Many students and parents experienced the self-gratification of helping out the communities in Buffalo this past weekend, while participating in Buffalo State College’s Family Volunteer Day. The Volunteer and Service Learning Center put together the event to help students, siblings, and families connect with neighborhoods beyond campus, while […]
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Fire safety month heats up
October is National Fire Prevention Month. Fires and fire alarms have been a reoccurrence in student housing at Buffalo State. This month is an opportunity for students to get educated on fire safety and prevention to decrease the amount of evacuations that students have to endure every year. […]
Guest questions theology
Buffalo State’s Freethinkers Club is hosting a presentation called “Can We Be Good Without God” from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday in Bacon 117. Garret Merriam, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Indiana, will introduce his presentation entitled “If There is a God, Then […]
Dining services tour gives students insight, Chartwells delivers
Last Wednesday, Manny Lezama, senior director of food service at Buffalo State College, led students of the United Student Government Food Service Committee on a behind the scenes tour of the Residential and Retail dining hall kitchens. Lezama, a former New York City chef and restaurateur, works for […]
Halloween cans not candy
Instead of giving candy to trick-or-treaters, students can make more of an impact by giving surplus nonperishable food to those in need. Tha Ink Club will be hosting their annual Trick or Treat for Cans event from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Oct. 25., going door-to-door inside […]
Could first presidential debate dictate elections?
As the most Tweeted-about event in America’s political history, the first presidential debate of the 2012 election season proved to America that voters were tuned in to hear what each candidate brought to the table. For President Obama, however, that table was never found. Although President Obama […]
Happiness does not necessarily come with a college degree
Another day, another dollar. Right? Wrong. It is a new day, and the dollar has a much different meaning to it. My generation is facing one of the worst job markets since, well, ever. I know a handful of students whose college major should be “changing majors.” […]
New parking plans could benefit commuters
Parking, or lack thereof, has been a consistent problem for students at Buffalo State and thousands of other colleges alike for years. In fact, we have old issues of The Record in our office dating back to 1970 with stories detailing similar parking troubles students who roamed the […]
To Hell and back: a drive through the Bible Belt
I attended my first “destination wedding” this weekend, in the aptly nicknamed City of Music, Nashville, Tenn. I had a great time on the trip, from exploring the various Honky Tonks to watching one of my cousins marry the man she loves. I guess I didn’t see […]
Court decision wrongly condones hate speech
“In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad.” These words are splashed all over ten Metropolitan Transit Authority subway stations after a judge ruled in favor of the campaign’s creator, Pamela Geller, and the organization she runs called […]