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A student was the victim of an attempted robbery on Sept. 6, in Roosevelt Quad's Wagner College. He was not seriously injured.

An ammonia leak spurned an evacuation of the graduate Chemistry building on the first day of school. No one was harmed.

President Shirley Strum Kenny confirmed late Wednesday night that she plans to retire in June 2009.

The SUNY senior system administration is working on a deal with the state government that will ensure money generated from special revenue funds – which will be frozen under a recent state-mandated expenditure cap – will not be tapped by the state at the end of 2008-09 fiscal year, a Stony Brook University official said today.

Stephen Stakey, 19, a freshman, collapsed at Stony Brook's annual Roth Regatta on May 2 and was later pronounced dead.

News of the Graduate Student Organization's outrage over increased stipends for incoming teaching assistants shocked Stony Brook officials and left current graduate assistants feeling under appreciated and underpaid.

“Looks like the five dollar cover charge kept the liberals away,” joked Ann Coulter at the College Republican-sponsored event in the SAC Auditorium Monday night, to a crowd of students and members of the community. The audience laughed as she began her jarring string of comedic political witticisms on liberals, the ’08 campaign, terrorism and 9/11.

Stony Brook University officials credited the trend that has seen the school’s percentage of international undergraduates increase since 2003 to a multitude of reasons. Strong showings in world university rankings, an internationally well-known graduate program, and an effort to reach a school goal to have 30% of the student body be made up of international and out-of-state students by 2011, were the reasons given for the surge in international students, who now constitute 7% of the undergraduate student body. In 2003, international students made up 4% of the student body.

Car vandalism has been taking its toll on people parking in Kelly Quad
throughout most of September and early October, according to police
records. The records show that between Sept. 8 and Oct. 5, there were at least 10 different incidents where cars were broken into, windows were smashed, and personal property was stolen from the small parking lot that sits close to the LIRR station.

A proposed campus-wide smoking ban was voted down in the University Senate on March 5, according to a signed roll-call of the vote.

The proposal, which would have banned smoking everywhere on campus within three years, was voted on using a signature sheet. Sixteen voted in favor, 17 opposed and two abstentions.

Peter Jennings passed away yesterday, due to lung cancer. He was 67 years old. Today, most news programs touched upon his legacy in some way; some more than others. CNN's Anderson Cooper, Paula Zahn and Aaron Brown, all ABCNews alumni, spent considerable time interviewing current and former ABCNews correspondents. Cooper and MSNBC's Keith Olbermann used Peter's death to focus on the dangers of cigarette smoking. ABCNews, obviously, paid solemn tribute to Jennings on World News Tonight and Nightline.  Even Fox News got into the act, as Bill O'Reilly interviwed Barbara Walters (and couldn't stop making ridiculous comparisons between Jennings and himself). 

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that the makers of Grokster and Morpheus could be held liable for copyright infringement taking place over their networks.

After much controversy, the USG finally released the 2005-06 club and organization budget. Originally, an across-the-board cut of 25 to 50% was proposed, in order to accomodate a projected budget deficit, as well as to allow for religious and political organizations to receive the funding they are now entitled to by law, under "viewpoint neutrality." Eventually, the USG clarified this policy, and looked at each individual organization's merits, past year's funding, and line budget requests, to determine the finalized budget.

Seeking to finally approve the Undergraduate Student Government budget for the 2005-2006 academic year, the USG met this past Tuesday night, where a series of budget proposals were presented. These proposals were aimed at providing a new, balanced economic plan for the upcoming academic year, but are each in their own way controversial and problematic to many campus clubs and organizations.