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SBU’s Alternative Spring Break Outreach volunteers spend week building homes in Delaware

Maggie Gawor, Assistant News Editor • April 8, 2025

Stony Brook University’s Alternative Spring Break Outreach (ASBO), developed during the 2005-2006 academic year, is one of several student-run volunteering...

SBU announces hybrid classes for winter and spring semester

Brianne Ledda • September 25, 2020

Stony Brook University will continue its hybrid approach to classes throughout the winter and spring semesters. The spring semester was delayed by one week to start on Feb. 1. There will not be a spring break.

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Students lose their jobs in the midst of COVID-19 crisis

Maya Brown • April 11, 2020

Spring break is usually a time when some college students go back home and work at their part-time or full-time jobs. In the midst of the coronavirus (COVID-19), that was not the case.

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Student Engagement and Activities tries to recoup club financial losses

Alek Lewis • March 17, 2020

Stony Brook Student Engagement and Activities is trying to mitigate the financial loss from events canceled by the coronavirus, according to an email sent to student e-board members by the Department of Student Engagement & Activities.

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Stony Brook University implements Zoom ahead of online classes

Brianne Ledda • March 17, 2020

Stony Brook University officially implemented the web conferencing platform Zoom, according to a March 16 email from the university’s Division of Technology.

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Confirmed COVID-19 cases on three SUNY campuses

Brianne Ledda • March 15, 2020

The State University of New York (SUNY) confirmed cases of students with COVID-19 at three campuses as of March 13, according to an email from SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson.

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SBU hosts live panel on the coronavirus

Rabia Gursoy • March 14, 2020

Interim President Michael Bernstein hosted a panel on the coronavirus, streamed live on Stony Brook University’s Facebook page, on March 13.

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Student life suspended through at least March

Ethan Tam • March 11, 2020

Stony Brook University Student Engagement & Activities confirmed that nearly all on-campus events through the end of March have been canceled in a March 11 email to student e-board members.

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Editorial: Stony Brook University needs to communicate with the campus community

The Statesman • March 10, 2020

The one thing we do know for sure is that the piling weight of uncertainty is unfair to SBU’s faculty and students. Simply addressing the rumors and telling us what they are just as unsure of what to do would suffice.

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Stony Brook University Hospital temporarily suspends volunteer program

Maya Brown • March 10, 2020

The hospital volunteer program at Stony Brook University Hospital has been temporarily suspended, according to an email sent out from Stony Brook Medicine on the afternoon of Monday, March 9.

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Spring break should fall on a different week

Andrew Goldstein • March 25, 2018

This was the third spring break in a row where there was a snowstorm that elicited an email from Stony Brook Emergency Management. Spring break wasn’t even during spring.

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An alternative spring break

Andrew Goldstein • April 19, 2017

Spring break is a week dedicated to freedom from the everyday life of college to take stock of where you are, reorganize yourself, have some fun and relaunch recharged for the remainder of the semester.

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