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Inside the 2011 Homecoming Issue

Homecoming History: Buzz & Reck (p. 3)

Homecoming Guide (p. 4-5)

T-Pain Preview (p. 6)

Turn back the pages of history and learn more about the origins, lives and current experiences of Tech’s beloved mascots — Buzz and the Ramblin’ Reck.

Make sure you have all the Homecoming Week events put in your calendar, iPhone or notebook.

Learn more about and cast your vote for the candidates for Mr. and Ms. Georgia Tech.

As with any good event, Homecoming 2011 features none other than T-Pain. Check out what this musical artist has to offer at this year’s Homecoming concert.

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from the editor

Homecoming Issue “Tradition and history... are embedded in the collective consciousness of [the Tech community’s] members.”

Vijai Narayanan Editor-in-Chief Students, alumni, fans and members of the Tech community — welcome to the Technique’s first annual Homecoming Issue. The purpose of this special section of the paper is to educate readers about the history of Homecoming at Tech, to provide a preview of events occurring during this year’s Homecoming week and to showcase the most popular Tech traditions and facets of Tech culture.

The Alumni Association organized the first Homecoming around Thanksgiving in 1923. Since then, Homecoming Week has integrated other traditions such as the Reck parade and Freshman Cake Race, which began in 1911.

Homecoming has become an annual event that brings together the entire Tech community to celebrate Tech culture, history and tradition. Homecoming is an integral part of every alumnus’s relationship with the Institute. This year in particular presents a series of historical milestones for the Institute, including the 50th anniversary of the matriculation of black students and the 50th anniversary of the Ramblin’ Reck’s introduction onto

the field on game day.

Tradition and history play a very unique role in the Tech community — they bind together the entire campus and are embedded in the collective consciousness of its members.

Students are exposed to these elements from the moment they walk onto campus.

Homecoming week showcases many of these traditions, from the Mini 500 and Freshman cake race to the Reck Parade and new traditions such as the Homecoming Concert.

This year’s Homecoming will also feature an exciting football matchup against Clemson. Be sure to pick up a copy of next week’s paper for a game preview.

In addition to getting a copy of the paper, come out to the Student Center Theater at 12 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 28, for the first of what we hope will be many Technique Town Halls. The inaugural event will feature a conversation about the state of Tech football and its future with coach Paul Johnson.

We’ve worked hard to put together an issue that I hope you will find both entertaining and informative.

Traditions draw together, strengthen community To answer this question, look no further than our mission statement: “The Homecoming Committee dedicates itself to providing a unified, exciting Homecoming that properly supports and captures Georgia Tech’s spirit and traditions for the entire campus.”

This statement is on the forefront of every idea and action that is made by the Homecoming committee. No matter what organization or group you identify yourself with, Homecoming is the time and the place to show your love for Georgia Tech, be it through participating in stimulating events like Tech Trivia and Ghost Buzzters (the weeklong water gun game) or by rooting for your favorite acts in The Big Easy: Talent Show.

Each year, Homecoming strives to create new memorable experiences for all students, while reviving memories of years past from alumni, who give us hope that graduation is possible. And being a school deeply rooted in traditions, Tech boasts key traditional Homecoming events to which many students, current and former, can relate to; these events include the Freshman Cake Race, Ramblin’ Reck Parade and Mini 500.

Since 1911, the Freshman Cake Race continues to be a popular event on campus for freshmen who wants to participate in a long-standing Tech tradition.

Although some changes have been made to ensure the safety of the runners, such as moving the route to begin at Techwood Drive, the winners still receive cakes as well as kisses from Mr. Georgia Tech and Ms. Georgia Tech, who are crowned at halftime of the Home-

“The Homecoming Committee dedicates itself to providing a unified Homecoming that... captures Tech’s spirit....”

Jonathan Seu SCPC Homecoming Chair

“Homecoming strives to create new memorable experiences for all students, while reviving memories of years past from alumni....”

Jess Swafford Ramblin’ ‘Reck Club Homecoming Chair coming football game. Lasting only two years because it was ruled unsafe, the Ramblin’ Reck Parade began in 1929 as a race from Atlanta to Athens. This event has been transformed to what it is today, an engaging parade event where both students and alumni showcase their classic design, fixed body car or contraption to the entire Georgia Tech community.

Claiming its 42nd anniversary this year, the Mini 500 still occurs in its original place. Whether watching “pit stops,” where riders have to rotate their tricycle tires, or getting the exclusive event shirt, the Mini 500 takes it place as one of the most popular events on campus to participate in and watch.

Many student and campus organizations have been working hard for months to make this

Homecoming great, so get excited for what is sure be one of the most fun-filled and action-packed weeks of the fall semester!

Homecoming 2011 is here and our whole campus will buzz with activity as students design pomp displays, develop Powderpuff Cheer routines, brush up on their lip-synching skills for Mock Rock and see if your team will sink or swim in our new event, Bayou Brawl. Whether this is your first Homecoming, or you’ve participated before, you’re in for a special week. Join us as we celebrate with this year’s theme: Buzzin’ thru the French Quarter: Unmasking the Spirits of New Orleans.

So come out to any of the great Homecoming events going on this week and cheer on your brave and bold to victory!

Go Jackets!

sliver

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Check out http://sliver.nique.net - Sliver guy Let’s put tracking devices on all the T’s!

How can I stop my roommate from stealing my sourpatch kids...

Sick of dorm life with girls not washing their hands after using the restroom and tennis-ball-size d hairballs in the shower! **vomits** so THATS how you sliver!!! who do i have to sleep with @ the technique to get a sliver posted!?!!

Take a wild guess. - Sliver guy Dear beloved ‘Nique: please don’t ever sell your soul to SGA again. -Tech Student Riding that curve.. riding those curves in and out of the classroom The last article about stealing the T was disappointing. Either we need to steal the real T or the fake ones. Pick one.

Studying abroad in Denmark... I miss GT If the Wreck were a model T, it’d have been stolen already.

I like how the Sliverking has been replying lately. Keep it up The more you keep referring to me as such, the more I want to give myself an upgrade to Sliver King. - Sliver guy Pres. Peterson: If you want to get a building named after you, grow a beard! start a new tradition, spread the T. put T stickers all over campus in annoying places.

I nominate Sliver Surfer.

I’m afraid I just blue myself.

Sliver guy told me to sliver more. Can’t argue with that.

Cheerwine is coming back to Atlanta! If you’re familiar, you understand my excitement.

SUDOKU ON PAGE 17. I told you I’d get to it. - Sliver guy hey sliver guy, if I let you redact my slivers, they would be a lot funnier, wouldn’t they?

That picture of the policeman on a segway will def scare away the gropers...

You’re welcome for Slivering.

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Photo courtesy of Georgia Tech Library Archives

A couple of weeks ago, the Tech mascot was down in the polls for Capital One’s Mascot Challenge.

Chelsea Fechter, a third-year BME major, decided to take action. She sent out an email to her friends, who found out the number of times they could vote per hour.

“While all the Auburn fans were sleeping...and not studying...[we] Tech kids were awake dutifully doing our school work and our Tech responsibility to vote for Buzz,” Fechter said.

By the next morning, our mascot had jumped up to number one in the polls, defeating AU’s mascot Aubie.

Buzz was “born” in 1979 when he was first introduced by Dr. Richie Bland, Applied Physics 1981, and attended his first football game in 1980. From then on, he has left behind a legacy of spirit and stingers. Buzz has rollerskated, skydived, crowd-surfed, conducted the band and more, all in the name of leading the school enthusiastically, as each person who

fills the role of Buzz brings his or her own talents to the table.

Each student who has worn the costume seems to feel similarly about his or her role as Buzz: Putting on the costume “flipped a switch” and gave him or her a whole new persona of mannerisms, tricks, and gimmicks.

In the Alumni Association’s movie Inside Buzz: On Becoming a Mascot, respondent Jeffery Copper, HS ‘85, says it could be up to 110 or 115 degrees inside the suit. Still, in the end, each respondent said that the experience of being Buzz was completely worth their time and more.

“Buzz is important because he rallies the troops, so to speak, calling attention to himself and what he stands for: Tech, which in turn creates pride and a sense of joy at being a part of our grand Institute,” said Marilyn Somers, Living History Program Director and Creator.

Today, Buzz is a highly sought-after position held by many Tech students.

The Ramblin’ Reck has been a part of Tech tradition since 1916. The original Reck was a 1914 Model T owned by Dean Floyd Field. Dean Field drove the car to and from classes from 1916 to 1928. In 1928, Dean Field replaced the original Model T with a Model A because the original was no longer capable of long-distance travel.

Once Field retired his Model T, the school no longer had an official Reck, but many students and organizations on campus owned and drove their own Recks.

The next official Ramblin’ Reck was acquired in 1961, by Dean James Dull. Dull had been looking for a new mascot for the school and wanted a pre-WWII Ford to represent Tech Heritage. Ted Johnson, a pilot for Delta Air Lines, had restored a 1930 Ford Model A as a father-son project and drove to campus to watch a track event. When Dull saw the vehicle, he knew he had found the one that would be Tech’s new mascot.

Dull purchased the Model A from

Johnson in May 1961 for $1000, but Johnson returned the money in 1984 so the vehicle would be considered an official donation.

Since 1961, the Ramblin’ Reck has led the football team onto Grant Field.

The Recks first appearance was on Sept. 30, 1961, when it led the team onto the field against Rice University.

The Reck didn’t appear in its current paint scheme until 1974. Former Athletic Director and Head Coach Bobby Dodd selected the old gold paint from a Lincoln catalog and was so enamored that he changed the football uniform color scheme to match that of the Reck.

The Ramblin’ Reck is maintained entirely by the Ramblin’ Reck Club.

The club became the sole student group responsible for the Reck in 1992.

The Reck has not missed a single home game since its first, despite a major crash in 2007. It was restored in just 85 days and has not missed a game since.

Photo courtesy of Georgia Tech Library Archives

Aaron Morris Delta Sigma Phi

Alex Lowry Phi Gamma Delta

Brad Bauerkemper GT Ambassadors

Ethan Speir Alpha Chi Omega

Morris is the President and was a founder of the Biomedical Research & Opportunities Society.

He is also the VP of Programming for Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society and the Scholarship Chair for Delta Sigma Phi.

Lowry was President of the Associated Builders and Contractors Student Chapter and has led teams to national competitions. He volunteers for Team Buzz, Gameday Recycling, Habitat for Humanity and Tech Beautification Day.

During his time at Tech, Bauerkemper has been involved with SGA, FASET, Omicron Delta Kappa leadership society, Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity and his sponsoring organization: Georgia Tech Ambassadors.

Speir is Chair of Traditions for the Ramblin’ Reck Club, Chair of Tradition Keepers Initiatives for the Student Alumni Association, President of the Youth Enrichment Program and has performed research in the School of Biology.

Francis LaRossa Alpha Xi Delta

Originally from Savannah, Ga., LaRossa, a fourth-year BA major with an IT concentration, is a brother of the Delta Chi Fraternity, a Georgia Tech Ambassador and a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa leadership society.

Mr. GT Candidates

M. Imran Ali Zeta Tau Alpha

Jacob Tzegaegbe Alpha Phi

Matt LeBrun Omicron Delta Kappa

Pursuing a major in MGT with a certificate in IT Management and a minor in PUBP, Ali is the Vice President of Membership for Georgia Tech Ambassadors and a member of the Board of Trustees for Student Foundation.

Tzegaegbe has served as the President of the Georgia Tech Student Foundation, President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., Senior Class President of SGA and has been a member of the GT Swimming and Diving Team.

LeBrun is the Internal Development Coordinator for the Student Center Programs Council, served on FASET Cabinet for 2 years, pioneered the “Acceptance For All” project and is the 2011 Greek Man of the Year.

Amira Choueiki Delta Chi

Armina Khwaja Alpha Epsilon Pi

Elizabeth Blumer GT Ambassadors

Kristen Greig Alpha Delta Pi

Laurel Lee Derby Beta Theta Pi

A fifth-year EIA major and PUBP minor from Worthington, Ohio, Choueiki serves as a Justice on the UJC, is on the Board of Trustees of the GT Student Foundation, and is the former President of AIESEC.

Khwaja currently serves as the President of the Collegiate Panhellenic Council. Her other involvements include Alpha Chi Omega, FASET Cabinet, Homecoming and Greek Week Executive Boards, and Omicron Delta Kappa.

Blumer’s passion is mentoring, and she gives back as a Peer Leader and mentor through the President’s Scholars Program. She is the Institute Partnership Chair for SGA and a co-op student with the Coca-Cola Company.

A fourth-year INTA and Spanish major and ECON minor from Marietta, Ga., Greig served as Chairman of the Georgia Tech College Republicans and two positions on the executive board of her sorority.

Derby is the President of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, a Senior Representative in SGA’s UHR and a Georgia Tech Student Ambassador. Derby has also been part of FASET and was a Georgia Tech Tour Guide.

Michael MacMillan Ramblin’ Reck Club MacMillan is the driver of the Reck with the Ramblin’ Reck Club, an Undergraduate Laboratory Instructor at the Invention Studio, a Researcher at the Tech combustion lab and a member of ERT and Delta Chi fraternity.

Scott Goodson Phi Mu From Newnan, Ga., Goodson is the current Chief Justice of the Undergraduate Judiciary Cabinet, President of Beta Theta Pi and Chair of the Georgia Tech Leadership Conference for Omicron Delta Kappa.

Ms. GT Candidates

Lee Taylor Buckley Alpha Gamma Delta

Lexie Vaughn Phi Mu

Lisa Thornsberry Omicron Delta Kappa

Maggie Smith Ramblin’ Reck Club

Margeaux Leighton Alpha Chi Omega

Buckley has served in leadership in Student Foundation, Gringos y Latinos and her sorority.

She is also involved with Christian Campus Fellowship, Omicron Delta Kappa, International Plan and Connect with Tech.

Originally from Alpharetta, Ga., Vaughan is a fifth-year BIO major.

Vaughn has served as the Internal Vice President, and she is currently the Corporate Sponsorship Chair for GT For The Kids.

Thornsberry is the President of MOVE, Tech’s largest community service organization. She has also been involved with Midtown Campus Ministries, the PreDental Society and the President’s Scholarship Freshman Retreat.

Smith served as the Design Editor for the T-book and Outreach Chair for the Catholic Center. She is now the Marketing Chair for the Community Service Council and researches testing methods for limestone deterioration.

A fifth-year BA major minoring in Engineering and Management, Leighton currently serves as President of Executive Round Table and formerly served as the President of the Collegiate Panhellenic Council.

Mini 500

The Mini 500 is a must-see for students who like a bit of mayhem and twisted metal carnage with a lot of screaming thrown in for good measure. The event consists, at its core, of a tricycle race around Peters’ Parking Deck. Teams swap duties between riding their tricycle and pit crew, and the first team to make it ten laps around the deck (or 15 for all-male crews) wins.

No tricycle is designed to hold a college student, resulting in two amusing effects. The first is that it’s impossible for a student to properly peddle a tricycle, meaning that riders must come up with creative ways of propelling their trikes. This could mean anything from sitting on it backwards to doing a backwards crab-walk to the finish line.

The second—and far more amusing—side effect is watching what happens as a toy designed to hold a 30-pound child is crammed under a 150-pound adult.

Wheels pop, frames bend, handlebars come loose and pretty much any other form of vehicular implosion imaginable happens at the Mini 500, and every year, a few trikes never even make it out of the gate. When a trike malfunctions, its rider has to drag it back to his team, where the pit crew attempts to make it semi functional. Anything goes here, with duct-taping the wheels back to the frame being a particularly popular (and amusing) fix.

Photo by Victor Lee / Student Publications

Mock Rock

Mock Rock may not have the most obvious explanation, but it is certainly one of the most entertaining and enjoyable events of Homecoming week. The competition is sponsored by the IFC/CPC Homecoming Committee and features groups consisting of nine performers and one stagehand. The groups perform a routine to a mix of three to five songs where they not only imitate the performers of their choice with lip-synching, but also show off their dancing abilities and acting skills. As if that is not enough, the groups must also relate their act to the Homecoming theme, determine a stage set-up, create unique costumes, and compete in the preliminaries, all in hopes of obtaining the opportunity to show off the hours spent practicing and perfecting their routine in the finals.

This year’s finalists have a short amount of time to continue to perfect their routines until they perform in front of a large, enthusiastic audience and judges. The finals will be held Wednesday, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. in the Ferst Center for the Arts, and they are certain to be entertaining. Each group is scored on a 50-point scale that includes categories for audience appeal, dance difficulty, creativity and more.

The winners are announced at the end of the show, so make sure to attend this high-energy event that is sure to have you laughing, dancing in your seat and singing along.

Ghost Buzzters

You may have witnessed the zombie apocalypse that recently wreaked havoc on campus. After a long week of marshmallow carnage and sock rampage, the zombies were able to take over and campus returned to normal. But don’t fret; something spooky is on the horizon that is sure to restore our beloved campus to a war zone of skill and precision. This time, we battle a new kind of undead: Ghosts!

SCPC is hosting a water fight of ghastly proportions called Ghost Buzzters. In this fun-filled, ghost-annihilating game, teams use water guns to accumulate the highest points by squirting opposing teams. Points are earned for each “tag.”

Game play is open the whole week.

Players carry identification so that when tagged, their info can be logged online and tracked. Each player may strike another player only once each day, though other team members can strike that individual.

So if you find yourself dodging streams of water on your way to class next week, don’t panic! Just remember: if there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Buzzters!

Photo by Jarrett Skov / Student Publications

Photo by Blake Israel / Student Publications

Photo by John Nakano / Student Publications

Freshman Cake Race

Among the oldest traditions, the Freshman Cake Race is a chance for hundreds of early-risers to run a half-mile foot race from Russ Chandler Stadium to Bobby Dodd Stadium. All entrants receive cupcakes, and winners earn cakes and a kiss from Mr. or Ms. Georgia Tech during the homecoming half-time.

The event is at 6 a.m. the morning of Homecoming, through the Greek sector, with distinct races for men and women.

In 1911, the tradition was a cross-country run that became mandatory for able-bodied freshmen in 1935. Today, the race is shorter and optional, though competition is still fierce.

Despite the sweetness of victory, the race has a reputation for brutality. Runners often undertake aggressive tactics such as shoving, elbowing and tripping to claim victory.

The tradition itself has changed over the decades, but the race has continued to attract a substantial number of participants. Whether they choose to simply walk, jog or engage in a wild sprint for cake and glory, the competition remains a prominent homecoming event.

Ramblin’ Reck Parade

A homecoming tradition that displays Tech students’ ingenuinty, the Ramblin’ Reck Parade, consists of creative contraptions following the ‘Reck.

The Reck Parade began as the Technique’s “Old Ford Race to Athens” in 1929. Deemed unsafe by administration in 1932, they suggested a parade instead of an illegal roadrace. Thus, the Wreck Parade was born. It’s occurred every homecoming since, except for five years surrounding World War II. However, after 1946, gasoline usage was permitted again, and the Parade has continued since.

The parade features three classes: classic cars, fixed bodies, and contraptions. Classic cars must be at least 25 years old and unmodified. Fixed bodies may be cosmetically modified cars (and are often themed), but must retain their original drive system. Fixed bodies are not allowed to be “pseudo-wrecks.” Contraptions, or “engineering odditites” must be made completely by students, and must have an indirect drive system. Each year, a winning contraption is chosen, based upon creativity and effective operation. The contraptions remain a reminder of the creativity and uniqueness present at Tech.

Beginning at the Alexander Memorial Coliseum, the parade follows Fowler Street to Fifth Street and up the hill to Techwood Drive.

The parade occurs the morning of Homecoming.

Photo by Joey Cerone / Student Publications

Talent Show

The main attraction on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 25, will be the Talent Show, which features groups from around campus performing ten-minute acts at the Ferst Center with a $100 prize on the line.

The participants in the Talent Show are determined in the weeks leading up to the event. Every entrant submits a video clip of their performance, and as many as 12 entries can earn finalist status and qualify for live performances at the evening event.

Groups are given ten minutes to set up and perform once on stage. They are graded in three categories: originality, showmanship and talent, which focuses on the actual success of the performances and is weighted the most heavily of the three.

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By Chris Ernst Contributing Writer

The Student Center Programs Council Homecoming Committee says that “the mission of Homecoming is to [provide] a unified and exciting week of events and festivities for the entire campus, which promotes and captures Georgia Tech’s spirit and traditions.”

The Homecoming Concert, featuring T-Pain, definitely fulfills the “exciting” part.

On Thursday, Oct. 27, the show will take over the Burger

Bowl on West Campus. The gates open at 7 p.m., and the show starts at 8 p.m., depending if TPain finds any brown M&Ms. Ticket are available at homecoming.gatech.edu under “Events.”

Tech students can purchase tickets for themselves for $10 and $15 for guests. Tickets are electronic on the purchaser’s BuzzCard, so any guests must enter with the sponsoring student.

Faculty and staff can also purchase tickets for themselves for $15.

Following the trend set last year with rapper Ludacris, the

Homecoming Concert this year features rapper T-Pain. Best known for his synthesizer beats and stylized vocal effects, T-Pain is sure to entertain Techies.

The Grammy Award-winning artist is promoting his upcoming album, Revolver, which he claims he will release when he reaches one million followers on Twitter. So if you want this album released, go follow @TPAIN. Tickets for a T-Pain concert can cost over $300 for tickets on the floor. But since the Homecoming Concert is general admission, you can get as close as you

dare to to stage, for just the price of a week’s worth of Taco Bell.

The Homecoming Concert is always a great value and excellent opportunity with no cab fares or parking fees and bargain basement ticket prices.

Concerts in Atlanta can be a pain with the combination of traffic and far-flung venues, all of which are obviated by the Student Center Programs Council Homecoming Committee hosting this concert on campus.

If the concert is anything like last year’s, it is definitely not an event to miss. The music will be

loud, the bass will be pumping and the party will be going on.

This may be unfortunate for those trying to sleep on West Campus, but that’s just even more reason to come to the concert.

T-Pain is the third rapper in two years to perform for Tech students. Lil’ John came to campus as part of the Social Studies Tour in Sept. 2010 to perform in the Howey parking lot. Then in Oct. 2010, of course, Ludacris came up the connector from his house to perform for the Homecoming 2010 festivities in his hometown Atlanta.

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RAMBLIN’ WRECK FROM GEORGIA TECH

I’m a Ramblin’ Wreck from Georgia Tech, and a hell of an engineer— A helluva, helluva, helluva, helluva, hell of an engineer.

Like all the jolly good fellows, I drink my whiskey clear.

I’m a Ramblin’ Wreck from Georgia Tech and a hell of an engineer.

Oh! If I had a daughter, sir, I’d dress her in White and Gold, And put her on the campus to cheer the brave and bold.

But if I had a son, sir, I’ll tell you what he’d do— He would yell, ‘To hell with Georgia!’ like his daddy used to do.

Oh, I wish I had a barrel of rum and sugar three thousand pounds, A college bell to put it in and a clapper to stir it round.

I’d drink to all the good fellows who come from far and near.

I’m a ramblin’, gamblin’, hell of an engineer!

2009 HOMECOMING Tech storms field following victory over Va. Tech

Photo by Sierra Schmidt / Student Publications

By Alex Sohani Sports Editor

Photo by Doug Kim / Student Publications

UP WITH THE WHITE AND GOLD

Oh well it’s up with the White and Gold, Down with the Red and Black, Georgia Tech is out for a victory.

We’ll drop the battle-axe on Georgia’s head, When we meet her our team is sure to beat her.

Down on the old farm there will be no sound Till our bow-wows rip through the air; When the battle is over Georgia’s team will be found With the Yellow Jackets swarming around!

After coming off of a homecoming loss in the 2008 season, the 2009 Jackets’ football squad was looking to get a homecoming win over a daunting No. 4 ranked Virginia Tech team. The No. 19 ranked Georgia Tech squad ran for 309 rushing yards in the 28-23 win to beat a topfive team at home for the first time since 1962. The win broke a 17-game streak of home losses against teams in the top five.

Former Georgia Tech standout Joshua Nesbitt led the Jackets to the victory under center with 122 rushing yards and three touchdowns on the day. His final touchdown was a 39-yard run down the sideline with 3:00 left in the game.

After a quick score and a failed onside kick recovery by the Hokies, Nesbitt took victory formation and joined along in celebration as the Georgia Tech students jumped up and down and cheered along to Zombie Nation in the stands. As the

clock wound down to 0:00, students rushed onto the field to express their excitement and show their support after the Jackets’ biggest home win in 47 years.

The fans eventually hopped up onto the goal post in the north end zone and tore it down in celebration, carrying the goal post over to Institute President G.P. “Bud” Peterson’s lawn.

The goal post was eventually cut into small pieces and distributed to multiple fans in attendance as a memoir of the historic homecoming win.

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Taste of ATL returns The yearly event, filled with food, and music returns to campus.411

Stingerette wait times disappoint

By Nalin Verma Contributing Writer

After several weeks of increased campus safety awareness resulting from the high number of campus attacks, student transporation has become a concern, especially for those traveling alone and after dark. At the end of every Clery Safety Act, students are encouraged to walk in well-lit

areas, travel in groups, report suspicious activity to GTPD and to call a Stingerette.

Recently, students have begun to express concern about the quality of service received from the Stingerette system.

The service has seen many technological changes in the past year, but has not seen a change in resources.

“We have the same level of service and same resources as

last year. The number of vans on the road and the number of drivers are still the same,” said Lance Lunsway, the Senior Director at the Tech Parking and Transportation Services.

According to data gathered by Tech Parking and Transportation, at any given time between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m., there are three to four Stingerette vans in service

and available for student reservations.

The peak time of usage, often the period when the Stingerette is requested most often, falls between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m., according to Lunsway.

There have been issues with increasingly long wait times and miscommunications between students and

sage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968, Young has a history of service to Georgia. He served as Ambassador to the United Nations under President Jimmy Carter, was See Young, page 5

See LGBTQ, page 4

See Stingerette, page 5

Civil rights legend, former Atlanta mayor addresses freshmen regarding a collection of Martin Luther King’s works

Photo by Basheer Tome / Student Publications

United Nations Ambassador, former mayor of Atlanta and noted civil rights leader Andrew Young spoke at the Ferst Center on Oct. 11 about the freshman reading book, I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches that Changed the World.

On Oct. 11, Andrew Young, former mayor of Atlanta and noted civil rights activist, visited Tech to speak to students about his role in

the civil rights movement and its respective legacies as a part of the Freshman Reading Project.

The former mayor of Atlanta and United States’ United Nations Ambassador was a prominent figure in the

civil rights movement and one of only three surviving aides who was with Martin Luther King Jr. when he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.

Not only was Young intrinsically involved in the pas-

By Jordan Lockwood Contributing Writer

Students, faculty and staff gathered to view the premiere of the Georgia Tech “It Gets Better” video last Monday evening, Oct. 10 to kick off Pride Week. Atlanta City Council Member and Tech alum Alex Wan introduced the screening, which was held in the Student Center Ballroom.

The video was produced by Professor Jesse Stommel of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, and Julie Champion, a senior BME student and President of the Georgia Tech Pride Alliance. Music was produced by Matt Morris, a nationally-recognized musician and songwriter.

“For the past year, Pride Alliance and several other allies have been working to put on an event every semester to raise awareness and gauge interest of LGTBQ issues on Georgia Tech’s campus,” Champion said. “There was Tech United last fall, the Acceptance for All campaign last spring, and now the It Gets Better film this semester. This particular project is extremely important because it specifically identifies members of the Georgia Tech community that are supportive.”

The video featured many well-known Georgia Tech figures, including Vice President for Institute Diversity, Dr. Archie Ervin; Associate Dean of Students and Director of Diversity program, Stephanie Ray; Undergraduate Student Body President, Elle Creel; Director of the Counseling Center, Dr. Ruperto Perez; Chief of GT Police, Teresa Crocker; Senior Systems Engineer for the Office of Information Technology, John Douglass; Assistant Director of the President’s Scholarship Program, Billie Pendleton-Parker; Student Involvement Coordinator, Stephanie Knight; Director of Greek Affairs, Tanner Marcantel and many others.

Originally a campaign on YouTube to encourage teenagers that are feeling suicidal to continue to live and to seek help, the “It Gets Better” campaign has garnered an increasing amount of national and international attention.

The It Gets Better campaign, founded in 2010 by columnist and author Dan Savage, partners closely with The Trevor Project, a national resource and counseling center aimed at

Young: Diversity and equality Needed in Education

By Katherine Mitchell Contributing Writer

Coming Out Week shows ‘It Gets Better’

Beltline urban redevelopment project gains momentum

By Sam Somani Contributing Writer

The Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. project just might be Atlanta’s next big Olympics movement.

With an initial investment of $2.8 billion, the BeltLine project (ABI) is an urban redevelopment project that will provide a network of transit and side projects that are projected to be completed in the next 25 years.

ABI’s primary focus in development is the restoration of the 22-mile abandoned former rail lines encircling the heart of Atlanta in a pear-shaped fashion.

The newly designed rail lines will link up to MARTA and possibly

include newer transit systems, such as the Peachtree Streetcar and commuter rail lines.

“In addition to being a circular transit system, it was also envisioned to have a 33-mile network of trails, 1300 acres of parks, affordable housing…public art and historic preservation…and an environmental clean-up to create public spaces,” said Patrise Perkins-Hooker, the General Counsel for the ABI. Perkins-Hooker remarked that the extent of the BeltLine’s impact is huge, influencing 45 neighborhoods, 22 percent of Atlanta’s population and 6,500 acres of land in Atlanta.

The network of trails will en-

circle the city with the rail loop as its guide, creating an environment that will favor pedestrian use and a link to the parks. So far, 99 percent of the trails have been completed, and the parks are closely following with an 83 percent completion.

“The underlying purpose of the BeltLine is to unify the disconnected areas of development by fostering a solution to the unforeseen consequences of the economic growth of Atlanta: congested streets, air pollution, limited space and uneven economic activity,” Perkins-Hooker said.

More closely associated with See Beltline, page 4

Photo by John Nakano / Student Publications

With an initial investment of $2.8 billion, the Atlanta Beltline Project has the potential to change Atlantan commuter routes.

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By Emily Cardin News Editor Golden Safety Arches

Students recieved a series of Clery Safety Acts on Monday of Fall Break, detailing two instances of armed robbery.

The first incident was reported early in the morning on Monday.

The incident happened off-campus, and was reported to students as a case of off-campus armed robbery.

A student reported that as he was walking north on Hemphill Avenue around 12:55 a.m. on Oct. 15, a suspicious-looking male approached him.

The man pointed a handgun at the student and demanded

the student’s property. The student then ran to the nearest McDonald’s near Hemphill Avenue and Ethel Street after breifly being chased by the suspect along Hemphill. After getting to safety the student immediately contacted police with the help of McDonald’s employees. Upon being thwarted the male suspect fled in an unknown direction away from the McDonald’s. The student was not injured and none of his property was taken.

The suspect was described by the student as a dark-skinned black male with light-tipped dreadlocks.

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The second instance of armed robbery happened later that same morning, at 1:15 a.m. A student, walking near Ferst Drive and State Street was approached by a male who pointed a handgun at him and demanded the student’s property. The male apparently fled on foot on Ferst Drive and headed towards Hemphill after being told that the student had no property to take. The student reported no injuries.

The description of the suspect matched that of the suspect from the armed robbery earlier that morning. The suspect was described to be at 160-180 pounds with dark-colored shoulder-length dreadlocks with light-colored tips, wearing a dark-colored, collared shirt with light-colored stripes and dark-colored pants. The suspect was reported to be armed with a silver handgun.

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GSS discusses the veto of the bill from GT Airsoft because of incorrect documentation. Both GSS and UHR upheld the veto.

GT Airsoft Veto

Both legislative bodies decided to uphold the veto of a bill by Graduate Student Body President James Black and Undergraduate Student Body President Elle Creel. During their Oct. 4 meetings, GSS and UHR considered a bill requesting funding for the Airsoft Club in order to purchase guns and other equipment for practice and tournament play.

While some members brought up concerns regarding the danger associated with airsoft activities, both bodies passed the bill for a total amount of $1320.46.

After further consideration,

both Black and Creel decided to veto the bill.

“I started asking some questions to make sure the organization had their bases covered since we would be funding some highrisk items,” Black said. “It was found that the club did not have an advisor, and was using a liability waiver that had not been vetted by GT Legal.”

“I would love to see them come back for funding and for SGA to be able to support them, but we need the administrative issues sorted out,” said Undergraduate Student Body President Elle Creel.

JFC Policy

The changes to the JFC Policy were approved last week following two weeks of discussion in conference committee. The version of the bill originally passed by GSS included a cut to the stipend of the WREK chief engineer, while the UHR version did not.

Because WREK radio was not contacted before or during the bill process, the committee was urged to reconsider by both Student Body Presidents. Upon reconsideration, the UHR version of the bill was chosen by the conference committee and passed in both houses. The discussion of the conference committee members, conducted over email, raised several procedural issues that were debated during the meeting on Oct. 11. According to member-at-large Greg Jones, holding conference committee meetings over email is in violation of the Georgia Open Meetings Act. Speaker of the House Brooke McDaniel called an “issues meeting” to discuss the concerns raised. UHR members said that it would be impractical to hold conference committee meetings during the week. It was decided to continue holding conference committee meetings over email unless two members requested to meet in person.

“I feel like that this is fair, because the chairs have agreed to be more sensitive when issues are raised about conference committee,” Jones said.

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Breaking

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lot of things went on outside the bubble of Tech in the past week. Here are a few important events taking place throughout the nation and the world.

Qaddafi killed in hometown Former Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi was killed in his hometown of Sirte on Thursday after nearly two months in hiding.

While there are still very hazy details regarding the actual death, Arab news network Al Jazeera broadcasted several clips showing Qaddafi’s bloodied body with a gunshot wound to the head.

NATO’s headquarters of operation in Libya confirmed an attack, but denied knowledge of a “personalized attack.” Members of the Tripoli Stabilization Committee stated that Qaddafi was captured alive, but later died of his wounds.

T h i s a n nou nc ement of Qaddafi’s death comes after several months of prolonged warfare after Libyans began protesting last February against 42 years of Qaddafi’s rule.

Occupy Wall Street spreads Begun in the Wall Street financial district of New York, NY, the Occupy Wall Street movement has been a series of protests against economic and social inequality and the overwhelming influences of corporations. The movement is built in the slogan “We are the 99 percent,” which references the income differences between the top one percent of income earners and the other 99 percent of the working population.

Little has been done on the end of policymakers to block the protests, but these policymakers are beginning to take notice, especially as President Barack Obama extended his support and indicated that he is working in the interests of the 99 percent.

In the past couple of weeks, Occupy Wall Street has spread to occupy major cities around the world, including London, Frankfurt and Zurich. The first protest in the U.S. was on Sept.

17, and has continued for several weeks since.

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OIT updates email server

By Trey Sides Contributing Writer

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) updated My GaTech, the Institute’s email and calendar software, on Saturday, Oct. 15. In the span of a few hours that morning, the department made the transition to Zimbra 7.0, the latest version of the software powering My GaTech, experiencing only “minor issues” afterwards, according to the website.

The update included changes to nearly every component of the software suite and added new features that My GaTech that Service Manager Pam Buffington says will streamline the interface and increase productivity.

“It will be easier to do more,” Buffinton said. “With the upgrade, users will need to take fewer actions to accomplish tasks.”

One of the major differences in Zimbra 7.0 is the merger of the Documents feature with Briefcase, Zimbra’s file storage feature.

With the new Briefcase, users can not only upload and view files in the cloud but also create and store new documents.

In addition, users can now create and manage multiple calendar events simultaneously, invite distribution lists to calendar events, and attach multiple files to an email at once. A feature that, according to Buffington, has excited a lot of people is the inclusion of more colors for organizing tags and folders.

Student response, however, has been tepid. Many students do not use the My GaTech web interface, preferring instead to forward emails to their personal email account, and as a result, many are unaware of the significance of the changes, despite emailed reminders.

Common complaints include the slow web client and outmoded user interface design.

“It’s not very aesthetically pleasing,” says Patti Murphy, a third-year BIO major. “Emails are automatically composed in plain text, rather than the more advanced HTML format.”

“People don’t use it enough to have a good opinion about it,” said Alex Irlik, a second-year CS major.

Irlik agrees that the user interface is unattractive.

In addition to forwarding their Tech emails, many users report that they do not use any of the other My GaTech features, which include an address book, a calendar, a tasks list, and the Briefcase tool.

“Most of these features are matched or bettered by other online services,” said Professor of German Frank Pilipp.

He cites the existence of alternative services such as Google’s Gmail, Calendar, and Documents

as the reason he does not use the tools offered by My GaTech.

“My GaTech has advantages other services cannot mimic, including the ability to overlay calendars from classes, sports teams, and the registrar’s office,” Buffington said.

My GaTech also includes the Tech directory. This feature can also be accessed through a link on the university’s homepage.

The update may improve some of the shortcomings students and faculty have noted, but for now many users seem content to manage their email without My GaTech.

For those who use Microsoft Outlook, the latest version of Zimbra Connector for Outlook features improvements to stability and speed and is available on the OIT’s software downloads page. For Mac users, Buffington said that her department has been “pressuring” Zimbra to develop a similar connector for Outlook for Mac.

Screenshot by Basheer Tome / Student Publications

OIT’s improvements to MyGaTech features many new capabilities, including the ability to manage multiple calendar events at once.

LGBTQ

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preventing suicide among LGBT teens. The project operates a 24/7 crisis intervention lifeline at 866488-7386.

“It has evolved into a huge movement to which celebrities, prominent companies, and other universities have contributed,” Champion said.

Though individuals and many community organizations have created videos and uploaded them to the website. Tech has become one of the college leaders in creatinga campus video.

Tech joined the ranks of American colleges such as Princeton University, Stanford University, Cornell University, and nearby Emory University in producing its own version of the video.

“At the present, I think the purpose of an ‘It Gets Better’ video is to spark a discussion on exactly how to make it better,” Champion said.

A panel of featured students and administrators fielded questions after the viewing of the video.

They addressed specifically how to make LGBT life better on campus. Ray and several others enthusiastically called for the creation of a dedicated LGBT Office, a resource available at many universities the world over, but not currently present on Tech’s campus.

The panel also addressed ways in which students and faculty members can show their support as allies. Panel members specifically emphasized listening, being openly supportive, and creating an inclusive environment in the classroom and around campus.

The event was one of the kick-off events for the week long Coming Out Week, the mission of which was to build a campus climate where LGBTQ students, faculty, staff and their allies are not just tolerated but are accepted.

Beltline

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this project is a refurbishment of the City Hall East, the largest brick building in the southeastern United States. “[The Ponce City Market] was once the heartbeat of commerce, community and entertainment in Atlanta,” said Jim Irwin, VP of Development for Greenstreet Properties. “Since then, it has declined.”

Through a private endeavor by Jamestown Properties, a real estate investment and management company, the rebirth of the Ponce City Market near City Hall East will include many new features and improvements.

“It will be 320,000 square foot of urban retail markets,” Irwin said. “Real butchers, real seafood, the best of food, local retailers, national markets,” and more would be the potential business partners in this renovation.

What has received the greatest praise, however, is the proposal to construct a 12,000-square-foot organic farm on top of the roof – a garden that will supply the chefs and other vendors just downstairs in the market.

“All this will be just feet away from the historic rail trestle [of the BeltLine],” Irwin said of the connection between the projects.

However, ABI maintains ecological concerns by actively trying to pursue the LEED Certification, the gold standard for all constructions looking to be recognized as “green” creations.

“You can’t leave less of a carbon footprint than using a 90-year old building,” Irwin said of the renovation of City Hall East.

“This is the most important economic development in the entire Southeast,” said Hans Gant, Senior Vice President of Economic Development for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. “It will seek to transform the city and attract new companies.”

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Young

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elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and was the mayor of Atlanta for two terms. “[Young is] a personal hero of mine,” said Gary May, Dean of the College of Engineering, during the introduction to the speech.

Young chose to sit as opposed to standing at a podium because he wanted his presentation to be more of a “conversation” rather than a speech.

The book, a collection of works by the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Young’s reading lecture, in which he discussed different parts of the freshmen reading book and spoke about his own beliefs, lasted approximately forty minutes and brought a diverse crowd of students, faculty, and alumni.

“I came to actually hear from someone who went through [the civil rights movement] instead of

just reading about it,” said Owen Scott, a first-year ChBE major.

Similar to Scott, Betsy Kidwell, Director of HR and Finance for Student Affairs, came to the lecture to experience what one cannot find in textbooks.

“Young is a part of history,” Kidwell said.

The role that Young played in the historical non-violent protests headed by King and the greater civil rights movement in Georgia and around the countryw was a common theme for many in attendance. “[Ambassador Young] did not read about history. He made history,” May said.

Despite this event being one of the many programs related to the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the peaceful integration of the Institute, Young did not speak only about race and integration.

He also spoke on a range of topics including animal rights, poverty,

Photo by Basheer Tome / Student Publications

Young, the former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, encouraged freshmen to strive for understanding.

war, education and diversity.

When asked whether Dr. King’s dream has been realized, Young asserted that Dr. King’s dream was to “redeem the soul of America from racism, war, and poverty.”

According to Young, legal racism is practically non-existent and current wars are less deadly than WWII and Vietnam. Poverty, however, is still a serious problem in today’s society.

“The lower middle class is moving down the ladder of success,” Young said.

Young’s solution to the poverty problem is closely linked to education. He believes that the two are intertwined.

“Poor should have access to education because in the long run an education presents a return on an investment,” Young said. He also added that it costs less to educate a person than to spend $40,000 a year to keep him in prison.

A member of the audience challenged Young’s view on access to education by stating that the market sees the poor as a risky investment, explaining why it is harder for impoverished people to obtain loans. Young responded by noting that the markets do not determine what is right.

“Markets are driven by profit, profit is driven by greed, and often greed is driven by stupidity,” Young said.

The audience burst into applause after this particular statement, though the audience applauded throughout the entirety of the evening.

After the event ended, Young participated in a book signing.

He signed hundreds of copies of I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches that Changed the World and took pictures with members of the Tech community.

Young reminded the audience to embrace diversity.

“Remember to appreciate and celebrate differences,” Young said.

Technique • October 21, 2011 • 13

Stingerette

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drivers.

“I’ve pretty much given up on using the Stingerette. One night in early Aug., I was trying to get a ride to West, and it took them 45 minutes to show up at North Ave. Then, they drove past us three times. Later, the same night, we tried to get a ride back, and it took over an hour,” said Breanna Poteet, a first-year MSE major.

The Parking and Transportation Office claims that their data doesn’t show that the average weight time is long. According to their data analysis for the month of Sept., the average wait time to get a Stingerette ride was between four and eight minutes.

Based on overwhelming student responses, the average wait time for a Stingerette is often closer to 45 minutes. Many students have also complained about receiving confirmation calls or texts, then waiting another 20 minutes outside and alone near the pickup point. Others complain about never recieving a confirmation call or text in the first place.

With the implementation of the new system to make trip requests, the Parking and Transportation Office seeks to prioritize rides to maximize efficiency. The office says it makes 100,000 Stingerette trips per year.

According to Lunsway, the most significant problem that the Stingerette service runs into is last-minute driver sickness. If drivers call in sick before their shifts begin, there are no immediate replacements and this often results in overbooking.

In light of the increase in the Clery Safety Acts in the past ten days, the Assistant Chief of Police has held several sessions with all Stingerette drivers and dispatchers regarding adequate precautions to make the campus a safer place to travel at night.

Furthermore, the GTPD has

been requesting that Stingerette drivers report any suspicious or unusual activity immediately.

Another student concern is the denial of rides to students under certain circumstances. The Stingerette system is advertised as a safe transportation option to parents and students at FASET, as well as on every Clery Safety Act. “Students are denied rides when they are under the influence, belligerent and rude to the driver or co-passengers,” said David Williamson, Associate Director at Tech Parking and Transportation Services.

The drivers are supposed to contact GTPD immediately in the event of the above listed situations, according to Williamson.

“We don’t want to be known as the ‘Drunk Taxi.’ [Stingerettes are] for safe rides only,” Lunsway said.

However, students report that they have been denied rides for several other reasons. Students have been told they are not going to be given a ride because the distance is too short, or because the system is full.

“I have been denied several times. I think it’s really crazy that they will drive straight by people, tell you to take the Midnight Rambler when your friends called just a minute before and got a ride to and from the same place,” said Alexei Nikonovich-Kahn, a firstyear MGT Major.

The Parking and Transportation Office responds by saying that they don’t have the necessary data and facts to investigate and solve such problems.

To address these issues, they want to implement an instant feedback feature available via smartphones and the web, so that students could convey their level of satisfaction after the completion of every ride. This would also gives the Parking and Transportation Office access to concrete details to improve upon the system.

Opinions

Opinions Editor: Chris Russell I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

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OUR VIEWS Consensus Opinion

Stingerette reform needed

Service needs overhaul to improve campus safety

The recent uptick in campus crime has put a lot of scrutiny on campus services, including the Stingerette. Though the Stingerette service is advertised to students and parents as a safety feature, problems with the service’s policies render it entirely ineffective for that purpose.

The most common complaint of students is general frustration with the quality of service. Long wait times, a difficult-to-navigate reservation system and drivers who don’t phone upon arrival lead students to get frustrated and just walk home. An increase in the number of drivers and an overhaul of both reservation and routing systems is necessary.

Another flaw in the system is the service’s policy to deny rides to students traveling a short distance or those who are intoxicated. The first is troubling because the safety of a route isn’t solely dependent on its length. Rides from the Library to North Ave. are often rejected

by Stingerette operators, yet no student

would argue that walking down North Ave. at 2 a.m. is safe. Similarly, denying rides to intoxicated students does nothing to help safety on campus. While denying rides to belligerent drunks makes sense, punishing students smart enough to not attempt driving home drunk from a party makes no sense whatsoever.

Both problems could be solved by giving rides to all non-violent students— regardless of intoxication or route home— but requiring passengers to swipe their ID. This way, students can get home, but those who abuse the system with short rides can be penalized and intoxicated students who get sick in the van can be charged cleaning fees if necessary.

It is obvious that changes like this would require additional funding, but if students can see marked improvements to the service, it would certainly be worth it.

Many students have written the service off as useless, so a fee increase would be warranted if it results in a useful service.

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 Vijai Narayanan, Editor-in-Chief Kamna Bohra, Managing Editor Mike Donohue, Business Manager

Emily Cardin, News Editor Vivian Fan, Outreach Editor Siddharth Gurnani, Focus Editor Nishant Prasadh, Development Editor

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YOUR VIEWS Letters to the Editor

Opinion ignores main cause of violence “However, it’s important to note that the GTPD isn’t the only organization that should attempt to create a culture of safety. The Women’s Resource Center should make it part of their mission to provide programming to encourage student safety on campus.”

This quotation from the Technique’s last consensus opinion is concerning to us, the members of the Women’s Awareness Month committee, for several reasons.

One being that it makes apparent that the Technique has not looked too closely at the Women’s Resource Center mission statement or programming. If they had, they would have noticed that the WRC does more than work toward a “culture of safety.” They actively strive to alter societal misconceptions about violence against women and break the vicious cycle of rape culture that we live in.

This leads to another concerning part of the opinion piece, the omission of that word: rape.

While, thankfully, none of the recent attacks on female students led to rape, lumping these sexual assaults under the common heading of student security issues is indicative of the exact problem the WRC tries to address: the refusal to confront rape out loud.

To give credit where it is due, the GTPD has done excellent work in building student confidence in them, as evidenced by the rapid reporting of these attacks. GTPD has also been an excellent source for safety tips and crime prevention, but treating the symptoms of rape culture is not going to cure the disease itself.

These most recent attacks exemplify the common concept of rape—that it comes from a scary stranger lurking in the bushes. In fact, this type of attack only accounts for a small portion of sexual assault cases. According to the numbers, most rapes look very, very different. Somewhere between 75%-89% of rape victims know their attacker. On college campuses, over 90% of rapists use alcohol or drugs to facilitate the attack, and one in four female college students will be sexually assaulted or the victim of an attempt while she is in school.

These facts indicate that no matter how much pepper spray we carry or how cautious we are when we walk outside after dark, we’re only protecting ourselves from a small percentage of attacks that come from outside our campus community.

Which leads to a final factor that the Technique consensus left out in its call for a culture of safety on campus: student participation. To really confront rape culture, we have to acknowledge its influence on our behavior and work to correct our own mindset.

We can start by taking advantage of programs like Voice and Ally training from the WRC or at-

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tending Take Back the Night and guest speakers’ lectures during Women’s Awareness Month. We can create a bystander culture to dismantle rape from the inside.

Bystander culture means that when we see a potentially dangerous situation, at a party or a bar or wherever it may be, we step in and say something. It means we stop using victim-blaming language, asking questions like, “Was she drunk? What was she wearing?”

We stop laughing at sexist jokes.

We support the victims we know.

In the end, though, it means we, as the student body, make the decision to not allow Tech’s campus—our campus—to contribute to the statistics anymore.

The Women’s Awareness Month Executive Committee

‘T’ vandalism could cost cash, donors My wife (a cheerleader at Tech) and I live in Home Park just north of Tech. Both of us have many relatives who were students or staff at Tech. We both have season tickets to Tech football and men’s and women’s basketball.

The point is, we love Tech.

The ‘T’ theft vandalism at Tech has been very discouraging.

I’m sure that the vast majority of Tech students abhor it just as we do. (Also, we are not happy with the Technique for listing ‘T’theft as a Tech tradition in the 2011 Fall Freshman Issue.) Not only could the $100,000 cost to replace and repair the damage be used for other things, the vandalism makes the campus and Tech students look bad. I certainly hope that no potential donor gets turned off by this ‘T’ theft damage.

I’m writing to thank President Peterson, the administration and the student groups who are trying to put an end to this vandalism. I hope that they succeed soon.

Hugh Sanders Applied Mathematics B.S. 1965, M.S. 1969

OPINIONS

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Protests’ lack of direction robs strength Over the course of the past several months, hundreds of protests have broken out around the world, forcing people to resort to their basic instincts for what we consider to be natural freedoms. Few expected these types of protests to reach the United States of America, where we are fortunate to have the freedoms others crave. More recently, however, the Occupy Wall Street movement burgeoned in New York as a series of demonstrations of protestors speaking out against corporate greed and socioeconomic inequality.

Driven by social media and mob-like protests that have swept the nation and even crossed borders to London, Occupy Wall Street aims to … uhh … well, I’m not quite sure what the end goal of the campaign is, although its original sentiments are noble and could actually have some impact on the nation.

The major problem with the Occupy Wall Street movement is this lack of goal-setting. Tied to this issue is the fact that the protestors want to function against corporate greed and socioeconomic inequality, but do not target a particular group of people, such as policymakers or bankers and CEOs. History tends to repeat itself, as more animal-like protests broke out in the postVietnam War era, resulting

“I’m not quite sure what the end goal of the campaign is, although its original sentiments are noble...”

Kamna Bohra

Managing Editor in former President Jimmy Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” speech that highlighted the loss of confidence in the American population. If the protestors created more goaloriented effort with a coherent message of what the American population seeks, whether it is more taxes for the higher income brackets or a final decision in healthcare overhaul, perhaps policymakers could respond more effectively.

Furthermore, this goalsetting could take place with much more ease if the Occupy Wall Street movement were actually centralized. Some commentators view the demonstrations as an extension of the Tea Party, while others think the Occupy Wall Street reveal tensions along the liberal end of the political scale. Still, no party or already-existing political group has claimed the Occupy Wall Street movement. In fact, most politicians have actively avoided associating themselves with the demonstrations. If a new third party arose out of the “flames” of Occupy Wall

Street, this group could conduct the goal-setting and serve as the main voice and platform in the face of policymakers and media.

One of the most frequently used phrases in social media posts about Occupy Wall Street is “We are the 99 percent,” which appears to reference the general American public versus the top one percent of income earners who receive between 20 and 30 percent of income in the United States. One Tumblr entitled “We Are The 99 Percent” describes this 99 percent as a hard-working group of Americans who get an education, tough out rough situations to avoid additional expenses and try to pay off hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. I don’t have statistics to prove that this is not characteristic of a large percentage of the American population, but I can say with certainty that, if a group could appropriately represent 99 percent of the population, it would have cropped up a long time ago.

Sure, I am a member of this so-called 99 percent in that I work hard and will do whatever it takes to get an education, even if it means paying off student loans later. However, I do not think that this group of protestors accurately represent my interests or have even taken the time to reach out to its constituents.

Another qualm I have with the protestors who claim to serve my interests is their pride in defacing property, public and private alike. As a journalist, I support protesting and free speech as actions protected by the First Amendment, but the videos I have seen have proved that hooligan-like behavior will not effect change.

A problem that combines the lack of a coherent philosophy and target audience is the negative message sent by the 99 percent to bankers and CEOs about their immoral actions. As one of many messages, this particular statement can incite class warfare between the middle and upper classes, which further solves nothing.

In general, the Occupy Wall Street movement has, interestingly enough, been a rather quick mobilization of people across many generations, but due to a lack of goal setting, centralization and notions of representation, the effort is ultimately ineffective.

Conference leaders emerge midseason

After seven weeks of the college football season, the general picture of the conference races and national championship race is becoming clearer and clearer. It has been an interesting year with several teams having surprisingly good seasons after bad expectations to kick off the year.

The current top four teams in the first BCS rankings will have a matchup with another team in the top four. Alabama and LSU will have to face off against each other in early November, while Oklahoma and Oklahoma State will also have to face off, eliminating two teams from the national championship picture. From the looks of it, the winners of the two matchups will face off against each other in the BCS National Championship. I’m predicting that Alabama and Oklahoma State will be the teams that come out unscathed and face off in New Orleans for the crystal football.

Boise State is sitting at the No. 5 spot, and will almost certainly run the table for the fourth time in six years.

Boise is favored to win every game —presumably by double digits—remaining on their schedule, a feat that nobody else in the country can make claim to. From the looks of it Boise won’t be making a splash nationally unless several teams ahead of them stumble against much lesser competition. Despite proving they can beat

record that will be put on the line in a road trip against the Jackets. Clemson should be favored in the matchup, but their defense might be the downfall of their perfect record. The Jackets will be looking to surAlex Sohani vive in the ACC race and have a good shot of knocking the Sports Editor Tigers out of the national title discussion. Clemson should still win the Atlantic race, and and finish in the top 10. With a close race between Georgia Stanford beating the Ducks Tech and Virginia Tech will at home, they should run the determine who comes out of table the rest of the season and the Coastal division. Clemland a spot in the Rose Bowl son has too much talent on after beating Arizona State in both sides of the ball to lose the first Pac-12 championship to anyone who comes out of the Coastal and should earn game.

The winner of the new the bid to the Orange Bowl in 12-team Big Ten will face Miami. off against the Cardinals in From the Big East, Rutgers, Pasadena, Calif. After beating Cincinnati and West Virginia Michigan this past weekend, are all sitting at the top of the Michigan State Spartans the conference with one out look to have the inside track of conference loss each. West to winning their Legends divi- Virginia’s potent offense will sion of the Big Ten. Wisconsin be too much for the Big East to is currently sitting at 6-0 and handle, and the Mountaineers should be favored to run the should run the table through table through the rest of the the rest of the year. West Virseason. It looks like the Bad- ginia should be selected by the gers and the Spartans will face Orange Bowl committee to off in the Big Ten Champion- face off against the Tigers in ship game. The Badgers are too what should be a shootout. balanced on offense, and their Still, there is much of the huge offensive line should season to be played. With six hand them a second win over weeks remaining in the regular the Spartans and the Badgers season we will see if there are will earn their bid to the Rose any upsets waiting to happen.

The picture won’t be clear unBowl.

In the ACC, Clemson is til the last week of the season, currently the last undefeated and anything can happen in team remaining with a 7-0 college football.

“The picture won’t be clear until the last week of the season, and anything can happen in college football.”

anyone on the big stage, Boise is going to be left out again and have to play in the Sugar Bowl for their third BCS appearance since 2006.

Boise will be joined in the Sugar Bowl by the LSU Tigers after an 11-1 season with a loss to Alabama. LSU would be completely out of the hunt with a loss to the Crimson Tide, even if Alabama lost a conference game along the way. LSU should be happy still getting a chance to play in front of their home crowd in New Orleans, La., and should be favored to win big. On the other side of the regular season matchups, I’m predicting that Oklahoma will lose their last regular season game to the Cowboys of Oklahoma State.

The loss will send the 11-1 Sooners to the Fiesta Bowl for the automatic tie in associated with the Big 12.

Oklahoma will be joined at the Fiesta Bowl by the Oregon Ducks. I’m predicting the Ducks will lose to Stanford in the Pac-12 race, but still run the table the rest of the way

BUZZ

Around Campus

What do you think about Occupy Wall Street?

Sara Tull First-year ME

“Personally, I just think it’s all a little silly.”

Christian Tuchez First-year CS

“I agree with it. I’m actually going to Occupy Atlanta on Thursday.”

Dillon Roseen First-year Arch

“I think it’s great that people are standing up for what they think is right.”

Chayna Johnson Third-year CS

“I don’t really have a strong opinion on the protests.”

Photos by Grace Stephens / Student Publications

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OUR VIEWS Hot or Not

HOT– or –NOT Cool treats

Tech students looking for their fix of something sweet and cold can celebrate the opening of a new frozen yogurt store on campus: Yogli Mogli. The shop, which is located behind Moe’s at Tech Square, fills the campus deficit of frozen desserts that was left when Marble Slab closed earlier this year. The only downside is that the store opens just in time for the cold weather to stamp out students’ appetites.

Speakers

Tech played host to two speakers recently, with former mayor of Atlanta Andrew Young speaking on Oct. 11 and Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus on Oct. 17. Young spoke on his book, I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches that Changed the World, which was Tech’s freshman reading book this semester. Yunus spoke on social business and microfinancing.

Imperfect record

Tech’s perfect record for the season was broken on last Saturday’s game against UVA. Despite their 6-0 record going into the game, the Jackets’ performed incredibly weakly throughout the game, eventually costing them the win. At the end of the day, the Cavaliers walked away with a 24-21 victory. Hopefully this will spur the Jackets to step up their game from their recent poor performance.

Double trouble

Continuing the string of violent crimes in the past few weeks, this week students received a double Clery Act notification in the early hours of the morning Oct. 15th.

Two students were accosted in separate incidents—one on Hemphill, one on Ferst—by a man armed with a handgun who demanded the students’ belongings. Both managed to escape with their possessions.

GTPD explores new partnerships as solutions to old safety problems Tech is a vibrant place. Every night of the week the campus hums with activity. Occasionally, however, our location and our profile bring the added, unwanted attention of those who seek an easy opportunity to take advantage of unsuspecting students.

All of us in the Georgia Tech Police Department take the recent crimes that have occurred in the areas surrounding our campus very seriously. Moreover, we are resolved to making both campus and the adjacent neighborhoods as safe as possible.

It’s a shopworn statement, but crime prevention is everyone’s responsibility. Yet it merits repetition: The cooperation and involvement of faculty, staff and students are essential to the maintenance of a safe campus, which begins with an individual’s own awareness and commitment to the safety of the community.

When traveling at night, for example, we encourage students to use after-hours transportation such as the Stingerette. However, we also know there are service limitations, either due to occasions where demand exceeds capacity or because many of our students live adjacent to campus in areas not served by the shuttle.

We never want anyone to feel unsafe; for this reason, officers on night patrol are also available to escort students to a residence hall or off-campus apartment. If this is a service you need, please call us at 404-894-2501.

While Atlanta police have primary jurisdiction in all areas outside of campus, Tech police officers work with local, state and federal law enforcement units to respond and assist with student-

“Despite unusually lean budgetary times, the Tech administration continues to place a priority on public safety.“ Teresa Crocker Chief of Police, GTPD

related incidents or offenses that occur in close proximity to campus. With generous support from local public safety organization Midtown Blue, we are finalizing a new joint patrol with the Atlanta Police Department that will consist of a patrol officer from each department acting as a unit and operating in the Home Park and Atlantic Station communities.

This collaboration will produce greater police visibility, resulting in increased enforcement and public awareness. It will also help to further facilitate the information sharing between our respective departments.

By far, the most frequent criminal behavior on campus is larceny, encompassing everything from stealing a bicycle to robbing a vending machine. Of these incidents, a significant percentage can be attributed to repeat offenders who find an environment like ours to be particularly attractive.

The cycle is familiar: crime, arrest, prosecution and a brief stint in jail. Upon release, however, these individuals quickly return to the familiar surroundings of campus, lured by the opportunity for a quick score, and the cycle starts again. In fact, one such individual has an arrest record that dates back nearly 20 years.

When the penalty for getting

caught is insufficient to deter crime, it can be frustrating. That is why GTPD is actively working with Fulton County’s Office of the Solicitor General, which prosecutes criminal activity on campus, to bring additional pressure through the legal system so that the penalties imposed on repeat offenders break this cycle by discouraging a return.

Despite unusually lean budgetary times, the Tech administration continues to place a priority on public safety. During the past several years, we have increased the number of patrol officers serving campus, and we are also looking at ways we can use technology to enhance our ability to provide a safe and secure campus environment. Some of the options under review include improved video surveillance of campus, and a service that uses your cell phone to provide officers with a precise location in case of distress.

When you see an officer on campus, please never hesitate to say hello and let us know if there’s something we could be doing to help maintain safety on campus.

You can also connect with us through social media, at www. facebook.com/gatechpd and w w w.t witter.com/gatechpd.

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Friday, October 21, 2011

Assistant Entertainment Editor: Hank Whitson

Taste of Atlanta returns to Tech Square

By Andrew Ho Contributing Writer

The wildly popular Taste of Atlanta returns for its tenth year to showcase the city’s wildly diverse culinary landscape. Held in Tech Square, this outdoor food and drink festival has grown to host over 80 restaurants that will be cooking up samples for attendees throughout 5th Street and Spring Street, and attracted over 40 thousand attendees in the previous year.

More than simply offering samples, numerous events will be held throughout the weekend.

Returning this year is the Home Plate Main Stage, where top chefs

will compete against one another in culinary challenges, with topics such as recreating “The Best Thing I Ever Ate,” and the “BBQ Throwdown.” The Inside the Food Studio makes a comeback as well, where attendees will enjoy unique food and beverage samples while learning new cooking skills and recipes. As in years past, live musical performances will also be playing throughout the weekend.

Marking Taste of Atlanta’s tenth year is the Friday night party, “The Big Grill.” Aaron Sanchez of Food Network and Kevin Rathbun will be hosting the event to celebrate the event’s tenth anniversary with delectable

dishes, birthday cake and fine beverages on the menu.

Other than its extremely convenient location for on-campus students at Tech, Taste of Atlanta is an excellent time to expand one’s dining horizons and learn where to eat in the city.

“Taste of Atlanta is the best, and most cost-efficient way to get an idea of what’s available in Atlanta. For $25, you get to try dishes from dozens of great restaurants and learn a few new things while you’re at it,” said Dale DeSena, the current president and cofounder of Taste of Atlanta.

“We’ve had Taste of Atlanta in Tech Square for three years now

and we don’t plan on moving. We love the location.” DeSena said.

A new feature that has little to do with eating, but everything to do with making the festival easier on attendees, is the newlyreleased Taste of Atlanta iPhone app. This app contains a schedule of events, a detailed map with locations for every restaurant and venue and a menu guide that displays what restaurants are serving. An Android version of the app is in development.

Whether one is a connoisseur or a casual diner, eating for one or going with a family, Taste of Atlanta always draws out a crowd to try what the best of Atlanta’s chefs have to offer.

Atlanta Ballet hosts Eden|Eden SHOWS

Eden|Eden PERFORMER: Atlanta Ballet LOCATION: Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center DATE: Oct. 21 - 23

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Photo courtesy of Charlie McCullers, Atlanta Ballet Inset: Photo courtesy of Darryl Bush, Atlanta Ballet

By Sam Somani Contributing Writer

The Atlanta Ballet’s first performance of the season will leave you in awe.

Maybe it’ll be the musical score that encompasses both classical and techno tunes with a scientifically based voiceover. Perhaps the rather barren costumes that showcase the raw human body, paired with the astonishing fluidity in the movements of the dancers, will keep you on your toes, anxious for each subsequent part. Or it may be the message of humanity, or a possible lack thereof, that the performance conveys. Regardless, Eden|Eden, a contemporary ballet performance, coalesces these elements into an edgy, avant garde work by the philosophically driven choreographer Wayne McGregor.

At first, the change from The Four Seasons by Vivaldi, which is performed in the first half of the show, to a portrayal of Steve Reich’s seemingly unharmonious combination of robotic melodies with classical tunes seems a bit drastic and hard to digest. The unconventional

ballet, however, starts taking form as the music sets in and the first dancer begins to dazzle the audience with graceful movements that are paradoxically mixed with automaton motions near the joints.

It is from this very moment that the idea of humanity versus machinery is impregnated into audience’s minds.

As the dance continues, the voiceovers will begin to zero-in on one idea in cloning. It is this very idea that is the centerpiece of the dance and the music, and the resulting themes of whether this act of cloning is ethical or not, and in an extrapolation, whether everyone is just a biological organism designed to survive or an individual with a soul.

Throughout the play, however, McGregor maintains equilibrium between the two perspectives – the latter of the two by donning clothes on the dancers and introducing greater flexibility in the dances, and the former by maintaining the structure of the dance with its crisp movements. By doing this, he forces the audience to form its own opinion about the question posed rather than directing it to one answer.

The dancers alone are a thrill to watch on the stage. Their unique movements, which involve arms and legs seeming to pop out of place, hips rotating exaggeratedly, and backs swerving with great fluidity, render the dance modern, but its combination taken with an unbelievable grace maintains the ballet aspect as well.

Tara Lee, the first and last performer on stage for the dance, has remarkable skill that manages to exemplify these movements, with or without a partner, to absolute perfection.

In retrospect, the performance was at the very least captivating from the perplexing interplay of music, dance, and costume.

For veterans of ballet dances, the show offers an fascinating view of humanity.

On the other hand, newly-made aficionados of the art will revere the overall quality of the dance. Eden|Eden premieres this Friday by the Atlanta Ballet in Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center.

The well-known frozen yogurt parlor Yogli Mogli has arrived at Tech’s campus. Located next to Moe’s Southwest Grill at Tech Square, Yogli Mogli opened up for business on Wednesday, Oct. 19 to a bustling crowd of students.

The franchise now boasts of nearly 20 stores spread over Georgia and Illinois.

“This edition of Yogli Mogli caters specifically to college students.” said Venkat Venkatasamy, Tech Branch Manager. To further demonstrate, students from Tech and Georgia State University are the employees at this branch, and Yogli Mogli is looking to work with student organizations on campus like fraternities and sororities, SGA and other clubs to help improve and enhance their presence on campus. Yogli Mogli boasts 16 different flavors of yogurt and over 40 toppings to go with them. It is a selfservice establishment; and this is another factor that attracts the college crowd. The customers can mix and match any flavors of their choice and take as much as they like. They are at comSee Mogli, page 13

Photo by Basheer Tome, Student Publication

ENTERTAINMENT

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High showcases modern works Psych fails to impress EVENTS

Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters LOCATION: High Museum of Art DATE: Oct. 15 2011 - Apr. 29, 2012

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By MK Johnson Contributing Writer

One of the largest displays of modern art to be exhibited in the Southeastern United States, “Picasso to Warhol,” can delight art experts and novices alike through its entrancing multimedia collection.

It contains over 120 captivating works of art including paintings, sculptures, prints, films and sketches from fourteen different artists. These range from the early Picasso cubist work to Warhol’s revolutionary pop art. Working within the confines of the 20th century, each artist creates a dialogue with the others to weave a cohesive tapestry of modern art that is fascinating for anyone remotely interested in art.

For art history virgins, works such as Henry Matisse’s “Dance (I)” (1909) and Andy Warhol’s soup cans are nothing new. But littered between these inspiring works are strange and exciting pieces for the not-so-familiarart-goer including Constantin Brancusi’s “Bird in Space” (1928) and Alexander Calder’s “Spider” (1939), which provide new and fresh scents within the High’s walls.

The exhibit is the result of a brain-trust between two great art institutions: The High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The long-time partnership has led to a multi-year collaboration which will yield other exhibits over a sixyear period. Past exhibits include “Modern by Design” and “Monet Water Lillies.” The alliance between the High and MoMA was fosters by Jodi Hauptman, MoMA Curator of Drawings: Samantha Friedman, MoMA Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Drawings, David Brenneman, the High’s Director of Collections and Exhibitions; Frances B. Bunzl, Family Curator of European Art, and Micheal Rooks, the High’s Wieland Family Cura-

Three Women by Fernand Léger

tor of Modern and Contemporary Art. The exhibit is set up in a series of seven smaller rooms within four large rooms. Each area spotlights one of the fourteen artists.

The areas are not walled up, offering a peak at the next great modern master. This allows viewers to make connections between works and weave together the threads of 20th century modern art.

Beginning with Pablo Picasso’s “Girl Before a Mirror” (1932), viewers are struck by its vibrant colors and unique movement.

From there visitors move through Matisse, Leger, and are stopped by Mondrian’s “Composition No. II, with Red and Blue.” Mondrian’s work is a simplistic painting of blue and red boxes with black lines but in comparison with Matisse’s “Dance (I)” (1909), viewers are left contemplating the movement towards continued reductionism throughout the 20th century.

Moving further into the depths of modern art, viewers are submerged into De Chirico where they experience “the school of the metaphysical” and Miro where the unconscious is allowed to speak, and met with Bourgeois’s sculptures which stand out against the two-dimensional works of art.

The two show-stoppers include Jackson Pollock’s “Number 1A” (1948) and Jasper John’s “Map” (1961). These two larger paintings are truly beautiful pieces both with intense movement and gestural strokes. Other artists include Bearden, who does representational works of African-American life, and Marcel DuChamp, who brings you into a crooked world of simplified objects and contorted scenery.

The exhibit will be running from Oct. 15 to Apr. 29 of next year.

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Psych NETWORK: USA WHEN: Wednesday, 9 p.m.

STARRING: James Roday, Dulé Hill, Maggie Lawson

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By Brent Hornilla Contributing Writer

Last week, Psych kicked off its sixth season with “Shawn Saves Darth Vader.” The episode opens with Shawn crashing an ambassador’s party to get back his client’s “pristine 1978 Darth Vader with a double-telescoping light saber.”

In the process of escaping, Shawn hides underneath a bed only to find a dead body. To avoid admitting he was at the party, Shawn takes it upon himself to receive an incredibly specific premonition, including an address and exact description of the body; meanwhile, Lassiter begins drilling Juliet over her new relationship with Shawn.

Without revealing too much, it is a murder mystery series after all, some of the episodes high-

lights involved a “defective” lie detector and the blatant misuse of diplomatic immunity. Malcolm McDowell, the featured guest, delivers as the aforementioned British diplomat. However, while all of Psych’s key ingredients, the fastpaced tomfoolery and obscure pop culture references, were accounted for, it still seemed somewhat lacking. While the episode title clearly alludes to Star Wars, there were only two scenes that made mention of it. As a stand-alone episode it’s as good as any other, but, with all the hype that comes with a season premiere, much more was expected. It was as though the show was in the middle of a season, not starting a new one.

That aside, there were some great questions thrown out there that I can’t wait to see answered, key among them “How will Shawn and Juliet’s relationship change now that it’s in the open?” and “How long can our dynamic duo maintain the psychic charade?”

With episodes this hilarious and a guest list including Wayne Brady, Joey McIntyre, William Shatner and Molly Ringwald, there will be plenty for Psych fans to look forward to this season.

Photo courtesy of USA

ENTERTAINMENT

Dead balances gore, realism TELEVISION

The Walking Dead NETWORK: AMC WHEN: Sunday, 9 p.m.

STARRING: Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies

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By Yameen Huq Contributing Writer

The television series The Walking Dead premiered its second season in all its nightmarish, bloodsoaked glory this past Sunday, Oct. 16. Maintaining the same form as its inaugural season, the premier episode delivered tense horror in conjunction with welldeveloped characters and an engaging storyline.

The show follows a group of survivors during a zombie apocalypse as they attempt to leave Atlanta and find some kind of safehouse to protect them from the horrors around them. After discovering that the CDC facility in Atlanta provide neither safety nor medicine, the group heads out to find on the way highway to find more supplies and shelter. In this particular episode, they stumble onto a roadblock of abandoned cars and attempt to stock up on supplies as quietly and inconspicuously as possible. Along the way, one of their children is chased by zombies and gets lost in the woods, leaving the community to decide how to find her without endangering themselves. Without spoiling the ending, the final twist in this episode is quite shocking and unexpected from any television show.

The series draws characters from all aspects of society. This includes the central character Rick, a police officer, as well as his family, friends and the other survivors he encounters. The community includes personalities from the hardened survivors to the more frightened and shell-shocked ones who come to terms with death and horror around them.

Atmospherically, no show delivers this level of tension and nerve-wracking suspense. An opening scene locks the characters in a zombie migration, pitting them under cars as they do their best to keep quiet. A moment that catches all of the characters by surprise, it forces them to improvise and fight in various ways from using rocks and kitchen knives to hiding underneath corpses.

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plete liberty to make decisions and get their dessert precisely how they like it. The final price is based on the total weight of the yogurt in the container.

Student employees devote anywhere between ten and thirty hours a week to work at Yogli Mogli, based on their schedules.

A noticeable attribute is that the parlor is creative, and comes up with new flavors to suit the season and occasion. The pumpkin flavor is popular this month due to upcoming Halloween. Moreover, the idea of self-service attracts the younger crowd because of unlimited choices and quantities.

These seem to be characteristics which will keep the store up and running and make the customers come back for more. Yogli Mogli plans to host online competitions for the most interesting combinations of flavors and topping, with prizes for winners; an idea that is sure to appeal to children and students everywhere.

People also prefer frozen yogurt to ice-cream because of the enhanced nutritional value that

yogurt possesses. It provides calcium, protein, essential vitamins and has a low calorie count. So now, all those health-nuts out there can afford to have a sumptuous and filling dessert that doesn’t harm their body. To add to the healthy options, there is a variety of fresh fruit available as toppings for the yogurt. The servings are also ideally larger because of the self-service option, and sometimes cost even less. These advantages are what catch the attention of dessert-lovers everywhere. These perks are bound to help Yogli Mogli perform well here on Tech campus, and the parlor will soon be as famous as other food joints at Tech Square.

With Tech Square’s Marble Slab currently closed for renovations, Yogli Mogli stands to claim the top spot for frozen desserts this season.

Even though it is not a 24-hour establishment, the parlor should be popular amongst students who want to take a break from homework late at night, grab a dessert after a meal or simply relax with friends at night or during the weekends.

Photo by Basheer Tome, Student Publication

ENTERTAINMENT

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Session contrasts humanistic values SHOWS

Freud’s Last Session PERFORMER: The Theatrical Outfit LOCATION: Balzer Theater

CITY SCENE

Photo by Chris Gooley / Student Publications

By Chris Ernst Contributing Writer

Little Halloween This Saturday, Oct. 22, from noon to midnight, you can go to Little Five Points and people watch at the 11th Annual Little Five Points Halloween Festival and Parade. Little Five Points is known for its cooky, alternative atmosphere and residents, so its Halloween party will be no exception. The actual parade starts at 4 p.m. on Euclid and Moreland Avenues, but there will be musical stages and events around the area to entertain the spooky masses. There will be two musical stages each constantly playing music for the entire duration of the festival. Parking in L5P is always tricky and this festival will be no exception. Take MARTA to Inman Park Station or Candler Park Station.

Scarecrow Garden The Atlanta Botanical Garden is always a good choice for weekend entertainment, but this month the garden is peppered with scarecrow decorations that were made by hand by various schools, businesses and organizations. Take your picture with the Atlanta Opera’s scarecrow and post it on their Facebook page for a chance to win tickets to their comedic opera, The Golden Ticket!.

Be on the lookout for the live scarecrow. There will be a costume parade, train rides, games, pony rides, chef demonstrations, storytelling, crafts, pumpkin decorating and live music.

DATE: Oct. 12th - Nov. 13

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By Brent Hornilla Contributing Writer

What words would have been exchanged if two of the most celebrated minds of the 21st century, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and author C.S. Lewis, had ever met? Mark St. Germain’s response was Freud’s Last Session, the longest running Off-Broadway show and the Theatrical Outfit’s latest production.

It’s important to note that Freud was an atheist and Lewis an atheist turned Roman Catholic as these conflicting ideals lead to an exchange that explores a number of thought-provoking topics, ranging from love and sex to the existence of God and the meaning of life.

It manages to remain witty and intelligent while keeping our interest; perhaps most importantly, the situation itself makes sense.

Be it due to exemplary screenwriting, directing or both, the play unfolds in such a manner that we never feel the need to question the authenticity of its events - in fact, it makes it easy to forget that it is fiction.

Both of the cast members’ portrayals are convincing, David de Vries is nearly unrecognizable as an 83-year-old Freud dying of oral cancer and Andrew Benator as a young Lewis, calm yet full of passion.

However, much like Lewis is

at times dwarfed by Freud’s experience, Benator is at times overshadowed by de Vries’. He gives meaning to his every move as if constantly reminding himself it might be his last, and the resulting performance is nothing short of flawless.

Constantly teetering back and forth between light humor and heavy discussion, albeit more to the serious side, we are interrupted by well-timed radio transmissions before any moment could be considered comical or dark.

However, St. Germain’s most impressive feat is maintaining neutrality as there is no clear winner by the end of the play, and any attempt to crown one would defeat the point.

The set is stunning and is designed by Isabel & Moriah Curley-Clay. The entire play takes place in Freud’s office, littered

with artifacts of mostly Greek, Roman and Egyptian origin as a testament to Freud’s encyclopedic knowledge of various religions.

The furniture fits the feel of the room, masking the mess of rugs beneath it, and the set as a whole is complemented by a surreal backdrop.

The play boils down to a oneact featuring two characters in what is essentially an 80 minutes conversation, so any attempt at a plot summary wouldn’t do it justice; while that would sound boring to some, in this case, the result is great theater.

In line with the Theatrical Outfit’s mantra, this is a “story that stirs the soul.” Freud’s Last Session is definitely worth seeing and serves as a nice change of pace from the 10-second sound-bites that most of us have grown used to.

Photo courtesy of Theatrical Outfit

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The Thing succeeds as frightening prequel FILM

The Thing GENRE: Horror, Sci-fi, Thriller STARRING: Mary Elizabeth Winestead DIRECTOR: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. RATING: R RELEASE DATE: Oct. 14

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By Patricia Uceda Staff Writer

Instead of just another remake like the countless ones Hollywood seems to be churning out lately, Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr. decided to mix it up a little by making a prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 horror classic The Thing.

Wisely, Van Heijningen chose to stay painstakingly true to the original, replicating everything from the chilly setting to the eerie and claustrophobic feel. The result is an entertaining prequel that fits in perfectly with the original.

John Carpenter’s The Thing was actually itself a remake of the 1951 film The Thing from another World by Howard Hawks. Based on the sci-fi novel Who Goes there?

by John W. Campbell Jr., this film encapsulated the feelings of paranoia and suspicion rampant in the Cold War era. Carpenter’s version was not embraced, initially seen as a bloodbath that was excessive in its gory special effects. However, over time it has attained a cult status among horror buffs, and its special effects are lauded as ground breaking and brilliant.

The basic premise of Carpenter’s The Thing is an American research team isolated in Antarctica one day receives an unwelcome

visitor in the form of a husky dog. The dog is being chased by two deranged Norwegians from a neighboring research camp determined to kill the dog at any cost.

Because of their fanatical behavior and wild shooting the Americans kill the Norwegians and decide to investigate their research camp.

At the Norwegian camp they receive a gruesome surprise. It is almost completely burned to the ground, with the aftereffects of bloodshed and struggle apparent everywhere. They also find a mangled alien body that appears to possess two human heads.

They decide to investigate what the Norwegians were investigating, and end up discovering a crater left by a huge alien spaceship.

Chaos ensues as they quickly realize that the alien is still alive and feeding on them one by one, mimicking the appearance of each human it kills.

Fans of Carpenter’s horror flick always wondered what exactly happened at the Norwegian camp before the Americans got there. Enter Van Heijningen with his prequel and you have the answer. His film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Kate, a young paleontologist who is recruited by Dr. Sander Halversen, played by Ulrich Thomsen, and his assistant Adam, played by Eric Crhistian Olsen, to join a Norwegian scientific team that has discovered an immense space ship buried under ice in Antarctica. They also discovered the frozen corpse of an alien a short distance away.

As they start examining the frozen alien body it becomes apparent that things are not quite right. First the alien breaks out of the block of ice and it violently attacks one of the members of the Norwegian team. They are able to burn the alien as it is ingesting its

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victim, but when the perform an autopsy Kate discovers that it is beginning to mimic the victim’s cells.

Exactly like in Carpenter’s version, tensions rise as the crew realizes that not everyone is as they appear. They begin to distrust one another and question everyone’s motives. Paired with the claustrophobic setting of an isolated camp in Antarctica, it really is the perfect formula for a horror film.

Joel Edgerton plays American pilot Carter, who helps Kate as she is forced to take charge and restore order as panic threatens to overtake the Norwegian camp.

Similar to Carpenter’s film, she comes up with the idea of a blood test in order to identify who is human and who is alien. While Van Heijningen does follow a similar plot structure to Carpenter, he finds new ways to approach certain topics and incorporate new

ideas, such as the human verification test Kate comes up with after the initial blood test is disrupted, exactly like in Carpenter’s The Thing. Her idea is novel yet still fits in perfectly with the original.

Fans of the original will enjoy linking the two films; Van Heijningen does a fantastic job of making the two films continuous.

Everything from the placement of an ax in the wall in his film is identical to the way the Americans find the Norwegian camp in Carpenter’s version. Knowing how each body will be found adds a sense of dread to the prequel.

Overall this film is a great and entertaining addition to Carpenter’s The Thing. Van Heijningen constructed it to fit in perfectly with the original, and it really does. Fans of the original will enjoy this prequel, and should definitely stick around the ending credits for an added bonus.

Dead

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This program minces nothing grotesque and does away with the aesthetic violence in standard action shows.

Everything that the characters must do, from killing the living dead to autopsying them is shown in unfiltered, graphic detail. The look and killing of the zombies is realistic looking as well as completely revolting.

The characters, while likeable and engaging, come off as more a collective than in other shows.

Acting as more of an organic whole and less as individuals, their struggles are more sympathetic as a community and less by their singular personas.

Their inner conflicts, while amplified by extenuating circumstances, are still largely the social and power conflicts that affect people in everyday life. The overarching conflict of this season appears to potential dissolution of the group with several members’ inner feelings beginning to conflict with the goals and dynamics of the collective. Even religious faith is dealt with as it usually must be in any situation of crisis.

Horror and violence aside, this show is as much of an examination of how peoples were together in a time of crisis.

Since zombies have no distinguishing characteristics or qualities, their presence more like that of a disease or a hurricane than a genuine enemy.

This show’s strengths lie on diametrically opposing ends. It satisfies the thirst for action, horror and suspense through its stylistic flair and gritty realism. However, it also portrays an illustration of communities in times of crisis, showing a person’s relationship and duties to the community he or she belongs to. It’s a blend of heightened violence and suspenseful style with an intimate look at social structures and institutions.

ENTERTAINMENT

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Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham

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Non Sequitur by Wiley

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Crossword Solution from page 16

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SPORTS

TIME-OUT with Alex Mitchell

Alex Mitchell is a MGT major in his fourth year at Tech. He has watched sports his entire life and takes a critical view towards many of the trending topics in the sporting world. To contact Alex with your opinions about Time Out, email him at timeout@nique.net.

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Time Out. I hope the students and faculty enjoyed their Fall Break even though Tech lost a heartbreaker to Virginia. After struggling to write a positive story about the game in Charlottesville, I was saved by another pressing issue. This weekend’s games further highlighted the issue of the disintegration in integrity of coaches in all levels of competition.

This issue is, of course, nothing new, as coaches have been acting immorally from the beginning of athletics. Woody Hayes hit an opposing player in the seventies and Bob Knight struck his own player a few years ago. However, in today’s age it seems that Hayes and Knight are no longer anomalies.

The issue of coaches behaving badly caught my eye in late Sept., when a video surfaced of opposing peewee coaches getting into a brawl. It is a disturbing video of grown men throwing haymakers and fans screaming. Meanwhile, the pre-teens stare and watch the drama first-hand, powerless to stop the mayhem.

This game is just one bad example of two small teams in Texas. Coaches trading blows could never happen in big-time games, right? Wrong. Well… sort of.

Things got heated this past weekend in Nashville when Geor-

gia defeated Vanderbilt. During the post game handshakes, Vanderbilt Head Coach James Franklin apparently called one Georgia player “dirty” (only one?).

Georgia Defensive Coordinator Todd Grantham heard Franklin’s remarks and proceeded to shout his thoughts on the matter, and a bit of a verbal altercation ensued. Luckily, Grantham realized that he could never get a shot in on Franklin with all of those players and media members around, so he retreated to the locker room.

This was not the case in Detroit on Sunday.

Following his team’s big win over then-undefeated Detroit Lions, 49ers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh pranced around like a schoolgirl who had just won a cheerleading competition. He screamed a passionate shout, ripped his shirt up á la Brandi Chastain, and skipped to the middle of the field to give a handshake to Lions’ Head Coach Jim Schwartz.

Schwartz, already peeved that his team had lost the game and just having watched Harbaugh behave as though his team had won the Super Bowl in Week Six, was then given a hard slap on the back from Harbaugh. Needless to say, this altercation did not end well.

Words were exchanged and had

it not been for a 49ers PR person, the two coaches would certainly have gotten into a fight on the field. The players for both teams encircled the coaches who were still shouting at each other near the entrance to the locker rooms, and they started yelling. If a few cool heads had not prevailed, everyone would be talking about a second all-out slobber knocker in Detroit only seven years since the last. For the record, I would take Ndamukong Suh in full pads in a fight over Ron Artest’s fists any day.

The violence that happened in that Texas peewee brawl does not compare to these other situations, but the psychological effects on players are exactly the same.

“I can’t believe the coaches did that in front of us, because it sets a bad example,” said an elevenyear-old player from one of those peewee teams in an interview with khou.com.

However, it could just as well be a quote from Georgia defensive back Bacarri Rambo or 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis.

Coaches are in a position of leadership on a team and their players are supposed to look to them for guidance on and off the field. Coaches do not always have to be levelheaded, but they should always set a good example for the players that they coach.

Neither Grantham nor Harbaugh have set good examples throughout their careers.

Grantham is now more known because of his insane meltdowns than anything he has done as a coach. Harbaugh ran up the score on USC when he was coaching for Stanford, which showed his disrespect for USC and the entire game of football.

With their abhorrent track records, how can these coaches get upset at their players when the players receive a personal foul penalty for taunting or a late hit?

The players are just acting like

their leaders. Maybe this explains why Georgia is one of the most penalized teams every year.

The most egregious thing to me is that none of the coaches mentioned by name got penalized for their actions.

The NCAA, which limits the types of spreads that players can put on their bagel, did not have a problem with coaches getting into a shouting match? The NFL, which fines players for hitting too

hard, could not dish out a fine to two coaches who almost threw a few punches with the whole world watching?

The media played a huge part in escalating these stories, but it makes you wonder what would actually garner a fine from these governing bodies. As coaches expect better effort from their players, is there anyone else out there who expects better effort from our coaches?

Photo by John Nakano / Student Publications

Coach Johnson speaks to Maryland Randy Edsall about the status of an injured Maryland player during a long injury timeout.

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TECH AT MIAMI - OCT. 22 (3:30 p.m.)

VS. In the upcoming weekend, Tech heads into its third ACC road game, trying to avoid another loss after last week’s matchup against Virginia. The Jackets did not generate the offensive game that they are known for, only completing two passes and amassing 296 yards of total offense. Tech will have to recuperate from a disappointing 21-24 loss and maintain its intensity between the pylons and goal posts. The Jackets will need to accomplish the following in order to bounce back from last week’s upset loss.

First, the Jackets’ defense will need to contain the ACC’s second leading rusher, Miller. He is threat for the Hurricanes, showing his athleticism and skill elsewhere other than in rushes. Miller had a high of 184 yards on the ground against Ohio State, but Miller he proved effective in kickoff returns with two returns for 42 yards. He also has been effective receiving; making nine catches for 35 yards and one touchdown. Tech’s defense will have to be able to make pivotal tackles and find holes to get to Miller quicker.

Second, Tech’s defense will have to put pressure on Harris. On the season, he has 62 completions for 837 yards and nine touchdowns. Harris also has three interceptions for the season, and Tech will have to bring force to make Harris unbalanced, resulting in turnovers for the Jackets’ secondary. Miami’s junior wide receiver Tommy Streeter has 18 receptions for 332 yards and five touchdowns on the season as one of Harris’ primary targets. As another weapon for the Hurricanes, senior wide receiver Travis Benjamin has 24 receptions for 346 yards and three touchdowns. Tech will have to shut down both of these threats in order to win.

Finally, the Jackets will need to generate their own offense. In last week’s game against the Cavaliers, Tech had 296 yards of total offense while allowing 407 yards by the Cavaliers. Washington only completed two of eight pass attempts for 24 yards and two interceptions in last week’s game. Though Washington had two of Tech’s touchdowns, no other Jackets scored on offense. The offense needs to get production, and multiple Jackets need to score if Tech wants a conference victory this Saturday.

PREDICTION: Tech 35, Miami 21

JACKETS

Photo by Josh Sandler / Student Publications

The Miami Hurricanes will play the Jackets this Saturday in Coral Gables, Fla., coming off of a win against North Carolina the previous week. With the win, the Hurricanes picked up their first road win of the 2011 season. Senior quarterback Jacory Harris threw for 267 yards to give the Hurricanes the 30-24 victory over UNC. If the Hurricanes want to earn their second conference win against the Jackets, they will have to address three things.

First, Miami will need to generate its running game if it wants to compete with Tech’s option offense. This means that redshirt sophomore running back Lamar Miller will need to get more involved throughout the game. Miller has amassed 110 carries, 706 yards, and 5 touchdowns for the season, but Miller’s effort against North Carolina will not contribute to the Hurricanes’ success. Miller struggled against the Tar Heels, gaining only 29 yards on 16 carries, a performance that could be tough to improve against a tough and experienced Jacket defensive line. He will have to penetrate and wear down a tough Tech defense if the Hurricanes want to see a win out of this important ACC Coastal matchup.

Second, Harris will need to be just as efficient as he has been against the Hokies and the Tar Heels. He completed 20 of 30 attempts for 267 yards and three touchdowns last week against UNC, but more importantly has not thrown an interception in two conference outings. Miami has struggled to put together a complete game, usually starting strong in the first half or closing the game strong after a bad first half. The Hurricanes will have to play four solid quarters against the Jackets because Tech is known for its halftime adjustments. Starting strong and closing out will lead to a favorable game for the Hurricanes.

Third, the defense will have to be able to play assignment football to control the Jackets’ option offense. The Jackets are currently second in the nation in rushing yards per game with 347.9 yards on the ground per game. The Jackets’ run-oriented offense can create long drives, wearing on opposing defenses. The Miami defense will have to be able to contain redshirt junior quarterback Tevin Washington, the Jackets’ running game, and avoid falling into the trap of the deep play-action pass.

Photo courtesy of J.C. Ridley / HurricaneSports.com

HURRICANES

By Danielle Sharpe, Contributing Writer

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Volleyball team splits two conference matches

The women’s volleyball team played two away matches against ACC opponents over fall break. On Friday Oct. 14, the team travelled to Tallahassee, Fla. to take on the No. 21 ranked Florida State Seminoles in a match that they would eventually lose in three sets. The Seminoles jumped out to a 6-1 lead to begin the first set, and although the Jackets fought back, they were unable to overcome the deficit and fell 25-19. The second set saw the Jackets earn an early lead, but Florida State came back to score seven straight points and win the set. The third set started out close, but the Seminoles soon took the lead and held on to sweep the Jackets. Junior right side hitter Monique Mead had her sixth double-double of the season for the Jackets with fifteen kills and eleven digs.

Tech then travelled to Miami on Sunday, Oct. 16 to take on the No. 23 ranked Miami Hurricanes. In the highlight of the weekend and a career day, sophomore setter Kaleigh Colson had a triple-double, the first for Tech since Sept. 2006.

Miami took the first set by a decisive 2511 score, but it would be their only victory as the Jackets won the match by taking the next three sets. Set two saw Miami gain several leads, only for Tech to come back each time and eventually win the set. Mead had five kills to help the Jackets take set three comfortably 25-20. Set four was another close one that the Jackets won 25-21 to seal the victory. This win was Head Coach Tonya Johnson’s 50th career win in her tenure with the Jackets that began in the 2009 season.

Sweeting earns ACC Defensive Back of the Week honors

Junior cornerback Rod Sweeting earned ACC Defensive Back of the Week honors after his performance against the Virginia Cavaliers.

Sweeting posted his third interception of the season and fourth career pick, returning the ball 32 yards for a touchdown.

The interception by Sweeting was his third interception in four conference matchups and helped the Jackets bring the score to 14-14 after the Jackets had fallen into a 14-point deficit.

It was the second time this season that Tech has earned defensive back honors, after sophomore safety Isaiah Johnson earned the honors after his performance against UNC.

Five Jackets to play in USTA/ITA Southeast Regional

Junior Juan Spir, senior Kevin King, junior Juan Melian Puigventos, senior Dusan Miljevic and freshman Eduardo Segura Mandarino are all set to participate in the USTA/ITA Southeast Regional in Athens, Ga. that started on Thursday Oct. 20. Singles and doubles main draws begin today Oct. 21 at 9 a.m. with the finals for both draws on Monday Oct. 24. The finalists in the singles draw and the champions of the doubles draw will advance to the ITA National Championship, played at the National Tennis Center in Flushing N.Y.

sports@nique.net Sports Editor: Alex Sohani

Weather the Storm

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Contributing Writer Danielle Sharpe previews the upcoming matchup against the Miami Hurricanes.419

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Jackets fall from ranks of undefeated Tech struggles to contain Virginia’s running attack, 24-21

Photo by Josh Sandler / Student Publications

Tevin Washington pushes his way into the endzone for the Jackets’ first score of the day. Washington finished the game with 26 carries for 115 yards on the ground, accounting for more than one third of the Jackets’ total offensive production.

By Ian Braden Contributing Writer

After beginning the season with an undefeated 6-0 record, the Jackets fell short of perfection on the road against the Virginia Cavaliers. The Jackets surrendered 14 points while going scoreless in the first quarter, a deficit that proved too large to overcome in a 2421 loss.

Tech amassed its lowest yardage total for the season with 296 total yards and allowed a total of 407 by the Cavalier offense. Although the Jackets totaled well over 200 yards rushing, they were beaten at their own game as the Cavaliers were able to match their 272 rushing yards total with greater efficiency through the air. Redshirt junior quarterback Tevin Washington had his worst aerial game of the year, completing just two passes on eight attempts with two interceptions.

The game began with Virginia taking the field on its own 27. A methodical drive by the Cavaliers began with a 14yard rush by Perry Jones, and along with Kevin Sparks accounted for much of the opening drive’s yards. Sparks scored on a six-yard scamper, capping a 12-play, 73-yard drive.

The Jackets looked to respond on the next drive, but could not after 15 yards of penalties. Tech punted from

its own 18 for only 27 yards.

Starting at the Tech 45, the Cavalier offense rushed once for eight yards and then completing a 37-yard pass for a touchdown from quarterback Michael Rocco. This gave Virginia an early 14-0 lead.

After the kickoff, Tech went onto the field for just their second possession of the ball game. On a drive in which all yards gained were on the ground, Tevin Washington began with a nine yard rush to the Tech 29. Two plays later, redshirt senior A-back Embry Peeples ran 27 yards downfield and positioned Tech in Virginia territory for the first time in the ball game. The drive came to a halt after a false start, and the Jackets lined up for a 52-yard field goal attempt by sophomore kicker Justin Moore. The kick was blocked, leaving Tech scoreless, and giving Virginia possession.

As the clock ran down during the first quarter, the Cavalier offense advanced the ball to the Tech 15 and missed a field goal to open the second quarter.

Following the turnover on downs, the Jackets offense took the field. Junior wide receiver Stephen Hill sparked the offense with a 24-yard reverse.

Tech continued its offensive success by keeping the ball on the ground, driving downfield with runs by redshirt senior A-back Roddy Jones and ju-

nior A-back Orwin Smith for 17 and 15 yards, respectively.

The drive came to an end when Washington rumbled in for a seven-yard score to bring the score to 14-7.

The Jackets’ defense then took the field looking for a stop. Junior linebacker Julian Burnett penetrated the Cavalier offensive line on first down for a six-yard sack. Junior cornerback Rod Sweeting then responded to his teammates play by intercepting the consecutive pass and returning it 32 yards for a Tech touchdown.

The Cavaliers then received the ensuing kickoff and rushed the ball for the majority of the drive. UVA eventually broke free and scored on a 22-yard run to go up a touchdown.

The following Tech possession did not last long, ending abruptly on the third play on a n interception at the UVA 40.

With time dwindling, Virginia was able to advance the ball to the Tech 19 and connect on a 36-yard field goal, to bring the score to 24-14 at halftime.

Tech had the first possession to start the second half and capitalized on the opening drive. Down by ten points and needing a score, the Jackets mounted a 19-play, 85-yard touchdown drive that lasted 9:31. The touchdown on the drive was scored on a one-yard rush by Washington, his second of touchdown of the day.

After the kickoff, UVA

started the second half at midfield. The Cavaliers had two penalties on the drive, forcing them to punt after three plays.

The Jackets took the field at their own four yard line and were able to advance the ball away from their own endzone, before being forced to punt to begin the fourth quarter.

Virginia gained two first downs on their next possession, but was unable to convert a fourth and one, turning the ball over on downs. Despite the defensive stand on fourth down, the Tech offense could not drive the ball, and punted instead.

The Cavaliers’ next possession resulted in a three and out and a punt that gave Tech the ball on its own 42 yard line.

With just short of eight minutes remaining in the game, the Jackets took the field hoping for a game-tying or game -winning drive. Washington carried the ball on three consecutive plays, netting a loss of two yards before punting.

When Virginia regained possession, the Jackets’ defense took the field needing to force a stop or a turnover so that the offense would have another opportunity to score. The defense was unable to do so, and the Cavaliers ran the ball successfully, allowing the clock to dwindle. The Cavaliers were eventually able to take victory formation and end the game with the score at 24-21.