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| Volume 127,
Number 7 |
October 11, 2006 |
Top Story
LLC Department receives $138,000 grant
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News
New alliance plans to explore the effectiveness of wireless sensors City council news and notes
Ed/Op
Staff Editorial
Staffing decisions must be made objectively Editorial Notebook
Nuclear issue requires fix Editorial Notebook
Haviland fountain needs repair Top Hat
Red Army brings fanaticism, here to stay Derby
E-Board progresses through busy fall semester Undergraduate Council
Focus on priorities Elephants Peanut Gallery
Border security needs changes Letter to the Editor
Career fair provides invaluable service Letter to the Editor
Media bill benefits TV viewers Interfraternity Council
Greek events held
Features
Apple picking relieves stress during midterms Dave Barry
Batman enforces a happy birthday
Sports
Engineers handily defeat York in opener Women's hockey drops pair of games with N. Dakota Red Hawks swept in League weekend Engineers collapse against St. Lawrence Men's hockey drops sixth straight as woes continue
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Rensselaer in Brief
HVCC mourns president
Former Hudson Valley Community College president and RPI alumnus Joseph J. Bulmer died Friday at the age of 76.
After graduating from Troy's LaSalle Institute in 1947, he earned his bachelor's degree from RPI in 1951, a master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1955, and a Ph.D. from RPI in 1966. He served as an Army instructor, an employee of the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, and an adjunct professor for both RPI and Union College before being appointed HVCC president in 1979. He retired from that post in 1996.
During his tenure at HVCC, he saw a period of great expansion for the school. Among his accomplishments were the constructions of the McDonough Sports Complex and the building bearing his name, the Bulmer Telecommunications Center. He also saw a 43 percent increase in enrollment—from 7,000 to 10,000 students—as well as the proliferation of computer technology on campus.
Funeral services were held yesterday at the Sacred Heart Church in Troy. Pink banners raise money for cancer
The Empire State Plaza in Albany was a sea of pink banners and t-shirts Saturday as over 4,500 runners and walkers turned out to promote awareness of breast cancer in the 12th annual Komen Albany Race for the Cure. The event featured a two-mile family walk and a five-kilometer run.
Record attendance at the race helped to raise over $200,000. Over 25 percent of the net revenue will go to to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Award and Research Grant Program, and up to 75 percent will go directly to breast cancer programs through the Northeast New York Komen Affiliate.
The race is part of a national program sponsored by the Komen Foundation to raise funds and awareness for the cause, as well as to celebrate, remember, and support all those who have been affected by the disease. Plans made to clean up South Troy
In a deal announced Thursday, the City of Troy acquired over 35 acres in two locations to be cleaned up before being turned back to local industry for use.
The property consists of more than 15 acres in South Troy from King Fuels for $2 million and 20 acres east of that from Portec Rail Products for $500,000. The land is currently contaminated due to pollutants from its previous owners. The city will work with National Grid—which is currently under order from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to clean it up—to prepare it for other uses.
Mayor Harry Tutunjian said at a press conference that there are already maps of the pollution, and that the area will hopefully be ready within two years. Once clean, the city plans to sell it back to a local business for future development. First class of STEPS graduates
Rensselaer County recently saw its first graduates of the Structured Treatment to Enhance Public Safety Road to Recovery, a program that was adopted locally in 2005. STEPS is designed to rehabilitate felons who have a history of drug or alcohol abuse, and is administered jointly by the State Department of Criminal Justice and the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services.
Participants enter the program following negotiations with the judge, district attorney, and their lawyers after receiving a felony conviction. The process typically takes 18 months, including a minimum of three months in "boot camp," also known as the Willard Model - a regimented program designed to teach self discipline; at least six months at the Daytop Village in Dutchess County, where the focus is on attitude and behavioral modification; and then six months of outpatient clinical services.
Robert Lee Ingram and James Terry are the first Rensselaer County participants to complete the program. |
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