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Emotional scenes of pride and affection were repeated across campus on Aug. 28 as first-year students said goodbye to family to begin their RIT journey.
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| PUMPIN’ UP THE CROWD . . . |
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National Technical Institute for the Deaf students, from left, Josh Clegg, Terry Mackin and Lisa Velez perform The Tiger Song during Convocation for New Students and Families Aug. 28.
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| VOICES IN UNISON . . . |
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A. Sue Weisler | photographer Members of Surround Sound, one of RIT’s a cappella groups, perform at the convocation ceremony.
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| A FIELD TRIP ALREADY? . . . |
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The College of Liberal Arts took
its first-year students to visit Rochester’s George Eastman House..
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| LIGHTING THE WAY . . . |
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Several hundred of RIT’s women gathered Aug. 31 for the first Lighting The Way ceremony. The ceremony, designed to welcome first-year women to campus, included speeches and a lantern-lit procession down the Quarter Mile.
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| PUTTING PAWS TO THE PAVEMENT . . . |
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First-year students and their families were greeted by a RIT tradition Monday, Aug. 28: the Tiger Walk. Faculty and staff lined the entrances to the Gordon Field House and Activities Center, dressed in RIT garb and equipped with noisemakers, to give students a boisterous welcome as they processed into the convocation ceremony.
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Candidates’ night at RIT
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A. Sue Weisler | photographer Two of three candidates for New York governor appeared at the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science on Aug. 30 during a town hall-style forum, sponsored by R News and Time Warner Cable. Republican John Faso, left, and Democrat Eliot Spitzer appealed to voters inside the Carlson Center auditorium and those watching as part of a statewide telecast. The other Democratic candidate, Tom Suozzi, took part in the forum from Pace University in New York City. Spitzer and Suozzi face off in the Sept. 12 primary.
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