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CampusTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2012 / VOLUME 139, ISSUE 17 Times SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER COMMUNITY SINCE 1873 / campustimes.org INSIDE M. K. Gandhi Institute celebrates opening in PLEX College THIS CT BY ANGELA REMUS CONTRIBUTING WRITER Town The M.K. Gandhi In- loan stitute for Nonviolence, previously located in the Interfaith Chapel on UR’s secured River Campus, officially BY LEAH BULETTI opened its new offices NEWS EDITOR at 929 South Plymouth MID-AUTUMN Ave. on Sunday, Sept. 30. A $20 million federal loan The open house, which was approved for UR’s high- FESTIVAL took place between 2 and ly anticipated College Town This Chinese Students’ 5 p.m. was attended by project on Friday, Sept. 29, Association (CSA) show “200 to 250 guests from the latest development in dazzled the audience. the [UR] community and the loftily-touted project PAGE 15 A&E the broader Rochester LEAH BULETTI / NEWS EDITOR that could potentially clear community,” according The M.K. Gandhi Institute opened its new location on South Plymouth Avenue in the PLEX neighbor- the last remaining hurdle FAITHS IN to Director of the Gandhi hood with a celebration on Sunday, Sept. 30. UR hopes the move will expand ties with the community. before a groundbreaking HARMONY Institute Kit Miller. speeches by Dorothy Hall Institute of Technology’s neighborhood (PLEX), this November after months The opening events of the Plymouth-Exchange Banghra group. describing it as looking of tentative progress. included a blessing of the Neighborhood Associa- Seligman highlighted like a “war zone” when he The $140 million proj- house from Youth Pastor tion and UR President the progress the center first saw it. ect would create a vibrant, Winterbourne Jones of Joel Seligman and a per- has made since moving to He also expressed 16-acre business district Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, formance by Rochester the Plymouth Exchange SEE COMMUNITY PAGE 5 between Crittenden Boule- vard and Elmwood Avenue and will include such ame- UR’s new director of UR seniors awarded prestigious Garnish Awards nities as a two-story Barnes religious and spiritual life The 10 student athletes & Noble, restaurants, gour- is aiming high. represented nine sports and met food markets, office PAGE 4 NEWS hailed from seven states and space, a 150-room hotel, three countries. a conference center and a THE TIME “Head coaches were in- parking garage. vited to nominate students The loan was secured TRAP from their team following from the U.S. Department [their] junior year based of Housing and Urban De- upon academic and athletic velopment (HUD) and was achievement,” Associate announced by U.S. Sena- Director of Athletics and tor Charles Schumer, who Recreation Terry Gurnett, called upon HUD Secretary who is a member of the Shaun Donovan to make a selection committee, said. decision on the loan by the “We have had this process in end of September. We have all become place for most of the last 12 Although UR will own obsessed with the AARON SCHAFFER / staff PHOTOGRAPHER years and have been able to College Town’s property, the Ten UR seniors were presented with Garnish Scholar-Athlete awards in recognition of their collegiate pursuit of productivity. recognize up to 10 students property tax it generates will achievements on Saturday, Sept. 29 at halftime during UR’s football game against St. Lawrence University. each year.” be used to repay the HUD PAGE 7 OPINIONS BY ALEX DWULIT football game against St. Award in honor of Lysle A balance between loan for its first 20 years. FOOTBALL staff WRITER Lawrence University on “Spike” Garnish, a coach schoolwork and sports is a The University’s Senior Saturday, Sept 29. They and mentor to UR student prerequisite to becoming a Vice President for Adminis- TRIUMPHS Ten seniors were honored received the Lysle “Spike” athletes from 1930 to Garnish Scholar. tration and Finance Ronald during halftime of the Garnish Scholar-Athlete 1948. SEE ATHLETES PAGE 5 Paprocki said that the ap- proval of the loan is a “mile- stone event” for the College Renovated Aquatic Center opens after delay Town project, lauding the BY SARAH TEITELMAN delay was caused by having plaster finish be removed shell by sandblasting the help of Schumer for pushing staff WRITER to change methods during down to the concrete shell,” plaster finish. This method for a decision by Sept. 30. the construction. Otto said. “The original pool did not meet the project Paprocki said that Friday’s The Speegle-Wilbraham “The project specifications specialty subcontractor at- requirements.” decision was “right on target” Aquatic Center in the Robert stipulated that the existing tempted to prep the concrete SEE POOL PAGE 5 and added that in another Football won 30-20 in B. Goergen Athletic Center positive step toward com- home competition this reopened on Monday, Oct. pletion of the project, UR weekend. 1 after several months of signed a development agree- PAGE 20 SPorts renovations and its drainage ment with College Town de- last March. velopers this summer. The most extensive im- “We have agreed to all THURSDAy’s provement to the pool since of the significant terms, in- WEATHER it was built in 1980, the $3 cluding the terms for the million renovations included ground lease that we hope a resurfacing of the pool, to sign in November prior renovations to the locker to commencement of con- rooms and the installation struction,” Paprocki said. of a state of the art filtration “The final conditions to be system. met are all being worked The pool was originally on.” slated to open on Aug. 1, He added that the devel- Sunny but was delayed until this oper has also submitted a High 75, Low 56 week. DRUE SOKOL / PHOTO EDITOR site plan to be approved by UR Project Manager Mi- The Speegle-Wilbraham Aquatic Center officially opened on Monday, Oct. 1 after receiving an extensive the city of Rochester, a PAGE 2 NEWS chael Otto said that the overhaul, which began in March. The opening was slightly delayed from the anticipated Aug. 1 date. SEE DEVELOPMENT PAGE 4 PAGE 2 / campustimes.org NEWS / THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2012 FIVE-DAY FORECAST COURTESY OF WEATHER.COM FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Few Showers Cloudy Few Showers Few Showers Partly Cloudy Chance of precipitation: 30% Chance of precipitation: 20% Chance of precipitation: 30% Chance of precipitation: 30% Chance of precipitation: 10% High 68, Low 46 High 54, Low 43 High 51, Low 39 High 54, Low 39 High 61, Low 42 SECURITY UPDATE Meandering man mystifies many BY LEAH BULETTI Service (RTS) bus damaged a fence NEWS EDITOR set up around construction in the area. The bus incurred minor dam- 1. On Thursday, Sept. 27, at 2:03 age to the passenger door frame, p.m., a staff member reported see- Keirsbilck said. No injuries were ing an individual on the first floor reported and no police report of Rush Rhees Library wearing a was filed. pink, fairy princess backpack and wandering aimlessly about the Students abandon charcoal library, according to UR Security grill, dash away Investigator Roger Keirsbilck. The staff member followed the 4. On Saturday, Sept. 30, at individual around the library until 1:35 a.m., a Security officer saw he left the building, exiting onto two males carrying a charcoal grill Eastman Quadrangle. The staff in front of the Susan B. Anthony member told UR Security that Residence Halls. When the officer the individual was unaware of his stopped to ask them about the grill, JUNNE PARK / PHOTO EDITOR surroundings and unfamiliar with they dropped it and ran away. The the University. two males were observed crossing STUDENTS SETTLE IN SHACKS ON WILSON QUAD FOR A GOOD CAUSE The individual was seen enter- the bridge to Hill Court and enter- UR students participated in the second annual Shack-a-Thon on Friday, Sept. 28 during which teams built makeshift ing and exiting Lattimore Hall ing Chambers House on security homes out of cardboard boxes and spent the night on Wilson Quadrangle to raise money for Habitat for Humanity. and outside of Strong Auditorium camera footage. Security officers before he got into a car parked on entered Chambers but could not Wilson Boulevard. Responding determine which suite the males officers could not locate either the had entered, Keirsbilck said. The THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS individual or the car. grill was taken by Security until THURSDAY the owner can be identified. OCTOBER 4 Laptop stolen from backpack G. MILTON WING LECTURE: TONY DEROSE BANNED BOOKS READ OUT Men get preachy with passersby 10 - 11 A.M., SCHLEGEL HALL ROTUNDA 12 - 1 P.M., RUSH RHEES LIBRARY 2. On Thursday, Sept. 27, at Tony DeRose, senior scientist and head of the Research Celebrate Banned Books Week and read a passage from 1:56 p.m., a student left his back- 5. Security officers at the Group at Pixar Animation Studios, will discuss the impor- your favorite banned book on the steps overlooking Eastman pack, which contained his laptop, Eastman School of Music received tance of mathematics, specifically wavelets, in computer Quadrangle. In case of inclement weather, the reading will be unsecured in the men’s locker room a report of two males near the inter- graphics and image processing. relocated to the Welles-Brown Room inside the library. in the Robert B. Goergen Athletic section of Main and Gibbs streets FRIDAY Center for about 20 minutes. shouting gospel and commenting OCTOBER 5 At the same time that Security about fornication to bystanders on CHEMISTRY SEMINAR: JAY LABINGER BIOLOGY SEMINAR: KURT MCKEAN received a call from the student Friday, Sept. 28 at 6:53 p.m The 9:30 - 10:30 A.M., ROOM 473, HUTCHISON HALL 3 - 4 P.M., ROOM 316, HUTCHISON HALL reporting the theft of his backpack, individuals refused to stop yelling Jay Labinger, research chemist and administrator at the Kurt McKean, professor of biological sciences at the Uni- they also received a call for a back- or speak with Security officers, California Institute of Technology, will give a talk entitled versity at Albany, will give a talk entitled “The Evolutionary pack found in the men’s bathroom who contacted Rochester Police.