Friday, February 12, 2010 • Volume 95, Issue 23 • nique.net Research in Action Students display their work at the echnique Tech Research T Conference.49 The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper Auxiliary Services, Wale House break ground By Vivian Fan Rich Steele, director of the Stu- derstand anything that might News Editor dent Center. hinder their schedule. As they’re he ground-breaking ceremo- just getting started, it’s diicult to Representatives from Auxiliary ny was a small event that occurred estimate an opening date at this Services and Wale House held a early Friday morning with ap- point,” Steele said. small ground-breaking ceremony proximately 6 people present. Of “here is no group that has at Tech Square last Friday, Feb. 5. those in attendance were Steele, been more motivated to complete he ceremony will start of a 60- retail manager Lara Sexton, a restaurant build-out than Wale 90 day construction period lead- Georgia Tech Foundation chief House has been. hey’re very ex- ing up to the grand opening of the inancial oicer Mark Long and cited to be on the Georgia Tech restaurant, tentatively planned to a number of operating managers campus. here’s a huge percentage be some time in late spring. from Wale House. of people that work in their corpo- “his is not typical construc- he event included a ceremo- rate oice who are Georgia Tech tion for Wale House. hey’re nial irst hit with a sledge hammer alums,” Steele said. used to purchasing a piece of to mark the beginning of con- Designers plan on giving this land, building their prototype on struction. While the time frame new Wale House a lair with that property and having a good for the construction is set, there color and desing unique to Tech. understanding of how long it still is no deinite grand opening “[Wale House] number[s] ev- takes to do that. In this case they date for the restaurant. ery store and they even chose 1885 are renovating an existing space, “It’s still up in the air. hey’ll as the number of the store because Photo by Jarrett Skov/ Student Publications which is not their typical method need a few weeks to get into their Auxiliary Service and Wale House representatives broke ground of building a Wale House,” said renovation to make sure they un- See Wale, page 4 in the future location of the restaurant in Tech Square on Feb. 6. Electric Oicials release sword attack details outages hit campus By Emily Chambers Editor in Chief Multiple buildings across cam- pus experienced power outages on Tuesday, Feb. 9. While it is not currently known how many build- ings were efected by the outage, various administrative buildings, East Campus classroom facili- ties and West Campus dorms lost power. he outage happened at 9:42 a.m. when a current limiter con- trol malfunctioned. Tech routes 20 kilovolts of the total electricity used on campus by directing the voltage through eight diferent lines, or feeders. he feeders are run through-out campus so that no one area is de- Photo by Eric Mansield/ Student Publications pendent on one feeder and so that After taking him into custody, a GTPD oicer pours water over the alleged sword attacker Thursday, Feb. 5. Oicers pepper the voltage is balanced among the sprayed the suspect in trying to subdue him inside the Weber SST building, after he had attacked a post-doctoral fellow inside. eight lines. Some of the buildings on campus are hooked up directly to Georgia Power lines. Attacker revealed to be former Tech student, history of conlict he current limiter controls are placed on sets or individual By Vijai Narayanan ter hearing commotion in the J. Turner pinned him against a to be determined, but GTPD is feeders in order to prevent over- Assistant News Editor hall and seeing the attack. She bookshelf, wrapping his arms continuing an ongoing investi- current from coming onto the and Dr. Oliver Bauchau cleared around him. Shrotri did not let gation of the incident. his in- power lines. During the outage he victim of the aggravated the halls of students and faculty. go of the sword and as a result, vestigation may include a police one of the current limiting sys- assault incident that occurred “I ran outside and waved Turner received a cut on his report iled regarding a prior tems malfunctioned and two of on campus hursday, Feb. 5 is my hands to ensure that they left hand. he cut required 13 incident at the Ferst Center on the eight feeder lines most likely recuperating from his wounds stopped at the correct end of the stitches, but Turner returned Sept. 4, 2009 that involved both went down, as one current limiter at Grady Memorial Hospital. building. It was not a random to service the next day. Oicers men. According to the report, often handles the voltage for two Kshitij Shrotri, a recent Tech lag down of the GT police— tended to Tawik’s wounds un- Shrotri interrupted a dance per- feeders. graduate, allegedly attacked they arrived with lights and si- til Grady EMS arrived on the formed by the Turkish Student While many of the academic Samer Tawik, a post-doctoral rens as appropriate to the call. scene. Organization, in which Tawik and administrative buildings only fellow at the Weber SST build- he GT police arrived very rap- Friends and students were and another woman were par- sufered power outages lasting ing with a katana sword. Tawik idly after I made my call,” Smith shocked at the attack on such a ticipating. Shrotri yelled at the a few seconds, some of the West sufered lacerations to both his said. well-liked and respected mem- woman for dancing near Taw- Campus dorms, such as the Un- hands and wrists and a wound According to police reports, ber of the Tech community. ik, before pushing Tawik and dergraduate Living Center, lost to the left side of his torso. Fol- when oicers confronted Shro- “I had a hard time believing walking away. power for over an hour. lowing a long procedure in the tri in Tawik’s cubicle and de- it. He is, without a doubt, the he woman stated that Shro- “We have what we call a double operating room that lasted late manded he drop his weapon he most kind-hearted professor I’ve tri had been sending her emails, ended switch gear, so many of the into hursday night, Tawik’s said, “You will have to kill me.” had here at Tech. I just couldn’t but she did not know him on a buildings shouldn’t have seen it condition is currently stable, but He added, “He ruined my life.” imagine someone being so mad personal level. She considered [the power outage]. What happens he has yet to be released, as of Tawik lay on the ground be- at him, especially enough to ra- iling a protective order against is... a piece of equipment in many Wednesday Feb. 10 hind his desk when oicers ar- tionalize attacking him,” said Shrotri, but decided not to as buildings that switches the build- On the day of the incident, rived. After multiple warnings, Alex Cooper, a second year to avoid provoking him. Tawik ing to another feeder, and some Professor Marilyn Smith called oicers sprayed Shrotri with BME. See Attacker, page 4 buildings don’t have it [the double GTPD to report the assault, af- pepper spray and Oicer Robert A motive for the attack is yet See Blackout, page 3 2 • February 12, 2010 • Technique NEWS From the iles of the GTPD... has emerged at the Klaus Build- ing, after the T in “School of Technique Computer Science” was stolen. The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper Campus Crime hat T costed $20 to replace. By Vivian Fan Trouble Sleeping Founded in 1911, the Technique is the student newspaper of the News Editor Georgia Institute of Technology, and is an oicial publication of the Georgia Tech Board of Student Publications. he Technique publishes GTPD was called to the Family Hit and Run? been reported over the last week Apartments after receiving com- on Fridays weekly during the fall and spring and biweekly during the with two incidences occurring be- plaints about repeated problems summer. 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