<p>You may have, but then I would guess you did not have a sibling NOT transfer after two years at Binghamton and stay an additional two years and then graduate from there. Just saying, you know, based off my “impulses.” You may enjoy the helhole, but most don’t. What can I tell you? And I will say again, Stony Brook is a place for research and graduate work, something Binghamton cannot compare to. Binghamton is a better education, which involves more than going to a classroom and getting an A.</p>
<p>And the reason the state did that was by default, not choice. Competition is increasing and they are feeling the pressure to improve the public face of SUNY, so they figure they’ll play ball with the whole flagship marketing game. Since Binghamton does not encompass all the components, functioning or not, of a flagship type school, it cannot be granted that label. Stony Brook does encompass it, even though many don’t function well. And the reason SUNY never had a flagship campus was both because it’s designed like UC and the state doesn’t give a **** about it because we have many top notch private universities in the state. </p>
<p>And, the fact is, that whole flaghship BS was from one governor of the state giving the state of the state speech tossing around ideas because of what I just said:</p>
<p>[Governor</a> Spitzer Sees Stony Brook University As ‘Flagship’ Institution in SUNY System](<a href=“http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Governor_Spitzer_Sees_Stony_Brook_University_As_Flagship_Institution_in_the_SUNY_System.shtml]Governor”>http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/Governor_Spitzer_Sees_Stony_Brook_University_As_Flagship_Institution_in_the_SUNY_System.shtml)</p>