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

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considering the number who are al- ways complaining. It did give them the chance to voice their criticisms and problems to the top Administra- tion personnel, and get a direct answer. At the second meeting the students were more radical, really cornering Dr. Ellingson and Dr. Campbell a number of times, but often they were framed into asking some of the questions. TECHMILA: ROTC has now been added to RIT. Do you have any feel- ings about the ROTC program here? EVANS: ROTC was brought to this campus by a vote of the Student Senate. On some campuses the stu- dents are having riots to get rid of their ROTC program, but the stu- dents here decided to have it. There are approximately forty people in the ROTC program now, almost double what they expected. TECHMILA: Student court appears to have died this year. What were its problems? EVANS: The biggest problem was my own negligence. There was so much happening that by the time I realized it was in trouble, it was too late to do anything about it. The members let me down, and in several cases became very emotional, especially the women, and I think they lowered everyone's opinion of how well mature students can judge their peers. When you make a decision and then go and cry about it in Dr. Campbell's office, I think that this is an example of why the Admini- stration thinks it has to make the decisions. CAMPBELL: It has gotten to the point where one must go through three or four different courts before reaching the Student Court. For ex- ample, there is MRHA's court, WRHA's court and the College Union's court. Everybody has a court. So when the Student Court does get a case, it is a kickback from some other organization. EVANS: I think that things will get straightened out eventually. Student Court has two fine people on its staff: Al Ritsko, a very mature and capable person who always follows through, and Jack, who is the new Chairman. These two will restore the Court, and probably improve it great- ly. It failed this year, but I know it won't fail next year. TECHMILA: Do you plan to change the basic organization of the court system on campus? EVANS: No, I don't think there will be any changes; courts are courts no matter where they are. I would like to see more cases sent to student Court in the future. When someone has a gripe—a legitimate complaint —and the court can liberally inter- pret the Student Bill of Rights, the case should go to Student Court. I just want to see more cases, because the more cases you try, the more involved you become and people start to look up to the Court and respect it. We could set some im- portant precedents in several areas if only we could get the cases. TECHMILA: Recently you were granted voting rights on the institute Policy Committee. What does this mean in terms of student involve- ment and power? EVANS: What does it mean for stu- dent power? Well, it is a beginning for the students here at the Institute. The ideal policy making organization for a college or university is one in which there is equal representation of the administration, of the faculty, and of the students. If there are to be thirty people on the committee, it should be split ten, ten and ten, respectively. Right now, here, it is approximately twenty-six to one. But as I said, it is a start and I am very sure that within the next five or six years, the students will have much more representation on the Policy Committee. I think the students won another important victory this year when they finally initiated repre- sentation on the Faculty Council; this organization has the governing power of the entire Institute faculty like the Student Senate has with the students at RIT. The Council makes the important decisions concerning tenure and curriculum. Being on the Council gives students the oppor- tunity to voice opinions about these issues; before, the students did not have a say in curriculum revision, for example. The fact that we have rep- resentation on the council is im- portant in another way: we did it peacefully, unlike Columbia and Berkeley where it took riots to force this change. My hope is that we stu- dents can continue in this direction, becoming more and more equal with the faculty and administration in deciding the future of RIT. h 29

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GARC: Innovations for the Graphic Arts. Just beyond the transparent divider inside the foyer of the Gannet Build- ing is a wide concrete pit somewhat resembling an ancient amphitheater. It's deep but welt-lit, dean, and a balcony runs along three sides. Often a large audience gathers to watch, not Sophocles or Shake- speare or Brecht, but the quiet drama of modern industrial research. The center of attraction at the Graphic Arts Research Center, is the new four-unit Goss web-offset press recently installed in the pit. The huge experimental machine is quickly becoming the popular symbol of GARC. It, like all the major test equipment, was donated by the manufacturer to the Center and it reflects the latest advances in the art. The rising tide of innovation in graphic arts provided the impetus for GARC's creation as a non-profit research unit in the College of Graphic Arts and Photography in 1950. The Center still conducts a wide range of basic and applied technical research, but it is expand- ing its facilities in Training, Informa- tio and Publications services. Currently, the most critical de- mand in the graphic arts industry is for people trained to use the auto- mated printing equipment which is revolutionizing the whole field. Be- cause of its alliance with RIT, the Center assists in some classroom instruction in the School of Printing, and conducts its own training seminars. These seminars are designed to give industrial management per- sonnel basic knowledge of certain fields like web-offset printing and computerized composition systems. The Center is well known through- out the graphic arts industry for its Information Service. This section of GARC specializes in coordinating the contents of the multitude of technical literature received by GARC into bibliographies, reports and indexes. The Information Service has de- veloped a magazine article search method in which every article is as- signed a specific keyword, which is stored in the computer's memory bank. When a specialized bibliogra- phy is being assembled, the com- puter sifts its memory for the key- word-tagged articles and types out a list of likely sources. The Service also maintains a library and a staff of technical librarians to help regulate the flow of information in and out. 35