As reported in our last issue, Stony Brook University is planning to implement a new academic calendar next fall that schedules classes on religious holidays that have traditionally been days off, an earlier spring break and, possibly, days off for…
by Jodie Mann The Undergraduate Student Government Senate approved a revision to the Financial Bylaws Act on Thursday that will allow clubs to spend as much money as they want on guest speakers. The act, which strictly limited club spending…
by Briana Neuberger The Stony Brook Environmental Club, in partnership with the Faculty Student Association and the Sustainability Studies Program, is working on initiatives to make the campus greener. The projects include the introduction of reusable bags, more energy efficient…
One night last October, I was hanging out with friends in H-Quad’s Benedict College, a world away from my room in building A of the West Apartments. It was nearing 1 a.m., and I decided to finally take my father’s…
In a classroom at Stony Brook University, students can always guarantee they will be different from their peers: they will have different skin colors, be of different ethnicities and different religions. Racial diversity is one of the most prominent aspects…
In November of 2006, a man born as Jesse Curtis Morton, but who went by the name Younus Abdullah Muhammad after converting to Islam, allegedly tried to recruit followers through Stony Brook University’s Muslim Student Association. Morton ran the website…
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On Wednesday, students passing through Stony Brook’s Melville Library would have come across a crowd of people listening to and reading from Latino history books and novels. It was a “stand-up, read out” protest of the recent dismantling of the…
Students stepped into the roles of shady characters from brawling families as part of a murder mystery game at Stony Brook University’s Murder Mystery Weekend. In the story, the wedding of Becky Giovanni, the wealthy daughter of a mob boss,…