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MONDAY, SEFTEMBER 15, 2003 PUBLISHED TWICE WEEKLY *sDebate Princeton Review Rankin Students that I w are disturbing," said James ate G i t Dean of the College of Ultimate Gift who also questionedles, ancies between the print Blood Shortages Prompt on of the rankings and the Pleasfrom LI Blood Centers sed to conduct the survey. online versions] give very BYAMANDA RImanum of the campus. I think we stat.ean Cnributr r if we had an unbiased During opening week at Stony s explained that, in the Brook, there were two blood drives in he rankings, Stony Brook the Student Activities Center's Ballroom le of 87 for "interesting B, held on August 31 and Sept. 3. Stony d an 88 for "professors Brook students, professors and faculty ead of such schools such donated blood, all of them answering ns, whose rankings were HNew York Blood Service's call to end ectively. the emergency shortage of the summer. nistrators also questioned Although many had suspected that he results. "We like to m the blood shortage was caused directly Princeton Review that g bythe blackout in mid-August, the e methodology-brsmall i ^ refrigerators and freezers that keep e'P omrod e v t loh os gt yR - o-b er s t Latr . s a i d b l oe o id fr er s th a ns dae" r ea d y to b e us e d w e re results." com letely operational during incident. dents JeoldStein also Donna Dionato, Assistant Provost Howver, John Fletcher, the Graduate validityof the Review's for Undergraduate Academic Affairs Coordinator for the University Blood review requires our said, "I'm not sure a the results are so Dives, says the blackout hurt New here are concerns about negative, but it's almost become a small York's blood supply because "people llected. We have also simply did not have enough time to that give very different Continued on Page donatewhile trying to live without power Together thosetwdays." lBrookOOk MournMourns Together oadio dn, Fletcher says, there are normally drops in blood donation during the winter and summer months because people tend to go on vacation, and donating blood is not necessarily the first thing on their minds. The blood supply in New York depends greatly on every person who donates, and missing Continuedon Page 11 Index Princeton Review.............. 1,5 9111 Memorial............................1 2 President Shirley Strum Kenny on 9/11 It seems like yesterday; it seems a lfetime ago. Seven hundred and thirty days since we first came togetherfor candlelight vigils, irnterfiithi religiousservices, chances to seek comfort in ourshared sorrow. A year ago the pain seemed as searingas the year bef/ore as we iedicated our inemorialgrove to 22 Stony Brook alumni lost in the devastation.Andnow, although the intensity o our sorrow has not dimmled, there Is the fbeling that we have carriedour sharedburdenfor an eternity; the horrors that we knew wouldforever change our 'orld'have hecome the new and inescapablereality We talk of healing, but we have not healed. Yet we become stronger We knecv during the blackout last month that the soidaritLy we chieed in our great national tragedy is hereto stay But we have lost our serenity We know now that any incident or accident,any sudden phunge into darkness realorpsychological brings immediate suspicion qfsome dangerousforeign fbrce; ourparticularly/imericanopenness and optinin havebeen wrestedfrom us. A nation built on the energies ofimmigrants,descndents ourselvesfrom immigrants and mostly historicallyrecent ones, we have,perhaps inevitabl allowed distrustandsupicion ofthe unfariliarto cloud our thinking and darken our attitude. Together and individually we are struggling with a war that has threatenedto divide the country even as the tragic events of 9/11 united s Although we routinelygothrough security checks at airportsand other publicplaces that we would have eschewed before, and we wory abhout things we tookfor granted, we know that we havefar more to protect than ourphysicalsafety Now we have to thinkbhalt deeply abouyt is special and essential to the American way oflife. We hae to realize how easily we could lose ourfoeedoms in the efbrts to protect them. lWe struggle and argue and watch what we say more than we should have to. But that unconfortable effort makes us realize the importance qf protecting not onlyife but freedom, and in doing so, we have become stronger We know tat we can and should-- be able to disagreepassion- ately but not violenty It is vitally important that we protect our rights to see things d/frentlay and all be good Armericans Stony Brook must be a haven for all who believe that the freedomsfor which this country wasfounded are the heart fq/our democracy e must be a havenfor all students who arehere to learn so that they can make the world better: Whatever our backgrounds,whatever ou hopes and ambitions, whatever our race orreligion, we must protect the very specialnature of this home to learning; this place to foster the true ideas oJ American freedom. We honor those we lost byprotecting the beliefs that make this country great. We honor them notjust once a year but every day as we pass the grove dedicated to their memory They were the best ofStony Brook. 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Football Coaches Association and The survey included questions released this week. about grade-point averages, family The survey, conducted last fall, backgrounds, and socioeconomic received responses from more than status. Of players receiving full athletics 5,400 football players at 66 institutions scholarships, 59 percent reported that in the National Collegiate Athletic they needed at least another $200 per Association's Division I-A. Some 28 month to make ends meet. Helping percent of the respondents admitted to players pay for such living expenses is a spending more than 30 hours a week on tratesmarn/my urtacKe priority for the NCAA, Howard said. football and football-related activities, According to NCAA limits, college football players often practice for too many hours. Other survey results include the while 60 percent said they devoted 20 out that contradicts what the rules say." "Right now, everything in a player's following: to 30 hours a week to the sport. Ensuring that students balance sports life shows the player that that sport comes *20 percent of players listed themselves Not surprisingly, the results didn't and academics is an issue the NCAA first and academics come second," said as belonging to a "lower" socioeconomic sit well with the NCAA. "continues to review," Howard said. Huma, who heads the Collegiate Athletes class. "NCAA bylaws are clear with regard Ramogi D. Huma, a former football Coalition, a group pushing for reforms *35 percent said they had "much more to student-athletes' time participating in player at the University of California at in college sports. interest" in academics since entering a sport, and the association expects its Los Angeles, said the survey's findings But the survey did yield some college. member institutions to adhere to those speak to a culture among athletes, encouraging results on players' attitudes *38 percent said they were unaware times," said Jeffrey C. Howard, an particularly football players, that toward their own education, said Grant of NCAA academic standards for NCAA spokesman.

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