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Will There be Continental Breakfast? Call of Foody: Modern Warfare The Great Debate Sadly, Huge Explosions Leave Cusack Alive Look Both Ways Before You Cross the Road Afghanistan: A Kafkaesque Nightmare
 
Will There be Continental Breakfast?

Will There be Continental Breakfast?

The controversy surrounding the plans for a hotel on campus have attracted a much larger audience than the University Senate had originally anticipated. The Town Hall meeting held Friday, December 4, had more attendees than could fit in the originally scheduled SAC 302. The SAC auditorium held over 150 members of the university and surrounding community, many of them outspoken in their opinion on the new Hotel's plans.

Call of Foody: Modern Warfare

Call of Foody: Modern Warfare

“I can’t believe I even ate that,” she said. “I know it’s bad, but we really don’t have a choice.” Backfish’s concerns echo those of fellow Stony Brook students – many feel that the food on campus is both disgusting and expensive, but they have no choice but to eat it.

The Great Debate

The Great Debate

When Judit Castello came to Stony Brook University as a visiting researcher, she had done her studying. Only, it wasn’t for any related coursework that Castello studied. It was the United States healthcare system that she looked into before leaving from her native country of Spain.

Sadly, Huge Explosions Leave Cusack Alive

Sadly, Huge Explosions Leave Cusack Alive

I’m a lazy, apathetic asshole. If the alien gods from the planet Ufraton came down to me and asked me to write a tell-all story about my encounter, I would say, “Sorry man, I just popped an Ellio’s pizza in the oven, and I can’t leave that shit unattended”. But Director Roland Emmerich has found a way to inspire me to warn you about 2012…the movie.

Look Both Ways Before You Cross the Road

Look Both Ways Before You Cross the Road

Any student who’s crossed the street between the Student Union and the Melville Library during campus lifetime knows what a pain it is to get cars to stop at the crosswalk.

Afghanistan: A Kafkaesque Nightmare

Afghanistan: A Kafkaesque Nightmare

As I was listening to the President laying out his plan for an escalation of troop levels in Afghanistan and how he was struggling to present it to a skeptical nation and hostile region, one thing was clear, “As America awoke one morning from uneasy dreams she found herself transformed into a gigantic insect.”

A Brief Interlude

04 January 2010

"Come on. It's just a doll." He was right. He usually was. But fuck it all, this was my doll. I had owned this thing since I was three. That is twenty-two years. Did he really think I would not have an attachment to it?

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Sweaty Men Punch, Kick. Yeah!

Sweaty Men Punch, Kick. Yeah!

20 December 2009

On December 2nd, The Ultimate Fighter featured the final four fights before the finale. In the final two quarterfinal fights James McSweeney beat Matt Mitrione and Marcus Jones defeated Darrill Schoonover.

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Batman: The Bat and the Cat Review

Batman: The Bat and the Cat Review

19 December 2009

Don’t be fooled by the title, this is all about Barbara Gordon, the newly minted Batgirl, a buxom red-handed spitfire.

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Journeying to the Heart of the Hungry Soul

Journeying to the Heart of the Hungry Soul

19 December 2009

We are a hungry nation. We are hungry for success, for honor, for wealth, and for…food. Yes, the United States—still the wealthiest nation on planet Earth—is struggling to feed millions of its own citizens.

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Top 40 Radio Should Die A Quick Death

Top 40 Radio Should Die A Quick Death

15 December 2009

Its song is nothing worthy of a lineage, but its wail drowns out all the others. And it sings its tune everywhere, all the time. This creature I speak of, is Top 40. And it needs to die right now.

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Volume 31, Issue 7

Volume 31, Issue 7

13 December 2009

NY State Senate: Get with the Times Plus: The Fall '09 LitSup

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Volume 31, Issue 6

Volume 31, Issue 6

23 November 2009

"There is now mounting evidence that man and dinosaurs did indeed live on Earth at the same time." - Liberty University Biology Department

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Toy of the Fortnight – Stretch Armstrong

Toy of the Fortnight – Stretch Armstrong

19 November 2009

Remember when you had those cool G.I. Joe figures with the realistic weapons and features and the badass army gear? Now, do you remember that year you were bad and you got a Stretch Armstrong doll for Christmas instead?

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