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WELCOME BACK ISSUE

Welcome back to Tech from the Technique

The Souths Liveliest College Newspaper

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
Brenda Lin
MANAGING EDITOR:
Nick Johnson
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Max Kaltman
NEWS EDITOR:
David Raji
OPINIONS EDITOR:
Vidya Iyer
LIFE EDITOR:
Samira Bandaru
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR:
Trishna Chandarana
SPORTS EDITOR:
Jonathan Long

BRENDA LIN
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
The printing of this issue
marks the start of yet another
school year, which means that,
with great excitement, I welcome our fantastic new class of
students to Tech. You are some

of the smartest, brightest and diverse groups to enter our humble

Institution, and I am teeming
with anticipation over what you
will be able to accomplish.
These next few years at Tech
will be some of the more formative ones of your young lives,
molding you academically, socially and emotionally.
As for the rest of you, the new
year is wrought with potential.
New levels of academic apexes
will be determined and overcome. The divergence from general classes or change of living
situations may force exits from
your previously secure social
groups to newer, more tailored
ones. Adventure awaits for you,
and do not fear it embrace

your yens.
New semesters also often
bring new emotions and stressors. I would just like to remind
you that there is an incredible
amount of resources on campus
at your disposable if there is ever
a need.
The Counseling Center is privately located on the second floor
of the Flag Building (Smithgall),
and the Womens Resource Center will help any gender and all
sexes who have been sexually
assaulted or harassed with more
directed resources in the works.
Finally, above all else, please
get a good nights sleep. The new
school year is exciting, you will
definitely want to experience it
to its fullest extent, including

all-nighters for certain projects,

homework or simply playing videos games a little long. However,
there is no getting out at Tech
without maintaining your physical well-being, so please take
care.
From what I have experienced
in my last three years here, these
have been some of the most arduous, opportunistic, transforming
and wonderful years of my life.
I have been able to travel the
world, resolve my ideal career
and meet some of the most intelligent and kind people I have
ever encountered whom I can
now call my friends.
I truly hope that each and
everyone of you takes full advantage of what Tech has to offer.

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The Technique, lovingly nicknamed by the staff as Nique,

printed our very first issue on
Nov. 17, 1911.
Our preoccupation with our
football rivalry with u[sic]GA
was apparently already realized
as the front page previewed an
upcoming game against our old
foe (which, unfortunately, we
lost)and featured an article by
legendary coach John Heisman.
At the time, we were Techs
second student newspaper, preceded by The Georgia Tech.
When the papers eventually
merged in 1916, our name survived, so we like to pride ourselves on being Techs longest
running student newspaper.
We try our very best to live
up to our epigraph, The Souths
Liveliest College Newspaper,
and aim weekly to put out content that students will be excited
to read and meet the highest
standards of quality and ethics.
On occasion, part of our
liveliness does mean using our
role as a college newspaper to
conduct thorough investigations
to properly inform the community and to keep certain groups
and people in check by providing
coverage and analyses of news
and events both on- and off-campus that affect the student body.
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which other members of the
community can do the same.
We have chronicled everything from the first 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 cover-

age of Tech sporting events, including the 222-0 whopper of a

football victory (the largest college football victory in history)
over Cumberland College in
1916.
Currently, we publish monthly during the summer and weekly during the fall and spring
semesters, with the exception
of Dead Week, Finals Week

and Spring Break. We also have

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About 30 students keep our
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OPINIONS

ENTERTAINMENT

technique Racism not tolerated

News 2

Opinions 7

p8 Pijiu: belly-warming

Life 13

Entertainment 21

p21

Sports 32

SPORTS

STUDENTS PROTEST RACIAL INJUSTICE p2

Marching
band ready
for football

NEWS

JOE SOBCHUK

ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The Yellow Jacket Marching Band is
one of the oldest institutions on Techs
campus and is preparing for another
season of performances in the stands
and on the field. The 350-member band
has been working hard over the past
two weeks to practice its music and
learn all of the marching routines that
will be conducted on the field.
Kyle Schadt is a Baritone player in
his fifth year as a member of the marching band. He has plenty of experience
performing at football games for the
Tech faithful and has seen his fair share
of exciting games.
[My favorite game] used to be the
2011 Clemson game, but now I would
say that its the UGA game from last
year, Schadt said. Both the ACC
Championship and Orange Bowl were
great, but nothing beats beating UGA.
We [the band] were just playing our
hearts out.
Techs band is different compared
to most marching bands across the nation, since it does not include any music
majors (a major not offered at the Institute). Contrary to some peoples intuition, Schadt thinks that this situation
actually benefits the band.
A lot of schools with music majors
force their students to do marching
band for at least a semester, and not everyone wants to do that, Schadt said.
Since we do not have music majors,
everyone that is in this band wants to
be here, and we do not end up with any
bad members. Everyone definitely has
the talent.
The bands first practices of the year
Top L: Photo by Monica Jamison Student Publications; Top R: Photo by Tyler Meuter Student Publications; Above: Photo by Monica Jamison Student Publications

See BAND, page 29

LIFE

Student receives Fuel Cycle Research Award

ALEX COVINGTON
ASSISTANT LIFE EDITOR
Nuclear waste became somewhat easier to control this past
year thanks to the work of Daniel
Griffin, a chemical and biomolecular engineering PhD. student at
Tech. For the technique described
in his paper Controlled Crystallization of Salts from Nuclear
Waste Solutions, Griffin received
the Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research award, which is sponsored
by the U.S. Department of Energy. For having won the award,

Griffin will travel to the American

Nuclear Society Winter Meeting
in Washington, D.C. to present
his findings.
The project will aid in mitigating one of the major drawbacks of
nuclear power: storing the hazardous waste. As Griffin explained,
finding solutions to this problem
gives optimism for the future
of nuclear energy, which he described as having the potential to
provide energy without the same
sort of environmental impact that
we might see with some of the
more traditional energy produc-

tion methods. He pointed out

that perhaps the largest political
roadblock to a more widespread
acceptance of nuclear power is the
publics discomfort over the leftover waste material. He explained
that this need helped pushed him
forward, saying its motivating,
you feel good if you can come
up with a technique to help address this problem. Much of the
current problem comes from the
necessity of dealing with legacy
nuclear waste, particularly at
the Hanford site in Washington,
which is in containers which are

no longer suitable for storage.

Griffins work deals with the
crystallization of salts in complex solutions, such as those that
might be a by-product of nuclear
power. Once these salts have been
crystallized, they can be removed
from solution, which makes it
easier for the solution to undergo
a process known as vitrification,
which transforms it into glass. The
vitrified waste is then rendered
immobile, preventing any potential holes in a container leading to
dangerous leaks.
He explained that the major

innovation being introduced is

the use of feedback informed by
monitoring the system. By constantly measuring the conditions
of the system and modifying the
environment accordingly, he is
able to produce from the solution
crystals of much higher volume.
Such crystals are easier to remove
than smaller ones, making the
process of removing salts which
hinder the process of vitrification
simpler. The need for measurements to be taken during the crystallization process comes from
See FUEL, page 17

News

NEWS EDITOR:

A History of Innovation

David Raji

ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR:

Hasit Dewan

news@nique.net

technique

Thomas Edison's great grand-niece speaks to

Tech students on how collaboration can lead
to innovation411

Friday,
August 21, 2015

RACIAL HARASSMENT MET WITH DEMONSTRATION

DAVID RAJI

NEWS EDITOR
Following an alleged incident
of racial harassment of a black female Tech student by brothers of
the Phi Delta Theta, protests were
staged on the morning of Thursday, August 20th by a group of
students, who were primarily involved in black student organizations.
According to members of the
protest, including Nelson Raphael, the Black Leadership Conference Co-Chair of the African
American Student Union as well
as a second-year EE, the harassment incident allegedly occurred
on at approximately 6:45 p.m.
on August 11th. The student was
walking along Fowler Street towards her car, when she was allegedly verbally assaulted by brothers
of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
The brothers allegedly involved in the harassment were
reportedly three white males who
were hanging out of a window
of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity
house. The victim reportedly then
quickly proceeded to her car and
drove away from the area.
Prior to the demonstration
on Thursday, students met in the
Student Center Theatre. A few
minutes after 11:00 p.m., Raphael
addressed the gathered crowd and

announced a number of ground

rules for the protest.
This is a silent demonstration, Raphael said. There will
be no antagonization. There will
be no attacking. We will be silent,
they are to create the attention to
a matter that has been ignored on
this campus.
The gathered students then
collected certain supplies from
the front of the theatre, including
posters and duct tape. The posters
messages were mainly those expressing sentiments that inequality persisted on Techs campus,
while the duct tape was utilized
by students to cover their mouths.
Some students also wrote racial
slurs on the duct tape before applying it in this way.
If youre not familiar, we will
be writing the obscenity on our
duct tape, and we will place them
on our mouths to show the power
of the word when it takes our own
speech away from us to defend
ourselves, said Raphael.
Raphael then instructed all
those present to remain on the
sidewalk and not to enter the fraternitys property. He emphasized
that it was important that the
group remained civil, orderly and
within their rights.
The students then proceeded
towards the fraternity by walking down Skiles, then turning left

Photo by Monica Jamison Student Publications

Students involved with Thursdays protest marched from the

Student Center towards the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house.

HASIT DEWAN

ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

WHERE AM I?
On Wednesday, Aug. 12, at
roughly 1:30 a.m., a GTPD officer
on patrol observed two conspicuous Tech students inside Bobby
Dodd Stadium while he was assisting a student near Gate 10.
Upon entering the stadium,
the officer discovered that the students he had previously observed
were roaming the grounds of the
facility with no perceivable goal or

target. When asked by the officer

at the scene, one of the students
denied being in the stadium despite obviously standing inside of
it at the time.
It was also apparent to the officer that both students had consumed some amount of alcohol.
Both of the individuals in question were issued a Student Code
of Conduct violation for trespassing as well as for minor possession
of alcohol.
Notably, both of the students
involved in the incident in question had been issued criminal trespass warnings in very similar circumstances previously. Two years
prior, they had also been caught
entering the stadium illegally and
received an almost identical level
of reprimanding.
SICKENINGLY GOOD BOOZE
On Sunday, Aug. 16, at roughly 12:14 a.m., two GTPD officers
responded to a call regarding a
sick student at Fitten Residence
Hall.

Photo by Monica Jamison Student Publications

Tech students protest a recent alleged incident of racial harassment towards a black female.
Racial slurs were directed at her as she was walking outside the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house.

before passing the CULC. During the walk, some students commented on the reasons why they
were taking part in the demonstration.
[The incident] affects me, its
not just about one student, said
Michelle Armstrong, a fourthyear ALIS. Id want people to do
the same thing if it happened to
me.
Another student, who wished
to remain anonymous, said that
the use of derogatory terms towards groups on campus needs
more attention than it is currently
getting.
Upon reaching the sidewalk
area adjacent to the fraternity,
the group of protestors assembled
themselves largely on the opposite
side of the street. The posters were
prominently displayed by the students present, and most assumed a
position involving staring upward
towards the fraternity house.
Over the duration of the hour,
there was little to no speaking
done by the protestors. Few of
those who passed by the demonstration ignored what was happening, and some slowed down to
take the scene in.
Brothers of the fraternities ad-

jacent to Phi Delta Theta, which

are Chi Phi and Zeta Beta Tau,
walked outside during the hour
that the demonstration took
place. Their outlook on the situation was unclear. Not a single
individual emerged from the Phi
Delta Theta house during the time
that the protestors were present.
At a few minutes before noon,
Raphael announced that the
group would now proceed back
to the Student Center. He then
spoke with the Technique about
motivators for the demonstration
as well as events leading up to it.
[The demonstration] was a
moment to bring attention to an
issue on this campus that is not
often spoken about, said Raphael. It was something to help kids,
students, parents, administration
to become aware of what black
Georgia Tech students are dealing
with on a daily basis.
In a statement released, Matt
Edwards, the Alumni Association
President of the Georgia Delta
Chapter of Phi Delta Theta, stated
that the chapter at Tech has fully
cooperated with Tech administration who are investigating the
incident.
The students present at the

time of the alleged complaint have

been repeatedly interviewed, but
we understand that no one substantiated that any such comment
was made, stated Edwards. We
trust that the students will be given the presumption of innocence,
especially given the absence so far
of any credible corroboration that
the comment was made.
Raphael noted that the goals
of the demonstration did not included the alienation of the administration; prior to Thursday,
he as well as four other students
met with members of Tech administration to ensure the demonstration would be legal and
would not impede activity in the
area. Raphael noted that, while
the demonstration was a success,
the problem still exists.
We are looking for a public
apology. We are looking for recognition [by the fraternity] that they
were wrong in what they did. They
do have to face the consequences,
and it is unfortunate that an event
like this has to happen for them to
realize that.
Members of the protest, including Raphael, affirmed that
they understand Tech administration supported the demonstration.

The student was determined

to have consumed a considerably
large amount of alcohol, and his
impaired state of well-being was
apparent. His roommate, who was
also present, had also been drinking alcohol according to the officers analysis.
After conducting further questioning, the officers discovered
that the two students in question
had received the alcohol from a
student living within Techs Undergraduate Living Center (ULC)
on west campus.
The two students shortly thereafter directed the two officers to
the students room in the ULC.
The officers arrived at the specified
location, and found a scene which
included seven students ingesting
alcohol.
Only a few of the students
present at the ULC room were
underage. However, all of the individuals consuming alcohol at
the location became recipients of
Student Conduct Code violations,
which fell under the categories of

either Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor or for Possession of Alcohol while under 21.

locate a tobacco grinder as well

as a small quantity of marijuana
within the vehicle. The driver of
the vehicle was then placed under
arrest.

TAG! YOURE ARRESTED.

At 9:02 p.m. on Saturday, Aug.
15, a GTPD officer was patrolling
along North Avenue near Lucky
Street when he observed a gold
Lexus LS400 with an expired
temporary Georgia tag.
After taking in the particular
situation, the officer activated his
emergency equipment and carried
out a traffic stop on the vehicle
with the expired tag. Following
the stop, the officer discussed the
situation with GTPD dispatch,
and the decision was made to
run the expired tag through the
GCIC/NCIC system.
As a result of the assessment
of the tag, the vehicle was found
to have valid insurance. However,
the fact that the registration of the
vehicle was expired was also confirmed.
An investigation of the vehicle
in question caused the officer to

WALK IN THE PARK(ING DECK)

At approximately 10:11 p.m.
on Saturday, Aug. 15, a GTPD
officer noticed an individual conspicuously enter Burge Parking
Deck at the intersection of North
Avenue and Fowler Street.
The officer stopped and exited
his vehicle and proceeded to initiate contact with the individual.
He then discussed the recent instances of crime at the location
with the suspect.
Following this discussion, the
officer arrested the suspect. He
had three items on his person
which were noted by the officer.
They were reported as a bag with
miscellaneous clothing, a primarily black cellphone and a charger,
which was also black.
The arrest charge was criminal
trespass.

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// NEWS

ly, the foundation gave $371,000

in grants and for the purpose of
creating the pilot plant within
which research will be conducted.

DAVID RAJI

NEWS EDITOR
WATER REUSE PROJECT
Gwinnett County is joining with the School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering and
CDM Smith, an engineering firm,
to create a water reuse project.
Instead of pumping 33 million
gallons of used water into Lake
Lanier every day, the plan is to
clean the wastewater to drinkable
condition, so-called direct potable reuse. This solution could be
applied around the country to potentially decrease a communitys
dependence on river or lake water,
which is subject to rainfall, chemical spills and algal blooms.
Research will be led by Tech
professor Ching-Hua Huang and
her graduate students who will
investigate if ozone filtration can
ensure high quality drinking water. Ozone is a powerful oxidant
which reacts with metals, bacteria, and viruses in the water, and
the insoluble by-products are then
filtered out.
The project was funded in May
by the WateReuse Foundation to
the tune of $922,718. Additional-

BOR APPROVES ADDITIONS

At its Aug. 12 meeting, the
University System of Georgia
(USG) Board of Regents (BOR)
approved health care benefit plans
for 2016 as well as two professional degree programs, two endowed
school chairs and several faculty
appointments for Tech.
The first of the two professional Masters degree programs that
were approved was one in manufacturing leadership. It was designed for students that currently
hold a bachelors degree in science
or engineering. They should also
have no less than one year of work
experience.
In contrast, the other program
is based around sustainable electrical energy. It is aimed at those
students interested in gaining
more in-depth experience with
the energy and power industry.
The three faculty appointments that were confirmed were
for Vivek Ghosal (for a Mary S.
and Richard B. Inman Jr. Professorship in Economics), Stanislav Emelianov (Joseph M. Pettit
Chair and GRA Eminent Scholar
in Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Ayanna Howard
(Linda J. and Mark C. Smith
Chair in Electrical and Computer
Engineering).
The BOR also recently approved the contracting of BLDGS,
Inc., Atlanta, for the purpose of
working on the Interdisciplinary
Design Commons Project.

Library Renewal kicks into high gear

DAVID RAJI

NEWS EDITOR
Later this Fall, the new Library
Service Center, which is the result
of a collaboration between Tech
and Emory, will open. Following the conclusion of this semester, the Crosland Tower portion
of Techs library complex will be
closed for renovations, which are
projected to take 18 to 24 months.
The changes come as part of
the Library Renewal Project,
a plan which has already been
implemented to some degree.

According to Ameet Doshi, the

Director of Service Experience
and Program Design for Techs
Library, the assessment of various
metrics over time led to the decision to remove a large amount of
the physical book collection from
the library complex on campus.
Doshi cited a dramatic decline in print check-outs, with
more than 80,000 in 2003 dropping to approximately 27,000 in
2014, and he reported that this
was some of most compelling evidence that led to the decision to
remove most of the physical books

from the library complex on campus.

Ebooks, ejournals, edatabases, those are over a million clickthroughs, and weve been heavily
invested in the electronic library
for the past decade, said Doshi.
We havent been investing as
much in print just because our
users tell us that they want things
electronically. Its a better user experience, in many cases.
One other motivator for the removal of the books from the Tech
campus library complex was the
See LIBRARY, page 6

Photo by Tyler Meuter Student Publications

A student studies in the west library, where many of the books have already
been removed. These books will be relocated to a new complex on Emorys campus.

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Intel announces plan to Publix weekday trolley access limited

invest in Tech
DAVID RAJI

As of June 6th, the Tech Trolley no longer makes stops at the

midtown Publix location before
5:00 p.m. on weekdays.
According to Lance Lunsway,
the Director of Parking and
Transportation Services (PTS) at
Tech, limited resources was one of
the main reasons the stop was removed during the daytime hours
of the week. He also noted that
the change would help to maintain Trolley efficiency.
Lunsway also added that the
lack of a fee increase limits the
possibilities for additional services
from PTS, despite the opening of
the University House and Square
on Fifth apartment complexes.
Without additional resourc-

es, the service level remains the

same, said Lunsway. There has
not been a student fee increases in
3 years per the Board of Regents.
In 2009, a similar change to
Tech trolley service was implemented. The stop at Publix in
Midtown was not serviced on
weekdays between the hours of 9
a.m. and 6 p.m. But that arrangement was discontinued following
an increase in student demand.
Lunsway also discussed the
possibility that service would be
expanded sometime in the future,
despite the recent cutbacks on
trolley operation.
An example of what has been
looked at includes adding express
Trolleys from Clough commons
to Tech Square and back, said
Lunsway.
However, Lunsway noted that

this type of increase in service (or

any that would be similar) would
require additional funding to be
directed towards PTS.
Additionally, the Green Stinger bus service will also be changed.
The buses will no longer service
the North Avenue Research Area
(NARA) or the Technology Enterprise Park (TEP).
Instead, those areas are now being served by a new NARA/TEP
Shuttle, which is currently operating on a pilot program basis. The
shuttles hours will be Monday
through Friday from 7:20 a.m.
until 6:20 p.m. Members of the
Tech community may board the
shuttle at either the intersection
of Ferst Drive and Cherry Street
or at the Transit Hub, which is located near the Student Center in
central campus.

Photo by Eric Turner Student Publications

Students are no longer able to use the Tech Trolley stop at Publix before 5:00
p.m. on weekdays. This change went into effect beginning June 6th
this Summer.

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On Aug. 4, the Intel corporation announced it would invest $5

million over the next five years to
not only deepen its engineering
relationship with Tech but also
to research solutions which would
inspire women and under-represented minorities to join computing and engineering-related fields.
The initiative began in January when Intel announced its goal
of achieving full representation
of women and under-represented
minorities in its U.S. workforce
by the year 2020, in addition to
a $300 million Diversity in Technology Initiative.
Georgia Tech is a national
leader in producing outstanding underrepresented engineering graduates, Gary May, Dean
and Southern Company Chair in
the College of Engineering, said
regarding why Tech was chosen.
The Institute is a leading producer of women and minority STEM
graduates and graduates nearly 10
percent of all African-American
Ph.D. engineers in the nation.
With this long-term investment, Intel and the Institute hope
to build a pipeline of underrepresented engineers and computer
scientists.
Filling the tech industry pipeline with diverse students is critical to increasing the number of
diverse engineers and computer
scientists in the field, Rosalind
Hudnell, Vice President of Human Resources and the Chief Diversity Officer at Intel. The goal
of this program is to inspire and
support more women and underrepresented minorities to earn
technical degrees so we can hire
them down the road we want

NEWS EDITOR

nn

ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

to foster those future tech innovators.

The program will support and
expand several already existing
Georgia Tech initiatives, such as
Summer Engineering Institute,
Retaining Inspirational Scholars
in Technology and Engineering
(RISE), Peer-2-Peer Mentoring,
Summer Undergraduate Research
in Engineering (SURE), and Focus.
The Intel gift will allow us
to serve more students and meet
the ever-growing demand, Felicia Benton-Johnson, the director of the Center for Engineering
Education and Diversity (CEED).
said, Undergraduate students
will have more opportunities for
financial assistance, peer-to-peer
mentoring, research experience,
and a larger variety of professional
development workshops. Graduate students will receive additional
financial support because of the
Intel investment.
This joint program is expected
to retain more than 1,000 underrepresented minority students
and improve over-arching access
to thousands more than previously. Also as a part of this program, students from the Oakland
Unified School District will have
the opportunity to participate in
Techs Summer Engineering Institute.
Intel is an American technology company based in California. It primarily engages in the
manufacture of semiconductor
chips and microprocessors. Previously, Intel has taken part in
the financial support of schools.
These efforts by the company have
included contributions towards
the construction of Rio Rancho
High School in Rio Rancho New
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Admiral joins Tech faculty

HASIT DEWAN

ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

This year, Admiral James
Sandy Winnefeld will join Tech
as a faculty member.
Specifically, Winnefeld will
become a part of the Sam Nunn
School of International Affairs
and will be designated as a Distinguished Professor. Additionally, he will be a senior fellow in the
Schools Center for International
Strategy, Technology and Policy.
On July 31, Winnefeld retired
from his post as the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
which is the second-highest military position ranking in the country. Winnefeld, in fact, is a Tech

alumnus, having graduated from

Tech in 1978 with a degree in
aerospace engineering.
Though he will be based out of
the Georgia Tech Research Institute office near Washington D.C.,
Winnefeld will have an office at
Techs main campus in Atlanta at
the Ivan Allen College. Last year,
he served on the Georgia Tech
Advisory Board.
Returning in an even closer
role will allow me to give back
to the institution that gave me so
much so long ago especially
given the extraordinarily high
quality of senior leadership the
Institute currently enjoys, Winnefeld said.
Some of Winnefelds more re-

Photo courtesy of United States Navy

Admiral James Sandy Winnefeld

was the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff before joining Tech faculty.

cent experience includes his time

serving as an instructor at the
Navy Fighter Weapons School,
also known as Topgun. According to Winnefeld, experience in
military roles can be adapted by
him to effectively teach students.
People in uniform are constantly stretching their bounds
and learning new skills, Winnefeld said. I believe I can apply
that experience to the particular
role I will play on campus and in
Washington.
Before working with the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, Winnefeld was the
commander of the United States
Northern Command as well as the
North American Aerospace Defense Command. He also served
as the commander of the United
States 6th Fleet and the NATO
Allied Joint Command, Lisbon.
Winnefeld also led a deployment of troops in Afghanistan as
part of Operation Enduring Freedom, and was present for various
combat operations associated with
the military activity. These events
followed the terrorist acts against
the United States on September
11, 2001.
According to Winnefeld, the
major goals for his professorship
include utilizing his experiences
in the field and in Washington
D.C. at his new post at Tech.
I hope to be able to augment
in any way I can the incredibly
rich learning opportunities provided by the superb full-time faculty at Georgia Tech, Winnefeld
said. I do believe that there is
value in exposing students and
faculty to those who have deep,
recent experience in activities that
must draw on the kinds of education imparted at Tech.
Winnefeld will begin his tenure at Tech this Fall semester.

fact that the books do not deal

well in an environment where humidity is not constant, according
to Doshi.
As you can tell, anything that
has been published earlier than
the 20th century is now falling
apart, Doshi said. The new library service center facility will
have climate controls and mechanical systems that are ideal for
print collections. It will be very
dark, there will be a constant humidity, and [the facility will have]
a constant temperature.
Doshi also noted that, while
the new service center where are
the books will be housed will be
located on Emorys campus, it
is the hope of the Library staff
that individual chapters of any
print selection will be able to be
scanned and made available electronically upon request by a member of the Georgia Tech community. The service center will also
feature a reading room as well as
a parking lot.
Doshi then discussed the future of the Crosland Tower section of the Library, sometimes
referred to as Library East.
The current condition of the
building is brick, it is a place for
books, Doshi said. Books hate
sunlight. But people dont sunlight.
According to Doshi, some
of the most dramatic changes
to Crosland will involve replacing a large majority of the brick
walls with glass, which will allow
natural light into the workspaces.
This will have the added effect of
reducing the energy usage of the
building from about 121 Kilo
British Thermal Units per Square
Feet per year (KBTU/SF/YR) to
42 KBTU/SF/YR per the current
design.
Renovations to Crosland
Tower will also result in almost a

200% increase in the amount of

seats available for students. This
will allow Tech to rise from the
bottom of rankings amongst its
peer institutions in regards to the
ratio of library seats to student
population.
Another feature of the renovation would be a new entrance to
the library nearer to the middle
of freshman hill. The entrance
would lead to a set of wooden
steps similar to those seen in the
CULC currently. Students could
then proceed from there into the
rest of the library complex.
As for the redesigned library
spaces in the Crosland Tower,
Doshi discussed some of the plans
for what could materialize following the renovations.
We are creating more group
collaboration spaces, Doshi said.
[There will be] places for groups
to be loud, to be a little messy, and
to build things. It wont be on par
with, say, the Invention Studio,
but there will be places to get that
ideation stage going. There will be
whiteboards and perhaps a place
to store things, plus group study
rooms to accommodate the use.
Importantly, the student-tooutlet ratio will be higher than
that of the CULC, according to
Jessica Rose, Communications
Officer for Facilities Management
at Tech.
The six floors of Crosland
will feature a number of facilities
which will be open to all members
of the Tech community. Included
will be individual study spaces
and audio and video recording
studios and equipment.
The 7th floor, which is currently off-limits for students, will
be opened up following its renovations. The current design involves
replacing most of the walls of the
7th floor with glass and adding
chairs for reading. The meeting
room there that currently sees use
will be preserved.

values its faculty any less, according to Bras.

For the past five years, we
have worked hard to address inequalities and make sure that our
faculty salaries are competitive,
even under difficult economic
conditions, Bras said. Over the
last two years, the state allowed
for merit-based salary increases
and the Institute invested heavily in these increases to maintain
competitiveness among our faculty and staff. Georgia Tech does
not undervalue faculty salaries
and has continuously worked to
make sure our faculty is appropriately rewarded and we are able to
attract the best.
Bras also pointed to data indicating that Tech supports its faculty by providing salaries slightly
higher than the median of peer
institutions. For the fiscal year of
2015, the median for peer institutions was $91,900 for assistant
professors, $99,300 for associate
professors and $149,400 for professors. At Tech, the average for
assistant professors was $96,900,
$103,300 for associate professors
and $151,700 for that same year.
Bras noted that the data for the
median salaries as well as that
for the average Tech salaries was
sourced from the American Association of University Professors.
Over the last six fiscal years,
125 new faculty positions at Tech

have been created thanks to money requested by Tech from the

USG for the purpose of faculty recruitment and retention, according to Bras. He added that these
positions have been very beneficial
for Tech as a whole, as the student
to faculty ratio has dropped, and
smaller classes have been more
available to students.
Increasing faculty and staff
salaries and providing funds for
the recruitment, hiring, and retention of additional faculty were
the top priorities of Georgia Tech
in its Fiscal Year 2016 budget submission to the Board of Regents,
Bras said.
Sutlive added that, recently,
there has been modest success regarding instances where the USG
has been able to grant raises or
wage increases to faculty at USG
institutions. According to Sutlive,
the USG continues its commitment to prioritizing the faculty
and staff at its various institutions
in the coming year.
For the fiscal year of 2016,
Tech requested $10.8 million for
faculty and staff-related goals,
including recruitment and retention. According to Bras, one of the
primary intentions is to utilize this
money to grant merit-based salary
increases to deserving faculty. He
adds that Tech will continue the
process of valuing faculty to the
extent that it is able.

LIBRARY

FROM PAGE 3

Tech and USG address faculty pay gap

DAVID RAJI

NEWS EDITOR
Despite the compression of
faculty salaries and raises awarded
to presidents of University System
of Georgia (USG) institutions,
including G.P. Bud Peterson at
Tech, the importance of faculty
and staff on campuses in Georgia

is not diminished according to

Charles Sutlive, the Vice Chancellor for Communications of USG.
We have been working to address faculty salaries, and for the
last two fiscal years, we have made
faculty salary increases the number one priority in our budget request, Sutlive said. Our faculty,
staff, students and administrators

are all important contributors to

the strength of our campuses and
each deserves support.
Rafael Bras, the Provost and
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Tech, added that
the job and responsibility of institute presidents differs significantly
from those of a faculty member.
But that does not mean that Tech

Photo by Blake Israel Student Publications

Recent questions have been raised by organizations including the Atlanta Journal
Constitution regarding whether faculty at USG institutions are compensated fairly.

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technique

OPINIONS EDITOR: Vidya Iyer

If you think you are too small to

make a difference, try sleeping
with a mosquitoDalai Lama

Friday,
August 21, 2015

TOP SLIVERS

Registration issues frustrate students

Effectively conveying issues to students

Registration has always proven to be

a pain for students, particularly because
classes we want fill up or we end up getting
a professor that we did not want. However,
during this past Phase II registration session, in addition to facing the usual frustrations, students also had to deal with the
fact that OSCAR was shut down for the
majority of the the first weekend of Phase
II registration.
While technical issues are bound to occur from time to time what was most irritating about the whole ordeal is that students were not informed about the issue.
Punctuality is crucial when registering
for classes because when students are unable to even log on to the website, it prevents them from getting the classes they
need to graduate on time.
When so much is on the line, Tech could
at least be corteous enough to make its students aware of the issue instead of keeping
them in the dark.

It is unfair that many students were

not able register for classes during their
time slot and had to wait to register. The
purpose of having time slots is defeated
if everyone just registers at the same time
anyway.
Not to mention, this problem should not
have even occured to begin with. Phase II
happens every semester so properly preparing the registration system for this high
traffic is not new. If the large influx of students is what caused the site to crash, the
school should have been prepared to handle it as the number of incoming students
isnt exactly a mystery. To top it off, Tech is
an acclaimed top-tier technical university
and we were not even able to handle the
simple process of class registrations.
If the above speculations are inaccurate,
it goes to further prove the lack of communication between the school and the students. We are still unaware of what exactly
happened.

The Consensus Opinion reflects the majority opinion of the Editorial Board of the
Technique, but not necessarily the opinions of individual editors.

technique editorial board

Reintroducing fiber into my diet is NOT going well

Just wrote giggles instead of jiggles. My

maintenance request is going to be pretty confusing.

I only drink designer water made from the tears of

unicorns.

I wonder what people who worked as anti-gaymarriage activists are doing now.

Just a few more weeks till I return to hell...I mean

college.

James Bond would move more efficiently if he wore

sweatpants and a light hoodie.

Brenda Lin EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Nick Johnson MANAGING EDITOR
David Raji NEWS EDITOR
Vidya Iyer OPINIONS EDITOR
Jonathan Long SPORTS EDITOR
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#defundGTparking

Theres a bee in my lunch box. I guess my

strawberries belong to the bees now...

One, two, three, four declare a sliver war!

I dont want to blow my own horn, but toot toot.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Removing publix stop is an inconvenience

Racism not tolerated on campus

We are dismayed to learn of
the racial slurs an African-American student recently endured
while walking on campus.
Georgia Tech does not condone discriminatory language
or behavior of any kind and if
these allegations are true, please
know that the Institute will move
quickly to resolve them. It is our
hope that these are the actions of a
few individuals and do not reflect
a broader organizational concern.
Despite being one of the most
highly respected technologyfocused learning institutions in
the world, Georgia Tech is not
immune to acts of intolerance.
In fact, when it comes to human
rights, we are really no different
from any other institution.
Unfortunately, these allegations are reflective of the racism
that still exists in this country.
As a nation and as an Institute,
we have progressed enormously in
the past 50 years, but recent incidents such as church and theater
shootings across the U.S. remind
us that we, as a society, still have
work to do.
As the late civil rights pioneer
Julian Bond observed, The humanity of all [people] is diminished when any group is denied
rights granted to others. His
message obliges every single one
of us to become active participants in the elimination of racism
and discrimination.

We should get a bunch of people to ride every day

and all ask to get off there. Just whenever people are
free, we will annoy them until they change it.

Calvin Ebert
I guess I can finally fight back my freshman 15 by
carrying my weekly groceries back to west campus
by walking. I mean Im a tech student, Im never busy
anyway.

Georgia Tech does not

condone discriminatory language or behavior
of any kind and if these allegations are true, please know
that the Institute will move quickly to resolve them.

Qu Xu
Yeah, as an alumni, refuse to donate to the school
until parking and transportation cleans its act up. Your
job is to make parking and transportation accessible
to the students, not turn a profit.

JOHN STEIN AND ARCHIE ERVIN

VP STUDENT LIFE AND VP INSTITUTE DIVERSITY

As outlined in our strategic
plan, Georgia Tech is committed
to creating an inclusive, diverse
campus. Through the support of
our senior leadership, our goal is
to create an environment where
every human being including
students, faculty, and staff is
valued and respected. We encourage student leaders to join with
administrative leadership to identify opportunities to create meaningful change.
If we are truly to become One
Georgia Tech, however, we need
to address these situations di-

rectly and provide forums where

the campus community can share
concerns, ideas, and solutions
openly. As such, wed like to invite you to get involved in one
of the events being planned as a
result of what occurred, where we
can discuss racial equality and human rights at Georgia Tech. We
hope that you can join us in this
dialogue to help prevent acts of
discrimination in the future.
-Archie Ervin, vice president
of Institute Diversity, and John
Stein, vice president of Student
Life and dean of students.

Thomas Garrott Brown

Go to your SGA meetings. Get it on the agenda. This is
the kind of topic SGA is made to handle, not just giving
money to fraternities and sports teams.

Brian Sanner

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Could I have a pair of pockets, please?

My freshman year at Tech,
someone had stolen my phone..
I take complete fault for my
lapse in judgment, but let me
explain. I was attending Garba
hosted by Techs India Club and
didnt have anywhere to put my
phone.
So, I left my phone in an unattended room full of shoes with
the thought that no one would
be so malicious as to steal my
phone. Reflecting back on the
experience, I realize this was an
incredibly unintelligent decision. However, I only did this
because I didnt have any place
to put my phone, as Im not one
to typically carry a purse since
I usually just fit everything into
my backpack or the pockets of
my jeans.
My ornate Indian clothes for
this occasion, however, did not
contain any pockets which is
why I made the decision I did.
But Vidya, you couldve given
it to Yes, I could have given
it to a friend, but Im not a fan
of making other people hold my
things. My friends are there to
enjoy the event, not be my personal storage box. Yes, I now
realize that there were a million

amount of money on accessories when that money could be

used on enriching experiencWhile womens fashion has evolved es. Not to mention the costs of
aesthetically and stylistically, it seems to have maintaining a desirable look
can add up quickly, and I wold
digressed in terms of functionality. rather buy clothes than purses.
Another point to consider
VIDYA IYER is safety. It seems obvious that
OPINIONS EDITOR stealing a purse or a phone in
someones hand is easier than
stealing items from someones
pockets. Its not that pickpockets dont exist, its just
and one ways to avoid the situ- so there is a lack of space to add
that things are less likely to get
ation entirely, but I didnt and pockets.
stolen from your pockets. I just
thats not really the point anyBut whether our clothes re- dont want the responsibility of
way. The point is that my phone semble saran wrap or are so having to guard my purse with
got stolen.
loose that two people could fit my life.
I remember coming back in that shirt, it seems that womAdditionally, for someone
from Garba, thinking, If only ens clothing just does not have as discombobulated as myself,
I couldve had my phone on me. pockets. Well, not all, but the keeping track of my belongings
If only I could somehow contain majority of womens clothing.
is such a struggle. I can swear to
my things in my clothes someBecause our clothes lack this you I left my phone on my bed,
how. If only I had some damn basic functionality that men but somehow it has ended up on
pockets. And I realized I face typically never have to worry a table in another room entirely.
this issue more often than I about (their pockets are so spaSo Coco Chanel and Ralph
would like.
cious they could provide a home Lauren, if youre reading this,
While womens fashion has for a mole rat, take a look at could you make pockets fashevolved aesthetically and stylis- Ron Stoppable!) women tend ionable already? Lets make
tically, it seems to have digressed to spend a considerable amount some progress and free little girls
in terms of functionality.
of money on buying items like around the world from the cuffs
I understand that clothing purses and bags.
of purses and bags. Its time for
for females is generally tighter
We spend a considerable the pocket revolution

What is something new

you would like try this
semester?

ALEX BERLINSKY
THIRD-YEAR ME

I would like to try to be

featured in the Technique.

When home becomes

Underestimating the
just another house
power of sleep is foolish

Im not sure when it started

After spending over a year in
to happen. Maybe it was during Tech housing, this mindset got
my full year away in Atlanta, carried out beyond my dorm
moving every semester, with room and unintentionally aponly intermittent visits back, plied to my room at my home
consisting
of
back in New Jeronly two or three
sey.
days at time. Or
...ultimately, its the During the
perhaps, it was
of my time
way that all parts of a rest
initiated by my
away, small infirst internship
group come together stances started
far away from
indicating my
that
defines success. slowly shrinking
any immediate
family
immeemotional preBRENDA LIN cense within the
diate this past
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF home, starting
summer in San
Francisco.
with having to
Whenever it
ask my parents
originated, its undeniable that where basic items around the
in my heart, the place I have house were instead of intuitively
always referred to as my home, knowing where silly things like
has slowly becoming just anoth- the regular dinner plates are. Or
er house, or rather, my parents not knowing exactly what my
house.
parents new dinner routine anyThe idea that your cherished more. Is Jeopardy not watched
childhood home has devolved after World News with David
into just another house you oc- Muir? Why exactly do we have
casionally inhabit is pretty dev- to march around the house to
astating when first realized. The exercise?
experience is comparable to disOf course, as with all things,
covering that a certain elderly as time goes on, change in eviman decked out in red who vis- table. However, this partipular
its once a year in fact does not change in feeling does not that
deliver presents to children all detract from the fact ahat I am
around the day on that special becoming more independent
day. The wonderfulness of the and started to establish my new
day is lost as get older, and the home, and as I continue to move
our focus is slowly moved away on through out life, I need to be
from the magic.
able to accept that I am going
Throughtout my time at uni- to experience much more nosversity, as I have gotten much taligic loss. Besides, how does
busier and spend most of my one even definte their home betime outside of my living quar- yond the place where their famters. My dorm room became ily lives.
more of a locker room than a
My childhood house and the
place that was actually inhab- surrounding area contains many
ited. Gone were the times that memories that I will always
I spent an extended amount of cherish forever, but it is timeThis
time playing with my plushies does not mean that I will never
or curled up in bed with good return home to visit my parents,
book. The main focus of my whom I have seen many more
room is now my bed where I times than I have been home.
crash after I long day out work- I will just visit them. In their
ing or hanging out elsewhere.
home.

A new batch of freshmen later years of his or her time at

have been installed at Tech, and Tech. And it is for this reason
they bring with them a host of that I cannot help myself but
vestigial attitudes. Perhaps the remind upperclassmen that they
most liable to damage new stu- have not defeated their need for
dents is the idea
sleep by slogging
that sleep is an
through a few
enemy.
Perhaps the most years at Tech.
In my time
harder
liable to damage new With
at Tech up to
classes
comes
this point, I have
students is the idea a need for inlearned a numcreased trepidaber of things, that sleep is an enemy. tion when desome of which
ciding to forgo
DAVID RAJI o p p o r t u n it i e s
have been useNEWS EDITOR to sleep. I have
less. The knowledge that sleep is
heard often my
one of the greatuppercla ssmen
est and most fun activities pos- friends almost brag about the
sible has not been useless by any fact that they wont be able to
means. Not only will sleeping a sleep on a certain night because
reasonable amount unquestion- classwork absolutely and utterly
ably and definitely help you suc- necessitates it.
ceed to a greater degree on exLuckily, I learned very quickams; it ensures that you will not ly after arriving at Tech that
feel as terrible as is possible the sleep is very much key to wellnext day.
being. It is my sincere wish that
Some freshmen might have everyone would come to a realthe perception that Tech is all ization of this fact of life, but I
about pulling the maximum do understand that sometimes,
amount of all-nighters. Other an all-nighter will seem to be the
might assume that, since they only way to complete a botherhave now entered college, the some assignment.
appropriate thing to do is stay
And that is ok. There is nothup late partying and acting rau- ing particularly and necessarily
cous in general. These would awful about an all-nighter once
both be horrendously incorrect in a while. But when one conassumptions. Sadly, a prosper- tinuously carries on that way,
ous life at Tech is achieved by and makes it an integral part of
living far less exciting lifestyles his or her daily routine and lifethan the aforementioned.
style, there will invariably be a
But while sleep is not neces- result of long-lasting problems,
sarily the most exciting thing and they will be much more seto do, talk about, or daydream rious than any that one might
about, it is one of the most wor- contract from not fully finishing
thy things to prioritize. I slept a homework assignment because
for eleven hours straight one day it was time to sleep.
this past week, and even though
If you choose to ignore this
I was sick with an unforgiving advice, that is your prerogahead cold, I awoke feeling fan- tive. But I must inform you, the
tastic.
reader of this article, that these
Moments of respite at Tech lessons will eventually be taught
begin becoming few and far to you, whether the origin is this
between once one reaches the newspaper or not.

ASHTON LOCKE
SECOND-YEAR ME

I would like to check

out Hall Councils. Input
around campus is super
cool.

TAKUTO OSAWA
THIRD-YEAR ARCH

I want to learn German.

TOLU OMOTOSHO
FOURTH-YEAR CE

Kickboxing for self defense, and its a good workout too.

Photos by Tyler Meuter Student Publications

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// OPINIONS

Its okay to feel alone, but

HOT or NOT
know that youre not
OUR VIEWS | HOT OR NOT

GT Connector

The connector between

Glenn and Towers is finally
complete and it is absolutely
breathtaking. Besides the aesthetic appeal, the connector
serves a functional purpose as
well. The connector contains
breakout rooms and white
boards similar to the CULC.
With the high influx of students this year, this newly allocated study space will definitely help prevent the CULC
from getting overcrowded.

Petting Zoo

Students were pleasantly

surprised by a camel and other
animals on Skiles Walkway on
Tuesday this week, courtesy
of RHA. This was the first of
the many times animals will
be brought on campus to help
overstressed students. It was
a fun welcome back to campus for some, and for the new
students, a promise of exciting
things to come.

UH Move-In

Students moving into the

off-campus University Housing had a surprisingly unpleasant experience. As if moving
in wasnt already a task, there
were long lines and the elevators were surprisingly slow,
leading to a lengthy move in
process. Not to mention the
building is still incomplete.
This place had high expectations amongst students, but
now were just waiting for the
next disappointment.

Tech Trolley

Students trying to get to

Tech Square, whether it was
for classes or housing, have
been experiencing crowding
on the Tech Trolley. In addition to the usual traffic on the
Trolley, students this year will
also experience the influx from
students living in the Tech
Square area, as well as the increased traffic from the large
freshmen class this year.

Our culture places a

disproportionate amount of
value on happiness...However
negative feelings are valid and
nothing to be ashamed of

MONICA JAMISON

ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR

Its okay to not be okay. Its
okay to not have it all together.
Its okay to be sad, overwhelmed,
frustrated, or even depressed. Our
culture places a disproportionate
amount of value on happiness.
Many people put on a happy face
for the world, for their parents,
and often times even for their
friends. However, negative feelings are valid and nothing to be
ashamed of.
To some extent, everyone experiences highs and lows, whether
the times of not being okay last
hours, days, weeks, or more. Experiencing the full spectrum of
emotions is human, and giving
oneself permission to experience
and acknowledge negative feelings is crucial. Suppressing these
specific feelings can lead to serious
emotional stress and worsening of
mental health.
While one can release negative
feelings alone through activities
like journaling or exercising, having another person to share your
thoughts and struggles with provides a different type of release.

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As humans, we crave meaningful connection despite this digital,

instant gratification world. While
we are worrying about whether
our lives look picture-perfect on
Instagram, people around us are
suffering, carrying their emotional burdens alone.
This modern disconnection
makes the stigma against depression even more harmful. Many
people living with mental illnesses
never share what they are going
through for a variety of reasons.
Because mental illnesses are often seen as not being a legitimate
medical issue, people may fear a
dismissive response, such as just
choose to be happy, from a confidant. Others may worry about an
even more negative response, such
as being labeled crazy, weird,
or dangerous and being ostracized.
Additionally, the pressure to
appear put together can cause
people to hide their issues. To
be respected and taken seriously,
many people attempt to look
strong by suppressing their emo-

tions. Asking for help is not a sign

of weakness; it takes courage to
accept that you cannot handle everything on your own.
As students at a top university,
we feel a unique type of pressure
to live up to high expectations,
whether they are those of family, professors, peers, or ourselves.
Along the way, we are expected to
sacrifice physical and emotional
health to take advantage of all the
opportunities we have been offered and utilize the smarts that
got us here in the first place. We
experience many similar failures
and challenges, and being honest
about these situations builds a cooperative, supportive community,
instead of one that is competitive
one.
While I think that we do a decent job at solidarity over school,
commiserating over failing a test
should extend to openness about
deeper issues, whether that is having a rough week or something
more serious.
According to the World Health
Organization, one in four people
suffer from mental illness during
some point in their lives. By sharing when you are experiencing
depression or being an empathetic
listener, the oppressive burden of
loneliness can be lifted.
For these conversations to occur more easily, the taboo on
talking about sadness and stigma
against mental illnesses, especially
depressions, needs to be broken
down. In the meantime, whether
you have had just a day of not being okay or too many to count,
that is okay. One day you will be
okay again, and talking about it is
okay, too.

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// OPINIONS

NO

YES
RRAHUL TOPIWALA
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Politically
correct
culture is a doubleedged sword; on the
one hand, its great for
raising awareness for
an issue and its effect
on a group of people.
On the other hand, it
can quickly give way
to a mob mentality of
reactionary anger that
limits interaction and
instills fear within people; the exact opposite
effect of what students
would want. If I have
to live in constant fear
of invariably offending
a Hispanic person, what
reason would I have to
ever interact with them?
The great John Cleese
(of Monty Python) was
talking to the slightlyle ss-but-st i l l-pret t ygreat Bill Maher on his
show, and he was describing the audience at
one of his shows. The
crowd was receptive and
open to jokes about the
French and the Australians, but at the very
mention of Mexican,
all of that went away,
replaced by fear. This
little incident betrays
the true hypocrisy that
arises when sensitivity
leads to mollycoddling;
its an unnatural and
condescending mental-

JONATHAN ZHANG

ity towards a community that belittles them

more than any joke
ever could. Cleese is by
no means the only comedian to notice this
backfiring of politically
correct culture; Jerry
Seinfeld and Chris Rock
have also announced
that they dont want to
approach colleges anymore. When we increase
our awareness and sensitivity to the emotions of
others, we become more
tolerant and progressive.
I come from a country
where religious riots and
terrorism are real problems, and I would never
dream of opposing this
movement towards inclusiveness. However I
also come from a country where people need
to watch their tongue
and restrain their art, as
censor boards and religious mobs try to attack
anything even remotely
provocative. I see strains
of this same mindset in
colleges today. Students
should be conscious of
the wounds that history
has inflicted on people,
but they should also realize that the best way to
treat them is with openness and laughter, rather
than an icy blanket of
tension where everyone
is afraid to speak candidly.

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

In a world where politics and international

issues are increasingly
complex, universities are
faced with the dilemma
on how to approach
the varying viewpoints
present. Some propose
having
controversial
discussions on campus.
This approach, however,
is incorrect. Universities
should avoid political
involvement and warn
students before attempting to hold any politically sensitive discussions.
While it is true that
young children of our
generation are no longer allowed to roam
the streets unwatched,
children, nowadays, can
roam media platforms
such as the Internet
freely, which exposes
children to the real
world more than anything in past generations. Our generation,
as many claim, isnt being coddled because
there isnt any coddling
in the first place.
But
maybe
there should be. If professors jumped into
potentially uncomfortable topics of discussion
without warning, students could feel intense

discomfort.
Instead,
forewarning students
and giving them the
option to not attend
lecture gives them more
freedom and independence to make their
own decisions. These
warnings are not only a
courtesy to uneasy students, but also a way to
exercise greater maturity
and independence on
their education.
Is
over-protection
really whats causing
mental fragility in students, or is it the lack of
protection? Why should
a student have to be
forced to attend lecture
and get embroiled in a
heated political debate?
Why do students need
the university to impose
political
discussions
upon them when they
can educate themselves?
In the end, maintaining political correctness
on campus is not about
stifling free speech and
ideas, nor is it about
shielding students from
the conflicting ideas of
the present day. Political correctness is about
maintaining a cohesive
learning environment
for students of different backgrounds and
opinions. Creating this
environment is the key
to solving the issues that
are plaguing us today.

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Fresh advice

Samira Bandaru
ASSTISTANT LIFE EDITOR:

Alex Covington

life@nique.net

technique

If you could go back in time, what advice would you give

your freshman self? Here are some pieces of advice from
students who have survived their freshman year 418

13

Friday,
August 21, 2015

Riveting app to be launched on Sunday

How to make
your dorm cozy
without the
clutter
SAMIRA BANDARU
LIFE EDITOR

Photo courtesy of Michelle Hutcherson

Picturing the seven members of the team that established the social media app, Rivet. Starting in October 2014, the
group worked on branding, designing, coding, and marketing their app, which will be launched this Sunday, August 28.

SAMIRA BANDARU
LIFE EDITOR

In the emergency room after

a less than successful game of
soccer, seven friends from Tech
two alumni and five students
came up with an idea. Originating from a conversation about
their coincidental relationships,
comprised mostly of three generations of PL-resident friendships,
the idea sparked a vision for a social media app called Rivet.
The group, comprised of Connor Hutcherson, Kevin Veloso,
Mitchell See, Matt Nelson and
Kyle Grinstead, has been working
since October 2014 to establish
their app.
A lot of it comes down to
coincidence and whom you end
up crossing paths with. We were
talking about how it might be
interesting to make an app that
makes it easy for you to just meet
people, said recent graduate,
Kevin Veloso, BME 15.
You might wonder what makes
this app different from Facebook,
Twitter and Yik Yak. Rivet is focused on one-to-one conversations. It is anonymous, personal,
and location-based, allowing users to converse with people within
a mile to a mile-and-a-half radius.
Consider Facebook youre
sharing with all the friends that
you already have, with Yik Yak
its like an anonymous bulletin
board, and even with Twitter,
anonymous or not, its all just like
a bulletin board . Youre posting
stuff out there for people to feed
off of, Veloso said.
Its not necessarily bad to have
everyones input that can be
good and helpful at times but
on the other hand, you only really
get to know people when youre
in that smaller setting, and you
dont have everyones two cents on
something.
Were trying to describe [Rivet] as almost a hyper-local Facebook messenger, except that you

dont have a username. Theres

no sign-up, no email so really
the goal of our app is to connect
people who are in the same vicinity in our case, a college campus, said Connor Hutcherson, a
second-year IE.
With a little extra help from
friends and family, the group
worked on branding, designing,
coding and marketing their app.
The naming of our app was
actually more crippling than you
would ever think, Hutcherson
said. The naming process took us
forever. And we all decided were
no longer naming anything ever
again.
The group started with the
name Fire, but decided that it
was too similar to Amazon Fire
and Tinder, so they switched
to the name Iceberg since it
seemed relevant in that it represented diving below the surface to
explore the community and meet
new people. The reason why we
didnt go with that name was because we woke up one day to a
cease and desist letter from a guy
in New York who was actually developing a social networking app
called Iceberg, Hutcherson said.
It was pretty different, but
still the exact same name. So that
was kind of a buzz kill because
we really liked that one. We went
back to the drawing boards, and
I came up with Rivet, and I liked
it because a rivet holds two things
together. And then also, riveting
conversations.
The next step was to create a
logo.
The engineering minds would
always say, we should use actual
rivets, and I was like guys,
you know what a rivet looks like,
right? It looks pretty ugly, said
Veloso. So we finally came up
with a frog because people would
confuse Rivet with Ribbit. That
became really annoying, but after a while we decided to embrace
it. People are going to say ribbit
and it doesnt matter how we pro-

nounce it. So frog it is.

Financially, the group started
almost from scratch. We hadnt
outsourced any of the work for
any of the coding, which is definitely what would be the most
expensive part of it, Hutcherson
said. There were some legal fees,
so we all just pitched in certain
amounts in the beginning.
Veloso also took an online entrepreneurship class through MIT
and Amazon for which Amazon
gave him $1,000 for completing
the course. The course entailed
creating business plans and value
propositions essentially everything Rivet needed to do to successfully build up their company.
It made things a lot easier because I was basically submitting
the things we had already made,
Veloso said.
In addition to the course, the
group started a Kickstarter campaign, setting their goal at around
$2000.
Coordinating the design, coding, and marketing aspects of cre-

ating an app can be arduous, but

there are peaks as well as troughs.
If there were any individual
moments of particular brilliance,
it would be anytime we came
through a big breakthrough.
One of the hardest parts
is when one or two people are
working on a specific task that is
very hard to accomplish and five
people are sitting around doing
nothing because we have to wait
for those two people. The name
for instance once we figured
out this is what were going with,
were happy with this, then a million things opened up for everyone to do.
It was also fun sharing with
our other friends who werent
even strictly on the team; bouncing ideas off of people and getting
their opinions, Veloso added.
We talked to our Industrial
Design and Architecture friends
to get some feedback on the design and colors, and then some
of our other CS friends were super interested in all these other

Transitioning from home to

college is a giant leap, and while
you may have the urge to pack
your entire room into your suitcase, its important to keep your
space clear, as things can become
overwhelming very quickly. Here
are a few trips to make your dorm
room feel cozy without the clutter.
INVEST IN GOOD LIGHTING
Dorm rooms tend to have less
than optimal lighting, which
may not only be a hinderance for
late night study sessions, but also
makes for a rather depressing atmosphere. Buying a good quality
lamp (or two) can brighten the
room and mood, as well as make
last minute cramming a little less
sleep inducing.
POSTERS
You may not be allowed to
paint over the drab yellow walls
of your dorm room, but you can
certainly cover them up with
posters to liven the mood. They
dont have to be your stereotypical Abbey Road or Audrey Hepburn posters either print your
favorite painting or even a twenty
by thirty splash of color on glossy
paper. And if youre not into posters, mirrors can work just as well
to give the illusion of a brighter
and larger room.
SCENT
Give your room some personality and buy a generic room scent
or air freshener. Theyre usually
three dollar at most, and are an
easy way to make your room feel
more like home. Just run the smell
by your roommate first.
GET A POTTED PLANT
Make your room feel a little
more alive and less uninspired
with some greenery. If you dont
have a green thumb, no worries!
A small bonsai tree or a classic
bamboo can bring a calming atmosphere, and if youre afraid of
killing your plant, plants like the
dracaena or a spider plant are very
resilient.

Photo courtesy of Rivet LLC.

Picturing the Rivets logo. After the arduous branding process, the Rivet team decided to use a frog as their official
logo after their product was mistakenly pronounced Ribbit.

BOOKSHELVES ARE YOUR FRIEND

Not only are bookshelves practical, but they can also make your
space look more warm and invit-

See RIVET, page 17

See TIPS, page 17

14 August 21, 2015 technique

// LIFE

CRC revamps online presence for new year

ALEX COVINGTON

ASSISTANT LIFE EDITOR

A new level of ease and convenience awaits CRC users thanks
to a new host of features available on the organizations new
and improved website. The system
includes features allowing users
to sign up for programs, check
the availability of places such as
the pool or the Roe Stamps field,
and check when rentals are due,
all from any location where users
have access to the site.
The changes have come from a
need to simplify many services for
CRC users so that they no longer
have to call or come in person to
sign up for programs.
Additionally, students will be
able to sign up for programs after
hours, which previously would
have been impossible. With a
comprehensive list of all CRC
programs now available online
there is also the hope that less well
known programs will gain more
usage, such as massage therapy.
That also depends on awareness of
software itself disseminating. As
Walter Kolis, Assistant Director
of Member Services and Staff Development at the CRC, explained,
I dont think its as well known as
it could be, because we just started
with online in the spring. He expects, however, that that will soon
change now that most programs
are online.
These online resources might
be particularly useful for those
who frequently need to check information available on the website, such as Victoria Contreras, a
fourth year biology and psychology major. Because of her frequent involvement with ORGT,
she frequently needs to know the
number of slots open for a given
trip, and can now do so through
her computer.
Although information for
ORGT trips is available online,

registration must take place in

person so that questions can be
asked to ensure preparedness for
the trip. This can still save students time, however. You can
see the dates and the spots available, said Victoria, explaining
that thats convenient, because
we fill up very quickly, so if they
can see that theres only one spot
available, they should hurry up
and run over there.
The software will also allow users to check when different areas
are being occupied to help plan
their own activities. As Walter
Kolis pointed out, if students are

wondering whats happening in

the facility, whether thats inside
the CRC or outside on the fields,
they can view the schedule, they
dont have to call, they dont have
to show up and see if the basketball courts are booked for a special event, they can just go online
right now.
Users will also have the convenience of being able to check when
their lockers and rental equipment
expire. As Johnathan Hart, Assistant Director of Facilities and
Operations, explained, Lets say
you purchase a locker and you
dont know when it expires. You

can go into your account and see,

well, my locker is going to expire
Dec. 18, as opposed to having a
guessing game where youre trying to remember, hey, next time
Im at the CRC, I need to stop by
the desk and see when my locker
expires.
After around a year of adding
new features to the system, most
of the features slated to become
available are online and running,
with the exception of racquetball
court reservations. The system
also has the capability to make
physical purchases possible, so users may at some point be able to

buy goggles, locks, and t-shirts

online.
Unlike previous years, where
the CRC required students to sign
up for classes and events in person
at the CRC, students will now be
able to not only access the CRCs
revamped calendar, but also create
a member profile and register and
pay for courses including G.I.T.
FIT, instructional programs,
ORGT activities, swim lessons,
and more. Enjoy the CRCs multitude of classes without the hassle
of signing up in person at the
CRC at their website www.mycrc.gatech.edu.

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The Campus Recreation Center has been updating its online capabilities over the last year. The new features allow students and faculty to register for programs and events without having to walk to the building at all.

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FUEL

FROM PAGE 1

its unpredictability, as Griffin

explained: Crystallization itself
is hard to predict, its sort of stochastic. But if you have this real
time feedback where you see what
happens and then you adjust your
control, you see what happens after that, you adjust again, thats
really beneficial.
The use of this technique is
not entirely new, but is adapted
from similar processes used in the
pharmaceutical and fine chemical
industries. Griffins work includes
a combination of two techniques.
The choice of topic allowed
Griffin to combine his interests in
chemical and nuclear engineering,
his major and minor respectively
from Ohio State. He explained

that he followed a windy path

that led him to his current position, since he decided to study
both chemical and nuclear engineering and combine the interests
in his project. He explained that
he took this project because it had
a lot of pieces I was interested
in, including the relationship to
chemical and nuclear engineering
as well as the necessity of a systems
engineering approach.
The work that weve done for
the last two and half years really
ends up being prerequisite to being able to apply this, Griffin explained. Developing the strategies
and algorithms to make this project successful ended up being most
of the work. Griffin expressed that
he felt validated once he saw that
he had achieved his goal.

Photo courtesy of Liane Tellier

Daniel Griffin won the Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research

Award. His recent work facilitates nuclear waste cleanup.

RIVET

FROM PAGE 13

aspects, and were bouncing ideas

off of us.
So at the very least it was a lot
of fun to just be talking about
something we were creating with
other people because its a more
interesting topic than howd the
finals go, or how was your last
test. And of course, we got to
hang out all the time.
Rivet has already done a significant amount of marketing
through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and their website. Unlike the beginnings of other social
media platforms, Rivet has a blog
that allows people to read their
story of how the idea for Rivet
originated, prototyping of the
app, their Kickstarter campaign,
and even some freshman PSAs.
At first our posts were just updates on what we were doing each
week, and then we decided to
start writing the blog series based
on how we went about designing
things and coding things, and
coming up with the name, said
Veloso. Then we have PSAs for
freshman that are basically like
your Buzzfeed, Clickbait, Top
Ten The fifth one will surprise
you kind of thing just interesting stuff for our friends and family to read.
With the blog, it really does
reflect what we want to do with
the app, said Hutcherson. We
are really looking to connect people, so when we put out our blog
posts its just honest transparency.
Hopefully that translates to how
people use the app, and how the
app can affect the GT community.

They will also be marketing

at several campus-wide events
including Wreckfest, for which
Rivet is a sponsor, T-night, and a
launch day event at Yogli Mogli.
Weve been marketing toward
some freshman, so were getting
certain PLs to bring in their residents. If they bring them in and
are part of the first one hundred
to get there and have downloaded
the app, they get three dollars off
their frozen yogurt, which is basically like free frozen yogurt,
said Hutcherson. After the first
one hundred, its 20% off for everybody else that comes in and
downloads it. And well be having
some giveaways there as well.
In the long run, the group
hopes the app will reach people
across campus, throughout the
United States, and hopefully
across the world. We genuinely
care about getting people to connect with other people, so what
I love about the app is the 100%
transparency you have no reason to be dishonest, so long as, in
the long run, were still connecting people, Hutcherson said.
You could get on there to find
a friend; you could get on there to
talk about your problems. There
are so many things you could use
the app for, so long as, at its core,
its still helping people.
And if it winds up staying in
Atlanta, if it still is building a
community for people, its accomplishing a goal. In my opinion,
Tech is very embracing of things
that are homegrown, which I
think will encourage people to really help promote it.
Rivet will be launched this
Sunday, August 23.

TIPS

FROM PAGE 13

ing. You can use the space to organize your schoolwork, books, or a
few picture frames.
PLAY AROUND WITH COLOR
Color can make a world of a
difference when it comes to livening up your dorm room. Color coordinated bedding is an easy and
space-effective way to make your
room feel cozier and more inviting. If your room has linoleum
flooring, you might want to consider a small, light colored rug,
which can brighten up the room,
as well as make your space look
bigger.
DOWNSIZE ON CLOTHING
While you may be tempted to
bring your whole wardrobe to college, the reality is that youre not
going to use all of them on a regular basis. Choose articles of clothing that you think are staples in
your closet.
Do not keep articles of clothing that serve the same purpose,
and do keep multi-purpose clothing that you can use. Start packing clothes that you know you
wont wear into bags, and either
store them on top of your closet
or bring them home over winter
break.
In tiny dorm rooms, its easy
to get bogged down in a sea of
club t-shirts, papers, and various
knick-knacks that you picked up
from orientation, organizations
and career fairs. Try to downsize
your workspace as much as possible and dont let extraneous personal belongings get in the way of
your schoolwork.

18 August 21, 2015 technique

// LIFE

Words of wisdom Id give my freshman self

SAMIRA BANDARU
LIFE EDITOR

Arriving at college can be an

overwhelming experience. With
greater freedom and greater responsibility, freshman must start
making important and indepedent decision, often proving to
be a daunting task. Fortunately, a
number of upperclassmen have offered some snippets of advice born
from personal experience.
Incoming freshmen tend to be
unnecessarily concerned about
solidifying their major and career
path. Here are some words of wisdom from people who have been
through and survived their freshman year.
If you find yourself in a
major that you realize you dont
like, dont waste your time trying to stick it out. Just change to
something that interests you.
Tanmay Bangalore, fourth year
CompE.
Dont feel bad if you dont
feel like you have your life together because no one does. Harleen Brar, fourth year AE.
When it comes to student
organizations, find something
youre passionate about, and aim
to eventually take up a leadership
role on it. Anonymous, second
year BME.
Realize you can take control
of your college experience. If you
arent learning about a certain
topic or gaining particular skills
you want, find an organization,
professor, mentor, etc. to help
you. Emily Benjamin, fourth
year ChBE.
Dont be afraid of making
mistakes. Start your work knowing full well that it isnt going to
be perfect anyway, although that
doesnt mean that you shouldnt
put in your best effort. Remember that your path doesnt need to

be flawless for you to reach your

goals. Anonymous second year,
BME.
Taking advantage of the resource that Tech provides for students is key to success, especially
if you find yourself struggling in
a class.
There are a ton of tutoring
programs and ways to get help
with your classes if you need it, so
my biggest advice is to be proactive and find help with your studies if you feel like youre falling
behind. This has helped me so
much and Im so thankful I knew

about all the tutoring programs

starting in August! Hannah
Chen, second year IE.
Dont be afraid to get involved or talk to your professors
and classmates. Holly Parrish,
fourth year, CompE.
As youve probably heard
plenty of times, organization and
time management are particularly
important in college and go handin-hand with effective studying.
Get into the habit of looking
at your tests immediately after
they are handed back to you and
then submitting a regrade request

if needed. Itll really help you at

the end of the semester when all
the points are being added up.
Anonymous, second year BME.
Write it down! Make a weekly
schedule and actually do what you
put on your schedule, like go to
class. Camera Dunn, second
year CE
Go out. Dont be a dorm rat.
Hanna Warwick, second year
ChemE.
Remember that you have the
option to drop if absolutely necessary. Dont let your pride get in
the way of maintaining a steller

GPA. - Jessica Imgrund, fourth

year ME.
Find at least one or two places
on campus where you know you
will be undisturbed and productive. The CULC is a great place to
work, especially when you are collaborating with friends, but sometimes it can be distracting because
youll run into a lot of people you
know there. Anonymous, second year BME.
And then some general advice:
Always bring an umbrella to
campus Anonymous, second
year ME.

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Friday,
August 21, 2015

Pijiu Belly brings spice for a nice price

RESTAURANTS

Pijiu Belly
LOCATION: 10th Street NW
CUISINE: American-Asian
Fusion
COST: $5-13
HOURS: 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
5 p.m. - 10 p.m.
PHONE: (404) 343-6828

OUR TAKE:

NICK JOHNSON

MANAGING EDITOR
Across from Tenside Apartments and not too far from West
Campus, the bar-and-restaurant
Pijiu Belly brings a fusion of
American and Asian cuisines to
10th Street. Pijiu Belly opened its
doors in December of 2014 and
is open Tuesday through Sunday.
Parking is available in the restaurant's lot, though it fills quickly.
A friendly college atmosphere
permeates the restaurant with its
stylish decor. Old doors are repurposed as dinner tables, posters line the walls, and drinks are
served in tall mason jars. Classic
rock plays while patrons have fun
playing games in the restaurant.
Featuring darts, foosball, tabletop

Photo by Tyler Meuter Student Publications

Pictured above is the Roast Pork Belly with a side of kimchi from Pijiu Belly. The restaurant offers many Asian fusion menu options in a college friendly setting that is close to campus.

shuffleboard and even an arcade

machine loaded with multiple
games, the restaurant entertains
while the food cooks behind the
frosted glass of the kitchen.
To start off the meal, appetizers include Thai tater tots and
fried pimento cheese sticks, both
topped with srira-mayo, and pork
dumplings dunked in ginger-soy
sauce.
In addition to the classic All-

American burger, the menu also

includes burgers and sandwiches
with an Asian twist. The Pijiu
Burger has kimchi and sriracha,
and the Roast Pork Belly uses a
sweet peach-hoisin sauce.
"My mouth is loving every bite
of this burger," fifth-year CS Alex
O'Connor says, describing the Pijiu Burger. "It's a unique flavor:
barbecue, sriracha, and kimchi
with a fried egg. I'm going home

and collapsing in a food coma."

Their featured dish is the Famous Rotisserie Chicken, which is
roasted for several hours, has a dry
rub and crispy skin and is in limited supply each day. The restaurant
also serves chicken and pork yakitori skewers, bulgogi bowls and
ramen. Regardless of meat choice,
patrons can expect a spicy meal,
from sriracha and hot sauce to the
burning, flavorful blends of spices

that top each dish.

Side dishes come with some
of the meals and include spicy
kimchi, Brussels sprouts and
cilantro-lime rice. Arugala, kale
and garden salads with optional
grilled chicken round off the dinner menu.
For those with a craving for
sweets and room in their stomachs, Pijiu Belly features three
dessert cakes: Yuzu-Lime Cheesecake, Salted Caramel Crunch
Cake, and the aptly named "Big
A** Chocolate Cake," which is a
slice of a seven-layered monster.
These are best split between two
people.
For the 21 and over crowd, the
front-and-center bar offers a wide
variety of cocktails and, of course,
pijiu Mandarin for "beer."
There are imported Asian-style
beers, pijiu on tap and bottled as
well as canned brews.
The general crowd grows as the
evening waxes, with families playing darts and competition arising
at the foosball table. Everything
is priced reasonably: $1013
large meals, $6 skewers, $57
beers, and $1012 mixed drinks.
The wait staff is friendly, making
SpongeBob jokes and chatting as
they stop by.
Anyone looking for good, affordable, spicy food and fun with
friends should come to Pijiu Belly.

Straight Outta Compton hits ground running

FILM

Straight Outta Compton

GENRE: Biography/Drama
STARRING: OShea Jackson
Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason
Mitchell, Aldis Hodge, and
Neil Brown Jr.
DIRECTOR: F. Gary Gray
RATING: R
RELEASE DATE: Aug. 14

OUR TAKE:

TRISHNA CHANDARANA
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

Bringing in just over $60 million during opening weekend,

Universal Pictures Straight Outta
Compton topped the box office as
the biggest R-rated movie to debut this month, dwarfing Warner
Bros. The Man From U.N.C.L.E
(which debuted on Aug. 14 as
well.) Financial statistics aside,
Straight Outta Compton, which
tells the story of the rise and fall
of the group N****z wit Attitude
(N.W.A), is set in the late 1980s
and early 1990s.
This movie is a biographical
drama that follows the lives of
Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC
Ren and DJ Yella as they seek to
shed light on the conditions of
Compton, CA, through the then
underrated genre of rap.
Highlighting the fact that during this time gangland shootouts
happening alongside unwarranted

and violent stop-and-frisks by

police officers were so common
that no one questioned their occurrences, this movie is a realistic,
unapologetic representation of the
situation many people faced.
Like many "based on a true
story" movies, Straight Outta
Compton has a certain appeal to
a wide variety of audiences. In
this case, the movie hits home for
many people because what it portrays is still relevant today given
the heightened awareness of police brutality that is still occurring
across the country.
However, unlike some of the
other "based on a true story"
movies e.g. The Wolf of Wall
Street there isn't one set "us"
versus "them" feel in the movie.
The main characters clearly feel
embittered by the unjustified use
of force by the police on people of
color regardless of the situation.
This is emphasized several
times in the movie: Ice Cube
(O'Shea Jackson Jr.) almost getting arrested as he walks out of
a house on his way home, police
forcing N.W.A members to the
ground after they exited a recording studio to talk with Dr. Dre
(Corey Hawkins, The Walking
Dead), etc.
These instances fueled N.W.A
members desires to eliminate this
phenomenon by bringing it to the
forefront of the media with their
music. The aforementioned recording studio incident leads Ice
Cube to write the song F*** Tha
Police. This in turn caused law

Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures

N.W.A.s album Straight Outta Compton started them on the track to revolutionize the music industry. Though they eventually fell apart, they gave a voice to the underrepresented minorities.

enforcement to attempt to censor

their music and eventually arrest
them in Detroit.
The group seems to self-destruct over time anyway with
the help of their "manager." It
becomes glaringly apparent over
time that the manager is only
looking out for Eazy-E (Jason
Mitchell) while simultaneously
leaving the rest ofthe N.W.A out
in the cold. This adds yet another

conflict to the plot.

In addition to the interesting
story and background portrayed
in Straight Outta Compton, the
movie also lends credit and validity to artists like Dr. Dre well as
underscoring the work and raw
talent needed to not only make it
in the music industry but also to
be pioneers like N.W.A.
As one of the first groups to
not only popularize rap but also

to confront many of the political and social issues of the day

through their lyrics, N.W.A broke
barriers in the music industry and
changed how people looked at
both musicians and minorities.
Ultimately, Straight Outta
Compton is a brutally honest portrayal of the revolution in both
the music industry and the United States as a whole as caused by
Eazy-E and the N.W.A.

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In the land of pools and cues at Tech Rec

JAMIE RULE

ASSISTANT ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

I have been waiting in Tech
Rec for what seems like ages, even
though it must have only been
a few days. When you are being
ignored, surrounded by fifteen
of your closest spherical friends,
a single minute can last an eon,
especially when all I desire is the
thrill of the shot as I bound across
the green felt.
It was a long, torturous wait,
but today is Aug. 17, the first day
of the semester, the day students
come flooding in for two glorious
hours of free pool. A few come in
early, before the event starts, as eager as I to get started.
They begin to play on other
tables, and other sets are chosen
for them. Eventually, my plastic
rack is selected, and we are given a
table. However, no one is here yet
to play on our table. The sixteen of
us can all hear the staccato clacking of the others at adjacent tables
enjoying themselves.
The new felt of the table is soft
under me, and my friends are less
impatient to play now that we are
out of the hard plastic rack. A
little before four in the afternoon,
Tech students begin to trickle in
to Tech Rec, exploring the new
layout and tables.
Each has come for the first
event of the semester, Billiards
Break In (ha, I get it!). Unfortu-

nately few are immediately interested in playing, for there are

tables set up at the entrance to the
pool hall with vanilla and chocolate cake, towel giveaways (emblazoned with Tech Recs slogan:
Study Hard, Play Harder!), and a
sign-up sheet.
Of course, my friends and I are
less interesting than cake, what a
world. The sign-up sheet is of interest to me, though, because one
name will be selected from it to
win a Billiards Frequent Player
Card.
That lucky someone will then
be able to visit my friends and I
whenever they want for the rest of
the semester; I hope it is someone
with plenty of free time. Unfortunately, the winner will be notified
through email, so I will not know
the student until he or she deigns
to come back and play.
After the novelty of free food
has worn off, the visitors seem
ready to play (hooray)! However,
something very unusual has happened: there are far more people
here than can play at once. The
pairs who were already playing
continue their games, but the
newcomers attempt to accommodate the unbalanced ratio of
players to tables by playing three
players.
Cutthroat matches or by playing on teams so that four can play
at once. Even so, there are numerous onlookers and many leave af-

Photo by Tyler Meuter Student Publications

Tech Rec has added several new billiards tables. A new lounge
space has also been added which includes chairs and ottomans.

ter cake since there are no more

open tables (or perhaps because
they have someplace to be or simply do not like billiards or even
me).
Of course, this is all inconsequential to me now, for my table
has players! It will not be much
longer now. They proceed to rack
up all of my friends. Someone has
placed the triangle at the far side
of the table. He is lining up his

shot.
The wait is over!
I go racing across the felt to
strike the triangle at top speed!
We all go ricocheting across the
expanse; it was truly a fine break.
With that shot, the game has begun!
My friends and I play game
after game, rushing across the
tabletop into each other and into
pockets. Sometimes, to the great

dismay of whoevers turn it was,

even I go in a hole, but the others
seem to really enjoy my downfall
and getting to place me where
they see fit.
At one point, a player managed
to purposefully jump me over a
few balls to get one of theirs into
a pockets, but equally impressive were the times when players
unintentionally jumped me or
my friends. A particular incident
happened when I was struck a
bit harder than necessary and
found myself flying through the
air (Wheee!) and sailing straight
over the tables side to land on the
floor.
I rolled away from that table,
just to see how far into this uncharted and mystical land I could
go, but another player scooped me
up. I was quickly returned to the
table and play resumed as though
nothing had happened; games run
smoother when people are here for
some good fun rather than competition.
Eventually, the open house had
to draw to a regrettable close; I
would not mind playing forever. A
few stay past the end of Billiards
Break In (at six in the evening),
but most scurry off to various unrelated destinations.
Hopefully, I will see them
soon, but for now, I must return
to my hard and uncomfortable
plastic rack and to the insufferable
waiting.

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Fun events around Tech to enjoy this Fall

JAMIE RULE

ASSISTANT ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

As the school year begins and
Tech welcomes new students,
people around campus are curious to find novel ideas for their
free time activities. While later in
the semester students usually tend
to find their time monopolized by
studying and various coursework,
for the present, finding out about
upcoming events is a rewarding
pastime.
FALL INTO DANCE
Techs resident Ballroom Dance
Club (GTBDC) is hosting dance
lessons and demos this Saturday,
Aug. 22 in the Student Center
Ballroom. They will be teaching
the Foxtrot, Rumba and Hustle.
This event has no RSVP, and everyone is invited.
JURASSIC WORLD
SCPC, always the fan of movie
showings, plans to screen Jurassic
World. On Aug. 28 at 8 p.m., the
group plans to take over the area
of Tech Walkway nearest to the
Student Center in order to display
to interested students this belated
sequel. Popcorn has been promised, but attendees are encouraged
to bring their own chairs or towels
on which to sit.
SUMMER SHADE FESTIVAL
The annual Grant Park Summer Shade Festival will take place
next weekend from 10 a.m. to
10 p.m. on Aug. 29 and 11 a.m.
until 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 30. With
an average of 30,000 visitors, this
free event benefits the Grant Park
Conservancy, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to the
preservation and upkeep of Grant
Park. The festival hosts a 5k race
as well as being home to an artist
market. Live entertainment will of

the techn

course be provided. Though fun,

it is important to remember that
no pets are allowed at this festival.
OLD FOURTH WARD FESTIVAL
This free two day food truck
rally and Lantern Parade that
starts on Sept. 11 features a dozen
local area food trucks, live music,
a full bar, a sports bar, family and
pet friendly activities, and yoga.
The yoga takes place at 10 a.m. on
Sept. 12. At this event, attendees
will be able to create their own
lanterns in addition to other projects slotted to take no more than
an hour each at workshop sessions
hosted by local artists.
BEST OF ATLANTA
Creative Loafings Annual Best
of Atlanta Block Party will be
held on Friday, Sept. 25 on South
Broad Street between MLK and
Mitchell Street from 6 p.m. to 11
p.m. This party will include live
performances, food trucks, drinks
and more. This event is completely
free to all attendees.
ATLANTA STREETS ALIVE
On Sept. 27 at 2 p.m., a bicycle
parade shall take place in Highlands. As part of Atlanta Streets
Alive Initiative, several streets
forming a loop will be closed to all
motorized traffic. Among others,
REI plans to host an area which
is scheduled to include lounge
chairs, a photo booth, a rock
climbing wall and several bike
mechanics. This event is free and
open to the public. Biking, walking, skating, and other modes of
human powered transportation
are encouraged for this Sunday
event. The Atlanta Streets Alive
Initiative will host another such
event on Peachtree on Oct. 25.
FALL FESTIVAL ON PONCE
Throughout the weekend of

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Oct. 17 and 18, Olmsted Linear

Park will host the Fall Festival on
Ponce. This major gathering of
arts and crafts will proceed rain
or shine. Each of more than 125
displays will be free for all patrons
of the park. As previous years have
shown great interest in this art
fair, the proprietor of the festival
has seen fit to add an additional
festival in the Spring to compliment the current vendor lineup.
CHOCOLATE AND ART SHOW
Atlantas Chocolate and Art
Show, located at Paragon 7 Studio, includes various activities
such as live body painting, live
painters, live music, food and a
complementary chocolate fountain. Although tickets are $5 in
advance, if purchased at the door,
they become $10. This novel event
takes place on Oct. 23 from 8
p.m. until 2 a.m.
THE FABULOUS FOX THEATRE
Perhaps the best known theatre
in Atlanta, the Fabulous Fox Theatre, runs wildly diverse shows on
a tight schedule. Though many of
these shows might be a little pricey, the overall atmosphere and the
shows themselves more than make
up for this slight drawback. Future shows include Sesame Street
Live, Madea on the Run, Martin
Lawrence and Monty Python and
the Holy Grail.
SHAKESPEARE TAVERN
Located near enough to Tech
to consider walking, this theatre,
as its name suggests, puts a great
emphasis on Shakespeare and
original practice. Before their annual non-Shakspearean rendition
of A Christmas Carol, the playhouse plans to perform a repertoire including Pericles, Prince of
Tyre, Cymbeline, The Tempest and
others.

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FERST THEATRE
West of the Student Center
and beyond the famous ice cream
cone statue lies the Ferst Theatre.
Throughout the semester, the theatre hosts several performances.
Though these performances are
not as cheap as DramaTechs,
they are still very captivating and
worthwhile to see at least once.
HUANG YI AND KUKA
The first offered performance
at the Ferst Theatre is Huang Yi
and KUKA, a Taiwanese choreographer and his robot will be
dancing on stage. This act artfully
merges modern dance with the
marvels of mechanical engineering. With tickets starting at $22,
this promises to be a unique experience. Huang Yi and KUKA will
be performing at the Ferst Center
Oct. 1 and Oct. 2.
STREB: FORCES
Hailing from the London
Olympics, Elizabeth Streb and
her Extreme Action Company
shall grace the Ferst Center for
the Arts stage with their unique
performance on the evenings of
Oct. 8 and Oct. 9. Strebs production includes a multitude of genres
such as the diverse areas of rodeo,
boxing, dance and Hollywoodesque stunts. Ticket prices start at
$22.
SANDRA WRIGHT SHEN
On Nov. 7, internationally
renowned Sandra Wright Shen
will be playing the piano for interested Ferst Center patrons. This
Taiwanese pianist has won various competitions throughout the
world including the Hilton Head
International Piano Competition,
the Taiwan National Piano Competition and the International
Piano Competition of France.
Tickets for this performance are

between $22 and $25.

SISTER OUTSIDER
In mid-October, Sister Outsider, a duo of Dominique Christina and Denice Frohman, will
perform spoken word on the Ferst
Centers stage. These two poets
join activism and art in their Audre Lorde-inspired performance.
Tickets are $15, and this two day
production starts Oct. 15.
DRAMA TECH
Located in the black box theatre of the Robert Frost Center
for the Arts, DramaTech Theatre
is Tech student run theatre group.
Their open house started Aug. 16,
and will conclude tomorrow, Aug.
22, with refreshments and a show
in the evening. Throughout the
semester the group plans to perform numerous shows.
PARALLEL LIVES
At the turn of the months between September and October,
DramaTech will be performing
Parallel Lives, a comedy about everyday life and how it differs between genders.
OTHELLO
At the end of October and the
beginning of November DramaTech plans to perform the Shakespearean classic Othello, the Moor
of Venice. This play is an intense
battlefield of wits as Iago attempts
to right an imagined wrong.
VARIETY HOUR
The George P. Burdell Variety
Hour is the final play of DramaTechs Fall season. Set to take place
on Nov. 20 and Nov. 21, this show
promises members of DramaTech
a chance to take the stage with
their own ideas instead of following a strict script as the other plays
require.

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Wanna get involved on campus?
Stop by the Engagement Week Student
Organization Fair! The event features Georgia
Techs student organizations and community partners, and
it is the perfect opportunity for students to explore their
interests.
Engagement Week will be on Tech Walkway from
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BAND

FROM PAGE 1

occur at band camp, which takes

place one week before the first day
of classes. The band spends nine
hours each on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of that week
learning the music and practicing
their marching drills in the August heat. Since the band does not
use sheet music during games, all
of the songs must be memorized.
People have different methods for [memorizing the music],
Schadt said. Some will take some
time outside of practice to memorize each song; some may wait
until we learn the whole drill. I
like to keep my music with me as
were learning drill so I can better
memorize them together.
During the semester, the band
rehearses for six hours per week.
Most of the music is learned during band camp, though occasionally the band practices new
material at the end of rehearsals
throughout the season.
Director of Athletic Bands
Chris Moore is responsible for
writing the music for all of the
bands halftime shows.
Hes really good, Schadt
said. Hes very talented at combining lots of pieces. In my freshman year, we had a superhero
show with 19 or 20 themes in one
movement, and its really incredible how he can weave the pieces
together, even if its just for a measure.
Moore also chooses the songs
that the band plays over the course
of the season while also taking
some input from the senior members. These songs include mainstays such as Rubber Band Man
and Fire, as well as pop songs
like Happy and Get Lucky.
Uptown Funk and Bang Bang
will be new to the lineup this year.
One of my favorites is All the

Small Things, Schadt said. Its

great because the fans sing along,
which was a surprise at first.
This year the theme for the
halftime shows is Killer B,
meaning that all of the song titles
or artist names start with the letter
B. Tech fans can expect to hear
songs by Bernstein, Beethoven,
and the Beatles, among others.
Schadt says one little-known
pressure involved with being in
the marching band is the constant
responsibility of representing the
Institute when in uniform.
We travel a lot with the football team, and its emphasized
that every member is representing
both the band and the Institute,
Schadt said. Its very important
for us to play well, perform well
and act well and general. A regu-

lar student at a game does not necessarily have to worry about that.
For example, we cant rush the
field after a big win.
The band is an integral part
of the gameday experience, from
the pregame warmup and march
down Freshman Hill to playing
the fight songs after a score. It is
involved with Tech traditions,
most notably by having all of the
freshman members wear their
RAT caps throughout the season.
There are a lot of little traditions too, Schadt said. Like
when were warming up physically
and stretching our quads, the
drum major will say ankle and
everyone yells ankle! in response.
I have no idea why, its just something that happens. Little things
like that make the band special.

Photo by Brenda Lin Student Publications

The marching band performs a halftime show on the field during a football game last year. This years theme is Killer Bee.

Schniederjans joins
PGA Tour
JON LONG

SPORTS EDITOR
This summer, Tech standout
Ollie Schniederjans began his career on the PGA Tour. He is entering the pros with an impressive
record behind him: a phenomenal
college career, professional-level
play in a huge tournament and
the title of best amateur golfer in
the world.
At Tech, Schniederjans was one
of the most talked-about players
in the ACC, being named conference Player of the Year twice and
finishing runner-up in the 2014
NCAA Division I Championship
as a junior. He was also named a
first-team All-American in both
his junior and senior seasons.
On June 18th, 2014, Schniederjans advanced to the number
one spot on the World Amateur
Golf Rankings, maintaining the
top position for 41 weeks and
winning the Mark H. McCormack Medal in the process.
After his college career, Schniederjans competed in his first PGA
Tour event at the 2015 Valspar
Championship, where he missed
the cut. Later, he was exempted
into the 2015 U.S. Open and the
2015 Open Championship due to
his status as a McCormack recipient.
In an interview with Golfweek
before his U.S. Open appearance,
Schneiderjans spoke of his excitement to play in his first major.
Its surreal, really, he said.
Youve wanted to do this for so
long, and now youre right there in
the middle of the scene. Im here.
Its really special. I have family

here, and its really cool. I feel very

comfortable, like I belong here.
He had a pedestrian performance in the tournament, finishing 42nd in a pool of 287 players
with a score of 7 over par.
The Open Championship, his
final tournament as an amateur,
proved to be one of his best. In
his final round, he managed seven
birdies in the first ten holes to put
him ten under par. He ultimately
finished in a tie for 12th.
Ill remember all of [the Open
experience]. Ill definitely remember Monday because I kind of
pushed myself to another level,
finally, that day, Schniederjans
said in an interview with the PGA
Tour. I was playing well earlier in
the week, but Id get to 2 or 3 under and Id fall back. It was frustrating. But that last day I pushed
it past that, found my name up
on the board and felt completely
calm and confident on the back
nine. That was probably the biggest nine holes Ive ever played,
and I felt like I was totally OK
with whatever happened.
Although his amateur status
prevented him to keeping his
$160,000 winnings, he can look
forward to making much more
than that in his professional career. With sponsorships from
Callaway and Oddyssey, Schniederjans is exempted into numerous tournaments in the coming
months.
His future beyond that depends what he does with these
opportunities, but for now the
Yellow Jacket has left the entire
golf world with few doubts of his
ability.

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Predictions for College Football Season

MARK RUSSELL

CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The new college football playoff was an overwhelming success
this past year. The ratings were
outstanding, and the two new
semifinal games were a huge hit
for college football fans.
The fourth seeded Ohio State
Buckeyes won the national championship, and they are the favorite to win again this year. Their
championship last year was a major surprise after they suffered an
early loss to Virginia Tech.
They also lost their top two
quarterbacks during the year.
Third string Buckeye quarterback,
Cardale Jones, became a national
star after his performance against
the top ranked Alabama Crimson
Tide in the New Years Day semifinal game, and he will be fighting
for a starting position this year.
This year the College Football
Playoff semifinal games will be
on New Years Eve at the Cotton
Bowl and Orange Bowl. Last year
a team was represented from each
of the ACC, SEC, Big Ten and
Pac-12 conferences. Two teams
from the Big-12 (Baylor and
TCU) were 11-1 and were passed
over for Ohio State who went 12-1
and played in and won a conference championship game.
Other than Ohio State, the top
teams to watch this football season are Auburn, Alabama, Baylor,
Clemson, Oregon, Southern Cal
and TCU.
The race for the 2015 Heisman
Trophy will be a different one
than past years. The past five winners have been quarterbacks, but
two favorites to win this year are
Ohio State running back Ezekiel

Elliott and UGA running back

Nick Chubb.
TCU quarterback Trevone
Boykin and USC quarterback
Cody Kessler are notable quarterbacks who could win. After
rushing for over 2000 yards and
leading his team to the Big Ten
Championship, the 2015 Heisman Trophy will likely be won by
Elliott. Expect Arizonas Scooby
Wright III to clean sweep the defensive player of the year awards
for the second straight year.
As for predictions for this year,
the 2015 ACC Championship
game likely will be played between Clemson and Tech, led by
redshirt junior quarterback Justin
Thomas. The Championship will
serve as a rematch from earlier in
the year in Death Valley where
the Tigers won. This time Tech
will prevail 38-28 and represent
the ACC in the Chik-fil-A Bowl
Game.
In the Big 12, TCU will win
their rematch against Baylor and
go undefeated throughout the
regular season to become the No.
1 seed in the College Football
Playoff. Baylor will finish the year
at 11-1 but miss out on playoff for
second straight year.
The Big Ten Conference will
once again come down to a game
in the regular season between
Michigan State and Ohio State.
Ohio State will win again and
crush Wisconsin for another Big
Ten Championship. Ohio State
will finish the year at 12-1 with
their one blemish at Virginia Tech
but still make the College Football Playoff as the third seed.
Despite the loss of Heisman
Trophy winner Marcus Mariota,
Oregon will beat 11-1 Southern

Photo by John Nakano Student Publications

Redshirt junior Justin Thomas runs the ball versus UVA. He will play an integral part in the offense as Tech enters the new season with hopes to reach a New Years Eve Bowl game once again.

Cal in the Pac-12 championship

for the second time in two weeks
and finish the year 13-0. The
Ducks will be named the second
seed in the college football playoff.
In the SEC, Auburn will win
the SEC West division with a victory over archrival Alabama. UGA
will clinch the SEC East early in
the season with wins over South
Carolina, Missouri and Florida.
Auburn at 11-1 will beat 10-2
UGA again to clinch the fourth
seed in the College Football Playoff. Georgia will finish the year at

10-3 but still earn a bid to a New

Years Six Bowl.
Teams that will miss the playoff but participate in the other
New Years Six bowl games will
be Alabama, Baylor, Boise State,
Clemson, Michigan State, Southern California, Tech and UGA.
As for the College Football
Playoffs, the committee will select
No. 1 TCU to play No. 4 Auburn
in the Cotton Bowl and No. 2
Oregon to play No. 3 Ohio State
in the Orange Bowl.
The CFP national champion-

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ship game will be played between

TCU and Ohio State in the University of Phoenix Stadium. Led
by the QB duo of J.T. Barrett and
Cardale Jones, Ohio State will
win 41-34 to win their second
straight national championship.
The Buckeyes will become the
first team since Alabama (201112) to win back to back national
championships.
After the game, Ohio State
Head Coach Urban Meyer will
announce his retirement to spend
more time with his family.

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THE

NEXT
President Bud Peterson shares his

2015 Institute Address

with students, faculty, and staff.

Thursday, August 27
11 a.m. noon
Clough Undergraduate
Learning Commons
Room 152

Submit a question to President

Peterson at townhall@gatech.edu

Live streaming at:

www.president.gatech.edu

@georgiatech #InstituteAddress

Sports

JOE SOBCHUK

ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The start of the college football
season is so tantalizingly close;
the last few weeks of the offseason always seem to be the slowest.
Teams across the nation finally
beginning to practice, and season
previews and predictions are appearing in abundance across the
media. As the offseason drags on
to its much anticipated conclusion, I propose an idea that may
allow the season to start sooner
while serving the needs of coaches
and players: would college football teams, much like teams in the
NFL, benefit from scheduling an
additional exhibition game prior
to the regular season? Lets look
at the pros and cons of this new
proposal.
Pro: It would be good for the
fans. Adding a week of preseason
games would serve to lengthen
the college football season, which
could really use a boost. College
football has the shortest season of

SPORTS EDITOR:

Jonathan Long
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR:

Joe Sobchuk

sports@nique.net

any major North American sport,

in terms of both number of events
and percentage of the calendar
year that it occupies. The maximum number of games a team
could play is 15, while most teams
only see 13 games per year (12
regular season games plus a bowl
game). For comparison, the NFL
has the next-smallest schedule at
16 regular season games and up
to four playoff games, in addition
to the four-week preseason. The
whole season itself also takes place
over just four months, a mark rivaled only by college basketball.
An additional week of exhibition
games before the season starts
would alleviate that problem and
give football-starved fans something to chew on.
Con: It could be detrimental
to player safety. Of course, while
the fans may enjoy an extra week
of action, the players may not be
willing to put their bodies on the
line for ultimately meaningless
preseason games. All it would
take is one major concussion or
ligament tear for players to unite
in opposition to the exhibitions. A
major injury in a preseason game
could also spoil a teams season
before it even begins, souring
both fan interest and national attention.
Pro: It would allow coaches to
evaluate the depth chart against
comparable competition. In the
current state of college football,
third- and fourth-string players
basically only ever see the field
in blowout games against much
lower competition (such as FCS
teams). If schools scheduled preseason games against teams of

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similar caliber, the coaches, media, and fans would have a better
understanding of the depth of talent on the team without risking a
loss on their record.
Con: Pollsters could still take
the exhibitions into consideration
when ranking teams. Even though
the games would not count in
any official standings, pollsters
may still use the outcomes to determine their weekly rankings.
Whether it is a conscious decision
or not, a blowout, an upset or even
an unimpressive performance in
an exhibition game could sour the
teams perception in the minds of
the pollsters. This could snowball
into the season, leaving a team
perpetually under-ranked and
possibly even out of a deserved
playoff spot.
Pro: It could diminish or
eliminate boring tune-up games
against FCS schools. Most teams
spend the first game of the season against much weaker schools
in order to basically serve as a
live practice while guaranteeing
a win on the schedule. While
these games serve a purpose to
the team, they are almost always
snooze fests for the fans, who are
not compelled to watch a blowout
against an unknown school. Exhibition games would fill that role,
eliminating the need for a tuneup game while having no chance
at impacting the standings. This
aspect would also enable teams to
schedule preseason games against
quality opponents, since the final
score does not matter anyway.
Con: It may not be good for
the fans. No matter how exciting
the matchup may seem, fans may

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The Technique looks into the pros and cons of scheduling an additional exhibition game to the college football regular season.

not be compelled to watch or care

if they know that the game does
not count. This would ultimately
bring college football back to the
very state in which it currently
resides with meaningless, unexciting games to open the season. At that point, why make any

changes at all?
Overall, college football may
stand to benefit from implementing a week of exhibition games
prior to the start of the season.
At the very least, it is a discussion
worth having among fans before
toe finally meets leather.

Preview of Womens Volleyball Season

ALISON LAVERY

CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Michelle Collier heads into
her second season as head volleyball coach of the Jackets at Tech
after leading a successful program
in 2014. Collier aided the team
in improvements in almost every
statistical category during her introductory year as the eighth head
coach at Tech.
These improvements were crucial to the teams 13-18 cumulative season record in 2014. Volleyball fans are looking forward to
another year of improvement with
Collier paving the road to future
success.
Early April, Collier was pleased
to announce that three new student athletes would be signed
to compete for the Jackets. The
team welcomed Anna Kavalchuk
(Minsk, Belarus), Hellen Lacava
(Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Gabrielle
Benda (Raleigh, North Carolina).
Coach Collier is confident that
these three student athletes will
mesh well with the team and be
great assets to an outstanding season in 2015.
In addition to signing three
new student athletes, Tech volleyball welcomes freshman Lauren
Frerkling of Johns Creek, GA, to
the team and welcomes back eight
returning athletes.
Returning Jackets look forward
to being more competitive on the

Photo by John Nakano Student Publications

The Womens Volleyball team opens their season on Saturday in OKeefe Gym. After a 13-18 season last year, Head Coach Collier and the Jackets look forward to another year of improvement.

court this season. The teams hitters junior Teegan Van Gunst
and sophomores Ashley Askin,
Gabriela Stavnetchei, and Anna
Kavalchuk hope to move up
this season from 12th in the ACC
for kills (12.75 kills per match)
and hitting percentage (0.216) after their 2014 season.
After an exemplary season
in 2014 and being named to the
All-ACC Academic Team, Teegan
Van Gunst returns this season and

is expected to lead the team in

kills as she did in 2014 with 3.32
kills per set.
Teegans twin sister Annika,
also named All-ACC Academic
Team last season, returns this season as a middle blocker. Annika
holds the record for the second
most kills in the 2014 season with
326 kills. The Van Gunst twins,
a formidable pair on the court
and invaluable assets to the team,
make up one of the many crucial

links in Techs Womens Volleyball team.

With matches against six 2014
NCAA Tournament participants
and a record high of 14 matches
broadcast on the ACC regional
network or on ESPN3 this year,
every link is going to be important in maintaining a level of high
competitive performance in this
years season.
The Jackets enter the season
with four talented middle block-

ers. Returning sophomore Sydney

Wilson led the team last season
with a total of 104 blocks. Junior
Lauren Pitz returns with a record
of 73 blocks and an impressive
105 kills. Annika Van Gunst and
Lauren Frerkling complete the
Jackets four player powerhouse of
middle blockers.
Returning junior London
Ackermann and senior Wimberly
Wilson complete the team as the
defensive specialists. Ackermann
reached a career high of 27 digs in
last seasons match against North
Carolina State (Oct. 10) and tallied six matches with over 20 digs.
Wilson returns after playing 64
sets last season and matching her
career high in aces three aces
against Gardner-Webb last August.
With experience on their side,
Ackermann and Wilson will continue to the aid the Jackets in
bringing in many victories this
season.
The Jackets will open this season with the Gold/White Scrimmage held in OKeefe Gym on
Saturday Aug. 22 at 3 p.m. The
scrimmage will be a great chance
for the jackets to hone their team
skills and cohesiveness on the
court before the GT Courtyard
by Mariott Atlanta Midtown Invite next weekend. Tech will welcome Siena, Coastal Carolina,
Tennessee-Martin and the Citadel
to the invite.

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