Talk:Rochester Institute of Technology

Parking

I removed a paragraph regarding parking, which was opinionated and not fit for an encyclopedia article. Saying that parking is a problem is an opinion, not a fact. As a 5th year RIT student I have never experienced parking problems on campus. I have no issue with citing the amount of parking fines, etc., but I see no reason to include that information in a general article about the institute. --siliconwafer Nov 30, 2004

I don't know how it is now, but parking used to really suck. S lot, D lot and J lot would fill up right away. When they created U lot, it got a little better for about 2 quarters and then U lot would fill up quickly too. We would have to follow people walking out to their cars to get a spot, as bad as mall parking at Christmas. If you were running low on time before class, you had little choice but to park in a reserved spot or outside of a spot and be subject to the revenue-generating whims of the parking patrol. Maybe its been mitigated since I've been there ('01), but it really was not a good point about living off campus. Regardless, I agree, it has no place in an encyclopeadic article. --ChrisRuvolo 01:32, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

RIT has since expanded many of the parking lots including S lot and D lot and N lot as of last summer. They have removed many of the grass medians to create more spaces. Parking continues to be a problem, but with regular busses from the apartments and dorms, reserve passes, a prohibition on non-commuters parking in most academic lots, and an increase in parking fines, it's not nearly as bad as when I started in 2000. --Mullaneywt July 15, 2005

RIT Motto

I wasn't aware that RIT had a motto, but I did a search and found a convocation program (from 2003) which noted the motto. Interesting factoid. --Mattlary 20:05, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)

Radio

I'm not familiar with the history it, but the RIT-run radio station WITR is not mentioned. Also, WRIT, the former downtown station, should be mentioned as well. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 00:29, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I added this in addition to some other student run stuff. I don't know about WRIT, though you seem to. Why don't you post an updated version of the page? --Mullaneywt 00:58, July 16th, 2006 (UTC)

More bricks than the Great Wall of China?

I noticed this statement: With the expansion of the Math and Sciences Building, R.I.T.'s campus contains more bricks than the Great Wall of China. Could anyone back this up with a link to an official campus publication that asserts this, or some Guinness Book of World Records link or something? I have a hard time believing this fact without proof. - Mark McCartney (talk) 00:04, 2005 Jun 3 (UTC)

The actual number of bricks in the campus is an administrative secret. A friend of mine and I got together and after examining the size of the buildings and the number of bricks per square foot that RIT is composed of approximately 50 million bricks. Being as I do not know how many bricks there are in the great wall of China, I cannot state that RIT has more bricks than that, however it is a fact that there are a large number of bricks within RIT. Tavris 03:21, 15 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

NJIT vs RIT

So, what's the deal with NJIT (my alma matter) vs RIT? I kept hearing there was beef between the two schools, but nobody ever knew if it was real and if yes, how did it start. Comfirm? Deny? No comment? Project2501a 3 July 2005 12:37 (UTC)

I'm an RIT Alum- I've never even heard of NJIT, so there's no "beef" between the schools that I'm aware of. - Mattlary July 4, 2005 22:55 (UTC)

I also went to RIT, and the only time I ever heard of this was when I talked to some NJIT students at an AeroDesign competition. I hadn't even heard of the school before then. Sorry.

Images

From what I can see, the images contained in the article are all photographing a private property. None of the images of the RIT campus contained in the article were cleared by RIT (or the people in them, as is the case in the quarter mile picture) for use in any publication(s) (including Wikipedia) and are therefore illegal. In accordance with this fact, I am removing the pictures, however I will contact the school's administration with regards to clearing the images so that they may be used. Until then, however, they will be kept in the Wikipedia system but will not be visible within the article itself.

It should be noted that the logo, unlike the images, is legal as it has been cleared by RIT. The images cleared by RIT are available here and according to RIT images not cleared shall not be published in any fashion. Tavris 03:20, 15 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

So.... we can't put up photos we take privately at RIT because it's private property. The ones that were on the page looked familiar, because they were mostly the same ones that were on the RIT website as my room-mate pointed out. Those are no good either. And the pictures in the link Tavris posted above are all that we know to be cleared for use? Most of those aren't even at RIT, and some are even at U of R. Looks like RIT's wikipage is in a predicament: NO IMAGES. -hendrixski july 28

RIT's policy regarding use of pictures of its campus is ridiculous. All of the pictures that are 'cleared' are from the campus as far as I can tell, but most were taken while the current RIT students were still in high school. In any event, there's not a great amount we can do about it except complain to the publications/news office. Tavris

What about overhead images like those from Terraserver? Those are from the USGS and therefore the federal government.

SportsZone

Someone needs to mention SportsZone (the tv show!)