Campus Personalities

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.

Dr. Conor Nelson balanced an eager crowd on the sprightly whistle of his flute. Silken vibrato notes rippled out in a pleasant ode to acute finger dexterity and lung capacity. Nelson was the third flutist to win the Samuel Baron prize since its inception.

Danny Rock launched into a poem about a stepfather who taught him how to be a man. His body was tense and the force of the words pouring up from his gut and out of his mouth made him lean backward.

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.

Chanting slogans such as “Hey, Hey! Ho, Ho! This [explicit] war has got to go!” and holding signs with sayings like “Happy Anniversary Iraq!", members of the Social Justice Alliance paraded down the Academic Mall to protest military spending and to call for more funding transparency during this past Wednesday's campus life time.

Growing up, Lydia Duran, 19, wanted a chalkboard so she could play teacher. This was the foundation for her desire to help kids and minorities.

When Hillel Kober was hired at the Delancey Street Deli last year, he had no training in the culinary arts. But Koby, as he's called, has found that he possesses a natural gift for preparing food, and he has made the kosher deli a dining destination for many Stony Brook students.