How would you feel if you spent months preparing for a competition - one that was judged by how you looked - to then receive runner up because the person next to you knew one of the judges? As a society...

Buffalo has been on the rise over the past couple of years, from the development of Canalside, to the planned opening of Solar City. Buffalo is becoming a destination for everyone, businesses and job seekers...

All over the world at any given minute, a person is committing a crime. In 2008, the crimes of the century involved finance, white-collar crimes. Now we are back into an era of blue-collar crimes – aside...

In George Orwell's “1984,” a novel that takes place in a dystopian future, people who are deemed dangerously subversive by the government are declared "unpeople." An "unperson" is someone who has been...

Dear Editor, According to 2014 reports by Homeless Alliance of WNY, 1,115 people were homeless in the Erie-Niagara Region on any given night. In the same year, it was recorded that 26.6 percent of these...

Students on this campus voted to support a NYPIRG chapter. Like other clubs and organizations on campus, NYPIRG is funded through the mandatory student activity fee. NYPIRG offers a refund of the portion...

There are more female sportscasters emerging in the sports world, but they are not being treated the same as their male counterparts. Radio, television, and social media have exposed an attitude of how...

As a kid in middle school, there was always that field trip to the zoo. We would look forward to that day where we could see all the exotic, wild animals. It was a fun experience. Most people think...

New York City is well noted for its subway system that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It operates 21 subway lines and three permanent shuttles that operate in all five boroughs, maintains...

The idea of eating less and exercising more does not work anymore because people are still gaining weight. Food contains huge amounts of sugar; when people eat processed or junk food, they will not...