UPDATE: The senate has adjourned for the night, leaving key bills—including NYSUNY 2020—unresolved for yet another day. Our initial report (see below) was confirmed by Scott Reif, a spokesman for Majority Leader Dean Skelos. But even though the SUNY proposal…
What’s in the bill? It should be a simple question, especially since Governor Cuomo said that the bill in question—NY SUNY 2020—would come to a vote and pass last night. But as of Thursday afternoon, no such bill yet exists,…
Newly elected Undergraduate Student Government President Mark Maloof today issued his first press release and took a firm and critical stance against President Stanley’s support for NYSUNY2020, the bill seeking to fundamentally reshape the largest state public universities, including Stony Brook.
A middle-aged woman was treated by SB-VAC near the Long Island Railroad Station at Stony Brook University on Thursday after she was allegedly attacked and robbed by a person on foot. University Police would not confirm reports Thursday afternoon, but…
The Editorial Board Here at the Stony Brook Press, we are not critical of events, public figures or campus administration simply because we see it as our role to undercut everything around us. That is a sorry definition of…
By Michelle Frantino “If you build it, they will come,” is the quote posted on the new website, EduHookUps.Com. And after its launch just a few short months ago, come they did. The new social networking site attracted over…
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On November 30 of last year, Ayse Porsuk was on campus at one of the dining halls handing out literature about her union, Local 1102 of the Retail, Wholesale, Department Store Union. She had with her a copy of the…
On May 28, 2010 the conservative Washington Times newspaper ran an editorial in opposition to what they called the “9/11 Mosque,” the proposed Muslim cultural center set to be built blocks from the site of the World Trade Center. It…