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2 Vol. XXXI, Issue 6 | Monday, November 23, 2009 news Southampton Doing What? meals, either. “The ladies yell at you for taking more, like if you try to take By Colleen Harrington an extra sandwich or something. I’m like, ‘I’m stocking up for when I miss Imagine shelling out hundreds of dinner!’” dollars for meals that you may never get For the more than a dozen stu- to eat. It’s not a charity or a food drive. dents, the experience was the same: It’s a fact of life for many resident stu- all had missed out on paid-for meals. dents at the Stony Brook Southampton “Seven o’clock is way too early to campus. close,” said Michael Geddes, a fresh- All students who live at the small man who’s studying sustainability at satellite campus are required to pur- Southampton. “There’s no where to chase one of three meal plans each se- go for food if you don’t have a car.” mester. Prices range from $1,739 to Marine vertebrate biology major $2,487. But there’s only one dining hall Joe Baillargeom, who reported miss- on campus, and it closes every night at ing meals a couple of times, said 7 p.m. Worse, there’s no breakfast on many of his fellow students complain weekends; instead, brunch begins at 11 about the dining hall hours, but just a.m. On the off-hours, hungry students deal with it. “Sometimes people will are stuck to choose from eating snacks make Easy Mac or Cup-of-Noodles out of campus vending machines, in the microwave downstairs, or hoarding groceries in their dormitories, they’ll just go off campus for food” or traveling off campus for food, despite when the café is closed, he said. having already paid for a semester’s Some of Southampton’s more ac- worth of meals. Students who work or commodating professors have been have classes that overlap with the 5-7 known to allow students to eat in the p.m. daily dinner slot say the skimpy classrooms, or to briefly pause a lec- schedule of the Student Center Café ture so students can dash down to leaves them hungry. the dining hall before it closes. “I miss dinner all the time,” said The Student Center Café’s website at The Press.” He referred questions to challenges coupled with a small student Candice Gersch, sophomore at includes a mission statement which says Angela Agnello, Director of Marketing body are what limit the café’s operating Southampton. “Sometimes I just don’t that “…the dining services program will and Communications for the Faculty hours. He also said that the dining hall eat because I don’t have a car.” Gersch rely on extensive involvement of the Student Association, who did not re- receives no money from the SUNY sys- said she once complained about the campus community to continuously re- spond to repeated requests for com- tem or New York State to operate. dining hall to a Stony Brook dining fine menus and practices.” But dining ment. Previously, dining officials have “Obviously, we cannot have our services official, who directed her to a hall officials were largely unavailable to said the café’s schedule was crafted with café open 24-7, as supply versus de- website to fill out a formal complaint. discuss the issue. students and money in mind. In an in- mand isn’t there yet,” Southampton “The times are all messed up. It’s ridicu- After initially agreeing to an inter- terview about the café’s hours last year, spokesman Darren Johnson said in an lous because we already paid for three view, Assistant Services Manager Aaron Dining Operations Manager Joseph email. He said the campus’ current res- meals a day.” Persaud later reneged, saying he had Glorioso said, “As with most small col- idence of about 200 students doesn’t Gersch says that the cafeteria work- been instructed “not to talk to anybody leges, meal hours are set by when stu- justify an always-open dining hall, but ers don’t let you make up for missed dents normally eat,” and that financial that hours would expand in response to the growing student population. “As it is now, our café hours almost exactly match those of the previous owner of this campus, Long Island University, which served up to 1400 students, 800 of which were residential,” he said. “We feel that we have been very flexible thus far and will continue to put student concerns foremost as we continue to expand our offerings, hours and services.” But the students who have pre-paid hundreds of dollars for meals they con- sistently miss feel that an extension of café hours is already overdue. Several students suggested that staying open until at least 9 P.M. every day and open- ing earlier on weekends would be a vast improvement. “I could understand why they have to have short hours, but we have to eat, too,” said environmental sciences major Joshua Gelbwaks. “There has to be NOT FOR EATING!!!! some sort of compromise.” TheStonyBrookPress News 3 How NYPIRG Got Its Groove Back to its website. On 20 college campuses said Khan. NYPIRG is obligated to “We can’t consider a vote on the across the state, NYPIRG promotes and send their original receipts to the IRS, contract,” said Senator Syed Haq, a By Natalie Crnosija teaches students how to become ac- not to the USG, which also requires member of the drafting committee. tivists. original receipts from its clubs. Khan said the committee’s extensive The USG Senate approved its con- With the approval of the contract, “We want to make sure our money efforts to create a comprehensive contract with advocacy group NYPIRG by NYPIRG will receive $32,000 to fulfill is going to us,” said Khan. “We should- tract with NYPIRG were the reason that a unanimous vote after nearly two years its mission statement for the year, as n’t be paying for someone’s salary up in an agreement had been reached, effec- of negotiations. The contract, drafted well as pay an on-campus program co- Binghamton.” tively ending the two year stalemate. by a budget subcommittee, stipulated ordinator and increase recruitment. The committee that drafted USG’s Though the contract does have to be re- that the USG would be able to audit Though NYPIRG’s mission state- contract with NYPIRG discovered newed every year, Khan said efforts NYPIRG’s spending and demand requi- ment on SBU campus was not in ques- NYPIRG had not distributed USG were made to make sure the contract is sition forms from the organization. The tion, its financial structure was suspect. funds statewide, said Khan. as thorough as possible so it will not USG previously did not have this right, As a statewide organization, NYPIRG is Had NYPIRG used USG funds out- have to be revised. which led to the Senate’s removal of completely unlike any other student- side of SBU, they would be subject to Colling echoed these sentiments NYPIRG’s USG funding, said Senator run entity funded by the USG, said legal action. and added that NYPIRG will be re- Moiz Khan. Khan. Though NYPIRG at SBU acts Established on SBU campus in cruiting students at SBU soon. Until the November 19 Senate like a club in that it must follow the 1979, NYPIRG was funded by various A week after the contract was first meeting, NYPIRG had not received USG constitution, pay for office space incarnations of SBU’s student govern- brought to the floor, some amendments line budget support from the USG since and receive USG funding (in theory), its ments, including Polity and the USG were made to clarify the language of the 2007. “I am glad we can get to work,” ultimate authority is in Albany, not in before it lost USG funding. During the contract by the sitting Senate and the said NYPIRG’s Board of Directors SAC 202. November 13 Senate meeting, contract was finally put to a vote. Chairperson Patrick Krug. “Consider- Two years ago, NYPIRG’s USG NYPIRG’s On-Campus Coordinator “After extensive talking with our ing what’s going on with the tuition funding was withheld because the USG Brendan U. Colling argued for the ne- lawyer, we addressed every single con- hike, I’m glad we’re back.” was unable to ascertain whether cessity of approving the contract as cern,” said Treasurer Matthew Ander- NYPIRG is a non-profit, student- NYPIRG was spending USG money at soon as possible. son. “They are a good organization to directed, environmental and govern- SBU exclusively or if NYPIRG was At the time, the sub-committee had have on campus.” mental reform organization, according using USG money on other campuses, not finalized the contract. The Cartwheels Seen ‘Round the Tubes 1 after Hartford forward Carlos Villa and Stony Brook would end up winning touching the cross bar. scored against Stony Brook goalie An- the game, going on to face the Univer- “I didn’t want to try to impress peo- By Najib Aminy thony Rogic. However, Cudic did the sity of Maryland Baltimore County in ple with the beauty of my cartwheel,” unthinkable—he did cartwheels. the America East Championship. They Cudic said. “I tried to make [Gobeil] To many, soccer is a sport that is The six foot two inch Serbian would win that game too. feel uncomfortable. Make the goal seem only popular when the World Cup dressed in a bright yellow jersey and Yet, a video of the shootout posted a little smaller.

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