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Shimelis Gulema, professor, poses for a photo in his office.GARY GHAYRAT/THE STATESMAN

A conversation on race with Shimelis Gulema, an Africana studies professor

Gary Ghayrat February 29, 2020
Race is very integral, very key to the American fabric. You cannot talk about exploitation, oppression and segregation in this country without injecting the notion of race because many of these things are race-based.
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Hand completing a multiple choice exam.

It’s OK to fail

Andrew Goldstein November 10, 2016
It’s so easy, in a pressure cooker school like Stony Brook, to feel depressed, pessimistic and gross when these grades show up on our Blackboard and stare at us.
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A day in the life for many students at SBU. (STATESMAN STOCK PHOTO)

The day in the life of a Seawolf at the Brook

Jacob Shipkevich January 27, 2015
“Ring ring!” Off goes my infuriating alarm on my phone. It is only seven in the morning and all I can wish for is to prolong my slumber on this foreign bed.
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Freshman biochemistry major Katherine Monjaras photographs lecture slides for class using her iPhone. (JESUS PICHARDO / THE STATESMAN)

Students use new methods of taking notes in the classroom

Giselle Barkley March 25, 2013

Technology has stepped into the classroom as students have developed more unorthodox ways of taking notes. Using devices ranging from mobile phones to DSL cameras to take pictures of lectures has become...

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