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RCNJ members Joe Pilaro '55 and Jesse Treu '68, and New York City Chapter member Henry Scheuer '69 received The Alumni Key at the RAA Awards Dinner last Friday in Troy.

Joe Pilaro is a member of the RCNJ Leadership Committee and heads up our admissions support efforts. Jesse Treu spoke at Entrepreneurship in a Post 9/11 World, a technological entrepreneurship forum that occured in March and was sponsored by the RCNJ and the RAA. Henry Scheuer is the leading individual fundraiser at the RCNJ Annual Phonathon and is the chairman of the New York City Chapter's Annual Phonathon.

A full list of the 2003 RAA Awards may be found on the AlumServ web site.

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The Albany Times Union has redesigned its web site. According to a letter to readers from the "interactive media editor":

The most obvious change is that timesunion.com has gotten wider. The site has grown by more than 25 percent, from 600 to 760 pixels across the screen. The new format incorporates better display areas for photos and stories; it also enables us to offer space for advertisers' messages in more flexible sizes.

It's hard to imagine that this is the only change that was implemented. However, any functional changes that took place were not obvious at first glance.

The Times Union is the only daily newspaper in the Capital District with a full featured web site. As such, RCNJ.org often links to it.

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Dave Aiello wrote, "The New Jersey Devils played like champions tonight, and defeated The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim 3-0 before a capacity crowd at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford. The victory gave New Jersey their third Stanley Cup in franchise history. Martin Brodeur led his team to victory with 24 saves, earning his third shutout of this year's finals."

"Covering the Stanley Cup Finals on RCNJ.org would be off-topic if Adam Oates weren't involved. This is the second time he has played in the Stanley Cup Finals. While this year's result was an improvement over his experience when the Washington Capitals were swept by the Detroit Red Wings in 1998, he still came up one victory short. No alumnus could have watched this game and not felt disappointed for him."

Update: Sandeep Nandy '94, arguably the RCNJ's biggest Devils fan, attended the game and told us:

Just wanted to share with you the fact that being in the arena for Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience for me.

During the course of my life, I have had the opportunity to attend various events, including football games, baseball games, hockey games, Pope visit, tennis matches, ice skating performances, RPI commencements and presidential inaugurations, Verizon excellence award celebrations, RAA Award dinners, etc. None of these aforementioned events can hold a light to the event that I witnessed last night.

I will cherish every second of the Devils game last night, because one never knows when and if I will be able to experience such a coronation again in my lifetime. Just everything about the occasion. The pre-game tailgate, the fesitive atmosphere, the beautiful weather, the comraderie of my fellow fans. Everything was magnificent.

Once the Devils scored their first goal, I started to gain confidence that the Devils may win the Cup. After the final bell sounded, the time for trophy presentation had come.

To be able to witness the greatest trophy in the history of sports being passed on from player to player, was remarkable. It is a moment I will never forget as long as I live. To see the team I have been a fan of since childhood, skate away with the Cup again....

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ABC News and TechTV are reporting that the most significant outcome of the civil suit that the Recording Industry Association of America filed against Rensselaer freshman Jesse Jordan is that Jesse had to drain his savings account in order to pay off the negotiated out-of-court settlement.

Jesse is one of the latest victims of the high-profile legal offensive by the RIAA. The RIAA is attempting to stop the sharing of MP3s (digital music files) because they believe that the availability of recorded music on the Internet has reduced album sales througout the world.

It is obvious from this article, and from the transcript of an interview that CNN did with Jesse and his father several weeks ago, that Jesse's treatment was meant to be an example to other college students who might consider operating Internet services that could be used to find MP3s that have been uploaded to campus computer networks.

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The Stanley Cup Finals have reached a decisive seventh game for the first time in recent history. That game will take place Monday night at 8:00pm at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford. The game will be televised on ABC.

On Saturday, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim defeated the New Jersey Devils 5-2.

The game was defined, in many respects, by the outstanding open ice check that Scott Stevens of the Devils delivered to Ducks' captain Paul Kariya. Stevens has made similar crushing hits in previous playoff games. Among the most famous was the punishing blow he delivered to Eric Lindros, then playing for the Philadelphia Flyers, in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals in the Year 2000. That check resulted in Lindros' sixth concussion in 27 months, ending Lindros' season and soon after, his entire team's.

This time, however, Kariya was able to come back into the game after a brief trip to the locker room. Shortly after he returned, he scored a goal for the Ducks to make the score 4-1. That goal was set up by RPI alumnus Adam Oates, who made a neat pass to ex-Devil Petr Sykora who fed Kariya, breaking down the left wing for the slapshot to the far post.

Oates has 4 goals and 9 assists for 13 points in the playoffs, tying him with Sykora for the Anaheim team lead.

As Kara Yorio said in the Sporting News:

Games 1 and 2 as the exceptions, those who didn't watch this series missed exciting hockey. As the players wore down, they made more mistakes. That made the play ragged and ugly at times, but it opened up the ice, creating more scoring chances.

Watch Game 7 tomorrow night to see if the Devils can win the decisive game on home ice. The last time they played a Stanley Cup Finals Game 7 in 2001, they lost to the Colorado Avalanche.

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After spotting the New Jersey Devils two games in the Stanley Cup Finals, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim beat the Devils 3-2 in Overtime in Game 3. The Devils now lead the series, two games to one.

Lynn Zinser of The Star-Ledger reports on the decisive faceoff of Game 3, won by RPI alumnus Adam Oates. Zinser calls the play Oates' dream faceoff. As a result of the clean faceoff win, Ruslan Salei scored on Devils' goaltender Martin Brodeur.

Game 4 takes place Monday night at 8:00pm, Eastern Time. The game will be televised on ABC TV.

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