The other day, I was driving around with my little cousins in the backseat, when one of them asked me: “Who’s your best friend?” It seemed silly to me, but it's a very serious question to be answered for a ten year old.
In high school, my teachers constantly told me that college would be strict. Everything was supposed to be about discipline, about preparing for a future in the working world where rules were rigid and expectations were high. But here’s the thing: no one tells you that college is the exact opposite of that.
Growing up, I always thought that there was only one path. You go to high school, then continue onto college. Then, if you’re fortunate enough, start work in a career of your choice and make a bunch of money. Not once when I thought about the aforementioned timeline did I think about the struggles that may come before reaching that dream career.
Tripathi and Weber need to resign now. The UB President and Provost are either too incompetent or too lazy to continue to lead the University at Buffalo. This is clear, after recent results of the CAS faculty confidence vote showing a majority do not have confidence in Tripathi nor Weber. The atrocious mishandling of recent protests on campus only proves this point further.
"We write as members of the Law School faculty concerning the Faculty Senate’s call, in its May 7 resolution, for 'the University to request that all charges against the demonstrators be dropped' in connection with the May 1 police action on our campus."
Since The Spectrum’s founding in 1950 as UB’s independent student news publication, thousands of students have come and gone. But a few things remain the same.
I invite you to find a place here in Buffalo where you can write your story — and if you have a little extra time, maybe you can join us in writing everyone else’s. It’s a lot of work, and a lot of responsibility, but it’s an honor. 74 years of Spectrum reporters agree.
I’m going to miss all the inside jokes, all the arguments over how to phrase something, all the group hangouts, all the office decorations, all the massive FOIL requests, and making fun of Faculty Advisor Matt Parrino. Saying goodbye is so much harder when you don’t have another year ahead of you.
Instead of attempting some cliché introduction, I’ll get straight to the point: The Spectrum is amazing. And when I say The Spectrum, I mean all of it: the publication itself, its history, its staff and alumni, its office (and the decorations on the walls), and the impact it has on this campus.
My story of how I joined The Spectrum isn’t exciting or funny or interesting. It changed my life anyway.
“I’ve got the writing bug,” is what I said a few weeks into my time as an editor. I couldn’t stop pursuing stories and writing articles for The Spectrum.
If you told me three years ago that I would be an editor at The Spectrum, I would not have believed you. Going into my sophomore year, I felt disoriented. I was beginning a new major and readjusting to life after the pandemic lockdown.
So maybe I was wrong. Maybe I am a journalist. But more importantly, I found a family of wonderful, silly people who pulled me out of my shell and gave me a home. And I will be forever grateful to them.
Hello, I’m Rachel. Unless you read my one eclipse article or my unserious quips in the Spec Recs, you didn’t read what I had to say, but if you subscribed to the newsletter, you definitely saw it.
"President Tripathi has not seen fit even to mention this assault, much less apologize for it. The UB community needs to think hard about the precedent he has set."
With each instance that I went headphones-free, I grew fond of the observations and the details that I became perceptive to which enabled me to continue music-free walks.
The University at Buffalo failed its students last week. Instead of listening, instead of holding a dialogue, administrators chose force in a knee-jerk reaction. This runs counter to everything we believe in, and counter to what universities are supposed to stand for.
Every student needs snacks to fuel them through finals, but some snacks go above and beyond what the rest can achieve.
I encourage everyone who asks me about it to write for The Spectrum and to take the ENG 394 class with our faculty advisor, Matt Parrino. Through The Spectrum, I’ve met some of my closest friends here and improved drastically as a writer.
They talk too much. They sing too loud. They dance in the hallways. Theater kids have long been written off as a subculture for drama and inflated egos. But there's more to it.
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