Earlier this month, Stony Brook announced plans to cut and condense several of their Humanities programs. We asked distinguished writers—professionals who have dedicated their lives to voicing thought—to weigh in on Stony Brook’s decision. They are poets, novelists, journalists, or a…
America needs to deal with it’s terrorphobia to win the war on terror and Americans are incredibly paranoid about terrorism. Gallup’s latest polling for 2016 has found that 51% of Americans are at least somewhat worried that themselves or a…
On December 31st, when the ball drops in New York and you reflect on the past year, what will stand out most from 2016? For the editors of TIME magazine there was no person more prominent in 2016 than President-elect…
Out of the many absurd and crazy things to have come out of this year’s presidential election, one of the wildest has been Republican candidate Donald J. Trump’s assertion that the election was going to be rigged. Even crazier is…
Good intentions pave the way for a cigarette-littered path. Does Stony Brook want less smokers? Obviously it’s just healthier, but banning them outright is just fucking dumb. It’s dumb because it doesn’t work, not every smoker will quit just because…
Ah, to be a freshman again. To walk past the condom wrapper-infested Roth Pond with a lanyard jingling and jangling in the wind, clutching at backpack straps while running toward Javits for a godforsaken 8 a.m. physics lecture; to pay…
Do you want to drink shitty, cheap liquor, but only the best shitty, cheap liquor? Well The Press is putting their collective livers where their mouths are. This month, we chugged Fleischmann’s Whiskey, a sizzling amber hard liquor that comes…
More than 160 people from the Stony Brook University community gathered inside the Student Activities Center on May 7 for a vigil to remember Nicholas Holt, 18, a freshman biology major who died on April 29. “Seeing him go so…
Brookfest is never not a mess. Information is often difficult to find, emails get lost in the Google digital labyrinth and the excitement over Future/Cash Cash disappears over the fury of a thousand Seawolves not getting their beloved floor tickets.…