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I bet this photo isn't on his ID card

An African proverb says that “it takes a village to raise a child.” Well, we wanted to take a closer look at the little village that is our campus in Troy. We decided to peek into the lives of people who spend their working days at RPI, those that aren’t the ones assigning homework, or grading your papers. This interview series is called “Uncovered” and we hope to learn more about those that are creating our campus ecosystem. We’re still looking for more interviewees, so if you have any suggestions, please let us know!

In this Uncovered, we interview local personality Kevin Marshall, who also happens to work in the Union in the Campus Card Office.

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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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Lots of little children in EMPAC.

In a noteworthy gesture, RPI has decided to donate 55 string instruments to the Troy city schools. The instruments cost $24,000 and were delivered in Feb and March to the elementary schools, to help get the third and fourth grade strings program back in place. Our famed EMPAC director Johannes Gobel was apparently instrumental (no pun intended) in getting this to happen. He has cited his growth and love for music while studying abroad in high school in Los Angeles, CA. The Troy students played in a concert in the EMPAC concert hall earlier today, warming the audiences’ musical hearts. No word on why the announcement was delayed until now.

rpi press release

troy record

picture: the enlarged city school district of troy, new york.  (Yes, that’s really what it’s called.)

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