AMY ARACENA

Amy Aracena is the managing editor at The Spectrum. She enjoys reading slow-burn romance novels and drinking iced chai lattes whenever she can.

She can be found at @amyaracenaa on Instagram and @aaracena on TikTok.

Bad Bunny performing hit song "BAILE INoLVIDABLE" in Puerto Rico.

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ARTS

Bad Bunny: ICE OUT

By AMY ARACENA and ALYSSA RAMOS | Feb. 11

Just two months into the year, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, formally known as Bad Bunny, has changed history and created a new pathway of light for Latin and Hispanics all around the United States.

NEWS

Q&A: 2025-26 SA e-board

By AMY ARACENA | Apr. 3

The REAL party’s Aisha Bechir, and four Stampede party candidates – Mason Bayer, William Dong, Benjamin Lau and Jack Koscinski — secured their seats in a tight race for positions on SA’s e-board for the 2025-26 term.

NEWS

Jeffrey Grabill named CAS dean

By AMY ARACENA | Mar. 25

UB’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) dean search committee named Jeffrey Grabill CAS dean on March 13.

Photo: EgorovaSvetlana / Wikimedia Commons

OPINION

Spring break? Or break up?

By AMY ARACENA | Mar. 25

Spring break shouldn’t be the end of a relationship. If anything, it should be a test to see if you truly trust your partner or not.

Hollis Robbins, one of the four final candidates, speaks at a public forum.

NEWS

UB finalizes candidates for new CAS dean

By AMY ARACENA , MADISON PEMBER and MYLIEN LAI | Feb. 17, 2025

UB’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) search committee finalized four candidates in a search to appoint a successor to replace CAS dean Robin Schulze, who resigned last summer.

OPINION

‘Coraline’ is the perfect Halloween movie—animated and all

By AMY ARACENA | Oct. 30, 2024

The only movie that seems to have a deep scary plot, an otherworldly essence, iconic figures and is able to have both child and adult-targeted audiences is “Coraline.”

NEWS

Domestic violence up, burglaries down in 2023, annual UPD report shows

By AMY ARACENA | Oct. 9, 2024

UB saw an increase in domestic violence reports and a decrease in robberies and burglaries last year, an annual crime report by the University Police Department (UPD) shows.