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Two Freshmen Administrators Seek to Fundamentally Alter SUNY
President Stanley and SUNY Chancellor Zimpher are on the precipice of initiating the biggest fundamental change since SUNY was created in 1948. Barely six months...
USG: Represent!
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...
The End of Pseudo-Democracy
The Supreme Court has just handed the remains of America’s pseudo-democracy to the corporate elite. Previously, corporations could form Political Action Committees...
Haiti’s Pact With The Devil
“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...
Obama Administration: Nearly One Year In
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Health Care: A Debate
The transcript of my debate via My Polls. What this debate revealed to me is that people who are against Health Insurance Reform are not simply “crazy”...