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Fm - l alternatives:a a- inI n Aklternatives:1 The Shadow Box,' the Cars, &A, t h I b,_ e Police, m^/ and More.... I 1% / mmmmmmmgoFiJ President Picks Longer Semeste: r Central GraduationCeremony also Discussed UniversityJohn Marburger President has decide by SUSB Senate I ~~By Howard Saltz The Senate, however, "strongly preferred' the Sun- University President John Marburger has decided day ceremony by a unanimous vote, although they did to implement a 15-week semester, with the fall term not make any statement on the idea of a central cerem- starting before Labor Day and ending before Christ- ony. Black, who predicted that a Sunday ceremony mas, beginning in the fall of 1982, it was announced to would be retained, said that departments in the Health the SUSB Senate Monday. Sciences Center (HSC) would have to continue holding The decision was based on discussion in the their ceremonies when those students finish their work November meeting of the Senate, the university's chief in June because there is not enough room for all governance body, in which the longer semester was departments to hold ceremonies after the central preferred by a 2 to 1 margin, and on additional data ceremony and "they're the easiest ones to move to provided to the president by his staff. The new another time." Holding the ceremony on Friday, Black calendar, which was proposed to the Senate by Jim said, would save money - primarily in overtime FuccioPolity president and student member of the expenses - and would allow the HSC graduations to be Senate, will add two weeks to the current semester. held at the same times as the others, whi Ohthey prefer. 'I am convinced that the advantages to educational The large, central ceremony, which would take quality of such a calendar outweight the disadvan- between 100 and 115 minutes, would be paid for by the tages of starting the semester prior to Labor Day," university, and the Stony Brook Foundation would Marburger, who did not attend the meeting, wrote in a New Senate memo to outgoing Senate President Alfred Goldhaber. President Gets Ready "I do not regard this decision as contributing to a -Page11 destabilization of the academic calendar," the memo continue to fund-although with more money this year- continued. "Stony Brook has now tried three major the receptions that follow the graduations. variants of the semester system. Each has its prob- A question quickly raised by the Senate was the lems, butexperience has now shown that the problems possibility of rain on the central ceremony, which. with the calendar proposed by the Senate are less than unlike the department graduations, must be held out- for the other variants." Besides the current calendar, doors due to space limitations. The only way to the university has tried - and abandoned - a 15-week approach the problem, Black joked, was with the atti- -v A; semester that began after Labor Day and ended with IR , -r :e *+ tude that 'it's just not going to rain on the day of a finals after Christmas vacation. major event." itIf did, though, the ceremony would be A Calendar Implementation Committee formed b- held inside the gymnasium, with only those graduat- Marburger and chaired by University Registrar Wil- 4 ing, faculty and a few guests in attendance. The major- liam Strockbine will work out the details of the new ity of guests would be accommodated in various auditoriums equipped only with audio: video would be calendar and establish exact dates. - I i too expensive. Graduation I 'The Senate also heard a proposal from James Black, "It would have to be quite a heavy rain to move i inside," Black said. A new field house, which vice-president for University Affairs, to create a cen- i has been proposed but will probably tral graduation ceremony in addition to the 26 individ- I not be completed until later in the decade, ual ceremonies that are now held. Under Black's plan, a would be able to accommodate a which he suggested a Senate committee be formed to central graduation, Black said. work on, a central ceremony at 10:30 AM on a Friday I' The decision on graduation is a presidential one, and would be held on the athletic fields, followed by 22 of will have to be made before the Senate's next meeting the individual department ceremonies at I PM and in February. 3:30 PM. Four departments would have to hold cerem- In otherr reas. Provost Homer Neal announced that Statesan,Dom Taventaa committees to find a new College onies Thursday night before the central ceremony, Jim Stock, vice-president for University of Engineering and Affairs. announced Applied Sciences Black said, because the campus can only accommodate to the SUSO Senate Monday a plan to hold a large, central dean, and vice-provosts for Curricu- 22 departments at one time. graduation cerermmeV in addition to the departmental ones. (conffnt In Iifed l 1 1) Mmmmmm% Popit 1yo b bying G ro up Setsfoi vAlbanyrenett h tt eat eto Battles By John Burkhardt being sent to the State Department of work with us," he sai+. Polity officials are gearing up for a Audit and Control, aswell asorganizing Fuccio said he was trying to get as lobbying effort atthe state legislature in a letter writing campaign, which might many members of the Polity Seviate as Albany during the SUNY budget be directed at both federal and state possible involved, and that in February the committee debate this spring. ,officials. members would partici- This year's Future of Stony Brook Under a plan scheduled to go into effe pate in a conference on lobbying run by Committee was established at a Polity ct at all SUNY campuses1. April stu- the Students Association of the SWate Council meeting last Wednesday. Polity dent aid checks, and money given back vnivers-Ity(SASU). "I hope to bring up President Jim Fuccio, who served on to a student who either withdraws from to 20 people to Albany." he said. He said lobbying last year's committee, said that this the university or pays with a check was *usually a good year's was the third, and that they were larger than his bill will he subject to a experience." Starting itearly. "I anticipate considera- random pre-auditing. Auditing could He said that soeme committee members, hle cutbacks in the budget because of cause a delayfig of up to days. himself incluclded. would beb Reaganomics," he said. Fuccio said he had heard that the working on the project over interses- He said the Future of Stony Brook State Division of Budget had asked sion, and that when next svmester Committee would beto trying SUNY not to ask for any increases this starts, they will have seen the proposwd Statesman R,>twla protect (m.mr.j year-not budget and begun planningAwhat issues Pkolity President Jim Fucco and the sttudents' interests by lobbying for more even to cover inflation, and Fute of Stony Brook Committee are funds for Stony Brook and the commit- that if that should he the a-se, there tt work on. "The real lobbying will Ihi readying themselves to lobby in tee would also ask legislators to exempt would be cutbacks in staff. "We're also (lone in late February and early March." Albany against budget cuts. student loan and refund clwcxs from goingWet to try to faculty and staff to he said. - -.-=WNW L.L- Thirteen Killed in Mine Shaft Bla(iit miles southwest of Whitwell. Whitwell, Tennessee - An explosion field mine accidents since Thursday of tain, in a half-mile deep shaft. ripped through a coal mine shaft yester- Steve Blackburn, a spokesman for last week. On Monday, eight coal miners died in day. killing 13 miners 1,200 feet under- Mike Caudill, an assistant operations Tennessee Consolidated, said no one ans- eastern Kentucky when an explosion ground, authorities said. officer with the Tennessee Emergency wered when officials tried to call the trapped them about 2,580 feet inside a It was the third mine disaster in the Management Agency, had said earlier miners through an underground tele- mountain. Five bodies were found Mon- Appalachian coalfields in the last five that there were problems "with the phone from an office three miles from day night. and the other three were reco- days. atmosphere inside the mine," which is the shaft. None of the miners were iden- vered early Friday morning at the Emergency rescue teams equipped about 30 miles northwest of Chatta- tified, but their families were gathering Topmost, Ky., mine. The explosion with air tanks and masks had to crawl nooga in a mountainous area of sou- at the company's office. mud and water out the mine's through ashaftthat isonly 36 inches wide theastern Tennessee, and their blasted mouth against a cliff 280 feet away. in some places to reach the men, a mine conditions were unknown. Roy McCarter, deputy commissioner company spokesman said. of the state Labor Department, said in A mine accident last Thursday in Ber- William B. Allison, president of Ten- He said an explosion caused part of Nashville that the explosion occured at goo, W. Va., killed three men when a nessee Consolidated Coal Co., said in a the half-mile mine to collapse. Jack about 1PM. 35-foot section of slate in a mine roof statement that all 13 men had been Richesin, the state Labor Department The mine is about seven miles north of collapsed. Three miners escaped imme- found "and there were no survivors." commissioner, said the miners had been Whitwell, and Tennessee Consolidated diately after the fall, and three others The disaster left 24 men dead in coal- trapped 1,200 feet into Whitwell Moun- is headquartered in Jasper, about 10 were rescued.

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