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A late Stony Brook charge almost erased a 16 point deficit against the team's Long Island rival, falling 61-56. Demetrius Young led the Seawolves off the bench with 21 points. The loss snapped the team's four game winning streak.

“Thank you for visiting Santa here at New Port Center and have a Happy Holiday!” Standing among the fake snow and cardboard elves next to the camera, Brittany Fiore, 20, handed the older woman the pictures of her grandson with Santa Clause. That one sentence is the reason Fiore was getting in trouble with management on Christmas Eve. What was the complaint? The woman was accusing her of taking the Christ out of Christmas.

At a depression screening on Oct. 29, 24 out of 56 students said the future of the economy is adding to their stress, according to the Center for Prevention and Outreach (CPO) at Stony Brook University, a counseling center that helps students who have problems with substance abuse, sexual assault, depression or suicidal thoughts

Bundled in hats and scarves, more than 100 Stony Brook University students and faculty rallied in front of the Student Activities Center Wednesday afternoon in a call to arms against the budget cuts.

Cooking-related fires, which according to a Stony Brook University safety and security reading account for more than 90 percent of fire alarms, are often caused by the use of prohibited appliances in campus dorm rooms. But privacy rules prevent resident assistants from searching for an occupant’s hidden cooking equipment.

Growing up, Lydia Duran, 19, wanted a chalkboard so she could play teacher. This was the foundation for her desire to help kids and minorities.

This past Sunday morning, 21-year-old Desmond Adedeji was pulled over on the campus’s South Drive and charged with driving while intoxicated. Adedeji will serve a six game suspension, according to a press release from head coach Steve Pikiell.

There have been a few confirmed cases of MRSA on campus, said Jerrold Stein, Dean of Students.

Stony Brook underreported campus crime in 2006, an audit by the New York State Comptroller’s office found. The comptroller found that Stony Brook failed to correctly report more crimes than any of the other SUNY schools that were audited.

A 21-person committee, chaired by alumnus Richard Nasti, is responsible for seeking out the person who might replace University President Shirley Strum Kenny after she retires next June. At this stage, they're laying out the qualities the school is looking for in its next president.

Stony Brook is bracing for further seismic cuts that are now brewing at the state level. Earlier this month, President Shirley Strum Kenny called for a hiring freeze for state-funded positions. By state decree, capital projects, like much of the construction and renovation going on around campus, have almost totally halted.

A student was the victim of an attempted robbery on Sept. 6, in Roosevelt Quad's Wagner College. He was not seriously injured.

An ammonia leak spurned an evacuation of the graduate Chemistry building on the first day of school. No one was harmed.

President Shirley Strum Kenny confirmed late Wednesday night that she plans to retire in June 2009.

The SUNY senior system administration is working on a deal with the state government that will ensure money generated from special revenue funds – which will be frozen under a recent state-mandated expenditure cap – will not be tapped by the state at the end of 2008-09 fiscal year, a Stony Brook University official said today.