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...

Hannah Wiley, Features Editor One of the newest and youngest members of the staff this year is our assistant news editor, Katie Dusza. In...

Kaitlyn Belile, Assistant Features Editor The Griffs hockey team will be starting out their season at home against Clarkson on Friday,...

By: Kaitlin O’Meara, Copy Editor If you’ve ever been working on a paper and wished there was a place on campus that could help you out,...

By: Andrew Nowel, Sports Layout Editor Just over a week ago, Hispanic Heritage Month began, and it marks a time for celebrating all of...

By: Ashley Kurz, Managing Editor  There is a piece of Buffalo business that has stood its ground for two decades right here on campus –...

By: Kaitlyn Belile, Assistant Features Editor  As a musical theatre connoisseur, I decided everyone needs to know my thoughts on “The...