Some articles I've written
for the Stony Brook Press.
Enjoy!
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How the Dining
Service Contract Got SACked (10/1/97)
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The Administration removed on-campus breakfast so the SAC could serve lunch.
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The Missing
Million (and other meal plan problems) (10/15/97)
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A point-by-point critique of Aramark and the meal plan, including the budget.
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Campus Village
Series, Part I: Stony Brook, Inc. (10/15/97)
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Members of the President's Advisory Board all want a piece of the Campus
Village action.
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Campus Village
Series, Part II: The New Definition of "Academic Mall" (10/29/97)
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The ground lease for the Campus Village gives too much control to private
business.
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Charles Wang
Plays "Laverne" in Shirley's Show (11/26/97)
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President Kenny's conflicts of interest, owing to her position on Computer
Associates' Board.
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A Conversation
With Shirley Strum Kenny (12/10/97)
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An interview with President Kenny, discussing her relationship with Computer
Associates.
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What's So Bad
About the Software Incubator? (1/28/98)
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A rehash of stale news (see previous two articles). Far less subtle
than the previous ones.
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Iraq's Wars and
the Wars Against Iraq (2/25/98)
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The history of war with Iraq, with a case against the bombing that Clinton
was proposing.
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On the Meal
Plan and the Administration (and why they don't belong together) (3/11/98?)
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Comparing Admin's involvement with meal plan to their poor handling of
the SAC vendors.
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The Boyer Commission
Reinvents the Wheel (4/22/98?) (with Martha Chemas)
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Criticizing the Boyer Commission Report on Undergraduate Education.
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Campus Village
Dies in Assembly! Long Live the Campus Village! (8/98?)
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Reporting the ultimate failure of the Campus Village ground lease to become
law.
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Aramark Ousted,
New Meal Plan in Fall (8/98?)
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Discussing the new meal plan and Chartwells, and griping about the price
of the plan.
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Why the Hell
Should I Vote for Grandpa Munster? (you might ask) (10/21/98)
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A campaign ad for gubernatorial candidate "Grandpa" Al Lewis, thinly veiled
as news.
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Interview with
the Vampire (10/21/98)
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An interview with "Grandpa" Al Lewis, thinly veiled as an interview.
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Saving Social
Security? The Stock Market Scam (2/10/99)
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An argument against any form of privatization of Social Security.
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How to Write
an Article for the New York Times (2/24/99) (by A.M. Rosenthal)
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A satirical piece, dealing with "official anonymous sources" in the Times.
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NATO Bombing
of Serbia: The Same Old War (4/99)
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A piece criticizing the bombing, providing a little history, and comparing
the war to the 1991 war in Iraq
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Lights Out
in Yugoslavia (Gang Warfare) (4/99) from Statesman
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An opinion piece in the Statesman, comparing the senseless brutality of
the Serbia war to gang tactics.
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A Republic,
Not an Empire: A Leftist's Defense of Pat Buchanan's Book (10/13/99)
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A defense of Buchanan's unjustly criticized foreign policy recommendations.
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This is FARCing
War! (10/27/99)
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Discussing American involvement in the Colombian civil war.
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Wee Sleekit Timorese
Beasties (Or, The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Men) (10/27/99)
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An article on a lecture given by David
Hicks about the East Timorese independence referendum.
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Kofi's Confession
(11/25/99)
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Discussing the UN Secretary General's report on the Srebrenica massacre,
and the faulty conclusion that the UN should renounce neutrality and nonviolence.
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Missionaries
of Democracy (11/25/99)
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Comparing the Christian missionaries of the British Empire to the democratic
proponents of the modern American Empire.
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Sovereignty and
the WTO (12/5/99, unpublished)
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Discussing the issues that the anti-WTO movement in Seattle was protesting
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"How Much for just
the President?" Protesting at the Republican National Convention
(8/00)
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A description of the R2K protest, especially Unity 2000, in Philadelphia.
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Don't Rock
the Yacht: Bush/Gore 2000 (9/00) (by Sam O'Leons, of Billionaires for Bush
or Gore)
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A satirical piece explaining why all good billionaire-supporters should
vote for Bush or Gore, rather than Nader.
The critics respond! Read what
Jacob Pulaski thinks of my work.
I'm sick of this COMMUNIST pseudojournalism! Take me back
to your damn home page!