Cover: The Rochester Subway in Rochester, NY was originally operated from 1927 to 1956. Today it is in disrepair and home to the homeless. Partly filled in, the city and the public are in talks to renovate this space...

Cover: Photo: William J. Ingalls

Transgender Day of Remembrance was internationally recognized on November 20...

Four years ago, the RIT Leadership Institute and Community Service Center created the Women’s Leadership Certificate...

When people think of abusive relationships, often the first thing they think of is a man abusing a woman. According to PRWeb, nearly 1.3 million women are assaulted by their partner each year in the United States, although this number is not exact. The Domestic Violence Resource Center reports that up to six million women may be victims of abuse and that one in four women have been abused in their lifetime.

However, women are not the only ones experiencing domestic violence. Many men have been abused by their partners as well, and these cases often go unreported...

Cervical caps. Condoms. Diaphragms. Implants. IUDs. The Pill. Plan B. The Ring. Shots. Sponges. Despite the large variety of contraceptives available, a majority of non-permanent contraception methods are designed for female use, leaving few options for men.

Men need reliable, non-permanent contraception for the same reason women do: enhanced sexual agency and personal control over family planning. The only options currently available are male condoms, which bring difficulties with pleasure and are only effective for a single use, and vasectomies, too permanent of a solution for many men...

For the average American, Halloween costumes cost $28.65 in 2012. Not an exceedingly daunting number. However, there are people who are willing to pay much more...

1968: Stepping out of the dorm building into the blistering cold, even three layers of jackets and four layers of socks is not enough to protect you. And it only gets worse as you see the end of the dorm side and the beginning of the long asphalt path ahead.

 There is no bridge, no legacy walk, no brick or any other type of paving. Asphalt was less expensive and easier to maintain. Once more bricks started being added to the long path decades later, students appreciated the change in aesthetic...

On the way back from a Rolling Stones concert in Canada, this is the last question the man driving through the border stop expected to hear. The guard had already double-checked his citizenship, so something must have caught his attention. There was a Smith & Wesson branded overnight bag in the back, but there was no way the guard saw that and definitely not before the guard caught sight of the driver’s bare arms.

Brightly colored, Gary Proud, 1967 Accounting alumnus, has two full sleeve tattoos. The left, a colorful mural of classic rock bands such as Steppenwolf, The Doors, Johnny Cash and the like. His right, covered in the symbolism of his Greek brotherhood, Phi Kappa Tau...

This article was featured in the October print issue of Reporter Magazine. 

I walked into a tattoo parlor to get my belly button pierced – again – after my skin rejected it the first time. The piercer took one look and told me that I would never be able to have my belly button pierced again, but that I could try getting a piercing – something called a microdermal.

I was soon informed that microdermals are piercings that are inserted under the skin rather than through it. They are often called single point piercings because they have an entrance hole but don’t exit the skin. The piercing is made up of two parts: a dermal anchor and the jewel or decorative piece...

llustration by Emily Gage

At a college campus, it is no surprise to see blue hair, ten piercings on each ear or even a sleeve of tattoos...

Students often harp about RIT’s brick overdose. On more than one, two or three occasions, RIT has been listed as one of the least beautiful or downright ugliest campuses around...

“Anonymity is really one of the hallmarks of the internet. A lot of people see it as one of the internet’s biggest strengths,” said Patrick Scanlon, chairman of the Department of Communications at RIT...

Recently, the RIT community has seen an exponential growth in anonymous pages dedicated to complimenting, admiring and laughing with (or in some cases at) fellow students...

“It’s not who I am underneath. It’s what I do that defines me.” In the 2005 film “Batman Begins” Bruce Wayne (Batman) discloses to his longtime friend his explanation for not revealing his identity. Batman, along with other superheroes, chooses to separate his identity from his actions because he does not want to have his after-hours activities affect his daily life. For the rest of us, the internet provides the same option for anonymity as the possibilities for separation between our online persona and our daily lives continues to expand.

Like those comic book heroes, there are many people who perform radical tasks and use anonymity to avoid persecution...

You’ve got to admit, people at RIT stand out. And even within our ranks, there are people who are well known for anything from their unicycle to their daily donning of a My Little Pony hat.

We interviewed some of the people on campus who caught our eye for similar reasons to find out more about their motivation and style. Whether they stand out because of their uncommon hobby, their mode of transportation or their desire to dance, these people have the confidence to do something different from the rest.

“I didn’t have a car at that point...

“Generally registration has gone pretty smoothly. I mean obviously I don’t always get all the classes that I want or that I need. But just the biggest thing was that they didn’t offer the class I needed this quarter and since it’s a prerequisite to the other ones, that just caused issues,” explained second year Packaging Science major Morgan Moak.

In a random survey of students asked about their registration in the past, some students expressed similar feelings about registration: they don’t always get the class section they wanted and sometimes it can be more difficult to get into classes outside of their major...