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Cait's Travel Diaries is a new travel vlog series on my YouTube channel ! Filled with laughs, good food, and new sites to see, life is surely an adventure. In this very first episode of Cait's Travel Diaries, we travel to the famous Jersey Shore and The Big Apple, specifically to the Queens and Manhattan boroughs where I highlight some of the best food stops in Flushing and Chelsea Market. Be sure to subscribe if you haven't already for updates on future episodes. You can also follow me on my new travel/bookstagram account @cait_malilay_reads . 

photo credit: Ray Ewing / The Vineyard Gazette Republicans are using the immigration border crisis to their advantage for the upcoming election. In recent months, Republican governors Doug Ducey of Arizona, Ron DeSantis of Florida, and Greg Abbott of Texas sent migrants, who are predominately from Central and South America, to key cities including Chicago, Washington D.C. and New York. New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced in a statement that the city received over 11,000 asylum seekers since May. Most recently, DeSantis sent 48 Venezuelan migrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard , who were later sent to a military base in Cape Cod. Robert Y. Shapiro, a professor and former chair of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, ph.D, said that the governors' actions can be explained because much of the debates have been centered on matters such as abortion, same-sex marriage and social security and Medicare, issues that they don’t want voters to focus on in ...

pc: Cait Malilay / Type Away Cait Talk about tulip fever!  Obsession,                                     love,                                                     courage,                                                                                                                        dedication... Alexandre Dumas's last major historical novel is set in 17th-century Holland , a time when the Dutch were absolutely crazy for tulips.  Cornelius Van Baerl...

photo credit: Facebook/WBNY 91.3 “Living 4 The People,” a radio program that offers a progressive analysis of political issues, airs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on 91.3 WBNY-FM . Hosted by former executive director of the Community Action Organization of Western New York and former executive of Urban Think Tank, L. Nathan Hare, the show’s goal is to spark conversation and engage younger audiences. “For the college, you want our students to be exposed to as many new ideas and different ways of understanding ideas as possible, and that may not be as easily done in a classroom as we can do on our radio program,” he said. Hare finds that there are very few radio programs that offer a progressive analysis. “Most of the time radio programs are either sports or there are programs that are talking from a very right-winged or conservative point of view and very little that talks about things from a progressive point of view,” he said. “I’m always trying to figure ...

Airing today at 5 p.m. on 91.3 WBNY-FM and with all the discussion with Roe v. Wade , you won’t want to miss this episode about  “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,”  a 2014 documentary film  produced and directed by Mary Dore, which showcases the leaders behind the women’s liberation movement from 1966 to 1971. This episode features Jennifer Ryan-Bryant, an English professor at the State University of New York College at Buffalo and former director of the women gender and sexuality studies interdisciplinary unit, who discusses further about the ways the women’s movement used language to promote equality for women in the workplace and their personal lives. This ranges from slogans they developed, speeches they delivered and an outpouring of creative works including poetry, comics and pamphlets. Ryan-Bryant, who is also the graduate coordinator for the Master of Arts program, teaches courses in American Poetry, the American novel, women and gender studies, Gender and ...

Visiting scholar Peng Zhuang presenting Buffalo State College Center for China Studies 22nd anniversary exhibit photo credit: Cait Malilay The State University of New York College at Buffalo's Center for China Studies celebrated its 22nd anniversary last week with exhibits in the Student Union and Butler Library. Because of the pandemic, as with many other school events, the center didn’t get an opportunity to celebrate their 20th anniversary. “Before the COVID-19 pandemic, we did some other kinds of activities like Chinese landscape painting and performances,” said Peng Zhuang, a visiting scholar from Xinxiang University. The mission of the center is “to promote and coordinate research, scholarly exchanges, academic programs and economic development with China,” as well as offer an international perspective to students, faculty, staff and the general community in Western New York. photo credit: Cait Malilay Zhuang has been in Buffalo for about a year and is originally from Henan,...

photo credit: Cait Malilay English department Chair Lisa Berglund launched a semiweekly book sale initiative this spring where all proceeds will benefit student and non-tenure faculty research and travel. The idea to start this fundraiser goes as far back as 2019. After Berglund’s mother passed away, she left thousands of books. “They were all over my dining room, and then I had this idea like, why not sell them and benefit the department?” she said. In addition to the 75 boxes, some retiree professors began donating their books once they heard about the initiative. After being open for a month, she sold about $150 worth of books. “Some people come back more than once. I can tell you, Dr. Mark Fulk is spending a lot of money,” she said. “He comes in like every two weeks and leaves with another five or six books!” There are many choices from mystery and detective novels to older fiction. English majors may wonder if some of the titles include those that we read in our classes, and the a...