SUNY at Stony Brook - Specula Yearbook (Stony Brook, NY)

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December arrived, and the cold harbingers of the winter gale must have awakened our slumbering Polity Treasurer Al Shapiro, who realized he had missed something and hastened to submit his resignation. Just when we were really beginning to appreciate our wallboard rooms as protection from the elements, the Dormitory Authority upped the rent, only adding to fiscal confusion. Then, as if to ask whether it was worth it all, mice and rats began to wriggle their sharp noses in Roth and Tabler Quads. Tradition. Tradition. All was not lost as Juniors reaffirmed the taste of the founders and gave a vote of confidence to the conventional Stony Brook ring, bypassing the Bookstore edition as too gaudy. The SAB scored again with a Nina Simone-Youngbloods Concert, and Don Rubin requested the presence of the Editorial Board of SPECULA among the elite of resignees for refusing to allow him to have his senior picture taken in a sweatshirt. Associate Dean of Students, John DeFrancesco was found guilty of contempt by a Suffolk County Court for refusing to testify on the grounds of confidentiality, to the Grand Jury in a theft incident. This sparked maior unrest for the Spring Semester. The Freshman' Class held the Third Annual Gal Sale and, shunning con- fidentiality, disclosed a profit of 5200. gp.

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,-an. As December drew to a close, the Holiday Spirit was in the air-but not for long. Festivities were cut short by a flu epi- demic which closed school a week early. The Fall Semester ended uneventfully with the announce- ment of Scott Rickard's appointment as Acting Vice President of Student Affairs, and a Lemar Tea-In to commemorate the First Annual Bust of January I7, 1968.