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| RIT students enjoy a late-night feast served by faculty and staff
at the annual Midnight Breakfast held Feb. 24 in Hettie L. Shumway
Dining Commons. This year's breakfast proved to be the biggest ever
with over 1,000 students and 55 faculty and staff members in attendance.
The community-building event, sponsored by the Faculty-in-Residence
program and Center for Residence Life, was created as a stress-relieving
activity for students in the midst of Þnal exams. Pictured
are Barbara Letvin, director, Center for Student Transition and Support,
and Lt. Col. Joseph Pow, Air Force ROTC, taking a student's breakfast
order. |
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| CELEBRATING RIT
TOGETHERNESS . . . |
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| RIT's third annual Celebration of Community, held March 16, featured
speakers, a tree-lighting ceremony on the Quarter Mile and a reception
in the Student Life Center lobby. The event, sponsored by Center
for Residence Life and Residence Hall Association, "is the campus's
way of letting people know visually how committed they are to the
RIT community," says Karey Pine, assistant director of residential
education, Residence Life. Shown are members of the University Relations
Division decorating their "adopted" tree in preparation of the celebration. |
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| MORE THAN 530 MILES
OF CABLE . . . |
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| Michael Widman, Information Systems and Computing network administrator
and Jamie Aymerich, manager of operations, Telecommunications Services,
take time to pose with just a few thousand feet of the more than
2.8 million feet of state-of-the-art category 5 twisted pair cable
being installed in the George Eastman Building and throughout the
academic side of campus. The cable is connected to network switching
equipment at locations in each building. These, in turn, connect
to 8 million feet of flber optic backbone network. The completed
network includes more than 18,000 network connections and will put
RIT among the top flve universities in the nation in terms of campus
ethernet connections. Installation of cable in the academic side
of campus will be completed in November and follows a year-long project
that wired the residence halls in 1996, says Aymerich. "Connection
of individual customer computers will follow wiring completion," she
notes. The wiring upgrade will provide high-speed data connections
for every offlce on campus. |
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| LET THE GAMES BEGIN
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| New York State Parks
Commissioner Bernadette Castro came to Rochester last month to
officially kick off plans for the 1998 Empire State Games to be
held in Rochester this summer. At a news conference at the Rochester
Riverside Convention Center, Castro said the Empire Games will
bring more than 7,000 athletes to Rochester July 22-26 and have
an economic impact on the area of between $6 million and $8 million.
Opening ceremonies will be held at Frontier Field. RIT will host
competition in men's basketball, ice hockey, archery, synchronized
swimming, tennis and weightlifting. Cindee Gray, RIT's director
of community relations and special events, is chairing the local
group's marketing and college and university activities. |
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| ON THE MOVE . .
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| Faculty members in the College
of Science are moving into offices in the new section of the building.
Here, Hamad Ghazle, director of ultrasound technology, prepares
to unpack while Mike Falk (standing) and Alex Lewis work on his
computer. |
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