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Knowles serves RPI for 30 years

Assistant professor wins NSF award

Residence halls turn smoke-free

Wrestling team tastes success at Nationals

Ed/Op

Editorial Notebook
Tuition hikes cause headaches, questions

Editorial Notebook
Accessibility hard to find

Editorial Notebook
Sauna treatment wastes tuition

Derby
Union to see improvements in service

Top Hat
GM Week looms

Seek honor in withdrawal

My View
Respect independents

Letter to the Editor
Action reaffirmed

Letter to the Editor
Alumni, ho!

A Message from the Provost
Academic freedoms secure at RPI

Features

300 captivates audience with stylized history

Winter frost makes way for the coming of spring season

Dave Barry
Etiquette brings complexity

Sports

Colgate too strong for men’s hockey

Daniel, Libaridian bid farewell to Engineers

Weekly Round Up
Baseball starts season off with a bang

Rensselaer in Brief
Lally School ranks high
RPI’s Lally School of Management and Technology made its debut on Business Week Magazine’s list of the top 50 undergraduate business programs in the country. The Lally School was ranked 40th on the 2007 list. This was only the second year rankings were issued. The rankings pulled from a variety of sources for input, including a survey of 77,000 graduating seniors from 123 programs and 486 corporate recruiters.

David Gautschi, dean of the Lally School, noted that the citation recognizes the Lally School’s ability to create leaders that are actively sought by several business organizations or go on to start their own companies. He also admitted that there was room for improvement, and that he hoped to continue to make the school better by cultivating stronger ties with external corporations and developing new innovative programs.

Projector sparks fire
A pile of papers next to a projector in Troy’s Doyle Middle School caught fire Thursday evening. The blaze started at approximately 5:30 pm at the building located on Burdett Ave. The room was empty and nobody was hurt; most students, even those involved in after-school activities, had left the building by that point. Minor structural damage was sustained, but classes occurred as normal on Friday.

The fire was started by the overhead projector, although the root cause is not yet known; it is possible that the cooling fan created sparks, even after the lights were turned off. The projector was confiscated by the fire department for further investigation.