WREK Grabs Top Honor in Creative Loafing
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Friday, OctoberNEWS 5, 2007 Technique • Friday, October 5, 2007 • 1 “The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper” After much antici- pation, Halo 3 is worth the wait. Volume 93, Issue 11 28 pages Page 15 ONLINE www.nique.net TECHNIQUEServing Georgia Tech since 1911 WREK grabs top honor in Creative Loafi ng By Denisse Gonzalez at all. Usually a radio station of for Best Overall Radio Station than the in-your-face popular Contributing Writer our caliber just goes for best non- in Atlanta. stations. Listeners are thankful commercial radio station, but To Th omas Shanks, a fi fth- for our eff orts to provide diverse Taped to the door leading out to step up and year Computer and interesting music, sports and of the WREK radio station offi ces go above and Science and community affairs program- is a sign that reads “What did you beyond 99X, “...to step up E l e c t r i c a l ming,” Shanks said. do today to make WREK awe- Project 96.1, and go beyond... Engineering In addition to sports and some?” On Sept. 26, the 110 staff and all these major, win- public affairs programming, members who work to make the other commer- all these other ning the title WREK broadcasts rock, rhythm station “awesome” were rewarded cial radio sta- commercial radio was overdue. and blues, classical music, jazz by Creative Loafi ng critics, who tions is really Shanks, who and a number of specialty shows, named WREK Best Overall monumental,” stations is really has been an including Indian Masala, featur- Radio Station in the newspaper’s Petrick said. monumental.” active listener ing Hindi music, Kosher Noise, “Best of Atlanta 2007” issue. Th is is the since he moved a sampling of Israeli music, and WREK General Manager fi rst year that to Atlanta 16 Hemispherios, a Latin rock Brad Petrick, a third-year Me- WREK, a non- Brad Petrick years ago, now show. chanical Engineering major, commercial, WREK General Manager works as chief “We as a station are not was surprised when he found student-run engineer for working for the marketing dol- out the station had been awarded station operat- the station. lars, so we can do what we feel the title. ing on a $60,000 annual budget, “I appreciate that this year and what we think is right. We By Jon Drews / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS “It kind of came out of left fi eld defeated multimillion dollar Creative Loafi ng writers took the Ricardo Ibarria, a second-year ISYE major, uses because we weren’t expecting it radio stations in the running time to listen to something other See WREK, page 2 a turntable during a WREK rap battle in April. Summit, speech Six Flags boasts high turnout feature Google VP By Supriya Ghorpade Contributing Writer By Corbin Pon & Arcadiy Kantor els that I have ever sat on,” said Assistant News Editor / Opinions Editor Chris Rouland, chief technical Last Friday, the fi fth annual Georgia Tech offi cer (CTO) of IBM Internet Night at Six Flags saw record attendance Th is past Tuesday, the Geor- Security Systems, who moderated with approximately 7500 Tech students, gia Tech Information Security the panel discussion. faculty, staff and guests in attendance. Th e Center (GTISC) hosted the Fall Members on the panel con- SGA sponsored event, which is a part of the 2007 Security Summit: Emerg- sisted of representatives from Ramblin’ Nights event series, has become ing Cyber Security Th reats and the private, public and academic increasingly popular each year due to a highly Countermeasures. Th e summit sectors. publicized marketing strategy. brought together a panel of lead- Rowan Trollope, VP of Mark Ladisch, a fi fth-year Industrial ers in the fi eld of information Consumer Products at Syman- Engineering major, and Erika Via, a fourth- security, headlined by Vinton tec, Caleb Sima, CTO of Spi year Biology major, coordinated this year’s Cerf, vice president and chief Dynamics, Paul Judge, CTO Six Flags event and worked closely with SGA internet evangelist for Google. of Secure Computing, George and other students. “Th is is probably one of the “We sent out two mega emails, we put strongest computer security pan- See Cerf, page 5 fl yers out, we also put up a couple of signs at the box offi ce in the Student Center,” Ladisch said. Housing reinstalls According to terms of the contract with the park, Tech needs at least 5,000 attendees to reserve the theme park. Funding was pro- North Avenue gates vided by SGA. Over $11,000 was petitioned through GSS last week for transportation, tickets and other expenses. Transportation was easily accessible for students who did not have independent means of transportation. Students were given free time slots to travel in buses starting from 4:45 p.m. Ladisch said that over 50 percent of students took the Stingers, while the rest drove or carpooled to the event. By Ben Keyserling / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS See Six Flags, page 4 Workers bolt the new turnstiles together at the North Av- enue Apartments last Friday, providing some added security. By James Hite because they didn’t feel secure… Contributing Writer Th ey felt that the area would be A car rounds one of the safer,” said Tim Gallagher, RHA loops of Deja Vu, one of As a result of a widespread president. several roller coasters at request for added security at the No representatives from Six Flags over Georgia. North Avenue Apartments, in Housing were available for part after a student was held at comment. knifepoint in an elevator, Hous- In order to pass through ing has reinstalled turnstile gates the turnstiles, a student must in the front area where originally use his or her prox-card. Th is anyone could walk in and out has the benefi t of keeping out freely. Th e turnstiles went up on non-residents who have no Friday, Sept. 28. legitimate reason to be in there, “Students and parents emailed but the added hassle, particularly Housing and [people] higher up when carrying loads or having in the administration and re- By Andrew Ash/STUDENT PUBLICATIONS quested that gates be put back in See Gate, page 4 2 • Friday, October 5, 2007 • Technique NEWS Technique Online Voice your opinion! From the files of the GTPD... Last issue’s question received 97 responses. How safe do you feel on campus? Campus Crime This North Avenue stuff is I’ve hired a personal Larceny-Theft Burglary making me nervous - 15% bodyguard - 7% 10/1/2007 10:00:00 hrs. 9/30/2007 2:00:00 hrs. Location: Chandler Stadium Location: Center Street Apartments Incident: Report that a black ‘03 Incident: Report of a stolen laptop Traffic Accident Acura RSX was entered and items computer, digital camera, and were taken currency 9/30/2007 10:48:00 hrs. Location: North Avenue @ Centen- 9/30/2007 19:30:00 hrs. 9/30/2007 22:30:00 hrs. nial Olympic Park Drive Location: Tech Parkway between Location: GT Softball Complex Incident: Report of a three vehicle Regents Drive and Northside Drive Incident: Report of stolen DVD, accident (injuries reported) Report that a black ‘03 Incident: DVD/VCR players, cameras, shoul- Honda Accord was entered and 10/1/2007 3:00:00 hrs. der bag and camera cases items were taken Location: Cherry Street/Ferst Criminal Trespass 9/29/2007 4:00:00 hrs. Drive/North Avenue 10/1/2007 9:15:00 hrs. Location: North Avenue Apart- Incident: Report of a hit and run Relatively safe - crime is For being in a city, Tech is ments motorcycle accident Location: Weber Building Incident: Report of a stolen Dell very isolated - 34% extremely safe - 44% Incident: Report of a damaged laptop computer By Kenny Baskett / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Criminal Damage to Property electronic card reader 10/1/2007 18:00:00 hrs. This week’s question: 9/29/2007 17:00:00 hrs. 9/29/2007 2:00:00 hrs. Location: Sigma Phi Epsilon What do you think of WREK’s award? Location: Rich Building Location: Pi Kappa Alpha Incident: Report of paint poured Incident: Report of broken picnic Incident: Report of a stolen Dell Tell us at www.nique.net on bricks tables laptop computer from page 1 potential listeners. While the station money,” Shank said. to achieve financial independence, and in turn donate money back to WREK awaits approval from the Federal WREK is also planning on one of its strategic goals. the Institute,” Petrick said. Communications Commission, acquiring a high definition system “We’re looking to improve the Student listeners also support want to please listeners, but in the financial considerations are also which would allow it to broadcast cash flow to the radio station. Last WREK’s unique style. Last year, same aspect, we’re able to take risks additional programming on the Benjamin Fang, a third-year Physics and be different. Though people say same frequency at a higher sound major, tuned in every week for the we’re not popular, we make things “Though people say quality. The target date to lay the “Having diversity on Scores show, which featured video popular. I like to say that we start foundations for the system is March game music scores and pieces. the trends,”Petrick said. we’re not popular, of next year. the radio is much “It wasn’t the generic ‘America’s The station’s vault contains music we make things “The station wants to be on the better than having top forty,’ with a play list the size of dating back to March 25, 1968, the technological forefront of every- three.