Photo Spotlights

The Rochester BRAWL (Broads Regional Arm Wrestling League) held its spring fundraiser at RIT on March 14. The $800 raised will benefit REAL for Planned Parenthood and the Luminaries Fund at the Center for Women and Gender at RIT.

Companies from Rochester and as far away as California, Texas and North Carolina attended the 9th annual Creative Industry Day at Gordon Field House on March 13. The event is sponsored by the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences and RIT’s Office of Cooperative Education and Career Services. Here, David Utt, a third-year student in new media design, met with a representative from Carrot Creative in Brooklyn, N.Y.

More than 16 inches of snow fell Wednesday and early today in the Rochester area, coupled with winds between 35 and 40 mph. RIT is open today for all classes and activities. Please exercise caution while walking on campus as FMS crews continue to clear walkways of snow.

Dreams of playing in major league baseball lead an average guy into a deal with the devil—will he get caught up in the razzle dazzle of fame, or remember to cherish the life, love and friends he already has? Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with heart, full of dance, music, sign and baseball. The NTID Performing Arts production is directed by Luane Davis-Haggerty and runs March 13-16 in the Robert F. Panara Theatre. To read more, go to ntid.rit.edu

Team Oreo and Team 22 collided in a shootout during the Nerf Gun Tournament hosted by the RIT Paintball Team at the Gordon Field House on March 8.

The RIT Model Railroad Club hosted a Golden Spike Ceremony March 11 in the club room. Starting in 2012, the club tore down their old railroad layout and started fresh. For more information about RIT’s Model Railroad Club, go to http://ritmrc.org.

Jay Palmer blew the whistle on software giant Infosys, which resulted in a $34 million lawsuit settlement paid by the company, the largest-ever fine for corporate immigration violations. Palmer visited RIT March 10 as part of a public policy lecture series and explained what it was like to be an individual going up against a Fortune 1000 firm.

The RIT women’s hockey team claimed its first College Hockey America championship Saturday night with a 2-1 victory in double overtime versus Mercyhurst University. The Tigers won the title in just their second season as a Division I program. RIT is ineligible for the NCAA Tournament due to being in a two-year NCAA transitional period after moving up from Division III. “The girls played extremely hard and left it all on the ice to earn this championship,” said RIT head coach Scott McDonald, who has now led his team to three conference championships over the last four seasons. For more on the championship game, go to ritathletics.com.

The 10th annual Tora-Con convention gathered fans of anime, manga, Japanese culture, sci-fi and fantasy for a weekend of panels, performances, concerts, dances, contests and meet-ups on March 8-9. Tora-Con started as a fundraiser for the RIT Anime Club and was mainly focused around the Cosplay Contest, in which participants get creative and dress up as their favorite characters.

Monroe Community College President Anne Kress spoke with members of RIT’s ADVANCE team to talk about how to effectively support and lead organizational change. She met with female STEM faculty from across campus. The March 6 event was hosted by RIT’s Women in Science group.

RIT’s 2014 United Way campaign kicked off March 6 with Tiger Olympics, featuring games, celebrity ice cream scoopers and a prize auction. Pledges can be made online at rit.edu/unitedway.

RIT lecturer Joe Pietruch hopes to bring gamers together with his new video game, Chain Gang Chase. The game challenges two players to share a single controller, letting up to eight people play simultaneously.