This past election had the second highest voter turnout in USG’s short history (second only to 2006) with more than 2,000 votes. That is more than double the number of voters in last year’s election. The obvious reason for the higher voter turnout is the Mandatory/Voluntary vote, which takes place every two years, but I think there is more to it than that.
New York State leaders, lawmakers and the Governor, have continued their tradition of not passing the state’s budget on time. This puts a delay on the future of the Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act (PHEEIA). Despite the delay, the future of PHEEIA looks bright.
Additional reporting by Katie Watt Facing yet another round of state budget cuts, Stony Brook University took the drastic step of announcing that by summer’s end, the Stony Brook Southampton campus would no longer operate as a semi-independent college,…
More PHEEIA nonsense; I-CON photo spread; USG Election Results; Wang Center kyogen plays; Repo Man Review; Mass Effect comics; Please Steal Food; Privatizing SUNY; Tony Todd Interview; Baseball Microcolumns; RIP Shawn Michaels
In what was one of the strangest coming attractions to air on television, the film Repo Men, directed by Miguel Sapochnick, is set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit.
I know you’ve seen the commercials for Legion and have probably thought “Wow, that looks stupid and/or entertaining as hell. Also, I can never look at my grandmother again without thinking she’ll attack me, then climb all over the ceiling like a deranged woodland creature.” But you’re wrong. Legion is a deep, spiritual movie that contemplates the fragility of mankind as merely the creation of a superior being.
The only available taste of the [sequel to Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions] so far is the one–mission demo–maybe twenty minutes, tops, in length. Is it enough to earn Lost Planet II wait-in-line-at-midnight status? Not quite, but it’s close.
Catch as catch can wrestling, or catch, is the real sport that professional wrestling evolved from. Wrestlers used to have to know how to be entertainers and wrestle in order to become professionals, but that is not the case anymore. If you’re a tough body builder with athleticism, you do not need to have actual wrestling skill.
It may come as a shock to many that wrestling was at one point the most popular sport in the country, that it was not always what you see on television today, and that it actually used to be an athletic competition pitting the toughest people in the world against each other.