In case you haven’t heard, BuddyPress is the latest addition to a series of grassroots social networking software. BuddyPress is no more than a few months old, and just recently out of beta. The concept of a Stony Brook social network has been around almost as long as BuddyPress. I spent months looking for the [...]

The Statesman printed this piece in their first issue of volume 13 on Friday September 19, 1969. It was printed in a special feature section called “The Freshmen Herald.”
As man and boy I have watched Stony Brook evolve from a drive-in movie theater to a used car lot. The rumors that it exists is [...]

I remember posting a Facebook status way back in the first week at Stony Brook all in caps; something to the effect that Stony Brook had been awesome, and I was hoping that it would remain as awesome as it had been in that first week. As I sit here around midnight on a regular [...]

This story began when I found out that our Career Center is a close partner with the scam widely known as Vector Marketing. They are a company that uses college students as independent contractors to sell Cutco knives. Although their current business model is considered “legal,” their practices are less than ethical not to mention [...]

A few years ago at a retreat, students and faculty came up with this idea of a free period of time each week that clubs would use to host major events, and the campus could connect at a personal level. They were addressing the issue of campus community, an issue that has faced this campus [...]

After nearly 2 weeks of planning and a few days of hard work to promote a massive protest against budget cuts and tuition hikes, we had the event in modern Stony Brook style; the style that has earned us the title “Most Unhappy Students” for several years now. Make no mistake, these recent protests are [...]

I’m leaving on a bus to Washington DC during a state of emergency just to see George take off in a helicopter. It has been a long eight years, and I am willing to do just about anything to witness this occasion. I’ll be on the lawn with some friends (around 2-4 million) to watch [...]