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Letter from the Editor: Help write our future
By BRENTON BLANCHET | July 11, 2019Hi class of 2023, welcome to my crib. I mean, welcome to your student newspaper.
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‘Girls get assaulted all the time’
By JACKLYN WALTERS | June 28, 2019Note: This column contains sensitive content about sexual assault which may be triggering. Taylor sat in the front seat of her mom’s car, singing her heart. The radio wasn’t even playing, she was just genuinely happy.
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Letter from the editor: Looking to The Next Generation
By HANNAH STEIN | May 9, 2019220 newspapers. 144 weeks. Four years. One ambitious and enthusiastic English major looking to find a voice in a campus large enough to be its own city we call UB. One ambitious and enthusiastic English major looking to find a voice in a campus large enough to be its own city we call UB. I walked into The Spectrum office the first day of my freshman year.
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Letter to the editor
May 9, 2019Last week Wednesday, May 1, the officers of the seven student governments were emailed regarding a meeting with the committee conducting an administrative review of SBI (“the University”). The date was set for this Monday, May 5, at 10 a.m., with no input from student government leaders, with a meeting following at 11 a.m. for Sub-Board I leadership, which the university refused to reschedule.
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Letter to the editor
May 9, 2019Faculty Student Association (FSA), the fiscal agent UB recommends student governments move our accounts to, recently had over $300,000 embezzled by FSA board member, Dennis Black, and FSA currently owes SBI approximately $1.5 million. Multiple members of the review committee are also on the FSA board which might be one reason that that committee only presented and contemplated one option during their investigation –– the elimination of SBI.
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Student Life, Faculty Student Association board doesn’t care about student radio
By BENJAMIN BLANCHET | May 9, 2019Last week, I stumbled upon a 1993 editorial cartoon in The Spectrum. It depicted the burial of student radio. The tombstone read “student-run stations.” Underneath, a caption: “administrators’ plans for college radio.”
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Tassel talk
By CAITLYN DIVITA | May 9, 2019Alright seniors, it’s that time of year! Our partying days are slowly fading behind us and now’s our chance to show off our degrees. What better way to say, “hey, I’m an adult” than a clever Graduation cap? Nothing.
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UB’s decision to dissolve Sub-Board I and its services is out of touch with student needs
By Editorial Board | May 9, 2019Roughly two years ago, then-UB Vice President Dennis Black plead guilty to grand larceny and stealing $320,000 in state funds. And just Monday, UB administrators decided that the same nonprofit which he used as his personal piggy bank should be the fiscal agent of student governments and hold millions of student dollars. How about no.
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Arranged friendship?
By AYESHA KAZI | May 9, 2019On Aug. 26, 2015, my dad introduced me to my future best friend, Anika Tabassum. Yes, an arranged friendship.
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Letter to the editor
May 9, 2019Sub-Board needed to go. Its services should not. During undergrad, I worked for Sub-Board I, Inc. for four years. That place is a bureaucratic and organizational nightmare, a mismanaged entity from a bygone era.
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See you later, alligator
By TANVEEN VOHRA | May 9, 2019It was 7 p.m. in The Spectrum office last night. It was a typical Tuesday, with Jacklyn showing me how to click my heels in the air. I was making a complete fool of myself as Savanna took videos to document my progress, or lack thereof, and Tom and Brent sporadically cheered me on from their respective corners of the office.
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Letter to the editor
May 5, 2019I will never forget hearing the words “Profit is not a dirty word” early in my pharmacy education at the University at Buffalo. Now, many years later, it appears quite the opposite.
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Students should know more about on-campus renovations
By CIAN GONZALEZ | May 5, 2019UB’s development partner, Brailsford & Dunlavey, came to the Student Union Wednesday to ask passing students what they would like to see in a future SU. This allowed not only Student Association members and faculty to give their input. We need more of this.
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The attention-seeking foul ball
By ANDREW FITZGERALD | May 5, 2019I made a snide remark about how I was lucky to get the parking spot I did. Since this was my first game, I thought it was a good, safe spot to park. I didn’t really think anything of it. About five minutes after I had made that remark, karma hit me.
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Student Association should ensure better communication before next budget vote
By Editorial Board | May 2, 2019The Student Association executive board and senators were disappointed with the tone of Friday’s senate meeting. So were we.
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Detained in Boston Logan International
By KIERAN POWER | May 2, 2019“Consider this your one favor from the United States; next time you will be removed.” OK, it’s not quite as dramatic as it sounds.
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May Day: fair pay
By WILLIS MCCUMBER | Apr. 29, 2019“Labor” is often associated with blue-collar industrial workers toiling away in factories, not instructors and students on university campuses. But the work that faculty, staff and students perform every day is essential labor, without which UB could not function.
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An open letter to Western New York dweller John Krasinski
By BRENTON BLANCHET | Apr. 29, 2019Dear Mr. Krasinksi, We get it. You’re on your national tour looking for a place to film your highly anticipated “A Quiet Place” sequel. You’ll stop in Buffalo for about a week, shake a few restaurant owner’s hands, kiss a couple babies on the forehead and be on your way, never to be seen again.
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Undrafted
By NATHANIEL MENDELSON | Apr. 29, 2019“And with the 254th pick, the Arizona Cardinals select Caleb Wilson, a tight end from UCLA.” That was it. After three days and 254 picks, not one player from the University at Buffalo was drafted into the NFL.
