Who Cares About USG?
In a school with over 15,900 undergraduate students, the Undergraduate Student Government senate meetings are shockingly empty. The weekly meetings are where the senate discusses and votes on everything from[...]
Category: Features
It’s the End of the World as they Know It
Dec. 21, 2012 is the end. Or maybe just the beginning of a new Earth era. According to thousands of Redditors, conspiracy theorists and one particularly enthusiastic entrepreneur from California,[...]
Planning With Poise: Dr.Lee Koppelman
Dr. Lee Koppelman is a master planner, and he is also a man who appeared with a brown paper bag at lunch-time. Rich Murdocco, an expert on planning on Long[...]
USG Done Get Paid
The Undergraduate Student Government office on the second floor of the Student Activities Center is always bustling with activity. Though the senators are only required to spend two hours a[...]
The Art of Henna
Two young girls, one in a black leather jacket and the other in an army-green hoodie, sit on a bench in the Student Activities Center lobby. The girl in the[...]
Students to the Rescue
Long Beach, Long Island’s own surf city, is now battered and beaten because of Superstorm Sandy. It is the home of Stony Brook senior Nate Epstein. For the past three[...]
Didn’t Wreck it After All
So here’s the deal: Life isn’t easy for Wreck-It-Ralph. Every day, he destroys the same apartment building, only to have Fix-it-Felix fix it and toss him into the mud. Ralph[...]
The Life of a Horticulturist
By Priscilla Korb Most would expect someone who has to work before 5:30 in the morning to be slightly grumpy. But that’s not the case with Andrea Petterson, the Stony[...]
International Students and the Election
By Rebecca Tapio and Suraiya Afrina with reporting by Arman Chowdhury At a university where international students make up more than a tenth of the undergraduate student body, voting for[...]
The Debate Experience
By Nicole Brems On Tuesday, Oct. 16, thousands of people gathered at Hofstra University for the second presidential debate between President Obama and Governor Romney. I was lucky enough to[...]