Stony Brook University has reversed its controversial decision to charge its new $37.50 Academic Excellence and Success fee for the Fall semester. A message sent to Stony Brook students through SOLAR on Thursday said that the fee, which would be…
Students eager to check their grades on SOLAR yesterday discovered a message informing them about a new $37.50 per semester fee, called the Academic Excellence and Success fee, which was approved by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo the day before.…
Last summer was a bad one for the Stony Brook Student Union building. A back staircase developed a mold problem that wasn’t remedied until October. A number of rooms in the basement flooded day after day for more than two…
Pizza, says Congress, is a vegetable. Pepper spray, says Fox News host Megyn Kelly, is a food product. The expanding definition of the word “food” never ceases to amaze me. In responding to the pizza legislation, the news media demonstrated…
When Stony Brook Journalism Professor Barbara Selvin suggested that small newspapers should jettison most of their video efforts, she started a debate between video journalists and small newspaper editors over what the future of the business should look like. The…
Over the last few months, a number of upstart movements and candidates have dominated polls and news coverage by being both radical and a bit less than controlled. Now, seemingly at the same time, they’re beginning to fall. Last week,…
Like the group occupying Wall Street in New York, members of Occupy Stony Brook stood in the center of a large plaza, demanding attention to their cause. But instead of being surrounded by greedy bankers, Occupy Stony Brook was competing…
There’s long been a chasm between both the behavior and politics of Mitt Romney and the Republican’s “flavor of the week,” to quote Herman Cain. But while past short-time front runners like Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann have been relegated…
Lauren Baker stood on the SAC Plaza dressed in a lace shirt, a short black skirt and fishnet stockings, holding a sign that read “HUG ME I’M A SLUT,” in all capital letters. SlutWalk, a movement that began in Toronto…