Breathing East-A Long Island Band Trying to Break into the Music Industry

After playing countless shows in front of dedicated Stony Brook fans, Breathing East will have the chance to play a bigger stage.

The Long Island based band, Breathing East, has graduated from smaller campus shows to playing shows like Bamboozle Hoodwink, an outdoor music festival in New Jersey, on April 30^th. The festival lasted all weekend but Breathing East shared a stage with around 20 other bands on Friday alone, some of those bands included Say Anything and Motion City Soundtrack. This was nothing like the band had ever seen before.

“It was an amazing experience,” said William Stevens, bassist and back up vocalist for Breathing East. “We handed out nearly 600 of our CDs. You never know what it will be that will give you a big break. That’s why I don’t like turning down even the smallest shows.”

Naked Visitor Discovered in Wrong Suite

 

Diogo Martins looks at the couch where he found an unidentified naked person sleeping on Friday night. Photo credit: Micah Danney

Diogo Martins called it a night and headed to his suite in West Apartments Building A at roughly 3 a.m. last Friday. He arrived and made his way through the common area, noticing a human form on one of the couches as he passed.

“I just thought it was somebody who knew somebody in the suite,” he says.

Not thinking anything amiss, Martins continued to his room and changed for bed. The situation then took an unexpected turn.

“I go out to the kitchen to get a drink of water and the guy is totally naked on the couch, in a fetal position,” Martins recounts. The mysterious visitor had shed all his clothes and curled himself, face down, on the two-person sofa.

An incredulous Martins went to the door of his friend and suitemate, Mathias Wendt, and attempted to wake him.

Post Secret

PostSecret is a community mail art project.  Started by Frank Warren, people mail their secrets in anonymously on a homemade postcard and the secrets are selected and posted on the blog.  Each week the secrets chosen have a different theme ranging from confessions of secret desires, embarrassing habits or hopes and desires. 

Don’t Stress! Relax!

The countdown is on! We are exactly three weeks away from the end of the semester and summer, if you don’t count finals week (which I don’t because as a commuter, I’m on campus for the total six hours max that I actually have finals going on).

Being that the semester has now officially reached the ending point, we have also reached what I usually like to call ?!(@$!& crunch time. If you’re like me, you have at least one major assignment due in each class really soon. If you’re really like me, you even have 2 major things due in some classes.

Multi Cultural Show at Stony Brook

When the doors finally opened on Stony Brook’s 6^th annual multicultural show, the first thing everyone gravitated to were the trays of steaming food lining the far wall of the auditorium. There was palpable disappointment when Cheryl Chambers, the Associate Dean & Director of Multicultural Affairs, told everyone to find a seat. “The food is not being distributed now,” she announced. But everyone complied.

Body Image at Stony Brook

Can Mattel’s Barbie Doll be drafted to help improve anyone’s self image? As counter intuitive as that might seem, Kadhambari Sridhar thinks it’s possible. This past Wednesday the Irving College Residential Assistant brought about ten students together in the college’s lounge, promising them a Barbie party, although a few Kens were also present, but delivering more. 

Assisting her was Anna Ware, a pre-doctoral intern at Stony Brook’s counseling and psychological services. “Sridhar asked to help with a discussion of body image,” she said. Before the students got to work with their dolls, they listened to Ware explain how their images of what they believe they should be like are shaped by external forces, mainly the media. Her evidence for that came from a series of videos. 

Barbie’s notoriety originates in the argument that she promotes an unrealistic idea of body image for young girls, despite her 1997 redesign. But it was just that notoriety that Sridhar was exploiting. “The evening was a success because I feel I was able to get the residents together for a learning experience,” she said. It was also her major project as RA. “I spent $120 out of the $200 I am budgeted for the term,” she added. That sum got her seven Barbies and three Kens, plus an assortment of accessories. 

“R” is for Road Trip, “A” for A Capella – Profile of the Stony Brook High C’s

Carpooling is not for the week; luckily, the Stony Brook High C’s are neither weak in mind nor voice with this weekend’s travel time amounting to about 14 hours.

Polar Plunge 2010

Stony Brook math major Kelly Denimarck has it all figured out.  The feisty 21-year-old senior plans to jump into the ocean on March 13. But she doesn’t expect to stay very long. In fact, Denimarck intends to get out of the water and into a hot tub just as quickly as her legs can carry her.

She won’t be alone. Each year, volunteers from all over the United States do the same thing. It’s part of an event known as the Polar Plunge, and it’s meant to raise money to support the activities of Special Olympics, a venture known mainly for organizing Olympic-style games for people who were once known as retarded. Special Olympics also supports a national campaign to end use of that word.

Stony Brook’s snow day

What better way to idle away the hours on a snow day than to sit in a nice warm theatre watching Hair and letting the sun shine in? Any student who could have made his or her way to Broadway last Wednesday could have gotten a specially discounted snow-day ticket and done just that.

But for most Stony Brook students, that option wasn’t available. Instead, they had to stay in their rooms and keep themselves busy. As it turned out, studying was not on the top of every students’ list.

Nina Pinto, a junior, had the best of intentions. She stayed in her dorm and tried to catch up on her school work, but with only some success. “With no classes, it was difficult to get in the mood for study,” she said. “It was too easy to loaf.”

And with most of the campus’s eating sites closed, she found that hunting down a snack was difficult. But at least getting around the campus wasn’t too bad. “Last term, when we had the big storm just before finals, they didn’t shovel between James College and the infirmary,” Pinto said. “This time they did.”

Alexander McQueen Discovered Dead at Age 40

As Bryant park fills with wild excitement for the commencement of New York Fashion Week, there, too, is a feeling of loss, as the fashion world mourns the death of famed couturier Alexander McQueen.

There is little to tell as details surface at a trickling pace from London where the 40 year old designer was discovered dead in his apartment.  Statements from McQueen’s representatives credit suicide as the cause of death.  Authorities and family members have yet to release any information.

McQueen’s incomparable originality gave birth to scores of iconoclastic runway presentations that Times reporter Suzy Menkes dubs “a roller coaster of imagination and showmanship.”  His most recent presentation scheduled Thursday February 11, 2010, was sadly canceled in lieu of his untimely end.

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