During the final day of the three-day “Changing Climates, Changing Minds: Storms, Trust and Public Perception” Climates Initiative Conference sponsored by the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook, The School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and the Department of Philosophy, Dr. Spencer B. Weart, a physicist and historian of global warming, said, “Your grandfather was right.”
Due to a $171,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to teach strategically-important Asian languages to undergraduates, the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University advanced language classes remained intact as many other departments made cuts.
It’s 6 A.M. Do you know where your roommate is? If she is not under the pile of fleece blankets and laundry on the other side of the room, she might very well be at crew Practice.
Stony Brook Crew, or the Competitive Rowing Team, has been an established club sport at Stony Brook since the university was founded in 1957. The current team has 46 members who are divided into four squads: Varsity Men, Varsity Women, Novice Men and Novice Women.
The Stony Brook Freethinkers are actually an otter-worshiping orthodox Christian choir collective, Stony Brook Press authorities have learned.
According to papers obtained from Freethinker headquarters, the supposedly atheist and deist members profess their love of God on both a spiritual and sexual level.
The men’s basketball team kicked off the 08-09 season with a hard-fought and convincing win over Maryland-Eastern Shore with a score of 60-44. The Seawolves opening game win inspired the hope and change many students have been talk about considering last year’s record.
ESPN Radio called it best: “The overtime winning attempt, the snap, the placement down, the kick on the way…towards the uprights…it is GOOD! Feely nails it and the Jets survive!” It was a night for the ages, a game of all games, a victory long overdue. Gang Green’s week 11, 34-31 nail biter win in Foxborough knocked New England from the division lead, pushing the 7-3 Jets into first place.
On Monday, November 3, the night before the presidential election, Barack Obama did a televised interview with ESPN’s Chris Berman during the Monday Night Football half-time show. Though I’m sure he had a lot on his mind, he put it all to the side to talk a little sports with the Swami. Berman asked the president elect, “If you could change one thing in sports, what would that be?” Obama’s answer was simple, direct, and indicative of a brilliant and insightful president.