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 …
Students these days are barking up the wrong tree. I recently asked a strapping young bookworm about his opinion on the budget cuts. His mouth closed tighter than Fort Knox and his faced turned as white as snow. You could hear a pin drop in the room. He changed the subject faster than greased lightning.
“I don’t know. But Spring Fest …
Welcome to 2010; the age of consumerism, computers and complacency. The tyrants have won, and it’s your fault.
On Feb. 22, the Student Association and Graduate Student Association held a forum to address student concerns about the UBreathe Free Initiative, which is a fancy name for UB’s smoking ban. Their argument is, and this turned out to be true, that the …
The alleged gunman incident that occurred in Lockwood Library on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010 will go down in history as a day that shaped UB’s future. Students spotted a Caucasian male with what appeared to be a shotgun or rifle, which, depending on who you ask, was hidden discretely under his pea coat or slung over his shoulder. Details.
Someone alerted …
By Ren LaForme
Nathan tossed his too-perfect-to-be-straight hair to one side of his face and took a deep breath. The girl prancing around drunk in front of him was pretty—beautiful even—and she was moving closer. He had a girlfriend, and he’d been with her for a while, but they were still in high school. He was ready to take that next …
Almost one year ago, on Feb. 12, Colgan Air Flight 3407 fell into a house in Clarence Center, N.Y., sometime after 10:17 p.m. All 49 people on the plane and one man in the house died that night in one of the worst disasters in Western New York history.
I was five miles away from the crash zone at the time …
By Ren LaForme
Editor in Chief
By the time you’re reading this, you’ve already realized that Generation Magazine has changed yet again. I’ll explain that later – but first, let’s talk about change. We’ve seen a lot of it in our lives, particularly in the 10 years that we put to rest just a fortnight ago.
The 2000s were a decade of …
By Ren LaForme
Editor in Chief
Being a vegetarian in Buffalo is a little bit like being a non-Catholic in the Vatican. Between chicken wings, beef on weck and Sahlen’s hot dogs, I’ve spent a significant amount of time feeling alienated and honestly, a little alone.
It’s been over two years since I purposely ate any part of a cow, pig, sheep, …
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