Friday, April 16, 2010 • Volume 95, Issue 30 • nique.net Taste of Asia TASA’s Night Market brings together echnique delicious treats from T across Asia.411 The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper Undergrad presidential race in run-of By Zimu Yang sure that I am able to train represen- Staf Writer tatives well… and also contacting administrators so that in turn rep- Wednesday, April 14, the SGA resentatives will be able to contact elections committee announced the them.” results of the undergraduate and In contrast to the undergradu- graduate SGA elections at the Stu- ate executive elections, the graduate dent Center commons at 7:00 p.m. executive president and executive he elections took place from Fri- vice president candidates ran un- day, April 6 at noon to Wednesday, opposed. Anthony Baldridge and April 14 at 4:00 p.m. While most Katherine Schnure ran for gradu- of the executive positions up for ate presidency and vice-presidency vote were illed, the undergraduate respectively. 129 graduate students president election will go into run- voted for Baldridge in the presi- of between frontrunners Jimmy dent election, and 122 students for Williams and Corey Boone. here Schnure in the EVP election. is also one Undergraduate House “One of the greatest [issues with- Representative position, for Archi- in the graduate body] is communi- tecture, which remains unilled. cations, and bringing together with Winners were decided for the re- all the diferent departments to get maining executive positions. 3484 opportunities out there for graduate students voted in the undergradu- students,” Baldridge said. “Not to ate executive vice president election mention a number of social endeav- (EVP). Brenda Morales won with ors that we as graduate SGA, as well 82.1 percent of the vote, and Ajai as teaming up with undergraduate Karthikeyan garnered the remain- SGA, like to ofer to campus that ing 17.9 percent of the vote. corral both the graduate and under- “I feel wonderful. I’m so proud grad students together.” to be able to serve the student body Of the issues discussed in their in this way. I’m really looking for- campaigns, Baldridge and Schnure ward to it,” Morales said. “he irst aimed to continue to work on cer- Photo by Jarrett Skov/Student Publications thing I aim to do is really get every- tain problems such as health insur- Corey Boone (left) and Jimmy Williams (right) will advance to a run-of election in the thing organized so that we have a Undergraduate SGA election for Executive President. The runof will be held from April 16-21. system that runs smoothly to make See Election, page 6 Galil named Greek Week competition underway new Dean of CoC By Kamna Bohra Contributing Writer Tech Provost Gary Schuster announced last Friday, April 6 the next College of Computing dean will be Dr. Zvi Galil, beginning July 1, 2010. “Tech’s College of Computing has an envi- able framework: it is a leader in computer edu- cation with extensive interdisciplinary research and excellent relationships with industry,” Galil said. Selected from a national pool of applicants, Galil will act as the chief administrative and academic oicer, focusing on the college’s plan for a new generation of computing. “Computing [provides] an exploratory instrument that accelerates discovery in all branches of science and engineering. he more Photo by Kelvin Kuo/Student Publications the College of Computing collaborates, the Alpha Chi Omega’s team pull against their competitor Alpha Gamma Delta in the irst round of the annual tug more central it becomes to institutional suc- competition on Saturday, April 7 during Greek Week. The week is a series of competitions between Greek organizations. cess,” Galil said. Galil received his bachelor’s and master’s By Matt Schrichte competition included its irst ever Na- “From start to inish, there are around degrees in applied mathematics from Tel Aviv Staf Writer tional Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) 25 events throughout the week,” said the University, and a doctoral degree in computer fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha. All nine other Overall Co-Chair of Greek Week science from Cornell University. Galil has pre- Greek Week, a competition that pits Collegiate Panhellenic Council sororities and 4th year INTA student, Mary Pi- viously worked as a professor and a dean at Co- Tech’s various fraternities and sororities competed as well. antadose. lumbia University’s School of Engineering and against each other in events and games Some other notable diferences be- While most of this year’s events are Applied Sciences and president at Tel Aviv Uni- such as tug (of war) and dizzy bat races, tween this year’s Greek Week and pre- the same or similar to past ones, there versity. comes to a close Saturday night after a vious years’ include cutting and adding have been some alterations. “[Galil’s] global view will be a tremendous week’s worth of competitions and phil- events from last year to better relect stu- “We cut people’s least favorite events asset as the College seeks to broaden its reach, anthropic events. dent interest and changing the competi- and we revamped the least popular both as an educational institution and as a vi- “Our kickof event every year is tug, tion’s time frame back to a single week events and then added some new events. tal industry research partner, across the United which took place Saturday the 10th. his as before. Instead of ping pong, we got corn hole States and around the world,” said Tom Noon- year we had the biggest turnout we’ve “It used to run from Sunday to the and we were able to have it on the Fifth an, chair of the College’s Advisory Board and ever had. We had 20 fraternities com- following Tuesday,” Taylor said. “We Street Bridge,” Piantadose said. former CEO of IBM Internet Security Systems. peting,” said Overall Co-Chair of Greek wanted to move it back into one week. his year’s remaining competitive Galil’s current research focuses on cryptogra- Week and fourth year ARCH major, It was a little ridiculous calling it Greek events include a slam-dunk contest, a phy, design and analysis of algorithms and com- Kyle Taylor. Week when it was more than one week putational complexity. Among those fraternities, this year’s [long].” See Greek, page 7 2 • April 16, 2010 • Technique NEWS From the iles of the GTPD... stated that her former boyfriend had thrown a wine glass at her Technique previously, but she was not hurt The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper Campus Crime in the process. She feared that her former boyfriend was unstable By Vivian Fan and would try to hurt her in the Founded in 1911, the Technique is the student newspaper of the News Editor Georgia Institute of Technology, and is an oicial publication of the future. he GTPD recommended Georgia Tech Board of Student Publications. he Technique publishes that she meet with the counseling A handful of fun Code of Conduct violations and center. Upon checking up on the on Fridays weekly during the fall and spring and biweekly during the released. he marijuana and pipe female student, GTPD reported summer. 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