Originally published in The Statesman (Feb. 25, 2009) Students to Albany: We Are Not an ATM Joined by the Stony Brook marching band, dancers, and gospel choir, the Undergraduate Student Government riled up students Wednesday in hopes of sending a message to Albany: Stony Brook University can’t handle more cuts. […]

Originally published in The Statesman (April 29, 2010) http://sbstatesman.com/2010/04/29/stony-brook-belly-dancing-a-team-deversified/ The black stage was hot under the blazing sun. Everyone was barefoot and this was the first performance for a few of the members. The thought of messing up was not the only thing going through their minds. “Do I look […]

Originally published in The Statesman (December 10, 2010) Making Small Miracles: Stony Brook Adapted Aquatics Each Thursday night the screams and laughter coming from the pool in the Sports Complex at Stony Brook University are signs of Peter Angelo’s success. The shouts and laughter come from hundreds of disabled children […]

Originally published in The Statesman (January 31, 2011) Journalism student killed in car accident Jeanine Rescigno, a Stony Brook University journalism student, bartender and sports fanatic, died last week when her car rear-ended a sports utility vehicle on the William Floyd Parkway in Shirley, according to police. Rescigno, 29, was […]

Originally published in The Statesman (Feb. 18, 2011) USG takes the remote: SBU-TV to be restructured The Undergraduate Student Government voted Thursday to effectively shut down SBU-TV, the campus’s first and only closed-circuit television station since 1992. The Reformation of Stony Brook Television Act was brought to the Senate floor […]

Originally published in The Statesman (March 21, 2011) Young Americans for Freedom Consider Lawsuit Against USG A national conservative organization, the Young Americans for Freedom, is threatening legal action against the Undergraduate Student Government, or USG, for not having a viewpoint neutral allocation of the student activity fee. The YAF, […]

Originally published in The Statesman (Sept. 11, 2011) John Marburger, the incurable optimist John H. Marburger III, has been known to be an incurable optimist. He was the university’s third president, the director of Brookhaven National Laboratory and Presidential Science advisor under George W. Bush. He was more recently the […]

Originally published in The Statesman (October 24, 2011) Shared services take effect in Theatre and Art departments After suffering some of the largest budget cuts in its recent history, Stony Brook University has started to implement shared services, a decisive change in the way it handles administrative services within departments. […]

Originally published in The Statesman (December 4, 2011) Center for the Arts to increase awareness of art programs on campus The College of Arts and Sciences is in the planning stages to create a Center for the Arts, which will combine the efforts of the art, theater and music departments […]

Originally published on Newsday.com (July 31, 2011) http://www.newsday.com/long-island/towns/long-island-now-1.1732330/hundreds-rock-out-in-the-north-fork-1.3065512 Corky Laing, a legendary drummer from the rock band Mountain, may seem out of place on the fields of a North Fork winery. But on Sunday the Quebec native was right at home on Long Island with his new band, Corky Laing […]