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editor in chief Laura Mandanas cause for concern Managing editor Ilsa Shaw Change. Experience. Gender. As the economy sours and November 4 draws closer and closer, we wait coPY editor Jen Loomis with bated breath, eyes transfixed on the TV.Wall Street. Main Street. Bailout. Even the least media- neWs editor Andy Rees savvy of us can’t escape the maelstrom of buzzwords flying around this political season.War. Envi- leisure editor John Howard ronment. Abortion. Rising above the fray, however, is one particularly powerful, prevalent buzzword: features editor Madeleine Villavicencio Securit y. sPorts/vieWs editor Rachel Hart In light of recent events, it makes total sense for us to be so concerned with this on a national level. Writers Michael Barbato, Margaret Barlow, Geoffrey H. Still, I was mildly surprised by how prominently security issues cropped up in this week’s issue. Bliss, Alecia Crawford, Neil DeMoney, Maximiliano Herrera, Whether it concerns our parking lots (see “Grand Theft Auto Brick City,” page 8), or our computer Jen Loomis, Evan McNamara, Emily Mohlman, Chukwuma networks (see “Put That In Your Pipe and Smoke It: How Hackers are Shutting Down Hash Functions,” Morah, Andy Rees, Christopher Tosswill page 18), security is a big deal.

aRT As Americans, I feel like security is something that we frequently take for granted... until something art director Susie Sobota goes wrong. While there are the lone few who worry about anything and everything, most of us staff designers Evan Anthony, Ryan Moore, don’t trouble ourselves — even when, perhaps, we should. For example, most of us didn’t give a Kelvin Patterson thought to how regulated our market should (or should not) be until just recently. Now, everyone’s ad designer Lisa Barnes got an opinion. Would we be in this situation if there were more people actively concerning them- selves with the security of our market? Likely not. Photo editor Eric Drummond staff PhotograPhers Kate Bubacz, Ben Liddle, As college students, I think we’re especially susceptible to a false sense of security. We’re a fairly Thomas Liggett, Chris Valites insulated community — many of us have barely ventured into downtown Rochester, for goodness sake. Even as we are inundated with news of global crises, most of us don’t really feel like it’s going staff illustrators Katie Anderson, to affect us. This is a big problem. Robert Modzelewski, Sara Wick cartoonist Michael Dennery Now, I’m not saying that we there should be widespread panic over every little thing. But if we continue to take our security for granted, we’re going to keep running into trouble. PRODucTION Production Manager Kelvin Patterson What do you think, RIT? Do you feel secure? Printing Printing Applications Lab President Destler shows off his electric powered bike to the Rolling Tigers Motorbike Club at their Bike Rally on October 12. Photograph by Eric Drummond. buSINESS PuBlicitY Manager Lindsay Block Laura Mandanas ad Manager Kyle O’Neill editor in chief letters to the editor pg. 06 at Your leisure Business Manager Timothy Wallenhorst How long does it take to clean sex out of a couch? custoMer service rePresentative Kaity Werner news pg. 08 features pg. 18 ONlINE grand theft auto: Brick citY hoW hackers are shutting doWn hash functions online editor Chris Zubak-Skees A second Honda Accord has been stolen. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. forecast Brick citY aluMni aDvISOR Hockey is back. Oh, how RIT has changed. Rudy Pugliese sg uPdates New Student Center, iTunesU, YeleHaiti, and more. sports pg. 27 cONTacT rit finds neW WoMen’s BasketBall coach Main 585.475.2212 leisure pg. 10 Getting to know Coach Reed. eMail [email protected] rePorter aPProved electives advertising 585.475.2213 Regisration starts October 14. views pg. 28 eMail [email protected] Piranha Word on the street Sushi on Park Street. If you had one night to spend with Bill Nye, what would you do? sPill it rings Dorky dancers and timid jokers. Call us! gaMe revieW intolerance Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. Chris Tosswill thinks the wall between church and state is crumbling.

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dear RepoRteR, week, but I loved it. Got paid $25 a week, “screw that!” — it was weird… She wound up don’t do work” or “photo students have it easy.” work at institutions such as the National for that matter, step back and ask yourself Thank you for the great article in your and that is pretty much what I lived off of for teaching the basic photo course there after In our major, Biomedical Photographic Retina Institute, Colombia University, Fuji, what you are basing your judgments on. September 26 edition recounting Ray three years. taking it!) Communications, a lot is expected of IBM, Canon, Zeiss MiceoImaging and the As Benjamin Jilson said in last week’s letter Kurzweil’s recent talk at RIT. As a 5th year Scholastically, I was either on probation I spent 3 years at the AP, and then moved to us. In addition to microphotography and/or Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. to the editor, “Don’t be stupid enough to judge Bioinformatics student I found him truly (didn’t give a crap about homework) or the Portland, Maine, where I am now. I freelance ophthalmic photography courses, we take Our professors expect a lot from us in an activity without actually trying it first.” inspiring and have referred to his talk so Dean’s List (did the homework), but I realized as an editorial location photographer for a numerous art, science and mathematics Biomed Photo. To be successful in this major, many times that my friends and instructors that the hands-on experience I got at Reporter variety of businesses. It’s fun. courses (including classes in digital media, we have to work very hard. It’s difficult to hear Kate Palitsch, 3rd year are getting tired of hearing me. However, was worth more than the “education” I was You probably know that Anthony Suau was calculus, medical terminology, human biology, people say otherwise, especially when the Biomedical Photographic Communications while your article was accurate, it neglected getting. I graduated with a C, but after four a Reporter photographer. He got the Pulitzer web design, and audio visual production, majority of the time, they do not even know Lynette Serbinski, 4th year to acknowledge the Caroline Werner Gannett years had a portfolio that the AP and Black in 1984 for the work he did in Ethiopia about to name a few). We learn to use variety of who we are or what we do. Biomedical Photographic Communications Project’s sponsorship of Mr. Kurzweil’s talk. Star said was very good for a college graduate. the famine there. Also covered the Russian different programs, such as Photoshop, Flash, So before you make judgments on photo I am currently taking a course based on their It wasn’t just homework — it was published. revolution, in Moscow at the White Houe the Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign, and Final majors, packaging science majors, hotel speaker series, which allowed myself and a 1977 was the year we went to full color night it happened. He was a great guy, and I Cut Pro. After graduating, Biomed students management majors, or any other majors, few other students to sit down over lunch for every week, which was quite the thing at the wish I’d seen him since. an interview with him. I got to see there is time. Actually, it was fall quarter 1977, and Thomas Temin, Diane Snow, Mitch Klaif, actually remarkable amount of consideration the editor at the time fired the Photo Editor so and a lot of others are at the Washington Post, and work behind the scenes that goes into I could get the issue out. He didn’t trust the Wall St. Journal, and places like that — they all making the annual speaker series happen. guy in charge at the time to do the job, so he got the “bug” at Reporter. Their goals are consistent with RIT’s whole begged me to do it. I HAD to get out of school This is getting long. Anyway, keep up the “innovation university” kick and it comes that fall — I was running out of money. I told good work. And good luck to you follow your together so well that I thought it would be nice him I would, but I couldn’t make meetings and dream — it will take you to it! to give them a little credit. Nice job guys! would work weird hours, (we were required to make editorial meetings and had to be in Brian Peterson Thanks, the office at certain hours) – I HAD to get out of Reporter Photo Editor 1974-1977 Aubrey Bailey, Fifth year there. He said “OK” and we did it. Bioinformatics I left Reporter for the Associated Press in New dear RepoRteR, York, again as a photography editor. I was the We were very offended by last week’s Word on dear RepoRteR, first RIT hire they ever had, and somehow as a the Street question, “What’s the easiest major My name is Brian Peterson. I was a result an internship was set up for students, at RIT?” First and foremost, by simply asking sports editor photographer for Reporter my first year at RIT if I remember correctly. James Gleason (Photo this question, you’re looking to start problems. copy editor in 1973, and the photography editor for Reporter Journalism instructor ) was a friend of Eddie How can a student answer this question without business manager for 3 years, 1974-1977. Adams at the time, and that might have had offending someone else? And perhaps more writers I want to say that it is nice to see that the something to do with it. I don’t know if that importantly, how can a student definitively online editor Reporter is still alive and kicking. I have been internship is still extant. answer this question when they have not been photographers checking in from time to time to see what I CAN tell you that the current supervisor of a part of each and every major? The answer designer is being published. I can tell you that you photography at the AP is Susan Plageman, is they cannot, or at least they cannot do so are putting out an interesting, colorful, and who was a fellow Photo I student. She left after accurately. The student can only guess based informative issue every week. The online second year to go to the Columbia School of on their own stereotypes and perceptions as version is what I see, and it is great. Journalism for Photo J, thence to the Indianapolis an outsider. Asking a question that forces an My work at Reporter taught me a lot — the Star, where she was a photographer. (I got individual to rely on stereotypes is disgraceful. weekly deadlines forced me to think, produce, accepted also, but they would not accept credits As photo students, we are personally quite and get the job done. It was about 60 hours a from RIT for some reason, so I said tired of the stereotypes that “photo students

6 Letters | 10.17.08 POPulaRITy Of acaDEMIc PaRkINg lOTS RIT fOREcaST Sg uPDaTES compiled by Alecia Crawford compiled by Geoffrey H. Bliss

SOaPbOx DERby DISPlayINg “SPIRIT” IN ThE NEW STuDENT cENTER

18 The lawn between Buildings 70 and 17. 12 p.m. The Alpha Phi Omega Fraternity wishes to give Spirit’s pelt a permanent Cheer on students as they race their creations place in the new student center when it opens. Spirit was the original living for bragging rights in this CAB special event. and breathing tiger mascot of RIT. The tiger was said to be part of their

SaT Cost: Free. $10 faculty/staff, $7 other. initial investment, as many brothers put forth financial contributions to help acquire him. Spirit was purchased in 1963 from a zoo in Dallas, Texas and lived in Seneca MEN’S SOccER vS. uTIca Park Zoo when he wasn’t being featured in RIT athletic events. Fourteen months

19 RIT Field. 12 p.m. Come support the Tigers later, the tiger suffered from pelvic and joint problems and was put to sleep against Utica. Cost: Free. in 1964. His pelt can be seen today in the RIT archives, located on the third floor of the Wallace Library.

Su N Dr. Heath Boice-Pardee, Associate Vice President of Student Affairs and advisor to Student Government (SG), explained, “Spirit would have to kept in a climate-controlled area in order to be stored correctly. Still, there are chaNgE IN RESIDENT OPEN JaM many on campus who would be opposed to doing this and it could anger

PaRkINg PaSSES 20 High Fidelity, 170 East Avenue. 8 p.m. Open many students.” 3018 2008-9 jam night hosted by Joe Lana of Uncle Plum. CAB representative Megan Maksymowich added, “Perhaps it would be better 2615 2007-8

ON Must be 21+. Cost: Free. to have a framed picture of him hanging instead.” Boice-Pardee noted, “This could also be done in a more respectful manner.” M

ITuNES u aSc PRESENTS: PREPaRE aND cONquER STuDy “iTunes U will be up and running by winter quarter,” said Gerry Brunelle, SkIllS WORkShOP 21 Director of Services. iTunesU allows students and faculty to find, download Sol Heumann (47-1016). 7 p.m. Learn how and keep up-to-date with lectures, music, and related videos of universities to be a better test-taker to make up for that and cultural institutions throughout the country. For more information,

for the second time this year, cases are incredibly similar. “I’m easy target,” said Lezette. TuE midterm you may have bombed. Cost: Free. visit www.apple.com/education/itunesu. a car has been stolen from the kind of shocked that it was the Lezette also added that security RIT campus. According to the exact same car,” said DeBerto, in the areas of the thefts has yElEhaITI Grand media crime report, the incident adding that he thinks the been increased, and that Public JOhN WOOD: ON ThE EDgE Of clEaR MEaNINg During the opening session of Speak to the Senate, where students are happened sometime on October two thefts involved the same Safety is thinking of putting 22 Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue. given the opportunity to voice their opinions to SG, the Caribbean Student 2 while the vehicle was parked person. “The circumstances up more security cameras. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. See some interesting pieces Association spoke to the senate about Haiti, which was struck by Hurricane in the Perkins Green Apartments. are way too similar.” Lezette stressed that the by John Wood. Cost: $6 with RIT ID. Gustav earlier this year. The car was an older Honda Meanwhile, Public Safety has prevention of more auto thefts “Haiti is in peril,” said a representative from the group. “800 Haitians are Theft WED Accord, which was the same been taking action to deal with is a top priority for Public Safety. already dead and 300 are still missing. People’s livestock are gone, their crops model as the first stolen car. the problem. “We always survey Students who own vehicles are have failed and there is massive starvation.” Blake DeBerto, the owner of the areas where vehicles were advised to always lock their vaNTagE POINT The student group is working with YeleHaiti, a grassroots project started Auto the first targeted car, recently stolen or broken into,” said doors, roll up windows, remove Ingle Auditorium. 9:30 p.m. Gain some by Grammy Award winning musician and producer Wyclef Jean. Their goals found his vehicle abandoned and Rod Lezette, Assistant Director or stow and lock away valuable perspective with this installment of CAB’s are to increase social responsibility on campus by building awareness of

Brick City stripped down. The car’s stereo and Investigator for Public objects, and remove their stereo’s hR23 Thursday Night Cinema Series. Cost: Free. international relations, especially in Haiti. The group hopes to have the

and tires had been removed, and Safety. Public Safety has been faceplate if possible. Lezette T help of SG and RIT to undertake fundraising efforts and in seeking eventual the inside suffered damages. conducting lot audits, which noted that “people who use corporate sponsorship. For more information, visit www.yele.org. “To say the least, it didn’t really involve observing cars to see how these lots can help [them] by surprise me,” said DeBerto likely it is for them to be targeted reporting suspicious activity.” MEN’S club hOckEy gaME vS. cORNEll aRT SuPPlIES IN caMPuS cONNEcTIONS

on the condition of his car. In by a thief. The surveyors will DeBerto advised, “I’d like 24 Frank Ritter Ice Rink. 9:30 p.m. Watch the SG Public Relations Representative Kari Calenzo addressed that she would fact, he’s decided to donate check for things like valuable people to research if their Tigers against the Cornell Bears at home. like to have art supplies available for sale at the Campus Connections store RI his car to a police auction. objects left in plain view. Should [types of] cars have a history of Cost: $5. in the Student Alumni Union. The decision to follow through with this is yet f As the Monroe County Sheriff’s a problem be found, Public being broken into, or are easy to be determined. Department continues to Safety will “email the owners to break into, and start taking investigate the car thefts, it that we recently surveyed their better security measures.” • MSOS & RSOS TO havE NEW cREaTION PROcEDuRES should be noted that the two vehicle [and] found it to be an The Senate voted that no new student organizations — both Representative Student Organizations (RSO) and Major Student Associations (MSO) — by Margaret Barlow | illustration by Robert Modzelewski will be added until SG writes a new version of its bylaws.

8 News | 10.17.08  MODERN EuROPEaN hISTORy - 0507-302 TyPOgRaPhy– 2010-302 REPORTER aPPROvED claSSES by John Howard | illustrations by Katie Anderson “...Because everyone should know it.” “It is good information to Chris Zubak-Skees, Online Editor know even if you aren’t interested in design.” DEaR RIT STuDENTS, Description: Ever wonder what was Susie Sobota, Art Director I am writing you on behalf of the staff at Reporter Hence, we have enclosed a list of classes that may going on in Europe while we were all that, as a whole, is very concerned with your well- help bring some relief to the strain you are feeling. wrapped up, being depressed in the Description: A lecture/ being. We have heard that you have been stricken The list includes a series of classes we have all 1930s or stop to think how WWI and studio-based class where by the grim event of an approaching registration found beneficial in similar times of struggle. WWII affected countries other than students will get experience in the history, principles, and methods of and the anxiety that inhabits it. Our hearts go out Please consider the list when as you proceed with America? If you want to expand your typography as means of visual communication. Students will apply what to all of you facing this stressful time. It is never your recovery, as we have all found the results knowledge on these two areas as well everything that happened in Europe they learn from the lecture to the studio in order to create projects aimed one that comes easy. quite soothing. in the twentieth century as it crescendoed into the twenty-first, then you to solve communication problems and develop their computer skills. Perhaps your body just needs a change: A new We encourage you to remain strong through these may consider this class. It will explore all the events and movements of availability: Three sections of Typography I available in the 2008-2009 schedule for going about your daily life. The tough times and try new classes that appeal to the 1900s that made Europe what it is today and how those movements Winter quarter. problem may be as simple as filling up those credits you. The following list is only a guideline to the have impacted the rest of the world. credits: 3 to be considered a full-time student. Whatever it is, immense opportunity that awaits. availability: Two sections open in the 2008-2009 Winter quarter. everyone can always use some sound counsel from Good luck and choose wisely and freely. Our heart credits: 4 time to time. is with you always.

Sincerely, REPORTER

WINES Of ThE WORlD - 0621-501 PublIc SPEakINg - 0535-501 ROck clIMbINg – 1112-050 “You could take it with me next quarter! What could be better?” “Great class to improve personal speaking skills, sales presentations, and “I started rock climbing eight years ago because I wanted to get over my Eric Drummond, Photo Editor persuasive writing rolled into one. Counts as an Arts of Expression, too, fear of heights. I took the class because I missed it and I needed exercise. if you don’t want to take a language!” I’m still afraid of heights [but I enjoyed the class].” description: Despite the obvious attraction of drinking during class, Kyle O’Neill, Ad Manager Madeleine Villavicencio, Features Editor this course can offer a lot of beneficial insight if you are planning for a somewhat-executive career. Wines of the World will give you skills and Description: It’s public speaking and the theory behind it. This class not Description: Get your wellness requirements out of the way with this, a knowledge that won’t necessarily get you that job, but will impress your only centers on infamous speeches, but also dissects them, highlighting course in indoor rock climbing and the science behind it. From stretching bosses after they take you out to dinner — after being so impressed by everything from organization to the technology that goes into making a to descent, this class goes over everything you’ll need to improve your your résumé, of course. persuasive speech. Though the course is designed as a requirement for skills as a rock climber. Though a course fee does apply, it is the only thing availability: Four sections are available in the 2008-2009 Winter quarter. communication majors, this class is open to anyone that needs to fill a that will cost you money, as all the proper equipment is provided. This one goes fast. There is a $100 lab fee. free elective. availability: There are eight sections of this class open in the Winter quar- credits: 2 availability: Available quarterly. Four sections open this Winter quarter. ter, but there’s a reason for it. This class is popular and seats will go fast. credits: 4 credits: 0

PROgRaMMINg laNguagE cONcEPTS - 4003-450 WRITINg ThE TEchNIcal MaNual - 0535-446 cREaTIvE WRITINg: POETRy – 0502-451 vIkINg MyTh aND Saga - 0504-465 “Computer Science majors are required to take this course; every other “I made a technical manual with my group about recording a song in RIT’s “An awesome way to exercise “First, [the professor] Saari is practi- computer-related student should be required to take it. In the Real World, sound room. I learned about manual writing and how to use InDesign your poetic soul and earn four cally a Viking herself. Second, you you’ll need a hell of a lot more than the Java you get from the introductory Software.” credits... Not your average Lib- watch a movie every class on crazy computer programming classes. This course will show you just how igno- Rachel Hart, Sports/Views Editor eral Arts course.” Viking adventures of old (be prepared rant you are of life outside of object-oriented code and will then attempt Andy Rees, News Editor to learn a lot about boats). Third, the to correct that ignorance.” description: This course is an expansion of Technical Writing (0502-444), readings are epic sagas! And who knows Jen Loomis, Copy Editor where you with learn all that goes into writing a technical manual from Description: This class explores — you might just discover your concen- researching to designing to writing to editing. Students will design and both open and closed forms of tration. I did!” description: A study of the syntax and semantics of a diverse set of high- produce their own technical document based on what they learn from the poetic language and everything Katie Anderson, Illustrator level programming languages. The languages chosen are compared and class and their skills in technical writing. in between. You will read poetry contrasted in order to demonstrate general principles of programming lan- availability: This class was only offered in Fall quarter, so look out for it and write your own every week, Description: This is a literature class guage design. This course emphasizes the concepts underpinning modern next year. Technical Writing and Technical Writing & Editing through the working towards a final portfolio that will reflect the amount of work you delving in the subject of the Viking languages rather than the mastery of particular language details. Applied Arts and Sciences school will be offered in the winter. put into the class. Don’t be fooled by misconceptions. There is a lot of world through readings of myths, sagas, and folktales. The class will availability: One section is available in the Winter and two in the Spring credits: 4 work involved in this class, but if you enjoy poetry or writing in general, explore these texts, not only as powerful narrative works, but also as a quarter. it’s definitely something to look into. definition of a culture that has been a dominant force in the evolution of credits: 4 availability: One section is available in the 2008-2009 Winter quarter. western culture. credits: 4 availability: One section is available this year, but not until Spring quarter. credits: 4

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dear e, dear e, I’m really crushing on the guy who sits in front of me in class. I want to start a club but I don’t know if anyone would be We tell each other little jokes and say a few things here and interested in Polka dancing. there, but nothing major. The problem is that I’ve been burned by RIT-style creeps in the past, and now I’m too shy to go any Dorky Dancer further. He seems too shy, too. What should I do?

Hey, quiet guy! Turn around and talk with me, already! dear dancer, Well, there is only one way to find out, and that is to start Timid in Golisano asking! The best approach would be to start the process of getting your club recognized. According to the Center for Campus Life dear tiMid, website (campuslife.rit.edu), this is done by filling out an Intent I think you just need to grow up a little. You’re not in high school to Form application. Once you have submitted that and your club anymore, and we no longer live in a world where the male is has been approved, you can start recruiting members. You will expected to make the first move. be allowed to create posters and reserve rooms to gain interest Piranha The word “crush” is generally used by girls in grade school and in your club. You’ll have three months to prove your club will is found to mean puppy love or temporary love of an adolescent. gain enough interest to warrant its existence and finish the Sushi on Park Avenue So maybe you’re just not ready for college-level relationships. application process. But, if you truly believe you are, keep reading. RIT already offers a few different dance-related clubs, including If you want someone to talk to you, talk to them first. It’s as the Ballroom Dance Club, Break Dancing Club, Dance Team, and easy as that. You say you’re already telling jokes to each other. the Swing Dance Club. It might be a good idea to go and check What’s so hard about asking him out after class? Asking someone out some of the clubs and find out if any of their members are out doesn’t have to mean a romantic date. Become his friend first interested in learning Polka, too. If that’s the case, you’d want and then you can decide if he is a creep or not – although my to make sure to have your meetings at a different time so they in the mood for some sushi one ing (meaning a stronger miso for spice, but also mask the over- Piranha is in the mix with cafes guess is that he can’t be that bad if you’re continuing to talk and can attend both clubs. afternoon, I made the trek out to flavor) and was packed full of powering basil taste. and pizza places, between Berkeley tell jokes in class. To be considered a club you’ll need a full-time RIT employee Park Avenue to see what Piranha shiitake mushrooms and tofu — The other rolls that we ordered and Buckingham on Park Avenue. Stereotyping is something that is often done in our society, but member to be your advisor. Before you even apply it might be was all about. I thought I could but lacked taste. Slightly flavored followed the same pattern: Not so Owner and Chef Nick Grammatico you close a lot of doors by doing it. So, by assuming every guy at good to approach a few employees as it could take time to find deal with the construction around water was what I received as an ap- fresh fish and awkward seasonings opened the restaurant this July RIT is or will be a creep, you’re doing yourself a disservice. one willing to commit. Once you have that advisor you can the restaurant until my meal and petizer to my meal, not something that would leave anyone’s palate with a menu blending his previous It’s important to get to know people prior to being in a complete the Application for RIT Club Recognition. my life almost ended prematurely: that energized me for what was trying to figure out what the hell sushi experience at California Rol- relationship. Otherwise you’ll end up being disappointed. Don’t After that’s complete, it’s the waiting game to find out if the A hammer landed just inches from to come. they were eating at a price equal to lin’ in Village Gate with authentic be blinded by this guy’s obvious interest in you. It’s important Club Review Board has approved your Polka club. my table. Some subtle and some not so or greater than that of other sushi Mediterranean tapas dishes. to get to know the guy – as well as other guys – better and then After the near-death experience, subtle twists were hidden in those restaurants around. I didn’t try the Located at 682 Park Avenue, the decide what to do next. e. our meal arrived. The four rolls rolls of rice. The Spicy Tuna roll restaurant’s other specialty (tapas bustling of people going about their People often have different attitudes based on where they are. that my party ordered were of a va- is traditionally a slice of tuna dishes) during my first visit, but day offers a unique atmosphere They can be really quiet in class but really obnoxious with their riety of types; Tres Amigos, Spicy that is wrapped in rice and nori I may be giving Piranha another to enjoy your meal at Piranha. friends. Humans tend to be influenced by their surroundings and Tuna, Philadelphia, and Mistletoe. (Japanese seaweed) with a spicy chance for those. The restaurant features a small by peer pressure. Obviously, though, not everyone is influenced Even for me — by no means a su- sauce or wasabi to up the blaz- You can expect to pay around $15 sushi bar with both indoor and to such extremes. shi connoisseur — the preparation ing flavor. The roll I received was a head here for an appetite some- outdoor tables. However, the lim- After you have spent time getting to know him, whether it’s seemed subpar. made with medium quality tuna, what satisfied (a moderate price for ited seating makes for a confined hanging out in a large group or having an intimate dinner (or I am a huge fan of miso soup. and meat was falling away from sushi in Rochester when ordering meal and an intimate experience is both), you’ll have a better idea of their personality and what’s Being Japanese, I’ve been served the adjoining pieces (a tell-tale sign by rolls). However, the $20 all-you- one thing you certainly won’t find; important to him. You’ll realize that there is more to him than miso soup at dinner for as long of older fish). It was fused with a can-eat with soup and salad that hammers will make sure of that. • those cute jokes he tells you in class. Then, you can decide if you as I can remember. The soup basil paste and was lacking any other restaurants offer seems a want to continue to pursue a romantic relationship, or see if he I was served at Piranha was a semblance of heat. I found myself much more appetizing alterna- by Jason Brown is not what you want in a boyfriend after all. Got problems? Put your issues in ours! Send anything you’ve got to tease. It had the look of a quality dousing the roll with wasabi in or- tive, both for your stomach and photograph by Chris Valites [email protected] or by anonymously visiting reportermag.com miso soup — it had a dark color- der to not only satiate my craving your wallet. e. and using the contact form. •

12 Leisure | 10.17.08 13 REvIEWS 10.17.08 aT yOuR lEISuRE by John Howard SONIc chRONIclES: The game has you guide Sonic’s ragtag team a bunch of lazy people. The art, animation, ThE DaRk of talking animals (who all wear gloves for and sound are in need of a good polish as well. STREaM Of facTS bROThERhOOD some reason) through several locales as they Overall, The Dark Brotherhood is a decent title The first traffic lights that appeared in London were gas- 6 1 4 8 5 WE aRE work together to battle Dr. Eggman’s alter-ego. that should tickle any Sonic fan’s fancy. powered, displaying only the colors red and green. The colors by Chukwuma Morah 3 9 2 1 6 Unlike other Sonic games, The Dark Brotherhood If you’re looking for a satisfactory handheld of traffic signals are often thought to provoke emotion: 2 8 6 1 7 hIRINg! is a turn-based role-playing game (RPG), RPG to pass some time then this could be your Red for intensity and green for tranquility. writers online editor 5 3 6 8 2 If you were in elementary school during the much like the Final Fantasy series. What winner. What’s awesome is that you can play The green fluorescent characteristics of a protein found in sports editor photographers early ‘90s you had a tough decision to make: differs from typical RPG is its battle system: the game with only one hand, making it a must- Jellyfish, called GFP, enable it to be used within cells as a 2 5 copy editor designer Mario or Sonic the Hedgehog? Sorry, Keanu You perform attacks by tapping and sliding have for any (and I mean any) liberal arts class. precise tracking method of the development of cancer.* 4 5 2 1 business manager Reeves, but this was the real “red or blue across the DS’s touch screen like in Elite Beat Just don’t come looking for me when you fail Jerome Monroe Smucker, the name we all associate so 4 5 6 7 3 2 9 pill” dilemma. Me? I chose the blue pill, spat Agents. This keeps you involved in every battle your next test. strongly with glass-jarred strawberry jelly, actually started 8 email us it out after a few years, and gladly consumed and becomes surprisingly addicting. his days with apples, making cider and apple butter. 2 4 7 5 [email protected] the red one when Super Mario 64 came out. The enjoyable battle system of The Dark Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (DS) Apple MacBook laptop batteries are only covered by Considering that all of the Sonic games released Brotherhood almost made me forget how Developer: BioWare AppleCare for up to 300 cycles. After this point, batteries are caRTOON by Michael Dennery within the last decade did not meet expectations, truly mediocre the rest of the game really is. Publisher: SEGA said to only retain 80 percent of their original power, could this year’s Sonic Chronicles lure me back to The story is forgettable at best and moves quite Price: $35 and none of their replacement value. the blue side? slow; it pretty much consists of playing fetch for The 1980 Olympic games were boycotted by the United States in response to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. Other nations that didn’t send athletes to the games included Canada, West Germany, Israel, and the People’s Republic of China. On March 4, 1974, the first issue of People magazine sold for 35 cents. Featured on the cover of this release was an illustrated portrait of Mia Farrow (Rosemary’s Baby, 1968), voice comes off whiney at times — but are In sound, perhaps this could be true, but this who was recently featured in Be Kind Rewind as Miss DaMIERa: generally tolerable. band was and still continues to be beyond Falewicz. M(US)IC Their songs are fast and complicated, but are influential in many musical circles today. Greenwood, Mississippi is home to the largest bible-binding also catchy as hell. “Ember Eason” stands out Build a Nation is the band’s first album in plant in the country, Norris Bookbinding Company. The plant by Evan McNamara as possibly the best of the bunch, as the verse years and works to join the two eras of the also specializes in binding books, magazines, newspapers, has a freakishly good bassline and simple guitar band. At the forefront is a hardcore aggression church bulletins, and other custom work. OvERSEEN aND OvERhEaRD aT RIT adornments that string between massive sing- that is not only present in the fast portions Sati, a now illegal funeral method in the Hindu culture, “My roommate had sex on “Larissa, I need to talk “I’m going to stick a Have you ever been listening to a band, banging a-long choruses. of the album, but throughout the rest as well. was a custom in which a recently widowed woman would my couch. Do you know to you. Please call me condom to the bottom your head while tapping your foot along with It’s definitely foot-tap worthy material, but be Vocalist H.R. adds a unique element with his voluntarily burn herself along with her husband’s corpse, how long it takes to clean without wax.” of my shoe.” the rhythm, when out of nowhere the time warned: As soon as you catch up to one time reggae-styled vocals, the cherry on top of this effectively committing suicide. sex out of a couch?!” • Confusing note left on • Female student signature changes and you feel like a fool signature, chances are it will change in another punk-rock sundae. *Scientists Martin Chalfie, Roger Tsien, and Osamu Shimomura • Student at the RITz, a bike outside of at Crossroads because what once was in rhythm now looks few measures, leaving you behind again and Oddly enough, the best tracks are the dub won a Nobel Peace Prize in Chemistry this year for their discovery while enjoying lunch with Building 70 like a ridiculous twitch? If you have had that looking like a complete fool. tracks, with the closer “Peace be Unto Thee” of the development of this protein. another student feeling (and pardon the run-on sentence) and being a standout. “Until Kingdom Comes” did not care for it much, Damiera is not a band is what Matisyahu wishes he could sound like, for you. baD bRaINS: and “Roll On,” possibly one of the best songs, Build a Nation Damiera plays a very technical brand of is clearly meant to get high to, all the while “We are all tied to our destiny and there is no Way We can liberate ourselves.” upbeat post-hardcore with more time changes by Evan McNamara praising “Jah.” Rita Hayworth than a Swiss clock factory. Taking heavy cues Some people will only like the punk half of this from Washington, DC band Faraquet, the album and some only the dub half. Truth be told, REPORTER REcOMMENDS centerpiece of M(US)IC (pronounced “Us in Some will say that Bad Brains is made up of they will be the ones missing out because what Writing out your course numbers for you will all feel it anyway. But from someone because, believe it or not, you’re not the center music”) is an intricately layered structure built two different bands: One that is a ferocious and makes Bad Brains Bad Brains is the melding of registration. This one is going out to all you who’s been there, be forewarned: Plan ahead. of the universe and you may not get into all your by dueling guitar parts. The vocals are the weak pioneering hardcore punk act, and the other that both styles into one mind-blowing record. first years that have yet to experience the great Write down all the classes you want to take first choices. Have your list, alarm, and coffee point of the album — the singer’s high-pitched is a new-wave dub group. joy of registration day. I’ll spare you the details along with their course numbers in order of ready to go the night before. Keep in mind that of the 6 a.m. stress and frustration that’ll be their priority in your schedule — that way, SIS closes at midnight the night before, so don’t blowing your minds on the morning of October you’ll be registering for the most important plan on looking stuff up after then. Good luck 22 (write that date down, by the way), because classes first. Have some backups as well, surviving the stampede!

14 Leisure | 10.17.08 15 pictures of the solar panels installed on his roof. The panels themselves obtain about four kilowatts in solar power, making his electric bill about $7 a month. Or, Nye joked, “$7.01 when there’s 31 days in the month.” Nye then brought up what he referred to as “vampires,” and displayed a picture of a fanged vampire bat to underline his point. As it turns out, 8% of our electricity is wasted due to “vampires,” otherwise known as unused electrical appliances that are simply left plugged into the wall (such as cell phone chargers and toasters). Nye supported his point with several statistics and stated that everyone could do their part and “possibly change the world.” After he was finished speaking, Traci Bauer, the audience was allowed to Bill Nye at Brick city ask questions. Although the Managing Editor for Multimedia & Innovation, by Alecia Crawford | photograph by Kate Bubacz Student Government President and Vice President both warned Democrat & Chronicle him several times about the time, I was able to get one in. Peter Iglinski, I asked how Don Herbert After listening to three short (from ITS) came to the rescue (otherwise known as Mr. Wizard, Executive Producer of Public Affairs, introductory speeches (including and things really got rolling. the science guy of our parents’ those by President Bill Destler and He talked about his father, generation) had inspired him to WXXI Student Government President Ned Nye, the “Boy Scientist” go into science. It just so happens Ed Wolf), Nye took the stage who really liked sundials — I that Mr. Wizard inspired him Stephen Dawe, as this year’s Horton Speaker mean really liked sundials. a tremendous deal. He would and caused a standing ovation. Ever so naturally, Nye linked watch his reruns, claiming News Director, Seeing him was a throwback to this strange family fact to that “he sent us to the moon.” 13WHAM-TV ABC ast Saturday, memories of the ‘90s, yet here his involvement with Cornell Nye even wrote a tribute to students, parents, he was, still as popular as ever. University, where he received Mr. Wizard in the LA Times faculty, and alumni This was the Science Guy: The his Bachelor’s in Mechanical last year following his death. Andrew Lucyszyn, alike packed the man with the catchy theme song; Engineering. One day, he The hour concluded and Director of Digital Media, Gordon Field House the man who helped me with explained, he put a sundial on everyone went home satisfied to witness an hour my third grade science project; Mars, an achievement that would with his fill of the Science Guy. 13WHAM-TV ABC long presentation my educational entertainment allow scientist to keep time With the stress of school upon us from an eccentric from ages five to nine. on another planet. Nye segued — as well as the commencement Laura Mandanas, man in a bow tie. Nye started by stating that we to talking about the different of our journey as adults and The mood outside were the “space generation,” all temperatures on the four planets the reality of the real world Editor-in-Chief, was gloomy for all the while experiencing technical closest to the sun. Compared to slowly seeping in — Bill Nye those shut out of difficulties with both his portable the other three planets, Earth has reminded us all of the comfort RIT Reporter Magazine the sold-out show, microphone and on-screen Power the perfect temperate given our of our childhood memories and but inside the Point presentation for his first atmosphere. You can probably the responsibility that we now atmosphere was three minutes of stage time. tell where this one is going. hold for the future, all packaged tense with Bill Nye- He stalled and made jokes but Conservation was a major point neatly in an hour-long slot and related anticipation. then “the guy in blue, Andrew” of his lecture. Nye displayed trimmed with a bow tie. •

16 Leisure | 10.17.08 But there’s trouble afoot! Meet Eve, a hacker Unfortunately for Alice (and for the rest of resistance criterion is accomplished in a intent on thieving over the Internet. With her us!), current hash functions will be useless variety of ways; the key concept is that one or bitwise operations obsession, her expertise in in the near future. In fact, some are already more steps must be irreversible. operating system weaknesses, and her large broken and more will fail within a few years. mug of Mountain Dew, Eve has managed to Without suitable replacements, the already Most functions we encounter in our early place herself in the middle of Alice and Bob’s shaky trust that consumers place in the education are reversible. Addition is reversible via conversation. Every message between Alice Internet will become questionable, almost subtraction, multiplication by division, and so on. ackers and Bob must first go through Eve. quaint in its naïveté. For a hash function to work, there must be a step in the algorithm where there is no good means of h determining what information was added, deleted, Put That In Your Pipe and Smoke It: “[Hash functions are] taking as input digital data and or otherwise modified. A trivial example would huttingash compressing it into a fixed-size, let’s say, a fingerprint… be ‘delete the first two letters in a word.’ This is ow very small, very tiny, very easy to store and manipulate irreversible because given the output “elves” you h and compare. If we can almost guarantee the uniqueness would be unable to identify whether the input was re s of that fingerprint, it becomes a very powerful tool.” “shelves,” “twelves,” or something else entirely. a – Professor Radziszowski Second, hash functions must be quick to own h compute. Hash functions are employed d in many secure modes of network traffic. Here is where the danger lies. What’s to stop WhaT, ExacTly, IS a haSh fuNcTION? Therefore, they have to be fast or run the risk functions this eavesdropping hacker from replacing Before diving into hash functions, we need of dramatically slowing down communication. by Jen Loomis Alice’s honest request? Instead of transferring to recall the precise mathematical definition A related requirement is that hash functions $1000 from Alice’s checking account into Alice’s of a function. For those not algebraically- must have a fixed-length output. index fund, Eve could manipulate the message oriented, remember the form from your high to request a transfer of $10,000 from Alice’s school days: f(x) = y. That is to say: If we feed As noted above, hash functions are used to savings account to Eve’s offshore bank account. some input x into a function f, there will be verify data integrity. In doing so, they send extra What’s a girl to do? some output y. data over the network. To avoid unnecessary lag, we want this data to be as small as possible. Enter the hash function. Before Alice sends that For our cryptographic purposes, hash functions For most current functions, the output length transfer request to Bob, her computer hashes it must fulfill four other specific criteria. They is somewhere between 128-bits and 160-bits. to ensure data integrity – this is a typical and must be pre-image resistant, quick to compute, (Recall that computers ‘think’ in binary, so a bit automatic security measure for important producers of fixed-length outputs, and collision- is a simple 1 or 0.) communication technologies. The end result is free. We’ll take a look at all of these in turn. similar to a credit card digit check. When Eve Of course, there’s a problem with producing a Meet Alice. She’s a workaholic RIT manipulates the message text, Bob will be able First criterion: Hash functions are pre-image fixed-length output while still allowing a variable- to detect that it has been altered and will deny resistant, meaning that given output y, it is length input. This is simple set theory. If my student pulling 20 credit hours Eve’s fraudulent request. difficult to derive the input x. The pre-image function hashes to a 128-bit value, the total while simultaneously holding down a part-time job making Ultimate ThE bIRThDay aTTack Let’s pretend you’re sitting in class. Assuming The birthday paradox is the basis for a hash value in one list that equals a value on the Tacos and Hard Drive Paninis in there are 22 other people in your class, what is function-breaking technique called the birthday other list. the probability of two people sharing the same attack. Say I have a valid message m and a the RITz. Seeing the Dow Jones birthday? Seems unlikely, right? fraudulent message f. In order to defraud This problem varies slightly from the original take a nosedive, Alice decides someone, I’ll need to attach message m’s digital birthday problem because we can only Wrong. The probability is right around 50%. signature to message f. In other words, I need compare values from one list to another list. it may be a good time to pick up Here’s the trick. When thinking about this m and f to hash to the same value. I can create Substitute 2n for n in the probability equation question, you’re not looking for “what are the two large lists, one containing variations on m to compensate for this difference. Breaking some cheap stocks. Sitting down in chances that someone in this room shares my and the other containing variations on f. These SHA-1 via the birthday attack would take birthday?” This is an incorrect interpretation. variations are generated by using synonyms, approximately 280 calculations. While that front of her MacBook Pro, she logs What you’re really examining is the connection adding spaces, altering punctuation, etc. The is not a small number, this method could be onto her Bank of America account between any two birthdays, which, in this case, meaning of messages won’t be fundamentally feasibly performed on personal computers gives you the below probability. For n=23, this changed, but its form will be altered. I can then within the next decade. • and starts a real-time conversation value works out to be about 50.7%. hash the values in both lists and try to find a with her banker, Bob. Her request? To transfer $1000 from her checking account into a market index fund. 1 number of possible outputs is then 2128 (that’s two options for each of the 128 in the digital realm, that signature The first blow to the MD5 algorithm landed in MD5 is already broken. The other Students and professors will digits). While this is not a small number, is easily replicable via scanning 1995. A team of Chinese researchers — Wang, Yu, standard, SHA-1 (Secure Hash stand to gain a lot from this contest. it is definitely smaller than infinity, technologies. It is not a sufficient and Yin — discovered and published a collision. Algorithm 1), is also in danger of Since hash functions are so small, which is the size of our input set. Thus, means of identification. Using a process called differential probabilistic breaking. Per Radziszowski, “As far they will be easy to study in the we are bound to have collisions, two cryptanalysis, they found two input values that as I know, there are no [collisions] for classroom. According to Radziszowski, input values that map to the same output value. Alice’s hash function created a digital mapped to the same output value. This discovery SHA-1. However, the expectations “The nice thing is that these will be very signature which Bob could use to verify the spelled trouble. are that such a collision could be found short programs. 100, maybe 150 lines The fourth criterion for hash functions, then, message’s authenticity. Here’s how it works: pretty soon. That’s creating lots of fear in some of C code… something you could explain is misleading. When we say that a hash Once a hacker determines how to generate people because it can have very dramatic to students in an hour.” The public process, function should be collision-free, we mean 1. Alice sends a message to Bob, asking him to collisions for a given message, it becomes consequences….When collisions for SHA-1 are then, could aid students in learning the field of that collisions should be infeasible but clearly transfer $1000 from her checking account possible for him or her to forge signatures. In found, then many important security systems cryptography. Graduate work, doctoral theses, not impossible to detect and compute. to her index fund. our example, if Eve could generate a fraudulent become very weak. It is getting dangerous.” and other pedagogical pursuits could be framed 2. The banking application hashes the message that happened to hash to the same Though there are no known collisions yet, some around this contest. That work, in turn, will hOW DO haSh fuNcTIONS WORk? message, creating a signature document value as Alice’s original message, then it’s a people predict that SHA-1 will be compromised help to whittle down the list of candidates into Remember that Alice thwarted Eve by using to send along with the message itself. done deal. Eve can reuse the signature from by 2010. The walls are crumbling. one prime choice. a hash function to protect her data from This effectively ties the signature to the Alice’s original transmission and could then manipulation. There are two common venues message. trick Bob into helping her steal Alice’s hard- WhaT aRE WE DOINg abOuT IT? ThE bOTTOM lINE for this protection to occur in. The simpler of 3. The banking application encrypts the earned cash. We can’t leave ourselves defenseless, but We are still several years away from agreeing the two deals with authentication. Some web- signature with a key that only Alice and how can we combat the Eves of the world if on a new hashing standard. Meanwhile, our based applications, such as e-mail clients or Bob know. By using her private key, this So, when the original Chinese researchers our current shields are breaking? According protections against hackers like Eve are slipping social networking sites, use hash functions to encryption ties the signature to Alice. published their collision, it was game over to the National Institute of Standards and away. Says Radziszowski, “Unfortunately, protect passwords before sending them over 4. The message travels through public space for MD5. Soon after the find, the standard fell Technology (NIST), we outfit ourselves with science becomes much like politics… there the network. from Alice to Bob. Along the way, Eve apart. Now there are programs available that tougher armor. is a very slow, painful progress. It may take intercepts it. will automatically generate collisions on a time [to break SHA-1]. Nobody knows, I can’t Say Alice, before doing her banking, wants to 5. Bob receives the message and hashes it. given message. In November 2007, NIST issued a predict, but it may well be that it takes check her favorite social networking site. She He decrypts the signature using Alice’s call for a new cryptographic hash [only] another year or two.” We can logs in with her username and password. The private key, and compares that value Part of the trouble lies in Moore’s law, which function. Very soon, the submission only hope that the transition to a new program cannot simply send the password to the hashed value. If they match, Bob dictates an exponential growth in computational period for the contest will be over. standard is smooth. • unprotected because Eve would be able grab it knows the message is legit. If not, he power. Computers get faster and more powerful “The first full submission [is due] and access Alice’s account. The program also knows it’s a forgery. each year. As a result, they are capable of October 31, and then…well — you cannot encrypt the password; it’s likely too performing more calculations at higher speeds. know you can’t predict, it will be short to withstand cryptanalysis. This process bars Eve from altering the This is a problem for the entire field of computer known in a month — but one of The message travels message. If she changes it, she won’t be security. Many encryption schemes and hash the NIST officials [speculated] through public Instead, the program will hash the password able to reuse the accompanying signature functions rely on computational complexity to that we will have 20 submissions space from Alice to before sending it to the server. The result (because it won’t link to the new message) protect themselves from brute force attacks, of acceptable quality.” Bob. Along the way, will then be secure enough to withstand and she won’t be able to create a new brainless attempts to properly guess the Eve intercepts it. cryptanalysis. Moreover, Eve will only know signature (because it won’t link to Alice). concealed value by generating all possible values The vetting of the new the fixed-length output of the hash function and looking for a match. Current hash schemes cryptographic function, dubbed and not its actual length. As the hash function Why aRE haSh fuNcTIONS require an impractically large number of SHA-3, will be a public matter. is irreversible, she will be unable to derive the bREakINg? calculations before the probability of Making the gory details of original password. Hash functions are complicated, for guessing correctly rises above 50% a security measure open sure, but they aren’t bullet proof. (see sidebar). As computers grow more for consumption may initially sound odd; Bob receives the The more complex yet more useful Truth be told, at least one modern powerful, however, these attacks will however, we live in the era of key-based message and hashes application for hash functions lies in a hash function is already broken. become more practical — and eventually cryptography. Most security algorithms are it. He decrypts the concept called a digital signature, which is According to Professor Stanislaw trivial — to perform. well known, published, and freely available for signature using similar to a real life signature. When you Radziszowski of the Computer all to study and implement in code. Although Alice’s private key, endorse a check, your signature is tied to Science department, the the earliest security algorithms were based and compares that both yourself and that check. Both bindings widely used MD5 (Message- Alice sends a on hiding them, today’s security is based on value to the hashed ensure that a criminal won’t be able to write Digest algorithm 5) standard message to Bob, the complexity of the result, a number that’s value. If they faulty checks in your name. has been unsafe for years. asking him to directly linked to the fixed-size output. SHA-3 match, Bob knows “There are collisions for MD5. transfer $1000 is expected to have an output size of 256 bits, the message is legit. Similarly, digital signatures bind to both the Actually, there is software out from her check- which is twice as big as MD5. If not, he knows it’s sender of a message and the message itself. there which can find new ing account to a forgery. The process obviously cannot be as simple as ones in a matter of her index fund. appending a hand-written signature, however; seconds.” 21 Smile 101: Brush-up on the basics Take-home whitening system OR oral conscious sedation. FREE! A $325 value.*

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WhaT WaS RIT lIkE WhEN yOu WERE hERE? TERy OlSzEWSkI bINklEy It was a lot smaller. There are a lot Chemistry of buildings now where I used to Class of ‘58 park. There were very few women in the engineering department, WhaT IS yOuR cuRRENT OccuPaTION? Interior Design alumni Lucy Piper (Class of 2002), left, and Karen Singleton (Class of 2008) as I recall. That has changed I am an RAS engineer (Reliability speak with Chuck Lewis, the Program Chair and Professor for the Industrial and Interior significantly. My recollection of Assurance for Manufacturing Design Program at the Interior Design Reunion. Photograph by Jennifer Abraham. what I’m finding very valuable Engineer) for IBM. now with my own children is the co-op program. They’re making DO yOu fEEl RIT PREPaRED yOu fOR IaN hOWaRD college very affordable [for] the yOuR caREER? Computer Science last three years of school, and Yes. Absolutely. I had wonder- Class of ‘96 JIM MINNO today I think that is more impor- ful professors and many great Marketing tant than ever to be able to bridge classes. WhaT IS yOuR cuRRENT OccuPaTION? Class of ’79 that gap, until graduation. It helps I was working at Microsoft for a to reduce that debt significantly. yOuR favORITE ThINg abOuT RIT WhEN while, but it wasn’t what I wanted WhaT IS yOuR cuRRENT OccuPaTION? MaRy-EllEN cOlEMaN As far as career preparation, I’ve yOu WERE a STuDENT? to do with my degree. So I left and Director of Research at the RIT Computer Science been with the same company When I was a student, I lived in I tried to create my own start-up, Development Center Class of ’86 for 25 years. I’m the Director of Kate Gleason Hall, and we had which never actually started up. [Editor’s note: Jim’s memory of the Electrical Engineering at Quality dances that required that we ask Right now, I’m working for small RIT campus is of quite a different WhaT IS yOuR bEST MEMORy Of RIT? Vision International; we make out a date. If we didn’t go with company, and looking to get into a place. While at RIT, he remembers “I was living in NRH 6, so [one] precision multi-sensor measuring a date, we had to pay a penalty. graduate school. launching hang gliders from the top of day I’m having lunch at Gracies, instruments. Those were terrific because we Ellingson hall and watching Monroe and everyone said, ‘Wow wasn’t Karen Gates Andrew, a 1971 graduate always had big name bands for WhaTSchOOlS aRE yOu cONSIDERINg? County Sheriffs chase motorcycles that such a pain, we had that fire Things have changed a lot since of the school of Retail and Internal the time. RIT is definitely on the list, which through the tunnels during a frat’s alarm last night.’ I’ve graduated. Business used to Design, takes a look at a photo of JOE NOblE is a major reason I decided to “Hell’s Angels Party.”] be primarily in North America her old college friend, Maria Rainone Printing WhaT WERE ThE PENalTIES? come this weekend. I said, ‘What fire?’ and that’s changed significantly. Lewis, (background) a 1971 graduate Class of ‘83 It was never anything official, but WhaT IS yOuR bEST MEMORy Of RIT? We’ve managed to survive by of the Food Administration Program JOE bRaIRback everyone in the hall participated. yOuR favORITE ThINg abOuT RIT WhEN The first day I was in the dorms. It turns out there was a fire on the going global. If we had just stayed on display at Archives Exhibition: Mathematics WhaT WaS RIT lIkE WhEN yOu Sometimes, it was a small fine; yOu WERE a STuDENT? It was raining like crazy and other end of NRH 5 and they had in North America, we probably Women at RIT. Photograph by Class of ‘77 WERE hERE? other times, it was a big dare. I During my third year, my room- my parents ended up leaving. I to evacuate the whole building. would have gone out of business Maxwell Citizen Kepler. Bricks, still the bricks (Laughs): don’t even want to say what my mates and I had a prank war that walked out into the lounge, and Apparently I slept through the by now. WhaT IS yOuR cuRRENT OccuPaTION? ‘Brick City.’ It was a good campus. I friend had to do when she didn’t lasted almost the entire year. The within like a minute somebody whole thing. I had a loft… The RA I’m a real estate appraiser. learned a lot. And it helped me for show up at all! best prank was when I woke up yelled from the balcony, ‘Hey you! looked in the room and didn’t see hOW haS RIT chaNgED? (Laughs) my future career. and I was surrounded by male Do you drink beer?’ I said, “Yeah,” me in the loft and just assumed When I was here there was only WhaT kEEPS bRINgINg yOu back TO mannequins. It might sound lame, and they said, “Get your mug and everyone was evacuated… Obvi- an Electrical Engineering major. WhaT WaS yOuR MOST MEMORablE WhaT aRE yOu DOINg NOW? bRIck cITy? but I was scared out of my mind get up here!” ously, I lived to tell the story and Well, Microelectronic Engineer- MOMENT aS a STuDENT aT RIT? I’m working for Kodak. I man- Well, meeting with all those when I first woke up to that. I still it wasn’t that serious of a fire… ing was new at the time. Now, It would have to be the State age customer service for the terrific people from the [Kate don’t know where they got all I went upstairs and probably six but when I went to my RA and I Computer Engineering and a Championship for basketball my Kodak online photo experience. Gleason] Hall to remember all those mannequins. of the people I met there I still do said, ‘Was there a fire?’ She said, whole bunch of engineering tech- senior year. We won, and it was What I learned here gave me the those wonderful times and those stuff with today. I still hang out ‘Please don’t tell anyone that I nologies — more than I can count absolutely fantastic: Highlight of background in what I needed to dances. And I am just absolutely MaNNEquINS? with them. I was a best man in a didn’t get you out of there’ and I — are available where it used to be my college career! manage different situations. in love with Rochester. I didn’t get it, either. lot of their weddings. said, ‘You bet I won’t!’” just Electrical Engineering.

24 25 FIRST LOOK @ The 2008 Campus Week of Dialogue

Join us for a weeklong opportunity to learn more about the diversity within the Deaf Culture. The Campus Week of Dialogue is one of the flagship events for the President’s Commission on Pluralism and Inclusion. It shines a spot- light on the richness of the communities that make up the whole of RIT and NTID as well as the many important conversations taking place as these communities grow. This year’s keynote presenter is a longtime educator, Reading Between the Signs: author and advocate: Dr. Martina (MJ) Bienvenu Connecting Our Communities Gallaudet University Monday, October 27, 10 - 11:30 a.m. Coach Reed comes to RIT from Gettysburg College, and Ingle Auditorium “Learning about cultural groups is a lifelong endeavor whose aim is RIT Student Alumni Union to give other people the same respect that we desire for ourselves.” brings a mountain of qualifications. She graduated with a The workshops throughout the week include: From the book Reading Between the Signs by Anna Mindess & Thomas Holcomb Bachelor’s in Physical Education, continued on to earn her Student Panel: Organizational Communication and the Master’s degree in Athletic Administration, and was also Deaf Employee Tuesday, October 28, 9 - 10 a.m an assistant coach at Gettysburg College. Beyond this, she NTID, Student Development Center, Rm. 1310 was a four year starter on the Marshall University Division A Panel Discussion: Diversity within the Deaf Community and Deaf Culture I basketball team (the Thundering Herd), and was the Moderator: Professor Patricia Durr captain her senior season. Guard and fourth year Industrial Tuesday, October 28, Noon -1:30 p.m. NTID, Student Development Center, Rm. 55-1310 Engineering major Kelly Votolato notes, “Coach Reed was an Video Presentation and Discussion: Audism Unveiled outstanding player at Marshall, and I am confident that she Moderators: Professors Barbara Ray Holcomb and 2008 Campus Week of Dialogue J. Matt Searls will combine that experience with great leadership skills to Wednesday, October 29, 10 - 11:30 a.m. NTID, Student Development Center, Rm. 55-1300 There are distinct signs in ASL that form the rich and unique language of Deaf help take our team to the next level.” Reed currently plays Culture. Taken on a broader view, there are distinct ‘signs’ that symbolize many Signing in Public Spaces cultures, ethnicities and communities. Our goal is to recognize the signs of our Harrisburg Lady Horizon of the Women’s Eastern Basketball Presenter: Dr. Peter Hauser diverse communities, learn more about them and integrate this learning to Thursday, October 30, Noon - 1:30 p.m. better communicate, respect and understand people. Alliance. She certainly is able to put her money where her NTID, Student Development Center, Rm. 55-1310 mouth is. Training Workshop: Hearing Professors, Deaf Students, Sponsored by the President’s Commission on Pluralism and Inclusion, the Chief Diversity Officer and In basketball, a good coach can mean the difference Interpreters, Note-Takers and C-Print Staff - Building a Team for Academic Success the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology between losing every game in the season and a title. A Presenter: Dr. Rebecca Edwards Friday, October 31, 11 a.m. -12:30 pm All workshops are free and open to students, faculty, staff, alumni and great coach understands that life can be hard for student NTID, Student Development Center, Rm. 55-2102 administrators of RIT and NTID, friends at neighboring schools and col- For more information about the President’s Commission on Pluralism and Inclusion and athletes. Coach Reed believes that “it’s important for any to register for the Campus Week of Dialogue visit: diversity.rit.edu/schedule.html leges, as well as members of the Greater Rochester community. coach to be able to put herself in her players’ shoes when they are experiencing positive moments or when they are facing struggles on the court, in the classroom, or with life in general.” Having been a college player herself, she knows what it’s like to study during the bus ride to the next game, wake up at 6:00 in the morning, and take a full course load. Life outside of the court can severely affect free throws, but that doesn’t mean that a basketball coach is a life coach; Reed must be able to balance the two. On the court, Coach Reed states that her goals for RIT are “to be the team that nobody wants to play because of our intensity and physical play, night in and night out, and to be the hardest working team out there.” Reed says that, in order to get there, “[herself and the assistant coaches’] job is to get the team physically and mentally ready for the start of the season, and we are RIT FINdS going to do just that.” Votolato adds, “Coach Reed has been a good resource for our players regarding conditioning and off- season workouts. We have been lifting, running, and playing New womeN’S pickup games since week two to prepare for the start of the season on October 15th.” When asked what she thinks of the team, Reed responded, BASkeTBALL CoACh “I am lucky to have such a great group of young ladies on my by Maximiliano Herrera | photograph by Ben Liddle team. Each of them has her own unique personality, and it is a lot of fun watching them interact with each other.” The Tigers play their first game in November and have high fter a falling out last year, the women’s basketball hopes. This optimism most likely stems from Coach Reed team was left without a coach. The team, however, herself, who says her favorite thing about coaching so far has Awas resilient. This is basketball, and if you spend your been “without a doubt... the players. They are a great group of time looking at the past, you’ll get left in the dust. With the young ladies, and I believe they are all after the same thing problems of the past behind them, RIT is now getting to I’m after: Putting RIT Women’s Basketball on the map and know their new women’s head basketball coach, Amy Reed. bringing home a conference championship.” • 27 JK8IK:FDD8E;@E>8KK

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