Campus Culture
Twelve years ago, Mike Youdelman sat with his first student outreach coordinator, Jessica Vito-Buckley, discussing ideas and ways to reach out to the student community about the importance of recycling and being environmentally friendly. The Department of Recycling and Resource Management had just been created at Stony Brook and Youdelman, the manager of the department, [...]
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Down the hallway of the USG suite, Deborah Machalow spends some of her final days as an undergraduate student and as Executive Vice President in her office. It is decorated with a whiteboard littered with quotes from past presidents and politicians, a sign handed down to her that reminds USG officers “The Students Are The [...]
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This year’s Undergraduate Student Government budget has shown a relinquishing of the budget cuts that consumed almost every club during last year’s budget allocating. Almost every club received a small increase in their funding, while some, like the Fine Arts Organization and the Japanese Student Organization, received double the amount of the previous year’s allocation. [...]
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Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, authors of The Rich and the Rest of US: A Poverty Manifesto, said on April 26 on the Staller Center Main Stage that they are “unapologetically old school.” “We never know our life’s chances, until we know our life’s choices,” Smiley said. He is the host of several public television [...]
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Anna Lubitz manages to look put together and professional even on a Saturday morning. While most Stony Brook students meander their way into Starbucks wearing their most comfortable sweats, Lubitz wears a blazer in Seawolves red and is enthusiastic and upbeat without even ordering a coffee. It’s clear that she is the kind of person [...]
In the world, there are two groups of people; one group wants to forget their past and history, and the other group does not.
At first, the metallic “clang” against the ground, combined with blurry human figures running 25MPH through a busy New York City street caught me off guard.
The New York City Council voted on Thursday, October 22 to extend term limits for elected officials to three terms from two, clearing the path for Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run again.
As one can see from Reefer Madness, the propaganda movie from the 1930’s, to Weeds, the television show about a pot selling suburban mom today, the subject of marijuana in media has been around almost since the birth of the medium.
We here at The Stony Brook Press know you’ve been inundated with massive amounts of Election ’08 coverage by now.
“[Joining The Stony Brook Press] was the best thing that I ever did,” Scott Higham told a packed auditorium of enthusiastic journalism students at the Stony Brook Student Union last Wednesday night.
It started with a drum kit. But before the arrival of the drum kit, the music scene at Stony Brook had long been deserted since acts such as Jimi Hendrix and The Who played on this campus.
Semi-nude atop his rock-and-roll stallion, Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes marshaled the audience into a frenetic frenzy of fanaticism.
Someone once told me that once I reached drinking age, I’d be too cool for all-ages shows. And while I appreciate the Minor Threat standpoint on all-inclusiveness, I’m a little too sore the morning after seeing Against Me! at Webster Hall on October 11 to be doing that too often.
Are you a twenty-something and still find yourself amused by outdated seventies sitcom shows? Would you travel to a neighboring town to buy your groceries in an organic market?