By Andrew Carrieri Fantasyland, a section of Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom theme park in Florida, is legendary. The home of many classic Disney attractions, such as the Mad Tea Party (a.k.a. “the teacups”) and Cinderella Castle, it is incredibly…
By Arielle Dollinger and Nicole Kohn In a land where bullets were the equivalent of rain and the sound of helicopters overhead was normal, former foreign correspondent and current New York Times Deputy Foreign Editor Michael Slackman went from local…
Stony Brook University administration announced a year ago that it would be holding classes on two of the holiest holidays on the Jewish calendar. As Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur pass, many Jewish students remain upset about this new policy.…
By Priscila Korb “Everybody loves penguins!” said Dr. Heather Lynch, assistant professor of ecology and evolution. Though not everyone may love penguins, Dr. Lynch has definitely shown interest in them, specifically the chinstrap penguins of Antarctica. Dr. Lynch, who has…
As anyone who follows The Stony Brook Press (@sbpress) on Twitter knows, on Saturday Sept. 22, one of our writers decided to put a comedic twist on the homecoming football game. His objective was to live-tweet the game, while…
By Nick Batson & Arielle Dollinger Alexandra Blum, a senior majoring in sign language at Keuka College, located in upstate New York, has completed three “field periods” throughout her college career. And she is not finished. The school requires all…
By Nick Batson and Tom Johnson Anyone who’s been keeping up on the news over the past few weeks has undoubtedly heard of the recent discovery by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) of a subatomic particle that behaves…
Another year, another summer and, as I’m sure many of you reading have done or are in the process of doing, time for another internship. Taking an internship is seen as an important step in pretty much every program around…
What follows below is the letter to the editor that I sent to the Statesman shortly after they published an anonymous letter to the editor. I sent it with the hope that a mild chastisement, embellished with a humorous line,…