09 19 08 | reportermag.com life as a cadet ROTC at RIT tigers tear up the field men and women’s soccer vs. hamilton rally at park point students seek parking solutions IR SEPT 24TH HE FALL CAREER FA COME SEE US AT T IS LOOKING FOR HELP CREATING THE FUTURE LOOKING FOR A FEW: FULL-TIME PHP5/OOP WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPERS FLI DIGITAL IS A WEB APPLICATION FIRM FOCUSING ON THE MOBILE WEB. WE ARE THE CREATORS OF THE FRESH MOBILE PLATFORM™, HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR 6 YEARS, BUT RUN A STARTUP-LIKE ENVIRONMENT, IS CO-FOUNDED BY 2 RIT ALUMNI (CE & ID GRADS), AND OFFERS A GREAT SALARY, FULL BENEFITS, AND UNREAL PERKS! LEARN MORE AT WWW.FLIDIGITAL.COM/CAREERS EDITOR’S NOTE TABLE OF CONTENTS 09 19 08 | VOL. 58, ISSUE 04 EDITOR IN CHIEF Laura Mandanas POWER IN NUMBERS MANAGING EDITOR Ilsa Shaw The room was silent. Out of the 70 or so students in the auditorium, none of us had an answer. A COPY EDITOR Jen Loomis note of disbelief crept into the professor’s voice as he posed the question for a second time: “How NEWS EDITOR Andy Rees many of you feel empowered by democracy?” LEISURE EDITOR John Howard FEATURES EDITOR Madeleine Villavicencio Although several people eventually responded with reasons why they couldn’t comfortably put SPORTS/VIEWS EDITOR Rachel Hart themselves in that category, nobody spoke up to say that they did, indeed, feel empowered by de- mocracy. A rather dismaying sign of the times, if I do say so myself. WRITERS Margaret Barlow, Geoffrey H. Bliss, Alecia Craw- ford, Jamie Douglas, Carolyn Dunne, Evan McNamara, Neil Why this feeling of disempowerment? Some might blame our faltering economy. Others, perhaps, DeMoney, Emily Mohlmann, Elvis Montero, Chris Tosswill would chalk it up to recent stifling of free speech (see “Convicted of Patriotism”), or some sort of bias in the media. Still others would point the finger directly at George W. Bush – need anyone say ArT more? Yet while I absolutely do agree that none of these elements are the least bit empowering, my ART DIRECTOR Susie Sobota major source of discouragement does not lie in any of these areas. No, what’s most discouraging STAFF DESIGNERS Evan Anthony, Ryan Moore, for me are the people who are not informed enough about what’s going on in the world today to Kelvin Patterson answer that question. (Not that I imagine for a minute that that’s why nobody answered in class AD DESIGNER Lisa Barnes last Wednesday. I’m just saying.) STAFF ILLUSTRATORS Katie Anderson, Jamie Douglas, Robert Modzelewski When it comes to discussions of politics (from national politics right on down to local RIT politics), PHOTO EDITOR Eric Drummond a lot of us are uninformed – or worse, misinformed. And even more troublingly, there are a large STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS Maegan Gindi, number of us who don’t care either way. Emma Tannanbaum Week after week, such a large percentage of politics is pretense and posturing and bullshit, getting PRODUCTION to the bottom of things can feel near impossible. In the face of all this, the idea that we are capable of PRODUCTION MANAGER Kelvin Patterson making any sort of impact on the system sounds almost foolish. A large portion of us have become PRINTING Printing Applications Lab jaded – and why not? Its so very easy not to care. Treacherously easy. BUSINESS But apathy is not the answer, and here’s why: While it’s probably true that we can’t accomplish a PUBLICITY MANAGER Lindsay Block whole lot as individuals, when enough of us get pissed off and group together to try and improve the AD MANAGER Kyle O’Neill situation, we can make things happen. National politics might out of our reach, but it’s fairly easy photograph by Eric Drummond | Army ROTC Cadets do sit-ups during an early morning training session called “Ranger Challange PT.” BUSINESS MANAGER Timothy Wallenhorst to see how we can make a difference here on campus, at least. Need some evidence? Flip through CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE Kaity Werner some past issues of Reporter. Every week since I’ve been here, there have been students making major differences in the way things are run around here. As we move forward, I only expect that letters to the editor pg. 06 features pg. 16 ONLINE there will be more. THE BLUE TIGERS AND TIGER BATTALION ONLINE EDITOR Chris Zubak-Skees news pg. 07 ROTC and RIT. This past Tuesday, for example, over 100 students rallied at Park Point to discuss their issues with FORECAST DADDY DOLLS AdVISOR the newly introduced parking regulations (see “Students Rally at Park Point”). That Friday, everyone Plan accordingly. A coping method for families of deployed troops. Rudy Pugliese paid rapt attention as Heather Martin calmly presented their concerns at the Student Government SG UPDATES meeting (see “SG Updates”). While I doubt that Parking and Transportation Services will be doing Parking and Transportation. Housing Challenge. sports pg. 26 CONTACT a complete reversal of policy in the upcoming weeks, they were certainly listening to the student SAU Renovations. MEN’S SOccER COMES TOGETHER MAIN 585.475.2212 representatives’ concerns very, very closely – there’s a power in numbers that simply can’t be ig- BRICK BEAT Did you know there were 26 fouls committed EMAIL [email protected] nored. While it remains to be seen how this turns out, my point is, they banded together and set Students Rally at Park Point. NTID Stolen Laptop. when RIT played Hamilton? ADVERTISING 585.475.2213 things in motion. And that’s a very powerful thing. You can call me on it if I’m wrong, but with more WOMEN’S GOALIE STEPS OUT OF THE BOX EMAIL [email protected] student voices chiming in all the time, I can’t help but feel that some sort of major improvement leisure pg. 10 A bold move, but not enough to win the game. is just around the corner. ALYSSA COCO AT RIT An American Idol contestant returns home. views pg. 29 Pretty empowering stuff. WORD ON THE STREET RIT RINGS What color underwear are you wearing? Give us a [forking] call. 585.672.4840. Laura Mandanas SPILL IT TECH COMMENTARY: COMMUNICATION EDITOR IN CHIEF Desperate times call for desperate measures. MEDIUMS AND VIDEO CONFERENCING Would you make out in the tunnels? “R U Getin It?” REVIEWS CONVICTED OF PATRIOTISM Burn After Reading. Weezer and Dragonforce Chris Tosswill questions ‘overzealous’ Reporter Magazine is published weekly during the academic year by a staff comprised of students at Rochester Institute of Technology. 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No portion of this Magazine may be reproduced without prior written permission. 5 LETTERS TO THE EdiTOR RIRITT FFOORECASTECAST SG UUPDATESpdATES compiled by Jamie Douglas compiled by Geoffrey H. Bliss DEAR REPORTER, DEAR REPORTER, Thanks for highlighting this year’s common to share? Contributions are always welcome Your report on the new parking regs around SAT•20 PARKING & TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS CONTINUE book, Deep Economy, in your opening issue. (especially from interested students!) And com- here suggests that they’re unpopular among CROCS NEXT STEP TOUR WITH During the opening session of Speak to the Senate, where students are given the In addition to providing some excellent ing soon will be a list of field trips to local sites resident students. I think it’s a pretty good idea, YUNG JOC CARTEL, AND MC LARS opportunity to voice their opinions to Student Government (SG), three students who (and controversial) discussion points, you helped with links to topics from the book. myself. It needs a bit of work, but it’s a good Gordon Field House. 7 p.m. CAB’s first concert of the live at Park Point (including third year Advertising Photography student Heather to highlight some of RIT’s greening activities of start. I can’t see why any able-bodied indi- year, sponsored by that company with those weird rub- Martin; see page 9) spoke about parking issues. The following discussion continued the past year. For those of us involved in these 4. A Brown Bag lunch series (12-1) at the Idea vidual would take issue with the general idea. ber shoes. Students: $10. Faculty/Staff: $12. Other: $15. and expanded upon the issues brought up last week. Director of Global Risk Manage- efforts, communication has been the greatest Factory, set up to bring together faculty and Commuters need those spaces more than you do. ment Services Business Operations Jon Maurer and Associate Director of Parking barrier to progress. So here are some additional students to discuss topics from the book. I once tried driving to class from my Perkins apart- and Transportation Services Paula Benway were there to address the Senate regard- items linked to Deep Economy that are available to The first discussion is scheduled for Sept.