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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 Goebel 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.

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

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The new library?

Looking for a place to study?

Friday 5/1 – EMPAC

EMPAC will be open until 10pm as a study space (with free coffee!) If you’re looking for another reason to be in EMPAC for free, this might be the perfect excuse.

Saturday 5/2 & Sunday 5/3 – Alumni House

The Heffner Alumni House is open each day from 7am to 3am the next day as a study location. Hosted by the student group Red & White, the building be outfitted with tables in the main room, lounge-style rooms with couches, as well as quiet work rooms and reservable conference rooms available to groups. ALAC will be offering help sessions too!

Additionally, free coffee/beverages will be offered throughout the day by Flavour Café & Lounge, and other snacks will be available too.

Check their site for more info and help session schedules.

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It’s Friday evening, and we’re a little late on posting this weekend’s happenings. Here they are:

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As students, one of the benefits we get at EMPAC are discounted tickets. (We wouldn’t mind free, but hey…) This past November, EMPAC played host to a New York based theater company who call themselves  Elevator Repair Service.  They performed their show Gatz. An ambitious 7 hour long show in the EMPAC theater was performed by a cast of 13 two nights in a row.

Now, we at RPInsider would probably admit to enjoying plays more than the average college aged RPI student, but we think Gatz was phenomenal.  The show starts off in a low rent office building, with a man who walks in and after fighting a comedic loosing battle with his computer, finds a copy of The Great Gatsby amongst the things on his desk and begins to read it out loud. (The play is a reading of the novel.)  It is then that the office and the world in the book begin to collide. After the first intermission you have just been sold on the concept,  are ready to move around (the chairs look cool, but are a little flat after 2+ hours of sitting on them),  and then are ready to dive back into F. Scott Fitzgerald’s prose. Elevator Repair Service chose to keep the magic and rhythm of the book by not cutting  anything from it.

It would be reasonable to say that it was better than some Broadway shows. We hope it ends up there eventually.

Verdict: Hot

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