State University of New York at Buffalo

Tribeca Twelve: Recovery House

A new college residence offers students 12-step living—for a price

New Yorkers Still Slightly in Favor of Fracking Even as More Shady "Studies" Emerge

New Yorkers believe that the economic benefits of drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale outweigh the risk of potentially harmful environmental repercussions, according to today's Quinnipiac University Poll. The poll finds that 44 percent of New Yorkers think the economic pros of hydrauli ... More >>

Bad Science? Peer-Reviewed Study Promoting Fracking Was Not Peer Reviewed (UPDATE)

If you have been following the fracking controversy clusterfuck at all, you will know this: hydraulic fracturing, still under consideration by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has gotten a lot of flack for reportedly polluting water, as well as posing other potential health risks. So when a peer-reviewed, univer ... More >>

Summer Books Guide: Padgett Powell's You & Me: A Novel

NY Redistricting: Untangling Boundaries and Adding a New Hispanic Majority District

New Yorkers may want to ensure that they have fair representation in our fine democratic system, but sometimes it can be difficult to get jazzed up about the nitty-gritty of mapmaking. But new technology available this redistricting cycle is making it easier for advocates and academics to get involv ... More >>

Women Who Want Men to Like Them Pretend to Hate Math

Barbie is so brave.​Science proves that there is a reason all your female friends fake not knowing how to calculate the tip (unless, of course, they truly are terrible at calculating things -- could happen!). Four new University of Buffalo studies have found that when a lady wants to be consid ... More >>

Cornel West Disses Jay-Z!

​"Guys like Talib Kweli and Lupe Fiasco rap messages and have something to say," America's second most famous living public intellectual told the University of Buffalo's Spectrum. "Now Jay-Z is on the radio and he's talented, but he's just not at the level he use to be at on Reasonable Doubt a ... More >>

Clip Job: Beat, and Conservative, Too

Columbia's Knotty Noose Problem

There's still no culprit for a notorious noose at Teachers College—but plenty of evidence behind the firing of Madonna Constantine

No Context: Tony Conrad at Performa

Post-Bop Shopping

For fans in general and collectors in particular, a crucial social locus enters the virtual age

Grownup Music

In which Wide Right's working-class broad from the provinces expresses her arty side

Debunk'd

The CFI's campus crusade for common sense

Spoon-Feeding Poison

EPA Opens the Door to Testing Bug Killers on People

Pataki's SUNY Shock

Fed Up With Cuts and Hikes, Students Prep to March on Albany

Ralph Shapey (1921–2002)

Muscular and Misunderstood

Deep Time, Short Sight

Bracing for Yucca Mountain's Nuclear Forever

Letters

LES Is More

Eminent Domain

Scavenging for funds in the age of for-profit education

I Am a Camera