Friday, AugustNEWS 29, 2003 Technique • Friday, August 29, 2003 • 1 Wreckin’ and Rollin’ at Six What’s life like after being TECHNIQUE Flags? Check out all the QB? Find out in an interview “The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper” event details inside. with Damarius Bilbo. ONLINE http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/technique FOCUS page 11 SPORTS page 31 Serving Georgia Tech since 1911 • Volume 89, Issue 6 • 32 pages Opinions␣ 8 · Focus␣ 11 · Entertainment␣ 17 · Comics␣ 24 · Sports␣ 32 Get down, get funky Student returns Work on stadium unharmed David Henson, a student re- nears completion ported missing after a fraternity party early Saturday morning, By Stephen Baehl lem of hairline cracks that ap- returned home safely Monday. Senior Staff Writer peared in one of the stadium’s Bob Harty, Executive Director support columns last spring dur- of Institute Communications and All signs of construction at ing the process of welding a di- Public Affairs, reported that both the newly renovated Bobby Dodd agonal support beam to it. Henson’s departure and return stadium will be gone before the Although Brown had said the were voluntary. Sept. 6 home game against Au- columns were already larger than burn, said needed, Tech Prof’s research Senior Asso- still brought ciate Direc- in construc- cited 2,350 times tor of “Whenever you build tion firms to Athletics something, it’s a race analyze the Materials Science and Engi- Sterling situation and neering professor Z. L Wang has Brown. against the clock, the determine been named among the most- Phase weather and other the best solu- cited nanotechnology research- Two of con- tion. ers in the world, according to struction on factors you can’t Construc- ScienceWatch, which tracks re- the stadium control.” tion crews search trends. Wang’s research will result in used a tech- has been cited nearly 2,350 times Sterling Brown an expanded nique devel- in 121 nanotechnology papers. Senior Assoc. Dir. of Athletics seating ca- oped by pacity of Georgia 55,000, up Tech Civil Options classes from 43,719 seats last year, when Engineering professors Dr. only Phase One had been com- Lawrence F. Kahn and Dr. Ab- still available pleted. dul Hamid Zureick to repair the Options registration contin- The project was “hectic, but damage. ues today from 9 a.m. till 7 p.m. good. Whenever you build some- As reported in the March 21, By Andrew Saulters / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Students can also register from 1 thing, it’s a race against the clock, 2003 issue of the Technique, a A member of the Georgia Tech Breakdancing Club shows off his moves at p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon the weather and other factors high-strength carbon material was RATS Week Under the Couch. The party also featured an MC Battle featuring to 5 p.m. Sunday. Late registra- you can’t control,” said Brown. local artists. RATS took advantage of the opportunity to dance and socialize. tion runs from Sept. 8-12. A $5 One such factor was the prob- See Stadium, page 5 late fee will be applied. Tech ranks high Wave of viruses slows campus network By Arjun Subramanian Director of Information Securi- er worm exploit a vulnerability cantly damaged by either of the among universities Contributing Writer ty at OIT, the two worms and in the RPC in Windows NT, worms. By Tim Atkins one virus are unlike any previ- 2000, XP and Server 2003, giv- “The disruptions caused by Contributing Writer Computer worms and virus- ous attacks. They have also caused ing an attacker full local system both worms are mainly because es have recently become a big more disturbances than ever be- privileges on the machine. The of unpatched, poorly-defended Two national rankings of colleges were problem for Georgia Tech’s net- fore. The DCOM (Nachi) worm attacker would be able to take private computer systems,” said released last week. The first, the Princeton work. Last week, the MS Blaster and MS Blaster are very similar actions such as installing pro- Baines. Review, ranks schools based on student sur- worm, the DCOM (Nachi) in the way they damage systems. grams, viewing or changing data, Over 1,000 personally-man- veys. The U.S. News & World Report rank- worm and the SoBig.F virus dis- Windows features a protocol or creating new accounts with aged systems were infected with ings, however, are more traditional, ranking rupted the ResNet and EastNet, called the Remote Procedure Call full privileges. MSBlaster and DCOM (Nachi), schools based on peer surveys. As in past the systems connecting most of (RPC) that allows computers to Systems run by the universi- blocking and disrupting network years, Tech showed up in both reports. the campus dormitories to the seamlessly execute code on a re- ty, such as the academic depart- traffic. The U.S. News & World Report rankings central campus networks. mote machine. Both the DCOM ments, centralized systems and take a more traditional stance on ranking According to Herbet Baines, (Nachi) Worm and the MS Blast- mail servers, were not signifi- See Virus, page 5 colleges. Tech was ranked ninth among public universities, unchanged from last year, and 37th overall, up one spot from last year. Psychology moves into renovated Coon Individual degree programs within Tech also scored well. The College of Engineer- ing moved into the top five nationally, to By Daniel Amick “Getting this building done join its Graduate counterpart, as did three News Editor has consumed two years of my individual programs within the College. life,” said Randy Engle, Psychol- Most prominent among those programs The John Sayler Coon build- ogy’s current chair. “I think it’s was the School of Industrial and Systems ing reopened this fall after un- been well worth it. We love it,” Engineering, which again ranked number dergoing a year of renovation he said. one in the nation. work. Formerly home to the The Coon Building was con- As in previous years, Aerospace ranked School of Mechanical Engineer- structed in 1911 and is one of number two, and Civil and Environmental ing, the Coon building now hous- the oldest buildings on campus. Engineering moved down one spot to fourth. es the School of Psychology. Design planning began in Janu- The DuPree College of Management ranked “Spectacular,” said Professor ary 2002. Construction began 36th in the business school rankings. Emeritus Edward Loveland of in June 2002 and finished in Tech scored particularly well in the areas Psychology’s new space. Love- March. The renovation work was of academic reputation, SAT scores of in- land was the first chair of the designed to modernize the build- coming students (second among public uni- School of Psychology when it ing while preserving its historic versities) and alumni giving rate (first among was founded in 1958. characteristics. public universities). “The real feat of this build- “It was really important to Tech’s peer assessment, the school’s per- ing is that [renovators] used ev- try to make a building that peo- ery square inch, without turning ple could be proud of—not over- By Ayan Kishore / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS it into a monstrosity,” Loveland The Coon building underwent $9 million in renovations in the past See Rankings, page 4 said. See Renovations, page 7 year. The School of Psychology has now moved into the space. 2 • Friday, August 29, 2003 • Technique NEWS Technique Online Voice Your Opinion! From the archives... Last week’s question: What do you think of the AA’s The Nique’s top stories from: new ticket pick-up policy? years ago: August 20, 1993—The Bricks for Books campaign 10 began to raise money for the library. Everyone who donated money received a brick from the recently demolished Tech- wood dormitory. Administrators hoped to sell 2,000 bricks. years ago: August 12, 1983–In a “banner year” 20 for fund-raising efforts, annual donations went up twenty percent to $12,607,367. Corporate gift giving jumped ninety-four percent to $7 mil- lion. New $45,000 bonuses allowed professors to supplement their $30,000 salaries and retire. years ago: August 3, 1973—An arti- 30 cle reporting on the Nixon impeach- ment reported that Representative Edith Green wanted to remove the president by a “no-confidence” vote Image by Lauren Griffin / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS rather than impeachment. Aaron This week’s question: Bertrand was appointed to replace What do you think of Tech’s planned Six Flags event? William Spicer as Director of Chem- Tell us what you think at www.cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/technique. istry, who resigned after 18 years. We want your opinions! Let us know what you think about our paper. E-mail opinions @ technique. gatech.edu NEWS Technique • Friday, August 29, 2003 • 3 Council Clippings Senate and House Undergraduate House appoints committee chairs, reps By Daniel Amick was the best she had attended in athletic and recreational servic- News Editor eight years and a “good indica- es, campus services and parking, tor” of the year ahead. transportation and facilities com- The Undergraduate House Representatives approved mittees. A list of new committee of Representatives kicked off a numerous appointments. Wat- chairs can be found below. new year Tuesday night. The son’s officer appointees all passed. Members elected Saira Amir inaugural meeting for represen- Members approved E.W. as House Administrative Com- tatives elected last spring focused Looney as executive assistant. Ben mittee chair. This body is tasked on appointments of executive Lawder, who ran unsuccessfully with tracking attendance and officers, committee chairs and for Student Body President bringing impeachment motions undergraduate representatives. against representatives.