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A few lucky students got a real lift to their opening-day classes on Sept.
6. RIT President Albert Simone, accompanied by Sarah Whiffen, program coordinator
of new student orientation, drove students to their classes on the "Presidential
Golf Cart." The pick up and delivery service was part of RIT’s official
welcome, as well as an opportunity for students to chat one-on-one with
the president. Going along for the ride was Giscard James, a fourth-year
information technology student.
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| AN OFFICIAL WELCOME
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As part of Welcome Week, RIT’s newest campus residents were greeted
by faculty and staff at the Convocation for New Students, Sept. 5. The keynote
address was given by Hamad Ghazle, a faculty member from the College of
Science, who encouraged tolerance and respectfulness and urged students
to be active members of their community.
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| MOVIN’ ON UP
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First-year students enrolled in RIT’s Honors Program were the first
set of students to unpack their bags during Move-In, Aug. 31. They were
joined by other entering first-year students, Sept. 1-2. Shown here, John
Kozlowski, a computer science student, familiarizes himself with his new
surroundings.
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| ENGINEERING STUDENTS
SOAR INTO NEW SCHOOL YEAR . . . |
A paper airplane design and flight contest highlighted Engineering Day 2001
for more than 400 first-year students in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering
on Sept. 4. Students learned design tips from Boeing Co. project engineer
Ken Blackburn, author of The World Record Paper Airplane Book and holder
of the record, in the Guinness Book of World Records, for the longest-duration
paper airplane flight, 27.6 seconds. Blackburn set the record in 1998 in
Atlanta, breaking a record set two years earlier in Britain and his own
previous record. He trained for nine months before setting the record.
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| ALL WET . . . |
Just about everyone at RIT knows Dave McCloskey from NTID Interpreting Services.
But, no one has ever seen him like this. McCloskey was gracious enough to
sit in the dunking booth for Sigma Alpha Mu’s Pole Sit fundraiser
last week.
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| TRUE ARTISTRY . .
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RIT alumnus Pepsy Kettavong, center, a 1995 B.F.A. recipient, created a
life-size bronze sculpture of suffragist Susan B. Anthony and abolitionist
Frederick Douglass unveiled with appropriate fanfare during Rochester’s
19th Amendment Festival Aug. 26. Kettavong’s work, which depicts the
two friends conversing over a pot of tea, took its place as the centerpiece
of Susan B. Anthony Square, near Anthony’s former home. Kettavong,
who escaped communist-controlled Laos with his family at age 8, resides
in Anthony’s old neighborhood.
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| GETTING TO KNOW RIT
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The newest members of RIT’s distinguished faculty gathered for orientation
Aug. 29. Shown from the College of Liberal Arts are, from left to right,
Amit Ray (language and literature), Laura Bernhardt (philosophy) and Sam
McQuade (criminal justice).
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| THERE’S NO
KEEPING IT QUIET . . . |
Wallace Library and Java Wally’s played host on Sept. 4 to incoming
students, who were treated to library tours plus complimentary coupons to
receive a cup of Java Wally’s coffee or an ice cream treat. Leading
the charge for the "Spoon Squad" were, from left to right, Jackie Ott, Jon
Jiras, Sue Roethel-Gioia, Sheila Smokey and Laura Diponzio.
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| STICK ’EM UP
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Walk past some of the cars in RIT’s parking lots and you may see some
new stickers attached to rear passenger windows. In late August, Campus
Safety released new alumni and retiree parking stickers, here proudly displayed
for the first time by alumna Barbara Ray Holcomb and retiree Dick Sterling.
The new parking stickers will be available to alumni/retirees by stopping
at the Campus Safety office, Grace Watson Hall.
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| THEY’RE GRRR-EAT!
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The RIT tiger welcomed first-year students and their RIT-alumni parents
to an informal lunch gathering organized by the Alumni Relations Department
during moving-in weekend. More than 75 members of this year’s incoming
class are sons or daughters of RIT graduates.
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