The Buffalo Jills have been less cheery following a lawsuit and suspension of all activities last week. Stejon Productions, the company that runs the squad, suspended all activities for the Jills, cheerleaders for the Buffalo Bills, following a lawsuit filed against the Bills and company by five former Jills.
Thousands of nonviolent, low-level drug offenders will be applying for clemency - presidential pardons - following an announcement by the Department of Justice (DOJ). U.S.
The University Council Elections Committee voided the results of the UB Council student representative election on Friday, citing inappropriate use of power by current University Council Student Representative Daniel Ovadia as well as a potential leak of the election results.
The Student Association Assembly and Senate passed conflicting amendments simultaneously expanding and limiting the power of UB student voters. The Assembly voted to revise its election guidelines Wednesday, designating that presidential and vice presidential candidates run on separate ballots.
For many students, this is the time of year for anxiety surrounding getting a job, an internship or into graduate school.
When Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo passed the SAFE Act in January 2013, he described the law as the "toughest" gun legislation in the nation.
The Supreme Court upheld Michigan's statewide ban on affirmative action in its public universities on Tuesday, once again reviving the debate over the necessity and effectiveness of the practice. The 6-2 ruling itself was arguably a statement on voters' and states' rights - had they ruled against the ban, the Court would have been overturning a proposal already passed by Michigan voters.
The running joke that nobody reads those omnipresent, novel-length "Terms and Conditions" just got a lot less funny. General Mills, the corporate behemoth behind brands like Yoplait and Bisquick and cereals including Cheerios and Cinnamon Toast Crunch, updated its privacy policy to impose what legal experts call "forced arbitration" on consumers.
Lilacs hardly breed in Buffalo, but T. S. Eliot got it right when he wrote that April is the cruelest month. Tantalizing whispers of spring are spastically punctuated with precipitation in our fair city.
After eyeing New York's gubernatorial race, billionaire Donald Trump has set his sights on a new competition. The list of celebrities considering a bid for the Buffalo Bills franchise, which is now on the market after owner Ralph Wilson passed away on March 25, continues to grow.
I remember when the school nurse in my elementary school pronounced my last name as 'ya-nin-ski.' I remember hating pierogies the first time I encountered the tiny pockets of dough, fried in butter and covered with onions. Like many Buffalonians, some of my ancestors came from Poland. Dyngus Day is a time when the red and white flags fly.
Voting for the UB Council Student Representative opens next week, despite general lack of awareness among students about what the position is or that it is even elected. The University Council Student Representative election has suffered from embarrassingly low voter turnout in years past, despite being held online and allowing participation from undergraduates and postgraduates.
When I consider the things I love about college (and there are many), style emerges among the foremost. I'm not talking about fashion sense; I'm talking about style.
An appallingly bungled police investigation and inexcusable Florida State university mishandling of a rape accusation broke into the spotlight Wednesday following a New York Times report. The report dragged the reprehensible institutional failure into the mainstream, bringing conversations on college sexual assaults and the near deification of star student-athletes to the collective fore.
It's hard being eight hours from home on the Jewish holidays. Growing up, my family either celebrated important Jewish holidays in Israel with approximately 200 of our other family members, or in our own home with our closest family-friends. Passover always meant singing the word
The debate over wage equality for women gained no traction last week as heated rhetoric spewed and purely symbolic gestures flew from the White House and Congress. Equal Pay Day, the point on the calendar in 2014 that the average woman would need to work to make as much as a man did in 2013, was 'celebrated' last week by President Barack Obama and White House officials. Following the third failure of the Paycheck Fairness Act to pass the Senate, Obama marked the occasion by signing two executive orders that would implement similar provisions to the act, but only for federally contracted workers.
Stephen Colbert will take over for David Letterman next year when Letterman retires from 21 years as the host of "The Late Show." An appropriate decision, though it blatantly reasserts the nearly all-white and all-male command over late-night television. Following Letterman's announcement that he would be retiring, speculation and suggestions flew on who would replace the iconic television host.
Local pride and protectiveness rarely coalesce as they do around the Elmwood neighborhood downtown, as a recently decided court case revealed. A legal judgment giving a significant boost to a proposed plan for a hotel and mixed-use development downtown on the corner of Elmwood and Forest Avenues came down Friday.
Encouraging the most engaging and exhilarating gameplay and caring for the health and well being of players in hockey are not mutually exclusive. The NHL has actively promoted and allowed an excessively violent game over decades, according to a class action complaint filed against the league by a slew of former players last week.
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