SBGradMag Stony Brook's Graduate Student Magazine

How do you tell someone that their existence, however infinitesimal it may be to the cosmos, makes this life, this space here on earth, infinitely more worth living?

Several people were injured on Wednesday night as four Irish Car Bombs went off at the Country Corner on 25A. The drivers, believed to be under the influence of alcohol, were unidentified. President Shirley Strum Kenny and Dean Lawrence Martin both spoke out against Wednesday’s events.

Back in the spring of 1996, I remember getting to choose my schedule of classes for the very first time. I was at the end of the eighth grade, getting ready for the monumental (it seemed) leap from middle school to high school. The ripples of excitement in the classroom were palpable, and I remember the guidance counselors coming to our classes and giving us little talks about how to choose classes wisely.

The Smoking Ban Committee has voted to institute a campus-wide smoking ban to take effect on Tuesday. Committee Chair Eric Cahn said the move would create a safer environment for all students, faculty, and staff on the campus. It will also reduce global warming, a representative from the student group Breaking Away from Tobacco stated. Test runs of the ban have begun in certain areas on campus without incident.

You put the key in the door and step inside. The room is painted in easy-on-the-eyes butter and mint, with slightly less-aesthetically-appealing gray carols arranged like the spots of the five on a dice. Three face north, the other two south. You've made an attempt to make the office more personal, but it's obvious that you're new to all this. There are no posters on the walls, no plants on the floor, no shelves overflowing books, as other offices are likely to have.

Last semester, President Shirley Strum Kenny announced that the graduate student stipend will be going up by $2,000 this year. The increase is meant to help graduate students make ends meet and to help keep Stony Brook stipends competitive. Many graduate students have fallen into debt, especially after a spike in bad break-ups led to boozers on the Velvet Lounge karaoke stage last year. But instead of using the extra cash responsibly, graduate students are choosing bombastic forms of self-expression.

In a turn of events leaving the campus community dumbfounded, Graduate Student Organization (GSO) President Ryan Soule and Eileen Chanza, Editor-In-Chief of the Graduate Magazine were found in a warm embrace behind the Humanities Building dumpsters, according to a source special to the Department of Sociology. The source did not reveal whether the embrace was Marxist in character.