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

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physical attitude Therefore, it is fairly safe to say that after spending enough time on campus, you run the risk, for this and other reasons, of being stifled and linear in your thinking, and having your physical senses cramped and deadened. The dormitory towers rise like headstones over ridiculous concrete quads, the quartenmile walkway is like a bad joke, insistently railroading us across to the academic side. where the various colleges of RIT stand, insular, in the shadow of the “Administra- tion tower. And everywhere you look, on everything from report cards to garbage cans, the RIT Graphic Mark, like a little swastika, constantly reminds you just whose thumb you are under. There is no sense of dance to it, no poetry of form. It is all very depressing. Which just brings us back to our original thesis It must be noted here that the bulk of the responsibili- ty in dealing with RIT'sranfied educational atmosphere lies not with any administrator, but with the student himself He is the one who must decide whether his is to be a party to his own frontal lobotomy There are ways to respond to this, and still re- main true to the more viable notions that RIT has committed itself to. There is an opportunity to really innovate here, to mold into exciting new forms the raw materials available to us. For example, would it be a bad idea to upgrade and energize the Humanities program into something that could be an integral part of each student's learning? Must it be so difficult to breach the walls that divide RIT's colleges? The frag- mentation and compartmentalization which exists is absurd and counterproductive. Realistically, RIT academia engenders the antith- esis of the Renaissance Man; ideally, however, the realization of the renaissance vision, a symbiosis of Science. Humanities and the Arts, is here at our fingertips. Failure to integrate the disparate elements of RIT's academic landscape, and failure to begin softpedalling its more mercenary aspects would be a defeat of nerve and will. Rejection is always an act of self-denial,