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Gallery TOO Salon Shuts Doors EDITOR’S NOTE 02 19 10 | VOLUME 59 | ISSUE 20 EDITOR IN CHIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS Andy Rees
MANAGING EDITOR Madeleine Villavicencio FEAR AND LOATHING IN HENRIETTA
| [email protected] Right now, the campus is buzzing with talk of semesters and petitions and protests. Facebook groups
COPY EDITOR Michael Conti bemoan 2013 as the end of RIT as we know it (this presupposes that the world will not end in 2012). Alumni | [email protected] and students alike feel betrayed by a man who, until two weeks ago, was by all accounts a well loved NEWS EDITOR Emily Bogle president. | [email protected] I find it absolutely hilarious. LEISURE EDITOR Alex Rogala It’s got everything that makes for great television. A bleak wintry college campus! An evil banjo-wielding | [email protected] president hell-bent on making children and women cry! Secret votes! Protests! Bread riots! Communism! FEATURES EDITOR John Howard The only things we’re missing is a mad Cossack monk and a balding leader of political dissidents, and | [email protected] we’re ready for an RIT Revolution. SPORTS/VIEWS EDITOR Sam McCord Now, I don’t mean to sound callous or insensitive to people’s concerns. I just happen to think this might | [email protected]
ONLINE EDITOR Emily Mohlmann be the funniest way to end my college career. Never would I have imagined that a campus community so
| [email protected] frustrated with itself could suddenly become so passionate about the loss of a calendar that drew so much hatred. It boggles my mind.
WRITERS James Arn, Michael Barbato, Mike The outrage over this transition has been made even better due to Student Government’s supposed Burns, Michael Conti, Daniel T. Mancuso, Sam “secret vote.” McCord, Alex Pagliaro, Alex Rogala, Moe Sedlak, As much as I love to see SG be vilified, they had the best of intentions, which were colored by bad Amanda Szczepanski, Madeleine Villavicencio, execution. I was at that meeting. This is what happened: Following the official vote on what to recommend Chris Zubak-Skees to Destler — which resulted in a majority vote for the quarter system — they decided to hold a straw poll to test “the purity” of the actual vote. Where they screwed up was when they closed the meeting, turned ART off the cameras and kicked my staff reporter out. ART DIRECTOR Kelvin Patterson The poll, which was unanimously for semesters (minus my abstention – I never vote, even when it | [email protected]
SENIOR STAFF DESIGNER Evan Anthony doesn’t count), was done behind closed doors, just ripe for misunderstanding. The results showed this:
STAFF DESIGNERS Cassie Angerosa, Nicholas While Student Government had voted for quarters, effectively representing the “majority” of student Tassone opinion, the senators themselves believed semesters were the best course of action. AD DESIGNER Lisa Barnes Pile on a confusing email from Dr. Destler, the announced implementation of +/- grades, and the PHOTO EDITOR Steve Pfost shitshow that is Week 10, and you’ve got yourself a recipe for a PR nightmare. | [email protected] Just remember this as you’re about to storm the Hermitage: It might be emotionally satisfying right Amy Bonner and Rachel Mosetick wait backstage during a dress rehearsal of NTID Performing Arts rendition of “Sleeping Beauty.” | photograph by Michael Conti STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Jake Hamm now to sign a petition or write nasty things on Facebook, but the decision has been made. No amount of CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Aly Artusio- internet-ing will change that. Glimpse, Rigo Perdomo, Mohamed Sadek STAFF ILLUSTRATOR Nate Peyton NEWS PG. 05 LEISURE PG. 12 SPORTS PG. 22 CONTRIBUTING ILLUSTRATORS Jamie Douglas, Gallery Salon TOO: Out of Business Sing Back September Sky 3 Stars Joanna Eberts
CARTOONIST Jamie Douglas and Ben Rubin Andy Rees Park Point salon shuts its doors. Banjo Bill a Korean popstar? Dan Ringwald, Danielle Furman and Caitlyn EDITOR IN CHIEF Burr are better than you at sports. BUSINESS Staff Council Reviews PUBLICITY MANAGER Erick Davidson President Destler begins plans for RIT’s next The Stereo Bomb, can you dig it? AD MANAGER Alecia Crawford 15 years. VIEWS PG. 13 | [email protected] At Your Leisure Getting Rid of Your Peanut Butter Before the BUSINESS MANAGER Tom Sciotto SG Update Reporter Recommends: Not screwing up. Aliens Come | [email protected] RIT Admins try to quell concerns over Stop buying stuff. PRODUCTION MANAGER Jayadev Alapati semesters. FEATURES PG. 16 | [email protected] Get Your Shit Together Word on the Street ONLINE PRODUCTION MANAGER Viktor Nagornyy RIT/ROC Forecast Sort your life out. What do you collect? | [email protected]
Jamie Douglas and Andy Rees Since when does RIT have an orchestra?
ADVISOR Rudy Pugliese by A Dozen Pianos Later RIT Rings
PRINTING Printing Applications Lab Semester Switch Approved Compulsive hoarding examined. MUSTACHE CRABS!
CONTACT 1.800.970.5406 CARTOON Starting in 2013, quarters will be no more. “We are gathered here today so that you can feel bad about all the things you did last week.” Programming Binge Cover illustration by Nate Peyton
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Park Point hasn’t been nearly as successful as Wilmorite had hoped it would be when it opened some 18 months ago. Now, one
Dear Reporter, of the anchors of Simone Square, the retail centerpiece of Park Point, Gallery Salon TOO, To start off, I’d just like to let you know that of women should be featured or that they are of the things that I feel like Reporter did well, is preparing to close their doors for good. I appreciate the amount of work you put into the only ones with body image issues. All and offer some suggestions for next time. I Reporter on top of your other obligations both women and men suffer from their own forms loved the piece on the senators. It was very scholarly and social. However, I really feel like of body image issues, which all deserve equal eye opening and clever, and more in the vein the February 5 issue (the Body Image Issue) weight and attention. But why is it okay for of what you perhaps were trying to go for by missed its mark. the fit and slim women of RIT to complain of discussing body image at all. Even your piece As a six-foot-tall, size 14 woman with a lack of bust and not for the voluptuous ones on how beauty has changed was interesting, formidable amount of curves to my name, I to complain of too much? Why are the men in as well as the piece on Kyle Travers of RIT can safely say that seeing “body image issue” this issue portrayed in all different forms and Wrestling. I feel like even the main piece printed on any high-circulation publication is allowed to be happy with who they are, but would have been okay with some greater enough to make me pick it up. Unfortunately, no female equivalent appears? I do recognize variety in models. from the get-go, the recent issue of your that there is a certain time constraint to your In the future, though, if tackling such a magazine made me want to weep for the good jobs, and that a weekly magazine as involved deep and wounded issue, scrap the fluff deed that I know you were trying to do. as Reporter may not always have the time to articles on the history of the bathing suit and Your magazine included no articles on health find the “perfect” candidates for the photo the ways people in different countries see versus body image, which is a fundamental accompaniments to an article. However, this beauty. Talk about how to be healthy, not how topic to bring up in any body image discussion. issue treads on such delicate and sensitive much our world likes thin people. Believe me, Weight should not only be discussed in ground that your inattention to these details we all know. Talk about empowering men terms of beauty, but your articles seemed here is not excusable. and women to live in a way that fulfills and to only point to this (very subjective) facet Finally, while you have no control over enriches them. Talk about going to the gym of the discussion at hand, including the this, I was saddened to see the responses of to add years to your life, not take inches from article naming a size-four waist model as the “Word on the Street” piece. Most males your waist. I want to see photographs of six revolutionary to the world of fashion. In fact, responded with some form of desire for a people who each weigh 200 lbs. – you wouldn’t as a former plus size model, I can attest to athletic, tall, sexy, thin, etc. female. Does have to state the exact weight – to show how the fact that plus size models START at size that mean that women who don’t fit these it’s not exactly this horrific number and how twelve or fourteen. This size four model may criteria aren’t worthy of love or attention, or it looks different on different bodies and is not be the ideal for high fashion modeling, aren’t interesting, funny, talented, clever or still beautiful. Be creative. Be humble, not but she would never get a gig walking for incredible in their own ways, or even desired accusative. Avoid labels that lump people into Anna Scholz. I found the article immensely by the males of RIT? It’s sad that even here, categories: no more “fat kid,” “big” or even EVER SINCE IT OPENED in the summer of 2008, Gallery hasn’t received enough business to stay open campus are just starting to find out about us, offensive and limited in scope, even down at this stage in our lives, the stereotypes “skinny.” And finally, show healthy and happy Salon TOO, the sister location of Gallery Salon any longer. To the disappointment of many of which isn’t good since we’ve been here for to the title: “A ‘BIG’ Trend on the Loom?” Is a for future hatred and bigotry against people and unhappy people of all shapes and sizes. and Spa on University Avenue in downtown their happy customers, the doors will close on what, two years?” said Johnston. Having been size four considered “big” now? Why do you who are merely shaped differently is being There is no reason why, as human beings, we Rochester, has been a welcomed bright spot at Saturday, Feb. 27. continually let down by Wilmorite, the staff even have to go there with the language? “Big” formed. I know that there is no way (or sense) can’t learn to look past the shape of someone’s Park Point. It is especially pleasant in the midst of While the poor economy has stopped some has attempted to raise publicity for themselves is not exactly a nice word. Try it on yourself in controlling people’s personal preferences. body to what they have to say or what they are winter when the weather seems to turn the area clients from purchasing some of the more by visiting campus but, according to Johnston, sometime. Stare into the mirror and say, “Your But, I would have liked to see some responses in being. into a cold abyss. From the friendly and helpful expensive hair treatments and spa offerings on they have been asked to leave campus on each butt is big. Your waist is big. Your arms are big.” from males who thought about something Take it from a beautiful girl. staff to the warm and comforting environment, the menu, the true culprit can be found quite a bit of these occasions. Flattered yet? other than a thin, athletic beauty queen as the salon, with its long list of hair care options closer to home than Wall Street or Washington. For those students who have come to rely In addition, while beautiful, the photography the ideal mate. There are many single women Liliya Plotkina and minor spa treatments, has become a retreat According to stylist Terilynn Johnston, “The on Galley Salon TOO’s services, Johnston for this issue was almost an even bigger here who are brilliant and lovely, but would Second Year Advertising & Public Relations for both RIT students and people living in the biggest problem has really been Wilmorite. They recommends the Encore Salon just down the disappointment. Not a single woman featured feel discouraged by the number of this type of surrounding communities. were supposed to promote us and they haven’t. road in Southtown Plaza. For those who wish was plus sized. Not a single one was overtly response in the piece. As stated in 12.11.09’s report: “Is the Park Point There have just been a lot of promises unkept.” to continue patronizing the Gallery Salon curvy. This is NOT to say that only these types In conclusion, I do want to talk about some Honeymoon Over?” many of the nine businesses Unfortunately, Johnston along with her fellow team, the University Avenue location is open to located in Park Point have been having financial co-workers Kera Iwasko and Claire O’Niell will no anyone. Both the University Avenue branch as EDITOR’S NOTE: The models who posed for “Body Issue” responded to an open casting call. No one who applied was omitted from publication. Additional trouble since their opening less than two years longer be a working with the Gallery Salon Team. well as the Gallery Salon at Rivers Run, located letters to the editor that could not be printed due to space constraints may be found at http://reportermag.com/tag/letters-to-the-editor. ago. Until this point, they have all been able to Like most of the businesses at Park Point, half just minutes from campus on Fairwood Drive, Note: Opinions expressed in Letters to the Editor are solely those of the author. Reporter reserves the right to edit submissions on the basis of content, length, grammar, maintain their businesses, although some are of Gallery Salon TOO’s clientele has been RIT will take any gift certificates purchased at or spelling, and style. Letters are not guaranteed publication. Submissions may be printed and reprinted in any medium. Reporter will not run letters that are responding relying on other locations to keep them fiscally students, and of these, nearly all of them have for Gallery Salon TOO. to a letter. Reporter will not publish anonymous letters. afloat. Unfortunately, Gallery Salon TOO just been students living at Park Point. “Students on
4 Letters | 02.19.09 5 STAFF COUNCIL by Daniel T. Mancuso RIT FORECAST ROC FORECAST
Compiled by James Arn THE VISION 2025 PLAN Steene, senior staff specialist of the Department HUMAN RESOURCE CONCERNS ADDRESSED
President William Destler’s next new project of Science, Technology, and Society/Public Poli- The performance appraisal process is undergo- ROCK THE BOAT SONGWRITERS OPEN MIC FRIDAY will be The Vision 2025 Plan, which is a campus- cy commented, “the ability to opt in or opt out ing extensive scrutiny. In accordance to having SDC 1300 and 1310. 8 - 11:45 p.m. This event is the Equal Grounds Coffee House. 750 South Ave. 9 - 11 p.m. 19
wide effort with the main goals of uncovering with the wiki is beneficial to the public from the the appraisals completed, Human Resources FRIDAY annual Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority fundraising dance. Whether you’re an aspiring songwriter – if you are, what and articulating his concepts and initiatives of standpoint that anyone can add to it, yet it’s bad, also wants to assure that RIT employees and 19 All money raised is split evenly between the Children’s are you doing at RIT? – or just want to hear some new, through the year 2025. With extensive planning because there could be the same idea being devel- staff realize that the reports do not affect their Medical Hospital in Dallas, Texas and the American fresh sound, this open mic is the place for you. Cost: Free. still required, the project would be comprised of oped by multiple people.” pay. The main goal of the performance appraisal Cancer Society. Go have a great time and save the a multistep process that everyone involved with process is to provide a report for all permanent children! Cost: $3 (students), $5 (others).
RIT has the opportunity to participate in. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: THE VOTES ARE IN employees, which has been a slight issue in the FASHIONING KIMONO: ART DECO AND MODERNISM IN JAPAN SATURDAY The roots of the task will be based upon Votes were cast via ballot to fill an empty position past. They are considering developing an online Memorial Art Gallery. 500 University Ave. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. 20 RIT’s Six Pillars: Creativity, Renovated Career- on the Executive Committee. The candidates run- communication tool as part of the process to en- RIT ORCHESTRA: “WINTER HEROICS” Everyone loves Japan, and here’s your chance to learn Focused Teaching, and Respected Research and ning to fill the position were Professional Advisor sure that every employee has access to it. SATURDAY Ingle Auditorium. 1 – 3:15 p.m. Go listen to the soothing something about the art and history of Kimono making. Scholarship. As Lisa Cauda, Vice President of Jayne Downes and Molly Johnson of Budget and In addition to the appraisal process, HR feels 20 sounds of the RIT Orchestra performing winter themed Cost: $5 (student with ID), $10 general admission. Development and Alumni Relations said, “the Financial Planning. Omar Phillips, Information that its employees are not familiar enough with music by heavy hitting composers from Beethoven to basis for this project is to promote innovativeness and Technology Services representative, an- the HR Department itself. As a result, an open John Williams. Cost: Expanding your musical horizons. and ideas, [that can be] developed upon for the nounced Johnson as the winner after the votes house event is being planned within the next COMEDY OPEN MIC SUNDAY future.” were tallied. few months so that permanent employees can Equal Grounds Coffee House. 750 South Ave. 9 - 11 p.m. 21 The Vision 2025 Plan is currently undergoing Those representatives who serve on the Staff become more familiar with the department’s MOONDANCE Think you got what it takes to break the ice? It’s time to some amendments and will soon be open to the Council Executive Committee make up eight function and capabilities. lovin’ cup. 7 - 9 p.m. Experience one of the few rock the mic, comedy style. Cost: Free. SUNDAY RIT community. The council discussed creating out of the 11 Staff Council seats in the Institute “interactive” jazz shows around with the gang from a wiki that is open to anyone campus. There was Council. During Staff Council meetings, Executive 21 Moondance. They’ll be playing all your jazz favorites and some hesitation that this feature may be abused Committee members set the meetings’ agenda even taking your requests. Come out and relax on your since it is open to anyone’s postings. As Debbie and serve as liaisons to standing committees. last free night before finals start. Cost: Stress relief. POLE DANCING FOR FITNESS MONDAY Goddess Hour Dance and Fitness Studio. 1470 Monroe 22 Ave. 8:15 – 9 p.m. It’s Monday night and you’ve been in STUDY TIME SG UPDATE by Mike Burns exams for hours. Get out and move while learning that
MONDAY Wallace Library. 7:00a.m. - 3 a.m. It’s the first day of finals all-important skill, pole dancing. Gents, you may want to week, and we both know you haven’t kept up on all that sit this one out. Cost: $12. DESTLER ON THE SEMESTER DEBACLE more comfortable with the decision. She stated pool of funds separate from the other clubs. This 22 learning. Take finals week by storm by taking some time Due to rising concern regarding the quarter to se- that although there is a loss involved in change, concept has proved effective and is based on a to cram for that exam. Cost: Passing your finals. mester switch, President William Destler attended the pros will outweigh the cons in this situation. model used by Virginia Tech and 15 other schools. PIA MATER TUESDAY Student Government in order to observe and field In order to guarantee an informed student body The implementation of this system would call Dub Land Underground. 315 Alexander St. 8 p.m. Your Pia 23 any questions. When questioned about his take on and a smooth transition, there will be widespread for the formation of a new review board, the Com- OPEN MIC NIGHT Mater is the outer most layer of membranes surrounding student concern which can be shown by the rising advertisement for the change as the date draws petitive Sports Club Federation, in order to dis- lovin’cup. 8:30 p.m. - 12 a.m. There are some talented the brain and spinal cord. This five-man group from TUESDAY number of Facebook groups supporting the quar- nearer. cuss relevant issues such as hazing and budgets. folks around the RIT campus. Come see what they have Rochester will surely get yours tingling. (18+) ter system, Destler said, “[I am] very concerned Competitive sports clubs would still be handled 23 to offer at the lovin’cup. From musicians to standup to with student reactions, and I fully understand the COMPETITIVE SPORTS CLUBS separately from varsity sports. storytelling, you never know what you’ll get, but it’s double-sided nature of this issue.” He stressed that In a presentation given by Kaity Werner, a third guaranteed to be good. Cost: Free. WEDNESDAY extensive measures would be taken to ensure that year Marketing major and director of Organi- SWIPE TO WASH “THE PRICE” the transfer process goes as smoothly as possible zational Recognition for SG, and Alvin Roberts, In order to cut down on the amount of resources Geva Theatre Center Main Stage. 75 Woodward Blvd. 9 - 24 for all involved parties. graduate assistant for club sports, the guidelines used by students when washing, a proposal PACK FOR BREAK 11 p.m. Take a break in the middle of the week to visit the
Furthermore, Destler stated that the decision for competitive sports clubs were outlined. In a surfaced calling for a card based washing system. WEDNESDAY Your room. 7 - 10 p.m. If you’re already off for break, I theater. Written by Arthur Miller, the man who brought was made based upon what would be best for RIT joint effort by SG, the Center for Campus Life and Students would be required to swipe in order to hope you feel my searing jealousy; otherwise, it’s time us “Death of a Salesman” and “The Crucible,” “The Price” in the long term and not immediate convenience the Center for Intercollegiate Athletics and Recre- wash and dry their clothing. A set number of uses 24 for you to start packing. That is unless you’re planning on is sure to please. Cost: $22 - $59. or a financial conspiracy. Destler affirmed that ation, the guidelines have been drafted to more per week would be allocated for student use. The spending time at that nudist colony. Cost: Remembering studies have been done in other schools that have effectively govern the amount of money spent by number may change depending on sports activity. where you stashed that suitcase. undergone this same quarter-to-semester change sports clubs. Laundry service would still be free.
— such as Northeastern University — in order to Currently, sports clubs spend more than other NAZARETH FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS: “INCH ALLAH DIMANCHE” THURSDAY determine the best way to communicate the pro- clubs, creating an imbalance. Under the new stip- FINDING AND APPLYING FOR SUMMER 2010 – PART TWO La Maison Française, Nazareth College Campus. 4254 East
THURSDAY 25 cess to the students, both current and incoming. ulations, there would be a cap at 17 competitive Building 77. A190 4 - 5p.m. Your winter quarter is just Ave. 9 - 11 p.m. Celebrate the imminent end of winter Mary Beth Cooper, vice president for Student sports clubs, leaving room for growth from the about over, which means it’s time to start looking for that quarter with this entry in the French Film Festival. Cost: Affairs, further explained that there is a need to current 15 proposed clubs. Through the Competi- 25 summer co-op. Cost: Realizing that you won’t be having Squinting at subtitles. educate people on the process so that become tive Sports Club model, these clubs would have a as much fun this summer as you thought.
6 News | 02.19.10 7 SEMESTER SWITCH APPROVED by Emily Bogle | illustration by Joanna Eberts PROGRAMMING BINGE On Feb. 10, President William // FOR ( VAR HAITI:CRISIS = 0; HAITI < 100; HAITI++ ) Destler made the announcement that will change the core of the RIT curriculum. Starting fall of 2013, RIT will be among the INCE THE earthquake in Haiti, The first of provide a database for the Haiti many people have organized which was Schools Situational Awareness majority of higher education events to aid disaster relief in SAHANAPy, group. This is an online database their own special way. an online that characterizes the latitude institutions adhering to the “...to expand S coordination and longitude of all the schools the institute’s semester system. system to in Haiti and includes a damage possibilities by On February 12, a group of organize relief which lists missing report. “I wanted to get involved That very same day, every RIT instilling the computer programmers came people and manages donated in any way I could help,” said student received an email via the together in support of Haiti relief. resources. The aim of this project Alexander Dean, a project RIT Message Center explaining the semester system The event, dubbed the Crisis is to convert the not so robust volunteer and second year change and outlining how it will rather than being Camp Rochester Hackathon for PHP: Hypertext Processor version Computer Science major. take place. Destler emphasized confined by the Haiti, was organized by Victoria of SAHANAPy to the more robust The RIT Crisis Camp Hackathon that the decision was difficult and Destler stated, “This calendar Kranchunas, a first year Game programming language, Python. for Haiti was just one installment took into account student, faculty ensures that there will be no loss of ‘increasingly Design and Development major. “The bugs in this project are pretty of a continuing effort around the and staff input. Destler stated rigor in RIT’s academic programs, isolated’ The technology based relief big because there are a lot of United States; therefore, all of the that he wanted to expand the as it provides for 30 weeks of to that schedule. However, not all effort at RIT was inspired by a dependencies in Python,” said work done by RIT volunteers will quarter system.” institute’s possibilities by instilling instruction during the academic potential employers were satisfied; Computer Science House alumni Bryan Goldstein a second year be continued by another group in the semester system rather than year, the same as is currently one alum and co-op employer did - William Destler who participated in a Haiti Computer Science major and a completely different city. Crisis being confined by the “increasingly offered under the quarter system.” call into the Dr. Destler Show on programming effort in Boston. programmer in the relief effort. efforts like this will ensure the isolated” quarter system. With this switch, RIT will be WITR expressing that his company want to stick with quarters. Around The Crisis Camp Rochester The second project involves most relevant data is placed into Benefits with semesters include utilizing the five-by-three credit prefers to hire students enrolled two-thirds of the 3,700 students Hackathon for Haiti was a one gathering information on relief the relief databases and prevent improved compatibility with other model, wherein students will in schools on the quarter system who replied to the online calendar day event where more than 15 organizations. “It is necessary any serious bugs from hampering schools. Students will be able to ideally take five three-credit classes because they are more flexible survey stated that they would students volunteered their time busy work,” said Michael Finegan future volunteer efforts. take classes at the University of each 15-week semester. Although a throughout the entire year. prefer a quarter system. Student and programming skills in the a graduate student in Computer More can be found on the Innovation Rochester or Eastman School of few faculty members recommended With all of these changes, Destler Government also had a majority B. Thomas Golisano College of Science. They compiled a Center’s blog at http://innovation.rit. Music with fewer obstacles. The a four-by-four credit model, wherein emphasizes that he will do all he vote which reflected the same Computing and Information database of contact information edu key word Remy DeCausemaker, number of study and work abroad students would take four four-credit can to refrain from increasing fees sentiment, yet Destler decided to go Sciences to give aid to those such as Twitter accounts, emails who is a RIT Innovation Fellow and opportunities will increase since classes each semester, Destler was with the shift. “We must ensure with semesters, stating that he was impacted in the recent Haiti addresses and phone numbers resident Hacktivist. most schools abroad are also on the concerned about the lack of “variety that no student suffers any loss of fully aware that this would not be a quake. Hackathons like this are for all the relief semester system. and diversity” in that type of progress toward a degree during uniformly popular decision with RIT held on different days each week organizations. This The winter break will be structure. Not every class, however, the transition; that no student’s stakeholders (students, faculty, staff, around the country to solve some database lets everyone by MICHAEL BARBATO significantly changed. There would will be worth three credits; year graduation will be delayed as we alumni and others connected to the of the technological problems know who is giving aid, be at least a four week break at the long, introduction classes will likely make the change from quarters institute). in Haiti. RIT volunteers tackled where and to end of the semester rather than a be worth four credits, as they are to semesters … As part of the RIT will continue to be a teaching three separate computer and what extent. two week break after every quarter. the necessary building blocks of transition process, every student on school that values the students information based projects. The final project is to During this time, mini-semesters certain degrees. campus will be personally advised above research. The primary may be offered to allow students to Co-op requirements will need to to ensure that this principle is reason for the switch is to improve take intensive classes during the be redesigned, but it will prove to upheld in every case,” he said. graduation and retention rates at break or to catch up on classes. be somewhat more advantageous Student reactions have been RIT as well as maintain the quality One of the issues raised by the for students because most less than positive to this change. of education. “My responsibility is calendar change was whether the employers hire other students A few people called to ask Destler ultimately to try to look into the classes would be as academically from semester schools, and their why he made this change when future and try to see what is the challenging. To address this, programs tend to be more tailored student opinion reflected that they best for [the Institute].”
8 News | 0202.19.10.19.10 9 FOLK IN ITHACA This brisk opening is followed by “Go Jump In The River,” a tongue-in- SING BACK SEPTEMBER SKY: cheek hate song that the liner notes describe as his first kept song. Say “I vaguely remember arriving in Ithaca, N.Y., in 1968, with a suitcase in the notes: “…because a few people liked it (all of whom instantly became DESTLER’S 1973 FOLK RECORD RESURFACES one hand and an old beat-up-hard-to-play Framus guitar in the other my best friends) I started to write songs on a more or less regular basis.” thinking for sure that the only reason I wasn’t famous was because I was Destler wrote all but 2 of the 12 songs on the album. by Chris Zubak-Skees | illustration by Jamie Douglas too modest to allow myself to be discovered,” reads the opening to the Popular music at the time also lent its feel to Destler’s compositions. album’s liner notes, signed by Destler. “Back in those days, that was really the time when James Taylor first As he was browsing through an expanse of old country music at the begun to discover it. “September Sky” harkens back to the 1970s, a time While in Ithaca, Destler would pursue a doctorate in Applied and came onto the scene,” he says. “He was a great influence on an awful lot Record Archive on Rockwood Street, a familiar name caught the eye of of social activism and burnt draft cards – a time when peace, love and Engineering Physics at Cornell, which he obtained in 1972, some four years of people who played, including me, and so there’s a fair amount of his Robert Bredvad, a third year Advertising Photography major. “I thought rock-and-roll reigned supreme. Largely a relic of its time, it captures the later. When he wasn’t studying during that period, Destler says, he was influence in what I wrote during those days.” someone had the same name,” he said, but on the cover grinned an then 26-year-old Destler, a grad student who would someday become RIT’s playing music. “It was also a period of some social consciousness, and so there’s at least unmistakably younger Bill Destler. Bredvad had stumbled upon a tattered banjo-toting president. Ron Rutowski, a fellow Cornell graduate student and now a professor at one song on there that had to do with a friend of mine who went to Canada and worn copy of now-President William Destler’s 1973 LP “September Sky.” Bredvad, who could hardly believe his find, bought the album for three Arizona State University, plays guitar with Destler on most of the album. rather than going into the military in the Vietnam War,” Destler says. Public knowledge of Destler’s album is not new; Destler discussed dollars and tax. His Jan. 11 tweet of the album cover, and other posts, “Ithaca, I believe during the 1960s in particular, developed a very vibrant That song, a somber, slow-paced tune called “Pack The Flag Away,” is it in a local newspaper article last year, but many students have only brought to attention an artifact from some 37 years ago. folk music scene and this folk music scene persisted into the 1970s,” says about the brother of one of Destler’s grad student roommates. The lyrics Rutowksi. Folk, traditional, and bluegrass were the sounds of 1970s Ithaca. discuss the separation the brothers experienced: “There was, in particular, a place on campus,” says Rutowski. “It was in one of the law school buildings. It was called Anabel Taylor Hall, and in Be gone today brother. that building there was sort of a stone walled and floored foyer that had a very high domed ceiling, and the acoustics in there were really astounding They won’t let me stay sister. and a lot of folk musicians used to go into that place and just sit there and play.” He and Destler met through connections formed there and at jam Have to go my way mother, sessions within the Ithaca folk scene. Rutowski recalls Phil Shapiro’s still-running folk radio program though I hate to go. “Bound for Glory” as a key part of that community. In 1973, Shapiro approached Destler to make the album for a newly created label called Hate me if you will lover, Swallowtail Records. “The circumstance on this album, it wasn’t done in a studio. It was done but I cannot kill another. in the living room of somebody’s house,” says Rutowski. The house, out in the country, was isolated from the interfering noise of the city. “He Won’t let them steal my brother [Shapiro] had set up microphones and a tape recorder, and we went over there,” says Rutowski. without the final note. After agreeing on some musical arrangements, the pair recorded the album over about two days. “A fair amount of the album is just love songs of various kinds,” says Destler. MUSIC AND LYRICS BY DESTLER BIG IN KOREA The album is mainly an acoustic affair, marked by Destler’s trademark croon. Layered guitars add a warm, vibrant feel to the music. The Destler doesn’t think many copies of the vinyl album were made. production is tight and straightforward, simplistic by modern standards. Most internet references to the album are from overseas and, in Two melodic standouts are “Septembersong” and “Go Jump In A particular, Asia. River.” The former, catchy in tune and lyrics, starts the album with a “It is interesting, maybe this stuff all comes around at some point, about tale of reunion: a year ago I got contacted by somebody from Korea interested in reissuing the record,” says Destler. “Who would have thought I’d be a popular artist Sing back September sky in Korea?” Does he think he is? “No,” says Destler with a laugh. “I have fond memories of that period, but I will say that it, to some there’s only you and I. extent, sort of feels like a picture of you when you were very young,” says Destler. “You know, you go home and your parents show your friends Yesterday she called to say she’s free. the pictures of you when you were a baby, and you sort of feel like this was an awful long time ago, and to have it sort of resurface is kind of, Tired of being alone, I find it, amusing.” she’s on the road back home and Lord it’s time you had a song for me.
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ALBUM | MASHUP | 42 MINUTES THE STEREO BOMB– e ven fe wer a r e from a recent year’s Top 100. A few rough tran- STREAM OF FACTS NOW HEAR THIS obsessive enough sitions here and there are also quite noticeable. t o a c t u a l l y g o Normally, it wouldn’t bother me, but recently The Salisbury Cathedral, located in Salisbury, through the effort MCs are doing incredible things with obscure England, is home to Europe’s oldest CLOCK.
of manipulating beats, bringing more of a sense of identity at- The Doomsday CLOCK is a symbolic clock created AND JAMIE DOUGLAS It’s always good to hear about a home- and mixing these tached to the artist, and that feels lost here. by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in 1947. It town hero winning one for the team tunes to create new As far as debut albums go, “Now Hear This” estimates how close the world is to destruction
— a talented Tiger proving that we’re meta-music. Such shows a lot of promise and incredible potential. by how many minutes there are to midnight. As RUBIN BEN
not just a bunch of pocket-protector sporting is the art of the mash up and what Girl Talk — I The duo of Bambara and Kecskemety have an of Jan. 10, the clock is at 6 minutes to MIDNIGHT. BY
stereotypes and that a few of us have creative mean The Stereo Bomb — does so well. undeniable talent for mashing, but they could The phrase “Burning the MIDNIGHT oil”, which capacity beyond our staged Halo 3 Multiplayer Did I listen to, thoroughly enjoy, and appreci- benefit from some eclecticism – if not only to means working late into the night, has its screenshots. Granted, fourth year Game Design ate this album? Absolutely. Was I captivated by differentiate them from Girl Talk. Speaking of, origins in the oil needed to POWER oil lamps. and Development major, Brad Bambara, and his its original vision and the innovation brought if you’re a fan, hit up http://thestereobomb.com, The human brain has modest POWER partner in crime Brian Kecskemety are nerds, to the home brew mash up genre? Not quite. but if not, you can stand to wait for a later, more requirements, using roughly 14 watts while in
but they’re on a much higher plane of nerd-dom Don’t get me wrong, I audio-gasmed long and focused release. deep THOUGHT. CARTOON than the rest of us are; one that may actually hard when on Bon Jovi’s “We Got It Going On” Originally THOUGHT to have been left by Tony get them laid. and Tom Petty’s “Free Falling” met Snoop Dogg’s Recommended for fans of Girl Talk and DJ Shadow Blair, doodles found at a desk at a 2005 economic 5 4 1 8 The secret to their success? A special phylum “Drop it Like It’s Hot” and Ace of Base’s “I Saw summit sparked speculation about the inner QUOTE: 2 8 1 3 of nerd-dom: music. A lot of us enjoy music, but the Sign.” Everyone in the room complemented thoughts of the former British Prime Minister. few are obsessive enough to appreciate a wide the skillful pairing of Eiffel 65 and Sean Kings- Eager gossipers were later disappointed when “THE WORLD IS LIKE A RIDE 1 5 2 range of genres and styles and notice simi- ton, but when Taylor Swift came on, it slowly the sketches turned out to be the product of AT AN AMUSEMENT PARK, 1 4 3 9 2 lar patterns and themes between them. And became evident that virtually every sample is BY SAM MCCORD computer-whiz Bill GATES. AND WHEN YOU CHOOSE The Piper at the GATES of Dawn, the 1967 debut TO GO ON IT, YOU THINK 8 2 3 4 by British rockers Pink Floyd was a watershed IT’S REAL BECAUSE THAT’S 9 4 5 7 2 8
HOW POWERFUL OUR Difficulty Rating: Easy release in the genre of psychedelic rock. Far 3 6 1 7 5 4 different from the band’s later works, the album MINDS ARE.” - Bill Hicks was notable for the inclusion of works by then- 2 9 8 4 frontman Syd Barrett, who was fired from the 5 7 2 9 band as a result of SCHIZOPHRENIC behavior. REPORTER SUDOKU SCHIZOPHRENIC ALBUM | INDIETRONICA | 49 MINUTES people are more likely to RECOMMENDS: ONE LIFE STAND– is very easy to get With this in mind, it seems like the band has be smokers than others, according to the NOT FAILING ALL YOUR CLASSES HOT CHIP into. taken a step in the right direction. They have National Institute on Drug Abuse. Roughly 80 So Week 10 came and reared its ugly head, WORD OF THE WEEK Having thor - opened up their lyrical style, including more percent of schizophrenics smoke, compared and you can’t wait to be done classes. oug hly enjoyed real emotion then ever before. While managing to 20 PERCENT of the normal population. However, there lies a nefarious enemy HABERDASHER the experience, I to maintain their electronic roots, they have The PERCENT sign has its origins in the Italian between you and your much-coveted n. a dealer in men’s clothing and accessories. As a first time Hot Chip listener, I went sought out some still sought out a fresh personality that has phrase “per cento”, meaning “for a hundred.” spring (February) break — finals. So close The HABERDASHER offered a wide array of silly into this album with zero expectations. o f H o t C h i p ’ s been fleshed out with mainstream style. The The shape itself grew out of a P over the word to freedom, yet so far. Yet the light is at the hats and bowties in his store. Hype has been growing for this band, earlier tunes for combination of style across tracks should help cento, as all but the “o” were eventually dropped. end of the tunnel. Hang in there soldier, and with their latest album release a few more perspective. them maintain their fan base while attracting a Reporter salutes you. Definition taken from http://merriam-webster.com. weeks ago, I decided it was time to find This being their whole new segment that is sure to love the new out just how much of the hype was warranted. fourth album, I had plenty to choose from and sound. Hopefully, they will continue along this From an unbiased perspective, this album, opted for their next most recent album, “Made new path. If “One Life Stand” is any indication, “This is a little “French people Four guys around “One Life Stand” is a synth-pop treat filled with in the Dark.” Expecting more of the same. I was it is sure to serve them well. OVERSEEN & awkward. I don’t talk like raptors.” computer in GLBT lush lyrics and lofty instrumentals. Imagine a disappointed to find an inconsistent collection want to catch what -Male student in Cross- office looking at mashup of the Flaming Lips and MGMT after littered with rough tracks that had none of the OVERHEARD she has.” roads porn. a few songwriting lessons from Coldplay and polish of “One Life Stand.” It lacked the lyrical -Male student outside you’ll start to get the idea. It is an extremely softness and pop feel that had made its succes- Building 7A Photo on Right: upbeat but mellow and thoughtful album that sor so successful. BY ALEX PAGLIARO Sweet Park-Job
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14 Leisure | 02.19.10 15 get your shit
togetherby Emily Mohlmann and John Howard | Illustration by Nate Peyton
Clusterfuck. That’s one way to describe it. The According to Sifu Austin Baddeley, an adjunct amount of stress in your life has become so professor at RIT’s Center for Intercollegiate outrageous you’ve started making bets with Athletics & Recreation, the mental process upon floormates on who’s going to have the first panic encountering the mountain lion is the same as attack. Cancerous piles of paper and clothes when you run into a professor that you owe an swell as you turn your nose to the symptoms of overdue assignment to. It’s stress, and on a more their presence. Even your schedule is weak; a $1 biological level, a survival technique. Walmart organizer that’s collected more dust than “Whether it is a physical, mental or emotional appointments controls it. This is your life. stressor that is affecting the person, the Stress, mess and difficult schedules are the chemical response is what’s called fight or flight,” chaos that comes hand-in-hand with college said Baddeley. living. Your life absorbs clutter like a fat kid absorbs Baddeley, or Sifu for short, is the head of the kung carbohydrates. But there is good news: people do fu program at RIT. He has been at RIT since 1991, survive this madness of academia with only minor transitioning right from being a student to being psychological damage. And no, we’re not going to a professor. Among the other classes he instructs, throw any of that “a clean room is a happy room” including self-defense and a massage therapy nonsense at you. What with Facebook, Twitter, and program that he is the assistant to, Baddeley teaches spam email you get quite enough thrown at you a wellness course in stress management. already. You have to come and get this. He describes stress as the body’s natural reaction to outside influences that causes pressure. For students, the greatest pressure comes from academic The Mind stress, the pressure put on yourself and the perceived While on vacation in California over spring break, you pressure of family and friends to achieve success. go for a hike on a small mountain. The heat overtakes Social stress, especially with first year students your body, and you decide to cool off in a passing transitioning to college life, also plays a role in this stream. As you splash water in your face, the sound overall pressure. of the raging rapids scream over the rest of nature’s “Stress is a very much an individual, or unique musical score. But when you turn to leave, a mountain response to everyone,” said Baddeley. “[You lion blocking your path back to civilization. Its teeth shouldn’t] subscribe to the 12 step, buy these bared, you quickly scan through the past four season’s DVD’s you’ll be stress free … Find something that of “Man vs. Wild” to figure out your next step. works for you.”
16 Features | 02.19.10 Baddeley presents a variety of stress relieving “Humans like to be in social groups,” Baddeley zone has a different function and it is important The problem of organization stems from the fact I’ve been gaming, or on Facebook, or texting,” said organizer, similar to Goldberg’s suggestion, is a activities to his class that may or may not help said. “When they feel a part of something, they to consider what you need to access while using that, for most students, college is the first time French, impersonating a common complaint of her color-coded system that marks all assignments for them. Students are presented with breathing feel comfort from it, and if you’re stressed, in each space. away from their parents. A lot of the tasks they students. an entire quarter based on the syllabi you receive at techniques and relaxation exercises. In a dim-lit comfort in any way is a great thing.” She recalled one student that didn’t use must think about are new to them, like planning “People who are procrastinating… they’re going the beginning from your instructors. You can make room, the class sits back absorbed by meditation drawers or a closet. If this student couldn’t meals and even doing laundry. to find anything to procrastinate with,” said multiple copies of the grid and hang it where you music, while four-count breathing; in deep The Space see something it didn’t exist to him. In this “There are messy people, and there are truly French. “Whatever it is that seems more interesting can see it, however, French recommends a physical through the nose (one), hold (two), out through Around You particular case, in order to open up the living disorganized people,” said Goldberg. or less threatening than what they need to be planner or agenda to carry around at all times for the mouth (three), hold (four). space of the dorm room, Goldberg turned the For messy people, there’s good news. They know doing.” specifics on short-term projects. Both the weekly Students are also introduced to things like Tai Part of what’s stressing you out might very desk around and put it up against that closet to how to be organized. It’s an instinctual sense To French it’s easy to blame technology for planner sheet and the quarter grid print outs are chi to release stress in joints, and the eastern well be your drawer that’s so full it won’t offer an additional wall to the room and close that they’ve obtained from being taught by their students’ procrastinate, but procrastination is available at ASC’s website (http://rit.edu/asc). way of thinking native to countries like India, close, the stack of papers on your desk that off the access to the drawers. Clear shoe bags, parents or siblings. The obstacle is only a matter rooted in a psychological base; the fear of failure “It does take some time upfront, but forming China and Japan. He contrasts the eastern idea take flight every time you walk pass, or the each with 24 compartments were then hung to of self-determination. For students who were and the fear of success. Other not-so-obvious time these habits is really going to save a lot of time, of taking ownership for one’s actions, with the stock pile of dirty laundry that starting to for items like belts and underwear. Color coded not exposed to tasks like how to maintain their wasters include things like studying in groups and it’s going to save on the stress and anxiety mentality of the United States, passing the reach for air from underneath your bed. hampers used for laundry, the clean clothes clothing, food and living space by growing up, they where, although everyone is having a good time, piece too,” said French. “It’s never too late to start bucket and an imaginary “basket” where chores For college students, organization is a residing in the white hamper and the dirty have to start for the beginning and learn the basics. one hour’s worth of work becomes four because of and work on some of these things.” go when we put them off. The basket, once full, category often shoved aside to make room clothes in the black hamper. A shelf above his socialization. To overcome these obstacles takes The ASC offers a one-hour workshop on time can itself become a stressor. for all-nighter study sessions and microwave bed acted as a grooming station. Your Time self-discipline. management and study skills every Tuesday To Baddeley stress can be broken down food. But keeping things neat and tidy can “It doesn’t mean that it’s perfect on a daily Goldberg’s work extends from space management In order to remove distraction, it is important during the regular quarter and some wildly into three categories: physical, mental and be beneficial to your success at school, basis,” said Goldberg. “You try to categorize into the subject of time management, as the to find your ideal study space. Even if working on popular tutoring sessions that are open to the emotional. After breaking down the category especially for students living in the close things and put them together.” two are often related. For her, color coded grids your bed with Iron Maiden blaring is where you’re public during finals week. This quarter’s finals of “stress,” he illustrates the importance of quarters of dorm life. And let’s face it, the Designating areas where things belong creates according to class title are a good way of visually most comfortable, it isn’t exactly the place you’re tutoring session are in the Bates Study Center (08- identifying where stress is coming from. This magic clean up fairy that you be praying to a structure to your room and eliminates the seeing the tasks at hand and it is important to keep most productive. And no, this doesn’t mean having 1200) from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, is accomplished by keeping a stress journal come to take out your trash and fold your need for picking up every day. While deciding in mind that 16 credit hours equals 38 study hours to work in the library all the time. The goal is to and Wednesday; and on Thursday from 9 a.m. and looking for patterns. Lists of assignments sweaters ain’t showing up. You’re going to where things go, it’s important to remember when planning ahead with your schedule. not be distracted. to 3 p.m. For tutoring action on the dorm side of and obligations in the form of PDAs, planners; have to take action. vertical space to increase your floor area. Wall Paula French, a study skills instructor and coach “If you’re someone that requires busy noise and campus visit the Sol Study Center (47-1016) on immersing yourself in a creative activity, such Donna Goldberg, founder of The Organized putty and hooks that don’t leave marks can at the Academic Support Center, has a particularly you don’t like the silence, find a coffee shop or a Monday and Tuesday from 7p.m. to 10 p.m. Visit as reading, drawing, or even playing video Student, which is a firm based in New York be very useful for students in dorms. Once strong grasp on how RIT students spend their time. cafeteria,” said French. http://rit.edu/asc for more details. games; or simply “taking five” from something City, has seen it all. Getting involved in the you have a place for all you stuff, Goldberg She describes time management in terms of three When creating a schedule it is important to So there it is. Take a moment to absorb it all. It you’re working on all can reduce this stress. organization field when she found a series of recommends organizing every Sunday. This categories: self-management, organization, and keep in mind when and where you are losing may seem like a lot, but baby steps… baby steps. If stress persists, Baddeley encourages assig nments that not only allows you to feel time management tools. time. To identify these slots, keep an hourly log of These aren’t changes you have to make overnight. students to seek help at the variety of her son, Noah, had prepared for the week to “168,” French proclaimed before I could even everything you do from wake up time to lights out. The more you implement them, the better resources RIT has to offer. Things like the completed and lost “People who are come, it can help you catch finish my question. She was referring to number Having a layout in front of you will help reorganize you’ll get at maintaining an organized lifestyle. Acadmeic Support Center, Financial Aid i n h i s s c a t t e r e d any task or assignment you of hours in a week, a number that all students your day-to-day. This includes important, but not Encourage yourself along the way. Blow a train Office, the Woman’s Center, and the Smoking room that she and procrastinating... may have forgotten about should have in mind in order to maximize their necessarily obvious tasks like cooking, grocery whistle like Michael Scott; whatever it takes. It Cessation program that offers many of its her son’s teacher they’re going to while cleaning up. productivity. To French, if it doesn’t feel like work, shopping, sleeping, and travel to and from school. only takes three weeks to form a habit; that’s only resources and products for free to students h a d a s s u m e d For students suffocating it probably isn’t productive. In terms of big-picture planning, French suggests 21 days. Invest in yourself and start some good trying to quit. When students are feeling h e h a d n’ t d o n e . find anything to in papers on their desk, “I have a project, I sit down to do it, and three a quarter grid, or a quarter-at-a-glance sheet. This habits today. overwhelmed, they are encouraged to seek T h r o u g h o u t h e r Goldberg recommends a hours later, five hours, six hours, … I recognize that help at the Counseling Center, which has a career, Goldberg has procrastinate with,” desktop file box, available at 24-hour hotline (585.295.3533). or g a n i ze d ju n ior Office Depot (item number Along with these techniques, however, high up to the graduate students and even 169664). Here you can store and organize Eustress = good stress; the force that Steps to Manage Your Time: causes Baddeley emphasizes the importance of some executives and professionals. And like everything for an entire year of school by folder; a 1. Identify a system that keeps your materials organized. Maintain it. you to achieve. getting active to avoid loneliness. Activities stress management, Goldberg spotlights the folder should be assigned for each class you take, 2. Don’t rely on your “memory.” Use a planner. = bad stress. like club sports or outing club can be physically importance of what will benefit each particular as well as each aspect of your personal life, be it Distress 3. Plan ahead. Identify your “crazy” weeks and avoid getting swamped. Steps to reduce stress: beneficial, but also mentally and emotionally individual she is working with. resumes, bills, prescriptions or banking. Goldberg 4. Structure your time! Schedule study hours and free time. • Write schedule. relieving. Sports, clubs and organizations join “It’s really important to structure your dorm also stressed the importance of a physical sheet • Identify stressor. 5. Break projects into manageable chunks. Set mini due dates. students with common interests and gets them room in the way that you work,” Goldberg said. of paper, rather than having handouts “stored” • Take advantage of RIT: Become aware of 6. Consider your long and short term goals. Write them down! talking in a social setting, and any activity, be “It functions as a sleeping area; you entertain, online in places like MyCourses. As an additional what RIT has to offer in terms of classes and 7. Reward your positive time management and study behaviors. departments. it going to the gym, taking a wellness class, or work, as well as groom in that area.” reminder, students can leave the handouts of 8. Identify your ideal study environment, free of distractions. joining the Game Developers club, falls under Goldberg recommends thinking of your important assignments sticking up from their 9. Keep tabs on your motivation. Consider how you can control or change your attitude toward this category. personal living space in terms of zones. Each folder as a visual aid. Keeping it together: your academics. • Categorize. 10. Evaluate your time management system. Finding the tools that work for you may take time. • Structure what works for you. • Maintain.
18 Features | 02.19.10 19 A DOZEN PIANOS
Compulsive Hoarding hoarders. Embarrassment is a common effect wine bottles that sometimes give people the an engagement ring. Many psychologists turn LATER of the disorder. Most become embarrassed to wrong impression about her. “I don’t even really the blame on modeling and genetics like Randy have friends over, especially their children’s like wine. Only a few of them were even mine.” Frost of Smith College. The actual technical by Michael Barbato | photographs by Aly Artusio-Glimpse friends. In some cases, hoarders fill every nook Ryan believes her hoarding nature has a working of it may be emotional or the inability and cranny of their houses to the point where familial origin. Her mother and grandmother to make a decision. Sufferers may simply not be Piles of dung, urine, sticks, and other garbage resembled Roman columns, to a half-built car, to at least a dozen pianos. For their they can no longer open doors to rooms, use were both considered hoarders. Small able to decide whether to throw an item away dimple the landscape of the Southeast United States. These syndrome, they paid the ultimate price. After a tremendous, multistory avalanche their bed, or reach the sink. Their ability to keep mountains of books piled clutter the corners or simply keep it, just in case they need it again. heaps of refuse are the country homes of nature’s most within their home, both were trapped. On March 21, 1947, firemen found Homer organized completely breaks down. of her mother’s house, as well as a rather Ryan’s compulsion may stem from an artistic cunning collector, the woodrat. More appropriately dubbed already dead from starvation and dehydration. It took another 18 days for officials “Some nights I don’t sleep, just clean — I large teacup collection. And never once has personality. She has made several of her wine the packrat, these tiny hoarders put together extravagant to dig out the smothered body of Langley, asphyxiated by a mound of old Christmas want my things to be organized,” said Katie she deleted a single email from her inbox. bottles into vases and lamps and uses them medleys of knickknacks, making even the most sophisticated trees and newspaper. Ryan, a second year Photography major. “I Her grandma was known to hold on to pieces as props in practical jokes. “My friends and collectors jealous. Much like their human counterparts, the The urge to hoard is clearly based on years of adaptation, said Tom Waite, a biologist keep lists — to do lists, movie lists, and book of paper. Ryan said she had even seen her I once arranged the bottles as if a huge party packrat creates aggregations of what most would consider at Ohio State University. In the animal world, the instinct to stockpile has been lists. They are color-coded, alphabetized, and grandma’s absentee slip for missing seventh took place the night before. When my friends’ useless junk. But to the hoarder and the packrat alike the evolutionary significant to survival. This skill is observed in most wildlife trying to arranged by genre.” grade basketball practice. parents came by, we each held bottles to feign seemingly useless trinkets serve some unperceivable but make it through tough times. The packing away of nuts by squirrels and bulking up of Ryan considers herself a hoarder. She finds How many people have disposophobia, and like we were drunk.” necessary purpose. bears in preparation for winter is just one example. herself collecting random odds and ends like why is it so pronounced in certain individuals? For Ryan, it may be the joy and continual For decades, experts have viewed compulsive hoarding Waite also suggested that this same urge to hoard may originate from mating bottle caps, wine bottles and journals. In the To answer these questions, researchers would use she gets from her collections that compels as a symptom and a subset manifestation of obsessive- practices. Before pairing with a mate, some male penguins stockpile stones and past year, she has filled four journals, each have to get passed the realm of the secrecy her to stockpile. There is no sure-fire way to compulsive disorder. Recent in depth studies suggest it a few varieties of fish. “It’s called resource-holding potential, and it’s a way of about 200 pages, give or take. Every page is that hoarders often create to conceal their rid an individual of this disorder because it is is more aptly a distinct disorder with its own whacky advertising to a mate your true Darwinian fitness,” Waite stated in the October 2004 decorated with drawing, quotes, pictures and compulsion. Despite the shyness of sufferers, completely psychological. Sometimes a hoarder effect on brain chemistry. Not only that, but just as the issue of Discover. In humans with disposophobia, this primitive survival instinct the occasional movie stub. She is hoarding her some revealing insights have been made about will never stockpile again after a weekend of diagnostic floodgates gave way to ADD, increasingly goes berserk. They hold on to everything, because their subconscious loses control own memories. Ryan’s current focus, however, the origins of the disorder. It is often a family cleaning everything out. Others will revert back. more people are being diagnosed with disposophobia, the over the primal instinct to hoard. is on cigarette packs; she is collecting as many trait, as observed for Ryan. No one really knows how to treat the disorder compulsion to stockpile. A 61-year-old man from Hartford, Conn. once kept his house in such disarray that as she can, although she has “no idea” what she For some affected individuals, they would and only the future may bring a cure. Until Brothers, Homer and Langley Collyer, were known to stow he lost a six-figure check from the sale of his parents’ house. “You can’t imagine will use them for yet. view a slip of paper with great emotion then, these packrats will continue to hoard, away everything within their home in Harlem, N.Y. They kept my total embarrassment at having to call the real estate attorney and ask for a new The shelves in Ryan’s bedroom are completely attaching all their experiences that led to reinforcing the old adage, “One man’s trash is everything in their house, from towers of newspapers that one,” he said at a meeting of the Clutter Workshop, a support group for compulsive covered with knickknacks, and the abundant finding it to it, much like the emotion placed on another man’s treasure.”
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Web: pubpol.rit.edu For More INFO Visit Studyabroad.rit.ed23u THREE THREE STARS by Sam McCord | photographs by Jake Hamm STARS by Alex Rogala Danielle Caitlyn FURMAN BURR Danielle Furman (#24) is undoubtedly the Stats own records set the School’s Women’s Swim team. lady Tigers’ unsung hero, not only breaking 2006-2007: previous season. When it came time to choose a RIT’s previous field goal record with an as- State title in 100-yard Despite all these college, Burr was at a crossroads. tounding 123, but also smashing RIT’s all- butterfly All-Empire 8 Rookie feats, it was really “It was between RIT and Ithaca, and time high free-throw percentage with a of Meet Female Athlete of the h e r t h i r d s e a s o n [my sister Theresa] was here,” she .85. Sure, Furman may be an inhuman Week twice w h e r e B u r r t r u l y said on her decision to choose RIT. basketball sinking automaton, but shined. Out of the 54 “It was a comfort thing.” Following don’t be too intimidated when 2007-2008: events she competed in Theresa’s footsteps, she also you see her wrecking face on Swam at Division III in, she finished first joined the Women’s Swim Team, the court, she’s just a per- NCAA Swimming & Diving 38 different times. and the rest was history. son like the rest of us. Championships During the NCAA Di- Her favorite match was the 2009 Or so we think. vision III Swimming UNYSCSA state championships, Earned All-Empire 8 Honors and Diving Cham- where she won of all three of the pionships in Dallas, events she was participating in. 2008-2009: Texas., she earned an Despite the heavy time commit- Division III NCAA Swimming & All-American, RIT’s ment required for swimming, Burr Diving Championships first participant to do somehow manages to find the All-American so since 1993. time to participate in other activi- Burr cites her par- ties as well. Outside of swimming, First in state in 200-yard ents as a key influ- she is a member of both the Stu- butterfly Earned four Empire 8 ence in developing her dent Athlete Advisory Committee Honors active lifestyle. “My par- (SAAC) and the Next Generation of ents tried to keep me as Accountants (NGA). busy as possible,” said Burr. Burr is expected to graduate this She began swimming when she spring and after RIT, she hopes “I’VE BEEN SURROUNDED BY was roughly five years old. “My to attend graduate school for ac- BASKETBALL MY WHOLE LIFE,” mom has been my coach since counting. Eventually, she would I was really little,” she said her like to earn her Certified Public Furman recalls. “My dad got me into 18 points a game landed her North best with 43 made field goals, and Needless to say, her family could mom was a local swim instruc- Accountant title. At the moment, it, and I started playing in fourth Tier League MVP and Big 30 Confer- scored above 10 points in 15 season not be more proud. “They’re really tor. She quickly however, she’s quite focused on grade. I’ve been watching and play- ence MVP not once, but twice. Her games. A couple of months later, supportive. They try to go to every took to the activ- finishing out her final season with ing my whole life.” For Furman, bas- excellence easily carried over into she gained All-Empire 8 honors by game, even though it’s over a two- Joining a sports team is an immense commitment, both in ity, even at such a a bang. From Feb. 18 to 20, she’ll ketball is just something she does, her inaugural year here at Brick City, throwing the winning javelin at the hour drive. They’ll really go any terms of time and energy. Yet, a select few manage to find young age. “I have be at the Empire 8 Championships similar to how walking and breath- starting in an inordinate amount of 2008 Empire 8 Championships. distance to see me play,” admits Fur- the time to balance sports and academics effortlessly, while al l t hese v ideo in Syracuse, N.Y. She hopes that ing is for the rest of us. Not playing games for a first year and landing an If you bums haven’t taken the man, “My dad and my grandpa kept still having time left over to pursue other interests. Take for tapes of me doing she’ll make a showing at the NCAA has just never been an option, not Empire 8 Rookie of the Week honor. It chance to see her play in her last track of my stats so I knew when I example, Caitlin Burr, a fourth year accounting major from the back flip and Championships in March and feels even when exploring her other pas- was also the year she set the school season here, then you’re missing out was getting close [to breaking re- Delhi, N.Y. Burr has become the darling of the Women’s Swim the front flip, and that with her scores, she’ll make sions like breaking javelin records on javelin record with 119.8 feet, but for because she continues to intimidate cords], but I never really thought I Team, stealing our hearts in the process. I was so good at the cut. the Track and Field Team, or ever- ego’s sake, let’s leave it at that. Oh the opposition with consistent high would.” it,” she said with As for the remainder of her time important schoolwork, which she wait, no we won’t. scores and selfless teamwork. This What lies ahead for Danielle Fur- a laugh. at RIT? “I guess staying active is consistently maintains a 3.75 aver- Let’s get all in your face and put is evident in performances in games man is really anyone’s guess. Despite Burr’s praise is not unfounded. setting three school records. Her Burr maintained her heavily the main thing,” says Burr. “I used age. Jealous? That’s understandable. all her accomplishments right after like her Jan. 26 bout with Alfred. The her forthcoming degree in graphic Throughout her time at RIT, she work paid off, as she was named active schedule throughout high to play softball and basketball in Before her time at RIT, she attend- each other in list form: in her second Tigers may have been upset at the media, she seems real keen on the has earned the team a string of im- Empire 8 Rookie of the Meet at the school, joining basketball and high school, and I miss it so much. ed Coudersport High School in Penn- season, she set the RIT and Empire last moment, but that didn’t stop idea of coaching, regardless of level. pressive accolades. During her first 2007 Division III Swimming and softball in addition to swimming. Once I’m [finished with swimming] sylvania, where she received four 8 free throw percentage with a sink Fruman from leading the team in not “Really anything to be around the season at RIT, Burr quickly made Diving Championships. Back in her Eventually her efforts paid off, I’ll probably try doing a lot more varsity letters and earned captain as percentage of 91.4, led the team in only points, but assists and steals as game,” she adds. herself known, winning the state second year, she earned All-Empire and she became senior captain with intramurals.” a senior. Her high school average of assists with 88, matched her career well. title in the 100-yard butterfly and 8 honors and broke several of her of the Delaware Academy High
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The score was tied 5-5 in the final BEFORE THE ALIENS COME by Michael Conti | Illustration by Jamie Douglas period with seconds left on the clock. Dan The Tigers were rallying after a 4-1 deficit early in the second period. You know that creeping feeling of emptiness, pick up all of your belongings, grabbing the family, and hopping in a car bound for who-knows-where Tension was high as the sea of orange the kind that washes over you at around two before the aliens come. and brown rose to their feet. Cheers RINGWALD o’clock in the morning, when you’ve just I’m not saying we need to adopt some radical, bare bones style of living, where the only thing we filled the rink, but they were cut polished off that last jar of peanut butter? The own is the shirt on our back. What I am saying is that we could be a bit more thoughtful the next time short by a very brief moment of Stats: vacant space that emerges when you’ve decided we are roaming the aisles at Wal-Mart. Asking yourself, to borrow a question from “Fight Club’s” Tyler silence. With 1.5 seconds left on 2006-2007 your current pair of shoes are too worn, or Durden: “Is this essential to our survival, in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word?” If the answer is, the clock, first year Business Games Played: 30 that your latest tank top isn’t quite as “fresh” “No,” then perhaps you could find some better use of your time.Grow your own garden. It’s a lot more Management major Dan Goals: 4 as this year’s fashionable installment? The productive than playing Farmville, and you probably won’t feel embarrassed to admit you have one. Ringwald dodged an opposing Assists: 16 guttural calm before the storm that happens Read that girly romance novel you have hidden under your bed. It’s no Shakespeare, but it might be defenseman lurking near the Points: 20 when you’ve watched every episode in your steamier than watching a re-run of Jersey Shore with your partner. Go fishing for an afternoon. The blue line, shot and scored – “Family Guy” DVD boxed set? Something inside pain suffered by animals smaller than yourself will make you stronger. all on the power play. The 2007-2008 you asks, “What do I do now?” This feeling of After maximizing your time differentials, reorganizing your filing systems, and reassigning priorities buzzer rang, signifying Games Played: 36 emptiness, that burning question in your soul, to ensure efficient goal accomplishment, you might want to consider the most efficient organizer of an epic win against the Goals: 3 can be answered in only one way: all: the trash can. This is not to say we need to deposit all of our belongings in the nearest landfill. Mercyhurst Lakers. It was Assists: 31 I gotta buy more shit. Craigslist is a great place to give stuff to people who need it for little or no cost. Consider a church Feb. 16, 2007. Points: 34 Now don’t get me wrong. I love the feeling of or local thrift charity, which can unload your things on people who haven’t learned your secret yet. new shit. I don’t care if it’s from a thrift store, Balance is the key word to remember here. No one is advocating jettisoning your possessions, Three years later (give or take a 2008-2009 the feeling of a owning something new is close because the aliens aren’t coming for at least another 50 years. What needs to be jettisoned is the frame few days), Ringwald has definitely Games Played: 38 to my heart. It’s as American as apple pie. But of mind that is more attached to organizing, watching and touching things as if they were people. grown as a hockey player. At the Goals: 3 that pie is pumped full of artificial flavors, fatty end of the 2008-2009 season, he Assists: 31 preservatives, and is covered in layers of non- was RIT’s all-time defenseman junior league route and pursued Points: 34 biodegradable wrapping. Materialism and waste leader in assists (78), and points a career in professional Canadian are hurting our culture and the world around (88) at the Division I level. He now hockey, but that never crossed his 2009-2010 (ONGOING) us, but most importantly, as outlined in the has 134 games, 8 goals (4 of which mind. He knew what he wanted – Games Played: 30 previous features, it’s a headache. were game winners), 94 assists, to professionally play the game Goals: 8 The freedom to own more things, to buy more and 112 points under his belt, not that he knew and loved since he ment for Staying in School,” and Assists: 16 shit, is compounded by the equally universal to mention he is currently pursu- was four years old – and exactly the Hobey Baker award, which is Points: 24 American sentiment: getting bored of that shit, ing a Master’s of Business Adminis- what he had to do to get it. “I could given to the top NCAA men’s ice and finding the quickest way to store it and tration via the Saunder’s College of have gone to a Canadian univer- hockey player. (Voting is ongoing keep it out of other people’s hands. In addition Business Fast Track program. sity, but the risk was that hockey at http://seniorclassaward.com/ to public storage, there are entire professions Before donning his orange and is better in the U.S. There’s more vote/hockey_2009_10/ and http:// tually, I’d like to explore some of and industries dedicated to helping other people white jersey, he played for the room to develop and continue your hobeybaker.com/voting/) those opportunities,” he said. keep track of what they have and don’t have. Oakville Blades as part of the career. I thought that if I stayed at What exactly the future holds for In the mean time, Ringwald Time is a valuable asset, and it seems like every Ontario Provincial Junior Hockey a Canadian university I would get Ringwald is still unclear. His main wants to make the most the last modern gadget is in some way dedicated to League (OPJHL) for two years. Here, a good education but my career focus is pursuing a pro hockey ca- few months he has left at RIT. With helping you save that precious resource. But he even had the opportunity to would probably end at the end of reer, and he still has a few tricks up four regular season games to go, he with every time saving innovation, why do we play with Steve Pinizzotto, who left my four years.” And in the end, it his sleeve. “There are some oppor- has his eye on the prize. “We won seem to have less of it at our disposal? RIT and the Tigers in 2007 to sign was a good choice. tunities there; it’s just a matter of two league championships, but As college students, there is the understood on with the Washington Capitals. Last November, Ringwald where I’ll end up,” he said without both times we came up short in goal to get “the good job,” so as to get a better During this time, Ringwald caught reached his 100-point milestone specifying further – he didn’t want the playoffs … I want to do what- career, and allow us to buy the important things the eye of several U.S. colleges in- during a game against Sacred to jinx it, and neither do we. ever it takes to win and blowout on in life: the fancier DVD collection, the more cluding Canisius and Mercyhurst; Heart on Nov. 12. Additionally, But, if in the end it doesn’t work a good note as a senior,” he said. fashionable ladies undergarments, the fly kicks, but in the end, RIT won his favor. his outstanding performance in out, Ringwald is interested in and But that isn’t the last thing on his and even that really big jar of peanut butter. “RIT coaches came and recruited National Collegiate Athletic As- would like to try a number of oth- RIT bucket list. There’s one more But have we lost sight of a great virtue? me, and brought me down here for sociation hockey has earned him er fields: trading, investing, house thing he’d like to do to show his The joy of simplicity, of not having to worry a visit. It was my top choice; I loved nominations for the Lowe’s Senior flipping, and maybe even owning Tiger pride: “I want to dress up as about managing your things as if they were it,” he said. CLASS Award, which is awarded his own business one day. “Cur- Ritchie, and go out as Ritchie the remote extensions of your body. Perhaps I’ve Being part of the OPJHL, Ring- to top NCCA Division I athletes for rently, I have zero dollars to my mascot for an athletic event.” Let’s watched too many disaster movies, but there wald could have gone the major “Celebrating Loyalty and Achieve- name, so it’s difficult; but even- make his dreams come true. is something terribly sexy about being able to
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