02 19 10 | reportermag.com R.I.T Goes To Semesters Your Get Together Shit TOO Gallery Salon Shuts Doors EDITOR’S NOTE 02 19 10 | VOLUME 59 | ISSUE 20 EDITOR IN CHIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS Andy Rees | [email protected] MANAGING EDITOR Madeleine Villavicencio FEAR AND LOATHING IN HENRIETTA | [email protected] Right now, the campus is buzzing with talk of semesters and petitions and protests. Facebook groups COPY EDITOR Michael Conti bemoan 2013 as the end of RIT as we know it (this presupposes that the world will not end in 2012). Alumni | [email protected] and students alike feel betrayed by a man who, until two weeks ago, was by all accounts a well loved NEWS EDITOR Emily Bogle president. | [email protected] I find it absolutely hilarious. LEISURE EDITOR Alex Rogala It’s got everything that makes for great television. A bleak wintry college campus! An evil banjo-wielding | [email protected] president hell-bent on making children and women cry! Secret votes! Protests! Bread riots! Communism! FEATURES EDITOR John Howard The only things we’re missing is a mad Cossack monk and a balding leader of political dissidents, and | [email protected] we’re ready for an RIT Revolution. SPORTS/VIEWS EDITOR Sam McCord Now, I don’t mean to sound callous or insensitive to people’s concerns. I just happen to think this might | [email protected] ONLINE EDITOR Emily Mohlmann be the funniest way to end my college career. Never would I have imagined that a campus community so | [email protected] frustrated with itself could suddenly become so passionate about the loss of a calendar that drew so much hatred. It boggles my mind. WRITERS James Arn, Michael Barbato, Mike The outrage over this transition has been made even better due to Student Government’s supposed Burns, Michael Conti, Daniel T. Mancuso, Sam “secret vote.” McCord, Alex Pagliaro, Alex Rogala, Moe Sedlak, As much as I love to see SG be vilified, they had the best of intentions, which were colored by bad Amanda Szczepanski, Madeleine Villavicencio, execution. I was at that meeting. This is what happened: Following the official vote on what to recommend Chris Zubak-Skees to Destler — which resulted in a majority vote for the quarter system — they decided to hold a straw poll to test “the purity” of the actual vote. Where they screwed up was when they closed the meeting, turned ART off the cameras and kicked my staff reporter out. ART DIRECTOR Kelvin Patterson The poll, which was unanimously for semesters (minus my abstention – I never vote, even when it | [email protected] SENIOR STAFF DESIGNER Evan Anthony doesn’t count), was done behind closed doors, just ripe for misunderstanding. The results showed this: STAFF DESIGNERS Cassie Angerosa, Nicholas While Student Government had voted for quarters, effectively representing the “majority” of student Tassone opinion, the senators themselves believed semesters were the best course of action. AD DESIGNER Lisa Barnes Pile on a confusing email from Dr. Destler, the announced implementation of +/- grades, and the PHOTO EDITOR Steve Pfost shitshow that is Week 10, and you’ve got yourself a recipe for a PR nightmare. | [email protected] Just remember this as you’re about to storm the Hermitage: It might be emotionally satisfying right Amy Bonner and Rachel Mosetick wait backstage during a dress rehearsal of NTID Performing Arts rendition of “Sleeping Beauty.” | photograph by Michael Conti STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Jake Hamm now to sign a petition or write nasty things on Facebook, but the decision has been made. No amount of CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Aly Artusio- internet-ing will change that. Glimpse, Rigo Perdomo, Mohamed Sadek STAFF ILLUSTRATOR Nate Peyton NEWS PG. 05 LEISURE PG. 12 SPORTS PG. 22 CONTRIBUTING ILLUSTRATORS Jamie Douglas, Gallery Salon TOO: Out of Business Sing Back September Sky 3 Stars Joanna Eberts CARTOONIST Jamie Douglas and Ben Rubin Andy Rees Park Point salon shuts its doors. Banjo Bill a Korean popstar? Dan Ringwald, Danielle Furman and Caitlyn EDITOR IN CHIEF Burr are better than you at sports. BUSINESS Staff Council Reviews PUBLICITY MANAGER Erick Davidson President Destler begins plans for RIT’s next The Stereo Bomb, can you dig it? AD MANAGER Alecia Crawford 15 years. VIEWS PG. 13 | [email protected] At Your Leisure Getting Rid of Your Peanut Butter Before the BUSINESS MANAGER Tom Sciotto SG Update Reporter Recommends: Not screwing up. Aliens Come | [email protected] RIT Admins try to quell concerns over Stop buying stuff. PRODUCTION MANAGER Jayadev Alapati semesters. FEATURES PG. 16 | [email protected] Get Your Shit Together Word on the Street ONLINE PRODUCTION MANAGER Viktor Nagornyy RIT/ROC Forecast Sort your life out. What do you collect? | [email protected] Jamie Douglas and Andy Rees Since when does RIT have an orchestra? ADVISOR Rudy Pugliese by A Dozen Pianos Later RIT Rings Semester Switch Approved Compulsive hoarding examined. MUSTACHE CRABS! PRINTING Printing Applications Lab CONTACT 1.800.970.5406 CARTOON Starting in 2013, quarters will be no more. “We are gathered here today so that you can feel bad about all the things you did last week.” Programming Binge Cover illustration by Nate Peyton Reporter Magazine is published weekly during the academic year by a staff comprised of students at Rochester Institute of Technology. Business, Editorial, and Design RIT hackers help Haiti. facilities are located in Room A-730, in the lower level of the Campus Center. Our phone number is 1.800.970.5406. The Advertising Department can be reached at 1.800.970.5406 ext. 0. The opinions expressed in Reporter do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute. Andy, Clem, Jamie and Ted did snuff for the first time, like proper Victorian gentlemen. Letters to the Editor may also be sent to [email protected]. Reporter is not responsible for materials presented in advertising areas. No letters will be printed unless signed. All letters received become the property of Reporter. Reporter takes pride in its membership in the Associated Collegiate Press and American Civil Liberties Union. Copyright © 2009 Reporter Magazine. All rights reserved. No portion of this Magazine may be reproduced without prior written permission. GALLERY SALON TOO: OUT OF BUSINESS by James Arn | photographs by Rigo Perdomo LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Park Point hasn’t been nearly as successful as Wilmorite had hoped it would be when it opened some 18 months ago. Now, one Dear Reporter, of the anchors of Simone Square, the retail centerpiece of Park Point, Gallery Salon TOO, To start off, I’d just like to let you know that of women should be featured or that they are of the things that I feel like Reporter did well, is preparing to close their doors for good. I appreciate the amount of work you put into the only ones with body image issues. All and offer some suggestions for next time. I Reporter on top of your other obligations both women and men suffer from their own forms loved the piece on the senators. It was very scholarly and social. However, I really feel like of body image issues, which all deserve equal eye opening and clever, and more in the vein the February 5 issue (the Body Image Issue) weight and attention. But why is it okay for of what you perhaps were trying to go for by missed its mark. the fit and slim women of RIT to complain of discussing body image at all. Even your piece As a six-foot-tall, size 14 woman with a lack of bust and not for the voluptuous ones on how beauty has changed was interesting, formidable amount of curves to my name, I to complain of too much? Why are the men in as well as the piece on Kyle Travers of RIT can safely say that seeing “body image issue” this issue portrayed in all different forms and Wrestling. I feel like even the main piece printed on any high-circulation publication is allowed to be happy with who they are, but would have been okay with some greater enough to make me pick it up. Unfortunately, no female equivalent appears? I do recognize variety in models. from the get-go, the recent issue of your that there is a certain time constraint to your In the future, though, if tackling such a magazine made me want to weep for the good jobs, and that a weekly magazine as involved deep and wounded issue, scrap the fluff deed that I know you were trying to do. as Reporter may not always have the time to articles on the history of the bathing suit and Your magazine included no articles on health find the “perfect” candidates for the photo the ways people in different countries see versus body image, which is a fundamental accompaniments to an article. However, this beauty. Talk about how to be healthy, not how topic to bring up in any body image discussion. issue treads on such delicate and sensitive much our world likes thin people. Believe me, Weight should not only be discussed in ground that your inattention to these details we all know. Talk about empowering men terms of beauty, but your articles seemed here is not excusable. and women to live in a way that fulfills and to only point to this (very subjective) facet Finally, while you have no control over enriches them. Talk about going to the gym of the discussion at hand, including the this, I was saddened to see the responses of to add years to your life, not take inches from article naming a size-four waist model as the “Word on the Street” piece.