EDITORS IN CHIEFDean DexterNeil Shapiro

EXECUTIVE EDITORGregory P. Lewis

ADVERTISINGAlan Abrams

Richard Ronchi

NEWSTom De Mond

P. D. Greco

FEATURERobert Pizzo

PHOTOGRAPHYBruce CherninThomas Dede

PRODUCTIONJames Rubright, Mgr.

George Measer III

COMPOSITORRobert Myers

OFFICE MANAGERCharlene Cleaveland

CONSULTANTW. F. Craig

ADVISORThomas J. O'Brien

COVERBruce Chernin

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Alumnus Speaks OutToday I received Sept. 25's Reporterand after reading Dean Dexter's articleabout James Riley and the situationwith the new security force, I feltcompelled to take the time and add afew picas worth of space to release myfrustrations.

Last year I happily left RIT after fouryears of spreading my guts around withother committee members in efforts toget some changes in the RIT SecuritySystem. With last spring's announce-ment of a forth-coming Institute-runsecurity force, we thought that we hadfinally won. However, it seems that allof us who struggled for reason withinthe RIT security system got beat. Theprospect we never imagined was that thesituation would get worse.

If RIT is to liberalize and advance,like most modern, conscientious univer-sities have already done, then bringingin a 1940 style, Edgar J. Hoover flagwaving fan as head of the new force isreally sick. Riley's approach to lawenforcement breeds repression and fearthat would quell any trusting, meaning-ful relationships that students might betempted to indulge in with individualsfrom any segment of the RIT Com-munity.

Watch that guy—I fear for my friendsthat are still there and the new inno-cents who have just arrived at RIT andare being plotted against.

Judy Brown, FA '70

EDITOR'S NOTE: Miss Brown was Fea-ture Editor of Reporter last year, and ispresently attending graduate school atthe University of Michigan.

RIT "Rip off"I remember reading an article in theReporter last year, critizing the RITstudents for the amount stolen from theschool, so I thought I would pass on thefollowing information.

Last year my sister, who attends theUniversity of Vermont, told me she hadseen 3 black, steel, foot-high letters

while touring through the boys dorm ather school. These letters were—RIT.When she inquired to the possessor ofthese letters, about where he had ac-quired them, he told her he picked themoff a brick wall in front of (yours truly)Rochester Institute of Technology.

So, while most destruction done toRIT is most likely from its own stu-dents, you never really know.

I hope people remember this nexttime they can not find a book in thelibrary or see painted signs on thebricks.

Margaret Sincavage

EDITOR'S NOTE:Your letter has been referred to Mr.James Riley, Institute director of Pro-tective Services.

My Congratulations....The average student is a hypotheticalconcept describing an imaginary person.Average also means non-controversial,middle-of-the-road and mediocre. I amnot an average person, and most of myfellow students would and should beinsulted by being called average. Repre-sentatives must represent all the stu-dents, including those with unusual ordifferent ideas. Those wanting just alisting of events may go to the informa-tion desk in the College Union for aBulletin. Reporter is an outstandingexample of a true magazine. It is thejournalistic probing and illuminatingcontroversy which make Reporter, itseditors and staff a credit to RIT and ouracademic community. My congratula-tions and firm support to you.

Harry F. GilbertPrinting 4

$$$ Money $$$As At-Large Director on the CollegeUnion Board I would like to inform allstudents that for the first time inhistory there is money in the CollegeUnion Board budget to play with.

By that I mean—any student who hasan idea for any sort of function that

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October 23, 1970Vol. 47, No. 6

Reporter Magazine is publishedweekly by students of the Roch-ester Institute of Technology,One Lomb Memorial Drive, Roch-ester, New York, 14623. Editorialand production facilities are lo-cated in room A-238 of the RITCollege Union, phone 464-2212.Reporter Magazine takes pride inbeing a member of the AmericanCivil Liberties Union.

You Take For Granted...by P. D. Greco

The concept of creating an environment in which a collegestudent can develop personally and intellectually and canstudy or relax as the mood strikes him has been foremost inthe thoughts of a lot of people here at RIT.

It began when the architectural plans for the new campuswere drafted; however, it didn't end when the last of some 7'/2million bricks were mortared into place.

One of those people at RIT doing a lot towards providingthat environment is Mr. Andre Bessette. As supervisor of theCustodial Services Department, Besette is concerned with themyriad small details involved in physically maintaining acomplex as large as RIT on a day-to-day basis.

It is very doubtful that you have ever noticed empty trashcans, full paper-towel dispensers, unmarked blackboards, cleanrugs, or polished floors. These are the small. seeminglyunimportant things that we pass without a glance. We simplytake them for granted. And that's as it should be. Yet,someone has to see to it that all this occurs on an organized,daily basis.

And that's where Andy Bessette comes in. Co-ordinating thework of a department employing over 125 people and, at thesame time, making sure that none of these countless details areoverlooked is a full-time job. Andy has been taking it in stridesince he signed on at RIT four years ago, having completed a20-year career in the U.S. Air Force. His years of service inhospital supervision, club management, and recruiting posi-tions have provided him with a wide range of backgroundexperience to draw upon.

Bessette is quick to point out. however. that what isaccomplished is all part of a "team" effort with each memberof the department contributing equally to the total result. Thejanitor who maintains school washrooms, the maid who cleansand vacuums the dorms every day, the handyman who repairsbroken fixtures, the student working part-time who polishes

floors or washes blackboards—all these people and many othermen and women are part of the "team" called CustodialServices. It's difficult to think of any part of RIT that isn'taffected by the work they do. As Bessette sees it, "the menand women of CS are just as important as any member of thefaculty or administration."

With 122 full-time and 23 part-time people in the depart-ment, a certain amount of organizing is necessary to make upany sort of cohesive group; let alone to accomplish all therequired work.

Bessette finds that, in the case of janitors or maids, assigningresponsibility for a certain work area to each individual is themost efficient way. With handymen or porters, assigning aspecific job works out best.

The eighty janitors, making up more than half the workforce, are responsible for a set number of washrooms in eitherthe classroom complexes or administrative buildings. Eachman working independently then takes care of whatever needsto be done in his area—from cleaning mirrors or moppingfloors to removing trash. Knowing in advance what the day'swork will consist of allows each janitor to set his own pace andmakes the work a little less difficult.

For the 30 cleaning women in Custodial Services. keepinghouse for over 2,500 students living in the dormitories isn'texactly the type of job that gets done sitting down. Not whenyou consider that there are almost 200 bathrooms and anequal number of lounges to be cleaned daily. Add to this over500,000 square feet of rugs to be vacuumed. Dividing thisformidable workload among the 30 women. this still amountsto about four good-sized houses that each woman is respon-sible for. A group of buildings occupying as much floor space,and housing as many students as the dorms do, invariablygenerates some unique problems not usually encountered bythe women in the course of their daily routine—anything fromspecial exhibits on display in the lounges to students sleepingin storage rooms. Handling these unusual occurances andhelping the cleaning women with these problems is the job ofBessette's assistant, Mrs. Maria Runge. She may have whitehair but don't make the mistake of thinking that she needs anyhelp in crossing streets. By comparison, Ajax's White Tornadohas a bad case of advanced asthma.

Often seeen with a fistful of keys weighing what looks likeat least five pounds, Mrs. Runge is responsible for seeing thatthe tremendous amount of work involved moves along assmoothly as possible. She is typical of the type of peopleworking with Bessette and manages to transmit the enthusiasmshe has for her job to the 30 women she supervises.

Missing doorknobs, damaged locks, broken mirrors, cloggedplumbing—these are all part of the day's repair work for theCS handymen. In the past few weeks alone, over 1,700 ofthese and similar maintenance problems were logged in and

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AN OBSERVATIONThere seems to be a lack of communica-tion between the CommunicationsCouncil and certain individuals and or-ganizations—specifically, individualswho are members of President's Cabi-net.

According to Dave Hoppenworth(Secretary of Organizational Affairs)and Keith Taylor (Secretary of Finance)they understood Arlene Goodman tohave said during the Cabinet meeting ofTuesday night, that she was impressedwith the proposal of the Reporter tohave its own Advisory Board, and thatshe no longer believed that the Commu-nications Council should have juris-diction over the Reporter. (Goodman isSecretary of Communications and Presi-dent of the Communications Council).

However, Miss. Goodman maintainsthat, "I didn't say that. I only said I wasimpressed with the editors. I onlythought that your Advisory Board hadbeen meeting more frequently. I did notstate any of my definite opinions."

Alan Ritsko (Student President). how-ever, supported Hoppenworth and Tay-lor's memories. Asked if Miss. Goodmanmade such a quote, Ritsko replied, "Idon't recall the first part about yourown proposal," but he did recall that,"she didn't think CommunicationsCouncil should have jurisdiction overReporter."

Dave Hoppenworth related that, "Thebasic consensus was that you cannotinclude all media under one Communi-cations Council and that Reporter iscertainly a special case.

"A Board should be devised whosefunction would include assuming sup-port for editorial responsibility, actingin an advisory capacity and helpingduring the transition of editors.

"It was assumed that the presentReporter Advisory Board would takeover these functions."

Keith Taylor supported Dave Hoppen-worth's recollection with his own cor-roboration of all the points in the abovequote.

Again, both Taylor and Hoppenworthmaintain it was their understanding that

if Communications Council "devises aproposal which includes the ideas ex-pressed at the Cabinet then the proposalDr. Miller has from SA (asking forReporter to be put under Communica-tions Council) would be withdrawn."

"We will not withdraw the proposal,"Goodman told us. "The Council willmeet only to discuss the direction Coun-cil is going in."

At this point the quote about with-drawal was read to her.

"No comment," she replied. "But, itwas my understanding it was not goingto be withdrawn."

Asked what she recalled the generalconsensus to have been, and read thequote from Taylor and Hoppenworth,she replied, "I don't know. I'm notsure."

Enough. More than enough.Right now there is a proposal on

Doctor Miller's desk that no-one seemssure of anymore.

Also on Dr. Miller's desk is our ownproposal, a proposal which two mem-bers of Cabinet seem to think reflectsthe "general consensus" of that Cabinet.This proposal concerns the ReporterAdvisory Board. Let's take a look atit—in cold, hard print that doesn't haveto be remembered but only reread.

The way it is presently structured theBoard (our Board) includes the follow-ing representatives: the Co-editors ofReporter; Dr. Guldin—Representative ofthe School of Printing; Mr. Herb Philips—Representative from GARC; Mr. Tho-mas O'Brien—Advisor; Mr. Art Terry(chairman)—Representative from theSchool of Photography; Mr. Jedd Brady—Representative of Administration; Mr.Dick Limpert—Representative of Insti-tute Personnel; Reporter Executive Edi-tor; Maria Rainone—Secretary for theBoard; a Student-at-Large; and one rep-resentative from the Reporter staff. This

Board meets once every four issues orcan be called into special session by theChairman (who can notbe ReporterEditor). The Board assumes support foreditorial responsibility, acts in an Advi-

sory capacity, and helps in the transi-tion period of different editors.

While it acts in an advisory capacity,it does have the power of removing anEditor by a 3/4 vote of the Board.

It is representative not only of stu-dents but of the entire Institute com-munity.

It provides a basis of continuity and aforum for opinion.

It contains competent people exper-ienced in journalism, law, photography,design and administration.

It is concerned only with the maga-zine and cannot be swayed by outsidepressure groups. This proposal, alongwith Communications Council's, is nowon Miller's desk. At this time, it issimply not known whether SA willwithdraw their own proposal or not.Goodman has said they would not.Hoppenworth and Taylor seem to thinkthey will.

One thing, however, is certain.Reporter is not going to withdraw itsown proposal. We feel that if Reporteris allowed to set up this Advisory Board(which we have been working with sinceSeptember, even though it has no for-mal status as yet with the Institute)then it cannot help but benefit thestudents, the Institute, and the maga-zine.

We're not in this for our health, or todelegate certain powers to ourselvespolitically. All we want to do is to getthe magazine out every week, as best weknow how.

As best we know how—and with thehelp of a fine, well-structured, andcompetently manned Advisory Board.

REMINDER!Today is the last day for studentsreceiving Associates, Bachelors, orMasters degrees to sign up for theirTechmila photographs. Techmilarepresentatives will be in theCollege Union lobby until 5:00.

Bruce Chernin's Fiat in WITR's Studio

Car 54 Where are you, Scotland Yard is Baffled

ReportageFREE Fingers

FREE, the Alternate University, willbe offering a course in finger-spellingand the hand-sign language. The coursewill begin at 7:30, October 26, in theKate Gleasor Hall Library and will meeteach Monday and Wednesday evening at7:30.

The first part of the course will bebased on instructional films to famil-iarize the student with that method ofcommunication. According to Ken Nashand Richard Nowell, who are co-ordinating the course, the second partwill be groups of three students workingwith individual teachers.

Red Oakes from White Roots

Richard Oakes, leader of the Alcatraztakeover, and "White Roots for Peace,"an Indian educational group, will pre-sent a multi-media educational exper-ience at Rochester Institute of Technol-ogy on Thursday, Nov. 19.

The program will serve as both aneducational experience on the AmericanIndian for the Rochester communityand RIT students, and a meeting pointfor the celebration of the first anniver-sary of the Alcatraz island takeover.Oakes, a Mohawk Indian now living onthe St. Regis Reservation, led the non-violent takeover of the island last No-vember.

RIT's College of General Studies andthe College Union Board Cultural Com-mittee are financing the program. AnIndian arts and crafts display and sale, ageneral multi-media program, group dis-cussions and a film festival are sche-duled.

All Indians are being invited to theevent. The program is also open to allinterested citizens of the Rochester andMonroe County community.

Funk It!The Grand Funk Railroad will appearOctober 24, at 8:00 p.m. in the Roches-ter War Memorial.

Tickets for the concert, sponsored byScene West and Concerts West, are$3.50, $4.50 and $5.50 and can beobtained at the War Memorial Ticketoffice, 100 Exchange Street, 232-3200.

Last Sunday, a night of infamy, BruceChernin (Reporter Photo Editor) leftthe Reporter darkroom at about 11:30pm, in order to pick up some film hehad left in his car. Besides the film, hehad also-as it turns out—left his keys inthe car. When he arrived at the parkinglot he was greeted by the apparent theftof his vehicle.

He reported the theft to campusSecurity and was informed that, unsur-prisingly, the vehicle's whereabouts hadbeen discovered.

His car, a 1970 blue Fiat, was parkedin the lobby of the WITR studios in thebasement of the College Union. Itwould appear that, while the WITR staffwas either away or in the soundproofedpart of the studio, someone moved theFiat into that rather unusual and un-marked space.

Stephen Gulack of WITR discoveredthe vehicle sitting rather majesticallyalone in the outer office of the station.File cabinets and desks had been movedto accommodate the Fiat.

With the help of over eight people(including both Reporter Co-editors andfour guards) Chernin was able tomaneuver the car down the hallway andout an exit. The maneuvering took overhalf an hour, and once required that thecar be physically lifted from the groundin order to get it around one of the

sharp corridors of the concrete hall-ways. Chernin, safety-minded to theend, was careful to signal all turns.

"The guy that drove this in here all byhimself must have been a genius."Chernin commented good-naturedly.

Neither the car nor the WITR officeswere damaged by the prank.

Vast WastelandThe Student Assembly will appear onRIT Television next Monday, in aunique experiment to bring studentgovernment to students.

"Student Association in Action" willbe telecast over Channel 7 at 8 p.m. Theprogram may be viewed on any tele-vision set connected to the RIT-TVnetwork. These sets are located in thelounges of Kate Gleason, NathanielRochester and Sol Huemann Halls.

Interpreters for the deaf will be pro-vided in the lounge of Nathaniel Roch-ester Hall. Tom Tyberg is coordinatingfor NTID.

Monday's program will begin withindividual glimpses of each of theAssemblymen. A portion of the meetingin progress will then be shown beforeAssemblymen will be asked questionstelephoned to the studio by programwatchers.

Student Association in action

produced by RIT Television Center

Nicer Than

the Bricks

The RIT Bookstorea paper tiger?

by Bob Pizzo

It is no secret that more than an occasional customer haswalked out of the RIT Bookstore somewhat less thandelighted with the service and facilities. Complaints haveechoed through the halls of both the old campus ClarkBuilding and the new College-Alumni Union. Student griev-ances are well known, at least to the students. They includelong waiting lines at the beginning of every quarter, over-pricing, shortages of required books, and a need for morevariety. Not surprisingly, many members of the faculty are incomplete agreement with the students on these matters.

The gravest issue, of course, is the shortage problem. Inmany instances, the word "shortage" is inappropriate. In orderto have a shortage, at least a limited supply is required, andtoo often even a limited supply is not available. The questionof who bears the responsibility for the situation seems to havea variable answer, dependent only on who is doing theanswering, faculty or bookstore personnel. In an effort to getthe faculty's side of the story, a telephone survey was taken.Ten faculty members from each of the six day colleges werecontacted and asked for either favorable or unfavorablecomment on bookstore service. Of the sixty, six had nocomment due to their inexperience with the facility, eighteenoffered favorable comment, and twenty-one were what can betermed "moderately critical", tempering their negative com-ments with a plus here and there. Fifteen were highly critical.

Most of the favorable remarks were brief. Some acclaimed"extremely good cooperation and excellent service", but manyothers merely stated they had "no complaints". A few believeservice has improved in the last year or so, while others havealways considered it good. Several photography professors

commended the bookstore's handling of photographic sup-plies.

Major criticism concerned ordering policies and the delaysin getting books on the shelves.

"I teach a very specialized course. The choice of availabletexts is limited, two, maybe three. I'm not likely to change atext. As a matter of fact I haven't changed the text in sevenyears. It is the bookstore's policy not to stock more than aquarter's worth of books. Because of a bad situation with thepublisher—he does not notify the bookstore when he is out ofstock—problems arise. As a result, I have no texts at thepresent time, and it is quite probable I will have no texts at allthis quarter. I feel it is not unreasonable that the bookstorestock more then a quarter's worth of books.

"The bookstore certainly does not supply me with theservice I need. I have even considered asking the head of thedepartment to let me order books directly."

"Bookstore service is very bad from our point of view.There are not enough books for a course because books arecanceled and they don't tell us. They say it is not their faultbecause the publisher canceled, but I feel they should take apublisher inventory about a month before ordering to see whatis available."

"Twenty to twenty-five students in Western Civilizationare without books. This is not something that happens justonce in awhile. Sometimes students don't have books untilafter mid-terms."

"It seems to me that the bookstore is run for the peoplethat run the bookstore, not for the students. Once I was overthere to find out where my books were. I was told that all the

"...it's a kind of uninviting place."institute trucks were being used for NTID purposes and therewas not one truck available to bring books from the JohnStreet receiving area to the bookstore. I waited two days."

"One time the bookstore was not able to tell me whethera shipment of books had been received yet, and even after thebooks arrived they still were not available to students for sometime."

"We have had trouble in getting books to the students.The books were on campus, but were unavailable just becausethey had not been uncrated."

"I think they tend to be too restrictive in their orderingsystem."

"I worked at the U of R and the bookstore proceduresthere were a lot easier to work with."

"My major objection is to the system they have forordering books. They make us order too far in advance and ifwe change our minds, God forbid, all hell breaks loose."

"It's a good place for a systems analyst to look at themanagement and operating system."

On prices, variety and atmosphere:"I would like to see them carry a lot more supplies.

Selection is very scant, and I question their prices. It seems tome they can be lower, especially in art supplies."

"Nothing can be found easily and most everything isoverpriced."

"They are not expansive enough in dealing with the ArtSchool. There has been some debate on setting up an art storeindependent of the bookstore."

"I would like to see them stock a larger selection of texts,act to some extent as a library, especially for the sciences."

"It's a kind of uninviting place. Other bookstores I've seenserve as a place for browsing, with a more relaxed atmosphere.Ours does not."

"It's not a bookstore. I've been at four institutes. and thisis the poorest excuse for a bookstore I've seen. Otherbookstores have a variety of books and supplies, and encour-age students to browse. Here you come in, pay your moneyfor what they have, then get the hell out for somebody else."

Miss Margaret Vetter, RIT Bookstore Manager, explainedordering policies and problems that arise.

"The bookstore requires all orders eight weeks in advanceof the quarter. Considering the time involved in processingorders and shipping, I don't feel this is unreasonable. Believe itor not, we receive some orders on the first day of classes or thenext day, when the professor remembers he still has not sentin his order. We realize that this is only human error and it isnot the general rule, but it has happened more than once."When book order estimates are low it is the responsibility ofthe department. All orders must have the quantity specified.The bookstore never guesses the number of books to beordered.

"When the publisher notifies us of cancellations we do tryto notify the instructor as soon as possible, but sometimes wedon't know until the last minute and with all the last minutework notification is further delayed."

Miss Vetter mentioned that almost 50,000 books werehandled at the beginning of the fall quarter.

When questioned about the delivery procedure, she said,

"Once the books arrive at the John Street receiving area. theyhave to be unpacked, priced, repacked, delivered to thebookstore by Institute trucks, and then shelved. It could be aweek or more between the time books arrive at John Streetand the time they are shelved." Asked why the books couldnot be delivered directly to the campus she pointed out twoproblems, "The type of trucks that deliver the books are notpermitted on campus, and there would be no place to storebooks once they were here."

On the subject of pricing, Miss Vetter stated she would,"argue our prices against those of any school in the countrywith the same quality merchandise. All texts are at publisherslist price, and all other supplies sell at list price or below. Inmost cases we discount our engineering and art supplies atleast 10%, and photo supplies 20%."

She did admit that lack of variety may be a valid criticism,but she explained, "This is a physical problem. It's a matter ofnot having the space required." And she added, "We have alsonoticed our students do not have the overall reading intereststhat, say for example, liberal arts students do."

Miss Vetter also pointed out that the bookstore has areference section consisting of books sent in by the publisheron subjects the school is primarily interested in.

After hearing the faculty's criticism of the bookstore, shesaid, "If they would come in and explain their problems, I amalmost certain we would come to a satisfactory solution. Thefirst day of school, however, is not the time to do this."

Mr. Douglas Burns, Institute Business Manager, discussedthe financial make-up of the bookstore.

"The bookstore is an auxiliary enterprise of the Institute,and as such is expected to pay for itself, but if you considerthe total cost, both the direct and indirect expenses, it doesnot. Direct expenses are the actual operational costs. Indirectexpenses are the building use charges, equipment use charges,utilities, plant maintenance and operations distribution, gener-al administrative and general distribution charges.

"If only direct expenses are considered, there is a slightsurplus, but when total expense is considered there is adeficit."

Burns stated that the indirect costs are assigned by animpartial outside firm, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co.,Certified Public Accountants.

The bookstore's projected total expense for the 1970.71school year is $1,075,856 and the projected budgeted incomeis $850,000, leaving a deficit of $225,586.

Commenting on bookstore prices Burns said, "Many ofthe items are discounted as much as 20%. Of course, items thatwe can not handle in great volume, we can't discount. For themost part, I don't think students can do much better buyingoff campus."

Student and faculty suggestions for improvement includea separately housed "corner store" to handle clothing, jewelry,cosmetics, magazines, etc., separately housed art and photoshops, the acquisition of publishers' "in stock" inventory onemonth before the ordering deadline, and, most important,provision for a student-faculty bookstore dialogue.

Maybe the first three suggestions are not the right answers,but the last certainly can't make the situation any worse.

Letters (con't. from page 2)

would be of interest to the RIT com-munity may present that idea to theBoard and, upon approval, get funds to"run the show."

Your opportunity to do somethingaround here is now wide open. So, ifyou haven't been satisfied with pastCUB presentations, or if you have a newidea—let's hear it now. I can be reachedthrough my folder at the Union Info.desk or at 244-3264.

Debbi CrossAt-Large Director

College Union Board

Harry Rider Retires

Harry E. Rider, manager, Physical Plantat Rochester Institute of Technology,recently retired after 32 years of contin-uous service—which was somewhat of afamily tradition.

In 1952 his father retired from thesame position (then called superinten-dent of Building and Grounds) after 37years at RIT, to give the father and sonteam 66 years of combined service. Hisfather, Harry H. Rider, died in 1966.

In addition to a retirement dinnerheld at the Carriage House restaurant,Rider was honored for his long serviceto RIT at special ceremonies held inRIT's Board of Trustees room. He waspresented with a gift from his friendsand co-employees by James R. Buch-holz, RIT vice president of Business andFinance.

The gift, a silver-cased compass, wasdesigned and made by Professor Hans J.Christensen, of RIT's School of Art andDesign, College of Fine and AppliedArts.

Rider, who resides at 2055 East Hen-rietta Rd., has tentative plans for travel-ing and for living in Florida.

Pizza Heired to Dorms

WITR is offering a free pizza party toone RIT dorm in its latest promotion. Itworks as follows. ..WITR will broadcastregularly commercials for Pizza Villa,2700 West Henrietta Rd. When you hearthe commercial, call WITR at 2271. Thefirst person to call the station gets creditfor his dorm towards the party.

At the end of five weeks, the dormwith the most callers wins a free pizza

party for their dorm at Pizza Villa.Spread the word, (to your dorm only,of course) and tell everyone to keeplistening to WITR.

FIG's Make Merry

Phi Sigma Kappa held its annual home-coming festivities at the Phi Sig Houselast Saturday, October, 17. Approxi-mately seventy parents and alumnijoined the brothers in celebrating RIT'sannual Homecoming.

The merrymaking began as Phi Sigwon the first annual Chariot Race withthe able running of Selaer Ayers, KenRachfal, Mauler Matern, and Bill Burns,and the chugging of Jim McNamara.

The events continued with a CocktailParty from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.. at whichtime dinner was served, followed bydancing.

CorrectionDan Sadowsky (El 2) was theauthor of the letter entitled, MoreReading is Needed", in last week'sissue.

what'shappening

Friday, October 23, 19709:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.: Foreign Licensing

Seminar, Multi-purpose room, College AlumniUnion

7:00 p.m.: Hillel Services, Kate GleasonLounge.

7:30 p.m.: Talisman Film Festival, "TheBlack Cat", Gannett-Booth Auditorium, $.50.

10:00 p.m.: Talisman Film Festival, "TheBlack Cat", Gannett-Booth Auditorium, $.50.

Saturday, October 24, 197010:00 a.m.: Campus Tour, Administration

Building Lobby7:30 & 10:00 p.m.: Talisman Film Festival,

"Can Heronymus Merkin Ever Forget MercyHumppe and Find True Happiness", Gannett-Booth Auditorium, $1.00.

Cross Country, ICAC Competition at Rens-salaer, Troy.

Sunday, October 25, 19709:30 a.m.: Protestant Worship, North

Lounge, Kate Gleason, Rev. Rodney Rynear-son, NTID

10:00 a.m.: Protestant Worship, NorthLounge, Kate Gleason, Rev. William Gibson.

10:30 a.m.: Roman Catholic Mass, I ngleAuditorium, College-Alumni Union.

7:30 p.m.: Humanitarian Film Festival,"The Hangman", "The Lawless", and"Intruder in the Dust", Gannett-Booth Audi-torium, $1.00.

7:30 - 11:00 p.m.: Boswell Coffee House,Multi-purpose room, College-Alumni Union.

Monday, October 26, 19707:30 & 10:00 p.m.: Talisman Film Festival,

"The Critic" and "Morgan", Gannett-BoothAuditorium, $1.00.

8:00 p.m.: Televised Student AssemblyMeeting, RIT-TV Center, Channel 7.

Tuesday, October 27, 19702:00 p.m.: Computer Vender Presentation,

Conference Room A, College-Alumni Union.4:00 p.m.: Soccer, RIT vs. Oswego, home.

Wednesday, October 28, 19701:00 p.m.: Cross Country, RIT at Brock-

port.

Bessette (con't. from page 3)corrected. Andy expects that mainte-nance will be completed faster this year,than in the past, since a new method forexpediting the "maintenance slips" hasbeen introduced. However, student co-operation, in the form of a detaileddescription of the problem and its loca-tion, is still important.

One of the smaller sections in Custo-dial Services is made up of a group ofmen working as porters. They are res-ponsible for moving and setting up allthe tables, chairs, and miscellaneousequipment needed for concerts, dinners,lectures, beer-blasts and other specialfunctions occuring from time to time.

At this point in the interview,Bessette leaned forward in his chair in whatI took to be a slightly conspiratorialtone to inform me of a virtually un-

Taking advantage of numerous RITfumbles and interceptions, Niagara Uni-versity downed the Tigers 12-6, lastweek in RIT's homecoming footballgame.

A crowd of close to 2,000 turned outfor the game at the Miller Road Field,despite bitter cold.

Barbara Kowalczik, a junior Art andDesign student from Herkimer, wascrowned Homecoming Queen duringhalf-time festivities.

The Tigers passing game was non-existent, as injured quarterback RickKnaack watched from the sidelines. Hisreplacement, Tom Ryan, set up the onlyRIT score with a 20 yard run, and thenscored the TD himself with just twominutes left in the game.

Gary Wood, RIT's top receiver wasalso out with an injury.

Thus far in the season the Tigers are2-2; having beaten Utica College andPlattsburgh along with a loss to Albanyas well as Niagara.

Three games, all away, remain to beplayed. They are at St. Bonaventure onOctober 31, at New York Tech onNovember 7, and at Siena on November14.

known, unseen "invisible force" opera-ting here at RIT. Fleeting thoughts ofH. G. Wells or, alternately, an under-ground organization dedicated to takingover RIT passed through my mind.They were checked a moment later asAndy continued. He was referring to the45 men and women who form the CSnight-shift. Many of them are studentsworking from 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.Their main concern is in clearing awayall the dirt and debris that has accumu-lated during the day. Washing black-boards, waxing floors, cleaning officesand doing all the other chores that can'tbe done earlier in the day. If they everbothered to compare notes with thejanitors working during the day, theywould probably be surprised to find outthat, together, they have disposed of amountain of trash weighing close to 25tons.

On any given occasion when awardsare being handed out, it has becomesomething of a tradition, or perhaps acliche, for someone to "thank all thelittle people who made it all possible".Andre Bessette hasn't been waiting forany awards to come along to do justthat. He manages to find the time to

say, "thanks", to a lot of his peopleevery day.

Bessette is very aware of the workdone by each of the men and women onhis team. He is also very proud of, andvery thankful for, their dedication inperforming the lacklustre, but impor-tant, role of making RIT's classroomsand dormitories a little more attractiveand a lot more comfortable.

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