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RPI 2018 Off-Season: The Hunt for Red October

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A transfer from PC. Also no Bendorf or Babichuk or Ferner. The latter is very surprising since he has used up his eligibility.

It looks like Zieky won't be eligible until January.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
A transfer from PC. Also no Bendorf or Babichuk or Ferner. The latter is very surprising since he has used up his eligibility.

It looks like Zieky won't be eligible until January.
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I suspect that Ferner is still coming since the article says there are 4 defensemen and only 3 are listed. Or it could be Babichuk who is coming.


Edit: Ferner is now listed.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
A transfer from PC. Also no Bendorf or Babichuk or Ferner. The latter is very surprising since he has used up his eligibility.

It looks like Zieky won't be eligible until January.
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And still no mention of the new AC.
 
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engineerhockeyfan said:
I understand your dislike of the current president of RPI, but I don't understand this push back against the goings on in Greek life at the Institute.
If there is an uptick in dangerous and illegal activity in those "houses", than a strong response in necessary.
I love RPI, and I would hate to see it mentioned in the same sentences with Baylor or MSU.
JMO.
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You sound biased against the houses. Be careful of your preconceptions... they may prove quite false. If it weren't for the hockey team and the fraternity system at RPI I likely would have transferred to another school. I have many lifelong friends thanks to my time spent as a brother. I was introduced to my wife by a brother of mine - years after leaving school. Coincidentally the only time in my 4 years at RPI I saw something that would qualify as sexual assault occurred Freshman year in Nugent Hall. It may come as a shock to fraternity haters, but most houses do a very good job of policing their members. The kind of behavior that is alluded to here would not have been tolerated at my house.

Now that said, the greek system does tend to attract the more outgoing people and as a result those people tend to intermingle with more people than the average independent. So the potential for a bad apple to take advantage of a situation if certainly greater in that environment however I doubt that the same bad actor would be a model citizen had he (or she) not been introduced to Greek life. In short, and at the risk of sounding like Otter in the famous Animal House scene, the members of fraternities and sororities are going to reflect the population in general. So if we are going to condemn the houses for making bad choices, how is not having them going to correct the original error which is the school admitting someone with less than ideal moral standing? And how is shortening the rush period going to help the houses filter out those possible bad actors? It won't. And now... back to hockey. Drop the puck already!
 
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Today is 28 June 2018. There are 101 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 7 October 2018 for the start of next season.
 
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jmhusker said:
You sound biased against the houses. Be careful of your preconceptions... they may prove quite false. If it weren't for the hockey team and the fraternity system at RPI I likely would have transferred to another school. I have many lifelong friends thanks to my time spent as a brother. I was introduced to my wife by a brother of mine - years after leaving school. Coincidentally the only time in my 4 years at RPI I saw something that would qualify as sexual assault occurred Freshman year in Nugent Hall. It may come as a shock to fraternity haters, but most houses do a very good job of policing their members. The kind of behavior that is alluded to here would not have been tolerated at my house.

Now that said, the greek system does tend to attract the more outgoing people and as a result those people tend to intermingle with more people than the average independent. So the potential for a bad apple to take advantage of a situation if certainly greater in that environment however I doubt that the same bad actor would be a model citizen had he (or she) not been introduced to Greek life. In short, and at the risk of sounding like Otter in the famous Animal House scene, the members of fraternities and sororities are going to reflect the population in general. So if we are going to condemn the houses for making bad choices, how is not having them going to correct the original error which is the school admitting someone with less than ideal moral standing? And how is shortening the rush period going to help the houses filter out those possible bad actors? It won't. And now... back to hockey. Drop the puck already!
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This has nothing to do with Greek life. My son was a member of a fraternity at RPI and had a great experience.
It was stated that the reason for shutting down Greek life for a period was due to a number of unsavory incidents. I would and do feel the same about the entire school population.
Again, I don't want to be lumped in with the Baylors, MSUs, Penn States, and now Texas A&Ms of the world.
We should applaud Shirley for getting out ahead of this before we go down that path.
Let me be clear here. The student body and Alum have every right to their opinion on the way she handles her Presidency, but not when it comes to the good name of RPI.
 
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engineerhockeyfan said:
This has nothing to do with Greek life. My son was a member of a fraternity at RPI and had a great experience.
It was stated that the reason for shutting down Greek life for a period was due to a number of unsavory incidents. I would and do feel the same about the entire school population.
Again, I don't want to be lumped in with the Baylors, MSUs, Penn States, and now Texas A&Ms of the world.
We should applaud Shirley for getting out ahead of this before we go down that path.
Let me be clear here. The student body and Alum have every right to their opinion on the way she handles her Presidency, but not when it comes to the good name of RPI.
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Similar administrative actions have been taken at a number of schools. At Michigan their IFC even "voluntarily" (I suspect the school gave them a choice of voluntary and involuntary action) put a halt to many recruitment and social activities because of problems in the Greek community. I think the issue here is not the action in isolation, but rather the pattern established by the administration that's exhausted their goodwill account with many students and alums.

I wasn't part of the Greek community, although my children were at their respective schools (both accepted to RPI but neither chose to attend). I've always believed rush should be at the beginning of the 2nd semester as it would give freshman a chance to make friends within their class and get acclimated to the school before deciding how they want to allocate a large percentage of their bandwidth for the remaining college years. I know Cornell does it that way but I'm not sure whether it's a common practice.
 
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