Preparations for CULC Begin Stall in SGA SGA Unable to Agree on Measures to Reduce Institute-Wide Emails by Sijia Cai Senior Sta! Writer
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'SJEBZ 'FCSVBSZ t7PMVNF *TTVFtnique.net Another new (lunar) year Dragon dances, red lan- terns and more. Check out all the Chinese New Year’s traditions. !11 TechniqueThe South’s Liveliest College Newspaper CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION Megamod policy changes Preparations for CULC begin stall in SGA SGA unable to agree on measures to reduce institute-wide emails By Sijia Cai Senior Sta! Writer A bill that would establish a new mass cam- pus email distribution policy at Tech was shot down at the end of the Fall semester. Even though the Undergraduate House of Represen- tatives (UHR) passed the bill, it failed to garner the required amount of votes in the Graduate Student Senate (GSS). !ese mass campus emails, commonly known as “megamods,” usually contain infor- *MMVTUSBUJPODPVSUFTZPG5IF*NBHJOF-BC mation about crisis or logistics announcements, registration and curriculum information, time Clockwise from top: A recent schematic design of the CULC. A lone tree stands in the remenants of the former library sensitive messages from the SGA or messages parking lot. Months before construction is set to begin, underground utility work has begun around the work site. from the administration. “Students are inundated with emails from By Vijai Narayanan for the building project.” Georgia Tech every day, and we must "nd a way Sta! Writer Over the course of the to cut back on these emails,” said Aaron Fowler, project, the western edge of graduate student body president. Preparations have be- the construction area will At the beginning of last fall, undergraduate gun for construction of extend from Skiles Walkway members of the SGA decided that one of their the Clough Undergradu- to Atlantic Dr. and the east- primary goals for that semester would be to re- ate Learning Commons ern border will be marked by form Tech’s megamod policy. By the middle of (CULC). Facilities began Fowler St. the fall semester, the UHR formed a committee work earlier this month up- Currently there is a green to collect information on and devise a new me- grading and rerouting exist- fence that encloses the area gamod policy. ing water, steam and com- between Skiles Walkway and After gathering opinions from students and munication utilities around Atlantic Dr, as well as a small administrators, the group drafted several rec- the site of the new building. portion of Yellow Jacket Park. ommendations that formed the basis for an ini- Funding for the CULC !e actual footprint of the tial policy proposal. was included in the state building will not extend into !e group then collected feedback on this budget for the next "scal Yellow Jacket Park, but cur- proposal before presenting a revised version to year. As a result, construc- rently the space is required the legislative bodies. tion work will begin on the for construction equipment “I sincerely believe that the policy proposal building could begin as early and utility work. brought progress students were looking for. as May. As the preparation work Unfortunately, the senators did not agree,” said “!ere is a substantial gets started on the CULC, George Ray, undergraduate chief of sta# and amount of underground the design of the building has member of the megamod policy working group. utility work that needs to be entered its "nal stages. An !e working group considered two primary done, so that is going to be SGA advisory group has been concerns when developing the new policy. !ey primary construction activity working with the building’s made sure to protect the integrity of email as for the short term,” said John many stakeholders to make an e#ective means of communicating informa- DuConge, project manager sure that student concerns tion and to allow students the option to receive for Facilities Capital Projects were heard and addressed. as little or as much of that information as they Group. “!e utility work will Students, faculty and desired. be done in sections to miti- alumni expressed concern !e main feature of the new policy proposal gate the impact on access in about the building’s appear- would be the creation of a message distribution that area of campus. Once ance in relation to its location system, where students could choose to opt in the utility project is com- in the center of campus. As or out of nine email category lists. !e catego- plete, the construction zone Photos by Jon Drews / Student Publications will be substantially reduced See CULC, page 7 See Megamod, page 5 Mandatory student fee revenue to be distributed “everywhere” By Kaitlin Goodrich will be considered an addition plan to minimize overall bud- and $8 million from the ad- Projection of Tech’s Sta! Writer to the money that goes in the get cuts. “Without the manda- ministration’s budget. part of the budget categorized tory fee, we would have had an Right now, "guring out 9% Budget Cut Many students were up- as resident instruction. additional 0.75% cut with the where that money will be spe- set to discover the mandatory “Resident instruction is already nine percent budget ci"cally taken from will wait hundred-dollar fee added to the core operation of Tech. cut. I think that the fee was as the o$cial budget is legis- Tech students’ tuition this se- It includes all the colleges. It an attempt to avoid that,” Kirk lated. mester. !e fee was instituted includes the administration, said. “!ere are speci"c ear- $7.8 mil. to help cover budget cuts be- facilities, student a#airs and Exactly from where the marked cuts… but it’s our Academic Units $8 mil. ing made to the university sys- everything that is not in some extra 0.75% cut would have understanding that any line Administration Budget tem. At Tech, $1.9 million in other bucket,” Kirk said. been taken never had been put items that are earmarked [to revenue was raised by the fee, Some of the other “buck- into consideration, since the be cut] have some %exibility. but very little explanation as to ets” would be parts of the uni- fee increase was announced at We don’t know for sure yet the application of this money versity funded separately, such the same time as the cuts were what the governor will cut spe- was given. as Auxiliary Services, which moved from eight percent to ci"cally, so right now it is best “!e short answer is [that is paid for by speci"c student nine percent. to just look at the bigger pic- $1.9 mil. from mandatory student fee pre- funds were distributed] every- fees, or parts of the university !is nine percent overall ture of the budget,” Kirk said. vented those funds from being cut from Aca- where,” said Jim Kirk, direc- that operate separately, such as cut was absorbed in Tech’s !e fee enacted by the state demic Units and the Administration Budget. tor of Budget Planning and GTRI. budget by cutting about $7.8 *OGPHSBQIJDCZ4JXBO-JV Student Publications Administration. !e state fee !e fee was a part of the million from academic units See Fee, page 4 t'FCSVBSZ tTechnique NEWS Assault on Hemphill From the "les of the GTPD... Correction In last week’s issue, it was mistakenly reported that for food A police o$cer observed a Campus Crime catered on campus property, Sodexho Inc. was the only option student laying on the sidewalk for bringing that food on to campus. !ere are actually eight ad- on Jan. 28 at 10:13 p.m. When a By William Brawley ditional secondary catering providers where people can obtain police o$cer approached the stu- di#erent meal choices for their catered events. Any food purcah- dent, he noticed that the victim Assistant News Editor ses over $200, regardless of the funding source, to be consumed had a bloody nose and abrasions on the Tech campus, must go through one of the nine catering on his chin and forehead. At the hospital, the original Packing heat providers unless otherwise approved. For more information, see Another student was with the police o$cer spoke with the vic- www.studentcenter.gatech.edu/campuscatering.htm victim when the police arrived. tim again who acknowledged that On Jan. 28 at around 12:50 !e other student told the police he had several alcoholic beverages a.m., police were noti"ed regard- o$cer that the group of four guys earlier in the evening. ing a person pointing a gun at a that had harmed the victim had During the questioning, the another person. !e police arrived walked o# toward the CRC. victim acted confused and asked on the scene near Towers residence Technique !e o$cer put in a call for an repetitive questions but denied us- hall and met with a male student 5IF4PVUIT-JWFMJFTU$PMMFHF/FXTQBQFS ambulance and noti"ed police ing any drugs. from Georgia State University dispatch to be on the lookout for For his account of the inci- (GSU) and two other male wit- Founded in 1911, the Technique is the student newspaper of the the group of males. As another of- dent, the victim stated that he was nesses. Georgia Institute of Technology and an o$cial publication of the "cer arrived on the scene, the "rst called from across the street by the !e GSU student stated that Georgia Tech Board of Student Publications. !e Technique publishes o$cer left to search for the group group of males. Upon meeting up as he was walking up the stairs on Fridays weekly during the fall and spring and biweekly during the of people. Soon after, the group of with them, the one male suspect between Towers and Harrison summer, and online at nique.net.