Generation Magazine

Gauging Green

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 ... Related posts:

It’s not just about Carbon anymore By Danielle S. Morgera Reducing carbon emissions is an immediate...

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The Value of Hindsight

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 ... Related posts:

Get in shape without lifting weights By Kathryn Przybyla Getting those six-pack abs out of hibernation...
One Year In By Jordan Brown Along with a few thousand other students,...
Flexible Volunteering — A way for busy students to improve their communities and build their résumés By Joshua Bach Associate Editor Classes, homework, labs, midterms, and...

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Snapshot: Lady Danville

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 ... Related posts:

Snapshot: Gerald Schoenle No matter which side of the law you’re on, the...
Snapshot – Mark Schroeder The assemblyman for New York District 145 talks about his...
Snapshot: Jeff Quinn He’s the new guy in town and he’s got big shoes to fill. We sat down with UB’s new head football coach to learn his hopes and dreams for the program. You left Cincinnati boasting a pretty good...

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Children of the Night

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 ... Related posts:

Police evacuate Lockwood Library Police have called off a search of Lockwood Library on...

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Lights, Camera, Action.

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 ... Related posts:

Heart of a lion, hair of a god By Kathryn Przybyla You may think it is all fun...

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One Year In

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 ... Related posts:

Confessions of a Textbook Salesman An in-depth look at the seedy relationships between professors and...
Brown v. UB’s Parking and Transportation Services By Jordan Brown Parking at UB—it’s a phrase that...

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One foot forward

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 ... Related posts:

For Whom the Cuts Toll By Josh Q. Newman On one of the clearest...
We the Students… By Keeley Sheehan The nation has been embroiled in a...
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth Students these days are barking up the wrong tree. I...

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I love myself, so I recycle.

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 ... Related posts:

Love and Karma By Abraham C.L. Munson-Ellis Today, and on many, many more...
T-shirt wars in a city of love By Melissa Wright “I do not <3 Buffalo,” Tony Maggiotto...

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Q Tips

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 ... No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Agenda – 4/20 into summer

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 ... Related posts:

Agenda – April 6 to April 19 FREE STUFF | WRUB TOP 40 DAY | APRIL...
Agenda – Feb. 9 to Feb. 22 CONCERT | Snoop Dogg Hop on the soul plane and...
Agenda — Jan. 12 to 25 Check this out from… JAN 12 to 25 Good Vibrations...

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Literature vs. Popular Fiction

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 ... Related posts:

Screw you guys! I’m going home to read… By Josh Q. Newman “Ah, books? God, I hate those!”...
Everyone’s a Critic By Josh Q. Newman I usually don’t plan on getting...
Meeting Atwood vs. Reading Atwood By Josh Q. Newman When Margaret Atwood came to UB,...

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Inside

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 ... No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.