The Feb. 2 USG Senate meeting approved three allocation requests totaling $19,000 with stunning efficiency. This was due in part to the Senate’s plans to attend the “Vigil for Haiti,” said Senator Mahyar Kashan, but more significantly, because new Treasurer Moiz Khan had streamed-lined the appropriations process.

Computer science professor Steven Skiena has been teaching at Stony Brook since 1988. In the same year as a Ph. D. student at the University of Illinois, and with the help of fellow students, he designed the computer of the year 2000 for a competition. Apple sponsored the competition.

During his State of the County address, Suffolk County Executive and Stony Brook University alum Steve Levy called out the Political Science Department as being riddled with communists.

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.

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.

USG Senate’s approval of an act that created a staff for the Vice President of Student Life, Programming and Activities nearly fizzled into a filibuster twice during the November 5th USG Senate meeting.

The“iCare” advertising supplement that was in the October 8 issue of The Statesman has circulated through campus stirring controversy along the way.

When members of the Social Justice Alliance invited Palestinian poet Remi Kanazi to perform at Stony Brook University, they were worried that the event would turn into an emotional and heated argument between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian supporters.