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• Courses at SBU Southampton • A6

• After the quake in Japan • A8

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If Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed budget is passed, Stony Brook Medical Center will lose all of its state funding, and services, like its burn center, may be canceled.

Suff olk County Executive Steve Levy and representatives from the Suff olk County Fire District Association joined forces with Dr. Steven Sandoval, director of the Burn Center at Stony Brook University Hospital, at a press conference last Th ursday to bring attention to its potential closure.

“Th is is the only burn center we have on the entire Island,

the one in Stony Brook, at the hospital,” Levy said at the Stony Brook Fire Department on Stony Brook Road. Cuomo’s pro-posed cuts total $55 million, 100 percent of the aid that the hospital receives from the state.

“Stony Brook did not get a 10 percent cut, Stony Brook [Hospital] got a 100 percent annihilation, understand that,” Levy said. “While there have been cuts, a little bit here and a little bit there, Stony Brook Hospital has be decimated.”

Ex-chief Robert DeMoustef of the St. James Fire Department and former president of the Suff olk County Fire

SBU hospital holds its breathState could approve budget any minute, which may — or may not — include funding for Stony Brook University Medical Center

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Legislator Vivian Viloria-Fisher is fl anked by Steve Levy and emergency services personnel at a press conference in Stony Brook last week.

BY MONICA [email protected]

Marking the eighth anniversary of the War in Iraq, dozens of protest-ers, some clad in white face masks and black clothing, marched down Route 25A in Setauket on Saturday.

Th e North Country Peace Group has been protesting the war since September 2002 and Saturday held a rally to mourn the people who have died since the war began. A second group, the North Country Patriots, counter-protested the march.

Bill McNulty, of Setauket, led the peace group’s march, which began outside of King Kullen.

“Our intention is not to impede shopping,” he said. “But we will try to intrude their minds to remind them just what’s been happening and off ering them an opportunity to take part in trying to infl uence some change.”

McNulty said this war must come to an end and the only way to bring peace is to try and have his opinion heard.

March marks 8 years in Iraq

Continued on page A16Photo by Monica Gleberman

The North Country Peace Group marches on Route 25A in Setauket Saturday, marking eight years in Iraq.

See page A5 for complete story on what state aid cuts could mean for Stony Brook University Medical Center.

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In honor of Paul Lauterbur’s devel-opment of magnetic resonance imag-ing — MRI — Stony Brook University’s Chemistry Department was recently designated a national historic landmark by the American Chemical Society.

Lauterbur, now deceased, construct-ed the fi rst image by nuclear magnetic resonance while a professor at SBU. He won the Nobel Prize in 2003 for his work.

“Everyone at Stony Brook is extremely proud of Dr. Lauterbur and his contribu-

tion to science and humanity,” said uni-versity President Samuel L. Stanley Jr. “Th e designation of our Chemistry De-partment as a National Historic Chemi-cal Landmark by the American Chemical Society is a wonderful tribute to this great man and to our university.”

Joan Dawson, Ph.D., professor emer-ita, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Lauterbur’s widow was among the guest speakers at the ceremo-ny honoring Lauterbur. She spoke of the

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Unsatisfi ed with the admin-istration’s budget recommenda-tions presented at Tuesday night’s meeting, Th ree Village residents and school board members asked for a more comprehensive over-view before any decisions are made on cuts or reductions in staffi ng and programs.

Interim Superintendent Neil Lederer and Assistant Super-intendent for Business Services Jeff rey Carlson distributed a list of “Budget Reduction Consid-erations” divided into three cat-egories: level one, or fi rst-round reductions; level two reductions and a contingency budget.

According to the adminis-tration’s projections, level one measures would save $4,535,300. Level two reductions would save $625,000; when added to level one, savings would be $5,160,300. Contingency reductions would trim $3,883,780; when added to levels one and two, savings would total $9,044,080.

Among the level one changes being considered are increasing elementary class size, reducing the number of sections in second-ary schools, paring down special education staff , reducing custodi-al staff and fewer security posts. Some proposed level two cuts include one elementary psycholo-gist and a high school dean. Con-tingency measures, which would not be implemented unless the budget fails to pass on two tries, include half-day kindergarten

and eliminating the ninth period in secondary schools.

Th ere was disagreement about which programs should be con-sidered for reduction or elimina-tion fi rst. Trustee Jonathan Ko-rnreich, noting that eliminating the district’s public relations fi rm to save $50,000 was considered a level two cut, said, “I would like it moved to level one, to be eliminated before academic pro-grams.”

Board President John Diviney asked for an explanation of the high school’s athletic trainer po-sition, saying, “What does an ath-letic trainer actually do all day?” Eliminating that position to save $80,000 is now considered part of a contingency budget.

Erin Blaney, executive direc-tor of health, physical education, recreation and athletics, said the trainer serves 850 to 900 students a year, assisting when they’re in-jured during athletic play and monitoring their return to class and to sports.

Ward Melville High School’s student government attended en masse to lobby against turning their organization into an aft er school club rather than a class.

Diviney asked the administra-tion to expand on information provided Tuesday, when he asked for details on “how a program will be run and what will remain of it aft er a cut is made.”

One more budget workshop is set for Tuesday, March 29.

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Th e PTA is seeking fi nancial support or donation of goods or services from businesses in the community. Financial contributions are tax-deductible. Some cor-porations have selected to donate premiere event tickets (to a Broadway show, Nassau Coliseum event, sporting event, etc.) and those gift s are highly sought-aft er prizes that help to increase raffl e sales. Any donations will be prominently displayed at the fashion show.

Th e corporate sponsor levels of giving are $150 for a quarter page ad in the program; $300 for a half page ad in the program and one free ticket to the fashion show; $500 for a full page ad in the program and two free tick-ets to the fashion show.

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A motorist driving southbound on Stony Brook Road in Stony Brook called at 9:36 am on March 4 to report observing the operator of a tan Oldsmobile driving his vehicle in the same direction as the complainant while apparently reading an unfolded newspaper.

Aggravated harassment

A resident of Old Field Road in East Se-tauket called at 11 pm on March 11 to report being harassed on the phone by a known male subject.

A complainant called at 8:30 am on March 12 on Route 25A in Stony Brook to report a case of aggravated harassment involving unwanted telephone calls.

Criminal mischief A complainant working as a security

guard for a business on Belle Mead Road in Setauket called at 12:26 am on March 15 to report unknown subjects recently at-tempted to vandalize company property.

Harassment A complainant called at 12:26 am on

March 15 to report being harassed by a large group on teenagers standing around two white vehicles parked along Malvern Lane in Stony Brook.

Grand larceny Complainant called at an undisclosed

time March 16 to report discovering vari-ous items had been stolen by unknown subjects from a house under construction on Lower Sheep Pasture Road in Setauket.

Disturbance A complainant shopping at a super-

market on Arrowhead Lane in Setauket called at 9:14 am on March 2 to report the operator of a black TrailBlazer was en-dangering other shoppers while speeding recklessly around the parking lot.

A resident of Sycamore Circle in Stony Brook called at 10:35 pm on March 4 to report his property had been intentionally damaged by an unknown person driving a vehicle over the complainant’s front lawn.

A complainant called at 7:04 pm on March 6 to report witnessing a male sub-ject driving a green SUV northbound on West Meadow Road in Old Field while holding a leash out of the car window at-tached to a dog trotting alongside.

A resident of Quaker Path in Stony Brook called at 4:25 pm on March 11 to re-port a possible case of aggravated harass-ment involving a known female sending unwanted text messages,

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A 17-year-old male living in Setauket wasarrested March 7 at a

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A 23-year-old male resident of Setauket was arrested March 7 and charged with false report in the fi rst degree on school grounds. Police stated the defendant pulled a fi re alarm without cause at a location on College Road in Selden on the grounds of Suff olk County Community College.

A 21-year-old female resident of Col-lege Drive in Stony Brook was arrested March 6 at her home and charged with grand larceny aft er allegedly stealing a pocketbook and several credit cards.

A 20-year-old female living on Haskell Lane in Stony Brook was arrested March 9 at a department store on Nesconset High-way in East Setauket and charged with petit larceny in connection with the alleged theft of various items of merchandise.

A 17-year-old female residing in Port Jeff erson Station was arrested March 8 at a supermarket on Nesconset Highway in East Setauket and charged with petit lar-ceny in connection with the alleged theft of cosmetics and food items.

A 43-year-old male resident of Lucille Drive in South Setauket was arrested March 11 at a location on Betty Ann Drive in South Setauket and charged with oper-ation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated.

A 36-year-old male living in East Hampton was arrested March 11 at a location on Haskell Lane in Stony Brook and charged with criminal contempt: dis-obeying a citation for allegedly violating an order of protection.

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As state lawmakers debate next year’s budget, with some saying they expect a conclusion any minute now, Stony Brook University Hospital waits ner-vously, hoping the numbers they’ve seen won’t actually be what they receive in funding next year.

“For reasons we don’t understand,” the hospital’s funding is being cut down to nothing, hospital CEO Dr. Steven Strongwater said in a recent sit-down interview with Times Beacon Record Newspapers. His colleague, Dr. Ken-neth Kaushansky, senior vice president of the Health Sciences Center and dean of Stony Brook’s School of Medicine, and they are anticipating a loss of $55 million in state aid for the hospital; 100 percent of the hospital’s direct state funding.

Including the $12 million in cuts to the university’s state funding and a loss of millions of dollars in Medicaid pay-ments, Stony Brook is looking at a rev-enue loss of $78 million next year.

“We ought to be treated fairly,” Kaushansky said. “We should be cut like any other state agency.” Most state agencies — including SUNY Albany and Buff alo’s medical centers — are ex-pecting about 10 percent cuts in their state aid.

SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse and SUNY Downstate Medi-cal University in Brooklyn may also have all their state funding cut.

Th e “draconian” cuts, as the doctors deemed them, require Strongwater and a committee to consider which pro-grams must go.

“It pains us greatly to consider clos-ing these programs,” Kaushansky said.

While there are some programs the hospital is looking at as a way to curb spending, none can be closed in a vac-uum.

“It kind of has a ripple eff ect,” Strong-water said, adding if one program clos-es, other related programs have to be

SBU Medical Center harsh cuts would hurt local economy, emergency response

considered for closing or adjusted.Th e hospital’s “community pro-

grams” as Strongwater called them, “are

at greatest risk.”Th ese include the hospital’s com-

prehensive psychiatric emergency pro-gram, burn center, level 1 trauma cen-ter, AIDS center, bone marrow and stem cell transplantation program and more.

Th e hospital needs “support for vi-tal programs that are off ered nowhere else,” Kaushansky said.

“eureka” moment Lauterbur experi-enced on Sept. 2, 1971, while taking his second bite from a hamburger at a lo-cal restaurant where he was eating with his friend and colleague Don Vickers of NMR Specialties.

“He ran out of the restaurant to get a spiral-bound notebook to write it up, and Don countersigned it the next morning,” said Dawson of her hus-band’s handwritten notes that she pro-jected on a screen at the event — notes which eventually led to the 1973 paper in the journal Nature, announcing that he had generated multidimensional images of macroscopic objects.

“My husband has been awarded many honors over the years and this would be a very special one because he felt very fondly of this department,” Dawson said aft er the ceremony. “I’m very proud of my husband and that there can be days like this and that there are students here to whom he can con-tinue to be a role model,” she said of the historic landmark designation.

Th e ability to perform noninva-

sive imaging of the interior of living organisms using NMR is one of the most important medical discoveries of the 20th century. Th e instrument on which Lauterbur performed this critical experiment was a Varian A-60 NMR spectrometer capable of detect-ing protons at 60 MHz. Th at very same instrument is in a permanent display in the lobby of the Chemistry Build-ing. Millions of lives have been saved thanks to MRI, which permits early detection of severe conditions such as multiple sclerosis and cancer.

Lauterbur began his work at Stony Brook in the early 1970s by research-ing applications of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, an indispensable tool for chemical analysis. Lauterbur’s great achievement was to use the spa-tial information contained in NMR signals to make 3-D pictures. Laut-erbur’s research was advanced by the British physicist Sir Peter Mansfi eld, emeritus professor of physics at the University of Nottingham. Th e two shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physi-ology or Medicine for their discover-ies concerning magnetic resonance imaging.

‘We ought to be treated fairly. We should be cut like any other state agency.’

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BY PHIL [email protected]

After shuttering its campus and moving many programs to the main campus, Stony Brook’s South-ampton campus will again see some undergraduate and graduate programs open there in the fall.

Stony Brook University recently announced plans to offer expanded programs in both undergraduate marine sciences and graduate creative arts at the Southampton campus. Also included in the plans is a residency program for undergraduates studying the creative arts, which will allow students to dorm at Southampton starting in the fall of 2012.

A marine sciences program, Semester by the Sea, will also be offered at the Southampton campus.

Many students who took classes at the Southamp-ton campus went for the hands-on experience they had while being a part of the sustainability majors offered there, including Kathleen Furey, an environ-mental humanities major with a minor in environ-mental planning, design and development. Furey is continuing her studies at the main Stony Brook cam-pus now.

“There’s a very significant farm country in east-ern Long Island that doesn’t exist on the rest of Long Island,” Furey said. “At Southampton we were work-

ing with the farms, the marine estuaries, and the fisheries. Being involved with the green movement out there is something that can’t be done on Stony Brook’s main campus.”

When the Southampton campus was closed in August 2010, the sustainability programs that the students grew to love drastically changed when the programs were transferred to the main Stony Brook campus, some said.

Furey said the sustainable business degree offered at Southampton was modified and a different ver-sion of the program was offered to students on the main campus.

“The environmental humanities major now falls under history,” Furey said. “To me that’s ironic. We’re not looking to study something that is dead and gone, we are looking to study what’s alive and prevent it from dying off.”

Students who attended the Southampton cam-pus said they loved the smaller class sizes and closer connection with professors they felt while they were there, especially when compared with the giant lec-ture halls on the main campus that can fit hundreds of students.

“The professors seemed to really care and go the extra mile,” said former Southampton student Juli-anna Klepacki. “That to me is something that is not easy to find.”

Some former professors at Southampton agreed there was a stronger connection with their students on the campus, one that they’ve missed dearly since the transfer to Stony Brook’s main campus.

“When the Southampton campus was open it was very tight-knit and felt like a family,” said a former Southampton professor who wished to remain anon-ymous. “We were a very close group of people and now we’re stuck at the main campus where there’s thousands and thousands of people. There’s a reason these students chose Southampton and that was be-cause they did not want to go to a school that had 500 people in a class.”

In addition to missing out on these stronger con-nections with their professors, former Southampton students must also deal with the longer commutes if they want to continue their education at Stony Brook.

Furey says that it now takes her over an hour to drive to Stony Brook’s main campus, a lot longer of a trip when compared with her eight-minute commute to the Southampton campus.

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It’s unlikely Long Island will expe-rience a catastrophic earthquake, said Dan Davis, a geophysicist at Stony Brook University. Japan is at the bor-der of a subduction zone, an area where the Earth’s rigid tectonic plates collide. When that happens, a slab of the planet’s crust slides beneath anoth-er — or subducts — and gets stuck. In a matter of minutes, Davis said, 40,000 square miles of tectonic plate slipped beneath Japan.

There are no subduction zones in this area, since they are found in the Pacific Ocean but not the Atlantic, said Davis. And unlike Japan, which perches over a fault line where two tec-tonic plates meet, the New York metro area sits in the middle of a plate.

Small seismic faults in the Earth’s crust cause “minor slips” in our area, said Davis. New York’s earthquake risk is “not zero. But it is not serious

enough to be near the top of our list of concerns,” he said. When asked where on the Richter scale a Long Island quake might register (the Japan mega-quake was a 9.0), Davis said, “We can get lots of 3s, an occasional 4, the rare 5. It is conceivable we could have a 6, but they are so rare here.”

Comparing Long Island’s seismic activ-ity to Japan’s, he said, “The creakings and groanings of an old house are very differ-ent than the house falling.”

Explosions at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have re-newed debate about safety of nuclear power plants in our area. The Indian Point Energy Center, located near the Hudson River in Buchanan, NY, is 24 miles north of New York City. A spokesman there could not be reached for comment. Ken Holt, spokesman for the Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Waterford, Conn., said the facility is designed to withstand a 6.2 earth-quake. Radiation emitted by the plant

is “constantly monitored,” he said, with instruments placed in the sur-rounding communities and by testing radiation levels in local vegetation and in samples of goat and cow milk from neighboring farms.

Holt pointed out that the Millstone plant’s design differs from the Fuku-shima plant. The Japanese facility uses

boiling water to turn power turbines and the Connecticut plant operates with pres-surized water. When asked if one method is safer than the other, Holt said, “It’s not saf-er or not, but a differ-

ent design.”Scientist Brian Colle said it’s impos-

sible to know whether wind would car-ry radioactive fallout from the power plants to Long Island. Colle, a profes-sor of atmospheric sciences at Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, cautioned against relying on seasonal wind pat-terns to predict where a plume of ra-diation would travel.

“You have to be prepared for the wind to come out of any direction,” he said, because wind direction can be

inf luenced by whatever weather sys-tem is passing through that day. On 9/11 the typical September southwest wind would normally have carried the smoke and debris plume inland but “on that day, there happened to be a north-west wind, so everything was carried out over the ocean,” he said. “You get lucky or unlucky with the wind.”

Although Brookhaven National Laboratory once housed three nuclear reactors, all have been closed. One lost funding, one used now-obsolete tech-nology and the lab’s highf lux beam reactor was shut down in 1999 after it leaked tritium — a radioactive form of hydrogen — into the groundwater. The lab now operates two atomic par-ticle accelerators used for experiments in physics, biology and materials sci-ence, said Stephen Musolino, a BNL health physicist. The lab’s National Synchrotron Light Source and Relativ-istic Heavy Ion Collider emits radia-tion in the form of X-rays. In case of electric power failure, Musolino said, the accelerators stop “like turning off a light bulb” and the radiation stops be-ing generated. As a safety measure, the RHIC is surrounded by approximately 10 feet of sand, and the NSLS is shield-ed by 18 inches of concrete.

Disaster in Japan: Could it happen on Long Island?Long Island ‘unlikely’ to experience quake like Japan’s

‘The creakings and groanings of an old house are very diff erent than the house falling .’

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Disturbing words and images of the anguish in Japan are f looding peoples’ consciousness. But sadness or compas-sion for the Japanese people can be-come unhealthy, mental health professionals say.

Feeling bad about events one can’t change can cause “moderate un-happiness verging on de-pression,” said Stephen Post. Post is director of Stony Brook University’s Center for Medical Humanities, Com-passionate Care and Bioethics.

The depression stems from feeling “a lot of diffuse compassion” coupled with “not really trying to do anything about it, in the world,” Post said. The remedy, he said, is to find specific ways to get involved, or to find another cause that needs you. Healthy compas-sion should be “an activity,” he said.

If someone feels depressed about Japan, “Find a way to manifest that energy locally, with something you

feel committed to.” He said that helps people feel “useful that you’re draw-ing on your strength, that you have power to change circumstances.” Post has been taking his own advice. His wife Mitsuko, who teaches at Setauket

Elementary School, has family living not far from Sendai, near the epicenter of the quake. Although her relatives are alive and well, Post said, he and his wife keep worries at bay by staying involved with groups that help Long Is-

landers. News about Japan af-

fects different people in different ways, Dr. Har-old Pass said. Pass is di-rector of Stony Brook University Hospital’s Di-saster Mental Health Re-sponse Committee.

For anyone old enough to remember crouching under their desks during school air raid drills, Japan’s nuclear crisis can bring back

upsetting memories of “waiting for the nuclear holocaust to occur,” Pass said.

Survivors of the World Trade Cen-ter attacks on 9/11 may feel anxiety, have f lashbacks, or find themselves remembering what happened that day, he said.

Kids need special attention now, Pass said. Hearing about giant waves and the Earth opening up can be scary for children and Pass said they “lack the cognitive ability to understand what’s going on.” Parents, teachers and school psychologists should be on the lookout for these signs suggested by Pass: changes in behavior, moodiness,

fear of going to sleep, looking worried or agi-tated, or concerns about monsters or other child-hood terrors.

A good way to start a dialogue with a child who seems upset about Japan, said Pass, is to

say, “How has this made you feel?” He also recommends discussions in schools, particularly in social studies

classes.But adults are not immune to psy-

chological symptoms. People who al-ready have anxiety or depression dis-orders will be especially vulnerable, Pass said.

Things to look for, in yourself or others, include changes in sense of well-being, trouble concentrating, sleep disorders, feeling less energy or feeling more depressed. Pass said any-one experiencing these feelings should talk about it with someone — a col-league, a friend, a partner.

“If the symptoms worsen, you may want to think about consulting a pro-fessional,” Pass said. “Especially if you’ve had psychological difficulties in the past.”

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A buoyant membership fi led into the Setauket Neighborhood House for the sixth annual meeting of the Th ree Village Community Trust earlier this month.

Trust Vice President Robert Reuter opened proceedings by congratulating the trust’s president, Cynthia Barnes, on the “well-deserved honor” of being named Th e Village Times Herald’s Woman of the Year.

Th e highlights of 2010 — a “great year” according to the annual report — and plans for 2011 were summarized by Rob-ert de Zafra in a PowerPoint presentation, which emphasized the trust’s conserva-tion, historic preservation, community planning and education missions.

De Zafra presented to the membership information about the acquisition of the Tyler homestead and Patriot’s Rock histor-ic site with 3.5 acres adjoining the Neigh-borhood House. Th is was done through a New York state grant obtained by Assem-blyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) and a “bargain sale” by now-life tenant Blanche Tyler Davis (VTH’s Neighbor of the Year). Management plans will now be drawn up.

Th e paperwork — including Town of Brookhaven permits — is in place to move the rubber factory houses from the fi re district land to the trust’s Bruce House headquarters in Main Street, subject to the release of state funds.

“Th ese things take time,” de Zafra said, adding despite the state’s current fi nancial “freeze” he has “good hopes that the money will be available within a month or two.”

De Zafra discussed a management plan that is being implemented for the 10.7-acre Stephen D. Matthews Nature Reserve, which presents a valuable buff er with the Port Jeff erson power plant in Poquott. A grant from Avalon Park has funded the plan and the planting of native species.

Th e trust will take over stewardship of the Gamecock Cottage at West Meadow Beach once the Town of Brookhaven has completed restoration work. Th e Th ree Village Conservation Strategies 2030 plan

is being fi nalized with 35 organizations, businesses and government agencies. Ac-cording to de Zafra, the plan will be “the fi rst survey of protected/quasi-protected open spaces in the Th ree Village school district” and builds upon the hamlet study of 1997. Th e fi ndings are due to be published in a 64-page report and will be a local adjunct to the Brookhaven 2030 Comprehensive Plan.

Patriots Hollow State Forest has been created following the acquisition of 28 acres of Diocese land across from the Se-tauket shopping centers by the state DEC, primarily from Northville oil spill com-pensation monies. Th e trust is proposing a stewardship in conjunction with the DEC.

Charles McAteer, chairman of the Friends of the Greenway, took the fl oor to announce that the state DOT will be start-ing work next year in order to complete the remaining 2.1 miles of the popular Setauket trail to Port Jeff erson Station by 2013. [See page A5 of the March 10 issue for the complete story.] Th e stewardship of the eventual 4-mile trail will continue under TVCT auspices.

“Th e trail is a good role model for other trails,” de Zafra said.

Earlier, Reuter said the trust “is what it is because of its volunteers” before pre-senting awards to John Cunniff e, archi-tect; John Schoendorf, Long Hill Car-pentry; Charles McAteer and Michael Cosel, Friends of the Greenway; and Lau-rie Vetere, legal counsel. Reuter noted that the trust has upgraded its website at www.threevillgecommunitytrust.org.

Barnes reported that the Greenways Trail has been featured in three diff erent Eagle Scout projects. She said she is very pleased that the latest land acquisitions — the Tyler homestead and the state for-est — will be of benefi t ecologically to the Conscience Bay watershed.

In announcing a new membership drive, Trustee Alice D’Amico reminded those present that the trust “is strictly re-lying on donations — and we need every-body’s help.” She concluded with the time-ly homily, “From friend to friend, neighbor to neighbor, we grow.”

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It is hard to believe that I have al-ready been living at West Meadow Beach for two years. I have immensely enjoyed the opportunity to share the natural treasures with the Brookhaven Town residents who fre-quent the beach or have attended some of the en-vironmental programs that I conduct here. Liv-ing on site has aff orded me the chance to assist with the annual moni-toring eff orts of piping plovers, horseshoe crabs, diamondback terrapins, and monarch butterfl ies and to intimately observe and record the changing seasons. Looking back on the natural highlights of the past two years leaves me yearning to experi-ence them anew in the year ahead.

I eagerly anticipate the return of the osprey, piping plovers, yellow war-blers, and various species of egrets and herons. I look forward to seeing the beach plum, prickly pear cactus and beach heather in bloom, lending color to the otherwise fairly monotone dun-escape. I will be keeping a careful eye out for tiny terrapin hatchlings mak-ing their way across Trustees Road af-ter emerging from their nest chambers where they waited out the cold winter months, as well as the large females as they come ashore to search for suitable nest sites. I am anxious to see paired horseshoe crabs in the surf, and fi d-dler crabs dodging into their burrows in the marsh as I approach, and to ex-plore the fl ats at low tide. I will once again enjoy watching the marsh grasses slowly evolve through the seasons from yellow-green to dark green to brilliant gold to pale yellow-brown. I await the migratory fl ight of the monarchs in the fall, as well as the return of the long-tailed ducks, and to see the beach cov-ered in swirling drift s of snow.

In addition to the wonderful natural treasures I have witnessed both years, I’ve also had the good fortune to have met some fantastic folks. I mention a few of them here, but apologize to those who have also touched my life but who I have unintentionally omitted:

Fred and Th omas, who have come to all my nature programs. Chris, who hasn’t missed a bird walk yet. Pat and Maxine, Joan and Nancy, and Fran and Bette who brighten up my morn-ing runs with familiar faces, bird talk, and an occasional hug of support. Dick

and Naomi, who I fi rst met while vis-iting Yosemite National Park when I overheard Naomi musing over a bird identifi cation. I named the bird, and discovered that Dick and my compan-

ion knew each otherfrom the university. Dickwas the fi rst person Isaw walking on TrusteesRoad when I moved tothe beach, though it tookme a moment to recallwhy he looked so famil-iar. Th en there are Susanand Lloyd who went outof their way to make mefeel welcome in my newtown. And Paul, wholeaves “presents” (deadturtles) on my doorstep,like a favorite cat, andthe other “regulars” —Tony and Jerry and Gay-sa — who keep an eye outfor me and help me if I’m

in a bind. (Like the time Gaysa helped free me from my wet suit when I was trapped in it due to a jammed zipper.) Walter and Jim, who always take time out from their walks and bike rides to stop and chat. Ron and Ann, who stayed close on one particular occasion when I was faced with a possibly threatening situation. Rich and Maroula and Greg, who will swim with me even though I can’t keep up. Andrea, who always of-fers encouragement on the road when we pass each other running or biking, and her adorable family, who are just so nice and friendly. Wolfgang and Grace, both extraordinary nature photogra-phers, who are always willing to share their work. Bill the fi sherman, and Rog-er and Bett. And Kei, my adorable little “triker” friend who brings me gift s of leaves and rocks. I could go on and on.

But then there is Lee Lutz, the edi-tor of the Village Times Herald, who, although we haven’t met, allows me to write these articles but restricts their length to 650 words, a quota that I have yet to stay within.

To all of you, and to Mother Nature, thanks for helping to make my fi rst two years at West Meadow Beach such a joy-ous and memorable time.

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While the hospital only receives lessthan 6 percent of its revenue from the state, that number has gone down in recent years and the cut this year will hurt the hospital’s operations now more than ever.

“Th e low-hanging fruit has been picked,” Kaushansky said.

Cutting funding so the hospital has to close the burn center “is an irrational thing to do for the people in the com-munity and for the people who put their lives on the line,” Strongwater said.

Both men ask residents to respond vehemently against these proposed cuts by contacting Cuomo’s offi ce at 518-474-8390 or by mail to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, NYS State Capitol Building Albany, NY 12224, or email at [email protected].

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“As fi refi ghters, we are concerned about what’s happening at the hospital,” De-Moustef said. “Th ere’s a real potential the burn center will be gone.”

DeMoustef joined the Suff olk County Fire Fighters Fund in 2004, aft er the death of a co-worker at National Grid who suf-fered burns over 90 percent of his body and within 11 days succumbed to his injuries. Aft er seeing the level of care and concern given to his co-worker and his family by the staff at the burn center, DeMoustef dedicated his life to raising awareness and funds for the center.

“In the last 11 years, I’ve raised $350,000,” DeMoustef said.

According to DeMoustef, on average there are between six and seven fi refi ghters treated annually at the burn center. Sando-val acknowledged that the number of fi re-related injuries are only part of the story.

“Forty-fi ve percent of our patients are pediatrics and of those, more than half are scolding injuries — hot water, hot oil, in winter time there are space heater injuries, and in summer, fi re pit and barbecue inju-ries,” Sandoval said.

DeMoustef suggested residents reach out to Senate Majority Leader Dean Skel-os (R-Rockville Centre), State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) and Cuomo by Twitter and Facebook to let them know the burn center is important to the community.

Senator Kenneth LaValle (R-Port Jeff er-son) is the chair of the Senate’s Higher Ed-ucation Committee and one of the many proponents of Stony Brook University and Stony Brook Medical Center who is fi ght-ing to keep its funding in the budget.

Reached by phone Tuesday aft ernoon, LaValle’s director of communications, Drew Biondo, said Skelos, Silver and Cuo-mo were very close to arriving at a fi nal fi g-ure for the budget; one that might include a restoration of most of Stony Brook’s state aid.

“I and my Senate colleagues are in agreement with many of the governor’s proposals,” LaValle said in a release. “But I could not let stand the extreme cuts to lo-cal hospitals, our veteran’s home and aid to community colleges that would hurt those who most need our help.”

Th e proposed state budget cuts funding to Stony Brook University by $12 million. Th e Long Island State Veterans Home at Stony Brook University would have $4.7

million taken from their budget and real-located to the state’s general fund. About $55 million — all of the hospital’s state rev-enue — would be cut.

Including millions of dollars worth of reduction in Medicaid payments, Stony Brook University would see a cut of $78 million.

Suff olk County Legislator Vivian Viloria-Fisher (D-East Setauket) recently collected the signatures of all her leg-islator colleagues on a letter written to Skelos, asking him to restore the aid to Stony Brook.

“Th is hospital must be supported,” Viloria-Fisher said last week.

Th e closest burn centers exist at Nas-sau University Medical Center and at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan.

“Th at leaves 1.5 million residents with no support for burns,” said Henry MacLel-lan, assistant director for the burn center. Th e center currently has 14 ICU and burn-certifi ed nurses on staff on a 24-hour basis with a ratio of two nurses and one to two aides for each patient.

“Th e nurses handle newborns to ger-ontology patients, they go from one to the other and do a very good job — they’re just amazing,” MacLellan said.

Th e latest technologies in growing skin are being researched at Stony Brook Uni-versity Hospital.

“Stony Brook is one of the fewest in the country that does so,” Sandoval said. “Without the burn center, there would be no need for the skin bank.”

While it’s not the only program on Stony Brook’s potential chopping block, closing the burn center “is looking increasingly likely,” hospital CEO Dr. Steven Strongwa-ter said in a recent sit-down interview with Times Beacon Record Newspapers.

HOSPITALContinued from page A1

Photo by Lisa Behnke

A sign in Stony Brook University Medical Center’s burn center.

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R.C. Murphy Junior High School wins Science Bowl at Brookhaven LabFor the third year in a row, students from R.C. Murphy Junior High School took fi rst place in the regional Middle School

Science Bowl held at Brookhaven Lab. On March 19, 100 students were challenged in the fast-paced question-and-answer tournament designed to test students’ knowledge of life sciences, energy, earth and space sciences, mathematics, and general science.

Th e Regional Science Bowl at Brookhaven Lab is part of the National Science Bowl coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Offi ce of Science. All winning teams received medals and a trophy. Th e fi rst-place team in the academic competition will represent the Long Island region at the National Science Bowl, which will be held in Washington, D.C., from April 28 to May 3. Th e U.S. Department of Energy will fund the team’s trip.

With their coach, Patrick McManus, are fi rst-place regional Science Bowl winners from R.C. Murphy Middle School: (from left ) John Welde, Rajiv Moturu, Daniel Redlinger, Matthew Cornell and Felix Wang.

Photo from Frank Frego

Daisies donate toHeifer International

To celebrate World Th inking Day, Minnesauke kindergarten Girl Scout Daisy Troop 1939 recently collected spare change and raised $78 to donate to Heifer International. Th e girls have given a gift of a fl ock of ducks, a fl ock of geese, and a fl ock of chicks to families in need. In the photo above Suzanne Carrano is making a Heifer Collector to collect donations.

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Hazel E. Reuther, of Stony Brook passed away peacefully on March 1 at age 95.

She was the beloved wife of the late Edward W. Reuther Sr.; loving mother of Edward (Karin) Reuther and Shirley (Arthur) Mount; cherished and adored grandmother of seven and great-grandmother of 17.

She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star where she was matron of Raymond Zeph Chap-ter in 1965 and grand representa-tive to the State of Oklahoma in 1970. Recently, she was a sister in the Emera Chapter 661. She was a

loving and caring mother, grand-mother, great-grandmother and friend and will be missed.

A private graveside service was held on March 5 at Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale.

As per her wishes, donations to the W.H. Albery Society, Pounder Hall 106 (Save Our Home Fund), 1400 Utica St., Oriskany, NY 13424, in her memory - Emera Chapter 661, would be appreciated.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Home of Setauket. Please visit www.bryantfh.com to sign the online guestbook.

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Ostapow named to dean’s list at LIU

Amanda Ostapow of Setauket was named to the dean’s list in the College of Education and Information Sciences. Th is honor is reserved for students who main-tain a minimum 3.5 grade point average. Amanda is a 2007 graduate of Ward Mel-ville High School. She was able to achieve this honor while being the captain of the volleyball team at Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus.

Hula hoopingFourth-grade Junior Girl Scout Troop 141 from Nassakeag Elementary School

made and donated hula hoops to Stony Brook University Hospital as part of their requirement to earn their fi tness badge.

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“It’s to call attention to this on-going vio-lence, which is called pre-emptive war and it’s called professional war,” McNulty said.

Some marchers dressed in black with white masks led the march, calling them-selves the “march of the dead.” All wore or carried signs protesting the violence that has been going on in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Th e “march of the dead” moved through Starbucks and past other stores. As they walked some people booed, others just looked on in silence. McNulty told the group to prepare for this type of reaction.

“Don’t engage folks,” he said. “If you run into folks who are not seeing things in ex-actly the same light as you do, they could perhaps say some provocative things. In the spirit of the nonviolence we are advocating ... we have to practice it ourselves.”

Claudia Jacobs, of Stony Brook, feels the deaths of thousands of people in Iraq and Afghanistan are unacceptable.

“I think it’s important to have visuals to remind people in this cushy area, par-ticularly, that people are much worse off ,” Jacobs said.

Following its march, the peace group held a vigil where Legislator Vivian Viloria-Fisher (D-East Setauket) spoke.

“You have stood here all these years point-ing out that we were in a war,” she said. “[A war] that is taking away the lives of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, husbands, wives, Americans, Iraqis and Afghanis. “

Th e North Country Patriots, from their position across the street from the death march, said they too want peace but that comes at a price.

“People died in this country for freedom, everybody’s freedom,” said Islip resident Steve Amthor. Amthor, protesting with the patriots, said he was there for the soldiers.

“[Th e North Country Peace Group] thinks we don’t want peace,” Amthor said. “We want peace just like everybody else ... we support the troops, we support fi ghting for freedom. Th ey just want to lay down for freedom and let everybody else do the fi ght-ing for them.”

Some of the patriots held signs encour-aging drivers to honk in agreement. Th ey also blasted patriotic music, causing the group to periodically burst into song.

Felicia Chillak was standing with Amthor against the rally across the street. Chillak said she was there to support the freedom movement.

“I am an American and we are losing our country,” she said. “We are on opposite sides. I don’t know what their rally is about, but as far as I feel we are losing our country, we are losing our liberties, and we are losing our freedoms. We are handing it over and I am not lying down for it.”

Chillak said the groups sometimes cross the street to speak with one another about their beliefs. Most of the time it turns into heated debates and that has led both groups to remain separated.

“We respect their opinion, that’s what America is, free choice, free opinion,” she said.

MARCHContinued from page A1

Nagle, Emily Ross.Kilkenny said, “We’re lucky to have two

good goalies. Some schools have to beg a kid to play. We have sophomore Emily Ross and freshman Emma Jehle, and both are solid young players. For now, they’ll be splitting time and battle it out.”

Blaney was held out of the fi rst scrim-mage with an injury as a precaution, but in general the Pats are healthy and ready to go.

“We’re pretty solid, with a lot of ex-perienced youth and yet only two se-niors,” Kilkenny said. “I also think the fact that they played a lot of lacrosse together in the offseason this year will be a real plus for our program. The division gets tougher every year. We’ll see the traditional powerhouses Northport, Bay Shore, West Islip and West Babylon, and also see tough competition from Commack and Lin-denhurst. We may be small in number, but we have a lot of talent out there. Even the new players are ready to go.”

Photo by John Westermann

The season opening scrimmage pitted Corinne Wiederkehr (left) of Shoreham versus Ally Tilley (right) of Ward Melville.

GIRLS LACROSSEContinued from page A17


SPORTSPats, experienced and talented, return 13

GIRLS LACROSSEBY JOHN [email protected]

Last year a young Ward Melville team stunned a banged-up Northport during the regular season and then lost to the top-seeded, and healthy, Tigers in the county playoff s. Th is year 13 of those Patriot play-ers are back to have another go at it.

“We had 42 girls try out and kept 20 on the varsity,” said Patriot head coach Kerri Kilkenny. “All of them can really play, so that should be enough. If we need more players during the year we can always get them from the junior varsity. But 13 we kept are veterans and seven are newcomers.”

Some of those veterans are household names by now, starting with senior attack-ers Jess Liberty and Abby Beltrani. Beltrani is currently in California, on her way to Chile to play international fi eld hockey. “Th at’s fi ne with us,” said Kilkenny. “We’re just glad she still plays lacrosse when she’s here. Abby and Jess Liberty and sophomore Erin Cunningham give us a really scrappy ground ball attack.”

Th e Patriot midfi eld returns juniors Rebecca Arent, Kim Geiger, and sopho-mores Emily Rogers-Healion, Ally Tilley and Maddy Wollmuth. All saw playing time last year. Th e same is true for the defense where sophomore Deryn Blaney, junior Kerrilyn McDonald, junior Jordan

Porretto, junior Lizzy Rullan and sopho-more Sam Scarfogliero are returning.

Th e newcomers to the Patriot var-sity are freshmen Kelsey Catalano, Mary Brigid Coughlan, Yuna Hur, Emma Jehle; and sophomores Erin Macchione, Kelsey

Dunleavy helps lead Amherst to fi rst national championshipKristyn Dunleavy of East Setauket, a 2007 graduate of The Stony Brook School and currently a member of the Amherst College women’s basketball team for the second year in a row, helped her team defeat Washington University of St. Louis, 64-55, to win the 2011 Division III NCAA championship on March 19.This success is especially satisfying since Amherst lost to the Bears in the semifi nals of the 2009 and 2010 national tournaments.The win comes after the Lord Jeff s advanced on March 18 with a 69-59 win over Christopher Newport University of Virginia. Dunleavy scored 10 points against Christopher Newport Captains.

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BY ANGELO [email protected]

About this time of year the chatter be-gins on all the fl y-fi shing websites of the northeast. Th e discussion is mostly about when the fi rst striped bass will be caught, but the back story is typically the choice of spring fl ies.

One of my fl y wallets tells the story of my prefer-ences and its contents have yet to let me down during the early days of the season. If you were to open it up you would fi nd several pockets jam-packed with sand eel fl ies. Over the past few sea-sons both shores of Long Island were in-undated with massive numbers of those sand launce. Th e early season is usually prime time for slender fl ies that replicate the size and motion of sand eels.

Slim fl ies tied with natural or syn-thetic hair or thin hackle feathers per-form best. I like to tie my patterns in shades of tan, brown, olive or root beer and in sizes anywhere from three to fi ve inches. I prefer to fi sh those fl ies on an intermediate or high-density sink tip. If you like fi shing Clouser Deep Minnows, tie them a bit on the long side and they’ll work just fi ne. Th e nice thing about fi sh-ing Clousers or Jiggy-style fl ies to imi-tate the sand eel is their dumbbell eyes allow the fl y to behave as a burrowing sand eel when fi shed at dusk. Th e weight also throws off little puff s of sand when the fl ies are fi shed on the bottom, a very natural-looking action.

Slender Deceivers are also a good fl y to keep as a part of your early season fl y

arsenal. I tie mine about 4 1/2 inches and prefer white and chartreuse for the early season. Th e Deceiver is a good choice when spearing or other moderately-sized baits are around.

I will also carry a section of crab or crustacean fl ies. I’ve been bailed out more

than once by having those types of patterns readily available when spring bass go on the feed. Patterns like the Merkins or epoxy crabs work very well. Keep a sup-ply of both light and dark crabs. Tan and dark brown work to match the diff erent bottom colorations.

While on the topic of crabs, I also like to carry a sampling of various hybrid crustacean fl ies that are more impres-sionistic or representative of crabs or crustaceans rather than an exact imita-tion. One tip: the buggier the look the more the stripers like them.

Another must-have early season pat-tern is the Half and Half: one-half De-ceiver, one-half Clouser. I like to heavily weight that fl y so I can fi sh it deep off rock piles and deep holes where early season bass oft en stage between tide and feeding cycles. Another early season fa-vorite is the Mikkleson Epoxy Baitfi sh. Th at generic small baitfi sh pattern is very durable and mimics a wide array of small baitfi sh. Tan and olive are very eff ective colors.

Last on my spring list is the simplest of all patterns — a basic hairwing fl y like those of the classic Brooks Blonde series. You can tie those in any colors or com-bination and even add weight if need be.

Look for ‘Fishing and the Outdoors’ series in future editions and on our website, www.northshoreofl ongisland.com

Getting ready for the fi rst striped bass of the season

Photo by Angelo Peluso

Early season striped bass respond well to small, slender fl ies.

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Sophomore Erin Cunningham on attack for Ward Melville.



United we standWe are impressed by the sense of community

evident in the actions of the stakeholders in the Comsewogue School District as they work to-ward fi nalizing the 2011-12 school budget.

Like many school districts across the North Shore, Comsewogue is hard hit this year by reductions in state aid. But unlike many other districts, teachers and administrators there are ponying up.

Teachers have agreed to give back $4,500 per educator next year. Comsewogue school admin-istrators are giving back on average $6,500. Th ose funds will help prevent 26 teacher layoff s and save one administrator job, according to school offi cials. In addition, district taxpayers have told their superintendent in overwhelming numbers they are not interested in a reconfi guration of the elementary schools to save money. Instead residents are willing to pay a higher tax rate hike than have larger class sizes.

Th e superintendent credits the character of the community as well as union leadership and stresses the district has from the start made ef-forts to keep the whole process transparent and be guided by residents.

We salute all those who sacrifi ce to keep their schools functioning at a high level for the benefi t of the children. In these economic times most of us don’t have an easy time paying our bills. To volunteer to take an income hit, whether in the form of a smaller paycheck or a fatter tax bill, is exemplary.

Sure each school district has its own set of priorities and needs. Still, we wonder why other districts don’t achieve comparable savings by tapping the goodwill of their salaried staff ? Th e Comsewogue teachers were not even in contract talks this year. But they were still willing and able to OK an addendum codifying $1.4 million in givebacks to the district.

Of course, we also agree with the Comse-wogue superintendent when he emphasizes that employee givebacks are no way to operate a school district long term. Albany must step up. But perhaps at this moment in other districts across the North Shore, a seven-digit gesture like the one made by the teachers and administrators in Comsewogue is needed to prevent irreparable cutbacks that will diminish our children’s educa-tion. School boards will gain time to fi gure out more long-term savings. And we are building a stronger, more close-knit community in the midst of challenging times.

Blacktop curbing a waste of moneyTO THE EDITOR:

Now that the snow has melted, one can notice the damaged blacktop curbing caused by the snow plows on the sides of some roads.

This can cause future erosion of our roads. Con-crete curbing would be a more permanent solution.

Robert McCambridgePoquott

Carefully crafted liesTO THE EDITOR:

I was pleased to note the statement by local clergy in the Times Herald concerning the need to elevate the tone of political discourse in the nation. (“Quick to listen, slow to anger” March 3, 2011.)

They are quite right. However, while many politi-cal statements can be blatantly vicious and vile, and thus deserving of criticism, others, equally offensive, are perhaps more effective because they are stated in a moderate tone, although they may contain outrageous lies.

An example was provided in early March by Mike Huckabee, possible Republican contender for presi-dent next year. Among other things, he lied outra-geously when he said: “… one thing that I do know is [Obama’s] having grown up in Kenya.” Later, Huckabee said that he “misspoke,” a ridiculous, meaningless expression. Judging by the comments he added about Obama’s attitudes towards the Mau-Mau and the British, which Huckabee said were developed because of his Kenyan upbringing and the inf luence of his father and grandfather, only the willfully naïve would think Huckabee’s words were simply a slip of the tongue rather than what they clearly were: carefully crafted lies.

To curry favor with extremists on the right, he has to bash Obama, even lie about him, as he did on this occasion. To cozy up to the birthers, Huckabee has expressed the usual tiresome, illiterate doubts that Obama was born in Hawaii. Because of their ignorance and irrational hatred of Obama, the birthers and their sympathizers will never accept these three facts: a) that Obama was born in Hawaii, b) that he did not set foot on Kenyan soil until his mid-20s, and c) that he is a Christian, not a Muslim.

Mike Huckabee owes the nation and the presi-dent an apology that goes much further than “I misspoke.” I doubt, however, that he has the moral courage to make one. His lies about where Obama was born and raised are clear evidence that, at least in the political arena, he will say whatever it takes to garner votes from the right.

Still, there may be a bright side to all this, for the most important result of Huckabee’s repugnant lies is that he has demonstrated that he is not deserving of the presidency. One by one, it appears, the cur-rent batch of Republican candidates are revealing their unfitness for this, or any other, office.

Elio ZappullaStony Brook

SB docs are innovatorsTO THE EDITOR:

March 30 is Doctors’ Day, but our physicians and other providers deserve recognition and thanks year round.

Nearly 1,000 physicians practice medicine at Stony Brook University Medical Center. They are constantly searching for new ways to detect and treat disease, and to improve the quality of life for residents of Suffolk County, the region, the state and the world at large.

Doctors at Stony Brook are innovators, provid-ing pioneering treatments and medical firsts, new technologies and new drugs. Among other ground-breaking advancements, Stony Brook University faculty in recent years:

• Discovered the cause of Lyme disease• Developed Magnetic Resonance Imaging tech-

nology• Invented the 3-D virtual colonoscopy• Conducted research that led to innovative new

drug discoveries such as ReoPro for heart patients, Periostat for periodontal disease and Xiaf lex for Dupuytren’s disease

Doctors at Stony Brook are also teachers, train-ing the next generation of medical caregivers. More than 3,000 providers are educated through the Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center each year. Eighty-five percent of Stony Brook University School of Medicine students come from New York state, and most return to their home communities to practice medicine.

Our doctors help Stony Brook University fulfill its state-mandated mission: to strengthen “educa-tional and research programs in the health sci-ences through the provision of high-quality general comprehensive and specialty health care, broadly accessible at reasonable cost.”

On behalf of the thousands of Long Island resi-dents who benefit from their efforts each day, we say simply, “thank you.”

Dr. Kenneth KaushanskySenior Vice President, Health Sciences

Dean, School of MedicineStony Brook University

Dr. Steven L. StrongwaterCEO, Stony Brook University Hospital

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News fl ash: President Obama is just like the rest of us. No, he’s not struggling to fi nd a job per se

and no, he doesn’t feel like someone has punched him hard in the wallet every time he refi lls his gas tank.

President Obama, the most powerful man in the world in the greatest coun-try in the world, struggles to make sure events that are out of his control don’t take away from the good things he’s got in mind (like fi nding a job for you and keep-ing one for him).

“Th e challenge is to not let events you can’t control overwhelm the presidency,” Dan Pfeiff er, the White House communi-cations director told Th e New York Times earlier this week, just a few days aft er Obama joined an international group that bombed Libya.

Events you can’t control? Th at must be a reference to the battle between Muammar Gaddafi (not exactly a favorite dictator of America over the years) and rebel forces. But, wait, what we do control is our in-volvement there. Shouldn’t we be in control

of our own response and agenda?Of course, I recognize that the White

House can’t do anything about a natural disaster like an earthquake and tsunami, but that wasn’t the context for Pfeiff er’s comments, at least not according to the Times.

No, the article was about how the presi-dent keeps his energies focused on improv-ing the domestic economy while engaging in military action in yet a third country.

But, here’s the thing: I get that Obama can’t control what’s happened in Libya, but he certainly has an important say in our country’s reaction. We, and Obama, should be clear about what we’re do-ing there and how our involvement enables us to guide the country toward a more stable resolution. America and the president shouldn’t feel dragged into anything this important without a clear idea of what our actions will accomplish in their own right, not in the context of some balancing or juggling act between domestic and foreign aff airs.

It’s time, Mr. President, to show your

leadership and step up. You might be jug-gling a lot of things on diff erent fronts, but, like it or not, Libya has become more than just another ball in the air. By sending mis-siles there, we have become involved. Tell us what we’re doing there and why. What’s the next move and what’s the strategy? Libyans might have been the victims of events beyond their control, but we are not. Th e soft underbelly of our economy not-withstanding, we are the participant with the biggest stick and we, and Obama, need to recognize our role.

No, we can’t control what led to this point in Libya but if we get involved, we better make sure we understand what we’re doing.

When Obama took over the presidency he became the leader of a nation that was struggling economically while it was engaging in military confl ict in two coun-tries. He’s now committed us to a third.

Th e discussion of a lack of a control has an eerie historical overtone with Lyn-don Johnson, whose vision of the Great Society was clouded by the developing confl ict in Vietnam. I don’t expect Libya to become another Vietnam, but I do think we need a clear strategy. Let’s hope Obama and the White House assert the kind of leadership that allows us, and the world, to understand what we want and how we’re going to get it in Libya.

Monday night, thanks to the Port Jeff erson Documentary Series of

the Greater Port Jeff erson-North-ern Brookhaven Arts Council, I visited with the nomads of Tibet. Th e trip cost me only $5 but the images will always stay with me. I have come to greatly appreci-ate documentaries because they usually take me places I’ve never been and teach me things I didn’t know. And at the end of this fi lm, we got to ask questions of the director, Nelson Walker, and his Tibetan partner, Tsering Perlo, who kindly came to the showing at the Wang Center on the Stony Brook campus.

Th e documentary, “Summer Pasture,” shows us nomadic life by following one couple, Locho and Yama, and their adorable baby daughter through the activi-ties of their daily lives. Th ey are encamped in the “highest, poor-est and most remote area” of Si-chuan Province, China, and they survive by tending to their herd of yaks. Th e yaks, llama-like crea-tures, produce milk that is then

turned into butter and cheese by Yama. Th is foodstuff is consumed with enthusiasm during the sum-mer and stored as provisions for the cold winter months when the yaks give less milk.

Th e young couple is relaxed and natural before the camera, in part perhaps because Tsering is Locho’s cousin and was briefl y a nomad himself until his widower father moved the nine children into the city where life was easier. Locho and Yama even talk about a diffi cult time in their early mar-ried life when Locho fathered a baby with another woman.

“I told him that if he wanted to leave and go live with her, he could go,” Yama tells us, her face sad. But Locho wanted to remain with Yama, and they seem to have put that infi delity behind them and gone on with their lives in what appears to be a genuine love match.

Th e domestic chores are exclu-

sively Yama’s responsibility, and she explains with a familiar re-frain that a woman’s work is never done. She begins her day at 3:30 am by going off to milk the yaks. Locho, who is a good-looking guy and knows it, goes to town and takes care of the “business” of the family: selling yak hair and especially a particular kind of caterpillar for cash. Th e caterpil-lar is much prized by the Chinese for its supposed medicinal and aphrodisiac qualities and fetches a high price in the city. Locho then buys some provisions and items like new shoes for Yama. When he gets them home, she looks them over, then asks him for the socks. Locho, it seems, is an imperfect shopper.

Th e terrain is mountainous, and one night the herd of yaks disappears. Yama discovers the loss fi rst and becomes agitated at the thought that they may have been stolen. She shoos Locho off ,

with his fellow herders, to fi nd the missing animals, and the men are gone all day and overnight. She alternately worries about the yaks and about Locho, who has had no supper. In the morning, she is greatly relieved to see the herd returning from the far side of the mountain above their tent. Locho is astride his horse, urging them on.

Yama and Locho talk any number of times about regret-ting their lack of education. Th ey cannot read or write, and they cannot speak Chinese, so if they were to move into town, they would be limited in the kind of work they could do — mainly Locho could drive a car or a tractor. But although life in the valley is harsh, they prize their independence and would con-sider moving only so that their daughter could go to a school. “We’ll move when she is 6,” they assure each other.

Th e documentary does not touch on political life, which would be a taboo subject under the watchful eye of the Chinese.

It is Tsering’s goal to preserve and share a culture that is some 4,000 years old but is rapidly disappear-ing with increasing urbanization.

One pleasure that comes with learning about other people and other cultures, is that no mat-ter how exotic they may appear, humans all have the same basic goals: a home that is dry, warm and safe, reasonable comfort, love, and future lives for their children that are better than their own.

BY LEAH S. [email protected]

Between you and me

D. None of the above

BY DANIEL [email protected]

No matter how exotic they may appear, humans all have the same basic goals.

Shouldn’t we be in control of our own response and agenda?


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