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MAURA CURRIECONTRIBUTING WRITER

A strategic positioning study has been conducted by Workshop Architects, Inc. in order to iden-tify the highest priority goals of an upcoming expansion and re-branding effort for Tech’s Student Center.

The study consulted with over 250 students and staff on campus and concluded that there are five main primary goals, or “jobs to be done,” that the expansion of Tech’s Student Center would ide-ally accomplish.

First, the Campus Center will aim to appeal to as many people as possible in Tech’s community.

“We don’t want people to mis-take it for an Undergraduate Stu-dent Center,” said Rich Steele, Se-nior Director of Auxiliary Services at Tech. “The idea is that we’re re-ferring to it as a kind of Campus Center, as opposed to a Student Center. That’s very inviting to ev-eryone here at Tech: faculty, staff, grad students, undergraduate stu-dents, visitors. We want everyone to feel comfortable and welcome coming to the Campus Center.”

Second, the new Campus Cen-

ter would provide a place to “reset, recover and refuel,” according to the study.

“Many of the spaces at Geor-gia Tech, like the Clough Com-mons, are made as ‘lean forward’ spaces where people are engaged and focused on work, maybe a little more serious and a little more stressed out,” Steele said. “The consultants said we need a space that people perceive as more ‘lean back,’ where they can take a breath and relax … and that’s a place we’re kind of lacking in the Student Center right now.”

While students in the strategic

study cited “active restoration” opportunities such as the Cam-pus Recreation Center (CRC) and Couch Park, “passive restoration” opportunities other than Under the Couch, Tech Rec and Paper & Clay — all in the current Stu-dent Center — were found to be limited.

According to the results of last year’s Student Experience Survey, 82 percent of Tech students expe-rience a “high degree of stress.” As a result, the strategic positioning study concludes, “It is clear that Tech students require relief and recovery from the daily grind.”

The new center would “show-case Georgia Tech’s brand and be [a] catalyst for creative expres-sion.” Students surveyed in the study reported desires for a more substantive and engaging connec-tion between the Student Center and Tech’s history as well as with the current goings-on with Tech’s multitude of student organiza-tions.

“Show off Tech’s techiness and the heritage of Tech with a museum,” said one student in the survey. Another student mentioned the idea of exhibiting

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NEWS

Kappa Sigma promotes

mental healthCHRISTIAN SHAHEEN

STAFF WRITER

On Sept. 26th, the second annual Kappa Sigma games will be held on the SAC fields and the Burger Bowl. This year, teams of ten can compete in games of bubble soccer and kickball.

“This year’s games have expanded to include more of the Georgia Tech community,” said Eric Johnston, the President of Kappa Sigma. “We’ve even extended the invitation to the faculty as well.”

Sponsored by Coca-Cola and The American Society for Suicide Preven-tion, the Games allow for a fun event on a Saturday afternoon. While the physical activity happens on the fields, the focus around the field will be to raise awareness for mental health and suicide prevention. Kappa Sigma has coordinated with campus resources for students, like Burdell’s Buddies, Wreckless and the Stamps Psychiatry and Counseling Center, who will pro-vide information about their organiza-tions.

According to Neumann University Statistics, suicide is the second-leading cause of death among 20–24-year-olds, and 1 in 12 U.S. college students makes a suicide plan. Tech students are no different than the norm, something that has caused a growing discussion on campus about the issue of men-tal health. Last year, the first annual Kappa Sigma Games commenced un-der the fraternity’s inspiration to raise awareness about the issue of mental health on campus and the resources that are available for those who do not know where to turn.

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NICK JOHNSONMANAGING EDITOR

On Monday, Sept. 14, the po-lice department of Irving, Tex., responded to a claim made by school officials about a device which looked like a hoax bomb, according to the BBC.

The student who brought the device was Ahmed Mohamed, a 14 year-old freshman at MacAr-thur High School, and the device was a handmade clock with a digi-tal display. Mohamed’s engineer-ing teacher told him to put away the electronic device for fear that it would attract suspicion from other teachers who did not under-stand the device. Unfortunately, Mohamed’s English teacher took notice of the “suspicious-looking” device during class and reported him to the principal’s office.

After being questioned by school officials, through which Mohamed maintained that the device was just a clock, the police arrived and claimed the device looked like a “movie bomb” due to its digital display. Mohamed was later arrested and handcuffed in front of his class and brought to a juvenile detention center. Ac-cording to Mohamed, the police interrogated him without allow-ing him an opportunity to call his parents. He was released without charges but still received a three-day suspension from school de-spite the school district’s position that the device was not a threat to students or faculty.

Social media was in what has been described by some as an up-roar following the announcement, with a photo of Mohamed in a NASA shirt and handcuffs circu-lating about major online publica-tions. As Mohamed is a Muslim, claims of racism and Islamopho-bia of the school officials and po-lice department were put forth.

HASIT DEWANASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

HE WANTED THE “T”Last week, a GTPD officer

was called to Tech Tower in regards to a student refusing to leave the premises.

The student had previously been told that, as he was not enrolled in classes, he was not considered a Tech student. Stub-bornly, the non-student ignored this and refused to leave the premises. The GTPD officer is-sued the student a criminal tres-pass warning from all of Tech’s campus, including Tech Square. When told to walk along North

Avenue and leave campus, the non-student began walking to-ward central campus. Again, the student was informed that he must leave campus. He began walking away but, once out of view of the officers, began walk-ing towards Tech Tower again.

At this point, the officer or-dered the non-student to stop walking and drop his bag. He eventually complied. Due to ex-ternal factors, the officer chose to release the non-student and escorted him back to his Atlanta apartment via the patrol vehicle.

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Many members of UHR were adamant that SGA should not fund the tricycles, despite the organizational representa-tive stating that the event would not occur without that funding.

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DAVID RAJINEWS EDITOR

NNMI emphasizes innovationHEYINN RHO

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

On Aug. 28, Tech undertook the mission for the Flexible Hy-brid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute (FHE-MII), the seventh division of the National Network for Manu-facturing Innovation (NNMI)

program. The goal of advancing manufacturing technology via NNMI was conceived by the Obama administration.

“Imagine skin-like electronic patches with sensors that can wirelessly alert when a pilot is fa-tigued, smart and flexible wrap-pers that can monitor the quali-ty of food and tablets that can be

folded and kept in your pocket,” said Suresh Sitaraman, a Me-chanical Engineering Professor, who now leads the FHE-MII or-ganization. “Many of these ideas are in various stages of research today, and only through an ef-fective manufacturing pathway will these innovative research

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DAVID RAJINEWS EDITOR

The Engineered Biosystems Buidling (EBB) was officially opened on Friday, Sept. 11.

“The EBB will drive innovation and have an undeniable impact on biomedical science and human health,” said Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson in a statement. “EBB brings together some of the world’s finest researchers in a col-laborative environment, and these collaborations will result in in-credible breakthroughs.”

Construction on the build-ing was concluded in the Spring, and the ribbon cutting ceremony took place last Friday. The EBB contains seven floors and grosses 218,914 square feet. Most of the floor space is taken up by labs and offices for those students and oth-er lab affiliates.

The complex is located roughly a block south of 10th Street, on the northern area of the Biotech Quad, where it joins the Mo-lecular Science and Engineering Building, U.A. Whittaker Bio-medical Engineering Building, the Ford Environmental Science and Technology Building and Parker H. Petit Institute for Bio-engineering and Bioscience.

The EBB has been largely paid for already at this point in time. The remaining 20 per-cent of funding that has not been received yet is set to be gained through pledged commit-ments over a five-year timeline.

New biotech building begins life

Photo by David Raji Student Publications

The EBB aims to facilitate more active participation in partner-ships between Tech, Emory and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

ADITI KUMARCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Andrea Clark, the Pre-Health Advisor, resigned a few weeks ago after working for the Pre-Health community at Tech from January 2014.

A team of advisors has been deployed to look after Clark’s responsibilities until a new Pre-Health specialist is found. This team of advisors sits at the Center for Career Discovery and Devel-opment (C2D2) with other pre-professional advisors, who are mainly within the disciplines of law and teaching, and the fellow-ship advisor.

Shannon Dobranski, PhD., the Director of the Center for Academic Success at Tech, leads the Pre-Professional and Pre-Graduate Advising Team. She has been a faculty member at Tech for 19 years and an advisor for 14. Dobranski has looked after Pre-Health advising at Tech since 2013. According to Dobranski, Pre-Health services will continue to run smoothly while a new Pre-Health Advisor is being looked for.

“We are excited to have an en-tire pre-professional team to serve pre-health students as well as stu-dents exploring careers in law, teaching or academia,” Dobranski said. “Students will find that hav-ing a team of advisors located in C2D2 will give them consistent access to all the resources they

need to make informed decisions about their career path.”

Pre-Health students looking for advising must make an ap-pointment with Dobranski on-line. Members of the Pre-Health advising team will answer ques-tions during walk-in hours which are on Mondays from 2–4 p.m. and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

For those students looking for detailed answers to frequently asked questions, Pre-Health Peer Advisor Cindy Huang is available by appointment and during walk-in hours. The Letter of Evaluation (LOE) Coordinator Carmen Wil-liams is also available to process Letters of Evaluation to upload to professional schools.

Workshops will continue to take place on the proposed dates. Many professional school inter-view workshops are scheduled to take place this month, and Pre-Health overview workshops will be conducted monthly through-out the semester. Pre-Health Con-sulate is an organization run by students, and it is currently work-ing on the Pre-Health Opportuni-ties Fair.

Clark contributed to the pro-gram by educating Tech students about changes to the Medical College Aptitude Test (MCAT), overseeing the placement of 183 students in allopathic medical schools and introducing the Pre-Health Opportunities Fair last spring.

Tech Pre-Health Advisor resigns, team fulfills duties

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HASIT DEWANASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

Recently, the University Sys-tem of Georgia Task Force on Campus Safety and Security, which is co-chaired by Tech presi-dent G.P. “Bud” Peterson, insti-tuted a plan to properly inform in-coming students regarding sexual assault and misconduct.

Starting this fall, all incoming undergraduate students enrolled in University System of Georgia (USG) schools will be required to complete two online courses: “Al-coholEdu” and “Haven: Under-standing Sexual Assault”; gradu-ate students need only complete Haven. AlcoholEdu provides stu-dents with important information regarding how to make informed decisions with alcohol as well as ways to cope with the drinking habits of their peers. The course is designed in a way that students who choose to consume alcohol and those that choose not to can both benefit. Haven addresses the

issues of sexual assault, relation-ship violence and stalking.

“Each program offers pre- and post-surveys that yield a robust database on first-year students’ experiences, behaviors and at-titudes,” said Vladimir Oge, the Director of Health Promotion at the Stamps Health Center. “The data helps inform future program-ming and can be compared to the national aggregate and custom-ized peer group results.”

Unlike in years past, Tech chose to partner with a new ven-dor, EverFi, to provide the two courses.

“While we have a long-stand-ing history providing online health education to first-year stu-dents, this marks the first year that online health programming has been required of all incoming students,” Oge said. “Additional-ly, including the Haven program marks the first time we provided a course that specifically focuses on sexual assault prevention.”

The institution of these new

courses occurred as a result of both federal legislation and efforts by the Institute to maintain a safe environment. Recent federal leg-islation has led to an increase in mandated actions with regards to sexual violence prevention, educa-tion and response on university campuses.

“Institute recommendations from both the Mental Health Task Force and the Sexual Vio-lence Task Force included the ex-pansion of prevention education efforts,” Oge said. “Georgia Tech strives to achieve and lead compli-ance efforts with federal require-ments outlined in the Campus SaVe Act, the Clery Act, Title IX and the Violence Against Women Act.”

Both surveys together take roughly two hours in total to complete fully. Additionally, there are plans to eventually expand this requirement of completing this new form of special training to all of the current students, fac-ulty and staff.

Safety awareness classes made mandatory

In total, the EBB constitutes the most money that Tech has ever invested in one building. Roughly half of this funding, which was roughly $64 million, was received from state appropriations.

According to Donna Hyland, President and CEO of Children’s Healthcare, the EBB will facilitate collaboration between researchers with expertise in clinical care and technology. She also commented that the new building would assist in the launching of the new Pedi-atric Technology Center.

Labs within the EBB include those concerning research in the areas of cell and developmental biology, chemical biology and sys-tems biology.

Photo by David Raji Student Publications

This river is one of several nature elements which surround the EBB. Construction on the building was finished last Spring.

Photo by Meghna Das Student Publications

The USG recently implemented a requirement for all incoming students to its institutions to take two courses on alcohol and sexual violence.

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Anti-Muslim sentiment was said to have increased in Irving when Mayor Beth Van Duyne expressed her “anti-Sharia” views.

Concerns were expressed that such events would deter and have been deterring minority students from exploring their curiosities in STEM fields. In response to the event, President Obama person-ally invited Mohamed via Twitter to bring his clock to the White House. Additionally, he has been invited to the Massachusetts In-stitute of Technology and Face-book’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.

However, the Irving Police De-partment rejected allegations that the arrest was made based on Mo-

hamed’s name.“We have always had an out-

standing relationship with the Muslim community,” said Irving Police Department chief Larry Boyd in a statement. “Incidents like this present challenges. We want to learn how we can move forward and turn this into a posi-tive”.

According to MacArthur High School, students and staff are al-ways encouraged to report any sighting of a suspicious-looking item.

A press conference was attend-ed by Mohamed on Wednesday afternoon following the incident. There, Mohamed made the an-nouncement that he is currently planning to transfer to a different school.

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Above is the Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement. Student organizations at Tech often struggle to find and share similar office and meeting spaces in the current Student Center.

pursuits be transitioned into vi-able products.”

Circuits and systems that can perform normally under physical force or distortion are given the at-tribute “flexible.” The electronics that can handle different elements such as logic, memory, sensors, batteries, antennas and various passives are given the attribute “hybrid”. Cheaper production of flexible electronics technology is expected to have primary appli-cation in health care, consumer, automotive, aerospace, energy and defense.

The U.S. Department of De-fense has committed five years’ funding of $75 million for FHE-MII. The sum will additionally grow with support coming from private companies, universities, several U.S. states, not-for-profit organizations and the city of San Jose, Calif. The cost share of more than $96 million falls onto the FlexTech Alliance.

“Georgia Tech has made great forays into design, simulation and packaging for microelectronic sys-tems,” Sitaraman said. “Several ongoing research programs focus on sensors, antennas, photovolta-ics and other energy harvesting devices, batteries, interconnects and assemblies. In addition to fabricating and assembling vari-ous components, Tech has capa-bilities for testing and reliability assessment through experiments and computer models.”

The initiative also functions with faculty from the Schools of Electrical and Computer Engi-neering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineer-ing and Industrial and Systems Engineering. The Institute of Electronics and Nanotechnology, the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute, the Institute of Mate-rials and the Office of Industry Collaboration also engage in the effort.

“This effort will not only create

new patents but also will provide manufacturing pathways for ex-isting patents and ideas to become technology demonstrators and vi-able products,” Sitaraman said.

The push for progress to be made in electrical and mechanical design, materials and fabrication, printing and assembly, testing and reliability and workforce de-velopment in collaboration with industry are not only pulling in Tech’s resources together but also the resources of companies, labo-ratories, non-profit organizations, other universities and state and re-gional organizations in the United States.

In order to streamline the movement from research to the early-stage manufacturing proto-type line, joint organizations in different regions tackle the issue with varying angles. Tech and the University of Texas at Austin are the academic league particularly responsible for the System De-sign and Fabrication Node. Other nodes include integrated circuit thinning, integration and assem-bly and flexible hybrid electronics applications.

“The strength of the Institute will stem from the strong support and previous work of our part-ner organizations,” said Malcolm Thompson, Executive Director of the FHE-MII. “Georgia Tech’s advanced work and broad under-standing in so many of the Insti-tute’s key manufacturing thrusts — including electronic systems modeling and design, printed electronics and packaging, assem-bly, testing and reliability assess-ment — will provide great ben-efits to both of our organizations.”

FlexTech Alliance will be in charge of giving overall project guidance as well as creating pro-totypes and developing manufac-turing readiness levels. Currently, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York and Texas are among the states with participating educa-tional institutes and centers.

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current projects at Tech.“It would be great to have a

sense of openness so I would know what’s going on with different aca-demic organizations,” the student said. “As an architecture major, I don’t have time to go to every academic building on campus. I didn’t know that someone built a solar-powered anything.”

Fourth, the Campus Center will act as a social place to make friends and learn about other people’s cultures, disciplines and interests.

“The problem with the current Student Center is that it’s become very transactional,” Steele said. “People come here to purchase food or to eat their food, and we want it to be used for much more than that.”

Numerous students expressed interest in using the Campus Center as a cultural hub, with so-

cial events spotlighting different countries and cultures in addition to using the space as more of a gathering place for campus orga-nizations.

The new Campus Center will “promote leadership, involvement and finding one’s niche.” It will accomplish this by creating a hub of organizations and official offic-es. Though a number of organiza-tions currently have office space in the Student Center, the study re-ports that many other groups who are deserving of physical space are still lacking it at this time.

“The different involvement and leadership spaces need to be very robust,” said one undergraduate involved in the study. “A lot of people in [big organizations] don’t know where all these different of-fices are, so it naturally makes it hard to cooperate with others.”

As far as the specifics of the expansion, nothing is currently outside the scope of consideration

according to Steele. The study rec-ommends that the gross square footage of the Campus Center in-crease to 287,692 from the current 166,856 at a hypothetical budget of between $100 million and $143 million.

No further details on what might be added or removed to the Student Center in the future currently exist. The Student Cen-ter Expansion Committee, led by Lindsay Bryant, Associate Direc-tor of Student Center Programs, and Kate Curnow, Communica-tions & Marketing Manager, will continue holding town halls and conducting surveys to determine student interest regarding what specific elements will be included.

“We’re hopeful that we can have something significant hap-pening or completed within the next five years,” Steele said. “In 2020, the Student Center will cel-ebrate its fiftieth anniversary, and that is the ideal target year for us.”

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OPINIONS EDITOR: Vidya Iyer technique6

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OUR VIEWS | Consensus Opinion

Our expectations for first 100 daysThis year’s SGA is starting strong, but there’s more to do

It has been about a month since the start of the fall semester under new SGA ad-ministration. Jen and Jeff ran a strong cam-paign last year promising many improve-ments to our campus. While they can be commended for rolling out a few of these changes, what has been accomplished is merely a starting point — there’s still a lot more that needs to be to be made.

The SGA electives have been working diligently to implement some improve-ments, such as the release of the safety app, LiveSafe. While the concept of the app was needed, there are more pressing issues that should have been addressed.

For a stronger start, SGA representa-tives should have acknowledged the Phi Delta Theta incident more efficiently. The lack of visible effort put into remedying the situation is part of larger issue that SGA currently faces, which is not supporting Tech’s cultural groups. The Cultural and Diversity Affairs Committee and other

SGA groups have been making plans to open conversation between Greek life and cultural organizations around campus for some time, but thus far, nothing has hap-pened involving the whole campus.

In addition to the incredibly slow re-sponse to an incident which happened nearly a month ago, the Joint Finace Com-mitte has recently proposed changes in their bylaws to stop funding proposals which seek to subsidize cultural foods.

SGA claims to appreciate culture, how-ever, it does not seem like significant steps are being taken to support cultural groups and celebrate diversity around campus.

If steps are being taken to promote di-versity, then SGA has done a poor job in relaying these efforts, which are not in line with Jen and Jeff ’s promise for “active transparency.”

We hope to see more significant chang-es be effected by the end of Jen and Jeff ’s first 100 days.

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

technique editorial boardBrenda Lin EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Nick Johnson MANAGING EDITORMax Kaltman BUSINESS MANAGER

David Raji NEWS EDITORSamira Bandaru LIFE EDITOR

Jon Long SPORTS EDITORMonica Jamison ASST. PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Vidya Iyer OPINIONS EDITORTrishna Chandarana ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

Brighton Kamen DESIGN EDITORRoss Linday WEB DEVELOPER

Letter to the Editor: Donald Trump

George Alexopolous

Donald Trump has zero regard for human life and that is what makes him all the more ridiculous.

America’s political system is indeed broken yet Trump is a part of the system’s big money problem.

Benny Bierbaum

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Things I don’t miss as an alumni, the hot mess that is career fair in the September heat

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The word ‘polar’ is a very use-ful term to have in your descrip-tive arsenal. It can be applied to many situations, from the ice caps that may one day drown Florida to other scientific things I don’t under-stand. What I do understand, however, is the polarity of opin-ions on the name ‘Kardashian’.

A great deal of people idolizes the Kardashians and touts the family as the epitome of the American Dream: becoming unreasonably wealthy by doing absolutely nothing. However, viewers are justified in their fascination: beautiful women made of 98 percent recycled material, an Olympic hero who now changes in a different lock-er room and the one and only Kanye West.

In the other camp, we have pseudo-intellectuals who see Kardashian fandom as a plague on American society. The pre-vailing mindset of this group is that the Kardashians’ ascent to America’s pop culture throne wasn’t based off of their own merits and is therefore invalid. Yes, the current generation of the Kardashian family may have gotten their fame quite literally from sex and murder, but I be-lieve there may lie a certain level of jealousy in that. If it meant that I could afford to eat some-thing other than ramen and Cookout, I would be naked on the internet in a heartbeat.

Aside from that aspect of the family, there is one major point that every Anti-kardashianite seems to miss; because of the Kardashians, and every other pop culture sensation like them

for that matter, modern day television is incredible.

If there is one thing that all Tech students have in common (aside from a deep sense of self-

loathing) it is that we all love TV. Between watching the beautiful Tom Brady lead his team of cheat-ers down the football field and pretending to study while binge-ing ev-ery episode of

“Friends” on Netflix, we spend a great deal of our lives in front of the boob tube. The only thing better than saying ‘boob’ in the newspaper is the quality of to-day’s television programming.

Please don’t misinterpret that statement; I believe that on the surface, the television landscape would be a much better place without E! or today’s twisted bastardization of MTV. These channels regularly produce shal-low, uninspired content and will continue to until viewers stop keeping up with the Kardashi-ans. Due to their massive popu-larity, these shows have provided enormous competition to tried-and-true scripted TV. With viewers preferring to watch these low-budget cash cows, tra-ditional TV were thrown into a state of fight or flight. Net-works were forced to either increase the quality of their scripted programming or live out my dream of being slowly suffocated to death by Kim Kar-dashian’s thighs.

Luckily for us, production companies decided to begin pumping obscene amounts of cash into their scripted pro-gramming. Before the 21st cen-tury,

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Every year, students across the nation, myself included, attend a career fair to talk to a company recruiter in hopes to land an internship, co-op or even a full-time job. After wait-ing in line, sometimes up-wards of thirty minutes, we do not always hear what we want to hear. “Sorry we are not interest-ed in your major ... your GPA is not high enough ... you do not have the skills we are looking for,” and my person-al favorite, “apply online.”

Those words can tear a stu-dent down in an instant. You mean to tell me that I wasted all that time for you to tell me, “Thank you for your interest in our company. However we are not accepting resumes and you can apply online.” Who are we to blame for this? Sure we can blame the company for not hav-ing the respect to actually inter-act with students and act like they really care. We can also blame those eco-friendly, “save the Earth,” “don’t waste paper” people. I blame Tim Berners-Lee and his invention of the World Wide Web.

I love Netflix and the In-ternet in general, but when it comes to getting a job, I feel the Internet has gotten in the way. I want employers to get to know me and interact with me rather than my name just being some ID number in a database.

When applying for a job through a submission form, the company only lets you tell them what they want to hear. Never have I had applied for job on-line and the employer say, “Tell us about yourself.” These on-

line applications lack the ability for a company to connect with you as a potential employee. If I have a question about what a certain job entails or if a com-

pany provides a living stipend for internships, I am not able to ask them. And does a company really even know who you are if you do not qualify for a position? You fill out a form and a computer pro-gram sees you

have no previous job experience. So you get an email saying, “Af-ter careful consideration of all information you provided, you were not selected at this time.” In person I can hand a recruiter a resume, and maybe only they only pretend to be interested in me, but at least I can walk away somewhat prideful knowing that my name has been seen by that company.

Now let’s say you are lucky enough to get an interview. The Internet has also ruined those, and I’m not talking about the two-way interviews over Skype. I’m talking about the interviews where a question pops up on screen, you have fifteen seconds to think about it and another fifteen seconds to video record yourself answering the ques-tion. If that doesn’t sound bad, try answering “On a scale of 1 to 10, how weird would you consider yourself?” Yes, this was a real question that I’ve been asked before. The Internet has brought about great things, but I believe it is hindering many people’s abilities to get a job. Let’s bring back the days of re-cruiters accepting resumes and companies conducting real, in-person interviews.

From career fair to the apply online fair

Thank Kardashians for good television

“... when it comes to getting a job, I feel the Internet has gotten in

the way.”

TYLER MEUTERPHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

“If it meant that I could afford to eat something

other than ramen ... I would be naked ... in a

heartbeat.”

JONATHAN LONG SPORTS EDITOR

While in Tech’s Office of In-stitute Diversity, I had a revela-tion that my ideas of diversity were entirely wrong. The dic-tionary definition of diversity was less than helpful. “(n.) The state of being diverse; a range of different things.” What is the first image that comes to your mind when you hear the word “diversity?” Black advocacy groups? Feminist movements? LGBTQIA support networks? We’re viewing it all wrong. Di-versity isn’t about these minority groups — at least not entirely.

I grew up in Connecticut, in a relatively homogenous Cauca-sian culture and was raised by immigrant parents. You could argue that I had the best of both worlds; exposed to American culture but also had direct ac-cess to Indian culture. As I was growing up I was told how lucky I was to be able to experience two different cultures — but I never saw it that way.

There were no Indians within a fifty-mile radius, save for one or two families that we had din-ner with once or twice a year. There were no Hindustani vo-

cal classes for me to take. No bharatanatyam lessons. The nearest temple was about an hour away and the drive there always made me feel nauseous.

Instead, I learned violin — western style and have been playing for 15 years. I joined the fencing team in high school. I pursued endeavors in writing, poetry and literature. The ma-jority of my friends were Cauca-sian, and I didn’t have a single Indian friend. I was so influ-enced by the homogenous white culture that surrounded me for 18 years that I felt that I wasn’t able to entirely connect to my roots. For awhile, I felt ashamed because I wasn’t as Indian as I should be. Coming to Tech,

with its large Indian population, made me feel even more so.

During my first sleep away camp, not too far from home, I heard people whispering out-side my dorm room door — “she doesn’t even have an Indian ac-cent” — which made me more angry than upset. I didn’t like how people expected me to con-form to their stereotypes of what it means to be Indian. I didn’t like how people thought they should know me more than I know myself. I didn’t like how people didn’t acknowledge and define me for and by my indi-vidual interests but rather for what I should be based on my heritage.

The point of my childhood

anecdotes isn’t to say that I’m rejecting my culture or that I’m having some sort of identity cri-sis. I’ve had enriching cultural experiences at Tech for which I am incredibly grateful — but since I don’t entirely define my-self by my roots, do I fit into one of the categories that we label as a contribution to the diversity on campus?

Diversity shouldn’t only be about the number of minority groups that exist in a certain community or the ratio of males to females at a Tech school, but rather about a person’s individu-ality. This isn’t to say that diver-sity isn’t about the existing mi-nority groups — that’s just what we’ve defined it to be — but it’s important to relay the message of acceptance to not only people who identify as gay, female or African American, but to people of specific interests as well.

There’s a place for everyone on this campus, but it’s not re-stricted to innately based char-acteristics like race and gender. Our individuality in terms of our beliefs, interests and experi-ences, is what makes us diverse.

Diversity is about celebrating individuality “I realized that my ideas

of diversity were entirely wrong... . Diversity isn’t

about these minority groups.”

SAMIRA BANDARULIFE EDITOR

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8 • September 18, 2015• technique // OPINIONS

Cooking is an underappreciat-ed skill that some consider an art form. While there are instances of chefs creating pretty monstrosi-ties, which one can hardy call edible, the majority of humanity manages to live its collective lives without this extravagance. Once food has become such art, it, in many cases, does not really qual-ify as food any more. No longer considering cooking an art form, it is left as merely a skill, but one that none should live without.

There are few things in this world as irreplaceable as food, yet few really think about it. As col-lege students, we tend to just eat fast food, free food, cereal and ra-men (really anything that can be eaten after a single step cooking process), but since food is such an integral part of everyone’s lives, perhaps it should have a higher priority than this simplicity. Hav-ing an internal philosophical de-bate about food, however, is hard-ly the answer; learning to cook, on the other hand, should increase awareness of what is being eaten as well as allowing the cooks to eat exactly what they want and expand their creativity.

This is not to say that you should cook every meal, for few, if any, college students have enough time to do so. While it is perfectly

acceptable to opt for cereal on busier days, when taking a break from school work and other ac-tivities, attempt to make a decent meal from scratch. It does not par-ticularly matter what food you at-tempt to cook so long as it is more involved than usual college fare. If you are planning to travel abroad, perhaps invoking the magical Google for recipes from your des-tination country would be benefi-cial, if such plans are not in your future, then Google is still a magi-cal creature and the perfect place to find a new dish to attempt.

It is worth mentioning that you should not start with something ludicrously complex or time-con-suming, for this will inevitably end in failure; however, potential cooks should also know that, con-trary to popular belief, cooking is not a science. In most cases, the recipe is entirely a suggestion, and the cook is free to include more of ingredients he or she enjoys and less of those found repulsive.

This is even the case when discussing cakes and bread, com-monly thought to be particularly finicky with respect to the pro-portions of each ingredient. It is entirely possible to “bake” a tasty cake in a pot on a stove without any measuring cups. For bonus points, use a recipe in a language

which bares only a passing resem-blance to one you actually know (I chose Català). As this instance illustrates, cooking is more about creatively making something ed-ible than about going through a series of boring steps just to have lunch.

What is surprising to learn is that many consider themselves poor cooks because they think (and perhaps know from experi-ence) that others do not like their cooking, but if you are cooking for only yourself, this does not matter. Being capable of cooking well enough to be able to eat it (or rather suffer through the ter-rible mistake that has become that day’s supper) is sufficient. From this, you can learn and have bet-ter food in future. For instance, scrambling cake batter in a fry-ing pan is a bad idea (some gets burnt while some is still doughy) instead, use two pots, cook-ing for most of the time in one, then flipping the creation into the other pot to cook the top: voila cake!

This just goes to show that the main point of cooking is to solve a problem (needing to eat) in a creative way. As in many disci-plines, there are wrong ways to do so (such as cooking a poor slice of bread until it is no more than a glorified chunk of charcoal), but there are also countless ways to do so properly. The act of cooking is finding one such solution and checking to see which category it falls under.

A final, less pivotal, point is that, once you have pots, pans, and other cooking, it is quite a bit cheaper to eat at home than at a restaurant, though it is rather dif-ficult to beat the bland simplicity that is ramen.

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“There are few things in this world as irreplaceable as food,

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This trend is evident if you look at the budgets of recent TV shows. Most of the highest-budget programs of all time were made in the past 15 years. With greater resources devoted to scripted tele-vision, writers like Nic Pizzolatto (“True Detective”) and Vince Gil-ligan (“Breaking Bad”) are better able to translate their artistic vi-sion to the screen. At any given time, you can see Hollywood-quality content from the comfort of your home.

This doesn’t just refer to the quality of the visual effects; the very structure of television pro-gramming is changing. The TV shows of decades past were mainly easygoing, shallow affairs that didn’t require the constant atten-tion of viewers. If you missed an episode, you could still expect to fully enjoy the show next week. In today’s landscape, television has gone from simple entertainment to a marvel of storytelling and artistic integrity. Unlike films, which limit their stories to around two hours, today’s shows are able to span dozens of hours in which they are able to develop charac-ters, build suspense and weave more complex story lines.

If this trend continues then we are only just entering the golden age of scripted television. Heavy hitters such as HBO and AMC will continue to add to their roster of ratings-behemoths, while basic cable channels such as FX are be-ginning their first forays into the world of high budget drama. And while Walter White and Jon Snow cement their spot in pop culture history, never forget that it was all because of the family America loves to hate.

TELEVISION FROM PAGE 7

RRAHUL TOPIWALACONTRIBUTING WRITER

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your hud-dled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretch-ed refuse of your teem-ing shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp be-side the golden door.” It would do the U.S. well to remember those words, especially since they are emblazoned on one of the most iconic American monuments, the Statue of Liberty.

At the time of writ-ing this article, Hungary has sealed its borders (which are the gates to the EU), and the Gulf States still refuse to take in a single refugee — al-though they’re more than happy to build them a few mosques.

None of these Euro-pean countries have ever maintained the illusion of being welcoming states; they have their own cul-tural identity, and they cling to it. This argument does not apply to the U.S., which has no precon-ceived notions of culture or identity. It is a secular and non-discriminatory nation whose history has been one of migration, and its past is the foun-dation of the American Dream. The argument that refugees are not “real Americans” when com-pared to America’s Judeo-Christian roots is wrong; America was established to let everyone live the life they want, regardless of where they’re from.

Another argument

against taking them in is the possibility of terror-ism; they might secretly be members of ISIS. Ste-reotyping aside, this asser-tion betrays a fundamen-tal misunderstanding of radicalization in the Mid-dle East. ISIS believes that the U.S. is an enemy of Islam and wishes to eradi-cate Muslims. Turning away the Syrians in their time of need will only make them believe in the words of ISIS, leading to anger and anti-American sentiment.

The final argument against taking refugees is economic. People do not see why their taxpayer dollars should go to some Syrians rather than infra-structure or the economy. This would hold merit if the U.S. was a poor coun-try that had something big to lose without sav-ing every penny, but that is clearly not true. In fact, truly poor countries like Jordan and Lebanon have taken in refugees despite the fact that their econo-mies may not be able to accommodate the expen-diture. There is now one refugee for every four na-tives in Lebanon.

The U.S. can easily and has the means to support as many if not more mi-grants than these poorer countries. Furthermore, a good portion of the ref-uges are highly educated, and all of them are will-ing to work for a better life away from their for-mer war-torn homes. It’s almost as if someone told them that if you work hard in America, you can do anything.

YESDAVID RAJINEWS EDITOR

The ongoing conflict in Syria has displaced a great many since its be-ginning. Subsequently, a major point of interna-tional discussion recent-ly has revolved around whether or not countries should open their bor-ders and provide support for the refugees created by the civil war. Recent-ly, the Obama Admin-istration pledged that the United States would take in up to 10,000 ref-ugees displaced by the Syrian crisis.

In the case of the United States, a num-ber of arguments could be made which present reasons that displaced Syrians should not be allowed to take refuge within the United States. One of these revolves around the danger that a terrorist or an individual associated with a terror group might be among those admitted to the country.

According to United States law, no refugees may be admitted to the United States who have ever been affiliated or provided “material sup-port” to a terrorist group. Because of the large volume of persons that would likely be admit-ted if the United States were to open its borders to Syrian refugees, some are of the opinion the risk should be avoided by not admitting an in-creased number.

Another argument which has been made

includes the point that, historically, the United States has had a number of shortcomings when it comes to resettling refu-gees originating from the Middle East region.

For example, the United States allocated a total of 20,000 spe-cial immigrant visas for Iraqis and their families that assisted American troops during conflict in the region. However, by 2011, only 392 of these had been issued. Even after a number of lobby-ing efforts, the amount issued only totaled at approximately 6,000 by the year 2013.

There has also been concern expressed about the amount of time it would take to resettle the large amount of refugees. Proponents of this argument point to the fact that it has al-ready taken many years to settle Iraqi refugees, which is a situation that, even now, have not been fully dealt with.

Some of those who argue that more refugees should be allowed into the United States say that the country should be taking in a far greater number than 10,000 refugees. However, offi-cially, only 16,000 Syr-ian refugees have been referred to the United States by the United Nations High Com-missioner for Refugees (UNHCR). For this rea-son, it is impossible for the United States to do more without circum-venting the orders of the UNHCR.

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Life Raising the RatioSWE and WIE host their annual Tea with the Dean, welcom-

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ALEX COVINGTONASSISTANT LIFE EDITOR

The Student Center Ballroom was bustling with activity on Sep-tember 11, when Muslims for Life hosted their nationwide annual blood drive campaign to honor the victims of 9/11. Founded by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Commu-nity, the blood drive has been run-ning for more than five years, and between 2010 and 2014 the or-ganization collected 39,744 pints of blood, which helped save more than 118,000 lives.

This year, the blood drive was co-sponsored by “One Day” and the Red Cross. 

The idea was to counter nega-tive portrayals of Islam with posi-tive insight on the religion’s found-ing principles. They wished to show that Muslims are not called to bring violence, but to hold life sacred. “Our goal is to commemo-rate the victims of 9/11 with the gift of life, and to dispel miscon-ception about Islam. Islam is a re-ligion which indiscriminately val-ues the sanctity of life,” said Najia Humayun, first-year EIA major. “The Holy Quran actually says, “... whosoever  killed  a  person. it shall be as if he had killed all man-kind; and whoso gave life to one, it shall be as if he had given life to all mankind. (5:33)” As the coor-dinator of the blood drive, Huma-yun helped to facilitate the blood drive and advertise its cause. 

In a time when the loyalty of many Muslim Americans is be-

ing called into question, Huma-yan wished to express the idea that practicing Islam and being an American citizen are not in-compatible. “As a Muslim and an American, I feel that this cam-paign expresses a reality which many people have become blind to due to the stereotypes about Muslims promoted by the media,”

said Humayun. “It is very possible to be a Muslim and a loyal Ameri-can citizen. In fact, Islam includes loyalty to one’s nation as a part of faith.” 

Humayan expressed her hope that the blood drive would be beneficial in providing ample blood donations and in educating Tech students on the peaceful and

loving messages woven into Islam. “I hope that the blood drive that was held here, along with those held around the nation, not only gave people the opportunity to save lives for a noble cause, but also helped them see the true im-age of Islam as portrayed through the actions of peaceful Muslims.”

Blood drive honors 9/11 victims

Photo courtesy of Najia Humayun

Signs advertise the blood drive outside the student center ballroom. The organiza-

tion has collected almost forty thousand pints of blood between 2010 and 2014.

Campus Dining Tips

ELLA SILVACONTRIBUTING WRITER

There is one struggle that every student faces no matter what year, college, or major — the search for food. Many students are giv-en only a few options for eating: dining halls, Tech Square, the student center, or making friends with the person on your hall who loves to cook. Unfortunately, pay-ing for food everyday is a surefire way to clean out one’s wallet in one month or less. So, how can students achieve that freshman 15 without becoming completely de-sensitized to what is served at the dining halls?

For the freshmen that find themselves unable to reach North Ave, here are some tips on surviv-ing the dining halls at Georgia Tech. Areas that are safe in both the spoon-deficient Woodruff and constantly closed Britain are the fruit station, the cereal station, and the dessert station. No matter what time of day, these stations are reliably stocked and easy to grab on the go. On the other hand, when looking for a real meal, it is important to know what to look for at each dining hall.

For breakfast, Britain is known to have good omelets, oatmeal, and sausages. Students can pick and choose the contents of their omelets and can watch their breakfast be prepared before them.

When lunch rolls around, Britain offers hot burgers and cheeseburgers, and Woodruff has been known to set out pizza and flat bread. Both dining halls have salad bars with a wide vari-ety of dressings, toppings, and the choice between spinach and let-tuce.

It is also important to know the hours when food will be available. Luckily, the hours for each of the dining halls is available through the GT Portal app and through the meal plan website.

Of the few options for the up-perclassmen that face the struggle of finding sustenance, one of the most popular are food trucks. These trucks accept both dining dollars and buzzfunds, are con-venient and serve delicious, di-verse food. Alternatively, there is a farmer’s market that comes into the city on Thursdays. This market provides opportunity for students to buy cheap, healthy and easy-to-prepare foods such as pasta, rice, beans, vegetables, and bread. If all else fails, the first and second floor of the Student Center is always filled with chain fast food.

Campus diversity celebrated, discussedALEX COVINGTON

ASSISTANT LIFE EDITOR

The value of campus inclusiv-ity were reaffirmed this past week at the seventh annual Diversity Symposium. The series of lectures dealt with matters of demographic change, equity in hiring and cre-ating a positive climate for diverse individuals on campus and in the workplace as part of Tech’s aspi-ration of diversity. “The Geor-gia Tech strategic plan is that we would seek to create a campus community that values collegial-ity, respect, civility, and embraces diversity in all its forms,” said Ar-chie Ervin, PhD., Georgia Tech Vice President for Institute Diver-sity. “We know that by doing that, we are a richer community, and in fact a more vibrant one, when we have that kind of diversity at Georgia Tech.”

The event started with a lecture by James Johnson PhD. of the University of North Carolina on demographic changes in America and their influence on higher edu-cation. Included in the talk was a discussion on recent trends of im-migration and an aging workforce as well as analysis of minority representation in different areas compared with academic perfor-mance.

Following this was a panel discussing the enhancement of hiring equity in the workplace. The panel consisted of Georgia

Tech professors who are members of NSF ADVANCE, a program whose goal is an increased num-ber of women in the fields of sci-ence and engineering.

During the luncheon of the

event, individual professors, stu-dents and staff members were recognized for contributions to campus diversity. Some of the achievements recognized during the meeting were the creation of

the Society of Women in Physics by Andrea Welsh, time served on the Diversity Affairs Committee by Alex Berry, and the creation of safe spaces for LGBTQIA indi-

Photo by John Nakano Student Publications

Vice President of Institute Diversity Archie Ervin speaks at the symposium. He intro-

duced the event and outlined progress and aspirations for diversity at Georgia Tech

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For Kappa Sigma, this issue is especially important. Several years ago, one of their brothers com-mitted suicide. The experience of unexpectedly losing a brother left an impact on the their com-munity. Many of the members were left questioning how it could even happen. When discussing philanthropy events the next year, the issue of mental health was of top priority. The goal was to raise awareness and fund a fun event on campus for the entire community. The result is the Kappa Sigma Games.

This year’s Games have ex-panded to include the faculty of the school with Dean John Stein as the honorary commissioner. Johnston says, “The Office of Student Integrity even has a team signed up already.” Imagine Dean Stein playing bubble soccer. Even if Dean Stein isn’t the playing, will be handing out a trophy to the winners of each game.

The goal of this expansion is not only to get the school talking about mental health and suicide prevention, but also to have an inclusive campus event dedicated promoting fun and community. Johnston explains, “The goal is to raise awareness about mental health and suicide prevention. But it is also to create a fun event that hopefully everyone enjoys and create a sense of community.”

Teams of ten can compete in either bubble soccer or kick ball and up to 40 teams can compete. Each team costs $20 to compete. The proceeds of this event will benefit organizations dedicated promoting mental health and sui-cide prevention, like The Ameri-can Society of Suicide Prevention. The Kappa Sigma Games will be held on the SAC field and Burger Bowl on September 26th from 9 am- 3 p.m. For more information, go to KappaSigmaGames.com or email [email protected].

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Thoughts on the removal of the

Pizza HutJONATHAN ZHANGCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Recently, the Pizza Hut in the Student Center has closed. The iconic restaurant chain has over 6,000 locations within the United States, yet seems to have made very little impact on the student body during and after its life on campus.

This Pizza Hut in the Student Center was very unique: “I know that it was the only Pizza Hut that served Coca-Cola products,” said Richard Sinz, first-year CEE. Pizza Hut is contracted to Pepsi, but because of Coca-Cola’s domi-nance in the city of Atlanta and influence on Tech, the restaurant is required to serve Coke prod-ucts.

Unfortunately, not even Coca-Cola could save the restaurant from closing its doors on campus. “I personally never ate there. It seemed like it was not very popu-lar, so I guess it’s a good thing that it closed,” observed Tejas Kho-rana, third-year CS. Although

Khorana does not have a personal opinion on the food, his observa-tion is very telling. The lack of business at the unpopular Pizza Hut would surely have forced the chain to close its doors. In that case, it indeed would be the best solution for both students and Pizza Hut. The closing would save Pizza Hut the cost of keeping the chain running, and students can now hope for a new restaurant in its place.

The lack of sentiment for Pizza Hut’s closing was shared by many students at Tech. “It’s all right because Ray’s is upstairs,” noted Michael, third-year ME. With the vast array of food available at the Student Center, there would not have been enough business for two pizza-centered restaurants.

Pizza Hut’s decline on cam-pus also coincides with a brief but dramatic drop in the corpora-tion’s overall performances. Yum! Brands Inc., who owns Pizza Hut, has reported steady increases in profit for the past few years, until autumn of 2014, when the com-pany’s profit margins dropped from around 12 percent to -2 per-cent. The causes of the drop are undetermined, but Yum! Brands Inc. has since bounced back con-siderably, returning to a profit margin of around seven percent this summer. Pizza Hut itself has also been boosting its marketing very aggressively. Recently, the franchise has become the official College GameDay sponsor. To in-crease their popularity, they gave away 10,000 free pizzas on the

opening day of the college foot-ball season to appeal to football fans. This move is the beginning of Pizza Hut’s attempts at bounc-ing back, but is unfortunately too late to salvage any business from Tech’s campus.

In the end, Pizza Hut’s exit from the Student Center was both inevitable and unceremonious. With the wide selection of food already available, its not that hard to see one go.

Now, students are starting to dream of all the things that could replace Pizza Hut. “Will they replace it with Chipotle?” pon-ders a hopeful Matthew Leipner, second-year ChBE. For now, the closing has hardly caused a stir; however, all could change if a new restaurant chain takes its place.

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The luncheon was also the venue for Marc Morial, the guest speaker, who served as the mayor of New Orleans between 1994 and 2002. Morial outlined his vi-sion for a new definition of civil rights in the 21st century, empha-sizing that a plan for the future must be founded on an awareness of inequality in America and the sacrifices made to combat. He rec-ommended a plan for civil rights based on three D’s — the first be-ing to defend democracy, such as in combatting unfair voter laws. The next was to develop human capital, where Morial spoke about the necessity of making college ac-cessible and affordable to all. The final ‘D’ was for demanding jobs, which he expounded as a demand that needs to be made by both influential business and political leaders to create jobs with liveable wages.

As Dr. Ervin explained, the event helps to address the topic of diversity not only as a value for Tech itself, but to help students learn how to approach it once they graduate. “Navigating differ-ence, that is, properly understand-ing how to engage it and take it for what it is, is a strength, is an asset,” said Dr. Ervin. “There are very few things that you’re going to do after Georgia Tech where you’re going to be able to work in a homogenic society. We’re pre-paring our students for the future, and I think an important part of that is preparing them for the di-versity that the world has to offer.”

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A group of freshmen pose with Buzz for a photo at New Student Convocation, which took

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Tea welcomes new female engineers SAMIRA BANDARU

LIFE EDITOR

On Thursday Sept. 3, the So-ciety of Women Engineers (SWE) and Women in Engineering (WIE) hosted their annual Tea With the Dean event. Tea with the Dean is a welcome event for all freshman and transfer female engineering majors to join the community of women engineers, a minority group at Tech. With a total of 450 women attending the event — slightly over one hun-dred more women than last year — the only place where the event was lacking was in chairs and gift bags. According to Dean May, 41 percent of incoming freshmen are women, and 31 percent of fresh-men engineering students are women.

“We had our College of Engi-neering Dean, Gary May, come in to speak,” said SWE’s Secretary, Hannah Chen, second-year IE. “It was very well organized — and everything was pink themed! Ev-eryone seemed to really enjoy the event, and I just love talking to freshmen because they’re so en-thusiastic about everything.

Christine Valle PhD., the Di-rector of Women in Engineer-ing, made her inspiring opening remarks and was followed by guest speaker, Sandra Pettit PhD., a professor at Tech’s school of Chemical and Biomolecular Engi-neering. She defied odds when, as a child, she was told that women could not be engineers. After at-

tending engineering school, she met Mae Jemison, the first Afri-can American woman in space, which further inspired to become an engineer and ultimately im-pact the lives of others.

Following Pettit was Jacqui Green, the president of SWE, whose main pieces of advice in-

cluded that “you can’t predict the future because everything is con-stantly changing — be confident, get involved on campus and chal-lenge yourself to have breadth and depth as an engineer.”

With the huge improvement in the number of eager young wom-en engineers looking to advance

and promote their field, SWE and WIE members say the event was successful. “The event repre-sents a place for women engineers to belong and fit in,” Chen said. “There’s a sense of community waiting for you to be a part of in Society of Women Engineers and Women in Engineering.”

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Liz Harris, donning the moni-ker “Grouper,” has been making waves in modern ambient music for the past decade. Her sound is openly melancholy on record and unapologetically noisy in concert. Whether it be the drug-infused 2008 album “Dragging a Dead Dear Up a Hill” or her latest ef-fort “Ruins,” Harris has stuck to a general formula of simple chords backed with indistinguishable vo-cals that hum and float along the backdrop of the song.

In mid 2013, one of Harris’ numerous side projects, Helen, re-leased two short songs on a single entitled “Felt This Way / Dying All The Time”. It was later re-vealed that this group consisted of Harris, Jed Bindeman, Scott Sim-mons and an unknown vocalist aptly named Helen.

The two tracks released were loud and relentlessly lo-fi. Shoe-gaze-style guitar was employed in both songs with a sound that

played homage to 90s group Black Tambourine. Both tracks would make a later appearance on “The Original Faces”.

Helen released their first of-ficial LP two years later. It was filled with 12 noisy, listless pop tracks. The album places its sound somewhere between My Bloody Valentine’s “Loveless” and Pink-shinyultrablast’s “Happy Songs for Happy Zombies.” At face value, the album appears to be an accessible shoegaze and noise pop release, but upon further exami-nation, it reveals some interesting characteristics and charms.

The songs on this album evoke a variety of emotions. It is im-mediately apparent in the opener, “Ryder,” that the composition is a crumbled tape spinning in the background while an echoed bouncing guitar overlaps it.

Suddenly, all this stops and a heavily distorted electric guitar enters, eventually accompanied by the soft singing of Harris and the punching bass of Simmons. The listener is given a glimpse into a rather joyous and adolescent side of Harris.

More tracks follow suit em-ploying a similar style. “Motor-cycle” begins with hushed vocals and explodes into a noise pop track, flowing into the third cut “Covered in Shade.”

This track is a respite from the buzz of the record, and almost sounds like a 60s pop song ironi-cally juxtaposed with Harris’ bog-gy, looming vox.

“Felt This Way” and “Dying All the Time” have been recreated for the new album, stripping back layers of reverb from their origi-nal forms and providing a slightly clearer sound. While impossible for listeners to understand the lyr-ics to any degree of accuracy, Har-ris’ vocals charm the audience.

These remade tracks prove to stand out from the bunch: they create rhythm that seems ready to dissipate at any time to complete

blissful noise but manage to re-main self-conscience and hold the songs together at the roots.

The message “The Original Faces” seems to send is that its pop structures are only meant to exist in short bursts. With seven of the tracks under three minutes, Helen allows the audience to peek into their desolate sound but shuts the door when it becomes too much.

It plays out well that Helen re-alized this pitfall, providing the

listener a chance to dissolve them-selves into a blissful atmosphere but not so much as to become te-dious and downright boring.

Taken as a holistic piece, “The Original Faces” is disorienting. Despite the random diversions from the standard sound, Helen has crafted a solid debut and it is pleasant to know that Liz Harris is capable of breaking her ghostly music mold into something more joyous at times.

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The New American Shake-speare Tavern has graced Atlanta with original practice renditions of William Shakespeare’s works for more than twenty years. This stage ignores the fourth wall, call-ing attention to anyone unfortu-nate enough to have their phone ring during a performance.

With the end of this year’s continuation of the tavern’s sum-mer tradition of performing “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Complete Works of Wil-liam Shakespeare (Abridged),” the playhouse turned to some of the Bard’s lesser known plays. After two weeks performing “Pericles,” “Prince of Tyre,” the Shakespeare Tavern turned its eye on “Cymbe-line,” a play that was once classi-fied as a tragedy.

Throughout the centuries, however, historians and critics have shifted towards the idea that “Cymbeline” might not merit this classification. Perhaps due to the low body count, this play is now considered a romance, which is quite a bit different from tragedy, inviting the question of whether or not these categories are particu-larly accurate.

The play opens with the secret husband of Briton’s Princess Imo-gen (Anna Fontaine), Leonatus (Paul Hester), being banished. He proceeds to Italy, boasting of Imo-gen’s beauty and faithfulness. His claim is questioned by Iachimo (Jonathan Horne), and the two made a deal; if Iachimo can prove Imogen unfaithful, then the hus-band would relinquish his claim

to her as well as a valuable ring she gave to him before his untimely departure. Iachimo heads for Brit-on; hilarity ensues, or at least, it was supposed to.

While there were comical parts, audience members could easily wonder how intelligent the characters were. With “Cymbe-line,” William Shakespeare, a playwright known for his relatable

characters, failed to create a story with reasonable players whom the audience might wish to succeed in their endeavors.

For instance, after having ac-knowledged that Imogen’s step-mother, the queen, is decidedly evil, Leonatus’s servant, Pisanio, still trusts that the herbs the queen gives him are beneficial re-sulting in distress for those in the blundering character’s way.

His master, Leonatus, is not much better. He decides to have his wife killed on the word of a complete stranger then happily joins both sides of a war in the hopes of ending his own life.

Even with these illogical and foolish characters, “Cymbeline” does somehow manage to nicely end each of its many plot lines in one undramatic finale. While the end scene is quite intense, the characters failed to come alive throughout the play, not letting the audience enjoy the ending.

Given the material to work with, the actors were hard-pressed to enthrall the audience; this is not to say that most did not make a valiant effort. Throughout the play, Jonathan Horne, who played Iachimo, gave a grand impres-sion of the dastardly wiles of his character, leading the audience to almost like the cunning deceiver. Others seemed a little less enthusi-astic about their roles, though this became less noticeable as the play progressed.

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The dastardly Iachimo (Jonathan Horne) stealthily acquires a bracelet of the faithful Princess Imogen (Anna Fontaine). He is easily the most interesting character of the Shakespearean play.

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Liz Harris takes a moment before playing a set. A Liz Harris side project, Helen, re-leased a new album “The Original Faces” which features shoegaze and noisy pop.

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This past weekend, Emory University hosted the 12th an-nual Atlanta Trumpet Festival. As the specialized nature of the event suggests, the festival was not the most popular weekend attraction on the Emory campus but prom-ised a great opportunity for those interested to hone their musical skills.

Each year, the Atlanta Trum-pet Festival provides a hands-on educational experience for trum-pet players of all ages and expe-rience levels. The schedule of the festival is undeniably centered on the clinics held by professional trumpeters and educators inter-spersed with ensemble rehearsals preparing the participants for the festival recital on Sunday.

Although the majority of the festival is not geared towards a general audience, the hour-long Guest Artist Recital on Saturday evening was surprisingly enjoy-able for the uninitiated and the aficionado alike.

The recital started with the Atlanta Trumpet Ensemble’s ani-mated rendition of composer Erik Morales’ “Infinite Ascent.” The stage was then turned over to the guest artists as the members of the Atlanta Trumpet Ensemble took their places among the audi-ence to observe the masters of the instrument in action as they en-gaged the crowd.

One by one, the guest artists stepped on and off the stage of Emory’s 800-seat Cherry Logan Emerson Concert Hall for 45 minutes. Accompanying each art-ist was a single Steinway and Sons piano in the middle of the stage, allowing the trumpet to be the center of attention throughout the recital.

However, some members of the audience seemed to have a hard time paying attention to the actu-al performers. Possibly exhausted by a long day of trumpet playing and lacking stimulation from the minimalistic setup on the stage, a sleepy few could be spotted among the middle school students.

The pieces performed spanned several centuries of musical com-position, ranging from German Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann’s “Sonata de Concert” to contemporary Swedish com-poser Jan Sandström’s “Sång till Lotta”.

Whereas some artists preferred to play pieces that emphasized technical ability, others played simpler and more instructive

tunes. These instances pointed to a diverse selection in the recital’s repertoire. Unfortunately, that di-versity was restricted only to the genre of classical music.

In the popular imagination, the trumpet is more closely con-nected to that certain kind of feeling elicited by the improvised swing of jazz than to the strict performance of classical music. Given the trumpet’s central role in most traditional jazz styles, it was hard not to be disappointed by the absence of jazz music in the otherwise satisfactory Guest Art-ist Recital.

The festival should have taken advantage of the fact that the mere sight of the trumpet inevi-tably brings to mind jazz legends the likes of Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong to engage a more di-verse and perhaps a more crowded audience.

Overall, the 12th annual At-lanta Trumpet Festival was not as festive as one would expect from a festival but offered a relaxing eve-ning to the attendees of its Guest Artist Recital.

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After 17 years, the “Metal Gear Solid” saga has finally come to an end. On Sept. 1, Konami released the eighth and final installment of the “Metal Gear” series, “Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.” The last non-mobile “Metal Gear” game, “Guns of the Patriots”, was released in early 2008. Technol-ogy has had over seven years to catch up to Hideo Kojima’s vi-sion, and the differences are evi-dent as soon as the game begins.

The most obvious improve-ment over past installments is the graphics quality. Running on the all-new Fox Engine, “The Phan-tom Pain” is able to render stun-ning landscapes, dynamic light-ing and lifelike character models. From the very beginning of the opening sequence, it becomes abundantly clear just how much this technology is capable of.

A game cannot stand on graphics alone. Luckily for “The Phantom Pain”, the quality of the gameplay may even exceed that of its visuals. It is packed with the kind of stealth action that can only be found in a “Metal Gear.”

Make no mistake — there may be guns in this game, but it is a far cry from the likes of “Call of Duty”. Concealment is key, and while players can certainly rush through the game guns blazing, stealthy players will find their pa-tience rewarded with bonuses and a more satisfying experience.

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The city of Atlanta is often overlooked when large U.S. cities are mentioned, but it definitely has its fair share of events and places to go to for new, unique ex-periences.

For instance, fall is right around the corner, and the first annual Old Fourth Ward Fall Festival, held at the BeltLine last weekend, was a good way to cel-ebrate saying goodbye to this summer’s excessive humidity and sunburns.

This season’s festival was meant to serve as an extension of the an-nual Atlanta BeltLine Lantern Parade, which started in the year 2010.

Food and fun were expected by the Old Fourth Ward Fall Festival attendees. As far as food options, the festival had several food trucks, some of which can be found around Tech’s campus during the week, such as Mac the Cheese and Viet Nomie’s. Ad-ditionally, they sold beverages and had some traditional festival food such as corn dogs and funnel cakes, which brought a familiar comforting element to the new event.

The live entertainment espe-cially brought a familiar southern note to this festival. For instance, one of the performing bands, The Whiskey Gentry, was an upbeat Bluegrass group from Nashville, Tenn., who made sure that the energy of the afternoon remained

lively. The band’s enthusiastic performance kept the attendees on their feet and away from their seats, dancing to the spirited tunes of the performance.

The event was held over the course of two days, Friday, Sept. 11, and Saturday, Sept. 12. The lantern workshops began on Fri-day, and people came to mingle and enjoy the festival atmosphere.

Saturday started slowly with yoga and culminated with the Lantern Parade. The optional yet

exciting Lantern Parade Viewing Party, which was a fundraising ef-fort, was also held that night. The proceeds from the fundraiser went to the Atlanta BeltLine Partner-ship and Art on the BeltLine, two organizations who were working together to revamp and beautify the land and surroundings of the Atlanta BeltLine.

The Old Fourth Ward Fall Fes-tival is a perfect example of what The Beltline’s creators intended for it to stand for.

The idea of the BeltLine was originally introduced by a Tech graduate, Ryan Gravel, and has grown over the years to be a proj-ect for transportation, expansion of green space, promotion of sus-tainable growth and a location to showcase local art. As of now, the entire project is not complete, but if work continues at the current rate, the BeltLine will be complet-ed by 2030.

According to current plans, once the BeltLine is completed, it

will connect 45 neighborhoods in Atlanta and have transit options to make it more accessible to the general public.

Atlanta’s BeltLine is meant to be a way for people to explore dif-ferent parts of the city and to unite the region as a whole — all while being a unique attraction for the city and a lively venue for events such as the BeltLine Lantern Pa-rade or the Old Fourth Ward Fall Festival.

Additionally, because this event was incorporated with the Lantern Parade, there were lan-tern-making workshops where interested attendees could make and decorate lanterns for the next night’s parade.

Participants decorated their lanterns with anything from faces to Gallifreyan, as they celebrated the start of cooler weather and the season of layering.

As for the Lantern Parade on Saturday, thousands of Atlanta residents showed up with deco-rated lanterns and plenty of ex-citement to light up the night and brighten people’s weekends. The lanterns had a wide variety of sizes and styles which made the parade an exciting, diverse and colorful event.

Despite this being the first year of the Old Fourth Ward Fall Festival, this event has the potential to become a major an-nual event, much like Taste of Atlanta. It could also become one of the many fall festivals Atlanta residents have come to know and love.

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The Old Fourth Ward Fall Festival culminated in the iconic lantern parade. This fes-tival is one of four annual festivals that highlight the soon-to-be-finished BeltLine.

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ALICE BARSKYCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Atlanta’s resident Root City Market self-describes its quarterly pop-up markets as the “London weekend market meets the Brook-lyn Flea.” After attending, “south-ern charm” would also be fitting.

The Fall Pop-up Market at the Atlanta BeltLine on Saturday, Sept. 12, celebrated all things lo-cally crafted, from clothing to artwork to chocolate. The market was held at Stove Works, across from The Krog Street Market, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“The BeltLine has been won-derful for encouraging people to explore their neighborhoods and support local,” said Jen Soong, founder and curator of Root City Market. “We’re so excited to be hosting this event and help-ing create a community-driven, adventure-filled experience.”

Root City Market held its Fall Pop-up Market at Atlanta Stove Works, a factory whose presence dates back to 1889, which was recently renovated as an event venue. The massive open space housed artisan craft makers who specialize in locally sourced and sustainable products and goods.

The artwork displays were, by far, the most eye-catching booths set up at the market. One vendor, Yoyo Ferro Art, had unique Atlan-ta-inspired prints. Modern Giant, a design and silkscreen printing company based out of Macon, offered striking graphic tees and apparel.

Two quirky stationary busi-nesses were also represented at the market. Ashley Buzzy is a local graphic designer and artist who sells stationary for various purposes: personal and office use, holidays and bridal. She graduat-ed from the University of Georgia and offers calligraphy workshops through her company.

Cherry Laurel Design also dis-played their letterpress products, graphic design services and brand management consulting last Sat-urday.

More unconventional art in-cluded Amaranthus Paper & Flo-ra as well as the carpentry work of Koby Downs. Amaranthus is a mother-daughter team special-izing in handcrafted paper crepe flowers, which are perfect for a long lasting and allergen free gift. SOULFlowers, a boutique florist, also provided live floral arrange-ment.

One of the best ways to ob-tain a unique piece of jewelry is at markets like Root City Market’s Pop-up Market. For instance, Cameoko offered meticulously crafted necklaces, rings and ear-rings, while Drea James spot-lighted more eclectic, repurposed vintage jewelry.

As people are becoming in-creasingly aware of the economic injustice, environmental degrada-tion, labor law violations and ani-mal welfare issues caused by the agribusiness industry, more are choosing to “eat local.”

At the pop-up market, several locally sourced and sustainable food products were sold. Nico-

bella and Xocoatl had samples of their delicious chocolates. Both use only pure cacao and organic cane sugar.

Additionally, Beautiful Briny Sea, an artisan dry-goods com-pany that makes salts and sugars using locally grown herbs, foraged mushrooms and organic spices, also sold food at the market.

Fitting of their commitment to sourcing local ingredients, some companies incorporated social justice principles into their busi-ness practices. For example, Re-vive Bath & Body is an organic soap company that is partnered with HavenATL to provide job skills for women exiting the traf-ficking trade in Atlanta, the hu-man trafficking capital of the United States. They carried loofah soaps, traditional soap bars, hand soap, bath salts and lip balm last Saturday.

All of Revive’s products come in a variety of unconventional scents, including such varieties as eucalyptus and cedarwood, fir needle and grapefruit, jasmine

rose and sandalwood, lemongrass and ginger and tangerine lime and thyme.

Some ready-made snacks were for sale outside of the venue — Doggy Dogg artisan hot dogs, Wanderlust cold brew coffee and Atomic Ice Cream sandwiches were ready for any hungry at-tendees. However, Stove Works is also conveniently located directly across from The Krog Street Mar-ket, an indoor market of dining and retail. The market, located in a renovated warehouse from the 20s, has restaurants like Hop City, Fred’s Meat and Bread, Gu’s Dumplings, Superica and Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream.

Atlanta’s Root City Market’s Fall Pop-up Market on the Belt-Line was a great way to spend a beautiful day outdoors support-ing local businesses and the art community in general. Root City Market holds four pop-up mar-kets annually, so all should be on the lookout for future events to at-tend — especially if they are held at the scenic Stove Works.

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The story, an aspect of “Metal Gear Solid 4” that was very heav-ily criticized, was completely re-worked in “Phantom Pain”. While players of the previous install-ment were fed hours upon hours of cutscenes, the newest chapter in the Metal Gear saga presents its story in a much less intrusive manner. It is full of the same bi-zarre plot points that the series is known for, but they come in the form of optional casette tapes.

As players progress through the game, more of these cassettes will be unlocked, revealing more and more of the plot. Cutscenes are still there, but they are used very sparingly, leaving the less exciting exposition to the cassettes.

The benefit of this is twofold: first, the story becomes far less intrusive than it has been in pre-vious installments while still be-ing accessible to those who want it. Second, with such a large and expansive open world, it provides a nice way to occupy time while riding around between destina-tions in the beautiful deserts of Afghanistan.

The game’s open world is also something new for the “Metal Gear” series. While some missions do take place in a linear environ-ment, the player is given the free-dom to tackle objectives more or less in whatever order they choose.

Moving back and forth be-tween locations is handled via a menu that also houses options for researching new weapons, recruit-ing new soldiers and upgrading your base. This system takes the best aspects from 2010’s “Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker” and scales them up to take advantage of next-generation technology, creating an all-around more ro-bust experience.

It has been an exciting 17 years, but Konami managed to beat all the hype and end their series with a bang. With over one hundred hours of varied gameplay and one of the most engrossing video game stories ever, “The Phantom Pain” is guaranteed to keep players oc-cupied for quite a while.

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Among the many wares at Root City Market’s Fall Pop-up were balms and scented candles. Interested market goers were able to peruse the plethora of potentially overwhelming scents.

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JOE SOBCHUKASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Intramural sports are a great way to be involved on campus and have fun with some friends. They provide a competitive outlet for students and allow them to forget about the stresses of schoolwork, if only for an hour or two per week. For these reasons, it can be incred-ibly frustrating when the games are not played.

Too often, games are canceled or forfeited because one of the two teams simply does not show up. It is a problem that persists heavily in some of the less popular sports, but lately it has even reared its ugly head in seven-on-seven flag football, the biggest intramural sport on campus. The intramural office needs to fine teams who de-cide to no-show in order to curb its prevalence in the intramural community.

This is now the third week (out of five) of the intramural flag foot-ball schedule, and at the time of this writing, my team has yet to play in an actual game. We feel robbed of a full season. We paid the $70 registration fee with the expectation that we would play five regular season games plus any playoff games that we earn. In-stead, so far we have twice shown up to the turf fields ready to play, only to be turned away due to the

lack of a competing team. If our registration fee were to be appro-priated to each game, we would have already been cheated out of $28, just because the other teams are not honoring their commit-ments.

In addition to the wasted money, no-shows are also a waste of time for the team who actually shows up. Our team arrives at the field one hour before the scheduled game time in order to warm up and conduct some light practice. In past seasons, we would also see the other team arrive and warm up as well and possibly chat with them for a little bit. This year, we warmed up alone, and as the start time drew closer, the slow, creep-ing realization that we would not actually have the chance to play that night dawned on us.

Yet, we still could not leave, as games are not declared forfeited via no-show until the scheduled game time. We have been forced to stay for the remainder of the time, with our hopes of actually playing quickly fading, just to of-ficially arrive at the unsatisfying conclusion of a win via no-show. Our 10-member team spent an hour preparing for each game, meaning that each opposing team unjustly wasted 10 man-hours of our time.

Our team takes competing in intramurals seriously, and we have dedicated plenty of time towards developing and practicing a triple option offensive scheme. We had hoped to continuously improve it over the course of the season, analyzing its performance in each of our games. However, since we have not yet played a game, our offense is much further behind in development than where we would have liked it to be. This fact, combined with all of the lost team chemistry that is essential to playing in games together, puts us at a disadvantage compared to our competition, especially once the playoffs start.

No-shows are not a rare occur-rence by any means: 21 percent of all seven-on-seven flag football games in the independent division were forfeited via no-show last fall. The sheer amount of nega-tive effects that no-shows cause, combined with their alarmingly high frequency, demands that the intramural office take preventive action.

Currently, the intramural of-fice does not punish teams who forfeit/no-show any more than giving them a loss for the game they skip. The most straight-forward, proactive and effective method would be to implement

monetary penalties for forfeits and no-shows, as money would surely motivate most people in this situ-ation more than any other reason-able incentive.

Schools such as UGA and MIT have monetary penalties in place for teams that forfeit games, so there is precedent for this type of system. It would be easy to imple-ment, too: simply collect all of the money when the teams register, then refund it at the end of the season for every game which the teams attend.

For example, instead of charg-ing $70 to register, charge $70 plus $25 per game for a total of

$195. If the team plays all of its games, they would receive a $125 refund at the end of the season. This would allow the intramu-ral office to implement a fining system without having to worry about actually collecting the mon-ey from teams when they forfeit.

Ideally, a fining system would greatly reduce, or perhaps even eliminate, the frequency of no-shows across all of the intramural sports. The frustration of a week’s worth of game planning, practice and preparation going to waste for reasons external to the team would no longer be associated with the intramural experience.

Photo courtesy of Georgia Tech Intramurals

FIJI lines up their offense against ATO in the intramural Flag Football Fall Classic last month.

The intramural office should take action in order to maximize the percentage of games played.

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ARJUN SABNISCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Junior cross country runner Zane Coburn is going into his second season for the Jackets after one year at the University of Geor-gia. He was one of Tech’s top run-ners in both the 8K and 10K cross country events as well as a solid force for the track team. A na-tive of Atlanta, he attended Grady High School and is currently ma-joring in History, Technology and Society.

Technique: How did you first get into cross country running?

Coburn: It was mostly in middle school where a lot of my friends were doing it, so I just de-cided to go from there. I didn’t run my freshman year in high school, I just played baseball, and then in my sophomore year, I de-cided to go for it and work it out from there.

Technique: How did you end up at Tech, and why did you leave UGA?

Coburn: I actually went to high school at Grady, which is on 10th Street, so I’m a local kid,

but I actually transferred here my sophomore year. I went to the University of Georgia for a year-and-a-half. I originally committed to here coming out of high school, but some things happened, and I ended up at UGA. But there were a lot of coaching changes, and the atmosphere just wasn’t for me. I like it here a lot more.

Technique: Speaking of which, how do you feel about the athletic atmosphere at UGA com-pared to that of Tech?

Coburn: I think here, espe-cially on the athletic-academic side, we’re given more leeway to do things because they trust us. At UGA, it was more business — everything was a business. So especially on the athletic side, if you weren’t competing the way they wanted you to, you were ei-ther off the team or they rescinded your scholarship within that day. I enjoy the atmosphere a lot more down here. Obviously we’re seri-ous about it, and we want to get everything done and compete at a high level, but they understand that we have a lot of academic pri-orities as well, which UGA didn’t seem to care about as much.

Technique: What motivates you to succeed in cross country? What are your expectations of yourself?

Coburn: Even starting in high school, I was trying to stay up there with the leaders. I wanted to get a degree out of this: I’d be the third person in my family on both sides to get a degree. Just getting to college was a definite boost of mo-rale. Knowing that I want to get my degree, that motivates me to stay and remember that there’s not just athletics but an academic side to it as well. Also, when you have guys running under four minutes to the mile, it motivates you. It’s hard to stay running if you don’t enjoy it. We do similar things everyday. Whether it is speed or distance, it’s still running. If you don’t love it or at least enjoy it, it’s

hard to stick with running. Technique: How do you pre-

pare in the off-season?Coburn: Summer time is

when we run the most mileage. We have a mileage chart for ev-ery single day of the week and for every week of the year. Every day is a percentage of our mile-age. Last summer, I probably ran a thousand miles. That gets you tough when it’s 95 degrees outside and you’re running 12–13 miles. It hurts a lot, and that’s why you need to mentally prepare.

Technique: What are your hobbies outside of cross country?

Coburn: I grew up close by, and my best friend in the world is actually the best skateboarder. He’s a professional skateboarder for Nike. I grew up in that skate-board culture. It’s a different kind of group; it’s an eccentric and eclectic group, but I consider them my family. I don’t skateboard, but I like to watch it, so I consider it my hobby.

Technique: Do you have any role models?

Coburn: Yeah. There’s a run-ner named Mo Farah who I think is just amazing. Honestly, my high school coaches, Jeff Cramer and George Darden, kept me at it. I was all over the place in high school. I didn’t know if I wanted to do it all the time and, espe-cially since I was the only cross country runner, I had to do every-thing myself. They always pushed me and showed me it’ll eventu-ally pay off. Even my coach here, Alan Drosky, has helped me with so much, such as understanding post-graduate opportunities.

Technique: What’s one aspect of cross country that most people don’t know much about?

Coburn: I don’t think people understand the workouts we do; I think they just think we’re slow jogging. It takes so much more than running a few times a week. To be great we have to do speed workouts and long, long workouts

at an uncomfortable pace. I don’t think they understand why we take it so seriously. Runners are like a family. Races are usually so painful that after the race, you’ll go up and hug someone and say, “That was a good race,” no matter who it is, because you know you’ve both been through the pain. Run-ning is a science. My coach calcu-lates the paces for everything we do, from a 200-meter to a 10-mile run, so we can understand the shape we’re in.

Technique: Do you have any goals for yourself this season?

Coburn: Last year, I was our No. 2 cross country runner, so I want to stay between 1st and 3rd. I want to make it to the nationals in the 800-meter and 1500-meter,

and I want us to win the Penn Re-lays again. I have goals time-wise: I’d like to break a 4:05. That’d be great, but I’m just going to look ahead and keep on running.

Technique: Are you aiming for the Olympics?

Coburn: Well, the Olympics trials are next year. The United States is a powerhouse in track and field, and so it’s supremely competitive — only the top two or three will qualify. Having said that, it’s been a dream of mine to be able to compete at that level. Ever since I started running cross country, I’ve been aiming to per-form at that national level. I think of it every single day. It’ll be in-credibly difficult to qualify, but if nothing else, I got there.

Photo courtesy of Danny Karnik

Junior Zane Coburn leaves it all on the trail against his former

team in the final few meters of last year’s UGA Invitational.

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HARSHA SRIDHARCONTRIBUTING WRITER

This was not supposed to be this easy.

Headed into 2015, the Jack-ets offense was supposed to cope with its fair share of growing pains. Gone were towering receiv-ers Darren Waller and DeAndre Smelter, powerful B-back Zach Laskey and All-ACC guard Shaq Mason. Paul Johnson had good reason to be confident in their re-placements — all four successors, after all, had two years of experi-ence in The Flats — but it would surely take time for the offense to return to its prolific form of yes-teryear.

Two games into the season, though, it’s apparent that new faces haven’t weakened Tech’s at-tack: if anything, they’ve made it stronger.

It is unwise to put too much stock into statistics from a team’s first two games, particularly when it is favored in both by a wide mar-gin. Nevertheless, Justin Thomas and his teammates have moved the ball with superb efficiency and scored with ease thus far. Tech places second in the nation with 64 points per game, trailing only SEC powerhouse Ole Miss.

The Jackets are also one of only 14 teams nationally that are aver-aging over 550 yards per contest. To put these numbers in perspec-tive, the team’s 2014 counterpart played a similar opening slate — a home matchup versus Wofford

and a road trip to Tulane — and averaged 38 points and 434 yards per game. While impressive, that pales in comparison to the Tech offense’s efforts through two games this year.

Perhaps the most interesting statistical takeaway from the first two games is the Jackets’ new-found ability to score through the air. Last season, the quarterbacks combined for 19 passing touch-

downs. If the current trend con-tinues, they’ll throw 24 in 2015. Justin Thomas mentioned after the game that “when we throw the ball, we expect big plays, and that is what we got today.” It’s un-likely that Tech will ever be con-fused for the prolific pass attack of Washington State or Oregon, but any opportunity to force opposing defenses out of the box is one that the team will gladly take.

The success hasn’t been limited to starters. After the outcome of the game was decided, freshman Matthew Jordan announced his arrival with a 35-yard touchdown to TaQuan Marshall to finish a nine-play drive, showing that the Tech offense can hum along with-out its two best signal-callers, with Tim Byerly having missed the game after suffering a knee injury in practice. Likewise, backup A-

back Qua Searcy has turned heads early on with his game-breaking acceleration and pass-catching ability. Thomas was effusive in his praise of Searcy after the Tulane game, noting that “it is fun… just knowing that you can get the ball in [Searcy’s] hands like that, and he will make a play no matter what.” Both players demonstrate the potential stashed away on a deep offensive unit.

On his part, Coach Johnson was nonchalant when asked about the effect of new personnel on the offense.

“We’ve done this for a long time … and there’s been a lot of different guys,” Johnson said of his squad. “Now it’s going to change when the competition ratchets up like anything. But we’ve done this a long time and rushed for a lot of yards over a lot of years, and there’s been a lot of different guys. Now you have to execute. These kids are doing a good job making plays, ripping off plays and block-ing. Today was an A-back day re-ally rushing the ball. They were going to take the B-backs away, and we weren’t going to force it to them with everybody pinch-ing. Next week could be a B-back/quarterback game.”

Coach Johnson expects his team to execute, and so far the Jackets have done just that. Put-ting up the numbers they have, even if they were against small schools, should be a good indica-tion of what fans can expect going forward.

Jackets assuage preseason offensive worries

Photo by John Nakano Student Publications

The Yellow Jackets have had a spectacular season so far, totalling over 1100 yards on of-

fense in their first two games of the fall. They’ve scored 134 points while only giving up 16.

SPORTS EDITOR: Jon LongASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR: Joe Sobchuk

Ramblin’ With CoburnThe Technique sat down with junior runner Zane Coburn to discuss the coming cross country season.422

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COMPARING THE VITAL STATS

Tech (2-0, 0-0 ACC) heads to South Bend, Ind., Saturday to take on Notre Dame for the first time since 2007, a 33-3 Jacket victory. The Jackets have had plenty of success so far this season, outscoring opponents by a combined 118 points in their first two games, but No. 8 Notre Dame will present a much greater challenge than Tech’s previous opponents.

Look for Tech to open up the passing game a little more against Notre Dame than they have in the first two games this season. Redshirt Junior quarterback Justin Thomas has only attempted 13 passes for Tech this season, primarily be-cause there has not been much need to throw the ball against inferior defenses who could not stop the run. Do not ex-pect Tech to come out looking like Texas A&M and sling the ball all over the field, but with Notre Dame only allowing op-ponents to average 3.2 yards per carry this season, Tech will need to be suc-cessful in the passing game to keep the safeties out of the box. Wide receivers

Michael Summers and Ricky Jeune have already proven to be reliable assets to the Jackets, and success against a ranked op-ponent would do a lot for the team’s con-fidence in them moving forward.

Third down conversions will also be something to look out for as Notre Dame is only allowing opponents to convert on 33 percent of their third down attempts. Luckily for Tech, third down conversions is one area the offense really excels at.

On defense, it will be important for Tech to get pressure on Notre Dame quarterback DeShone Kizer. Kiser is taking over at Quarterback for the Irish after Malik Zaire suffered a season end-ing ankle injury in Notre Dame’s victory over the Cavaliers. Kizer, a sophomore, only has 13 career passing attempts with 12 of them coming after replacing Zaire against Virginia. If Tech can get pressure on the inexperienced Kizer, it will more than likely lead to at least a few poor decisions by the young quarterback and good defensive opportunities for Tech.

Notre Dame is 2-0 this season with a 38-3 demolishing of Texas and a 34-27 comeback victory over Virginia. Un-fortunately for the Irish, the injury bug has bit them hard this season. The Irish lost both defensive tackle Jarron Jones and defensive back Shaun Crawford to season-ending injuries in the offseason. Starting running back Tarean Folson is also out for the season after suffering a knee injury against Texas. Of all the in-juries for the Irish, the season-ending in-jury of starting quarterback Malik Zaire is probably the most damaging. Zaire was off to a tremendous start completing 65 percent of his passes for four touch-downs along with 103 rushing yards on just 19 carries. Sophomore quarterback DeShone Kizer will replace Zaire at quarterback for the Irish.

It will be important for Notre Dame to establish the running game early against Tech in order to take pressure off their inexperienced quarterback. Al-though Notre Dame is down to their third string running back, C.J. Prosise

is no slouch. Prosise has rushed for 253 yards through two games this season and is also averaging 6.5 yards per re-ception. If the Irish can force Tech to respect the run it should help receivers get open in the passing game and allow Kizer to settle in during his first colle-giate start. Kizer has thrown for 97 yards with a 61.5 completion percentage in two games this season and successfully pulled led a comeback against Virginia.

Defensively, the Irish will need to force Tech into some three-and-outs. It is not something their defense has had suc-cess doing against Tech in their past two meetings, but if Notre Dame can do it, their offense will have much better field position. It will also even out the time of possession battle — one that Tech usually wins — and not allow Tech to wear down their defense with long drives down the field. With their mounting in-juries, it is crucial that the Irish defense puts DeShone Kizer in a good field posi-tion and makes up for an offense that has the potential to be lackluster.

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Predicted Score:

Notre Dame 20, Tech 28

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