There was a dead moon at the end of the interstate. It sat so low in the sky. From behind houses, buildings and trees it disappeared. On the straightaways it returned. Every slight turn on the road brought it across…
Ross Barkan was once caught stealing a muffin from the SAC cafeteria at Stony Brook University, and he wrote over 1,000 words on why. It was April 2010, and the financial crash was still beating a hole in the nation’s…
The Gold Standard, a bronzed man in a black and gold mask whose mouth spreads into a pompous smirk, squares off against El Super Hombre, the down-home powerhouse in the luchadore mask. The Gold Standard takes Hombre to suplex city…
Color Sergeant Daniel Blander caresses his 1861 Springfield rifle. It is a cloudless day in 1864. It is a bright, hot day in 2015. Blander is a young man now, and then. But time is irrelevant. He runs his hands…
President Sam Stanley hosted a conference to relay his positions on several important campus issues to student media outlets. While more thorough articles are in the works, here is a snapshot of the most important topics discussed at the conference.…
The theater was filled to the brim. I was surprised. Yes, the tickets were sold out, but the theater had filled even more seats than the midnight premier of Star Wars: The Force Awakens that I saw a month earlier.…
As the sky turned from black to navy blue, a group of eleven people shuffled out of their cars parked near the Port Jefferson Yacht Club. Their bodies, wrapped in hoodies and spandex leggings, slowly gathered in front of the…
Tucked away in a corner of the Stony Brook University Student Union building, where cracks in the open doors of a small hallway reveal the interfaith community in a subtle richness, a community soon to be moving from the Union…
Small quantities of THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, the main chemical responsible for marijuana’s psychological effects, could be engineered from yeast, according to a paper published in August by scientists at the Technical University of Dortmund in Germany. With New York recently…