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Residents Want Cell Service Without The Eyesore By Andrew Zajic Contributing Writer
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After his Toyota died on the curvy and rural North Country Road, Jay Holtzman eyeballed the dead signal on his cell phone. With his phone in a reception coma, he trudged for miles through the wooded suburbia of Wading River, N.Y. Since Verizon proposed a cell tower at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Wading River residents’ cellular needs struck a nerve -- not
in my backyard. "The tower would really help me out," said Holtzman about Verizon’s proposal. "I drive through here to Rocky Point all the time and get one bar if I’m lucky." Neighbors nearest to the church picketed their lawns with constructionpaper signs that read, "Would you want a 100 -foot cell tower in your backyard?" Nationwide, 74 percent of American adults oppose landfills, malls and power plants in their
communities, according to a survey conducted by experts in land-use politics. Americans, while wanting the best coverage, are also reluctant to tolerate cell towers anywhere in plain sight. Nearly 300 Americans aggregated more than a trillion minutes of use from January to June last year, tallied by the Cellular Te l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s Industry Association, or CTIA. The Cisco Visual Networking Index presaged mobile data traffic to
increase 66 times every year from 2008 to 2013. The iPhone and Blackberry smartphones each generate more data traffic, from users playing video and browsing the Internet, than 30 basicfeature cell phones. As growing use of cell phones and smartphones congest networks, cellular companies push to build more towers in antidevelopment communities. By fighting development of cell towers, the cell quality of every cell phone and smartphone is at stake.
"In general, we fail to connect our land-use with our consumption," said Carissa Schively Slotterback, who holds a doctorate in urban and regional planning. "I think communities have successfully integrated commercial structures before. They would be able to disguise the cell tower in Wading River like a tree." "We want our cell phones, we want our coverage and we want to keep our home values," said Millie Thomas, a realtor in
Wading River for 17 years. From her experience, she knows homeb4uyers turn down homes close to power lines and TV towers. "St. John’s cell tower would give and take from our community.” David Sandberg, a Verizon spokesman, pointed out that companies explore cellular antenna on church steeples and water towers as cheaper alternatives instead of building a whole tower. See SERVICE on 11
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Coming off a 2009 campaign that saw an early elimination from the championship tournament, Stony Brook’s baseball team is poised to recapture the glory achieved after a 2008 America
Valentine's Day is fast approaching, a time when people are scrambling to buy gifts and other tokens of love for each other. It’s a holiday where people make a special effort to
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East Championship season. Finishing 29-23 overall and tying for third in the America East with a 14-10 conference record, Stony Brook... See BASEBALL on 3
appreciate the significant others in their lives. The people in our lives are what some of the most important things that... See LOVE IT on 5
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Despite Snow, Baseball Is Right Around The Corner By Doric Sam Staff Writer
Coming off a 2009 campaign that saw an early elimination from the championship tournament, Stony Brook’s baseball team is poised to recapture the glory achieved after a 2008 America East Championship season. Finishing 29-23 overall and tying for third in the America East with a 14-10 conference record, Stony Brook was eliminated by Vermont on the second day of the 2009 America East Tournament. “Last season was mostly successful, but also disappointing,” Head Coach Matt Senk said. “Coming off a championship in 2008, and then going 0-2 in the tournament, was disappointing for us because that’s not something we traditionally do.” The Seawolves are returning 13 letter-winners, including four allconference selections. While last year’s team had a majority of upperclassmen, this year’s team contains a mix of youth and veteran leadership, as 12
freshmen have spots on the 26-man roster. Returning Seawolves Senior first baseman Robert Dyer (Selden, N.Y.) returns after recording his best season in a Seawolves uniform in 2009. He was named to the AllAmerica East first team after ranking second in the conference in homeruns (15), third in RBI (80) and eighth in slugging percentage (.610). Dyer also hit .325 with 10 homeruns and 31 RBI during conference play. Junior infielder Chad Marshall (Ontario, Canada) started all 50 games he appeared in last season. He led the team with 68 hits and ranked second with a .354 batting average. He was named to the All-America East second team. Sophomore pitchers Nick Tropeano (West Islip, N.Y.) and Tyler Johnson (Chatsworth, CA.) are back after being named to the America East All-Rookie team a year ago. Tropeano went 5-1 in 14 appearances, striking out 50 batters in 58.0 innings of work. He threw a team-high four
complete games and ranked third in the conference with 7.76 strikeouts per game. Johnson went 5-3 in 13 appearances, including 10 starts. He struck out 58 batters in 64 innings and ranked second in the conference, with 8.11 strikeouts per game. Johnson was also named to the All-America East second team. Fresh Faces Outfielder Travis Jankowski (Lancaster, PA.) comes to Stony Brook after leading Lancaster Catholic H.S. to a District 3 Double-A Championship as a senior. A two-time All-State selection, Jankowski hit .471 with 20 RBI and scored 25 runs in his senior season. Pitcher Thor Miller (Miller Place, NY.) was a 2009 All-State, All-League and All-County selection, and was named League V Pitcher of the Year. Miller recorded a 1.10 ERA while striking out 95 batters in 73 innings. Infielder John Adornetto (Commack, NY.) led Commack H.S. to a 22-10 record, hitting .500 with 25 RBI and 15 stolen bases as a senior.
He was a 2009 All-State, All-League All-Long Island, and All-County selection. Coach Senk anticipates a lot of work for the new guys. “The freshmen will be used quite a bit,” Senk said. “The pitchers will be utilized and we brought position guys in to fill immediate needs, so they will be playing right away.” The Schedule The Seawolves will begin their season with a long road trip. First, they travel to Wilmington, N.C. for a neutral site game against Akron on March 5. The next day they will face UNC-Wilmington before playing both Akron and UNCW on March 7. They will then travel to Tuscaloosa, Ala. for a series against the University of Alabama, who was ranked in the top-25 for the majority of last season. The Seawolves will then face Seton Hall before returning to Stony Brook for the home opener on March 17 against Iona. “We always play a tough nonconference schedule to begin the
season,” Coach Senk said. “But we’ve been doing that for quite a few years, so it’s something we embrace and look forward to because it’s a great experience.” This year’s conference schedule will feature a new six-team format with two divisions. Stony Brook will play a pair of three-game series against division rivals Binghamton and UMBC. They will play one fourgame series each against the three teams in the other division, Hartford, Albany and Maine. The four teams with the best overall win percentage will advance to the America East Championship, taking place May 26-28.
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Hate It Or Love It, It's Here To Stay By Ravneet Kamboj Opinion Editor
Valentine's Day is fast approaching, a time when people are scrambling to buy gifts and other tokens of love for each other. It’s a holiday where people make a special effort to appreciate the significant others in their lives. The people in our lives are what some of the most important things that we as humans deal with. Everyone has heard the saying, "It's not important what you are doing, but whom you are doing it with." This message is a powerful one that gives even more meaning to this holiday. When we are old and have hopefully had a full life, our memories will consist of people and things that we have done with them. Valentine's Day, however, is also a day that a lot of people do not like. There seems to be two camps: those who hate it and those who love it. The people who hate it do so for a number of reasons. A lot of them are people who do not have a significant other and feel that this holiday puts unfair pressure on them to find someone. Others don’t like it because they feel that it commercializes something
that should be beyond commercialization. Others hate it because they forget to buy a card and get in trouble. Individuals who don’t like this holiday might also be people who find it hard to meet and date others. A reason for this might be that, in this day and age, we all grow up with a heavy dose of social conditioning and this colors everything we do, including meeting and dating people. The media often puts unrealistic expectations about appearance and other things, that we then try to hold ourselves to. This leads to a lot of heartache and a lot of people who might have low self esteem because they feel that they do not fit into the vision that society has given us about what is desirable in terms of looks and traits. We can try to avoid these judgments about ourselves and other people if we realize that our lives are not defined by what we see on television, but rather how we decide to live our lives. If someone feels that they are not good enough for another person it is usually all in their head. This holiday should at least teach the less love-savvy among us that people should get out there and see what happens.
There is no way to know who you might meet. There can never be anything bad that comes from trying to meet new people. The only thing that can happen is that you will expand your social circle, if not run into that special someone. Undoubtedly, the most important lesson we can take from Valentines day is the importance of the love and care that we extend towards another person in our lives. The love that people show should just not be reserved for this one day. Instead, we should
realize that every day is one that we have to be thankful for. We should show appreciation every single day for people in our lives. Humanity in general needs more love and appreciation. If all the people in the world could realize that every single person is more similar to one another than they are different we would spare a lot of heartache that goes on around us. If you have a special someone in your life, make sure to let them know everyday that you appreciate them being there, even if it isn't Valentine's Day.
What's With This Whole Tiger Scandal? By Rakib M. Hasan Contributing Writer
This country is breaking down the hero it once built up, the ever so gentle Tiger Woods. As a professional golfer with amazing talent, 14 major golf championships on his shelves and 71 PGA tours under his belt, one can say he is the best athlete in the nation, as well as the world . It would be absurd to think that a once highly regarded man can fall so low in popularity and be tormented by America’s characteristic harangues on their celebrities when they fall. Because of
a sex scandal, America’s hero became the butt of American’s joke all over the nation, and his championships and PGA tours became something similar to a joke. In other cases, sex scandals made mortals into gods, and have become characteristic of a icon’s personality and image, for example, Mick Jagger. We cannot deny cultural trends and the power of how single details can cause epidemics of ideologies. So why is a sex scandal destroying Tiger Woods? This is my explanation.Mick Jagger had the persona of a rockstar, someone who will not get married and will wake up in different beds every other
week ,if not every other day. So his multiple liaisons are well over looked and become old news seconds after stories of them are released. Tiger Woods, however, carries the family man appearance and therefore looks invincible to temptations, especially in such stressful moments along his tours and in the eyes of the American public. It is some sort of taboo for a man of Tiger Woods character to be caught in infidelity. Tiger Woods' scandal shows that not only do we judge a book by its cover, but also have a poor sense in judging someone’s character. In all this turmoil, we failed to see that Tiger Woods was just another guy/ celebrity that got caught cheating.
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ARTS A Man Who Has Lost His Memories
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Ke$ha's album "Animal" is much like her first single "Tik Tok," catchy but without depth.
Pop's Latest Artist Ke$Ha is Nothing New By Alexander Tamillo Contributing Writer
In a society where autotune and synth beats dominate music, “Tik Tok” singer Ke$ha’s debut album “Animal," released Jan. 6, will make you move from time to time but falls short in originality. The album’s overall style plays heavily on the concept of irreverence, and with track titles like “Party At A Rich Dude’s House” and “Hungover,” you can predict what the outcome will be. “Animal’s” lyrical content is immature and spoiled-- it is comparable to that of a preteen girl writing in her journal. While on some songs the lyrics work to “Animal’s” benefit by providing humor such as “I never thought that you would be the one, acting like a slut while I was gone,” from “Kiss N’ Tell." Most lyrics will make you cringe in disbelief that an adult wrote them. In "Dinosaur she sings “D-I-
N-O-SA-UR a dinosaur, an OL-DM-AN you’re just an old man, hitting on me, what? You need a CAT scan.” Ke$ha even attempts to show a more serious side on some songs --“Stephen” and the title track “Animal”--but they are easily overlooked and do not fit the album’s jejune style. “Animal” also leaves the impression that if there ever were to be a follow up, Ke$ha would not develop her sound or style. Ke$ha claims to have written every track on the album, but this twentytwo year old should end up regretting this claim as any song on the album could have been equally provided by a 13-year-old. What saves this album from being completely abysmal are the beats provided by Max Martin and Dr. Luke, two of the biggest producers in today’s pop music genre. The infectious beats provided throughout the album are more than
enough to get you on your feet--“Take It Off ” and “Your Love Is My Drug”-if you can overlook the humility of listening to the album. The production crew may have laid down great beats for “Animal”, but the album itself could easily be replicated by any other pop musician (or novice musician) if given a few hours worth of studio time. While the lead single “Tik Tok” has dominated Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for the past seven weeks, the album does not provide sufficient material and Ke$ha will probably go down in music history as a “one-hit wonder.” Ke$ha’s debut album lives up to the expectation of it’s smash lead single in the fact that listeners will gain no insight from it, but can have fun with it’s vivacious beats. With that said, the album is still played out and “Animal” comes off as a pretentious snarl as opposed to a ferocious roar.
My eyes awakening with aching pain I see a grown woman sitting by my side crying The first thought coming to my head is Why is she here, what does she mean to me And if she was in my life why can’t I remember her, Usual questions like that, any man in my position would Feel the same way. What makes me feel uneasy and uncommon? Is my strong attraction to her, a lovely feeling that I’m too Scared to visit. I question why do I have these feelings for A woman who I have no memory and why are they so strong So strong that my heart aches at her puzzled and sobbing face Is love such a strong feeling, so strong that he passes the realms of Memories and consciousness. My first words to her are “ Get me out Of this bed and walk with me” She says nothing but with a more relieved face Maybe there is hope in her. She seems hopeful and strong So while I’m walking I indulge in a cigarette, this is with her. She sardonically says after that 2 month comma you still cant Seem to give up that nasty habit. I say this: I reached for my cigarette because I felt like I had some truth In smoking I’ve probably been smoking for a while and have gotten A sudden urge, like a calling from my mind a vision into my past , so I didn’t deny Myself I indulged in it and everything went back to normal, like no accident Ever happened. I felt like I remembered something from the past. I felt that same kind of urge when I saw you. You whoever you are I know I loved you before, The kind of longing I’ve felt for since I’ve Been awake has been killing me. So I did what I’ve always use to I indulged.
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NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS Residents Want Cell Service Without The Eyesore From SERVICE on 1 A cell tower is the last resort to plug Verizon dead zones. He stressed that Verizon and towns must be willing to compromise and work together on cell tower issues. “No matter where you put it, no matter what you say, people will fight a cell tower all the way,” Sandberg said in a telephone interview. He also noted the “huge surge” in data traffic coming from Verizon smartphones. “We try to stay ahead of the curve and cell towers can help us do that.” Cell towers and landfills, along with other nationwide developments, divvy up America’s not-in-my-backyard response. Landfills rank as the most hated community development in the United States, according to the nationwide 2009 Saint Index conducted by The Saint Consulting Group—experts in land-use politics. 78 percent of Americans never want a
reeking mountain of trash as a neighbor. Everybody’s garbage needs to go somewhere, but people want their trash nowhere near their homes. Cell phones highlight the same Not-In-My-Backyard thinking. These phones, in order to function well, need to connect with an antenna or tower. The 2009 Saint Index showed 74 percent of urban, suburban and rural Americans oppose development in the community. Cell phones and smartphones lose the lifeblood of convenience without support from more broadcasting structures, like cell towers. Near the cliffs over Long Island Sound, Beacon Wireless proposed a cell tower monopole on the Wading River campus of Little Flower Children and Family Services of New York. “After Beacon approached us, we thought we could get some better reception around Little Flower and for our neighbors,” said Alyson Gladle, a spokeswoman
for Little Flower. “Wading River does a lot to protect its community and manage any kind of development.” Linda Jones, a neighbor to Little Flower in Wading River, joined her neighborhood to challenge the Beacon Wireless cell tower at Riverhead town meetings. “I do keep a cell phone in my glove compartment for emergencies, but I don’t believe in cell phones. I believe that the tower had been turned down thanks to what we did.” In case of emergencies, Wading River’s reception worried Jones, “I’m thinking about dropping my cell phone for good and just getting OnStar.” Residents near Little Flower and St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, two Wading River places affected by cell site proposals, urge health concern as a heavier talking point. The 1996 Telecommunications Act denied “public safety and welfare” as grounds against cell site placement. These residents, the most resistant to
the cell site proposal, believe a cell tower’s effect on town appearance does not pack as much of a punch. Neighbors of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church such as Kevin McKernan, Gloria Hutinkoff, Linda and Richard McKenna stake much of their resistance on health concerns. About 20 miles south of Wading River, Mastic Beach residents shrugged at Verizon building a 150-foot cell tower in their community. With little to no neighborhood resistance, the cell tower soon jutted the sky view above the St. Jude Catholic Church. “People complain about their cell service and then they complain about the cell towers,” said William, a neighbor to the tower whom denied to give his last name. While William whipped out a cell phone to check his service bars, he recalled bad and good service before and after Verizon hoisted the tower. The Verizon tower helped the community, lauded William, because the town’s
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frazzled telephone wires “crap out” frequently. “The wires are so old that they have to be spliced like every month,” William laughed, “that cell tower has been real useful.” At St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Wading River, Verizon’s cell tower proposal kindled America’s temperament to separate the inseparable. “We think
coverage can still be good for Wading River, if you keep the tower in a commercial area like 25A,” said Linda McKenna, a key organizer of the Wading River resistance to Verizon’s cell tower plan. Good quality cell phone and smartphone coverage can be attained when taken with a silo of salt, an unpleasant cell tower embedded in a town.
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This is a new section in Arts that will announce the weekly events on campus to keep the student body informed on the latest in music, movies, theatre and art at Stony Brook.
Music:
On Sunday Feb. 14 at the University Cafe will host "Acid Folk" with LeE HARVeY OsMOND at 2:00 p.m. LeE HARVEY OsMOND is the brainchild of Canada's Tom Wilson from Blackie & The Rodeo Kings. The University Cafe is hosting RockYoFaceCase Monday Feb. 15. Mother F'Nature, Mania in Urbania and Frontier Brothers are set to perform that night. The Stony Brook Opera presents : "An Evening with American Music" at 8 p.m. The Monterey Jazz is on tour and will be performing Sunday Feb 14. in the Staller Center Main Stage.
MFA student, Moira Williams' exhibition is on display in the Lawrence Alloway Memorial Art Gallery on the first floor of the Melville library. The University Art Gallery is hosting the "MFA Thesis Exhibition 2010" on the first floor of the Staller Center for the Arts through Feb. 27. The exhibition is showcasing the artwork of MFA students, Joseph Andrew Esser, Julianne Gadoury, Kristine, Elizabeth Dee Heifferon and Danielle Rago.
Comics
MOVIES:
Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. The Wang Center is showing the documentary "Vincent Who?" about a Chinese American who was attacked in Detroit in 1982.
Theatre:
The Staller Center is hosting a performance of "Groovaloo" Saturday, Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. in the Staller Center Recital Hall.
TElevision:
"Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun" is airing until Feb. 14, daily 4:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m on SBU-TV to commerate Black History Month.
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