05 07 10 | reportermag.com GETTING ENGAGED IN COLLEGE The other kind of RIT Rings. THE PERFECT MIX Remember: intro, rising action, climax, denouement and conclusion. ROADTRIP TO THE FUTURE Four men. Four cities. One mission. EDITOR’S NOTE TABLE OF CONTENTS 05 07 10 | VOLUME 59 | ISSUE 29 EDITOR IN CHIEF Madeleine Villavicencio | [email protected] My Innovative Mixtape MANAGING EDITOR Emily Mohlmann Every few weeks or so, I abandon the “shuffle play all” function on my MP3 player, turn off Genius on | [email protected] iTunes, and make a playlist. I spend hours listening to track after track, trimming down the set list and COPY EDITOR Laura Mandanas attempting to get the transitions just right. Sometimes, it just comes together; other times, I just can’t | [email protected] quite get it right. But one thing’s for certain: each mix is a reflection of who I am at the time of its creation. NEWS EDITOR Emily Bogle And if it’s good enough and means something, I’ll share it with someone special. | [email protected] LEISURE EDITOR Alex Rogala It crossed my mind to share a complete and perfected mix, but I decided that would take away from its | [email protected] original value. Instead, I’ve decided to share something unfinished and challenge you to help me find the FEATURES EDITOR John Howard perfect mix. Add or cut tracks as you please, and jumble them up as you see fit. And when you think you’ve | [email protected] got it, send that final track list my way. SPORTS/VIEWS EDITOR Daniel Lovria | [email protected] “This Modern Love” by Block Party “Down” by Chris Brown WRITERS James Arn, Nick Buonarota, “The Curse of Curves” by Cute Is What We Aim For Brendan Cahill, Kyle Hugo, Daniel T. “How Do You Sleep?” by Jesse McCartney Mancuso, Joe McLaughlin, Alex Rogala, Tom “I Gotta Feeling” by Black Eyed Peas Sciotto, Moe Sedlack, Amanda Szczepanski, “Wasted” by Cartel Madeleine Villavicencio, Evan Williams “Good Girls Go Bad” by Cobra Starship “Bittersweet Symphony” by The Verve ART “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey INTERIM ART DIRECTOR Caitlin McCormick “You Get What You Give” by New Radicals | [email protected] “Telephone” by Lady Gaga SENIOR STAFF DESIGNER Cassie Angerosa “Bedrock” by Young Money STAFF DESIGNER Claire Eckstrom AD DESIGNER Lisa Barnes PHOTO EDITOR Michael Conti | [email protected] Madeleine Villavicencio STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Chris Langer EDITOR IN CHIEF CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Robert Bredvad, David Williams lets out a yell during the tire flipping competition at the Strongman Challenge during at Imagine RIT on Saturday, May 1. Anna Clem, Aly Artusio-Glimpse, Alexis photograph by Michael Conti Lambrou, Dustin McKibben, Victor Prado, Robert Shook, Theophil Syslo, Foster Snell NEWS PG. 05 Couch Money Gets the Bank Getting Engaged in College STAFF ILLUSTRATOR Jamie Douglas After the NRH Flood RIT students release a mixtape. The other kind of RIT Rings. CARTOONIST Jamie Douglas Dealing with the aftermath of a pipe burst. Reviews Scenes from Imagine RIT BUSINESS Forecast Wiz Khalifa and Streetlight Manifesto. In case you didn’t get to see everything. PUBLICITY MANAGER Abraham Gil “I make them good girls go bad!” AD MANAGER Alecia Crawford At Your Leisure SPORTS PG. 27 | [email protected] Meet Phil & Greg Get up from that computer chair and go Three Stars BUSINESS MANAGER Tom Sciotto Getting to know the new SG leaders. outside! Geoff Dornes, Jamie Morey and Eileen | [email protected] Hennigan. 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No cover illustration by Jamie Douglas portion of this Magazine may be reproduced without prior written permission. C The Rochester Victory Alliance at the University of Rochester of by James Arn photograph by Robert Shook M needs healthy, HIV-negative men who have sex with men, AFTER THE NRH FLOOD ages 18-45 for local studies. Y CM MY CY CMY K The tunnels between Nathaniel Rochester Hall and Sol Heumann Hall. Watching water flow from electrical outlets pipe was quickly identified and repaired. in the local company Allpro Cleaning and and light fixtures is not something you expect Water was then restored to the building. At Restoration, which specializes in water to be part of your college experience, but approximately 2:30 p.m., the emergency power damage. “The first step is to remove that’s exactly what the residents of Nathaniel was restored, and residents were allowed everything that’s wet from the walls,” said Rochester Hall (NRH) saw on Tuesday, April to return to their rooms. One of FMS’s first Vercauteren. To that end, the drywall on the 27. Just before noon, a domestic hot water priorities after that was to restore main power. northern walls of all the elevator lobbies has return line on the eighth floor of the building “We began systematically identifying the areas been removed. Specialized dehumidifiers burst, sending water pouring downwards that were affected, electrically. We isolated and air movers have been brought in to through the walls, along electrical lines and those areas so that when we turned the dry the areas that were the most heavily through elevator shafts. Luke Trapani, a first building back on, those areas would not come damaged. This is mainly the elevator lobbies, year Mechanical Engineering major and NRH on, and it would keep the building safe,” said kitchenettes and the bathrooms that are just resident in the building at the time, said, “You Vercauteran. FMS had full power restored just north of all the elevator lobbies. Vercauteren could put your hand on the walls and feel hot before 6 p.m. estimated that repairs to these areas would 1 1 water rushing down behind it.” Shortly after the power was restored to the take between seven and 14 days to complete. Power and water services to the building building, a fire alarm was triggered, causing Seven of the rooms on the eighth floor had 8 4 were shut off almost immediately after the the building to be evacuated for the second to be evacuated for several days due to severe sizes sizes incident. Although NRH is equipped with time that day. “Sometimes when the power water damage. Housing Operations arranged an emergency power system, it could not be transfers from the emergency power to the hotel reservations and special parking passes utilized because the generator is cooled by the regular power, it can set off the panel to for these students, but none of them took building’s water system. Without this cooling, the alarm, and that’s what happened here,” advantage of the offer. Instead, each of them great for clubs the generator couldn’t be activated without Vercauteren said. opted to stay with friends living on campus. discounts available being badly damaged. Without power in the Getting electrical and water services According to Vercauteren, the burst pipe was online advertising bathrooms, rooms and stairwells, all residents functioning in the building quickly was a an unexpected, but not abnormal event. “The had to be evacuated. The Corner Store, the monumental task. Luckily, departments all pipe broke, it’s just that simple. It happens all NRH computer lab and the NRH Post Office across campus were able to respond quickly the time, water mains burst on streets and were also forced to close. and efficiently. It took the cooperation it happens at RIT. We don’t know why this According to Randy Vercauteren, director of between the Center for Residence Life, Housing particular pipe broke, and not any other pipe. Parking, Transportation and Building Services Operations, Public Safety, Environmental It was just an isolated incident.” [email protected] with Facilities Managements Services (FMS), Health and Safety, Risk Management, and FMS. with questions & inquiries once the water had been turned off, the broken To help deal with the crisis, RIT brought 5 by Brendan Cahill ith a total of 58.39 percent of the vote, the new Student Govern- photograph by Chris Langer RIT FORECAST ROC FORECAST W ment (SG) President and Vice President, Phil Amsler and Greg Pol- MEET lock, won the SG elections by a landslide.