OPINION
Dear Spectrum
By BEYONCE THOMAS-REYNOSO | May 12For the longest time I believed that my route would be law as it was the only thing that made sense.
BEYONCE THOMAS-REYNOSO
NEWS
UB student detained by ICE will leave the U.S.
By BEYONCE THOMAS-REYNOSO and NADIA BANGAROO | Apr. 28A UB student that has been in a U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) facility at Louisiana for a month and a half will be departing back to China at an indeterminate date.
NEWS
UB student detained by ICE denied bond
By BEYONCE THOMAS-REYNOSO and MYLIEN LAI | Apr. 10A UB student detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement remains in a Louisiana detention facility after his bond was denied last Monday.
NEWS
ICE detains UB student after routine immigration hearing; reasons unknown
By BEYONCE THOMAS-REYNOSO and MYLIEN LAI | Mar. 18Jiaye You was working on his senior thesis exhibition in class last Monday. You is now held at the Jackson Parish Correctional Center in Jonesboro, Louisiana, as of 11:00 a.m. Wednesday with an undetermined release date.
ARTS
Verses and Voices
By BEYONCE THOMAS-REYNOSO | Oct. 8In the warm and cozy colorful cove of Amy’s Place, a cafe near South Campus, the UB Poetry Club hosted its first open mic night outside of North Campus; students and locals of the area came together to share their stories, poems, laughter and songs.
NEWS
UB’s Breadbox and Stackers set to close to accommodate new ‘The Halal Shack’
By BEYONCE THOMAS-REYNOSO | Apr. 29, 2025The scent of freshly toasted paninis and juicy burgers will soon be just a memory in UB’s Student Union, as Breadbox and Stackers are set to close at the end of this semester to make way for a new addition: The Halal Shack.
NEWS
Uncertainty and fear live on-campus
By BEYONCE THOMAS-REYNOSO , MYLIEN LAI and NADIA BANGAROO | Apr. 16, 2025Last Tuesday morning, Heather Squire gave up the remaining four years of her five-year PhD fellowship in UB’s Department of Environment and Sustainability to protest the university's silence amid national arrests and planned deportations of international students in recent weeks.
OPINION
The First Amendment is under attack — and silence is not neutrality
By BEYONCE THOMAS-REYNOSO | Apr. 8, 2025We must stand for those who cannot speak by choice, and we must advocate for the communities that are actively losing their voice.
OPINION
Cory Booker is not a savior — his act is just another facade
By BEYONCE THOMAS-REYNOSO | Apr. 8, 2025The current humanitarian crisis in Gaza went unmentioned during Sen. Cory Booker's 25-hour protest.
OPINION
The broken system
By BEYONCE THOMAS-REYNOSO | Dec. 12, 2024The chief executive officer (CEO) of UnitedHealthcare—one of the five largest health insurance companies in the country—was assassinated. While I want to stress that the act of murder is heinous, the real crime we are blindsighted by is healthcare.
