Introducing Food for Thought
[Ed: This is our newest culture column, devoted to that divine crossroads between art and science: food. Moderated by Katie Mannino. Today, you will find her first two reviews, and[...]
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Stealth Census: Students Not Told They Were Counted
In early April, a group of 30 census workers spent four days filling out official, constitutionally mandated census forms for the campus’ 9,000 residents.
Yet despite the massive undertaking, there was never any disclosure made to the students that the census was being filled out on their behalf.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too Big To Fail
A raving review from The Atlantic Monthly on the flap jacket of “Too Big To Fail” states: “Andrew Ross Sorkin pens what may be the definitive history of the banking[...]
Exclusive: Facing Huge USG Cuts, Statesman Contemplates Weekly
The Statesman, Stony Brook University’s oldest newspaper dating back to the Oyster Bay campus in the late 1950s, is facing the biggest cut in USG funding in it’s 53 year[...]
Students Footing the Bill for Most Emergency Care
Why is SBVAC treated not as a public service but as a student club, and why are undergraduate students disproportionately responsible for it’s funding?
Hotel Would Destroy Valuable Field Lab
Caitlin Fisher-Reid is a PhD candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolution whose dissertation on the evolutionary processes of the terrestrial woodland salamander will be significantly impacted should construction on the property begin before she completes her research in two years.
Insuring the Invincible, Part I
Part One of a Two Part Series Over the last few months, the most prevalent issue in the national political discussion has been President Obama’s crusade to reform our broken[...]
The Weekender: Bowery Remains a Hotspot Three Years After CBGB
On the Bowery in New York City in the 1970s, a crappy little bar would become a monument in the history of rock & roll. For 33 years, CBGB &[...]
Hate Crimes Are Acts of Terrorism
Today President Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, expanding the federal government’s power to prosecute hate crimes to include crimes committed[...]
Review: Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity, a horror film directed by Oren Peli, might at first be thought of as a clone of another well known horror film, The Blair Witch Project. Both are[...]