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<p class="ReportComment"><br><b>June 16, 2009</b></font> <style> a:link { color: #F36E21; } a:visited { color: #523128; } </style>
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<br /><b><a href="http://www.libertyleaguesports.org/images/release_0619.pdf">RIT Athletics to join Liberty League</a></b>
<br />RIT's NCAA Division III sports teams will join the <a href="http://www.libertyleaguesports.org">Liberty League</a> starting with the 2011-2012 academic year. "RIT fits in very well with the intercollegiate athletic philosophy of the other Liberty League institutions," says RIT President <a href="http://www.rit.edu/president">Bill Destler</a>.
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<br /><b><a href="http://www.rit.edu/news/?v=46876">American College of Management and Technology celebrates commencement</a></b>
<br />More than 100 graduates received bachelor's degrees in hospitality and service management May 30 as RIT's <a href="http://www.acmt.hr">American College of Management and Technology</a> in Dubrovnik, Croatia, hosted its 11th commencement.
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<br /><b><a href="http://www.rit.edu/news/?v=46878">Student receives Clinton Global Initiative grant</a></b>
<br />Carolyn Dunne, an advertising and public relations/journalism major, is using a grant from the Clinton Global Initiative's Commitment to Action program to create new computer labs and improve educational programs and communication for faculty and deaf students in Ghana, Africa.
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<br /><b><a href="http://www.rit.edu/news/?v=46872">Internship takes student to Hollywood</a></b>
<br />Sophie Schillaci, a communication major in the <a href="http://www.rit.edu/cla">College of Liberal Arts</a>, recently finished a four-month internship with NBC in Los Angeles. Schillaci, a host and executive producer for RIT <a href="http://www.ritsportszone.com">ESPN SportsZone</a>, interned as a Web site assistant and writer for the syndicated entertainment series<i> Access Hollywood.</i>
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<br /><b><a href="http://www.rit.edu/news/?v=46866">Online Executive MBA program launches this fall</a></b>
<br />RIT's <a href=" http://saunders.rit.edu">E. Philip Saunders College of Business</a> has announced a partnership with online service provider Embanet to launch an e-learning Executive MBA program this fall. The 72-week program, identical to the curriculum taught on site, includes an international trip for students to explore the global influence of business.
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<br /></b>Highlights of media coverage of RIT news and RIT people in the news. For more <a href="http://www.rit.edu/news/?p=inthenews">RIT In the News</a>, visit the <a href="http://www.rit.edu/news">University News Web site</a>.
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<td align="center">06/15/2009</td>
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<td align="center">06/03/2009</td>
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<p class="bodytext">Summary (Jun 13, 2009): Astronomers have discovered a rotating disk around a young binary star system. The finding was made with a sequence of images that provide a vivid snapshot of the process behind planet formation.
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Astronomers have announced that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonians Submillimeter Array (SMA) radio telescope system clearly reveals the presence of a rotating, molecular disk orbiting the young binary star system V4046 Sagittarii.
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The SMA images of V4046 Sagittarii, which were presented by UCLA graduate student David Rodriguez in a press conference at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Pasadena, Calif., provide an unusually vivid snapshot of the process of formation of giant planets, comets, and Pluto-like bodies. The results also confirm that such objects may just as easily form around double stars as around single stars like our sun.
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"It's a case of seeing is believing," says Joel Kastner of Rochester (NY) Institute of Technology, the lead scientist on the study. "We had the first evidence for this rotating disk in radio telescope observations of V4046 Sagittarii that we made last summer. But at that point, all we had were molecular spectra, and there are different ways to interpret the spectra. Once we saw the image data from the SMA, there was no doubt that we have a rotating disk here."
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The other contributors to the SMA study of V4046 Sagittarii led by RITs Kastner and UCLAs Rodriguez are Ben Zuckerman of UCLA and David Wilner of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Wilner is one of the worlds experts on radio interferometry, the technique used in this study to form images using the SMAs multiple radio antennas at Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii.
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According to Rodriguez, the images clearly demonstrate that the molecular disk orbiting the V4046 Sagittarii binary system extends from within the approximate radius of Neptunes orbit out to about 10 times that orbit. This region corresponds to the zone where the solar systems giant planets, as well as its Pluto-like Kuiper Belt objects, may have formed.
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"We believe that V4046 Sagittarii provides one of the clearest examples yet discovered of a Keplerian, planet-forming disk orbiting a young star system," Wilner says. "This particular system is made that much more remarkable by the fact that it consists of a pair of roughly solar-mass stars that are approximately 12 million years old and are separated by a mere 5 solar diameters."
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"This could be the oldest known orbiting protoplanetary molecular disk and it shows that, at least for some stars, formation of Jovian-mass planets may continue well after the few million years, which astronomers have deduced is characteristic of the formation time for most such planets," Zuckerman says.
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Findings of the SMA imaging study build on previous work published in the December 2008 issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics in which Kastner and his team first suggested that the case of V4046 Sagittarii well illustrates how planets may easily form around certain types of binary stars.
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"We thought the molecular gas around these two stars almost literally represented 'smoking gun' evidence of recent or possibly ongoing giant, Jupiter-like planet formation around the binary star system," Kastner says. "The SMA images showing an orbiting disk certainly support that idea."
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The evidence for a molecular disk orbiting these twin young suns in the constellation Sagittarius suggested to the scientists that many such binary systems should also host as-yet undetected planets.
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"The most successful technique used so far for discovery of extrasolar planets -- that of measurement of precision radial velocities is exceedingly difficult for close binary stars such as V4046 Sagittarii. So these radio observations are probing a new region of discovery space for extrasolar planets," says Rodriguez.
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"At a distance of only 240 light-years from the solar system, the V4046 Sagittarii binary is at least two times closer to Earth than almost all known planet-forming star systems, which gives us a good shot at imaging any planets that have already formed and are now orbiting the stars," he continued.
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Kastner and collaborators had previously used the 30-meter radio telescope operated by the Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimetrique (IRAM) to study radio molecular spectra emitted from the vicinity of the twin stars. The scientists used these data to identify the raw materials for planet formation around V4046 Sagittarii -- circumstellar carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide -- in the noxious circumstellar molecular gas cloud.
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"In this case the stars are so close together, and the profile of the gas -- in terms of the types of molecules that are there -- is so much like the types of gaseous disks that we see around single stars, that we now have a direct link between planets forming around single stars and planets forming around double stars," Kastner says.
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The Submillimeter Array is a joint project between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics and is funded by the Smithsonian Institution and the Academia Sinica. Young star research by RITs Kastner and UCLAs Zuckerman and Rodriguez is supported by a grant from the NASA Astrophysics Data Analysis program.
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<p class="bodytext">Rochester Institute of Technology ranked fifth in the per capita recycling category of Recycle Mania, a recycling competition among institutions of higher education across the nation. The objective in the per capita recycling category was to collect the largest amount of acceptable recyclables per person. RIT also ranked eighth in total tonnage of recyclables collected--reporting 690,813.20 pounds of recyclables.
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Other New York schools that know the value of living green: SUNY Binghamton ranked third for collection of bottles and cans, and Bard College of Annandale-on-Hudson ranked first for food service organics.
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RecycleMania is a competition that has been running since 2001. The website reports that '510 schools from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Canada took part in 2009. The 4.7 million students and 1.1 million faculty and staff on these campuses collectively recycled or composted just over 69.4 million pounds of waste over ten weeks.'
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To learn more about the competition, and to enroll your school, visit the website or send an email to alecc@nrc-recycle.org.
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<p class="bodytext">At just 19 years old, Bryan Potts is seeing a sudden resurgence in his hockey career.
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Thoughts of giving up on junior A hockey last year went away when he signed with the Markham Waxers before the 2008-09 season, and now 10 months and a career season later, Potts has signed a scholarship to play Division 1 hockey in the U. S.
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The Niagara Falls native led the Ontario Junior A Hockey League's Central division in scoring with 48 goals in 51 games. He was also an all-star, tied for scoring in the overall Ontario Junior A league and he scored five goals in one game back in January.
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Not surprisingly, those kind of statistics drew the attention of numerous NCAA scouts south of the border, and he has signed a scholarship deal with the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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'It went better than expected for sure,' Potts said of his season in Markham. 'I came in with certain goals and I overachieved on them because of the players around me. I've never played with better players in my life.'
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The five-foot-11, 180 pound player grew up in the Niagara Falls minor hockey system and then joined the Niagara Falls junior B Canucks as a 17-year-old rookie three years ago. He went to Nepean of the Central Junior Hockey League the following year and had 20 goals and 20 assists in 56 games.
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At RIT, Potts will be chasing the career records of someone with whom he's quite familiar - Niagara Falls native and former OHL coach Chris Johnstone.
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During his tenure at RIT from 1981-1985, Johnstone set the records for most career goals (114) and most career points (250), was an All-American in his final two years and was a conference all-star in all four years. He also sits second in career assists with 136.
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'He coached me in minor hockey, so I have to live up to his numbers,' said Potts. 'It would be nice.'
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Johnstone, who now coaches the Wheatfield Blades, isn't surprised to see Potts doing well.
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'I tried to get him in Wheatfield two years ago. He's a nice talented hockey player,' he said.
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Johnstone said he wishes more local players would get the opportunity at American schools.
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"It kills me that more of the kids in this area don't go. This community boasts some of the best local talent around. There are a lot of hockey players."
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The coach said he would love to see another Niagara Falls native break his records.
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"Good luck to him. It's something I'm proud of and for them to hold the test of time this long has been really something," he said.
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"When I did them, things were a little different. Back then the teams weren't so deep. You had four or five guys that carried the freight and now things are more spread out."
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Potts will be taking criminal justice at the school, but he's not thinking too far ahead of university -whether that be a career in hockey or out of hockey. "Right now, I just wanted to get the scholarship and have a guaranteed four years. I'm sure I'll think about it if I have a good couple of years in college," he said.
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The forward is putting high expectations on himself, and said he would like to be play a big role on the team early in his career at the school.
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"I want to come in and have a good impact right away. I think they need someone to put the puck in the net and I think I can do it," he said.
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<p class="bodytext">She wants to bring her community together one two-inch square at a time.
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>From Lincoln Road to Overtown, Miami artist Katy Bea Martinez-Arizala Keller lugged around a three-foot by four-foot canvas, inviting artists and nonartists to paint a portion of what would turn out to be a portrait of President Barack Obama.
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''I want to take on a social change,'' said Keller, who goes by the name KB MAK. ''I want to create a space for the community to come together.''
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To do that, Keller divvies up the faces of presidents and celebrities into a grid, and asks anyone who is interested to paint one of the 352 squares. Then she gives away the paintings, which can take two years to create.
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So far, she's sought the help of foster kids, friends and students from her alma maters -- including Miami Country Day School, which completed a painting of Michelle Obama that will be unveiled Saturday at the Moonchine Asian Bistro, 7100 Biscayne Blvd. Proceeds for the event will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
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On a recent afternoon, Keller brought an unfinished portrait of President Barack Obama into a neighborhood off of Northwest Eighth Street in Overtown so Kiante Garland, 15, could paint a square.
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There was an Obama sticker on the window and door to the small apartment where Kiante lives with his mother after being in foster care for four years.
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Being home and part of a communal painting of his hero had Kiante smiling. Keller heard about Kiante through a friend who tutors him after school.
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''I feel wanted. It's amazing,'' Kiante said. ''I think we should all come together to help.''
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The piece was recently finished by students at the Cushman School, a private elementary school in Miami that Keller attended.
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With the painting completed, Keller hopes to present Obama with the piece, along with two requests: that he autograph it and that he cut her hair ponytail.
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Keller has been growing her hair, which reaches her waist, for eight years. Having the president cut off her ponytail would be a symbol of change and show women that physical beauty is unimportant, she said.
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Keller hopes to auction the painting for organizations that provide support for children fighting cancer. She also hopes to use her hair in a photo series.
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''Anyone who wants to raise funds, I want to do it through art,'' Keller said.
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Keller recently presented another painting to Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show. He autographed the piece, and Keller plans to auction it to donate 90 percent of the profits to the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis.
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''I only feel happy when I do the most I can for people,'' Keller said.
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The first cooperative painting Keller completed was a portrait of former president Bill Clinton she started as a class project. Most of her classmates at Rochester Institute of Technology, located in upstate New York, scoffed at the idea of having nonartists involved, Keller said.
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Still, she went on with the project and presented it to Clinton when he gave the commencement speech at Keller's graduation in 2007.
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Keller always starts the portraits by painting the left eye to provide a vantage point. She doesn't go back to touch up the work of others, but some do -- and that's OK, Keller said.
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Keller has several other portraits planned, including a series on sports heroes.
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Her ultimate goal is to match the late Paul Newman in charitable contributions. The actor, salad-dressing maker and philanthropist started a company that now donates all of its profits: $265 million to date.
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'I want to be like, 'Look at what I did with my voice.' Because artists have a public voice,'' Keller said. ''I want my voice to take care of people.''
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<p class="bodytext">Three local students at the Rochester Institute of Technology were selected as exhibitors at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival May 2. The festival showcased 400 displays by engineers, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, photographers and scientists.
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Joanne Okvath, an electrical engineering student, presented "So You Think You Can Act," featured groups of students, faculty and staff competing in theatrical skits for the approval of the audience for prizes.
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Okvath is a 2004 graduate of Cheyenne Mountain High School and the daughter of Kathleen and Edward Okvath of Colorado Springs.
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Kiara Nath, an electrical engineering student, danced in a theatrical presentation of Alice in Wonderland. The performance blended theater, dance, sign language and the spoken word.
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Nath, a 2004 graduate of Coronado High Schoool, is the daughter of Cindy and David Nath of Colorado Springs.
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Rob Weber, an advertising photography student, presented Innovation News, a virtually instantaneous Web and print publication. Writers and photographers submitted content from the field while covering the festival's events.
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Weber is the son of Dinny and Terri Weber of Colorado Springs and a 2007 graduate of Fountain Valley School.
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<p class="bodytext">Anahita Williamson, a former senior engineer with Xerox Corp., has been named director of the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, which is at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Edwin Pinero, its previous leader, left in March to work for Parsons Corp., a private engineering and construction firm that contracts with the federal government on a number of environmental projects.
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The Pollution Prevention Institute is a research and technology transfer center that is sponsored by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. It conducts comprehensive, statewide pollution prevention activities, and it works with universities and government agencies to enhance the development of green industrial practices and reduce pollution.
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At Xerox, Williamson served as a senior environmental engineer, then as a senior chemical engineer where she was a leader in the company's efforts to incorporate sustainable design practices into new products.
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“I am very excited to be working with such a talented team at RIT and look forward to working with our numerous university, government and corporate partners to assist New York State in reaching its full potential in the areas of pollution prevention and sustainable production,” Williamson said.
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As director, Williamson will lead institute activities including the development of 16 research and development test beds across the state, through partnerships with Clarkson University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and SUNY Buffalo.
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“Anahita Williamson has significant experience in transforming corporate design and production processes to improve environmental quality and economic competitiveness,” said Nabil Nasr, director of RIT's Golisano Institute for Sustainability. “She has the skill set and experience required to help take the institute to the next level, advancing its technical capabilities and expanding the companies and organizations it serves.”
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New York announced RIT as the site for the Pollution Prevention Institute in 2008.
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<p class="bodytext">RIT is on the move.
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The Tigers will leave the Empire 8 and shift to the Liberty League in all Division III sports, pending approval of Liberty League presidents.
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Destler said the shift has been in the works for a year.
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The Liberty League includes Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Clarkson, St. Lawrence, Hobart/William Smith, the University of Rochester, Skidmore, Vassar and Union.
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RPI, Clarkson, St. Lawrence and Union all have Division I hockey programs, as does Rochester Institute of Technology. Hobart fields a Division I lacrosse program.
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"RIT fits in very well with the intercollegiate athletic philosophy of the other Liberty League institutions," Destler said.
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The Empire 8 includes Nazareth, St. John Fisher, Alfred, Ithaca, Elmira, Hartwick, Utica and Stevens Institute of Technology.
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<p class="bodytext">All Dan Standage needed was a broom closet. Basically I just said, give me a broom closet and as long as we have a space, people can say I know there's a space for veterans. Just by virtue of having that, it started something, says Standage, a rehabilitation major and student coordinator of the VETS (Veterans Education and Transition Services) office at the University of Arizona.
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Standage offered to staff the office I was the guy who said if you give me an office Ill just sit here and if a guy comes in here Ill help them out instead of hanging out in the library and playing with a computer -- to combat his own isolation.
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"Initially, for me, it was, I didn't have anybody to talk to. I didn't know anybody. I'm 35 years old, so definitely not the traditional guy. I have a visual impairment and so it was hard just getting around the campus and interacting with people, or being able to leave the campus for that matter. I was pretty much stuck here until my wife picked me up.
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"I was looking for just a space to be able to go to, to get some couch donated, throw it in here, and be able to lie down."
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This was in August and, says Standage, the approach has worked out. Before, he says, I was here for a year, and I could count on one hand the vets who were here. I never ran into them. And after I initiated the office here, we see like 50 a week. He hangs out in the office from around 8 in the morning to 4:30 in the afternoon, each day, and has four student veterans on staff (on VA work study) who comb through scholarship opportunities and help student veterans with practical matters, like getting their immunization forms filled out. Many stop by just to hang out.
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"There's not too many times that we cant crack a joke around here."
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Student veterans have become more visible on many campuses, including Arizona's, and colleges, preparing for an expected increase in veteran enrollment once the takes effect this August, have taken notice. Many colleges have been stepping up their support for and outreach to veterans, by creating veterans' offices, streamlining their admission and registration processes, expanding their counseling center capacity, establishing mentoring programs, and training faculty and staff.
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'I am very pleased. It seems like people have really started to understand that the veteran population is going to be increasing soon, and veterans are a little different than the average college student, the average 18-year-old, coming to school,' says John Powers, executive director of Student Veterans of America. The number of SVA chapters has grown by about 15 chapters a month since January, and there are now 177 chapters in 40 different states, Powers says. Everyone's very, very motivated. Some of them are social clubs, but some of them are really changing policies, says Powers.
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"There are some universities out there that are fully prepared, they're on board. Every college is different. You can have great admissions policies, but you may not have a veterans resource center on campus. The counseling center may be lacking," says Powers. (One other way colleges are demonstrating their veteran-friendliness is , a federal matching program in which they cover any gap between the base GI Bill base benefit and actual charges. Colleges have until June 15 to sign up but, Powers noted, so far, the seems 'a little light. I thought more schools were going to join. I guess they still have about two weeks [to do so]....' Of course, many colleges typically sign up for such things at the last minute.
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Specialized programs have also emerged, including initiatives to at the Rochester Institute of Technology (which houses the National Technical Institute for the Deaf), and to serve injured veterans (Mount Wachusett Community College, in Massachusetts, has leased land, at no charge, for the ).
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"I really stress that colleges survey their students," says Mary Koskan, director of One-Stop Student Services at the University of Minnesota, which has instituted a number of changes to policies and procedures to better serve student veterans, such as, for instance, waiving late fees for veterans, so as not to penalize them for delays in processing of their educational benefits. The university created a One Stop Veterans Office and developed a veterans' orientation program supplemental to the regular student orientation.
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Minnesota formed a Veterans Advisory Committee and surveys student veterans annually. A veterans appreciation event, for instance, was started in 2007 as a result of survey feedback. Held around Nov. 11 (the federal Veterans Day) each year, We have T-shirts, we have our university marching band, we have an F-16 fly-over, we have chili and food. All students are invited and staff and faculty,' says Koskan.
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Youngstown State University, meanwhile, is one of a number of colleges that recently created an Office of Veterans Affairs intended to recruit more veterans to campus, and better serve them once they enroll. We are new so everythings a new idea. But one thing we did just get approved by the university, we are waiving all application and orientation fees for veterans and current military personnel. So thats $105 in savings right off the bat, says Jim Olive, the offices coordinator.
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Olive assembled a nine-member advisory council with two representatives each from the faculty, staff, student and community, and one from the Board of Trustees. He's also been looking to identify other allies. In a survey, he learned that about 3 percent of full-time employees had former or current military service. I asked them if they'd be part of what Im calling the Vet Net. All I'm going to do is tap into them and their expertise. They could be working in buildings or grounds or they could be the chair of an academic department, says Olive.
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He's also designing a veterans-friendly sticker, modeled after the Safe Space sticker denoting support for gay and lesbian students. Just to let the veterans know all through the campus that these are places that are veteran-friendly.... Although veterans don't necessarily need safe zones, they do need to know that they're welcome here. Its a vet-friendly environment and its all through campus.
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One other area of focus has been the health needs of veterans. In , researchers found that veterans' health issues were similar to those of the general student population, with two exceptions: Female veterans reported higher rates of sexual assault and male and female veterans both reported higher rates of post-traumatic stress disorder than did their peers.
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Empire State College created that explains post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, trying to give some tips to instructors just to be able to be aware and to be sensitive, says Linda Frank, the director of the university's newly expanded Office of Veteran and Military Education.
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Lindsay Armitage, a postdoctoral fellow in clinical psychology at Norwich University, in Vermont, helped design a reflective seminar for combat veterans. One of my interests in being part of the class, says Armitage, was to put a face on the counseling center for the students. We hadnt seen many veterans coming in. We were trying to do outreach to them and we weren't having a lot of success with it. I think the VA tries to do a very good job when people come home of screening people for PTSD because they want to get them services [but] one of the results is they get really tired of being looked at as someone with PTSD.
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Student veterans in the class also offered the Board of Trustees a list of recommendations as to how Norwich, a private military college that is home to a large cadet corps, could become more veteran-friendly. The recommendations include easing transfer of credit, creating a new veterans orientation, and hiring a veterans advocate or liaison (the university's application to fund such a position with an was denied, but they're looking for other funding). We have not as an institution been geared for veterans and were going to be, pledged Richard W. Schneider, Norwich's president.
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But what about those veterans who just want to blend in, who dont want anything special? Are they out there, too?
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Sure they are, says Ann Ingala, the veterans' coordinator at Colorado State University. "When I give trainings to people, I say here are some characteristics that a lot of student veterans have in common and yet it doesn't necessarily apply to everyone."
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"As we look at what programs and services are we going to offer, lets get as big a menu as possible," Ingala says. A listserv for veterans, for instance, might be good for those who only want to be peripherally connected to other veterans on campus, while a one-on-one mentoring program might be good for an incoming student craving extra support.
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"Some veterans say I don't want any recognition, I don't want anything special done, I just want to blend in, I just want to be a student,' Ingala says. 'And there are others who say, yeah, I want some kind of recognition, I want an office, so if I have a question theres someone dedicated to helping me with that.'
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<p class="bodytext">Some think more protection for whistle-blowers will make government more open and transparent.
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Others think legalizing marijuana would lead to an open government.
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Commenters have offered those ideas and thousands of others on the Open Government Dialogue Web site, which the Obama administration created to collect ideas from the public that could help agencies make the government more transparent, participatory and collaborative.
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Visitors to the site also can comment and vote on whether they like an idea. The Web 2.0 technology is a new way to involve the public in creating policy, and it could be a model for engaging people, said Archon Fung, a Ford Foundation professor of democracy and citizenship at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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Because the technology is relatively new, Fung said the effort should be looked at as an experiment that can be improved upon.
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Ideas that might seem off-topic, such as legalizing marijuana or publicizing information about unidentified flying objects, are probably there because of pent up demand for ways of communicating with government, Fung said.
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“Some people are treating the site as a political forum in which to advance their political view and mobilize supporters,” Fung said. “One challenge going forward is figuring out how to distill the very useful input that's already on this site in crafting the directive.”
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The Obama administration and agencies need to establish ground rules for moderating the site so people do not use it as a vehicle for political mobilization.
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The Open Government Dialogue Web site is so new and different that it shouldn't be looked as a model but rather as a bellwether, said Andrew Rasiej, founder and publisher of techPresident, a blog that looks at how presidential candidates used the Web.
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“It is not easy for the Obama administration to take a federal bureaucracy that was basically designed in the 20th century and has seen very little innovation in the first 10 years of the 21st century and expect them to be up to the state-of-the-art capabilities that the private sector is using every day,” he said.
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The effort should be judged on the quality of ideas or how they are used to create policies, Rasiej said. Rather, the most important part of the project is that the administration is attempting to interact with the public in a new way.
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“It is not replacing everything else or suggesting it is better than everything else,” Rasiej said. "It is simply an obvious attempt by the by the administration to get the executive branch to catch up with the rest of the world's 21st-century tools and techniques."
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Web 2.0 technology will not — and should not — replace other communication methods, such as letters, phone calls and e-mail, he said.
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For example, forum moderators should be identified so the public can determine if the moderator is impartial or pushing an agenda, she said.
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More transparency is needed on the voting function, too, she said. A controversial issue could receive equal numbers of high and low votes, which would average to a middle of the road score. A mediocre idea might get lots of average votes but nothing very high or low.
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<p class="bodytext">On a chilly Tuesday morning in November 2007, 16-year-old Alex Davis was taking a shower before school when his mother, Betty, knocked on the bathroom door. There was someone downstairs, she said, a New York state trooper who had come at 7 a.m. to the family's farm outside Rochester.
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“She said, ‘I think it's about Laurie,' ” Alex recalls. “My stomach kind of dropped, and I thought, ‘This is not going to be good.' ”
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The previous Friday, after coming home from football practice with a few teammates, Alex had exchanged text messages with Laurie, a 14-year-old freshman (whose name has been changed in this story, as has Alex's and his family's). While his friends played Guitar Hero on his PS2, Alex, captain of the football, basketball, and tennis teams, read a message from Laurie saying she wanted to be a cheerleader.
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“I said, well, I needed a cute cheerleader this year,” recalls Alex, a deep-voiced kid with an open face, dark eyes, and the synaptic quickness of a natural athlete. “And she said, ‘Oh, yeah? Well, is this cute?' And then…”
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<p class="bodytext">WASHINGTON - Republican Rep. John McHugh's nomination Tuesday to serve as secretary of the Army already has sparked speculation that Democrats could pick up yet another House seat in New York.
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In a memo released several hours after President Barack Obama announced McHugh's nomination, the National Republican Congressional Committee claimed the move was partly motivated by the desire to put McHugh's House seat in Democratic hands.
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, a former chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, 'was well aware of the political ramifications surrounding this selection when this plan was hatched,' the memo said. 'The party boss in the West Wing saw a political opportunity and he seized on it.'
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In a statement, Obama said McHugh, a 60-year-old whose district includes Fort Drum, is 'committed to keeping America's Army the best-trained, the best-equipped, the best-led land force the world has ever seen.'
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McHugh became the leading voice for House Republicans on national security issues earlier this year, but is also known for bipartisanship. That may be among the reasons why the White House nominated him as the next Army secretary.
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Democrats dominate New York state's congressional delegation, holding both Senate seats and 26 of 29 House seats after picking up three in last year's election.
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Republicans lost upstate districts to Democrats Eric Massa of Corning and Dan Maffei of DeWitt, as well as a New York City district covering Staten Island and part of Brooklyn, where Democrat Mike McMahon won an open seat.
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If the Senate confirms McHugh, the only New York Republicans serving in Congress would be Rep. Peter King of Long Island and freshman Rep. Chris Lee from the Buffalo suburb of Clarence.
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Although McHugh's 23rd District has a long history of being represented by Republicans, Democrats see an opportunity. Obama picked up 52 percent of the vote in the district in last year's presidential election.
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Murphy's close victory over Republican state Assemblyman Jim Tedisco was not considered an upset because a Democrat had won the seat in 2006 and 2008.
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'It's unfair to say this district leans one way or another,' he said. 'It's really a middle-of-the-road district.'
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On the Democratic side, party leaders are unlikely to choose a state senator such as Darrel J. Aubertine of Cape Vincent or David Valesky of Oneida because it could result in a loss of a Democratic majority in that chamber, where Democrats hold a slim 32-to-30 edge.
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'There is no leading Democrat,' said Rep. Steve Israel, national recruiting chairman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. 'This is very early in the process. John McHugh won't be confirmed for four to six weeks.'
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Aubertine said he needed to talk to his family before deciding.
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Several Republicans - state Sen. Joseph Griffo of Rome; state Assemblyman Will Barclay of Pulaski; state Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava of Gouverneur; and Franklin County District Attorney Derek Champagne - said Tuesday they were considering the race. Another possible GOP candidate is Robert Taub, McHugh's chief of staff.
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Meanwhile, there was praise from members of both parties in Congress on McHugh's nomination.
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Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee who has worked on military personnel issues with McHugh, said, 'President Obama couldn't have made a wiser choice.'
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John ... cares deeply about men and women in uniform. He will be a superb civilian steward of the U.S. Army,' Chambliss said.
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Sen. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who served on the House Armed Services Committee with McHugh before she was appointed to the U.S. Senate, said his 'commitment to public service is inspiring.'
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<p class="bodytext">Matt Quantz, the son of Wayne and Rebecca Quantz of Kingwood, a computer engineering technology student at Rochester Institute of Technology, was featured as an exhibitor at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. Quantz built and created Robot Sumo. The exhibit featured a robotic sport in which two robots battled to push each other out of a wrestling ring.
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Imagine RIT showcased the work of engineers and artists, entrepreneurs and designers, scientists and photographers. More than 400 interactive exhibits and displays were featured at the festival on May 2.
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Founded in 1829, Rochester Institute of Technology is an internationally recognized leader in professional and career-oriented education, enrolling nearly 16,500 students in eight colleges. Students hail from all 50 states and nearly 100 countries. RIT has one of the oldest and largest cooperative education programs in the world.
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For more on the festival, visit www.rit.edu/imagine.
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