By: Andrew Nowel, Sports Layout Editor Another fall season is in the books for David Dee and the ESPN+ crew in Science Hall, though the year is just beginning. As the students of Sports Field Production, JRN 358 and 359, get ready to enter the winter season, their semesterly project – the all-students production – has come and gone once again with each year building on the success of the last. For the students, it’s not just an important project in the classroom; it’s the beg

By: Madison Howard, Contributor Leading up to Halloween, campus has been abuzz with spooky events hosted by various clubs and organizations. One of the most recent came from the Afro-American Society, which held its Halloween Fest on a perfectly chilly night in Science Hall Commons. The event gave students a chance to unwind from the stress of classes and spend time with friends while enjoying a movie together. Science Hall Commons was transformed into a festive Halloween spa

By: Kaitlyn Belile, Assistant Features Editor Happy Halloweekend, Griffs! Whether you are staying on campus or going out, we want all of you to be as safe as possible. As the weekend commences, here are the 10 best ways to stay safe through the events going on!  Know the Public Safety number: (716)888-2330  If you do not already have this number saved, put it in your phone now! The job of Canisius Public Safety is to keep us safe, so if you are feeling unsafe and need support

By: Peter Neville, Asst. Sports Editor In 1993, Sheri Singer – senior vice-president of TV movies for Walt Disney Television – was asked the question, “Where do all the creatures from Halloween go the rest of the year when it's not Oct. 31?” That simple question spawned one of the best Halloween movies ever made, Halloweentown, a made-for-TV movie released on Disney Channel in 1998.  For this bold idea, Disney needed someone with the experience to be able to pull off this aud

By: Hannah Wiley, Features Editor Halloween as we know it today is a fun holiday that young kids all the way up to college students enjoy. But have you ever wondered how it came to be the holiday we all know and love? Halloween originated with the Celts – who lived in what is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and Northern France – as a festival called Samhain. Oct. 31 marked the end of summer and the start of the cold, long winter ahead. The Celts believed that this time of yea

By: Andrew Nowel, Sports Layout Editor It’s spooky time once again in Science Hall and there’s a room that is creepiest of them all: Science Hall 1027, the ESPN Control Room. Many dare not enter the lair of one David Dee with his trusty graduate assistant Colton Pankiewicz. From the outside, the control room looks scary, but when you open the door, you are welcomed with a smile that makes you wonder, ‘will I return from the world of sports?’ Dee, the director of digital media

By: Andrew Nowel, Sports Layout Editor Alec Wheeler began his job as the assistant director of facilities for Canisius athletics last November and immediately found out what the job entailed. His first day on the job was during Kids Day at a women’s basketball game, where many young fans from all over Buffalo came to cheer on the Griffs. After a short time, Wheeler was hooked and began to work tirelessly to make everything flow at the Koessler Athletic Center (KAC), the Demsk

By: Kaitlin O’Meara, Copy Editor This past Tuesday Oct. 21, the Canisius Contemporary Writer Series brought Ira Sukrungruang to Canisius to speak with English and creative writing students before a reading with the larger community. As a Thai-American writer, he talked extensively about identity and how it influences his writing, and gave advice to young writers on how to sustain a literary life.  Sukrungruang got his B.A. in English from Southern Illinois University Carbonda

By: Hannah Wiley, Features Editor This past summer, senior English and Spanish double major Kaitlin O’Meara had an internship in the education department of Journey’s End Refugee Services. O’Meara got the internship through the Canisius English Department and the Thomas Connelly Community Engagement Fellowship.  She worked with Canisius alum and former opinion editor of The Griffin Newspaper , Grace Brown, who had been working there as the department case manager for two year

By: Kaitlyn Boxley, Contributor Anyone who has taken a studio arts course recently has shared the embarrassing experience of trudging to the basement of Science Hall, limbs stocked to the brim with the bits and pieces of their projects, possibly tripping over themselves because they cannot see over their materials. All of this, only to need to squeeze them between what could be miscellaneous objects for Sculpture I or actual equipment for the physics labs.  Now, students need

By: Cassandra Ercoli, Kevin Fisher, and Matti Mendez, Contributors With the fall semester now in full swing and midterm exams right around the corner, Dr. Erin Robinson, a sociology professor, is bringing yoga back to campus with the hopes of offering students time to take care of themselves. For Dr. Robinson, yoga is more than the movement – it is a moment for students to slow down and reconnect with themselves. Her yoga classes offer a break from the rush of classes, midter

By: Lucas R. Watson, Layout Editor Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025 will mark a full two hundred years since the opening of the Erie Canal. That transformation of that small ditch – which made its way across the state, up the escarpment and down to Buffalo – into the Erie Canal is one of the most significant events in this entire region's history. There is next to nothing more pivotal than the opening of that canal, which during construction was given such names as ‘Clinton’s Folly’ or

By: Ben Cordero, Staff Photographer I sat down with graduate student, Mekhi Edwards, to discuss his Canisius journey as well as his...

By: Hannah Wiley, Features Editor There’s a new Griff on campus, or in better terms, a returning Griff – Petrina Hill-Cheatom, our new...

By: Kaitlin O’Meara, Copy Editor This past Thursday, Oct. 2, Canisius’ Contemporary Writers Series brought Dame Louise Richardson,...

By: Andrew Nowel, Sports Layout Editor Christ the King Chapel is a faith community that includes faculty, staff and students, but also...

By:  Matt Morcelle, Contributor In a small residential community in London, in April of 1935, Mortimer Morris-Goodall gave his daughter a...

Jase May, Contributor For the second year in a row, Canisius University has been named “Best Local University” by The Buffalo News’...

Lucas R. Watson, Layout Editor On our campus, we have a creator lab where students and faculty can learn new skills through various forms...

Andrew Nowel, Sports Layout Editor As the calendar turns to October, Canisius announced a new and exciting addition to campus. The alumni...