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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Rose-Hulman Scholar The Rose Thorn Archive Student Newspaper Fall 9-12-2003 Volume 39 - Issue 01 - Friday, September 12, 2003 Rose Thorn Staff Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/rosethorn Recommended Citation Rose Thorn Staff, "Volume 39 - Issue 01 - Friday, September 12, 2003" (2003). The Rose Thorn Archive. 251. https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/rosethorn/251 THE MATERIAL POSTED ON THIS ROSE-HULMAN REPOSITORY IS TO BE USED FOR PRIVATE STUDY, SCHOLARSHIP, OR RESEARCH AND MAY NOT BE USED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE. SOME CONTENT IN THE MATERIAL POSTED ON THIS REPOSITORY MAY BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT. ANYONE HAVING ACCESS TO THE MATERIAL SHOULD NOT REPRODUCE OR DISTRIBUTE BY ANY MEANS COPIES OF ANY OF THE MATERIAL OR USE THE MATERIAL FOR DIRECT OR INDIRECT COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGE WITHOUT DETERMINING THAT SUCH ACT OR ACTS WILL NOT INFRINGE THE COPYRIGHT RIGHTS OF ANY PERSON OR ENTITY. ANY REPRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ANY MATERIAL POSTED ON THIS REPOSITORY IS AT THE SOLE RISK OF THE PARTY THAT DOES SO. This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspaper at Rose-Hulman Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Rose Thorn Archive by an authorized administrator of Rose-Hulman Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA Friday, September 12, 2003 Volume 39, Issue 1 Building tomorrow, today s upperclassmen return will have its own heating the number of boxes is due to to the old grind, and and cooling system and enlarged incoming freshmen wide-eyed freshmen control. Ten apartments will classes. Aexperience college classes for be located on each fl oor. The The mail room will also be the fi rst time, the Rose-Hulman building exterior is designed adding a package tracking community continues to in a more contemporary style system. The system will grow. Many changes occurred to be complementary to the automatically e-mail when a throughout the summer neighboring campus buildings. package is received and sorted. months on campus in efforts In other construction news, The system is planned to be to continue improvements and a refl ecting pool is being built implemented by the end of update facilities. around the “Flame of the this quarter. One of the most visual Millennium” sculpture in front Just down the hall from the changes on campus is the of Hatfi eld Hall. The fi nished mail room, the department construction of the new pool with lights will create the of Physics and Optical residence hall. Construction illusion of dancing flames at Engineering has remodeled began for the new residence night. Anyone can purchase their labs. According to hall to help meet the rising a brick with personalized department professors, the old need of on-campus housing engraving to leave their legacy labs were outdated and it was for upper-class students. The in the Reflection Plaza. time for a change. The new $13.5 million, 75,000-square- Three sizes of bricks facilities will allow for more foot, apartment-style residence available for purchase are: 4 x advanced lab experiments hall will accommodate 240 8 inches for $150, 8 x 8 for $500 and will let students be better students. It is scheduled to and 12 x 12 for $1,000. People prepared for the job market. house students for the 2004- can have their names or their Heading upstairs from 2005 school year. company’s name inscribed the physics department an The residence hall is being on a brick that will be placed unfamiliar scene is found. built west of the Blumberg- in the Reflection Plaza. The The Computer Science Scharpenberg-Mees residence project will be open-ended and Software Engineering Photo by Luke Stark, Rose Thorn hall complex. The building so bricks will be available for Department (CSSE) moved Rose students begin to attend classes once agian with many changes to will consist of two, three-story, purchase by future generations from the crowded basement look forward to on campus. brick buildings connected by of engineers, mathematicians of Logan Library to the a single story commons area. and scientists. more expansive area in the project was provided by has 14 faculty offi ces, two The commons will include a The mail room has also previously known Moench Hall funds raised from the Board large laboratories each with 24 convenience store, sandwich experienced an expansion over Auditorium. The expansion of Trustees and the Lilly computer workstations, four restaurant and coffee house. the summer. 600 new mail boxes now has facilities matching its Endowment’s special matching senior thesis workstation areas, Each 850-square-foot were added for students, and 60 growing stature on campus, gift program. Michael Hatfi eld’s student project meeting areas, apartment will include two new mail boxes for clubs and moving into new offices, gift to build a new theater a conference room, a computer bedrooms, a kitchen, living organizations. This brings the laboratories and meeting/ opened the former auditorium systems administrator’s offi ce area and a bath for use by total number of student mail conference rooms. space for this academic project. and offi ce copy room. four students. Each apartment boxes to 2300. The increase in The $1.8 million renovation The 8,207 square foot space Continued on page 5 . Still going strong at number one engineering programs that was not the only one which hat do you think the affect of Rose’s 5th Nicole Hartkemeyer were evaluated were each Rose praised this year. Kaplan/ W year as #1 will have on the school? News Editor ranked the best is a remarkable Newsweek’s “How to Get Into indication that Rose-Hulman College” guide featured a listing “It will make people Whether returning as has earned a reputation as a of America’s top 12 “Hot Schools” a student, part of the new national leader,” commented in which Rose tied with Carnegie more dissapointed freshman class, or working Hulbert. All engineering degree Mellon in Pittsburg for the when we don’t get as a member of the faculty or programs including chemical, “Most Tech-Savvy.” Newsweek it. The more times staff, everyone on campus has civil, computer, electrical, and described Rose as a “rising star we get the title #1 it something to be proud of this mechanical engineering stole among tech peers like Caltech year. “Five Years Straight!” The the number one positions in the and MIT.” becomes more im- banners hanging up throughout country. The list was established portant then the rest Rose proclaim the news; ranked “The results of the national through admissions trends of the title.” number one again by U.S. News survey are a wonderful testament interviews with teachers, -Jess Gardner & World Report as the country’s to the quality of our programs guidance counselors, admissions best college offering a bachelor and the outstanding abilities of offi cials and students. The effects or master degree as the highest our faculty, students, staff, and of all the national attention has degree in engineering. alumni,” added Hulbert. been far reaching. The rankings were released Harvey Mudd College in “The ranking has increased “I think it’ll help with on August 22, before students Claremont, CA and Cooper national awareness about the the number of ap- returned to campus. To celebrate, Union in New York City ranked quality of our programs. This president Hulbert held a free behind Rose in the World Report’s summer, we’ve hosted almost plicants, this many breakfast in the Union cafeteria publication this year. Also in the 800 students which is half the years as #1 more announcing the results compiled top ten were the U.S. Air Force, number that visited during people will have by engineering educators and Military, and Naval academies, the entire previous recruiting heard of Rose.” published in the World Report’s Bucknell University, Cal Poly-San season,” stated Rose Hulman -Sam Hawkins “America’s Best Colleges” 2004 Luis Obispo, Swarthmore College Dean of Admissions Chuck edition. and Villanova University. Howard. “The fact that our individual The World Report’s issue Continued on page 5 . News Opinions Entertainment Sports Flipside Rose ranks #1 for fi fth Dr. Love is back with Triple the pleasure. Football team off to So many pages from year in a row. attitude. a big start. here to there. Pages 3 & 5 Page 6 Pages 7,8,& 9 Pages 10 & 11 Page 12 The Rose Thorn Edited by Luke Stark 2 EVVENTSENTS Friday, September 12, 2003 12 13 Campus Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, 10:30 a.m. Football, vs. Univ. of the South, Phil Brown Calendar Field, 1:30 p.m. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Rose Family Picnic, Student Activity, Twister Explore Engineering Fine Arts Series, IU Lion’s Shelter, Deming Tournament, Behind Program’s Edible Singing Hoosiers, Park, 5 p.m. Speed Hall, 6 p.m. Engineering Contest, Hatfi eld Hall, 7:30 Vonderschmitt Dining p.m. Room, Hulman Union, 7-8:30 p.m. Football, vs. Wheaton College, Phil Brown Field, 1:30 p.m. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Closed Rush 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Fall Quarter Blood Drive Fall Quarter Blood Homecoming Queen Women’s Soccer, at Student Alumni Drive Preliminary Elections Hendrix College Association’s Mudd Volleyball Tournament 6:00 p.m.