Up on the second floor of the Student Union, journalism major Jennifer Gustavson is reading off the concert billboard on air on the university’s radio station, WUSB. In the small cubicle are albums of new music, posters and pictures of musicians, and reminders of the station’s policies. There is vintage equipment that Gustavson controls to manipulate the audio levels of her one-hour 9 to 10 a.m. Monday-morning broadcast.
A University senator voiced her concerns about the establishment of a Stony Brook University satellite in South Korea at the Undergraduate Student Government Senate’s September 25 meeting during open agenda.
In a shocking turn of events involving the recent controversy over NY Governor David Paterson’s decision to run for governor, President Obama was heard off the record saying some rather alarming insults on Monday, September 21.
Stony Brook graduate student Kasia Sawicka works four jobs, her primary one a research assistant at Stony Brook University. Like the more than 700 RAs on this campus, she receives a paycheck of roughly $19,000 to help cover the expenses of living on Long Island all the while working countless hours in the lab.
The USG Senate did not confirm Student Activities Board chair nominee Da’Nashja Davis at the September 9 Senate meeting due to her absence from the proceedings. Senator Syed Haq motioned to table Davis’ confirmation until the Senate could question her and determine her fitness for the position.
Budget gaps, a large student-to-faculty ratio, research grants and a young athletic program are just some of the issues that Stony Brook University’s fifth president, Dr. Samuel J. Stanley, will have to face.
The RA Union continues its bargaining sessions with the Research Foundation. Progress is slowly being made, but it may be months of further negotiations before an agreement–and contract–is reached.
When Dr. Timothy J. Kinsella was hired as the Stony Brook University Cancer Center director, it was amidst a number of rising allegations.
Across the state from Stony Brook University, there exists another publication that is not afraid to print words like “fuck” and “shit” in its pages. But now Generation, a student magazine at the University at Buffalo with a 25-year tradition of alternative journalism, has lost its freedom.