As the end of the semester grows near, some residential students at Stony Brook University find themselves in a bothersome and familiar predicament. While others deal primarily with the stress of grades and finals, these students must also concern themselves with how they will manage to eat.

Allegations have surfaced against Stony Brook’s newly appointed Director of Cancer Center Dr. Kinsella.

Dr. Sharon Nachman, a Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist, said that the recent cases of MRSA at SBU provided “a wonderful opportunity to talk to students about infectious disease.”

Militarism isn’t as prevalent on this campus as it is in Colombia. Despite this complacent ignorance, the idea of militarism dictated the course of the lecture in the Old Chemistry Building on November 18. This past Tuesday evening, the Social Justice Alliance, along with co-sponsors Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA) and LASSO, hosted Drop Beats Not Bombs—a lecture followed by a live HipHop show that strove to encourage resistance to militarism through creative action.

“What does it mean to be an American?” was the question posed by Hofstra Law Professor Eric Lane at the University Provost’s Lecture on Thursday, November 13 at the Student Activity Center Auditorium. “Everyone struggles with this question,” he continued.

During the final day of the three-day “Changing Climates, Changing Minds: Storms, Trust and Public Perception” Climates Initiative Conference sponsored by the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook, The School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and the Department of Philosophy, Dr. Spencer B. Weart, a physicist and historian of global warming, said, “Your grandfather was right.”

Due to a $171,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to teach strategically-important Asian languages to undergraduates, the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University advanced language classes remained intact as many other departments made cuts.