Opinions
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UB Council Endorsement
Apr. 18, 2012Of all the groups at our university, the one that wields the most influence is the UB Council, and this week we are voting on a student representative to voice our needs.
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Flights of Fancy
Apr. 18, 2012During these hard economic times, everybody - rich or poor - looks at their spending a little more carefully. We all spend a little less on luxuries and a little more frugally on necessities.
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UBCon: A Societal Reflection
By AARON MANSFIELD | Apr. 16, 2012I didn't dress up for UBCon - UB's own massive anime/gaming convention - this weekend. I didn't even know it was going on until I saw some Facebook statuses and tweets on Friday night.
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No Longer a Series of Tubes
Apr. 16, 2012Stay calm: We're not witnessing the rebirth of SOPA. CISPA is not the end of the Internet as we know it. Internet activists have been up in arms about a bill called Cyber Intelligence and Sharing Act.
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"Step Down, Sikander Khan"
Apr. 13, 2012SA Treasurer Sikander Khan is a liar and an embarrassment. It's time for him to leave office. He refuses to answer publicly for how he nearly dumped $300,000 of our money on a scam company.
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Construction Blues
By NIKITA SIDANA | Apr. 13, 2012It's a Monday morning and it's 43 degrees outside. My bed is warm and cozy. I don't have class till 5 p.m.
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The App That Never Was
By SARA DINATALE | Apr. 13, 2012On March 26 SA Treasurer Sikander Khan met with me to discuss his plans to unroll "SA Mobile & Cloud Services," an app from the company Virtual Academix.
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Pay the Players!
By NATHANIEL SMITH | Apr. 13, 2012When I heard the comments made by NBA stars Dwayne Wade and Ray Allen that the Olympic players need to be paid for their services, I was shocked. I was shocked that they aren't paid already. The fact of the matter is that these guys need to be paid something for their services.
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Virtual Money Pit - Spectrum Editorial
Apr. 11, 2012Often, when a multitude of events come together in ways that don't seem to fit, it only takes one piece of information to bring an entire puzzle together, and into focus. On Feb.
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Moneyball
By TYLER CADY | Apr. 11, 2012A new season in Major League Baseball means optimism for all 30 teams. Every spring fans hold out hope that this season will be "their
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A Matter of Perspective
By EDWARD BENOIT | Apr. 11, 2012"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to
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The Reality of Reality Dance Shows
By DELANEY MARSCO | Apr. 11, 2012The television industry does a lot of things wrong. I think we need look no further than Snooki to see that. Reality television is a particularly fallible beast, and the new season of America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC), premiering this Wednesday, proves that. This and other reality dance shows, like So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars, have done nothing but disservice to a highly specialized profession that, at one time, was reserved for only the talented and the elite.
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Faculty Inequity
Apr. 5, 2012Over 60 years ago, the Civil Rights Act was passed, which made it effectively illegal for employers to discriminate by reason of race or gender. The landmark law set the entire nation down the right road, but it has not been an easy path in all areas.
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Lesson of the Week: Don't Be a Creeper
By MEGAN DRESSEL | Apr. 5, 2012Guys, imagine this for a moment: you're sitting in Knox 20, looking around the lecture hall in order to keep from falling asleep, and you spot her. That quiet girl from your world civilization recitation that always sits in the corner. What was her name again? Lorna? Laura?
