At the March senate meeting, the GSO approved a resolution that notes the strong continued opposition by graduate students to the proposed campus-wide smoking ban. As the resolution states, "the Graduate Student Organization finds that a total smoking ban does not contribute to a clean, healthy campus environment and recommends that alternative smoking cessation programs be pursued and the current policies related to smoking be properly enforced." In addition, the resolution requests that the University Senate create a subcommittee composed of faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students in order to negotiate "the various smoking policy proposals on the Stony Brook University campuses prior to any vote vote on the smoking policy and proposed smoking ban." Finally, the resolution expresses frustration that the Minority Report published by the Smoking Ban Subcommittee of the University Senate" has "gone unheeded by the Chair of the Smoking Ban Subcommittee." Return to SBGradMag for continued coverage on the proposed smoking ban, which will go to a vote on April 9, 2007.
By Liliana M. Naydan