Campus wide, hearts sunk a little bit deeper on September 17, when the notification was sent out from RIT Message Center that “RIT mourns the loss of Rulon Andrew.” Another student to pass before his time, Rulon was thirty years old and a student in the RIT Saunders College of Business’ Management Information Systems program. He was expected to graduate in May 2015 and had previously graduated NTID with an A.S. in Business in 2012.
As his former professor, Mark Pfuntner, said of Rulon, “He was a leader, not by his words, but by his actions.” Community-centered, Rulon served on the Student Advisory Board of the RIT Leadership Institute...