Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York

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As darkness envelopes the R.I.T. campus the smudged faces of its buildings, cracked paint and aging plaster are hidden by the shadows of evening. The surface blemishes of Campus struc- tures marred and worn through the passing of lime are invisible and only the silhou- ettes of structures are revealed against a moonlit sky. The fascinating yet tension - creating conglomeration of architecture exposed by daylight are transformed by the evening into a skyline of spires, pillars, archways and angles with the shadows of one build- ing muted softly into the next. Inside the dark, abandoned buildings one finds a more tactile, sensual world equally as intriguing and beautiful as the visual world outside. You know where you are by the odors of moist clay, oil paint, wet ink, acid or dittofluid. The echoes of your footsteps help identify classrooms from hallways. There is a soft glow coming from the doorway of a room down the hall. Perhaps someone is there. You investigate to find a room lined with empty chairs visible only because of the light sifting in through windows. The tray by the blackboard is rich in chalk dust of a past lecture. Hotv- ever, this classroom like so many other studios or labs, is not really vacant but haunted with the odors of cigarette smoke, wet fur coats, wooly stveaters, perfume, and new books.