Comments on: Will There be Continental Breakfast? http://sbpress.com/2009/12/will-there-be-continental-breakfast/ The Alternative News and Features Paper of Stony Brook University Thu, 17 May 2012 18:05:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Liam Keating http://sbpress.com/2009/12/will-there-be-continental-breakfast/#comment-460 Liam Keating Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:47:55 +0000 http://www.sbpress.com/?p=3022#comment-460 Umm Btw Southampton was the best thing to happen to Stonybrook. Umm Btw Southampton was the best thing to happen to Stonybrook.

]]> By: david schiff http://sbpress.com/2009/12/will-there-be-continental-breakfast/#comment-459 david schiff Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:35:34 +0000 http://www.sbpress.com/?p=3022#comment-459 Commercial development within the "Greenbelt" is unthinkable. It would represent a further degradation of the environment not only within the University grounds but also the conmmunity at large. A site next to the train station would make it easily accessible to visitors from near and far coming on the Long Island Railroad to the University and the nearby community. I am troubled by the lack of vision, care and concern shown by members of the University Administration. So many of the University community and nearby residents, past and present, have made such efforts during more than 40 years to create and preserve a campus worthy of its original beautiful setting. In looking back fifteen years from now, it will little matter how much time was spent to relocate the hotel to its most suitable site by the train station. Although I hail from Putnam County, I still retain an avid interest in the University where my late twin brother, Ashley Schiff, was among the first to recognize the importance of the natural environment while a professor there. Unfortunately, during the past four months I have not been able to be present to oppose commercial development in the "Greenbelt" owing to major surgery and a difficult and lengthy recovery period. If only the school's administration had observed the "Stop, Look and Listen" admonition at the train station the appropriate site there would have been a no-brainer. dave schiff Commercial development within the “Greenbelt” is unthinkable. It would represent a further degradation of the environment not only within the University grounds but also the conmmunity at large. A site next to the train station would make it easily accessible to visitors from near and far coming on the Long Island Railroad to the University and the nearby community. I am troubled by the lack of vision, care and concern shown by members of the University Administration. So many of the University community and nearby residents, past and present, have made such efforts during more than 40 years to create and preserve a campus worthy of its original beautiful setting. In looking back fifteen years from now, it will little matter how much time was spent to relocate the hotel to its most suitable site by the train station. Although I hail from Putnam County, I still retain an avid interest in the University where my late twin brother, Ashley Schiff, was among the first to recognize the importance of the natural environment while a professor there. Unfortunately, during the past four months I have not been able to be present to oppose commercial development in the “Greenbelt” owing to major surgery and a difficult and lengthy recovery period. If only the school’s administration had observed the “Stop, Look and Listen” admonition at the train station the appropriate site there would have been a no-brainer. dave schiff

]]> By: chuck perretti http://sbpress.com/2009/12/will-there-be-continental-breakfast/#comment-458 chuck perretti Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:13:18 +0000 http://www.sbpress.com/?p=3022#comment-458 At the town hall meeting I asked the question to Ms. B. Chernow.. " Has the administration taken a careful look at the life in the areas we are trying to protect? Has there been a careful calculation on the quantity and quality of the losses this 11 acre hotel project represents? While there were many who expressed concern for the loss of wildlife and the loss of natural areas on everyone's well being there was no answer to my question. No answer that asked how many pines, oaks, maples, spruce, beeches, dogwoods, sassafras, musclewood, orchids, crane flys, dragon flys, butterflys, moths, salamanders, turtles, titmouses, wrens, sparrows, chickadees, woodpeckers hairy and downy, blue jays, tohees, cardinals, orioles, goldfinch owls, moles, voles, rabbits, wood chucks, fox, racoons and of course hawks red-tailed and broad winged. There was no mention of how much space an acre is or how many ounces of living cells live there or how much oxygen is produced or carbon dioxide removed. No estimate of the visual and sound abatement 11 acres provides for the psychological health of the university community. Some say each acre is approxiamately 200 by 200 feet or 40,000 square ft and holds more than 2 million ounces of living tissue. At least 11 acres are being threatened, you do the math. Who speaks for all this life? who witnesses its greatness? Surely not the administration. They show no defference to acres of woodlands or acres of asphalt. No one in administration has indicated that this destruction will eliminte such life and its support to us all. Smart growth asks these questions and plans for valuing the answers. We demand smart growth be used by our "smart" administrators. Dumb administrators refuse to deal with such truth. At the town hall meeting I asked the question to Ms. B. Chernow.. ” Has the administration taken a careful look at the life in the areas we are trying to protect? Has there been a careful calculation on the quantity and quality of the losses this 11 acre hotel project represents?
While there were many who expressed concern for the loss of wildlife and the loss of natural areas on everyone’s well being there was no answer to my question. No answer that asked how many pines, oaks, maples, spruce, beeches, dogwoods, sassafras, musclewood, orchids, crane flys, dragon flys, butterflys, moths, salamanders, turtles, titmouses, wrens, sparrows, chickadees, woodpeckers hairy and downy, blue jays, tohees, cardinals, orioles, goldfinch owls, moles, voles, rabbits, wood chucks, fox, racoons and of course hawks red-tailed and broad winged. There was no mention of how much space an acre is or how many ounces of living cells live there or how much oxygen is produced or carbon dioxide removed. No estimate of the visual and sound abatement 11 acres provides for the psychological health of the university community.

Some say each acre is approxiamately 200 by 200 feet or 40,000 square ft and holds more than 2 million ounces of living tissue. At least 11 acres are being threatened, you do the math. Who speaks for all this life? who witnesses its greatness? Surely not the administration. They show no defference to acres of woodlands or acres of asphalt.

No one in administration has indicated that this destruction will eliminte such life and its support to us all. Smart growth asks these questions and plans for valuing the answers. We demand smart growth be used by our “smart” administrators. Dumb administrators refuse to deal with such truth.

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