By Mikayla Boyd, Editor-in-Chief Throughout my entire scholastic career, my biggest challenge has been a blank page, but filling those pages have also been my biggest achievements. I’ve dedicated so much time and energy into filling each blank page I’ve ever come across – whether that’s The Griffin’s ten pages weekly, my 39-page honors thesis, every class paper I’ve written, my law school personal statement – the list could go on. Yet this is the page I’ve been dreading to fi

By Sophia K. Asher, Multimedia Director For most of my life, I felt like a caterpillar, with a butterfly inside me waiting to emerge. I’ve always been a little different, with a brain that works in its own way. Because of that, I’d often shut down. I never quite knew how to act, and, for lack of a better word, I could come across as awkward or off-putting. But within that “different” brain lived a vibrant girl – funny, loud and unapologetically herself. “I wish they could see

By: Elizabeth Shingler, Layout Director Shingles here, and in an official capacity, for once. The sun is setting on my time at Canisius, and it’s time to settle in for campfire stories. Before I fully get into it, I feel like I should slightly explain Shingles. Yes, it is I who is Shingles. It is weird writing that down. How do I express that I said that out loud? Or I said it how Miley Cyrus took off her wig to the crowd in the “Hannah Montana” movie? To me and some people,

By: Colin Richey, Sports Editor Ever since I heard about The Griffin ’s tradition of having the seniors on staff write a reflection of their last four years, serving as their goodbye to Canisius, I’ve been planning what my 100 Days would look like. I decided to use a metaphor based on what I know best – football. I’ve got four years (or quarters) to cover and plenty of analogies to make, so let’s get ready for kickoff. Freshman year, the first quarter, was a pretty simple ope

By: Peter Neville, Assistant Sports Editor As I sat down to write the story of my time at Canisius, I struggled with where to start. Although I started here in 2022, I feel like I have been at Canisius my entire life. I am the fourth person in my family to attend this school, following my mom, dad and my older sister, Rose, and without their influence, I do not think that I would have ultimately ended up picking their alma mater. My mom and older sister have really been with