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2 August 19, 2011 Technique FRESHMAN SURVIVAL GUIDE
TECH TRADITIONS
By Vijai Narayanan
Editor-in-Chief
On behalf of the Technique
sta and the rest of the campus
community, I have the pleasure
of welcoming new freshmen,
transfer and graduate students to
Tech. Id also like to extend those
greetings to new faculty and sta.
I hope that you will nd your time
here as rewarding as I have during
the past three years as a student.
As the campus newspaper,
the Technique strives to provide
campus with the most accurate
and unbiased information in a
timely manner. Our current is-
sue contains the annual Fresh-
man Survival Guide, which aims
to educate freshmen about Tech
traditions and pastimes while also
providing advice to help them
make the most out of the next
four (or more) years of their life
at Tech. While aimed primarily at
freshmen, current members of the
Tech community may also discov-
er new facets of campus so read
on to nd out more!
For those of you beginning
your college career next week, I
advise you to take full advantage
of the opportunities available to
you during your time here. Most
importantly, I encourage you to
approach the next four years of
your life with a plan. What do you
want to get out of your time here?
What kind of impact do you want
to make on this institution?
e plan you create will surely
change during your time here, but
it will allow you to strategically
approach the opportunities avail-
able to you, thereby allowing you
to make the most of your time.
I also encourage you to seek
out resources when you need help
solving a problem or overcoming
challenges. Tech is a very chal-
lenging place academically, but
resources exist to help you succeed
at every opportunity with which
you are presented. If you need
course help, make use of the many
tutoring services available ei-
ther through the Center for Aca-
demic Success, Housing, OMED
or your campus department.
Lastly, take time to carefully
choose the extracurricular ac-
tivities you pursue. While your
coursework will help you gain the
knowledge necessary to succeed
in your professional life, the ac-
tivities you pursue outside of class
will help you grow personally and
gain a better understanding of
who you are and what youre pas-
sionate about.
I joined the Technique three
years ago because I wanted to
become a better writer and learn
how to communicate more eec-
tively with my peers. Since then
Ive discovered a passion for writ-
ing and created lasting personal
relationships with many students,
sta and faculty across campus. I
cant imagine my college experi-
ence being the same without hav-
ing taken the time to write my
rst article in the fall semester of
my freshman year.
Wherever your college experi-
ence leads you, I sincerely wish
you the best of luck on your jour-
ney.
If you ever have any questions
about a campus event or develop-
ment, stop by the Technique of-
ce in Rm. 137 of the Smithgall
Student Services (Flag) building
or email me at editor@nique.net
Feel free to also come by during a
weekly sta meeting on Tuesday
nights at 7 p.m. and pick up a
story to write.
e Nique, as we call our-
selves, had its humble beginnings
on Nov. 17, 1911. Apparently, we
were just as preoccupied back then
as we are now with our football ri-
valry against UGA our rst is-
sue revolved around an upcoming
game against our old foe (a game
that we lost, incidentally), and
featured an article by legendary
coach John Heisman.
At the time, we were Techs
second student newspaper, pre-
ceded by e Georgia Tech. In
1916, e Georgia Tech merged
with the Technique, and since it
was our name that survived, we
like to pride ourselves on being
Techs longest running student
newspaper.
We have chronicled every-
thing from the rst appearance
of George P. Burdell on Techs
rosters in 1920 to the peaceful,
voluntary desegregation of the
Institute in 1961. And of course,
we have kept up faithful coverage
of Tech sporting events, including
the 222-0 whopper of a football
victory (the largest college football
victory in history) over Cumber-
land College in 1916.
Today, we are published bi-
weekly during the summer and
weekly during the fall and spring
semesters, with the exception of
Dead Week, nals week and
Spring Break. Around 30 students
keep our paper running, and of
course, we always welcome new
writers, photographers and edi-
tors, so feel free to swing by if you
are interested.
THE NIQUE: 100 YEARS
>>> Steoling the "T" "Budueiser" Song <<<
>>> 1reshmon Coke Roce Mini goo <<<
Techs most famous
landmark is also the crux of
its most famous tradition:
stealing the T o of Tech
Tower. ough a success-
ful heist hasnt been pulled
o in over a decade, most
Tech students can rattle o
a list of facts and protocols
for stealing the T (includ-
ing which of the four Ts to
steal rst, when to return a
stolen T, and the details of
the security system keeping
the letters where they are
intended to be). While it
is also the root of the more
controversial trend of scrap-
ing Ts o of campus signs,
stealing the original T is still
a prank most Tech students
have dreamed of pulling o.
Before sunrise the day of
Techs Homecoming foot-
ball game, freshmen line
up outside Russ Chandler
Stadium and race to Bobby
Dodd Stadium. e term
race, however, implies
a more civilized competi-
tion, as the Freshman Cake
Racewhich is split into
two races, one for men and
one for womenis a mad
dash over the half-mile dis-
tance leaving many partici-
pants exhausted or injured.
e reward for the winner,
aside from bragging rights,
is a large cake made by stu-
dents, alumni or faculty and
a kiss from either Mr. or Ms.
Georgia Tech at halftime of
that days football game.
At almost every Tech
athletic event, the Tech
band, directed by Tech
mascot Buzz, plays the Bud-
weiser song.
e song can be heard
after the third quarter at
football games, during the
second-to-last ocial time
out at basketball games and
late in home games for near-
ly every other sport.
It doesnt matter whether
they are 18 or 80when
the song is heard, Tech stu-
dents and alumni alernate
bobbing up and down to the
iconic tune.
Tech fans at away games
may also be seen Budweiser
bopping, whether or not
the band is present.
e Ramblin Reck Club
organized the rst Mini 500
tricycle race in 1969, and to-
day it remains a staple event
of Homecoming Week.
Fraternities, sororities,
residence halls and indepen-
dent groups sponsor teams
of up to seven peoplefour
riders and three crewmem-
bersfor a race around
Peters Parking Deck that
spans either 10 laps (for fe-
male teams) or 15 laps (for
male and mixed teams).
e annual event always
draws a large crowd and
is one of a handful of col-
legiate tricycle races in the
country, and the Mini 500
commercial has won an
Emmy award.
>>> To Hell uith Ceorgio
On Nov. 4 , 1893, Tech
and UGA met for the for
the rst time on the football
eld with Tech winning 28-
6.
e two schools that are
separated by 70 miles have
been in a heated rivalry
known as Clean, Old-
Fashioned Hate ever since
Techs initial victory.
When someone shouts
the phrase To Hell with
Georgia! its known as the
Good Word and will often
be heard as a cry from the
student section at sporting
events.
For students and alumni,
a win over a UGA team
could dene an entire sea-
son.
Romhlin' Reck <<<
e 1930 Ford Model A
Sport Coupe that leads the
football team onto the eld
at every home game is the
older of Techs two o-
cial mascots. e Ramblin
Reck dates back to 1914, a
time when the Jackets were
formally known as the En-
gineers, and has long been
present at major sports
games and prominent on-
campus events. e vehicle
is maintained by the Ramb-
lin Reck Club from year to
year. Notably, no freshman
should ever touch the Reck;
doing so curses the football
team to lose to Georgia and
sentences the student to bad
luck throughout his or her
Tech career.
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Technique August 19, 2011 3 FRESHMAN SURVIVAL GUIDE
HOW TO...
Cet o dote
College can be a very stress-
ful time, and what better way to
take your mind o things than
by dating? Dating at a school
like Tech, where most students
are academically inclined, and
the girl to guy ratio is 1:2, dat-
ing can seem daunting to even
the most experienced of daters.
But with good guidance and a
few tips, dating can be as simple
and fun as its meant to be.
ink outside the box when
wondering where to meet the
right person to date. Use your
interests to meet people. Class-
es and your residence halls are
a place to meet people but not
always a hit. Join dance clubs,
environmental societies, intra-
mural sports teams or multicul-
tural organizations as these tend
to attract interesting people. For
guys, the Society of Women En-
gineers or Emory can be great
places to meet women. For girls,
the pickup soccer games on the
SAC elds are great places to
meet interesting men.
When you do meet someone,
dont be shy or be afraid to be
who you are. If you have unique
interests and hobbies, try to in-
clude the hobby as part of your
date. If you enjoy cooking, cook
together instead of going to a
restaurant or if you like danc-
ing, take a dance class together.
You get the point.
Condence, not cockiness
is the key. No one likes people
who wear an attitude on their
shoulder for no reason, where-
as condence is an immediate
charmer. Girls like guys who
come out and say what they
want. If you like a girl, then
dont be afraid to tell her that
and ask her to hang out with
you in a romantic setting later.
is even applies to girls being
straightforward and telling the
guy what they really want.
Most importantly, dont be
afraid of rejection. Try and try
again till you succeed. Its not
the end of the world if you dont
get a date with someone but you
wont know what to do dier-
ently unless you try.
Succeed ot Tech
If you want to succeed at
Tech, there are three essential
rules you need to learn to live
by. First, and most important-
ly, is go to all your classes. You
have probably heard how easy it
is to skip classes in college, es-
pecially with those big lecture
classrooms. However, dont let
yourself fall into that trap. It
may be tempting, but its de-
nitely not worth it in the long
run. Inevitably you will be play-
ing catch-up, and your grades
will suer. Save your absences
for real emergencies.
e second big rule is do all
your assignments on time. Re-
serve some time after class each
day to do your homework. Its
up to you to budget your time
when your parents arent here to
remind you. If you are hanging
out more than studying, your
grades will start to slip. is
involves assigned reading too;
these are not your high school
classes where you can skip the
reading and still do ne. If you
really want to succeed and get
all As, you have to do the read-
ing.
e last and nal rule is
dont procrastinate (too badly).
Admittedly, everyone has trou-
ble with this rule sometimes.
However, it will save you a lot of
stress and countless all-nighters
at the library if you are able to
work on papers and projects
in a timely fashion instead of
waiting until the night before
its due. Your thoughts will be
clearer and more concise with-
out the clock hanging over your
head. If you do nd yourself
procrastinating, try to identify
what the problem is. Maybe you
need complete silence. If so, go
to the library. Maybe you just
need a break for twenty min-
utes. Whatever it is, gure it out
and get it done. Your papers not
going to write itself.
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Cet olong uith gour roommotes
One hurdle you may face
while living independently in
college is getting along with
your roommates. After living
in the comfort of your home
with people you know and un-
derstand, suddenly living with
someone from an entirely dier-
ent background can pose chal-
lenges. With the right attitude,
every roommate situation can
be at least pleasant, if not ideal.
e most important thing to
remember and be mindful of is
the fact that at a diverse college
like Tech you will have people
from very varied backgrounds;
economic, social, cultural and
even political. Making an eort
to understand why your room-
mate might do things dierent-
ly or have habits and interests
that are dierent than yours
will ensure that you dont form
a negative opinion about them.
Find common interests and
try to involve your roommate
in activities you might be doing
outside your academics; wheth-
er its joining an organization,
going for a jog or catching a bite
at a restaurant. Invite them to
whatever you are comfortable
with and dont be disheartened
or persistent if they are not
keen. It is very important to be
respectful of each others space,
things and opinions.
Talk to them and learn about
their family, their past and their
lives before coming to college.
What are their aspirations and
goals, and what are they expect
from college? Trying to make a
connection is important but if
there isnt anything you con-
nect on, dont force it either. It
would be great if you could be
best pals with your roommate,
but its better to be cordial than
to hate each others guts.
Finally set the ground rules
early: cleaning responsibili-
ties, tolerance to loud music,
inviting guests over, sharing
groceries and respecting each
others physical space. e key
to a good relationship with your
roommate is that both sides are
honest, accommodating and
straightforward. ere is bound
to be a dierence in opinion but
what matters is that you deal
with those dierences with an
open mind and the right atti-
tude!
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Be o good fon
Before you set foot in Bobby
Dodd Stadium, OKeefe Gym
or any other athletic venue
thats hosting a Tech sporting
event for the rst time, youll
want to be fully prepared for
the experience. Itll be a fun
few hours under any scenario,
but that rst game will be even
better if youre prepared going
in.
First, learn the cheers. Its a
process that begins on day one
of your collegiate career, when
at convocation you learn that
the Good Word is To Hell
with Georgia! It takes a bit
more time to learn the lyrics
to Ramblin Wreck and Up
with the White and Gold, but
if you dont make an eort to
do so, you will quite literally
be the only one still guring
things out when the rst foot-
ball game rolls around on Sept.
1.
Secondly, always stay for
the whole game. A true fan
never abandons his or her
team, whether theyre winning
easily or getting stomped, and
its just plain embarrassing to
have hundreds of empty seats
in the student sections at kick-
o. Besides, youll regret it if
you show up late and miss a
74-yard touchdown run on
the games rst play, or if you
leave early during a blowout
and miss a huge comeback that
results in an exciting, down-to-
the-wire nish. Just do yourself
a favor and take a few hours
o from school to enjoy the
entire college football experi-
ence from start to nish. Its
(usually) Saturday afternoon,
after all.
Beyond that, just keep it
classy and professional. While
its fun to jeer at the opposing
team and sometimes at sub-
par referees, a good fan (and
by transition a good fanbase)
knows that noise is the most
powerful tool available and
doesnt need to resort to un-
necessary cursing and profan-
ity to intimidate the oppo-
nentespecially considering
there are plenty of children in
the stadium. Get creative, by
all means, but dont embarrass
yourself and the rest of your
fellow fans by crossing that
line.
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Photo by Phyllis Petronello / Student Publications
Photo by John Guthrie / Student Publicaitons
Photo by Ben Keyserling/ Student Publicaitons
Photo by Kelvin Kuo / Student Publications
6 August 19, 2011 Technique FRESHMAN SURVIVAL GUIDE
CAMPUS RESOURCES
>>> Housing
When you have ques-
tions about campus housing
contact the Department of
Housing. When you arrive
to your room, be sure to
check for problems. If you
nd issues, you can le a
maintenance request on the
housing website to get the
problem xed as soon as
possible.
During the spring semes-
ter, the housing oce will
send out information on
how to register for housing
for the following year.
>>> 1reshmon Tutoring
Tech may be a school
with famously dicult
academics, but the admin-
istration does not leave its
students without resources
to get by. Opportunities for
out-of-class help range from
TA oce hours to depart-
ment-organized tutors to
resources at campus organi-
zations.
For students just starting
their college career, how-
ever, Housing oers tutor-
ing to freshmen through
its Freshman Experience
program. Sunday through
ursday, tutors are avail-
able on East and West cam-
pus to help students survive
tough classes, like Calculus,
Physics and Chemistry.
>>> Bursor's Ofpce
e Bursars Oce
handles student tuition, -
nancial aid disbursement
and billing. It is located in
Lyman Hall. is oce is
central for nancial matters
for students. e Bursars
Oce often emails students
about tuition payments as
the deadline approaches.
e oce is undergoing a
green transition as all bills
and refunds are processed
online. All student refunds
are assessed through the
Electronic Funds Transfer.
Registror <<<
e Registrars Oce is
responsible for maintaining
student academic records,
including transcripts and
certication verications.
e oce is in Tech Tower.
Ocial transcripts can be
obtained from here, as well
as forms regarding academic
standing, enrollment veri-
cation and degree petitions.
e Registrar is linked
with OSCAR, the system
through which students
choose class schedules for
upcoming semesters.
O1T<<<
What would one of the
top technology institutes in
the nation be without an
established tech-support or-
ganization as a cornerstone?
Oce of Information
Technology (OIT) provides
assistance to the technologi-
cal challenges of the entire
campus, including those of
faculty, sta and students.
Several oces and facili-
ties are set up across cam-
pus, the most convenient of
which being on the ground
oor of Library West. For
any trouble with wired and
wireless internet, computer
hardware and software is-
sues, account information
or any similar problems, you
should not hesitate in seek-
ing help at one of the OIT
support locations.
Course Critigue <<<
SGAs Information Tech-
nology Committee designed
Course Critique to make
course reviews and grade
distributions accessible to
both students and faculty.
To use the site, a student
types in a potential future
course. e website returns
average GPAs, including the
specic professors teaching
the course or have taught it
in the past. e percentages
of students who made As to
Fs are listed, as class sizes
and number of withdrawals.
Interested in writing,
photography, design or ad-
vertising?
Join the Technique to get
the chance to discover all
aspects of campus! Weekly
sta meetings Tuesdays at
7 p.m. in Flag Building
Rm. 137
www.nique.net
Technique August 19, 2011 7 FRESHMAN SURVIVAL GUIDE
99
ninety-nine
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inings io do before you

1. Wear your RAT cap.
2. Ride the elevator
to the top of the
Westin Peachtree
Plaza Hotel. It ro-
tates.
3. Ask an upperclass-
man about Juniors
and mourn the fact that
you may never get to eat
there.
4. Buy a class ring. e year
can be changed.
5. Drop a class.
6. Stand in line.
7. Go to the top of the Stu-
dent Center and watch the
sun set or rise.
8. Go to the beach. Any
beach will do.
9. Visit Career Services be-
fore your senior year.
10. Blow o homework for a
date (or a video game).
11. Pull an all-nighter as if
you have a choice.
12. Read at least one Technique
from cover to cover.
13. Wander aimlessly around
campus after being shafted
by your last exam.
14. Run past a tour group
screaming, e Horror!
e Horror!
15. Complain about Auxil-
iary Services. Choose from
parking, housing, dining,
etc.
16. Meet the waitress at Wae
House at 4 a.m.
17. Count her teeth and play
the Wae House song.
18. Fall asleep on your keyboar
dddddddddddddddddddd
dddddddddddddddddddd.
19. Go to a fraternity rush
party and claim to be
from Eni, Alaska.
20. Work for the Tech-
nique, or at least
come to a meeting.
We have free pizza.
21. Climb on one of
the magnolia trees
near the Campanile.
22. During senior year, show
up for your last lab or nal
hammered. Dont blame
us for the consequences.
23. Dance. Dance publicly and
wildly. Ignore the laughter.
24. Call your parents and
beg for money.
25. Call Financial
Aid and beg for money.
26. Go to
North Ave.
and beg for
money.
27. Build a
wreck for
Homecom-
ing. Personal
vehicles do not
count.
28. Pick up a guy or girl
in the Library East Com-
mons.
29. Light sparklers in your on-
campus apartment to cel-
ebrate New Years.
30. Run in the Freshman Cake
Race. Senator Sam Nunn
did, and look what it did
for his career.
31. Compete in the Mini-500
race. Try to avoid causing a
mass collision.
32. Shove a large metal, beer-
distributing object in your
dorm room. When its
empty, pass out.
33. Vote in the SGA elections.
Its important to choose
the people who spend your
activity fee for you.
34. Put on the Freshman 15.
35. Work out at the CRC to
lose the Freshman 15.
36. Date someone from anoth-
er school.
37. Imagine your roommate
is being paid to ruin your
life.
38. Realize that
your professors are,
in fact, getting paid
to ruin your life.
39. Give Dean
Stein, or any other
administrator, a hug.
Tell him or her that the
Nique sent you.
40. Complain about con-
struction on campus.
41. As a consequence of #40,
use Dijkstras Algorithm
to nd the shortest path to
your classes.
42. Eat Easy Mac and/or Ra-
men noodles ve times in a
given week.
43. Wait 10 minutes for a
Stinger when it would only
take ve to walk to class.
44. Watch three red
routes line up un-
der the North Ave
Stinger stop be-
fore a blue route
passes by.
45. Get some free
condoms. Use
when appropriate
(guys and gals).
46. Successfully appeal a
parking ticket.
47. Shack.
48. Go to Under the Couch.
49. Take a nap in between
classes in the Music Lis-
tening Room. All the tour
guides say its all the rage
at Tech.
50. Join SGA.
51. Quit SGA.
52. Wish you were home (not
too much in your fresh-
man year it looks bad).
53. Streak during Midnight
Madness, but dont get
caught by the GTPD.
54. Go to every Tech home
game during one football
season.
55. Road trip to at least one
away game. While there,
try to convince the public
address announcer to page
George P. Burdell.
56. Take the Stinger to the
CRC.
57. Decide not to go to the
CRC when the Stinger
doesnt arrive on time.
58. Drink Hunch Punch.
59. Take aspirin and recon-
sider #58.
60. Skip class as a result of a
headache caused by #58.
61. Spend a summer semes-
ter on campus and go to
Flicks on Fifth.
62. Join one of the Student
Center Program Council
committees.
63. Have a conversation with
someone on a bench on
Tech Walkway, formerly
known as Skiles Walkway.
64. Go to Athens. is is a No
Brain Zone. Plan to stay
the night.
65. Go down to Savannah for
St. Patricks Day.
66. Ask a professor to lunch.
67. Ask a professor to happy
hour.
68. Have a conversation
with the Dean
Grin statue un-
til someone notic-
es. en stare back
like he or she is the
weird one.
69.
70. Learn the words to Up
With the White and
Gold.
71. Break up, then make up,
with your boyfriend or
girlfriend.
72. Learn the story of Side-
ways the Dog.
73. Register for a class that is
taught in Tech Square,
knowing full well you cant
possibly get back on cam-
pus in time for your next
class.
74. Go more than one week
without showering.
75. Change your major.
76. Take a nal.
When youre
nished, im-
m e d i a t e l y
change your
major.
77. Talk to a MGT
major about their class-
es. Immediately change
your major.
78. Get your picture made
with the Ramblin Reck.
79. Relax on Tech Green, or
for those with allergies,
in the Clough Commons
room with astroturf.
80. ink about
transferring to
U[sic]GA.
81. Wake up. It
was only a
bad dream.
82. Get lost while
driving in At-
lanta. Curse the
plethora of roads named
Peachtree.
83. Make friends, or visit old
ones, at Georgia State or
Emory.
84. Make a late night trip
to Wingnuts with said
friends. Free half-pound
on Wednesday!
85. Go to Bur-
dells and wonder
how they can charge
so much money on
the basis of conve-
nience.
86. Sleep on your
or your hallmates oor by
accident.
87. Play trivia at Rocky Moun-
tain Pizza, Fifth Street Ribs
and Blues or anywhere for
that matter.
88. Form an intramural sports
team with your friends.
89. Enjoy the Campanile
fountain while it lasts.
90. Bowl at Tech Rec.
91. Figure out why dierential
equations are important
things to know.
92. Discover why the lights are
always on in the Architor-
ture building.
93. Visit a friend in the
Architorture building.
Take a care package
of No-Doz and Red
Bull.
94. Eat too many
Naked Dogs from
the V. Vow never to eat
there again.
95. Express every opinion
youve ever had on every
newsgroup.
96. Discover that your room-
mate is not nearly as ob-
noxious now that he or she
has Word.
97. Work with a professor on
a research project for a
semester, summer or
a week.
98. Walk into a -
nal and say, What
the hell is this
crap? And wheres
the regular guy?
99. Concoct, but
dont enact, a plan to steal
a T o Tech Tower.
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A
e rst letter of the alphabet. It also
allegedly appears on grade reports.
Well believe it when we see it.
Borger Bowl
e giant eld on West Campus
where games of frisbee, soccer, rugby,
baseball and much more. It earned
the Burger part of the name be-
cause it used to have a Burger King
there and youll know why it is called
a bowl when you nally see it.
BozzCurd
Student ID and campus debit card.
Dont leave home without it.
Co-Op
Co-operative work assignments,
where you alternate working at a
company and taking classes. It may
postpone your graduation for about
a year but youll make a lot of money
and will get a better job when you
graduate. A good deal if you can get it.
CRC
Campus Recreation Center. A place
to exercise and forget about dieren-
tial equations for a while. Was used
as a facility during the 1996 Olympic
Games. Once known as the Student
Athletic Complex (SAC).
Coorse Critiqoe
SGA run website showing teacher
and class GPAs. Used extensively
during registration to gure out
which professor gives As.
Corve
e curious grading scheme by which
a 50 can become a B. Beware, as it
does not always happen. Professors
will usually give you an idea of what
to expect on the rst day of class or
in the syllabus.
eud Week
e week before nals during which
you are not supposed to have any
tests. Be forewarned: some professors
dont understand this concept at all.
eun's List
Only takes a 3.0...sounds easy,
doesnt it? Just wait.
rop uy
e Friday that marks the last day to
drop a class. Its recently been moved
to a point later in the semester, taking
some of the guessing out of the deci-
sion to drop a class. You freshmen
have it so easy...
Iucolty Honors
A 4.0? Keep dreaming....
Getting Oot
e elusive goal of any Tech student.
It starts from Day One. Its target
date usually extended at some point
along the way.
Good Word, The
To hell with Georgia!
Hill, The
e area lled with old, historic
buildings between the Administra-
tion Building and the Library. See
Tech Tower.
Midnight Mudness
Starting Sunday before nals and
continuing every night, students
gather at midnight in public areas
around dorms or lean out their
windows for the age-old tradition.
Promptly at midnight, students
scream and yell to relieve the stress
of their nals preparation. Some
dorms provide food at midnight.
OIce oI InIormution Tech-
nology {OIT)
e campus computer oce with
a resource center in the Library. A
pirates worst enemy.
OSCAR
Oh, Snap! Cant Always Register.
Also known as Online Student
Computer Assisted Registration; its
how you get classes, view your grades,
pay your bills and, eventually, check
your graduation status.
RAT
Any freshman. Recruit At Tech, or
Recently Acquired Tech Students.
Originates from Techs strong
military roots.
SAC Iields
e elds right next to the CRC
where pick up games and intramural
sports games takes place. It stays light
at night, making it a great place to
go at any time.
SGA
Student Government Association,
the elected body whose main job it is
to give out money from the collected
Student Activity Fees to the various
student organizations who ask for it.
Sliver
A comment, quip, inside joke or
one-liner that runs in the Technique
Sliver Box. Contribute one at www.
nique.net.
Sqoure Root Clob
e elite club that only admits
members who meet this stringent
criterion: the square root of your
GPA is greater than your GPA. Get
it? If it took you longer than a minute,
you may soon gain membership into
the group.
Stinger, Stingerette
Campus vans and buses. ey arent
on a strict schedule so budget extra
time if you want to make it to class,
or just get some exercise and walk.
An hour should be enough. See also
Tech Trolley.
Stodent Center
e central hub of campus, where
youll nd a food court, the post of-
ce, Tech Rec, the Music Listening
Room and a computer if you need
to check your email (or Facebook)
between classes.
Tech Tower
e Administration Building. e
Ts atop the tower are probably more
heavily guarded than anything else
on campus.
Tech Trolley
Not really trolleys. eyre actually
Stingers disguised as trolleys, with
much more uncomfortable seats.
ey run from the IC to Technol-
ogy Square.
Techniqoe
The Souths Liveliest College
Newspaper. An excellent distraction
during Friday afternoon lectures.
Anyone can contribute, regardless of
experience, and meetings are every
Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Room 137 of
the Student Services Building.
Technology Sqoure
Usually just called Tech Square,
this is Techs giant leap across the
Downtown Connector. Home of
Barnes and Noble @ Georgia Tech,
a hotel, the College of Management,
and numerous stores and restaurants
like Ribs and Blues and Tin Drum.
Tech Wulkwuy
Techs Main Street for student
walking to and from class. Prepare
to be bombarded with yers for
organizations, blood drives, etc.
Word
Old tests and notes to help you study
for tests. Professors are required to
provide this, but good luck getting
it from them. Greek houses are a
better place to get it from. Word can
be quite useful as many professors
reuse the same tests every year.
WRIK
Georgia Techs student radio station,
at 91.1 FM, known for its sometimes
eclectic oerings. You probably wont
like everything they play but theres
a good chance youll like some of it,
so give it a try.
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POLL OF YHE WEEK
How do you feel about Techs NCAA violations?
53.2%
Tech admittedly
made a mistake,
but the punish-
ments were too
harsh.
26.6%
The NCAAs punish-
ments are unnecessary.
10.8%
The punishments are
justied. Tech should
have been more careful.
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is the NCAA?
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Development Editor
From the les of the GTPD...
Campus Crime
Mistaken identity
Just before midnight on Aug.
3, a GTPD ocer pulled over a
driver who ran through a red light
at the corner of West Peachtree
Road and Peachtree Place. e
driver did not have his license on
hand. A check of the GCIC data-
base revealed that the name and
date of birth that the driver had
provided to the ocer were both
incorrect, and that the drivers ac-
tual license was suspended.
e driver said a distant friend
had told him to use the name and
date of birth he had provided be-
cause of a problem with the cars
insurance. e driver was arrested
and taken to the GTPD oce to
complete paperwork before being
taken to Fulton County Jail.
Deck drifter
On the morning of Aug. 4,
a Georgia Tech Hotel security
guard alerted an ocer that a
woman was seated in a parking
space in the Tech Square parking
deck with her belongings lying
around her.
e subject said she was wait-
ing for her son to arrive, but the
ocer found that there were two
warrants for her arrest. e sub-
ject was arrested, issued a crimi-
nal trespass warning for the Tech
Square parking deck and taken to
Fulton County Jail.
Open for business
Shortly after midnight on Aug.
7, a GTPD ocer pulled over a ve-
hicle that had only one headlight
and whose driver was not wearing
his seat belt. e license of the
driver turned out to be suspended.
While the driver was being
handcued, two other ocers
on the scene observed three open
containers of alcohol in the car.
e two passengers consented to
alco-sensor tests and blew nega-
tive, but it was determined that
the containers were located within
arms reach for the driver.
e driver was charged with
driving with a suspended license,
driving without proper work-
ing headlights and three counts
of open alcohol containers while
operating a motor vehicle. He was
taken to Fulton County Jail.
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Clough Commons set to open
Photo by Will Folsom / Student Publications
The Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons will open to the public on Saturday, Aug. 20. The
building will provide classrooms for rst- and second-year courses and several group work areas.
By Vijai Narayanan
Editor-in-Chief
e G. Wayne Clough Un-
dergraduate Learning Commons
will open its doors to the Tech
community for the rst time on
Saturday, Aug. 20. e Clough
Commons will be open every day
during all hours and feature a
large number of common spaces,
including 2,100 seats and group
study rooms.
e facility will house classes,
labs and lecture halls for freshman
and sophomore classes such as bi-
ology, chemistry and physics. Lo-
cated in the center of campus, the
aim of the building is to enhance
cross-disciplinary education by
providing a common meeting
space for students from dierent
disciplines. To help facilitate this
goal, a number of dierent cam-
pus departments and services have
been relocated to the building, in-
cluding tutoring and the Oce of
Information Technology (OIT).
Designed to be one of the most
sustainable buildings in the coun-
try, Clough Commons will receive
only 11 percent of its water supply
from the city of Atlanta. e rest
will be drawn from a 1.6 million
gallon underground cistern lo-
cated under the new Tech Green.
e Library is responsible for
the physical management of the
Clough Commons, facilitating
collaboration between depart-
ments in the building and extend-
ing programming from its services
(such as the Open Forum series)
to encourage interaction between
students from various disciplines.
Clough Commons is physically
connected to the Library on two
levels, allowing access from one
building to the other.
e Clough Commons will
have an impact on both the way
the Library is operated and on its
role on campus in the future. By
taking ownership of this building
the Library eectively doubled the
space that it previously managed,
resulting in the shift of some re-
sources from the Library to the
new building.
More importantly, the Clough
Commons represents an increas-
ing shift in the Librarys role on
campus from being a repository
of information for students to one
A
lot of things went on
outside the bubble of Tech
in the past week. Here are a few
important events taking place
throughout the nation and the
world.
Breaking
the
ubble
U. of Miami booster
reveals impermissible
benets from 2002-10
An 11-month investigation
by Yahoo! Sports into the U.
of Miamis athletic program
revealed that dozens of Miami
football players allegedly ac-
cepted a wide range of imper-
missible benets over a span of
nearly a decade.
Nevin Shapiro, a longtime
Miami booster who is currently
serving a 20-year jail sentence
for coordinating a $930 million
Ponzi scheme, told Yahoo! that
he supplied at least 72 current
and former Miami athletes with
benets that are in clear viola-
tion of several NCAA bylaws.
Among the illicit benets
that Shapiro provided were cash
payments of as much as $50,000
to individual players; thousands
of dollars worth of jewelry and
clothing; free yacht rides and
trips to night clubs; prostitu-
tion paid for by the booster for
39 players; and bounties for any
Miami players who were able
to injure the star players on ri-
val teams such as Florida and
Florida State. Shapiro and other
sources have provided consider-
able amounts of documentation
to back up their claims.
Shapiro also said that sev-
eral Miami coachesincluding
longtime head mens basketball
coach Frank Haithwere aware
of Shapiros activities and some-
times were actively involved.
e NCAA has been con-
ducting its own investigation
of Miamis athletic program for
the past ve months. Potential
punishments for the alleged vio-
lations remain unknown.

Google to buy Motorola
Mobility for $12.5B
Google announced its intent
on Monday to acquire Motorola
Mobility for $12.5 billion. If ap-
proved by regulators, the deal
would catapult Google - the
maker of Android - into com-
petition with other smart phone
makers, including Apple.
e combination of Google
and Motorola will not only su-
percharge Android, but will also
enhance competition and oer
consumers accelerating innova-
tion, greater choice, and won-
derful user experiences, said
Larry Page, CEO of Google, in
a post on the companys blog.
e merger would give
Google access to the over 17,000
patents that Motorola Mobility
currently holds. Google had pre-
viously tried to acquire several
thousand patents from Nokia,
but was outbid other rms.
Google has acquired many
of its products through acquis-
tions, including AdSense and
Youtube. e Motorola deal
would be Googles largest.
B
See Clough, page 5
4 August 19, 2011 Technique NEWS
National debt deal to impact major student aid sources
By Mike Donohue
Business Manager
After months of tense nego-
tiations, which at times seemed
likely to make the U.S. Treasury
run out of money, U.S. President
Barack Obama signed the Budget
Control Act on Tuesday, Aug. 2.
e Act will raise the countrys
debt ceiling, cap discretionary
spending over the next ten years
and alter various federal nancial
aid programs.
In order to maintain the Pell
Grant Program for low-income
students, the Act will end the
interest subsidy for graduate stu-
dents enrolled in the Federal Staf-
ford Loan Program and take away
the authority of the Department
of Education to incentivize on-
time loan repayments, starting
July 2012.
Because of the cuts to the Staf-
ford Loan Program, graduate
students will no longer be able to
receive a loan subsidized by the
federal government and will begin
to accrue interest from the mo-
ment the loan is taken. Previously,
interest would not be charged un-
til after the graduate student had
graduated. Staord Loans for un-
dergraduate students will be unaf-
fected.
e Act also removes the au-
thority of the Department of Edu-
cation to refund to students fees
charged in the loan application
process as an incentive for on-time
repayment of loans. e Depart-
ment will continue to be able to
incentivize electronic payment of
fees.
According to the non-partisan
Congressional Budget Oce, the
Act will raise education funding
by $7.4 billion through 2016, but
cut funding overall by $4.6 bil-
lion through 2021. e Pell Grant
program will receive an increase
of $17 billion over the next three
years, and the Staord Loan Pro-
gram will be cut by $21.6 billion
over the next 10 years.
Tech does not have any spe-
cic plans in place to respond to
the changes in the nancial aid
programs, but will continue to
monitor the situation, according
to Institute spokesperson Matt
Nagel.
During the formation of the
decit deal, Tech ocials worked
with members of Congress to
maintain the Pell Grant Program.
Supporting programs that
are designed to assist our students
continues to be a high priority,
said Robert Knotts, Director of
Federal Relations for the Institute,
in an email. We worked closely
with Georgias Congressional del-
egation to support funding for
the maximum award level for Pell
Grants.
Many of the cuts mandated by
the Act have yet to be determined
by Congress and could include
broad cuts to discretionary spend-
ing across all levels of government
over the next 10 years, possibly af-
fecting the Institute.
Tech receives the majority of
its money from gifts and grants,
and a smaller amount from state
appropriations. e grants, or
sponsored research, are heavily
dependent on government fund-
ing sources, such as [National
Science Foundation], Department
of Energy, [National Institute of
Health], Department of Defense
and the separate armed services,
which all have research interests
and signicant funding, said
Bill Cheesborough, Director of
Academic and Research Finance,
in an email. Were all still in the
position of facing cuts because the
country has to do something to
address our overall level of debt.
Despite the possibility of cuts,
Cheesborough emphasized that
there is still much uncertainty
moving forward.
We could come out of this
very well. It all depends on when
and where the cuts are appliedif
everand how the [departments
that are cut] distribute their re-
ductions, Cheesborough said.
Georgias Congressional del-
egation was split in their votes
for the Budget Control Act. Two
House Republicans and four
House Democrats voted for the
Act, along with Republican Sen.
Johnny Isakson.
Meanwhile, Republican Sen.
Saxby Chambliss voted against
the bill, saying it did not go far
enough in reducing the decit. He
was joined by Rep. John Lewis, a
Democrat who said the cuts were
too stringent, and six House Re-
publicans.
e Act allowed the federal
government to borrow up to $2.4
billion more over the next year,
subject to several Presidential au-
thorizations. at increase to the
debt ceiling would nance the
United States through 2013.
As one of several conditions for
raising the debt ceiling, Congress
must approve an additional com-
bination of $1.2 to $1.5 trillion in
cuts and revenues by Dec. 2011
to be proposed by a 12-member
bipartisan committee. e com-
mittee would be made of six Rep-
resentatives and six Senators.
eir plan would go directly to
both the House and Senate for an
up or down vote. Should Congress
fail to pass the committees plan
or should the committee fail to
come to an agreement, then auto-
matic cuts to defense and entitle-
ment expenditures will take place.
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Photo by Pete Souza / The White House
U.S. President Barack Obama (center) meets with Congressional
leaders John Boehner and Harry Reid to discuss debt reduction.
Photo courtesy of the oce of Saxby Chambliss
Photo courtesy of the oce of Johnny Isakson
Photo courtesy of the oce of John Lewis
Technique August 19, 2011 5 NEWS
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sliver
if i drink out of frustration of being a TA, can I count those hours
on my timesheet?
can this late urs afternoon/early urs evening sliver get in?
technique
sliver sliver sliver
sliver me timbers
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Friday Night: SQL and Rod Stewart. Wow.
Why do you ask for my number and not use it? so confused
2:17 in the morning on a saturday, oh boy
cute girl at the info desk, wanna grab coee?
Burdell, George P. Burdell
Faset kids are too damn happy
Whats with the cops? ey are never here.
Casino Royale
hi
Cant wait for actual school to start.
CRC time!
Misses the black Old Spice guy... new one is horrible
Wish I had an Australian accent
Remember when...
naw nevermind
WHO TOUCHED SASHA?
Multiculturalism ... e world banding together to kill each
other...
OOO THEYR GON TO HAV TO GLU U BACK TAGETH-
ER... IN HELL!!!!!
Im a black scottish cyclops!
Im a green bloody fable, with an unhappy bloody end!
TROLLLLLL
HATE youtube mormon commercials... no one cares
totally want a buttery knife
HE PUNCHED OUT ALL MAH BLOOD!
Its a zoo, unless its a farm
And thats how I lost my engineering degree
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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By Maddie Cook
Assistant News Editor
e Oce of the Dean of Stu-
dents is restructuring some of its
oces as some will leave to go to
work in the Center of Academic
Success and some will join the Of-
ce of the Dean of Students.
Joining the Oce of the Dean
of Students will be the oces of
FASET, Sophomore Programs,
Convocation, R.A.T.S. Week and
Welcome Home. ese oces will
combine to create the New Stu-
dent Oce and will be relocated
to the Smithgall Student Services
Building in the Greek Aairs Of-
ce.
All of these are exciting chang-
es...the best thing is I think that
they are all done with the right
reason and thats to make things
even more ecient and better for
students, all in the best interest for
students, said Dean of Students
John Stein.
Leaving the oce to join the
Center of Academic Success are
the programs of GT 1000, One-
to-One Tutoring and Academic
Support. ese programs will now
be under the direction of Provost
Rafael Bras.
Well still work very collabor-
atively with [Academic Programs
moved to the Center of Academic
Success], Stein said.
Plans for the restructuring of
the programs began in Fall 2010
as new sta began their terms.
e concept was suggested under
the idea that it would make more
sense to have support for academic
programs hosted within the Cen-
ter of Academic Support as op-
posed to the Oce of the Dean of
Students.
e Oce of the Dean of Stu-
dents hopes that these new chang-
es will help better align their of-
ces and departments with the
Tech Strategic Plan.
e LEAD Program in partic-
ular is an organization that aligns
with the Strategic Plan. Headed
by Wes Wynens, the LEAD Pro-
gram is hoping to further collabo-
rate with the Oce of the Dean
of Students by pairing up with the
Student Involvement Oce.
Another change to the Oce
of the Dean of Students is a newly
created position, Associate Dean
of Students. Cara Appel-Silbaugh
now serves in this position to work
alongside Dean Stein and the rest
of the oce.
Previously at the University
of California-San Diego, Appel-
Silbaugh worked as the director of
Parenting and Family Programs.
She is excited to work with the
students in her current position.
Its been a very smooth tran-
sition...so far everyones been very
welcoming, very informative and
helpful, Appel-Silbaugh said.
Photo by Jarrett Skov / Student Publications
The Oce of the Dean of Students, housed within the Division of Student Aairs, will have several
new oces under its purview. Several of these will be combined as part of the New Student Oce.
Deans Oce to be restructured
that actively engages in increas-
ing collaboration and interaction
among various groups such as fac-
ulty and sta.
What we see with Clough is
a dierent role on campus a far
more involved role in classroom
education and programming and
support of that... its a dierent
role for the Library but a really
good direction for us to go, said
Dean of Libraries Catherine Mur-
ray-Rust.
As more information in the
form of journals and publica-
tions move online, the Library
will move its printed material to
accommodate more collabora-
tive learning spaces. According to
Murray-Rust, students and fac-
ulty substantially use online data-
bases subscribed to by the Library.
e Library will continue to
serve as a conduit of scholarly
information, albeit in a very non-
traditional way. Just as the collab-
orative spaces in the Library inu-
Clough from page 3
enced the design of spaces in the
Clough Commons, information
gathered from the latter will aect
future renovations in the Library.
Pending funds for the renovation
of the Library, a project could po-
tentially be underway to provide
a new learning space for masters
students.
If a Library tries to stay as
a traditional Library then they
will fail because they wont be
doing what theyre supposed to
be, which is providing materials,
providing help using them and
creating a theater to do academic
work. Clough [Commons] gives
us a space to make this transition
to be more useful and add value
to programs on campus, Murray-
Rust said.
e Library also conducted
a renovation on the rst oor to
merge both the circulation and
reference desks together, thereby
providing a one-stop location for
all patrons to ask questions about
where to nd resources and how
to borrow items.
Photo by Will Folsom / Student Publications
The Clough Commons and the Library will both play key roles in
increasing interdisciplinary interaction for students and faculty.
LSG Chancellor Huckaby vlslrs Tech
Three nev srores open ln Tech Square
GT Savannah degree prograns ended
Tech punlshed Ior najor NCAA vlolarlons
Recapping the most important stories from the past three months
e NCAA concluded a 20-month investigation of Techs athletic program on July 14 by punishing the Institute for major
violations within its football and mens basketball programs. Penalties for the violations included a $100,000 ne, four years
of probation and a series of recruiting restrictions for the mens basketball program. Additionally, Tech was forced to vacate
its 39-34 victory over Clemson in the 2009 ACC Championship Game, and thus Techs 2009 ACC title has been vacated.
e football violations stemmed from an incident in 2009 in which then-Tech wide receiver Demaryius omas accepted
clothing and other impermissible benets worth a total of $312. Safety Morgan Burnett was also investigated for wrongdoing but was
not found guilty of anything; however, NCAA ocials found that Tech had interfered with the investigation by informing Burnett about
a pending interview with an investigator ahead of time, and Tech was penalized heavily for a lack of cooperation. Separately, NCAA
investigators found that a Tech assistant basketball coach had illegally scouted players during a summer tournament hosted on campus.
e Institute has since announced that it will appeal the NCAAs decision. Tech will have 30 days from the time the announcement
was made in late July to submit the formal appeal.
Institute President G.P. Bud Peterson accepted a series of recommen-
dations presented by a task force he appointed to conduct a review of
Georgia Tech-Savannah (GTS). As a result, starting next year, GTS will
initiate a plan to gradually phase out its undergraduate and graduate de-
gree programs and add new programs as part of a new operational model.
e report led by the task force, including current students and faculty, GTS advi-
sory board members and alumni and members of the Savannah community and govern-
ment, cited low enrollment, retention rates, and lack of revenue to cover operational costs
for its recommendations.
e task force outlined plans for a new model that features education catered to mili-
tary personnel, professional masters degree programs and undergraduate opportunities
that would take advantage of Savannahs resources.
On July 9, a new GameStop store opened at Tech Square, and the newly relocated St.
Charles Deli, which will now be called Chucks Famous, is expected to open by August
22. To replace the previous St. Charles Deli, Barrelhouse, a gastro-pub, will replace St.
Charles Deli and has moved into its old location.
GameStop will be lling in the space previously lled by Jazzy Nail and Tan, a nail
salon. An arrangement with Tech Rec allows the Student Center facility to feature 10-15
new games a month from GameStop for Tech students to try and test out.
e owner of Chucks Famous is the same owner of the previous St. Charles. e new
menu will be altered slightly but will remain focused on deli and salad foods.
Barrelhouse, whose name is a reference to a line in the Tech ght song Ramblin
Wreck, features a 100-bottled beer selection, a full bar and elevated pub food. It is run
by the same managers from Graveyard, a bar in East Atlanta Village.
Chancellor Hank Huckaby, the newly selected leader of the University
System of Georgia (USG), visited the Tech campus Tuesday, July 19, to
begin a series of tours at the campuses of USG universities. While on
campus, Huckaby toured, among other things, the new Clough Under-
graduate Learning Commons and the Biotechnology campus.
Huckaby also met with campus leaders, student and administrator alike, to discuss
topics such as the recent tuition hikes, his goals for the USG and budget cuts to the
HOPE Scholarship program. A major concern that Huckaby addressed in his meetings
was the role Tech will play in Georgias technology education sector now that UGA and
Georgia Southern have started new engineering programs.
Tech is a premier institution. As far as Im concerned, my oce and the Board of Re-
gents will work to maintain and sustain that. Its too critical to the state, Huckaby said.

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Photo courtesy of GT Communications & Marketing
Photo by Will Folsom / Student Publications
SUMMER IN REVIEW:
Deans 1ong, McDonald leave Tech
Tech jolns ManuIacrurlng Parrnershlp
Srrlng oI car break-lns hlrs canpus
Tech punlshed Ior najor NCAA vlolarlons
Recapping the most important stories from the past three months
e NCAA concluded a 20-month investigation of Techs athletic program on July 14 by punishing the Institute for major
violations within its football and mens basketball programs. Penalties for the violations included a $100,000 ne, four years
of probation and a series of recruiting restrictions for the mens basketball program. Additionally, Tech was forced to vacate
its 39-34 victory over Clemson in the 2009 ACC Championship Game, and thus Techs 2009 ACC title has been vacated.
e football violations stemmed from an incident in 2009 in which then-Tech wide receiver Demaryius omas accepted
clothing and other impermissible benets worth a total of $312. Safety Morgan Burnett was also investigated for wrongdoing but was
not found guilty of anything; however, NCAA ocials found that Tech had interfered with the investigation by informing Burnett about
a pending interview with an investigator ahead of time, and Tech was penalized heavily for a lack of cooperation. Separately, NCAA
investigators found that a Tech assistant basketball coach had illegally scouted players during a summer tournament hosted on campus.
e Institute has since announced that it will appeal the NCAAs decision. Tech will have 30 days from the time the announcement
A string of vehicle thefts and break-ins throughout the city of Atlanta hit
closer to home following incidents at Campus Christian Fellowship (CCF),
Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity, eta Xi Fraternity and the outskirts of campus
during the last week of May.
GTPD received reports of 13 accounts of larceny from motor vehicle and two inci-
dents of motor vehicle theft that occurred between the hours of 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. on
ursday, May 27. According to the Clery Act alert sent on June 1 by GTPD, the per-
petrators entered the vehicles by breaking windows and taking valuables such as GPS
devices, iPods and cellphones from the vehicles. e vehicles were in the lot behind CCF
and eta Xi, near 4th Street and Techwood Drive.
ere were no leads at the time of the reportonly speculations about a possible con-
nection to a simultaneous series of car break-ins in the greater Atlanta area.
At the request of U.S. President Barack Obama, Tech will be participating in a new
national initiative to promote domestic manufacturing research and technology. Insti-
tute President G.P. Bud Peterson and CoC professor Henrik Christensen will play key
roles in the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), a $500 million investment in
emerging technologies intended to improve the U.S.s future manufacturing capabilities.
Tech is one of six universities participating in the AMP.
is is all part of [Techs] overall eort to take a leadership role in helping to shape the
national agenda, particularly as related to engineering, science and technology policy,
Peterson said. e fact that Tech has been invited to serveon the steering committee
is recognition of [Techs] history of leadership.
e initiative will focus in particular on robotics, national security, and materials and
energy eciency.
is summer, two prominent Tech administrators announced they will
be leaving the school to pursue opportunities elsewhere. Assistant Dean and
Director of Student Involvement Danielle McDonald departed from her
post at Tech on July 15 to take the position of Associate Dean of Students at
University of Florida. McDonald started working for Tech in 1998, speci-
cally with Residence Life in the Freshman Experience program.
Dr. William Long, the previous Chair of the Sam Nunn School of International Af-
fairs, left Tech to start as the new Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at GSU. Long
parted with the Institute on amicable terms with his colleagues.
We are certain that [GSUs] College of Arts and Sciences will prosper under [Longs]
leadership, said INTA Associate Chair and Professor Brian Woodall.
Search committees expect to ll these open positions in this year.

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Photo by Basheer Tome / Student Publications
Photo by Will Folsom / Student Publications
SUMMER IN REVIEW:
Opinions
Technique
8
Friday,
August 19, 2011
You see, thats the sad, sorry, terrible thing
about sarcasm. Its really funny.
Brandon Sanderson
Opinions Editor: Chris Russell

OUR VIEWS CONSENSUS OPINION

Campus Changes
Changes to campus should shape new traditions
As Tech students return to campus
this fall, they return to a much dier-
ent campus than the one they left. e
center of campus is beginning to reopen,
the Clough Commons is ready for class-
es and the doors to Juniors have closed.
is raises the question: how will these
changes aect life on campus? More, on
a campus with as many beloved traditions
as Tech, should traditions evolve to match
these changes? Or should we hold to them
as ercely as we have in the past?
e Clough Commons will act as a
common building at the heart of campus,
both in a physical and intellectual sense.
Students from dierent majors now share
a common place in the middle of campus
where interdisciplinary studies and col-
laboration can ourish. But, in order for
this to change campus, campus leaders
will have to provide programmatic back-
ing for these physical changes. Clough
Commons presents an opportunity to
fundamentally change campus, but it will
require eort to implement these changes.
It is impossible to deny that as campus
changes, its traditions will as well. Take
the Techniques 99 ings to do Before
You Graduate. In the past year, fteen
items on the list needed to be modied
or removed to stay relevant to campus.
While this could be viewed as a failure
to maintain parts of Techs history, it is
important to remember that traditions are
living things. ey spring up, they grow,
they change and, sometimes, they die.
What campus leaders must do is evalu-
ate which traditions to hold, which need
to change and which are no longer rel-
evant on campus.
More, it is important to see that new
traditions grow out of the old. Juniors has
closed, but what will replace it? And what
new traditions will surround the Clough
Commons? Surely, students will devise
new traditions, but campus leaders should
strive to see that the old traditions nd a
home there, too.
EDITORIAL CARTOON BY CASEY TISDEL
is weekend, along with our
new transfer and graduate stu-
dents, we will welcome more than
2,600 freshmen to our campus.
ey will enter a community of
scholars and more than 127,000
alumni, representing more than
125 years of tradition, ingenuity
and innovation, all unied by our
motto of Progress and Service.
At Convocation, I typically
challenge the freshmen to take
advantage of new opportuni-
ties, to question and explore the
world around them, and to em-
brace their passion. e saying
you only get out what you put
in holds true here at Tech; expe-
rience has shown that those who
get the most out of their college
experience are those who comple-
ment their academic pursuits
with service, cultural, social, ath-
letic and leisure activities. In this
way, everyone in our community
can experience rst-hand what it
truly means to be a Yellow Jacket.
As these new members of our
community join us, what will
they nd?
Because the culture is formed
by its people and its values, I am
condent that they will nd a
community invested in fostering
the success of its members.
ey will nd a community
comprised of highly motivated
individuals who are focused on
the highest ideals of integrity and
a focus on excellence. Its a com-
munity comprised of individuals
who, when they see a problem,
feel compelled to seek not just a
solution, but the best solution.
Tech is a rst choice for the
best and brightest. In turn, the
standards we set for ourselves are
equally high. is symbiotic rela-
tionship yields impressive results,
exemplied by the new Clough
Undergraduate Learning Com-
monsa facility that grew out of
conversations between students
and the administration about
what the educational experience
at Tech should look like.
e completion of this mar-
velous facility two weeks ago is
an achievement of which we can
all be proud.
ey will nd a community
with a penchant for innovation
and entrepreneurship, inspired
to have an impact that improves
the human condition. But in-
spiration is just a starting point.
rough events such as Ideas to
SERVE, Computing for Good
and the InVenture Prize, as well
as numerous other outreach and
service opportunities, we are able
to educate students about the
process that moves ideas from
identication to implementation.
Many universities make
sweeping claims about entrepre-
neurship, but results speak for
themselves. During the past year,
41 percent of Tech inventors were
graduate or undergraduate stu-
dents, and 80 percent of our in-
vention disclosures listed at least
one student as a co-inventor.
ey will nd a community
focused on leadership and com-
munity and on the success of
all of those in our community.
When a student is admitted to
Tech, it is based on the belief that
he or she can be successful here.
At the same time, we cannot ask
students to challenge themselves
without also providing the shelter
and support necessary to weather
the hard times they may encoun-
ter.
Our network of support is
both deep and wide. It can-
not be easily summarized, but a
great starting point is within the
new Clough Commons, where
students now nd centralized,
ready access to services such as
academic advising, tutoring and
technology.
ats quite an evolution from
1888, when we had 87 students,
two buildings and only one de-
gree program. To achieve our
aspiration to be the technological
research university of the future,
however, we must continually
recreate our educational experi-
ence and improve the sense of
community to both anticipate
and shape our future.
e enduring set of values
set forth in our 25-year strate-
gic planintegrity, excellence,
impact, innovation, entrepre-
neurship, leadership and com-
munityhas helped establish
our international reputation for
progress and service. ey form
the core of our institutional ethos
and create a common thread in
planning for the Institutes fu-
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standards we set for ourselves are
equally hIgh."
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Technique August 19, 2011 9 OPINIONS
For the Freshman Survival
Guide, its tradition that the
gray-haired, wise old seniors
impart tidbits of wisdom to
doe-eyed freshmen before
starting our nal years at
Tech. As cheesy as it is, its an
excuse for us to kick back in a
lounge chair, smoke a pipe and
pretend that we actually know
what were doing.
Well, my last year of col-
lege has arrived, so it looks like
its my turn to break out the
smoking jacket.
As my friends enjoy point-
ing out, Im annoyingly practi-
cal. If I dont see the clear ben-
ets of doing something, then
odds are good that I will just
not do it. I dont read for class
unless I dont understand the
material, I dont put up with
any of that self-betterment
and well-rounded education
mumbo-jumbo and I absolute-
ly cannot stand organizations
that are about leadership for
leaderships sake. So, I gured
I would take a purely practical
approach to something that
tends to have a lot of u writ-
ten about it: joining clubs and
organizations on campus.
In their rst few weeks,
freshmen will hear a lot about
the importance of getting in-
volved. Joining clubs, getting
elected to various councils,
joining dierent leadership or-
ganizations and generally just
doing stu with other people
on campus will all have their
merits sung from on high in
the name of having a better
work-life balance, giving back
to the Tech community and
making yourself a more well-
rounded person.
But, in the end, what does
that actually do for you? In my
thinking, if you sink hours a
week into an organization, you
had better get something back
for it. For me, the prot from
involvement comes from two
directions: selling yourself to
recruiters and just plain keep-
ing yourself happy.
While a solid GPA is going
to be your number-one selling
point to employers and grad
schools, its not the only thing
they look at. A good GPA will
open the door for you, but it
wont do much to keep recruit-
ers from slamming it in your
face once its open.
I spent sophomore year ap-
plying for about a half-dozen
summer internships, and after
the initial application, no one
wanted to hear about my GPA.
At all. What they did want to
talk about was my two years
of writing for dierent news-
papers. ey wanted to hear
stories from studying in Spain
for a semester. ey wanted to
know what my research was
focused on and hear about
who I was collaborating with.
ey wanted examples where
I showed leadership outside
of class. ey wanted to know
what kind of hobbies I had.
In a nutshell, they wanted
to make sure they werent
talking to someone who only
emerged from his room to
vomit memorized facts and
gures onto a test paper ev-
ery couple of weeks. As useful
a skill as that is in college, it
doesnt make a lick of dier-
ence in the real world. Em-
ployers want to know that
youre creative, resourceful,
independent and driven. ey
want to see that youre a good
investment, and showing ac-
complishments outside of the
classroom goes a long way to-
wards assuring them of that.
Beyond their contributions
to my resume, the organiza-
tions Im part of are really
what keep me sanethey are
what have introduced me to
more than half of my on-
campus friends. Right now,
Im sitting on a couch, watch-
ing the guy writing the edito-
rial below mine wrestle with
writers block (hes on hour
four now), listening to my co-
editors swap advice on profes-
sors, complaining about how
long our editor-in-chief is tak-
ing to pick up dinner andof
courseswapping cat videos
with our managing editor. We
just nished a procrastinatory
trip to the new Starbucks,
have spent the past two hours
swapping stories from our
summers and are indulging in
some good old-fashioned self-
pity about our registration
woes. Translation: Ive been
hanging out with friends for
the past six hours, and I get to
put that on my resume.
If it werent for the orga-
nizations Im in, my college
career would have been far
less interesting, far less pro-
ductive and would have had
far less people in it. Joining
a clubor publication, or
organization, or councilis
far and away the best way of
making college memories. I
might not remember what
an eigenspace or Poisson dis-
tribution is, but I denitely
remember winning a week of
free coee at trivia night with
the trivia team, spending two
all-nighters watching a printer
in the College of Computing,
throwing our editor-in-chief
in the pool and singing Back-
street Boys with a bunch of
Honors kids while watching
the Virginia Tech game.
Involvement pays with tangible benets
"A good CPA wIll open the
door for you, but It won't do
much to keep recruIters from
slammIng It shut In your face."
Chris Russell
Opinions Editor
Zach Alnasser
ird-year CompE
Its denitely much more
convenient than it used to
be.
Betsy Dike
First-year ME
Its my rst time on cam-
pus, but its beautiful.
Sarah Biser
First-year CEE
Its more open and easier to
see the beauty of
Techs campus.
Maya Uddin
Sixth-year BME
I cant wait to have a picnic
on the lawn.
What do you think of
campus, post-construction?

Around Campus
Congratulations! Youre an
ocer in your favorite organi-
zation. Id imagine that youre
feeling a mix of excitement
and fear, and that your mind is
lled with grand plans for the
future and more than a few
bits of apprehension. Dont
panic! ese feelings are per-
fectly normal.
After all, being an ocer
in one of Techs many student
groups is an important respon-
sibility. People are truly de-
pending on you, and you can
no longer let them handle it.
You are them! As you begin
your adventure as one of the
leaders of your group, its im-
portant to keep a few things in
mind.
First and foremost, get to
know your fellow ocers.
ey are going to be your clos-
est allies, if not your closest
friends. Only together can
your ocer board lead your
organization; an organization
driven by a single person only
leads to a burnt out single per-
son. Only by connecting with
the others can you band to-
gether as a team.
at means going out to
dinner as an ocer board ev-
ery now and again, and try-
ing to understand what makes
your colleagues tick. Making
an eort to connect will help
all of you do a better job lead-
ing your organization together.
When youve secured the
team you will work with in the
present, your next task will be
to gure out who will lead the
organization next year. ats a
task that needs to be done now,
not next semester. It seems re-
ally early but developing next
years leaders is a task which
takes many months and care-
ful attention. You should not
choose next years president in
October, but you should have
an idea of the handful of stu-
dents who will form the core of
next years ocer board fairly
quickly.
Once you have identied
those few, make a special eort
to include them in small deci-
sions and ask for their input.
Give them meaningful tasks
and maybe let one or two of
them shadow you. Encourage
them to invest in the organi-
zation so that when it comes
time for the group to choose
next years ocers, there is a
stable of younger students to
step in whole-heartedly.
When it comes to actually
carrying out your job as an
ocer, you must understand
that you have many resources
available to you. To put it
bluntly, you should use those
resources. Externally, you have
SGA funding and an SGA ex-
ecutive positionVice Presi-
dent of Student Organiza-
tionsdevoted to helping you
and your group succeed. You
probably know many older
students who can be give you
advice. e Oce of Student
Involvement always has pro-
grams which help teach you
how to best make use of what
the Institute oers you.
ere are also young alum-
ni of whom you can make
usefor the next few months,
anyway. Most importantly,
many groups have faculty ad-
visers or coaches. You should
consciously make an eort to
use these people in particular,
and to carve them out a place
in your group. Letting them
just sit on the sidelines is a dis-
service to them and a waste of
talent.
Internally, your biggest re-
sources are your members. It
is guaranteed that there will
be people in your group who
complement your particular
set of skills. Dont hesitate to
reach out to them when youre
struggling with a task. Also,
dont be afraid to deputize
someone if you need help with
a certain initiativewith their
consent of course. Its a great
learning opportunity for those
who help you, and it will help
you carry out your job.
When you nally come
to planning your yearaf-
ter making sure you have the
right people and resources
around youits important
to think big but take it slow.
Often, student groups want to
change everything right away,
but immediately need to dial
back their ambitions because
there simply isnt the enough
time. Resist the temptation to
change everything and instead
translate those grand dreams
into multi-year projects.
Of course, a multi-year
project means that you need to
achieve intermediate goals on a
regular basis. Lay the ground-
work for future groups eorts.
A year is a very short time, so
identify that which you can
complete in an academic year,
then strive to complete a piece
each time you meet.
Above and beyond all of
this advice, keep this in mind:
have fun. No, really, just have
fun. A dear friend of mine told
me that the day I looked to the
next group meeting I had to
lead with a sense of dread was
the day that I really shouldnt
be leading the group anymore.
You have an awesome oppor-
tunity to aect Techs cam-
pus in a meaningful way. Go
ahead and take it. Good luck!
Leadership not an individual endeavor
"Cet to know your fellow
ofcers. They are goIng to be
your closest allIes, If not your
closest frIends."
Mike Donohue
Business Manager
Photos by Chris Russell / Student Publications
10 August 19, 2011 Technique OPINIONS
Challenges in college far surpass
expectations, build character
is is your ocial welcome
to Tech from your Undergraduate
Student Body President. In a let-
ter like this, I would typically tell
you about the extraordinary leg-
acy you are inheriting, about the
quest for knowledge that you are
about to begin, and about Techs
many unique traditions. But after
graduation parties and college
brochures and FASET speeches, I
think youve already heard these
sorts of things enough. So today I
am going to level with youtell
you my honest thoughts about
college and about Tech.
You have undoubtedly heard
that college will be the best years
of your life. After all, it was in
the graduation cards, in the sage
words of aunts and uncles, and in
the advice of older friends. And
heck, if that werent enough,
Hollywood certainly wouldnt
lead you astray, right? From Ani-
mal House to Acceptedor per-
haps more tting, Revenge of the
Nerdsit seemed evident that
Tech would be a breeze.
For me, I was sure that would
be the case. ree years ago, I
was still reveling in life without
a midnight curfew. As not just a
freshman, but also an indulged
though certainly not spoiled
only child, I was particularly
enamored with the many expe-
riences that I had never encoun-
tered. Even laundry and grocery
shopping seemed like exhilarat-
ing challenges.
You may have heard about the
1916 Cumberland Game, where
Tech achieved the largest margin
of victory in college football his-
tory, beating Cumberland 222-0.
at was pretty much how I en-
visioned my college experience
playing out. Elle: 222, Failure: 0.
But around mid-October af-
ter one particularly challenging
week, the luster of college began
to wear o. All of a sudden, I had
a group project with team mem-
bers who werent showing up to
meetings. A friend came out to
mesomething I had never ex-
perienced before. I made a 64 on
a test, easily the worst grade I had
ever gotten. And I started to miss
my family and my high school
friends and home-cooked meals.
All of sudden, college didnt
seem like the best days of my life.
is will happen to you too.
College will not be all sunshine
and rainbows. We dont lie in the
quad all day listening to acoustic
guitars and blowing smoke rings.
A lot of you wont nd your best
friends for the next four years in
your rst couple of weeks; it will
take time. And students who
exclusively imitate the Animal
House lifestyle dont usually stick
around for very long.
Simply putsometimes col-
lege sucks. You will probably get
homesick. You will pull all-night-
ers. You will fail tests, maybe for
the rst time in your life. Most
upperclassmen will conrm that
the Sophomore Slump is a real
phenomenon. You will experience
ghts and break-ups. e fresh-
men fteen may catch up with
you. And you will question who
you are and why you are here and
what you want to do with the rest
of your life. It will not be easy.
So why is everyone telling you
just about the good? Because,
thats what they remember.
Ten years down the road,
when someone asks you about
your time at Tech, you will not
recount your struggles. Youll re-
member staying up all night with
friends, just because you can.
Youll remember your rst time
taking a dip in the Campanile.
Youll denitely remember Fresh-
man Hill. Youll remember what
it feels like to beat those Georgia
Bulldogs down at Bobby Dodd
later this year. You will remember
turning twenty-one, or perhaps
not. And most importantly, you
will remember the connections
you will make with other people.
But that will be little solace in
the tough moments, when your
whole world is falling apart. So
, rather than complaining, con-
sider relishing the challenge.
Churchill told his country-
men in April of 1933 in the midst
of World War II: We ought to
rejoice at the responsibilities
with which destiny has honored
us. What an extraordinary con-
OUR VIEWS HOT OR NOT
Swarming Starbucks
e center of campus is get-
ting an extra jolt of caeine
from the Clough Commons
Starbucks. Soon, students in
all dierent stages of zombi-
cation will be trudging their
way to the center of campus to
get that boost of caeine they
need to frantically wrap up
whatever it is they put o un-
til the last minute. Hopefully
the Starbucks doesnt under-
estimate the drawing power of
Techs favorite stimulant.
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"College wIll not be all sunshIne
and raInbows, [but] see these
challenges not as unwanted loads,
but as gIfts."
Elle Creel
Undergraduate Student Body President
Whippersnappers
Back in the good ol days,
students had to walk around
fteen miles of plywood fenc-
es, just to get to breakfast. is
years freshmen will never have
that experience. In a few short
years, no student will have the
memory of walking around
Skiles and through the Stu-
dent Center to get from the Li-
brary to Van Leer. Where will
the future generation be with-
out such a character-building
exercise?
Northern Highlights
Students who tolerated the
green plywood walls surround-
ing parts of North Ave. Apart-
ments have had their patience
rewarded. e new North Av-
enue Dining Hall lets hungry
students in the complex grab a
bite without even changing out
of their pajamas, and the new
volleyball pit lets them burn
o the calories right away. e
spruced-up bus turn around
and quad look good, too.
Oended Oense
Starting redshirt junior of-
fensive tackle Phil Smith was
suspended for the rst two
games of the 2011 football sea-
son. Smith is one of the more
experienced returning starters
on the line, coming into the
season with 14 starts in his rst
two seasons. Smith started 10
games during the 2010 season,
helping the Tech oense lead
the nation in rushing yards per
game.
See Challenges, page 11
Technique August 19, 2011 11 OPINIONS
Opportunities, resources, networking
abound in Graduate Student Government
Welcome to Tech! New
classes, new friends, new pro-
fessors, a new campus, a new
football season and best of all a
new building with a brand new
Starbucks! ese are just a few
of the things to look forward to
as you begin this year at Tech.
What many of the returning
students know at Tech is that
the journey from convoca-
tion to graduation will not be
a smooth journey full of nice
weather and warm sunshine. It
will likely include a chance ice
storm or blistering heat that will
challenge you along your path
to graduation. Without avail,
your professors will raise those
hurdles one notch at a time
as you take strides to earn the
degree that you seek at the n-
ish line. One thing that I can
assure you of though is the de-
gree that awaits you will be well
worth the money, time, blood,
sweat and tears that have gone
into it. e value of a Tech de-
gree is rivaled, but unmatched.
Be proud of this school and the
work that you have done along
the path to success, and never
give up.
Aside from academics, there
is vast potential for personal
growth and learning. For me,
the Graduate Student Govern-
ment Association is where I
decided to learn outside the
classroom and lab. e lessons
in this arena wont involve equa-
tions of motion or calculus, but
may involve writing white papers
on the eects of the Special In-
stitutional Fee (or the Tuition
Fee as I not-so-aectionately call
it) or generating graphs on at-
tendance costs as compared to
our peer institutions. Whatever
your motivation, or whether you
are a graduate or undergraduate
student, seek out opportunities to
learn outside the classroom. is
is how you will truly complete
your Tech education. You are not
only learning for your career, but
you are learning for your life. e
experiences that you have while at
Tech will change you forever.
For the graduate students out
there, I encourage you to come
out to the Graduate Student Pic-
nic on Sept. 2 from 5-7 p.m. on
the Instructional Center Lawn
for free food and t-shirts as well
as to informally mingle with oth-
er students as well as faculty and
sta. Over 2,100 of you came out
last year, and wed love to shat-
ter that attendance record. If you
are looking for some extra travel
money for a conference or a fel-
lowship to help you along your
way to your degree, submit an ab-
stract to the faculty-judged Tech
Research and Innovation Confer-
ence to be held Feb. 6-7, 2012.
Last year we awarded around
$85,000 to Techs best research
projects. And if by chance you
are looking for a job after you
graduate, be sure to check out the
Graduate Career Symposium to
be held March 8. Youll get valu-
able information on how to suc-
ceed in upcoming job searches.
Aside from the programs we
organize every year, we are work-
ing on a few key issues of interest
to graduate students. I already
mentioned the Special Institu-
tional Fee which we are com-
mitted to tackling and bringing
down. e Tech administra-
tion feels much the same as we
do when it comes to this fee. It
hurts Techs competitive advan-
tage with regards to recruiting
the best grad students and it
should be rolled into graduate
tuition. Health insurance costs
are going up as well, but again we
have an ally within the adminis-
tration. is year the President
and his team have committed to
increasing the health insurance
subsidy for those in the mandato-
ry student health insurance plan
by $200 for a total of $400. ey
"8e proud of thIs school and the
work that you have commItted
along the path to success, and
never gIve up."
James Black
Graduate Student Body President
ceptto rejoice in bearing a
burden. Each of you have been
blessed with great intellect and
natural talentyour admit-
tance to Tech is a testament to
this. us far you may not have
experienced great failures, but
now there are most certainly
challenges ahead. See these
challenges not as unwanted
loads, but as gifts. ey will
prepare you to be our worlds
leaders in research, innovation,
business, and policy and they
will mold you into a better per-
son than you are today.
And maybe down the road,
youll also tell your nieces and
nephews that college was the
best four years of your lifenot
because of the great memories
and not in spite of the bad ones,
but because of the person you
became because of both.
have also committed to increasing
this subsidy over the next 2-3 years
until it covers the same proportion
as is covered for faculty and sta.
is is something that wouldnt
have been done if not for the hard
work of graduate leaders in the past.
We are also undertaking a process
to break away from the Board of
Regents health insurance plan and
obtain a Tech-only plan that will
allow greater control over benets
and premium levels.
In closing, Id like to reiterate
what Ive said before. Dont limit
your learning at Tech to activities
within your labs or classrooms.
Tech is full of opportunities around
every corner to learn and make a
dierence not only in Atlanta, but
around the world. Broaden your
horizons within student organiza-
tions and make your mark on the
Tech legacy. Mediocrity is not part
of the equation for success at Tech,
nor should it be. If I can be of as-
sistance to you along your own path
to success, a helping hand is only an
email away.
ture.
All of us at Tech welcome
our new students and faculty.
You are the new problem solv-
ers, the next step in shaping
our culture and our future. As
such, you reinforce who we are
and challenge us to be even bet-
ter. My hope is you will view
Tech as a partner, providing the
tools, the expertise and the op-
portunity in both setting and
achieving your goals and help-
ing the Institute to reach those
outlined in our strategic plan.
Challenges from page 10
Tech from page 8
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e transition from high school
to college is a tremendous one. It
requires getting in the right frame
of mind and preparing yourself
emotionally and mentally for the
challenges ahead.
Whether youre from Atlanta,
elsewhere in Georgia, out of state
or even another country, college
poses more or less the same hur-
dles for everyone.
One of the exciting things of
college is being independent. But
independence comes with respon-
sibilities; from academics and net-
working, to doing laundry and
other chores to taking care of your
nutrition and health, you must
learn the balancing act quickly.
Youve got to learn how to jug-
gle many dierent responsibilities
at once, and thats a skill that is
acquired with experience.
Time management is crucial
and the sooner it is mastered, the
better equipped you will be for the
other challenges of adult life.
Tech is a diverse school. Stu-
dents, professors and adminis-
trators come from varied social,
cultural, economic and racial
backgrounds. In a setting like
this, it is extremely important to
be accepting of others and their
diering opinions, views and hab-
its.
Instead of shunning the alien,
making an eort to understand a
dierent perspective and trying to
learn something from the multi-
tude of cultures would help you
take a huge stride towards being
an aware adult in the world.
Tech is more diverse than
many people admit or realize be-
cause they tend to cling to the
personal groups in which they feel
comfortable.
Diversity doesnt necessarily
mean that two people are from
Preparing yourself for college
two dierent countries; it just
means two people share two dif-
ferent views. Try to challenge your
beliefs and opinions by being part
of dierent social, professional
and academic circles.
Another challenge of living in-
dependently is dealing with social
and peer pressures. With tempta-
tions of all forms around, its a test
of character to stick by ones mor-
als and principles. It is important
to learn where and when to draw
the line and how to say no.
Knowing well your goals and
principles will ensure that making
even the most dicult of choices
will become easy.
Preparing for college is one
thing, preparing for Tech anoth-
er. As will be quickly apparent,
there is a big focus on academics
at Tech.
Eciency and productivity are
the metrics students are measured
on. But a competitive and stress-
ful environment like this can kill
the creative soul in many of us.
Joining social organizations,
taking dance or martial arts les-
sons, participating in intramu-
ral sports, volunteering around
Tech, studying abroad, writing,
exploring Atlanta and pursuing
photography are few of the many
things to explore aside from ones
academics.
Not only do these activities
keep the mind fresh, they will also
involve meeting new people and
opening up other exciting possi-
bilities.
Getting ready for Tech also
involves preparing oneself for At-
lanta. One of the biggest mistakes
students often make is that they
tend to get stuck within the four
walls of Tech. ere is a lot to ex-
plore in and around Atlanta: food,
arts, music, nature, culture, etc.
Crime and poverty are a reality
in Atlanta and the best way to deal
with them is by making smart de-
cisions about the areas and times
you traverse and being aware of
your surroundings at all times.
ere will be challenges and
hurdles and there will be dicult
choices, but with an open mind
and the right attitude, it will be
the time of most self-growth and
liberation. At the end of the day,
keep it simple and have a good
time.
Photo by John Guthrie / Student Publications
Students study for nal exams. Various resources like the Coun-
seling Center exist on campus to help students overcome stress.
Networking 101
By Jess Swaord
Contributing Writer
Moving back to school each
year can be a pain.
Boxes seem to triple, and
stairwells feel like Marios End-
less Stairs. Before long, school
starts, tests come, the thought of
planning for the future has disap-
peared and we get caught up in
the challenges of daily life.
is is especially true for job
searching and resume building.
ese are often the rst things
to be put on the back burner, but
that doesnt have to be the case at
all. By choosing to network, job
searching and resume building
become easier.
Networking does not have to
be work; no more than saying hi
to friends, it can become easy in
no time by just making an eort
to be noticed and heard.
Start by talking to the dierent
groups of people you know. ey
dont have to be deep drawn out
conversations.
A quick e-mail can work won-
ders for keeping you connected.
Making it a point to go to pro-
fessors oce hours is a simple yet
eective step. Not only will you
get help with class questions but
professors who know you by name
are more often willing to help
with things other than tests and
homework.
Good relationships with pro-
fessors can yield recommenda-
tion letters or new contacts in the
professional world. Many Tech
professors are actually interesting;
the fteen-minute change to your
schedule will be worth it in more
ways than one.
Next, make a list of jobs you
like and attempt to network with
people in those elds.
is means looking outside
of your contacts at the Institute.
Do this by going to a career fair.
While it is likely that students will
vastly outnumber employers, put-
ting forth an eort never hurts.
Look professional, take copies
of your resume, dress in nothing
less than business casual and do
not come back empty handed.
Even if you dont get a job in-
terview, at least get the employers
business cards as you never know
why you might need to contact
them in the future.
Aside from professors and cor-
porations, consider the fact that
friends and family are also net-
works waiting to be tapped. It
doesnt take too much time to call
an aunt, uncle or grandma.
e more people that know
what job, internship or co-op in-
terests you, the more likely that
something will be found.
Also do not forget about
friends. While they will not be as
excited to hear about your work
aspirations, they will try to help.
Dont forget that CEOs have
relatives, and the CEO of a com-
pany you love just might be tied
to a friend. In this age of social
media madness, most top level ex-
ecutives in companies are also on
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
Use these platforms as a means of
networking.
Simply put, the best advice to
networking is being willing to put
yourself out there. Knowing and
understanding that networking
is a way of life and happens every
time you meet someone is half the
battle won. You are a part of mul-
tiple networks; you never know
which one you might need to tap
into at a given time.
Networking is essential and
hopefully youll be a master at it in
no time. Take this advice to better
your networking, and remember
the old adage that it is not what
you know, but whom you know.
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Navigating your freshman year at Tech
By Alexander Kessler
Assistant Focus Editor
Tech is an exciting place for a
freshman: there is a world of op-
portunities and experiences that
will take you more than four, ve
or even six years to discover.
e most important thing,
however, is to have a good footing
early on. In your early years it is
worth it to nd some good direc-
tion.
Here is some advice from older
Tech students who have been
around campus for a few years.
Picking Classes
Talk to upperclassmen, evalu-
ate the professors based on GPAs
and ensure the class ts in your
schedule well to give you ample
time outside of class.
Picking classes is always a gam-
ble and sometimes despite all the
prep-work, you are stuck in a class
you do not really like.
Rushing
With a big Greek population
and a host of fraternities and so-
rorities to choose from, it is im-
portant to test out the waters be-
fore you commit.
Rush is meant for you, so dont
feel shy in going to as many events
as you can and eat to your hearts
content.
Ask them insightful questions
about them and make them chase
you.
But even if you are not looking
to join, go anyway, have a blast,
meet dierent people, network
and get free stu.
Dining Halls
Getting the best meals at the
dining halls is a matter of expe-
rience. Do not go during odd
hours, try to befriend one of the
chefs or simply experiment with
new foods. Be conscious of what
you eat.
Safety
Living in a metropolitan city
like Atlanta comes with having to
be careful at night. Avoid drawing
attention to you by being loud or
walking casually through neigh-
borhoods at night. Be aware of
your surroundings and know how
to contact GTPD if something
happens. Take a friend along with
you when you are out after dark.
Health
One of the dreaded things
about college is the pounds that
are easy to gain.
Do not sacrice regular exer-
cise or sport. Try walking to class-
es instead of taking the bus and
be conscious of what you binge on
during late night study hours.
Avoid greasy food like the
plague.
Socializing
Everyone wants to be part of
the cool crew, but it is very easy
to be typecast a Techie here.
A big part of college is explor-
ing ones interests, and Tech has
many avenues to do so.
Many Tech students nd it
hard to get out of their comfort
zones and, as a result, nd them-
selves buried in their books.
With an open heart, embrace
the people around. ere is much
to learn from everybody.
Wander around campus, talk
to people you do not know and
join more clubs.
Do not be overly critical of
people who might have dierent
interests, and try to consciously
develop interests and hobbies out-
side of school.
It will do you wonders in the
long run to meet new people and
try new things.
Clubs
Like every college there are
hundreds of clubs, intramurals,
and organizations to join.
To nd something you like,
simply cast a large net and attend
as many clubs meetings as you
nd interesting.
Stick with the ones that engage
you the most and that you are
willing to spend the most time in.
Transportation
As criminal as it is to have only
10 minutes between each class,
you must face the unfortunate re-
ality that if you are not willing to
run you will have to use campus
transportation.
Not to say that the service is
undeserving, but buses and the
trolley leave a lot to be desired in
terms of timing.
e LED signs above bus stops
are typically accurate within a
couple minutes, but it takes vehi-
cles a lot longer to traverse campus
in between classes when hordes of
students are crossing streets.
On the other end of the spec-
trum, the Stingerette is a wonder-
ful service that will pick you up on
a moments notice and drive at any
hour of the night. Use it instead of
risking the streets alone at night.
Football Games
Buy tickets in the SWARM
section and scream and yell until
you vocal cords give out.
Learn the Ramblin Wreck
and all the necessary cheers.
Use face paint liberally.
Wear old gold and white, and
only white for the game against
Virginia Tech.
Lastly, cheer on the Jackets as
they seek revenge on the Bulldogs
this year.
Whats the good word?
The Ratio
Learn to turn the 2-to-1 into
the 1-to-2. Dont stay indoors all
day; go out and meet more people.
Networking is key.
Discover where all the local hot
spots are both on and o campus
and frequent them.
Join a fraternity to participate
in formals, semi-formals and mix-
ers with sororities.
Photo by Jamie Howell / Student Publications
Students board a Stinger to return to campus after Convocation at Alexander Memorial Coliseum.
The Stinger service operates from 7 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. weekdays and does not run on weekends.
Time Management
e best thing you will ever do
is make an hour by hour calendar.
Use Outlook, Google or just plain
paper and pen to plan out your
day. ough it may sound crazy,
plan out when you will study,
hang out, eat and sleep.
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Classrooms with wall-to-wall writing surfaces and plasma screens
are part of Techs initiative in hands-on group learning, All fresh-
man lab classes will take place in new lab rooms, and some Biology
and EAS classes will take place on the rooftop garden.
e Center for Academic Success will is located on the second
oor and oer walk-in 1-on-1 tutoring. Oces specic to Pre-
Health, Pre-Teaching, Scholarships and Undergraduate Research
are located on the second level as well, oering constant academic
advising to all majors.
OIT has moved to CULC as well to address a higher-volume of
laptop repairs and technical troubleshooting. A Starbucks for that
quick pick-me-up in the morning between classes, along with caf
seats strewn about outside for casual hangouts or group meetings.
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Formerly known as Skiles Walkway, this stretch of Techs cam-
pus has been a landmark part of the center of campus for decades.
Physically, it is just a long, wide stretch of sidewalk that connects
the Library, Skiles and Freshman Hill to the Campanile and Stu-
dent Center. In practice, though, it has acted as a central advertising
service for campus organizations. Organizations can either pass out
iers to students going from class to class or chalk advertisements
for events on the ground to take advantage of the eyes-permanently-
downcast stereotype of the shy Tech student.
At least partially closed for the better part of last year, Skiles
Walkway reopened this summer as Tech Walkway after getting a
makeover. Most noticeably, a new Spanish Steps style stair case now
connects the walkway to the Librarys main level, and several sets of
tables and chairs have been set out near the new Clough Commons
building for students to sit, eat, chat or study in the sun.
e amount of green space on campus increased signicantly
this semester following the end of construction on the Clough
Commons. Students can nally enjoy being able to see across the
expanse of green in the center of campus as they walk from one
part of campus to another. Formerly known as Yellow Jacket Park,
Tech Green provides a central location for students to study, nap
or hang out.
Underneath Tech Green is an underground cistern that supplies
water to the Campanile and the Clough Commons. Capable of
holding up to 1.6 million gallons of water, the cistern is one of the
largest in the U.S.
For those burdened with allergies, the Clough Commons has a
room with astroturf to provide a similar green and relaxing experi-
ence to students.
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Photo by Will Folsom / Student Publications
Photo by Will Folsom / Student Publications
Photo by Will Folsom / Student Publications
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Open 24 hours a day on ve days of the week, the new North
Avenue Dining Hall (NADH) will begin serving up meals to stu-
dents beginning this Fall 2011. e facility spans approximately
20,000 square feet. Students will have the opportunity to choose
from a large variety of meals, including menu items served at
Brittain and Woodru dining halls.
Constructed to accommodate approximately 300 people,
NADH will help alleviate the trac from those other dining
locations, where the number of meals served daily has in recent
years greatly exceeded the number of meals for which their
respective structures were designed.
e late-night meals will include more grab-and-go options
for students, and midnight bus routes will run between East
and West campus to provide all campus residents with the ability to
safely access NADH.
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While students expected to see the new North Ave. Dining Hall
open when they returned to campus this fall, many were surprised
to nd that the quad of the North Ave. Apartments complex had
received a major makeover over the summer.
Since the quad was previously just a large expanse of grass, the
most noticeable change is the addition of a sand-pit volleyball court
smack in the middle of the quad, where students can work o any
extra calories when they are coming from the new, easily accessible
dining hall.
e quad also received an upgrade in the form of a new amphithe-
ater-style plaza next to the volleyball court, at the top of the small hill
in the center of the quad. e North Ave. bus turnaround received
a few minor improvements as well, including new covered waiting
areas near the bus stops.
NortB Avemue QuB
Following a $3.5 million gift by John and Mary Brock, construc-
tion for the $9 million indoor practice facility commenced earlier
this year in Jan. e indoor practice facility, built for the football
team, will allow coaches and athletes to avoid inclement weather
while striving to improve their performance.
e facility includes a recruiting platform on which recruits
and their families can watch the football team practice during
scheduled visits.
Approximately 90 yards long with only one goal post on the
northern side, the facility allows easy access between inner and
outer elds.
is facility also features a 280,000 gallon cistern, ensuring that
energy usage is at a minimum and allowing for irrigation of the
track, football and baseball elds in case of a drought.
Broch ImBoor
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Technique August 19, 2011 7 FOCUS
Finding arts and music at a technical university
By Lauren Townsend
Contributing Writer
Tech is a school simply for
technology, without any creative
minded students who love art or
music, right? Wrong.
e Institute has developed
many programs and clubs over
the years for those right brained
students who want to explore the
more artsy side of their left brain.
Dierent clubs on campus,
such as DramaTech, Erato, the
band program and many more
channel energy into exploring the
artistic world.
DramaTech is a student run
and directed drama program that
produces many fabulous shows
a year. From main stage perfor-
mances to improvised comedy,
DramaTech continues to enter-
tain the minds of many.
e students direct, act and
produce the shows that they per-
form, and have a great reputation
across the campus.
I have done DramaTech for
two years, said Chelsea Fechter,
a third-year BME major.
I think its a great program
that allows students to get in-
volved and express their creativ-
ity. We do everything ourselves.
We get the rights to dierent
scripts and students act, produce
and direct the shows. Most stu-
dents who become involved in the
program say that its a great way
to maintain their sanity from the
demanding world of calculus and
chemistry, Fechter said. Its a
way for them to just let go of stress
and have fun.
Another program on campus
that allows students to express a
more artistic side is the Erato pub-
lication.
Erato is a publication composed
of plays, short stories, artwork and
poetry written by students and
even faculty. e magazine is pub-
lished once a year and students are
welcome to join the sta which
edits the magazine.
From literature to music, Tech
has it all. e band and choral
groups at Tech are top of their
class, with a choral group per-
forming with the Atlanta Sym-
phony Orchestra and the Geor-
gia Tech Orchestra performing
many popular concerts. e wind
ensemble and concert band also
attract quite a crowd and allow
many students to explore the lyri-
cal world of music.
e music program also has
a jazz band, so students can play
anything from classical music
with the orchestra, wind ensem-
ble, and symphonic band, or ex-
plore a more upbeat and fast style
of music with the jazz band.
Jenna Fair, a second-year BME
major, has great interest in the
band programs and believes they
have helped her in school.
I dont know what I would
have done without these pro-
grams, Fair said. With all the
stress of school and work, band
is simply a place to come and un-
wind and perform music that re-
laxes the soul. I love to play with
such a talented group of people.
We all come together for the same
purpose and that is that we all
want to expand our minds and re-
lax in a beautiful tune.
Fair has taken three concert
bands and marching band.
I love the variety of music
the band program has to oer.
Marching band is so much fun
and represents the school of music
because they are so big and thats
who everyone sees. But there
is also much more to the music
and arts program at Tech and I
would encourage anyone to get
involved, Fair said.
erefore, an artsy student
going to this school of technol-
ogy should not be discouraged.
Tech oers practically everything
to students. It is just a matter of
nding something that suits ones
interests.
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30 Minutes indulges
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By Brian Edmonds
Contributing Writer
30 Minutes or Less, director
Ruben Fleischers crude, lewd and
often hilarious lm, does not pull
many punches. In between many
laughs, the audience often nds
itself gasping and cringing. But
would you expect anything less
from the man who turned a zom-
bie apocalypse into a canvas for
sophomoric humor, a la 2009s hit
Zombieland?
e central plot line can be
gathered from the movies trailer;
two madmen strap a bomb to an
innocent pizza guys chest and
demand that he rob a bank for
them. Perhaps one of the movies
few aws is that it spends far too
long developing its plot.
Why anybody would be psy-
chotic enough to strap a bomb to
a strangers chest and demand he
rob a bank is irrelevant, the whole
situation is preposterous. In order
for the movie to work, viewers
have to suspend disbelief and en-
joy the mayhem.
e pizza boy, played by Jes-
sie Eisenberg, involves his slightly
more successful best friend and
roommate, portrayed by Aziz An-
sari, in his bomb-laden, bank-rob-
bing quest. Ansari appears to have
more raw comedic talent than
Eisenberg, ring with some very
funny dialogue that feels like it
would t perfectly into his popu-
lar stand-up act. But the two make
a good team, and their scenes to-
gether hit many of the right come-
dic notes. e bank robbery scene
itself is a madcap adventure that
scores quite a few laughs.
Danny McBride plays the evil
genius with the detonator. Per-
haps most famous for his dark
persona in HBOs show East-
bound and Down, McBride is very
believable as a twisted and chal-
lenged man.
Repetition of this act, how-
ever, renders this angle a bit tired.
Fleisher gives too much screen
time to McBrides foul-mouthed
character in the exposition of the
lm, and as a result the movie
drags through a few of the plot-
building episodes.
30 Minutes or Less, nd its legs
with the introduction of a second-
ary character played by Michael
Pena. Pena portrays a Hispanic
hitman and at times reaches mo-
ments of comedic genius. He is
bloodied, beaten and humiliated
in the movie and the audience is
howling the entire time.
Look, if youre going to this
movie to see an Oscar contender
or a slice-of-life drama, then you
should probably watch the trailers
again.
Movies like 30 Seconds or Less
are disposable entertainment:
big, loud and bawdy. When they
are done right, they can be a lot
of fun, but most, like 30 Seconds
are a bit uneven, with plots that
a blind man could see through or
with slow spells that lose the laugh
momentum.

30 Minutes or Less
GENRE: Comedy, Action
STARRING: Jesse Eisenberg,
Aziz Ansari, Danny McBride
DIRECTOR: Ruben Fleischer
RATING: R
RELEASE: Aug. 12, 2011
OUR TAKE:
Dance disappoints after delays
By Hank Whitson
Assistant Entertainment Editor
Newcomers to G.R.R. Mar-
tins A Song of Ice and Fire series
may not appreciate the signi-
cance of the release of A Dance
with Dragons. Long-time fans
have been waiting for the fth
book since the 2005 release of A
Feast for Crows, and Dance has
been in development even longer
than that. Feast and Dance are
technically two halves of the same
story, which Martin was forced
to split in half due to the manu-
scripts staggering length. Rather
than splitting the story chrono-
logically however, Martin opted
to divide the book by character,
and the events of the two novels

A Dance with Dragons

George R. R. Martin
GENRE: Fantasy
PUBLISHER: Bantam Spectra
RELEASE DATE: July 12, 2011
OUR TAKE:
occur concurrently for the most
part. Many of the readers cried
foul when favorite characters, like
Bran, Tyrion, and Daenerys, did
not appear in Feast. ese absenc-
es, paired with frequent delays in
publication, ratcheted up readers
expectations for Dance to tower-
ing levels. Consequently, it isnt
terribly surprising that the book
is something of a disappointment.
e results of this experiment
with separate but concurrent nar-
ratives are a pair of books that
dont feel nearly as tightly written
or complete as the three that pre-
ceded them.
In the rst three novels, the
plot plays out like a beautiful chess
match, with each event logically
leading to the next while mean-
ingfully altering the state of the
world for all the characters. But in
Feast and in Dance the characters
readers care most about are spread
out and diluted with new, less
important point of view (POV)
characters.
Martins greatest strengths and
gravest shortcomings as a story-
teller both stem from his myriad
of characters. He has been known
to skillfully shift POV to redeem
characters that initially seem
monstrous, or lay the groundwork
for meticulous Machiavellian con-
spiracies. But he also occasionally
gets hung up on new characters
who simply arent as interesting as
the others.
A Dance with Dragons is chiey
a story about journeys and many
of the chapters read like medi-
eval travelogues. Brans chapters,
which detail his journey north to
learn the mystical abilities of the
greenseer are excellent, but briefer
and fewer than one might ex-
pect. e narrative exploring Jon
Snows command of the Nights
Watch starts and ends strong,
but the lengthy middle section
mostly boils down to grudging
negotiations and now-familiar
conundrums of duty and honor.
Daenerys chapters are perhaps the
best-balanced in the book, blend-
ing genuine political intrigue, ro-
mance, and the bloody violence of
dragons.
e slowest chapters in the
book are focused on a familiar
character now known as Reek af-
ter being broken by torture. Many
of his chapters are spent dwelling
on his past and continuing abuse,
the foolishness of his past and the
appalling evil of his captors.
Martin loves to do terrible
things to his characters that ir-
reparably alter them. Most often,
this manifests as an abrupt and
unexpected death, but he has also
been known to cripple, maim and
blind characters, especially if they
are the heroic sort who would go
through any other fantasy epic
unharmed.
Normally, this is one of Mar-
tins admirable qualities as a fan-
tasy author. But in Dance, he con-
tinues to do shocking and awful
things to his characters, though
their implications are generally
shallow or titillating rather than
moments of profound and violent
characterization.
Like Feast, the pace picks up
toward the end. is is especially
true when the concurrent nar-
rative ends, and we re-join those
characters featured in Feast, but
that takes a good six-hundred pag-
es. ere are a few thrilling pivotal
moments and shocking twists, but
one gets the sense that the grand
plots and tremendous battles are
being saved for the next book.
Overall, the writing is solid
throughout and one cannot help
but be impressed by the breadth
and depth of Martins world. But
hopefully he will be able to trim
the fat for the next novel.
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THEME CROSSWORD: SECURITY RISK
By James Barrick
United Features Syndicate
ACROSS
1. Slithered
5. Entertainers of old
10. Cockeyed
15. Plant pouch
18. Circle dance
19. Forewarn
20. e -- Mutiny
21. Perfume
23. Start of a quip by
Paula Poundstone: 4 wds.
25. Bewitched aunt
26. Lots of loot
27. Site
28. Time per.
29. -- tempore
30. Binge
32. Part 2 of
quip: 3 wds.
36. -- uno
39. Holy city in Asia
40. Bittern
41. Opp. of WSW
42. Org. cousin
44. Marge Simpsons sister
46. Denials
50. Allen and Burton
52. Trap of a kind
55. Jug
58. Food sh
59. Highlanders
61. Mardi --
62. Ars longa, vita -- ...
64. Reception
65. Seed covers
67. Knocks answer
69. Let go, as a trainee
71. Evil intent
73. Breed of pigs
75. Submit
76. Part of the urban
cityscape
78. Apportioned
80. Old slang word
81. Statute: abbr.
82. Woodstocks pal
84. Double
86. Lean
88. Lacking give
90. Fashion magazine
91. A berry, in fact
93. Hart
DOWN
1. Crude weapon
2. Ore deposit
3. Inexible
4. Viennas river
5. Scornful cry
6. Sorrowful cry
7. Unveil
8. Douse or souse
9. Depot: abbr.
10. Accumulation
11. Elegant place
12. Asian automaker
13. Dress
14. Dennis or Sigourney
15. HBO family
16. Arrivederci!
17. Beverages
22. Nerve network
24. Lachrymal secretions
29. Aectation
31. College subj.
33. Midday
34. Analysis of a
kind: 2 wds.
35. Softened
36. Earns
37. Like some
legislatures
38. Communication
43. Tooth
45. Mal de --
47. Supreme rulers
48. e voting public
49. Base
51. Steps in a eld
53. Mineral
54. Rub smooth
56. Perpetually
57. Above the horizon
60. Diets, British-style
62. Carpet type
63. Tennis great Monica --
66. Seascape
68. Sooner than
70. Sepal anagram
72. Lab compound
74. Hint
76. Capacious bag
77. City on Lake Erie
79. Cap
83. -- contra
85. Mauna --
87. Minced oath
89. High schooler
92. Death on the --
95. Phooey!
97. Door-panel appurtenance
98. Baubles
100. Broadcast again
103. Preliminary plan
104. Survive
106. Trinidad and --
107. Colorants
109. -- -- what your country
94. Looney Tunes
star
96. A muse
99. Melody
101. Part of beta, zeta,
theta
102. Relaxed
105. Cheers
108. Engaged, in a way
110. Part 3 of quip: 5 wds.
115. Corrupted
116. D.C. org.
117. Farm sound
118. City in Ohio
122. Eager
123. Material for a
gown
125. End of the quip: 2 wds.
127. Auction
128. Shouts
129. One of the
de Milles
130. Kiln
131. Mister
132. Bank caper
133. Sheris party
134. Antler part
...
110. Lupino and others
111. French painter
112. Old greek coins
113. Tricks
114. Brother of Zeus
119. Indias -- Shankar
120. Harbinger
121. Island bird
124. XXXIX + XIII
125. Chart
126. Native: sux
ttretioo
Ce,:z
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Little Five Points
ose looking to explore the local
nightlife should catch a ride to the
Little Five Points district. Zesto is
a local favorite for burgers and ice-
cream. ere are a number of local
bars including e Vortex Bar and
Grill, e Five Spot, e Porter Beer
Bar and Wrecking Bar Brewpub.
Atlantic Station
Atlantic station is an ideal date destina
tion featuring a wealth of dining options,
a movie theater and an upscale bowling
alley. Dining options range from steak and
sushi at Strip, to Italian at Dolce Enoteca e
Ristorante. For something sweet, you can
choose Coldstone Creamery or Copelands
Cheesecake Bistro.
Pemberton Place
Adjacent to Olympic Park, Pemberton
Place is home to the World of Coca-Cola
museum and the world-famous Atlanta
Aquarium. e Aquarium is the largest
in the world, where you can observe sh
and other aquatic life including penguins,
otters, rays and jellysh in a number of
dierent environments, including rivers,
cold water and ocean.
Piedmont Park
Students looking for recreation
should head to Piedmont Park.
e park oers swimming and t-
ness classes, tennis and basketball
courts, and soccer and baseball
elds. e sprawling green lawns
are also perfect for perfect for
Frisbee, football and kite-ying.
Botanical Garden
If you want to relax, head to the
scenic and tranquil Atlanta Botani-
cal Gardens. In addition to exhibits
featuring a wide variety of trees, ow-
ers and shrubbery, the gardens feature
an elevated canopy walk that allows
visitors to explore one of Atlantas last
natural forests.
Masquerade
e three stages of the Masquerade, named
Heaven, Purgatory and Hell respectively,
gives this music venue a unique edge. Dier-
ent artists of dierent styles can utilize this
opportunity to optimize their performances.
Performers in the fall include Alkaline Trio,
Gym Class Heroes and Yellowcard.
e Tabernacle
Church-turned music venue e Tab-
ernacle is one of the most prominent
places in Atlanta for music lovers to
gather. It is a fantastic place to enjoy
performance from Dream eatre,
Arctic Monkeys and Deadmau5 who
will all be gracing the stages in the
fall.
Variety Placehouse
Variety Playhouse is a theatre
and nightclub within Little
Five Points thats perfect those
preferring a smaller venue. e
Whigs, Portugal. e Man and
Los Lonely Boys are some of the
performances coming in the fall.
Fans of indie music will learn to
love the Playhouse.
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Check out the
following
locations in
Atlanta!

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Little Five Points
ose looking to explore the local
nightlife should catch a ride to the
Little Five Points district. Zesto is
a local favorite for burgers and ice-
cream. ere are a number of local
bars including e Vortex Bar and
Grill, e Five Spot, e Porter Beer
Bar and Wrecking Bar Brewpub.
Star Provisions
Star Provisions is home to some of the top
ranked restaurants in the Atlanta area,
including Bacchanalia and Abattoir. Yeah!
Burger serves make it yourself burgers with
organic ingredients. Taqueria Del Sol serves
up some of the tastiest tacos in Atlanta, and
Osteria Del Figo has Italian fare and wine.
Atlantic Station
Atlantic station is an ideal date destina-
tion featuring a wealth of dining options,
a movie theater and an upscale bowling
alley. Dining options range from steak and
sushi at Strip, to Italian at Dolce Enoteca e
Ristorante. For something sweet, you can
choose Coldstone Creamery or Copelands
Cheesecake Bistro.
Fox eatre

One of the most historically

signicant and prominent land-
marks in Atlanta, the Fox eatre
annually puts on more than 300
performances, covering every-
thing from concerts to movies
to plays. Its midtown Atlanta
location makes going there an
easy endeavor for students. Watch
out for Fall performances such as
Wicked, Adele and others.
Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra
e renowned ASO brings lovers of clas-
sical music around Atlanta together under
its enchanting melodies. Played during the
opening ceremonies of the 1996 Olympics,
the ASO provide ample amount of oppor-
tunities for people wanting to become more
attuned to the sophisticated art of music.
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Fox eatre
High Museum
One of the most-visited museum in the
world, the High is one of the most presti-
gious art establishments in the southeast.
Part of the Woodru Arts Center, the High
have on hand over 11,000 piece of art from
over the world.
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Catherine furnishes unique, refreshing adventure

Catherine
CONSOLE: Xbox 360,
PlayStation 3
GENRE: Adventure, Puzzle
DEVELOPER: Atlus Persona
Team
RATING: M
RELEASED: July 26, 2011
OUR TAKE:
By Andrew Ho
Contributing Writer
ere is a hotly-debated topic
within the sphere of video gam-
ing that pits the traits and quali-
ties that dene Western and Japa-
nese games against one another,
though this may often devolve
to online ame wars or passion-
ate debates among friends. While
the general decline of quality in
Japanese games published in the
U.S should be noted, Catherine
is a refreshing and unique excep-
tion to this trend. It is dicult to
pin Catherine into any particular
game category or genre, mixing
parts from puzzle, dating simula-
tions and adventure gaming into
an entirely unforgettable experi-
ence.
Far removed from fantasy elves
and space marines, the story of
Catherine takes the peculiar nar-
rative direction of being a play
within a game. e player follows
the unspectacular tale of Vincent
Brooks, a 32 years old software
engineer whose life becomes es-
pecially convoluted within the
span of a week. He lives alone in
a crummy apartment, hangs out
nightly with his friends to drink
and is suddenly nding himself
pressured by his longtime girl-
friend, a very mature and respon-
sibility-driven woman named
Katherine, into marriage.
While drinking on his own at
a local watering hole to contem-
plate his situation, a mysterious,
gorgeous girl arrives from out
of his fantasies to sit down with
him. One thing leads to another,
though Vincent cant remember
what exactly happens, which ends
up with him waking up in bed
next to a very aectionate dam-
sel named Catherine. As if things
werent already troublesome
enough however, Vincent also be-
gins to have ghastly nightmares
involving his personal anxieties,
talking sheep and climbing inex-
plicably towers made out of magi-
cal blocks.
ere is an odd mixture of the
mundane and mysterious at work
within Catherine that makes it
such an engaging experience.
Despite the risqu cover art and
promotional material, the story
is mostly mature in the sense that
it that holds themes that many
adults themselves can relate to.
Yet there is a fantastical element at
work here that compels the player
to actually sit through the lengthy
cut scenes and dialogue, as the
wonderful voice acting work and
sharp, stylish graphics also en-
hance the games presentation.
Parts of the game are drawn in a
fetching 2D animation style while
the majority of the games graph-
ics are rendered in an interesting
cel-shaded style.
e decisions that Vincent
makes during his waking hours
have a crucial impact on the story
as well as the nightmare stages.
Not only do cut scenes tend to
happen at this point, but Vincent
can also talk to numerous char-
acters to aect their actions and
outcomes, play an arcade game,
receive and send text messages
and other seemingly minor details
that esh out the world.
e way the characters interact
with Vincent, from being wistful
and contemplative, to judgmental
and harsh, along with their own
troubles make the environments
feel rich in character and detail.
Catherine also possesses chal-
lenge, competitive and co-op
modes for players to further hone
their skills and attempt for high
scores in various stages, while also
oering the option to skip stages
that have been completed at a suf-
ciently high score in subsequent
play through.
is makes the process of run-
ning through the game for the
nine dierent endings far less of a
chore if one is truly set on seeing
every possibility.
On that note, the morality is-
sue here isnt as horribly black
and white as it tends to be in
other games where ethical choices
are made. e impacts of these
choices arent immediately appar-
ent, but can result in some deci-
sive changes through the story.
Granted, most players will likely
feel like taking the straight and
faithful path in having Vincent
stick with his long-time girlfriend,
but situations and events arise that
eectively call these decisions into
question.
e puzzles can be frustrating
even on the easy mode, but whet
a players appetite for adversity.
e cut scenes roll by, but keep
the player interested enough to
stop from skipping through them.
Half of the game thrills the logi-
cal, ordered side of the mind while
the other half evokes intrigue and
drama, creating an unusual, en-
chanting balance unlike so many
other games in the past years.
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By Alex Mitchell
Senior Sta Writer
e Jackets have a long and
storied athletic tradition, and the
sports facilities in which they
play are a large part of each sports
teams history. e sections that
follow detail the homes of several
of Techs varsity sports teams.
Bobby Dodd Stadium
Bobby Dodd Stadium at His-
toric Grant Field houses one of the
most storied programs in college
football. e stadium was built in
1913 by students and is the oldest
active on-campus stadium of any
NCAA Division I football team.
In 2003, the stadium under-
went renovations that increased
the stadiums capacity to 55,000
seats. e largest crowd at the
stadium since then came in a
game against No. 2 Notre Dame
in 2006, with 56,680 fans in at-
tendance; the most in Tech his-
tory was 60,316, when the Jackets
hosted Georgia in 1973.
Because of the stadiums age,
it has gone through numerous
reconstructions. e most recent
Russ Chandler Stadium
Russ Chandler Stadium, the
home of Tech baseball, opened
in 1930 with the funds that Tech
collected from the 1929 Rose
Bowl game.
e stadium was reconstructed
in 2002 and has a listed capacity
of 4,157. e attendance record of
4,609 was set on April 9, 2008,
when Tech hosted Georgia.
Tech has hosted numerous
NCAA Regionals and ACC tour-
naments at the stadium over the
past two decades. e stadium
also served as a training site dur-
ing the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
It was named in honor of A.
Russell Chandler III, who donat-
ed much of the necessary money
needed for its renovation in 1985.
Hank McCamish Pavillion
Beginning in Fall of 2012, the
mens and womens basketball
teams will be playing in the new
McCamish Pavillion. e Pavil-
lion is currently under construc-
tion and will seat approximately
8,800 fans.
Tech formerly played in Alex-
ander Memorial Coliseum, the
home of the basketball teams since
1956. e Coliseum was famously
nicknamed the rillerdome by
Tech announcer Brad Nessler dur-
ing the 1984-85 season after ve
exciting nishes to games.
While the McCamish Pavil-
lion is being nished, the Jackets
will split playing in Philips Arena
and the Gwinnett Arena.
OKeefe Gymnasium
OKeefe Gymnasium was used
by OKeefe High School during
the 1950s and was given to Tech
in the 1960s. It has hosted Techs
volleyball team since 1995.
e gym is able to hold around
1,000 people. e Pep Band helps
keep the crowd energized during
games, leading them with a cheer
of Point Tech! every time the
Jackets win a point.
Bill Moore Tennis Center
Techs tennis program hosts
one of the nations best tennis fa-
cilities with the Bill Moore Tennis
Center. Its namesake, Bill Moore,
is a member of the Georgia Tech
Hall of Fame. He provided the
funding to help open the Center
in 1988.
e center features outdoor
courts that can seat 1,500 and a
two-story indoor court structure.
Shirley C. Mewborn Field
Starting in March 2009, the
softball team began playing its
home games at the newly built
Shirley Clements Mewborn Field
after 21-plus years at Glenn Field.
Mewborn Field can seat up
to 1,500 spectators, and like the
baseball eld it has both chairback
and bench seating. e facility
also features indoor batting cages
and bullpens along the sidelines.
Tech has hosted NCAA Su-
per Regionals at Mewborn Field
in each of the stadiums rst two
seasons.
renovation was in Summer 2009,
when the sound system was im-
proved and a $4.5 million, 2,400
square foot video board was erect-
ed above the South end zone.
Tech named the stadium in
honor of former Head Coach
Bobby Dodd in April 1988. Dodd
led the Jackets to a 165-64-8 re-
cord in his 23-year tenure as the
head coach and served in some
capacity with the institution for
56 years. e eld was originally
named after John W. Grant, a
one-time member of the Georgia
Tech board of trustees, in 1914.
Photo by Kelvin Kuo / Student Publications
Russ Chandler Stadium has hosted an NCAA Regional tournament for the last three seasons. Russ
Chandler is located in the center of campus, and has served as a training site for several occasions.
Technique August 19, 2011 3 SPORTS
Tech looks to split carries in even race at starting B-back
Photos by Joey Cerone (L) and Tim Nowack (R) / Student Publications
David Sims (Left) and Preston Lyons (Right) are two of the four B-backs competing for a starting job
next season. All of the backs have a strong skill set and should contribute carries in the 2011 season.
By Alex Sohani
Sports Editor
For the rst time under Head
Coach Paul Johnsons tenure at
Tech, there is not a player who has
been named as the clear-cut leader
at B-back. After the departures of
former standouts Jonathan Dwyer
and Anthony Allen, the Jackets
may look to earn their yardage at
the B-back position by commit-
tee, and not with one standout.
Generally in Johnsons spread-
option oense, the start at the
B-back position will earn over
1,000 rushing yards during a sea-
son with four strong candidates
to carry to weight at the position
this year, the coaching sta may
take a strong look at splitting car-
ries evenly in order to leave players
fresh throughout the game and
have the players playing their best.
Going into fall camp, redshirt
senior Preston Lyons has been
named the starter at B-back, with
redshirt freshman Charles Perkins
being named his back up. Lyons
came to Tech as a transfer from
Colgate, and was immediately
named the back up to Dwyer and
Anthony Allen for each of his
rst two seasons. Lyons has been
praised for his ability to block
well, and his surprising athleti-
cism.
Preston is a better runner than
people give him credit for, he is ac-
tually one of the better athletes on
the team. If you go by 40-time,
vertical jump and all that stu,
hes actually a really good athlete.
People look at him and dont give
him enough credit, Johnson said.
However, Lyons hasnt locked
his starting position as redshirt
sophomore David Sims and red-
shirt junior Richard Watson are
making a tough push to earn
some major playing time along
with Perkins. All four players are
impressing the coaches during
summer camp.
Perkins was the rst commit-
ment for the 2010 recruiting class
and is expected to be a future start-
er for the team. Sims is a develop-
mental player who began his Tech
career as a quarterback. However,
Sims athleticism and size allowed
him to move to a more natural
B-back position. Watson has pri-
marily played special teams in his
career, and backed up Dwyer and
Allen in his rst two seasons play-
ing.
With so much depth at the
B-back position, it appears as
though the carries will be spread
fairly evenly, as all of the players
have shown they have the ability
to move the ball. Each player has
his strengths, whether it be block-
ing or moving between the tack-
les, and that could decide when
each player gets to see the eld.
Lyons has been praised for his
movement between the tackles,
along with his blocking, but lacks
the speed some of his backups
have. Perkins and Sims have raw
talent that needs to be shaped, but
both are new at the position and
could see signicant improvement
as the season progresses. Both
have been praised during the o-
season for their burst o the line
of scrimmage, but need improve-
ment on their blocking.
e competition at the posi-
tion has ignited a re behind
these players and caused each to
continue to improve throughout
the oseason.
Every day you have to come
out and play your best or some-
one is going to take your spot.
When you have three or four guys
competing like that, it denitely
brings out the best in you, Lyons
said.
After fall camp has ended,
Johnson, along with the other
coaches, will release a depth chart,
listing stats at each position and
his backups, the week of Techs
home opener against Western
Carolina. Regardless of who starts
at B-back that game, fans should
expect to see multiple players get-
ting important touches depending
on the situation in the game. Even
if the 2011 season does not pro-
duce a 1,000 yard B-back, expect
it to be one of the strongest posi-
tions on the team.
After an injury to former Tech
quarterback Joshua Nesbitt, Wash-
ington was thrust into the starting
role. Washington needs to improve
his passing numbers, as he only hit
25 of his 61 attempts, but he led the
oense well as Tech led the nation in
rushing in 2010.
Hill struggled in his new role as
the go-to receiver in 2010, but has to
live up to the hype in order to open
up the rushing attack. Hills height
advantage will aid him in jump ball
situations, and while he struggled, he
still led the team in receiving yards
last season.
Smith took over the starting role
alongside redshirt senior Roddy Jones
last year. Smith broke o the longest
rushing play of 2010 and averaged
an outstanding 9.7 yards per carry.
Smith is also a threat in the passing
game and will continue to succeed in
the oense.

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Tech will have to nd a way to replace former Tech standout Joshua Nesbitts production at quarterback. Redshirt junior
Tevin Washington was thrust into the starting role last season after an injury to Nesbitt during the Virginia Tech game, and
Washignton is the current leader for the starting job. However, redshirt freshman Synjyn Days is pushing him for the starting
role during fall camp.
e passing game struggled last season, with the team combining for an overall completion percentage of 38.1 percent on
168 attempts. While Head Coach Paul Johnson does not want to necessarily throw the ball more, he wants to see the team
throw it with more eciency and accuracy. Look for Washington to improve on the short passing game to the A-backs.
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Senior A-back Roddy Jones and junior A-back Orwin Smith return this year after starting in the 2010 season.
Both Jones and Smith struggled with ball security throughout the 2010 season and will need to be more focused on
avoiding fumbles in the red zone. At times, the A-backs struggled to block and elude quick defenders, but with the
experience and depth returning, the unit as a whole should be much improved.
At B-back, senior Preston Lyons, sophomore David Sims and freshman Charles Perkins are in a virtual dead heat
for the starting job. All three players are hard-nosed runners, and in several interviews, Johnson has stated that it
might be the deepest position on the team. Look for the yardage to be split fairly evenly among three or four backs.
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Junior Omoregie Uzzi leads the oensive line after starting 12 games in 2010 and earning second team All-
ACC honors. Uzzi comes into the 2011 season as a preseason All-ACC guard and will be one of three returning
starters on the oensive line.
Beyond Uzzi, the oensive line is one of the least experienced units in the nation and the conference, but
contains a lot of raw talent. Tech will have to replace All-ACC center Sean Bedford with sophomore Jay Finch.
Finch played well in 2010 at left guard after replacing an injured Will Jackson and pushed Bedford for the
starting job at center last season.
e oensive line should improve as the season progresses, but with such a young group, there could
be struggles to win the battle on the line of scrimmage.
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Junior Stephen Hill and senior Tyler Melton return as starters at the wideout position. Hill
struggled in 2010 after trying to replace former Tech standout Demaryius omas. However,
coaches have raved about his oseason work ethic and expect great improvement from the ju-
nior. Both omas and Melton are experienced with blocking for the oense and are speedy
enough to take advantage of one-on-one matchups deep down the eld.
Hills 6-foot-5 frame will prove useful in jump ball situations, and his oseason work suggests
that he has grown bigger and stronger in order to battle defenders for the ball.
Key skIII pIayezs to watch Ioz on
Tevin Washington
RS ]unIor Quarterback
Stephen Hill
]unIor WIde ReceIver
Orwin Smith
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In 2010, the Jackets posted their rst losing season since 1994, with a bowl loss to Air Force in the Independence Bowl. Tech struggled to prevent turnovers in the redzone and prevent opponents from
running all over them. In order to return to the top of the ACC standings again, the Jackets have to nd new leaders at each of the key positions to avoid complacency and nd a rhythm on both sides of
the ball.
Photo by John Nakano / Student Publications
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by Alex Mitchell
Sports Editor
Senior Jason Peters will have to
to surpass his 2010 season statistics
with 52 tackles in 13 starts. Peters
could make an even larger impact on
the team and increase his sack count.
Peters is the most experienced line-
man in the group, having the most
playing time of anyone on defense.
Despite playing primarily in a re-
serve role, Attaochu still managed to
rack up 23 tackles and three sacks.
Attaochu is well-suited for the 3-4
OLB position and should continue to
succeed as he gets more experience.
Look for Attaochu to wreak havoc on
opposing quarterbacks.
Playing as a back-up in 2010,
Young played in 12 games and had 10
tackles. He has the speed to be able to
bait quarterbacks into throwing the
ball deep, so he can have a chance
to make a play. Young should add a
huge boost to a team that struggled
to get interceptions last year.
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Going into the second year in the 3-4 system, all three starters on the defensive
line return to a unit that should highlight the defense. Junior Izaan Cross and red-
shirt senior Jason Peters start on opposite sides of the line at defensive end. Cross
made two starts as a freshman and made every start last season, while Peters is the
most experienced player on the line. Both players should highlight the line, and
increase the pass rush that struggled until late last season.
Redshirt senior nose tackle Logan Walls is slightly undersized for the position,
but he has experience playing and should be able to plug up any major gaps in the line. e line is one of the deepest
units, as multiple backups such as redshirt junior defensive tackle T.J. Barnes got playing time last year and will get some
looks behind the current starters in relief. Barnes 6-foot-7, 333-pound frame will prove useful in run support situations.
Depth will be key on the line, and it should be the strongest asset of the defense.

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Junior inside linebacker Julian Burnett was a solid presence in the linebacking corps in 2010 and returns after
leading the team with 89 tackles despite only earning a starting job midway through the season. Despite having just
been converted from B-back in the oseason, redshirt sophomore Daniel Drummond has shot up the depth chart
and could start alongside Burnett at inside linebacker. Drummond played linebacker in high school and has great
mobility despite his size. Redshirt freshman Quayshawn Nealy showed great promise during the spring game and
should be a strong reserve behind Burnett and Drummond.
At outside linebacker, sophomore Jeremiah Attaochu and senior Stephen Sylvester will pair up to create a solid
starting tandem. Attaochu played mostly as a situational rusher early on and earned more playing time as the season
progressed. His physique is considered optimal for the 3-4 defense, and he will be used in several blitz packages by
defensive coordinator Al Groh. Sylvester was Techs top option at the position last season and started every game in
2010. He led the team with 10.5 tackles for loss and ranked among ACC leaders in forced fumbles.
e play of the linebackers will be critical in order to increase the poor turnover margin that Tech sustained in
2010. e linebacking corps expects dramatic improvement in the pass rush, and if the defensive line holds it own, the
linebackers should expect to earn more sacks in the upcoming season.

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e Jackets will have to replace the entire starting secondary from the 2010 season after an early departure from former
Tech safety Jerrard Terrant. Senior safety Rashaad Reid, who has played both corner and safety in the past, returns the
most experience in the secondary with 15 starts in his career.
Speedy sophomore cornerback Louis Young created buzz during the spring, after playing mostly on special teams last
year. He is expected to step up this season and provide the team with a star that the secondary had lacked in 2010.
Sophomore safety Isaiah Johnson started three games last year, earning playing time in every game and leading the
2010 freshmen with 46 tackles. Junior cornerback Rod Sweeting earned signicant playing time last year and improved
signicantly as the season progressed. Sweeting ranked No. 2 on the team with seven pass break-ups despite a limited role.
It is essential that the secondary grows quickly as the season progresses so that the defensive schemes can become more
diverse. To this end, Young and Sweeting will be expected to cover one-on-one situations well in order for more blitz
packages to be used than in 2010.
|ason Peters
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|eremiah Attaochu
Sophomore LInebacker
Louis Young
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In 2010, the Jackets posted their rst losing season since 1994, with a bowl loss to Air Force in the Independence Bowl. Tech struggled to prevent turnovers in the redzone and prevent opponents from
running all over them. In order to return to the top of the ACC standings again, the Jackets have to nd new leaders at each of the key positions to avoid complacency and nd a rhythm on both sides of
the ball.
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Photo by Doug Kim / Student Publications
Player portraits courtesy of the Georgia Tech Athletic Association
by Alex Sohani
Sports Editor
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Head coaches bring experience, winning tradition to Tech
Photo by Michael Schneider / Student Publications
Head baseball coach Danny Hall watches his team at the Tech vs. UGA baseball game. Hall has 737
wins with the Jackets, and consistently has teams that compete for the top of the ACC standings.
Photo by Eric Manseld / Student Publications
MaChelle Joseph has led the womens basketball team to ve
straight 20-win seasons and ve consecutive NCAA appearances.
By Alex Sohani
Sports Editor
Paul Johnson - Football
Johnson is entering his fourth
year at Tech, implementing his
high powered spread option of-
fense. Under Johnson, the Jackets
have a 25-14 record and are 16-8
in ACC play. Johnson has won
more games in his rst three sea-
sons than any other coach in Tech
history.
Before coming to Tech, John-
son was successful as the head
coach at Georgia Southern from
1997-2001 and Navy from 2002-
07. Johnson sports an impressive
132-53 career record and led Tech
to a No. 7 ranking in the 2009
season, their highest ranking since
1999.
Brian Gregory - Basketball
Gregory was hired as the 13th
head basketball coach by Tech on
March 28, 2011 after the mens
basketball program had struggled
to live up to expectations since
2004. Gregory comes to Tech
after coaching at Dayton from
2003-11.
Under his guidance, Dayton
University went to the NCAA
Tournament two times, and made
three NIT appearances. e Fly-
ers won the NIT Championship
in the 2009-10 season and com-
piled a 172-94 record under Greg-
orys tenure.
MaChelle Joseph - WBB
Joseph is entering her ninth
season as the head coach of the
womens basketball team, leading
the team to ve straight 20-win
seasons and compiling a 153-97
record. She became the fastest
coach to reach 150 wins while
leading the team to ve straight
NCAA Tournament appearances.
Joseph has established stabil-
ity and a winning tradition to the
program, contending in the ACC
and national spotlight.
Danny Hall - Baseball
Hall enters his 18th season at
Tech as the all-time winningest
baseball coach in school history
with 737 wins. e Jackets have
been to the NCAA Tournament
15 times in his career and been
to the College World Series in
1994, 2002 and 2006. He is the
only coach in school history to
reach the College World Series in
Omaha.
Since taking over the program,
Hall averages 43 wins per season
and has helped 92 of his players be
drafted by the MLB on 103 occa-
sions.
Bruce Heppler - Golf
Going into his 16th year as
head coach, Heppler has estab-
lished Tech as a powerhouse
golf program that is well known
throughout the nation. During
his tenure, the Jackets have been
to the NCAA Tournament every
year since 1998 and have had nine
top-8 nishes in the Finals.
Tech has not nished lower
than 14th in any year since 2000
and has won the outright ACC
title each of the last three seasons.
Sharon Perkins - Softball
Perkins enters her fth season
at Tech after winning ACC Coach
of the Year twice in her rst four
seasons. During her tenure, Tech
has more ACC wins than any oth-
er school and has seen its highest
national ranking in school history
at No. 7.
e Jackets have won the
ACC regular season and tourna-
ment title for the last two seasons
and spent the entire 2010 season
ranked in the NFCA top 25 poll
for the rst time in school history.
Kenny Thorne - Mens Tennis
After a successful career as a
player at Tech, orne returned
to his alma mater to coach the
mens tennis team to a high level.
orne goes into his 13th season
as head coach after a successful 21
win season in 2010-11.
e Jackets nished 13th in
the nation and reached the round
of 16 in the NCAA tournament,
both high marks for Tech under
orne. orne was recently sur-
passed by former Tech standout
Guillermo Gomez, breaking his
original record for the most career
singles wins in school history.
Bryan Shelton - Mens Tennis
Shelton enters his 12th sea-
son as one of the most successful
coaches in school history, being
one of only ve Tech coaches to
guide a team to a national cham-
pionship. e Jackets have won
the NCAA title once, and two
indoor ITA national titles during
his tenure.
Shelton has earned ACC Coach
of the Year honors four times dur-
ing his career, and was named the
2007 ITA Coach of the year.
Going into the 2011-12 season,
he has compiled a .697 winning
percentage with a 198-86 record
at Tech.
Tonya Johnson - Volleyball
Johnson enters her third sea-
son as the head coach of womens
volleyball at Tech as the seventh
coach in school history.
In her rst season at the helm,
Johnson led the Jackets to a 21-
10 record and their rst NCAA
Tournament appearance since
2004.
Technique August 19, 2011 7 SPORTS
Baseball players prep for future via draft, summer league
By Alex Mitchell
Senior Sta Writer
Following a disappointing loss
in the Regional last season, a few
of Techs baseball players decided
to continue playing baseball this
summer. Nine players elected to
travel north and play in the Cape
Cod League, and a handful of
players went to dierent leagues
around the country.
Four Tech players joined the
Wareham Gatemen of the Cape
Cod League this oseason, by
far the most Tech players on any
team.
Sophomore rst baseman Dan-
iel Palka stood out for the Gate-
men by leading the team with a
.327 average. Palka improved on
his .297 average last season at
Tech, but his one home run in 110
at bats for the Gatemen suggests
that Palka could become more a
singles type hitter for the Jackets
next season.
Joining Palka in the Gatemans
everyday lineup has been junior
outelder Brandon omas. After
hitting only two triples in 205 at
bats last season for Tech, omas
hit three triples in only 132 at bats
for the Gatemen this summer.
omas also added a team
leading nine doubles to his three
triples, and looks poised to take a
role in the middle of Techs lineup
as a strong hitter for the upcoming
season.
Sophomore shortstop Mott
Hyde also played for the Gatemen
this summer, and the young play-
er struggled to get on base. Hydes
average was 125 points lower this
summer than it was for Tech and
he had twice as many strikeouts
than walks.
One bright spot for Hyde was
his running as the sophomore
stole seven bases without being
caught stealing once.
Sophomore pitcher Matthew
Grimes joined his three hitting
teammates on the Gatemen and
much like Hyde, Grimes had a
disappointing oseason.
Grimes allowed 23 runs to
score in only 32 innings, let bat-
ters hit .301 o of him and car-
ried a 1.66 WHIP throughout the
summer. It was a tough summer
for the soon to be weekend starter,
after he showed good signs as a
freshman last season by going 7-4
as a midweek starter.
Sophomore center elder Kyle
Wren had a productive summer
for the Cotuit Kettleers of the
Cape Cod League. Wren did not
hit .340 like he did for Tech last
season, but his .282 summer aver-
age was good enough for fourth
on the team. Wren created havoc
on the base paths this summer
and stole 18 bases. However, af-
ter only drawing six walks, Wren
will have to do a better job getting
on base more next season if Tech
wants to win a title.
Junior pitcher Luke Bard
also competed in the Cape Cod
League this summer, playing for
the Brewster Whitecaps. Bard had
a nearly identical summer statisti-
cally as he did last spring, but he
did so as a starter.
Bard went 2-2 after starting
seven games for the Whitecaps
and managed to drop his ERA
from 2.72 to 2.61. Bard walked
21 batters in 41 innings, so he will
have to work on his control if he
wants to be a dominant starter for
Tech next season.
e Harwich Mariners started
slugging junior Jake Davies at
rst base this summer, and Da-
vies had mixed results. Davies did
hit a long home run for the Mari-
ners but he hit only .241. He also
struck out 33 times in only 112 at
bats. Davies hit ve homers for the
Jackets last season, so expect to
see Davies in the middle of Techs
lineup next season.
Sophomore pitcher DeAndre
Smelter proved that he could be
a force in the Tech bullpen this
upcoming season as he struck out
12 batters in 12 innings for the
Falmouth Commodores. Smelter
only made 10 appearances this
summer, but his 2.13 ERA was
impressive.
Junior pitcher Buck Farmer
had a tough summer for the Cha-
tham Anglers. Farmer struggled
to a 5.57 ERA and only made it
through 21 innings in his four
starts. ose numbers may send
up red ags for the future Friday
Tech starter. However, Farmer
only had two bad starts, as he
won his rst rst two games by
only giving up four runs in those
starts.
Sophomore catcher Zane Ev-
ans elected to join the Leesburg
Lightning of the Florida Colle-
giate Summer League and had a
terric summer. Evans OPS was
.780 this summer thanks in large
part to his three home runs and
18 walks. Evans drove in 22 runs
and proved that he is more than a
great defensive catcher.
Sophomore pitcher Dusty
Isaacs had perhaps the most im-
pressive season of any summer
ball player. Isaacs started seven
games for the Hamilton Joes of
the Great Lakes Summer League
and went 5-1 on the season. He
posted a 2.44 ERA and struck out
an amazing 50 batters in just 44
innings.
Isaacs was a force out of the
bullpen for the Jackets last sea-
son, but Head Coach Danny Hall
might consider starting Isaacs
more often next season.
In total, 26 current or future
Tech players competed in dier-
ent summer leagues around the
country. Although they will not
be able to carry their stats this
summer over into next season, the
players who competed in the sum-
mer gained experience that will
help them in their Tech careers.
Photo by Tim Nowack / Student Publications
Dusty Isaacs pitches from the mound at Russ Chandler Stadium. Isaacs played a bullpen role last
season as a freshman RHP. He posted a 2.44 ERA during the summer playing for the Hamilton Joes.