Generation Magazine

During my time at UB, I have encountered or written about many “activists,” especially “student activists.” With UB 2020 and tuition hikes ruffling academic feathers, local activists have taken to the streets (okay, the Academic Spine), holding up signs, shouting slogans, and dressing up like billionaires, most notably on October 5th (see “Walk It Out” on ubgeneration.com). In addition, Occupy …

EVENT | CRISPON HELLION GLOVER BACK IN BUFFALO | JANUARY 25 – 26 7 P.M.
Little Red Booking presents: “Crispon Hellion Glover back in Buffalo”. Two full feature film screenings plus Big Slide Show parts 1 & 2, followed by audience Q&A and book signing in the lobby. Wednesday, January 25th (It Is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE and BIG SLIDE …

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Really Big Turtles
84 members of a species of giant Galapagos Tortoise once thought to be extinct have been discovered on Isabela Island in the Galapagos. The tortoises were (almost) wiped out by poachers in the 1840’s. Now we can all stop worrying and got on with our lives.
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Persecution of Bradley Manning
The investigating officer in charge of Bradley Manning’s case has …

By Raïssa Huntley
 
(Crispin Hellion Glover will be in Buffalo presenting two full feature film screenings + Big Slide Show parts 1 & 2, followed by audience Q&A and book signing. Wednesday, Jan 25th (It Is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE + BIG SLIDE SHOW part 2) & Thursday, Jan 26th (What Is It? + BIG SLIDE SHOW part 1)
Shows begin at 7PM sharp at …

By Erin Willis
 
It may be redundant to feature an article that focuses on this year’s zany winter weather, but the implications of the madness have become more and more important. If you’ve been around for the past month and a half, or even if you haven’t, you probably have noticed that something very strange is happening to our city.  Winter …

By Claire Brown
 
Q: I hate to admit this, but now that it’s 2012, I’m kind of scared. I know everyone jokes about how the world’s going to end in 2012, but what if it really did? Am I stupid for taking this sort of seriously?
A: No, you’re not stupid. But this is one of those situations where it’s better to …

By Catherine Prendergast
 
Imagine the internet without Wikipedia, Reddit, Vimeo, and countless others. Weird, right? Stranger still, this idea may become a reality.
I have to admit, I was really late on this whole SOPA business. I kept hearing bits and pieces about it from various places, but I did not actually do serious research on it until a few weeks after …

By Alex Smith
I titled my article after a popular 2011 romantic drama featuring Robert Pattinson, our favorite tweeny-bopper vampire. So is this article really about Pattinson and his latest hit film, or was that title in fact a metaphor for the Republican Party and the current primaries that are taking up more news time than ever lately? I guess you’re …

By Josh Newman
Even during the waning months of his life, the English-American essayist and public intellectual Christopher Hitchens never gave up his fight against what he saw as the banes of civilization: religion, totalitarianism, and oppression. In his introduction to the last collection of his essays, Arguably, published four months before his death on December 15th of last year, he made …

By Claire Brown
 
The original title of Stieg Larsson’s wildly popular novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first volume of what is now known as The Millennium Trilogy, was Men Who Hate Women. Chock-full of political intrigue, underground crime, and gruesome violence, Larsson’s trilogy traces the relationship between Mikael Blomkvist, an intrepid and moral journalist, and the closed and …

By Ally Balcerzak

            Years ago I fell in love with a fantasy world: a world of witches and wizards, of talking animals and munchkins. That world was Oz, and it wasn’t the place called Oz we knew from watching The Wizard of Oz as children, but the Oz created by Gregory Maguire in Wicked. Maguire’s first novel about Oz centered …

By Claire Brown
You know how they say “everything’s got a price?” I try not to be too cynical (read: it almost never works), but times like this make me want to throw my half-empty glass against a wall. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ll be more specific. Apparently, the price of “Academic Excellence” is $37.50 per semester. …