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 …

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 Keeley Sheehan
The nation has been embroiled in a seemingly endless power struggle over the health care reform bill that President Barack Obama recently signed into law. Lawmakers argued for hours, months, years over how (and if) to handle health care reform. But while representatives yielded minutes and seconds to their fellow party members on the floor of the House …

By Josh Q. Newman
On one of the clearest days of Buffalo, protest was in the air. The Graduate Student Employees Union and UB Students Against Sweatshops found it fitting to hold a rally against SUNY budget cuts on March 31—mostly graduate students wearing dark spring clothes and flustered, pissed-off faces. Some held orange, green and blue posters displaying their discontent: …

By Jordan Brown
Parking at UB—it’s a phrase that makes a great number of students and faculty cringe. It involves planning your schedule around peak parking hours, sharking fellow students as they leave class and leaving your house an hour before your class starts all for the ultimate prize—a parking spot somewhere on campus. When I first heard the horror stories …

How do you get home at 4 o’clock in the morning? Though still young, the 24-hour busing service may not last much longer, according to student officials. Does this mean cutting frat parties short and making a study session in Capen Library end on an early note from now on? And how many students actually use this service?
By Kathryn Przybyla
“Yo, …

In our hyper-sexualized society, talking about a certain women’s body part seems to be taboo. Those involved with performances like “The Vagina Monologues” seek change.
By Josh Q. Newman

“I was worried about vaginas,” she wrote. “I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don’t think about them.” Writer and activist Eve Ensler, who is perhaps …

By Kathryn Przybyla
Getting those six-pack abs out of hibernation and into warm-weather shape may seem like a tedious task, but there are so many options besides the overcrowded Alumni Arena fitness center. Getting creative and looking for different alternatives to staying in shape can be half the battle. If you are not enjoying what you’re doing, then you won’t keep …

The Student Association debates included a little too much mudslinging. Is this a sign of passion or simply American politics as usual?
By Ren LaForme
The election might only be for undergraduates, but anyone who appreciates good entertainment should have stopped by the Student Union Theater on March 18 for the Student Association debates. It was like watching the Democratic Socialists of …