Friday, June 29, 2001 AE student starts company Do you recognize this band? TECHNIQUE to publish minority- Either way read the review of “The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper” themed comic books. their latest CD. ONLINE http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/technique CAMPUS LIFE page 7 ENTERTAINMENT page 9 Serving Georgia Tech since 1911 • Volume 87, Issue 3 • 16 pages Opinions␣ 4 · Campus␣ Life␣ 7 · Entertainment␣ 9 · Comics␣ 12 · Sports␣ 16 Academic misconduct numbers show increase By Mary DeCamp ed academic misconduct at Tech. In April of 2000, the Office of percent of students surveyed believed student and faculty attitudes. Senior News Staff This is compared to 257 cases of the Dean of Students and the Of- that students caught cheating in a “The survey in the fall…showed academic misconduct for the 1997- fice of Institutional and Research class should be given a failing grade that there was less tolerance of cheat- The Dean of Students office re- 98 and 1998-99 school years com- Planning conducted the Academic for that class. ing by students and more awareness cently indicated that it expects its bined. The specific numbers for the Integrity Survey to see how the Tech Overall, the results of this survey on their part of cheating occurring. academic misconduct numbers for previous school year are still being community regards honor code is- found that a greater number of Tech This in conjunction with a high the 2000-2001 school year to show processed, but they are expected to sues. students are becoming less tolerant faculty commitment to address cheat- an increase in the number of honor show a substantial increase. The results of this survey showed of all forms of academic miscon- ing explains the high number of offenses. According to the most re- There are two possible explana- an increase in the number of stu- duct and are more willing to report reported incidents of cheating,” said cent statistics, the number of re- tions for this rise in the number of dents who would report witnessing these instances now than in the past. Karen Boyd, Senior Associate Dean ported incidents of cheating at Tech reported incidents—either students an instance of academic miscon- The Dean of Students believes of Students. has increased over the past year. are cheating more, or more students duct as compared to students sur- in the results of this survey, and “As an institution, more of our During the 1999-2000 school and professors are reporting instances veyed in 1997. attributes the increase in academic year there were 137 cases of report- of academic misconduct. This survey also found that 81.2 misconduct numbers to a change in See Honor, page 3 Campus Construction Brittain Beautification Davidson named OIT introduces interim Dean new mail services With the promotion of By Jody Shaw Jean-Lou Chameau to Pro- News Editor vost, J. Narl Davidson, former Associate Dean of the Col- The Office of Information Technolo- lege of Engineering was re- gy recently unveiled the first in a number cently named interim Dean of new services available to members of the of the College. This marks Tech community. Spectrum mail offers the second time in his Tech prism users a number of services previous- career that Davidson has ly unavailable, including web-based e-mail served in the position of In- access and off-campus access to the acme terim Dean. He previously server to ‘pop’ e-mail to a reader such as served in that capacity be- Outlook or Eudora. fore the hiring of Chameau “In response to input from our campus as Dean of the College in constituents, we selected web access to e- 1997. mail, a service which will positively affect A national search began the most customers, as the first step in this for a candidate to serve as the process,” said John Mullin, Executive Di- next Dean, but administra- rector of the Office of Information Tech- tors do not expect that selec- nology. tion to be made until January The spectrum system creates a new ac- By Marques McMillan / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS 2002. count for the user, and individuals who Renovations to Brittain Dining Hall—one of Tech’s most historic landmarks—will be completed wish to take advantage of the services must for fall. Improvements were made to both the structural and cosmetic elements of the building. Long to chair first register for spectrum at www.spectrum.gatech.edu/activate. Nunn school Once activated, the spectrum mail ser- vice places a .forward file in the user’s Initial conduct code changes complete William Long was recently prism account to send the mail to the spec- By Mike Comer handles non-academic discipline; workgroup to address when re- named the new chair of the trum server, but it also allows the user to News Staff Bob Morton, Freshmen Expe- vising the code. Sam Nunn School of Inter- keep a copy on the prism server as well. rience Director; Undergraduate The bulk of the changes in national Affairs. Long has Once the mail is placed on the spectrum The Office of the Dean of Judiciary Cabinet Chairman the code as it stands now are helped a number of adminis- server, students can then obtain it either Students recently made revisions Charles Voelker, and Kate Wash mostly in the wording of defini- trative positions within the through the web or a standard e-mail read- to the code of conduct govern- of Georgia Tech Legal. tions and statutes. school, and he holds both a er program. ing all students at Georgia Tech. The process was prompted “We just needed to clean it Ph.D. in political science and The web interface will be available at The code of conduct was insti- by Boyd as an answer to the [the code] up. We needed to J.D. with a focus on interna- www.mail.gatech.edu. The web interface tuted “to cultivate a community Vice-President Lee Wilcox’s make it concise. It wasn’t easy tional law. to spectrum mail will include the ability to based on trust, academic integ- charge to review the code. to understand what was hap- Long follows in the foot- view and compose mail and maintain fold- rity and honor.” Over the course of about a pening to you if you were a steps of Linda Brady, who ers to sort e-mail. Users will also be able to Revisions were made by a five- year, Boyd compiled a log of all student…what was written made chaired the school since its lookup Tech e-mail addresses, download member workgroup including: of the conflicts and problems sense, but it wasn’t easy for some- creation in 1990. Brady be- and send file attachments, and edit signa- Karen Boyd, Senior Associate that came up when dealing with body who had never interacted came Dean of the College of tures. Dean of Students; Bill Barnes, the code of conduct as it stood. Humanities and Social Sci- Assistant Dean of Students who The list was presented to the See Conduct, page 3 ences at NC State. Post-Young era of Student Fellow remains in question By Ty Gailey the fellowship. we just don’t have the money. I position, zeal, and passion to fill ny [and is] a new tradition that just News Staff While a number of individuals wish I had an endowment that the this role. And it takes someone who got started this year with Chris Young feel Young made an important con- earnings from it would support hav- will stay for the benefit of the stu- at the core,” said Wilcox. For the past year, Tech graduate tribution to the campus through ing somebody like this every year. dents, not just as a stepping stone in Much of Young’s work at Tech Chris Young held the newly created the Student Life Fellow position, it Somebody who just graduated who their life. But if we can find such a can be described as “intangible.” position of Student Life Fellow. lacks funding in the school’s up- wanted to stay around and do great person, then absolutely, the posi- He maintained an open-door poli- The position provided the Insti- coming budget, and it is not sched- things. Chris did great things for tion should be continued.” cy throughout his term and coun- tute with a representative from the uled to continue. us,” said Wilcox. Young worked on numerous pro- seled both individual students and student body to consult on matters Young worked closely with Lee Young agreed that the position grams, plans, and events over the student organizations. Young also involving the quality of student life. Wilcox the Vice President of Stu- should be continued. course of the year including this spoke at a variety of engagements— Young’s recent decision to re- dent Affairs, who created the posi- “We entered this fellowship re- spring’s When the Whistle Blows both formal and informal—around turn to school for graduate studies tion with Young as the model alizing that this was a one-year ex- memorial service for faculty, staff campus, and he held seminars and leaves the position vacant and Tech recipient. periment of sorts,” said Young. and students who died over the past workshops and taught a section of with a number of questions about “As much as I would like to con- “Did it work? I believe so. Would year. Psyc 1000. the future of the position—if it can tinue it and to find somebody, not it work again? It all depends. It takes “[Chris] took the idea and went be paid for and who would occupy that anybody could replace Chris, a special person with a certain dis- with it.