This has to be one of my top five Stony Brook-related stories so far this year. A former head coach for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team (as high profile a job as there is) was fired just five days on the job after his resume was found to include some questionable items, like [...]

Dr. Laura, who resigned from her nationally syndicated radio show after repeated use of the “n-word,” was once a staff writer for the Statesman.

(A version of this blog post is now up at campusprogress.org) That’s one small step for two men. And two women. The U.S District Court of Northern California handed down its ruling on the anti-marriage bill Proposition 8, overturning the law that was passed in 2008 after a lengthy and heated debate across the state [...]

The Graduate Student Employees Union at Stony Brook University earned a badge of honor last week, courtesy of Glenn Beck. On his nightly show, Beck devoted his 5pm hour to exploring the evils of a college education, using a new study that shows that colleges are in fact liberal breeding grounds as evidence that students [...]

Barely six months into their tenures as heads of their respective institutions, Stony Brook University President Samuel Stanley and State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher are on the verge of initiating the biggest fundamental shift in the way Stony Brook, and indeed all of SUNY, operates.

Today I went to and spoke at the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) meeting. I was asked to come by a friend who wanted to inform the Senate about Governor Patterson’s proposed flexible tuition plan. Myself and a number of others have been organizing around the issue and we thought that we should appeal to any [...]

The Supreme Court has just handed the remains of America’s pseudo-democracy to the corporate elite. Previously, corporations could form Political Action Committees which would solicit donations from shareholders and workers and hire lobbyists who would influence elected officials with money. Eventually a state/market relationship was formed which led to rampant corporate favoritism in the form [...]

“They were under the heel of the French, you know Napoleon the third and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said ‘We will serve you if you will get us free from the prince.’ True story. And so the devil said, ‘Ok it’s a deal.’ And they kicked [...]

Everyone talks about the first one hundred days of a president’s term as being prophetic. What the president accomplishes in the first one hundred days will give a fairly accurate prediction of how the rest of the term will go. The first one hundred days of the Obama administration, however, he was given a free-pass [...]

Sources within and familiar with the Undergraduate Student Government have confirmed that USG Treasurer Matt Anderson will be resigning from his position effective Thursday after the USG Senate passed articles of impeachment.