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The issue of T thefts from signs has come to the fore-front of discussion on campus in recent weeks due to an increase in the number of thefts. According to the In-stitute, the value of T’s stolen from signs on campus has totaled over $100,000.

“This is no longer a tradition. This is a destruction of property, and it’s costing you money,” said Institute Presi-dent G.P. “Bud” Peterson. “This is just embarrassing be-cause it makes campus look bad. We’ve got donors who give us millions of dollars to construct facilities who then walk by those buildings to see the T’s stolen from them.”

“Recently I have heard from faculty, alum, parents and guests during Family Weekend express concern re-garding the number of missing T’s on campus,” wrote John Stein, the Dean of Students in an email.

The theft of T’s from signs on campus has become a common occurrence for the past several months. No-tably, two T’s were stolen last year from the “Georgia

T thefts spark campus wide reaction

As part of an initiative to raise awareness about the issue of stealing T’s on campus, the lights illuminating the large T’s on Tech Tower were turned off on Wednesday.

C21U explores innovative education strategiesBy Emily Cardin

Staff Writer

This week marked the official launch of the cutting-edge Cen-ter for 21st Century Universities (C21U).

Started in December 2010 and led by Professor of Computer Sci-ence in the College of Computing Dr. Rich DeMillo, the center is in-tended to generate a larger discus-sion about innovation in secondary education.

“The whole world is innovating in higher education, and most of that innovation involves technol-ogy. An innovative institution like Georgia Tech simply has to be at the forefront of helping to reinvent education for the 21st century. Technologies like online delivery and social networks that a year ago we used to think were disruptive are now routinely used,” DeMillo said.

On Monday, C21U hosted a student poster session and panel to discuss intersections between edu-cation and innovation.

“The C21U student un-confer-ence was an innovative approach to introducing and engaging a key constituency, students, in a con-versation about the nature and de-livery of higher education. Much like the weather, many opinions are uttered about higher education, the need to positively affect it and potential innovations, but no one seems to actually do much about it,” said Dr. Paul Baker, Director of Research, Center for Advanced Communications Policy and Pro-fessor in the school of Public Pol-icy.

During the poster session, stu-dents were encouraged to present ideas and developed research about innovative ideas regarding sec-ondary education. Students were also encouraged to participate in a

student-led panel discussion after-wards.

“The purpose of the panel was to expose students to some inno-vative, potentially disruptive ideas about how universities and higher education might be done differ-ently,” Baker said.

One such proposed idea was “free tution.” Several institutions across the country do not charge tuition to students, and the merits and downfalls of such an idea were expounded upon at length by the students.

“The potentially revolutionary [of free tution] was an intriguing one, and should be commended for being disruptive in nature, and hence potentially innovative. The idea proposed can be compared to an engineering approach that produces a marvelously engineered device, elegant in nature, but prob-

See C21U, page 7

Photo by Sho Kitamura / Student Publications

Professor Pete Ludovice from the school of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering presents at the C21U un-conference.

By Sam SomaniContributing Writer

Student opinion regarding the theft of T’s from cam-pus signs was divided. Some students said that the spike in T-thefts in recent weeks made the campus look visu-ally unappealing.

“Taking the Ts makes our campus look like crap,” said Zee Dhanani, a second-year ISyE major, who said that the decision of the administration to crack down on T thefts would make Tech “not look like a poor campus.”

“I understand the tradition at Tech, but it does get a little messy when you’re walking around campus,” said Lindsey Walton, a second-year MGT major.

However, there were some students who looked at the matter as a continuation of a tradition, or even a non-issue.

“The current methodology of tackling the problem is a little extreme,” said Andrew Benton, a second-year ME major. “Kids are doing it for fun, not with the intention of hurting property. It’s a part of tradition which is some-

By Madison LeeContributing Writer

SGA hosted a week-long event this week called ‘Keep the T’ in Tech to discourage T thefts on campus. The goal of the event was to tell students that stealing T’s from signposts is not an accepted practice at Tech.

The initiative was organized by SGA when concerned administration officials and students raised the issue of stolen T’s. There have been complaints that the exploit can cause confusion for visitors new to campus, as well as reflect badly on the Tech community. Donors and alumni often view this as detracting from the aesthetics of the school.

“A couple of weekends ago most, if not all, of the Ts in the new Clough Commons building were taken [from] the entire fourth and fifth floors. It was really unfortu-nate timing because the building was dedicated just this past weekend…it’s obviously a place that we’re all taking a lot of pride in, and it reflects poorly on something that people have invested so much time and money in,” said

See Admin, page 6 See Student, page 7 See SGA, page 6

Photo by John Nakano / Student Publications Photo by Will Folsom / Student Publications Photo by John Nakano / Student Publications

SGA hosts Keep the ‘T’ in Tech week

Students express mixed opinion on missing T’s

Admin voices discontent with vandalism

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Campus Crime

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A police officer was dispatched to Sigma Nu’s fraternity house on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 24 in response to a report of battery after a call from the mother of the victim.

The suspect allegedly ap-proached the victim in front of the house for a private conversation, in which the suspect threatened to hurt the victim if he attempted to make advances toward the sus-pect’s girlfriend.

The victim assured the suspect that he was not making advances toward the girlfriend but shortly thereafter, the suspect allegedly returned to headbutt the victim, causing a laceration above the vic-tim’s eye.

Even later in the evening, as the victim was tending to the ini-tial wound inside the house, the suspect punched the victim in the face, resulting in what appeared to be a broken nose.

The victim sought treatment at an off-campus hospital but did not press charges against the sus-pect.

Intelligent Intoxication

On the night of Friday, Sept. 23, a police officer was dispatched

to the Tech library in response to a potentially sick person on the premises at approximately 1:30 a.m.

There, he found a student who had previously passed out underneath his computer desk and vomited on the floor due to excessive drinking earlier in the evening.

The suspect then went to a women’s restroom in the Library to clean himself up, but he vom-ited once more in the trash can there.

An ambulance arrived on scene, but the suspect declined to go to the hospital and was released shortly thereafter to be taken home by a friend.

Crackalackin’

A subject matching the de-scription of a recent bike thief was found walking along Northside Drive, NW, in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Sept. 27.

The suspect denied having any drugs or weapons to the police officer, but upon emptying his pockets, he attempted to conceal a ball of toilet paper. The officer re-quested the ball of paper, at which point the suspect continued to at-tempt to hide it.

The officer finally seized the

ball of paper and found a used crack pipe inside. The suspect admitted to using it earlier in the evening.

The officers found no other weapons or contraband and the suspect was released after a brief time in custody.

Fakin’ it

A Tech student approached a police officer with a complaint that a man was allegedly follow-ing him in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Sept. 27, along Cherry Street.

The police officer initiated contact with the suspect, but the name provided by the suspect was allegedly false, as it did not reg-ister when the officer attempted to verify it and his date of birth through both the Georgia Crime Information Center and the Na-tional Crime Information Center databases.

The suspect indicated that he had previously been incarcerated at both the Atlanta City Jail and the Fulton County Jail. Still, the suspect’s identity did not register with either jail.

The police officer then arrested the suspect on the grounds of loi-tering, prowling and providing false information to an officer.

Later, at the Fulton County Jail, the suspect was fingerprinted, and he was ultimately identified under a different name and date of birth than the ones he previously provided.

No weapons or contraband were found on the suspect’s per-son.

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Council ClippingsThis week in Student Government

By Emily Cardin, Staff Writer

Each week, this section includes coverage of different aspects of Student Government, including the Undergraduate House of Representatives, Graduate Student Senate and the Executive Branch of both governments.

Equestrian TeamEquestrian Team President

Jessica Solana came before SGA Tuesday night to submit a re-placement budget request. After amending the bill so that it was compliant with JFC policy re-quirements, the total of the bill was finalized at $18,620.

The bill passed GSS on a 21-0-0 vote and the UHR on a 40-4-6 vote.

According to Solana, the team is composed of 12 riders who participate in competition and ten members who are in the club to take lessons and ride with the team.

Rep. Alex Walker estimated that the total amount spent on each member of the team is ap-proximately $1500. Team mem-bers are required to pay $300 dues to cover many of the team costs.

“Members of the lacrosse team, another expensive sport, are required to pay $800 for dues. That is significantly higher, and it seems like [the Equestrian Team] should increase their dues to help cover some costs,” said Rep. Nick Picon.

Solana, along with several rep-resentatives, pointed out that team members are required to subsidize the cost of much of the equipment used over the course of the year.

“We all have to pay for the majority of our equipment- our saddles and such. We also share equipment and use it over several years,” Solana said. She also said that the dues cover only part of show fee, and that particpants are expected to cover the rest of the costs.

“We all spend at least $3,000 of our money to cover our show fees,” said Solana.

Because the GSS and the UHR passed different versions of the bill, the bill will go to conference committee for further review un-til next week.

JFC Policy ChangesThe respresentatives discussed

at length the new JFC policy that will affect how SGA can al-locate funds to chartered student organizations. The new proposed policy cannot be changed once being voted upon by both GSS and SGA.

JFC Chair Charley Crosson said the majority of the changes made were not inherently differ-ent from past alterations.

“Most of these [changes in pol-icy] are incremental changes that have been made every year in the past. A lot of this year’s policy was created by consulting upon last year’s [JFC Policy],” Crosson said.

Rep. Aaron Greenwood also presented an amendment regard-ing the funding of food to both chambers.

The amendment allowed or-ganizations to apply to SGA for funding for food, as long as the food plays an integral role in the meeting and has cultural signifi-cance.

“Each organization will have to post a flyer that displays both the cultural significance of the food and the nutritional value, to avoid potential issues with students that have food allergies,” Greenwood said.

There is a $1,000 cap on food allocations, and SGA will only fund up to $5 worth of food per student. No more than half of the food will be funded by SGA, and all of this will be verified electron-ically using the Buzzcard system.

There was also significant dis-cussion regarding the communi-cation, or lack thereof, with orga-nizations about changes made in policy.

Several representatives were hesitant to pass sections of the bill regarding a proposed reduc-tions in stipend payment and the demotion of Tier-II organizations to Tier-III organizations (which

GSSBill Amount GSS UHR

Bill Summary

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National Panhellenic CouncilWomen’s Leadership Conf.

Community ShavuotEquestrian Team

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Prior Year: $524,258 Capital Outlay: $846,994

would result in decreased stipend payments as well).

“We need to consult the or-ganizations first. This is not fair — we can’t just do this without talking to the people and groups that it would affect,” Rep. Hunter Hammond said.

Religious eventUHR voted to fail a bill to

fund a community-wide celebra-tion of Shavuot, a Jewish holiday.

Rep. Eran Mordel, author of the bill, urged other representa-tives to vote to fail the bill after outlining the conflict over the re-ligious distinction of the event.

“Shavuot is a religious event. However, this event was open to the community,” Mordel said.

Hillel @ Georgia Tech, in which Mordel serves as an execu-tive member, a Jewish student-led organization, sponsors the yearly event and has coordinated with other groups on campus in the past to open the event to the rest of the community.

“I have several non-Jewish friends that are involved in proj-ects regarding different world re-ligions that expressed interest in coming,” Mordel said.

Last year the event was co-sponsored with the Lutheran Campus Ministry, though the or-ganization was not involved this year.

SGA by-laws dictate that SGA cannot fund religious events.

A rabbi will be present at the event and outside sources of fund-ing were secured by Hillel to fund the event.

“It was difficult to find fund-ing at the last minute, but I un-derstand [SGA’s] sentiments about not giving [Hillel] funding,” Mordel said. “SGA has been help-ing [Hillel] out with other events like Casino Night throughout the years, so I just wanted to pick my battles.”

Photo by John Nakano / Student Publications

Student reps discuss the changes in JFC policy and how said changes will affect their own actions and campus organizations.

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By Henry DuongContributing Writer

On Monday, Tech launched its first annual Bike Week, a week of student organized activities to promote and increase the visibility of cycling as an alternative form of transportation.

Bike Week’s activities included a week-long Commuter Chal-lenge during which departments recorded their total miles com-muted on bike to compete for a prize. The Grand Prize will be the installation of a new bike rack for the department. Week-long free bike repairs on Tech walkway, Heels on Wheels, Tour de Tech, and other events also took place.

Bike Week is an idea that originated a couple of months ago from the Bicycle Infrastructure Improvement Committee (BIIC), an institute wide committee of the SGA.

Since its formation in Decem-ber 2010, the BIIC has raised over $75,000 from SGA and the Office of the President to put toward var-ious efforts to improve cycling on campus, such as adding new bike racks and sharrows — shared lane arrows that designate certain lanes as bicycle friendly.

“[Cycling] is something that I’m really passionate about. My [PhD] focus is on environmental policy and these are good solu-tions to some problems we have in the world, by reducing conges-tion and lowering emission. The easier we can make it for students to ride, the more people will be willing to ride, and Tech can help its students be more sustainable in daily lives,” said Johann Weber, the chair of BIIC and a PhD stu-dent in Public Policy.

There are many Bike Week ac-tivities for cyclists, but one goal of Bike Week is to have non-cyclists involved as well in the broader

discussion of alternative transpor-tation.

“[Students for Progressive Transit@GT’s] goal is to support all alternative forms of transporta-tion, including cycling, walking, taking public transit, and ride sharing. We basically just want to lower the number of students who drive alone to and from school,” said Amy Ingles, Masters Student in Civil Engineering and Urban Planning.

On Wednesday, Heels on Wheels, a social ride for female cyclists, was held to promote a sense of community amongst female cyclists. Friday, several students participated in Tour de Tech, a 4 mile loop ride around campus, with Institute President G.P. “Bud” Peterson and his wife

Val Peterson.One of the exciting upcoming

changes for cycling in Tech is the launch of the pilot program of viaCycle, a new type of bike shar-ing program that will allow stu-dents to rent communal bikes at a reasonable price and use it to get around campus. Program leaders already have plans for expansion.

“We are very excited about how the first few days [of Bike Week] went, and we would like to do it again next year and expand it. We want to get more people involved, and one idea was to coordinate with UGA to have a competition for commuters. These competi-tions can bring together the big public universities in Georgia, which in turn are trendsetters for the rest of the state,” Weber said.

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Tech launches campus Bike Week

Photo by Wei Liao / Student Publications

In addition to hosting Bike Week, the BIIC has added new bike racks and sharrow signs on roads throughout Tech’s campus.

A lot of things went on outside the bubble of Tech

in the past week. Here are a few important events taking place throughout the nation and the world.

Breaking theubble

Amazon to sell new competitor to iPad

Set to be released on Nov. 15, 2011, the Kindle Fire will be Amazon’s entry into the tablet market. The product was announced on Sept. 28.

The Fire is priced at $199 and is expected to compete with Apple iPad 2 and the Barnes & Noble Nook Color, which are priced at $499+ and $249, respectively.

Built with a seven-inch col-or touch screen and a dual core processor, the Amazon Fire weighs 14.6 oz.

The tablet provides access to Amazon’s digital content, which includes books, mov-ies, music and games. A new feature included in the tab-let is Silk, a cloud-accelerated browser.

Furthermore, users receive one free month of Amazon Prime service, which offers instant streaming of movies and TV shows, along with free two-day shipping for millions of items.

In addition to the tablet, Amazon also released a new keyboardless Kindle e-reader for $79, along with the Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G, which are $99 and $149, re-spectively.

BSaudi king revokes lashing punishment for woman

On Tuesday, Sept. 27, Saudi Arabian King Abdullah re-pealed his initial decision to give female citizen Shaima Jastaina 10 lashes for driving without the permission of a man in July 2011.

The initial plan for lashings received outcry from both the global community and Saudi Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel, who Tweeted, “Thank God, the lashing of [Shaima] is can-celled. Thanks to our beloved King. I’m sure all Saudi women will be so happy, I know I am,” after Abdullah’s revocation.

Typically, women caught driving are required to sign a pledge to not drive again, but Jastaina’s act was one of many initiatives by women to at-tempt to break the taboo by knowingly driving without permission.

King Abdullah recently granted women the right to vote, to serve on the advisory Shura Council and to run for local offices in the 2015 mu-nicipal elections. However, this move was cancelled by the prospect of lashings for driv-ing. Although no governmen-tal law prohibits women from driving, conservative members of religious groups in Saudi Arabia strictly forbid the act for both female citizens and foreigners.

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Admin from page 1

Institute of Technology” entrance signs at the intersection of Cherry Street and North Avenue and near the Health Center.

Students caught stealing T’s or vandalizing them have been referred to the Dean of Students’ Office for disciplinary action. Five students have been caught at-tempting to steal or vandalize T’s since the start of the year. The In-stitute has stepped up its efforts to catch students attempting to steal T’s by increasing surveillance of prominent signs on campus.

“Students caught stealing, damaging or defacing a T will be taken through the Judicial Pro-cess for being in violation of the Code of Conduct. The process will be a fair and consistent one for all students. Students found responsible for a T violation will be sanctioned with Disciplinary Suspension for a specified period of time,” Stein said.

According to Stein, students will also need to pay a minimum restitution fee of $250.00 and take part in an educational component as part of the sanctions. In addi-tion to disciplinary action from the Institute, the T thefts could include a criminal component in the future.

“If [T-thefts] continue in the future then we’ll start to think about that...right now there is no criminal component but things could change in the future if they don’t stop from happening,” said William Schafer, Vice-President of Student Services.

Administrators also engaged

student leaders to help come up with a solution to the problem. In response, the Student Govern-ment Association hosted a week-long series of events in an effort to engage students and raise aware-ness about the thefts.

As part of the campaign, stu-dents were invited to return any stolen T’s to the Ramblin’ Reck without any punishment from ad-ministration.

“They went about and talked amongst themselves and got cre-ative with it... Students know how to get the word out, help educate their fellow students. I think that they’ve come up with an amazing week of events,” Schafer said.

Historically, the campus tra-dition of “stealing the T” has referred to the removal of one or more T’s from atop Tech Tower. This has occurred sporadically since the late 1960s, with the most recent occurrence in 2003. The lights in the T’s on Tech Tower have been turned off for the week to symbolize the loss of our cam-pus T’s.

In addition to the theft of the T from Tech Tower, many copy-cat crimes have taken place over the years. The rise in T-thefts over the past few months is the most recent incarnation of this trend.

“This is such a wonderful place and a great institution. The stu-dents are spectacular and this re-flects poorly on them, the institu-tion, on our alumni and on me. I just don’t understand it. I’m really frustrated because I don’t under-stand what possible pleasure there could be in defacing property,” Peterson said.

Elle Creel, Undergraduate Stu-dent Body President.

The implications of what may be considered a harmless prank are made more serious by the fact that defacing signs and official Institute buildings in this man-ner also presents a significant fi-nancial burden for the school. In the past year alone the Institute has spent close to $100,000 in the course of replacing the stolen T’s on campus.

Commencing a proactive stu-dent-led effort through SGA was intended to increase awareness of the problem among the students who are perpetuating it. The stu-dent leaders involved in organiz-ing and spreading the word about the campaign spoke out for its im-portance at SGA’s Open Forum that took place on Tuesday night.

“[Freshmen] don’t really un-derstand the repercussions of stealing Ts right now…they just feel like they’ll get slapped on the wrist and sent on their way for scraping a sticker off of a sign…and because they also feel like that’s the tradition, they almost in a sense feel obligated to steal Ts,” said Alex Bandes, freshman class president.

The tradition of stealing the large, symbolic letter T from Tech Tower originally began in the late 1960s. However, since the tragic incident that occurred twelve years ago when a student was killed while climbing the Alexander Coliseum, the feat of stealing the T from Tech Tower or scaling any Institute building has

been prohibited on the threat of expulsion for the students’ safety. Though students have taken to stealing T’s around campus as a way to carry on the spirit of the tradition, punishments will still be given to students participating in these activities.

“The administration will be taking strong disciplinary action against students who are found stealing T’s and we certainly don’t want any students who are under the impression that this is a tradi-tion or something that we support to be unaware of the consequenc-es,” Creel said.

One of the highlights of the week’s Keep the T in Tech cam-paign was Wednesday’s event “Live the True Tradition.” The lights on the Tech Tower T’s were turned off as a way of honoring the original achievement of steal-ing the T, allowing students to ex-perience what it would be like if the iconic letter disappeared and distinguishing this impressive tra-dition from the act of stealing T’s from campus signs.

Another was the “AmnesTy” event where students were allowed and even encouraged to return stolen T’s without fear of punish-ment.

“Stealing random T’s really looks like vandalism…this is our campus and a part of our Geor-gia Tech experience, so we should want [the campus] to look as great as possible because people who used to go here still care about our campus…and we should care about our campus now,” said Vett Vandiver, Vice President of Com-munications for SGA.

SGA from page 1News Briefs

Tech Professor wins Presidential Award

Associate professor in the School of Mathematics Maria G. Westdickenberg is one of 94 re-cipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). President Obama awarded Westdicken-berg, giving her the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engi-neering professionals in the early stages of their independent re-search careers.

Another Tech graduate, Gayle Hagler was also named a PECASE Honoree by President Obama.

SolarJackets win Com-petition to better ATL

Students Corbin Klett, Matt Jacobson, Logan Marett, Kevin Miron and Andrew Vaziri earned $5,000 in a competition hosted by the City of Atlanta and Emory’s Goizueta Business School by pro-posing a new system for electric vehicle usage in Atlanta.

The city will actually imple-ment some of the ideas gener-ated during the competition with money from the Department of Energy. The overall goal is for At-lanta to become the first city with 50,000 electric vehicles on the road.

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“Doing Science in the Open” with Michael Nielsen [Nanotechnology Building, Rm. 118, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.]

Distinguished Lecturer Nobel Laureate Aaron Ciechanover [College of Management, 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.]

Advanced Screening of “Allen Gregory” with Jonah Hill [Student Center Ballroom, 8 p.m.]

J-Spot: Sex Educator Tells All [Student Center Ballroom, 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.]

Flu Shots [Piedmont Room of Student Center Commons, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.]

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thing most colleges don’t have.”Second-year AE major Kevin

Morillas believes the recent policy of the institution to be “ridicu-lous.”

“It’s not worth all this trouble,” Morillas said. “People are go-ing to steal the T’s regardless of how much time and money Tech spends on preserving them. At a bus stop, some people have noth-ing better to do than to scratch [off] a T and feel cool.”

For first years Ryan Quinn, a AE major, and Jeremy Greenwald, a CE major, their involvement in a T-theft could cost them their se-mester here at Tech.

“We were hanging out one night, and there was a campus organization that was involved,” Quinn said. “We talked about taking the T from the Architec-ture Building. Jeremy and I were the ones who actually took the two T’s.”

However, these first-years had

Students from page 1 little knowledge of campus and were unaware of the consequences of stealing a T.

“My campus tour, my time at FASET, and one week of hanging out at Tech were the only interac-tions I had with the school, none of which warned me about any repercussions of stealing the T,” Quinn said.

The two were encouraged by other members of a campus orga-nization to steal the T.

“They gave us the materials to [take the T], and cheered for us when we got back,” Quinn said. “We were heavily influenced by the campus organization, with both material and emotional sup-port for doing it.”

Greenwald’s assistant track coach suspected an athlete from the team of stealing the T’s. Upon hearing this, the two, on their own accord, returned the stolen T’s to the police.

“At the police station, they took a police report and turned the case over to the Office of Stu-

dent Integrity,” Quinn said. “In about a week, we got an email with our punishment.”

Greenwald and Quinn, for their actions, could face suspen-sion from Tech for the semester, with no financial reimbursement for tuition and fees.

“We didn’t agree with the pun-ishment, so we appealed to Dean Stein,” Quinn said. If Stein does not approve an alternate punish-ment, only President G.P. “Bud” Peterson will have a final say over their case.

To spread awareness about the false information and the con-sequences therein regarding the tradition, Quinn said he is taking steps to prevent others from mak-ing the same mistakes.

“I’m trying to reach out to the student government and [The Technique] to try and make a dif-ference.”

“I want to be a part of the so-lution, not the problem,” Quinn said. “I don’t want to jeopardize my college career just for a letter.”

lematic in application in that it does not “play nice” with other system components (that is the university context),” Baker said.

The official launch event, held Tuesday morning at the Global Learning Center, boasted the likes of former Columbia Univer-sity provost and author, Jonathan Cole, as well as a panel of educa-tors. The discussion focused on

C21U from page 1 cutting-edge innovations that are currently trending throughout the secondary educational com-munity.

“The question for C21U is “What is next? Will fundamen-tal changes succeed and what will their technology implications be?” This is an exciting time to be in a top technological university like Georgia Tech and to be leading an organization that can catalyze that change,” DeMillo said.

Photo by Sho Kitamura / Student Publications

Student panelists discuss revolutionary and potentially disruptive innovation in secondary education with faculty input.

OpinionsTechnique

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September 30, 2011

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. —John Wesley

Opinions Editor: Chris Russell

“”OUR VIEWS CoNseNsus opiNioN

Stealing T’sT thefts reflect poorly on tradition, campus life

SGA’s “Keep the T in Tech Week” has brought attention to the campus-wide issue of stealing T’s from campus signs. This new “tradition” does a great deal of harm to the Institute, both financially and aesthetically, and likewise causes much greater harm than benefit to campus life.

However, one argument that is often used against stealing T’s—that it is not true to the “real” tradition of stealing the T from Tech Tower—rings hollow. The administration has led a crackdown on attempts on “the T,” and any attempt at it would be met by, if anything, even harsher repercussions than those facing students who steal smaller T’s from campus signs. The impending crackdown on the thefts of smaller T’s just highlights that it is difficult to call something a tradition when campus figures make it all but impossible to enact. If anything, it should be considered part of campus history, like Sideways the dog and drown-proofing, as opposed to an active tradition.

As for the events of this past week, they represent a promising start to a campaign against the vandalism on campus, but will ultimately mean little without continued effort. Pressuring current students not to steal T’s will inevitably encourage just as many thefts of T’s as it will discourage. Real effort must be made to ensure that incoming freshmen are taught the history of Stealing the T, while also making sure they know the repercussions of vandalizing campus. Pressure must also be applied on upperclassmen to ensure that they do not mislead new students for the sake of amusement.

While the week was, in itself, a good start to this campaign, it is disconcerting that the administration chose to hide behind SGA. Much of the force for the week came from the administration, and it is disappointing that they felt the need to put pressure on student leaders to affect their peers instead of addressing the student body directly.

EDITORIAL CARTOON By CASEy TISDEL

Last week, the Student Gov-ernment Association (SGA) passed the Joint Allocation to Georgia Tech Night at Wood-ruff Arts Center. This $600 bill, written to fund Stinger Bus transportation to and from the Woodruff Arts Center, was funded out of the Prior Year (PY) account. Prior Year is one of four accounts that SGA is able to draw from and is usu-ally used to fund student orga-nizations.

The Joint Finance Com-mittee (JFC) has strict guide-lines for what can be funded from the PY account and these guidelines are almost always followed by SGA when allocat-ing funds to student organi-zations. One such rule states, “Travel shall not be funded to locations within a 150-mile ra-dius of Tech’s Atlanta campus.” The Woodruff Arts Center is less than one mile from cam-pus.

As an undergraduate repre-sentative, I cannot speak to the discussions held on the matter in the Graduate Student Sen-ate (GSS), but this issue was discussed in some length in the Undergraduate House of Rep-resentatives (UHR).

The issue was twofold. First, the funding would not be ap-proved for any other organiza-tion; second, the transporta-tion was not truly needed. I will only discuss the first con-cern here, as the second does not have broad-ranging policy implications.

Many great student organi-zations hold events throughout the year, and these events are often off campus. Their events would be much more successful if they could request funding from SGA for transportation, but this is disallowed by JFC policy. For SGA to waive this policy in order to support their own event is nothing short of outright hypocrisy. The GSS and UHR each have accounts to fund initiatives of SGA that are not subject to JFC policy, and these accounts should have been used to fund this bill. Instead, SGA used money set aside to fund other organiza-tions without even adhering to its own policies about the use of those funds.

I fully support Georgia Tech Night at the Woodruff Arts Center. I am volunteering at the event, and I hope that many students will come out and en-joy the best our great city has to offer. I also realize that this bill, at $600, is not a major impact on our PY account. I do, how-ever, want to urge my fellow representatives and senators to carefully consider the implica-tions of their decision to waive JFC policy in this case. Student organizations cannot receive funding for local transporta-

tion, so they work hard to raise funding for their events. For SGA not to do the same sends a message to the rest of our Tech community that our represen-tatives are not upholding the trust that we place in them.

Daniel FarmerComputer Science

4th year

Stolen T’s foster community on campus

The current theft of T’s around campus is, in fact, a new Tech tradition triggered by the challenges of and pun-ishments imposed on the more traditional stealing of the T from Tech Tower. T’s miss-ing from navigational signs and signs along the edges or campus project a confusing and unkempt appearance to visitors. However, T’s missing from signs used primarily by Tech students create a sense of community and camaraderie amongst the student body and an endearing uniqueness with-in our campus.

As such, I think that the “Keep the T in Tech” cam-paign is misguided and that a different reform should be taken on by the administra-tion. Increased penalties for the removal of T’s which are seen by people from outside of Tech are appropriate, but the Institute does not need to con-stantly replace T’s whose steal-ing is harmless and, for some, fun and enjoyable. The swiping of these T’s is not with mali-cious intent but to continue the feeling of home one feels from constant exposure to the atmo-sphere here at Tech.

There is a certain comfort felt when you see the trade-mark of a community of which you are a member and a pride when you are able to share this specific, unique characteristic to a visitor.

Andrew BabbCivil and Environmental

Engineering 2nd year

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Technique • September 30, 2011 • 9 OPINIONS

I update my Facebook about mundane life events like ironing my pillowcase to earn my personal record of 19 likes for a status. Next, I change my GChat status to reflect my cur-rent Bollywood and Harry Pot-ter obsessions and I send chat messages with links to fluffy animal pictures and videos to my roommate from the other side of the apartment. After-wards, I write a line of my edi-torial before scurrying away to Tumblr to update the reblog-fest that is my blog. I top it off with 100 clicks through Red-dit and I call it a night.

As a result of using the In-ternet to this extent, my big-gest problem is my attention span. I once had the focus and the stamina to read an entire novel in one sitting, but with blips of entertainment con-tinuously at my disposal, what harm could a two-minute You-Tube video and a quick scroll through Reddit really do, be-sides quadrupling the time re-quired of simple tasks?

Furthermore, my sense of humor similarly has the at-tention span of a goldfish—whereas I previously enjoyed the clever wit that went into comedy shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway?, I now only need the soft croonings of Nyan Cat and an autotuned “Double Rainbow” soundtrack to give me the giggles and to get me through my day.

On this same note, I have

developed an obsession with mundane things that I should not have to resort to the Inter-net to see. Admittedly, my al-lergies to furry animals make for an ironic lifestyle that is legitimately only fulfilled by pictures of cute puppies and lolcats. However, I’m far less motivated to experience the world or to get allergy shots when I can see everything from the comforts of my room.

The hours that I spend scrolling through Facebook are utter and complete wastes—what do I stand to gain from reading the statuses (stati?) of all 889 friends?

This brings me to my next problem of defining “friends” and “acquaintances.” While many of my Facebook friends are people I interact with on a daily basis, a sizeable propor-tion of my friends list includes people I’ll probably never see again, acquaintances I don’t recognize and fellow Tech students I friended without ever meeting in that awkward pre-college phase of blithely talking to EVERYONE in the

Facebook group for the Class of 2013.

If I had to hang out with every person on my friends list, I’d be in a pickle. Thank-fully, I can very easily identify who my true friends are, but I get some kind of satisfaction out of large numbers of people added on my Facebook profile.

More than just the number of friends, I get an even strang-er indulgence out of more likes for my statuses and profile pic-tures—these “likes” tell me that I’m pretty and witty and bright because my mom’s sin-cere compliments are evidently not enough.

This instant self-gratifica-tion issue bleeds over to other parts of my life. For example, a couple of weeks ago, I or-dered an Amazon Kindle at 3:30 a.m. (my sleeping habits could be the topic of another editorial entirely) and became restless when it did not arrive at my doorstep within the next ten minutes. When the Kindle finally reached Tech, I became overly lethargic at the thought of the walk to the

Student Center, again wishing someone could just hand it to me on a silver platter. After I picked it up, I was too en-grossed in my Kindle, which is yet another bundle of dis-tractions, to update my Twit-ter and Tumblr. Now, I regret not updating these outlets, but the world is too fast-paced for me to express excitement about something that hap-pened a whole two weeks ago.

Now, I make all of this self-critical commentary as I have open tabs of Facebook, Twitter and Reddit, along with an entire browser win-dow dedicated to dozens of Tumblr tabs. Hopefully, the ridiculous nature of my time spent on the Internet high-lights what’s wrong about the way you spend your time on the computer.

While it would be largely hypocritical of me to make this recommendation, your best solution to experiencing the same problems as me is to deactivate, delete and block all these time-consuming, friend-confusing and self-in-dulging web sites.

Will you be missing out on important events and conver-sational topics in popular cul-ture? Yes.

But you might begin to give importance to your school work, extracurricu-lars, career aspirations and life beyond the box that is your computer? I sure hope so.

Internet destroys attentiveness, modesty“...deactivate, delete

and block all those time-consuming, friend-confusing

and self-indulging web sites.”

Kamna BohraManaging Editor

Quincy RobertsSecond-year BME

“Facebook, because it’s the one I’m currently on.”

Kyle Marie JacobsonSecond-year BioChem

“Facebook, because it’s so well known and has so many

people and businesses.”

Mary KownackFifth-year NRE

“Facebook, because it seems like more people use it.”

Simi OludareThird-year BME

“Facebook, because it’s the only one I’ve ever used.”

What’s your favorite social network?

BUZZAround Campus

If there’s anything we’ve learned from Facebook, it’s that being able to get the Cliff-sNotes on any one person at any moment in time without having to directly ask them in person is a powerful thing. Companies like Google receive well over a million job applica-tions a year, and considering that it’s...let’s just say “compet-itive” to keep an impressively high GPA at Tech, students need to be able to demonstrate that they’re able and learning just as much, if not more, than many other students at com-peting colleges.

A good grade in a class can mean anything these days. It can mean you understand the theories and fundamentals of a subject but it in no way in-dicates any sort of practical knowledge. If classes don’t make time for them, personal projects can help scratch that itch. If there’s any one way to show in a tangible way that you love what you do, it’s do-ing it when you’re not forced to.

One of the most common catch-22’s that college students face is that many companies require a few years of experi-ence yet getting a job to gain that experience is impossible in the first place. That’s a per-fect position for a portfolio to come in to play.

With a portfolio, you gain the power to control the mes-sage, to leverage personal proj-ects as real world experience,

to show that you really love what you do, to share with the world your talents and skills, and (if you’re lucky) to even have a way to gain exposure. You may not even have to ap-ply for a job; they might con-tact you instead.

“But I don’t have any-thing to put in a portfolio.” Nonsense. Unless you quite literally haven’t been doing anything—which would be a pretty stunning feat without dropping out of school—you have material for a portfolio. No, it’s not too embarrassing. No, you don’t have to redo it all and make it “look pretty.” People like a story. People want to know where you’ve come from and how you’ve gotten to where you are. A punch-line with no set up stirs no audi-ence; there’s no impact to a story with no build up.

So take what you’ve done and figure out how you can showcase it, because a poten-tial employee with tangible evidence that he or she can do something is a lot lower risk than a candidate with a GPA

that’s 0.2 points higher. If you write, put up your musings. If you paint, upload pictures of your paintings. If you’re an electrical engineer, take pic-tures of and write about your projects. If you’re an indus-trial engineer, write about how situations in your daily life could be made more efficient. If you’re an international re-lations major, write up better laws or proposals.

Showcase. That’s a key word and the Facebook anal-ogy was there for a reason. A portfolio made / updated once at the time of job applications, is about as useful and live as your application itself. Few people put information into Facebook once. For most, it serves as a living and current digital representation of you. Having a personal website and a portfolio in that same vein provides just as much—if not more—of an opportunity for serendipity between you and a future employer.

As the world continues to become digitally focused, it is imperative to position your-

self positively online. Many employers are seeking internet savvy employees with excellent credentials. Online portfolios can showcase your credentials while also showing your pro-fessional persona to employers and potential clients online.

For business professionals, online portfolios can increase online visibility amongst those in a particular field or niche market. This can also increase the number of companies that are interested in your skills.

For students, online portfo-lios can help secure internships and future jobs by allowing companies to see your accom-plishments.

For entrepreneurs, online portfolios can promote your business by allowing potential clients and investors to gain insight on the expertise you possess in your profession.

For authors, online port-folios can allow readers to learn more about your per-sonal story and your writing background. This will help to engage readers and increase in-terest surrounding your books and publications.

If you can show employers that you actually do things, then they will be a lot more willing to take a bet on you. Once they’ve seen your work, once they’ve bought in, you’ve created something that very few of the other applicants will have. You will have created de-mand. Once you accomplish that, you’re in.

Portfolios an essential asset for all majors“If you can show employers that you actually do things,

then they will be a lot more willing to take a bet on you.”

Basheer TomePhotography Editor

Photo by Chris Russell / Student Publications

10 • September 30, 2011 • Technique OPINIONS

Theft of T’s ignores original spirit of tradition, defaces Tech’s campus

This week’s “Keep the ‘T’ in Tech” campaign has sparked some interesting dialogue about the nature of tradition here at Tech. Some students see the practice of stealing small T’s as vandalism. Others see it as the continuation of the tradition of stealing the T from Tech Tower. One under-graduate student stated that the continued theft of small T’s has become a new tradition that is the “most cherished tradition of Tech.” Another undergraduate stated she is “disgusted that most (if not all) of the T’s have been removed.” Statements like these prompt questions—what is a tra-dition? And do we have an obliga-tion to continue practices that are seen as traditions?

The Webster’s definition of a tradition is “the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation.” So I agree with students who state that stealing small T’s has become a new tra-dition. It certainly has become a custom passed down to new Jack-ets. But the more important ques-tion remains: Are we obligated as a community to continue with a practice simply because it is a tra-dition?

That answer to this question is simple. No, we are not, and we should not. Traditions are intend-ed to bring us together, to enrich the fabric of our campus life, and to instill in us a pride in our In-stitute. If they are not doing so, they should be ended. One quo-tation that I think aptly captures the current situation is, “Tradi-tion is an explanation for acting without thinking.” I am certainly not saying that there is no value in Tech traditions, simply that all of our traditions should be ques-

tioned. They should not be acted upon without thinking.

Our rich history and traditions are amongst the greatest strengths of our Institute. George P. Bur-dell, Midnight Breakfast and the Mini 500 are all reasons why we love it here. They are essential to our campus life and they are among the shared experiences that make us Jackets. And yet they must be continually reassessed to ensure that their contributions to our campus life outweigh any harm. The label ‘tradition’ alone should never make a behavior per-missible.

I think our alumni are most acutely aware that this practice is not a continuation of the original tradition. I received an email on Wednesday from a member of the group who first stole the T from the Tech Tower in the 1960s. He discussed in his email that “the purpose of the ‘theft’ was to pres-ent the T to the retiring President of Tech, Dr. Edwin Harrison, who had guided Tech peacefully through the turbulence of the 1960s,” most notably through the integration of African-American students on our campus. In his email he said, “We felt a great President needed a great retire-ment gift, and what better gift than his own T.” He went on to write that there is no link between

the original theft and what is cur-rently happening on our campus. He concluded, “what is happen-ing now is vandalism, pure and simple.”

Today, we pride ourselves on being problem solvers, prepared to look beneath the surface of ob-stacles. If we engage in behaviors simply because someone before us did the same, what does that say about our community? And what does that say about Tech stu-dents? So I challenge each of you to look beyond simply the word ‘tradition’. Consider for yourself if you want to be a part of continu-ing this practice. The simple fact that the practice has been happen-ing for a few years does not give it exemption from the review of each member of our community. If anything, we should consider its legitimacy all the more harshly.

In my opinion, when I critically assess the impact on stealing small T’s on our campus, I can find no justification for continuing it. Stealing small T’s is not bring-ing us together. It is not enrich-ing our campus life. It has cost the Institute over $100,000 this year alone, and alumni, prospective students and donors consistently ask why Tech students are vandal-izing their own campus. Rather than building pride, it gives the impression that we have none.

OUR VIEWS hot or Not

Four-Oh FootballTech continues its domi-

nation of the gridiron, having defeated its most recent op-ponent—UNC—35-28. This puts the record for the season at 4-0, marking the first time the Jackets have won their first four games since 1990, when they won their last national title. It was a promising per-formance in Tech’s first con-ference game as the Jackets extended their win streak over UNC to three in a row.

HOT– or –NOT“If we engage in behaviors simply

because someone before us did the same, what does that say

about our community?”

Elle CreelUndergraduate Student Body President

Clough-tastrophyThe Clough Commons was

officially dedicated to ormer Institute President G. Wayne Clough on Saturday, Sept. 24th, with a few notable ab-sences: missing T’s from build-ing signs. While vandalism al-ways reflects poorly on Tech’s student body, it is particularly embarrassing to have a build-ing’s namesake see his build-ing vandalized before it has even been officially dedicated to him.

Bike weekTech students and faculty

put the pedal to the metal (lit-erally) this week in honor of the first ever Bike Week. The event, which was organized to highlight the environmental benefits that alternative means of transportation provide. The week involved a week-long commuter challenge for Tech faculty and staff, and will cul-minate in the four-mile Tour-de-Tech.

Water woesStudents looking to hy-

drate themselves at Starbucks who don’t want the jolt of caffeine typically associated with the coffee giant’s bever-ages will have to go digging for spare change. The Clough Commons Starbucks has be-gun charging $0.50 for water, meaning students just looking for a quick between class hy-draton pit-stop would be bet-ter off packing a water bottle.

The economy sucks.Free pizza rations on Tuesdays.

7 p.m., Flag 137, Technique

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pizza meetings on tuesdays 7 p.m., flag building, room137

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By Georgia WangContributing Writer

We all have ways to pro-crastinate online. Wheth-er, it’s Facebook, Stum-bleUpon or YouTube, these sites have a way of con-suming too much time. It can be hard to keep a balance between what you want to do and what you should be doing. So, here are some tips and tricks to keep you focused so you can get your work done faster and go back to watching videos of cats.

Will power

This method works better for some than most. How-ever, it is always worth a shot.

Listen to music.

Finding good music to study and work to can block out distractions while keeping you awake and motivated. Try mak-ing a playlist on Groove-shark, find great artists on Pandora or Spotify, or listen to pre-made playl-ists on 8tracks.com.

Make a to-do list.

Reward yourself for every to-do you complete. Plus, there is that feeling of ac-complishment when you can cross something off a list.

Take breaks.

Seeing the work we have to do by the next morn-ing can be overwhelm-ing. Take small breaks between problems sets or create a reward system so you have something to look forward to. For ex-ample, one hour of work means a 20-minute break or two problems equals three games of Tetris.

Silence your phone.

Keep yourself from check-ing your phone constantly. This keeps you less dis-tracted, and you will feel super popular when you have a bunch of unread text messages when you check your phone after a long time.

Since the beginning of this century, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other prominent social media have slowly, but surely, infiltrated our world. Humans have existed for years and have managed to correspond with nothing but let-ters and actual interaction; In the pursuit of finding out how dependent we really are to society’s new electronic crutch, I am giving up facebook for one week. This is how I fared:

Time 0It is eight minutes after midnight, and I have just begun my seven-day journey without Facebook. So far, it’s going well.

Day One (Wednesday)This is not going well. I don’t believe I am a Facebook addict, per sé, but I have already typed “www.faceb…” into my address bar at least seven times before catching myself. Facebook has actually become a component of my subcon-scious! I am not sure if I can even count the number of times today I’ve wanted to check a Facebook event or look at my friend’s profile pictures. As I did not have a lot of homework tonight, time I might have normally spent on Facebook turned into a three-hour nap. Now, I am getting ahead on my work because I cannot be distracted by my normal diversion.

Day Two (Thursday) Today I found avoiding Facebook an easier task. However, I needed to contact a girl for a project for one of my classes, and I soon realized the only method of communication I use with her is Facebook. I found her number later, but I started thinking about how much we use Facebook to keep in touch with others. I was later reminded of this when I learned that one of my sorority sisters had tried to contact me on Facebook the other night, but I missed the message. Facebook may waste a lot of our time, but it also provides a really useful tool for getting invites to events, messages from friends, and even opportunities for networking with groups. I’m starting to realize why Facebook seems so neces-sary for our society today.

Day Three (Friday) My friends from high school figured out that I am giving up Facebook for the week, and they have started “liking” every picture, status, wall post, and tag on my profile to mess with me. Other friends have told me that they have at least 100 notifications just from Facebook “likes.” Not being able to check Facebook has started to make me a little antsy. What if something really important is buried under there? I got so much homework done today with time to still hang out with my friends, but I also feel a little disconnected from everyone else; I am closer than ever to people in close proximity, but people without my cell phone can’t reach me. Is that a positive or a negative?

focus@nique.netFocus Editor:Siddharth GurnaniAssistant Focus Editor:Alex KesslerDesigner:Ian Bailie

Technique

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September 30, 2011

A week without FacebookBy Erin SappContributing Writer

One Week

No Facebook

No Skype

Photo Courtesy of Erin Sapp

Tips and Tricks

By Alex KesslerAssistant Focus Editor

Facebook is being up-dated again! No, not the sidebar. A whole new pro-file layout is up and com-ing, totally revamping the way users interact with the site and present their personal information.

Announced at the f8 Developers Conference in San Fransisco, Facebook is making the profile page a timeline, an electronic scrapbook of the user’s life.

The idea is to track the most sentimental events, like friendships, relation-ships, graduations and broken bones, and to place them in chronologi-cal perspective, creating a visual summary of life re-corded on facebook.

Every post, comment, “like,” photo and connec-tion will be amalgamated and sorted in the new timeline. Someone can look five years back to when they started using the online network and know who were their first friends and their favorite albums.

The vast rerouting and reorganization of data is a phenomenal feat for Face-book, but it leaves some worried about the appar-ent loss of privacy.

Despite the fact that

The new Facebook

By Lauren TownsendContributing Writer

Technology is an ever-advancing realm full of cutting edge ideas and entrepreneurs, but how does one become an inventor in such chaotic times? Does one need a certain skill set, or knowledge of business to succeed in the world of business and technology?

Startup companies seem to be popping up all over the place, but what techniques and knowledge can help make a company the best? According to Dr. Merrick Furst, a distinguished professor in the school

of Computer Science, e n t r e p r e n e u r s h i p incorporates more than just one set of skills, and, most of the time, involves risk.

A startup company is one that begins from scratch—if it is started with the correct people

How to start a tech companySee Week, page 12

Photo courtesy communication and marketing

Dr. Merrick Furst, a multiple business owner and professor in the college of computing has sound advice for entrepreneurs

See Tech, page 13

See Facebook, page 13

12 • September 30, 2011 • Technique FOCUS

By Sam SomaniContributing Writer

It rose from a small dorm room at Harvard and evolved into a so-cial networking juggernaut. It has over 800 million users (with 350 million of them using it on their phone right now); 900 million pages, events and groups; and over two billion likes, posts and com-ments. It’s Facebook.

“Facebook is a great way for me to keep in contact with family and friends,” said Heena Dani, a first-year BME major.

Doubea Pierre, a first-year CmPE major, agreed.

“I use Facebook to commu-nicate with friends from Haiti. With Facebook, it’s free—I don’t have to use a calling card or wor-ry about mail arriving on time,” Pierre said.

Some people, on the other

Each week, the Focus section seeks the opinions of the student population on some of the burning and pertinent questions pertaining to the theme.

STUDENTS SPEAK >>>>>

By Ben GoldbergContributing Writer

As the bond between humans and technology grows stronger, society has begun to see an emer-gence of trends in social media that have redefined communica-tion. The trends of 2011 not only reflect the progress of technologi-cal advances, but also give insight into people’s preferences for cyber interaction.

Video ConferencingNot even 25 years ago, the idea

of visiting a relative without leav-ing home was difficult to imagine. Since the first video was uploaded to YouTube in April 2005, mil-lions of videos have been shared with billions of people globally.

The use of video streaming ranges from business-related meetings to product promotions to Fail Blog. This innovation al-lows immediate face-to-face in-teraction with anyone, anywhere, at any time. With the release of Facebook’s video-chat feature a few months ago, the momentum of online video streaming shows no signs of slowing.

Quick Reponse CodesThe popularity of QR (Quick

Response) codes has also increased within the past year. Originally designed for the automotive in-dustry, these matrix-like barcodes are now being used to advertise and convey information in place of traditional methods.

Even in the Campus Recre-ation Center, all exercise machines are equipped with QR codes that allow quick access to instructions for those in possession of smart phones or equivalent.

3G>>>4GThe year 2011 was accompa-

nied by increased demand for higher bandwidth from 3G to 4G.

Carriers such as Verizon and T-mobile recognized the desires of busy consumers for faster down-load times. Verizon’s new 4G LTE promises perfect viewing of high definition movies and song down-loads in less than five seconds.

But with elevating consumer expectations, the need for tech-nological innovation is a priority for phone companies. It may not be long before the trend shifts to even more bandwidth.

GPS-Based ServicesLocation-based services (LBS)

have caught on as viable meth-ods for users to interact, share, meet up and recommend places based on their physical coordi-nates. According to a recent poll of 500 UK adults conducted by Kinetic Worldwide, half of the respondents use their mobile de-vices for LBS in order to meet up with people, upload recommenda-tions or discover places to visit. The incorporation of LBS by such companies as Google, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn will facili-tate the sharing of location-based information by both consumers and producers.

PPT is passéIn the business world, tele-

phone conferencing is common and required, but presentation platforms that are working to-wards improved interaction such as Sliderocket.com and Prezi.com have gained prominence this year.

Not only will people be able to clearly hear the presenter, but they will also be able watch the presen-tation in real-time. The enhance-ment of the presentation tools will also revamp the ways people are able to present their ideas, regard-less of the person’s geographic lo-cation.

These trends of cutting-edge technology are shaping the realm of social media.

Five technology trends shape social media

hand, see Facebook as a way not only to keep up with old friends, but also to make new ones.

“It’s a great way to meet people I don’t know...I have a message board with a few people I met on Facebook where all of us discuss difficulties with homework and problems in class,” Pierre said. “If it weren’t for Facebook, there is no other way I could have found them.”

To others, however, Facebook is not as essential.

“It’s not that important to me, since you actually have to study in college,” said Katie Ledbet-ter, a second-year BIO major. “Only when I was trying to avoid studying, I’d get on Facebook...Sometimes I’ll get on Facebook, expecting to check one message, and waste the next two hours just browsing.”

Christian Pugh, a second-year

Day Four (Saturday)So, before now, not being on

Facebook hasn’t been too big of a deal. I’ve gotten more work done, maybe missed a few messages or events, but overall, my lack of Facebook has not bothered me. Today, however, I found myself seriously considering cheating and just checking—just for a sec-ond—before I finally reminded myself that I need to see the whole week through. I actually had a dream last night about using Facebook (and it was awesome!), which to me says a lot about my Facebook usage. I also noticed that Gmail has become my Face-book crutch: I’ve checked my e-mail much more frequently than ever before, hoping for an e-mail, spam or anything at all. Things have gotten pretty bad.

Day Five (Sunday)Today feels different; I have

thought about actually signing in less, but I still can’t stop won-dering what sort of notifications await me. I am almost dreading checking my Facebook, the way

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ChBE major, also failed to regard Facebook as an essential part of his life.

“I just mainly use it to chat with other people,” Pugh said. “The only reason I got it was be-cause everyone else has it and it’s easier to communicate with them through Facebook than through other [media].”

Facebook’s role as a major in-strument of modern social inter-action has also shifted trends in personal interactions.

“A pro of having a Facebook is becoming Facebook friends with someone before becoming their real friend,” Ledbetter said. “It gives you an idea of the type of person they are.”

Williams, however, had a more critical view.

“I realized I was missing out on conversations that build friend-ships outside of the Facebook world,” Williams said. “Gener-ally you get to know someone by asking about their interests and what’s going on in their life, but I didn’t feel the need to ask some-one that if I already knew these things [through Facebook].”

Facebook raises more serious concerns with privacy, especially

with the new interfaces it regu-larly implements. Currently, the ticker raises the issue.

“Most of my friends have com-plained about [the ticker],” Pugh said.

“People can stalk you, like le-gitimately stalk you,” Pierre said. “I heard about this guy who liked

this picture of a girl on Facebook, tracked her down and ended up murdering her.”

However, anomalies like these are no surprise for a multi-billion dollar giant whose reach extends to most corners of the globe. As Pierre said, it’s not official till it is “FBO” (FaceBook Official).

What does Facebook mean to Tech students?

Will they give it up?

Photo courtesy of Sho Kitamura / Student Publications

Facebook has made it easy to stay connected with people in various networks but how healthy is gen-now’s obsession with it?

you dread a huge assignment looming in the future. I defi-nitely think that if I had given up Facebook forever instead of just for the week, I would feel com-pletely relieved. Still, the biggest wake up call happened when my own sister became frustrated that I had missed an important mes-sage from her that she sent on Facebook. When I asked her why she couldn’t call me, she paused for quite a long time. Finally, she said something that I think has become the mantra of our genera-tion’s Facebook use: “It was just the natural thing to do.”

Day Six (Monday)Not using Facebook has kept

me away from my computer much more than normal—and I con-sider myself a non-techie. I never play video games, I watch a lim-ited amount of television and I did not spend that much time on the computer when I did not need to do so. Or so I thought. As it turns out, I saved an hour total on my online math homework because I was not checking Facebook in between. Now that I’ve lasted six days (which, granted, is not even that much) I understand that go-

ing without Facebook seems to be better for time management and overall mental clarity, but I have also been missing out on event invites, group postings, seeing pictures of myself that others have posted, and generally useful por-tions of our interconnected world. Before this week, I definitely thought the world might be a bet-ter place if Facebook went away. This week, I truly have no idea whether a world with Facebook helps us or hurts us.

Day Seven/checking my Facebook (Tuesday)

I spent a lot of the day watch-ing the clock, but when it came time for me to actually get on Facebook, I was not that excited. I spend less than 15 minutes, checking my notifications and once I was done, I signed off. Per-haps my disinterest will fade as time goes on, but for the moment, I am largely unaffected emotion-ally by the return of Facebook to my life.

Even with an anticlimactic ending to the week, I feel like I know a little bit more about what Facebook means to me. For such an addicting entity, disconnecting from Facebook did not present any huge compulsion problems after day four. Facebook’s worth cannot be denied. I spent a lot of time worrying about important messages I might have missed from my Facebook groups or from those who do not have my phone number. After all, our generation uses Facebook as a prime interac-tive tool. Yet we are not depen-dent on Facebook; we need only ask for a friend’s phone number or e-mail to contact anyone we re-ally want to get in contact with. Facebook provides one principal tool that we cannot supplement ourselves: the ability to enhance our group activity by having a place online where everyone can stay connected or post ideas, ques-tions, and plans.

So, to all my friends and read-ers: next time you want to talk to me, just skip Facebook and give me a call.

Photo by Michael Schneider / Student Publications Photo by John Nakano / Student Publications

Photo by Sho Kitamura / Student Publications Photo by Justin Levine / Student Publications

Students Speak

Technique • September 30, 2011 • 13 FOCUS

By Rachit KansalContributing Writer

Electronic tablets, in the mod-ern world, serve an important function. They signpost a trade-off between the portability of a smartphone and the computing power of a laptop.

“Internet browsing and check-ing emails is so much more conve-nient on a tablet than on a laptop. A tablet also allows a person to see video clips and photos on a much

bigger and better screen than a smartphone,” said Ajmal Kun-numal, a first-year CS major.

Tablet sales have already passed the 40 million mark for this year. Let’s take a look at three different tablets, which are touted to be the best in the market, and compare the specifications that are impor-tant to college students.

For a college student who has to constantly move around cam-pus, portability is key. The weight and size of a tablet can play an

important role in the decision-making process.

The LG Optimus has a sig-nificantly smaller screen size than the iPad 2 or Galaxy Tab, which make it slightly more portable. Yet, fitting a 9” screen tablet into one’s pocket is not an easy feat and thus, this difference is un-likely to give the Optimus Pad a big advantage.

Among other features, two of the most important for any col-lege student are the eReading ca-

Apple Ipad 2613 gm

9.7”16-64 gb0.92 MP

720p (HD recording)Two Page Viewing, has several eReading apps

iOSApple - Over 100,000

$400-$800

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1595 gm

10.1”16-64 gb

8 MP720p (HD recording)

Two Page Viewing, has several eReading apps

Android 3.1 HoneycombAndroid - Over 10,000

Approx. $600

LG Optimus Pad621 gm

8.9”32 gb5 MP

1080p (HD recording)No two Page Viewing,

limited eReading apps Android OS 3.0

Android - Over 10,000Approx. $700

What to look for when buying a tabletpability and the Apps Store of a tablet. With respect to the former, the Galaxy Tab and the iPad 2 ef-fortlessly trump the Optimus Pad with two-page viewing and sev-eral reading apps such as Kindle and Google Books.

The iPad 2, on the other hand, dominates its two competitors with respect to the Apps store. The Apple Apps store has more than 100,000 apps meant specifically for the tablet; on the other hand, the considerably smaller Android App store has a mere 10,000 apps or so.

The iPad 2’s iOS seems to be more popular among college stu-dents then the Galaxy Tab’s and Optimus Pad’s Android OS.

“The iOS looks much classier and more professional than An-droid 3.1. You get a totally differ-ent feel with the iPad 2; the ease with which you can scroll through menus is amazing,” said Taylor Nichols, a first-year EE major.

A reasonable price is highly de-sirable for college students. Com-paring the three devices, the iPad 2 is clearly the cheapest choice. This, combined with its aforemen-tioned advantages, makes the iPad 2 seem like the best value-for-money option. One of its major drawbacks, though, is its relatively low quality camera, which is less than 1 megapixel.

Thus, it seems that most stu-dents never even consider camera quality when they buy tablets. Verdict: IPad2 for its price, e-reading capabilities and app- store.

By Hope BrownContributing Writer

The funniest and most in-teresting Tweets from this past week have been brought to you by @hpb330.

Wednesday, Sept. 21@TheTweetOfGod: At this

point, no one still unfamiliar with the ordering process at Starbuck’s should be allowed on line. The stakes are just too high.

@someecards: Glad the Face-book redesign helped distract you

from everything actually wrong

with your life. #New-Facebook

@ColbertReport :With the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” all wars suddenly seem kind of gay.

Thursday, Sept. 22@DellHomeUS: If your laptop

weighs more than a baby #time-toupgrade

@BestWorstAdvice: Want to nail that job interview tomorrow? Start every sentence with “On the real, though.”

@NotGaryBusey: Instead of wanting Facebook to have a “Dis-like” button, it should implement a “Cool story, bro” button.

@toomany2choose Um, Face-book? You’re not Lady Gaga. You don’t need to reinvent every 2 weeks. Seriously, is this your ver-sion of a meat dress? #newface-book

Friday, Sept. 23@Madeasimmons_: Have y’all

ever seen the type of people that walk in Walmart?! Are they even God given creatures? #Sheesh!

@SpokenReasons A Woman Still In Love With Her Ex: “I don’t care about him”... (Logs on Twitter and sees what he’s talking about)

@jimmykimmel: let’s not kid ourselves “Toaster Strudel”, you’re puffy Pop Tarts.

Saturday, Sept. 24@TechWhistle: Jackets win!

Final score 35-28. Give ‘em hell Tech! #THWG

@funnyoneliners: When a cowboy breaks his leg, I think his horse should be allowed to shoot

him.Sunday, Sept. 25@GAWANGG This guy is

walking around the Ford Building with a beer bottle. Even I’m not that hardcore.

@andreagootie In the library again... Most likely shacking here #techwalkofshame

Monday, Sept. 26@1FunnyWhiteGuy: Chris

Brown hits her, Eminem lies to her, Drake can’t remember her name = The life of Rihanna, OH NA NA THATS A SHAME

Tweets of the week

every Facebook service is volun-tary and the privacy settings of any piece of information can be customized, those who opt for the new timeline will find their entire personal history conveniently or-ganized online for data-miners, identity thieves and any general e-crook.

Of course true cases of identity theft are far between, and Face-book prides itself on its strong se-curity for users.

However, any time a user vol-untarily downloads an app or service, they agree, whether they read the license agreement or not, to open information to third par-ties to read.

When it comes down to it, the timeline will just be another step in the integrated evolution of so-cial media, and Facebook aims to keep ahead of the curve.

But regardless of how much security and privacy Facebook implements, it is the responsibil-ity of the user to protect his or her own information.

Although not out for wide-spread public use yet, www.techcrunch.com already has an article with instructions to down-load a developer app and to enable the timeline for most users.

The new timeline layout will include a large personalized ban-ner, the standard profile picture and sections grouped by themes, such as posts and pictures relevant to a trip to the Grand Canyon made two years ago all in one clever box.

If anything, the nostalgia fac-tor generated by the layout will inspire and surprise.

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Dr. Furst encourages students to start by working for established start-up companies before jumping into personal endeavours.

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Photo courtesy of William Hook

and skill set, the profit outweighs the risk.

“I would encourage students who wish to start a business to be-gin by working for a newly estab-lished startup company. Working in such an environment allows in-dividuals to learn their strengths and weaknesses in business as well as their likes and dislikes. Then, when they feel confident with their abilities, they should jump right in and get started with their own company.” Furst said.

“How do you recognize if you are an entrepreneur? Well, it’s just the way you are,” Furst said.

Furst, in conjunction with others, has founded or assisted in founding seven companies in-cluding the well known company Damballa.

“The most important thing to learn as an entrepreneur is not a specific skill set, although that is very important, but to recognize a need and learn how to fill it. The only way to start a business is to see an area where there is a need

and make a product that is mar-ketable.” Furst said. “Three key ingredients to a successful com-pany are correct founders, mar-ketable ideas and staying cheap.”

One is never too young to rec-ognize the need for a product or improvement. An entrepreneur begins as soon as he or she is able.Many students at Tech show this capability and have even begun to explore the world of business and technology. Sometimes, the field of entrepreneurship does not simply include startup companies, but the ability to invent individ-ual products such as video games or other products. Chris Sumsky, a Digital Media graduate student and Ryan Oliveria, a CM alumnus worked with a few others to pro-duce a game called “Token Mas-ter,” an iPhone puzzle game. The invention of this game led to the foundation of a company called Crystal Fish Entertainment.

“We wanted to make a game. It started with four of us, and we put together a team, and it took

us about four months to finish Token Master. The inspiration was to make something that is to-tally ours and not for a class. Af-ter making the game we decided we could actually do this for a living and we decided to become incorporated.” Sumsky said. Their inspiration was followed with suc-cess with their game selling over five hundred copies. They aspire to do even better with the games they sell in the future.

“After making the first game, we learned about our market base and now understand how to ap-peal to our target audience,” Oli-veria said. “We want to make a whole new genre, and we all really want this company to get off the ground. I see myself sitting in the office of Crystal Fish Entertain-ment producing these games for a living in the future.”

Both Sumsky and Oliveria agree that the skills learned at Tech were invaluable to the pro-duction and startup of their com-pany.

“I think the most valuable thing that Tech taught me is time management and team manage-ment. Both skills are invaluable in

a work setting,” Sumsky said.Therefore, for students who

aspire to be entrepreneurs, now is the time to get started.

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September 30, 2011

SHOWS

ASO: Opening NightPERFORMER: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

LOCATION: Atlanta Symphony Hall

DATE: Sept. 23

OUR TAKE: «««««

A STLANTA YMPHONYpresents debut of promising season

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Comedy Festival offers improv, parody humor

50/50 defines “dramedy” genreFILM

50/50GENRE: Drama, Comedy

STARRING: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen

DIRECTOR: Jonathan Levine

RATING: R

RELEASE DATE: Sept. 30

OUR TAKE: ««««

By Andrew HoContributing Writer

Despite the presence of com-edy actors and writers, 50/50 is a movie about cancer that will likely pull on the heartstrings of even the most jaded viewers.

Rather than using this disease as a selling point or generic tear-jerker, however, the main idea here is the humor and changes that come with the hardships of surviving cancer, with no small amount of Judd Apatow-brand

comedy tossed in. The story is based on the experience of com-edy writer Will Reiser, who was diagnosed with the disease and subsequently went on to survive and write about this peculiar mo-ment in his life.

The story centers around Adam Lerner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a plucky, neurotic sort of fellow who seems content to live with many of the punches that life throws at him.

Adam is supported by his clos-est, if not sometimes annoying, friend Kyle (Seth Rogen) and his decidedly wishy-washy girlfriend (Bryce Dallas Howard).

Kyle and Adam spend their time working for a Seattle radio station while dealing with little else but their everyday lives and some tedious work.

The bombshell in the story drops when Adam receives a star-tling diagnosis during a visit to the doctor, revealed none too gen-tly either.

The suddenness and impact of the news elicit such disbelief that the rest of his visit is a blur, leav-ing him with the incredibly awk-ward task of informing everyone around him.

EVENTS

Black Box Comedy Festival

PERFORMER: Various Comedians

LOCATION: Ferst Center for the Arts

DATE: Sept. 28 - Oct. 2

OUR TAKE: «««««

By Siddarth SreeramContributing Writer

It’s finally time to put those books down this weekend and take a stress-relief pill at the Black Box Comedy Festival at the Ferst Theatre.

This year’s festival features new performers who guarantee that you’ll be clutching your sides by the end of their perfor-mances.

The Comedy Festival takes place from Wednesday, Sept. 28, to Sunday, Oct. 2, at the Ferst Theatre near the Student Center.

For those who are wondering what this Festival is all about, Black Box features numerous performances of improvisational comedy—nine shows and 27 performances with over 150 co-medians.

“The festival is featuring three new groups this year—the Dusk show, which is an impro-vised Twilight parody, a 1960’s Batman parody and an impro-vised mafia show by a group from New York. There are going to be lots of costumes and this year has a high production val-ue,” said Matthew Falkenberg, Executive Producer of the Black Box Comedy Festival.

The Festival specializes in im-

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Image courtesy of Summit Entertainment

By Jonathan PeakContributing Writer

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) played an impressive season opener last week on Thursday, Sept. 23, for a full house. Not only were the patrons out in full force, but the symphony showed its best, playing Wagner and Beethoven alongside vocal so-loists and the Atlanta Sympho-ny Orchestra Chorus.

While the musical selec-tions were not exactly ground breaking—sticking to clas-sics familiar to even the non-musical—they were stunning nonetheless, proving why they are classics.

Under the direction of con-ductor Robert Spano and the leadership of concertmaster David Coucheron, the ASO swept through selections from

Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibe-lugen (The Ring of the Nibe-lung).” These included the epic “The Ride of the Valkyries” and the elegiac “Immolation Scene” from “Götterdäm-merung (The Twilight of the Gods)”—an opera. The latter featured the vocals of soprano Christine Brewer, who effec-tively commanded the stage and the role.

After the intermission, the symphony performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor, one of his most famous and most impressive works. The orchestra played the first two movements beau-tifully, highlighting the vari-ous themes in between the sec-tions. The third movement, the Adagio, slowed the pace con-siderably, the fragile themes blurring together, effectively creating tension between the

winds and lower strings in preparation for the finale.

At the beginning of the fourth movement, a discus-sion is conducted, as themes are brought back by the winds and summarily rejected by the cellos and basses. Eventually a melody is chosen, and that theme is the immortal “Ode to Joy.”

This “Ode to Joy,” however, is not of fourth-graders learn-ing to play instruments or tin-kering on a piano, but “Ode to Joy” as it is meant to be heard—with a full orchestra, soloists and chorale all work-ing together towards a majestic culmination of the symphony. The ASO more than effectively captures this, leaving a stark reminder that they are a world-class orchestra.

With so many things to do in Atlanta, it is easy for Tech stu-

dents to forget about or write off the symphony as stuffy and expensive. This opening night, however, proves the enduring thrill of classical music. Even for the non-musical, such a performance is undeniably im-pressive.

However, great music alone does not draw and keep crowds. The ASO recognizes this by putting on a full show. The opening “Star-Spangled Ban-ner” feels almost impromptu as the audience is physically and sonically surrounded by the chorus. Programs pro-vided also contain a great deal of background and history for the pieces played, along with a brief musical analysis. With just a little reading, even the most unknowledgeable listener can suddenly feel like an expert and have at least a basic under-standing of the nuances in the

music that becomes more like a dialogue without words.

As the pieces with words were in German, and as such, translations were provided on screens and in the programs. The programs also contain brief plot outlines for the per-

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Symphony from page 15 Office survives under new managementTELEVISION

The OfficeNETWORK: NBC

WHEN: Thursdays, 9 p.m.

STARRING: Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer

OUR TAKE: «««««

By Joe MurphyContributing Writer

America’s favorite second-rate Pennsylvania paper supply com-pany is back. The eighth season of The Office kicked off on Thursday, Sept. 22. With over 7.5 million viewers, the show is still proving that it can hold its own. And this year, it’s all about twos. Two new bosses, two new pregnancies and two words that we thought we would never hear: no Michael.

At the beginning of last season, Steve Carell’s decision to leave the show shocked viewers. His char-acter Michael Scott, the regional manager of Dunder Mifflin, has starred as the lead role on The Of-fice since its beginning in 2004, and has been creating awkward situations and spouting “that’s what she said” jokes ever since. However, due to Carell’s contract expiring, the actor believed it was time to move on to bigger and

better things. Thus, the pervading ques-

tion of season 7 was simple: Who would replace him? That question and more are answered in last week’s episode, and though the hole that Carell left in the show is glaringly huge, the remaining cast members give a performance that is, in fact, not too shabby.

First of all, there is the one and only James Spader. With the role of new company CEO Robert California, Spader brings to the table an unreadable stare and a management style that has the entire office on its toes. Never before has someone so mysterious or sophisticated set foot in this of-fice, and as a result, no one in the entire group of characters seems to know how to handle him. Could he possibly live up to the enor-mous legacy left by the incompa-rable Steve Carell? We shall see. But he sure as heck can rock that soul-searching, X-ray gaze.

Now for the rest of the cast. Through the years, we have watched them walk across fire pits, participate in volleyball tourna-ments, fall in love and dance the night away on a booze cruise. In this pilot episode alone, tears are shed, a planking epidemic hits the office and Dwight (Rainn Wil-son) once again finds a creative way to use the fire extinguisher.

In other words, it’s business as usual for this particular group of employees, and we as an audience are treated to the same obtrusively sarcastic comedy we have come to know and love.

In the case of most television shows, writers begin running out of ideas somewhere around season four. In fact, many people will ar-gue that The Office lost its attrac-tions years ago. However, the pilot episode of this new season proves that the show may still have a few tricks up its sleeve. Yes, it was with sad parting that the character of

Michael left, and yes, no one can say that the show will ever be the same without him. But perhaps that’s just the challenge this new season faces.

Michael is out of the picture, but maybe that will allow previ-ously second-hand characters to have a little spotlight time. Only time will tell whether or not The Office survives the absence of its poster child, but if this first epi-sode is any hint as to what season eight holds in store for us, then we may not have heard the last of Dunder Mifflin.

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formance, allowing the listener to get lost in the tragedy of the hero-ine Brünnehilde as she chooses to throw herself into the flames of her husband’s funeral pyre. Sud-denly the music is no longer just music, but stories and conversa-tions anyone can understand and enjoy.

Cost-conscious students also need not worry as the ASO is pro-viding amazing deals for students.

The Woodruff Arts Center not only gives Tech students tickets to the symphony, but also plays at the Alliance Theatre and allows access to the High Museum of Art, along with many other benefits.

The symphony has an exciting season planned. Highlights for the upcoming weekend’s perfor-mance of Tchaikovsky by world-class violinist Joshua Bell and Rachmoninov’s “The Bells” from Oct. 27 to 29, once again featur-ing a full chorus.

For those less classically in-clined, there are other options like Rockapella (Oct. 14 to 15) and A Storybook Halloween (Oct. 30).

As the symphony strives to market itself towards a younger market, it will soon feature will be a “happy hour” before concerts for the younger generation.

Now is the time for students to try it out. If the concerts continue to be anything like their open-ing night, visitors are sure to be pleased.

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Swift melodies at PhillipsIs it country or is it pop? Who cares? Country-pop

crossover teen sensation Taylor Swift will be entertain-ing crowds for two rocking nights at Philips Amphi-theater this weekend. Starting Saturday night with a second performance Sunday night, the award-winning blonde will serenade audiences these October evenings. The iconic Phillips Arena will be honoring original tickets. The show starts at 7 p.m., so be there, or be square(dancing).

Being married with kids might seem hard enough, but throw in the challenge of being a touring band and you’ve got the lives of the indie pop duo Mates of State. On Thursday, Oct. 6, they’ll be bringing their quirky, melodic music to Atlanta’s Drunken Unicorn in sup-port or their new album, Mountaintops. Go to www.thedrunkenunicorn.com for more information.

Oktoberfest of Marietta

Mates in the Unicorn

By Chris Ernst and Matthew CohenContributing Writers

Disappointed you can’t get to Munich for Okto-berfest? Well, aren’t you in luck! Just head over to the Luckie Marietta District to partake in the celebration. Der Biergarten and STATS are the two restaurants that will be transforming into biergardens Saturday, Oct. 1 starting at noon. In addition to beer, the restaurants will offer traditional German fare like rotisserie-roasted sch-weinshaxe and brats. If you buy a beer boot, you can relive your Oktoberfest glory with a discounted refill.

provisational comedy and paro-dies that are usually meant to at-tract a student crowd.

“The shows are fit for students at Tech. The Twilight and Batman parodies are perfect examples. Students should attend at least two shows during the weekend because they’re really good stress relievers. You guys could do with some laughs,” Falkenberg said.

Black Box regular “Kit Fitz Si-mons,” who performed in 2000 and 2001 and has attended the Festival every year since, men-tioned that this year’s show is sig-nificantly different from the previ-ous editions from the performers’ point of view.

“It feels more nationwide with teams from more places around the country. There’s a group all the way from San Francisco to headline the event. The workshops offered to people involved are get-ting better and better, especially in terms of instructors knowing what the festival goers are expect-ing,” Simons said.

This year’s Festival promises to enthrall audiences from far and wide, not just with improvisa-tional stand-up comedy, but also with skits and plays spread over various themes of satire and gentle mockery.

We all enjoy spoofs and paro-dies, and those are exactly what the Black Box Comedy Festival is trying to bring to the stage this year—a series of college-student-oriented comedy shows.

This year, Tech celebrates 23 years of outstanding improvisa-tional comedy on campus, with performers, some with over 25 years of experience, who have of-fered to teach improvisational comedy by means of short crash courses.

In conclusion, fill in your cal-endars, buy your tickets and make it to the Black Box Comedy Fes-tival 2011.

Comedy from page 15 Moneyball deviates from sport formula

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MoneyballGENRE: Biography, Drama

STARRING: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill

DIRECTOR: Bennett Miller

RATING: PG-13

RELEASE DATE: Sept. 23

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By Brian EdmondsContributing Writer

With professional baseball making its way into the postsea-son, many will take much pleasure in Moneyball, Hollywood’s take on the Oakland A’s 2002 season. Adapted from the Michael Lewis book of the same name, the movie succeeds in translating the ma-jority of the book’s finer points. The movie, directed by Bennet Miller and starring Brad Pitt as A’s general manager Billy Beane, functions not only as an engaging sports drama, but also as a basic introduction into sabermetrics, the science behind baseball’s new wave of statistics.

The movies opening scene shows footage of the A’s loss in the 2001 American League Division Series to big spender New York Yankees and effectively character-izes Beane’s major problem: how to win when you have only a frac-tion of the payroll to field a team with.

The answer: Find value in play-ers in ways that no one else in the major leagues is. In order to find this value Beane enlists the help of Peter Brand, played by a very like-able Jonah Hill. Brand possesses

an economics degree from Yale and channels his abilities towards analyzing baseball statistics and players. Brand explains to Beane that games are won and lost not by great players, but by the runs they produce.

The film offers an interest-ing historical perspective, as the drama is intertwined with clips from the A’s season. Statistics and dates add texture and context to a plot that, if not treated with care, could have flopped. Miller is most impressive in his ability to cap-ture the tensions of baseball. Even audiences familiar with the story will find themselves on the edge of their seat rooting for the Athletics and Beane to succeed.

What is most refreshing about Moneyball is its departure from the sports movie formula that has so often been recreated. You will not find any cliché inspiring speeches or come from behind heroics to win the championship. Instead, audiences are treated to a behind the scenes look at how the smart-est guys in baseball do their job and the pressures that come with it. Pitt plays Beane with intensity and charm. The movie portrays him as almost a tragic character, one that could never quite accom-plish what he works so hard every day to achieve.

Late in the movie, Beane refer-ences the dilemma of not romanti-cizing baseball, a game that he has been a part of for his entire life. It can be played with respect and love and can be rewarding in nu-merous ways. However, it is only when one takes as step away and looks at the numbers in the right way that one can truly accomplish a greater understanding of what makes a winning team tick.

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Coldplay enchants Piedmont with lights, musicEVENTS

Music Midtown FestivalPERFORMER: Coldplay, Black Keys, Cage the Elephant, many more

LOCATION: Piedmont Park

DATE: Sept. 24

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By Yameen HuqContributing Writer

After a six-year hiatus, Atlan-ta’s premier music festival, Music Midtown, was back in full-force on Sept. 24. Now consolidated into a single Saturday, the festival aggregated a series of bands into a compact, non-stop train of musi-cal and aesthetic pleasure.

Taking place in the large grass sprawl of Piedmont Park, the fes-tival was bursting at the seams with hordes of music fans, likely numbering in the tens of thou-sands. There were two elaborate stages, one on each side of the park in order to make the transi-tions between bands as immediate and smooth as possible.

Veteran band Coldplay head-lined the day’s events. The re-maining performances consisted of bands mostly conceived in the last decade: The Postelles, The Constellations, Walk the Moon, Band of Skulls, The Joy Formi-dable, Manchester Orchestra, The Black Keys, Cage the Elephant and Young the Giant.

Casting such a wide net with its lineup, the festival easily made sure that they had a band for ev-eryone.

Despite the other great perfor-mances, the concluding concert by Coldplay was, by and large, the biggest draw for vast portions of the audience. While most other

bands opted for sparser, stripped-down performances, Coldplay came out firing all guns, attacking the audience’s senses with blasts of music, color, lasers and giant bal-loons.

Coldplay’s performance was as visual as it was aural. Starting off with elements of their classic repertoire, such as “Hurts Like Heaven” and “Yellow,” the band interlaid the music with various sensory sparks, such as huge laser displays and fireworks.

As much as there was to hear, there was even more to see, with lights and visuals, such as the col-orful spray painted outfits and instruments. Massive moving screens flanked each end of the stage for audiences further in the back.

Midway through the show the band delivered a tribute to the re-cent break-up of one of Georgia’s own bands, R.E.M. Playing a cover of one of their more popular songs, “Everybody Hurts,” front-man Chris Martin gave a eulogy

for the band and noted that he will miss them, while looking up at the sky.

The group also performed songs from their upcoming al-bum, Mylo Xyloto, including the latest single “Paradise.”

Somewhere through the per-formance was a rendition of their de facto band anthem, “Viva La Vida.”

With the crowd swelling in delight, the band engaged the au-dience through the piece, particu-larly during the chorus. Sounds of the wordless choir emanated from the audience in drunken revelry long after the song had ended and another had begun.

After a brief pause, the band wrapped up their performance with their old signature, “Clocks,” as well as their new one, “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall.” It was at this moment that the lights and lasers truly reached a paramount level, engulfing the sky in a sea of color and filling the stage with a giant portal-like circle of eclectic

colors. The other bands delivered a

slew of performances that varied from decent to great. Young the Giant in particular was a pleas-ant surprise because it combined soft rock with a rawer, indepen-dent sound. At times the music sounded almost ethereal, yet still maintained a light-hearted West Coast feel.

“A big part of us is our acoustic roots,” Young the Giant said.

More so than most of the other bands, Young the Giant’s show emphasized crowd participation with lots of clapping and singing from the audience. They ended their performance in a dissonant, yet sweeping and slow ballad, fad-ing out on a whistling and eerie choir.

An earlier band, Atlanta’s own The Constellations, gave a unique performance, blending cosmic tones with 70’s-style synthesizers, Rhodes pianos and bongos.

This was done in conjunction with lyrics delivered by singer Eli-

jah Jones through a mixture of rap and singing. While most of their songs were upbeat, there were a few slower, somber ones speckled with down-tempo, lingering bass lines.

However, their performance ended with the song “After Party,” an engaging piece with a country beat, yet a strong resonant voice.

“Our objective as a band is to make you have a good time,” Jones said.

Other notable performances included Walk the Moon, which was an unusual mix of electron-ica, heavy beats and distortion. This was all combined to generate a synthesizer-heavy, pop-oriented sound.

Switching from soft to high in-tensity, they engaged in softer bal-lads, such as “I Can Lift a Car All by Myself,” and songs like “Shiv-er,” which was a mix of fast-paced singing and rhythmic guitar riffs.

The Black Keys were also note-worthy with their grungier band of garage rock with an almost Southern feel. Their stage set-up was particularly unique and fea-tured a giant totem pole, a dream catcher and fire.

Other performances included Manchester Orchestra, which played in darker, harsher tones than the rest of the musicians: Band of Skulls, a heavy hard rock reminiscent of classic punk-groups such as The Ramones, The Joy Formidable and Cage the El-ephant.

This festival had elements of music for all palettes. While Cold-play was definitely the dominant force of the night, both musically and visually, the other bands had plenty to offer in terms of new and unique music.

Anyone who wants to discover music that’s new and exciting will find something here next year.

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Much of the plot from here on revolves around how everyone in Adam’s life responds to his illness and his interactions with them, though there are a few introspec-tive moments that follow.

From here on a few new char-acters are introduced, such as his overbearing mother (Anjelica Huston) who already has to play caretaker for her Alzheimer’s-afflicted husband, a pair of older, wise-cracking patients (Phillip Baker Hall and Matt Frewer) who receive chemotherapy along with Adam and the particularly inex-perienced and humorously messy therapist (Anna Kendrick) as-signed to him.

The medical marijuana jokes are expected, but are still deliv-ered in an unexpectedly humor-ous manner.

This unexpected humor applies to much of the comedy through-out the film, as the jokes come across naturally and remain enter-taining throughout, with Rogen providing a great deal of his trade-mark personality.

If anything, Rogen plays his character almost too well and very similarly to previous roles he has taken on, but there does turn out to be a good reason for him to nearly overplay himself in this manner.

Gordon-Levitt’s performance starts off entirely sympathetic, given his timid, neurotic nature, but becomes a convincingly con-flicted character as he deals with his family and friends, the rigors of chemotherapy and his increas-ingly depressed sense of impend-ing doom despite the optimistic outlooks around him.

There is a real sense of relief when he begins to try and direct his life the way he wants it to go, but at some point, he almost loses sympathy when he lashes out at people around him due to con-flicting notions on his life.

Neither the comedic or dra-matic aspects of this particular example of “dramedy” are over-the-top and manage to effectively evoke laughter and tears in equal measure.

Screenwriter Will Reiser col-laborated with Rogen to produce The Ali G Show when Reiser was diagnosed with cancer. However, Reiser made it clear that the char-acter Adam was most representa-tive of his experience.

Rogen jokingly pointed out that his performance as Kyle was, hopefully, more overblown than how he had been when he was younger.

“We were comedy writers. We never talked about emotions ever. And when he got sick, we just real-ized our priority wasn’t relating to one another, it was about trying to get a license for medical marijua-na. But when Will got better, we realized that there was no movie that felt like what our experience was. It was scary, but it was also really funny sometimes,” Rogen said on the topic of launching this personal topic onto the big screen.

Though the idea had been pro-posed in jest during Reiser’s treat-ment, Reiser continued develop-ing a prototypical script when Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen urged him to take another shot at the idea.

While there are moments dur-ing the movie where Rogen’s out-bursts of vulgarity will drive the audience into laughter, there are also poignant moments that make it hard for one’s eyes to stay dry even when one is expecting the emotion.

The combination of the in-teresting cinematography, well-thought writing and captivating performances makes this a movie that somehow crosses the lines into being a stoner-buddy flick and melodramatic exploitation, but in a way that pleases audiences from both ends of the emotional spectrum.

Abduction filled with plot holesFILM

AbductionGENRE: Action, Drama

STARRING: Taylor Lautner

DIRECTOR: John Singleton

RATING: PG-13

RELEASE DATE: Sept. 23

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By Patricia UcedaStaff Writer

Taylor Lautner of Twilight fame attempted to break out on his own this past weekend with the action-thriller Abduction. Un-fortunately, this film was not the best vehicle with whichto estab-lish him as leading man material and may have even set him back. While mildly entertaining, weak characters and a contrived plot make this film one to skip.

Directed by John Singleton, Abduction built its premise around the shocking idea that you could one day accidentally discover that your parents are not your bio-logical parents, and that you have been abducted. Unfortunately, the title is completely misleading. There is no abduction in this film, and the story is disappointing to say the least.

Lautner plays Nathan, a regu-lar high school kid who likes to party with his friends but strug-gles to control his rage—very reminiscent of Jacob from Twi-light. Because of his rage issues and some disturbing, reoccurring dreams, he has routine therapy sessions with Dr. Bennett, played by Sigourney Weaver, who must have just been a cameo for public-ity because her character was com-pletely superfluous.

Nathan’s parents are portrayed

by Jason Isaacs from the Harry Potter series and Maria Bello. The film does not try to hide the fact that these are not his real par-ents, understandable given that the trailers all openly portray this fact. However, producers would have tried a little harder to make it more realistic so that the audi-ence could actually believe that Nathan was unaware of his real identity his whole life.

Throughout the beginning, the film repeatedly drops hints that only a brick wall would miss, such as his father constantly training him for combat or his psychiatrist quickly brushing off his obviously post-traumatic dreams, that only a brick wall would miss. Nathan never found any of this suspicious.

Lily Collins plays Karen, Na-than’s longtime crush whom he was too shy to ever approach be-fore. They are randomly paired for a school assignment, and naturally, the sparks start flying. She inadvertently guides him to a website that shows pictures of missing children as they would appear aged, where he is devastat-ed to see a photograph that looks almost exactly like him. His worst fears are confirmed when he finds the same shirt he is wearing in the missing persons photo hidden in his basement, complete with the same dark stain.

Nathan attempts to contact the website to learn more about his past, unintentionally alerting a group of deadly Russian terrorists, who could keep his photograph there as a trap, wanting to use him as leverage to recover something from his real father, an interna-tional rogue spy.

Once they have his location, they quickly descend on the house, killing his fake parents and forcing Nathan to go on the run. To no one’s great surprise, Karen

insists on going with him. The pair is also hunted by the CIA.

The action sequences are done well enough to have a successful action film there has to be a co-herent and gratifying plot. That is where this film falls short. The plot is wholly and completely con-trived, existing only to showcase Lautner as an action hero.

Besides being completely pre-dictable, numerous plot holes make it painfully obvious that not much thought went into the script. The audience never fully understands why Nathan was put in a protection program, or what happened to his mother, or why he can never see his father.

None of this is helped by the fact that all the characters are completely one-dimensional and utilitarian.

There are allusions to Na-than and Karen being childhood friends, but is never expanded on, which might have helped make their love story more meaning-ful. The film is too focused on the action to develop the characters much at all.

Twilight fans will probably en-joy this film, but that’s about it.

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Glee continues quality performances, dramaTELEVISION

GleeNETWORK: FOX

WHEN: Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

STARRING: Lea Michele, Chris Colfer, Jane Lynch

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By Amanda FlorentineContributing Writer

Season three of Glee started out with a bang by introducing new faces, incorporating Broad-way classics and reaching for even bigger goals along with the tra-ditional inclusions of messy rela-tionships and comical drama.

The episode was appropriately titled “Purple Piano Project” as Will Schuester, the glee club’s ad-visor, devised a new assignment to inspire the students to share their musical talents when he strategi-cally placed purple pianos around the school’s campus.

In true Glee fashion, their first attempt to advertise for the club was anything but a success as the only results of their cafeteria per-formance of “We Got the Beat” were a food fight and horrendous auditions.

The performance was a nice change from the traditional Glee solos, though, as more characters were given a chance to shine and show off why they are an essential part of the cast.

A couple of the characters whose times on Glee have ended or were reduced in season three were Sam, the “trouty mouth” singer, and Lauren, Puck’s lover that got away. Glee made sure they incorporated new characters to make up for the loss of the oth-ers by introducing Mercedes’ new man, Marcus, and Sugar Motta, a dramatic and talentless singer with self-diagnosed Asperger’s who believes that she is the miss-ing ingredient that will lead McKinley High’s glee club to a nationals victory.

The class distinction was fi-nally brought to light in this epi-sode where it was revealed that the characters Artie and Tina are still

juniors. Although the majority of the characters will be graduating in the upcoming season, Artie and Tina will remain, which may or not be enough to maintain the show’s insane popularity.

A major focus of Glee’s sea-son premiere was the future, a prospect that uproots indecision and excitement for the seniors of McKinley High’s glee club mem-bers. Rachel and Kurt maintained their focus on the Big Apple with their incredible performance of “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead,” complete with a full band, chore-ography and themed props. The characters held onto their high hopes until they traveled to a mixer for one of New York’s most

prestigious performing arts col-leges and realized that there are aspiring performers who are just as brilliant as they are. Lindsay, a finalist in the Oxygen show Glee Project, guest starred with a brilliant rendition of “Anything Goes,” justifying Rachel and Kurt’s concerns.

Glee maintained its optimistic attitude by concluding the char-acters’ rough experience with the two effectively motivating one an-other to continue to reach for the stars.

Sue Sylvester, the coach of the McKinley’s cheerleading squad and Will’s archenemy, returned with anything but a shortage of witty comebacks. She is in the running for office and, for her new campaign, she advocated against the arts in school. The revelation of her radical goals inspired a drastic change in the polls and she successfully climbed toward the top. Will struck back with his newfound manhood, but, of course, his plan backfired and Sue was even better off than she was before.

Relationships were once again a focal point of the show where the couples of Rachel and Finn and Mercedes and Marcus took a backseat to a couple of relation-ships that continued to develop throughout the show. Blaine, a member of the Warblers, one of the glee club’s biggest competi-tors, transferred to McKinley to spend more time with Kurt while

Emma, the OCD guidance coun-selor, attempted to loosen up to make her and Will’s relationship more like an actual relationship.

A major character transforma-tion occurred in the premiere as Quinn, the church-going, cheer-leading captain of glee club be-came an edgy, rebellious character with pink hair and an “ironic” Ryan Seacrest tattoo.

Apparently she could not han-dle the pressure that came with being the school’s most popular girl, but it seemed as though her new look attracted a lot more at-tention than what she was getting before. Throughout the episode she refused to return to the glee club, but in the end she was spot-ted watching their performance in the auditorium.

The show concluded with the announcement of Kurt’s cam-paign for class president and the glee club’s fantastic, purple-infested performance of “You Can’t Stop the Beat.” The clip of next week’s episode promises even more plot twists as Rachel’s moth-er returns with news that will cause Puck and Quinn to reunite, ensuring plenty of drama.

The season premiere offered quite a bit of new material, much improved choreography and solo-sharing. Although it was not the most incredible episode, it was a great start to a season that is sure to be full of plenty of guest stars, controversial issues and, of course, phenomenal performances.

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The Jackets won the toss but elected to defer. UNC chose to receive. The Tech defense was un-able to stop a series of rushes by UNC running back Giovanni Bernard and UNC scored on its first drive of the game. This marked the first time this season that the Jackets have trailed.

Tech responded on the next drive, with Washington complet-ing a 21-yard pass to junior A-back Orwin Smith. The Jackets ultimately stalled, but sophomore kicker Justin Moore completed a 40-yard field goal attempt to put the Jackets on the board 7-3.

The Jackets’ defense forced a punt after Attaochu sacked Renner for a loss of 11 yards. Tech was able to make a number of big plays on the next drive, including a 36-yard rush by Smith to bring the ball into UNC territory. On a third-and-five from the UNC 33-yard line, Hill caught a high pass from Washington with a leaping one-handed play and landed in bounds, giving Tech a first down.

Tech was unable to capitalize on Hill’s play, however, and failed to gain another first down. Moore lined up for a field goal try but missed a 38-yard attempt.

The Tar Heels failed to make significant progress on their next drive, going three-and-out. UNC attempted to punt, but freshman receiver Darren Waller blocked the punt and freshman defensive back Corey Dennis returned the ball to the UNC 22-yard line.

Tech moved into the red zone but was unable to reach the end zone. Washington fumbled the ball on first-and-goal with nine yards to go, and UNC recovered.

The Jackets got the ball back after another three-and-out, and Washington completed a pass to Hill for a 59-yard touchdown on the first play of the drive. The score gave Tech its first lead of the day, a 10-7 advantage with 7:57

remaining in the second quarter.The Tech defense continued to

shut down the Tar Heels’ offense for the remainder of the half. At-taochu sacked Renner for seven yards on the next UNC drive to force a punt. Washington threw his first interception of the season on the first play of the ensuing drive, but on UNC’s second play that followed, Attaochu tipped a pass into the hands of sophomore safety Isaiah Johnson and Tech got the ball back.

Tech scored on that drive, go-ing 79 yards on 12 plays to in-crease the lead over UNC to 17-7, a score that held until halftime.

The Jackets opened the second half with a 10-play, 62-yard drive that ended with Moore connect-ing on a 36-yard field goal. UNC responded with a short drive of five passing plays for 74 yards, scoring a touchdown in just 2:10.

Washington followed up by leading Tech on a 13-play drive for a touchdown, and the Jackets completed the two-point conver-sion to bring the score to 28-14 with 1:26 remaining in the third quarter.

UNC struck back quickly,

going 64 yards on five plays and reaching the end zone on a 20-yard touchdown pass on the first play of the fourth quarter. The score cut Tech’s lead to 28-21 with 14:53 left in the game.

Although an unfavorable bounce on a Tech punt gave the Tar Heels great field position on their next drive, UNC failed to capitalize. Tech junior cornerback Rod Sweeting made a leaping in-terception on Renner’s first pass.

After Tech failed to score on its next drive, UNC drove 80 yards to tie the game, with Bernard rushing 55 yards on the final play for a touchdown.

Tech responded by breaking the tie and scoring the final touch-down of the game. Redshirt senior A-back Roddy Jones had the lon-gest play of the drive, a 48-yard rush that brought the ball to the nine yard line.

With just over five minutes re-maining in the game, the Tech de-fense shut down the UNC offense to prevent either of their last drives from scoring. The Jackets ended the game with a sack on Renner, running out the clock and setting the final score at 35-28.

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His block to open up the game was key in allowing junior A-back Orwin Smith to run in a 95-yard touchdown to kick off the game. There were 604 yards rushing and seven rushing touchdowns in the game scored by six different Tech players.

Against North Carolina, Washington completed 10 of 14 passes for 184 yards, one touch-down and interception. The Jack-ets amassed 312 rushing yards and converted 10 of 16 third-downs.

In the 2010 season, Washing-ton only completed 25 of his 61 attempts for 417 yards, two touch-downs and three interceptions in four starts. The redshirt junior has shown drastic improvement through the first four games of 2011 and has completed 27 passes of 42 attempts for 821 yards with eight touchdowns and one inter-ception.

Redshirt freshman quarter-back Synjyn Days has also been efficient as a conductor of the of-fense. Days has completed four of five passing attempts in relief of Washington for 106 yards and has also picked up four rushing touchdowns. Combined, Wash-ington and Days have completed 37 of 47 attempts for 927 yards, eight touchdowns and one inter-ception. The success at quarter-back has brought the Jackets to an unprecedented level of success on the stat sheet.

As for the other component of air game, Hill has heightened his intensity and knowledge of the game. Hill had 15 receptions for only 291 yards and three touch-downs in the 2010 season, and six receptions for 137 yards and a touchdown in Tech’s successful 2009 season.

Hill has shown considerable improvement from a statistical standpoint so far this year, with 14 receptions for 462 yards and four touchdowns. As Hill has become

more acclimated to the game, his performance has better matched up to the high expectations that have been placed on him since he became the primary receiver.

Hill was a key figure in Tech’s 35-28 victory over UNC on Sept. 24. In the third quarter, he man-aged to drag three Tar Heel de-fenders for five extra yards after making a catch for a short gain. Earlier in the game, Hill pulled off a one-handed catch that he even admitted he did not expect to make. The play was featured as the top play of the day on ESPN’s SportsCenter.

“Tevin put it in a spot that only I can go get it. I just used my basketball skills from high school. It kind of surprised me. I’m not going to lie to you. Once the ball got to my hands, [I] just used my strength in my forearm,” Hill said.

Improving from one recep-tion for 12 yards in last year’s meeting against the Tar Heels, Hill was very potent throughout Tech’s first ACC match against the Tar Heels. Hill had a career- and season-high six receptions, totaling for 151 yards in the game. The junior had a 52-yard touch-down reception on a play-action pass that left him wide open; it was his fourth touchdown of the season. The Jacket wide receiver’s four scores in four games match to his touchdown total from his first two seasons at Tech, a stretch that spans 27 games.

Thanks in part to the increased effectiveness of the passing of-fense, Tech’s running game is No. 2 in the nation, averaging 398.8 yards a game. Hill has played a key part in the success and is on pace for a 1,000-yard season as a receiver.

With Hill and the receivers adding another dimension to an already productive unit, the Jack-ets’ offense will continue to pose a challenge for all opposing de-fenses on the schedule.

Photo by Austin Foote / Student Publications

David Sims prepares to stiff-arm a UNC defender in Saturday’s game at Bobby Dodd Stadium. Sims had 13 rushes for 71 yards.

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The Jackets are looking ahead to their first conference road test of the season as they prepare for N.C. State this Saturday. Tech moved up to No. 21 in the AP Rankings after beating North Carolina last week in their ACC opener and are 4-0 for the first time since their 1990 National Championship season. Last week the Jackets played their closest game of the season, as they needed a late score and defensive stop to beat the Tar Heels by a touchdown. Here are the Jackets’ keys to winning the game and remaining undefeated atop

the ACC Coastal Division.As is the case every week, the Jackets expect their running game to produce a lot of points. They gained 310 yards on the ground

last week, which is actually below the team’s average and bumped them down to No. 2 in the nation for rushing yards per game. Tech’s running backs had a lot of help from the offensive line, including junior guard Omoregie Uzzi, who was named ACC Offensive

Lineman of the Week for the second week in a row. The Jackets should expect similar numbers this week as they face a defense that gives up an average of 408 total yards per game.

Although not as statistically stout as UNC’s defense, N.C. State’s defense will still be a challenge for Tech’s rushers. Thus, the Jackets will have to throw the ball more in order to have a balanced offensive attack. Redshirt junior quarterback Tevin Washington is completing 64 percent of his passes and has eight touchdown throws to only one interception. He will be throwing mainly to junior wide receiver Stephen Hill, who averages 115 receiving yards and one score per game.

The defense will have to stop the Wolfpack from finding the endzone and executing big plays. In their loss to Cincinnati last week, N.C. State’s two touchdowns came on two deep passes to T.J. Graham, one for 87 yards and another for 49. The Jackets may put an extra defender or two on him to keep him in check. A few sophomore Tech defenders earned honors this week, as safety Isaiah Johnson was named ACC Defensive Back of the Week and linebacker Jeremiah Attaochu earned ACC Linebacker of the Week as well as the title of National Defensive Player of the Week. Both players are hoping to build off last week’s success as they head into Raleigh.

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State’s record is currently 2-2, with both losses against FBS schools and both wins over FCS teams. However, they have shown promise even in their defeats: they scored two late touchdowns in a comeback against Wake Forest but ultimately fell short by a touchdown in their ACC opener. The Wolfpack have an even .500 record since Head Coach Tom O’Brien took the reins in 2007 and have beaten the Jackets in their only matchup since then. In order to avoid a 0-2 start in conference play, the Wolfpack must address the following in their gameplan.

The Wolfpack must find a way to increase their run production. They were stuffed for -26 yards rushing last Thursday night against Cincinnati, the lowest total by an ACC team in over ten seasons. Overall this year, N.C. State is ranked No. 109 in the FBS for rushing offense with 85 yards per game. The team has also scored on the ground only four times in four games and has lost six fumbles. This kind of production puts too much pressure on the passing game and can make the offense one-dimensional.

N.C. State hopes that senior quarterback Mike Glennon can continue to throw the ball effectively. He averages 270 passing yards per game, and the team is No. 33 in the nation in that category. He has also thrown ten touchdowns and only three interceptions on the year, and is completing 66 percent of his passes. Glennon’s favorite receiver is senior wideout T.J. Graham, who has 19 receptions and four touchdown catches this season. The six-foot, 180-pound receiver caught two touchdowns of 87 and 49 yards and had 176 total receiving yards last week.

Finally, the Wolfpack defense must find a way to contain the Jackets’ triple option attack. This may not be an easy task for a defensive line that has been marred by injuries. Of the four projected starters coming into the season, three of them have a reasonable chance of being on the sideline for this week’s game. However, N.C. State’s secondary can make up for the misfortunes suffered by its front seven. The Wolfpack lead the ACC and are ranked No. 3 in the nation with eight interceptions, while also forcing six fumbles. If this defense can force turnovers and give their offense a short field to work with, it may prove to be the difference in this game.

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

T I M E - O U Tw i t h A l e x M i t c h e l l

Season’s greetings, sports fans, and welcome to the first autumn edition of Time Out. It was an-other great weekend of college football what with Tech continu-ing to win and USC getting dis-mantled on the road.

However, one thing really bugged me about this past week-end: College Gameday was at West Virginia to see the Moun-taineers take on LSU.

Fundamentally, the decision to go to Morgantown for the first time to witness two ranked teams play makes sense. West Virginia is relevant again after the Rich Ro-driguez drama subsided, and LSU plays in the heralded SEC.

Unfortunately for ESPN, the true game of the week turned out to be the 30-29 shootout between Oklahoma State and Texas A&M. It is a shame that this game, which featured two top-ten teams, went relatively unnoticed, especially considering that both teams are members of the best conference in the nation, the Big 12.

At the top, the Big 12 has three teams that could match up well with any other conference’s top tier. LSU and Alabama are snagging headlines left and right thanks to their stellar defenses, but sandwiched in between the two in the polls is Oklahoma.

Oklahoma has proved it be-longs in the top two in the polls, having gone to Doak Campbell Stadium and defeated Florida State. Bob Stoops has had prob-lems with big road games, but the Sooners’ play suggested that this year’s team might be different with that 23-13 victory.

There was no hangover effect for the Sooners either, as they fol-lowed the win at FSU up with a home win against Missouri, a team that Oklahoma lost to last season. Oklahoma will continue to win games by using its sixth ranked passing offense, but no-body throws the ball better than the Big 12’s second best team, Oklahoma State.

For the Cowboys, it all starts

with quarterback Brandon Weeden, who has thrown for over 360 yards in every game this sea-son. The senior is old enough to be the father of some of his team-mates and plays like it too. He slings the ball all across the field and leaves defenses tipping their hats and calling him their daddy.

Like their in-state rivals, the Cowboys have a road win over a top-ten team in the aforemen-tioned win over the Aggies. Texas A&M is not going to sweat over the early conference loss because it might have the most complete offense in the Big 12.

Ryan Tannehill was just the right spark the Aggies needed last season when he was inserted in at quarterback, and although he may look slow, he can run. Tannehill had a 65-yard run last Saturday to go with his 309 passing yards.

Tannehill also has the luxury of handing the ball off to Cyrus Gray and throwing it to Jeff Full-er. Those two have already com-bined for 525 yards despite Gray sharing carries and Fuller getting double-covered.

It is actually tough to put Texas A&M in the top tier of the Big 12, considering the confer-ence has two other Texas teams that are undefeated. Still, I put both Texas and Baylor in the same tier as Missouri considering none of these teams has beaten a truly great team.

However, that is not to say that these teams have been pad-ding their win counts with games against cupcakes.

No. 15 Baylor opened up the season against TCU in front of a

national television audience. The game that ensued was an instant classic with Baylor winning 50-48 against the defending Rose Bowl Champions. The game proved that Baylor was no longer the laughingstock of the Big 12 and that Robert Griffin III is a legiti-mate Heisman candidate.

It seems odd that Texas should only be ranked No.17 even though the Longhorns are undefeated. To the voter’s credit, this is not Vince Young’s Longhorns and the only quality win that they have is a 29-point blowout at UCLA. Even though Texas went 5-7 last year, it is still Texas.

The bottom of the Big 12 has familiar names: Iowa State, Kan-sas State, Texas Tech, Kansas; and while Kansas did look awful against Tech, these bottom dwell-ers are no pushovers. The bottom tier of the Big 12 has a combined

record of 11-1, with the only loss being Kansas’ loss at Georgia Tech earlier this year.

It is crazy to call these four teams the bottom tier of any conference considering they have combined for wins over Miami, Iowa and Connecticut. These teams have also handled teams from the FCS, something that bad teams from other conferences cannot claim.

Duke lost to Richmond, Min-nesota lost to North Dakota State and Oregon State fell to Sacra-mento State. Meanwhile, Texas Tech beat Texas State 50-10.

Oklahoma might not be as good as LSU and Texas’ 3-0 start may be a distant memory come season’s end but as of today, the Big 12 is surprisingly the best conference in football. So come on, ESPN, show the Big 12 some love while you still can.

Photo courtesy of the Oklahoma State Athletics Department

Justin Blackmon of Oklahoma State leads the Cowboys’ potent offense and is considered by many to be the nation’s best receiver.

Sportssports@nique.netSports Editor:Alex Sohani

Follow the PackJoe Sobchuk previews the Jackets’

matchup on the road against the N.C. State Wolfpack.425

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PLAY OF THE WEEKPhoto by Will Folsom / Student Publications

Down 7-3 late in the first quarter, Tech faced a third-and-5 at the UNC 33-yard line and lined up with both wide receivers, junior Stephen Hill and senior Tyler Melton, split out to the left side. Melton ran a streak route while Hill, working from the slot, ran a short slant pattern toward the left sideline and found an open area between three UNC defenders past the first-down marker. Washington’s pass was high, but the 6’5” Hill made a leaping, one-handed catch, bringing the pass in at the highest point of his jump and maintaining possession even as UNC safety Tre Boston hit him as he landed. Tech picked up a first down as a result, and even though they failed to score on the possession, Hill’s catch ranked No. 1 on SportsCenter’s top ten plays from the day.

Washington-to-Hill connection opens up option attack

Photo by Austin Foote / Student Publications

Daniel Drummond and Julian Burnett quickly stuff the North Carolina run game for a loss. The Jackets’ defense held the UNC offense to under 100 yards and seven points in the first half before a late surge by the Tar Heels in the second half.

By Adam WestContributing Writer

Tech defeated North Car-olina in a closely-contested game on Saturday to win their fourth straight game and the first conference game of the season. The Jackets scored the final touchdown of the game with 5:20 remaining on the clock to win 35-28.

The Tech defense had a productive day on the field. The Jackets accumulated six sacks of UNC quarterback Bryn Renner during the game. Sophomore linebacker Jeremi-ah Attaochu, who was named the FWAA/Bronko Nagurski National Defensive Player of the Week, led the Jackets with nine tackles, five of which were unassisted.

On the offensive side, Tech racked up 272 total yards in the first half compared to just 93 for UNC, but the Tar Heels managed to complete a series of long drives to close the gap in the second half. In the end, the Jackets finished with 496 yards (184 of which came via the passing game) compared to UNC’s 332.

Tech’s ability to limit the

number of turnovers this game was better than previ-ous games. Redshirt junior quarterback Tevin Washing-ton threw his first interception of the season and the Jackets fumbled only once, but were unable to recover the ball. By comparison, UNC’s Renner threw two interceptions.

See UNC, page 24

Three Tech players earn ACC Player of

the Week honorsRedshirt junior guard Omoregie Uzzi,

sophomore outside linebacker Jeremiah At-taochu and sophomore safety Isaiah Johnson all earned ACC Player of the Week honors at their respective positions after a 35-28 win against UNC at home.

Uzzi earned ACC Offensive Lineman of the Week honors for the second consecutive week after helping lead the Jackets to 312 rushing yards against a stout North Caro-lina defense. Prior to the game on Sept. 24, the Tar Heels were only allowing 77 rushing yards per contest. Led by Uzzi, the offensive line did not allow a sack by the UNC de-fense. Uzzi recorded almost 20 knockdowns on the day.

Attaochu earned ACC Linebacker of the Week honors after posting a career-high nine tackles and three sacks against UNC. Attao-chu also tipped a pass that allowed Johnson to record one of the Jackets’ two intercep-tions on the day. The game ended on a sack by Attaochu to run out the clock and secure the win for the Jackets.

Johnson was named Defensive Back of the Week with seven tackles and an inter-ception on the day. Johnson led a secondary that held North Carolina quarterback Bryn Renner to his lowest completion percentage of the season. It was the first time for both Johnson and Attaochu earning ACC Player of the Week honors in both players’ first sea-sons as full-time starters.

Golf finishes eighth in Golfweek Conference

ChallengeThe No. 4 Jackets went to Burlington,

Iowa to play in the Golfweek Conference Challenge from Sept. 25-27. After ending the first day of the tournament in ninth place, the Jackets rallied to finish in eighth place.

Senior James White shot one-under-par on the final day to finish in the top 20 in individual play, however the Jackets finished the event at 25-over-par with a total of 889.

Arkansas finished the event in first place with a five-under-par 859, followed by Chat-tanooga with a two-over-par 866 and Okla-homa State with a three-over-par 867.

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By Danielle SharpeContributing Writer

Tech’s triple option offense is known for wearing down a defense and eating time off the clock. The efficiency of the Jackets’ passing game has contributed heavily to a Tech offense averaging 53.3 points per game, making it the nation’s highest-scoring offense. The Tech offense has demonstrated the abil-ity to strike for big plays quickly, already racking up seven one-play scoring drives this season. As part of this, the improvement in Tech’s passing game from past seasons has helped Tech achieve a 4-0 start for the 2011 season.

The effectiveness of passing plays by redshirt junior quarterback Tevin Washington and the athleticism of junior wide receiver Stephen Hill have helped to open up the ground game for the Jackets.

The 2011 season has shown im-proved offensive success for the Jack-ets. In the season opener, Washing-ton completed eight of 13 attempts for 271 yards and three touchdowns against Western Carolina. Hill had four receptions for 181 yards and two touchdowns, including an 82-yard touchdown and a 77-yard touchdown. With the passing game keeping the defense honest, the Jackets amassed 297 rushing yards and six rushing touchdowns against

the Catamounts. On the road against Middle

Tennessee State, the redshirt junior completed five of eight passes for 202 yards and two touchdowns. Hill had three receptions for 126 yards, which included a 71-yard touch-down. This allowed for 382 yards rushing, with five different Jackets seeing the end zone to defeat the Blue Raiders.

In a 66-24 victory against the Kansas Jayhawks, Washington threw for 164 yards and two touch-downs. Though he had only a four-yard reception, Hill was a vital tone-setter and blocker for big run plays.

Tech stops UNC for first ACC victory

Photo by Austin Foote / Student Publications

Stephen Hill returns to the line after a catch. Hill already has more receiving yards than he had in the 2010 season. See Hill, page 24