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T HE R OSE T HORN R OSE -H ULMAN I NSTITUTE OF T ECHNOLOGY T ERRE H AUTE , I NDIANA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2009 ROSE-HULMAN.EDU/THORN/ VOLUME 45, ISSUE 10 Engineers go batey News Briefs Alex Mullans By Alex Mullans Sports Edito r ose-Hulman’s orga- Minarets banned nization Engineers RWithout Borders in Switzerland (EWB) is currently explor- On Sunday, a Swiss popular vote ap- ing the possibility of a trip proved a proposal from the country’s to the Dominican Repub- right-wing Swiss People’s Party that bans lic to do some renovation the construction of minarets, the spire- and construction work. like structures that are used for calls to During the Thanksgiving prayer in many Muslim countries. The break, three Rose-Hulman move has attracted criticism from many students (Daniel Giranda, in Europe, including French President Eric Hollenkamp, and Abby Nicholas Sarkozy, who said that people Grommet) went with Profes- should practice their faiths with “hum- sor John Gardner and 1996 ble discretion.” Many have said that the chemical engineering alum- vote creates a double standard, and the nus Levi Barclay to Batey UK’s Guardian newspaper noted that an Cinco Casas (in the Monte EU human rights court would likely find Plata region) to assess what that the vote violates the principle of re- work needed to be done to ligious freedom. expand the medical clinic John Gardner / Rose-Hulman there. Students with the Rose-Hulman chapter of Engineers Without Borders assess the needs of a clinic For those unfamiliar with during their recent trip to the Dominican Republic. In the proposed project, the students will ren- the region, a batey is like a AT&T to novate the facility to accomodate the growing medical needs of the surrounding community. company town in the Unit- “educate” heavy ed States built around a factory. Specifically, bateys bateys. The non-profit Batey ready begun to do so: the Without Borders’s presi- were built around sugarcane Relief Organization has set Thanksgiving group tested dent, Adam Kirchner (civil data users plantations. In the profit- up a clinic in Cinco Casas water, assessed the struc- engineering major, Class of In a speech at an AT&T investor’s confer- able years, immigrants were where medical care is pro- tural stability of the existing 2011), estimates that “con- ence, CEO Ralph de la Vega acknowledged brought from neighboring vided to anyone who needs buildings, and worked with struction will likely cost on what many iPhone users have complained Haiti as workers. As business it, regardless of their ability the community to ensure the order of $250,000” and about: iPhone-heavy network regions like waned and the town began to pay. that the proposed project notes that the group’s budget San Francisco and New York have below- to die, the workers were left The reason for the Engi- would meet as many press- “relies heavily on donations standard network performance. De la Vega to fend for themselves as the neers Withougt Borders trip ing needs as possible. and fundraising efforts.” claimed that 3% of smartphone users are plantations were shut down seems simple: the clinic has Rose-Hulman Engineers The club encourages people using more than 40% of AT&T’s total data and the primary source of seen a three hundred in- Without Borders hopes to who may be interested in traffic. He went further to state that “we income removed. crease in need over the past complete the project in three the project and others like it have to get to [customers who use stream- Current statistics suggest two months and is need of years, a task that includes at to contact the Rose-Hulman ing video and audio] and get them to rec- that several hundred thou- more space to better serve least one more assessment chapter of EWB and consider ognize they have to change their patterns, sand people currently live their community. EWB was trip as well as the actual con- becoming a member. or there are things we will do to change in these semi-abandoned asked to help, and has al- struction period. Engineers those patterns.” AT&T has not been clear concerning what those things are, but has suggested that it could consider usage The unparalleled UnConference caps, or “throttling.” Eric Reed ers by making them capable chairs and how easily one structure for following other G uest Writer of doing many things at once. could replace a horrible chair. users and ran out of time. Sanford may be In order to utilize these pro- While it seems frivolous, you Alumni also demonstrated his past Saturday, cessors properly, program- end up sitting in the chair for a number of tools develop- subject to Upsilon Pi Epsilon, mers need to rethink how huge chunks of time every ers can use to make their lives Tan honors fraternity they do most of their cod- day; if it is a terrible chair, significantly easier, including for computer science and ing. The presentation traced then it will slowly drive you version control, which allows censure software engineering majors, the evolution of multi-core insane. Furthermore, if the tracking changes to docu- South Carolina Governor Mark San- hosted its first CSSE UnCon- processors, highlighted the company will not even allow ments and allows many users ford has been the frequent subject of ference. CSSE current stu- major differences to single- you to improve a rather vital to edit the same source files, headlines and controversy since his un- dents and alumni gathered core programming, and gave piece of your work environ- resolving conflicts between nannounced disappearance in June that for a day of alumni presen- some examples of the kinds ment, would you really want documents. For software led the public, his staff, and his wife to tations, socializing, and free of programming gymnastics to work there? development, this is vital for question his whereabouts. On Wednes- pizza. The conference lasted necessary to write concurrent In a kind of programming any project of nontrivial size. day, a panel of state lawmakers voted all day and contained nine programs properly. challenge, two of the alumni Suggested version control 6-1 against impeaching the governor, presentations in total. Next, there was a roundta- attempted to construct a ba- systems were SVN (used by but many of those same lawmakers have The first talk focused on ble discussion with a number sic version of Twitter in about Rose) and GitHub (used by recommended that he be officially cen- techniques for writing pro- of alumni about how to find 45 minutes. The purpose was the alumni’s startup). Also sured. Censuring is a process where, grams on multi-core com- out if a company with which to demonstrate the power of mentioned were the use of although no charges are filed, a public puters. In the past few years, you interview is one that you a system called Ruby on Rails. debuggers instead of printing official is publicly reprimanded for their processor developers have fo- would like to work at, which They built basic interface, ac- messages and the use of build behavior. He is also facing various eth- cused on creating CPUs that is an aspect commonly ig- count creation and login, sent tools (ant, make, rake, etc.) to ics charges for his use of state funds for consist of a number of inde- nored by job searchers. One tweets, and read the tweets of build independently of IDEs. travel expenses and campaign funding. pendent processors. The goal of the alumni suggested ask- all users, but they encoun- of this is to speed up comput- ing about the quality of the tered a bug while building the Continued on page 3... In this issue of the Rose Thorn... But wait! Athlete of the Cars, cake, and There’s more! 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