Opinions
OPINION
Seize your opportunity and run with it
By ANTHONY DECICCO | May 17, 2023I’ve been here since my freshman year, and this place helped me find my passion on campus.
OPINION
I guess it’s time to say goodbye
By EMMA STANTON | May 17, 2023I feel like I am leaving UB a better person than who I entered as. I’ve been through so much: a global pandemic, a chronic disease diagnosis, making and losing friends, heartbreak. Through it all, I’ve grown as a person, and for the better.
OPINION
I wish I would’ve joined sooner
By KIANA HODGE | May 17, 2023The Spectrum will forever hold a special place in my heart. It became a second home for me, and I met an amazing group of people who I see as family.
OPINION
The hardest goodbye
By VICTORIA HILL | May 17, 2023I wish more than anything that I joined the newspaper earlier in college, because I found my people, my family.
OPINION
Until next time
By KATIE SKOOG | May 17, 2023The Spectrum has truly broken me out of my shell. This experience is something I will hold close to my heart for the rest of my life.
OPINION
My final, but not first, goodbye
By KARA ANDERSON | May 17, 2023Every member of this staff will always have a piece of my heart that I’m so happy to carry beyond this campus.
OPINION
‘The man, the myth, the legend’: The last school song of Boombox Guy
By AJ FRANKLIN | May 17, 2023For the past four years, thousands of members of the UB community have been telling me how they feel about me.
OPINION
Psychotropic medications can be useful, but they aren’t the answer for everyone
By EMILY PANDEL | May 16, 2023Psychotropic medications are often seen as a quick fix — but there is no one-size-fits-all solution.
OPINION
It’s time to break up with fast fashion
By ALEX OLEN | May 3, 2023In a world dominated by fast fashion and the money-thirsty industry that drives it, it’s hard not to fall into the cycle: buy cheap, buy more, throw away, repeat.
OPINION
Dear professors, use your passion to make us care
By DYLAN GRECO | May 3, 2023It’s baffling how many UB professors’ lectures contain blank slides, plain Arial font, black text and one stock image of a textbook diagram per slide. As an educator, it’s a professor’s job to deliver engaging lectures so their students retain as much information as possible.
OPINION
Letter to the editor: How Women in College Navigate Their Sex Lives
By SANAI SUDLOW | May 3, 2023Fleeing out of dorm room 223, Olivia’s feet can’t keep up with her brain. Her phone slips out of her sweaty palms as she struggles to dial her roommate’s number. The date Saturday, March 5, hastily appears on her screen. As Olivia exits the building, her mind is in a daze. Vivid images of the night fill her head. The only thing forcing her back to reality is the whoosh of cold air that smacks her face. Her body is shivering. The sole fabric covering it, a sheer white lace dress. She questions the promises made the night before.
OPINION
Being a lesbian is hard f—king work — literally
By KARA ANDERSON | Apr. 26, 2023Everyone has the right to f—k, to get f—ked, and to abstain from f—king at their and their partner’s consensual discretion. But not all f—king is created equally.
OPINION
The media’s portrayal of sexiness and beauty is a long-standing joke… that we’re falling for
By AJ FRANKLIN | Apr. 26, 2023The media has been telling me — and all of us — that to be sexy and beautiful we need to live up to the looks of a select few.
OPINION
Put some respect on pole dancing
By KIANA HODGE | Apr. 26, 2023Pole dancing is physically and mentally challenging, but nothing feels better than stretching my limits and mastering this form of art
OPINION
Lesbian relationships aren’t a joke
By AMY MASLIN | Apr. 26, 2023I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen a woman posting a picture of herself kissing a friend on the lips during a night out — and many of them have boyfriends.
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We need to break away from the normality of objectifying women
By VICTORIA HILL | Apr. 26, 2023Society is hypocritical because it claims to advocate for women's body positivity, for us to be confident and comfortable in our skin. But as soon as we are, we are negatively labeled.
OPINION
Stoners can be productive too
By KIANA HODGE | Apr. 19, 2023With more research, I hope we will come to understand that “the devil’s lettuce” is a misnomer. There are many positive benefits to smoking. I just wish we’d stop generalizing marijuana users as a group and focus on individuals and their habits instead.
OPINION
Never stop saying gay
By ALEX OLEN | Apr. 19, 2023For years, I had to answer to a name that wasn’t my own. I avoided raising my hand in class for fear of being deadnamed or misgendered. I changed for gym class in the nurse’s supply closet, just to avoid a gendered space. At home, there was no escape.
