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

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A WALKER

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Moving In 4 111 The College of General Studies Environment 8 117 The College of Science The Selling of RIT 12 123 The Collete of Engineering Interviews 16 131 The College of Graphic Arts and Who's Who 20 Photography Dormant Revelations 24 147 Institute College In Like a Greek 28 153 The College of Fine and Applied Arts Deaf-Hearing Integration: 32 161 The College of Business Is it Working? 36 173 The National Technical Winter '77 40 Institute for the Deaf Tall Sports 43 176 Advertising Concerts 51 186 Senior Index Theatre 60 192 Colophon Events and Festivals 63 Friday Nite 71 Winter Sports 77 Crime on Campus 86 The Techmila Report 88 on Sexual Attitudes Elections '76 90 Daniel Patrick Moynihan 92 Swine Flu Blues 93 Spring Sports 101 Graduation 109 3

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MOVING From Riverknoll we walked past the infinite loop sculpture, past the Union, and then crossed the quarter mile to the dorms, The first day of student orientation was in progress and we were going to talk with some of the freshmen about their first impressions of RIT. Let's face it, arriving at a school with hundreds of strangers, who you will probably be spending four years with, is intimidating. Naturally, most of the freshmen were uneasy, and they expressed their anxiety in different ways. Some tried to hide unob- trusively and escape the melee, like the girl we saw sitting alone at a picnic table trying to read a novel. She dis- cussed photography, design and Avedon with us but seemed more con- cerned with holding her hands under the table. A few minutes later, she ner- vously put one hand on the table holding a large half-eaten candy bar, and then the other, holding a can of Fanta orange: she gave us an apologetic smile. While walking through the dorms that afternoon, we met a freshman whom we had seen staring wistfully over the campus from the sixth floor of NRH. He worriedly explained that because of a dry spell, the corn is still high back home.'' He had been raised on a farm in Canada and for the first time he was not at home for the har- vest. Until a few hours before we met him, he had been planning to major in Criminology. But both his roommates were intending to study mechanical engineering, and for the first time I realized 1 can study something other than farming or Criminology if I feel like it, he said. Another freshman was wearing a sleeveless work shirt with the name Clyde emblazoned in red and white script over the breast pocket. We stared at our reflections in his mirrorized aviator glasses while he ex- plained that he had spent the summer playing drums with a band from the Jersey shore; he also explained that his high school was just another brick city like RIT, but my friends at the school, they were very laid back. Another young lady, graced with voluminous breasts, was wearing very tight jeans and top. Earlier we had seen her unloading the family Buick with her parents, but when we asked her about her plans, she denied that she was going to attend RIT and explained that she was just up for the weekend visiting a Greek guy. We spotted another new arrival sitting alone in a dorm lounge wearing a sport coat and tie. He sat rigidly, star- ing straight ahead and ignored the music blaring into the lounge. When we started talking to him, he visibly relaxed. There were 26 people in my high school class, and only about 250 in the whole school, he said, This place is so big it makes you feel kinda weird, he went on, But I do like the view from my room — it's on the sixth floor. He told us that he had visited a lot of different schools but had decided on RIT finally because it’s the only school with a good engineering depart- ment that’s not too far from home. 5