SGA Passes 11Th Hour Budget Changes

Friday, April 10, 2009 • Volume 94, Issue 29 • nique.net First Lady of Tech When President G.P. “Bud” Peterson came to Tech he brought his one- of-a-kind wife, Val. 415 TechniqueThe South’s Liveliest College Newspaper SGA passes 11th hour budget changes StudentBy Corbin Pon stipendsorganizations slashed include DramaT- acrossternity Council Tier (IFC) president.2 orgs. but SGA spares its own News Editor ech, graduate and undergraduate At the bottom, Tier 6 positions MAJOR FUNDING REVISIONS SGA, IFC, Intramurals, MOVE, include assistant editors, staff A stipend committee formed Musician’s Network, ORGT, writers and photographers for the Increases Cuts last week by the Student Gov- President’s Council Governing Technique and Blueprint. ernment Association’s (SGA) Board, Student Center Programs The impact of these new rules Joint Finance Committee (JFC) Council, Student Publications was that both the UHR and GSS introduced to Tuesday’s legisla- and WREK radio. Unlike Tier recommended that most positions tive sessions a last-minute student 3 organizations, Tier 2 organiza- in Tier 2 would receive less than +10% -93% stipend policy affecting many tions may fund student positions the amount their student organi- Tier 2 organizations. The policy, and are not required to collect zations requested. GSS recommendation GSS recommended which included significant cuts to membership fees. All SGA stipend positions saw for raise in SGA presi- reduction of IFC budget paid student positions in Student The JFC’s Student Stipend no reduction in payment, and dent stipend. compared to UHR. Publications and Interfraternity Committee outlined six different in the GSS, the senators recom- Council (IFC), made its way into spending tiers for student stipend mended that the SGA president the 2009-10 fiscal year budgets funding. The maximum pay for and executive vice president po- approved in the Tuesday meet- each tier is calculated from in- sitions receive raises of $621 and ings of the Undergraduate House state student tuition and fees. For $1,804, respectively. +61% -30% of Representatives (UHR) and next year, this amount has been This is the second week that GSS recommendation UHR, GSS approved Graduate Student Senate (GSS). set at $6,480. Positions in the first SGA discussed next year’s budget. for raise in grad. exec. reductions in Student Since each branch passed differ- stipend tier will receive a stipend Last week the budget for Tier 3 vice president stipend. ent versions of the budget, they equaling 100 percent of tuition organizations was up for debate, Publications stipends. will be reconciled by a conference and fees, second-tier positions will and this week, Tier 2 and Tier 1 committee today. receive 75 percent, all the way to organizations were debated. The temporary stipend com- sixth-tier positions at five percent. In a move that prompted an mittee, formed last week after the The SGA student body presi- appearance by former, current +$40k -$224k initial release in March of the JFC dents are the only two Tier 1 posi- and newly-selected future editor- budget recommendations, estab- tions. Some of the Tier 2 positions in-chief of the Blueprint, the UHR approved restora- UHR recommendation lished new payment levels for Tier include the SGA executive vice Blueprint’s printing budget had tion to Blueprint printing. for reduction in Student 2 student organization stipends presidents, the Editor-in-Chief of GSS held it at $0. Center and CRC budget. being funded by SGA. Tier 2 the Technique and the Interfra- See Budget, page 4 SGA ELECTION RESULTS OIT moves to WPA Undergrad presidents to run off; forBy wireless Sijia Cai of LAWN security every time the device Senior Staff Writer is shut off. This means that dur- Harley wins graduate presidency ing the course of a normal day, a Over 15,000 people on Tech’s typical student or faculty mem- campus use the Local Area ber will have to log into the net- Walkup and Wireless Network work several times. (LAWN) to access the Internet “There were many complaints every day. Now, the Office of about this aspect of the network. Information Technology (OIT) [That is] why the GTLogin ap- is planning to transfer this wire- plication for iPhone was creat- Student Publications less network from the Wired ed,” said Ron Hutchins, associ- Student Publications Student Publications Equivalent Privacy (WEP) sys- ate vice provost for Research and tem to the Wi-Fi Protected Ac- Technology and chief technol- cess (WPA) system. ogy officer at OIT. “The problem Wired Equivalent Privacy with this application and [oth- (WEP) is an algorithm de- ers like it] is that it necessarily signed in 1997 to provide the makes your private information Photo by Anne Campeau / Photo by Anne Campeau / confidentiality and privacy of less secure.” Photo by Michael Schneider / a traditional wired network. According to Hutchins, an- Undergrad president runoff candidates New grad president However, cryptologists quickly other purpose of the LAWN found numerous weaknesses in captive portal is to ensure that Kristie Champlin Alina Staskevicius Linda Harley the system that could easily lead the state of Georgia’s resources to security breaches. for the wireless network are not By Craig Tabita cast (42.0%), while Champlin Chapman won the graduate ex- In 2003, WPA officially su- being used by persons not affili- Editor-in-Chief received 1,016 votes (29.9%). ecutive vice presidential race un- perseded WEP as the wireless ated with Tech. Robert McEntyre, undergradu- opposed. security protocol standard. De- Since its first introduction For the third straight year the ate vice president of Campus Af- “I’ve been working really hard spite this action, many systems in 1999, LAWN has been con- race for the undergraduate stu- fairs, finished third with 953 votes this past year learning the ins and still utilize the WEP protocol for stantly updated and improved, dent body president position is (28.1%). outs of student government and wireless communication. but even though it has worked so going to a runoff. On the other “The race definitely isn’t over,” getting to know all of the admin- Currently, in order to use the far and is continuing to work for hand, election results released Staskevicius said. “[The campaign istrators on campus,” Harley said. wireless network at Tech, a per- the campus community, OIT is Wednesday produced a new un- has been] exhausting, but [the “It’s an amazing feeling to be able son has to first connect their lap- planning on turning over to the dergraduate executive vice presi- runoff] is something we were to know that students have confi- top, PDA or phone to GTWire- WPA system because it is both dent as well as a new graduate stu- anticipating this year with three dence in me and I can really stand less with a web key. Then the more convenient and more se- dent body president and executive really qualified candidates run- up for what is right for graduate person is redirected to a captive cure. vice president. ning.” students.” portal for LAWN, where they In the new WPA system, the The undergraduate presidency The graduate student body In the race for undergraduate have to login to the network username and password of the runoff will pit Alina Staskevicius, presidential race was narrowly executive vice president, Parker with their GT account username student or faculty member is undergraduate vice president of won by Linda Harley, gradu- Hancock, chair of the Internal and password. stored in the device itself, and Administrative Affairs, against ate executive vice president, who Development Committee, came The main issue with this each time he or she accesses the Public Policy Representative edged out Public Policy Senator out as the winner with 1,878 system is inconvenience experi- wireless network, the WPA- Kristy Champlin. Staskevicius Rick McKeon by a tally of 277- enced by the user. For security collected 1,428 of the 3,397 votes 274. City Planning Senator Justin See Elections, page 7 reasons, the user is logged out See WPA, page 4 2 • April 10, 2009 • Technique NEWS From the files of the GTPD... 420 throw away TheTechnique congratulates Emily Chambers, who On the morning of April 4, was selected last Friday by the Georgia Tech Board of a police officer responded to the Campus Crime intersection of Tenth Street and Student Publications as the Technique Editor-in-Chief Hemphill Avenue regarding a for the 2009-10 academic year. By William Brawley suspect who was seen wearing a Assistant News Editor white shirt and blue jeans, wav- ing around a handgun. The police That’s my oil! take the student’s vitals, but was officer observed and subsequently On April 5, at around 2:40 unable to do so because of the approached a black male suspect. Technique a.m., police responded to the Perry student’s rage toward her. The stu- He saw the suspect throw a small The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper and Matheson residence halls and dent, of Arabic descent, called the clear plastic bag into the bushes. observed a male student threaten- EMT worker a “white bitch” and The suspect was ordered to stop, Founded in 1911, the Technique is the student newspaper of the ing other students by attempting kicked his feet at her. The student who then cooperated and laid Georgia Institute of Technology, and is an official publication of the to start a fight. The student ap- was then put into restraints. down on the ground. Georgia Tech Board of Student Publications. The Technique publishes peared to be intoxicated. The student continued to spout The police identified the sus- on Fridays weekly during the fall and spring and biweekly during the When the police approached, other statements, including com- pect, who stated that he was just summer.

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