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lenic Council (CPC) ac-
cepted a Collegiate Pan-
hellenic Excellence Award
from the National Panhel-
lenic Conference earlier last
month.
It was an award that
took us by surprise in a
humbling way but was
denitely something that
whenever I reect back on
all the hard work that the
CPC has done over the
years was well deserved,
said Tanner Marcantel, As-
sistant Dean and Director
of Greek Aairs.
To receive this presti-
gious award, CPC had to
meet seven out of seven
criteria, including recruit-
ment, panhellenic struc-
ture, communication
with National Panhellenic
Council (NPC) area advi-
sor, judicial procedures,
Panhellenic programming,
academics and Panhellenic
community impact and re-
lations.
e CPC received the
Excellence Award by pro-
gramming with a purpose
and encouraging eorts the
nine sororities already have
in place. Also, we focused
on leadership develop-
ment, said Caroline Free-
man, CPC President.
e Collegiate Panhel-
lenic Excellence Award
shows how CPC has taken
strides in the past year to do
everything they can to aid
and benet the entire Tech
community. rough vari-
ous events and programs
around campus and in
the community, the CPC
maintains a visible presence
of outreach.
We love partnering
with other organizations on
campus whether its spon-
soring other organizations
or doing a program togeth-
er. We take the CPC seri-
ously because we are one of
the most visible bodies of
women at Tech, Freeman
said.
e CPC hopes to use
Collegiate Panhellenic Ex-
cellence Award as a stan-
dard to maintain and a
platform to grow o of in
future years.
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students realized this and
is leveraging all of these
tools in the form of build-
ing startups, and is push-
ing their boundaries as far
as they can.
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is a connection space for
students, a hub for en-
trepreneurial ideas and
a place where students,
businesspeople, designers-
really, anyone- can bounce
their ideas o of others. It
was born in the old Pre-
sentation Rehearsal Room
on the second oor of the
library just last spring, and
has since experienced tre-
mendous success thanks to
its team: Chintan Parikh,
Will King, Sameera Omar,
Deepan Mehta and recent
graduate Aswin Natarajan.
Chintan Parikh, a sec-
ond-year CS major, is one
of its directors.
Youll nd out there
are way cooler things than
sitting in a cubicle all day,
said Parikh.
e eort started with
Startup Semester, a semes-
ter-long incubation project
where students work in
teams to formulate busi-
ness plans into viable proj-
ects. e idea was to move
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1:00 a.m. on Sept. 8 to a cam-
pus residence hall where he dis-
covered a male student passed
out in a rst oor hallway. e
ocer was informed that the
student had six to seven shots of
Jack Daniels within a two hour
period.
e ocer made contact with
the student, who was uncon-
scious but breathing. A Grady
ambulance along with Atlanta
Fire Rescue arrived on the scene.
EMTs attempted to revive the
student, and when he began to
regain consciousness he started
to become extremely combative.
One of the ocers took con-
trol of the student and placed
him in handcus. After the
handcus were placed on the
student, he screamed at EMTs
in an unidentiable language.
Both the EMTs and the ocer
had to direct the student along
the corridor and down the stairs.
e victim was placed inside
the Grady ambulance in which
he again became extremely vio-
lent and had to be restrained by
tie downs and a protective spit-
proof face shield. e student
was transported to Grady Me-
morial Hospital for observation.
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On Sept. 2, around 2:00
a.m., an ocer responded to the
Fowler Street and 6th Street area
in reference to the armed rob-
bery of a pedestrian. e inci-
dent was called in by an Atlanta
Police Ocer, and a GTPD of-
cer advised all other GTPD of-
cers in the area of the call. e
ocer arrived in the area and
began to search for the suspects,
but was unsuccessful. e ocer
returned to the scene and began
interviewing the two victims,
who both appeared to be intoxi-
cated.
e victims explained that
they were walking from Check-
ers on 10th Street and Spring
Street back to a fraternity house
on campus when the robbery oc-
curred. ey said that it wasjust
after they turned onto 6th Street
when two males approached
them and asked if either of them
had a cigarette lighter. As both
victims reached for their pock-
ets, one of the suspects pulled a
handgun and demanded that the
victims put everything in their
pockets and their wallets on the
ground. e other suspect then
told the two students to start
walking toward Fowler Street
and if they stopped or looked
back they would be shot. e
victims complied. e suspects
ed, and soon after, the victims
agged down a car and used the
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noon, an ocer observed a male
lying on the ground in front an
on-campus fraternity house. e
student appeared to be crying
and in pain. e ocer made
contact with the male subject
and noticed a strong smell of
alcohol on his breath. e stu-
dent explained that he and an-
other fraternity brother had ex-
changed words that turned into
a verbal argument and eventu-
ally became physical.
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A car bomb exploded in front
of a Foreign Ministry building in
Benghazi, Libya on Wednesday,
Sept. 11, according to CNN. e
day marked the rst anniversary
of the attack on the U.S. Consolu-
ate in Benghazi that killed Am-
bassador Christopher Stevens and
three other Americans.
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ported but the explosion took
out much of the buildings faade
according to Col. Abdullah Al
Zaydi, a spokesman for the Joint
Security Task Force in Benghazi.
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ful and completely destroyed the
vehicle carrying the explosives.
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the bomb exploded at 7 a.m. local
time. If the bomb had detonated
an hour later, the street would
have been busy and the likelihood
of casualties would have been
much greater.
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universities and No. 36 among
national universities.
Tech maintained its No. 5
ranking spot among national en-
gineering programs and Techs
undergraduate business program
moved up 5 spaces to No. 27.
Several of Techs engineer-
ing majors were also nationally
ranked, with eight of Techs en-
gineering programs were ranked
among the top eight. ISyE came
in as No. 1 in the nation. e
AE department was ranked as
No. 2 and both the CEE and
ME majors were ranked No. 3
in the nation. BMED and MSE
were ranked at No. 4, the former
falling down from second place
from the previous year. ECE was
ranked as No. 5 and CHBE and
CE were both ranked as No. 6,
the former having risen from No.
10 from the year prior.
ree Tech initiatives, intern-
ships, senior capstone design and
undergraduate research, were
also described as Academic Pro-
grams to Look for.
anks to the outstanding
work of our faculty, sta, stu-
dents and partners, Georgia Tech
enjoys a long track record of con-
tinued excellence," said President
Peterson. "We are committed to
building on our success in teach-
ing and research, developing
leaders and innovators who will
improve the human condition in
Georgia, the U.S., and around
the globe.
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ech.edu, is being updated this
year, starting in September. e
redesign is being spearheaded by
Techs Department of Commu-
nications.
e reason for the update lies
in the current limited student
access and out of date visual as-
pects and system framework.
e main webpage framework
will be upgraded from Drupal 6
to Drupal 7, which will make ed-
iting, updating and controlling
content easier for users.
e update will also condense
the amount of information and
links on the main webpage and
increase the number of accessible
statistics and rankings.
Michael Warden, Vice Presi-
dent of Institute Communica-
tions, and President Peterson
started the initiative. David
Holsten, the Director of Online
Communications led the rede-
sign, but Tech students and the
dierent colleges also had input
to the process.
e redesign took longer than
anticipated because of insu-
cient stang. e redesign pro-
cess is ongoing.
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teion (SAA) launched their mem-
bership year on Sept. 5 with their
Fall Kicko, which brought in
over 1,500 new members.
Its kind of been a tradition
now of big kickoslots of mem-
bers and lots of fun, said Ryan
Fork, previous President of SAA
and current SAA Advisory Board
member.
Joining SAA for the school
year costs $10.
Each student member [of
SAA] is also a donor to Georgia
Tech. When you join SAA for
ten dollars, all that money is go-
ing straight back to Tech...the
student body is learning why it is
important to give back to Tech.
said Catie McCoy, the Director of
Student Outreach for the Alumni
Association.
e ve event locations were
spread around campus and in-
cluded a spirit event, a mentors
jackets event, a philanthropy
event, a traditions event and a net-
working event.
Each location is treated as a
separate event. So we have to plan
like were planning for one event
but we have ve on the same day.
Were making events sheets, were
working with our vendors, Mc-
Coy said.
e kicko was organized by
the SAA leadership board but
over 150 volunteers helped work
the event.
All kinds of work goes [into
the kicko]. Weve been working
since about April on the market-
ing scheme, on the logistics, com-
ing up with a good plan etc, Mc-
Coy explained.
Many aspects of the kicko
were donated by sponsors such as
Coca Cola and Wae House, two
of this years lead sponsors.
Were trying to increase the
number of oerings we have for
alumni connections as well as the
spirit side of SAA. is year, we
will try to grow on Spirit days and
traditions, said Chad Sims, Presi-
dent of SAA.
SAA Fall Kicko brings in 1500 new members
Hacker Tour 2013 kicks o at Techs campus
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From last Sunday to the end
of this weeks career fair, Hacker
Tour by Ready Force made its rst
stop to the Tech campus in order
to meet Tech hackers, coders and
makers and expose them to com-
panies oering internships and
career opportunities.
In addition, Hacker Tour in-
vited Tech students to participate
in dierent challenges for prizes
and a ranking among some of the
nations best computer science and
engineering students.
Hacker Tour is ten week bus
tour to the top 35 computer sci-
ence and engineering schools in
the country our goal is to essen-
tially identify computer science
and engineering students and
connect them with incredible
opportunities with multiple tech
companies, said marketing pro-
gram manager Molly Turner.
While on campus, Hacker
Tour introduced students to their
network of companies through
their table and website. In addi-
tion, they were able to witness the
computer science skills of some
Tech students by allowing them
to participate in two dierent
challenges.
One is called the campus
coder which is run by one of our
sponsors called Quixey which is
actually a search engine for apps,
Turner said. ey have created
something called the crazy chal-
lenge, a quick 60 second bug x,
and the fastest student who can
x the bug gets a prize.
For students who did not visit
Hacker Tour while on campus,
the tour will be hosting another
competition that students can
enter before the end of Hacker
Tours ten week period.
e next [event] is called
Hacker Madness where any stu-
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On Aug. 25 and Sept. 3, re-
spectively, the Undergraduate
House of Representatives (UHR)
and the Graduate Student Senate
(GSS) unanimously passed a joint
allocation bill to pay $30,000 to
the Ferst Center in exchange for
allowing any and all chartered
student organizations to use the
event space as they wish without
having to search for funding.
e money was taken from the
Student Activity Fund.
is bill, which was a part of
Picons platform, laid out how the
new arrangement would work.
A GT recognized student
organization contacts the Ferst
Center about using their facilities
for an event with at least 30 days
prior notice. Assuming the Ferst
Center is available at the date and
time, they will contact the head
of the Student Organization Fi-
nance Oce (SOFO) accountant
to verify the organizations stand-
ing and to ensure that any services
they are requesting align with
SGA policy. e head SOFO ac-
countant will verify this informa-
tion and advise the Ferst Center to
provide or deny any or all of the
requested services, according to
the policies of the bill.
Previously, in order to use the
Ferst Center, student organiza-
tions had a Student Government
Association (SGA) representative
author a bill asking for funding
to reserve the Ferst Center, which
required a fee.
"Student organizations had to
put in a bill which [could] take at
least two weeks, sometimes three,
to get through, and ask us for the
money. ey would then go on
to give that money to the Ferst
Center which already had to have
been reserved, said Nicholas Pi-
con, Undergraduate Student Body
President.
After bills were put in to SGA
and passed, the money would be
directly transfered over to the
Ferst Center so that necessary
things could be paid for per their
policies.
A similar change by SGA had
been in place about two years ago,
where the Ferst Center would
charge a discounted rate to SGA,
which SGA would pick up in a
lump sum at the end of the year.
Student organizations would still
need to submit appropriation bills
to SGA in order to get approved
for reserving the Ferst Center.
Historically, the SGA Presi-
dent would negotiate a rental rate
each year. From scal year 2009,
that at rate amounted to a lump
sum of $22,000 with additional
expenses incurred for rst-time
events. In scal year 2010, that
sum increased to $25,000. Last
year without the at sum, how-
ever, SGA paid $50,874 in Ferst
Center Rental Expenses and
$33,182 the year before that, ac-
cording to nancial statements
from SOFO.
e $17,692 increase in money
spent on Ferst Center Rental Ex-
penses comes mainly from the
increase in student organizations
utilizing the space available in the
Ferst Center. is at rate, sup-
ported by all parties involved, is
an increase in the previous rate
used and will save money from the
student activity fund compared to
comparison previous years.
e main reason I wanted to
bring [the at rate] back is be-
cause I think it will open the Ferst
Center for smaller organizations...
we thought it was a good way to
make that on-campus venue just
like reserving any other room [on
campus], Picon said.
SGA, however, does not cover
all costs that come with hold-
ing an event in the Ferst Center.
Rather, they cover charges asso-
ciated with technical, labor and
rental costs at the venue for open
dates. ose costs that are beyond
that, such as ticketing, food, trav-
el and props are not covered by
the at rate.
As SGA, were here to support
student organizations, but we like
to see events moving towards a
self sustaining nature, Picon said.
Overall this bill is set to
streamline the process which stu-
dent organizations go through in
making reservations in the Ferst
Center by taking out the middle-
man of this process.
SGA hopes that everything
will be set in motion by next week
so that student organizations can
begin utilizing this aggrement
with the Ferst Center as soon as
possible.
PTS launches new
reservation program
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On Aug. 15, Parking and
Transportation Services (PTS)
rolled out a new parking system
called Click and Park.
Click and Park is intended to
make visitor parking at large Tech
events more ecient and conve-
nient for everyone.
Click and Park allows the
customer to put parking behind
them and concentrate on the
event theyre attending. ey no
longer have to worry about bring-
ing cash or having enough of it.
All they have to do is pay for and
print their parking passes at home
and bring them to campus, said
David Santa Ana, Associate Di-
rector for Parking.
Click and Park also provides
parking directions, which is
meant to decrease both confusion
and trac around campus and
the areas close by.
Click and Park is a useful tool
for PTS as well.
It will help make our opera-
tions more ecient by speeding
up the rate at which we can physi-
cally park each customer. Instead
of a special events parking atten-
dant stopping each car to accept
their cash and give them change
as needed, attendants just scan the
Click and Park print outs and the
customer is on his/her way, Santa
Ana said.
PTS is also excited about the
idea of a cashless service.
It also makes our special
events operations virtually cash-
less, which aids in our reporting
and reduces actual cash han-
dling, Santa Ana said.
PTS hopes to expand Click
and Park to more events in the fu-
ture in order to ease the parking
experience across campus
Currently, were using the
program just for football. Eventu-
ally, well utilize it for other types
of special events like swim meets
or concerts, said Torise Battle
Young, Communications Ocer
at PTS.
Tech is using a vendor, Stan-
dard Parking Plus, to implement
the new parking system. e tech-
nology is already used across the
country for dierent purposes,
and has received positive reviews
from users on both ends.
[Standard Parking Plus] em-
ployed this technology at several
universities, stadiums and con-
cert venues, which all gave great
reviews of the system. Consider-
ing the growing number of spe-
cial events taking place on our
campus, we thought Click and
Park would be an innovative and
ecient tool for Tech, Santa Ana
said.
Click and Park gameday park-
ing was available for the rst home
game against Elon and is already
available for the UNC game.
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ture of what we can be and con-
tinue to strive for," Freeman said.
"Each executive CPC member is
already in the process of looking
at what the community could
look like ve years out.
However, this wasnt the rst
time that CPC has received na-
tional awards.
In the past our Panhellenic
Council has been awarded for
specic functional areas like an
excellence and risk management
award, but this year they were
one of fourteen out of six-hundred
CPCs to get an overall excellence
award for their eorts, Marcantel
said.
e CPC represents all nine
Tech sororities and each sorority
has at least one delegate represent-
ed in the overall governing body.
e CPC, however, cannot dictate
what actions are taken by each so-
rority internally.
ere are ten unanimous
agreements that all twenty-six
national sororities have voted to
abide by over the years so it is
CPCs role to make sure all of the
local groups are abiding by those
ten unanimous agreements in or-
der to make sure the community
is collaborating, Marcantel said.
e council strives to inuence
women around campus in a posi-
tive way through events and pro-
gramming aimed at reaching as
many people as possible.
I think our Panhellenic here
at Tech is reected with a Georgia
Tech spirit of not being satised
with the status quo and constant-
ly looking to improve the process
or performance. Now overall op-
erations are functioning at a much
better level and thats being recog-
nized, Marcantel said.
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partment (GTPD) received its
Commission on Accreditation for
Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc.
(CALEA) certication on Aug. 3.
is accreditation represents
our commitment to excellence,
said the Georgia Tech Police Chief
Teresa Crocker. In order to receive
this accreditation, GTPD had to
meet 480 CALEA standards.
[Important standards include]
use of force, code of conduct, ve-
hicle pursuits, said Lieutenant
Mark Beebe, Accreditation Man-
ager of the Department Standards
Unit.
Policies implemented this year
range from benets for personnel
to procedures for Interviews and
Interrogations. All reforms have
been created between 2009 and
March of this year.
eres certainly more ac-
countability and eciency, said
Ocer Eric Jan of the Depart-
ment Standards Unit. Because of
the many criteria that had to be
met, GTPD is better equipped to
protect the campus and serve this
community.
License plate readers are an
example of new technology being
used by the force to check for sto-
len vehicles with the databases of
the Department of Revenue and
the Georgia Crime Information
Center (GCIC).
We had to develop polices for
the use of it, said Ocer Beebe.
Because the force tries to use the
latest technologies in campus
safety, these polices describe both
possibilities and limits to usage.
I think it sets us at a stan-
dard where we hire people of
excellence and we bring people
in [to] do a job thats considered
above what you would probably
get at most police departments,
Chief Crocker added.
Out of the 59 CALEA certi-
ed police departments, three
have been certied under Chief
Crockers watch while she was
Chief of Police at East Carolina
University, and Deputy Chief at
North Carolina State University.
Crocker wants to emphasize that
the accolade is the result of an ex-
haustive and expansive group ef-
fort between the ten departments
in charge of everything from
game day safety to IT.
Police ocers dont particu-
larly like change and so I think
that you have to get them in-
volved in helping write these poli-
ciesso we need that institution-
al knowledge, she said. ere was
especially a challenge in meeting
all 480 standards because CA-
LEA did not explicity state how to
meet them, just that the standards
needed to be met.
In the next three years, the
Police Department hopes to con-
tinue improving its service to
the community through gaining
more certications.
We also want to get accredi-
tation with the International
Association of Campus Law
Enforcement Administration...
and we also want to get accred-
ited through the state certica-
tion processs...and then come
back around to CALEA in the
next three years, Chief Crocker
said, since CALEA certication
is valid for only three years. We
believe that we will continue to
progress.
dent can submit a video demo of
their best software and hardware
hack, Turner said. e top sub-
mission from each school will be
placed in a larger bracket among
other schools, and at the end of
the tour, were going to have the
top students compete in an online
competition.
While the tour focuses on
challenging computer science and
engineering students and show-
casing students' skills across the
nation, Hacker Tour under Ready
Force wishes to stand by its goal as
a network for students interested
in working or interning under
their sponsors and other technol-
ogy companies.
We have some really awe-
some startup companies on our
site that are our sponsors, and so
those companies specically are
the ones that we are promoting
and trying to get students excited
about, Turner said. Some are
really tiny and do not have the
budget or resources to come and
travel all the way to Atlanta or San
Francisco, so its about getting all
of those dierent exposures.
Many students at Tech appre-
ciate the outside eort to connect
undergrads with internship op-
portunities and give a peak into
the careers that are available in the
workplace.
I think its neat that Tech in-
vites these kind of people to show
us whats out there, said Andrew
Sanders, a freshman CS major.
I guess its pretty important to
be aware of dierent intern and
co-op opportunities as an under-
graduate, so Im glad to be study-
ing here.
We want students to know
that all of these opportunities are
available. ere are many jobs in
[technology], Turner said.
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New Access to Ferst Center
Promoting and facilitating student involvement
e Student Government Association
recently passed a bill allocating $30,000
as payment to the Ferst Center for recog-
nized student organizations to use their fa-
cilities during the upcoming year. e bill
provides chartered student organizations
with unlimited use of the Ferst Center
and eliminates the need to request funding
from SGA. e approval of this resolution
shows a sense of purpose from the new ad-
ministration, and it promises to boost stu-
dent involvement in campus activities.
e Undergraduate House of Represen-
tatives and the Graduate Student Senate
both unanimously passed the joint allo-
cation bill on Aug. 25 and Sept. 3, respec-
tively. eir actions, taken so early in the
semester, show promise for the year. is
joint allocation bill was, in fact, one of the
initiatives that Undergraduate President
Nick Picon promised to pass during his
campaign. SGA has also justied the bill
nancially, estimating $20,000 in savings
on Ferst Center rentals in comparison to
last year.
e bill enables registered organiza-
tions to utilize the Ferst Centers facilities
in a far more direct, and simple, way. While
students previously requested funding to
book the venue from SGA, they can now
proceed aer having their organizations
status veried.
e simplicity and openness that this
bill aords students strongly encourages
student involvement. Within the past year,
student organizations have already in-
creased their utilization of the space in the
Ferst Center. Now, with the added ease of
booking the venue, and without the neces-
sity to write a personalized bill, the trend
of growing student involvement will con-
tinue.
With more publicity for the new initia-
tive and steps to maintain the policy, SGA
can contribute to a more lively campus
while still balancing its books.
e Consensus Opinion reects the majority opinion of the Editorial Board of the
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More on the U.S.
involvement in Syria
Last week, Sam Somani wrote
a great article about perilous and
sticky situation in Syria.
As the U.S. becomes increas-
ingly involved, and as national at-
tention focuses more intensely on
the war, with much debate among
politicians, it is important not to
miss the real issue.
e common Syria rhetoric
that the media and our politicians
purport is highly misleading.
e debate our country is hav-
ing is between dierent interest
groups all of which could care less
about international non-prolifer-
ation regulations, humanitarian
violations, or the fate of Syrians
and Syria.
e U.S. military has used
chemical weapons extensively
from Vietnam to Iraq; they sup-
port government like Saudi Ara-
bia, Egypt and Pakistan who
commit gross human rights viola-
tions and they have more recently
supported a coup dtat in Egypt.
However, we should care about
international law, human rights
and the fate of Syrians, because
it is currently nothing less than a
global crisis.
120,000 Syrians have already
died, with civilian massacres car-
ried out by both chemical and
conventional weapons. e 2.5
year war is in a stalemate, and the
August 21st attack is proof the
violence and human rights viola-
tions are only intensifying.
e real crisis is the war itself.
e real problem we face is ending
the war.
Many anti-intervention pun-
dits point to Iraq as proof we
should not intervene, lest we be-
come overburdened with post-war
Syria.
is analysis, however, is
short-sighted and nave. Unlike
Iraq, the task of rebuilding Syria
already exists, and mounts higher
every day the war goes on. And
unlike Iraq, all of Syrias neigh-
bors are already invested in Syria,
meaning the rebuilding of Syria
will be a cooperative eort.
Further, as all Tech students
know, putting o work till tomor-
row doesnt actually help anyone.
e longer the war, the more there
is to rebuild. ere are of course
countless factors that must be
taken into account when deciding
our course of action, but regard-
less of what actions we chose, our
only motivation must be to end
the war.
Only then can we talk about
preventing child massacres. Only
then can we talk about interna-
tional non-proliferation laws.
Only then can we begin to help
people.
Mustafa Siddiquee, Fifth-
Year BMED
We are among the top aerospace schools in the
world yet we cant keep clean air circulating in the
computer lab.
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That moment when you have two tests but end
up studying the same set of information for both
Watch the game at the Cheetah?! HELL NO! I like
my football without a side of misogyny
SLIVERS
YOUR VIEWS
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Im 5 foot 10, but I feel 4 foot 9 in her arms
technique !"#$%&$'($)"*+,"-.*+! 7 // OPINIONS
I would like to congratulate
Tech for nally upgrading the
digital sign on North Avenue
and Williams Street next to
I-85.
For years, the
sign has been re-
minding travel-
lers on the high-
way of Techs
existence and
various athletic
events. However,
travellers would
have to be quick
to read the sign
as they drove
past it. e sign
has had numerous display prob-
lemsashing, blurriness and
even as much as having parts of
the display completely broken.
In short, the sign was not a shin-
ing beacon for Tech. It needed
an update.
I was pleased when I discov-
ered that Tech recently replaced
the digital sign along with many
other entry signs around cam-
pus. With this, Techs image
to Atlanta and visitors has im-
proved 1,000 percent.
Im disappointed that it
took Tech almost the duration
of my college career to replace
the sign. For a university such
as Tech with our prestige and
endowment, it should not have
taken several years for a faulty
sign that is visible to millions
of people every year to be xed.
Tech has the money for it. ey
should have xed it.
Techs brand is what the pub-
lic sees and what they remember.
My mom remembers Tech by
Buzz and the Yellow Jackets.
Tech has established that brand
over a long period of time. How-
ever, my mom is the parent of a
Tech student. Tech has waved
their strictly controlled brand in
front of my parents and I since
I got accepted into Tech. How-
ever, prospective high school se-
niors and people not associated
with Tech, they only see what
brand of Tech is visibleexter-
nal signs, apps and websites.
A brand can
make you have
a completely
dierent idea of
Tech. A brand is
everything.
Im glad that
Tech is work-
ing on improv-
ing the brand
around campus
by replacing old
campus signs.
However, there are many more
awed and outdated compo-
nents to Tech brand.
For example, Tech has an of-
cial iPhone app. However, the
application has not been updat-
ed in over year and has not been
updated to support Apples new-
est iPhone display size since the
announcement of the iPhone 5.
In addition to those issues, sev-
eral features in this application
are broken for a long time. Is
this Tech? A broken, out-of-date
iPhone app? I dont think so.
Like the digital sign, if someone
were to look at the app, they
would have a bad impression of
Tech. What are we saying about
ourselves as a university if our
ocial iPhone application is be-
hind on the times?
Tech has a great brand. Buzz
is a lovable icon for Tech. How-
ever, the same care and attention
to detail needs to extend to all
reaches of the Tech brand, no
matter how small. All elements
of the brand must be main-
tained. If they are not main-
tained, the brand will suer.
Tech needs to focus on main-
taining and ensuring that their
existing brand holds up to the
high standards we all as students
have for Tech.
Good evening, America.
It is my pleasure to inform
you, as I am sure it is your plea-
sure to hear, that I have right-
fully won one of the most pres-
tigious oces that the state of
Georgia has to oer: freshman
class representative for the Geor-
gia Institute of Technology.
Give yourselves a hand, for
over the past week, you have
made history. My friends, to-
night is a night of celebration.
I would rst like to thank the
SGA organizers for their tireless
eorts to regulate the freshman
campaign. Even my personal
experiences can illustrate the
extents to which the organizers
went to make our race a fair one.
I cannot nd words to describe
how hard these men and women
have worked; just imagine tear-
ing down $250 worth of posters
in the Student Center by your-
self.
I would also like to thank the
talented artists that designed my
poster, the dedicated bloggers
that managed my Twitter and
Instagram pages and my 2200
new Facebook friends. rough
hundreds of event invites, friend
requests and pokes, I have found
a new family. With the work of
my supporters, I now feel con-
dent and ready to lead the Class
of 2017.
I certainly havent forgotten
my opposition. I made strong
connections with each of them
while my supporters and I re-
moved their posters from the
dorms.
Yes, tonight is certainly
meant for celebration.
But tomorrow, we must go
back to work as all responsible
freshman class representatives
do. Tomorrow, I will begin tak-
ing ideas for the ve-point plan
that was the backbone of my
campaign. In doing this, I will
return Tech to its true roots.
Freedom has always been
central to the Jack Gelbe plat-
form, and this will not change
during the eight months of ten-
ure that I have been awarded. I
need to exercise my own free-
doms as freshman class repre-
sentative and expose the frankly
unpatriotic displays that I have
seen around campus if I want to
see order restored.
I have seen several students
acting as patrons for products
of other schools, states and even
countries.
Subway recently started us-
ing UGA cups, as if to spite our
good faith in its unreasonably
good deals.
e number of international
students at Tech has grown at an
unprecedented rate. e silence
during the Star-Spangled Ban-
ner during the football game
was, frankly, depressing.
Finally, there is an alarming
number of polo shirts on cam-
pus. Do you know who invented
polo shirts? e French. Do you
know what the French are? So-
cialists.
It is clear that you, as a stu-
dent body, have a lot of progress
to make. Sure, no campus is
perfect. But not every campus
has me. is is why I have come
up with the rst idea in my ve-
point plan make campus bet-
ter.
I trust that you will continue
to swell with support as you
have done for the past week, and
I hope that my ideas will help
you to grow throughout your
college experience.
So, make campus better.
Jack Gelbe: your fearless leader
Tech brands need to
prioritize quality
A brand can make
you have a completely
dierent idea of Tech. A
brand is everything.
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Its that time again. No, I
dont mean time for pumpkin
spice lattes, or time for every girl
on Tumblr to post about their
love of yoga pants and fall sweat-
ers and I dont
even mean time
for our impend-
ing federal bud-
get crisis. No, its
time, once again,
for rumors and
hints of the leg-
endary eighth
Harry Potter
book to pop up
all over the inter-
net.
Honestly, just the idea of an
eighth Harry Potter causes a ter-
rible knot to grow in my stom-
ach. Let me be clear: JK Rowl-
ing should not publish any more
Harry Potter books.
I cannot forget how I felt
reading the epilogue: my stom-
ach still knotted from Harrys
alleged death, my excitement
building, my disgust at their
childrens names... and nally,
I reached it. e nal sentence,
in the nal paragraph, on the -
nal page. is was it: My entire
childhood was culminating in
what would surely be the most
explosive, most illuminating
sentence in the whole series.
All was well.
I was shocked. What hap-
pened to Harry and Ginny?
How did George survive?
Would Malfoy actually ever
date an apple?
So I did what any 21st cen-
tury preteen would do, I went to
the internet. I read every blog,
forum and interview. In those
next few months, I did more re-
search in than a PhD candidate
writing their dissertation. And
eventually, I came to my own
conclusions.
ough I took me awhile
to realize it, JK Rowlings lack
of information was a gift. e
seemingly lacking epilogue al-
lowed me to imagine my own
eighth book, where everything
worked out just the way I want-
ed it to.
e Harry
Potter franchise
ended at the
top. No other
modern series
can compare.
Each person in
the Harry Pot-
ter fandom has
already decided
what happened
in those next
nineteen years, and beyond.
I dont want to know what
really happened, because I al-
ready know; Ive already decid-
ed. I dont want Harry Potter to
join the list of TV shows, books
and movies that I pretend had
no epilogue, nal season or even
ever existed. at list is long
enough. Harry Potter ended
already, and it ended it the best
way it could.
No, it was not perfect, and
yes there were some disappoint-
ments (why exactly did Dobby
have to die?) but when it came
down to it, I was content. Since
the rst time I put down that
nal book, I have grown more
and more satised with the se-
ries ending. Within JK Rowl-
ings few parameters, anything
is possible.
Amid the abrupt end of the
Harry Potter books, JK Rowl-
ing gave us a gift, a magical gift.
We were all granted to ability to
nish Harry Potter the way we
wanted to, to write the great-
est Make-Your-Own-Adventure
book there ever was. To write
another book, to nish the se-
ries once more, would be for JK
Rowling to take away that gift,
to take away our magic, to make
us muggles once more.
Eighth Harry Poer
book unnecessary
Harry Potter ended
already, and it ended
the best way it could.
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Anita Sarkeesian. is name
has a very special sound in the
video game industry today. Per-
haps its no exaggeration to say
that shes now as famous as other
inuential gures like Shigeru
Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima and
John Carmack. Unlike them, shes
known for wrong reasons.
Sarkeesian is known as an ac-
tive feminist who writes and plays
criticisms on sexism in media. She
began producing a video series en-
titled Tropes vs. Women, which
analyzes how poorly and wrongly
women are portrayed in pop cul-
ture. Her blog posts have been ac-
cepted as study material for Gen-
der Studies at many universities.
Over the past few years, she ap-
peared at various conferences and
university discussions to speak on
the topic of womens characteriza-
tions in ctions.
So what does she have to do
with video games?
In May 2012, Sarkeesian
launched a Kickstarter project to
raise monetary support for her
study of sexist tropes that have
existed in video games. is un-
precedented attempt was met with
hostility and opposition, resulting
in a brutal online harassment.
However, despite all the hate, the
project raised over $160,000, way
over her original goal of $6,000.
us began her production of
video series Tropes vs. Women
in Video Games. Sarkeesian has
quickly gained national attention
after attacking the video game gi-
ant Nintendo. She claims in the
video that Nintendo depicts wom-
en as weak and powerless, and
points out that women are always
victims. For example, Nintendos
staple titles, such as Super Mario,
e Legend of Zelda, and Starfox
Adventures, all have one thing in
common a male protagonist
saving a helpless princess.
Sarkeesian does deserve credit
for her work, but that doesnt
make her right.
After watching all of her vid-
eos on the matter to their entirety,
its still hard for me to agree with
her claims, and the examples
shes brought up are not strik-
ing enough to convince me that
theres a clear evidence of deliber-
ate sexism in video games.
In fact, it seems that all her vid-
eos are successfully achieving is
causing a devious clash of her sup-
porters and opposers. All they are
trying to prove is how they agree
with Sarkeesian and there should
be immediate combat against fe-
male portrayals or how they feel
insulted because Sarkeesian ac-
cused some of the most popular
games in history that to them are
immaculate and awless.
I dont necessarily disagree
with Sarkeesian. I understand her
arguments and where shes com-
ing from. e problem is her pre-
sentation.
Sarkeesian doesnt look at
games from other perspectives
and fails to address the fact that
character design decisions are in-
uenced by multitude of things,
such as time and nance con-
straints and publisher-developer
relationships. In addition, she
doesnt acknowledge the possible
counter-arguments from the op-
posing side. Its dicult to take
her arguments at face value when
she appears unwilling to listen to
the other side of the matter, as
demonstrated by her disabling all
comments and voting on her vid-
eos.
Everyone can agree that sexism
is a serious issue and no one for
both genders doesnt want be por-
trayed wrongly. However, discus-
sions about sexism must be civil
and moderated. Considering the
way Sarkeesian handled her argu-
ment, it is no surprise that she an-
gered many people.
Im not saying she deserved all
the horric hate. She just over-
looked the principle that if you
are bringing up an accusation on
something people love, those peo-
ple will feel hurt. Its possible that
they felt just as hurt from the way
Sarkeesian criticized their favor-
ite games as Sarkeesian did from
the sexism in video games. So we
shouldnt be shocked that people
were outrageous.
Several perspectives needed
on sexism in video games
Sarkeesian does deserve
credit for her work, but that
doesnt make her right.
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OUR VIEWS | HOT OR NOT
Career Fair Attire
Monday and Tuesday
morning made all of the career
seekers look like Don Draper
and Rachel Zane. Students pa-
raded around campus in three-
piece suits and dresses. White
dress shirts and gleaming tie
clips became the new polo and
khakhi shorts. Sure, the tem-
perature may have been swel-
tering, and the suocating hu-
midity didnt help anyone, but
at least everyone was sweating
in style.
HOT
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NOT
Career Fair Problems
Students who optimistical-
ly came to the career fair at 10
AM hoping to get a head start
on the rest of their lives found
a line that wrapped around the
CRC all the way to the Stamps
Health Services building.
Moreover, many companies
did not even use RecPass, the
new QR-code system which
enabled employers to auto-
matically download resumes
and contact information from
students ID cards.
Eventful Weekend
e rst wave of midterms
may be approaching, but at
least the upcoming weekend
is lined up with distractions.
Friday is college night at the
Hyatt Museum, promising
several fascinating displays
and opportunities to learn
more about modern art. e
ever-popular Six Flags night is
also this weekend. Expect to
study for that statics test while
admiring sculptures on the top
of a screaming roller coaster.
Bug Around Campus
Everyones annoyed by
the two or three people who
wont stop coughing during
an exam. Multiply that num-
ber by twenty. With the new
stomach bug that has hit Tech,
students are complaining of fe-
vers, colds and other illnesses.
Stamps Health Services has
had their hands full for two
weeks, and the mass ow of
sick students shows no sign
of decreasing. Keep that hand
sanitizer close.
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swag snag record-4 dierent shirts in one day. Can you beat that?
I like her but she has made it perfectly clear, without any prompt-
ing from me for clarication on the matter, that we are just
friends.
I know I have no right to be upset about friendzoning, it is as
much her right to not like me in that way as it is mine to like her,
but it still hurts.
Hump day has never been such an accurate description of
Wednesdays as with my schedule
how are you feeling, Technique reader? quite well thank you for
asking, sliver box.
Meet the novice is coming!!!!!
We are among the top aerospace schools in the world yet we cant
keep clean air circulating in the computer lab.
Does anybody else ever adopt a personality other than their own
and sliver as you think they might.
Hey, this is coming from Carrington Middle School in Durham,
NC. We enjoyed the article about the Georgia Tech defense.
the same foxtrot as last week?!?! WHAT THE F, TECHNIQUE?!
at moment when you have two tests but end up studying the
same set of information for both.
Proud of our ACC teams
Idc about what anyone says, getting free stu at the career fair is
what its all about!
AND ITS HELL WEEK
South Carolina... You were the chosen one
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Prepare for your mind and body to be blown.
We dont talk about the quiz today
Football is back baby!
When all the good games come out, I will be broke...
*sigh* sad when freshmen girls are chewing out their friends
behind their back for hooking up with some dude... CHILL YO
S**T... She had a good time and doesnt have herpes.. cut her
some slack
life@nique.net
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he Fall semester is finally in full swing, but just
because class is back in session doesnt mean
students cant take advantage of everything cam-
pus has to oer. This week, Life highlights ways
that students can stay professional and fun. From
Humans versus Zombies to reviewing the Career
Fair, its all here.
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Regardless of how scary the
idea of Career Fair might have
been just a week ago, the event
has come and gone quickly for
Tech students.
Students, or rather, aspir-
ing young professionals, worked
hard to make the best impres-
sion possible. ey woke up early,
did their research, meticulously
ironed their suits and trekked all
the way to the CRC to be greet-
ed by lines reaching all the way
to the Stamps Fields. is was a
slight surprise for most attendees.
I waited for an hour on the
rst day, but it was denitely
worth the wait because the con-
versations I had with the compa-
nies were worthwhile and I made
great connections that could help
me in the future, said Kelly Ku-
jawa, a 4th year IE major.
is year, the fair also brought
a few innovative changes with
it and attempted to improve the
process for students and employ-
ers. ere was a lot of eort put in
to make the event technologically
advanced, with the use of tools
like RecPass and the Career Fair
App.
RecPass was a an app created
specically for connecting stu-
dents and recruiters in events like
these. It typically works in three
steps. First, students create an ac-
count by attaching their resume
and expanding on their career
goals and contact information.
ey are discovered by employers
and recruiters and are presented
with a QR code that recruiters
can scan at the career fair to in-
stantly access students informa-
tion in one intangible place.
e objective of using this app
specically for career fairs was to
create a more streamlined process
for employers to eliminate accu-
mulating stashes of paper, and
to make collecting resumes elec-
tronic instead. e app was also
intended to create more time for
discussing interests and qualica-
tions rather than lling out forms
or working with paper, according
to Career Services.
I never even used my Rec-
Pass, said Jamie Morsberger, a
second-year IE student.
Chris Sandhage, a third-year
ChBE continued, saying, Rec-
Passes would be great and all if
every student hadnt broken their
backs to print o nice resumes on
nice paper.
All of the recruiters at Tech
used the app by scanning stu-
dents QR codes on iPads. How-
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Two words seem to consis-
tently loom large and ominous
to the majority of Techs rising
upperclassmen, due to the notori-
ous demand for time and group
work: Senior Design. However,
the identity of what Senior De-
sign truly is continuously evolv-
ing.
For several schools within the
College of Engineering, this -
nal culminating course provides
students the opportunity to work
in teams and apply their knowl-
edge to design, build and test
prototypes for solving real-world,
open-ended design challenges.
ese challenges are at times stu-
dents own idea or are proposed
by industry sponsors or research-
ers and faculty.
However, through all the ex-
citement, a new era of Capstone
Design has begun. Led by the
School of Mechanical Engineer-
ing and supported by the College
of Engineering, opportunities for
interdisciplinary design projects
are now becoming available.
Student teams are forming
from dierent schools, majors
and disciplines to tackle complex
design challenges.
is fall, students from Me-
chanical, Biomedical and Elec-
trical & Computer Engineering
have come together to form mul-
tidisciplinary Capstone Design
teams to work on some exciting
projects.
A few of these include an as-
sisting robotic system for the hu-
man hand, an autonomous lawn
mower, a gesture-based automo-
tive user interaction environment
and a rapid yet accurate full-vehi-
cle metrology system.
Note that there does not ex-
ist one single course that seniors
from across the campus could
take to work on cross-disciplin-
ary projects for capstone design.
Hence, on the rst day of classes,
faculty, students and industry
sponsors met on open grounds to
share and discuss interdisciplin-
ary design project ideas.
Working on an interdisci-
plinary team towards solving a
real-world problem provides a
realistic experience into under-
standing how actual product de-
sign and development takes place
for a commercial product, while
providing knowledge of the other
discipline.
ese new learning experi-
ences for students are now being
made possible thanks to a web
portal, which can be accessed at
design.gatech.edu.
Earlier in the spring of this
year, the Oce of the Director of
Design and Innovation launched
an project to create an online
portal to support the realization
of multidisciplinary capstone de-
sign projects. Fifth-year CMPE
major, Sarvagya Vaish, and Jas-
mine Lawrence, BS CS 13, were
selected as the lead designers for
this unique and challenging web
portal.
Based on interviews with
faculty and students, they con-
ceptualized and developed the
back-end of the website to sup-
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A year has gone by since the
last outbreak, but the sickness has
taken to the air once more and the
game of life and death is start-
ing again: e zombies are com-
ing. And like every year, they will
rampage through the Tech Green,
tearing esh from limb, taking
down any human that comes their
way.
It doesnt help that we are al-
ways lacking people in the ght,
but when you are out there on the
battleeld, you have to make the
most of what you have, be it socks,
marshmallows or the occasional
rapid-re t-shirt gun.
I can only pray that I make it
through this semester, but I know
that no matter how hard we hu-
mans ght, we always fail.
e rst semester I fought in
the war, I made it to the nale in
one piece and with high hopes.
Our party of survivors was more
than thirty strong, each with the
burning will to survive. But it
meant nothing to the yellow head-
bands.
In groups, we all fell, and in
the end, we failed to stop the zom-
bies from defeating us.
e next semester, I gave into
my hellish instincts, to willingly
inict damage upon the humans.
I became a zombie to terrorize
those that dared wear the yellow
bandana on their arms.
But this semester, Fall 2013, is
a new dawn.
Cheers to my fellow humans,
for this semester might be the rst
time that humankind will succeed
against the Tech zombie invasion.
Touch to the zombies that
dare stand in our way. Goodbye to
the humans who fall to the horde,
for I know you all are human at
heart, but after reanimation will
ght us as the ercest of foes. And
good game to all of those who
play, humans and zombies, for at
least we will all live, alive or un-
dead, unlike the non-players.
So grab your yellow bandana,
your marshmallows, your socks
and your running shoes, and
come out and join the ght. On
the week of September 16, I will
await your presence.
For this years competition, my
journal is here for all to see. I will
be updating the Tech population
on the ongoings of HvZ each and
every day online.
Welcome to my Survivors
Story. Welcome to Georgia Tech
HvZ.
A survivors
story:
HvZ
returns
Tech student body integrates for capstone
New career fair tech receives mixed reviews
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war against the undead, fol-
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online at www.nique.net.
Will he/she make it through
the week, or will the zombie
horde gain one more mind-
less follower? Stay tuned.
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With the football team starting
their season, the return of Geor-
gia Tech: Its Friday gold-and-
white days, and the audible echoes
of band practice across campus, it
is clear that the Tech student body
is prepared for yet another spirited
semester.
Perhaps the best way for enthu-
siastic students to show o their
school spirit is through joining the
Reck Club.
So, the Technique sat down
with Barrett Ahlers, a fth-year
Civil Engineering major, member
of Ramblin Reck Club and, last
but not least, driver of the one and
only Ramblin Wreck.
Technique: How long have
you been a member of e Ram-
blin Reck Club? What made you
want to join the organization ini-
tially?
Ahlers: I joined in spring 2010.
I had been coming to football
since 2004 and saw them coming
down the hill. I asked my sister
what they did, and she told me the
were heavily involved in sports. As
soon as I heard this I was hooked.
Technique: What other orga-
nizations are you involved with on
campus?
Ahlers: Nothing anymore.
Technique: Reck Club has a
history of keeping Tech traditions
alive. What is your favorite school
tradition?
Ahlers: Other than the Ram-
blin Wreck? e Freshman Cake
Race. I like the bonding it can
produce among the freshman.
I thought it was bad getting up
that early as a freshman, but now
as a member of Reck Club I have
to get up even earlier! But I love
it, I even still have my cake race
number.
Technique: Do you have any
personal traditions that you have
started here at Tech or kept up
with throughout your ve years
here?
Ahlers: Not really. I always
try to make it to at least one away
football game and one away vol-
leyball game in the fall.
Technique: Besides taking
care of the car, as the name sug-
gests, what other things are club
members ultimately responsible
for?
Ahlers: e most visible thing
we do other than the Wreck is
write the T-Book. Reck Club has
been writing the T-Book in its
entirety since 2008. We also are
involved in ticket distribution,
Homecoming events, Georgia
Tech Its Friday and numerous
other things I could list o.
Technique: College football
season is obviously a busy time
for the club. What is your favorite
part of game day at Tech?
Ahlers: Busting through the
banner! Other than that, driving
around to dierent tailgates and
seeing how excited all our fans are
to see the Wreck.
Technique: is year youre
the driver for the Wreck. What
was the selection process like?
What made you want to become
the driver?
Ahlers: First I had to become a
member of Ramblin Reck Club.
After that, Driver is an elected
position within the club. I wanted
to be the driver because I realized
how much I loved the Wreck. I
didnt think anyone could love
and take care of it as well as me.
Technique: If you could drive
anyone in the car for a day who
would it be and why?
Ahlers: My grandpa. He is no
longer with us, and he would have
loved to ride around. He always
loved to tinker with stu and the
Wreck is by far the greatest toy
Ive ever played with! Im sure we
would have had a blast just rolling
around campus and working on
the Wreck.
Technique: How does one
go about becoming a member of
Reck Club?
Ahlers: Look out in the spring
for announcements. A prospective
member must ll out a simple ap-
plication, come to a few meet n
greets, and go through an inter-
view with members of the club.
Technique: What advice
would you give to someone who
is going through the admissions
process for the club? [Recruitment
does not take place until next
January.]
Ahlers: Be yourself! If you are
fake and happen to get in then
you probably wont like it. If you
are fake and dont get in, youll
second guess yourself. Be who you
are and what happens, happens.
If you happen to not make it this
year, try again. A lot of our mem-
bers didnt get in the rst time.
When you come back a second
time it really shows the club just
how much you want to be in the
club, and you work hard.
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As Monday and Tuesday
passed by, droves of students
walked around campus in their
best career outts. Despite the
sweltering sun, suits still seemed
to dominate the Stingers.
e Career Fair always bring
out the question: What exactly
do I wear? Sure, there are dic-
tionary denitions of terms such
as business casual, business
formal and the more confusing
ones like dressy causal, which is
quite an oxymoron.
It is arguable that the absolute
rst impression on a recruiter,
interviewer or employer will be
based solely on appearance. It
makes sense that appearance
should be thoughtful and appro-
priate for the job that potential
candidates hope to secure.
So how should students navi-
gate through all these terms and
clothes? After observing the as-
sortment of nude pumps and t-
ted blazers, there were a few key
takeaways from students career
clothing choices.
Ladies: A formal suit is essen-
tial wardrobe piece. Be it a skirt
or pants suit, pieces can always be
worn separately to mix it up a bit.
A suit will work in a formal set-
ting and in a less formal setting;
a blazer for a sweater. Students
can also try a pop of color, for
example, a bright blouse under a
conservative blazer.
Gentlemen: make sure your
suit ts. Am I suggesting it be
three sizes too small? No, of
course not. But a tailored suit is
evident, especially if it is stand-
ing next to one that does not cor-
rectly t, something a recruiter
might notice. Suits also do come
in more colors than black.
Sure, there will be some who
will try to argue that their GPA
is more eye-popping than their
outts or that their resume can
speak for itself. However, nothing
stands out more than an eye sore
of a suit (especially when tennis
shoes are involved).
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port the entire process of how a
multidisciplinary project could
be created and presented, how a
student team from various schools
would form and, nally, how fac-
ulty would accept (or potentially
reject) the project and the teams.
Lindsay Dady, currently a se-
nior in Mechanical Engineering,
designed and developed the front-
end user interface of the portal
while making sure that the web-
site was simple to use for all user
groups.
Since the site was to cater to-
wards a primarily Tech audience,
the site navigation and appear-
ance was made similar to that of
the sites students already frequent
for their work, such as BuzzPort,
with a quick links navigation bar
on the side of the interface.
At the onset of the fall semes-
ter, the beta version of this portal
was made available at medesign.
me.gatech.edu, where seniors
could submit their own project
ideas or view existing projects,
form multidisciplinary teams and
submit bids for any projects they
would like to work on.
During the rst week of its
launch, the site was actively used
by around 300 students across
campus, all of which were seniors
interested in working on senior/
capstone design projects.
is web portal was initially
a helpful tool in supporting the
growth of interdisciplinary design
at Tech.
However, at the heart of this
rising trend towards cross-dis-
ciplinary collaboration lies the
true desire of students willing to
move beyond their home schools
to explore and experience what it
is like to work on interdisciplinary
teams for solving real-world prob-
lems. Senior design is one of the
only courses at Tech that expands
beyond the classroom, outside of
strict textbooks and involves truly
impacting an aspect of our com-
munity.
Furthermore, faculty engaged
in teaching design courses across
Tech seem to be very supportive of
such initiatives and working with
a larger variety of students and ac-
ademic mind sets within the Tech
community.
With the continuous develop-
ment of such supporting tools,
student enthusiasm and faculty
encouragement, it is very plau-
sible that soon the campus shall
witness more collaboration op-
portunities among students from
various majors and levels leading
towards design, creativity and in-
novation.
e nal presentation of the
Senior and Capstone Design proj-
ects will be held at the Capstone
Design Expo on the Dec. 5 at the
McCamish Pavilion.
At the event, students will
present a semesters worth of Se-
nior Design work and research
involving a real-world issue. ey
will also compete for placement
and prizes and, ultimately, brag-
ging rights.
Check out the expo to see the
interdisciplinary initiatives rst-
hand and learn What Does Geor-
gia Tech Build. More information
on the overall senior design proj-
ect and the nal exposition can be
found online at capstone.gatech.
edu.
the eort into a way to spread
the startup culture across Tech.
roughout the semester creat-
ing Startup Exchange, the group
involved held multiple events
and outreach eorts to promote
their goals. ese included the
3-Day Startup, e Hacker Ex-
change and the graduating teams
of Startup Semester presenting
at Startup Riot and interviewing
with YCombinator.
It was clear that something
had to be done at Tech. e ad-
ministration had been fairly stag-
nant when it came to encouraging
undergraduates to pursue start-
ups, and we desperately wanted
to change that, Parikh said of the
motivation behind Startup Ex-
change, as described in his blog.
He described the problem he
saw in the stereotypical Tech
options for matriculated students.
When we started, students
at Tech really had two major op-
tions presented to themwork
hard and get a high paying job
at a Fortune 500 or a similar big
company, or work hard and get
into research. We wanted to add
a third optionwork hard, start a
startup and innovate.
e rst thing that needs to
be developed is a hacker culture in
every discipline at Tech. I think
this is, by far, the biggest chal-
lenge were going to face at Tech
because it requires the support of
upper level administration, and
eventually, changes to the cur-
riculum, Parikh said on what he
would like to see changed imme-
diately, to produce a more condu-
cive environment for an entrepre-
neurial spirit at Tech.
e team of Startup Exchange
is working on expanding their
inuence to schools across At-
lanta, and across the nation. eir
project, e Hacker Exchange,
is a worldwide eort to create a
group of startup leaders in other
schools. Currently, there are over
250 members in this program
from 27 other colleges and uni-
versities. ey brought an event
called 3-Day Startup to campus,
in which college students create
startups by working in a cross-dis-
ciplinary, hands-on environment
over three days and are completely
exposed to the startup culture.
Students create business models,
prototypes and contact with po-
tential customers.
ey are also working hard to
integrate Startup Exchange with
the greater Atlanta startup com-
munity. Close collaboration with
Hypepotamous and mentors from
all over Atlanta is just the starting
point to their expansion.
ey dont stop there. Startup
Exchange nds driven students
across Tech who are interested
in collegiate hack-a-thons, travel-
ling all across the country in order
to compete and take part in the
sweeping startup age.
I love the vibes and the energy
that you almost physically feel
once you enter the room, said Sa-
meera Omar, the Lead Storyteller,
on her experience in working with
the team and members of Startup
Exchange. You meet a lot of very
intelligent, innovative students in
that room. But you also get the
chance to witness real passion
and drive for ideas that people
genuinely believe in. And thats
powerful. Ive learned to always
have faith in your abilities. And to
never be afraid to hop over your
comfort zone and really stretch
yourself.
On her unique role, as Lead
Storyteller, Omar said, Its an
awesome title, because Im a fan
of stories. Everyone has one, every
project begins with one, and even
great legends fall with one. Im in
charge of marketing, recruiting,
social media, swag, and all out
culture hacking.
Startup Exchange is an organi-
zation that runs numerous dier-
ent programs under it, including
StartupChicks, Hack@Tech and
Startup Semester.
e team has already achieved
signicant recognition and men-
tion in the greater startup com-
munity. e organization has
been featured in articles by Ven-
ture Atlanta, Atlanta Startup
Community and Signal Tower.
e activities of the group are
creating a mysterious and inquisi-
tive buzz around all those who are
or wish to be involved in startups.
e fact that the coverage and
passion exhibited by the students
is growing at an exponential rate
is a further attraction for more
individuals to get involved in this
eort at Tech.
Everyone should be learning to
build things and create ideas, ac-
cording to the Startup Exchange
team. ats what got me so
hooked on the startup lifestyle,
and the reason Im so passionate
about it. I dont want to be stuck
behind a desk, debugging some-
one elses code. I want to be build-
ing amazing products that reach
millions of people, Parikh said.
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Tech is known as a mecca of
diversity, as well as an institute of
progress and service.
From the schools student
body to its faculty, the Institute
prides itself on a being a campus
comprised of people from all re-
ligious, ethnic and cultural back-
groundsand a campus that is
also in tune with the changing
times. It is this diversity that has
helped make Tech into a world-
renowned school and has earned
the Institute several prestigious
titles.
While it may seem hard to
imagine the Institute deprived
of this diversity, things certainly
have not always been quite this
way.
So how, then, did we get here?
Fifty-two years ago to this week,
Tech took its rst steps towards
becoming the diverse campus it
is today.
In September 1961, Ford C.
Greene, Ralph A. Long Jr. and
Lawrence Williams enrolled in
classes at Tech, thus becoming
the schools rst three African-
American students.
On the 27th of that month,
the three students attended class-
es without any major incidents.
Such a peaceful integration came
as a shock to the state.
Only a year earlier, the Insti-
tutes rival UGA had attempted
a similar integration that did not
yield as successful of a result.
After a lengthy battle in court,
Georgia was ordered to grant ad-
mission to Hamilton Holmes and
Charlayne Hunter, two African-
American students that had ap-
plied for admission one year ear-
lier.
When the students were nal-
ly allowed to attend classes, they
were greeted by a violent mob of
students. e event eventually
became so out of hand that law
enforcement was called onto the
scene, much like the occurrence
in Little Rock.
Unlike this violent and un-
wanted integration, Techs was
completely voluntary and without
court order, and set the stage for
the schools future.
As a result, the Institute be-
came the rst university in the
Deep South to take part in volun-
tary integration, thus paving the
way for schools to follow.
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A moment from this
month in Tech history
ever, many employers still took
paper copies of resumes for a
back-up in case students had not
registered.
e one main positive that
came from using RecPass from
the students perspective was a
speedy check-in process if they
had registered online prior to the
Career Fair.
By registering with the app,
students were able to bypass the
large lines and check into the
fair much more quickly, allowing
more time to mingle with recruit-
ers.
However, the crowded lines
still existed and were caused by
the fact that students would even-
tually have to register with Rec-
Pass to get into the fair, regardless.
Another new tech initiative
this year was the rollout of the
Georgia Tech Career Fair Plus
app for iOS and Android.
e app is loaded with valu-
able information for live-stream
use while at the fair, and included
information like company listing
information, real-time updates
and an interactive oor plan to ef-
ciently maneuver through all of
the company booths to nd your
favorites (and, of course, the ones
with the best free swag to give
away).
ere is also a section for quick
last-minute tips to prepare for
talking to recruiters, which is al-
ways helpful for calming pre-fair
jitters. Ultimately, this app less-
ened the need for paper maps and
confusion, among students other
worries.
Career Services has made an
active eort to include smart-
phone usage and electronic as-
pects into the event.
Although the reception by
students has been mixed regard-
ing the true eciency of these
technological advances, they are
interested in seeing how the ap-
plications will be continued and
used for future fairs.
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From researching and writing
a paper, to watching YouTube vid-
eos and designing layouts, to writ-
ing computing codes, managing
calendars and emails and wast-
ing time on Facebook, comput-
ers are students best friends. To
those who can make it through
college without onekudos. For
the rest of us, we face a multitude
of choices when it comes to which
computer to buy.
So what is best for a college
student, a classic laptop or touch-
screen tablet? Nearly every com-
puter buyer of the last ve years
has pondered and subjectively ar-
gued this initial decision.
Each kind of computer has its
own perks and downfalls, making
the choice between the two a per-
sonal and idiosyncratic matter
there is no one size ts all out
there.
Laptops have always been the
go-to appliance for college stu-
dents. ey are portable, fast and
do everything that an ordinary,
non-wireless PC can do. In con-
trast to most tablets, laptops ac-
cept USB drives, CDs, DVDs and
Ethernet cords; they are also in-
valuable for using accessories.
Additionally, the RAM and
storage capacities of laptops dwarf
those of many tablets. e full
keyboard of a laptop makes it use-
ful for typing papers or reports,
Tablets or laptops beer for modern college students?
while a tablet has a touch screen
that could prove dicult on which
to type (the keyboard attachments
for tablets are sold separately and
can be quite pricey).
Furthermore, all Microsoft Of-
ce, computer coding and graphic
design applications can be easily
downloaded and stored in laptops,
making laptops practical for a
wide variety of uses. While tablets
do have the capacity to run such
major applications, formatting er-
rors and dierences can occasion-
ally occur.
e average laptop and tab-
let both have impressive battery
lives and high-resolution screens.
Graphics, at least, are equally well
performing on both systems.
When it comes to portability
and usefulness for specic class
necessities, laptops tend to fall be-
hind tablets. ough laptops are
much slimmer and lighter than
their counterparts of ve years
ago, they are still pretty hefty and
cumbersome as students hurry be-
tween classes.
Tablets are thin and light-
weight, making them as eortless
to transport as a small notebook.
When it comes to reading online
or downloaded books, the exces-
sive size of a laptop lacks practical-
ity. e touch-screen capabilities
of a tablet make reading, high-
lighting and hand-writing notes
easier. Along those lines, taking
notes in class on a laptop can be
dicult, especially if typing fast is
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ten notes is a stylus (or your nger,
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has that kind of dexterity).
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Long ago, the board game en-
tertained young college students
for hours upon end. With the
dawn of the modern technological
age came the rise of video games.
Now, with portable devices rap-
idly dominating the market, apps
have become a major staple of
the entertainment industry, espe-
cially among the technologically-
savvy members of the modern
generation. Because there are
just so many little squares of fun
from which to choose, we at the
Technique have picked ve of our
favorite new apps to look out for
this year.
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is app is so useful and popu-
lar among Android users that it
was taken down from the Apple
Store. AppGratis is an Android-
only app that searches for and
noties the user of daily free ap-
plications, ranging from enjoyable
to educational.
Upon installation, AppGratis
automatically begins notifying
the Android user of free apps on
a daily basis. Hitting this noti-
cation takes the user to the easily-
maneuverable AppGratis interface,
which gives the name and descrip-
tion of the app that is currently
being advertised. It also keeps a
catalog of old apps that may still
be free using AppGratis, in case
you missed a day. A great way
New apps show creative strength
to nd new, useful apps free of
charge, AppGratis is a must-have
for the modern technology bu,
opening the doors to new experi-
ences within the electronic world
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Iconmania, Colormania is another
borderline-addicting game for
both Android and iPhone users
to enjoy. e premise of the game
basically reects that of Iconma-
nia, except with a twist: ere are
no letters, only colors. is twist
means the diculty level of the
app is greatly decreased. Mostly
cartoon characters and logos, Col-
ormania brings in new and old
icons that hardcore phone gamers
can match with colors. e best
part? No more having to look up
the answers and feel like a cheater.
When a player guesses an in-
correct color, that color is elimi-
nated along with one of the play-
ers limited lives. After all lives are
gone, the player just has to wait
a specied time to start guessing
again. Although it may not be the
most revolutionary invention of
the 21st century, Colormania is
a fun way to pass the time and,
therefore, deserves a look from
any respectable cellular gamer.
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tiful Alarm Clock, the Timely
Alarm Clock app does not lie. It
will get you up on time, and it
will look gorgeous doing it. e
app has beautiful designs and a
style which looks stellar on all
Android phones great and small
(sorry iPhone users, it is an An-
droid exclusive).
Looking past the aesthetics, a
person might think, What is the
point of an alarm clock looking
good when its only used when
eyes are closed? However, this
alarm does not just look goodit
sounds good too. It has multiple
types of unique, melodic alarms
plus a timer, stopwatch and clock.
e app has all the benets of
a standard alarm clock with one
unique feature: Smart Rise. Based
on advanced sleep cycle theory,
Smart Rise causes a soothing
melody to play thirty minutes
before the actual alarm that will
lead into the actual alarm itself.
Its helpfulness will depend on the
user, but Timely Alarm Clock is an
interesting app to check out and a
pleasant way to start the day.
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e idea behind QBOT was
basically a ploy to get new cus-
tomers to patronize local ne-
dining eateries like Subway and
Pizza Hut, but recently the app
has become an absolute sensation
within the dining community.
e premise is simple: In select
dining options around campus,
students who purchase food can
scan a QR code for a point. ese
points stack up to allow repeat
customers to redeem free items
from their respective
restaurant. Such point
systems are especially
benecial to students
who rely on these Tech
food chains for suste-
nance; for them, QBOT
means free food.
Despite the many
benets and lack of cost
that the app boasts,
QBOT still has a few
weird quirks. Occasion-
ally, the scan does not
always work, leading to
awkward moments of
pointing ones phone at
the cashier while peo-
ple behind in line are
forced to wait. Also, in
a possible data-gathering
scheme, QBOT requires
the current location of
the phone to verify the
authenticity of the pur-
chase of food. Potential
users should be ready to
allow the app time to
When it comes to price, it de-
pends on how nice a computer
you want. Some laptops can be
purchased for only a couple hun-
dred dollars, as with tablets.
However, the tablets that are
advertised to compete with lap-
tops tend to be a little more ex-
pensive. And of course, Apples
MacBook Pro and other high-end
laptops are priciest.
Which is best? at depends
on why you need the computer.
Regardless, the machine you pick
will be your best friend in college,
so choose wisely.
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If there was one word to sum
up the latest lm in the sci--ac-
tion-horror series e Chronicles
of Riddick, it would be meh.
e movie really does not evoke
any strong emotions, positive or
negative. It does manage to have
a somewhat entertaining plot, but
it ounders in a sea of bland char-
acters that leave no impression.
Riddicks main crime is that it is
just forgettable. Nothing about
the lm is particularly memorable
because it never comes close to
getting the audience invested in
its characters or plot.
Right o the bat, Riddick de-
cides not to waste time on that
pesky character development. In-
stead, the plot and dialogue only
exist as a way to connect scenes
of the titular space warrior (Vin
Diesel, e Fast and the Furious)
killing people. is lack of knowl-
edge of the characters in a movie,
in which the majority of the cast
dies, presents a problem. If not
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enough time is spent on charac-
ter development, then why should
viewers care when those charac-
ters die? It is almost as if charac-
ters come in from one side of the
screen and exit through the other
without making any impact on
the lm as whole; their fates are
glaringly obvious from the begin-
ning, leaving audience members
bored at best.
e way to get audiences
emotionally invested in a lms
characters is to develop their per-
sonalities and give them motives.
Unfortunately, Riddick never does
this. e screenwriters and direc-
tor clearly do not care about them
enough to make them meaning-
ful, so the audience is ultimately
left with little to grasp as the lm
progresses.
Another issue with the charac-
ters is that they are not very lik-
able to begin with. In the harsh,
monster-infested world of Riddick
it would be understandable if a
few characters were not exactly
optimistic all the time, but most
of them come o as mean-spirited
for no good reason. If the char-
acters were backed by stronger
development, they could estab-
lish pasts and motives that would
make them more sympathetic
and therefore more relatable. is
movie never bothers with that,
though.
e only character that gets
any sort of interesting motive is
Johns (Matthew Nable), but his
is never eshed out, and is even-
tually dismissed by Riddick in
about a paragraph of dialogue.
e problem is that the characters
arent framed properly. Audience
members can barely root for Rid-
dick, and he is supposed to be the
hero. is creates a problem when
the situation is life or death, be-
cause when such a situation arises,
viewers just might not care.
On a more positive note, Rid-
dick is somewhat redeemed by its
plot. To its credit, the plot is not
predictable and even manages to
be interesting at times. Although
it is just a series of events leading
to a string of bloodbaths, some-
times the bloodbaths can be satis-
fying. e kill scenes can be gritty
and impressive and the pacing
does build some suspense.
e story may not be very intel-
ligent or thought provoking, but it
does create an enjoyable result- a
simple, non-challenging escape
lm. Riddick isnt going to raise,
much less answer, any important
questions, but it can provide an
entertaining two hours. If you can
go in, sit down and shut o your
brain, you will not have too many
complaints.
Riddick is entertaining, but
mostly it will just go in one ear
and out the other. e acting is
ne, and the characters are pass-
able, even if they are bland. View-
ers looking for a serious, intel-
ligent lm that works more as a
character piece should back away
slowly from this ick. Anyone
looking for a way to waste a Satur-
day afternoon with a few friends,
though, should grab a ticket.
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shots linger after the action is over
and there are many breaks during
conversations between characters,
resulting in slow pacing.
Another big dierence between
this series and its peers is the lack
of censorship. e show airs on
Channel 4, the English equivalent
of networks like CBS and Fox,
and contains a number of violent
scenes and plenty of foul language
that would only be shown on sta-
tions like HBO in America.
What makes the show stand
out is its cinematography, often
times resembling a feature lm.
rough jump cuts, multiple
camera angles and eective use
of focus, it is able to portray the
rough nature of the lives of the
characters. A great example is a se-
quence of Carol waking up in the
rst episode. As she turns to shut
o her alarm clock, the camera
shifts focus to the half empty beer
can on her night stand. It then
cuts to her lighting up a cigarette
and sitting in bed. ough there is
no dialogue in this scene, the au-
dience is able to see how stressed
and lonely Carol is.
e camera work not only en-
hances the emotions of the char-
acters, it also allows the story to
unfold sans dialogue. ere will
often be a shot focusing on some-
thing that appears irrelevant, but
will explain an important plot
point later on in the episode. For
example, early in the pilot, the
camera focuses on a seemingly
random tattoo on one of Carols
sons. Later that episode, the same
tattoo is shown on his father, with
whom Carol does not get along.
When Carol comes home from
work, her other sons tattoo can
be seen as she walks through the
door. is one says Mum. From
these three shots, the audience
understands the strained relation-
ship between Carol and her sons
without any character ever men-
tioning it.
As for the acting, it is top
notch. Each actor is able to per-
fectly capture the frustration,
panic and regret each character
faces. Olivia Colman is near aw-
less in her role; during multiple
scenes she is silent, yet the audi-
ence needs nothing more.
Run might be dierent from
the norm, but its theme of getting
your life back on track is global;
this show is not one to miss.
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With shows like Sherlock and
Downton Abbey becoming in-
creasingly popular, more and
more British television series are
making their way across the pond
to America. e most recent addi-
tion, airing on Hulu, is Run.
Run is a four-part mini-series
that gives a gritty look at life in
modern London. e story fol-
lows four people who are all run-
ning from something in their lives.
Each episode focuses primarily
on one of four characters: Carol
(Olivia Colman, Broadchurch), a
single mother of two; Ying (Katie
Leung, the Harry Potter series), an
illegal immigrant struggling to
pay o her debts; Richard (Lennie
James, Low Winter Sun), a former
drug addict trying to make things
right and Kasia (Katharina Schut-
tler), a Polish woman whose life is
abruptly changed.
e shows diverse and com-
plex camera work is dierent than
what is often seen on American
television shows, which rely on
constant action and quick dia-
logue to keep the viewers engaged
and persuade them not to change
the channel. Run, however, does
almost the exact opposite. Many
British show
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it, the scan will yield no points,
meaning no free food.
Overall, QBOT is a smart way
for repeat customers of popular
food chains to receive extra ben-
ets, but its location gathering
and random glitches certainly do
not add to the apps appeal. en
again, if free food is in the mix,
college students deserve to know
about it.
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Designed by Tech students,
this Android-only app is a great
game for those who are strategists
at heart. If anything, MiniVolt is
enjoyable because of its simplicity.
e game requires users to direct
units from one orb to another in
an attempt to take control of all
orbs on the map. Using the genre
standard of receiving units from
bases and then sending them to
die, MiniVolt takes an electrical
form involving objects such as in-
sulators, mirrors and electric elds
to help or hinder the player.
As a credit to its creators, the
app is designed well, with an engi-
neer-oriented atmosphere present
throughout the game. However,
there are a few coding aws and
controls that may frustrate play-
ers; it is not uncommon to mis-tap
in MiniVolts fast-paced levels and
accidentally send units ying o
the map and into the void.
ese controls are coupled with
bases that are sometimes too small
and have no aim to assist. On rare
occasions, the game will not even
load level maps and will require
the app be closed. But if the user is
willing to put up with these slight
discrepancies, MiniVolt promises
content that is both entertaining
and thought-provoking.
All in all, although the game
is not perfect, MiniVolt makes
up for its aws with a plethora of
interesting and diverse levels and
AI that will ultimately challenge
players.
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and the occasional criminal.
In its rst season, Graceland
started its plot along much the
same line. While the main char-
acter, undercover FBI agent Mike
Warren (Aaron Tveit, Les Mi-
srables), has not personally been
accused of a crime, his training
ocer has, and it is Warrens job
to gure out if his training ocer
is guilty, as well as why he would
have committed the crimes to be-
gin with. His goal is already simi-
lar to the goals of the Burn Notice
protagonists.
Just as Westen needs to avoid
the detection of the government,
Warren must not get caught by
other undercover agents, which
includes his friends, or by the
criminals with whom he is under-
cover.
Such similar plots and the way
Graceland was advertised should
be enough for those who liked
Burn Notice to at least try the new
show. is, however, is not where
the similarities end. Both protag-
onists are called Mike, and their
last names are similar: Westen and
Warren.
e writers tried to give both
Mikes a complicated relationship,
but ended up creating a subplot of
little value to the rest of the show.
In Burn Notice, Westen is in love
with another main character who
occasionally loves him and occa-
sionally pretends not to love him;
her reliability is never particularly
aected by this. Warren, on the
other hand, has a girlfriend who
does not know anything about
him and seems to serve only as
a way in which to show how
stressed and conicted Warren is
about his life of secrecy. Neither
relationship has much bearing on
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works show Burn Notice aired
yesterday, Sept. 12. Its dedicated
audience will now undoubtedly
have to search for another show to
ll the time previously dedicated
each week to Michael Westen
(Jerey Donovan). Perhaps the
best choice for those recently set
adrift is Graceland; USA Network
has not been subtle about the fact
that these two shows are of the
same genre and cater to a similar
demographic.
Since the start of Burn No-
tices sixth season, there have
been countless advertisements
for Graceland during commercial
breaks, and once the seventh and
nal season started, the network
decided to air Gracelands rst
season immediately after Burn
Notice episodes.
e similarity between these
two shows, however, goes far be-
yond simply having the highly-
trained main character and his
friends seek justice without re-
sorting to calling the police. e
whole premise of Burn Notice is
that the main character, Michael
Westen was framed for crimes he
knew nothing about, subsequent-
ly losing his job as a spy for the
Central Intelligence Agency.
is leads to seven seasons
worth of Westen and his friends
tracking down exactly who com-
mitted the crimes, guring out
who framed him and attempting
to get his job back: a task he is not
entirely sure he wants to accom-
plish. All of this is done while the
team avoids the police, CIA, FBI
Graceland replaces gap le by Burn Notices absence
the overall plot.
Action and undercover mis-
sions might not be enthralling for
everyone, but aside from the un-
necessary love-life subplot, both
TV shows are worth watching
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With the NFL season kicking
o last weekend, Fox televised the
self-proclaimed Americas Game
of the Week with the Packers
traveling to San Francisco to take
on the 49ers. It denitely lived up
to the hype, as the 49ers and Pack-
ers battled it out in a back and
forth game.
Unfortunately, in an often oc-
curring theme at stadiums these
days, a fan fell to his death at the
game. Its not the rst time a fan
has fallen to his or her death; its
not even the rst time that it has
happened at Candlestick Park in
San Francisco.
Due to the reoccurrence, it
seems to be an issue that leagues
are sweeping under the rug.
If you have paid any attention
to sports news lately, or even news
in general, there has been a lot of
talk about player safety, especially
when it comes to football. Mil-
lions of dollars are being spent
determining the eects of playing
football twenty years down the
road.
I dont mind the investment by
the League and other researchers
because I think its important, but
why is there so much emphasis on
player safety in comparison to the
safety of fans? Professional ath-
letes are valuable to their league;
in fact they are their leagues most
valuable assets, but without fans
the leagues wouldnt be able to op-
erate either. Fans, who as a whole
are spending a collective $51 mil-
lion per team on NFL tickets last
season, shouldnt have to worry
about falling over the railing at a
game.
One of the problems is com-
promising viewing pleasure in
order to make the venue safer.
Obviously nobody wants to have
to stare at a fence right in front of
their face when they are trying to
enjoy the game. Finding the bal-
ance in this situation can be ex-
tremely dicult, but what about
the fans who are falling of areas
outside of where the game is being
viewed? In Houston last season, a
fan died after falling o the side
of an escalator. In 2011, there was
a fan who fell over the railings of
a staircase to his death at Coors
Field in Colorado.
It is a fairly safe assumption
that some of these incidents are
partially due to alcohol, though
I do believe fans should make
sure they are acting responsibil-
ity to make sure they arent put-
ting themselves in danger. Fan
behavior should not justify teams
from not doing their very best to
prevent these incidents. If it takes
spending some extra money to
make railing on escalators and
stairs higher, then that is some-
thing that should be done. Unlike
the railings that are in the area
for viewing the game, there really
should be no compromise here. I
cant imagine too many fans com-
plaining that the railing on an es-
calator was too high.
ere has been several of these
falling type incidents in Atlanta
over the past year: one at the
Georgia Dome, one at Turner
Field and two even here at Bobby
Dodd Stadium. Luckily for the
fan at the Dome and the fans
here, the incident did not lead to
death, but the fan at Turner Field
was not as lucky. As someone who
visits these places regularly, I hope
the organizations are doing their
very best to ensure safety of the
fans just as much as they are the
players.
Although this is something
that will never be eliminated alto-
gether, hopefully we will see the
number of incidents reduced in
the near future.
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oered. It was like a week before
signing day. Playing as a true
freshman is what I wanted, and it
was unexpected, but I just came
and worked hard during camp
and now Im playing as a true
freshman.
Davis had a solid debut for
Tech, recording six tackles, in-
cluding a tackle for a loss, while
playing both special teams and
getting some playing time at line-
backer in the second half.
Davis said the biggest dier-
ences between high school foot-
ball and college football were the
speed of the game and the impor-
tance of the linebackers getting
into pass coverage. Overall, Davis
thinks he played fairly well in his
debut.
First time out there playing
the college game, I made a few
mistakes, but I feel like I had some
good tackles. I got to the ball, gave
100 percent. I got tired at times,
but I just fought through it. I
think I had a pretty good game,
just got to keep getting better each
and every week, Davis said.
Davis may not have earned a
starting linebacker spot yet this
season, but hes behind a pretty
good core of them on the depth
chart. Although the group of
Brandon Watts, Jabari Hun-Days
and Quayshawn Nealy may be
preventing Davis from starting
any games this season, he is get-
ting the opportunity to learn from
the veteran group during team
practice.
eyve been great. ey
helped me a lot and showed me
everything. Just trying to learn
from them each and everyday at
practice. All three of them, Watts,
Nealy and Hunt-Days, are great
linebackers and good people to
learn from, Davis said.
My expectations coming in
were just to come in and give 110
percent. Just listen and learn from
all of my coaches and try to nd a
way on to the eld.
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Newt Clark is a Business major in his
second year at Tech. He has watched
sports all his life, and takes a critical
view towards many of the trending
topics in the sporting world. To contact
Newt with your opinions email him at
sports@nique.net.
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looking forward to seeing him as
well.
Cutclie is known for coaching
both Eli and Peyton Manning and
helping them become what they
are today.
More than 40 friends and fam-
ily are expected to come to Wal-
lace Wade Stadium this Saturday
to see Lee. According to Lee, there
were many more requests, to the
point of becoming overwhelming.
A lot of coaches and players from
his high school are expected to
come and show support for their
former star too.
Lee has been preparing for this
game since last summer and has
been dreaming about it for much
longer than that.
In the summer I did a Duke
lm cutout for myself to study the
defense. Over the summer I was
bored and wanted to just watch
lm and get ahead for the season.
Now Im able to use those cutouts
and put them to good use, Lee
said.
Lee is 2-0 in games against
teams from North Carolina where
Lee has seen signicant playing
time. In those two games, though
it is a small sample size, Tech aver-
aged 69 points per game; scoring
68 against North Carolina last
season and 70 against Elon this
year.
While Tech may nd it hard to
reach those scores against Duke
this Saturday, Lee looks to con-
tinue his win streak against North
Carolina teams and hopes to grad-
uate with a perfect record against
them. If the Jackets are able to win
this game, it will be three straight
football season Lee has gone with-
out losing a game in the state of
North Carolina
As for most people, Lees
hometown is a special place for
him. Returning to a place where
he has played so many games, but
never one at the collegiate level,
will surely be a special day for
him.
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Annika and Teegan Van Gunst
are two of the newest members of
this years volleyball squad. Hail-
ing from Fayetteville, Ga., these
six foot tall freshman twins hope
to contribute greatly to the team.
To be starters, to make as
much of an impact as we can on
the court is a huge goal for us,
Annika said.
ey always planned to play
together on the same college team.
We had oers from dierent
schools, but it was automatic; we
didnt want to separate, so that
was a major requirement when we
were looking for schools, Annika
said.
We live about 45 minutes
from here, so we wanted to stay
rather close to home, Teegan
said. [Tech] has great academics,
and when we visited and we saw
a [volleyball] game, it was just a
great atmosphere and fanbase.
Everything about Tech was just
perfect.
It was a packed house, and the
intensity [just made me] want to
play here, Annika said.
Anika and Teegan have been
playing volleyball together since
they were in the seventh grade, so
they surely have developed a great
deal of chemistry in that time.
Volleyball in general takes a
lot of communication between
the players, and weve played so
long together that we can antici-
pate what each other is going to
do, and we dont get in each oth-
ers way. Call it telepathy or what-
ever, Annika said.
It ows more naturally be-
tween us two Teegan said.
...because were so used to be-
ing together, Annika nished.
ey are also not afraid to be
critical of one another, and con-
cede that they have formed some-
what of a sibling rivalry.
We know what each of us are
capable of, so were always on to
each other about being the best
that we can, Teegan said.
If we see one [of us] slaking,
its easier to tell [her]; you know
her better and you know how to
approach her to tell her whats go-
ing on, Annika said. [We are]
extremely competitive [with each
other], we get after each other, es-
pecially if were put on dierent
teams in practice. Its always nice
to get a kill or beat [her].
I love playing volleyball, An-
nika said. Its a great all-around
sport; you have to be a fantastic
athlete, movement wise, agility
wise, it encompasses the total ath-
lete. I think thats whats awesome
about it.
ey admit that it took some
time to adjust to the speed of the
game at the college level.
at was something new, be-
ing freshman. You have to get used
to the fast pace, Annika said.
Both Annika and Teegan were
varsity letterwinners all four years
at Whitewater High School, where
they won two state champion-
ships. eir list of high school ac-
colades is well populated; Teegan
was once the 5A State Player of
the year, while Annika was the
2012 All-Area 5A MVP. eir
athletic success is not just limited
to volleyball either, as both players
are highly skilled in soccer as well.
We contemplated playing
[soccer] in college also, so its de-
nitely my number two [sport],
Annika said.
ey picked volleyball over
soccer mainly because they want-
ed to go to Tech, and Tech does
not eld a soccer team.
It came down to who recruit-
ed us and which school we liked
best academic wise, Teegan said.
[Tech is giving] us the best aca-
demic degree.
So far both of their majors
are undecided, though they are
swinging towards engineering.
I would denitely say [were
leaning towards] engineering,
maybe mechanical or industrial.
Teegan said.
We like the math and science;
thats our strong suit, Annika
added.
My parents have been huge
role models, just in the support
that they give us every day, An-
nika said We talk to them at least
every other day and the encour-
agement always helps, especially
[as freshmen]. We look up to them
a lot for guidance and support.
Van Gunst twins look to make impact
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Fresh o the bye
week, the Jackets travel
up north to Durham,
N. C., where they will
face o with the Duke
Blue Devils. Tech won
last years game 42-24
at Bobby Dodd Stadium
and passed for three touch-
downs. Tech enters the game with a
1-0 record and leads the country in scoring oense
and scoring defense. Vad Lee had great success in
the state of North Carolina last year when the Jack-
ets beat UNC 68-52 last year in Chapel Hill. Lee is
from Durham as well, so this will be a homecoming
game for him. Key players in this game for Tech are
Lee, Jemea omas and Michael Summers.
Le e
has been
called the best athlete to ever play quarterback in
a Paul Johnson coached oense. Jemea omas
has the hardest
job of the day:
covering Duke
star receiver,
Jamison Crowder.
Crowder will be
the fastest player
on the eld at all
times and could
have over 100 yards re-
ceiving. Wide receiver Michael Summers is
the X-factor for Tech this week. Dukes defense
is greatly improved since last season and has some
very talented members in the secondary. If Sum-
mers can become a threat on the outside, it will
make stopping Lee and the option even more dif-
cult for the Blue Devils.
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game in 19 years. e Blue Devils came up short
in the game, but head coach David Cutclie ac-
complished a feat many thought would be impos-
sible to achieve at Duke again. Duke lost starting
quarterback Sean Renfree and Conner Vernon, the
ACCs all-time leading receiver in receptions and
receiving yards. Duke is 2-0
for the rst time since
1998 and won at Mem-
phis this past weekend.
e game was not won
without loss, as starting
quarterback Anthony
Boone suered a bro-
ken collarbone and will
miss up to two months
for Duke. Backup quarter-
back omas Sirk is already
out for the year with a torn
Achilles tendon. So Duke will turn to Brandon
Connette who spent most of last season playing
tight end and running the wildcat formation for
Duke. Even though he was 3rd string on the quar-
terback depth chart to start the year, Connette is
no slouch. Safety Jeremy Cash and cornerback
Ross Cockrell are the key players on the Duke de-
fense. Cockrell is possibly the best defensive back
in the ACC and Cash is a very athletic safety who
will have to have the game of his life for Duke to
beat Tech. On oense Jela Duncan and Braxton
Deaver are the keys to success. Duncan is one of
the better young running backs in the ACC and
is very hard to bring down in open space. Duncan
is one of the better young running backs in the
ACC and is very hard to bring down in open
space. e Duke defense has only allowed
7 points this season, so Tech will have to
work much harder on oense then they did
against Elon. Duke runs a 4-2-5 formation
which should benet Tech, because there
is less size to stop the run. Even with the
loss of Anthony Boone, Duke should still
be able to move the ball down the eld. is
will be a good game, and hopefully Tech will
gain momentum heading into the rest of
ACC play.
PREDICTION: Tech 35, Duke 24
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Coming in at 5 feet 11 inches
and weighing 215 pounds, fresh-
man linebacker Paul PJ Davis
may not be the biggest guy on the
eld, but he is starting to make his
presence felt for the Jackets. Davis
is one of just two true freshman
to make their collegiate debut for
the Jackets in the season opener
against Elon, the other being
kicker Harrison Butker.
Davis attended Cairo High
School in Cairo, Ga. where he
played both linebacker and run-
ning back. ough Davis rushed
for over 1,000 yards and had over
100 tackles his senior year, he was
being still being overlooked by
many colleges due to his size.
Davis was originally commit-
ted to play at Temple, but when
the Jackets made an oer the week
of National Signing Day, Davis
ipped almost immediately.
All my life people had been
telling me that I was too small,
so I just use that as motivation to
make me go harder, Davis said.
Davis, who wears number 40
for the Jackets, very much re-
sembles the last Tech player to
wear that number, Julian Burnett.
At 5 feet 10 inches, Burnett was
also considered too short to play
linebacker by many, but Burnett
ended up leading the team with
89 tackles in 2010. Unfortunately,
Burnett suered a career ending
injury in the 2011 Sun Bowl.
According to Davis, he did not
request number 40; that was sim-
ply the number assigned to him.
e decision to make an oer
to Davis seems to be paying o
for the Jackets. Paul Johnson tra-
ditionally doesnt play many true
freshman, but Johnson obviously
thinks Davis has earned the op-
portunity to get on the eld and
show what he can do.
I was excited, Davis said.
I was one of the last ones to get
Davis makes presence felt
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golf team placed rst out of 14
teams in the Carpet Capital Col-
legiate. e Jackets shot a com-
bined 14-under-par: eight-under
on the rst day, one-over on the
second and seven-under on the -
nal day of the tournament.
Junior Ollie Schniederjans not
only placed rst for Tech, but also
tied for rst overall with North
Carolinas Bailey Patrick. Schnie-
derjans shot a 67 in both of the
rst to rounds, followed by a 73,
to nish at nine-under-par for
the tournament. Schniederjans
had the lead to himself heading
to the 17 hole in the nal round,
but double-bogeyed 17, and then
bogeyed 18.
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ished in second for Tech (2-un-
der), followed by senior Seth
Reeves (1-under), junior Anders
Albertson (even-par) and senior
Bo Andrews (12-over).
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pel Hill this weekend to compete
in the Tar Heel Intercollegiate.
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Last weekend the Jackets womens vol-
leyball team took its talent out west to Al-
buquerque, N.M. to compete in the Lobo
Classic. e team was up against three
unfamiliar opponents in Idaho State, UC
Riverside and New Mexico, all of whom
created matchups never before seen in the
history of the program. After the opening
weekend of the season at the Georgia Tech
Invitational, the Jackets came into the Lobo
Classic with high expectations sporting a
2-1 record.
Techs rst match on Friday afternoon
against the Idaho State Bengals was a
highly contested one. ough the Jackets
lost three straight sets (25-21, 25-19, 25-20)
the scoreboard isnt necessarily indicative
of how closely the teams were matched as
the rst and second sets were relatively even
until the home stretches when Idaho State
managed to pull ahead. In the third and -
nal set, however, the Bengals defense came
alive to hold the Jackets to a paltry eight
kills for the set.
e bright spot for the opening game of
the weekend was senior setter Kaleigh Col-
son, who nished with a double-double of
19 assists and 12 digs while also nishing as
the most accurate player with a stellar .556
hitting percentage for the match.
After a brief period of rest, the players
once again suited up for their second match
of the day, this time against the UC Riv-
erside Highlanders. If the team was tired,
their performance certainly didnt show it
as this time the Jackets were the victors in
the back and forth match, 3-1 (25-17, 25-
20, 20-25, 25-20).
Led by senior outside hitter Jennifer Per-
cy, who amassed a game-high 13 kills on
a .265 hitting percentage, the Jackets took
the rst two sets with the rst set consisting
of nine ties and four lead changes. Fresh-
man London Ackermann and sophomore
Wimberly Wilson were very active in their
defensive behavior with 12 and 10 digs, re-
spectively.
UC Riverside fought back to claim the
third set, and the Highlanders used that
momentum to carry themselves to a 13-7
lead in the fourth. Tech responded with an
inspired nine point run to give themselves a
lead in the set. Tech kept the lead continued
until the very end of the match.
In the tournament nale, Tech faced o
against the host team, the New Mexico Lo-
bos. e Jackets were o to a great start as
they won the rst set and took an early lead
in the second. A determined and consistent
New Mexico recovered to regain the lead
and proceeded to win the next three sets as
Tech lost 3-1 (17-25, 25-16, 25-27, 23-25).
e last two sets were both excruciat-
ingly close, and if just a couple of breaks
had gone the Jackets way they could very
well be coming out of the weekend with
a record of 4-2 instead of 3-3. In the last
game, freshman setter Rebecca Martin tal-
lied a team high 22 assists, and Jennifer
Percy capped o a strong weekend perfor-
mance with 12 kills and was named to the
all-tournament team.
Just six games into the season, the team
is still coming together and creating its
identity. ere were many positives to en-
courage coach Tonya Johnson as she looks
forward to ACC play. Look for the Jackets
to return to the court this Friday, Sept. 13
when they host St. Johns at 7 p.m..
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Tech quarterback Vad Lee returns to his
hometown this weekend to lead his team
against the Duke Blue Devils.
Vad has lived in Durham his whole life
and has been around the Duke football pro-
gram for many years. Lee attended Hillside
High School in Durham. During his senior
year of high school, he rushed for 1,300
yards and threw for 3,223 yards. At a game
where Tech head Coach Paul Johnson at-
tended, Lee rushed for ve touchdowns.
Lee went on to lead his team to a 16-0 re-
cord including a 40-0 victory in the state
championship game and was named the AP
North Carolina state Player of the Year.
Last year, Lee was a huge contributor
in Techs game against North Carolina in
Chapel Hill. Lee led Tech to a season high
68 points and racked up 112 rushing yards
and 3 total touchdowns.
Chapel Hill is ten miles away from Dur-
ham, but the Duke game will mean much
more for him. Vad knows this is more than
just a game.
A win would mean everything, not just
for me, but for the team. Its for the coastal
division and a win is one step closer to our
goal of winning the ACC championship,
Lee said.
Lee is looking forward to the game.
Its a great feeling to just go home and
play, Lee said. I went my redshirt year and
wasnt able to play. is time Ill be able to
play and Im very excited.
Lee is also excited about his grow-
ing chemistry with wide receivers Darren
Waller and Michael Summers.
Darren and I have been working to-
gether for a while. At the end of the season
last year, we knew we would have to step
up and be focal points of the oense, said
Lee. Im glad Michael had a big game last
week. It gives him a lot of condence and
he might even break out and become a big
time player this year.
Being from Durham and having several
high school teammates suit up for the Blue
Devils, Lee has a lot of connections and
friends in the Duke program.
I have a lot of relationships with them.
e starting quarterback, Anthony Boone,
and I are close. Hes a great quarterback.
We worked out together coming out of high
school, Lee said.
However, Boone recently suered a bro-
ken collarbone, so the two friends will have
to wait until next year to face o against
each other.
Lee did not grow up a Duke fan, but the
Blue Devil football program helped make
Vad become what he is now.
I grew up a UNC fan, but I attended a
lot of games at Wallace Wade. Especially as
a recruit, you can go to the games for free
and I used that a lot, Lee said. When I go
home, Ill stop by Duke and run the stairs
of the stadium. Ive been doing that since I
was a little.
Lee had nothing but praise for Duke
head coach, David Cutclie.
I used to be around their facilities all
the time watching Peyton Manning lm.
Coach Cutclie is a great coach. We still
have a great relationship till this day so Im
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