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Each year, Jerry Lan celebrates the Lunar New Year with his family by participating in cultural traditions: cooking and eating traditional meals, playing mahjong and receiving red envelopes filled with money from his elders.
Women’s basketball (13-8, 7-4 MAC) won 49-43 over the Miami (OH) Redhawks (5-16, 3-8 MAC) at Millett Hall on Wednesday.
UB men’s basketball (2-20, 1-9 MAC) dropped to last place in the 12-team Mid-American Conference (MAC) on Tuesday night after they lost 73-87 to the Bowling Green Falcons (16-7, 7-4 MAC) at the Stroh Center. The Bulls’ loss came despite a breakout three-point performance — and career-high 21 points — from freshman guard Ryan Sabol.
Despite being a southern Ohio native and avid Bengals fan, I still love Buffalo. I remain impressed by this community’s resilience over the last three years. Buffalo has struggled with horrible tragedy and deadly blizzards, but this city perseveres.
The Harlem Quartet — which includes violinist and UB music professor Melissa White — won the Best Classical Compendium Grammy Award for their album “Passion For Bach And Coltrane” during the awards show Sunday night.
With the start of a new semester, students returned to North Campus to an unfamiliar scene: the atrium of the Student Union (SU) was blocked by temporary walls, accompanied by roaring sounds of construction.
UB will miss its 2025 goal for complete electrification of the Stampede and campus shuttle bus fleets, Chief Sustainability Officer Ryan McPherson confirmed in an email last Friday.
Gov. Kathy Hochul selected UB as the “home” for “Empire AI,” a consortium of several public and private institutions working in artificial intelligence development, the University announced last month.
From politically-motivated criminalization to the debates surrounding harm reduction, the impact of drugs extends far beyond the pharmaceutical. A new master’s degree program debuting at UB this fall engages the humanities and the social sciences in the study of the effects of drugs in our collective bloodstream.
February is Black History Month, and Buffalo has no shortage of opportunities to celebrate Black art and the contributions of Black artists.
From Jan. 25-31, eight artists in the Center for the Arts’ (CFA) ‘Food for Thought’ exhibit depicted their own visions of the perfect college meal; capturing how food means something different for everyone while retaining its universal sense of comfort. The artists’ individual collections of monotype prints take on unique shapes, ranging from crosses to spirals. The color schemes are splashed with almost every shade ranging from deep, crimson red to bright, vivid pink. Surprisingly, for a showcase all about food, the actual meals featured in the monotype prints barely stand out. The layers of colors almost obscure the main focus as they bleed into each other. Other objects — including a pack of cards, QR codes and words — take up limited space and often draw attention away from the food itself. However, to the artists, it’s not the food that is meaningful; rather, it’s the events, places and people that the food is connected to. Marianne Goorbaran, a senior majoring in the fine arts with a concentration in painting, draws from her Guyanese background as she “dissects dhal [a South Asian lentil stew dish] into its beginning form” to pay homage to one of her favorite cultural dishes. The abstract earthy hues of brown, green and yellow picture the process of making the soup. “Everyone has their quintessential meal, it looks different for each person, but that’s what reminds them of home,” Goorbaran said. Dessi Furber, a sophomore majoring in studio art, intended to focus on something more specific. Their “sugar heist” display is centered around them sneaking food out of college events as a child. The prints are connected in a long chain, picturing a story of stealing valuable, sugary desserts. “I tried to keep it bright and fun and childish,” Furber said. “Even though I felt like I was doing something sneaky, the stakes weren’t that high at all. It’s just fun.” Sometimes, the classic college dish doesn’t have to exist. This rings true for Gardner Astalos, who focused on an uncommon, refreshing drink of a Coke with a slice of lemon in it. In his collection, typical features of a room — clocks, window seats, etc. — capture the warm feeling of home and belonging. “I wanted it to represent more of like a space or memory instead of an actual, specific meal,” Astalos, a sophomore majoring in the fine arts with a concentration in print media, said. “It’s more about the times I spend with my friends and the people I care about.” The best college meal is not exactly the most delicious one. It’s instead a key ingredient of an experience worth cherishing.
Released in theaters last month, “Miller’s Girl” would be a love story — if not for the fact that it’s between a minor and an adult twice their age. If the film had handled the trope delicately and with complexity, it would have certainly racked up awards and earned the praise of critics. If it correctly highlighted the sickening power dynamic of an age-gap relationship, the long drive to one of the few theaters screening the movie would have been worth it. But within five minutes, the film completely ruins that potential greatness by implying that female high school seniors are alluring, seductive sirens that capture the hearts of unsuspecting, innocent men. Cairo Sweet (Jenna Ortega) — the lead — is the picture of a young woman who becomes infatuated with an older, more experienced man. She smokes cigarettes and laughs at danger as she takes long walks in a forest. After all, to her, she’s “the scariest thing in there.” Jonathan Miller (Martin Freeman) — the love interest — is a modest, righteous teacher with a passion for writing who is tied to an overworked, disinterested wife. He finds Sweet to be a kindred spirit with a mind beyond her years. Apparently, age is just a number and jail’s just another place. It’s hard to ignore these red flags, especially when the movie waves them around so confidently. The raunchy jokes, and the tense close-up camera shots of the two main leads staring at each other don’t make the plot any less unsettling. But all that pales in comparison to the scene where Winnie Black (Gideon Adlon) — Sweet’s best friend — advises her to pursue Mr. Miller romantically, saying, “We’re…young girls with ambivalent sexualities. I don’t want to drop [my virginity] for some random jock…That’s [like] deli meat. I want a dry, aged, marbled, hot man to take me to pleasure town.” The monologue tried to be sophisticated, but only succeeded in proving that vegetarianism might be a good idea. The plot’s only redeeming quality is that the relationship between the two characters doesn’t become consensual. When Sweet confesses her obsession through submitting an erotic creative writing assignment, Mr. Miller vehemently denies romantic affections, saying, “You are a student, and I am your teacher. That is all.” Thankfully, nothing physical or sexual happens. Unfortunately, the film takes a turn for the worst when Sweet becomes the villain of the story and ruins Mr. Miller’s life with false accusations because he didn’t return her affections. It is at this point when the unrealistic plot is no longer so-bad-it’s-funny. It’s so bad, it’s disgusting. For this film to succeed, it had to explicitly show just how terrible this trope was. It needed to recognize who the true villains were. Mr. Miller should have been a manipulative authority figure who took advantage of a minor. Cairo Sweet should have been just a teenager who didn’t “ask for it.” It had the potential to be a voice for survivors. That it was not is a huge disappointment.
Campus Dining and Shops’ (CDS) opened a Latin American-themed eatery, “Sabor Latino,” on the first day of the spring semester.
When she was an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh, Lindsay Hahn was frustrated by the prominent belief that video games and television rotted people’s brains. Her frustration fueled her passion for studying media psychology, morality and the interaction between children and media.
Women’s basketball (12-8, 6-4 MAC) won 75-63 over Eastern Michigan (5-15, 2-8 MAC) at Alumni Arena on Saturday, giving the Bulls back-to-back wins in Mid-American conference (MAC) play after winning earlier this week on Jan. 31 over Ohio (7-13, 4-6 MAC).
UB men’s basketball (2-19, 1-8 MAC) fell 83-52 against the Kent State Golden Flashes (11-11, 4-6 MAC) at Alumni Arena on Friday night. The loss was the team’s eighth straight after opening Mid-American conference (MAC) play with a win over Central Michigan on Jan 2.
UB women’s basketball (11-8, 5-4 MAC) won 81-63 against the Ohio Bobcats (7-12, 4-5 MAC) at the Convocation Center on Wednesday, giving the Bulls their fifth Mid-American conference (MAC) win this season.
The Bulls (2-18, 1-7 MAC) went on the road to square off against the Ohio Bobcats (11-10, 5-4 MAC) and lost 91-71. This marks UB’s seventh straight loss after starting conference play 1-0.
Two wins in 20 games.
Women’s basketball (10-8, 4-4 MAC) narrowly lost to the Toledo Rockets (14-4, 7-1 MAC) 63-67 on Saturday night, despite a record-breaking performance by UB senior guard Chiella Watson, who scored 47 points and reached 1,000 career points.
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