The Stony Brook Thursday, January 31, 1980 Vol. 1, No. 5 RESS _ __ ______ Tense Truce Follows Vandalism by Eric Brand common behavior...they don't a liquor establishment.) "'Eventually, they do know what to compare it to." "Benedict has its own understand it's a sick thing to Owen spoke anxiously, worried problems," concluded Price. But destroy your own home."-- about hallmate reaction to his Grossman said the ad- Benedict College resident interview. "For one student," he ministration has been blaming One of the major explained, "to go to a source of "blaming (vandalism) directly confrontations in Stony Brook's authority and complain about on people coming out of the history may produce a new era of someone else would just maintain Saloon." cooperation. Vandalism at Stony the apathy and weaken the unity The Benedict Saloon, Brook is almost commonplace, the halls need." centerpiece of social life for yet this year its costs have wildly It is this torpor as much as the Benedict residents and other exceeded all projections. Reports physical destruction which is students, is in jeopardy due to to of "shocking conditions" and responsible for the damage. the current controversy. "We "appalling evidence" have been "Apathy is a very big problem," don't think the Saloon is the sent among administrators as the said Owen. "People become source of vandalism," said Owen. bill for campus vandalism has calloused to it, conditioned." He "The problem really lies in increased four-fold in the last two contended that when they allow someone's mind." years. vandalism to become part of According to Price, the their daily existence residents problem also lies in A Troubled History soon cease to care. But there are administration. He said he further theories as to in conversations with The explanations for discovered vandalism's roots. students and SUNY Central vandalism are as varied as the There is currently great officials that "the largest cause sources. Some say vandalism is controversy over the effect of of vandalism is that the effective protest against an alcohol on vandalism. "There's a administrators in Student Life oppressive administration. clear linkage between alcohol are incompetent." The problems The ironic aftermath of vandalism in Benedict College. Others believe it is no more than abuse and vandalism," said in Benedict, he contended, are irresponsible outbursts of Ronald Bristow, SUNY Asistant due not to the Saloon but to destructive impulses, Vice Chancellor for Student "great problems with the fights, dismissals, and student subsequently fired off a memo to According to Junior Affairs. Student government RHDs," frustration with the way rights rallies. They have also led, another official in his Representative David Grossman, officials at several SUNY schools the administration has dealt many maintain, to vandalism- department. It was not a glowing who is chairman of the Residence report that their respective with the damage, and the general the most cogent show of hostility review. The report eventually Committee, Acting Life Advisory administrations also believe campus environment. and frustration the students can made its way through several President Richard Schmidt there is a link. But Polity This frustration has pervaded produce. By destroying officials and finally to SUNY vandalism on first year blames Secretary Alan Price pointed out Stony Brook's history. Recent University property the students Central-specifically, to two Vice Tracy Schneider, one of students. that the damage figures for moves on the part of the hope to illustrate contempt for Chancellors, w who read of the two Residence Hall Directors dormitories housing bars, administration (the RHD the University. But the reaction vandalism of "unconscionable of Benedict College, by far the excluding Benedict, are far lower program, stepped-up patrolling has been far more severe than proportions" and of an official most ravaged building, strongly than those for Benedict alone. of the dorms last fall by Security, any could have hoped or forseen. "appalled at the extent and disagrees. Analysis indicates (Public Safety reports that from increased supervision of student viciousness of the destruction." that freshmen are not solely January 1 to December 11, 1979, businesses), and several The buck, having reached the top exempt. Pressure responsible, nor are they there was $575 worth of reported established complaints echelon, stopped there. One Benedict resident (whom damage in Irving, $1,170 in (inadequate facilities, a surfeit of From Above On November 27 the Vice we will call "Owen") explained James, $140 in Whitman, $230 in bureaucracy, lack of respect for In August, 1979, George Feiden Chancellors dashed off what that freshmen "don't understand Sanger and $5,862 in Benedict. students and administrators) of the Dormitory Authority University Vice President for of what the full import Each of these buildings contains have led to increased tensions, visited Stony Brook and happened. They think it's Continued on page : +S!hkY I rir^dI a - n I LI e I lI0II ;- Dorm Bar Curtailment 55,000 rounds of ammunition stolen on campus page 3 Proposed to SB Senate by Melissa Spielman Saloon." Saloon Manager Donny Thaler said, Anticipating a crackdown on bars by the "People do not go to the Saloon to get drunk. They "The Electric Horseman" is reviewed University, a campus group is proposing to the go there to socialize." page 6 SUSB Senate that the sale of hard liquor be moved One Albany official does not share the student's out of the dormitories. views, however. Ronald Bristow, SUNY Assistant David Grossman, Chairman of the Residence Life Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, said, "There's Advisory Committee, said he is asking the SUSB a very clear linkage between alcohol abuse and Senate Student Life Committee to recommend that vandalism." He added, "We're examinir- the hours hard liquor be sold only in the Stony Brook Union. In pubs can be open." a memo to the committee, Grossman proposed that Though the committee only serves in an advisory the Union remain open 24 hours to aceomodate bars capacity to the SUSB Senate, if the proposals are "Kramer vs. Kramer" and other facilities. accepted, they will go for approval to Dr. Richard is panned. "By taking the bars out of the dorm areas," the Schmidt, the Acting University President. Schmidt, memo states, "it will reduce vandalism. A who has ultimate authority over alcohol policy on centralized facility in the Union can be controlled campus, said the bars are not in jeopardy. "There better than can the facilities in the halls." The are no plans at present for bars to be closed as long memo also states that any bars moved to the Union as they continue to be legal operations." should remain student run. He added, "There have been many suggestions Grossman said his committee is making these coming from students that the bars be distributed recommendations b because it fears the University throughout campus or centralized. There have been will close dormitory bars in response to discussions about a large central place where severe vandalism. He added that the administration students can socialize, but we do not have any plans has been working with Albany to possibly close the at present for it." bars. "They (the administration) have been A spokesman for the state dormitory authority sending memos upstate. The Dormitory Authority said that the University is fairly free to establish its Mike Crooms leads Pats to Victory. has been against bars in the dorms since they own policies. "We don't tell (the Universities) how opened. Now, they're going to come down on us," he to run their dorms, as long as any use of the dorms page 8 explained. is in a safe manner," said George Feiden. He He added that vandalism in Benedict, where added, "It's pretty hard topin it down and say a bar dormitory damage is most severe, is being blamed in the dorm is definitely bad," explaining that - -- "directly on people coming out of the (Benedict) Continued on page 3 r- I I I FACULTY A I JAMES I STUDENT I I PUB I iASSOCIAT ION I I (FSA)I _____ 1= All yolJ can drink I WHITMA spec ial tonight I I PUB $2.002 .OII 1 I for a mellow We wiII fill any mug. I atmosphere and a I 18) years or older. full bar. Pror)er IDrequired. I!5 L -- Inomad -- I-- I__----------- A I 1~ I DON'T BE LEFT OUT I K Meet people -, Join a league! I Come down: I I Mon. Feb. 4, Tues. Fet 5& Wed. Feb. 6 I I I I 7:00 PM or 9:15 PM I I I for the league I of your choice. I I I I I MON TUES WED I P7rDA SUNIUvn DU iWrL I r IlVI HOUSE I LEAGUEA nHr-L &n-aiiiHILLEL AJBC f^ . ,4 r r- i" iUI LELWa,AJBC ' Call 246-3648 1:95 P'M AJBCL STEINS CARSONS I Page 2 Stony Brook Press January 31, 1980 IL~L r~~3L~~I, -IL -C- ~--I Guns, Ammunition Stolen From Campus Building by Melissa Spielman Although the burglars were able to walk Police are still looking for lk I burglars who in, they found the exit door locked from the broke into a campus building about two inside. "They had to break out," Meade weeks ago, taking firearms and over 55,000 said. rounds of ammunition. Though there are no suspects, Campus, Four handguns, 15 rifles and shotguns, County and Federal law officials are all 55,000 rounds of .22 calibre ammunition, working on the case. Meade said that the 500 rounds of .38 calibre, and about $600 remaining firearms have been moved to ·- worth of tools were taken from the State Albany, that the grate chain and gun Department of Environmental lockers are being replaced with stronger Conservation (DEC) between Friday, models, and the basement door will be January 18 and the following Monday made to lock from either side.