Across the vast pool of video games that I have picked up and played over the years, there exists a handful of truly transcendent moments, times when I find myself in silenced awe of the rendered landscape I am constantly…
In November of 2006, a man born as Jesse Curtis Morton, but who went by the name Younus Abdullah Muhammad after converting to Islam, allegedly tried to recruit followers through Stony Brook University’s Muslim Student Association. Morton ran the website…
Don’t we all wish we could grow up in a pleasant Canadian suburb, have a bar mitzvah and play a dramatic role as a paraplegic on a teen television drama, all before entering the rap game and becoming so absurdly…
Shared support service centers, as they are officially named, are not department mergers. The complex administrative consolidation process will not involve any layoffs, and is not geared at cost cutting. As part of Operational Excellence, one prong of President Samuel Stanley’s…
It’s one thing to hold back for effect, to keep things simple and low-key to help accentuate the nuances and let every component breathe. But it’s another thing when that effort falls flat into boredom. Real Estate’s self-titled debut album…
By Nick Statt The six-month-long search for Stony Brook’s provost is over President Samuel Stanley announced on August 3 that Dr. Dennis Assanis would be appointed Stony Brook University’s Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, as well as the…
By Nick Statt The Student Activities Board (SAB), the event-coordinating wing of the Undergraduate Student Government (USG), has received an additional $130,887, a 32.4 percent increase over last year, while the club budgets have been cut by $208,062, an 18.3…
For months, Brookhaven National Lab was staring at the face of devastating House budget cuts of $1.1 billion that threatened to cut the staff by 930, or one third, and potentially discontinue the operations of internationally renown facilities like the…
The expansion of the universe is accelerating, and scientists have no idea why. Gravity should be slowing this expansion over time, but billions of years ago it shifted from slowing down to speeding up. The cause is attributed to an…