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Feeding my addiction
By Anonymous | Sep. 17, 2013At 9 p.m. on a weekday, all I wanted to do was make my dinner, take a shower, watch Friends and go to bed. At 11 p.m.
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Money is a universal language
Sep. 15, 2013On Sept. 13, UB announced it has enrolled a record-breaking amount of international students. Foreign students now make up 17 percent of the student body.
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Leaving a better footprint
Sep. 15, 2013It was jarring to learn last week that one-third of the food produced in the world goes to waste. The United Nations released a report, Food Wastage Footprint: Impacts on National Resources, that details and analyzes the "impacts of global food wastage from an environmental perspective." As millions of people go hungry every day, it is immensely disconcerting that 1.3 billion tons of food gets wasted every year, according to the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization.
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Students can thank the masters of the prank
Sep. 12, 2013The Student Association seemed to have forgotten that "more is lost by indecision than wrong decision." As students waited for SA's announcement of who will perform this year's event of the semester, Fall Fest, they got antsy.
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Reach Out'
By SAM FERNANDO | Sep. 12, 2013'Rock bottom' is just an abstract concept until you find yourself looking up and realizing that concept is now your tangible reality.
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A plea for caution from The Spectrum
Sep. 12, 2013It is not bad that most of the UB students we have spoken to are concerned about and confused by the current conflict in Syria.
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A message from SA President Nick Johns
By NICK JOHNS | Sep. 12, 2013Editor's note: This letter has not been altered in any way. Dear UB Undergraduate Students, First, I would like to express my deepest apologies for the excessive pride that has clouded my judgment and leadership.
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Moneyball
Sep. 10, 2013There are many talented students on a college campus. They range from student government leaders to graphic designers, musicians to mechanical engineers, academic scholars to newspaper editors and beyond. Each individual may bring uniqueness to his or her respective field, the amount of potential they demonstrate may marshal special treatment of some kind, but one particular form of talented college students have a much different experience from the rest: athletes.
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Alternative pronouns
Sep. 10, 2013Have you ever heard someone referred to as "ze" before? Well, at George Washington University, it is gaining traction. Nicholas Gumas, president of Allied in Pride, GW's largest LGBTQ organization, has made it a priority to ask students for their preferred gender pronoun (PGP) and he's hoping others will join the movement. A Sept.
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Moneyball
Sep. 10, 2013There are many talented students on a college campus. They range from student government leaders to graphic designers, musicians to mechanical engineers, academic scholars to newspaper editors and beyond. Each individual may bring uniqueness to his or her respective field, the amount of potential they demonstrate may marshal special treatment of some kind, but one particular form of talented college students have a much different experience from the rest: athletes.
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"Twelve years later, new ways to remember"
By BEN TARHAN | Sep. 10, 2013On a crisp fall afternoon, I sat in the car with my father while my mom ran into the post office to mail a letter. It was a bright, sunny day and while I looked out the window, a flash of light caught my eye.
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A better face for the SA'
Sep. 9, 2013As recent disclosures have shed light on the second major scandal from the Student Association's executive board in two years, this is a time when students should be paying attention. On Saturday afternoon, The Spectrum interviewed SA President Nick Johns regarding allegations that have prompted a petition for his impeachment. "I believe I should be given a reprieve," he said.
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The real freedom of a real education
Sep. 5, 2013You may remember the most inflammatory event on campus last year: When Students for Life collaborated with the Genocide Awareness Project to bring an anti-abortion photomural exhibit that displayed graphic images of aborted fetuses. The exhibit galvanized the student body.
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To stay the course
Sep. 5, 2013Even though President Obama messed up his name last month during his visit to Buffalo, The Spectrum has decided to endorse the reelection of Byron Brown for mayor. The race is distinguished as the first mayoral election in Buffalo history to not feature a white, non-Hispanic candidate.
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60 minutes
By OWEN O'BRIEN | Sep. 5, 2013There is something to be said about 'moral victories' and 'winning a game after a certain point,' but enough already. It's time for the Bulls to put together a 60-minute performance against the nation's top competition. Enough taking positives out of defeat.
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Shining light on the Heights
Sep. 4, 2013Last week, while walking into his house on Northrup Place in the University Heights neighborhood, a UB senior (who prefers to remain anonymous) was robbed at gunpoint.
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A time for reaction
Sep. 4, 2013Not since the Vietnam War has the prospect of U.S. engagement in a foreign conflict engendered more collective skepticism and less public support.
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All on Quinn
Aug. 29, 2013It doesn't take the most avid college sports fan to realize that rarely do coaches with a 9-27 overall record in three seasons receive a contract extension.
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Is prestige worth the price?
Aug. 28, 2013The academic year at UB began in an exalted fashion last week, when President Barack Obama addressed a crowd of 7,200 people in Alumni Arena, as he announced his federal initiative to combat the rising cost of higher education in America. It has long been the tradition of magazines and various publications to annually release updated rankings of colleges and universities throughout the United States; it has also been the tradition of middle- and upper-class families to use these rankings as data to navigate through the grinding process of college selection. President Obama introduced a plan for his administration to evaluate schools with a new measuring rubric - average tuition, enrollment of lower-income students and effectiveness at helping students graduate with less debt.
