http://www.reportermag.com/ Tag Global Village from Reporter Online. en-us http://www.reportermag.com/article/154 SG Election Results The election results for Student Government are in after the polls opened on April 14th, finally closing on April 18th. There was a total of 3,369 voters. Ed WolfMatt Danna won the SG Presidency with a total of 1,939 votes. The COB Election will be held again later in the week, because one candidate was accidentally placed on the wrong ballot, being in the COS instead of the COB. One presidential candidate, Michael Deyhim, asked that the election results be sealed... Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:30:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/154 http://www.reportermag.com/article/134 New Research Opportunities Available RIT will be facilitating new research and development opportunities, which will be open to both undergraduate and graduate students. The RIT Board of Trustees has announced that it will be working with SG to meet with different companies, some involved with sustainability practices. "The main objective is to strengthen our relations with business," said SG President Ed Wolf. VP Sasha Malinchoc explained, "Companies will pay students to do research for... Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/134 http://www.reportermag.com/article/39 No Silver Bullet I wonder about the problem solving tactics employed on this campus. To me, it feels at times like the RIT decision makers ignore the root causes of problems and instead make monumental moves with their gut feelings as evidence of future success. That is probably an unfair judgment, but so it goes. Failure to provide compelling evidence for suspected improvements invites such modes of thinking. Several administrators have commented to me that Global Village will be a... Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/39 http://www.reportermag.com/article/42 Professor Promotions Dave Morgan, a graduate student studying IT, addressed the Senate with a concern about the role of teaching at RIT. Previously, the administration would allow professors to attain tenure with or without a terminal' degree (a doctorate in most cases, a masters in some). The primary test was whether or not the individual professor was qualified for tenure, and not necessarily how they got that experience (through industry or through graduate school). Recently, the... Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/42