Many restaurants have switched from plastic to paper straws to help the ongoing environmental crisis, and some cities have banned plastic straws indefinitely. I question, however, if this effort is actually making any difference.
Why are busy students willing to wait in line at Starbucks rather than in a shorter line anywhere else? It’s because Starbucks’ marketing techniques have us obsessed.
Painting with a Twist, a paint and sip franchise, opened its first Long Island location in Selden on April 9. The studio will offer what the website calls “fun art, not fine art.”
Having music blaring through your headphones while in the library or Starbucks can benefit your emotions, productivity and memory in preparation for acing an exam and your courses in general.
Stony Brook’s Faculty Student Association teamed up with the GET mobile ordering app this semester so that Starbucks fanatics could order their drinks and warm chocolate croissants without waiting in line.
