This is the moment I’ve been waiting for. I rip off the plastic packaging, tighten my fingers around the mortarboard and unfurl my $77.10 graduation gown, in all its overpriced glory. I turn towards my roommate of four years, Olivia.…
In Tanzania many women cannot afford to buy menstrual products. Students involved in Stony Brook’s study abroad program in Tanzania are combatting the issue by making and donating reusable menstrual pads.
Stony Brook has done it again. On Sunday, author Junot Díaz shared the petition to Save Hispanic & Latino Studies at Stony Brook University, responding to the administration’s decision to suspend the doctoral program in Hispanic Studies and to combine…
Moving from person to person, bike to bike, giving advice and getting her hands dirty, Jennifer Everhart never stays still at the dingy bike workshop in the Stony Brook Student Union basement. A small entourage trails behind her, like a…
In the world of wrestling, adversity is par for the course. The Stony Brook University wrestling team is no exception when it comes to battling it. Over the course of the past few years, the club survived a serious financial…
In a chilly and thin-aired atmosphere at The Rinx ice skating facility, college athletes in black, red, blue and teal practice jerseys flew across the sheet of ice. Pucks crashed against the boards and glass, and the sound of skates…
Few conflicts on this Earth resemble the conflict that I’ve recently had with Stony Brook Housing. In my many conflicts in life, this has perhaps been one of the greatest. Fuck Toll Drive. Let’s rewind to last April. There I…
There has been no shortage of complaints about campus dining the last two weeks. There are over 4,000 members of the Stony Brook Dining Feedback group on Facebook, sharing countless photos and dining horror stories. An overwhelming majority of students…
Good intentions pave the way for a cigarette-littered path. Does Stony Brook want less smokers? Obviously it’s just healthier, but banning them outright is just fucking dumb. It’s dumb because it doesn’t work, not every smoker will quit just because…