Author Topic: Making SB better- Idea Thread (Read 20471 times)

ecasadoSBU · « **Reply #225 on:** September 20, 2018, 05:07:03 pm »

Quote from: Chairman of the Board on September 20, 2018, 04:47:02 pm

that's great. i didnt hear. thanks for sharing!

PS it's getting awfully tight over there with IFCU, pritchard, the rec center, and the union.

i guess removing the bridge helps!

It is tight, but that's fine. The Union will have a internal walkway that connects with the Parking Lot behind and there is also a exterior walk way connecting with the new dorms.

John S. Toll Drive is slowly but surely becoming Stony Brook's golden mile! haha!(maybe more like Km)

OldSeawolf · « **Reply #226 on:** September 20, 2018, 06:53:21 pm »

Tight is good; will give it a NYC feel. All good news here.

Btw, does anyone remember why the capital project to improve Harriman Hall (Business Dept) got deep-sixed?

Seawolf97 · « **Reply #227 on:** September 20, 2018, 07:44:24 pm »

Don't forget the IPF getting ready to go up behind the stadium . That is an add on not n the master plan . Planned growth is always good for an institution .

ecasadoSBU · « **Reply #228 on:** September 21, 2018, 02:45:56 pm »

Quote from: OldSeawolf on September 20, 2018, 06:53:21 pm

Tight is good; will give it a NYC feel. All good news here.

Btw, does anyone remember why the capital project to improve Harriman Hall (Business Dept) got deep-sixed?

No idea... But that building needs are urgent overhaul.

There is only a few buildings left in the Brook that need some repairs to fit in with the newer ones. I would say that Earth & Space, Harriman, and some of the Engineering Quad buildings need a face-lift. The old existing Computer Science Building that surrounds Javits Center needs a facelift too. As I said before, those Brutalist-era building age terribly

BTW, I just read that SBU got $25 million for a Engineering Building renovation.

Chairman of the Board · « **Reply #229 on:** September 21, 2018, 03:14:36 pm »

agreed on that list and ESS should be on top (now that the union is going).

i happen to think the other ones can last a bit longer.

a few years back they redid humanities, that was necessary. id like it now if they solicited some major $$$ and renamed them "halls".

Chairman of the Board · « **Reply #230 on:** September 24, 2018, 02:20:56 pm »

carrying over discussion from the football thread- alarming-

from r/ApplyingToCollege

from r/BinghamtonUniversity

from r/SBU

Seawolf97 · « **Reply #231 on:** September 24, 2018, 03:16:45 pm »

Interesting insider information. Everything in life is what YOU make of it. No to spoon feed you social life or anything else.

Chairman of the Board · « **Reply #232 on:** September 24, 2018, 03:43:07 pm »

i do agree- and you'll probably see others do the same. but it's still a hindrance, and, all the negativity in writing is bad. especially when the opposite is written about our sister school.

VA_Seawolf · « **Reply #233 on:** September 24, 2018, 04:16:27 pm »

Quote from: Seawolf97 on September 24, 2018, 03:16:45 pm

Interesting insider information. Everything in life is what YOU make of it. No to spoon feed you social life or anything else.

I have to laugh at this because I heard, and have been hearing this same BS line for over a DECADE to describe the social life at SBU. At some point it's a cop out. If one person has a problem, it's probably on that person, but if the entire school and several generations of students are describing the same problem, that's on the university. We've got to improve the social scene at SBU. As Chairman mentioned in another thread, we do lose students to other universities due to our relatively weak student life. Eventually that's going to catch up with the school. There can be a balance between academics and fun. Several other schools manage this no problem. I believe we can to.

As an alum, the campus experience may not matter to you as your degree becomes more valuable as the academic ranking rises, but even if SBU is a top 50 academic institution nationally, what good does that do if the student body is miserable? You can also forget any kind of serious big time athletics if the students are miserable as that kills fan support.

Chairman of the Board · « **Reply #234 on:** September 24, 2018, 05:19:04 pm »

agreed.

perhaps this is a step in the right direction???

https://libn.com/2018/07/10/stony-brook-retail-center-is-home-cooking-for-developer/

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The Stony Brook Square development from Parviz Farahzad’s Little Rock Construction brings a 24,000-square-foot shopping and dining complex to the 3-acre site of a former nursery property across from Stony Brook University, where a young Farahzad earned three degrees after emigrating from his native Iran 51 years ago.

Farahzad, whose office is just down the road from the university and still lives in the Stony Brook area, thought the Stony Brook Square site was an ideal candidate for its new retail use.

“I knew there’s a great need for a service-oriented center to serve the university and the surrounding community,” Farahzad said.

The center will add four new buildings, while Farahzad will retain and restore an historic house that was built on the site in the 1800s.

Though it isn’t expected to be completed until year’s end, Stony Brook Square is already 50 percent leased to tenants that include Teachers’ Federal Credit Union, Jersey Mike’s Subs and a few other food-related businesses.

Chairman of the Board · « **Reply #235 on:** September 25, 2018, 03:15:05 pm »

back to the topic at hand- how do we get attendance up.

we've been given some gifts. hof/SJU dropping football. millions living in the area. no other Div I football for over 50 miles (on dry land). a large student body by any measure. wonderful facilities. the lion's share of state funding from the capital.

and yet- we really cant seem to break the average of 6k per game- and that may even be generous.

and out of those 6k, i bet a chunk are family/friends, a few hundred students, and the rest locals. just guesses.

OldSeawolf · « **Reply #236 on:** September 25, 2018, 04:10:43 pm »

Quote from: Chairman of the Board on September 25, 2018, 03:15:05 pm

back to the topic at hand- how do we get attendance up.

we've been given some gifts. hof/SJU dropping football. millions living in the area. no other Div I football for over 50 miles (on dry land). a large student body by any measure. wonderful facilities. the lion's share of state funding from the capital.

and yet- we really cant seem to break the average of 6k per game- and that may even be generous.

and out of those 6k, i bet a chunk are family/friends, a few hundred students, and the rest locals. just guesses.

You said it best - a few hundred students - that's a real problem and always has been. What if every football player was responsible for bringing 10 students each to the game (would need buy-in from team)? Need to work on incentives to getting the students out: drawings for free semester scholarships, textbooks paid for the semester, $ 500 gasoline voucher (appeal to commuters), $ 500 food voucher (will appeal to on-campus students), more gimmicky things at halftime like kicking a soccer ball (not a football) through the uprights from 40 yards out, the possibilities are limitless, but need buy-in from the athletic administration. Maybe if one of you LARGE donors could make the case, it may carry more weight and given real consideration.

Chairman of the Board · « **Reply #237 on:** September 25, 2018, 05:17:25 pm »

for reference, last year we averaged 7355 at LaValle (51487/7).

over 2 games we actually average 6k this year, which is solid...

but when november looms...

Chairman of the Board · « **Reply #238 on:** September 28, 2018, 08:50:36 am »

related: http://sbufan.createaforum.com/stony-brook-basketball/2018-19-schedule/msg22807/#new

same issue might arise.

Chairman of the Board · « **Reply #239 on:** October 03, 2018, 10:15:24 pm »

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/stony-brook-housing-fair-1.21010970

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Stony Brook University is Long Island's largest four-year college, but some of its neighbors have never been on the campus.

University officials are hoping to change that by hosting a free community fair on Saturday designed to showcase the school and let non-students know they're welcome to visit.

“When I’m out and about, I see people in Setauket who say, 'I’ve never been on the campus,' " director of community relations Joan Dickinson said in an interview last week. “In the past, people didn’t understand that they can come to campus. So we’ve spent a lot of energy saying to people, 'Yes, you can.' ”

http://www.stonybrookconcernedhomeowners.org/category/media-coverage/

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