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…
You know that guy who ran under “The Rent is Too Damn High Party” for governor of New York? That guy was crazy, but when I started thinking about my topic for this week, that phrase popped into my head,…
By Mike Kastner Monday, Nov. 14, was the first event held by the Stony Brook Stand Up charter. I had the great pleasure of being a part of that event and making it happen. The event focused on standing up…
I’m going to say something both wildly popular and wildly unpopular in one phrase: firing Joe Paterno was stupid. Now, before the moralists get on their soapboxes and the football fans start cheering, I’d like to add to that statement.…
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By Michelle Frantino On a Friday after sunset, you may see students walking up Roosevelt Drive. They pass Stimson and Keller College then continue up the hill until they reach building ‘A’ of West Apartments. They look left and see…