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I used to go to Stony Brook University. Mention should be made about what a depressing campus this university has. The year I left, so did many of my peers. Perhaps it was just a bad year but you couldn't pay me to go back to Stony Brook. Many of us affectionately dubbed it "Stony Hell". (Comment left by 24.193.227.161)

It's actually a lot better now... there making a big effort with student activities and improving things with new buildings like the humanities and center for molecular medicine building. - ecoli

the center for molecular medicine is probably a prime reason its such a boring campus. 152.163.100.202 18:07, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

I am not going to make any edits, as I don't feel it my place, but the "Berkeley of the East" reference is almost a joke at this point. That moniker was alternatingly applied to all four of the major centers of the SUNY system as it was forming during that era. It's was more of a goal than an actual title. User:TomLillis

It is hard to imagine that building a hospital "almost bankrupted" the State of New York. Perhaps the author reveled too much in the activism of the day to see this objectively.

Notable discoveries

This section needs at least 1 source, probably more. 144.126.130.150 12:05, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

^me. forgot to sign in. 144.126.130.150 12:06, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Apparently, signin isn't working. User:DCrazy

This list is apparently a copy of the text printed on little flags that hang above the walkway between the West Campus and the Health Sciences Center. With some prodding around, I can get some primary references. Until then, I can vouch that they're real, because I get to walk by them every day. – ClockworkSoul 16:41, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

They're called Stony Brook Banner Moments... you're right. Ecoli

Blue Oyster Cult

I am placing the Blue Oyster Cult back in the Notable Alumni. How is a famous band not notable alumni? - unsigned by User:Onslutty 2005-Dec-15, added by User:JimWae 2005-DEC-21

Pearlman and Meltzer were promoters & rock-critics - they graduated in 1966. John Weisenthal (an early member - even before Soft White Underbelly, I think) and David Roter (rip) graduated in 1967 & 1968. These 4 stayed around Stony Brook & developed what was to become BOC. Bios of BOC members do not mention SB - one mentions a different college. BOC was formed AT Stony Brook (off-campus mostly) & they played on campus a lot too, likely. It's not impossible some members of band actually sat in on or even enrolled in some courses, I guess - but a search for their names in the alumni locator at http://www.stonybrookalumni.com/index_flash.asp shows no matches. --JimWae 02:24, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

-In that case I recomend you edit the[REDACTED] article on Blue Oyster Cult as well, to avoid the confusion we've been having here. ecoli

On the list of organizations

What is the point of listing the organizations if the list is not complete? And even if it is complete, should it really be part of the article? - Lykaon 05:08, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Stony Brook Sucks

I've noticed that there have been many people trying to get stonybrooksucks.com listed in the article. Given the frequent attempts to have this anti-school link listed, what should be done? ErikNY 17:17, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Seems like it's being surpressed because it's critical of the University--IMHO, a poor reason to surpress it. It seems relevant, so it probably should appear. BTW, Stony Brook is not unique. All of the campuses in the SUNY system suffer from the same sorts of issues it decries. --DanielPenfield 20:58, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

• It keeps getting removed because it's not encyclopedic. The fact that a bunch of people don't like the school that they attend is hardly notable, and said site adds little or nothing to the common discourse. – ClockworkSoul 00:10, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

• Break that down for me, H0LM3Z. It "adds little or nothing to the common discourse" because it's critical of the University? Because it's in poor taste? Because it breaks all the rules of good web design? Because its operator can't spell to save his own life? What would its operator have to change to make it worthy in your sight? --DanielPenfield 19:47, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

• Small comment, someone created a post telling people to come here from there and re-add stonybrooksucks to the article--Sunyboardhost 04:23, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

• this someone to be exact--Sunyboardhost 04:25, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

• The IP address indicates the poster is posting from Brooklyn Law School. --DanielPenfield 14:12, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

• That's nice, but they still used the same IP to make that post to the stonybrooksucks message board, guess they've graduated--Sunyboardhost 14:32, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

is their information false? http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Avoid_academic_boosterism lets avoid boosterism! the constant references to harvard, yale, and MIT are prime examples and will be removed. 69.86.130.215 10:05, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

StonyBrook sucks if you look at ths site is simply a student forum that provides a lot of interesting information about the school. AS a student you should avoid academic boosterisms clockwork 69.86.130.215 17:01, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

• This has nothing to do with "boosterism": the site that a couple of people insist on including (along with a typo or two, more often than not), is simply not interesting to anybody outside of the school. The information (and I use that term loosely) it contains is trivial, only tangentially relevant, and eminently insipid. Overall, the only thing that makes the site exceptional is its overwhelming mediocrity and lack of notability. Simply put: a whole site dedicated to any opinion, especially a site whose most redeeming attribute is the presence of a few images of camgirls, does not belong in an encyclopedia, no matter how much you may like it. – ClockworkSoul 20:20, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

very well put, still academic booseterism. 69.86.130.215 04:43, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

student opinions very much have to do with the school. it is similiar to a student newspaper. 69.86.130.215 04:49, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

• Simply saying that something is so does not make it so. If you have arguments to support your assertions – ones that have a basis in reason – then please post them here. Until then, please stop reverting the page (and re-introducing a host of other typos and grammatical errors in the process). – ClockworkSoul 15:16, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

STUDENT OPINIONS..STUDENT RUN WEBSITE... VALUABLE INFORMATION SUCH AS WHERE TO FIND THINGS ON CAMPUS AS WELL AS TEACHERS ON CAMPUS. YOU SHOULD KNOW.. YOU'RE A STUDENT AT STONY BROOK. MR CLOCKWORKSOUL. WHY SUPPORT AN ARGUMENT WHEN THE STATEMENTS ARE OBVIOUS. DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER! EVER HEARD THAT? YOU MAY NOT HAVE.. YOU'RE 30 AND STILL A STUDENT IN SCHOOL! 69.86.130.215 18:04, 7 February 2006 (UTC)