----- - -- - Ｍ ｾ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ ｾ Ｍ ｾ Ｍ ｾ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ VIEWPOI T E SPO Sex, lies and Lindsey Bennett lies about sex leads the Wave .......•.............................•..• to the quarterfinals ｾ ｾ ｾ in C-USA ,,,,,,. ... , '''"''•,,,,, ,.,.,,,,,,, FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY PAGE 14 Rain is Likely Rain is Likely Rain is Likely 58 55/45 56/50 Vol. 91, No.12 November 17, 2000 Additional bike racks ease CNN-fn to • campus congestion showcase • Administration responds to student/faculty needs Quentin Lloyd empty." Their requests were affirmatively Booting bikes will responded to in the November meet- Burkenroad assistant ncics editor As the result of multiple student complaints a solution of more bike ing ofthe University Senate and Vicc- President ofOperations Anthony Lori- resume after The administration responded to racks ""as proposed at a joint execu- students' needs last week by installing tive board meeting between the Asso- no supervised the installation of the Thanksgiving. new bikt: racks by Newcomb. Putting ciated Student Body, the Undergrad- new racks. others at other locations arc also being uate Student Government and the Grad- The new racks at Newcomb were completed last week. Plans are also Elizabeth Wotawa looked into. uate and Professional School Associ- The Tulane University Police Depart- ation. being made for new racks on the north Coming soon: contributing writer ment began attaching warning tags on They drafted legislation that passed side ofNev,:comb, where there are cur- il'egally parked bikes at the end oflast in ASB. Letters were then written to rently only a few old racks. Monroe booting for Professor Peter Ricchiuti, assistant dean of the A.B. and Sharp Halls are also being evalu- semester. After they actually began members of Physical Facilities asking Freeman School ofBusincss, will discuss the Burkenroad booting bikes in October. Many stu- them to approve the placement of ated to determine if new racks are need- unregistered Reports program, stock information on Louisiana-based dents protested that there was not new bike racks, President ed. companies, with Lou Dobbs on Ql..'N-fn's Business Unusu- enough space on many bike racks, Scott Cowen In the meantime, TUPD suspend- bikes ... proper al. so that they were forced to lock them and ed its policy of booting bikes near New- During his intervie\v, which v.ill air Nov. 22, Ricchiu- . to other objects. The primary areas parking won't ti plans to highlight the Burkenroad Reports program, the students complained about were SEE BIKES: PAGE 4 experience it provides Tulane's business students and the racks around Newcomb and "some ofthe stocks we like." Stem Halls. save you this Ricchiuti also hopes to talk about "why a lot of great Ken Dupaquier, director of stocks don't recei\ ea lot ofattention on Wall Street.'' He Public Safety, said that he went time. explained that large investment firms tend not to research to the two areas and found that small companies with volatile stock prices. "Great com- "there was a problem at Newcomb." panies can remain fairly ignored," Ricchiuti said, "partic- However. he also said that while stu- ularly in the Deep South ... we're hardly the finan- dents complained about the racks W1der- cial center in the world." neath Stem Hall, "they don't realize CNN-fn cameras also followed Ricchiuti and there is a rack between Stem and Boggs. a group of business students to an on-site visit to only 50 feet away, that is almost always Petroleum Helcop, an air transportation corporation in Lafayette, La. and one of the Burkenroad pro- gram's original companies. He recalled them film- ing scenes ofthe students touring the company's hangar, riding in one of the helicopters and talking '"ith Petro- SEE BURKENROAD: PAGE <NONE> SHERYL HA:lll!\.IER/PHOTOGRAPHY CO·EDITOR Tulane students complained that bike booting was an unfair policy as there were not enough bike racks, prompting them to park illegally. As Students a result the school began putting in new bike racks outside Newcomb Hall. turned away from polls Erin Niebur contributing u-riter While the press and presidential candidates have swarmed around\ oting controversy in Florida, some of Tulane's voters had problems ofthe1r O\\n as they tried to partici- pate in this year's election. "Turned Away at the Voting Booth," reads a sign post- ed by Devon Doane. Doane, president of the College Democrats. is only one ofseveral students who had prob- lems at the polls. After she was turned away from the poll on , 'ewcomb Boule\ ard on election day, Doane decided to post signs asking students to contact her if they had problems voting. SHERYL HA\1MER/ PHOTOGRAPHY CO-EDITOR "As president ofthe College Democrats, I was really active Within a week the racks were in in the campaign. I was on TV; I took pride in registering place and being used. voters," Doane said. Doane had complications \\ith registering. "I registered in Louisiana last spring. I lost my voter confirmation card, SEE VOTING: PAGE 7 Brave new class explores ethical implications of genetic engineering walkin' on water Michelle Moore nology, cloning, storing and donating contributing u·riter organs and retro \iruses. By concentrat- ing on these topics, Dec argues that sci- Assistant Professor Kay C. Dee is rock- ence and ethics can be intertwined. ing the waves at Tulane '"ith her new class For each topic, the students learn about entitled A Brave ·e"" World: Advanced the ethical ssues associated with the sci- Topics in Cell and Tissue Engineering. ence in the present and in the future. Dee The course focuses on central cell and said, "tor tissue engineering. science and tissue engineering topics within selected ethics are closely linked. We don't study science fiction novels and the ethical science in a vacuum. We have to make implications of scientific research. sure we're '"orking toward the applica- Most of the literature is fiction, but tion of a goal." Dec tells her students to think about the J.B. Raasch, a third-year graduate stu- ethical issues one must consider if the fic- dent in biomedical engineering, tion was real. "I was re-reading Brave said. ''The whole concept of pure sci- New World and then woke up at 3 o'clock ence is okay in physics, but in engineer- in the morning thinking, ·you know, I bet ing. you haYe to look at the application of that people could actually do mo::.t of the science, so you are forced to think about genetic engineering/cloning \Vritten about ethics." in that book. I wonder how much of that Students find the class fun and excit- book is still fiction and how much is sci- ing. "I was pretty excited. Sometimes we ence,"' Dee said. have heated debates," Andy Silver. a senior The literature her students arc study- in biomedical engineering, said. ing include Paris 111 the Tll'entieth Cen- Professor Dee thinks her students can tury by Jules Verne, Brm·e Nell' World truly benefit tTom the class if they open by Aldous Huxley, Flatlander, Darwin's their minds. "I think that the students who SHERY! HAMMER/PHOTOGRAPHYCO-EDITOR Two days of rainstorms washed the campus, sending some Radio, Holy Fire, !Veuromancer, The Dia- are willing to approach the class with an students to reject traditional class attire for more comfortable mond Age and Not vfa Wvman Bvrn edit- open mind and who like discovery learn- waterwear. Rain is expected all weekend long. ' MARCELLA RAE REIOUSTAIT PHOTOGRAPHER ed by Constance Ash. These books focus ing, v.here students do research on topics Kay C. Dee teaches for the second time her ethics in science on topics in genetic engineering, biotech- class based largely on science fiction books. SEE ETHICS: PAGE4 ........................................________________ .....___________ ｾ ﾷ Ｍ.