Archive for 2009

Should Stony Brook University Change the Name of the Stadium?

Should Stony Brook University remove Sen. LaValle’s name from the stadium after he voted against marriage equality?(survey)

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Students Footing the Bill for Most Emergency Care

Students Footing the Bill for Most Emergency Care

Expensive purchases, like ambulances, are paid in large part by undergraduate students. Your professor is in the middle of a lecture when he suddenly begins having...

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Hotel Would Destroy Valuable Field Lab

Hotel Would Destroy Valuable Field Lab

Bulldozing a few trees to make way for a corporate hotel, as unfortunate and unnecessary as it may be, is nothing new. Bulldozing a publicly funded classroom at...

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Only in Think: USG Treasurer Resigns Under Threat of Impeachment

Only in Think: USG Treasurer Resigns Under Threat of Impeachment

Sources within and familiar with the Undergraduate Student Government have confirmed that USG Treasurer Matt Anderson will be resigning from his position effective...

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Marriage Equality Stadium

In the wake of New York State’s unfortunate (but also unsurprising) rejection of marriage equality, some Stony Brook students have called for the renaming...

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We Want It, But Not Here

We Want It, But Not Here

The criticism of the hotel centers on its location, not on the idea itself. When Stony Brook University President Samuel Stanley announced at a university senate...

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Magazine Preview: Time to Get Angry

Magazine Preview: Time to Get Angry

The Stony Brook campus severely lacks the activity that should be expected of a SUNY school under siege. Between budget cuts and tuition hikes, exploitative food...

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Magazine Preview: Insuring the Invincible, Part I

Magazine Preview: Insuring the Invincible, Part I

Part One of a Two Part Series Over the last few months, the most prevalent issue in the national political discussion has been President Obama’s crusade to reform...

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Student Hacktivism

In 1968 Mexican civil society decided that it had had enough with the leadership that had followed the 1910 revolution. Exhausted by corrupt one-party rule and increasing...

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Community Organizing In Mexico: Robin Hood Meets Cinderella

The FPFVI (Frente Popular Francisco Villa Independiente) is a community based organization in Mexico City, a family of which I’ve been living with for the...

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