Brendan Hammond, Contributing Writer “Glee.” “American Horror Story.” “Scream Queens.” These are all iconic (for better or for worse) shows produced under Ryan Murphy’s name. Murphy has gained a significant reputation in Hollywood for his bizarre, gory and sexually charged shows. Beginning in 2022, Murphy released his “Monster” series with longtime collaborator Ian Brennan. The series would dedicate each season to a different killer, with the first being Jeffrey Dahmer, then

By: Timothy Lukasik, Contributing Writer I had an accounting test today so naturally I spent all of last night on Instagram reels instead of studying. One post caught my attention. It was regarding actor Robert Pattinson and his legendary run of movies in 2026. Pattinson’s most recent film, “Primetime,” hit theaters on Sept. 25. The plot is inspired by true events, following and dramatizing the making of the 2000s reality TV show “To Catch a Predator,” with Pattinson starring

Is Campus Safety actually goofy? The Underground heard some really funny things on Monday morning and needs to research the topic more thoroughly. Stay tuned… What is really going on the third floor in Old Main? The faculty have advocated for normal classrooms, but the Underground thinks that the asking of the faculty was just a formality as the new classrooms seem to be the modernized classrooms like the ones on the first floor of Old Main. We do love our facilities team.

Timothy Lukasik, Contributing Writer I had an accounting test today so naturally I spent all of last night on Instagram reels instead of studying. One post caught my attention. It was regarding actor Robert Pattinson and his legendary run of movies in 2026. Pattinson’s most recent film, “Primetime,” hit theaters on Sept. 25. The plot is inspired by true events, following and dramatizing the making of the 2000s reality TV show “To Catch a Predator,” with Pattinson starring as

Adam Kozman, Opinion Editor Sameness is the lack of variety; simply uniformity. I think uniformity in daily life takes away what it is that makes life worth living. I’m talking about daily life, the things that are happening outside your front door. We live in Buffalo, N.Y. just as people live in San Francisco, Calif. and Sandusky, Ohio. We don’t have any stunning mountains or glaciers, expansive prairies or water rushing off of bright beaches. We just don’t have that. As for

Byline: Brendan Hammond, Contributing Writer “Glee.” “American Horror Story.” “Scream Queens.” These are all iconic (for better or for worse) shows produced under Ryan Murphy’s name. Murphy has gained a significant reputation in Hollywood for his bizarre, gory and sexually charged shows. Beginning in 2022, Murphy released his “Monster” series with long time collaborator Ian Brennan. The series would dedicate each season to a different killer, with the first being Jeffrey D

A university is supposed to be a place to earn a degree. It is supposed to be a place where students are protected and heard. Cornell University’s handling of a 2024 alleged sexual assault case raises serious questions about what happens when those institutions fail. The Cornell case is representative of an epidemic of rape culture that permeates throughout American society. Rape culture is a sociological concept in which rape and sexual violence are normalized and excused d

Byline: Adam Kozman, Opinion Editor Sameness is the lack of variety; simply uniformity. I think uniformity in daily life takes away what it is that makes life worth living. I’m talking about daily life, the things that are happening outside your front door. We live in Buffalo, N.Y. just as people live in San Francisco, Calif. and Sandusky, Ohio. We don’t have any stunning mountains or glaciers, expansive prairies or water rushing off of bright beaches. We just don’t have th

Lily McMenemy, Assistant Opinion Editor Welcome to Cura Mundus, the regular conservation column where we seek to “care for the world!” This week’s highlight species is the civet, paradoxurus hermaphroditus. Fascinatingly, despite being cat–like in size and dog–like in appearance, they are neither felines nor canines, and are a kind of mammal native to south and southeast Asia. Civets have been heavily processed and farmed for their unique “exotic” characteristics. They sec

A university is supposed to be a place to earn a degree. It is supposed to be a place where students are protected and heard. Cornell University’s handling of a 2024 alleged sexual assault case raises serious questions about what happens when those institutions fail. The Cornell case is representative of an epidemic of rape culture that permeates throughout American society. Rape culture is a sociological concept in which rape and sexual violence are normalized and excused

By Hannah–Kate McFadden, Contributing Writer As of late, relations with Canada have been strained, to say the least. On Tuesday, the United States went ahead with a ban on around $1 billion worth of Canadian imports. However, this all started not so long time ago, in a galaxy too close for comfort. The Trump Administration began to impose tariffs on Canada in early 2025, which then escalated into a full–on trade war with retaliatory tariffs being imposed on the U.S. The ban

By Contributing Writers of The Griffin What is the right balance, at a university, between deteriorating our critical thinking skills and strengthening them? To even ask this question places our little school among a sea of others. Despite so many schools paving the way regarding AI regulations (whether it be in the best direction or not), Canisius seems to always find itself falling behind to the detriment of its students. Canisius has rather readily fallen into line with de

Uniland is property management and development in Buffalo. They own the office space ICE leases in Buffalo at 250 Delaware Ave. Uniland received $9.6 million in tax breaks when they were first making this space. One of Canisius’ biggest donors, the Montante family, owns Uniland. Evict ICE has a goal of convincing Montante to end the lease, or let it expire and not let them keep this as their home base in Buffalo, emphasis in Buffalo because that’s not the only space that Unil

By Lily McMenemy Welcome to Cura Mundus, the weekly conservation column where we highlight ways to “care for the world”! This week’s species is the Grizzly bear, Ursus arctos horribilis (happy Fat Bear Week!). This week in my Conservation Behavior class, the plight of bears within America has been at the center of conversation. We explored the frequency and impact of bear traffic jams, and the experienced Dr. Sue Margulis shared a documentary called “Bear71”. This interactiv

By: Adam Kozman, Opinion Editor This week in Tennessee, death row inmate, Christa Pike, received and survived two lethal injections. The governor, Bill Lee, pauses the planned “execution” for the time being while she is being hospitalized. Upon reading all these various headlines talking about the situation, it was odd seeing the word “execution” used so freely. Multiple news sources are writing about the execution attempt of this person, the failure of this execution and the

By Andrew Nowel, Editor-In-Chief Oh hockey… wait, isn’t there a column called oh honey? Anyway, the National Hockey League (NHL) season starts next week, and if you aren’t watching this brand new 84–game season, what are you doing? Hockey season drops the puck in early October every year, but this season, the NHL has expanded it by adding two more games, meaning the league had to push the start of the season up to late September. Sept. 29 to be exact as the Florida Panthers,

Lily McMenemy, Assistant Opinion Editor As members of a Jesuit community at Canisius University, you can’t go far without hearing “Cura Personalis.” This Latin phrase is a beautiful concept, which encourages us to care for the entirety of a person, including their mind, body, spirit and emotions. But there is one member of our community who has gone entirely neglected: the Earth. Today, the world and all species in it are facing an unprecedented, detrimental lack of care. Mo

By Cassandra Ercoli, Assistant Sports Editor There is no doubt that women’s sports have excelled in recent years. With professional women’s leagues expanding from year to year, and female collegiate athletes getting national recognition at the biggest stage, it is certainly fair to say that women’s sports are as strong as ever. However, while the athletes may be having their moment, women’s sports may be equally as fragile, as the global support of women in sports is not clea

Adam Kozman, Opinion Editor In recent years, there’s been a rise in the popularity of civilian vigilante videos online. Videos where individuals take law enforcement into their own hands without any prior legal authority. The most popular of these videos being those predator catch videos everyone has seen. The original idea of the predator catch was anchored by Chris Hansen, who would set up sting operations, where he would catch child predators with decoys and the backing of

Rough weekend for EIC Nowel: Indianapolis Colts lose in a heartbreaker to the Kansas Chiefs, his fantasy team (not The Griffin league) loses by 0.08 because the New York Giants scored only six points and he gets sick. On the bright side for EIC Nowel, he took down Karen Rodger’s by 100 as here’s the Week 2 update from The Griffin fantasy football league. Features is on a roll after beating News last week, they did it again because a certain Dusza (we can blame Jon) forgot to