What began as a classic family vacation ended in tragedy, punctuated by the recoil of a submachine gun that ended one life and irrevocably altered another. Last week, a 9-year-old from New Jersey, on vacation with her family, accidentally shot and killed Charles Vacca, who was instructing her in the use of an Uzi submachine gun.
Art by Amber Sliter Echoing an all too familiar refrain, the board of directors for North Tonawanda?s Carnegie Art Center announced they laid off their last paid employee due to a lack of public funding. Despite receiving $343,000 from the federal government to repair and update the center, which is over a century old, the newly renovated facility now faces an uncertain future.
Well, that escalated quickly. The Buffalo football team led 21-0 in the second quarter, but the Bulls were trailing 28-24 after a Duquesne fourth-quarter touchdown. It has been said so much it?s nauseating.
I feel like I?ve done it all, and maybe I have, but it really never gets old. I?m a lifetime Buffalonian, currently residing just steps outside of historic Allentown.
As thousands of students poured through the Spine and milled about the Student Union on the first day of classes, phones and computers all over campus buzzed and beeped, announcing an incoming email that would set one of their classmates apart.
Art by Amber Sliter In December 2012, corrections officers at Rikers Island brutalized two inmates until blood stained the walls of an isolated exam room.
As an international student, I have had a complicated relationship with UB. It has become more complicated since I realized this semester was going to be my last. I like to think of my stint at UB as a floating home experience.
Spectrum File Photo Thanksgiving is a quiet holiday for my family. We usually try to spend the day with a family friend.
As school begins this fall and teachers start collecting permission slips and homework assignments from their new students, 63 recently laid-off instructors will be picking up nothing but unemployment checks. Less than a month before the beginning school year, the Buffalo School Board approved the layoffs in a 6-2 vote.
Art by Amber Sliter In a commendable move, President Obama has ordered a review of the government?s ?Pentagon to police? program, which for the past decade has provided local police forces with military-grade equipment, including body armor, mine-resistant trucks and automatic rifles. The issue came to light in the wake of racial unrest and dramatic clashes between protestors and heavily armed police in Ferguson, Missouri, after a police officer shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown.
Spectrum File Photo It?s 12:30 a.m. ? my unofficial curfew. I was supposed to be home.
Spectrum File Photo As an international student, I have had a complicated relationship with UB.
Spectrum File Photo The University at Buffalo has roughly 20,000 undergraduates. Making every single student happy with a music festival featuring only two or three acts is impossible. A democratic system in which every student of the University votes for their desired ?fest? artists would be a logistical nightmare.
Spectrum File Photo The colorful ink flashing from flyers that speckle bulletin boards in the Student Union advertising events, films and open apartments only merit a glance as I?m on the hunt for decent coffee.
After I graduated from high school, almost all my friends were raring to get out of town and onto campus, eyes sparkling and heart pounding.
Spectrum File Photo The final issue of The Spectrum last semester was filled with moving ?goodbye? columns from graduating editors or those returning home.
Spectrum File Photo I was standing in a sea of 8,000 naked people. I?m not into anything freaky.
Dramatic change is in store for the Buffalo Board of Education. But as the newly elected members of the board settled into their seats on July 1, they joined a group still recovering from a nearly two-month transitional period mired in disagreement and debate. Buffalo?s Board of Education, which oversees policy-making for the city?s public schools, held its election May 6 to fill three of nine positions on the board.
In The Spectrum?s final issue of the 2013-14 school year, managing editor Lisa Khoury exposed a dangerous and unchecked phenomenon occurring just minutes away from UB?s South Campus.
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