TECHNIQUE “The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper” ONLINE http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/technique Serving Georgia Tech since 1911 • Volume 88, Issue 5 • 72 pages 2 • Friday, August 23, 2002 • Technique NEWS Introduction In recent history the Technique Technique Credo has started to produce this feature- What is the Technique? length newspaper nicknamed the By Jody Shaw and other reviews in addition to This paper is the voice of the student body and the servant of its ‘Freshman Issue.’ The issue is com- Editor-in-Chief guides for students. The Sports sec- interests. It is the champion of all causes that will contribute to the posed of six sections appearing in five tion covers Tech’s varsity, club and development of the institution in numbers, influence, and charac- separately folded papers. The sections The Technique is Georgia Tech’s intramural sports teams. ter. in order of appearance are News, official student newspaper. Found- Each section has an editor who It has been named the Technique, a name that expresses the Opinions, Freshman Survival Guide, ed in 1911, the Technique has been is responsible for its content, lay- purpose and nature of the school and paper as well, perhaps, as it can Focus, Entertainment and Sports. For published weekly since then, except out, and administration. be expressed in a word. For although we desire inspiration with general Technique information, email for a short period of time when it The Technique has a general staff school spirit, and a wealth of life and feeling for every student, yet we Jody Shaw, Editor-in-Chief, at was published twice a week. meeting every Tuesday night at 7:00 desire also the aim of our work and study should not be forgotten. [email protected] or visit The Technique consists of five p.m. in room 137 of the Student That, with each succeeding issue, the name should become associat- the website at www.nique.net. section, each of which covers a dif- Services building. The meeting is ed with the richest experiences of our college life, with our most The news section covers all areas of ferent area of news. The news sec- open to people interested in writing intense efforts, and happiest accomplishments—this is the hope of the Georgia Tech campus—from ad- tion, which starts on the front page, or taking pictures for the newspa- the editors. ministrative and student government covers issues prompted by events per and to those already involved. For the Technique desires intensely to serve; to express for us our decisions to student organization news and people in the Georgia Tech Additionally, section editors often wishes and needs; to increase our school spirit; encourage us in and community events. Though the community. Administrative and fac- meet with their staffs to assign and disappointment; congratulate us in success. It desires to make more Technique cannot always be the most ulty decisions of note or the suc- collect stories. On Wednesday nights, efficient the management of student enterprises by offering a means timely form of news because of its cesses and failures of student the editorial staff is on deadline to of communication between the directors and the workers. It will weekly deadline, it seeks to provide organizations appear in the news edit stories and design the layout obviate many meetings that are now necessary and make more the most accurate information possi- section. for the following Friday’s paper. effective those that are held ble. Inside this section you will find The opinions section is a forum Students interested in writing or It wishes to bring the alumni in closer contact with college like news geared particularly for freshmen, for letters to the editor from stu- taking pictures for the Technique and college enterprise; to bring more quickly and solidly their as well as some of the standard news dents, faculty and staff members should attend a general staff meet- support to our efforts; to make them feel themselves more intimate- offerings. and alumni; staff editorials, full- ing or email the editor-in-chief for ly a part of the school. For information about the news length opinion pieces written by more information. Applications for In a word, the Technique desires to serve as a timesaver, a section, email its editor, Tony Kluem- members of the Technique editorial editorial board and senior staff writ- conserver of energy and spirit, a power behind every college move- per, at [email protected]. board and the consensus opinion, ing positions are available each spring, ment. Cover photo the official position of the paper on and preference is generally given to campus issues. To compose the con- individuals who have extensive ex- Reprinted from the Technique, Vol. 1, No. 1, Nov. 17, 1911 The cover photo of each section in sensus editorial, the members of the perience with the paper. this newspaper relates to community editorial board meet for approxi- here at Georgia Tech—the techno- mately one hour on Wednesday Editor-in-Chief Jody Shaw [email protected] logical community of the 21st centu- night, discuss the issues in the news Managing Editor Derek Haynes [email protected] ry. This photo was taken on September section and attempt to form an opin- 14, 2000, at a ceremony reflecting on ion. The Opinions Editor then ar- News Editor Tony Kluemper [email protected] the September 11 tragedies. Nearly ticulates this argument in the Opinions Editor Sara Cames [email protected] 10,000 members of the Tech commu- consensus column. Focus Editor Jennifer Schur [email protected] nity attended the event, the largest Focus is a magazine-style sec- Entertainment Editor Julia Trapold [email protected] on-campus gathering for a non-ath- tion that provides feature-length sto- Sports Editor Katie Neal [email protected] letic event. In a moving ceremony, the ries about Tech ideas, issues and Tech community shared together, cried individuals. The entertainment sec- Photography Editor Scott Meulneers [email protected] together and bonded together. tion includes features about Tech- Online Editor Karl Guertin [email protected] The photograph was taken by Robert and Atlanta-based entertainment Advertising Manager Paul Horton [email protected] Hill. offerings, as well as music, movie NEWS Technique • Friday, August 23, 2002 • 3 Library renovations complete Campus Progress Hightower demolition begins By Sriram Narasimhan new facility to one day be placed some of the concepts that we Senior Staff Writer alongside the current library. The had in the book.” Thus was $40 million building, currently spawned the ten-month joint Tech students may soon find endorsed by the Board of Re- project between OIT and the themselves wanting to spend gents yet still awaiting funding, library to build not only a new more time studying in the li- would constitute the convergence facility where students could have brary instead of in their dorms, of a number of academic ele- more readily available technol- with the renovations recently ments, including the traditional ogy for academic purposes, but completed on the first floor of library resources, Office of In- also an experiment where new the building. formation Technology (OIT) ideas could be thrown out, test- The renovations to the Geor- computer support, tutoring, ed and verified. The virtual “guin- gia Tech Library West Com- freshmen support services, and ea pigs” would be the computer mons (LWC) that took place users. for the duration of the summer The project managers and semester were completed and OIT staffers behind this under- unveiled to the public this past “We have seen a taking, however, felt that it was Sunday, much to the delight of tremendous growth important to move beyond mere- studious readers and technophiles ly sending out electronic ques- alike. in collaborative tionnaires to students on the The new LWC features sev- work, and we need computers once they log on to eral new additions to facilitate their accounts, and move to “all work in various arenas. The most to provide help for kinds of formal and informal apparent of the changes include that collaboration measures,” according to Crit Stu- a slew of new computers, the art, the library’s Associate Di- funds for which were donated to take place in the rector for Public Services. by a GT alumnus. Ranging from library.” “We are taking advantage of such systems such as the Apple all kinds of experts at Tech from Richard Meyer iMac featuring the new OS X every angle,” said Stuart. Proba- Library Director Jaguar operating system to Dell bly the biggest change in respect Pentium 4 systems, the machines to the service that students will are equipped with LCD moni- be receiving this year is an inte- tors. laboratories for science and math- grated one-point stop for all ques- On the physical side, the floor ematics courses. But this project tions related to both information is now elevated at certain points would still be a few years away services and technology-related and the layout is structured in before realization. issues. such a way to give students easy “We thought it would be a “One of our goals is to mesh access to computer terminals. good idea if we could do some- library services and OIT’s ser- The idea behind the renova- thing sooner as a test bed for a vices. We have people working tions can be traced as far back as better job at the [future] Learn- with Human Resources to cre- By Charles Frey / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS two to three years ago, when a ing Center,” said Richard Mey- ate a new position that will com- After standing on Tech’s campus for over 50 years, the demolition of the team of campus leaders visual- er, Academic Dean for the library.