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Pols: Stony Brook U plans to close much of Southampton campus

Quick ReadThe campus will abandon the dormitory and other buildings, leaving open only a marine science program and a writing program.

Attendees at the grand opening ceremony of the

Photo credit: Gordon M. Grant | Attendees at the grand opening ceremony of the library on the Southampton campus of Stony Brook University. (October 10, 2009)

Stony Brook University plans to close part of its Southampton campus this summer because of a budget crisis, according to two local politicians who said they were told of the plan during a meeting Tuesday with university president Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr.

The campus, which has 525 students and planned to boost enrollment to 700 in the fall, will abandon the dormitory and other buildings,...

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