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pageFOCUS 9 Technique • Friday, January 16, 2004 • 9 Hoopin’ it up with Hewitt 3...2...1...Happy New Year! Men’s basketball may not be No. 3 anymore, but The ‘Nique ushers in 2004 with a review of FOCUS we still love them. Coach Paul Hewitt talks about Atlanta’s own Times Square-like party—the the team’s strategies and successes. Page 28 Peach Drop at Underground Atlanta. Page 15 Technique • Friday, January 16, 2004 Free food promotes class identity at Junior’s By Jennifer Lee Sophomore Summit. Focus Editor “Georgia Tech gets a lot of flak for our poor ratings,” said Darragh Last Thursday seemed to be the Wright, one of the members of the real start of the semester as several steering committee for Sophomore events were held to welcome stu- Summit. “It’s easier to get a sense of dents back to Tech after the break. belonging within your class, and in One of the events was Juniors at turn get a sense of belonging at GT Junior’s, sponsored by Student Gov- so that no one feels lost.” ernment Association’s Junior Class Several students who attended Committee, which was open to jun- Juniors at Junior’s expressed approval iors only and advertised free Jun- at the idea of something for the ior’s chicken tenders baskets to the junior class. first 100 people to show up, and “I think it’s cool,” said Jonathan half off the next Laing, an Inter- 100. national Affairs Despite the and Modern cold night, the “After your freshman Languages ma- event, which ac- jor. “After your cording to the you never get to do freshman you email invitation, anything with just your never get to do was supposed to anything with begin at 7 p.m., class...so this is kinda just your had people lining nice to keep the class class...so this is up outside Jun- kinda nice to ior’s as early as identity alive.” keep the class 6:30, and it took Jonathan Laing identity alive.” less than an hour INTA/ML junior “I know By Ayan Kishore / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS for the food to sell several people Students, many of whom waited outside in the cold half an hour early, chow down happily on free Junior’s out. here, a lot of chicken baskets. The event, called Juniors at Junior’s, is part of a larger movement toward better class identity. “We had to people that I’ve tell people to go home,” said Junior had classes with through my fresh- credit hours class as well as year.” tually sit down and eat,” she said. “I “The idea for SophCom from Class President Amy Phuong, who man year and stuff, my roommate… “Juniors at Junior’s was our idea thought they were just going to come the students emerged around the led the planning for the event. I even met somebody new. They of just having fun,” said Phuong, and go.” same time as a new initiative for the “By 7:10, we completely ran out should do this again next year,” he who wore a nametag that night that Another group that has come Office of Success Programs to begin of the half-off tickets,” though she added, noting that the theme of Jun- said “Ask me about Junior Com- out of this initiative is Sophomore to examine the sophomore student added, “People still bought full price ior’s grill would no longer apply. mittee” and walked around talking Committee—SophCom for short, experience at GT,” said Amy Stalz- just to be in there and have fun.” Greg Gunn, a Computer Engi- to those who attended. which was started directly by the er, who works in Success Programs Juniors at Junior’s highlighted a neering junior who was squeezed She said that she had noticed steering committee of Sophomore with FASET and Freshman Coun- push for more class identity that has into a booth with six other friends, that there was a greater degree of Summit. The organization is still cil and is the advisor to SophCom. been surfacing on campus in the said, “It would have been a better apathy in the junior class, and as a developing, but last semester host- “While we have, in the past, main- past few months. idea if it hadn’t just started junior result, “we tailored our events not ed a Sophomore Preunion that fea- ly focused on programs relating to Though the idea is not new, it year. That way we could get a feel to try to get people involved.” tured a hot-air balloon and a cookout was brought up seriously at last year’s for the people who were in the same “It was suprising to see them ac- on the Instructional Center lawn. See Juniors, page 11 Campus Research Review SGA’s online booktrade site offers Biology group finds more than Nemo alternative to bookstore, auctions By Grace Nam Last November, Professor Mark the six-person team of scientists that Contributing Writer Hay of the School of Biology led a had the opportunity to take part in By Shakeela Bader ru is the webmaster for the site, team of graduate students to the this underwater project. Contributing Writer using his newfound computing For those who think that research undersea laboratory Aquarius in the Hay’s research involved the di- skills by creating a mini-Ebay is all about micropipettes and Petri Florida Keys. The laboratory is gov- minishing coral reefs and its rela- As a new semester dawns and for trading textbooks at Georgia dishes, how does swimming among ernment-sponsored and lends itself tion to herbivorous fishes. students hurry to buy textbooks Tech to help alleviate the bur- fish for nine hours a day and living to research missions for different Hay explained, “Around the for classes, students often turn to den on students’ wallets through in a facility that is 47 feet underwa- groups around the country. It was whole island nation of Jamaica, cor- alternative methods of buying and a book trading website. ter sound? an arduous yet exciting 10 days for al cover was 60 percent in the late selling their textbooks in hopes Pesaru made the website in July seventies. In the early nineties it was of avoiding the overpriced offer- of 2002, and received backing three percent. One of the primary ings at the from Student reasons for this was over fishing; bookstores. Government people took out most of the fish Industrial Association that eat seaweeds. If they are not Engineering “It is just another (SGA) to controlled by grazers, [seaweed] will junior Antho- strengthen over grow and kill corals.” method of selling ny Mojica and publicize After a significant amount of said, “I sell my books like... this new way underwater observation and video books back to of trading taping, they found that there were newsgroups and the students I books. three species of surgeon fish and 15 know, buy bookstores.” The web- species of parrot fish that were im- online site allows portant grazers. Shan Pesaru through Georgia The team built 32 big cages with GT Booktrade webmaster Amazon.com, Tech stu- different combination of these fish- Ecampus.com dents to es to observe the effects on coral reef and other col- trade, resell growth. lege textbook websites.” and buy the textbooks required “It took us forever,” Hay said of Other computer-saavy stu- at Georgia Tech. Pesaru said “the the research. “As soon as we started dents also use the Tech news- website is a third party which putting fish in [the cages], sharks group git.ads. connects people safely and quickly started tearing them apart to get the However, another option that for book trading.” fish out. Eels blasted right though is available at SGA’s online book- David Bussman, the chair of them like missiles. We had to repair Photo courtesy Institute Communications and Public Affairs trade site at http://sga.gatech.edu/ SGA’s Public Relations Com- that and figure out ways to keep the booktrade. Third-year Comput- Biology professor Mark Hay led a group of students on a 10-day research sharks from tearing them up.” mission on the undersea lab Aquarius. The group dealt with bad food and er Engineering major Shan Pesa- See Books, page 14 awkward living conditions but also got to study rich underwater life. See Aquarius, page 14 10 • Friday, January 16, 2004 • Technique FOCUS Computer science grows as students come in with leg-up By Joshua Cuneo when I was eight or so, I was mess- could do that,” Gilman said. ing CS 1321 and 1322 a breeze for have to overcome any feelings of Senior Staff Writer ing around with computers,” Gil- Gilman and DePalma turned to students like Gilman and DePal- inadequacy that may arise. “I can man said. “When my games broke, books, the internet and associates ma. But both refute the claim, ar- see someone who wasn’t computer There’s one in every class: the I tried to fix them, and that inspired for help in their endeavors, picking guing that the classes have still taught literate feeling like, ‘Oh my God, “smart guy” in the corner who starts me to learn how to program.” and choosing among the various them a great many things. the guy sitting next to me wrote a incomprehensible dialogues with the Nick DePalma is a third-year CS topics according to their immediate “Just having previous experience Linux book, and I’m sitting here professor and baffles the rest of the major who arrived at Tech already interests.

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