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Volume 53, Issue 40 • Monday, March 22, 2010
UNIVERSITY OFFERS FEWER CLASSES Budget Cuts to Blame
By Mary Reiland Contributing Writer
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Students expressed dissatisfaction with the proposed tuition increase due to the Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act.
Rise in Tuition Expected Next Semester If PHEEIA Passes By Joe Arico
Contributing Writer
IN THIS ISSUE
The Undergraduate Student Government has formed a new committee to inspect the potential tuition increases if the Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act, or PHEEIA passes through the state legislature this spring. The formation of the committee, Students
First, comes after the USG determined that students have not been given a proper education on the bill. USG announced the news via a press release on Feb. 16. Now, after a review of PHEEIA, the committee has come forward with a preliminary report of its findings. According to USG Senator Deborah Machalow, a member of the newly formed committee, one of the most
striking things is the power that it would give President Samuel L. Stanley Jr. The bill would allow the president, with consultation of USG and the university council, to propose tuition increases of any amount directly to the board of trustees. This also includes the power to recommend differential tuition, where the amount of money a student pays would differ based on the classes and
programs they register for. “In a way it makes sense, but in a way it gets very iffy because certain requirements like the D.E.C. system requires you to take a certain number of sciences,” said Machalow. “How then do you take science classes, do you pay extra? Or do you not pay extra?” Stanley defended PHEEIA in his press conference to the See PHEEIA on 3
On December 16, 2009, bleary-eyed and tired, sophomore Caitlin Corbett, a business major, reached over and shut her alarm clock off. It was 8 a.m. –time to register for classes. As she sat at her desk in front of her laptop, she scrolled through class options. Happy that she had a few sections to choose from, she began to fill her shopping cart, only to be stopped by big red X’s as she tried to complete the transaction—spots that seemed open were instead held for transfer students. Classes held for transfer students are just one representation of the larger issue of class shortages at the school. This year, the undergraduate student body increased by 695 students, yet the number of seats available per section of classes went down. Less seats means less options, tighter schedules, and left out, unhappy students. Rick Gatteau, the director of the Academic and PreProfessional Advising Center at Stony Brook University said the advising center is working to fix the problem. “In my eight years that I’ve been at Stony Brook, this spring enrollment has been the tightest,” he said. Gatteau also said the total number of credits students took from spring 2009 to spring 2010, has dropped slightly. Corbett can attest to that. “I only took four courses this semester instead of five,” she said. “My ideal schedule would have been going to school Monday through Thursday between 9 a.m. and
5 p.m. Instead, I have to take night classes because of my major.” Corbett also added that because of her night classes and a three-hour break on Monday and Wednesday, she was unable to sign up for day classes on Tuesday or Thursday. “I’m a commuter, I need to work,” she said. “I can’t make a schedule that doesn’t allow me to work at all.” Gatteau said that students who register for classes on time shouldn’t have an issue finding classes. In order to combat registration problems, the university has bumped up fall semester scheduling by a week. It will start right after spring break. This will help the advising center see what classes need additional sections added or removed. Last semester the advising center implemented a credit limit when registering for classes. Students were originally only allowed to sign up for 16 credits, then 17, and then finally 19 and 23 when the semester started. Gatteau added, “students may need to include summer and winter classes in plans to graduate on time.” Overall, Gatteau doesn’t believe that the cutting of class sections and seat availability will affect a student’s plans to graduate on time. Students must take the initiative to register for classes on time, take courses in the correct sequence and check in with the advisement office. “We have an obligation as an administration to provide classes to get students to graduate in a timely manner but it is a mutual responsibility in that students need to do their part as well,” Gatteau said.
NYC show, Fuerza Bruta, trimphs
Stony Brook's Best Dance Crew flops
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Suddenly all went dark during a theater class last week and the ventilators exploded with light and torrents of rushing smoke. The ceiling came crashing down on a audience member.
Stony Brook’s Best Dance Crew was a failed attempt at imitating the popular MTV television show. The function, held at the Stony Brook Union auditorium on Friday March 12, ended
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She and others stood still in the debris, and then began to dance. Then shots fired from somewhere in the darkness... See FUERZA on 4
up feeling more like a low budget high school production than an intense battle of experienced and entertaining dance crews. See DANCE on 7
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Rise in Tuition Expected at Stony Brook Next Semester If PHEEIA Passes
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Students gathered near the Student Activities Center three weeks ago to protest budget cuts and tuition hikes.
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From PHEEIA on 1 students, sighting its benefits to the university. “When we calculated what PHEEIA would mean to Stony Brook we calculated an average of about a six to seven percent increase,” Stanley said. “All of that money would go to our campus.” The report also states that PHEEIA would institute a cap on the number of out-ofstate students at the university, and while it would still allow Stony Brook to grant scholarships and financial aid to students based on need, there is no protection for merit-based scholarships. However, not all information in the report issued by the committee was negative. The investigation found that, under PHEEIA, all money collected by Stony Brook University could be held on to by the school rather than the state. In addition, the money would be seen as “self-supporting” and could be used without prior approval. Although the report on PHEEIA has now been issued, the job of the committee is not yet done
according to Machalow. The overall goal is to find out how the students feel. Students can now go online and take a survey on PHEEIA and tuition increases. The data will then be analyzed and a final report will be issued as a press release. “I’d like to give students a chance to have a say in what happens to their tuition,” Machalow said. David Wendt, a sophomore, said that the problem lies a bit higher up. “It’s an Albany problem, we’ve got budget shortfall everywhere. I’m glad that they’re making our voices heard.” said Wendt. Still, he’s happy that USG is attempting to help. “I think it’s kind of unfair that they’re punishing students because Albany can’t keep their finances in order,” said junior Kevin Sabella, a political science major. Sabella said he doesn’t feel the survey will be very effective, but he hopes that students take it. “The average student shouldn’t just take this with a grain of salt, their tuition is going to go up.”
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ARTS Fuerza Bruta Triumphs Contributing Writer
Suddenly all went dark during a theater class last week and the ventilators exploded with light and torrents of rushing smoke. The ceiling came crashing down on a audience member. She and others stood still in the debris, and then began to dance. Then shots fired from somewhere in the darkness and a running man twisted in midair and fell to the ground. Though blood was coming through his suit, the stricken man rose to his feet and dashed through the crowd. With accelerating speed he launched himself through a wall and kept running. High above, wet radiant nymphs appeared swimming through glistening darkness. Slowly they descended, swooping down on the class in a
Arts at the Brook Music:
On Tuesday, March 23, The Stony Brook Graduate Piano Department will host "Piano Project 2010: 'Pianist Duet Better! Two Hundred Years of Music for Two Pianists.'" The event that will feature three concerts and a discussion panel with faculty and students. The event will take place in the Staller Center's Recital Hall from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Mark Erelli, a singer/ songwriter, will perform at the University Café's Sunday Street Acoustic Series at 2 p.m. on March 28.
playful swarm. Through liquid air their flowing bodies seductively slid over a sea of hands that reached up to touch them. This is not a typical class at Stony Brook Manhattan. Students met at the Daryl Roth Theatre in Union Square for that night’s performance of Diqui James’ Fuerza Bruta. The Daryl Roth Theatre, an off-Broadway theater, ushers its audience onto its open floor. Out of the vast dark space scenes erupt from anywhere and manifest in any form, and the audience is free to move about the action. Scenes are symbolic, hallucinatory depictions of chaotic modern living and sexual fantasy all choreographed to electronic dance music composed by Gaby Kerpel. Dancers vivaciously leap, stomp and spin with the creative set use of platforms, conveyer belts, aerial suspension, water, smoke
sTALLER center:
Sunday, March 28 at 1 p.m. the Staller Center is showing a projected performance of "Hamlet" by the Metropolitan Opera. The presentation of "Hamlet" is part of Staller Center's The Met:Live in HD Series. Jazz bandleader and composer, Christian McBride, along with his band, the Inside Straight will perform in the Staller Center's Recital Hall on Saturday, March 27 at 8 p.m.
Wang center:
The Japan Center at Stony Brook is cosponsporing the Wang Center's "Kyogen: Comic Theater from Japan" on Sunday, March 22 at 7 p.m. in the Wang Theater. The program is based on the 600-year-old Japanese developed Kyogen, which is a comical theater that features humorous stories of daily life.
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Off-Broadway: The Daryl Roth Theatre hosts Diqui James' Fuerza Bruta in New York's Union Square. and strobe lighting. Spectacular metaphorical displays of contemporary pressures and dangers such as disorder, deadlines, fleeting time, claustrophobia, towering obstacles, highspeed impact are purposely juxtaposed and mixed with graceful dreamlike expanse and serenity.
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By Jay Lehmann
The audience sees representations of people worked to exhaustion to maintain the disarrayed world as it falls apart around them, left with little time to rest before their dreams are rented away from them and they are forced to meet the same hellish cycle again. As people fight their
way through the day they crash through scenery that obstructs their way. When it is time for fun they tear down the walls around them. Vitality and violence pervade everything to the point of being synonymous. Even the calmer fantasy scenes become suspicious.
Sensuous dreams entice and enchant, but do they belong to the dreamer or does the dreamer belong to them, like advertisement? Fuerza Bruta triumphs as an expression of human life in an unrelenting struggle to survive oppressive and absurd conditions—and to have fun doing it.
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SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS
Out With The Old, In With The New From NEW on 8 seed Illinois, 76-66, but it was more than just the first postseason basketball game in school history or the largest crowd in basketball program history. It was a revolution. Gone were the days of a morethan-half –empty Stony Brook Arena watching a perennial loser finish last in the conference. Instead, 4,423 students and community members gathered to watch the Stony Brook Seawolves, regular season champions of the America East, playing in the NIT for the first time and doing it at home against a team that was a couple points away from an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. “When the students come they make it a hard place to play,” Seawolves Head Coach Steve Pikiell said. “This is Division I basketball. The environment was great tonight. “We’ve got a good program here, and people are starting to take notice,” he said. “This isn’t a lacrosse town anymore. We’re trying to make it a basketball town.” Gone, too, were memories of senior Muhammad El-Amin’s heroic 23-point performance
against Vermont to clinch the conference crown. El-Amin scored 16 points, but was only 6-for-20 from the field and ended many a Seawolves possession with a missed shot as Illinois’ length overwhelmed Stony Brook at the glass. Instead, it was sophomore Bryan Dougher who established himself as the star of the future. Dougher was everywhere. He scored a game-high 21 points, and his 5-for-8 night from beyond the three point arc led Illinois Head Coach Bruce Weber to call Dougher the best three-point shooter Illinois will see all year. He set a Stony Brook single-season record for three-pointers in a season, finishing with 95. But his influence goes far beyond the numbers next to the clock. The box score will only list his one rebound and two steals, but if there were categories for rebounds and steals created, the numbers would be much higher. His basketball IQ is tremendous, and he needs every decimal point of it. Listed at a basketball 6’1”, Dougher will never be the biggest guy on the court unless he plays against his kids in the driveway. But he never shies away from
contact and isn’t afraid to mix it up among the trees in the middle. Against Illinois, which boasts a player over seven feet tall, Dougher showed that he could play with the bigs. He made room for shots, inside and out. With 8:55 to go in the first, Dougher stopped a fast break by drawing a charge, a job not for the faint of heart when the guy coming at full speed towards your offered chest has six inches and 30 pounds on you. A minute and a half later, Dougher drove inside and cleverly spun a reverse layup off the backboard and in. The ball may have been travelling away from the backboard when he launched it, but just the right touch from Dougher saw it fall. He then hit two straight three pointers to give Stony Brook the lead with just over six minute left in the half. In the second half, Weber finally tightened his defense on Dougher, and there was a very big hand in his face everywhere he went. And still Dougher made room to hit two more threes. His 21 points came on just 15 shots, to El-Amin’s 16 points on 20 shots. There are three important
aspects that should make Seawolves Country more than a little optimistic about the future: his standing, his support and his attitude. Dougher is only a sophomore, and set these records and put up 21 against Illinois and was a second-team all-conference guard as a sophomore. The best is yet to come. And even better, he will take the court next year with three returning starters in Chris Martin, Tommy Brenton and Dallis Joyner. Brenton has all the tools to be a great scorer, and both he and Martin have turned in some very good performances this year, taking over games for minutes at a time. Joyner, when challenged, can turn in dominating performances inside. Dougher has the attitude to not shoot the ball every time it’s in his hands, and the teammates to not have to. El-Amin had only one of those two. As Dougher himself said after the game, “the future is bright here.” He has a lot to do with it. The team that Coach Pikiell has built is in a great position to make a lot of noise in the America East and beyond over the last two years, and hopefully that noise will bring
in new talent interested in dancing in March. With the current crew, it’s easy to be optimistic about the Stony Brook basketball revolution. “They really got a dose of what March Madness is tonight,” Coach Pikiell said. “It’s exciting, it really is.”
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In a Coma: Alive Or Just Breathing? By Rakib M Hasan Contributing Writer
Dr. Nicholis Shift visited Stony Brook University on March 15 and gave a free seminar open to all students. The associate professor of neurolog y from Cornell University discussed his extensive research into the recovery of some patients from a comatose state. His presentation included a chart outlining the different levels of an unconscious state, and delicately noted a case he has put effort into researching , the case of the recovery of Donald Herbert. Fireman Donald Herbert, while responding to a call, ran into a building , which collapsed on him and caused trauma to his brain. This left him comatose. What made this case interesting to Shift was that eventually Herbert had awoken from his coma with some motor activity and signs of cognitive function. However he soon regressed back into a minimally conscious state. Soon, however, he again had a recovery and had most of his cognitive activity restored. He spoke fluently, and remembered his old buddies. The surprising recovery was so fast that a nurse took a camcorder and videotaped
it so that his family could catch all that happened before they would have arrived to witness the miracle themselves. The video shows Herbert remembering every one of his friends and his wife, except for his child who was only a toddler at the time of his father’s incident. Now a decade later, Herbert has recovered. Shift notes the Terri Schiavo case and its difference to Herbert’s. The difference between both cases is that Schiavo had no function or metabolism occurring in her upper brain, which led Shift to the next part of his lecture. From this point on Shift explained the scientific research he has been doing and a new technique of MRI imaging that is gaining popularity in the medical world. “Tennis” is a form of communication between doctors and a patient in a comatose state. The doctor will ask the patient to imagine that he or she is playing a game of tennis. The MRI then can show different parts of the brain lighting up in response to the doctors speech. Many variations of the game can be played as well. The doctor can tell a patient to imagine swimming if the patient was a swimmer or the doctor can have a simple yes or no conversation with a patient, all leading to the
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conclusion that the patient even though in a comatose state - is not mentally dead. Shift’s research also involves the drug Ambien, which, for reasons still unknown, restores metabolism in the upper parts of the brain. It sometimes allows patients to recover from a minimally conscious state, which includes the regaining of cognitive function and some speech. Shift spoke of actual cases where Ambien was giving to a patient to put him or her at ease, and unexpectedly the patient started talking or showed
some sign of communication and awareness of his or her surroundings. This lecture gave Stony Brook students insight into this field and served to show us that the human body is an amazing machine that is still very capable of surprising us. I believe that the patients even in their dormant sleep were still thinking and calculating thoughts of survival and return to their loved ones. We should give humanity more credit and never give up hope on any patient.
Stony Brook Students And Health Care By Ravneet Kamboj Opinion Editor
Health care, is it a fundamental right or a privilege? A revolutionary new bill that aims to extend health care to over 31 million Americans is under debate and will possibly soon become law. The bill ensures that insurance companies cannot deny coverage based on pre existing conditions and also helps subsidize coverage for the huge number of people who cannot afford it. Whether one agrees with the bill or not it will affect every single American, including every student on
this campus. Students on campus now have the option of staying under their parents insurance plan for longer and will make it cheaper for students to actually afford health care once they enter the working world. The bill however will also affect students by virtue of the extra cost it will incur on the American taxpayer. The bill is estimated to cost over $1 trillion dollars over the next 10 years, yet law makers claim that it will reduce the budget deficit by $138 billion over that period as well. If this is true then this bill may even
cause students to pay less for health care over the course of their lives. Being college students most of us can not often appreciate what it is like to come from a low income background where health care is not a realistic option, if this bill succeeds in doing what it is aiming to do then we as students may live in a better world as we get older. For the pre-medical students on this campus, this bill is especially interesting as it puts a greater focus and appreciation on primary care doctors who in recent years have been pushed to the fringes by insurance companies.
This negligence of primary care doctors under the current system resulted in fewer and fewer medical students choosing this path after medical school. This bill may spur more students to once again pick this path. This bill will change all of our lives, it will make our campus community healthier insuring that those students from less privileged backgrounds will have access to care. Yet only time will tell if this bill will also empty our wallets just a little bit more as we leave the protection of our parents and enter the real world.
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SPORTS Men's Lacrosse Drops Tough One To Denver By Sam Kilb
Assistant Sports Editor
After leading for much of the game, the #15 Stony Brook men’s lacrosse team conceded the game-winning goal with 2:37 to go in the fourth quarter to fall to the visiting Denver Pioneers, 13-12. Stony Brook senior Tom Compitello scored a goal and had three assists in the loss. Juniors Jordan McBride and Kevin Crowley scored three goals each for the Seawolves. Stony Brook (4-2) led early on, as Compitello scored the first goal of the game. Running from behind the goal, he was tripped but kept his wits about him and scored from his knees to put the Seawolves up with 12:59 to go in the first quarter. Denver (4-4) answered a minute and a half later but four unanswered Stony Brook goals saw the Seawolves finish the quarter with a 5-1 lead. McBride kept the
momentum going with a Seawolves goal 1:06 into the second quarter. Denver then scored four straight to close the gap to 6-5 before Crowley scored with 3.7 seconds left in the half to give the Seawolves a 7-5 halftime lead. The visitors tied it up in a little over three minutes after the half. But Stony Brook went on a 4-0 run to stretch the lead to 11-7. The Pioneers then dominated the fourth, scoring six goals, including the game-tying goal with 7:00 to go and eventual game-winner with 2:37 to go, in the final period. Two last-ditch Stony Brook shots flew just wide, and Denver walked away with their third victory against the Seawolves in as many years. Stony Brook men’s lacrosse next plays #10 Cornell (5-1) at home at LaValle Stadium at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. It will be the Seawolves’ final nonconference home game of the season.
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Midfielder Kevin Crowley (left) dives during Saturday's loss. Midfielder Tom Compitello (right) picked up one goal and four assists in the battle.
Out With The Old, In With The New By Sam Kilb
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Softball Sweeps Invitational
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Seawolves' pitcher Alyssa Struzenberg (above) picked up her 59th career win over the weekend, breaking the record for most victories in a career.
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Guard Chris Martin takes time to flex during Wednesday's NIT bout.
By David O'Connor Staff Writer
Stony Brook’s softball team (9-7) made a strong statement this weekend. Hosting the Stony Brook Invitational, the team swept through the competition, winning all four of its games against Yale, Quinnipiac, Holy Cross and Fairfield. “It was good,” said Peter Featherston, who umpired at the invitational. “The teams were delightful. Good ballplayers. Good people.” The Seawolves opened the invitational against Yale with a 3-0 victory. Junior pitcher Colleen Matthes (6-4) threw a shutout and gave up only four hits. Stony Brook scored all three of its runs in the second inning, two of which were the result of the double hit by senior infielder Vicki Kavitsky. However, the Seawolves were not done for the day. In fact, their next game against Quinnipiac began right after their win over Yale. The starting pitcher for Stony
Brook was senior Alyssa Struzenberg (7-4), who leads the team in victories and starts with seven and 11, respectively. Struzenberg flirted with a no-hitter, only giving up one hit in the sixth inning. Stony Brook won the game 1-0, helped by good crunch time play. Kavitsky reached home with help from a single hit by senior Casey Jacobs, who started as the designated hitter. Stony Brook won another shutout against Fairfield, 5-0, with Struzenberg notching another win under her belt. This time Struzenberg did throw a no-hitter, supported by senior left fielder Crista Cerrone’s home run in the fourth inning. The most unpredictable game for Stony Brook for the weekend was Saturday’s extra-inning walk-off 4-3 win against the Holy Cross Crusaders. Holy Cross freshman catcher Alex Campione hit a solo home run to left field in the top of the second inning. The score remained 1-0 in favor
of Holy Cross until the top of the fifth inning, where sophomore outfielder Nicole Ortiz hit another solo shot. Stony Brook struck back in the bottom of the fifth, however, when senior catcher Jade Clare scored off a double hit by Cerrone. Cerrone subsequently scored the tying run in the bottom of the seventh when junior Brijette Martin hit a single up the middle with one out left. Even though Holy Cross scored one run in the top of the ninth inning off a wild pitch, Stony Brook was able to rally again and score twice in the bottom of the inning. Kavitsky brought senior infielder Katelyn O’Donnell with a double, and she scored herself as the result of a double hit by Martin. It was the team’s third win coming by just one run this year. The Seawolves will ride their five game winning streak into their game against Rutgers on Wednesday, March 24, at home at 4 p.m.