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

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HOLZEMER When the girls aren't interested in them, these kids take out all their frustrations on beer and dope, instead of changing their approach. On getting a college education: If someone had told me when I was twenty-four that someday I would go to college at one of the best printing schools in the world, I would have though he was crazy. I never was a very good student in elementary school or high school and I always thought 1 would just be a worker'. Sometimes, when I sit and think about it, I am so thrilled to be getting my education, even though I am thirty- two. Personally, I am thrilled and 1 wish everybody at RIT could feel as good to have such an opportunity. INTERVIEW WITH MAXINE Maxine has completed her degree in Fine and Applied Arts with a major in painting. She plans to work as a designer for an advertising firm sometime in the near future. On women in business: In business circles there’s a strong feeling that women don't have the drive and ambition to be very effec- tive. There’s an incredible difference between how women are treated at RIT and how they get treated in the business world. Here at RIT it's all very idealistic. Once you're out work- ing, the difference in how women and men are treated is incredible. Everybody knows that women's salaries are not as high as men's, That's got to change. But another thing that bothers me is the games that women play with other women. From what I have observed, women who are good-looking go about getting what they want by playing on men's sexist instincts. This degrades and downgrades everything that the women's movement is trying to achieve because these pretty women use tricks and pandering that men put them down for. And that doesn't help the next woman who comes along looking for a job or better pay if she is just like Miss Plain Jane. On male-female relationships: When a woman enters into a relationship with a man, he automatically expects here to start changing her goals. Men are not in- terested in strong women. Once they enter into a relationship they want a wife and a mother and all those other things. It's true that you don’t marry the man, you marry the life that goes along with him. It just isn't reasonable that a woman has to change all her goals and interests when she gets in- volved with a man, and the man doesn't have to change his role at all. This doesn't happen in every case, but it happens a lot. A lot of times women can find more support for their goals from other women than they can from men. If you can get over your socio-type hangups about homosexuality, it seems to me that anybody can love anybody else, and turn somebody else on if that’s required. A woman can do it to another woman, just like a man can do it to another man. What really matters is if you love each other enough, —RUSS HARRIS 19

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baloney , because I see it every day out here. It might be oaky for me, but what about my three young kids? What about the kid up around the cor- ner? What about the two little girls in the house around the corner? I mean there are kids over here . , . 1 think it's wrong to advertise it as being married students' and faculty housing, and you come here and there are single stu- dents living next door. They're stu- dents but we re students too and we're married and we've got three young kids , . . One day I let Martha go out to play and I was in the nursery with the baby putting him down for a nap. And 1 heard Marcy screaming at the top of her lungs, and there were two RIT 'chicks' laying out sunning themselves in the corner over there, and not one of them budged to see what was wrong with the child. You know, not par- ticularly my child, but any child. If you can't be nice to a child, there's no hope for you. INTERVIEW WITH ISRAEL KAPLAN; Israel is a senior, graduating with a degree in printing technology and management. Israel arrived in the Un- ited States from the country of Israel five years ago. His wife, Kathy, works as a teacher and librarian in one of the area public schools On RIT students'complaining: I find that a lot of the students here take everything for granted. They are always complaining about something. If they can't find something to com- plain about, they will dig under the ground to find something. To me, a lot of these kids are just spoiled brats. They have a really good food plan, they have really nice dorms, they have a beautiful school, and then they com- plain that there are too many bricks, or too much of this or too much of that. They've got all these things here that they take for granted because their mother used to be a better cook than the cafeteria, and so the cafeteria is not good enough for them anymore. They think their dorm rooms aren't big enough or they complain because they don't have air conditioning. They have all the necessities and some of the lux- uries, and yet they are still com- plaining On the male female ratio at RIT: You know, because I am thirty-two years old and am married, I cannot say I am a Don Juan, but I have had some experience with the opposite sex, A lot of the guys complain that there are not enough girls at RIT or that all the girls are snobs. I think that is bunk. They don't know what they are talking about. The average RIT kid doesn't even know how to approach a girl, and when none of the girls likes him, he complains that they (the ad- ministration) doesn't supply him with enough girls. If I was outside for two hours I could get two marriage offers, 1 swear to God. 1 really mean it. In Israel they say that no girl is going to give to a guy who doesn't know how to take. I really believe that. Most of the girls that come here as freshmen are more mature than the guys their age.

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WHO’S WHO? In the past, it has been said that TECHMILA has done little by way of recognition for all the people who spend good portions of their free time trying to make various student organizations function. The problem is that most of these people are so busy, it's almost impossible to get them to sit still long enough for a photograph. So, we decided to pick the pockets of some of those who deserve recognition Our apologies to those leaders whose pockets we didn't get a chance to pick. -ED. CRAIG SCHWABACH President Student Association 1977-78 20