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STUDENTS MARCH AGAINST VIOLENCE . . . |
RIT students
organized "Take Back the Night," the annual protest of violence towards
women, held April 23. The march began in the administration circle and
continued across campus promoting awareness of attitudes, beliefs and behaviors
perpetuating violence. "Our goal is to help educate individuals about how
widespread violence against women really is," says Mani Eghbali, health
education coordinator, Student Health Center. A pre-march rally featuring
noted speakers from the RIT community was sponsored by RIT PIERS (Peers
Informing and Educating RIT Students) and Women's Resource Center.
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| JEWISH
LEADER LEARNS ABOUT DEAF JEWISH CULTURE . . . |
Edgar
Bronfman (second from right), president of the World Jewish Congress and
chairman of the international board of governors of Hillel, the Foundation
for Jewish Campus Life, spent part of a day at RIT earlier this month,
meeting with deaf Jewish students from the National Technical Institute
for the Deaf and learning about activities of the Wolk Center. Bronfman,
chairman of Seagram Co., Ltd. of Canada, has visited more than 40 colleges
and specifically asked to learn more about NTID and its programs. Richard
Joel, national Hillel president (left), Pinny Cooke, former state assembly
member and representative of the Wolk Foundation, and Bronfman heard from
Robert Davila (right), vice president, NTID, and a gathering of NTID students
and staff and members of RIT's Jewish community.
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CAT LOVES THE WATER . . . |
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| The orange-and-black-striped Tigress built by civil engineering
technology students won the regional concrete canoe competition sponsored
by the American Society of Civil Engineers and Master Builders. The
team took first place in men's and women's distance and women's sprint
races, and second in the men's sprint. The team also received first
place for display, design paper and finished product. The win at
the regionals at the University of Buffalo April 18 earned RIT the
right to go on to the national competition in Rapid City, S.D., in
June. (Painting stripes on the cat are, from left, Greg Gulick, Dan
Wittenberg and Holly Holevinski.) |
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| STOP
THE VIOLENCE . . . |
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| T-shirts urging an end to violence and abuse hang on a clothesline
in the walkway between the pool and gymnasium on RIT's Quarter Mile.
The display marks RIT's participation in The Clothesline Project,
a program created by the Cape Cod Women's Agenda to help educate,
break the silence and bear witness to one issue, violence against
women. |
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