Special Features

Every spring, the great minds of Stony Brook come together to battle. They slave away to erect some of the finest vessels on this side of the Atlantic using only strong will and packaging materials. This is the preparation for the illustrious maritime tradition known as the Roth Regatta.

Bandannas, Nerf guns and wild packs of students. No, you're not dreaming. The "Humans vs. Zombies" game has invaded Stony Brook, infecting the funny bones of more than 600 players. The Stony Brook Independent recently ran alongside one monster-fighting "human" to discuss the campus frenzy.

On February 23, Yanique Bailey, 19, was murdered along with her mother, Dionne, and sister, Yolanne. She was a biology major with a business management minor. She belonged to the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and was a member of the Hand College Hall Council. The Stony Brook sophomore is mourned by the campus and memorialized here by several of her friends.

Sure, it might be a month late, but we're just getting around to celebrating. The Independent's first editor-in-chief, Michael Nevradakis, looks back on the founding of the news organization. Pictured is this semester's staff photo.

Snow can be fun for a little while, but for most people the charm quickly wears off. Enter Terence Harrigan. Stony Brook's head of operations and maintenance sat down with the Independent to talk about his winter life.

Sanger College's Residence Hall Director, Nathan Flintjer, recently sat down with the Stony Brook Independent to answer a few questions about his childhood, his job in Stony Brook's Tabler Quad, music and royalty.

For the last 14 years, Stony Brook President Shirley Strum Kenny has kept her eyes on the university, watching its every move from an office covered in photos and a desk donning a custom nameplate: "The Iron Magnolia."

These days will be far behind her come June.

Bob Greene, our teacher, died on April 10. Below, writers from the School of Journalism volunteered their memories.

These days, with embalming, a casket, transferring the body, a hearse, cosmetology, viewing costs and other items, a funeral can cost between $6,000 to $7,000. A cemetery plot and headstone can cost a few thousand dollars more. But there is a way to beat those costs: a person can donate his or her body to the Stony Brook University Anatomy Department.

One man's review of the past few I-CON conventions.