2008 Woodie Awards
Vote Absentee
The Bigger Better Bottle Bill, which would have expanded five-cent refundable deposits on beverage containers to water bottles and other non-carbonated beverages, was not included in the finalized state budget put out on Apr. 9 despite student activists' lobbying efforts. (0) comments
Stephen Stakey, a freshman at Stony Brook University, passed out during the annual Roth Regatta on May 2. He was taken to the Stony Brook University Medical Center where he died later that day. He was 19. The cause of Stakey's death is still unknown, pending an autopsy, his mother, Cathy Stakey, said. (1) comment
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, five residential quads and five academic buildings on West campus lost power because of a temporary power outage. The blackout began at approximately 1:30 a.m. and by 3:30 a.m. all electricity and voltage had been fully recovered, according to University Spokesperson Lauren Sheprow of the Office of Media Relations. (0) comments
Eva Feldman's daughter waited 72 hours to report to campus police that she had been raped in her dorm room at Indiana University. She waited four more days to tell her parents. "I didn't want to make daddy cry," was her daughter's reason. Her behavior is typical of rape victims, who delay reporting their attacks, if they ever do, for many reasons including shame, fear, guilt and a flawed judicial system. (12) comments
Prosthetics are all the rage these days. Manipulating robotics to circumvent the motor problems or to simply play video games is overtaking some of the most nuanced biological discoveries. A European Union funded team, which goes by the name of RobotCub, is attempting evolve robotic technology by treating it like a child's play. (0) comments
