[LUGSB] I may transfer next fall to SB

[Richard Yao]

The percentage of Muslims in the student body far exceeds that the of
the region and if these things occurred on a large scale, I doubt the
numbers would be quite so disproportionate. I have never seen this
issue and I am more inclined to believe that this story was fabricated
to scare away Ahmed than that this event actually happened. If it did
happen, it expect that it was an isolated incident that could have
happened anywhere.

Since you brought up the topic, I would like to observe that there do
exist people in this world that derive pleasure from making others
miserable and that they always orient their attacks to appear to be
based minor status, despite their victims being selected entirely at
random. It is the best way for them to obtain their perverse
psychological pleasure and I always hate it when I see these attempts
succeed at masking their true purpose. Linus Torvalds put it fairly
well when he said that average people don't exist and that they always
some peculiarity. Admittedly, that in reference to GNOME's attempt to
cater to the average computer user, but his observation has social
implications beyond simple GUI design and it seems to explain how
bullies in all faucets of society always manage to find victims. It is
not that they go out of their way to find victims; it is that they
make their victims out of whomever happens to be around. I cannot
imagine these people not being present at Stony Brook, but I also
cannot imagine these people not being elsewhere either.

Regardless of the case, it would be a shame for a prospective student
to make a decision because of an incident that is by no means endemic
to our institution. At the same time, I suppose there are prospective
students at other institutions making decisions based on the same
kinds of isolated events.

Yours truly,
Richard Yao

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Hazuki Azuma <azumahazuki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Stay away from Stony Brook. Injustice happens on a grand scale here, and
> there is a lot of anti-Muslim feeling.
>
> In 2008 I was falsely accused of having made a gun threat...in 2007...right
> after there were three embarrassing gun incidents on campus. They needed a
> patsy. They chose me. HOW they mistook me for a man no one knows. Laws were
> blatantly broke in front of my face, and I was told right TO my face there
> was nothing I could do about it.
>
> I faced a kangaroo court of a "level 3 hearing" and it was only the fact
> that I brought in books of the law and read off the ones that had been
> violated that stopped them from expelling me outright. The sentence was
> reduced to "writing a 15-page paper on what a horrible woman I am and how
> I'll never ever do it again."
>
> The administration is corrupt as hell. The school budget is in shambles,
> when i left most people were being forcibly tripled well into sophomore
> year, and the president Shirley Strum-Kenney is an embezzling crook.
>
> Stay. Away. There are many better places for talents like yours.
>
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