After six months of hard work, a committee composed of academic departments and student programs opened Stony Brook University’s 10th annual Earthstock on April 19, a week of festivities to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. The weeklong program is designed to raise awareness among students as well as the public through informative academic and cultural events addressing environmental concerns, sustainability and healthy eating habits.
23- year- old Salvadorian Edgar Artiga, is one of the 1,768 Hispanic students at Stony Brook University, New York. He came to the United States when he was 18 year old. He attended high school in Central Islip, Long Island. The school population was mostly Latinos, especially Central Americans, Puerto Ricans and a few Dominicans. The other majority was black and some white. “In my school there was segregation,” he said. “The immigrants were segregated from the other groups. And among the two groups blacks were also segregated.”
When I was covering the story about “Figaro, Figaro” last month, I learned that the Theater Art Department at Stony Brook University was suffering serious budget cuts. Students from THR 321, the spring 2010 production class, where concerned about the cuts.
In the fall 2009, I took MAP 103, a math class given at Stony Brook University. In this class, I met Abraham, a young Ghanaian boy who has refused to give his last name. In class, he always seemed to be eager to learn, more than the most of the students in the class. He takes his studies very seriously and tries to take advantage of the opportunity that studying in the U.S. has given him.
Spring has finally arrived at Stony Brook University and with it the annual Shirley Strum Kenny Student Arts Festival. The art festival is from April 7 to April 23 and is dedicated the many creative Stony Brook students in an entertaining week of artistic exposition.
This weekend, after more than two months of hard work, the Department of Theater Arts at Stony Brook University, NY, opened “Figaro/Figaro,” a play adapted by Eric Overmyer.
Brazil is the largest country in South America and the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas. Because of its history, Brazil was one of the largest South American countries exporting and importing of slaves. Nowadays, most Brazilians are descendants of the country’s indigenous peoples, Portuguese settlers and African slaves. As a result, there are many brown people such as mulattos. “My family is whiter, but my mom is kind of tan,” said Gustavo Rodrigues Jacovazzo, a Brazilian student of Stony Brook University, New York.
This story is about Rebecca Shaw and Mike Kelly who met at a mutual friend’s party in 2005 and then went on their first date in Grand Central. They have travelled all around the world and each trip has brought them closer.
Lauren DuBois
Matt Calamia
Micah Danney
Ana Llacer Alventosa
Jennifer Long
Daniel Offner
Sean Caffrey-Agoglia
Tom Price
Sam Kilb
C. Harrington
Elizabeth Ward
Stanley Adler
Kirsten Preskenis
Mary Reiland
