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Can you swim in Lake LaSalle?

By DOMINICK MATARESE | Sep. 20

For years, UB students have harbored an intense aversion to entering Lake LaSalle.

NEWS

Club officers unable to access budgets on time due to SA training delay

By DOMINICK MATARESE | Sep. 13

The UB Student Association (SA) extended the deadline for club officer training to Sept. 30 from the original deadline of Sept. 11.

Unlike most mammals, whales can flexibly control where they concentrate acoustic energy and regularly reorganize their vocal repertoires as adults.

Photo: Dr. Louis M. Herman / Wikimedia Commons

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Swimming against the tide: one UB professor’s controversial whale song research

By DOMINICK MATARESE | Sep. 7

Eduardo Mercado III may have stumbled into whale song research, but he's prepared to "fight for every single paper.”

Mx. Ology demonstrated an invented UB tradition on their tour: rubbing the bull’s penis to ensure a timely graduation.

FEATURES

Mx. Ology’s final glamorous act: a campus tour in drag

By DOMINICK MATARESE | May 11

The intentionally disruptive tour was Lyons’ final project for their performative action class — and Mx. Ology’s last performance as a UB student.

Lance Rintamaki and his mentor, Dale Brashers, ordered and read the 50 best-selling pop books on dating and attraction before writing their own book on the science of sex.

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The science of attraction: How Lance Rintamaki turned years of research into one of UB’s most unorthodox courses

By DOMINICK MATARESE | Apr. 26

Only one class at UB sends students to a strip club, discusses dinosaur pornography and has students talk to parents about “the talk”: COM 492.

The Elicott housing complex, also known as “Lego Land,” is the primary housing complex for UB freshman and sophomore students.

FEATURES

Dispelling the rumors of ‘Lego Land’

By DOMINICK MATARESE | Apr. 12

The Ellicott Complex, affectionately nicknamed “Lego Land” by students, is infamous for its peculiar design.

OUTpatient’s LGBTQIA+ Dance Party featured DJ Billie Page and attracted the attendance of former Buffalo mayoral candidate India Walton.

NEWS

UB Medical School club organizes ‘Joyous Rebellion Dance Party’ to support trans community members in wake of Michael Knowles’ on-campus speech

By DOMINICK MATARESE and ALEXANDRA SACCONE | Mar. 11

OUTpatient, a LGBTQ club from UB’s Jacobs’ School of Medicine, organized a different kind of protest to Michael Knowles’ on-campus speech.

Sameer Gadhia, lead singer of Young the Giant, headlined Fall Fest in 2019, the last Fall Fest before the pandemic.

ARTS

The ultimate concert survival guide

By DOMINICK MATARESE | Dec. 9

First step: learn the tricks of the trade from experienced concert-goers.

Sweet Home High School will be the sole drop-off polling site for this year’s midterm elections.

NEWS

2022 midterms: what to know about Election Day at UB

By KYLE NGUYEN , DOMINICK MATARESE and KATIE SKOOG | Oct. 20

UB students will head to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 8 to mark their ballots for the 2022 midterms.

The Freedom Wall, by John Baker, Julia Bottoms, Chuck Tingley and Edreys Wajed, located on the corner of Michigan Avenue and East Ferry Street.

Photo: Courtesy of MK Photo

ARTS

‘It’s somewhat of my duty sometimes to portray Black imagery’

By DOMINICK MATARESE | Apr. 27, 2022

Edreys Wajed is serious about his art. So serious that he put his life on hold — and everything on the line — to collaborate on his first professional mural, “Freedom Wall.”