Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Rose-Hulman Scholar The Rose Thorn Archive Student Newspaper Spring 5-11-2007 Volume 42 - Issue 27 - Friday, May 11, 2007 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 42 - Issue 27 - Friday, May 11, 2007" (2007). The Rose Thorn Archive. 209. https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/rosethorn/209 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]. T HE R OSE T HORN R OSE -H ULMAN I NSTITUTE OF T ECHNOLOGY T ERRE H AUTE , I NDIANA FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2007 ROSE-HULMAN.EDU/THORN/ VOLUME 42, ISSUE 27 Congratulations ‘07 Seniors News Briefs By Ryan Schultz The end of copy protection? Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, Inc., is once again taking on the recording companies. Before, he refused to change iTunes pric- ing for singles from the familiar $0.99 to a stepped scheme. Now, he’s challenging the recording companies to allow songs to be sold on iTunes without copy protection and at a bitrate twice as high as the cur- rent offerings. EMI has already agreed to the deal with Apple. Michael Gartenberg, an analyst with Ju- piter Research says, “At this point, no one can ignore Apple or what Apple wants, given its position in the marketplace.” Sleeping in cyber cafés The housing crisis and rising cost of liv- ing in Tokyo has forced a significant num- ber of lower working-class Japanese into living in cyber cafes. Open 24 hours a day, the cafes offer cheaper rates than hotels, even Tokyo’s notorious “capsule hotels” which are famous for offering rooms barely larger than a casket. “Freeters,” as the drifters are called, are generally younger, technically savvy peo- ple who were hit hardest by the economic downturn in Japan’s economy in the 1990s. Kazumasa Adachi, a manager at an up- scale café, says that freeters can be rec- ognized by the large bags they carry from café to café. “They are different from the Making everything real homeless because they belong to the working poor, so they do have some mon- a little greener ey, whereas the ones on the street have no Chris Casillas port their school by wearing money at all.” C o p y E d i t o r sweatshirts and things like that, but only at Rose-Hul- n Saturday, May 5, man do students go out and Russian headmas- over 200 members of do work on their campus. Othe Rose community Students here show a higher ter stung by piracy gathered around campus to level of commitment to the Alexander Ponosov, the headmaster at participate in Campus Beau- campus. We want to make it a tiny school in the Ural Mountains, has tification. Facilities employ- a better place to be and not been fined 5,000 rubles (half of his month- ees were busy driving around just advertise it.” ly salary) for allowing students to use a campus before 8 a.m., when Jenn Cringoli, a senior bio- dozen computers running pirated copies the event started, preparing medical engineer, thought of Microsoft Windows XP and Office. The the designated work areas for highly of the event. “I like fine Ponosov has been ordered to pay is the students. to do it just because it gives roughly equal to $194.40. Residence halls, fraternities, some ownership of the “Our interest is not in prosecuting sororities, and other student school, and it makes you feel schools or teachers,” Microsoft said in a organizations participated in good that you’re doing some- statement. “Mr. Ponosov’s case was initi- this event. Students could be thing for the school.” ated by Russian authorities under Russian seen all over campus work- Cringoli is an RA in the law. Microsoft neither initiated nor has ing on different projects. The apartments, and was in any plans to bring any action against Mr. projects ranged from plant- charge of planting flowers Ponosov.” Microsoft has not said whether ing flowers, planting trees, and cleaning up the area it will attempt to stop the proceedings. and even painting the various around the apartments. “I Russia’s President, Vladamir Putin, has handrails around campus. was able to hang out with my Andrew Carlson / Rose Thorn called the case “utter nonsense.” Illegal Joe Tolsma, a junior me- residents and achieve a com- copies of Windows XP can be purchased chanical engineer, was im- mon goal.” Students plant flowers in the Hadley Circle during Campus in Russian marketplaces for $6. pressed with the event. “A lot Beautification this past weekend. Students worked around cam- of universities students sup- Continued on Page 3... pus, cleaning, painting, and planting. In this issue of the Rose Thorn... “We are not putting ‘don- NEWS Spider-Man 3, OPINIONS Spring sports wrap-up, key punch’ on Miracles awards, and records 3 6 the front of my newspaper.” F Sleeping Microsoft LIPSIDE Robots fight and freshmen buys Sarkozy have a dance E4NTERTAINMENT 7SPORTS 8 8 PAGE - NEWS - PAGE 3 ENTERTAINMENT - PAGES 4 - 5 OPINIONS - PAGE 6 SPORTS - PAGE 7 FLIPSIDE 2 PUZZLE & CLASSIFIEDS The Rose Thorn Mother’s Day Rose-doku by Jim Sedoff Instructions: Solve the puzzle by filling in the blanks but be careful to not repeat the symbols (M, O, T, H, E, R, D, A and Y) vertically, horizontally or within the bold 3x3 sub-grid squares. Level: “Well it wasn’t easy raising you either!” Find the answers at: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/thorn CLASSIFIEDS For sale House for rent EWB Laptop Drive Very nice, furnished, large house for rent to Rose 2004 Honda CRV EX, 41K miles, 4-Cyl., 6-disc CD, Don’t forget about the Engineers with Borders 2007 students 10-15 minutes from campus. 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