RIT Baseball Team Plays Tough Game in Terrible Conditions This Past Week, the RI I Ba.Seball Team 17 Unanswered Runs
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STUDENT DIRECTORATE.. GOOD FOR ONE FULL YEAR OF FUN!!! ipmmdDm bwrilil awarilamile Communications Coordinator, Rep.-at-Large for C.A.S.T., Rep.-at-Large for Fine & Applied Arts, Administrative Assistant to the Vice-chairman ((DJFJFR€EE z MRmAR MEZZANENE LEVEL 122(03 (DIPEN MEETENG'^TUESIIDA7S<^(5:(D(0PM'^ ES20 EGGM April 29, 1988 CONTENTS Volume 64, Number 23 Reportage 6 Phi Sigma Kappa holds their eleventh Departments SPMS receives a new electronic color annual Farewell to RI T. Letters 4 scanner from Japan. Zodiac 11 Scoreboard 34 Tab Ads 28 6.5 million dollar addition to the Tennis improves to 5—3. Bloom County 29 Wallace Memorial Library. Lacrosse wins two. What's Happening 30 The Art House at RI T dorms sponsors Masked Ball Party. Baseball evens record. Cover Photo: Dimitri Papadimitroj Six outstanding seniors receive ASL Desert Sunset in the .Anza Borrego. honor. Alcohol Awareness Day at KIT". Party at the (Castle's log cabins. Features 13 8c 16 RIT .Men's Track and Field compete for placement. Cover Story 13 17 KIT" Photography students explore the Anza Borrego Dessert. Reproview 22 We'll take a cpiick look at The Seventh Si^ Starring Demi Moore. REPROFILE 21 days...it really hasn't quite sunk in yet. petroleum distribution (a.k.a. pumping kaging RI T graduates are the choice of In 21 days I graduate from RIT with my gas) for a living. I stuck witli it until the many employers. This is fitting for KIT, BS in Imaging Science Ah, it seems like end of my sophomore year, when I which is anything hut a traditional just yesterday I was a lowly freshman. So considered everything from changing my institution. The diversified majors have how come it feels like I've been here major to leavinj^school. I decided to do come to represent what an RIT forever? I'm torn between w-anting to get what almost half of all engineers do education is. My point is thLs: if you don't out of here and wondering ifl'm actually before they graduate: I changed my like what you're doing look around for going to miss this place major. I chose Imaging Science F.ven something el.se. It Just might he here. An RIT education does rot come after two years of college it was not an I thought I would he a hit more easy. I'm basically broke and I'm sick of easy choice to make; at least I had enthusiastic about graduating hut having people lecture to me 5 days a something to base it on. It turned out to actually I'm just relieved to he almost week. But, for all its problems, RIT he a g(K)d decision — just two years after done My parents are pretty excited accomplishes its primary goal of offering dropping FT. I'm graduating Mv (iPA has though; I'm the last of four children to a diversified education. taken a sharp rise and I even made the graduate from college Mom is planning When I graduated from high sch<K)l, dean's list last fall. on burning the final statement from RIT I knew what wanted to he I w~as going to Sure you're thinking " That's a nice — she's even considering ofiering up he an Electrical Kngineer. .My guidance case histoiy, hut what's the fM)int?" A anFAF form as a sacrifice Dad is just glad counselor thought it was a great idea. He popular phra.se around RIT is: "If you all of his children got a chance to do recomended engineering to anyone who can't hack it, pack iti" T he fxeople who something he never did. In a sense niy would listen. However, after about two take this phrase literally are missing the parents are graduating in 21 days; I'm just quarters of college I realized that high f><)int of RIT. There aren't many colleges walking across the stage Thanks M and school seniors have no idea what they that offer these unique hut highly P, I couldn't have done it without vou. really want to d(x employable majors. RIT is actually the A college freshman, it occurred to me best thing for the scholastically unhappy that maybe I didn't want to he an student. If you don't like what you're engineeer after all. Actually, my roller- doing chances are there is something coaster (iPA told me that if I didn't do else right here that you will. something I would srxrn he involved with In fields such as Imaging and Pac REPORTER MAGAZINE is published weekly during the academic year by students at Rochester Institute of Technology. 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The campus Shahtd Hoda Mils Morgan during the week was plastered with little Copy Editor yellow phoKKopied posters with Ixild black Marco Abundo lettering images of Jim Morrison, enticing Stolen Moment? its readers to come to a "FREE nxrk'n roll" Mews Editors The "Seize the Moment" strip in the April slide show. Kris Loomis 22 RtJ'ORlK.R was stolen. It probably isn't Manuel Riveria The show attracted a fair number of plagiarism, hut the two strips are ttx) similiar students. Most were there exp)ecting to see Mews Writers for it to he a coincidence The strip the idea slides of his/her favorite rock star. And we David Martin Claudia Lastella was stolen from is called "Eyeheam" by Sam did, hut in a context that infuriated Patrick Deupree Hurt, to give credit where credit is due practically everyone in the auditorium. Feature Writers Tom Scola The presentation was sponsored by Joe Marini Third-year, Computer Science Mark Tiffany BAS1(>, a pt)int that was not made clear on the promotional posters, and was used to Entertainment Editor show how rock artists were essentially devil Nocturnal Rash Explained Lou Masella worshippers. Even John Denver was Mort Walker, creator of "Beetle Baily " once Entertainment Writer mentioned as being an "anti-christ." This stated, "Over the years I've devised many message was not only, in our opinion, Doug Jerum ways of developing gags...Switching, incorrect, hut it also mocked the intelligence Sports Editor sometimes known as stealing, is a highly of those present Further into the show, the Chris Martin regarded art form. It is considered legitimate speaker made such hold claims as "anyone Sports Writers if you can change anything to make it yours." who doesn't believe in (-hristianity is Greg House l^t week's strip was derived from my Jeff Gibb d(K)med to Hell," and "Ghristianity is the John Loiars f)ersonal life, as my younger brother has only true religion." recently fallen victim to a rash of n(x:turnal Photo Editor Finally, after realizing we were lured in emissions, compliments of the puberty fairy. Bruce Strong by false advertising, a number of students I dedicated the strip to him because it is Chief Photoflrapher approached the speaker who had invited based on a dream he laughingly related to anyone to ask questions after the show, and Paul Buckowski me on a recent visit home did just that. Asked questions. Most of the Photographers The only thing similiar in my strip to the answers we received consisted of reasoning Ken Huth "Eyeheam" strip you include with your letter such as: "Because I believe in Jesus, and I Paul Niseiy is the punchline in the last panel. This can know I'm right" or "I am not an expen in Cartoonist only he attributed to my having read science" We were also made to feel guilty by "Eyeheam" a few years hack and then Steve Casino statements such as "So you are saying that foi^etting it. I'm only human, and if I could Art Director Jesus was a liar, or a lunatic^" S(H)n, most of remember every carttxin I ever read I Suzanne Shade us left the floor in frustration and wouldn't have to waste Sundays wracking my disappointment Production Managers brain for ideas.