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WANG A/AC DESTRUCTION NEWS

President Stanley's Lie Now Visible

   On this vast campus where 6-story dorms could be built in many empty spaces, just as the Hilton was built in 2013, or built more efficiently where infrastructure existed (high steam pipes), instead, an all-White building committee, never even thinking of the consequences, chose directly behind Wang AAC simply because it was two minutes walking distance closer to the academic mall than by LaValle, where piping existed and could have provided the stadium with an eating facility, similar to UT at Austin dorms.

   Rather than spend money to have new plans drawn, or even have the common courtesy to speak to those opposed, SBU's imperial President Stanley let construction proceed. Having already applied for the Penn State presidency (they didn't want him) and Cornell (they didn't want him either), he had no long term interest in SBU. His goal was to be gone before the dorms were complete, before proof of the lie about the dorms height vs. the Wang Center was obvious for all to see. But since no other school seems to want him, it seems we're stuck with him.

   Where once the pagoda tower stood alone against the sky, making SBU the only SUNY campus with such an iconic structure it can be recognized just by that icon, now the bright stadium lights can be seen. From the stadium lot, the tower is no longer visible. From the north entrance, it is now blocked until almost upon it. From the main entrance the dorms are visible. The one concession to reduce the height is that some of the new dorms have been built one story into the earth rather than level. Most buildings have an embankment to keep rain water running away from the building, not towards it. Hopefully those stuck on the first floor below grade won't have to contend with too much flooding.

   Already rated one of the ugliest campuses in the US, with red brick buildings designed by prison architects Kelly & Gruzen and continued by a President and former Facilities VP (who got out while she had the chance - Brown's loss, our gain), who both lacked aesthetic vision (comparable to the new SBU logo), the one building that gave SBU character has been aesthetically destroyed. While from one and a half directions its pagoda tower still stands visibly alone, the beauty and serenity of its koi pond garden and the use of its special theatre windows have been lost - forever.

Tennis Courts 1, Asians 0
Trees 1, Asians 0
White Privilege 1, Asians 0

Index of Previous Save Wang
Articles with Drawings and Photos

CHARLES B. WANG
ASIAN / AMERICAN CENTER

Charles Wang: Donor Celebrating Asian and
Asian American Cultures
P.H. Tuan: Architect

PH Tuan Annual CB Wang Asian/American Center
Photography Contest

Jinyoung Jin
Associate Director
for Cultural Programs

Original Wang Center Page Hacked, Lots Missing, But Has: Grand Opening Photos & Videos, Charles Wang's Speech, PH Tuan Describing Pagoda & You Can See It Rising

SBU AA CENTERS, DEPTS, ORGS

O Asian and Asian American Studies
O Center for Chinese Learning
O Center for Multilingual & Intercultural
Communication
O China Studies
O Confucius Institute
O Explore SBU Summer Program for
International Students
O International Services
O Japan Center
O Japanese Studies
O Korean Studies
O Mattoo Center for India Studies
O Study Abroad

EDUCATION
Archive : All Article Links

Chronicle of Higher Ed Finds Employers Rank
Internships, Jobs During College, Volunteer
& Extracurricular Activities MORE Important
Than Courses, GPA, College Reputation

O NEW Hazing and Drinking Deaths at Asian American Fraternities Raise Concerns - NY Times
O NEW Why Does Violent Hazing Plague Asian American Fraternities - Chronicle Higher Ed

SBU MEDIA

O AAJ: Asian American Journal
O Blackworld
O China Blue/WUSB Cantonese/Mandarin
O Focus
O GSO Survival Guide
O Happenings
O Korean Life/WUSB
O Statesman
O SB Press
O SB Independent
O SB Minaret
O sbuchat.com
O SBU TV
O WUSB 90.1 FM

O Journalism Without Walls - China 2014

FREEDOMS/FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS
"The further a society drifts from the truth,
the more it will hate those who speak it."
- George Orwell
Archive : Freedom of the Press,
the Internet, Speech and Privacy

O NEW What Can the UN Do for Press Freedom?
O NEW CISA Passes Senate - NSA Can Now Legally Spy on Everyone - AnonHQ
O NEW What Shall We Love - On meeting with Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden -Arundhati Roy - OutlookIndia

SPECIAL

Read Senators Warren and Brown's Letter to President Obama - Although Fast Track Passed, the Treaty Still Needs to Be Ratified - Understand How Much The Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Hurt YOU - Make Sure Your Senator and Rep Know You Want Them to VOTE NO!

O NEW China and EU May Team Up to Snub TPP: "Europe isn't likely to hop on board... because many of the TPP negotiation benchmarks reached by the US won't be acceptable to European leaders."
O NEW The Corporate Friendly World of the TPP
O NEW Why the TPP Won't Work for Workers
O NEW The Trans Atlantic Trade Deal is a Full Frontal Assault on Democracy - Guardian
O NEW TPP and TTIP - The Growing Financial Storm Is Just One Effect of Corporate Power Unbound - Guardian
O NEW Full Text of TPP Released to Public... and It's Horrible - Common Dreams
O NEW Release of Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users' Rights - EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation

NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN MEDIA

This is a new unplanned section. We did not do
a search for Asian American (English only) media
to list here. If we use a source in an article or
link, we are now also adding the url here.
O 8 Asians
O American FOBs
O Angry Asian Man
O Asian American Journalists Association
O AsAm News
O AsianInNY
O AsianWeek
O Audrey Magazine
O Balitang America TV
O Center for Asian American Media
O Colorlines
O Epoch Times
Ed Note: ET is owned by Falun Gong, all its news
about China is negative, just as all news about
FG written in China is negative
O Far East Vibes
O Gumship
O Hyphen Magazine
O India West
O ISAtv
O Japan Culture NYC
O KoreAm Journal
O NBC News - Asian America
O ReAppropriate
O South Asian Journalists Association
O The Muslim Guy

O Reporters Without Borders

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SPECIAL : SUNY KOREA

Amazing Tales : From a Coup to Surviving THE Tsunami - This Years SUNY Korea
Students Are Teaching Us As Much
As They Are Learning From Us
- by Brandon Loo

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SBU STUDENT NEWS

ASA's Asian Night - Time Pressure
Leads to Resounding Success
Photos/Videos by Lucy Kong, Brandon Loo, Betty Weijia Lu, Ja Young

Corky Lee Critiques:
Student Photographers Learn from a Pro
and He's Coming Back for Round 2
by Lucy Kong

Jazmin-Jean
Fuertes:

"PUSO is Love,
Love is PUSO"

- by Shannon Blackmer, hercampus.com

Ruchi Shah

An Innovative Scientist
Combating Disease

Winner of
22 Under 22
Award

- hercampus.com

SBU TV Freshman
Videographer

Milton Luo

2015 Ronald MacDonald House Scholarship
Winner

Tony Wan:
Two Time Iraq Vet
Aspires to Career
in Brain Injury Care

- SBU Happenings

What Students
Do On
Snow Days

SBU NEWS

WANTED: LOVERS OF JAPANESE GARDENS

Help Create
Mitsuko En

A Kyoto Garden in
the Wang Asian
American Center

and Then,
One by One,
Gardens from
All Across Asia

Seawolves
for
Sanders

Rally for Bernie

College for All:
How To Make
Public Universities
Free Again

by Lei Takanashi,
SB Press

'Skin Codes'
Isabel Manalo's Exhibition
Review by Ling Zhu

SUNY KOREA STUDENT NEWS

SUNY Korea Sensor Lab Faculty and
Students Present Newly Developed
ATL Ball at Beijing Maker Faire

NEW SBU PHOTO ALBUMS

ASA
Asian Night
2015
Album 1

Photos by
Brandon Loo

ASA
Asian Night
2015
Album 2

Photos by
Brandon Loo

ASA
Asian Night
2015
Album 3

Photos by
Ja Young

ASA
Asian Night
2015
Album 4

Photos by
Lucy Kong

ASA
Asian Night
2015
Album 5

Photos by
Lucy Kong and
Betty Weijia Lu

Bernie Sanders
College For All

Photos by Ja Young

Jasmine
ASA - aKDPhi
Lunar New Year
Fest 2016
Photos by
Brandon Loo

DOWN MEMORY LANE PHOTO ALBUMS

Bridge to Nowhere Used to Almost Connect
Union with Library

Photos by Ja Young

SBU INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Special Permanent Section
With Info for International Students

O NEW UPDATE: China's Rich Kids
Head West - New Yorker

SBU ALUMNI

Congrats Former AA E-Zine Editors
Oliver Hao Li Baichuan Hwang and son Ian and Sherry Ha Chin and daughter Emma!

SBU FACULTY AND STAFF

Jiyin Cao

Wins Award
from Society for Personality and Social Psychology

- SBU Happenings

Agnes He and Jiwon Hwang
Part of $1 Million NSF Grant for Study of "Communication in the Global University"
- SBU Newsroom

Ben Hsiao

Research Team
Answering
the Global
Drinking-Water
Challenge

- SBU Happenings

Benjamin Hsaio and Chang-Kee Jung Named Distinguished Professors
- SBU Happenings

Chang-Kee Jung Led Team Shares 2016
Breakout Prize for Fundamental Physics
- SBU Happenings

Chang-Kee Jung
(Again!)
Nobel Prize
in Physics
Has Stony Brook
Connection

- SBU Happenings

Huilin Li and Jingchuan Sun, BNL/SBU, Partner in Groundbreaking DNA Research
- SBU Happenings

Long Lu

Wins NSF Cybersecurity
Grant

- SBU Happenings

Nina Maung-Gaona
Is New
Associate VP
for Research

- SBU Happenings

Suparna Rajaram

Elected to Society
of Experimental
Psychologists

- SBU Happenings

Jahangir Rastegar

Named Fellow of
National Academy
of Inventors

- SBU Happenings

Tzu-Chieh Wei

Nationwide Team
Doubles Amount
of Quantum Info
Transported
Without
Moving Matter

- SBU Newsroom

Prof Song Wu's Team

Under the Microscope:
Environment and
Behavior Cause
Majority of Cancers

- Kenneth Wengler,
Statesman

Xiang-Feng Zhou
and
Artem Oganov

Researchers Create
Atomically Thin
Metallic Boron

- SBU Happenings

US LOCAL / REGIONAL NEWS
Archive: All Article Links

O NEW UPDATE: Harbor Country Day Students Join Chinese New Year Celebration at SBU's Confucius Institute
- longisland.com

O NEW UPDATE: Images from NYC 2016
Lunar New Year in NYC
- AsianAmNews

US NATIONAL NEWS
Archive: All Article Links

O Upworthy: "I thought we banned cocaine for health reasons. Nope. Not even close." First US drug law was due to fear of opium smoking Chinese railroad workers having sex with white women.

Sign Letter
to Congress
Asking for
Recognition for
Filipino Soldiers
Who Fought
for the USA
in WWII

- Filipino
Veterans Project

Gallup Poll Finds Majority of Asian Americans Support Bernie Sanders

Asian American Feminist : ReAppropriate
Why I Am Supporting Bernie Sanders

Six Ways
Bernie Stands With
the
AAPI Community

- AAPI 4 Bernie

Bernie on
AAPI Rights

Sanders Plan:
How to Make
College
Tuition Free
and Debt Free

Summer & Fall
2016 Paid
Internships

ENVIRONMENT
Archive : Environment / Global Warming

O NEW Japan's Nuclear Energy Choices: The Country Has a Chance to Create a More Durable National Energy Strategy
- Prof Kathleen Araujo, SBU - The Diplomat

O Under the Dome - Film on China's Pollution by Chai Jing

O Learn How Really Really Bad Bottled Water Is For the Environment

EQUALITY : RACIAL
Archive : All Article Links

O Decision Not to Let US Citizens of Guam and American Samoa Vote Was Based on Racist Supreme Court Decision - "alien races" could not comprehend "Anglo Saxon principles" - Video

EQUALITY : SEXUAL
Archive : Ending Sexual and Physical
Abuse and Creating Equality

O "Yes means yes"
is a message
that should be
engrained long
before freshmen
orientation

EMERGENCY UPDATE
SAVE TICKET OFFICE LIZ'S DAUGHTER

LUNAR NEW YEAR HOLIDAY: 2/8-2/22

The Year of the Monkey - Everything
You Need to Know and Then Some!
by Maria Ng

Chinese Lunar
New Year
American Style
by Brandon Loo

AAJ 2012
Customs & Recipes of Chinese New Year
by May Hao Wang

Korean New Year
by Noah Kim

Tibetan and Vietnamese New Year
by Chenjun Feng

Amazing photos of carved butter used to celebrate
Losar, Tibetan New Year

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ASA & aKDPhi
Lunar New Year
at Jasmine

WED 2/10
WANG AAC

JSO
Cosplay Cafe

WED 2/10
SAC

aKDPhi & PDPsi
Valentine's Day
Roses and Chocolates

Order by 2/11

Bollywood Night
Women's Basketball
SBU vs Albany

Junoon, Bhangra
and Raaswalas
Dance Teams
at Halftime

WED 2/17
IFCU Arena

CASB

Mahjong Tournament

Fun-Food-Prizes

THU 2/18
SAC

CSSA
2016 Spring
Festival Gala

FRI 2/19
SAC

Tickets on Sale
2/15

Bust-A-Move! Beginners
Dance Workshops
PUSO Modern,
SBU Ballroom,
SBU Bhangra
FRI 2/19
LDS Center

ASA

Lil Lunar
Festival

Fun-Food
Performances

FRI 2/19
SAC

Every Sat
at 6

Korean Life Radio Show
WUSB 90.1 FM

ChinaBlue Radio Show
WUSB 90.1 FM
Every SU @ 7

Korean Patchwork by Wonju Seo
Health Sciences Center
Fall 2015 - Spring 2016 Exhibit

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Note: NYC has too many to include - this is
only those specifically brought to our attention

Pan Asian
Repertory Theatre

A Dream of
Red Pavilions

Ends SU 2/14

Chinatown and Flushing Parades and Lots of Events All Over

2/6 - 2/28
NYC

ITASA 2016
East Coast Conference

2/11-2/13
Uni Maryland,
College Park

Michael Moore's
Where to
Invade Next
(Official Trailer)

Opens 2/12 Nationwide

AMC Loews
Stony Brook

CAC Huntington

Bollywood's
Fitoor
(Official Trailer)

Opens 2/12 Nationwide

Farmingdale Multiplex

NAAAP-NY
Lunar New Year
Celebration

WED 2/24
NYC

ECAASU 2016 Conference

2/26-2/28
Rutgers
University
NJ

SPECIAL: LAST WEEK! ENDS 2/14

Reviews Since Opening Last Year
O Allegiance, Musical About Japanese
Internment, Opens on Broadway Starring
Lea Salonga, George Takei, Telly Leung
O George Takei Makes the Trek to
Broadway in Allegiance - USA Today
O Review: George Takei Debuts on
Broadway (and this review will
bring tears to your eyes) - NPR
O Review: Musical History Lesson About Interned Japanese Americans - NY Times
O Hamilton Hip Hop Allegiance
with George Takei - YouTube
O Takei Celebrates Star Trek Night at Allegiance Performance - startrek.com

SELECT UPCOMING EVENTS ON & OFF
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ISO
City Trip

LIRR RT
Only $11
All Welcome!

SAT 3/5
SBU -> NYC

ISO
Broadway Show

The Phantom
of the Opera

$50 Limited Tix Order ASAP

SAT 3/5
SBU -> NYC

PUSO

Sayaw 2016

Dance Workshops
NE Regional
Dance Competition
Special Guest
Performers

SAT 3/5
LDS & SAC

Support NAP's
Kenny Ling
in the
St Baldrick's Shave Your Head
for a Cancer Cure
Fundraiser

WED 3/9
SAC

Wang
Asian/American
Center Spring
Exhibition

Opens
THU 3/10

Confucius
Institute
Calligraphy Class

Begins 3/11

Confucius
Institute

Film
Buddha
Mountain

WED 3/23
WANG AAC

WEEKLY CAMPUS MEET-UPS

PUSO Weekly Meetings
Philippine United Students
Every MO @ 8:30
Heavy Engineering 201

JSO Weekly Meetings
Japanese Student Org
Every TU @ 8 in SAC

PUSO Cultural Dance Workshops Open to All
Every TH @ 9:30 in REC

SBU AA E-Zine
Asian Am News/Events
Weekly Meetings
All Welcome!
Every FR @ 1
UNION 071

Every Sat
at 6

Korean Life Radio Show
WUSB 90.1 FM

ChinaBlue Radio Show
WUSB 90.1 FM
Every SU @ 7

Bhangra Dance Lessons
All Welcome!
Dance for Fun!
Every MO @ 8:30
Rec Center

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