Four botched field goals. Two interceptions. One fumble. Countless dropped passes. On Saturday, Toledo did everything it could to lose its game against Buffalo - one of the strangest games I have ever seen.
As a 21-year-old woman voting in her first presidential election, I'm voting for Barack Obama. In 2008, I was 17 years old, just on the cusp of voting, and I started to pay attention to politics, thanks to a great government teacher who tried to make us excited about our country for the first time.
If you read any other newspapers, you might notice something different in the confines of its pages every election year: a candidate endorsement, an editorial piece where the editorial board of the organization meets, discusses and decides who they wish to endorse for elected office. Here at The Spectrum, this will not be the case.
It's finally here. After seven weeks, my column has finally earned the credibility I have been waiting for: an undefeated week.
It seems UB's Distinguished Speaker Series is cursed. In 2010, UB hosted author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson, who went through a yearlong investigation on allegations that major portions of his books were inaccurate and that he was mismanaging assets at his Central Asia Institute. Last year, the series brought forth Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor. Rather, former seven-time Tour de France winner. Armstrong was officially stripped of his titles yesterday, the result of overwhelming amounts of evidence of him leading a doping conspiracy since 1999.
"Trick or treat, smell my feet; give me something good to eat. If you don't, I don't care; I'll pull down your underwear." I was raised in a religious Jewish home.
Seven days - exactly one week until Halloween. If you are one of those people who haven't thought about a costume since last November, it may seem impossible to decide which character to be.
With Halloween a week away, it got me thinking about what scares me. Paranormal Activity movies, spiders and that feeling of knowing there's no bacon left in the house.
College students - especially females - know the pressure of having a perfect body. The perfect hourglass shape with perky breasts and a flat stomach is what mainstream media tell women is attractive.
Everyone likes a good show, and everybody was waiting for one from President Obama on Tuesday night.
Newsweek announced on Thursday that, after 79 years, it will cease print publication at the end of the year and make the move to become the first national news magazine to shift entirely to a digital format. It's the end of an era for the magazine as journalism sees a possible end to the print era, in general. Newsweek, which joined with The Daily Beast in 2010, is making a decision for its future.
I came home from lacrosse practice and began to make dinner as always. It was a normal cold January night in Buffalo. I didn't know it would be the last time I would compete on a lacrosse field. As I cooked rice, a slow, steady pain began to grow in my elbow.
The University Heights district is the definition of deplorable. It has been an ongoing talking point over the course of several years - on Monday, we reported about a student who was left homeless after his Merrimac home became infested by bed bugs, but this is not the first instance or the last.
Joe Biden is President Obama's pit bull, and someone needs to find him a muzzle. Last Thursday night pitted Big Joe Biden - the man who made the phrase "big f**king deal" famous and whose off-the-cuff comments have prompted hundreds of Top 10 Gaffes lists - and Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan in the Vice Presidential Debate - a battle of wits, talking points and comebacks. What were those talking points again? The response to Thursday's debate was pretty well split when the issues were pulled apart, but in almost every argument, the topic of conversation was not how the issues were presented and debated on but on Biden's brilliant repertoire of reactions.
UB recently ranked eighth on a list of the colleges and universities most actively using BitTorrent, the most heavily monitored file-sharing platform, to illegally download and swap files.
UB students logging onto BullsEye to apply for on-campus jobs are bound to run into the same nagging qualification: "Must have work-study award letter." It's an immediate dead end for students who don't qualify, leaving them to fight for positions at Campus Dining and Shops.
After a summer of ill-informed and ill-advised analyses of the female reproductive system, Republicans have had a lot of ground to cover on the campaign trail, and comments made by Mitt Romney on Tuesday may have helped patch up some of that damage. The Republican candidate publicly announced he has no plans to make abortion legislation part of his agenda if he is elected president, an admittedly more moderate approach to the issue than he had taken earlier on the campaign trail. But despite cries from pundits and the left, there is no valid point to prove that he has flip-flopped in his position.
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