Issue 10

GENERATION MAGAZINE

An alternative voice since 1984 An SBI publication 02252014 Vol. 31 Issue: 10

Sochi-sus Christ Russia’s Olympics from Hell

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05 EIC Letter 07 Agenda Hit or Bullshit What’s on our Playlist 08 Legacacy of Comedian Bill Hicks 09 Cartoon Crushes HE SAID SHE SAID 10 Snow, Sex, and Softener PULSE 11 Mars One 14 The Cannibal 15 Death by the Letter of the Law FEATURE 16 Human Rights in the Russian Olympics BUFFALOVE 18 Apartment Hunting LITERARY 19 Submissions 20 Steel Bellow Poetry Reading 21 Steel Bellow Poems PARTING SHOTS 22 ¡Viva la Geek-olución!

One Night Stand Etiquette

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Editor’s Letter

Dear Readers,

It has been a stressful, yet also exhilarating last couple of weeks. I read for the first time at a poetry reading (see page 20), met pretty much all of the SBI staff while I had a raging cold, and started the process of cleaning out our office with the help of our lovely Managing Editor Audrey. When I say cleaning, I mean serious cleaning. Everything has been rearranged: there are large piles of surplus furniture all over the place, lots of random items in our lost and found and our recycling bins are full to the brim. I honestly have no idea how it all fit in the space beforehand.

Besides the fantastic new open work spaces we have created, the other benefit of cleaning the office has been the opportunity to go through all the shelves and drawers full of old Generation paraphernalia.

Our magazine has an interesting history, constantly evolving through the years. It is especially good to look back at our roots now as we continue to make changes ourselves.

As a wise baboon once said, ‘If you can’t run from the past, learn from it!’

I hope you know who that baboon is, and I also hope I got the quote right—but don’t worry, we aren’t trying to run anywhere, just to grow. Part of that growth will coincide with our hiring a new Web Editor and Photo Editor, positions we will be interviewing for this week so if we have any last minute interested applicants reading this, visit our website ubgeneration.com/work-for-us/ and get your resume, cover letter and creative portfolio in!

We also welcome new staff writers and other interested parties with open arms.

Please come up to our office 315 SU for meetings on Fridays or anytime, if you knock, I will probably be there. At Generation, we seek to be a creative outlet for students and we need creative students in order to achieve this goal, so don’t be a stranger.

I’ll end here after that shameless plug and share with you one of our finds in the Generation Drawers, some fabulous film photography. If you look closely enough, you can see our predecessors sitting on some of the ugly furniture we are finally getting rid of!

STAFF 2014 Editor in Chief Angelina Bruno Managing Editor Audrey Foppes Creative Director Emily Butler Assistant Creative Director Babita Persaud Web Editor Keighley Farrell Copy Editor Sushmita Sircar Associate Editors Laura Borschel Jori Breslawski Adam Johnson Circulation Director Matt Benevento Business Manager Nick Robin Ad Manager Andrew Kim Contributing Staff Cara Shelhamer Zainab Alkhamis 05

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Everyone’s favorite judge, Miss Jay Alexander is returning to America’s Next Top Model cycle 21! Nevermind the fact that there have been 21 seasons of the show, and it has been going on far too long and they are not bringing back Mr. Jay and Nigel Barker. Miss Jay has style and Miss Jay can teach them girls and boys (they have male models again this season) how to walk!

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BUIn what is perhaps the most painfully awkward interview I have seen in a long time, an entertainment reporter somehow mistook Samuel L. Jackson for Laurence Fishburne. Jackson proceeded to rightfully grill the reporter for several minutes, saying “We don’t all look alike! There’s more than one black guy doing a commercial.”

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Happy- Pharrell Peacock- Katy Perry Not As We- Alanis Morissette Norwegian Wood- The Beatles I’m the One That’s Cool- The Guild Sea of Air by Portugal- The Man Talk Dirty- Jason Derulo ft. 2 Chains Days and Days- Lil Wayne ft. 2 Chains Space Jam- Audio Push ft. Lil Wayne A Little Party-Fergie

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An incredible social experiment is taking place on Twitch right now. A programmer has placed a version of Pokémon Blue on the website which allows for anybody to place a command into the game at any time. Despite the sheer chaos of tens of thousands of players commanding the same character, Pokémon trainer Red has already made it halfway through the game (as of this writing).

Go Team Anarchy!

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I know it seems rather curmudgeonly to complain about the weather, but again, GOD, THIS WEATHER. It’s not only that our area is miserably frigid: this winter has been responsible for countless car accidents, injuries, and even deaths across the country because of treacherously icy roads and blinding storms. I don’t pretend to understand the cost analysis involved in determining whether or not to close a business or school, but I can’t help feeling that our concern over numbers is beginning to overpower our common sense.

March 1st:

SA Comedy Series: John Benjamin and Aisha Tyler from Archer!

All you Archer fans, rejoice! SA totally nailed this Comedy Series pick. We can’t wait to see what kind of ridiculous hilarity is up their sleeves. They will no doubt be taking us to... the danger zone.

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Not Just Another Dead Hero

“The world is like a ride at an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it’s real, because that’s how powerful our minds are.”

Article By: Matt Benevento

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his month marks the twentieth anniversary of legendary comedian Bill Hicks’ death. Bill’s life was tragically cut short in 1994 when he died from pancreatic cancer. However, the claim that his cult status is a result of his early death is an injustice to his memory. His death was not the defining moment of his legacy. What truly made him a legend was what he accomplished in life and what has evolved from his work.

Bill was more than just a comedian; he obscured the line between comedy, social commentary, and philosophy. When Bill picked up a microphone no one was safe and no subject was off-limits. His ability to seamlessly tear apart his targets and illuminate the truth, while putting a smile on the audience’s face, was his hallmark.

Though Bill was extremely talented things rarely came easy for him throughout his career. In Bill’s prime years he was never able to make a home in the mainstream comedy scene. At the conclusion of the ’80s, the stand-up comedy bubble began to burst. The talent pool had become overly diluted, resulting in a lack of interest from the audience. The comedians that survived were either extremely talented (George Carlin) or pandered to the mainstream by sticking to the dull but safe side of comedy (Louie Anderson). Though standup was at a low, it opened the door for a new breed of comedy that would set the stage for people like Patton Oswalt, David Cross, and Dave Chappelle.

Unfortunately for Bill, he would not live to see this next generation of comedy. He spent much of his career travelling the country, trying to spread a message that

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no one wanted to hear. Though he was often misunderstood, ignored, or even hated, Bill gave every defeat a positive spin. His battles against illiterate waffle waitresses, angry mobs of Christians, censorship, and plagiarism fueled his comedic drive.

The true tragedy of the story is not the hurdles along the way but the fact that Bill was diagnosed with cancer at the very moment when he was truly starting to get his career where he wanted it. In the last years leading up to his death, Bill finally found a home in England. He said that he had found a place where people really understood him and his message. He had even started shooting a new TV show Counts of the Netherworld, where he would have a platform to meld his comedy and social commentary on a regular basis for a national audience. Back in the US, the evolution of comedy was finally reaching a stage where people like Bill could have their talents appreciated. It makes you wonder if it might have been Bill Hicks and not Bill Maher with a talk show on HBO today.

In an interview with the Austin Chronicle, it was perhaps Maynard James Keenan who summed up Bill’s life and death the best: “His ideas were what really resonated with us… Unity is the philosophical center. Evolution. Change. Internally and externally. Individually and globally. That’s pretty much the gist of his comedy no matter what he was talking about -- music, porno, smoking. Whatever it was, it came back to the idea of unity and evolution… If you look at Bill’s work and really understand where he’s coming from, you start to realize he’s not really gone, he’s just going through a change…”

And as Bill himself would say: “The world is like a ride at an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it’s real, because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round and it has thrills and chills and it’s very brightly colored and it’s very loud. And it’s fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: ‘Is this real? Or is this just a ride?’ And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and they say ‘Hey! Don’t worry, don’t be afraid -everbecause... this is just a ride.’ And we kill those people.

‘Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride! Shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry; look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.’ It’s just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that -- ever notice that? -- and we let the demons run amok. But it doesn’t matter, because... it’s just a ride, and we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort. No worry. No job. No savings and money. Just a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy bigger guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, into a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense each year and, instead, spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would do many times over -- not one human being excluded -- and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever. In peace.”

CARTOON I

Article By: Angelina Bruno

Crushes

have always had the problem of falling in love too easily with anything and everything, including cartoon characters.

While some of these infatuations were socially acceptable, aka any Disney prince, others I felt more embarrassed about. I am confessing here to all of my crushes, because I have come to the conclusion that, really, any attraction to a character just means that the animators did their job of creating an appealing character and they deserve to be appreciated.

Prince Phillip, Sleeping Beauty: Besides the fact that I used to raid our costume box, dress up as a princess and sing the melodies from Sleeping Beauty out my window in hopes that cute little bunnies and birds would flock to me, I also had a thing for Aurora’s prince, Phillip. Everyone has a favorite Disney prince and mine just happens to be the most dashing of them all. In 1959, for the third Disney princess movie to come out ever, animators decided that they wanted Prince Phillip to actually have a personality. The Prince from Snow White and Prince Charming from Cinderella did not even have real names, let alone the ability to really catch a girl’s interest.

Philip could dance, defeat dragons and also beautifully finish off a duet. I would not mind meeting Phillip once upon a dream.

Ash Ketchum, Pokémon: Like most late 90s and early 00s kids, I was a little obsessed with Pokémon. Besides the trading cards, I had every single pokéball big kids meal toy from Burger King, flashy Pokémon apparel and even a stuffed plushy Pikachu. You could say I was living the pokédream. My obsession, of course, extended to the massive crush I had on the main character, Ash. Between saving the world numerous times and hanging out all day with adorable and cuddly Pokémon like Squirtle and my personal favorite, Charmander, what’s not to love? To me, Ash seemed like quite the catch and, as you all know, you’ve gotta catch em’ all.

Peter Pan, Peter Pan: The night I turned 13, I mourned the loss of my childhood, mostly because it meant there was no longer a chance that Peter Pan would come and swoop me away to Neverland.

Flying was always a fascination for me, my Christmas list for many years consisted of pixie dust and a Nimbus 2000. I wanted to fly to the second star to the right and

straight on ‘til morning. The idea of the freedom of never having to grow up is normally what Pan’s allure is attributed to, but I think it lies more in the challenge of getting him to return. I believed that unlike Wendy or her daughter Jane, who starred in the sequel—which I saw multiple times in theaters of course—I would certainly have been able to convince Pan to come back and ‘grow up’ with me.

Jim Hawkins, Treasure Planet: Based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Treasure Planet was a flop at the box office, but the main character, Jim Hawkins, was not a flop in my heart. Besides the fact that anything that remotely has to do with pirates gets me going, I found Jim’s troubled bad boy vibes very alluring. I was definitely super embarrassed by this crush until years later I realized that Joseph Gordon Levitt was not only the voice of Jim, but also similar looking to his onscreen character. The bad boy look and attitude, complete with leather jacket, were also modeled partly after icon James Dean. I now feel completely validated in having a thing for this rebel without a cause.

Danny Fenton, Danny Phantom: Danny, changing from awkward teenage boy to awkward teenage ghost boy, captured my awkward teenage heart. His constant battles for the greater good of man and ghost kind, as well as his ongoing flirtation with best friend Sam, made him pretty irresistible. Who doesn’t want a hero with a sensitive side? This secret crush was first confessed amidst giggles at a slumber party in middle school. Not only was I embarrassed that I found the ghost boy attractive, but that I watched the show at all. It was great to find solidarity with a friend who shared the same affinity for his nice forearms. I have come to terms with the fact that I will probably never not love watching cartoons.

So there you have it, my compliments to all of the animators out there for a job well done. To the ladies and gents who so skillfully modeled their drawings after some beautiful people in real life, I salute you, and I am certainly not complaining.

One last shout out to Prince Derek from Swan Princess for having quite possibly the best, animated, male-prince singing voice ever—and for not being a Disney dandy.

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Snow, Sex, and Softener

I don’t really like sports that much, but I really want to watch the Olympics this year. But I don’t know which events I should watch.

Could you guys help me out?

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By far the best event is team deathmatch snowball fighting. The event dates back to ancient Eskimo tribal battles, where arctic warriors would smash frozen chunks of whale blubber into each other. In the last winter Olympics the antagonistic team Iceland beat out the US after cheating by using non-regulation ice balls filled with ball bearings to take the gold. This year be sure to watch out for the dark horse; team Ecuador.

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The many countries from the West came up with a new event this year called “Let’s see how many rainbows to wear to mock Russia without calling attention to how shitty we are to our own gay people.” So far, the U.S. has taken the lead, with England and Germany taking the coveted second and third places.

I keep seeing cars smashing into snow banks, and the parking lots don’t seem to be well maintained.

What can I do to drive safely on campus this winter?

HS

In fairness, I think the University is doing the best it can with the parking

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lots. They can’t help that people park overnight to save their parking spaces, preventing the plows from clearing the entire lot. As far as avoiding snow banks, if you feel your car slipping out of control, jam on the brakes as hard as you can to regain stability.

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First off, don’t be Asian. I only say this because I have seen too many get lost in the winter tundra never to be found again. Perhaps it is the fact that they are not used to the Buffalo winters, but it could also be that their parents are displeased over the fact that they go to UB and not UA. I heard only 49% of UB females masturbate. I thought we were in the top percentage for everything as a SUNY school. How can we change this, to ensure our competitiveness in the NY state school system?

I just finished reading two on campus periodicals, and I want to know why you guys didn’t make a sex issue. You guys used to be edgy and cool, but now I just don’t know. What gives?

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*Leaves office to go apply to The Spectrum* Well I don’t want to give anything away, but the next issue is going to be on the ins and outs of period sex.

There will also be side commentary on athletes with disabilities and incessant updates on what is going on in the heights. Remember, news is serious.

I just finished rushing and got into the illustrious fraternity Kappa Kappa Kappa, and now that I’m getting ridiculous action, how do I keep my sheets clean?

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Well that’s not surprising, it’s just one more thing that men are better at.

On a side note I feel that the number is too high and invite any and all women at UB to my apartment, to get the numbers down.

Well clearly it’s an epidemic that needs fixing fast. Luckily we are still ahead of Canisius, which has a mere 38% of the female population who masturbates.

I doubt many of the women you are going to be escorting to your room will care about the state of your sheets. If you are asking for yourself, you should know that real men like to sleep in filth and don’t use wimpy stuff like detergent and fabric softener.

Well I suggest you wash your sheets with Clorox plus whitening—you do want your whites to be the brightest right?

My girlfriend broke up with me right after Valentine’s Day, and I don’t know what to do. Help!

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She sounds like a bitch! Can you forward me her number?

She sounds like a bitch. Can you give me her number?

I heard Generation magazine is hiring, how can I get in on this?

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Are you unmotivated? Do you usually turn your work in late? Do you have a sick, depraved sense of humor? Are you comfortable publishing borderline to extremely offensive material on a bi-monthly basis? If one or more of these things describes you, then please send a writing sample to our copy editor (spelling/grammatical mistakes welcome).

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You need to take news seriously, especially sports and human interest pieces. In fact, take yourself so seriously that you only dress in formal wear. Don’t bother with rough drafts and crafting your writing into something legible. You won’t have time for that with all the work you will be doing.

Send your questions to ubgeneration@gmail.com!

Article By: Cara Shelhamer

The Next Leap for O

Mankind?

ur society is obsessed with the improvement of technology, and has been since the beginning of time. Everything is made to be bigger, better, and faster than the last. Many writers and artists try to predict the future condition of our world. For example, books like George Orwell’s 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury both depict dystopian societies. Then there is the highly mechanized world of the classic cartoon The Jetsons, full of airways for flying cars and robots to do the housekeeping.

To even think of how far we have actually come technologically as a society is mindblowing. Students can sit in class and take notes on laptops and tablets, when just twenty years ago, the idea of a tablet would have been insane. Our parents didn’t even have this amount of access to technology when they went to school.

Well, our society is about to take it even further.

Non-profit foundation Mars One, founded

by Dutch scientists Bas Lansdorp and Arno Wielders, has proposed to create the first permanent human settlement on Mars, beginning in 2024 – just 10 years from now. The simulated photographs of what the colony will look like are stifling, showing connected white domes with the

hot sun glinting off the metal and a dusty and mountainous foreign landscape in the background. Astronauts—who will consist of people from all over the world picked from the Mars One application website—walk about past the rovers and Martian rocks.

when they are outside of their settlement homes. The Mars One project has proposed that the astronauts will grow their food hydroponically—in mineral water, without soil—and get their energy from solar panels.

There are questions about the effect of extended exposure to lack of gravity on the astronauts. Zero gravity leads to muscle loss and decreased bone density, which could potentially make the astronauts weaker and more prone to injury. And when a Martian colonist is injured, where do they go for treatment?

The people who are picked for the mission will live and die on Mars. Once they leave, they cannot return, due to the high levels of radiation they would be subjected to. Given the irrevocable nature of this decision, it is surprising that over 200,000 people have signed up to be one of the first human beings to make it to Mars. One man from Russia even submitted his application and requested Despite these many unresolved questions, that his wife and two small children also be the idea of humans traveling and starting included in the mission with him. life on another planet is alluring. It is after all the logical extension to the old American As of December 30th, 1058 applicants were decree of “manifest destiny.” Only now, we chosen as possible Mars colonists. The trip plan to expand beyond the limits of our own that will take these astronauts to their new world. Personally, given all the excitement home is a seven-month long journey that that surrounds this expedition, the trip is comes with a price tag of 6 billion dollars, oddly reminiscent of about a dozen awful a cost that will hopefully be paid for by the sci-fi horror movies that all end with an reality television show the co-founders hope unimaginable space creature that destroys to create surrounding the training, trip, and everything. colonization process of the planet.

The trial mission leaves in 2018, and will There is no breathable air on Mars, and leave supplies for the future colonists. So we the temperature is always below freezing, will shortly see what will come of this next so the astronauts will constantly have to giant leap for mankind. wear temperature-controlled spacesuits 11

The Cannibal

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uandja Magloire ate a man.

Magloire—who calls himself “Mad Dog”—saw a Muslim man riding a bus in the Central African Republic’s capital of Bangui. He decided to follow the bus through the city streets, a young pool of men and women growing steadily behind him. He soon found himself at the head of a mob twenty strong, a diverse group of Christians thirsting for vengeance. The mob stopped the bus and dragged the Muslim man out onto the street. They beat him, stabbed him and proceeded to set him on fire. No one intervened to save the man’s life. Then, before a large crowd of bystanders and video cameras, Magloire cut off a chunk of the dead man’s leg and ate it.

The images that made it into the international media are pixelated, but there remains quite a bit of detail. The stonefaced onlookers, the large crowds circling four men as they drag the body through the streets, the blood pooling on dirt blanketed roads. One picture copyrighted by the Associated Press shows Magloire poised over the burning body, knife in hand. In the background, another body is on fire. Behind that, a crowd of men, women and children look on, their faces blurred by the smoke rising from what were once men.

The Central African Republic has seen its fair share of civil wars and coups. The landlocked country sits on the rolling plains of the savannah south of the Saharan Desert, a former member of the French colonial empire. Despite (or perhaps because of) large deposits of gold, diamonds and other precious minerals, the republic is arguably the poorest country in Africa, its citizens subject to endemic poverty and violence.

The current violence sprang from a military coup back in March 2013, when a Muslim rebel commander named Michel Djotodia overthrew President Francois Bozize with the assistance of his mainly Muslim fighters, the Seleka.

Djotodia threw away the constitution and suspended Parliament. The Seleka committed many atrocities, resulting in the formation of Christian militias that began attacking Muslims as means of defense, and then vengeance. The international community expressed their disgust, the African Union and the French sent troops. Ceasefires were brokered and then broken. Close to a million people fled their homes, drawing fears of a humanitarian disaster. Groups of Christian men armed with machetes and wearing amulets and talismans (which “will make them invincible”) roam the

streets of towns throughout the nation, lynching Muslims in the name of protecting the Christian population.

There is something depressingly familiar about civil war.

Change the details slightly and the above summary could be about Rwanda, Sudan or Syria. A cycle forms: infrastructure is damaged, lives are lost and violence becomes the means for political legitimacy. Political scientists talk of a ‘conflict trap,’ in which civil war leaves a scarred land with the perfect conditions for another conflict. Decades of instability have left citizens of the CAR some of the poorest people in the world. War has scared away industries, and the government (when one is functioning enough to truly exist) tends to concentrate wealth in a small group of hands. The state collapses inwards as everyone scrambles for what’s theirs. The cycle repeats itself. More die. Violence begets violence. Atrocities become commonplace.

Which brings us back to cannibalism. There is something grossly profound in the act of cannibalism, especially when it is not done for survival. “Mad Dog” was a bereaved man.

He had lost his pregnant wife, sister-in-law and her baby to sectarian violence. He was angry. He wanted revenge. He chose the ‘accepted’ form of revenge: lynching. But then he went further. What does it mean to eat a man? What logic or belief leads to cannibalism? What is gained in eating another? What is lost?

Cannibalism is a cardinal sin in most cultures. One may kill a man in self-defense, or after a criminal trial, but one can never eat the body. Yet, when one considers civil strife and sectarian violence, perhaps the cannibal is a symbol. Civil strife is internal: the enemy is everyone and everywhere. A state in civil war cannibalizes itself, like the snake that eats its own tail. A ravenous desire takes over to eat the other, to take what is theirs and absorb it into oneself. It is the ingestion of oneself, an affront to what we call nature. It is a symbol of self-destruction, the suicidal drive that pushes the most rational and logical creatures in known existence to brutal violence.

Ouandja Magloire ate a man, and now that man is a part of him. He will have to live the rest of his life with that knowledge. It makes one wonder what will happen to the society he was trying to protect, the people he was trying to avenge.

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t 1:39 p.m., a 24-year-old masters student had a heart attack and passed away in an all-women college in Saudi Arabia, due to the fact that ambulance men weren’t allowed in the women-only university.

The student was at the university registration building when she lost consciousness around 11 a.m. Her brother was informed and said that she should be taken to the hospital as soon as possible. The emergency was reported and the ambulance made it on time, but the school never managed to evacuate the building in order to get her out before it was too late. It took the university clinic’s nurse an hour until they managed to take the student into the ambulance and even then, after several attempts to resuscitate her heart, she passed away.

The untimely and unnecessary death of a young student has led to many arguments in the media concerning Saudi Arabia’s laws of mixing between men and women, especially when it comes to emergency situations like the one described. In this case, the main “After all, in any religion, a being’s soul is a priority, and if someone is suffering one should do all it takes to help.”

A similar problem has taken place before in Saudi Arabia in a different city, Mecca, where a school was burning but the building wasn’t evacuated. This happened due to the same reason, as the students weren’t allowed to leave without being fully covered, “In the end, religion is not meant to be a hard and fast rule followed regardless of the exigencies of actual life.” which led to the death of 15 students. Many more incidents concerning this matter have occurred.

It should be obvious that no law, religious or otherwise, should be followed at the risk of endangering human life. In the end, religion is not meant to be a hard and fast rule followed regardless of the exigencies of actual life. Especially when it comes to a situation where someone’s life is at stake, it should be okay, required even, to do what it takes to keep the person alive, and not follow an arbitrary law. After all, in any religion, a being’s soul is a priority, and if someone is suffering one should do all it takes to help.

The above story drives home this lesson, and should serve as a wake-up call. It is a lesson for the course of action that needs to be avoided in the future. Campaigns, presentations, and discussions are of the utmost importance in order to spread awareness on such social, and religious issues, so that such incidents do not recur.

Article By: Zainab Alkhamis

reason why the men couldn’t go in was because the student didn’t have her hair covered (hence, religious reasons). Even as the authorities managed to cover her hair, they didn’t have the time to get everyone else in that room covered as well. Eventually one of the professors found the emergency door to let the doctors in, but this consumed about an hour according to the professor. By other accounts in the media, it took almost two hours. Other inconsistences about the

timeline have surfaced as well, with some accusing the ambulance for being late when the nearest hospital was only a few miles away.

death by the letter of the law

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The Real Olympic Challenge Article By: Jori Breslawski

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he Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia have been the source of much anticipation and speculation. In the months leading up to the games, terrorist threats were made, campaigns were formed, and a documentary was released revealing the dark underbelly of the Olympics. The world looked on as Russia came under the critical lens of human rights activists all over the globe, as they got a look inside the country whose rampant violations of human rights are often masked by strict holds on journalism and the semi-western facade that the country often hides behind.

The first violations of human rights due to the Olympic Games began long before the opening ceremony. The unfortunate members of Sochi, Russia were cast aside in order to build the extravagant Olympic village—the most expensive one to date. Sochi is sandwiched between the mountains and the sea, so there was next to no room for construction. But Putin found a way, evicting over 2,000 families.

The Russian parliament passed a law that any land deemed necessary for the

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Olympics could be nationalized by the government; residents that had lived on their property for decades were told that their land no longer belonged to them.

The bill passed by parliament greatly accelerated the process of land expropriation by the government. Contrary to the usual procedure, which can take decades due to court proceedings and complaints, the new law allowed the project to take place in under a year. Even worse, not all the families were compensated for their loss— some received no compensation at all. On top of losing their house and their life in Sochi, many families will suffer from their loss in land and income from agricultural production or renting out their seaside homes. One resident interviewed for the documentary, “Putin’s Games,” reported that the construction crews would kill if ordered to, so residents were forced to stay quiet even whilst their power would go out for days when lines were cut or sewage came out of their sinks when pipes were mislaid.

The glittering Olympic village was raised from the ground by more than 70,000

workers, tens of thousands of which were migrant workers from outside of Russia.

These workers faced brutal exploitation, with Russian employers failing to pay their wages, forcing them to work 12 hours a day with only one day off per month, and confiscating their passports to bar them from escape.

However, the rampant corruption was not limited to the bottom levels of labor—it permeated all the way up through the system.

When Sochi was chosen back in July 2007 as the winner of the 2014 Olympic Games, money began to pour into the small town, attracting organized crime and corruption like a magnet. As billions of dollars began to move to the North Caucus, so did criminal groups looking to take cuts of labor agreements, realestate transactions, and all of the goods coming in from the sea port. One can take a guess at how much of the Olympic budget can be attributed to bribes and kickbacks, knowing that the last winter games, in Vancouver, cost a mere 7 billion, compared to the 50 billion spent on the games in Sochi. The Sochi Internal Affairs department has conducted several investigations of Olympstroy (the state corporation responsible for preparing and organizing the Winter Olympics in Sochi), alleging that the agency and its contractors have designed a kickback scheme that has stolen an estimated 800 million. The agency is a monster compared to the organization that prepared the UK to host the summer Olympics in 2012, whose employees numbered 32. Olympstroy, with over 40 different departments, has more chauffeurs than there were members of the group that designed the London games. It is difficult to track the level of corruption committed by Olympstroy because their financial decisions and construction bids are made behind closed doors. In fact, a budget for the Olympics has never been seen. The corporation has been headed by four different men within the past six years, and has repeatedly been criticized for its lack of transparency. The first manager was Semyon Weinstock—a man who previously managed “Transneft” and is infamous for money laundering while overseeing the construction of the Eastern Siberian-Pacific Oil Pipeline. The next man was Kolodyazhniy, a former mayor of Sochi, who paved the town with blocks made by his and his wife’s company—blocks that cost three times more than imported pavements from Moscow. These financial criminals are the typical leaders in Russia, and their crimes come at the cost of the citizens living under their reign.

Another blaring human rights issue has been the game’s negative impact on the environment. Several environmental experts made statements that the construction of the Olympic venues in Sochi could cause damage to the ecologically fragile buffer area of UNESCO’s protected Caucasus Biosphere Reserve in Sochi National Park. Experts also warned that the construction of the new road and a high-speed railway would damage Sochi’s Mzymta River. Despite the warnings, the International Olympics Committee approved the plans to go ahead with the construction. Landslides, sinkholes, and the collapse of homes have all been caused by the construction of power lines and the dumping of illegal waste. In one village, the construction for the Olympics destroyed local drinking wells, which resulted in the town losing their only source of clean drinking water for years.

Russia originally told the IOC that it aimed to create a “zero waste” games, and even worked with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) to review and monitor the construction process. They promised to devise a strategy that would deliver the games “in harmony with nature.” However, Olympstroy has not followed through with any of their green promises, instead destroying the area with the dumping of illegal waste and the blocking of migration routes for animals such as the brown bear.

Suren Gazaryan, a zoologist exiled to Estonia thanks to criminal charges levied against him by the Russian government for his work in human rights back in 2012, argued, “The most dangerous and important part of the damage is the biodiversity lost in the area. Parts of the national park have been completely destroyed. This area was the most diverse in terms of plant and animal life in Russia.” Experts say

that hosting a Winter Games is much more challenging from an environmental standpoint when compared to hosting a Summer Games; the environmental footprint of constructing the infrastructure necessary for mountain sports is huge, taking into account the delicate and pristine habitat that exists.

Despite all of the issues raised above, perhaps the one that has gained the most time in the spotlight has been Russia’s discrimination against the LGBT community.

On June 29, 2013, President Putin signed a discriminatory bill that banned the promotion of information about “non-traditional” sexuality. This law was passed on a basis of promoting traditional values. And it is not just the government that opposes rights for those in the LGBT community—polls indicate that threequarters of Russians said that homosexuality should not be accepted by society, while only 16% said that it should be accepted. What’s worse, Russian opinion is not likely to change any time soon since the debate on the issue is largely muted, and almost completely silent outside of big cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg.

When the topic is brought up, it is a political tool to distract public attention from the slowing economy, and aimed at vilifying the LGBT community.

Russia’s traditional values, however, are very much at odds with the Olympic Charter, which states that, “any form of discrimination…on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic Movement” and that one of the IOC’s roles is “to act against any form of discrimination affecting the Olympic Movement.” The legislation has been

“It is difficult to track the level of corruption committed by Olympstroy because their financial decisions and construction bids are made behind closed doors. In fact, a budget for the Olympics has never been seen.” attributed to an increase in violence against Russians in the LGBT community, and has turned the Olympics into a battleground for LGBT rights, as the issue takes the world stage.

Although Russia is not the first country with a less than perfect human rights record to host the Olympic Games, it has perhaps gained more public attention about these issues due to the fact that the government has already been in the spotlight over the past year for their increased level of interference in civil society.

Their actions have represented a blatant disregard of human rights, and range from the arrest of members of the band Pussy Riot to their repeated refusal to pass a UN resolution to remove Assad. The focus on human rights in Sochi also differs from past Olympic sites—for example, Beijing— simply because those countries were better at covering up their tracks. Putin has not seemed overly concerned with his global image as an overt violator of human rights norms, and has been accused of viewing the Olympics in Sochi as a chance to build a monument to himself.

But regardless of how well a country can cover up their abuses of human rights, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) should no longer concede the games to countries who blatantly ignore the principles of “human dignity” and nondiscrimination put forth by the Olympic Charter. Countries often use the Olympic Games as a chance to show off to the rest of the world. However the only thing that Putin has demonstrated to other countries is how little he is concerned with upholding human rights, even when being watched by the entire world.

THE HUNT

BEGINS Article By: Keighley Farrell

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f you’re anything like me, apartment hunting is a total pain in the neck.

There are so many options, and so much room for careless error. It almost makes me miss the hallowed Ellicott halls. (Almost.)

When looking for an off-campus apartment, there are a lot of things to consider, but the smartest thing to do would be to put budget first, especially if you’ll be paying for your apartment yourself. You want to make sure that you can actually afford to pay the desired rent for the entire time you’ll be living there, pay the necessary utilities so you don’t freeze and die, and still be able to feed yourself.

I know, I know, it’s a lot to remember.

There are tons of renting websites for the Buffalo area, and most of them allow you to set the price range you desire to find the best possible options.

(Try to keep a level head when viewing properties; if it seems too good to be true, then it probably is.) If you already have some furniture that you can bring with you, check out the unfurnished apartments. If you’re a little bit of a vagabond, and left your parents’ house with nothing but a laptop and a backpack, furnished might be more your style. Pay attention to the details.

You also may want to consider buddying up for a house. Many landlords are exhausted by secret fraternities and rowdy residents, so if you’re just a bunch of normal humans, they’ll be grateful. And you won’t have to pay nearly as much as you would if you were living alone. Sure, you won’t be able to walk around naked, but college is about exploration, not isolation! You’ll be happy you got some experience with roommates that have their own rooms.

While living off-campus seems like the thing to do for a blossoming young professional, it’s important to know yourself before you make the leap. If you live on campus now and you still barely go to class, chances are living off campus might not be the best choice for you. If you don’t have a car, are you really willing to take the metro every day to get to campus? If you’ve spent the last couple years on a meal plan, will you really remember to buy a reasonable amount of groceries every week, or will the leaning tower of pizza boxes become a permanent installment in your kitchen?

While browsing listings on the Internet may seem easy and convenient, you’ll

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find that you’re going over the same properties over and over again. It’s good to venture outside of the screen and check out some local publications to see what they’ve got going on. For example, Artvoice has a pretty sweet listing of homes and apartments in their back pages, complete with phone numbers, emails, and pictures. (Which is more than most Craigslist postings can boast.)

When I was apartment hunting, it always made me feel weird to call the people listing the house/rooms, but they really know more about the place than they can cram in to a public listing. They also know about hidden fees that they may not have mentioned in the original posting. (Watch out for rent increases— “It was a one month deal!”)

My final piece of advice is something I do not follow very well myself: don’t get too attached to your “dream apartment.” Even if it’s in your price range, always consider the possibility that someone might get there before you.

People swoop in and poach the places that offer the most bang for their buck, so don’t be disappointed when they do just that. Keep your head up

“It’s good to venture outside of the screen and check out some local publications to see what they’ve got going on.”

and keep looking; new properties open up every day. (And if you really get desperate, there’s always The Villas…)

All warnings considered, living off-campus comes with a lot of perks. You have way more independence, privacy, and freedom of expression when it comes to your space. Depending on where you live, you also have the option of adding a pet to your mountainous list of responsibilities. Look at that, you’re almost like a real adult!

Article By: Sushmita Sircar

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ow that they’d been married for almost eleven months, Anne felt she knew her husband not at all. When they’d met at college, Ahmet had just come to America from Turkey. For Anne who’d grown up in that small college town, he personified mystery and travel and a knowledge of the world he was quite unsure of actually possessing. And hence easily bewitched by the myriad questions she besieged him with, he fell in love and eventually they married.

And now, ages after they’d assumed they knew everything about each other, Anne was suddenly certain she knew nought. It had started with a phone call she had overheard between him and his sister back in Istanbul, of which she’d understood nothing— because it had been all in Turkish. For over half an hour, she’d stood mesmerized at the door, aware of him teasing and being serious, listening and offering advice and all the while, comprehending none of it. When she asked later what they’d talked about, he shrugged a casual “nothing much.”

Accustomed as she was to his reserved nature, Anne was nevertheless suddenly aware of whole alternate worlds he inhabited of which she wasn’t a part. Every thought, every

sentence of his, seemed to her to have an alternate existence in another language of which she could not partake. His slight Turkish accent made her wonder, ridiculously, she knew, if even their conversations in English meant the same to him or took on completely separate significances. He was a stranger.

THE TRAVAILS OF TRANSLATION

Which was why, when Babble hit the markets, she was one of its first buyers. Babble appeared to be an unprepossessing, slightly bluish, rock flecked with white dots. Each dot was a microcosm containing all the existing knowledge of a certain language, together containing the information pertaining to the hundred most widely spoken languages of the world. They interacted to simultaneously translate any heard language into one known by the owner. Hooked to a computer or a phone, it was a window into universes that previously would have remained unknown, or taken years of work to uncover.

It was exactly what Anne had been looking for. Babble would easily bridge the chasm that had appeared between her and Ahmet. If she understood every word that he said, she must inevitably understand him. She expected enchanting tales of Persia, references to the Turkish literature she’d consumed in translation, descriptions of palaces and languid afternoons sipping tea and cinnamon, intrigues involving his sprawling family. And oh, the conversations they could have when she understood where he was coming from.

Perversely, all she heard was talk of the weather and the sweltering heat, how her niece was doing in her math class and financial accounts being fudged to evade some petty tax laws.

She divorced him soon after.

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Steel Bellow Reading Article By: Angelina Bruno

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hen I brought up the suggestion of reviewing the Steel Bellow open mic poetry reading on campus, I was not anticipating that the overwhelming response from my fellow staff members would be to insist that I actually volunteer to read myself. Sure, I had planned on going, but not the added pressure of performing.

The people milling about the corner of the shop around a table full of printed issues of the journal did not seem too intimidating. When they sent around a looseleaf sign up sheet for readers, I indicated my interest and wrote my name on the page before I could change my mind—it was time to take on a reading with true accountability.

On the day of the reading, I headed to the campus Starbucks, careful to arrive only just before 2pm. Not too early or too late. I did not know what to expect as I walked in, the strong smell of coffee filling the air. Afraid it would be a fancy reading, full of grad students whose vocabulary and eloquence would far exceed my own, I surveyed the room nervously as I pulled out my printed page of poems; work-shopped in class only a few days before.

The first reader wore a purple hockey jersey with the word Rock Star printed on the back instead of a last name. His exuberant style of reading and powerful voice did not necessitate any amplification, but he pulled out a mega phone anyways to be heard above the din of drink announcements and whirring espresso machines.

I have read my poems out loud before in classes, but only reluctantly. I am the kind of person who will gladly read aloud, but prefer to be asked, not to volunteer. I have always worked under the assumption that if everyone thinks you are being forced to perform a reading, then it is not a big deal if you mess up.

Soon enough, it was my turn. I took a breath, slid off my stool and took the plunge.

I introduced myself, as well as the fact that it would be my first time reading my poetry in public, ever. I looked down and read the first poem on my page, and my words did not fail me. For the next, they handed me the mega phone because I had apparently been too quiet. With the ridiculous tool in my hand, although it distorted my voice, I surprisingly felt confident, a new sense of power.

Steel Bellow Poetry Reading review Article By: Adam Johnson

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here’s something truly personal about a poetry reading. A group of disparate individuals gathering together to experience a communal art: one doesn’t often come across that these days. More personal than a play and more interactive than a concert, poetry readings are a mutual understanding. It is a gathering of confidants, each with their own conceptions of art, politics and language, yet each willing to lend an ear. It is an oddity in this day and age: a purely narcissistic act that actually gives something to all involved.

On a quiet Saturday afternoon earlier this month, such a meeting took place in the Starbucks on campus, an open reading presented by the literary and arts magazine, steel bellow. The reading was small and inviting, a dozen or so listeners and the occasional bemused onlooker. The readers were diverse, each with their own styles and perspectives, no two poets alike. They shouted over latte machines and blenders, even using a megaphone when their voices couldn’t reach. One poet mused on the artificiality of language, another built nonsensical poems using his iPhone’s autocorrect, drawing laughs from the crowd. One poet read poems written by her friend to the poet herself, providing another voice to

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a narrative of heartbreak. These poems were a form of story-telling, like the oral poetry of old updated with a confessional flair.

But perhaps the most memorable moment for me occurred during the performance of one of the last poets. She combined a take on the social consciousness of language (the inherent biases of words and phrases) with a blunt, confessional style. In her voice was an annoyance, a sadness, an anger towards the subtle forms of oppression that define our daily lives. What really hit me in this performance was the abrupt juxtaposition it had with the environment of the telling. Here was this poet baring her soul, while business carried on as usual in the background: blenders, microwaves, the calling out of names. For an instant I was broadsided by the collision of creativity and the sheer indifference of the everyday world. For the briefest moment, it really hurt.

Odds are, if you’re reading this, you’re interested in poetry and don’t need to be told what effect it has. So, I will only say this: if you love poetry, go read your work with others. It’s really quite fun.

Steel Bellow BLURB

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s previously featured in our magazine, steel bellow is a purely Buffalo literary and arts magazine. They showcase talented Buffalo artists by publishing poetry and artwork in chapbooks and little magazines. Currently, they are accepting submissions on a rolling

basis and there is no application fee to submit, you also retain the rights to your work. If you or someone you know is looking for a chance to read, they will be holding another reading Friday February 28th at the American Repertory Theater in Downtown Buffalo.

Article By: Angelina Bruno

The following poems were read by Angelina Bruno and Adam Johnson at the Steel Bellow poetry reading:

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orrified to discover my image

THE TRADGEDY OF ERRORS

in bed

with another girloh the scandal my wicked image hath wrought!

I chastise and soliloquize and externalize my shame

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Poem By: Angelina Bruno

find fault with my close reading of the bard’s tales.

Via sit-coms, chick flicks

Pop hits, All based in and on misdirection.

Errors Of judgment.

I try to avoid these errors In my own true life But then I wonder why my story Lies flat on the page Unlike the life-like heroines Of others’ dreams.

but my image has leftoff to the supermarket to harass old ladies and throw empty egg cartons at 40 year old stock boys and I am without energy at this point so I stretch out on the couch sketchbook in hand, yawning away my Saturday while my image sits forgotten in a county jail.

BAD BOY

IMAGE

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Parting Shots ¡Viva la Geek-olución!

Article By: Audrey Foppes

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uestion: “What is the difference between a geek and a nerd?”

I’m glad you asked.

According to Wikipedia—the most legitimate source of information available to the modern world—“nerds” are characterized as being “overtly intellectual, obsessive, or socially impaired” individuals. That seems pretty accurate as far as the general populous is concerned: awkward geniuses. “Geeks,” however, are afforded a broader description, which includes “generally eccentric or non-mainstream people.” Given these definitions, I have decided to give preference to the term “geek,” since it includes a broader range of people, and inclusion is what this revolution is all about.

In recent years, there seems to have been a wonderful

cultural shift, which has brought about a new acceptance of geeks and their previously rejected and ridiculed culture. Perhaps this is because people are realizing that there is nothing criminally wrong with being expertly knowledgeable about a particular subject. Or perhaps this revolution came about because remarkable film-makers, like the exquisite Peter Jackson and Chris Columbus, have brought to life what we in the Geek Community have adored all along. Whatever the reason, I’m glad this happened.

The evidence of this revolution is positively everywhere. More and more websites are catering specifically to geeky people, not to mention television shows and movies, which have served to proclaim our geekiness in all its technicolor glory. These media outlets have, I believe, played a crucial role in conveying the cooler aspects of geek culture to the broader public, thereby generating the acceptance and (dare I say it?) celebration of geek culture. By and large, we can still be shy people, but it is encouraging and liberating to see other people sporting their Doctor Who pins and Star Trek T-shirts in full-view of the ever-present and judgmental public eye. Like they say, there is safety in numbers, and our numbers are growing.

See you in the morning?

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hile I have never had a one night stand, I have always been curious over the proper etiquette when someone has one. Do you talk about it beforehand? Do you rock, paper, scissors it for whose place you stay at? Do you wave hello when you pass by each other in the hallway? Do you even acknowledge that you have seen each other naked?

For many of my gay male friends, hook ups tend to be easier due to the addition of apps like grindr and sites like Adam for Adam, where men who are interested in men can casually hook up with anonymity. You can even see how far away someone is with grindr, so your nearest hookup could be sitting by you in the student union.

But even if you have hook up sites and applications, what do you do? Do you just tell the guy you want to hook up with that you want the D real bad?

From my perspective as a lady homo, hook ups and casual encounters in general can be a lot trickier and

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Simon Pegg, who starred in such films as At World’s End and Hot Fuzz, also holds the unofficial title of Geek Ambassador to the World, and recently made a very popular statement: “Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection.” By that standard, all of us are geeks in some capacity, are we not? Isn’t there something each of us feels passionately about? Why is it that we as a society think nothing of adult men haggling endlessly, even coming to blows, over the coaching tactics of professional football teams? What makes debating sports plays different from comparing evasive maneuvers in StarCraft? Aren’t sports and video games ultimately equally trivial?

At the end of the day, it’s not about loving something cool or uncool, or knowing something useful or not.

It’s about loving what you love and being proud of your knowledge and your talents in that area.

Moreover, being a geek means striking a balance between having courage in the face of apathy and judgment, and enthusiasm in the event of discovering mutual weirdness.

Article By: Laura Borschel far less anonymous due to the lack of technology serving our population. This, coupled with the way in which society informs and trains women to act, makes it difficult for me to wrap my head around the other side of the coin. Luckily, some queer guy friends of mine were able to help me out.

Surprisingly, I found out several things that helped me understand what proper actions to go about a hook up were.

First things first, you have to find out whether or not the guy you’re looking at is attractive/your type. You can ask him to send you private photos, which can detail everything from his dick to his dick. But penises aside, you can also choose to get to know your hook up a bit more before you decide to have sex.

If you’re in a topping mood or in a bottoming mood you can ask what the guy is looking for, and narrow it down to what you really want. If you want to be adventurous you can also look for guys who are less

experienced and introduce them to the wondrous world of gay sex. (Seriously, everyone should try it sometime—it’s really quite great.)

Perhaps the most important thing, though, is to always bring protection, because you can never really be sure if the guy you are going to hook up with is really being honest with you about being clean or knowing his status. Just think safety first, always wear a helmet and a condom before riding a ride.

And, of course, have fun when you venture off into the world of hook ups.

GOING FOR THE GOLD

ACROSS

AN OLYMPIC CROSSWORD

3. Hockey Goooooaallllll! Hopefully the U.S team will score plenty of these for this sport!

5. I’m lovin it, they sponsor the Olympics, at least during the summer!

6. It’s kind of like rapping, but on skis.

11. The color medal every Olympian dreams of wearing!

12. Olympic slopes brought to you by this massive natural landform.

13. The location of the 2014 Olympics.

14. Skating Apollo Ono was a favorite for this sport.

16. The Canadians made a controversial ad regarding this sport which was later spoofed

by Jimmy Kimmel using ken dolls…

17. Don’t drop this Olympic icon, this girl is on fire!

19. Cool runnings? Wonder how the Jamaican team will do at this sport.

20. Canadians like to play this sport with brooms while heavily intoxicated.

23. Skiing and shooting targets? they must get dizzy.

24. In this sport athletes fly throught the air off of a ski ______.

DOWN 1. You don’t want frost bite, make sure to wear these on your hands!

2. It would be pretty fancy to win a bronze, silver or gold one of these around your neck!

4. skiing Everyone ran this sport in high school, only this one is on skis.

7. Lauren This American designer was responsible for the quilt-like US uniforms this year.

8. The really cold season between Fall and Spring.

9. Combined This sports origins are the same as Thor and Odin’s!

10. The really cold, wet, sometimes slushy stuff needed for most of the downhill sports.

13. This sounds more like a Halloween decoration than a sport…

15. The little black disk that hockey players knock around the ice.

18. Good thing a skier was wearing one of these that cracked in half!

21. It rhymes with sink, and is the location of many winter games.

22. Skating Remember when Michelle Kwan and Sasha Cohen were really good at this?

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