International
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In an effort to raise money for relief in Haiti, the Stony Brook University Student Blood Drive Committee donated one dollar to relief efforts for every unit of blood collected. |
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Several Stony Brook University clubs and organizations are planning events to help bring relief to the people of Haiti. On January 12, Haiti was hit with a 7.0 magnitude earthquake 15 miles off the coast of Port-au-Prince, the capital city. The quake killed tens of thousands of people and left the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation devastated. |
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Rishabh Sharma grew up in New Delhi, India, the youngest of four children and the only son in an upper class Hindu family. He is one of Stony Brook's 1,155 current international undergraduate students. |
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Chinese and American cuisine correlates with differences in philosophical concepts. Chinese is macro, American is micro; Chinese is abstract, American is concrete; Chinese is vague, American is accurate; Chinese prefer sense, Americans like sensibility. |
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What used to impress me most about the Chinese was their ability to eat cold stewed vegetables for breakfast, balance a family of four on the handlebars of a bicycle and dance with sharpened swords at the crack of dawn. Pretty intimidating stuff. No wonder former Defense Chief Donald Rumsfeld was rattling his saber at the Chinese. But I've recently returned from China with a new epiphany: The saber rattlers have it all wrong. We have only to fear from the Chinese what we fear in ourselves. |
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This past Monday, the College Republicans executive board and I had the opportunity to go out to dinner with the scourge of Stony Brook, Ann Coulter. And surprisingly, I had a good time. |
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“Due to the legal policies of Islamic Republic of Iran, access to this website is denied…”
For the Persian internet users whose numbers are growing every day, this critical message is very well known and familiar. |
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IRAN - It was for the first time that Iranians heard the name of “Regulation of radio and communicative provisions” that presented itself with the approval of a new law that forbids access to any 128 Kbps internet connection for general, personal or household purposes.
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It’s not often that a university plays a role in saving a professor’s life. This was the case, however, with Stony Brook University’s new visiting professor Dr. Donny George Youkhanna, an Iraqi. He was president of the Iraq State Board of Antiquities and Heritage and internationally known for recovering thousands of priceless relics for the National Museum of Baghdad.
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On the same day that South Korea’s foreign minister Ban Ki-Moon was formally nominated to hold the seat of the new UN secretary-general, South Korea made an announcement that surprised the world. In Hwaderi near Kiliju city, at approximately 10:36 a.m., South Korea’s state geology research center detected a 3.58 magnitude artificial earthquake, which North Korea claimed to be a blast from a nuclear test.
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With the fifth anniversary of the horrific terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Americans and fellow humans all over the globe take a look back in the past to that Tuesday morning. Other than being a major event in US history, September 11, 2001 was a huge turning point in international politics and relations.
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Some members of the Independent, including myself, have started a site to track the number of deaths caused directly and indirectly by the editorial cartoon controversy. |
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Amidst a packed audience in the Student Activities Center auditorium on Thursday, well-renowned former talk show host Phil Donahue, and the President of the Center for Constitutional Rights Michael Ratner spoke on issues of terrorism, war, free speech and civil liberties in today's age, as part of the seventh annual George Goodman symposium. |
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Holding candles and singing softly, approximately 30 people held a vigil outside the SAC on the evening of Oct. 27th. They were marking the 2,000 U.S. military deaths in Iraq since the invasion of that country began in 2003.
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