Campusfood.com lets students from UR,
RIT, Naz, Fisher, and MCC
order food from local restaurants online for dorm delivery.
Deaf and hard-of-hearing students make up 10 percent of RIT’s population.
UR’s mascot, a yellowjacket, was
named “URBee” until last year, when students voted to
call it “Rocky.”
Naz sports teams compete in the
Empire 8 Conference with RIT, Fisher, and five other D-III schools.
If you stacked the quarter-million volumes in the Lorette Wilmot Library at Nazareth,
it would cover more 3 miles.
It takes six people three and a half working days to mow and
trim all the lawns at Nazareth.
Since 2000, St. John Fisher has been home to the Buffalo
Bills training camp every summer.
A digital chronobell carillon on
top of the MCC library plays an assortment of musical pieces, from Gregorian chimes
to an all-bell version of Elvis’ “Love Me Tender.”
Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy is a 1993 RIT alumnus.
RIT, UR, MCC, Naz, Geneseo, and Brockport allow freshman to bring cars on
campus, but Fisher does not.
RIT and MCC have their own versions of downtown coffeehouse
Java’s on their campuses.
Students can study in UR’s
Gleason library anytime – it’s open 24/7 (with a few
holiday exceptions).
Brockport did not institute any tuition increases between
1867 and 1963.
Undergraduate Greeks at Brockport perform more than 850,000
hours of community service and raise $7 million for charities each year.
UR, RIT, Geneseo
and Brockport have a combined total of 88 sororities and fraternities. MCC, Naz, Roberts, Fisher, and FLCC have no official Greek life.
This article appears in Aug 19-19, 2009.
