Friday, SeptemberNEWS 16, 2005 Technique • Friday, September 16, 2005 • 1 “The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper” Inside this issue Engineers Wanted. Career fair con- nects employers to Tech , page 11 ECHNIQUE Plus Football History 101, page 28 TVolume 91, Issue 8 • 32 pages • ONLINE www.nique.net Serving Georgia Tech since 1911 Opinions 8 · Focus 11 · Entertainment 17 · Comics 24 · Sports 32 Damage threatens tennis court access By Amanda Dugan CRC about the damage as the or- News Editor ganizations share responsibility for managing the center on a daily basis. Substantial damage to the ten- “The monitors that were employed nis courts at the Bill Moore Tennis by SGA and the CRC so that proper Center (BMTC) one week after re- dress code was enforced...were not surfacing led to changes in policies at monitoring shoes,” Mayfield said. the center. The Athletic Association “Students were playing on (AA), the Cam- the court with pus Recreation black sole shoes Center (CRC) or shoes that and the Student “If [the courts] wear ma rked t he Government As- too much then our court. When sociation (SGA) you do damage worked out a athletes don’t get to a court like c o m p r o m i s e to practice on fast that…it doesn’t for students to look good and if continue using courts.” they wear too the BMTC with much then our more monitor- Michael Edwards athletes don’t ing. Director of CRC get to practice The center’s on fast courts,” courts, which said Michael are used by the varsity tennis teams Edwards, director of the CRC. and students, were resurfaced two Mayfield said that increased weeks ago. “After a week we had a monitoring of students and en- lot of black marks from track shoes forcement of the dress code could on them. It causes an abrasion that maintain the courts at their current slows down the surface, so our var- condition, but that students jumping sity team is not playing on as fast of over the center’s fence after hours courts as they may encounter,” said and using the courts unsupervised By Ariel Bravy / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Mollie Mayfield, senior associate would be harder to control. eady, set, scream! Ramblin’ Nights’ first event, GT Night at Six Flags, brought students, athletic director. faculty and friends together to relax and enjoy a night at the amusement park. The AA contacted SGA and the See Courts page 7 R Stingerette cancels off-campus services Tech celebrates Constitution Day Nikhil Joshi allows students to park during these Assistant News Editor times at a reduced cost. Tech will celebrate Constitu- “The only fair way to determine tion Day over the next few days Parking and Transportation has where we’ll go is to say we are a service through several events held on limited the use of the Stingerette on campus. The Stingerette is not a campus. Today, the Office of the service to campus boundaries begin- taxi service. This is what students Dean of Students will host an ning this semester. The change was have to recognize,” Meyers said. event called “Free-Speech-a-Thon” only announced on the department’s “It’s a trade-off because you can’t at the Campanile. The event will website. really please everybody,” said Adam be moderated by members of the The Stingerette, once considered Azaibi, second-year Chemical En- Pre-Law Society and Mock Trial to be a means of transportation to gineering major. “The people who Team. areas near campus after midnight, live in Home Park would want [the At tomorrow’s football game, will now operate within a well-de- Stingerette] to go campus, but the the public address system will fined area. It will take students to ones who live on campus would want announce Constitution day. Tech the opposite.” areas on campus, including graduate By Ben Keyserling / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS will also host “Constitution Al- apartments, but will no longer take Jenny Rainwater, a second-year ley” Monday on Skiles Walkway. Stingerettes sit parked on campus. Transportation changed the Stin- Aerospace Engineering major, said students to Home Park, the Midtown gerette service this fall to only take students to areas on campus. The administration will collect MARTA Station or any other loca- that the decision was unfair to Home written opinions and inquiries tion outside of Tech. population [by doing this],” Furniss campus,” Furniss said. “The bound- Park residents who depended on the constitutional issues to compile and Rosalind Meyers, associate vice said. “This past year, we realized aries were never changed, but the service to get home late at night. distribute for use in classrooms. president of Auxiliary Services, said that [the Stingerette service] was service was responding to student “It’s not really fair considering that Parking and Transportation not working. You can’t run a transit requests. Now the Stingerette is that [Home Park] is so far from the GTRI develops lacks the resources to provide an off- service, and have someone who wants being treated as a taxi service—this campus and its not exactly the safest campus transportation service. to use your service wait that long. was never the intent.” area to be walking around in late at military vehicle “Everybody has limited resources, Usually, the tolerance level [among Furniss acknowledged that night,” she said. and we want to provide good service. riders] is five to eight minutes.” many students from Home Park The decision had nothing to do The Georgia Tech Research The farther we go off campus, the “In the last three weeks, the are accustomed to using the service. with rising gas prices, Furniss said. “If Institute (GTRI) conducted the longer it takes to get on campus,” majority of students waited about However, he said students need to I find that gas prices are significantly research and development for a she said. “We don’t have the vehicles 10 minutes or less [for a Stingerette consider the costs of transportation higher I would ask for funding. This concept military vehicle, which or drivers to go [to] all those places to arrive], although there were about when deciding to live off-campus, decision was made entirely because it had planned to present to the [off campus].” 140 [riders] per night versus 350,” since the service is only meant for of the timing issue.” public for the first time at a military “We can only run what we can he said. on-campus use. Furniss also dispelled rumors technology meeting in Virginia run with funds. This year, money According to Furniss, the original “There are legitimate safety that the service changed because lasting from Wednesday through went to the new bus [on the Red vision of the Stingerette service was concerns. However, if you choose to users were abusing it. The rumors today. Route],” said Bob Furniss, director to provide safe transportation to live outside the [campus] boundary, said that the Stingerette was receiv- The vehicle, called ULTRA of Parking and Transportation. students on campus. The boundar- you have to take that [consideration] ing too many calls from intoxicated AP (Armored Patrol), is diesel- Furniss also said that wait times ies had always been the edges of into your decision. There are other students. powered and contains advanced of over 45 minutes were recorded for campus. options, such as a weekend/evening “We wouldn’t take intoxicated armor and a modern chassis. The almost half of all riders. “Because of expansion outside [parking] permit,” Furniss said. A project was sponsored the Office “We can better serve the campus of campus, students are moving off weekend/evening parking permit See Changes, page 4 of Naval Research. 2 • Friday, September 16, 2005 • Technique NEWS Technique Online Voice your opinion! From the files of the GTPD... Last issue’s question received 92 responses. Campus Crime Where should the Flag Building’s flags go? Global Learning Center -2% Fulton County Jail. The car’s owner straw. could not be contacted. It doesn’t matter to me Upon arrival, the Housing staff - 11% Student Center was already trying to put out the fire. Calculator crisis Commons- 7% Unidentified pledge? Fire extinguishers were used to put out the fire. The complainant who At 3:20 a.m. Aug. 23, two offi- At 9:18 p.m. Aug. 23, an un- made the call said she did not see cers responded to a call concerning who dumped the coals there. a person breaking into a red Jeep known white male entered the Pi Cherokee in the Perry-Matheson Kappa Phi house. When approached, parking lot. The officers stopped and the man threw a glass containing an Damaged gate detained a male while questioning alcoholic beverage against the wall, a female witness. breaking it, and ran away. An employee advised the police She stated that she saw the suspect No one was injured by the broken department that the Wardlaw Park- Right where they were glass and the subject could not be ing Deck gate was off track at 6:45 before- 80% throw objects at the vehicle, enter and emerge with several objects. identified. a.m. Aug. 25. The vehicle had a broken rear vent GTPD could not determine if By Lauren Griffin / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS window and was determined to Hot! Hot! Hot! the gate was off track or damaged This week’s question: belong to a student. by being hit. An incident report was At the time of arrest, the suspect An officer was dispatched to the filed for the gate. What do you think about the Stingerette changes? was found with several CDs, a CD Housing Office for a fire report at Tell us at www.nique.net player and a portfolio containing a 5:35 p.m.