When biking restrictions were established in places where biking had been previously allowed, students responded with confusion and disapproval.. RIT needs a better compromise that respects each party involved.

Do you recall the great Swine Flu plague of 2009?

Five years have passed since then. Specialized military forces still prowl the streets in search of sneezing, fever-rage-driven hogs...

While female game designers only make up 22 percent of the industry, certain students at RIT showcase a change in the balance of the field.

As Iceland misinterprets Emma Watson's speech on how to approach Gender Equality, we have to remember that everyone should be a part of the discussion, especially women.

When it comes to the internet, equality and  uniform access are key.

A genderqueer student and hir transgender friend were kicked out of the Aquatics Center by staff because, according to staff, they were not wearing "gender appropriate" swimwear...

The 2015 NASA budget is expected to be $17.46 billion. To put that in perspective, the U.S. Department of Education requested $22.8 billion for Pell Grants, which provide education to lower-income families...

In the past decade, technology has made massive steps forward in the areas of mobile technology and social integration...

The societies that have embraced the age-old instincts of curiosity and exploration have prospered...

In our society, the word “escapism” has been bogged down by negative connotations which are set forward by people who are either not in tune with the world or not productive...

When The Guardian first broke the news on June 6, 2013 of mass surveillance programs run by intelligence agencies all over the world, Edward Snowden fled the United States...

PawPrints is SG's latest solution to RIT's longstanding communication problems. Let's give it a chance.

Food options that RIT provides for vegan students are unsatisfactory. Although RIT is trying to change, it may not be enough to adequately support all of its students.

Message Center is a major source of broadly targeted emails at RIT. What can the university do to improve it?

Gamergate has sparked a lot of angry discussion on the internet. The main issue behind it can be traced back to game journalists...

An overview of what net neutrality means, how its demise will affect you and what you can do to keep it alive.

Last year, RIT students saw a major change in their schedules with the introduction of the semester system, replacing the beloved quarter system...

When I came to RIT in fall of 2011, I had no idea about the plus/minus grading transition. No one told me that it would be going into effect my senior year. No one told me that the new system would affect my final GPA...

The summer after my freshman year of college, I had what felt like a major existential crisis. I broke up with my long distance boyfriend, chopped off my hair, donated half of my belongings to Goodwill and decided that I would change my major...

The RIT community has a very innovative and creative mindset that harbors the free flow of ideas. RIT Governance Policy C3.0, Intellectual Property Policy, navigates the tumultuous waters of intellectual property (IP). Fortunately for RIT students, policy C3.0 has their best interest in mind regarding possession of IP rights.

There a few important things students should know about how RIT’s IP policy affects them. For starters, RIT doesn’t use C3.0 as a cookie cutter policy, as the policy states “…this Policy cannot and should not be mechanically applied to every situation that may arise...

Free things are great—just don’t be an idiot. Don’t take free, opened candy from strangers, don’t click on an offer for a free trip to the Bahamas and don’t go hug the “Free Hug” guy standing on the corner...

One of the most difficult things to do in life is to decline something that’s free...

RIT does not hand out tenure willy-nilly. The requirements are  intense, and moving through the ranks of faculty, or getting on the tenure track from a lecturing position is very challenging. Even with RIT’s rigorous criteria for tenure, there are those who believe the institution of tenure to be an outdated one. But in reality, we need tenure more now than ever before. Faculty members wear two hats — researcher and instructor — and tenure is vital for them to do either well.

Academia is not a united front. Even leading thinkers and scientists disagree — in fact, it’s through this disagreement that we further our understanding of ourselves and the world around us...

Each year, Reporter releases a special themed issue. This year, we wanted to focus on the important and timely issues of gender and sexuality.  The social and legal acceptance of all forms of gender identity, sexual orientation and gender expression has become our generation’s civil rights movement. The purpose of The Gender and Sexuality Issue is to instill interest in and stimulate conversation about historically underrepresented and taboo topics that affect RIT and the community at large. This issue  explores the gender spectrum and those who live outside of it. It aims to open a dialogue about sexuality practices and preferences...

For those even remotely interested in records and record collecting culture, the concept of Record Store Day can seem like nothing short of a godsend...

The faculty members students learn from are ultimately going to affect the outcome of their experience in higher education. If students end up with an instructor who doesn’t care about what he is teaching, they are going to suffer in the long run. The tenure system is common throughout the educational system and many people, including myself, believe this to be a broken system. Guaranteeing career security to educators who showed teaching merit at one point in their career does not mean they will always do so.

According to RIT Governance Policy E6.0, Faculty Rank, academic faculty at RIT can be broken down into two broad categories, tenure track and non-tenure track...

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. If approved by Institute Council on May 7, students would no longer be able to smoke tobacco, pipes, e-cigarettes or hookah after a 12 to 18 month transition.

At the SG meeting Rubin could not produce adequate information from the survey done by the committee she co-chairs for the smoking policy...

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. For members of the RIT community that suffer from asthma, allergies or a genetic predisposition to lung or blood cancers, the issue is much bigger.  It’s for this reason that I wholly support a campus-wide ban of cigarette smoke.

Now, I’m not here to judge...

“RIT firmly believes that among its goals and responsibilities are the free pursuit of truth and intellectual and moral development of its students... Because the rights of free speech and lawful assembly are fundamental to the democratic process and the academic process, RIT supports the rights of all its members freely to express their views and to protest against actions and opinions with which they disagree, using peaceful and lawful means of dissent.” – RIT Governance Policy C11.0

Policy C11.0 acknowledges that RIT’s responsibility as an institution of higher education is to provide access to the truth and intellectual development, including the right to protest...

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. Last year, SG president and vice presidential hopefuls promised that they would start a bike sharing program, get all teachers to use MyCourses and that classes would be videotaped: the first is set to roll out soon, details of the second are still up in the air and the last turned out to financially unfeasible. This is all part of the process, building up voter support, telling them what they want to hear and wishing that you could change everything you want to...