By Alex H. Nagler In today’s political climate, people tend to forget that there is a middle ground. The perception that people are either abortion-loving baby killers who…
By Nick Statt Have you ever gone to a movie hoping desperately that it will kick ass because a previous one, maybe by the same director or its…
It’s 6 A.M. Do you know where your roommate is? If she is not under the pile of fleece blankets and laundry on the other side of the room, she might very well be at crew Practice.
Stony Brook Crew, or the Competitive Rowing Team, has been an established club sport at Stony Brook since the university was founded in 1957. The current team has 46 members who are divided into four squads: Varsity Men, Varsity Women, Novice Men and Novice Women.
The men’s basketball team kicked off the 08-09 season with a hard-fought and convincing win over Maryland-Eastern Shore with a score of 60-44. The Seawolves opening game win inspired the hope and change many students have been talk about considering last year’s record.
ESPN Radio called it best: “The overtime winning attempt, the snap, the placement down, the kick on the way…towards the uprights…it is GOOD! Feely nails it and the Jets survive!” It was a night for the ages, a game of all games, a victory long overdue. Gang Green’s week 11, 34-31 nail biter win in Foxborough knocked New England from the division lead, pushing the 7-3 Jets into first place.
On Monday, November 3, the night before the presidential election, Barack Obama did a televised interview with ESPN’s Chris Berman during the Monday Night Football half-time show. Though I’m sure he had a lot on his mind, he put it all to the side to talk a little sports with the Swami. Berman asked the president elect, “If you could change one thing in sports, what would that be?” Obama’s answer was simple, direct, and indicative of a brilliant and insightful president.
Sherry Vine and her fabulous sparkly pink dress entertained to a full crowd at the Tabler Arts Center last Wednesday. The event, put on by the Stony Brook Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Alliance, was in celebration of Coming Out Day. An annual occurrence, Coming Out Day is a day of awareness for coming out and other LGBT related issues.
In the world, there are two groups of people; one group wants to forget their past and history, and the other group does not.
As one can see from Reefer Madness, the propaganda movie from the 1930’s, to Weeds, the television show about a pot selling suburban mom today, the subject of marijuana in media has been around almost since the birth of the medium.