College students - especially females - know the pressure of having a perfect body. The perfect hourglass shape with perky breasts and a flat stomach is what mainstream media tell women is attractive.
Everyone likes a good show, and everybody was waiting for one from President Obama on Tuesday night.
Newsweek announced on Thursday that, after 79 years, it will cease print publication at the end of the year and make the move to become the first national news magazine to shift entirely to a digital format. It's the end of an era for the magazine as journalism sees a possible end to the print era, in general. Newsweek, which joined with The Daily Beast in 2010, is making a decision for its future.
I came home from lacrosse practice and began to make dinner as always. It was a normal cold January night in Buffalo. I didn't know it would be the last time I would compete on a lacrosse field. As I cooked rice, a slow, steady pain began to grow in my elbow.
The University Heights district is the definition of deplorable. It has been an ongoing talking point over the course of several years - on Monday, we reported about a student who was left homeless after his Merrimac home became infested by bed bugs, but this is not the first instance or the last.
Joe Biden is President Obama's pit bull, and someone needs to find him a muzzle. Last Thursday night pitted Big Joe Biden - the man who made the phrase "big f**king deal" famous and whose off-the-cuff comments have prompted hundreds of Top 10 Gaffes lists - and Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan in the Vice Presidential Debate - a battle of wits, talking points and comebacks. What were those talking points again? The response to Thursday's debate was pretty well split when the issues were pulled apart, but in almost every argument, the topic of conversation was not how the issues were presented and debated on but on Biden's brilliant repertoire of reactions.
UB recently ranked eighth on a list of the colleges and universities most actively using BitTorrent, the most heavily monitored file-sharing platform, to illegally download and swap files.
UB students logging onto BullsEye to apply for on-campus jobs are bound to run into the same nagging qualification: "Must have work-study award letter." It's an immediate dead end for students who don't qualify, leaving them to fight for positions at Campus Dining and Shops.
After a summer of ill-informed and ill-advised analyses of the female reproductive system, Republicans have had a lot of ground to cover on the campaign trail, and comments made by Mitt Romney on Tuesday may have helped patch up some of that damage. The Republican candidate publicly announced he has no plans to make abortion legislation part of his agenda if he is elected president, an admittedly more moderate approach to the issue than he had taken earlier on the campaign trail. But despite cries from pundits and the left, there is no valid point to prove that he has flip-flopped in his position.
I've got real problems. Lately, people have been coming to me complaining about their tests, girlfriend problems or how I ate the last chicken patty in the freezer (sorry, Steve). But I have bigger problems this week.
Forget Joe Flacco. Who is he? Right when he begins to let people think he is potentially the quarterback Baltimore thought he could be and bring the Ravens to the promise land, he has a horrific performance against the Kansas City Chiefs - a team that has been giving up 34 points per game entering the weekend. Maybe I'm making too big a deal of his teams' failure to get in the end zone last week, but their offensive inefficiency cost me what I thought was a sure undefeated week of picks.
It's easier to understand Laura Bush from one foot away. Her cheery grin, which appears feigned and political through a television screen, is gentle and genuine.
Jerry Sandusky is set to be behind bars for at least 30 years, but the verdict he received yesterday is a swift slap in the face for the victims and their families. The former Penn State coach faces 30 years without parole and a maximum of 60 years behind bars, leaving him with what is effectively a life sentence.
Most people would expect all college students to be against the Chippewa Street commingling ordinance banning minors after dark, but here's a twist: we're in favor of it. Frequent college partiers have probably noticed by now that anyone under the age of 21 is now barred from the Chippewa Entertainment District after 10 p.m.
Society does not give members of the LGBTQ community enough credit. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer population has made incredible progress from the days when being anything other than heterosexual was viewed as taboo. There has been an increase in LGBTQ acceptance, but the hate crimes should never be forgotten.
As a first-generation American and proud Salvadoran-American, I take Latin food very seriously. I grew up on homemade tortillas, savory steak, chicken and chorizo accompanied by chismol - a side dish similar to pico de gallo - among other dishes most people aren't familiar with.
Nine regional championship game appearances - including five straight in Division I - four regional championships, four national final four appearances and an alumnus on the United States National Team.
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