sma n SUSB Students VOLUME 13 NUMBER 55 STONY BROOK, N. Y. MONDAY, APRIL 27,1970 Otheto Ten Cents Senate Ratifies 70--71 Budget ; $63 Fee to--Fund Specular Soundings By MARSHA PRAVDER only senators to vote against this Polity stipends, the darkroom After a lengthy six-hour allocation were Larry Remer and budget, stress analysis, the debate, the Student nate M ar k Star r. Sta rr b ase d h is vo te People's Newspaper, and activity ae~aicme btuaentbenat on a rationale that "the amount fee waivers. this morning passed the of money Specula costs the A motion was defeated which 1970-71 Polity budget The student body does not make it a would have decreased Statesman amended budget includes worthwhile to a frequency of twice a week. enterprise." Most senators held the opinion the funding of Soundings although students will be that the effect of the cut would and Specula, and an charged a $.50 fee for the be to increase the average issue P o y increase in the activities fee ^ltrr magzin. li . size, so that the cost would not increase in the activities fee President Lonnie Wolfe pointed decrease considerably. In to $63. out that another Stony Brook addition, the coverage would not $18,000 was allocated for literary journal is being be as prompt. 4,000 copies of Specula which produced by George Quasha and Another motion'was proposed will be free to seniors, with the will be sold nationwide. which would have deleted remaining issues distributed on a Controversy arose in the special supplements to first come, first serve basis to the Senate over several allocations, Statesman from its budget. This rest of the student body. The including Statesman, athletics, was defeated by a narrow margin. The Student Council Fast Enters 9th Day defended a $2300 stipend allocated to the Council by BByARLENE KATZ saying that "this is not a salary, The hunger strike by a group criticized . the recent actions but rather it covers expenses of 15 Stony Brook students in protesting DoD contracts on the -which would not have arisen if protest of Department of campus saying that the sit-ins we weren't Polity officers." BUDGET RATIFIED: Student Council leaders urge passage of Defense (DoD) contracts will were "largely attended by thrill Polity Vice-President Evah budget during Senate meeting this morning. Photo by R. Weisenfeld enter its ninth day at 2 p.m. seekers" and resembled "a game Strager cited an example of one today. of staying at the library, going to person who could not afford to A group of about ten students the Computer Center and then hold a Polity office two years been funded, which, according, different sources, including sat in the lobby of the library waiting for the injunction." ago, although he was very to Wolfe, would "try to bridge grants from foundations. yesterday and spoke about the They defended the competent. Polity President the communciation gap between When one senator questioned hunger strike as a recording of effectiveness of a hunger strike Wolfe also pointed out a-that -- th.e_ kiwac Lawy£,ir Crosby, Stills and Nash played by explaining that they now these stipends could be used to students." Both community- Lippe and Ruskin, Remei softly in the background. have wider coverage (CBS News, fund certain items such as members and students will be explained that they have worked Looking haggard, they answered the New York Times, CPS) and sending representatives to other working on this paper, which well on many projects such as questions with noticeable effort. feel that their protest could be schools, as was done this year, was termed "politically-ori- .parking policies, student successful -when "the whole without the use of the ented". Wolfe guaranteed the -housing, MSO action against They believe in what they are ( doing, and one. of the students nation knows about us and other conference fund. , senators that all viewpoints tPolity, the bail fund, cooperative explained that hunger strikes campuses do the same. If this is Polity has-agreed to subsidize would be printed in this paper, housing, and the letters of have a history of effectiveness as a nationwide campus movement a large part of the intercollegiate and that "while people have incorporation for a student tactics. that succeeds (in getting DoD athletics program. Athletics talked about community business cooperative. In Some hope that the hunger contracts off college campuses) Director Leslie Thompson has involvement, this is an attempt addition, Remer feels that they strike will lead to further action then the only way a scientist will been gradually feeding much of to do -something about it. the "have a mediating effect on the by the student body to impress be able to get funds from the the athletics program through paper will provide a focal point administration, and are available on the administration how Department of Defense is by state lines, and' the Student with which to discuss. political to answer many petty that important it is to get DoD working for the Army, which Council expresses optimism questions." A motion to delete questions." Recently, a new contracts off the campus. many scientists would not be the state will be picking up more this paper from the budget was .partner has been added to the However, one of the striking willling to do." of the athletics burden in 'the defeated. *firm, Bruce Kaplan. students spoke bitterly about An offshoot of'the movement future. Although the , budget An addition was made to the the lack of student support for to remove DoD contracts -from Though funds for intramural committee cited complaints budget - providing for an the strike last week. Stony Brook would be "to athletics was passed by the against the darkroom and its allocation to the teachers in the "Compare this week to what improve the education at the Senate, several, athletic club management, the Senate voted South Bronx, who would work will happen next week during University by changing the budgets were cut. The budgets an increase of $700 over the in the city on educational carnival weekend and you'll find priorities of Stony Brook from of the judo club ind the two recommended $1300 allocation. programs. out where Stony Brook research to learning " karate clubs were- liced in half This allocation was made on a Commuter senator Matthias the budget students' heads are at," he said. No one wanted to predict since the Senate felt that these one-semester basis, and -.a new Kotowski debated "We're hoping for support how much support they believed clubs should pay only half of budget for the Spring semester guidelines which set up a from students," said another, they would receive on Monday, what they requested for will be submitted in December. residential requirement for explaining that there will be a but one striker said she wished instruction. A motion which A motion to allocate $20,000 waivers.of the activities fee. He campus-wide hunger strike by all that "students would do would have also cut allocations for the stress analysis program argued that no limit should be students who support those something, whatever it is, to get for coaches of the football and was defeated. The Senate put on the percentage of the .expressed its hope that the fasting in the library. !Department of Defense grants hockey clubs was defeated. discount, which was will be funded from The stciking students off campus." The People's Newspaper has program Continued on page 2 Strikers Plan Boycott, Ask for Student Support Students participating in the : games, or anything else that they per se, but of the Department of campusI hunger strike against the- "consider relevant." For a few Defense itself." Department of Defense are hours supporting students are The hunger strike began a asking other students to boycott asked by the striking students to week ago Sunday, and ali campus cafeterias and eating "keep us company." participating students say they places as a show of support The striking students will are determined to continue the today. distribute black armbands which strike until DoD research is There will be picket lines they hope students will wear eliminated from this camDus. around each cafeteria, and "for the duration of the hunger Ogden Foods is being asked by strike," which is now in its ninth In an interview on a Cf3S news the striking students to donate day. In mimeographed sheets program, Acting-President T. A. money not spent on food today which the striking students P o n d s a i d t h a t t h e to the- Migrant Service Center distributed on campus, they say administration is concerned in Riverhead. they wish to clear up any about the health oT the students Starting at three o'clock confusion that exists concerning involved in the strike, whereas *today a be-in will be held on the the hunger strike. "The issue," one of the striking students sees FAST CONTINUES: Student rests in library lobby while continuing library mall. Students are asked says a spokesman for the striking Pond's statement "as an excuse his nine-day fast. photo by Mike AmIco to bring guitars, comic books, students, "is not DoD research to force us to end the strike." Page 2 *___-< ____________. 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