News

Senate responds to possible aid cuts

Bids requested for Union bank

your vote counts

Ed/Op

Staff Editorial
Funding should not be cut from financial aid

Editorial Notebook
Join friends on a road trip

Editorial Notebook
Campus improvements continue

Derby
Union promises needed changes

Top Hat
Ensure your financial aid

Interfraternity Council
RPI, IFC, Panhel form healthier relationship

The Barstool
Professional sports soiled

Independent Council
IC sponsors pool tournament

The Soap Box
Network printing

Justice choice brings problems to SCOTUS

Letter to the Editor
Letter attacks

Letter to the Editor
Hockey team

Letter to the Editor
Make use of alternatives

My View
Commons declines

Features

RPI Fly-By Fall 2005

Dave Barry
Barry reveals the differences between sexes

Campbell uses lights for his artistic work

Marijuana debate lights up the audience

Engineering Your Health
Your overall health should be checked

Words to Drink By
ARC offers real sports bar ambience

Sports

Fourth quarter comeback clinches win

Hockey remains unbeaten

RPI opens ECAC play with tie, loss

Scibelli sparks Red Hawk rally

Colts stampede Pats

X-Country excels at States

ECAC offers RPI surprising invite

Rensselaer in Brief
Candlelight vigil held
Yesterday evening at 6:30 pm, the Pakistani Students Association held a candlelight vigil for victims and survivors of the October 8 7.6 magnitude earthquake that has claimed over 73,000 lives. The vigil was held in the vicinity of the new waterfall behind the Commons. The vigil, timed to mark the one-month anniversary of the quake, was held in conjunction with vigils in 28 other cities around the world.

At RPI, over 80 students attended. During the vigil, a speech was given by Mahwish Hamlani, president of PakSA, and Hamnah Siddiqui, secretary of PakSA, highlighting the effects of the tragedy, the efforts of people everywhere to relieve it, and what people can do to help as the harsh Himalayan winter approaches.

Levee findings released
Following the collapse of the levees of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, a group of researchers released their preliminary findings to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on November 2. Professor Tom Zimmie, the acting chair of civil and environmental engineering, visited New Orleans to survey the disaster as part of an investigating National Science Foundation team.

While the team felt that many of the levees and floodwalls could have performed better, they have preliminarily concluded that many levees failed for a plethora of reasons, and no one flaw or entity is responsible. Causes from soil erosion under levees to a lack of additional erosion protection around levees have been cited as causes contributing to the breaking of the levees, which left New Orleans deeply flooded for weeks.