[22164] in Athena Bugs
Re: Thesis template change concerns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Tue May 20 09:42:03 2003
Message-Id: <200305201342.JAA18676@geskekelud.mit.edu>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>, fuzzballs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 May 2003 01:31:07 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 09:42:01 -0400
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
For reference, I made the change at the behest of Silvia Mejia-Suarez
of the libraries, who contacted OLC, asking for the change to be made
at the behest of Course VI. I believe that the libraries have
contacted a number of other groups in I/S (such as the Faculty
Liasons) in an attempt to get the template changed.
"I am the thesis processor and I have been contacted by two
different administrators from the department of EECS (Course 6). It
appears students are having problems with the front page of the
thesis template, more specifically with the copyright statement. I
am attaching the pertinent parts of their questions:
A number of SM and PhD EECS theses are coming in with the copyright
to the student when in fact it should be to MIT. Students are
getting this information online. They have found a template for the
cover page in LaTeX that defaults the copyright to the student and
not to MIT. Do you know how I can correct this so the default
copyright is to MIT and not to the student?"
If Course VI didn't want copyright-to-the-student as the default,
then there didn't seem to be much point in keeping the vi option as
the default for all theses.
I left a comment in main.tex:
%\documentclass[12pt,vi,twoside]{mitthesis}
%%
%% If you want your thesis copyright to you instead of MIT, use the
%% ``vi'' option, as above.
%%
\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{mitthesis}
on the theory that anyone writing their thesis in LaTeX would have to
edit main.tex at some point.
I'll defer to Owls on sorting out between jhawk, the libraries, and
Course VI as to what the default copyright should be; it's certainly
easy enough to revert.
-Laura
