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USG releases 2024 election results

Viyang Hao and Sky Crabtree • April 9, 2024

The election results from the 2024 Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Election are now out.

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Faculty pen open letter calling for accountability after arrests

Sky Crabtree, Assistant News Editor • April 9, 2024

A group of faculty members have authored an open letter to the Stony Brook administration, accusing the University of criminalizing free speech and peaceful protest.

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Nine demonstrators arrested during pro-Palestine protest

Sky Crabtree, Assistant News Editor • March 27, 2024

What started as a relatively standard protest on Stony Brook University’s campus on Tuesday, March 26 ended with nine individuals arrested after a sit-in demonstration at the University’s Administration...

2024 Sex & Relationships survey results

Mariam Ismail, Sky Crabtree, Sonya Gugliara, and Mariam Guirgis • March 24, 2024

As is the coveted tradition of your fine campus newspaper, The Statesman asked the Stony Brook University community to peel back the layers of their love lives for our annual Sex and Relationships...

Stony Brook alum arrested for participating in Jan. 6 Capitol riot

Sky Crabtree, Assistant News Editor • March 20, 2024

Isabella DeLuca, a Stony Brook University alumna and conservative social media influencer, was arrested Friday for playing an alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. DeLuca was taken into...

USG’s special election has concluded — here’s what’s changing

Sky Crabtree, Assistant News Editor • March 5, 2024

The results are in for the recent special election held by Stony Brook University’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG). All four constitutional amendments put up for vote have passed, with...

Panel discussion explores reporting on a polarized election

Sky Crabtree, Assistant News Editor • March 1, 2024

On Thursday, Feb. 22, Stony Brook University’s School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ) hosted a panel discussion with the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives that covered how journalists and news outlets can best report on the upcoming 2024 presidential election at a time of great polarization in the United States.

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USG votes to reinstate Judicial Board

Viyang Hao and Sky Crabtree • February 13, 2024

The Stony Brook Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Senate passed the Judicial Board Amendment, which will reintroduce the Judicial Board to USG, in a Senate meeting on Thursday, February 8.

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SJP holds pro-Palestine demonstration

Sky Crabtree and Mariam Ismail • January 30, 2024

Protests of the Israel-Hamas conflict at Stony Brook University resumed after the winter break on Thursday, Jan. 25, when a group of pro-Palestinian students and faculty gathered at the Administration building to protest the ongoing conflict and loss of life in Gaza.

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Unionized Stony Brook Hospital workers lose jobs

Sky Crabtree, Assistant News Editor • January 2, 2024

Dozens of unionized parking valets previously employed by Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH) have lost their jobs after hospital administration switched out the previous New Rochelle parking vendor, Classic Valet Parking, for a non-union company.

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CulinArt cleared of “fraudulent wrongdoing”

Sky Crabtree, Assistant News Editor • December 3, 2023

CulinArt, the company Stony Brook University contracts to run the University’s food services, has been cleared of previous allegations of financial fraud against Stony Brook’s Faculty Student Association (FSA) after a third-party investigation failed to find any wrongdoing by the corporation.

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Stony Brook Hillel holds pro-Israel march

Sky Crabtree, Assistant News Editor • November 20, 2023

On Thursday, Nov. 12, students and community members draped in Israeli flags and holding posters calling for the freedom of hostages taken by Hamas marched around the Stony Brook campus in support of Israel.

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