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Fall Graduation Date Changed Mcdaniel ▪ Undergraduate Fall First Used Last Spring Thursday COLLEGIATETIMES 101st Year, No. 24 ▪ Blacksburg, Virginia ▪ October 2, 2003 An independent student-run newspaper serving the Virginia Tech community since 1903 www.collegiatetimes.com Fall graduation date changed McDaniel ▪ Undergraduate fall first used last spring. head last fall,” he said. “Because said Dan Taylor, director of ushers The undergraduate ceremony of the budget cuts, we almost for commencement. recalls commencement will be will be held at 11 a.m. and will be ended up canceling fall commence- “It had a real nice feel to it,” Taylor followed by the graduate ceremony ment.” said. Friday, Dec. 19, instead of at 3 p.m. The university had been flirt- “The sun was going down, the the following day, partly Both will be held in Cassell ing with the idea of a one-day lights were on in the stadium and it tragic Coliseum. commencement for a while before highlighted the ceremony more than because of budget restraints Previously, the graduate cer- first trying it out last spring, he daylight even could.” emony has been held Friday evening said. More than space issues, work by Eric Beidel and the undergraduate ceremony “We felt a need to do it for issues influenced the change to a Associate News Editor Saturday morning. spring because of space. There one-day commencement for this fall, night, fall Many factors led to the change in just wasn’t enough space to house Henneke said. Virginia Tech will hold both schedule, including the tightening all the ceremonies,” Henneke “It’s really to give time to the 200 undergraduate and graduate budget, said Ed Henneke, chair of said. to 300 people who work behind the ▪ Daryl McDaniel was one of fall commencement ceremonies the university commencement com- Things went smoothly for the scenes at the ceremonies,” he said. Friday, Dec. 19, repeating the mittee. spring commencement, so it will seven people who fell from a same-day commencement practice “Our discussions came to a become a fixed practice for spring, See DATE, page 2 third-floor window at a concert Sunday night by Tiffany Hoffman Managing Editor RAFT center joins national hotline Daryl Thomas McDaniel, who was injured in a fall at the Solar Haus on Sunday by Erin Zlomek night, said if the Solar Haus continues to News Assistant have performances, he will still attend. “Some of my favorite bands had played The RAFT Crisis Center — a pro- there and I liked it a lot,” said McDaniel, gram of New River Valley Community a freshman at Services — officially became part of Radford. “You can’t the National Hopeline Network on blame anybody Wednesday. The transition allows resi- (for Sunday’s inci- dents of Southwest Virginia to receive dent).” help quickly by dialing 1-800-SUICIDE Lenore Oliphant, if they or someone they know is hav- a senior animal sci- ing thoughts of suicide. ence major at Tech Previously, local residents dialing who has lived at the 1-800-SUICIDE number were con- the Solar Haus for nected to a crisis center in Arlington two years, said the before they were transferred to RAFT, residents are uncer- where immediate help could be pro- tain about having vided. any future shows. McDaniel “With the old way, a real emergency “I would like to would take around 15 or 20 minutes think this isn’t the end to Solar Haus shows to get the right kind of help,” said — it’s important to us,” she said. “ But we Nathan Reed, RAFT crisis hotline haven’t really discussed it too much.” manager. “Now it will only take about McDaniel said he remembers almost 10 minutes, and every minute counts everything that happened during the show with this type of intervention.” Sunday night and said he was one of the last When an imminent call comes in, of seven college-age males to fall from the the call is linked to RAFT’s Emergency third-story window. Service Commissions, known as “It was the kind of thing you see on a ACCESS. movie,” he said. “You see people hit before “ACCESS is a group of social work- you and think ‘Yep, I’m going to die.’” ers and psychologists who work with McDaniel said several of the men fell the police department and rescue on the mattress previously placed in front squad,” Reed said. “(Members of of the window, but he fell on the concrete ACCESS) will meet the person face to next to Daniel James Martin, a Virginia Tech face if they need to.” sophomore economics major who died as In the past, RAFT could be directly a result of the accident. McDaniel said he contacted by dialing 961-8400. This sustained a gash in his head, a fractured procedure was not as popular, since thumb, stitches in his right arm and elbow the number was not easily recogniz- and extensive bruising all over his body ROBERT DRAKE/SPPS able. from the fall. Tech junior Candice Colón (right) and Radford junior Heather Davis take calls at the RAFT Crisis Center in See RAFT, page 2 Blacksburg. The center has joined a national network of hotlines which helps callers with problems. See FALL, page 3 President Tele -Works expanding alert system ▪ The Blacksburg company The existing Virginia extension approves network uses a 56K modem, which is working on a state-wide is too slow when time is a factor version of their Blacksburg in notifying citizens of emergency situations, said Timothy Mack, $30 billion Alert system assistant dean for information tech- nology. by Bryan Nieder A verbal proposal to state legisla- News Assistant tors from a partnership including terror bill Tele-Works and Virginia Agricultural A local e-services company in Experiment Station has been made Blacksburg, Tele-Works Inc., may be to upgrade the system to a T1 by Deb Riechmann the intermediary in Virginia utilizing modem. Associated Press the first statewide extension network The proposal also allows for the with a first-responder system in the installation of first-responder sys- WASHINGTON — President Bush said country. tems at all of the extension locations. the $30 billion spending bill he signed The proposed statewide network The first year of work for the Wednesday — the first ever for the new would set up 120 first-responder project would cost an estimated $4 Homeland Security Department — will nodes across the state which million and could be in operation help America protect its soil from terrorist would be hooked up to a system within nine months of governmental threats. backbone probably out of approval, Mack said. “On Sept. 11, 2001, enemies of freedom Richmond. Locally, the system may also made our country a battleground,” he This would allow the extensions to be used for services such as pay- said. “Their method is the mass murder of inform Virginians of individualized ing water bills or parking tickets. the innocent and their goal is to make all information. The system would be Schellhammer said Blacksburg Americans live in fear. an update of the existing extension Public Works is investigating its “And yet our nation refuses to live in network in Virginia. uses for the Blacksburg Transit fear,” he said. “The best way to overcome “You can customize information buses. fear and to frustrate the plans of our ene- for what you want when you want,” He said BT riders could receive mies is to be prepared and resolute at home said Chris Schellhammer, president information about bus delays via and take the offensive abroad.” of Tele-Works. outlets like cell phones or e-mail Bush went to the department’s head- Blacksburg Alert, a first-responder and BT employees could internally quarters to sign the bill at a ceremony system that Tele-Works helped correspond. under a blue banner reading, “Protecting develop, allows citizens to create an Statewide, the first-responder sys- the Homeland.” account and specify what informa- tem, in conjunction with the exten- The bill that Congress sent to Bush was tion and through what outlet that sion network, could warn a large about $1 billion above what the president person wishes to receive informa- population of a terrorist attack as requested. It includes some $4.2 billion for tion. well as serve as an educational tool COURTESY OF TELE-WORKS first-responder programs, $9 billion for bor- Schellhammer said Blacksburg for agencies through the dissemina- Alert is simply how the town brand- The Tele-Works office, located next to Gumby’s Pizza, tests computers See TERROR, page 3 ed a first-responder system. See ALERT, page 3 and servers before they are shipped to customers across the country. Page 2 Ⅲ Collegiate Times Ⅲ Thursday, October 2, 2003 News in Brief Date: Changes RAFT: Center has Va. man charged Brookhaven, Hammond, La., in child porn and Oxford, Ala. impact local hotels about 70 volunteers case surrenders FBI investigated Continued from page 1 more spread out.” Continued from page 1 of Suicidology. The AAS sets a FAIRFAX (AP) — A girls by Justice Dept. The same trend is expected standard for crisis centers across soccer coach suspected of vid- “It gives them a chance to get to occur at AmeriSuites, said “Over time, people will rec- Canada and the United States to eotaping children and adults WASHINGTON (AP) — The things done in between the General Manager Jeremy ognize the 1-800-SUICIDE num- ensure they offer every type of at a Pennsylvania nudist camp Justice Department is inves- ceremonies.” Allen. ber, and from now on (the RAFT service to help someone who is surrendered to authorities on tigating whether FBI agents Henneke said the close- “We haven’t seen much Crisis Center) is where that call suicidal.
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