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Artvoice Weekly Edition » Issue v5n20 (05/18/2006) » Section: The News, Briefly


Helping Hands

With all the housing problems this town has—an aging, underfilled housing stock, whole streets left toothless by demolitions, out-of-state speculation, a foreclosure list that seemingly stretches to infinity—the folks at Buffalo Housing Court often find themselves looking for and pioneering new methods to tackle them. As new programs are developed and old ones are improved upon, occasionally one emerges as a wild success story, yielding unimagined benefits.



Sex Education at Canisius College

When the members of UNITY, Canisius College’s Gay-Straight Alliance, decided to plan a student drag show on campus this spring, their goal was not to challenge 2,000-plus years of Catholic dogma. Yet this was the reason given by the college in canceling the event nearly three weeks before its intended date.





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