Now, in 2021, we must change in order to serve our campus community for another 60 years to come. Due to challenges brought on by the pandemic and the shifting business of journalism, The Statesman will stop producing its weekly newspaper version indefinitely.
The Statesman has served Stony Brook since the university’s first academic year as the State University College on Long Island at Oyster Bay. Just as the University’s name has changed decades since, The Statesman has been rebranded several times.
Sixty years after The Statesman was first founded, reporters and editors from the past and present gathered to celebrate the campus paper’s diamond anniversary.
The open house was held in observance of American Archives Month, an initiative started by the Society of American Archivists to raise public awareness for archives.
A. Henry von Mechow played a critical role in the development of what is now Stony Brook’s athletic programs, from intercollegiate to recreational and everything in between.
