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Ed/Op

Staff Editorial
Split Thanksgiving break between work and play

EIC bids his office farewell

Editorial Notebook
War with Iraq not the solution

Derby
Union budget to decrease

Top Hat
Student life review to be held

Presidents Corner
Be courteous to your neighbors

Panhellenic Council
Acknowledge service provided by Greek community

Letter to the Editor
No to union

Letter to the Editor
Union needed

Letter to the Editor
Corporations

Interfraternity Council
Elections will occur soon

Features

Art pieces blend traditional, abstract

Folk music touches soul

Country dancing simple to pick up

Dave Barry
Barry questions pessimistic headlines

Harry Potter sequel enchants movie-goers

Sports

Field hockey takes second in ECAC

Men’s hockey drops weekend set at Yale, Princeton

Swimmers’ effort great in past month

Football stumbles into ECAC playoffs

Women’s soccer eliminated early

Rensselaer in Brief
Grants shared
The state of New York will grant RPI and the University at Albany a total of $1.5 million to help retain world-class scientists and engineers. The money, provided through the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research’s Faculty Development Program, will be split evenly between the two schools.

The two grants were among nine totaling $6.36 million, aimed at helping universities recruit and keep researchers in science and technology fields with strong commercial potential.

RPI has said that it will spend its money on materials for the new Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, and to bring an out-of state research laboratory scientist to RPI, who will be working on identifying the genes that control the development of cancer.

Techno-kids
The new Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems and the Junior Museum in Troy have begun a new program aimed at involving students in grades K-8 with new technology.

The first jointly-produced exhibit, “Finding Hidden Things With Science,” allows the children to use a compass, an infrared light probe, or a metal detector to detect what is inside a wooden doll-house.

CenSSIS expects one new exhibit to be added each year.

Dearly departed
It is a great sadness for the Rensselaer community to hear that it has lost another member, Edith Luchins.

Luchins was part of the mathematics department. She died at her home on November 19 due to an illness.

For most that know her, Luchins was a unique person. She loved her field, mathematics, and also the students that she taught. In so many ways, she was very much ahead of her time.

Raised as an orthodox Jewish woman, Luchins went against the women of her time by rejecting the idea that a woman’s place is only at home. She grabbed the chance to come out from the shell and successfully accomplished many things in her life, while at the same time retaining her beliefs.

Her funeral will take place today at 11 am the Parkside Memorial Chapels Inc, 2576 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn.