Stony Brook University’s biggest financial sponsor is officially broke. A history of rising debt ceilings culminated in a last-ditch effort to correct the country’s financial problems: automatic spending...
So now the infamous sequester has come and gone without a deal between President Obama, Congressional Democrats and their Republican counterparts to avert the cuts. What was routinely said to be impossible in the late summer of 2011 has become a reality.
Students don't need to wait anymore to find out this week if the state budget will in fact slash the funding for Stony Brook University, an unexpected tuition increase could also be unveiled.
As the March...
Jonathan Brophy, an undergraduate psychology major, stood in the Student Activities Center Plaza gripping a hand-made sign against the wind. The sign illustrated a sea of blue guppies, eating a slightly smaller fish wearing a crown. Brophy held it high above his head while he chanted with the crowd, “Education is a right. Fight, fight, fight, fight!”
The Undergraduate Student Government voted Thursday to effectively shut down SBU-TV, the campus’s first and only closed-circuit television station since 1992.
The Reformation of Stony Brook Television...
The Radical Student Union appears as a mysterious entity—showing up at certain events and not being listed on the university’s homepage. Members surface during events like protests, especially those...
After seven months of speculation, five of which were and are being spent in the courts, the shuttering of the Southampton campus of Stony Brook University still raises many questions.
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.
Last Thursday afternoon, over 50 students gathered in the Student Activity Plaza for a candlelight vigil inprotest of the proposed tuition increase, budget cuts, and financial aid cuts for SUNY and CUNY....
