Campus News

Two robberies occurred in a three-day span near West Apartments. The victims, both female, were not harmed.

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

Before a packed auditorium at Stony Brook University on Thursday, leaders of the United University Professionals union called on its members to combat the state budget cuts that have come from Albany since April, after Wall Street’s collapse caused state revenues to dry up.

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.

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.

Robert J. Lenahan, the Stony Brook's director of Campus Emergency Management, will be the new chief of the university police.

Stony Brook’s Campus Residences hired eight security guards in August to patrol the residential quads at early morning hours when student workers are off-shift.

All but one of the special construction projects on campus are on hold in the wake of a budget crisis at the New York State level. Of the twelve “strategic initiative” capital projects that were approved in Stony Brook’s last five-year plan, only one – the construction of a student recreation center – is still going forward.

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.

The Research Assistants of Stony Brook University and the SUNY Research Foundation began hearings before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last Friday. The hearings, which continued all week, are a precursor to a secret ballot election which will determine whether or not the research assistants will officially join a union – in this case, the Communication Workers of America.

The university is in the process of redoing the piping for the school's high temperature hot water system. The ongoing project includes replacing the steel piping that has been in place since 1974. The project has begun in the area around Roosevelt, Kelly and Tabler quads and will go all the way around campus.

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.