Technique (October 30, 2009)

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Chemical reaction sends three students to hospital

By Matt Schrichte Contributing Writer

Three students were hospitalized Thursday evening after an unintended chemical reaction took place at the College of Computing at 801 Ferst Drive. The unplanned reaction occurred in the basement of the building near the freshmen Chemistry labs. The graduate students were preparing chemicals for undergraduate experiments when potassium 1IPUP CZ +PFZ $FSPOF Student Publications thiocyanate and nitric acid were inThe GTPD and Atlanta Fire Department respond to the advertently mixed to form nitrogen dioxide—a toxic gas. chemical reaction at the College of Computing Thursday.

Dead Week policy to be reviewed

By Kamna Bohra Contributing Writer

Following years of undergraduate student complaints about the “Week Preceding Final Examinations� (WPFE), more commonly known as “Dead Week,� SGA is now making a move toward a defined policy to be reviewed in November.

If the Academic Senate passes the policy, then it will be implemented in Spring 2010.

In addition, the policy will also be found in the Registrar’s catalog for students to access and familiarize themselves with.

The only current mention of WPFE is found in a single clause of the Faculty Handbook, which prohibits faculty from giving quizzes or tests after the Wednesday of WPFE. The purpose of WPFE is to “allow students time to properly integrate and master material prior to final examinations,� said a press release from SGA’s Academic Affairs committee about the progress toward the upcoming policy, which focuses on limiting the assignments due on WPFE. The biggest concern amongst SGA representatives and students in previous years has been the lack of faculty compliance with the clause due to lack of knowledge by the faculty or sometimes lack of enforcement by the upper administration. In a survey conducted

by SGA, students mentioned that “the current state of affairs in Dead Week is far too stressful and time-pressured to be conducive to studying of a semester’s worth of course material,� according to the aforementioned press release from SGA. “We’re trying to open up the chain of communication a little more,� said Rob Parrish, third-year ME and chair of SGA’s Academic Affairs Committee that has been active in the preparation of the proposal for the past four months. “We are developing a full marketing campaign to ensure that all stake holders know exactly what the policy is. Quite frankly, we can pass the most stringent policy imaginable, but unless everyone is aware of it, nothing will really change,� said C.T. Boone, third-year MGT and SGA Vice President of Communications.

Policy builders acknowledge that professors are not completely at fault as they do plan or 16 full weeks to cover all the academic material necessary for the final exam.

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The incident was reported at 7:10 p.m. Members of the Atlanta fire department, Georgia Tech Police Department and the Institute Environmental Health and safety units promptly responded to the scene.

The Atlanta fire department personnel tested the lab the same evening of the spill. The building reopened at approximately 7 a.m. Friday morning after Tech EHS officers had removed the newly formed nitrogen dioxide.

Nitrogen dioxide is a reddishbrown toxic gas noted for its pungent smell. Some more frequent produc-

ers of the noxious gas include internal combustion engines and thermal power stations. It is also responsible for the reddish hue of mushroom clouds produced by atmospheric nuclear tests. When inhaled, it can negatively affect a number of physiological systems in the body, most notably lung tissue.

The students were able to respond quickly and sealed the heavy-gauge plastic container after the chemicals began to react. “[The nitrogen dioxide] was See Reaction, page 5

Atlanta Mayor, City Council Elections

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By Rebecca Tattersfield Contributing Writer

The City of Atlanta will hold municipal elections on Tuesday, Nov. 3 in an effort to fill the offices for Mayor, multiple City Council seats and the Board of Education.

The incumbent mayor, Shirley Franklin will be ineligible to run for re-election due to term limits on her office. As a result,

the mayoral campaign has been left wide open and has led to a hotly contested race.

The key issues prevalent in the campaigns include safety, unemployment and fiscal responsibility. In addition to the Office of Mayor, students can participate in elections for city council posts. Students living on campus may vote for candidates representing District 6, and may also vote for candidates running for at-large posi-

tions on city council. The city council functions as a legislative body, proposing bills and passing legislation to help govern the city. Both the Office of Mayor and City Council posts are non-partisan.

Students may vote for any of the positions on Nov. 3 in the Piedmont Room at the Student Center. The candidates for both the mayoral and city council elections are listed below.

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Campus Crime

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An officer was dispatched to Smith Residence Hall on Oct. 12 to investigate a tip about persons smoking marijuana in their dorm room. Upon entering the suspectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s room the officer questioned the suspect on whether he had been smoking any marijuana. After the suspect blankly stared back at the officer, the officer questioned the suspect again.

The suspect admitted that he had, in fact, been smoking marijuana in his room and handed over a prescription bottle filled with less than one ounce of the drug from his desk drawer. The

suspect was arrested and taken into custody for possession of marijuana.

Popping Pills

Stamps Health Center notified police about a case involving a student who altered his medical prescription. The student visited the Health Center in order to receive a tetanus shot, after which he complained of pain. The doctor administering the tetanus shot provided the student with a prescription of 15 Percocet pills.

A short time later, the doctor received a telephone call from a Rite Aid Pharmacy, requesting to

confirm the prescription that was given to the student. The pharmacist stated that the prescription looked to have been altered for 45 pills, which seemed to be an odd amount requested. Upon questioning the suspect admitted that he had altered the prescription and apologized. Police will continue this investigation.

Get Out the Way!

On Oct. 7 an officer observed an open door at the Burge Apartments, located on North Ave. The officer entered the building and found a black male on the second floor trying to hide himself.

A search of the individual found a four inch knife concealed inside of two socks. The knife was impounded and the occupant was arrested. Fortunately for the suspect, the SWAT team was not practicing in the building at that time.

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ach Tuesday, elected members of the two houses of the Student Government Association, the Undergraduate House of Representatives (UHR) and the Graduate Student Senate (GSS), convene to consider allocation bills and discuss issues facing campus. Here is a summary of those two meetings.

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blasts present a problem for the current White House strategy for Iraq, which aims to have combat forces out of Iraq by next August and complete a full military withdrawal by 2012.

Twin explosions kill over 100 in Baghdad NASA launches new Twin car bombs targeting rocket after delays

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UHR representatives discuss issues while waiting for members to arrive to this week’s meeting.

This edition of Council Clippings covers the UHR and GSS meetings from Oct. 27, 2009.

No Quorum

The Undergraduate House of Representatives had a low turnout this week, resulting in the postponement of several bills. The House was unable to achieve quorum at the start of the meeting and attending representatives were asked to contact additional representatives to come to the meeting.

In order to achieve quorum, UHR must have 38 representatives in attendance. Only 36 members were present at the start of the meeting.

The House held a discussion forum until more members came to the meeting. Upon achieving quorum the House decided to postpone several bills in an effort to allow more representatives to get involved in the decision-making process.

Golf Club

The Golf Club requested funding from SGA for approximately $1200 in order to enter a match play event with Clemson University. Clemson is one of the club’s biggest rivals in the National Collegiate Club Golf Association (NCCGA). The Golf Club holds try-outs for the tournament team

at the beginning of each semester.

The competition will be held on Nov. 1 and will be a one day, 36-hole event (two rounds) with 12-man teams. The bill was amended to $1000 in accordance with JFC policy regarding funding amounts for club team play.

The club requested funding in order to cover the greens fee charged to use the course on competition day. The Golf Club has received funds for five tournaments in FY ‘09-‘10, and requested additional funding for this tournament only. The bill passed UHR with a vote of 37-1-0 and GSS 17-3-1.

g ove r n me nt bu i ld i n g s i n Baghdad exploded on Sunday, killing at least 155 people and wounding more than 500. The explosions ripped through traffic and buildings in the vicinity, including a bus-load of children leaving a day care center. The first bomb targeted the Justice Ministry and the second was aimed at a nearby provincial government building.

The bombings are seen as an attempt to undermine Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government prior to crucial national elections in January.

The explosions also indicate that militants have the capacity to strike key targets, despite repeated claims of progress by Iraqi security forces since the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraqi cities earlier this year. The

After experiencing several delays, NASA launched a test of its Ares I-X rocket on Wednesday, thereby taking a first step towards returning to the moon by 2020.

The launch was postponed two days as a result of poor weather.

The rocket is approximately 327 feet tall and is labeled by the agency as being the largest rocket in the world.

The Constellation Program has been developing the rockets in an effort to replace the space shuttles, which will be phased out in 2010.

As the program moves forward, NASA hopes to mount the Orion space capsule for manned space flight atop the rocket by 2015 for testing. The launch comes at a crucial time, as the Obama administration plans to unveil its plan for space exploration later this month.

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Tech Trolley expands to Publix stop

By Coby Lu Contributing Writer

Parking and Transportation (P&T) has announced that it will launch a new pilot program for the Tech Trolley. The program, which started Monday, Oct. 19, added an additional stop at the Midtown Publix on the corner of Peachtree Place and Spring Street.

The trolley will be stopping there starting at 6 p.m. on weekdays and during regular Trolley service hours on weekends. These hours were chosen to avoid rush hour because of safety concerns at the intersection. “[There are] two significant reasons why we started the pilot Publix stop. One was we had the weekend grocery shuttle that we already do, but it got to its capacity and we wanted to find a way that we could allow students to get to the grocery store any day of the week that they wanted to go.

Another thing was that SGA encouraged us to find a route which would allow students to go to the grocery store every day,” said Aaron Fowler, Alternative Transportation Coordinator.

“The intersection doesn’t have a light, so, just as a safety precaution, for now, we are doing the stop after rush hour so that the trolley has enough time to make the turn without the light there,” Fowler said.

The pilot programs will run until the end of the semester.

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The Tech Trolley drives by the newest stop on its route the Publix located on Peachtree and Spring Street. The stop will be used after 6 p.m. on weekdays and during all normal hours on weekends.

Because it is only in the first few weeks of operation, P&T has yet to collect significant data on the stop’s usage. However, P&T intends to collect data on the number of students who use the stop, assess student support for the stop, and evaluate the safety concerns of stopping at the intersection.

P&T will then decide whether the stop will become a permanent one for the trolley.

“So far there seems to be a lot of support from students. On the

inaugural run, I hopped on the trolley, and when a student got off at the stop, another student turned to the driver and said, ‘It’s a great idea. I’m really glad that you guys are doing this.’ So I think as far as the students go, there is a good amount of support,” Fowler said.

The trolley drivers are also committed to helping the students. “I think the drivers are there for the best wishes for the students. We want to run the best routes we can,” said Fowler.

In addition to this new stop, P&T has other plans for the trolley as well. Another stop will also be added to the trolley route at the Academy of Medicine on the corner of West Peachtree Street and 7th Street. The academy building was acquired two years ago

by Tech and is currently used as a special events space for student groups and outside parties. The trolley will begin stopping there starting Nov. 2 without installation of a pilot program.

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“Fortunately the quantity was limited and the students reacted quickly and properly to the circumstance. With the general ventilation of the lab, [exposure] was kept down,” said Mark Demyanek, assistant vice president of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS).

“The building was evacuated as a precaution. Three students were transported to Grady Hospital for observation,” said Matt Nagel, Tech’s Media Communications specialist. The students showed no signs of lingering effects and were cleared for release that same evening.

“The students are fine... the Georgia Tech response team worked very well together to promptly address the situation. I believe this can be attributed to good training, communication and the Georgia Tech administration’s commitment to environmental health and safety,” Demyanek said.

According to Demyanek, the students and the response team followed appropriate protocols after the incident. Tech’s chemical safety office does offer basic and advanced lab training classes on a regular basis. They provide information on safety training as well as emergency procedures and are open for all undergraduate and graduate students. The next session will be held on Oct. 30.

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CULC construction plans, designs revealed

By Zimu Yang Staff Writer

Construction on the Clough Undergraduate Learning Center (CULC) has begun in earnest.

The design process has been ongoing for years, and finishing touches will continue through the Spring of 2010. Current estimates have major construction taking 18 months. The opening is scheduled for Fall 2011. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to do now is to wrap up the design, actually all the big decisions have been made,â&#x20AC;? said John Ducogne, proj-

ect manager. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting ready to enter the next phase which is construction documents which is the more technical side of the design process â&#x20AC;Ś to prepare some documents that the contractor can use to build from.â&#x20AC;?

Features students can expect out of the CULC are classrooms, labs for freshmen and sophomore science courses, study lounges, tutoring zones, OIT support and a cafĂŠ.

Concurrent with construction with the CULC will be renovations of Skiles Walkway. The plan is to reduce the grade of the walk-

way by spreading the rise over a distance three times greater than the current length of the staircase.

The walkway will remain open until the end of Fall 2010. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Until we get to the point where we work on [Skiles], it will remain open as is. So starting next December are plans to construct a half of a new walkway and over the other half we will provide a temporary walkway for pedestrians and once we finish construction we will flip flop and reverse it,â&#x20AC;? Duconge said.

Construction will also affect areas outside of Skiles. The CULC

will connect with the library west commons, and renovation of the Hinman building is scheduled to begin early next year.

Although there will be noise from construction, it is not expected to be a major disturbance and noise levels should not see a precipitous increase from current levels.

As routes around campus are closed, attempts will be made to inform students prior to their closures. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will try to get the information distributed through email and through the Technique,â&#x20AC;? Duconge said.

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A WPFE policy has not been put in place due to previous â&#x20AC;&#x153;faculty concerns of violations of academic freedom,â&#x20AC;? according to the prior mentioned press release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a compromise between students and faculty. We need some things in WPFE that are pedagogically sound to help students, not to hurt them,â&#x20AC;? Parrish said.

In the Student Regulations Committee meeting on Oct. 14, a consensus was reached for the new policy that professors may assign projects to be due during WPFE, given that the guidelines for either are properly outlined by the deadline for class withdrawal.

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Opinions Editor: Kaitlin Goodrich

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OUR VIEWS CONSENSUS OPINION

Kasim Reed for mayor

Technique endorses Reed’s reforms in crime, MARTA Since we as Tech students are going to be directly affected by the results of the mayoral election and the policies that follow, it is important to take an interest in the election and vote on Nov. 3.

The candidate who will best represent Tech’s interest is Kasim Reed. Reed has a comprehensive plan for change within Atlanta that would benefit Tech students. His plan for addressing crime includes an addition of 750 police officers to Atlanta PD. This will be paid for in part by cost-cutting measures within the city, such as scaling back pension liabilities and cutting employee overtime, but much of this cost is proposed to be covered by an increase in property tax for Atlantans.

We disagree with this part of the platform.

We hope that the necessary increase in police will be covered by an increase in sales tax or other means that also tax the many people who commute into Atlanta expect to be safe. However, we hope these measures will be more immediate than candidate Lisa Border’s suggestion that we somehow tax the surrounding counties. Her plan is intriguing, but such cooperation would take a long time

to implement and we need change now.

We do agree that cooperation between city of Atlanta and the surrounding counties needs to improve, and we believe Reed’s experience as state Senator will help facilitate this. With his extensive connections around the state, Reed has the power to work with the state legislature on Atlanta’s issues.

One Reed’s most appealing stances is on transportation. He supports the necessary development of the Beltline trains as a means of city transit. Reed also has acknowledged that Atlanta is a hub city for the Southeast region and supports the idea of a high-speed DC commuter train. Reed also intends to expand MARTA to make it easier to access in the larger reach of the city.

One of the more interesting parts of Reed’s platform is his proposal of a program to keep inner-city youth in school by sending reformed ex-cons into the schools and teaching them to stay away from drugs and crime.

We have high hope for progress through Reed and support him for mayor. We hope Tech students will support him at the polls, but even more so hope that they will go vote.

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

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Jennifer Aldoretta, Entertainment Editor Vivian Fan, News Editor Nishant Prasadh, Sports Editor Kate Comstock, Focus Editor Kaitlin Goodrich, Opinions Editor

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OUR VIEWS MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR

Focus on the next generation of Tech leadership

By Emily Chambers Editor-in-Chief

When I first took the job of Editor-in-Chief, I received more advice on how to do things than I will ever use. I was advised to never open a paper on Friday, as it would only remind me of all of the errors I should have caught.

I was told to always have the door to my office open so anyone angry at the paper could find me, rather than yelling at poor innocent contributing writers. I was taught to always assume my writers were correct and to fight for them based on that assumption.

Most importantly, I was taught that I had one semester to do my job as Editor before I inherited another, higher calling.

As Editor-in-Chief you have one semester, the fall, to teach your editorial board what is expected of them. While you might improve layouts over the spring, and you will hopefully continually enhance the quality of writers you are working with, you won’t convince anyone to redesign a section or branch out into online content once senioritis has set in and everyone knows how long it takes to complete a section.

The spring however, is still the most important time for the Technique as an organization.

It is during the spring that we pick our new leadership, train our new editors and let a new generation of students into the cloistered world that is the Student Publications office.

Recruitment and training is now the most terrifying responsibility on my plate.

All of the work that I have put into the paper, that all of the writers, photographers and editors have put in this year and in the almost 100 years before us, will mean nothing if the talented new writers we have on our staff don’t take on more leadership, responsibility and quite honestly, learn to love this organization and through it this campus.

Every organization I am in is this way. My sorority spends hours for weeks all summer on emailing, planning and perfecting the experience of our new member class for the upcoming year.

The Mock Trial team (it is dorky but I love it) agonizes over team line-ups in desperate hopes of teaching our new members good technique and presentation.

For every hour spent on the personal experience and opportunity of the upper leadership of an organization, two hours are expended on the opportunities for the new membership. New members make an organization worthwhile, and good organizations will exert effort equal to that worth to entice new members into leadership roles.

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You new members out there in the world, do not forget how powerful you are. As a freshman, or even a junior with a few more years worth of engineering electives, you have more to plan for than your course load this spring.

Think back to the events that you enjoyed, or the events that you blew off. Think back to the meetings you attended, and put yourself on the other side. Place yourself behind the podium, awkwardly clicking through the powerpoint or agenda for the week.

Each of those meetings is an opportunity for you to take over, to show off and step up. There is something going on in your organization that you could do better than those in charge now.

Find out what it is, convince them to let you fix it. Or, be conniving, save your idea, and win a leadership position with it. Either way, fix your organization. It, and in turn the school, will not improve without your input.

Older people, plan early. Unfortunately, fall is the perfect time to start planning your graceful exit from the Tech leadership scene. If you are fortunate enough to belong to an organization that has an independent leadership application process, start reminding your new members what leadership takes.

Hold seminars to teach the ten thousand random things that people forgot to tell you, like how to get a check written by SGA, or how to make someone an officer on Jacketpages. Offer bribes to get them to attend said seminars, like slightly burnt baked goods or eternal friendship (both work fairly well for me).

Whatever you have to do, get the new talent you have recruited into leadership now, so you aren’t scrambling come March. Train them, because current student leaders are already old news.

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Be aware of the world outside of Tech In the ninth grade, I had an AP human geography teacher that as a year-long assignment required his classes to learn to recognizably draw a map of the world, identify the location of all the countries and be able to place any number of major physical features in the appropriate location on our map.

He even taught us pick-up lines to use on people that involved drawing the map. (For example, go up to a stranger and draw a map on a napkin.

Revolve the napkin around stranger’s body, and say “baby, my world revolves around you.”)

I got five extra credit points on my grade that spring for using a map pick-up line on a cute boy over spring break and getting the whole embarrassing debacle on film. (No, I did not get his number.)

It was an insane sounding proposal at the time, but by the end of the year, most of the class was really good at it. The class also taught us to chart linguistic dispersion across the world and stressed understanding the culture of the many countries of the world that I otherwise would have never even realized existed.

The other day, I told the story about my once-famed map-drawing skills to a friend.

They, of course, wanted to see proof. I started sketching, only to discover that I couldn’t do it anymore. The Americas looked

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decent, but Europe, Asia and the Middle East were a mess.

The only continent I could draw with any accuracy was Africa, which to be completely honest isn’t a very impressive skill at all.

Discovering my loss of map skills ended up being a surprisingly rough blow. I have since found myself sketching the world on my notes during class and trying without avail to remember the countries of Africa. I have lost a skill that I was proud of once upon a time.

While the usefulness of map-drawing skills in my dating life is doubtful, knowing where all the countries of the world were located and the culture within them proved to be a spark of my interest in the world at large. As a freshman in high school, I felt connected to the rest of the world.

For the first time, no matter where news was happening, it seemed relevant to my life. After all, I now could not only place a country on a map, but I also knew its main linguistic

and cultural influences.

This fascination with the rest of the world shaped much of my high school experience and led to my choice of international affairs in college.

When I came to Tech, I was sure I was going to learn even more about the world at large and become a well-informed citizen of the world.

In some ways this happened. I became heavily involved with an international organization that keeps me connected to the rest of the world, and my classes emphasize all sorts of aspects of international politics and foreign relations.

However, like most, I find myself often bogged down by daily life within our Tech bubble. I barely can keep up with the seemingly endless readings for my classes, much less take the time to read up on international news online.

Upon realizing that I could no longer tell you where in Africa Niger is located nor what all the countries that touch

Russia are, I also realized that I have stopped keeping up with world events as well as I would like.

To be an active member of society, you must be informed about not only the things that happen within your small sphere of activity, but also the greater world around you.

The political turmoil in Honduras right now or the bombs in Pakistan may not seem to affect your life right now, but they could be events that shape the world we will be living in and working in for the next few years.

While as students we often feel immune from everything going on outside of the Tech community, in a few years we will be the people responsible for making sustainable business decisions in order to deal with global warming caused by things happening around the world right now and mitigating political conflict rooted in the issues we are watching develop in the news right now.

Sure, many of us may not go on to have jobs that directly work toward international policy, but I think any Tech student aims to make an impact on the world, and that requires being a global citizen.

So while I am going to just have to let my days of mapdrawing stay in my past, I am going to make an effort to stay informed and be an active global citizen while at Tech.

Fantasy football fans are fair-weathered

I spend most of my Sundays devoted to watching professional football. I know that not everyone is an NFL fan, but there are certain aspects people can relate to when talking about team loyalties. Like diehard fans in any sport, I find a bit of distaste with “fairweather” fans.

However, with even more disdain, I do not like sitting around spectators that cheer for an individual player and personal statistics over the integrity of the game and team success itself.

Avid fantasy football fans are not real football fans. You should choose to enjoy the game itself over the calculations of fantasy team points and worries of waver-wire situations. Loyalty is what football is about. Before the world was scourged with fantasy sports, people went and watched games with one goal: to cheer for their team. People want to see their quarterback tear up a rival’s defense, see their defense wreak havoc on opposing offenses, and also earn the right to “talk smack” after beating a classmate’s cherished team.

There is nothing better than being able to give a proud smirk to your friend after beating their self-proclaimed “America’s team” in their flashy new stadium on Monday night. There is no better feeling than believing that your team will defeat anyone,

ternative to those who watch games to cheer for individual players.

This season I am playing in a fantasy football league and sometimes find it hard to keep my eyes away from the bottom Steven Cappetta bar that flashes the top fantasy players on the day. I feel Assistant Sports Editor that no matter how big a fan you are, the moment you step onto the virtual turf, you start I say this because statistics that to lose even a little bit of your people are awarded for in fan- true fandom for the sport. tasy games are only for certain Playing fantasy football aspects of the game. They do raises another big problem for not account for nice blocks or those that are big fans of one smart time management play. team. Suppose your favorite A friend might say, “Oh, team is up against players on Hines Ward had a horrible your fantasy team. For examday!” when in fact, he might ple, suppose you are an enthuhave had a spectacular day siastic Green Bay Packers fan blocking for runs and splitting and your team is up against on routes to get Santonio Hol- the hated Chicago Bears. mes open down the field. StaUnfortunately, you have tistics only tell half the story both Jay Cutler and Matt in football and even if a player Forte on your fantasy team. does not score touchdowns What do you do? The true fan or make any receptions, they would hope to get smashed by could still have a productive their fantasy opponent in that day in contributing to their week of football. team.

If a person tries to explain With the amount of disgust how they can see both Green that I have shown in fantasy Bay and their individual playsports, I have to admit that ers fairing well on the day, not everyone who plays them their fan loyalty should be put should be regarded as those into question. that I expressed above.

Watch football to love the Some people are lax about game. The next time someone their teams and just seem to do tells you how they hope Minit for fun. They will lay back, nesota does not score a touchenjoy the games themselves down so that Ryan Longwell and probably forget what play- can get a field goal, ignore ers they started on the week. what they say and tell him to I find this an appropriate al- just enjoy the game.

“I do not like sitting around spectators that cheer for an individual player... over team success itself.”

no matter how true that might be.

Fantasy football takes that vital aspect of fandom away.

Non-loyal fans act like they know what they are talking about when it comes to football for the week, when in reality, they just repeat what they heard on SportsCenter for the day. These people will go to the bars and move from television to television to see how Jay Cutler, Ronnie Brown, Reggie Wayne, Robbie Gould and the Jets’ defense are doing.

They do not have any interest in the game nor care about any scores or division standings. They will cheer after a running back breaks for a big gain in the fourth quarter, even though the team itself is down by three scores and has no chance for a comeback.

They probably will not be able to recall the final score, but they sure will be able to tell you how Phillip Rivers fared on the day.

Fantasy sports also take away the pure respect people have for athletes on gameday.

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What are you doing for Halloween?

Nic Vasconcellos Third-year CM

“Carving spooky faces into pumpkins.”

Jack Tang Second-year CM

“Going to a party as the invisibility cloak.”

Melissa Gerrior Fourth-year STAC

“Giving candy to kids in my neighborhood.”

Lauren Weisheit Fourth-year MGT

“Studying for finals.”

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Dig for cancer

The volleyball team just held their annual Dig for the Cure game. During the game, each dive for the ball (or dig) is worth a certain amount of money towards a donation to the Susan G. Komen foundation. This year the team made a total of over $1,500 from their 76 digs. The team also hopes to make more money by selling autographed team jerseys.

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Skiles was graced by a colorful door and an arc of balloons to celebrate Coming Out Week by the Pride Alliance.

The week included a series of events to support LGBTQ students and issues and let allies on campus stand up for the cause. We are glad that the campus can show their support, and we can’t help but love anything that brightens the drab walk along Skiles.

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Communal germs

Even though we are in the midst of flu season and swine flu cases continue to be on the rise, GT Dining insists on continuing to use the communal stacks of trays and plates, as well as communal canisters of silverware. It’s bad enough that we have to dodge people coughing on Skiles but now the germs are collecting throughout the day as people touch the dishes.

Toxic labs

We were all concerned to hear that a chemical reaction in the basement of the College of Computing created toxic gases sending three people to the hospital. While neither suffered any real hurt, any hospital visit is less than fun.

Freshman chemistry lab is stressful enough as a GPA killer, but now we apparently have to worry that the chemicals in the lab can hurt us.

Facebook can be a change agent Almost all of us are guilty of Facebook-ing excessively. Whether it’s to stalk people’s pictures when we’re bored in class, get people together for an event or send messages, we find many ways to stay true to Facebook’s goal of helping to “connect and share with the people in your life.” Did the creators of Facebook, now one of the fastest growing and most recognized sites in the world, know it would become the platform for an actual civil society in the Middle East?

In Egypt, freedom of speech and the right to assembly are limited; however, to the almost 800,000 Egyptians on Facebook, they have found their outlet for activism. In a country where newspapers and websites are monitored and censored by the government, walls and groups on Facebook become places not just for keeping in touch, but also for news stories and true personal accounts of events. Perhaps one of the most impressive examples of this is the April 6th Youth Movement. Now standing at just over 70,000 members, this group is dedicated not to being a political party, but a way for young Egyptians to dissent and organize protests. In the Iranian elections this past summer, social networking sites played a role they never dreamed for their sites when the government stepped past their already stringent censoring policies to shut down text messaging capabilities.

Both Facebook and Twitter became the sole means for people to express honest opinions and arrange the endless protests that took place across the country. Twitter even delayed a regular maintenance shutdown because they recognized what that would do to the tens of thousands of users in Iran that were updating each other via a #IranElection tag. Part of these sites’ successes are that they are more difficult to block than standard webpages created by groups in the past. “The government can’t simply shut down Facebook,

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because doing so would alert a large group of people who they can’t afford to radicalize,” said Mark Zuckerberg founder of Facebook.

Facebook is used by so many for non-political purposes, that angering the wider population would only hurt governments. Twitter is difficult to block because posts are submitted in so many ways. People in countries like Iran and Syria can download free proxy software from groups like Global Internet Freedom Consortium and even individual technology experts all over the world that believe in aiding the effort.

The US State Department has not let this surge of interest and activity go unnoticed. They recently announced a $5 million pilot program to help expand social networking efforts in the Middle East and North Africa. The State Department also created its own Facebook group, called the “Alliance of Youth Movements” that brought together members from different political groups across the world, including some from the April 6th group. They recently organized a conference for some of these members, as well as representatives from Facebook, MTV and Google.

All efforts by the State Department should remain quiet and be executed very carefully, however.

With a Gallup Poll approval rating of just 15% in the Middle East several websites in the Middle East are very hesitant to accept any sort of US funding, as it can lead to a loss of credibility by many in the region.

While a third of Egypt’s population is between the ages of 15 and 29, 67% of this group is unregistered to vote. Similar statistics exist across the Middle East, which hosts the second largest ratio of people in this age bracket behind Sub-Saharan Africa. Until social networking sites, these young people had no motivation to become involved with the slow moving, corrupt governments in their country. Young people begin so many revolutions, both of thought and of change. From Tianamen to Invisible Children, studentled movements have drawn some of the most recognized global attention that has led to action- they just need to find an outlet for their voice.

Fed up with ancient politics, this new Middle Eastern generation has finally found something fresh to develop ownership of, and engaging this massive group is key to any sort of success for peace and democracy in the region. With these sites they can do what they can’t do in reality: meet in large groups, talk freely about ideas and disagree with their government. In doing so, we hope they will redefine the way their society operates and break away from a leadership dominated by radicalism.

So next time you’re on Facebook, instead of just looking at pictures from last weekend, explore the new ways it’s being used: Arab Youth Emergence, Syrian Secular Youth, the list of groups goes on and on.

You may be surprised to find something we take for granted every day is actually changing the world.

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If we go 11-1, I will marry the first person I see. or not, but I’d be really happy What’s the good word???!!!!

TO HELL WITH GEORGIA!!!! # 82 is my hero cause he’s the most badass receiver Math Club Fair It’s official...I want to kill my roommates West Campus I miss you west side is the blest side it all started when my dog got free rollover minutes FC Love The girl I’m dating is an unflushable.

Tear down those frat houses, Mr. Bud, and build more lab space Guys: lay off of the rain boots. They’re better than wet jeans, ruined shoes, and cold feet. Get over it already.

You could be ON A BOAT! GTSailing Club!

You’ve been here too long if you’ve seen the goal posts torn down twice in your college carreer Creepers stay here that long I just saw a homeless guy mumbling to himself in front of the library and a cop is sitting in a computer lab dicking around It’s You IT’S YOU guys at tech fall into two catagories, those who are creepy beyond reason and those who drive girls crazy by being oblivious guess what? it’s you to the guy in my eng1102 class, either stop snoring loudly during the film screenings or sleep somewhere else Congrats women’s rugby! I t square is down ......AGAIN..... why is it that at Georgia Intitute of Technology, the technology never works to the dudes who play WoW and Neopets in class, i ask: why do you even come to class? like really, the prof doesnt take attendance, so why come if all youre gonna do is play on your laptop

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Hanson “Takes a Walk” with students Band visits to raise awareness about poverty and AIDS

showed gay couples stand toeto-toe with straight couples in terms of quality of life, relationship satisfaction and relationship skills, and even surpassed straight couples when it came to division of labor, as they didn’t have to deal with traditional gender roles.

Lawry said, “As you can see, the research really doesn’t support the stereotypes.”

Tuesday night, the Alliance held an event on what they called “coming out as an ally,” or how to be a straight ally of the LGBT movement and how to help friends who come to you.

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GT Coming Out Week supports LGBT community Students walking down Skiles this week might have noticed a bit more color than usual. For most of the week, students in white and plum shirts stood next to a wildly-painted closet door surrounded by brightly-colored balloons and passed out flyers stamped with pictures of cows and pink triangles.

This Technicolor display was set up by the Georgia Tech Pride Alliance to advertise for their annual event, Coming Out Week, an event the organization hosts annually to advocate for and educate the public about lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans gender (LGBT) issues.

According to Ryan Epp, second year EE and president of the Pride Alliance, the event is typically hosted around National Coming Out Day, which occurs every Oct. 11 but, due to Homecoming, was postponed, so the events asso-

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ner. Moreover, she mentioned gay couples having to deal with issues like a lack of input in critical medical procedures, lack of child visitation rights for split couples, and the lack of federally-protected time off from work to take care of an ill loved-one.

Lawry said, “We’ve learned from history that, by default, separate is not equal…Being gay doesn’t cause pain. Discrimination causes pain. Oppression causes pain.”

Lawry then presented several slides on stereotypes often associated with being gay and combatting common beliefs about the quality of gay relationships.

She mentioned studies that

Tech Hillel sponsors guest lecturer On Oct. 27, Tech Hillel, Tech’s Jewish organization, sponsored a guest lecture given by Amos Guiora.

Guiora is a professor of law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, where he teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, International Law, Religion and Terrorism and other courses dealing with international conflict.

Many college students in the United States may not exactly follow news reports discussing global conflict, counterterrorism efforts and international freedom and religion issues. However, explanations and debates pertaining to these concepts have taken the media by storm.

Television, the internet, newspapers and other modes of media constantly hawk the religious and political conflicts of the Middle East.

Guiora also served for 19 years in the Israel Defense Forces Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG Corps), where he held multiple senior command positions, including Commander of the Israel Defense Forces School of Military Law, Judge Advocate for the Navy and Home Front Command and the Legal Advisor to the Gaza Strip. Some of Guiora’s areas of expertise include legal and policy aspects of counterterrorism, morality in armed conflict and the Middle Eastern peace process.

During the Tech lecture, the professor discussed his ideas of freedom and religion. Guiora discussed the importance of these ideas for Tech students, not only in terms of insights into the problems of freedom, religion and terrorism nationwide in the Middle East, but he also explained how these problems are affecting our generation’s lives, and our generation’s lives on an international scale.

“The messages is one, to be open to asking these kinds of questions. Two, to understand your responsibilities as future leaders to engage in discussion about these issues. Three, to understand the threats that are out there. And,four, to understand that there are threats, to ask yourselves how to we respond to these threats and how do we protect ourselves,” Guiora said.

One theme of the professor’s lecture discusses the limiting of religion within Israel’s and the Middle East’s borders. He explained that there must be restrictions of not just religion, but also free speech.

When these two crucial elements of life are strained, trust in government and terms of security subsequently will be challenged. Israeli citizens and other international states’ populations must address these obstacles and religious extremism.

“I think that by directly addressing religious extremism, the state would be making an effort to more effectively protect, for instance, national leaders in the way that Yitzhak Rabin [an assassinated Prime Minister of Israel] wasn’t protected. It will send a strong message to religious extremists that their words are unacceptable,” Guiora said.

“You know, there’s a theory in which I believe in that religious extremists, in whichever culture, what they are really doing is de-legitimizing the state, because they believe that religious law is supreme to state law,” Guiora said.

“If the state were to address this directly, it would send a powerful message to those that are de-legitimizing the state. And I think that states, religious and secular alike, would be the beneficiaries [of that]. The idea that sending a powerful message to religious extremists, one: it would more protect the state, and two: it would make it clear to religious extremists that there

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ciated with each didn’t collide with each other.

The week kicked off Monday night, with a presentation

by Dr. Suzann Lawry, a psychiatrist who works extensively with the LGBT community on the state of marriage in the United States.

Lawry’s presentation spanned a wide range of topics, covering everything from a brief history of the gay rights movement in the US, from facts combating stereotypes of gay couples, to the rights that gay couples lack in comparison to straight couples and the importance of legalizing gay marriage.

Lawry first presented several reasons arguing for the legalization of same-sex marriage from both a social, legal and economical standpoint.

When not protected by marriage, gay couples (and their children) don’t receive many tax benefits straight couples do and can’t claim social security or veterans benefits upon the death of their part-

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By Sarah Malis Contributing Writer

Students attend “Take a Walk” with Hanson at the Campanile to walk barefoot and help raise awareness about poverty and AIDS around the world. The event was sponsored by GT H.E.R.Os and One, a charity that is closely affiliated with U2.

By Chris Russell just-water-I-stepped-in. organization known for donatHanson said he and his All in all, a not-so-pleasant ing a pair of shoes to children brothers felt TOMS epitoStaff Writer afternoon. in need for each pair of shoes mized how people could give Imagine walking a mile How about if you threw in sold, to assist with events like back. He points to the fact through Midtown Atlanta. It live music, charity and rock this. that TOMS is a company, not might take a few minutes, but and roll band Hanson?

In a phone interview, Zac a charity but still manages to it’s certainly doable. Fresh air, This odd combination of Hanson said, “We felt the help out. fairly interesting scenery and, bare feet and loud music is walks were a way to do someHanson said, “It’s a way to if you plan carefully, you could precisely what students who thing real, to experience some- help out without quitting and probably even avoid any major passed the Campanile on thing that’s action-oriented: being a non-profit. They just hills. All in all, a pleasant af- Wednesday encountered, how- being present and taking off decided that, from day one on, ternoon. ever. your shoes for something that’s they were going to give back.”

Now, imagine taking that Sponsored by GT affecting our generation.”

Hanson, along with others, same walk, barefoot. Things H.E.R.O.s and One, Take the The events are largely tar- got involved in this kind of acget a bit more interesting. Walk was a chance for stu- geted at ending extreme pov- tivism early, inspired by a comEven just thinking about it, dents to take part in the fight erty and lessening the plight of pany from their hometown of you can still feel the crunch against poverty in Africa and AIDS. Tulsa, Okla. of fallen acorns beneath your experience some of the condiThe goal is to provide access Hanson said, “It goes back soles, the sizzle of hot asphalt, tions children in underdevel- to clean water, shoes, anti-viral a few years. We were origithe poking and prodding of oped nations face daily. drugs and medical technology nally inspired by some guys loose gravel and the splashing Hanson regularly partners to those who need them, as See Hanson, page 12 puddles of I-really-hope-that’s- with TOMS Shoes, a for-profit well as building schools.

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Students, administration collaborate to meet green goals

By Andrew Nelson Staff Writer

In early October the Sustainable Endowments Institute released its College Sustainability Report Card. The report card grades universities on their efforts to improve energy efficiency and dedicate sufficient resources to environmental issues.

This year Tech earned a “B,” the highest grade yet, thanks to the initiatives undertaken by Tech’s Office of Environmental Stewardship and student organizations like Students Organizing for Sustainability (SOS).

The only two categories of the report card where Tech didn’t earn an A were in endowment transparency and shareholder engagement.

Marcia Kinstler of the Office of Environmental Stewardship disagrees with how these areas are evaluated, since Tech invests more in money market funds than dealing with “proxy wars” with the companies other schools may invest in, as she indicated the report card more directed toward.

At the forefront, both the Office of Environmental Stewardship and SOS collaborate on projects that improve sustainability in areas of energy use, land use, water use, food, and recycling.

SOS regularly meets with staff from Sodexo, Tech’s integrated food and facilities management service provider.

“When we sit down with So-

dexo, they’re mugs disreally receptributed by tive and enthe dining thusiastic halls. about our sugF r y gestions,” Nell pointed out Fry, president that student of SOS, said, involvement “We’ve had a is one of the lot of success most imporwith them, tant issues and they’re of sustainconstantly ability, as working to nearly all the improve sussustainabilta inabilit y ity initiatives with dining.”

by SOS and Earning administraTech an “A” in tion hinge the student inon student volvement catinteraction. egory of the “We have report card, these great Photo by Adebola Adedire/ Student Publications SOS’s current recycling major proj- Buildings like the LEED certified Klaus building helped the institute bins all over ects in sus- gain a Sustainable Edowments Institute report card grade of a “B.” the place. tainability are One examthe bike rental program (which sentatives from Coca-Cola for a ple is the management building, will soon go into action with 70 round table discussion soon re- where there are three or four bins donated, student-repaired and re- garding our concerns with plastic on every floor, with individual assembled bikes) and zero-waste bottled beverages, especially water bins for paper, cans, plastic botcampus dining through compost- bottles, on campus,” Fry said. tles, newspaper and trash,” Fry ing and recycling.

SOS has initiated a strong an- said, “Yet I’ll look into the trash Since last March, Tech’s Sus- ti-bottle campaign to reduce the bin and there are bottles and patainabile Food Committee – in- waste of both plastic and money. per in there. It’s not like it’s any cluding Fry, Sodexo officials, and Vending machines on campus harder to put them in the approcampus administrators – meet sell 20-ounce bottles of water for priate recycle bins.” to collaborate on reducing food $1.50 ($9.60/gallon), whereas tap Pamela Chi, first-year BME, waste, purchasing local foods and water costs on average only a fifth encounters similar problems with improving the sustainability of of one cent per gallon ($0.002) as her friends, and she would like to dining options on- and off-cam- well as avoiding plastic waste. SOS see more recycling bins near garpus. strongly encourages everyone to bage cans.

“We’re meeting with repre- use reusable bottles, like the free Chi said, “I was at the library

with my friend, and when he finished his can of Monster he tossed it in the garbage can, even though the recycling can was a couple feet away, the trash can was closer.”

Both Fry and Chi believe that students generally want to recycle, but the slight inconvenience of the effort is the main deterrent. If a trash can is closer, that’s where the used soda can will likely go.

Sustainability awareness is SOS’s mission, and this mission is directly aimed at students through initiatives like recycling and the Campus Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.

Dozens of students are members of CSA, which orders fresh, local, organic, family farm food such as produce, vegetables, cheese, milk, pasta, and meat (Fry is a big fan of the apples).

Members can order as often as they like or subscribe to a regular share.

Each box of assorted foods lasts about a week depending on how many people eat from it.

A regular “farmer pick box” for about two people is $20, a large box for three to four people is $30, and a custom box costs an additional packing fee of $4, annual registration for CSA is $25.

SOS meetings are open to all of Tech, and Fry strongly encourages people to come. Students can also be involved in discussions with administrators, Sodexo and even Coca-Cola when they meet on Nov. 16 to discuss plastic bottle use.

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are limits,” Guiora said.

Guiora deems that the limiting of free speech and religion must be neutral between the state and the individual, in order to promote counterterrorism.

“So, counterterrorism is the ‘b’ word, which is balance. The rights of the individual are equally legitimate to national security rights.

Individual rights are not a zerosum gain. Some people articulate is as maximizing rights, I articulate it as balancing rights,” said Guiora.

“Some call it ‘what price freedom’. The line drawn is extremely difficult here. On the other hand, excess is very easy. Look at the immediate aftermath of 9/11. I’d say that the Bush administration largely engaged in the paradigm of excess. And did that lead to effective counterterrorism? I’d say probably not,” Guiora said.

“But the line drawing is abso-

lutely essential. I can say, based on my own experiences, is that it’s very difficult, because in the immediate aftermath of a terrorist attack, the public, the media, leadership wants a tough response.

And that’s when the balancing test has to step in. So the line drawn is difficult, but it’s essential,” Guiora said.

Another issue that was examined in Guiora’s presentation was how American Jews currently relate to Israeli politics. With the mounting terrorism and political and religious tensions, there appears to be a subsequent disparity between American Jews and Israel.

Guiora said, “I think that maybe 30 years ago, in very broad strokes, there was greater instinctual sympathy to Israel than there is today, there was greater instinctual understanding of Israel than there is today. And I think that on some level, there was a greater connection to Israel.”

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Amos Guiora, Professor of Law at The S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, visited and lectured at Tech on Oct. 27.

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To the person who has the LOST hatch lockdown sticker in the W24 lot: you make my day. everyday Haven’t been happy in over three months... How did my life get to this point?

Oklahoma Hokie Pokey? More like Hokie Smokey!

All the way turnt up!

Delta Co-ops Get High For Free!

GT PARKING STILL EFFING SUCKS. True Life: I have a crush on my TA. I know I’m pathetic, but I’m just a sucker for cute Asian girls in tight jeans and uggs... my stuff never gets published...

Bible Crusage? these people really didn’t learn anything...

Apparently the only thing holding T-square up was a goalpost To Bored Asian Girl - Where and when?

Who decided it would be accpetable to whore out an entire sliver box to the SAB? NOT COOL. Especially after 3 weeks of no ‘Nique.

I will punch my radio, next time “party in the USA” comes on!

Stop sucking all of the fun out of GT, Bud. new ticketing system = more trouble than it’s worth “let me tell you about the red wings” awww sick! football team getting crunk and students don’t know how to join them! awkward white people Why can’t we get our goalposts down in under 5 minutes? Engineered too well? we can’t even get on the field in good time Unathletic students: wait in the back while WE tear the goalposts down.

I heard that they were cutting the posts up in the Nanotech center.

They’re going to e-mail a small piece of the goalpost to every student!

“Frat” is the most versatile word in the English language.

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from page 9 other guest speaker, Jeff Mackenzie, a member of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) and father of a lesbian daughter. Mackenzie discussed how being a straight ally has changed over his lifetime, and why combating prejudice amongst older generations is so difficult.

Mackenzie said, “People of my generation had our values instilled in us by the previous generation, whose attitude was, ‘There are no gay people and, if there are, they’re all perverts.’”

Mackenzie describes PFLAG as a support group that’s open to anyone in the community, but mainly geared towards helping parents with homosexual children accept their lifestyle.

Mackenzie said, “[I’ve] seen parents come to their first meeting sobbing and weeping because they believed their son or daughter was going to burn in hell. Then, six months later, I’ve seen those same parents marching in a pride parade.”

Mackenzie’s presentation was followed by several students’ stories about friends and crushes coming out to them, as well as several students’ stories about how they got involved in LGBT rights in the first place.

Early Wednesday, the Alliance hosted a similar event, but with more focus on how people in positions of authority—particularly professors, TAs and RAs—can help homosexual students who come to them with problems they’re having. Epp described this Safe Space training session as, “a training session for how to be an effective ally and what to do if people come to you with issues they are having trouble with.”

Later that night, the Alliance hosted an alumni panel, where a handful of gay alumni discussed what it’s like being out after college.

Epp said, “It [was] an interest-

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Students attend “Being Out After College Discussion Panel”during coming out week, the week offered support to LBGT students. ing experience, listening to people who have been in our shoes before, and seeing what kind of experiences they’ve had since they entered the workforce.”

The counseling center helped out by hosting a Coming Out Workshop on Thursday. Austin Lawry, second year IAML major, public relations chair of the Alliance, and daughter of Dr. Lawry, attended the event last year.

Lawry said, “It was really nice, in that it wasn’t aimed just at gay students, but also was about how to be receptive to friends coming out to us.”

Lawry said a major part of the event was how students could handle each part of the coming out process. “We tackled each of the different kinds of coming out.

We talked about coming out to friends, coming out to your parents and family, and coming out to your colleagues and coworkers,” Lawry said.

It was about what is the right time to come out, how to be calm about it and how to be understanding of the feelings of the person they come out to.”

Thursday night, the Alliance

did things a bit differently than in the past. Normally, there is a discussion of homosexuality in the Bible, but this year, the Alliance expanded the topic to cover attitudes towards homosexuality in several different religions, with particular focus on Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

The Alliance’s next major event is their annual charity drag show in the spring, though they host several awareness drives and smaller events throughout the year.

According to Epp, for every month when there isn’t a major event, the Alliance will typically have two days where they try to raise awareness and support for LGBT issues.

Topics covered in the past have included the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy and the fact that in several states, Georgia included, it’s still legal for employees to be fired over sexual orientation.

The Pride Alliance will also be marching in Atlanta Pride march this weekend at Piedmont Park, as a happy accident placed the Atlanta Pride Festival right at the end of Tech’s Coming Out Week.

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from our hometown that developed some medical technology and software for cell phones that would be a convenience in this country, but a lifesaver overseas.”

The band’s interest in Tech’s walk was due partly to fortunate timing—they were touring in the area—but the band says that technology is something they see having more and more of a role in global activism.

Hanson said, “More and more,

technology is giving [everyday] people a louder and louder megaphone than they’ve ever had, or, in some cases, the first megaphone they’ve ever had.”

According to Hanson, the company in question designed software for cell phones that allowed patients to keep in touch with their doctor at a moment’s notice, allowing them to get medical advice in areas where modern medicine isn’t readily available.

On campus, the event was largely spearheaded and organized

by Ali Kimm, second-year Mgt, Sharad Gopal, second-year EE and Maysa Nassereddin, secondyear CE. After hearing about Hanson’s activism during a trip to Washington D. C., Gopal was contacted by TOMS about being a campus rep for Tech.

TOMS then contacted him about hosting an event with the band on campus. After running into a bit of trouble over a nonchartered organization hosting the event, GT H.E.R.O.s joined,

and the event was set.

When asked what the event was all about, Gopal said that the focus was letting people who normally couldn’t help out get involved.

Gopal said, “A lot of people are really passionate about [helping] Africa, and a lot of them want to help, but they just don’t know how.”

In addition to recruiting students, the organizations hosting the event also recruited a great deal off-campus, so Tech students

weren’t alone in their walk. Gopal expected somewhere between 120 and 150 participants.

Gopal toyed with the idea of chartering a TOMS Shoe’s campus organization for a while, but is now on the fence. He is now leaning more towards chartering a campus branch of One, a charity organization with the similar goal of eliminating poverty and strong ties to the band U2.

Those interested in learning more can visit the Take the Walk website at takethewalk.net.

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Dougherty’s twisted, straight-toDVD release redefines Halloween horror genre with killer plot twists

Trick ‘r Treat

By Danny Spiller Senior Staff Writer

GENRE: Horror, Thriller

If it’s Halloween, it must be time for Saw, right? Forget that. Though the new installment of the torture porn franchise is sure to bring in hordes of moviegoers, the real Halloween movie is already here. Originally scheduled for an Oct. 2007 release, Trick ‘r Treat is finally out on DVD after being criminally DIRECTOR: Michael neglected a theatrical run. I say the lack of theatrical release is criminal because Dougherty writer/director Michael Dougherty has crafted an absolute must-see movie for RATING: R anyone caught up in the Halloween spirit.

DVD RELEASE: Oct. 6, 2009 What makes Trick ‘r Treat such an interesting film is that it takes an approach to storytelling that is not often seen in feature-length movies. The film is OUR TAKE: !!!!! broken into four distinct short stories, each one intertwining with the others in various ways. Other movies typically have more than one storyline running at once, but they happen simultaneously and come together to culminate in some final conclusion at the end. Trick ‘r Treat feels more like an anthology – four completely separate stories that happen to run into each other in very inventive and unexpected ways.

The idea for Trick ‘r Treat originated from Dougherty’s animated short feature, “Season’s Greetings,” that was released back in 1996. The story focuses on Sam, a costumed kid who is out past midnight trick-or-treating.

Sam eventually walks down an alleyway and becomes cornered by an unknown stalker who follows him in. The audience is led to believe this is the end of Sam, but it turns out there is something more sinister about Sam than we realize. This four-minute hand-drawn cartoon became the basis for creating the character of Sam for the final film.

The less you know about the stories going into Trick ‘r Treat, the better. Avoid reading too much about plot points before seeing it because Dougherty has done a wonderful job of writing a screenplay with twists that are clever and not convoluted. Just know there are enough gross-out moments for gore hounds, along with plenty of dark humor and ghoulishness to really capture the mood of Halloween.

And that’s what Trick ‘r Treat does better than anything else – nail the Halloween spirit. Everything about the film oozes Oct. 31 thanks to Dougherty’s smart directing and obvious love for the holiday. Cinematographer Glen MacPherson is also highly commended for shooting such a surprisingly beautiful film. For a movie that takes place almost entirely at night, it is shockingly colorful, focusing clearly on oranges and yellows to further enhance the mood.

Another element that plays an enormous role in how the film is perceived is the editing. With four main storylines to cut between, the editing has a huge effect on the end product. Choosing when to tell what part of which story could become tricky and confusing for the audience, but Trick ‘r Treat manages to slide between stories with ease and without ever throwing the audience off.

As for the acting, there are certainly some familiar faces among the cast, including Dylan Baker, Anna Paquin and Brian Cox. Considering the high caliber of actors in the film, it is no surprise that the acting is consistently solid. Even the younger and lesser known actors are able to pull off great performances.

The only real problem people might have with Trick ‘r Treat is that it is not very scary, at least not in the modern “boo!” sense. Trick ‘r Treat relies more on storytelling, creepiness and unsettling scenes rather than full-blown scares, and while I consider that a wonderful thing, horror fans looking for more pop-out-at-you horror style will need to look elsewhere.

While 2009 has already seen some solid horror flicks (especially Sam Raimi’s excellent Drag Me to Hell), Trick ‘r Treat takes the cake as being the most enjoyable, even if not the scariest, horror film of the year.

STARRING: Dylan Baker, Anna Paquin and Brian Cox

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Saw VI continues bloody saga with new horrors FILM

Saw VI GENRE: Crime, Horror STARRING: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor and Shawnee Smith DIRECTOR: Kevin Greutert RATING: R RELEASED: Oct. 23, 2009

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By Chris Ernst Staff Writer

Saw VI is one of the few Saw movies that could be watched without seeing all the others in order. While it does continue the story arc set up by the previous entries in the series, the bulk of the plot can be easily appreciated from what is presented solely in this movie. What does take place in the previous movies is eas-

ily surmised from conversation or flashbacks.

The movie features just a few main characters instead of an ensemble, making it a little easier to follow the plot. Saw V featured many people escaping one set of traps and how they relate to each other, while Saw VI mainly focuses on one man. Because all of the audience’s attention can be spent on this one character, it makes for a more compelling story. The story and plot are much more focused and plain, making the film very easy to comprehend.

Several of the other Saw movies rely on convoluted plots to present simple stories, diluting their essence for a gimmick-driven movie. This latest entry in the series is comparably simple. While still cheesy at times, it presents its drama in an easy to understand manner, actually making Saw VI one of the better places to start the saga.

The previous movies all struggle a little to find significance;

they feel almost forced to fit in with the story as it is. Only since Saw IV has the franchise really found its place as a series. It’s now almost like a TV show because it retains many of the same characters who deal with both problems at hand and a larger story.

The special effects budget must have taken a hit in this movie.

Prosthetic effects were way under par. They were very obvious and poorly integrated with the actors, which seemed to be a running theme throughout the movie.

None of the blood and gore effects were quite up to standards.

Most of them were done physically. This creates a problem for continuity because instead of having distinct blood splotches, people almost become impressionist works of art, bloodied up and let loose.

For example, the finale features hydrofluoric acid, which supposedly can eat through human See Saw, page16

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Tabernacle hosts metal rockers Atreyu, Undead

By Andrew Ho Contributing Writer

Concert-goers at the Tabernacle were treated to a night filled with eardrum-bursting guitar riffs, drum solos and death growls on Oct. 24 with Atreyu and Hollywood Undead.

Atreyu, the long-time metalcore troupe hailing from Orange County, CA, brought their act to Atlanta. The historic concert hotspot was nearly packed to burst with the crowds that came out to see them, certainly pushing the two and a half thousand crowd capacity. Much of the crowd seemed to consist of younger fans from high school and up, though such youthful exuberance had a perfect outlet on the main floor.

The night started off right with Escape the Fate and The Sleeping, who certainly worked well to get the crowd pumped up for the main attractions. While certainly upbeat and dynamic, with The Sleeping’s lead singer Douglas Robinson interacting with the crowd quite often, The Sleeping was perhaps the quietest band in relative terms of intensity and volume.

After a brief bit of set-up, with credit to the road crew and staff for being particularly quick on the job, it was about time to bring the big stars on stage. Atreyu threw

themselves into their first number almost as soon as they hit the stage, setting the crowd into a frenzy as the moshing and crowdsurfing grew more frequent.

It wasn’t long before Varkatzas was baring his tattooed chest and arms like other guys in the crowd, running around the stage and spitting mists of water whenever he wasn’t screaming vocals into the mike.

Dan Jacobs was sporting his usual bloodstain-patterned guitar in frenzied riffs, working with Travis Miguel as they hopped up on platforms to showcase their style. For obvious reasons, the volume went from loud to just about head-splitting, and the lighting work was spectacular without unnecessarily blinding the audience.

One of few oddities that worked against this otherwise grand performance was bassist Marc McKnight. Apparently not content enough with headbanging, McKnight felt the need to thrash about and take center stage quite frequently. While the importance of a bass guitar player is depends on who you’re talking to, it seemed a touch overdone.

A comical moment came shortly after the final song when drummer Brandon Saller tossed a drumstick high up into the crowd, and the stick ended up caught on one of the lighting rigs. The crowd

had to settle for a water bottle thrown their way, which they set upon like a school of sharks.

While Atreyu had brought the crowd’s passions to a peak, bouncing around and pumping their fists almost the entire time, Hollywood Undead worked them over differently as the tunes went from metalcore to rap with a heavy metal current. Arriving on stage in the midst of a blinding strobe light and with their faces masked,

Hollywood Undead began rapping, with heavy guitar chords amplifying the experience, while the crowd set into a throbbing, undulating rhythm.

Thankfully, the instruments were just loud enough to complement the rapping rather than drown it out, and there were plenty of instances where the crowd sang along with the songs. By the time their masks came off after a few songs, the rest of the perfor-

mance was set to keep the crowd on an excitable crest.

While these artists aren’t entirely mainstream, there’s no doubt that those in attendance were treated to a rousing show to remember. From the main floor to the packed balconies, fans and newcomers alike were enjoying the music and contagious fervor and perhaps giving an indication on how the rest of the tour will go for these bands.

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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves GENRE: Action, Adventure CONSOLE: PlayStation 3 DEVELOPER: Naughty Dog RATING: Teen RELEASED: Oct. 13, 2009 OUR TAKE: !!!!!

By Zheng Zheng Staff Writer

Long has it been since a PlayStation 3 exclusive title stood over its competition and claimed glory for its console. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the widely well received third-person action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog, broke that curse on Oct. 13 with its addictive cinematic gameplay and enticing plot developments.

As the game’s protagonist, Nathan “Nate” Drake, players journey across different subregions of Asia in order to pursue Marco Polo’s 14 ships of lost treasures, lost at sea upon his return trip from China under Emperor Kublai Khan.

The historical mystery of Marco Polo’s ships intertwined with the game developer’s fantastic writing provides a strong foundation for an alluring tale of love, betrayal and discovery. The game

sets the bar high from the very beginning with its never ending action and suspense. For example, the game opens up with the player as Drake, shot in the abdomen, sitting inside a freezing derailed train carriage barely hanging off a cliff near the snowy ridges of the Himalayas, and it only gets better from there.

To further compliment the amazing script, the game combines it with other aspects to forge an unforgettable cinematic gaming experience.

First is the gamer interface, which completely gets rid of any and all displays such as health bars and mini-maps that usually fill the screen. Instead, the only thing that players will find on their screen while losing themselves in the story will be nothing more than the simple exhibition of the detailed environments presented by the game itself.

Also, like any successful movie, Uncharted 2 provides a fantastic score composed rightfully to set the mood for anyone wanting to begin the adventures of an explorer.

Using motion capture technology and maximized gaming engines, Naughty Dog developed the game with unbelievably realistic and beautiful graphics that show off PlayStation 3’s capabilities.

The gameplay is a perfect blend of the action-packed shooter experience and the more placid

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platform adventure or stealth missions. No matter which situation the player is in however, the terrain and its structures become a very important aspect of the game that provide strategy and complexity. The single-player mode is available in four different difficulties.

Aside from the completely satisfying experience offered by the single player mode, the game also provides some multiplayer features.

The co-operative option of the multiplayer mode allows a maximum of three players to complete objectives as a team. The competitive player versus player feature, however, can offer up to ten players in four different game modes.

This feature, although not as complex as some of the other leading shooter games, encourages players

to use terrains and obstacles to their advantage.

Although both multiplayer options are enjoyable, neither are without flaws. In an age where multiplayer gaming pushes for a more massive player versus player experience, a game of ten people is hardly satisfactory.

Overall, Uncharted 2 is a fantastic piece of art that truly deserves its acclaimed reputation.

The cinematic gaming experience is beyond the scope of the traditional video game template and on par with the future of simulation gaming.

The amount of careful efforts put into this game by the developers, along with PlayStation 3’s powerful abilities, makes the game a must have for any PlayStation 3 users and a very tempting lure for those who are not.

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flesh almost instantly. After being pumped full of it, this character literally melts. The movie generally goes for the drama when it comes to gore, but it doesn’t become ridiculous.

While some parts may seem unrealistic, who among the general population really knows what it’s like when someone’s jaw and head are blown apart?

Fans looking for a bloody, gore-fest will be disappointed.

This film is more about the drama and the story than the gore. There are several scenes for them, but ultimately the characters and their drama drive the film.

The traps are not as imaginative or as twisted as in the others in the series. They are frightening, but they do not inspire the same awe and fear as many of the others.

Even though it is less of an exercise in bloody, twisted gore for which the franchise is famous, it succeeds where the others do not. Saw VI is more of a focused character-driven drama than the others. This is one of the best entries in the series and is definitely worth a watch.

It is not designed to gain new fans, but not knowing much or anything about the previous movies is actually not much of a problem. Fans will appreciate the story but will be disappointed by the lack of gore. With no sign of ending, the Saw series could continue for a while thanks to this solid new addition.

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THEME CROSSWORD: TELEVISION TRIVIA

By Robert Zimmerman United Features Syndicate ACROSS 1. Christine of “The Pilot’s Wife” 6. 1930s river project 9. “- La Douce” 13. Soap plant 18. Starting over, in a way 19. Caribou 21. Bleated 22. TV series (1981-1982) based on hit record 24. Memory units 25. Columbus inst.

26. Kids’ refrain 27. More melancholy 28. Wanes 29. Film pirate in 2003 31. Shantytown 33. Tiny nail 35. A Great one 37. Most pretentious, at the gallery 40. Competitor 43. Quadruplets 45. Former first lady

47. California valley 48. Noble’s partner 49. Jim Nabors’ show, 19641970 53. TV’s Tyne 54. Isolate 55. A stroll in Salamanca 56. He saves everything!

59. Roaring 20s, e.g.

60. Detests 61. Exchange for cash 62. Order to troops 64. Obi 66. Confronts squarely 67. Mountain debris 68. Medication 69. Jane Austen heroine 70. Meg of the movies 71. Bold 72. 1,000 megabytes, for short 73. Western tribe 75. Pioneer atomic physicist, d. 1954 76. Charge in court 79. Pro votes 80. “M*A*S*H” spinoff, 1979-

1986 82. Disavowed 85. Ramble 86. Dade County seat 87. Double-crosser 89. Revise 91. Mexican salamander 95. Vassal 96. Film’s original “Scarface” 98. Cultivate 100. Flatbed cart 101. Newcomer’s nest 103. French open champ at age 16 106. Causing death 109. Broadcast 110. Cook’s station 111. TV adventures of unlikely spies, 1964-1968 114. Boatman 115. Entered uninvited 116. Working class 117. Welles or Bean 118. Swear 119. Clock’s meas.

120. Stitched

DOWN 1. Tenant, usually 2. Without warning 3. Quick flight 4. Family affair 5. Crucifix inscription 6. Chisholm, for instance 7. It may feel like velvet 8. Be under the weather 9. Romantic interlude 10. Plato work 11. 1.094 yards 12. Dry land for Noah

13. French clergyman 14. “Andy Griffith Show’s” TV successor, 1968-1971 15. Health food, for many 16. Sheltered area on deck 17. Ames and Asner 18. Valerie’s TV character 20. Snout kin 23. Adjunct to an altar 30. Stacks 32. Utilizes improperly 34. Fiasco 36. Tricky curve

38. - “Fatha” Hines 39. Does he fix flats?

41. Workbench clamps 42. Rounds 44. Radio-TV genre 46. Andean grazers 49. Formation flyers 50. Freeway access 51. Obnoxious air 52. Consumed 53. Big name in Chicago 56. Traveler’s recompense 57. Paint sprayer

58. It’s obvious!

60. Gabby of the old Westerns 61. Rascal 63. Prod to act: with “on” 65. Longest-running TV police show in its day, 1968-1980 66. Prisoner’s dream 67. Genesis mischief maker 71. Throw with great effort 74. No in Novosibirsk 75. “Postcards - the Edge” 76. Trojan war hero

The Annual

HAROLD W. GEGENHEIMER LECTURE ON INNOVATION NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: How lack of experience and knowledge of an industry is an advantage to developing innovative next generation products David Phelps (ME 1981) President and CEO CreoSalus, Inc. Lexington, Kentucky THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2009 11:00 A.M. FERST CENTER FOR THE ARTS There will be a reception after the lecture in the Love Building, 2nd floor atrium.

This event is sponsored by the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

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93. Followed 94. Ancient harps 97. India’s first prime minister 99. Adds fat before cooking 102. City on the Aar 104. Ostrich cousins 105. Gullible person 107. Rock-band luggage 108. Come-on 110. Warning to playgoers 112. To the - degree 113. At this time

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GSPN QBHF Tech took the second set 25-18.

The Jackets did not have an extensive run in the final set, but they put together four consecutive points on four separate occasions.

Wake committed eight attack errors, two of which were the result of Tech blocks, as the Jackets rolled to a 25-13 victory that clinched the match.

Hunter and DeMichelis had 10 kills each to pace the attack, and the Jackets had five players with five or more kills. In total, Tech had 41 kills against just 14 attack errors, resulting in a solid .300 hit percentage. Meanwhile, Wake had 24 kills and 24 attack errors, resulting in the .000 mark.

Stawicka and junior setter Mary Ashley Tippins had five block assists each, Tippins had 28 assists, and junior libero Jordan McCullers notched 16 digs.

Tech faced a much greater challenge on Saturday night against the Duke Blue Devils as the teams battled for second place in the ACC standings.

The game served as Tech’s “Dig for the Cure” match, in which each dig recorded by the Jackets resulted in a donation to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Tech’s 76 total digs raised more than $1,500 for the Komen Foundation. Additionally, the Jackets wore pink jerseys in honor of the event; those jerseys are being auctioned off, and the proceeds will be donated as well.

As the first set began, Tech began to build an early lead as DeMichelis led the charge, picking up three early kills as the Jackets went up 8-5.

Duke fought back to tie the set, and the Blue Devils held a slight lead throughout the middle of the set.

Late in the set, Duke was ahead 22-18 when Tech took a time-out.

The Jackets immediately took the first three points after the short break thanks to a kill from Mead,

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Brittany Roderick bumps the ball during last Friday’s game against Wake Forest at O’Keefe Gym. Tech defeated Wake but fell to Duke on Saturday.

an ace from Hunter and a Duke error that concluded a long point.

The Blue Devils remained ahead though, and they ended up taking the set 25-23 as Duke’s Rachael Moss recorded her sixth and final kill of the opening set.

Tech came out strong to open the second set, taking advantage of Duke mistakes to win the first five points. The Jackets held onto their early lead, and midway

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you very well could spend that hour and a half playing from the comfort of your nerd dorm 2.5 hours later, a cop is STILL sitting in the same spot in the Old CE computer lab on the internet GTPD have pretty easy jobs, it seems I just heard “You’ve got mail!” from the cop’s computer if dr Mcclellan uses one more “.....” ill explode To whomever thinks Ryan at the CRC is hot: He is, and he is also taken. what is going on at klaus?

Thanks To GTPD yet ANOTHER 2 STUDENTS ROBBED! Can we Fire GTPD And get new cops? the popo on campus are horrible... the gatech 5-0 reallllly need to do their jobs! oh my god, korean people outside of woodies, SHUT UP InVenture Prize!

7u I don’t have diabetes, put some sugar in my coffee I love how 99% of the stories in the technique could fall under the “Opinions” section... fengning williams and iandolli are such a cute aero couple!

Undergraduate Learning Center costs over 40million....Guggenheim didnt even cost 2million oh yeah, it’s you GT STUDENTS LOVE RED VELVET CAKE UP IN BRITTAIN!!!!!! girl in front of Van Leer at 3:00 with a pink shirt on: you’re beautiful. ¿????ls s??? ?u??d no? u?? anyone else think that The Office isn’t that funny anymore?

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through the set they were ahead 14-8.

The second half of the set was roughly even, but the Jackets managed to hold onto their lead.

Two late DeMichelis kills, her fifth and sixth of the set, tied the match for the Jackets as they took the set 25-21.

Tech was strong from the start of the third set. DeMichelis and senior middle blocker Brittany

Roderick keyed the offense early in the third set. Two Roderick hits caught the back line, and DeMichelis landed a pair of powerful spikes early on as solid ball control helped the Jackets build a lead.

Tech went on a 14-4 run, forcing Duke to use both time-outs as the Jackets went ahead 16-8.

Duke closed the gap to three points as Tech made a handful of errors late in the set, but the lead was sufficient. Tech won the final three points, finishing with a Tippins ace to win the set 25-19 and come within one set of taking the match.

DeMichelis had three early kills as the Jackets got off to another fast start in the fourth set.

The Jackets were strong throughout the first half of the set, playing well in all areas. Eventually they led 18-12 and appeared to be on the way to closing out the match.

Duke had other plans in mind, though. The Blue Devils took the next three points and eventually battled to a 19-19 tie; Tech pulled ahead 22-21, but Duke took the late lead and closed out the set to earn a 25-23 victory that sent the match to a deciding fifth set.

“We were in command of the fourth set, and we couldn’t finish it and put it away...I felt like our passing broke down, and in the end, we just couldn’t execute,” Johnson said.

Tech held an early lead once again in the final set, but Duke battled back to pull ahead and the Jackets could not rebound. With the score tied 7-7, Duke won four consecutive points, the last two of which came on calls that Johnson and the Jackets briefly argued.

Ultimately Tech could not come back, and a Duke dump ended the set 15-11 and gave the Blue Devils the match.

“I’m disappointed in the loss, but we have a lot of season left and a lot to play for. We’re in a great position…we’ve just got to go out and take care of business,” Johnson said.

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Tennis players compete at ITA South regionals The ITA Southeast Region Championship for women’s tennis was hosted at Tech this past weekend. Tech junior Sasha Krupina beat No. 8 Irene Rehberger of South Florida in the Round of 64. She, sophomore Christina Ngo and sophomore Lynn Blau all advanced to the Round of 32.

In doubles, Blau and sophomore Hillary Davis reached the quarterfinals while the team of Krupina and Ngo lost in the first round.

In the men’s tournament, which took place in Athens, Ga., all eight Jackets in the draw reached the Round of 32. Juniors Miguel Muguruza and Guillermo Gomez reached the quarterfinals, but Muguruza fell to Clint Bowles of FSU and Gomez was forced to retire with an injury.

Swim & Dive falls against No. 7 Florida The men’s swimming and diving team fell 161-123 against the nationally ranked Florida Gators in a dual meet last weekend.

The Jackets took first place in five of the 16 events. Sophomore Nigel Plummer won the 50-yard freestyle in 20.41 seconds, and Tech had the top five finishers in the 100 yard butterfly. Freshmen Brandon Makinson and Christopher Khosravi took the top two spots in the three-meter dive.

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GSPN QBHF in to face Virginia’s offensive attack, the Jacket defenders fared quite well, giving up just 30 yards on the ground and 168 yards in the air.

Sophomore linebacker Steven Sylvester and junior linebacker Brad Jefferson led the way for the Jackets’ defense, each recording six tackles in the game. Jefferson also had a team-high two tackles for loss.

The defense forced four punts

from the Cavaliers, giving the offense more chances to score. Even when Virginia was able to get into the red zone, Tech’s defense held them to field goals.

“Defensively, I thought we did a good job…holding them in the red zone and making them have to kick some field goals and keeping them out of the end zone,” said Head Coach Paul Johnson.

“If you can do that...you usually have a pretty good chance to win the game.”

Tech’s win on Saturday, cou-

pled with Miami’s loss to Clemson, gave the Jackets control of their destiny in the ACC. The Jackets are currently in a threeway tie atop the Coastal Division with Virginia and Virginia Tech, but Tech has beaten both teams and holds the head-to-head tiebreaker over each.

If the Jackets can come away with wins in their final two ACC games against Wake Forest and Duke, they will clinch the division and secure a spot in the ACC Championship Game.

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By Zack Smith, Contributing Writer

Coming off their first win in Charlottesville since 1990, the No. 11 Jackets travel to Nashville, Tenn. this Saturday to face the Vanderbilt Commodores. Tech and Vanderbilt will battle it out this weekend for the 37th time since their initial meeting in 1892. The Jackets currently lead the series with a record of 18-15-3, including victories in the last four games.

Tech’s 34-9 victory against Virginia, as well Miami’s in-conference loss to Clemson, placed the Jackets at the top of the Coastal Division with a 5-1 record in the ACC. With a berth in the conference championship game and a possible BCS bid emerging as possibilities if the Jackets can win their remaining games, they will attempt to improve their overall record to 8-1 against the second of their three SEC opponents this season.

Against Virginia, the triple option proved effective against the Cavaliers’ 3-4 defensive front as the Tech offense, which now leads the nation in total rushing yards, racked up 362 yards on the ground. Tech’s offense controlled the clock throughout, wearing down Virginia’s defense as it controlled the ball for 42 minutes and 43 seconds, the team’s longest mark in time of possession in more than 20 years.

The defense allowed the Cavaliers to convert just two of 11 third downs and held them to only 198 total yards, including just 30 rushing yards. The unit has shown improvement since allowing 44 points at Florida State, adapting to changes in the defensive scheme and overcoming injuries to hold Virginia Tech and Virginia in check over the past two weeks.

The Jackets will now face the 2-6 Commodores at Dudley Field on Halloween. Tech will look to exploit a Vanderbilt defense that has allowed the second-most rushing yards of any SEC team this season, and the inside running game could be key against a defense that features speed but lacks size.

Tech and Vanderbilt battle it out this weekend for the 37th time since their initial meeting in 1892. The Jackets currently lead the series with a record of 18-15-3, including victories in the last four games.

Last year Vanderbilt was able to defeat formidable opponents like South Carolina, Ole Miss and Auburn during their season-opening five-game winning streak. The Commodores stumbled in the second half but picked up a single win; at 6-6, they became bowl eligible for the first time in 26 years and defeated Boston College in the Music City Bowl.

In 2009 the Commodores have struggled to build on last season’s success. They currently hold an overall record of 2-7 and their two wins come against teams, Rice and Western Carolina, with a combined 1-14 record. Coach Bobby Johnson’s team is 0-5 in its conference and has failed to score more than 10 points in an SEC matchup.

Last Saturday’s game against No. 24 South Carolina resulted in a disappointing 14-10 loss for the Commodores, who came close to pulling off the upset. Statistically, the two teams were fairly even in several offensive categories. Vanderbilt running back Warren Norman amassed 186 all-purpose yards and, with a 99-yard kickoff return, scored the visiting team’s only touchdown of the day. The Commodores led 10-7 until South Carolina scored a touchdown in the fourth quarter to win the game.

Vanderbilt faced Army’s triple option-based offense in early Oct., but the Black Knights upset the Commodores 16-13 at West Point. Against a more talented Jackets squad, Vanderbilt will need to contain Tech’s offense at the edges and hope Norman can produce on the ground.

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By Nishant Prasadh Sports Editor

Tech volleyball, which had won seven of its first nine ACC contests, returned home for a pair of conference matches last weekend. The Jackets swept Wake Forest 3-0 (25-14, 25-18, 25-13) on Friday night but fell in a close battle against Duke, losing 3-2 (25-23, 21-25, 19-25, 25-23, 1511) in their annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dig for the Cureâ&#x20AC;? match.

With the split, the Jackets moved to 14-7 overall on the season, and they are currently third in the ACC with an 8-3 record in conference play. The loss to Duke was Techâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first home defeat of the season after the Jackets opened the season with 11 wins at Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keefe Gym. The Jackets were sharp in the first game of the weekend though, sweeping the Demon Deacons in a match that lasted just 75 minutes. Tech players combined for five solo blocks and 17 block assists as they held Wake to a hit percentage of .000.

Wake opened up a 3-1 lead as the match began, but it was shortlived. The Jackets took 16 of the next 19 points to open a big lead and cruised to a 25-14 first set victory. Sophomore outside hitter Bailey Hunter had five kills in the set, including the clinching point, as Tech took an early lead in the match.

Tech began to build an early lead in the second set before a sixpoint Wake run put the Deacons ahead 10-7. The Jackets responded with an 11-2 run, getting three kills apiece from sophomore middle blocker Asia Stawicka, senior outside hitter Chrissy DeMichelis and freshman rightside hitter Monique Mead over that stretch.

Wake was unable to recover, and See Volleyball, page 20

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By Kyle Conarro Contributing Writer

Tech hit the road this past weekend to take on Virginia, and they returned home from Charlottesville with a win for the first time since 1990. The Jackets cruised to a 34-9 victory, and in the process gave the Cavaliers their first ACC loss of the season.

The Jacketsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; offense compiled 362 yards rushing as the option offense had a strong day against Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3-4 defensive front. Two of Techâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s running backs crossed the century mark on the day, with junior B-back Jonathan Dwyer carrying for 125 rushing yards and redshirt junior A-back Anthony Allen picking up 103 yards of his own. Allen also provided two of Techâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four touchdowns, with the other two coming from junior quarterback Josh Nesbitt.

Nesbitt did not lead the team in rushing for the first time in two weeks but still gained 84 yards on the ground and went 4-for-8 for 85 yards passing.

Although the final game statistics look favorable, the offense started out slowly. The Jacketsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first points came on a first quarter field goal by junior kicker Scott Blair, but they did not score again until the second, where they added just ten points and headed into halftime leading just 13-6.

The Cavaliers won the coin toss at the beginning of the game and elected to receive the ball.

Techâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defense quickly forced a three-and-out, but the Jacketsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; offense struggled on their first possession. They gained only 14 yards on five plays and were vic-

timized by two false start penalties, one of which prevented them from trying to convert on fourth-and-two and forced a punt.

When Virginia returner Chase Minnifield did not call for a fair catch, Tech redshirt freshman linebacker Malcolm Munroe hit him hard and forced a fumble. Tarrant recovered to give Tech the ball at Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 11-yard line.

Tech appeared to score on a Nesbitt keeper, but an illegal block penalty negated the score and pushed them back 15 yards.

The Jackets picked up a field goal and took an early 3-0 lead.

Head Coach Paul Johnson highlighted the penalties as a key reason for the early trouble. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the second week in a row, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little bit of a concern that we started out with penalties on offense, hurting ourselves and stopping drives,â&#x20AC;?

Johnson said.

Tech had a fourth-and-seven situation on its next possession and lined up to punt, but attempted a fake to reach the first down. Redshirt junior linebacker A.T. Barnes could not reach the marker, and the Jackets turned over the ball on downs.

Virginia moved into field goal range and picked up three points to tie the score.

Nesbitt fumbled on Techâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next possession, giving Virginia great field position again on the opposing 25-yard line. The Cavaliers closed in on a touchdown, but Techâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defense tightened up in the red zone and forced Virginia to take a short field goal.

On Techâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first possession of the second quarter, the Jackets finally sustained a lengthy drive,

moving the ball 60 yards on 10 plays. The Jackets picked up three first downs on their way to the end zone and got long runs from Dwyer and Allen to take the lead again at 10-6.

After two brief drives, Virginia moved into field goal range but missed the attempt.

Tech got the ball with just over three minutes left, and a 52yard completion from Nesbitt to junior receiver Demaryius Thomas setting the team up for a second Blair field goal. The kick sailed through the uprights as the first half ended, and Tech took a 13-6 lead into the half.

Despite the slow start, the Jackets made adjustments and were much more effective in the second half. They opened up the third quarter with an 18 play, 82-yard drive that lasted nearly 11 minutes. Only two plays did not result in positive yardage, and Allen scored from one yard out to put Tech ahead 20-6.

Following Techâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long drive, Virginia had a respectable 56yard drive that ended in a field goal, closing the gap to 20-9.

Those were the last points the Cavaliers put up. Virginia had two more drives following the field goal, but they were only able to pick up a combined 20 yards and one first down.

Tech went on to add two more touchdowns in the fourth quarter, giving them 34 total points and sealing the victory.

Over the course of the game, the Jackets held the ball for an astounding 42 minutes, tiring out the Cavalier defense and keeping Techâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defense on the sidelines. When they did come See Football, page 21

The Tech golf team traveled to Greensboro, N.C. last weekend and won their first tournament of the fall season as they took first place in the UNC-Greensboro Bridgestone Classic. The Jackets trailed the University of Michigan by four strokes by the end of day one, but managed to move past the Wolverines and hold off Virginia for the victory. The Jackets also defeated a field of some of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest-ranked teams, including Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia Tech and Duke.

The Jackets were led by redshirt junior John-Tyler Griffin and sophomore James White. Griffin tied for fourth in the tournament and shot an eight-under-par 208.

Griffinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance helped Tech to stay close after two rounds, and White led the comeback.

White shot a season-best fiveunder-par 67 in the tournamentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third and final round. After a bogey on the fifth hole, White rebounded to birdie six of his next eight holes. Senior Chesson Hadley and junior Kyle Scott were also under par on the final day to lead the Jackets to victory.

Four of the Jacketsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; five players finished the tournament ranked in the top 14, and the Jackets shot their best score of the season.

Their tournament total of 843 topped their previous best, 860, by 17 strokes.

The win provides momentum for the Jackets heading into the spring season. They will travel to Hawaii and Puerto Rico in February and Las Vegas in March. The Jackets will look to work the kinks out of their swings before they enter the ACC Tournament in late April. The Jackets have won the ACC title in two of the last three years.

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