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Plans For-Bar SASULedr Are Underway Set nititves : By Sylvia Lee By Amelia Sheldon A plan to open a new drinking establishment on campus is Members of the Student Association of the State Univer- under serious consideration as a committee, made up of sity Board of Directors met to discuss the major state-wide representatives from the Faculty Student Association, Grad- student initiatives and strategies with which they will mate Student Organization, and Student Polity, formed a approach the SUNY Board of Trustees and state representa- proposal calling for an "alternative" to the End of the Bridge. tives to accomplish them at a day-long meeting at SUNY According to Ben Walcott, Associate Vice Provost, who New Paltz Sunday. served on the committee and who is also the chairman of Although quorum was not attained due to a threatening Stony Brook's -space allocation committee, said the pro- weather forcast, board members and delegates set tentative posed location would be on the second floor of Central Hall plans of action on the SUNY budget, bias-related legislation, that occupies an old teaching lab where some benches student health care and adopted a workdng resolution pro- already exist and only require some renovation. testing United States' aid to El Salvador. A document proposing the opening of the alternative is -being prepared for University President John Marburger's The Budget Proposal SASU's approach approval at the end of this week, said Walcott. It it is to the budget this year is to demand money approved, the alternative is scheduled to open at the begin- for more programs, not just to press for funding to remain the same. The diversification of curriculums (Continued on page 2) and -If-- X Joey Johnson faculties, need based health care for undergraduates and non-supported graduate students and graduate student health benefits are the main programs SASU members will work on this year. They plan actions to oppose tuition A-Flag Buner increases and mandatory administrative fees. "This is the most ambitious campaign we have come out with ever on the budget," said Judy Krebs, SASU president. Tells THis Ideass The most unique part about it is that it is pro-active, not (Continuedon page 2) By Mary Dunlop We pledged allegiance to it in grade school, and at sporting events, and soldiers salute it as they remember the wars it lasted through. But now there is a very controversial issue surrounding the American Flag. "To us, the American flag stands for suppression of people; we burnt the flag for what it stands for," said Joey Johnson. Johnson, a member of the Revolutionary Commu- .nist Youth Brigade, and a flag burner, spoke in the Union Auditorium on Sunday in an open forum. The flag has recently become a burning issue in John H. Marburger America. A federal law banning flag desecration was enacted on October 28. Throughout the country, sev- eral hundred flags were destroyed in protest of the .Budget Limits; law. On October 30, two days after the Flag Law went into effect, four people burned flags on the steps of Still Enacted the U.S. Capital in Washington, D.C. Among the four arrested were Johnson and Dave Blalock. Blalock By Sandra Diamond spoke on Sunday, as well. A two-percent cut in the state budget for the entire SUNY Johnson was also arrested in 1984 for burning the system was announced by the state government on flag at the Republican National Convention in Dallas. November 2, according to University President John H. This arrest set in motion a court case that led to this Marburger. new law. Stony Brook is one of the largest of the 34 campuses that "The next thing we know, we won't be able to speak have been affected, said Marburger. Ibis cut resulted in a against the flag," Johnson said. Johnson also believes $22.4 million loss of the budget for the fiscal year of 1989-90. that the Federal law relates to women's rights, and According to Dan Melucci, Assistant vice-president for more specifically to the recent Webster decision. Finance and Management, SUNY felt that the system could "Why is the government trying to force the American be spending at a slower rate than they have been. The cut flag on us?" questioned Johnson. amounted to 1/2% of the $22.4 million, or $850,000 of the "Burning the flag has the capability of international SUNY budget. "It wasn't a base budget cut," says Melucci, "It was a fiscal year cut given in order to help the state govern- IfContinued on Page 2) (Continued on page 2) - - SASU Leaders Plan-To Raise Money, Cut -Bia41S ~onduedf w page J) tay, SUNY Stony Brook SASU ele e s showing a defensive she said. videotaped coverage of people telling of thier Wwaelated SASU has pred the state prvide hefat i to SW mAe es wil work on a twoughout the nsazatimmethesanme buikiwhere the tuteA et the 5.W500 uate of s simiar to the plan ofered to state to sdesScate on these sssby tablg and is to be held. faclty Iemers An itemal est a the Ston Brook hadin out iA L They will als encourage sd "It we cant get victims, I want to have a press ! dan sets the cost of this at about $5 to $7million to fill out provided postcards and send them to Govenor on our antiibias steraegy so dud we are Ohe as part of the SUNY-wide. Mario Cuono and dle a phon to his office durin whole discss--n," said Krebs, Anvi herlalmh mlinde by January. SASU wUl be sendmg us media the proposed SASU is also paing to introduce slatin bthe state SASU ascs for a needs-based health e p nid- bills thy will take to the egslature as the follow the byegislaturewccening a Public Safety Bill dtat calls for ing fee or Q cost care oe e ts whocannot ppsedbudget then gernor'so office to Alban. campuses to have a campus review board sensativity train- afford it The budget is formed in the early part of the year, and ig for officem and unifrmpo isKrebbs said other bills The plan calls for the apan of existing health care hopefully ap ed ome time before April 1, the beginning she hopes to introduce are bills dealing with sexual assault facilie on campuses, and the possible rea of Health of the new fiscal year. I ast year's budget was approved by and bias agaest gays lesbians and b 1i1als. Maintenance COrgaization-type programs, which would be the State legislature in Ju after a lengthy battle, part of available to the community, as a means of raising revenue to which included the governor's vetoing a tuition increase for susihdze the plam the State Unhersity. One local action, of many planned across the sae, to SUNYs current year budget problems have not yet been support this proposal is s led to take place at the 176-i-red - the system is working with about $30 million in Rehraction- Dennison in Hauppaugue on Deember 9 in which holes m the budget, including the $6 million parking fee and The opinion piece. "Vigil Focuses on Animal students and local health cam workers will gather. about $22 million in cash cuts ordered by Governor Cuomo. Abuses" that ran on page I of Sratesman onlbursday, Resoluion Agast U.SUAid to El Sahlador Action on Anti-Bas November 30,1989was incorrectly printed in the news SASU board members adted a resolution with a vote of SASU members voiced intentions to fight for an additional section of the paper. acclaton g the continuingescalation of violence $4 million in the budget for faculty members who are people in El Salvador. The resolution stated student support for a of color, women, gay, lesbian and bisexual. They will also "cease-fire and the development of a provisional gover- seek additional funding for professors to work more material -Correction -^-: ment of national salvation that could end the war through related to the above groups into currently offered courses. addressing the cnilict's root problems of poverty, human The Board of Trustees have asked for SASU to provide The article "Polity Puts Coke Ban on Referendum" ights abuses. underdevelopment and lack of demracy." student government members from around the state to that was printed in Statesman on Thursday, The resolution also asks congress and the Bush Adminis, present their work against bias at the trustee's December 21 November 16, 1989 contained a derogatory remark a tration to cease funding of the curent AREN government, meeting, according to Krebbs. SASU members discussed the Polity senator made about Lany Gillick Statesman also called the death squad government. possible reasons the trustees had for scheduling this during apologizes for not having approached Mr. Gillick fora SASU will also recognize the acfwism of students on SUNY finals week and questioned the trustees' sincety in their comment in response to this. campuses and and facilitate communication among student concern for decreasing bias related problems on campuses. Statesman regrets these errors and will work to and other support groups including the Committee In Solid- The group discussed ways in which they could show their avoid such blunders in the future. -arity with the People of El Salvador. displeasure with the way in which Chancellor Johnstone and Eric Coppolino of the New Yor* State Siudent Leader Con- the trustees are handling the bias issue Glenn D. Magpan- - tributed to this story. Budget Freeze Continues,: Except For Hospit'll (Continued from page 1) cific cuts on campus will be announced this week, he said.