Christian Santana, Author at The Statesman

Stony Brook Iron Chef Brings Up the Heat

Christian SantanaNewsMay 9, 2011

With its high ceilings and hardwood floors, the Union ballroom was converted into a veritable arena for Campus Dining’s second annual Iron Chef Competition, in which four teams of culinary…

Before Assange… there was Ellsberg

Christian SantanaNewsMay 5, 2011

When Daniel Ellsberg leaked the first excerpts of the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times in 1971, he sparked a chain of events that would forever cement his place…

Culinary Club See Visions of Culinary Beauty in the City

Christian SantanaNewsMay 5, 2011

Although most college students would normally shy away from the prospect of waking up in time to catch a 10 a.m. train on a Saturday morning, members of the Culinary…

Cosmic Couple Shooting for the Stars

Christian SantanaNewsApril 26, 2011

Though they often stick close during performances and presentations, the characters Solas Teev and Nara Pel may not have ever known each other in the Star Wars universe were it…

Lightsabers Light Up for Charity

Christian SantanaNewsApril 20, 2011April 27, 2011

When Brian van Kuik isn’t a main control room operations coordinator for the collider-accelerator department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, he is Taomoon Nightstar, the masked, lightsaber wielding Mandalorian mercenary and…

Nader Crusades into Stony Brook

Christian SantanaFeatured NewsMarch 29, 2011March 29, 2011

Returning to Stony Brook University for the first time since the 1980s, consumer advocate and attorney Ralph Nader spoke before a nearly full auditorium in the Student Activities Center, praising…

Trying to Bring the Land of the Rising Sun a New Dawn

Christian SantanaFeatured NewsMarch 29, 2011April 30, 2011

Visitors to the Wang Center were greeted by the thunderous, steady pulse of taiko drums, which reverberated through the Wang Center’s atriums like a heartbeat. The Taiko Tides drumming ensemble…

Campus Lifetime Goes Back to the Stone Age

Christian SantanaNewsMarch 13, 2011March 14, 2011

In a corner of the bookstore ringed with shelves containing hooded sweatshirts and other university merchandise, archaeologist and professor John Shea set down his supplies and immediately began to work….

Students Fight to Keep Favorite Professor

Christian SantanaNewsFebruary 23, 2011February 25, 2011

Dr. David Maynard’s office in Room 3017 of the Melville Library is sparsely decorated and nearly empty, save for a desk, a calendar, two small bookcases and a large desk…

SBUChat: A New Way to Communicate

Christian SantanaFeatured NewsDecember 23, 2010January 30, 2011

Ibrahim Kshash, a senior information systems and studio art major, envisioned the creation of an anonymous and simple-to-use discussion board in which students would be free to discuss whatever they pleased. The result, SBUChat.