Friday, AprilNEWS 19, 2002 Technique • Friday, April 19, 2002 • 1 Learn all about Tech A paper sailboat? Tech stu- TECHNIQUE punter Dan Dyke in this dents place first in sailboat “The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper” week’s Ramblin’. racing competition. ONLINE http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/technique SPORTS page 37 NEWS page 5 Serving Georgia Tech since 1911 • Volume 87, Issue 31 • 40 pages Opinions 8 · Focus 15 · Entertainment 23 · Comics 32 · Sports 40 Hazing earns Chi Phi suspension U.S. News ranks By Tony Kluemper volved because of the seriousness of the Engineering fourth Assistant News Editor alleged issues. “Because of the seriousness By Jody Shaw of these charges and the potential that a News Editor For the second time in three years, chapter could be suspended, it went to the Dean of Students’ office has ordered IFC Judicial Board, which is a board to- Early last week, U.S. News and World the suspension of one of Tech’s Greek tally composed of students,” said Wilcox. Report issued its graduate school rankings organizations. The brothers of Chi Phi “Altogether the IFC J-Board found nu- for the 2003 year. Institute President Wayne fraternity have been suspended for at merous violations of various Institute, IFC Clough and other Tech administrators ex- least two years effective immediately, and Student Code of Conduct policies.” pressed pleasure over the recent numbers according to Vice President of Student Sam Riesenberg, chairman of the J- that show Tech programs moving up in a Services Lee Wilcox. Board, said that the allegations resulted number of areas led, as is usually the case, The investigation of Chi Phi began from events that took place within the by the College of Engineering. last month after the Dean’s office re- past six months. “There were approxi- The College of Engineering moved up ceived reports of alleged violations of mately 43 charges involving hazing or in the U.S. News report to fourth place hazing and alcohol policies by the brothers. alcohol over the last four months, starting overall; only the Massachusetts Institute of Once the office received the reports they around November or December from the Technology, Stanford University and the proceeded to conduct an investigation point of the judicial hearing,” said Rie- University of California–Berkeley outpaced into the truth behind the matter. senberg. the Institute. Tech moved ahead of the The allegations investigated were in The J-Board then held a hearing in the University of Michigan this year to move a wide range of categories. “The allega- matter during which representatives from into number four. Within Engineering it- tions were in several categories,” said Chi Phi were able to present their side of self, nine of the 15 schools were ranked in Wilcox. “Probably the two biggest cate- the case. “They could either admit re- the top 15 nationally with Industrial and gories were hazing, and there were mul- sponsibility or deny it,” said Wilcox. “For Systems Engineering earning a first-place tiple examples of hazing, and then alcohol most of the charges against them, the ranking for the 12th straight year. violations and there were multiple vio- fraternity acknowledged responsibility.” “I’m very pleased with the consistent By Scott Meuleners / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS lations there are well.” At the completion of the hearing, the quality shown by Engineering and am very Chi Phi fraternity was suspended for two years According to Wilcox, the Interfra- proud of their sustained record of quality,” due to numerous hazing and alcohol violations. ternity Council (IFC) then became in- See Hazing, page 4 said Clough in a release prepared by Insti- tute Communications and Public Affairs. In addition to the high rankings, the Finals start on When the Whistle Blows In Remembrance College of Sciences also earned improved marks since the last time U.S. News ranked Mon. April 29 such programs in 1996. The School of Chem- Final exams begin on istry jumped eight slots to 32 in the nation, Monday April 29. A full Biology leaped twenty spots to number 68, schedule of finals can be found and Physics climbed the ladder to number on page 7 of this paper. 32. Both Mathematics and Applied Math- ematics were ranking in the top-20 of their respective categories. Referendum “I’m very pleased to see our investments in our math and science programs finally vote ends today start to receive national recognition,” said Clough. The vote on the Student Tech’s College of Computing moved Government Association ref- up one slot to number 20 in the nation, erendum on amendments to while the two programs within the CoC the SGA Constitution ends received high marks. The Computer Sys- today at 4:00 p.m. All stu- tems programs ranked number 8 in the dents can vote at country, Artificial Intelligence finished at www.elections.gatech.edu. 12 and Theory was at 16. The election, which be- In non-science and math programs, the gan on Wednesday, is a re- Dupree College of Management represent- sult of the fact that the ed Tech well among the nation’s business amendments were not pub- By Daniel Uhlig / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS programs. The College ranked 39 overall, lished in the Technique be- Students, faculty, and others gather to remember those in the Tech community who have passed fore the first SGA election in away in the past year at the annual When the Whistle Blows ceremony on Wednesday. See Rankings, page 4 which the amendments were approved. The amendments deal with changing the number of jus- tices on the Undergraduate Judiciary Committee and en- Parking registration kicks off, rates to increase suring Equal Opportunity for By Jody Shaw right back up again,” said Rodney If the student currently has a park- dents, were moved off of the various all students in organizations News Editor Weis, Director of Parking and Trans- ing permit on campus, the sixth choice wait lists last year. on campus and in SGA. The portation. will be a default choice into the cur- According to Weis and Lange, final amendment states the Parking registration kicked off According to Weis, the Universi- rent permit location. they hope that this information will SGA must publish any refer- on Monday with a number of sur- ty of Georgia recently moved to an “Students did not know for sure allow students, especially those ap- endum in a public form, not prises for members of the Tech com- online parking registration system. whether they were going to live on plying for a permit for the first time, necessarily the Technique. munity hoping to garner a coveted When the system opened, over 2,000 east or west campus, so now they can to make good choices and set realis- on-campus parking place. The on- students logged in during the first request permits on both sides of cam- tic expectations regarding parking line registration system, which de- eight minutes, which causes the serv- pus,” said Weis. registration. Both noted that stu- Technique to buted last year, returns with even er to collapse. No such problems are Students and other permit-seek- dents applying for a permit for the return May 31 more options and information. These expected here at Tech, where the sys- ers will also find pages of charts and first time should not expect to get additions also accompany increased tem should only improve, according statistics at their disposal. For exam- one. Neither the order in which peo- Because the Technique does rates for parking, which may sur- to parking officials. ple, a student can look at a chart on ple apply nor their year in school at not publish an issue during prise some current customers. Weis, along with Parking Systems one section of the webpage to see Tech bear any weight on the selec- Dead Week or Finals Week, So far the online system itself Analyst Peter Lange, added a num- what lots open up the quickest. He tion process. Priority is awarded to this is the final issue of the seems to be running just as smooth- ber of new features to the registra- or she can also pull up statistics from all current permit holders first, and paper for the spring semes- ly as it did last year. tion webpage. First, students, faculty last year’s wait list to see how each lot then new applicants are added into ter. The Technique will re- “We had a little glitch Tuesday and staff who apply for permits will opened up. the system. turn on May 31 for the first morning where people couldn’t log have the option to select up to six According to these statistics, over issue of summer semester. in, but fifteen minutes later, we were different choices for permit locations. 6,000 customers, most of them stu- See Parking, page 6 2 • Friday, April 19, 2002 • Technique NEWS Technique Online Voice Your Opinion! From the archives... Last issue’s poll garnered 57 responses to the question: “Do you think Tech should offer benefits to domestic partners? ” The Nique’s top stories from: years ago: April 24, 1992—The Department of Housing 10 announced the beginning of the Freshman Experience pro- gram. The program, which was set to begin during fall semes- ter 2000, is centered around helping freshman adjust to college in hopes of improving Tech’s retention rate. years ago: April 23, 1982—The Tech track team 20 took two individual first place honors at the ACC championships held in Virginia. Sprinter Jeff Larkin and hurdler Raymond Stiles both finished in first place with the team finishing fifth.