This is GADFLY, here to challenge and amuse you. Socrates was accused of being a GADFLY to Athenian society in Plato’s Apology. He had been stirring up thought, creating a nuisance and controversy. We intend to do the same thing. Philosophy has provided the starting point for us but we want to include all of the undergraduate community in audience and content. We depend entirely on you for submissions—we will be unable to continue without your help. The goal of GADFLY is to begin to fill the void that is the absence of an intellectual community at Stony Brook, to stimulate thought and provoke debate. We are not a newspaper nor are we an art magazine; rather we are interested in printing the work that you are proud of, the stories and papers that you put more work into than was required, because you enjoyed writing them. GADFLY is a place for your stream-of-consciousness narratives and rants, poems and drawings. If it came from your mind then we want to print it. Submit to GADFLY and you will be instantly famous.

gadfly@ic.sunysb.edu