As a dietetics and nutrition major, I am always confronted with questions on how to eat healthy. Here are the top five questions and my answers to them:   Does late night eating cause weight gain?   The short answer is no. Studies conducted by the Academy for Nutrition […]

  Sports are violent.   I love sports, and I’m an athlete, but many of them involve physical contact, and others arose as an ancient way to prepare for war. There are inherent hostile elements to them.   With millions of rowdy fans and popular, hard-hitting games like football and […]

  Unless you’ve lived as a hermit for the past decade or so, there’s a good chance you’ve heard a few doomsday criers here and there.   From Y2K to the 2012 Mayan calendar fiasco and a cavalcade of Bible-based predictions in between, there seem to be a growing number […]

  With Halloween right around the corner, it’s easy to see why students would be getting frightfully excited about parties and lore.   Classic scary movies, eerie decorations and freaky costumes are just the beginning of the exhilarating horror to be found. But sometimes scenes from slasher films like “I […]

  The first day of college is a dream many people develop from the time they are young children. Expectations are high.   In order to experience this first-day dream, however, Buffalo State makes it mandatory for incoming freshman to first waste three days on orientation.   The purpose of […]

  Happy Halloween! I love this time of year.   There’s colorful leaves, fresh autumn air and excitement that comes with planning Halloween costumes. As fun as this time of year is, though, I can’t get over one thing.   Ladies, now that we’re older, why are we starting to […]

  Buffalo State is in the process of increasing the overall number of full-time faculty it employs in an effort to improve the academic experience for students.   Over the next three years, the college plans to use funds provided by the State University of New York’s rational tuition plan […]

  The Walking Dead is a hit show on AMC and returned for season 3 on Sunday. The season 2 finale shattered television drama ratings records with over 9 million viewers tuning in, so anticipation for season 3 is at an all-time high.   The Walking Dead is based on […]

  Eating buffet style can be such a struggle if you want to eat healthy. Pizza, French fries, hamburgers, and ice cream can provide us with distractions that lure us to make less healthy choices when you intended to choose a healthy salad.   According to a study by the […]

  The Buffalo Common Council recently established a 10 p.m. curfew six nights a week for anyone under the age of 21 on Chippewa Street. That means no more admittance to the district’s infamous bars and clubs for those 20 years old and under on Thursday nights.   Going downtown […]