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Reporter Reprofile COVER: Janis Ian, belting out her own composition Pro Girl (which was dedicated to Tricia Nixon), is caught in action by staff photographer Peter Fine. It took a little longer to get Parking has become the number one topic of discussion on this campus, this posterization, since Peter and rightly so. Suddenly students have been aroused by the fact that even shorted out both circuits in the office and incapacitated all though RIT may be within legal limits as far as posting the parking areas is equipment, including our concerned, students have been taken advantage of. $20,000 typesetter, during the People can verbally rule that there is no parking in the first row of the process. Grace Watson Dining Hall Parking Lot (that's the official name we just gave it), and they can "legally" post the lane with two signs ten feet off the ground, BUT it's like hitting below the belt when there is no official written notice. We have yet to hear from one of our friends that owns a car about such a "legal" written document. Despite the fact that there have been many problems not yet solved, we Reporter feel that many of the Institute employees are doing or trying to do their 3 OCT 69 job correctly. Frank Benz, as vice president of business and finance, certainly didn't have to come and answer questions at 12:30 a.m. Saturday Volume 46-3 morning, but he did. EDITOR Greg Enos MANAGING EDITOR MacFarland — Man In Middle Tom Klinkowstein PRODUCTION When Capt. Walter MacFarland arrived at the scene of Friday night's Dennis Boulnois "confrontation," he immediately saw that cars would not be towed. After Jim Rubright all, it's a lot easier to tell the tow trucks to go away than to pick up PHOTO bloody bodies. After a similar incident last year, of which he washed his Tom Lindley hands, it seems that the student voice is being heard. CIRCULATION MacFarland isn't a bad guy. He's in between the safety director and the Bill Henry students, and as such is blamed for a lot of things that aren't his fault. BUSINESS Bill Corbin ADVERTISING Edward Cain OFFICE MANAGERS WITR — The Moving Station Marleen Vavrinec Eileen Crowley We really like the sound of WITR. It's a far cry from the operation that The REPORTER is published wasn't heard outside the College Union last year. Although it's only a weekly by students of Ro- speculation, we seem to feel that program director Kerry Decker is the chester Institute of Tech- nology, One Lomb Memorial difference. Moving the transmitter to the dorm area and aligning a good Drive, Rochester, New York, staff have made the difference. 14623. Editorial and produc- In all sincerity, we would like to applaud the improvement of radio tion facilities are located in room A-238 of the RIT Col- station WITR. lege Union. Phone 464-2212 or 464-2214. The REPORTER is a member of the United States Student Press Associa- tion, subscriber to the College Press Service, and part of the College Press Service Telex Network. Reporter-Page 2 Janis Has Forgotten... She doesn't remember the words to the The majority of her songs were sung as song that sprang her into the music world, she played piano, which she began to play but she does know that one of her dislikes when she was three years old. "My grand- is ROTC. And if teenage songstress Janis mother wanted me to be a great concert Ian had any hesitancy about the reception pianist, but after 10 years it became pretty that the audience in the Clark Memorial sticky." Gymnasium would give her, it was soon The second set included mostly piano lost in a mass of piano compositions. selections, including one she wrote for the Her style was an easy moving one, that Four Tops, which they haven't used. All included humorous quips and opinions the while she kept the moderate size between songs. audience in good spirits. She commented Shortly after her arrival, it was dis- on a wide gamuet of subjects, ranging from covered that there wasn't a dressing room the"old man" (boyfriend) to LBJ. Follow- for her. For some reason, trainer Ray Bell, ing the concert there was the normal crowd who is more adept at patching up battered that had to see the star and get autographs. athletes than finding dressing rooms for She obliged, and headed for WITR.On the way females in a male complex, appropriated the subject of ROTC came up and people football coach Tom Coughlin's office for wanted to know what her opinion was. Miss Ian's use. "Those f s. I went to this school in The first song she dedicated was to Tricia Troy...and I found out that they were all in Nixon. "I can't see how such a nice kid the Army. I just don't like the Army." could be dedicated to a loser. Actually One of the biggest questions was, why she's stuck, just like the person in this didn't she sing Society's Child, the song song." She than belted out one of her that sprang her into the music world and best—Pro Girl, a song about a prostitute. made her career a financially profitable Nixon isn't as bad as LBJ, she cconceded , one? "I don't remember the words," she "...but give him a few months." claimed. "I just don't remember the words. Her next target was Forest Lawn, the At WITR she discussed a number of heavily commercialized cemetery in Los different topics with Marshall Tyler. One Angeles. She established a good rapport of the points she made was that there's no with the audience and had them sing along. sense in tearing down the establishment "All these people with cameras-it's really unless you have something constructive to strange," she quipped. "It looks like there replace it with. must be a million cameras out there." There was one thing that she kept She also took time out to plug her latest chirping every once in a while: "This place album. "I'm not very good at plugging my is really weird..." But her real impression own album...it's called Who Really Cares was probably more like: "This might be a and you can take that any way you want." nice place to visit for a while, but it certainly isn't a place to live." Photo by Fine JANIS IAN — AT WITR (above) AND IN CONCERT (right). Photo by Landskroner Reporter - Page 3 car, which had a deflated rear tire, received during the discussion. MacFarland Promises MacFarland promised that there would be no _nore towing until a formal doc- ument had been completed. As for the damage to Lippert's car, Benz stated that the tower is responsible, with the Institute having secondary liability. Whether he intended to test the parking lot management or not, Lippert is now without wheels and says that he has press- ed charges because of damage to his car. OPERATION TIE-UP PLANNED An RIT co-ed has conceived a project aimed at saturating the nation's capital city with mail and phone calls in order to let the administration know that people are Photo by Klinkowstein displeased with the Vietnam war. Luana Trovati has planned "Operation Midnight confrontation in the parking lot Tie-Up." Mailing letters to Congressmen is phase one. This letter writing was to begin on Wednesday and continue until Oct. 14. If everyone writes to their representative TOWING WILL COST $800 on hand for the Friday night (actually and senator, the Washington, D.C. Post Saturday morning) towing operations. The Ron Lippert isn't the type of fellow who Office will be hopelessly tied up and elder Lippert backed his vehicle into a first gets excited easily, but the night after tow people will will be forced to take note, she row parking space and declared, "They're trucks removed his car from the parking lot feels. not towing this car." And they didn't. near Grace Watson Hail, he let the world The message to Washington is: Unless Meanwhile, the two tow truck crews know about it. Shortly after midnight last you take definite action to insure the stood by and waited orders, since running Friday, when two trucks from Robert over students was not desirable. Once the withdrawal of the majority of American Lashway's Mobile Service Station arrived crowd started to form, Capt. Walter Mac- troops from Vietnam by Christmas, 1969, to begin the normal operations, the second Farland, head of the campus Pinkerton you will not receive my support in the next year printer sounded the call and dorm force, was called. In turn he called in election. residents moved in mass to the parking lot Monroe County Sheriff's Department, Phase two is scheduled to start today. for a confrontation. which had four cars with five officers on Persons are asked to call their Congress- The lot was completed this fall, at a cost the scene. Frank Benz, vice president of men, collect, person-to-person. Even if the of $70,000. There is unrestricted parking business and finance, was also called and representative refuses to accept charges, in two of the rows, but cars can not be left appeared to answer questions and com- the line will be tied up, according to in the first row (CA) after midnight. Signs plaints.