http://www.reportermag.com/ Author: Laura Mandanas from Reporter Online. en-us http://www.reportermag.com/article/246 The Sentinel, the infinity quad, RITchie, and the quarter mile: these are the landmarks which so comfortably greeted new students to the RIT campus for years. Now, throw in a Barnes and Noble, several restaurants, a convenience store, and some swanky new apartments, and you're looking at the modern campus, the segment at the very forefront of RIT civilization - once it fully opens, that is. Though people are moving into the apartments and a few stores have opened their doors, the grand... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/246 http://www.reportermag.com/article/442 This past weekend, nine members of the Reporter staff attended the National College Media Convention in Kansas City, a gathering of collegiate journalists from across the country. The major theme of the convention: technology is changing journalism. Though the quality of the discourse throughout the convention varied widely, Rich Beckman, a professor at the University of Miami School of Communication and the keynote speaker at the convention, did a pretty good job of outlining the major... Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.reportermag.com/article/442 http://www.reportermag.com/article/397 As finals week creeps closer and closer, there's a certain desperation that starts to kick in for many students right around this time. While a lonely few of you have managed to stay on top of everything for the past eight weeks, not everyone at RIT is going to be looking at straight A's when they pull up their Fall 2008-2009 grade report on SIS. Although we'd certainly all prefer to that perfect 4.0 GPA, that isn't necessarily what will be driving us as we approach finals week. For many of us,... Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/397 http://www.reportermag.com/article/405 OnOff, a horror novel by RIT alumnus Mike Attebery, tells the tale of Jamie Pepper, a freshman photography student facing early onset Parkinson's Disease. After undergoing a risky experimental procedure, Jamie's debilitating symptoms lessen, and he begins the return to normalcy - or so he thinks. The novel takes place at RIT, but aside from some awkward name dropping and a few unflattering descriptions of Computer Engineering majors and Deaf people, the setting is utterly alien. For... Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/405 http://www.reportermag.com/article/384 In our beautifully shifting, kaleidoscopic society, there are few things that stay still for long. Cultural values come and go like the leaves on the trees, but there are some things that remain the same no matter what season it is. Although the particulars have changed ever-so-slightly over the years, gender, it would seem, is one of those things. Whether you realize it or not, from the moment you were born, youve been inundated with culturally charged ideals of how men and women should... Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/384 http://www.reportermag.com/article/393 In the United States, the average life expectancy for women is just over 80; for men, it is just over 75. One explanation for this could be that the relative iron deficiency caused by menstruation helps the average woman age more slowly, notably delaying in the onset of cardiovascular disease. Named Americas most powerful woman by Life magazine at the end of the 20th century, Oprah Winfrey is currently estimated to have a net worth of greater than 2.5 billion, according to Forbes... Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/393 http://www.reportermag.com/article/365 Change. Experience. Gender. As the economy sours and November 4 draws closer and closer, we wait with bated breath, eyes transfixed on the TV. Wall Street. Main Street. Bailout. Even the least media-savvy of us cant escape the maelstrom of buzzwords flying around this political season. War. Environment. Abortion. Rising above the fray, however, is one particularly powerful, prevalent buzzword: Security. In light of recent events, it makes total sense for us to be so concerned with this on... Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/365 http://www.reportermag.com/article/339 For somewhere between four and six weeks at the end of first grade, I wanted to be the Yellow Power Ranger when I grew up. Shortly after that, I wanted to be a teacher, an actress, an Olympic figure skater, the voice of a Disney princess, a marine biologist, and President of the United States. Ill always have a fond place in my heart for the now all but abandoned aspirations of my younger self, but theres one particular aspiration that will be sticking with me much longer than any of... Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/339 http://www.reportermag.com/article/316 Theres a certain simplistic charm in tossing a twenty-sided die to determine how the future will play out; when that element of chance is handed over to a computerized random number generator, something is undeniably lost. Many Dungeons and Dragons players take pride in their old school pen and paper methods, and its easy to understand why (see The Secret Order of Pen and Paper Geekdom). At its core, D&D is a social game " the face to face interaction is an important basic... Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/316 http://www.reportermag.com/article/294 Ive never thrown up on a pair of shoes that I was trying to sell (see Word on the Street), but Ive certainly had my fair share of bad jobs. Whether on campus (see Get a Job), off campus, on co-op, or otherwise, weve all had our share of bad jobs. And, despite our degrees, most of us will probably go on to have more bad jobs after graduation. Theyll be better paid bad jobs, we hope, but theyll still be bad (from time to time, anyway). Its just one of those things... Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/294 http://www.reportermag.com/article/274 The room was silent. Out of the 70 or so students in the auditorium, none of us had an answer. A note of disbelief crept into the professors voice as he posed the question for a second time: How many of you feel empowered by democracy? Although several people eventually responded with reasons why they couldnt comfortably put themselves in that category, nobody spoke up to say that they did, indeed, feel empowered by democracy. A rather dismaying sign of the times, if I do say... Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/274 http://www.reportermag.com/article/251 Crossing your fingers and hoping that you're healthy is not a good strategy I think we can all agree on that. When it comes to your health, ignorance is most certainly not bliss; it's dangerous, and it's stupid. Although getting tested (see "Testing for HIV") may mean that you have to hear something you don't want to hear, knowing is infinitely better than not knowing. Similarly (although admittedly, much less life-threateningly), when it comes to the "health" of a campus, knowing your... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:30:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/251 http://www.reportermag.com/article/241 "When the world burns down, I want to be able to build it back up again. That's why I'm in engineering. Things like this should just never, never happen," said my roommate, cautiously peering out into the hallway. Or at least, that's what I think she said; I must admit, I had some difficulty hearing her over the howls of frustration echoing throughout Gibson 2. Emanating from the lounge area (some of which have apparently been turned into quintuplets this year? My sympathies,... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/241 http://www.reportermag.com/article/227 I really hope that someone has clued you in to this fact prior to this, but if not, here goes: If you've come to RIT looking for the typical "college experience," you're in for a very rough time. Seriously. Disillusion yourself of the notion that your experiences here will resemble anything you've seen depicted in popular media. You'll find out for yourself soon enough, but allow me to lessen the blow for you: we're just not that kind of school. After the chaos of orientation week ends,... Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/227 http://www.reportermag.com/article/233 There's no escape. Whether they're busting your parties, nagging you not to ride your bike down the Quarter Mile, andor plastering your only-semi-illegally parked car with hundreds of dollars worth in tickets, you're going to run up against our campus law enforcers at some point in time. But it's not all bad - in fact, there are a lot of really helpful things that Public Safety will do for you! For example: Lock yourself out of your car? Public Safety will get you back in... Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/233 http://www.reportermag.com/article/209 Happy week 10, RIT. We've reached the end - the end of our wits, the end of the quarter, the end of the year. As is frequently done at such junctures, Reporter is taking a step back. Taking stock. For this issue, we have taken a close look at the RIT community, and compiled a list: People of Note 2008. Whether they've made the list for something as high profile as organizing the first Imagine RIT Innovation and Creativity Festival, or something more low profile, such as serving drinks,... Fri, 16 May 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/209 http://www.reportermag.com/article/213 Year and Major » Senior in Multidisciplinary Studies Reason for Nomination » A student leader in the NTID community for the past few years, she has organized many initiatives to support Deaf students. What are you known for here at RIT? I guess I am known for being an artist, as well as a very kind-natured person who loves to help others. I was involved with theatre and dance team for performance skills...I've been a student leader in the NTID... Fri, 16 May 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/213 http://www.reportermag.com/article/184 I hope you all left your dorm rooms this past weekend. The Innovation Festival (see "Institute Hosts Imagine RIT") was actually really cool. If, by chance, you happened to miss the festival, here are some of the less publicized highlights of the weekend: 1. Roving, advice-dispensing alumni. I ran into one of the former Editor in Chiefs of Reporter from the 1960's, and was surprised to learn that there had once been a bar in the basement of the men's dorm on campus... and that it went... Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/184 http://www.reportermag.com/article/157 We really are a special generation. Although we are frequently narcissistic (see Ridiculously Good-Looking), wasteful (see Waste Audit), and, quite frankly, mediocre (see Mediocre Generation), there is something that sets us apart from all others: Every generation that came before us has a collective memory of life before computers; every generation after us will not. Straddling the line, we really are in a unique position. True, it's hardly anything we can take credit for. We have... Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/157 http://www.reportermag.com/article/139 I don't agree with Josh. It's nothing personal; I think he's a really great guy (see That Guy: Josh), and I admire his willingness to make himself so vulnerable for something that he believes in. Still, I don't think there's an essay in the world that could change my mind about the absurdity of organized religion and most of the beliefs these religions hold. Despite that, I find Josh's assessment of our campus to be dead on. While it's second nature for many of us to talk about the... Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:30:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/139