[22168] in Athena Bugs
Re: Thesis template change concerns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Thomas)
Tue May 20 13:19:44 2003
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 13:19:58 -0400
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Cc: Oliver Thomas <othomas@mit.edu>, bugs@mit.edu, fuzzballs@mit.edu,
Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>, Laura Baldwin <boojum@mit.edu>
From: Oliver Thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
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I have updated the README file to reflect the change and fix the e-mail
address. I've revived the old thesis@mit.edu address and set it to go
to the people who have write access to the locker.
Aside from getting the changes documented, I don't believe there is a
decision for Owls to make here. While we maintain thesis templates on
Athena, the authority on these are the Libraries. If they tell us to
change the defaults or the content of the templates, I expect we will
continue to accommodate such requests without too much discussion. But
we will make an effort to keep the documentation up to date.
Cheers,
Oliver
On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 09:42 AM, Laura Baldwin wrote:
>
> 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
