Off Campus RAD Finally a Reality
Do you visit at any of these places?
- Bacchus Wood Fire
- Big Apple Pizza
- Flavour Café
- Holmes and Watson
- Illium Café
- Manory’s Restaurant
- Minissale’s Café
- Notty Pine Tavern
- Tosca
Well, according to RPI’s website, you can now use RAD (Rensselaer Advantage Dollars) to make purchases at those locations. This has been a push of the Student Senate for several years, and we here at RPInsider are glad to see that it has finally been implemented. For those of you living in the new Blitman Commons downtown, you can now have your parents pay for all kinds of stuff that are only blocks away! Tosca is expensive — go there and see if your parents notice. Just tell them you spent it on laundry… they probably haven’t heard that it’s free yet.
I especially like the fact that the Press Release fails to mention that this idea was conceived by students and that students have been working to implement it for years. They make it seem like Dr. Jackson’s idea, which isn’t wholly true.
But hey, as long as it happened, we’re happy.
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Except it doesn’t work yet. I’ve tried at a couple locations, and Bella’s multiple times. According to the signs at the locations, you need to go online to “sign up” but the website is VERY broken. As in you get to the site index broken. And it doesn’t let you sign up.
So…. thanks for the thought, but how about making it work before going public with it.
@JC
I amend my previous statement, with some corrections:
The website is up now, and appears to be functioning. http://www.RADoffcampus.com
The list of participating locations on the site is out of date, and doesn’t list all of the vendors listed in the press release.
The “sign up” appears to be simply an invitation to put money on your RAD card, as the link directs you to the Campus Card Office webpage (campuscard.rpi.edu). A bit ambiguous and confusing, as I haven’t been the only one scratching my head in Bella’s when reading the sign that says “Sign Up!”