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Ritreporter1987 Vol63no21.Pdf WANTED TALENT! TALENT! TALENT! PROFESSIONAL! SOCIAL! EDUCATIONAL! DO YOU FIT INTO ANY OF THESE CATEGORIES: Graphic Design Communications Printing Marketing Advertising Business Research Packaging Programming Social Science/Humanities [Educational] THEN WE WANT YOU! IC^ WE ARE LOOKING FOR TOMORROWS LEADERS!!! FOR THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STAFF LIMITED PAID POSITIONS AVAILABLE FOR FALL - SPRING Applications available NOW at the Off Campus Center and Residence Life. Application deadline Mav 6. April 17. 1987 CONTENTS Volume 63, Number 21 Reportage 6 Reproview 21 Departments Two iheives break into Wallace A battle between morals and ethics Letters 4 Memorial Library and attempt to is fought in Room with A View Zodiac 9 steal a safe. Destined to be this year's comedy Tab Ads 28 An electrical fire in Racquet Club film hit. Raising Arizona is a movie Bloom County 29 causes some excitement for the not to be missed. What's Happening 30 residents of apartment 451. Showcasing innovative music, The Sd plans an open forum and letter Pyramid offers the abstracted Cover: writing campaign to fight Reagan's explorative listener a memorable educational budget cuts. Lacrosse weekend. team goes Some Kind of Wonderful is only for the goal Feature 11, 13, & 16 of being the The War Memorial's drab stadium "wonderful" if you are still passing through puberty. best. is lit up by a festival of flaming fanfare. "Moonlighting" star Bruce Willis Photo By: gets a date he doesn't plan on in Tired of pizza and burgers? Try Steve Blind Date. something different, affordable and Freeman tasty at Olga's. Scoreboard 26 Numerous mishaps create a tragedy of errors for the season opening baseball games. Lacrosse takes to the road, enjoying upstate New York. Opponents trounce softball to an 0-4 start. Mens tennis continues to struggle, but they are beginning to snow signs of hope. REPROHLE To quote a popular right-winger. or hotelie on a battlefield? Maybe, Just cross the North Pole and ruin North "There you go again. .". attacking our maybe, too many of us is getting America. Before you know it the of wonderful president soley because he educated anyway. What'r we gonna do hammer and sickle will be flying in the wants to instill in our private if our president calls us to fight with the adminstration circle, then what would educational institutions a sense of heroic Contras? Throw calculators and happen to education? We have to fiscal responsibility. recijje Ixxjks? This country is going too prepared, and that means spending It's budget time again, and all the high-tech, we need to get back to some billions on defense, and millions colleges are screaming about acouple basics, teaching the youth of this defending our friends in the Middle million dollar cuts. I say it's time to stop country how to make an honest buck East and South/Central America the gravy train. Hell, everyone knows with their muscles. This country is too Colleges have got to understand what teachers are overpayed. $28,000 to smart and too soft for its own good, and is more important. For my buck, that's teach a bunch of wasteful, ungrateful its all because of the free ride the gone. Star Wars, nuclear subs and $800 urchins Calculus. Accounting and Democrats give our colleges. hammers, not fancy dorms and Management. If that ain't overpayed I Oh sure, I know what comes next, overpayed editors. don't know who else is —k:ept maybe something about comparing the nurses. The Secretary of Education is proportional size of the defense budget right, giving more money to educators to the education percentage Which do just lets ther students buy stereos and we need more? Let's face it. we need take trips to Florida. protection; after all. we never know Besides, what good is an engineer when the commie horde is going to REPORTER MAGAZINE a puWi»hed weekly during the academic year by students at Rochester Institute of Technotogy. One Lomb Memorial Drive. Rochester. New York 14623 Editorial and pro duction facilities are located in Room A 283 of the College Alumni Union, telephone 716 475 22 12 Subscription $4 00 per quarter The opinions expressed in REPORTER do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute RIT does not generally review or approve the contents of REPORTER and does not accept responsibility for matters contained in REPORTER • Letters must t>e sub mitted to the REPORTER office by 4 p m Monday Letters must be typed and double spaced Please limit letters to 250 words REPORTER reserves the right to edit for libel and clarity No letters will be printed unless signed and accompanied by a phorre number REPORTER will withhold names upon request AH letters received are the properly of REPORTER Magazine • REPORTER takes pride in its membership in the Associated Collegiate Press and the American Civil Liberties Union • (c 1987 REPORTER MAGAZINE All rights reserved No portion of this magazine may be reproduced without prior written permisston from REPORTER. REPORTER LETTERS Magazine Grade System Stats 1 don't know who to trust. 1 just keep Editor-in-Chief putting faith in the Lord and pray that The Student Directorate proposal to some day people will judge others hy Kevin Minnick change the grading system at RIT has, hy character, not color. Managing Editor now, heen widely discussed. One of the I thought racism would decrease when Steve Waterlcxj benefits of the new system, it is claimed, I came to college. I thought I was around is that it is easier to avoid suspension and intelligent people. Only blacks can ever Senior Writer probation. I have completed an analysis of know how I felt when I returned to my Bill Amstutz the new scheme using percentages for dorm room (NRH7), one day freshman News Editor assigning letter grades that do not result year, and saw "NIGGER" written on my in grade inflation, and I am sure that all door. I don't enjoy going into stores to James Ferme RIT students will he interested in the shop and being watched hy security just Copy Editor results. because I'm black. Sometimes I play with AAaroo Abundo I analyzed a hypothetical student them. I run up to them, say "BOO!" and taking four-credit courses. All giggle my ass off watching them run from News Writers combinations of scores for the four me. Maxine Isaacson courses from 0 to 100 in increments of I asked a friend and fellow crony Mark Tiffany 0.001 were generated. Each combination Ozhourne McKay (one of the only two Brian Demjpsey Adan Derti was then assigned letter grades and CPA's black male Criminal justice students) how using the current system, and the seven- he felt about once being a store detective Entertainment Editor letter system with non-inflating "Customers didn't believe it. it was a real Jim Winiarski percentages. experience!" He told me of one customer Entertainment Writers The seven-letter grading scheme, with apprehension when Gates (Roch.) police non-inflating percentages, results in were called in and the officer didn't know Kris Argento Craig VeconI 5384% more probations and 9.241% more who the offender was! "It was a real John White Tom Mineo suspensions than the current grade degrading situation and I put the officer Paul Cocuzzi Suzanne Shade system. in his place!" McKay adds. Sports Editor I repeat from my previous letter: My intentions behind this letter are Robert A. Salzer Before you decide whether you are for or not to label anyone a racist, hut to bring Sports Writers against the SD projxrsal, he sure you know your attention to a situation that, I feel, is what the proposal really means. detrimental to the future peaceable Chris Martin existence of this country. How can we Greg House confidently defend our country when we Mamie Salisbury Kenneth Reek John Lolars Associate Professor can't even trust each other? School of Computer Science Anyway, I hope I have not offended Photo Editor and Technology anyone with this letter; if I have, tough Steven Q Freeman crap! I've heen offended since I was horn! Cartoonist When our people got to this country, we were on the bottom of the boat looking upi Mike Kerwin Speaking Out Where was the sign that reads. "Give us Production Manager your tired, poor, and huddled masses. ?" Black Week was last week. What was Black Annamarie Daane Being horn on the day Martin Luther King Week? It's a week long series of program- led the march on Washington DC. and Production Staff ming, at R.I.T.. focusing on blacks, our delivered his famous speech in late August Ellis J. Canal Beth Ploeger culture, past and present. It climaxes with 1963.1 somehow feel a part of his "Dream." Delrdre Campbell Linda Crankshaw a fashion and talent show, that's a hit with To sum up my feelings in a single Jill Clause Karen Zagorski everyone associated with R.I.T This year. sentence I can only say. "Blacks don't want Scott Traylor Jeff Reichert BACC has outdone itself with this year's a hand-out. hut just a helping hand!" You George Daniels Jordan Neuringer events. I hope you checked some of them know. "Life. Liberty, and the Pursuit of Advertisinfl Manager out. Happiness?" and all the rest of that Victoria Vavrinec You know, when I think of the word American crap! 'Black". I think of the beauty of its people, Advertising Representative and its color. Far too often I encounter the Scott Edmonds Robert Williams people who think of blacks as being Senior, Printing Business Manager inferior and low class.
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