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ATO placed on interim suspensionBy Sam Somani

News Editor

!e Beta Iota Chapter of Alpha Tau Omega (ATO) fraternity was placed on interim suspension earlier this month for alleged alcohol and drug related violations of the Student Code of Conduct.

“ATO has some alleged violations of our Code of Conduct and those were brought to us by multiple sources. A de-cision has been made to place them on interim suspension, pending an investiga-tion, which is the status they are currently on,” said Dean of Students John Stein. “All activity has been ceased and what we will do is bring them to a judicial process which requires an investigation and, at the end of that, conclude an appropriate sanc-

tion, if these alleged violations actually did occur. Disciplinary sanctions range from disciplinary warning to suspension, [but] it’s hard to predict where this will end.”

Stein went on to describe the interim suspension that the fraternity is currently under.

“What students need to understand and appreciate is that anytime we move to a status of interim suspension, it means that something has risen to a level serious enough for [the administration] to take immediate action to stop the activity. All chapter activity has been ceased at this time,” Stein said.

According to a report released by the Georgia Tech Police Department, one of the alleged violations was the sale of indi-

vidual beers, liquors and cocktail drinks without an appropriate liquor licence in a bar located in the basement of the frater-nity house.

Although the Alpha Tau Omega repre-sentative corresponding with the o"cer at the time of this incident allegedly said that this bar was a “check-in” system for Alpha Tau Omega alumni attending sporting events, the police o"cer, according to this report, mentioned his knowledge of alco-hol sales being present, as well as a price list of the drinks sales that reads “Alpha Tau Omega Pledge Bar 2012” on the top and “We take all major credit cards/Tips are appreciated!” on the bottom.

Representatives of the fraternity, as well as the Alpha Tau Omega National O"ce, could not be reached for comment.

Dead Week policy changes

for clarityBy Holden Lee

Contributing Writer

On Tuesday, Nov. 27, the Faculty Senate approved various changes to the Dead Week policy. !e most prominent change was the inclusion of the long summer term, which had not previously been stated in the old Dead Week policy.

“!e initial Dead Week policies stated that Dead Week applies to standard terms, which we realized did not include the long summer term, so we added that,” said Dr. Carole Moore, Assistant Vice Provost of Ac-ademic A#airs. “However, the policy does not cover the short terms, study abroad, or anything similar.”

According to statements made by Moore in the Faculty and Academic Senate, not having this explicit regulation in the policy caused issues in the past, such as violations during the long summer term’s Dead Week from professors.

Most students feel relieved that summer semester has gained this kind of catch-up time.

“!e summer semester is really stressful because you have more material put into a short period of time and less time to study for $nals. Maybe, a dead week for the sum-mer will lighten the load a little,” said third-year IE major Maurice Balder.

!e policy’s previous use of the term “Week Preceding Final Exams” to denote Dead Week was also replaced by the latter term.

“!e change of the name from ‘Week Preceding Final Examinations’ to ‘Dead Week’ is to improve searchability and famil-iarity,” said SGA Vice President of Academic A#airs Lucy Tucker. “Now, students and faculty will be able to more easily locate the correct document.”

Other, smaller changes to the policy in-cluded a reorganization of the policy format. Originally, the policies and rules of Dead Week were organized into a paragraph for-mat within the student catalog, but now, Tech will list its Dead Week policies in an outline format for better clarity.

Photo by Tiara Winata / Student Publication

Alpha Tau Omega fraternity faces uncertain consequences due to alleged drug and alcohol related violations of the Student Code of Conduct. For now, the entire fraternity will remain on interim suspension until the !nal verdict is made.

Number of thefts rise in Campus Recreation CenterBy Joshua GarrickContributing Writer

In recent weeks, the number of thefts at the Campus Recreation Center (CRC) has increased, calling attention to the matter from administrators and the Geor-gia Tech Police Department (GTPD).

“At least once a week, we have some-body reporting that their personal be-longings have been tampered with,” said Jonathan Hart, the Assistant Director of Campus Recreation and Facilities Man-agement at the CRC.

According to the CRC Assistant Di-rector of Communications Sara Warner, these thefts can be attributed to non-members entering the CRC by use of a Buzzcard that has been loaned to them from another member of the CRC.

No crime data was provided by the CRC for this observation, however.

Warner also gave a breakdown of the major preventive measures the CRC pro-vides for students’ belongings that may be

susceptible to theft. For-rent lockers, as well as day lockers in multiple areas of the CRC, are all available for use in the main locker area downstairs by the $tness cen-ter. !ere are also lockers upstairs on the basketball courts, in the aquatics area and in the lobby area. Locking up valuables is the main way to prevent them from being stolen, as most valuables that are stolen are those that are left unattended out in the open.

!e sta# at the CRC is constantly try-ing to prevent this from happening and attempting to educate members of ways they can help as well. In addition, in-creased security measures are also being considered.

“We are absolutely looking into new technology and new ways that we can im-prove security here but we need the stu-dents to help us out and do their part as well,” Warner said.

Although speci$cs on new technol-See !efts, page 4

Photo by Tiara Winata / Student Publications

Increasing thefts across various locations of the CRC has resulted in administrative attention along with GTPD, in attempts to develop new methods to resolve the issue.

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Illegal Gymigrant!e morning of Nov. 17, the

Tech Field Interview Team (FIT) performed theft surveillance at the CRC based on information provided by the Tech Criminal Investigations Division (CID).

!e suspect was observed in-side the CRC and was reported to have stolen $nancial trans-action cards that he had taken from the CRC.

During the surveillance oper-ation on that same day, the sus-pect was observed entering the CRC through the front entrance, bypassing the security desk and entering the aquatic center near the rear of the facility through an unsecured entrance. !e suspect then went into a locker room and changed clothes.

After visiting a di#erent locker room, the suspect exited a di#erent exit which leads into a second pool. From this pool area, the suspect headed back towards the $rst locker room he exited from, where he changed back into his original clothes.

When he began to exit the CRC, he was arrested by a uni-formed GTPD o"cer. A search of the suspect revealed that he had around $150 and a Visa card that he had taken from one vic-tim, two other Visa cards and a Visa gift card that he had taken from three other victims.

Found while LostAt 4:30 p.m. on Monday,

Nov. 19, an o"cer was dis-patched to the Scheller College

of Business in reference to a sus-picious person on the $rst %oor.

Upon arrival, the o"cer lo-cated a male matching the sus-pect’s description sitting behind the reception desk on the $rst %oor.

When the o"cer asked the suspect what he was doing in-side the building, he replied with “Waiting to take a bus to Michi-gan”.

A check on his Michigan li-cense showed that he had no outstanding warrants, but that he had received two criminal trespass warnings on Oct. 11 and Nov. 12.

!e suspect was placed under arrest for criminal trespass, and instead of catching his bus to Michigan, he was processed and transferred to the Fulton County Jail.

All Fired UpAt 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 20, an

o"cer responded to a call from the Woodru# Dining Hall in reference to disorderly conduct.

!e o"cer made contact with the suspect outside of the dining hall and found that the suspect had just been terminated from his job at Woodru# Dining Hall.

!e o"cer then contacted the Food Service manager and Woodru# Chef, who explained that the suspect had been curs-ing in the dining hall, in front of other people.

!e manager simply ex-plained that she wished for the suspect to leave the area, and the o"cer helped explain that if the suspect did not, he would be subject to face criminal trespass charges.

A further discussion with the manager and chef described how the suspect had attempted to clock out after being terminated and then had walked through the kitchen and dining hall curs-ing loudly.

!e suspect was issued a criminal trespass warning and was told that if he were to return to the dining hall, he could be arrested.

Exhibit celebrates 60 years of architectureBy Tiara Winata

Photography Editor

In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Architec-ture Building, the College of Architecture (CoA) under-took a $400,000 restoration of the original architecture library, the Dean’s suite and a 1956 exhibit showcasing work by CoA graudates.

“!e original intent of the exhibit was for the faculty to show how their own work had evolved and changed over the years because some of those same people had, in fact, de-signed the architecture build-

See Architecture, page 5

By Lauren BrettAssistant News Editor

Campus CrimeFrom the $les of the GTPD...

Photos by Tiara Winata/Student Publications

Technique • November 30, 2012 • 3 NEWS

A lot of things went on outside the bubble of Tech in the past week. Here are a few important events taking place throughout the nation and the world.

Separation of Powers Comes to End in Egypt

More than 20,000 protestors flooded Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday, with more than 100 being wounded as a re-sult of the protests, in response to the presidential decree is-sued by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, effectively giving him unchecked political power, the purpose of which was to root out, “the weevils eating away at Egypt.” The decree prevents judi-

cial review of Morsi’s decisions and essentially removes the last branch of government not under his control, as the Parlia-ment was dissolved in Egypt earlier this year. It also effectively prevents

judicial review of the consti-tutional assembly, which is dominated by members of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups. The move also motivated a

strike by Egypt’s highest courts to protest the decision.

Breaking theubbleB

Council ClippingsRecently in Student Government

By Kenneth MarinoContributing Writer

Budget CommitteeConcerns about last year’s bud-

get process have led to the forma-tion of a Bicameral Committee on the Budget to be composed of members of the Undergraduate House and the Graduate Senate.

“!is review will allow sena-tors and representatives [on the committee] the chance to review the applications in detail and contact organizations with any questions and concerns they may have,” said Daniel Farmer, Ex-ecutive Vice President of Finance. “!e committee will then present its recommendation to the house and senate for $nal discussion and

approval.”Representatives hope that the

committee will streamline the budget process, as last year, the process ran well into the night.

According to Rep. Greg Jones, this committee may also eliminate the need to create “arbitrary rules” for cutting various line items from the budget of organizations.

QuorumBoth GSS and UHR have been

facing issues with meeting quo-rum in their meetings.

!e longevity of the Senate ses-sions, which causes the meetings to extend past 12 p.m., has forced representatives to leave for class, and has been the cause of bills in GSS being prolonged to a vote un-til the next meeting.

UHR also failed to meet quo-rum last Tuesday due to the num-ber of absences by its representa-tives. Because two-thirds of the active members of the body failed to convene, the body could not discuss or vote on any of the bills organizations had come to pres-ent. Speaker of the House Mike Mosgrove attempted to reach quo-rum through texting and emailing absent representatives and by re-ducing the number of representa-tives needed for quorum through resignations and impeachments.

!e body began to discuss the resignation of Kelliann Morrisey as her absence from the meeting was thought to have put her over the threshold of absences required to consider impeachment, which

was not the case. !e subject was dropped as they would still not have enough for quorum even with her resignation, although she could still be impeached at the fol-lowing meeting.

In closing, Mosgrove called the incident “highly embarrassing” and gave warning that failure to meet quorum at the next meeting would make their organization look even worse.

“I think it’s a little disappoint-ing,” said Representative Eric Chiu after the meeting. “I can’t say it’s not expected though be-cause the break is this week, so a lot of people leaving town. It’s still disappointing to see people not reporting to the Speaker of the House.”

Tech to not join Semester Online consortiumBy Joshua GarrickContributing Writer

Earlier this November, schools around the nation, including Emory, Duke and Northwestern, began a partnership entitled Se-mester Online, a new alternative to the popular trending free and non-credit massive open online courses (MOOCs) o#ered by Tech and its contemporaries, like MIT, Harvard and Stanford.

Semester Online, unlike MOOCs, o#ers tuition-based,

for-credit online courses taught by university professors from its consortium.

“We do not currently have any plans to become more involved with Semester Online, but we ex-pect to continue to play a national leadership role in the develop-ment of online courses,” said Rich DeMillo, the director of Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U).

However, this does not mean

See MOOC, page 5

Photo by Eric Mans!eld / Student Publications

Provost Rafael Bras, above, expressed support for the educationally supplemental nature and use of traditional MOOCs.

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By Kenneth MarinoContributing Writer

!e project to create a uni$ed database for all courses o#ered on campus is moving closer to com-pletion. According to the Regis-trar, Reta Pikowsky, whose o"ce developed the website, the data-base should be ready to be made public sometime toward the end of spring semester. !e completed website will allow students to ac-cess an up-to-date syllabus for ev-ery class currently taught by each department.

“Some of the schools had al-ready done a really good job lo-cally, like chemistry, collecting them all,” said Lawrence Bottom-ley, Chair of the Institute Under-graduate Curriculum Commit-

tee’s subcommittee on General Education. “So it was very easy to get them uploaded. Usually the schools have to have them for ABET accreditation, to have all the documentation in place,”

In developing the database, the Registrar’s o"ce and Curriculum Committee must not only collect existing syllabi, but also reviewing their content.

“We’re looking at them; we’re not just collecting them,” said Pikowsky. “We’re actually looking at them to say what does it tell us; do we see learning outcomes, do we see things we would expect to see...Some of them are very good and some of them are not very good.”

Pikowsky said that the data-base will be organized by course

number, with one syllabus for each course.

“We’re collecting syllabi for courses, not necessarily by profes-sor,” said Pikowsky. “We antici-pate that the core of it will be the same regardless of who’s teaching it.”

Pikowsky expressed her o"ce’s commitment to completing this project.

“We’re excited about this, we think it’s important, so we will continue our e#orts,” Pikowsky said. “We’re really on it. And we’re committed to it.”

Although the Curriculum Committee has been working on this project for over a year, a paral-lel proposal through SGA was also in the pipeline. Spark 2012, the campaign of now-SGA president

Eran Mordel, proposed a syllabus database “for students to browse the syllabi of their prospective professors/classes to better serve both parties’ interests, desires, and education.” !e project was also under consideration by the SGA IT Committee.

“!ere was a little bit of a mis-communication, in that in the initial phases of this, both par-ties of the administration and the Student Government Association were both interested in this and there was a little bit of a miscom-munication as to who was actually going to tackle the e#ort,” said Jo-seph Mattingly, Chairman of the IT Committee.

SGA eventually decided to drop the project and allow the registrar to develop the database.

Online Syllabus Database nears its completion

Photo courtesy of the O"ce of the Registrar

Much like many of its peer institutions, Tech has begun to collect the many syllabi from various courses o"ered on campus in order to eventually create a database. This tool can be used by students to gain additional information on which classes to take each semester.

ogy could not be given because the CRC is in the early stages of trying to acquire it, the current preventive security measures are as e#ective as they can be.

“!eft is our number one crime on campus...you can have all the technology in the world, cameras and what not, but you really have to take the responsibility yourself and to really keep in mind and be aware of where you’re placing your items,” said GTPD O"cer Alex Gutierrez.

According to Hart, the major-ity of CRC thefts take place in the afternoon and evening hours. Even though there is no pattern as to where they take place, there are locations in and around the facil-ity that are frequented more than others simply due to the volume of personal belongings left unat-tended at one time. !ese include the basketball courts, the $tness center and the turf $elds.

“!e worst [punishment] is that we revoke their privileges for six months when there is a student involved. When they’re not a stu-dent, I serve them with criminal trespassing and forbid them from coming back. If they do come back, they stand the chance of be-ing arrested for criminal trespass-ing,” Hart said.

Because Buzzcards are also an o"cial Georgia ID card, loaning Buzzcards is a violation of the Student Code of Conduct, as out-lined in Section C8: “Forgery, al-teration, replication, or misuse of any document, record, or identi-$cation upon which the Institute relies, regardless of the medium.”

Thefts from page 1

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Open Access Policy passed by faculty

!e Faculty and Academic Senate, in its Nov. 27 meeting, passed the addition of the Open Access Policy amendment to the Faculty Handbook.

Debate ensued about the com-patibility of this policy with the copyright laws of various journals, as this policy would grant the Georgia Tech Research Corpora-tion a “nonexclusive, irrevocable, royalty‐free, worldwide license to exercise any and all copyrights in...scholarly articles published in any medium” by a professor.

However, Co-Chair of the Open Access Committee Ellen Zegura mentioned that the li-brary’s resources, which would facilitate this archival of schol-arly work, would allow authors of these articles to better navigate the seemingly legal problems one may encounter.

EBB bids for construc-tion

!e design development phase for the Engineered Biosystems Building (EBB), a multidisci-plinary research building focus-ing on expanding the biomedical research frontier of Tech, has been $nished, with a mass excavation and earth work prior to its con-struction beginning.

In the next stage, the $93 mil-lion building will bid its design out to constructors. It is anticipat-ed the building will be completed by spring of 2015.

Photo by Tiara Winata/Student Publications

In honor of the College of Architecture’s 60 years of existence, an exhibition featured the space restored as it originally appeared.

that these e#orts by Semester On-line are going unnoticed.

“C21U is experimenting with a variety of new delivery technolo-gies, or ‘platforms’. MOOC plat-forms, like Coursera, have caught the attention of the public around the world and are the most active initiatives at the moment, but we are at the early stages of technolo-gy development, and we are close-ly following related e#orts like Semester Online,” DeMillo said.

Dr. Rafael Bras, Provost and Executive Vice-President for Aca-demic A#airs, con$rmed this statement by DeMillo, disfavoring the for-credit nature of Semester-Online.

“Ours is a residential educa-tion, and we strongly believe in that residential experience. Con-tent online will ultimately be used to augment and improve our resi-dential education. It is not incon-ceivable, though, that as more ex-perience is gained with MOOCs that some courses could be appro-priately certi$ed by our faculty for Georgia Tech credit,” Bras said.

“An essential aspect of a MOOC is that it be ‘open.’ Se-mester Online is not open,” De-Millo said. “But it is an interesting approach to technology-mediated teaching. It is just one of the sever-al competing approaches to online course delivery.”

“Several faculty are already ex-perimenting with ‘inverted class-rooms’ where students listen to lectures and receive content and some assessment in an online plat-form and attend class to engage in problem-solving and more open discussions,” Bras said.

Tech has already been heav-ily involved in o#ering “non-free”

online courses through its own platforms similar in structure to the newly developed SemesterOn-line.

“Georgia Tech already has 35 years of experience in online edu-cation. Many of our residential students and many others outside the Georgia Tech campus have bene$tted from o#erings of the Georgia Tech Professional Edu-cation Programs (GTPE),” Bras said.

With multiple o#erings rang-ing from calculus courses for high school students to professional master’s degrees, GTPE has been able to serve the more than 8,500 enrollments in online courses over the past six years.

GTPE was able to award 140 MS degree recipients this past academic year from online degree programs while approximately 330 online high school students were able to take sophomore level calculus classes as peers with tra-ditional Tech campus-based stu-dents according to Nelson Baker, the dean of Georgia Tech Profes-sional Education.

MOOCs provide additional opportunities for both access to education as well as for better understanding of how students learn rather than o#ering credit at Universities. Bras further rec-ommended the use of MOOCs in general as a curricular supplement instead of a credit-based class.

“In the MOOC space, Geor-gia Tech already has a signi$cant number of o#erings and will be developing more. By the end of the year, we expect some 20 courses to be available through Coursera and other platforms, including at least three general education courses...supported by grants from the Gates Foundation,” Bras said.

MOOC from page 3ing. So you could look around at the architecture building and compare and contrast it to what the designers had done in the past,” said Dr. David Morton, Research Scientist in the College of Architecture. “!e purpose of re-mounting this exhibit in 2012 was, one, to commemorate the ongoing 60th anniversary of the building that houses it and, two, to provide a snapshot of where Georgia Tech architecture was back in that day. Since the reno-vation of the building is a historic preservation project to preserve an architecturally signi$cant part of Tech’s past, it made sense to dis-play it at the same time the major renovations were being completed and opened to the campus.”

Over the summer, when fund-ing was given to renovate the ar-chitecture building, the o"ces

were moved to the Architecture West building and the spaces were rebuilt as a tribute. !e original exhibition space was restored, along with the original display that was there 60 years ago, right down to the decorations, layout and boards. !e exhibition con-sists of works by Tech alumni from all over the world.

!e o"ce of the Dean and an adjacent boardroom was restored as well, including new glass $x-tures and the original boardroom table which was specially designed for the room itself. !e dean’s of-$ce was also out$tted in its origi-nal wood colors and arrangement.

According to Morton, when it was built 60 years ago, the Archi-tecture Building was one of the most cutting edge buildings of its times, along with the library and textile engineering building, the latter of which has since been torn down.

Architecture from page 2

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Alcohol and Substance AbuseSolutions lie in the power of organizations

Drinking is a part of life in college. Whether underage or in excess, the same amount of consumption will likely continue to occur year after year. !e problem, however, is when rates of excessive consumption increase. For example, this year, the O"ce of Student A#airs reported an increase from 73 to 87 alcohol violations. For many, the $rst assumption is that this is an issue specialized to the Greek community. !e problem, however, is much more widespread, a#ecting the entire campus.

Tech has attempted to curb the problem of binge drinking and substance abuse through education that aims to help students make better choices in a college environment. However, a signi$cant portion of the fault is all on the students when they do not incorporate this education in their behavior.

While the Greek community is frequently targeted as the source of substance abuse, Greek organizations are

no more at fault than other organizations. In fact, unlike most other organizations on campus, fraternities and sororities provide explicit, mandatory alcohol education to their members. !e e#ort there has been made to curb abuse, and non-Greek organizations should take note and help incorporate similar education to unilaterally address this campus-wide problem.

Changing the campus culture in this way requires this support from the students of campus organizations, speci$cally the older members and executive boards. Real-world peer in%uence will be more e#ective than any run-of-the-mill prevention website can ever be.

However, the decision ultimately comes down to the individual students at Tech and how they make personal choices. Students are more than capable of making “smart” decisions and must do so to help curb the dangers associated with excessive alcohol and substance consumption.

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Why Americans don’t learn languages

Maria-Xenia HardtDaily Texan, U. Texas

Ten years ago, no one would have predicted that I would some-day write for an English news-paper, get along in an English-speaking country or study English literature. As a German grammar school student, I was made to be-lieve that English just wasn’t my language.

I am doing all those things I previously presumed impossible now because I found the motiva-tion to learn English, spent long hours working through grammar rules and vocabulary and worked as hard as I could when other peo-ple asked for a bit more than what I thought was capable of.

In America, being %uent in two or three languages is extraor-dinary. In Germany, it’s average. So what is it that American stu-dents lack? Do they lack motiva-tion? Are they unwilling to do the hard work it takes to become %u-ent? Or is there just no one who pushes them?

Motivation to learn a for-eign language is indeed higher in Germany—and in Europe in general—because large popula-tions speaking di#erent languages reside so much closer. Within a 12-hour drive from Germany you can easily pass through $ve or six countries and read road signs in seven or eight di#erent languag-es—an experience di"cult to rep-licate in North America.

But that’s not the only reason why Germans and Europeans learn more languages than their American counterparts. In Ger-man universities, unlike at the University of Texas (UT), where even majors in popular languages like French start with a beginner course, students enter college-level language courses more or less %u-ent. !ey acquired their language skills in primary and secondary schools. Studying French at the college level in Germany means studying French linguistics or lit-erature; it means gaining an un-derstanding of the language and the culture that goes far beyond a %uent co#ee shop conversation.

At university in Germany, the languages that are not taught in the earlier grades start with very tough introductory courses. Language courses are two hours a week, which is just enough to cover grammar topics. Learning vocabulary, practicing speech and writing are things you either do at home voluntarily or you don’t. Failing to do so, however, means that you won’t make it to the sec-ond year.

So the biggest di#erence be-tween learning a foreign language in Germany and in the U.S. is not the level of motivation but the quality and style of teaching in grade school and at universities.

In Austin, I have taught Ger-man to pupils at a middle school and I have experienced language instruction at the University as a student. Both groups seemed mo-tivated to learn a foreign language.

At the elementary school where I taught, the nine- or ten- year-olds were at the perfect age to acquire a language. But the advantages of their age and their motivation were wasted because the teaching lasted only a week. !ose students probably won’t hear or read any more German until college, if ever. And longer-term attempts to teach language in grade schools in the U.S. appear ine#ective too. I’ve met many Americans here who studied French or Spanish for years in primary or secondary school but can now barely remem-ber how to order a co#ee. !ings seem a bit better at the university level. I’ve met quite a number of people who study a foreign lan-guage in college and, within two or three years, have gained a de-cent knowledge of that language. Unfortunately, I ended up in a less e#ective department.

I wanted to continue my study of Portuguese—a language that I had started to study in Germa-ny—and the intermediate Por-tuguese class I am taking o#ered promise. It’s a small class with a motivated professor. When the se-mester began, most students were equipped with a sound knowledge of grammar and vocabulary, and I was quite optimistic that this course would help me improve. I was wrong.

Rather than moving on, the course repeated introductory grammar topics. We’re not im-proving; we’re just chewing on bits of knowledge most of us had already digested last year.

Learning a foreign language is hard work, and there are moments when I hated every language I’ve learned so far because I was afraid that I would never get it, or be-cause I thought my head was too full to learn a single word more. But in these moments of self-doubt, I had teachers who said, “Yes, you’re good, but you can be better.”

!e Portuguese class doesn’t challenge like that. !is is not the teacher’s fault, she just follows through with the curriculum the department has decided upon. It’s not the students’ fault either. It’s the fault of the department’s curriculum, which does not ad-equately challenge the students. UT’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese has good equipment and good teachers, but rather than asking that their students go the extra mile, which is necessary in order that they really make prog-ress, they demand far too little.

Schools and universities that don’t make use of their students’ motivation waste their talent, time and so much potential. !ey miss out on equipping young people with the tools they need to successfully go out into the world, communicate, understand and come back with a broadened ho-rizon. I entered the world of the English language a long time ago, and at some point I discovered the beauty of it. I am still walking around in it today and so far it has never ceased to amaze me.

Technique • November 30, 2012 • 7 OPINIONS

It was dusk on Nov. 1, 2008. I remember the feeling well—the crushing feeling of hopeful optimism giving way to utter resignation.

With a minute left, Florida State was closing in on the go-ahead touchdown, all but assuring a second straight crushing defeat for Tech af-ter a 6-1 start… until fortune intervened in the form of two true freshmen. Cooper Taylor forced a fumble at the goal line and Rashaad Reid (eventually) fell on it, saving the 31-28 vic-tory and prompting the stu-dent body to rush the !eld in a shocked but euphoric daze.

I was part of that mob at mid!eld, an impressionable freshman who craved nothing more than victory. It was only natural, then, that I had just fallen completely in love with both Tech football and the college game as a whole after only really discovering college football that August.

In a four-and-a-half year run as an undergrad, that vic-tory—that spontaneous, to-tally unexpected elation—was one of the happiest moments that I can remember.

"is will likely be the !nal piece I ever write for the Tech-nique and the only even half-way personal piece I have ever written for this paper. Part of me, of course, wants this to turn into a bitter tirade about my time as a student; make no mistake, Tech has done its part to make life a pain.

But I’ve spent most of my

time here surrounded by some of the most accomplished people on campus—people who have often been very good friends, but who have through their own hard work convinced me that if I re-ally wanted to earn the right to complain, I should have worked harder, should have been more focused and should have done more with my time on campus.

It was never that simple, obviously. "e long, neverend-ing nights spent !nishing the latest system dynamics assign-ment that turned out to be !ve times longer than the as-signment suggested, the unan-ticipated hell week in October when four professors indepen-dently set project due dates in the same week, the sudden fear that this would !nally be the time that I got the lowest grade in the class on Tuesday’s test… these were all-too-familiar events, all truly iconic of the Institute and my major (AE) in every sense.

"e overarching issue was that no matter how much

stress built up at a given time, Tech perpetually kept me busy to the point that I would just have to (try to) bottle up any stress and get back to work. Conveniently, I had vowed to attend every football home game while I was an under-grad, and it didn’t take me long to realize that letting my emotions run freely during a game was a nice way to shed a bit of pent-up frustration about school-related matters.

Really, in the end I was just looking for an excuse to remi-nisce about !ve seasons’ worth of football at Tech after always covering the team as a neutral observer for the sports sta#.

My !rst couple seasons—the !rst two of the Johnson era—were all about the star power loaded on the roster. Between Nesbitt and Dwyer, the Jackets had a battery of runners who were capable of blasting through defenders or simply $ying past them. In the most important of games, they shined: Nesbitt’s run down the sideline to seal the win over Virginia Tech in 2009 and his

two-yard touchdown run on a midline keeper in overtime to beat Wake—fueled by a huge Dwyer block—were two of the most iconic plays of his career. I’ve watched the team evolve over that span, slowly expanding the playbook and morphing from a squad domi-nated by that handful of stars to one that simply does not rely on star power. Even under Tevin Washington, the team has had the tools to succeed—but that will only happen if schematic improvements are made on defense. Paul John-son’s new defensive coordina-tor will make the move back to a 4-3 set, and next year’s defensive line personnel !t the 4-3 scheme very nicely, easing the transition greatly.

"e gigantic interlude has been symbolic of my relation-ship with college football since that November 2008 evening: it has been a fun distraction that, as is the case for many in the South, has inspired an almost religious fervor.

It’s something that may never have happened if I had never joined the Technique’s sports crew, and perhaps more importantly, I would not have met some of my best friends over the past four-plus years. I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to work here in all the capacities that I have handled since my freshman year, and my only hope is that at least a few readers bene!ted from all that I’ve written over that span.

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Tech was originally found-ed in 1885 as a beacon of the future for the agrarian South in the post-Civil War era of Reconstruction. Its founding purpose was to educate and train the future of Georgia and to a large extent the South, hence its status as a state school funded by Georgia’s taxpayers. Since then, Tech has grown substantially and can now be counted among the world’s best schools, but it has never before betrayed its founding principles. However, recent moves by the current adminis-tration point towards a shift in culture and perspective, with a new, worrisome vision of Tech.

"ese goals in and of them-selves are not necessarily a bad thing—to “be among the most highly respected technology-focused learning institutions in the world” according to the Tech Strategic Plan. "e !ve goals cited in the plan are all quite excellent and worthy of pursuit, if a bit vacuous, but it is the method of implementa-tion that is irksome and seems to be pulling Tech in multiple directions. One of the most common phrases for policy reasoning in the past year has been “peer institutions.” "ese words are themselves problem-atic for many reasons. First, these peer institutions are cit-ed as examples ranging from MIT to Illinois to Purdue to Georgia State as the criteria moves from academics and research to public university

rankings to in-state funding. "is confusion has Tech being pulled both up and down at the same time.

An example of this is the six percent increase in tuition at the end of last semester. While I understand there is a rising cost of education and Tech does need more funds, the reasoning by President Pe-terson for the regents’ increase at his behest was to me unac-ceptable.

“If you look at our peer group, we’re not average in that peer group—we’re in the upper echelon [in terms of col-lege rankings]…if there are 16 institutions and we’re number four, do we really want to be at the average [tuition] or do we want to be in the top quartile?”

In this instance our peer group is other top ranked pub-lic universities. It is ridiculous to propose an increase on stu-dents solely to make us match other universities, especially when one of the most adver-tised rankings by administra-tion is our number one return on investment by SmartMon-

ey. It makes no sense to com-pare the tuition cost of state schools when they are funded to di#erent extents as voted by the tax payers of that state. At the same time, our fees and tuition are also being com-pared to other public Georgia schools, of which we are al-ready the highest. It just does not connect.

Even more troublesome about the use of “peer institu-tions,” though, is the fact that it goes against the Strategic Vision we have set out to ac-complish. In order to “ensure innovation” or be a top world-class institution, we must be creating our own paths rather than blindly following others’.

Two of the most recent examples are the addition of Coursera and implementation of Open Access for Faculty Publications. Both are great and important steps forward; however, giving reasons like Stanford founded it or MIT did it in 2008 are not in line with where we should be head-ed as a school. Instead, to be a world-class institution, we

should be leaders in the !eld, not followers. We are already a world-class institution for re-search and education, attract-ing top professors and students from around the globe, but can we achieve this in policy also?

However, what I am most saddened by is the brute dis-loyalty to Tech’s culture and principles. All of these moves seem to be trying to transform Tech into something it is not —a “name school.” Tech is famed for graduating top en-gineers, not those who only use the school name as a mere tool. Tech’s alumni are known as hard working with the abil-ity to actually solve problems. While branding is important for a school, these seemingly desperate policies do nothing to increase our name and only betray Tech’s alumni—and as one soon to join their ranks, I !nd it worrying.

I love Tech and am proud to have been a student here. However, I don’t want people in 50 years to assume that when I say I’m a Yellow Jacket that it simply means my par-ents were rich or that I am somehow less competent to work in the industry. To be the best school for Tech’s stu-dents and alumni, Tech can only compare itself to itself. I believe in Tech’s foundations, and while there is room for improvement, these original principles are what give my de-gree value.

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College football being dominated by money, rather than tradition

While it is dandy that 6-6 Tech has potentially reached bowl eligibility for the 16th consecutive season (assuming that even with a loss in the ACC Championship a waiver is approved), it’s highlight-ing one of the many problems oc-curring in the college game today.

Isn’t it kind of sad that a team and its fanbase are celebrating winning only half of their games in a season just to go to a bowl?

In our modern era of college football we’re seeing 6-6 teams headed to one of 35 bowl games, teams breaking traditional con-ference ties by switching their al-legiances and coaches being !red after a season or two all in the name of the dollar.

We’ve seen evident examples of the latter two this season with Maryland leaving the ACC for the Big Ten, Auburn !ring Gene Chizik two years after winning a national title and Southern Miss !ring their new head coach El-lis Johnson after his !rst season. Granted, there is some sense of justi!cation to the !rings and even the move by Maryland, but the rate at which these events are happening is absurd and can only be explained by one thing: money.

"e fact that there are 35 bowl games is mind blowing enough—70 of 124 FBS teams are eligible—but looking at some of the bowl names can almost make someone sick to their stomach.

"e Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl? Are you kidding me? What hap-pened to the good old days when teams just played in the well-re-spected Gator Bowl?

Sure, bowls have always been sponsored by someone, but the fact that the entire bowl is being named after companies like these is just depressing.

Now, when it comes to confer-ence realignment, it saddens me to see teams throw away tradition all in the name of money.

Maryland is one of the sad-der examples of this, leaving the ACC after being a member since 1953 to join the Big Ten. While Maryland will most likely have to pay a hefty $53 million dollars to leave the ACC, they are primarily leaving for a lucrative $24.6 mil-lion per year in television revenue provided thanks to its friends at the Big Ten Network.

Yeah, that’s a nice upgrade over the approximately $17 million they would make with the ACC’s TV deals, but I hope that the ex-

tra cash makes throwing away tra-dition worth it.

Finally, head coaches are get-ting !red quicker than ever in the sport. Ellis Johnson’s !ring at Southern Miss might be the worst, but there have been other equally bad cases in recent years including Colorado’s John Em-bree being !red after two seasons a few days ago.

In the past, the general idea in college football was that coaches would be given four to !ve seasons to gain some recruits that !t their system and be given the chance to show signs of success. With the win-now mentality, though, fans are clamoring for a coach’s head if he doesn’t get to a bowl in his !rst season.

I’m sure there are even more problems to be discussed in the college football landscape, but if money continues to demolish some of the tradition of the sport, it will de!nitely lose the spe-cial place it has in many people’s hearts.

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OUR VIEWS | HOT OR NOT

Bill Gates"e video chat with Bill

Gates Tuesday before the break was amazing, to say the least. Mr. Gates took less than 20 minutes for himself and spent more than 45 answering questions from a number of students in the audience.

HOT– or –NOT

ACC ChampionshipWhile normally a good

thing, the ACC could spell di-saster for the Jackets this year. With a 6-6 record, a loss in the ACC championship to a solid Florida St. Seminoles football team could eliminate the Jack-ets’ bowl eligibility.

ACC ExpansionGoodbye Maryland, hello

Louisville. "e University of Louisville’s president voted this week to make the move from the Big East to the ACC. While not academically on par with many ACC peer institu-tions, Louisville’s athletic pro-grams clearly make up for it.

No-Shave NovemberWe’ve made a huge mis-

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Focusfocus@nique.netFocus Editor:Madison Lee

Technique

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November 30, 2012

Tech campus and the Atlanta area are brimming with great food options that cater to every taste. This week, Focus presents the best of eateries, food events and recipes.

Quick, healthy meals for

!nals weekBy Kate Overstreet

Contributing Writer

Dead Week and Finals Week are upon us, and now more than ever it’s important to be able to prepare quick and healthy food to fuel your hardworking mind. Here’s a survival guide with some simple foods you can whip up in your kitchen. Breakfast ̶ Egg Tortilla Wrap

!is is very simple to make and will keep you full and focused for early morning exams. You will need an egg, a tortilla wrap, ex-tra Taco Bell "re sauce, cheddar cheese, red pepper and an onion. Scramble your egg in a pan, then add chopped red pepper and on-ion. Take the mixture out of the pan and put the tortilla in the pan on low heat. Put some Taco Bell "re sauce (or just cheese if you can’t handle it) on the torti-lla. Add the eggs, red pepper and onion mixture to the tortilla and fold it over. Grill on both sides, and after just a few minutes, you’ll have a delicious and nutritious breakfast.Lunch ̶ Pesto Chicken Panini

All you need is the bread of your choice, a baked chicken breast, a jar of pesto sauce, moz-zarella cheese and a George Fore-man grill. Just assemble the ingre-dients into a sandwich, then use a George Foreman grill to press it. If you don’t have one, you can cook it in a pan on the stove top like a grilled cheese.

Dinner ̶ RavioliYou will need frozen ravioli

or tortellini, tomato sauce, a pot and a microwaveable bowl. !is meal takes about 10 minutes to prepare. Put some water in the pot and put it on the stove top on high. Once the water comes to a boil, add some of the ravioli. Put the sauce in a microwaveable bowl, cover it with a plate or paper towel to avoid splatter, and put it in the microwave for two minutes. When the ravioli is #oating at the top of the water, you’re done. Just strain the water and pour the ravi-oli into your sauce bowl. Add Par-mesan cheese, and salt and pepper to taste.

Snack ̶ Salad!is is one of the most basic

snacks or sides you can make, and it has the added bonus of being healthy. Your salad is a canvas; you can add whatever you like to it. You will need some lettuce or spinach leaves as a base, which you can buy fresh or in a bag. For a more exciting salad, other delicious vegetables include cu-cumbers, red peppers and celery. Experiment with di$erent combi-nations of add-ins like cranberries and nuts. Explore your cupboard and use anything that strikes your fancy—shredded cheese and olives are popular choices. For dressing, mix it up and choose a vinaigrette instead of ranch, and try to "nd reduced fat and sodium options.

China Care Club blends food, culture

See China, page 10

By Madison LeeFocus Editor

China Care Club invited stu-dents and guests to experience Chinese culture through food. !e event, which took place on Nov. 8, showcased a variety of Chinese dishes.

Attendees were greeted with over thirty di$erent options for en-trees, desserts, snacks and drinks. From lo mein and Mongolian beef to crystal shrimp dumplings and Di San Xian—a popular vegeta-ble dish—there was an assortment of food items that blended dishes that are typically well known in American Chinese cuisine with more traditional dishes that might be new to some palates. !e event was catered by local restaurants in the Atlanta area.

Specially-made recipe cards were distributed by the China Care Club at the start of the event, featuring instructions for how to prepare a range of di$erent Chi-

nese foods.“A lot of clubs do food events

to get people to come, but we’ve tried to be di$erent with the recipe cards so that people can make these dishes at home and we can make this more of a cul-turally educational experience. We also brought in dishes that people maybe haven’t heard of and are more authentic to Chinese cuisine,” said Alice Chen, a third-year ISYE major and China Care Club President.

From simpler dishes that typi-cally take only twenty minutes to prepare to more challenging dish-es for more adventurous cooks, the recipe guide highlighted a wide selection of Chinese fare.

“!e food was awesome, and I think that a lot of students would be able to make the relatively simple dishes like fried rice in the [recipe] book. We’re all on really tight schedules here...and this is something that I would de"nitely try to cook myself at some point,”

said Siddhant Chawla, a second-year BME major.

China Care Club was founded in fall 2010, and works as mentor-ship program for members of the organization to meet with locally adopted children from China, bring them to campus and in-troduce them to Chinese culture with games and activities.

Members of China Care Club

were enthusiastic about the idea of combining food with a cultural show.

“Food appeals to everyone, and it’s a great way to get peo-ple to come to an event like this because it gives them an incen-tive to learn about Chinese culture and what we’re doing as an organization on campus

TIPS & TRICKS

Photo by Tiara Winata / Student Publications

To highlight Chinese culture on campus, students and guests were invited to sample foods and view unique performances.

Design by Kara Yogan / Student PublicationsPhotos by Brenda Lin / Student Publications

Co$ee Snobs is located in the Parker H. Petit building, on the left when entering the Biotechnology Quad from the south side. Co$ee Snobs markets its “highly evolved” sandwiches as snobs, and are reduced fat and

sodium options made from market fresh ingredients. Co$ee Snobs’ employee

Mira Tsankova cited the “Big Snob” sandwich and “Jamaican

Pies” as the restaurant’s most popular items.

By Currell BerryContributing Writer

Tech hosts a variety of eat-eries on campus, many of

which are not widely known and are frequented by the savviest reg-ulars. For those looking for a bit of variety, here is an assortment of restaurants and bistros that will "t the bill. Stave o$ the stress of "nals with local, varied options.

Downstairs from “!e Lab,” the Colony Bistro is a sit-down of-fering that serves “street to table cuisine,” with #avors originating from across the globe. Options include “Singapore Street Satay”

and the “Middle East-ern Shawarma

Plate.”

Diagonally across the Biotechnology Quad from Co$ee Snobs, “!e Lab” specializes in many di$erent juices and

drinks, many which can be made to order from a variety of ingredients. Molecular dia-grams scrawled on the windows and chem-istry decanters and vials on the countertops hint that this is not a typical neighborhood smoothie shop. Employee Ruman Gure not-ed that the Lab’s most popular items are its bubble teas and the “Laughing Bud-dha,” a yogurt-based drink with a mix-ture of white chocolate and banana.

A journey down the College of Com-puting Building’s outside steps to will lead to the “Java World Co$ee Cart.” Accord-ing to Java World sta$ on hand, its menu goes beyond co$ee and mocha standbys to o$er a variety of baked goods and co$ee-based beverages. Java World employee, Ben McMurray, noted that the restaurant is a satellite location of “Highland Bak-ery,” from which it gets its baked goods, and that Java World’s espresso drinks are their most popular items.

In the West Architecture Building’s "rst #oor atrium, the Gal-loway Café is also run by Highland Bakery. !e West Architecture’s slick am-biance and the café’s stainless steel and glass-infused design sets it apart from its sister operation Java World. !e Café’s

menu is extensive and upscale. Galloway Café employee Luke Mastrangelo ex-

plained that small co$ees and crois-sants are two of the Café’s most

popular items, but that his per-sonal favorite is the Café’s latte.

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to promote our culture too,” said Katherine Ji, a second year BA major.

!ough the food was the main attraction for the event, the at-tendees were also treated to raf-"ed prizes and a show from sev-eral campus student groups. !e event opened with a synchronized dance performance from IM-PACT, a medley from Tech’s Glee Club and a hip-hop routine from Swagger Crew.

For the #nale, the audience was given a traditional Lion Dance performance. Widely associated with Chinese New Year festivals, the dance involves two people working as the head and body of the lion, moving in rhythm to the lively beat of musicians on drums,

gongs and cymbals. !e lion engaged in a playful

style of performance, visiting au-dience members, standing on its hind legs, scratching its head and dozing o$, much to the crowd’s amusement.

!e coordination and skill of the two performers as they manip-ulated the lion were well-received by the audience, which gave them a standing ovation.

“I think the cultural perfor-mances are a great compliment to all of the delicious Chinese food, and people can enjoy the combi-nation. Food is something that everyone likes, and students [can do what they would have been do-ing anyway—eating dinner—but get an exciting cultural experience out of it,” said Catherine Gu, a third-year BME and ALIS major.

China from page 9Ferst Place o!ers gourmet lunch option

Photo by Tiara Winata / Student Publications

The China Care Club event featured a wide selection of Chinese dishes, some well-known and others that were more traditional.

By Aaron TumulakContributing Writer

!ough Tech students are fa-miliar with dining locations on the #rst "oor commons and food court of the Student Center, fewer students have experienced Ferst Place, a restaurant tucked away on the third "oor of the Student Center.

Located across from the Stu-dent Center ballroom, Ferst Place is a gourmet eatery open during lunch hours to students, faculty and visitors of Tech. Dining op-tions include a bu$et, a salad bar, and a made-to-order station.

!e restaurant is run by So-dexo, the same service that pro-vides food in Tech’s dining halls. Ferst Place is di$erent in that the atmosphere is slower-paced, with an emphasis on service and pre-sentation.

“[Ferst Place] is our showcase area so when we have clients come in we can show them what we do for faculty and students,” said Graham Conner, Executive Chef of Catering at Tech.

Ferst Place changes its food o$erings every day, with a daily menu available by phone. Typi-cal menu staples are a balanced selection that includes vegetarian entrees. A salad bar provides seven composed salads and soups.

Although Ferst Place is primar-ily aimed towards faculty mem-bers, everyone is welcome to visit the gourmet lunch restaurant. Ferst Place is becoming more pop-ular with students as they discover

the third "oor eatery.“Student numbers have picked

up,” Conner said of the restau-rant’s growing number of visitors.

In recent years, emphasis on international cuisine has grown to re"ect Tech’s increasingly diverse student body.

“Last month was Hispanic Heritage Month so we ran specials each Wednesday for the entire month so that we could showcase Hispanic food,” said Conner.

Similar such events include Pan-American, Asian, and Afri-can foods throughout the year.

Ferst Place also serves two holi-day meals — one for !anksgiv-ing and another for Christmas. !is year’s holiday luncheon will be a choice between apple cider butter turkey with giblet gravy,

honey pecan tofu with granny smith apple stu%ng, carved gar-lic-studded beef medallions with cranberry demi glaze and assorted deserts.

Open only from 11am to 2pm, customer tra%c goes up at Ferst Place signi#cantly during lunch hours, so reservations via the Tech Dining Services website can be made up to a day prior to eating there. !e eatery accepts Buzzcard or Ramblin’ Plans for the conve-nience of students, and invites them to come share the Ferst Place experience.

“I want everyone to know that the restaurant is here and every-one is welcome … I take plenty of time to make di$erent menu items so everyone can try di$erent types of food,” Conner said.

Photo by Tiara Winata / Student Publications

Ferst Place, a restaurant on the third !oor of the Student Center, boasts varied menu options and a relaxed, sophisticated atmosphere.

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To expand students’ culinary reach beyond the occasional Mc-Donalds or Dominoes, Focus brings the word on restaurant fa-vorites and hot spots in the Atlan-ta area, as recommended by Tech students.

For students without a car or unwilling to make the trek, there are some popular bars around the Midtown area that serve exciting, custom dishes.

“I enjoy Gordon Biersch, it’s pricier but it’s nice. !ey brew their own beer and it’s pretty great. For people with a taste for good

drinks and spiciness, Prickly Pear is also a good option. It has pretty a"ordable Mexican food and they have a lot of custom-made, strong margaritas,” said Manoj Vangaln, a second-year ISyE.

Further south are more res-taurants near the popular Atlanta hotels. !e commercial center has a strong cultural pull, and hosts a variety of authentic eateries from various cuisines.

“!ere’s this place called Su-#’s on Peachtree over by Mellow Mushroom. It’s an authentic and organic Persian place. !e abso-lute best food I’ve ever had at a restaurant, and it’s put together in combinations I would never have

thought of on my own,” said Ian Keith, a #fth-year ME major.

!ere are also a string of !ai, Indian and French restaurants in the same area. !ey are pricier, but sometimes worth it for a spe-cial occasion.

“Fogo de Chao is by far the best steakhouse in Atlanta. Sure it is extremely pricey, but you can-not put a price on unlimited meat. If I were rich I would go there every day,” said Kyle Barnhart, a fourth-year BCHE.

For dinner it can cost around $50 a person, but it includes end-less friend plantains, polenta, tapioca cheese rolls, mash pota-toes and a wildly ornate salad bar

with all the #nest cheeses and deli meats. Save this one for a gradu-ation or at least until the parents are in town.

Closer to home and many students’ budget range, Tech Square’s recent culinary additions have sparked some excitement.

“I like the Euroking place; the food is really good and the prices are about average for what you would expect. I like the gyro plat-ter because it tastes authentic and comes with a Greek salad on the side, which is awesome,” said Sam Benslay, third-year LCC.

For anyone who has studied abroad in Europe and can swear by their knowledge of late-night

kebab stands this is as close as one can get, at least in Tech’s back-yard.

Some people eat to live, but other live to eat. For those who abide by the latter it is safe to say that although the bubble of Tech keeps one grounded on campus there is plenty of amazing food to be experienced and discovered in Atlanta. !e city is a cultural magnet for the east coast and har-bors gems from Vietnam, South Korea, Indonesia, New Zealand, Chile, Morocco and so much more. For adventurous students, Tech’s neighborhood o"ers plenty of tastes to enjoy for every budget and palate.

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Assistant Entertainment Editor:Joe Murphy

Naysayers say yea to Yeasayer’s psychedelic extravaganza

By Jonathan PeakEntertainment Editor

Just before !anksgiving break on Sunday, Nov. 18, indie elec-tronic group Yeasayer came to the Tabernacle to make up for the show they missed early this year for their Fragrant World Tour.

!e threesome has found wide-

spread success after their sopho-more release Odd Blood in 2010, and released their latest album, Fragrant World to a somewhat more muted reception. However, Yeasayer’s show proved to be a pleasant mix of old and new, of the psychedelic and the just plain weird.

Yeasayer, consisting of Chris

Keating, Ira Wolf Tuton and Anand Wilder, played an impres-sive set which always entertained the full room. More often than not the crowd was dancing along to the bass lines that literally shook the old church’s roof. Self-describing their music as “Middle Eastern-psych-snap-gospel,” they mixed world beats with the rang-

ing vocals of all three members for an eclectic mix.

Highlights from the night in-cluded “Ambling Alp” and “Lon-gevity,” the second being in sup-port of their latest release, both of which "lled the cavernous Tab-ernacle with a mix that at worst

See Yeasayer, page 17

Yeasayer, consisting of Anand WIlder, Chris Keating and Ira Wolf Tuton (L to R), entertained crowds at the Tabernacle with their loud and unique concert experience.

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By Keith FradyContributing Writer

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is fondly remembered by children of the nineties as a fairy tale with funny talk-ing clocks and terrifying monsters, both anthropomorphic and human. It was adapted for the stage and en-joyed a successful Broadway run from opening night to 2007. It is currently Broadway’s eighth-longest running production in history. !e Fox !eatre is now, for a short time, acting as the enchanted castle containing a wilting rose, a beast and a woman who might be his last hope and one true love.

!e play is almost a direct plot ad-aptation of the Disney movie. A young woman, Belle, is bored of living in a small provincial town and dreams of adventure. Belle’s father, an inventor, goes missing in the woods on the way to a fair and she searches for him. She "nds him as a prisoner in the enchanted castle of a prince who was transformed into a beast by a witch’s curse. !is curse will only be lifted when he "nds love. Belle o#ers herself to be a prisoner in her father’s place; a request Beast obliges. !e remainder of the play is a romance of the beauty and the beast falling in love with the assistance of Beast’s servants, who were transformed into household objects by the same

curse which spawned Beast.!e play relies on three characters:

Belle (Hilary Maiberger), Beast (Dar-ick Pead), and Gaston (Matt Farcher). Belle is played spectacularly as the real life version of the girl loved by any-one who saw the Disney movie. Her imagination and longing for adventure are somehow wider than the French countryside. Although she has little ex-perience from her small town, she has incredible strength and fortitude. Not everyone can stare down a lumbering Beast and consistently conquer him in a battle of wills. Gaston is written to be a chauvinistic and narcissistic brute of a man, yet he manages to be one of the most enjoyable characters to watch because it is impossible to take him se-riously. He struts and strides across the stage and his usual poses show o# as much muscle as possible. A caricature, but one lively acted.

Unfortunately, Beast does not retain the subtlety required by the story. !e fallen prince is meant to be a sel"sh, angry animal who gradually becomes more human due to Belle’s in$uence. But there is no animal. !e towering Beast is barely taller than Belle and he ceases to be frightening after Belle trades places with her father in the "rst twenty minutes. His tirades of anger are not the roars and growls of a monster but are more akin to a teenage

girl’s tantrums. As Belle cleans Beast’s wounds after saving her from a wolf attack, Beast whimpers like a puppy instead of bellowing in pain. Belle is supposed to tame a Beast to "nd the man inside, but it feels more like she is disciplining a whiny dog.

!e secondary cast performs admi-rably. Lumiere (Hassan Nazari-Robati) is appropriately lascivious even if his French accent is lacking. Mrs. Potts (Erin Edelle) is caring, Cogsworth (James May) is wound up and Lefou (Jimmy Larkin), Gaston’s henchman, is slapstick comedy relief that errs on the side of annoying for any audience member older than ten. Lefou’s acro-batics during the physical comedy gags, however, are exceedingly impressive. Some characters are given more face time and are even christened, such as Lumiere’s duster lover Babette (Jessica Lorion), and the dresser Madame de la Grande Bouche (Shani Hadjian) who is given a new backstory as an opera singer.

!e production mainly provides the magic. !e costumes are fantastic, and it is worth admission price just to see the elaborate designs in motion. When possible, the costumes are precisely the same as those in the Disney "lm and it is a treat to witness Gaston’s red out"t, Belle’s blue and white maiden ensem-

See Beast, page 17

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Boy Meets World gets modern sequel, girl-centeredBy Jillian Broaddus

Sta! Writer

“We’re gonna have a child? Wait, we’ve only kissed. I mean, I knew I was a good kisser, but ‘wow’.” When a young Cory Mat-thews uttered these words all those years ago, he had no way of knowing how true his words would turn out to be. In 2013, the story continues.

Although it has been almost thirteen years since Cory (Ben Savage), Topanga (Danielle Fish-el), Shawn (Rider Strong), Eric (Will Friedle) and the gang left ABC sitcom TV in 2000 after sev-en wonderful years on air, a Boy Meets World sequel is currently in the works on the Disney Channel.

!e appropriately titled spin-o" Girl Meets World plans to fol-low Cory and Topanga’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Riley, as she navigates the tumultuous and wacky world of the modern teen-age generation.

Purist fans can breathe a sigh of relief as lead cast members Sav-age and Fishel have already agreed to reprise their loveable roles in the pilot episode. !is is espe-cially exciting and nostalgic news for children of the nineties who grew up watching the elementary school couple from their begin-nings in Mr. Feeny’s class all the way through college.

One of the other consistencies that this upcoming sequel show holds with the original series is that it will be created and execu-tive-produced by Boy Meets World creator Michael Jacobs, which should placate fans that this next

installment will most de#nitely be in good hands.

At the moment, the pilot epi-sode of Girl Meets World is still in the early stages of development—so early, in fact, that Disney is still conducting a nationwide search to

cast the character of Riley. None-theless, Savage and Fishel have already expressed their excitement for the continuation of the series.

On the subject of this future continuation, Savage recently tweeted, “I’m going to be a fa-

ther…!e Boy Meets World sequel is o$cially happening!”

Meanwhile, Fishel recently released a statement saying, “!e 7 wonderful years we spent mak-ing BMW…were among the most warm, hilarious, insightful, educational years of my life and I wouldn’t trade them for the world. Another thing I wouldn’t trade for anything is the integrity and the heart with which BMW was made. I promise with the entirety of my heart that we will make GMW with the same honesty, in-nocence and intelligence that you learned to expect from BMW.” Undoubtedly, fans around the world are hoping for nothing else.

Although it remains unknown whether other notable characters will reprise their prior roles—per-haps a repeat of Mr. Feeny peer-ing over the backyard fence and teaching Riley the predictable lessons of growing up?—the show will undoubtedly retain “familiar faces, familiar themes and famil-iar messages” to its predecessor, according to Fishel.

Jacobs has not announced a premiere date as of yet, and fans are impatiently waiting for the news. Everyone hopes Riley Mat-thews provides as much laughter and insight as her parents.

Will this new show be a mon-ey-grabbing stunt that rides on the popularity and nostalgia of its predecessor? Or will it soar past the casualties of other popular 90s-show revivals? Everyone ea-gerly hopes for the latter. As much anticipation surrounds it, only time will tell if this world is ready to meet this girl. See Miami, page 17

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Danielle Fischel (Center L) and Ben Savage (Center R) of the classic will reprise their roles in the upcoming reboot, Girl Meets World.

Wolfe’s latest delves into Miami

By Jonathan PeakEntertainment Editor

Tom Wolfe sets his latest novel in the volatile and dangerous city of Miami, drawing charac-ters and cultures together to the point of breaking. Following the tumultuous life of policeman and second-generation Cuban Nestor Camacho, races clash and alle-giances are drawn to the very life force that runs through our veins. It is here that Wolfe returns Back to Blood.

!ough #ction, Back to Blood is really more of a character portrait of a city as a whole which lives and breathes through it citizens. !ere are the rich WASPs who run the media, Russian oligarchs who choose the “art” and Cubans – who have never set foot on their motherland – who enforce the law. Also thrown in the mix are drug-running African Americans and Haitians who are trying to

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Day-Lewis embodies spirit of Lincoln with accuracy, vitality

By Joe MurphyAssistant Entertainment Editor

Whether or not one agrees or disagrees with his politics, it can-not be denied that Abraham Lin-coln was one of the most in!uen-tial and revolutionary presidents that has ever led this country. "e repercussions of his actions during the #nal months of the Civil War can be seen clearly within Ameri-can society to this day, especially in relation to his liberation of African American slaves. And no #lm paints a better picture of these last few months than Ste-ven Spielberg’s Lincoln, released on Nov. 16. Exploring the titular president’s central role in both the liberation of slaves and the end-ing of the Civil War, Lincoln is a captivating look at American soci-ety during the time of one of our greatest political upheavals.

"e #lm revolves around the last few months of Lincoln’s (Daniel Day-Lewis, !ere Will Be

Blood) life, after he has just been reelected for a second term in the Presidency and is faced with the seemingly impossible task of reuniting the United States of America, while at the same time outlawing the practice of slavery. At his side are his wife (Sally Field, Forrest Gump), his son (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, !e Dark Knight Rises) and his Secretary of State (David Strathairn, !e Bourne Ultimatum), each of whom play a signi#cant role in in!uencing the actions of Lincoln himself. With

the war drawing to a close, Lin-coln must #nd a way to pass the "irteenth Amendment, which would outlaw slavery, before the southern states can be inducted back into the Union and vote against it. In order to do this, Lin-coln must pass the amendment through the gauntlet of the House of Representatives, one member of which is abolitionist Congres-sional Leader "addeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones, No Country for Old Men), whose relationship with Lincoln is friendly yet less

than trustful. As the debate over whether or not to pass the amend-ment comes to a head, Lincoln may have to choose between a united America or the freedom of an entire race of people.

"e accuracy this #lm boasts in portraying 19th century Amer-ican society is certainly com-mendable to the extreme, as are the performances of all of the sup-porting actors, but in all reality it is Day-Lewis’s powerhouse por-trayal of Lincoln that makes this #lm worthy of critical acclaim.

"is version of Lincoln is more soft-spoken than most viewers might expect, creating a more re-alistic and humanized look at the famous president. But the softness of his voice in no way inhibits the power of his message. From the longest political speech to the smallest bodily movement and mannerism, Day-Lewis embodies the character of Lincoln, giving a performance which is truly di$-cult to look away from. With such a portrayal, it is no wonder that critics are already favoring him to win the next Academy Award for Best Actor.

Overall, Lincoln is a fascinat-ing and mature spectacle that suc-cessfully taps into the emotions and drama of a period of crisis in American history. Of course, cer-tain liberties are taken to make the transition from historical event to cinematic blockbuster, and some of these liberties may not bode so well with the more strict audience members, but on the whole this #lm gives an accu-rate portrayal of the attitudes and atmosphere of the time period. To top it all o%, Spielberg adds a taste of courtroom drama to the mix, and within this setting the char-acters truly come alive, interacting with each other in the most dra-matic ways. On the whole, Lincoln succeeds in providing a close, in-tricate look at its titular character while maintaining a dramatic ac-count of the bigger picture of the Civil War and the indecency of human slavery.

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Daniel Day-Lewis plays the soft-spoken president with passion for the continued uni!cation of his country in Spielberg’s latest !lm release, most likely earning himself an Oscar nod for Best Actor.

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ble, and Beast’s shredded shirts. !e object characters are all clev-erly costumed so that Mrs. Potts actually has a handle for an arm, Cogsworth sprouts a clock key, and Lumiere even gets ‘"ames’ on his hands. !ere was a collective gasp from the audience as Belle stepped onstage in her golden ballroom dress. !e sets and lights create perfect ambiance in every scene. Ornate stairwells are carted on and o# stage by gargoyles, gi-ant doors grant entry to the castle, and there is a large round moon to serenade.

!e mystical artistry of the costumes and sets are epitomized by the opening scene. !is scene is told in stained glass windows in the $lm and is blatant exposi-tion detailing the Prince’s trans-

formation. !e stage scene is like seeing a fairy tale enacted before one’s eyes as a narration rumbles around the silent and purpose-fully overacted characters. !e old woman begs for hospitality from the sel$sh prince. A blink of the theatre lights and sudden-ly a glowing witch towers over a beast brought to his knees. It is a breathtaking introduction to the play and its theme, expounded on in this script, of transformation.

All the musical numbers from the $lm return for the stage plus a few extra composed by Alan Menken, who also created the original $lm songs, with lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice. While the songs from the $lm tend to be the better ones, some of those composed for the stage hold their own. “If I Can’t Love Her”, sung beautifully by Beast,

Beast from page 13 was a signi$cantly superior song to end the $rst act with than “Be Our Guest,” which immedi-ately preceded it, because it gave a character moment precedence over glitz and glamour. !ere was no weak voice amongst the cast, and Belle and Beast performed all their songs magni$cently.

Although it has a rushed cli-max and some of the dances in the songs went too long, the play hits all of the right notes and is a must-see for fans of the Disney $lm or musicals in general. !e ballroom may not be as gorgeous as it is in the $lm, but Mrs. Potts voice echoing warmly around Belle and Beast as they dance with their eyes locked on each other still makes you believe in that four letter word as old as rhyme.

Miami from page 15

could be described as odd and powerful. But in reality the only word to truly describe the expe-rience was awesome – not in the modern sense of the word, but in the classic, truly invoking sense, awe-some.

Yeasayer is a band whose music is best experienced at full blast to the extent that it could be detri-mental to your aural health. !e vibrations sweeping through your body are a necessary part of a great listening to Yeasayer. Live they blast the music plenty loud, but they also add to the experi-ence holistically.

Along with the band members themselves, Yeasayer also brought along a plethora of lights, lasers, mirrors and other gadgets. !ey controlled the concert visually as well as musically, with lights re-"ecting everywhere in time with the music. !ey were careful to bring attention to the fact that the lights were live and not pro-grammed, so they could be tai-lored to each unique rendition.

!e only real disappointment of the night was a subpar rendi-tion of one of their most popular songs, “O.N.E.” !e vocals for this song were handed from the usual lead vocalist Chris Keat-ing to Anand Wilder, who also sang the album version. !is time though the high vocals ended up being pitchy and nothing con-nected. !is was also the only time the lighting went to the det-riment of a song by simply plung-

ing the audience in darkness at the climatic choruses of the song.

But the real surprise of the night was how Yeasayer managed to transform the oblique and in-accessible songs on their latest album into the intricate and inter-esting works they were meant to be. It was easy to distinguish be-tween their old and new material, because the music became mark-edly less danceable and honestly more than a little “out-there.”

But it was during these breaks that Yeasayer showed how they have grown as a band, and what the songs like “Reagan’s Skeleton” were meant to sound like. !ey o#ered a listening and thinking experience, albeit perhaps best for those who were not quite there in the head.

A special treat for fans was the band’s playing one of their non-al-bum releases “Tightrope,” from a compilation for AIDS relief. !ey also played plenty of songs for the faithful, harking back to their 2007 debut of All Hour Cymbals.

A concert with Yeasayer proves why they have grown so much in popularity in recent years and the true talent that lies beneath their weirdness. Even though their lat-est album was a poor re"ection of their potential and seemed to put a damper on their growing ca-reers, the live versions of the songs show them as they should be - not just listened to, but experienced. Hopefully, they can capture this on record once again, but it’s nice to know that at least their live shows will always be awe-some.

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pass as whites – or at least French.In a massive interweaving of

characters, readers follow the sto-ry of Nestor Camacho and the af-termath as he rescues, or captures and deports according to some lo-cals, a Cuban "eeing the commu-nist homeland. !rough his and other’s stories, the underbelly, the high class and the geriatric com-munity of Florida’s mixing pot are explored.

!e characters Wolfe creates are engaging and thought-pro-voking. !e pornography-addic-tion psychiatrist who is addicted to fame and wealth, and cruelly drags along his rich and helpless clients is a notable example. Also notable is the Haitian father who detests his own culture and lan-guage, to the point of alienating his son and denying his heritage. !ese characters are interesting and con"icted, but ultimately just minor stories along Nestor’s jour-ney.

Nestor though proves less than interesting. Instead he is a man whom things happen to by the fault of his passive obedience to orders. !ough he is hardly paint-ed as a weakling and the pain and trials he goes through are very

real, ultimately he is Wolfe’s great-est failing in the book as a charac-ter and as he passively has interest-ing and vibrant characters woven around him. !is is unfortunate as Nestor is the spine of the story.

Just as engaging as the charac-ters are the events in Miami they attend and cause. From heroic rescues to Russian ma$a murders to mass nautical orgies, each page contains a new adventure. !ose in the high life are found to be just as dirty, ignorant and bigoted as anyone else – if not more so.

!e greatest strength Wolfe has a writer is the unerring real-ism he creates in his novels. His stories are fantastical and foreign, but never beyond belief. Instead of being alienated or taken to whim-sical worlds, readers instead are immersed and taught about other cultures and people. !is human-ism is not faked either; Wolfe is well known for his reporting and the depth of investigation he puts into his novels, and Back to Blood is no exception.

However, a weakness of Wolfe is his propensity to overuse rep-etition and onomatopoeia in a modern style. !is is unfortunate as it gives the book an unedited feeling and really detracts from the characters he has created and

investigation he put into the book. Instead the book precariously and shoddily switches points of view between character’s minds and rich, third person reporting.

Another weakness is the vast number of stories present. In total there are about nine or ten narra-tors, each with their own chapter. Eventually all of their stories do intersect, and more often than not this diversity is a strength that emboldens the stories and moves them along. However, there are a few exceptions, as some chapters prove pointless on all levels. In fact, the opening prologue chap-ter of the book proves a complete wash as a disengaging mini-narra-tive of the WASP editor-in-chief of the Miami Herald that bears no relation to the larger arc and whose characters are never revis-ited, except the editor who plays a minor role near the book’s end.

Despite these weaknesses, Wolfe has written a fantastic book that not just tells a story, but also engages readers in an investiga-tion of a culture that might not be so far geographically, but is miles away in familiarity. New facts and lessons about immigration, race and family are to be had as read-ers are pushed beyond the norm in Back to Blood. Photos by Seth Mallett/ Student Publications

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Brandon Makinson is a diver for the Jackets majoring in Aerospace Engineering and is from Calgary, Canada. Makinson hopes to make it to the NCAA national meet at the end of season in mid-March.

By Anna ArnauSports Editor

Technique: When did you start diving?

Makinson: I was ten years old. It started o! at a summer camp; I just liked being airborne.

Technique: What do you miss most about home?

Makinson: I don’t really miss Calgary that much—that’s where I’m from. I miss my parents, obvi-

ously. But most of my friends have moved away for school or jobs.

Technique: How do you bal-ance diving and Aerospace Engi-neering?

Makinson: I slowly learned how to manage my time. It’s man-ageable, When I have homework, I just have to go to the library and do work, I can’t go and hang out with my friends. I’m never on Facebook; I just have to focus.

Technique: What made you

pick AE and actually stick with it?Makinson: Planes have always

interested me. I don’t want to be a pilot. I thought about getting my pilot’s license, but the time just hasn’t really "t. I considered switching to ME after my second year, but I decided it would be as easy to get a job with AE as ME because they are so closely related. I "gured since I started it, I might as well stick with it since it is still interesting.

Technique: What do you want to do with your major?

Makinson: #at I do not know. I want to "nd a job that allows me to stay in the United States. Other than that, I really have no plans.

Technique: What made you pick Tech?

Makinson: I always knew I wanted to go into engineering, and that paired with the diving program here just really "t per-fectly. It was really hard to "nd a strong athletic school and strong academic school all in one. Tech just really "t what I wanted.

Technique: Did you look at other schools?

Makinson: I looked at Notre Dame and Northwestern.

Technique: Do you have any goals for yourself or the team as the whole this season?

Makinson: I would really like to get to NCAA’s again. #ey’re going to be challenging this year based on the number of spots our zone got from last year. Other than that, it’s really hard to say I want a speci"c place because it’s a judged sport. It’s not like run-ning where you can say you want to run a speci"c time. Other than that, I’m always trying to get bet-ter scores.

Technique: If you could change one rule in diving, what would it be?

Makinson: I don’t know. I don’t think I have ever been re-stricted by rules in diving before. #e only thing that came to mind that I would change is the judging because sometimes it’s really bad, just like all judged sports. I’d like if there was a stricter, more consis-tent set of guidelines.

Technique: Who is your fa-vorite athlete?

Makinson: I’m not a big sports watcher. I watch football because it can get exciting with my room-mates. I would have to say Mi-chael Phelps, because everyone was talking so much smack about him going into the Olympics and he still won six golds.

Technique: If you could get on a plane right now and go any-where, where would you go?

Makinson: Italy. I went there once for a diving competition in northeastern Italy and then went to Rome for a few days to sightsee when I was 19.

Technique: How do you pre-pare in the o! season?

Makinson: For me, I always need a break in the o! season. I need a mental detox. After I get told the same thing so many times, its hard to make changes. Having a couple weeks o! at the end of the season just kind of lets everything $ow out and start fresh again so I can improve.

Technique: What kind of things do you and your team-mates joke about?

Makinson: One of the weirder things we joke about is hitting the board. It sounds really strange, but if we have a lot to do or want to get out of practice, we will joke about hitting the board just to get out of practice.

Technique: If you heard prac-tice was cancelled tomorrow, what would you do with your day o!?

Makinson: Probably home-work. I have a lot of "nals and projects coming up. It’s stressful having our Invitational this week-end, so now I am going to have to really commit my time to study-ing.

Technique: Do you get any time o! for break?

Makinson: About a week.

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with Matt Schwartz

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

I really do not know what to say.

!at’s honestly the only thing that comes to mind when I try to talk about the grand catastrophe/triumph that was/is yet to be the 2012 Tech football team. If you are reading this right now, it’s only reasonable to assume you under-stand the current circumstances; the unfathomable, strange, and secretly exciting circumstances. Nonetheless, for the sake of say-ing “We are going a conference championship game,” I will state the obvious.

Tech—a 6-6 team who has lost three in-conference games, was beaten down by Middle Ten-nessee State, and was nearly out of contention for a bowl game with four games left on the schedule—is playing for a spot in a BCS bowl game.

!e team that "red its defensive coordinator mid-season in hopes of a spark, only to "nd its points allowed per game rise, "nds itself

in an opportunity for a big money bowl game. But I guess now that the unthinkable has happened, it’s worth revisiting the madness to "gure out how we got here.

!e completely hypothetical, implausible, “wouldn’t it be funny if” idea that Tech could be at this point right now has gone through many phases. It all began during Homecoming week, and some-how the week’s festivities must have lent themselves to the small nugget of hope that Jacket fans would receive on game day.

I’m not talking about BYU’s 41 points to our 17. I’m talking about FSU completely steamrolling Duke to the tune of 48-7.

Despite a next-to-last posi-tion in the Coastal Division, a glimmer of possibility shined on Georgia Tech’s chances to reclaim what was long thought to be a lost cause.

If Duke, Virginia Tech, and Miami would all lose out, and Tech could "nd a way to win

out in the ACC, then the Jackets would play in the title game.

!e pieces were all there. Duke was totally demoralized, Miami and Virginia Tech were slated to play each another the following week, and UNC was already in-eligible.

Still, with Georgia Tech’s de-fense in shambles amid Al Groh’s "ring, it seemed the only way the team could pull itself together against Maryland would be if, by some completely outlandish co-incidence, the opposition played without a quarterback.

On Sunday, October 28, Maryland quarterback Caleb Rowe woke up with pain in his left knee from what he had be-lieved to be a cut on his shin. However, quite to Rowe’s disbe-lief, an MRI exam revealed that his left anterior cruciate ligament had been torn completely from the bone, making Rowe the Terp’s fourth quarterback lost to a season ending injury.

His backup would be Shawn Petty, a 6-foot-2, 228-pound line-backer. !e Jackets took advan-tage of this odd circumstance and won easily 33-13, but more impor-tantly still is that Miami knocked Virginia Tech further down in the Coastal rankings, and Duke was trounced yet again.

!e events that would unfold over the next two weeks con-"rmed that the football gods were truly smiling upon Georgia Tech. In order to have a chance of catch-ing Miami, the Jackets would need the ‘Canes to lose to Virginia who started the season 0-4 in the ACC.

With six seconds left in the

game, Virginia’s Michael Rocco completed a miracle ten yard touchdown pass to give the Cavs a 41-40 victory. Shortly after this the Jackets capped o# an all-out o#ensive explosion, putting up 68 points in a win over UNC to draw even atop the Coastal division standings.

!e once convoluted, unlikely possibility now hinged on two necessities: 1) We beat Duke. 2) Duke beats Miami. Even as an “ACC” cheer resounded through the student section after the win against Duke, fans knew that they would still need one last small miracle, and on Monday, Novem-ber 19, that miracle came.

Miami, amidst an ongoing investigation with the NCAA, self-imposed a second consecutive postseason ban.

!is brings us to today. On paper, Tech should not win the ACC championship. In this year’s installment of “Clean, Old-Fash-ioned Hate,” it became clear that Tech cannot keep up with a much bigger, faster defense. !ey were manhandled at the point of attack and they looked as if they didn’t even belong on the same "eld. But we were never expected to make it this far anyway.

Sure, there were those people who kept believing even when it looked like there was no hope left, but all things considered, Tech’s season was left for dead weeks ago. So with all things consid-ered, it begs the question, “What will become of this year’s Georgia Tech squad?”

If you ask me? I don’t know. I really don’t.

Photo by John Nakano / Student Publications

Brandon Watts chases UGA’s backup quarterback on a blitz in the fourth quarter of Tech’s fourth consecutive loss to the Bulldogs.

Technique • November 30, 2012 • 23 SPORTS

a football trainerBy Scott Hakim

Sta! Writer

A long stretch of water sits in between two shores; the water is clear and calm. To many observ-ers this would be a serene scene, but to the members of Club 4 and Club 8 Crew Teams at Tech, this is the location of intense and ex-citing memories. For junior Adam McKenzie, Crew has become much more than just a simple past time.

“My best friends are all from the rowing team,” McKenzie said. “!is is my friend group at Tech. Whether they’re still rowing or not, I met them through rowing.”

But beneath the surface, this is a sport much harder than most people realize. !e long, painful practices; the sti" knees and cal-loused hands; all are a product of a training regimen designed to help peak an athlete on race day. !e end goal is the May regatta, the event that takes nine months of preparation and sweat.

“It’s not the three or four months of fall season, a month for Christmas and three or four months of spring season,” McK-enzie noted. “It’s nine months straight through with that goal in mind.”

At its core, the sport is simple. It consists of either four or eight rowers rowing in sync down a pre-determined stretch of water.

!e boat is comprised of vari-ous rowers of di"erent strengths and skill sets, including some

smaller rowers who help with en-durance and precision and some more muscular rowers who help with steering and power.

At the front of each boat is a member of the rowing team named the coxswain. !is mem-ber is vital to the success of the boat and is the eyes and ears of the operation.

“!e coxswain’s job is to be able to say we need to #x this or do that when the coach isn’t around. If a coxswain can do that, they are immediately extremely valuable. !e coxswain is looking forward, steering the boat, and making sure he takes the quickest route possible. He yells stu" at us that can motivate us and tells us what to #x,” McKenzie said.

!at motivation is some-thing that keeps McKenzie going through the tough crew season, and the seniors on the team are what keeps the program strong year in and year out. McKenzie can personally attest to the impact a senior can have on a younger rower, and he has become close with rowers on the team both older and younger.

“Coming across [the #nish line], one of the seniors in the boat turned around, shook my hand, and said ‘I really wish you’d been here two years ago.’ He’ll be a friend of mine for the rest of my life,” McKenzie said.

In a race predicated on speed and determination, that marks the only time anyone will have time to turn around.

Photo courtesy of the GTAA

Jay Shoop has served as the Director of Sports Medicine for Tech since 2002 and also served from 1987-1999. Shoop is on the !eld for every football game and has worked with the team all season.

By Anna ArnauSports Editor

So much happens on a game day that the amount of prepa-ration outside of football prac-tice and coaching can get lost in the spirit of football. But for Jay Shoop, the Director of Sports Medicine and Head Trainer for Georgia Tech, preparation for game day is a full time job.

“When we start football, there are no days o". We started o" Aug. 1, and we go every day. Even if the players have a day o", they still have to come in for treatment, to try and get better. So its seven days a week,” Shoop said.

!e #rst treatment for football players begins at 6:30 a.m., fol-lowed by an 8 a.m. sta" meeting between both the football coach-

ing sta" and the training sta" to decide who can and cannot par-ticipate in practice that day. Fol-lowing the meeting, Shoop and his sta" meet with players individ-ually for rehabilitation sessions, another treatment session, and be-gin preparing for daily practice at 1 p.m. with taping, bracing, and wrapping. Football practice does not end until 6 p.m., and there is another treatment in the training room that keeps trainers busy un-til 7:30 p.m. at the earliest.

Shoop is always on the #eld with the team, whether it is a home or away game. He also goes to the hotel with the team in case of problems prior to the game.

“I personally love noon games because it’s early, we get #nished and we get a chance to take a deep breath,” Shoop said.

!e training sta" arrives at the #eld two hours before kicko" to take care of all treatments, and sticks around in case of any on-#eld injuries.

Shoop has plenty of great memories from his long career of working with the Jackets. Shoop began working for Tech as Direc-tor of Sports Medicine in 1987 and served until 1999, return-ing in 2002 after serving as head trainer for the Detroit Lions.

“!e greatest joy we get out of this is to go through rehab with an athlete that has had a major injury and actually see them get back to the playing #eld and when they get back to the point where they are functioning and doing well again, for them to just come back and say thank you. !at makes it all worthwhile,” Shoop said.

Crew club !nishes season, looks to grow in spring

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November 30, 2012

Men !nish third in Anaheim

Women take one of three on road

By Newt ClarkContributing Writer

!e men’s basketball team traveled to Anaheim, Califronia over !anksgiving break to com-pete in the DirecTV Classic. Tech "nished third in the eight-team tournament. !e Jackets im-proved to 4-1 on the season.

In the opening round, Tech defeated the Rice Owls 54-36. Tech led by only 8 points at half-time, but started the second half on 13-3 run to pull away from the Owls. Freshman Marcus Georg-es-Hunt had 11 points and nine rebounds, leading the Jackets in both categories. Senior point guard Mfon Udo"a also had a nice game with nine points and three assists. Tech outrebounded Rice 50-26 but continued to struggle from behind the arc, making only three of 18 three-point attempts.

!e Jackets su#ered their "rst loss of the season in a hard fought game to Cal in the second round of the tournament 68-57. Cal led Tech by only one point at the half-time, before pulling away in the second half. Tech did a nice job of defending Cal’s Allen Crabbe, who came into the tournament leading the nation in scoring, holding him to only 13 points. Cal guard Justin Cobbs stepped up nicely, scoring 17 points to go with four assists.

Udo"a continued his steady play scoring 16 points and only turning it over three times. Junior Kammeon Holsey came o# the

bench for Tech and contributed 14 points and four rebounds. !e three point woes continued for Tech making only two of 15 three point attempts. Cal would later go on to win the DirecTV Classic.

Tech defeated Saint Mary’s in the third place game of the tour-nament 65-56. Tech trailed 26-22 at the half, before an o#ensive ex-plosion of 43 points in the second half led by junior Brandon Reed. Reed came into this game only av-

eraging 2.2 PPG, but easily outdid that by scoring 19 points. Tech improved as a team, shooting 7-19 from three-point range. Georges-Hunt made two, and even center Robert Carter Jr. made one to go along with Reed’s 4. Tech also had an impressive night from the free throw line shooting 18-21. Tech was outrebounded by Saint Mary’s 36-24, but Tech balanced out the turnover di#erential by commit-ting 10 less turnovers.

Photo by John Nakano / Student Publication

Marcus Georges-Hunt drives to the basket. The freshman led the team against Rice with 11 points and nine rebounds in Tech’s win.

By Scott HakimSta! Writer

Tech’s roster is "lled with experience, but the men’s bas-ketball team’s fortunes will go the way of the talented fresh-men sprinkled throughout the roster.

After six games, Tech "nds itself at 4-2, including a third place "nish in the DirecTV Classic in Anaheim, Califor-nia. Led by freshman swing-man Marcus Georges-Hunt’s 11 points per game and red-shirt junior forward Kam-meon Holsey’s 11.1 points, 5.5 rebounds a contest, Tech heads into the annual show-down with Georgia as a team on the rise.

!e Bulldogs come into the game with a 2-4 record in-cluding four straight losses in the Progressive Legends Clas-sic, during which they lost to top-ranked Indiana and pre-viously ranked UCLA.

Georgia is led by sopho-more guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, who aver-

ages a team-high 17.3 points a game to go along with a team high 6.5 rebounds per game. Only senior guard Vincent Williams has more assists than Caldwell-Pope, so the Jackets will need to key in on the guard from Greenville if they expect to defend home court on Tuesday.

Freshman power forward Robert Carter Jr. has been a strong force on the boards, and the Jackets will look to keep their transition game ac-tive with junior forward Jason Morris’s skill in the run game.

Tech will need to control the boards and force Georgia into quick shot opportunities if the Jackets want to come out on top, while Georgia will need to force Tech to rely on shooting from beyond the arc, an inconsistent facet of Tech’s game thus far.

Tech next hits the hard-wood on Saturday, Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. against UNC-Wilm-ington at McCamish Pavil-ion. !is will mark Tech’s last game of the fall semester.

By Scott HakimSta! Writer

!e UGA women’s basket-ball team rolls into Atlanta on an eight-game win streak to start the season to go along with their No. 8 national ranking.

!e Bulldogs have scored more than 55 points in each of their contests and have hit over 80 on three separate oc-casions. !eir defensive e#ort is more notable, however, as they have only allowed over 50 points twice.

Senior forward Jasmine Hassell leads the team in scor-ing and rebounding at 12.4 and 6.1 a game, respectively. !e team is very active at the defensive end, having four players with over 10 steals for the season so far, led by fresh-man guard Shacobia Barbee’s 16.

!e Bulldogs take a lot of three-point shots, so Tech will need to make sure to limit their opportunities from be-hind the arc.

As for the home team, the Jackets "nd themselves with a 3-3 record and look to im-prove to 3-1 on the year in the new McCamish Pavilion.

Junior guard Dawnn Maye and junior guard Tyaunna Marshall are the leading scorers for the Jackets while Maye has added a staggering 27 steals on the year. Tech’s sharpshooter, sophomore guard Sydney Wallace, is only 3 of 21 from behind the arc, so Tech will look to get her on track in order to test Georgia’s perimeter defense.

Tech will come into the game as an underdog, but the women’s basketball team will look to use its experienced roster and strong defense as it attempts to defend the home court.

Tech has a tough turn-around after facing the Bull-dogs as they head into the tough Cameron Indoor Sta-dium environment to face the Duke Blue Devils on !urs-day, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m.

By Alex SohaniAssociate Editor

Coming o# of a 2-1 homes-tand, the Tech women’s basketball team went on the road on Friday, Nov. 23, to participate in the San Juan shootout and then to face the Purdue Boilermakers on Wednes-day, Nov. 28, in the ACC/Big Ten challenge.

In the Shootout, the Jackets lost 75-72 in overtime against Syracuse before winning against UW-Mil-waukee 66-57 in San Juan, P.R. Afterward, they dropped the con-test against No. 13 Purdue 85-73. !e 1-2 week put the Jackets at 3-3 overall for the season.

Tech kicked o# the Shootout with a thrilling "nish against the Syracuse Orange, battling back from a 10-point de"cit in the sec-ond half to force overtime. How-ever, the late second-half push was not enough to propel the Jackets, eventually being outscored 12-9 in the extra period en route to the 75-72 loss.

Junior guard Dawnn Maye led the team with a career-high 26 points for the game on 10-of-20 shooting, and she notched four re-bounds and two assists. Senior for-ward Jasmine Blain posted her "rst double-double with 15 rebounds and 13 points in the contest.

Maye continued her hot shoot-ing in the overtime period, scoring eight of the Jackets’ nine points, but Syracuse closed the game with

free throws to secure the win.Tech closed out its appearance

in the San Juan Shootout with a 66-57 win against UW-Milwau-kee. Maye continued her high scoring with 17 points while junior guard Tyaunna Marshall posted 16 points and 10 rebounds for a double-double on the day.

!e Jackets did not shoot par-ticularly well in the "rst half, hit-ting only 10 of 31 shots in the "rst half, but they went into the locker room with a 32-26 lead. UW-Milwaukee cut the Jackets’ lead to only one several times throughout the sec-ond half, but Tech held on to earn the nine point victory.

!e Jackets then went to West La-fayette, Ind. to face Purdue to partici-pate in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. !e Jackets fell 85-73 to the Boilermakers to give them their "rst loss in ACC/Big Ten Challenge games.

Marshall led the team with 26 points, four assists and "ve rebounds, while Maye contributed 16 points and seven as-sists.

Tech started the game quickly taking a 23-12 lead early in the "rst half, but the Boilermakers battled back to tie the game at 32 late in the half.

!e game continued to be a back and forth a#air until a 12-0 run by Purdue ending with 6:16 left in the game. !e de"cit was too much to overcome and the Jackets eventually lost 85-73.

Photo by Austin Foote / Student Publications

Tyaunna Marshall shoots over a Tennessee defender. Tech lost to the Volunteers 71-54.

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