The Press reached out to all candidates running for USG officer positions this spring via the emails made available by the USG Elections Board. The ensuing compilation of responses are of those candidates who responded. The Press had not edited…
By Deborah Machalow For the better part of three years, I have served as an elected official of the student body; I have always done what I believed was right and served the students faithfully, providing them with the government and…
Over 50 students crowded into a small conference room on the third floor of the SAC on March 28 to protest the removal of the act allowing sports clubs to apply for a grant to cover the costs of participating…
Next fall a change to the existing Pass/No Credit grading policy will allow undergraduate students at Stony Brook to choose a minimum grade they wish to record on their transcript. If they don’t achieve that minimum grade or higher, but…
The Undergraduate Student Government amended a revision to the Financial Bylaws to allow clubs to pay speakers more than $2,000 after either obtaining approval from the Budget Committee or providing evidence to the Administrative Director and the USG Treasurer that…
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…
Since the start of the spring semester, the Undergraduate Student Government has been going out of its way to improve its strained relationship with campus clubs and organizations. It’s a noticeable change for USG, and it’s a welcome one. President…
Clubs applying for their budgets this semester will be introduced to draft budgets and Campusvine, an upgraded version of Allocate, Undergraduate Student Government Treasurer Thomas Kirnbauer announced Saturday. Because of the two changes, the budget allocation process will look significantly different…
Stony Brook University has long been one of only three schools in the Association of American Universities to cancel classes for Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, along with SUNY Buffalo and Brandeis University. Next year, that tradition is likely to…