Erika Karp, Author at The Statesman

Chancellor Zimpher Visits Stony Brook for SUNY Strategic Planning Conversation

Erika KarpNewsApril 16, 2010June 3, 2010

While some Stony Brook students were still sleeping and others were dragging their feet to an 8:20 a.m. class, SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher was listening to the statements of concerned…

Outcry from Southampton Campus, Residence Halls to Close, Only Two Programs Remain on Campus

Erika KarpNewsApril 8, 2010April 23, 2010

Daniel Doherty, who is from Chile, learned a new language, worked and took courses at another college in order to attend the Stony Brook Southampton campus. But Doherty and more than 400 other students at the campus are now faced with some tough decisions about plans for next semester since much of their campus will be closed in the fall.

Young Artist Meghan Tonjes Gains Popularity Through YouTube

Erika KarpArtsMarch 8, 2010July 13, 2010

It was in 2006 when the now 24-year-old, Meghan Tonjes started posting videos on YouTube and soon became a sensation on the site. Today, her videos have collectively received over…

“Unified, Organized and Pissed Off” Students Rally Against Budget Cuts and Tuition Hikes

Erika KarpNewsMarch 4, 2010November 5, 2010

Riled up students congregated outside the Student Activities Center and the CEWIT buildings Wednesday, waving neon colored signs rallying against budget cuts, tuition hikes and a myriad of other issues…

Students are More Involved at Princeton Review’s Least Happy Campus

Erika KarpNewsFebruary 22, 2010June 20, 2010

Recently, student involvement is spreading as fast as a cold in a residence hall. Students who took a freshman seminar class or spoke to an advisor heard it before. The…

Stony Brook Graduate and Research Assistants: We’re Underpaid and Overworked

Erika KarpNewsJanuary 25, 2010May 12, 2010

Amelia Hubbard, a graduate student employee at Ohio State University, has been contacted numerous times by local food banks that are curious to know why they have been seeing so…

Moving Away From The Old, A New Way To Teach

Erika KarpNewsDecember 6, 2009November 27, 2010

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In the Stony Brook University Union lecture hall, one student is engrossed in his Game Boy and another is piecing together his schedule for the spring semester, as their professor rambles on with as much enthusiasm as Ben Stein in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.’

‘He just talks,’ Heather Dixon, a freshman, political science major said of her philosophy professor. ‘Its just boring.’

Women’s Hoops Routs St. Francis

Aisha L. Breland-Henry & Erika KarpSportsDecember 6, 2009

The Stony Brook women’s basketball team picked up its second win of the season while denying St. Francis its first, defeating the visiting Terriers by a lopsided 71-40 margin in Pritchard Gymnasium Sunday afternoon.

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The Red Hot Cost

Erika KarpFeaturedNovember 2, 2009December 18, 2010

On Thursday, the day after inauguration week commenced, Deputy to the President and Overall Coordinator for Inauguration Week, George Meyer sat down in his office and took a deep breath before beginning to speak

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Students Line Up for Flu Shots

Erika KarpNewsOctober 28, 2009November 5, 2010

Immersed in a book and propped up against the wall in Ballroom B at the Student Activities Center, Virginia Castracane planned to wait on a line, which stretched down the hall from the Traditions Lounge, for her H1N1 vaccination until she was turned away.