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First Time Visiting The Falls:
What To Expect And Certain Highlights By Julieanne LaDuca Even though I have lived in WNY for 18 years, I have never visited Niagara Falls. The Falls is a glorious place that really opens you up to their beauty of nature. Going for the first time there weren’t really any surprises except for how much…
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Buffalo’s Cherry Blossoms
By Kylie Franklin After a cold and harsh winter, spring revives the world around us. When spring comes flowers bloom and life begins to grow back. If you’re bored and want to do a fun and quick activity outdoors, you should visit the Buffalo Japanese Garden. The highlight of the Japanese Garden is the cherry…
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Everything You Need To Know About Graduation
By: Taryn Kelly If you’re unsure if you are eligible to graduate this upcoming May, you can run a degree evaluation in your Degree Works account. The degree evaluation will allow you to check if you are missing any program requirements. If you notice if any of your requirements are missing, contact your academic advisor.…
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The SUNY Niagara Theatre Student Showcase Comes to The Black Box Theatre: An Evening to Remember!
By Brandon Davis In the compact black box theater, we all sat and watched the empty stage. The black walls and curtains exacerbated the darkness that soon took hold of the whole place. After a moment, a single light lit up a young man who walked onto the empty space that was plotted out as…
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Small Acts Big Impact: Earth Day 2025
By Marissa Lafferty Earth Day was conceived by Senator Gaylord Nelson in response to the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill and growing pollution concerns, along with being influenced by the book “Silent Spring” which was published in 1962 and talked about environment harm caused by pesticides and other factors. Nelson modeled it on Vietnam‑era student…
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We All Use AI, Even If You Might Think You Don’t
By Olivia Papendick In the last decade, concerns about the dangers and negative impacts of artificial intelligence in widespread use have spiked significantly upwards. Humanity has feared the concept of artificial intelligence in technology gaining a sense of self and independence since we came up with the idea of it being possible. But, that’s not…
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The ACE Building; Made to Bring Ease to Your College Experience
By: Sarah Baase Imagine having an open space where you can go to on your own time to get your work done comfortably and efficiently, with tutors being just at arm’s length, and a community of staff who are open and willing to assist you with your academic problems… Well, here at SUNY Niagara we…
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A.I. vs. Studio Ghibli
By: Ryann Sniadecki At the beginning of April, a trend started, mainly on Twitter/X, in which people asked Artificial Intelligence tools like ChatGPT, Getmig.AI, and most notably OpenAI, to recreate popular images, memes, movie scenes and posters in the iconic Studio Ghibli style. Studio Ghibli is a Japanese Animation studio created on June 15, 1985…
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The Importance of Having Real Things:
DVDs, CDs, and Books By Todd Robinson Digital media has become the popular way of obtaining entertainment and art. People watch Netflix to watch movies, read books from a nook, and listen to music on Spotify. This allows people to access anything they want to engage in. This isn’t a bad thing, but this can…
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Minecraft Movie: Not As Bad As it Sounds
By Tori Mayes The Minecraft Movie is one of 2025’s most anticipated movies, having come out at the beginning of April. There was a lot of excitement on the internet when the movie was first announced, but the more the internet learned about it the more the excitement morphed into anticipation for the movie to…
Spring 2026 