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Rensselaer in Brief
Two policies change
With the start of the new semester, there are two new policies going into effect that impact both students and the Dean of Students Office.
The first change taking place deals with the handling of suspensions for disciplinary reasons. Beginning this fall, any student that is suspended for disciplinary reasons will have that noted on their academic transcript.
RPI is also adopting a class dean model. During a class’s first year, Lisa Trahan, dean of the Office of the First Year Experience, will serve as the class dean. After that year they will be assigned a class dean who will continue to serve as the class dean through graduation. For the class of 2007, Dean of Students Mark Smith has been named the class dean. Junior Museum moves
The Junior Museum, formerly located in the Winslow building, an earlier classroom building of RPI, closed this past weekend. After spending four years at this location, the Junior Museum sold it back to RPI at an undisclosed price.
Undergoing cutbacks in funding, collecting revenue was important for the museum’s survival. Lacking ample revenue, it became more and more costly to run and operate the museum at its former location.
The museum will be relocated to the Rensselaer Technology Park in North Greenbush. Even though the new building is significantly smaller than that of the Winslow building, the museum is hoping to expand its exhibits by adding interactive displays and outdoor programs. It is scheduled to reopen in November. Student wins fellowship
Greg Williams, an architecture major from RPI, was recently awarded a $15,000 Bachelor Degree Fellowship by the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) Foundation. With this money, Williams plans to travel to Austria and study early modernist and contemporary typologies.
The purpose of the SOM Foundation is to award students of architecture, urban planning, and engineering the money needed for devising their own travel programs to go hand in hand with their college studies. Started in 1936, the SOM Foundation has awarded over $1,000,000 to college students throughout the country.
Troy curfew questioned
Troy police officers were recently ordered to cease arrests of curfew violators. The curfew has been in affect since February 6, 1997, but inquiries concerning the status of the law have been made recently.
The controversy is over a sunset clause in the original proposal. That clause would have let the law lapse December 31, 1999, but an amendment passed in January of 2000 may have struck that section of the law.
The law states that anyone under the age of 18 must be off of city streets and out of public areas from 10:30 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. on Sunday through Thursday and from 11:30 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. Penalties for violation of this law include a warning to the parents for the teenager’s first offense and a fine of $100 and 25 hours of community service for subsequent violations. |
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