INSIDE: Page 3—Black History Month activities schedule xjtfxixixixxxixlxvxixlxsxsx::::::^ CAMPUS•x-x-xwx-:vx-:vxvxvxvxv:-xvx-x-x-:v:-x-x-xv:-xv:-xwx-x-:*x*x-:wxwx-:wx-xvvxwx-x*x^^^^^ cumins STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK January 25,1988 Forecast Snow? Tune In For Details Like other Long Island residents, Stony Brook faculty, staff and students con­ r" fronted with inclement winter weather on a CLIP AND SAVE weekday morning begin a guessing game of "should I orshouldn'tl?" Before round­ Listen to these radio stations for ing up the dog sled team, personnel should announcements during inclement & 'jsz-' consult the following guide for determin­ t jfe :• i 5 M) ing whether the university is open for busi­ weather: •III ness. Only President John H. Marburger LONG ISLAND :11! 1 can make the decision to delay or cancel . ~ . • classes because of snow or ice conditions. WUSB/FM 90.1 He does so after conferring with campus WALK/FM 97.5, AM 1370 safety and physical plant officials. Key WBLI/FM 106.1 factors in the decision are the conditions of WGLI/AM 1290 area and campus roadways, condition of campus parking lots and railroad service. WGSM/AM 740 The decision is made early in the morning, WHLVAM 1100 before faculty, staff and students leave their WRCN/FM 103.9, AM 1570 homes for the university. WRHD/FM 103.9 WRIV/AM 1390 Radio Announcements The Office of University News Services NEW YORK CITY notifies radio stations when campus WABC/AM 770 operations are suspended. There's a differ­ ence between "closing the campus" and WINS/AM 1010 "cancelling classes". Employees are ex­ WMCA/AM 570 pected to report to work even when classes WNBC/AM 660 are cancelled (although the announcement WOR/AM 710 may be read along with other "closings".) Failure to appear requires charging the day L. J off to accrued leave credits. On Long Island, stations WALK, WBLI, WGLI, WGSM, WHLI, WLIR, WRCN, The CSEA, UUP and PEF contracts being directed to do so, must charge accru­ Campus Maintenance WRHD, WRIV and WUSB broadcast specify that employees in those units who als. Supervisory approval is needed to Campus crews are out with a dozen snow cancellation announcements. New York have come to work and are directed to leave authorize a charge to accruals. removal trucks as early as midnight, sand­ City stations WABC, WINS, WMCA, work—due to potentially unhealthy and If county or regional offices declare ing, salting and plowing the 10 miles of WNBC and WOR do so as well. (See box unsafe working conditions (hazardous snow emergencies and motorists are urged campus roadway and 43 campus parking for radio station call num'vrs.) driving or unheated offices)—may do so to refrain from traveling, the university will lots. Physical plant workers never allow without charging accrued leave. Employ­ usually petition state officials to permit snow to accumulate more than two inches. Office Snow Chains ees who feel 'hat conditions within a de­ absences without leave accruals. If the Cars may be left ir. a lot overnight during Employees not on campus during a partment are unhealthy or unsafe should request is approved, any accruals charged snowstorm will be contacted, if necessary, contact (in this order) their supervisor, the will be returned to employees. Continued on Page 4 by the telephone snow chain established in Office of Human Resources, or the appro­ each vice presidential/vice provostial area. priate Vice President. Human Resources Everyone should keep a copy of the chain, will contact the Office of Environmental with telephone numbers, at home for use in Health and Safety, and a decision will be Special Convocation February 3 these instances. made quickly. Employees should not be Stony Brook's fourth university convocation, sponsored by the Office of the directed to leave work unless the "chain of Provost, will be held on February 3 from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall at Employee Absences command" has been adhered to. the Fine Arts Center. Provost Jerry Schubel will deliver the keynote address, Accruals must be charged by employees Anyone who wants to leave work early "Stony Brook: Obstacles and Opportunities." All faculty, staff, and students are who don't come to work when the campus because of "uncomfortable" (as opposed to invited. is open (even if classes are cancelled.) unsafe or unhealty) conditions, without Distinguished Lecture Series Apartheid Foe To Speak Here January 26 Donald Woods, subject of the film His editorial attacks on the racial pol­ children across the border into the black- The University Distinguished Lecture "Cry Freedom" and outspoken critic of icy of apartheid drew increasing fire from ruled country of Lesotho. The famil> Series began in March 1982. Additional apartheid, will speak on "Apartheid and the the South African government and many reached London, where they now live and speakers this spring will be Lerone Ben­ Tragedy of South Africa" January 26 at the white newspaper readers. During his 12 where Woods works as a writer, broad­ nett, executive editor of Ebony magazine, Slate University of New ^ ork at Stony years as editor-in-chief, he was prosectued caster and lecturer on apartheid. I.F. Stone, founder and editor of IF. Brook. in court seven times by the state under Since reaching London in 1978, he has Stone's Weekly, Frances Moore Lappe, The talk, which is free and open to ihc South Africa's publication laws restricing been appointed director of the Lincoln author of Diet for a Small Planet, Ramsey public, is the second in the spring 1988 criticism of governmental policy. Trust, a foundation that supplies informa­ Clark, former attorney general of the University Distinguished Lccture Series, In 1977, he was arrested and punished tion about aparthheid to the international United States, and Bishop Desmund Tutu, co-sponsored by Newsday and Stony without legal process for publishing details media. In 1985, he was appointed special Anglican bishop of South Africa. Brook's Office of the Provost. It will be of the killing of his friend, the young black adviser to the 49-nation Commonwealth Past speakers included Czeslaw Mi- held at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center leader Steve Bike. He was subjected to Secretariat in London. losz, the 1980 Nooel Prize winner in litera­ Recital Hall. banning orders for five years, from being The author of three boooks on South ture, Carlos Fuentes, distinguished novel­ Woods is a fifth-generation white forbidden to write or speak publicly to Africa, Biko, a biography translated into 12 ist and former Mexican ambassador to South African, descended from Bril:0h and being in a room with more than one other languagucs, Asking for Trouble, an award- France, and most recently Robert Reno, Irish pioneers who settled in South . frica person. winnirig autobiography, and Black and economics editor of Newsday who opened in 1820. He studied law at the University of Three months al ter his arrest, follow­ White, about the South African dilemma, the series on January 20. Cape Town and at 31, became editor-in- ing attacks on his family, including his 5- he travels extensively throughout the chief of the 114-year-old South African year-old daughter, by the State Security world, briefing governments and address­ newspaper, the Daily Dispatch, in 1965. Police, he cscapcd with his wife and live ing audiences on apartheid. StonyBrook Foundation Elects Officers, Reports Gain Stony Brook Foundation, the fund-rais- ing arm of the State University of New K* York at Stony Brook, has elected directors and officers of the board. Re-elected directors for a three-year term were John Hart Jr. of Babylon, a partner in the Patchogue law firm of Pelle- treau and Pelletreau; John Scaduto of Long Beach, treasurer of Nassau County; and community leader Joyce Turner of Patcho­ gue. Elected as a director was Richard Gelfond of Manhattan, chairman of the board of Gel-Ren Inc. of Great Neck. Gelfond is a 1976 graduate of the Stony Brook. Elected chairman of the board was Dr. James H. Simons, of Manhattan and Old Field, chairman of the board of Renais­ sance Technologies, Manhattan. Also elected officers were Hart, as vice chair­ man; John Corrigan, of Coram, president and regional director of Metro Region- New York City, First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Rochester, as treas­ urer, and Turner, as secretary. In other business, Foundation officials announced that Foundation assets have tripled over the last three years to more than S9 million. Simons attributed the growth to a combination of efforts. "The substantial rise in the assets of the Stony Brook Foundation over the past several years is a development in which the ( The substantial rise in assets ... WEST GERMANY SALUTES PROFESSOR: Dr. Barbara Elling, of Huntington Station, professor of German at the Slate University is a development in which the of New York at Stony Brook, received the Cross of the Order of Merit from Acting Consul General of Germany Dr. Thomas Fischer- university can take pride.' Dieskau at a December 16 ceremony at the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Manhattan. university can take pride." he said. "This growth is not due to some single, magical Transition source, or other non-recurring event. It is due, first of all, to the hard work of an Public Safety Gets New Assistant Director outstanding staff; secondly, to an increas­ ingly involved and dedicated board, and Susan Riseling of Setauket has been She is a member of several university thirdly, to a growing realization in the appointed assistant director for public committees, including the President's community and the state, that Stony Brook safety at the State University of New York Advisory Task Force on Women's Safety is a uniquely valuable institi 'on.