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£ ~Vv4I SFATE 4.iI--, a i .UNv.i I - I D Vol. 11, No. 13 December 4. 1980: 7 al / 40 : w Metheny and Springsteen Concert review and Bruces "River" and interview with Pat Flows through page 15 the Garden. page 11 Norsemen Bottle Law in N.Y. A Suffolk County bill The Met offers requiring a 50 deposit an historic look on beverage containers at Viking tradition may become law. and lifestyle. page 5 page 13 Wandering Weekends A look at why Stony Brook students abandon the University on weekends.. page 3 I We wish you a merry Christmas and Remind you that there are SCOOP only three weeks left to do your holiday shopping. We are overstocked with many different albums and cutouts, RECORDS all at affordable prices. For your convenience, SCOOP records will. be open during final weeks for last minute gift shopping. The record store We also have space academy & "mutants for nukes" shirts, with your mind in mind. maxwell & TDK tapes, and discwasher record cleaners. We are open Monday thru Friday, 11-5, around the corner from the Rainy Night House (rm. 045 in the basement of the Student Union). r-"m HARPO'S ICE CREAM PARLOUR situated in Kelly A Basement Monday thru Sunday 9 PM - 1 AM Cones, Shakes, Sundaes, etc. - PLUS: All new video games & CnnFAolllI ruuboua:!o HEALTH SHOP Located in Scoop Records We have all forms of birth control (creams, jellies, foams, condoms) AT UNBEATABLE PRICES Clearance Sale! / - We have new equipment and the bizarre staff to meet your needs at reasonable rates. Crash Clearance Sale! Crash clearance on cosmetics$ On all dental floss, band- . ^. Call us at 246-3316. We can handle your sound reinforcement, concerts, talent shows, aids, razorblades, cotton chloraseptic, etc... Creams, Jellies - Lg. $2.25 parties, lectures, films, light shows, theatre productions and discos. Foam Kits w/applicator $2.25 I I ALL Condoms 3 for $1 /\/) Ax4K^r I-ý I open Monday thru Friday Coffeehouse - Pub situated in the Union Basement. Open Monday-Thursday 10 AM - 12 AM; Friday 10 AM - 1 AM; Saturday 8 PM - 1 AM; Sunday 8 PM - 12 mid. LIVE ENTERTAINMENT - SUNDAY, DEC. 7, 8 pm Jazz Club Performers OPEN 24 HOURS Take a break from studying and come down for a bite. For your P is anot for profit, student run cooperative, providing services for the campus community. Patronize SCOOP businesses - the money goes back to you! Page 2 The Stony Brook Press Stony Brook Students Escape by Joseph Bollhofer miles away. Regular weekend trips home The train rolls up to the station. Riders are not economically feasible even for the crowd on in ritual fashion. A commuter homesick. Residents must adjust to the train out of Penn Station? Hardly. It's the fact that the campus, for all practical 4:18 p.m. out of Stony Brook. Yes, it's purposes, is home. Friday afternoon and the weekend When a Stony Brook freshman exodus is well underway. becomes homesick, chances are 86 in 100 This train is one of 10, excluding the that he or she can travel home, either by morning commuter trains, that deliver rail or car, with reasonable ease. The resident students from the Brook to their appeals of home, friends, steady job or points of weekend escape. According to family are just not as accessible to the one conductor on this train, between 100 SUNY Albany resident from Bellmore as and 200 students board each of the three they are to the Stony Brook resident Friday afternoon trains and substantial from Baldwin. The former must learn to numbers ride the earlier and later trains occupy his or her time on campus while westbound. Conservative estimates for the latter can say, "The hell with trying the average weekend student ridership to find something to do this out of Stony Brook have been placed at weekend-I'rm going home." 700 to 1,000 by two conductors. Now the facts. Students' reactions to Considering the additional students life at Stony Brook, mostly negative, who flee Stony Brook by car, it is safe to offer a diverse look at the problem. say that the amount of residents who "The focus of this University is regularly leave Stony Brook on weekends technically-oriented," stated a junior is substantial. If the reasons for this resident of Sanger College. "The fine arts exodus are not obvious, they are at least atmosphere here needs understandable when facts and figures are improvement.. we need more emphasis confronted. on socially-oriented activities in the fine First, the figures. According to the arts, not just occasional high-brow Un iversity's Board of Long-Range entertainment." Planners, of 5,723 undergraduate Other students see Stony Brook's residents, a full 4,950, or 86 percent list a suitcase reputation as the biggest obstacle home address within the New York to positive changes. "Freshmen come Metropolitan area. Half of these residents here with a number of stories in their (2,393 or 42 percent of all resident heads about the evils here. They often undergraduates) come from Nassau and don't form true opinions for themselves, Suffolk Counties. A trip home for these but take what oder students say as a students means a ride of less than two given. It's 'in' to put Stony Brook down. hours. When seen in this light, it's not That's why people do it," expressed a (3 hard to understand why proportionately senior resident of Kelly B. more students leave Stony Brook on Another senior explained how his older weekends than other state schools-home brother, a recent Stony Brook graduate is much closer. now at Indiana University, is much more If it's to be argued that weekend life at positive about his present school than he was about the Brook. "Indiana University Stony Brook is less interesting than that Stony Brook students head for more exKciting times at home. of comparable schools, the Catch-22 is a 'rah-rah' school and now he's into his dilemma under which weekend recreation school. He wears a T-shirt with the school "The parties here are carbon-copies socialize 100 percent here." planners labor must be recognized. Many name on it, which makes me laugh and boring," stated a sophomore resident The reasons why residents leave on the because he's definitely not a conformist. residents leave Stony Brook on the of Cardozo College. "You go, get drunk, weekends are of crucial importance in People around here wear 'STONY weekends because weekend life is boring. and you stand there and watch understanding what to do about the BROOK SUCKS.' I can't see how a Weekend life is boring because many everybody. It's always the same. People weekend exodus. If, for example, a person can go here and do that. My residents leave. It's like a cat chasing its are on campus too much as it is," she resident has a job at home on weekends, brother says that the people there like went on. "There should be more activities almost nothing can be done to keep him tail. their school. People here degrade Stony a typical upstate school, the off campus and easy ways to get there." or her here. But the residents who leave In Brook. The spirit isn't even at a medium live hundreds of An Irving resident explained his view, for no special reason are the ones who majority of residents level." "On weekends you just want to let out all must be appealed to. MMP of your shit from the week . .. you're not A random sample was recently taken really meeting people." by The Press of 57 residents waiting for Stony Brook's location is seen by some the 4:18 p.m. train westbound from residents as a large factor in explaining Stony Brook on a Friday. Of these, 32 S the lack of school spirit and off-campus stated that they were leaving for no alternatives. "Look where this school is," special reason, five were leaving to see said a junior from Manhattan. "It's in the their girlfriend or boyfriend and 11 were middle of nowhere. There's no place to leaving to go to work. Forty four of these go off-campus." residents said that they go home regularly Prepared and Another senior from Langmuir College at least once every two weeks. Thes' reflected on his freshman year. "I was students represent a cross-section of a, delivered to you place Buffet At Mario's really turned off," he said. "This least once every two weeks. Thes4 Complete was a mud-hole. So many things were students represent a cross-section of a $4.915 to $6.25 Menu Lunches incomplete and done wrong that it was least 10 for each of the four 5 to $10.95 .. from $15 a tray Dinners $5.9! frustrating. Incoming students can't undergraduate years. Their destination. serving up to 60 people. appreciate the positive changes that have were: Suffolk, 8: Nassau, 17; New York taken place just as I can't appreciate the City, 21; Westchester, 5; New Jersey, 4; state this school was in when I first points Upstate, 2. arrived. Look, the University is still The fact that more than half of these adjusting and trying to find its identity. I students went home for no special reason maf --vww. - - -- - - - - 7 -- believe that many problems that exist indicates that they, find Stony Brook now won't be here in 10 or 20 years.