Word of the Week:

Omnicompetent  (adj):  Being able to handle anything.

Despite taking a full course load and being a member in three separate clubs, Janet remained omnicompetent throughout the semester.

Quote of the Week:

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.” –Theodore Roosevelt.

Stream of Facts:

A shipment of rubber ducks and other assorted bath toys was once lost at sea in 1992 and had remained lost for 20 years. Many had drifted as far as Hawaii and Alaska, being swept up in a circulating current near Japan. Tracking the location of these ducks has since helped scientists study currents and the effect of climate change on marine life...

“Cute girl.” “Everything's got a price. How much you want for the lady?” “I'll give $1 for the lady.” “C'mon man she's worth more than that. $2.” With a few grammatical edits, this is how the comment stream proceeded on the RIT Free & For Sale Facebook page this past Tuesday. A male student had posted a picture of a girl holding a long board he wanted to sell. There were only a handful of comments about the longboard and even less about the objectification that was taking place, although one commenter did ask, “How much for the misogyny?”

This objectification of both men and women occurs all over the United States, but with 32.8 percent females versus 67...

When an inspector calls for a food inspection, one might imagine a man blending in at a restaurant trying out all the food he can and looking for everything and anything to get the place in trouble. That’s only half true...

cartoon by James Lecarpentier

Word of the Week

Temarious (adj) – recklessly rash or bold.

Aaron, in a temarious funk, pulled together his 30-page thesis in a span of 24 hours...

Dark Chocolate Bacon S'More

How we made it:

Put dark chocolate inside marshmallow. Place between two graham crackers. Microwave for 15 seconds. Place cooked bacon around or on top of marshmallow...

“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...

Photo: Matthew Burkhartt

Illustration: Emily Gage

It’s hard not to understand what sustainability is on a campus like RIT...

“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...

The Decision to Transition

This past hockey season, the RIT Women’s Hockey team transitioned from playing in Division III, a less competitive group of schools, to Division I, made up of the top college teams in the nation...

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.

The Forager

“I didn’t have a car at that point...

For some reason, people are nice.

A few months ago, there was a surge of this niceness and there were three posts about me on some of the anonymous RIT Facebook pages. The first was on the RIT Complements page and that was followed by another two on RIT Crushes. One of the crush writers submitted the message, “I’d sometimes see this girl in the tunnels with the purple spiked backpack. I don’t know, but I have a gut feeling and I’d like to get to know her.” I am the girl with the spiked backpack, and I’m sorry but the feeling is not reciprocated...

Photo by Josh Barber and Max Hautaneimi

Brian Brazee

“If I can be the leader that brings us all together, that’s going to go way further than what my batting average is or how many hits I have,” said Brian Brazee, fourth year Finance major and captain of the Men’s Baseball team.

Brazee has been playing baseball since the age of eight. When he joined the RIT team as a freshman, only about 10 players showed up to off-season practices. However, the team has made great strides from 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...

The newly created Learning Assistants (LA) program is composed of a group of undergraduate students that will participate in the teaching experience in College of Science classes beginning fall 2014...

“I don’t know many people who get through adolescence without something terrible happening to them,” said Laurie Halse Anderson, renowned author of popular books such as “Speak” and “Winter Girls,” during her visit to RIT on March 3...

I saw more boobs last Friday than I have in my entire life. While they aren’t something I generally seek out, at the Rochester Erotic Arts Festival (REAF) last weekend, there were quite a few exposed pairs...

 4.5/5 stars

With the spring semester just beginning, now is the ideal time to rethink your organizational system to handle the challenges ahead. Just in time, Todoist has unveiled a newly revamped version of its free to-do list service. The new changes make it even more ideal for the hectic lives of RIT students.

Let’s start with the basics: Todoist is a free service with a great interface and broad platform support. While the to-do lists in Outlook and Gmail are good, Todoist takes this to the next level by adding color-coded categories, projects and sub-projects support and even the ability to add sub-tasks to each task...

Pursue your BA in Robot Culture Studies.

He bets his mortgage on it.

What would you do?

Carolyn Dunne reviews your caffeinated options.

Malcolm Gladwell analyzes the people who excel.

Starting in January Reporter Online will have a regular cartoon. Enjoy this preview.

Starting in January Reporter Online will have a regular cartoon. Enjoy this preview.

Just follow these four steps.

Chukwuma Morah gives his take.