01 22 10 | reportermag.com Below 83 When hypothermia sets in Happy Hour Hunting Reporter takes you out for a drink 2010: Job Outlook A challenging environment awaits graduates TABLE OF CONTENTS 01 22 10 | VOLUME 59 | ISSUE 16 NEWS PG. 06 2010 Job Outlook Finding a co-op or job this year might not be so easy. Kathy Griffin SG/Staff Council Update Paul Solt calls for the end of free laundry. RIT/ROC Forecast Comedy! Tragedy! Magic! LEISURE PG. 10 Happy Hour Hunting: The South Wedge Reporter takes you out for a drink. th Reviews Friday, Feb 5 Vampire Weekend is the only good kind of vampire. 8 pm (Doors open at 7 pm) Gordon Field House At Your Leisure Interpreted Extra big, for your pleasure. $17 - RIT Students FEATURES PG. 16 $26 - Fac/Staff/Alumni Below 83 When hypothermia sets in. $41 - General Public Winter Exhaust Car care tips for winter driving. SPORTS PG. 22 Photo Essay: Tail Gating RIT cooks up some team spirit. Tigers Shut Down Crusaders RIT Men take on Holy Cross. VIEWS PG. 27 Artifacts That is one seriously big snowman. Word on the Street How would you like to be frozen alive? Patrons enjoy food and drinks at the Distillery on Mt. Hope. | photograph by Rigo Perdomo RIT Rings Can you really mix Adderall and Xanax? Cover photograph by Aly Artusio-Glimpse All tickets on sale now at the Gordon Field House Box Office. Public tickets also available at ticketmaster.com EDITOR’S NOTE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR EDITOR IN CHIEF Andy Rees | [email protected] DANCING LESSONS FROM GOD MANAGING EDITOR Madeleine Villavicencio While doing some research for an upcoming article about Reporter’s former editors in chief, I happened “alternative” treatment that nearly eradicated ment for blinding rage at ignorance. It’s called | [email protected] upon an obituary for Philip Fraga, the last editor of the newspaper incarnation of Reporter (in 1968). He epidemics like polio, measles, small pox, chol- sleep. Doctors and scientists have been recom- COPY EDITOR Michael Conti passed away on Christmas day, last month, at the age of 63. He died of pancreatic cancer. era and numerous other diseases and medical mending it for years. | [email protected] I never met the man, but I worked in his office, I sat at his desk, and I do what he did: make the magazine. problems? I’m sure a ton of people bought into NEWS EDITOR Emily Bogle I guess I like to think of him and the many others who have held this job as grandparents I’ve never met. the alternative medicine hucksters when it came to all of these maladies too. But choosing Dear Mr. Rees, | [email protected] Philip Fraga went on from this job to become a combat photographer for the U.S. Navy. He had a family. to waste time, money and resources in feeling LEISURE EDITOR Alex Rogala He went into advertising. He lived in Virginia. The choices he made, the places he went, the genes in his good about them doesn’t mean anything when I was recently catching up on back issues of | [email protected] body, all brought him to December 25, 2009. you’re in a wheelchair or dead. Reporter, of which I am a big fan, and I was FEATURES EDITOR John Howard So if you would excuse this indulgence, I just wanted to take this opportunity to say goodbye to one of a little disturbed by your comments in the | [email protected] Reporter’s own. I’m not a very devout man, by any means (see “Letters to the Editor” on pg. 5), but I’d like to Moving on from what I thought was the most 12/11/09 Editor’s Note. idiotic part... No, wait. He actually admits that SPORTS/VIEWS EDITOR Sam McCord believe that there’s something else after death – some great newsroom in the sky. Whatever it is, I’m sure functionality isn’t important when it comes to To quote you directly, “Christmas doesn’t have | [email protected] Philip is there. medicine. Not only that, but we should pour to be some overbearing religious holiday, it’s ONLINE EDITOR Emily Mohlmann Reporter’s condolences and prayers go out to the Fraga family. Farewell, Philip. millions of dollars into treatments that have just a wonderful excuse to take the time to feel | [email protected] not been proven to work under repeatable, something in an otherwise bleak world.” testable circumstances. Brilliant. The article says that alternative medicines are “generally As a Catholic, I was quite offended by your WRITERS Sam Angarita, Brendan Cahill, Leanne less expensive and have fewer harmful side choice of words. I am not a religious zealot Cushing, Jessica Hanus, Laura Mandanas, Viktor Andy Rees effects than conventional treatments,” and who forwards all of the “Keep CHRIST is Nagornyy, Andy Rees, Alex Rogala, Moe Sedlak, EDITOR IN CHIEF that “traditional medical doctors claim that CHRISTmas emails” and I am not insulted Amanda Szczepanski, Madeleine Villavicencio, alternative treatments are not as effective as by those who choose to wish me “Happy Chris Zubak-Skees conventional medicines, branding them as Holidays” as opposed to “Merry Christmas.” placebos. Still, progressively more people are However, the roots of the Christmas holiday Opinions expressed in Letters to the Editor are convinced that they are effective.” Make no are undeniably based on a religious occurrence ART solely those of the author. Reporter reserves the mistake, alternative medicines are placebos. ... namely, the birth of Jesus, whom Catholics ART DIRECTOR Kelvin Patterson right to edit submissions on the basis of content, That is why they are cheaper and ineffective. revere as their one true God and savior. | [email protected] length, grammar, spelling, and style. Letters are not As for more people being convinced about SENIOR STAFF DESIGNER Evan Anthony guaranteed publication. Submissions may be printed their effectiveness, a happy lie doesn’t make Now, I am well aware that religion is a very and reprinted in any medium. Reporter will not run anything true. Neither does a large group of tricky subject and I do not easily take offense. STAFF DESIGNERS Nicholas Tassone responses to letters that are responding to a letter. people believing something make it true, just But for the editor of a magazine, a literary AD DESIGNER Lisa Barnes ask anyone who thought the Earth was flat and publication whose sole purpose is to reach an PHOTO EDITOR Steve Pfost Holistic Medicine Backlash: the center of the universe. educated readership at an institution of higher | [email protected] Just for the Hippies! learning through the written word, I am a bit STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Aly Artusio-Glimpse by Luis Miguel Luna, Third Year Moving on to the less infuriating arguments, taken aback that you would not choose your Mechanical Engineering Technology eating organic is not an alternative suggestion. words more carefully. CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Chris Langer, Every doctor you will ever meet will tell you Rigo Perdomo, Mohamed Sedak After reading James Arn’s arguments for the good old diet and exercise line for improv- I find the Christmas displays that appear in STAFF ILLUSTRATOR Stu Barnes alternative medicine, I felt like I needed a ing your health. The fact is that much of the early November to be overbearing. I find the CONTRIBUTING ILLUSTRATORS Jamie Douglas, painkiller. To push unfounded claims such as “food” we eat today is a load of high Fructose 24 hour Christmas movie marathons to be CARTOONIST Ben Rubin, Jamie Douglas the ones outlined in that article was, at least, garbage wrapped in grease and artificial overbearing. I do not find anything whatsoever irresponsible in the highest order. flavorings. There are genuine scientifically overbearing about the religious implications of provable, medical benefits to eating healthily a holiday that brings joy to so many people. BUSINESS There’s a reason that “western society has a and plenty of literature on the subject (a few PUBLICITY MANAGER Erick Davidson fascination with modern medical science.” books written by Michael Pollan, for example). I’m sure it is difficult to write an appealing AD MANAGER Alecia Crawford Simply put? It works. I was shocked to see that It’s not an alternative, people just forget that editor’s note to such a diverse readership, and | [email protected] James actually invoked the placebo effect, a it’s the first option. I applaud your efforts ... I just hope that future discovery of modern medicine by the way, in efforts can be fashioned in a way that com- PRODUCTION MANAGER Jayadev Alapati Jamie Douglas and Andy Rees his defense of alternative medicine. Sure, I’ll As for acupuncture, maybe it has merit. I municates your opinion without slighting the | [email protected] by play along. haven’t seen these studies, but if what James opinions of others. ONLINE PRODUCTION MANAGER Chris Zubak-Skees says is true then that’s great and there’s a rea- | [email protected] What’s the difference between believing that sonable scientific explanation for such success Regards, CARTOON you feel better and actually feeling better? that we simply do not know. With research SURVIVAL. I can feel real damn good about into acupuncture, maybe we will be able to Elissa Nyerges, Fourth Year ADVISOR Rudy Pugliese the knife in my back as a result of adrenaline, harness the reasons behind its success. But Professional & Technical Communication PRINTING Printing Applications Lab “Well, the other option was to get naked and crawl in a sleeping bag together.” shock or stubbornly choosing to do so, but ask then it won’t be an alternative will it? That’s CONTACT 1.800.970.5406 any intelligent, sensible person if they’d rather because, to quote a friend: There’s a name for have that fixed and they’d say yes in what few “alternative medicine” that actually works.