Forget about climbing; there isn’t even a ladder! By Andy Polhamus & Nick Statt Crammed between a row of lower middle class businesses, and across from the railroad station from which it takes its name, Traxx Music Hall is a…
THiNK Magazine’s Adam Peck and Stony Brook Independent’s Mike Kelly are covering the death of a Stony Brook student in Roth Quad.
How the 200 Year-Old Scientist Is Still A Focal Point of Modern Biology By Nick Statt In commemoration of one of the most revolutionary thinkers in biology, Darwin Day 2009 was not just celebrating Charles Darwin’s achievements, but the 200th…
By Al Esposito In an out-of-the-way shed in Stony Brook University’s Research Park, a beast slumbers covered in mud. It is armed with a 10-horsepower Intek Model 20 engine and held together by chromoly 4130 grade steel tubing, a beast…
By The Cupcake Kid Welcome to your daily dose of reality. Today we are going to take a look at this year’s Oscars and I hope to piss off a great deal of people. First and foremost, let us get…
By Katie Knowlton This past weekend, the Wang Center held the Tournées Festival, a program created to bring new French films to college campuses across the country. The Stony Brook festival showed five films over two days, and I managed…
By Nick Statt After roughly four years on the newspaper circuit and a large spotlight in the New York Times, Sudoku has been ousted in favor of the similar, yet more math-oriented, KenKen. What could be the possible reason for…
By Natalie Crnosija Undergraduate Student Government President Jeffrey Akita proposed the abolition of the petition requirement for student candidates for the forthcoming Spring 2009 elections during the Feb. 19 USG senate meeting. The proposal was voted into committee hearing, but…
By Natalie Crnosija Stony Brook University’s International Academic Programs office delayed the release of relevant Summer 2009 Study Abroad program information because of repeated staff changes, said Jennifer Green, the newly appointed office’s student advisor. Green was selected for the…