Walking through the double glass doors, a wave of fundraisers, religious awareness and club promotion crashes with each student that happens to wade through the lobby of the Student Union.

On this particular day, there are a group of students, mostly from the Muslim Student Association, that interrupt the lobby-chatter with pleas asking for donations to aid the relief effort for the victims of the flood that hit Pakistan late July.

By Nick Statt Commons Day, highlighted by the summer reading assignment given to all freshmen, is intended to give Stony Brook’s incoming class a push in the right…

Stony Books, long the university’s off-campus textbook alternative, has closed its doors for good. The floor is dusty and bare,
the walls stripped clean. The phone rings periodically — students still looking for cheap, used textbooks.