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Pop-Up Candytopia Satisfies Your Sweet Tooth

Elizabeth Brenner August 26, 2018
Candytopia, a pop-up traveling candy museum in New York City, has landed near Penn Station and is in town until Nov. 15.
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Summer Blockbuster Recap

Elizabeth Brenner August 26, 2018
So far this summer has churned out some of the most anticipated movies of the year, but not all of them are worth paying the money to see.
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Do you really know your friends? How social networking affects our definition of friendship

Elizabeth Brenner October 20, 2011

Do you know who you're friends with? The answer may seem rhetorical, but not in today's "social-network" age when people refer to hundreds of thousands of people their friends. Some people are just...

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How To Make A Quick Trip To Heaven

Elizabeth Brenner March 21, 2011

Stay on the side walk,  always hold an adult's hand and obey traffic laws is what we all learned as children. Now that we're in college, we don't need anyone's hand, but we still have to look both ways...

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Registration at 4 p.m. An Outdated Tradition

Elizabeth Brenner March 7, 2011

The 4 p.m. deadline for the registrar is as outdated as the Stony Brook Patriots. The registrar deadline of 4 p.m. is outdated by decades and should be changed to 11:59 p.m. Why? This is the age of...

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A Valentine’s Day Message For Wolfie

Elizabeth Brenner February 14, 2011

This February we celebrate not just Valentine's day, but we mark a mile stone for our beloved Seawolf: his 16th birthday. He celebrated it by inviting all of us, his Stony Brook friends and family, to...

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Do Athletes Earn Their Paychecks?

Elizabeth Brenner February 7, 2011

When someone says pro-athletes, what's the first thing that comes to mind? A paycheck with a jersey on who doesn't care about other people? If so, you may be one of the millions who see them as overpaid,...

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How to Be Red Hot

Elizabeth Brenner September 11, 2010

Red-It’s easy to see that it’s Stony Brook’s color. All over campus, you can see red. In the LaValle Stadium and Pritchard gym, there are red hot sections designated for students. Fridays are...

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Taking The Elevator: You’re Lazy!

Elizabeth Brenner May 6, 2010

I was in an elevator in the Melville Library the other day when two women, or should I call them children because of their lack of civility, commented on how lazy people were that they used an elevator...

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I-CON Returns to Stony Brook Campus

Elizabeth Brenner April 11, 2010

If you happened to be on campus the weekend of March 26  you might have noticed some interesting characters take over the campus: vampires in the dining halls,  zombies near the Melville Library or perhaps...

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Movie Review: Alice Returns To Underland

Elizabeth Brenner March 15, 2010

On March 5,  the highly anticipated sequel to "Alice in Wonderland," directed by Tim Burton, was released. The movie takes place 13 years after the release of the original animated film in 1951. The...

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How Responsible Are We For Each Other?

Elizabeth Brenner February 22, 2010

Peanut  allergies are more common now than ever before.  In schools around the country, administrators are taking special precautions  to ensure the safety of those students who are allergic to peanuts....

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