JOHN JACOBS

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Finding power in a situation where I had none

It was late October 2015. I was at an open bar and drank too much because I was depressed and thought it’d help. It didn’t. I got drunk enough that I stumbled outside to catch some air and blacked out. I regained partial consciousness in a car to a stranger sexually assaulting me. I’m a guy and he was a guy too. I was too drunk to really understand what was happening to me at the time, but the assailant wasn’t. The guy was sober enough to lead me to his car, sober enough to take my pants off, sober enough to drive. Sober enough to know better.

UB professor uses attitude to overcome cancer diagnosis

Yu believes that people expect philosophers to react differently to being diagnosed with a severe disease like cancer.

UB holds symposium on Franz Kafka’s work

On Monday, the Department of Jewish Thought and UB Humanities Institute held a symposium entitled The Law in the Work of Franz Kafka in Clemens Hall from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Kafka was a German novelist who lived from the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s.

Some of the best gen eds to take at UB with new requirements set for incoming class

Picking classes might seem simple but clicking that enroll button on the wrong class can result in a semester’s worth of regret. With the new changes to UB’s general education requirements, it might seem even harder to decide what to take next year. Here are some general education classes to fill some of those new requirements.

Around town: April edition

If you’re looking for something to do to distract from gawking over the fact that the sun has started to exist again but you have to be stuck in the library, here’s a small portion of what’s going on in Buffalo this month.

Why I’m leaving Buffalo

I decided to live in Buffalo partially because of peer pressure as well as the safe feeling of the decision. I don’t particularly like Buffalo’s weather – it was 65 degrees on Sunday and 40 degrees on Monday, and in a week it’s supposed to be 30 and possibly snowing; no thanks. I also went through some pretty bad depression at this school that I still struggle with some days.

UB students have mixed reactions to Sweethome’s new electronic locks

Students living in the University Village at Sweethome returned home from Spring Break to find more than just week-old food in the refrigerator and a pile of homework to catch up on. The University Village at Sweethome, an apartment complex down the road from North Campus, installed electronic deadbolt locks at the main door of every building and individual apartment during spring break, an upgrade from the standard deadbolt. Sweethome officials wouldn’t comment on the price of the new locks or whether or not they make the buildings safer, but did explain why the locks were changed to begin with. “We upgraded the locks because they used to be just normal keys and the electronic lock system is more convenient,” said Alex Rukaj, a community assistant for University Village at Sweethome.

UB discusses Zika virus and spring break travel

In addition to transmission through mosquito bites, the disease can also be passed sexually from one person to another, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website. The virus exists mainly in South American countries and is prominent in Brazil and El Salvador. Though the CDC states that there have been no confirmed local cases of people contracting Zika within the United States, there have been over 250 confirmed travel-associated cases of the Zika virus.

Slammin’ on the mic and paper

UB Speaks is a poetry club that meets every other Sunday in Baldy 110 at 3 p.m. The meetings are workshops where writers come and express their thoughts about different topics.

Students have mixed reactions to new UB Career Fest app

Alumni Arena was filled with students Wednesday, but they weren’t packed into the stands in blue and white attire screaming for the Bulls. They were down on the court wearing suits and dresses.

Mia Mingus is an advocate for those who are disabled, and gives lectures about how many disabled people are victims of ableism.