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The Stony Brook athletic department said goodbye to former swim coach Jim DeMarie at a Nov. 15 celebration. DeMarie led a very successful program during his tenure at Stony Brook, and touched the lives of many of his swimmers. |
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Do we still have student reporters on campus? I beg to differ. |
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She puts down her Newsday crossword puzzle and swings her feet off the black milk crate that prevents her arthritic knees from aching too much. After grabbing a package of grapes, she ambles over to a little girl watching her mother work at Sandella’s, an Italian eatery in the Benedict College dining facility. |
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“You won’t believe how much I just spent on books,” one student will say, only to have their friend shoot back at them, “Ha! You think that’s bad? I spent almost double that!” But, do some students have a more legitimate complaint? |
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Imagine a research university where classes are small and intimate. A place where researchers' time in front of the classroom is as valuable as their time in the lab, and undergraduate education is based on active inquiry rather than passive note-taking. Imagine a university where quality undergraduates - rather than faculty-published papers - are the school's main commodity. |
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It is hard to go to college and do well, but it is even harder once you graduate and have to find a full-time job in the field you have been working toward your whole collegiate career. Some students were lucky to land internships that push them even closer to the job of their dreams, but even that does not mean they will be able to find a job in their field. |
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As usual, its fifteen minutes before the beginning of class and 21-year-old senior Michael Gross is still loitering around his room. He plugs his iPod into his computer and decides to transfer just a few more songs. What Gross doesn’t know, according to teachers of a program called the Alexander Technique, is that he might be putting needless strain on his body without even realizing it. |
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Showers are the morning ritual for many college students. They grab a bottle of shampoo, a bar of soap, a towel, and ...a wrench? That’s the reality for 21-year-old senior Ryan Wilson and his suitemates of Dreiser College in Tabler Quad.
“The knob to turn the shower on just comes off and we need to use a wrench to turn it on and off,” said Wilson, a double major in Geology and Earth and Space Science. “We've filed many reports, talked to RAs and RHDs, and about a month ago they came to fix it. They didn’t so much as fix it, as they just screwed it back on and it didn’t even last a day. So we are pretty much at wits end with that whole shower thing.” |
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Two years ago we founded the first Stony Brook Photo Club. It is a graduate student club, financed by the GSO, to which any student can participate. |
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Currently an adjunct professor in the Biology department, Professor Matthew Schmidt received his Ph.D. in Genetics from Stony Brook University, and is also a professor at SUNY's Empire State College. One of the more popular professors among Stony Brook students, Schmidt recently sat down with the Independent for an interview: |
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Michael Chang, the youngest winner of a Grand Slam tournament in the history of men's tennis, will share stories about his testimony on Friday evening March 18th from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at the Wang Center at Stony Brook University (www.stonybrook.edu/wang). |
