EMPAC being a bit bashful and trying to hide behind a tree. That only works in cartoons!
Continuing our “Uncovered” series, we look into the people behind perhaps the most mysterious building perched on the side of campus: EMPAC. We interviewed the Director of EMPAC, Mr. Johannes Goebel, and EMPAC’s Curator for Music, Mr. Micah Silver. More info about them is available on EMPAC’s site.
Mr. Goebel tackles the hard questions and perhaps has stumbled upon EMPAC’s new slogan: “Now Here Jump”.
Our new favorite way to think about art comes from Mr. Silver:
It’s about falling in love with things that we’d never dreamed to exist.
We have left the original post intact, and added clarification at the bottom of the article. Please read both parts.
We couldn't resist...
$1,598,247
(approximately)
Or, the full tuition of 41.94874 students.
That’s how much Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, our beloved President, received in compensation for the fiscal year running 2007-2008. That’s the highest in the nation among university presidents. This made a big news splash today because of a report published by The Chronicle of Higher Education. The story was picked up by The New York Times, Bloomberg, the Huffington Post, All Over Albany, and many more media outlets, because it far exceeds the median average salary of college presidents, which is currently $358,746.
The Chairman of the RPI (well, technically Rensselaer) Board of Trustees also released a statement today on behalf of the board, defending their decision to set her salary at such a high rate, claiming that “Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson’s leadership embodies prescient vision, meticulous strategic planning, and persistent implementation.” We’re not sure about that, but we do know one thing: Sam Heffner has a thesaurus with some pretty good adjectives.
If you’re looking for a chuckle, check out this link. WNYT, the local NBC affiliate tells the world that RPI has warned us that beer pong can spread H1N1. What’s next? WNYT reporting that RPI is telling us that kissing can spread germs, and sex can spread STIs?
And apparently beer pong is banned on campus: MyFoxPhilly. (I’d like to see them try…) Fox manages to butcher the pronunciation of Rensselaer, and then contradicts their headline in the report by saying that not playing the game is only “urged”.
This is an illustrative device to show you how your favorite RPI blog reports on stuff before the other guys.
So it seems that our top-notch uber-serious reporting has beat the local news by just under a week. We reported our first case of H1N1 last Friday, and that the magic number of cases that the local media requires before they swarm campus is 5. There have been 5 reported cases of alleged H1N1 on campus. Our favorite comment by “real” media? Tweeted by @WTEN: “Swine flu has reached the RPI campus….but youll be surprised on how students are laxed about it.” What good is fear and panic? Damn straight RPI.
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