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CampusTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2015 / VOLUME 142, ISSUE 21 Times SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER COMMUNITY SINCE 1873 / campustimes.org Library New admins hold Amtrak student forum station to BY ANGELA LAI NEWS EDITOR be built BY CAROLINE CALLAHAN- In a public forum, River Campus FLOESER Libraries staff and representatives from Chaintreuil Jensen Stark CONTRIBUTING WRITER (CJS) Architects discussed plans for As the holidays approach, UR the creation of Evans Lam Square in students might begin wondering the circulation area of Rush Rhees how they will be traveling Library giving a tentative vision home. Traveling by train is one and asking for student input on option, but this November and Tuesday, Nov. 10. December, the Amtrak station At the start of the forum, CJS in Rochester will be demolished, Project Architect Karsten Solberg and the new station isn’t expected acknowledged that “there’s a lot to be ready for passengers until riding on this library space” and September 2017. This news that people have “deep feelings” could leave students who travel about the library’s character. by train questioning what to do Solberg presented CJS Architects’ once Thanksgiving and winter ideas in a PowerPoint presentation, break arrive. A temporary station with the main points titled “Vision AARON RAYMOND / CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER was opened this month, and of the Square,” “Conceptual Plan will handle passengers in the & Program Elements,” “What AFTER HOURS GETS PRESIDENTIAL AT '2016 ELECTION' SHOW time between the demolition of Not to Do,” “Aesthetic Hints & the old, 1978 station and the Interpretations” and “Look & A cappella group After Hours staged their fall semester concert in Strong Auditorium last Friday. See page 13 for a review. completion of the new station. Feel.” The New York State Department Historical rooms like Welles- of Transportation (NYSDOT) Brown and the Messinger Periodical CEIS renews official Research states on their website that Reading Room; the Friedlander “the only change will be that Lobby itself; and the Reference status and funding points to passengers will enter a different Stacks will not be touched. Dean of BY LUCY WU set of doors in the temporary River Campus Libraries Mary Ann CONTRIBUTING WRITER photonics and imaging that Alzheimer’s station during the construction Mavrinac noted that the Periodical generated $702 million in total of the permanent building.” Reading Room and Welles-Brown The University of Rochester’s direct economic impact. 200 The 1978 station was itself only are the only two rooms in the library Center for Emerging and jobs were created and 239 were treatment meant to be a temporary station, that have largely stayed the same Innovative Sciences (CEIS) retained. BY AMANDA MARQUEZ after the old train station built since Rush Rhees’ construction. was recently reinstated as a New For companies, there are CONTRIBUTING WRITER in 1914 was demolished. After Lam Square will be a long, York State Center for Advanced many benefits to working with nearly thirty years and millions rectangular space located between Technology (CAT) and awarded CEIS. The Center matches On Nov. 4, the University of passengers, NYSDOT decided the columns near the large wooden $9.2 million in funding over funds for research sponsored of Rochester Medical Center it was time to build a permanent tables in the circulation desk area 10 years. by companies, which magnifies issued a press release on a study and updated train station in up to the ground level entrance CAT, which is supported by the impact of the research, and recently published in the Journal Rochester. The new station is to the stacks. The bathrooms and the New York State Division helps the companies become of Neuroinflammation suggesting designed to accommodate those staff offices will be relocated, so that of Science, Technology and more competitive. that the brain’s immune system traveling with baggage, with the students walking through Rush Innovation (NYSTAR), was CEIS director Mark F. Bocko, could potentially be used to get website saying it “will make being Rhees will be walking through a created in 1983 to support who is also the professor and rid of amyloid plaques, which are a passenger a much more pleasant large room rather than down a collaborative technology chair of electrical and computer a crucial component of Alzheimer’s experience.” The station itself is hallway. The Gandhi Room will research between New York’s engineering, had worked with disease. a $29.5 million project, with the also be opened up. top research universities and several of the companies that The study, which was conducted federal government footing most A square is thought to be a New York state industries. There collaborated with CEIS. “Before over a period of several years, was of the $18.5 million bill, and the fluid and adaptable space, Solberg are 15 CATs, and each CAT is I became the director of CEIS, authored by M. Kerry O’Banion, city of Rochester and the New said, and CJS sees the square as designated for a period of up to I did a lot of research with M.D., Ph.D, a professor at York state government picking up a “billboard,” a destination, an ten years, thereby making the companies in Rochester and the University of Rochester’s the rest. Congresswoman Louise advertisement, the place where application process competitive. Buffalo area with funding from Department of Neurobiology Slaughter was an advocate for the “everything is being heard” and CEIS has been a CAT since CEIS for many years.” and Anatomy. Boston University building of a new station, and the something more than a pass- 1992. The recent designation CEIS works primarily with graduate student Jonathan Cherry Department of Transportation through space. enables CEIS to continue their regional companies, and its work and University of Rochester cites her as “instrumental in For the current, loose and work with Rochester researchers has evolved due to the changes in researcher John Olschowka, Ph.D, securing federal money for conceptual layout, CJS plans on and New York companies with the industries and the companies were co-authors. this project to advance rail creating symmetry and on keeping NYSTAR funding until the next that it works with. In the The inspiration for this research transportation.” the areas around the windows renewal in 2025. earlier days of CEIS, the center came from a surprising discovery Railway history in Rochester open to allow as much light as Over the last 10 years, the collaborated with several large made while studying the effects didn’t begin with the 1914 possible into the space. In the center has supported a diverse companies such as Kodak and of Alzheimer’s in mice. O’Banion station. The first Grand Station SEE LIBRARY PAGE 4 range of projects in optics, SEE CEIS PAGE 4 SEE BRAIN PAGE 4 SEE AMTRAK PAGE 4 INSIDE VICTORY FOR VIOLENCE OFF THE MANY FACETS FIELD HOCKEY THE FIELD OF NORAH JONES THIS CT Women’s field hockey notched a Taking on the trend of violence Singer-songwriter Norah late victory Wednesday night to among professional football Jones performed at Eastman move on to the next round in the players in the NFL. on Friday night, pleasing the NCAA playoffs. crowd with hits from the span of her career. CHRISTIAN CIERI / ILLUSTRATOR PAGE 15 SPORTS PAGE 5 OPINIONS PAGE 13 A&E PAGE 2 / campustimes.org NEWS / THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2015 WEEKEND FORECAST COURTESY OF WEATHER.COM FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY PM Showers/Wind Cloudy Sunny High 48, Low 34 High 44, Low 36 High 57, Low 39 Chance of rain: 50% Chance of rain: 0% Chance of rain: 0% PUBLIC SAFETY UPDATE Staff member finds unknown man in office BY ANGELA LAI AARON SCHAFFER / EDITOR-IN-CHIEF An officer asked to check the STUDENTS PERFORM SONGS IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE NEWS EDITOR man’s bag and found items that 1. On Nov. 9 at 10:35 a.m., a had been reported missing from Students competed to win Sign Idol, performing popular songs in American Sign Language while songs played over the staff member in Lattimore Hall GAC. The officer then realized speakers and audience members signed their applause on Thursday, Nov. 5 in Hirst Lounge. reported a “suspicious person in that this person matched the their office. The staff member description of the person using stated that they had stepped out of the stolen credit cards at College THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS their office for a few minutes, and Town. The man was taken into when they returned to the office, custody and interviewed. He THURSDAY an unknown man was seated admitted to taking all the items NOVEMBER 12 at their desk. The staff member and using the credit cards, and UNDERGRADUATE CONVERSATION ‘MR. U OF R 2015’ confronted the man and asked was charged with burglary in the MOREY HALL THIRD FLOOR, 5 P.M. - 7 P.M. HUBBELL AUDITORIUM, 7 P.M. what he was doing there. The third degree, criminal trespass in Modern Languages and Cultures professor Donatella Sigma Delta Tau presents “Mr. U of R 2015,” a male Stocchi-Peruccio will give the talk “Money and Fraud: beauty pageant in which 12 contestants will compete man told the staff member that he the third degree and possession of Perspectives from the Humanities,” addressing in formal wear, costumes and talent segments. was looking for directions to an stolen property in the fifth degree. Dante’s Divine Comedy and how it reflects on Tickets are $5 at the Common Market. appointment he had somewhere The man was taken to Monroe economic phenomena. on campus. The staff member County Jail by the Rochester FRIDAY gave the man directions and he Police Department.