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III No. sitv Communitv's Iv 4 Thursday, 'ch 11, 1982 -r-..·-~ ~ - · .y Mo ~ iS4YE~i····-· 'si:~l~V. e.·flnnH&...•~ ~ ^:iEt~~i t-I A.,, i r I''·~~ :::0:~r ·~::·:· A ji~jiij~.~;·3i~Ni····~qr~Fi~ :~::~ii~:~; .'... ·~~:i: iiir: :4^ iA ·c«&;:, Universities across the country Infant Formulas : organize against cuts Worth the Price? page 3 page 5 Buffalo union building shut down rn page 5 I i E i i i !I i r i I :I i 1 ,k i P Suspension Process Reactors : Re-evaluated A Glowing Future page 11 page 5 TeSon ro rs -- The Fourth Estate: Editorial'___,I II II A Motorist Proposal There are two ways to play Monopoly. In the ticket on her windshield when returning from with their own wrongdoing, and what you long version, the players move around the board classes. Worrying that kublic Safety or their perceive as an act of retribution, they may according to rolls of the dice, acquiring property worthy delegates have chosen his or her vehicle view as an attack to their monopoly on meeting .by landing on each space and buying those he to serve as an example to University community out arbitrary justice. simpler means of or she desires to own. It is a tedious, and some drivers at large cannot but distract the victim There are, of course, might feel senseless prolongation of the from even the most riviting lecturer. Conse- answering the current deluge of tickets. Be more inevitable. If fate had destined you to procure quently, class participation falls, leading to an creative in choosing parking places, selectingig Boardwalk, you will. If not, why suffer through unjustifiedly reduced grad in the course, and those spots which offer the greatest amount of the anguish of making it safely past "Go possible academic dismissal. All this as the concealment from the casual eye. Park behind Directly To Jail", only to hit Income Tax? result, not of the tickets themselves, but of thick trees, in back at seldom used stairways, The shorter version of the game circumvents not knowing when they will strike. or underwater. If necessary, take your car this anxious waiting by letting the players deal The solution is obvious. Give out the cards into class. Go one step further, and camoflage out the title deeds before play begins. This before play begins. If the University feels your car to look like a low house, a grand gets the unsavory details out of the way early, compelled to issue parking tickets in whole- piano, a large symmetrical animal, or a Iroquois allowing each player to plot his or her strategy sale quantities, let them do so without gen- burial mound. Foil the eager ticketer by leaving wipers free from anticipatory fears of landing in the erating fear and hostility that receiving them him no convient clasp such as windshield wrong spot.. entails. Let everyone upon registering his or her or door handles. This can be done by removing Monopoly is a model of reality, if only an vehicle, be issued fifty tickets for various the wipers and laminating the car to a smooth, imperfect one. As in real life, the inevitably parking violations. Some will be for parking uniform finish with six or seven inches of unpleasant should be taken care of now rather on the grass behind Toscanini, some for parking Polygly-coat. Use your imagination. than permitting it to pop up later or its own. in a loading zone, but most will be for parking There is a dire parking problem on this campus Granted, there are those who would disagree in a lot reserved for Faculty of Staff. In the that is in need of an immediate answer. Students on the grounds that the only real inevitables interest of realism, these last will be issued cannot continue to pay fifty or seventy five are death and legislative incompetence, but even regardless of whether or not the registrant is dollars in accumulated fees for parking wherever they would conceed that some things happen a faculty or staff menber. we are forced to because of nonexistend student with such certainty they might as well be con- This will not only relieve anxiety of lots. More spaces must be created, and the sidered unavoidable. Drafts, wars, unemplcty- wondering when they are going to get you (and proposed sacrifice of North P-lot for a railroad ment, unwanted pregnancy, or finding a ticket don't think they're not), it will provide you and station will only exacerbate the crisis. Questions flapping in the breeze when returning to a car your friends with hours of joy and relaxation must be raised and answered parked almost anywhere on this campus, all by allowing you to trade tickets, ticket one as to why ticketing is taking place, and where the occur with such frequency that irradicating another, or, for the stout hearted, ticket Public thousands of dollars in fines are going. them must be considered as beyond human Safety. Discression should be exercised in The official Public Safety position, as stated capabilities. One of them, however, can be ticketing traffic officers, however. Although by Director Gary Barnes, is that parking must reduced in impact by using the same preemptive they will surely provide sufficient opportunities be secured for those who deserve it. Students method employed in Monopoly's quicker for you to catch them committing legitimate are being find, faculty are being fined, and staff version. infractions, I it would be advisable to hunt them are being fined. This does not leave a broad It must be troubling to the average student, with a partner who can serve as a witness to range of candidates for those who "deserve" forced to "create-a-space" due to lack of parking the fact. Be forewarned that officers of the law parking space. They are reserved for the men facilities, not to know whether to expect a can grow extraordinarily defensive when faced and women in the brown suits. Cover Photo by David Gamberg The Stony Brook Press Executive Editor . .... Scott Higham Assistant Editors.... ..... Debra Silver ] Ned Goldreyer ]INews Director. ..... .... Paul DiLorenzo Senior Photo Editor. .... Eric A. Wessman ]Photo Editor . .... ..... Lois Mingalone Arts Editor ........ ........... Jeff Zoldan Assistant Arts Editor . 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Phone: 246-6832 .I Office: 020, Old Biology Building co Mailing Address: 4n P.O. Box 591, East Setauket, New York, 11793 I- ---- I _ ,· I I-" --I _-~ page 2 The Stony Brook Press Campuses Organize Against Budget Cuts by Scott Higham delegation this past Tuesday. Twenty-seven hundred While a majority of state and federal lawmakers letters have been written here since two weeks ago. throughout the nation organize against the future of "They weren't pointing a gun at us two years ago. higher education, students across the country are Now they are," stated Gamberg. "It's imperative that initiating large scale lobbying and letter writing we continue this trend. As time goes on it should campaigns, phone-ins and sit-ins in order to thwart become more intense." their efforts. At Albany State University, Student Association In Colorado, students have gone so far as to solicit fomer Vice-President, Woody Popper, explained, contributions from corporations in an attempt to offset "We had 200 people in Albany last week, which makes proposed budget cuts in education, and after three for a shitty rally but a great lobby. We ran around the weeks, students at UCLA have written over 5,000 legislative offices up here lobbying everyone." letters. In addition to letter writing and lobbying programs, "In the sixties, the few who made noise made alot students at Binghamton are organizing a mass rally to of .noise," said Stony Brook's Sophmore Representa- be held on March 25th. Student Association President tive, Dave Gamberg. Today, students from Binghamton David Zlotnick asserted, "We're putting a lot of energy to Berkely are swamping their representatives with into this rally. We rallied against the dorm increase, organized opposition. Stated UCLA undergraduate we went to Albany and we are establishing a network Vice President Bobby Grace, "It's not going to end." between all the State schools." The combination of federal and state slashes in higher Last month, Binghamton University President Clifford education appropriations pose serious questions about Clark, sent out letters to every student urging them to the future of universities in America. Though New York fight Carey and Reagans cuts. "That was a turning point State's Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) will remain for students up here, said Zlotnick. "It's beginning virtually unscathed, the supplementary Assistance to sink in. We're in trouble." grant (SUSTA) is slated for elimination and Carey's Buffalo however,'isn't doing a helluva lot," explained budget offers $5 million less next year in student Student Association for the State University (SASU) support. Other states are experiencing similar travesties.