From The Poly, September 9, 1982
The proposed Center for Industrial Innovation received a $32 million interest-free loan this summer from New York State for its construction.
RPI has already committed itself to paying back the loan over a 40-year period and must raise an additional $30 million to pay for the equipment and programs scheduled to occupy the building by 1986.
According to Lee Wilcox, vice president for student affairs, the center will house four disciplines: graphics, microelectronics, manufacturing productivity, and industrial and management engineering.
Plans for the building’s location are still being considered.
Last spring, an architecture firm was asked to design plans for building the new center on the east end of the ’86 Field, and Institute President George Low prepared a presentation for students, faculty, and staff.
Low presented the architecture firm’s findings to the Faculty Executive Committee and student leaders at a campus meeting held yesterday designed to allow the RPI community to provide input on the building and its site.
A model of the proposed center will be available for campus viewing before Low makes his final decision on October 1. Open bidding for the building’s construction will then begin during the fall of 1983.
From The Poly, September 8, 1988
Public Safety averted a potential computer robbery last Friday when a student was caught hoisting computer equipment out of a broken window in Lally Hall.
At approximately 3:35 am, the student dropped the equipment he was carrying after he was spotted by Public Safety Officer Robert Scott and fled the scene.
After calling for assistance, Scott chased the student as he ran up the JEC ramp and down the staircase toward the ’86 Field. The student continued his escape parallel to the field and toward the Quad.
Public Safety Corporal Kevin Storm, Officer George Koch, and Sergeant Joseph Farrell confronted the suspect in the Quad’s courtyard.
Though the suspect struck Koch in the right ear, the Public Safety officers were able to detain him and call Troy Police.
Eddie Knowles, dean of students, authorized the student’s arrest, and the student was later charged with third-degree burglary for attempting to steal a Hewlett-Packard laser printer and paper feed, an IBX data interface, an IBM PC-XT, and a TI-1795 calculator.
A recent array of campus computer thefts led Knowles to be quick in his authorization of the arrest, citing three accounts of campus computer burglary since August 26.
