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President Stanley fielded questions about budget cuts and looming tuition increases at Stony Brook, but outside the press conference a small protest stirred.

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.

It was only a few months ago when the last wave of H1N1 swept across the globe. But the "swine flu" has now disappeared from newspapers, broadcast news programs and public service announcements. Are we in the clear, or have we just reached the eye of the storm?

Stony Brook University announced that all classes for Friday, February 26 are canceled due to the "ongoing adverse weather conditions." The winter weather advisory issued by the National Weather Service yesterday remains in effect until 6 A.M. Saturday.

The Emerson String Quartet, a chamber music group based here at Stony Brook University, won their ninth Grammy this year for their album "Intimate Letters." Named after the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, they have become one of the premier groups in the genre.

Eight months after the ceremonial groundbreaking for Stony Brook University’s new campus recreation center, construction fences ring the site and large mounds of dirt sit inside. Work officially began on Jan. 4 and is projected to take two years to complete, according to Dr. Susan DiMonda, associate dean and director of student life, leaving the facility with an anticipated opening sometime in 2012.

Plans for Stony Brook University’s proposed satellite campus in Songdo, South Korea are still in the works, but a lot depends on the South Korean government. "The major issue is financing," said Deputy Provost W. Brent Lindquist in an e-mail.

Hours ahead of an impending snow storm that could bring accumulations upwards of a foot, Stony Brook University canceled classes for Wednesday, Feb. 10. The National Weather Service issued a Blizzard Warning for most of the tri-state area from 10 p.m. on Tuesday until Thursday morning.

New York is facing great economic hardship. In response, Gov. David Paterson has instituted the Empowerment Act and SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher is working out a new strategic plan for the university system. At Stony Brook the topic was energy and sustainability, but she and President Samuel L. Stanley also weighed in on the governor's new legislation.

Wouldn’t it be great if you did not have to buy those outrageously expensive textbooks at the start of every semester? The campus book store agrees, and recently started an experimental textbook rental program.

Students looking for employment and activities outside of the classroom crowded into room 102 in the Light Engineering building for an information session on how to join the Stony Brook Volunteer Ambulance Corps. (SBVAC)

The SUNY Research Foundation recently added Stony Brook University President Samuel Stanley to their board of directors according to a press release on Jan. 12. The announcement puts President Stanley in a position that formerly held disputes with his own university’s Research Assistants Union.

While the storm that dumped record-setting snow around Long Island and the surrounding area has come and gone, the after effects of the nor’easter are still being felt on the Stony Brook University campus. According to News 12 Long Island, all activities at Stony Brook have been cancelled for Sunday, December 20th. All events and classes for Monday, December 21st, however, are to continued as scheduled according to the SB Alert website.

New items have been popping up at Wendy’s in the Roth Quad Food Court for the past few weeks. However, the new items are not additions to the value menu or salad options. They are flies - tiny fruit flies, to be exact - and they are on every conceivable surface, from the counter to the menu boards to the ceilings and the walls.

Despite criticisms from Stony Brook students, The Statesman supports the decision of its advertising department to print a controversial, 12-page advertising supplement. The supplement ran in many of the October 8, 2009 issues of the paper.