For far too long The Stony Brook Statesman has continually provided a huge disservice to the Stony Brook campus community. Aside from its ad-laced razor-thin issues, sycophancy reluctance to hold elections for its officers and occasional plagiarism scandals, the quality of reporting does not impress.
The impact that Apple’s latest gizmo will have on education is yet to be seen. But barely two weeks since we got our hands on a device, its clear that the iPad has the potential to fundamentally change how students attend college.
SUNY has long been one of the best and most affordable systems of public higher education in the country. In the midst of a deepening NY state fiscal crisis, Governor Paterson has proposed a new bill—… PHEEIA—that would ostensibly revitalize SUNY, allowing for hundreds of new faculty in the next decade.
Life sometimes feels like a riDdle. It is true that with every step we take, it is always one step closer to the grave. We have no way to truly go back in timE and defy our own death.
In a recent email update about PHEEIA, Stanley also cites a sycophantic February Newsday editorial that basically parrots everything the SUNY administration has been saying.
This past election had the second highest voter turnout in USG’s short history (second only to 2006) with more than 2,000 votes. That is more than double the number of voters in last year’s election. The obvious reason for the higher voter turnout is the Mandatory/Voluntary vote, which takes place every two years, but I think there is more to it than that.
Though Stony Brook denies it, this campus was involved in a government-funded brainwashing project to keep children from “acting queer” for two decades. Some people involved still work on campus, and the Feminine Boy Project laid groundwork for current psychiatric abuses against transgender and gender-nonconforming people.
On March 12, the Texas Board of Education passed a social studies curriculum change that would overhaul what some on the board considered a staunchly leftist look at history.
“I just became aware of recent articles regarding the decision by the SBU Student Government to repaint the “Red-Hot Zebra Path” back to its original colors.”