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On January 31, Donna Rubin, assistant vice president for student wellness, and Mike Stojkovic, assistant director for wellness, presented a possible change to SG involving the current smoking policy at RIT. This new policy would ban the use of all tobacco products on university owned property.
I think if I hear the phrase “smokers’ rights” one more time, I might lose it. I just might. “Smokers’ rights” isn’t a thing. Smokers aren’t an underprivileged or oppressed group of individuals that need protecting. They’re people who choose to participate in a knowingly unhealthy habit.
Forty years ago, on September 9, 1971, the inmates of the New York Attica Correction Facility took over, taking correction officers and other employees hostage. On September 13, the state police assaulted the prison, ending the four day uprising in the bloodiest one-day encounter between Americans since the Civil War.
Courtney Tennant started playing basketball in elementary school and has played all the way through graduate school. In addition to setting records and earning awards throughout her four years as center for RIT’s Women’s Basketball team, Tennant was able to earn her Bachelor’s degree in New Media Marketing within her first three years at RIT.
The work ethic of RIT men’s basketball team member Jameel Balenton, a fourth year Electrical Engineering major from Syracuse, N.Y., is not up for debate
Fourth year Industrial Engineering major Katie Baldwin has always loved to swim, being in the water and messing around in the pool. Originally from Phelps, N.Y., Baldwin was in eighth grade when the school chartered its first swim team. “I was like, ‘Oh! I’ll try it out and see how it goes!’”
Student Government (SG) elections are fast approaching with two pairs of candidates competing for the presidential and vice presidential positions. Ashley Carrington, a third year Finance and Management Information Systems double major, and Tyler Pierce, a third year Management Information Systems major, are going up against Joseph “Joe” Sciandra, a third year Manufacturing Engineering Technology major, and Jim “Chip” Francesca, a second year Biomedical Sciences major.
In the April 4 Student Government (SG) meeting, representatives from the Wallace Library came to talk about recent renovations and the last mid-year report was given by the director of programming for SG.
A recent survey shows that 87 percent of students allow a minimum of 15 extra minutes to their daily walk to class due to ignorant students clearly lacking an education on how to walk. In an effort to eliminate these feet dragging dawdlers, the institute has added Walking 101 to their wellness course options.
Over the past few years of Student Government (SG) President and Vice President Elections, an increasing number of students have been casting votes for Batman, a well-known comic book character and protector of Gotham City. For the 2014-15 elections Batman is an official contender for the position of Student Government President.
The jungle was silent save for the buzzing of insects and crunching of brush underfoot. A thick mist had crept in as the first rays of sunlight pierced the thick canopy, limiting visibility to a mere five feet. Two men walked without saying a word, the leader dressed in a white button down shirt and khakis.
Cookbook/ Semen Based Recipes 4.5/5 stars
In the biting night air of Rochester, a new racing legend has begun. Born not from the burnt rubber and spectacle of a racetrack, these speed demons hide in plain sight: our bus drivers. Their rise to the spotlight and unconventional racing style has become a thorn in the sides of both students and administration.
The People “Student affairs really got out of hand these past couple of years,” Interim Senior Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Rolls Royce-Barshee explained.
Word of the month: Fomo: an acronym meaning “fear of missing out.”
The Gordon Field House was filled wall to wall by spectators hoping to view the opening ceremony to the Modern Greco-Roman Olympic Games, held at RIT for the second time since the organization’s creation in 1903.
“RIT’s change to semesters has been a complete shit show,” said President Wrestler. Since the beginning of the first semester in August 2013, nearly 40 percent of RIT students have failed out. The Semester Solution Task Force was put into action in early December 2013 in order to propose a solution to The Semester Problem.
The RIT skyline used to look quite different. There was an empty space between Clark Gym and the SAU. This space would eventually be home to the largest piece of statuary on any college campus in North America: the Sentinel.
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Michelle Obama Tours China to Promote Study Abroad and Foreign Affairs During spring break, Michelle Obama and her two daughters, Malia and Sasha, visited China to empha
At the March 21 Student Government (SG) meeting, the final three midyear reports were presented.
“RIT firmly believes that among its goals and responsibilities are the free pursuit of truth and intellectual and moral development of its students...
Practicing upwards to three times a week, building relationships that last a life time and doing it all in the name of slam poetry is RIT’s Poetry Slam Team, who is headed to the national competition in Boulder, Colorado.
Every candidate for office makes promises. In 2008, presidential hopeful Barack Obama promised health care and improved environmental protection: the first happened, the second did not.