Author: Michael Conti

02.05.2010

 

125 Pounds and Cutting It

When you’ve pushed yourself to the edge, strange things start to happen. You ache in places you didn’t know you had. You’re planning workouts in between workouts. Words like “weight loss,” take on new...

2.2.2010

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We Need Clark Kent, Not a Superman

This letter is written in response to CNN’s activist reporting on the earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, specifically a report wherein Anderson Cooper broke coverage to rescue a child...

01.22.2010

 

Artifacts

Students Stop in awe of a 10 foot high snowman that appeared in the Kodak quad on Friday, Jan. 15. That is one seriously big snowman.

1.11.2010

We Don’t Need a Bandage

“If you’ve got a compound fracture, you have to put a bandage on it to stop the bleeding, but at some point you still have to solve the problem,” said Merl Louis, fifth year Manufacturing Engineering student...

12.18.2009

 

A Playlist Reflection on the Past Ten Years of Hip-Hop

“Universal Mind Control” was a dud. Once billed as “the future of hip-hop,” the socially conscious rapper turned clubber, Common, was found guilty of lazy production and even lazier “party-starting...

 

Larger than Life Dubai Short on Growth

Corporate over-speculation and government mismanagement has resulted in debt crises totaling an estimated $80 billion in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The previously booming market, home to RIT Dubai, is...

12.04.2009

 

Grandpa’s Garbage Plate

Grandpa’s had this conversation with me at least twice. He’s in an “assisted living” complex, and every time I see him, I notice how strange it is to have your living assisted. Someone even unwraps the hard...

10.30.2009

 

From Grecian Halls to Dorm Room Walls

As a free, landowning male in ancient Athens, or as an anxious, indebted college student, chances are that you own a large amount of stuff kept hidden in an obscurely-named folder on your...

 

A Wonderful Day to Save the World

Over 60 cyclists rode the distance from the downtown library to the Innovation Center at RIT on Saturday, October 24. Students and local community members rallied by the cry of “Climate Change Action Now!”...

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