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Can e-mental health tools aid astronauts?

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SB Southampton Hospital introduces new cardiac catheterization lab

By Lisseth Aguilar Contributing Writer

One of the most recent developments to come out of Stony Brook Southampton Hospital is the cardiac catheterization laboratory that opened on Sept. 5, making it the first of its kind on Long Island. Donated by Audrey and Martin Gruss, a prominent philanthropic East End couple, this facility will provide critically-ill heart patients with services that include angioplasty, stenting, intravascular ultrasound and Impella, a treatment designed to improve blood flow in heart failure patients who require care in the lab. “When I arrived at Stony Brook seven years ago, I learned of a report made by The Berger Commission, a state sponsored look at health care in New York,” Dr. Kenneth Kaushansky, senior vice president of health sciences and dean of the Stony

Brook University School of Medicine, said in an email. “The report indicated that the East End of Long Island ought to organize into a network with Stony Brook to lead and coordinate care.” The laboratory, born out of a merge between Stony Brook Medicine and Southampton Hospital on Aug. 1, gives East End residents access to highly specialized care, something that their towns lacked before, Kaushansky said. “By affiliating with Stony Brook, the people of [the] South Fork now have immediate access to our specialists with seamless transfer of their healthcare data and recommendations.” Before the affiliation was finalized, patients had to travel to Stony Brook University Hospital for services. Located up to 70 miles from most communities on the East End, getting to and from the hospital made access-

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The cardiac catheterization laboratory at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital gives residents access to care.

ing quality, specialized healthcare a challenge. “With the population growth eastward on Long Island, traditionally, these services were only provided at Stony Brook University Hospital itself,” Dr. Travis Bench, director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, said in a video detailing the lab’s features. According to Bench, heart attack patients who were brought to Southampton Hospital before the merge would have been transferred to Stony Brook University Hospital to be treated since they had the technology to do so. “If someone were to present here with a heart attack they would be required to be transferred back to that facility for their care,” he said. Now equipped with the necessary technology to treat patients in Southampton, doctors are able to minimize the amount of heart damage done without the added steps of having to transport patients to Stony Brook. Doctors can now perform percutaneous coronary interventions, or PCIs, which are non-surgical procedures in which physicians insert catheters through the skin to reach affected structures under both emergency and elective cases. Another technology provided by the new lab is a fluoroscopy arm, or mobile x-ray arm. The arm allows physicians to visualize coronary arteries during the PCI procedure. Also newly introduced, are highly specialized computer capabilities that measure pressure inside the chambers of the heart and lungs. Continued on page 4

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Donated by philanthropic couple, lab is first of its kind on East End Continued from page 1 Kaushansky said he reached out to several East End hospitals – Southampton Hospital, Peconic Bay Medical Center and Eastern Long Island Hospital — to craft the network, per the commission’s suggestion. He noted that New York State carefully scrutinized its deal with Southampton, a process that took almost five years. “I guess the deal was mine in inception,” he said. “A lot of the work belonged to our hospital CEO, Reuven Pasternak, and the Southampton Hospital CEO, Bob Chaloner, who is now the chief administrative officer at Southampton.” Bob Chaloner was unavailable for comment. “The merge with Southampton Hospital is bringing very

much needed critical, specialty care to the area,” Marsha Kenny, director of marketing and public affairs at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, said. “Because we are geographically isolated on the East End of Long Island, a lot of the staff at Southampton had to go west to other hospitals – usually Stony Brook – for specialized care.” “Having this affiliation complete has given people opportunities to get the care they need without going too far from home. There are a number of Stony Brook physicians out in the East End now and it’s a relief for many who don’t have to drive all the way to Stony Brook anymore,” she said. According to the Stony Brook Southampton Hospital website, before the merge, the two hospitals

coordinated to improve patient care through shared resources. These resources were then suited to patients’ individual needs, with the purpose of managing the flow of patients between locations. Other expansion efforts made by Stony Brook Southampton Hospital include the Phillips Family Cancer Center, expected to be completed by late 2018. This facility will house the area’s first radiation oncology unit, which would administer chemotherapy and offer diagnostic and support services to cancer patients. Hospital officials also plan to build an emergency care facility in East Hampton once the state approves their application. Once approved, the site will include physician and patient parking, ambulance access and a helipad.

SBU's NASA-funded researchers conduct myCompass clinical trial Continued from page 1 in the STEM fields with advanced degrees and may have high levels of isolation and stress. Most recruits are medical school students with mild to moderate symptoms of anxiety and/or depression. Gabrielle Carlson, a professor in Stony Brook’s department of psychiatry and director of psychiatry at Stony Brook’s School of Medicine, said that the study is intriguing, but she has her concerns about whether the project can provide the right e-mental health tools for specific patients. “What’s interesting about Doctor Gonzalez’ study is that… it helps people whose situations preclude help,” Carlson said. “I think it’s a great idea, but like a lot of other things on the internet, it’s hard to have quality control for it.” But Hernandez says researchers hope that by reaching out to astronauts whose situations make it difficult to seek psychiatric treatment, their study can generalize to those individuals. “We hope the findings here can generalize to those sorts of groups of people, hopefully it can help prevent burnout and improve quality of life for astronaut-like individuals,” Hernandez said. Providing e-mental health treatments for astronauts can be complicated due to asynchronous communication, which prevents messages from being sent and received instantly between ground control and computers in space. NASA is funding the study to assess how support can be delivered to astronauts, given that they cannot have face-to-face, real-time communication when up above, Hernandez said. NASA scientists said they also wish to know if interpersonal relationships built on asynchronous communication can work, or if the delay develops too much frustration and confusion.

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NASA is funding the psychiatry department's study to assess how mental health support can be delivered to astronauts. “There’s a lot of documented behavioral health and mental health issues that arise on these sorts of space missions, like higher anxiety, depression, stress, delirium, loss of energy, all those sorts of things,” Hernandez said. “In preparation for those issues, how can we be preventative and make sure we’re giving those astronauts the support that they need?” The coming phase of the study is called a randomized controlled trial, or RCT. The RCT includes three randomized groups of recruited patients. The first, a control group, works exclusively with the myCompass self-help toolkit. The second group uses myCompass and receives text-based monitoring and psychiatric help from post-doctorates on the project. The third group uses myCompass and receives video-based support from post-doctorates. This RCT was made to determine what method of online psychiatric treatment might be best, but Carlson fears that may not be enough.“I think what the whole field probably needs is a way of directing the right person to the right app,” Carlson said. Due to the sensitive nature of some of the content sent and re-

ceived, it is extremely important that the transmissions sent to and received by patients are kept secret. For this reason, all contact between patients and post-doctorates is heavily encrypted. The day-to-day work of the RCT mainly entails recruitment of patients for the project and monitoring of myCompass portals to correspond with patients. The data sought from the RCT is mostly qualitative feedback from patients. The goal of the RCT is to know whether patients enjoyed their randomized method of communication, found communication to be too frequent or too infrequent and what parts of the program patients liked and disliked, researchers of the study said. “We’re making sure we’re getting everything kind of airtight for the larger RCT that will be enrolling 135 participants, mostly coming from the graduate in-resident program,” Hernandez said. “And pretty much anyone from the medical center that’s available and willing and has mild to moderate symptoms of stress, anxiety or depression. That’s pretty much where we’re at right now.”

Carr set to perform Bach suite on Oct. 21 Continued from page 1 With experience performing around the globe, Carr certainly lives up to that title. He regularly makes appearances at the BBC Proms, an annual, eight-week orchestral series held in London, and has been part of high profile groups, including the London Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony and Halle Orchestra. “He’s regarded as a world class cellist,” Goldstein said. “What he brings to the university is his artistry, as someone who gives performances, and his attractiveness to the most accomplished students who want to study cello here.” Carr started playing the cello at 5 years old. At age 8, he enrolled in the Yehudi Menuhin School, a specialized music school in Surrey, England. He said that at the time, he would have rather been playing soccer and that he owes his early start as a musician to his mother. “She was the driving force behind me playing, for sure,” Carr said. He referenced pivotal teaching moments while he was a student, describing his experiences performing with more advanced musicians at the time. Carr started a concert series called “Starry Nights” here at Stony Brook in an effort to replicate the experience for his own students. The popular concert series allows students and faculty to perform together, on stage. His “Starry Nights” series has been going strong for about 14 years, with one concert held per semester. “For me, growing up, it was pivotal when I used to play concerts with some of the greatest musicians alive, and I was lucky to do that, because Yehudi Menuhin, who founded that school, was one of the greatest violinists who ever lived,” he said. “I went to Marlboro, which is a wonderful festival in Vermont, and played with Rudolph Serkin, who is also one of the greatest pianists who ever lived. It’s not that I consider myself a Menuhin or a Serkin, but I’ve been around, and I have a certain amount of experience, and my colleagues here on the faculty are all just top drawer musicians. I mean, they’re the best of the best.” By the age of 12 or 13, Carr said, he was fully invested in his career as a cellist, spending up to six hours a day practicing. “I knew this was what I wanted to do with my life,” he said. By 25, Carr was a professor at the New England Conservatory, the oldest independent music school in the U.S. He gave up the job when he moved back to England with his wife in the late 90s to start a family and continue his work as a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He took on his position at Stony Brook a few years later in 2002, after being approached by fac-

ulty member Gilbert Kalish at a cello concert. Carr commutes to Stony Brook from his home in England twice a month. He stays in Stony Brook for five days at a time, during which he works intensively with his students. He said that a typical lesson lasts about two hours. “I’m intensely involved with the students when I’m here,” Carr said. Despite the commute, he said he enjoys his position at Stony Brook, commending the university and music department for fostering a unique environment. “I think both teachers and students have a great deal of freedom here to follow their own special projects,” he said. “I had two students who’ve taken up singing and playing the cello at the same time, and they’ve gone off and developed that as their careers, and I’ve really encouraged them to do that. That’s just something that would not happen in any other conservatory or music department or university that I know of.” Alison Rowe, a cellist and instructor of the “Elements of Music” undergraduate class – which has studied under Carr for the past three years – referred to Carr as a constant source of inspiration. “In particular, his precise control of tone, color and intonation creates beautiful and interesting interpretations of the standard cello repertoire,” Rowe said. “In lessons, he has encouraged me to be a more creative and expressive artist and to be as specific as I possibly can with my own interpretive decisions. I have grown immensely as a cellist, teacher and musician under his guidance.” Carr said that each piece in each program involves collaboration between students and faculty in some way, making the music department vital to varied and interesting shows. The upcoming six-suite show, he mentioned, begins with a piece for piano and winds, is followed by a jazz set and ends with a larger piece for piano and strings. “In any normal chamber music concert, that’s pretty difficult to arrange, because it’s just not economical,” he said. “It’s not efficient to bring people from afar to play in one piece, and then you have to pay them, and it just doesn’t make sense.” In total, the program would require close to 20 people – something Carr said would be hard to manage outside of a music department setting. “There’s an energy on stage from these collaborations which has really been embraced by the audience, not just the audience within the music department, but much more so by the community outside the university,” Carr said. “And so, they come and fill the recital hall for every concert, and they somehow trust that they’re going to get something they like, often not knowing quite what it’s going to be. It’s just been a very wonderful and successful series.”

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The color guard leads the charge for the Stony Brook football team just before kickoff on October 14, 2017.

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Anime film “No Game No Life: Zero” rewards fans at AMC Loews By Claudia Motley Contributing Writer

It’s finally here. On Wednesday, Oct. 4 and Thursday, Oct. 5 at the AMC Loews Stony Brook 17 theater, the thing all of us had been waiting for — or, at least, the good few of us had. With the popularity of anime and Asian culture seeming to be rising here in the United States, it would be a surprise to me if the announcement of the film “No Game No Life: Zero” didn’t strike a few chords. Anime can be viewed by native English speakers in two ways: dub, which is when voice actors speak in English and voice over the original Japanese, and sub, which is when the Japanese voice actors remain but there are English subtitles. For many dedicated anime fans, subs are the only way to go, as it pulls the viewer closer to the raw Japanese experience, so my friends and I made sure to book sub viewing. Though there are some nods to the original anime show itself — the movie starts by introducing Tat and Izana, two key characters from the show — the

storyline is based on the history behind the world of “No Game No Life.” We are introduced to Riku, the main protagonist of the story and the leader of the surviving human race. His story takes place during the Great War, long before Sora and Shiro (the main characters from the original anime) come to the world. During this time, all the races are fighting in order to achieve the status as God over all the others. Unlike the other races — Ex Machina, which is an army of droids, dwarves, elves and so many more — the human race (known in the anime as Imanity) has no notable source of power. In order to survive, Imanity hides deep underground, rarely daring to break the surface. Riku, the leader of the Imanity colony, winds up meeting Schwi. Schwi is a rogue Ex Machina, rejected from her people because of her uncalculated obsession with understanding the human heart. Together, they lead the viewers on an adventure to save the human race. Something that I have always appreciated about “No Game No Life” is the art style. The

colorization techniques and fluid movements are extraordinary, and rarely encountered in anime. It relies less on hard lines and detail and more on soft, vibrant colors, making it a beautiful experience to see on the big screen. In contrast to the original anime, it was also quite refreshing to see a new take on a lead character in the movie’s version, as the original main characters had not

yet existed at the time this movie took place. Sora, the show’s protagonist, is a comical character and is based more on a humorous presentation alongside his quiet, solemn, yet undoubtedly adorable stepsister, Shiro. When we are introduced to the movie’s protagonist Riku, our first impression is the complete opposite; he is a cold, almost broken character, who took the burden of leader and let it turn him into

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The AMC Loews Stony Brook 17 theater held special showings of “No Game No Life: Zero” on Oct. 4 and 5.

nothing but a vessel whose sole purpose is to survive. After some time with Schwi, however, Riku begins to open up and show some qualities more similar to that of Sora. The movie was, overall, an amazing watch. I was thrilled to see how many people went to see the movie. The place was packed with high school to college-aged students, surrounded by their friends, each of them equally stoked to see anime on the big screen. The available time window for viewing the movie is short, as it is for all anime movies — the “Sword Art Online” movie was out for only a day, and “Your Name” was also out for a short while. With the rising popularity of anime in America, the theater industry should definitely consider extending that short window to watch anime, as it will likely be a huge financial gain. Fans of “No Game No Life,” and fans of anime in general, are definitely enthusiastic when it comes to new releases. And, like every other fan there, I’m secretly hoping that this new movie means what every anime nerd loves to hear: a new season.

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Doodles4change: penning art for the rich and giving to the poor By Thomas James

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Using proceeds to fund healthcare for underprivileged rural communities in Bangladesh, doodles4change inc is a non-profit organization that sells its customized artwork for donations. Raeqa Mahmud, a junior biochemistry major with a minor in studio art, founded the organization. “I always wanted to do something with my artwork,” Mahmud said. “And I always wanted to start my own non-profit. Then one day it just clicked.” After years of selling her sketches and artwork to friends and people in her tight-knit South Asian community in Long Island, Mahmud decided to use the profits to make a perceptible change when she founded doodles4change in March 2017. Encouraged by the support of her family and friends, Mahmud discovered how even the small profit she was making – like $50 – from her freelance work could be a considerable amount of money for providing basic medical necessities in an underdeveloped country such as Bangladesh. Mahmud visits Bangladesh twice each year, so she is able to directly decide who she will give the money to in the Dhaka Medical College Hospital. On her last trip to Bangladesh over the summer, Mahmud gave the proceeds from doodles4change to four patients from rural areas in need of the financial support.

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A drawing made by Raeqa Mahmud, a junior biochemistry major, to be sold through her non-profit, doodles4change. One of the patients helped by doodles4change has an extremely rare illness called epidermodysplasia verruciformis, also known as treeman syndrome. Only three cases existing around the world are known by the medical community. The man in Bangladesh plagued by this disease has fungus on his hands and feet that resembles tree bark. The fungus caused him to lose the use of his fingers. By the time Mahmud arrived back in Bangladesh this past summer, he had already had multiple surgeries that reconstructed one

of his hands. The donations provided by doodles4change went to pay for his medicine, surgeries and general medical costs. For another patient, the non-profit was able to pay the entire cost of a leg procedure. With her observant eye, Mahmud discovered a man who was in the hospital with his father and had been told that he could not afford the surgery. Realizing how perfect the timing was, Mahmud offered to pay for the whole surgery with a portion of the doodles4change proceeds.

“That was what really touched because I knew exactly what the money was going towards versus just general medical expenses,” Mahmud said. The U.S. Dollar equivalent of that surgery was $325. Doodles4change’s work with the community in the U.S. is just as extensive as the support for medical patients in Bangladesh. On Sept. 16, doodles4change won a raffle that allowed them to host an event at United Skates of America, a roller skating rink in Medford, New York. The skating rink provided the venue and allowed doodles4change to keep all the proceeds. Under the temporary name “skate4change,” they were allowed to choose a general admission price for people that came and fundraise in a new way, other than relying solely on selling art prints. The event was coordinated by the non-profit’s programming chairs. One of whom, Sheryar Mirza, a junior biochemistry major, has been friends with Mahmud since the second grade. “We make sure to hold events at places that are the cheapest source for us to maximize their profits as all the proceeds go to donations,” Mirza said. “We made over $700 at skates4change and that put into perspective for us that we could expand more into different types of events.” They are also working on being approved as an official club by Stony Brook Student Engagement and Activities. On Oct. 2, doodles4change worked in association with Project

Sunshine for the club’s first annual Fall Benefit. The fundraiser for the organization allowed the first 100 people that came and donated $5 to donate a Beanie Baby to a patient at Stony Brook University Hospital. Doodles4change brought desserts and henna tattoos for attendees. The reason why Mahmud has dedicated so much time and effort into supporting less privileged people stems back to a family penchant for giving. Her mom is a primary inspiration. With inexplicable luck, her mother would go into convenience stores and play the small lotto machines, somehow winning constantly. Reaping $200-300 per win, her mother sent the money back to her own father who has a prosthetic leg. The chain of giving did not end with him; Raeqa’s grandfather would use the money and buy wheelchairs for those in need in his community. When asked about their ambitious, long-term goals, Mahmud reminisced that this non-profit started out as an ambitious goal. But the setbacks and difficulties keep everyone in the team from getting ahead of themselves. “We know to work from small-term goal to small-term goal now,” she said. The prospective success of their long-term plan is as imposing as creating a perfect face in a monotonous white space. But Mahmud is not concerned with where success begins or ends. She starts with a blank piece of paper.

Album Review: Marilyn Manson seems stunted in new music By Kayla McKiski

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Marilyn Manson, the self-proclaimed “God of f**k” and goth-rocker antagonist of the 90’s, seems to be lost. His 10th studio album, “Heaven Upside Down,” released on Oct. 6, is a failed attempt at preserving himself as the paragon of provocation, a persona that might be long gone anyways. Reminiscent of his earlier and angrier sound, Manson contrasts his mediocre 2015 album, “The Pale Emperor,” with harsh vocals and war-ready instrumentals. But Manson takes nostalgia too far. Instead of delivering thought-provoking messages to the public, he repackages old criticisms of American genericism and religiosity. The album begins with “Revelation #12,” an aggressive industrial rock track complete with sirens, screaming and the predictable Bible references that litter the record. The chorus, “one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 / Revelations come in 12, I’ll say it again,” is catchy, but that could be because most of America can count. The next song, “Tattooed in Reverse,” opens with “So f**k your bible and your Babel / I made this psalm into my dirty bomb.” Arguably the boldest statement on the album, it references those who use religious texts as excuses to commit violent acts. “WE KNOW WHERE YOU F**KING LIVE,” the third track and lead single, was released on Sept. 11.

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Manson performing at the Concord Pavillion in Concord, California in July 2015. Manson released his 10th studio album, “Heaven Upside Down,” on Friday, Oct. 6. A few days later, it was followed by a music video of gun-toting nuns marching through suburbia alongside Manson. The menacing track, which details the violent destruction of a neighborhood, plays as the group wreaks havoc. Track four, “SAY10,” warrants an eye roll for its blatant play on Satan. Manson attempts to push more religious buttons with allusions to Adam and Eve’s sons, Cain and Abel, singing, “Cocaine and Abel, I don’t baptize whores.” Christian-mocking is put on hold on “KILL4ME.” The sexy groove captures a Bonnie and Clyde-esque relationship in which Manson tries

manipulating his lover into killing for him. He sings, “you won’t be kissing me, unless you kill for me.” “Saturnalia” is a tempo change. The song has decent guitar work and and electronics that sound like they were extracted from a science fiction movie. However, the tune is eight minutes long, so it is hard not to turn it into background noise after minute five. Track seven, “JE$U$ CRI$I$,” has a nursery-rhyme-esque beginning. Manson sings “I write songs to fight and to f**k to / If you wanna fight, then I’ll fight you / If you wanna f**k, I will f**k you / Make up your mind or I’ll make it up for you.”

The uninspired chant makes it easy to consider this song the laziest on the album. “JE$U$ CRI$I$” sounds like lyrics from a misunderstood teenager’s notebook. The gothic ballad “Blood Honey” is the type of song you would expect that misunderstood teenager to do drugs in a basement to. Immature and perfect for a self-deprecating young person, Manson sings “I f**k every broken-crazy-girl / Instead of hanging from the ceiling.” Another dark track on love, “Heaven Upside Down,” is more palatable due to acoustic guitar and background vocals. First time collaborator and former Dentata front-

woman, Dana Wright’s, “ahs” and “ohs” make for a sexy addition to the song. The 10-track record ends with the laidback “Threats of Romance.” Manson paints himself as a predator in the piano-driven piece, preying on someone who is already emotionally damaged. The song ends with Manson literally screaming “I like you damaged.” In a recent interview, Manson redeclared, “I am chaos.” He was chaos — two decades ago. The minister of the Church of Satan was ironing Nazi flags, dragging broken beer bottles across his chest, stirring tension at award shows and disturbing audiences with his theatrical, skin-crawling version of the Eurythmics song “Sweet Dreams.” When America needed a wakeup call, he was the first to point out societal flaws in politics, religion and the American Dream through his music. In 1996, Manson fueled suburban dinner table conversations with his widely acclaimed album, “Antichrist Superstar.” Today, the 48-year-old is repeating old ideas, forcing grotesqueness and lacking admirable shock value. While aggressive and full of religious digs, Manson’s new material would make a church-going Catholic in earshot uncomfortable at the worst. Maybe it is because he does not drink absinthe anymore. Maybe it is because of new associates, like rapper Lil Uzi Vert. Whatever the reason, “Heaven Upside Down” is not the well-crafted critique we had hoped for from Manson.

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Becoming best friends with my mom By Rawson Jahan Assistant News Editor

Growing up it always felt like my mom and I were worlds apart. In some ways, we literally were — she with her Bengali and Persian roots, and me with my American ones. And heaven forbid our roots tried to connect together — it would not end well. I remember my mom would come to every field trip, clothed head-to-toe in bright colors, with a thick foreign accent that would make a classmate ask, “What is your mom saying?” I remember how she made friends with my fourth-grade teacher and the school crossing guard, inviting them to dinner and feeding them curried chicken and polow, a buttery rice. I remember how she never let me wear shorts or sleepover at someone’s house. Instead they could come to our house, where loud Bollywood music played in the background and the smell of warm cinnamon and cardamom chai filled the entire apartment. And what I remember the most was how I felt during all those moments, the cringe spreading through my blood, embarrassment at every corner of my body. l knew that night when I came home, I would throw a tantrum — tell my mom to be more like the other “American moms,” who were not so strict or so involved in every aspect of their daughters’ lives. I was a bratty, selfish kid and I knew where to target her so that it hurt.

When the opportunity to go away to college came, I jumped at it. My mom was supportive but she was also heartbroken that her daughter was moving away. I could see the sadness in her eyes when she asked me, “Will you visit us from time to time, and can we visit you?” It was at that moment that I truly felt connected to my mom, that even though I wanted this independence, a part of me would miss having her at arm’s length. The last three years have been full of ups and downs, but I have always had one best friend there by my side — my mother. From the two-hour drives she took whenever I missed home-cooked meals to the 3 a.m. phone calls she would answer when I could not figure out how to use a washing machine my freshman year, she has proven her dedication to me. My mom has been there with me through it all, and now that I have matured, I have a newfound respect for her. I think of all the fights I could have saved myself from having with her if I had realized this sooner, but in some ways I am thankful too that things were the way they were growing up. Maybe I would have never realized how much we love each other if I did not butt heads with her the way I did. Going home on weekends is a luxury and something that I look forward to. I love watching Bollywood movies with her right after our daily dose of CNN. She makes me a huge cup of cinnamon and cardamom chai and we sip, talk and laugh. She listens to my dreams and does

not judge me when I tell her I do not know if I want to go to law school or try and become a broadcast journalist. I ask her about her childhood and the dreams that she had. I never knew that my mom was in medical school, that she gave up her career to raise a family. My mom tells me how she was a nurse in the Red Cross during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, and how her mom yelled at her for wearing shorts too. She tells me about her past loves, her old modeling photos and the broadcast career that she thought of having once like me. We speak about once taboo topics, like “Do you have a boyfriend?” and if marijuana is actually good for the body. We visit all the Instagram-worthy food and tourist places I find, we eat and have a good time. My mom is my photographer and she takes all my fire flicks for Instagram. If that is not real love, I am not sure what is. In my 21 years of living, I have learned that friends come and go, but my mom will never leave. Sure, we still do not always see eye-to-eye on things, and sometimes my mom will lecture me for certain Instagram shots, but there is a respect between us, an understanding of each other’s feelings. Most importantly, I have learned that our vast cultural roots can merge together, because my mom was trying all along. Maybe it does take college and to be in our 20s to realize how wonderful a mom truly can be.

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Opinions

Monday, October 16, 2017

Letter to the Editor: Stanley's salary is bad for our budget

By Bryan Carroll Contributing Writer

Could the Seawolves community learn from a similar college community nearby? On Sept. 21, it was reported in Sports Illustrated and the New York Daily News that UConn’s Hall of Fame basketball coach, Geno Auriemma, would voluntarily not accept a salary until the Connecticut legislature passed a fiscal budget that would rescind the current proposed cuts to the university. While Stony Brook University has seen decreases in its state appropriations in recent years, there has not been a public face willing to sacrifice like the basketball coach at UConn. Auriemma said that he decided to undertake this because the proposed cuts would hinder academic excellence and accessibility at UConn for his grandchildren and future Huskies. I wonder why there has not been any similar talk here at Stony Brook. Would the members of the current administration be willing to do the same? Could the current Stony Brook administration take a cue from the old sports saying, “there’s no ‘I’ in team?” It has been reported that Kenneth Kaushansky, M.D., senior vice president for health sciences and dean of the School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, is in the running to be the president of the University of New Mexico. Perhaps, we (as a collective community) are not paying him enough. The New York Post reported that Kaushansky

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President Samuel L. Stanley, Jr. discussed budget issues at his annual State of the University Address on Sept. 27. Stanley's 2015-16 total compensation was $708,671. made over $700,000 in 2010. He is currently making even more than President Stanley. The prior provost (Dennis N. Assanis) also left to seek a higher salary. In 2015, Stanley alone saw a contracted 10% increase in his state salary ($40,640) to $440,640, according to the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally-conservative think tank and government watchdog organization based in Albany, New York. His state salary did not increase from 2009

to 2014 but he still received a separate salary from the Research Foundation of $250,000. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, for the 201415 school year, Stanley took home a $690,640 paycheck. They found that for every million that Stony Brook spent, Stanley received $319. President Stanley has previously donated $125,000 in 2012 (for endowed scholarships) and $50,000 in 2014 to the Stony

Brook Children’s Hospital. However, there is no information to what he has donated in 2016 or 2017. I wonder, if Stony Brook’s budget is so dire that it needs to reduce available academic programs, would it be only logical that everyone would share in these reductions? Has anyone asked Stanley to reduce his salary to something similar to Governor Cuomo’s? The governor’s office did make a suggestion in 2016 that college presidents were overpaid.

I wonder the counterargument that would be presented that would say that the president’s salary is in line with other AAUP college salaries or is paid for his worth to the institution. While I understand the value of a salary and that a college president should be paid for his or her services, should the president lead by example and temporarily reduce his salary to be that of Cuomo ($179,000)? I could imagine the lifestyle changes that would occur if you go from a six figure salary to a lesser six figure salary or the number of ramen noodles that are had. The president does receive a car allowance and other fringe benefits, according to public documents. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, a news magazine that reports on colleges and universities, Stanley’s more than $700,000 paycheck in the 2015-16 school year was equivalent to the average tuition, $8,855, for 80 Seawolves. I wonder what positive impacts to the community might occur with this budget line transfer? I could imagine that Stanley would receive some well-needed good will. He did just start holding office hours, an idea that has talked about since earlier in the year. As President Stanley is a member of the Division I Board of Directors for NCAA, I would like to end by saying, “the ball is in your court, sir!”

If I hand in assignments on time, please grade them on time

By Andrew Goldstein Opinions Editor

Dear Professor X, On the first day of class, you stated that you do not accept late assignments. Deadlines are deadlines. Due dates are due dates. In the real world, bosses will not accept late assignments and neither will you. One student raised her hand and announced that, as per your syllabus, late assignments would be accepted, but at the expense of a single letter grade per day late. You acquiesced. With this in mind, I made sure to email in my assignments as well as hand in physical copies at the beginning of class. When we handed in our first assignment – a one-page, preliminary paper – you declared that you would grade and comment on every student’s paper by the evening. That was Friday. It was 1 p.m. the following Tuesday before I received my graded and commented homework back. Two weeks later, I handed in a longer assignment. It has been one month since you confirmed receiving my homework and I still have no idea what you thought of it or how I did. The time to drop your class without registering a ‘W’ has passed in that time. I have handed in a second major assignment. I assume that the

latest time to G/P/NC your class will pass before I get either assignment back. After much thought, I have decided that the proper approach to ensure more speedy and fair grading would be to penalize you for handing back assignments late. For every day after an agreed upon date that you return my homework, I should get half a letter grade of extra credit. “But I have a whole slew of assignments to grade in addition to my own work and research. How can you expect me to grade all your assignments in such a timely fashion?” You protest. I have 15 credits of class, two part-time jobs and a club I am involved in. Somehow, I have found the time to complete and submit my assignments on time. As a professor who is part of the “real world,” please model the timeliness you expect from me. While we are on the topic of written assignments, I noticed that you took off points from my earlier homeworks due to a single misspelling and a sentence that did not follow parallel form. Meanwhile, in the slides you posted in class, you used the wrong “its.” This was clearly a typo, but it would only be fair if every student received an extra point or two for such an error. I spoke to a friend about my issues with your class and he – a lawyer – commiserated.

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Orin Zebest editing a letter he wrote in 2007. While professors expect students to meet deadlines and submit their work on time, there is no timeline for returning homework. According to him, judges will routinely not accept late documents – even if they are sent in mere hours after they are due. He will attempt to contact these same judges after the 30 or 45 day period in which sentencing is supposed to occur only to be met with excuses

about why no decision has been made. Maybe this is your elaborate way to train us for the “real world” where bosses expect work to be done promptly but will be afflicted with sluggishness when anything is expected from them. I feel like that assumes too much of you.

Give me back my homework. An annoyed student P.S. To reach me with these assignments, please purchase the “3rd edition homework grading” package from Pearson for $130. Thank you.

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Sports

Monday, October 16, 2017

Five players score in Women's Soccer 6-1 victory over UMBC By Ryan Pavich Contributing Writer

As the ball flew into the net off a volley from freshman forward Alyssa Francese in the 10th minute for the first goal of the game, an offensive onslaught began for the Stony Brook women’s soccer team. The Seawolves won their match on Sunday, Oct. 15 against UMBC 6-1 at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium, tying their season high for goals in a game. “We were able to come out today and really find me, along with the other two forwards up top,” Francese said. “We were able to create opportunities and chances, and fortunately I was able to do that and finish the chances I was given.” The win was a rebound from the team’s last match against Binghamton, where they were shut out 1-0. After Sunday’s match, head coach Brendan Faherty said the team did not take the loss too hard and was ready to get a win on Sunday. “We’re a pretty resilient group,” Faherty said. “I don’t think we get too high, we don’t get too low, we’re a group that stays pretty focused in the moment, playing in the present. Just trying to continue to be positive.” The Seawolves set the tone of the game early, pressuring the Retriever box and generating 21 shots, with 12 on goal. Senior forward Manuela Corcho capitalized off a rebound from junior

forward Jordyn Klapper in the 37th minute to put Stony Brook ahead 2-0 before halftime. The offense was even quicker out of the gate in the second half. Senior midfielder Samantha Goodwin benefitted from an error by UMBC junior goalkeeper Leah Roth in the 51st minute, when she initially blocked a shot but allowed the ball to roll through her legs into the goal. UMBC immediately committed a foul on defense, giving Stony Brook a penalty kick that Francese converted into the fourth goal of the game. “I was glad [about] the way we came out in the second half,” Faherty said. “Scored two quick goals and kind of put the game away, cause y’know at 2-0 they’re still kind of hanging around but at 4-0, it’s kind of game over.” The game firmly in control at that point, the Seawolves never let the pressure dissipate. Junior defender Allyson Baner netted a ball into the corner of the goal in the 66th minute off a pass from Klapper, pushing the score to 5-0. After UMBC broke the shutout in the 75th minute via a goal from senior midfielder Gabby Boehmer, freshman forward Michaela Goglia recovered a shot from sophomore forward Sophia Morell and got past Wilkins for the sixth Stony Brook goal of the game. Faherty credited the team’s play on the wings with

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Freshman forward Alyssa Francese dribbles past a defender with the ball in a game against UMass Lowell on Sept. 28. She scored two goals in a 6-1 victory against UMBC. opening up Stony Brook’s attacking game and generating chances in front of the goal. “I think that’s where we find success when we play a 4-3-3,” Faherty said. “You’ve got a lot of space on the flanks for our outside backs and our wingers to

get involved in the attack, and I think we got a lot of really good effort from a lot of different players today. We played a lot of different combinations of forwards and attacking players, so I was happy to score some goals and get a really good win in the conference.”

The win improves the women’s soccer team’s overall record to 8-8 on the season and 4-2 in conference play. The Seawolves will prepare to face Albany for their senior night at home on Thursday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m.

Hockey wins record sixth straight game in victory over URI

By Peter Lupfer Contributing Writer

When junior defenceman Filip Akermark scored for Rhode Island 1:15 into Saturday’s game at The Rinx in Hauppauge, there was a sense that for the first time this season Stony Brook’s undefeated record

may be in jeopardy. This 1-0 deficit was the first time the team trailed this year. Instead, the Seawolves kept their heads up and, on the offensive strength of their young forwards, skated to a 4-2 victory against the Rams. “We stayed kind of calm,” head coach Chris Garofalo said about the

team’s reaction to the early goal. “We really didn’t lose our focus. We kept going, just stayed our course, and it worked.” After being down 1-0 for a majority of the first period, Stony Brook scored the next four goals to secure its sixth straight win to open the season. The 6-0 record is

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Freshman forward Keith O'Brien skates down the ice into the offensive zone with the puck in a game against the University of Rhode Island on Friday, Oct. 13.

the team’s longest undefeated streak in its 10-year history as an American Collegiate Hockey Association D1 club. Akermark’s goal put his team on top and gave Rhode Island most of the momentum in the period. However, a late slashing call on Rhode Island provided Stony Brook with a chance to even the score before heading to the locker room at the end of the first. Stony Brook did just that. Freshman forward Keith O’Brien scored his second goal of the year, tying the game with 26.2 seconds to go in the first period. O’Brien’s goal was the sparkplug for the Seawolves’ comeback. The Seawolves came onto the ice ready to go for the second period and scored three times to turn the 1-1 tie into a lead. Freshman forward Joey Slevin scored his second of the weekend on a breakaway 38 seconds into the frame. Three minutes later, O’Brien struck on the power play for his second goal of the game, giving the team a 3-1 lead. The scoreboard remained unchanged for most of the period until a 2-on-1 breakaway goal from sophomore forward Kevin Murphy. Murphy’s fourth of the season gave the Seawolves a 4-1 advantage through 40 minutes. Stony Brook dictated the pace for most of the third period, but failed to convert on a number of quality scoring chances. Rhode Island found the back of

the net once, but their comeback attempt came up short and Stony Brook won by a final score of 4-2. One particularly strong area of the Seawolves’ game was special teams. They put two pucks in the net with the man-advantage and the penalty killing units held Rhode Island’s power play off the board in all six of its opportunities. “Special teams are always important, but today they were really special,” Garofalo said. “I’m not happy with the penalties we were taking and I also wasn’t too happy with the referee to be honest. I thought he was very inconsistent and I thought some of the calls were very questionable, but overall I was happy with our PK, our power play was good, and we’ve been doing very well on special teams.” O’Brien added an assist to his stat line on the night, extending the trend of underclassman offense. Rookie forwards are responsible for eight of Stony Brook’s past 10 goals. “We felt [the tying goal] coming,” O’Brien said. “We came out of the gate slow. We needed that power play goal to get into the second with momentum. We came out in the second and scored two quick ones.” The Seawolves hit the road next, playing two games on Friday, Oct. 20 and Saturday, Oct. 21 at Ohio University. The puck will drop for both games at 7:30 p.m.

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Football's big 4th quarter leads to Homecoming win over UNH “We’ve been on the other side and supposedly we can’t finish games [but] we finished it tonight. ”

By Joseph Konig

Assistant Arts & Entertainment Editor

Stony Brook Football entered the fourth quarter of its Saturday night homecoming matchup at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium against FCS No. 12-ranked UNH trailing 24-22. After surrendering 18 points before the half, a rushing touchdown from junior running back Donald Liotine with 6:42 left in the third quarter cut the Seawolves’ deficit to two at the start of the fourth quarter. Then came Stony Brook sophomore cornerback Gavin Heslop. New Hampshire began an early fourth quarter drive at Stony Brook’s 19-yard line. Wildcats junior quarterback Trevor Knight hiked the ball and Heslop came running in, blitzing Knight on his blind side. Heslop took Knight down, forcing a fumble that sophomore linebacker Keegan Henderson recovered at the two-yard line. From there, junior quarterback Joe Carbone found senior wideout Ray Bolden on a touchdown pass in the back of the endzone at the 13:37 mark. The Seawolves took a 28-24 lead on what turned out to be the decisive series in the team’s 3824 victory. After the game, head coach Chuck Priore commended his team’s resilience and resolve in the second half.

-Chuck Priore

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Senior running back Stacey Bedell celebrating a 63-yard rushing touchdown in the Homecoming game against New Hampshire on Saturday at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium. “I’m really proud of this team,” Priore said in a press release. “At halftime we didn’t say much and made our adjustments. The kids sat there and knew they would play well. We’ve been on the other side and supposedly we can’t finish games and we finished it tonight.” The Seawolves’ run game was firing on all cylinders once again, combining for 212 rushing yards through four quarters of action. Senior running back Stacey Bedell

ran for 157 yards and a 64-yard rushing touchdown, averaging 8.3 yards per carry. In tandem with a pair of rushing touchdowns from Liotine, Stony Brook’s offense was once more driven through its play on the offensive line and in the backfield. Stony Brook’s defense surrendered 373 yards through the air, but the Seawolves stifled their opponent’s ground game, holding the Wildcats to -10 total rushing yards.

Stony Brook’s defense sacked Knight six times in total as junior linebackers Noah McGinty and Shayne Lawless tallied two sacks each. Senior cornerback Travon Reid-Segure picked up his team-leading fourth interception of the season. Junior kicker Alex Lucansky’s struggles continued on Saturday. Lucansky has made only one of his last three field goal attempts and five of his last seven extra point attempts after beginning the season

6-6 on field goals and 14-15 on extra points. Priore opted to go with junior kicker Nick Courtney in the second half, who completed a 29yard field goal in the fourth quarter, the first of his career. The win over UNH was a strong team response after last week’s 2420 loss to Delaware that caused Stony Brook to drop out of the FCS rankings.Stony Brook’s win improved the team to 5-2 and 4-1 in the CAA. The defeat of UNH, the second-highest ranked team the Seawolves have ever defeated, has given Stony Brook the most FCS Coaches Poll votes of any unranked team. The team will recharge its batteries going into its bye week, and will next take to the field on the road at No. 10-ranked Richmond. Kickoff is on Saturday, Oct. 28 at 3 p.m.

Adrianna Oliva of Team IMPACT joins Swimming and Diving

By Joseph Konig

Assistant Arts & Entertainment Editor

Adrianna Oliva’s phone background features a horse named Cosmo, from a camp in Plainview, New York she attended over the summer. She loves to swim. She is a little shy. She has a dog named Ticky and a bearded dragon named Scales. She makes a mean homemade pizza. In these ways and others, Adrianna is just like many other 14-year-old girls. What makes Adrianna unique among her peers is that she is a survivor of a brain tumor and, as of Thursday, is an official member of the Stony Brook swimming and diving team. “We are very excited to have Adrianna,” sophomore Lexie Bakke said. “We look forward to having her at our meets, coming to hang out with us, and adding [Adrianna] to the team as a person.” Adrianna signed her official letter of intent in front of the team and her family at University Pool on Thursday. As part of the ceremony, Adrianna received her official Stony Brook swim cap and a locker in the team’s locker room. “We decorated it and put a banner with her name on it,” Bakke said. “That’ll be hers as long as she’s with [the team].” Adrianna was diagnosed with an ependymoma, a malignant tumor that affects the central nervous system, at age 2 by Dr.

Mike Edner, a neurosurgeon and the current director of pediatric neurosurgery at Stony Brook University Hospital. Since then she has had 13 surgeries, radiation therapy and had to completely relearn how to walk and talk. “Everything was a challenge: talking, walking, motor skills – both fine and gross,” Adrianna’s father, George Oliva, said. “She’s a fighter. Most people wouldn’t notice anything wrong with her. There’s some subtle things that my wife and I can see in her, but she’s overcome a lot.” The signing day ceremony was organized by Team IMPACT, a nonprofit charity organization that pairs children who face serious or chronic illness with college athletic teams. Three other teams at Stony Brook – the men’s and women’s soccer teams and the baseball team – have previously been paired with Team IMPACT kids. “When Janelle told us about the program, Team IMPACT, and what it is as an organization and what we can do as a team… immediately all of us got really excited,” Bakke said. “We all responded to the group chat within two minutes saying ‘we want to help, we want to help, we want to help.’” Adrianna connected with Team IMPACT through Camp Sunshine, a summer camp in Maine for kids who are affected by life-threatening illnesses.

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Adrianna Oliva, 14, is battling brain cancer. She signed her official letter of intent with the Stony Brook swimming and diving team as a part of Team IMPACT. “They asked if any kids needed assistance in getting set up with a team anywhere,” Adrianna’s mother, Michele Oliva, said. Oliva graduated from Stony Brook in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy. “They said the swim team would love to take her and it just happens that Adrianna loves swimming.” Adrianna, who swims for the Ward Melville High School varsity swim team, was thrilled to be paired with the Stony Brook team. On Tuesday, the team went

to her house for a birthday party, with homemade pizza courtesy of Adrianna’s work in the kitchen. “We’ve been talking about it since the summer and we couldn’t wait to meet her,” Bakke said. “We’ve just been having so much fun going over to her house, having food, and meeting the rest of her family.” Now that she is part of the team, Adrianna will attend practices, team dinners and bonding activities. She will also attend the two home meets Stony Brook has

scheduled this season on Nov. 18 and Jan. 19. However, there is one thing she will avoid doing with her new teammates – “dryland,” the out-of-pool workouts swimmers do to stay in shape. When asked if she would like to join the team in these intensive exercises, Adrianna, who has her Ward Melville swim practices to worry about, responded quickly and succinctly. “I’m good,” she said, sparking laughter from her new swim family.

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Five new members inducted into Hall Of Fame class of 2017 By Chris Parkinson Contributing Writer

Stony Brook Athletics inducted five new members into the Rita & Kurt Eppenstein Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday night. The class is the 16th in the university’s history and the second since its hiatus back in 2006. This year’s class includes Stony Brook Baseball alumnus and San Diego Padres outfielder Travis Jankowski, Olympic runner Lucy Oliver (Van Dalen), legendary Stony Brook Swimming and Diving head coach Dave Alexander, Stony Brook Men’s Basketball alumnus Earl Keith and Stony Brook Softball alumna Alyssa Breres. “It’s so important for us to celebrate our past,” Director of Athletics Shawn Heilbron said. “Where we want to go with the future of Stony Brook Athletics is only possible because of the accomplishments of those that came before us. To induct this special group of five is another step in that journey.”

Breres, named the America East Pitcher of the Year in 2008, was the first inductee of the night. She led Stony Brook to its first America East Softball Championship and its first appearance in the NCAA Division I Tournament that year. She currently holds the program’s all-time records in strikeouts and wins. “It is a great honor to be here tonight and to be apart of this class,” Breres said. “When I walked on campus in 2006, I didn’t know what a Seawolf was. But now I am a proud ambassador of Seawolf Nation.” Jankowski was the 2012 America East Player of the Year and a pivotal member of the 2012 Stony Brook baseball team that participated in the NCAA Division I College World Series. His 79 stolen bases are a program record, and he held the record for career triples until it was broken last May. “With all the places that baseball has taken me, I can still truthfully say that Stony Brook has been

the best,” Jankowski said in his speech. “Stony Brook provided not only me but 27 other men with memories that we’ll be able to tell our grandkids.” The third inductee was Keith, a Stony Brook Basketball legend, who held the program record of 778 field goals made prior to Jameel Warney surpassing it during the 2015-16 season. Keith was also a part of the 1977-78 team that went to the Division III Final Four. He could not help but reminisce about his days on campus 40 years later. “It feels great to be back here,” Keith said. “When they told me I had been inducted, all these memories kept coming back and how life on campus was. One thing I loved about this school was there was never a problem with color and everyone was just how they were.” Oliver performed in the 1500 meter in the London Olympics in 2012 and the 5000 meter race in Rio in 2016, representing New Zealand. At Stony Brook, she helped lift the cross

country/track and field team to four championships. The 2012 America East Woman of the Year earned All-America Honors and won the mile race at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, with a facility record time of 4:39.76, becoming the first national champion in Stony Brook history for any sport. “Being inducted in the Stony Brook Hall of Fame was something I’ve always dreamed of, and it’s truly a dream come true for me,” Oliver said. “It’s an a bsolute honor.” In her speech, Oliver discussed what Stony Brook meant to her and how the school has helped her career. “Stony Brook gave me the opportunity to pursue my academic goals and my passion for running simultaneously,” Oliver said. “Stony Brook allowed me to travel this beautiful country, which I now consider my second home. It also built the foundation for my professional running career, which led me to compete in the London and Rio Olympics.”

Capping off the night was the induction of Stony Brook Swimming and Diving Coach Dave Alexander, who passed away in 2012. Alexander began coaching the men’s swimming team at Stony Brook as an assistant in 1979. He also played a pivotal role in forming the women’s swimming and diving program. Alexander became the head coach of both the men’s and women’s teams in 1995 before passing away in 2012. His legacy includes 300 dual-meet victories and three-time Metropolitan Coach of the Year honors. His wife, Moira Alexander, represented him at the induction ceremony. “Dave would’ve been humble about this,” Moira Alexander said. “He believed it was not just about the coach, but it was all about the swimmers and assistant coaches that helped the whole program succeed.” This class of five successful Stony Brook athletes now lifts the total number of inductees in the Stony Brook Athletics Hall of Fame to 57 since its creation in 1991.

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