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Rensselaer in Brief
ResLife in new hands
Over the break, Vice President for Student Life Eddie Ade Knowles appointed Lisa Trahan as the Interim Director of Residence Life. She will temporarily fill in the void left by the retirement of longtime Director Pete Snyder last month.
Trahan currently serves as the dean of the Office of the First-Year Experience, a position she will retain while serving in her new capacity within ResLife. While at RPI, she has also served as an assistant dean, the chief judicial administrator, and the senior associate dean in the Dean of Students Office.
Prior to coming to RPI, Trahan spent several years working in residence life. Trahan will hold the position until a search committee chaired by Knowles completes its process and selects a new director for the position. Video leads to arrest
A YouTube rap video portraying teens brandishing handguns in a Troy neighborhood led to the arrests of four area youth January 10. City police staged a stakeout in the area shown in the video, on Sixth Avenue between Middleburgh and Swift Streets as a result of a tip by City Councilman Mark McGrath passed on by Mayor Harry Tutunjian. At around 6:45 pm, a car circled the block before parking in front of the stationed patrol vehicle. One of the men inside had a .380 caliber semi-automatic handgun with ammunition, and was seen pulling it out of his waistband. The police quickly arrested all four men present.
East Schodack resident William DeGraff, Jr., 17, Nassau resident Rashad Jones, 18, Guilderland resident Javon Jones, 19, and Albany resident Jose George, 16, were arrested at the scene on charges including attempted robbery, criminal possession of a weapon, and attempted conspiracy. None of them were actors depicted in the video. Also resulting from the surveillance was a series of seven other arrests relating to drug activity at the Community Grocery at 3100 Sixth Avenue, one of the locations shown in the YouTube film. Death blamed on storm
Winter struck in earnest last weekend with sleet and freezing rain welcoming students back to campus. As was to be expected, there were several automotive accidents, but at least one turned deadly early Sunday morning. A pileup on the Patroon Island Bridge resulted in one man falling 90 feet to his death.
At around 2:15 am, freezing rain in the eastbound lanes on the bridge caused a series of crashes. Peter DeAngelis, 22, was involved in one of the first and got out to ensure that nobody was injured. He was standing on the bridge when another vehicle started careening in his direction. He slipped while trying to hoist himself to safety, and landed on the railroad bed below. He was pronounced dead en route to Albany Medical Center.
DeAngelis worked at the Schodack Hannaford and was a resident of East Greenbush. |
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