, I had to answer to a name that wasn’t my own. I avoided raising my hand in class for fear of being deadnamed or misgendered. I changed for gym class in the nurse’s supply closet, just to avoid a gendered space. At home, there was no escape.
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Dear SA, is the juice worth the squeeze?
Apr. 16If the rationale behind the SA's new third-party affiliation ban really was to “protect the SA,” was this really the best way to do so?
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A list of the Distinguished Speaker Series entries UB wishes it could redo
By GRANT ASHLEY | Apr. 12Let’s take a look back at just a few of the speeches that have aged like milk.
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Everyone should take at least one communication course
By DYLAN GRECO | Apr. 12If you want to improve your general demeanor, you should take at least one communication course — no matter what field of study you’re in.
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Letter to the Editor: We can make club sports safer at UB
Apr. 9The statistical chance of a catastrophic injury in sports is small, but the UB community needs to prepare our clubs sports teams to handle them.
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The fear of mediocrity
By EVAN HILBERT | Apr. 5Running has provided me with some of the highest highs of my life. But it has also given me some of the lowest lows. All of these experiences have come together to forge who I am today.
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We need to start preparing for the next presidential election
By DYLAN GRECO | Apr. 5It’s up to us to conduct our own research and look past the misinformation that we are spoon-fed on social media. We need to start preparing for the next presidential election as soon as possible so that we can avoid settling for candidates like our last two presidents — senile, old white men.
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There’s a third team in the Team Hailey vs. Team Selena feud: Team Apathy
By TENZIN WODHEAN | Apr. 5For 10 years, corners of the internet have eagerly anticipated the final rekindling of Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber’s disrupted story of true love.
