Friday, FebruaryNEWS 18, 2005 Technique • Friday, February 18, 2005 • 1 “The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper” With its recent tourna- Hairspray isn’t just for your ment win, undefeated hair; this musical is filled with ECHNIQUE softball is on a roll. colorful social commentary. TVolume 90, Issue 23 • 32 pages • ONLINE www.nique.net page 31 page 17 SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT Serving Georgia Tech since 1911 Opinions 8 · Focus 11 · Entertainment 17 · Comics 24 · Sports 32 Top student Quality Enhancement Plan films air tonight Committee proposes fee hike International Campus MovieNite is tonight By Michael Handelman stands at $98per semester. Rec area of the Student Center would Staff Writer Plan wins at the Ferst Center. Doors open According to a JFC report, “With- “most likely have to be shut down.” at 7 p.m. and the show is set to out an SAF increase, the combined If approved by the Board of Regents, begin at 7:30 p.m. Admission The Joint Finance Committee of the effect of increased costs in Tier 1 and the fee increase would also maintain last Senate is free, and a lucky few will win SGA has recommended a $15 increase Tier 2 organizations would significantly year’s levels of funding for the cultural, door prizes. to the Student Activity Fee (SAF) in diminish the funds available to Tier 3 sports and academic clubs collectively approval In addition to the grand prize, response to increased funding requests. organizations and Student Government known as Tier 3 organizations. These requests come primarily from operating account.” Of the total $15 increase, two-thirds By Nikhil Joshi prizes will be handed out for five Staff Writer new film categories: best film the Campus Recreation Center and Additionally, the report also stated from a club or organization, best the Student Center. The SAF currently that without a fee increase, the Tech- See Budget, page 7 film from a fraternity or sorority, The Academic Senate and best film from a freshmen team, General Faculty voted at their best documentary and best film Feb. 1 meeting to adopt a designa- promoting Women’s Awareness tor for the International Plan por- Month. tion of the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). This puts the QEP, part of Tech’s ongoing effort to maintain accreditation, a step Nobel laureate closer to implementation. The International Plan will Hume to speak place a global emphasis on any Nobel Peace Prize Laureate degree program. Students who John Hume of Northern Ireland pursue this course of study will will be speaking tomorrow at the take classes related to language, Human Rights Conference to global economics and inter- be held in the Wardlaw Center. national relations, as well as a The conference starts today at 9 class covering a major region a.m. and runs until 5:30 p.m. or country of the world. Two It continues tomorrow from 9 overseas terms will accompany a.m. to 4 p.m. It will examine the coursework. the status of human rights in an “There is no form of prepara- “era of crisis.” tion at the university as substan- Other speakers include rep- tive for global studies [as the resentatives from Amnesty International Plan],” said Jack International USA and the Lohmann, associate provost. “Employers will be aware of its Carter Center, as well as scholars By Jon Kaye / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS from Tech and other academic benefits.” and non-profit institutions. The ear of the Rooster: Students celebrate the beginning of the Year of the Rooster with a traditional dragon In the Senate meeting, How- conference is free and open to Y dance near the Campanile. The Chinese Student Association rang in the lunar new year last Thursday,Feb. ard Rollins, director of Inter- the public. A complete list of 10. Twelve different animals comprise the cycle of Chinese years. national Education, said “We speakers is available at www. want to help students develop humanrights.gatech.edu. international competence, not just provide overseas experience,” Suspect arrested for car break-ins according to The Whistle. By early next week, Tech will Tsunami relief By Amanda Dugan a suspicious male looking into vehicles trespass, financial transaction card Staff Writer in Peters Parking deck. On arrival they theft and theft by receiving stolen release a draft of the full QEP, concert Monday found Jackson in the driver’s seat of property. which it will later submit to the The Georgia Tech Police Depart- a Nissan Frontier. There was visible Jackson is currently in jail and has a Southern Association of Colleges Nothin’ But Treble, Tech’s ment arrested Tony Jackson last month, broken glass on the ground. Jackson $15,000 bond. Cook said the number and Schools (SACS) for review only all female a cappella group, a man suspected to be the source of a resisted arrest and gave the name Mi- of reported auto break-ins decreased March 15. is holding a Tsunami Relief Ben- recent increase in vehicle break-ins on chael Ben Hall. after his arrest. The QEP submission is one efit Concert on Monday night at East Campus. “The south part of campus and Jackson was previously arrested of the requirements SACS has 8 p.m. The concert will take place “We think Jackson is responsible SUVs like the Nissan Frontier seemed Sept. 18, 2004 for receiving stolen in place for accreditation for all at Under the Couch. Admission for the recent increase because of the to be the target recently,” Cook said. property. Jackson ran before being universities. is free; however, donations will location and car he was found in. He Four other entered autos were found detained by the GTPD, who responded The plan varies from school be accepted. All donations will also matched descriptions of previous in the immediate area where GTPD to a suspicious person call. Jackson was to school, focusing on a topic be sent to the tsunami relief ef- witnesses,” Public Safety Officer Carla arrested Jackson. He was charged with found with a Nike bag that had been chosen by the school. fort overseas. Cook said. entering autos, giving a false name to Tech’s QEP deals with under- graduate students and consists GTPD responded to a call reporting police, obstruction of officers, criminal See Crime, page 4 of two parts—the International Plan and a Research Plan, both of which the school intends to System allows for online laundry tracking implement over approximately the next five years. By Grace Mooken will be an online tool aimed at students of free washers and Lohmann described the QEP Contributing Writer allowing students to check the dryers, and be a source used as an “exciting and unique” status of their laundry and how to locate machines in need of opportunity because of what A new initiative backed by maintenance repairs. students as well as the school the Student Center and the Resi- This service would also in- stand to gain from it. dence Hall Association (RHA) clude options for students to be Not only will it help the in cooperation with MacGray “I think it would emailed or text messaged on their school get reaccredited, he said, Laundry Co., the company free up time while cell phones when their laundry but it will give students the op- responsible for campus laundry is ready. portunity to strengthen their machines, is trying to change doing laundry...” Some students feel this will academic records in preparation laundry to make it more conve- help save time in a busy day. for post-graduate studies or the nient for Tech students. Meghan Quinlan “I think it would free up time workforce. This initiative includes a 2nd-year Psych major while doing laundry so you could Like the International Plan, new online laundry tracking do other things,” said Meghan the Research Plan will allow By Andrew Saulters/ STUDENT PUBLICATIONS service, new washers and a price Quinlan, second-year Psychol- undergraduates to complete a Tech students will soon be able to check the increase. many minutes they have left on ogy major. degree designation in the same status of their laundry remotely via online The laundry tracking service, washers and dryers. tracking and email updates. priced at approximately $10,000, The system can also inform See Laundry, page 5 See QEP, page 7 2 • Friday, February 18, 2005 • Technique NEWS Technique Online Voice your opinion! From the files of the GTPD... Last issue’s question received 112 responses. Campus Crime Where would you like commencement to be? and filed a police report citing that bump into several trucks parked the student also pounded his fists. behind the building. A 20-year-old Stay at Coliseum Bobby Dodd Stadium/ -30% No charges were pressed. male claimed that several scratches Grant Field - 39% on his truck that already had touch- Not for medicinal purposes Going up? up paint on them were caused by the On Lynch Street, a 20-year-old crew. The landscaping supervisor was At the North Campus Parking made aware of the incident. Deck, an unknown person urinated man was arrested after trying to on the floor after breaking into the el- evade police by foot after wrecking Suspended evator control room. The defecation his Ford truck. The man crashed his occurred sometime between 10 a.m. truck after running a stop sign at A 20-year-old woman was told and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 4. Upon inspec- Hemphill Avenue and Ferst Drive. her license from Baton Rouge, La. Georgia Dome - 13% I’m not going anyway tion no damages were found. Two sacks of suspected marijuana was suspended, after her green Ford - 18% and other drug paraphernalia were Explorer was stopped for having found in the truck.