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Downtown to connect community, Stony Brook University - Plans St
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By: ecasadoSBU Date: September 7, 2012, 12:36 pm
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A Downtown plan has been announced for 25A in proximity of the
Long Island Rail Road station. This would benefit the Stony
Brook community a ton.
Here is a release by north shore of long island:
HTML http://www.northshoreoflongisland.com/Articles-News-i-2012-09-06-93647.112114-sub-Downtown-to-connect-community-Stony-Brook-University.html
This would bring a lot of positives and is one of the things
that the University needs the most. This would be awesome for
the University in all ways and also for the community. In the
long run, this can open the doors for big time football!
(Uconn is doing something similar - the brand new Storrs Center)
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Re: Downtown to connect community, Stony Brook University - Plan
s Stages
By: ecasadoSBU Date: November 16, 2012, 12:51 pm
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Stony Brook Downtown project won't involve eminent domain: (Oct
17th)
HTML http://threevillage.patch.com/articles/stony-brook-downtown-project-won-t-involve-eminent-domain
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Re: Downtown to connect community, Stony Brook University - Plan
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By: Chairman of the Board Date: February 4, 2013, 11:07 am
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HTML http://threevillage.patch.com/articles/romaine-community-needs-to-weigh-in-before-college-town-idea-moves-forward
HTML http://threevillage.patch.com/articles/you-tell-us-big-ideas-for-making-three-village-a-college-town
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Re: Downtown to connect community, Stony Brook University - Plan
s Stages
By: ecasadoSBU Date: February 4, 2013, 4:53 pm
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This f'cking community really hates Stony Brook University. I
wish our University could be transplanted to another location.
God sakes... Just look at the comments some of them even
discriminatory in nature. Just about all of them are negative
comments
How about they work together and look at the positive aspects of
such a great project. This is going to happen sooner or later so
why not do it the right way...
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Re: Downtown to connect community, Stony Brook University - Plan
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By: iBOsbu Date: February 4, 2013, 5:07 pm
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Just read through some of the comments and you are right... most
are very negative! I would assume a college town would be much
more vibrant, right?
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Re: Downtown to connect community, Stony Brook University - Plan
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By: Hammertime Date: February 4, 2013, 5:32 pm
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[quote author=ecasadoSBU link=topic=187.msg5024#msg5024
date=1360018434]
This f'cking community really hates Stony Brook University. I
wish our University could be transplanted to another location.
God sakes... Just look at the comments some of them even
discriminatory in nature. Just about all of them are negative
comments
How about they work together and look at the positive aspects of
such a great project. This is going to happen or sooner of later
so why not do it the right way...
[/quote].
l read all the comment also ecasadoSBU and I had to bite my
tongue.. I really would like to respond to some of them but
can't. I live very close to University and a lot of my work is
in the Stony brook Setauket area. With that said, I am all in
favor of the 25a expansion and revitalize the surrounding area
of the train station and shops. it's long over do..
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Re: Downtown to connect community, Stony Brook University - Plan
s Stages
By: ry1nik Date: February 4, 2013, 5:34 pm
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I don't live in the campus area or even on LI for that matter,
but I don't think this issue is worth sweating. Especially now
that the sports teams are winning and with the student rec
center, the campus itself has so much going on that not having
an off-campus "college town" doesn't seem like a big deal to me
(or to the past "student" in me). Just sayin' :}
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Re: Downtown to connect community, Stony Brook University - Plan
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By: Chairman of the Board Date: February 6, 2013, 10:34 am
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and where there's growth, there's growing pains. think about
it- we never really had much problems like this before because
we were never in a growth period like this. campus
construction. quality of students increasing. enrollment up.
applications up. athletics having a golden era. a different
kind of student now attends SB than only 10 years ago.
with that said, sure i see why people are upset, they are
protecting their interests. but my interest, like yours, is for
SB to get bigger and better every day.
ive always thought SB was kind of a bit like villanova in the
sense that its in an upscale suburb, that will try to prevent
student housing, too expensive for kids to rent, so they stay on
campus, the college town stalls or is non existent, etc. In
some ways, SB's college town is a few miles down the road in
port jeff- unfortunately.
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Re: Downtown to connect community, Stony Brook University - Plan
s Stages
By: ry1nik Date: February 6, 2013, 10:46 am
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Chairman, I personally don't link "bigger" with "better" when it
comes to university size. SBU sits at around 25,000. Compare
that to University of Virginia at 21,000. If you've ever been on
that campus, you would be impressed with how everything is so
accessible...yet UVA has an academic reputation that SBU can
only dream of at this point. Sure, there's bigger, AND there's
better....but they don't necessarily go together. At some point
bigness can actually diminish the student (and alumnus)
experience.
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Re: Downtown to connect community, Stony Brook University - Plan
s Stages
By: ecasadoSBU Date: February 6, 2013, 4:09 pm
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You do have a point ry1nik. For athletics it makes a lot of
sense to be bigger but for academics that's not always the case.
Quality of education can be raised without the need for
expansion. We can get more research funds with better professors
but that doesn't really require expansion. The only real
positive I see for expansion is alumni support in terms of
Donations and backing up athletics.
But for a State University it can get difficult to get more
funding without increased enrollment. Especially in New York
where funding is not easy to come by for SUNYs. The University
of Virginia is more the exception than the rule and most state
university are choosing to grow (UConn, PennState, Florida,
Michigan, UCLA, UC Berkley). If we are going to keep growing, it
needs to be done the right way to avoid diluting the quality of
education.
I personally want SBU to settle at the 30-35k mark and to become
60-80% residential in the future
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