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       #Post#: 5165--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Downtown to connect community, Stony Brook University - Plan
       s Stages
       By: Seawolf97 Date: February 6, 2013, 8:59 pm
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       People will resist change even if it turns out ot be positive in
       the end. I think this project will move forward  and be  vast
       improvement to the area . Just need some salesmanship now.
       #Post#: 5167--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Downtown to connect community, Stony Brook University - Plan
       s Stages
       By: Chairman of the Board Date: February 7, 2013, 7:17 am
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       [quote author=ry1nik link=topic=187.msg5096#msg5096
       date=1360169187]
       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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       sorry- i didnt mean larger, i meant bigger in stature, more
       visible, etc.  I do like UVa's campus and was just about to
       start a new thread about what can SB do, like UVa does, to make
       the campus better and more accessible?  I think UVa does a lot
       things right.
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       Re: Downtown to connect community, Stony Brook University - Plan
       s Stages
       By: jaghatai Date: February 21, 2013, 8:30 pm
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       Something to consider is that their are "Stony Brook Village"
       residents, and then "Stony Brook" residents.  Most of the folks
       replying in those articles are older, and don't want their area
       being ruined by college students.  Lets be honest here, most of
       them are reading it as "oh no, my property values are going to
       decline as bars and hooligans invade my lovely little hamlet".
       About 15 years ago, we had the same problem in Port Jefferson
       regarding a McDonalds.  The exact sky-is-falling vitriol was
       spewed then, because the community was going to collapse with
       the introduction of, *gasp*, fast food!
       Much like most of the internet, I think we're seeing 90% of the
       noise coming from 10% of the people.
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