Fall 2012
Alumni reclaim play with parkour
Charles Moreland ’10 (multidisciplinary studies) walks on a railing and scales a wall while Andrew Salmon ’10 (multidisciplinary studies) jumps a vault and lands with a roll.
“We are not risk-takers,” Salmon says before demonstrating his next move. “We don’t want to get hurt.”
Moreland and Salmon have made a business by playing it safe in a sport that at first glance would make mothers cringe. It’s called parkour and their RocPK gym celebrated its first anniversary this spring. Parkour participants look at and react to the world differently. Instead of walking around obstacles, they jump or climb them. Curbs become balance beams. Park benches transform into vaults.
RIT Renewed as OSHA Training Institute Education Center
Rochester Institute of Technology was renewed as an Occupational Safety and Health Administration Training Institute Education Center, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. RIT has been serving in this capacity for 10 years and offers training courses on OSHA standards and occupational safety and health issues to workers and employers throughout the region.
Since 2003, RIT’s center has served more than 4,000 individuals in general industry, service, building and construction industries. Courses are taught by RIT faculty and instructors in industry who have been selected for professional credentials, teaching ability and real-world experience, says Kitren VanStrander, director of the OSHA Education Center at RIT.
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