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Stamps Health Services hasbegun providing free u shotsfor students. October is halfwayover, and according to the Nurs-ing Manager Debbie Spillers, the
u season spans from the end of
November to February.T e best time to take the vac-cine is now before the u seasonstarts, Spillers said.
According to Spillers, it isalso important that people take
u shots year-to-year, since theformula is changed every year inresponse to what strains are com-mon or expected to be that com-mon that year. T e vaccine is apreventive vaccine which meansthat students need to get the vac-cine before they actually catchthe u for it to be eff ective. T evaccine takes about two weeks tointegrate into the system and starttaking eff ect.
Another reason Spillers givesfor taking the vaccine promptly isthat having the u can be detri-mental to academic performance.
According to Spillers, having theu can a ff ect you anywhere from
three days to 10 days. During thistime, missing classes can have asigni cant impact on a studentsperformance and may cause themto fall behind. T erefore, StampsHealth recommends that get thevaccine to avoid such scenarios.
A lot of college students live indorms and other closed quarters,and so it is important that theyget the vaccination since the uspreads primarily by coughing orrespiratory droplets, Spillers said.
T e shots are administered inthe Allergy and ImmunizationClinic in Stamps Health Serviceson weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to3:30 p.m. T e shots are also ad-ministered in either one of thefour u clinics which are sched-uled for Oct. 7, Oct. 21, Oct. 28,and Nov. 4. T ese will be alsobe in the Stamps building in thesecond oor classrooms.T e naloption to get vaccinated is to getit along with other appointmentsthat you have in the Clinic.
T e vaccine is free for stu-dents and $25 for faculty and
sta ff , Spillers said. According to Spillers, there is
no danger of catching the u fromthe vaccine.
It is an inactivated vaccine,Spillers said. You cannot catchthe u from getting this vaccine.It is a deadened virus.
T e vaccine is generally safe,
but one safety issue exists forthose who are allergic to eggs.People who are allergic to eggs orcant eat eggs should not get the
u shots because the vaccine isgrown on an egg medium. In ad-dition, those who already have afever or bad cough cannot be ad-ministered the vaccine.
In addition to being vacci-nated, Spillers recommends thatstudents observe sanitary behav-ior. Stamps Health recommendsthat students regularly wash theirhands and keep them away fromthe nose and mouth. StampsHealth also recommends that stu-dents keep their hands away fromcommunal surfaces such as door-knobs and stairwells and keeptheir distance from those whohave the u.
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At the beginning of October,Stamps and the GTPD began aprescription drug disposal service
where students can safely throwaway prescription drugs.
T is initiative was started toprevent misuse of drugs on-cam-pus or in the Atlanta community.
Illegal use of stimulant drugson campus is recognized as a com-mon issue that stressed studentsengage in. T is drug disposal ser-vice is off ered to tackle this issueand a secure manner.
We certainly know that thereis an abuse of prescription drugsin terms of stimulants, whetherthis will change it, I dont know,but certainly, undisposed drugson campus could nd their wayinto circulation.
Some of these drugs have in-cluded Ritalin and Adderall, saidDr. Gregory Moore, Senior Direc-tor of Stamps Health Services.
In the past, similar programshave been established under theGTPD and separate organizationsat Tech, but the faculty at Stampsand the GTPD decided to holddrug disposal bins at the healthcenter due to the consistent rate oftra ffic in the building.
Once the bins are full or readyfor disposing, GTPD takes thedrugs and dispose of them in a
safe location.In the past, drugs have been
disposed of in inappropriate ways,so the disposal services serves asan alternative to other harmfuldrug disposal methods.
T ere are a couple of problems with drugs that are out of date orno longer needed, said Moore.T e common way in the past was
ushing them down the toilet, butunfortunately drugs then get intothe water supply and harm the en-vironment and people who drinkfrom the water supply.T e secondproblem is that they can moveinto illegal circles of distribution
within the community.Because most drugs on the
black market come from medicalcabinets within peoples houses,Stamps wishes that the service
would prevent drugs from theTech campus from entering thecirculation.
We hope that they use it, saidMoore. Most college-aged stu-dents are generally healthy and do
not have a lot of medicine aroundbut we do nd that illegal use andcirculation can happen, even withantibiotics.
T e Stamps faculty under-stands that students often needspeci c drugs to treat their indi-vidual health concerns. T ey domaintain, though, that used drugprescriptions should be disposedof safely.
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During the months of Augustand October, the Campus Recre-ation Center (CRC) failed auditsconducted by Tech-contractedcompany Ellis and Associates.
According to the records of
the audits obtained by the Tech-nique, multiple lifeguards work-ing at various areas in the Aquat-ics Center did not meet evaluationstandards during the audits. T isincluded Individual LifeguardEvaluation Reports in which anauditor secretly observes an onduty lifeguard to see if he or she isproperly monitoring the pool andthe Vigilance Awareness Training(VAT) Drill in which a dummy isplaced in the pool to measure life-guards reaction times to a drown-ing victim.
One common problem inmany of the Evaluation Reports
was lifeguards failing to observethe entire zone of protection,the area for which the lifeguard isresponsible.
According to the audit, anylifeguard who fails an individualaudit has their [license] sus-pended pending documented in-service training by a licensed in-structor to remediate de cienciesidenti ed.
One issue with failing auditsis that the CRC pays for each oneand failing one audit means thatthe next audit will occur soonerthan if they had passed. Eachaudit costs the CRC somewherearound $1000.
Despite the results of theseaudits, the Aquatics Center main-tains that results are not a causefor concern.
I am not concerned aboutthese results, said Dave Williams,the Associate Director of aquaticsand member services at the CRC.
Do we take them seriously? Yes,of course. But we dont refer tothem as failures. We refer to themas learning opportunities.
Williams a lso argued that theauditing is not necessarily an end-all, be-all measurement.
When you look at an audit,its a snapshot. [Audits] are to as-
sess the individual not nd faults, Williams said. T ats why we payfor Ellis & Associates to come inand conduct them.
Despite this, after they failedthe last audit this month, an e-mail was sent to all aquatics em-ployees outlining changes thatneeded to implemented. Amongthese changes were increasingthe number of visual adults bythe Shift Supervisors and HeadGuards, updating the Zone Vali-dation for each pool and requiringthat all lifeguard stands be stand-ing or roaming stations only.T ee-mail also set as a goal that with-in 60 days, lifeguards pass 95 per-cent of the internal visual audits.
Some lifeguards pointed to theexperience of lifeguards as a po-tential issue.
T ere are just a ton of newguards and not very many veteranones. So that might have an im-pact other than just how we aretaught, said Mindy Ross, a sec-ond year BCHM and lifeguard.T ey go over skills quite oftenso if youve been around longenough, you should be pretty sol-id on everything.
Others felt that the traininghas been adequate.
I dont feel as if aquat ics coulddo anything better to train thelifeguards, said Rachel Massey, aTech student and lifeguard. Afterattending the lifeguard class last
fall I feel as though I have retainedall of the skills that I learned andare required of me through par tic-ipating in the ve hours of train-
ing per month that is required. All of the 159 new lifeguards
this semester took part in a twen-ty-four hour training course inorder to prepare them for the job,according to Williams. Also ac-cording to Williams, the state ofGeorgia does not mandate this.
One of the reasons given to
the relatively low time spent oninitial training was explained by Williams as being a necessity toattract employees.
Students can usually nd bet-
ter paying job with less responsi-bility, so its important for us tomake entry easier if we want tohave capacity to run this facility.
After the initial training, twoin-service instruction sessions arerequired. A number of optionalcourses to specialize in certain ar-eas exist and are available for all
Aquatics Center employees. An examination of the Aquat-ics Center budgeting approved bySGA for the next calendar year,
which is 2015, wa s a lso conduct-
ed, revealing that salaries for alllifeguard positions are being in-creased.
T at was something that SGAcame to us with, it wasnt request-ed, Williams said.
Also worth noting is the skil lchecks & tests category for the
Aquatics Center budget increased
from 2014 by roughly $4,000. Approximately $1 million of an-nual student fees goes to CRCemployee pay including that oflifeguards and managers.
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technique October 24, 2014 7// OPINIONS
Sleep has become a foreign word for most Tech students. With assignments piling on,tests to study for, projects due,and time ying by, sleep is oftenforegone to usethe time for oth-
er arguably moreimportant tasks.Research hasshown that mostpeople need atleast eight hoursof sleep eachnight to func-tion optimally.
A c c o r d i n gto a study con-ducted by the National SleepFoundation, 45% of studentssurveyed reported that they didnot sleep for all of those eighthours, and another 25% of themreported falling asleep in class atleast once per week. Whats toprevent this, though?
How in the world is it pos-sible to squeeze in eight hoursof peaceful, restful, and much-needed sleep when there are somany other things that need toget done?
Dont Work Where YouSleep.
Something thats very dif-cult to do, but in time would
pay off , is avoiding brain-stim-ulating activities like homeworkright before bed. We all knowhow tempting it is to work onassignments from the comfort ofour beds and how occasionally
well fall asleep with our com-puters or notebooks in our laps.
Despite the temptation,youd be better off doing work
from a desk or really anywherethats not your bed.By not establishing your bed
as a place to do work but onlyas a place for resting and sleep-ing, your body will recognizethat once youre in bed, its timeto go to sleep. T is may seem,
and likely is, extremely difficult but do try to have some kindof break or de nition betweenyour work and sleeping environ-ments.
Maintain aConsistent Sleep
Schedule.Even if youarent able to getyour full eighthours, somesleep is betterthan no sleep atall. Accordingto a study from
Applied Cogni-tive Studies, the
length of sleep is not what causesus to be refreshed upon waking.
T e key factor is the numberof complete sleep cycles we en-
joy. T e average sleep cycle lastsapproximately 90 minutes.
By planning your sleep timeseff ectively in 4.5, 6, or 7.5 hourblocks, you may feel more restedthan if you had slept an evenseven or eight hours. If you areable to, try and maintain thatsame length of sleep through-out the week. You wont get thesame eff ect if you have largevariations in your sleep schedule studies have shown that thosevariations have caused the sameeff ects as getting less than nor-mal amounts of sleep.
By following these tips, youshould hopefully be able to addsleep to your vocabulary onceagain. Despite the overwhelm-ing amount of assignments, bystrategically planning your sleepyou should be able to reclaim atleast some of the foregone time
that used to be dedicated tosleep.T ough difficult at rst,
changing your routine to pro-vide more time for and a moresupportive environment forsleep will prove benecial in thelong run.
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Even if you arent ableto get your full eighthours, some sleep is
better than no sleep atall.
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When I saw a live newsstream last week from WSBTVof an ambulance carrying carry-ing Amber Vinson from the air-port to Emory University Hos-pital, all I couldthink was that
this type of cov-erage had gonetoo far.
Vinson is thenurse from Tex-as Health Pres-byterian hospitalin Dallas whohelped attemptto treat T omasEric Duncanand also contracted the disease.
Duncan is the only patientinfected with Ebola in the USto pass away after he was rstmisdiagnosed at a Dallas areahospital.
I dont really consider thatkind of story as anything otherthan scare tactics that are com-pletely unnecessary but all toocommon right now.
T is isnt the rst time some-thing like this has come up inthe media; it happened in the1980s with the AIDS epidemicat the time, with various strainsof In uenza through the yearsand now its happening with Eb-ola in West Africa and aroundthe world.
Dont get me wrong, all ofthese are terrible infectious dis-eases that have a ff ected count-less lives but they should not beused as a tool to spread fear.
Instead of educating thepublic, many of the larger me-dia outlets have taken to scar-
ing them instead with headlinesfrom CNN calling Ebola theISIS of Bio-Agents or fromanchors at Fox News describingthe infectious disease as a ter-ror agent. My question is whatsthe goal of this type coveragebecause it is certainly not to in-
form. What about the realities of
the situation instead of tryingto incite fear in the US. Whatabout the people in the West Af-
rican countriesof Guinea, Li-
beria and SierraLeone who havebeen and are stillbeing severely af-fected by this in-fectious disease.
According to the World HealthOrganization,at least 4,877people have died
from this Ebola Outbreak in West Africa and at least 9,936cases of the disease had been re-corded as of October 19.
Large media outlets need tomove beyond shooting for rat-ings by covering non-storiesaround the clock. Responsibil-ity should be taken as they arethe ones who are clearly beinglistened to and there is a needfor a shift from sensationalizinga terrible disease that is a ff ectingthousands to educating those
who dont know as to how theycan help those in need.
Help can come in manyforms, whether that be throughmaking donations through or-ganizations like Americares orUNICEF. But these and othersustainable solutions to this realproblem are much more im-portant than scaring the public
with ction over the facts.T e fact remains that this is
an terrible infectious virus.T ebig reason there has been such
a big outbreak in areas some ar-eas in West Africa is because ofthe lack of available resources.Many simply cannot handle
what comes with this d isease atthis point in time and could usereal aid. T is is not the case inthe US.
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Its time to face the facts,math sucks. T e only thing thatsucks more is math at Tech. Butthis, very true, statement doesnot mean that math is not es-sential to both our degrees andfuture careers. I have to say,though, that I without a doubtbelieve that Techs math curric-
ulum could be vastly improved with just a few, simple changes.Sitting in my upper level
economics classes, I realize thesame thing dailythat I did notunderstand calculus until now.Somehow, when a derivativeis described as a marginal costand not the velocity of a rocket(if that is even correct?), I get itinstantly. Put a word problem in
nancial terms, I understand.I am now annoyed that I sat
through hours of math classes where I suff ered through phys-ics I will never need and willprobably never understand. T eproblem is, though, that myonly other option was to takearguably easier and less impres-sive math classes, such as Surveyof Calculus. For a Tech student
who aspires to go to graduateschool, this was not a viable op-tion.
So instead, I spent my timelearning about subspaces andvelocity when I can see now,I should have been spendingmy time focusing on stochasticmatrices and the Lagrangianmethod.
Instead of thinking of vec-tors in terms of physical space, Ishould have been given the op-portunity to see vectors as nan-cial models.
Changing the math cur-riculum to include calculus forBusiness and Economics majors
would only help Tech. As longas these classes stayed as difficultas other calculus classes, there
would be no softening of Techstough reputation. Tech would,though, possibly move up in
rankings, especially for Businessand Economics. Our graduates
would be able to prove theyunderstand the difficult intrica-cies of nancial math. T en, asTech moves up in the rankingsfor these majors, more students
would come to Tech speci callyfor Business and Economics.
Which again, as i f in an in niteloop, would only increase ourrankings, which is good for ev-ery student at Tech.
Currently, there is an optionof Calculus for Biology majors.I am envisioning a very simi-lar structure for these, more -nancial based, calculus classes.T ere are two other pros to thisidea.
First, there would be a great-
er sense of community betweenstudents in these majors, which
would not only be a nice bonusfor students, but could also cre-ate more collaborative researchand organizations within thesemajors.
Second, students would feelmore prepared and do better in
their upper level Economics andFinance classes. If students hadseen in their entry level calcu-lus classes that matrices can beused for things other than nd-ing the null space of a plane, orthat derivatives can be used to
nd marginal cost, professors would be able to focus on other,possibly more difficult informa-tion in their classes. Again, this
would only help Techs reputa-tion,
I am not asking for an over-haul of the current math cur-riculum. I am not asking for allBusiness and Economics majorsto have to take these classes. Iam just asking that they be of-fered.
Just because Tech is a fantas-tic engineering school, it doesnot mean that it cant be a fan-tastic business or nance school,as well.
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T ere has been a call recentlyto change the HOPE scholarshipfrom applying to all applicants
who meet the requirements torestricting HOPE to only those
who fall below a certain incomebracket.
T e issue seems to be pretty
divisive, but being an out-of-statestudent, I believe that I can lookat the issue with as little bias aspossible.
I believe that the HOPE schol-arship should be needs-based.People from wealthier incomefamilies, who can easily a ff ord topay for college, do not need theextra money.
Many families with children who deserve to go to college can-not a ff ord it even if they wouldmake the most out of a collegeeducation.
For me, I have almost beenpulled out of college by my par-ents since it was becoming tooexpensive. However, making thescholarship strictly needs-based
would be unfair to the people whodo meet the requirements of thescholarship.
I believe that what the HOPEscholarship can do is to give thelower-income applicants rstpriority out of all qualifying ap-plicants. When all of those ap-plicants receive their scholarship,then all remaining applicants canreceive theirs.
By taking the best elements ofthe strictly merit-based scholar-ship and a potentially need-basedscholarship, I believe that the al-tered HOPE scholarship will helpthe most people.
While the decision does nota ff ect me in any way, I can only
hope that the state makes a deci-sion which will help the greatestamount of people possible.
OUR VIEWS |H OT OR N OT
Tech O ff ense Another heartbreaking
loss brings the Jackets to 5-2before theyre game againstPittsburgh this weekend. Last
weekend at UNC proved Techhas established their off en-sive game. Scoring nearly 50points, the Jackets excel withtheir triple-option and havestarted building up their pass-ing game. Now if only the de-fense showed up...
HOT o r NOT
Woodys Fire AlarmOn pace to set a new world
record for most number oftimes a re alarm can go off in one semester, Woodruff isexperiencing a bit of technicaldifficulties. More often thannot, the cause is the electricalsystem within the building,
which can only be dealt withby process of elimination. Soheres to hoping they remedythe situation in the next tria l.
Registration We have entered the later
half of Fall semester. Some ofus are suff ering through theschool work, but to all, wehave the added-hope of mak-ing our schedules for nextSpring. Taking a break fromthe homework to craft theschedule which a ff ords themost sleep or choosing theeasiest teacher: a semesterly-
student tradition all grapple with during their time at Tech.
5th St BridgeT e temperatures into the
weekend look to be gorgeous,as Taste of Atlanta hits Mid-town this weekend; however,even with all of the food andfestivities, it wouldnt be aproper festival without somestreet closings. And lucky forTech, 5th Street bridge will beblocked off during the festi-val hours. At least they didnt
schedule it during a homegame.
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My four years at high school were nothing more than me try-ing to get good grades.Knowing I
wanted to pursue a degree in en-gineering, it became a no brainer:I wanted to go to Tech. Not justbecause of its high-academicstandards, location in a city envi-
ronment, and general-nerdy per-ception, but it was scally sound.Seeing the recent debates from
Nathan Deal and Jason Carterhas sparked this debate as to whatHOPE should be and I believe itssimple: HOPE needs to stay as amerits based scholarship. T eresnothing more to it.
First off , by changing HOPE tobeing more needs-based, it chang-es the purpose of what HOPE wascreated for: to act as a scholarship,not as a government stipend.
If HOPE should devolve intoa stipend program, it loses thegreat impact it has on keepingthe states best and brightest fromstarting their undergraduate ca-reers instate.
HOPE acts as the overbearingparent in college when your momcant always nag you to go to class.
Yes, Im a grown adult and I canmake my own decisions, but hav-ing HOPE always in the back ofmy mind when I think about skip-ping class, it adds a lot of pressureto take the necessary steps to suc-ceed.
Recently, there has been adebate at Tech itself whether ornot to extend special guidelinesfor Tech students to have a lowerminimum GPA needed to keepHOPE than other schools inGeorgia. I think the conversationshould focus on this not tamper-ing with a scholarship which does
so much good for the students who put forth the eff ort to achieveit, regardless of income.
With the local electionstaking place in just a fewshort weeks, it looks like oneof the hot-button issues forthis years race is over the be-loved HOPE Scholarship.
Governor Nathan Deal ar-gues the scholarship shouldremain as is, a merits-basedscholarship while gubernato-rial candidate Jason Carter
is running on the ticket thatHOPE should become moreneeds based.
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Walking Dead hits ground running !"##$% !"#$ &'() *escape danger and fully reunite
with each other for the rst timein what seems like years, at leastfrom the audiences viewpoint.Unfortunately, this welcome mo-ment of peace and reunion is shortlived as it soon becomes apparentthat dark forces are closing in onRick and company, posing a much
greater threat than any undead walker ever could. With enemies closing in on all
sides, our heroes cling to the hopeof sanctuary and a cure that mayor may not lie hundreds of milesaway; however, only two episodeshave aired, and already a few maincharacters will not be making it
maturity that resonates through-out the small portion of the fthseason that has aired. After build-ing an infamous reputation forkilling off main characters withhardly any warning, Dead seemsto be focusing more on life andhope this season than it ever hasin the past; our group of heroes
has never been stronger, but thestakes have also never been high-er. Only time will tell if the futureholds security or even more dan-ger for Rick and the gang, but asit now stands, the show has neverhad a stronger sense of purpose;televisions horror phenomenon isback with a vengeance.
out of this season in one piece.So far, this season has amped up
both the suspense and the brutal-ity: the explosions are bigger, theundead decapitations are blood-ier and the bad guys are creepierthan ever. However, perhaps thestrongest aspect of this season isthe fact that the show has nally
developed a strong core cast. Af-ter the rst fewDead seasons werespent shaving off unnecessary (ordecidedly unpopular) characters,the remaining survivors have be-come a familiar and weather-wornunit, capable of emotional depthand personal growth.
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judging from the record-breaking17 million viewers who tuned infor the premiere, there is a prettygood chance that you alreadyknow what this show is about.T eepic zombie saga, which is basedoff a series of graphic novels and
rst launched on AMC in 2010,chronicles the lives of several in-dividuals in the aftermath of anapocalyptic event that has trans-formed 99 percent of the humanrace into reanimated corpses.T eshow deals with themes of loss,survival and the de nition of hu-manity, and has throughout itsrun become one of the most popu-lar cable dramas of all time.
T is season opens right wherethe fourth one closed; main pro-tagonist Rick (Andrew Lincoln,Love Actually ) and his team of sur-vivors nd themselves in the gripsof a murderous band of strangers,yet again. However, it is (thank-fully) not long until Americasfavorite group of zombie killers
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were a pretty new band. Panic![and] Walk the Moon have beenaround for a quite a while, and
weve only been around for a fewyears, so were really lucky to beable to transition into these biggervenues.
But weve been on a couple bigtours, we toured with Passion Pit,toured with Keane, toured withP!nk, did a bunch of festivals and
stuff
like that, so weve de nitelybeen through it before.Technique: So your band has
at least one studio album calledWake Up, and you have one hitsingle off of it called We ComeRunning, which made it to sev-enth on the United States alterna-tive charts. Can you discuss thesongs meaning, and also whatyour inspiration was for includinga childrens choir in it?
Katz: Well, I think for us, it was kind of like a c all to ac tion. We were all in a super dark placeat the time we were recording thisrecord: we were all broke and try-ing to gure out what we weregoing to do with our lives, and
whether or not we were goingto go back to school, and all thechallenges that come with that.
We decided to push forward andthis song came out of it.
We thought that it was reallyself-re ective of us, and we includ-ed a childrens choir in it because
we thought that the song is kindof about following your passionsand your dreams and pursuingthose things, and thats kind of
what you think of when youre akid. You just kind of follow yourpassions and your dreams; youdont know whether or not youcan be an astronaut, or be another
Jacques Cousteau or something
like that. You never know, youdont think about that, you just doit, you just try to go for it.
Technique: Are you surprisedby its popularity?
Katz: I think youre alwaysgonna be surprised by any songspopularity, you know, the musicindustrys ckle, and you neverknow what people are gonna like,and you hope that, you know, youput something out that youvebeen working on for years, andthat people like it. Its crazy, but
weve had a great reaction.Technique: You released a
new single called Pressure a fewmonths ago, from your follow-upalbum. How close are you to re-leasing a new album?
Martin: We cant wait. Pres-
sure is just kind of something we wanted to put outI dontknow if we decidedits prob-ably not going to be on the nextrecord. It was just something togive the hardcore fans somethingin between the rst and second,because weve been touring for solong that its been hard for us toget into the studio. But were re-cording the second album now,and we cant wait.
Technique: Do you know howlong it is until its coming out?
Martin: Probably EP earlynext year, followed by an album.
Technique: Where do youguys see yourself in the future asa band?
Martin: Hopefully still to-gether, playing shows. Releasing
more albums.Technique: So, you have a rel-
atively large band with six people.How hard was it to cooperate dur-ing recordings?
Katz: I think everybodys re-ally respectful of each other inthis band, and everybody listensto each others opinions, and youkind of know when its right andknow when its wrong. I thinkthats essential for a band record-ing a record. I think this record iseven more collaborative than the
rst, and were lovin it; were hav-ing a good time together.
Technique: If you werent mu-sicians, what would you be?
Martin: Filmmaker or writ-er for National Geographic, orsomething.
Katz: Yeah, I think Id be likeaI think wed work for Discov-ery Channel. Well, not DiscoveryChannel any more, DiscoveryChannel in 1992.
Hughes: Id be a teacherif Icouldnt teach music, then maybehistory or something.
Smith: I went to school for en-vironmental biology, so Id prob-ably be doing something alongthose lines. Maybe working fora local environmental agency or
eco-tourism companies or some-thing like that. Ahmed: I feel like Id want to
be a cop.Technique: So many bands
are discouraged from even start-ing out. What would you say tothe people who told you it wasntpossible to make it in the musicindustry?
Katz: I think that anybody, ifthey put their heart into it, andthey pursue it with everythingthat they have, theres a goodchance that theyll be successful.
You cant get discouraged: persis-tence is the most important thing.If you keep pushing, eventuallysomething will click.
Hughes: I also think you haveto do it because you love it. Ifyoure just doing it for the stardomor to be some idea of what youthink a rock star is, its not gonna
work. You just have to really lovemusic, because theres gonna betimes when, i f you dont love mu-sic, youre gonna be tested.
Katz: I dont think that, evenif we werent successful, that we
wouldnt be doing what were do-ing. Music is in every single oneof us, so even if we werent full-time musicians, wed still be in aband, wed still be writing songsand progressing ourselves as musi-cians.
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Alumni are stupid and wear stupid hats. People dont wear hats.Dogs should be the only ones wearing hats. Rat caps are also stu-pid.Is anyone reading these?
Lacrosse is apparently dangerous for onseersTrevor Lindsay SASS QUEENSo the lacrosse team looks like theyre going to beat up SGA#DoItForT eVineLive slivering SGA meetings is my new favorite activity
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Technique: Tell me aboutyourself and how you got intospeedball.
Walker: Im a fourth year Me-chanical Engineering major. T ebig thing I do is speedball, but Imalso a major part of my fraternity.Im the athletic director and re-cruitment director for that, so thatmakes up most of my time.
From a speedball standpoint,I started playing in high school.Im from Collins Hil l, so Im fromSuwanee, Georgia, which is rightup the road. With that, my trackcoach got people in my schoolplaying it, which is weird becausethere are a lot of diff erent versionsacross the country.
Technique: What is speedball? Walker: So, theres going to be
a Wikipedia page for it that willsay one way to explain it. Its gota very wide range of rules. People
just made it up as they went andadapted it to how they could play
it. We had to make it very littlecontact. We just use the eldout there with the end zones. Its
kind of how we adapted it, whichI guess is diff erent from the waymost people play it in high school.
Technique: What sport is itmost like?
Walker: Its kind of like acombination of football, soccer,and handball. I think its prob-ably most like handball becauseyoure running around and pass-ing a lot of the time. Its really acombination of that and soccer.I mean, you can run around as
much as you want, but obviouslyyoure trying to avoid turning theball over.
Basically, if you have the ballin your hands, and the other teamtags you with both hands, its aturnover. In order to avoid thatyou can bobble it in the air, whichis like self passes to yourself to runby them. To play soccer with it,
just throw it on the ground andkick it around.
Technique: How did you getinvolved with speedball at Tech?
Walker: It was just the guy who I went to high school with who nally just reached out tome. I had a lot of people from myhigh school who went here, but noone really cared that much [aboutspeedball]. Once he reached outto me, I realized I needed to getinvolved some, because I wasntreally involved in anything.
Technique: Can you talkabout the Intercollegiate Speed-ball League (ISL)?
Walker: Its something we just star ted two springs ago, withus and Kennesaw State. T en, Ithink it was this past spring, weadded Georgia College and StateUniversity.
Now, I think were adding[Georgia] State this year, so weregetting them in some scrimmageshopefully.T en next spring, hope-fully we can get Georgia GwinnettCollege and Georgia Southern
and gradually expand as we go. We thought it would grow fastersince we knew a lot of people atthose schools, but everybody likes
playing it but they just dont wantto be the people who start it be-cause it takes a lot of time.
Technique: What is the end ofseason ISL Tournament and theRamsey Cup?
Walker: We had one at Ken-nesaw last year. We just ended updoing a double elimination thing.It was kind of funny: we had beenundefeated all of last year andKennesaw beat us in the champi-onship, but they ended up break-ing the trophy as soon as theystarted celebrating.
Ramsey was the track coach we had in high school, so we just
named [the championship trophy]after him. T at was the rst time we had done that, so we gured it was an appropriate name.
Technique: How is this seasongoing?
Walker: T is one weve had alot of injuries, but were 2-0 rightnow. We beat Kennesaw andGeorgia College, so its pretty ex-citing so far.
Technique: What are yourpractices like?
Walker: Everything in prac-tice is just made up drills andthings that we think will helpimprove the team. We have guys
who know the game, but are stillgetting used to the skill side ofthings. In a lot of sports its hand-eye coordination or foot-eye co-
ordination, but for us it requiresboth.Technique: Can people who
are interested get involved now in
the middle of the season? Walker: We always encour-
age people to come to practice. Ifthey have any interest at all., wellbe out there. Were always happyto have more people out there
with us, you know, spreading the word. If anyone is interested, theyshould just come out to practice.
Technique: Do you haveanything youd tell people whohavent heard of speedball?
Walker: You know, [speed-ball] just sounds like another oneof those random sports. But onceyou get out there and you startplaying it, you realize how fun it
is. Its not super structured. Itsvery open for your own creativityfor whatever you want to do outthere on the eld.
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games) has motivated the teamrather than dampen its mood.
Perkins said, When all is saidand done, were still just a coupleof plays away from being unde-feated.
T e A-back cites JustinT om-ass leadership as an importantin uence.
Justins a great leader, Per-kins said. You might not see it a
lot, but hes a great leader by ex-ample. He isnt someone who getsdown on himself. We call himSmooth for a reason: he stayscalm throughout.
Outside of football, the busi-ness major graduated this pastMay and has been interning atKraft Foods, where he will be
working full-time after nishingup at Tech. But before then, hesplanning to enjoy every momentthat he can and wants to leave itall on the eld every game.
Perkins has a message for thefans as well.
Keep coming out and sup-porting us, Perkins said. Stay
with us. Its a long season, noteverybody goes undefeated. You would love to, but theres still a lotto play for.
T ere certainly is a lot left
to play for, with Homecomingagainst Virginia, an ACC show-down against the resurgent NorthCarolina State Wolfpack, Clem-son at home for the rst time since2011 on Senior Night, and the an-nual Georgia game.
Perkins, along with the rest ofthe A-back corps, will surely havea signi cant impact on how the
Jackets perform down the stretch.In order for the team to reachdouble-digit wins for the rst
time since 2009, they will haveto see exceptional performancesfrom Perkins and the rest of therunning game against some toughdefenses.
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Im an upperclassmen. Ima leader on the defense. We haveother guys too, Isaiah Johnson,Quayshawn Nealy, Adam Got-sis. [Weve] just been pickingthe team up and we still have achance to do something special.
Weve only lost 2 games. We sti llhave a chance to win double digitgames and have a chance to get toa bowl and the ACC Champion-
ship game, Golden said. T
ere isa lot to play for and were just tak-ing it one game at a time to reachour goals.
Golden and the team havebeen addressing the problems theyhad in the UNC game includingtackling.
[UNC has] playmakers, theyhave guys on scholarship who aregoing to make plays, but thatsno excuse for us missing tackles.Tackling is 50 percent techniqueand 50 percent just wanting to getthe job done.
Replacing the production of Attaochu and former linebackerBrandon Watts has not been easyas the team has struggled to getpressure on the quarterback thisseason.
We have guys who can get the job done. Keshun Freeman, Rook-Chungong, Tyler Stargel, its justa matter of fact of just wantingto get it done and wanting to bethe guy to make the play. Welladd pressure, and Im sure CoachRoof will dial up some blitzes toget pressure on the quarterback,Golden said.
T is year, Tech has predomi-nantly run out of the 4-2-5 defen-sive formation due to having anexperienced secondary.
We mix it up; it just dependson the situation and where thegame is going. Its up to CoachRoof, really.
Golden believes the defense will step up in a major way this weekend and they hope to havea big impact on the game to takepressure off of the off ense.
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T is past weekend, the mensswimming and diving teampicked up two big victories againstSouth Carolina and PittsburghUniversity.
With its two latest wins, theteam moved its record to 3-1on the season, including threestraight victories, and 1-0 in the
ACC conference.On Friday, the mens team beat
South Carolina handily by a scoreof 186-114 and followed that upon Saturday with a 170-125 vic-tory over Pittsburgh.
Key swimmers over the week-end were senior Andrew Kosic,
junior Yuval Safra, and fresh-man Brian Woodbury, who hasimpressed both teammates andcoaches this season.
Kosic, Andrew Chetcuti, Tay-lor Wilson and Noah Haraszplaced in the top ve of the 50 freein rst, second, third, and fth,respectively.
T e following day, Kosic con-tinued his hot streak and wonthree more events, making him6-for-6 in individual events overthe weekend.
T e Jackets have put forwardan impressive performance so farthis season and are hoping to n-ish top ve in the ACC Champi-onships.
Te mens and womens swim-ming and diving teams are sched-
uled to compete next in a dualmeet against both North CarolinaState and Florida State University.
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T e Jackets head into their matchup againstPittsburgh coming off of two straight losses afterstarting the season 5-0. T ere are questions sur-rounding the teams defense and its ability to stopthe opposition from scoring in key situations.T ePanthers boast a standout wide receiver and areexperimenting with a read-option off ense, so the
Jackets defense will certainlyhave a lot on its plate.
Techs off ense will runthe spread option once again
with JustinT
omas undercenter. Zach Laskey is out with an injury that he suf-fered in the last game, so Syn-
jyn Days will most likely takehis place as the starting B-back.
T e regular A-back corpsof Charles Perkins, Tony Ze-non, B.J. Bostic and Deon Hillshould see a lot of action re-ceiving pitches on the op-
tion. T ey will be running into a strong Pittsburghfront seven, so it will be important for the blockersto stick to their assignments and open up the run-ning lanes.
Wide receivers DeAndre Smelter and Darren Waller will continue to serve as deep threats on playaction and other passing plays. Smelter has hauled
in 5 touchdowns and racked up 428 yards on 18targets. However, the Panthers passing defense isranked seventh in the nation in yards allowed pergame, so it may be difficult for these receivers to
nd open space down eld.On defense, the Jackets will have to account for
an explosive running back in James Connor, whohas gained nearly a thousand yards and scored 11
touchdowns this season. He may prove difficultto stop for a defense that is giving up an aver-age of 5.3 yards per rushing attempt, which
ranks 115th in the FBS.T e Panthers also have a talented wide re-ceiver in Tyler Boyd, who averages 73 yards pergame. T e Jackets gave up almost 400 yards
through the air last week at North Carolina, sothey cannot a ff ord to let Pitt quarterback Chad
Voytik get into a rhythm and connect with Boydtoo often.
If the Jackets can avoid turning the ball overand control time of possession, they will have a
legitimate shot of winning the game.
T e Pittsburgh Pan-thers defeated VirginiaTech last T ursday athome for their biggest
win of the season.T ePanthers came intothe season with hopesto compete for a divisionchampionship, but after losing a home gameto Akron, the Panthers seemed like a team that
would struggle in conference play.Pitt started the season 3-0 and proceeded to
lose their next three games.However, the Panthers have turned it around
and have been playing well their last couple of weeks. Pitt comes into the game with only 1 con-ference loss, so they still have a chance to win thedivision championship.
Against Virginia Tech, Pitt started to run morezone read off ense with quarterback Chad Voytik
who had 19 rushes for 118 yards. Along with starrunning back, James Conner, the Panthers tallied
up 210 yards on the ground.
T eir off ense wasnt that successful passing theball, but future NFL star, Tyler Boyd, caught a53 yard pass for a touchdown in the rst quarter.
Even though he is just a sophomore, Boyd hasestablished himself as one of the best receivers inthe country and currently has 514 receiving yardsand ve touchdowns.
Tech has struggled the last couple of yearsagainst superstar receivers like Boyd, so Pitt will
de nitely try to exploit those matchups against
Techs secondary.Despite stand-
outs on the off ensiveside of the ba ll, Pittsdefense has beenmore impressive thisseason.T e Panthers are
ranked 14th in the country in scoring defenseand 18th against the run. Pitts rushing defense
will be the toughest Tech has played against thisseason.
In last years game, the Panthers were able todefend Tech with success despite losing, but that
was mainly due to All-American defensive tackle, Aaron Donald who has graduated.
Tech held Pittsburgh to -6 rushing yards lastseason, but dont expect that type of performancefrom Techs defense as this years defense gives up5.26 yards per attempt, ranked 114th nationally.
If Pitt wins the turnover battle and convertsthird downs to keep Techs off ense off the eld,
they have a great chance to win this Saturday.
PREDICTION: Tech 34, Pittsburgh 31 (OT)
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2015 Georgia TechStartup Competition$40,000 total prize pool
Edison Prize awarded to the winner
Open to current grad students & 2014 graduates
Final Info Session/Team Mixer:Mon, Oct. 6 from 7:45-9pm in Scheller 3000
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Its that time of year where peo-
ple from all corners of our campuscome together for a week of pureexcitement. It is Homecoming.
Every year, the Student CenterPrograms Council (SCPC) andseveral other organizations spon-sor events throughout Homecom-ing. SCPC and the other groupsthat help sponsor these eventshave worked their hardest atpumping up the Tech communitybefore the big game.
T is year, they have once againlined up exciting events for thecampus to take part in.
T e jars will be located on Ta-ble 5 in the Piedmont Room onMonday the 27 to T ursday the30 and on Friday on Table 1 inthe Student Center across the PostOffice.
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For those who want to takepart in something more physi-cal, SCPC has some grand eventsplanned, including the WaterGun Event. T is takes place fromOctober 27 to October 31. Stu-dents can partake in this eventalone or form a team of up to tenpeople.
T is event is essentially play-ground freeze tag with a bit of
a twist. Rather than physicallytouching a person to freeze them,participants squirt others with a
water gun.
Once tagged, that player must wait thirty minutes before tag-ging anyone else.T e game takesplace all over campus, so nowhereis safe!
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Before the Tech football teamplays UVA, all-female footballteams will play each other in thePowderpuff Football tourna-ment,. Plus, they will be cheeredon by the all-male Powderpuff Cheerleaders, all on Sunday the26th at noon on Tech Green.
T e ag football players willhave to wear matching num-bered uniforms and any contact(blocking, tackling, etc) will bepenalized. Cheerleading squads ofthree to ten members will performa two minute dance/cheer routineand dance mix. Cheerleader uni-forms should also be coordinated
with the football teams colors.
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If the Water Gun Event is notphysically intense enough, theIron Buzz team triathlon may be
just for you. T e race begins at theCRC at 9:00 a.m. (check in at 8)on Sunday the 26.
T e event consists of a 200m
freestyle swim, a bike aroundcampus, and a mile run, where adiff erent person must compete ineach leg of the race.
Bikers must bring their ownbikes. When limping home afterthe race, students may walk pastthe next event, the chalking con-test.
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For the artsy fellows, look intothe Chalking Contest. T is eventis taking place on Sunday, Octo-ber 26 at 9:00 a.m. on Tech Walk-
way. T is years theme is Lost inthe AtlanTech, so if people areswimming in ideas, this is theevent for them.
All teams must have completedtheir chalking by 3:00 p.m. thesame day and must stay withinthe designated area of 6 ft by 7 ft.
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is the Mini 500 Tricycle Racesponsored by the Ramblin ReckClub. T is event will take place onOctober 31st at 5:00 p.m. on Pe-ters Parking Deck. Only 50 teamshave the chance to partake in thisbeloved event.
T e mens division will have tocomplete 15 laps and the womensteam have to complete 10 laps inorder to claim victory. T e Ram-blin Reck Club is giving all the
competing teams a tricycle torace, which the teams must paint.
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Following the aquatic theme,the Seawater Scramble event hasteams race against each other tothe other side of the pool. T ereare eight so-called treasures thatteams must collect by swimminglaps.
On each lap, a team is a llowedto collect one treasure but mustimmediately return that item tothe other side of the pool beforegoing after another treasure. T etwo riders for each team will alsoride in atables in this exhilaratingevent.
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After spinning around count-less times, students then will ap-proach a line where they willcompete to jump the farthest. T ecatch is individuals only have for-ty seconds to spin and jump, add-ing a time element to game.
To participate in th is fun gamemake sure to come to the Capa-nile October 28 at 2:00 p.m.
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range themselves on a platformin thirty seconds and they mustcompete with other teams to see
what team stays on the longest. Although the event may sound
pretty easy to the average person,this is not the case.T e most diffi-cult part for college students maybe the fact that cel l-phones are notallowed on the platform.
T ere are events for everyone totake part in- whether artist, sportsbuff , or trivia master. Take a breakfrom classes to enjoy this event-
lled week and show support forour school and wonderful alumniduring Homecoming week.
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is the Ugliest Man on Campus,sponsored by the co-ed service fra-ternity, Alpha Phi Omega. Dontmistake the name to be a mean-spirited and judgmental: thisevent is actually a competition toraise money for local charities orvolunteer eff orts.
How this works is studentsvote for guys by dropping moneyinto a jar. All money that is in theform of coins will be counted aspositive votes and paper money iscounted as negative votes.
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Epitomizing student spirit,
the Yellow Jacket marching bandplays a large role in homecomingby participating in various activi-ties, performing at the footballgame, and carrying out the Sur-round Sound concert. T e bandmembers also love homecoming,because the special week adds an-other dimension to the art of per-forming.
Every homecoming, there isan alumni band that performs
with us for part of the show. I loveseeing all of my friends again whohave already gotten out, SarahMarkiewicz, a fth-year ChBEmajor and band participant, said.
Since homecoming is as muchfor the alumni as it is for currentstudents, the band coordinates
with the Georgia Tech Band Alumni Association (GTBAA) tobring our past marchers back ontothe eld. T is year theyll be a partof the pre-game performances atthe Campanile, Library, and thepre-game show that the band per-forms before every game, adds,
JT Vinson and Hazel Shah, RATparents and active Tech bandmembers.
As the alumni generally onlyassist the band during the AlmaMatter, this year they will join the
Yellow Jacket band for the wholepregame show adding a new ele-ment to the bands homecomingperformance.
T is year, the band also de-
cided to move their annual Sur-round Sound concert back to theFriday night of homecoming, ac-cording to Markiewicz.T e songsthey are playing are also all Hal-
loween-themed, which is diff erentthan past years.
With alumni, friends, andparents in town, we kick off thehomecoming weekend with anight of music. Every section ofthe band will perform their ownfestive piece and then for the na-le, the entire band joins togetheron [the Surround Sound concert]stage to play our halftime show,Vinson, third year CS major, andShah, third year BME major,said.
T e event also requires everyband member to work extremelyhard to learn and play a wide vari-ety of music in order to success-fully entertain the audience, ac-cording to the two RAT parents.
For homecoming, Vinsonand Shah also touched on how
the band is including more pastmarchers in the celebration byallowing them to be a part ofthe pre-game performances atthe Campanile, Library, and the
pre-game show that the band per-forms before every game.
Band members also activelyspectate and participate in severalhomecoming events to showcasetheir school spirit.
T e GT band club competesin a lot of the homecoming eventsand we always have membersmarch in front of the Wreck Pa-rade. I always make sure to par-ticipate in pomping and banner,said Markiewicz.
Im most excited to watch allour RATs in the Freshman Cakerace and to end the day with a winover UVA. Vinson shares.
Agreeing with Vinson, Shahalso looks forward to the famouscake race and the upcoming foot-ball game. As members of one ofthe oldest Tech student organiza-
tions, Vinson and Shah greatlysupport RAT involvement inhomecoming activities.
As RAT parents, we do nothave any sort of official duty.
However, weve take it upon our-selves to get the RATs involved inhomecoming events. For instance,
were highly encouraging them toparticipate in the Freshman CakeRace since its a once in a lifetimeopportunity and a unique GeorgiaTech tradition, said Vinson andShah.
Also participating in Techshomecoming is the band frater-nity, Kappa Kappa Psi. T e presi-dent of the fraternity, Chris Chap-man, personally tries to encourageyounger band members to getmore involved with homecom-ing similarly to Vinson and Shah.Chapman deems the homecom-ing experience as truly rewarding.
About a third of the march-ing band are RATs, so the biggestthing that we do to prepare [for
homecoming] is just spreadingthe word and convincing people who have never participated thathomecoming events are reallyfun, Chapman said.
T e fraternity itself also com-petes in various homecomingevents against other Tech orga-nizations. Chapman also bonds
with newer brothers by recount-ing his past homecoming experi-ences.
Kappa Kappa Psi and TauBeta Sigma compete as membersof Band Club, so as president anda visible band member, I try toshare my stories and experiencesof homecomings past with young-er members to get them excited,said Chapman.
Like Markiewicz, Chapmanlooks forward to seeing his friendsthat previously graduated at all ofthe homecoming events.
Having raced the mini 500three times, Chapman actuallygraduated last year so he is tak-
ing a slightly less involved rolein homecoming events this year[instead] paying more attention toother things, namely the return ofrecent alumni.
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Although most of the
homecoming events this yearare the same as previous yearsevents, Tech students still re-
ect on the homecomingevents of the past. By remem-bering glorious Tech foot-ball victories and homecom-ing concert performances,students can get excited forthe upcoming homecoming
week.
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dents can attest to the well-known UGA-Tech rivalry,the Clemson-Tech rivalry stillremains alive, as the teamshave played each other a totalof seventy-eight times. Withthe reorganization of the
Atlantic Coast Conference(ACC) in 2005, both teams
were respectful ly deemedcross-division rivals.
Some students may re-member the riveting 2011
Clemson-Tech homecomingfootball game. With Techstudents and fans rushingthe eld, the Yellow Jacketstook home a victory over theClemson Tigers with a nal31-17 score.
According to Head CoachPaul Johnson, It was a great
win. I am really proud of ourguys; I could not be prouder.
He also addressed the in-dividuals who did not believein Tech by asking them tolet [Tech] nish the seasonbefore [they] do our tomb-stone.
With Tevin Washingtonbreaking the school record formost rushing yards by a Techquarterback, the Clemson-Tech homecoming game willbe remembered as a major
Tech victory.+,-5 46'7608/# 9##:Last year, Turquoise Jeep
performed at Techs home-
coming concert. With Devalso featuring at the concert,the Turquoise Jeep bandmembers took to the stagesinging some of their majorhits.
Although some individu-als did not know of the per-formers before the concert,after the homecoming showmost Tech students will nowde nitely recognize the name.Moreover, the band generallytests the limits with regardsto music gaining them thou-sands of Twitter and Youtubefollowers.
Even the co-founder of theband, Flynt Flossy, claims,Everything is not meant tobe understood. Summing upthe musics main message inthe above statement, the band
certainly takes some interest-ing risks when writing lyrics.
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