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Stony Brook Southampton students file lawsuit to stop closure of campus

Publication: The Southampton Press
By Will James   May 26, 2010 12:09 PM
A group of Stony Brook Southampton students and a nonprofit filed a lawsuit Tuesday charging that pending cuts to the campus are illegal, and seeks an injunction to keep the school running in its current form for the time being.

The lawsuit, filed in New York State Supreme Court, is in response to an announcement last month that Stony Brook University would be closing the dorms at the satellite campus in Shinnecock Hills and relocating most of the academic programs to the main campus at the end of the summer session. University officials have stated that they will save $6.7 million per year by relocating programs and shuttering facilities at Southampton, which they said is necessary in the face of deep state funding cuts.

The document names Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr.,... more

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