[LUGSB] I may transfer next fall to SB

[Matthew Gruen]

Hey, I'd like to remind everyone that the topic of this list is Linux
:) and of course LUGSB. Please don't venture *too far* off-topic. But,
while we're at it, a note that if you're encountering discrimination
in any aspect, there are people on campus who will talk you through it
and fight for you, even against other administrative bureaus.

Office of Diversity and Affirmative Action
<http://www.stonybrook.edu/diversity/index.html>
Center for Prevention and Outreach
<http://studentaffairs.stonybrook.edu/cpo/index.shtml>
Counseling and Psychological Services
<http://studentaffairs.stonybrook.edu/caps/>

Ahmed, the content of your videos looks pretty cool... a lot of those
topics are the sorts of things LUGSB talks about! We will be meeting
tomorrow at 7PM in CS 2120, not sure about what yet, but please come
if you can make it!

--Matt Gruen
(co-president dude)

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Richard Yao <ryao at ic.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> 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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