New Center for the Arts, Years in the Making, An Important Test of New Administrative Structure

Seeking to cut back on administrative costs, art departments at Stony Brook University are combining under a new Center for the Arts, which will include the Staller Center’s performance space.

The new center has been under discussion for years, according to the university, but the actual implementation of it could happen very soon.

“Discussions of a Center for the Arts arose out of the Strategic Planning Process in December of 2009 and the plans have yet to be finalized,” said university spokesman James Montalto.

Even so, sources within the art departments say that the new Center for the Arts could be “taking effect this semester.”

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Stony Brook Students and Yoko Ono Imagine Peace

“War Is Over (If You Want It)” proclaims one of the pieces at Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Exhibit. This message of peace is probably as pertinent in this generation, an era replete with wars in Libya and in the ongoing War On Terror.

The exhibit, which is set to run in the Staller Art Center until October 15th, is a multimedia display which highlights Ms. Ono’s late ‘60’s peace effort with her husband, John Lennon, with particular emphasis of the couple’s Bed-In and War Is Over! Campaigns.

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