by Alyssa Melillo and Liz Kaempf When Mindy Mosher changed her major from computer science to studio art with a minor in digital arts, she didn’t expect to trade in the textbook expenses to which we are accustomed for costly,…
While watching the free Stand Up 8 show for SBU students on February 13, I realized that I have a new direction in life: I want to be an aerialist. Ok, that’s a dream that I won’t actually pursue, but…
The words “knitting” and “college student” do not often appear in the same sentence. Then again, neither do the words “charity” and “college student.” But all three of these come together in the form of a new club at Stony…
Open publication – Free publishing – More calendar wars
By Teena Nawabi At first glance the SAC Art Gallery’s latest exhibit “Encountering Data” looks like nothing more than a bunch of computers and televisions in a large white room. Against the wall is a creative little piece called “It…
Stony Brook University has long been one of only three schools in the Association of American Universities to cancel classes for Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, along with SUNY Buffalo and Brandeis University. Next year, that tradition is likely to…
There was a commercial a couple years ago where a bunch of people stood outside a “big tobacco company” building and fell at the same time for a “die in.” It was one of those Truth commercials that’ve been pretty…
Open publication – Free publishing – More new logo
Stony Brook University’s new logo, unveiled last week, conveys an image of conformity, corporate blandness and grasping, superficial aspiration. It is an image perfect for a university that, in the past few years, has moved ever farther down the road…