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ENTERTAINMENT
SPORTS
technique Dillon Francis Review

News 2
Opinions 6
p9 Tech vs. Pittsburgh

Entertainment 9
p18
Sports 17
CRC AQUATICS FAILS TWO LIFEGUARD AUDITS p5

NEWS
Top L: Photo courtesy of Dillon Francis; Top R: Photo by Austin Foote Student Publications; Above: Photo by Elliott Brockelbank Student Publications
See THORNE, page19
NEWS
Food trucks to move due to construction by CULC

ISHAN MEHTA
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The current construction behind the Clough Undergraduate
Learning Commons (CULC), intended to create a wider pathway
and make the cobbled street safer
will soon be expanded. From November 3, construction will begin
at the site the food trucks currently occupy.
The walkway should be done
by Homecoming, but we will
start work on an island after that
for which the food truck will have
to be relocated, said Jerry Young
of Facilities Management. There

is no fixed location as of now, but
Tech Green or the Plum Street
walkway are possibilities,
According to Young, within
the next few weeks a decision will
be made through a discussion
between Facilities Management,
Auxiliary Services and Capital
Management.
The current location behind
CULC, although popular, may
not be a permanent location for
the food trucks, said Gary Jelin,
Associate Director of Design Services. The loading dock situated
there serves three buildings, the
Library, CULC and Crosland

Tower. When the food trucks are
parked there, no deliveries can be
possible to that dock.
The plans to redo the area existed way before the thought of
food trucks came across anyones
mind.
The food trucks were introduced as an experiment, Jelin
said. There were about 30 food
trucks brought on campus to see
how the students respond. They
covered all sides of Tech Green
and then we finally settled on the
current locations after looking at
See TRUCK, page 2
Photo by Brenda Lin Student Publications
Viet Nomies and other food trucks will be affected by the future construction near Clough which will create a wider street.
2 October 24, 2014 technique
// NEWS
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ach week, this section of News

will include the coverage of
dierent aspects of bills that
passed through Student Government
This will include the Undergraduate
House of Representatives, Graduate
Student Senate and the Executive
Branch of both government bodies.
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NEWS EDITOR:
Kenneth Marino
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Wyatt Bazrod
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Alexa Grzech
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR:
Elliot Brockelbank
SPORTS EDITOR:
Mark Russell
PHOTO EDITOR:
Brenda Lin
DESIGN EDITOR:
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Technique Distributer
Sailing Club
Circle K
Society of Physics Students
Human Factors of Ergonomics
Neon Frights - WRECKless
SGA Incentives program
SAFETY FIRST
The first bill UHR considered was bill 15J041, a bill to
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fund safety equipment and travel for the Mens Lacrosse team.
Initially there was some conThe injured suspect appeared
to have a red mark under his left
eye.
Neither party had any interest in pressing any charges,
but the student who threw the
punch was referred to the Dean
for a violation of the Student
Code of Conduct.
HOLDEN LEE
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU
On Oct. 16, Georgia Tech
Police Department (GTPD) was
dispatched to Roe Stamps Field
due to an altercation that broke
out between to two male athletes on the field.
After meeting with the suspects the officer learned that the
two parties were arguing over a
soccer game and the injured suspect stepped in between the two
arguing players and held them
apart.
After pushing one man in
the chest, the pushed player retaliated and punched the injured
suspect in the face.
I CAN SHOW YOU THE WORLD

On Oct. 13, two suspicious
males were seen on the roof of
the Ferst Center for the Arts and
an officer was called by facilities
workers.
Upon arrival, the suspects
moved off the roof and hid behind bushes near the main entrance.
After approaching the suspects, the two males were identified as Tech students.
The suspects explained that a
friend showed them how to access the roof by moving up the
wall at the front entrance. Then
they mentioned that they were
interested in sight seeing.
The two students were told
that their actions violated the
Student Code of Conduct and
the Dean of Students would further handle their case.
fusion about whether or not

things the club asked for were
already paid for by SGA, but
this issue was sorted out quickly.
Some representatives believed
that the amount the group was
asking for, which corresponds to
a few hundred dollars per member was exorbitant, but others
felt it was worth it.
The bill passed 21 to 12 with
one member abstaining.
SGA INCENTIVES
UHRs last bill, 15U006,
was for rewards for SGA members. Representatives who did
things such as hold office hours
and sponser bills. Some items include Tumblers, PAdfolios and
Fleeces.
Representative White stated
her objection, saying that paying
for rewards for members for doing their jobs with student activity fee money was what contributed to a loss of credibility.
Others such as Representative Seo disagreed that it was
inappropriate and the bill passed
28 to 5 with one abstaining.
WHERE IS MY HOME?
On Oct. 11, GTPD was
called to Hemphill Avenue and
Ferst Drive due to a white male
who was talking to himself and
acting strange in front of pestrians.
When the officer arrived, the
suspect turned around and began to walk away fast.
When the officer cut him
off, the suspect stopped and
said, Officer, I dont want to
fight you, I am just trying to get
home. The suspect was visibly
drunk.
The suspect began to dig
his hands through his pockets,
and, concerned he might have a
weapon, the officer told the suspect to keep his hands out of his
pockets and give identification.
The suspect refused to offer
any identification and continued to search through his pockets. The officer handcuffed the
suspect and called for additional
units.
The suspect was patted down
and stated that he did not want
to go to jail. The suspect was
later identified as a student and
given a violation of student conduct.
KENNETH MARINO
NEWS EDITOR
After gunfire in downtown

Ottawa on Wednesday, a Canadian soldier, as well as the suspected
shooter have been confirmed dead
according to the Washington Post.
Today is a sad and tragic day
for our city and our country, said
Ottawa Mayer Jim Watson during
a news conference.
The shooting began on
Wednesday morning at Canadas
National War Memorial, followed
quickly by gunfire at the nearby
Parliament. Initial reports also
identified a shooting incident near
the Rideau center, but later said
no shooting had occurred there.
The suspected shooter, who
was killed in the incident, has
tentatively been identified by
Canadian authorities as Michael
Zehaf-Bibeau, a 32-year-old man
from Montreal, according to the
Post. Zehaf-Bibeau had been identified as a high-risk traveler and
reportedly had his passport seized
by authorities.
Police have not said whether
or not other shooters were involved, but Canadian authorities
have been working with the FBI
to fully investigate the shooting.
The Associated Press reports that
authorities were looking for two
other suspects in the shooting.
The shooting comes after Canada had raised its terrorism alert
in response to the death of a soldier in a hit-and-run designated a
hit-and-run.
Downtown Ottawa went into
lockdown after the shooting, with
civilians and members of Parliament told to seek shelter and to
avoid rooftops.
The soldier killed in the shooting was identified as Corporal Nathan Cicillo. Besides the gunman,
Ciccillo appears to be the only casualty from the event.
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Midterms are so difficult they broke me in half. Like a boy.
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I take that back. CS 2261 quizzes are voldemorts voldemort.
I heard the ANAK society just bakes things....
Recipes last week were great. Turn it into a dorm hack recipe
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Am I the only one that thinks the idea of the library moving most
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// NEWS
drug disposal
Stamps offers flu shots Prescription
offered at Stamps
SHASHANK SINGH
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Stamps Health Services has

begun providing free flu shots
for students. October is halfway
over, and according to the Nursing Manager Debbie Spillers, the
flu season spans from the end of
November to February.
The best time to take the vaccine is now before the flu season
starts, Spillers said.
According to Spillers, it is
also important that people take
flu shots year-to-year, since the
formula is changed every year in
response to what strains are common or expected to be that common that year. The vaccine is a
preventive vaccine which means
that students need to get the vaccine before they actually catch
the flu for it to be effective. The
vaccine takes about two weeks to
integrate into the system and start
taking effect.
Another reason Spillers gives
for taking the vaccine promptly is
that having the flu can be detrimental to academic performance.
According to Spillers, having the

flu can affect you anywhere from
three days to 10 days. During this
time, missing classes can have a
significant impact on a students
performance and may cause them
to fall behind. Therefore, Stamps
Health recommends that get the
vaccine to avoid such scenarios.
A lot of college students live in
dorms and other closed quarters,
and so it is important that they
get the vaccination since the flu
spreads primarily by coughing or
respiratory droplets, Spillers said.
The shots are administered in
the Allergy and Immunization
Clinic in Stamps Health Services
on weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to
3:30 p.m. The shots are also administered in either one of the
four flu clinics which are scheduled for Oct. 7, Oct. 21, Oct. 28,
and Nov. 4. These will be also
be in the Stamps building in the
second floor classrooms. The final
option to get vaccinated is to get
it along with other appointments
that you have in the Clinic.
The vaccine is free for students and $25 for faculty and
staff, Spillers said.

According to Spillers, there is
no danger of catching the flu from
the vaccine.
It is an inactivated vaccine,
Spillers said. You cannot catch
the flu from getting this vaccine.
It is a deadened virus.
The vaccine is generally safe,
but one safety issue exists for
those who are allergic to eggs.
People who are allergic to eggs or
cant eat eggs should not get the
flu shots because the vaccine is
grown on an egg medium. In addition, those who already have a
fever or bad cough cannot be administered the vaccine.
In addition to being vaccinated, Spillers recommends that
students observe sanitary behavior. Stamps Health recommends
that students regularly wash their
hands and keep them away from
the nose and mouth. Stamps
Health also recommends that students keep their hands away from
communal surfaces such as doorknobs and stairwells and keep
their distance from those who
have the flu.
A student holds up their sleeve after receiving a flu shot. Stamps Health is offering Tech students
free flu vaccinations so that students do not miss as much as a week of classes due to illness.
Pictured are common anti-biotic medications. Stamps and GTPD

are offering a new program to dispose of leftover prescriptions.
HOLDEN LEE
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

At the beginning of October,
Stamps and the GTPD began a
prescription drug disposal service
where students can safely throw
away prescription drugs.
This initiative was started to
prevent misuse of drugs on-campus or in the Atlanta community.
Illegal use of stimulant drugs
on campus is recognized as a common issue that stressed students
engage in. This drug disposal service is offered to tackle this issue
and a secure manner.
We certainly know that there
is an abuse of prescription drugs
in terms of stimulants, whether
this will change it, I dont know,
but certainly, undisposed drugs
on campus could find their way
into circulation.
Some of these drugs have included Ritalin and Adderall, said
Dr. Gregory Moore, Senior Director of Stamps Health Services.
In the past, similar programs
have been established under the
GTPD and separate organizations
at Tech, but the faculty at Stamps
and the GTPD decided to hold
drug disposal bins at the health
center due to the consistent rate of
traffic in the building.
Once the bins are full or ready
for disposing, GTPD takes the
drugs and dispose of them in a
safe location.
In the past, drugs have been
disposed of in inappropriate ways,
so the disposal services serves as
an alternative to other harmful
drug disposal methods.
There are a couple of problems
with drugs that are out of date or
no longer needed, said Moore.
The common way in the past was
flushing them down the toilet, but
unfortunately drugs then get into
the water supply and harm the environment and people who drink
from the water supply. The second
problem is that they can move
into illegal circles of distribution
within the community.
Because most drugs on the
black market come from medical
cabinets within peoples houses,
Stamps wishes that the service
would prevent drugs from the
Tech campus from entering the
circulation.
We hope that they use it, said
Moore. Most college-aged students are generally healthy and do
not have a lot of medicine around
but we do find that illegal use and
circulation can happen, even with
antibiotics.
The Stamps faculty understands that students often need
specific drugs to treat their individual health concerns. They do
maintain, though, that used drug
prescriptions should be disposed
of safely.
// NEWS
Homeless liaison position created

HEYINN RHO
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Dana Hartley was named by
Tech as the homeless liaison as
part of the Direct Point of Contact (DPOC) system. Her role is
to act as the point of contact and
an advocate for students who find
themselves homeless at Tech.
[DPOC] is a very recent program. I think the whole national
issue of college completion really
helped shine light on student issues that had been invisible before, Hartley said.
Currently an undergraduate
coordinator in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS), Hartley
was Director of Academic Advising and the Director of Undergraduate Students.
Hartley coordinated with Embarks Projecta network that
employs students who are familiar
with issues regarding homelessnessfor the past three months
in order to create an interface to
guide students who are in unfortunate financial situation.
The Department of Education
helps Hartley by providing access
to the contact information for
foster care children. This makes
Hartley the bridge that connects
students to knowledge about valuable resources on campus.
As youre in college you really become your own person, and
parents are usually the ones on the
side helping you set a path in the
beginning. And I find it very rewarding to help students navigate
through college system and also
Photo courtesy of Institute Communications
Dr. Dana Hartley poses for a photo. Hartley serves as the Tech
homeless liaison and helps students with economic problems.
make sure they do not fall out of

the path, Hartley said.
Proposed by University System
of Georgia (USG) and backed by
Governor Nathan Deal in September of 2012, the plan attempts
to redirect unfavorable financial
circumstance that some students
may experience.
In addition to obtaining
STEM degrees, which is a priority
particularly pronounced in Georgia Tech, increasing the retention
and graduation rate is also a persisting cross of interest between
the school and the state of Georgia. Compared to other exemplary universities like MIT and
Stanford, Georgia Techs six-year
graduation rate of 80% lags behind the average rate of 84%. The
plan addresses Techs low graduation rate problem by establishing
goals that focus on those students
who are under economic pressure.
I think it is interesting to note
that in the time this program
was being developed, students at
Georgia Tech had already created
the suit borrowing program with
C2D2 and the soon to be Klemis
Kitchen. It is wonderful to watch
how these efforts come together,
said Harley.
Klemis Kitchen, a program for
providing low cost meals using
unused ingredients from dining
halls is a useful resource.
TRUCK
FROM PAGE 1
the popularity.
Last February, Auxilliary Services set up a Tech Truck Tournament on Tech green in which
16 different food trucks from
around Atlanta competed to be
voted as a favorite food truck.
Students sampled food from different trucks and voted on which
vendors they preferred.
As a result, 10 of these trucks
currently offer their wares at locations around Tech, including next
to the CULC. This includes Viet
Nomie, Fry Guy, Mac the Cheese
and Mighty Meatball.
Such additions and changes
to planning and construction
are quite common. According to
Jelin, all construction on campus
is based on the master plan for the
institute.
What happens is that the executive committee gives us our
instructions but they get suggestions from the Design and Planning Commission and sometimes
outside consultants, Helin said.
Depending on the needs, the
priority for projects is decided. If
a donor comes up saying, heres
$50 million, I want you to construct a building here, then that
becomes a priority.
A lot of construction work is
also the maintenance of old buildings and pipelines through the
campus.
Some of the buildings are really old and need to be modernized or need regular upkeep, Jelin
said. So when you relay pipelines
for one part of campus and do that
similarly for all parts, by the time
you are done with the last part it
is already time to do redo some-
thing you laid earlier! Thankfully,

we dont get a lot of complaints
from the students about the construction because they know that
what we are doing is for their benefit. The problem is, it doesnt look
great when construction is going
on, but a few years down the line
when you walk on campus youll
be really impressed.
The change I have seen on
campus in my eight years here has
been phenomenal, Young said.
There is also plan to make all
the buildings on campus adhere to
a certain design to make sure they
are identifiable as Tech buildings.
I think that helps people connect to the campus more. Walking on the campus should be a
pleasant experience. And I have
had people tell me that they really
enjoy walking on campus, Jelin
said.
It has taken a lot of work to expand the campus and make it the
way it is in the middle of the city,
according to Jelin.
If you look at the old plans
of campus, it was only around
the Bobby Dodd Stadium, Jelin
said. There were streets running
through the campus with residential complexes on it. Its interesting to know how over the years we
managed to close the streets down
and divert traffic around the campus. This might not be a good
comparison, but compared to
Georgia State, our campus really
holds up. I have a daughter who
goes there and I know people say
why cant our campus be more
like Georgia Tech?
The planning of construction
around campus is the responsibility Capital Planning and Space
Management.
Georgia Techs Journal of the Arts and Literature

art, n. - The expression or application of creative skill and
imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting, drawing, or
sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their
beauty or emotional power.
It is art that makes life, makes interest,
makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of
its process.
Max Eastman
More information can be found at erato.gatech.edu or by e-mailing erato@gatech.edu
// NEWS
Audit finds problems with CRC Aquatics

DAVID RAJI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
During the months of August
and October, the Campus Recreation Center (CRC) failed audits
conducted by Tech-contracted
company Ellis and Associates.
According to the records of
the audits obtained by the Technique, multiple lifeguards working at various areas in the Aquatics Center did not meet evaluation
standards during the audits. This
included Individual Lifeguard
Evaluation Reports in which an
auditor secretly observes an on
duty lifeguard to see if he or she is
properly monitoring the pool and
the Vigilance Awareness Training
(VAT) Drill in which a dummy is
placed in the pool to measure lifeguards reaction times to a drowning victim.
One common problem in
many of the Evaluation Reports
was lifeguards failing to observe
the entire zone of protection,
the area for which the lifeguard is
responsible.
According to the audit, any
lifeguard who fails an individual
audit has their [license] suspended pending documented inservice training by a licensed instructor to remediate deficiencies
identified.
One issue with failing audits
is that the CRC pays for each one
and failing one audit means that
the next audit will occur sooner
than if they had passed. Each
audit costs the CRC somewhere
around $1000.
Despite the results of these
audits, the Aquatics Center maintains that results are not a cause
for concern.
I am not concerned about
these results, said Dave Williams,
the Associate Director of aquatics
and member services at the CRC.
Do we take them seriously? Yes,

of course. But we dont refer to
them as failures. We refer to them
as learning opportunities.
Williams also argued that the
auditing is not necessarily an endall, be-all measurement.
When you look at an audit,
its a snapshot. [Audits] are to assess the individual not find faults,
Williams said. Thats why we pay
for Ellis & Associates to come in
and conduct them.
Despite this, after they failed
the last audit this month, an email was sent to all aquatics employees outlining changes that
needed to implemented. Among
these changes were increasing
the number of visual adults by
the Shift Supervisors and Head
Guards, updating the Zone Validation for each pool and requiring
that all lifeguard stands be standing or roaming stations only. The
e-mail also set as a goal that within 60 days, lifeguards pass 95 percent of the internal visual audits.
Some lifeguards pointed to the
experience of lifeguards as a potential issue.
There are just a ton of new
guards and not very many veteran
ones. So that might have an impact other than just how we are
taught, said Mindy Ross, a second year BCHM and lifeguard.
They go over skills quite often
so if youve been around long
enough, you should be pretty solid on everything.
Others felt that the training
has been adequate.
I dont feel as if aquatics could
do anything better to train the
lifeguards, said Rachel Massey, a
Tech student and lifeguard. After
attending the lifeguard class last
fall I feel as though I have retained
all of the skills that I learned and
are required of me through participating in the five hours of train-
ing per month that is required.

All of the 159 new lifeguards
this semester took part in a twenty-four hour training course in
order to prepare them for the job,
according to Williams. Also according to Williams, the state of
Georgia does not mandate this.
One of the reasons given to
the relatively low time spent on
initial training was explained by
Williams as being a necessity to
attract employees.
Students can usually find bet-
ter paying job with less responsibility, so its important for us to

make entry easier if we want to
have capacity to run this facility.
After the initial training, two
in-service instruction sessions are
required. A number of optional
courses to specialize in certain areas exist and are available for all
Aquatics Center employees.
An examination of the Aquatics Center budgeting approved by
SGA for the next calendar year,
which is 2015, was also conduct-
ed, revealing that salaries for all

lifeguard positions are being increased.
That was something that SGA
came to us with, it wasnt requested, Williams said.
Also worth noting is the skill
checks & tests category for the
Aquatics Center budget increased
from 2014 by roughly $4,000.
Approximately $1 million of annual student fees goes to CRC
employee pay including that of
lifeguards and managers.
Photo by Elliott Brockelbank Student Publications
Pictured is the CRC aquatics center competition pool. Recently discovered documents indicate
that the aquatics center failed the last two audits conducted by an outside lifeguard auditor.
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OUR VIEWS | Consensus Opinion
Evaluation of this years SGA
Im kind of over getting told to

throw my hands up in the air, so
there.
Lorde
SGA needs to refocus their efforts to improve student life

The latest bill presented by SGA demonstrates an ongoing problem within the
organization. This bill, which was passed
this Tuesday, now incentivizes SGA members perform their basic duties, such as attending meetings or authoring bills, with
rewards like tumblers, fleeces, and other
products. Up until now, as this bill highlights, much of what SGA has been doing
has been internally focused.
While we recognize the need for internal changes, its time for SGA to start
making more of an effort to improve both
campus culture and quality.
By deciding to run for office, SGA electives have voluntarily made the issues surrounding Tech their responsibility. There
should not have to be costly incentives for
them to do the job they chose to do.
The Technique staff backed Roseen
and Banner last Spring for their platform
which featured several lofty goals, where
we ultimately noted that by prioritizing
their goals, the ticket could easily make a
very big impact throughout campus. We
technique
OPINIONS EDITOR: Wyatt Bazrod
still believe that backing Roseen and Banner was the correct decision, but in the future, we hope to see several changes.
Since entering office in April, there have
been shockingly few initiatives that did
not focus on internally restructuring SGA.
This is most notable when compared with
the many ideas found on the original platform.
For instance, the lack of continued efforts involving the LGBTQIA Resource
Center depicts the overall loss in momentum from Picon and Tuckers term. The
Greek Allies training program has seemed
to completely fall to the wayside. Furthermore, there have been no visible attempts
to increase student-faculty interaction.
This is also true for their promised school
spirit initiatives.
We understand and reaffirm the necessity of bettering SGA for the benefit of the
student body, and we know that SGA is
attempting external projects. The apparent lack of balance in initiatives, however,
needs to be rectified immediately.
The Consensus Opinion reflects the majority opinion of the Editorial Board of the
Technique, but not necessarily the opinions of individual editors.
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Friday,
October 24, 2014
TOP SLIVERS
A lot of things get lost in the Atlantech: hopes,

aspirations, GPAs, positive thinking, Jack and Rose...
Currently seeing when people have their first class

based upon the layering of their clothes.
Need filter recommendations for this 45 on my Calc III

test to make it look better.
Itll be finals week in the blink of an eye, yet my

50-minute class feels like eternity.
Tech has completely Gone-Girled my GPA.
Turn down for what? Your roommate. Its scorching in

this dorm room.
Should I walk farther to take the elevator or just take

the stairs and suffer?
technique editorial board

Brittany Miles EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Lindsay Purcell MANAGING EDITOR
Connor Napolitano DESIGN EDITOR
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My transformation into Mr. Hyde is triggered when Im

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Go home xoB revilS. Youre drunk.
Afterhours Buzzcard access makes me feel like a spy.

Now all I need is some background music.
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// OPINIONS
Calculus classes for non-engineers

Its time to face the facts,
math sucks. The only thing that
sucks more is math at Tech. But
this, very true, statement does
not mean that math is not essential to both our degrees and
future careers. I have to say,
though, that I without a doubt
believe that Techs math curriculum could be vastly improved
with just a few, simple changes.
Sitting in my upper level
economics classes, I realize the
same thing dailythat I did not
understand calculus until now.
Somehow, when a derivative
is described as a marginal cost
and not the velocity of a rocket
(if that is even correct?), I get it
instantly. Put a word problem in
financial terms, I understand.
I am now annoyed that I sat
through hours of math classes
where I suffered through physics I will never need and will
probably never understand. The
problem is, though, that my
only other option was to take
arguably easier and less impressive math classes, such as Survey
of Calculus. For a Tech student
who aspires to go to graduate
school, this was not a viable option.
I am not asking for an

overhaul of the current
math curriculum.
LINDSAY PURCELL
MANAGING EDITOR
So instead, I spent my time

learning about subspaces and
velocity when I can see now,
I should have been spending
my time focusing on stochastic
matrices and the Lagrangian
method.
Instead of thinking of vectors in terms of physical space, I
should have been given the opportunity to see vectors as financial models.
Changing the math curriculum to include calculus for
Business and Economics majors
would only help Tech. As long
as these classes stayed as difficult
as other calculus classes, there
would be no softening of Techs
tough reputation. Tech would,
though, possibly move up in
rankings, especially for Business

and Economics. Our graduates
would be able to prove they
understand the difficult intricacies of financial math. Then, as
Tech moves up in the rankings
for these majors, more students
would come to Tech specifically
for Business and Economics.
Which again, as if in an infinite
loop, would only increase our
rankings, which is good for every student at Tech.
Currently, there is an option
of Calculus for Biology majors.
I am envisioning a very similar structure for these, more financial based, calculus classes.
There are two other pros to this
idea.
First, there would be a great-
er sense of community between

students in these majors, which
would not only be a nice bonus
for students, but could also create more collaborative research
and organizations within these
majors.
Second, students would feel
more prepared and do better in
their upper level Economics and
Finance classes. If students had
seen in their entry level calculus classes that matrices can be
used for things other than finding the null space of a plane, or
that derivatives can be used to
find marginal cost, professors
would be able to focus on other,
possibly more difficult information in their classes. Again, this
would only help Techs reputation,
I am not asking for an overhaul of the current math curriculum. I am not asking for all
Business and Economics majors
to have to take these classes. I
am just asking that they be offered.
Just because Tech is a fantastic engineering school, it does
not mean that it cant be a fantastic business or finance school,
as well.
What marine species

would you be and why?
ALICIA LOWRANCE
SECOND-YEAR ME
Sea urchin because I like

to lay down a lot.
Fighting off insomnia is Ebola in US: whats fact

not that difficult
and whats fiction
Sleep has become a foreign and likely is, extremely difficult

word for most Tech students. but do try to have some kind
With assignments piling on, of break or definition between
tests to study for, projects due, your work and sleeping environand time flying by, sleep is often ments.
foregone to use
Maintain a
the time for oth- Even if you arent able Consistent Sleep
er arguably more
Schedule.
to get your full eight Even if you
important tasks.
Research
has
able to get
hours, some sleep is arent
shown that most
your full eight
people need at better than no sleep at hours,
some
least eight hours
sleep is better
all. than no sleep at
of sleep each
night to funcAccording
ROSS LINDSAY all.
tion optimally.
to a study from
WEB DEVELOPER Applied CogniAccording
to a study contive Studies, the
ducted by the National Sleep length of sleep is not what causes
Foundation, 45% of students us to be refreshed upon waking.
surveyed reported that they did
The key factor is the number
not sleep for all of those eight of complete sleep cycles we enhours, and another 25% of them joy. The average sleep cycle lasts
reported falling asleep in class at approximately 90 minutes.
least once per week. Whats to
By planning your sleep times
prevent this, though?
effectively in 4.5, 6, or 7.5 hour
How in the world is it pos- blocks, you may feel more rested
sible to squeeze in eight hours than if you had slept an even
of peaceful, restful, and much- seven or eight hours. If you are
needed sleep when there are so able to, try and maintain that
many other things that need to same length of sleep throughget done?
out the week. You wont get the
Dont Work Where You same effect if you have large
Sleep.
variations in your sleep schedule
Something thats very dif- studies have shown that those
ficult to do, but in time would variations have caused the same
pay off, is avoiding brain-stim- effects as getting less than norulating activities like homework mal amounts of sleep.
right before bed. We all know
By following these tips, you
how tempting it is to work on should hopefully be able to add
assignments from the comfort of sleep to your vocabulary once
our beds and how occasionally again. Despite the overwhelmwell fall asleep with our coming amount of assignments, by
puters or notebooks in our laps. strategically planning your sleep
Despite the temptation, you should be able to reclaim at
youd be better off doing work least some of the foregone time
from a desk or really anywhere that used to be dedicated to
thats not your bed.
sleep.
By not establishing your bed
Though difficult at first,
as a place to do work but only changing your routine to proas a place for resting and sleep- vide more time for and a more
ing, your body will recognize supportive environment for
that once youre in bed, its time sleep will prove beneficial in the
to go to sleep. This may seem, long run.
When I saw a live news form.

stream last week from WSBTV
What about the realities of
of an ambulance carrying carry- the situation instead of trying
ing Amber Vinson from the air- to incite fear in the US. What
port to Emory University Hos- about the people in the West Afpital, all I could
rican countries
think was that
of Guinea, LiInstead
of
educating
this type of covberia and Sierra
erage had gone the public, many of the Leone who have
too far.
and are still
larger media outlets been
Vinson is the
being severely afnurse from Texhave taken to scaring fected by this inas Health Presdisease.
them instead... fectious
byterian hospital
According to the
in Dallas who
Health
JOSH GARRICK World
helped attempt
Or g a n i z at ion,
BUSINESS DEVELOPER at least 4,877
to treat Thomas
Eric
Duncan
people have died
and also contracted the disease. from this Ebola Outbreak in
Duncan is the only patient West Africa and at least 9,936
infected with Ebola in the US cases of the disease had been reto pass away after he was first corded as of October 19.
misdiagnosed at a Dallas area
Large media outlets need to
hospital.
move beyond shooting for ratI dont really consider that ings by covering non-stories
kind of story as anything other around the clock. Responsibilthan scare tactics that are com- ity should be taken as they are
pletely unnecessary but all too the ones who are clearly being
common right now.
listened to and there is a need
This isnt the first time some- for a shift from sensationalizing
thing like this has come up in a terrible disease that is affecting
the media; it happened in the thousands to educating those
1980s with the AIDS epidemic who dont know as to how they
at the time, with various strains can help those in need.
of Influenza through the years
Help can come in many
and now its happening with Eb- forms, whether that be through
ola in West Africa and around making donations through orthe world.
ganizations like Americares or
Dont get me wrong, all of UNICEF. But these and other
these are terrible infectious dis- sustainable solutions to this real
eases that have affected count- problem are much more imless lives but they should not be portant than scaring the public
used as a tool to spread fear.
with fiction over the facts.
Instead of educating the
The fact remains that this is
public, many of the larger mean terrible infectious virus. The
dia outlets have taken to scar- big reason there has been such
ing them instead with headlines a big outbreak in areas some arfrom CNN calling Ebola the eas in West Africa is because of
ISIS of Bio-Agents or from the lack of available resources.
anchors at Fox News describing Many simply cannot handle
the infectious disease as a ter- what comes with this disease at
ror agent. My question is whats this point in time and could use
the goal of this type coverage real aid. This is not the case in
because it is certainly not to in- the US.
DEJON TEBOUGHT
FOURTH-YEAR ID
Dolphin because they look

like they have the most
fun.
MOLLY FINK
SECOND-YEAR EE
Seahorse because they are

cute and dont have to do
alot.
AUSTIN HERRING
SECOND-YEAR CS
Porpoise because theyre

cool and small.
Photos by Kartik Kini Student Publications
// OPINIONS
OUR VIEWS | HOT OR NOT
HOT or NOT
Tech Offense
Another
heartbreaking
loss brings the Jackets to 5-2
before theyre game against
Pittsburgh this weekend. Last
weekend at UNC proved Tech
has established their offensive game. Scoring nearly 50
points, the Jackets excel with
their triple-option and have
started building up their passing game. Now if only the defense showed up...
Registration
We have entered the later

half of Fall semester. Some of
us are suffering through the
school work, but to all, we
have the added-hope of making our schedules for next
Spring. Taking a break from
the homework to craft the
schedule which affords the
most sleep or choosing the
easiest teacher: a semesterlystudent tradition all grapple
with during their time at Tech.
Woodys Fire Alarm
On pace to set a new world

record for most number of
times a fire alarm can go off
in one semester, Woodruff is
experiencing a bit of technical
difficulties. More often than
not, the cause is the electrical
system within the building,
which can only be dealt with
by process of elimination. So
heres to hoping they remedy
the situation in the next trial.
5th St Bridge
The temperatures into the

weekend look to be gorgeous,
as Taste of Atlanta hits Midtown this weekend; however,
even with all of the food and
festivities, it wouldnt be a
proper festival without some
street closings. And lucky for
Tech, 5th Street bridge will be
blocked off during the festival hours. At least they didnt
schedule it during a home
game.
NEEDS-BASED
MERIT-BASED
PATRICK BLACK
WYATT BAZROD
There has been a call recently

to change the HOPE scholarship
from applying to all applicants
who meet the requirements to
restricting HOPE to only those
who fall below a certain income
bracket.
The issue seems to be pretty
divisive, but being an out-of-state
student, I believe that I can look
at the issue with as little bias as
possible.
I believe that the HOPE scholarship should be needs-based.
People from wealthier income
families, who can easily afford to
pay for college, do not need the
extra money.
Many families with children
who deserve to go to college cannot afford it even if they would
make the most out of a college
education.
For me, I have almost been
pulled out of college by my parents since it was becoming too
expensive. However, making the
scholarship strictly needs-based
would be unfair to the people who
do meet the requirements of the
scholarship.
I believe that what the HOPE
scholarship can do is to give the
lower-income applicants first
priority out of all qualifying applicants. When all of those applicants receive their scholarship,
then all remaining applicants can
receive theirs.
By taking the best elements of
the strictly merit-based scholarship and a potentially need-based
scholarship, I believe that the altered HOPE scholarship will help
the most people.
While the decision does not
affect me in any way, I can only
hope that the state makes a decision which will help the greatest
amount of people possible.
My four years at high school

were nothing more than me trying to get good grades.Knowing I
wanted to pursue a degree in engineering, it became a no brainer:
I wanted to go to Tech. Not just
because of its high-academic
standards, location in a city environment, and general-nerdy perception, but it was fiscally sound.
Seeing the recent debates from
Nathan Deal and Jason Carter
has sparked this debate as to what
HOPE should be and I believe its
simple: HOPE needs to stay as a
merits based scholarship. Theres
nothing more to it.
First off, by changing HOPE to
being more needs-based, it changes the purpose of what HOPE was
created for: to act as a scholarship,
not as a government stipend.
If HOPE should devolve into
a stipend program, it loses the
great impact it has on keeping
the states best and brightest from
starting their undergraduate careers instate.
HOPE acts as the overbearing
parent in college when your mom
cant always nag you to go to class.
Yes, Im a grown adult and I can
make my own decisions, but having HOPE always in the back of
my mind when I think about skipping class, it adds a lot of pressure
to take the necessary steps to succeed.
Recently, there has been a
debate at Tech itself whether or
not to extend special guidelines
for Tech students to have a lower
minimum GPA needed to keep
HOPE than other schools in
Georgia. I think the conversation
should focus on this not tampering with a scholarship which does
so much good for the students
who put forth the effort to achieve
it, regardless of income.
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
OPINIONS EDITOR
With the local elections

taking place in just a few
short weeks, it looks like one
of the hot-button issues for
this years race is over the beloved HOPE Scholarship.
Governor Nathan Deal argues the scholarship should
remain as is, a merits-based
scholarship while gubernatorial candidate Jason Carter
is running on the ticket that
HOPE should become more
needs based.
Entertainment
technique
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Elliott Brockelbank
ASSISTANT ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR:
Joe Murphy
entertainment@nique.net
9
Friday,
October 24, 2014
Francis enlists friends for epic debut album

MUSIC
Money Sucks, Friends

Rule
Dillon Francis
LABEL: Columbia Records
GENRE: Dance, Electronic
TRACK PICKS: I Cant Take
It Set Me Free Love in the
Middle of a Firefight feat.
Brendon Urie
OUR TAKE:
ELLIOTT BROCKELBANK
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
The anticipation for Dillon

Francis debut album has been
building exponentially for over a
year now. Following a push back
on the original July release date, it
seemed as if the album would never hit electronic store shelves (if an
album release isnt pushed back, is
it really an album?), and the slow
trickle of singles that were released
in the meantime only served as
minor stress Band-Aids to calm
eager fans with spiked blood pressure.
After the drop date was set for
Oct. 28 and it was announced
to release through Columbia Records (a offshoot of Sony Music
Entertainment), the light at the
end of the tunnel came into view.
The LA-based producer and DJ
(a former Buckhead-Atlanta resident, mind you) knows how to
build hype off the dance-floor
as well, though, and treated the
world with a streamable version of
Photo courtesy of Rukes (Rukes.com)
Dillon Francis has come a long way since the release of IDGAFOS in 2011. Since then, hes
toured across the US playing at major festivals like Coachella, EDCLV and TomorrowWorld.
the full album via MTV. Thank

you Mr. Francis, consider our
thirsts quenched.
Saying this album serves as a
milestone in his career is admittedly clich but an undeniable
truth.
The young artist has released
eight EPs since his inaugural
release, Swashbuckler, and fifteen singles, seven of which were
released in 2014. His anthemic

IDGAFOS became Francis anthem and spurred on a subcultural
cult following from which hes
built a massive fan-base.
Since then hes pioneered the
modern sound in the world of
moombathon and developed
a distinct audible identity that
matches his online personality.
Hearing music from a Dillon
Francis production should elicit

mixed feelings of joy, hysteria,
rage (in the good way, of course)
and even community. This album
hits all those points and more.
Money Sucks, Friends Rule
features twelve heart-pounding,
earth-shattering tracks with a dynamic range to satisfy the needs
of any listeners palette. To drive
the point home about how much
portion to revelry and stress-relief,

a generally welcomed diversion
this far into a typical Georgia
Tech semester.
Though it had a slow start,
with several of the attractions not
being operational until closer to
noon than eleven, once TeXtreme
got fully underway, it lived up to
its advertisements.
When students attempted to
use the sidewalk near SCPCs
event, they were greeted by overly
enthusiastic volunteers, one wielding a bullhorn, attempting to give
out candy while encouraging people to stop and participate.
As TeXtreme drew to a close,
these heralds became even more
verbose. If the walkers were unsuccessful in their endeavors to
pass by, they were invited to sign
a waiver before enjoying the event
and what it had to offer.
The shortest line was the nonexistent one for the Bungee Run,
which SCPC touted as a major
draw on their posters.
Apparently, not a lot of Tech
students find it enjoyable to run
on an inflatable while strapped to
a wall; perhaps it just seems futile
or perhaps the other events were
merely more interesting. Either
way, this particular inflatable saw
few event-goers.
The other attraction of TeXtreme that failed to be particu-
larly attracting was advertised as

a Robo Surfer. It was the ocean
version of a mechanical bull. A
few adventuresome students tried
their balance here, gathering quite
the crowd of onlookers.
Though it was far more analogous to bull riding than surfing
due to the machines jerky motion, those who tested their balance seemed to enjoy the experience. It is worth noting, however,
that few went back for a second
round.
The rest of TeXtreme was better received by the attendees. One
of SCPCs staples was present in
the form of a large grey rectangular box.
Even with short matches and
letting in as many people as there
were vests, laser tag managed to
keep a line waiting.
The longest line at this event
was for a novel attraction that
failed to make an appearance on
the advertisements and posters
ahead of time.
Giant inflatable hamster balls
are not exactly a normal form of
fun, but they were indisputably
captivating for those in attendance last Thursday. In a conedoff section of Tech Green were
two such curiosities.
Whoever was in the spherical
inflatable would run around, race
the other hamster ball across the
friends really do rule, theres a

slew of big name artists featured
that make the A-Team look like a
peewee baseball team.
Twista and the Rej3ctz are on
the albums opener, All That,
Francis festival banger with DJ
Snake, Get Low, took the number two spot, and Sultan and Ned
Shepherd & The Chain Gang of
1974 aided in making what might
be the most heartfelt track of the
album When We Were Young.
The eighteen years young wunderkind Martin Garrix was enlisted to produce Set Me Free,
Simon Lords uplifting vocals
were used to make Drunk All the
Time a true delight, and the Presets joined in the fun by adding a
retro vibe to We Are Impossible.
Major Lazer and Stylo G
brought the fire for Make it
Bounce, TJR helped out to teach
us how to spell a very special word
in Whats That Spell, and Panic!
at the Discos lead singer Brendon
Urie was the real album MVP, as
he made for a stunning addition
to Love in the Middle of a Firefight.
After all is said in done, only
three tracks are left as complete
originals. Dont think this means
he didnt put any effort into this.
The world of EDM has become
increasingly built upon collaborations, and in this case, it gives each
track its own distinct personality,
almost as if each track is a representation of a different friendship,
which makes every one of them
unique.
Any preemptive critics that
See DILLON, page 12
TeXtreme: a break from late semester stress
Photo courtesy of SCPC
A surfboard simulator was only one of the many attractions put

on by SCPC at TeXtreme in an attempt to relieve student stress.
JAMIE RULE
STAFF WRITER
Inflatable plastic bubbles, laser

tag and a lonely mechanical surf
board each made an appearance
alongside last weeks Farmers
Market.
On Thursday, Oct.16, the
Student Center Programs Council hosted TeXtreme on the Tech

Green from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Although other portions of Tech
Green and Skiles Walkway were
taken by the Farmers Market,
automotive advertisers and people
tabling for Zipcar and Zimride,
SCPC dedicated the northern
cordoned area or simply take advantage of the springy material to

harmlessly ram into their partner
at full speed, only to bounce apart
again and possibly fall down inside their protective bubble.
One of the more intriguing
properties of the hamster balls was
that they had two holes for entering and exiting.
While there were people to assist in this endeavor, some found
getting into or back out of the
spheres to be a chore while others
dove right in, literally.
The final attraction was separated a little from the rest. Bubble
soccer is soccer with a single, simple change taken to a ridiculous,
yet entertaining extreme.
Many who played were more
focused on the fact that they
were in their own personal manpowered bumper car than on the
fact that they were playing a soccer game.
On top of this, the claustrophobia-inducing
protective
bubbles make it nigh impossible
to regain ones feet after being
knocked down. This made for
interesting games that might be
called soccer if someone felt like
being generous.
Right at two oclock, TeXtreme
ended, and the crowd dissipated,
leaving SCPC to clean up after a
decidedly successful event.
// ENTERTAINMENT
Philanthropy at Work
My Tech Promise
Scholarship has
allowed me to enter
into a new realm
of educational
opportunities, career
advancement, and
personal discovery
in a way I never
could have imagined.
Heather N. Johnston,
PUBP 2017
Heather Johnston is a Georgia Tech Promise
Scholar majoring in public policy with a minor
in earth and atmospheric sciences. She has
a special interest in environmental studies,
sustainability, and conservation as they relate
to policymaking.
After graduation, Johnston plans to pursue

a career focused on sustainability, planning,
and implementing change through
nonprofit work, forestry research, or the
Environmental Protection Agency.
Hometown: Blue Ridge, Georgia
Endowments supporting undergraduate scholarships

and graduate fellowships, including the G. Wayne Clough
Georgia Tech Promise Scholarship program, are a top
priority for Campaign Georgia Tech, the $1.5 billion
effort to enable Georgia Tech to define the technological
research university of the 21st century.
// ENTERTAINMENT
Youngblood Hawke discusses current success

ALEX COVINGTON
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Georgia Techs very own 91.1
WREK Atlanta radio station had
the chance to sit down with an
emerging group in the indie-pop
sphere, Youngblood Hawke. The
band burst onto the scene in 2012
with its ebullient hit single We
Come Running.
WREK interviewed the band
before their performance with
Panic! at the Disco and Walk the
Moon. The interview attempted
to get to know the band on a more
personal level, while getting important advice out to the listeners;
WREK was unable to run the interview on the air, and teamed up
with the entertainment staff at the
Technique to bring the interview
in its entirety.
Heres what they had to say
about their success and making it
in the music industry:
Technique: First of all, would
you mind introducing yourselves,
saying what instrument you play
and telling a little about how you
joined the band?
Katz: My names Simon
[Katz], I play guitar and keys, and
I just kind of started the band
with Sam about three years ago
and made a few demos and then
played em for our best friends.
They all really dug em, and so we
kind of got together and started
writing music together, and there
goes Youngblood Hawke.
Hughes: My names Nik
[Hughes], and I play drums. I met
Sam and Simon through a previ-
ous band and played drums in

that group. We were roommates
and hit it off and loved the music,
so we joined up.
Smith: My names Tasso
[Smith], I play guitar. Ive known
Simon basically my whole life
and met Sam shortly after they
started a previous project. [I]
started hearing the initial demos
of Youngblood Hawke and was
just stoked to be a part of it.
Ahmed: Im Omar [Ahmed]
and I play bass. I joined through
some mutual friends me and Nik,
the drummer, have.
Martin: Im Sam [Martin], the
singer, and I met Simon in college.
We had another band and created
this one a couple years ago and
then met all these guys.
Technique: Which college?
Martin: We went to the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Technique: So, how would
you guys describe your music?
Katz: I think thats always
a very difficult thing to do, but
I mean we kind of describe our
music as high energy, anthemic. I
think its better for someone else
to describe our music than for us
to, because for us its a little bit
more of a personal thing, and we
may have a certain perspective on
it differently.
Technique: How did you form
and eventually get signed?
Martin: Just making demos,
we just made a bunch of songs,
started playing local shows around
LA, and it kind of happened pretty quickly. We all kind of knew
each other for the last five, six
Photo courtesy of Youngblood Hawke
The indie-pop band Youngblood Hawke has gone from a residency at The Satellite venue in
Los Angeles to current tour with fellow rock groups Panic! at the Disco and Walk the Moon.
years, and we all were looking for

an opportunity to play music together, and this was it basically. So
we played a couple shows, some labels came out and apparently they
liked our songs.
Technique: So your band is
named after a novel from 1962.
Can you explain why you chose
the name?
Martin: I mean the book was
incredible, probably one of my
favorite books ever, and the name
was just perfect. I thought it really
described the project. I was just
really inspired by the book and
forced all these guys to read it.
Technique: You guys are currently on tour with Panic! at

the Disco and Walk the Moon.
Whats it like to room with such
popular bands?
Hughes: Its awesome, I mean,
this tour especially. The other
bands are so cool; weve played
with Walk the Moon a few times,
so we know them pretty well, just
meeting Panic! on this tour, like
literally Panic!, all those dudes
are like the nicest guys. So you
know its like this traveling family
gypsy thing where we all caravan
in these buses, and we get out in
sweatpants drinking coffee in the
morning. Then its this epic show

with all these awesome fans. Panics fans are rad, theyre like outside in the rain sitting there hours
before the show. I dont think we
could ask for a better tour and
better bands to be on tour with.
Martin: Yeah, its probably one
of my favorite tours, just because
of the other bands and the crowds.
Technique: So was it a hard
transition from playing in smaller
venues?
Katz: Weve done a few big
tours before, and weve played festivals all the time. I mean I think
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Walking Dead hits ground running

TELEVISION
The Walking Dead

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WHEN: Sundays 9/8c
STARRING: Andrew Lincoln,
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ASSISTANT ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

The Walking Dead launched
its fifth season on Oct. 12, and
judging from the record-breaking
17 million viewers who tuned in
for the premiere, there is a pretty
good chance that you already
know what this show is about. The
epic zombie saga, which is based
off a series of graphic novels and
first launched on AMC in 2010,
chronicles the lives of several individuals in the aftermath of an
apocalyptic event that has transformed 99 percent of the human
race into reanimated corpses. The
show deals with themes of loss,
survival and the definition of humanity, and has throughout its
run become one of the most popular cable dramas of all time.
This season opens right where
the fourth one closed; main protagonist Rick (Andrew Lincoln,
Love Actually) and his team of survivors find themselves in the grips
of a murderous band of strangers,
yet again. However, it is (thankfully) not long until Americas
favorite group of zombie killers
escape danger and fully reunite

with each other for the first time
in what seems like years, at least
from the audiences viewpoint.
Unfortunately, this welcome moment of peace and reunion is short
lived as it soon becomes apparent
that dark forces are closing in on
Rick and company, posing a much
greater threat than any undead
walker ever could.
With enemies closing in on all
sides, our heroes cling to the hope
of sanctuary and a cure that may
or may not lie hundreds of miles
away; however, only two episodes
have aired, and already a few main
characters will not be making it
out of this season in one piece.

So far, this season has amped up
both the suspense and the brutality: the explosions are bigger, the
undead decapitations are bloodier and the bad guys are creepier
than ever. However, perhaps the
strongest aspect of this season is
the fact that the show has finally
developed a strong core cast. After the first few Dead seasons were
spent shaving off unnecessary (or
decidedly unpopular) characters,
the remaining survivors have become a familiar and weather-worn
unit, capable of emotional depth
and personal growth.
It is this sense of emotional
maturity that resonates throughout the small portion of the fifth

season that has aired. After building an infamous reputation for
killing off main characters with
hardly any warning, Dead seems
to be focusing more on life and
hope this season than it ever has
in the past; our group of heroes
has never been stronger, but the
stakes have also never been higher. Only time will tell if the future
holds security or even more danger for Rick and the gang, but as
it now stands, the show has never
had a stronger sense of purpose;
televisions horror phenomenon is
back with a vengeance.
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For a show about lifeless, reanimated bodies, The Walking Dead draws its strength from its characters, as they struggle to maintain their humanity and security in the face of the apocalypse.
DILLON
FROM PAGE 9
deemed Francis a sell-out, or an

artist whos capitalizing on a single sound formulated to bring in
cash, should be left with their jaws
dropped, ready to chow down on
a three course meal of their bitter
words.
With Money Sucks, Friends
Rule, Francis employs a level of
humanity and realism that many
artists in electronic dance music
fail to achieve.
The trait that separates the
mid-tier electronic artists from
the top-tier is the ability to make
their music relatable or organic.
Each track on this album carries a small piece of Francis in it.
Hes like a living cartoon, full of
life and energy and its apparent in
different ways within each song.
When We Were Young reveals a nostalgic, passionate character full of youth, and We Are
Impossible channels 80s pop
vibes and a solemn attitude, while
Whats That Spell solidifies his
class-clown status in the EDM
community and shows that he
knows how to throw a party.
As a debut album, we cant really ask for anything more. It is a
dynamic collection of songs that
show his ability as a producer to
make more than heavy drops and
loud beats.
The way he implements mixed
genre sounds and vocals into his
music speaks volumes for his potential to succeed going forward
and to draw in even more fans.
Theres too much to say about
this album without writing a fullfledged essay, it is simply a mustlisten and must-purchase for music lovers of all types.
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HAWKE
FROM PAGE 11
were a pretty new band. Panic!

[and] Walk the Moon have been
around for a quite a while, and
weve only been around for a few
years, so were really lucky to be
able to transition into these bigger
venues.
But weve been on a couple big
tours, we toured with Passion Pit,
toured with Keane, toured with
P!nk, did a bunch of festivals and
stuff like that, so weve definitely
been through it before.
Technique: So your band has
at least one studio album called
Wake Up, and you have one hit
single off of it called We Come
Running, which made it to seventh on the United States alternative charts. Can you discuss the
songs meaning, and also what
your inspiration was for including
a childrens choir in it?
Katz: Well, I think for us, it
was kind of like a call to action.
We were all in a super dark place
at the time we were recording this
record: we were all broke and trying to figure out what we were
going to do with our lives, and
whether or not we were going
to go back to school, and all the
challenges that come with that.
We decided to push forward and
this song came out of it.
We thought that it was really
self-reflective of us, and we included a childrens choir in it because
we thought that the song is kind
of about following your passions
and your dreams and pursuing
those things, and thats kind of
what you think of when youre a
kid. You just kind of follow your
passions and your dreams; you
dont know whether or not you
can be an astronaut, or be another
Jacques Cousteau or something
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and Home
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The band, with lead singers Alice Katz and Sam Martin, has currently released one album,
with plans to produce a second in the near future after their current cross-country tour ends.
like that. You never know, you

dont think about that, you just do
it, you just try to go for it.
Technique: Are you surprised
by its popularity?
Katz: I think youre always
gonna be surprised by any songs
popularity, you know, the music
industrys fickle, and you never
know what people are gonna like,
and you hope that, you know, you
put something out that youve
been working on for years, and
that people like it. Its crazy, but
weve had a great reaction.
Technique: You released a
new single called Pressure a few
months ago, from your follow-up
album. How close are you to releasing a new album?
Martin: We cant wait. Pres-
sure is just kind of something

we wanted to put outI dont
know if we decidedits probably not going to be on the next
record. It was just something to
give the hardcore fans something
in between the first and second,
because weve been touring for so
long that its been hard for us to
get into the studio. But were recording the second album now,
and we cant wait.
Technique: Do you know how
long it is until its coming out?
Martin: Probably EP early
next year, followed by an album.
Technique: Where do you
guys see yourself in the future as
a band?
Martin: Hopefully still together, playing shows. Releasing
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Technique: So, you have a relatively large band with six people.
How hard was it to cooperate during recordings?
Katz: I think everybodys really respectful of each other in
this band, and everybody listens
to each others opinions, and you
kind of know when its right and
know when its wrong. I think
thats essential for a band recording a record. I think this record is
even more collaborative than the
first, and were lovin it; were having a good time together.
Technique: If you werent musicians, what would you be?
Martin: Filmmaker or writer for National Geographic, or
something.
Katz: Yeah, I think Id be like

aI think wed work for Discovery Channel. Well, not Discovery
Channel any more, Discovery
Channel in 1992.
Hughes: Id be a teacherif I
couldnt teach music, then maybe
history or something.
Smith: I went to school for environmental biology, so Id probably be doing something along
those lines. Maybe working for
a local environmental agency or
eco-tourism companies or something like that.
Ahmed: I feel like Id want to
be a cop.
Technique: So many bands
are discouraged from even starting out. What would you say to
the people who told you it wasnt
possible to make it in the music
industry?
Katz: I think that anybody, if
they put their heart into it, and
they pursue it with everything
that they have, theres a good
chance that theyll be successful.
You cant get discouraged: persistence is the most important thing.
If you keep pushing, eventually
something will click.
Hughes: I also think you have
to do it because you love it. If
youre just doing it for the stardom
or to be some idea of what you
think a rock star is, its not gonna
work. You just have to really love
music, because theres gonna be
times when, if you dont love music, youre gonna be tested.
Katz: I dont think that, even
if we werent successful, that we
wouldnt be doing what were doing. Music is in every single one
of us, so even if we werent fulltime musicians, wed still be in a
band, wed still be writing songs
and progressing ourselves as musicians.
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DOUG WALKER
SPEEDBALL
NIKHIL RAGDE
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Technique: Tell me about
yourself and how you got into
speedball.
Walker: Im a fourth year Mechanical Engineering major. The
big thing I do is speedball, but Im
also a major part of my fraternity.
Im the athletic director and recruitment director for that, so that
makes up most of my time.
From a speedball standpoint,
I started playing in high school.
Im from Collins Hill, so Im from
Suwanee, Georgia, which is right
up the road. With that, my track
coach got people in my school
playing it, which is weird because
there are a lot of different versions
across the country.
Technique: What is speedball?
Walker: So, theres going to be
a Wikipedia page for it that will
say one way to explain it. Its got
a very wide range of rules. People
just made it up as they went and
adapted it to how they could play
it.
We had to make it very little
contact. We just use the field
out there with the end zones. Its
// SPORTS
kind of how we adapted it, which

I guess is different from the way
most people play it in high school.
Technique: What sport is it
most like?
Walker: Its kind of like a
combination of football, soccer,
and handball. I think its probably most like handball because
youre running around and passing a lot of the time. Its really a
combination of that and soccer.
I mean, you can run around as
much as you want, but obviously
youre trying to avoid turning the
ball over.
Basically, if you have the ball
in your hands, and the other team
tags you with both hands, its a
turnover. In order to avoid that
you can bobble it in the air, which
is like self passes to yourself to run
by them. To play soccer with it,
just throw it on the ground and
kick it around.
Technique: How did you get
involved with speedball at Tech?
Walker: It was just the guy
who I went to high school with
who finally just reached out to
me. I had a lot of people from my
high school who went here, but no
one really cared that much [about
speedball]. Once he reached out
to me, I realized I needed to get
involved some, because I wasnt
really involved in anything.
Technique: Can you talk
about the Intercollegiate Speedball League (ISL)?
Walker: Its something we
just started two springs ago, with
us and Kennesaw State. Then, I
think it was this past spring, we
added Georgia College and State
University.
Now, I think were adding
[Georgia] State this year, so were
getting them in some scrimmages
hopefully. Then next spring, hopefully we can get Georgia Gwinnett
College and Georgia Southern
and gradually expand as we go.
We thought it would grow faster
since we knew a lot of people at
those schools, but everybody likes
Photo courtesy of GT Speedball
The GT Speedball team has won its first two games of the season versus Kennesaw State and Georgia College and State University. The sport combines skills from football, soccer and handball.
playing it but they just dont want

to be the people who start it because it takes a lot of time.
Technique: What is the end of
season ISL Tournament and the
Ramsey Cup?
Walker: We had one at Kennesaw last year. We just ended up
doing a double elimination thing.
It was kind of funny: we had been
undefeated all of last year and
Kennesaw beat us in the championship, but they ended up breaking the trophy as soon as they
started celebrating.
Ramsey was the track coach
we had in high school, so we just
named [the championship trophy]
after him. That was the first time
we had done that, so we figured it
was an appropriate name.
Technique: How is this season

going?
Walker: This one weve had a
lot of injuries, but were 2-0 right
now. We beat Kennesaw and
Georgia College, so its pretty exciting so far.
Technique: What are your
practices like?
Walker: Everything in practice is just made up drills and
things that we think will help
improve the team. We have guys
who know the game, but are still
getting used to the skill side of
things. In a lot of sports its handeye coordination or foot-eye coordination, but for us it requires
both.
Technique: Can people who
are interested get involved now in
sliver
the middle of the season?

Walker: We always encourage people to come to practice. If
they have any interest at all., well
be out there. Were always happy
to have more people out there
with us, you know, spreading the
word. If anyone is interested, they
should just come out to practice.
Technique: Do you have
anything youd tell people who
havent heard of speedball?
Walker: You know, [speedball] just sounds like another one
of those random sports. But once
you get out there and you start
playing it, you realize how fun it
is. Its not super structured. Its
very open for your own creativity
for whatever you want to do out
there on the field.
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I bought weed at KA. It was okay. The weed at ATO was much
better.
Alumni are stupid and wear stupid hats. People dont wear hats.
Dogs should be the only ones wearing hats. Rat caps are also stupid.
Is anyone reading these?
Lacrosse is apparently dangerous for onseers
Trevor Lindsay SASS QUEEN
So the lacrosse team looks like theyre going to beat up SGA
#DoItForTheVine
Live slivering SGA meetings is my new favorite activity
At least the Lacrosse treasurer hasnt started crying yet
One by one theyre all crossing their arms...theyre getting ready
to pounce
OH SNAP
Conference committee showdown: Grads vs Undergrads
Im surprised that everyone in SGA doesnt look like their in fight
club with how hard they bang the tables.
somebody is pisseddddddd
Truitt is so semi-skilled. You go Truitt!
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Hi Brittany. I know you know I know youre reading this. So hi.
And now I enter the world of pair programming, where nerds
weep and dorks seek answers that cannot be found. For here in
the land of Klaus many things are unattainable: sanity, happiness,
and peace.
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DEFENSE
PERKINS
FROM PAGE 20
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Charles Perkins breaks a long run against the Miami Hurricanes in this years 28-17 victory. Tech
snapped a five game losing streak against Miami, and Perkins had 65 yards rushing in the game.
PERKINS
Outside of football, the business major graduated this past

May and has been interning at
Kraft Foods, where he will be
working full-time after finishing
up at Tech. But before then, hes
planning to enjoy every moment
that he can and wants to leave it
all on the field every game.
Perkins has a message for the
fans as well.
Keep coming out and supporting us, Perkins said. Stay
with us. Its a long season, not
everybody goes undefeated. You
would love to, but theres still a lot
to play for.
There certainly is a lot left
FROM PAGE 20
games) has motivated the team

rather than dampen its mood.
Perkins said, When all is said
and done, were still just a couple
of plays away from being undefeated.
The A-back cites Justin Thomass leadership as an important
influence.
Justins a great leader, Perkins said. You might not see it a
lot, but hes a great leader by example. He isnt someone who gets
down on himself. We call him
Smooth for a reason: he stays
calm throughout.
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to play for, with Homecoming

against Virginia, an ACC showdown against the resurgent North
Carolina State Wolfpack, Clemson at home for the first time since
2011 on Senior Night, and the annual Georgia game.
Perkins, along with the rest of
the A-back corps, will surely have
a significant impact on how the
Jackets perform down the stretch.
In order for the team to reach
double-digit wins for the first
time since 2009, they will have
to see exceptional performances
from Perkins and the rest of the
running game against some tough
defenses.
FROM PAGE 19
Im an upperclassmen. Im
a leader on the defense. We have
other guys too, Isaiah Johnson,
Quayshawn Nealy, Adam Gotsis. [Weve] just been picking
the team up and we still have a
chance to do something special.
Weve only lost 2 games. We still
have a chance to win double digit
games and have a chance to get to
a bowl and the ACC Championship game, Golden said. There is
a lot to play for and were just taking it one game at a time to reach
our goals.
Golden and the team have
been addressing the problems they
had in the UNC game including
tackling.
[UNC has] playmakers, they
have guys on scholarship who are
going to make plays, but thats
no excuse for us missing tackles.
Tackling is 50 percent technique
and 50 percent just wanting to get
the job done.
Replacing the production of
Attaochu and former linebacker
Brandon Watts has not been easy
as the team has struggled to get
pressure on the quarterback this
season.
We have guys who can get the
job done. Keshun Freeman, RookChungong, Tyler Stargel, its just
a matter of fact of just wanting
to get it done and wanting to be
the guy to make the play. Well
add pressure, and Im sure Coach
Roof will dial up some blitzes to
get pressure on the quarterback,
Golden said.
This year, Tech has predominantly run out of the 4-2-5 defensive formation due to having an
experienced secondary.
We mix it up; it just depends
on the situation and where the
game is going. Its up to Coach
Roof, really.
Golden believes the defense
will step up in a major way this
weekend and they hope to have
a big impact on the game to take
pressure off of the offense.
MENS SWIMMING WINS BIG
This past weekend, the mens

swimming and diving team
picked up two big victories against
South Carolina and Pittsburgh
University.
With its two latest wins, the
team moved its record to 3-1
on the season, including three
straight victories, and 1-0 in the
ACC conference.
On Friday, the mens team beat
South Carolina handily by a score
of 186-114 and followed that up
on Saturday with a 170-125 victory over Pittsburgh.
Key swimmers over the weekend were senior Andrew Kosic,
junior Yuval Safra, and freshman Brian Woodbury, who has
impressed both teammates and
coaches this season.
Kosic, Andrew Chetcuti, Taylor Wilson and Noah Harasz
placed in the top five of the 50 free
in first, second, third, and fifth,
respectively.
The following day, Kosic continued his hot streak and won
three more events, making him
6-for-6 in individual events over
the weekend.
The Jackets have put forward
an impressive performance so far
this season and are hoping to finish top five in the ACC Championships.
The mens and womens swimming and diving teams are scheduled to compete next in a dual
meet against both North Carolina
State and Florida State University.
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JACKETS
The Jackets head into their matchup against

Pittsburgh coming off of two straight losses after
starting the season 5-0. There are questions surrounding the teams defense and its ability to stop
the opposition from scoring in key situations. The
Panthers boast a standout wide receiver and are
experimenting with a read-option offense, so the
Jackets defense will certainly
have a lot on its plate.
Techs offense will run
the spread option once again
with Justin Thomas under
center. Zach Laskey is out
with an injury that he suffered in the last game, so Synjyn Days will most likely take
his place as the starting B-back.
The regular A-back corps
of Charles Perkins, Tony Zenon, B.J. Bostic and Deon Hill
should see a lot of action receiving pitches on the op-
Their offense wasnt that successful passing the

ball, but future NFL star, Tyler Boyd, caught a
53 yard pass for a touchdown in the first quarter.
Even though he is just a sophomore, Boyd has
established himself as one of the best receivers in
the country and currently has 514 receiving yards
and five touchdowns.
Tech has struggled the last couple of years
against superstar receivers like Boyd, so Pitt will
definitely try to exploit those matchups against
in 5 touchdowns and racked up 428 yards on 18

targets. However, the Panthers passing defense is
ranked seventh in the nation in yards allowed per
game, so it may be difficult for these receivers to
find open space down field.
On defense, the Jackets will have to account for
an explosive running back in James Connor, who
has gained nearly a thousand yards and scored 11
touchdowns this season. He may prove difficult
to stop for a defense that is giving up an average of 5.3 yards per rushing attempt, which
ranks 115th in the FBS.
The Panthers also have a talented wide receiver in Tyler Boyd, who averages 73 yards per
game. The Jackets gave up almost 400 yards
through the air last week at North Carolina, so
they cannot afford to let Pitt quarterback Chad
Voytik get into a rhythm and connect with Boyd
too often.
If the Jackets can avoid turning the ball over
and control time of possession, they will have a
legitimate shot of winning the game.
Techs secondary.
Despite
standouts on the offensive
side of the ball, Pitts
defense has been
more impressive this
season.
The Panthers are
ranked 14th in the country in scoring defense
and 18th against the run. Pitts rushing defense
will be the toughest Tech has played against this
season.
In last years game, the Panthers were able to
defend Tech with success despite losing, but that
was mainly due to All-American defensive tackle,
Aaron Donald who has graduated.
Tech held Pittsburgh to -6 rushing yards last
season, but dont expect that type of performance
from Techs defense as this years defense gives up
5.26 yards per attempt, ranked 114th nationally.
If Pitt wins the turnover battle and converts
third downs to keep Techs offense off the field,
they have a great chance to win this Saturday.
PREDICTION: Tech 34, Pittsburgh 31 (OT)
PANTHERS
The Pittsburgh Panthers defeated Virginia

Tech last Thursday at
home for their biggest
win of the season. The
Panthers came into
the season with hopes
to compete for a division
championship, but after losing a home game
to Akron, the Panthers seemed like a team that
would struggle in conference play.
Pitt started the season 3-0 and proceeded to
lose their next three games.
However, the Panthers have turned it around
and have been playing well their last couple of
weeks. Pitt comes into the game with only 1 conference loss, so they still have a chance to win the
division championship.
Against Virginia Tech, Pitt started to run more
zone read offense with quarterback Chad Voytik
who had 19 rushes for 118 yards. Along with star
running back, James Conner, the Panthers tallied
up 210 yards on the ground.
tion. They will be running into a strong Pittsburgh

front seven, so it will be important for the blockers
to stick to their assignments and open up the running lanes.
Wide receivers DeAndre Smelter and Darren
Waller will continue to serve as deep threats on play
action and other passing plays. Smelter has hauled
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Golden, defense ready to move on after losses

MARK RUSSELL
SPORTS EDITOR
Sophomore linebacker Paul Davis and true freshman defensive end Keshun Freeman combine to
sack Miami QB Brady Kaaya. Techs defense is ready to fight back after two losses this season.
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After suffering a devastating

loss to the North Carolina Tar
Heels, coach Ted Roof and Techs
defense have gone back to the
drawing board to figure out what
went wrong in Saturdays game
against UNC.
Some credit goes to North
Carolina for playing very well on
offense, but it just wasnt Techs
best day on defense as they struggled to make tackles in the open
field all game long.
Coach Johnson commented
on the tackling and how players
didnt execute, but he hesitated
when asked about whether Techs
defense has improved as the year
has gone on.
Coach Roof was expected to
have his work cut out for him
this season after losing six senior
starers on defense including AllAmerican defensive end Jeremiah
Attaochu.
Even though Tech lost six
starters, they returned two more
safeties from injury including senior Isaiah Johnson and junior
Jamal Golden.
Golden, who also returns punts
and kickoffs, has already put the
past away and only focused on
the upcoming game against Pittsburgh. Even though the team has
struggled the past two games on
defense, Golden is confident going into the Pittsburgh game.
We know its going to be a
physical game. Today at practice,
we practiced 80 percent run [de-
fense] because thats what they

do: they want to run the football, Golden said. [Pittsburgh]
averages 240 yards a game on the
ground, and weve just been working on being physical and trying
to build a wall at the line of scrimmage, Golden said.
However, Pittsburgh added
some new plays in their most recent game against Virginia Tech,
where their quarterback, Chad
Voytik, had 19 carries in the game.
Theyre similar. They run the
same stuff [as last year], but they
also added some new plays similar to what Duke and UNC run
with their new quarterback theyre
starting this year, Golden said.
Golden noted that Pittsburgh
wide receiver Tyler Boyd is a very
good player and that the Tech secondary would keep their hands
full defending him along with
6-foot-2 250 pound running back
James Conner.
The team is expecting to end
the losing streak.
Were just ready to get the
feeling off of us. Weve lost two
straight and nobody likes losing.
We hate losing more than we like
winning so were just looking to
drop the losing streak and start
another winning streak, Golden
said.
Due to graduation of key secondary players from last year,
Golden has stepped into a leadership position for the defense and
special teams unit.
Im an upperclassmen, Im a
leader on the defense. We have
See DEFENSE, page 17
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Perkins hard work paying off in last season

KARTHIK NATHAN
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Even though Tech has lost two
straight games, there have been
some positives to take away from
the last two weeks. This years offense is averaging more total yards
per game than any other offense
in Coach Paul Johnsons tenure at
Tech, and a key contributor has
been A-back Charles Perkins.
After redshirting as a true
freshman and rushing for only 95
yards in the following year, the
6-foot, 205 pound redshirt senior
from Lawrenceville was slotted to
be the starting B-back at the beginning of his sophomore season.
An unfortunate shoulder injury ended his season after just two
games, but Perkins returned as an
A-back and played in all 13 games
last year during his junior season.
Now playing his final season
on the Flats, Perkins explains
what its like to finally be completely healthy.
It feels great, Perkins said.
Being healthy is the number one
thing in football. Youre a different player out there when youre
healthy.
Perkins is indeed a different
player now that hes healthy: the
Collins Hill High School graduate leads a deep crew of A-backs
in rushing yards and has already
established career highs in rushing yards, yards per carry, and
longest rush. Despite his success,

he doesnt want to take credit
away from any of his teammates
on offense.
Im just all about the team,
whatever [head coach] Coach
[Paul] Johnson or [A-backs]
Coach [Lamar] Owens has me doing, whatever I can do to help the
team, thats what Im about Perkins said. Whether its a couple
of carries and mainly blocking or
a lot of carries and little blocking,
Im cool with whatever. As long
as were getting the win, thats all
that matters.
Adding to his mentality of a
team player, Perkins acknowledges that he has taken on more
of a leadership role on the team,
though he has always been a vocal guy, on and off the field.
He is also quick to credit his
teammates for the offensive success theyve enjoyed this year,
especially quarterback Justin
Thomas.
Justin is playing really well,
hes getting great reads. Perkins
said. The offensive line, with
Shaq Mason, too, it all starts up
front. Everybodys rolling and
limiting turnovers; were really
keeping it going by bringing the
energy every play, and thats helping a lot.
The offense will face a tough
test in Pittsburgh this Saturday,
as the Panthers defense ranks in
the top 10 in total yards allowed
Redshirt senior a-back, Charles Perkins, runs for a gain against Miami this season. Perkins, who
has battled injuries throughout his career, is finally healthy and leads the team in yards per carry.
and allows less than 19 points

per game. Pittsburgh did lose star
defensive tackle Aaron Donald
to the NFL but feature mainly
returning players on their stingy
defense. Perkins isnt letting that
faze him, though.
We just have to execute, Per-
kins said. Limit the mistakes and

execute on every drive.
The numbers support his statement: in each of Techs five wins,
the Jackets were either neutral or
ahead in turnover differential.
However, Tech could only muster a combined -3 differential be-
tween its two losses.

When asked about the morale
of the team after back-to-back
losses to ACC rivals, Perkins explained why team morale is just as
high as when Tech was 5-0. The
nature of the losses (both close
See PERKINS, page 17
Gold team wins annual white and gold series

JOE SOBCHUK
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The baseball team conducted
its annual three-game White and
Gold intra-squad series over the
past weekend.
The defending ACC champs
lost several key players on the
pitching staff but returned most
of all their other starters from last
season.
Techs starting pitcher rotation
is unknown, and the bullpen will
be a major question mark as the
team will be replacing its top relief
pitcher, Sam Clay, and its closer,
Dusty Iassacs.
The nine potential positional
starters for this upcoming season
were split evenly among the two
rosters: the White team included
catcher Arden Pabst, second baseman Thomas Smith, shortstop
Connor Justus, third baseman
Matt Gonzalez, and outfielder
Ryan Peurifoy; and the Gold team
had catcher A.J. Murray, shortstop
Brandon Gold, and outfielders
Grant Wruble and Daniel Spingola. Each game was only played
to seven innings, and Team Gold
won two of them to win the series.
Game 1 was pretty competitive as the teams exchanged leads
three times. Pitchers Jonathan
King and Ben Parr made the starts
for teams White and Gold, respectively. Each pitcher went four
innings and gave up three earned
runs, with King also striking out
six batters.
Photo by Austin Foote Student Publications
Zac Ryan pitches in a game against Kennesaw State University; this season Ryan will compete
for a spot in the starting rotation. In the weekend series, Ryan led the team with five strikeouts.
The teams exchanged blows

in the second inning, and heading into the third, Team Gold led
Team White 3-2. Team White
responded in the fourth with two
more runs to take the lead, but
Team Gold tied it up again in the
bottom of the fifth.
Team White jumped ahead
again, 6-4, in the sixth off of a single by Gonzalez, but Team Gold
rallied again with three more runs
in the bottom of the inning to
take the lead for good.
Freshman Trevor Craport
played first base competently for

Team White, going two for three
with a home run and three RBIs,
while also scoring twice himself.
Another freshman, third baseman
Blake Jackson, also drove in three
runs, including the clincher for
Team Gold in the winning effort.
Game 2 ended in a 9-9 tie on
Sunday. Zac Ryan and Matthew
Gorst were the starting pitchers,
and each gave up two runs. The
score was only 2-0 heading into
the fifth inning thanks to solid
pitching and a two-run homer for
Thomas Smith and Team White.

Team Gold took a 5-2 lead in
the top of the sixth via two home
runs by freshmen Daniel Gooden
and Wade Bailey, but Team White
responded with six runs in the
bottom of the inning to go back
on top. Trailing 8-5 in the last inning, Team Golds Spingola blasted a grand slam to recapture the
lead, but an RBI single by Keenan
Innis in the next frame tied the
score. Since it was an exhibition
game, the teams did not plan to
settle the score in extra innings,
and the game ended tied.

Three players for Team Gold,
Spingola, Bailey, and freshman
Kel Johnson, racked up three hits
on the day, with Spingolas grand
slam being the games highlight.
Game 3 was a 4-0 victory for
Team Gold, all off of the bat of
Johnson. He ripped a three-run
homer in the third inning over the
center field wall and popped a solo
shot over right field in the sixth.
He ended the series going 7 for 10
with five RBIs, both stats being
the best of any player.
Ben Schniederjans pitched five
shutout innings for Team Gold,
only allowing four hits and one
walk.
The end of the series marked
the conclusion of fall practice as
well as the last time fans could see
their team in action until the season begins on February 13. This
leaves the coaching staff plenty of
time to select the teams starting
nine on opening day.
They will have to evaluate the
three standout freshmen from the
series Bailey, Jackson, and Johnsonand determine whether or
not they are worthy of a starting
role when the season begins.
Head coach Danny Hall feels
that Johnson could end up playing either first base or in the outfield depending on some other
players and that Bailey could see a
lot of time at second. Jackson will
be competing with two veterans,
Gold and Gonzalez, for playing
time at third.
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VIDYA IYER
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Its that time of year where people from all corners of our campus
come together for a week of pure
excitement. It is Homecoming.
Every year, the Student Center
Programs Council (SCPC) and
several other organizations sponsor events throughout Homecoming. SCPC and the other groups
that help sponsor these events
have worked their hardest at
pumping up the Tech community
before the big game.
This year, they have once again
lined up exciting events for the
campus to take part in.
The jars will be located on Table 5 in the Piedmont Room on
Monday the 27 to Thursday the
30 and on Friday on Table 1 in
the Student Center across the Post
Office.
WATER GUN EVENT
For those who want to take
part in something more physical, SCPC has some grand events
planned, including the Water
Gun Event. This takes place from
October 27 to October 31. Students can partake in this event
alone or form a team of up to ten
people.
This event is essentially playground freeze tag with a bit of
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a twist. Rather than physically

touching a person to freeze them,
participants squirt others with a
water gun.
Once tagged, that player must
wait thirty minutes before tagging anyone else. The game takes
place all over campus, so nowhere
is safe!
freestyle swim, a bike around

campus, and a mile run, where a
different person must compete in
each leg of the race.
Bikers must bring their own
bikes. When limping home after
the race, students may walk past
the next event, the chalking contest.
POWDERPUFF FOOTBALL
Before the Tech football team
plays UVA, all-female football
teams will play each other in the
Powderpuff Football tournament,. Plus, they will be cheered
on by the all-male Powderpuff
Cheerleaders, all on Sunday the
26th at noon on Tech Green.
The flag football players will
have to wear matching numbered uniforms and any contact
(blocking, tackling, etc) will be
penalized. Cheerleading squads of
three to ten members will perform
a two minute dance/cheer routine
and dance mix. Cheerleader uniforms should also be coordinated
with the football teams colors.
CHALKING CONTEST
For the artsy fellows, look into
the Chalking Contest. This event
is taking place on Sunday, October 26 at 9:00 a.m. on Tech Walkway. This years theme is Lost in
the AtlanTech, so if people are
swimming in ideas, this is the
event for them.
All teams must have completed
their chalking by 3:00 p.m. the
same day and must stay within
the designated area of 6 ft by 7 ft.
IRON BUZZ
If the Water Gun Event is not
physically intense enough, the
Iron Buzz team triathlon may be
just for you. The race begins at the
CRC at 9:00 a.m. (check in at 8)
on Sunday the 26.
The event consists of a 200m
MINI 500 RACE

A classic event, loved by many,
is the Mini 500 Tricycle Race
sponsored by the Ramblin Reck
Club. This event will take place on
October 31st at 5:00 p.m. on Peters Parking Deck. Only 50 teams
have the chance to partake in this
beloved event.
The mens division will have to
complete 15 laps and the womens
team have to complete 10 laps in
order to claim victory. The Ramblin Reck Club is giving all the
competing teams a tricycle to

race, which the teams must paint.
SEAWATER SCRAMBLE
Following the aquatic theme,
the Seawater Scramble event has
teams race against each other to
the other side of the pool. There
are eight so-called treasures that
teams must collect by swimming
laps.
On each lap, a team is allowed
to collect one treasure but must
immediately return that item to
the other side of the pool before
going after another treasure. The
two riders for each team will also
ride inflatables in this exhilarating
event.
DIZZY BAT
Another classic event, the dizzy
bat requires individuals to spin
around on a bat ten times. Although contestants may not like
the dizzy feeling, the event is definitely one of the most fast-paced
homecoming races.
After spinning around countless times, students then will approach a line where they will
compete to jump the farthest. The
catch is individuals only have forty seconds to spin and jump, adding a time element to game.
To participate in this fun game
make sure to come to the Capanile October 28 at 2:00 p.m.
STANDS
This homecoming event definitely requires willpower and
endurance. Contestants must arrange themselves on a platform
in thirty seconds and they must
compete with other teams to see
what team stays on the longest.
Although the event may sound
pretty easy to the average person,
this is not the case. The most difficult part for college students may
be the fact that cell-phones are not
allowed on the platform.
There are events for everyone to
take part in- whether artist, sports
buff, or trivia master. Take a break
from classes to enjoy this eventfilled week and show support for
our school and wonderful alumni
during Homecoming week.
UGLIEST MAN ON CAMPUS
The first event to look out for
is the Ugliest Man on Campus,
sponsored by the co-ed service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega. Dont
mistake the name to be a meanspirited and judgmental: this
event is actually a competition to
raise money for local charities or
volunteer efforts.
How this works is students
vote for guys by dropping money
into a jar. All money that is in the
form of coins will be counted as
positive votes and paper money is
counted as negative votes.
2015 Georgia Tech

Startup Competition
$40,000 total prize pool
Edison Prize awarded to the winner
Open to current grad students & 2014 graduates
Final Info Session/Team Mixer:
Mon, Oct. 6 from 7:45-9pm in Scheller 3000
Applications Due:
Mon, Oct. 13
Learn more and apply:

startup.gatech.edu/startup_competition
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ALEXA GRZECH
LIFE EDITOR
Photos by Brenda Lin Student Publications
The Tech marching band performs before the Tech football games as well as during halftime. This year, the band plans to incorporate the influential alumni in the pre-game performance while making the annual Surround Sound concert Halloween-themed.
However, weve take it upon ourselves to get the RATs involved in

homecoming events. For instance,
were highly encouraging them to
participate in the Freshman Cake
Race since its a once in a lifetime
opportunity and a unique Georgia
Tech tradition, said Vinson and
Shah.
Also participating in Techs
homecoming is the band fraternity, Kappa Kappa Psi. The president of the fraternity, Chris Chapman, personally tries to encourage
younger band members to get
more involved with homecoming similarly to Vinson and Shah.
Chapman deems the homecoming experience as truly rewarding.
About a third of the marching band are RATs, so the biggest
thing that we do to prepare [for
homecoming] is just spreading
the word and convincing people
who have never participated that
homecoming events are really
fun, Chapman said.
The fraternity itself also competes in various homecoming

events against other Tech organizations. Chapman also bonds
with newer brothers by recounting his past homecoming experiences.
Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau
Beta Sigma compete as members
of Band Club, so as president and
a visible band member, I try to
share my stories and experiences
of homecomings past with younger members to get them excited,
said Chapman.
Like Markiewicz, Chapman
looks forward to seeing his friends
that previously graduated at all of
the homecoming events.
Having raced the mini 500
three times, Chapman actually
graduated last year so he is taking a slightly less involved role
in homecoming events this year
[instead] paying more attention to
other things, namely the return of
recent alumni.
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Band members also actively
spectate and participate in several
homecoming events to showcase
their school spirit.
The GT band club competes
in a lot of the homecoming events
and we always have members
march in front of the Wreck Parade. I always make sure to participate in pomping and banner,
said Markiewicz.
Im most excited to watch all
our RATs in the Freshman Cake
race and to end the day with a win
over UVA. Vinson shares.
Agreeing with Vinson, Shah
also looks forward to the famous
cake race and the upcoming football game. As members of one of
the oldest Tech student organizations, Vinson and Shah greatly
support RAT involvement in
homecoming activities.
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have any sort of official duty.
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than past years.
With alumni, friends, and
parents in town, we kick off the
homecoming weekend with a
night of music. Every section of
the band will perform their own
festive piece and then for the finale, the entire band joins together
on [the Surround Sound concert]
stage to play our halftime show,
Vinson, third year CS major, and
Shah, third year BME major,
said.
The event also requires every
band member to work extremely
hard to learn and play a wide variety of music in order to successfully entertain the audience, according to the two RAT parents.
For homecoming, Vinson
and Shah also touched on how
the band is including more past
marchers in the celebration by
allowing them to be a part of
the pre-game performances at
the Campanile, Library, and the
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Epitomizing student spirit,

the Yellow Jacket marching band
plays a large role in homecoming
by participating in various activities, performing at the football
game, and carrying out the Surround Sound concert. The band
members also love homecoming,
because the special week adds another dimension to the art of performing.
Every homecoming, there is
an alumni band that performs
with us for part of the show. I love
seeing all of my friends again who
have already gotten out, Sarah
Markiewicz, a fifth-year ChBE
major and band participant, said.
Since homecoming is as much
for the alumni as it is for current
students, the band coordinates
with the Georgia Tech Band
Alumni Association (GTBAA) to
bring our past marchers back onto
the field. This year theyll be a part
of the pre-game performances at
the Campanile, Library, and the
pre-game show that the band performs before every game, adds,
JT Vinson and Hazel Shah, RAT
parents and active Tech band
members.
As the alumni generally only
assist the band during the Alma
Matter, this year they will join the
Yellow Jacket band for the whole
pregame show adding a new element to the bands homecoming
performance.
This year, the band also decided to move their annual Surround Sound concert back to the
Friday night of homecoming, according to Markiewicz. The songs
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With the upcoming homecoming week, the Ramblin Reck

Club, established in 1930, seeks to
remind students about the importance of Techs traditions. They
also hope students and staff will
use homecoming week as a time
to reflect on Techs history.
We run the three biggest traditions, including the cake race,
the Mini 500, and the parade,
and Reck Club members are responsible for making sure these
events are executed effectively,
Marnie Williams, a 2014 Ramblin Reck Club member and Cake
Race chair, said. Homecoming
is a really cool time to remember
who we are as Georgia Tech and
who we are as Yellow Jackets.
According to Williams, the
Reck club begins preparing for
homecoming immediately after
the past Homecoming by doing a
debrief right after the past homecoming with the administration
and key stake holders.
By doing so, they hope to figure out what went well with the
past homecoming and what they
can do to improve the next homecoming. They use this feedback to
make the new Homecoming.
The chairs also have several
responsibilities with regards to
homecoming, as they are very
involved in securing the routes,
while trying to figure out how
[Reck Club] can innovate our
events while keeping our tradi-
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Making an appearance at every Tech football game, the Ramblin Reck is one of Techs official
mascots. The prestigious Ramblin Reck club hosts three Tech traditions homecoming events.
tions. They also must make sure

people know about the events so
they can register.
This year, for instance, Reck
club is enacting changes to make
the upcoming Homecoming better than last years.
We are implementing strategies to make sure the cake race is a
safer environment for all students.
For the Reck Parade, we have got
alumni involved and got it sponsored and finding ways to engage
the student body, because usu-
ally a lot of alumni will attend the

events but students generally will
not, Williams said. We want to
continue to make sure the events
are something that can serve the
campus and not just doing the
events for the sake of doing it.
Williams personally loves the
Freshmen Cake Race, regarding the event as her favorite. Her
involvement in the event affirms
this notion, as she ran the event
her freshmen year, watched it her
second year, and coordinated it
her third year; she was also Homecoming chair last year, and she is
now the Cake Race chair.
I love the Cake Race because
its a neat time for the whole freshmen class to come together and
do a stupid thing and wake up really early, but its also something
you can talk to alumni and other
students about. The tradition of
maintaining things that keeps us
unique as Georgia Tech. For instance, only one other school does
a tricycle race in the whole United
States, said Williams.

Williams encourages individuals to participate in homecoming,
as it is a really cool way to see all
of campus come together whether
its for traditions or for fun.
Also, she says, if you feel like
you are in a bubble at Tech its a
really cool way to get out of the
bubble and see other aspects of
campus.
Currently, the Reck club has
a homecoming committee, and
they have two chairs for every
homecoming event they run. They
also work with SCPC, the alumni
association, and other organizations that plan homecoming
events to come together to create
a homecoming experience.
Williams also hopes the homecoming spirit will translate into
general Tech spirit. Fully embodying Tech spirit, Williams cites the
whistle as her favorite Tech tradition.
The whistle embodies progress and service at Georgia Tech,
and it shows what we have accomplished so far by saying look
we are done with a class or look
we scored a first down. But it also
shows the future, as we still have
to go for another football drive or
look we still have to go for another
class, Williams said.
With responsibilities, such as
washing the Reck once a week
and setting up three hours before
football games, members of the
Reck club hope to carry out Techs
traditions while spending a good
amount of time together.
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ALEXA GRZECH
LIFE EDITOR
Although most of the

homecoming events this year
are the same as previous years
events, Tech students still reflect on the homecoming
events of the past. By remembering glorious Tech football victories and homecoming concert performances,
students can get excited for
the upcoming homecoming
week.
2011 CLEMSON VS. TECH
Although most Tech students can attest to the wellknown UGA-Tech rivalry,
the Clemson-Tech rivalry still
remains alive, as the teams
have played each other a total
of seventy-eight times. With
the reorganization of the
Atlantic Coast Conference
(ACC) in 2005, both teams
were respectfully deemed

cross-division rivals.
Some students may remember the riveting 2011
Clemson-Tech homecoming
football game. With Tech
students and fans rushing
the field, the Yellow Jackets
took home a victory over the
Clemson Tigers with a final
31-17 score.
According to Head Coach
Paul Johnson, It was a great
win. I am really proud of our
guys; I could not be prouder.
He also addressed the individuals who did not believe
in Tech by asking them to
let [Tech] finish the season
before [they] do our tombstone.
With Tevin Washington
breaking the school record for
most rushing yards by a Tech
quarterback, the ClemsonTech homecoming game will
be remembered as a major
Photo by of Joey Cerone
Tech victory.
2013 TURQUOISE JEEP
Last year, Turquoise Jeep
performed at Techs homecoming concert. With Dev
also featuring at the concert,
the Turquoise Jeep band
members took to the stage
singing some of their major
hits.
Although some individuals did not know of the performers before the concert,
after the homecoming show
most Tech students will now
definitely recognize the name.
Moreover, the band generally
tests the limits with regards
to music gaining them thousands of Twitter and Youtube
followers.
Even the co-founder of the
band, Flynt Flossy, claims,
Everything is not meant to
be understood. Summing up
the musics main message in
the above statement, the band
certainly takes some interesting risks when writing lyrics.

2008 TALENT SHOW
Performers always seek to
amaze students at the annual
Homecoming Talent Show.
In 2008, several ballerinas
performed intense dance sequences wowing the fairly
large crowd.
The show has a preliminary round where contestants
send in video submissions;
then, the finalists are selected based on the submissions
with the most popular entries
making it to the ultimate final round.
The talent show is open to
all Tech students. Certificates
are presented to the First, Second, and Third place winners.
Some students prepare well in
advance for the show hoping
to take home a well-deserved
certificate and prize.
Photo by of John Nakano
Photo by of John Nakano
Photo by of Michael James
Photo by of Blake Israel
ALEXA GRZECH
LIFE EDITOR
During Homecoming Week,

Techs student organizations must
come together to create a memorable Homecoming experience.
A major component of Homecoming is the theme. While last
years theme was Greek-focused,
the Student Center Programs
Council (SCPC) selected this
years witty Homecoming theme
to be Lost in the Atlantech.
The theme is decided through
a voting process. There was a
bunch of ideas for the theme and
the idea that received the most
votes was therefore selected,
Timothy Tjia-Gan, the SCPC
Homecoming Chair, said. Ultimately, the Lost in the Atlantech was the theme chosen.
SCPC is also only allowed
to reuse themes every ten years.
The organization also hosts most
of the Homecoming events every
year; including the Talent Show,
Tech Trivia, Mr. and Ms. Georgia
Tech, and the Homecoming Festival. SCPC also helps plan the
homecoming concert.
Another organization, the
National Pan-Hellenic Council
(NPHC), prepares extensively for
Homecoming. Members look forward to participating in the events
every year.
In addition to preparing for
our annual Homecoming Step
Show with the carnival prior to
show time, some of our members
will be teaming up with the African
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American Student Union to

participate in the various Homecoming competitions.
They will also try to bring
something new the campus has
not seen before for the eighth annual Homecoming Step Show.
For the first time we will be
adding an additional organization to our list or performers, Iota
Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. They
will be competing for both the
overall step competition and our
intermission stroll off competition, said Tkeyah Anderson, the
NPHC current president, said.
The campus will be able to see all
of the Divine 9 Organizations of
the National Pan-Hellenic Council.
The Step Show will take place
at the Tech Ferst Center on October 24 at 6 p.m. Dubbed the liveliest step show of the year, Anderson urges students to go watch the
performance.
Anderson personally looks forward to the Pomp Display Contest because it brightens up our
campus, as the ideas are extremely
creative and humorous.
Team Buzz, a Tech community service organization, organizes
a major Team Buzz community
service event at the beginning of
Homecoming Week to provide a
day that will act as a focal point
and allow our campus to come together to serve.
The project coordinators of the
service event, play an integral role
in the success of a service event
by leading volunteers on different
community service projects. Stu-
dents can sign up under a project

coordinator event that suits their
interests.
I am really looking forward
to the community service Team
Buzz event. I feel it is a great time
to come together as a campus to
better the Atlanta community,

Terynne Burgan, a second-year IE
major, said. I wanted to sign up
for the event because all of the volunteer opportunities looked neat
and I am excited to get involved.
All of the organizations who
work on and host events during

Homecoming are proud to be a
part of such long standing and
well-loved traditions. As shown
by their dedication, future Homecomings will have a lot to live up
to.
Photo by Ben Stewart Student Publications
Students perform in the annual Homecoming Step Show. Hosted by NPHC, the Step Show generally attracts many students, and the event will add a new organization to performance this year.
HOMECOMING
NICK JOHNSON
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The student body seemed generally receptive to the fact that
the homecoming artist this year
is Hoodie Allen. Allen, a University of Pennsylvania graduate and
Alpha Epsilon Pi brother, actually
worked at Google before becoming a full-time musician. With the
major hit No Interruption, Allen rose to success , which hopefully translates into a hit Tech
Homecoming concert.
The process behind the selection of the homecoming artist
may confuse some students, but
Students Center Programs Council (SCPC) hopes to clear up this
issue.
Last year in the spring, SCPC
sent out a survey listing ten artists within the organizations price
range; the artists also had to be
available on the proposed homecoming concert date, October 23.
Based on that list, students
then filled out the survey. Moreover, the most popular artist was
the one SCPC contacted to perform at the event.
Hoodie was actually the first
chosen with 67 percent of the
student body, so we are expecting great attendance, Anna Berinhout, the SCPC Homecoming
Concert chair, said. The second

option was Twenty-One Pilots,
but it would not have worked out
anyway because they were performing at Music Midtown, and
theres a clause that they cannot
perform within ninety days at the
same city.
According to Berinhour, if
Hoodie Allen was unable to make
the concert then we wouldve had
to go with Aloe Blacc. Blaccs
popular hit The Man landed
him this coveted third slot. Other
musicians and bands listed on the
survey included Walk the Moon
and Local Natives.
The homecoming concert this
year is also still free, and Berinhout hopes in years to come students will continue to not have to
pay. After all, the free concert sets
Tech apart from other universities homecoming concerts.
Depending on how much
funding we get with SGA, our
first option is always going to
be make the concert free. Its for
the students, and we dont want
to make the students pay for it
Berinhout adds. If we were to
get more funding from SGA, the
trade-off would be to charge students maybe five to ten dollars,
and then that money would go
back to SGA.
Other schools charge students
for the homecoming concert resulting in larger artists performing at the respective universities,
as Tech used to do two years ago.
For instance, Kennesaw State
had Wiz Khalifa, and they get a
lot of funding from the artist in
and of itself, around 75 thousand, and then they charge their
students 21 dollars to get into the
concert, and that goes back to
their Student Government Associations, Berinhout said.
SGA only gives SCPS 27 thousand dollars but the organization
is still very grateful for the funds.
We got 27 thousand from
SGA, which is a little different
than KSU, but we are obviously
very thankful. But its not enough
to get these more well-known artists, Berinhout says.
She rightfully cites the homecoming concert as her favorite
homecoming event, but she also
looks forward to the Mini 500 tricycle race.
With last years artists including Turquoise Jeep and Dev, most
students are looking forward to
a better-known artists performance, such as 2012s 3OH!3 and
2011s T-Pain.
With 170,000 followers on
Spotify, Hoodie Allen will hopefully fit the bill for this years
homecoming concert.
Photo courtesy of Hoodie Allen
Hoodie Allen is the Techs 2014 Homecoming artist. He was

voted the most wanted artist on the SCPC survey last year.
NICK JOHNSON
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
With the countless Facebook
invites promoting candidates
running for Mr. and Ms. Georgia Tech, most students are aware
of the famous Tech tradition. Although most Tech students know
about the Mr. and Ms. GT, some
individuals may not understand
the inner-workings of the selection process.
Deron Mai, a third-year
CompE and member of the
SCPC Homecoming committee,
understands the selection process
best, as he is in charge of the Mr.
and Ms. GT event.
I was on the homecoming
committee last year also, and
both years I did Mr. and Ms. GT.
Essentially, what Im in charge of
is logistical stuff, communication
between us and the candidates,
setting up everything for interviews, Mai said. I did the exact
same thing last year.
The Homecoming committee
could not be done alone, however.
Its a co-chair position, and
Gabby [Adler] is my co-chair.
Theres usually one person whos
been on the homecoming committee before to show the ropes
to the new person. Last year, I
was the new person, and I got a
lot of experience with the event,
Mai reminisced. This year, Im

the more experienced person
helping Gabby with how the
event runs. Its a pretty big event
to keep in check.
The selection process is split
into three phases: Round 1 interview, Round 2 presentation, and
general voting.
The road to homecoming begins with 25 men and 25 women.
On App Day, pre-candidates
sign up for a time slot for the
round 1 interview. A 3.15 GPA
is required as well as sponsorship
from any Tech organization or
50 signatures from GT students
and faculty.
Slots are filled on a first comefirst served basis. Unfortunately,
students who cannot fit a time
are unable to participate, and
GPAs arent validated until after
the 50 have been signed up.
What we are going to start
doing in the near future is checking [for GPA] earlier just in case
we do have someone ineligible,
Mai said. Then well have a
wait list because every year we
do have one or two people who
cant make the interview or cant
fit the time slot into their schedules.
For round 1, unbiased judges
are given five questions to ask to
the 25, such as What would you
have done differently your freshman year? for the judges to get a
feel for the students and what

theyre involved in and their passion for Tech. This is 5% of each
candidates overall score.
Another set of judges review
each candidates application,
which includes an essay and a list
of honors and achievements. This
is worth another 5%.
The top 10 candidates move
on to the second round presentations. Students are given four or
five days to prepare their presentations based on a prompt. Some
students make PowerPoints;
some students have more elaborate presentations.
This year, the prompt was If
you came back as an alum in 25
years, what would you like to see
has changed? So someone made
a newspaper from that year, an
entire newspaper, Mai said.
Last year, Jacline [Griffeth, last
years Ms. GT] did her entire
presentation with these blocks
which eventually were built into
a giant Tech T. I had no idea what
she was doing when she lugged in
this giant cart of blocks.
Round 2 presentations are
done in tandem with the student
bodys voting which began on
Thursday the 22nd. Round 2 is
worth 50% of the overall score,
and voting is worth 40%. Candidates may only campaign online; they cannot have tangible
things like events or even flyers.
After voting ends on the 29th,
the top five Misters and five
Misses are announced at Mock

Rock.
When we calculate the final
five, we actually do know who
the winner is, Mai quipped.
Each year, were taking 50 of
the most talented students at
Tech. On any scale comparing
them from one to ten, these people would definitely be a hard 10,
and were comparing all of them
against each other.
These are the 10 finalists who
will be seen during halftime of
the homecoming football game,
which this year is Tech vs Virginia. Tech is currently 50-14-1 in
homecoming games since 1949,
and Mai (along with 14,681 other undergraduates) is hoping for
that 51st win.
Though it may seem true, being Greek or even being sponsored by a Greek organization
is not a requirement to apply for
Mr. and Ms. GT. But it certainly
helps.
Being Greek is not a requirement in any way, but it does turn
out that each year, we have a
large portion of candidates who
are Greek, Mai admitted. Id
like to say its not a popularity
contest, but, obviously, people
are more likely to vote for people
they do recognize. Some people
do have a larger reach on campus
because theyre so involved.
Recently, many Homecoming events have moved to an app
(Guidebook, free). Students can
check the app for information
and submit forms on app day

rather than searching through
the website and carrying a binder
of forms and papers.
In past years, we stuck all the
application stuff on the website,
and then everyone printed them
out on App Day and, in general,
brought anywhere from 10-20
sheets of paper, Mai said. The
result waswe were killing a lot
of trees, first offwe had a lot
of stuff to sort through. Wed
spend hours putting everyones
information into the computer,
double checking waivers, and
now its all digital.
When asked what Mr. and
Ms. GT do after homecoming
week ends, Mai explained what
his plans are for the future of
the winners. As of right now, the
winners do not do much.
In the past, [the title] has
been like an honor, something
you get because of everything
youve done. In the future, we
want to take it and have them
show up at events, Mai continued.
Last years Mr. GT winner, Stephen Webber, did talk
at a lot of random events, but I
think it was because he was also
the Reck driver while being very
involved on campus along with
other things, stated Mai. I feel
hosts asked him to speak more as
Stephen Webber rather than Mr.
GT winner. So were going to try
to extend it to more than just an
honor, which it is currently.
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