ABCDQ: Which Is Iraq?*

MARCH 23, 2007 | WWW.REPORTERMAG.COM Q: Which is Iraq?* AB CD CHECK YOUR ANSWER PG. 23 *Not to scale. Editorial Not an Exit EDITOR IN CHIEF Casey Dehlinger Tucked beneath the belly of the SAU, hiding in a tangle of pipes below Ingle Auditorium, rests one SENIOR EDITORS Jen Loomis, J.S. Ost of the most unsightly places you could imagine. This acoustic nightmare of perpetually exhaling ventilation ducts, white-painted concrete, and a raked ceiling has become an adopted home of sorts, NEWS EDITOR David Spiecker for myself and many before me. LEISURE EDITOR Laura Mandanas FEATURES EDITOR Adam Botzenhart You wouldn’t think they’d come back, but they do. The former editors always fi nd their way to the SPORTS/VIEWS EDITOR Chad Carbone offi ce when I’m around, and the fi rst thing out of their mouths when they reenter unannounced, after hiatuses spanning upwards of 20 years, is “this place really doesn’t change.” Sure, the furniture is WRITERS Tony Castillo, Chris Cesarano, Veena Chatti, different, the darkroom is now home to archives spanning back over 55 years, and the layout tablets Casey Dehlinger, Laura Mandanas, Evan McNamara, have been replaced by iMacs, but there’s something inherently the same in its harsh fl uorescent Ryan Metzler, Govind Ramabadran, Alex Salsberg, lighting and its reclusive subterranean location. Geoff Shearer There are no windows here, so there is no time. I’ve had instances where 9 p.m. quickly became Art 4 a.m. There have been times when I’ve watched 2007 become 1969 as former editors point and narrate; storytellers, one and all. We brag about the things we got away with. One didn’t hear a peep ART DIRECTOR Josh Gomby when she ran a photo of her having sex with her boyfriend, printed as a wrap-around landscape cover STAFF DESIGNERS Michelle Brook, in black and white. Another that ran a nude woman wrapped in a “bunting” had charges fi led against Mariola Costa him (he denies to this day that it was an American fl ag). Some of them repent, like the woman who HOUSE DESIGNER Jeff Chiappone ran a fake ad for “Beaver Liquor” on the back of an April Fool’s edition; others still can’t for the life CONTRIBUTING ILLUSTRATORS of them understand what all the fuss was about. Greg Caggiano, Alex Salsberg, Erin Wengrovius, Bryan Williams Not all of their accomplishments were nudity controversies, though. This one changed Reporter to CARTOONIST Alex Salsberg magazine format; that one made it weekly. Another gave Reporter color, then some other editor put it on the world wide web. This one met his future wife (current divorcee) at that desk, and that one Photo got punched by a jealous boyfriend in this corner (he ran a photo of the pugilist’s girlfriend fl ashing PHOTO EDITOR Dave Londres the photographer at an underwater fashion show). Okay, so most of their accomplishments were nudity controversies. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS Matt Bagwell, Ryan Randolph, CoCo Walters Some have gone on to succeed. One became a publisher and boasts that he recently had a lawsuit fi led against him for several million dollars. He warns that journalism is a fi ne profession, Production so long as you don’t hold money too dearly. No matter how prosperous they are, though, they always PRODUCTION MANAGER John Carew come back. PRINTING Printing Applications Lab I’m generally not sentimental, but their returning motivates me, giving me the casual subliminal Business reminder that this will mean something to me, and that I will return someday. And when I do? PUBLIC RELATIONS Kayla Himelein I can show some sleepless twenty-something the couch where I napped one night because my car AD MANAGER Geo Kartheiser broke down on the way back from a journalism conference and that I got to see Bill Clinton and the BUSINESS MANAGER Akira Simizu Dalai Lama and made Reporter glow and fold out and play music. And you know what? I put twenty nudes on the cover. CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE Kyle O’Neill I’ll tell that constantly caffeinated individual that there is a place that resides behind a door hiding Online in the corner of the archives. There are two signs on it. One says, “Emergency Exit: Do Not Block” ONLINE EDITOR Erhardt Graeff the other says “Not an Exit.” It’s a dank and foreboding space, reaching up into darkness, full of vents and pipes, covered in dust. The old editors tell me that they would climb up into it and play as Advisor if it were some macabre playground. The door leading to this place was locked off before I knew it Rudy Pugliese existed, but thanks to my predecessors, I can see it just fi ne. Contact The luckiest of us have found theses places: dwellings where we can fi t in, no matter how stressful MAIN 585.475.2212 the circumstances. We all need a place like this. No matter how dreary. EMAIL [email protected] ADVERTISING 585.475.2213 EMAIL [email protected] Casey Dehlinger Editor in Chief Table of Contents March 23, 2007 | Vol. 56, Issue 22 Letters 4 Letters to the Editor 15 At Your Leisure A Rashomon of responses to last Unjumble the Greek Gods before week’s Views article about Lisa they chain you atop Caucasus. Lampanelli. Features News 16 Four Years Later: 7 Game Design The War in Iraq and Development A recap of the Iraq War thus far Making video games isn’t all and current RIT opinions and jumping on goombas, but now perceptions of a future resolution. RIT offers a degree program to train a new generation of 20 Iraq War Support Miyamotos. A comparison of National and RIT perceptions of the war in Iraq 8 Global Warming: over time. Walking on Thin Ice As waters rise, Mark Bowen talks 23 Word on the Street about the potential Atlantisian Can RIT students identify Iraq? fate of our planet. Sports 9 RIT Forecast 24 Sports Desk What do you want to do this Men’s Lacrosse starts their week? season off strong. 9 SG Senate Update 26 Winter Sports Wrap-Up Few remained neutral when the Part II sensitive issue of parking put SG Rundowns of the into drive. accomplishments of Swimming and Diving, Track and Field, and Leisure Wrestling this Winter. 11 Harlem Shakes Harlem Shakes defi nes Views mediocrity with their fi ve-song EP, 30 RIT Rings Burning Birthdays. Who ya gonna call? 11 Wario: The Master of 31 Celebrity Worship Disguise To think that you’ve been praying Wario goes incognito to collect to the wrong Madonna all this treasure in this new Nintendo DS time; tisk, tisk. release. 12 Cooking With Alex: For the Lazy Gourmet Ryan Snyder, a second year Applied For fabulous foodstuffs in a fl ash, Networking and Systems Administra- look to this guide for throwing tion major, rings a bell during Alpha together a variety of quirky Phi Omega's Shanty Town fundraiser college vittles. for the Salvation Army. Photography by Matt Bagwell. Reporter Magazine is published weekly during the academic year by a staff comprised of students at Rochester Institute of Technology. Business, Editorial, and Design facilities are located in Room A-426, in the lower level of the Student Alumni Union. Our voice/TTY line is 585.475.2212. The Advertising Department can be reached at 585.475.2213. The opinions expressed in Reporter do not necessarily refl ect those of the Institute. Q: “Are you hyperventilating?” A: “I’m beatboxing, you idiot.” Letters to the Editor may also be sent to [email protected]. Reporter is not responsible for materials presented in advertising areas. No letters will be printed unless signed. All letters received become the property of Reporter. Reporter takes pride in its membership in the Associated Collegiate Press and American Civil Liberties Union. Copyright © 2005 Reporter Magazine. All rights reserved. No portion of this Magazine may be reproduced without prior written permission. Letters to the Editor Reporter, maintain the highest levels of integrity, and with- While we are on this spree, let’s try something This missive is in response to the letter that Ms. out them, RIT would be a much drearier place. for a moment. I want the author of the Lisa Lam- Maulding sent to Reporter—published in the panelli article to count for me how many times 2/23 issue—expressing indignation at the publi- Sincerely, he has ever said “fag”, laughed at a black joke, cation of the Sexuality Issue. David Blonski and called something gay. I think we will fi nd this Vice-President man is not only a terrible author, but also a hypo- I mostly take umbrage to her use of the phrase Student Government crite as well. In any event, he certainly sounds “as an alumnus” in her conservative and biologi- like the prime author for this article when he is cally negligent view of that magazine because, The following letter quotes racial slurs telling me to fuck myself. as an alumnus, I took great pride in its publica- used by comedians who have performed tion. I think it is a fi ne and noble goal to speak to at RIT. Readers sensitive to such terms Listen, college is about freedom of thought. one of the more repressed and misunderstood should refrain from reading this letter. If someone wants to tell me Germans are hate- fundamental aspects of human nature. The issue ful heartless creatures, France is nothing but a tackled modern ideas of sexuality in a modern Response to the Lisa Lampanelli Article, homosexual crock-pot of Europe, and Americans light.

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