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How to stay focused during finals week
By Aubrey McLaughlin | Dec. 12, 2015Here are some tips on how to get in the zone and defeat your finals.
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Protecting or enabling?
By Editorial Board | Dec. 11, 2015It’s the mindset some parents have when it comes to their adolescent children and drugs like alcohol and marijuana. The feeling is that it’s safer for a child to do drugs in their home and company of their parents, rather than behind their parents’ back without supervision and in an environment they’re unfamiliar with.
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UB President Satish Tripathi gives update on art project policy
Dec. 10, 2015President Tripathi: an open letter to UB students December 10, 2015 Dear Students: As the semester is quickly coming to a close, I wanted to take a moment to provide our campus community with an update regarding activities related to the continuing dialogues, programs, curricular discussions, and policy development in response to the controversial student art project from earlier this semester.
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Lack of post presence hurting UB women’s basketball
By Jordan Grossman | Dec. 9, 2015It’s games like Sunday that make you realize this team needs major help in the post. Buffalo controlled the game in the first half, but then it allowed nearly 30 rebounds in the second half, nine on the offensive glass. Players like Baccas would have prevented a performance like that.
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Not-so-triumphant Trump: Trump’s comments about Muslims have crossed the line
By Editorial Board | Dec. 9, 2015These outlandish comments aren’t funny anymore. They’re not indicative of Trump’s wild approach to politics. They’re outright offensive and it’s time we take his words more seriously. Masses are supporting his provocative words, defending his position that in reality should never feasibly happen. Trump is encouraging racism and religious intolerance across the United States and putting our country in danger.
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Aziz Ansari’s new series 'Master of None' nails what it’s like to be a millennial
By TORI ROSEMAN | Dec. 9, 2015Aziz Ansari’s new series “Master of None” blows these concerns out of the water and providers Netflixers everywhere with 10 episodes of comedy gold. A combination of a good, small cast and a dose of realistic humor make this show a must-see.
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Eddie’s Chophouse impresses with crisp quality of Asian cuisine
By TYLER WALTERS | Dec. 9, 2015Eddie’s Chophouse, a Cantonese barbecue joint located on Main Street in the University Heights just west of UB’s South Campus, embodies this succinct quality of Asian cuisine.
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UB Bulls on the right track despite losses to Duke, Iowa State
By QUENTIN HAYNES | Dec. 8, 2015On paper, the results weren’t pretty for the Buffalo men’s basketball team last week. The Bulls (4-5) have lost three in a row, including a closer-than-you-think game against No. 5 Duke and a first half back-and-forth affair against No. 2 Iowa State. Buffalo is now under .500 for the first time this season. But if you watched the games, you saw the Bulls begin to make strides as they head into the final stretch of non-conference play.
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The unusual Buffalo weather
By DANI GUGLIELMO | Dec. 6, 2015Being a senior, it’s weird to be in the month of December without Buffalo being covered in snow and the weather still reaching the 40’s and 50’s. It’s a beautiful thing to be able to still wear a trendy and lighter fall coat as opposed to my oversized, puffy and heavy winter jacket.
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I stand with Planned Parenthood
By MARLEE TUSKES | Dec. 6, 2015I was used to seeing the much-talked-about organization frequent the top-20 trending list, especially since it has been a common topic among the presidential candidate hopefuls. But I quickly went from nonchalantly scrolling through the tweets to reading in horror as I realized the enormity of the situation: a gunman was terrorizing a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs.
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Why performers like Jerry Seinfeld are choosing residency
By TORI ROSEMAN | Dec. 6, 2015The idea of performing in the same place seems dull to an outsider, but for performers, the consistency is nice. Touring can be difficult and strenuous, especially for older performers. It also makes their show more accessible to those who want to see them.
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Letter to the editor: by first listening, white students can have strong voice in race discussion
Dec. 6, 2015Often times us white students do not feel that we should be part of this dialogue for fear that it is not our place or that we may unintentionally say something offensive. Personally, I have found that by first listening, I can acquire a strong voice in this conversation. I stand with University at Buffalo’s Black Student Union.
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Oklahoma Wesleyan University President slams students for playing the victim
By Editorial Board | Dec. 4, 2015The letter split our editorial board. Some of us, while disagreeing with his brashness, agree with Piper’s core argument that college is meant to challenge one’s ideas and beliefs. We also feel Piper, a white male, and presumably wealthy one at that as a university president, may not have the right to tell certain groups of people how to deal with oppression he has likely never faced.
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UB's Joe Licata is 'Buffalo Joe'
By Jordan Grossman | Dec. 1, 2015It’s fair to say there’s been little stability in the UB football program over the past few seasons. The Bulls have had a coaching change. They’ve seen the highs of a bowl game in 2013 and the lows of back-to-back five-win and bowlless seasons the past two years. But through it all there has been one constant – Joe Licata, a local high school quarterback who stayed local and shattered most of the passing records at UB.
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Hillary Clinton is not a leftist
By RUSSELL GUILBAULT | Nov. 22, 2015Firstly, Clinton has firmly established herself as a neocon of the highest order over her career as Secretary of State. She supports a barrier in the West Bank, advocated recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and blamed Hamas for the destruction caused by Israel’s disproportionate assault on Gaza last year.
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Letter to the editor
Nov. 21, 2015They were a wake-up call, and perhaps a demonstration of how far parts of our current society and culture have drifted from the turbulent struggles of the 1950s through 1970s. Struggles that were to have alleviated the prevalence of “White Only” and “Black Only” mentalities.
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Time to listen after clicking ‘post’
By Editorial Board | Nov. 20, 2015Perhaps the general population needs to be reminded what an opinion is – a belief or judgment produced on a ground insufficient to produce certainty. That means everyone is entitled to have his or her own opinions and it’s not necessarily right or wrong. And an opinion is meant to change based on discussion and new information.
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Danny White brought quick success, but future is questionable
By Tom Dinki | Nov. 20, 2015A Mid-Major like UB needs to think long-term. Nothing is a quick fix. You have to slowly inch your way up the college athletics landscape. You don’t, as White always liked to say, build “America’s next big-time college athletics brand” in three years. White could move up a conference and get a larger budget to play with in three years. UB cannot.
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Letter to the editor
Nov. 19, 2015I had intended to keep my thoughts about the “Whites Only” signs to myself until I read the letter to the Spectrum by Jonathan D.
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UB President Tripathi sends letter on Danny White leaving for UCF
Nov. 18, 2015"I am writing to share the news that Director of Athletics Danny White will be leaving UB to accept a position as Athletic Director at the University of Central Florida, our fellow Division I institution and an emerging power in intercollegiate athletics."
