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V&^" T he Coronation
Pageantry of Inauguration
brings hope and hostility
c71 r
By Jesse Londin
It looks as if presidential inauguations are back in
vogue this year. Slightly over three months after the U.S.
threw an $8 million gala swearing-in party, with all the
1 possible trimmings, for the nation's 40th president,
SUNY at Stony Brook will have an opportunity to show
its own colors as Dr. John H. Marburger III is instated as
the University's third president tommorrow morning.
Marburger's inauration will begin at 10:30 AM when a
traditional, formal academic procession consisting of the
faculty, representatives from other SUNY institutions,
officers and delegates from Academic Institute and
Learned Societies, and other members of the world of
' academia, as well as three Stony Brook students will
march from the gym to the athletic field where the
7-President will be sworn to office.
The 250 academics who will march in the procession,
Almost two generations atter tne a time-honored tradition, will arrive in the gym early to
rise and fall of the Third Reich, don their designed academic gowns, all of which are
different colors and styles. (Those professors and other
National Socialism is alive participants who do not own the appropriate robe will
in the United States -page 3 (Continued on page 6)
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The next meeting of the There will be a very important final
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z will be held on 8:00 p.m. Jackets will be given out. For
more info, call 246-5456.
Wednesday, April 29th, 1981
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ELECTION of OFFICERS Final meeting of the semester on APril 30th at 7:00
to be"held. p.m. in Lec. Hall 110. Guest speakers will include
two medical school students from Albert Einstein
School of Medicine and Stony Brook's Medical
School. ALSO Elections for the 1981-82 Academic
year will be held and an end of the semester party.
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Second Guessing
Consciousness StonyBrook
by Jeremy W. Oatis eyes, but rather the use of a third1, inner
If you've ever been tempted to rye. This type of perception enab les the
perceive your surroundings without the ndividual to surpass the normal state of
use of your five senses, or if Carlos onsciousness and allows him tUo view
Castenada's books investigating the other psychic planes. Vienberg alluided to
Yakqui Indians' secret of "seeing" have his "master" (teacher) to explic ate his
ever piqued your interest, then you really point. "In most of us [the inner eye] is
missed something Monday night. veiled, but in my master it is not.j And he
Neil Vienberg, who is heavily into
mecitation and works for UNICEF, spoke
can see into psychic planes, and thie past,
present and the future. The Stony Brook
to a crowd of about fifty people in the
Earth and Space science lecture hall, on
altered states of consciousness, and the
"To som• degree everybody 1has the
ability to "see" said Vienberg, thomugh he
added that we may not know it. It can be
Alumni Association
use of meditation as a means to enhance
levels of psychic awareness. Attracted by
a natural abiity that allow s one
individual to "see" easier than oth<ersor it
wishes to extend our
the colorful poster announcing the
lecture, sponsored by the polity-funded
can be stimulated by "external sources
like drugs-LSD, psiJlo cybin,
congratulations and
Meditation Club, the listeners were
informed by Vienberg that altered states
mescaline-or with the aid of a spiritual
master, it may be experienc ed by
best wishes to the
are experienced by everyone, on a limited
basis. "All of us dream at night therefore
all of us experience altered states of
concentrated effort."
Vienberg also spoke about neair-death
experiences, the fourth type of altered
class of 1981.
consciousness." state. He related a story about a person
Vienberg began by defining he knew who encountered a nea ir-death
con-sciousness as "the total sum of that experience. It did not differ muc-h from
which- we are perceiving at any given the accounts of other individual s. Most
moment", and separated it into three tell of observing doctors working
different categories: the normal state, the frantically to revive their se<emingly
altered state, and the state of total lifeless bodies while they floate( i above
awareness. These represent conseecutive, the operating table, invisible to t hose in
ascending levels of consciousness, the room. Another experience c ommon
The normal state is the one most to these individuals is the feeling o f flying
commonly experienced by people not
engaged in any form of mediation, and
involves the use of the five senses-sight,
through a dark tunnel, at in credible
speed, toward a very bright ligh it. This, StonyBrook
said Vienberg, "is an experience tlhat a lot
smell, touch, taste and hearing-to of people who have died and corme back
perceive the outside world. "In the have had."
normal state of consciousness, there is a Total awareness, the final sltate of
commonality of experience," suggesting consciousness, is the highest state,
that in this state most everyone can relate according to Vienberg, and is "totally
the same experiences, for instance beyond the normal state and altered
vgreeixg on the taste of sugar, through states. Total awareness involves the
the use of sensory perception. He also
states that "in the normal state" there is a
wide separation between that which you
ability to perceive existence without
using the senses." This ty pe of
perception, says Vienberg, is reached
Today's Vote
are perceiving and that '~Lich is being
Decides Direction
from within. A person who achiev es total
perceivedu.' giving the example of a awareness, according to Vienber g, "has
person who encounters nature, perceives abiding peace, light and bliss." ]He says
it, but doesn't "necessarily experience the that everyone ha.: the capacity to achieve
essenceox nature" because he is unable to total awareness but that it require s"deep by Jeremy W. Oatis and Vivienne Heston
totally concentrate on it. concentration and sublime medit atiron." Polity election runoffs for President, "feels Polity has placed too much
ThIer are four parts to the altered Through this, says Vienberg, "y ou will Vice Presidnet and secretary will be held emphasis on social issues at the expense
state: the dream state, psychi, wareness, discover the door which opens to this today in the Library Galleria. of academic ones."
near death experiences and drug world of awareness." Neither Jim Fuccio nor Martha Ripp, Van Brown, the former Senator of
experiments. In this state, said Vie':berg, As finals approach, a little peac e, light the Presidential candidates, recieved the Sanger College is critical of Politiy's
you learn to "see." which is different and bliss might be welcome, but o dds are 51% majority needed to win, although entectiveness in crucial student issues. The
from norma' everyday sight to whih we the deep concentration and sublime Fuccio led with a slight edges, 425 to 370 candidate stated, "Polity, this year has
are accustomed. This type of "seeing" neditation will go into textbooks rather respectively. Also engaged in the runoff been ineffective in upholding and
doesn't involve the physical use of the 'an the senses. are vice presidental candidates Babak supporting student rights. Consequently,
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addition Dina Finkelstien
Brown.
and Carin
In student life in general has suffered and in
the upcoming year Polity will have to
Anderson are competing for the postion exert tremendous energy in trying to
Inauguration of Secretary.
Current polity Vice-President Jim
improve student life." His platforms calls
for an end to tripling and administrative
Fuccio stated, "I will make Polity more monopoly of decsion making. His rival,
efficient and more responsive to the for the Vice Presidental seat Babak
(Continued from page 6 needs of all its constituents." Fuccio Mohavedi, who ran on the Ziggy Party
requested anonymity. further expalined that he advocates ticket, asks that students "Move ahead
Administrators such as Vice President of Finance and
student's rights to "operate student-run with Movahedi." He served as Polity
Business Carl Hanes insited that the $20,000 businesses within the dorms, including Hotline coordinator and is currently
inauguration will benfit the school. "It will make a bars if the residents are infavor." and to serving on the faculty-student Senate
difference in terms of reputation and prestige," he said. establish "a low cost quality education Executive Committee.
"It's cost effective." He elaborated that, "you're only regardless of financial status." -Fuccio "While Polity last year did nothing
talking about a $20,000 item our of an annual budget of chaired the Future of Stony Brook about the closing of campus bars or
$200 million." (The figure of the annual budget includes Committee, a lobby group which changing the academic calendar back to
state money, gifts to the Foundation, research protested housing fee and tuition fifteen weeks, it nonetheless has potential
grants, FSA profits, etc.) increases as well as other student rights' to curtail the trend of fading student
Black estimated that the Univeristy can generate "five issues. rights," stated Secretarial nominee Dina
to eight million per year within the next five to ten Martha Ripp boasts that, "one of my Finkelstein. Opposing Finkelstein is Carin
years" in gifts from ,he private sector. "An inauguration proudest accomplishments is the Anderson who worked for a revision of
is one way to promote this," he said. dispersal of $25,000 for the University's Student Conduct Code as
Marburger spoke of the low level of school spirit here. social/recreational areas." The Junior well as advocating full operation of
He said emphatically, "We've been around a quarter of a Class Representative's campaign campus bars and NCAA sports.
century. In my opinion, Stony Brook is the best literature asserts that, she is "an Runoff elections will determine the
University in the SUNY system. We are a success
I story. We can brag about ourselves."
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administration policy initiator and the
students' liason to administration and
faculty." According to Statesman, Ripp
posture of the next student government.
Polls are open in the Library from 10 AM
to 10 PM. Be there or be square.
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Correction
- Letters- In the April 2nd Issue of the Stony Brook Press, it was
incorrectly stated that Tom Hayden ran for California State
We, the undersigned faculty members of SUNY Stony Brook, oppose U.S. military aid to the junta in El Senator. He ran fcr U.S. Senator. We also stated that after
:.•.Ivador and encourage members of the university community to participate in the peaceful march and rally at his involvement with SDS, Hayden became
the Pentagon on Sunday, May 3rd. The demands of the march are: U.S. hands off El Salvador; Money for jobs, "environmentally active." Hayden founded the Campaign
human needs, not for the Pentagon; No U.S. intervention in Southern Africa; Stop racist violence, end racism and for Economic Democracy (CED) after his departure from
repression; End sexism, and lesbian and Gay oppression- and Stop the Draft! SDS. We sincerely apologize for these errors.
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(Psychology); Judith Wishnia (Psychology); Padgett Henry (Sociology); Richard Williams (Sociology); Said
Ariomand (Sociology); Glenn Yago (Sociology); Joan Ringelheim (Philosophy); Ev%Kittay (Philosophy); David
Pomerantz (Philosophy); Clyde Lee Miller (Philosophy); Dick Howard (Philosophy); Marjorie Miller (Philosophy);
Marshall SPector (Philosophy); Amiri Baraka (Africana Studies); Leslie Owens (Africana Studies); Ted Goldfarb
The Stony Brook
(Che.mistry); Arnold Wishnia (Chemistry); H. Lebovics (History); Hugh Cleland (History); Phillip B. Allen
(Physics); Andrew Jackson (Physics); J. Smith (Physics); Bill Layton (Music); Anne Marie Dezeeuw (Music); J.R.
Knott (Physics); James Harvey (English); Richard Harzell (Theater Arts); Colette Girard (French & Italian)
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Steven Stein (History) Editor
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- On Stage - --~~-
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Respectless Rodney
Repeats Record
by Larry Feibel
phenomenon. Good comedy albums are
Rodney Dangerfield is one of the inherently less popular than equally good
funniest and most creative comedians musical albums because the novelty wears
around today. His appearance at the off so much faster. Similarly, a
Stony Brook Gymnasium last Saturday concertgoer does not want to hear the
was certainly very funny, but not very same jokes, insults and mannerisms he has
creative. heard many times on an album he has
Comedy, unlike music, has certain purchased. And finally, a person's
inherent problems that put the performer monotone sounds basically the same live
at a distinct disadvantage. Firstly, it is as on record.
considerably more difficult to continually This is the root of Dangerfield's
--- writ good material that fulfills the problem; the audience has heard most of
expectations raised by one's previous it before. He even went as far as to use
work. Secondly, the performer is up on the same gimmicks for crowd interaction
stage all alone with 6000 watchful eyes as he had used on his album. Lines such
thrust upon him. Lastly, and most as "ha, ha, ha, rm not waiting for you'
importantly, a good joke is only good for and "that's a funny line, don't give me
so long, hence the performer must satisfy that bullshit" somehow didn't seem so
the first criterion to be successful. funny anymore. I didn't laugh any hardei
Dangerfield has not had a problem seeing Rodney actually taking a cigarette
writing material that is of the caliber we from a member of the audience for a
have come to expect from him. His joke, than when I heard him use the same
difficulty Saturday night lied in his lines on record.
inability to turn out enough of this The point is, if a comedian cannot
W1t.ie av Uwmh Jd t ial f^
iLýt*av I
bJu-I ta
hilarity. Consequently, the audience of wL enougi goo l.la
maerat L1.1,,i
or o
die-hard Dangerfield nuts was essentially tour and an album, he should not do
performed to a chorus of boos, debris, seconds on the Gong Show.
treated to an instant replay of his latest both. At least, he should release the
and Rod-ney chants. In a predictable Every joke uttered by Dangerfield was
comedy album, No Respect. album after the tour, when, with a
attempt to win the crowd, they led the hilarious, and will leave you saying "man,
This is not to say that Dangerfield comedian of Rodney's caliber, people
Rod-ney chants, as well as ordering the was that creative." If you hadn't heard
repeated the album verbatim. New would be glad to buy it. An audience
audience to shut the bleep up, and you his album before, you saw the best
material was interjected into the album's outlay of $15 to hear the same jokes is
better bleepin' listen. Very creative. At writing, delivery and overall performance
exact format in approximately a four to not showing them respect, Rodney. But,
one point, as a response to the chantq, in the business. It's just that we had had
one ratio. This blended nicely with his for the most part, the crowd's watchful
they decreed that Rodney was in the heard it all before. Rodney himself said at
repertoire of short, quick jokes on sex, eyes didn't seem to mind. He was greeted bathroom. Rodney in the bathroom the end, "Show's over, you got screwed."
age, looks and bad luck. and sent off with a rousing standing
showed more musical talent than the He wasn't far off.
The analogy of music to comedy ovation and even the oldest jokes received
Steinettes. They wouldn't have listed five
concerts is now-appropriate given the. roars.
number of comedy headliners However, the reaction was exactly the
(Dangerfield, Richard Pryor and Steve opposite for something they hadn't heard
Martin, to name a few) and the similar before. This was the unbeknownst to the
prices of admission. The essence of crowd opening act called the Steinettes,
touring, almost by definition, is to an a cappella female quartet. The group's
promote new material. However, in purpose was twofold: to stall so Rodney
music, one of the highlights of a concert only had to play for an hour, and to serve
is hearing old favorites. This works as a contrast to make his old material theater . . . pQetry . . musi<
because music is an acoustical work better. This type of singing, at its
phenomenon. It is a different experience best, is good for about two minutes of
a special performance n(
hearing music live, rather than on record: entertainment. The Steinettes, its worst,
it sounds different and there is much were good for half hour of headaches and
"FTColoredGils struefoi poetry olfthe humntraci
Itelt plrou tI belinga memttbert
more to watch. taunts by the crowd. Cthai a tte an can hav bMaok asttai Mio Shnga wrtet with such xquiit carete end
her menssage" Clove, Ba•es THE NEW YORK IMES
The same cannot be said of comedy, Performing such favorites as "Bingo bah languag a,,nd characte are exualtantly btgngy aivle andthe result i« overwhet
which can be classified as a psychological Was His Name-O," the Steinettes is) ragtc. tunny. proud and ctpaonate -Jac Krotl. NEWSWEEK
Bikrt
believed to be hiding in the Stale University of New York a Stony Brook
basement of Old Bio. Any
knowledge as to his whereabouts
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