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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread
« Reply #285 on: September 27, 2019, 01:11:17 pm »
https://alumniandfriends.stonybrook.edu/site/DocServer/President_s_Report_-_Sept._2019.pdf?docID=1841

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XIII. FALL ENROLLMENT
A total of 26,814 students were registered at the end of Day 15 in fall 2019, 558 more than last
year at the same point in the term. Enrollment counts for 2019 represent record levels for
undergraduate and graduate students. Compared to fall 2018, the following changes were
observed by area:
 + 311 West Campus undergraduates
 + 30 Graduate School (West, HSC, Southampton)
 + 27 School of Professional Development
 + 175 East Campus/HSC
 + 15 Southampton location



why isnt bernstein on this list?  perhaps this is normal?


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Presidential Search
The search for Stony Brook University's next president is underway. In accordance with SUNY
policy and guidelines, we have completed the required processes to select a search committee and
a search firm. The Search Committee members are committed to conducting a search that will
yield an accomplished, visionary and inspirational president to lead Stony Brook University, as it
continues its forward trajectory as one of the top public research universities in the United States.
Search Committee members include:
 Linda Armyn, Stony Brook Council
 Mark Aronoff, Faculty Representative (Linguistics)
 Kimberly Joy Dixon, Member of the Professional/Support Staff (Career Center)
 Axel Drees, Faculty Representative (Physics & Astronomy)
 Joshua Dubnau, Faculty Representative (Anesthesiology)
 Brooke Ellison PhD '12, Faculty Representative (Health and Rehabilitation Sciences)
 Richard L. Gelfond ’76, Hon. ’04, Stony Brook Foundation
 Christopher Hahn, Stony Brook Council
 Shaheer Kahn, Undergraduate Student Representative
 Father Alex Karloutsos, Stony Brook Council
 Kevin S. Law '82, Stony Brook Council and Search Committee Chair
 Celia Marshik, Faculty Representative (English)
 I. Memming Park, Faculty Representative (Neurobiology & Behavior)
 Clint Rubin, Faculty Representative (Biomedical Engineering)
 Nicole Sampson, Interim Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
 James H. Simons, Hon. '92, Stony Brook Foundation
 President Harvey Stenger, Binghamton University, Chancellor's Designee
 Christina Vargas '90, MA '93, Alumni Representative
 Xiaoqing Zhang, Graduate Student Representative
We have hired the firm of Isaacson, Miller to aid in our search. Michael Baer is our lead search
consultant, and he will be assisted by Ernest Brooks. Chancellor Kristina Johnson will charge
the committee at its first meeting in late September.
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread
« Reply #286 on: October 09, 2019, 09:58:33 am »
so after all that- LaValle was sold out (or near sold out).  for anyone who was there- does that mean:

-the students gave up on the boycott
-different students showed up than those that boycotted
-few students showed up; it was locals/community comprising 13k fans

or a combination of all.
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread
« Reply #287 on: October 09, 2019, 10:49:47 am »
The boycott stopped happening once people realized there was still going to be a tailgate, because quite a lot of kids pulled up to the new lot (which was bigger anyways) to tailgate. I don’t know how many stuck around for the game, judging by social media posts many don’t care about football in general, and I definitely wouldn’t expect this crowd to repeat next week. My biggest hope is that people who loved the tailgating experience this week will want to do it for the rest of the home games this season – it’s embarrassing that it only happens once a year – and I’ve heard people say that they’d go to every football game if they could

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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread
« Reply #288 on: October 09, 2019, 05:17:00 pm »
https://www.sbstatesman.com/2019/10/06/the-benefits-of-stony-brook-serving-alcohol-at-athletic-games/

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In the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 seasons, the NCAA concluded that selling alcohol reduced the amount of unruly behavior at sports games by large margins.
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread
« Reply #289 on: October 09, 2019, 06:50:44 pm »
https://www.sbstatesman.com/2019/10/06/the-benefits-of-stony-brook-serving-alcohol-at-athletic-games/

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In the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 seasons, the NCAA concluded that selling alcohol reduced the amount of unruly behavior at sports games by large margins.

Come on, seriously?   Sounds like the $ grab slanted this study a bit.
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread
« Reply #290 on: October 09, 2019, 08:31:21 pm »
i had similar suspicions.  given, the NCAA's history.  and, common sense.
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread
« Reply #291 on: October 10, 2019, 05:15:27 am »
https://www.sbstatesman.com/2019/10/06/the-benefits-of-stony-brook-serving-alcohol-at-athletic-games/

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In the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 seasons, the NCAA concluded that selling alcohol reduced the amount of unruly behavior at sports games by large margins.

Is that because purchasing high priced beer  one at a time under a more-or- less supervised and rather slow procedure results in less problem drinking than gulping down cheap beer/mixed drinks at a furious pace  in the parking lot tailgate before the game? (Obviously there can be issues of fan alcohol-related fan unruliness under either procedure...and folks may still pound at the tailgate and top off with the slow procedure ...but there may be something to that theory.)

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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread
« Reply #292 on: October 10, 2019, 08:16:56 am »
https://www.sbstatesman.com/2019/10/06/the-benefits-of-stony-brook-serving-alcohol-at-athletic-games/

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In the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 seasons, the NCAA concluded that selling alcohol reduced the amount of unruly behavior at sports games by large margins.

Is that because purchasing high priced beer  one at a time under a more-or- less supervised and rather slow procedure results in less problem drinking than gulping down cheap beer/mixed drinks at a furious pace  in the parking lot tailgate before the game? (Obviously there can be issues of fan alcohol-related fan unruliness under either procedure...and folks may still pound at the tailgate and top off with the slow procedure ...but there may be something to that theory.)

LOL. I like your assessment!

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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread
« Reply #293 on: October 10, 2019, 08:37:42 am »
yeah, i think we were all doing the same analysis.
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread
« Reply #294 on: October 21, 2019, 07:38:37 pm »
SB Matters interviewed alumni assoc pres Rob Debrauwere: https://news.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-matters/alumni/for-alumni-association-president-debrauwere-concert-experience-lit-the-way-to-entertainment-law-career/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=matters_ad_oct


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All of these bands would come to the University. I remember Quiet Riot played in December of 1984. I injured myself working that show, almost chopped my finger off, and had to go to the University Hospital, but it was fine. I worked for George Thoroughgood, Quiet Riot, the Kinks, Paul Young, the Alarm. I used to have a cassette tape box with all my backstage passes.

All of those bands played, and I got to work at so many of those shows. Eddie Murphy, when he was first coming up, played at the University; Cyndi Lauper had a gig at which I remember working. Hot Tuna didn’t bring their own lighting guy, so we got to be the principal lighting tech. Stony Brook used to have these Strong Lighting Super Trouper carbon arc lamp spotlights: two carbon rods that have an electric charge that goes through them are brought together to ignite, and then tuned centimeters apart, continuously bringing the rods together as the carbon is vaporized to create a brilliant arc that is beamed off of a mirror in the back of the spotlight, which throws this tremendously brilliant light out onto the stage. We were in what’s now the Pritchard Gym, where the concerts were held, and you would have these spotlights all the way in the back, on scaffolding that we used to build. Someone would come in with their own lighting crew, and they would allow us to handle the spotlights, so that was a lot of fun, but for some of the performances, like Hot Tuna, they didn’t have their own lighting guy. Jorma Kaukonen himself (leader of the band) just came up to us and said, “Ah, give us some blues and reds; keep it mellow.” We got to run the whole thing ourselves.

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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread
« Reply #295 on: October 21, 2019, 07:58:46 pm »
alumni association annual report:

200k alums in 118 countries (all 50 states)
over 7500 graduates this year (about 2900 grad)
class of 2019 represents 39 states and 69 countries
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread
« Reply #296 on: February 01, 2020, 10:07:11 am »
in an attempt to consolidate the discussions into one thread-

http://sbufan.createaforum.com/stony-brook-basketball/game-23-at-umass-lowell-129-7pm/msg29161/#msg29161

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Attendance needs a culture change. It should be unacceptable for grown adults to literally leave college and see their parents every weekend, but for some reason, that type of behavior isn’t shamed. For that reason alone we need to accept more upstaters and less LIers, and there’s also a startling large number of people who don’t give a damn about any type of college football. People who’d rather go to the gym or study during game time. Gimme a break. The moving parts of the school all need to coordinate together to make college football the EMPHASIS of Saturdays. But it needs to start at the top.

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The biggest complaint I have is that you can drive through town and have no idea that a game is going on that weekend or even that day.

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edit- you can drive through campus on a weekend and not know it's a university.

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bottom line is if student happiness is enhanced, it's better for SB.  rising tide lifts all boats.  otherwise we'll always be on the list of most miserable schools to attend.

http://sbufan.createaforum.com/stony-brook-basketball/around-the-aecountry/msg29206/#msg29206
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread
« Reply #297 on: February 01, 2020, 10:20:07 am »
here's more food for thought- http://www.studentsreview.com/specific_detail.php3?uid=1011&f=Social

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Social Life
“... The social life on the weekends kinda sucks though ...Read full comment“... I would agree that compared to other colleges the social life is pretty bad ...Read full comment“... The social life here sucks ...Read full comment“... Social Life: The campus EMPTIES OUT on the weekends ...Read full comment“... but as for the SOCIAL LIFE ...Read full comment“... The academic programs are great, but the social life is nearly non-existant ...Read full comment“... If you are interested in an active social life, be prepared to work for it or go somewhere else ...Read full comment“... The campus is completely vacant on weekends, except for a lot of the antisocial/asexual students ...Read full comment“... The academics are slightly more than pretty good, but the social life instantaneously shatters whatever good the scholastic aspect of this school...Read full comment“... The campus is decent looking but the social life is dead because of everyone believing that we can't have a goos social life ...Read full comment“... Social/Emotional: People hold doors open for one another which is cool ...Read full comment“... The student body is diverse and interesting, and the social life is great (especially if you get involved with a student organization or club) .....Read full comment“... Socially it's got a LOT of room for improvement ...Read full comment“... As for the social life, it's really what you make of it ...Read full comment“... The social life does suck ...Read full comment“... It's my second semester at this miserable china town and I can honestly say it's all a giant prison, good for for nothing but inevitable social su...Read full comment“... Students & Social Life: A lot of people complain about the students ...Read full comment“... As for the social life ...Read full comment“... The social life here sucks ...


ad nauseum.  it keeps going.  and gets much worse.

think HS kids read this???  or do they merely experience this when they show up- IF they show up.

then ask yourself whether a 17 year old cares about partying.
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread
« Reply #298 on: February 01, 2020, 10:43:17 am »
from 2014: www.sbstatesman.com/2014/04/03/students-deserve-a-university-they-can-actually-enjoy/

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One of my professors posed an interesting question in a lecture the other day, the basic idea of which went something like this: “Why do you believe Stony Brook, one of the best schools in the SUNY system with an enormous student body, is not on the same level nationally as universities like Michigan and Penn State?”—this caused me to think. The professor seemed to believe the major flaw was the sports teams and the past performance of these schools, however, I believe it is a crisis of integration within the student body.

There are many students who simply come to the university for their classes and leave immediately after they are finished. Many of my old high school friends are guilty of this and when I ask them why, they simply respond with “why should we stay?”

If we can inspire a sense of pride within Stony Brook students similar to the pride that fills the students of these well-known universities, we can create a community. If we create a community of students who, rather than walking around campus in the sweatshirts and t-shirts of other universities, walk around in Stony Brook apparel, then, and only then, will we be able to make the leap to the level of recognition that universities such as Michigan, Penn State and others have.
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread
« Reply #299 on: February 01, 2020, 10:46:25 am »
from r/longisland


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Curious what people who go to Stony Brook or has graduated there have to say about the social life. Ive been told that there aren't much parties and that worries me a little because I would like to go to some stereotypical college parties.

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Go to Binghamton, its just as good if not better than Stonybrook and a pretty big party school

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