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One Direction America Week

The Boys are Back in Town

The high-pitched screams echo off the walls of Radio City Music Hall. Bright beams of light illuminate the dark stage, followed by explosions and a line of flames that materialize from the floor. Four silhouettes appear behind ...
by Alyssa Melillo
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A Race-y History

In a classroom at Stony Brook University, students can always guarantee they will be different from their peers: they will have different skin colors, be of different ethnicities and different religions. Racial diversity is one...
by Alyssa Melillo
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A Cultural Exchange

It’s around 3:15 on a rainy Thursday afternoon and Cheryl Chambers, in a black raincoat and toting an umbrella of the same shade, is running late. She brings her appointment into her office, a spacious room with a window over...
by Alyssa Melillo
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Cuts to the Campus Voice

On the second floor of the Student Union, journalism major Ari Davanelos sits in the office of Stony Brook’s long-running radio station, WUSB. The room is dimly lit, its walls lined with posters of various bands. A tall cabin...
by Alyssa Melillo
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Finding Life in Lithographs

On the fourth floor of the Staller Center is the lithograph studio. It’s a bright room filled with tables, rustic lithographic presses and the strong scent of chemicals. Alexandra Iosub works at the second press. Wearing a d...
by Alyssa Melillo
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Shared Services From Scratch

The concept of a shared support service center is a simple one: the administrative staffs of two or three academic departments are merged into one central entity where staff members can specialize in a certain department, but ...
by Alyssa Melillo
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