I would like to thank the brothers of Tau Epsilon Phi for being the first group in hockey line. Actually, as of this writing on Sunday night, they are the only group on line, and have been camped out for about a week now. They actually showed up the night before sign-ups were supposed to begin to make sure to beat the crush of humanity setting up shop in the morning. Being first is a badge of honor that Tau Epsilon Phi proudly wears year after year, and they still bitterly recount the time a counterstrike clan beat them out for their coveted position. Tau Epsilon Phi was even first in 1999 when the Union was under renovation, and waited outside the JEC. Good job Tau Epsilon Phi.
By the time this article comes out, hockey line will be over, and season tickets will be on sale to the general public. Ice hockey is a wonderful tradition on this campus, and I heartily encourage each one of you to go out and get season tickets. At the very least get one for the Big Red Freakout later on this year, so you can make sure you get in to this amazing game.
Writing a weekly column for The Poly has always been a tremendous task for me. A short 500 word column often times takes me around 5 hours to write. It’s not that I agonize over every letter of every word, making sure that I carefully craft a masterpiece to send out to campus, it’s more along the lines of figuring out how to stretch the 100 word straight-to-the-point note out into a full piece. I’m not the kind of guy who effortlessly fills a page with words. Take this week, I thought I would write a nice piece on hockey line, and then, at the end of my column, tack on a bit about there being an open Senate seat. This worked out to about two-fifths of what I needed. Even though it may seem like it, I’m not really complaining. It’s more that I am explaining the style that you are going to see week after week: either I have a thousand words of something to say that needs to be butchered until it fits, or there is a few bits sewn together to make a single article. This is one of those sewn together articles, as was last’s week.
It’s not that there aren’t significant, noteworthy events that I could write about, but they get covered in The Poly elsewhere. Do you really want to see another bit on the Biotechnology Center opening? How about the new capital campaign that the Institute is kicking off? I could expound at length on both of these events, but I also know they are going to be covered in depth elsewhere in The Poly, quite likely on the front page. I really do like to save my part of the paper for some kind of useful, inspiring message. Hopefully this works out to be the case next week.
As it was foreshadowed above, the senior class has an open Senate seat and anyone interested in filling the position should get in touch with Roberto Tedesco, the president of the Class of 2005 by e-mailing tedesr@rpi.edu, or by getting in touch with me by e-mailing gm@rpi.edu or IM-ing “RPI GM”.
Have a nice week.
