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Rensselaer in Brief
Troy elections
Even though 270 RPI students had their Troy voter registrations challenged, none were blocked from voting in last Tuesday’s elections. Overall, the Republic Party won most of the positions open.
Harry J. Tutunjian, who ran on the Republican, Independent, and Conservative tickets, won the mayoral race by more than 1000 votes.
The other three individuals who also ran on the Republican, Independent, and Conservative tickets, Marjorie Mahar DerGurahian, Robert E. Armet, and Karen Messick were elected to city council at-large seats.
Democrat William S. Dunne was elected to serve on the city council representing district four, the district which includes RPI. NYSE board seat
President Jackson was recently named as a candidate for a new board to oversee the struggling New York Stock Exchange.
After the corporate scandals in recent years and the resignation of the former chairman of the exchange, interim Chairman John Reed saw a need to change the body’s structure. Among the proposed changes is an elimination of the current 27 member board to be replaced by an independent oversight board of eight members.
The changes to the stock exchange’s structure are expected to be voted on next week. In addition to serving as RPI’s president, Dr. Jackson currently serves on several companies’ boards of directors. APO thanked
This Friday members of the RPI’s Alpha Phi Omega fraternity will be presented with a thank you card from students and staff of the St. Jude of the Apostle School in Wynantskill.
Recently, members of the co-ed community service fraternity helped the Catholic school’s library to catalog and file over 300 new books that were donated to the library. The school and APO plan to continue to continue their association in the future with the hopes that the library will continue to grow.
On the RPI Campus, the Epsilon Zeta chapter of Alpha Phi Omega participates in activities ranging from helping to organize Red Cross blood drives to running the lost and found. The chapter has been operating at RPI since 1947. Presidential lecture
President Bush’s science advisor, John H. Marburger III, will give a lecture Friday morning at 11 am in the Heffner Alumni House. The lecture is the first in the President Jackson Lecture program and is entitled “National Priorities in Science and Technology Policy.”
In addition to his advisor role, Margburger is also the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Before working for the government, he had served as a university president himself, with degrees in Physics and Applied Physics from Princeton and Stanford respectively.
The lecture is free of charge and open to the public. FIXX website
The Administration Facilities Customer Service Center, also known as FIXX has opened a new website for service requests.
The site allows anyone with an active RCS account to submit a work request or check the status of an earlier request. Requests are only being taken via the web for the Troy campus and FIXX will continue to accept requests that come out of calling extension 2000 or e-mailing fixx@rpi.edu.
The site itself has links to the other departments of the administrative division. To visit the site, go to http://fixx.rpi.edu/. Neighborhood party
This Saturday, RPI will host a neighborhood appreciation party for residents who live near campus.
The party will feature the football game between RPI and Hobart, a free barbecue, campus tours, prizes, and entertainment. During half time, the Diminished Faculties, a musical group made up of faculty from Troy’s middle and high schools, will perform.
The party is being sponsored by the Neighborhood Renewal Task Force, the Office of Government and Community Relations, and the Office of the First Year Experience.
Guests are welcome and attendance is free. To RSVP, call 276-6120 or e-mail heffnl@rpi.edu. |
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