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RIT’s music scene The best venues in Rochester 11 07 08 | reportermag.com Educators unite to support Bill Ayers EDITOR’S NOTE TABLE OF CONTENTS 11 07 08 | VOL. 58, ISSUE 11 EDITOR IN CHIEF Laura Mandanas UNCHARTED TERRITORY MANAGING EDITOR Ilsa Shaw This past weekend, nine members of the Reporter staff attended the National College COPY EDITOR Jen Loomis and David Spiecker Media Convention in Kansas City, a gathering of collegiate journalists from across the news pg. 06 NEWS EDITOR Andy Rees country. The major theme of the convention: technology is changing journalism. BRICK BEAT LEISURE EDITOR John Howard Though the quality of the discourse throughout the convention varied Protests, petitions, FEATURES EDITOR Madeleine Villavicencio widely, Rich Beckman, a professor at the University of Miami School of and fish bowls. SPORTS/VIEWS EDITOR Rachel Hart Communication and the keynote speaker at the convention, did a pretty good job SG UPDATE of outlining the major points (taken directly from his opening speech): A “Bug List” and more. WRITERS Michael Barbato, Margaret Barlow, Geoffrey 1. The audience knows more than the journalist. News is a conversation and not a lecture. FORECAST H. Bliss, Alecia Crawford, Neil DeMoney, Rachel Hart, 2. People are in control of their media experience. We really want you to go to Maximiliano Herrera, John Howard, Alyssa Kenny, Andy 3. Anyone can be a media creator or remixer. lovin’ cup and Flat Iron Cafe. Rees, Madeleine Villavicencio 4. Traditional media must evolve or die. 5. Despite censorship, the story will get out. leisure pg. 10 ART 6. Amateur and professional journalists need to work together. SWING DANCING ART DIRECTOR Susie Sobota 7. Journalists need to be multi-platform (and entrepreneurial). IN ROCHESTER STAFF DESIGNERS Evan Anthony, Barret Furton As RIT students, I’m sure this news comes as no surprise to you. We generally Dance your way out AD DESIGNER Lisa Barnes take it for granted that we will be able to personalize our media experiences. of the womb. If we happen to be busy on any given Saturday night, we’re certainly not going to LIVE MUSIC IN ROCHESTER PHOTO EDITOR Eric Drummond wait around for a rerun before we see Tina Fey’s latest performance — whether we’re Nice venues. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS David Chow, Oscar Durand, interested in watching it or not, we’ve come to expect availability in other locations. If we AT YOUR LEISURE Maegan Gindi, Ben Liddle, Thomas Liggett, Steve Pfost want to see that episode, we’ll TiVo it, or torrent it, or find a streaming video online. The dark side of Pikachu. For us, this is second nature; we do it almost without thinking. For tradiional STAFF ILLUSTRATORS Matt Mancuso media outlets, however, it’s not quite as easy as that. It’s mind-blowing, game- features pg. 16 CARTOONIST Michael Dennery changing stuff. It’s exciting, sure, but it also makes them really anxious. JUST PRESS PLAY In the sessions that followed the keynote speaker, there were a lot of good tips Bands of the RIT PRODUCTION given on how to take advantage of the changes that are going on, but as the weekend music scene. PRODUCTION MANAGER Kelvin Patterson wore on, one thing became very clear: nobody has really got it figured out yet. PRINTING Printing Applications Lab This new media landscape is uncharted territory, and there is no definitive sports pg. 24 set of directions to get us to where we want to go. Stumbling around in the dark THREE STARS BUSINESS is pretty much the only option at this point. For the most part, professional Meet three swell chicas. PUBLICITY MANAGER Lindsay Block media organizations are just as lost as student media organizations. AD MANAGER Kyle O’Neill According to Beckman, it is our generation that needs to lead the way. Our understandings views pg. 27 BUSINESS MANAGER Timothy Wallenhorst of social media are on totally different levels, and there is a lot that our generation can teach WORD ON THE STREET the older generations about it. This, supposedly, is going to be the key to figuring this all out. How many squares of ONLINE I don’t know about all that, but you’ve got to figure it’s worth a shot, right? toilet paper do you use? ONLINE EDITOR Chris Zubak-Skees Join the conversation at www.reportermag.com/blog. RINGS The woes of a wide- ADVISOR sized vagina. Rudy Pugliese Laura Mandanas CONTACT EDITOR IN CHIEF Cover design by MAIN 585.475.2212 Susie Sobota EMAIL [email protected] ADVERTISING 800.970.5406 Photograph to the right EMAIL [email protected] by Oscar Durand Correction / Cover credit for the October 31 issue goes to Ben Liddle Reporter Magazine is published weekly during the academic year by a staff comprised of students at Rochester Institute of Technology. Business, Editorial, and Design facilities are located in Room A-426, in the lower level of the Student Alumni Union. Our voice/TTY line is 585.475.2212. The Advertising Department can be reached at 585.475.2213. The opinions expressed in Reporter do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute. I still have a naked woman on my arm no matter how much I wash it. Max and Mike totally got shanghaied in Kansas City. Letters to the Editor may also be sent to [email protected]. Reporter is not responsible for materials presented in advertising areas. No letters will be printed unless signed. All letters received become the property of Reporter. Reporter takes pride in its membership in the Associated Collegiate Press and American Civil Liberties Union. Copyright © 2007 Reporter Magazine. All rights reserved. No portion of this Magazine may be reproduced without prior written permission. MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2008 Graduating? XEROX Find Fun Senior Events, Career & WEGMANS CRYSTAL ICING ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Commencement Info, NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE Louise Slaughter Building for the DEAF (CIMS) and More at… RIT UNIVERSITY NEWS SERVICES Conference Center ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL www.rit.edu/Seniors FISHER ENGINEERING PR 8:30 a.m. - 4:50 p.m. ANN TAYLOR LOFT EASTMAN KODAK FISHER PRICE IMAGEWEST EMPOWERING. EMERGING. EXPANDING. EVOLVING. An enlightening one-day symposium about how Public Relations impacts our world. Sponsored by the Departments of COMMUNICATION and HOSPITALITY & SERVICE MANAGEMENT www.rit.edu/cla/communication or www.rit.edu/cast/hsm/ Phone: 585-475-2639 In-Kind and Financial Contributions Courtesy of: Xerox, Wegmans, Crystal Icing, Ann Taylor Loft and RIT Division of Student Affairs SENIORS RIT2009 Campus recruiters stand behind their table in BBRICKBEATRICKBEAT || 11.07.0811.07.08 the SAU, while members of RITSAG protest. photograph by Eric Drummond INNOVATION SESSION by Margaret Barlow Just because the Innovation Center is still under construction doesn’t mean that keep track of everything in a database. RIT students aren’t collaborating on new Similarly, the Innovation Center’s features projects. On Tuesday, October 28, the Student will be largely electronic. “You should be Innovation Group met in the Idea Factory to able to do everything online,” said fifth discuss and present their works in progress year Imaging and Photographic Technology with their fellow students and teachers. major Chris Ubelacker, “The projects and Among the topics was a social networking goals of the Innovation Center shouldn’t device, which is being designed to help be limited to just the building itself.” students who will be working on projects Finally, there was also a naming contest for at the Innovation Center. “It’s like a the new center that was designed to bring people finder. We call it the eHarmony of the ideas of RIT students together. “It was innovation,” said first year Game Design not to name the center, it was just to collect and Development major Eric Longville. the different ideas of what was on students’ Essentially, this networking device will minds,” said Xanthe Matychak, instructor help students find others with interests for several of the new innovative courses at and talents that would relate to their RIT. The winning name, The Fish Bowl (of projects, thereby improving collaboration. Ideas), was the popular pick among those Another topic of discussion was how present. Phil Salvaggio, a first year Computer the tools at the center will be lent out Science and Imaging Science major, came and tracked. As of right now, the idea up with the name. “[I named it] just because is to have everything run without the of how the Student Innovation Center looks human element. A camera would use with the glass walls,” said Salvaggio, adding facial recognition software to identify the that he considered how it would appear student who would check out an item and for people looking in from the outside. • CAN PROTESTS MILITARY RECRUITMENT EDUCATORS UNITE TO SUPPORT BILL AYERS by Madeleine Villavicencio by Alyssa Kenny “Make levees not war! What the hell are Although CAN’s chapters, such as RITSAG, works closely with the Iraq Veterans Against In response to the hostility resulting from old ‘McCarthyism.’ Our country went through because they think it will help their preferred we fighting for?” Chants echoed through hold lectures and bring in speakers, they the War, an advocacy group of active allegations about Bill Ayers’ past and his a horrible time when saying you wanted to candidate, which doesn’t speak very well the Student Alumni Union on October 24 realized that it wasn’t enough. “We needed military personnel and veterans who are connection to Barack Obama, over 3800 read a certain type of book meant you might of their intellectual integrity…History as students protested against military something more direct, something that would opposed to the US occupation of Iraq.