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's Feature I* Gary's Angels Public Safety's new plainclothes unit is questioned page 3 RIELCOME tHO9"a'aE kWATCNQ Administration usurps concert control page5 No Surprises Finklestein, Gamberg, Rithoz win in Polity election Details page 3 -JThe Fourth Estate: Editorial Only »/Obeving / €.. ..... Orders Apathy toward the injustices perpetrated more students will be driving back drunk and against students on this campus is no longer more people will be killed in alcohol related a subject worthy of note or interest; it has collisions. An unfortunate but inevitable by- become as characteristic of Stony Brook as the product of totalitarianism is its virtual indiffe- mud and the roaches. Student aquiescence to rence to the majority of the population last weekend's administrative abbreviation of frequently resulting in some of their deaths. G-Fest marks the end of an era that began when If the campus can unite to achieve an objective John Marburger assumed office. We are now as it did during R.O.C., it can do so again to slumping beneath that posture of indifference alter this somewhat less noble, but more con- into a new and more dangerous habit sub- crete, situation. mission. The effects of the April 14 budget rally on It is sometimes necessary, and always easy, Reagan's cuts to education remain to be seen. to relinquish power to authority. Wars, natural If there are major retreats by Congress and the disasters, successful bank robberies, and similar aid is restored, the laudable efforts by Polity urgencies all require obedience to an absolute and all those involved will have been a partial authority who must make judgments regardless success. If, however, the rally does nothing but of their long term consequences. Under such inspire future demonstrations, it will have served extreme circumstances the time taken to argue a far older and more distinguished cause. The a decision may render it useless, allowing a instant demonstrations begin again here to choice between life or death to fall to chance. spotaneously challenge acts of repression of In almost any other instance the surrendering injustice will be the same instant the Admini- of rights into the hands of unquestioned autho- one of the most repressive campuses in the stration looses its licence to institute unilateral rity will eventually result in the implementation country, burst into violent protest this week policies toward the promotion of discipline and of policies designed solely for the benefit and when police attempted to close down a party control rather than improving and expanding perpetuation of that authority. There is nothing because of excessive noise. Fifty students were the quality of student life. In the words of sinister about this; it is a sociological and histor- arrested and three were hospitalized as a result. Ralph Nader, "When people give up or give in ical truth. It requires more energy on the part A rally protesting the incident was scheduled, they get taken, and when people arc :nowled- of more people to bring down an authoritarian and it is relatively certain BU's Administration geable and organized they win." This University power than it does to maintain one. The vast will give greater consideration to possible is bulging at its cracked concrete seams with numerical superiority of economically dis- student responses to similar events in the knowledgable people who possess organiza- advantaged totalitarian regimes over popularly future. They may allow the students greater tional skills that border on sorcery. Unless these goverened ones attests to the ease with which flexibility, or they may tighten control - - human resourses are bled dry, they and the subjugative rule can be created. The current whichever they do at the moment is ancilliary generations of students who follow them will fires of global confrontations prove how hard to the fact that student desires will probably spend their college careers bound inextricable they are to destroy. be given increased attention. The function of with paper chains. The 11 PM pre-empting of G-Fest last weekend protest in not to necessarily gain action, but was greeted by students with eerie complince. recognition. The best demonstration cannot When Fest coordinator Jim Kelly announced guarantee anything but media coverage; how- that phone complaints would force the band ever, the alternative, inaction, will invariably The and the crowd into Irving College, the band and guarantee the loss of students rights. the crowd moved into Irving College. No one Two years ago, President Marburger instituted Stony Brook Press pointed out that Irving could not possibly hold a three year phase out program of all dormitory everyone, no one asked who had phoned, bars beginning with the closing of the Benedict Executive Editor........... Scott Higham and no one questioned how music that could Saloon while initiating a bear-and-wine-only Managing Editor ............ Paul DiLorenzo no be heard near the library was disturbing the policy in all other dorm bars. The move was Associate Editor ............. Debra Silver sleep of callers living outside the campus. not met by any significant protest and con- News Editor.............. .Ned Goldreyer Not one decibel was raised in defience; just sequently the Administration's plan is running Assistant News Editors. .......... Joe Caponi Gregory Scandaglia walked in. (Zey're only showers! Hold zer on schedule. By this time next year Baby Senior Photo Editor. ........ Eric A. 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Office: 020, Old Biology Building 'the weeks to coae, it's moreSthan Ikely tbey're off in tk Mx ng Adtdes&: P.O. Box 591, East Setauket, New Yotr, ibary freakagu t. 11733 iMTfl~f·~l~rrr Tv T¥¥¥¥¥ c¥¥»¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥Us s~enSe~l~e*_1~4e~llr~h~ II -- lwxllw _ -- --- c- le I ,, ~ page 2 The Stony Brook Press I I I I _ _ - I I I I I I Millllll Gary's Angels Public Safety's new plainclothes unit is examined bv Joseph CaPoni Public Safety's plainclothes Public Assi- stance Team (PAT) is "the new wave in campus police work," according to its leader, Lt. Doug Little. But problems regarding the team's purpose and ques- tions regarding its actions may well widen the gap between students and Public ' Safety instead of reducing it. Little, who is also Public Safety's Community Relations officer, explained that the month-old squad, consisting of himself and six other officers, was instituted to ensure safety at events such as parties, where uniformed officers might be undesirable. In addition, PAC's intent is to be "pro-active" in preventing crime rather than reactive to crimes that have already occurred. But problems have arisen. Richard Bentley, President of the Faculty Student Association, stated that officers of the Public Assistance Team have been coming into the End Of The Bridge Restaurant nearly every night and employees have reported to him that on at least one occassion, PAT officers approached bar patrons asking where they could purchase marijuana. The PAT officers disagree and claim The P.A.T.: (I. to r.) Officers Mason, Lantier, Valentine, Roos, Wamsganz, Paukner, (seated) Little. that any time spent in the Bridge is justi- fiable and in line with their job, parti- Confusion has arisen, though, about what arrests will serve as a deterrent. He added cularly since there are sometimes several actions a PAT officer should take in that the PAT was not made "to harrass Forum Canceled hundred people in the union restaurant situations foreign to their previous ex- or interfere but to improve community at once. perience as a uniformed officer. Although relations", that the team had made only A public forum featuring the issues of When asked about soliciting marijuana uniformed officers will rarely come upon "appropriate" arrests and few of them, arming Public Safety and preventing sales team member St. Gene Roos ex- a person smoking marijuana or selling and that as far as he could tell campus campus crime was cancelled after Gary plained, "I know all about it, it was drugs in hir or her presence, Lt.

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