By Arielle Dollinger and Trevor Christian Stony Brook University has received a $150 million donation from “one of the world’s most accomplished investors,” Dr. James Simons and his wife, Dr. Marilyn Simons, along with the Simons Foundation, President Samuel L.…
It’s that wonderful time of year again. Finals! If you have time to read this today, either you’re through with the bane of most students’ existences, or you’re procrastinating. In either case, congratulations! Personally, I fall into the first category.…
by Kerlen Rae Tuitt Boobs. Images of computerized breasts projecting at the front of the classroom led seated students to perk up their heads and yell out names. The space contained over two-dozen guys and a handful of girls, most…
The University Senate’s decision early this week to pass two separate resolutions effectively halting all implementation of shared support service centers is an exemplary display of determination and courage from faculty in the face of administrative might and insistence that…
By Arielle Dollinger and Ethan Freedman The Stony Brook Union building will be closed for an estimated two-year period beginning in August 2014 while it undergoes renovation, said Howard Gunston, director of Facilities Operations of the Student Activities Center and…
The Stony Brook Student Union building is scheduled to be gutted and renovated beginning in August 2014. Until then, Stony Brook University and its facilities team must walk a delicate line between saving money and allowing the building to deteriorate…
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Since the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 1998, there has been a battle between corporations and rights groups over how far legislation should go to stop digital piracy, and how effective it would be. Rep. Lamar Smith…
By Alyssa Melillo & Michelle Frantino It is a dark, chilly morning on Cortlandt Street in lower Manhattan. Streetlamps and strings of crimson Christmas lights that hang on the front wall of the Century 21 department store dimly brighten…