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Friday, April 6, 2012 • Volume 97, Issue 29 • nique.net SGA Voters’ Guide

Fraternities, sororities compete in Greek Week

Tech joins together to improve campusBy Jordan Lockwood

Staff Writer

Volunteers swarmed over campus on March 31 for the 12th annual Tech Beautifica-tion Day.

“After the great extracur-ricular activities, excellent academics and fun times we have here, it’s a great feeling to give back to the school in any way we can,” said Barry Weaver, a first-year BIO stu-dent. “We really made Tech ready to blossom into its spring beauty.”

Institute President G.P. “Bud” Peterson and Dan Radakovich, Director of the Athletic Association, wel-comed participants at the Kessler Campanile before they were led to their project locations by volunteer project managers.

Event organizers say the event was a chance for stu-dents, faculty and staff to give back to their campus by improving the aesthetic qual-

ity of public outdoor spaces. Volunteers worked on over 70 projects, including general cleanup, landscaping and oth-er maintenance work.

“Tech Beautification Day is unique in that it offers everyone a chance to give back to Tech and improve our campus,” said Matt Ko-gan, executive co-chairman of the planning committee and fourth-year BA major. “It allows students, faculty and staff an opportunity to improve the aesthetics of the campus while working with peers.”

The event is the result of a collaboration between a sev-eral Institute offices, the stu-dent executive committee and a number of corporate spon-sors.

The day incorporated the Greek community as well. In collaboration with Inter-fraternity Council and Col-legiate Panhellenic Council, Photo by Josh Sandler / Student Publications

A TBD volunteer spreads pine straw in front of the O’Keefe Gymnasium. Volunteers completed more than 70 projects.

By Sam SomaniStaff Writer

The two undergraduate student body pres-idential candidates, Hunter Hammond and Eran Mordel, and their running mates, Kia Andrews and Amit Khanduri, participated in a Tuesday morning debate over a variety of campus issues as voters prepared to go to the polls on Friday, April 6.

The candidates took the opportunity to present their platforms to a general audience. Both candidates were able to engage directly with one another regarding issues such as din-ing and improving the engagement between SGA and the student body at large.

“What we hope to do is have more healthy dining options,” Hammond said. “What we also want to have is more flexibility in dining options so people aren’t locked into a certain system.”

Mordel felt that a it was best to keep, but

Candidates engage in

campus debate

By Vijai NarayananEditor-in-Chief

As the mud and sweat dried on participants of this year’s Tug, they couldn’t help but commiser-ate with their fellow brothers and sisters over the feeling of shared physical strain during the heat of competition.

Months of preparation led up to the day’s event, and while the outcome was not what some had hoped for, the preparation for and

hardships of that day served the main purpose of Greek Week – to foster closer relationships within and between the different Greek chapters.

“When you are holding onto the rope it’s just extremely com-forting to know that your broth-ers have your back, and it really encompasses the main idea be-hind Greek Week, which is to create trust between your brothers and sisters,” said Matt Waples, a member of the Delta Chi frater-

nity and a first-year MSE major.This year’s festivities included

traditional events like Tug, a tug-of-war in a mud pit, and Greek Sing, a singing and dancing com-petition, but also featured several new events including the Bro-mance Challenge, which was a hit among participants.

Modeled after “The Newlywed Game,” a late 80s TV game show, Bromance required participants in teams of two to demonstrate how much they knew about each

other’s lives, the goal being to showcase how well chapter mem-bers knew one another.

A unique change to the format of Greek Week this year involved the added option for chapters to collaborate with others on select events, which would give them the opportunity to earn more points and get to know other members of other chapters.

Altogether, nearly 50 Greek chapters and over 2300 people participated in events during

Greek Week, including those from the Collegiate Pan-Hellenic Council, Interfraternity Council, Multicultural Greek Council and the National Pan-Hellenic Coun-cil.

Greek Week concluded on Thursday night following Greek Sing, in which chapters demon-strated their musical talents for judging. An overall tally of points to determine the overall winner of Greek Week competition was un-available at the time of press.

See Day, page 5 See Debate, page 7

Photos courtesy of Greek Week Committee, photo illustration by Ian Bailie / Student Publications

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Current resources are limited, “rethink” campus safety

Increased awareness and re-vamping Stingerette system for

more efficient service.

Better student perception about crime and creation of Campus Safety Community to help voice student opinion about

safety issues on campus.

Put a student representative on the Board of Regents. Increase Student Lobby board activity.

Increase Student Lobby Board activity and continue Student

Advisory Council meetings.Emphasize GT Day at Capitol.

New healthy options and great-er flexibility in dining options.Rethink contract with Sodexo.

More dining and meal plan options. Keep current contract

with Sodexo.

Students can go to the polls starting Fri-day, April 6 at 1PM by going to elections.gatech.edu. Below are the students running for a spot in the Undergraduate House. The number in parentheses indicates the number of possible seats.

Tagline: Hammond Andrews #STANDUPPresidential Candidate: Hunter HammondMajor: 3rd Year Business Administration Current Role: Junior Class PresidentVice-Presidential Candidate: Kia AndrewsMajor: 3rd Year Business Administration Current Role: Chair of Cultural and Diversity Affairs Committee

Tagline: Eran Amit Spark 2012Presidential Candidate: Eran Mordel Major: 3rd Year Industrial and Systems Engineering Current Role: Vice President of Campus AffairsVice-Presidential Candidate: Amit KhanduriMajor: 3rd Year Business Administration Current Role: Vice President of Academic Affairs

Senior Representative (4): Vett VandiverGregory Jones

Junior Representative (4):Patrick NadeauNicholas PiconKris SurapaneniBrandon Owens

Soph. Representative (4):Dillon RoseenAlex Bandes

Gillen HeislerKelliann Morrisey

Tim OchsnerAerospace Engineering (2):

Kyle Yawn Chemistry (1): Kabir DhadaCHBE (2):

Daniel Uchiyama

Civil Engineering (2):Evan Boyce

College of Computing (2): Reeves BroussardSharif Mahfouz Economics (1):

Kristopher BryantElectrical Engineering (3):

Rahul CastelinoNicholas Buehler

Matt VerSteegIndustrial Design (1):

Eric Chiu ISYE (3):

Daniel Forrest Macie Whatley Robert HannonAndrew Frazelle

LCC (1):Kevin Guebert

Management (3):Katarina Rose Jenkins

Sam MeyerMaterial Science (1):

Curtis LemieuxModern Languages (1):

T.J. KaplanPhysics (1):

Daniel MendelPublic Policy (1):

Merry Hunter-HippCo-Op Fall&Spring (1):

Joshua SandlerHTS (1):

Lauren Burtz

Open: AA (1), ARCH (1), BC (1), BMED (3), ME (4), PTFE (1), EAS (1), MATH

(1), PSYC (1), INTA (1)

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Council Clippings Breaking theubbleB

Man charged with seven murders

Seven murder charges have been filed against One Goh, the man accused of a fatal shooting rampage on Monday, April 2 at Oikos University, a California Christian col-lege. Goh, a forty-three year old nursing student originally from South Korea, is accused of fatally shooting seven peo-ple Monday. He is being held without bail.

Goh reportedly bragged about being capable of vio-lence and felt too old to be attending school, according to an Oikos nursing instruc-tor who knew him. He sur-rendered to authorities about an hour after the attack at the University that left seven dead and three others wounded.

Police say in court docu-ments that Goh admitted to bringing a .45-caliber hand-gun and four magazines of ammunition to Oikos. The documents say he acknowl-edged shooting several people before fleeing.

Along with the murder charges, Goh faces three counts of attempted murder. Prosecutors also charged him with a special circumstance al-legation of multiple murders that could make him eligible for the death penalty.

Goh is scheduled to make his first appearance in Alam-eda County Superior Court next week.

- Fox News

Credit card numbers stolen

Global Payments, a pay-ments processing firm, has announced that a data breach at the company has poten-tially compromised up to 1.5 million credit and debit card numbers from all of the major card brands. Global Payments confirmed the breach last Fri-day and released a statement, explaining that while card numbers may have been ac-cessed, the names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of card holders were not af-fected. It was then confirmed by Visa on Friday that all of the big name companies such as MasterCard and Discover were affected. Executives at Global Payments said that an investigation was underway and that the breach was lim-ited to only a few servers, and confined to accounts in North America.

- CNN.com

Tornadoes rip through Dallas

Violent tornadoes tore through northern Texas on Tuesday. According to the National Weather Service, between six and 13 tornadoes touched down in the region. Almost 200 homes were de-stroyed and 650 experienced damage, according to the Red Cross.

About 250 departures and arrivals were cancelled Wednesday at the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. Videos showed images of trucks being lifted and flung hundreds of feet from their spots.

- CNN.com

This week in Student Government

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

By Sam Somani, Staff Writer

Budget DiscussionsUHR completed its budget

discussions and passed its final version of the budget to the con-ference committee on Tuesday. This week, discussions centered primarily on Tier III cultural and special interest organizations.

Representatives examined each club requesting funds in turn, seeking to cut the remaining gap between the amount of money re-quested and the amount of money that will be available from next year’s Student Activity Fee.

When representatives exam-ined the Tech Off-Road Club, some noticed that the club had re-quested $45,000 more than it had received last year. A representative familiar with the club said that much of the club’s budget was covered by corporate sponsorship. Saying they wished to encourage the use of corporate funds by the

group, representatives denied the $45,000 increase in budget.

Among those requested line items cut was $17,000 for profes-sional driver training. Although the organization indicated it had been wishing to provide the train-ing to members for some time, representatives took issue with the how few members would benefit — four, according to the budget request. Representatives recom-mended that the organization return to SGA in the fall with an allocation request if they still wished to pursue the training.

Representatives debated at length a number of requests from the Interfraternity Council to fund stipends for its executive positions. Some representatives claimed that Greek organizations should not receive Student Activ-ity Fee funds because they are not open to all students. Supporters of

GSSBill Amount UHR

Bill Summary

Colleges Against CancerTrailblazers

Night at the HawksBicycle Infrastructure

Underwater Hockey ClubWreckless

Society of Hispanic EngineersCulture Tech

Engs. for a Sustainable WorldAfrican Students Association

$228 $360

---$1008 $2438$3918$904 $5780 $58.30$413.60

21-1-123-0-017-3-321-0-118-0-1Post.

19-0-023-0-018-0-518-1-3

1-38-0---

40-0-038-0-038-0-039-0-139-0-040-0-233-4-140-0-0

Prior Year: $405,422 Capital Outlay: $695,987

this view moved to strike funding for IFC stipends entirely from the budget.

Another group of representa-tives argued that Greek life adds value to campus and should be funded with Student Activity Fee funds. They moved to fund a por-tion of the stipends. This motion was defeated, however, and the House moved to strike the all of the stipends.

After all line items had been discussed, Member at Large Mathias Rost recommended that a line be added to the budget in-structing the accounting of sports clubs be moved from the CRC to the Student Organization Finance Office in light of accounting ir-regularities detailed in an SGA report last month.

Vice President of Finance Charley Crosson advised against such an instruction, saying that the Executive Branch of SGA was working with the CRC to find a solution.

Rost said that UHR should take the initiative and not wait on the Executive Branch to act.

The House chose not to amend the budget with such an instruc-tion.

At the conclusion of its meet-ing, the House voted to approve its version of the 2013 budget. Members of the House and Grad-uate Senate will meet on Saturday to discuss the differences between the two versions passed and nego-tiate a compromise. This confer-ence committee version of the bill will appear in front of both houses on Tuesday and be subject to an up-or-down vote with no amend-ments being allowed.


Day from page 5

the Greek Initiative was launched in 2009 as a way to get the Greek community motivated to, accord-ing to the event website, “take pride in [Greek] property as an important part of the Tech cam-pus.”

Each fraternity or sorority could submit their own service project ideas and apply to have the tools supplied by the planning committee.

“This year’s event was very suc-cessful. [We] rekindled our past partnership with GT Greek Week for 2012, and we saw over 1100 volunteers sign up for projects,” Kogan said. “GT Facilities also provided amazing support for the event and reinforced the notion that this year’s event was very suc-cessful.”

Students looked forward to seeing the effects of their work around campus in the coming weeks.

“The fun of participating each year is not only seeing all the peo-ple who come out to show their support, but also hearing the posi-tive comments from tour groups and other visitors to the campus after the event,” said Michael Hodgson, a fourth-year AE major.

The planning committee has plans to increase the scope of the event in the coming years.

“In the future, we look to ex-pand [Tech Beautification Day] further and increase the participa-tion and scope of the event,” Ko-gan said. “We also are potentially looking to work together with similar events, such as TeamBuzz, in the future.”

Tech AuTo ShowThe Annual Tech Auto Show, held on Saturday, March 31, hosted classic antique cars, 4x4 off-road trucks, concept cars, prototype cars, race cars, cars designed to have alternative energy sources and many different kinds of motorcycles at different levels of development — some were aged classics from the 1900s, while others were unfinished student vehicle projects. The intent of the Auto Show is to highlight Tech’s impact on transportation design and engineering with awards to vehicles for “Best in Show,” “Engineering” and “Design,” to name a few.

Photos by Sho Kitamura / Student Publications

Photo by Kevin Brawley / Student Publications


to rethink, the current set of ser-vices.

“[It’s important] to realize what resources we have,” Mordel said. “There’s a huge contradic-tion when you say students are paying too much, but you want to revamp the entire food service on campus and bring new services on campus.”

Near the end of the debate, the candidates discussed ways of im-proving SGA’s engagement with the student body. Khanduri sug-gested using comment boxes and a “filter-free feedback forum” to increase the approachability of SGA.

Andrews felt these ideas were not enough.

“Although these ideas are great, they haven’t implemented anything yet,” Andrews said. “I’ve talked to friends who are athletes, who are international students, and they don’t even know what SGA is, they don’t know how to vote, they don’t know anything

about what SGA is. And a com-ment box is not something that athletes are going to use.”

Instead, she suggested a more proactive approach through reaching out and letting these people know what exactly SGA can do for them.

Some members of the audience saw a distinction between the two campaigns.

“It was surprising how much the candidates aligned on issues, but the big issue is how you’re going to go about solving these issues,” said Jacob Tzegaegbe, a CE grad student. “That’s where I saw the big difference between the two — one ticket who put a lot of thought into this and the other who focused on execution and di-rection.”

Others used the debate as a way to learn more about the issues.

“It fulfilled my needs, most of the questions I had were answered and it opened up a few things that I didn’t really know before the de-bate,” said Luis Hasbun, a second-year CE major.

Photo by Sho Kitamura / Student Publications

Executive Vice President Amit Khanduri speaks with supporters after the debate. Both tickets discussed a variety of issues.

Debate from page 1Student rep on BoR proposedBy Sam Somani

Staff Writer

Over the past week, the issue of whether SGA should attempt to get a student representative on the Board of Regents has generated debate between the undergraduate presidential campaigns of Hunter

H a m m o n d and Eran Mordel.

Hammond is in favor of a representative who would have complete visibility into the Board’s af-fairs and be al-

lowed to engage in all of the Board’s discussions af-fecting students. The student need not have an actual vote.

“Having student representa-tion on the Board of Regents, having a voice — that’s the most important part,” Hammond said.

Mordel doubted the value of getting a representative on the Board.

“While trying to place a stu-dent representative on the Board of Regents is a bold and innova-tive initiative, we are not sure this is the most viable and effective way to convey the student inter-ests’ to the Board,” Mordel said in a statement on his campaign website.

Currently, the Board gauges student reaction and asks for in-put through the Student Advisory

Council, which is a 35-member board composed of student body presidents from all the Georgia institutions.

“This group is very active, meets regularly and has a high level of interaction with the Sys-tem Office through the Student Affairs department,” said Regents spokesman John Millsaps in an email. “In addition, the Chancel-lor, regents and senior staff partic-ipate in the SAC’s meetings.”

However, Hammond believes this group may not be as effective as its purpose may state.

“The council meets infrequent-ly, and usually, they may meet

with one of the regents or their s e c re t a r i e s ,” H a m m o n d said.

Mordel be-lieves that this representative may not be able to fully execute the

Student Advisory Council’s job.“The Board of Regents rep-

resents all 35 university system institutions. Students from a four-year research institution like Tech have drastically different views toward education than students from a two-year, non-residential school like Bainbridge College in Bainbridge, GA,” Mordel said. “In order to have a student’s voice on the Board, the 35 schools from across the state must be in abso-lute unity.”

Hammond said he was prompt-ed to suggest a student representa-tive after last year’s HOPE and fee discussions.

“The problem with HOPE was a huge catalyst for bringing this up,” Hammond said. “The overall reaction has been that [students] need some way to be represented, and so let’s move forward with it.”

Mordel, however, did not see fee increases reason enough to pursue this endeavor.

“It’s not the best thing when a fee goes from $140 to $544, but if that [weren’t] the case, then we wouldn’t have the resources, time, money and faculty to provide for the level of education we’re receiv-ing,” Mordel said. “That money has to come from somewhere.”

This is not the first time that plans for student representation on the Regents have been under-taken. Previous SGA Presidents Alina Staskevicius and Nick Welkamp attempted to create this position, but were unsuc-cessful due to a failure to get on the Board’s agenda, according to Hammond. He claims this year will be different.

“We have an ‘in’ with an ada-mant administrator here, who has a connection to a regent,” Ham-mond said.

This ‘in’ would allow Ham-mond to present the plan to the Board of Regents in their meet-ings. When asked to name the ad-ministrator, Hammond declined, saying that the administrator pre-ferred not to be named.

HAMMOND

MORDEL

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Politicians are like diapers: they should be changed frequently, and for the same reason. —Robin Williams

Opinions Editor: Chris Russell

“”OUR VIEWS | Consensus opinion

BoR RepresentationRepresentative on Board feasible, but not crucialWith SGA election season in full-swing,

increasing student interaction with the Board of Regents (BoR) is a topic on many students’ minds. Currently, the two attitudes towards interacting with the BoR are at opposite ends of the spectrum. On the one hand, we have Tech’s SGA focusing on building relationships, being polite and not making waves. On the other, we have Georgia State’s Occupy-style protests, focused on disruption and anger. The problem is, neither of these two styles work. Playing nice and being polite have their place and work for minor issues, but students should not be afraid to advocate loudly for their goals and the needs of college students in Georgia. At the other extreme, obnoxious protests will not work either. Barging into meetings and disrupting proceedings only serves to make enemies and exacerbate tensions on both sides.

That is not to say that protesting does not have its place. More than any quiet negotiations, loud disagreement will result in awareness of the issue, which is exactly what is needed. Students—given their limited time in college and limited power while there—

will have a hard time mustering the political pressure needed to force change, but they can influence those who will. Parents, alumni and families looking at college can all put pressure on the government that students alone never could, and, as such, students should raise as much awareness and political fuss as is necessary to get those people involved.

This, ultimately, is the most likely path to success. Getting a student on the BoR would have utility for the student body, but not enough to justify the effort required to accomplish such a goal. At the end of the day, all it would do is get a student representative into quorum meetings, where, most likely, the Regents have already made their decisions, and not necessarily into the private discussions where those decisions can be influenced. Given that this student would likely only be on the board for one or two years, his or her ability to influence the multi-year plans of the BoR will be severely hobbled. Ultimately, a BoR rep would have some usefulness, but the efforts required to get him here would be better spent petitioning the legislature and relevant stakeholders for change.

WInnER’S CUp By CaSEy TISdEl

Traditionally, an editor’s last editorial is called his or her “swan song.” Almost without fail, editors start feeling maudlin and churn out a teary-eyed ballad lamenting Tech’s shortcomings, occasionally concluding that it is all worth it in the end.

I’m of a mind, however, to do something a little different. My predecessor (the always-late, not-quite-great Matthew Hoffman) broke with tradition by, instead, passing out awards to those on campus who annoyed him most. Given that I am neither one to blindly follow tradition nor one to stir up unnecessary trouble, I, in-stead, decided to cobble together all the random bits of advice I’ve accumulated over the past four years but that don’t really qualify for an editorial of their own.

First, keep in mind that the top-tier research faculty that tour guides like to brag about so much are not necessarily top-tier teach-ing faculty. They can be lovely people, but too often they’ve forgotten what it’s like to NOT know what they know. When you’ve worked in a field for 20+ years, what you consider “trivial” will reduce an undergrad to cry-ing in a fetal position. In fact, I’ve really only had one class with a full professor that I really en-joyed, and it wasn’t even in the field that made him famous. Go for the young professors instead. They remember what undergrads can understand, more out to prove themselves and more interested in finding research assistants.

Second, another bit of advice on how to train your professor: They. Are. Human. In all likeli-hood, they’re teaching that class because the Institute says they have to. So, get interested in the one thing they’re guaranteed to be interested in: their research. At the very least, this means they’ll be more willing to meet you outside of class, and, at best, it could re-sult in a good reference, a research position or a mentor in your field.

Third, establish a group of close friends as soon as possible. Classes suck, and unless you have an outlet for that suckiness, you’re going to go mad. Find people you can let loose with. Having a friend you can chat with over coffee is one thing. Having friends you can hug-tackle to the ground in Pied-mont Park, trust to pull your inex-perienced ass out of a snow bank while skiing or go on a 1 a.m. coffee run with a croquet mallet for protection is another entirely.

Fourth, get a hobby, and make sure it’s something worth talk-ing about. Whether it’s painting,

photography, writing or even just being the craft beer geek of your group, find something you enjoy spending your free time on and spend it there. It might even pay off in the end: The ability to in-terest someone is a staggeringly powerful. It makes you stand out in a job interview, gives you a leg up when finding advisors in grad school and is an essential survival skill in the world of start-ups.

Fifth, get a job. A real one, one that pays you and actually ex-pects you to do something for it. College is great for teaching you concepts, but it isn’t worth a dime when it comes to teaching you how to work on something that others are depending on and that is going to be sold to a customer. Software that only works two-thirds of the time might get you a B or C in school, but it’s a quick path to the unemployment line in the workforce.

Sixth, hope for the best, plan for the worst. If you’re panicking about an assignment, chart out the absolute, apocalyptic, oh-god-how-did-this-happen worst-case scenario, and put it in perspec-tive. Odds are, things are a lot rosier than they seem. After real-izing that even if you fail the next five problem sets, your GPA only drops by 0.08, the world seems a lot cheerier, and going to bed no longer seems like a crime against humanity.

Finally, keep everything in perspective. That half-hour you spent mentoring a freshman on how to apply for internships or how to pick his major will, in all likelihood, have more of an im-pact on the world than anything you’re likely to get from an entire semesters worth of work in any given class. And I guarantee you that the two hours you take for a midnight stroll around campus with a pretty girl will mean more to you than any number at the top of an exam ever will.

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“[I] decided to cobble together all the random bits of advice

I’ve accumulated over the past four years.”

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Technique • April 6, 2012 • 9 OPINIONS

Every few weeks or so, the editorial board of the Tech-nique will sit down to hash out our consensus opinion on some facet of life at Tech. One way or another, we’ll begin discussing how unhappy stu-dents generally are, how stu-dents can often feel persecuted and how apathetic they can be. We’ll talk about initiatives the administration launch, causes SGA can champion or some-thing else along those lines. Then we’ll come to a consen-sus on the issue, disband and go back to life.

Sometimes the initiative we discuss comes to life, and sometimes it dies. Either way, I’m never really satisfied, be-cause after four years here, I’ve yet to see anything happen that truly improves the lives of the typical student on the street: not I <3 GT Week, not the Strategic Plan, not even the Farmer’s Market (although I hear the food there is very tasty).

I will grant that these things improve life at the mar-gins, maybe teasing a smile out of a student here or reducing a bit of friction there, but these initiatives are only bandages covering up two broader is-sues: there aren’t enough wom-en at Tech, and classes are re-ally tough.

I am not a woman, so I can’t really speak to what it feels like to be one of the few woman at Tech, but I can speak as a guy who’s had several very strong

female role models during my time here. They’ve taught me more than any academic class, they’ve challenged me to look at problems in new ways and they’ve provided me sound ad-vice and guidance when I’ve needed it. My male role mod-els have been valuable to me, too, but my life would not be as complete today if everyone I looked up to were male.

Every student at Tech, male or female, deserves the chance to have an equal chance of having strong female and male role models. Those people are essential to creating well-rounded graduates ready to enter a 21st century global so-ciety. Yet, despite this crucial need, we stand at a point where we take as a triumph a female to male ratio of 38 to 62 in the entering class of 2011. All of this when the ratio of women to men enrolled in college na-tionally is reversed—57 to 43 in 2009.

My knowledge for why this disparity exists is admittedly limited, and people much smarter than I have researched

the issue and come up with a variety of solutions. Whatever the root cause of the problem, fixing the ratio needs to be a priority goal for not only the Institute, but also the state and federal governments.

My feelings on Tech’s aca-demic rigor can be summed up fairly simply: Tech’s tough, get a helmet. It’s callous, but true. Tech’s instructional method is based on the idea that profes-sors push their students to the very limit of what they are ca-pable and then see what sticks. Students don’t often see their professors as partners in learn-ing. To a student who received a 42 percent on that last test after he stayed up all night studying, his professor can be called nothing but an adver-sary.

That situation is the prod-uct of a number of factors, all deeply systemic. Professors are encouraged to focus more on high-quality and prolific re-search than on undergraduate instruction. The teaching of science and engineering lends itself to the brutal rule of the

normal curve. More than all of that, though, is the deep tradition fighting against cod-dling student or demanding anything but what is beyond their very best.

There are obvious negative effects of students receiving 42’s on every test. They often feel like their professors don’t care about their success. This spawns the common attitude that they don’t graduate—implying a rise to a higher plane—so much as “get out”—calling to mind prison escapes.

Those effects are tempo-rary, though, and altogether a pretty good deal: four years of suffering for 40 of success. I’ve laid out the two big obstruc-tions to a blissful life at Tech: the lack of women and the overabundance of academic pain. Students can do little to fix these problems in the short term, although I applaud their efforts to improve life at the margins. Even the adminis-tration has little power to im-prove these problems.

For women, only through work for broader societal change can true progress be made. For the tough academic path Tech student’s walk, the acceptance of their lot in life is the only true solution. Ev-erything else is but an attempt to twist and turn around the curves the Institute throw at students—admirable, but ul-timately futile for the average Tech student.

Cosmetic fixes do not address problems“...after four years here, I’ve

yet to see anything happen that truly improves the lives

of the typical student.”

Mike DonohueNews Editor

Joon KimFirst-year BME

“It’s a great chance for the candidates to gain leader-

ship experience.”

Katherine Beaman First-year NRE

“The platforms of the candidates are pretty vague

in my opinion.”

Thomas MarianThird-year EIA

“I haven’t been following it, so I don’t have much to say about

it.”

Morgan CavenderFirst-year ME

“I can’t tell you who I’m vot-ing for, but I have made up

my mind.”

What have you thought of the SGA elections?

BUZZAround Campus

With the NFL Draft com-ing up in a few weeks, it’s time to start thinking about all of the different draft scenarios that could arise. It’s an excit-ing time when NFL teams are looking to improve their ros-ters with the top young talent from the college game. Look-ing at several mock drafts from publications like ESPN, we see several powerhouse schools filling the boards, with schools like Alabama, LSU and USC projected to have multiple first-round picks.

We see teams like these top-ping the final college football rankings year after year, but this year more than ever we are seeing smaller schools produc-ing elite athletes. If you had asked a diehard college foot-ball fan five or ten years ago if they thought Stanford and Baylor would be projected to have at least two first-round projections per team, people would have said you were in-sane. Then, if you had told them that those two schools would have their quarterbacks selected with the top two picks of the draft, you probably would have been laughed at.

Seeing this happen should send the same message to both fans and athletes alike: If you’re a great player, you will shine and be noticed no matter where you play.

Sure, if you’re the hottest athlete coming out of high school, it’s easy to see why you would decide to go to a

bigger football school. More national attention, more lucra-tive television contracts and more high profile competition come with being a consistent title contender. But at the end of the day, most of these big-time athletes are looking to use their time in college as a means to reach the NFL.

It seems to me that a lot of these young athletes being recruited to the college ranks don’t realize the amount of time that talent scouts spend evaluating talent all over the country. Just in this year’s class, a defensive tackle from University of Memphis, Don-tari Poe, is considered one of the top-15 athletes being drafted. For those who don’t know, Memphis is not in a col-lege football power conference and has only gone 5-31 over the last three seasons.

The most important part about improving your NFL stock, at least in my opinion, is earning as much playing time as possible. Baylor’s Rob-ert Griffin, Stanford’s Andrew Luck and Memphis’ Poe are

prime examples of this, all earning the playing time of a starter as freshmen at their re-spective institutions.

While Poe and Griffin were not the most highly-recruited athletes coming out of high school, Luck was, making him an interesting case. Luck was tied as the valedictorian of his high school and came out of Stratford High School as one of the top five quarter-back prospects in the nation. He elected to pursue the path of earning a solid degree from Stanford while being the fo-cal point of his 2008 recruit-ing class. This is what athletes seem to lack at times coming out of high school: the sense to see that while you may be playing for a smaller football school, it’s better to go to a place where you feel comfort-able and will be able to shine.

Every year, we see several athletes transfer to smaller schools because they have been buried on a depth chart be-hind a superior player.

When an athlete is being recruited out of high school,

coaches generally are telling these players that they could be the focal point of their of-fense. This sometimes leads to multiple athletes being recruit-ed to the same position.

For instance, during the 2011 recruiting class, Notre Dame recruited five defensive end prospects. Four of them were considered among the top 150 athletes coming out of high school (according to ESPN.com), which puts them in an elite status. Now, there are only two starting defen-sive ends on any given foot-ball team, so at least three of those five guys will be reduced to smaller roles, and that’s not even including possible defensive ends who are either already enrolled or who will be recruited in the future.

From the perspective of a recruit, it’s not the smartest decision to go to a school that has several other players on the same talent level. If the player winds up as a second- or third- string player, he will likely have no shot at making it to the next level.

I don’t mean to sound preachy, but I think that stu-dent athletes need to make sure they go to a school where they feel like they will be an asset to the team. Everyone knows that most student athletes won’t be professional players, but if you’re skilled enough to make a D-I roster, shouldn’t you at least put yourself in contention to be?

Small schools a blessing for new athletes“Student athletes need to

make sure they go to a school where they feel like they will

be an asset to the team.”

Alex SohaniSports Editor

Photos by Sharad Gopal / Student Publications

10 • April 6, 2012 • Technique OPINIONS

Immediate intervention in Syria necessary for Syrians, Americans

By Jared SzubaMichigan Daily, U. Michigan

It has inexplicably taken un-til now, as the Syrian opposition’s death toll surges toward 10,000 and over a year has passed since Bashar al-Assad’s government re-sorted to unrestricted violence to put down a previously peaceful up-rising, for tangible assistance to be provided to the Syrian resistance movement by the Western world. Until this week, the most that in-ternational leaders could muster has consisted of a few feeble words of condemnation and pitifully in-effective economic sanctions. But even now, the granting of “non-lethal aid” (primarily medical sup-plies with some communications equipment) by the U.S. and Tur-key is nowhere near enough.

This uneasy hesitation should have been expected. Learning from the explosive consequences of heavy Western military presence in predominantly Muslim coun-tries, it’s obvious why the option of inserting significant numbers of ground troops is off the table. Un-fortunately, the Syrian opposition is having a brutal time of leading the fighting themselves.

The Free Syrian Army, com-prised mainly of ragtag defectors from Assad’s slaughtering ranks, has repeatedly called for foreign weapon supplies to protect the ci-vilian populace and beat back the onslaught, but arming them could prove gravely reckless. U.S. intel-ligence agencies have indicated that al-Qaeda may be joining the uprising, complete with suicide car bombings and the vocal support of al-Qaeda’s ringleader, Ayman al-Zawahiri. It was even reported that at least one rebel army com-

mander fought against American forces in Afghanistan.

Though the major opposition groups have disavowed ties with the terrorist network, the U.S. cannot afford to take this risk. Historically, Washington’s arming of opposition groups has tipped the battle scales for the benefit of immediate policy gratification, but this habit perpetually returns to bite the government with troubling human rights headaches (think the Afghan mujahedeen or the Indo-nesian army in East Timor).

The opposition Syrian Na-tional Council and Free Army have also persistently requested a no-fly zone such as the one that was implemented over Libya with overwhelming success. They assert that Western air control would im-mediately enable the safe defection of tens of thousands of Assad’s sol-diers.

Offensive military options are not the only weapons being used by the Syrian government. Assad’s army recently planted tens of thousands of landmines along the border with Turkey, viciously blocking a major escape route for refugees fleeing the bloodbath. Turkish leaders have suggested that their military may establish a “buffer zone” on the Syrian side of the border to generate shielded refugee escape routes, but they re-fuse to do so without international security support to defend against probable attacks from Assad’s forc-es. This is the closest any capable nation has come to firmly consid-ering a viable plan for effective aid. If Turkey continues to refuse to intervene without foreign security forces, then the international com-munity is morally obligated to pro-vide them, even if it’s only in the

form of UN peacekeeping troops.The U.S. and all Western pow-

ers have major strategic interests in endorsing these two reasonable intervention options. Syrian oppo-sition leaders are bound to evolve into weighty political authorities in the future post-Assad govern-ment.

To ignore their calls for help now is to imbue in them an un-forgettable memory of abandon-ment later. They will not soon forget that the U.S., who in 2003, invaded their close neighbor Iraq and for years imposed economic sanctions upon them that crippled their poor, subsequently chose to stand idly by and watch the butch-ery of yet untold thousands of their brothers, wives, cousins, husbands, mothers and children.

It’s an understatement to say that the U.S. is in painful need of strong allies in the region. The longer the Syrian people are mas-sacred, the further the opposition may be pushed to extremist tac-tics to achieve their victory. The last thing Washington needs is an extremist-sympathetic (or worse, radicalized) Syrian government grudgingly bitter about the U.S. lack of support.

Assad will ultimately fall, but the longer he remains in power, the higher the bodies of innocents will pile. The implementation of a no-fly zone and the enforcement of civilian escape corridors are the moment’s most logical potential courses of action, but whatever is done, the ultimate aim must re-main restricting Assad’s forces’ ca-pabilities of slaughter.

As the late Christopher Hitch-ens so potently wrote, “Neutrality favors the side with the biggest ar-senal.”

OUR VIEWS Hot or not

TugboatEvery year, Greek Week

brings with it many of the trappings and traditions most often associated with Greek life: singing, brother-hood and Greek puns. Most of all, though, it brings with it that most iconic activity of Greek Life: Tug. This tradi-tional marriage of teamwork, strength and mud is always a pleasure to watch, as is the weeks of practice beforehand.

HOT– or –NOT

SGA RepresentationWhile elections for stu-

dent body presidents and ex-ecutive vice presidents are in full-swing, some other cam-pus elections are most decid-edly not. While many majors and years have some unfilled spots going into the election (like two people running for four positions) some positions are completely open, with no one interested in running for them.

ShutoutThis past weekend, the

Tech baseball team posted shutouts in each of their victo-ries over the Duke Blue Devils. Both shutouts came during a doubleheader on Saturday. The first came when junior pitcher Buck Farmer pitched a full game and earned a 1-0 victory for the Jackets. Then, junior pitcher Luke Bard and sopho-more pitcher Alex Cruz closed out the day with an 8-0 win.

Eat Fresh: TwiceTech students apparently

cannot satisfy their unyield-ing hunger for sandwiches, or at least that is what the execu-tives at Subway seem to think. Despite a Subway sandwich shop in the Student Center just this Fall, another Sub-way opened this week at Tech Square behind Moe’s. On the plus side, Tech Square also saw the opening of Gyro King just next door.

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Technique

11Friday,

April 6, 2012

Exchange provides unique perspective on politics, policies

Photo by Blake Israel / Student Publications

Students got the chance to hear President Barack Obama speak on the war in Iraq during a 2008 election campaign stop at Tech.

By Gaines HalsteadAssistant Focus Editor

Each year the U.S. hosts over 700,000 international students at universities across the nation. Last year, Tech hosted roughly 3,000 of these students within both its undergraduate and graduate pro-grams. With such a large con-sortium of students on campus, the university provides American students the chance to experience more than just simple cultural dif-ferences.

For many American students, international students studying in the U.S. provide them with an opportunity to expand their knowledge of world politics from an external viewpoint that would normally only come from study-ing or working abroad.

There are a wide range of students hailing from countries

across the globe, each represent-ing their own different political systems.

Communists, socialists, To-ries, moderates and leftists: all of these can be found studying here on campus. It is hard to find such political diversity in other situa-tions one comes across in life.

It is through these various po-litical mindsets that the effects of the effect of the United States for-eign policy on different countries can be understood firsthand.

With the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and tensions building in the Korean Penin-sula, the U.S. has become more involved in international poli-tics. Opinions on the matter vary greatly with nationals of some countries feeling that the U.S. is overstepping its boundaries and others feeling that it is necessary to ensure regional stability.

“I feel like the United States should work to create a better re-lationship with China. Both are great nations and can do many things for the world if they just work together instead of argu-ing. Having lived in both nations, I have seen both sides and don’t understand why a solution hasn’t been met,” said Vitu Su, a third-year ME major from Beijing, China.

“Although I may not agree with their wars, I do agree with their message. [The U.S.] is working to promote democracy throughout the world and that is a great thing. I feel that the U.S. could find another way of promot-ing its ideas that doesn’t involve war,” said Sita Mendez, a fourth-year MGT major from Galicia, Spain.

See Exchange, page 12

“I’m a young, Hispanic con-

servative....Not all Republicans are

gun-toting, bible loving, right extrem-

ists that you see,”Andrés Celedonthird-year PUBP President, College Republicans

“[There are] not

a lot of D e m o -

crats, we have to stick

together, soli-darity is key,”

Colin Baxterfirst-year AEMember, Young Democrats

With the national election looming just over the horizon, both College Republicans and Young Democrats are working to provide a venue to help students better understand the current po-litical climate.

Democrats and Republicans here on campus face many of the

same stereotypes that a majority of people associate with the

party as a whole. However, the College Republicans are hoping to break that mold.

“I’m a young, His-panic conservative, which you don’t see very often. Not all Republicans are

gun-toting, bible loving, right

e x t r e m i s t s that you see. Most R e p u b l i -

cans just want better for

themselves,” said Andrés Celedon, president of the College Republicans and third-year PUBP major.

At meetings, the College Re-publicans discuss local GOP events and sometimes have guest speakers come and talk about per-tinent political issues. They also provide networking opportuni-ties for members on the weekends. This year, the College Republi-cans held voter registration drives alongside the Young Democrats, hosted a 9/11 memorial, advocat-ed for concealed carry on campus and helped to establish a club on campus.

On the other side of the spec-trum is John Koch, who leads the Young Democrats on Tech’s cam-pus and at the state level.

This year, the Young Demo-crats have handed out Valentine’s Day condoms, had a meeting to discuss Democratic platforms, participated in a statewide rally for Young Democrats in Georgia

and were involved in the opposi-tion to concealed carry on cam-pus.

As with the Republicans, the Democrats on campus are making an effort to abolish the established stereotypes that come with the na-tional stigma of their party.

“People need to learn what so-cialists are before they call some-one a socialist, and people must realize there’s a difference between being a flagrant hippie and simply caring for your fellow man,” said Colin Baxter, a member of Young Democrats and a first-year AE major.

In this year’s coming election, there is one thing both Democrats and Republicans on campus can agree upon.

“Job creation and the economy will be the key issue in this presi-dential election,” Baxter said of Democrats’ interests.

“We want everyone here grad-uating to be able to get a job, it impacts everyone here on this campus,” Celedon said on behalf of the Republicans.

“I enjoy politics the way others enjoy football. There are two teams going up against each other…each is trying to get that touchdown to win the election. Except in this game, the fate of the country is at stake,” said Imran Ali, a fourth-year MGT major.

However, Ali has chosen other ways to get involved in govern-ment, particularly by interning at the State Senate.

“I chose to get involved in gov-ernment outside of Tech because my political leanings don’t neces-sarily match up completely with the Democrats or Republicans. I’m hoping to intern again in a government position this summer to continue to gain exposure with the inner workings of how govern-ment works,” Ali said.

Thus, Ali has found an effec-tive way to still enact change in his community without choosing sides.

Despite their differences, Young Democrats and College Republicans at Tech work to get young people to get out and vote.

“I’m all for get-ting people to vote, no matter which way they vote. I’m all for people get-ting in the politi-cal process. You shouldn’t com-plain about the political process if you aren’t a part of it,” Celedon said.

Both or-g a n i z a t ion s also face di-culty when it comes to i n s p i r i n g involvement from other Tech stu-dents.

“We have to try to find people who are already interested. We do our best to get as many people registered and to physically go vote, which is the hardest part,” Celedon said.

“There’s not a lot of Democrats down south, we have to stick together, solidarity is key,” Baxter said.

Regardless of politi-cal sentiments, political involvement is essential. This generation will soon be leading the country.

With the multitude and ease of options of political activism on campus, anyone can get involved in creating change in his or her community. Photo Illustration by Vivi Kreisel / Student Publications

Republicans, Democrats make efforts to engage studentsBy Emily Moran | Contributing Writer

This week’s Focus section takes a look at all things politics, at the campus, local and national levels. Read through the following pages for a better understanding of politics at Tech and how international students perceive U.S. politics.

12 • April 6, 2012 • Technique FOCUS

By Madison LeeContributing Writer

Tech plays a substantial role in the political and social environ-ment outside campus thanks to the tireless efforts of the Office of Government and Community Re-lations (GCR). Its members work to build relationships with people and organizations in Atlanta, around the state and in Wash-ington, D.C., gaining support for Institute initiatives and making a positive impact at a local level.

Under Georgia’s Gold Dome, Executive Director Dene She-heane, Assistant Director Betsy Jackson and GCR Associate George Ray lobby throughout the year, motivating legislators to invest in Tech’s future. The funds they raise are reflected in develop-ment projects on campus.

“We’re very pleased that the Governor and the General As-sembly have supported our pri-mary capital priority, $59 million in bond funds to construct the Engineered Biosystems Building. This significant investment by the state was a product of hard work from a number of partners includ-ing President Peterson and his Ex-ecutive Leadership Team and our Capitol Jackets members, alumni who advocate on Tech’s behalf,” Ray said.

When it comes to legislative priorities and funding, the State Relations team often has to over-come obstacles in their liaisons

between Tech and the State Capi-tol.

“The challenging budget envi-ronment over the last several years has fundamentally changed how we advocate for Tech’s legislative priorities. It’s crucial that we dem-onstrate how our priorities will benefit the state in the long run,” Ray said.

In D.C., the Federal Relations Office works with policy-makers in Congress to reach Tech’s goals. This can be difficult because elect-

ed officials and policymakers in Washington have many demands on their time.

“We attempt to overcome this by ensuring that Tech’s voice stands out… [and] that the Geor-gia congressional delegation ap-preciates the great work being done by our students, faculty and researchers,” said Robert Knotts, Director of Federal Relations.

“Less tends to get done legis-latively in D.C. in a presidential election year, but our advocacy

Photo by Scot Medway / Student Publications

The GCR office, located in the A. French building, is the Institute’s primary connection to the federal, state and local governments.

Exchange from page 11Lobbyists advocate, promote Tech at all levelsefforts never stop. We work hard to build bipartisan support and give Tech a seat at the table as we respond to the research, technol-ogy and innovation challenges posed by the federal government,” Knotts said.

The Community Relations team focuses on working closely with local organizations to im-prove the lives of Atlanta resi-dents.

“We’re trying to see how we can more strategically engage in community service…finding a balance between interfacing with the Mayor and Atlanta City Council, interacting with non-profits and making Tech a part of that process. For example, we have logistics experts here on campus who can help increase the capac-ity of the Atlanta Food Bank to serve the community,” said Chris Burke, Director of Community Relations.

Whether they do it by building relationships with Georgia legisla-tors, lobbying with Congress or working with City Council for the community, GCR’s greatest priority is to show that Tech has a lot to offer.

“Fortunately, Tech has a great track record and potential for future contribution to Georgia’s economy. We work with our cam-pus partners to share that message with all of our stakeholders and show them how we make an im-pact in their communities,” Ray said.

“The U.S. is a friend of Japan and that’s all that matters to me. What the U.S. does in other coun-tries is important because it affects me, but I make sure not to stress about it because Japan has many of its own problems to worry about,” said Kazuma Warashima, third-year ID major from Tokyo, Japan.

“I don’t worry too much about what the U.S. does around the globe only because it never really adversely affects England. I don’t really care too much for American politics, but as long as the U.S. doesn’t cause any harm to the U.K. then I’m happy,” said Har-riet Holloway, second-year MGT major from Oxford, England.

International students at Tech also get the chance to view their home countries from an external standpoint.

“I have learned a lot about the United States since I started liv-ing here. I have seen first hand how Barack Obama wants to help Korea. With everything going on between the North and the South of Korea right now, I think it is important the [US] be there to help support my country in case something goes wrong,” said Jiny Baek, third-year CM major from Incheon, South Korea.

The US foreign policy is always a matter of heated debate. Tech’s international community presents a huge learning opportunity.

Interaction amongst students leads to a better understanding of each others countries and cul-tures.

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Each week, the Focus section seeks student opinion on some of the most important and pertinent questions related to the theme of the week.

STUDENTS SPEAK

By Alex KesslerContributing Writer

There are only eight months to election day, and the election campaign has already seemed to reach critical mass in the me-dia. Experts, pundits, political analysts and talking-head anchors meticulously dissect the race step by step on 24-hour television—but what do the actual voters, Tech’s students, think?

“Economics and war are my two big make-or-break topics,” said Hunter Clarke, a first-year CS major.

“I am more interested in the GOP candidates because of their stances on the health care sys-tem,” said Carrie Simpson, a first-year BME major.

On the subject of individual GOP candidates, feelings are not too strong.

“I am kind of torn, I am not in favor of any candidate because of differences in multiple issues. Ron Paul is the closest but he doesn’t really have a chance,” Clarke said.

“The conservatives all look comical, and they focus on per-sonal views and attacks rather than general issues,” said David Koehler, an AE grad student.

“Romney stands out the most to me. He has new ideas and plans to bring to the table,” Simpson said.

“Romney is the least abra-sive. It is unfortunate that people

choose based on a lack of nega-tive qualities rather than number of positive qualities,” said Justin Sheppard, a first-year INTA and BCHM double major.

“I feel like it is the same thing, they make promises but do not de-liver. I do not think radical change will happen,” said Joyce Wong, a fourth-year STaC major.

There seems to be a general malaise about this election term. Quite a few average students at Tech do not follow the race or have a strong passion towards ei-ther Obama or any GOP candi-date. There are few different expla-nations for this. “Publicity for US elections seems to start too early, I’d lose interest too soon if I were a voter,” Koehler said.

Perhaps the indifferent atti-tude towards elections can be at-tributed towards lack of progress with current events and a stagnant economy, and that the widespread American disenchantment of po-litical leaders reflects a seeming impotence of the powers of gov-ernment.

“I will vote for Obama, I feel like his intent is in the right sphere, it is just that he is operating inside an unfunctional structure,” Shep-pard said. Things are sure to pick up as a GOP candidate is nomi-nated, and the war between Dem-ocrats and Republicans ensues. At such a time in US politics, it is important for everyone to cast their vote.


One main purpose of the UHR and GSS is to enhance campus life by allocating student activity fee money to campus organizations.

UHR, GSS fund campus groupsBy Lorelyn Kilby

Contributing Writer

Most students have heard of the Student Government Asso-ciation, some could even point out the undergraduate or gradu-ate student body presidents if they saw them, but far fewer students have heard of UHR, the Under-graduate House of Representatives and the Graduate Student Senate (GSS).

The House and the Senate are part of the Legislative branch of SGA. Fifty-six undergraduate representatives and 33 graduates elected from academic units and classes meet weekly to consider financial bills and resolutions that affect the entire undergraduate student body.

Some of their responsibilities include allocating the student ac-tivity fee money to chartered stu-dent organizations, modifying the structure of student government, approving bylaws and constitu-tional amendments and express-ing the position of the student body.

“There’s nothing that com-pares to an organization that can enhance the experience of every student on campus. There is a lot of work to be done to support it and working alongside the im-pressive people who make it work is what continually motivates me to stay involved at a higher level,” said Brooke McDaniel, Speaker of the House and a fourth-year BA major.

“Realistically, the professional communication and people skills I’ve learned will take me further

than a lot of my classwork Addi-tionally, I’ve learned that the peo-ple around you are almost always your greatest resources and that If you are willing to go out of your way to help people out when they need something, be it someone else in SGA, an administrator or another student, it will certainly come back to benefit you in the long run,” McDaniel said.

Representatives spend many long meetings settling budget dis-cussions and disputes.

“Budget season means long meetings, and anyone involved in UHR knows that from the start. It isn’t something that anyone in the room takes lightly when you are allocating nearly $5 million,” McDaniel said.

Many students aren’t aware how beneficial of a resource SGA can be. “The most frustrating part of UHR and SGA as a whole is that no matter how many students you reach through an open meet-ing, a newsletter or social media there are still many students that don’t understand what we do or what opportunities are available for them,” McDaniel said.

Anyone is welcome to sit in on UHR and GSS meetings. GSS meetings are Tuesdays at 11 a.m. and UHR meetings are Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. in the Flag building.

To get more information on how to submit a bill, get funding for a student organization or how to get involved with them, visit sga.gatech.edu.

National elections evoke mixed feelings

EntertainmentTechnique

15Friday,

April 6, 2012

[email protected] Editor:Hank Whitson

Assistant Entertainment Editor:Jonathan Peak

FILM

Wrath of the TitansGENRE: Action

STARRING: Sam Worthington, Ralph Fiennes

DIRECTOR: Jonathan Liebesman

RATING: PG-13

RELEASE DATE: March 30

OUR TAKE: «««««

Wrath entertains despite similarities to predecessor

By Joe MurphyContributing Writer

With the faint smell of the summer blockbuster season in the air, moviegoers were once again brought back to the world of Olympic gods and mythologi-cal creatures on March 30 with Wrath of the Titans, the second installment in the epic tale of the Grecian hero Perseus. And this

time, all hell has broken loose – or so the posters claim. Stunning visual effects contrasted against two-dimensional characters and dialogue may result in some mixed reviews for this film.

A decade after the events of Clash of the Titans, the half-god warrior Perseus (Sam Worthing-ton, Avatar) is trying to live a sim-ple, off-the-map life with what is left of his family. However, when Hades (Ralph Fiennes, Harry Pot-ter), the scheming god of the un-derworld, threatens to release the massively destructive titan Kronos upon the world, Perseus is forced to reenter the battle between gods and men. Teaming up with fellow demigod Agenor (Toby Kebbell, War Horse) and warrior queen An-dromeda (Rosamund Pike, Pride and Prejudice), Perseus journeys to the depths of the underworld to stop Kronos before it is too late,

See Wrath, page 19

See Apple, page 17

By Jonathan PeakAssistant Entertainment Editor

A rare occurrence took place at the beginning of last fall: A Tai-wanese movie took, and held, the top box office spot.

Even rarer, it was not an action or martial arts movie, but rather a simplistic, charming romantic comedy. You Are the Apple of My Eye (Na xie nian, wo men yi qi zhui de nu hai, literally “In those days, the girl we chased after”) tells a coming-of-age story that stirred the memories of the Taiwanese

and offers a fascinating and often amusing glimpse of young Tai-wanese life for Americans.

You Are the Apple of My Eye is based off of a semi-autobiograph-ical novel by author Giddens Ko, who also made his directorial de-but.

The movie follows the adven-tures of troublemaker Ko Ch-ing-teng (Zhendong Ke) and his friends as they all simultaneously pursue the top-student in their class, Shen Chia-yi (Michelle Chen).

After being forced to sit behind

plenty crass. From the rather public “incident” that forces Ch-ing-teng to move seats in front of Chia-yi to the “four-legged monster” in the dorm showers—though perhaps tame to Ameri-cans—was racy to Asians, earning it a NC-16 rating for its Singapore release.

Underneath the all the provoc-ative grime, a genuine and charm-ing story of growing up shines through. The boys’ often pain-fully awkward attempts at woo-

star student Chia-yi, prankster Ching-teng changes his stripes and begins studying hard with Chia-yi’s help. They grow close and even after they go their sepa-rate ways to college remain to-gether—though childishness and naivety keep them from becoming an item.

After an argument, they are torn asunder and fall out of con-tact for years. The story begins and ends with their happy reunion—the time in between learning what it truly means to love somebody.

The film follows the simple

rom-com formula of boy meets girl, boy chases girl, boy loses girl for almost the whole movie. The movie only diverts from the for-mula at the very end as Ching-teng comes to a touching and surprisingly mature realization, fulfilling the film’s other role of coming-of-age story as the boy be-comes a man.

Even though You Are the Apple of My Eye is a far superior movie, it almost seems like an American Pie for Taiwan. Though certainly a more conservative culture than ours, the humor is sometimes

Photo courtesy of Warner Bros.

Taiwan: Apple’s romance sweeps box offices

FILM

You Are the Apple of My Eye

GENRE: Romantic Comedy

STARRING: Zhendong Ke, Michelle Chen

DIRECTOR: Giddens Ko

RATING: NR

RELEASE DATE: Aug. 19

OUR TAKE: «««««Photo Illustration by Ian Bailie / Design Editor

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Game’s new season starts strong Eugene’s cuisine, service unrivaled

RESTAURANTS

Restaurant EugeneLOCATION: Buckhead

CUISINE: Modern American

COST: $60-200

HOURS: Sun-Thu, 5:30 -10 p.m., Fri-Sat 5:30 - 11 p.m.

PHONE: (404) 355-0321


By Hank WhitsonEntertainment Editor

A little over a year ago, I raved about the Buckhead-based Hole-man and Finch. That lively public house happens to share a driveway with a sister establishment titled Restaurant Eugene. It is a quieter, pricier and more formal venue than H&F, but it is also one of the most enjoyable and delicious dining experiences Atlanta has to offer.

The atmosphere is intimate, with romantic lighting and ele-gant decor. From the moment you step foot in the door, the staff is incredibly polite and almost exces-sively attentive. Usually good ser-vice can be equated with transpar-ency or a lack of complaints, but at Eugene, the entire staff does its best to make you feel pampered.

Those who have enjoyed Hole-man and Finch’s creative bar menu will be unsurprised to hear that Eugene boasts a seasonal list of unique and refreshing cock-tails. As one would expect from a fine dining experience, there is also a large wine list, available by bottle and by glass.

Of course, the restaurant’s cui-sine is the core of the experience. The menu is divided into three

TELEVISION

Game of ThronesNETWORK: HBO

WHEN: Sundays at 9 p.m.

STARRING: Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke


By Avanti JoglekarContributing Writer

The second season of the HBO original series Game of Thrones premiered on Sunday to the larg-est audience yet of 3.9 million viewers, according to Entertain-ment Weekly. Achieving a total of 6.3 million viewers after account-ing for rebroadcasts and a prime fan base in the essential 18-49 year old demographic, the televi-sion version of George R.R. Mar-tin’s fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire is on the path for Season 3 renewal.

The episode is titled “The North Remembers,” and opens with a recap of the events of the first season, in which the fic-tional and extensive Kingdom of Westeros is left with a “king on every corner” after the death of King Robert Baratheon leaves the throne open to the winner of the games. Although Baratheon’s son Joffery claims the throne, his lineage comes into question when Eddard Stark, an old and trust-ed friend to the deceased King, comes to learn that Joffery is not Robert’s son, but rather the prod-uct of an incestual relationship between Cersei Lannister and her twin brother. The impulsive execution of Stark by Joffery cre-ates war between the Stark family and the Lannisters, and sets the scene for the second book’s titular “Clash of Kings.”

After the introductory cred-

its roll, the first scene highlights the sorrow of Sansa Stark, who is forced into engagement to the young King who cruelly sanc-tioned the murder of her father. Tyrion Lannister—the youngest of the power-hungry Lannister siblings—returns to King’s Land-ing to take the position of Hand of the King after the execution of Eddard Stark left the position open. Tyrion compensates for the impediment of his “dwarf” size with a biting wit, sarcasm and sharp intelligence that prove nec-essary to bring a semblance of or-der to the tyranny of his nephew’s blood-thirsty mean character.

In Winterfell, the youngest of the Starks, Bran, is serving as lord in the absence of his mother and brother, who are away at war. The potential symbolism of the comet with a red streak for a tail is ex-plored by characters across the world of Westeros, with each party

interpreting it to mean something for the ultimate victor or loser in the game for the throne. Across the sea in the desert-like, arid land Daenerys Targaryen is trav-eling across with her three newly -hatched dragons. Jon Stark goes beyond the Wall into the wilder-ness of the North, with the mys-terious ongoings hint at a greater problem for Westeros coming with the encroaching winter.

“Game of Thrones” is uniquely impressive with its ability to con-vey complex narrative content in manifold chunks that captivate the audience in classic HBO qual-ity television brand fashion. In line with the HBO promise of quality television guaranteeing artistic freedom, violence, graphic content and lewd sexual scenes, the episode highlights the extreme disregard for the lives of humans and a shocking blurring of the line between good and evil.

categories: Fish, Vegetables and Meat. Rather than the traditional division between appetizers and entrees, courses are listed from small to large in each of these cat-egories.

Some of the offerings include citrus cured trout tartare, ash roasted beets & carrots, sorghum glazed pork belly and corriander & black pepper cobia. Each of these dishes is accompanied by delectable garnishes and extra in-gredients that provide depth and complexity to the dish. Like Hole-man and Finch, Eugene gets its ingredients from thirty-two local farms, and that freshness trans-lates to exquisite flavor in each course.

I enjoyed the spring onion and green garlic soup, which was delightfully accented with ba-con croutons. My entree was the moulard duck, which included pan seared breast, leg confit, duck jus and foi gras butter. While the latter could have easily been over-powering, it was surprisingly sub-tle for its richness. The vegetables served included pickled melon rinds and kohlrabi greens were a perfect counterbalance to the dish. It was the best duck I have ever had, anywhere.

Both vegetarian and carnivo-rous prefixed tasting menus are available as well. Normally, each menu is five courses long, but there are also two optional extra courses for each menu. The veg-etarian menu offers dishes like wild mushrooms. Optional wine pairings are also available for each menu.

If you have one shot to make a memorable evening or a strong positive impression on someone, I cannot recommend Eugene high-ly enough.Photo courtesy of HBO

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DramaTech’s Rent marred by bad acousticsSHOWS

RentPERFORMER: DramaTech

LOCATION: DramaTech

DATE: March 30


By Brent HornillaContributing Writer

DramaTech’s latest production is a bold undertaking. One of the most easily recognized musicals to date is Rent, a modern-day adap-tation of La Boheme that follows the story of a group of impover-ished artists struggling to make it in Alphabet City, a neighborhood in the Lower East Side of New York City. Among them is Mark,

a filmmaker and the narrator of the story; his former girlfriend, Maureen, a performance artist; Maureen’s lover, Joanne, a public interest lawyer; Mark’s roommate Roger, a musician; Mimi, an ex-otic dancer, with whom Roger falls in love; Tom Collins, a com-puter genius; Collin’s lover, Angel, a street musician and drag queen and Benny, a former member of the group who, after marrying into a wealthy family, became their landlord.

What sets this particular pro-duction apart from others is the layout of the stage. Rather than having a conventional stage, the entire room is used and audience members are allowed to sit around the middle. However, this is not as simple as moving around some chairs, as the area allotted for

seating is still actively used by the cast. The result is a much more immersing and hands-on experi-ence for those willing. Audience members will find themselves in the midst of dance numbers as they are (even) encouraged to get up and participate. While being so close to the action allows for a better impact on the audience, it is not without its drawbacks.

For those unfamiliar, Dra-maTech productions are held in a black box theater, which is es-sentially a square room with black walls, the idea being lower main-tenance costs and a greater focus on the actual people over showy lighting effects and complicated sets. However, due to the nature of the performance space, this leads to poor acoustics for a musi-cal. While most auditoriums deal

with this by placing an orchestra space beneath the stage, this is not an option for a black box produc-tion. Although dealt with as best as it could be handled, this was a prominent issue throughout the performance. The presence of a band sitting out in the open would often drown out the actors. Also, since audience members are not focused in one direction rela-tive to the stage, speaker place-ment is made even more difficult.

If you have never seen Rent be-fore, it might be better to put it off for another rendition since the acoustic issues make the play ex-ceedingly difficult to follow. Oth-erwise, this is a unique production style that is not often see and is well worth checking out for those that enjoy being in the middle of the action.

ing girls, frustrations with trying to enter college and ignoble acts of immaturity resulting in heart-break are all easily relatable, no matter the country or place. Even the phallocentric humor reflects a relatable, nostalgic time and place that fades away as the characters grow into adults.

What truly makes You Are the Apple of My Eye a treat to Ameri-can audiences though is the rev-elation of student life in Taiwan. Things that are familiar and com-monplace in Taiwan (students cleaning the school, tests that sin-gle-handedly determine your fate, or teachers moving room to room rather than students) reek of the exotic and unfamiliar. This isn’t a film that celebrates Taiwan’s rich culture so much as embraces it and lives alongside it.

Despite a strong story, the di-rector’s debut feature is far from technically perfect. The sound is uneven between camera cuts in scenes and cheesy flashbacks at the end are overly sentimental.

The most laughable moment in the movie is the poor special ef-fects (or lack thereof) that recreate the massive 921 earthquake that shook Taipei in 2009. The quake that claimed over 2000 lives is re-duced to a few camera shakes.

Despite its shortcomings, You Are the Apple of My Eye proves to American audiences why it was so popular in Taiwan. It broke records for a Chinese-language movie in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and China upon its release largely thanks to its saucy retelling of growing up, encapsu-lating so many people’s own expe-riences.

Despite the language and cul-ture gaps that come with watching a foreign film, You Are the Apple of My Eye offers a entertaining and stirring glimpse of adolescence in Taiwan and the desires and mem-ories that bind us all together no matter the culture or landscape.

Apple from page 15



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CITY SCENEPhoto by Chris Gooley / Student Publications

By Jonathan PeakAssistant Entertainment Editor

and end his war with the gods once and for all.

If there is one thing to say about the creators of Wrath of the Titans, it is that they went big. Enormous cyclops, mind-bending labyrinths and earth-shaking volcanoes cre-ate a massive, visually spectacular landscape for this movie. If only the cast were as lively as the com-puter animation, then this could have been a truly great film; as it stands, the cliché characters and flat dialogue cannot keep up with the pace expected of the epic film that Wrath claims to be.

The problem with the charac-ters of Wrath of the Titans is that, with the exception of a few, they are simply too predictable. Most viewers could probably guess at the ending of the film within the first thirty minutes, and therefore

all but lose interest in the rest of it. The dialogue sounds over-prac-ticed and unnatural, taking away the credibility of the characters and leaving the audience with no-body to really connect with and root for. And, as with the first film, the wigs tend to comically fall outside the boundaries of be-lievability.

As for the overall plot, Wrath tends to resemble its predecessor a little too closely. Hades once again tries to defeat the all-power-ful Zeus, causing Perseus to leave behind his simple life once again in order to go on an epic journey with a band of warriors, climaxing in his final confrontation against a monolithic creature that seeks to destroy human civilization… once again. The resemblance be-tween the two films is a bit of a downfall, as some might have wished that the writers had taken

the story into a more unique di-rection. Of course, the two mov-ies are not so identical to the point of blatant repetition; some surprising plot twists and new characters (as well as the deaths of some old ones) help to keep Wrath of the Titans interesting. Fans of the first film will no doubt be en-tertained, but it may be hard for new audience members to grasp the already-established story lines and character relationships. But they should still try.

On the whole, Wrath of the Ti-tans lives up to the expectations set by Clash, and it will be up to fans to decide whether or not its phenomenal visuals outweigh its discrepancies in the character de-partment. It may not be an Oscar winner, but if viewers are yearning for an entertaining action film, then Wrath should certainly not be overlooked.

Wrath from page 15

Ghost Brothers of Darkland CountyThe Alliance Theatre debuts a new musical, Ghost

Brother of Darkland County, based off of a book by Ste-phen King. The musical centers around the McCand-less family in Lake Belle Reve, Miss as the head of the clan, Joe, faces events from his adolescence that resulted in the death of three. The Southern gothic masterpiece features a score by John Mellencamp, with just the right amount of twang. The premiere was this Wednesday (April 4) and there will be showings through May 13.

Atlantan Holly Stevenson holds her annual spring-time one-woman show, playing author Beatrix Potter. Tea with Beatrix Potter features puppetry to bring Pot-ter’s creations Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck, et al. to life. Taking place at the historic Barrinton Hall in Old Towne Roswell, this is sure to be a treat. Tea will also be served along with games and prizes for children. Events begin at 1 p.m. this Saturday (April 7) with ad-mission at $10.

Tea with Beatrix Potter

Six Flags Over Georgia hosts a special Easter event this weekend featuring some of Christian music’s hot-test artists. There will be two concerts held in the park, one on Friday with another the following day (April 6 and 7). Bands playing include The Afters, Kutless and Tenth Avenue North. The concerts begin at 5 p.m. and are free with park admission.

Christian Music Weekend

Photo courtesy of Warner Bros.

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GAMES

JourneyCONSOLE: PS3

GENRE: Adventure

DEVELOPER: Thatgamecompany

RATING: E

RELEASED: March 13


Journey a soulful experience of stunning artistry

By Brent HornillaContributing Writer

Journey does not begin with some complicated tutorial or dra-matic opening scene, but simply with the player awakening as a robed figure in the middle of a vast desert.

A large mountain stands in the background, its summit a shining beacon for the player to follow. There are no looming dark forces, no inevitable evils and no insur-mountable odds. The player is a person on a journey and nothing could be simpler.

Game play revolves around three mechanics: walking, jump-ing and shouting in tones. Pieces of cloth that litter the landscape will help lift the traveler during jumps, while glowing orbs can be found to permanently increase gliding distance by elongating the traveler’s scarf. A number of

cloth.As the player wanders through

the world, there is a random chance for him to encounter an-other traveler, at which point he may choose to continue the jour-ney together or travel indepen-dently.

This person is a total stranger, as neither player is given a name or gamer ID and there is no way to communicate save the occasional

shout. Journey even disables Play-Station Network chat features to further cement this anonymity. Only upon completing the game together are players given each other’s names. This removes all preconceptions one might typi-cally have based on age or race or sex. Before the player is another person, and choosing to venture forth together namelessly, allows for the most compelling experi-

puzzles are encountered along the way, but these are not so much challenging as they are neces-sary. This minimalist approach completely immerses the player in the game world, highlighting the game’s captivating visual and audio effects. From rolling dunes to crumbling ruins, every shot is a thing of beauty. Even the act of walking is turned into a mosaic of shifting sands and fluttering

ence ever had with a video game.Thatgamecompany’s stated

mission is to create video games that provoke emotional responses, and Journey is the embodiment of that ideal. While a full run through may only take a couple hours, this is a game that reso-nates with the soul, and no words can do it justice. It is not so much a game to be played as it is a work of art to experienced.

Photo courtesy of Thatgamecompany


ThEmE CROSSWORd: haRd TImESBy James Barrick

United Features Syndicate

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48. Trial location49. “-- de lune”50. Budget concern51. Ruminant animal52. Eateries53. Kind of mother54. Russell and Powell55. Rec room amenity57. Look58. Sometimes, barely59. Horse opera60. Bug61. “The Merry --”62. Improbable stories64. Alla --65. Part of MLB68. Gooch in “Auntie Mame”69. Literary category70. Abetted71. -- & Perrins72. Drug bust73. Destroyer god74. Glacial deposit

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14. Ornamental plant15. Troublesome kid16. Corpuscle17. Third gospel18. Legal claim24. Onion roll26. Dog with a muzzle29. Whimper32. Malleus-stapes link33. Make free34. Falter35. Deft36. Kind of hen for roast-ing: 2 wds.

37. Hopeless case38. Amount regularly consumed39. Was uncooperative40. Frame41. Dilettantish43. Allude44. Musical interval45. Blast48. Bomb fins50. Saint John’s bread52. Commends53. McQueen or Wozniak54. Cynical

56. Fastened57. Playground fixture58. Stair part60. Turn out61. Walked through water62. Persian63. Once more64. Fetch65. Traveled a certain way66. Sierra --67. Business expense69. Get in touch with

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Softball sweeps N.C.State, tops Kennesaw StateBy Joe Sobchuk

Staff Writer

The Tech softball team trav-elled to N.C. State over the week-end for a three-game series against their conference foes. The Jackets swept the Wolfpack, winning both games of a Saturday double-header by scores of 6-4 and 6-3, as well as the series finale on Sunday, 5-2. The sweep made it six wins in a row against ACC opponents for the Jackets and catapulted them into third place in the conference standings. With the losses, N.C. State remains winless in confer-ence play on the season.

Junior Hope Rush pitched a complete game for the Jackets in game one and earned the victory, giving up four runs (three earned) on six hits while striking out two. Rush also scored the first run of the game on a solo shot in the second inning. After the Wolf-pack tied the game in the bottom of that frame, the Jackets offense exploded in the third, scoring four runs off of five straight hits. A few singles and a wild pitch set up runners on second and third for senior Kelsi Weseman, who brought them both home with a shot to center field. The next bat-ter, sophomore Alysha Rudnik, hit a two-run homer to center field and gave Tech a 5-1 lead. Wese-man scored another run in the fifth, when two wild pitches and a passed ball allowed her to advance all the way around the diamond.

N.C. State closed the gap late in the game with two runs in the fifth and another in the sixth, but it was not enough to complete the comeback.

The second game of the dou-bleheader also resulted in a victo-ry for the Jackets. Freshman Kylie Kleinschmidt went the distance for Tech, pitching a full seven in-nings while giving up three runs on four hits and walking five. Tech’s offense continued from where they left off, scoring three

runs in the first inning to take an early lead. Sophomore Ashley Thomas scored the first run off of a Rush single, with Weseman and junior Kelly Delashmit also scor-ing in the inning. The Wolfpack scored two runs of their own in the third to cut Tech’s lead to one, but that was as close as this game would get. N.C. State could not get out of their own way as they committed four errors on the day and gave up four unearned runs. Two came in the fifth, with an-

other coming in the sixth due to a throwing error.

The Jackets beat N.C. State again on Sunday, scoring all five of their runs off of homers. Rush pitched another complete game a day after her last one, giving up no earned runs off eight hits and striking out three. Weseman hit a solo shot on the third pitch of the game to begin the Jackets’ at-tack. Rudnik blasted a home run to center field in the third inning to bring home Weseman and fin-

ished the day three-for-three. The Wolfpack came back to score two runs in the fifth to cut their defi-cit to one. Tech hit another two-run homer in the top of the sixth, however, this time off the bat of freshman Karly Fullem. That made the score 5-2. The win on Sunday brought the Jackets’ re-cord up to 23-16, while the loss dropped N.C. State to 15-22.

The Jackets went on to extend their win streak to five games in a midweek contest at Kennesaw State. Sophomore Ashley Thom-as went three-for-four, falling a homer short of the cycle as Tech won 6-3 in a game that ended af-ter five-and-a-half innings due to rain.

Tech recorded only six hits on the evening but took advantage of several KSU mistakes to secure the victory. The Jackets scored five runs in the third inning and one in the fourth; over that span, sopho-more Hayley Downs and Thomas scored on wild pitches, and Bear and senior Danielle Dike both brought in runs when they were hit by pitches. KSU center fielder Natalie Rhodes had a two-run triple as part of a three-run third inning, but Rush held the Owls’ offense in check otherwise, allow-ing just four hits and a walk over four innings pitched.

The Jackets return to action on Saturday, April 7, when they kick off a weekend series at home against the Maryland Terrapins with a doubleheader.

Photo by Josh Sandler / Student Publications

Hope Rush readies a pitch against an opponent at home earlier this season. Rush pitched two complete games against N.C. State, in a 6-4 win on Saturday, March 31, and a 5-2 win the next day.

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the ninth inning. The two teams switched leads twice and tied three times. With the Jackets down by one in the ninth, fans at Russ Chandler Stadium put on their rallying caps for the Jackets. Thomas got a double early in the ninth, and moved to third when Dove hit a groundout.

Davies then hit a fly ball to the left outfield and Thomas was tagged while trying to score from third, ending the game with a 4-3 score.

Then on Tuesday, April 3, the Jackets defeated the Kennesaw State Owls 7-3. Scoreless for the first two innings, Tech broke the ice with a single by Wren that led Lynch to score the first run of the game. Sophomore shortstop Mott Hyde and Wren each added two runs, along with runs by Thomas and Dove.

Freshman pitcher Cole Pitts only allowed two hits and had five strikeouts in the first four innings before junior Clay Dalton, Cruz and Evans each pitched a scoreless inning. Kennesaw’s three runs all came in the sixth inning off of hits by catcher Ronnie Freeman and second baseman Andy Almonte.

The Jackets continue their con-ference schedule, facing the No. 2 Florida State Seminoles at Russ Chandler Stadium this weekend.

Coach Danny Hall’s 1000th victory, a 12-3 win he recorded on March 16 against the Virginia Tech Hokies, will be celebrated at Saturday’s game at 6 p.m. The first pitch this Sunday will be thrown at 1 p.m.

By Alex SohaniSports Editor

After a two-game win streak, the Jackets returned home on Friday, March 30 to face the No. 8 North Carolina Tar Heels be-fore facing the No. 3 Duke Blue Devils two days later. The Jackets could not keep up with the two top-10 foes, losing 4-3 to North Carolina before being swept 7-0 by the Blue Devils. The two losses dropped the Jackets to 3-4 in the ACC and 9-9 for the season.

The Jackets started off slowly Saturday against the Tar Heels, dropping the doubles point to give North Carolina an early 1-0 lead.

Senior Viet Ha Ngo and Soph-omore Muriel Wacker dropped their doubles match to start the day, losing 8-3, while shortly af-terwards senior Lynn Blau and ju-nior Elizabeth Kilborn dropped a more contested 8-5 match.

Senior Jillian O’Neill and sophomore Alex Anghelescu’s match at the top court went un-finished due to North Carolina already earning the doubles point from victories in the first two matches.

O’Neill then helped the Jack-ets rebound from the losses, dis-mantling her opponent Zoe De-Bruycker in a 6-2, 6-3 win to tie the team match at 1-1. The Tar Heels responded, though, with two wins over Ngo and senior Carolina Lilley to take a 3-1 lead.

Then, at the No. 5 spot, fresh-


Jasmine Minor celebrates after winning a game. Minor won a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 thriller to keep Tech alive in the eventual 4-3 loss to UNC.

man Jasmine Minor responded af-ter dropping the first set to win a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 match and keep the Jackets in contention.

North Carolina would take the team match immediately af-terwards, however, with Kilborn losing 7-5, 2-6, 6-1 to give the Tar Heels the match-clinching point and eventually win 4-3 over the Jackets.

The Jackets then faced an even more daunting task against the No. 3 Blue Devils two days later. The Jackets could not put any-thing together and were eventu-ally swept, 7-0.

The only bright spot for the Jackets of the day came in dou-bles play when Blau and Kilborn earned the Jackets’ only victory with a 9-7 win over Beatrice Cap-ra and Rachel Kahan.

However, the match did not matter in the scope of things, as Duke had already earned the dou-bles point.

In singles play, much like dou-bles play, only the final match was competitive, with Duke’s Mary Clayton overtaking Anghelescu 4-6, 7-5, 1-0. O’Neill’s match against was the only other to go to a third set, but was bageled in each set she lost, eventually losing 6-0, 2-6, 6-0.

The Jackets will look to bounce back from the consecutive losses when they head to Virginia to take on both the Virginia Cava-liers and the Virginia Tech Hokies on April 5 and 6, respectively.

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Men’s tennis drops two matches Track & Field hosts Yellow Jacket Inv.


Juan Spir readies a backhand in a match earlier this season. Spir had the only Tech win against Duke with a 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-3) win.

By Alex MitchellSenior Staff Writer

Following a 3-1 home stand, the Tech men’s tennis team trav-eled to NC on March 30 to take on fellow ACC members North Carolina and Duke. The Jackets could not replicate their success on the road and fell to UNC and Duke, 4-3 and 6-1 respectively.

Tech started out the day against UNC by winning two doubles matches, capturing the doubles point. The No. 7 ranked team of junior Juan Spir and senior Kevin King won the first match 8-6, and senior Dusan Miljevic teamed with freshman Eduardo Segura to win the day’s third match.

In the singles portion of the match, UNC won the first three points thanks to straight-set wins by the fifth-, third- and sixth-ranked players.

Tech finally recorded its sec-ond point of the match when ju-nior Juan Melian won a thrilling match, 7-5, 6-2. Spir followed that match with a three-set victory, which required two tiebreakers to finish.

The deciding point came down to a matchup between the No. 1 ranked players for each team.

King won the first set in the match 7-6 and fatigue seemed to play a factor for him throughout the remainder of the match. King went on to lose the final two sets 6-1, 6-2, sealing the match for UNC.

Tech’s next opponent on April 1 was No. 6 ranked Duke. Duke scored the first three points of the match and Tech was never able to recover.

Duke captured the first point of the day when its second- and third-ranked doubles teams won the first two doubles matches of the day.

Tech’s No. 1 ranked doubles

team did beat Duke’s team 9-7, but the win did not factor into the scoring. Tech’s fifth and sixth ranked teams lost in straight sets, giving Duke a 3-0 lead.

The most thrilling match of the day came next, with Spir de-feating his opponent 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-3). The win proved to be Tech’s first and only win of the day.

Miljevic looked to secure a second point for the Jackets after he convincingly took the first set from his opponent, 6-3. However, Miljevic lost the match’s final set

on a tiebreaker, 7-6 (7-0).Tech would lose the final two

matches of the day, with fresh-men Sebastian Lopez and Vikram Hundal each losing their matches in straight sets to give the Blue Devils the 6-1 team match win. The loss by the Jackets dropped the team to 8-9 overall and 3-4 in conference.

Georgia Tech returns home this weekend to take on Virginia Tech and Virginia on Friday and Saturday at the Bill Moore Tennis Center.

By Danielle SharpeContributing Writer

The Yellow Jacket Invitational was highlighted by freshman Ni-kita Krillov’s pole vault perfor-mance, setting the school record at 17’10.5”. This is the third time this season that he has shattered a school record in pole vault. Tech’s track teams saw much success this past Saturday at the George C. Griffin Track and Field Complex. Overall, the Tech men’s and wom-en’s track and field teams garnered six first-place finishes throughout Saturday’s events.

On the sprinting side, another freshman saw success during the Yellow Jacket Invitational. With her second-fastest time of the season, Stephanie Kalu earned a first-place finish in the 100m dash, finishing in 11.79 seconds. Also, senior Anthony McKay took first place in the men’s 200m dash with a time of 21.14 seconds.

For the men’s mid-distance group, junior Shawn Roberts earned a first-place finish in the men’s 1500m run with a time of 3:48. Senior Rick Scheff took first

place in the men’s 800m with a time of 1:51, the fastest time by a Tech runner in the event this season. Senior Jhanelle McLeod earned first place in the women’s long jump with a leap of 19’7”, her career best.

Including the six first-place victories, Tech nabbed a total of 15 top-three finishes during the Yellow Jacket Invitational.

Freshman Zack Fanelty took second place in the men’s 800m run with a time of 1:52, while ju-nior Doug Black earned second place in the men’s 5000m run with a time of 14:63. Freshman Glenn Powell ran a time of 14.45 seconds in the men’s 110m Hur-dles to take second place, as fresh-man Brandon Mbaba jumped 6’8” to grab second place in the men’s high jump. Sophomore Jonathan Gardner leaped 49’8.5” to take second place in the men’s high jump.

Next weekend, some of the Jackets will continue action at the Florida Relays in Gainesville, Fla., while others will compete at the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif.


Senior Mykhail Chambers performs the high jump. Chambers took third in the event behind fellow teammate Brandon Mbaba.

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shortsWomen’s hoops finishes season

in top 10The women’s basketball team received

one final honor when it was ranked No. 10 in the final ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ Poll of the 2011-12 campaign. The ranking marked the first time the team has ever been ranked in the top 10 of a major poll.

The Jackets finished a stellar 26-9 regular season with a 12-4 record in conference play and advanced to their first ACC title game. The 26 regular season wins and 12 confer-ence wins both set school records. The Jack-ets went on to secure an NCAA Tournament berth for the sixth straight season and, as a No. 4 seed, won their first two games to reach the Sweet Sixteen for the first time in team history.

Tech ultimately fell to eventual national champion Baylor 81-68, but the campaign was still one of the most successful in team history.

AA announces plans for 2012 spring football game

The Athletic Association announced plans on Friday, March 30 to incorporate several events with the spring football game to create a larger event that will be called “Friday Night on the Flats.”

Previously, the AA confirmed that rather than holding the game on a Saturday after-noon as usual, the spring game will be played on the night of Friday, April 20, with kickoff slated for 7:45 p.m.

Prior to the football game, there will be several activities at Callaway Plaza for fans and a pregame concert outside the stadium; the band for this concert has not yet been announced. There will also be a postgame concert by Civil Twilight, a Nashville-based band whose members hail from South Af-rica, and a fireworks show once the game concludes.

Farmer, Weseman earn ACC PotW

awardsTwo Tech athletes were the recipients of

ACC honors for their performances over the past week.

In baseball, junior right-hander Buck Farmer was named ACC Pitcher of the Week for his performance at home against Duke on Saturday, March 31. In a game that was postponed from Friday to Saturday due to rain, Farmer pitched one of the best games of his career, hurling a complete-game shutout on 110 pitches as Tech pulled out a narrow 1-0 victory. Farmer allowed just three hits and no walks in the game, striking out 11 Duke hitters as he reduced his season ERA to 3.48.

Senior third baseman Kelsi Weseman, meanwhile, powered the softball team to four victories over Kennesaw State and N.C. State to win ACC Player of the Week hon-ors. Weseman hit .625 and had an on-base percentage of .769 over the four-game span, hitting two homers and recording four RBI as Tech improved to 23-16 at the end of that stretch.

shorts Tech takes Duke series, tops KSU

GT SWIM CLUB SPOTLIGHT

The GT Swim Club hosted the East Coast Swim Club Championships (ECCs) this past weekend, from March 30 to April 1 at the CRC. 56 schools and 1,175 athletes competed in 48 men’s and women’s events. Tech finished as the No. 15 overall team as the University of Colorado came out of the weekend with the top overall team and women’s team. On the men’s side, The University of Florida earned top honors in what turned out to be a highly competitive weekend.

By Hattie ArnauContributing Writer

The Tech baseball team faced off against the Duke Blue Devils this past week-end at Russ Chandler Sta-dium in a series that finished with two Tech victories. The Friday night game was can-celled, resulting in a double-header sweep by the Jackets on the afternoon of Saturday, March 31, followed by a 4-3 loss to Duke on Sunday af-ternoon. Tech recorded two successive shutouts against a

conference opponent, a first in their ACC history. The Jackets then closed out the week with a midweek game on Tuesday, April 3. The Jackets added an-other win by defeating Ken-nesaw State 7-3 at Kennesaw’s Stillwell Stadium.

Junior pitcher Buck Farmer pitched a complete game, the third of his career, in the first match up Saturday. After the game, Farmer was recognized as the ACC Pitcher of the Week for his zero-walk, 11-strikeout performance. Junior outfielder Brandon Thomas’ RBI double

in the eighth inning was the only run of the game. Sopho-more center fielder Kyle Wren and freshman second baseman Thomas Smith each added two hits for the 1-0 Tech victory.

Junior pitcher Luke Bard started off the second game for the Jackets and held the Blue Devils to two hits and five strikeouts through the first five innings. Then, Sophomore pitcher Alex Cruz took over the game with bases loaded and one out for Duke.

Cruz was able to keep the Blue Devils at bay, and the

Jackets tallied another shutout for the day.

Junior third baseman Sam Dove, senior first baseman Jake Davies and sophomore catcher Zane Evans added two runs each along with runs by freshman catcher Connor Lynch and sophomore pitcher DeAndre Smelter for an 8-0 Tech win.

Tech was unable to com-plete the series sweep on Sun-day, with the Jackets trying to battle back even late in


Pitcher Alex Cruz throws a pitch during a game earlier this season. Cruz took over the final 4.2 innings of the second game against the Blue Devils, allowing no hits while posting four strikeouts to give the Jackets their second shutout of the day.

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