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The After Party takes presidency

The Undergraduate Student Government election results came in Friday evening with The After Party boasting victories in all but one category.

Adil Hussain, who also ran for USG president last spring, came out as the winner and beat current USG president Anna Lubitz. Hussain carried 1,260 votes, while Lubitz had 569 and Yiufat Lam had 333.

However, many undergraduate students did not log into SOLAR to vote between Monday, April 8 and Friday, April 12, which is when voting occurred. Although the presidential race garnered the most votes with a total of 2,162 students participating, there are more than 16,000 undergraduate students at SBU.

In addition, students also voted to increase the Student Activity Fee. The proposed increase was $5.25, raising the total fee to $99.50 per semester.

“I think we should accept the

recommended amount, to provide further funding for the increased clubs we have on campus,” Senator Kathryn Michaud said at the senate meeting on March 28.

“I believe the $5 per student increase would benefit the campus community.”

YOON SEO NAM / THE STATESMANThe Staller Center presents Handel's "Orlando" on April 13 on the Main Stage. The production was completely done by the Stony Brook Baroque Players and Stony Brook Opera.

USG election results in

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Adil Hussain presents his platform at the USG debate on Tuesday, April 2.

Professor's mobility device going on marketBy Jaclyn Lattanza Staff Writer

Dr. Hari Pillai, a retired local physician, struggled to sit and stand on his own. For someone who had polio as a child and relapsed in 2000, the task is not so easy.

In an attempt to aid him, Anurag Purwar, a research associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and a group of students designed the Portable Mobility Assistant Device six years ago.

And now the device is on its way onto the market to help many others become independent.

“There are lots of people out there who have trouble actually getting up on their own, especially people who had polio when they were a child,” Purwar said.

The device resembles a walker with support bars, a pelvic harness and a patented six-part linkage feature controlled by the user with a remote. It allows someone to stand entirely on his or her own and can act as a walker. The device also keeps the body at a consistent posture and provides complete support to ensure that the user will never fall.

“The best quality of the device which distinguishes it from any device in the market, is that it has what I call natural motion,“ Purwar said. The six-part mechanism lifts the body along paths that it would normally take, which in the long-term can reduce joint problems

because “the right kinds of joints and muscles are being exercised.”

Upon the initial request, Purwar could not believe no other devices were previously designed to fit these needs. “When he called me, I thought, there must be devices like this in the market and there’s no way that somebody has not really looked at this problem and solved it,” he said.

He found that although there are devices on the market with the ability to lift a person, the mechanisms are either too bulky or do not assist with the elevation or walking function.

“So I said to myself, this is really not what we do, because mostly we are just working on developing new methods and new algorithms for machine design, but it was right up my alley,” he said.

Purwar hired a group of students from the senior design class, whom he would advise, to take on the project.

In addition to a $275,000 budget, the project has received grants from Pillai, the SUNY Research Foundation, with a $50,000 Technology Accelerator Fund award, the Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR) program at Stony Brook University and the Center for Biotechnology at Stony Brook University.

After a couple of years though, nothing came of the group’s efforts

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Students debate gun control lawsBy Heather Khalifa Staff Writer

The issue of gun control, which is rising in natonal promience, took the stage here at Stony Brook University on Tuesday, April 9, when the Young Americans for Freedom, College Republicans and College Democrats went head-to-head in an organized debate held in Benedict College.

The debate, arranged by the Young Americans for Freedom club and conducted by the Speech and Debate Society club, took place on the same day that the families of Newtown, Conn., took to Capitol Hill in an appeal for gun control action.

Specifically, the families and President Obama are calling for the passing of gun control legislation, an initiative that was introduced following the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting but has since been stalled. But on Thursday, April 11, the Senate finally voted in favor of allowing the debate of gun legislation to take place, a process that will no doubt take another several months.

The issues surrounding the debate of gun control and the fact that it is currently a hot topic in the news are ultimately what prompted the organizing of the event.

“I think it’s something that’s very polarizing, that is very much a hot button issue right now," John Slanover, president of Young Americans for Freedom

and organizer of the event, said. “No matter where you fall in the equation, whether you are pro-restriction, against restriction, this is the form to voice your opinion."

The debate began with an interpretation of the Second Amendment from both sides, and whether or not gun control is infringing or enhancing the rights of U.S. citizens. The two sides, College Democrats and College Republicans, had very different ideas as to what the Second Amendment guarantees, and to what extent it should be reformed.

“Every other one of our nine bill of rights is regulated in some way. Free Speech is restricted in certain aspects, as should the second amendment. There should be rules and regulations," Danny Awalt, a debater for the College Democrats who is pro-regulation, said.

Awalt also argued the point that the United States leads all

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The Speech and Debate Society argues on the Republican side of the issues of gun control.

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SBU student snags TED talk inviteArianna Warner, senior art major and creator of the Dinosaur Onesie Project, is collaborating with TED to spread her initiative, which aims to inspire a sense of community, for the TEDx summer conference.PAGE 5

SBU holds Sandy symposiumA Hurricane Sandy Symposium was held in the Wang Center, where a variety of speakers discussed the causes and impacts of the hurricane and provided ideas that could help avoid damage from future disasters.PAGE 7

Shirley Strum Kenny Festival offers more than just artThis year's SSK Arts Festival kicked off on Wednesday at the SAC, with a variety of clubs and organizations offering artistic crafts and activities.PAGE 11

Handel's "Orlando" worthy of standing ovationThe cast, music, songs, staging and costuming of Stony Brook's take on "Orlando" created an artistically ingenious atmosphere which made the opera come alive on stage.PAGE 10

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NEWSNEWS15 minutes of fame may last longerBy Caithlin PenaStaff Writer

“Fame isn’t fleeting,” according to the press release about the research team led by Arnout van de Rijt, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University.

The research project, called “Only 15 Minutes? The Social

Stratification of Fame in Printed Media,” found that people who become famous within a year—be it in politics, sports, or entertainment—remain famous for decades to come.

“The wealth of new data from the internet, social networks, and cell phone records allow social scientists to study phenomena they couldn't study as easily as in the past,” van de Rijt said. “One such phenomenon is fame.”

Through the use of Lydia, a research project in natural language processing, the research team scoured through about 2,200 American daily, weekly and

periodical newspapers dated over several decades.

Van de Rijt collaborated with Steven Skiena and Charles Ward from the computer science department for this research.

In the examination of various entertainment sections of these newspapers, 10 names out of a sample of 100,000 between the years 2004-2009 popped out the most.

Actors and actresses like Jamie Fox, Bill Murray, Natalie Portman and Naomi Watts, just to name a few, are among those 10 and these celebrities are still famous and well-known in 2013.

“The time series of all these mentions of person names gave us a bird's-eye view of the evolution of fame,” van de Rijt said, “including the rise and fall of public attention to famous politicians, athletes, and entertainers.”

According to the study, the belief in fleeting fame or 15 minutes of fame is non-existent in this day and age.

This applies to many celebrities in the entertainment world, even the likes of the Kardashians and Paris Hilton.

Many stars may be famous for a good reason, but some stars, according to van de Rijt, have no underlying talent or reason for fame.

“The public may thus celebrate a naked emperor,” he said.

The study also found that 96

percent of the names mentioned more than 100 times in newspapers within a given year have already been mentioned in those papers at least three years before.

Talent, resources or chance often contribute to an individual’s time in the spotlight, the researchers noted. And once someone becomes famous, they remain famous. A temporary celebrity status is rare.

“In contrast to the popular notion of ‘fleeting fame’ as well as to past sociological scholarship which has suggested that modern fame doesn't typically last long,” he said, “our study shows that virtually all major celebrities stay famous for many years.”

As to why society is attracted to celebrities and their status, van de Rijt offers this explanation: “Celebrities are of interest because everyone agrees they are of interest."

Media and audiences are trapped in an equilibrium in which they must continue to devote attention to a select group of stars because everyone expects them to.”

Although the team only studied newspapers, in the case of television and internet stars on popular sites like Youtube, it suspects the outcome is the same for these mediums as well.

But, van de Rijt said “future research must confirm that.”

Sociologist at Stony Brook researches lasting fame

PHOTO CREDIT: SBUArnout van de Rijt, an assistant professor at SBU, is researching the lasting effects of fame.

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The study examines how often celebrities' names, like Natalie Portman's, appear in the media.

“The time series of all these mentions of person names gave us a bird’s-eye view of the evolution of fame”

-Arnout van de RijtAssistant Professor of Sociology

Portable mobility device set to take off

and budget. It was not until the third year of work that Purwar became more involved. With the help of alumni Justin Miles, Jeffrey Renert and Tom Galeotafiore, and after many failed attempts, a mechanism was designed.

These students are co-inventors and therefore co-own the patent concerning the mimicking of natural motion of the human body through the mechanism.

“Design is a long process,” Purwar said. “If you want to come up with a good design, you really have to think about it at all times.”

The first fully functional prototype was made in 2010, three years after he received the request.

But even though a fully functional prototype is in the lab, Purwar is not satisfied.

“I’m not very happy because this retired physician who’s like a friend to me now still can’t use it,” he said. “He has become like a moving target for us.”

Because Pillai continues to grow and gain weight and has some constraints, such as a sitting on a

very wide sofa, he is not able to use the device.

After bringing the device to the veterans home in Stony Brook and nursing homes in Port Jefferson and Medford, he found physical and occupational therapists loved the device.

According to Purwar, therapists said it removes the stress of moving patients while ensuring no one gets hurt. Patients were unable to test the device due to liability issues.

Purwar plans to create a website dedicated to the Portable Mobility Assistant Device to keep people informed of its progress.

Purwar is working with Biodex Medical Systems in Shirley, N.Y., as a potential commercialization partner and predicts it will be on the market in a couple of years.

“I still think that there is a lot of work that needs to be done, and I would think my work is done not when this gets on the market, of course that is one of the goals of the funding, but when my friend actually starts using it," Purwar said.

Purwar is confident that he will have a custom device made for Pillai within six to eight months.

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Michael Gernomino, a resident at the Long Island State Veterans Home, tests Anurag Purwar's mobility device.

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Debating gun controlNATO and wealthy nations

in gun homicides, with 30,000 deaths a year—nearly 10 times the rate of all other nations.

“30,000 deaths a year, three deaths every hour, that is unacceptable in a first world civilized nation. And in order to address this problem, we can make guns exceedingly difficult to obtain. How do we do this? Regulation,” Awalt said in his defense of gun control.

Awalt’s passion for the topic stems from a more personal stance. He believes that it is his experience of working with guns so closely that makes him so insistent on gun control.

"In addition to my career as a SBU student, I am also a U.S. Marine Corps Reserve," Awalt said. "I think my close relation with guns helps feed my anti-gun stance.”

But the College Republicans were equally as passionate, as both sides put up compelling arguments for what they believed was the best approach in protecting both Constitutional rights, as well as in protecting the safety of citizens. The College Republicans interpreted the Second Amendment as a means of protection against tyranny and

government oppression. They also cited the Supreme Court case of District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008.

"Our Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that this is an individual right, and I think that they are better equipped to establish what this means in this context," Kareem Ibrahem, debater on the anti-regulation side, said.

Throughout the night, both sides brought out exactly why the issue is such a debate, backing up their statements strongly and factually. Each side cited statistics and old court cases in presenting its argument, making it an informative, and, at times, entertaining debate.

A large portion of the audience in attendance that night was there in the hopes of learning something new about the debate of gun control.

"I would like to think of myself as being reasonably open-minded, in that I'd be interested to hear the debate on both sides, for and against guns, and see if I learn anything,” junior political science major Holly Pycroft, member of the College Democrats club, said.

The debate ended with an open forum of questions for the debaters by the audience, with the hot topic still prevailing in the minds of many.

SBU student snags TED Talk inviteArianna Warner, a Stony Brook

University senior majoring in studio art and creator of the Dinosaur Onesie Project, is in collaboration with TED to

spread her initiative for the TEDx summer conference.

Warner created the Dinosaur Onesie Project when she was admitted into the hospital in 2011. The project was meant to inspire personal interactions between people, happiness and a sense of community. To do this, Warner hides wax dinosaur figurines around campus for people to find.

TED is a non-profit organization built around “ideas worth spreading,” and hosts conferences with topics ranging from technology to entertainment in order to inspire, and hopefully change, the world.

“TED emailed me around late February asking me if I wanted to be a part of their summer

conference,” Warner said. “It was almost like a dream come true for me.”

Warner has gone to the community to help her build materials for her conference. Her biggest contribution is her

magazine, which will make its debut at the conference this summer.

The magazine, which will be divided into two parts, will cover her personal story in developing the Onesie Project and the project’s mission statement. An aspect she wishes to incorporate involves having others tell their stories.

“My story is very medical, but there are people out there every day suffering social, racial and even mental disorders. I want for them to be able to tell their stories also,” Warner said.

Using various social media sites such as Facebook and Tumblr, Warner has asked the community to contribute artistically to her magazine through photos or short

stories. The magazine is scheduled to begin printing after the school year ends, when Warner intends to print about 1,250 issues, which could be sold at a later point. The magazine also helps showcase the project’s goal of fostering a sense of community.

A TEDx conference, which will take place in California, is focused more on smaller communities. Warner, who will not be able to make it due to schooling, is working with TED on planning.

“These kind of things take a lot of money and even more planning,” Warner said.

Warner is funding her presentation herself. To help her do that, Warner is planning on launching a Kickstarter campaign, with one of the rewards being the Onesie magazine. She is also planning campus events, such as bake sales, where she plans to sell Dinosaur Onesie-based products. She is also spreading awareness of the project to multiple news sources in order to help get submissions for her magazine.

Although it is Warner’s conference, she has no intention of appearing unless it is in person.

“So much of the Onesie Project is rooted in personal interaction that it would take away from the presentation if I appeared in a video,” Warner said. However, she does plan on making a Youtube video before the conference announcing more details about the event.

Still, the event is still early in the planning stage. The TEDx conference is not set to happen until summer, but Warner is heavily involved in the planning process.

“What I want people to really take out of the conference is something they can literally take with them,” Warner said. “That’s why the magazine is so special as it is something that people can really learn about how these problems can really change someone’s life.”

By Brandon BenarbaStaff Writer

JESUS PICHARDO / THE STATESMANAwalt presents the Democrats' view on gun regulation.

PHOTO COURTESY: ARIANNA WARNER

Arianna Warner will head to California for the TEDx conference.

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Campus news briefing: spring concert legal troubleBy Kelly ZegersStaff Writer

This week’s senate meeting included a short agenda. Even so, there was business to conduct, as the senate unanimously approved the Badminton Club’s request for line budget status.

Also passed uncontested was an amendment to extend the budget timeline for USG by a week. Senator Mario Ferone of the budget committee explained to the senate that “part of the reason is because we want to make sure we know whether the Student Activity Fee increases or not.”

The open agenda took up the bulk of the meeting with some announcements and updates. Vice President of Academic Affairs Derek Cope asked the senate to help promote getting submissions for Professor of the Year and teacher assistant of the year.

USG Administrative Director Christopher Muller gave the senate an accounting update, saying “Today

the accounting office did 134 checks, so it’s very, very busy, which is exciting, there’s a lot of amazing events happening on campus, so April’s a very fun time of the year.” In regard to a backlog of vouchers received for such events, Muller said “We’re trying to process things as quick as possible.”

As for an update on Roth Regatta, which takes place at noon on April 26, Muller said, “A lot of progress is happening.”

He added that registration will be on Monday, April 22 and commended Vice President of Communications Sophia Marsh and her team on promotion of the event, including posters and its Facebook page.

Muller also gave an update on the Spring Concert, explaining what has been happening with the contracts with the artists.

“There are a lot of cross-outs that have to be done on this because basically if we have something on the contract and we do not fulfill that obligation then we’re going

to get sued.” Muller said he has been spending time looking at the contracts line by line doing cross-outs and that “our attorney had a lot of concerns about the contract. One of

the artists had a rider…that’s updated on a monthly basis.” He explained the agents have all the paperwork and are in the process of reviewing it, but that negotiations sometimes require

much back-and-forth discussion.In terms of other events, Muller

announced that the contract for Bill Nye has been signed, and that event will be held on Friday, April 19.

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Wang Center exhibit explores importance of bowl and spoonBy Katherine KurreStaff Writer

The Charles B. Wang Center is home to multiple art exhibits, most recently a display of the art exhibition “Five Elements: Six Roots Contemplate Its Origin in the Spoon Fed World.” It is a mixed media installation by Chee Wang Ng.

It also complements another exhibition—“Asian Roots/American Soil: Photographs of Corky Lee at the Charles B. Wang Center.”

In a press release for “Asian Roots/American Soil,” “Five Elements” is described as the exploration of “care, connection, and abundance represented by the bowl and spoon.”

The Chinese idiom ‘When Drinking Water, Remember Its Source,’ is a part of the exhibition’s title, according to the schematic proposal for the exhibition. The

schematic proposal also states “‘Five Elements’ is the traditional Chinese Cosmology which encompasses a wide myriad of phenomena.”

The focus of the exhibition is the identity of the Chinese diaspora. Through the use of colored bowls and spoons, Ng explores the connection of Chinese people to each other and to the world around them.

The elements of traditional Chinese cosmology—wood, fire, earth, metal and water—are represented by multiple sets of bowls in the colors of green, red, yellow, white and black, respectively.

The exhibition is set up behind a glass wall and comprises four square pillars and one table arranged in a V-formation. The table, which is the lowest in height, is the point of the V with the other four pillars behind it in increasing height order.

The colored bowls, which are also in various shapes and sizes, are in the order of white, yellow, red (which stands at the center), green, and black from left to right and are set atop the pillars.

The red bowl at the center of the entire exhibit is filled with rice and has chopsticks next to it. A flyer posted next to the exhibit states that the rice is to remind people of the bowl’s function, and draws attention to the idea of hunger.

On the ground surrounding the pillars are white porcelain spoons. Each spoon is different and from different places in the world. Several of these spoons are also holding globes.

The schematic proposal states their function as “not only illustrates about our consumer society but raises the question on the individual, choices, and decision.”

These spoons also help to demonstrate Ng’s point of hunger

and the spreading of Chinese people and their relations to the world around them.

Five Elements: Six Roots Contemplate Its Origin in the Spoon Fed World can be found on the first floor of the Wang Center.

The exhibition began on March

1 and will be shown until May 12. On April 17 during Campus Life Time, there will be a reception for Asian Roots/American Soil and Five Elements: Six Roots Contemplate Its Origin in the Spoon Fed World. Both Lee and Ng will be present.

JISOO HWANG / THE STATESMANThe spoon exhibit will be open to the public until May 12.

SBU holds Sandy symposium By Mike SeeleyStaff Writer

On Wednesday, a Hurricane Sandy Symposium was held in the Wang Center, where a variety of speakers discussed the causes and impacts of Hurricane Sandy and ideas that could help avoid damage from future natural disasters.

Charles Flagg, a research professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, said his participation in the symposium was because of a new breach in Fire Island. He said it was the “first serious breach there to happen in the last 115 years.” Flagg, through the use of charts and a video of a computer-simulated wind pattern, went on to explain how Sandy developed.

Michael E. White, Esq., who is Of Counsel at Anthony E. Core, P.C., talked about the impact of Sandy in terms of debris and waste the storm left behind.

“The fact is, Superstorm Sandy generated an enormous volume of debris and garbage,” he said. “The questions we are looking at are what was that debris, how was it collected, where did it go, where is it still and how did it get there?”

He said the problem was that there already was not enough space on Long Island for the usual amount of trash that residents leave for garbage men to pick up, so a lot of it needed to be moved to places like upstate New York via trucks.

According to White, the destruction brought on by the wind, flooding and tidal surge generated “tens of thousands of additional tons of waste” into a system that could not handle such amounts.

“I’ve seen some of the state reports that estimate the debris generated was something on the order of 6,000,000 cubic yards of debris,” he said. “I’m not at all sure if that is the whole number. That may even just be the tree debris that was created.”

Among the approximately 50 people that were there, Daniel

Jogijose, a junior environmental design, policy, and planning major, expressed concern over the power outages caused by the impact of Sandy. “In Rockland County, some families, including my own, lost power for about a week,” he said.

A post doctoral research scholar with the Columbia Center for Climate Change Law, Anne Siders and New York State Assemblyman Steven Englebright spoke about the issue in regard to Long Island and New York City.

Siders said her office at Columbia University sent a petition to the New York Public Service Commission stating it should, at the very least, require utility companies to make climate adaptation plans.

“Con Edison filed for a rate increase with the PSC,” she said. “They are asking for a lot of money in order to protect against future events."

Englebright gave a political perspective on the issue.

“It’s a real political issue,” he continued. “I’ve seen great resistance if it’s going to raise rates. That’s something that we’re going to have to find a way to deal with.”

“We’ll send you the bill,” he said in regard to the money that would be needed to put the power lines

underground.Bowman presented structures

that other countries currently use as a means of preparation for natural disasters to come. He mentioned how St. Petersburg, Russia, has elevated highways. He then talked about an idea “that he’s been promoting a lot” -- a system of barriers around Sandy Hook, New Jersey as well as the Breezy Point area, the Rockaways and John F. Kennedy International Airport.

“This is a very ambitious project that’s not going to happen over night,” Bowman said. But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been given $20,000,000 to see how we can rebuild and straighten the areas affected by Sandy, he added.

Michael Sperazza, an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences, said it was time to start asking, should we be in the way?

Nancy O’Brien, 70, a resident of Rockaway who experienced firsthand the damage wrought by Sandy, agreed and said she would definitely evacuate if something like that were to happen again.

“The only preparation that can be done is to warn people,” she said. “Next time, more people will listen."

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Siders believes the New York Public Service Commission should require utility companies to make climate adaption plans.

On Tuesday, April 2, a female commuter student reported to police she was receiving threatening text messages from a former female co-worker. The case is still under investigation.

On Friday, April 5, a male

resident student was arrested and charged with DUI. According to police records, the student had hit a car and left the scene in West H before he was found in West F.

On Saturday, April 6, a

female resident student’s car was stolen from the West F parking lot. A male commuter student was arrested and charged with grand larceny auto when he was found on campus with the car. The DA’s charges are currently pending.

On Saturday, April 6, a male non-student was arrested after police found weapons in his car in South P.

On Sunday, April 7, a visitor to the University Hospital was arrested and charged with harassment for verbal threats he made to a hospital employee.

On Sunday, April 7, a male resident student was arrested and charged with DUI, resisting arrest and false personation. The student was initially pulled over for not having his headlights on.

All information herein is according to police reports.

Compiled by Ashleigh Sherow

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTHandel's "Orlando" worthy of standing ovation

The main stage of The Staller Center for the Arts on campus was lit up and full of magic, love and drama this past weekend with two full-staged productions of George Handel’s “Orlando” by an all-Stony Brook cast and crew.

Saturday night’s show, the first production, evoked a hyped-up type of atmosphere. The show attracted a packed audience full of Stony Brook students and non-students.

Stony Brook’s rendition of “Orlando” was a perfected collaboration between the Stony Brook Baroque Players and the Stony Brook Opera, both of which executed their roles unbelievably well in the production as individual parts and, of course, as a team that blended together in unison.

The theme was simplicity, as seen in the props on stage. An elegant chair, flower petals and leaves scattered all across the floor with branches hanging above the set that created a visually compelling show of shadows across the set. These elements, along with a solid white-washed wall with four panels and a projection screen, created a three-hour long performance that consisted of three acts.

While the orchestra, dressed in all black, began playing under the direction of composer Arthur Haas, who is also the Director of the Baroque Players, the first character

took his place on stage as whimsical projections of star constellations were brought to life on the screen.

Douglas Williams, who had performed at the Opera de Nice in France, captivated the audience with his stage presence and powerful bass-baritone voice, playing Zoroastro, a magician and friend of the title character, Orlando.

The characters that came next were perhaps a surprise to the audience. A woman, Ryu-Kyung Kim, a Ph.D. graduate, played the eponymous role of Orlando, although the character was indeed a male in Charlemagne’s army.

Kim, who has worked with the Korean Symphony Orchestra and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra in the past, personified the maddened man’s anguish and heartbreak over losing his true love through her commanding mezzo-soprano voice.

Malinda Haslett and Monica Sciaky, two Ph.D. students, and Kathleen O’Rourke, a masters student, were also pivotal additions to the show’s cast.

Orlando’s one true love, Angelica, was played by Haslett, who had performed in over 30 professional operas and is currently pursuing a doctorate at Stony Brook University as a first year student. Haslett’s performance and singing echoed with elegance and grace, her movement as regal as her soprano voice. Angelica betrays the love of Orlando by having an affair with Prince Medoro.

O’Rourke played the lovesick and loveable character of Dorinda, a shepherdess who is hopelessly enamored with Medoro. O’Rourke, who will be graduating this May with a master’s degree in vocal performance from Stony Brook, charmed the audience with her soprano voice and quirky, head-over-heels in love performance.

Sciaky also took on a male role, playing the ambivalent and love-confused Prince Medoro. Medoro’s affliction of being torn between the affections of Angelica and Dorinda was heard and portrayed through Sciaky’s mezzo-soprano voice, a familiar voice at SBU. Sciaky is a doctoral student who has performed in other campus productions such as “Great Romances” and “Hansel and Gretel.”

Drama took the stage as the opera progressed and Orlando finds out he has lost his true love, Angelica, to Medoro. Kim evokes a mental deterioration of her character through her overwhelming voice, and the audience sees the once strong soldier Orlando almost come to his demise.

The Baroque music matched exactly the acting of the cast on stage—fast-paced and more upbeat music played during the introduction and the brighter scenes, while slow-tempo music and sudden syncopations

lingered as the characters experienced distress and tragedy.

Prominent stage director Guillaume Bernardi was seated in the audience. Bernardi orchestrated the theatre production of “Orlando,” which he evidently did with conciseness and creativity.

The characters’ costumes were outstanding, all reminiscent and extremely realistic of the time period in which “Orlando” takes place. Tights, petticoats, corsets and wigs were all a part of the costuming, majestic and regal in all essence. Mundane greens, browns, taupe and charcoal greys composed the main color scheme of the night, with flashy rhinestones for Queen Angelica and shiny chain armor for Orlando.

Famous New York based designer Camille Assaf was brought in to do the costumes for the production. Assaf has designed for the New York City Ballet and made contributions to the 2008 Beijing Olympic opening ceremony.

The end of the show proved to have a happy ending, even after all the tragedy, heartbreak and near-insanity the characters were driven to.

All five members of the cast, including Haas and Bernardi, received standing ovations from the audience.

Perry Goldstein, the chair of

the Department of Music at SBU, expressed his excitement regarding the production.

“The Music Department's opera productions each year are always exciting events,” Goldstein said. “They combine the talents of our superb singers and excellent instrumentalists and we bring in additional professionals to sing as well as direct. It's always great fun.”

Goldstein went on to explain the significance of performing an opera such as “Orlando” by an all-Stony Brook team.

“Handel was one of our greatest opera composers and we're glad to offer this opportunity for the university student body to see opera come to life in their own backyard,” he said.

The student body in attendance also gave “Orlando” a generally warm and positive reception.

“It made me understand what opera was like and how it differed from musicals,” sophomore biochemistry major Julia Joseph said. “It was a unique way of telling a classical story, and I enjoyed being immersed in a different form of art.”

The cast, music, song, staging and costuming created an artistically ingenious trifecta, which made Stony Brook’s take on “Orlando” come bright and alive on stage.

By Dahlia IbrahimStaff Writer

THREE ARTSY EVENTS

The Weekend Life Council will be screening "Skyfall" on April 20 and 21 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in the SAC Auditorium.

2) “Skyfall” Screening

The Residence Hall Association will be hosting a "Beauty and the Geek" ball on Saturday, April 20 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the GLS/HDV center. There will be food, dancing and performances as a part of RHA's annual ball. RHA will be giving out bow ties, glasses and crowns.

3) “Beauty and the Geek” Ball

Earthstock will be taking place all week all over campus. The main festival will be taking place on Friday, April 19 on the Academic Mall. There will be an “Eco-Scavenger Hunt,” the annual “Duck Races” and performances by Peat Moss, Do It in the Dark and Jack’s Waterfall.

1) Earthstock

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YOON SEO NAM / THE STATESMANHaslett (left) and Sciaky (right) perform in Handel's "Orlando."

YOON SEO NAM / THE STATESMANWilliams (left) and Kim (right) perform in Handel's "Orlando" at the Staller Center.

The Statesman Monday, April 15, 2013 11Arts & Entertainment

Shirley Strum Kenny Festival offers more than just artThis year’s Shirley Strum Kenny

Student Arts Festival kicked off Wednesday just before Campus Life Time, but the students offered more than just art, and a local art gallery showcased art from some of Stony Brook University’s professors.

There was the ROTC station outside, across the SAC plaza from Craft Center stands where volunteers snapped Polaroids of students with masquerade masks and a tie-dye station that gave out 350 T-shirts to fashionably early students. But the bulk of the opening fair moved inside in anticipation of rain that never came.

The heartbeat of the event pulsed in SAC Ballroom A, even though almost half of the reserved tables were empty. Students who took pictures outside could drop by another Craft Center table and build their own picture frames. Across the room, Stacey Rice, a junior geology major, handed out brushes, paints and rocks for students to decorate their own ‘Rock Babies.’

“I don’t think anyone’s really interested in geology here, but we’re here anyway,” Rice said. “Galaxies and volcanoes can be beautiful art.”

Apparently, a lot of things can be art. Members of the Golden Key Honor Society manned a table full of brown paper bags and markers so students could doodle on them for an upcoming event sponsoring children with cancer. The Comedian’s Guild had a table and so did at least one sorority.

“Dancing is the art,” said Melanie Magdits, a senior environmental humanities major and member of the Stony Brook Belly Dancers, who had their performance postponed for fear of bad weather. “We love this festival. We do it every year.”

The decision to move the bulk of the fair indoors had to be submitted by 1 p.m. Tuesday, said Norm Prusslin of the theatre arts department, who serves as an adviser to the event coordinators.

“To take a chance outside or go inside and make adjustments,” Prusslin said. “We had to adjust the outside performances and reschedule them for later in the week.”

Wednesday’s visible festivities

marked the beginning of an annual two to three-week arts festival named for president Samuel Stanley’s predecessor.

“The festival existed prior to [former president Kenny’s expansion of the event] seven years ago, but it was much smaller,” Prusslin said. “She thought there should be some more attention to arts. The festival focused to bring together … students, faculty and clubs.”

Off-campus organizations showed up, too. Gallery North, an art gallery in Setauket less than a mile away from Stony Brook, sent SB alumnus Emily White to promote an exhibition of works by three SBU faculty members—Nobuho Nagasawa, Mel Pekarsky and Howardena Pindell—who will have their work on display until April 26.

Next to White’s booth, Stony Brook librarians Kathleen Maxheimer and Kristen Cinar handed out pins and rubber bracelets to promote students to “get your read on!”

“We didn’t think there’d be this much crafts—this is our first time

doing this,” said Maxheimer. “Next year we won’t be so boring.”

If the festival is too boring for anyone, students can head down to the library’s central reading room and grab a book from last year’s Roth Regatta boat, which is full of good reads that do not even need to be checked out.

Regardless of how artsy the participants were, many of them agreed that being present was a good way to reach out to fellow students and have fun.

“Arts and crafts are not necessarily our key demographic,” said Sergeant Timothy Hunt, from the ROTC. “But anything that goes on, on campus, we want to be a part of.”

Even the hard sciences crowd got into the spirit of things.

“It’s just fun,” said Rice, from the Geology Club, as she sat behind a table flecked with glitter, paint and plastic googly eyes. “Make a mess!”

The festival will wind down on April 29 with an award ceremony and a buffet.

By Michael RuizStaff Writer

BOREUM LEE / / THE STATESMANA participant tie-dyes at the annual Shirley Strum Kenny Arts Festival.

BOREUM LEE / THE STATESMANStudents burn wood at Stony Brook's annual Shirley Strum Kenny Arts Festival in the Student Activities Center.

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Despite some technical flaws, "Hamlet" turns out a success

Simons Center hosts traveling Islamic art exhibit

William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” holds a reputation for being Shakespeare’s longest play and for having some of the most famous lines in the history of theater. (“To be or not to be- that is the question” and “Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well.”)

The Theatre Arts Department began performing Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” their spring production, on April 11 in Theatre 1 of the Staller Center.

Shakespeare wrote “Hamlet” in what many believe was the early 17th century at the famed Globe Theatre in London. The story details Prince Hamlet’s (sophomore cinema and cultural studies major Pinkhas Nisanov) demise after his father’s murder. His father’s ghost appears to tell him that Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle (junior psychology major Matthew Fine), poisoned the late

king. Meanwhile, Claudius has married Hamlet’s mother, Queen Gertrude (sophomore theatre arts major Meghan Ames) and has assumed the throne. Hamlet vows to avenge his father’s death while dealing with his affections for the mentally deteriorating Ophelia (sophomore theatre arts major Molly Warren.)

Valarie Clayman Pye, an adjunct professor in the theatre arts department who has worked as a voice and speech coach since graduating the university in 1992, adapted and directed the show. Of all of the people involved, she probably deserves a large portion of the credit. “Hamlet” might be Shakespeare’s longest show, but it did not seem that way.

At first, one would expect that Hamlet (Nisanov) would deteriorate almost immediately. He does not, but when he does, it is evident that Nisanov has a strange affinity for playing strange

characters.Of all the performances,

Ophelia’s (Warren’s) was definitely the strongest. Her final break with reality is heartbreaking and it would be safe to say that there was not a heart in the audience that was not dislodged into a stomach.

The lighting design was clever. Whenever Hamlet and his subconscious took the stage alone, he went to a darker mindset and the lighting followed when a once bright stage turned to near darkness.

The biggest flaw of the production had to do with scene changes. Despite the stage crew’s rehearsal, they forgot to remove certain elements from the stage in between scenes. Items from a graveyard found themselves in the royal palace until one of the actors nonchalantly picked it up in character.

The choice to add two actors (sophomore theathre arts major

Eliza Tunstall- Weiner and freshman theatre arts major Katherine Gorham) to play Hamlet’s subconscious (H2 and H3) was definitely an interesting choice and different than traditional stagings of the critically-acclaimed play. However, there were times that all three actors were meant to be in sync but were slightly off.

The theatre set-up was intriguing. With a circular stage and seating surrounding the stage, a really intimate setting was created. According to the director’s note, the theatre was set up to resemble Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. On the

other hand, the audience did get its fair share of the actors’ backs.

Despite some small technical flaws, the Theatre Arts Department’s production of “Hamlet” is definitely a refreshing activity for a Saturday night. However, people who are not familiar with Shakespeare should definitely read some “Sparknotes” beforehand. And those who cannot handle “No Fear Shakespeare” should probably just stick to the Disney version of “Hamlet”— “The Lion King.”

This week performances will take place on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Staller Center.

By Chelsea KatzStaff Writer

The Stony Brook Simons Center hosted the FAX + Pattern gallery this year in an attempt to teach visitors more about art, math and Islamic culture through 3D printing technology.

FAX is a traveling exhibition that originated in New York in 2009, and uses about 20 artists with a math background to contribute. The exhibit has a rotating gallery, with new pieces being added and removed as more artists continue to contribute. The gallery puts a focus on combining Islamic symbols with mathematical equations to build 3D images.

“For me all of this started during a trip to India with my wife,” said Phil Webster, one of the artists, who specializes in 3D printing. “It was

there that I really became enamored by Islamic culture and their markings.”

Most of the work on display at the exhibit was a combination of Islamic symbols and mathematical shapes. Some of the art ranged from 3D sculptures to simple paintings of the same markings.

One of the most prominent pieces on display at the exhibit was a 3D printer that would make a sculpture live. The entire process was controlled and explained by Webster.

“Like all art, it starts with some inspiration,” said Webster. For Webster, it was his fascination with Islamic culture and his previous work as a mathematician.

When a visitor decides on what he or she wants to make, the artist begins to draw it into a computer. Once the

initial drawing is built, artists add depth to the picture to make it 3D. After all of this is done the computer begins to process and scan the picture, preparing it for development.

Instead of printing with a standard printer, artists use a high-powered fax machine to gather the image in real time. This printer uses a high-powered laser to cut black acrylic tiles. While this process requires time, in the end it pushes the artists to work around the technological limitations to create their patterns.

“Not many people think of the process of making art, so to be able to see their reactions live is really something special,” said William Duffy, a sculpture and one of the artists displayed in the gallery.

While most of the exhibit consisted of sculptures, the exhibit also included many photos of Islamic symbols. One series of photos was an exploration of fractal Islamic patterns that fused traditional Islamic symbols with geometric design with modern fractal concepts.

“Fractal art allows people to see the whole thing at a glance,” said Webster. “It’s art that you can stop and view if you want, but what you see is what you get.”

Fractal art is centered around a pattern that displays progressively smaller versions of the same pattern repeating within itself.

Although the exhibit is constantly rotating its gallery, all the old pieces are still exhibited in a series of binders

available for anyone to look through. This gives visitors who haven’t visited the exhibit to see pieces that are not currently on display.

“It’s really nice and appropriate that the school holds exhibits like

this,” said Murry Batchelor, an exhibit visitor.

The gallery was also accompanied by live Moroccan music and food. The “FAX + Pattern” will be available for viewing until April 25.

By Brandon BenarbaStaff Writer

CHELSEA KATZ / THE STATESMANThe entire cast assembles to watch Hamlet's (Nisanov's) play about his father's death.

CHELSEA KATZ/ THE STATESMANHamlet (Nisanov) addresses his mother, Gertrude (Ames.)

JISOO HWANG / THE STATESMANViewers examine a piece at the FAX + Pattern exhibit.

JISOO HWANG / THE STATESMANFAX + Pattern is a traveling show that celebrates Islamic art.

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Administration needs to finish existing construction before beginning new projects

KEITH OLSEN/ THE STATESMANThis is one of the many construction sites on campus. Situated in Tabler Quad, this site separates Hand and Douglass Colleges from the rest of the buildings in the quad.

“There’s hardly any place on campus where the signs of the university’s rapid expansion can be escaped.”

-Keith OlsenAssistant Opinions Editor

No matter where people look on campus, their eyes will almost certainly land upon a construction site. This is evidence of the massive amount of funding that has been pouring into the university over the past few years.

All of this construction, whether it’s renovating existing buildings, erecting new structures, or shoring up the university’s infrastructure, is designed to make Stony Brook as competitive as possible within the next decade. While this proves that the university is committed to its students and plans to continue to offer a quality education to them, the construction more often than not alienates the students who are currently attending it.

All of these investments in infrastructure and buildings are generally very inconvenient to students and are eyesores for those of us who are forced to embark on massive detours around these sites, which appear to last for eternity. The university needs to take a more balanced approach toward construction on campus by finishing projects before starting new ones.

As everyone has observed,

the standards to get into Stony Brook have been increasing fairly dramatically ever since the funding began.

While some of this change is due to the sheer number of additional students who are applying to universities and to state schools in particular, part of it is due to the new facilities and institutes that Stony Brook has created, which make the education received here more valuable. By becoming more competitive, the reputation of Stony Brook University will

continue to improve even after the current students graduate, which will give graduates an advantage

in terms of how employers view their Stony Brook University degree. This benefit shouldn’t be understated due to the consequences that it has on our future careers.

The downside involves the unapologetically obnoxious piles of dirt everywhere and chain link fences that surround these construction sites and the sound of heavy machinery that permeates most of the campus.

There’s hardly any place on campus where the signs of the university’s rapid expansion can be escaped. We should applaud the administration’s desire to mold Stony Brook into one of the nation’s most prestigious universities, but the current scope is going too far, far enough that it has become a burden to the current students.

Construction will no doubt be a prominent aspect of my college career here at Stony Brook. The construction will obviously not end next year, and once the university finishes renovating these buildings, it will just begin building new ones.

The administration needs to

By Keith Olsen Assitant Opinions Editor

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The effects of construction

On Wednesday, April 10, two days after the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Judy Garland’s ‘Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead’ reached number 10 in the UK mid-week music charts, and number 1 on the iTunes download chart. There have been reports of ‘Thatcher is Dead’ parties being thrown all over the country, particularly in Brixton, Liverpool and Glasgow.

Assessing the ethics of celebrating the death of an elderly, ill woman is certainly not my job. Having been born the year following her exit from office, I am too young to have directly felt the power Thatcher wielded over Britain and, indeed, some of the world. As such, my feelings about her will always have to be somewhat measured, somewhat calmer than they might otherwise be. I certainly don’t feel entitled to assume I understand Thatcher entirely as a Prime Minister or a person. But, then again, I’m not sure anyone could make that claim.

As a British student of politics, though, the legacy of such a controversial and powerful Prime Minister is fascinating to consider. Her actions while in power had an incredible impact on the Britain I grew up in, as well as the world we all know today. Attempting to understand the extreme, visceral reactions British people have felt upon hearing of her death this week

is, for me, a daunting yet important task.

Perhaps the most striking realization I have had, being in the US on the historic day of her death, is the wildly different reputation she has among American and British people. American opinions of Thatcher, on the whole, have seemed to range from indifference to respect.

Many, quite rightly, associate her with Reagan and his conservative principles, recalling a close if tempestuous relationship built on a mutual love of the free market and ‘freedom.’ President Obama released a statement on Monday claiming: "The world has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty, and America has lost a true friend." In researching this article, too, I’ve waded through my fair share of self-righteous Fox News articles reeking of ignorance and band-wagoning —condemning those who have celebrated her death and rather stupidly trying to paint Thatcher as a feminist icon.

Thatcher and the feminist movement shared mutual contempt; she will not be remembered as advocating for women’s rights. She will, though, go down in history because she entirely re-shaped the British economy—and society itself. Winning an impressive three

consecutive terms in office between 1979 and 1990, and being our first and only female Prime Minister to date, she will never go down among

the ranks of forgettable leaders.There were problems that needed

solving in Britain. The economy was struggling, manufacturing was outdated and the trade unions were unhealthy and over-powerful. The Iron Lady responded to these issues, though, in uncompassionate and mind-bogglingly stubborn ways. Her famous remark, “The Lady’s not for turning,” will forever, I think, commemorate her complete inability or unwillingness to compromise her beliefs — even in the face of soaring unemployment rates, strikes, riots and even party dissenters.

After tearing down these

Friday’s USG elections were a landslide for The After Party, with Adil Hussain becoming the new president. It wasn’t surprising that he won after his party had a huge campaign across campus, and the unpopularity of the incumbent candidate, Anna Lubitz. Though Yiufat Lam also worked hard on his campaign, he lacked a larger named party to stand with.

Though I am happy to see change in the positions of the student government, based off the campaign that The After Party ran on, I have my reservations.

It was a brilliant marketing campaign on all aspects. The party used Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, and posters to spread their names. It built a brand that everyone could recognize when they went to vote. But the problem with most of the candidates was that no one focused on his/her platform. What does Hussain stand for?

His rebellious nature is exciting, fresh, and much-needed for most students after what they saw as a bad year for USG. But will he deliver on his promises of transparency, a student-first mentality, and, most of all, fostering a new relationship between the student body and administration?

This election has brought up larger issues at this University. Students hate elections apparently. Please correct me if I’m wrong on this statement, but with 14,000 undergraduates, only 2,162 votes were cast for USG President. Many

students had complaints against Lubitz for not properly representing the student body, yet no one was willing to do anything. No one complained during the year she was in office. Even during elections, only 2,162 students even cared to cast a vote for the person who would be in charge of overseeing distribution of money to clubs, activities, and other campus events. USG plays a huge role in building a campus life, yet many are okay with settling on just blaming the government, when really, the student body has the say in what happens.

With the fee continually going up for our student activity fee, the platform of a candidate is important in determining how the money will be spent. As we saw with Lubitz and her connections, it made her relationship with the students fairly cold. This isn’t saying Hussain will be the complete opposite, as his campaign has raised eyebrows in administration. Hussain may be the polar opposite of Lubitz, but because of that he could have a problem all year passing through ideas only to be shut down with an unreceptive administration.

The After Party made a video before elections on “slam dancing”, stating it was the reason Kendrick Lamar and Steve Aoki weren’t able to perform on campus. As creative as the video was, it was a little disturbing. Even the name of the party, gives off the impression that a large portion of the campus cares more about their social and party life, more than anything. While this is a huge assumption, I’m sure it’s a safe bet to say administration will have its work cut out the next year.

By Holly Pycroft Contributing Writer

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Prime Minister Thatcher is photographed on April 26, 1982 before interview on the Falkland Islands Crisis.

Britain Says Goodbye to the Iron Lady

“I certainly don’t feel entitled to assume I understand Thatcher entirely as a Prime Minister or as a person.”

-Holly PycroftContributing Writer

“There were problems that needed solving in Britain.”

-Holly PycroftContributing Writer

New USG Administration

Election ResultsPresident

Adil Hussain - 1260Anna Lubitz - 569Yiufat Lam - 333

Vice President

Mallory Rothstein - 1430Ryan Heslin - 603

realize that if they want to improve student life on campus, especially over the weekends, they need to make students care about the university.

The most obnoxious construction site that I have the misfortune of laying eyes on every day is the infrastructure repairs that run through the center of Tabler Quad, which effectively divides the group of buildings in half.

Tabler Quad is known for its atmosphere which revolves mainly around the naturalistic focus of the center of the quad, which has been devastated by the construction. The problem that I have with this specific instance isn’t its displeasing appearance, but its longevity.

Over the course of a few months, the majority of the energy

has been focused on other parts of the infrastructure repairs, leaving Tabler to remain in relatively the same state. By leaving Tabler in this seeming state of disrepair, the university is doing a disservice to the students who reside there. There are other areas which have been experiencing very little progress.

The university needs to take precautions to prevent the university’s atmosphere from becoming that of constant construction; if that becomes the case, then the situation regarding students leaving campus over the weekend will only get worse.

No one wants to live in an active construction zone. If the administration wants the students to stay, then it should focus on improving not only the facilities of the campus, but also the university’s atmosphere.

PHOTO CREDIT: MCTCAMPUSEx-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher speaks at a fund-raiser for the Lexington Medical Center Foundation in 1993 in South Carolina.

Continued on page 15

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outdated forms of industry and manufacturing, coal mining in particular, many blue-collar workers were left unemployed and unprotected by the trade unions that Thatcher was similarly attacking. Particularly in the north of England and Scotland, where such industries were still particularly prevalent, thousands of families and livelihoods were left in tatters. The remains of these destroyed mining towns can still be seen across Britain today. Many of these communities were then forced to depend on government welfare to get by – exactly the kind of ‘dependency culture’ Thatcher (and Conservatives still today) sought to prevent.

For Thatcherites, Britain should be a meritocratic society of trickle-down economics, where the losers lose and the winners win. If you lost your job in mining, you should work hard and get a better job. Coming from humble beginnings herself, it seems to me that this is the defining issue of Thatcher’s ideological standpoint—she worked herself up from the daughter of a grocer to Prime Minister of the country, and if she could do it, why couldn’t everyone else?

Society is just too complex to reduce down to this. By emphasizing the deregulation and liberalization of the market, Thatcher hoped to create a situation whereby everyone in society is free to succeed if they work hard enough, free from red tape and overbearing bureaucracy. Alas, time and time again this has been shown to be far too simple an answer to poverty and unemployment. Too often, people are bound by difficult circumstances, poverty, poor education, family issues and a myriad of other obstacles. This is life. Succeeding through hard work and determination is fantastic and a mindset that government should certainly promote in all countries. But by teaching society that those who don’t succeed are categorically lazy, Thatcher dragged the country to the right and fostered some of the bigotry that can be seen across Britain today.

How will Thatcher go down in the memories of Brits? Speaking to a range of adults who lived and grew through the Thatcher years has shown that to this day, people’s perspectives and opinions are divided and sometimes fiery.

My own father, for example, was saddened by the news of her death

and agreed with the vast majority of Thatcherite policy and ideology—for him, the transformation that Thatcher induced in Britain was a painful yet necessary task. The government could not longer afford to subsidize inefficient state-owned industries, so forcing the British economy to evolve from an economy based on outdated manufacturing to a liberal free market of service and finance was an unavoidable move. Furthermore, her success in the Falklands war and ultimate defeat of strikers and unions made her, for my father, a great Prime Minister.

For my boyfriend’s parents, in their late teens in London when Thatcher came to power, her icy, humorless and uncompromising demeanor stand out as symbols of the time.

Endless strikes and power outages were a continuing part of daily life, as was a growing societal message that disapproved of people in a worse situation than your own was perfectly okay. Thatcher pitted class against class in a very real way – the class divide today is still perfectly visible in Britain.

For my boyfriend’s parents, too, Thatcher represented the absolute death of socialism. (N.B. socialism in Britain is not the dirty word it is in the states!) Her philosophy of individualism, encapsulated by the famed comment: “There’s no such thing as society” represents a tremendous rightward shift for Britain. No longer is it necessary for a Brit to help out his/her neighbor. Each person is an island, an individual who must rely on only him or herself to achieve anything in life. It weakened us socially.

For a family friend, the stand-out legislation of the Thatcher years was the Housing Act of 1980, which allowed people living in council-owned housing to buy them from the local authority at low prices. Of course, the legislation aimed to drag people out of poverty, but the money was never channeled back into council housing and left a dire shortage of such housing in the future. The act, then, ended up causing huge problems for the working class. On Monday, hearing of Thatcher’s passing, my family friend admitted she felt happy—Thatcher encouraged greed,

ruined communities and caused immeasurable pain for thousands of families.

Happy, sad, or indifferent, it is clear that Thatcher’s death has coaxed out a range of emotions in Brits that for some have lay rather dormant since 1990. While she was never a feminist icon and in fact expressed her dislike toward the feminist movement, it is unquestionably an impressive thing that the Iron Lady clawed her way to the top of the political heap. A strict headmistress to an all-boys school, she cleverly used this icy demeanor to, in a sense, scare her way to the top. She furthermore fixed a number of problems that needed solving in 1980s Britain, albeit doing so in an uncompromising and ruthless way. Ideology, for Thatcher, was everything. If a thousand jobs were lost and lives ruined in order to establish a modern, meritocratic societal structure of trickle-down economics, then you can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs. Perhaps the late Baroness Thatcher didn’t realize that she was not the Prime Minister of a country in which everyone wanted an omelet. Some people were happy with their eggs.

And so, this week, I can’t profess to be one of the people dancing with joy over the passing of Baroness Thatcher; her death is not good news or bad news but merely news. Rather, I am saddened to ponder her legacy and watch Britain from across the pond with, I suppose, a sigh. I hope we learnt something from her time in office about our communities and our world. And I hope we can regard her time in office not just with contempt, but with a sense of having tried politics one way, and learnt from our mistakes. Let’s move on.

Earlier this year, one of the best-known figures of early 21st century Latin America passed away. Hugo Chavez left his mark on the international political scene and was perhaps the most vocal critic of the United States since Fidel Castro, the former leader of Cuba for decades.

On Sunday, the Venezuelan people went to the polls to choose Chavez’s successor between the acting president and man who most likely would have been his choice, Nicolas Maduro, and Governor Henrique Capriles from the state of Miranda. The latter lost to Chavez in last October’s elections.

Chavez can easily be described as a controversial figure. He has drawn praise and resentment from multiple world leaders, many of them not endearing to the public. He made no secret of his close ties to President Mahmud Ahmadinejad of Iran and also recently departed Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi.

The question that many Americans who are following the events in South America is probably how this election and its outcome will affect the United States and its relationship with Latin America. The answer is unclear. Maduro, if he tries to please the same voter base that supported Chavez, would most likely try to maintain the cold peace that has existed between Venezuela and the United States for the past decade. On the other hand, Capriles has said that he would try to re-establish closer ties with America.

But the latter position should not be confused with crawling on shattered glass to beg for Uncle Sam’s

forgiveness. Latin America has gone through vast changes in the past few decades. The Monroe Doctrine from the 1820s, the manifesto on which the United States based its interventionist policies in Latin America for generations, is an impossible fantasy. As the world observed in 2003, the United States can no longer invade other countries at will without drawing international fury. To add on to that, several Latin American countries are strong nations in their own right, and they would not tolerate being treated as inferiors.

While Chavez is not responsible for the economic ascendance of Latin America, he did succeed in breaking the illusion that many Americans had that the interests of this region and its people couldn’t be taken seriously. Even if one is not a Chavez supporter, he would not have gotten into power on a leftist and anti-American agenda if the United States did not give the people of Venezuela something to be anti-American about. The election and presidency of Chavez made the Untied States hear that loud and clear.

This is not the Cuban Missile Crisis Part Two; the United States and Latin America are not sworn enemies for all time. However, the people and nations of Latin America have sent the United States a message: we are perfectly willing to do business with you, but as equals, not as pseudo-colonies.

As it should with any country or region, the United States should try to make the most of what international trade and ties have to offer, but it has to understand that the old way of doing things is over.

“For Thatcherites, Britain should be a meritocratic society of trickle-down economics.”

-Holly PycroftContributing Writer

“Ideology, for Thatcher, was everything.”

-Holly PycroftContributing Writer

PHOTO CREDIT: MCTCAMPUSLady Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman Prime Minister, speaks February 25, 2002, in Milwaukee, Wisc.

Continued from page 14

Chavez is still dead The woman who forever changed BritainBy David O’Connor Managing Editor

PHOTO CREDIT: MCTCAMPUSFormer Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gives a campaign speech in heavy rainstorm on October 4, 2012.

“Latin America has gone through vast changes in the past few decades.”

-David O’ConnorManaging Editor“Chavez can

easily be described as a controversial figure.”

-David O’ConnorManaging Editor

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After McNitt shut down the Hawks offense, Italiano hit a two-out single to center to get on base. He was followed by Courtney, who drove a double into the right center gap to score Italiano and give SBU the lead.

McNitt finished an attempted Hawk rally by striking out Hartford’s Joe Roberti to end the game.

“Brandon threw terrific,” Senk said.

Mason, Peragine, and freshman Jack Parenty each had multi-hit games, and Nivins had three RBI in the doubleheader.

“We’ve been swinging the bats better since last Tuesday,” Senk said,

referring to Wednesday's 9-5 loss to Manhattan College, in which SBU posted 11 hits.

Stony Brook had 13 hits to the Hawks’ 16 in the doubleheader, but finished the weekend with 25 hits overall.

Sunday’s game was a fight, with both teams struggling to gain leverage.

Stony Brook had the upper hand for most of the game, scoring a run in the first off a throwing error from Hawks’ catcher James Alfonso.

They added two more runs in the seventh, after Courtney smacked a two-out double off the right center fence.

But Hartford got on the board in the seventh, scoring four runs.

Freshman Dan Zamora gave up a single and two doubles before being replaced by fellow freshman Tim Knesnick, who gave up a triple before settling down and getting three outs to end the inning.

SBU responded with a triple of their own, from freshman Johnny Caputo. Caputo then scored the tying run after Mason bounced a single past the third baseman.

Neither team could score in the eighth or ninth, and the game was tied at 4 after nine innings.

For the second time in the series, the game went into extra innings.

After a tenth inning in which the Hawks threatened but could not get a run across, the first two SBU batters struck out. Parenty singled past the second baseman and then took second.

With two outs and a man on second, it looked like game over when Peragine smoked the ball to right field. But Hartford right fielder Ryan Lukach fielded the ball and gunned Parenty at home, ending the inning and SBU’s chance to score.

The Seawolves, however, were not giving up the fight. After Knesnick retired the side in the top of the eleventh, Italiano opened with a single past the shortstop to get on first. Hartford reliever Jeremy Charles then struck out Courtney and Nivins to get two outs, but Italiano moved to second on a Caputo single.

With men on first and second

and two outs, Mason smacked a single right down the left field line to bring Italiano home and end the game.

“We’ve been on the short end of extra inning games way too many times this year,” Senk said. “So it’s nice to be on the winning end.”

Zamora struck out six and gave up seven hits, but it was Knesnick who carried the Seawolves. He allowed only one run and three hits over five innings, striking out four and walking none to get his third win of the season.

“Timmy Knesnick, what could you say about him,” Senk said. “Five innings of relief and picked up the win. He pitched extremely well.”

Five Seawolves had multi-hit games on the Seawolves 12-hit day,

led by Peragine, who went 3-for-5. Caputo went 2-for-5 and hit his fourth triple of the season. Mason, who had both the game-winning and game-tying RBI, also went 2-for-5.

Italiano, who scored the winning run in both of Stony Brook’s wins this weekend, threw out five would-be basestealers this weekend. He is now 26-for-54 on the season.

With the wins this weekend, SBU is 1.5 games behind fourth place Binghamton in the America East.

The Seawolves will play two non-conference games at home this week before traveling to Maine for a three-game conference series next weekend. Stony Brook takes on Bryant on Tuesday at 4 p.m. at Joe Nathan Field.

Courtney, Italiano key for Baseball's offenseContinued from page 20

Women's Lacrosse defeats New Hampshire 16-6Seawolves overwhelming, winning streak now at seven

The No. 10/11 Stony Brook women’s lacrosse team picked up its seventh consecutive victory by beating New Hampshire 16-6 on Saturday afternoon. The win, combined with a loss by

Binghamton on Saturday, clinched for the Seawolves a spot in the America East Championship tournament.

Stony Brook also matched a school record for consecutive wins, which was originally set back in 2007. The team has not lost since March 17th, when

Maryland defeated it 8-3 at home.The Seawolves got off to a big

lead in the first half, scoring ten consecutive goals to start the game. Stony Brook would take a 12-2 lead into the half. New Hampshire was better in the second half, but failed to make much of a dent in the Seawolves lead.

The Seawolves were once again lead by seniors Demmianne Cook and Janine Hillier. Cook found the back of the net five times, while Hillier had a goal and four assists.

Cook’s five goals put her at 65 for the season. She is three away from tying the program record of 68, which she set last season.

The two seniors were not the only ones contributing for the Stony Brook offense. Overall on the day, seven Seawolves scored and three of them had multi-goal games.

Sophomore Michelle Rubino had four goals on the day, and junior Emily Mercier scored twice. Sophomore Amber Kupres, junior Alyssa Cardillo and junior Jessica Romano all scored a goal apiece as well.

Goalkeeper junior Frankie Caridi picked up her twelfth win of the season. She played the entire sixty minutes and made eight saves in the game.

Stony Brook outshot New

Hampshire 27-16 in the game, and 20-7 in the first half. They were also 6 for 7 in the game on free position shots.

The Seawolves won 14 of 22 face-offs on the day. Cook tallied a game-high six face-off wins.

Stony Brook was also without

leading scorer Claire Petersen, who did not play in the game.

Stony Brook has two games left in its regular season schedule. The Seawolves will play Boston University at home on Saturday before taking on Binghamton at home the following Saturday.

By Joe GalottiStaff Writer

MANJU SHIVACHARAN / THE STATESMANSophomore midfielder Michelle Rubino (1) scored four goals against New Hampshire on Saturday.

ADRIAN SZKOLAR / THE STATESMANSenior midfielder Demmianne Cook (27) scored five goals. She now has 60 on the season, first in the nation.

SARA SUPRIYATNO / THE STATESMANJunior first baseman Kevin Courtney had three hits and four RBIs in the three-game series against Hartford.

SARA SUPRIYATNO / THE STATESMANStony Brook is now 12-23 on the season, and has a 6-9 record in America East play.

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During his cross-country and track run in high school, figuratively and literally, Green proved his athletic abilities by being a part of a county championship cross-country team in 2010 and winning the all-division cross-country runner in Nassau County of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association.

After graduating from high school, Green decided that he did not want to run during his college years at Stony Brook.

Green joined the team the first semester of his freshman year, after emailing and getting in contact with last year’s president and this year’s current captain of the Ultimate Frisbee team, Harrison Greene.

Why Ultimate Frisbee? “It’s the style of play that makes it

special,” Green said. “It’s an entirely new type of game, where there are no officials or referees.”

And new it is. The Ultimate Frisbee team at Stony Brook is relatively new, at only seven years old, whereas the sport itself dates back to 1972, where its first college game was played between Rutgers and Princeton.

Green noted that the game is very vigorous and physically demanding.

“You have to be agile like a soccer player and fast like a track runner, which helps because of my running background,” he said.

Green’s position on the team is handler, which involves doing most of the throwing during the game and directing the offense.

However, the 19-year-old makes

sure to note that a successful game is all up to team effort.

“All seven players on the field have to contribute for the team to do well,” Green said. “It’s not just up to one or two players.”

Green says a large part of his success in the sport and on the team is due to captain Alex Stokes, who mentored him during the start of his freshman year.

“Stokes taught me how to be a better player essentially,” he explained. “He helped a lot with my throwing, awareness of what’s going on the field, and helped with my confidence and

performance as an athlete.” At the end of his freshman year,

Green saw that all of the e-board members of the team were graduating, which gave him the opportunity to run for a position and become vice president.

“I wanted to improve the team, because I see the potential that they have,” Green said.

During his remaining years at Stony Brook, Green wants to take the team to a nationally ranked level. The Ultimate Frisbee team has made it to the regional competition once before, and has hopes of making it in again

this year. After he graduates from college,

the computer science major wants to become a software analyst. Pertaining to his sport, Green plans to play at the club level with USA Ultimate, which is the national association for the sport of Ultimate Frisbee.

This summer, Green plans on trying out for some local teams, including LID and 7 Express.

Green noted that some people often doubt the legitimacy of Ultimate Frisbee as a real sport. However, the vice president of the team made it a point to clear up any misconceptions.

“I want people to know that the players are athletic, it’s an intense sport and it’s physically demanding,” Green said.

Recently, USAU has reached a deal with ESPN 3 to broadcast games of national Ultimate Frisbee games, which Green says he is excited about.

What’s next for the vice president? Sectionals are this weekend, and a win could lead Stony Brook to the regional competition.

“I love seeing us grow,” said Green. “And I believe I have the passion that’s necessary to bring this team to a whole new level.”

Frisbee player Green wants to grow program into nation's eliteContinued from page 20

Softball goes 3-2 in jam-packed week of gamesHead coach Bryant gets 700th career win at SBU

It was a jam-packed week for Stony Brook softball filled with local non-conference play and bitter conference rivalry. The Seawolves (22-17, 5-4) finished 3-2 on the week and went

1-2 at the University of Albany over the weekend with two extra inning games.

The week started off with a double header Wednesday afternoon against Sacred Heart. In the first game, Stony Brook made quick work of Sacred Heart (17-17) as it won 11-0 in 5

innings.The difference came in the bottom

of the third inning when the Seawolves poured on nine runs on nine hits and sent 13 girls up to the plate in total. Senior Gina Bianculli who went 3-3 with a homer led the offense.

However the Pioneers would not let the trouncing shake them, as they had to regroup quickly for the second game of the matinee double.

Stony Brook would not let themselves get complacent either. “We knew what we were up against. They had their ace on the mound for the second game. They wanted to get the split and we knew it,” coach Megan Bryant said.

The second game was a world of difference as Sacred Heart pitched well and played better defense through five innings. But something about playing at home and the Stony Brook air carried the Seawolves to a late inning walk-off victory.

“Any day you win two games is a good day,” Bryant said. “We had to work a lot harder for the second game, but I'm proud of the fight we put up and the execution late.”

Allison Cukrov led the Seawolves on the mound with two wins, one in relief in the second game.

It was a rather appropriate end to a poor defensive game as the Seawolves won on a liner to left that was mishandled and allowed Stony Brook to walk off and close a tough

double-header.That was just the beginning of

the week for Stony Brook and just the beginning of late-inning drama. The following two games would be decided in extra innings against the first place University of Albany Great Danes (21-10, 8-1AE).

Coach Megan Bryant secured her 700th win Saturday as the Seawolves won 4-3 but also fell 2-1 in the 13th

(A college softball game has seven regulation innings).

Although the weekend was capped by a 4-0 defeat of Stony Brook, a competitive weekend against first place Albany at Albany was an encouraging sign for the Seawolves.

Next week, Stony Brook will travel to Rutgers and Maine as it continue its trip to the America East Championship.

By Jason MazzaStaff Writer

PHOTO COURTESY OF FACEBOOKJames Green plays the role of handler on the field, and is the Ultimate Frisbee team's vice-president off the field.

SARA SUPRIYATNO / THE STATESMANSenior infielder Gina Bianculli went 3-3 with a home run in the first game on Wed. against Sacred Heart.

SARA SUPRIYATNO / THE STATESMANJunior pitcher Christine Lucido gave up one earned run in 6 1/3 innings on Saturday against Albany.

SPORTSMen's Lacrosse loses to UMBC 13-12

Seawolves dealt blow in AE playoff hopes, now in must-win mode

Senior Jeff Tundo has had an incredible season so far at Stony Brook, leading the team in points by a huge margin with 51.

With his team now in a potentially precarious position to make the America East playoffs, however, he wishes he could trade some of those points for some wins.

Following last week’s 14-13 overtime loss to Binghamton, Stony Brook played another close

game against UMBC at home on Saturday, but lost 13-12 in a see-saw affair.

“Points, obviously, I need to score because I’m one of the main players on offense, but I’d rather trade that in any day to get the W,” Tundo said.

The loss drops Stony Brook to 1-2 in America East play, tied in fourth place and the final spot for the conference playoffs with Binghamton.

“I felt we played harder than we did against Binghamton, we just

didn’t come up with the result.” Stony Brook head coach Jim Nagle said. “We’re still in the playoff hunt, we got two games left in the season and I think we have a great shot at making the playoffs.”

After a back-and-forth first quarter, Stony Brook managed to break away from UMBC midway through the second quarter, scoring three consecutive goals in a span of 3:56 to take a 7-4 lead.

However, UMBC would score two goals in the final two minutes of the half and score the third quarter’s first two goals to retake the lead.

The teams would exchange goals for the rest of the half until UMBC’s Pat Young rocketed a shot past Stony Brook freshman goalkeeper Dan Shaughnessy with 2:39 left in the game for what would be the game-winning goal.

UMBC would win the ensuing face-off after Young’s goal, but Stony Brook would get the ball back after a 30-second violation from UMBC, and Nagle called a timeout with 1:07 left to draw up a play.

Sophomore attackman Mike Rooney got a shot off in front of the goal with 30 seconds left, but was stopped by UMBC goalkeeper Wes DeRito, who smothered the rebound to seal the game.

“We had run a play during the week that we put in, we just didn’t run it aggressively enough,” Nagle said. “We got a really close look at the cage, that’s all you can really ask for.”

Stony Brook saw Tundo and freshman attackmen Brody Eastwood and Jake Sichenzia score

three goals each. Rooney had a team-high three assists.

UMBC, which outshot Stony Brook 47-23 and saw nine different players score goals, was led by Nate Lewnes’ two goal, two assist performance.

“I felt that we probably should have gotten to his hands, and we didn’t” Nagle said of Lewnes. “All in all, we fought hard but we sometimes got out of our system.”

Stony Brook has two more conference games coming up, with one this upcoming Saturday against

Hartford and the other the following Saturday against first-place Albany.

“We just got to win those two games,” Nagle said.

Before those games, however, the team will play its final non-conference game against Yale on Monday. For Tundo, the game will be a good chance to get the team back on the winning track.

“That could be a big win, maybe get us going a bit,” Tundo said. “We can get there, but we got to work harder in practice, it’s as simple as that.”

By Adrian SzkolarAssistant Sports Editor

MANJU SHIVACHARAN / THE STATESMANFreshman midfielder Chris Hughes scored a goal in the fourth quarter on Saturday's losing effort vs. UMBC.

MANJU SHIVACHARAN / THE STATESMANSenior midfielder Jeff Tundo (20) led Stony Brook with three goals and two assists against UMBC on Saturday.

Baseball goes 2-1 against Hartford over weekendAlso defeated Iona, lost to Manhattan earlier in the week

The baseball team took a 2-1 series victory in three exciting games against the Hartford Hawks this weekend.

The Seawolves took the victory in Sunday’s rubber match, which went 11 innings and ended on a Josh Mason RBI single, and split Saturday’s doubleheader, losing game one, 4-3, in extra innings and winning game two, 3-2.

Head coach Matt Senk was pleased with his team’s performance.

“It was a well-played series, we had three terrific games,” he said.

It seemed like the Seawolves would take Saturday’s first game, which started with SBU scoring in the second and third innings. But junior starter Frankie Vanderka gave up two runs in the fifth and another in the sixth before he was replaced in the seventh by fellowo junior Mason.

With the score tied at three, the seven-inning game went into extra innings. Hartford’s Brady Sheetz

opened the eighth with a triple, and scored off an RBI single from teammate Chris DelDebbio.

Down 4-3 in the bottom of the eighth, SBU couldn’t make a comeback. Junior Anthony Italiano walked to start the inning, and moved to second on a wild pitch.

After fellow junior Kevin Courtney was hit by a pitch, senior Tanner Nivins bunted the ball back to the pitcher, who threw out Italiano at third. Sophomore Cole Peragine then hit into a double play to end the game.

Vanderka struck out a season-

high eight batters and allowed three runs on six hits, walking two. Mason, who started the game in centerfield, got the loss after giving up the winning run.

“Unfortunately Frankie had that one tough inning,” Senk said.

The second game went better for the Seawolves pitching staff, with junior Brandon McNitt throwing a complete game, despite a twenty minute delay in the seventh inning. This was the seventh complete game a Stony Brook starting pitcher has thrown this season.

McNitt picked up his second win, allowing just two runs on eight hits. Like Vanderka in game one, he also struck out a season-high eight batters and walked two. Eighty seven of his 117 pitches were strikes.

After the Hawks picked up a run in the fourth inning, the Seawolves answered back with two runs of their own off a triple from Nivins. Hartford scored again in the sixth, making it 2-2 going into the eighth.

By Catie CuratoloAssistant Sports Editor

SARA SUPRIYATNO / THE STATESMANFreshman pitcher Tim Knesnik came in as a reliever on Sunday's game, giving up one run in five innings.

Continued on page 17 Continued on page 19

Ultimate Frisbee a passion for sophomore James Green

For James Green, Ultimate Frisbee is not just a sport—it is a passion.

The 19-year-old sophomore is currently pursuing a degree in computer science, while serving as vice president of Stony Brook University’s very own Ultimate Frisbee team.

Originally from Wantagh, N.Y., Green says his passion for Frisbee started in high school.

However, it was not the only sport that Green had a talent for.

All throughout his academic career at Seaford High School, the computer science major ran cross-country and track, which he says Frisbee went hand-in-hand with.

“My teammates and I would constantly just be throwing around a Frisbee for fun,” Green said. “I just got hooked.”

By Dahalia IbrahimStaff Writer