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Stony Brook student verbally and physically harassed at LIRR bus stop

News Top StoryAugust 24, 2021August 29, 2021

A Stony Brook student was verbally and physically harassed on Aug. 15 at the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) bus stop on Circle Road.

SBU pauses distribution of Johnson & Johnson vaccine; adds new vaccination opportunities

Administration News Top StoryApril 13, 2021

Stony Brook University has paused distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to students and employees due to concerns about potential negative side effects.

Most classes will be in-person in Fall 2021

Administration News Top StoryApril 6, 2021

Most classes at Stony Brook University will be held in-person during the Fall 2021 semester. According to President Maurie McInnis, only about 20% of the classes will be taught online.

Diet culture’s complicated relationship to body positivity

Features News Sex and Relationships 2021 Student Life Top StoryMarch 24, 2021March 24, 2021

Danaher has struggled with anorexia nervosa — an eating disorder characterized by distorted body image and a compulsive fear of being overweight — since the age of 13. She is now 22.

Myanmar military coup cuts Burmese students in the U.S. off from their families

News Top StoryMarch 21, 2021

The Myanmar military staged a coup d’etat on Feb. 1, bringing the country’s democracy to a halt and affecting citizens all around the world, including Burmese students studying in the U.S.

Stony Brook heads to NCAA Tournament after upsetting Maine in America East finals

Sports Top Story Women's BasketballMarch 12, 2021March 13, 2021

The Stony Brook women’s basketball team mounted an 11-point comeback to upset the top-seeded Maine Black Bears 64-60 in the America East Championship, clinching the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament berth.

Campus NAACP chapter president focuses on supporting her Black peers

Black History Month 2021 News Special Issues Top StoryFebruary 18, 2021February 18, 2021

To Oreoluwa Adewale, Black Lives Matter is more than another hashtag or a movement. It is about being allowed to be Black without exception.

“Does it surprise me? No”: Members of the SBU community comment on lack of Black memorialization

Black History Month 2021 Faculty News Special Issues Top StoryFebruary 13, 2021February 19, 2021

Of Stony Brook University’s 64 named buildings and spaces, only four Black historical figures; Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Jimi Hendrix, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman are memorialized, according to a list compiled by the university’s archivist.

“It is a kind of mass social psychosis”: SBU professors react to invasion of the U.S. Capitol

News Top StoryJanuary 14, 2021

“You hear the interviews, hear the depths or the breaths of the anger based online,” Robert Chase, a history professor, said. “I think that at some point, a country has to have a national reckoning over truth.”

SBU police respond to potential bomb threat in the chemistry building

News Top StoryJanuary 14, 2021January 15, 2021

Stony Brook University police responded to a call regarding a potential bomb threat in the chemistry building around 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 13.

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Ideologies clash as Turning Point USA protest arrives to SBU campus

Turning Point USA holding anti-mandatory vaccine protest on campus

New parking policies leaves students enraged as administration remains dismissive

400 SBU students forced out of residential halls following flood damage

As New York floods, SBU residents face Ida’s wrath