The Statesman

Love, your public school: Defending success, for all cultures

Michelle Chen • September 28, 2021

#OPINIONS: Public schools and universities should be embraced as equally rigorous institutions in ways that celebrate the academic value of skills departing from the capitalistic norm, and their acceptance of human potential from every background.

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How neocolonialism is killing our planet

Benjamin Joffe • April 23, 2021

#OPINION Corporations and governments across the world are pushing the Earth deeper into the global climate crisis, and immediate action must be made to combat this.

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Why I’m voting third party this year

Steven Keehner • November 7, 2020

#OPINION: I’m writing this on Oct. 23 — a day before early voting opens in New York. For the last six months, I have stared down the dreaded dilemma: Who should I vote for in the most important election of my lifetime?

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The life and death of Castro: It’s OK not to mourn

Jonathon Kline • December 4, 2016

To honor a person in death, all of their actions that they undertook in their life must be taken into account to “get” the full picture of who they were in life.

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Lackmann monopoly leaves students hungry

Zach Rowe • May 12, 2015

If we want to make a big change to the food at Stony Brook, it is as simple as firing the single provider that has been, by and large, a big disappointment.

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Black friday taking over Thanksgiving

Michael Newcomer • November 24, 2014

Set aside the fact that Thanksgiving as we view it in modernity, with Charlie Brown specials and poorly documented peaceful Pilgrim-Native American cooperation, is a sham.

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