Opinions

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OPINION

Dan Emmons for UB Student Association treasurer

By Editorial Board | Mar. 28, 2016

It’s the position that deals most directly with SA’s budget and finances of student funds, and SA is really all about dispersing student funds, collected through the mandatory student activity fee, back to students in the best way possible. Therefore a treasurer must be someone who is smart, experienced, professional and responsible, and that person is Dan Emmons of the Progress Party.

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OPINION

Spectrum endorses neither UB Student Association president, vice president ticket – and here’s why

By Editorial Board | Mar. 28, 2016

So instead we have come to the decision to allow you to know what he like – and do not like – about this year’s presidential and vice presidential candidates in the hopes of informing you as best we can before you head to the polls. We feel it is better to lay out our issues with each party than to mask our uncertainty with a hollow endorsement. 

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OPINION

It would be best for Donyell Marshall and the UB Bulls if he stays put

By Jordan Grossman | Mar. 25, 2016

And it should be the only rumor he wants to hear as well. I don’t understand why Marshall, even with his rich résumé in the NBA, would leave Mid-Major Buffalo just yet. I’ll say that again. Marshall, a 15-year veteran who has played with some of the NBA’s greatest, should stay at a program that reached just its second-ever postseason appearance. You bet it.

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OPINION

Money Talk: The implications of the war on cash

By KENNETH KASHIF THOMAS | Mar. 23, 2016

The global transition to cashless money transactions has been mostly one of convenience, but has also been pushed heavily as a reason to keep criminal activities down. Yet the idea that most cash transaction is done by criminals is detrimental to the real majority, the low-income demographic.

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OPINION

Diverse Spring Fest lineup the right choice for UB Student Association

By Editorial Board | Mar. 22, 2016

This year’s Spring Fest will feature headliner The Chainsmokers, as well as Mac Miller, Icona Pop and Coleman Hell – a combination of electronic music and dance (EDM), hip-hip-hop and indie music and a clear effort to please as many students as possible. And for that effort we applaud the Student Association. Every undergraduate student helps shells out $104.75 a semester to help fund the concert, so although we’re sure there are some disappointed students out there, incorporating as many acts as possible is the right move.

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OPINION

Letter to the editor: Career Services looking for feedback on CareerFest app

Mar. 22, 2016

Dear UB students We know you feel a lot of pressure. Pressure to do well in your studies, pressure to be involved on campus, pressure to engage in cultural experiences different than your own, pressure to volunteer, pressure to have multiple internship experiences, pressure to network and of course pressure to find a job.

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OPINION

UB women’s basketball is ahead of schedule

By QUENTIN HAYNES | Mar. 19, 2016

My first reaction was shock that Buffalo, fresh off a successful conference tournament run, could look barley competitive. Then I stopped and remembered just how far this team had come from the start of the regular season – how we started to see some of its strengths and how players you didn’t know about five months ago stepped up in moments you could’ve never imagined. I remembered this team is ahead of schedule.

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OPINION

Legette-Jack and UB women’s basketball’s Cinderella run was long time coming

By Tom Dinki | Mar. 17, 2016

Felisha Legette-Jack is without question the most intense coach on UB’s campus. It’s hard not to leave one of her Buffalo women’s basketball practices or postgame interviews – where she is always both animated, passionate and even a little intimidating – not feeling a little motivated yourself, even if you’re from being a Division-I women’s basketball player. So when Legette-Jack said she wanted to build “the village” or community of support to help grow her young Bulls team this season – it was hard to dismiss it as the campy and cliché coach speak that it would be if 99 percent of coaches said it.

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OPINION

3/10/15: Dealing with the love, loss and regret

By TORI ROSEMAN | Mar. 11, 2016

On March 10, 2015, I lost someone who was really important to me. One year later, I have grown significantly as a person. I have learned to appreciate those around me, not to waste time on the petty things but to indulge and enjoy life. I have learned the value of a human life and how the loss of one could impact hundreds.

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OPINION

‘Yelp’ for people is a hotspot for bullies, judgment despite changes

By Editorial Board | Mar. 9, 2016

A lot of changes were made to the app before it was brought to North America. You can’t post about someone who doesn’t have a profile and you can’t make a profile for someone else. Accounts can be deleted at any time so if you’re sick of the service, it’s easy to step away from it. These measures were taken to improve the experience and prevent bullying, but completely ignore the larger issue with creating an app like this.

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OPINION

Knicks, Carmelo Anthony, should split amicably

By MICHAEL AKELSON | Mar. 9, 2016

Anthony was the Knicks’ biggest superstar since Patrick Ewing departed the team in 2000. He was also one of the faces of the league and was expected to be the positive face of a franchise that had never quite recovered from the negative stigma created by Isaiah Thomas and Stephon Marbury. Yet, neither goal ever seemed within their grasp. The returns have been less than stellar on both accounts, with both the team and Melo having only modest successes and a lot of disappointment to show for it.

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OPINION

The completed deck: ‘House of Cards’ moves the past to the present

By TORI ROSEMAN | Mar. 8, 2016

One of Netflix’s first original series, “House of Cards,” has finally come out with the latest season after making viewers wait a whole year. Does the season live up to the hype? Definitely.

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OPINION

Money Talk: The negative interest rate trend

By KENNETH KASHIF THOMAS | Mar. 8, 2016

If you’ve been paying attention to world economic or banking trends, you would have noticed that some countries – such as those in the European Union and China – have been implementing negative interest rate policies.

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OPINION

Awareness of our digital footprint

By Editorial Board | Mar. 6, 2016

The days of posting every thought or whim on Facebook have passed and now the primary social media tools seem to be Snapchat and Instagram, both of which are image-based. There is still room for error here, but Snapchats disappear - in theory - and the only writing involved on Instagram is captions, comments and direct messaging. It's easier to control what we post, especially on Snapchat where we can choose who sees our pictures down to the person.

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OPINION

Studying at UB but pledging at Buffalo State was worth it

By Tomas Olivier | Mar. 6, 2016

Most students at UB don’t want to pledge. And who could blame them? With all the negative media coverage that various organizations have been getting due to hazing allegations and misconduct, some people might truly believe that Greek Life as we know it is plummeting to its ugly and inevitable death. But for a small group of individuals like me, who while attending classes at UB completed most or all of their process at SUNY Buffalo State or vice versa – the value we attribute to our organization is drastically greater than your average on-campus pledge.

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OPINION

Money Talk: Why planting Acorns won’t get you trees

By KENNETH KASHIF THOMAS | Mar. 2, 2016

As people constantly search for the next easy and convenient product, diet or app, they find themselves looking back and wondering why they ever got into a trend. Recently, people have taken to the spare-change app Acorns, based out of Newport Beach, California, in the hopes of growing their own money trees. Rounding up your change from purchases, the app builds a diversified portfolio managed by the Vanguard and Blackrock investment firms.

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OPINION

A six-mile ‘walk of shame’: Opening up about my drinking and depression helped me cope

By JOHN JACOBS | Mar. 2, 2016

Last Halloween weekend, my housemates and I went out partying and everyone made it back safe. Except for me. They thought I was dead.

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OPINION

Statement from UB Athletic Director Allen Greene on the death of Solomon Jackson

Mar. 1, 2016

It is with deep sadness that I write to share that we have lost one of our own, UB football player Solomon Jackson, who passed away last night. Our heartfelt condolences and deepest sympathies go out to Solomon’s family as together we mourn his tragic and untimely death.

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OPINION

Arizona campus preacher walks line between freedom of speech and hate speech

By Editorial Board | Feb. 28, 2016

Dean Saxton, or “Brother Dean” as he is known on campus, is a resident campus preacher at the University of Arizona, who for years has protested holding signs and voicing among other things that women deserve rape and are to blame for rape because of the way they dress. His antics resurfaced in the news cycle again last week after a student began a petition asking the university to no longer allow Saxton to protest on campus.

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OPINION

Letter to the editor: UB students not getting enough out of athletics fee is their own fault

Feb. 28, 2016

In UB Student Association Assembly discusses conflict-free task force, athletics fee (posted 2-25-16) the students state that they do not get what they expect to get for the athletics fee that they pay.