Friday, October 29, 2010 • Volume 96, Issue 13 • nique.net Taste of Atlanta Foodies were treated to cuisine from over 80 different restaurants at Taste of Atlanta last TechniqueThe South’s Liveliest College Newspaper weekend.415 Plans released for basketball pavilion Regents postpone UGA decision By TJ Kaplan Contributing Writer The University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted on Tuesday, Oct. 12 to postpone any action regarding a possible en- gineering school at UGA. The proposal in front of the board was to allow UGA to be- gin offering undergraduate degrees in civil, electrical and mechanical engineering. The vote followed Gov. Sonny Perdue’s address to the Board of Regents, in which he warned that the university system should not launch an engineering program at UGA without careful consideration of possible negative effects or an attempt to gain public approval. Perdue urged the board to slow Illustration courtesy of Athletic Association down their considerations and build support This rendering shows the exterior of the proposed new basketball stadium where the Alexander Memorial Coliseum first. currently stands. Construction will begin following the end of the 2011 season and is scheduled to complete in fall 2012. “Take a deep breath, relax, slow down and work diligently to win support,” said By Matt Schrichte Camish Pavilion. Perdue to members of the university system Assistant News Editor The campus team in charge of Georgia Board of Regents. of the project, consisting of Perdue accused the Board of Regents In a press conference held members from the Athletic of running the proposal through quickly last week, Athletic Director Association, government rela- without consulting the governor’s office, Dan Radakovich unveiled tions, campus planning, fa- and expressed concerns about how the cur- the renderings of Hank Mc- cilities and administration re- rent financial state of the system could be Camish Pavilion, the future cently hired the architectural negatively affected by the installation of an home of Bobby Cremins firm Populus and contractor engineering program at UGA. Court and Tech’s basketball Whiting-Turner. “Even if this new school at UGA did teams. The new venue will “We’re incredibly excited make sense, I would be hard pressed to be- replace Alexander Memorial about this opportunity to real- lieve this is the right timing. We are in an Coliseum (AMC), which has ly reshape the home of Georgia economically-constrained situation. When housed Tech’s basketball pro- Tech basketball,” Radakovich you see these new budgets – where stimulus grams since 1956. said. has disappeared and where program enroll- Plans to construct the re- McCamish Pavilion’s de- ments continue to grow – you are going to placement basketball facility Illustration courtesy of Athletic Association sign has a strong focus on how see just how constrained things are,” Perdue began when Tech received a The interior of the new basketball stadium will have 8900 fans will take in Tech basket- said. $15 million lead gift from the seats, 300 fewer than the number currently in the Coliseum. ball games. It will look drasti- Perdue told the regents to think with an family of Henry F. “Hank” cally different from AMC on “enterprise” mindset and represent the inter- McCamish, Jr., IM ’50. The Pavilion is $45 million. It was Radakovich noted favor- both the inside and the out- ests of the entire state of Georgia, not their Board of Regents approved estimated that the current fa- able construction costs and side, which is why the deci- respective areas or institutions. plans for the rest of the renova- cility would require between interest rates as well as the sion was made to completely The first regent to express an opinion fol- tion and rebuilding project at $15 and $18 million in cur- significant donation from the rename the venue. lowing Perdue’s address was Dink Nesmith, their Oct. meeting. The total rently unfunded maintenance McCamish family as key rea- estimated cost for McCamish over the next seven to 10 years. sons to construct the new Mc- See Pavilion, page 7 See UGA, page 5 Authorities identify suspicious package at Klaus By Yameen Huq about two years. He communi- Contributing Writer cated with the student through email and Facebook. The stu- On Oct. 15, Tech police dis- dent found him through his re- covered a suspicious package in search and began sending him the Klaus Advanced Computing emails asking for feedback on Building. The recipient professor his own work. received the package under un- “There was some communi- usual circumstances and called cation between the professor and the police to check for any po- a student from another country,” tential dangers. While police Altizer said. found the package to be harm- When the professor failed to less and full of cookies, the cir- respond, the student sent more cumstances that led to the pack- emails asking why the profes- age’s arrival remain bizarre. sor would not talk with him, “These [investigation] pro- and whether he still liked him. cesses are never completed in a The emails became progressively quick time. It’s a very deliber- stranger, and the student be- ate process for the safety of the gan writing about how he had community and the responders. discovered time travel and was We’re going to take any kind of currently researching with Al- threat seriously,” said Andy Al- bert Einstein. He also asked the tizer, Director of Emergency Pre- professor if he would like to be paredness at the Georgia Tech a keynote speaker at the Uni- Police Department (GTPD). versity of Tehran. The professor The professor who received declined the invitation. At this the packaged had been in cor- point the professor ceased com- Photo by Craig Cameron / Student Publications respondence with a student from GTPD, Atlanta Fire Department, FBI Bomb Squad, Atlanta SWAT and Homeland Security arrived on the the University of Tehran for See Package, page 7 scene at Klaus to investigate the report of a suspicious package which was identified to be harmless. 2 • October 29, 2010 • Technique NEWS From the files of the GTPD... other’s infidelity. She stated that the fight became physical when Technique her boyfriend slapped her across The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper Campus Crime the face. The officer checked for any By Matt Schrichte signs of injury, but found none. 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 The officer then spoke with the boyfriend who admitted to slap- Georgia Tech Board of Student Publications. 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