Over 100 protestors picketed an April 1 Democratic fundraiser attended by President Barack Obama at Boston’s 60 State Building. As the last of the $500-a-plate guests were being admitted and the streets of Beantown were being prepped for the presidential motorcade, 10 protestors remained. They hoisted handmade signs and decried the president’s conduct.

Diversity at SBU is highly visible, one need only to take a walk down the academic mall to realize that. In 2009, the U.S. News and World Report ranked SBU 38th out of a 100 schools in the nation for ethnic diversity … However, while diversity is prevalent, diverse interactions, at least according to students, is not.

Fortified with neon-colored plastic Nerf guns and sock grenades, humans walked with caution last week at Stony Brook University, only traveling in groups of five or more, glancing over their shoulders in an uneasy manner.

IRM is quickly replacing my Antichrist-influenced mental image of Gainsbourg with a much more pleasant one.

Die-cast chrome miniatures of classic automobiles is hardly a logical toy concept when your intended target demographic is comprised of individuals with poor motor skills, stubby arms and feet too short to reach the goddamn break pedal of any car ever built.

When the labor doesn’t pay off—and sadly, it only does for a select few—life itself can become a crippling exercise, curdling any joy left in the body … This is one of the many themes flowing through Gilbert Sorrentino’s fascinating final novel The Abyss of Human Illusion, published posthumously in February.

If each quad on campus had a city associated with it, then Roosevelt Quad would be Oakland. Just like Oakland, most people don’t really choose to go live in Roosevelt; they have to, because there isn’t room in other quads.

I want always to be playing this game, and playing make-believe with this game, and live in harmony; harmony with Robot Unicorn Attack.