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STONY BROOK, NY November 2, 2021 Providing her vision for what she described as a "luminous, ambitious future," Maurie McInnis was officially inaugurated as the sixth president of Stony Brook University on Saturday, Oct. 23 at Island Federal Arena, before an enthusiastic crowd of faculty, staff, students, alumni, family and friends, along with local officials and representatives from colleges and universities from across the country. In her much anticipated inaugural address, McInnis asked the audience to think back nearly sixty years to October, 1962, when a handful of buildings built upon old potato fields and less than 800 students constituted the campus of what would eventually become "an educational powerhouse." McInnis referenced Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen-Ning (CN) Yang, who came to Stony Brook in 1965 and became the first director of Stony Brook's Institute for Theoretical Physics. Yang was one of the many scholars and students who came to the u
Providing her vision for what she described as a "luminous, ambitious future," Maurie McInnis was officially inaugurated as the sixth president of Stony Brook University on Saturday, Oct. 23 at Island Federal Arena, before an enthusiastic crowd of faculty, staff, students, alumni, family and friends, along with local officials and representatives from colleges and universities from across the country. In her much anticipated inaugural address, McInnis asked the audience to think back nearly sixty years to October, 1962, when a handful of buildings built upon old potato fields and less than 800 students constituted the campus of what would eventually become "an educational powerhouse." McInnis referenced Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen-Ning Yang, who came here in 1965 and became the first director of Stony Brook's Institute for Theoretical Physics, as one of the many scholars and students who came to the university in the early days, "who wanted to join
Iowa s Republican House Speaker Pat Grassley is the grandson of outspoken United States Senator Chuck Grassley. He had repeatedly said that he can t require lawmakers to wear masks on the House floor to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
Grassley however did enforce a No Jeans rule on the house floor. As the Iowa House rules state no member of the general assembly or legislative employee or intern shall be admitted to the floor of the House if attired in jeans of any color without leave of the speaker.
Democratic Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell of Ames decided she would test that rule on Tuesday and wore her blue jeans during the House debate. She was asked to go and change them but she refused to do so.