{"57672":{"#nid":"57672","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2000 Tennenbaum Lecture Brings Down the House (at least the roof)!","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMICHAEL E. TENNENBAUM\u0027s financial contributions helped raise the roof of the Georgia Tech auditorium bearing his name. He watched a piece of that roof come down during a Politics, Economics, and Investing lecture in September. Tennenbaum, IE 1958, spoke as a rainstorm moved across campus.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs he spoke, a rain-soaked ceiling tile fell through and rain poured into the Tennenbaum Auditorium. \u0022I guess y\u0027all need more gifts,\u0022 Tennenbaum quipped. And to the students he said, \u0022Maybe you should start giving money back to the school earlier.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETennenbaum, managing director of the Los Angeles-based investment firm Tennenbaum \u0026amp; Co., is also chairman of the California High-Speed Rail Authority. The downpour didn\u0027t get his talk off track for long, in addition to politics and economics, he discussed the need for high-speed rail transportation. \u0022A lot of our country\u0027s success lies in the fact that we have a great highway system,\u0022 he said. \u0022But we are way behind in rail. Rail is several times more energy-efficient.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETennenbaum pointed out that those who had been caught in one of Atlanta\u0027s traffic jams could see a field of vehicles with only one person inside them. \u0022That\u0027s not a good use of resources. Go to France and ride the high-speed rail system and you will see how nice it can be. It\u0027s getting late to build one\u0022 in the United States, in part, because of the congestion in metropolitan areas, Tennenbaum said. \u0022The need for this is growing. There is no national coordination of these issues,\u0022 he said. \u0022It\u0027s kinda depressing.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETennenbaum established the endowment for the Tennenbaum Lecture in 1977, and this year was the first time he delivered the lecture.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2001-03-21 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:35","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2001-03-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2001-03-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}