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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Over 2 million long-term unemployed Americans remain inexplicably and unacceptably caught between a divided Congress and nearly stagnant economy. The Senate voted 59-38 to pass extended unemployment compensation Monday, which would provide five additional months of unemployment benefits to the unemployed in struggling states beyond the current 26-week limit.
A $6 million blunder by the New York state tax department - after innumerable mistakes by a department subcontractor - has residents in the state perplexed and annoyed. An audit released Wednesday by state comptroller Thomas P.
It's 9:05 a.m. and your alarm has been going off for at least an hour. You roll over, open the curtains and ... it's pouring.
The economic diviners have cast their oracle bones into the flames, as their eager followers grit teeth and grip chairs anxiously awaiting the readings.
There are two sides to the argument that student-athletes should be paid: those who think an education is enough, and those who think it isn't. The truth is that the argument is much more complex than that, which is why the Northwestern football players' efforts to be unionized are so important. Since the NCAA's inception in 1910, it has been an organization ensuring college athletes are amateurs.
A debate over standardized tests is reaching a fever pitch across Western New York as teachers and rally groups formally proclaim their opposition, all with students stuck in the middle, sitting and staring, caught between bureaucracy and ideology. Discontent has grown over the past year toward state-mandated standardized tests administered to elementary and middle school students.
President Obama has deported more immigrants than any other president in United States history, and despite claims to only deport
Dear Hannah Montana, I truly loved you circa 2007. You were a role model to young girls all around the world.
Thirteen deaths, 31 crashes, 2.6 million cars recalled. Most appalling, however, is that it took 10 years before General Motors fully admitted the problem publically, issuing a recall. A defective ignition switch was the culprit - when the key would shake or move in just the right way, the car would turn off and the air bags, power steering and brakes would become disabled as the vehicle continued to barrel forward, leading to a disastrous end in far too many cases.
Jillian informed her mother that cars were expensive. A whole $110, she said. She told a passenger by her side that her sneakers were three weeks new. Jillian was a little girl, seated beside me on the bus. As I rode a city bus in downtown Buffalo Saturday morning and sat beside her and her quiet brother who said nothing, her mother re-sewed buttons on her peacoat and told her friend that she was done with men. The boarded-up buildings blew past us, so skeletal they seemed as though they would fall over in the wind.
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