The Bigger Better Bottle Bill, which would have expanded five-cent refundable deposits on beverage containers to water bottles and other non-carbonated beverages, was not included in the finalized state budget put out on Apr. 9 despite student activists' lobbying efforts.
Stephen Stakey, a freshman at Stony Brook University, passed out during the annual Roth Regatta on May 2. He was taken to the Stony Brook University Medical Center where he died later that day. He was 19. The cause of Stakey's death is still unknown, pending an autopsy, his mother, Cathy Stakey, said.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, five residential quads and five academic buildings on West campus lost power because of a temporary power outage. The blackout began at approximately 1:30 a.m. and by 3:30 a.m. all electricity and voltage had been fully recovered, according to University Spokesperson Lauren Sheprow of the Office of Media Relations.
A few members of the Stony Brook University community spent most of their afternoon at the South P parking lot on campus on Sunday, planting pinwheels to support an event called "Ride for Life."
Rain drenched the Stony Brook University campus late Tuesday morning, leaving students clinging to umbrellas and dodging puddles. But even weather so bleak did not deter the university officials from removing a number of bicycles from bike racks around the Academic Mall that day.
Eva Feldman's daughter waited 72 hours to report to campus police that she had been raped in her dorm room at Indiana University. She waited four more days to tell her parents. "I didn't want to make daddy cry," was her daughter's reason. Her behavior is typical of rape victims, who delay reporting their attacks, if they ever do, for many reasons including shame, fear, guilt and a flawed judicial system.
The Wall Street Journal had an interesting take on how we learn to read. Neuroscientists who have studied reading disorders are taking a stab at the relation between language and reading. Some novel concepts have emerged through the studies. For example, studies of school-aged children suffering from dyslexia, who were fluent in more than one alphabet, had no trouble in another language.
The gray sky seems to hang lower and lower as the threat of rain grows. A fair-skinned female, dressed in dark blue denim jeans and a plum colored, thigh-length pea coat walks out of the Student Activities Center. She's sporting thick-rimmed glasses and her hair is pulled away from her face in a perfect French braid.
Prosthetics are all the rage these days. Manipulating robotics to circumvent the motor problems or to simply play video games is overtaking some of the most nuanced biological discoveries. A European Union funded team, which goes by the name of RobotCub, is attempting evolve robotic technology by treating it like a child's play.
Isabel Anna Bencosme thinks in numbers. But she is not a mathematician. Nor is she in any discipline that requires the understanding of complicated algorithms and long derivatives. Instead, she is a hardworking mother who juggles two jobs, three children, two grandchildren and her husband Vito, while the clock ticks away.
The Stony Brook women's rugby team wraps up the 2007-2008 season with an unprecedented winning record and a Tournament Title, placing first in the Collegiate Division in the Big Apple Classic. Women's rugby finished undefeated in the regular fall season, making it all the way to the final match of the Metropolitan Rugby Union Championship, ever since the establishment of SBU women's rugby, there has never been such dominance.
The parking lot was packed. Not a single space was open. Inside the building was not any better. Ten large, high-definition television sets blared the heavy rock music that is the theme song of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Much has already been said in this space about the Stony Brook club ice hockey team. The team finished its season in March after qualifying for the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division I playoffs. The ACHA encompasses all club ice hockey teams in the country, and is divided up into three separate divisions for the men.
Finishing 4-4, Men's club lacrosse fell just short of qualifying for the NCLL playoffs in their first season. The club, with over 25 players and games against major programs like Hofstra, Brown and Yale, came away with a few surprising wins and a memorable year.
With cloudy skies, cooler temperatures than we have seen this spring and a chance of rain, this past Saturday was probably not the ideal day to spend 12 hours standing outside, but that's exactly what I did. I went to the Bamboozle concert this past Saturday and although hectic and exhausting, it was an amazing concert and I really enjoyed myself.
Baby Mama: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Steve Martin, Sigourney Weaver and Greg Kinnear 99 min. As funny as it is problematic, Baby Mama at least simulates the knowledge that it is but one in a line of films and TV shows that have recently addressed pregnancy. In contrast to the recent Knocked Up or Juno, however, Baby Mama addresses the obverse issue of the unexpected pregnancy: the pregnancy that refuses to happen.
As the semester comes to an end, students look forward to a long awaited break from teachers, term papers and finals. With summer just around the corner, the perfect way to blow off all that pent up frustration is to invest that extra cash from selling your textbooks back on a ticket for a summer concert.
With the joys of summer come the most anticipated blockbusters of the year. Although summer is the ideal time to sit outside and catch some rays, everyone needs something to occupy their time on a cool summer night or a rainy day. This year there are several movies competing for that number one spot at the box office.
This past Tuesday was SBU-TV's Short Film Showcase featuring the work of Cinema and Cultural Studies majors. For almost two hours a large and supportive audience viewed the productions of our friends' hard work and passion. Considering that classes end very soon it is one of the few last times we wre all together.
Oil is hitting record highs of 120 per barrel, gas prices are climbing toward the 4 per gallon mark, and everyone is feeling the pinch. This leaves politicians scrambling to be the ones that propose a solution. With the presidential election in its constant state of being 'right around the corner', we've gotten to see plenty of empty political pandering across the board.
The theory of evolution is arguably the most misunderstood theory in all of science. In a recent poll conducted by USA Today, it was found that almost half of Americans (47%) believe that evolution is either definitely or probably not true. But almost all scientists (95%) believe the theory to be either definitely or most likely true.
For a course on global warming at Stony Brook University, our semester-long project was to analyze a published set of data concerning climate change. The class was divided into different groups and each group was given an article to analyze. The figure that our team had was concerning the trend of major hurricanes and was published by Stanley B.
To the editor, I'd like to take a moment to respond to Jonathan Hirsts' Opinion piece from the April 21st Statesman. Jonathan criticized the campus media's role in covering the USG Senate meetings as "Pathetic". I can't speak for the print media, but for the last two years, SBU-TV, the student-run campus television station on Channel 20, has recorded and broadcast the majority of Senate meetings.
Coming out of high school I wanted to be a physicist. I was ready to dye my hair grey and let it grow in an unkempt manner. I was ready to question the world under a tree and have a gravitational constant knock me on the head. I was ready to make my contribution to the physical world.
