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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: Chairman of the Board Date: June 13, 2023, 9:12 am
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Could just be that it's a local university paper and has less
resources. But yes, it's big news and should be top of mind.
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: Hammertime Date: June 14, 2023, 10:11 am
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[quote author=AirTurn link=topic=993.msg39899#msg39899
date=1686620394]
[quote author=Chairman of the Board
link=topic=993.msg39898#msg39898 date=1686591179]
(HTM) https://www.sbstatesman.com/2023/06/12/sbu-gives-more-info-on-climate-exchange/
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Good article but is anyone else a little confused/concerned
about why it was published nearly two months after the town hall
took place?
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So, Simon is putting in half of the 150 million Dollars he is
donating to SBU, or is this separate from that.
Sounds like a total and absolutely waste of time and money.
Money better off elsewhere. I rather see students who are not as
fortunate to have their tuition payed instead of this dumb
climate change crap.
Oh, lord. 2024 can’t come quick enough
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: sbufan Date: June 14, 2023, 10:37 am
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[quote author=Hammertime link=topic=993.msg39901#msg39901
date=1686755472]
So, Simon is putting in half of the 150 million Dollars he is
donating to SBU, or is this separate from that.
Sounds like a total and absolutely waste of time and money.
Money better off elsewhere. I rather see students who are not as
fortunate to have their tuition payed instead of this dumb
climate change crap.
Oh, lord. 2024 can’t come quick enough
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I'm sure it's separate, because like the the article clearly
laid out, the exchange is a distinct charitable institution and
not financially linked to Stony Brook.
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: Hammertime Date: June 19, 2023, 8:07 am
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I didn’t know Lyle Hemphill was let go at Wake Forest in 2021 as
DC, and picked up at Duke as an assistant.
Not sure why he was let go from WF, considering their record
with his tenure there.
Hopefully he can make a name for himself at Duke
(HTM) https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/duke/article256725577.html
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: The Voice since 1988 Date: June 23, 2023, 3:55 pm
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About time I chimed in.
I'm in total agreement that the Athletic Dept and University
have been spinning their wheels as of late. Very little forward
motion.
I attribute that in part to a new president settling in and also
to Shawn's limbo status. He's really not in a position to take
on any major decisions because they can be undone by the next
person. And every day he goes without a contract, it becomes
more likely there will be a next person.
But I've been hanging around here for 40 years, first as a
student, then as a volunteer. Change has been glacial, and when
there has been change, it hasn't necessarily been for the
better. The SAC was supposed to replace the Union. It didn't.
The Union was repurposed and now there isn't a true hub for
student activities like there once was. I'm not talking just
about offices for USG and campus media. I'm talking about the
Union I once knew with everything going on, even a bowling
alley. WUSB had to move to West Side Dining, the LGBTQ+ Center
has nice digs there too. But off the beaten path compared to
their former Union locations.
Another big problem is people's failure to understand that
anything fun and interesting on a college campus starts out with
the student body. Athletics originated as club sports back in
the 19th century. Fight songs, bands, weird traditions, all
student initiatives. Too often things come from the top down and
as a result nobody cares.
Any time a student organization wants to have a concert or
something that might attract people from off campus (and needs
to in order to be financially viable), University Police or
other administrators try to kill it. This despite having games
and Staller Center events open to the general public.
A friend of mine who used to run The Spot and later founded the
University Cafe was asked by Carmen Vazquez (Remember her? Not
missed) what needed to be done to get more alumni to donate
money.
His answer? "Treat them better as students."
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: Chairman of the Board Date: August 15, 2023, 8:08 pm
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the javits renovation is scheduled to be done this fall:
(HTM) https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/facilities/projects/current-projects/Javits%20Lecture%20Hall.php
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: Chairman of the Board Date: September 4, 2023, 1:39 am
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(HTM) https://www.sbstatesman.com/2023/09/03/sbus-socj-launches-a-brand-new-program-for-students-interested-in-communications/
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: factorykitten Date: September 5, 2023, 9:16 am
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[quote author=Chairman of the Board
link=topic=993.msg40335#msg40335 date=1693809598]
(HTM) https://www.sbstatesman.com/2023/09/03/sbus-socj-launches-a-brand-new-program-for-students-interested-in-communications/
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Good news its been needed for a long time.
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: Chairman of the Board Date: September 10, 2023, 5:27 am
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i know they are trying- but this is yet another example of two
things- how little there is to do, and why the U should not run
social events:
(HTM) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stony-brook-university_the-seventh-annual-wolfieland-did-not-disappoint-activity-7106443756505063424-hzDk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
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Re: Making SB better- Idea Thread 2.0
By: Chairman of the Board Date: September 13, 2023, 10:33 am
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Hofstra, Adelphi, Stony Brook off-campus housing costs a
challenge
(HTM) https://www.newsday.com/classifieds/real-estate/apartments-renting-housing-sbu-hofstra-adelphi-x5me2zvw
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Rents are high overall, officials say; but college students are
subject to even higher rent rates that are often divided among
multiple roommates.
Dorms on Long Island college and university campuses can range
from around $5,000 to more than $10,000 per semester.
Average rents in the Hofstra and Adelphi areas are $2,947,
according to CoStar. Rent near Stony Brook averages $2,767.
Stony Brook University senior Oscar Palomo, who pays $750 a
month for one bedroom in a house of seven residents, considers
himself fortunate.
"I got lucky," he said, of a comparatively low rent. Living off
campus, Polomo, 22, said, "you save a lot."
Students across the Island hunting for off-campus housing are
navigating the same market as other rental seekers: rife with
prices driven by low inventory and high demand, the market does
not offer a student discount.
"There’s a scarcity of off-campus housing," said Guy Seneque, a
Garden City-based real estate salesperson for Douglas Elliman.
"Real estate is tough, in Nassau County and Suffolk."
He added: "And college students also have modest budgets."
In central Nassau, which includes the areas immediately
surrounding Hofstra and Adelphi universities, the average
effective rent per apartment unit is $2,947, according to data
from CoStar, a provider of real estate information data based in
Washington, D.C. The same is true for central Suffolk, which
includes the area around Stony Brook University, where the
average rent is $2,767. This includes legal rentals of various
numbers of bedrooms, and does not include the unpermitted rental
options many students seek in order to cut costs.
Palomo walks five minutes from his residence to a parking lot
known as South P, where he catches a bus to the SBU campus. All
inhabitants of his house share the kitchen and bathrooms, but
each has their own bedroom — save for the landlord, who shares a
room with her son.
At Stony Brook, a corridor- or suite-style double room without
air conditioning costs $5,306 — or $5,446 with air conditioning
— per semester for returning and transfer students, according to
the university’s website. Single rooms cost more, as do rooms in
suites with their own kitchens. A student living in a dorm that
is not a "cooking building" is also required to pay for a meal
plan.The West Apartments, open to upperclassmen, cost $5,583 per
semester for those sharing a bedroom with another student and
$6,494 for those in single-occupancy bedrooms.For graduate
students at Stony Brook, rates are broken down into monthly
cost. An apartment-style single room in the West Apartments
would cost a graduate student $1,443 a month. To share a room
would cost $1,241 monthly.
At Stony Brook University, officials estimate in an email 10,000
students live on campus and 15,000 live off campus. The latter
group includes students living at home with family. University
data does not distinguish between students commuting from a
permanent residence and those commuting from a temporary
off-campus rental, officials said.
Officials estimate 50% of undergraduate students and 80% of
graduate students commute to the university.
The number of students living on campus has boomeranged over the
past couple of years. A fall 2018 total of 10,283 dormitory
residents on Stony Brook’s main campus fell to 3,730 in the fall
of 2020 during the pandemic. This year, there are 10,270
resident students, and the university expects to remain at near
capacity in the coming months, officials said.
For students looking to live off campus, the university’s
Commuter Student Services and Off-Campus Living unit maintains
one official off-campus housing listing site. Those looking to
list property on the site must provide the required licenses.
The university promotes only legal rentals, officials said.
For Julia Khinchin, 21, a first-year grad school student at
Stony Brook working toward an MBA in healthcare management,
moving in with friends off campus was a lifestyle choice. "I
like the fact that there’s more space, that there’s a kitchen
where I could cook anything, that I have my own bathroom,"
Khinchin said. Khinchin and four students — a mix of
undergraduate and graduate students — pay a total of $5,000
monthly for the rental. The student in the primary bedroom pays
more than the others. When she moved in, Khinchin was an
undergraduate and her friends were already living in the house.
When one graduated, she took the room. The original residents
found the house approximately three years ago."It was fairly
quickly, but it was also during the time where COVID cases were
higher so it was easier to find housing — and cheaper housing as
well, because not a lot of people were living on campus,"
Khinchin said.
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