Friday, November 5, 2010 • Volume 96, Issue 14 • nique.net Crowd pleasers Weezer, Interpol and MGMT rock the house at various locations in Atlanta.413 TechniqueThe South’s Liveliest College Newspaper BOR bans undocumented students from schools By Maddie Cook stitutions. reviewed student records, there Contributing Writer The BOR has directed these were only four we could identify THE FACTS Georgia schools to no longer allow that were undocumented. How- • There are 501 undocumented students attending mem- The Board of Regents (BOR) of undocumented students to enroll ever, none were receiving state ber schools of the University System of Georgia. the University System of Georgia in their universities, starting in benefits in tuition, which initially (USG) recently passed the propos- Fall 2011. was what the BOR wanted to nail • All undocumented students currently pay out-of-state al to ban entry of undocumented Under the new policy, there down,” said Richard Clark, Direc- students into several of Georgia’s will be new options added to tor of Undergraduate Admissions. tuition. public universities. These five these school applications that ask Opinions among students and universities include Tech, UGA, the potential student to define his faculty over the new policy vary. • The new policy affects five out of 35 insitutions in the GCSU, GSU and the Medical or her legal terms of residency and “It’s hard for me to understand university sytem — Tech, UGA, GCSU, GSU and the College of Georgia. Georgia is the citizenship. why anyone would want to pre- Medical College of Georgia. second state to implement a policy Tech plans to put these policies vent undocumented students to of this kind, following South Car- into effect starting Summer 2011, get an education, especially if they • Currently, 29 undocumented students attend these in- olina, which bans undocumented ahead of the BOR schedule. students from all public state in- “This summer [2010] when we See BOR, page 5 stitutions. Deal wins gubernatorial election Sustainability receives A- ratingBy Andrew Nelson Staff Writer Tech is among the highest-rated universi- ties in the Sustainable Endowment Institute’s latest annual College Sustainability Report Card, one of the most-participated-in sustain- ability rankings in the U.S. Each year, the report card grades partici- pating universities on sustainability-related features of administration, energy use, food, recycling, buildings, student involvement, transportation and finances. This year’s report card grades Tech at an A-, its highest grade since it joined five years ago. Tech’s results are attributed to a combi- Photo by Will Folsom / Student Publications nation of ongoing sustainability projects and Left: Republican candidate Nathan Deal at the student led gubernatorial held last month. Right: Democratic candidate a change in the report card’s data collection for governor Roy Barnes delivers his concession speech at the Tech Hotel Conference and Conference Center on-campus. and reporting. “The benefit of these grades is that we go By Vijai Narayanan earned four percent of the the best as the new governor,” paign. back each year and check on how we’re do- News Editor votes. Barnes said. “I have fought Across the state, voters ing. This year we spent more time doing that “We’re going to be show- the good fight. I have run the chose to elect mainly Repub- and digging deeper into those answers than At around 11:50 p.m. on ing the rest of the nation what good race. I have finished the lican, fueling the nationwide we have in the past,” said Marcia Kinstler, sus- Tuesday night, the Republi- Georgia can do. Georgia has course. I have kept the faith, resurgence of the Republican tainability director of environmental steward- can candidate for governor, placed its faith in the Republi- and so have you.” Party. Senator Johnny Isakson ship at Tech. Nathan Deal declared victory can Party, and we’re not going Governor-elect Deal will was re-elected with a 19 per- The cascade of sustainability initiatives and at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in to let them down,” Deal said succeed incumbent Repub- cent victory over Democrat projects stem from both Institute-wide and Buckhead. The Gainesville in a speech to supporters. lican Sonny Perdue, who has Michael Thurmond. GT Dining updates. Recently, buses and trol- congressman garnered 53 per- Barnes conceded defeat to been in office since 2002. His A total of seven of Geor- leys’ engines have been upgraded to greener cent of the vote, defeating his Deal at the Tech Hotel and proposals include cutting tax- gia’s 13 Congressional Dis- models, printing services now use 100 percent primary opponent Roy Barnes Conference Center, where he es to reduce unemployment, tricts elected Republican recycled products and massive lighting and by 10 points. and his wife took the stage just which currently stands at candidates. Nationwide, Re- automation projects on campus will save thou- Libertarian candidate John moments before Deal began 10.3 percent. Deal also faces publicans took control of the sands of MW-hours of energy per year. Monds, who was also the first his speech. lingering questions related to House of Representatives and GT Dining’s two 98 percent waste neu- African-American candidate “I just talked to Congress- ethics investigations that were also gained a significant num- for governor on the ballot, man Deal, and I wished him brought up during his cam- ber of seats in the U.S. Senate. See Rating, page 5 Safety walk identifies danger zones across campus By Matt Schrichte from across campus took part in the the list as they are addressed through- Assistant News Editor walk while speaking about safety and out the year. listening to students as they voiced Crocker, who has been conduct- Students and administrators gath- their own safety concerns. ing safety walks on college campuses ered outside of GTPD on Tuesday “One of the things that we did dif- since the 80’s, noted that early on at evening to take part in SGA’s Campus ferently this year was to bring in a lot Tech, the largest concern was placed Safety Walk. The walk followed a path of different students from different on campus lighting. She referenced a through the center of campus that stu- areas and have them comment so that part of the Pi Mile near the student dents commonly make from West to we had a broad range of people from center parking deck that was poorly lit East Campus. There were several stops different backgrounds,” said Nicholas until a few years ago when the issue along the walk to highlight the safety Robson, the SGA Planning and De- was raised on a similar walk. concerns in particular areas. Speakers velopment Chair and a second-year “That’s part of the Pi Mile, so there highlighted special safety issues such AE major. are a lot of people that run that course as bike theft, criminal trespassing, lar- According to Chief Crocker, any early in the morning and late at night, ceny and assault. concerns raised during the safety walks and it was just an area that wasn’t very Photo courtesy of Student Government Association Institute President G.P. “Bud” Pe- are put on a list that is shared between well lit,” Crocker said. Students and administrators walked across campus terson, GTPD Chief of Police Teresa facilities, GTPD, parking and hous- Crocker and other top administrators ing. The concerns are checked off of See Walk, page 3 in order to identify safety concerns in different areas. 2 • November 5, 2010 • Technique NEWS From the files of the GTPD... ask for his license. The driver pro- vided his permanent resident card Technique from Mexico and a student identi- The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper Campus Crime fication card from Georgia High- lands College but had no driver’s By Matt Schrichte license. The driver completed the Founded in 1911, the Technique is the student newspaper of the Assitant News Editor Georgia Institute of Technology, and is an official publication of the field sobriety test, but refused to blow into the alcohol sensor box. Georgia Tech Board of Student Publications. The Technique publishes Alpha guy mania on Fridays weekly during the fall and spring and biweekly during the Hospital to treat a head injury. 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