K. I. T. COLHtTION REPORTEMay 13, 1988 R THE HOUSING CONNECTION Working daily to make a difference for you! Every day our professionally trained staff assists members of the RiT community with their housing needs. Searching for housing? Need a roommate? Have a room or apartment to rent? Let us heip! The Housing Connection Kate Gleason Hall 475-2575 A free service of the Department of Apartment Life and the Division of Student Affairs. May 13, 1988 CONTENTS Volume 64, Number 25 Reportage 6 Reproview 22 Departments Ri r engineering students participate Slam dancing to the Ramones. Letters 4 in annual all-terrain competition. Care-free, even childish attitude of an Zodiac 10 Two scholarships were presented to RIT up-coming two member group. Tkb Ads 28 for students in Computer Science and What's Happening SO Scoreboard 26 Business. Women's softhall team finishes by Cover Photo: RtPORFKR ends another RIl has reached original $85 million season and looks good. hosting double header. goal and strives for $15 million more. Track and field have just two weeks. Paul Burke, Rolling Stone illustrator, Men's tennis team closes season. shares experience for art students. Fourth-year Computer Science student want recognition. Features 16 & 19 Ken Huth displays his best work from past four years at RIT. RIT Spring-a-thon is a success in breaking the tension for students. Cover Story 13 Rkpori kr highlights a year in review REPROFILE Crowing up is an ongoing challenge in high school three significant events my emanators. Now 1 can have a beer and life It is a beautiful cherubic smile occurred which changed my life. shoot the bull with my dad. Even mom followed by a single blinding tear. Referring to the essays 1 had written on and.l can hang out in the kitchen and Growing up is pieppiered with victories; the final exam, my history teacher told curse the clouds away, and 1 don't have to losses, passion, hatred, courage, fear, joy, me that whatever I did, 1 shouldn't write worry about getting my mouth washed and sorrow. It's a time of lover's eyes, of About the same time I was struggling out with soap My parents have grown up hniken hearts, of castles made with sand, with Honors English. \jy teacher with me of shattered dreams. To me the state of informed me that I had better get out of Like most graduating seniors, 1 can't being grown up means being able to the honors class because 1 wouldn't make wait to walk away from the multitude of think for yourself; to make decisions it through Advanced Placement the bricks for the last time to kiss all the rules relevant to the time in your life In our following year. 1 finished out the course and infamous red tapie good-bye, to live lifetime we reach several plateaus of and took a class in journalism the without the grueling credit hours. reality and maturity. Within college we following year. By the end of my senior Simultaneously, a wave of melancholy achieve certain plateaus; academically, year 1 had half a dozen published articles engulfs me as 1 think of all the familiar socially, and personally. As we reach each and won the first journalism award at my faces 1 will never see again. Isn't it ironic plateau, we gain confidence in our high school. A quote which fits these that we work so hard to complete the abilities and have something to offer. circumstances is, "Have success and there journey of academia, only to feel a great The sum of all experiences is will always be fools to say you have no sense of loss in leaving it all behind? wisdom. We listen, read, write, think and talent," by Edward Pailleron. Everyone 1 have ever met and spoken learn. My father gave me some good I've come a long way since then. with has had an impact on me. A advice a long time ago: "Don't put in When 1 was younger, 1 thought that being collection of memories, ideas, values, words what you don't want the whole allowed to sit at the grown-ups table phrases, thoughts, and opinions make up world to know." I've never forgotten it. meant you were grown upi This involved my exfierience 1 will never stop growing Choose your words carefully. Think leaving behind food fights, length-of- before you speak. Impatience breeds tongue contests, excessive whining and insensitivity and carelessness. There is no kicking your little brother under the excuse for either when it comes down to table This signified that it was time to a person's feelings. move on. Over the years, my piarents have Mark Twain once stated, "Let us be had the strongest impact on me 1 have thankful for the fools. But for them the moved slowly away from the days of rest of us could not succeed." During defiance to a growing understanding of REPORTER MAGAZINE is published weekly during the academic year by students at Rochester Institute of Technology. One Lomb Memorial Drive. Rochester. 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With Executive Editor Liddy is the product of the military- her fire, Stefa has warmed all her students. industrial complex, while Dr. Leary is the No amount of thanks can equal this gift But Kris Argento result of an academically idealistic era — an like the song offered in the mov ie To Sir With Senior Editor era when society wasn't as career-oriented as Love, this letter is offered as an attempt Stefa, Nils Morgan today — and both are members of a thank you for everything from the "spiders," Copy Editor different generation than the students who to the after-class discussions, to the Marco Abundo attended. Each presented diametrically oppiortunity to perform. From the laughter, Mews Editors opf>osed viewpioints of American society — to the sweat. From the teaching of rotation Kris Loomis governmentally and individually — from a to the teaching of respiect But most of all for Manuel Rivera different historical pierspective than we have the teaching of love News Writers as students in the late 1980s. As students, we Dancers of RTF David Martin Claudia Lastella should not just absorb the opinions of these Bill Norton Patrick Deupree gentlemen, let them do our thinking for us, We Did! Heather Ann Ricker Cosmo Tedone or worse, pass off their opinions without a Feature Writers ihoughL but evaluate these opinions using 1 am writing to correct you on a remark Joe Marini our own backgrounds and pierspectives in repiorted in the Rf.P()RI"ER article "Leary Mark Tiffany an honest, f>ersonal way. Although both and Liddy Philosophize in Ingle" which was speakers are the quintessential eloquent Entertainment Editor printed in the May 6 issue This article states statesmen of each viewpoint, we are the Lou Masella that '...Mr. Liddy wore a conservative brown future of America, and the future begins suit which a student later criticized him Entertainment Writer now. As we mature into full participatory about..." 1 am that student and 1 did not Doug Jerum involvement in American democratic criticize him on his outfit at all; he just Sports Editor society, we must begin to develop the brushed off my question by saying that if 1 Chris Martin personal viewpoints and political didn't like the suiL he could go change it I philosophies which will represent us during Sports Writers was trying although pioorly done, to state our lifetime In a career-oriented institution Jeff Gibb that Mr. Liddy and Dr. Leary were just too Greg House such as RIT, where most students are opposite for their supposed hatred to be John Loiars exposed to a more technical, rather than authentic 1 was also stating that they were liberal, education, these points often go Photo Editor made up to be too opposite and that 1 felt unnoticed in day-to-day life It is now time Bruce Strong this "Great Debate" was a big farce My for us to learn our role and to begin to play Chief Photographer question was two-fold and it went like this: our part in American history.