Friday, OctoberNEWS 10, 2003 Technique • Friday, October 10, 2003 • 1 Mmmm, mmmm, Uma. Does Yellow Jacket football TECHNIQUE Femme fatale slashes, earn a “Satisfactory” midterm “The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper” decapitates and delimbs. grade? Find out inside. ONLINE http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/technique ENTERTAINMENT page 17 SPORTS page 32 Serving Georgia Tech since 1911 • Volume 89, Issue 12 • 32 pages Opinions 8 · Focus 11 · Entertainment 17 · Comics 24 · Sports 32 EAS prof wins top Housing restructures FE, cuts PAs AMS recognition By Narayana Varahabhatla staff advisors. Hall directors will be fect by July 1, 2004. around for 12 years. We had 400 Professor Peter Webster of both Contributing Writer full-time employees, not students. Under the current structure, peer students at its inception, and now it the School of Earth and Atmospheric Eight hall directors will supervise leaders (PLs) help entering fresh- has grown to about 1900 students. Sciences and the School of Civil This week, the Department of the activities of peer leaders in the men move in and understand hous- The program was very well regard- and Environmental Engineering has Housing announced a major restruc- FE dorms. ing rules. Peer advisers (PAs) in turn ed, but its structure needs to change been selected by the American Me- turing of Freshman Experience (FE). The restructuring also replaces supervise PLs and help them adjust to accommodate the increase in size teorological Society as the winner All 20 peer advisor positions as four existing residence life coordi- to their responsibilities. In suite- [of the FE population],” Morrison of the Carl Gustaf Rossby Research well as the six staff advisor positions nators with three area managers. Hall style dorms, community advisers said. Medal. now assigned to cover FE, tradi- directors will report to these area (CAs) do the same job as the PLs, In spring 2002, Rosalind Mey- The society presents the medal, tional and suite-style dorms will be managers. with staff advisers (SAs) supervising ers, Associate Vice President of Aux- its highest honor for an atmospher- eliminated. The changes were an- The reorganization creates a new several CAs. iliary Services, initiated a review of ic scientist, each year for contribu- nounced to Housing’s student staff Assistant Director for Student and Dan Morrison, Associate Direc- FE. Three committees were formed tions to the understanding of the at a meeting Monday night. Community Development position tor of Residence Life, explained the to conduct independent reviews. One workings of Earth’s atmosphere. A new position, hall director, will and four graduate assistant positions. reasoning behind the changes. Webster made “fundamental con- be created to replace the peer and All changes are planned to take ef- “The FE program has been See Housing, page 6 tributions to tropical meteorology and oceanography.” He will receive the award Jan. 14, 2004. Out and about TEAM Buzz finds Prof wins $20,000 donors generous doctoral grant Tech graduate and assistant pro- By Daniel Amick A year later, the situation is fessor in the School of Mechanical News Editor improving, and companies are Engineering Samuel Graham recent- more willing to give. ly received a $20,000 grant from TEAM Buzz may not be roll- Twist said the funding situa- FACES (Facilitating Academic Ca- ing in cash, but compared to tion is “Better. Definitely bet- reers in Engineering and Science), a this time last year, the organiza- ter. We weren’t sure about money Georgia Tech program meant to tion’s finances are much im- at all [last year].” guide minority students to careers proved. “It is not perfect yet,” Twist in academia. The money is meant Last year, corporate sponsors said, “but companies are a little to help newly-graduated minority were few and far between, leav- more willing [to donate].” doctoral students foster a research ing the Tech So far, program to help initiate their aca- service organi- TEAM Buzz demic careers. zation strug- has raised Other Tech grads to win the award gling to find “It is not perfect yet, $8,500 from this year include William Robin- alternative corporate son, a doctoral student in Electrical sources of but companies are sponsors. and Computer Engineering, and funding. a little more willing Twist cred- Chekesha Liddell, a doctoral stu- “‘It’s the its organiza- dent in Materials Science and Engi- economy,’” to donate.” tion members neering. said Katie Katie Twist working in Twist, chair of TEAM Buzz Steering chair TEAM Buzz’s TEAM Buzz development COE administrator Steering Com- section who dies of heart attack mittee. “That began fund- was [the companies’] excuse.” raising efforts in January. Tech alumnus Douglas Ray Hol- Last year, TEAM Buzz was “We picked three girls this ley, 54, died Sept. 25 after suffering only able to raise about $2,500 year, and they really got a jump a massive heart attack. He graduat- in corporate sponsorships. Or- on this early,” Twist said. ed in 1973 with a bachelor’s degree ganization leaders were forced The biggest donors are Kim- in textile management, and returned to seek additional funding from berly-Clark and LSI Logic. Other By Andrew Saulters / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS to Tech in 1997 to raise funds for other on-campus organizations companies have offered in-kind Scott McRae takes a step through the closet door Monday. The door the School of Polymer, Textile and like the Residence Hall Associa- donations like food. symbolized either the pledging of one’s support for gay, lesbian, bisexual, Fiber Engineering. tion and the Georgia Tech Stu- transgender or questioning persons, or one’s formal coming out. He was recently appointed di- dent Foundation. See TEAM, page 7 rector of development for the Col- lege of Engineering. Holley is survived by wife Becky Holley; daughters Hope Holley, Heather Hamby and Tech customizes on-line admissions process Hayes Willet; two granddaughters; mother May Holley; and three sib- By Sid Parmar boards and chatrooms. Instead of “It looked like we really would place with the exception of chat- lings. Contributing Writer having information scattered be able to pull together the rooms. In the future, Admissions throughout Tech’s main website, information…in time for the fall hopes to add BuzzPort capabilities. The college admissions process information will be consolidated and season,” Hayes said. The new website and its features Wilcox appoints can prove to be a daunting and con- take prospective students directly The site personalizes informa- were created by Connexxia LLC, a fusing task for any high school stu- to relevant information. tion for individual students. For ex- company which specializes in a per- interim CRC head dent. However, future Tech students The change comes as part of ample, instead of sending sonal admissions system that tracks Kirk McQueen will serve as in- may not have to undergo such an Tech’s continuous review of the ap- information about certain programs a student’s progress throughout the terim director of the Department of ordeal if the Office of Undergradu- plication process. to all applicants, students can log in process. The system also collects sta- Campus Recreation. Vice President ate Admissions’s newest project is a “We have always been interested and input their interests. This gives tistical data on students and relays it of Student Affairs Lee Wilcox an- success. in trying to be more personalized,” Tech the ability to target specific back to the school. Schools in turn nounced McQueen would handle “It’s live! It has been up for two Hayes said. “Georgia Tech is a fairly students who showed interest in one can use this data to better present the position until a committee can weeks,” said Director of Admissions large school and we get lots of appli- aspect of the school or another. information or improve areas where complete a nationwide search for a Ingrid Hayes, referring to the new cations. So, we are always looking In addition, “as you advance students showed concern. permanent replacement for former undergraduate admissions website, for ways to have a more personal through the [application] process, This system allows for the appli- director Butch Stanphill. www.admissions. gatech.edu. interaction with the students.” you get access to more features, more cation process to continue to evolve Stanphill left his position Sept. The new website is built around Hayes said the project of creat- things. So the process gets more and and cater more and more to student 26 after serving at the Institute for information like campus life, ad- ing the website was ready to be im- more personalized,” Hayes said. 21 years. Stanphill left to take a missions, housing, profiles, message plemented this past summer. Currently, all capabilities are in See Website, page 6 similar position at Clemson. 2 • Friday, October 10, 2003 • Technique NEWS From the files of the GTPD... Technique Online Voice Your Opinion! CRIME REPORTS Last week’s question garnered 64 responses: Entering auto Fire What are you doing over fall break? 10/3/2003 14:41:00 hrs. 10/2/2003 4:19:00 hrs. ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ LOCATION: Tech Parking/CRC LOCATION: 555 8th Street/8th ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ INCIDENT: Report that a green Street Apartments. ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 1995 Honda Accord was entered INCIDENT: Report of an electrical ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ and items were taken. fire. ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Conduct code violation ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 10/3/2003 3:23:00 hrs. Criminal damage ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 10/3/2003 9:37:00 hrs. 10/4/2003 15:09:00 hrs. LOCATION: Sixth Street @ Tech- 10/3/2003 9:37:00 hrs. ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ LOCATION: 890 Curran Street wood Drive. LOCATION: 733 Tenth Street/4th ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Street Apartments. 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