2008 Woodie Awards
Today at SBU you will find students visiting McDonald's countless times throughout their college career, but you will find that very few know about President Truman dedicating a statue nearly adjacent to the "golden arches." This article is meant to enlighten students about real history, not their next meal.
On Monday, President Bush ducked a protracted confirmation battle with the Senate by nominating Michael Mukasey for Attorney General instead of conservative favorite Ted Olsen. Mukasey is a former federal judge from New York who presided over the 1995 trial of the Blind Sheik and eleven co-defendants in the 1993 bombing of the World trade Center.
In the early 1900's, Joseph Pulitzer owned a newspaper named the "New York World." A banner hanging on the wall of the newsroom of the World read as follows: The "World" has no friends. By being "friendless," Pulitzer argued it would help his reports uncover scandals, injustices and corruption because his journalists would not be slaves to higher powers.