The Student Activities Board, the Undergraduate Student Government agency responsible for bringing big acts like Aziz Ansari, Bruno Mars and Christian Finnegan to campus last year, received an additional $264,887 over last year’s initial budget despite drastically overspending their 2010-2011…
The 2011-2012 budget released a few weeks ago by the Undergraduate Student Government has sparked outrage from members of many clubs and organizations. Nearly all of them have seen budget cuts, some dramatic. USG blames the cuts on a new…
While Stony Brook University President Samuel Stanley was among the most active lobbyists for the NYSUNY 2020 bill, the final version that passed the Legislature on Friday is quite different from what they called for. Most notable is the absence…
Depending on whom you ask, Stony Brook professors are either in favor of or opposed to NYSUNY 2020, the bill that will, among other things, significantly increase the tuition rates at New York’s four public university centers. The internal conflict…
Updated: We’re still learning the specifics about the deal struck today over NYSUNY 2020, but a few key details are beginning to emerge. The New York Times reported earlier that the deal includes a fixed $300 tuition increase every year for…
Stony Brook University fell 400 beds short of meeting the needs of the nearly 10,000 students who applied for a bed last fall, and thanks to the 1,500 additional students NYSUNY 2020 hopes to enroll over the next five years,…
Governor Cuomo and State University of New York Chancellor Zimpher have proposed a bill that would increase both our tuition and the quality of our education. But the omission of a key provision—one that guarantees any funds accrued from an…
Stony Brook University President Samuel Stanley, flanked by a professor, a student, a medical center patient and a union leader, visited the Long Island Association on Tuesday to discuss the university’s bid for Governor Cuomo’s proposed $35 million challenge grant.…
I’m not going to pretend that the release of long-form birth certificate will end the birther controversy, but at least it seems to have silenced the movement’s adopted leader. Well… maybe on that issue. Now that Trump is sure of…