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On Feb 12. 2023, the commercials that played during the Super Bowl were lackluster in its usual standards due to an overreliance on nostalgia. ILLUSTRATED BY VIKRAM SETHI

Super Bowl commercials fumbled in creativity

Sara McGiff • March 5, 2023

The adage “nostalgia sells” rings true when it comes to the 20-year fashion cycle or a network reviving a beloved old property. However, if this past Super Bowl showed us anything, it’s that...

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Salvadorans are protesting restrictions on sexual, reproductive and LGBTQ rights. DANIELA WEIHSKOPF/THE STATESMAN

El Salvador: “Coolest” country is failing women and LGBTQ people

Daniela Escobar • March 1, 2023
#OPINION: Violence against the LGBTQIA+ community and a lack of sexual and reproductive rights have persisted in El Salvador. While the Salvadoran government has assured its people that the country is safe, its legislation needs a drastic change.
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An image from a residents yard the night of the East Palestine Derailment on Feb. 3. By thunderlips36, CC BY-SA 4.0

The Ohio chemicals disaster is normal — and that’s a bad thing

Christine Kelley • March 1, 2023
#OPINION: The Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train was a disaster in itself. Local authorities’ decision to burn a few of the cars — releasing deadly vinyl chloride into the atmosphere — is nothing short of a climate crisis, facilitated by capitalist greed and governmental stupidity.
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Ohio individuals protesting in front of the Statehouse in January 2023. Recent instances of police brutality, particularly sparked by the death of Tyre Nichols, have reignited the conversation of race relations in the United States.By Becker1999 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/21426642@N07/52657523759/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128234134

How a 1992 study influenced public perception of police brutality

Katherine Moquete • February 19, 2023
OPINION: In the last 10 years, there has been increased attention toward police violence. But, coverage of these victims will often fixate on alleged criminal pasts or decry them as “no angel” without placing blame on police officers.
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A graphic featuring Brightspace on a desktop. Starting Fall 2024, Stony Brook University will be exclusively using the new class-management software. ILLUSTRATED BY ONESUN JEONG/THE STATESMAN

Brightspace is a big downgrade from Blackboard

Jennifer Ojilere • February 16, 2023
OPINION: Brightspace is not the "user-friendly" platform it makes itself out to be.
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Democrats need practical solutions to climate change

Vinod Kripalani • February 5, 2023
OPINION: Don’t get me wrong; I support the government creating policies to curb climate change. However, the issue is that the overwhelming majority of policies proposed by Congressional Democrats happen to be impractical.
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Lionel Messi celebrating scoring a goal against Granada CF in October 2014. PUBLIC DOMAIN

Lionel Messi proves the U.S. should take soccer seriously

Alex Streinger • January 23, 2023
OPINION: Lionel Messi’s trajectory should inspire the United States and open Americans' eyes to the potential of soccer as a conciliatory approach toward other nations.
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Snapshot of memo taken from article, Francis Evicts Grad Students From Tent City. STATESMAN FILE

From the Archives: Tent City: SBU’s historic GSO protest

Liam Noonan and Kelcie Eberharth • January 19, 2023

Liam Noonan is an assistant archivist at The Statesman and a BA/MAT student in Stony Brook University's School of Professional Development. This article is co-written with aead archivist Kelcie Eberharth,...

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Elon Musk, SpaceX Chief Engineer, and the SpaceX team are recognized by Vice President Mike Pence inside the Vehicle Assembly Building following the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the companys Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Tesla shareholders can help the environment by investing in clean energy

Caiying Luo • December 15, 2022
OPINION: Tesla’s real winners are those who invested in its stock, which has soared 3,000 percent since the pandemic. Such a situation indicates that in the eyes of Tesla's investors, buying even one Tesla car would be foolish.
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Off-campus eating for on-campus students? It’s only a walk away

Julia Borghetti • November 30, 2022

No car? No problem. Like many students who live on campus, I do not have a car. My off-campus trips are limited to the Sunday shopping route and Suffolk County Transit bus rides. This can sometimes...

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A bridge in Charlottesville, Va. Last week the University of Virginia (UVA) experienced a mass shooting. CHRISTINE KELLEY/THE STATESMAN

Mass shootings can not define the South

Christine Kelley • November 21, 2022
#OPINION: Virginia is awful and terrifying and beautiful and welcoming. If we embrace community and simple pleasures, we can navigate our way out of this violent fascist mess.
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A screenshot of the original text of the article, “Text of Black students demands.” Black Students United presented a list of demands to President Toll in 1969.STATESMAN FILE

From the Archives: SBU Black studies program displayed in Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Kelcie Eberharth • November 20, 2022
“Frank Bowling’s America,” which opened at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts on Oct. 22, displays three of The Statesman's articles.
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