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Dock Time (I've Never Figured out Why VOLUMECVII, NUMBER27 PASADENA, CALIFORNIA MAy 15,2006 .. .. me e ts ctlvltles ot to Return to will beleft Ull()ompleted. When the puter room will stay put, but will room. A student shop will ,dis­ es": bare concrete rooms without BY: CHANDRA BARNETT doors open in/December. Antong be joined by the other three South place DDR, which will be moved flooring, wall coverings or ceil­ With only six months .left un­ the •• services.Which. must. remain Hovse ·labs, slated to take the to a space just south ofthe former ing tile, whose doors will remain til the projected completion of intheir tempo~aryhomes, or find place ofthe former darkroom and darkroom, and storage areas for locked to discourage tampering. tht; •• SQuth Hovse • renovations, newonesLart;the Coffeehouse Techil3ig T offices. These rooms, student construction will displace The exceptions. are liInited .. to students and administrators have and the art and music programs, in tum, will move into the hall­ the •mailroom· and .the .Health five large •• areas which, though begun to hammer out the mechan­ including •• the· recording·.· studio way formerly occupied l:>ytheart Educator's office. Themailroom not finished for occupancy, are ics of briIlgingthe. South Hovse and. •• the.silkscr~enin~room. and music offices. will mOve across the hallfrom the to be used. as storage by the RAs population home. However,bud­ SeniorD4"ector.of •Housing The ASCIT screening·room, in newBig T office; Health Educa­ and th.e. H9\1sing •Department. A getary constraints and unforeseen TiIn Chang and Brad Smith of orie ofthe more remarkable struc­ tor Jane Curtis will remain in het hallway in this area will also be expenses mean that not all of the Architectural Services explained tural alterations, will move· about location in the Center for Student re-routed to avoid an intruding exiles •will be returning to their the plans for the new SAC. The 10 feet northward, into. what was Services (CSS). ventilation duct. former digs. Due to the unexpect­ laundry room will be left intact, formerly the corridor •• connect­ ThenlUsic·al1d.·artwings,>be~ To accommodate/the services edly extensive need for asbestos as will DEI, the Prac.Phys. help ing DEI to the DDR room. This neath Fleming, will bear the brunt which will no longer be avail­ abatement in southern hyper­ lab, and the bike shop, but a con­ change, like many in the SAC, of the budget overrun. To cope able in the SAC, plans are in the space, significant portions of the solidated South Hovse Library is motivate~fl:>y the placement of with the rising costs of the reno­ works for a new Student Student Activities Center (SAC) will replace the former Coffee­ large air handlers in the space pre­ vation project, most rooms in this house location. Fleming's com- viously occupied by the screening area will be left as "locked box- CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 defeated at the onset as individuals could l1li Mesh Labor BY: JOHN MCNAMARA stick their finger though the mesh to open lever. Acrylic·plates were added to pre­ !J Mesh Materials Earlier in May, Housing passed a vent this, costing $1859.75. Later it was 13 Paint Materia Is $2404.08 cha:rge to the Stew¥dship Com­ found that jarring the gate would trigger 1i1iPaintLabor mittee for damages and upgrades done. to the locking mechanism. the gate to the modular units. These charg­ The repairs· were implemented as soon es include installing a kick plate,repairing Paint Labor as housing was aware of the damage and 31% a wire meshand repainting the fence. The charges were given to the· Stewardship repairs stem from damage that appeared Committee after they were incurred to on the gate when tht; locking mechanism housing, "we received it after the fact," was kicked to open the gate. commented Eddie Truong-Cao, chair of "We have these gates for a very good the Stewardship Committee. The lack reason- that is to protect life and prop­ of notification was explained by Chang: erty," said Tim Chang, director of hous­ "work needs to be done to a specific stan- ing. The gates were installed on the mod­ dard." While the typical policy is to allow ular units because of their proximity to students to fi)( damages before the physical Dt;lMarboulevard. Card access through plant is called, according to Chang, "this the gates was added in early October of is not something that they could fix." 2005. "While legal didn't mandate it...we According to the work order: "The wire Paint Materia Is thought it was the right thing to do," ac­ mesh has been tom from the bottom ofthe 0 % cording to Chang. Despite the electronic gate to approximately 2 feet up the side. security system, residents can go through The mesh can be easily be pushed open Mesh Materials the gates by climbing over the fence. Ac­ allowing someone to crawl through the 5% cording to Chang, "even though it's fairly opening. It is recommended that a solid easy to get in, it's still an obstacle." The security system on the gates was CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 Teachers Honored by ASCIT 10-15 people-and it got really ASCIT Movie Scheduled for Friday BY: MARISSA CEVALLOS hard at the end to choose between those." Despite Techer grumblings that Three of the nine winners were Students Select The Da Vinci Code this Year "Caltech professors can't teach," for teaching Math 1: Nathan Dun­ end up in student hands." last week stu­ field teaches BY: VIBHA LALJANI Tickets will be distributed dents awarded Prac Math this week through the house nine professors The ASCIT will be screen­ presidents. Ie, Po-Ru ing The Da.Vinci Code on and TAs with TA-ed Anal Caltechers are on their ASCIT teaching Friday, May 19th at 11 pm, at own. for transport to get to Mathlb,and the Pacific Hastings theatre. awards. Bob Pelayo the theatre. Gonzo said, The Academ­ 900 Caltechers will be able "This hasn't been a major TA-ed all to watch the movie on Friday. ics and Research three terms deal in the past, as there have Committee Chris "Gonzo" Gonzales, the been plenty of carpools go­ of Math 1. ASCIT Social Director said, (ARC) sent an Several~Il­ ing from eachl10use to the onlinY.~trrVey to "The. venue was.chosen be­ movie." thusiasMc cause its capacity gives. us ul;l4t'<~grads for frosh.can at­ In addition to paying for nomil1ations. enough tickets to ensure tht; the tickets, Housing •also tesLto how majority of the student body "Over 100 much they played a significant role. in people were gets a chance to .attend." arranging this event. Gonzo liked this Tickets are free for AS­ nominated for year's Math said, "All we had to do was professors, TAs, CIT members and priced at tell them that we wanted the 1 teachers. $1.00 for non ASCIT mem­ and mentors," " Pro f. movie to be The Da Vinci said Dan Lo, ARC representative bers. Gonzo said, "Hous­ Code and they took care of Dunfield is probably one of the ing has graciously paid for for Lloyd. "Part of the aWard is best math teachers I've ever the rest, both with arrange­ based on how many nominations these tickets, to distribute to ments and with funding. had-he's organized, and is pret­ the students. Seeing as these the teacher gets, but some people ty detailed with his examples. Their help has allowed the get amazing recommendations, tickets are already paid for, social team to focus almost Compared to other math profes­ it would be a waste to have and those are some of the people sors here, their lectures would entirely on other we look at. We had a lot of re­ any left over so I will try my hardest to make·sure all 900 ally good people-maybe like CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 'VA.'-""",,>'JA. UU"lLU\"d.J.1" E3 Gaming Review A. ...A..!'".........A.!'".J.... ",..., Inaugurates Poet Haryette Mullen visits Caltech Page 4 Advice Column Dean Currie seminar--Financial Aid Page 4 the Newest Consoles .All day run for fun Page 5 Page? Stream TV and legally 6 6 A third helr)ing 8 2 THE CALIFORNIA TECH MAY 15, 2006 nounce111ents mandated by Bush's education BY: HAMILTON FALK Law. In addition Alaska, Dela­ ware, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Indonesian Volcano Letter from IranAttacks Montana, Nebraska, North Caro­ Bush, Worldwide Democ­ Causes Thousands to Flee lina and Washington, plus the Homes racy District of Columbia and Puerto Iranian President Mahmoud Indonesia has raised the alert Rico will lose federal aide due to status of Mount Merapi to· the Ahmadinejad sent U.S. President a failure to improve adequately. George W. Bush a letter criticiz­ highest level, forcing evacuation The requirement that all teach­ of thousands of residents living ing American policy in Iraq,. sup­ ers of core subjects such as math port ofIsrael, and Bush's actions on the slopes of the volcano. The and history have a bachelor's de­ volcano, part of the Pacific "ring in response to the September 11th gree, state certification, and be attacks. The letter comes as ten­ of fire" has been rumbling for declared competent was met in several weeks, and locals have sions between the United States no states, due to failures to com­ and Iran are increasing due to reported thick smoke and flowing op row ong ply, but also a lack of accurate lava. While the "code red" alert Iran's likely nuclear program and or •complete data.
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