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UPGRADES:
Millions
may go
to dorms
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Gerard Kowalski, execu
tive director of housing
administration, said many
pressing issues resulting
from obsolete mechanical,
electrical and plumbing
systems would be resolved
in the renovation process.
Problems in Mary
Lyndon revolve around the
poor air conditioning and
heating system as well as
the absence of fire sprin
klers, Kowalski said. The
architects working on the
project are also planning
for better access into Mary
Lyndon for students with
disabilities.
For Rutherford Hall, the
housing department
expects the cost to range
anywhere from $9.5 to $lO
million because of the
amount of improvements
needed.
Rutherford, like Mary
Lyndon, lacks a fire sprin
kling system, and moisture
issues have arisen because
of water intrusion into the
building from the founda
tion.
Kowalski attributed the
many problems in Mary
Lyndon and Rutherford to
the dorms’ ages.
“If you think about how
and when the buildings
were built, their design sys
tems were meant to last x'
number of years,” he said.
“They have begun to
approach the end of the
amount of time they were
engineered and designed
to run for.”
Rutherford resident
Hannah Adams said she
would welcome renova
tions, but she does not
want the housing depart
ment to completely tear
down the buildings because
of the unique atmosphere
they help create on cam
pus.
“It’s great the University
would want to give us bet
ter living spaces, but I still
want them to have that
old-timey feel,” she said.
“You can’t find that every
where.”
However, Burgess said
plans for renovations in
Rutherford have not yet
been approved, but by
January ’a drafted design
for construction will facili
tate the process.
ACCIDENTS:
Police fear
crashes in
the future
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of people,” he said. “They
Just wanted me to know
don’t cut through this area,
don’t go on sidewalks
through this area, and
don’t take shortcuts
through some section of
the road there.”
After receiving the police
warning, Kruskamp plans
to find an alternate bicycle
path, but he’d still prefer
to be able to bike down
Sanford Drive to reach the
geography building.
“I told them the confu
sion was there’s just no
good way for bikes to get
through that area," he said.
“And that area's kind of the
heart of campus connect
ing North Campus and
South Campus. They said
basically that we just have
to go around. I guess I’ll
Just avoid that area from
now on.”
Williamson said he hopes
this effort to educate stu
dent bicyclists will prevent
any accidents that could
happen in the future.
“I don’t want people to
feel that, ’Oh my gosh, all
of a sudden police are
cracking down on bicy
clists,’” he said. “This is
based on complaints and
accidents. The majority of
complaints are from the
people who are down there
every day, the students. Do
me the favor and just go
down there and stand
around watch and be open
minded and say, ‘Yeah, I
could see where some peo
ple might get hurt or get
irritated.’”
PHARMACY: Test given again, monitored closely
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retirement one month before the case was
filed, Warren taught a review course for two
pharmacy exams the North American
Pharmacist Licensure Examination, or
NAPLEX, and the Georgia Multistate
Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination that
was open to students at the University as well
as other institutions.
Warren, who declined to comment on the
lawsuit, allegedly asked students to memorize
questions from the NAPLEX and share them
with him after taking the test. He then com
piled the questions into a review packet, which
he sold to students for SIOO.
According to court documents, Warren was
accused of copyright infringement because
the NABP owns the copyrights to the test
questions, some of which appeared word for
word in Warren’s review materials. He was
accused of misappropriation of trade secrets
because the questions evaluate the compe
tency of test-takers, and the questions' value
comes from them being unknown to students.
The breach of contract charge refers to a
1995 settlement from a similar dispute in
which Warren and the University paid a fine
and signed a contract agreeing not to infringe
on the use of NABP copyrighted materials.
When the case was made public, many stu
dents defended Warren and his teaching meth
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ods. Most students were grateful for the help
Warren gave them, and some said they shared
test questions to help him in return.
The NABP suspended administration of
the NAPLEX from Aug. 25 to Oct. 5, 2007,
until it was able to create anew version.
“We were able to remove all of the affected
items,” Catizone said, and pharmacists can
once again be licensed, but the NABP contin
ues to monitor the exam. In the future, the
NABP may limit the number of times the
NAPLEX is offered per year —a change from
the six days a week the test is offered now.
Since the lawsuit began, there have been
minor changes. In October 2007, five addi
tional College of Pharmacy faculty were added
to the lawsuit. All but one had the charges
dismissed in April 2008. The judge ruled the
one professor, Henry Cobb, who had taught at
least one review course with Warren and alleg
edly helped compile materials, could still be
liable for copyright infringement.
The judge also dismissed the charges of
copyright infringement against the Board of
Regents, the charges of trade secret misap
propriation and breach of contract against
Warren and the charge of breach of contract
against Cobb.
But after several years of legal maneuver
ing, the case continues in the courts. There
are now two lawsuits, one in federal court and
one in state court.
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In the federal lawsuit, the NABP is now
accusing Warren of copyright violation and
trademark infringement, Catizone said. The
Board of Regents was also accused at one
point, but the charges were dismissed on
grounds of sovereign immunity —as a state
institution, it didn’t fall under federal jurisdic
tion. The NABP has appealed to bring the
Board of Regents back into the case, and Is
still waiting to find out if that will happen.
“Oral arguments have been heard, but no
decision has been made,” said John Millsaps,
spokesman for the Board of Regents.
The second lawsuit, in state court, is being
brought by the NABP against Warren and the
Board of Regents. It addresses the breach of
contract involving the 1995 settlement.
Although none of the students who shared
the test questions have faced legal conse
quences, Catizone said the NABP intends to
take action against “anybody that we have
evidence that compromised the exam, and
that would include students.”
He also noted the broader implications of
the case, saying those who cheated on the test
were “putting the public in danger.”
“It’s probably going to change the way we
can test in the future,” he said. “There seems
to be a general attitude that it’s OK to cheat
on a licensure exam.”
Representatives from the College of
Pharmacy declined to comment.
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