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Vol. 12, No. 3 : The University Community's Weekly Feature Paper : Oct. 1, 1990 Mi EMMMMM mum--qqýý q4 ZN104 IiIo 4 wso I, ~2 ,p I _ EDITORI AL Our Space New Enclosures The Stony Brook Press The following positions have been filled A Campus such as Stony Brook Chemistry. The decision to close the temporarily as follows: can best be thought of as a microcosm GSL was made during the summer of society in general. It contains when there was little chance for Executive Editor: James Barna within it the same diversity that student protest, and the admini- Associate Editor: Lara Jacobson makes The United States whole. Like stration's response to the demand for Managing Editor: Steven Kreps Business Manager: Inju Keum the United States, however, with the another alternative to the E.O.B. has Minister Sans Portfolio: favorable aspects comes the been painfully slow. At this time the Fletcher Johnson unfavorable. Throughout the United project is mired down in unending States, run-away conservativism has bureaucracy. This has left the End of challenged many of the freedoms by the News and Features: Fred Mayer, Robert the Bridge, which is run V. Gilheany, Emily Schwartz, Lara once held absolute, such as privacy wonderful Daka food service Corp., Jacobson, Chris Saporita, Walter and free speech, while budget crises as the only bar on campus. Schneider, Scott Warmuth. eat away at funds for all sorts of This is only one of the many social programs. Such trends are monopolies which has been esta- Arts: Rudy Babel, Joe DiStefano, Scott just as readily apparent at U.S. B. blished to assure profits from poor Skinner, Eric Penzer, Kate Owen, Laura Rosenberger, Andrew Fish Most recently, two student parking students; Barnes and Noble is the only lots were changed to faculty/staff, bookstore, Daka runs the dining Graphics: Inju Keum, Lara Jacobson,Eric causing an uproar among students halls, runs the only deli , as well as Penzer, Joe Distefano, Rick Teng, Kate Owen who already face a lack of parking. the only bar on campus, and finally, While protests were quickly despite a referendum to the contrary, Production: James Barna, Don Fick, Rudy Babel, Kate Owen, Inju Keum, Robert organized, both parking lots are still Coca Cola is still the only soft drink Gilheany, Rick Teng in jeopardy. vendor on campus. A second loss for students was the years ago there were eight Ten The Stony hockey pit in G Quad. Over the Brook Press is published bars on campus, now there is one. biweekly during the Academic year and summer, while most resident Ten years ago there was a student intermittently during the summer session by students were away, the admini- book Co-operative which gave an The Stony Brook Press Inc., a student run and stration decided to end one of the alternative to the high price of new student funded not-for-profit corporation. truly great traditions of Stony Brook. text books. The book co-op was on the Advertising policy does not necessarily reflect The Administration did this by third floor of Central Hall, now it's editorial policy. planting trees and shrubs just a locked room. *For more information on advertising and throughout the area that was the pit. Ten years ago there were two other deadline, call 632-6451. Now one of the most vital activities at student run alternatives to Daka food. Stony Brook and a Backbone of the These were Freedom Foods and the Staff Meetings are held weekly in the Press annual G-Fest is gone. Pit hockey Harkness Cafeteria, now both are offices each Monday at 8PM. was student run and totally just memories, their demise caused of the The opinions expressed in letters and independent of the bureaucracy by an unsympathetic administration. viewpoints do not necessarily reflect those of administration, or Polity, or the Graduate students, for their part, our staff. residence halls. The bureaucrats center, faced losing the daycare Phone: 632-6451 must resent people who act which they fought to retain. In Office: Suite 020, Central Hall independently, it must undermine addition, as the state cuts the SUNY SUNY at Stony Brook their control. Next we might see the budget, it is graduate students who Stony Brook, NY 11794-2790 administration harassing our most quickly feel the bite. skateboard friends! We are rapidly approaching a The Stony Brook Press exists as a collective. Students returned to school pivotal time for SUNY students,one All editorial, content an presentation decisions are made with the agreement of the group. this fall to find the library hours cut in which the very nature of university once again. The administration life will be questioned. With each loss seemed to think that a nightly closing of student rights, a message must be time of 10pm was tolerable to the sent to the administration and the Next Issue :Monday, October 15th student body. It took a student state, that these losses will not be Deadline : Thursday, October 8th coalition and days of protests to tolerated, and that education must be finally convince the administration .a top priority for this state, no matter that perhaps the library should stay ' what economic conditions exist. [J open until midnight. Within the Union students LETTERS have lost many of the means used to To the Editor: are the most dangerous in the exchange ideas. Valuable tabling country is ludicrous. To report space in the Union has been cut from Your September 18 that Stony Brook has the three large tables to two smaller issue's irresponsible misre- highest crime rate even among ones, and groups can no longer have presentation of the University these few displays negligence (headline a table after five p.m. In addition, "The Worst Public on your part and ambiguous University in America" and intent at best. postering space has been lost. related pieces on pp. 4 and 5) only some I asked to see and was However, these are should be included on any list shown by the Department of examples of the rights and privileges of crimes perpetrated at Stony Public Safety the figures upon which have been taken from the Brook. To suggest that the which your wildly misleading students in recent years. In 1989 universities whose reported conclusion was based. Had students lost The Graduate Student crime statistics provide the you taken the trouble to Lounge, once housed in Old basis for your pronouncement calculate the rate of crime per ow~ continued on page 7 The Stony BWook Press page 2 III I I I , I i _ I i_ A Simple Monk by Lara H. Jacobson -orW. 1111 0 wWýv Ik . Ar"Ida I Two men in simple red and orange robes of the great Kublai Khan, and that (Gyatso had house. As the company was having tea a two- stand at the garlanded podium on the left side been his spiritual teacher. In token of his year old boy came running up alongside Ke- of the stage. They face an audience of over appreciation, Khan bestowed the title of Ta-lai Tsang Rimpoche and jumped onto his lap. one thousand people in the auditorium of Lama upon the monk - ta-lai meaning 'ocean The boy grabbed onto a string of beads around Stony Brook's Staller Center for the Arts. The wide', referring to his wisdom. The title and the monks' neck. "They're yours if you tell famous holy man says something in a thick the monk are the same over four hundred me who I am," said the disguised dignitary. yet flowing langauge, and the interpretor at years later, a legacy created. Without delay the child responded, "You are his side translates: "Normally I consider When a former Dalai Lama dies, it is a lama from Sera" He spoke the dialect of myself a very lazy student, but over the years believed that he passes into the body of a Lhasa, which few spoke in his region. it seems this lazy student has recieved many newborn child. It is then up to the most The government was greatly involved with awards and degrees!" The audience laughs revered monks in Tibet (second to the Dalai) the affairs of the monastic system, especially in response. to seek out their old master enveloped within a this search. All findings of the dignitaries And so begins the acceptance address and brand new package. The methods used in this were reported to the Tibetan rulers. As out of lecture given by Tentzin Gyatso, the search are ancient and mystical. Only three choices the little boy from Takster Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet. A panel of shortly after the death of the Thirteenth Dalai seemed to be the one, the search party went Stony Brook administrators presented His L e back to the farm and thoroughtly tested the Holiness with the honorary Degree of Doctor child, asking him to choose between objects of Humane Letters at an unprecedented visit that belonged to the Thirteenth Dalai Lama to the campus Monday, September 17, 1990. and oftentimes flashier, gaudier items that For two years Arthur P. Grollman, Stony normally a boy of two would grab for. Each Brook's Professor and Chairman at the time he chose the possesions that had belonged Department of Pharmocology, had been to the former god-king. When eight requesting the Dalai Lama's visit to the birthmarks were discovered on the child that University. Finally, the offer was accepted, are the attributes of this holy incarnation, the and as part of the University at Stony Brook's monks were convinced.