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Stinger Drivers Vote 'Yes' on Union Friday, FebruaryNews 29, 2008 Technique • Friday, February 29, 2008 • “The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper” Baseball rolls out to perfect start, Volume 93, Issue 25 winning five 28 pages games. Online www.nique.net Page 28 TechniqueServing Georgia Tech since 911 Mayor, AASU celebrate black history By Craig Tabita News Editor The African American Student Union (AASU) wanted a powerful keynote speaker for their inau- gural Black History Month Celebration that would draw in and engage groups all over campus. When Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin agreed to come speak, they got all of that and more. Franklin, who has served as Atlanta’s mayor since being By Musau Kithome /Student PublicationS elected as a first-time Stinger drivers wait aboard a bus for their shift to start, in order to avoid the cold weather. The drivers of First Transit, candidate for public including 27 Tech drivers, voted unanimously for representation by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 278. office in 2001, spoke in the Student Center ballroom as part of Mayor Shirley Franklin the event on Saturday, stinger drivers vote ‘yes’ on union Feb. 23 which was free and open to the general public. By Corbin Pon was 27-0. 116 drivers voting in favor of DRIVeRS SPeAK OUT “The main purpose of the event was to have a Assistant News Editor “I’ve never seen, since I’ve the Teamsters, they will now speaker that could engage the entire campus which been dealing with unions, a vote represent the drivers in contract Hans Reid: “I’ve never different groups could relate to,” said Candace The drivers of the Tech that had been unanimous,” said negotiations. Negotiations are seen, since I’ve been Mitchell, a second-year Computer Science major Trolleys and Stinger buses have Hans Reid, a driver at Tech. expected to get started within dealing with unions, and AASU Black History Co-Chair. voted unanimously to join the “I’m glad that [the vote] is all the next two months. a vote that had been “Shirley Franklin is a politician so we reached International Brotherhood of “It was clear that the work- out to political groups; she’s a woman so we reached Teamsters Local 728. This vote ers stood together in a united unanimous. I’m glad that it is all over. Now out to the Women’s Resource Center. We wanted coincided with unanimous “It was clear that voice,” said Ben Speight, to create an event that many people could come decisions to join the Teamsters the workers stood organizer with the Teamsters. we can get working on out to and enjoy, and also obtain a little knowledge by the other groups of drivers “We are expecting to move into the contract.” about black history and the reason our organiza- who are employed by First together in a negotiations shortly.” tion does a lot of events to uplift black history,” Transit. First Transit, a subsid- united voice.” Currently the drivers are Brenda Knox: “The Mitchell said. iary company of FirstGroup organizing in preparations for union can provide us “I was amazed by how much insight she was PLC, is the employer of drivers a meeting to bargain for a new with better wages and able to offer, [including] the questions afterward, Ben speight contract. They must first elect at Tech, Emory University, health care. [Cur- [some of which] pertained to black history but Georgia State University and Teamsters Organizer a negotiating committee that rently,] there are no also stepped outside the realm. She talked about other Atlanta locales. will represent all the drivers in the progress of the city in general, gave personal In all, 170 drivers were eli- the contract talks. The members benefits offered to us.” advice to mothers and students who wanted to gible to partake in the vote that over. Now we can get working of the elected committee will reach out in their community more. She’s able to would confirm the Teamsters on the contract.” represent the various groups of give insight and wisdom in many different areas,” as the official representatives of Reid initially contacted the drivers from around the city. Mitchell said. the First Transit drivers. The Teamsters last Fall with the Franklin touched on a broad array of topics, vote among drivers at Tech idea of forming a union. With See Drivers, page 4 See Mayor, page 2 Yahoo! Hack Days begin today By Corbin Pon come to Tech, and Friday’s kickoff for a quick and dirty lesson on Assistant News Editor event will begin 5:30 p.m. in the how to hack,” reads the Yahoo! Klaus Advanced Computing Hack Days website. No events Today, Tech and the GT Building. will be held on Sunday. Association for Computing The kickoff event gives a brief Starting up again on Mon- Machinery (GTACM) will be overview about Hack Days and day, that day’s highlight will hosting Yahoo! Hack Days. its history. Friday will also feature be a demonstration by Rasmus With the event set to last until a raffle in which one can win an Lerdorf. Lerdorf is the founder March 7, Yahoo! Hack Days is iPod shuffle and different Yahoo! and creator of the PHP script- a series of events and activities paraphernalia. ing language. He will be on the filled with games, demonstra- The activities begin Satur- campus during the week and will tions, seminars, opportunities day with demonstrations, the speak at other events. to meet Yahoo! developers and presentation of code from past Tuesday will continue the capped off with the chance to participants and idea generation. GTACM series of Tech Talks, win a Nintendo Wii video game Yahoo! will also host a hacking with Yahoo being featured. The console. workshop being held in the Klaus format will be a lecture and Yahoo! Hack Days have been Building. presentation by Yahoo! followed held in universities all over the Participants will be given a by an open question and answer country. In 2007, events were lesson on how to hack, and the period. Wednesday will highlight held at Carnegie Mellon Univer- workshop will give an overview of another demonstration by Ler- By Blake Israel /Student PublicationS sity, the University of Illinois at the tools available on the Yahoo! dorf as well as a barbecue for all ained out: A bucket and tarp collect water as a heavy rain causes the Urbana-Champaign, the Uni- Developer Network and offer up the Hack Day participants. Coliseum’s roof to leak. As a result, Tech’s scheduled men’s basket- versity of California at Berkeley coding shortcuts. From 11 p.m. to 1 p.m. on R ball game against Virginia on Feb. 21 was rescheduled for March 4. and Stanford University. “This is the next installment Now Yahoo! Hack Days has of the hack adventure...come by See Hack, page 4 color 2 • Friday, February 29, 2008 • Technique News Technique Online Voice your opinion! From the files of the GTPD... Last issue’s question received 127 responses. How can the library be improved? Campus Crime Improve the excuse me, officer... Cr-EE-py aesthetics (walls, furni- Members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon A female student was working 56.1% ture, etc.) reported on Feb. 23 that Delta Tau on a project at noon on Thursday, Unwanted company Delta members had thrown bottles Feb. 21 in the Van Leer building Incorporate A member of the Beta Theta at their house. A SAE member asked when an unknown man, 6’1’’ tall, more flexible them to stop, but after seeing a man approached and told her she was work and Pi fraternity entered his house on 24.6% study spaces Saturday, Feb. 23 to find the kitchen with a yellow “POLICE” vest in the beautiful. She felt uncomfortable window and back door ajar and a DTD yard he backed away, at which and tried to leave, but he pulled her male with a brightly colored hat point the man in the vest came over towards him and forcibly hugged Add more exiting the house empty-handed. and struck him in the head. Police and kissed her on the neck. She was computers He stated that all of the other fra- then questioned a man at DTD, a able to get away and ran through the 15.8% ternity members were away from former fraternity president, who rain to a neighboring building. the house for the weekend. claimed not to know who the man We have a in the vest was. SAE members later something screwy going on... library? reported that the man, no longer smashing planters A housing employee reported that wearing the vest but bearing a “fu 3.5% screws had been removed from a A resident of Smith Residence man chu painted on mustache,” By Robert Combier / Student PublicationS door on the west side of the Center Hall came downstairs on Thursday urinated in their yard. Police were St. Apts. The employee also stated This week’s question: Feb. 21 at 5:20 a.m. for a morning later able to identify the man in the that this had happened five times smoke when he reported that two vest as the man at DTD they had How do you feel about $250,000 for Tech Rec? previously. planters had been knocked over and questioned and arrested him for Tell us at www.nique.net damaged, apparently by residents. impersonating a policeman. By Craig Tabita, News Editor “The value of young people is that because she was a black woman, They also presented a slideshow said the president’s office showed a lot from page you are able to believe the impos- and she has always taken delight documenting black history at Tech, of interest in this event and wants to Mayor sible,” Franklin said.
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