The Rensselaer Union Executive Board is making great progress with the Union’s ’02-’03 budget. This Sunday, we concluded club budgeting with the final review of a couple of organizations and several appeals. Both club officers and Executive Board members worked together to best under-stand the fiscal needs of our organizations. I would like to thank the organizations that took a great deal of time in preparing their budgets and working with the Executive Board to understand your goals and objectives. I would just like to remind the organizations that have not picked up their budgets to please do so. Your reviewed budgets can be picked up in the Union’s Administration Office Monday through Friday, between 8:30 and 5 pm.
On another note, you should be aware that one of the largest annual events on campus is taking place this weekend. That’s right, I am referring to the Big Red Freakout. The crazy, wild event that occurs every year in celebration of Rensselaer’s long-standing ice hockey team. The Freakout is scheduled for this Saturday, February 9 at 7 pm in the Houston Field House, with the men’s hockey team taking on Clarkson. This year is particularly special because we are celebrating 100 years of hockey at RPI.
The Alumni Association and members of the Red and White student organization will be sponsoring pre-game and post-game activities at the “Ice House” (located at the Heffner Alumni House). The entire Rensselaer community is invited to partake in the festivities. They will be serving a buffet dinner and getting the RPI crowd psyched for the game with “tattoos” and face painting. After the game, people are encouraged to return to the Alumni House to meet the coaching staff and team while enjoying dessert. (For more information or to register, please visit http://www.alumni.rpi.edu/si/hockeyspecial.html)
Next week also brings a very special event. The Union’s Speaker’s Forum has invited John Douglas, the legendary head of the FBI’s Investigative Support to the Union. This event will be held on Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 7 pm in DCC 308.
“Douglas has hunted some of the most notorious criminals of our time: The Trailside Killer in San Francisco, the Atlanta Child Murderer, the Tylenol Poisoner, the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, and Seattle’s Green River Killer, in the case that nearly ended his own life. He developed the first psychological profile of the Unabomber, but found the FBI wary of his pioneering techniques ... He examines a crime scene and creates profiles of perpetrators, describing their habits and predicting their next moves.”
Special Agent John Douglas, a legendary figure in law enforcement and model for the Scott Glenn character in Silence of the Lambs, was also the original choice to play the role. As chief of the FBI’s Investigative Support Union—the team that tackles the most baffling and senseless of unsolved violent crimes—Douglas is the man who ushered in a new age in behavioral science and criminal profiling.” (Union Speaker’s Forum publication).
The Union has received a great deal of inquiry about Douglas. If Silence of the Lambs and The X-Files are your kind of entertainment, this is an event you don’t want to miss!
