Last summer was a bad one for the Stony Brook Student Union building. A back staircase developed a mold problem that wasn’t remedied until October. A number of rooms in the basement flooded day after day for more than two…
By Arielle Dollinger and Ethan Freedman The Stony Brook Union building will be closed for an estimated two-year period beginning in August 2014 while it undergoes renovation, said Howard Gunston, director of Facilities Operations of the Student Activities Center and…
As spectators crossed the East River over the weekend they were greeted by vendors selling all things magical, the smell of turkey legs and teams from five countries playing a muggle version of the wizard and witch game of pop…
Open publication – Free publishing – More howard gunston
By Alyssa Melillo & Michelle Frantino It is a dark, chilly morning on Cortlandt Street in lower Manhattan. Streetlamps and strings of crimson Christmas lights that hang on the front wall of the Century 21 department store dimly brighten…
Photo by Nick Statt It has been a year of precedents for Stony Brook Football. For the first time in history, the Seawolves (9-3) played in and won their conference championship on November 19 against Liberty University. That 41-31 romp…
On the fourth floor of the Staller Center is the lithograph studio. It’s a bright room filled with tables, rustic lithographic presses and the strong scent of chemicals. Alexandra Iosub works at the second press. Wearing a denim apron over a…
Shared support service centers, as they are officially named, are not department mergers. The complex administrative consolidation process will not involve any layoffs, and is not geared at cost cutting. As part of Operational Excellence, one prong of President Samuel Stanley’s…
In the spring semester of 2011, President Stanley announced to Think Magazine a new project in the works: the then separate fine arts departments would be brought together to function as a larger unit. Such a proposal came in the…