The Stony Brook Statesman

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The Stony Brook Statesman is a student newspaper serving the State University of New York at Stony Brook in New York's Long Island. It was founded in the fall of 1957 as the Sucolian, for the "State University Campus On Long Island" at Oyster Bay, the university's name and location until 1962. The name was changed to The Statesman in February 1958.

The newspaper is published twice a week during the academic year and until recently was also published bimonthly during the summer months, though it did not publish at all in the summers of 2005 and 2006. It officially claims to have a circulation of 12,000, though the current figure is likely closer to a print run of 4,000 per issue, having declined in recent years. As late as 1984, the Statesman was published three times per week during the academic year. At its peak it was read by 16,000.

The Statesman Association was formed as a non-profit organization approximately 1970 and was incorporated in 1975. The paper is funded almost entirely by advertising, with additional funds from the student government.

The current Editors-in-Chief are Suraj Rambhia and Tejas Gawade.