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PRESSTHE STONY BROOK
TUESDAY, FEB 21 2012 VOL. XXXIII, ISSUE 9
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The Stony Brook Press is published fortnightly during the academic yearand twice during summer session by The Stony Brook Press ,
The Stony Brook Press
editorials
07 Weekend Finals?news
08 Club Budgets
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Calendar Wars06
USGs Efforts
14
Memes
features16
Emerson
10 Yarn Club11 My Life As09 UN Ambassador
12 Occupy SBU
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Art Supplies 21
13 RecycleMania
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Chambers
Correction: Our last issue stated the USG failed to attend both a meeting and a Senate meeting in which they were to speak to theLGBTA. The two were not separate occurances.
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THE STONY BROOK PRESSEXECUTIVE EDITORMANAGING EDITORASSOCIATE EDITORWEB EDITORBUSINESS MANAGERART DIRECTORPRODUCTION MANAGERNEWS EDITORFEATURES EDITORCULTURE EDITORSPORTS EDITOROPINION EDITORPHOTO EDITORSENIOR COPY EDITORCOPY EDITORCOPY EDITORTECHNOLOGY DIRECTORMINISTER OF ARCHIVESOMBUDSMANAQUATIC ADVISORY
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TERICHI BELLINGERKATIE BLASLOLIVIA BURNEALYSSA CARROLLAMANDA DOUVILLELAUREN DUBOISDAN CASHMARJOHN FISCHERMICHELLE FRANTINOETHAN FREEDMANARIAM FREZGHIHALLIE GOLDENJOSHUA HANICOLE KOHNPRISCILA KORBANDI LIAOBUSHRA MOLLICKMATTHEW MURRAY
38 Jeremy Linsports
39 Mens B-ball Round-up
Games
culture
Music Comics35 Sleigh Bells 34 Awkward Silence
34 Boring Rocks35 Lil B36 The Nutshell
Zombiesopinion
40 PETA
25 The Vow33 Staller Opera27 SAC Gallery
22 MFA Thesis
Gallery
28 SEX!!!30
Kevin HartsRevenge
26Stand Up 8
HOWIE NEWSBERKMANVANESSA OGLECAITHLIN PEAANDY POLHAMUSREBECCA TAPIOMATT WILLEMAIN
24 Final Fantasy
32 Tucker Max
41Birthright40
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EDITORIALSFebruary 21, 2012
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CALENDAR WARS: ADMINISTRATIONMISSTEPS AND USG COWARDICE
Stony Brook University has long been one of onlythree schools in the Association of American Universitiesto cancel classes for Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, along
A committee of four administrators has adopted a
equally respect students of all religions and provide moreconsistency from year to year, according to Vice Provost
and a half, and possibly earlier, to discuss the changes, but
supported with well-founded reasoning on the part of thecommittee, the secretive process by which the committee
drafted the new calendar stripped students and faculty of In the past, a committee that included representatives
from the University Senate and the Interfaith Center met
adopted calendar, the administration abused its power andassumed authority without seeking proper input about the
February 6 urging the administration to establish a sharedgovernance committee that would include members of the University Senate and the Interfaith Center in drafting
for religious holidays and arrange their syllabi so that
days, it seems disadvantageous to cancel classes on
proved willing to negotiate on that matter after discussions
from the campus community before making changes in thefuture, the fact that it was willing to negotiate on somechanges to the calendar is a sign that it does consider
However, the fact that the administration did notconsider any outside input on its decision to hold classes on
drafted a resolution rejecting the process by which the newcalendar was created and demanded that the changes not
But the USG Senate voted it down, and in doing so failedto send a message to the administration that it would nottolerate such a front on its right to represent the student
According to the minutes of the February 9 USG meeting,there was concern that such a demanding resolution would
that is meant to represent the students panders to theadministration rather than demanding a say on important
of trust sets a particularly sorry precedent of cowardly
-dar stripped stu-dents and facultyof their right to
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EDITORIALSFebruary 21, 2012
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FROM USG AND CAMPUSVINE, ANEARNEST EFFORT
the Undergraduate Student Government has been goingout of its way to improve its strained relationship with
decision was based on a number of complaints from stu-
Restrictive caps on how much clubs are able to spend
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the process in which it assigns budgets to each club by of-
fering to shoulder more work than the previous treasurer
encouraging sign that USG is actively pursuing better com-munication with clubs and is genuinely interested in which
Unfortunately, the two meetings were sparsely attend-
USG certainly could have better advertised the town
and if clubs were sent emails containing said information,
the date of yet another town hall in the hopes that students
few clubs, Kirnbauer and the USG Senate were forgiving
on campus will be stripped
happened to 15 clubs, theappropriate parties werecontacted, a post was madeon the USG website and theappeals process was clearly
bylaws were far from perfect and that newer provisions,
new budgets and the senate approved, only opting for a
club was unable to spend money during the fall semester,followed by a determination of if they deserved their full
Until this year, USG would meet with clubs once to
which they requested a certain amount of money from a
communicating and it would be a time for them to work out
a far more comprehensive budget management service,-
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Since thestart of the springsemester,
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the tradition of cancelling classes on Rosh Hashanah and
classes on Saturday and Sunday, though that is likely to beamended after negotiations with the Undergraduate Stu-dent Government Senate, according to Vice Provost Charles
create a calendar that is consistent and predictable fromyear to year with as much equal recognition and respect aspossible for our diverse campus community that provides
time for courses with labs, which are often hurt by class
spring break will take place after the seventh week of classduring the spring semester, which is more logical than ty-ing it to Easter and Passover much later in the semester,
Our goal is to increase the level of respect for every-
-Robbins said the committee of four administrators had
traditional calendar-drafting process carried out by a com-mittee of administrators, faculty and representatives of
On February 6, the University Senate passed a resolu-tion urging the administration to create a shared gover-nance committee that would include members of the In-
-gered the Jewish community on campus, who fear Jewish
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Students are going to have to go begging to their pro-
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According to Robbins, the population of Jewish stu-
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anger at the administration for failing to include studentand faculty input in the drafting process, especially when a
Hussein, met with Robbins in the weeks following the pre-sentation to discuss a new calendar that would include
of student input in the drafting process, but he was satis-
rejects the process by which the calendar was drafted anddemands that the senate be granted its constitutionalright to represent the student body on matters of impor-
to negotiate with the administration in the future, accord-
Robbins said that the newly amended calendar, which
the calendar will be released to the students and faculty
has been presented to the USG Senate and feedback was
CHANGES TO STONY BROOKSACADEMIC CALENDAR INEVITABLE
by John Fischer
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an upgraded version of Allocate,Undergraduate Student Government
Because of the two changes, thebudget allocation process will look
Kirnbauer told a Student ActivitiesCenter auditorium half-full of club
give them more of an opportunity to
will submit a spreadsheet containing adetailed account of how much money
year and how they intend to spend
hearings will be used as a forum to
By no means is it going to be
to be getting at the end of the year,
He indicated USG would be open to
would be more aware of what their
He did, however, warn clubs thatUSG is on a restrictive budget of three
But skepticism quickly turned to
Clubs applyingfor their budgets
this semester willbe introduced to
draft budgets andCampusvine,
A NEW ALLOCATEAND A NEW BUDGETPROCESSby Trevor Christian
Photo by Mike Pedersen
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FORMER UN AMBASSADOR FORWOMENS SOCIAL PROGRESSby Bushra Mollick
Ambassador AnwarulKarim Chowdhury led
Center as he discussedUnited Nations Security
Security, a plan that aimsto implement the activeparticipation of womenin political decision-
Born in Bangladesh,
graduate began hisdiplomatic ventures
Nations from 1996-2001, and is most noted for his work in
Chowdhury has also formerly served as President of the
breaths a day? But most of us use only 50 percent of our
people, he continued, making an analogy to our global use
way socially in the United States, the same certainly cannot
still embrace the concept that women are subordinate to
technical and logistical support for gender-sensitive
Protection is necessary because women are usual targets
internal duty to prevent violence towards women, and
in popularity among western cultures, it has yet to be
Education has emerged as one intervention women can
social justice to be served, women must takeand have theopportunity to takethe most crucial step of education to
Campusvine features a dashboard with regular updates
contact each other through Campusvine is included, as
vendors and will be able to choose which email addressJosh Graham, the president of the bowling club on
campus, has been through budget allocations before and
has been spent and how much has been allocated and is
As you have more and more events, you can see howmuch money you have left and budget appropriately, said
Every year they seem to do something to help out
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GIVING A YARNby Jen Novotny
college student do not often
But all three of these come to-gether in the form of a new club
-dents have come together to knit
on their own projects, and othersuse the abundant donated yarn
able to make something practi-cal, while at the same time beingcreative about it, club member
Hunt has attended both of the meetings and has startedlearning basic crochet tech-niques from co-founders Emma
knitters and novices to the
It was very frustrating at
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-rum that Chylinski spends a lot
the idea for her club there andreceived an enthusiastic re-
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One local woman donateda particularly large amount of yarn, asking that the group useit to make hats for her church,
which will then donate them toChylinski said they are us-
ing squares made while teachingnew members, as well as randomsquares from other knitters andcrocheters, to make baby blan-
Other than that, Chylinski says
Photo by Andrey Dotsenko
have more than like 20 people or break anything, Chylinksi said, the club should be
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foreign correspondent for
ILANA OZERNOY: AWOMAN OF COURAGEby Nicole Kohn
U.S. News & World Report
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U.S. News & World Report and The Boston Globe , she followed the
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she would regularly shop there with her parents and she would always see the
door to the Employees Only lounge;
-ployees lounge was the greatest day of
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Krisald Bala, a senior biology majorsaid, Her story inspired me, and I be-lieve it did so with much of the audi-
-ments of joy she had just going to pickup her dry cleaning down the street, or
I kept asking myself, what is real?
[is] being shot at real?Brittany Stapelfeld, a freshman
the stories she told were scary it alsomade me feel like my dream to be a journalist was achievable as long as Iam willing to be as courageous as Ilana
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-room, because I want her to inspire,
over the audience walked out of the au-ditorium with a whole new perspective
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Occupy everything! cried of thousands of protestorsaround the United States and even the world at the end of 2011, as the 99 percent voiced their complaints against
As the Occupy movement spread to campuses, a groupof students picked up on the idea and decided to form aStony Brook chapter of the movement, protesting against
Now, in semester two, you could be forgiven for thinkingthat the Occupy Stony Brook movement had been evictedfrom the agenda of on-campus activists, much the sameway that the protestors were booted out of their inner-city
in the form of somewhat abstract posters dotted throughout
remain nameless, the posters were intended to focus on
fee that was announced at the end of last semester by the
to the general student publicbeer and moneyand toldreaders to protest the bullshit at the Occupy Stony Brook
posters with our audience in mind, it could be more
Fellow occupier, Roger
Palomeque, a senior computer
terms of communication, said
Brook is non-hierarchical;
designer agreed, saying thatthere is no leadership, butthat there are advantages anddisadvantages to the Occupy
is a direct democracy, so alldecisions and actions are muchslower because you have tolisten to everyone, the designer
Occupy movement is arenouncement of the SUNY2020 billa bill that allowsstate schools in New York to
By occupying areas like the SAC lobby and putting up
Stony Brook is attempting to awaken a rebellion withinthe walls of Stony Brook and, according to our anonymous
STONY BROOK MOVEMENTOCCUPIED WITH FEES by Olivia Burne
Photo by Ethan Freedman
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during the spring semester, is a way to get students more
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over the United States and Canada are participating in thecontest, which started on February 5 and will run until
-tives from each school are responsible for weighing and re-cording the amount of traditional materials being recycled
cans, wasted food and, a new category this year, electron-
All materials that are placed in proper recycling unitsare loaded onto trucks which are then weighed on a large
of recycled materials are then recorded and taken to proper
-to other schools that rely on outside vendors in order to
Outside of the recycling component of the competi-tion, another major element is getting students active and
asked to assemble bulletin boards in the lobby of every
dorm building highlighting the importance of recycling
covered boards display signs informing students what canand cannot be recycled and giving further information
-tion among residence halls which was aimed at getting the
than just the normal, day to day telling someone to recy-cle, said Casey Kurnath, an environmental studies major
are responsible for measuring and recording the amount of
reusable cups and mugs that reduce the number of card-
All this week, student outreach coordinators were busy
increase the total recycling rate among all participating
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RECYCLEMANIAby Amanda Douville
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shared by scores of students and seen by hundreds of their
she said, adding how shocked she was that it became so
curated and crowd-sourced alike, have long been favorite
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picked up popularity in recent days, though many of the
mous and the purpose of the page is to post humorously
At its best, the page has put the likes and dislikes, along
Kelly as a haven for potheads and Roosevelt as a shadowy
By far the most popular meme was one that poked fun
It took me a minute to remember that it was all just
Still, she enjoys the page and has shared a number of
THE RISE OF STONY BROOK MEMES
by Trevor Christian
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memes, and it gives us a way to just tell it like it is on cam-
Other students have been less emphatic about the
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Even people who were born here make that mistakeall the time, said Sue, pointing out that some of the other
jokes on the site stereotyped Asians as being good at aca-
She mentioned one commenter in particular who ar-gued with a meme joking that everyone on campus is
So many people are unable to grasp the concept of
Stony Brook was a bad place to go to school and that she
make people laugh, to provide an interactive place wherestudents and alum could joke about Stony Brook while re-
Patrovic shared a quote from a friend that she thought
Every school has its share of dumb administrative moves,
SBU is a great place, especially if you make it worth your
High Expecta- tions AsianFather, a meme character based on the stereotype of demanding Asian parents,
was popular long before SBU Memes.Thanks to the The meme became a mainstay onStony Brooks page early inits existence.
No, your eyes dont
deceive you. This
Futurama- based meme
was inten- tionally left
half blank to represent a
broken link.creates themall the time.
This isnt the only meme to poke fun
service, but
its probably the best.
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As one of the most distinguished string ensembles of
musicians of Emerson have become giants in the world of classical music with nine Grammy Awards, a never-endingsuccession of international concert tours and an illustrious
However, the quartet recently announced that their
produces at a record label, runs a summer chamber music
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As part of their contract Emerson was hired to perform four
concerts a year and coach the university chamber music-
Over the course of teaching at the university, members
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Not only have theybeen a window into theprofessional chamber
music world, butknowing them as people
CLASSICAL MUSIC GIANTSIN OUR BACKYARDby Sarah Evins
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full time tenured professor of violin and is soon to be joined by his col-
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began as a contract of four concerts a year has become three formalconcerts showcasing recent recorded works and a week long spring-
seeing the world-class Emerson musicians in action, the community
community involvement has been key to fundraising for the music de-
have helped the music department grow in notoriety, by giving it a-
ment has also seen an improvement in recruitment of talented musi-
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Kress is also thankful for the time she has been able to spend with
-ever, having the group at Stony Brook has allowed Kress and her fellow
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that his withdrawal from Emerson will allow him to pursue, withgreater energy, [his] increasing number of performing, educational and
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minish its role on campus because of the arrival of new cellist Paul--
Finckel, above, will be departing the Emerson String Quartet at the end of this concert season. Watkins, below, will replace him in the fall of 2013
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-chase their own supplies in addition to paying a studio fee,which is supposed to go towards materials and equipment
can spend anywhere from $200 to $500 on art suppliesper class, and the costs add up with every course a student
-graduate director for the art department, says students
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Some students may use more paper or drawing materialsthan others, which would leave some with rations that last
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Stony Brook is more than well-known for its focus on
STUDYING ART: THEPRICEY PICTUREby Alyssa Melillo
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scholars, and the university fosters its own hospital and a-
ous grants, awards and donationsincluding the $150 mil-lion Simons donation received last semesterhave beendedicated to the advancements the students and facultymanage in mathematics, engineering, chemistry and biol-
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ricula that the smaller majors and minors studied at Stonyand the fact that they have to buy their own supplies, many
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art was one of the lowest funded departments in the Col-
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majority of a budget is allocated for salaries, so the amount
budget funds the Pollack-Krasner House and the StudyCenter in East Hampton, which the Stony Brook Foundation
-tional funding in the past, but the university never grantedthe requests, and a university budget representative de-
-cording to the University Operating Budget, the art depart-
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towards equipment the majority of it came from a grant
-making and lithography, says she is concerned with themanagement of the equipment she used while she attend-
lack of funding was most obvious in the litho studio, she
Along with paying her $50-100 studio fee, Iosub hadto purchase her own supplies as well: sponges, pencils,
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fessor has rationed materials such as cheese cloth because
works as a web designer and takes up sporadic contract jobs, not working as much as she would like because she
money she spends on supplies, she says she has to bor-row money from her husband to relieve herself of these
courses and she worked in the fall on top of a course load of
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Nader Nouraee, a senior and teaching assistant for thePhotography I class, says many students confront him about
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arise if Stony Brook supplied students with their own ra-
But the studio art and biology double major says he
not working,how are yousupposed to payfor supplies?
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Cheryl Chambers, in a black raincoat and toting an umbrella
room with a window overlooking the back entrance of the
-ployee of higher education, particularly for her work as the
Five years ago this month, Chambers established the
she has worked to help students of all races and ethnicities
countless meetings, especially when there are culture-re-
And for a school as diverse as Stony Brook, these events
Her schedule is packed: a meeting for Black History
some of the many ingredients that help create the huge
Before working at Stony Brook, Chambers worked in
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-ter a few years upstate, she began working at Stony Brook,
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All aspects of culture and diversity are right at our
can learn from each other and develop a sense of commu-
to new traditions at Stony Brook, as well as the improve- -dents and other advisors on planning events for Black His-
they coordinate with the Interfaith Center for the Festival
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diversity is literally everywhere, and Chambers encouragesstudents to embrace it through programs and events while
being such a person, she says, is taking some type of ac-
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Incorporating culture into the lives of Stony Brook stu-involvement with her church and her position on the Alum-
-ity of her time to promoting the importance of a multicul-
person has some skill levelto understand people from
A CULTURAL EXCHANGEby Alyssa Melillo
All aspects of culture anddiversity are right at our
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often than not bathroom stalls are repainted to cover a va-
that law be amended to allow the spread of Twilight quotesacross campus?
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a multi-million-dollar-earning mediocre book series that is
black, gems of wisdom such as and just when the caterpil-
with their toilet time, after all?So while it pleases me to see quotes from brilliant
Inception and Finding Nemo -
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scrubbed from the walls, leaving behind faint streaks of
scrawled advice?
of insanity; doing the same thing over and over again and
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the ratio between Edward and Jacob lovers? And how will I
trodden I need the inspiring, recycled, clichs on the walls
can be solved with the reading of romantic comedy movie
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-time you may want to practice on your own bathroom
However, I fear that this barbaric method of communi-
forgive these forlorn souls for their indiscretions, than al-low me to implore all the vandals of Stony Brook not to
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STALLWISDOMby Liz Kaempf
Photo by Liz Kaempf
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great opportunity for art lovers to be treated to a showcaseof the best up-and-coming talent that our art department
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lery and get a good perspective and handle on the works, it
and despite the varying styles and media present, every-
became the driving force in understanding and interpretingthe show and it managed to bring incredible cohesivenessto what would have otherwise been viewed as a disjointed
I suppose for those laypersons and philistines who just-
just something that struck me and made me feel like I was in
alone that he managed to arrange these seemingly unrelat-
Motha FuckinArt (MFA) Exhibitby Andi Liao
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Adding to that, he was capable of creating a self-sustaining-
markable and looking at it from a geeky point-of-view, the
us humans interact with the world and the objects around
choice to use the guitar was a natural one because it reallyencapsulated the idea behind the human identity and theway in which he drew upon the interrelation between who
sounds that emanated from the installation really put mein the right mood to contemplate the ideas that are being
drawn to these images because of how much it remindedme of some of my own printed works and unique feelings
work, especially At the Mountains of Madness , which I per-
the dark, unforgiving Antarctic with a piqued curiosity cou-
most obvious parallels I noticed between the two were that-
craftian lore, most evidently, in the tentacled behemoth
Hess even states that these works are his representa--
to think that there are indeed alternate or parallel realities
not yet taken a look at it, you should check out Bound be-
Photos by Mike Perdersen
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Final Fantasy
line of fantasy-based role playing games, terms that I was
For one, my classmate said I could spend over 50
of spending more time on a game than on PokmonSilver , especially one where you had to sit idly in front of television screen instead of playing it nearly every second
that a game was capable of spanning four entire discs and
incredulous to the claim of reviewers that it was one of the
In the beginning hours of Final Fantasy IX , I became
upon hours of gameplay to discover what it was I wasactually going to be doing in a game that my friend referredto as like Pokmonwere all the male characters so androgynous?
As I plowed through FF IX and proceeded to devour theseventh and eighth installments as well, I began to see theseries for what it truly was: immersive, book-like fantasy
Zidane of IX, as intimately as one would any beloved book
Sadly, the Final Fantasy series is now a hollow shell
copy of the latest installment, Final Fantasy XIII-2 , sitting
underlying the release of a sequel to a game titled FinalFantasy after they did the very same thing with the tenth
FinalFantasy Tactics , a title I unfortunately overlooked when Iwas younger due to me being uncharacteristically inept at
battle is, a trait that a traditional Final Fantasy
illustrates the stark shift in the series since its golden PSX
the strongest narratives video games have ever deliveredto glossy, over-produced trash that relies on fan-boy
the transition to the PlayStation 2 more than a decade
Final Fantasy X
decline with a borderline-absurd time travel plot that hasreturned with a terrible, nonsensical vengeance in XIII-2
but it was Final Fantasy XIII , the basis for the shit-show of
held your hand from destination to destination and its
wrapping up in one of the most disappointing endings I
THEHALCYON
DAYS OFFINAL
FANTASY
by Nick Statt
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Based on true events, The Vow is a bittersweet love sto-ry of a newlywed couple and was released just in time for
-fastening her seatbelt in an attempt at a little foreplay with
-thing the pair is hit from behind by a truck, sending Paige
weeks later she wakes with no memory of her husband, her
former life with her stuck up, upper-class parents, whosescandalous secret is long hidden from the audience, and
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question: How do you look at the girl you love and tell your- self its time to walk away?
played the heartbroken guy many times before, and he-
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are truly in love; the way they look at each other, as if there
come across strongly enough and it made their struggle to
him again if she is a stranger to herself?A downfall was that The Vow
earlier romantic dramas, The Notebook and Dear Johncould just be the actors that played the main characters of
the big screen though; if I woke up and he told me he was
love with me, I had to take my ticket stub out of my pocketto make sure it said The Vow and not Dear John -ing to see a new movie the least the writers could do was
it did little to alleviate the fact that the game brought out alevel of emotional investment better suited to smartphone
written storylines has done irreversible damage to the
series, one of the last remaining torch-carriers of theconsidered by many to be the greatest game ever madefor a number of reasons, the hallmark of which was the
FinalFantasy is almost laughable, and it pains me to play the
not only remain emotionally untouchable, but will in factfrustrate me with its lack of depth and its characters that
chapters and have been consistently surprised at how
veiling the ridiculous time travel-based, we can change
like and Elder Scrolls making and sport variations of the ever-popular morality-based game mechanics now dominating the genre, the
truly pains me to see these types of games making huge
series of my video game childhood gets left in the dust,scraping up enough bullshit loose ends to release anotherKingdom Hearts
remaining two thirds of its ambiguous Fabula Nova Crystallis PlayStation Vita handheld that a small fraction of peoplewill probably play and a game that would be far more
installment, but I know now that the days of being lost inthe narrative of a Final Fantasy are most likely stuck in thepast, and no shitty, ill-contrived time travel storyline can
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the wall is a creative little piece called It gets better, Alan,
1950s with a suicide note from an esteemed computer
phrase, printed boldly across the suicide note in black ink
the idea of data being given lifebreathing air into some-thing so admittedly beyond human sensesis inviting and
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sound design student who was conducting research for a
think it means something in motion can be artistic, said
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arose because the gallery was set up later than originally
It was rushed, she said, they had trouble setting it
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Still, one cannot deny the fascination drawn from other-
screen with rainbow and gray dots scrolling across it while-
-plored media of art and communication will appreciate the
-ence for those who are willing to step out of their comfort
ENCOUNTERING DATAby Teena Nawabi
Statt, but we came to the conclusion that readers incapa-
our duty as the alternative publication to simply report the
push the limits a bit for the sake of humor and to celebrate-
thetic imitation of professional journalism, but a unique
just be slaves to the higher-ups and basically boot-lick your
way to having enough power to force younger generationsto do the same, Hart said with a nod of his freakishly large
-cording to witnesses, he made the mistake of trying to geta real interview with Hart, who then collapsed back into a
Cashmar and Christian have decided not to press
to smooth out the sometimes-fragile relationship the news-
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CULTUREFebruary 21, 2012THE STONY BROOK
PRESS SEX SURVEY:
#SWAG
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direction in life: I want to be an aeri-
actually pursue, but for the twohours or so that I sat in the Staller
the air swinging from a hoop and
twirl several yards up on a silk rope, I
Before the show even began,
the performers stood on stage withno curtain hiding them, to warm up
-son who could pull up a picture of a seawolf on their phone, so she
clown, meandered through the rows
performers envision a fourth wallseparating them from the viewers;
Audience response was completely
as the scenes and performers var-
by Brett Copes after slapping himin a very Three Stooges -style, whichcontrasted with another scene with
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passioned speech about why she isan aerialist before ripping the dressto shreds and demonstrating her
Singer Sandy Swier seemed abit incongruous from the rest of the
It was very amusing, and slightly an-
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gymnast, took the microphone fromher and launched into a Justin Bieber
Stage performances generallyhide the backstage area to keep the
the wings were visible, including thehuman sandbag set up for the aeri-
system climbed up and down a truss atthe edge of the stage to lift or lower
the performance impressed me, evenmore than the awesome contortions
At times, there seemed to be a theme
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happy doing something out of the or-
troupe gets its name says, Fall down
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who can inspire both praise for his actionsand writing and major criticism for his life
choices, being referred to as a vile, scum-
on the back cover of his newest book, Hilar- ity Ensues
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marketed his most outrageous stories of drunken debauchery, quests for meaning-less hook-ups, and just plain bad behaviorin a 2006 memoir, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell , a 2009 movie of the same name, a2010 follow-up book, Assholes Finish First,
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showcase some witty writing, his stories this
classics and full of did he really do that?!
was thrown out of a party by three bounc-ers for throwing Popchips at a ceiling fan,but events quickly become much more en-
a comment about getting kicked out of a
Other stories worth reading include
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spersed throughout the book and groupedinto three categories of absurd, mean,
but there are no real moments of complete lose-control, jaw-dropping, tear-
Hilarity Ensues that truly does make it stand above its-
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-men, steps on stage to tell a tale of jealousy, lust and free-
Sung in its original French, with translations projectedLa Tragedie de Car-
menIt retains the majesty of an age-old story, one of jealous
lovers, murderous impulses and a young girl who tries toremain free from the men who wish to possess her and the
Brook Symphony Orchestra performed admirably, pro-viding as much a setting for the opera as the lighting and
music to tell the story, and reduced distractions from the-
and forth between watching the stage and reading the
earning her doctorate in music at Stony Brook, and guesttenor John Bellemer, who has appeared in leading opera
stage told the story as well as their voices did, drawing inthe audience so thoroughly that not a single person left the
and vivid actress, transforming herself into the charming-
ulates the characters around her, Carmen is not simply a
Inside this seductive, young, gypsy girl is a wild heart,
Free she was born and free she will die, Park pro-
Yet this wild-hearted girl draws tarot cards multipletimes throughout the performance to predict her fate, see-
By entrusting her fate solely to destiny, she fails to
Embracing her power to co-create her own fate with des-
who longs to be free cannot truly be so until she releases
I thought it was very, very interesting, the way that theStony Brook version was completely changed around, and
As part of a tradition of opera at Stony Brook, the sing-ers participating in the program are primarily students of
She performed with a genuine air of innocence, tinted
said Andrew Breslin, a senior theatre and English major at
to have John, who was the guest singer, so it was a great
FoxFables The Wooden Sword
STONY BROOK OPERA: LATRAGEDIE DE CARMEN by Rebecca Tapio
Carmen believes she is free,
power to co-create her ownfate with destiny could lead totrue freedom, but of that she
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Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror As electronics become increasingly prominent in in-
surprisingly strong staying power with their second album,
era video game bleep bloop noises sounds like a horribledude controlling chaotic noise behind a female vocalist, iscertainly a more reasonable choice to play Saturday Night
Treats had its moments of irresistible catchi--
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still in full force, but it lacks the catchy melodies that madeTreats
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her incessant yelling and nursery rhyme verses overpowera promising instrumental track, like in Crush, the results
clearly an attempt to re-create Treat is a relatively light and easy listen for upcoming spring
much like Treat want to avoid the label of a one-trick pony in the future,
Lil B White Flame Wow Rare Exclusive
them on his twitter feed, where he also retweets hundreds of
White Flame
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Beach Fossils - Shallow 7
the A-side on their new 7 due out February 21, gives way to an astoundingly
vibe, but still retains the songwriting maturity and heaviness picked up during
So it appears that Payseur and crew are lifting the songwriting bliss and-
arythe one that lodged them deep inside my headbut trading the melan-
Usher -Climax -
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CONTRIBUTORS:
ANDY POLHAMUSSAMUEL LIEBRANDNICK STATTTREVOR CHRISTIAN
Cursive - I Am Gemini
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Grimes - Visions
Claire Boucher marks another enchantingly successful reverberation of mod-
well with impossibly danceable undercurrents, Boucher manages to take a sim-ple drum-machine loop and a trance-like, heavy bass pulse to an entirely new
forcing out a variety of tones, from child-like to outright arena pop, proving yetagain that she is one of the most dynamic and genuine vocal talents gracing
jumpy synth beat and showers a cascading, smooth-as-glass vocal melody on
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
Old Ideas is a relatively weak album for
Earl Sweatshirt - Home After over a year in boarding school in Somoa, where he was sent after he
Islands - A Sleep & A Forgetting A Sleep & A Forgetting shows a newfound subtlety from former Unicorns
brings out his softer side with an album that combines the best aspects of early
A
Sleep & A Forgetting brings some much-needed nuance to the current crop of
-A Sleep & A Forgetting delivers on its promise with a
careful selection of instrumentationa few horns here and there, an accordionmakesa guest appearance, and a banjo adds a touch of ragtime on the upbeatHallwaysas well as a lyrical maturity that puts most indie songwriters to
Narrow Stairs
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Knicks were losing pretty badly for a whileso badlythat they were reduced to starting the Asian American teamchemist from Harvard; like when you run out of all your pre-
cool-guy-they-used-to-be-red-but-now-are-kind-of-faded-
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After the Knicks made a splash in the free agent mar-
not a man of speculation, but I know the eyebrow threaderwho touched up the brows of the girl that served oatmealat the continental breakfast in the hotel JR stayed at inCanada who is friends with the bellman who saw JR strollthrough with shopping bags from Hugo Boss, a company
good look, but my friend said that he said they were either
I will denounce this acquisition even after watching
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Knicks playing like a real, live basketball team and Smith
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-ball team is heading directly for anAmerican East Conference Champi-onship and the NCAAs, if their cur-
Following a defeat by the Uni-versity of Vermont on February 12,the Seawolves came right back tobest Northeastern in a decisive 76-
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three players to end the game with
adding seven rebounds, seven as-sists, two blocks and two steals to
matched a career-high of 21 points,
previously set against Boston Uni-versity in the early days of the sea-
double-double of 10 points and10 rebounds and remained a sol-id force inside the paint, makingNortheastern look outside to their
from the free throw line was a satis-
game and speed to match the three-pointers of the Huskies, who went
Since their February 9 win
In their game against Vermont, theSeawolves went a startling 0-15
MENS BASKETBALLROUND-UPby Rebecca Tapio
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OPINIONFebruary 21, 2012
Graphic by Matt Willemain
CRAZY PEOPLE PASS A CRAZY BILLby Liz Kaempfto recently pass a little something called the Personhood
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By deciding that conception is the moment a life be-gins, and thus that the unborn baby has liberties and rightsas declared by the Constitution, abortion would then be-
-tians see it as a murder, but the actual taking of another
-tion in which the woman becomes pregnant as the result of
all created equal, that means a woman has the right tomake informed and appropriate decisions regarding herown bodya group of Bible-thumping men cannot do that
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comes pregnant as a result that she has to live with that
of their belly for nine months if the person who raped them
A mother may always love her child, but is it fair toforce her to live with something that will always be a con-stant reminder of the day a man thought it would be fun to
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have the same constitutional rights against slavery that hu-
the case, writing, the only reasonable interpretation of the
As someone who generally disagrees with the stances
any more than it depends upon the race, gender or ethnic-
protection solely based on their species is the same kind of
own species, Homo sapiens, are the only ones who cannot
this logic is sound as long as we are at the top of the foodchain, what will this mean for future lifeforms we encoun-ter?
Star Wars reference
made in our time and those of times to come, how can one
to basic freedoms?
guages, deserve the same courtesy?Have we the right to dismiss the happiness and well-
American has reported on a planet that is not only close to
as a mere 22 light years away from Earth, in the constel-
tance is virtually no time in comparison with how long the
And so we must consider, if we deny basic rights to themere creatures of our planet, down to the tiniest termite
have highly developed speech patterns, and who will ob-viously want to mate with us because our species is awe-some?
PETA PICKS UP WHERE LINCOLN LEFT OFFby Rebecca TapioGIVES FREE WILLY A WHOLE NEW MEANING
of Decisiones Extremas , a Spanish telenovela, in which themother calls her daughter a child of sin her whole life be-
but at no point do I take it upon myself to impose them
It seems to condone slavery, no? And sodomy too? But it-
daughter have an abortion even if she were raped; that
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