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Buffalo State to host SUNY Wide Film Festival in November

Buffalo State to host SUNY Wide Film Festival in November

Donté Hemmans-Murdock, Reporter October 8, 2017

SUNY Buffalo State will host the Eighth Annual SUNY Wide Film Festival (SWFF) on November 9 – 11. Professor Aaron Daniel Annas will be the director of the Film Festival. He is receiving help from...

Employees of WGRZ spoke on a panel at SUNY Buffalo State about visiting disaster-laden cities Houston and Tampa and helping their sister stations cover the hurricanes.

WGRZ journalists visit Buffalo State for panel about hurricane coverage

Francesca Bond, Managing/News Editor October 5, 2017

Since hurricanes Harvey and Irma devastated the southern coast of the United States a few weeks ago, there has been quite a bit of controversy about the ethics of putting journalists in the middle of the...

Minnie, Lola and Cherry (Left to right) lit up the crowd during their show in Niagara Falls.

The Cherry Bombs Light Up the Rapids

Chris Prenatt, Culture Editor October 5, 2017

Whoa. Last night at the Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls, N.Y., the Cherry Bombs wowed the sold-out crowd as they opened for comedic glam metal band Steel Panther and Iowa based hard rock group Stone...

Students participate in the Anne Frank Project on SUNY Buffalo State campus.

The Anne Frank Project hosts 9th annual Social Justice Festival

Tara Rae Hark, Reporter September 29, 2017

“Muraho,” means “I celebrate your presence.” Professor Drew Kahn, Director of The Anne Frank Project (AFP) says with this one word, the ethic of AFP is revealed. On October 3 and 4, Buffalo State...

Professor Donn Youngstrom  has inspired many theater students over his years of teaching at SUNY Buffalo State.

Professor Spotlight: Donn Youngstrom leaves lasting impressions on students

Tara Rae Hark, Reporter September 28, 2017

SUNY Buffalo State theater professor Donn Youngstrom once considered pursuing a career as an opera singer. Scores of students are grateful that he did not. “I thought of becoming an opera singer because...

The popular transportation app, Uber, came to Buffalo this summer after much anticipation and resistance. / Photo from pixabay.com

How to Uber: Getting around Buffalo using the latest trend in transportation

Johnathan Ciolek, Reporter September 26, 2017

Don’t have a car or feel like taking the metro? No worries, Uber has you covered. Uber is a relatively new method of transportation that launched in Buffalo over the summer after much anticipation. This...

New classrooom and computer lab in Buckham Hall / Photo by Yomira Meregildo

PHOTO GALLERY: Communication department gets new digs

Yomira Meregildo, Staff Photographer September 25, 2017

The communication department at SUNY Buffalo State was in need of a new, centralized home and now they have it in the form of a swanky new wing at Buckham hall. Before the upgrade, the department was...

McCartney, 75, played a setlist filled with greatest hits and personal favorites to a packed crowd at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse.

Paul McCartney Brings the Heat to the Carrier Dome

Chris Prenatt, Culture Editor September 24, 2017

Despite the incredibly hot temperature that plagued the venue, magic was in the air in Syracuse, NY, last night. Paul McCartney, the former Beatle, played a lifetime of music to the huge and overheated...

Buff State Welcomes Autumn

Not with a Bang but with a Splat!

Edwin J. Viera, Opinion Editor September 21, 2017

Buffalo State has some odd traditions but this one may be the oddest of them all. The annual Pumpkin Drop has been held for the past 8 years on the last day of summer to allow students to enter fall in...

Malala Yousafzai speaks to crowd of almost 6,000 in the Univerity of Buffalo Alumni Arena / (Francesca Bond / The Record)

Nobel Prize winner and girl’s education activist Malala inspires crowd of thousands at UB

Francesca Bond, Managing/News Editor September 20, 2017

There are few 20-year-olds around the world as inspiring as Malala Yousafzai and the enormous crowd in the University at Buffalo's Alumni Arena last night exemplifies this. Yousafzi kicked off the University's...

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