Opinion and Commentary
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Governor David Patterson’s budget directive to freeze special revenue generated by state agencies, including Stony Brook, is unjustified and damaging. But at the same time it illuminates the limits Stony Brook has reached as a state-run institution and forces us to think outside the box when plotting its future. |
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College students and activists have made a mistake in Barack Obama—he’s not the candidate he first appeared to be. Young primary voters gravitated to Obama unlike other Democrat nominees in the past....But we haven’t really received a new candidate and Obama is starting to look like the same old politicians that have alienated young voters for generations. |
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Want to find out what's awaiting you when you graduate Stony Brook? Read this new series of columns from students that are living through their post-Stony Brook Lives. "I had heard many stories about medical school being arduous, with medical students spending their days studying and having no real free time. I regret to inform you, my dear reader, that this is more or less the case..." |
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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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Governor Eliot Spitzer came onto the public scene as a no-nonsense New York attorney general, busting up alleged corrupted Wall Street tycoons and, yes, prostitution rings. |
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The new USG constitution is much improved over the one that failed last semester. When you vote this week, vote informed. |
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I have always been an advocate for how great of a school Stony Brook is and how much I enjoy it, but as this year has gone on I cannot help but think our generation of students is getting shafted. |
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Now that the constitution has failed, it is important for students to know what they missed |
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We may be ranked the highest for unhappy students, but why are students so unhappy? I've thought about it and I hope that I can share some of my experience and inspire others into action. |
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Do you know what most students think of USG? If student voter turnout is any indication, the answer is nothing.
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As a news addict, I often turn on the TV or go on the net in order to hear the latest about the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and of the most recent skirmishes in the "War on Terror."
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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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Today’s world is constantly changing, always in flux. Technological advancements, scientific discoveries and rapid changes in our society have rendered previous assumptions obsolete. As college students preparing to enter into the career world, it is especially important for us to be aware of all the new developments in information. |
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From what I’ve observed in the four years I’ve been in college, is this: reconciling the two, disparate ideals of behavior (the individualistic college student versus the student who’s seriously focused on careers), is a challenge.
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Firefighters and other personnel who were there witnessed gruesome things one would normally see in a war zone. Fingers, detached from bodies, sprawled in the toxic soot and human ashes, for long stretches. This was the macabre reality of that day; many people had to dig up the bodies, and often mere remains, of their firefighter brothers (and sisters).
There was no other option- the fallen were like family, and so a dignified burial was what was commanded. This honorable impetus drove the many sleep-deprived, aching and emotionally drained comrades to devote months to the recovery effort. Unfortunately, there was a price that they’d soon learn they’d be paying. |
