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Sept. 11 had a bigger impact than you think

Mike Adams September 11, 2018
We need to recognize the common denominator of pain that day, wrought from the innocent in nearly every corner of the Earth, if we are ever to truly heal.
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USG Senate fills final appointments for the term

Mike Adams September 11, 2018
Stony Brook University’s Undergraduate Student Government Senate voted unanimously to appoint sophomore social work major Victoria Correa as the commuter student representative for the Faculty Student Association’s Board of Directors in the Senate’s second meeting of the semester on Thursday, Sept. 6.
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Remember the work that went into winning Labor Day

Mike Adams September 3, 2018
If you got up on Sunday without an alarm and without trudging off to work in a coal mine, it’s because labor unions fought for your right to a weekend.
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Students during an involvement fair. NINA LIN/STATESMAN FILE

Back-to-school advice from our editors to new students

Gabby Pardo September 2, 2018
Now that Labor Day has passed and the semester is really getting underway, my fellow editors and I thought it was a good time to share our hard-won experience on how to handle life at Stony Brook.
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Let them eat something; make Campus Life Time daily

Mike Adams August 31, 2018
I’m willing to bet a body part there are plenty of people right now who don’t have the luxury of budgeting time in their school day to meet their bare biological necessities.
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Stony Brooks Womens Soccer Team. ARACELY JIMENEZ/THE STATESMAN

This year, give Women’s Athletics the respect it deserves

Mike Adams August 26, 2018
Last fall, I saw a packed Island Federal Credit Union Arena empty out before an undefeated Stony Brook women’s basketball team took the court.
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The seating in Stony Brooks Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium. NARA HWANG/STATESMAN FILE

The Onion Bagel: Steroids are the answer to athletic apathy

Mike Adams May 6, 2018
We might not ever get to see the Loch Ness monster in person, but if we could just stuff our rosters with athletes that are closer to being Klingons than human beings, then that’s good enough.
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Paddlers jump from their boat during Roth Regatta on Friday, April 27. The theme for this years boat races was Cartoon Network vs. Nickelodeon. ANASTASIA KOBUS/THE STATESMAN

Roth Regatta 2018: Cartoon boats battle for best time

Mike Adams April 29, 2018
The downpour made it hard for some teams to keep their boats in working order, and several boats fell apart immediately after hitting Roth Pond.
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Members of Student for Justice for Palestine (left) protest the 70th anniversary of Israel in 2018. GARY GHAYRAT/STATESMAN FILE

Anti-Zionist activists protest Israeli Independence Day celebration

Gary Ghayrat and Mike Adams April 22, 2018
The Seawolves for Israel’s celebration of Israel’s 70th anniversary was met with protests from members of Students for Justice in Palestine.
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Headshot of Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Kip Thorne. Thornes contributions to developing and directing an experiment that made the first direct observation of gravitational waves earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017. KONSTANTIN MALANCHEV/FLICKR VIA CC BY 2.0

Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne discusses gravitational waves at Simons Center

Mike Adams April 22, 2018
Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Kip Thorne spoke at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics on Thursday, April 19 as part of the center’s Della Pietra Lecture Series.
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The entrance to the Staller Center for the Arts theatre. The STATESMAN FILE

Let artistic students beautify Stony Brook

Mike Adams April 15, 2018
Let studio art majors paint some walls or put up some sculptures in otherwise bland areas. It’d be cheap and easy to put up a few murals — definitely less costly to finance than a full-blown “Far Beyond” program.
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Dinesh DSouza speaking at a lecture in the Sydney Gelber Auditorium in the SAC. . ANNA CORREA/THE STATESMAN

Dinesh D’Souza draws controversy at Stony Brook lecture

Mike Adams April 15, 2018
The Stony Brook College Republicans brought Dinesh D’Souza, conservative speaker and documentary filmmaker, to campus.
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