Generation Magazine

By Keeley Sheehan

The UB Climate Action Plan is a skeptic’s dream. The simply stated goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2030 comes with a 107-page document attached, riding along in the back of the bumpy UB 2020 bandwagon.
While it’d be a challenge to find a university made up entirely of actively engaged students, there’s usually at least a core willing …

A reflection by Eric Fortier

It is a wet and dreary Monday morning in March. I’m walking out of the basement of Alumni Arena—where my first class is—starting my journey across this immense campus to my next class in NSC.
The hope of spring—coupled with the string of mild, sunny days we’ve had in the past week—has inclined many to dust off …

When the Spring Fest lineup was announced earlier this year, many students stopped and scratched their heads. “Who is Lady Danville?” they asked. We wanted to know, too. So we sat down for a couple of interviews with them before the show and discovered that Michael Garner, Daniel Chang and Matthew Frankel are some really cool dudes.
Tell us how you …

By Josh Q. Newman
We just left the Generation office. Our goal: to find interesting things and write about them. Weird things go down when most students are slumbering in their dorms or sheltered away at home. It was an attempt at investigative/in-depth/gonzo journalism. Whatever you want to call it. I felt like Hunter S. Thompson when he ventured into the …

By Kathryn Przybyla
It’s a pretty early day. There are a few students sitting along the small tables lined up perfectly in the Center for the Arts Atrium. Soft music plays from a laptop in the corner. The natural light from the ceiling is starting to brighten up the long, lean room, filled with artists.
Anyone can spot a dance major. They’re …

By Jordan Brown
Along with a few thousand other students, August 31, 2009 was a huge moment in my life. It was my first day of college. I was entering the realm of higher education—a place where only those privileged with acceptance letters and significant motivation will go. I wasn’t sure what to expect. How would I balance the rigorous coursework …

By Ren LaForme
This is where I’m supposed to write a thoughtful, melancholy editor’s letter about graduating, and how I’m going to miss my friends and all of the wonderful teachers I’ve had in the past five years—all before gracefully bowing out with my diploma. I could recall the times I rode the bus home from South Campus drunk, the long …

By Melissa Wright
I pick up my printouts prior to a meeting at work this past week. Oh man—15 pages each. What a jerk. I bring them into the meeting with my colleague, who will remain anonymous (in terms of industry importance—think  Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada”).
I hand her copy to her. “I feel guilty printing these out. At …

By Josh Q. Newman
When I first added my middle initial to my pen name a year or two ago—the infamous Q—I knew I was making a big decision. “What’s in a name?” Shakespeare wrote. “That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.” I didn’t quite know what was in a name, but I …

MOVIE | THE BACK UP PLAN | APRIL 23
Jennifer Lopez returns to the silver screen in yet another romantic comedy, albeit with a twist. She conceives twins through artificial insemination on the same day she meets the love of her life. Can this get any better, people? Lopez plays a character named Zoe, who has been waiting to start a …

By Matthew Dunham
As a purported scholar of literature (an English graduate student), I deal with “the literary” on a daily basis.  I have enclosed that phrase in quotation marks because literature and “the literary” are demarcated from the rest of what we read, and I would like to call that into question.  Is there truly a difference between what we …

By Josh Q. Newman
He was sitting in his room, computer in his lap, getting softer. He looked about his room, disengaged with the task at hand, wishing for a miracle of prose or better yet a distraction to get him going. A scene from one of his favorite movies perhaps, or a conversation he had with a professor the other …