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Grotesque PSAs not for kids

A recent advertising campaign in Milwaukee is aimed at warning parents about the dangers of sleeping in bed with your baby. The shocking advertisement depicts a small infant curled up and fast asleep next to a butcher’s knife. The text above the baby reads, “Your baby sleeping with you can […]

Opinion

Buff State sports teams bring excitement

Last year was one of the most successful ever for the Buffalo State Athletics Department. The men’s basketball team won their conference championship before making a run in the NCAA Division III Tournament, finally losing in the Sweet 16. Sprinter Justin Allen was named Atlantic Region Runner of the Year […]

Opinion

The rewards of being a Resident Assistant

Everyone always asks what it’s like to be a resident adviser. Being an RA is quite an experience. It is great, rewarding, stressful, time consuming, meaningful, fun, complicated and all emotions in between. One thing is for sure: is it is not easy. There are many situations you have to […]

Events

ISO to host Thanksgiving

The idea of a traditional American Thanksgiving can be abstract to some, including international students here at Buffalo State College. Members of the International Students Organization at Buffalo State will be hosting the third annual Thanksgiving potluck dinner for international students and their American host families. The dinner will be […]

Arts

Large turnout for Step show

On Nov. 5, Step Expression held their annual Step Show in the Campbell Student Union in a filled Social Hall. The turnout was so great some people had to be turned away because the maximum number of 350 spectators allowed in had been reached. This year’s event featured two competing […]

Opinion

Sex scandal damages Penn State

For those who haven’t heard of the scandal unraveling at Penn State, here’s a quick rundown: in 2002, then-28-year-old graduate assistant Mike McQueary walked in on defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abusing a child in one of the showers at the school’s athletics facility. Initially, the story was that McQueary […]

Opinion

College has hidden rewards

I finally get it: A college education can’t empower me to solve all the world’s problems. It sounds like a naive assumption to begin with, but as a freshman I thought that by learning to be a reporter I would have the power to reveal all the corruption in the […]

Arts

Rappers find money in college

Thomas “Tommy Too” Sheedy and Drew “Doc” Hartman are two college-educated rappers and part of a growing trend in the hip-hop community where it was once never accepted. The duo has been rapping for the last couple of years and also serving as Buffalo State radio disc jockeys on 91.3. […]

Sports

Team enters year with National Chamionship expectations

When the Buffalo State men’s basketball team opens its season against D’Youville next Tuesday, you’ll notice that several key components from last season are still in place for this year’s campaign. For head coach Fajri Ansari and the rest of the defending SUNYAC Champion Bengals, that’s a good thing. Ansari […]

Sports

Only fall playoff team loses to Oneonta in SUNYAC quarters

The SUNYAC quarterfinals haven’t treated the Buffalo State volleyball team very well in recent seasons. For the second consecutive year, the Bengals’ season came to an end with a loss in the opening round of the playoffs when they fell to Oneonta in four sets last Thursday at Cortland. “I […]