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Friday, FebruaryNEWS 25, 2005 Technique • Friday, February 25, 2005 • 1 “The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper” Inside this issue The Jackets fall to the Blue Devils in a heartbreaking loss, page 32 ECHNIQUE Plus Grade substitution moves forward, page 11 TVolume 90, Issue 24 • 32 pages • ONLINE www.nique.net Serving Georgia Tech since 1911 Opinions 8 · Focus 11 · Entertainment 17 · Comics 24 · Sports 32 Large class sizes cramp housing Ga. House passes bill By Amanda Dugan for undergraduates due to space many returning upperclassmen student applications submitted capping HOPE hours Staff Writer pressure from the large size of receive housing for Fall 2005. by March 1 is greater than avail- the incoming freshman class. First- and second-year students able space, a lottery system will be By Haining Yu On Feb. 17, housing sign-up In addition, the entire hous- are still guaranteed housing. used to pick eligible students. Assistant News Editor began, and this year, the Depart- ing preference selection is now “We only have 6,000 beds, so “We’re predicting 2,400 ment of Housing has made several handled online. the large freshman class will have new freshmen for this Fall and On Tuesday the Georgia House of Rep- changes in the registration and Last year, all students who ap- an effect on the lottery,” said Dan a little over 2,100 of those will resentatives voted to pass a bill limiting the preference process as well as in plied for housing during sign up Morrison, associate director of most likely live on campus. We number of attempted credit hours HOPE housing availability. Hemphill received a space. The large current Housing for Residence Life. will cover. The bill will now be considered Apartments are now designated freshman class may limit how If the number of returning See Housing, page 5 in the Senate. The legislation, if passed by the Senate, would put the limit for any student at 127 RHA hosts attempted credit hours. That decision would mean that students enrolled in a degree Winterbuzz program requiring more than 127 credit The 14th annual Winterbuzz hours may not receive HOPE funding for semi-formal will be held tonight the portion of the hours above the cap. at the Biltmore Hotel from 9 According to an AJC estimate, there are p.m. to 1 a.m. at least 2,000 students at Tech enrolled in Tickets are still available such programs. for $10 at the Student Center However, the AJC reported that accord- box office. Students may also ing to Representative Chuck Martin, most purchase tickets at the door for students would receive a grace period of an additional charge. one semester’s worth of additional HOPE For more information, visit funding beyond the hour cap. rha.gatech.edu. This measure is not included in the legislation, but according to Martin, is a common practice of the commission that administers HOPE. Women’s film The changes, if passed, would not affect students currently on HOPE. However, series begins they would apply for all students enrolling The Women in Science and next fall. Technology Film Series begins Current HOPE regulations, as specified next Wednesday, Thursday and under Georgia Code 20-3-519.2, state that Friday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. “A student enrolled in an undergraduate as part of Women’s Awareness degree program designed to be more than month. The series features films ...127 semester hours in length is eligible to on women’s issues and women receive the HOPE scholarship for the lesser of: (A) A total of...150 attempted semester in science and technology. The By Christopher Gooley / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS hours; or (B) The number of hours required showings will take place in room ampers! In anticipation for Wednesday’s Men’s Basketball game against Duke, students 236 of the Global Learning & for graduation if the student has a cumulative gathered at the Coliseum Tuesday, bringing books, laptops, tents, chairs, food, water and grade point average of at least 3.0...” Conference Center, and all films anythingC else needed to survive a night of to camping out as they waited for tickets. are free and open to the public. LeaderShape cut, Tsunami fundraising effort ends By Haining Yu Assistant News Editor then reinstated The official efforts of Tech By Arcadiy Kantor made to avoid sending students Tsunami Relief (TTR) come Senior Staff Writer this year to evaluate its value to to a close tomorrow Saturday, the campus. “We thought, ‘Well, Feb. 26, exactly two months The LeaderShape program, let’s take a one-year break and see after a tsunami devastated vast which had been canceled for how our money is really being regions of south and southeast this year, has been reinstated used,’” Schafer said. Asia and eastern Africa. With and will take place once more. However, based on input a death toll in the hundreds of The intended cancellation was from student leaders on cam- thousands and over five million a component of the currently- pus, Student Affairs decided to people left homeless, the tsunami ongoing comprehensive review reinstate the program. “We’ve created damage on an almost of leadership programs at the been talking to several people unimaginable scale. Institute. and we’ve decided to find the While former Presidents “A lot of discussion is going on money for it again this year,” George Bush and Bill Clinton about how we spend our money Schafer said. urged the private citizens of currently for leadership and how Funding for the program still America into action, leaders at we get the most for our money,” needs to be secured. Tech raised their own challenge said William Schafer, vice presi- LeaderShape participants in the form of TTR, a challenge dent of Student Affairs. spend the week holding discus- to the Tech community to do its LeaderShape is a week-long sions on making an impact on part by raising $60,000—three summer program that costs ap- campus and determining plans dollars per student, faculty and proximately $1,000 per student. to implement upon their return. staff member on campus. The program is run by a national “You can hear from the students The initial January 26 deadline non-profit organization. Tech involved that they generated was extended after a fundraising typically has 40 to 45 students ideas that they brought back to challenge was issued by UGA to participating. the campus, and that’s a very compete for which school could Funding for the program good thing to [have] occur,” raise the most money. Accord- By Jamie Howell/ STUDENT PUBLICATIONS comes from a combination of pri- Schafer said. ing to some of the organizers, David Hubbard of the men’s a cappella group Sympathetic Vibrations sings vate donations, participant fees, Monday night at Under the Couch. The men, along with Nothin` But Treble, and Institute funding. Plans were See Leader, page 7 See Tsunami, page 7 performed at Under the Couch in order to benefit Tsunami Relief Efforts. 2 • Friday, February 25, 2005 • Technique NEWS Technique Online Voice your opinion! From the files of the GTPD... Last issue’s question received 147 responses. Campus Crime Do you support a $15 Student Activity Fee increase? All four students stated they did Civil Engineering Building was not know who had been smoking the forced open. marijuana. No charges were filed, The culprit caused $110 in dam- but a Shaka hunting knife of the ages to the door frame. A plastic Can’t you steal something better? room’s owner was placed in evidence testing drum and a small tool kit 8 because it was over three inches and were stolen. Tech Housing reported that a violated the school’s policy on having - 14 - No - 3 - No ladder was stolen sometime after weapons on campus. 86 GOAL!!! - - 10:00 am on Feb. 9 from the hous- it ing office. The ladder, valued at $70, Only if it’s the last one one last the it’s if Only Incoherent Valentine On Feb. 16, a stray soccer ball Don’t care - 8 - care Don’t remains missing. from a game on CRC field struck Sure, the CRC’s worth worth CRC’s the Sure, Dude, where’s my pot? On Feb. 14, a letter with in- a student’s car. The car, parked on coherent writing was retrieved by Ferst Street, sustained few damages On Feb. 14, a Housing staff mem- the GTPD from Boggs Chemistry from the impact. ber advised GTPD that he smelled building and placed in evidence. The The car’s owner said that there By Lauren Griffin / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS marijuana coming from a room. letter was addressed to an unknown were previous damages in the same Upon entering the room the person and came from overseas. location where the ball hit from This week’s question: reporting officer also smelled mari- when she struck a pole. Will Tech make the NCAA tournament? juana. No marijuana was found in Lab isn’t that much fun Tell us at www.nique.net the room or on the four students This week’s campus crime informa- in it. On Feb. 10, a lab door in the tion contributed by Amanda Dugan Corrections • An article in the Feb. 18 issue entitled “When it comes to Buzz, licensing office balances rules, cre- ativity” misidentified the director of Client Communications. He is David Arnold, not Dan Arnold. The Technique welcomes your com- ments and suggestions, as well as information about errors that call for correction. Messages may be emailed to [email protected]. 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