"Let Each Become Aware" I Founded 1957,-Incorporated 1975 - Volume XXXIX. Number 50 Thursday, March 28, 1996 First Copy Free Demonstrators; Speak Out At Ral:ny not BY RAFAEL ALMANZAR loudly the proposed SUNY cuts. The and voting. "Cuts are Statesman Staff : chaining oftheAfricaAtunbi Dancers acceptable," Hicks said. Frantically but gracefully the was a form of visual and shocking "We won't take it and we dancers moved to the beat of the protest,symbolically critisizing what will vote." drums. Africa Atunbi, the theater Pataki has in store for state education One of the dance troupe, execute strong bold if his budget passes. departments that will be moves that expressed protest. While This was the dramatic openinng hit hard next year, is the a crowd of students and faculty shook of Teach Out, Stony Brook's Day of Theater Arts Department. and swayed to the music and tapped Action. The Staller pit was filled It is going to have its feet, the dancers demonstrated at the Thursday, with the sounds of angry teaching staff reduced by Staller Center pit, in song and dance. protest against Governor Pataki's more than half and its Quite suddenly, ten minutes into the statewide budget cuts, staff graduate program, the piece, individuals in suits and dark reductions, program eliminations, Masters of Fine Arts glasses rushed out of the crowd and and tuition hikes. From 11:00 a.m. (MFA), will be surrounded the group. They chased to 3:00 p.m., students and faculty eliminated. "We just want the dangers down, tore the musician massed at the rally co-organized by to give them a little visual away from his drum that he was still the Student Association of the State of what is not going to be playing through the melee, and University (SASU), the New York there next year," said all toghether. A hush Public Interest Research Group junior u.naries ^nva, chained them Demonstrators Protest Pataki's Budget Cuts fell over the surprised crowd, as they (NYPIRG), the United States Theater major and a waited to see what would happen Students Association (USSA), and Africa Atunbi cast next. The voices of the captive the Graduate Student Employee member. "People need to come to more weather. Hicks later said that dancers then stabbed the air, chanting Union (GSEU). John Cameron, the Director of rallies,"' said Abbey Nyamekeye, the crowd was not up to her slogans to the effect of "Stop SUNY Through out the day a chain of the Living Learning Center, and a senior representative candidate. expectations. The people that cuts" and "save the theater speakers, including Polity President faculty member of the Theater Arts Nyamekeye was helping run the voter stayed persevered in the cold. department". Annette Hicks and University Department spoke at the rally. He registration. drive by NYPIRG, at the and rain though because they The men in suits were not feds President Shirley Strum Kenny, said that the Arts and Humanities are event.: "People need to get on buses had an important message to or the Pataki secret police, but were talked about SUNY cuts and raised the only area of academics at Stony to Albany, people need to write in, get out. Nyamekeye summed part of an elaborately staged act as their voices asking Governer Pataki Brook that are going to experience and educate each other' sit up by saying, "we have to they clapped chains on the dancers to reconsider what he is doing. such major cuts. He added that they because we are not all bring it' to a level where and dragged them around the Staller "We have got to have the money will suffer while the sciences remain enlightened with what is people will understand what it pit. While they marched, costumed to do the programs," Kenny said. virtually untouched. Are they trying going on with the cuts", said is we are saying-and they, can members of the theater arts Hicks called for student unity in light to make Stony Brook a technical Nyamekeye. relate. When they relate they department poured out of the crowd of the proposed cuts. She urged institute, he asked. "We ask for your The Teach Out ended. at can get angry about it, and and followed behind in a long conga- students to educate themselves and help," he said. "We ask for your two, :an hour earlier than when they get angry they can line like procession and decried take action in the form of registering protection." scheduled, because of bad do something about it." L Don't Let The Comet Pass You By BY BEN VARGHESE and Space Sciences department held a "SpecialAstronomy Open Statesman Staff .___ Night" last night which included a lecture given by Peterson Time is running out.. and- a viewing session, where students, faculty and staff were The clock's ticking away as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity able'to observe the comet with a: 14inch telescope on the roof is about to pass us by. What exactly constitutes once-in-a- of the ESS building.' lifetime? 'A few Try 20,000 years. undergraduate students TMTR\V Comet Hyakutake, the brightest comet in 20 years, made in the ESS department, NDEX1Jb to Earth on Sunday, March 24. According under the leadership of its closest approach N E W to sources, the comet "is moving at 100,000 miles per hour with' Wolk, Wolk,,volunteeredvolu teered to Pl~eBotr.. s ............ _........... 1-3 , , i \_ . ~~~~Police' Blotter ............ 2 respect to the Earth' and will be able to be observed all night take several photo EDITORIAL ..................... 4 long all this week. images of the. comet LETTERS .. .5 The comet was discovered on January 30 bya young photo- during the night. The FEATURES............ 6-9 .engraver, Yuji Hyakutake, who spotted the image through his' students, however, SPO RTS. ................. 10-12 telescope-in Japan., His' discovery spread worldwide almost started taking images as instantly. early asMarch 14, when .COLUMNS: The'comet is "literally looping rightover the Earth's North the 'comet was only According to pole and will heading toward the Sun by mid-April," said Deane visibleby telescope. The' Eve ......... 6' Peterson, associate professor of Astronomy.. Peterson added students said they have __ -- _-_ that as the comet approaches the Sun, it will lose its brightness. collected nearly 500 'However, he pointed out that there' will be a second period of images, which. works Candidate Debate brightness aroundApril 10. Everyone will "actually see the tail out to be about 50-80 -Page 3 stick way up into the- sky and extend well off the horizon, just tory of after sunset," he said. James^sp Petreshock, ~~~~~~~Dr aki~s His oy 'Eachf[comet] has its own personality," said Scott Wolk, - an undergraduate who -Page 6 graduate student in the Earth and Space Sciences department. took images of. the "And when this one was detected back in January, there were comet, said that, the Debbie Whittemore several guesses as to what it would do, and so far, it has been a photos were developed Memorial Run -----See--------- COET,- Page Pa---- 11 Comet Hyakutake On March 27, at 1:00 a.m. little better than expected." 'See COMET, Page 3 . In honor of the occasion, the Astronomy faculty of the Earth ILI 2 Five Males With Ski Masks Force Way Into Dorm Roorn Wednesday, March 20 5:07 p.m.: Ablack leather wallet containing heartbeat The police suspect it was drug or Monday, March 25 credit cards and $70 cash was stolen from the alcohol related. 2:46 a.m.: A wallet with credit cards, a Social and Behavioral Sciences building. 12:01 a.m.: A driver's license, a car registration, a USB male called USB police 2:10 a.m.: A Panasonic stereo was stolen about a bomb detonating identification card and $200 cash was stolen in 20 minutes in the from Dewey College. Friday, March 22 Student Union. A female from the Social and Behavioral called the New York 8:04 am.: Racial slurs were written in Sciences City Metropolitan the building. Police Department about a building of the Health Science Center. 1:47 a.m.: Ablack $200 leatherjacket and bomb detonating in 22 minutes 1:30 p.m.: -A $30 antenna of a Honda in the Student 11:50 a.m.: A 1977 Oldsmobile was a wallet with credit cards was stolen from the Union. Police searched vehicle was broken while it was the building; no bomb scratched up by a key, causing $50 worth parked in the Student Union at the End of the Bridge was discovered. of garage of the Health Science Center. damage, while it was: parked in the Stimson restaurant. 1:25 am.: Thieves who 5:02 p.m.: A brown leather wallet gained entrance College parking lot. 1:52 a.m.: Awindow ofthe Harriman Hall through an open suite window containing credit cards and a driver's license stole a number 12:47 p.m.: A purse containing various Cafe was found broken. The damage was of expensive computer was found in the Indoor Sports Complex. equipment and related items was stolen from the Old Engineering estimated to be around $100. items from Cardozo College. 8:23 p.m.: Anauseous and weakLangmuir The list of stolen building. Among the list of missing goods: goods includes College resident was transported a$6000CPU, a $1150monitor, credit cards, a driver's license, a Social Security to the a $500 printer, University Hospital via SBVAC. POLICE BLOTTER another $500 computer, a $ 100 card, $40 in cash and a $20 calculator.